City of Chandler Study Session/Council Meeting 10/16/23

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good evening and welcome to the October
16th regular city council meeting we've
got a few items on this first meeting of
which we're also have uh public comment
and uh and some other things some public
recognition and then we will gble out
and go into a study session so clerk
will you please take the role mayor
Harkey pres vice mayor Orlando president
council member nenis here council member
Ellis here council member Stewart here
council member Harris here council
member Poston here we have a quorum
thank you city
clerk our inv ation tonight will be
brought forth by Reverend Tera Smith
from Crossroads Nazarene church and our
Pledge of Allegiance by council member
OD
Harris
Reverend it's my honor to invite you to
Bow your heads in prayer with me this
evening oh gracious God there is much
that we do not know but we do know that
you are
good and because of this we can trust
you God all things are in your hands
including City Council meetings we pray
father that you would be present in all
of the business conducted this evening
in all of the words spoken God that you
would send the blessing of your peace
and wisdom upon mayor Harkey upon the
council members upon all those who speak
and the agenda items present this
evening God we know that you are deeply
and personally invested in all things
and we trust that all things are in your
hands we pray this in all the prayers of
our hearts in the name of Jesus amen
amen please join me in reciting the
pledge allegiance
I flag of the United States of America
to the it
stands
indice thank you Reverend Smith thank
you council member Harris
we've got a number of scheduled public
appearances and I'd like to invite
council member Stuart to join me out
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all right first on our list we have a
number of service recognitions city
manager thank you Mr Mayor members of
city council we do have three Employee
Service recognitions this evening for
the first presentation I would like to
call forth John sepon our community
services
director
first excellent good evening mayor and
Council Mr city manager it's an honor to
bring forward Raquel
[Applause]
Espinosa Raquel's love for libraries
began as a little girl she spent
countless hours at the Hamilton Public
Library across the street from her home
she started her career as a teen
volunteer and became a Paige at Hamilton
just when she was old enough that's how
she got a decade in already Rael is a
gift to Chandler and the Chandler Public
Library System she is the pi Piper of
downtown Youth Services
all the children love her and she uses
her bilingual skills to engage with
families throughout the community her
programs and especially the toddler time
and she has a true Rock star-like
following while she jump ship for a
couple years to go over to help the fire
department uh she came back in 2022 to
continue her Library Legacy uh she's
played an integral part in the downtown
youth in between programming promoting
literacy and the love of libraries her
dedication and warmth shine through to
everyone she encounters we're so
fortunate to have you Raquel and thank
you for your decade of
[Applause]
service
thank
you mayor and councel for our second
service recognition I'd like to call for
sand doia our Chief Information
officer good evening mayor council
members City Manager for our recognition
in it I'd like to invite ero Holland to
come on up we're going to be recognizing
his 10year service
anniversary
Earl joined the city in 2013 with his
Focus being primarily on the electronic
document management system this means
that his fingerprints virtual
fingerprints that is can be felt by just
about every single Department in the
city Earl was instrument instrumental in
implementing and supporting the
Enterprise document management system he
build and manages several interfaces
between that system and other systems
such as as those for courts PD the
city's tax system and fire Earl is
married and has five kids four grandkids
and one crazy
dog in addition to being an active
member of his church Earl is very much
into Woodworking and has made several um
significant Furniture projects
congratulations Earl on your 10y year
anniversary and here's for about another
30 more
years
mayor and councel for our third and
final service recognition tonight I'd
like to ask Micah Miranda our acting
development services director to come
forward
good evening mayor and Council 10 years
is uh quite an accomplishment but I
would like to invite Bob graphus to be
recognized for 20 years of service to
the city of Cham uh
[Applause]
Bob Bob came to the city of Chandler in
2003 as a building code specialist
within the Building Safety Division he
was promoted to seed in your building
inspector in 2018 and subsequently
Building Inspections manager in 2019
over the years he has maintained his
valuable skills as an inspector and
developed into an effective manager Bob
Endeavors to make the city a better
place for people to live work and study
his hard work and dedication make a make
him a significant asset to our
organization we are delighted to express
our appreciation and congratulations on
the remarkable occasion of your 20 years
of service Bob uh um throughout your
tenure with a cityo Chandler you have
consistently demonstrated except
exceptional diligence and
professionalism thank you for all your
hard work and commitment to the city of
Jan he says he's
never
mayor that concludes our service
recognitions tonight thank
you thank
you Tom
welcome our next is a proclamation with
Arizona cities and town week Tom Bel the
Arizona League of cities and towns
director is joining us and we have a
proclamation whereas the residents of
Chandler rely on the city of Chandler to
provide a high quality of life in the
community and whereas cities and towns
in Arizona work 24 hours a day seven
days a week to deliver vital services
such as fire police and Emergency
Medical Response to ensure Safe
Community
and whereas cities and towns in Arizona
provide essential infrastructure and
services for businesses and residents
such as utilities Transportation
sanitation and Recycling
services and whereas cities and towns in
Arizona provide facilities and programs
that enhance the lives of residents such
as libraries museums performing arts and
galleries parks recreation centers and
related programs and whereas it is
important for the city of Chandler to
continue to provide the excellent
delivery of services and programs that
our residents rely on in our community
and whereas it is one of the
responsibilities of Chandler officials
to ensure open and accessible government
through frequent communication with
residents using various Avenues and
means now therefore I Kevin Harkey mayor
of the city of Chandler Arizona to
hereby join with the league of Arizona
cities and towns and fellow
municipalities across the State of
Arizona in proclaiming October 15th
through 21st 2023 as Arizona cities and
towns
week to would you like to say
anything I just want to thank the mayor
for his service on our board and and
this is a tradition that I look forward
to every year coming in accepting this
Proclamation
uh I represent 91 cities in town towns
and the City of Chandler is one that we
look to to be an example of how things
should be done and we appreciate that so
much and it makes it easy for us to
represent you so thank you well thank
you do you make it down to uh mayor
Nichols in Yuma when they make this
Proclamation if if time
permits let's have a
photo
our next Proclamation is cyber security
awareness so if sand deep do doia and
our information technology security team
will join
us and council member would you like to
read this
one
this one's got more words to
it and it's cyber security so there's
big words on this but uh I'll give it a
try so the city of Chandler recognizes
that cyber security plays a vital role
in identifying and protecting citizens
from and responding to threats that may
have a significant impact to our
individual and Collective safety and
privacy and critical and whereas
critical infrastructure is increasingly
reliant on the support of Information
Systems and technology and whereas
monitoring your accounts being
conscientious of what you share online
keeping software up to dat creating
unique passwords and changing them
regularly that's something I think we
all are LAX in installing antivirus
programs and firewalls and using mobile
devices and other Internet connect
devices safely are always are our ways
people and organizations can protect
themselves from fishing viruses
ransomware and other type of malware
finan cial loss and loss of sensitive
data and the City of Chandler is
dedicated to providing every individual
and public and private organization in
the city the resources necessary to
ensure the understanding implementation
and success of cyber security awareness
month to help its citizens stay safe
online and connect with confidence all
citizens are encouraged to stop to visit
stop thinkc connect.org to learn about
cyber security to put that knowledge
into practice in their home homes
schools workplaces and businesses and
whereas maintaining the security of
cyberspace is a shared responsibility in
which each of us has a critical role to
play and awareness of essential cyber
hygiene will improve the security of the
city of chanders information
infrastructure and economy and on behalf
of Mayor hary the city of Chandler
Arizona we hereby do proclaim the month
of October 23rd as cyber security
Awareness
Month
you want to say a few
words thank you very much I want to
first thank our mayor our Council our
city management and all of the
department directors as well as all of
the city employees for your diligence
over the past one year we have really
matured our City's uh security platform
um just like the proclamation reads um
security is not something that is just
the technology departments or just the
security team's responsibility that's a
shared responsibility that's for all of
employees but also all of the citizens
as well um as the proclamation also
reads please do visit the website it
does have a lot of good information
regarding security tips and tricks to
keep yourself safe it really does impact
everybody from home life to work life to
businesses small medium and large so
once again thank you mayor thank you
Council and thank you city
manager let's take a
photo
next we've got a few recognitions first
this is a fun one our national video
awards so Matt berdick and the do I
pause and the Kappa video team
absolutely
for for our audience these are these are
some of the folks that are behind the
scenes bringing the broadcast to you
normally so Stacy's in the back right
now running it solo uh edmundo mes also
is another member of our team so Mundo
sorry you couldn't be here tonight but
wanted to recognize our video team uh
they've recently won won eight different
Awards in two different National
[Applause]
competitions so first off the Telly
awards has more than 13,000 entries from
50 countries um winners include
prominent brands that many of you
probably heard of Netflix and Paramount
and National Geographic Chandler this
year won four Awards in that
[Applause]
competition I'll I'll elaborate on them
in just a second and then another
competition with um some of our fellow
uh local governments around the country
had more than 950 entries from different
broadcast cable multimedia and um
electronic programming produced by
different local governments we won four
Awards in that one as
well in the uh if you attended or
watched the state of the city mayor from
this past year ostrich World ostrich
world uh won a silver Telly as well as
an Award of Excellence uh in the visual
effects category time with Ed Sheeran's
music
twep in another video featured during
this year's state of the city a to Tech
down in the historic category W of
bronze Telly and an award of Honor uh
looking back at Chandler through the
decades some of the other recipients in
that same category Washington Post Live
on the US Department of Veterans
Affairs in the Chandler in the
motivational category the Chandler Chang
makers a video that was produced in last
year's state of the city showcase people
making a difference in Chandler we won a
silver Telly in that one um WebMD United
Healthcare or a couple of other winners
in that particular
category and then uh I know this one
this video was really important to uh to
our CFO Don Lang we wanton a silver
Telly in the government relations and an
award of Distinction in the election
coverage category for our explanation of
the prop four 70 home
rule which was which was overwhelmingly
approved by voters a couple years ago
and then for our um Police recruitment
we partnered with our Police Department
put together a really Innovative uh
video to to highlight our police
department and the opportunity for
careers with our Police Department that
won an award of
[Applause]
Excellence so Stacy if you're still
tuning in you need to hustle on by back
out here so we can get a photo so
congratulations to our video
[Applause]
team hey Matt can you please check uh
see if any of these uh Garner de Council
IMBD recognitions for are their great
acting abilities we can certainly do
that oh
on
congratulations
Campa I can't wait to start working on
this year's state of the city we've got
some this team has got some great
ideas all right next recognition for
certificate of achievement for
excellence in financial reporting
Christy Smith and the accounting team in
Management Services can come on
forward okay let's see your moves
[Laughter]
guys
we need
do all
right Chandler or thank you mayor and
councel Chandler has an amazing
accounting team who take pride in
accurate reporting tonight we have
Christy Smith our assistant director of
financial services Robert Steel our
accounting manager and shalanda Haynes
our accounting technician here to
represent the entire team uh this is for
the award for the preparation of the
fiscal year 2021-22 annual comprehensive
financial report I'm happy to report the
city of chanders received the
certificate of achievement for
excellence in financial reporting for
our annual comprehensive financial
report I'll just call it an Acer for the
41st consecutive year after completing
the annual
a established in 1946 the certificate
program recognizes state and local
governments whose annual Financial
reports conformed to high standard
standards established by the government
Accounting Standards Board and the
government uh Finance Officers
Association the Acer has become the
Nationwide standard for local government
financial reporting this report requires
about four months of intense work as the
city uh completes the annual audit and
prepares the report this annual report
ensures full disclosure of the city's
finances in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles that's
right and is used by all three of our
credit rating agencies Moody's fit and
S&P to help in their assessment of the
city's credit worthiness our thanks and
appreciation to them the entire
accounting Division and our team members
throughout departments it takes everyone
for this effort for their hard work and
dedication team Chandler
rocks
thank
you
may
yeah council member Harris I think we've
been getting these Awards longer than
you've been alive almost
here definitely longer than another
council member
has all right our last recognition is
the achievement of excellence in
procurement award so if Christina prior
and our purchasing team in Management
Services can come
forward tonight I have the honor of
recognizing the the city's purchasing
team for receiving the achievement of
excellence in procurement award for 2023
from the national procurement Institute
here to receive this award is Christina
prior our uh awesome procurement manager
and two of her or I'm sorry four we have
four right four of her team members
rosenda contras and Sher Revis our
procurement senior specialist and
Christian Johnson and Raquel McMahon uh
our procurement office officers so the
other team members who contributed to
the a applic application could not be
here tonight although they were a very
big part of this effort as well this
distinguished award recognizes
organizational Excellence by measuring
an agency's commitment to continuous
Improvement in areas such as Innovation
professionalism eprocurement
productivity and Leadership the city's
received this award for 19 consecutive
years and is only one of 12 agencies in
Arizona and one of only 67 cities in the
US and Canada to receive the award
Chandler's purchasing division belongs
to an elite group of purchasing
organizations and government that
operate with highest standards of
quality and efficiency receiving the
best value with our city tax dollars for
our goods and services my thanks and
appreciation to our outstanding
purchasing division team for their
commitment and dedication to this to
their profession the city and the
[Applause]
community proud
all right that concludes our this is
your
all right Council we've had um several
items that have been called in for
questions or
presentations mayor
gotve mayor you want to on oh thank you
so much I'd already moved to the next
thing I got so
excited all right thank you vice mayor
so Council we had uh four consent items
I believe that are part of our regular
city council meeting um most of these
are have been ones that we've looked at
in the past what is your pleasure mayor
vice mayor yeah I move to approve the
consent agenda of October 16 2023 reg
items one through four ccil member Ellis
a second we have a motion by vice mayor
a second by council member Ellis any
additional comments or
questions seeing none Council please
vote motion carries
unanimously great thank you so
much okay that adour that concludes this
particular
meeting got your back I got your back
Welcome to our study session it's good
to have people watching
you it's a good way right it's a very
good
way I will always take
it all right we've got uh a number of
items on our study session that have
been called in starting off with item
number eight by council member Stewart
you had a question for the city manager
I'm sorry for the City attorney thank
you mayor and yeah I just Kelly can you
give me a little rundown on kind of what
we can talk about as it relates to cell
phone towers and what we can't as it
relates to state and federal statutes as
far as far as
like can't talk about health and safety
I know some of our neighbors have have
brought that up to us before so if you
could delve into that a little bit I
appreciate it if I may mayor um council
member Stuart yes as you know um when it
comes to regulations uh the City Zoning
and rideway police Powers as it relates
to small Wireless facilities or cell
towers that's an area that's been
heavily preempted by both the federal
government and the state government um
it's particularly related to ourf
radiation health and sa the health and
safety of those towers and under state
law the only thing that the city can do
as it relates to that specific power is
certify that the provider complies with
the federal RF radiation requirements
when the provider collocates small
Wireless facilities on that Tower so
it's we have a very limited opportunity
to provide any regulation and it's
merely oversight to ensure compliance on
that um again it's an area we are not
allowed to prohibit these type
facilities they will come in um we can
do a little bit on location require uh
collocation to reduce the number but um
when it comes to regulating that public
health concerned that's federal
government has that um taken that over
thank you Kelly
mayor vice mayor yeah so Kelly just just
to be clear um uh we're this is only
before us tonight because of the unusual
locations being put in correct if I may
uh mayor and vice mayor it is um because
of its location we do have a conditional
use permit we can look at those location
areas but honestly we'd have to have
very um specific and detailed graph to
understand understand thank you because
that that did come up but why are we
this coming before our body so okay
thanks thank you mayor
great uh thank you
um City attorney I I did not actually
roll call us in is that necessary for us
to do that may I marked was here all
right very good
yeah there you go see see Matt this is
what happens when I try to work off that
one sheet of paper doesn't get me on
both so all right our next question our
request was made by council member
Stewart and council member Ellis asking
for a brief presentation on no I'm sorry
on on item number 14 council member
Stewart Harris and Ellis looking at
items number 24 and 25 and Mike you're
going to give us a presentation I have
number 14 yes sir 14 yeah yes sir
so to the council M Stewart um and
Council we my pleasure to stand here
again uh seeon like deja vu we do this a
little bit every year to go over vehicle
purchases because it's such a large
number um today we're going to talk
about our fiscal year 2324 vehicle
purchases as you may or may not know we
don't automatically replace Vehicles
based on
mileage um or years of service uh we use
a systematic 15o replacement criteria in
addition we do inspect the vehicles we
have a fleet advisory committee that
that reviews those Vehicles as well
within their own departments and that
allows us to to narrow that replacement
uh count down to what it is
today again it's based on age mileage
and cost to maintain we also manage a
vehicle replacement fund to ensure
funding for future Replacements of the
vehicles this agenda item includes 69
Public Safety vehicles with an average
age of nine years and the mileage of
over 88,000
miles 24 service vehicles with an
average age of 11 years a mileage of
over 9 90,000 miles in addition five new
vehicles approved through the budget
process three being police vehicles one
code enforcement vehicle and one Park
Mee and this chart basically gives a
illustration of how those 98 vehicles
are broken down at each call
center technical difficulties all right
Matt everybody
up good
there we
go so this slide again you want me to go
back to slide at all or no good okay
this uh slide illustrates what the div
what the breakdown is of those Vehicles
among each call center as you can see
our Police Department um they they're
71% of the the total 98 vehicles and
then a close second for working towards
at 90 I'm sorry uh 16% of the vehicles
again five new vehicles uh authorized
through the decision packages or budget
process and with that I'll be about to
answering questions start with uh
council member Stuart then council
member Ellis thank you thank you mayor
and and thanks for the presentation I
just wanted a kind of a brief overview
again like as always like when we when
we're talking about millions of dollars
I'm always like Curious of what they're
going for I do want to thank staff I
know we've got a new software that we
put into place that really identifying
and dialing in what cars need to be
replaced and you've done a phenomenal
job doing that almost manually uh over
the past few years and now hopefully
you've got the tool that you need to
really dial that up so that we're
replacing the cars that need to be and
and I think the biggest takeaway for me
and what I wanted the public to see is
that the Lion Share of this expense goes
to our Public Safety uh uh vehicles and
and those can get beat up sometimes I
know that uh they're they're driven all
night long and all day long and they're
run during the 115 degree days and so
they get a lot of miles on them and a
lot of wear and tear uh but we want to
make sure that they're outfitted with
with what they need and and and that
they feel comfortable going uh and that
our code enforcement and other folks
planning feels comfortable in a trucks
that they have to work in all day long
it's their office so um I appreciate the
presentation council member Stuart the
the day I did a ride along we ended up
uh uh the police not we U boxing in a
woman and then two of the four cars were
rammed so just in that in one event
suddenly uh it goes into this place so
yeah good comments Council melles thank
you mayor just following up with the
carban ranch uh I found out that uh the
city has its own uh mechanics and even
staff that uh really run a garage
literally pretty much to take care of
all the can you tell me a little bit
because some of our residents here they
probably don't have an idea that we
actually take care of our own Fleet and
making sure that to save the city money
we we we do a lot of things to help out
so that we'll be able to be fiscally
responsible concerning the tax dollars
can you talk about that a little bit I
sure can through the mayor council
member Ellis uh we have a staff of 12 in
Fleet only 12 I say that because we have
over 800 about 830 vehicles to maintain
in addition to another two to 250 to 300
pieces of equipment so we're a little
upside down on our on our technician 2
equipment ratio there's no plug there
for the budget but there's a there's a
bit of we hearing you but again we do
have a full service uh uh shop where we
the only things we don't do is is bodyw
work we do we do SUB that out but I've
got a very capable uh staff of 12 in
that Fleet department they do a great
job and past experiences with them with
with doing the same exercise manually
they've always done a phenomenal job of
doing that I can't take credit for that
but and we do have this new software
that's going to give us the data and the
tools that we need to not only identify
uh vehicles to be replaced but also take
a look at our utilization and our labor
that takes to to maintain a fleet but
like I said we do have a full pretty
much a full Maintenance Shop a big shout
out to them thank you so much in
addition to we work on everything a lot
of shops sub out equipment motorcycles
and trailers and things like that we we
take on all
that that's great that thank you so much
for letting us know and the people of CH
I'm sure grateful that you guys are
taking care of their dollars very
responsibly appreciate it additional
comments or questions from Council yeah
mayor vice mayor yeah and this is this
is good stuff and I understand police
vehicles but I know we over the last few
years we started buying more electric
vehicles and hybrids I don't see I think
I saw one in here that's cor and I
understand is there more coming or or I
understand police vehicles you can't be
in a highspeed Chase and then your
battery runs dry I get that I mean that
that' be a little bit embarrassing but I
mean for some of the other issues like
you know driving around town doing code
inspection stuff like that why aren't we
looking at migrating towards those type
of vehicles to the mayor council Orlando
we we are as as as those Vehicles come
available we do look at those uh right
now we had I think four vehicles
identified um to to replace with
Chevrolet bolts but they're not
available and they won't be available
until mid year so when the time comes as
we get closer to purchase if those
Vehicles were available we'll switch and
and and buy those alternative fuel
vehicles so let me understand what you
said if you needed the the vehicle now
you would you would wait for the EV you
would just buy it now if the need was
there yes sir so okay so if the
inventory was there you just buy the
current gas inventory you would wait
another couple months for the EV if it
was a couple months I could we could
wait but we're talking probably a mid
year or end of end of uh vehicle year uh
being out of production we don't even
have pricing for yet I can't tell how
much the cost you don't have pricing for
what I'm sorry the bolt the Chevrolet
bolt the alternative fuic we don't even
have pricing for those so how okay so we
could take this offline I'm just curious
what is our plan I maybe the bigger
question is what is our plan to migrate
some of these vehicles off of gas into
electric vehicle or hybrids as as they
become available that's how we're
migrating right now we're able to get um
the Maverick hybrid and we we have a few
of those already right uh we do have the
obvious the leaf and some bolts from
last year we purchased and as those
become more available um through the
dealers we'll be able to make those
changes in purchase but right now it's
availability to this driving out okay
thanks so more Supply and we we've got a
demand and the supply is not available
for when we need these vehicles corre
got it okay all right thanks any
additional questions question council
member Alis so is it the plan then for
us to convert everything into
electric unfortunately that's not BR do
okay well that that's the reason why I
asked that question because I I never
thought that was the ever the plan but
we do want to diversify the portfolio
but that shouldn't be our goal actually
to convert everything into ve those type
of vericle because we still are learning
more and more about these things I mean
we got a flood around here and then they
all popping up
and it's it's as it's as practical is
how we're approaching it all right thank
you appreciate that right thank you sir
all right next up is 24 and 25 combined
and this was called in by council member
Harris council member Stewart and
council member
Ellis and who is making our presentation
would that be you Don yes thank you
mayor uh so item number 24 and 25 are
two resolutions we're bring in for to
request permission to sell bonds um the
first one is 100 not to exceed 120
million in general obligation bonds uh
this these are bonds that we're looking
to sell to fund projects in our 10-year
Capital Improvement program one
specifically either in process or
budgeted in
2324 in the areas of Park and Recreation
Library police fire storm water and
public buildings uh these are projects
that were discussed with the uh citizen
advisory panel during the 202 one bond
election um they were
uh I'm going turn off the
camera sorry I'm My Own reflection is um
a little bit distracting so I'm gonna
turn that off I
apologize uh but the these are projects
through the bond election that are that
were wanted by our voters um they are uh
currently planned at the existing
secondary property tax rate of 87 cents
per 100 of a assessed value so it will
not cause a change to the tax rate so
that's important to understand and then
on the second item this is a resolution
that is requesting to sell up to 75
million in excise tax revenue
obligations uh those uh bonds are backed
by excise taxes but they are paid for
with water and wastewater user fees
these are specifically to fund uh water
and wastewater prodct projects both for
infrastructure and the system
itself um the uh other I think Thursday
night we'll have a public hearing on our
water Wastewater fees and the um the
change in our fees is needed to support
debt service along with the operations
of the of the water Wastewater
Enterprises um the other thing I will
mention here through both of this both
of these processes we would go out on
the market um we would be rated just
like you would like a credit report the
city would get rated financially we are
currently AAA Bond rated and what that
means is we would actually have less
expensive debts we'd get a lower
interest rate um so they're very it's a
very economical way of funding our
projects in the city of
Champa all right thank you uh council
member Harris yeah thank you so much Don
I wanted to make sure that we reiterate
that to the taxpayers um can um by
chance what was the percentage of the
yes vote on what we're talking about
tonight when it was voted on by the
taxpayers of the city of Chandler uh
through the mayor council member Harris
I should know the top of my head just a
roundabout it's the highest percentage
we've ever had I think the mayor might
know we averag 71% on all five of the
bonds all right so that's the majority
of the city of Chandler once that I just
wanted to make sure that they know that
what they voted on is coming back to
them to um to be discussed and to be
sold so I just wanted to make sure we
put that out there thank
you council member Stewart our wonderful
CFO answered my questions thank you
mayor council member Ellis thank you
mayor just wanted to interr uh the fact
that I wanted you to explain a little
bit more into detail the fact that where
do we pay that money back because when
you borrow you have to repay you cannot
just keep borrowing and don't repay that
money and how do we repay it and what is
the structure that we use here at the
city to help the people of chender
paying that money back yes um through
the mayor council member Alice um so the
general obligation bonds are paid for
with secondary property taxes so the
taxes you pay um for on your home a
resident or a commercial business um
those taxes come into the City and the
largest portion of those is the
secondary property tax now out of your
entire tax bill we are only
uh 10 cents of the dollar for every
dollar you pay we only receive about 10
cents of that so that is the revenue
stream that pays the principal and
interest on our general obligation bonds
when it comes to excise tax revenue
obligations the water and wastewater
user fees so when you pay your water
bill your Wastewater bills um those
revenues go into a fund so water
supports water Wastewater supports
Wastewater and and that debt service is
paid for directly from those user fees
the principal and interest is paid for
with that and that helps us fund um
millions of dollars of needed
improvements for our aging
infrastructure in the city of chanet
well thank you appreciate that and being
a triple bun rating that really when we
show um our borrowers how do we go how
we structure ourself to pay that money
back it gives them a sense of uh I was
see more of security knowing that that
money is going to come back to them and
that also increased the fact that we can
borrow more or at less interest rate in
order to be able to do that correct yes
uh through the mayor council member
Ellis that is correct I think with
strong um management policies and um
consistent application of those over the
years it has really um told the story
for our credit worthiness and um that
has we've been able to achieve a achieve
a AAA Bond rating and hold that for many
many years and it has um helped us keep
our taxes low frankly in the city of CH
yeah I remember we just not long ago we
decreased our tax uh on our property
taxes we decrease that for our residents
here in Chandler and again we are able
to do those things because of great
management and understanding what we're
doing with our dollars so I appreciate
all your team do every single day to
keep us uh in light of what we we're
doing and we can make good decision for
this city of Chandler appreciate that
thank
you all right thank
you next item called in uh was called in
by council member Harris he's then said
he's fine but council member Ellis also
called in late on this so brief
presentation on item number
32
and John
can
John you don't have to filter your
comments to
us thank you mayor and councel uh for
your interest in the public works
utilities ongoing efforts to maintain
our aging infrastructure um item 32 is
an item uh which is part of an ongoing
program uh for the replacement of the
media at our filters at our water plant
currently we have 12 filters we go in on
a periodic basis and replace the
granular activated carbon which is the
the actual media uh in those filters
that filter out the uh the particulate
matter um this uh material is excellent
for what it does as the water passes
through the granular activated carbon it
removes uh carbon total or total organic
carbon from the water and as it does
that it helps us to uh provide a higher
quality water to the residental Chandler
so by removing the TOC from the water we
received from the salt rare project it
actually um enhances the water quality
and reduces um contaminants in the
distribution system so this is an
ongoing program we have uh over the next
10 years we have additional projects
that are necessary at the water plant uh
totaling about $250 million doar and
you'll see those coming in in the years
to come as we continue to improve that
plan well appreciate
sorry John were you done uh I believe
there was uh the next items as well yeah
what you do you want to do both you're
well you're stilling 32 now I think
right I yes but then yeah I think I have
others as well yeah any hang on don't go
anywhere but any additional questions
with this week well I was going to say
thank you um to JN for being so uh
conscious about the water that we are
letting our residents drink and use
every single day and when we look at
$1.7 million just for a filter and we
might be thinking that that's a lot of
money but in the light that you
explained it uh when you think about
water things in water that can give
people Cancer all kinds of things that
are are being removed by that filter
it's worth it uh for us to make sure
that we do those kinds of things you
mentioned a big number of 250 million
that we're going to be seeing in u the
next uh year or two so uh that $250 $300
million is our 10year program at the
water plant so we have many projects
that are coming at the water plant that
will improve process and water quality
so those are projects that we have
planned com and that's at all the water
plants not just particular what that is
at our peos plant posos PL
particular thank you so much John
appreciate that mayor council member
Stewart thank you mayor um thanks for
presentation John all the work you're
doing so couple of items that have been
popping up in the news and some of my
neighbors chatted about is the is the
microplastics the P past I think it's
called did you we had talked about this
briefly but Chandler is in a pretty good
place with that we don't need to really
invest in protecting the water for for
for that or where are we at with that
through the mayor uh council member
Stuart um Chandler is very fortunate in
that uh we have not found any posos
contamination in our wells uh above the
new limit that's being proposed by the
EPA so we've just uh finished a round of
testing Lo uh just very
recently and uh that it's it's very very
very good that we've uh we've gotten the
results that we have uh other Valley
cities are struggling uh and with an
occasional hit on on their Wells and
some of the cities have taken Wells out
of service well I appreciate that I'm
glad we chatted about that because it's
important and it's something that's been
I think it's going to get more relevant
for many cities and I know Tucsan
struggling with it as well and I'm just
grateful that the investment that
council's before us put into our water
to make sure that it's safe we're
drinking and and we're good so thank you
John John these the filters that the
anite ones we've got these are really
more essential because of the the fires
that have gone up north and the more uh
material that's being carried down into
our river system is Mayor you're correct
um what has happened to us since about
2005 is we've seen um seen through the
delivery system the SRP delivery system
from uh from the reservoirs a an
increasing level of a contaminant or
contaminant but total organic carbon
Toc and uh when that increases it makes
uh treating the water a little more
difficult and then there are byproducts
uh when you chlorinate water that has
high Toc there are byproducts that are
created uh very long name uh Tri
halomethane and those are a regulated
substance and so it has been uh of key
importance to the utility to really uh
remove that Toc at the source because
once it gets into the distribution
system it becomes more difficult to take
care of so that's that's why we're
spending the effort that we are at the
plant so we can remove the TOC at the
source but yes it has been climbing uh
in the delivery water in our source
water and that is primarily because of
runoffs uh runoff from The Watershed
okay thank you well our last items
called in item 39 and 40 by council
member Harris and John this is you again
yes it
is again uh thank you for allowing us to
uh speak to you about our continuing
efforts for uh um maintaining our aging
infrastructure so uh both items 39 and
40 relate to our our street uh repaving
uh program uh the city has 2100 Lane
miles of of roadway that we
maintain uh and we try to maintain that
at a very high level we call it uh uh
pavement Quality Index or pqi is the
rating system that's used and we are
striving for a 70 out of a 100 of in in
the pqi score and that's an average
score amongst all of our streets
uh currently we're running at about a
63 and so we're working really hard to
improve that last budget uh mayor and
Council uh gave our program this
particular program uh a good shot in the
arm uh with several million dollars
additional to again to go out and try to
improve that uh
pqi and so these two memos represent uh
our annual contracts that we have the
first first with our Paving Company
Tanner and then the second is with
vincon who is our concrete company uh
the projects that we do related to
streets are really two phase the first
is we have to go out and do all of the
uh American uh disabilities improvements
um with all the concrete in all the
neighborhoods so we have to modify
sidewalks and driveways and uh ramps uh
at every corner all these things have to
be done and we we're working about two
years ahead of ourselves so we're doing
those all that concrete work about two
years ahead and then uh we come in after
that work is done and then do the paving
so it's a a two or threeyear process in
in Full Circle between the the asphalt
work and the concrete work that we do
and that's what these two uh these two
contracts
represent move Harris uh thank you mayor
thanks John so much I wanted to make
sure that we uh put this out because I
wanted our Ada and our seniors to know
that we're thinking about them in
advance um and making sure that our
aging infrastruct a aging infrastructure
there's some great paying attention to
because Chandler is a hundred years old
and so there is you know there is that
time in your city's history where you
have to kind of start looking at where
you are and where you want to go and
that's why I was glad to bring this item
forward um so that way our residents
know listen get ready we're we're coming
and and we got some great rols in store
for you and some some expanded sidewalks
and some dips and I wanted to also allow
the residents if they if they have a
particular area in their community that
they'll reach back out to the city and
say hey I'm noticing this in my city
this is the opportunity for each
resident to reach back out and say hey
I'm noticing this in my community please
um pay this um first attention to so
again thank you for the presentation I
just kind of wanted to make make sure
everyone know that we're coming and get
ready thank you thank you so janitor G
neighborhood I I was talking with a
delightful lady who who was uh upset at
the city for taking her duck crossing
sign and she said I don't care about
that Paving but I want my sign back
so everyone's got their priorities but
I'll stick with the
paving Council any additional comments
just just one question council member um
John there's a handful of change orders
that have been coming in is that all
pretty much is that inflation related
uh council member Stuart through the
mayor uh the one before you this evening
is actually due to a change condition on
site um okay okao road we found uh the
subgrade to the road was inadequate it
was put in many many years ago and the
basically the foundation for the road
was found to be inadequate and so we
have to go through and and clean all
that up rebuild it from the bottom and
that's that was the the main part of
that change thanks
Shan Council those are all the questions
that have been called in U we'll have a
chance to vote on these items and uh a
public hearing and two action items uh
on Thursday we'll see you all
then
still