City of Chandler PHAC, Regular Council & Study Session Meetings 08/14/23

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welcome to the Chandler city council
chambers tonight we've got three
meetings in front of us the first is a
public housing authority meeting which
is fairly short the second is our
regular meeting which is a condensed
city council meeting of which many of
you are here for recognitions and other
such things and then we will close out
the evening with a study session
of of which we will be then be voting on
those items on Thursday so with that I'd
like to call to order our public housing
authority commission and click would you
please uh take the role chairman Hartke
president vice chair Orlando president
commissioner Laureen
president commissioner encinas here
commissioner Ellis president
commissioner Stewart here commissioner
Harris commissioner Poston here we have
a point
thank you clerk do we have any
unscheduled public appearances for the P
heck no we do not okay Council next on
our agenda is our consent agenda we've
had a chance to look at this it's very
very brief with this uh is there a
motion for approval commissioners
Mr chair
Vice commissioner I move that we approve
the public housing authority commission
regular meetings agenda items one
through two dated uh 14th of August
2023. second mayor all right we've got a
motion by uh commissioner Orlando a
second by commissioner Ellis Council
please pull the council thank you Vice
chair Orlando uh yes commissioner Laurie
yes commissioner encinas yes
commissioner Ellis aye commissioner
Stewart yes commissioner Harris yes
commissioner posted yes and chairman
Hartke yes motion cares unanimously
thank you thank you commissioner luring
that concludes our public housing
authority meeting
oh thanks
a gavel in because these are separate on
video pieces so I just don't have a love
affair with this gavel
okay maybe I do
Welcome to our regular city council
meeting uh I'd like to call this to
order again clerk please take roll mayor
Hartke
Orlando present council member and
Cena's here council member Ellis
president council member Stewart yeah
councilmember Harris yeah councilmember
Houston
thank you organ vacation tonight will be
brought forth by Bruce Lindquist from
Faith Church
and our Pledge of Allegiance by council
member encinas
we come before you now Lord God
Praise You Heavenly Father
blessed is your name
thank you Jesus for your gift of grace
through the sacrifice of your body on
the cross thank you for being our God
and giving us the freedom to assemble as
Citizens and elected officials to
discuss matters that are important to
the people of Chandler let us not take
for granted the gift of Freedom we have
that comes through the our your
Sovereign hand it is only because of
your grace that our country was created
by men who were not perfect but in the
end put together a constitution that
allows people to live and speak freely
thank you Jesus
we pray now that you will give the
council wisdom and guidance as they go
through the agenda tonight we also pray
for peace in all areas of our city and
protect each police officer as they put
their lives on the line each and every
day
finally I pray over each council member
in the name of Jesus that they and their
families would have good health and that
they would be blessed by God
as they serve the people of Chandler
I pray all this in the name of our our
one God and Savior Jesus Christ amen
pledge allegiance
of the United States of America and to
the Republic for which it stands one
nation under God and indivisible with
liberty and justice for all foreign
thank you Bruce Lindquist and council
member encinas
next on our agenda we have our scheduled
public appearances and I'd like to
invite council member Poston to join me
on front
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oh you took the long way and got extra
steps in
all right service recognitions city
manager thank you Mr Mayor members of
the city council we do have one Employee
Service recognition this evening I'd
like to call forward our community
services director John Sefton to make
the presentation
good evening Mary council members of the
public it's an honor for me to invite
Lindsey Atwood down to the stage
diet
it is certainly an honor to recognize
Lindsay for her decade of service to the
Chandler Community through her service
at the Chandler Library Lindsay has
worked at both the downtown and the
sunset libraries where she has done a
variety of community programming from
providing story times to toddlers to
planning the sunset baby prom to
coordinating the seed swab
her story times and children's programs
were so popular that it was often
standing room only like don't call the
fire chief he's the crowd all right
currently Lindsay oversees our Outreach
efforts where she goes out into the
community promoting library programs
resources often on a three-wheel bicycle
checking out books and making library
cards she even made my library card at a
park
so Lindsay of as she approaches each of
her Outreach Endeavors she has the same
enthusiasm connecting people with where
they live work and play Lindsay's got a
great sense of humor and always a can-do
attitude congratulations Lindsay and
thank you for your service to Chandler
thank you
[Applause]
okay
yeah
30 more
thank you
mayor that concludes our Employee
Service recognitions this evening
next we have a proclamation on drowning
impact awareness months if I could have
officer Noah
duker from Chandler PD Jessica
Chamberlain from Parks and Rec Aquatics
team and Carlos Vargo from Chandler fire
[Applause]
I promise council member Poston she gets
to read the proclamation with the hard
words in it so
whereas the mission of Chandler uh what
are you doing water safety campaign is
to prevent drowning through our
community and even one drowning is one
too many and whereas water safety
includes the obvious safe swimming and
boating water safety is also recognizing
hazards around the house such as
rain-filled buckets toilets bathtubs and
water coolers and being aware of
potential water hazards in the community
including retention pumps canals and
neighboring unsupervised pools
and whereas the year-round collaboration
between Chandler Aquatics Chandler fire
and Chandler police promotes effective
water safety practice including constant
and capable supervision restricting
access to water use of life jackets
learn to swim lessons for adults and
children
CPR lessons in raising Community
awareness and whereas during the month
of August the city of Chandler amplifies
its water safety message reminding the
community that drownings are preventable
in a water smart Community now therefore
I Kevin Hartke mayor of the city of
Chandler Arizona to hereby Proclaim
August 2023 as drowning impact Awareness
Month
who would like to say something all
right
yeah so August is drowning impact
awareness month and we know that one
drowning is too many so we as an
Aquatics fire police we partner to make
sure that
um the drownings in Chandler are
negligible we don't want any child in
our community to to drown they are a
hundred percent preventable so this
month we do give away a free pool fence
so we'll be announcing that winner at
the end of the month that's something we
do annually in our community we do we
offer 10 000 swimming lessons a year we
preach adult supervision the barriers
the pool fence and classes so anything
that we can do to make sure that our
children don't become a statistic
very good and I want to thank Council
it's been a priority of ours through the
years to really support swim lessons to
make sure that we do have a robust
course that that every child who desires
will be able to get someone lessons so
let's have a photo
okay
let's see
um
our next Proclamation is suicide
prevention week and if I could call up
Dr Paula McCall from the semicolon
Foundation
[Applause]
can I get you to hold this for a moment
the mayor warned me to bring my glasses
so I did those are little little words
like so
lots of syllables
whereas the week of September 10th
through 16 2023 is recognized as
National Suicide Prevention Week and
September 10th is recognized at as World
Suicide Prevention Day when millions of
people worldwide strive to build
awareness resiliency and connection and
whereas the rates of suicide continue to
increase at both the state and National
level building more awareness and
conversation than ever before and
whereas suicide prevention is most
positively impacted by direct
conversations about mental health
thereby destigmatizing the topic and
opening up avenues for Community to seek
out support access resources and
recognize as well as share their
concerns about others and whereas
Community Connection and conversation
about how to recognize and address
warning signs of suicide as well as how
to build resiliency through family and
Community Connection is critical in
developing a community that is where
empowered and caring
and whereas due to the efforts of many
chandler-based non-profit organizations
Mental Health Providers and community
and youth volunteers the first ever
Downtown Chandler World Suicide
Prevention Day Gathering individual will
occur on Sunday September 10th at the
Chandler Community Center
and whereas all Chandler community
members are encouraged to use this
gathering in Vigil as an opportunity to
build connections have direct
conversations access resources and
support each other on that day and in
days moving forward
now therefore Kevin Hartke mayor of the
city of Chandler Arizona do hereby
Proclaim September 10th through 16th
2023 as Suicide Prevention Week in
Chandler
would you like to say a few words
so I'd like to thank you for the
proclamation at semicolon Society we
continue to make efforts to merge the
different organizations and community
members to have conversations about
suicide to share resources to connect
families and to connect community
members so it's an ongoing challenge of
reducing the stigma and opening up
honest conversations and I appreciate
moving forward and hope to see you all
at the vigil
the first ever downtown Chandler Suicide
Prevention Day Gathering and vigil will
be on Sunday September 10th from 6 to 8
pm at the Chandler Community Center is
completely free will include resources
music food art activities for healing
and a candlelight vigil to remember
those that we've lost
all right let's take a photo
thank you
I would have felt stigmatized if I just
kind of see the stigmatized
we'll look forward to seeing you there
next I would like to call up Lena catab
and her parents Rhonda and Ibrahim
[Applause]
Lena has been awarded the very high
honor of the Congressional award gold
medal this is given to youth who commit
90 hours of volunteer service 45 hours
of personal development 45 hours of
physical fitness and three days of
exploration all within a
all within a six-month period Lena did
all this during the pandemic while also
tutoring students Lena is involved in
volleyball debate basketball and plans
to continue doing volunteer work in our
community and mentoring at my old school
there we go and of course she's going to
do all this while studying biomedical
engineering at ASU as a pre-med student
and growing her baking business
congratulations Lena and thank you for
being such an exceptional member of the
Chandler community
[Applause]
why you love to volunteer so much
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struggled with
really really hard to focus and it's
really hard to get the help that you
need when in like a big really big
classrooms I was like you know what I'm
just gonna see who needs help ask around
and then it just spread out to more and
more people around the area
when mayor I wanted to say Rhonda and
Ibrahim I know we're proud of her but
that probably is a fraction
of how you feel did I hear something
yeah mayor I just want to know when you
sleep
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[Laughter]
three hours okay fair enough okay
we have a certificate for you let's take
a photo
our last recognition is in recognition
of the Navajo Nation award recipient Bob
delpe if I could invite our veterans
commissioned chair Bob delpy to come up
Bob is an Air Force veteran
a standout citizen in Chandler I'm not
sure what that means stand out but you
do stand out
who plays an important
role as the chair of our military and
Veterans Affair Commission in recent
years he worked to bring supplies and
support to the Navajo Nation
as a result Bob received an appreciation
award from the Navajo Nation to thank
him for all he did to serve the
community it's appropriate today is the
Navajo code talker day
so we're glad that of all the days we
get to honor you it's partially for the
work that you've done in in bringing
life and respect to our Navajo friends
while he's not volunteering and helping
others Bob is an engineering Tech at
General Dynamics they're still very
active in the veterans community thank
you Bob we appreciate all of your
contributions to Chandler and Beyond do
you want to say a few words
I have 10. thank you cynia Chandler for
this honor I'm working with the Navajo
Nation has been a great experience a
great privilege I've been working with
the code talkers particularly Peter
McDonald the youngest so again thank you
for the support thank you for the
recognition
very good
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that concludes our special announcements
we'll go back for our consent agenda
thank you
so Council we have uh now a consent
agenda in front of us a few items on our
regular city council meeting of August
14th uh will be your pleasure Council
councilmember Poston
really put me on the spot tonight thank
you mayor I saw you hitting your button
over there
uh mayor I moved to approve the consent
agenda of the August 14 2023 regular
meeting items one and two
second by council member Stewart
any questions recusals anything seeing
none Council please vote
motion carries unanimously
thank you
that concludes our studies our regular
session
and our last meeting of the evening is
a study session
again clerk would you please roll take
the roll mayor Hartke president vice
mayor Orlando president council member
and Cena that's remember Ellis president
council member Stewart here
councilmember Harris council member
Poston here we have a quorum
very good
um we've got about six items that have
been called in some by multiple council
members
uh some have questions some have asked
for presentations the first uh is an
item number two by council member Poston
you had a question if we could have Ryan
uh come on up and councilmember Poston
thank you mayor
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thank you
um I just wanted to clarify that this
item a little bit about this item if you
could give a little background and that
this was really more of a community
generated concept as opposed to us as a
as a council body kind of pushing this
on residence they're actually asking for
this and maybe some of the processes
that if any of those area residents have
concerns I I know there are some steps
before this actually happens okay thank
you mayor thank you councilmember Poston
so that is correct this is a community
generated item State Statute governs the
uh the formation of Special Districts
special taxing districts in the
irrigation water delivery District that
is proposed which remain Park was
requested by the residents of that
neighborhood specific boundaries were
drawn around that neighborhood and a
statute requires that the city in which
the district is proposed indoors that's
a that's a term of art that they use in
statute we endorse them moving forward
with with the process and so once
Council takes action tonight if
successful then and it'll move on to the
county for petition Gathering and then
ultimately the residents and the by land
ownership get a chance to to approve or
deny the formation of that district and
assuming that it is it is formed then
SRP will ultimately
um be the ones who provide the water
service and repair for the pipes and
stuff that are in the area
and then to this point those residents
have done their some due diligence in
terms of getting everyone on board or
some of their neighbors on board about
this to the extent that they can at this
point mayor council member post and that
is correct we received a public comment
for about three weeks uh from a variety
of residents in the neighborhood
confirming their endorsement we did
receive one opposed but the uh remaining
21 or 22 who emailed the city indicated
their their position of support and then
there was extensive uh Outreach done by
the residents themselves prior to that
point as well that they provided the
city okay thank you thank you mayor
all right any additional questions or
comments related to this
thank you Ryan
uh next item called fourth by vice mayor
and myself was item number three and IGA
with regional Public Transportation
Authority of which council member Harris
serves representing the city of Chandler
uh Jason Crampton
is Jason here oh there you go could you
give us just a brief presentation and um
compare just the uh the value prop
position this year with last year and
then after that I'd like to invite up uh
our Jessica mefford Millard if she'd
like to come and make some comments as
well
yes hello mayor council thank you uh so
just to put this in comparison with with
last year
um we are requesting zero uh general
fund dollars to contribute to the Valley
Metro bus Paratransit and ride Choice
Services uh through this agreement with
Valley Metro Regional Public
Transportation Authority uh which is
great news compared to previous years uh
we asked for about 1.7 million of uh low
mix between local and state lottery
proceeds uh the additional uh we're not
reducing any service the revenue is
being made up for by uh Regional funding
that we were able to work out with uh
Valley Metro and we're able to adjust
the amounts that we needed to contribute
locally so that's kind of what the
differences are attributed to
okay
um council member Orlando yeah did that
answer your question or exactly that was
the way this was written it looked like
we were underfunded or let's see uh
represents a decrease from last year but
what you're saying is this is actually
going to supplement that so that our
general thumb will not be used to
subsidize that additional dollar correct
correct mayor vice mayor same level of
service just different funding source
got it thank you very much that
clarifies mayor council any uh questions
for Jason
all right if uh if you might uh offer me
the luxury I'd like to introduce and
invite up Jessica mefford Miller she
hails from the St Louis area
we're able to steal her from that area
to lead our our Valley Metro Regional
Public Transportation Authority here
I happen to be serving at that time and
was part of the able to uh to vote on
you as we know so we're honored to have
you here the floor is yours thank you
good evening mayor members of the
council I'd like to give you a brief
overview this evening of the
intergovernmental agreement that you'll
be voting on later this week as Jason
outlined there's been a shift this year
in the allocation of funding in Valley
Metro works with the city of Chandler
and all of our member City towns to
understand how we might actually fund
the regional service the
intergovernmental agreement actually
supports the cost of operating and
maintaining bus service as well as
Paratransit service and ride choice in
the city of Chandler some highlights of
work in recent months and in the year
that this IGA will cover which began
this past July 1 include a new
operations and maintenance contract for
the East Valley that does include the
city of Chandler that new contract and a
new operator actually goes into effect
on January 1 2024
will also have a new contract for our
Paratransit service that contract begins
on October 1st of this year with those
new agreements we expect improved
performance we have worked very
carefully including with the support and
involvement of member City staff from
Chandler to craft the work program for
those contractors and I am optimistic
that we will achieve the results we aim
to deliver we'll also complete the
ongoing Chandler airport Chandler Air
Park flexible Transit study this is the
outgrowth of a recent study that led to
the designation of the Chandler Flex
microtransit service area so the current
study is actually looking at
opportunities to expand that flexible
service across the city of Chandler City
of Gilbert is also a partner in that
study we're working very closely with
city of Chandler's staff we have also
been working of late with city of
Chandler police on Operation Blue ride
and the focus of this program is to
engage our low local law enforcement
Partners in creating a more secure
Valley Metro bus system our efforts
lately have been focused on the 112
route that's the Arizona Avenue route
and we are riding alongside with our own
Public Safety team members and Chandler
Law Enforcement so we thank you for your
efforts and with that I would be happy
to answer any questions about Transit
service and Chandler Council any
questions
here Council memory Stewart well a
fellow St Louis and uh welcome to uh to
Chandler you know I'm always curious
about you know microtransit seems to be
a very popular method of transportation
these days we're seeing I don't know if
we're seeing Less ridership on the big
buses anymore but it seems like a
there's a sustainability story if we can
start to migrate towards more
microtransit and less away from these
empty buses at least here in the suburbs
what's your take on that yeah that's a
great question so microtransit works
very well and microtransit by the way is
flexible demand responsive service
usually utilize the smaller Vehicles we
typically see a Chrysler Town and
Country minivan uh here in East Valley
in West Valley so small numbers of
people ideally people going to and from
a similar location operates in a fixed
zone so not like uber where you could
get an Uber from right here at council
chambers and take it to Sky Harbor
airport or to West Valley if you were so
inclined just operates within a local
Zone and is really intended for longer
trips to feed customers into the fixed
root public transit system now I want to
contrast that with busier corridors like
the Arizona Avenue Corridor here in
Chandler we would have to take a whole
lot of microtransit vehicles to try and
replace that bus service because we have
a higher demand so if you think about it
we're matching the service level the
frequency and now the service type to
demand and that helps us reach out
especially in some of our growing
communities we're working with West
Valley on microtransit there's also an
appetite for similar services on the
periphery of Gilbert in Mesa where we
have low density eventually though when
you have enough ridership you reach that
Tipping Point where you need fixed route
Transit service the 40-foot bus is the
main state of urban public transit
Nationwide we expect that to continue
but it's not a right fit for every
single market and Community does that
answer your question council member
Stewart very well thank you any other
questions I may answer
member Ellis thank you Mr Speaker you
will talk about a new operator coming in
can you tell me a little bit about uh
what that's going to entail because
anytime you have a transition
um there could be like a a space where
people will not get service because
we're in between and different things
happening what is it that Metro's doing
to make sure that the transition is
seamless and everything's gonna work out
all for those who use the service thank
you council member the transition of
these contracts is certainly a large
undertaking so the new operator who
would come in and and this by the way
goes to our board of directors on
Thursday of this week so if approved by
our board of directors the new
contractor would actually begin their
period of performance on January 1.
however they have submitted a
comprehensive transition plan as part of
their proposal we as Valley Metro also
have our own transition plan that
impacts our activities and we're already
working together with that prospective
contractor to ensure a seamless
transition both in ensuring continuity
of service for our customers but also
continuity of employment for our valued
team members who are delivering that
service every day currently under
contract with transdev in the the
winning firm if approved on Thursday is
actually a different contractor so it's
a challenge when we have this handoff
we'll also have a similar handoff for
our October 1st Paratransit contract
that contract transition is already
underway
pleasure
council member Harris yes how you doing
Jessica great good good um with the
passing of proposition uh well with the
working with the workings of proposition
400e how's that helping us and how will
that continue to save the member City
that's a part of um what we're doing
here in terms of the region and
transportation thank you councilmember
Harris the enabling legislation that was
passed by the House and Senate and was
signed by Governor Hobbs represents an
increase actually in public
transportation funding from that
Regional asset sales tax today with
proposition 400 Transit receives about
33 and a third percent of that half cent
sales tax the enabling legislation would
devote 37 of that half cent sales tax to
public transit this was crafted in close
coordination with mag and all of our
member cities and towns over a period of
years through the momentum plan
development and what that means is we
will be equipped to deliver a higher
level of service and in the fastest
growing County in the U.S that is very
important so a higher level of service
for bus might look like additional
frequency and or expanded Geographic
scope covering more areas it could
include a more mix of some of the other
services we've talked about like micro
Transit and I want to note that the
public transportation funds or the
regional tax is but one source of
funding for public transit across the
valley it takes a whole mix and it
varies by project and by Community we
leverage federal funds for Capital and
we rely primarily on Regional funds and
local funding sources to support the
ongoing operations and maintenance of
our system yeah so prop 400 is is a big
player in our overall Regional
Transportation supporting City from City
absolutely all right thanks council
member all right
cut some grills I just wanted to put
some people's mind at ease when it comes
to rails and and I realized that as you
explain in the whole process it seems
like it's more customized to what the
needs of the community is going to be is
that the case
I want to ask for clarification council
member Ellis yeah and the needs for
transit in the community will grow yes
yes overall rather than just one one one
size fit all whether if it's going to be
real everybody's going to get well or if
it's going to be so you talk about micro
Transit which is going to be meeting the
need of each Community for whatever it
is that they need so this funding is
going to allow you to be able to do that
and deliver those those types of
services where it's needed and how it's
needed for that community in particular
yes with some restrictions there are
some restrictions on the use of funding
that would be derived from the half cent
sales tax moving forward that the
enabling legislation applies to we would
not be able to construct or operate
Light Rail or streetcar for instance
with this new funding stream we will be
able to operate bus service with that we
will also be able to perform some of our
preventative maintenance on the rail
system uh with that funding and then
we'll have to have an ongoing
conversation about services like
microtransit in its applicability or
eligibility for this new funding source
so microtransit is relatively new to our
Valley and right now we're funding it
locally in some of our member cities but
that's a conversation that can be had at
the level of the Maricopa Association of
governments and certainly in
coordination with our member cities are
you family uh very familiar with our
Flex service I am okay wonderful glad to
hear that thank you foreign
thank you Jessica you're always welcome
back to our Council meetings or
scintillating thrilling and we have
nothing better to do on a Monday night
than come and talk with us
so
our next item called in was item number
six by council member Stewart council
member Orlando and council member Ellis
if uh
this was I thought Micah Miranda was
going to be due in this one this was the
ASU
oh we got you I'm sorry that guy's
always trying to steal my thunder yeah
okay
good evening mayor and Council just as a
quick overview for the project cities
program
make sure I got this correct so that
they can show that up so your action
item is actually to uh
afford the mayor to sign on behalf of or
and with the Arizona Board of Regents
for the Arizona State University and for
us to work with them to develop and
execute the project cities program
now the project cities program is a
university community program connecting
ASU students and faculty in select
academic courses with projects and
system and sustainability needs and or
challenges faced by local communities
the program delivers sustainability
research education Solutions with
practical measurable and meaningful
impact City staff and ASU faculty and
staff will collaborate on experiential
learning projects for students that
bring a fresh perspective and challenges
within the jurisdiction of the city of
Chandler
and you can see on your screen uh kind
of the way that we we look at Chandler
partnering partnering with the project
City staff by utilizing the faculty and
the students on a myriad of
opportunities anything from
sustainability to like our most our our
very first one we'll be working with the
school of sustainability and the
introduction of Professional Services
and sustainability we're going to have
students studying how the community uses
different parks in Chandler so it's a
great way for us to network a great way
for us to highlight the partnership and
a great way for us to introduce
community service and particularly
government service to our future
generation of workers and with that I'll
hopefully answer any questions for you
thank you mayor when I was reading about
that I was very excited because anytime
we have a university student and their
professors doing things together
learning is really a great environment
for them to learn and its presence and
the benefit is both way it's a win-win I
know that when I was reading it it says
that they are not going to charge the
student to be part of the program so
where's the funding is going to come
from to make sure that this program is
variable excellent mayor councilmember
Ellis specifically this agreement your
action does not have any Financial
contribution but when we do projects we
work with the sustainable project City
staff to define the scope of work as
well as the needs associated with that
project specifically okay so we will
budget that or we will work through our
operations budgets to fund the necessary
costs associated with that wonderful
thank you
yeah thank you councilmember Ellis one
of my question I appreciate you bring
that up it's always important we get the
dollars from right and it's like
partnership just another partnership
area which
you know I'm always looking for
Partnerships to leverage what we could
do as a city what other entities
um now I know why you pick Parks you
answered my other question because you
you ran this I appreciate that how long
is this going will be taken if we uh how
long does these projects usually take a
semester uh is it short-term long-term
so as a mayor um vice mayor as a matter
of full disclosure I had the opportunity
to work with project cities that are
during my tenure with the city of Peoria
we did a number of different projects
some lasted the full year others were
just a semester so that scope of work
was was really what determined how long
uh that that project would last the my
you know my experience the results are
high quality very well published and
documented uh project cities has
maintained an excellent website that we
can go to and just kind of see all the
different types of projects from Apache
Junction to Clarkdale to Peoria so we're
not the first but they um we do a really
good job at connecting the students the
type of projects that they need as I
mentioned the experiential learning and
that was really the most valuable part
having those students participate in
real world problem solving collaborating
giving them experience and working with
the public giving them experience and
just as like where we're proposing for
this fall just to observe what goes on
in a community what how people use a
park so yeah that's it's been an honor
to be able to work with ASU
and hopefully that answer answer your
question it's a good idea one more
question city manager Mr Wright um
so I noticed we have one Pride we've
added by four or five other ones are we
waiting to see how this one works before
we move forward to others or we can do
this uh in Canada with other projects
yeah Mr Mayor Mr vice mayor there's no
limit on the number of projects we can
do at a given time so it just depends on
what the operational needs of the
Departments are and to make sure those
resources are budgeted but we can
certainly have multiple projects going
simultaneously if we identify those okay
I think that's something we could
probably I know your staff's taking a
look at because you definitely don't
want to wait consecutively you know 12
months in another 12 months and we can
do multiple it'd be great solve multiple
problems at a time thank you thank you
man
customer Stewart thank you thanks for
the presentation I got to tell you you
know we talked about this briefly about
two or three years ago about sort of
breaking down some of the barriers and
starting to collaborate with our cusd
our private schools Valley Christian now
ASU and and those things are coming to
fruition so I want to thank you Josh for
listening and then more importantly
thank your staff for actually pulling it
together in Ward Nichols for for pulling
this together with ASU
um this is the kind of collaboration I
think that we've all been hoping for and
we'll continue to move forward and then
later this week we've got the Innovation
Center uh Grand Opening going on so more
and more of this is going to continue to
to propel us forward and continue to be
that Innovation City that we uh that we
love so thanks John very welcome yep
any additional questions council member
posting
John will the students be paid or will
they get Class Credit for this
mayor council member Poston so that also
is dependent upon the scope of work okay
back to my experience we had graduate
level doctorate level uh students that
were paid a stipend for the work that
they had done on one of our projects so
it really depends I will not be paying
the 200 level observational students for
the park project so they're not working
working that way but that is an
opportunity for us to it's uh to
determine if necessary okay thank you
right and councilmember and Cenas thank
you mayor uh John quick question
um there's obviously a great
collaboration with ASU and especially
with the school of sustainability
um for future projects I go on I know
we're going to be focusing on some parks
is there going to be the scope of work
does that get decided by a collaboration
of council and the program how does the
next program or project get chosen and
as well as since you've had experience
with um this program before do you have
an example of a project that was
initiated that came to fruition and
completed
excellent mayor councilmember and cenus
you're testing my memory
um so yeah the uh the inspiration really
can come from anywhere and I think
that's one of the beautiful Parts about
uh What uh ASU and project City
specifically have done over the past
several years that the the ins the ideas
are really coming from anywhere so
that's really an Innovative approach to
whatever the problem might be if it's
maybe it's not even a problem it's just
an inquiry don't we want to know right
so once we have that inspiration we can
work with the project City staff to make
that connection and that's the power of
having Arizona State University and the
diversity of classes the diversity of
the areas they came to go into the
multi-disciplinary sections we had a
great example is the skunk Creek project
uh in the city of Peoria they had
engineering students because it's a part
of the Flood Control District they have
engineering students we had landscape
architecture students we had Parks and
Recreation students working together to
come with some Concepts about what that
area could be they worked with
Professionals in the field as well so
our being able to tap into resources
like some of our architect firms so it's
really
um that's sort of the magic of taking
inspiration and being able to pull all
of these logistical things together
utilizing that model of
experiential learning
all right thank you I'll do my research
and see what other examples have
happened in the past thank you I'll make
sure that you get the link and that was
something I realized I should put it
should have put in your packet but I'll
make sure that you guys all get the link
to their web page appreciate that thank
you
well we look forward to seeing uh more
Partnerships develop out of this thank
you John but don't go anywhere
item number eight uh if you could please
give a brief presentation on the uh
playground purchases this item was
called in by council member Harris
so he's going to make a presentation
yeah okay
all right excellent well mayor council
members this one as well this is uh very
exciting your support and recognition uh
continued support if you will on the
care and the maintenance of our public
amenities uh this is a myriad of use of
different contractual agreements that we
have in place but it is assigning 2.650
million dollars for us to align with a
number of different projects I I did
bring a map to really show how and where
our uh
current or completed in processed those
are the blue dots the 2324 planned
projects across the section there and
then some of our future planned projects
that we have in the wings with future
funding but this utilizes a myriad of
contracts for us to tap right into
whether it's shade or surfacing or
playground Parts if the elements just
need to be fixed up or in some cases
replacements Mickey gave me a nice long
list of some of the projects that are
going on
with Pima Park Los Altos Park Brooks
Crossing Park Pueblo Park and Navarette
Park are all targeted to look at
playground purchase and installation
we'll have some Ramada Replacements to
do we're installing synthetic turf turf
at the downtown library we'll have a
number of areas that will receive Park
Furniture this will also replace fabric
of some of the shade structures that are
to be determined and a number North of
30 Parks will receive additional ewf or
engineered wood fiber which is the
I hate to say it wood chips at the
playgrounds but we have to consistently
add that volume so these contracts that
you will you'll put into your approval
hopefully for this Thursday
allow us to match up those resources
that you provide us at the start of the
budget year
councilmember Harris thanks mayor um
John thank you so much um the reason why
I wanted to specifically comment is
because of the fact that North Chandler
um needed so much TLC in the parts and I
see north and west Chandler you know
South Chandler gets a lot of support but
north and west Chandler had not been
receiving as much as much as support so
I'm glad to see that we're focusing on
Northwest Chandler and getting our Parks
up to code and getting it up to stuff
because it's so critically important for
us to have good Parks everywhere so
people can enjoy the amenities
everywhere because they send tend to
focus in the Tumbleweed part in the
South Chandler but I'm glad to see that
we're working north and west and then
the last thing is
um and I don't know if this is something
that we can look into but I I am eager
to know if they're
um if we can look and this this is just
putting it out there and we can look at
Wi-Fi in our Parks you know um because I
think that would be really cool if we
were able to have our children our
residents and stuff
um go to the park and be able to
experience Wi-Fi they typically are
trying to get to the library and
transportation can be an issue at times
but looking at Wi-Fi at some of our
parks would be uh in a it would be an
outstanding amenity uh if we can kind of
look at that and look and look into that
but um I just wanted to point out that
I'm so proud that north and west
Chandler is getting some TLC in in this
area so thank you
you're welcome and uh council member
Ellis you had a question too
thank you mayor none great thank you
John you're very welcome oh does anyone
else have a question related to this
I want to get ahead of myself great okay
next item called in we've got
um just a few left
view by the meeting of want
actually I did have a comment card
um just on a couple
on nine and ten by a David Pratt okay
number nine can we make these buildings
beautiful
thanks and uh nine and the one on ten
one Chandler concept is a pretty
building well done on that design very
good there you go Mr Tate
uh on item 19 the last one called in by
myself and uh councilmember Poston
we could have a brief uh presentation by
director Leah Powell
then I would like to also after
questions and buy it up our boys and
girls club CEO Marsha Mintz to say a few
words about our partnership as well
good evening mayor and Council in 1894
city council created the youth and
program funding and one of those first
recipients for those funds was the
Chandler Boys and Girls Club also known
as the compadre branch of the Boys and
Girls Club
then in 1995 the city of Chandler
purchased the old Seton Catholic High
School at 300 West Chandler the purpose
for that was to create a program space
for boys and girls club in which the
city began a lease relationship with the
boys and girls club in 2009 using
approximately 8.5 million in bond
funding the city demolished the old
buildings and created the new buildings
that you see today
as we move forward we are bringing the
next phase to you as part of the FY 2324
CIP there is approximately 1.3 million
dollars planned for an expansion of the
Boys and Girls Club
as you can see through the years we have
given support to the Boys and Girls Club
for all the tremendous programming they
have done in our community we have
provided funding since 1994-95 and
continued to have a very strong
partnership with them today this
expansion will allow for additional
space for the teens security features as
people enter the building and some rehab
and refreshing of spaces used by the
youth the Chandler Compadres are also
coming on board with a contribution and
I think most recently you have seen in
the news where the Chandler Compadres
are also presenting uh funding for the
club to do Transportation with that we
will be able to have youth that are in
our Title 1 schools for example have
transportation directly to the Boys and
Girls Club this is a critical audience
that is served by the boys and girls
club and included in that is our own
public housing youth we have many of our
youth that can participate in the sports
leagues at the boys and girls club Put
on today and it is a great complement to
the recreation program we have through
public housing joining us today is
Marcia Mintz the CEO of Boys and Girls
Club of the valley and Josh Stein who is
the vice president of business Affairs
and Community Partnerships
thank you mayor and council members it's
such an honor to be here and just wanted
to come in person and thank you so much
for this long-term support and
partnership that we have as Leah shared
with you one of the reasons we are so
excited about this as you know is really
looking at the needs our kids and teens
and Chandler have today and I will share
um take it back a little bit to that
time during the pandemic and I'm so
proud to say that our Chandler Compadres
Branch remained open during the pandemic
we stayed open so kids in the community
who needed access to Internet technology
to connect to schools had a place to go
and it was also a safe place for the
parents who needed to work our essential
workers our health care workers could
drop their kids off know their kids
would be safe for the day be able to
connect to school get two meals a day
and then be able to go home at night
what we learned during this time over
the last few years is that our kids are
not all right they have a lot of issues
right now particularly with social
connection even digital connection
continues to be a challenge and what
does it mean to be a kid and a youth
today we know they could stay at home
and probably connect to some people
online but we know that's not the right
thing for Children and Youth so with the
help and our partnership expanding we
put very intentional focus on a few Key
Programs in this club because we believe
our Chandler Compadres Club is really
our signature Flagship Club out of all
of our sites in the valley we now have a
strong partnership with Terrace mental
health care and we are providing at no
cost to families for any youth that goes
into the club services so they are
getting therapeutic based activities and
the ability to have one-on-one
counseling with tarot should that need
presents itself including family therapy
as you know Terrors is a federally
qualified Health Care Center and does
not turn away anybody for their
inability to pay but instead of worrying
about providing one-on-one for every kid
in the club every child that comes in is
getting to participate in these
activities and also have some life skill
focus which is fantastic for our middle
school and our teens we put a real
intentional Focus also on our AZ youth
Force program working to make sure teens
have the opportunity get essential
skills training but then get paid
internships as Leah mentioned for the
kids that we serve particularly entitled
when schools they want to have
internships they want to have jobs but
they can't do it for free they have to
be paid because they're also working to
support their family so we're so proud
of this program we've added two new
positions particularly for focusing on
recruitment so there'll be recruitment
at Chandler high school as well as a
business development professional
working with all the different
businesses in the Chandler Community
thanks also to the help of the Compadres
I think one of the most important key
factors right now is transportation we
have tried everything to remove the
transportation barriers I know every
school in the nation is having
challenges with bus drivers and
transporting kids we've tried different
things smaller buses big buses and
finally we said we have to do something
to get the kids in the club so thanks to
the Chandler Compadres we are busing
through six Title One schools bringing
them directly every day we're going to
San Marcos to Sanborn to Shumway to
Willis to Galveston and bologna bringing
those kids to the club at no cost to our
families so I think that's a real game
changer they come to the club they get
to have homework help they get to have a
meal and they get to participate in all
of our programs so it's just an example
of the expansion that we're doing and as
Leah mentioned one of the critical
things that came up is safety we have to
focus from a capital campaign
perspective on getting that front
entrance locked down and safe we don't
want to be a news story and we don't
want to have a situation where where
we're child or any of our staff are in a
safety situation and right now you can
walk into that building and walk in
anywhere and there's no way to stop
anybody from walking in mostly either a
family member either and we have to have
those safety protocols in place for our
children but we are excited to expand
not only the safety aspects of the club
but that teen center that is going to be
a magnet and we are here to partner with
all of the agencies in the community
from working really closely with the
city managers Department we always have
Leah's support in connecting with all
the other non-profits in Chandler so
thank you so much for this partnership
and I'm happy to answer any questions
you have well thank you
um why don't we start with vice mayor if
you have some questions Renee no
actually answered my questions thank you
very much appreciate it councilmember
Poston I know you asked for a
presentation any questions
um one I just want to say thank you for
the work that you do and the fact that
you're providing the transportation is
absolutely amazing this will add have an
added benefit but one thing that I also
wanted to point out in this
um is that willingness to activate that
space for other uses at other times this
is really allowing the city to serve
residents where they are and your
location is so important and I you know
I appreciate staff working on that and
making that happen and that's just going
to help us get not only the youth that
you serve but the community at those
other times when you won't be there
allowing us to do that as well so thank
you very much absolutely thank you for
the opportunity any additional questions
councilmember Harris I just wanted to
make a comment thank you so much being a
recipient of boys and girls club and
understanding what the organization does
even as a young person I remember the
Boys and Girls Club give me that little
Walkman said the younger people man I
know what a Walkman set is but they had
a little cassette tape
but I just wanted to you know Boys and
Girls Club is an organization that has
fundamentally helped at-risk youth has
continued to focus on dire needs of
bringing youth together and helping them
and service them and and uh from the
Boys and Girls Club to the city of
Chandler what can you say it continues
to do its job so thank you for what
you're doing here in the city of
Chandler thank you councilman you are a
success story thank you
councilmember Ellis thank you mayor I
wanted to talk a little bit more about
the transportation it's it's a great uh
thing that you were able to accomplish
or with the compatriates having
um this fund to be able to do it and
it's my understanding that we're using a
local uh but so can you talk a little
bit more about how that public and
private partnership is going to work
through the busting of the children from
the different schools sure um well we
used uh private philanthropic dollars to
hire a local Transportation Company done
Transportation they have been around for
over 25 years they actually used to run
the transportation for Scottsdale
unified and they do the trolleys
um all over town so these are private
charter buses which is really nice I
understand the kids getting off the bus
call it the party bus because there's
air conditioning and really nice seat
belts that that they talk about but the
bus goes to those six schools every day
after school based on their dismissal
time and brings them to to the club and
that's all this by does is go around to
those six schools and bring them back we
just started the program it just
launched um I understand we had about 70
kids come off the bus
um this this past week so again I think
that will just continue to grow we have
the ability to add a second bus if
necessary but we're going to wait and
see what the demand is for that
that is great thank you so much for
doing this appreciate you and
councilmember Martinez awesome thank you
mayor this is a household partnership
between the city the boys and girls club
and of course the Compadres and all
their efforts that they put together
um I'm very happy to hear about the
transportation assistance I to be very
happy and optimistic that this will
bring more students out there
um in regards to that you mentioned
recruitment of high school students how
do you guys plan to do that that they
are aware of the program or the services
there and also how do we plan with such
a long-standing program here in Chandler
with boys and girls club how do you guys
plan to attract more students or make
sure that all of these students are
informed of the services and try to get
them into the facility that is a great
question councilman and that's part of
our strategy this year a having the
transportation we have hired two new
positions dedicated recruitment staff
and one in particular to work with
Chandler high school for our youth Force
program because that's come out of
conversations with Leah and the school
district we meet with the superintendent
of the schools we meet with different
principals of the school to really find
out what did the kids need and want so
when we were talking about our Workforce
Development program that was a huge need
for teens so we specifically added you
know again through our dollars not
through
um Compadres dollars that is just part
of our budget now that we have
um dedicated uh Recruitment and will
work also with some business development
dollars our staff goes out to the
schools has those relationships with the
principals and it's really being there
it's being out in the community and
truthfully historically for us we've
been very lucky with word of mouth but
it really is that partnership with the
schools the schools I think you know
what we know now is it takes up it's
actually a three-way partnership it is
the schools it is out of school time and
it is the families we serve whatever
that family looks like even here in
Chandler about 56 of our families who
attend are a single head of household
they're living with a single parent and
it's not always a mom or a dad it could
be a grandparent it could be an uncle an
aunt a family member and it's our job to
bring them into the fold as well make
them part of that you know that that
spreads through Word of Mouth work with
the schools as well as as our members
and we want them to go to school and
tell their friends what an amazing time
they had
um I think it could also alleviate a lot
of Burden with the school instead of all
these parents picking up at the school
send all those kids over to the club and
let us take a crack out of them great I
hope you guys are fully packed I hope so
too we want I mean I don't want a wait
list but I want to have a waitlist
but we look forward to the expansion of
this program the development of the the
certainly the facilities that we're in
and continued partnership with you all I
I know in times past there we've had
some questions and appreciate the step
our city and and Boys and Girls Club of
uh humiliating these questions so thank
you so much thank you so much mayor
thank you and our last item called in
was item number 22 I I said the last was
the last but this is the last of the
last uh by council member and cenus with
also questions by councilmember Harris
and vice mayor Orlando on item 22
purchase a victim notification software
Chief Duggan
uh good evening mayor members Council
all right
um so last year the state legislature
passed Senate Bill 1712 which
appropriated three million eight hundred
thousand dollars for law enforcement
agencies throughout Arizona to purchase
and deploy an automated crime victim
notification system our request tonight
is to purchase a software that would
allow us to uh automatically provide
those notifications and that purchase
will be 100
reimbursed by the state
so this is a significant level of
service that we will be able to provide
on top of what we already do by
automating this it is certainly
beneficial for the uh for the victim of
crime victims of crime our initial plan
is to identify 12 call types from
domestic violence burglaries assaults
and then over time add another 50 call
types to make this very robust so let me
explain how this will work
so once a call is generated and a report
is taken that report is is inputted into
our RMS system and then the victim of
that crime will automatically get a text
message identifying the call type the
report number and Then followed by that
will be an email describing
um more details the officer that's
actually responsible for investigating
the call or maybe a detective
information about victim Services if
they need more assistance and then they
will get subsequent emails as the case
uh progresses through the process for
example look at an email alerting them
that a suspect has been arrested and
then what's the next steps with
prosecution what can they expect after
that and then they'll get an email after
that explaining how uh
how to navigate through the system going
to court and what other resources are
available to them so again this is
something that we are very excited about
it just takes our level of service to
victims of crime in the city to a whole
whole different level so we appreciate
the support on this and it's certainly
going to make a difference
um let's start with questions from
councilman Cena
oh I didn't necessarily have any
questions I just um I think there's a
valuable tool for victims uh certain
cases and I just wanted to see an actual
live real-time presentation of how it
looks so thanks for presenting that's I
just wanted to see what that actually
looked like with the emails and before
we roll this out the the a rather uh
robust public information
so we can let the community know we have
this what it will look like so
everything we're talking about today
will be pushed out to the public as well
thank you Chief vice mayor thank you
this is exciting stuff so if I have a
let's say my car was vandalized and so
I'd call the police department would
that be something you would respond back
and say uh we got your report uh call
this number for further information or
or we're not using that that depth or
that detail
um that's not one of the 11 uh beta
calls that we're using but it will be in
short order meaning in the next three
months good so all this technology uh
it's just more pressure on our very
talented dedicated I.T staff so we're
not jumping into this full bore we're
piecemealing our way into this program
so they can have some time and space to
do what they need to do to make this
operational so the other agencies I
think I I didn't know what the top 10 or
12 you remember 11. the other agencies
that uses already they're getting good
feedback from this from the other
agencies that are using this system are
there other ages today using this system
yes there are most agencies around the
valley are used and what kind of
feedback are they getting from uh the
victims or the police officers that are
using this and dispatchers yeah they're
receiving excellent uh feedback there's
another
um there's another component to this
software that we will elect to use
sometime in the fall as well and that is
a survey component so
um there are I believe 11 or maybe 10
short questions that are sent
immediately following the encounter with
the with the officer and that would be
for most calls so including those 60 ish
type calls and they will ask short
questions about initially their contact
and their contact with our call taker
what was that like to contact with the
officer were they satisfied with the
results do they feel safe in our city
what was their response time so there's
calls along those uh um there are
questions along those line that will for
the first time for us really provide
that quantifiable feedback that we can
use to identify what we're doing well
and if there are areas we need to
improve how we can approve so certainly
information we want to know and
obviously information that uh that you'd
want to know as well about the state of
uh your your Police Department by and
large Tucson has been using this since
2017
um and the agencies now that are
implementing this and again there are
dozens throughout the state essentially
everyone in the valley they receive very
high marks so it shows the hard work
that our officers do and our call takers
every day and I would expect nothing
less from the talented people we have
working in our city excellent well
that's that's a great that's great to
understand what the system is thank you
for bringing this forward
and councilmember Harris
thank you mayor um Chief just had a
couple of questions for you
my first question was within the I know
that they have the link for victim
Services
um could possibly be embedded in the
email some of the services that they
could be offering or will that be a link
that will only click out of the email
for them to go see we can customize this
survey anyway we we choose if you look
across the valley they're not all
exactly the same so they all have the
nuances and something particular to
their own agencies but we can put in
anything we want to put in into the
survey and into the response and will
you work with the um if a person is like
for a victim will you be working with
um
uh with the Maricopa County Prosecuting
Attorney how how would you interface
this with legal to make sure that we're
not sending something that we probably
shouldn't be sending out how what's the
interface between legal and maybe
Maricopa County Legal are you working
interfacing are you working and
communicating with those other
intergovernment those other departments
work with our law enforcement and
prosecution Partners every single day so
that's not going to change
I guess that's not my question my
question is um when did you get a chance
did they get a chance to look at this
and say oh I like how this is rolling
out did you get it did you get any
feedback from other ones from other
government uh yes this is universally
universally accepted as a uh as a way to
help enhance the level of service
collectively that we are providing to
victims so we're not disclosing anything
they don't already know but we're giving
it to them uh real-time uh quicker than
they would ever have it before and then
I guess my last question is for like
victims that was victims of sexual abuse
sexual violence sometimes their
information doesn't go out is there a
way that we can is it sophisticated
enough where it can be encrypted just in
case they don't want that email sent out
just in case their email changed or how
would you deal with that so we select
the call types and there are there are
sensitive and complex calls that we
would not be including in this service
okay like for example the one you just
mentioned all right thank you
any additional questions
all right thank you chief
Council those are all of the questions
that have been called in we'll see you
on Thursday at 6 pm to vote on these
items and uh we do have a work session
before that looking at code and how to
right size it so that concludes our
study session
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