City of Chandler Council Meeting 7.20.23

good evening and welcome to the regular
city council meeting of July 20th
clerk I'd like to call this meeting to
order please take the role mayor Hartke
here vice mayor Orlando
here council member encinas president
councilmember Ellis here council member
Stewart here councilmember Harris
here council member posted here we have
a quorum
thank you council member uh Harris and
vice mayor for um out of your not being
here it's always harder to jump in on
these calls but we appreciate your your
wisdom and insight and leadership in our
community as well
that I'd like to invite Pastor Mark
rossington from Epiphany Lutheran Church
to lead us in an invocation and council
member Mark Stewart to lead us in the
Pledge of Allegiance
please rise
let's pray
almighty God we ask for your blessing of
discernment and guidance upon these
council members tonight
we ask that they would make decisions
that would be free of bias and Prejudice
that even when they make decisions that
are against their own interests may they
find satisfaction that they're making
decisions that are the best for the city
we ask that all businesses brought
before the council tonight all decisions
made to be for the benefit of all the
residents of Chandler all the business
owners of Chandler and all those who
visit our great City we thank you for
the many blessings that you have given
to us this day
and finally we remember those who are at
disadvantage and being out in the heat
we thank you for City agencies and other
Charities which seek to find them and
offer them aid from the heat bless those
efforts this evening in Christ's name we
pray
amen amen
please join me in reciting the Pledge of
Allegiance I pledge allegiance
of America and to the Republic for which
it stands one nation under God
indivisible with liberty and justice for
all
thank you Pastor welcome thank you
councilmember
Council on Monday you had some robust
conversations related to the agenda it's
a good agenda a lot of infrastructure
repair and work with parks and water
and
um
is there any interest in moving any item
to action
if not a motion would be in order for
our consent agenda
wow
mayor I moved to approve the proposed
motion of motion to approve the consent
agenda of the July 20th 2023 regular
meeting items 1 through 33. so we have a
motion is there a second I can council
member had seen us for a second any
recusals any points of interest from
Council hearing none please vote
vice mayor Orlando
yes councilmember Harris
yes motion carries unanimously
all right thank you Council we do have
one action item tonight
um we could get a brief presentation on
just the fee schedule related to
Management Services Public Work
utilities that we're voting on tonight
thank you Matthew
all right good evening mayor and Council
uh great to be here talking with you
tonight about some city-wide fee
schedule adjustments that we're
proposing to make as with any time
you're making an adjustment sometimes
you have to kind of evaluate those
things that you're doing and you know my
dad once told me that if you want to
make a difference in the world sometimes
you have to put your money where your
mouth is and he was right you can taste
the change
all right so this evening
um we're talking about resolution 56
96 and we have an overview of kind of
our annual review so each year the
Departments review their fees as part of
the budget process
and typically the effective start date
of new fees is July 1st this year is a
little delayed to an August first
effective date for these fees but as
they can be set later to accommodate
communication posting and system changes
and these recommendations again are
proposed to be recommended for an August
1st of 2023 implementation
so an overview of our fee
characteristics fees are assessed for
use of facilities or Services benefiting
specific groups typically this ensures
that taxes charged to support the
general service benefit all whereas if
someone's receiving an individual use or
service that they're paying for those
uses or Services
fees reflect the recovery of those costs
to provide the service unless the market
demands a lower rate and the authority
to charge must exist in the city code so
our fees amounts are specific and set by
resolution
an overview of our schedule the
Departments propose their fee updates in
January February time frame the proposed
fees are analyzed and summarized
verified in the city code that the
authority exists to charge the fee in
March and April they're posted online
for 60 days at least and they've been
posted on our website since May 19th of
23. they're also posted and published a
notice of intent to amend the city YP
schedule and we do social media postings
as well
this evening we have two departments
that are proposing fee updates
Management Services and public works and
utilities
for Management Services the fee is for a
short-term rental license and license
renewal fee as you'll recall recently a
new short-term license was introduced to
Mayor and Council you voted in favor of
that short-term license and this would
authorize a fee to be collected for
those short-term licenses as well as a
renewal fee I would authorized a 250
license fee and a 250 annual renewal fee
associated with the license
and this would be in effect for those
not currently licensed when they do
their renewal they would have to pay the
fee as they would be grandfathered in
but those that would be net new
additions to the short-term rental
license would pay the fee after August
1st uh with that I'll ask for any
questions on this one Ryan Peters who
worked diligently with the short-term
rentals with our Management Services
team and tax and license is able to
answer any questions you may have on
this one
cancel any questions on this
councilman Bareilles
during my one-on-one with the city
manager he mentioned that the fee that
we are charging is not even enough to
actually cover all the different things
so what are we doing in that instance to
cover or to mitigate all of that
that might be a better question for
actually Don Lang to answer
um
I just don't want the people who think
that we're charging the fee because we
want to make money as the city I wanted
to bring that up that the fact that
we're not even charging enough to cover
uh the process yeah yeah through the
mayor councilmember Ellis
um the statute actually limits the max
that cities can charge and that is 250
dollars so the rest
um of the cost to collect that fee is
absorbed just in general taxes
that's over Stuart yeah thank you that's
a great question what are those things
that we do for the licensing
um through the mayor council member
Stewart we have a software that helps us
identify short-term rentals so there's
that annual maintenance along with the
staff we have to send letters once the
software identifies what could
potentially be a short-term rental staff
then generates letters that get mailed
that help educate I guess uh people who
have short-term rentals and have them
contact the city so we can talk to them
about the new statute around short-term
rentals and of course our new code
language because a lot of people just
don't know so um we work with the public
extensively and that takes it's quite a
bit of time to do that
um and that's really just the licensing
portion of it that we can
um
substantiate with this cost but of
course there's many other costs around
this with Public Safety and so on but
that's not part of this overall analysis
that we did to charge the 250 dollars
okay
any additional questions on this part
yeah mayor vice mayor
yeah under uh
buyer
under the uh summary proposal
modification the little church staff put
together which is good in the verbiage
it says this will be a tech effective
July 1st
2023 and I heard August 2023.
which date is that does that need to be
amended if we make an amendment here or
that's
I'm concerned by the legality here yeah
yeah through the mayor vice mayor if the
posting said July 1st we can do it at
that date or later but it cannot be
before mayor and Council have actually
approved the resolution for the fee
change so uh the the first effective
date it could be possible would be
August 1st well actually it could be
tomorrow if you approve it tonight but
we're not anticipating a tomorrow
implementation date it would be an
August 1st implementation date
understand I just want to make sure
we're legal it says to anticipate these
are amendments will be presented to
council would change the effect of one
July
I'm just again I want to make sure that
we're in sync here that's all
yeah I can
City attorney thank you sir
um yeah I think it needs we just need to
clarify that these fees if approved will
not go into effect until August 1st and
that's just a clarification
um it's not a legal impediment to
proceeding with action tonight
okay as long as we're stating that I
appreciate thank you
proceed mayor
councilmember Harris
there's got a question for the City
attorney
City attorney I wanted to know
um do we if we say yes this action today
do we have to
put it into effect August the 1st or
could we say September the 1st and then
my last question is that
um is this a little bit different from
you know sometimes we have to read
ordinances twice before we Implement
something new this different or is this
uh we don't have to do that
if I may Man City attorney thank you
um this is not an ordinance
um there is not we do not have the to
read requirement for it it can go into
effect as quickly as the council desires
if the counts would like a little longer
implementation to September 1st I would
recommend that be included in emotion
and and see what the council vote and
um just a reminder by law and by our
process these fees have been posted for
public comment on our website for a
period of time over 60 days
so this should not catch anyone I mean
hypothetically that it's been out there
I realized that I mean just because it's
out there people won't see it
but neither will necessarily our
conversations here tonight and August
1st was just a a date of a of a kind of
that that just made sense there's
nothing magical about that but but at
the same time it makes sense
in additional comments on this console
okay move on please all right the other
department that has a fee changes Public
Works and utilities and I'll do a brief
overview of it and then if there's
questions John Knutson from the public
works director will be able to answer
those uh basically this would remove the
separate fees for residential property
and non-residential property for those
that are applying for a right-of-way
vacation which in my mind I thought you
know a beach umbrella on a right-of-way
but that's not what this is this is a
right of way that they're abandoning
um so that it's not going to be in use
either our right-of-way or there right
away to process that there's an
application fee currently and it's
dependent upon the property type not the
individual requesting the vacation and
so the request is to remove those
separate fees and charge just the one
fee apples application fee of a thousand
dollars to help recover actual costs
incurred by staff time staff does a lot
of research and spends a lot of time on
these right-of-way vacation applications
in a similar vein we also have
um a separate fee for residential and
non-residential property for
extinguishment of easement applications
uh one is 200 if it's a residential
property the other is a 500 fee for a
non-residential property and really
there's no distinguishment in the level
of work or effort that goes by staff
into these application reviews and so
the request is to change that to one
individual fee of 500 typically these
fees are requested by developers and
sometimes residents when they request to
have certain segments of right-of-way or
even evaluated and these fees help
recover the cost of services for these
specific application items
tons of questions
hearing none continue okay
uh with that mayor council I'll be open
to any additional questions you may have
does not appear we have any additional
questions thank you
counsel with that
um a motion would be in order
council member Alice
tonight
let me start back again
the Management Services and public works
and utility department with fee changes
effective August 1st 2023
all right Council we have a motion is
there a second
a second second
a second by councilmember encinas
um
concept please vote
Vice Maryland
yes
councilmember Harris yeah
motion carries by majority with council
member Stuart descenting very good
Council we do have a number of
unscheduled speaker cards here tonight
regarding around the library and library
books I see
five I think
yes
um to those of you who desire to come
and address the council tonight again
you'll be you'll be speaking to us not
the audience and uh you have up to three
minutes to share your thoughts and
concerns since this is unscheduled
public appearance we cannot address your
concerns so we cannot answer any
questions that you have but we'll
certainly have staff look at get back to
you and make sure that we can that can
have a further dialogue around your
concerns I I would ask if you're saying
the same thing that the person behind
you or in front of you is going to say
you you could say Amen to what they said
or in your own language but you have up
to three minutes when the light is green
that will give you that indication when
it's yellow Please wrap up when it's red
it's time to uh to stop at that point I
will take these in the order that I have
received these so first person up and
when you come up if you'd state your
name and address for the record would be
Lois sugar
welcome
good evening my name is Lois sugar I am
at 2342 West Redwood Drive Chandler
Arizona in the great area of Ocotillo
third home in that area
um
I am here today to talk about the
library and some of the activities and
books and things that are going on in
the library I did retire from the
Chandler School District I helped to
open Hamilton High School and I helped
to open a couple of the other schools in
the district I also have a degree as a
counselor for education
one of the concerns that I have and I
know that I sorry I'm here first I was
hoping to be later but one of the main
concerns that I have is that I realize
that something new was added on I
believe in April the book board book and
board Lounge
I'm concerned about the content not only
of some of the books that parents and
other people are finding but now we've
brought the digital world into this and
I understand that you are allowing
digital gaming inside the Library okay
as well as that the other thing I'm
concerned about is your author in
Residence program
um and what I'm going to ask is the
process that you are choosing these
people these programs the books that you
are putting on the shelves who is on a
committee who is choosing this material
do parents community members have any
right or any say as to what video games
they or their children are seeing or the
books that they or their children are
hearing your author and Resident Sharon
Skinner
um being an ex-english teacher also I
looked up some of her books one of the
books that she recommends for people to
read is Charles Manson and the creepy
crawl
now I doesn't sound like something I
would enjoy reading nor would I enjoy my
grandchildren reading that okay another
one that she says for people to read
say the right thing how to talk about
identity and Justice and diversity
and I know that people will be talking
about books like that later again
who chose this speaker
she herself wrote collars and curses
shape-shifting witchcraft elves and dark
curves dark curses that create engaging
urban fantasy that's one of her best
sellers another one of her bestsellers
the healers trilogy
talking about an order of healing that
mystical creatures do
and there's a full list on the city
website that shows these books again are
these appropriate did parents or anybody
in the community have any say over any
of these elections for this person who
is presenting this information thank you
Miss sugar
next person up is Andrew Adams
again please state your name and address
for the record you have three minutes
sir thank you for your time tonight
Council my name is Andrew Adams my
address is 880 East Devon Road so I am I
grew up in the Chandler Unified School
District school so I went to uh Jacobson
Vogel and to Hamilton that's where I
graduated from
I'm a father I'm a small business owner
and I'm asking the council today to help
us stop the sexualization of our
children
you just heard about a few books that
are in the library
when I was a kid and I was growing up
and I was going through school
having books like this offered to
six-year-olds and eight-year-olds was
not something that at least I saw when I
was going through school I was not
exposed to any of this material and I
grew up to be a tolerant accepting
contributing member of my community I
have no bias towards transgender people
homosexual people or anybody if you love
America you're my friend
so seeing the kind of content that is in
these books graphic images of
masturbation stories about you know
children transgender
I don't think this stuff belongs in
schools I think these lessons are
lessons that parents should be teaching
their kids I think these are situations
where parents should be informing their
kids
and you know when I when I just see the
public when you watch TV and you see
things like 16 and Pregnant and pre-teen
and Pregnant
I think one of the biggest problems is
kids younger and younger that have no
business being involved in this kind of
content are being exposed to it and
that's having very dire repercussions on
our public
so we we've identified kind of where
this stuff is coming from I really
respect the council and I appreciate the
time to present this but Council please
our kids are under attack
every day they push the line further and
further
my one-year-old daughter's here tonight
I saw some of the images or in these
books
if anyone was showing my daughter some
of the images in these books they'd be
dealing with me personally
I don't think this stuff belongs in our
library
I don't think it belongs anywhere near
kids the age it's being presented to
so I'm begging the council please help
us do whatever you can to stop the
sexualization of our children this is
not about being anti-anybody
okay so thank you for your time and I
appreciate your help thank you sir
next speaker card is from Riley Morgan
generally you've got up to three minutes
please state your name and address for
the record my name is Riley Morgan
please wait till you get up to the mic
there sorry there you go
uh East Londale Place Queen Creek
Arizona
and I genuinely do not think it's a good
idea to have books in in the libraries
for kids that are talking about a
subject they should not learn until they
are allowed to move out of their own
their parents house because imagine if
like your child just goes to school
comes back and asks you what is an STD
you're gonna be like how does she learn
this how did she learn this what is
going on
it's just it's just an awkward situation
that no one wants to be in and it's just
not good for the kids
including me so please take the very
inappropriate books that do not make
anyone feel comfortable out of our
schools thank you for your time thank
you sir
well done
next speaker card is from Carly Market
Carly again state your name and address
for the record you have up to three
minutes thank you my name is Carly
Morgan I am Riley's proud mom we went to
the library today here at the
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Library
we found that there's a section upstairs
for minors that are 18 and younger and
so I went and checked out a book with my
son but I needed him to go with me in
order to even get this book I had to
have a minor child with me to get the
book and so it's called perfectly normal
and it says on the cover here that
um it's a definitive book about puberty
and sexual health for today's kids and
teens and I'm not sure as a parent that
sexual needs to be in the same sentence
with kids or teens or why we would be
teaching kids about sex and it says this
book is for ages 10 and up so keep that
in mind as we preview a little bit about
this book it's in the children's
sections for minors only that kids can
get to so it talks about sexual desire
and sexual intercourse and it says
sexual intercourse happens when a female
and a male feel very sexy and very
attracted to each other to each other
they want to be very close to each other
in a sexual way so close that the male's
penis goes into the female's vagina and
the vagina stretches open in a way that
fits around the penis when this happens
it is possible for a female and a male
once their reproductive organs have
grown up
to make a baby but most people don't
have sexual intercourse only when they
want to make a baby most often they have
sexual intercourse just because it feels
good and then there's a picture of a boy
and a girl in bed having sex and then it
says sexual intercourse is having sex
can involve the penis and the vagina or
the mouth and the genitals or the penis
and the anus after sexual intercourse
that involves the vagina and the penis
the female can become pregnant but there
are ways that people can help protect
themselves from having a baby it talks
about AIDS it talks about straight and
gay homosexually homosexuality and
heterosexuality chapters it also has a
lot of pictures of naked people from
Toddlers with penises to young girls
with sprouting little bud breasts and a
little bit of pubic hair to adults with
a lot of pubic hair and very big breasts
so every page has young girls teenagers
in naked in showers pictures of boys in
locker rooms naked in their schools
depicting that they're in their school
locker rooms and then they have this um
thing about
the female sex organs and it says a thin
piece of skin body fat a thin piece of
skin called the hymen covers the part of
the opening to the vagina when a girl is
growing or when she is very active while
exercising or playing a sport or
sometimes when she first uses a tampon
or during the first time she has sexual
intercourse the hymen stretches and may
tear a bit and the opening becomes
somewhat larger and then it gives you a
picture of how to bend over as a female
with a mirror to look at your vagina and
your anus so that you can find those
body parts
and then I'm going on to the male sex
organ you're you're out of time though
oh I'm sorry thank you so much for your
time thank you
and our last speaker card is from Cindy
Lawrence
Cindy again state your name and address
for the record you're welcome to got
three minutes
well I sound like a bird records Cindy
Barnes
1601 North Saba Street Chandler Arizona
eight five two two five
I too went to the library but I go quite
often I have three toddler
granddaughters I'm a retired teacher
I'm a girl scout leader
and I found some very interesting books
language of seabirds this is a chapter
book none of my toddler kids would have
picked it up but it's the main purpose
of the Sunbirds the seabirds the
language is Secret
being secret it's two 12 year old boys
that fall in love and explore with each
other
and then their secret
and they are anti-police
there's no reason any book has to do
with anti-police or being secret with
adults needs to be given to
children under 18. this one was in the
toddler section the hard books I'm sure
you all remember those that would be for
a one two-year-old talking about he she
or not she they don't know how to speak
let alone know their pronouns
this one is I am Jazz it's a boy who
wants to be a girl or a Girl Wants To Be
A boy I don't know
this was not too terribly bad I thought
it was
appropriate especially for girls that
want to be a tomboy or vice versa the
boys that want to be so this one was
above and this one
I was surprised was the history of
um Harvey Milk he was the very first gay
elected official in the U.S and it was
the story of the flag so I approve of
this
but when we get into pronouns and
teaching explicit
exploration of sex between young boys
being secretive
to their parents and anti-police I'm
opposed to that thank you
thank you
Council that's all the cards that we
have gone in in city manager please
make sure that our our audience speakers
have the opportunity to Greater maybe
individually share their concerns and
see if there's what we what we can say
or do be honest baby
um
thank you mayor I knew you were going to
say that no I always appreciate when
when the public shows up and and
expresses kind of what's going on versus
an email and kind of shares what they're
seeing out in the community city manager
if you could do me a favor I'd like to
get a little bit of a breakdown or at
least a briefing from our head librarian
on how the minors section of the library
works and where the book selection how
that's how that's managed if you could
do that for us and Jake mayor councilmer
Stewart will uh provide you with some
background information as well connect
with each of the speakers tonight thank
you sir great
all right next on our agenda is uh
Council announcements and I'll start
I uh one of my big saddest moments this
year so far
was not being able to participate in the
for our city day I've made
the the last nine and uh but from what I
hear this was the most amazing ever and
I think council member Ellis is going to
share some details that I don't need to
other than we we set a record of kids
shared of kids served I do want to thank
all of the volunteers and sponsors who
were involved what an incredible
difference that you made
and uh council member Ellis thanks for
carrying the water for us and I I don't
know if any other council member was
there I know you've participated and
we're for this program but uh thank you
Council for your leadership particularly
with us
secondly I do want to just briefly talk
about Road Safety as we know that we
have our students that are heading back
to school so there's more people walking
to school driving to school biking to
school
and believe it or not they're not always
paying attention perhaps at the way that
you believe and I believe that they
should so please be patient around
school zones there's a lot more traffic
keep in mind everyone is adjusting to
new schedules and will find a sense of
equilibrium like we do every year but
it's particularly hectic that first week
and at the same time we're experiencing
a heat wave here aren't we it's been
brutally hot over the last several weeks
and it's supposed to continue with
monsoons not quite in sight so I would
like to remind everyone parents if your
kids are walking to school make sure
that particularly that way home to
remind them again and again to stay
hydrated
uh everyone else
um Please be aware of your situation
your circumstances so you're not out in
the sun more than you need to I saw
council member Ellis carrying an
umbrella to the council meeting tonight
to stay out of the heat well done
it's also a great idea if you know or if
you have others to know to be aware of
where our heat relief stations are and
there's several not only libraries but
others that you can go in seek water
cool off and these locations can be
found at
chandleraz.gov forward slash heat relief
and lastly I uh the reason I wasn't able
to be at this our most awesome event is
that I spent some time as a mayor in
Kansas City with seven other Mayors with
uh Institute of of Creative Design
mayor's Institute on City design
and each of us brought a project this is
a program sponsored by the National
Endowment of arts and other groups and
the project that I brought is Castle was
one that we recently approved this canal
in South Chandler that that fed the
community of Goodyear and I I really
would like to see how we can make this
more than just a canal with a kiosk that
particularly a canal that's only 100
yards long and then we run into bash's
private property and then there so I I
look forward to
um some folks that will continue to help
us and working with staff to uh see how
we can make this a true amenity perhaps
uh event driven amenity in our South
part of the community with that
tremendous area of Snedigar Park on the
bottom but uh what a great time and and
councilmember Stewart I got a tour of
the women's
pro soccer stadium that is opening next
March so we got a we got a pre-up tour
of this thing and I I knew With Your
Love of soccer I've just created great
Envy with you
the second part of this uh program I I
flew from there to New York City to be
part of the
a Bloomberg Harvard City leader
initiative with 39 other mayors
and this program provides uh training
and guiding and some a lot of education
on different things for Mayors and
Senior Leaders with tools that will help
expand our problem solving strengthen
our City Halls improve Communications
and help us be truly data driven
and on a personal note I it was amazing
for me to be in the same room with the
mayor of Wellington New Zealand Cape
Town South Africa Amsterdam Netherlands
um
Calgary Alberta many from California
Pennsylvania Kansas they've been
Everywhere Man they've been everywhere
and I really believe that this will help
us as a city do a good job of not just
saying we are a city of innovation but
having some more tools to help us be
that and not just say that we're data
driven but go to a deeper level to where
that our citizens have have great access
to what are we doing and why are we
doing it and we'll have great access to
the same as and I know we're an
extremely collaborative City but I I
don't know anything that we do that we
can't improve on so I'm excited with a
couple of our staffers to begin this
journey over the next year and see how
we can make Chandler even better so
um
thank you Council for allowing me to be
gone for a week and learn some more
councilmember and cedis
no announcements for me this week thank
you councilmember Ellis thank you mayor
really appreciate it I mean uh when you
talked about
um the back to school it was a great
success it was epic this year you missed
it but these things does not they don't
happen in a vacuum it took a whole
Community to come together and make it
happen as you can see in those pictures
people can Farm all over the campus open
their campus for us and we had kids from
all over I mean the the lines were
wrapped all around I want to thank all
the volunteers and everyone that took
part into this and really really won my
heart to see all the communities come
together we were able to pass out 2500
backpacks four thousand pair of socks
and underwear and then 550 pairs of
shoes also
165 haircuts was done and it was not
just any haircut it was a haircut that
the kids were walking away feeling so
good shaking their hair feeling really
proud that they had somebody really took
the time to do their hair I had a real
good time with everyone that was there
and we we were it was hot it was hot we
had to keep telling everyone keep
drinking I think I'm still recovering
from that I'm trying to stay hydrated
but Chandler knows how to do it and we
did it really Grand and everybody had a
real good time thank you again to
everyone and I can't think for our city
enough for having put this together and
I know next year they're already
planning to make it even better and the
last thing baby I'm leaving for this
week at the end of the week for New York
and while I'm there I will have an
opportunity to visit with the embassy
the Haitian Embassy in New York and then
also we'll have a chance to go to uh
United Nation and bring Chandler's name
there and my job is to make sure that
channel is Global and everywhere I go I
bring it and not making sure that
everybody knows about it thank you Mia
yeah and thank you for Chandler
Christian Church your Chandler Compass
Church
Campus Church for hosting this it was
the first time and everything I've heard
it was amazing
councilmember Stewart thank you mayor
and uh I want to give a shout out to
officer Jay Clark who I had the
privilege of going on a ride along this
Saturday and if you haven't been on a
ride along and you follow things going
on the city it was absolutely amazing
and I got to tell you this police force
I I we ran around all night long and
unfortunately
um it was uneventful which is just a
testament to how things are being done
in our city I know that crime continues
to decrease but it's a professional
group it's extremely Community focused
and when you sit with somebody for six
hours you know the first two hours is
kind of like it's real fluffy and it's
all but as you sit with somebody for a
while you you kind of really get to into
those conversations you kind of talk
about what's going on and it was very
evident to me there's a spirit of
service and I think that permeates
throughout the police forces it's not
just Officer Clark that shared that but
when I was on scene with a unfortunately
a motorcycle accident I could feel this
Spirit of service that was just coming
from all the officers and the and the
fire department that was on scene and I
couldn't you wouldn't believe how fast
we were first on scene which was in
about 40 seconds maybe a minute and
there were probably
five police officers there within three
minutes and the fire department was
there in under four minutes maybe even
three minutes it was like that and
helping this gentleman and fortunately
he's going to be okay
um but I just wanted to share a big
thank you to Jay and the rest of the
team out there keeping the streets safe
uh it was a good time and I'm glad there
was there were no big events so um
that's all I had tonight mayor and uh oh
and by the way Jay was a product of the
lateral uh program that Chief brought us
a few years ago that we all voted in and
so he came from another department he
said it is a world of difference here
compared to what he's used to so it was
a testament so thank you thank you chief
that was a good plug well done it's more
than Justin it was real it was legit
thanks
councilmember posted all right thank you
mayor well that kind of dovetails off of
council member Stewart
um tomorrow I'll be doing a Facebook
live about a program that Council
started some time ago we're about Midway
through converting our LED lights
um we're about halfway through I'm going
to be doing a Facebook live talking to
some of our traffic folks on what
they're doing how it affects our
residents and the reason that dovetails
with police is because these are energy
efficient lights and there's a
significant cost savings there and that
will be going to fund new officers so
they will be continue to be able to do
the job that they do so if you want join
me um for my Facebook live that'll be on
the Chandler AZ city council Facebook
page so it should be pretty interesting
I actually got up in a bucket to test
write test it out today don't know if
I'll be doing that tomorrow but it but
it should be fun but it really is a
great program it's very significant to
pretty much everyone who lives here in
Chandler so I just thought it was
interesting like to highlight all sorts
of different programs that they do it's
both police and our public works
department so thank you very much and
then wishing our cusd students a safe
and happy year I'm sure they're excited
to be back
council member posted those uh getting
in one of those Vehicles has always been
on my bucket list
I was gonna ask her if she's gonna get
in the Box got a thumbs up from Dunbar
over there
city manager thank you mayor you know
councilman Poston I don't think it's
just the kids that are happy to be back
in CRST I think the parents are happy to
have them back in and I would count
myself as one of those uh so my two kids
went back to school as well and I am
thrilled that that's where they are so
excellent um I just wanted to make a
couple of uh brief announcements
regarding staff and uh thank you mayor
and councilor Ellis for bringing up
operation back to school I wanted to
particularly highlight the efforts of
one of our staff who was our primary
liaison for that event CC cantabrana did
a phenomenal job working with for our
city and we tremendously appreciate all
of her efforts over many months to
prepare for that event as well also uh
just a great reminder to me today is we
had a power outage affecting the
downtown area APS service area has been
out and they're working very quickly to
get that restored but just a great
reminder to me of what a phenomenal
staff we have that they spring into
action so quickly on so many fronts to
make sure that our residents are taken
care of so just real quick wanted to
highlight our Police Department fire our
development services traffic engineering
division Public Works and utilities
neighborhood resources strategic
initiatives Communications and public
affairs and our facilities and Fleet
division have all been active today to
make sure that our our people are taken
care of and I know some of them are
still working now with uh disadvantaged
residents who need that additional
assistance in working with our partners
like Salvation Army to get them
especially in this very very hot part of
the year the services they need so just
wanted to thank them for doing what they
do so well every single day thank you
mayor thank you council with that that
concludes with me