well thank you again welcome to the mesa city council meeting for the evening of april the 18th uh all of our council is present with the exception mr luna who is out of town and excused we will begin our meeting with an invocation offered by dr pamela anisa nadir who is president of the islamic social services association of the usa and we know it's particularly a meaningful night for you to be here during ramadan so thank you for fitting this in i know that that wasn't convenient i'm sure following the invocation we will have the pledge of allegiance so please stand for the invocation and remain standing for the pledge first of all i want to thank you for the opportunity to be here it's an honor to be here with you all this evening during this holy month of ramadan and on this day after your people of various traditions and faiths have come together to remember you dear lord we come together today to ask for your guidance your wisdom and your support of our mayor our vice mayor and city council members please help our city leaders engage in meaningful discussion on behalf of the residents of the city of mesa please grant them an empathetic heart and wise judgment help them as they consider ways to improve the economy health mental health and well-being of our diverse city bless our leaders to foster a community that is concerned about our children our families our homeless community members our small business owners those who are doing well and those who are struggling please bless our leaders to sow seeds of peace bless them to grow closer as leaders no matter their various perspectives for the good of our city bless our leaders to stand firmly for justice and to nurture the bonds of community amin thank you amen thank you please join me in the pledge i pledge states of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you the first item on our agenda is awards and recognitions and we have two proclamations on our agenda tonight first is national volunteer week it's from april the 17th through the 23rd there are more than 77 million volunteers in the u.s who give of their time and talent to help our communities and mesa is certainly blessed with a lot of them the city of mesa's city-wide volunteer program coordinator bethany freeland is here to accept the proclamation and to give a quick update about our volunteers bethany if you're okay i know you looks like you're a little hobbled please thank you but please uh tell us why volunteers are important in the city of mesa mayor vice mayor council members thank you so much for having us here national volunteer week is a time where we celebrate the gifts that volunteers give us all across the nation not just to recognize them but also to celebrate them here in mesa in 2021 we had 4 600 volunteers give over 70 000 hours of service to the city and this is in our programs uh in our events um and the in-kind dollar amount a volunteer hour is worth a dollar amount and that is set um nationally um the our volunteers last year in 2021 gave the city over two million dollars of in-kind service and that is invaluable invaluable i know that it is a number but it is still invaluable and our volunteers are serving in our a lot of our departments we have long-term volunteer programs and fire and medical mesa pd both of the museums all of the libraries parks and rec the mesa arts center i think i got everybody and we're lucky enough to have representatives from some of those organizations here with us tonight we have representatives from the mesa arts center mesa fire and medical the arizona museum of natural history and the library so we're really happy to have them here tonight it's very important that they're here to help us accept this proclamation because it is in cert in their service that we accepted um so thank you so much for having us um and we're grateful for your support always and we are very happy to accept this proclamation thank you bethany i think what we'll do because we have a we want to take a great picture with all these great volunteers but why don't we we'll do the next proclamation just so we don't get up and down three times tonight so if you please bear with us for just a few more minutes and we'll have a do these pro we'll take the photographs in just a minute okay thank you very much so much next we have an arbor day proclamation presented by donna defrancesco conservation coordinator from the environmental management and sustainability department donna please uh it's good to see you again please tell us why arbor day is important mesa arizona yes i'd be glad to uh greetings mayor giles and council members uh we're excited to be with you tonight for the event we know that you look forward to all year the reading of the mayor's arbor day proclamation right however there's so much to share with you this year that i'm going to suggest to our audience that they visit our website at mesaaz.gov forward slash arbor day where we're going to have the proclamation details on upcoming classes and some tree plantings i also wanted to let you know that i decided to leave out the tree puns this year i was kind of stumped on what to say and i know they're kind of sappy okay i have an uncle would be really proud of me right now all right so i'm excited once again to let you know that our tree city usa application for the 2021 activities was approved and we're proud that we're now a tree city osa for our 12th year and to tell you that the tree city usa program is sponsored by the arbor day foundation it helps provide cities with directions technical support assistance and public attention about trees urban forest and the the health of those forests in our communities the national arbor day is always the last friday in april so it's officially on april 29th this year and so that's a week from this friday and i'd be remiss if i didn't mention that this friday's art is earth day so hopefully everybody's celebrating that as well but there's something extra special about arbor day this year the first official arbor day was celebrated in nebraska in 1872 meaning that this year marks the 150th anniversary of arbor day celebrations so i think that's a real cool thing for the city of mesa and our recently adopted climate action plan our urban forests take on even more importance and we look to trees to provide solutions for many of our ambitious climate action goals i know you were just talking about that a study session so uh we know that trees that uh are real superheroes of nature they provide shade which can lower surface and air temperatures they help clean our air by absorbing carbon dioxide while also producing oxygen they provide habitat for wildlife they can help us save energy when they're properly placed around buildings to reduce air conditioning needs and so much more looking at our recent tree activities to tell you about i wanted to remind you that last year for the arbor day proclamation we invited masavi paria to talk to you about the west mesa river community heat project it's a collaborative effort with asu city of mesa arizona sustainability alliance and with his group which was unlimited potential we are excited to tell you that that project started planting trees this past october many of you joined us many of you here to do some of those tree planting so thank you very much and it will be completed in early may they'll be finishing up that grant with the final numbers estimated to be over 300 trees planted at our west in west mesa at schools and in our city parks so very cool project there's more exciting news about trees to share with you and i've asked a special guest to tell you about it but before i ask them to step up to the podium i just wanted to mention that we do have on saturday april 30th a workshop at red mountain library called trees are cool it's a tree care workshop for homeowners and following the program we'll do some tree plantings at the monarch haven and reading sanctuary they're right at the at the library again the details can be found mesaaz.gov forward slash arbor day and now for the rest of the news please help me welcome peter condon he's the program director of the landscape horticulture and sustainable agriculture program at mesa community college and also the co-director of the mesa community college arboretum come on up here thank you donna and thank you mayor giles vice mayor duff and council members for inviting me here tonight it's a really exciting time to be at mcc uh as you all know mtc is home to the largest rose garden in the southwestern united states and on april 30th the rose garden is celebrating their 25th anniversary so talking about volunteers between the rose garden and the arboretum which i'll say in a second last year or the last time we tallied up the volunteer hours it came up to over 80 000 in volunteer labor credit and if you know anything about the school budget eighty thousand dollars goes a long way so i'm really uh really glad to hear about that uh the other exciting thing that is happening is in 2018 since we've got the rose garden the rose garden's been stabilized and we have a landscape horticulture program and the students travel the campus it's a living laboratory so with sean whitcomb as a life science faculty and i uh and then steve priebe who was also teaching botany there we decided to just make the whole campus an official arboretum so we applied to arbnet which is uh located at the morton arboretum in chicago for uh official arboretum status and we were approved so in 2018 we became an official arboretum an arboretum is sort of a botanical garden but on a larger park like scale so it's it's a living library all the trees are numbered they go into a database we keep track of their health and the size and we've got over 1300 trees right now on that little campus off the street there and the shrubs there's thousands of shrubs and of course roses that's another story but on uh april 29th on arbor day we're going to be uh celebrating a big big accomplishment and something that i'm really proud to announce is that mcc is now the first and only community college in the state of arizona that is a tree campus usa so this so this is this is really really big news for us and we're all really excited to uh to announce that uh so on friday arbor day uh at uh i believe it's 8 30 in the morning uh we'll start with a presentation and then we'll plant five trees uh and uh we'll just carry on from there uh and i think i think that's about all i've got to say that's a lot so good stuff thank you very much thank you very much okay well we'll be right down for a photo with that uh award as well but our the third item on our agenda for awards and recognitions tonight is the city auditor's office who was just successfully peer reviewed this is important because the organization that sets government auditing standards requires a peer review every three years passing this review with no deficiencies shows that our auditing uh processes are both reliable and transparent so we uh congratulate city auditor joe estano and his uh and his all of his assistants and joe we're going to take a a photo with you tonight but again we just wanted to recognize this and and i want the taxpayers of mesa to know that that we do have a uh a peer-reviewed auditing department in the city of mesa that is providing some oversight and into the financial dealings of the city and we're very proud of that so council will you join me in front for a few photographs now please i forgot to mention we have our so grateful quilt here which was crafted by all the departments who have long-term volunteer step up the microphone so people not hear what you're saying um this is our so grateful quilt project we made it in honor of all our city volunteers all the departments that have long-term volunteer programs like i mentioned um created the squares and then they were expertly quilted together by our two library volunteers back here so we were wondering if we could hold it up in the picture you just have to be careful oh this was on display in the city of this building wasn't it yes so we were wondering if we could that's beautiful you want to grab a corner [Music] okay there's nobody behind the quilt right no okay all right let's all look at kevin and smile okay thank you very much thank you so much yeah that is a beautiful quilt thank you you don't have enough to hold so i'm going to hand you this proclamation too thank you and we're going to bring a tree in great you don't want to be upstaged uh why don't you stand here and we'll put this uh yeah i think yeah that's great you're fine are we all good all right welcome joel congratulations on having a peer-reviewed office in the city do it again because they were moving okay thank you congratulations [Applause] so all right thank you that was that was fun wasn't it we've got great things going on in the city of mason uh next item on our agenda is approval of the consent agenda mr christopher would you please read the consent agenda hey good evening mayor and council members these are the items on the consent agenda all items listed with an asterisk will be considered as a group by the city council and will be enacted with one motion there'll be no separate discussion unless a council member or citizen request in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered as a separate item item two approval minutes of previous meetings is written item 3a act on liquor license application for superstition farms incorporated one day event may 5th 3440 south has road item 4a act on contract to purchase compaction testing equipment for the engineering department item 4b act on contract purchase data backup and storage for the department of innovation and technology this purchase is funded by american rescue act plan funds item 4c act on contractor purchased two portable chemical identifiers for the mesa fire medical department this purge is a grant funded by the arizona department of homeland security item for the act on contract to purchase audio visual equipment for the mesa police department item four e act on a one year term contract with four years of renewal options for traffic signal maintenance services for the transportation department item 4f act to ratify emergency purchases of bulk methanol for wastewater treatment for the water resources department item 4g act on three-year term contract with two years renewal options for automotive batteries for fleet services water resources and energy resources departments item 4a checked on contract to purchase one rollback trailer for the water resources department as requested by the fleet services department item 4i action contract to purchase three backhoe loaders for the energy and water resources departments as requested by the fleet services department item 4j active contract purchased three mini excavators for the energy resources department as requested by the fleet services department item 4k act on contractor purchased three tilt trailers for the energy resources department as requested by the fleet services department item 4-l i can contract to purchase five tag trailers for the energy resources department as requested by the fleet services department item 4m act on the use of a cooperative contract for a 10-month term contract with four one-year renewal options for blueprints oils in greece for the water resources department item four and actual dollar limit increase to the term contract and two years of renewal options for water wastewater treatment and pool chemicals for the water resources department parks recreation community facilities department and the materials and supply warehouse item 4-0 act a one-year term contract with two years for no options for three master job order contracts for transportation construction services item 5a act a resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds series 2022 and general obligation refunding bonds series 2022. item 5b acting resolution authorizing the sale execution and delivery of utility systems revenue obligations series 2022 and utility systems revenue refunding obligations series 2022 item 5c act on resolution approving authorizing the city manager to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the arizona internet crimes against children task force and to accept grant funds for training and equipment for the mesa family advocacy digital forensics unit items 5d through 5t are resolutions supporting the submittal of grant applications and authorizing city manager to accept and administer subsequent awarded funds specifically item 5d is a grant application for alice cooper's solid rock teen centers to the auction indian community item 5e is a grant application by karimi productions in the to the occian indian community item 5f is a grant application by job crisis arizona to the aquachen indian community item 5g is a grant application for desert sounds performing arts to the auction indian community item 5h is a grant application by gene lewis boxing club and youth center to the auction indian community item 5i is a grant application by save the family foundation of arizona to the auction indian community item 5j is a grant application by alice cooper's solid rock teen centers to the fort mcdowell yavapai nation item 5k is a grant application by arizona burn foundation to the fort mcdowell yavapai nation item five l is a grant application by carrying me productions the fort mcdowell you have a pie nation item five m is a grant application for shop crisis arizona to the fort mcdowell yavapai nation item five n is a grant application by the energy resources department to the fort mcnall yavapai nation the funds will be used for the mesa electric utility summer indoor health and safety program item five o is a grant application by the parks recreation and community facilities department to the fort mcdowell yavapai nation the funds will be used for the making waves scholarship program item 5p is a grant application by desert sounds performing arts to the fort mcdall yavapai nation item 5q is a grant application by gene lewis boxing club and youth center to the fort mcnally yavapai nation item 5r is a great application by junior achievement of arizona to the fort mcdowell yavapai nation item 5s is a grant application by mesa united way's helen's hope chest to the fort mcdowell yavapai nation item 5t is a grant application by save the family foundation of arizona to the fort mcdowell yavapai nation item 5u academy resolution approving an authorizing city manager to enter into a development agreement with southwest gas corporation related to approximately 10 and a half acres of land located near the northeast corner of ellsworth road and elliott road for the purpose of opting into the elliott road technology corridor item 5v icon resolution approving and authorizing the city manager to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the town of florence for the mesa regional dispatch center to provide temporary 911 fire and emergency medical dispatch services item 5w act on resolution setting may 16 2022 as a date of the public hearing for the modification of the assessment rates for the mesa town center improvement district number 228 and consideration of the fiscal year 2022-2023 annual assessment at the modified rate item 6a introduction of ordinance regarding xeon 21-0-9-2-1 for property located north of southern avenue and east of crisman road rezone of the planned area development overlay and site planner view to allow for multiple residents development item 6b introduction of ordinance reporting xeon 21-0-1024 for property located south of pecos road on the east side of the haws road alignment rezoned with a plan area development overlay and site plan review to allow for an industrial development item 6c introduction of ordinance regarding xeon 21-00435 for property located east of greenfield road on the north side of baseline road site plan modification for multi-tenant retail building of the drive-through item 7a act on an ordinance meaning table 1 and title 5 chapter 17 of the mesa city code entitled mesa development impact fees by removing the stormwater drainage impact fee from the table to confirm the discontinuation of this fee item 7b act on ordnance we're going to zoom 21-0-1-2-1-9 for property located on the southeast corner of mcculloch's road and country club drive re-zone insight planner view to develop a restaurant of the drive-through item 7-c acted on ordinance regarding 0n21-0116 for property generally located west of power road on the south side of mccallups road rezone and site plan modification to allow for development of a daycare facility with outdoor activities an item 7d act on ordinance regarding zeon 21-00356 for property generally located east of power road on the north side of railroad rezoned with a planned area development overlay and site plan review to allow for development of an industrial building mayor and council members these are the items on the consent agenda thank you mr christopher uh ms mosley do we have any blue cards requested for an item on the consent agenda no request mayor all right thank you i see there's a motion made by mr thompson seconded by mr heredia please vote thank you that motion passes unanimously with council member luna absent next item on our agenda is item 8a this is to take action on the subdivision plot entitled the map of dedication for eastmark development unit number one located along ellsworth road between elliott and warner roads this item was removed from the consent agenda to allow council member thompson to declare conflict he will not be voting on this item is there a motion to proceed with this item thank you i see that mr freeman's made a motion seconded by mr heredia any discussion if not please cast your vote okay that po passes with five yeses with mr thompson abstaining and council member luna absent that concludes the items on our agenda for this meeting is there a motion to adjourn thank you ms pillsbury and mr freeman all in favor please say aye aye thank you we are adjourned [Music] you