Oh, I didn't know. >> Good afternoon and welcome to our Glendale City Council workshop. This meeting is for council members to review and discuss important issues, [music] projects, and future council meeting agenda items. It's a work study session only and allows the council to hear input from city staff. No action will be taken at this workshop and there will not be an opportunity for public comment. This meeting is streaming live on Glendale's Facebook and YouTube pages and the city's cable television station, Glendale [music] channel 11. Thank you for joining us. >> Good afternoon. This is this on Can you hear me? Okay. >> Yeah. Uh good afternoon and welcome to the city of Glendale city council workshop session for October 28th, 2025. This meeting is called to order. I'd like to note that the mayor uh absence is excused today and I will conduct a roll call vote. Council member Baldenegro >> here. >> Council member Kochas >> here. >> Council member Guzman >> here. >> Council member Malner. Uh I do not see council member Turner. Keep an eye out for him. And I am present. Thank you. Okay. First item on the agenda, downtown campus reinvestment project. Mr. Phelps. >> Good afternoon, Vice Mayor, members of the council. Here provide staff report is our city architect, Eddie Garcia. >> Thank you, Mr. Phelps. Good afternoon, everyone. This is on behalf of the entire team update number 37. Uh we are about a little less a little over six months to go till we get to substantial completion. So I think more than anything that you'll see in today's presentation, the takeaway is the amount of site activity that's happening on the project site now. So the last time you saw a photo like this was back in August and you can see that there's so much more work that's going on the perimeter, the amphitheater. Um I know if you drive by the site frequently, you can see where all the barricades are up and what's happening behind those barricades is equally important. But uh we also know that that also can present itself with some construction fatigue. I can tell you that we're working really hard right now on the site activities to drive some better uh turnover time with those uh those activities on the perimeter that we can open up those barricades sooner than later. But we're still going to require some patience along the way. So bear with us on that. Moving along though, one of the things that you might notice and on Glendale Avenue is the large fence that goes up. We're down to one lane heading west for quite some time now. Part of the reason for that has been all the curb and gutter work and in this case in this photograph you see the bus lane that's being put together that's being poured. This was about a week ago now. Um and all the curb gutter work and then some as asphalt repair that needs to happen. Uh we're we're rounding the corner with this work on Glendale Avenue. So we're hopefully in the next couple weeks if not sooner we'll be able to open up that lane again. um the sooner the better obviously because we know that the holidays are coming up pretty quickly. But uh we get those two lanes open again, that'll really help traffic flow. But you can see that from the amount of work and primarily the safety of our crews that are out there working on the project, the fence had to be where it's been for all that period of time. So that's coming together. Just immediately adjacent to that bus lane, uh we're causing we're calling this the entry plaza area. So this is the view that you see from the main lobby looking to the parking garage. But if you're looking in the opposite direction, this is where our citizens and constituents would enter the building from the west. So they would walk across an entry plaza that'll be built. What you're seeing in the foreground is the top of the existing tunnel. And so we're preparing that for waterproofing and another uh uh layer of concrete that goes on top of that that creates the sidewalk and stairs and platform etc. And in the very far background of the picture, you'll see how our stairs are being clatted with the screen wall. And so that activity is really progressed quite well. It's almost done on on both the garage and and uh most likely stantially complete on the roof. So there's an example of some of the photographs here. We have the roof. This was taken when they first started putting in the the uh the screen walls enclosures um about a three or four weeks ago, if not maybe a little bit more than that. And the picture on the right was just about a week or so ago. So these do two things. One, they're providing some screening to the elements behind it, but they're also providing some transparency for security. The case of the roof, it's uh not only helping to screen mechanical equipment, but at the same time, it allows air flow. The reason they're designed this way to allow air flow to get through it and help with the equipment so that we're maintaining that uh on the roof as well. So, it's dual purpose, but it's an architectural element, and they're going up, and it's a very consistent theme in the design of the building. Uh, sitews and grading activity are going on in the amphitheater. Big pile of dirt that you see to the right. A lot of that is because we we continuously regrading and moving dirt to um not only prepare for footings and things on the on the site, but getting the walls done. Also, we had a lot of rain not too long ago, so we moved the dirt around a little bit to dry it out. And uh all this is going to be continue to be in flow as we excavate to put sight walls and then we'll put this dirt back in where we need it. So for plantings everything we need to get grade that's all on site. So everything's there and hopefully in the next couple weeks we'll get you some more updates on how the bowl is being constructed. There's another example of some of the the site walls going around the perimeter. So again these are part of the uh the barriers or at least the uh the limits of where circulation will be. So there'll be stairs put in between these, planters between these, ramps between these. So they're just the structural elements that create the form of the of the bowl. And then most recently, uh, on the park side, just outside of the curved area for the bowl, we have a another deck that we're going to be pouring. And I believe it's been poured as of this date. But essentially, um, this is a whole plaza piece that that extends the original, um, patio area or plaza area that was in the original design of the building, but we're extending it further. So, this is essentially the new circulation path that takes you to the entrance of the building. Most importantly, just recently on the site has been Murphy Park. So, this is an example of some of the demo demolition activities that are currently in progress. Um, we've done the northeast corner, parts of the southwest area, and we're working our way around towards the um the north west side here shortly. And doing it basically in quadrants. So, uh, not to worry. All the, uh, the elements that was either benches or statue or the art components that were identified in ear early early, uh, council meetings that we've had been, uh, protected and removed off the site and being stored separately. But, uh, this is time now to just get in there and move stuff around because we we're trying to meet the same deadline as best we can with the completion of the building, moving inside. Uh, you know, I tell you, every day, every week goes by, there's so much more new things to see. So, um, this is the first floor. The, um, you can see now that most of the drywall, production drywall is in place. We're working on the ceilings as we speak. Um, this is the the, uh, multi-purpose area that faces Glendale Avenue. So, that right in front of that is the bus lane that we showed in an earlier photograph. Um, again, all the the production drywalls there. We'll be working concentrating on the ceiling stuff here shortly on the fourth level. Um, incidentally, the next few photographs are really indicative of what's going on, but the fourth floor is kind of the key example of how it's coming together in terms of the different parts and pieces. So, we're getting uh mill work put in. Now, this is the break room area to the right. So, all that will be um most of it's built in place now, but that's where the uh employee breaker will be. So, we'll have couple refrigerators, microwaves, etc. tables and chairs. And then the picture on the left is the copy area. So on every floor, there's uh essentially a copy zone um that's set up just like this. We'll accent paint and some built-in mill work. Uh also, we're laying in ceilings. So we're getting a point now. We're very getting very close now to dropping ceilings and in the third and the fourth level. So uh gentleman there that you see is actually hanging the grid and um measuring for tiles and everything. So we can, you know, before you know it, you'll have an entire ceiling plane there. And this just is an example of, you can see a few things already in the ceiling, but this is an example of how spacious it will be at the end of the day. Um, we've talked about elevators in the past. We haven't really seen uh too many photographs to share with you, but this was just taken very quickly because we're we typically don't get into the elevator shafts as as staff and employees. But uh we were able to to work with the contractor on this one. And you can see how um the shafts are built. There's a lot of railings, cables, etc. The picture on the right is the top of the cab. So the cabs are built, platforms are built, the rails, the railing guides are there. Machinery is getting close. We're about a couple weeks out, if not a little bit more from having these operational. And this is important because we'll use this from a construction standpoint, not necessarily just to move people. They're not going to be completely done till we're finished, but we want to be able to have conveyance vertically while we're still working on the building because it'll come in really handy when we start to move furniture in uh towards the beginning of uh early next year. And then on roof and glazing activities on council chambers, um we have completed that. As far as the uh roof system goes, there it's completely done now. Um there's some minor details and some flashing details and coping details that we're working on, but for the most part, everything has been completed. So that's your new roof system, uh new metal roof alto together. And I will say this, uh we learned over the past few weeks when we had all this rainstorm and water, the buildings, both the council and the main building, including the amphitheater, we did not have any water issues. This is really good. So no leaks. Um so we're really happy about that. um big big uh push forward from where we were in the past, especially on council chambers where we we suffered some some leaks over the years on the corners, but uh we're really happy about that. What's really remaining on the exterior now is putting in the metal cladding that you see is missing on the top of the uh the uh building right now. Um that work is forthcoming. So, here we are. So, in progress. We just highlighted quite a bit of this, but next month we're going to continue on with more interior finishing throughout the uh the floors. Um the mechanical system is working. We've we've actually have it uh activated now on three and four, but next month we're going to hopefully get the level one and two going. We do that because we want to just make sure the building's uh humidity control is there. So when we start putting more finishes in whether it's wood, carpet, any other materials that they relax and we're you know able to accommodate and and have them ease of installation. Uh, another big activity that's happening uh, as early as next week is we're going to be connecting the building to fiber and getting our network architecture set up so that uh, we have an easy transition when we start to um, activate the building both from a network standpoint and it um, elevator number three which is uh, the service elevator in the building that's going to start next. So once they get done with the first two elevators that you saw in the photographs, they'll move the third elevator which is south and then uh the metal wall panels which I mentioned on on the chamber. So we're still keeping the lights green on this one. We're working diligently and quickly and and um every day like I said is is you know new new progress, but we do have a lot of work to do and we're we're approaching the six-month um time clock here. So a lot to do between now and April. With that, that's your update. >> Anybody have any questions? Uh C I don't know whoever wants to go first. I don't know who was first. Council member Conc. >> Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um so I I just had a question about our uh the flag poles. And the reason is because I had someone um uh talk to me at a meeting um a resident about uh we used to have one of the tallest flag poles in I believe the state of Arizona, but I haven't double checked that. So it it it could be just a fable or it could be truth, right? But where will the flag poles um and all of that be located? Will it be in this in the front entrance plaza? Mayor Council or Council Member Konchos, I do have an update to share with you on the flag pole that's in Murphy Park. Um, but I'll first start by answering the first part of your question. Right now, we scheduled to have six flag poles, three for the city hall and three for council that are new and they'll be placed uh respectively uh near their front entryway. Um, so those are forthcoming. the the flag pole that's the really tall one in Murphy Park has just been refurbished. So, in the last couple weeks, uh the field ops team has managed a a whole crew to go out there and and uh just refresh the whole thing together. That work was completed I believe last Thursday. So, uh the new cabling, hoisting system, painting, final on top is all done. And uh so we were trying to get it done right as the rainstorms came. We couldn't set the crane. it was too wet to set the crane. So now we are we're completed with that and it's just ready to receive a flag. So um that's back in action again. Um so but that would make a total of seven flag poles that are associated with the DCRP project. >> Thank you so much. I'll be sure to relay the message. >> Council member Valdenegro. >> Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, probably about a month and a half ago or so, maybe even two months. Um, there was when construction is construction, you guys had to put up the fences and take away some parking in front of the library and that created a huge fiasco and immediately I got in touch with the business members got in touch with me. We worked with Mr. Phelps, Mr. Phil's contact with you and and um the construction company and I I just want to say when you guys were able to figure out a way to move the fences back and and we were told it was going to be three or four weeks so it's not going to be forever. I think now we're on week six and today in today's merchant meeting I let them know that we're we're past what we were guaranteed and we we need to be very very grateful that the that that the construction company were able to um work through that without having to slow down do any kind of major um delays or anything to that effect. So um I did also at at the meeting this morning said that may change tomorrow. It may change next week or next month. We don't know, but we we need to be grateful that they that we were able to with the city and and open construction figure out something even if it's just temporary until we can kind of get more of the message out there about the park construction like that. So, I I wanted to just uh if there are any um Oakland construction people listening and and watching, thank you for everything you've done for the merchants um when to help us even if it's we understand it was temporary construction, funerals and emergencies. There's never a good time for any of them, but you just got to deal with them when we get them. And I just wanted to uh it's one thing you guys are always kind of getting hammered about all the inconvenience and this and that and the other, but we also need to celebrate the times when you really do help us and sometimes we take for granted, but they what what you did for those merchants was never taken for granted and they all appreciate and want to say thank you. So, >> anyone else? >> No, I do have one question, Mr. Garcia, as far as the uh the um network for the council chambers, are I I think I had asked about this long, but it was too early on, but are we going to have um a 21st century ability for council members to call in or participate in the event they're not able they're they're out of town on a family emergency or for whatever reason. But it historically anyway, the delay there's there's quite there's been quite a delay. Calling into a meeting is, and I guess Council Member Molner can attest to this, calling into a meeting is challenging because there's there's quite a delay between what you're saying and what we hear and it gets really confusing. So, I just wanted to um ask if that's being addressed as we're setting up the council chambers for the future. >> Vice Mayor, council members, we are addressing that that particular criteria as well. It is in the design criteria. It's being met so far. I'm not hearing anything that changes that. >> Very good. Thank you. Nothing else. Thank you, Mr. Garcia. Miss Bow, would you like to introduce item number two, Glendel transportation plan? >> Vice Mayor, members of the council, here provides item number two on today's agenda will be led by Parabala, our director of transportation. Vice Mayor and Council, thank you for opport the opportunity today to discuss with you the start of the development of the next transportation plan for the city of Glendale. Typically, transportation plans are updated every 5 to seven years. The 2001 transportation plan was the basis for the proposition 402 ballot measure. In 2001 that was approved by voters and the subsequent council action um in 2002 created seto and also the transportation sales tax program. The transportation sales tax program provided sufficient funding to cover all modes of transportation. The 2001 plan has since been updated twice in 2009 and in 2017. This is an opportune time for us to update the plan to reflect council priorities and community um u vision for the transportation system. At the end of the process, we see a council approved Glendale transportation plan that has been through significant staff and community input. Other plans are also in various stages uh from grant agreements, consultant selection to development. Those plans are general plan, vision zero and safety action plan, airport master plan and the active transportation plan. Now general plan is a high level plan uh within which transportation is an element um or one chapter. The transportation plan u is the vision for transportation in the city system in the city. The active transportation plan and airport master plan uh and vision zero safety action plans these are all components uh of the transportation plan. So they those are more granular in nature and transportation plan is more of a high level. Um so today our focus is on the transportation plan in this presentation. The next presentation we'll talk about the vision zero and safety action plans. Uh we have alongside me today uh Phyllis Davis um and Patrick Sage. Um, Phyllis Davis is from KDson, uh, the consultant that was selected for developing the transportation plan, and Patrick Sage is the transportation planning administrator for the city. Uh, with that, I'm going to hand off the presentation to Phyllis, and I'll be here to take any questions you may have. >> Thank you, Vice Mayor, Council members. My name is Phyllis Hugle. Thank you. Uh, thank you, Pav. Um, thank you for allowing me to be here today. Um, I'm privileged to be representing a large team working on this update for the transportation plan. We've worked alongside together develop transportation plans across Arizona and the nation. We're excited to work together um to help support Glendale. Um so today I'm just going to go over a little bit about what a transportation plan is, how we're going to update it, and to show you the process and what we'll be looking for um from the community as well as yourselves. Um, so oftentimes when I say I'm working on a transportation master plan, I get a kind of confused look and people say, "What is that even?" Um, so in short, this is really a game plan for how people and goods move through and in Glendale. So it looks at all modes, whether people are walking, biking, driving, using public transportation, or driving a heavy vehicle. Um the plan guides what um sorry the plan evaluates what's working well today uh what isn't working well and what we need in the future to help improve mobility and connectivity throughout the city. Ultimately at the end of the day the guide is the plan develops a guide for transportation investment priorities and outlines what we need to do when we need to do it and how we're going to fund it. Um, the transportation plan is one of Glendale's most important planning tools. It uh is informed by and is developed in coordinance with the general plan, the safety action plan. It builds off previous plans that we have been completed. It also represents the voice of our community members and our city staff on what our transportation needs and priorities are. It also has a guide for investment decisions going forward. So it in that includes everything from what projects need to be included in our capital improvement plan or if there are any additional future mobility studies that are needed and it also helps developers understand what transportation improvements we need. Um so right now as a PR mentioned the current guiding document for transportation um decisions is the 2017 long range transportation plan. So this as well as I had identified and evaluated um all modes of transportation with the city and what the needs are. It has led to a lot of the transportation improvements you've seen today in the community has also led to a lot of additional planning studies such as the active transportation plan. And while the 2017 plan has served the city very well, um needless to say, a lot has changed since 2017. Glendale is rapidly growing and changing. We've seen a lot of population and um employment growth throughout the community. You can look along the loop 303 or at our Westgate and just to see that development that has occurred and that what that additional demand has created onto our streets, our sidewalks and our public transit. At the same time, how people have traveled has changed since 2017. We're seeing more people working from home. We're seeing the increase of delivery services. We're also seeing shifts in commute times within our city and as a region. Um, additionally, technology has really changed since 2017. Across their region, we've seen new modes emerge such as microtransit or even Whimo. Um, we've also seen a lot of new data tools that can help us analyze how our network is working today so we can really pinpoint more accurately what our transportation needs are. And additionally, just as Pav kind of mentioned, you know, there's a slew of plans being developed right now. The general plan, the safety action plan, the airport master plan. This is really an optimal time to work together with those consultants and teams to develop one vision for transportation going forward. So to develop the plan, h you can really whittle it down to four steps. This makes the process look incredibly simple. Um but at the beginning of the process we do a state of the system assessment. So we look at what's working today. What is h what does our transportation system look like? How are people moving? What are the issues and opportunities within our network? Then we work with the planning department um and the general plan team as well as our regional planning partners to det understand where de development and growth is occurring where those intensities are um in increasing. So then we can model and evaluate how this growth and demand is going to impact our transportation system. So then we can start to develop out a design toolbox and prioritization of projects. And this really helps us identify what types of improvements would really help us move the needle in terms of our safety, mobility and connectivity. And finally at the end of the day is that phase transportation improvement. And so this is the guide book that will help uh the city understand what we need in the next five years, the midterm 10 years and then ultimately the next 25 years. Um so from a study perspective, we are looking at the entire Glendale metropolitan planning area. So that incorporates all of our incorporated city as well as the unincorporated areas um in the western frontier all the way to Pville Road. important to know that we are focused on citymaintained facilities. Um but we are also wanting to understand what is happening um as a region and with our neighbors. Glendale is not an island. So we will we will be working with MCDOT and our neighboring partners to understand what growth and development is occurring in their areas. What transportation investments are they making and how might that impact Glendale? Um, so at the end of the day, City of Glendel is going to have a lot of deliverables, but I just want to highlight four kind of key items that you'll end up getting. So, one is a new updated inventory of all existing facilities in Glendale today. The last time I think this inventory was updated was during the active transportation plan. So this is looking at all of our roadway intersection characteristics, the quality and location of all of our pad bike facilities as well as a high level ADA assessment. Um the second item that Glendale will get will be the tiered evaluation and prioritization of needs. So what's interesting that we're going to do in this plan is we're going to look at it in three different ways. We'll first be looking at from a whole MPA area, what are our priority transportation investments. We also want to hone in on our unique neighborhoods. Glendale is very diverse. It's very large. We have very unique needs across the city. You can think of Westgate and, you know, the special event needs and how that impacts circulation and traffic. But then you can also think of, you know, Arrowhead and people wanting to get to the Thunderberg conservation area or even in our north central area where that regional impact of commuters traveling through the city, how that impacts our roads. So, we'll have to look distinctly amongst these neighborhoods of what the true investment needs are to address the their issues. We'll also be zooming in um at on specific corridors to identify what are the exact needs that we need along some of our major routes to better improve congestion, safety, and mobility. Um third, you'll also get the design policy and project toolbox. This will be um a an updated guidance for new cross-sections or new uh design guidance for our streets or our facilities that the city can take to update their street design guidelines. We'll also be looking at any emerging technologies that are coming about that the city needs to be aware of and any policies or procedures they may need to need to do to address them. Finally, the big the big item at the end of the day is that action and investment plan. So this will be that phase improvement projects where this will identify in the next five years what are their priority investments for the city as well as for the next mid midterm 10 years and then the long-term 25 years. Um unfortunately at the end of the day I do not have a money tree to give to the city but we will be doing a whole funding and financial analysis to identify what um truly do we have from a funding perspective and what projects can we uh afford within that time. Um this is a 2-year process where right now we're at the beginning of the um the development. We're in the existing conditions phase where we're collecting data. We're compiling information. We're evaluating the system. Next year, we'll start to go into the future needs and identification. That's when we'll start to come up with these priority improvement projects. And then we're hoping to come back um end of next year for council approval. You'll see on this slide that there are also three phases of community engagement that we'll be conducting throughout this process. We're hoping to kick our first uh first phase of engagement off in November. We'll be going out to the public asking them, "What issues are you seeing today? What improve improvements would you like to see in your neighborhood?" Um, we'll go back next year in the spring to give some ideas of here's what we've found. Here's some improvement ideas we're seeing. Is this meeting the mark? Are we kind of having investments that you would like to see? And then finally, at the end of the plan, we'll go out to the public again to make sure that we are um, you know, presenting a plan that reflects their unique needs. Um, from a council perspective, this is not the last time that you'll see us. We'll be become good friends at the end of this. Uh, we'll be coming reporting back to the council throughout this process to let you know what we've heard from the community, what we're seeing from a data analysis, and to get your feedback on what you're seeing as needs, and what you're hearing from community members as well. Um, so to engage the community, there's a a flurry of items that we'll be doing throughout this process. Um, we will have a project website developed and that'll be sent to you shortly. Um, on this website, it'll really be the hub of central information for the plan. It'll have all updated information. It'll also have um online surveys and mapping exercises where community members can zoom into their neighborhoods and pinpoint exact locations they have issues or they would like to see improvements. For each of those three phases, we will also be going out to the public to get information from them. So, we'll be having 10 events. We'll be participating in 10 events for each phase. This could be from a range of activities such as participation at big events such as the family bike ride or Glendale glitters, but we're also looking for unique community popups. We really want to meet community members where they're at. So, if there's opportunities that we can participate in district council meetings, if if we can go to the major transit stops or have popups of park, we're just looking for opportunities to meet people where they're at. We'll also be holding stakeholder workshop meetings throughout this process. And so that'll include our regional planning partners, businesses, schools, community organizations, and they'll really serve as the voice of Glendale residents as well. And I'd be remiss to say um if uh we do have an internal city working group uh developed as well. And so this is made up of key uh staff from each department within the city that will be working uh handinhand with us throughout this process to provide us information to review information review data as well as provide feedback on their unique needs. Um so for council members you really play a critical role in this process. You guys um understand what your community members need. uh you hear from them probably daily on the unique challenges that they're facing. So we really want to tap into your knowledge throughout this plan. There's a lot of ways that we can you guys can participate and you can provide information for us. One is just providing feedback to PRA, Patrick or myself on what is it that you're hearing from your community members. Um what information is it that we need to know so we can incorporate in the plan. The other is just being a champion for the transportation plan. you know, if we have opportunities for us to participate in any events that you're hosting, we would love to be there. Or even if sharing your the transportation surveys on your newsletters or even to your friends, that helps us out a lot. Um, so the next steps of the plan, so the project website and community engagement will be live soon as uh as is available. We will send that out to the council members to share amongst yourself to your friends and your community members. And when we're continuing on for that existing and future conditions assessment once that's complete, we'll come back to the uh council to give you a review of what we found and what we heard through the community engagement. Um and with that, I'll open it up for any questions or any feedback that you have on transportation issues you'd like to see us address through the plan. >> Thank you. Thank you, council. >> Hello. Thank you very much for this thorough presentation. I'm very excited to work with you all to um get uh citizen engagement and uh get some feedback. Um some of the things that I would like to highlight particularly for the cactus district um to look forward to in the future um is our increase in crosswalks citywide. um smaller ones in neighborhoods uh near busy parks like uh Mission Park and Hatcher and 40 47th Avenue or light or larger high visibility ones in front of um uh for example there's one there's one that may be needed in the future in front of Glen View Prep High School and the Fry um grocery shopping center on 44th Avenue in Bethany Home. Um, also I have the idea of adding a dig uh a diagonal uh crosswalk um near 47th Avenue and Northern near Apollo. And that would essentially be where in that crosswalk all of the traffic would be stopped on all four sides and it would allow time for um the students or or or the pedestrians to um walk you know in a straight line or go from one corner to the other. And you know, when I drive that and I look at how many fatalities we've had, especially on that corner, um we we we really need to address uh that corner in particular. Um especially with the the um the cinder block walls as well when you're turning um turning east when you're when you're heading north. Uh there's some visibility issues there um as well. Um, and then also, uh, I'm not sure if it if it, um, goes into the transportation plan, but, um, if we could clarify the process for speed humps and speed tables, um, so that residents understand how to request them, when they are needed, and what are the different thresholds needed in order for those to be installed. Some of the residents love them, some of the residents hate them, but um, some of the residents want to go out and petitioned for for their community to have them. Um and also uh just providing um mobility for our seniors um providing mobility for our students, our high school students and our community college students and our we have universities as well here in Glendel. So those students as well um and of course our families um is really important. So, including um programs like ride choice uh ex and expanded um bus stops um on the GUS system and I'll be talking um later on in this meeting about my coun my new council item of special interest to add a GU bus stop at the Kascalote um senior apartment um complex. That was just we just did the ribbon cutting for that and that was a request directly from the seniors there because they have to walk to Myrtle and 48th Avenue to catch the the Gus bus and a lot of them have service dogs, walkers. Um they might be in scooters or in wheelchairs and uh the um the sidewalk and the lighting isn't uh the best and so it could cause a safety issue as well. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Uh, thank you, Council Member Concious. Can I clarify with you? Are you looking for that spec that that detail of feedback from the council at this time or will there be another opportunity? I just want to make sure we all understand what you're looking for from us. >> Vice Mayor and council members, uh, we at this point we do not need that level of detail, but if you have some, we will we will take down >> I saw you taking notes. >> Yes. Um and that'll be the process going throughout the development of the transportation plan when uh what Phyllis has talked about going out to the community going to district meetings. >> Okay. >> Um and the survey that she talked about. So we'll be gathering all that. >> So if if somebody doesn't have anything, how would you suggest any of the council members uh would they would you like should they email you? I mean obviously you said they can do it now, but if you think of some things later, that'd be the best way is just to send you an email. >> That's that's correct. An email would be would be good. Uh, Phyllis has talked about the website. There would be that opportunity as well, but okay. If if Vice Mayor and council members want to send emails with details, I'm happy to share that. >> Okay. All right. Very good. Any any other questions? Council member Turner. >> Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, couple things I'd like for staff to be considering as they move forward. Um, one is the impact of rail on our transportation system here in Glendale. I don't know that we've ever really looked at it before, but it is significant at 67th and Northern 59th and Glendale, of course. Um, and then the other one would be um the opportunity to provide better accommodations for ride sharing uh customers. We probably have more people doing ride share now in Glendale than we do uh bicycling, you know, particularly as a daily mode of transportation. Um certainly out in the entertainment district, but elsewhere um we might even be able to work with the rid share companies to determine what are the nodes in which people are coming from and going to through ride share and make sure that we have safe convenient accommodation for them because they're an important part of our transportation plan because to some degree they take cars off the road and u um they could be accommodated and I think we should look at that. >> Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Turner. Anyone else? Okay. Council member Guzman, uh, you said that this whole project is going to take two years to complete. So, um, none of these ideas or anything like that will be in any of the budgets, the next two-year budgets. >> Vice Mayor, council members, that is correct. Um we will the last step of the plan as Phis mentioned will be identifying projects and prioritizing them. So until we get to that point uh we couldn't truly include in budget. Um what's already currently in the budget CIP will be also just as a transportation plan will also be taken into account uh when the project prioritization is being made. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. Uh no one has has any further questions. I do have a question. What role um I didn't hear the Citizens Transportation Oversight Commission included in that, but I would hope that they have a key role in this process. So, could you please explain that? >> Vice Mayor, council members, um Sealk U would be the uh board and board and commission that the transportation plan will be going through. Um so either November or December uh depending on the the agenda we'll be going to sea talk as a first attempt but that'll be an ongoing uh effort throughout the process just as we would be with public. >> Okay. Um thank you. And I do have uh I don't know if maybe it's a suggestion as we move forward because not everybody who's providing feedback is going to know whether something already exists in the CIP, whether it doesn't exist in the CIP. So if there's some way you could identify projects because especially with the community engagement, we can say this is already in the CIP. This is not already in the CIP. So I think that would be really helpful as we're looking at things um stuff that we've already planned and stuff that we had not already planned. What else? >> Okay, thank you very much. Miss Bower, could you please introduce item number three? Introduction to the vision zero and safety action plans. Vice Mayor, members of the council, um we'll continue with uh our director of transportation. He'll kick off the uh item number three Vice Mayor and members of council, thank you for providing us the opportunity to introduce vision zero and safety action plans to you today. Over the past couple of years, the city has been successful in reducing traffic fatalities. This reduction could be attributed to increased enforcement, emergency response, safety engineering, and education. While this is good news, we would do better in reducing the number of fatalities. This would require a coordinated effort between transportation policies, traffic engineering, enforcement, emergency response, and education. The vision zero and safety action plans will be coordinating playbook that will provide policies, projects, processes, and toolbox. To aid in the development of these plans, our team was successful in securing approximately $800,000 in national competitive funding from the US Department of Transportation. Through a competitive process for this project, we selected a team led by Stanley Consultants. Today with me here is Marta Gerber and Donna Luwendowski uh from the consultant team. Marta will continue the presentation from this point and I'll be available here to answer any questions. Can you hear me? Okay. Good afternoon vice mayor and council members. My name is Marta Gerber. As far mentioned, I'm with Stanley Consultant. I'm the project manager for both the vision zero and the safety action plan. Uh and here with me is Donna who is we get tag team the presentation. She's going to talk about the vision zero part of the project and I'll talk about the safety action plan and later on she'll mention or kind of describe where we are in the crash analysis at this point of preliminary crash analysis. Um thank you for the opportunity to speak with you about this project today. We're very excited to conduct this project there. Many of your peers in the valley have either recently have conducted a safety action plan, vision zero plan, or are in the process of conducting one of these plans. Um, examples are city of Goodyears, Hollison, City of Phoenix, Mesa um among a number of other agencies in the valley. This is a federally funded grant um um opportunity for the city that have some very specific requirements of what we need to develop and what needs to be completed. Um completing a vision zero and safety action plan will better the position of the city to pursue and secure future safety funding for um funding opportunities in the future. Um so we'll begin a couple of things in outlining the goals and the structure of an SS4A program how it complements the vision zero program is in zero plan and how safe system principles are being used to identify and prioritize safety improvements across the city. And as I mentioned, Donna will kind of mention some of the primary crash analysis. So you may ask, what is a safety action plan? So a safety action plan is really a safe a strategic data-driven framework designed to uh reduce and ultimately eliminate serious injury crashes and fatalities within the city guided by a safe system approach which I'll mention and talk about in a little bit. Um, it combines crash analysis with community input to identify priority safety issues. Establishes clear goals, objectives, and outline a framework. Um, outline of framework targeted strategies for improving roadbased safety across all modes of travel. Drive for drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users. Um, these strategies really go beyond engineering solutions. In the past, we really were really focused on engineering solutions to improve safety. With a safety action plan, you'll be looking at um education, enforcement, policy, operational changes. When I talk to my team about a safety action plan, a lot of times I use a synergy or kind of an idea of a team sport. It's everyone's responsibility. We all have a responsibility in safety, improving safety. Whether you're an engineer, a planner, a policy maker, council member, we all have a responsibility to create safer roads. And I'll get into it of how it's actually going to plan at through the safety action plan. [cough] Excuse [clears throat] me. This project will provide a safety um the city with a clear framework for understanding where and why the most severe crashes occur while establishing goals and objectives and targeted actions to ultimately achieve zero fatalities. Next slide please. So what is the safe system approach? So the safe system approach represent the paradigm shift from a traditional approach a traditional way of managing roadway safety to um kind of looking at looking to the future. So in the past the tradition the traditional approach was really looking backwards more reactive to what happened on the roadways at intersections what kind of crashes occurred to how can we fix a problem versus the safe system approach is really looking forward to based on what happened historically. How can we how can we prevent crashes? What are the things that we can do from an engineering, a policy, um a public involvement, um education, enforcement perspective? What can we do to prevent crashes in the future? So, for example, you could have an intersection where you had a number of crashes already occurring and you have another intersections that had very similar attributes but have not experienced the same level of crashes. What can we do to prevent crashes occurring at that intersection in the future? So um in contrast, the safe system approach is a comp comprehensive strategy built on the belief that all traffic fatalities and serious injuries are preventable and that no loss of life is acceptable. [cough] Sorry. It recognizes that people will inevitably make mistakes. Um and the transportation system really should be designed and managed so that this m these mistakes do not result in deaths and serious injuries. So it has to be a forgiving system that we design and implement um to a degree. And then responsibility shared going back again to it's a team sport. We all share the responsibility driving safely safely and really keeping everyone else safe on the road. So the safe system approach as you can see in this wheel looks a little on that one um has five core elements. In the middle it has safe system approach and around the the middle the first layer kind of goes through the five core elements the safer roads safer speeds safer vehicles safer road users and postcashkare and all those five elements work together with the six principles that are on the outside of the circle and the six principles are safety is proactive as I said it's looking forward what can we do to prevent crashes in the future um responsibility shared we all share responsibly on the road and creating a safer um uh community. Um humans are vulnerable. We need to recognize the fact that we are vulnerable and we can only accept certain amount of force when we are in a crash and we need to make our roadways safer from a crash perspective. Um hum um redundancy is crucial. So this is a really important part. We need to create an environment, a roadway, a transportation environment that is redundant in a way. For example, if like we all drive cars and within your car, you have your seat belt and you have um the airbags, whether it's in your steering wheel on the side of the side of the car. Um if your seat belt fails, your airbag will kick in and will will protect you in a crash or on a roadway. If you think about a hawk signal at an intersection, there's a hawk signal, but you also have a high visibility crosswalk marking usually to let the drivers know that there's a crosswalk where you can see a pedestrians, but if you miss the signal for some reason, you still have the markings on the road to see a pedestrian. So, that's a redundant system as an example. Um, deaths and serious injuries are unacceptable. And then humans are make mistakes. Humans makes m make mistakes. Um and so the system that we create needs to be forgiving. Next one please. So the safe system approach is a datadriven proactive um system as I mentioned. Um that means that we don't wait for crashes to occur. We're looking for opportunities to improve intersections and segments before those crashes occur. U it's a datadriven um analysis that we complete. look at the root cause and um root causes of the issues and crashes and implement coordinated strategies, [clears throat] excuse me, to prevent serious injuries and fatalities before they occur. And the goal of the safe system approach is to build a resilient and forgiving transportation systems. [cough and clears throat] Sorry, one where um every part from the road design to speed management to vehicle technology, it all works together to save lives. Sorry. I'll lose my voice and I'm gonna hand it over to Donna to talk about the vision zero plan >> vice mayor and council members. Um Donna Luwendowski fair peers and um Marta brought us in on this to really lead the vision zero part and the crash analysis part of this plan. So you have two plans that are happening here that really do mesh together but they are distinct elements. So the vision zero plan is your highlevel planning document. It's where you make the commitment and say that yes, fatalities and serious injuries are preventable and we're going to prevent them. It's a standalone document as that highlevel policy document and it will be the first step of the safety action plan. The focus is on that commitment, the highlevel safety policies and really the crash analysis, what's going on on the roadways. Um, it's intended to really develop also buyin from from you, from city leaders. um and from the community on this safe system approach and that commitment to um eliminating eventually eliminating deaths and serious injuries. And the point of this type of a plan overlaying the more detailed safety plan is that it really aims to institutionalize safety in all areas of the city. >> All right. So what are the requirements of the safety action plan? is I said it is a federal grant and there are very specific requirements that we need to fulfill for the project and the safety action plan um has seven major components. One is the leadership commitment and goal setting and that is really going to be completed through the vision zero plan um establishing a clear vision and measurable goals um supported by elected officials here at the table um and city staff. The second one is the planning structure. So this one really defines the um roles and responsibilities and the partnerships on the project. And then once we walk away, once we complete the project and it's adopted, there's a there's a team in place that's taking the project or the plan from the shelves or from the completion and adoption point to implementing it. So just like Phyllis's project, the transportation master plan, there will be a set of um strategies and projects at the end of this end of the plan that will be uh either part of the CIP or moving forward uh you can u apply for additional federal funding to complete them. The third part is the safety analysis is a data data driven analysis as I mentioned um that really looks at a where and why these crashes are occurring and what are the things that we can do to help um identify the high injury network. The first part will be that we del develop a high injury network that's based on current crashes in your current transportation system. And then we'll look at the high-risisk network which identifies what are the similar intersections or corridors to the ones that are currently experiencing a high number of crashes and potentially could be experiencing a number of crashes or high number of crashes in the future if nothing is being done and what are the things that we can do to prevent them. The fourth one is engagement and collaboration. Just like any plan, this plan has a fairly significant public engagement process also included to make sure um that committee members and local agencies and stakeholders all have a voice in shaping the safety priorities for the city. The fifth one is um analysis of communities in persistent poverty. While this is not a mandatory requirement anymore for the project, we still include it in the process moving forward. Number [cough and clears throat] six is uh policy and process changes. Um so we're going to look at just like Donna had mentioned institutionalized safety within the city and policy changes and um design changes, design measure changes um to move safety forward, adopting different standards and procedures and then strategies and project prioritization. So a list is a prioritized list is going to be developed and strategies um that will turn all the analysis that we complete into one action by identifying the most effective and datadriven projects to move forward. And the last one that's not on the list is progress and trans transparency. So one of the requirements that the um safety action plan and the vision zero plan has to be publicly posted on the website on city's website and um measure progress on an annual basis right so guiding of the planning process so the way I look at it is really it's a tiered process and there are four tiers so the first level is really the project management team that would be myself Baron Pierce who is subconsultant and our public engagement consultant on the team alongside the project management team at the city of Glendel. Uh Marylu Gonzale um Garcia and Tony are the project management team alongside um us and then the next level is the core team um members of different departments. They really help us with the technical um uh technical guidance and review progress of the project to make sure that we are staying in alignment with city priorities. And then the next level is the executive action plan leadership committee, the EAPLC team. Um that's made up of department directors. They really at a high level oversight. um they make key decisions on recommendations and ultimately when the plan is adopted and completed. They are going to be responsible for making sure that the projects that are part of the plan are moving forward and are implemented. And then finally, city council and the mayor and then the cities and transportation committee play a central role by helping establishing the vision, goals, and strategies that will shape the city's long-term safety direction. and then I'm gonna hand it over to Donna who's going to talk about the preliminary crash analysis. Now, >> thank you. Um, [clears throat] so between 2018 and 2024, at least 824 people died or were seriously injured in crashes on roadways in Glendale. I say at least because this is crash level data. So, a crash that may have uh caused a death or a serious injury would only be coded in this data set as a fatal crash. We'll look at victim level data a little bit down the line, but this is really what we need to understand what's going on is this crash level data. And yes, that's 824 little people up there. Um, I counted. This is a map of the fatal and serious injury crashes between those seven years, 2018 to 2024. This is only the fatal and suspected seriously injured crashes. When we put all crashes, it just turned into one amorphous blob up there. So, this was a more um a better way to look at it to really understand where this more serious crashes are happening. It excludes any crashes that happened on SR 101 and SR303 and it includes US60 Grand Avenue. So why are we including a state-owned roadway? So SR303 and 101, they look and feel different from other roads in Glendale, right? I think people generally understand that fixing that should be ADOT's problem. But Grand Avenue looks and feels like every other Glendale road. And most people may not really understand that it's not under Glendel's control. But people intuitively know what this slide says, and that's that when a crash happens, they're more likely to be seriously injured or killed if that crash happens on Grand Avenue than if it happens elsewhere. So residents are going to expect that this roadway is taken into consideration in this planning process. Next slide, please. Okay, so this is just seven years. Your total crashes um on Glendel roadways was 32,573. So that's over a 100 crashes that result in at least one death or serious injury each year. So looking at these by my notes here are not cooperating. Um looking at these by note um what I want to point out here is that the total does not sum and that's because bicycle involved crashes and pedestrian crawls involved crashes are uniquely counted. But a crash that may have happened between a vehicle and a motorcycle is counted in both of those crashes. Likewise, a motorcycle and a truck involved crash would be counted in both of those. So that does not sum. And so looking at the percent of FSI versus the percent of mode total in there, we see that is not surprising that if you're on a bicycle or if you're walking or if you're riding a motorcycle and involved in a crash, you're much more likely um for that crash to be serious. So what's next for uh the vision zero plan? We'll be doing a more detailed crash analysis where we look at the types of movements on specific roadways or specific roadway features that are more likely to be present in a fatal or serious injury crash. And then we'll be creating the high injury network that Marta alluded to. And a high injury network is really just a subset of streets in the city where the majority of serious injuries and fatal crashes occur. It's still reactive because it only looks at where crashes have occurred, but it's the precursor to the development of a high-risk network. And the high-risisk network uses the findings that are the high injury network along with contextual data to predict where fatal and serious injury crashes are more likely to occur in the future regardless of the crash history at that site. So that's where we start to see that predictive forwardlooking plan. turn that back to Mar. >> Thank you. So, um just kind of looking through the schedule and this is just a quick look at our overall schedule for the safety action plan and zero plan. Um so, today is our first step really providing information or providing an overview of the project and what you can expect in the future to see just like the transportation plan will be uh best friends by the end of the project. Come back a couple more times. Um the next time we'll come back is May of 2026 um for a work session, a dedicated work session where we will review the draft findings, high priority corridors and some of the proposed safety strategies and that includes everything that our public engagement team members collecting the public through the public process and then also through the data um analysis that we have identified and then right now the plan is to come back for approval and adoption of the [clears throat] plan later next year year from now in November of 2026. We will be working closely with the transportation team. Uh we are we are we are available to attend any of the district meetings that you may have. Um and then just mention our public engagement. Uh we have three phases of two phases of the public engagement. Um the first one just began this month or it started a little early in October and it goes through um early April. So it's a a longer process. Um it's not a oneandone. It's going to it's a continual process and then we'll have a second phase that's going to be part of um next fall and it's also a longer time. So, I'm gonna open up for questions and comments. >> And anybody have any questions? Council member Turner. >> Uh, thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, looks like I have a couple or three. Um, on one of the slides you referenced, uh, truck involved accidents. And let's say that's on slide 16. Um, exactly what kind of or generally what kind of trucks are we talking about there? Uh those are not your pickup trucks. Those are your larger delivery vehicles, 18-wheelers, um your larger box trucks, >> one ton or larger type of a truck or >> larger than one ton. So a one ton pickup would not be included. >> Okay, thank you for that. Um, I would think it would be helpful in as you're accumulating and compiling the data that you we also consider the time of day of the crashes. I don't know if that's standard for you, but uh it's certainly something I'd be interested in. So, we can see where to apply resources. And when it comes to the resources, that's my next uh point I'd like to make and that's on slide number five where we have the uh the spoken wheel. Um so safe vehicles as a part of it, but we don't do vehicle inspections and we're probably I would predict not going to get into vehicle inspections at the city level. Um the postc crash care and the safe roads are um well safe roads are a design more of a design element than uh anything and the postc crash care is is again after the fact but safe speeds and safe road users are a place we can have impact on behavior and also in design to help reduce the unsafe nature of human beings. Right? So things like speed humps maybe impact uh safe speeds, maybe not. It's arguable. But uh the two areas then that I'm concerned about are the safe road users and the safe speeds and um how we can impact that with what we traditionally call jaywalking and anti-jaywalking efforts, not just education but also enforcement. And then on the safe speeds, to me, that's an enforcement component uh that's beyond the scope of the transportation department and gets over into our our uh police department. So, um I'm going to be interested in how this program then connects with the enforcement component and certainly don't think we need to wait longer than necessary for the enforcement. If we see that there's times of the day or locations in the city in which more enforcement would be helpful, I'd like us to see us bring those recommendations or that data forward sooner rather than later. Um my anecdotal um observation would be that it seems to me in the time frame between about 4:30 in the afternoon and 6:30 or 7 at night, we have a lot more speeding than we do other times of the day. and that we also have more jaywalking and that sort of behavior around the uh bus stops and people who are cutting through traffic either having just got off a bus or hurrying to get to a bus and that sort of thing. And those are maybe areas that we could um impact sooner rather than later. Uh roadway design and all of that. We all I mean we've been taking roadway design in under consideration for longer than I've been on the council and and uh [clears throat] so I know that that's a area of importance to our transportation department. But these other two areas I think are a place where we could perhaps make a difference and and zero in on the time frames and the locations in which the those two behaviors um seem to occur most and apply greater enforcement. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. >> Thank you. Anyone else? Council member Melmer. >> Uh thank you. Uh thank you for the presentation. You know I over the years I've had a lot of residents who have have really addressed this to me this this concern of public safety in our roadway. So thank you very much. Now the question I have first is is this safety plan the first of this detail that we've had in Glendale? Have we had one of these before? I don't recall really having this level of discussion before and perhaps we have. Vice Mayor and Council, this is our first safety action plan. Um our transportation traffic engineering team does work on safety projects and they do look at the data but this one is not just our traffic engineering and that's the part uh I think uh some of the comments do reflect that uh enforcement um and in my opening statement that's why I was trying to make that point that enforcement uh emergency response Um, we all know a couple months ago there was a serious u crash that happened involving a bicyclist in North Glendale, right? >> And that did not turn into fatality. >> I'm I'm fairly certain because of uh the emergency response that was involved. So all of those components play a role. Um and that comprehensive look is what what we haven't done. >> Um we've done parts of those. I'm sure police departments looking at enforcement uh to increase safety. So is transportation department, so is fire department, so are the you know um other departments but now we'll do it as a team and sometimes when you join forces you get better outcomes than individuals. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. And I understood that this was part of a grant. Is that correct? >> That is correct. Okay. >> Vice Mayor and council. >> All right. Well, all kudos to whoever started that process. Um, I think this is going to be very well received by the community. Uh, uh, the residents I think are looking for some action on this because this is it is that that number that you put up there of 824 that was shocking. Um, and so I'm I'm really happy to see that we're moving forward on this kind of a plan. Now, it sounds like from what the discussion that it's going to be very much datadriven. Could you describe that a little bit more as far as how you plan to prioritize what what we want in this plan based on the data you you'll be putting together >> vice mayor um council member so we're looking at crash data that's the primary data that we're looking at we're also looking at the type of collectors arterials um land uses there are a number of data that we had already collected from the And we're uh actually collaborating on the transportation master plan with sharing data on what they are using and what we are using. But it's primarily looking at where your where your high injury corridors and intersections are located based on the data that we have is the first step. Donna can probably elaborate on that a little bit. But once she actually uh delivers the high injury network that's based on your current crash numbers that in the last seven years. So the reason why we're looking at from 2018 to 2024 is well first we have all of the data through 24 but also because of the pandemic in the middle that kind of skews the numbers in there. So we took the approach of taking seven years instead of just the last five years because typically we only look at five years of data. But it's primarily based on the crashes and the type of facilities that you have and how um the attributes of a quarter or an intersection actually influence or work with the crashes that are occurring. >> I thank you very much uh if I may, mayor, vice mayor. Um so um and you also talked about a high public engagement yet I see it being more datadriven. So what what are are you looking for from the public and from us as council uh on the on these issues because it sounds like you want it to be data driven so we know those areas that we need to concentrate on. And so me saying, "Well, I need to have a crosswalk over here or, you know, have, you know, something done to this intersection may or may not fit into that that discussion. So I kind of want to know what you're expecting from the public and from us, >> vice mayor, council member. So that's a valid um um comment. So what we do is really collect data similarly to the ma the transportation master plan. will have a website and um um a map where um residents can come and kind of pinpoint in their own little neighborhood or areas and collectors and arts where they see a safety um issue. Now the difference between the master plan and the safety action plan is we're not looking for I'm on a crosswalk here. We're looking for where did you see a crash? Did you see a crash that occurred and you um concerned that there could be an issue? Are you seeing something specific that maybe the corridor is not lit up or >> it's not safe to walk down because you're missing sidewalks in an area or we're looking for those type of feedback rather than I need something here because >> Okay. >> I would like to cross the road. >> Okay. Awesome. That that that's good to understand. Um so um I I see that we have a workshop coming up in May. Um, so what kind of detail will you be providing us? Will you be uh providing us these crash statistics and whatnot in advance? And then of course we can reach out to our our residents at the time uh asking for that kind of detail or input I guess on the plan. >> Yes. So in the workshop in May we'll be by then we'll have the crash analysis data driven analysis completed both the high injury network and the high-risisk network. Um so we'll have a lot more information at that point. we will be moving into strategies and projects and some of the some of the more details that are moving into based on the public engagement information that we received. One of the other things I would mention that sometimes in a datadriven analysis we're so focused on the data that not that we miss reality but sometimes there's some things that are missed because we're not on the road we're really focused on the data. So that's where the public engagement really comes in to kind of um round out the information that we have not just from the data but also for the public. Um and so um in May we'll bring back the analysis for high injury network the high-risisk network and then some of the strategies and projects that we're looking at at that point and some of the um policy changes that we are recommending and some of the um other design changes that will be recommended. And then we don't let Donna can see this. She might say something, but she's also her team is going to be working on the speed management part of the project. >> Okay. >> So, and neighbor mayor council members. >> Um there will be a speed neighbor a neighborhood um speed study that's also done and some policies and processes that come out of that as recommendations. Um but what I really have been doing this about saying is that we look at the information that we get through these surveys and through these mapping exercises with the public as more data to put into the process. So this crash layer, the layer of data where we look at how many what is your what are your streets really look like? How many left-hand turn lanes do you have and things like that. Um what are your land uses? Where are your bus stops located and what's happening near them? Those are all layers of data and one of those layers of data is the information that we get from the public and that's what is used then to call this a data driven process. >> Okay. Well, very good. I appreciate your uh presentation today and I think this is very much uh uh warranted uh for the city. So, thank you very much, >> Council Member Cones. >> Yes, Vice Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Malnar, for all those um great questions and comments. Um I I had a question about um the slide on slide uh 11 which is the fatal and serious injury crashes from 2018 to 2024. Um and I can make my own assumptions but I just wanted to to ask if we have any idea or correlation of why um such of the concentration is what what we often call the elbow of Glendale. So that includes the some of the Okato district, the cactus district, some of the barrel district u and it seems like uh 67th Avenue uh on the west side, Olive on the north, maybe even Peoria, and then of course our our boundaries of 43rd Avenue and Camelback. Um could could you all um do you all have any any insight now about um why it's such a concentration of of uh fatal and serious injuries in that particular area or is it too early to analyze that? >> Vice Mayor and council members, thank you for that. Um to to be to be clear, no. All right, that's what the point of doing a very data-driven process is is that this is stuff we all know, right? If you drive around your city, you know that these are areas that have higher concentrations of crashes and you might take more care or you may avoid it on your bicycle and things like that. So, so we intuitively know this, but the point of doing the data driven analysis is really to break down our assumptions about why and figure out what's really happening in those areas. So, respectfully, no, we we don't want to I I could give you my opinions, but they're my opinions, right? That that's not what we want out of this plan. We will have a lot more to give you once we come back to you in >> Vice Mayor. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. >> Okay. Council member Guz, Council Guzman, >> the survey that you were That's kind of loud. The survey that you were talking about, is this survey going to go out to the residents like on slide 13 that show where there's a lot of heavy crashes or is it going to be citywide to everybody? Vice Mayor, Council Member, can you repeat that question? >> Okay. You guys mentioned that uh you're going to be collecting more data, more information from the communities. >> Yes. >> So, and then you spoke of a survey. Somebody said something about a survey. Is that survey going to go to the residents in these areas that you see on this map where there are large crashes or is it going to the whole city of Glendel? So my understanding is that it's going to go to the entire city of Glendel. There are various I mean we're going to have a website. We're going to have um survey information through various methods. Um but it yes it's going to be it's not just specific locations. It's not just to the areas where we see the crashes currently. >> So it's going to be a type of a survey where you tell [cough] the residents that they can go to that website and answer their questions there. Yes. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Okay. Council Baldenegro. >> Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um you spoke of uh speed surveys and in my um position with the Glendy School District, uh I often have to go to u Councilman Turner's district, my district, Councilman Guzman's district, and Councilman Quint's district because our schools are scattered around in all four of those districts. And there are some stretches of of of neighborhood roads that uh I'll give you an example. 47th Avenue from Bethany to Maryland, there's no stop sign. From Maryland to Glendale, there's no stop sign running north and south. >> Um, and I'm sure there's some red dots along that line. However, there's I I know when I go work at some of these schools and I hear these people just screaming up and down the roads. There's some by uh by the cemeteries off of 63rd Avenue and between Northern to I believe Diane or Barbara, whatever the street is. Um there's some and and there these are interior roads in the neighborhoods nearest schools. Um and I know you I noticed you I remember you saying you're going to be doing speed surveys. Will you be accepting input of where we we would ask for those to be done so that we can also just um because I I I mean we hear it a lot from from people saying how come you're not doing anything? How come we're not getting speed bumps? and they say, "Well, you know, we the city told us we don't have enough people driving this road enough that it doesn't warrant for the amount of vehicles, but of those 100 vehicles, 70 of them are going, you know, ripping down that road. I mean, are we are will the citizens be able to give suggestions to certain spaces for or certain places for those speed surveys so they can kind of like at least reflect some of their u input is what I'm asking. >> Vice Mayor, council members, thank you for that. Um, yeah. uh that is an opportunity on those maps and the surveys that we'll be putting out there for them to say, you know, I I'm afraid here for my kids because they're speeding. Um and that is one of those layers, but we're also going to be purchasing big data speed. Um so we're going to try and get a more accurate picture using those big data sources. We're still shopping around to figure out which ones are going to be the most accurate for your city. Um, but then we're going to have speed data, actual speed data from those from from those cloud-based amazing things that are beyond my comprehension. >> Great. Thank you. >> Uh, Council Konchas. >> Thank you, Council Member Baldenegro. Sorry, I'm like in another thing. But um uh I actually even before I I um ran for council, there's a yield sign on on my street. Um and the the street is curved to a certain way where even the yield sign if you were to stop, you really can't see traffic coming north if you're traveling west. So I would also suggest that we look at where our yield signs are and see if they may need to be changed. Thank you. Any other questions? I do have a question. Um, on slide four, um, obviously prevent crashes. I'm looking at the chart. Improve human behavior. Um, control speeding by reducing the system kinetic energy. Could you explain that a little bit for us? So that's more in terms of um what are the geometric or engineering um improvements that we can do to reduce um kinetic energy or when you hit something um or crossing the road um in terms of curbs that are kind of slowing the vehicle down so you're not crossing the road. If you have a medium versus a two-way left lane, it's really just reducing the speed that somebody is traveling at. So when you're hitting something, the kinetic energy that happens from the crash is is lower than if you're just speeding through and there's slowing down the vehicle. >> All right. So I misunder. So basically you're saying that that would be a way to reduce the seriousness of the crash. Correct. >> It doesn't do anything to control the speeding. >> Correct. >> Okay. That's where I was like, how does that how does that slow people down? So um so and then I the next one is individuals are responsible and share responsibility and I'm curious because I mean speeding and red light running are a choice people make. Um I don't know who they who should share the responsibility when somebody decides to run a red light or um you know drive way too fast on in a residential area or even on an arterial. And those are the two. Um, and I know the council's been quite clear with our our police department, our new chief Colby has instituted the radar front and back in all of our patrol cars. We've we've made it clear we want our residents the most dangerous thing we do and I've said this I don't know how many times up here is most of us aren't going to be involved in violent crime but the most dangerous thing we do every day is drive our car on the streets because of I believe um self-centered behavior by a lot of drivers and so can you explain to me how what your perspective is maybe not the same as mine so I want to understand how you share responsibility for you know disregarding the rules of the road. >> Vice Mayor, council members, so as I said, it's a team sport. It's everybody's responsibility. So when something like that happens, the individual is also responsible, right? We responsible of uh for the engineering part of it or the traffic engineering department is responsible how they operate the signals, how that's going to work, [clears throat] excuse me. um what the red light um phase is or um how much time is allocated for all red or the yellow phase and how the the public is actually traveling through the intersection. Law enforcement comes in of making sure that those things don't happen. What so it's more of a how do we prevent it from those things happening? What are the things that we need to change within the city of Glendale's policies and uh operation, the way you do things today to to be able to prevent those occurrences? And yes, it's education, it's law enforcement, it's engineering, it's operation, it's everyone working together. And I understand your concern of how do I how would I take responsibility for something running the red light. It's more on the policy level. So you come into place of how do we create a safer environment? How do you create the safer roadways um community a culture not just within your agency so that you're moving forward safety within the agency and everything that you do but also how do you create a safer culture for the city of Glendale from a driving perspective and those are the things that we're going to be moving forward and looking at of what are the things that are maybe how can we institutionalize as Donna said earlier safety for the city of Glendel. Um go ahead per >> vice mayor and council also when Donna talked about the data that is going to be uh gathered for [clears throat] speed um from the cloud sources that she was talking about um there will be patterns um where there's there's a lot more speeding that's happening. Uh we also potentially could come out with solutions that are technology based that could provide locations that are more prone to speeding so that enforcement can happen on a targeted basis. >> So that's also those are some of the things where individuals could be responsible >> when enforcement starts up. >> Thank you for that. Um and then what about red light running? I mean uh obvious how do you how do you are you going to set up cameras? Um, you know, I mean, how are you going to understand where the where the intersections are? I could name several right now where red red light running is chronic. Sometimes three, four cars will run the red light. Um, in fact, I took a run at red light cameras here on the council a few years ago because I have a friend whose son was killed and those are, I think, probably the most except maybe for head-on, the most dangerous crashes is somebody running a red light. Um, but how do you how are how how are you going to be able to analyze other than just anecdotal data from people saying there's a lot of red light running happening at this intersection, how are you going to actually get that kind of data? >> Uh, vice mayor and council. Um, first off, the red light running data usually shows up in your crash data because if you have an intersection where you have a lot of red light running, we're going to see crashes that are coming out of that. It's not a benign occurrence. Right now, there are obviously the more red light running you have, the more crashes you have. And so that's how we see where those are. And then we start to look at what were the instances of that are happening. And you talked about people making a choice and and that's to get away from that individual idea that somebody made a choice to run a red light. Well, that is true. They made the choice to run that red light. there are things that we can do to make that a harder choice for them to make or make the the safer choice the easier choice. Maybe it's a problem with the timing of the lights. Maybe it's a problem with having a different type of a a flashing yellow arrow instead of a red and green arrow. So, there are engineering things that we can do that help people make safer choices. In the case of bus stops, if we have people running across the road to catch a bus, maybe we need to look at the timing of the bus system. You've got maybe a transfer there that a lot of people use that's too close. It's too close in time and so they're running to catch that bus because they don't have time to walk up to the corner and wait for the light. So we can look at those behaviors where people are making that choice and try and see what what are the reasons behind those behaviors and can we do some things physically and with engineering and enforcement to make those choices uh a little harder for them to make and make the better choices easy. >> Thank you for that. I'd like to see our communications team once we start rolling this out to the community put out a also a a I don't want to say marketing campaign but but a put some information out there also to let residents know that you we all of us are responsible for the safety of everyone on the road while we're driving. Um and do that kind of alongside of this is also letting people know. Um, I mean, I know there's a lot of people that are chronically late, which is probably a of one of the number one reasons probably for speeding and red light running, and I don't know how you correct that. Um, I had an employee one time when I worked in a bank, and I did not want to fire her. She was a good employee, but she was chronically late, and I suggested, and I ran into her not that long ago, and she she still does this. I suggested she put her alarm clock where she had to get out of bed to turn it off. So just ch sometimes changing one little thing that somebody does though can make a difference because I I know um people who you know they they they leave at the very last second. There's a lot of people that's what the issue is. And so I think in order for this to be successful at least my thought is is that we also need to engage with the public on with our through our social media and other channels on changing their behavior also because I don't think it works by just doing the engineering part. I think part of it has to be changing people's behavior and having them understand that you could be killed. You could kill somebody by not leaving five minutes earlier. So, you know, is it really isn't everybody's best interest for you to leave five minutes earlier so you can get to work on time or wherever you're going on time and not have to speed and not have to take a chance at an intersection on a light that's clearly red. So, thank you. Any other questions? >> Thank you very much, >> Vice Mayor. >> Yes. >> I'd like to make a couple comments, please. Sure. >> First, uh I think this plan is is something that's has been needed. Uh I hope like everybody that when you I've been here since 2016, I would guess then based on these numbers close to a thousand people have been injured or or or killed on streets here in Glendel. So that get should get everybody's attention. Um I I want to say a couple things I think need to be said is that first we design our streets and roads and lights and signage to standards to federal standards that have been adopted. I don't want the the citizens at home thinking that from this presentation that we have been uh irresponsible in Glendel for how we've designed our system. The vast majority of these thousand will be because of the three items of the five which is you know speed uh vehicles um and the um uh the overall users. Those are those are the three that will drive most of this. Um, now that being said, as you mentioned, Vice Mayor, we've just got done implementing uh forward and rearfacing permanent mounted uh speed enforcement uh devices in all police cars. We're already starting to make a a move towards the speed reduction. Um, uh, Council Member Turner said, "Well, the safe vehicles is really not in our area." I would maybe just do one caveat with that is that we can make it a priority within the police department that when we do interactions with vehicles, we can check to see whether or not tires are meeting the safety standards, whether we pull somebody over with a tail light or headlight not working function. There are some basic safety things that we could make a priority as a policy level and get engaged in the, you know, the the camera issue you brought up I think is important. Um, again, what I would I would propose that if we saw crash data on a that was normalized for traffic volume and compared Paradise Valley with any other city in the in the state or of Arizona, you will see less red light and less crash datas because of red light running than any city. It's not because of how they've designed the intersection. It's really very much an enforcement and education uh component of that. I was looking at at interesting data when I uh in 1980 the fastest Ferrari or one of the faster Ferraris a 308 GTB had a 0 to 60 time in 6.5 seconds. Uh my two uh nephews have a Tesla Model 3 which is their entrylevel Tesla that does 0 to 60 in 3.4 seconds. So, a lot of this is is very much driven by we have faster vehicles uh that that accelerate much faster. And so, you know, we we want to be looking at roadway design to see what we can do to make our roads safer, but I just am a little bit I just want to be cautious at what you know, we designed all of our roads to federal standards. Um and now this is really about you know, what can we do to try driving down this? I think our consultants will be able to show data, give us a good roadmap for how we uh how we can move forward and you know certainly looking forward to that and then just want to remind one of the innovative programs that we've won awards on is our new high school program of where we educate in the high schools and those are there's another policy area that which we can do and can kind of move forward to. So I think we'll we'll have a lot of interaction a lot of opportunity uh with the consultants. U I hope that this continues to be a priority. uh you know, perhaps we look at the red light issue down the road again and see if there isn't still some policy issues that we can continue to um to really incentivize our citizens to follow the rules that have been adopted. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Phelps. Anybody have any anybody anything else? Thank you very much. Miss Bower, could you please introduce item number four? Council item of special interest code cases submitted by an individual. >> Vice Mayor, members of the council, here to provide staff report will be deputy city manager Rick St. on. >> Good afternoon, Vice Mayor, members of the council. Um, here with me today to help in the presentation and primarily the Q&A part of the presentation is your new code official, Tasha Jefferson. uh she started in May of this year and has already implemented a couple of things that I think you'll be very happy to hear about. This is a conversation that we're having in response to vice mayor's council item of special interest about an administrative change that was made in March of 2023 to limit the number of cases that a single individual can submit through Glendel 1 for code violations and code violations only. So it doesn't include bulk trash. It doesn't include potholes in the street or broken signs or other nuisance behavior uh that people use Glendel 1 to report through. These are just simply code violations. Um we reduced that number from five to two. to give some historical background on that. Uh Glendel procured Glendel One uh our communication platform to the community in 2019 as part of our balance scorecard, tier one balance scorecard strategic planning initiatives uh to enhance communication with the community. We wanted to make it easier for people to let us know when they had an issue. Whether it was their trash didn't get picked up or there's a tree overhanging a sidewalk that's making it dangerous for pedestrians to walk past, things like that. Things that we might not normally um see or be looking for. So, they're reporting those things to us. And of course, all code violations. We want to hear from the community about what's important to them in terms of code enforcement. So they can submit any code of violation through Glendel 1. When we implemented Glendel 1 in 2020, um I had just taken over the code division and had brought kind of a different mindset to how the code division was running. Um, so I'm not going to say anything about how they ran before I took over in 2020, but what I brought to the table was uh a policy of fair and equitable treatment, which in my mind meant regardless of where you live in the city or regardless of your violation, you go through the same process that everybody else goes through when there's a violation on your property. So, you get a certain number of inspections, you get plenty of education and opportunity to correct the violation. If you refuse to correct the violation, we move to a citation uh for anybody. The other initiative that I had was that we should be uh doing proactive inspections more than at a greater rate than the complaints coming in through Glendel 1. We should know what's going on in our work areas or our grids and we should be opening proactive cases uh at about a 6040 split. So 60% of our cases proactive, 40% reactive through Glendel 1. In 2020, we were 8.1% proactive. And through the years, we've been able to improve that number. Uh so in March of 2023, for example, we were 50% proactive. And today in 2025, we are over 60% proactive. So, we have reached that initial goal of the 60/40 split. But Tasha now has set a new goal of a 75% proactive approach. And she believes, I'll let her say it if she'd like to, but she believes we can accomplish that within the next several months and get us there uh through an initiative initiative that she uh brought into place about two months ago. And I'll talk briefly about that initiative. In the past, we've had 12 grids and 12 grid inspectors and five senior inspectors that were working both proactively and reactively through Glendel 1. What we found is that didn't provide enough time for proactive work. We needed more time to be proactive. So Tasha reduced the number of grids to nine grids, took three of the inspectors and and the five senior inspectors, so eight people, and they work nothing but Glendel One cases across the entire city. The other nine inspectors are now doing nothing but proactive work within their respective grid, which is why we think we can get to the 75%. In about January of 2023, I met with a couple of inspectors in the code division that wanted to talk to me about some issues they were having in their grids. They brought forward some data that showed a handful of people were submitting a very large number of case code cases through Glendel One. um averaging about 3.5 cases per week for every week over a four-year period. So they're within the confines of the limit of five that we put on it from the beginning. These cases were usually targeted in specific areas. uh the two that I'm thinking of there's the Aato district and then there's the Sawarro district granada estates where these individuals were going into those communities and taking pictures of violations submitting cases sometimes 14 20 25 at a time. So we would stack those cases. We would input five per week until we got all their cases inputed. But we also because you know in some cases it was several weeks before we input the case in Glendel one. We'd also have to try to verify that the violation still existed because we don't didn't want to input a case if the violation was abaded. That created a lot of administrative work. And what the inspectors for these two grids told me was they felt like they were working for these two individuals and not for the city as a whole. that they were being directed in a way by these individuals into certain areas of their grid which was forcing them to uh not proactively enforce other areas of their grid. So they they were continually getting pulled away from the the plan that we had for them to proactively work through their entire grid uh as quickly as possible. And right now, u it takes about 4 to 5 months for us to inspect every property in the city of Glendel. So, we're inspecting every property on average two to three times a year, which I think is pretty good. Um, but what they described was they felt like they were getting pulled away from the work they were trying to do to work on somebody's interest or special interest. And they asked if we could reduce the number of cases that were allowed to be inputed by an individual per week and remove the administrative policy of stacking cases and working through those cases uh over time and putting them two or five at a time wherever we landed. And so, you know, I think the easy thing was to say, oh yeah, we don't have to administratively stack cases. is we can let the community know that you've reached your limit. Next week you can submit more cases, but we're only accepting these cases right now, unless of course they're safety issues or some other reason why we need to take the case because we're never going to turn around a safety issue or turn down a safety issue. I brought that information to Mr. Phelps. We had some uh higher level conversation at the city manager's office about what we might be able to do and that's when we made the administrative decision to reduce the number from five to two and to remove that administrative policy of stacking cases and inputting them over time. We brought that to council, had a good discussion in executive session, and we've been operating under that since about March of 2023 when uh in in that time period, we've improved, as I said before, our proactive activity from about 50% to over 66% right now. And by way of numbers, we have a little over,00 cases currently that are open and active. 53 are in Glendel One and the balance are in our our proactive cases. You're gonna realize that doesn't equal 66 something%. The 66% was January 1 of 2025 to October 24 of 2025. So it includes cases that were opened and closed already both from Glendel 1 and proactively. We're currently sitting at about I think that's I think that number ends up being about 58 59% proactive cases that were actively working right now. Some of the reason for that I think is uh the change that Tasha made to pull three inspectors out to do nothing but reactive cases allowing the other nine to be completely proactive is only about two months old. And so they still have cases out of Glenda. The nine that are proactive are still working their older cases out of Glendel 1. As this council knows, sometimes it can take 6, 9, 12 months even to work a case completely through, get it through the court system, get compliance from the homeowner or renter and close the case. So, I anticipate that our nine inspectors working nothing but proactive cases will carry Glendel one case load for the next probably six to eight, maybe even 12 months. but that their number of Glendel one cases will reduce over that time allowing for more proactive activity. I think that sets the table for the conversation. So, I will stop and allow council to ask questions. >> Council member Milner. >> Uh, thank you. Thank you for that report. Um the 75% number sounds very impressive and and one of my questions was when can you reach it and it sounds like you have set the goal of a couple of months. Uh that's very uh aggressive and and I hope we can achieve that because that is uh awesome. It really is. Um I have uh just some general questions that maybe you can ask. I mean, the the purpose of this workshop is to determine whether or not we should change the number of cases that an individual can submit uh in a week. So, my question would be, if we were to go back to the five cases per week, uh what uh impact would that have on the department and what changes would you need to make uh based on the plans you have to get to that 75%. Vice Mayor, Council Member Malnar, uh I'll talk about the odds because we don't really know exactly what would occur if we increase to five cases per week. The odds are that a very few number of people would actually take advantage of that and submit five cases per week. So the increase in case load may be somewhere between 12 to 15 cases per week, which I think could be managed by the three inspectors that we have working reactive cases. the risk. There may be more people that take advantage of of that opportunity and we may say we may see such an increase in Glendel One that we now have to pull another inspector from the nine leaving eight and eight grids and making four inspectors plus five senior inspectors that are working out of Glendel 1. So, there's a little bit of risk there, but the odds are uh because we ran this for four years from 2020 to 2024 and we only had six to eight people that were submitting high numbers of cases and I I would presume that that wouldn't change if we moved it back. >> Okay. Thank you. A few more questions if I may, Vice May. Um um you talked about the percentages of proactive versus uh my question has to do with the number of cases that a uh inspector can complete in a day. Is there any difference between the proactive versus the complaintdriven compl uh >> vice mayor council member Malnar the only difference would be uh travel time. So most of the inspector's proactive cases are in a given on a given street or maybe adjacent streets, but their grids are are large and so their reactive cases might force them to have to drive a mile or two away from where all their other inspections are to do that one inspection. So one inspection can take 25 30 minutes to complete when you could have done five or six inspections in that same time period because of the adjacencies of those of those inspections. >> Okay. Thank you. >> And currently an inspector does on average 15 inspections per day. >> Okay. And is it about and it that that would change I guess depending on if it were a proactive versus a complaint driven Vice Mayor, Council Member Malinar. Yes, I believe so. >> Okay, thank you. Um, that answers that question, too. Um Um, on the proactive uh cases, uh, and Tasha might answer this better. What what what how many times per year do you anticipate that a code inspector would be visiting a specific neighborhood within a year? uh based on the proactive getting to that 75%. >> No, I think your speaker's off. >> Can you hear me now? >> Yeah. No, I can't. >> Okay, good. So, right now we anticipate that the inspector will be able to get to that property about three times a year roughly. Based on the numbers and their proactive inspections, looking at the different territories, they should be able to reach that property at least three times a year. And that's a minimum. That's not including reinspections for current open cases. Okay. So based on that three times and if they are within that year, I believe our our um repeat offender ordinance talks about doing it something repeated within three times within a 12-month period. So it would catch that repeat offender. Let's say that they were cited, they fixed the problem, they were cited, they were when I say cited, they were noticed that they had a not not given the citation. Uh but then on that third time they would have that and and you have documentation in your system now to be able to to to say this this guy this is the third time I've had to go out and and talk to him about his parking on his his property. So this is going directly to a citation. Is that am I accurate in saying that that's how it would be run? >> Yes, Council Member Manner, you are correct. If we rece if we've issued a notice of violation citation or we've done taken an abatement action on a property three times within a year that property owner or that responsible party will be cited as a repeat offender that is a code violation of the Glendel Municipal Code in our system currently right now. Clarity we are highlighting the cases so we are aware if that person is a repeat offender or whatnot and we are issuing citations for that. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Vice Mayor can I provide some additional there? Of course. >> Um I want to make sure it doesn't get lost in that the repeat offender violation is its own charge. So on top of whatever violations exist on the property that are cited for whether it's parking or items stored in public view or whatever, they would have the additional charge of being a repeat offender which holds a different penalty. Oh, >> okay. Thank you for clarifying that. Um, and just to clarif uh clarify on that point, when a person uh is determined to be a a repeat offender, my understanding is that when the inspector goes out, they get an automatic citation that third time, not a warning. Is that correct or not correct? >> Council me, you are correct. They will receive a citation as a repeat offender and we will cite them for any other violations observed at the property. >> Okay. Thank you. Um I think I have just a couple more questions. Um and this m maybe may maybe goes into another issue that has to do with the the reason we're here today uh having to do with parking. Um so and I know we've had discussions in the past about uh code compliance officers being able to issue citations only on p on private property but not on public streets. Um, I would like to see us kind of move that into some discussion if if we would like to see our code compliance officers be able to do that. And there may be reasons why we can't. There may be uh legal reasons and official uh, you know, have an officer of the PD actually do those kind of things. Uh, can you kind of talk about that briefly? Yes, Vice Mayor, Council Member Melanar, our code inspectors and senior inspectors do have the ability to write parking citations for public roadways. They do have that ability. U when cases on street parking are entered into Glendale 1, they default to the traffic unit of the police department that has a parking enforcement team specific to roadways. So we oftent times in code work directly with that team. um they know the street parking laws better than we do. So sometimes we might look at something and say, "Yeah, that looks like a violation." The expert comes out and says, "No, that doesn't meet the definition of a commercial vehicle, for example, so it is allowed to be parked there." And we've had that happen on a number of occasions, I'd say. Uh, but the direction I've given Tasha and her team is if you're out on a property inspecting the property for violations and you see, for example, an inoperable vehicle parked in front of the property, include that in the notice of violation. You don't need to call the police department over just to deal with that one vehicle. Keep it under one case. Work the entire case all the way through. Write the citations or gain compliance. and uh we don't need to be sending that information to the police department when we're there proactively observing it. >> Okay. Uh thank you. That's that's an excellent clarification. I I'm I'm I'm happy to see that our code uh official our code officers can do that. Um well, last question has to do with uh the bulk trash because I get a lot of complaints. Uh, and again, the reason I bring these up because some of these the reason for this is because some people that are more proactive in in looking out out uh at complaints in their neighborhood. One of the complaints that comes up a lot is bulk trash. And there's some confusion as to how the bulk trash um complaint should go in, who who is responsible for it, and who takes action on it. Vice Mayor, Council Member Malnar, u bulk trash violations through Glendel 1 are routed to Michelle Wenko's team uh in sanitation. So they have inspectors that go out and handle these types of violations entered in through Glendel 1. We in code proactively if we see a bulk trash violation during an inspection, we don't call sanitation in to work it. We just work it ourselves as part of the case. >> Okay. Okay. If I may, if I may, I know I'm going along here. >> Go ahead. That's all right. >> Uh, but I want to clarify that then. So, if it comes through Glendale one, do you consider it one of those two cases that a person can and and it is a trash violation, a bulk trash? >> Vice Mayor, Council Member Melanar. No, it is not considered a code violation. It's considered a violation of sanitation. >> Okay. So, you don't count it as one of those two that is is allowed occurren. >> Correct. >> Okay. That clarifies that. All right. Thank you, Vice Mayor. That's all I had. >> Okay. Council member Turner. >> Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, this this whole code thing is sometimes frustrating and even here in workshops to deal with. I know when I came on the council 11 almost 12 years 11 years ago, I don't know that we had but maybe two or three code inspectors at the time. And we have, as a council, I think we've generously added to the budget for code enforcement to increase the number of inspectors that we have and of course everything that it takes to make a inspector effective with vehicles and staff support and all of that. Um, my observations aside, I often hear from residents that we don't seem to be any better off than we were back then. And uh and I know that would be very frustrating to hear if I were in that department myself because I know they do their work. They you know I don't know if the situation is getting worse and we're not keeping up with it or or or what's going on but it's I mean let's acknowledge it's got to be a frustrating job to have. It's got to be a frustrating job to supervise and uh I think it's one of the more frustrating aspects of our job is to dealing with the code and the way we the way our residents want our neighborhoods to look um which is a very important quality of life and I think it's important to all of us you know um so acknowledging that frustration I am pleased to learn that we have three inspectors that are working citywide on the um non-proactive cases um and they're doing it in a flexible, you know, manner. I think that's uh that's probably a good way to handle it so that the the grid inspectors can systematically more systematically work their way through the grids neighborhood by neighborhood and uh and try to more evenly apply the code. One of the things we don't want is for our code to be a tool, a weapon that's used, you know, between neighbors or um uh differentially in one part of town to another part of town. And that's one of the, you know, the equal justice type issues that we have to deal with. Um but I would suspect from my observation there are more code enforcement, more code issues in some parts of town than there are in others. And uh I happen to appreciate volunteers and um that would even be neighbors who are trying to improve their neighborhood by using what we have set aside set up for them. That's a code department and a Glendale one and all of that. Um I had reservations about limiting when we did, but I thought it was something we could try for a while and see if it makes a you know impacts things better. Um I'm not yet convinced that limiting is doing that. Uh particularly when we have these uh inspectors that can flow throughout the community um to address uh hotspots or specific types of issues that maybe occur more in one community than in one part of our community than another. Keeping in mind that some parts of our community have homeowners associations that also work, you know, enforcing their regulations that are very similar to our code. and uh and uh what's tolerable in or what's attempted in some neighborhoods is different than what's attempted to get away with in others. Um so I'm not sure that we're I think we're [sighs and gasps] part of me says we're making progress even if we're not visibly noticing it. I'd like to have data that could back that up, but uh um I'm not exactly seeing it. It's not found in the number. I don't think the data is the number of inspections we do or the uh or the number of officers we have. I think it's more in how do people feel about their neighborhood and that the quality of life feeling that they have for it kind of you know as one might say the happiness index. Um the uh I guess the question I have and there may not be data at this point to to go one way or the other with it, but what would your impression be of the complaints that are entered through Glendale 1 as compared to what a code inspector is seeing? Is there a large difference between the the the accuracy or the likely the the the accuracy of a complaint that comes through Glendale 1 as opposed to what an inspector might see driving through a their their grid. Um because by what I've seen come through our emails um from residents that I know that are active on Glendale One, it's like, you know, I'm not sure they're wrong about their complaint, you know. So, what's the deal? Are they Are they volunteer inspectors out there doing a good job and helping us, or are they um sending us on wild goose chases? >> Thank you, Council Member Melner. >> I'm sorry, Council Member Turner. >> Easily confused. [laughter] >> Sorry about that. Um, no, a lot of the constituents that make complaints for different violations in the city of Glendel, they are accurate. Um what we're finding is that when the inspectors are going out there and responding to the complaints, a lot of times our inspectors already have open cases for those concerns. So they'll issue notices for high grass and weeds, trash and debris. Constituents will call in and make a complaint, but our inspector a lot of times is already aware. So we try to update the constituents. We have noticate notifications that go out in the system so they're aware that a case is open and action is being taken. But for the most part, the constituents are accurate. They're right. They can see that there's high grass and weeds, you know, it's above six inches or whatnot. There's grass and weeds growing through, you know, the rock, there's dirt front yards or the tree limbs are dying. They're aware and they're right. They're accurate. Um, based on the data, this, let's see, from August 11th to current, only 30 of the 34 of the cases that we've dealt with did not have violations. So, meaning we went out there, there wasn't an actual violation. It may have been something that we need to monitor, but like I said, out of working 2,300 cases or so far in the last two months, only 34 weren't a violation. So that tells you that the the constituents are correct. And like I said, we are aware. If we're not aware, we're getting to that property. We have the Rover inspectors that will address that complaint. And then the other situations, we already have an open case. And so we are taking an action. We are aware. And if I could follow up. So when a Thank you, Vice Mayor. When a >> constituent uses Glendo1 um and files their complaint, what kind of feedback are they getting? if it's confirmed there was a complaint or if it's or if it's to confirm that it's already an open case or that there was no violation at the time of the inspection because some some violations can be more transient than tall weeds uh parking issues and things like that. What feedback do the constituents get? >> Sure, council members. So, our constituents are aware that a case is open. They will get a notification that a case has been open. They will have the inspector's name and a phone number where to reach them if they have any questions. They will also be alerted as to the status if the case is open, closed, needs to be monitored or whatnot. So that feedback is sent to the constituents. They're also made aware of when that case is closed. Um so if they have any concerns, they can always reach out to us, you know, for extra for other information about that case. But like I said, for the most part, it's a notification alerting you as to the inspector that you can call with questions with their phone number and you get a status for that case. >> Thank you. That's all I've got at the moment. >> Okay. Anyone else? Um, are you pointing at him? Okay. Council member Baldengro, I see. >> I just have one question. Thank you for the information. Um, I just have one question. Does um can anybody that doesn't necessarily live within the city limits of Glendel place a complaint in Glendel One or is there some sort of verification process so that we're not getting for lack of better way of saying like a rogue uh inspector volunteer >> Vice Mayor Council Member Baldengro uh you don't have to live in the city of Glendel to use Glendel one. Um there was an instance where we had a PIA resident filing a high number of complaints in Glendale. Um so as part of the administrative decision back in March of 2023, uh we suggested that the complaint that you're complaining about has to be a certain distance from where you live. So if we've got a Phoenix resident, for example, that's looking across Camelback into the Aato district and there are blight violations, we wouldn't turn those down. But if somebody was living at 67th and Poria and complaining on the Poria side and complaining about something happening at uh 67th and Bell Road, that's where we would say, okay, where's your interest in this? And >> go ahead. >> Just one follow comment. Um, and I know it's uh the inspectors have a thankless job. I've I've met a few of them and every time I see them, I I just hard at them shake their hands and man, I know you guys have it rough. I know you guys have it very very rough. Um it's and so to all of them, if they're listening, thank you for everything they do on a daily basis. It's um it is a rough, thankless job, but it's important. And uh so don't ever think that it doesn't it's not uh that we take it for granted. I we all get the emails. We all see the get the phone calls and we all understand that that it's just one of those jobs that has to be done and we appreciate them that everyone they do it every single day with professionalism. Um and just really really the customer service that's always been given it's always been uh excellent. So thank you again. >> Council member Guzman. Uh, I had a question on when a citation is issued, uh, that would automatically generate a court date, right, >> Vice Mayor, Council Member Guzman? Yes. >> Okay. So, if they don't appear at the court date and they're still in violation of whatever the citation was, like, you know, their yard, what happens? Vice Mayor, Council Member Guzman. U for civil citations, the case would be held in abstentia, which means the defendant's not there to make a statement, but the state's going to proceed with the case. Uh, typically, you get a good finding when you go in abstentia because there's no one to argue against what you're saying. Um, if it's a criminal case and they fail to appear, that's another criminal charge for failing to appear at the court. And so that would be that would generate a warrant for arrest and be handled by the Glendale Police Department. >> Uh how many of those have we had in this last year? >> Vice Mayor, Council Member Guzman, uh I'll defer to Tasha for the exact numbers, but I don't know that we've issued any criminal citations in 2025. I think everything's been civil. >> Council member Guzman, I have to get back to you. I can meet I can reach out to the prosecutor to get those numbers. Right now, I'm showing that we've issued seven civil citations this year, but I do not have an accurate accounting for criminal citations. >> Okay. The other thing is uh all of the information that you were giving to us uh in the beginning, Mr. St. John's, could we get that on paper? >> That would that would have made a great presentation. >> Vice Mayor, Council Member Guzman, yes, I can provide that. >> Okay. Thank you, Council Member Concus. >> Hello. Uh thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, I want to express my concern about the policy that limits residents code compliance to Glendel 1. U, while I understand the intent uh to help staff manage workload and stay proactive, I believe this restriction sends the wrong message. Glendel 1 was created to empower residents to partner with the city, not to limit their ability to improve their neighborhoods. And my office regularly uses Glendel One system. I drive around the Cactus District at least once or twice a week checking on streets, parks, public spaces, and also code compliance of potential code compliance violations in the neighborhoods. Um, I also notify the city of Phoenix all the time of things that I see on the other side of 43rd Avenue. Uh, as my district goes all the way north to Peoria and south to Camelback. Um, I believe that instead of restricting people, we should strengthen our code compliance system, provide the support that you all need, um, review our staffing levels, improve our technology, and build better partnerships with the active residents and the neighborhood leaders. Um, as we prepare to welcome our next city manager, I think that it's the right time to take a fresh look at how we handle code enforcement and the code enforcement department to make it more efficient, transparent, and communitydriven. Because at the end of the day, our residents aren't the problem. They're our best allies in making Glendel better. And I don't know if any other city service will restrict the number of times that a resident can contact us. For example, we don't tell residents that they can only contact the city council office uh twice a week or an exaggerated very exaggerated example is limiting the amount of times a resident can call 911 for service. Um and then also I guess my question is uh this is only limiting Glendel One um request. I know that in the in the city charter in article 2 section 18 when it comes to our uh voting meetings and our regular meetings it says that any citizen of the city may appear before the council at any regular meeting and present a request. The council shall take action or direct that action to be taken on such requests within 30 days. So, if somebody has more than two or more than five code complaint violations, could they show up to a regular meeting and present these requests during public comment and then we would be required to address it within 30 days? >> Vice Mayor, Council Member Kes, I I'll go a step further in that um we wouldn't require them to come to a public meeting and make a public statement. uh if they contact us directly in the code division about a very specific complaint or something they have a concern about then we will handle that. >> Anyone anyone else? >> Vice Mayor. >> Yes. Go ahead. Council. >> So, in reading the uh staff report for this uh agenda item today, it says that staff is bringing forward a conversation with the mayor and council. Um well, we've had that conversation it seems like, but is staff looking for a recommendation, a reconsideration of the uh number of of cases that the public can submit? So, we've talked, but we haven't changed anything. What is What would staff like at this point? >> Vice Mayor, Council Member Turner. Um, it was an administrative decision made by Mr. Phelps back in March of 2023. Uh, if this council wanted to provide Mr. Phelps a different direction, then that's the relationship that you have with your manager. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. St. John. Mr. So, that's why I brought it forward, Council Member Turner, is that we've got three council members that were not on the council when the decision was made. It wasn't actually a decision that the council I believe there was a consensus of the council that supported the decision. Um but that was that's the reason I brought it back is to have the discussion and see if we wanted to make a recommendation. We can't vote here on >> make a recommendation to make changes. >> Vice Mayor. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Since the request came on a please >> here's what what my recommendation would be. We've got a we've got new leadership within code enforcement. Um, clearly from the data showing Tasha it some of the things she's changing is putting this on a on a very good path. What I would say because she believes she can start reaching uh some of her stated goals here in the next several months is I would schedule a recheck in uh perhaps towards the tail end of February, early March, see how she's doing on the things that she's implementing, provide you the additional data. You'll have the new city manager will be in place which you need to get you know obviously he needs to be understanding and where the council's at and I would then at that time readress the policy thus far the number you know the the the implementation is making sign significant progress based on from when we first had or last had this conversation. So if you're asking for a staff recommendation, staff recommendation would be to allow Tasha to continue to implement the changes she's putting on board where we have not only just the three grid but the five. I think there were a statement saying we only had three working on the on the u on the uh the non-proactive. We have actually eight doing that and then we have nine that are assigned uh strictly to proactive. Allow that to play out for the next 60 to 90 days. come back, see what the data is to support it and then craft your uh you know kind of your desire and your policy based on that data and that would be my recommendation. >> Oh, did you have anything else? >> Um I would I'm kind of I'm comfortable with that recommendation because I do think it's important to let uh the department do some work on this. If if we could do that maybe the if this could be scheduled for a workshop again in the the first council first workshop in March then then also if there's any budgetary requests that >> that's that's >> it would be soon enough I think for us to consider budget and for it to get included. Not saying that you're going to get anything but just saying not making any promises just saying that that we would have time to hear and consider the requests that might occur. >> Thank you. I have anybody else I do have a couple questions if everybody else has asked their question. Um what what hours do because a lot of the part a lot of the emails we get are about parking issues and parking especially if the people don't have enough parking spaces on in their driveway or even in the street in their neighborhood they there's a lot of pictures that I get about people parking in front yard. It's not a problem in my district, but I feel strongly about and I know I've had these conversations I think with everyone that, you know, we adopt these these ordinances in our into our code and we then we by that we've created a covenant with the community that these are the things we're going to do to protect your property values. And so it's important that we follow through on the things we told the resident. We're going to do this to protect your property values. So, um, but parking violations, I understand the cars can be moved. They're gone during the day when people are working. So, can you expl you know when you know where there's where there's issues with with a lot of I I can tell you I know councelor Milner can tell you council Turner there's some areas of the city where parking is a real problem. Parking in yards parking lots of cars looks like a parking lot in front of the house. Um, do we stagger the inspection so we can actually because I've seen a lot of times the inspector goes out there, they don't see the violation because everybody's gone during the day, school, work, wherever they go. Um, and they don't see the violation. So, it's kind of the hamster wheel where we just can't actually cite them. Vice Mayor Tom, our inspectors work Monday through Saturday. So, they're here 6:30 to 5:00 Monday through Friday and they also work those hours on Saturday. Now, when the need arises, our inspectors will work late or either come in the morning, you know, to do an inspection to see if there's a violation. We also have staff that works on Saturdays and they will also check that property for the parking concerns. When the constituent lets us know when it's primarily happening, we kind of make a point to go out there and check during that times if we can. Um, so we do try and be conven to be accessible to the constituents to check to see if there's violations such as parking during, you know, different hours. >> Thank you for that. Do we stagger some of the some of the inspectors, especially the proactive ones? I mean, the ones that are not proactive, the ones that are responding to Glendo 1 complaints where they're maybe working, you know, I don't know, 9 to 8 or whatever. Moving them start later and work later so that they are seeing things that you're not seeing, you know, by being finished with inspections that and if they work till 5, I don't know what time they stop inspections, but I know there's paperwork to be prepared at the end of the day every day. So they're not necessarily out in the field to the close of business. But I mean I' if we're going to bring this back, I'd like to have that be part of the discussion that we maybe and it could be rolling. I know nobody probably wants to work that second shift, but um you know have have a certain maybe one person work a work a later shift to be able to see some of the things that you're not seeing when you're finished in the field by 3 or 4 o'lock. So you're out there. Um, I think that's important. I don't know if everybody understands is it it's a onem radius. So, is it a mile in every direction from wherever you live or work that you can file a code complaint? >> Vice Mayor. Yes. >> Okay. Um, because I know even for myself, I drive past things coming back and forth in the city that are outside. I live in I live where there's an HOA, but I still care when I see, you know, I mean, I just I was I gave my new assistant a tour of the district. I saw things um and in um city right away around other areas of the city that are not within a mile of of my where I live, but I see them. And I I don't I feel like that if if a resident sees something going to and from the store or going to and from a friend's house or wherever they're seeing it, I think it's still valid for them to be able to report it though even though it's not within a mile of their house. So, um because you can often you see >> repeated violations I know coming down 59th Avenue um you know I mean some of those houses have had obvious code violations that have been going on for years um that you know with weeds and the and the you know they're not I know they're not in in compliance with our ordinance. So um but the probably part of the problem is nobody who's with lives within a mile of there has reported them. Vice Mayor, um we have our proactive inspectors and they are assigned to that territory. So they're going house by house issuing notices of violation when violations are present. There are some properties on 59th Avenue that are in violation. Some of them are vacant properties where we address the high grass and we trash and debris or make them secure so that nobody can gain entry. Like I said, when violations happen outside of our hours, the inspector will show up early or either stay late to attack that. We also check like lighting concerns. Some neighbors complain about the lights from the shopping plaza, you know, are, you know, too they're too bright in their area. So, we will go out there in the nighttime and check it. We will also come in in the morning to check for that. And like I said, we also have staff that work Saturday that that will check for those other parking concerns, yard sales, and whatnot. Um, just to be available. >> Uh, how often do we Thank you for that. How often do we clean and lean? >> So, Vice Mayor, clean. We have I can look at my report. Give me just a second. So, as of August 11th of this year till now, we've done eight clean and leans for properties in the city of Glendale. >> Okay. That's the only thing we can really do to address a vacant property is do it ourselves and lean the house and when it close when somebody when it closes, somebody has to pay for it. >> Vice Mayor, correct? And we have uh through the prosecutor's office started an initiative to do occupied abatements. So houses that are occupied where the person is refusing to abate the violations. Uh we'll we're sometimes getting a court order, other times working in cooperation with the homeowner who's inviting us and our contractors onto the property to clean the property and lean their house. Uh we have one case right now where the individual is not cooperative. And so with Mr. Mr. Bailey and his team were working through that process of getting the court order that allows for us to take a little more aggressive action on that uh property. >> Um I mean it's unfortunate but I I appreciate that because the people that live on that street, you know, they don't want they don't want it it affects their property values and it it it's the broken window theory. it it begins to spread and I think that probably the biggest thing that begins to spread is these parking issues because people see somebody doing it and then they think they can do it and you know it's it becomes a real problem. So um I think I didn't like the idea of restricting the residents ability to report more than two um violations a week. I think probably part of the problem was us allowing people to stack the five, you know, like let them let we'd accept 20 complaints even though they were only allowed five. Um the fact that we don't allow stacking anymore, I think probably resolves probably the biggest problem with that previous policy is that once you've hit your five or two or whatever we decide to do, you can't make any more complaints that week. You're going to have to wait till next week. So, um, and maybe we could set up a a number for the maximum number allowed per month. You know, you can do five a week if you happen to be bit, you know, seeing a lot of stuff, but maybe you could only do, you know, 15 a month or something like that. So, it keeps it from being the system from being overwhelmed because I understand we don't want to overwhelm the cold inspectors, but we also have a responsibility to deliver the services and and that we told people we're going to to protect their their property values. So that's uh important, really important. Um we want to, you know, we're working on the right ofway, we're working on, you know, parks. We're trying to make it our city more appealing. And part of that is what the what the residential streets look like that people live on or raising their families on. So um I guess my issue with coming back in 90 days is that we just instuted a policy that we can only bring things back in after 18 months. So I don't know how that would work. um >> because we'd have to wait 18 months um to bring it back because this is an item of special interest. >> You know, vice mayor, I I think what the staff has the ability to put to schedule items and bring forth in addition to the council item of special interest process. What we'll establish this is a uh just internally that we want to come back and brief and give a progress report to the council somewhere late February, early March uh on this issue with new data. So what we we can do that internally from a staff. >> Okay, >> vice mayor. Uh the other option we have since it's your council item of special interest, we can just leave that open >> and through our tracking uh sheet, I can include information that says that we're set for another workshop, the first workshop of March 2026. >> Okay, >> that's another option. But >> well, I know and this wasn't something like in a council where there was no consensus to move it forward or I mean we haven't actually done really done anything other than had a discussion. So, it's but I just want to make sure that you know I'm following the rules with my counselors of special interest also. Um I'm okay with bringing it back but I I would like also to know I know you had mentioned to um some of us anyway that there maybe it was to the whole council about that you're now moving away from Glendale one as a way to tracking things in the code department that they were um deploying some new software or something. could that be part of uh you know basically like a whole quote overview and then if we wanted to have a discussion about changing any of our policies but I'd like to understand have a better understanding of you know what kind of technology and other things you're implementing in the department um so that we can as council Turner said have a better idea of what what do what do we want as far as the what the residents should have access to but what what do you need in order to deliver the service out in the community >> vice Mary. Yes, of course. We can include all that information. >> Okay. Council member Concious. >> Yes. Um, so I have some suggestions, but you may already be doing this, so please let me know. Uh, for some proactive education. So, of course, we have our water bills. So maybe uh kind of like a myth busting kind of quiz on what is a code of violation, what isn't, um to do a little bit more education for for our residents so that they know um what it is that we're looking for and what standards uh they need to abide by. Um also I have the suggestion of having a new homeowner's welcome letter. So whenever um someone uh purchases a a home or a property in Glendale that we use automation in order to send them a welcome letter and also letting them know about what are the code standards and where to find them and also how to use all of our other city services as well. So um I'm not sure if those are already in place. Um and then what I heard uh Mr. St. John, if you can clarify is that between the limit of two co um reports in Glendel one and five reports in Glendel one per week that there was essentially no difference in terms of staffing and capacity. Is that what is that correct? >> Mayor, council member conscious, that's the odds. The odds are that if we increase to five, we wouldn't see a huge influx of cases that would require additional staffing. probably see a pretty small percentage would be my guess, but again there's risk because I could be wrong. >> I understand. And the last point that I'll make for today is that in terms of the staff report that we received, it says community benefits/public involvement, it says the community benefits from efficient government operations. And I think that when we start to put um those types of things like efficient government operations, that's to make um the city's um life easier. And our motto is that we work to improve the lives of the people that we serve every day. So I believe that um if we do have another one of these that we need a better explanation of the community benefit that includes more of how our residents are going to benefit from it, not how the government will. Thank you. Okay. Anybody? Oh, I thought I heard something. Go ahead, Council Member Goomith. Just one more. >> In the beginning, uh, when you first began to tell us about the code, you said that, um, and just clarify this that the reason that we went from five to two, we because there was a certain amount of residents that were continuously putting in large amounts of uh, code violations. Is that correct, >> Vice Mayor? Council member Guzman, that is correct. Yes. >> Okay. I'm just curious, those same residents, are they still putting in uh code violations? >> Vice Mayor, Council Member Guzman, I believe. So, there's one that kind of falls on and off the radar depending on uh her her I'm guessing what's going on in their lives. Uh, so I don't know if that one particular person is still entering two cases a week or or maybe has gone silent for a few months. I don't know. >> So we would change a policy just because of one resident. >> Um, I I I'm just asking, >> Vice Mayor, Council Member Gooseman, it would be to benefit a small handful. I'd say maybe four or five. >> Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you. Are you finished? Council member Melnner. >> Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, part of of I think, you know, bringing it back is uh, you know, our reporting. I know we've we've talked about uh our the reports that you can generate. I think it's really important that we uh see some uh ongoing reporting that show these numbers, what what's happening, where where it's going and that kind of thing. So, I'd like to see that sent out from the department or or or maybe it's where we need to have our assistants do that, pull that report. But I I think that's really important because I haven't uh really seen that report in at least for my district on a regular basis and I'd like to see that. Um, regarding uh the education part, uh, I think that's a very important part of this and I know some time ago I asked if we needed to put some more money into your budget for education and at the time you'd said, you know, I think we can handle with what we have, but I think this is really important uh, in our next budget year that we look at um, code education because I think a lot of the the residents out there don't intentionally. They kind of see what happens is one neighbor does something they're not supposed to and then the next neighbor says, "Oh, we I guess that's okay to do that." Uh, but if we have a good education program, they know better. And I think it'll overall improve our the city, if we can really uh bump up the way we educate our public on code compliance issues. for example, there's not very much in our annual calendar uh that we send out. Um maybe we take the back side of the calendar or something and list, you know, what are the main code violations that are happening and and that we need to uh make sure that uh people understand that the >> council. Okay. Uh council member Meler, you said that uh something about the numbers of the grid. Can is are uh something about the numbers of the grid. Can is are we able as a council member to get a report that shows what violations are in whatever grid we are in our our particular district? >> Vice Mayor, council member Guzman, uh there is a business intelligence report that's created. I believe it's monthly. Is that correct? >> Yes. Yes. >> Uh that looks at the city as a whole on the left side and on the right side you can drill down deeper into just your district or adjacencies. You can adjust timelines so you can look at everything that's been opened in the last three months or just the last month. Uh, and I believe all the assistants have access to that report. >> Okay. So, just ask the assistants to get it for you. Okay. >> Vice Mayor, Council Member Guzman, it's a it's a hyperlink to our business intelligence platform that they go through. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay. I do have one more question um on the bulk trash issue. Um, so that's not a code violation for re especially because the reason I'm asking is because there are repeat offenders with putting out bulk trash at the wrong time. Sometimes it's out there for weeks. Um, uh, so give me the the rundown on how exactly how a complaint for bulk trash too early. What happens with that? >> Vice Mayor. Um, if the complaint is entered through Glendel One, then a bulk trash inspector is assigned the case. They go out, do the inspection, serve the appropriate notices, uh issue citations if they have to. Pretty much the same process that code follows. Uh and and they are not considered violations that go to the code division. They are code they're city code violations, but the code division doesn't enforce that section of the code. We have separate inspectors that do that, if that makes sense. So, you can enter a dozen bulk trash violations if you want. >> Okay. But how do we treat repeat offenders? That's why I'm asking because we only have the repeat repeat offender when it when it comes to code. So, >> Vice Mayor, I would have to go back and look at the language that we wrote. My hope is we wrote language that said any violation of the code within a 12-month period, three times. So, bulk trash would fall within that. I would just need to work with Michelle and her team to get them up to speed on the program and how we're managing it, the code division, allowing them to manage it for themselves. >> Vice Mayor, >> yeah, >> what we'll add that on and we'll ask Michelle and her team to join uh in the the next workshop on this item and then give get a chance to kind of see if there's some policy changes needed in that end. >> Okay. All right. Yeah. people, a lot of people just refuse to remember when they're or don't care when they're supposed to put it out. So, thank you, Council Reconcious. >> Um, yes, thank you, Vice Mayor. So, just to clarify, um, did you say that if uh you can put in unlimited bulk trash um complaints into Glendel One, but not code violations? >> Vice Mayor, Council Member Concus, yes, code is the only division in Glendel One that has a limitation. There aren't any other limitations in Glendel One. >> Okay. Thank you. Okay, I think we've covered this topic. I think we're ready to move on. Let's move on to the city manager report. >> Okay, I'll we'll roll our next weekly report. Thank you. [music] Hi everyone. Halloween's right around the corner and we have plenty of sweet updates to share. First up, some big news for sports fans. Dick's House of Sport just opened in Glendale's sports and entertainment district, and it's the first one in Arizona. They not only offer retail, but also interactive experiences like a rock climbing wall, golf hitting bays, and cages to practice baseball, softball, soccer, and other sports. They even have an outdoor field and track. Located near Loop 101 and Maryland Avenue, this new destination will add even more excitement to our entertainment district. We are thrilled to recognize our 41 employee success factors excellence award winners and 16 runners up. 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The restaurant is focused on sustainability, house-made noodles, and premium ingredients. Their decision to open in Glendale says a lot about our city's growing reputation as a go-to spot for incredible dining. Thanks for watching. I'll be back soon with more updates. >> Thank you, Mr. FA. City attorney, do you have a report? >> No report. Thank you. >> Thank you. Council items of special interest. Council member Baldenegro. >> Thank you, Mayor. have one. Um, it come to my attention a while back and and it was confirmed earlier today at an emergence meeting that um I don't know exactly how long ago, but we had a for lack of a better way of saying it like a small twoperson team that helped uh specifically for downtown cleanliness, picking up trash, emptying up the the canisters, uh maybe doing some spot power washing here or there. I'd like to see if that's something that that we could uh look into getting back again. Um I again this was something that I had heard through the grapevine through several merchants and other residents. I just want to see if we can look into what it would take to to get that back again. Thank you. >> Thank you. Council member Conces. >> Yes, Vice Mayor. Um I have two today. Uh the first one will be the um council have a special interest to ask the city um to look into the are you okay program. Um, this is from a resident named Sharon and in um the Palm Shadows mobile home park. Uh, she said, "Recently, I noticed my neighbor's car was gone and so was he. I found out 23 weeks later that he passed away. Um, if I hadn't questioned his whereabouts, this might have gone unnoticed." Um, it says, "Many of the residents here at Palm Shadows are 55 and older, have health issues, some don't even get visitors from family or friends. I'm one of the lucky ones who as a stroke survivor is in constant contact with my family. However, that does not negate the fact that I am alone most of the day as my family members are all at work. And then she sent me a quote that from the Maropa County Sheriff's Office that they offer a free automated telephone service to help keep Sun and this is in Sun City. Sun City seniors uh residents safe through the are program. Um, participants receive phone calls from MCSO at a design designated time each day to check on their status. If no one answers the phone after several tries, MCSO deputies drive to the home to check on the resident. The program is limited to residents of Maricopa County and those living within the the boundaries of Sun City. Um, and obviously I I know that there's a lot of different complicated parts to this in terms of budget staffing, who would be responsible for it. Um and also understanding that uh the city of Glendale is a lot bigger than the than Sun City. So I'm just asking um for my council item of special interest uh to start exploring this um and I have spoken to uh city manager Phelps and uh deputy city manager Rick St. John. Thank you. That's that one. And then the second one, I mentioned it earlier that we had an amazing um uh ribbon cutting ceremony at the Kascal Loth Senior Apartment Homes. Uh it was really great that I I was um uh I got a tour firsthand tour from some of the residents uh into their apartment homes to see the different types of layouts. But when I talked to the residents in the the um common area and had a conversation with them, they mentioned to me that um the current Gus the bus stop is at 48th Avenue in Myrtle and that's about maybe uh two street blocks north of the Kascalote apartments and um a lot of them have um service dogs, wheelchairs, mobility issues u and then they use the a lot of them use the gust the bus for um shopping so bringing back groceries and things like that as well. So, my council item of special interest is if we can um ask the the city manager and staff to um review the GU the bus um route and to consider adding um Guskaloth senior apartments, but also with the flexibility to potentially add other stops as needed or change stops as well. Thank you, Vice Mayor. >> Thank you, Council Member Cones. Council member Guzman, >> not at this time. >> Council member Melner. >> Nothing. >> Council member Turner. >> Thank you, Vice Mayor. I have a couple of things. Um, one, I would like staff to uh prepare a presentation for the council regarding water and sewer service line protection plans. Uh, several of our neighboring cities and cities around the west and across the country provide that option for residents and I think it's worthy of our consideration. And the second item would be in conjunction and was occurred to me during our conversation about code code enforcement and all of that that the city of Glendo used to have a Glendo commission on neighborhoods and I believe during the recession and money was tight that there was no money available for that commission to work with and we ended up disbanding it in the early years of my term of service. Um, but I wonder if perhaps staff could present uh either in person or through a memo, a synopsis of the what the previous Glendale Commission on Neighborhoods and what kinds of things they did for neighborhood improvement and to help residents that needed help uh complying with the code um sort of as a alternative to the heavy-handed approach, neighbors helping neighbors approach. Thank you. >> Thank you, Council Member Turner. I don't have anything. There being no further business, this workshop meeting is adjourned.