good afternoon welcome to the may 11th formal meeting of the phoenix city council i will now call the meeting to order and ask councilwoman gordado to lead us in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you councilwoman will the clerk please call the role councilwoman i'm sorry here councilman dececio here councilmember garcia here councilwoman guardado here councilwoman o'brien here councilwoman stark here councilman waring here vice mayor pastor mayor gallego here thank you for joining us mario barajas is here to provide interpretation mario would you introduce yourself yes mayor thank you thank you my name is mario barajas and together with my colleague elsie duarte will be serving as spanish interpreters for today's city council meeting and i'll take a moment to introduce myself to our spanish-speaking audience and review a few housekeeping matters as well hola buenas tardes del concedo municipal my name is thank you mayor thank you mario i'll turn to our city attorney after the city clerk reads the 24-hour paragraph the titles of the following ordinance and resolution numbers on the agenda were available to the public at least 24 hours prior to this council meeting and therefore may be read by title or agenda item only ordinances numbered g 6966 and 6982 through 6985 s 48551 through four eight six zero two and four eight six oh four three four eight six one four and resolutions two two zero one four through two two zero one nine thank you i'll now turn to our city attorney to introduce the role of public comment in council meetings thank you mayor members of the public may speak for up to two minutes to comment on agenda items to be discussed comments must be related to the agenda item and the action being considered by the council general comments that go beyond the scope of the agenda item must be made in the citizen comment session at the end of the agenda the city council and staff cannot discuss or comment on matters related to pending investigation claims or litigation the city code requires speakers to present their comments in a respectful and courteous manner profane language threats or personal attacks on members of the public council members or staff are not allowed a person who violates these rules will lose the opportunity to continue to speak thank you so much councilman stark i will turn to you for emotions related to meeting minutes thank you i reviewed the minutes of june 24th 2020 and i recommend approval second we have a motion and a second all those in favor of approving the meetings please say aye aye any opposed nay passes unanimously vice mayor do we have a motion related to boards and commissions motion to approve mayor and city council boards and commission's nominations second we have a motion and a second all those in favor please say aye aye aye any opposed nay passes unanimously next we move to the liquor license portion of our meeting we advise the state on liquor licenses vice mayor do we have a motion motion to approve items three through 15. second we have a motion and a second any comments all those in favor please say aye aye any opposed nay passes unanimously city clerk are we ready for ordinances resolutions new business planning and zoning yes mayor vice mayor do we have a motion motion to approve items 16 through 119 except the following items 51 52 63 76 77 87 116 and 117 noting that item 103 is as corrected item 118 is requested to be continued to june 1st 2022 item 119 is requested to be withdrawn from the may 11 2022 formal agenda to be reposted as a public hearing at a future formal meeting on the on a date to be determined and excluding these items for virtual public comment items 87 and 107. can and can the clerk confirm if there are any other items that should be excluded for in-person public comment yes mayor and vice mayor also excluding items 49 50 56 and 81 that's items 49 50 56 and 81 for in-person comments thank you thank you we have a motion do we have a second second we have a motion and a second roll call i'm sorry yes to cease you yes garcia yes yes o'brien yes stark yes waring yes pastor yes gallego yes passes 9-0 next we go to item 49 which is our intergovernmental agreement with asu global institute of sustainability for greenhouse gas emissions inventory one of our many great partnerships with asu on today's council meeting agenda do we have a motion i move item 49 second we have a motion and a second we will go to public comment leonard clark thank you mayor and council members my name is leonard clark um i might have put neutral on this but now i'm a strong supporter of this as a person that was born here in the city of phoenix i think that time is extremely critical to say the least some scientists say we are in the sixth extinction right now event and uh asu is an excellent university we're very privileged to have them near our city and in our city um so we better get on top of this uh mad made global climate change uh a lot of people think that it's not a big deal but now we have to look at the fact that our water is greatly uh decreasing with this mega drought and man-made global climate change only makes it much worse lake powell make lake mead we're in very dangerous territory and we don't even know when these water rations are going to start so i strongly support this and i hope that every council member will vote for this and thank you for letting me speak thank you this is a very important one the water energy nexus is key for us as a desert community so many of our departments have seen a decrease in energy consumption in recent years but not the water services department and this data will be very very helpful to understanding our uses and developing strategies for enhanced energy efficiency council comments councilwoman i'm sorry thank you mayor i do have one question but while i wait for for folks to come down i'll make some comments i'm fully in support of this item having an inventory of emissions that are caused by our water systems energy consumption will be incredibly important as we update our climate action plan especially since we will be updating that again next year i think it is an overdue study and it will show that we are behind on our climate goals and we need to act as soon as possible in anticipation with that especially as we continue to add large-scale water users and are building out our city i have no doubt that this inventory will tell us what we already know which is that we need to build large utility-scale solar projects push our utilities to move fully away from fossil fuels and increase our water efficiency while reducing consumption we should be taking each of these actions now so that leads me to my question i know we have been discussing water quite a bit and i could see the results of this inventory actually benefiting some of the education and outreach campaigns that we're working on to influence a reduction in water usage by businesses and the public so i was wondering karen are we planning to include for example the amount of emissions that someone may cut if they reduced their water usage by x percent and just overall how do you see this this inventory helping us in our efforts on the water side thank you thank you mayor councilwoman i'm sorry for that question so this is a consumption-based emissions inventory so that each of our residents and and those of us who need to analyze these things can understand what the emissions are for every gallon of water that is delivered and consumed so yes i think that it would inform those kinds of conservation efforts as it will quantify not only the energy use that our city water services department that occurs but also the emissions associated with getting the water there in the first place so this is going to be a very uh helpful analysis okay that's great to hear and what does the timeline look like to get the results of this study and then the efforts that we're undertaking at the same time will we be able to pair those two together yes so thank you mayor councilwoman i'm sorry so we have completed our 2020 emissions inventory we have a consumption based inventory for food that is being finalized this water consumption based inventory would be finalized later this year and so could be used to inform those discussions probably next year okay got it thank you so much really really appreciate this and and all of your hard work on this thank you thank you and coupled with the great work we're doing with the blue bank in item 102 we really are being data driven and leading the way and doing some things that that other communities are are not doing so thank you to our team for really being on the forefront of important issues a good council meeting today for water energy nexus and again phoenix leading the way any additional comments roll call i'm sorry yes to cco oh hey one thing we ought to think about too as we're doing this we're going to look at our codes and our ordinances and like i just literally found this out a couple weeks ago we have a code or an ordinance within the city it's not sure which one it is but that does not allow uh the fake grass the artificial turf in the medians it has to be real so it's something that we may and is staff's aware of it now uh they've been dealing with it trying to figure out a way to make it work but just something like that is something that we ought to be looking internally on and see how we fit a lot of these things that we already have in place and how we can readjust so just something to think about it was interesting to me more than anything else that you know we can't allow certain things in there but we have to be able to make it allowable you know i would think in almost every circumstance i can't think of where we wouldn't but something like that thanks a lot mary anya i apologize councilman was that a yes that's a yes thank you very much garcia yes yes o'brien yes stark yes waring yes a store yes gallego yes passes nine zero we next go to item 50 which is authorization to apply for accept and implement hud family self-sufficiency coordinator grant so an exciting item to help people get higher wage employment vice mayor do we have a motion i move item 50. second wonderful we have a motion and a second leonard clark the floor is yours thank you uh marion council members my name is leonard clark and i think this is excellent uh i support this so if i'm new put neutral then i i want to correct that to i support it um we have a lot of families and we we think that sometimes an overreach of government happens when we do these kinds of programs where we pay uh people to go out and help low-income people who are very close to being homeless i think this is excellent because this is the top this is the tip of the iceberg because when we see the homeless people out on the street our homeless brothers and sisters a lot of this could be due to the fact that their family dysfunctional family situations low income all of these things i think this is a great program there's a lot of people that could really be ben they could benefit to start their little businesses to in this uh internet economy that we have high tech economy everybody potentially can be a part of this economy and so i strongly support this and i hope that we can get more people back into the workforce and try to reduce the numbers of people who are local income assistance and who are homeless by this program thank you thank you mr clark council comments roll call i'm sorry yes decision yeah garcia yes yes o'brien yes stark yes waring yes pasteur yes gallego yes passes 9-0 we next move to item 51 early head start home-based curriculum do we have a motion i move item 51 second we have a motion a second i'll turn to councilwoman ann o'brien thank you mayor mayor i'm actually i'm excited to support both 51 and 52 these two items are continued efforts to bring education to the children of our city we know quality early childhood education is critical for every child but especially for children who experience trauma or homelessness and an excellent education is the foundation to post secondary educational opportunities such as apprenticeships like the ones we just approved for our city departments a few months back or trades or community college or university having served on a school board for the past seven and a half years and finishing out my last term as president there i know that each child learns at their own pace and requires different tools to grasp the knowledge being taught by their teachers the pandemic and closing of our schools only exacerbated the fact and made these struggles and truths more visible revealing to parents and community members what educators already know these programs will not only bring educational opportunities to the children but will also provide additional opportunities through our libraries and continued partnerships with asu to provide cert resources to anyone who seeks them i am hopeful that continued focus and investment in individual learning styles and providing resources for early childhood education will continue to be a priority for this council as there is no greater return for our tax dollar than a well-educated well-trained workforce thank you mayor well said councilwoman thank you any additional comments on early head start councilman i'm sorry my apologies my comments are actually for item 52. and more good news coming glad in this one that we can help support our youngest uh children and their parents this will be a great partnership with the teachers national center roll call i'm sorry yes to cco yes garcia yes yes o'brien yes dark yes waring yes a store yes gallego yes that says 9-0 we next move to item 52 our library's partnership with asu on tutoring and other support services for our kids do we have a motion i move item 52 second we have a motion and a second councilman o'brien any additional comments no ma'am thank you thank you and we will turn to uh public comment to leonard clark you may provide comments on both this partnership and our early head start partnership um i think it's an excellent idea the earlier my name is leonard clark the earlier we can start education of our children so many studies have shown that when our children start learning pre-kindergarten i can tell you as a former teacher that when i was a kindergarten teacher when a student could come into my class and be able to use those fine motor skills to hold a pencil and save having to to do that effort with that student it freed me up to help the other students who couldn't hold the pencils so i think this is a huge deal i want to thank arizona state university as a person a native of phoenix and i also want to thank grand canyon university as well in our st and our city our beautiful city who are also going out and tutoring our children and thank you and i strongly support this i hope you'll vote for it thank you i'll turn to councilman i'm sorry thank you mayor i am also very very excited to support this i'm glad there's two items on education today we know arizona is in a crisis when it comes to public education and that was only made worse by the pandemic and low-income and black and brown students often face the worst of this i think tutoring makes a significant impact and this program is an absolutely fantastic addition to our efforts both providing valuable resources to our k-8 students but also providing experience to asu students and one-on-one teaching this is a just a hope i'm not sure if this program i know it mentions tutoring taking place in public facilities and we know that transportation can often be a barrier for students to get to and from programs especially if they are younger so just want to add in a note that i hope there is a virtual option to this program as well and excited to vote yes thank you thank you councilwoman additional comments i'm sorry yes to cco and just a quick comment on this and i said it maybe a year ago that the pandemic hurts the kids that came from poorer families more than it hurt anyone else and a lot of it had to do with the fact that their schools shut down longer the rich schools the kids where the parents were heavily involved and pushing for it they opened up a lot sooner than a lot of these poor districts which i still don't understand the impact that that pandemic had on these poor kids is going to last longer than we could ever imagine the individual these kids the wealth gap is going to exceed a lot further than it's ever been we always talk about that but what a lot of people don't realize that the policies from some of these school districts have created this mess they created it they created the division they created the fact that these individuals these kids because they're poor and their parents like my mom and dad who were really poor they would not know better because they did my dad had a sixth grade a grade education my mom had a fourth grade education they don't know they trust people in power and authority when in fact they worked against them and these richer school districts where the parents were more engaged had a little more pull they insisted on their schools being open and this pandemic is going to hurt those kids even more that were poor and i feel sorry for them and i vote yes on this mayor councilman to cecilia can you express your vote please yes i'm sorry i thought i said yes i apologize thank you garcia yes yes o'brien yes stark yes waring yes pastor yes gallego yes passes 9-0 we next move to item 56 fiscal year 2022 23 cdbg neighborhood infrastructure and enhancement programs vice mayor do we have a motion i move item 56 second we have a motion and a second leonard clark is here to provide comments my name is leonard clark sorry i do talk a lot but this is a beautiful city that i was born in even though i don't reside in it right now i live out in young town but it'll always be the city that i was born in and that i love um i would i support this and i and it is my negligence and that i didn't read through the whole thing but i would hope that somewhere in there we have more swimming pools because we had to we wrongfully in my opinion closed down a lot of public swimming pools and with global warming going up we have plenty of these private lakes and these different wealthy neighborhoods i think it's about time that the children and the families of our beautiful city the fifth largest in the united states of america has more built-in pools because many people cannot afford them unless they can live you know pay these exorbitant rents in their apartments so i think that's apropos within the scope of this agenda item if you didn't approve any more built-in pools i would hope that you do that that way the kids are off the streets and they're in the water they're learning how to swim and that would be a great thing thank you i hope you'll vote for this thank you leonard uh any council comments roll call i'm sorry yes decision yeah yes yes o'brien yes dark yes waring yes pastor yes gallego yes passes 9-0 we next move to item 63 mobile stroke unit vice mayor do we have a motion move uh item 63 fire department contract with dignity health for mobile stroke unit second we have a motion in a second councilman i'm sorry thank you mayor i'm in support of any program that will save lives and improve public health outcomes i think we probably all know someone in our lives who has suffered a stroke at some point and many of them have been able to avoid lingering consequences or even survived had they received treatment sooner it's noted in this item that the probability of a good outcome is reduced by 10 every 30 minutes that treatment is not provided this program i think will save lives but it will also alleviate additional pressures on our fire department as they face increasing calls this summer in meeting with fire last week it was emphasized to me that you know minutes or even seconds can make all the difference in response to a fire and the same is true for a stroke this is also at no cost to the city so i'm looking forward to seeing the results and possibly expanding this program in the future it's an agreement with valley light with valley metro rail inc for oh sorry that is something different but thank you i look forward to supporting this item thank you councilwoman this is life-saving and showing how we are and our fire department is on the advance edge of using technology so credit to all involved any additional comments roll call i'm sorry yes to cco yes garcia yes o'brien yes stark yes waring yes a store yes diego yes passes 9-0 items 76 and 77 are related to valley metro light rail vice mayor do we have a motion on items 76 and 77 i move item 76 and 77 second i somehow feel councilman and sorry might have comments on this no i do not have comments on this i do support it though thank you well appreciate that partnership with valley metro and investment in light rail any council comments mayor go ahead councilwoman i think it's exciting that there is this expansion and that we have been working uh for a long time for this to happen and it's nice to see that it's it's moving along and we're suffering through the expansion at this moment but it will be gone soon absolutely and some of the best business small business support programs we've had so thank you all involved in that as well roll call i'm sorry yes to cco garcia yes o'brien yes stark yes wearing no [Music] pasteur yes gallego yes passes eight one we next move to item 81 recycling of plastics requirements contract i'm sorry 80 no is it 87 81 mayor yes you were correct the first time i think 81 all right vice mayor do we have a motion on 81 move item 81 second we have a motion and a second on item 81 any comments and do we have public comment on this one yes mayor we do we have leonard clark who is here in person leonard the floor is yours thank you mayor and council members my name is leonard clark i think anything that can help us recycle all of the plastic you know we are the fifth largest city in the united states of america and uh we are a trendsetter in just that fact alone so even with garbage cans plastic we have plastic everywhere and i haven't updated myself on the situation with recycling in general of plastic in the city of phoenix but i would hope that we could expand this there's already studies saying that plastic is something that does have cardiogenitigence kindness agenda i can't even say cancer cars and cancer causing things uh that are in them i drink out of bottled water all the time so anyways i hope you expand the uh the recycling program and i i strongly support this we've got too much plastic it's everywhere and i hope there's some chemist out there especially in the city of phoenix some young enterprising chemist who can come up with something where plastic could be a much more or some type of other material that could be recycled much easier thank you thank you leonard any council comments roll call i'm sorry yes decision yes garcia yes yes o'brien yes stark yes waring yes a store yes diego yes passes 9-0 we next move to item 87 comprehensive micro mobility program request for proposals vice mayor do we have a motion i move item 87 second we have a motion and a second ryan boyd is here to provide a public comment online afternoon mayor uh members of council for the record ryan voight of the urban phoenix project in support of this expansion but really uh we have been looking to try to see if we could expand this even further we think that there's been a lot of support for this if you look at this phoenix's outreach the uh actual survey responses from in-person events in the corridor actually were more supportive than just the online one and both actually had a majority support a two mile expansion around the light rail uh corridor so we're very supportive of uh trying to make sure that we have this option available we think that if you want to reach your goals with your climate action plan and making it more comfortable to uh make that a mile journey to light rail to other public transit corridors you need to have those options uh we again this expansion it is the a step in the right direction but we would rather see an option that allows folks uh to opt in and to make that happen uh quicker in a way that doesn't have to kind of come through six months and coming back to council just to add in neighborhoods such as coronado and others that may want to have this especially because we have options that we've seen with the geo fencing of areas within the current pilot zone as well as options like uh residential parking meters uh meters but the permitted parking process where we've had folks that have options to opt out of certain things the city does be that on-street parking to really make the system work so we are supportive of item 87 but we would be much more if it was a little bit more expansive is where we're at thank you so much mayor council thank you ryan i'll next turn to councilman o'brien thank you mayor i have a couple of questions for staff we have staff available virtually as well i forgot brian i'm here available thank you i was looking for you here in chambers um can you explain why we're doing phase one in an area of town without light rail uh mayor councilwoman o'brien members of council when we were putting together a potential expansion the first thing we're looking at is be able to move beyond our current scooter pilot program that's been in operation for a number of years that's it focused in the downtown area but we know there's a demand for putting out more micro mobility devices e-bikes pedal bikes adaptive bikes uh we were looking for an expansion area and so this will be the first time we're expanding potentially beyond the downtown area where we have a different parking structure for um docking those vehicles but we also the first time we're working with other vehicles and so we also know that at the same time we have our road safety action plan or vision zero plan that we're working on that is really focused on making sure everybody's on our roadways is safe and we have mechanisms to keep everybody safe and that's a multi-faceted approach we're going to be working on it so i think what we would want to make sure is we're doing is when we're putting out additional vehicles additional devices out there into areas of the city that people knife may not be familiar with them we're also making sure we're taking steps to keep those folks everybody on the streets safe and so the phased approach is really to do a phased expansion to see how these additional devices and the additional things that we're going to be doing with this micro mobility program are received in certain areas of the city parts of the city and then look at a phased expansion beyond there i think one thing we wanted to make sure is we have these micro mobility devices the options available when we have the super bowl in february of 2023 um so some more than just that you have this scooter program that we have today hope that answers your question um that is helpful we do have light rail though it extends to north into you know dunlap and 19th and so can you help me understand why that we didn't extend that way or why that wasn't included in the expansion uh mayor councilwoman o'brien members of council we were as with the phased expansion i think we were looking for a smaller expansion area um i think we definitely see the opportunity to be able to expand along the light rail corridors uh in the future and i think as uh as you and i talked about a little bit as when we look at a potential expansion beyond this uh first area we're looking at expanding time we'll be working with the community with the council um and on opportunities to be able to expand beyond the downtown area or that expansion area we have planned right now um but there's there's uh i would say we would definitely see an opportunity to be able to expand uh along the light rail board of the existing lagoon corridor uh where we were looking for a smaller expansion area initially and do our vendors have the capability asu has been successful in geo-fencing their campus they're in downtown in tempe to prevent scooters from being all over the campuses and old town scottsdale has areas within their core that are geofenced to encourage safe pedestrian use are we able to request from our vendors the inclusion of the ability to geofence specific areas and communities to prevent scooters from being left around their neighborhoods uh mayor councilwoman o'brien members of council yes in our existing scooter program we do have geo-fencing in certain areas of the downtown area that it operates in we would continue to have that opportunity to be able to geofence areas um that that we want to keep certain um vehicles or devices out of but i will tell you um one of the the things we've realized with the scooter program we have today is the this geo fencing is all can only be reliable at times is on the the commercial grade gps that these devices operate under so sometimes those aren't exactly exactly as accurate as you want to be in a downtown environment and so that's uh there are some they're generally accurate but doesn't mean that there can't be times when the gps doesn't um isn't uh as result responsive as we'd like it to be um but yes all the different vendors would have the opportunity or availability to have their devices be able to be geo-fenced in areas where they should not be operating thank you very much keaney thank you councilwoman any additional council comments mayor council vice mayor thank you um i really appreciate ryan boyd's comments uh but uh through our committees we have discussed this extensively especially in the micro mobility program and talking about really providing our community a road safety action plan before we add and extend more mobility within the area of all our areas one in particular there was a question about the light rail area and why it hasn't been expanded i believe that in that expansion at each district that is expanding in that they have community events with their neighborhoods to really see where the expansion should go and how it should be implemented and where the dynamics happens i know that there has been conversations with communities as ryan ryan boyd stated but each each line is very unique and different i would tell you on the sevens if you look at our sidewalks and where we would want to put micro mobility and park those scooters and and other items we don't have enough on our sidewalks so we will really have to identify those areas so it's not as simple as expansion and being able to discuss with our unique communities but appreciate it and i know that we will be talking about it further in our transportation and infrastructure committee because we're also looking at canals and put placing micro mobilities on canals so uh it is a larger discussion and appreciate the comments from the constituent and uh councilwoman o'brien thank you vice mayor councilwoman i'm sorry thank you um i just want to say that i am strongly in support of this program i think it is a great step towards reducing our in our dependence on cars i look forward to hopefully expanding it in the near future as well i think in our urban core our transit oriented development areas this is a huge huge need and coincides very well with our road safety action plan and vision zero just last night we had 40 000 visitors downtown phoenix for various events and i know that expanding micro mobility zones will help more visitors enter and get around downtown while also again reducing congestion and reducing our dependence on cars and a need for parking and all of the the other issues that we discuss so i'm excited to support this today and look forward to continue discussions to make sure that we continue to offer this to any resident in the city of phoenix who wants it thank you thank you councilman and sorry looking forward for phoenix to continue to be leaders in microbial mobility as well any additional comments roll call i'm sorry yes to cco yes garcia yes yes o'brien yes stark yes waring no pastor yes gallego yes passes eight 8-1 we next move to the planning and zoning portion of our meeting particularly focused on council district 7. we will go to item 107 which is a final plot at the northwest corner of 59th avenue and baseline road this is in council district 7 so i will turn to councilwoman and sorry for a motion move to approve item 107. second second we have a motion and a second uh we do have one public comment from mark rodriguez who is online and mark we always love hearing from you generally in public comment but for this one we would love to hear your thoughts on 59th avenue and baseline road all right mayor and man their guy members of city council it's the i live on 59th avenue baseline because i always go to the stores and all that stuff because i always love to go over there and all that stuff because i was trying to go everywhere to every store still like tj maxx michaels sprouts jack-in-the-box and many other stores like ollie's and i hope you make a movie theater real soon because mayor gallego yeah i'm sorry members of the city council laura pastor vice mayor have a wonderful day and i hope you give me comments to public comments so i can talk to me okay have a great day to infinity and beyond thank you mark for your support of this final plot any additional council comments roll call i'm sorry yes to cecio yes garcia yes guardado yes o'brien yes stark yes waring yes a store yes gallego yes passes 9-0 we will hear items 116 and 117 together they are related companion cases at the southeast corner of 27th avenue and buckeye road again in council district 7. we will begin with a brief staff report and i'll turn it over to josh veneric on behalf of the planning department thank you mayor members of the council the property in question for both cases is 19.88 88 acres located at the southeast corner of 27th avenue buckeye road in council district 7. item 116 is gpa est 2-21-7 a request to change the general plan land use map designation for the property from commercial and public quasipublic to industrial item 117 is z 79-21-7 a request to rezone the property from c3 and r3 to a1 for a light industrial facility the estrella village planning committee heard both requests on march 15 and recommended approval by votes of 7-0 the planning commission heard both requests on april 7 and recommended approval for the estrella village planning committee's recommendation by votes of 7-0 staff recommends approval of gpa est 2-21-7 for the planning commission's recommendation and adoption of the related resolution staff recommends approval of z 79-21-7 for the planning commission recommendation and adoption of the related ordinance mayor happy to answer any questions thank you do we have any questions before we open the public hearing all right open the public hearing we do not have any members of the public to comment so i will close the public hearing and turned um to councilwoman i'm sorry move to approve item 116 and 117. i think and let's do let's take just 116. move to approve item 116. mayor council further i'm sorry uh per the planning commission recommendation adoption of the related resolution for that one apologies motion to approve item 116 for the planning commission recommendation and adopt the related resolution second we have a motion and a second roll call i'm sorry yes to cecil yes first yeah yes yes o'brien yes stark yes waring yes pastor yes yes that says 9-0 thank you and this is one where we're moving towards industrial which from my perspective is not something we would do everywhere such as along the light rail but does seem to make sense in this case councilman sorry 117 do we have a motion move to approve item 117 per the planning commission recommendation and adopt the related ordinance second thank you any comments roll call i'm sorry yes to cecil yes garcia yes o'brien yes stark yes waring yes a store yes diego yes passes 9-0 uh councilman decicio do you have any motions i do mayor thank you for that yeah i made an error on 76 and 77 and would like to reconsider it and instead of sending a memo that would reconsider it you know and delay the process there's no reason to do that that would be silly on my part but i'd like to ask for reconsideration of those two items today 76 and 77 there all right councilman decision has a motion to reconsider 77 and 76 both related to light rail is there a second on his motion yes okay we have a motion and a second so we will conduct a voice vote if this passes we will revoke on the light rail items all those in favor please say aye i believe we had we did have some nays but the motion carries um motion uh vice mayor do we have a motion on 77 and 76 or sorry i i move item 76 second can we do both i'm sorry 76 and 77 sorry second thank you that's okay all right so we have a motion on the table and again a yes vote is in support of the light rail and a no vote would be against roll call i'm sorry yes to cecil and thank you mayor it was my bad i'm sorry i thought we were on another item uh no garcia yes yes o'brien mayor i'd like to explain my vote please i just um i do support 76 and 77 in 2000 phoenix citizens by with 58 support past prop 400 and then again in 2014 they passed prop 104 with nearly 55 support and then finally again in 2019 the citizens of phoenix almost at 63 percent voted to continue the expansion of light rail so with that i vote yes stark yes waring no a store yes gallego yes passes 7-2 thank you that concludes the agendas portion of our meeting and we next go to resident comment i'll turn to our city attorney to introduce this portion of our meeting thank you mayor during citizen comment members of the public may address the city council for up to three minutes on issues of interest or concern to them the assistant common session is limited to 30 minutes the arizona open meeting law permits the city council to listen to the comments but prohibits council members from discussing or acting on the matters presented thank you we'll begin public comment with stacy champion online followed by mark leonard in person hello mayor can you hear me okay yes we can on january 5 2022 i submitted a citizen's petition at a formal city council meeting my citizens petition was scheduled on the february 16 2022 transportation infrastructure and planning subcommittee where i wasn't allowed to present the city staff did and where no action was taken given the fact along with the fact more than one thousand on shelter people are still currently without access to a sufficient number of 24 7 restrooms including 88 accessible restrooms plus more clean potable water surrounding the human services campus now more than three months later with hot temps already here is unacceptable therefore i am submitting a new citizens petition which i've already emailed to city staff and request that it be handled per section 21 which states within 15 days before the full council and includes an action the city regularly hosts large events where both restrooms and water are provided for people so there's literally no excuse for the lag in action on this especially as the largest complaint from nearby businesses and residents is human feces in the public right of way not only is the treatment of our insulted neighbors a blatant violation of international human rights it is a ticking time bomb for heat illness and deaths as well as a broad range of highly contagious diseases in general people are already dying from heat and if the city is really serious about protecting all lives ensuring unsheltered people across the city have access to hydration and shade and this includes just people using public transport etc will save them and proper sanitation is a common sense public health measure thank you thank you leonard clark will be our final comment thank you mayor and council members it is wonderful to be back it's been a long brutal time when many of our citizens and folks have been killed by this pandemic i just want to say that we are more far apart than ever here in the fifth largest city of you know in the country phoenix and also around the country because my friends on the far left who many of the young people i love them and they know that but i'm the curmudgeonly old man because i tell them that if we do what some people want which is to use violence that that's wrong i'm hoping that they would follow the tenets of dr martin luther king cesar chavez mahatma gandhi and for my friends on the right you know we really do need to stop hating each other i think they have good points i think like the pool's being closed during the pandemic these little these things showing when the water would disinfect this virus uh and i'm going to move on from there because i'm not allowed to talk very long but right now a report was just released by the secretary of the interior deb uh holland and it's very critical that right now they are concerned with the deaths of our indigenous first nations uh children from these indian schools here in arizona we had the second largest behind carlysi indian school and now there is a report thank you to channel 12 where possibly uh on the corner where the community garden was that there could be the the buried bodies of indigenous children even carlysi kept reports but there's no reports of these children whom we know died from tuberculosis from polio which leads me to another second possible burial place in a place that needs to be worked on cemetery or cemeterial lindo we bought that in like approximately 1961 from maricopa county right next to i-17 freeway durango and 15th avenue what is going on there these are the hard-working people they may have been poor they may not be in where the the wealthy or well-known people are at the cemetery just down the street from here but cemetery or lindo at 15th avenue in durango is a disgrace i've been there the graves are washed away these were the hard-working people that helped build phoenix and i also suggest that some of the bodies of these are indigenous the indigenous children who were sent away in this horrible way and killed or died they weren't sent back to their tribes and they were buried maybe they were buried there i'm concerned i hope deb holland i've heard the city of phoenix is maybe waiting to see what deb holland will do but it is owned by a private developer who seems to be saying and and other people are saying they're not aware of any communications between you and deb holland working on this issue and i hope that the developer who now owns this property at the corner of the phoenix indian school right by the veterans hospital will stop all activity the normal archaeological excavations that were done i'm not trying to denigrate the archaeological team that you hired but they were finding blue bottles one of the first nation people a hopi from the first nation hopi said that when they were digging the garden she helped they were finding blue little bottles and we're told not to dig too deep please i beg you do some sonar find out if those bodies are buried there they may be dead but we need to respect the dead as well as the living thank you thank you that concludes public comment for today's council meeting we are adjourned you