Glendale Approves Controversial 160-Acre Data Center and Power Plant Complex Despite Organized Opposition; Fire Services Funding Stipulation Breaks Tie

The The Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Welcome to our Glebelle city council meeting. If you would like to speak on any of the items that are on the agenda, please fill out a gold card and hand it to the police officer in the back of the room. The mayor will call your name and when it's your turn to speak you can make your way to the podium. All speakers have three minutes.

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Mayor Jerry Wires, Vice Mayor Ray Malnar of the Saguaro District, Councilmember Diana Guzman of the Yucca District, Councilmember Leandro Baldinegro of the Ocotillo District, Councilmember Bart Turner of the Barrel District, Councilmember Lauren Tomachoff of the Cholla District, and Councilmember Lupe Conchas of the Cactus District. This meeting is streaming live on Glendale's Facebook and YouTube pages, as well as the city's cable television station, Glendale Channel 11.

Thank you for joining us. All right, good evening. Welcome to Glendale City Council meeting October 27, 2026. This meeting is called to order. Roll call. Everybody's here. I'm not going to call roll call because everyone's present if you take note. Before I go any further, one more time, if anybody has any cards, yellow cards, blue cards, I need them turned in right now. Because I will not be taking any cards after we get started here. So anybody have any cards?

You do, sir, if you'll give them to our clerk. Thank you. Okay, no one else? Very good, thank you. With that, the next two items on the agenda are our invocation and our Pledge of Allegiance.

Today invocation is going to be delivered by Pastor Fine with Vell Church If everyone please stand Gentlemen if it appropriate and you wearing a hat if you remove it if it appropriate if it not keep it on It up to your call After the invocation if you remain standing for our Pledge of Allegiance Thank you Pastor Thanks, Mayor. Thanks, Council. It's an honor to be with you. Would you join me if you are a Christian?

Our Father in Heaven, we come before you tonight as a people that knows that we need humility and wisdom, And we believe that you are the one true God. You raise up rulers and you bring them down. And you are in charge, Jesus. You have been given all authority above and below and on earth. You are king and Glendale is yours. So I come this evening and pray that the men and women in the council would be given wisdom and patience. Lord knows they will need it tonight.

I also ask that you would give them humility, courage, courage to do the things that are right, even when it's not popular, and restraint to do nothing when nothing is needed. Let them love justice, hate bribes, protect what is weak, honor what is good, and restrain what is evil. Bless the families of this city, bless its churches, its schools, its police, its firefighters, first responders, and all those that clean up after us. Keep this council honest and keep the meeting as short as possible.

We ask all of this in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Please everyone join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to our country. 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. Okay, next on the agenda is a consideration of the minutes from the October 13, 2026 voting meeting. Council members, do you have any corrections or additions to those minutes?

Hearing none, can I get a motion? Mayor, I move we approve the minutes of the October 13, 2026 voting meeting. Second. I have a motion to Council Member Turner, Second Council Member Guzman. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, saying nay. It appears you ayes have it, do have it, so be. Boards, commissions and other bodies approve recommended appointments to boards, commissions and other bodies. Yes, Mayor, I do.

I move to make the following appointments. The Aviation Advisory Commission, Laura Hirsch, to a term expiring January January 31st, 2027. Municipal Property Corporation, Jacob Rihalas, to a term expiring January 31st, 2027. Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission, Adrian Anaya Guarvara, who's a teen, to a term expiring January 31st, 2027. Second. Okay, you've heard the motion. We have a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor, vote aye. Aye. Can you both say nay?

If you guys have it, do have it, so it be. Well now, we have... Vicki, do you have... You gonna call them up? They are here. We do have them. Yeah, we do have them. Are you calling them up? Laura Hirsch, Jacob Grajales, and Adrian Guavara. If you're here please come up so we can square you in. Thank you. Okay, so you don't need this. You just need your right hand. You need to say, I state your name. I state your name. Okay, you got to talk up. Wow, you are soft spoken.

Okay, loudly repeat after me, do solemnly swear or affirm, or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States. And the constitution laws of the state of Arizona That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and defend them against all enemies foreign and domestic and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of my office to the best of my ability so help me God Congratulations Give me a hand folks Come on over. Come on over.

Stand right in here and we'll get a picture. Thank you. Congratulations. Okay, consent agenda. We'll now move to the consent agenda items 3 through 23. Items on the consent agenda, the routine in nature that had been previously studied by the city council at a workshop session. Now the items are intended to be acted upon in one motion by this council. Have we any speaker cards on any items 3 through 23? No sir. Okay, thank you. May I have a motion please?

Mayor, I move that we approve consent agenda items 3 through 23. Second. I have a motion from the Vice Mayor, seconded Council Member Tomachoff to approve consent agenda items 3 through 23. All in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed say nay. If you guys have it, the motion carries. Moving on to consent resolutions. Ms. Barr, can you read consent resolutions item 24. Item 24 through 33, by number and title.

Item 24, resolution number R26-109, a resolution to the Council of the City of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, authorizing the city manager to execute a Salt River project land use license for the maintenance of landscaping within the Desert Mirage golf course.

Item 25, resolution number R26-110, a resolution to the Council of the City of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, authorizing the city manager to execute a license agreement for wired telecommunication Service in the city of Glendale's right of way with wired connect LLC item 26 resolution number are 26-111 a resolution to counsel the city of Glendale Maricopa County Arizona authorizing and directing the entering into of an intergovernmental agreement for waste collection and transportation mutual aid with multiple cities and towns item 27 resolution number are 26-112 a resolution to counsel the city of Glendale Maricopa County Arizona Authorizing and directing the entering into of an agreement with the state of Arizona Office of the Attorney General and authorizing the acceptance and expenditure of the fiscal year 2027 victims rights program award AG number 2027-044 in the approximate amount of $64,300 on behalf of the Glendale Police Department.

Item 28, resolution number R26-113, the resolution of the council of the city of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, authorizing and directing the entering into of a highway safety contract number 2027-405D-022 with the Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety and authorizing the acceptance and expenditure of the grant award in the approximate amount of $75,853 for personnel services, employee-related expenses, and materials and services.

Supplies for the Glendale Police Department to enhance DUI impaired driving enforcement throughout the city of Glendale. Item 29, Resolution number R26-114, a resolution that council of the city of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, authorizing and directing the entering into of a highway safety contract number 2027-MC-003 with the Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety and authorizing the acceptance and expenditure of the grant award in the approximate amount of $56,000.

$6,000 for personnel services and employee related expenses for the Glendale Police Department to enhance motorcycle safety education and awareness throughout the city of Glendale.

Item 30, resolution number R, 26-115, resolution of the council of the city of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, authorizing and directing the entering into of a highway safety contract number 2027-405G-006 with the Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety and authorizing the acceptance an expenditure of grant funds in the approximate amount of $61,025 for personnel services, employee related expenses and supplies for the Glendale Police Department to enhance pedestrian and bicycle safety enforcement and education throughout the city of Glendale.

Item 31 resolution number R 26 a resolution of the council of the city of Glendale Maricopa County Arizona authorizing and directing the entering into of a highway safety contract number 2027PTS with the Arizona Governor Office of Highway Safety and authorizing the acceptance and expenditure of the grant award in the approximate amount of for personnel services and employee expenses for the Glendale Police Department to enhance debt enforcement throughout the city of Glendale Item 32, resolution number R-26-117, a resolution to council of the city of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, authorizing and directing the entering into of an intergovernmental agreement with the state of Arizona for the installation of flashing yellow arrow signals at various locations.

Item 33, resolution number R-26-118, a resolution to council of the city of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, authorizing and directing the entering into of an intergovernmental agreement with the the City of Phoenix for the installation, operation, and maintenance of a traffic signal at 43rd Avenue and Dunlap Avenue intersection in the City of Phoenix. And that concludes the consent resolutions. Thank you. Oh, I was just getting ready to make a motion. Go ahead.

Okay, Mayor, I move we adopt consent resolutions 24 through 33. Second. I have a motion from Council Member Tomaschoff, a second from Council Member Guzman. Approved consent resolution to items 24 through 33. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed say nay? If you guys have it, you do have it. It's ordered. We now move on to land development actions. Ms. Barrett, can you read item 34 by title and ordinance 026-36?

Ordinance number 026-36 in ordinance of the council of the city of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona amending unified development code chapter 35 unified development code article 2 zoning districts sections 3 5.2 point 1 0 3 35 point 2 point 2 0 3 35 point 2 point 3 0 1 35 2 point 3 0 3 35 point 2 point 4 0 2 35.2.403, 35.2.505, 35.2.503, 35.2.702, 35.2.802, 35.2.1001, and 35.2.1010. Article III, Supplemental Use Provisions, sections 35.3102, 35.3103, 35.3105, 35.3203, 35.3.204, and 302.

Article IV, sections 005 and 104, Article VI, Administration and Procedures, sections 35.6202, 35.6203, 35.6204, 35.6207, 35.6203, 35.6213, Article 8 definitions, sections 35.8.003 and 35.8004, providing for severability, setting forth an effective date, and ordering that a certified copy of the ordinance is recorded. Public hearing required. Public hearing is now open on item 34. Thank you mayor.

Members of the council, Dwayne Hoskins, principal planner with development services is here tonight. Thank you, Mr. Banjar. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, council members. ZTA 25 tax 04 is a bulk amendment that corrects 49 items. This remote's not one of them. It's a bulk amendment that corrects 49 items across the UDC in 28 sections.

Items include technical defects such as punctuation, placeholders, provides clarification of UDC provisions, and brings the UDC into compliance with state and federal regulations such as zoning protest eligibility and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. That concludes my presentation pending your questions. Mayor.

This was definitely very difficult to go through it as there's so many different changes and they seem It seemed pretty simple, such as changing the words, churches to places of worship, or replacing, yeah, that. So my overall question was, were you the person who went every single one and did it or did your team or how did this these changes come about? I know you just mentioned that it's in line with some of the state and federal statutes. So if you walk me just through the process. Mr.

Mayor, council members, yes it was a group effort. So while we administer the code, we make marks on a running tally of here are some issues that we're seeing. We're seeing placeholders like insert date, or this is missing a comma, the churches, the places of worship, making sure that our definitions in the UDC are lining up with definitions that are elsewhere in the code. So throughout the year, we annotated those on a log.

In addition to that, we also went through state statutes, through the different Senate and House bills, Changing everything that we needed to change to be in compliance with state statute and then for the Arlupa, the Religious Land Use Institutionalized Persons Act. Those are Those were changes that needed to happen quite a while ago and we just updated that. So in short, yes, it was a team effort, but I also did a lot of reading on that. Mayor, just one follow-up.

In terms of 35.8.003, it talks about removing hookah lounge from the retail definition as it is not primarily a retail operation under smoke and vape shop. And you don't have to answer this now, but we could follow up. What would a hookah lounge be considered under the UDC code? Mr. Mayor, council members, it would be considered a, depending on the operational, I guess a proposal it would be like most likely considered a social club or lounge under a semi-public use. Thank you.

Okay, what else you got? Mr. Mayor that concludes my presentation. Okay, no other questions from the council? Can you turn your mic off please? Okay, speaker cards? Yes, sir. Okay, thank you. Public hearing is now closed. Can I get a motion for item 34, please? Mayor, I move that the council approve ordinance number 026-36 and waive reading behind that giant title. Second. I have a motion to Councilmember Conscious, second Councilmember Turner to approve the recommended action. Roll call vote.

Councilmember Baldinagher, how do you vote? Aye. Councilmember Conscious, how do you vote? Aye. Councilmember Guzman, how do you vote? Aye. Councilmember Tomachop, how do you vote? Aye. Councilmember Turner, how do you vote? Vice Mayor, how do you vote? Chair votes aye. The motion carries unanimous. Ms. Barter, would you read items 35 by number? Title please.

Ordinance number 026-37, an ordinance of the council of the city of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, rezoning 145 acres located at the northwest and southwest corners of Litchfield Road and Bethany Home Road from PAD planned area development to PAD planned area development for a development plan entitled the base industrial park, amending the zoning map, Providing for an effective date and ordering that a certified copy of the ordinance is recorded. Public hearing required.

The call is now open. Thank you Mayor and members of the council. We have Christina Lavelle, Planner Development Services with us. Yeah, turn your mic on. Right there, perfect. Thank you Mr. Banger. Good evening Mayor and Council members. Tonight I'll be presenting the Base Industrial Planned Area Development. The applicant is requesting the consolidation of the existing Base Industrial North and Base Industrial Park Planned Area Developments into one consolidated PAD.

The project encompasses approximately 145 acres northwest and southwest along Litchfield Road and Bethany Home Road. Luke Air Force Base is located north of the site. To the west is the military airport facility, zoned RU-43. To the east is an established Maricopa County subdivision, zoned R-16. And located to the south is a vacant parcel within the Litchfield Park jurisdiction. The hatched area shown on the exhibit represents the subject site.

The Industrial Park North PAD is partially developed comprising seven industrial buildings totaling approximately 1 million square feet across 65 acres The industrial park south is currently vacant and it's proposed for eight industrial buildings totaling approximately 780,000 square feet on 60 acres. So the purpose of the rezoning request is to combine the existing base industrial park north and base industrial park south planned area developments into one comprehensive PAD.

The rezoning action refines permitted uses and development standards and establishes a structured process for future amendments, allowing the project to adapt to changing development needs while maintaining an organized planning approach. The item was heard by the Planning Commission on September 24, 2026. The Planning Commission forwarded a recommendation for approval of ZON 2606 with the stipulations included within the staff report. Again, thank you mayor and council.

This concludes my presentation. I'm available for any questions. We have any questions from the council? Seeing none, thank you. Anyone else wishing to speak on this item? Hearing none. Public hearing is now closed. May I have a motion for item 35 please. Yes mayor, I move to approve ordinance number 026-37. Second. Okay, we have a motion of council member Guzman, a second from council member Turner to approve the recommended action. We'll conduct a roll call vote.

Council member Balda Negra, how do you vote? Council member Conscious, how do you vote? Council member Guzman, how do you vote? Council member Tomachoff, how do you vote? Council member Turner, how do you vote? Vice Mayor, how do you vote? Chair votes aye. The motion carries unanimous. Moving on to the next item, we've got a couple things here. Item 36 and 37 means they're related to the same issue. We're going to hear those items together during the public hearing.

I need everyone to pay attention real quick. I've got several people that filled cards out that didn't exactly fill them out correctly. So, Melissa Parsons, I don't know if you wish to speak or not. Are you here? I don't... Did you want to speak? She said yes? Were you in support or opposition? Okay. I can't make this out. Last name looks like Justice Waddell, Arizona. I can't make out the first name. Selwyn, I think that's correct, yeah. I think it's still. Okay, where are you at?

This is like the final cell. Okay, you wish to speak? I've got the part in there. Okay, I'm just trying to clarify that. Several of these are not filled out where I can make them up. Okay, Mark, I'm going to guess Thomas. I'm speaking on the final matter. You do want to speak on it? Okay, which item, sir? The final matter. The very not these not what's coming up right now, but the very end number four zero That's what we're doing right now Okay now, okay Were you support or opposition?

Okay Okay Okay. Daniel Hertz, Hertz, though, from Waddell. Okay, so you don't need to speak? Okay, very good. Thank you. Okay. Okay, I think we got it. The City council meeting Arizona Proper nouns It you DC Hmm? Okay. It makes it easier when they're all in order. Okay. With that said, we're going to consolidate. We've already said that. Public hearings, Items 36 and 37. Ms. Barr would you please read items 36 and 37 by title?

Item 36, Ordinance number 026-38, an ordinance that council the city of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, extending and increasing the corporate limits of the city of Glendale, Maricopa County, state of Arizona, pursuant to the provisions of Title IX Chapter 4, Section 9-471, Arizona revised statutes and its amendments by annexing certain territory located west of the northwest corner of Litchfield Road and Olive Avenue in the city of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona.

City of Glendale consisting of approximately 160 acres to be known as annexation area number 273, amending the zoning map, providing for an effective date and ordering that a certified copy of the ordinance is recorded. Public hearing required.

Item 37, Ordinance Number 026-39, an ordinance of the council of the City of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, rezoning approximately 160 acres located west of the northwest corner of Litchfield Road and Olive Avenue from heavy industrial M2 to planned area development, PAD, for development plan entitled Project Eagle, amending the zoning map, providing for an effective date, and ordering that a certified copy of the ordinance is recorded. Public hearing required.

Okay, so were you gonna go ahead and read them both? I did read them both. Okay, all right. Doing 12 things here. Were you going to read this, actually get the PowerPoint of the second one that's more detailed? I'm sorry. Is that the one that you're going to do now? I'm going to go immediately from my annexation presentation then into my rezoning. Yes. I need to open up the public hearing now. You ready? Okay. Public hearing is now open. Mayor, point of order.

Can you clear the record and Make sure that you open the hearing for both items. I thought we did that, but we'll do it again. I would prefer if you'd state that you're doing that. We are doing both items. Trying to save a little bit of time, but actually it costs us more time, right? 36 and 37 is what we're doing right now, both of them at the same time, and she's going to go through both of those presentations. And I would ask if you would open the hearing for items 36 and 37. I'm sorry?

I request that you open the hearing for both item 36 and 37. That would be your action. Okay, and again I thought I did that but we'll do it again. Public hearing is now open on both items 36 and 37. Thank you. Okay. You good? Yes. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and council members. This is the final action that's required for AN 273 for the annexation of Project Eagle.

This item received consensus from city council on August 25th to proceed with the annexation and was heard before you on September 22nd for blank petition. At this hearing there were multiple speakers in opposition who provided comments regarding compatibility with Luke Air Force Base, buffering techniques such as landscaping and setbacks, and noise generated by the use. One speaker was in support of this application.

Note that at the September 24th planning commission meeting, speakers provided comments and opposition that mirrored the topics heard before that council meeting previously mentioned. This property includes approximately 160 acres located west of the northwest corner of Litchfield Road and Olive Avenue. Within the county, the zoning is IND3 or heavy industrial with an approved military compatibility permit or MCP.

The most equivalent city of Glendale zoning is M2, also for heavy industrial uses, which will be applied to this annexation application be approved. The applicant proposes to subsequently rezone the property from M2 to planned area development, which you'll hear after this, for a data center campus and power generation facility. The site is within the 75 and 80 noise contours of Luke Air Force Base with the majority of the site and all the proposed structures within the 80 noise contour.

The annexation is bordered by the city of Glendale to the west and south and bordered by Maricopa County to the north and east. The site is proposed to be accessed to with the data centers and turbines as phase one and two with turbines coming online as the data centers are constructed. The third phase is an APS substation in the northeastern corner of the site.

Depending on your questions or comments at this time, I'll move on to the accompanying rezoning application, and you'll have another opportunity to ask questions of staff after that presentation. Okay, this presentation is specific to the rezoning action, ZON 2605, for the accompanying annexation. This is a request to rezone from M2 to PAD as stated to develop a data center campus and natural gas power generation facility.

Currently, the site is zoned heavy industrial in Maricopa County with an approved military compatibility permit for the use as mentioned before. The pre-annexation development agreement approved earlier this year required the PAD narrative to align closely with that MCP language. Should the site not develop in the city, this military compatibility permit allows and will guide development similar to the PAD guiding development within the city of Glendale.

The subject property and land to the north and east are currently used agriculturally. The area to the west is developed and occupied by warehousing and manufacturing tenants. The property to the south is vacant but permits industrial developments. Bordering the site to the east and south is a BNSF rail spur which will remain in place. The site is within the 75 and 80 noise contours of Luke Air Force Base.

The development within these contours is limited by state statute to preclude any new residential and allows for a mix of commercial and industrial uses. The majority of the development is proposed to be located within the AD noise contour which anticipates uses generating higher decibels while operating. Due to the proximity to Luke Air Force Base, Luke representatives were involved throughout the rezone process and the review letter is included in your packet.

Across the 160 acre site there are three main uses. One is the data center shown in green. Two is the power generation facility shown in blue and an APS substation that's shown in yellow. Three data centers are proposed each at one story in height and approximately 330,000 square feet each. The power generation plant proposes to include 18 turbines, They're slated to come online and be built in phases along with the data centers.

The APS substation is the final phase of development and will develop independently. Three access points are proposed, which I mentioned before. The northeastern extension of the 143rd Avenue alignment to Peoria Avenue is included as one of the stipulations in this rezoning action. After the planning commission forwarded a recommendation of approval, the city received multiple responses in opposition to this request with concerns similar to the concerns brought before you.

Specifically, they included air quality and associated air permit concerns and buffering techniques, as I mentioned. Stipulations 1 through 11, which are in your packet, were recommended by planning commission. With stipulation 12 added after this, the meeting after extensive discussions with the applicant and is regarding fiscal contribution for emergency and hazmat services.

After the staff report was submitted, that is before you, 24 emails were received in opposition and will be forwarded to the clerk to keep on the record. Concludes my presentation. I am available for any questions at that time this time. I wanted to ask in terms of this slide that's just the first two stipulations correct and the next slides are okay thank you. Thank you. Same as everybody else, state your name, who you're with. Thank you. Let's see. Can I get our PowerPoint up, please? Please.

How do we get back to slide one? Thank you. Thanks for your patience. Ed Bowl 1850 North Central Avenue. I'm here on behalf of the Car Eagle Land, which is the owner of the 160 acres that we're talking about. As you know, we're here requesting annexation in accordance with the PADA that the council approved several months ago, and we're requesting PAD in accordance with the military compatibility permit that was approved by the county. We do accept stipulations 1 through 12.

We're not proposing any revisions to any of them. This is very similar to the exhibit that Sydney had up showing the three components to this 160 acres. Data center on about 108, the Bacara power generation on about 33, and the APS substation on about 12.

On this exhibit and all others north is always up Just for context immediately west of this site where you see the roofs of the buildings are the Wolf logistics center Leighton wolf is here, and I think I'll be speaking with you in a few minutes. This slide simply talks about Why project eagle and project the car? EGLE is the data center. BACARA is the power generation facility.

They're separate companies, separate developments, but purposefully located side by side in order to provide the power needed for the data centers and then excess power in the grid when available. As you know, this has gone through corporation commission and county approvals. We have county approved uses and development standards. We're abiding by all of that in this PAD.

And as I mentioned, when power isn't needed for the data centers, if it's needed for the grid, power can go from the BACARA through APS into the grid. You have and we'll have a slide in a minute talking about municipal revenue over 10 years, about 330 permanent jobs, and you're very familiar with data centers.

In fact, you have a letter from the tech center, our tech council, talking about some of the reasons that the tech council supports this and what data centers do and services they provide to lots of different private businesses, government businesses, or governments. Personal folks and others. It's just a part of the world that we live in and we need them. We are absolutely in accordance with the general plan.

This exhibit shows the general plans of the city of Glendale, which is the loop compatible land use area, which is kind of the light tan color. It's everything inside of the black dashed line that you see on this page whether it's in Glendale or surprise to the north, El Mirage to the east, or counties scattered here and there. All of that's in accordance with state statute which indicates it's to be one form or the other of industrial or other employment.

It is, except for existing homes that were there before the statute was adopted, It is not to be residential. When we look at the noise contours, as was mentioned, we're really in the noisiest, primarily in the noisiest contour adjacent to Luke, and contrary to what some people may say, we are not in any APZ. We're in a noise contour that severely restricts the type of uses that can go here, but we are not off the ends of the runway.

The zoning map is something that to the extent properties in Glendale have been zoned around us. The closest one again is Wolf Logistics to the west.

We had the opportunity to work with Leighton and his family and your council on Wolf Logistics which went through the exact same processes with a military compatibility permit in the county and annexed into the city and processed it as a PAD Development there is obviously well underway with lots of jobs producing facilities Surrounding uses, again, you're familiar with the area. I won't go through all of these.

Some of them to the west people like, some they don't like, but they're all in accordance with the existing zoning, and they're all in accordance with what the general plan calls for. On this exhibit you can see, and I don't know that this pointer works, but you'll see right at the south edge of this property, you'll see a green line that goes along Olive and then curves up along our east edge and goes on.

That line and then the one that parallels it that's kind of an orange color, those are indicative of a rail line that runs all along our south and east perimeters and 230 kV power lines that run all along the south and east perimeters of this site. This site is appropriate for these uses and certainly is not appropriate for residential or other people gathering kinds of uses.

The data center site plan, and we're in the DR processes, we know this isn't a site plan case, but as I mentioned, it's three one-story buildings. At one time it was two two-story buildings. We dropped them to one story. They total over a little over a million square feet. And of course, obviously, security has to be provided through fencing and otherwise because of the high security required for data centers.

When we're talking about the Genco side or the Project Bacara, which is the site plan on the right, it, as I mentioned, can support not only the data centers, but when the need is there to put power into the grid, it can serve as a peaker plant to put electricity as needed into the grid if it's not already being required to go over to the data centers. The plant runs on natural gas. It is not trucked in. Natural gas is not stored on the site.

Natural gas comes to the site through a buried pipeline. Natural gas, as you know, is a clean fuel source. Backup fuel supply for the turbines is propane. It too comes to the site through an underground pipeline, which we can talk about more if you want. And then further black start and backup at the data centers through diesel operated generators. APS substation is something that will be coming online.

In addition to that, we have ED7, which power before the APS substation is online can go from the Bacara facility to ED7 to the data centers. and then once the APS substation is lined, it goes from the BACARA facility through the APS substation into the grid, then back out of the grid to serve the data centers. The BACARA's generators, as indicated on this slide, the power can flow both ways in and out of the grid.

There's been a number of studies and approvals and that obviously going through the Corporation Commission process and County processes, As well as your city processes and your staff has been very thorough as they were the Corporation Commission as they were at the county. Water is one that that is always asked about because some particularly old technology data centers used a lot of water. Not this one. These data centers are a closed loop system.

They do have some pre cooling can occur on the hottest of days. But importantly here. We're trying to do a real comparison between what this 160 acres is entitled to be and has water rights to be, which is farming. We'd be using about 25% of the amount of water that was used when the 160 acres was farmed.

Importantly as well, I believe, if there's people that suggest that this is going to cause an increase in Glendale water rates Wastewater rates or wastewater rates it will not Glendale is not the water provider Glendale is not the wastewater servicer The models show we have no impact on local wells or water availability Through those other processes at the Corporation Commission and the Wines Siting Committee they do all kinds of environmental studies This is a representative example of a half a dozen of them Importantly, we believe is that it was approved in February and each of these studies were completed and reviewed through those processes.

Some of the permits that are necessary is of course permits that are reviewed, approved, monitored, and enforced by the county's air quality control district. As you know for things like dust and emissions and other kinds of things which don't really know jurisdictional boundaries, that's handled by the county's air quality control district in accordance with state statute and federal law through the EPA.

Through that, a permit's requested and was granted for the Bacara Power Generation Facility. It was also a permit has been requested for the data center, which is well underway and pending.

Importantly, per the criteria that if you want, James Westbrook, who's our environmental expert who's here, can get into more detail, but the county directed him to design the facility to be as though it were located in California, Which is you know has very stringent environmental standards and they're telling him to take the emissions From the power generation facility and the emissions from the data center and combine the two together Which is exactly what he's done.

So it's two permit applications But the aggregate of the emissions from the two is what they're looking at under the equivalent of counties California standards. This is the county issued permit for the power generation facility. It's in compliance with all limits set on it, including the turbines can operate only 30% of the time, which translates into if you have 157,680 hours a year, thereabout, you take that times 30%.

So a given turbine could operate not at all, or two hours, or six hours, or 12 hours, but the totality is that they cannot operate more than 36, 30% of the time in order to be in compliance with this permit. This approval letter on the right also indicates in some of the boxes and other print that's on there, if we're in violation, we get noticed, we get cited, we come into compliance or we face fines and other sanctions.

Noise, of course, is always something that we hear about in the context of whether it's power plants or data centers or both. Our noise consultant, Chris Kirkeen, is also here. He's done noise studies. He prepared an exhibit like this with a concentric ring showing noise coming out away from the facility. Importantly, as we break all this down, it comes down to is the noise at the nearest residential more than three decibels above the ambient condition?

He used test locations to the north and to the south. Bottom line answer, less than a three decibel increase, less than three is not typically perceptible to the human ear. The other thing we get into, and we purposefully used applied economics, which I know is very familiar to the city, well, what is this thing going to do? If it's in the city, what kind of jobs does it generate? What kind of revenue does it generate? What kind of sales tax or other tax does it generate? And so on.

This is a breakdown of that. It's about $20 million a year. I believe that your staff analyzed it so that it's a net revenue of the city of, I think it's $16 million a year. And substantial high paying jobs.

The operations, once you have over 3,000 jobs, when it's being done, The report is being constructed but once it constructed and operating you have over 300 jobs that are there and are high paying technical jobs ongoing This report is something that assembly was done for your city We also did extensive neighborhood outreach. A lot of it was done before our office was brought on board but in total there were seven neighborhood meetings. Four were virtual, three were in person.

The site of course was posted, letters were sent, Postcards were sent, follow-up calls occurred. I'm not about to suggest there's not any neighborhood opposition because there is. That opposition is to my knowledge, unless I'm surprised this evening, is primarily from surprise and some county residents and so on. I'm not aware of any that have come to my attention from Glendale, but that's not the point I'm trying to make.

The point I'm trying to make is I believe that this team went above and beyond what's normally required to notify property owners within up to a mile or more of the site. In conclusion, we of course request your annexation in accordance with the pre-annexation development agreement. We request your approval in accordance with your staff and Planning Commission's recommendation of the PAD. We accept stipulations 1 through 12. We'll do our best to answer questions now or later.

And if you would allow, Mayor, I'd like to have a few minutes for rebuttal after speakers have a chance to speak. Certainly. Any questions from the council for this gentleman? Go ahead. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. Bull. You said that you were okay with the 12 stipulations? Yes. Can you give me a rundown of what they are basically? They don't have to be in perfect detail, but just basically what they are, please. Yes, sir.

So, stipulation one says the development will be in substantial conformance with the Project Eagle narrative, which is this booklet we put together with all this information. Two, is it a traffic impact statement be approved Prior to formal design review which occurred. Three is prior to issuance of a C of O.

The first phase of the development, we worked with the city on creating and entering into a development agreement related to our proportionate cost of a traffic signal at the Hatcher and Reams intersection to our west because Hatcher's one of our means of access.

Four is that the development shall comply with the conditions for compatibility from Luke Air Force Base, which are in Luke's letter that were a part of the military compatibility process, and that same letter was also provided to city staff as a part of your staff's review. Five has to do with emissions.

It says operations of all emission units shall be monitored continuously for adherence to the air permit conditions issued by the Maricopa County Air Quality Control District and applicable Maricopa County Air Quality Control District state and federal regulations to ensure adherence to the air quality standards, which is part of what I was trying to say before. Six says off-site natural gas shall be supplied directly by underground piping solely for on-demand power generation.

Probably the mirror reflection of that is no storage of natural gas on site. Number seven is on-site liquefied propane shall be stored underground in National Fire Protection Association compliant tanks Tanks and protected by earthen and concrete slabs. If you want, I can pull up a slide showing where that is and what that concrete bowl with a concrete lid looks like.

Seven is the applicant developers required to provide secondary fire access to the site prior to issuance of a certificate of occupancy. If the location of the secondary fire access off of Olive at the southeast corner of the site, as shown on the preliminary site plan, is not constructed with the first phase, then another temporary fire access shall be provided subject to review and approval of the fire marshal.

9 is that standpipes shall be provided throughout the facility to include rooftops of all buildings. Locations of standpipes must be determined by the design review application and are Subject to review and approval by the fire marshal. Ten is fire flow requirements shall be per the 2024 International Fire Code section B 104 and table B 105.12. This may require on-site elevated or underground tanks to ensure fire flow requirements are maintained.

11 is the development is subject to fire and inspections per standard protocol of the existing building inspection program. 12, which is Sydney indicated is the one that was added prior to your council hearing.

It really has to do with a future fire station to be built on a site that was provided to the city by the Wolf family, Just to the west of us and it says applicant developer shall enter into an agreement with the city of Glendale setting forth applicant slash developers financial contribution for the development of a specialized emergency services response including hazmat services to serve the proposed data center and power plant project.

Applicant developer must enter into this agreement with the City of Glendale prior to receiving the first certificate of occupancy for the proposed data center and power plant project. I can elaborate on any of these if you want, but those are the 12 that are recommended and we accept them all. Thanks, sir. Yes, Mayor. Can you please explain a little bit more about Stipulation 12? This is the first time that I'm hearing about it.

So, as I recall when we were working on Wolf Logistics to the immediate west, we were asked, and Layton can correct me if I'm wrong, to provide or arrange for up to two future fire station sites which Leighton provided for the one that the city really wanted. So you have the fire station site.

A couple months or so ago we were asked to join a meeting with representatives of city management and fire and planning was there also as I recall to talk about that future fire station site and Would these two developers be willing to participate financially in helping the city get that fire station site built and equipped? And the answer from the CEO of both companies was yes, we will.

We've had other follow-up discussions where city staff was looking to see what funds the city already had available to look and see what other developments have or could or would participate similar to this stipulation 12. I don't think the best is on your agenda, but there's a best coming through your system that has the same stipulation that was on the same planning commission agenda we were on.

So if we're approved tonight, I expect there will be additional discussions with city representatives, be it management, fire, planning and others, for what, What will this station, including hazmat facilities, cost? When will it come online? What's the interim service to be provided? And what will our contribution be? Some of which may be reimbursable, kind of like a line, I'd analogize it to a line oversizing agreement as a possibility.

If you need a four inch water line, city asks you to install an eight. Somebody else comes and taps into that eight. They administer it back through the city and you get some of those fair share funds reimbursed back to you. The agreement is there to help fund and help the city get this fire station built, which obviously isn't just for us, but it's for this whole what I'll call emerging 303 corridor for both existing and future uses. And we've agreed to participate. Details to follow.

It'll be documented in an agreement and proceed accordingly.

Mayor I have just two more questions is that okay So is it my understanding that today vote is for the data center the power generation plant the APS substation and the fire station or is it just one or two of those that we voting on today So what you're voting on today, unless someone corrects me, is you're voting on annexation of the 160 acres, and then you're voting on the PAD for the 160 acres, which includes the data center, includes the power generating facility, and there's no details on it yet.

APS's plans to come, but the APS substation component as well. ED7 has a portion of that area that we show on the exhibit as APS substation, because power wheels through ED7 and so on. You are not today voting on an agreement for the fire station other than this stipulation 12 that says we shall enter into an agreement. Thank you, Mayor.

My final question is on slide number 13 of your presentation, it talks a little bit more about water and it says at the bottom that water sources will be from a private water company, which is Epcor, and on-site wells. In terms of the on-site wells, excuse me for not doing my research, this is my first time hearing about on-site wells. Can you tell me how many wells there will be and are these constructed already? Do they exist?

And who, where will the ground water credits be coming from in order for pumping of ground water from those wells? So there are AG wells today. There's conversion of AG rights. There will be four additional wells drilled, permitted drilled whole nine yards. That's for the what I'll call it non potable water.

What I'll call the potable water and I say that generically, but that will be not provided from the city of Glendale, but will be provided through our expectation through other discussions by Epcor, which is also the wastewater servicer, which is handling wastewater in this area per a pre annexation development agreement that goes back 15 years ish before we worked on Wolf Logistics where property owners in the area and the city got together and did a pre annexation development agreement with various aspects to it but was providing for that construction of that private wastewater facility to open up this area for development was a key important key component of that let's say 15 year old pre annexation development.

Through this we're helping to pay for all of that. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Boll. Very informative presentation. So based on your presentation, what would the result of Glendale not adopting the annexation and not adopting the PAD, a no vote from this council, would that result in the data center not being built? Mayor, Councilmember Kowalshoff, no.

What that would mean is that the city told us no, so we would go back and rely on our entitled rights as granted by the county in accordance with state statute and so on, where we have the military compatibility permit that establishes the uses and the development standards. And we go then through the plan of development, essentially site plan approval processes in the county. Thank you, Mr. Roll Mayor. I'll ask another question.

Would it be accurate then to say the time to stop the data center has already passed? And the power plant? Because they have an entitlement already. Mayor, Councilmember, we have the entitlement. And as you know, that's a private property right that runs for the land. So I do believe the time to stop the power plant stop the data center if it was to be stopped was before tonight Those entitlements were properly granted and are in place Okay, thank you Mr. Bolton. All right.

We don't have any more questions for you right now. Okay, so we're gonna go to our public and we'll give you three minutes. I'm gonna announce your name in the person behind you if the person behind you would Would work their way up to the front row so we can move rather quickly I'm gonna ask please don't repeat the same thing that somebody might have said before you try to bring up any new information anything that's concerning Keep it civil Okay, you'll have three minutes.

I need your name I need the city that you live in if it's not Glendale if it's Glendale I don't want your address I just need to know your crossroads or your district. I want to start off with Melissa Parsons You're up to speak and then following you I believe it's Mark Thomas if you'll work your way up to the front row so you'd be ready to go and then following Mark It'll be Beth. It looks like Mortensen Good evening, Mayor and council members.

I actually had a whole thing prepared and I decided to kind of toss it out and answer some of the questions that seemed unanswered. What Mr. I guess his name is Ed, I don't remember his last name, I'm not that familiar with him, but what he said about the process, this isn't a done deal. I live outside of Loudoun County in Virginia. This is definitely not a done deal. This was supposed to be my retirement home on Litchfield and Peoria. I'm sorry, I'm Dr. Melissa Parsons. I live in Surprise.

Thank you. Litchfield and Peoria is the corner of the cross streets of my home. If you deny this tonight, it will go back to Maricopa County. What keeps getting failed to be mentioned is there was a military compatibility permit, but it was approved without a plan of development. The plan of development was removed.

It failed engineering several times and the pretty much the way to get it out of the county's hands after a year of them wrestling with it was for them to push it to Glendale because the annexation process started. The ACC review that was done in December of last year because I've been researching this and following this for 15 months, the ACC permit that was approved was conditionally approved says there was only two data centers.

The third data center was presented to us public probably less than two months ago through the annexation process. I'm not saying that data centers aren't all the rage right now, but this power plant and this data center development, I think this is the wrong place for it. As a retired military officer, I do think this is going to potentially cause harm.

The fact that the APS substation, which we can't find any contract in writing yet for, is not going to be online until now, suspected 2030, which we saw in the documents that were provided to you last week, that leaves the, and what I also noticed is that they didn't mention the 33 generators that are going to be attached to the data center that's now three buildings instead of two.

So what that means, coming from Virginia, and you can look it up on YouTube, when those generators are running 24-7, they will emit a lot into the air. Visible black plumes of smoke. So you're talking 18 generators on a power plant plus 33 on the data center. I honestly, if you're going to approve it, I would ask for some stipulations.

For instance, nothing goes online until the APS substation, all three phases are built and it's ready to go so that they don't have to rely on generator gas or diesel generators for 24-7. It will emit a lot of pollution, noise, and there's a lot of things that are still unresolved. For instance, the water, the fire.

I would implore you not to let them start construction until those fire agreements are in place because you're talking about dealing with gas, generators, a lot of hazardous material. Thank you. Thank you. Daniel? What? I don't know where his ticket went. Oh, Mark Thomas, I'm sorry. Where you at? Again, you have three minutes, sir.

Thank You council I'll try to just focus on the things that are new this is a complex project so I noticed the Tachynox attorney in this hearing and in the previous Planning Commission hearing didn mention anything about the water wells This is the first I heard of this tonight and I'm sure it's the same for my colleagues opposing this project. Two wells on site and four wells that they're going to dig and drill and just pump like maniacs.

And at that point, it wouldn't It doesn't matter whether they have a contract with EPCOR for water or Glendale because they're sharing that same aquifer in that limited area. They're all sharing the same aquifer. Mark. I need you to state your name in the city you live in. Mark Thomas County. I'm in the county. Okay. Near Luke Air Force Base. So that really hasn't been dealt with. They can just bleed that thing dry and then there'll be land subsidence in the neighboring homeowner community.

communities, that really hasn't been talked about. The second issue, which is I think huge, hasn't been talked about. I think it's going to be the big issue of this project and we're going to litigate over this. I own property in Dreaming Summit, which is across from Luke Air Force Base. It's a 3,000 home community, about 10,000 people on Litchfield Road. It came up in your previous matter on the base project where they were pointing out the community across the street. That's Dreaming Summit.

It's about 25 years old, that project, and I've owned property there for over 20 years. We've had a number of years, not this year, but previous years where gas has been coming out of the streets and the sidewalks and the parks, people's yards. We've called Southwest Gas, reported it. They have never admitted that this is more than just some dude who left his barbecue on. And we were all like scratching our heads. No, that can't be it because you can smell it three blocks away.

I'm a walker and a runner, and so when I do my thing, and I smell gas on multiple streets that I'm running down or walking down, I know we had a much bigger problem. And I was busy working on other projects in my life, and I didn't spend the time to take it toward litigation. But now is the perfect time to be inserting this, because I don't think anybody knows about it. Even my colleagues didn't know about it. This is a massive gas leak from the underground salt caverns that are storing gas.

This morning I popped into Morton Salt at the corner of Litchfield, I'm sorry, the corner of Dysart and Glendale, where the salt is pouring into the big mound. I'm sure everybody's seen it. Okay, your time, sir. Thank you. Beth, you're up. Beth Mortenson. And after Beth will be Daniel Hertz, I hope I'm pronouncing that right. Again, state your name for the record. My name is Beth Mortensen. I'm a Waddell resident. I have lived for 20 years, 2,000 feet from the proposed project site.

So for over a year now, we've been attending meetings, submitting research, respectfully following the public process, Asking for protections for families already living here. Tonight, I have a serious concern over the diesel generators proposed along the perimeter of this development. Are the council members aware that these generators may be used to power the data center for up to 18 months while the power plant is being constructed?

Will they operate day and night, exposing neighborhood homes like mine to prolong diesel emissions, noise and vibration? Why would we allow the data center to operate before the permit permanent power infrastructure is ready? Why should neighboring families bear potentially avoidable risks simply to accommodate the developers construction schedule? If the construction is delayed, who regulates these generators? And what enforceable limits protect us?

We have repeatedly asked and requested greater setbacks, substantial landscaping, alternative berm designs, and relocation of mechanical equipment farther from homes. The county objective objected the 35-foot berm, but did not prohibit every alternative design. This is not just a data center, this is an unprecedented development for our area, combining a massive data center campus with its own natural gas power plant. A project of this scale requires protection that reflects its unique impacts.

We need those protections in writing with clear standards, oversight and consequences when commitments are not honored. We have worked to be respectful, followed proper procedures to bring legitimate concerns forward. At nearly every step we have encountered another obstacle and another assurance that our concerns will be addressed later. Well later is now. We don't live within the Glendale city limits. We didn't elect you and we have no vote in your decision here.

But we will live with the consequences for every single day for decades. We're not asking Glendale to stop progress. We're asking Glendale to protect the families who are already here.

I respectfully ask the council to continue this decision until the generator operation plan is clarified and Meaningful enforceable protections are incorporated into the PAD Before you allow a project of this magnitude to move forward We are asking you to put the protections in place for families like mine who live within its consequences for decades Thank you. Thank you Okay, Daniel Hurt stone am I saying it right?

Okay, if you pronounce your name properly in the city you live in you have three minutes, sir, but my name is Daniel her Toto I live in Waddell.

I was only prepared to give a written statement, but you kept calling me so I'm gonna read it I'm writing because I want you to understand something that cannot be measured in a report or settled by a list of conditions This is our home The West Valley is where our families live, where our children are growing up, and where we hope our grandchildren will grow up one day.

We have built our lives here, and we want to see our communities remain a place where families can live, grow, and enjoy the land around them. I know this property, I know this property sits near the very edge of Glendale, but the edge of the city boundary is not the edge of a community. There is families living just beyond that line, including families in Waddell, who live, who will live with the consequences of the decisions you make.

We may not all have Glendale addresses, but our homes and our futures matter just as much. I don't want to look back 10 or 20 years from now and wonder why we allowed the character of our community to change without doing everything we could to protect it. I want my children to grow up knowing that people and the people entrusted with making these decisions listen to the families who would be affected by them.

I understand that development brings opportunities and I recognize that there are people who support this project, but economic development should not be the only consideration when making a decision that will shape the future of an entire area. Just because something can be built doesn't automatically mean it belongs there. I'm asking you to look beyond the property lines, beyond the city boundaries, and beyond the immediate benefits of this development.

Please consider the people who call this area home and the kind of community we want to leave for the next generation. I respectfully ask that you deny the proposal annexation and rezoning for Project Eagle. I am one resident, but I am a father, a homeowner, and a member of this community. I care deeply about what happens here, and I know I'm not alone. Please listen to the people who live here. Please remember that your decision you make today will.

Shape the community our children inherit tomorrow. Thanks for taking the time to hear my concerns. Sincerely, Daniel Hurtado, Waddell resident. Thank you, sir. Thank you Troy Mortensen Again, if you'll state your name the city you live in Tom Belcombe, you'll be up next Where we are at Hello, Mayor and Council. My name is Troy Mortensen. I'm a member or a resident of Waddell. I was born and raised in Glendale, Arizona, a high school graduate.

I lived here in my home, which is located about 2,000 feet north of the Project Bacara site for 20 years. My wife and I have raised our family here. We designed and built our home, planted trees, built our lives and invested in our property, believing that development standards would help protect the character of our community. Tonight I'm asking you to look beyond the promises of this project and focus on the standards contained within the PAD itself.

I'm not here because I oppose jobs or economic development. I'm here because I believe this project is not in the right place. And the standards being proposed are simply not sufficient for a development of this magnitude.

This is one of the largest developments of its kind ever proposed in the Valley, not to mention locating it, Located in a very well established residential population area yet the PAD relies on relatively small setbacks limited landscape buffering and screening standards I have researched similar utility facilities throughout the valley The precedent has already been established Other power generation facilities have designed have been designed with significantly larger setbacks substantial earthen berms larger higher walls dense layers of trees and vegetation to create meaningful separation from the neighboring communities.

So the question before you tonight is simple. If those standards were necessary elsewhere, why should Glendale approve less protection for a project of this scale? When I purchased my property and built my home, the property was zoned R-43, located within the Luke Air Force LDN zone. The applicant misspoke when he said that we weren't subject to that state statute. We built according to that state statute.

That state statute required us to construct our home to higher standards because of anticipated impacts associated with the location. Our houses were built 2x6 construction. We had fully sheeted exterior, higher spec insulation, windows, vents, etc. We complied. We accepted additional requirements because of the public interest demanded it. Tonight I'm asking for the same principle to be applied here.

If homeowners were required to build to a higher standard because of the surrounding impacts, then a project of this size should also be required to be to be built to a higher standard when locating near residents some existing 20 years later. Growth should not should not exempt a developer from responsibility. Growth should require greater responsibility.

I respectfully ask you to require stronger PAD standards, including larger setbacks, substantial perimeter berming, enhanced masonry walls, dense multi-road landscape screening, and additional measures to reduce visual impacts and preserve the quality of life for the nearby residents. I've submitted letters and documents to the city that outlines these specific stipulations I'm asking for. They're probably in some of your packets.

I propose I oppose this project, but if it's approved let it move forward only with the standards that reflect the scale of what is being built and with protections that that respect the people who already live there. Thank you, sir. Thank you Tom Belkham Same scenario sir, your name and the city you live in. Gavin Costley will be up next. Thank you mayor and members of council. My name is Tom Bacon. I live in the city of Surprise Rancho Gabriella neighborhood. So I had a script.

I'm just gonna skip through some of the highlights today just so for the guys so we can get through this. So today I'm speaking obviously in opposition of Project Bacara, the continuous toxic natural gas power plant. Not in opposition to the data center. Completely support that and the economic development that comes with it. Just kind of skipping through here. So the developers own narrative admits these gas turbines will run continuously 24 hours a day through at least 20-30.

My concern living just north of this proposed power plant is that winds typically flow south to north. So as those winds flow during the day, these toxic fumes are going to be pushed into those surrounding neighborhoods. Less than three quarters of a mile up around are you've got not only the neighborhoods but the schools of Canyon View, High School, Mountain View, Rancho Gabriella, Marley Park, and the American Leadership Academy.

As we know, you have the letter from the Luke Air Force Base that he concluded that the utility power plant was incompatible with base operations unless the stipulations were met. However, they did confirm this facility is a threat unless strict conditions including zero emissions of steam, smoke, or high velocity thermal plumes that could blind spot the pilots in that corridor of over 170 overflight stations.

I kind of printed it out from Luke's own thing and I know that's outside the Accident potential zone, however it is in direct path of runway 3, its landing. Moving on, I just want to read the final piece. This is based on the planning and zoning thing that was done last month. So let's address the applicant bragging about that the 72 foot stacks are shorter than Gilbert's 150 foot stacks. That is not a community benefit. It's a disaster for our lungs.

Gilbert's 150 foot stacks were engineered to launch exhaust high into the atmosphere for regional dispersion. Cutting that in half means these plumes never disperse. They will dump concentrated benzene, formaldehyde, and nitrogen oxide straight down onto homes and school playgrounds.

of surprise The applicant cannot build 150 foot stacks here because Luke Air Force Base fighter jets are flying overhead They are trapped between poisoning our neighborhoods or endangering military pilots and that is a solution that you have to decide because you can do both So stand with Luke Air Force Base protect the health of your region regional laborers vote no on AN 273 and zoning 2605 Thank you Thank you Gavin Costley Miss Tomachoff Holly Tomachoff My name is Gavin Costley.

I live in Waddell. Worked down the road here in Glendale. We just built a big factory in Glendale on Bethany and 51st Avenue. I won't state the name but it's a big factory. You can't and don't make it ever. We make mattresses. You know who it is. But I've worked there for 23 years. Built my house 20 years ago. My house is the closest house to the project in that corner. The Tomajoffs are pretty close and then the Morrinsons. But Troy already talked about some stuff so I'll keep this brief.

We had to meet strict standards to build our house, 2x6 construction, sheet our whole house. It had to be reinforced because we were in their contour zone with Luke. Never complained about Luke. We knew what we were getting into. We love Luke. But I didn't sign up for this. That whole area around us, just beautiful. You guys, organic grapefruit trees, roses. Mr. Wolf sold that property to Project Bacara and we were super sad because it was really pretty roses.

But I just want to state this, and I know everybody in my community feels the same way. We've dumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into our homes. They're all custom homes. On my house, I have an on-site well. It's 450 feet, 440 feet deep. They say it's the best water in town. So the lady came and she tested our water and she's like, Gavin, you sit on the best aquifer in town. It's the best water.

And I don't know what this is going to do to our little community, but my buddy just came over to my house and this is what he said to me. He said, He said, my friend recently told me, he goes, thank goodness I didn't build in your neighborhood, Gavin. He goes, I'd be in your same predicament. He's like, your home value is going to go down. And I'm telling you guys, I oppose this project. No, I'm not even going to be able to sell my home.

I'm going to list my home and they're like, what's around here? Oh yeah, yeah. I got this natural power plant. Good luck, Gavin. So I work here in Glendale and I've dumped my life savings into this home, swimming pool, everything, and it's like, yeah, all that's vanished. Hey, Gavin, good luck getting 500 grand for your house when it's worth, you know, a lot. So thank you guys. Appreciate you guys. Thank you. Holly Tomatop. Roy Dunbar, you're up next. You're not speaking, okay?

Your name and your city you live in? My name is Holly Tomachoff. I live in Waddell, Arizona, and I'm part of the county land that this sits on. So good evening, mayor and council members. Again, name is Holly Tomachoff. I live approximately half a mile from this proposed project with my husband and four young children. I am asking you to deny Project EGLE, also known as Project BACRA, ZON26-05 in its current form.

The original 2024 military compatibility materials described gas turbines as backup power, but the current PAD is materially broader. It states that a portion of the natural gas generation will operate continuously until the APS substation and transmission connection are completed, Currently anticipated like we all know around 2030. After that the facility may continue operating for backup power potentially supplying excess electricity to the grid or both.

Again, we haven't seen any contracts for that. Luke Air Force Base reviewed the utility proposal again in 2026 and in its June 30th letter states the development is not compatible with Luke's high noise and accident potential area unless specified conditions are met. Those conditions address pilot visibility, electromagnetic interference, air quality fire and explosion risks and other aviation safety concerns.

Yet the PAD states that during feature design reviews city staff may elect to send plans back to Luke for comment If military compatibility is essential to allowing this use that review should not become discretionary when feature changes could affect that compatibility. I also want to address what we were told tonight about water. We were told this project will use significantly less water than the farming operation previously used on the property.

But we're also told that the project will use a private water company and construct four additional wells on site in addition to the two existing wells. That raises a very obvious question. If the farms use significantly more water than the existing wells, why does a project claiming substantially lower water need four additional wells? What are the projected pumping rates for all six wells? Why are the additional wells necessary?

Groundwater modeling has been completed and what happens if nearby resident wells experience declining water levels or reduce production? Simply saying the project will use less water than agriculture does not answer those questions. Nearby residents are also asking for meaningful setbacks, visual buffers, enforceable landscaping requirements, and clear noise limits based on actual operating schedules.

These protections should be written in the approval documents before rezoning with clear responsibility for monitoring and enforcement. For the families living next to the site, these are not abstract planning issues. They affect our homes, our water, and our daily lives. Please deny ZON 26-05 in its current form or, at a minimum, require these protections before approval. Thank you. Thank you. April from Waddell, I can't make out your last name.

If you'd come up and state your name, city you're from, and Horst Schmidt would be up next. Ma'am, I can't hear you. Horst Schmidt will be following you. I just need to know your last name. April Butler. Thank you. Okay. You have three minutes. Go ahead. Thank you. I am here tonight obviously to speak in opposition to this project that I am still learning new things like four wells. It's just it blows my mind every time I come in and things are presented differently.

It's been very very frustrating for us because we have followed this for 15 months and I know so much about this project. I've lived and I've breathed this project and this just blows me away. We don't believe this zoning to be legal. This land has two parcels. The other parcel is zoned, RU43. I have just sent a few minutes ago an email from Daniel Johnson with Maricopa County and it states that the zoning is the way it is in the email, which the one parcel is RU43.

RU 43 isn't even referred to in this paperwork. That's residential zoning. So I don't know how you go from that to this. We really question that and we wish that you would look at that a little bit closer. There was there's a family within 347 feet on the south side and that family often gets forgotten. There is a house located there. I sent you an email and it has that information in it as well. They got no notification on this.

I've asked for proof of notification and was denied that notification. I was told due to privacy reasons that notification was able to be obtained through Maricopa County. However, for some reason we can't get that through Glendale, but they weren't notified so that's a little odd too. We're just extremely frustrated. The wind blows north. It blows north into the neighborhoods that are north where all these families live. These heavily There's a lot of homes that are in there.

There's seven schools that are in that area. Seven schools. These kids are all impacted. These kids are impacted. There's a lot of elderly that it's impacted. All these people that are chronically ill are going to suffer from these turbines, from these generators, especially if they are used for construction. I don't understand how they can use these nasty generators to power this data center while it's being constructed.

I just don't think it's a good plan and we would ask if it has to be passed to please wait until it is actually hooked to the grid and cleaner energy is being used. There's just so much to cover in three minutes isn't Enough time. It's not near enough time we This whole scope of this project is ever-changing we're supposed to trust this developer and it's very hard to do that at this point. Thank you. Thank you. After Mr. Schmidt, Sandy Barr. If you can make your way up. Go ahead, sir.

Good evening. My name is Horace Schmidt and what was the second part you wanted us? What city do you live in, sir? Gilbert. Thank you. Okay. I wanted to comment upon some of the misleading statements by the representative from Barkar. He stated that gas is a clean fuel and the real answer is that natural gas is not clean. It is made out of methane and it's an odorless gas that will asphyxicate you if it leaks in your house or if there's a spark that can cause the house to explode.

So the safe features of the gas are really not evident to me. And also the fact that the Maricopa County Air Quality Division approves it, knowing that it's in what's called a non-attainment zone, which means the county doesn't meet the standards of the EPA. So they will approve as the gentleman from the Bakar company mentioned. The other thing is that he mentioned that the noise from data centers are no louder than a vacuum cleaner or dishwasher, at least one of the categories.

And what he doesn't mention is that we don't run our vacuum cleaners or dishwashers 24 hours The noise levels can cause some major issues for people who are living here. You've heard some of their complaints tonight. The American One Association has come to numerous Arizona Corporation Commission meetings to comment upon the poor air quality, which is about 40% of the time each year is, what's the word I wanted to use, is, has warnings for poor air quality.

So, I'm not sure how we can justify all of these complaints about having, you know, being able to meet all these standards when the standards mean absolutely nothing. So consider the fact that you are approving some form of noxious fuel, which will hurt people in the neighborhood and make the air quality worse in Maricopa County. Thank you. Thank you. Sandy Barr. Dave Worth, you'll be up next. You didn't think we'd be working together, did you? Long time ago. You never know. A long time ago.

Mayor, council members, my name is Sandy Barr. I'm the director for Sierra Club's Grand Canyon chapter, which is an Arizona chapter. And while I don't live in Glendale, we have just over a thousand members in Glendale. Sierra Club does urge you to reject this annexation and rezoning for Project Bacara or Eagle or whatever the name. Under any name, it's a bad idea for the community and certainly for nearby communities as well.

This gas plant and associated data centers would have significant harmful environmental impacts on the surrounding area, including air pollution, noise, lighting, visual impacts, water consumption, among others. And as you've heard from previous speakers, there are a lot of homes nearby. Maybe those homes aren't in Glendale, but Glendale has a responsibility to be a good neighbor.

And I sure you wouldn want to have your folks have this imposed upon them within a half mile or near one of your schools Mr. Schmidt addressed the gas is not clean issue. I want to reiterate that. Just because burning gas is not as dirty as burning coal does not make it clean. There's significant air pollution and we are in a non-attainment area for ozone and particulates. Those are health-based standards, so this will contribute to poor air quality.

Increasing emissions of volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxide, particulates, sulfur oxide, all of that has an impact. And children are particularly vulnerable, think again about the elementary school that is nearby. I know I'm running fast out of time. I want to also mention that burning gas contributes to greenhouse gas emissions that's harming our climate.

I did want to ask, because it didn't come up, is this project going to benefit from the sales tax and property tax breaks that were recently put on pause, but did they get under the wire? Because that's going to affect what kind of benefits come to the city. And, you know, one of the problems, especially with data centers, again, we oppose the gas plant too, is because they're so opaque. People wonder, why are people all over the country objecting? Because they want to know what's going on.

They want to know what's happening and as we've heard tonight they don't. Thank you. David Wirth and then Tony Camacia. I probably said that wrong. If you're Tony, if you'll be, if you'll work your way up here. Go ahead, sir. Hello, my name is Dave Wirth. I live in Surprise. I also have a daughter. My grandkids live shortly, close, shortly by me. My home is across the street, 2,600 feet from a 700 megawatt natural gas power plant. This thing is huge.

This is about one-fifth the size of power production of a Polyverite nuclear power plant, which is one of the country's largest power plants. So it's giant. We've got the natural, or the natural, powered by natural gas, of course, and we have diesel generators. Diesel generators, we talked about that tonight, as well as propane propane gas giant propane gas tanks while at the same time we have F-35 jets flying overhead. Doesn't sound like the best idea to me.

I'm concerned about our health and our safety. I'm concerned about the noise levels. We talked about the idea that we would have an increase of three decibels by this power plant. As a physics teacher, I realized that the decibel scale is a logarithm scale. So we're looking at double the intensity of the sound coming to our home. Right now, the surprise is a very quiet neighborhood. You might think that you've got these jets flying overhead. It's noisy.

Yeah, for short periods of time, it can be noisy, 10, 15, 20 seconds at a time. But overall, it's a pretty quiet neighborhood. We go outside at night and it's deafening how quiet it is out there. We live in the country, it's beautiful. And I don't want to go outside at night and hear a vacuum cleaner. I don't want that to change. I'm also worried about the air quality. You know, the West Valley has already a low quality of air. And I have breathing problems myself.

I know that a lot of people in the area have the same issues. I don't want that to increase. So I ask you to deny this proposition to not annex this land or delay the votes. It sounds like there's a lot of unanswered questions regarding this project and it sounds like it could be future liability and future headache for the city. So I encourage you to either delay it or to not deny it and let the county deal with this headache and this liability. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Where are you at, Tony? And then the last card, I really cannot make out your writing here. You're from Glendale, you'd like to speak, but I can't make out the name. There gotta be one person in the audience What is your name It doesn say Lisa at all not even close What is that name Samantha something like that Something like that. I can't tell what it is. Oh maybe. Okay you're up next. Go ahead, sir. Tony Camisi, Glendale, Arizona. I'll admit, you know, I use AI myself. I like AI.

I think there's a lot of benefits to it, but I think that this specific project on paper sounds nice, but I think that there's a lot of transparency issues with it. I don't want to repeat everything. I want to keep this short and plain, but I just wanted to clarify that I oppose this project, specifically Project Barricade slash Project Eagle, not only for myself, but for my community. Thank you for your time council and thank you for your time as well Mayor. Thank you.

Okay, Caleb Anderson, you're up, come on up. And then following Caleb will be, Yeah, I can't make it up. Chaudhuri? Okay, you're up after the gentleman. Go ahead, sir. State your name. Mr. Mayor and Council of City of Glendale, my name is Caleb Anderson. I'm a resident of Peoria. I strongly oppose the Bacara Eagle Project. Respectfully, I recommend you not to approve this measure. Thank you. Thank you. And then, uh, um, Mr. Markham, you'll be up after this gentleman. Go ahead, sir.

State your name and city. Ravi Chaudhary, Springfield, Virginia. Mayor Weyers, Vice Mayor Molnar, and distinguished members of the city council, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today about Project Eagle, and formerly known as Project Lucera, and its compatibility with Luke Air Force Base. My name is Dr. Ravi Shadri and I had the privilege of serving as the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy, Insulations, and Environment from 2023 to 2025.

In this role, I had the opportunity to conduct compatibility and environmental reviews for numerous military installations and federal ranges. I also served as an executive at the Federal Aviation Administration, presiding over hundreds of facilities in nine different regions. I come to you by the way of Tukanik who sought my advice in Project Eagle to ensure technical rigor and compatibility with the mission of Luke Air Force Base.

As a former Air Force instructor, pilot, and industrial engineer, I've evaluated numerous installations and surrounding communities for compatibility on local projects, assessing safety, environmental, and community impacts during these reviews. A year ago, Tukanik proactively sought my insights As a technical expert to scrutinize their methodology and analysis and compatibility with Luke Air Force Base.

After reviewing Project Eagle, I determined that the approach used by Tukanek is both conscientious and rigorous. Tukanek utilized government approved safety analysis developed by the FAA models that I've used as well during my time in government. They also enlisted an independent third-party engineering firm to conduct the analysis. In several instances, I challenged Tachanek to better understand military flight operations.

At every turn, Tachanek took necessary precautions to ensure military operations at Luke were not adversely impacted. As a commercial pilot myself, I conducted informal flights in Virginia, in Loudoun County, to better understand and look at minimal emissions during various weather conditions. Potential impacts to aviation operations in areas where large amounts of data centers and power plants are present.

As we're all witnessing, data centers are a hot-button issue in localities across the nation. Challenges include managing water consumption, supporting power production, minimizing carbon emissions, and you know the rest. Tecanics' commitment to responsible development and leading-edge approach, providing grid-supporting power with limited water use, sets them apart from other providers.

They've also shown a willingness to proactively engage residents to ensure best solutions for quality of life in the community and to protect the pilots and airmen and families who I served with. Once again, thank you for your time and I look forward to working with the council to promote ongoing transparency and dialogue with Project Eagle. Thank you. James Markham, is that correct? And then, Leighton Wolf, you're up next.

Aloha Mayor and to the rest of the city council my name is Noah James Markham I really would like to say I from the town of Gilbert but I from the city of Tempe So I'm excited to talk about this project and yes, I'm excited because I do support this. I don't support every data center, but there's some, and this is one.

And this, because it's close to Luke Air Force Base, and Luke Air Force seems like they're on board, but make sure that everything is good with Luke Air Force Base and the city of Glendale. And we need a data center right next to it so we can advance technology and be able to compete with China and President Xi. We are the best in the world, America. And we also need to protect the first ever Taiwan ship factory in America. And it's in Arizona. And President Xi can't get a hold of it.

It's extremely important to America and Arizona. And as a Chinese, Japanese, and Hawaiian, I know that's what is at stake. And let's get I'll get to some facts and I know a lot of people complain about the water. Now the data center is not the problem with less water. Irrigated agriculture is the single largest user of water in Arizona, consuming about 72% to 74% of the state total available water. So this is safe to move with us and we need to move forward as Americans.

And I'm a Democrat and I support this move. And I support the Republicans that want this to move forward. That's what it's all about, to be an American. Vote yes, yes, yes, and I support Project Bacara and Ego. Mahalo and thank you for listening to me tonight. Thanks. Thank you. Okay, and this is not a Republican or Democrat issue, folks. It's just an issue a lot of people have concerns over. Mr. Wolf, you're up next. Lisa Everett, you'll be up after him.

Mayor, Council members, I'm Leighton Wolf. I live in Litchfield Park, but I have a substantial land interest over there in Section 31 in the city of Glendale. I had all these things I was going to say, and I kind of changed what I wanted to do. I'm kind of unique here tonight because I think I'm about the only person who has a substantial interest in Glendale. We've heard an awful lot about Surprise. We've heard an awful lot about Waddell. We've heard an awful lot about the county.

We haven't heard an awful lot about Glendale. This is a project that's going to really help Glendale. It's going to bring in a lot of tax revenue, fill up the coffers. It's going to provide jobs for people here. I've heard that people were complaining about the use of water. I farm that ground. I will guarantee you it's going to use less water. And then on the internet you see things where people say, well you're going to take the farm ground and it's not going to produce food.

I didn't produce food there either. I grew roses. I don't want you to stop buying roses, but I would not suggest you eat them. We've heard about the generation of power. If you go over to 75th and Northern, APS has a gas-fired turbine plant there producing electricity. Now, see the deal is this is not new and different. If you go over to the west side, Microsoft currently has a data center at Olive Avenue and Dysart. There's another one at Reams Road and Olive.

So this is not something that's new and different. It is the highest and best use for this property. Thank you. Thank you. Lisa Everett and then Justice. I can't make out the first name. Who is that? Somebody with the last name of Justice. I'm going to pass you if you don't answer. Okay, go ahead. My name is Lisa Everett and I live in Surprise. I'm here in support of Project Bacara and Project Eagle.

I've been following the project for quite some time and it has met all of the expectations from the Corporation Commission to Luke to the Board of Supervisors etc so I've emailed many of you and given you I gave you some information, answered some questions, but I wanted to say some things that you guys already know, but maybe the people listening don't.

And that is, when a project comes before a council, that project, if it meets the zoning, if it meets all of the regulations, like air quality and noise, if it's willing to follow the stipulations, The council has to approve it. Now, have councils not approved things like that? Absolutely they have. And many of them have been sued. So it's not a matter of if you like data centers, which I happen to enjoy infrastructure, I like my phone working, I like using Google, etc.

But the reality is Just because you don't like a project doesn't mean you get to not approve it if it meets all of the standards The only vote is yes. I serve on a planning and zoning Commission I have people regularly approach me. Lisa.

We don't need another gas station in that area I need you to vote no and my response is always the same I understand that that's what you believe, but we have property rights in Arizona and therefore Because it meets zoning, I'm going to have to approve it and the market will dictate whether or not it makes it So it's not really a matter of If someone doesn't like the project, it's a matter of is it meeting all of the regulations all of the rules the zoning and And we have county that will monitor the air quality and the noise.

And so there's going to be repercussions if the project does not meet those standards. I appreciate your time. I appreciate your yes vote and thank you so much. Have a good evening. Thank you. Okay, with that I have no other speaker cards. Public hearing is now closed. Can I get a motion on item number 36, ordinance number 026-38. Yes, Mayor, I move we adopt ordinance number 026-38. I need a second from somebody. I'll second that.

I have a motion to Councilmember Tomachoff, a second from the vice mayor. To approve the recommended action, we'll conduct a roll call vote.

roll call vote we'll start with councilmember baldnagra mayor I'd like to have discussion first what's that like that discussion go ahead yes did you want yes I did yes there are a lot of concerns about the particulate emissions of this project I understand that the Maricopa County air quality district is responsible for permitting the project and regulating the emissions via on-site measurement data and that the protect permitting It requires continuous emissions monitoring with real-time reporting.

Mr. Bowles, could you come up please and explain that so we can get clarity on that? Mayor, Councilmember, I agree with everything that you said. The emissions are I'm going to be monitored and regulated with the Maricopa County Air Quality Control District. I need you to speak more in it. There you go. There you go. With the Maricopa County Air Quality Control District as being the clearinghouse agency. They operate under county regs, under state statute, and under EPA criteria.

We need to do reporting and we can get our air quality expert up here if you would like and I'd love to have him be able to specify some of the things that we have to do continuously and what happens if we don't do them. because if we're in violation, it's analogous to a zoning violation or a building code violation. If you're in violation, you get cited, you fix it, or you get fined, or you get shut down.

That's real serious business when you're talking about either a power generation facility or a data center.

But if you want more detail than that we can certainly bring up James Westbrook who here and this is what he does for a living And he the one who explained to me that the county told him he needed to do his analysis as though this site were operating under rules that would apply in California which we all know is very stringent and we can go into as much detail as you want about our emissions versus say the emissions the Santan facility in Gilbert was mentioned.

We're a fraction of that and we can go into as much of that as you want to or not. Well, I also have here the Project Bacara air permit application emissions summary, and it gives you the type of emissions, the total facility potential to admit, and the 90% of major source threshold enforceable permit limit. The 90% threshold enforceable permit limit means what? When you compare it to the total facility potential to omit the numbers.

Because if I'm understanding this, the project of care numbers are all under the enforceable permit limit. So if you could please or have the gentleman come up and please explain in layman terms what that means. I'm over my skis on the specificity of that. So, if with your permission, we'd have James Westbrook address the specifics of what you just asked, if that's all right. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Councilmembers. I'm James Westbrook.

I'm the air quality consultant for Project Pecara and Project Eagle. To your question, as was explained earlier, Maricopa County is a non-attainment area for ozone. That 90% requirement is to make sure that the projects do not exceed a level that could be a concern for the continued progress towards attainment of the ozone standards. In other words, it's a limit that keeps the emissions from going higher than that level.

And on the sheet that I have here it shows the types of emissions the NOx, the carbon monoxide, the VOC. PM, Tannin, yes, all of that. And the numbers for the Bacara project are below the 90% which is a good thing, right? Correct. Okay, thank you. Do you have a question? No, I just wanted him to clarify. Okay, you have a question? Well, I have one more thing that I want to do. Okay, finish up and then we'll go to Mr. Kern. Okay, all right.

I also have here the air emissions controls from and these are these are from the Arizona Corporation Commission hearing It's stated here that project Macara power plant turbines meet the most stringent best available control technology and And these are the lowest emissions required anywhere in the US by any agency for NOx and particulate matter, the PMs. Also, emission reduction technologies include selective catalytic reduction, SCR, and oxidation catalysts to reduce the VOC, NOx, and CO.

And that the requested limit on turbine hours of approximately 30% of the total capacity. Can you kind of explain what that means? Yes, as was described earlier, the Maricopa County, our quality department, required us to look at the, again, to protect the attainment of the ozone standards and to keep the emissions lower, to meet the lowest emission rates anywhere in the country. That's the Los Angeles area. That's where the ozone issue is the biggest problem in the country.

So the agency said you have to meet that for Project Bacara. Similarly, for the data centers, they'll have to meet what's called Tier 4. They'll have particulate filters, they'll have controls on emissions on the diesel engines as well. Okay, thank you, Mayor. You finished? Yes. Turn up your mic. Thank you, Mayor. I do have a couple of questions, but Mr.

Bull, at the end of your presentation a few minutes ago, you asked to reserve some time for rebuttal, and I'm thinking that maybe my questions would be answered during that, but I'm very much interested in your rebuttal. Did you have anything that you wanted to rebut from the public comments? Mayor, Councilman, with the Mayor's permission, I can touch on some items that were said that we disagree with and I think I can touch on quickly to refute if that's acceptable.

First of all, there's been talk about Luke and Luke incompatibility and you heard from an absolute expert that was at the top of the heap advising the Air Force until he retired from the Air Force. spoke in support and was a technical consultant and for good reason he knows what he's talking about both in his role at the Air Force and at the FAA and now on the private side.

Stip stipulation 4 in the proposed PAD ordinance clearly provides that we shall abide by the Luke conditions that are in Luke military compatibility permit I think it tomato as to whether a letter says you are compatible if you do this or you not compatible unless you do this It gets you to the same place The as soon as we received that letter, the CEO who was here tonight from Taconic provided a letter to Maricopa County because we were still in the county processes then, confirming from the CEO letter that we received it and restated his agreement to abide by each of those conditions.

The well situation is, yes, I said four wells because that's my understanding. What it is is a well for Makara plus a backup redundancy well for Makara, a non-potable well for Eagle, and a backup redundancy well for Eagle. Those, while there's four wells, it's really one-on-one plus belt and suspenders backup is what it amounts to.

And as was, I think, emphasized some by Leighton Wolfe, the production from those wells is less, is approximately 25 percent of what the water demand would be to farm this same hundred and 60 acres.

So we can talk about non potable from the wells, we can talk about potable from EPCOR, and talk about water every how you want, but the critical aspect of this at the data center being a closed loop system and being very water stingy purposefully is an absolute The cornerstone of what's been designed into this development. With respect to setbacks, I can pull up an exhibit if you want. We're required to have setbacks of 75 feet, generally 150 feet to the turbines.

We have two and three times that distance of setback, which staff could confirm all the way around the site. I can pull that up if anyone wants to see it. So we have a standard no different than if you had a 10-foot setback standard and somebody said I want to do 20. In our case, we have a 75-foot standard and some scenarios we're doing 300. So it's not a situation where either these proposed developers are trying to stretch it to the limits or put eight pounds in a five-pound bag.

The buffers and landscaping that people have talked about, again, I can pull up a slide, but I'm telling you, we're planning a forest on this site. There's over 500 trees that are planned to be planted on this property. I'm guessing, Layton, there's what, about six there today, something like that. Any that you chopped down.

At any rate, trees all along the north perimeter, trees along the west, and most importantly, if you want, I can pull up the slide that shows that really the only frontage that people are going to be driving on is the south edge of the site. We have about 250 feet of setback from the roadway and Between there and the buildings we have in some places four other places five Rows of trees that get planted between the street and the buildings There's trees in the parking lot.

There's screening here and screening there It has been very responsive and again I want to be respectful of mayor of the council's time, but this is is not a situation where we're scrimping on walls, trees, buffering and so on. It is also not a place for berms, for hydrological and other reasons. I know people like to point to the Santan plant in Gilbert. If you want an expert on that, former mayor Jen Daniels is here and can speak to it.

But the county made it very clear for hydrology drainage reasons This is not a place for berms We were I think accused of like increasing the square footage of the buildings or double them or something In reality, when it was originally proposed, it was two two-story buildings that were 500,000 square feet per floor print, total being 2 million square feet.

When that was looked at again because there were concerns with height and size and other things, it was changed from two-story buildings to three one-story buildings at a total of 1.1 million square feet instead of 2 million square feet. property values, Jen can talk about that as well if you want and we can too from the slide that we have here. But Jen lives within about a mile of the Santan facility that people like to want to point to. And she and others are very confident of values.

If you want more on noise, our noise expert is here. He can talk about that more if you have questions. Otherwise, I'll just leave it at that. And with respect to diesel generators, let's be real clear about what's going on here is diesel generators don't power the data center. They're a backup source. We have a pittance of generators of another data center down the road. We, as pointed out in some of the materials in the slide I can pull up, have limits on how long the generators can run.

It's a maximum of 50 hours. A generator can run a maximum of 50 hours per year. So there's a lot of things said about generators and diesel and propane and so on and so forth, but it's simply not backed up by the facts or the science. And there's experts here who can expand on all of that if you want them to. Mayor Siffle, if I may. Thank you, Mr. Bull. You did touch, you did cover several of the things I had questions about. including the generators just to be sure.

You will or won't be using diesel generators during the construction or the startup phase or the first 10 years until the substation comes online. My understanding is you won't be, except as a backup, if there's a failure, supply failure or other failure of the natural gas and propane systems. On the data center side, every data center that I'm aware of, because any little glitch in power coming out of the grid is a big deal at a data center.

So they all have backup generators to help fill that glitch. Because of the proximity of Bacara, we have far fewer than normal. I mean, there's one down the street that I understand has about 1,400 generators. We have a few and they're not running to operate the data center and start up and others. It's an emergency backup.

On the Bacara or the power generation side, there's what's called black start generators that are used solely for the purpose of starting the turbines when they've been shut down and need to start. Thank you Mr. Bull and then you answered the questions about the question about why you need additional wells if we're using less water but they using existing wells but also having two backup wells you still will be using 25% of what the property was authorized to use during its agricultural use.

Mayor, yes I think it's four new wells get drilled because of new wells and efficiency and all of that. and how to deal with ADWR requirements, but it's really one and one with a belt and suspenders backup for each facility. And then you also filled me in on the questions I had about the setbacks and what the visual appearance of the facility might look like for those who would be driving by. So I appreciate that. Thank you.

Mayor, I can pull up some of those pretty pictures if you want, But I sense a need to move on unless you tell me otherwise. Were you done? I'm done, Mayor. Thank you. Okay, if you can turn your mic off. Go ahead. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Bull. You answered almost all of my questions, but not quite. And I know we've had a few discussions about the aesthetics of the, from the exterior of the project, how it's going to affect the surrounding community.

I don't know if I heard you talk about the fence, that the fence is going to be an eight-foot fence, and now they're single-story buildings. So I don't know if we need to see pictures of that, but it's not a six-foot fence. It's an eight-foot fence from what I understand. Is that correct? If you want me to show pictures of the fencing and landscaping, I can. We'll need to fire this back up. But we are required to have a solid masonry wall along the north and east perimeters of the site.

If you want to go to, I think it's slide 28, I believe, we'll get to the right page. This is fine. So along the north in the east-west alignment, the masonry wall that's there on the north edge of the data center site is an eight-foot masonry wall. With about 18 inches of steel no climb picket atop of it. The wall has some split face cap block and split face vertical elements to to break it up.

That wall again is eight feet the wall keep going east the wall the wall around the APS station by APS requirements will be a 14 foot tall masonry wall. As we come on down the eastern edge of the site because again masonry wall is required along the north and along the east perimeters.

So if you follow the blue line across the north and then bring the blue line down the east perimeter, knowing that that's just railroad track and 230 KV lines with future residents east, that's still an eight-foot wall. Nowhere is there a six-foot wall. The 18-inch no-climb pickets may appear black in this photo, but they will be painted the same color as the wall, which is intended to match the primary color of the data center buildings themselves.

The west and south perimeters of the site have the eight-foot security fencing. I'm going to call it wrought iron. It's not wrought iron, but it's the steel tubular fencing that you see in that top drawing on the right-hand side. And if you want to flip to a landscape plan like 28, this shows over 500 trees all around the perimeters.

The one that I was talking about on the south, where you see not only the substantial setback from olive, But then the four and five layers of trees species are identified in the right-hand side. And these trees, per their palette, they canopy at heights of 40 feet, 35 feet, 30 feet.

I think one species is 25 feet, but they are substantial trees and the only place really that the public will be able to drive by is along Olive because there's no street along the east, there's no north south street along the west, and there's no street running east-west on the north. Thank you, Mr. Bull.

And I I appreciate the fact that the developer has worked with us on the landscape features and agreed to, you know, try to make the site look aesthetically pleasing to those that are going to be either living nearby or driving through. And that's, you know, we, when we welcome a developer to Glenda, we expect them to be a good neighbor, and I think they've shown that they want to be a good neighbor and the willingness to work with us on a landscape plan. So I appreciate that. Thank you.

Thank you. Go ahead. Thank you. Yes sir. I wanted to ask a little bit more about the PAD packet that we received in terms of infrastructure on page 11. It says, A, utilities, water and sewer service for the site will be provided by EPCOR. There are existing EPCOR water mains running to and adjacent to the site in Hatcher Road and Olive Avenue. It is anticipated that connections will be made to both of these lines to create a looped water system within the site.

In addition, the The proposed development has a letter of intent from Mark Anthony Brewing to potentially receive recycled wastewater. Potable water will be supplied by FCOR and on-site groundwater could also be used to supplement other sources as needed within the water rights associated with the site.

There is an existing FCOR sewer main on Olive Avenue that will serve as a point of connection for the site sewer system And then further development is anticipated to interconnect with APS power grid So my question is in terms of these wells that we talking about are they mentioned anywhere in any of our packets or any of the information available to the public Mayor, council member, nothing's been hidden from either staff or your council or the public.

The wells is a part of a evolutionary process of discussing discussions with the city, with EPCOR and with others about potable and non-potable water and how to obtain it and how to obtain it in a manner that is not City of Glendale water, which has been a primary goal from the get-go. Does that answer your question? Yes, and Mayor, if I can have a follow-up question.

Yeah, and in terms of groundwater, are there any groundwater credits that is already associated with the land, or if the wells are built, will you be able to take as much water as you need? Probably. So, there are ag rights associated with the property that go through various conversions and so on and so forth, but the water that we're bringing to the table to be provided to EPCOR for the potable water is not ag water.

It's long-term storage credit water and those discussions are substantially underway, more than substantially underway. And that's for the potable water that will be delivered to the site through the EPCOR system. The non-potable water through the wells that will be drilled, I'm not going to tell you is ag water, but it's what would be ag water if Layton were still farming the 160 acres. But it legally is a different classification of water than ag water.

And Mayor, my last follow-up question on water is, and this question is probably for staff, if annexed into the city of Glendale and then we have to go into our drought mitigation plans of different levels, different tiers, would this project or these, the water source for Project Bacara, Project Eagle be in danger if we implement conservation efforts because of the Colorado River? Do you want me to answer that or you want staff to... If you can, go ahead.

It will not impact your drought mitigation plan or whatever other efforts like that the city engages in because the city is not our water provider. Thank you. I've got one question for you. I listened to what you were talking about what you guys believe would be a 25% use of the total water that was being utilized or being taken for rose farming. Wouldn't that actually be a benefit to the landowners around here that have wells? Wouldn't that actually increase their water supply not decrease it?

I'm not the water expert in the room, but I believe the common sense answer to that is yes, it absolutely would. Because the less I pump, the more that's out of the aquifer, the more that's available to others. Vice Mayor. Thank you. You mentioned earlier that you had somebody here from Gilbert that understood the power plant that is in operation there. I would like to ask a couple of questions in regards to that.

There's been again I took a lot of notes from the comments that were made and there was continual reference about hurting their property values of degrading the community of making it look and feel not like their community. So I wanted to get someone who has experienced that and that has lived around the community.

The power plant and what has happened to property values what has happened to the area what is going on in those in that arena Mayor if if I may I'd like to introduce Jen Daniels to everyone at the dais if you don't already know her but She said on your side of the dais in a different municipality for many years and happens to live close to the We worked on same issues together many times Good evening Mayor and Council This is so fun to be on the set of the podium I a Gilbert resident My name is Jen Daniels I live about a mile east of the Santan Generating Facility It an SRP facility It was actually originally built in 1975 and it was built in four phases in 1975 and then two additional phases in the early 2000s.

It doubled in size. It's about a 1400 megawatt facility and it is completely surrounded by both residential and community commercial. There is no industrial around it. It shares a rail line in addition to this project, so it's similar in nature that way. And there was a lot of community opposition when they expanded the plant in the early 2000s. And everyone had about the same worries and concerns. But I'm here to tell you that the data does not support that it would reduce property values.

So Gilbert as a whole from 2005 to 2026 has each home has basically increased by 2.3 times. And the neighborhoods immediately surrounding the Santan generating facility have actually experienced exactly the same home value elevation. So I understand and I'm super empathetic to the residents and I understand the concerns. We are all interested in property values as a council.

You're inherently interested in elevated property values in your community while also remaining affordable for your residents.

But this facility if the data holds as it has for 25 years now in Gilbert if the data holds it will not have a negative impact on your Residence property values or your surrounding residents property values if I may may or just a follow-up question In regards to that the property values, but there's also an aesthetic Portion that the many residents mentioned can you can you address that as well?

Yes, so when the Santan generating facility was expanded in 2005, there was an additional 20 acres that was dedicated to exactly what you see here on the landscape plan, which was additional trees, fencing. There were berms added as well. The closest neighbor to the Santan generating facility is 500 feet away. In fact, it's not just one neighbor, it's an There's an entire street of neighbors that are 500 feet from the property line.

So yes, there was additional landscaping and fencing that was included in that expansion, but if you look at an aerial photo of the actual site of the Santan-Generating Cisley, it's a little different scenario as far as the proximity of the residents to that exact site. Thank you. I just got more items if I may, Mayor. I don't think I got a clear statement regarding the use of power from the time that the data centers are complete until the APS power system goes online.

Can you kind of, I understand that in 2028 there will be a data center complete, but the power or the APS system won't go online until 2030. So can you explain exactly where the power comes from? You kind of touched on it, but I want a little more detail. How is that power going to come into the data centers? How's it going to be generated? Where is it coming from? And what are the standards? How will you maintain the current EPA standards while you're doing that?

Mayor, Vice Mayor, so looking at the site plan that I think is right in front of me here, as you look at that, of course, the Bacara power generating facility is on the east side of the site. As you go up, you see APS substation. A little bit southwest of the APS substation is a little sliver, which is ED7's... Terminal isn't the right word, but ED7's facility. So all the power here goes through ED7.

So before the APS substation is completed and tied into the grid, Power is generated at the Bakara facility. It goes to the ED7 facility where it's metered and so on and so forth, and then goes from ED7 into the data center building or buildings.

Once the APS substation is complete and tied into the grid then the power is generated here on the Bacara site goes in the APS substation goes into the grid and then the substation then the data center ties into the grid and is pulling power out of the grid. Okay, and the question was raised that there's going to be a lot of pollution during that Time frame which would I guess be different than once you're fully online. Could you explain what that what what that's all about?

Mayor vice mayor we simply I get it. I understand that there can be Confusion and if you're doing online research you can read most whatever you want to read about anything I do not understand and are Emissions expert does not understand what they're saying because we're limit, our emissions are limited period. And so to the extent people think we're going to be firing up diesel generators other than on an emergency basis to fill a gap at the data centers is just incorrect.

The power generation at Bacara, the primary fuel is and will always be the gas that's brought in by pipe that is, whether everyone agrees, because some don't like fossil fuels at all. I understand it. I disagree with them, but I understand their position. But the fuel that's being used to run the data, to run BACARA before the APS substation is online is the same fuel that's running BACARA after the APS substation is online.

And the admissions are subject to the same limitations, the same monitoring, and the same enforcement. Okay, thank you. That answers that. And then I have one last question which has been alluded to several times tonight. And again, it's a quality of life issue having to do with noise. And it's been mentioned, you mentioned, I believe that there'll be a three decibel increase. What does that mean?

When you're at a residence home today versus three years from today, what is the difference going to be heard? What are you going to hear different? Mayor, Vice Mayor, the expectation from the noise studies that were conducted and reviewed by the Corporation Line Siting Committee and Corporation staff, and I believe your staff, and I know county staff, and so on as well, which is reflected on a slide that I had up earlier.

That noise study picked a location north of this facility and a location south of it and measured the ambient noise levels. And we appreciate that, and I too love the sound of freedom flying overhead, but you discount that out of the analysis. And you determine what is that ambient condition. And then you determine what is the manufactured guaranteed noise level being generated by these turbines. Because that's very important to Taconic and everyone else involved as well.

And then you do the science behind noise analysis where some of the screening and the dissipation and noise over distance occurs. The normally used and again Chris Kirkkian is here and can fill in If I misspeak in any way or you want more detail he can Give you more as much detail as you want the The science and that's what he does for living obviously the science is that the typical human ear cannot detect Less than a three decibel increase in noise.

The measurements that he's projecting here are not increasing the ambient condition more than three decibels either to the north or the south. In fact, it's substantially less than that to the south. It's just what can we hear as a human? And what we needed to do here was to be able to determine how much noise we're generating, how are we screening it, how much distance is it dissipating over, and then determine. Is that greater than three decibels increase? And the answer is it is not.

Very good. Thank you. Just one follow-up to that. So you said the manufacturers guarantee these certain noise levels? Is that what you heard you say? Yeah, the manufacturer guarantees a noise level of a particular type of turbine. And then from there, Chris and his staff start at that point. They have that as a variable, they have the ambient condition as a variable, and then they do the analysis between here and there as to what the increase in ambient condition is.

But the turbine manufacturer provides a guarantee of what the noise level is standing three feet away from that turbine. Okay, thank you. And if I may, Mayor, therefore, if it is louder than the three estimated or four, whatever it comes in to be, the manufacturer would be held responsible to do something to mitigate that noise? Yes, I have every confidence that WACARA would be knocking on the manufacturer's doorstep saying, You gave us this guarantee.

That's why we bought your equipment and We made promises based upon your guarantee. We need to figure this out together. Okay. Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that Thank you mayor vice mayor Thank you, okay last question Yes, I want to understand why is this project Eagle Bacara wanting to annex into the city of Glendale especially because it's been said that this project could be done in the county.

So why are you all seeking this partnership with the City of Glendale, and how will it improve the lives of our residents? So there's reasons, there's legal reasons, and there's doing the right thing reasons, and Mayor with your permission I'd like to touch on those.

So I I mentioned earlier a pre-annexation development agreement that's probably 15 years or so old that certainly your city attorney and probably some on the council and Layton and others are familiar with that provided that as properties were developing in the area that would be using this private wastewater treatment plant that that PADA provided a path forward for That they would request annexation into the city. That's a legal reason to do it.

A right thing to do reason is without belaboring all the revenues and so on that you have in the reports that I had on the screen an hour or so ago, a facility like this not only generates a lot of jobs, but a lot of revenue. We believe it's the right thing to do to have the city be the recipient of that revenue that you wouldn't be if We stayed in the county.

We can't make you annexes but We needed to ask And we think Asking is not only legally the correct thing to do but the right thing to do Because bringing those revenues, bringing the jobs to Glendale. Glendale also through your, you call your design review process is really a combination of what I think of the site plan and engineering and aesthetics.

I think it was maybe council member Tomachev, one of you was talking about some of the design requirements that the city of Glendale has that is far above what the county gets concerned with through the POD plan of development process, which is really a site plan and engineering process. Someone suggested that we flunked out of the planning development process in the county. That's not correct.

We withdrew the planning development process of the county because once our office was asked to come on board to assist Taconic and Montero with this development, we knew that annexing into Glendale is what we were supposed to do under the pre-annexation development.

agreement and we knew that going through a plan of development process in Glenda in the county with county standards was just going to result in us doing it all over again by Glendale increased standards with not only respect to engineering but landscaping and aesthetics and a number of other things So I can go through additional benefits that we believe are being brought to the city, but legally we think this is what we know this is what we're supposed to be doing and doing the right thing.

We believe it's the right thing to do and hope that your council believes it is as well. Thank you. Okay. We're going to go ahead and do a roll call vote. Can I ask one quick question? Last question. Thank you sir. Earlier you said 500 trees will be planted on this site. When those trees are planted and grown to be adult trees, I believe it will be substantially helping this site.

As the storms come in, they break, are we going to replace those trees or are you just going to be dwindling down, dwindling down, dwindling down, so we have less and less and less trees? They will be properly maintained and they will be replaced as appropriate. I mean this landscaping is taken seriously by your staff through the design review processes and we take it seriously too. Thank you sir. Thank you. I think you want me to sit down, is that right? Right? That'd be correct.

No offense taken. Okay, we have had a motion, Councilmember Tomachoff, we had a second from Ms. Guzman. Roll call vote. Mr. Baldinagro, how do you vote? No. Mr. Baldinagro votes no. Councilmember Conscious, how do you vote? Pass. Councilmember Guzman, how do you vote? I want to explain my vote, sir. Go ahead. I understand all the concerns that have been voiced here tonight. There has been a lot of misinformation that has been used to frighten people regarding this project.

Data centers have been around for well over 20 years and yes there have been some really bad ones. However technology has changed for the better over the last 20 years and there has been a conscious effort made to reduce all negative aspects of data centers and to improve the water usage and electricity use also. This project has had to go through very stringent county, state, and federal regulations and permitting requirements.

The Arizona Corporation Commission held a four-day hearing back in February of this year, and experts were brought in to answer questions on every aspect of this project, and some of those experts are here tonight. I believed that this project was if I believed that this project was going to hurt our community I don't care how much money it brought into the city.

I would vote against it But I trust the experts and this project Eagle and Bacara and the APS substation will strengthen Glendale's position in the growing economy and Position the city at the forefront of data center innovation. I vote yes Council member Goodman votes yes. Council member Tomachop, how do you vote? Mayor would like to explain my vote. Go ahead. Data centers are essential infrastructure.

And if this wasn't needed in this market, this person, they would not be making this investment. They power governments, communities, banks, healthcare, education, manufacturing, artificial intelligence, cyber security, Security and national defense. This is critical infrastructure for our community and our country.

And as demand increases and accelerates, driven in large part by rapid adoption of AI in all facets of our everyday life, including streaming, your phones, imaging for healthcare, all kinds of things.

This is the world we're living in now and in order for this to continue on we need the infrastructure I And I know what some of my colleagues watch the Corporation Commission hearings We've done a lot of I know I've done my homework on this and there's People who are a lot smarter than I am in this field that have answered every question that I've had whether I've asked it or somebody else asked it my questions have been answered and I I trust the experts and as council member Guzman said if I thought this was going to harm the community I also no matter the amount of revenue generated for the city would not support it However I feel like I done my homework I understand the safety standards In addition to the county requirements and the federal and the state requirements Glendale has noise ordinances We have light ordinances We have nuisance ordinances We have even another layer of protection for the residents by annexing this into Glendale that provide a place for you to go to file a complaint if you hear noise at night if you see light at night So I think this actually is going to make this more palatable to the community.

I know nobody wants it and I'm not trying to change anybody's mind, but I think we've done everything we can and I believe this is the right development for the right place at the right time and I vote aye, Mayor. Councilmember Township votes yes. Councilmember Turner, how do you vote? Explain my vote.

I believe it was back in the 80s, might have been late 70s when the Glendale City Council at that time created a strip annexation that incorporated all of this area around Luke Air Force Base and clear out to Perryville Road and back in on Camelback to protect Luke Air Force Base and to make sure that the development that went in closest to the base was compatible for the base's use Since that time it's always been anticipated that the land within that strip annexation, which we call our planning area, that that land would be annexed into Glendale as it developed and when the time was right.

I think that this is a very compatible development to Luke Air Force Base. I think it helps us to attract into this area the defense industry, I think the types of employment that we're looking for that will be a benefit to all of the surrounding communities with the quality and the number of jobs that we'll bring in with it. I think it's going to be a benefit to our community and the residents that I represent. With that I vote aye. Councilmember Turner votes aye. Vice Mayor? Vice Mayor? Pass.

Thank you. I pass. Mr. Conchus, how do you vote? Yes, Mayor, may I explain my vote? Go ahead. Yes, I am extremely concerned about the health and safety of residents. I am concerned about the potential litigation that we can put ourselves into. I'm concerned about water and groundwater and the wells that we heard today.

I'm concerned about a lot of things and what I see here in the audience, what you all don't see from my perspective is I see a lot of guys in suits, over here and then I see a lot of working people over here who are basically on two sides, but here in Glendale we all need to come together as a community and protect one another.

We also need to come together in a community to ensure that we're not seeing each other as enemies, that we're not seeing each other as opposition, that we're coming together to have conversations about how we can make the best decisions for our communities. And one One of the things that I did not appreciate is that when we did have a subject matter expert come up, Mrs. Daniels from Gilbert, she's being paid by Project Eagle and Project Bacara on their behalf and I hope that is correct.

For me, I don't agree with data centers, I don't agree with the power generation plant, but stipulation number 12 is that this developer and this project will help increase and help fund and help streamline a fire station out there in the 303 corridor. And we need a lot of public safety support, we need fire support, and we don't need to put our taxpayers on the bill for that fire station.

And so, although I'm against this project, I'm against everything that it stands for, I'm going to vote yes. And the reason I'm voting yes is because of stipulation 12. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Conscious votes yes. Vice Mayor, how do you vote? Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to explain my vote. As I was taking notes and researching this project, there's about eight or ten issues that kept coming up.

And as we discussed this tonight, I believe all of those issues were addressed and that's why I was trying to ask so many questions. Appearance of the buffer, property values, landscape, pollution controls, they were checked.

Generation of the power how it done I had some questions on how we going to protect the area and make sure that we aren adding more pollution than is allowed It is loud during the interim of it going online completely The noise levels had questions about that and I think they were totally answered tonight Water usage I believe that was answered The safety and compatibility with Luke Air Force Base I read all those documents I read the letters It didn say that it wasn compatible it said it wasn compatible if they didn do these certain things and they did all of them and so they are compatible and and as far as Luke Air Force Base generation of electricity by the bathtub diesel as we've discussed and I think that's also been checked one thing that we didn't talk about too much but I did research it was I got some email saying you shouldn't do this project because the cities the citizens of Glendale shouldn't be paying for it Well the answer is there is no discount, there is no tax rebate, there is no refund to to that this project from the City of Glendale.

All we are going to get is a net gain of a certain dollar amount based on the usage of power and the building etc. So with that mayor I vote aye. Vice mayor votes yes. I think enough words have been said tonight. Chair votes aye. The motion carries. Item 38. I'm sorry, 37. 38, yeah. Mayor, we need a motion for 37. What's that? We need a motion for number 37. I need a motion to move item 37. That's right. That's right. That's right. I need a motion. Item 37. I can't leave it.

Mayor, I motion to approve ordinance number 026-41. Second. Okay, I heard the motion. I've got a second. All in favor, vote aye. Aye. Any opposed? Nay. Okay. Do we need a roll call vote on that? Yes. Okay. So with that, we have a motion. We're going to start with Council Member Baldinegro. This is item 37. How do you vote? Nay. Council Member Conches, how do you vote? I'd also like to explain my vote. Go ahead.

I also want to let the opposition know that we need to have civility, and we need to ensure that we're respecting everybody's views no matter how we feel about this situation, and I vote yes. Thank you. Council Member Guzman, how do you vote? Council Member Tomachoff, how do you vote? Council Member Turner, how do you vote? Vice Mayor, how do you vote? I'd just like to explain my vote as well. I'd like to go along those lines, Council Member Conches.

What happened here in this process is that these citizens around this plant made major changes. There were major changes addressed and made better for them by going through this process. This process worked like it's supposed to. Things changed. It didn't go the way perhaps the residents wanted where it was totally denied, But things change significantly because of this process. And with that, I vote aye. Thank you. Vice Mayor votes aye. Chair votes aye. That motion also carries.

Okay, now we're on to item 38. Ordinance number 026-40, an ordinance to the Council of the City of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, authorizing and directing the city manager to enter into a food bank lease agreement with Phoenix Gospel Mission, Inc., Doing business as Phoenix Rescue Mission for the purpose of operating the Hope for Hunger Food Bank and ordering that a certified copy of the food bank lease agreement and the ordinance be recorded. Thank you, Mayor and members of the council.

We have Kimberly Hall, 30% on this. Tridley Stilio, Human Services Grant. One second. Folks, can you keep it down, please? We're still conducting a meeting. Go ahead. Good evening, Mr. Banger, Mayor, members of the council. This item requests adoption of an ordinance authorizing the lease of city owned property for continued use as a food bank. The property has served as this purpose under various organizations since 1990.

Phoenix West Commission has operated the Hope for Hunger food bank at this facility since 2017, serving individuals and families in our community. Council previously renewed this lease in 2021. Approval of this ordinance will support the continued operation of the food bank and maintaining access to food assistance for residents experiencing food insecurity. This concludes my presentation and I would be happy to answer any questions. I do have a question for you.

I don't think that's correct in 2017. I think it was before that. It was Approved by the council on December 14th, 2016, and then the contract was started on January 7th, 2017. Okay, I think that there was a contract before that. I would need to. I'd be willing to bet your paycheck. So with that said, we'll go ahead and take what you got, because we're approving where they're at today. But I'm, well, I'm gonna get hers, I got way more.

With that said, the only reason I say that is when I first became mayor as I was running, I helped Phoenix Rescue Mission come in with Hope for Hunger because the fire department is the one that started it. I was so proud of our firefighters at the time and then during that transition when I was coming in is when it got changed. So that was a few years before that. Thank you, Mayor. With that said, any questions? From anybody? No? Okay, well with that can I get a motion? Mayor.

I move to approve ordinance number 026-40. Second. Okay, I have a motion from Mr. Baldinagre, a second from Councilmember Tomachoff. I don't see any discussion. A roll call vote. Councilmember Baldinagre, how do you vote? Aye. Councilmember Conscious, how do you vote? Aye. Councilmember Guzman, how do you vote? Aye. Councilmember Tomachoff, how do you vote? Aye. Councilmember Turner, how do you vote? Aye. Councilmember Turner, how do you vote? Aye. Vice Mayor, how do you vote? Aye.

I overwhelmingly vote aye. Thank you. Next item, Ms. Margaret, 39 please.

Ordinance number 0 26-41 an ordinance to council city of Glendale Maricopa County, Arizona authorizing the execution of a utility easement in favor of Arizona Public Service Company along property owned by the city of Glendale located along the east side of 67th Avenue north of Deer Valley at the Thunderbird Conservation Park known as APN 200-05-003 a and directing the city clerk to record a certified copy of the ordinance Thank you, Mayor, members of the council.

John Murphy, interim director of engineering, will present tonight. Thank you, Mr. Banger. Mr. Mayor, members of council. This is an ordinance granting a utility easement in favor of APS along the city of Glendale's parcel located on the east side of 67th Avenue, north of Deer Valley at Thunderbird Conservation Park.

It's a quick point of clarification on the third, whereas, just want to clarify this, that where it starts, whereas APS will be upgrading its lines that will service the Thunderbird Conservation Park trails, we're not lagging the trails. What this easement will do is allow APS to provide additional power to the park to service the parking lot lights, the bathroom, and the access gate. Thank you. Any questions? City council meeting, Arizona. Proper nouns.

Mayor, I move we pass and adopt ordinance 026-41. I'm waived reading beyond the title. Second. Okay, if you turn off your microphones, roll call vote. Council member Balzenegra, how do you vote? aye. Council member Conscious, how do you vote? aye. Council member Guzman, how do you vote? aye. Council member Tomachoff, how do you vote? aye. Council member Turner, how do you vote? aye. Vice Mayor, how do you vote? aye. Chair votes aye. That motion carries. Ms. Bauer, item 40, if you would.

Ordinance number 026-42 in order to the council of the city of Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona authorizing the execution of a utility easement in favor of Arizona Public Service Company for property located adjacent to the Thunderbird Conservation Park and directing the city clerk to record a certified copy of the ordinance Mayor members of the council John did such a good job he will cover this item as well Thank you, Mr. Banger.

Mayor, members of council, this is a request for city council to waive the reading beyond title and adopt an ordinance, granting a utility easement in favor of APS along the city of Glendale parcel, Dundale parcel located on the east side of 67th Avenue north of Deer Valley Road at Thunderbird Conservation Park. This ordinance is granted an easement to support the relocation of a booster pump station and supports our water services department. Thank you. Questions?

Seeing none, can I get a motion? Mayor. Go ahead. I move the council approve ordinance number 026-42 and waive reading, ban the title. Second. I have a motion, council member Conscious. Second. Council member Guzman. To approve the recommended action, I'll conduct a roll call vote. Council member Boldenegro, how do you vote? Aye. Council member Conscious, how do you vote? Aye. Council member Guzman, how do you vote? Aye. Council member Tomachoff, how do you vote? Aye.

Council member Turner, how do you vote? Aye. Vice mayor, how do you vote? Aye. Chair votes aye. The motion carries. Moving on to council. Comments and suggestions. Mr. Boldenegro, I have you in. Two, sir, I want to thank everyone who came out to last weekend's Sunday Bunch art call, where we're honoring veterans and veterans' families.

We had six artists out there performing live art, and those six panels will be on display November 7th at our Venteranos Park one-year anniversary as a backdrop for the event as well. And the public is invited from 9 a.m. to noon, November 7th at Vetterola's Park. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Governor Conchus. Yes, Mayor. I want to thank everyone for a successful game night at Palm Shadows. And we had an incredible turnout of about 140 residents.

And this year was really a true partnership with strong participation from public safety leaders, including the Glendale Police, Glendale Fire, Glendale Police Action, the CAT team, whose presence reinforced the connection that they built within Palm Shadows. And also the event was filled with some memorable moments. Craig Kimmel was able to get over 31 drawing prizes for the community. And also the Apollo High School NJROTC color guard and the choir ensemble was there.

We also had special guests such as Georgie and thank you Mayor for kicking off with the pledge and for being there to speak to the residents during the game night. And more importantly, just want to thank all the the residents of Palm Shadows for your trust in the city of Glendale Police and Fire and we hope that we have a successful event next year. Thank you. Council Member Guzman. Yes, Mayor. I have a announcement.

I want to invite everyone out tomorrow night for the Glendale Firefighters Cancer and Mental Health Foundation Charity Night which is going to be held at Mission Barbecue which is located at 7350 West Bell Road here in Glendale. So please come out and support our firefighters. That's all. Thank you. Thank you Councilmember Tomachoff.

Nothing tonight mayor Thank you Councilmember Turner Yes mayor the days are wearing down Not many of these left but I would like to invite all the barrel district residents to what will be my last district meeting. It'll be here at your new City Hall Thursday November 4th at 5 30 p.m. I'd like to have an opportunity to show you around a little bit to this new building that you own and also introduce you to my special guest which Councilmember-elect Lisa Baker.

So that'll be Thursday November 5th at 5 30 p.m. Thank you. Vice Mayor. Thank you mayor. Just want to give a shout out to all those who made the Granada Estates Halloween Festival successful. I had a big presence from our police department who really enjoyed the crowd. The Bridge Church who is a new partner who joined us this year.

Our community services Department, ASU had some volunteers, MIAC was there with some volunteers, we had transportation, and a few other groups that I can't remember them all. But again, it was a very successful event, had about a hundred volunteers, and I believe, we don't have a final count, but probably about 500 in attendance. So it was a very successful evening for that community. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. The night is going on. I'm not going to share all of the things I've been doing.

So we're just going to go into citizens comments. And the first gentleman I'd like to ask up is Noah, Mark, help me out here. Mark, Markham? Am I close? No? Okay, well straighten us out, would you? Go ahead. You got three minutes, sir. Aloha, Mayor, and to the rest of the city council. I missed y'all. It's been a minute since I've been here, but yes, I want to thank Councilmember Lauren for really speaking out at the Valley Metro board.

She's a really good voice on that board and it's great to have it in this city. So I want to thank you for that. And also, I would like to request for Patrick Banger. He's doing a great job with this city and it's looking not ghetto. Hopefully, you know. And my request is that Patrick please make Glendale different from Gilbert. Sorry, but not sorry, the town of Gilbert. Is different and always will be different. That's my request that we keep Glendale different from the town of Gilbert.

I'm not gonna brag about it. And one more thing I would like to talk about is accessibility. I was wondering when you guys could have on your live streams meetings or when it's recorded that on YouTube that we have a sign language interpreter on the screen. That would be great to have.

And actually I got one more request I was wondering if we could extend the light rail or streetcar so people can travel to the State Farm Stadium around here And also I would like to thank the police force and I thankful that you guys have the flock cameras and automated license plates. I do respect the police force and I know there's some people that wanna defend them but I do wanna be safe. So mahalo and thank you for listening. Okay, go ahead and state your name and the city you're from.

No, James Markham from Tempe. Thank you. All right, Mr. Dybler, you're up, sir. You know how it works. You got three minutes, sir, go ahead. My name is James Dybler. I live in Phoenix, Arizona. Yeah, hey, James, turn your microphone on. There you go. I apologize for the mistake. Hi, my name is James Dybler. I live in Phoenix, Arizona. Today I'm speaking to you regarding increasing bus service on weekends.

My request that the city of Glendale environmental increase bus service on weekends, including Saturday and Sunday to 30 minutes. public transportation is used by thousands of people every day to go to work, school, and church. Thank you for taking the time to consider this matter. Thank you James. Okay, if that's it, no other business for this council. I'd like to thank everyone for being here tonight. Have a safe trip home. We're adjourned. Thank you. The City council meeting, Arizona.

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