San Tan Valley approves zoning consultant as 13,294-lot pipeline strains roads amid group home crisis

Garrett Glover: So, that's Okay. I'm gonna call the order. This meeting of the town council of the San Tan Valley. I'm gonna Ask for a roll call from our clerk. I'm Tyler. President. Nice, Mayor Hudgins. There's that present. Here's a forum. Hey, thank you Garrett. Okay, we're gonna have a pledge of allegiance. I've asked council member hunt to lead us in that phone, which we were gonna have a invocation by Brian Pacheco from Flat Iron Church.

Please follow me in the Pledge of Allegiance, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. well, if you guys would buy your heads Lord Jesus. We are grateful together this evening. Lord, we ask for your wisdom and insight we ask for you to shape and mold, the mines here that we may better serve and love this community.

Lord, we look at your life and how You poured it out on the cross for us and we're grateful. And we're filled With that gratitude, I asked that that was shape and sharpness, this evening and Lord, we do it for Your name and in Your glory. Here. Thank you for that, appreciate that. Okay, so take us to item number four. This is approval of minutes, discussion and possible action to approve meeting minutes from our February 4 2026, regular town, council meeting. Is there any discussion?

Any questions about the minutes? okay, hearing nine is there a motion to approve the minutes from our February 4th 2026 Council meeting. Every fourth meeting. Okay, we do have a motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. Okay we have a motion and a second to approve, our meeting minutes from February 4 2026. All those in favor indicate by saying I hi any opposed. The eyes have it minutes are approved. okay, so, take us now to our mayor and council reports a summary of current events.

It's only for discussion information purposes, only not for discussion or deliberation or that will take any legal action on it. And so we'll go down the line. Usually Councilmember hunts on the end, but while we start with Councilmember oaks, Okay, Council member Jenkins. I was able to attend the battery stories. Copper Basin battery storage.

information and they're in barely the beginning stages that there's it's gonna be a five-year project for the battery storage, and I have all my questions answered and I feel good about that project. And I do live in a neighborhood with quite a bit of electric going down. So it's nice to see that you know, we're doing something for the grid and it's a Another thing I did was I went and did A Up on Hunt Highway with Neil Carter and his group. So that was very neat to serve in that capacity.

So that's what I've done. Thanks. Councilmember Hunt. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, um, just a reminder about this up a few weeks ago, I just wanted to remind the public that Pinal County will be doing the intern program again this year. So anyone in the Pinal County that has a high score college student, I might be interested in doing a seven week. Paid intern applications are going to be, I think, next month and the the program runs towards the heavy.

I think the interviews will be in May and start in in April and started in May some time. I can't remember all the details up and I just want to remind you watch for that. It's a good program. I've been part of that helping to plan that. So it's gonna happen this year. Thank you. Council member Tyler. Remember Wolfram. Just two quick things recently. I had the great fortune to come across some of our local saint-10 Valley food vendors, one at the Walmart Super Bowl party.

Um, a guy with a big Wiener hat, Santan hot dogs. So again I had the pleasure to try Santan Hot Dogs. So again, at the San Tan Valley Farmers Market, this last Saturday, again, just really want to put out there. The work that carry inter crew are doing um, the great. Raising they're doing for some of the local, you know, events that are out there. So again came across Cozy, B, an event that's coming up.

The American Legion Post, 97 will be having a fishing derby on Saturday March 7th, there are tickets still available. Great event, you know, help sponsor Americanism in our youth. Aside from that, so. there's, The mayor and I and the town manager at the opportunity to attend a gala for compassion, connect, which is an organization. That's really meeting the needs to a lot of the gaps of services that are in San Tan Valley.

And so, they had their I think it's their annual fundraiser, it's amazing to see the number of businesses and individuals that are really supporting that organization and the amount of work that they put into it and that was fantastic. And then also Gilbert Tempe, Chandler and Mesa are all partnering. in a similar way to assist the most vulnerable. They have an event coming up where the homeless and all other people who are in the vulnerable position and their communities.

They're party together as four communities to help address some of those needs. So I look forward to the as we are getting our legs underneath us that we can start to engage with some of the missiles around us and particularly in San Tan Valley where we have a major service gap where we need to lean into. So, that was encouraging. Great. Thank you. Yeah, that was a good evening for the Gala that we were at.

it did get a little tendered there, hearing about how many people step up and help other people when they're in need. And that was a great opportunity for us to be a part of that. I just have one item. On March, 7th at 20, I posted Butte High School, just down the road here, compassion, Queen Creek, will be at Poston View, High School and it's a, it's a opportunity for those who need some service that they can't afford whether it be dental, medical vision.

there's a whole list of things if you go to compassion. Connect.com. You can get more information, they're always looking for volunteers. So if there's anyone in the community that would like to help out with them, that would be a great opportunity. March 7th, I believe the time I'm not sure about the time, 8 am to 2 pm So, March 7th. Okay, that's all I have. We'll move on to item number six. This is the town manager.

Report Tail Manager, is going to report on some curt events and pinning, legislation and introduce some new members to us, I believe. And this is only for information only and the Council will not propose discuss deliberate or take any legal action on information as presented Brent. All right, can, hopefully everybody can hear me. I'm pretty loud. I don't have a problem with that. The first item that I have for this evening. I'd like to ask an individual to come forward.

His name is Gabriel Garcia. Where you at game? Gabe. Had his contract approved at the last regularly scheduled council meeting, and we'll be our new finance director. Gave you have a few words you would like to say First off Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the Council. just glad to be here. I think I was number three. What Brent was telling me so, the rain forever, I guess, I look forward to the challenge of becoming your finance director. It's exciting.

about over 17 years of municipal finance experience and I look forward to being here so and helping my door. Anytime you guys have any questions or anything? I'm always here. Transparency is obviously key in financial reporting and anything I can do to help you guys out on here. He gave. Next is a few events to report. Works.

We have scheduled a ribbon cutting for our new offices, which are right on the other side of this wall, through the through, the glass doors, over there that event will be March, the fourth at 5 pm in this room, so be there or be square. You get a you get a spectacular tour of our seven cubicles. Tomorrow, very important. There is a special counsel meeting tomorrow.

Evening in this room at 6 pm, it will be to discuss transaction privilege taxes in Arizona as well as an interim budget for the town. So if you're really into finances and financing be here tomorrow night February 25th. I mentioned this as the last two meetings, we will be hosting a community visioning meeting at CAC just west of here. six pm Come out, join us.

There will be a lot of information be shared, there's flyers for these events up front, if you can get a chance to grab one, but that will be our first ever community visioning meeting. And and we think that a lot of folks are going to come in attend and it's gonna be an exciting event, a lot of information to be shared March 26th. Now partnership is looking to schedule a meeting in San Tan Valley for their emerging leaders group.

I know that when I sent this out to council, there's a lot of interest from council members going and participating in that they would also like the town staff to be there. I just talked to Mike from Lucid Motors before. I walked in here this evening and sounds like it's gonna be a nice event. They do need our help finding a venue. So I said, I would talk to the mayor about potential at Schneff Farms. Sounds like that's where they would like to be.

I also offer this room if in fact we can get this room scheduled. That's a that's an evening event I believe from 5:30 to 7:30 pm Next one is the San Tan, Valley Spring Festival. I have never personally attended but I've heard. It's a great event. The town was invited to participate in that event. Send it out to the council members. There's also a lot of interest in that event as well. That's on April, the 3rd. At Combs School. On their fields, apparently.

the last event that I have is We were lucky enough to receive an invitation meaning the, the town council and and myself, to do a factory tour of the lucid plant in Casa Grande. So we now have a date, that's marched, the 13th, so Garrett will need to make sure that we post that. Because I think that will likely have a quorum. No business will take place. It's just a tour of the plan.

In terms of the legislative update, I've got a number of bills here, I'll go through them fairly quickly and this is for information purposes, only everyone's very familiar with the three different bills regarding excise tax in Penau, County and refunding. Those funds, they're in various stages of approval. But on Monday, there was a striker proposed for House Bill 2273 in case you don't know that's house. Bill 21:06 House, Bill 2273, and House, Bill 2304 House.

Bill 2273 was the one that had the project list. If you guys recall um, striker took place and the new bill is to reimburse, all the taxpayers of Pinal County with those remaining funds. So send it back to individual um, Next week is what they call Hell Week. That's when the house bills. Go to the Senate and the Senate bills, go to the house. So these next two weeks are very busy at the legislature.

The good news is, we'll have a lot better idea of which bills are going to go forward and, and, which ones won't after next week, the next bill I have to mention is House, Bill, 2588. That's called the Municipalities Design Prohibition Bill. That would limit our ability as as part of some of our planning, review on cases including preliminary plats and site plans to do a review regarding design prohibition, our design items. What might that?

Be one of the primary concerns is perimeter walls and how those walls are built. And when they're, where they're located also impacts to flight control through subdivisions as, as part of stipulations on cases. So, That one in mind, the next one is. Senate Bill 1566 which is called the Malicious Delay Bill. So there's a bill out there that that is very general in nature at this point but essentially puts a $5,000 fine on any city town or county as part of a review of permits licenses approvals.

If it's determined that there was malicious. lay, but nobody really explains what that is or provides a time frame in terms of how much delay. So, keep an eye on that one, House Bill 2290 is TPT sourcing. This is very controversial and is something that the League of Cities and Towns is very much. working on essentially, what? That would be as it stands now and the tax code if Harvey buys Harvey's in the front row here. So I'm just calling him out.

If Harry Harvey, buy something on Amazon Harvey's taxes, go assigned to where he lives the jurisdiction, where he lives, This bill would reassign those taxes collected to the areas that have distribution centers, where the orders are fulfilled. So, the cities that have Big Google Walmart tractor supply sourcing facilities, they would get all the taxes instead of the local entities. where we're the purchases are taking place how to build 299.

That's called the Infrastructure Financing District Bill I talked about at our last meeting as well. I think everybody understands that we already have the ability to finance infrastructure through community facilities, districts our CFDs, This bill would create a state, financing authority and the ability to create what's called an infrastructure financing district. The child there are multiple challenges That but it's it's definitely a break of local control.

We would no longer have say, if you have a CFD, your council is is the members of the CFD board your council approves and advertises for all reimbursements, and contracts on that Work for reimbursements, that would all be taken away from city town and county governments in Arizona, and govern by a straight board, a state board. What other impacts could it have it might take away our ability to use development impact fees for development to pay its own way.

If this district was utilized then we would not be able to charge development impact fees, these types of districts for any of you. You that don't know, reimburse, the developer for building, all the improvements for the subdivision could be parks, could be streets, could be street lights, all of those things paid by the developer up front and then your taxes pay to reimburse the developer over a 20 or 30 year time frame.

So when I was in Florence, we ended up in a situation where one part of our community, the anthem community and some of you may live in anthem, they pay three times as many taxes as the other residents of Florence. This is just another level of taxing district, but our local council wouldn't have a say in it. The other concern that the League has on this bill is if it were to go broke the district, all the responsibility would fall on the local government.

So all on San Tan Valley, if one of these districts dissolved, So, very important Bill for, for the council members, if you haven't sent in your strategic planning packet, please send that in to me. yesterday. I'm happy to say and there's a number of folks. Here, I'll sit in this general vicinity, we, we kicked off our ipac yesterday. Afternoon, all seven members were present.

I've been quizzing them in terms of the quality of the training and what they got out of it and it sounds like it was a good training. They enjoyed it. They learned a lot. Pinal County has a planning and zoning meeting this Thursday. There's one case for San Tan Valley, so we will be scheduling an IPAC meeting for it. Looks like next Thursday or Friday to have our first official business and they will elect officers at that meeting as well.

So, thank you so much to the Council hitting the ground running. Making your appointments approving. The resolution, to allow us to, to facilitate this process. And the excitement is we're going to kick it off next week and they're excited. The last item I have is we have two other folks in the audience that are I guess employees, four and five. if you'd like to stand they have items on the agenda but I thought I'd give them a chance to to stand that would be Robert Stanley. It director.

And Janet Dare. HR. That's all I have. We are glad to have our numbers increasing up to five. Now, remember your number because it is unprecedented to be at this level at this municipality and being one of the first ones to help take part of that brand members his first number with Maricopa. So so when that one event, when they're asking for staff to be there, how many we're going to have one two three. Four five. Who knows? I'm not gonna venture a guess. We'll see.

And I'll try to make a call for the farm. I know somebody there. Okay. We'll see. But let me know. okay, this is gonna take us to item number seven, this will be business before the Council. We're gonna go to seven. A This is a penal county sheriff's office. It's a Santan Valley operations overview for us. It's a presentation for the Elon law enforcement operations in this area.

Including call volume Response, data crime, trends, traffic enforcement statistics, geographic deployment analysis, and staffing considerations. And this is going to be for information Only we will not Take any action on anything that is said, so at this point, we are going to it over to Sheriff. People Welcome, thank you for being here. Appreciate you. There goes, Hey work. I just, I just want to say, I guess the county attorneys also speak tonight.

You thank you for having me before him because he's a heart attack problem and great public speaker. Oh, Mayor. Vice Mayor, Councilmember Santan. Valiums, thanks for having us here today. I do have a lot of slides to get through and so once the slides are rolling, if you have any questions whatsoever, please stop me and I can answer any questions and if I can't I have my expert in the back room.

If you notice on the first slide, it says prepared by Hunter Jones, senior crime analyst he is way smarter than I am. And he's here to help me with statistics and any questions you may have, I did want to say because I spoke to several audience members before this started and one question that a lot of San Tan Valleyans want to know is, is what winners is.

A contract going to be signed, What is the policing services going to cost the city of San Tan Valley and quite honestly, Guys, we're not even close to coming up with that number right now. We will, of course continue to provide you with police and services. But what we did was It's fair. And equitable to all of the taxpayers is we went to an outside entity a private company that does this sort of thing and they're figuring out the numbers. It's going to cost because it's it's real easy to say.

These are the 29 Deputies Patrol, deputies sergeants in the lieutenant that are assigned to San Tan Valley. So a lot of people face value say, Well, how much is it going to cost us for those 29 deputies, but understand this isn't all the law enforcement professionals that service this area. If you walk next door and love to give you a tour. Any one if ever wanted to, you can see the detectives that are over there that aren't on this roster.

Those detectives do follow up cases for and get convictions. You have your traffic enforcement unit. Next door and I'm sure you guys want traffic enforcement especially on Hunt and Bella Vista. but we'll get to that later on the slide but those are the kind of things. And then you have to think about the fact that it's not just the deputies, it's the insurance that the county patient, the deputies, it's the fleet maintenance worker that works on the vehicle. It's the vehicle that's purchase.

It's the calls for service. We already provide dispatching services for towns, like Superior and Mammoth and Central Arizona police. And we have those calculations we Right at this entity with that, those calculations. And it shows, every time we dispatch a call for service for city, this is what it costs, the sheriff's office to do that and so that's they're still compiling.

All them numbers we had some discussions, it absolutely, we can move forward with signing an IgA saying that if you guys want contract out with us and then we can speak later about because there's going to be needs that you Council members and you Santan Valians, want of the sheriff's office, and there's going to be suggestions that I'm gonna provide you and there's gonna be cold hard facts about.

I will tell you I went to one meeting that we're talking about incorporating and there was an individual there that was represented an organization and he was saying that as soon as you incorporate, you're gonna have national standards of city policing as far as number of police towards number of residents in the area. And if you guys it's kind of an unrealistic number. Most law enforcement professionals say that that's not It anymore.

But the International Association of Chiefs of Police years ago, did a study and they said that on average, you have to have two law enforcement officers for every 10,000 residents So if you use that, that would say that you would need 2,000 or 200 certified Peace officers for San Tan Valley to reach that study standards, folks, I have 253 sworn for the entire state of Connecticut. So that that's not realistic, that's why there's 29 here plus some detectives. and stuff.

So that's what we're gonna start off with what I want to have long term discussions with the city council, in the San Tan, Valley is about where you want to get, to one of the suggestions that I'm offering today. And just getting the bug in your ear is the fact that, I think it would be very beneficial if you guys agree to. hire a deputy chief that's over Santan Valley. So that would be your chief of police.

We've already moved towards Santan Valley, incorporation before you got actually voted to incorporate. We have a region Now, Adam Region used to be vastly different than what it is. Now, Adam Region, right now the lieutenant over had a dream in Benedict and region is the Incorporated City limits of San Tan Valley. So that's what we're talking about now. These beats are the incorporated city of San Tan, Valley wants to incorporate, that's Adam Region.

So I wanted to go through slides that we had today. And Garrett. Who said this works. So first thing is San Tan Valley, Operational Overview. I want to point out that all data is based on current proposed San Tan Valley Incorporated area, unless otherwise noted, there's some generalities about law enforcement and about Fenau County as a whole. We tried to provide as much statistics as possible that directly relate to San Tan Valley, the Incorporated city Now, for San Tan.

Valley, as you guys can see, you are on a gentle increase in total historical balls columns volumes of service since 2020 with one abnormality 2024 it dropped a little bit. But for 2025, there were 36,055 total calls for service for the San Tan Valley area. That's, that's a lot of calls, guys, for the number of deputies that are here. And that's why. If sometimes a deputy tells you, I have to go, I have calls holding. That's what he's referring to there.

and I wanted to talk about the specific calls because that is something that my entire law enforcement career. I've had the public ask me what type of calls What does the law enforcement actually do besides right tickets? Literally That's something that I've had people, ask. And so we have four main priority calls for service. A priority, one call is a life-threatening, call requiring nearly an hour of dedicated. So priority one call is you're calling up because your kid fell into the pool.

Of these, they're not breathing. It's a life-threatening call for that. If they haven't been breathing for a while, they've been underneath that, we upgrade that to a priority H call, that's a hot call. And you'll notice that a priority age call and a priority one, call both take a over an hour to process from the time, The deputy gets there and deals with the situation and priority two calls. Those are urgent in progress crimes.

That's that, that is like someone just shoplift a felony amount of goods from Walmart, something of those levels. That's a priority to urgent call. They take about on average 55 minutes for the responding, deputy to work that scene and then priority age or three calls are standard calls for service juvenile, disturbance. My neighbors, playing the the music, too loud.

Well, we call a 415 Nora, which is a neighbor dispute that actually takes up the majority that actually skews that to statistic because let's be honest, folks, most neighbors love to argue with each other. The ones that we get sent to. So We have to take a normal amount of time for those. And the big takeaway I would like everyone to get from. This is higher high Priority calls are not quick fixes. They're prolonged events that drain staffing levels.

Immediately operational Times Note, This data includes all response times, including outside of San Tan dollars. So this is for the county. Just that what? And as far as this goes, the prerequer pre-route dispatch lag is 10 minutes and 68 seconds. That's how long it takes and that's the average time before called sits in Q. and when it's a sign and then a unit's available for it. So on average, that's by national standards. That's pretty good.

You can go to some cities up in the valley and the average call bit lag. Time is about an hour. I have a friend of mine that works for 10 PPD and he says every day, when he checks on duty, he has calls for service waiting for So that's what they're talking about. They're the calls just pile up pile up. So at 10 minutes 68 seconds it seems like a long time but that's all calls. So that's your priority. Four calls.

There's a cow in the roadway up to priority age calls and travel time is 5.56 minutes. That's the average in route time. It takes for one of my deputies, to get on scene in all of Pinal County all calls for service time on scene, average, duration, that a deputy and pinal county spends on average calls for service is 25 minutes 57 seconds. Yes, the wrong one after I spelled it. it's officer shooting not but we fix that. But we got to set the previous PowerPoint for it.

So but these are the and that's put a little levity on a very serious situation, these are the call types that take the most time spent on scene. obviously, if an officer involves shooting, We're going to be there for a day for that. inmate death that's insider jail. A lot of people don't know this about the Supreme Court made a rule in years ago called custodial Caretaker Doctrine.

And what's that means is once a law enforcement entity, takes custody of an individual, we're responsible for their life. Whether they take their own life or not, whether they take an excess amount of legal drugs before they're booked into jail and they show no signs of any drug overdose and then they we put them in a cell and they fall asleep and they never wake back up. That's our responsibility. We have a custodial caretaker responsibility for that.

So that's why those calls for certain service and make this are so high. It's because we investigate it forward. And a search warrant.

Obviously that that's gonna take a while you got to secure the scene, you got right up to the scriptures, a cartilage of the house and then contact the judge and get the judge issue, the search warrant if he does and then serving that search warrant and then the bread and butter, my SWAT team or SWAT calls are barricaded subjects that that is the number one thing.

If we, if we respond to say, a domestic violence call and the wife says that the husband ran back inside the house and there's nothing but weapons inside the house that becomes a barricaded subject so that's going to be the swap team with the bearcat negotiators. There we would do make every attempt possible to leave the situation as peaceful as possible and then return back but those are your highest calls for service. True top 10 criminal offenses ARS codes for 2015 to 2025.

These are the top three and hundreds of this for all of Pinal County or San Tan Valley, I can't remember, I think it's same time, that's what I thought. I just want to make sure number one is disorderly conduct. It's 2,122. Incidences of fighting violent behavior. Seriously, disruptive content. That is the most common catch-all charge for public disturbances. If you speed and Arizona, it's 28701 and cops call 29 or 132904 That 2971 of criminal codes is disorderly conduct.

It's the one that they charge the most on disorderly conduct can be anything from an individual causing you to react in a physical manner or someone yelling to the point that it's disturbing a business in the business calls us up and say We want that person charged for interrupting the regular business of this criminal damage is another one. That's I would tell you guys, The criminal damage is a current trend with juvenile problems, and this is country ride as far as criminal damage goes.

And then assault, simple, assault intentionally or recklessly causing physical injury. This is the primary violent crime statistic for your reading. One thing that for people that move from another state Arizona doesn't have battery, assault is battery here.

I try to explain that to people because we will get calls where people say, Well, he committed assault and battery, and then they get mad because they we didn't charge him for battery, and that's legally battery is assault, and so there's not two separate charges. Sold is what you get charged for aggravated. Assault is if you injure someone that causes permanent lasting marks, And then in context with the disorderly, conduct is obviously DV. If Grant was talking earlier about Legislation.

I, I want to serve the citizens of Pinal County for as long as you possibly want me to serve one of my goals by the time I am in service is to get the legislature to Fix the law. As far as disorderly conductiv goes. We I we all want to stop domestic violence. This is the best example. I can give people, so they understand is when I started in law enforcement and they said, Ask me the question. Have you ever committed domestic violence? And I said Absolutely never.

Because a man would never raise a hand or a woman. I passed by polygraph with flying colors. I would tell you guys, if I took that holograph today and that was my same answer. I would fail that polygraph because I knew legally I was lying.

if you ever delved into the DV standards, it basically means if you are in a physical altercation or a disorderly conduct altercation with another person that you've ever resided under the same household or you've ever had a romantic relationship with or or, or, or it's considered domestic violence and for the majority of them, they are shall arrest.

If we go out there and someone is physically injured, we have to figure out who the primary aggressor is and that person has to be arrested and booked into jail. Even the example I get to use forever is two adult brothers. Their dad, very elderly, Dad dies. They both move or come from out of state to settle Dad's estates. They get a little heated, they get, they're knocked down drag out fight.

Well, they lived under the same house fifty years ago, but under Arizona statutes that still considered domestic violence. But my example is is I I have to admit that I committed domestic. Islands. How many veterans do we have in the room? How many veterans served back when the standard thing was? I know, it was in the Navy when I served in the late 80s, early 90s, a standard thing was, It's your favorite petty officer.

Tell you, you two go out back and settled and then come back and tell me who won. That's that is literally under Arizona law. That's domestic violence because I got into a physical altercation with my barracks mate, because he kept watching pornography very loud and I was told to take it out back and settle it that under Arizona law is domestic violence. So that's why there's so many ancients there for a lot of things. We're Arizona, otherwise is a mutual combat state.

We're not going to get into a fight but if him and I got into a physical altercation and law enforcement arrives on scene and they determine that there's no domestic relationship whatsoever and he says, I don't want to be a victim and I say I don't want to be a victim. You go. Your separate ways Arizona under our law is a what's called a mutual combat. They added all these DVS, which removes from the mutual combat state. So that, that is why there's so many charges.

And I and I bring this up time because we have a news outlet out of Phoenix that hates law enforcement. They've never day. I won't even honor them by saying his last name is never done a prolong enforcement, news story in his life and every about two years, he doesn't article on the fact that cops aren't doing their job. They're not documenting crimes well enough because we're resting people for domestic Islands, but half of domestic violence releases. Never make it to trial.

He loves to point out what he doesn't make mention is, is nobody really thinks that we're going to get a conviction against two 60 year old men that don't even live in the same state. No one wants them brought back here to charge for that domestic violence TV. And so that's why the charges are dropped as far as that goes. So that's an easy statistic for them to twist, but I got on my soapbox That'll be it. Definitely talk to you, legislature about that, it's too late.

this year because we're entering into Hell Week. So, and I that that's my explanation for the DVD definitions is the definitions are too numerous for this city council meeting for me to go over because then we never hear from the Great County attorney. Top 10 Criminal, Odessa's, Property Crime and Drug Crimes Staff 952 incidences. theft, and Santan Valley drug paraphernalia 919 incidences. That's That's actually gone down. Does anybody know why it's gone now? Because Arizona legalized marijuana.

Shoplifting, 604. Incidences drug possession. Marijuana still 458. Incidences of illegal drug position of marijuana. Wait a minute. The sheriff just said that marijuana is legal now. And well, it's legal and most incidences, but it's also illegal in some incidences, like, carrying marijuana in your vehicle, not in the approved container that you drove home from the Marijuana possession for children is obviously we still want to make that illegal so that's that's where you get them.

458, incidences dangerous, drugs meth LSD, cocaine, all of those that don't have or listen that we have 378 instances. The dominance of disorderly conduct and criminal damage over more severe felonies. Like aggravated assault of robbery does definitely reinforce the profile Santan Valley as a community, dealing primarily with social friction and domestic issues other than organized violent crimes you.

You could have Hunter dig through the crime statistics and Santan Valley for but we can tell you that there's nothing in our crime statistics show. That MS-13 is operating here or anything like that. You have a very safe community dealing with things that normal shape, communities deal with except for one glaring, exception that I'll talk about at the end. These are the beats As I said, we we've heard proactively drew up the beats for the projected.

in Corporation and as soon as the vote was made, we modified our beats and then this is San Tan Valley or what we call Adam. Adam Region. And those are your beats. Now these beets when we'll go through them, their size is determined by the calls for service and the call volume. so that sometimes, why you see a beat that's a little larger is because they have less cost for service.

There might be more farmland there, there might be businesses complexes there, so I'll be might be smaller because they're building the gigantic apartment complex next to Walmart. And I was one. I'm sorry. Previous beat. This is the proposed. Oh this is the old one. Yeah, you have a new slides here, you have. Yeah, and it right now. Yeah, thank you for catching them. If you want to grow the same. I thought a few more slides on. Sorry about that, guys.

The PowerPoint I gave you guys says, Officer shooting you something. And while he that real quick on, slide number five, that was the numbers you were going through. disorderly conduct criminal damage. Assault, are those incidences per year because you have 2015 to 2025 As the day or is that an average of a year? Or total, that's don't. Okay? Right. Sheriff. But listen, top 10, criminal offenses, you have here.

How does this relate to some of the other areas you service in the county are someone like, You know, these top three or five similar, you would see this kind of similar in other communities is this unique to San Tan Valley. What's your take on that. Sure, there are, it's about average especially when you equate your population size the big and we'll touch out at the end. The biggest difference, we see with San Tan Valley, with other areas that we service is your juvenile problems.

And that's directly related to group homes, which I'll talk about at the end so that is it. There are neighborhoods that are way more violent with the top 10 crimes that we service and then there's neighborhoods with their a lot less your population is considered a little time. First. I did that one and that one of our new, let's stay in 10 Valley specifically Hunter is always updating this. So thank you because this is something I just asking about today and he added to the PowerPoint.

So these are the call times and these are the average travel times in the average time on scene for these different calls for services. And these are specifically stand Hand Valley and these are updated as of this morning. So, if you look at assault average, travel time for one of my deputies to respond, if a San Tan valley and calls in an assault is four minutes and five seconds.

The fire and smoke is seven minutes, 15 seconds domestic seven minutes and those times are right there at the national average. mental health, calls dead body calls if you see average length of time for mental health, calling a dead body call or both about an hour and a half the average length of time of deputy respond there. And and the one big thing, the difference between a dead body call and a mental health call is is usually mental health.

Call has two deputies there because you're dealing with a subject. It's actually a mental crisis, dead body call. Once we determine that, Yes, the individual is actually deceased. It's one deputy there. Open a family through their grief. Suicidal subjects a little over an hour and juvenile disturbance. 26 minutes is the average length of time Deputy has to spend at a Now, let's get to the real beats. And I pressed it once. That's crazy. Are you doing that?

I was getting to assign you were at So yeah, that it didn't look right. So thank you, Hunter. These are the beats. and because I wanted to talk about adam4. If you see that a lot of Adam force beat, it's a large beat area, but a lot of that is state trust land and a farmland. and then the reservoir.

So that's where this is, that you'll see the different boundaries, of course, you got Queen Creek to the Northwest, you got the military reservation here, and this is Arizona Farms, Skyline road, snuff road. And so these are the beaches we've gotten and broke up right now.

Again Walmart they're awesome at stopping people for shoplifting but it's also a lot of calls for service because people want to shoplift from them and Home Depot and then they're built the just the enormity of the building that they're doing there and I don't know if you guys can hear me, but I say this, everywhere. I think whoever designed the intersection that is hunting fellowfish, this should be investigated. It's it's one a day guys. We we have at least one collision a day at huntless.

And that's the second one. We'll get to that. Clickers working. So, beat analysis for Adam, one. traffic related effects, and all these statistics are 2015 to The. We try to use statistics, to show you the overview of the areas and we can break them down for current and newer on. I like to come back for as many meetings as possible, whatever information. We just wanted to give you a brief overview of everything. The And the Pinal County Sheriff's Office started.

Looking at considering Santan Valley as a city. When the first time the incorporation effort was took place The very first one was talked about that was 2015. So we just took that as an average to start working towards here, so if you look in Adam one those are the operational volume as far as calls for service. Welfare checks thefts. repossessions, you will see every single beat repossession are pretty high for San Tan Valley.

that that I mentioned earlier about the juvenile statistics, but as far as repossessions, we're gonna go through every single beat, you're gonna see that that people don't pay their car payments. Add them to. As I said early, it's very small for a reason. If you go back. Look at the size of this. Great big. 18,734 traffic related volumes. for the whole beaten and switch forward here. Because this thing 3,967 traffic-related volume.

That's, and the reason that they're not able to do that much traffic in that small areas, because they're responding to all these other calls 25,240 calls, two thousand, welfare checks. 1,490 civil complaints, domestic violence. Suspicious activity disturbance. Repossessions 861. Again. People don't pay their car payment.

theft criminal damage side note in Arizona, if a bank and repo a vehicle and they don't make a disturbance, they don't need a court order so they can come and vehicles parked on the roadway and they can hook up to it and drive away and make it basically around the corners with the Arizona, Supreme Court says, and that's a good people, but if they go to hook it up and they going to completely off the property, then the owner of it can stop it, and then they have to go and get a court order.

And three. another small beat, total operational, volume 48,930 calls for service in the last 10 years and that beat alone. the reckless driving in that beat is quite high 2600 and repossessions at 1,494 disturbances and 2100 suspicious activity in ADAM 3. Traffic related Volume, The deputies actually, get a pretty decent time of pulling traffic that this is one of them beats that we get. A lot of calls for service. The, What what's the old accent guys? Squeaky wheel gets degrees?

I will tell you that my traffic is one of the biggest myths that is out there in this world is that there's quotas for traffic enforcement officers. The Supreme Court says that quotas illegal and I want to tell you guys traffic deputies are wired differently. We don't need to tell them quotas because they I have to put them in certain roads and they're like, what?

I only got three tickets an hour Normally if I go to Adam 3, I get six tickets in an hour because it's it's volume of vehicles driven by him. So that's just the way they're wire. I'm seeing a trend here welfare checks. There's a lot of them, there's in each one, is that just a range of just calls that people are saying, Hey, can you go check up? I haven't heard from somebody. How much time does the deputies have to be on a call for a well fair checkup? What's the average? You decide?

I think it was 25 minutes. 25. Okay. 100 can pull it up right now as far as today but it is around 25 minutes. We'll give you what it is statistically here today. It's one of them to always changing it. As far as welfare checks, go, I don't want to keep laboring the point, but there are 93 group homes operating right now in San Tan Valley, 12 of them are DCs License Group Homes. 14. 14 are as of today. Our DCs license group.

The other ones are in a different status pending like Application Receive application review.

But literally, there are 93 group homes in your city and they are our highest call for volume range if you want to lower response times, if you want more, deputies out there, conducting traffic enforcement on Cancel and below this and Hunt and Bella Vista think and look at the group homes, and we'll talk about it there at the end, but a lot of these welfare checks, a lot of these disturbances and run away. Juveniles are from the homes. One of the Things.

And we were talking earlier about this is under Arizona law, a parent or Guardian Chau used, the force necessarily control situation, best example, I can ever give you of a parent, not using force necessary to control the situation is a mother calls up and says My daughter's running away and we said how she knows how, you know, she's running away. She says Well she says she's leaving I want and she gives us a call by call description.

We were arguing and it was to Fry's shopping market, Mom, wouldn't my daughter, the cereal she wanted. So Congress says, I'm running away from home. So, Mom immediately calls us up and says she ran away. She's running across the intersection gives us play by play, so I arrive on scene. I say, Listen, what did you do to stop her from? running out into a busy intersection? What force did you use to stop your child and control your child? No, no, that's your job. That's not my job.

It's literally what the mother told me. So we cited her for contributing to the linquency of a minor because that that's pretty textbook definition of it. Her minor child was being delinquent and she contributed to it by not doing anything at all. We got a conviction on that. Right now, DCs group homes and Supervisor Goodman and is sitting on a panel with me on this. We're in contact with them. I will tell you that DCs right now. Their guidelines tell them that they can't get involved.

If a kid says they're running away from home that they have to. Just let go, they can't physically. stop a child from running away from home. They have guardianship under, and to me, that's just atrocious every one of them, deputies, that stand out there. Today can tell you on a daily basis. I mean literally on a daily basis. This is the call we get is this is such and such group home and I need to report a welfare. Check. What's the welfare check? What's the runaway juvenile?

And they're wearing black pants and a gray sweatshirt and oh wait, they're changing into a blue sweatshirt and they're packing a backpack. And we're like, What do you mean? They're changing into clothes. They're obviously not run away juvenile over. They say they're leaving. They're going back to Phoenix where they're from and we're not allowed to get involved.

And that's that is when we get to the statistic that that is a large amount of calls for service for the issue before you, the City Council on the San Tan Valley ends is, is if you want to follow the model of Maricopa County, because the reason there's so many juvenile disturbances rock and run away. juveniles and welfare checks in down is because the majority of these kids that are in group homes in San Tan Valley are not even from Pinal County, Maricopa County took the initiative.

And they said, We don't want these group homes in our county. So they made the cost for getting a license for Groupon America County cost prohibitive. So they moved them all back here and I just asked you guys to think back when you were a child, and I grew up in Tucson Arizona, and if I screwed up bad enough and I Have when I was a kid, I just it wasn't a cop there to see me.

But if I screwed up bad enough, that DCs decided to put me in a group home for a while and then you put me in a group home in Phoenix. And my girlfriend's in Tucson. What's 16 year old boys? Not gonna run away from home to go see his girlfriend and that's what we're experiencing. A lot of this is the these juveniles are moved out of their area and they moved here then DCs is telling them the guardians that they're not allowed to do anything with them and the kids are running away.

Share of the Do These welfare checks always require a deputy to show up or do you have like a volunteer? squad or posse that goes out and does some of these welfare checks to relieve the deputies. It there are certain welfare checks that we have volunteers, can go out, but mostly our volunteers consist of two different organizations that will be out there. In the street. We have our cops, which is our citizens on patrol.

There are eyes and ears and depending on the welfare check, I've used them for what we call urban searches. If like actually not far from here before this building existed, we had a mentally needs child that ran away from home and he was out in the farm area and we use cop for that. So that would technically be called a welfare check and we would use them our posse our other volunteers.

They're they are our godsend because they really take the burden off of us for holding a perimeter down or for transporting our inmates. Once we get someone under arrest, they take The jail force, okay? So you have a volunteer for us but it's minimal impact is mostly deputies. Are still having to go out. Yes. First were Welfare Jackson. and other calls for services. And we are approaching us seven o'clock. I know we have several presentations like that for tonight.

So I just as far as time management signal that. Okay, This is Adam4. obviously seeing the same type things as far as the welfare checks. Go total, operator volumes and adam5. You're not gonna see much much different Very small beat repossessions. 1,408, welfare checks, 3,530, welfare checks. that's a lot and we, for most of, and I was speaking with council members earlier, we can discuss actual addresses because these are children the addresses have to be protected for public.

And so, this is public information. that's on this PowerPoint available to everybody, but I can tell you a large majority of the group homes are in this week right here. So you want to go forward to the And six. 46,652. Operational volume. And I'm Russian through these guys, that, you know, me, I'll talk to two people of one person to listen. So if you guys want this power afterwards, right, down your email for me and I will send it to you.

And or if you want to slides quicker, but I want to get to the last two. You know, these are traffic, you all know the worst intersections in San Tan Valley. They're here listed for you. There's no surprises there. Hunting. Bella Vista area and Hunt Ironman would knock it to you. These are your problem Intersections, I will tell you traffic guys, this is traffic both my traffic enforcement deputies and road engineers.

If you want to stop or eliminate a lot of your traffic instances consider investing in synchronized lights. So I know it's an expensive cost up front, but I just go back to those lights and on highway it where the Home Depot is and the Walmart were literally this light turns green and 15 feet next to me that likes red and that's what caused a lot of these slow-moving fender vendors. Stuff and we go through all the trafficking right? I didn't think I was gonna go so long on my Three for the 52.

Sliders. Oh, it's good. It's a lot of information, but I didn't know I was gonna go so long on my soapbox in, and I really want to listen to the county attorney. You were backwards because that's true. Do you think that the red light cameras help. Reduce red light runners. I know, I know living out here It doesn't matter what time of day I'm driving. I will see at least one person Want a red light. Oh yes, every time I know that does red light cameras reduce Read that runners or more.

The studies that are done by the red light camera companies say that they reduce, red light cameras, the studies that were done by Nitsa says that they actually cause more people cause more rear and collisions, and they cause more people to run red or speed through a yellow light. As far as I, my biggest issue from the law enforcement aspect of it, is, is the way red light cameras are written in Arizona.

They violate our citizens do process rates and I don't know, from a law enforcement aspect of it. I don't like red light cameras because I've never seen a red light camera recognize that someone is driving on a suspended license or is DUI. so that's not a problem out here is We keep going through Garrett, only want to stop. I want to go to the last two slides.

And Because they say that, as far as public speaking, I know when I took public speaking in college, I said that the audience remembers the first thing you said in the last thing you said. And so I'm gonna the first and the last thing I say or I want to be the same thing. When you get, okay. See this, these are the top 10 group homes for calls for service. In in this is but look at the right hand side, what I want you to see is is so group home. The first one they're listed as active.

It had 368 instant counts for that home, but look at all the ones, there's oh, there's 93 group homes in San Tan Valley. Only 14 of as of today are actually approved group homes, Everyone else is under review status or pending compliance status, or something like that. So they are moving in because it is a business and it's a profitable business. And then on the right or just list of status is not, it doesn't correlate with one on the left. Yes.

Or okay, just all the statuses in the left side are just without giving the address. And so, to really drive this point home at the last slide, since January of 2020 through, that's the total number of calls for service to the group homes, in your city, she's 4,913. and the biggest statistic I'd like you guys to take away from you is Is 62 or 64 as a 62. 62%, So that's six average every 10. active juvenile criminal cases that are in San Tan Valley, so that's six of county.

Oh shoot, yeah, I'm glad you're clarified that I misunderstood when I was reading. So, 62% of all juvenile crime. That is actively being investigated in Penel County, now, county the size of the state of Connecticut, are directly related to group homes in San Tan Valley. As well. That's why I tell you guys. There's, there's other ways.

There's other slides that I'd like to meet with you on ways, we can help better that I'd suggest that we get better benefit and serve the citizens of Pinal County. But if there's one issue that supervisor Goodman, and I sitting on this community together recognized is Thank you, Sheriff. Thank you. And that's a lot of good information and we do appreciate the Little card that you gave us. I have one just For education, for the Council, and for the citizens.

in any agreement that goes for that that is directed to the sheriff's department is still, does it have to go through the Board of Supervisors? Also Yes, sir. Okay. So we'll be working with, you know, through you and and ultimately, they would be the ones to make the recommendation, yay, or any on anything, okay?

Because especially if you buy or listen, my recommendation about creating a new position, a deputy Chief over San Tan Valley, that that's directly relates to the pocketbooks and they hold first. Okay, we sure do any comments are any from the Council before we move on. One random question. Um, it's so each of these groupings about on average. How many Approximately. That's, that's a great question, and the sad part about it is is that would be a DCs question.

because I will tell you every group home, I have to give you a ballpark figure from the group homes that I've responded to out here. There's anywhere from six kids, living in that house to 16, 30 kids and one house in particular. So, What there, there are corporations, I 6 to 10 and so all the other one we shut down where they attack the workers. That was the one that was offered. That's when I remember a bunch of people. Okay. Wow, thank you for your presentation. We hope that you'll come back.

Yeah. I'm sure we got a lot. We just didn't have enough time and there's a lot of information up here that you have and we love to have that shared with us. So thank you. It's all Josh long around. but you take it when you need it. Okay, thank you, sharers. Appreciate you. Okay. Well, move on to item number seven, B. This is going to be a presentation by the Pinal County attorney's office.

it's about reporting crime, statistics and Santan, Valley area for the calendar years of 2023 through 2025 and a general overview of the role in function of the Canal County Attorney's Office. And we'll turn the time over to Brad Miller. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. Let me get hooked up here real quick. All right. Thank you so much. Mayor members of the town council. I appreciate it. My name is Brad Miller.

You're Pinal County attorney now just for the education of some of the members of the audience of what is a county attorney. I'm both your district attorney, which I handle all the felony cases in in the entire county. But I also serve as a legal advisor for many of the county departments, including the sheriff's department, the sheriff's attorney, we handle all those things.

So, I know the mayor asked about the potential MoU with respect to the sheriff's department, that will eventually go to the Board of Supervisors for ultimate approval. But in fact, it'll be my lawyers who will be reviewing it, reviewing it with your town attorney in order to submit that to the Board of Supervisors. So, we'll be involved in that process. But I'm really happy to be here tonight to talk a little bit about what my office does. What's going on in your town?

where the hot spots are and some of the probably some information that you will find interesting. But ultimately it's about this as we want to prosecute violent and dangerous criminals that's really our priority And we want to focus on those things.

we want to divert and to handle some of the lower level cases where we can we want to give people an opportunity for rehabilitation, but in the end, the biggest predictor of future crime is past crime and so it's been a priority of my office to focus on violent criminals, repeat offenders, and finally crimes against children. And what you're going to see in these statistics, unfortunately is there is a problem here in San Tan Valley but I want to get into these statistics.

I didn't go back all the way to 2015, like the sheriff. Did. What I want to do is focus on the last three years. And so I want to talk about those specifically. Now, these statistics aren't just here for your edification. What? These statistics are meant to show is that it is part of a plan of us attempting to reduce crime. But what you will see in these numbers is in fact prime is increasing at least.

that's what appears in numbers are, but I want to give you a little bit different view about what these numbers show is that I don't believe that crime is increasing. I believe that we're doing a better job of detecting crime. We're doing a better job of finding where these folks are. We're doing it.

Better job of not just waiting till victims, Our victimized, but we're going out into the community positively in the sheriff's department is a big part of this and actually finding these individuals finding the repeat offenders, finding the people and probation. warrants, and actually arresting them and locking them up and keeping them out of our community. We're doing a much better job of that. And the way we've done that is we set priorities. We set policy. One of the main things I did.

When I came into office in 2025, is to start a special victims unit which had not existed in the Pinal County attorney's office before. Just a little bit about my background. I've been prosecuting crimes against children or about 15 years.

Both on the civilian side of the Maricopa County Attorney's Office and in the United States Marine Corps, where I currently serve today The focus of my practices, been to prosecute harshly, people who commit crimes against the most vulnerable and that's children. And that's something that we do not tolerate, we have a zero tolerance policy in my office, and oftentimes, with these cases, we do not even give a plea offer. If it's life in prison, it's life in prison. That's where you belong.

For instance, this past week we had an individual that was caught aggravated. luring of a minor. And I'm going to talk about a sting case. We ran here in San Tan Valley, a few weeks ago, actually, about a month ago. And the reason why we run these, steam cases is very important. Is because we know that there are live victims. We will find live victims in these sting cases and this particular stink case we had a trial on this past week.

An individual did, in fact have a child in his custody and luckily, a jury of our peers here in Pinal County found, this individual guilty, and he'll be spending the next 250 years. in prison which obviously is life plus eight lifetimes on probation, he will never get out. And based on my policy, my office is policy. We do not want him to get out. We will continue to prosecute crimes in that way and that manner, because that is the expectation of my office. So, let's get into the statistics.

Let's talk about your 2025. I want to highlight a few things. Could. You is this is this working? I'll just stay here. That's perfect. Thank you. All right. So what I did and I just want to give you kind of engage of what we're looking at here. is obviously, this is not Exactly, the limits of the town but I will say, obviously, people don't stay within town limits. Prime doesn't prime does not follow town limits.

So what we did is we decided to do a neighborhood by neighborhood, search of all the crime that had occurred in 2025, and we broke that down into particular areas. We tried to group them as easily as possible into particular neighborhoods. So I wanted to speak specifically about certain neighborhoods. And so what we did is we called these clusters and again, these slides will be available for any member of the public. If you want them, we'll provide them all to you.

I want to talk about four clusters specifically in 2025 the first one. Bella Vista south We call it, which is basically Hunt Highway and Bella Vista. And that is going to be. Is it going to show up? No, I'm gonna come around you in point. That is going to be this area. I want to talk about this area right here. that's our top crime area in the entire city, the entire town of This particular zone reflected a wide range of crimes including violence and sexual crimes.

Assault molestations of children, unlawful imprisonment, luring of a minor threatening intimidating. In addition, there were many property crimes. Financial crimes obviously fraudulent use of a credit card, shoplifting, and criminal damage. There were also a number four, were public safety and endangerment style crime, reckless driving excessive speed endangerment.

A lot of things that share of people spoke about, but also failure to stop unlawful flights and finally, in this particular crime, there were also digital and child welfare offenses including harassment, with electronic devices and and permitting children to improperly use some of these devices. This particular area showed a high mix of felony level charges, which with strong implications for traffic enforcement child protection and digital safety. But that was your top area.

Again, the cross streets hunt and Bella Vista. number two, Johnston, Ranch, Bella Vista, and Cancell. This particular area, this cluster was the second worst in the entire town. But again, very different mix and that's the interesting thing about these towns. I know, one of the council members asked about what types of crimes do you see in this town versus other towns and other in Pinal County? But what I can say, is this, every town, and every city is a little bit different.

There are certain towns and cities that have more gang related issues as sheriff people discussed, but there are certain other other towns that have a different mix of crimes and here, this particular cluster, what we see is a lot of traffic and Dui related offenses driving into the influence aggravated Dui. No registration. No rear.

License plates interference with judicial protein proceedings, clear to stop produced insurance as you can hear by just this list very different than the last zone that we talked about but of course we also have repeat offenses including disorder, disorderly conduct for any intimidating criminal damage. now, let me just differentiate some of the information that share of people stated that what I'm stating here today. Sheriff, people is talking about the all the incidents those responses.

I'm not talking about those responses, I'm talking about cases that my office actually prosecuted. Ones that either went to a trial or went to a plea or cases where we couldn't make it. And in fact, actually had to those particular charges, all of that is broken down into this data, but for this neighborhood level data, these are cases that actually went to a trial or a person took a plea, and they were found guilty, and that's what we're talking about. Let's go to the third.

Which is also Johnson Ranch on the east side of Hunt Highway, you know, the Johnson Ranch Loop. I don't know. Many of you are probably familiar with and this particular cluster. We see another different mix youth and weapons related offenses seem to seem to follow this particular zone, including escalated driving offenses, aggravated Dui, access speed, and interestingly, unlawful burning cases. We didn't see this a lot of some of the other areas.

We also saw a lot of contemptive court and preventing emergency communication types of crimes. This cluster showed an escalated risk, amongst youth and impaired drivers with implications of community education and emergency emergency response again, very different than some of the other zones. Finally, I want to talk about Skyline Ranch Gary and Skyline Drive.

Again we see high risk, driving extreme DUI, aggravated assault, access speed and endangerment properly related offenses, false reporting. Theft and means a transportation. No, insurance emergency interference with communication and passive resistance of law enforcement. this zone reflects public safety threats, including from impaired drivers and for some reason in Skyline Ranch we see a lot more aggravated dui cases. I don't know why. But that's what the statistics show.

So, as you can see and you see all of these different little bubbles all across your town. It still shows a different mix of what we have. What is happening in your town? For those are the worst areas. one of the other things I wanted to highlight is this past, December my office ran and operation called Operation Shepherd's Watch. This was a sting operation just to give you a brief overview of. What is seeing operation is not to install your intelligence, right? I think it may help.

This is one of those instances where it's like a Chris Hansen style, sting operation, where we have individuals pretending to be police officers. They chat online with individuals in order to see whether they will be willing to engage most of these undercover police officers. Poses children sometimes 14 15, 16 years old to see if we can get these individuals to actually respond. And that one operation actually ran it. Pretty close to here.

We found eight individuals that were that were willing to sign up and say, I want to have sex with children. Here in your town. So this is something that we need to have more affirmative policing, and I know the sheriff's office has been involved in some of this and I know my office certainly will be, but I just want to let you know that these things are happening in your community. And as you will see, from these 2025 crimes statistics, the crime has changed and I know we're short on time.

So I won't I promise to speed it up. So, I'm gonna skip 2024, but I want to show you a stark difference. You go to 23, please, I want to show you a stark difference in this crime, stats, 2025 to 2023. What you will see in 2023 is not what I just told you. We don't see crimes against children. We don't see child molestation. We don't see aggravated DUIs. what we say. As a lot more, what we call paper crimes. Driving compliance issues. Procedural Types of Crimes.

now, this can be a whole host of reasons. We're still going through the data to figure out the. Why course everybody wants to know the why I can't tell you exactly the why now we do talk to a lot of criminals, we do interview, a lot of folks, but sometimes these things change, sometimes they don't always give us the best information, but I will say over just the last couple of years there's been Different. Some of this I think could be related to the group home problem.

I certainly believe that that's certainly is the case. Also, the growth of the town The more exposure. But there's another important factor. Proactive policing is occurring more and more often here in this town. And I think we're getting better job of detecting it. And sometimes when you go for and you seek it and you have better professionally trained individuals, like my office has and I know the sheriff's office has to deal with these specific types of crime.

They get better at detecting it and that's what we're doing. We're getting better at detecting this crime so we can try to eradicate it from your town. We will continue to work hard for you. We will continue to work hard for the residents and obviously I'm open for questions if anything you want any question, you want to ask regarding the data. I know we're short on time but I will say, as my team is working very hard with the sheriff's office, in this particular town to keep you safe.

But again, my priorities are violent crime, repeat offenders and going after individuals, who prey on the most vulnerable and that's kids. We will not be changing any of those policies with that. I invite any questions. Thank you on your map. Do you have any numbers to the northern part of San Antonio? But the ironwood Okatio, that's not displayed Here is not that bad about area or Yeah. Great question, Mayor. I appreciate that.

So, what we see in the data and I can provide, I can provide all of us to you. I just want to provide a snapshot Where we saw the most crime, the localized crime but as you get further and further north the crime almost disappears. It's very, very little, especially when you get up into into the Queen Creek area, it seems to be focused as you can see where those big bubbles are, which is really on the southern part of your town.

That's where at least we've seen the cases that we want to focus on again. Those violent folks repeat, offenders the violent, juvenile offenders, and some of those things. I'll spare you the question of why, and I already went over the wise. We don't know why? Well, we, we are looking into it.

We have some speculative information about the why we can again I can speculate all day if you want to sit down and have coffee or anybody wants to, we can probably talk about that some of the reasons why I think the date, it will spell that out, but I think some of it's related to some of the group home issues, some of it's related to detection and some of us related to population growth, but I think there's other factors too. Okay? Thank you.

If you could wave a magic wand on anything in the town, the town can actually implement and do. Yeah. What would it be? That can help your office or the sheriff's office. you know, I I think community support um, two months ago, I came out and spoke to a couple of the schools here in San Tan Valley. And I think, I think a lot of the schools, a lot of students need more exposure to what. So what police officers do, what my office does.

I think that education piece will let them know that there is an alternative other than committing crime. This isn't always the most fun thing. I don't know If you remember back in the day, we had the DARE programs. We had some of the presidential fitness programs, some of those things where you can actually engage members of the community and interestingly last week are about a week or about a week or so ago.

I was out in Washington DC and I went on a recruiting trip to recruit more lawsuits because Arizona has actually wanted like 4748 a number of lawyers per capita. We have a lawyer problem in Arizona. But one of the things they said is this I thought was interesting with the newer generations and these are law students obviously educated both set bachelor's degrees. Some had masters, some of PhDs. They said the number one recruiting tools exposure.

I think we've had so many generations go through covid and everything be online and zoom. We think that we only communicate well via a screen. But what they're finding is this and even amongst newer police recruits or something that will probably end up talking about here soon is if you actually go They're physically present and show that you're engaged and look at them eye to eye.

They will start engaging more and I think that the ease of some of these screens, the ease of zoom ease of these different programs. We've gotten lazy. As elected officials as members of our society, as Tom Council, not disparaging the town council. Hey, but I will say this engage engage engage we want to engage. That's why we're here. And I would encourage you to also, engage. And I think that's gonna be part of the part of the solution. I think this is great. These numbers that are here.

These are things that we wanted to see for a while. And not everyone has the opportunity to see it or didn't want to reach out to both the sheriff's department or you. So we appreciate that. Do we have any? And the town is incorporated. What will happen is the town will be responsible for misdemeanor cases within its jurisdiction, right? Felony cases, will continue to go to Mr. Miller's office for prosecution so that's one of the changes that occurs At once, we're incorporated.

So as we are now, so appreciate that. Clear location. May I piggy back on that point. so this that's a very important point, but the other thing that I want to also encourage, we talk about issues and engagement is your town prosecutor. We want to engage with them too because there's a lot of tools that we have at my office that can potentially help.

Some of your town prosecutors, one of the issues that we're seeing is some of the town prosecutors don't have the same checks and background checks. So I know the sheriff highlight of some of these domestic violence cases. Well domestic violence, misdemeanor. If you get a couple of them under under 133601, can turn into a felony really quickly. The last thing we need is a a person who is committed, multiple cases of domestic violence. That should be a felony.

Go to your misdemeanor, court where they should be with me. And so those are the things that we we would encourage a time to engage with. We've encourage it prosecutor to engage with, as we certainly want them to even come into my office. We can help cross train them, we can answer questions and work with them with some of the tools that we have to. So with that. Thank you so much. Well, we appreciate that. Thank you for that clarification. Anyone on the Council, Have any comments questions?

Just one really quick there, I know where to tight on time. So again, just I really appreciate you drawing the attention on this matter and I say this, because I'm a little bit unsettled the other day. I received in the mail, a postcard regarding sex offender. moving in to a nearby neighborhood. So again, the biggest thing as a resident is what do we do? So where do you draw to some resources? Because again, that's really it's great that we're notified.

But again, you feel this sense of helplessness that these are individuals that live so close to you and your loved ones. So again if there's a way you can kind of draw us to What do we do next, I think that would be really critical and helpful to some of us who kind of feel asking about, Okay, so what is the next step? So great question. Councilmember mayor. this goes back to I think education too. So my office again, what does a county attorney?

The reason why I started off that mice speech to you is, What is the county attorney? What do we do? Well we have also multiple departments under my office, including a victim services department and notifications department, We handle these issues. And so the first thing that you can do is to participate, we also do talks at another community talk about. Stocking and digital digital crime issues.

We gave a talk out here in San Tan Valley regarding lureing cases, what apps another tools are are predators using to come after your kids, how, how do they do it? And in fact, we actually had a young woman who's a hacker and she said, She showed us how you can hack phones very, very quickly, how they can contact kids, how they can fake. ages information. So I think part of his education but part of it is participated in some of the talks that we're giving invite us back. That's what we want.

We want to do community events, but I think the other big thing is reach out to my office because we may have a division that can certainly provide you resources. and information to give to not only yourself sir but also members of your community I think would help a lot. Thank you. Okay. Great. Good question. Great presentation from both Sheriff and you appreciate the information. Thank you for being here. Thanks. Okay. Okay, with that, we're gonna go to item number seven, see?

This will be a presentation regarding counting planning and engineering functions currently administered within the town, including land use entitlements, Subdivision approvals and development activity. Over the past five years, the presentation includes statistical summaries and maps, reflecting zoning cases And I assume that's what these maps are here for. for subdivision approvals. And I believe we're going to turn the time over to Harvey. Krause and Sandgita. The the ocher. Did I say that?

I should know your name by So if you guys want to go ahead and Presents to us. We would we're looking forward to this one. Not that we were looking forward to the previous two. Don't get me wrong. We're looking forward to all of them. But the more exciting stuff towards the end of the. Exactly. Yes, that's why. you're here Harvey. Also, Chris wanna makers here? you'll be coming up after you right? Yeah, that's right. Okay yes.

Here, usually have the I feel like I should have been the warm up that for Elvis but I guess I came after him. So a couple of things we want to talk a little bit about Santan Valley development. Of course, this has been the a very major issue with the organization, most of the urbanization has occurred in Pinal County over the last 10, 15, 20 years has been in the San Tan area Brad asked us to produce this map.

You each have this map, it's the one to the farthest to the right of Brent, it is the boundaries of the San Tan Incorporated area, is in red, the Limited Quinn Creek. And then the remainder, which is kind of the gray area of the, the beige area in some of the Bay Area. Is the remainder of unincorporated. And Valley. We did A Just based on what we did wrong and health of these were like higher or in front here or something, I don't know. Queen Creek Unincorporated Pinal County.

For those who sent an early special area plan. so, Are we hit the clicker? So we've compiled it mostly sentinas. Don't a human job in compiling, a bunch of information. We're going to focus primarily on the last five years, 25 24, 23, 22 and 21 in terms of development projects and also those that are in progress or on the drawing border that you might want to be interested. The first I want to talk a little bit about the difference between 11, which is the state statutes of that govern.

planning and zoning within counties versus Title Nine, which is what the statutes, the government cities and towns. In Arizona, there are some differences. I'm going to highlight some of the major differences. There are some similarities too. So first of all, there's the comprehensive plan, the big difference is in the county, you call them comprehensive plans in cities and towns you call them general plans. So I may use those terms interchangeably but they're basically the same thing.

However, it's more complicated in the Cities County. The one thing to have in common is each is required to have a land, you sell, which is basically, I like to refer to comprehensive plan as and the land use as your aspirational document. This is what you desire, the land to be in the future in the next. Years. Because the comprehensive plan and the general plan typically are good for 10 years unless you're in a fast growing community like Santana.

Usually, some they were they asked it you update the plan every five years but you don't have to. So there's a difference between major and And comp plans and general plans. First of all, when you adopt a general plan, you would define what a major plan is you, it's not a definition in the statute. It's one that any each city in town and county divides, their own definition for major plant amendment so when I said maybe typically this is a dynamic document, it changes.

from here to year month to month and it needs to be dynamic because in especially in a growing community it will change and so you need to have a mechanism to make changes The legislature. More recently changed where it used to be major amendments could only be processed once a year by the end of the calendar year. However because of the dynamic growth and the valleys and many of the cities, they It.

So you can process a major amendment in a city and town and any time of the year, however they didn't change it for counties. So counties are still wedded to the requirement that you can only change a measurement at once a year. Minor amendments. Can be changed any time of the year. So that's the The general difference with a general plan as the popular in a city or town as the population increases. you, you generally have to provide more detail in your general plan.

They're different elements that they call in a general plan, such as you might have a recreation. Opens open trails and plant element. You might have economic development. elements. So in the statutes, it'll give you based upon your population. It'll tell you how many elements you have to adopt and then you can also, you can, you can adopt more But generally the general plan is more detail more involved. But the biggest thing I want to leave you with is the the, it's more than a land use plan.

It's policies and guidelines on growth. and development. And It's your blueprint or your vision for the future, for the, for the community. And in, in cities and towns. It's voted on by the residents of the town, it's a vote. in County, Typically, it's not. But there's some, there's some exceptions for that.

However, that's that's some of the major differences between general plans and cop plans, did a little workshop for future your future commissioners, or the committee and must have gone over a lot of this information. So he's an expert on it as well. rezoning.

oftentimes, so you have to, you have the real land use plan, which is your app, which is your desired land use and then you have your zoning which the zoning is a regulatory document, it is not, it is the document you use to regulate the land use and This needs to be in consistent and conformed to your general plan. Often times. in Bunnell County when we get a rezoning request, we evaluate the general plan or the comp plan in our case and to assure that it's in conformance.

If it's not then we require the developer to run a comp Plan Amendment. concurrently with that in cities and towns that are very busy. They'll sometimes hold off on these zoning cases. They'll wait or can't plan amendments, and they'll wait and do a COP Plan amendment, maybe once a year to change all the zoning to conform with the There's really no, sorry that's going to no one's going to enforce it. There's nobody enforcing this provision unless it's a landowner that's that's damaged by it.

So that's basically your your rezoning and your comp plan, they kind of go together. They're both legislative meaning, you are the body that will improve these things you have. a great deal of latitude in approving zoning and comp plan. you can deny things. You can prove it. It The best thing to do is related to the comp plan, or if you have neighborhood complaints and it doesn't fit the community, you can deny it. The best thing to do is not deny it for boundaries and then don't do not.

Don't give a reason if it's a bad reason, obviously. So you have a lot of attitude with reasons and caught plans, then there's another vehicle called Plan area development. Sometimes communities refer to US, plan unit developments. these or paid during these Paids and Bell County and what these are are basically over. They're used in two ways, in Pinal County, we use them as overlay districts, they allow for flexibility of the standards the site development standards.

So for instance, our our smallest zoning district with the smallest lot sizes and r781 dwelling unit for each 7,000 square feet, so nowadays because that 7,000 square foot lot is considered large these days. So a lot of the developers one of make that small they're obviously so they make it to 5,000 or 4500. So what they do is they use a pad overlay which is basically a zoning action to reduce the lot sizes in that community. What?

That's what that's how it's used in Pinal County or the setbacks or any other, or they want to eliminate certain uses. They feel are obnoxious and don't don't aren't compatible with their neighborhood. um, in cities and towns, oftentimes, you'll see pads used in two ways and either is a overlay district or as a separate discreet zoning district. So a master plan developer who comes in and has commercial residential and wants to provide for flexibility.

In development, he will apply for a pad, which will be the underlying zoning. For instance, the case I told, you know, county, it's r17 and maybe in a city or town, where it's a discrete district, it would be called a pad. And so, you wouldn't have to be you wouldn't have to worry about the lot sizes. You could you set back, that could be very flexible based upon the development plan. That's approved through a pad. Usually it's done through a larger area and a master plan development.

So Are those are two ways to look at it. The pad is meant to provide for flexibility and development, not necessarily to reduce setbacks or to change lot sizes. It's meant to provide for flexibility and and more amenities for that project that you can't do through the strict interpretation of the zoning. Site plans are administratively, approved, that is just an engineered.

Once you I mean back up a little bit, the the development process is really dividing into three major components, the planning element, which is the in what I call the entitlement or You've heard that word. Entitlement that is the developer the right to build. That's the zoning the comp plan.

The reasoning, the pad, any special use permits, that's that is the entitlement and then the next phase would be the engineering, which, which is the subdividing, the infrastructure and I refer to that as the horizontal development. And then the third one is the building function and that's the vertical construction. So once you get through the planning, then the engineering and then you go to the vertical, which is the building.

And that's where you see the buildings and how they fit in relation to all the other items and in the site plan, you'll see this is on an individual. Let's say gas station, there's a terrible's coming into and I use that term not as a, as a noun not as an adjective. it's gas station. I wasn't that's the name of the gas station. There's actually two of them coming in. To the San Tan, Valley area. So anyways, they show a gas station they'll show where the pumps are the drive-thru lanes.

The landscaping, we're the utilities come in the curb cuts, The whole layout of that project will be on the site plan and that goes through a process. And that's administratively approved. And once you get into some of the cities and towns, they often have what is called design guidelines.

As part of their Development process and as part of that site, plan that want to look at the elevations, they'll want to look at the colors and usually they have design guidelines, that either have a separate committee or they go through staff for that kind of that kind of detail. However, we don't, we don't have that in in Pinal County. Then there's special use permits. That's kind of a hybrid. It's legislative it's approved by, it would be approved by the elected officials.

However, the May and it's process much like a rezoning. However, the big difference is it will have criteria that you evaluate a special use permit Sometimes you'll hear the term conditional, use permit and a lot of cities and talents will use conditional use permit versus especially use permit. I'll give you an example how it's done in some cities and towns.

that may be allowed in any of the zoning districts within the city and for instance, maybe a utility infrastructure for instance, a substation. was typically pops up all over town. So a lot of cities regulate that through a special use permit so they'll allow it in every district and but it has to get counsel approval. A conditional use permit is one that would be a use that would only be permitted in certain districts.

Each district would have a list of uses that would only be allowed and that is for certain conditions. So these are site specific and example would be like a rec center. Maybe a rec center wouldn't be allowed in every zoning district. But certain ones they would allow and they would have criteria associated with that. Harvard. Can you can you speak to Asup or a special use permit. Is there a time? Is it forever?

Or does that person that entity have to come back in and redo the SUV, maybe for everyone's education? Yes, Mayor, thank you typically. There is a time limit on that because things change. over time and if they do it on a speculative basis, they're usually you have provide for various stipulations that they have to be in business for a certain period needs to open their. I can get their permit by a certain date and performance standards.

And that is typical with most special use permits or conditional use permits. often times. If, if they don't meet the conditions that you've imposed on that use, you can actually take it away revote that use permit and I'm saying that happen, but the ordinance has to provide that authority and it has to be pretty specific when you do that but that that does occur and that that's a good point. A along with that is what's called an industrial use permit.

I I never really used those until I came to Pennell County and heard of that. But for particular industrial districts, if it's a heavy user, a hazardous processing plan, you may may require a industrial use permit, so maybe allowed by right when I say it's by right, it's from as permitted use. But you may want to have Special requirements on that particular use at that district. So this gives you that vehicle industry that that vehicle to do that. Then I'm sorry.

I know, I want to respect your time. I know there's a lot of information. Basically, what I've And eat is left you with is this large document with all these information you have? it leading that as a reference. Each of those cases that you that are referenced in the last five years. or even further back, even called the county and call our office and we can get you more of the details where we are on that particular case. So this is a great reference. tool that you can take with you.

So we don't have to go over every everything tonight. Of course there's not time. So the next one is minor land. divisions and the county has an enormous enormous amount of time. A lot of time on minor land divisions and that's the division of land in a subdivision, is defined at five or more Divisions of land in the county, but in title nine in the cities, it's four or more divisions of land. So, there's a difference in the definition of a subdivision. Also in a city.

If you create a new road as part of a division of land, that's also classified as a subdivision in a city or council. It's a lot more restrictive to divide land, entitled 9 versus Title 11. And most of the cities and towns have class and minor land divisions in the county are are outside, subdivisions. I know, I've hit you with a lot of stuff here and it's it's over probably it's and it's not as exciting as Brad Miller and Sheriff. Keeper. And I don't have any really juicy statistics.

for those of us in planning and zoning. It's in, it's it's fine. I could talk about the zoning for group homes. If you There are regulations on their Republicans so minor land divisions. You won't see too much of that in the city. Usually it's it's plat and you're doing with Reflats rather than minor land divisions and in cities and towns variances. every municipality needs to have a form a board of adjustment, it can be a minimum of five members to seven members.

It's, it's a quasi judicial function, there decisions are based upon specific criteria, in the state statute, and their decisions. Basically final, they would have to go to court to appeal that decision or reverse, that decision, usually, it's removed from the elected officials, and there's a separate body for that. And that is, if somebody wasn't happy with the outcome of, they could then go And appealing, yes, the board.

Yes, the Board of Adjustment, well, the Board of Adjustment serves primarily two functions to approve or deny variances. Those are the basically very the strict standards to the zoning ordinance due to hardship or unusual circumstances on the land and two to appeal. maybe administrative decisions in the zoning ordinance. If there's Interpretation of zoning ordinance that the landowner doesn't agree with.

He can appeal it to the Board of Justice, the Board of Adjustment, can't change that decision, but they can just render. a decision on that. And lastly, is the zoning Code Amendments, which is basically Tex amendments, and the Council can initiate, those staff can initiate those So, let me move on. I know I got 15, Let me just for the record. Vice Mayor, Hudgens needed to leave wasn't feeling well, but we corn, so we're still okay. Hoping it's better, my present. Yeah. Yeah.

he came in, not sure if you would be able to stay, but he's gonna be okay, though. Of course. Other things. So what we have, we've also provided you some of the projects there are abudding or in the periphery of the municipal limits. and I'm going to focus on the zoning. Special use permit site, plans and comprehensive sign packages. And I didn't define that, but So the next slide. What? We have an answer, right? So we move along against other things.

This is a This is a slide that shows the municipal and it's which are in red. The blue outline is the Santan Valley area plan, which is a a component or basically, a more common specific plan of the general plan. It's much like a general plan but it's focus. On San Tan Valley, and believe San Tan Valley, roughly is about 30, the corporate limits about 37% of the San Tan, Valley Area Plan. So just give you some reference and then it also shows Queen Creek, The corporate limits.

We have 49 zoning categories in Pinal County. That's not recommended. By the way. in 2012, they had a zoning ordinance and they decided that they're going to do a new zoning ordinance. So they created all their districts. Some of them are very close and they just have compatible districts. But they decided to keep all the ones they had prior to 2012. And now we have movements after 2012. So if you want to develop and you have an zoning Category In 2012, you can develop under that.

But anything new has to be under the new zoning categories. so normally roughly less than a half dozen, maybe 15. 16 at the most categories, you should have, I think, Matt from Michael Baker, will tell you about that. So the next one is I think these are the applications that we've compiled that I think you might be of interest primarily those that have been in the works in 2025 not all these have been approved a couple of go over those here in a minute. 25, 24, 23, and 22 and 21.

Some of the names, may maybe familiar some of May not be Those are projects and then the next slide. Is projects. They're abutting the community. the numbers relate to the location right outside the red line. There's the Terrible's that's number one there that I would referenced earlier. Just right on, there's one right? Outside your border and then there I believe there's one that we just got this within the town limits.

um, and then the next slide is those that are in 25 and 26 the status proper basin battery storage, it's partly within unincorporated, Pinal County most of, it's going to be in, they're going to develop the whole thing in the town. The key manager Billingsley has met with the the developer on that one and that's been submitted the vine at Skyline is is one that's going to the planning commission actually tomorrow. Mar evening, or tomorrow morning and that has commercial.

There's about six pads of commercial. It's it's Skyline and Gary, I believe, And it's got 28 townhomes. Miami apartment units. So that'll be going to the planning commission for public hearing and then, one that was continued at our January DNC meeting is Copenac property and that's residential development. 340 lots. There was concerned about second access and two-story homes on the periphery of existing development. So that 19.

But maybe once again, continue, then the next two are two projects that have been completed. But have not been constructed or not, then move forward. This is a I think it's when I thought it was when Allen gives me dirty looks only 15 minutes. Probably. Rush through the next. These are the next two if you want to see this divine. It's skyline. I've got it here. That's the one. He's interested.

Gary Road is where the commercial is and then in the rear is the And more, which is multifamily residential, or townhomes, and residential. And then the next one is the other project I mentioned, that's 340 lots. So what else you want to keep going? That's all I want. The next one next slide I want to, I want to mention Urban before. primarily going to, Go to that one always. So maybe you go back 24. Yeah, 20, this was approved in 2024. This is a project I think that's really exciting.

It's over 3200 acres. It's owned by state. It's State Trust land. And this could be your city center. We have flexible, we approved flexible zone for this because this was important, this was The state land needed to have zoning doing, put it into the incorporation. So that's, that's why it was included. And the zoning went through the county sponsored that zoning. and it has industrial residential commercial.

It's very flexible and I think it gives you a really good blueprint to come up with a city center and to do some really good planning in that area. That's probably your, I guess you're this chance to just put your blueprint or your signature on the community is through that that the development and the visioning that you're go into that and I would encourage you to use that through a public classes but that's I think that's all I but I leave.

This document you have references on all these projects call us, give us those numbers and we can tell you more about Them. So, I think that's 15 minutes or more here. So we have any questions Council. Do you have any comments? Questions. For me. This is what's happening in San Tan Valley. So, this is important for us to know. You know, what's coming and and how to identify land use, and everything like that. So thank you.

yeah, we're gonna turn the time over to Chris This guy's the nuts and bolts of what happens behind everything. I guess. So, yes, you know everything. Well, good evening, mayor and council. My name is Chris Wanamaker, County engineer. And today, I wanted to talk about subdivisions and also some multifamily projects which are not subdivisions, but they are residential and they have populations and they add the traffic. So I thought it'd be helpful to talk about that too.

I only have 10 slides so hopefully This would be quick. So first a little background on subdivisions. So under the county, we're regulated under Title 3 and I know Harvey talked a little bit about the differences between title 11 or Sorry Tell 11 differences between Title 11 and Title Nine and so I won't get into that. We also have the subdivision code For governance how the plat processes occurs.

And also our Subdivision and Infrastructure design manual, which governs the engineering criteria for how a subdivision is to be laid out and constructed. So that we ensure that we have high quality roads that last, you know, long into the future. so, some division planning occurs after zoning and after entitlement. So this is where the engineering comes in at, Harvey talked about earlier. So first, what happens? Is they come in with a tentative plant which is a preliminary or conceptual plant.

and it kind of shows the layout of the subdivision, the layout of the roads in a little bit more detail than what you might see at the zoning level. So you're going to include some level of engineering because then they need to have a certain level of confidence to know that the subdivision layout will actually work, right? So we want to make sure we have set aside enough land for drainage and a plan for for roadways and where those access points are.

So, once the tentative plant reaches, A level of. Where we are confident about how it will work. We have to take it to our planning zone and commission for approval. once that's approved then we can go into final plat and that's where the detailed engineering comes in and that's where the you actually get your improvement plans. I get paving plans a grading plans. It's traffic signals anything else that's needed to support. That subdivision has to be designed. And then approved.

And then after that, after the plat is approved by the board. We go into permitting and construction. So we have a team of inspectors that go out and make sure that construction occurs and high quality manner. We require testing of materials and pavements and other types of things. And what's construction is done, we accept it and it goes into a warranty period. Okay, so just some statistics here.

I only went back a couple of years so in 2023, we approved 27 Plats County wide 17 of which were in San Tan, Valley, in 2024. We actually the record number of Class 55 40 of those being in San Antonio Valley. And so all the building you're seeing, right now and all the construction that's finishing up, those are result of those 2024 plan, approvals And then last year we reduced down about half 24, countywide and ten in San Tan Valley.

So, some interesting things, the average plant size is about 107 miles and historically, we used to see plants much larger. They're plotting two hundred 400 lots at a time but the landscape is changed and the development community. They're planning smaller and smaller subdivisions at a time. That's probably the minimize risk and to spread out their construction, phasing? over time. Now, they're interesting fact is the average plant lays out, one mile of new roadway.

That's actually 0.98 but I just found it to one and it takes an average of two to three years to go from the start of a final process. To actual completion of construction. That's one year in the plant review and then one to two years in construction. So this is an overall map. You have a physical copy there. So this kind of shows everything that's been going on in San Tan Valley as far as subdivisions in warranty, subdivisions under construction.

Subdivision in final plat review and also tentative plant review. And, of course, I threw in some Multifamily projects. So what you're seeing here? overall on this map, 13,294 lots Quite a few and then 1430 multifamily units. so, These next slides, I'll go in a little more detail. So, here on this slide, these are all the subdivisions that are in the warranty period. Right now, that means that the roadways are done. The landscaping is in.

they're still building homes, but the infrastructure is already done. So the county's already accepted those infrastructures. into our maintenance system unless they're private streets, which we do have quite a few private streets out here. Now, they're just building homes. So they warranty period is one year and we monitor for quality control issues. So if there's premature pavement failures sidewalk lifting or other issues that developer has to come back and fix those things at their cost.

so, one thing to point out, Is there on your right? There's a 49 and 10 are, that's that's what we call Santa and Gateway. You might know it as Welldara. so that that's a recent community and then up there number 13, that's where farms, which might know that as soleo And the majority of where farms is private streets. So, we don't have to worry about maintaining those. okay, so under construction We have.

these, if you look right in the middle of San Tan Valley, we have, right north of this building. We're in right now, that's Bella Vista, Farms. So we've got two, units there that are under construction. So, Bella Vista Farms, interesting enough that's a 21 unit or six phase development, so they have plans to build homes all the way out to 20, 35. So that development in by itself is 5,149 units. so, but they've been building for quite a while, and like I said, they've they're going until 2035.

see here, just south of this facility here, where you see the number 18 there That sure would park 443, lots units, one three, three under construction, right now So, let's see here. Oops. Go back here. There's a delay on this thing here. Okay. final plat. So we actually have three final plats in for a review right now in San Tan Valley, and so 23 there. That's at Santana. Gateway, the next unit of that.

Of course, we have one in the Bella Vista Farms just north of here, but the next one that you're going to see is what we call Fulton Homes at Terra Linda. So we've got units one through three, which is actually four phases because unit One is broken up into two 631. Lots, they're probably going to be starting construction here in the next few weeks. so we're very close to final approval and all those documents and you'll see some dirt moving here real soon.

So that's just South was southeast of here. All right. Tentative plants. So we do have a number of tentative plants in the process. Again, these are conceptual so, again, more future units of Bella Vista Farms to the north of here, but your biggest one is going to be what we call right now. Bella, Vista, 23. So that's the area there in the south east of the community surrounding that Fulton Homes development.

So that's broken up into four separate phases and And we're looking at more than 5,000, lots there, as well. For all four of those phases. So, Probably another couple years before we see those under construction because they're still a lot of work that needs to be done to get those tended plants across the finish line. so multifamily just From here, these are not plats. They don't have to go through a platting process. It's actually site plan review. This is a commercial development.

It's administrative. So we're seeing a lot of multifamily projects on the North side there. We've got lucky blocks at ocotillo which is under construction. Right now is approved number of years ago. And then we have the flats 480 there on Ironwood and L Park a lane. And then just north of there. We have one called Summerwell that, which is in review right now. Zoning is already been done.

So it's going through engineering review and then kind of in the middle of the town, there we've got the Bugatti at or the villages and I'm sorry. under construction, nearly complete And then, of course, again, someone Bella Vista we have two multifamily projects kind of So, the total number of Units. I think I mentioned that before. So that's really it just a high level, quick overview of all that. Are there any questions? Any questions from the Council?

As developers are responsible for some of the road improvements. But there's a cumulative effect. Is we like for example, you know, schnapping around skyline and down. It will era. Those developments are building up and the roads are still too lanes and no lights. So the other dilemmas congestion rather than just road improvements. It's very consideration to pausing on some of that development approval, until wider lanes and lights.

Because what happens now is that traffic just Builds up and builds up and builds up the congestion. It's out of control. So there's a bigger issue than just engineering the road, it's the longevity. Yeah, it's a good question. So we're talking about our regional impacts due to local development and you know the way that's handled is through impact fees, you know, Developer comes in they have to do traffic impact analysis where they quantify their impacts on the area.

And then they have to do infrastructure improvements to mitigate those impacts. But of course, the regional impacts kind of hard to quantify because Many variables. So the impact fees come in and that's what's used from our level as a county. We would use those impact fees to do those road improvements. As far as stopping or slowing development, I don't believe there's a way that we can do that.

If you're talking about moratoriums or something that's not I don't believe there's something we can do. Maybe cities have, I don't know. There's something in the statute talking about that but I'm not familiar speed up speed up traffic improvement. Yeah. It's it's very challenging because you know, developing a roadway project can take, you know, three years to go from and you know, initial concepts to construction.

We've got to go through the design process and there's usually number of stakeholders in particular utilities utilities can be very challenging. There's just so many of them in the, in our roadways, but yeah, getting ahead of development is very difficult because the impact fees are collected at the building permit issues level, then they have to accumulate before we can then use that money to actually build something. It's a number one complaint I get from for sure. Is that?

And then it feels like what we're doing is prioritizing the developers over the Our citizens. Now I totally understand and and I can tell you though, through our review process, we we really do spend a lot of time scrutinizing these projects and making sure that the they are contributing as much as we can require them to as far as what their half street improvements. Are they're in general Approvements contributions to traffic signals and traffic.

Was a whole other discussion because, you know, often times. a traffic signal, may not be warranted by one development alone but collectively by say four developments on a corner, it's going to be warranted. So then who pays for it, right? That becomes a quandary, which developer is going to pay for. And so we try to negotiate these things as early as possible and zoning stage, if possible. But we often get contributions and we use impact fees to supplement it, to get it in earlier.

So it's, it's always a It's kind of a game, you know? and typically isn't the roadways typically improved before. The development is is done. Typically. or not. Well, so the roadways internal to the improvement to have street. Yeah, yeah. So they have to finish those before. We'll accept the project is complete. So one thing I didn't talk about as far as subdivisions go, there's a financial assurance component to the plat process.

So, before the board, well, approve, a plant to Southern by the land. We have to have a financial assurance in place to make sure that developer builds that required. infrastructure typically it's a bond. So they have to put up a bond which you know, has a financial component to it that the developer has to pay to keep that bond in place and that bond will not be released until all infrastructure. That is required is complete. So that's part of our process.

Is there a threshold that You know I guess are we get to a certain point where we know that on Highway Gary and Ganziel cannot take additional things? This. Too many people on those roads. Is there a threshold that we tell builders that know you can't build until we have regional improvements like a penal parkway? Is there anything that they say? No, no more building because we're overloading these streets? Yeah, it's a really tough question and I don't think there's anything that we can.

Strictly prevent developed from occurring, but what we can do is part of the traffic impact. Analysis is, we look at roadway capacity and what we call level of service.

So we have a roadway, You know, there's a certain capacity that's acceptable and above that, you get increased congestion and so when we have projects that come in that reduce the roadways level of service beyond what is acceptable, we do require them to provide some sort of mitigation, which could be signal every timing it could be adding additional lanes it could be providing alternative access.

There's a number of things that are looked at but as far as outright saying No more development, that's kind of a I don't think we can really do that, more tournament. Yeah. Yeah. on these multifamily projects you throughout the station between rentals and actual. Um condominiums in townhomes or are the majority of these projects all rentals. These are all rentals that we're talking about here. Is there a separate process, governing that, or is that you've never come up?

Now, so when we talk about built to rent so they're not subdividing, the land. so there's no plant then it just goes through the site plan Commercial Review process. And so that's the two differences. So it's actually faster typically because they don't have to put up financial assurances. They don't have to, you know, subdivide the land and record a bunch of documents to do that. So, it is different and the water. And the water is about the water.

So editing the townhomes that we're seeing in those are typically least to they're not townhomes for sale, right? They're typically so that adds to the multi housing Product. Okay, any other comments. Any questions for Chris? Okay, Chris, thank you for being here. Appreciate, yeah, the county Harvey Thank you. Good information. Okay, we've been going for over two hours. Can we take a 10 minute quick break Would that be the pleasure of the Council? Yes, okay, we're gonna recess for 10 minutes.

Myself. I'm gonna see what she's Hey, I'm gonna get us out of recess. We're gonna get back to our agenda item. We're gonna go to seven D. This is a discussion of possible action to approve a professional service agreement with Michael Baker International Inc to provide professional planning and consulting services for the preparation and adoption of the town.

Inaugural zoning ordinance, including ordinance, Drafting zoning map development, public outreach, and technical support for formal adoption, Okay? Brent, you're taking it away. Thank you, Mr. Mayor members of the Council. It's with great pleasure that we bring before you this evening. Matt Kleisaco with Michael Baker, International they're a consulting firm that specializes in engineering and planning services.

Ellen, I've been working hard with with Michael Baker to set a scope fee and schedule. understanding the importance of our zoning code and we felt that we needed to start as soon as possible to make sure that we're in a good position for when we take over services. So with that, I'll turn it over to Matt. Oh wait. thank you, Brent. Thank you, Mayor Council. It's great to be in front of you. This evening to talk about the town's first zoning ordinance.

I do lead, Michael Bakers planning department here in Arizona. Our office is located in downtown Phoenix, a little background I've been practicing planning for 25 years now. 22 of those years have been with Michael Baker. Michael Baker Is Brent, noted, We are a multi-disciplinary firm. So in addition to planning, we provide other services including architecture, engineering and survey.

But in my role as planning director, our department focuses on assisting public sector clients with their planning needs. And to emphasize that because we do not assist the private community, with their development plans, you will not see our firm at this. Podium talking about private development, we're only assisting our public sector clients. And in that capacity, we do general plants long-range plans as Harvey and Pinal. Anywhere discussing.

We also of course, prepare zoning ordinates is for communities across Arizona. And so the nexus here is that we've had the privilege of being an on-call planner for Pinal County for the number of years. And in that role, we've assisted the county with many efforts the most prevalent one, which is the the reason that I think I'm standing here is we assisted with and prepared. The Santan Valley Special Area plan.

I was the project manager for that effort and so I was I was very happy to be able to learn more about the community when we went through that process. And so that that gives us I think. A very firm foundation of understanding Santan Valley, but also we assist other communities across the county as well as the state. So we are assisting Queen Creek with their general, plan update, currently we've assisted the City of Eloy in the development of their zoning code or update of their zoning code.

And we most recently assisted Maricopa County with the update of their zoning code. So we do this frequently, we do this consistently and I think that's all relevant because of for the needs of Santan Valley. zoning code, so that you can use this to guide growth and development that we've all discussed and we need that rapidly. And what we heard this evening is the nuances between a zoning code or a development process in the county versus a municipality.

And so what frequently happens when a town is incorporated is they will accept or take the county zoning ordinance and just But I will commend your staff of five. I think it is two now. For now your staff of two for having the foresight to say, that's not necessarily going to give us what we need. We We heard the county mention that they have quite a number of zoning districts.

So that's, you know, one example of where getting into, developing a zoning code that can be specific to the town is the best course forward, because you can then be in a position to build on that as you move forward and not try to have to slip things or mold things to align with the process that was really developed for a county rather than a municipality. And so what we've Developed with the assistance of staff is a scope and fee and schedule to move quickly.

And and what we're doing here is a unique process where we'll go out and utilize some host zoning ordinances through evaluation of other communities across Penel and Maricopa County and identifying a regulations that will best align with the needs of Santan Valley. And that will be merged into a unified zoning code. That will be more streamlined. for the town versus a county regulations that are robust.

And then that will give you the foundation that moving forward, you can build on that and add more regulation to your zoning ordinance as you need it. And so that's really, what's before you this evening, in terms of our outline for this scope is a unique process that we're looking to really be surgical as I like to say And so we're going to be moving fast, Typically a zoning. Ordinance will take 12 months to 24 months to complete, you can go even longer than that with zoning ordinances.

It's something this audience can attest to that. We're trying to get this done by June. so, we're going to be working this schedule, we're going to have to take some content and be and accept that for our immediate needs and recognize that we can. Then come back and revise. The zoning ordinance when we have more time to be diligent and have conversation but between now and June, we have public involvement in incorporated into this process.

And of course, we have work sessions with the town council as well as your new planning commission and so all of those components the council you're planning commission and then the public will all have a seat at the table in this effort. And and then the goal will be to have a zoning code in place that can be used in the near term and something that can then be built on. Community evolves and identifies more needs that. come about as you bring more resources online.

So with that, I don't have a detailed presentation this evening. The long and short of it. We sat down and started discussions. And I said, I have a few expectations. The draft Pinout counties owning ordinance. They've been working on it since 2015 it's 460 pages. I told Matt, I want a zoning ordinance. Delivered less than 100 pages. I wanted to be an e-code, which modern Can be accessed off of your phone.

You don't have to have a big book and read through it, it's intended to be less text enhance it less text in hint intensive, sorry it's late. more more pictures and tables 21st Century Code elect and electronic code. and delivered as close to July 1st as we possibly can, I think most consultants would have laughed at me, but we've come up with a plan to deliver that.

Yeah, I think that's a big undertaking and I think it's gonna be amazing if we can get that done by the timeframe that we have set before us. Would you say that we might have some work sessions, we'll have to probably schedule outside of our meetings. So council get ready. be ready for some work sessions to go through all this because you want to go through it in pieces, right? You don't want to be inundated all at once and excellent point there. Thank you for that.

In this scope, we outline what we call modules. They're basically phases, but we'll take the zoning code down in bite-sized pieces. And as you can imagine, we take certain sections forward first because those are most critical and then everything plays off of that. But our first effort when we do go out to the public, will be a little bit of zoning 101 and get them aware of some of the things that you heard this evening, and make sure that we're all working from the same sheet of music.

And from there, you know, it's full speed. Does anyone have any comments or questions for Matt or Anything at all. +1 480-***-**71: There I do. Garrett Glover: And well, we don't want to put the cart before the horse. We need to move and do a little bit of +1 480-***-**71: May I have a comment. Garrett Glover: necessary item work here. But appreciate you.

Matt, I've been familiar with Michael Baker for a long time and Matt working with Bunnell County in the planning and zoning and they do fantastic work. Matt will go into as much detail and depth that we want him to when he presents to to us if he is if we do Michael Baker to be the consultant. So, okay. Well. I believe the viceware who's online, listen to say but I don't believe he's connecting. He texted me, okay. +1 480-***-**71: Can you hear me?

Garrett Glover: Yes, we can hear you now speak up. +1 480-***-**71: Oh great, thank you. Brent, for pointing out the the need for having this kind of streamline for the business, friendly aspect the community aspect, I think that's really important and I appreciate you doing some of that work ahead of time and the flexibility on the consultant to work with that I did notice in the in the statement of work here.

There's a few community meetings I believe for of them and because we're doing an accelerated timeline to get this done by June. What considerations are you making with some of those community meetings to make sure the residents know about it? Just knowing that we're moving a rapid pace and of the town is an infancy when it comes to its communications getting the public involved. I think it's really important to have that.

Is there other considerations, you're making given the crunch time line and some of those other factors. Garrett Glover: Good question. Okay. Yeah, you would you like to? Yeah, I can speak to them. Thank you, Vice Mayor of those comments and you're absolutely right. We have been working with staff to develop a, A initial schedule. And so as I look at it here, we're going to be Starting with community workshops next month.

And so, in terms of getting the word out, that's where we're going to start working with staff and any council members to help us do that. So it's typically, we use channels such as getting out to hoas and making sure that they're aware of this. The fact that we are going quick on this, we'll be helpful because we're gonna have to schedule these meetings in advance.

So we'll put us literally a schedule out there of meetings It won't be, I'll stay tuned to find out when the next meeting is we're going to have to have these all scheduled out for the next four months. And so we'll be able first meeting to say, this is when we're having meeting. One, two, three. and four. So hopefully that will be continuity that we can build on it from each meeting for You some consistency there. But we'll have to start looking at all of those channels.

Our periodicals and our schools to get the word out to make sure that residents participate. So yeah, the vice mayor kind of zeroed in, on a effort Number one is starting to get the word out because we'll already be doing our analysis of Needs. in tandem with that effort to publicize that the project overall. So if there is any other resources, that might be unique that anyone on council has utilized, please share that with us, we would be excited to incorporate that into our process.

+1 480-***-**71: Great. I Garrett Glover: And absolutely council so they know that oh sorry vice may go ahead. +1 480-***-**71: I was just gonna say great. I really appreciate that. I just think this is a really important topic, the community really cares about. And I want to make sure we give them ample opportunity, you know, and given the the crunch timeline to be engaged and it's really desire of of myself. At least, I don't speak for the Council, but I believe we all agree on.

This is to bring the public along through the process. as we're engaging with some of these things. So I appreciate it. Garrett Glover: Thank you. Vice Mayor. What I was going to say is he's referring his question. his reference to and what Matt was describing as in the scope of work. That is in our packets. So we have that information before us and it was a that I heard that the first meeting would be scheduled for next month. Is that what I heard?

If we go forward with this, that's correct right now, we're looking at our first community workshop in March, and then they would be every Monday. Everyone, we don't have much time, it have to be every month in order to get these. Okay. Sounds good. There's a lot of work to be done and to be had and I think it's going to be great when we get to the finish line with all this hardware reasonable price. Might I I was gonna touch on that that we are.

This is not a half bad price for for this type of work and for this scope of time frame, that is going to be done in so. Okay, if there's no other comments From the Council. We will. Or. Not. just to mayor, I moved to approve the professional services agreement with Michael Baker International Inc. We provide planning and zoning services for the town. Zoning coordinates as outline. The agreement right. Okay, we have a motion can now you do the second. Now, you second second, thank you.

So, we have a council, we have a motion, we have a second to approve. Michael Baker as the to provide the planning and zoning services for the town zoning ordinance. those in favor, please say, I I Any opposed. Sounds like the eyes have it. So the motion carries Welcome to the team. We appreciate it. And we look to have. You do some Get hit the ground tomorrow or tonight. Okay. Thank you, Matt. Okay. this is gonna move us down to item number e.

This is a discussion and possible action to approve. An employee cost agreement with ESI for the provision of IT director services to the town under which Robert Stanley will serve as the IT director effective March. 9th 2026. Okay. All right, we're council members we have in the agenda packet tonight. The Employee. Caustic for your consideration. Contractor.

That's providing these services while we're getting our systems in place to bring on full-time employees, but those details are in your packet. And and both Brent and I are excited to grow grow the team, so I'll turn it to introduce introduce Robert. Okay. Mr. Mayor members the council. This is the position that we had the most applications for we have really been blessed with the quality and quantity of applicants for all of these key positions for the town.

But this was the clear favorite Amongst applicants and we had some highly highly qualified individuals in this. It Director role held a number of interviews wonderful candidates. So you should take great pride, Robert, that, that you were the the selection from the panel. Robert, I think will constitute. Did we decide earlier the, the fourth employee number four, number four. So I would like you to join me in welcoming Robert to the team. And thank you very much, Mr.

Mayor members of the Council. This is not New territory for me. I was in this building as it was being built. I was the former CIO of Pinal County Arizona. So I have a great familiarity with everybody in this environment and most of the team already. the the opposite side of the fence talking about counties. We start handing off services. Jason Cantrell was my deputy when I was the CIO Canal County. So we're gonna have a great working relationship.

Let's see if James Daniels is still awake on that. call over there, we work together for quite some time, as well. Just really excited to come on board. I bring a wealth of experience several years in it. Several decades in it at this point. And everywhere from small mom, and pop shops, being the only it person to currently at Arizona State University, the largest university of the United States supporting thirty Faculty and 180,000 students. So scale is not a problem. Small is not a problem.

So I'm very excited to be here and provide that expertise to San Tan Valley, the place where I live, Robert, we are going to put you to the first task to get us a mic system, better in here so that we can have a better mic. +1 480-***-**71: Amen. Garrett Glover: there and all of us can have a mic and a monitor. Wait, we don't have any money yet for that. We got to get a budget first so we're working on it but indeed thank you very much. I do appreciate it. Thank you. Welcome. What? Yeah.

Do we want to? Now and then we do the other one then we could do a group. Okay, how about we do that? Are you like to do it sir with the pleasure to do a pitcher single or have our next ESI contract and do it together? Let's do, let's do this. I'm gonna make it executive decision here. I'm gonna say, let's do an individual and then we'll do a group after the second one. Let's do that. I'm out here, do wonders. Here.

Hey, I know that the photo is been taking, but technically, we haven't made the motion to This is why every municipality has a legal department to keep us in line. Just our Garrett. Well clerk too. Okay, so We'll pretend the photo was taken after. For item number seven e, we do need to make a motion on that. So does their emotion on the table after is there any discussion first? Okay. Is there a motion there?

I move to approve the employee cost agreement with ESI for the version of IT Director Services of the Town under which Robert will serve. As it Director effective, March 9th 2026 Okay, we have motion is there second. Okay we have a motion and a second I think Gia made that second all in favor please indicate by saying I hi +1 480-***-**71: I, Garrett Glover: Any opposed eyes have it motion carries, welcome to the team. Now, pretend the picture was taken right now. Okay.

Okay, this takes it's the item number seven, f. This is a discussion of possible action to approve an employee cost agreement with ESI for the provision of HR director services to the town under, which Janet there will be, will serve as the HR director effective March 9th 2026 Brent Alan. I've got the Same spiel here.

We've got an ESI contract for you, we've been doing a lot of HR work, Brent and I, so we are very excited, HR director and I know Janet was something of a rising star in Avondale and has done some great great work and we're excited to have her joint team, but I'll let the full production. Mr. Mayor members of Council. employee number five. This is Janet. I will say, as part of the recruitment for HR, we had a lot of really good applicants. It came down to two.

Super strong applicants and a tough deliberation amongst the panel. but we're really excited and I think you're really enjoy this young lady Jen. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor Online, and Councilmembers. I am so excited to be here. Be here, thank you for the opportunity and I'm excited to get started. I can't wait to take on all the HR duties from these two hard working gentlemen. just thank you again for the opportunity. Well, well, thank you Janet, I guess note to everyone behave.

And search for direct here. So, well, after we do some conduct some business first, is there any deliberation or our questions comments from the Council on Items sevenf? I just want to mention again, just the history of this moment are very first. It director, Robert Stanley for the town of San Tan Valley, and our very first. HR director for the town of Stanton Valley Daniels.

So, just revel in that moment, you are part of the history of our town as the first not four and five, but the first Thank you, Councilmember welfare. We, we do agree with what you have to say after we make a motion that is discussion. You're right. This was discussion. Hey, we got to have some fun here, guys. Come on. Okay, any other comments? Anything from the vice mayor. +1 480-***-**71: No Mayor. Garrett Glover: Okay.

do it seven F to have an ESI agreement with the Janet Dare as the HR director for the town of Santan Valley. Right? I moved to approve the employee cost agreement with ESI the position of a truck director services, for the town under the under which Janet Drive DAYER will serve as a HR Director effective March 9th 2016. Okay, we have a motion is there a second?

We have a motion and a second for the ESI cost agreement with with ESI for the HR Director services to the town under which Janet Dayer will serve as the HR director effective March 9 2026. I just want to make sure that we get that on the record that that's what we're voting for all in favor indicate by saying I I Any opposed. +1 480-***-**71: I, Garrett Glover: Nope, that carries the motion, welcome Janet to the team. Let's now get your photo taken. Okay. with that, that takes us to item.

Number eight, request for future agenda. Items. Members of the town council, may request that items be placed on the future agenda. There will be no discussion or action taken at this time, other than identifying, the topics for a future consideration. So with that. Is there any future agenda item that we would like to cancel the Council would like to request? Mr.

Mayor can we put on the agenda at some future agenda items discussion on America, 250 into town would like to set up potentially committee to explore the town's observance of that later, this year. Okay, I see them right in that down. So, I also like to add a discussion with the group homes in the area. I'd like to be able to explore that deeper. passing with Sheriff. He's more information and options. Okay, we got two. Is there any from over here? Any items?

I don't know if it's an item but I know the zoning. We had the first zoning meeting. And is there we ever gonna kind of report? I know was just the training but in the future we get a little report on those meetings here. Okay, right. If anything I would assume that would be in a manager's report on. What's happened maybe? Potentially Something to think about, okay, anything else, Vice Mayor? +1 480-***-**71: No Mayor. Garrett Glover: Okay. With that, we'll go to item number nine.

This is a citizens design to speak on any issue. Within the jurisdiction of the town may do. So, at this time, comments will be limited to three minutes subject to adjustment based on time constraints and media management needs at the discretion of the mayor all comments shall be addressed to the Council, as a whole at the conclusion, the call to the public, the individual council members may respond to criticism made by those who have spoken direct staff to review or follow up on the matter.

And or number three request, the matter to be placed on a future agenda. With that, I have one speaker card, but I'm pretty sure we'll have more than one that wants to be but Genie Stockton, if you will, please come forward. And state that you do live within the town boundary. Hello my name is Jeannie Stockton. I do live in the town boundaries in Johnson, Ranch and I think I'm moving soon.

after the report from the share and, you know, I have a couple questions are the packets that are provided to the town council members. Are they available to the public at all? And if so, will they be posted on a website or something? The other thing I'd like to talk about, I I think you touched on it briefly The group homes, since we're establishing our ordinances. I think we probably need to look real close at the ordinances surrounding group.

Homes, the thing that's concerning to me is that they, their housing, they're populating those homes and they haven't been approved. So, do we write some ordinance in there? That says before you can start housing members, it has to be Oh, let's see what else? Oh, and on the next page. Sorry, you guys always scribbling all night. When you do build like a terrible's, which is a good gas station. Um, when you do it, you do a circle, K or a terrible stuff. Building like that.

It is there an ordinance that says you cannot build houses within x? Number of feet, are you have to have so much green space and Things of that nature. I just wanted to bring that up because if that's not a county ordinance, should it be a town ordinance? and the last thing I want to say and I'm not saying this to be disrespectful to anyone. Because when you guys break, I know there's people in the community that want to ask you questions.

But could we just ask that anybody wants to do any signature collecting or any campaigning that they do it outside of this office space, you know, so that you guys are available to talk to the people about things. You're they're concerned about instead of campaigning, that's That's all. and after saying that, I'll turn this over to the next person. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Jeannie. Okay. Is there anyone in the audience, please? Come forward. Stay your name. stay.

If you do live within the town boundary or not, Mayor, Vice, Mary Council. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is Kenneth Diamond. I live in Santan Valley, I live in the concrete South but in the town, about 10 years now, And this is my home. I would like to just say on the on the group homes, my office as delving deep into those group homes over the last couple years to make sure that we that there are following the fire codes. They're specific buyer codes that they have to follow.

Depending on the number of residents. They have the one thing I would like to see San Tan. Valley is to permit each step of group homes right now. county doesn't permit an R3, which is one to five residence. And those are allowed to be as close to each other. There's no limit to where they can be on. Our four has to be within 400 yards up. Another R4. They can't be right next to each other.

Now in our four six to ten residents but within our four there are things that they have to do fire, sprinklers fire alarms. The lights exit signs fire extinguishers. We expect all of those in the R4 that they follow the power codes that are published by the state of Arizona. I also represent the State Farm Marshall's office in those. And so we just make sure that they're done.

So I would like to be involved in the ordinances that come with the R3s and R4 my office with my inspectors to be able to help you with anything that you might need on those. And anything I can help. I would also like to offer to be your volunteer. Chaplain for the city. I know I spoke to Brent a little bit about it. I'm the fire department chapel and also But I'd love to be a volunteer. Chaplain for you and anything that you might need.

And with that, I want to thank you for your time and have a great night. Thank you, we appreciate that. Is there anyone else any audience? Please come forward? State your name and if if you do live within this town boundary or not, Good evening, May. Or and members and vice mayor, that's on the phone. My name is Donna. Holman I do live in San Tan Valley, I wanted to ask if there's a possibility that on the future, agendas that we could include.

who the representative or who the guest speaker is, that is an attendance on the agenda so that we can follow along. The other thing I would like to bring up, is I have offered to volunteer sometime for. Well, now that we have four staff members, maybe they don't need me, but I did offer. rent yesterday when I was, I packed meeting, you know, to help volunteer, staple papers. Three, whole punch, whatever. I know they're extremely overworked.

And with no money in the budget, there's not a lot of supplies. I did donate a lot of office supplies. I'm not bragging, I would like to ask that. Maybe we could consider putting a call out when we say you know, we need committee members to get, there's a lot of people that Brett could possibly use, you know, they could just either answer phone, if we had a home and you know, anything else that would help less than the burden. volunteer at least 30.

40 hours a week for my Hoa and half for the last 12 years. There are lots of people that will donate 10 hours, 20 hours. They do it for the pound. They do it for any cause and there are a lot of people that want to see this town move forward. That's all I have. Thank you very much for listening. Thank you. Appreciate that. Okay. Is there anyone else in the audience, please come for state your name and that you live in the in the boundary or not.

Hi, my name is Karen and yes, I live in the boundaries of Santiam Valley. I just wanted to say it was very great meeting. Very informative. I'm sure some of your brains are just fried with all the information. Great selection. With Michael Baker, International, I worked with him on Zoning Code County, it's amazing. Did I have a couple questions?

I know you can't answer but oh, get an answer after are all the presentations gonna be put up on the website that we're giving earlier the sheriff and the attorney, both offered to email individuals privately. So I just wanted to make sure they would be up there. at the Ipac meeting yesterday as Donna had indicated. I noticed kind of brought to our attention packets. We're just kind of piled in front of each other and knowing Brent, for the time I've known him, that's not his nature.

He's very organized There were no paper clips to hold anything together and a whole punches to put stuff together. I too offered as Donna did to help if it Coming down here to put certain things together. I know you're all are struggling. I volunteer a lot as well, as, as many other people do. But this is our town and want to be able to help. So I just love to be able to do that and if anything is needed supplies or whatnot, I agree. Put that out there.

People be happy to help get this off the ground. What? Thank you. Okay. Is there anyone else in the audience? I'd like to come forward. Anyone at all? Okay, seen and hearing. Now, I'm going to close the call to open public. And that is going to move us to item number 10. This is an executive session.

the town council may vote to convene into new executive session for the following items, item number a discussion and consultation with town attorney regarding a potential amendment to the Intergovernmental Agreement for Financial Assistance.

Pursuant to ARS 38-431.03 a three and four and item number B discussion and consultation with the town attorney regarding contractual and legal matters related to participation in the Arizona State Retirement System and a potential Section, 218, Social Security Agreement, pursue it to Ars 38-431.03, A3 and 4 with that is their emotion to go into executive session. Mr. Mayor. I'm I moved to Convenient executive session. We have a motion is a second? We have a motion in a second. All in favor.

Say aye. Hi. +1 480-***-**71: I, Garrett Glover: The opposed, we are in executive sessions.