Tempe advances $1.8B South Pier project with $25.9M tax incentives, unanimously approves 129-unit workforce housing

okay sounds good the time is now 6 15 so we're gonna go ahead and get started with the tempe city council regular council meeting which is all virtual uh due to covet 19.

it is thursday february 10th 2022 the time is now 6 15 p.m uh i apologize for being a little bit late we were working on an executive session which we'll have to finish afterwards as well uh the city council meeting is being held virtually through the webex you can visit tempe.gov clerk for more information on how to join the virtual meeting the media can also be watched in real time via cox cable channel 11 and at tempe.gov slash tempe 11.

item number one is moment of silence i'd like to invite everyone to please join me in a moment of silence thank you very much item number two is the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you very much next up we have item number three meeting minutes tonight i will be assisted by council member garland councilmember garland thank you mayor i'd like to make a motion to approve our meeting minutes three a one through two hey it's been moved by councilmember garland do i have a second second seconded by councilmember qb i just want to let all council members know this evening we will not be using the e-voting system i'll be taking a roll call vote for all votes so i'm going to go ahead and start with council member navarro councilmember cubie hi councilmember garland aye vice mayor keating yes council member arredondo savage hi mayor councilmember adams i and i vote i as well that item passes six to zero with oh councilmember navarro i see you there hi ah there we go that item passes seven to zero thank you so much next up we have item three b acceptance of board commission and committee meeting minutes councilmember garland thank you mayor i'd like to make a motion to approve um the acceptance of the board and commission committee meeting minutes three b one through nine it's been moved by council member garland do i have a second second seconded by councilmember qb uh i'll call for a roll call vote here council member navarro hi councilmember qb aye councilmember garland hi vice mayor keating yes council member arenando savage hi mayor councilmember adams hi mayor and i vote i as well that item passes seven to zero next up we have item four reports and announcements first episode 4a mayor's reported announcements uh i have a proclamation for black history month which i'm going to go ahead and read whereas black history month became a month-long celebration in 1976 to honor the too often neglected accomplishments of black americans throughout our history and whereas the month of february is dedicated to the history of black americans to include carter g woodson known as the father of black history and whereas despite the formal designation of this month-long celebration the struggle and injustice of black americans persists to which we must remain vigilant in acknowledging and addressing the past while illuminating policies that need to be changed as well as inadequate and unequitable programs that need to be overhauled and whereas organizations such as the agc collectors club the african american advisory committee and the tempe black employee alliance as well as others have bravely and passionately educated our tempi community elevating the rich history perspectives and culture of tempe since 1995 and thereby allowing for the ability to hold space for each other at difficult times and whereas in the off sided words of reverend theodore parker reverend dr martin luther king jr and president barack obama the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice and whereas this month and every month the city of tempe shall honor the history of black americans and continue to make multicultural diversity a priority now therefore i corey woods mayor of the city of tempe arizona to hereby declare february 2022 as black history month in tempe arizona next up is item two which is the city of tempe board and commission appointments just want to note that there are new appointments to the city's fire and police public safety personnel retirement system boards risk management trust board sustainability and resilience commission and veterans commission as outlined in items 6a1 on tonight's agenda so please feel free to check those out when you have an opportunity and next up here we have item 4b city manager's reports and announcements mr city manager yes thank you mr mayor and members of council very pleased tonight to uh welcome brianne fisher and a couple of guests to make a presentation regarding the climate justice agenda unlimited potential so take it away brienne good evening mayor and council brianne fisher coming to you for the first time as climate action manager i know you have a packed agenda tonight but we are very grateful for the opportunity to share some of the work that we are very proud of as you know we've been working on the climate action plan updates we the last time we were in front of you we highlighted our business agenda with the tempe chamber of commerce and as city manager ching mentioned tonight we have unlimited potential with us to highlight the work of the climate justice plan unlimited potential is an established and trusted community-based organization that has done incredible work throughout the valley in the last few decades we are very grateful for their partnership in developing the climate justice agenda in we're in front of you because the approach that we took with the city in the passenger seat and unlimited potential in the driver's seat really led to authentic engagement and feedback and that's what we're excited to share with you tonight i just want to put a plug in we do have the draft climate action plan update available for the public online through the tempe forum and we will be coming to you um at the march 3rd regular council meeting for a formal approval of the climate action plan update with that i will hand it over to emma and tasha from unlimited potential thank you thank you um first of all thank you for the opportunity to be here presenting and most um most importantly thank you for your interest in the community input it um tempe is a true leader in an an example of how cities should be working with the community let me um as briana mentioned unlimited potential was the um approach um i found a year ago with the intention to bring to the climate um justice the climate action plan a climate justice agenda and to bring to bring the voice of the community to the plan that be represented in the plan as such we work for eight months from april to november with a series of formal and informal if we can move to the next slide please we work with a series of formal and informal conversations with the community we had all our workshops were bilingual we we have meetings with partners meetings with community we have workshops related to energy and how we could be how individuals can read their energy bill we also have conversations about the envision center and what the community wanted to see in the envision center today we continue to work with the community and something that that is important to know is that once we start working with a community and once you you ask the individuals what you want to see what you want to do is that we are engaging in a long-term relationship with the individuals with with the community members and that's how it should be because we should be able to be responsive to the needs and the changes of the community which is as we all know is something that is constant we are always changing and and it is our responsibility to be adapting and moving with that for the next slides the next few slides i am only going to highlight some of what we found in this conversation some of the things that we hear in these conversations number one individuals are very willing and eager to provide feedback but they want action people is tired of providing feedback and that feedback being just stored in a document or store in some some meeting and no action behind it um individuals when the transparency which obviously the city of tempe is providing in through all these methods through all these meetings all these opportunities one of the areas that was very highlighted is the land stewardship what it means yes is the land acknowledgement which the city has the statement but it is more than that it's really an opportunity for tempe to be a leader again in a place that practice and preserve the culture a place where actions um the teaching indigenous practice teaching the languages the culture the diversity the cultural heritage is part of way a part of the life of the residency in tempe it's also increased the green space native plants on that and increase the desert edibles teaching individuals how to to eat the dessert edibles there is quite nutrition in that the focus on regenerative farming sustainable and healthy forms of agriculture to be brought to tempe also in cultivating the empty space i suppose of continue to build buildings in any in some instances when there is construction to ensure that trees are planted back where those may have been cut down the next component that was mentioned it was very much on that innovation in that bringing the innovation to tempe in terms of using biodegradable products stop using plastics and unused the reusable cloth bags make a solar available solar panels available to all low-income populations to all individuals build smaller housing as a solution for their own shelter and some of the individuals were mentioning the tiny homes as a solution for the unsheltered population bill green's green buildings replant the trees that they're cut um the next slide was uh is about the envision center great conversations in in the vision center um part of that is using the the space as an opportunity for for the transportation to make transportation available for in older adults and create the place in a way that there is a socialization component for the older adult population develop an education center where languages are taught there technology cooking history of tempe and maybe using the same center as a cultural center for native cultures provide physical activity such as yoga tai chi and brain art programs for all ages there was quite a bit of information divided in in the vision center it was divided in four main categories one is well health and wellness the other one was workforce development and affordable housing and resiliency in summary really individuals do appreciate the opportunity to provide their ideas they um they want to provide their ideas their opinions but they again they want action individuals do want a cleaner and greener community where everyone is welcome listen and respected uh tasha if you want to jump in if i'm missing something please feel free otherwise um thank you everyone for the opportunity and again most importantly thank you for your interest in the community this is tasha trahan and i'm happy to jump in or just uh we want to open it up for some questions um i think it was a really amazing um eight months and as emma mentioned we're very grateful and honored to get that opportunity to showcase the work that community-based organizations can do and how they help cities connect with very directly in a very intimate and personal way with the folks that are really affected the most from heat and environmental issues um etc so we had and as i'm sure you can imagine it really depends on where a person is so the things that they're thinking about today so when we talked to mothers with young children they talked about parks and bus stops and drinking water along the bus stop or something like that shaded spaces they wanted safety they want things to be clean they want to a lovely park to go play in they know that there are differences in the city they see the differences in their neighborhood and they want to you know they ask why and uh when we talked to folks like at the vision center we had people coming over in their wheelchairs for goodness sake and you know they were talking about transportation and they were so excited that the envision center was going to be there and really wanted to participate and lend their voice and come over and help out so you have people love the city people love the desert and any way that they can get engaged and support it and love up all our natural spaces and then make those more available to more people that's really a lot of the messages that we received so that was exciting to hear mr mayor this is councilmember adams can i i can't find my my ability to raise my hand so i'm just i'm doing it this way you are totally the old-fashioned way exactly so i just first of all i want to say that's an excellent presentation really informative i really like it that that you all went to where the people are and that just is so it's so much more inclusive everyone can participate and uh and come out and and the division center love it i think it's a great idea and i'm just really really happy about um the direction on this so thanks for the wonderful presentation and for your prior priority on all different kinds of sustainability measures so thank you mr mayor wonderful thank you councilmember adams any other council members have any additional comments hi mayor this is uh councilmember garland um i just want to say that i went out to the envision center and when you were doing your presentation out there and the residents came out and they were very excited about um having you there and um giving their opinion about what they thought that envision center could be and what they wanted to see in their neighborhood and i talked to a number of people that were out there they were just excited that you were there to listen to them and you're right it was great to have it in the conversations in a couple different languages and then you provided snacks out there for them and just the great sustainability table that was set up so that people can kind of look at the different things that you guys were talking about and things that you could do i just have to say i was just so impressed i'm glad that we have this partnership i think it's really important for the city and um you know i do love the fact that you know instead of holding a meeting at the library or downtown you know tempe that you you were out there in their neighborhood and i think that meant a lot to them um and i just want to say i'm glad we're working with you and we're it's going to be great moving forward so thank you so much thanks thank you councilman garland councilmember qb thank you mr mayor uh thank you tasha thank you emma i know that staff not just sustainability staff but neighborhood services staff learn so much from you in this process and it's so important it was this eureka moment where we heard wait maybe we shouldn't be having these sort of passive community engagement exercises where we bring people and to either a zoom meeting or to an in-person meeting we sort of talk at them that we really go as councilmember adam said go to where people are and you know recognize that there is a certain level of distrust even with city government no we're the most trusted of local of government officials right but they're still somewhat sometimes a mistrust so it's important that we go to where people are and i know that tempe has taken leadership in this style of community engagement and i hope that uh the that maricopa county that maricopa association of governments that the utilities and then other cities will learn from from tempe's example and lead in such a way and i know i was uh president of environment day the state capitol the other day and uh mayor woods you spoke so eloquently about the regional partnership that we've established with scottsdale with phoenix uh with mesa and mesa has made such incredible strides in their sustainability program thanks to the mayor there mayor giles and to jen duff and so we need to really recognize that covid makes creates a real real barrier to understanding and engagement and really interact with people in a more direct way and listen to people have these have these solutions be resident-led and so i thank you i our second our climate action plan 2.0 is all about equity infusing equity and practices and and in principle and you really helped us to um really walk the talk and our climate action plan is a robust and vigorous plan because of it so also thank you to to brienne and to uh dr brayden k for all their leadership and all the staff um that surround you and in turns they've made such a difference too in this public engagement process i think we've had graham correct me have there been 15 different public engagements over the climate action plan or is it 19 it's certainly a lot but um you could know where council yes we are actually calculating that right now there's been we haven't been able to keep it on our hands so we're tallying up uh the amount of engagement that we've had i think for the background you're saying there's been 86 public engagements [Laughter] well thank you so much tasha emma unlimited potential mayor and council for giving us the time and the opportunity to share we really appreciate it thank you it has been a pleasure thank you so much great presentation uh just you know thank you for all your great work really appreciate it and brian it's so awesome to see you in your new role um let me go next mr city manager any more announcements i don't thank you mr mayor sounds good all right next up item number five uh is public appearances according to the arizona open meeting law the city council may only discuss matters listed elsewhere on this agenda for discussion and legal action the purpose of the open call to the public is to allow individuals to address the city council on any issue within the jurisdiction of the city council public appearances shall be limited to an aggregate total of 60 minutes no person shall speak more than once and there is a limit of three minutes per speaker speakers must state their name and city of residence members of the public shall refrain from making personal important or slanderous remarks and for becoming boisterous while addressing the city council or while attending the meeting speakers will be taken first come first serve in the order in which the cards are received speakers not choosing to appear virtually may have their comments read into the record time permitting speakers visual aids and appearances by phone or recordings are not allowed council members are prohibited by state law from taking action on commenting or discussing a matter raised by a member of the public even if asked to do so by a member of the public so long as the subject discussed by the speaker is not listed on a specific agenda for council council's consideration for discussion and legal action at the conclusion of public appearances the council may ask the city manager to review a matter or place a matter on a future agenda i've got a couple of notes in front of me uh but i know the clerk has other cards i'm going to go with what i have here that the clerk can read uh whatever else she has or admit other people into the virtual room the first virtual speaker i have here is uh janelle earnshaw uh so uh miss earnshaw if you can actually state your name and city of residence and you have three minutes to address the city council thank you alternatively quick thank you for this opportunity just janelle earnshaw and i first of all need to thank kara so much she brought pictures to the the council that i was very concerned about with my neighborhood and also i want to make sure i thank molly who's meeting me at 7am this saturday she was with tempe police uh because they've been addressed about my issue is so bad and also jessica wright who's also addressed my issues who's caught who i have to speak to next week about my issues my issue is the homeless crisis it is absolutely out of control and let me state this right now before anything i don't feel any sympathy anymore for them there's i don't know what's another word for pigs that garbage is unsurmountable it is absolutely overwhelming the garbage and i had them bring some pictures to you it's worse it's worse okay and one of the big problems is the i baseline corridor and i want the policeman i want the begging to stop it's because of our lenient attitude in tempe because you allow panhandling that's the core issue that's why they're camping here there i see i live next to fry's electronics which has become vacant so that's a major problem and the cops know about it kevin police everyone knows about it but still it's because they don't congregate there because the baseline and i10 is on ramps and off ramps every single corner there's hand and then in the medians there's usually six panhandlers you're letting them get by i've read they can make every 200 a month there's different people every month but they camp there it goes from priest and baseline and they're begging there and then you go to arizona mills and baseline there were three people camping out in their uh sleeping bags three weeks ago for three days they're gone then you go to i-10 then you go to my beautiful residential street kyle osteros it goes one way and is absolutely trashed because of homeless and i've actually got molly with the with the city police coming to help me to be honest because i was crying and there's so much garbage on my street and i people coming here it's dropped me to tears i'm worried about my property value and also i want to bring up the fact that if you drive it's weird you know in here but if you drive um south chandler doesn't have this problem chandler boulevard and i-25 and 101 and jen and the chandler x's and on earth don't have this problem the problem is tempe and where mesa joins tempe the i-10 and the 101 but specifically the champion corridor go to scottsdale no problem go to chandler no problem go to gilbert no problem what is our problem in tempe and why also is a camelot yeah and i belong to nextdoor app it's an app that thousands join and they've all complained about the homeless at i-60 and rural it's it's a crisis so i'll shut up now i know i've been there three minutes but i'm very upset my property value i'll shut up but i want to know what we're doing and it needs to stop clean up the homeless no more begging it's the beggars stop the begging thank you miss earnshaw really appreciate your time thank you for speaking this evening all right the next uh comment cards that we have i see this one here from uh jennalin grinio and i believe that uh carla you have that card yes they do mayor jenna lynn resident of tempe janna is writing to remind council and the public that city neighborhood and community recognition awards are due february 15th city of tempe neighborhood services nominations let's give some love to those doing good for our community recognition and award help our neighborhood and community categories include beautiful neighborhood space award chuck malpead award neighbor of the year neighborhood of the year neighborhood event of the year neighborhood friendly business waterwise landscape sustainability dolores huerta scholarship and arts and culture please see this site for details www.tempete.gov forward slash government forward slash community dash development forward slash neighborhood dash services forward slash neighborhood dash celebration as always thank you for your service jenna lingardio tempe resident thank you very much next card i was gonna say i have one more so you have all the remainder of the card so i will just turn it over to you for the remainder of uh public appearances well sure so the next card comes from daniel last initial c resident of tempe and daniel's writing referenced the arizona coyotes tempe city council with the board of regents approving the arizona coyotes to play at the new asu multi-purpose arena on the tempe campus i ask that the council consider and approve the building of the coyotes at home the new arena and entertainment district will bring a major influx of hockey fans to tempe from all over the valley and beyond this will be nothing but a major win for the city and its residents as it will put tempe in the national spotlight and make it a destination for hockey fans from all over north america thank you for your time and consideration and mayor i do have one comment card for a public hearing item later i can hold that until that item comes due totally up to you uh sure absolutely absolutely hold it or absolutely read it now you can absolutely hold it till till the uh acting hearing item comes up just keep it in context will do this will be the seven seven c two item for later so i'll let you know i have a card for that when we come time sounds good mr mayor yes i i think that individual would rather go now than wait through the entire meeting judging by the text message that individual just sent me so maybe we could laugh now so vice versa yeah this one is to be read into the record it's not an appearance we do have 14 other appearances for later um so it's up to you mayor if you want to call people forward now or when the hearing when the item comes due i'll leave it up to council on that one uh vice mayor keating what's your pleasure um i mean let's let's let these people i mean let's just do it now i mean that's what we do now yep that's fine like let's just i feel bad for those people i have to wait hours and hours to speak so let's let's just do it now we do a lot of jobs to do it so yeah that that that is totally fine by me um okay um let's see uh that clerk do you want to go ahead with the uh with all with the kind of letting all the speakers in sure thing uh mayor woods uh first speaker live speaker will be maricela morris and and quick question madam medal quick before uh marisela starts are you going to uh keep time or would you like for me to keep time no i'm timing in the background and i can send you the 30 second warning or i can give an audible warning if you like it's it's up to you either way uh an audible warning would be good just so people know um you know just so if they're getting close to the end of their time they know sort of to begin to wrap it up you got it perfect hi council thank you um i'm speaking on um item number seven i believe um i don't have the agenda i forgot um but um my name is marisela i live close to tempe town lake on washington and parkside drive um i did not grow up in tempe but in living here studying and working at asu i've come to call tempe home um unfortunately by the end of the year i will have to leave my home behind due to skyrocketing rent prices my roommate and i are looking at an increase of 400 in rent and simply don't have the means to sustain that um and you know on the proposed um project um you know i really appreciate the projects um you know proposed donations to funds that help affordable housing and public infrastructure um this council needs to go all in on building more affordable housing it's projects like this that are actively driving out working families such as my own equally concerning to me is the lack of transparency that the public has to this project and its proposed giblets exactly how much money will they profit by simply by simply hoarding taxpayers money um the tax rate is money that can be used to subsidize affordable housing now not later i asked the council and mayor to make more of this information readily available and allow more time for temp residents to give comment on this matter thank you thank you so much really appreciate it uh madame clark next speaker nick next speaker yolanda hernandez mr amir this is kara i do not see yolanda in the attendees list but we do have to call in speakers i'm not sure if you would want me to uh mute one to see if one of them is you yolanda yes let's do that just to be safe okay i'm i'm muting the first call in okay is anyone on the line mr mayor i'm going to try to unmute the other color okay but mr mayor if there's um spanish language person perhaps someone from staff could step up and translate i wouldn't want to stop yeah that's what i was thinking if we could unmute the other caller and then try to go back to the other caller and see if we could have someone translate for us okay i'll do that okay um i'm sorry hello i'm here with yolanda i can translate for her that will be more expedient yes please that'll be wonderful thank you so much okay hola my name is hi my name is yolanda hernandez and i work at the tempe mission palms hotel for 29 years i am fortunate enough to own my home but as you know the cost of home and living has gone up so much and what's going to happen to the next generation of our kids would be able to afford to live i am grateful for the donation the project has done but the project should include affordable housing units foreign and again the cost of living has gone up so much the future generations will not have the same opportunities i did for home ownership progress and additionally we should be supporting projects that offer affordable housing and not projects that are building luxury uh hotels or luxury housing and additionally the public has was not given enough information or time to review this project thank you thank you so much really appreciate it uh madam clerk uh next speaker next speaker alcita miranda please state your name in place of residence you have three minutes to address the city council hello hi my name is asila miranda and i've been working at the tempe mission palms hotel for over seven years i was able to buy my home here in tempe back in 2018 but as you know the cost of housing has gone up so much that i would attempt to buy my home today i would not be able to afford it and additionally you know this the city of tempe needs more affordable housing this project needs to include affordable housing units and we should be uh supporting projects that include affordable housing not projects that are just purely luxury thank you thank you so much really appreciate it all right madam clerk next speaker next speaker emma fuentes i have emma fuentes here as well sounds good hi my name is ima fuentes and i've been working again at the tempe mission palms hotel for over 19 years or information and i feel like people like me we haven't had enough time or information over this project i have a granddaughter that is currently going to tempe high school and i worry about the impact that these tax breaks will have on our school systems the employee [Music] and the city council should give us more time and information to really understand what will be the impact of this project in our community thank you thank you really appreciate it thank you uh let's see uh madam clerk next speaker please speaker john silke okay sounds good is that your name place of presence you have up to three minutes to address the council hi uh my name is john i'm a tempe resident can you hear me okay yes i can thank you all right thank you mr mayor um so yeah today i'm speaking on the agenda item 7c4 on the development of south pier at tempe town lake uh so i've lived in arizona most of my life i currently rent an apartment at 10 p and just this past year i've seen my rent go up by over 20 percent i've talked to many other friends and family who've reported a very similar experience you know i'm lucky that my employment situation is such that i can afford it but it does cut into my overall finances in a really bad way i have to send a lot of money to support my parents you know my mom has long-term care needs my father is still working in his 70s to make ends meet you know i can't imagine the impact that this is having on our less fortunate tempe neighbors you know similar to other folks who who have come on to speak um i bring all this up because you know reading through the proposed ordinance for that development you know i see a lot of money being granted in the form of tax breaks like the the g pleds um allowing something like you know eight years of tax abatement on property taxes um subsidized by you know tax paying tempe residents and so you know i think tempe as well as all of the phoenix metro area are going through a housing crisis uh and i think we i agree with folks who have spoken that we do need projects that include affordable housing um i did notice that the ordinance stipulates you know that the developer would have to make a donation of about you know 12.7 million dollars to public benefits which is which is great 80 of that would go to the tempe coalition for affordable housing uh all this is good but it's still unclear like what impact that 10 million dollars would have on bringing down housing prices at the scale that this crisis calls for um according to tempe.gov at the end of 2020 you know this coalition had assets in the amount of 10 million and with that they were only able to manage about 50 to 60 units so you know based on what i've been able to see in the attached documents on the agenda item i just don't see any sort of like report on the economic impact that this would have on and on like housing prices and surrounding neighborhoods you know i agree with folks that have said that this is there's a sort of a transparency issue with the abyss and i would agree and calling for more time to to uh to think for the community to think about this you know um i'll also just you know finally bring up that i think emma at the very beginning on the climate justice agenda item probably a good point oh thank you i'll go ahead and wrap up but yeah i just you know i agree that you know we shouldn't just be using public land to build more buildings um if a yes most yes no vote must happen today i just urge council members to vote no otherwise i would ask that this be tabled and allow the community more time thank you thank you very much appreciate it uh madame clark next speaker please next speaker harley jackson sounds good please state your name place of residence you have three minutes to address the council hi yeah my name is harley jackson um i lived in arizona all my life and i'm an asu student so um it was extremely difficult i'm sorry i'm speaking on 7c 4 as well it was extremely difficult to find housing here that could fit into my budget and i've seen very little affordable housing throughout tempe the donation that this project is doing the south pier tempe town lake project is nice but we need affordable housing to include affordable housing and include affordable houses uh we have a ton of high-rise luxury apartments in tempe and we're not a lux we're not in a luxury housing crisis we're in an affordable housing crisis so i also do feel like there's hasn't been enough transparency surrounding the south carolina town link project um the development is going to receive several tax breaks but the total value of these is unclear we should be provided with more information and time to review this project and decide whether it's something our community needs right now i don't believe it's the right thing for residents like myself thank you thank you so much appreciate it um madam clerk next speaker please next speaker joshua wells mr wells thank you please come state your name place of residence and you have three minutes to address the council hello my name is josh wells i live in phoenix arizona and i am the policy researcher for the case action fund uh my apologies give me two seconds one of my kids toys is playing in the background you're probably hearing it know what no worries this will not cut into your time at all the joys of uh all of us working from home yes um yep i am the policy resource to her for the case action fund an organization that fights along working families throughout the valley we are extremely concerned as many others have stated about the lack of transparency information surrounding the south para teputown lake project there was no presentation given during the january 13th public hearing on this project and today a development and disposition agreement for it could be approved this is not fair to the tempe community who should be provided time to review the details of a 1.8 billion dollar project before it is approved here is what we do know though the project is being subsidized by not one not two but seven giplets this would allow the development to not pay property taxes on seven parcels of land for eight years the public has also not been given the opportunity to review the documentation and calculations showing the expected value of these giblet tax breaks this is being to use subs this is being used to subsidize things like luxury housing in a hotel and as many have stated we are an affordable housing crisis not a hotel crisis while donation is being made to the temple affordable housing coalition and the project does include some senior housing no affordable housing units are included in the project it is also unclear what the timeline would be for the aforementioned donation to become actual housing units tempe residents need affordable housing to be included in a project like this there has also been much discussion around the valley about the negative impact of the tax subsidies have in education in residence just last year the phoenix elementary school district passed a resolution opposing giblets citing that they shortchanged school districts of needed revenue and push additional tax costs on the property owners of neighboring homes and businesses they also stated that the effectiveness of giblets as a tool for community center development remains unclear due to the opaqueness of the tax incentive program which needs more transparency and accountability today we are also asking for more transparency in closing we are very concerned by the trend of massive tax subsidies being given away to multi-million billion dollar developments throughout the valley we stand by our stance that the community benefits are not enough and believe tempe residents deserve more information and time to provide feedback on this project thank you for your time thank you mr wells appreciate it um madam clerk next speaker next speaker jordan taylor can you say that one more time you cut out a little bit jordan taylor jordan taylor okay great thank you so much hello my name is jordan and i work at asu and tempe uh tempe workers deserve better than what we are getting here today with the south pier at tempe town lake project first we deserve transparency there has not been enough time for tempe residents to review this project and the information provided has been limited at best there should be several weeks if not months of public proposal and commentary to see if this is something we want our city should directly also be confronting our homelessness crisis with developments that include affordable housing units our neighbors in phoenix are seeing more tent cities pop up and i hope we can do a better job of taking care of people here in tempe if we are going to be giving away large tax breaks it should be for an emergency shelter so homeless folks can have more stability work and thrive i ask that the city council give more information and time for us to review this project thank you thank you very much really appreciate it um madam clerk next card next speaker tia marshall sounds good mr mayor there is not a tia in the list and i don't see any call-in speakers as well okay sounds good next speaker mickey schillinger hi my name is mickey schillinger and i'm a sophomore at arizona state university studying political science and i will be talking about the south pier project item 7c4 tempe has been my home for two years now and i've grown to love this place as much as i love tempe because of how close i am to campus and because it is where most of my friends live the tempe town lake area which is 5-10 minutes away has no affordable housing unfortunately i will be having to move 35 minutes away from campus for my junior year because i cannot afford to live on or near campus anymore especially with student loans piling up it is sad and infuriating that so many students like me are having to go through the same situation the 35 minute commute ends up costing less than living 10 minutes away from campus as students we should not have to put a damper on our college experience because we have to worry if we can't afford rent my friends who do live in tempe can only barely afford it because they are working two and sometimes three jobs on top of school i know for a fact that their current housing situation directly affects their education and frankly that is just sad very disappointing and shouldn't be happening in the first place affordable housing is an issue that so many college students are facing when our main concern should be our education i don't want to drive 30 35 minutes to and from school five days a week for the next two to three years of my college life but that's the necessary action i must take or else i would not be able to afford to get an education at all it's another element of stress that so many college students shouldn't be having to go through the development that these luxury apartments and hotels would be built on is about five to ten minutes from campus and i don't understand that if they are going to build something there why it wouldn't be affordable housing for students and for the people of tempe not to mention this is the first time we are being given a real presentation about this development the fact that they are not giving the people of tempe time to properly think and evaluate the situation so the community can give truly thoughtful feedback is unjust and not fair to anyone too often these developments are rushed through so that these people can keep doing business as usual without stopping to think about how will it affect the community and the people who live here i'm a citizen of tempe who is being forced to move because of this affordable housing crisis so on behalf of my community i ask that we at least postpone the vote so that tempe citizens have a fair chance to process the development and information that we just will get today thank you thank you really appreciate it um madame clark uh next speaker please next speaker brandon ortega okay hello my name is brandon ortega i am a 20 year old junior at asu i am also here today to talk about the south pier project item 7 c4 i have lived here my entire life and i have seen housing become more and more unaffordable growing up poor my family always struggled with housing and even being homeless at times yeah we were able to manage and although we were able to somewhat live comfortably recently last year we were forced out of our home to dramatic increase in rent and this is a situation that many families and young people are finding themselves today i know many council members here care about our communities their communities and we need them to protect our families and neighborhoods from being taken over by unnecessary luxury developments families college students and working people need affordable housing now this project should include affordable housing units not just a donation to support affordable housing elsewhere the deputy community should be giving more time and information to review this project and ensure that we get the community benefits that we need and deserves thank you thank you so much really appreciate it uh madam clerk uh next speaker please next speaker is jason ronstadt great hello my name is jason ronstapp i'm an undergraduate student at asu i've lived in tempe for four years now and i'm speaking on the the seven c4 i do not believe that a luxury development should receive seven giblets and uh not have to pay eight years of property taxes when our community is in desperate need of these resources now like other students and workers here in tempe i want to make sure that the projects built especially ones that receive tax subsidies are enriching our community it is difficult to do this with the limited information that has been provided at the very least a project like this should include affordable housing on site and other more substantial community benefits thank you thank you so much uh madame clerk uh next speaker please next speaker anna martinez okay thank you hi good evening council my name is anna i'm on item um and the item seven c4 um hi anna anna really quickly we can we can't hear you very well is there any way you can turn the speaker up a little bit um can you hear me better uh a little a little bit i just want to make sure that people can hear your comments um hi my name is anna i've been living here in tempe for a couple of years now i work at asu um and for the sun devil dining and i moved to tempe to live closer to work uh which is great i don't have to drive anywhere anymore um however with the high cost of living here in tempe i might have to consider moving away from the city once my lease is up um this makes me really sad to see myself and other university employees struggle living paycheck to paycheck especially when we play such an important role in this community uh why are we planning to give seven shipless to this development while so many people are struggling to make ends meet uh the donations to the tempe affordable housing coalition is not enough and affordable housing should be included in the projects itself um i would also like residents like myself to be given more time and information to review this project before the city council decides to give away massive tax breaks to another luxury commercial development thank you thank you so much really appreciate it madam clerk next speaker please next speaker austin marshall thank you mr marshall you have three minutes to address the council thank you mr mayor and council uh i live in tempe i've lived in tempe for uh uh going on about nine years now and i've been sitting as a member of the judicial advisory board since 2018 and so i'm speaking to item 7c5 actually thank you um i want to take them to chief judge kane at the city court for what i think has been a big theme of his time as chief judge as accessibility accessibility for the public to the city court itself especially during covet and the complications that's caused access for digital advisory board members and knowing what's going on at the city court and keeping us always surprised uh and now the agenda item 755 which i uh encourage you and ask you all to approve i think goes to allowing prospective candidates for judged positions access to a process that takes into account diversity and takes into account the value that diversity brings to the city's courts i don't want to belabor i already submitted a comment card for when it was up for the first vote i don't want to be late but the points there but our courts at all levels function better when they better reflect our communities the proposed change still maintains merit as the primary criteria for judicial board for the digital advisory board in terms of how it evaluates judicial candidates um but it allows us to evaluate candidates holistically which is critical to making sure that our judges best serve our community's needs so i wanted to commend judge kane and i encourage you all to vote yes on item c5 thank you mr marshall really appreciate it uh madame clerk any other cards or speakers mayor i have one just one more card to read into the record comes from merrill darcy and it's reference 7c to the dwell project merrill writes every saturday morning the neighboring properties are subjected to an obnoxious cloud of dust from the leaf blowers and maintenance of the grounds now the developer is asking for entitlement for 129 dwelling residential apartments utilizing the same decomposed granite parking services tempe planning department had objected to the surface and requested it paved or hardscaped the developer was successful in satisfying the objection and proceeded to placate the drc and planning with a very cool apartment project with decomposed granite as permitted no other project that i know of how this service and also violates city code again another example where a developer circumvents the planning department with more delusions and unfulfilled promises please insist that this project have the proper approved parking surface with a mitigation of dust control mayor that closes the public comment period for tonight wonderful thank you madam clerk really appreciate it all right next up here is item number six the consent agenda all items listed on the consent agenda will be considered as a group and will be enacted with one motion by the city council unless an item is removed for separate consideration members of the public may remove public hearing items for separate consideration public hearing items are designated by an asterisk council members may remove any item for separate consideration or to declare a conflict of interest if a council member would like to declare a conflict at this time the city clerk will provide the council member with the disclosure form the public may submit written comments via the city of tempe speaker comment card system at tempe.gov clerk the consent agenda this evening is marked as miscellaneous items 5a1-583 awards of bids and contracts items 5b1 through 5b8 and resolutions items 5c1 through 5c5 any agenda item marked with an asterisk is a public hearing item and can be removed by a member of the public for separate consideration is there any member of the public that would like any item here on the consent agenda removed for separate consideration madam clerk do you have any requests to remove any of these items from the public none mayor okay then i will look to the city council to see if there's anything they would like to have removed for separate consideration all right hearing none then the chair would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as read moved by vice mayor keating seconded by councilmember qb i will call for a roll call vote councilmember navarro mayor yes i'm sorry just one second i just totally missed it but um 684 right i'm sorry uh yes it was 6a4 uh okay i just wanted to say something real quick real quick on it any anyone out sounds good i can i can have that one pulled any other council members any other items all right real quick i'm just going to ask um vice mayor key to get councilmember qp to resend their emotion in their second i mean i guess you're all right so i will do this again then um i'd like to i'll i'll entertain a motion for the approval of the consent agenda with the exception of item 6a4 which has been removed for separate consideration so moved forward by vice mayor keating to have second seconded by councilmember cubie i will do a roll call vote here council member navarro hi councilmember cubie hi councilmember garland aye vice mayor keating yes councilmember arredondo savage hi mayor councilmember adams i and i vote i as well that item passes seven to zero next up here we have the item that councilmember navarro pulled which is item 6a4 which is to approve the transfer of budget appropriation from general fund contingency to engineering and transportation streets fund for the replacement or rehabilitation of the city's entryway signs council member navarro mayor real quick i just want to say thank you for this and staff and working on it i know the mayor and council we've looked at this stuff but once again this is one of the things i'm proud about you know the entryways into our city this is a great start and what we're trying to do and achieve um when you come into tempe it's the look the appeal it's it's all about the things that i you know always been harped on or harp on is the landscape the right of ways the appearance and how we look as tempe so when people do travel to and through and from and work and play you know you're in a great city you know you're in a city that um looks good that looks sharp and we just want to make sure that our parents appearance is is stating that so i think this is a great item and i just want to vote and favor it in favor of it and uh thank you for your time and this is uh my vote wonderful thank you councilmember navarro hearing no other comments do i have a motion to approve item 6a4 so moved moved by councilmember navarro do i have a second second seconded by councilmember garlad i will go ahead and take a roll call vote here councilmember navarro aye councilmember qb aye councilmember garland aye vice mayor keating yes council member arredondo savage aye mayor councilmember adams i and i vote i as well item 6a4 passes seven to zero next up is item number seven which is the non-consent agenda all items listed on the non-consent agenda will be considered separately agenda items scheduled for introduction and first public hearing will be heard but will not be voted upon at this meeting agenda items scheduled for second public hearing and final adoption will be voted upon tonight council members who may have a conflict of interest may abstain from voting on a matter and the city clerk will provide the council members with the disclosure form at this time first section here is miscellaneous items bids contracts and resolutions the first item under the section is 7a1 which is to approve a one-year contract renewal with somerset landscape llc for landscape maintenance services for streets and right-of-way areas council any comments or discussion hearing none the chair would entertain a motion been moved by vice mayor keating seconded by councilmember qb i'll take a roll call councilmember tomorrow council member navarro aye councilmember qb aye councilmember garlick aye vice mayor keating yes councilmember arredondo savage hi mayor councilmember adams i i vote i as well that item passes seven to zero the next item under the section is 782 which is to approve an increase to the contract amount with empire southwest llc for the purchase of two skid steer loaders and a utility compactor used to support uncontained garbage diversion and alley maintenance operations council any comments or discussion on this item motion to approve it's been moved by councilmember adams do i have a second second seconded by councilmember cubie uh roll call vote councilmember navarro aye councilmember qb aye councilmember garland aye vice mayor keating yes council member arredondo savage hi mayor councilmember adams hi and i vote i as well item 782 passes seven to zero the last item under the section is 783 which is to award a construction contract to lincoln constructors incorporated for the paper preservation fy 22 group 2 project located at various locations around the city council any comments or discussion on this item motion to approve been moved by council member adams do i have a senator seconded by councilmember navarro roll call vote here councilmember navarro aye councilmember cubie aye councilmember garland aye vice mayor keating yes council member arredondo savage hi mayor councilmember adams i and i vote i as well item 783 passes seven to zero the next section on the non-consent agenda is ordinances and items for introduction and first hearing these items will be read and introduced tonight but no vote will be taken the second hearing and vote for these items is scheduled for march 3rd 2022 except for item 7b3 in which the vote will occur on april 28 2022 after the second final when public hearing is held on march 3rd 2022 so we have ordinances items for introduction and first hearing only the first item under the section is 7b1 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a zoning map amendment from css tod to mu4 tod and a planned area development overlay to establish development standards a public hearing to adopt a resolution authorizing a general plan projected land use map amendment from residential to mixed use and a general plan projected density map amendment from medium to high density to high density and to approve a development plan review for a new three to five story mixed-use development containing consisting of 182 dwelling units and commercial uses on 2.86 acres for haven at apache located at 1916 east apache boulevard the applicant is birch in kratchiel i gotta say that right rachel i'll get that right eventually p.a i'm sure they will uh probably uh so i've got um i is the applicant uh brennan ray uh would they like to make a statement and also uh make sure that i know how to pronounce that last name uh mayor good evening brennan ray with birch and krakiolo uh here tonight uh it's okay um mr krakiolo would not be offended at the mispronunciation of his name at all but nevertheless thank you very much uh for allowing us to present tonight i do have a brief presentation i know we've been here a long time and i know you have additional items following us but the development and i'll share my screen now um bear with me one minute um are you able to hopefully that's filling up your screen uh more than it is at least what i think it is it's sort of in the in the top right hand corner uh taking up kind of one fourth of the screen but i can see it there we go perfect perfect well thank you again and again i'll be brief but um brennan ray 1850 north central so uh excited to talk to you tonight about our development along apache boulevard uh on behalf of geffen development partners they are the proposal of the developer of a very small challenging infill redevelopment site and just briefly geffen is a national developer that's headquartered in texas they develop class a multi-family communities throughout the country on this particular one we've worked closely with planning staff and other departments on this request we've worked with cvac on it as well and we've appreciate the feedback that we've received as we've gone through this process uh as you know we will be uh making a contribution to the hometown for all initiative but as we start to get in it it's a request that's supported by the general plan uh it's consistent with and conforms to the apache character area plan we're very appreciative of the thoroughness of shaft's report and their support for our development appreciate the drc strong recommendation for approval and we'll request your approval at the appropriate time focusing on the site it's outlined there in black it's between mcclintock and the 101 along apache boulevard it's approximately 2.86 acres you can kind of see it's a unique site and with its shape and depth for those that are familiar it's the site of tolliver's flooring and there's a variety of different uses to our west north and east and as you know before you tonight there are multiple requests the first is to amend the land use map on approximately 0.71 acres from residential to mixed use another request is to amend the projected density map on 1.16 acres from medium high density to high density and then additionally we have a rezoning request taking it from css tod to mu4 tod together with a planned area development and development plan review important we know to the area is the apache character area plan as we started this process we took a hard look at it especially as we were designing this site and as is detailed in staff's report we believe that there are a number of elements that we're meeting as we look at this including shade a combination of structural and organic where appropriate streetscape treatments and the pedestrian scale along apache boulevard certainly transitioning in height as we move from south along apache boulevard to the north where there's a residential neighborhood and there's a whole bunch of other items that are detailed in staff's report just touching briefly on the neighborhood outreach again i can go into more detail as you would like but in addition to the neighborhood meeting we met with matt salinger and phil amorosi with cvac we had a good discussion where we received some good feedback on the colors and materials we listened to them and their input is reflected in the plans that are before you tonight and here's kind of a slide to give you a brief overview and a perspective of of what this building will look like and you can see there some of the details on the right um again i can go into as much detail as you would like tonight or if there's things that i need to be prepared as we move on to to next month happy to do that this is a perspective again of what it would view probably in the sunset hours again you can see the use of the shade the use of different materials colors forms architecturally and this is the view at the street level and you can again see all of the the great things that we're doing again appreciative of the feedback we've received from staff along the way in cvac mayor members of council there is a lot more information that i could go into if you wanted me to but wanting to keep it brief i'll just leave it at that and see if there's any questions any homework we need to do between now and when we come back before you next month sounds good mr ray thank you so much really appreciate the presentation uh let me go to uh councilmember eridano savage right thank you mayor i i appreciate the opportunity mr ray thank you so much for the presentation you know what i i read through this i looked at it i thought man this is really going to be great there's not anything that i i have big concerns about the one the one thing though i would like to get some more information about is i mean this is technically supposed to be a mixed use project and i know that you're utilizing the fitness center as part of being designated as mixed use so i would hope i was hoping that you don't have to do it tonight if you could get me some information for the next hearing just kind of into in regards to what that looks like can the community use it what will it cost what will the hours be uh because that's kind of a unique and something a little bit different out of the world that i think we've done before for mixed use so i just really want to ensure that it meets at least my expectations of mixed use if you have the time to do that that would be really helpful for me thank you mayor thank you councilmember arredondo savage uh councilmember hubie thank you mr mayor yeah i'd ask um this is right along the light rail and so we think of this area as transit oriented development so there's a lot of amenities and housing and transportation and food access we would hope um along along the light rail and transportation oriented development you always want to have a mixture of housing as well so is this all market rate i'm assuming since you haven't mentioned workforce you haven't mentioned affordable you are asking for you are asking for increased height right and well maybe not height but you're asking for increased density so what are you offering in terms of um affordability given that you're having these entitlements that you're requesting yeah through the mayor councilmember qb happy to do some additional homework and get back to you on that but in terms of answering your question yes this is a a market rate development and i can go into more details if you'd like as i mentioned at the beginning i know that the uh hometown for all initiative has been very successful and we plan to contribute to that to ensure that that success continues and what kind of contribution are you discussing uh through the mayor councilmember qb i i don't have the exact details and numbers at this time but we'll be happy to provide that to you when we get together next month and and what are the rents for um 523 square feet to the 1100 square feet what are the rents uh through the mayor councilmember qb our our rents um we believe are going to range in you know in today's dollars between roughly twelve thirteen hundred dollars uh up to two thousand uh dollars for those two bedroom units okay did you fill out a um affordable housing impact statement the ahus and can you present that if not tonight then next next read uh council member cuba i'm 99 sure that we would have um filled that form out and and submitted it um i don't have it here in front of me but we're happy to happy to discuss that at next month's hearing you see i mean later on we're going to be deliberating on south pier and that's you know very expensive property that you know some could argue that it's not the place where you could build affordable housing but you could sell the land and use that those proceeds and use contributions to build housing elsewhere but if if along the light rail isn't a place where we can build affordable housing or mixed housing affordable mixed luxury rent i mean a luxury is not technically a class but if we can't do mixed housing along the light rail where can we do it you know and so i would it's kind of late in the process and i would hope that community development staff has talked to you about this issue in our housing staff but it just seems to me that a tod project should be reflecting the context of that neighborhood and that neighborhood is in need and has examples of affordable housing and workforce housing so that's what i would like to see in the project so thank you thank you okay thank you councilmember cubie any of the councilmembers any uh comments or questions for mr ray okay hearing none uh thank you mr ray really appreciate it thank you mayor let me ask really quickly madam clerk did we receive any comments from the public on this item mayor the cutoff time was 4 p.m and i did not receive any additional comments for this item okay sounds good i'll just go ahead and close the public hearing then uh council there's no other comments or discussions want to reiterate that the second and final public hearing of this item is scheduled for march 3rd 2022.

the next item under the section is 7b2 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to receive public comment on and adopt a resolution authorizing the annual community development block grant home program and emergency solutions grant action plan for fiscal year 2022-2023 would staff like to give a brief overview of this okay hearing none uh let me go to see if there were any comments received from the public madam clerk no additional input for this item mayor okay sounds good excuse me mayor woods this is naomi um staff would like to make a comment sorry sounds good this is um lavon laney one of the deputy human services directors for housing services sorry we couldn't get the unmute button clicked quick enough the first go around um but we did want to do a small refresher on this agenda item for any members of the public who may not have been in attendance during the work study session reviewing the items um this is for the annual action plan and funding proposed funding allocations for the community development block grant home partnership and emergency solutions grant program um the initial we are putting forward the initial funding activity proposals and soliciting um community input and feedback on the uses of those funds that would be consistent with our five-year consolidated plan and our needs assessment so the cdbg activity proposal would continue to support public service activities the emergency repair program acquisition of permanently affordable rental housing and our workforce development programming the home program would have the funding that would be utilized towards the tenant based rental assistance program to continue that two-year 24 excuse me 24-month program um to with a work um with a self-sufficiency component um this program does uh provide a rental uh housing subsidy for eligible participants with um heavy workforce involvement and engagement workforce development so that at the end of the 24-month period they are self-sufficient um with the emergency solutions grant that program and those funds can only be used to address homeless services so of course all of those funds would be utilized um to address homeless needs and i will stop there in case there are any questions or if um anyone needed more information on that overall of this project and program great thank you so much lavon appreciate it any uh members of council have any questions or comments below i do mr mayor yes councilman cubie thank you and i had some substantial discussions with naomi and lavon i really appreciate that really digging deep into the cdbg funds and i think it's important that our residents watching or not watching know that with the emergency repair fund that you can actually apply for funding to have a tree cut down that you have to have cut down maybe because of code maybe because the tree's dead you know for whatever reason and that can be a substantial a substantial expense for our families and so there are funds available in the city tempe to pay for that it's income limited you have to show um need um but i think it's important to know that and i guess we've gone through our weight wait list and so we we're spending these funds at a good clip sometimes the funds though you know we want to get out to where people are that don't know about the funds that are available right because sometimes people are very good at getting the information and other times people may not know so i really appreciate human services staff going out to people where they are and getting the information about what's available to them in terms of rental assistance and emergency repair thanks so much i appreciate all of the thought that's gone behind this plan great thank you councilman cubie any of the council members like to uh comment or ask any questions all right hearing none um see madam clerk were there any uh comments received from the public request to speak okay i think that was a no um so i'll just reiterate that the second and final public hearing of this item is scheduled for march 3rd 2022 the next item under the section is 7v3 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to receive public comment on and adopt a resolution authorizing the annual action plan for the one-time funding associated with the home program received through the american rescue plan act for fiscal year 2020 u 2022-2823 would staff like to give a brief overview good evening mary yes um again lavon lamey one of the deputy human services directors specifically assigned to housing um just as a refresher um for folks who are in the audience for the work study discussion and informational for anyone who who this is new for the home arp program is funding that was allocated as part of the entitlement through the american rescue plan act um this is one-time funding um we are putting our action plan together on how we would utilize this funding tempe's entitlement for this would be approximately two million two hundred sixty nine thousand nine hundred and thirty nine dollars and we are soliciting input um from the community and of course from mayor and council on what these funds these one-time funds could be utilized for um we will be coming back at a future meeting with the recommendations for the utilization um of these funds in the program to be executed and if anyone has any questions or needed any additional information we're available for questions sounds good thank you so much lavon any other uh let me ask really quickly here to the clerk uh did we receive any comments from the public on this item ready request to speak no additional input for this item mayor thank you very much um i'm gonna go ahead and close the public hearing portion uh council members uh any comments or questions for lavon councilmember cubie just to comment you know oftentimes we think of government as being dysfunctional so i just want to thank congress and thank joe biden for the american rescue plan funds they've been really sort of life-changing and um and priority shifting for our council and i'm so appreciative of of congress and passing these funds and joe biden for initiating it thank you thank you so much councilman qb any other council members any uh further comments or questions all right hearing none just want to reiterate the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for march 3rd 2022 and the vote is scheduled for april 28th 2022 the last item under the section is 7b4 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the transfer of real property located at 250 west rio salado parkway to 250 rio owner llc and authorizing the mayor or his designee to execute all associated agreements addenda conveyances and other related documents manja lavazz is the legal representative for this item i'll just ask if she would like to make a statement this evening uh good evening mayor members of the council for your record module lavazz law for gammage and burnham um i have a presentation i do not need to make a presentation this is just a simple land exchange but i'm happy to make a brief presentation if you'd like to see it thank you miss vaz uh council does anyone wish to see a presentation on this councilman qb i i think it's important even if it's a brief presentation for transparency be a long night so i apologize to my colleagues but i think it's important i got my caffeine right here i'm good yeah i think um jason or somebody has a presentation hopefully i i do not have a presentation for this particular item that i gave to cara um hi may modula i was not aware for presentation for this item i thought you only wanted to speak so i can give you privileges if you have the presentation to show on your screen um that will take a little bit um what about just a verbal what about a verbal yeah that's verbal that's fine so i appreciate it so as you may remember um in the penny saver site and i think for all of us remember with a penny saver site at rio and ash and you may remember and certainly people in the audience that the what looks like the um the tempe parking lot that's right next to the art center and just just north of the penny saver site actually the southern half of that penny saver site was actually owned by america west as you may remember so you had a private org company that owned what everybody thought was a public port by the public parking lot and then the city owns a little portion of the sliver adjacent to the ball field where the old ash avenue bridge abutment is coming along and as part as we're going to come forward in the future as part of the penny saver or the 250 rio project and the land exchange that this council had actually approved the plat but what we are doing is ex giving we're exchanging the city sliver which is the old ash avenue abutment for the larger triangle which will then complete the city parking lot that will go to the city so the current parking lot that's at the park that sticks to the veterans memorial kind of adjacent to the tempe art center will now become all city property and then what will happen as the 250 rio project comes before you you will see and we've been to the historic preservation commission last summer is we're going to bring back and kind of bring the back the old ash avenue abutment into its old historic preservation um kind of look and show you we'll come show you that we're going to kind of reimagine the bridge abutment so we will be bringing hp bringing some portion of historic tempe back to life and then also exchanging giving the city back the property so that they have a permanent public parking lot for the public so that's the land exchange that's happening i think it's a value for this city and we look forward to coming and talking to you about the project um i think in the next couple of months happy to answer any questions sounds good thank you miss boss uh any comments or questions from your country i have i have my hand raised i just i just want to say that yes you do councilman by apologies oh i finally found out i found out how to raise it so you know big progress anyway uh yeah so i'm supportive of moving forward forward with this project i like it it makes sense to me thank you thank you so much appreciate it any uh i should ask really quickly uh to the clerk here uh were there any comments received from the public regarding the site i've already requested to speak the request for items okay great i'll close the public hearing counsel any further comments or discussion or questions for miss vaz all right hearing none uh the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for march 3rd 2022.

thank you the last item under this section is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance amending chapter 20 noise of the tempest city code removing all references of decibel and decibel measurement council received a briefing on this matter during tonight's executive session but staff is available to answer any questions were there any comments madam clerk received from any member of the public regarding this item or any request to speak then this item mayor thank you so much i'll close the public hearing council with the comments or discussion yes councilmember qb i need to be johnny one note but in the interests of you know people that are tuning in perhaps uh staff could step up and explain why they think this ordinance should be passed okay i will look to uh jeff tamiya levich uh to come up and uh give a short answer account for cuba's question yes uh mr mayor uh council member cubie uh the code text amendment that's in front of you removes all references of decibels and decimal measurement from chapter 20 of the city code both code compliance and the police department the two enforcement arms of the city for noise issues are both in favor of this modification of the code the prosecutor's office directed city officials to not enforce codes referencing decibels and this is due to the difficulty of proving decibel measurements in chord it should be noted that codes referencing decibels have not been used for the enforcement of noise for approximately 10 years but the city does continue to enforce noise issues on a regular basis through other sections of this code such as 20-8 and 20-11 both of which do not reference decibels so i'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have thank you so much jeff really appreciate it counsel any further comments or questions for jeff uh councilmember adams i think that's a is that a hand from before i believe for the previous item yes it is i want to make sure i wasn't ignoring yourself okay thank you thank you mr you got it right all right well here bring uh no other comments from council just want to once again reiterate the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for march 3rd 2022.

all right so next up here we have item c ordinances and items for second hearing and final adoption these items were introduced in red on january 13 2022 and votes on these items will be taken tonight the first item under the section is 7c 1 which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a zoning map amendment from r2 multifamily to r3r multi-family residential restricted and a development plan review to add a new one-story multi-family development consisting of four dwelling units to an existing development for fourth street apartments located at 1235 west 4th street the applicant is palmer architects would the applicant like to make a statement yes we would uh jerry plummer architect are you able to speak sounds good okay i got the unmute off this this is jerry palmer uh with palmer architects i'm the applicant for the fourth street uh four apartment edition uh the project is an existing single story three unit duplex with six units in it and we're proposing to add four more single story two bedroom two bath units of 950 square feet in the center of the project we're rezoning the property from r2 to r3 r for the 2040 plan general plan in conformance and we have a use permit to allow four additional tandem parking spaces that are off the back alley to provide sufficient parking and all our parking is off the back alley so there is no parking coming into the units off any of the streets the new units will provide articulation with a variety of elements including decorative walls fenced private patios and colors and textures that complement the existing six single story apartments there are no large building masses on this residential scale project new units are single story and match character scale and color of the existing units we've created private patios off of each of the units and this allows the residents to have some enjoyment the site will have extensive landscaping consisting of trees shrubs and ground cover for city's requirement and we believe the project will have a positive impact on the surrounding neighborhood and may be consistent with other new and older projects in this area the owner is with us tonight as well michael tyke and i think he would like to address you briefly mike are you there yes thank you mr mayor thank you council so what we're looking at right now we're going to just have jason go through this presentation it will make it short and sweet what you're looking at here is the proposed zoning and current zoning so we're at r2 now we want to go to r3r and uh increase the the density from 10 to 100 units per per acre to 15 next slide um next slide so this is a site plan we've got three duplexes on the outside of the property and you can see on the inside where we're requesting the addition of two duplexes they're all mirror images of each other and provide private backyards for the residents next slide and this is the showing the tandem parking that we're requesting for the use permit for the tandem parking in order to accommodate the parking zoning and you can see the numbers five seven six eight five and seven will be the same apartment and six and eight will be the same apartment so one apartment will have both tandem spaces in one row next slide the next slide next slide and this is the i'm sorry jason if you could go back one slide just want to show the decorative walls down in the bottom left corner again we we spent a lot of time and design trying to match the existing architecture and the neighborhood with which it sits so next slide this is the uh elevations uh from the north south east and west showing the the buildings next slide this is a floor plan of one of the duplexes it's a two bedroom two bath this jerry said around 950 square feet with a private uh patio on the back next slide um that's the east building same thing just mirror images next slide this is existing building floor plan they're all two bedroom units so again we're closely we're building to match with the existing property apartments that exist there now next slide uh this is just the landscape plan and we're gonna have a lot of trees uh plants and uh gravel in order to dress up the area and match it to the existing properties around it next slide this just names the plants and landscape next slide the material board uh again colors were chosen for uh light reflection value and also to to match the existing uh properties in the area next slide there's a color elevations with landscape north-south from the street and from the alley next slide and these are other uh angles coming into the building from different from the front and back to showing what a person would see when they're walking up to the property so next slide anybody have any questions thank you so much for the presentation you're welcome let me before i go to the council let me just ask the clerk here do we get any comments from the public regarding this item or any request to speak nothing it's okay i will close the public hearing council members any comments or discussion uh yes councilman cubic yeah so is there a volunt voluntary contribution to the hometown for all i didn't see that mentioned no i i do not know about that um we can follow up and let you know but uh no i tonight's the first time i've heard about that so we can't follow up with you though after we research it i'd really appreciate that and i would hope that our community development would make um developers coming into business the city just to wear the program so maybe that's a little highlight that we should include all right now mr mayor you'd like to make sure that all are aware of this opportunity yes absolutely any other uh comments or questions from council all right hearing none uh the chair would entertain a motion on item 7c1 isn't this a first read nope this is a second second hearing we're taking the final vote tonight how can we take a vote if we don't know if there's going to be i thought we was going to we're we're not going to know about the hometown for all contribution so you know i'm just saying i'll entertain a motion for whatever council members want to put up mirror i'll make a motion but we had a first read on this correct correct so we had an opportunity uh last meeting to ask these questions correct yes the first yeah the first hearing was on january 13th motion to approve okay it's been moved by councilman seconded by councilmember arredondo savage any further comments or questions yeah i do i mean councilmember navarro you know i i sense that you don't appreciate me bringing this up but you know questions occur at different times and if we've got we're going to have discussion about hometown for all we always have discussion and it seems logical and then you know we discovered that they didn't even know about the program so it does seem like it's it's fitting to ask that and um what are we talking about is it's it's a ten percent of permitting fees on mayor woods for for error uh well i'll really really quickly i'll account for i'll go to you just you know talking about the plan it's a it's a voluntary plan and the uh contribution rate for um multi-family residential is was sort of set at 20 percent uh and the and for commercial it was 10 but once again it's a it's a voluntary plan not mandatory um yeah what makes me uncomfortable is i feel like this voluntary plan is being put in front in contingency if we approve this or not i'm having real difficulty with this especially at the second read so i would like to go with my motion okay all right so it's so it's been moved it's been moved by councilmember navarro and seconded by councilmember arredondo savage uh do you have any further comments on this item well one option is to just because you know i've never met with this developer one option is to just do a continuance and march third is the next available meeting we could just continue that discussion because as the developer mentioned they hadn't even heard about this program so they haven't had an opportunity to participate okay i believe that so there's a motion on the floor but let me just really quickly uh turn to uh either our clerk or uh or miss blaine or our uh our city attorney does a continuance motion override a motion on the floor or is the first motion that's made the one that we are considering thank you mayor woods sonia blaine um you you must resolve that that first motion before you can move on to consideration of a second motion you can resolve that motion in in a number of ways meaning take a vote on it the movement can withdraw okay so so the emotion that thank you very much i appreciate that so the motion was you know that was made first was the one by councilmember navarro and seconded by council member arredondo savage so we'll need to have a vote on that if that vote fails for whatever reason we can go back and then entertain the continuous motion uh or that's being suggested by councilmember qb uh yes okay but mr mayor mr mayor um sonya did say that joel could elect to withdraw it just to consider the other motion and i would ask you councilmember navarro to consider that since the developer said he didn't know anything about the program so he had inadequate information so if you're so willing uh council member navarro to entertain that motion to um just continue for three weeks yeah i i understand that but i'm not comfortable with that because as we know throughout the whole process we've been on council we've had the first and second reads we've known that through the whole process of council about affordable housing and how much of this is an issue i know that there's a heated issue later on tonight and we have to make a stand on every item that comes across that has to do with housing in my opinion you had opportunity last week to ask these questions which was the opportunity you should have took it and in my opinion we should have taken that opportunity i'm going with my motion i know that this is a good program i'm going to be talking more about this um on our next agenda item or the couple agenda items down the road but i'm not going to remove my motion okay thank you councilmember navarro with that i'm going to go ahead and take a roll call vote with the emotion that's currently on the table for the approval of item seven c one there i have my hand up oh yes counselor right downstairs which i'm sorry i was trying to play accordingly by the rules now please go for it yeah i know i i just wanna uh follow up with what councilmember navarro said today too i i will be supporting this this um this agenda item tonight and you know it's really kind of unfortunate that uh this applicant didn't really know about that opportunity and i do hope that our community development team has an opportunity to reach out to them and share some of the great work that can come from any type of contribution and then maybe that will be something that they would be willing to participate in which would be great but that certainly wouldn't make or break my vote tonight and i just hope that there is direction given that they have that conversation in the near future thank you mayor sounds good thank you councilmember arredondo savage um councilmember garland i see your hand up as well yeah i i'm i'm just curious if um somebody from our um from our development department can confirm that that that information may not have been shared i mean i i still i'm still in support i will be in support of moving this motion forward but i would like i would like to know um if somebody can say if that information was not shared with this person and then um and then i i would like to know if they would be willing to entertain um just getting that information and reviewing it and being a part of this incredible community that we have in the hometown for all initiative thanks mayor thank you councilman garland all right really quickly here because i still have a standing motion on the floor here um that i need to get a vote on um because were you looking for that information from staff now or at a later date if it's possible to get that i you know i guess i don't need to have it tonight i can get that information later but i guess it just is another really good um thing that councilmember qb brought up that we need to be making sure that we are really working hard to get that information out in advance to these developers so thank you okay sounds good thank you all right i don't see any additional hands here so i'm going to go ahead and take a roll call on this vote here uh with the motion was made uh for approval by uh councilmember davar in a second by councilmember eridando savage i'm going to go down the list here councilmember davaro hi councilmember cubey nay councilmember garland aye vice mayor keating yes council member arredondo savage hi mayor councilmember adams i and i vote i as well that item passes six to one with councilmember qb voting no the next item under the section is 7c 2 which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt a resolution for a general plan land use map amendment from residential to mixed use and a general plan density map amendment from medium to high density to high density adopt an ordinance for a zoning map amendment from r3 to mu4 and an amended planned area development overlay and a development plan review to add a new three and four story multi-family development consisting of 129 units of residential to an existing commercial development for dwell located at 430 south farmer avenue the applicant is sender associates chartered this item actually i want to also note is going to require two separate votes would the applicant like to make a statement on this item i believe that would be miscender actually center before you start this one quick thing i wanted to also note i forgot to note earlier uh the resolution authorizing the general plan amendments requires at least a two-third city council vote which is five out of seven council members for approval just wanted to make sure to tell that for the public watching at home and for the council so the senator if you're ready and uh we can't hear you i see you're talking about here's we don't hear any sound in in the interim while we actually try to get the sound fixed can i do one quick thing if lavon lamey's available yeah i can i can hear you now um senator i was i was gonna ask uh lavon a quick question if you don't mind um bonnie are you there good evening mary yes sir i am here great oh thank you so much appreciate it question for you just um you know on because there's been a lot of discussion this evening on other projects about affordable and workforce housing and i'm just curious from your perspective um with this project is this going to count towards our workforce housing stock because we know in the studies that we've done in the past we've recognized that we have plenty of housing stock in the market rate category uh and we actually have quite a bit even in the affordable category but the one area where we kind of have a really big deficit frankly is that workforce category and so i know this project has been proposed as 129 units of workforce housing and i just wanted to ask you as a sort of resident expert on affordable housing who vets all of these projects would this program with this project count towards our affordable housing goals or workforce housing goals i should say and lavonna you are muted here we go there you go so uh mr mayor based on the information that we based on the information that we've received from um from the developer on this project um yes these the rents for the studios all the way up to you know including the urban studios up to the one bedrooms with the patio um do qual do fall into the workforce rents categories for those area for those ami ranges um moving into they do you know tend to hit somewhere in the 96 to 100 um you know the 96 percent ami up to you know 114 ami for a two-person household in a one-bedroom um moving forward as you get into into growth with um some of our projections for next year's numbers um these would still fall well within the workforce um workforce um ami rent ranges for what we would recommend is the maximum rents okay thank you no thank you so much i really appreciate it yes sir all right uh miss sender i will go back to you thank you mr mayor can you hear me now yes perfect thank you um thank you very much uh i i wasn't really planning on making too much of a presentation this evening we went through the entire project at the last hearing so let me know if you want to hear anything in particular but we like to make a brief presentation from the developer and uh you know just kind of go through his thoughts and rationale for for this workforce housing project so steve betts i'm going to have him speak at this point thank you uh darren and thank you mayor and council um and again if you want us to go back to the zoning maps and the general planets we can go back through those we we did that a month ago and spend time but i i think maybe uh what you wanted to hear about most is the philosophy for this project and really what we did in trying to to generate this project for you uh i think we talked a little bit last time about um sort of my passion for this project this missing middle piece and and mayor you you spoke to it already the workforce housing missing middle the fact that there there are a lot of really quality uh developers out there now doing affordable housing uh with federal state uh subsidies and and with local you you all are working with a lot of your local subsidies with giblets and things like that um and then there's just a fluffer hip people that are doing super high end uh apartments uh that are like luxury hotels and um but we've got this problem with this missing middle piece with the 80 to 120 the folks that frankly make you know 50 to 75 000 really good quality jobs with benefits uh but they can't afford those apartments that are being delivered today at that high end range and um and there's nothing wrong they're great apartments they're wonderful they're beautiful they have very very high-end finishes and extremely high-end amenities uh but we're pricing people out of that market and um and so what my mission has been what my passion has been is to determine whether we can deliver in an urban environment this is the key to it can we in downtown area uh find sites and deliver a product that that is at that missing middle that 80 to 120 ami um but a a really cool product an interesting product and and in the process of designing this product this is workforce housing by design designing it to to actually be deliverable at that price point um we also had the pandemic come and and we started doing a lot of research about the kind of workforce that that is going to need these this kind of housing and so many of them most of them are going to be working at home full-time or part-time into the foreseeable future and so we've we've called this now dwell uh a a work at home community because the the units are designed around working at home and the amenities are designed around working in the complex so the units all have built-in work spaces um and so even the studios and and one bedrooms all have work spaces designed into them um but for somebody that that has a a spouse where they two of them work and they need to to have some quiet space because they both have jobs and somebody wants to watch their special program on uh a few several of the units a number of the units have a very tiny office that somebody can go into and and work and so uh but these are all studios and one bedrooms they're smallish kind of view so they are they aren't particularly large the finishes are nice but not over the top like a lot of the super high end and the amenities oh i love the dog by the way uh councilwoman uh i'm very partial to dogs um anyway um and the amenities are built around people that want to work uh in the apartment complex and so the amenities are zoom rooms and meeting rooms and and casual collision spaces and where people can work in the complex and still get out of their unit yes we have a dog park uh thanks councilwoman and yes we have a fitness center we have the essential things that you need for an apartment complex but the amenities are downtown tempe and the amenities are the things that people want to be able to get out of the complex and enjoy uh downtown tempe so that is the project we're delivering but we had to design this with the help of of john kane in his office here we had to design working backwards into a price point where we could deliver these at this without asking for incentives from the city without asking for a giftlet or any other kind of need for city incentives and so it really fits into your hometown for all kind of concepts that you're talking about but without having to ask for other people to donate to give to us to give to our project and um so that's the concept that's the project we're delivering to you hopefully tonight uh for a final vote and i'd like to maybe uh pitch this over to john just for a moment because we did hear in the public comments section at the beginning uh there was some comment about um the the uh the surface that we're putting down on that we're trying to be very environmentally sensitive to heat island effect and so we didn't want to have all this be uh sort of asphalt as a sea of assault and so we're using special materials and so i do want to have john comment on that just for a minute good evening um yeah just regarding the the gravel paved system again the original idea was about reducing heat island and giving the trees a chance to grow and really flourish um the what we have been learning though is that as vehicles turn on the surface it crushes the rock and we have trying to figure out how to do that in the new design we're adding concrete in the drive aisles to minimize that so only the parking spaces and just a small gap between the concrete have the gravel so we still maintain the opportunity where the trees are but also reduce that wearing down of the rock we're going to be replacing all the rock with a new rock and actually a harder rock that actually will actually work to it but still achieve the same effect but yeah that's it's an important issue i'm glad it was brought up but we are taking that into account on the new design thank you and thank you mr mayor members of council if you have any questions we'd be happy to answer them and we would like to reserve any rebuttal time if necessary mr mayor yes councilman adams uh yes i'd like to make a motion to approve well let me just do this really quickly actually if you would with my withdrawing for a second i just got to make the public comment first so i apologize nope no worries no worries um let me just ask really quickly madam clerk were there any comments received from the public regarding this item or any request from the public wishing to address the council i'm assuming that was none i'm sorry you're breaking up i'm going to take that as none um sorry madam clerk your your sound is really breaking up um but let me let me go ahead and then i will close the public hearing and uh uh councilmember adams i will go back to you uh yes mr mayor thank you i would like to make a motion to approve this wonderful project project okay sounds good this first vote this one of the note for everyone uh is on the general plan land use map amendment and the general plan density map amendment which is what councilmember adams is making the motion for uh and i just once again want to remind everyone that this will take a two-thirds majority vote which is five out of seven uh for approval uh so there's been a motion on the floor from councilmember adams do i have a second so move but we'll have time for discussion right absolutely yeah so it's been seconded by councilmember qb uh now time for discussion uh councilmember qb i'll go to you well thanks i really appreciate the discussion about permeable paving i know that asu is leading the way and researching permeable paving pavement materials and it's not as easy or as simple or as inexpensive as you might think but it is so important to reducing the urban heat island so important for our shade canopy so i really appreciate you innovating in this space and adapting as you see it i'm adding that the concrete um lines so i appreciate that and i also had a discussion today with darren and i appreciate what you're saying that because this project isn't so amenitized uh it doesn't have all the pool and the pool deck and all those amenities that people look for sort of in market rate housing that that's what's going to be the external pressure that will keep the housing uh workforce and generally when we do have a covenant and a deed restricted deed it's when we have um a giblet or some kind of financial incentive in place so i will be supporting the project and i really appreciate the lib work and play aspect of this project and this for this development i think it's going to be a good thing for our city and helps with that missing middle housing that we so desperately need thank you thank you councilmember cubie um councilmember navarro oh thank you mayor um that's okay go for it i'll come i'll come back to kevin rams okay no thank you mayor now i think uh councilman mccooey said you know the architectural the paving on it the how it integrates with not only just uh the feel of the complex but also with just the fact of you know the absorption of rain water and be able to keep things a little bit more greener in the area i think they've done a great job on the design which has been tremendous especially um within the area the setbacks um have been great the the number one thing is it's hitting at that point that that point where we're all as a trap as a council member as council members workforce housing you know hitting the affordable housing you know so we're starting to knock these down this is just another one of these projects that we're getting there and the beauty about this thing is it's driven by a private developer making these things happen and and as you saw that uh mr beth said about you know the market is there for affordability when we're hearing it out there in the community we need more affordability and as we see it throughout our nation everywhere you go that's the one thing that um we're trying to conquer and we're trying to work with federal governments to help support that and make things a little less red tape for those things to happen until we get there it's great to see you know just a a private entity stepping on into tempe and doing it and doing it well not just doing it to where it looks cheap but it looks great and the fact they're doing in the downtown area is just a beautiful thing so i really appreciate what they're doing over here and big kudos out to them thank you councilmember navarro councilmember adams uh thank you mr mayor yes uh i uh councilmember uh qb and and navarro covered a lot of what i wanted to say but i just wanted to thank steve for your vision in in doing this project and it's so wonderful that people that work in downtown tempe will have a place to just walk to work and and have affordable housing workforce housing there um you know our police officers and our firefighters can live there it just is a really good uh a really good project and something that we need more of in the city and i will definitely obviously i made the motion but really supportive of this project super excited about it and i know it doesn't have a pool but eventually clark park pool will be um will be built and it'll just be an orbit bus right away so um it really speaks to just what we need so thank you so much for your vision on this project and and uh keep them coming thank you california adams uh just one uh quick comment from me and i actually made this comment about a different project at the previous uh council meeting but just one of the things i and i think councilmember navarro really touched on it quite a bit uh what i really appreciate is the fact that when we're talking about once again affordable and workforce housing you know you're talking about still using very high-end finishes in the building and having it designed by a world-class architectural firm like architect on and that's obviously very big to me because the stigma that we we hear a lot of times when we talk hear about affordable housing and a lot of sort of the you know the concerns that people have sometimes about it is you know it's the i don't want those people living next to me and when i don't want that and and the reality is those people you know there's no such thing as those people we're all part of this community and frankly the diversity of this community is what makes this such a great city and and so quite honestly the fact that you're once again you're building these to it to make sure that it it truly fits in with the aesthetic of the entire downtown and the farmer arts district and if you drive down the street no one would be able to drive by that building and say oh well that's affordable housing right there compared to the other building that's market rate or luxury they would just look at it and say that's a nice looking building that i would want to live in myself and that's the thing that to me that's really important it's not just simply building 129 workforce units in the heart of the downtown but it's also doing things to continue to remove that very ugly negative stigma surrounding affordable and workforce housing so i really appreciate all the work that you've done i agree with councilmember adams keep keep projects like this coming and i will definitely be supporting this tonight all right any other uh comments from council i got one mayor yes councilmember savage yeah thank you i appreciate you guys coming back thank you guys so very much um you know i think i voiced my concerns at the first reading and but also to my appreciation for i think what you are bringing forth in regards to something new and different the fact that it looks great it's got a lot of really good good aspects and the aesthetic and the aesthetics are really great so i i think the design i have no issues with the design i think it's it's really fabulous i know that the concept in regards to lowering those amenities is going to reduce you know what people are willing to pay right and and just remind me has this been done anywhere else is this somewhere this kind of news is a new venture right right right this is really uh this is a test you know where if i and i can make this work i as the mayor said keep it coming i i would really like to do a dozen of these and um but yeah this is my my prototype right well and i love the fact that you want to be innovative and do it here in the city of tempe because i really think there's no better place to do that and i think for any of you that have actually taken the time to look at some of our goals which of course housing has always been one of our goals and one of the ones that we are trying to uh improve our ratio on and ratio on is workforce housing so that is kind of one of the areas that we know that we need to have more inventory so the thought that this could happen um you know to me is one of the things that's really appealing the one thing that worries me a little bit is there's no guarantee that it will stay workforce housing and i know we know that you know where i am believing in you and uh your ability to be able to really fill the gap of something that is really needed in the downtown area in tempe in general so workforce housing for me is something that's definitely really important really needed one of the things that also concerned me too is you know i talked about this before about this being the buffer zone and that you know we had always talked about the density and everybody keeps talking about the height then i i get it the height's not the issue it's the density it's the number of people that are in this development and the fact that we have reduced parking which i completely understand i just want to make sure we're being very cognizant and fair to the surrounding neighbors so you know i i may shock you here when i say this to you but i am going to be supporting your project tonight i love the idea of trying something new and innovative you don't know if it's going to work unless you give it a shot so i am going to be supporting your project tonight and and really just kind of to see how it works and how it flows and and to see if it does stay workforce um affordable for the years to come and if the neighbors continue to stay happy and if we don't hear from them then that's exactly what we're wanting right i mean we want a neighborhood that is really happy with right next door to them and i will say this mayor i think at some point we need to really talk about that buffer zone and what that looks like from that urban core and how it trickles down and i understand that you know we things change and opportunities come up and so uh i'm gonna count on you and hopefully uh i feel really confident it's gonna be a great project and it's gonna come to fruition the way that you expect it to and i'm looking forward to a great partnership for many years to come so thank you mayor thank you councilmember rodondo savage greatly appreciate it all right so there's a motion on the floor um from councilmember adams which was seconded by councilmember qb are there any further comments on this first vote all right hearing none i'm going to go ahead and take a roll call vote here council member navarro aye councilmember qb aye councilmember garland aye vice mayor keating yes council member arredondo savage councilmember adams aye and i vote i as well that first vote passes seven to zero the second vote is on the zoning map amendment amended planned area development overlay and the development plan review do i have a motion on the ordinance for a zoning lap amendment in addition to the amended planned area development overlay and the development plan review i make a motion to approve okay it's been moved by council and seconded i think by vice mayor keating i'm going to go ahead and see it are there any further comments or questions hearing none i'll take a roll call vote council member navarro aye councilmember cubie aye councilmember garland aye vice mayor keating yes council member arredondo savage aye mayor councilmember adams aye and i vote i as well that item passes seven to zero thank you so much darren steve john appreciate it thank you very much thank you all right the next item under the section is 7c 3 which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the execution of a purchase agreement for the acquisition of portions of belle butte located at the southeast intersection of interstate 10 and broadway road in tempe and authorizing the mayor or his designee to execute the related documents were there any comments received from the public regarding this item or any request to speak to the city council i think that's no input uh um i'm gonna go ahead and close the public hearing counsel any comments or discussion move to approve hey it's been moved by councilmember garland do i have a second okay seconded by councilmember arredondo savage roll call vote councilmember navarro hi councilmember qb i'm councilmember garland hi vice mayor keating yes councilmember arredondo savage councilmember adams i and i vote i as well that item passes seven to zero the next item under this section is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the mayor to execute a development and disposition agreement with south pier tempe holdings llc and arizona limited liability company for the project located at 1131 east vista del lago drive tempe would staff like to make a statement yes mayor this is donna kennedy good evening council and members of the public donna kennedy economic development director here along with maria lochner program manager to review the details of the south pier g platt along with economic development the city attorney sonya blaine have collaborated with our client lauren cohen and his team for over three years to ensure compliance with the arizona state statute regarding the gift clause meaning the incentive can't exceed the public benefit many concerns mentioned by the public have been addressed and will be reviewed by maria in the presentation i want to state that negotiations are confidential manner due to legal implications development agreements have two public hearings to take input for decision making modulovas will be back for the entitlement process which has public involvement in addition staff must adhere to the rfp guidelines to avoid legal challenges the rfp did not require affordable housing as it pre-dated the hometown for all strategy to put this in perspective mayor existing development along the lake all have been incentivized due to the complicated land improvement costs without incentives we would not have the revenues to support our city programs such as hometown for all and lake operations as we know it today over 2 billion dollars in capital investments have been made to develop along the lake this led to the creation of thousands of jobs brought to tempe supporting our sustainable economic growth the vision of tempe town lake has become a tourist attraction as the second most visited destination in arizona south pier will add to the success of the many proposed amenities including a public supported ferris wheel with a mixed-use concept this project will not only meet the goals of an employment corridor for tempe town lake but also for the rio reimagined initiative initiated by the late senator john mccain the senator was fascinated how tempe turned the river bottom into an iconic revenue generating landmark for the tempe programs it's my statement mayor maria has a presentation if you desire to see the g plot incentives for this project and then we can follow up with any questions after the presentation sounds good i think you know given the uh the public comment made earlier the council's interest i think we would definitely like to see that all right thank you mayor um jason do you mind bringing up the presentation please thank you jason so good evening mayor and council members a staff is excited to bring forth this long-waited awaited project that will complete the city's development of the lakeside project along rio salado next the 12 and a half acres comprised of both city and private lots that make up south pier tempe has been long in the making the site has seen various development proposals throughout the last three decades but none has come to fruition there are many reasons for this as donna has mentioned the primary among these are that the site is is blighted and currently undevelopable and any development that occurs there will be expensive the site has to pay all the lake assessments which the city is currently covering also remediation is necessary given the outdated and dilapidated infrastructure that exists on the site and the debris that litters the area in fact the rio reimagined project that donna mentioned through which the city participates on an epa-driven brownfields coalition has identified this area as a brownfield that is eligible for federal cleanup funds to remove the black the blight that is just another reason why the site has remained undeveloped and previous rfps have failed but we decided as a city to try again and with council's authorization staff issued an rfp uh in uh in june of 2019 seeking a developer that could assemble two private lots with the city's five lots in order to create a master-planned mixed-use development that would bring public amenities high-density residential and an overall unique and urban experience we had one developer submit a proposal and that was self peer tempe holdings next slide please their proposal includes 2 300 apartments and 160 condos to accommodate 3 500 residents maria really quickly uh sorry the last there was nothing on that slide as you were talking the number yep there's nothing there oh jason can you go to the next slide maybe oh maybe he's retooling it for some reason the presentation is not displaying properly on my computer um it's giving me an error message on the presentation itself if you have it on your end maybe you could run it but for some reason it's there there's not enough data it says on the weird okay it's not working i'm sorry that's okay um i can um carla or cara can i bring it up is that okay with you it's made you presenter you should be able to bring it up okay here we go okay perfect there we go thanks everyone so the project will include um the 600 000 square feet of class a office as well as medical office space 2300 for rent apartments and 164 sale condos with the vision of having 3 500 residents 111 000 square feet of destination retail as well as 520 hotel rooms to help the tourism around along the lake additionally there will be numerous um public amenities such as the central green and the plaza areas all right so what the staff has negotiated with um with the developer is that the developer will pay the market rate of the land and that market rate was it was appraised by a third-party appraiser to be 74.2 cents per square foot that means that as the the developer is building their improvements they will be receiving well receiving they will they will be purchasing the land and the city will be receiving 36.5 million uh dollars once all five lots have been effectively sold those proceeds are currently poised to go into the general fund at present there are there are numerous financial implications so currently as you can see the way the property sits now there are zero revenues to the city so the city doesn't pay any property taxes and there's no tpt gained from any activity on those sites however there are significant costs to the city since the city uh is responsible for the assessments on the lake um we pay an annual amount and at the end of the the time period for which the cfd assessment and the id 180 are payable the city will be responsible for seven million dollars unless we're able to find someone else to purchase the land and take over those assessments any developer that develops along the lake has to cover these assessments so in this case um south piro would take on these assessments and the future costs to the city for those same lake fees the o m uh would be zero maria really quickly just i'm sorry to interrupt you can you explain since there's a number of acronyms on the screen tpt cfd can you explain what those are you know for people who are you know watching from home thank you i'm very sorry i should have done i should have put that in here tpt is the transaction privilege tax that's the sales tax that it gets um that goods and services are charged and that gets paid to the department of revenue and then filtered down to uh the city of tempe so that goes to the state the county and the city so that's so that would be basically if there was like let's say some kind of retail component or some shops on the site we would then get transaction privilege tax but since there's nothing on the side and it's currently completely undevelopable in its current state that's why we're not getting any tpt that's exactly right and then mayor um it's not just on goods and services i actually misspoke it also includes a lease rate so all of the rental properties um hotels hotels pay a bed tax that's considered part of the tpt uh restaurants of course so all those other taxes that are considered sales tax those also would be paid from the site and go go into the city uh and as you mentioned currently there there is no development there so there is no tpt being generated at all okay sounds good and and and next up i guess just the cfe cdfd and the id 180.

so the cfd is a community facilities district and that is um for the lake improvement uh and that's for the operations and maintenance the id 180 is for the lake improvements that were made that the city invested in some time ago so properties that this this is a bond that's been outstanding for a long time and the way it is set up is that if there is no development on on the land the owner of the land has to pay 10 percent on an annual basis until the development occurs once the development occurs and a certificate of occupancy is issued then the the rate of payment um increases to uh an amount that has been set by the accounting accounting team that is covering this so that's where these costs come from and at present since the city is the landowner we are paying these assessments and just one last question about this slide so the 7.1 million there that's the total there with the cfd and the id 180 that's our total obligation that's not an annual right that's our total obligation correct that's our total going forward so this is not this doesn't doesn't take into consideration anything that we've already paid it's a total going forward until it gets paid off okay so we still owe another you know 7.11 you know on on that okay and we're not generating any revenue with you know property taxes transaction privilege nothing okay sounds good correct and i'm sorry just to confirm that the revenues that are listed there are on an annual basis so those are the property taxes that are estimated to be generated um and the tpt is also on an annual basis okay and and quick and quick thing too the property taxes as an example that money once that would come back onto the tax rolls in year nine there would be obvious a large percentage of that that would go to our school districts correct correct okay yes but as you can see it's currently not generating any revenue so that this situation of zero property taxes would continue for those eight years of abatement and then on the ninth year the the revenues would begin however the tpt would begin of course immediately so so basically just you know and i'll stop after this so the giblet when we're talking about a giblet right now one of the concerns that gets raised regularly is that jiblet's cause and i should say you know government property lease excise tax the issue is that you're taking taxable property off of the rolls and therefore shorting the school district revenue that they need to survive but if we obviously but if we look at this right now the school districts here in this situation the giblet isn't shorting them any money because the property currently isn't making them any money anyway it's not making the school district's money and it's not providing any revenue to the city either correct okay and i would like to add in a future slide um what we what we have started as a practice in the city of tempe is when we do have egypt leases in effect the developer who signs that lease with us donates money to the school systems to help offset any any um anybody that that were supposed to that were anticipated would be going to the schools sounds good thank you mr mayor mr mayor to that point that you made but there is always obviously the opportunity cost issue yes there's no uh money being earned from the dirt but a different project without a giblet could bring money and so i mean we want to be nuanced here to explain that opportunity cost would is something that should be thought about sure i guess i i guess though my rebuttal though would be that there have been several failed rfps on this project before and so if we finally have someone who's actually able to perform i don't want another failed rfp i want to finally get a project and complete the vision of the south portion of the lake true but you always have to talk about opportunity costs when you're looking at a project given project but to your point i just want to introduce it a little bit i appreciate that so just to talk a little bit about what the public benefits are as donna had mentioned um we we work closely with our legal team to determine that the public benefits that are going to be generated by the project for the city are commensurate to the incentives that are going to be received by the developer and in this case what we have um negotiated with the developer is that they will be providing cash contributions that total uh just under 14.7 million dollars and how that is separated up is to be 10 million dollars going to housing and then there's actually around 200 2.7 million going to the transit fund and an additional 2 million also going to transit but that 2 billion is dedicated toward the construction of the pedestrian bridge on the eastern side of the lake in addition to that their south pier will be putting in public amenities that are valued at 12 million dollars and those public amenities include uh the pier that is the first phase of the pedestrian bridge that takes it takes um the experience that of people going to the lake out into the lake so they can be like on the water um as well as all of the landscaping you see here in the green areas and open spaces and the the public plazas again none of that exists today and by putting this in they will be inviting people from the community to to stroll on the multi-use path to cross the bridge to enjoy the pier and just have a different experience of that part of the lake uh finally the final part of their um the public benefits that have been guaranteed is the contribution to the schools as i mentioned which is 250 000 so the total direct benefits are just under 27 million dollars and the total cost of the giblet to the city of tempe is 25 million nine hundred thousand dollars quickly to i counselor qb i see your hand do you have a comment or question on this no mr mayor um i'll take my hand down after i ask a question sorry okay no sounds good thanks so actually i i was wondering if you had any questions i'm i mean i have that's our next slide obviously donna's still here manju lavazz is on the line if anyone has questions for her and lavon lamey has also joined us um to be able to speak to the value of the the in the payments that that the developer has committed to for this project okay sounds good can you go back to the previous slide just very quickly yes okay the the the one thing that you know that i want to talk about here because this is this is really important to me because i i i understand the concern that there's always a concern when you know a it looks like a corporation or a large company is getting a tax break from a city when there are a lot of needs homelessness affordable housing transportation economic development and a whole host of things but i think but every giblet is not equal they're not all the same and and and quite honestly i can understand the concern about a project like this if someone said well we're basing this just sort of on sort of projections of how much property tax we think we might generate down the road or things of that nature and that's why we're going to give a giblet that's valued at over 25 million dollars and we'll just sort of get it back based on the number of jobs that are created of the number of the amount of commerce that's happening on the site and sometimes i can understand someone saying well but yeah but corey how do you know that that's actually going to happen you're not confident that you're going to get all of those things people may not shop at the site they may not eat at the site maybe they don't hire the same amount of people they think they're going to hire but in this situation the difference from my perspective is we're talking about total direct benefits to the city and when you're talking about you know 12 million dollars for a pedestrian bridge a pedestrian bridge which has actually been the subject of public comment for quite a few years here in the city of tempe and our residents have frankly talked about wanting that pedestrian bridge and the 12 billion dollars is estimated to cover the entire cost of the bridge not a part of it not three quarters but all and that is a true public amenity for a lake that is the second most visited tourist attraction in the state second only to the grand canyon the second thing when you talk about the affordable housing contribution of 10 million dollars to the coalition for affordable housing the reality from my perspective is we have taught the hometown for all proposals and i just feel the need to say this because i know i've said it you know at previous meetings but i need to i want to say it again the point of the hometown for all program was to generate 11 000 additional units of affordable and workforce housing in our community by the year 2040 because that was based on a study that we actually took before i even became mayor that talked about what the need was for in that area and we're all as a council very committed to getting that done i know all of us to a person are but the issue is here from my perspective every time we wanted to get out of this system and change the paradigm from trying to go and beg developers to frankly solve our affordable housing issues in arizona there are things that just simply are not legal i have one of my best friends from college is the ceo of an affordable housing company in massachusetts where they have tax increment financing where that 49 out of 50 states have guess which is the one state that doesn't have it us and trust me if i was governor or if i was in charge of the legislature that would change very quickly uh we don't have rent control i am a renter personally and i'm worried that when my my lease comes up in august that my rent could go up 20 or 30 percent i'm hoping that that's not the case but i'm very much in that situation but unfortunately the state legislature saw fit back in 2016 to ban the practice of rent control and then inclusionary zoning which is the practice of saying we will grant you an up zone on your project but you have to do a set aside of let's say 20 of the units for the purpose of doing affordable housing which is legal in a lot of states like massachusetts new york california it's illegal here and it's extremely frustrating to me and trust me if i was in charge and i ruled the world or i was governor or i was the senate majority leader that would change very quickly because i think those are the policies that have been enacted by the state that are preventing cities like tempe from actually reaching our affordable housing goals that our people desperately need everyone at every socioeconomic level that make this city really run but the fact is if what we do is continue to talk to developers and say let's try to find a way to get them to just create a certain percentage of the units to make those affordable we all know how that's worked out it's a frustrating process for all cities that are frankly on the front lines trying to get more affordable and workforce housing in their communities and it's failed it hasn't worked and so if we continue to go to that same strategy and go back to that well over and over and over again we're going to have the same frustrating results more apartments and places built that are not affordable that are not in the workforce category and more people getting priced out of our community that have to move because they can't find a place to live and this council is committed frankly to changing that which is why i'm so proud to be part of this group and the program that we started raised six million dollars in actual cash and pledges in the first year alone when we thought at the high end it might only get to 4 million but we exceeded that by more than 50 percent that's how successful it's been and it's gotten us out of the habit of having to go and beg developers when all of these state rules and laws and preemptions keep us from doing the things that this council frankly wants to do we have found a way to generate real sums of money to go out there and frankly support our affordable housing goals we are remediating five city-owned lots on apache boulevard to the tune of 1.2 million dollars to do environmental remediation and taking fundamental responsibility for those sites so when a an affordable housing developer comes along they are getting clean dirt to produce an affordable housing development that meets the area immediate income that we need to reach to really attack this goal we are we just but on december 29th of this past year spent 10.6 million dollars buying the old food city site on apache boulevard a 2.7 acre property where we estimate we can bring a grocery store now back an affordable grocery store back to a neighborhood that's now living in a food desert to other retail options on the ground floor and probably upwards of 300 affordable units on that site that's a lot more than we typically can negotiate trying to really push a private sector developer we can actually do that when we own the land we put out the request for proposals and we dictate the terms and we say if you don't want to build affordable housing here with a 30-year covenant you need not apply because you are not going to even get a phone call back from the city or from this council that is the way to get out of that paradigm that is the way to produce the number of affordable units we need to make sure that this is still the diverse inclusive community i moved to 19 years ago and wanted frankly to remain for the remainder of my time here but the reason i'm so passionate about this is because i do not want us to go back to the old paradigm of saying we have to try to force a developer to put affordable housing units into that we don't have the legal footing to do that and it doesn't work it would work if we had inclusionary zoning we would out i know the people on this council we would absolutely do that but quite honestly with the law firmly against us at the state which i firmly wholeheartedly disagree with we cannot continue to go down a path that has failed consistently we have to try something different this council tried something new and innovative and it has worked and it's continuing to work and we're going to meet our goals and i'm proud of this council frankly for doing that so the reality is i i hear what everyone's saying and i want to go back and say i i actually i'm in there i'm in that position i'm a renter i understand the concern and frankly i want us to have those affordable housing goals i ran in 2008 and as mayor in 2020 on a platform of affordable housing even when people told me it wasn't popular and i should talk about something else i am we are going to meet that goal but we have a path forward and a way to do that and i want to stay on that path and that trajectory because that is the way to deliver the housing that our residents both need and deserve and when i see a project like this where the value of the actual public benefits two and a half million dollars for public transportation 10 million for affordable housing 12 million for a pedestrian bridge a quarter of a million dollars to the school districts and 2 million for landscaping that's way above our actual our own landscaping code that is that's actual tangible public benefit not rosy projections but actual tangible public benefits that you can bank on and these folks don't even get the giblet until the city of tempe issues a certificate of occupancy if they don't build if they don't perform they get nothing in tax abatement from the city so i so from my perspective that is the difference between this deal and and other deals and realities all giblets are not created equal and i think we it's very important that we make that distinction and we stay on a sustainable path to really get the housing that we really need to make sure that everyone can continue to live and work and play in the city mayor yes councilman for cubing i have a couple questions from maria and for donna and it's about it's about the phasing because i know it's not like if this instantly happens it's going to take some time so i'm wondering um the 10 million dollars that would that would come that wouldn't come at once that would come after after buildings were complete and building permits i mean when would that come and then also the purchase price would that be something that we would receive you know more immediately or is that also phased in i don't really understand when those monies would come in thank you councilmember qb i'm happy to answer that question for you so let's look at the purchase price first um the purchase price is also phased and it is dependent upon the certificate of occupancy and the improvement being completed so once an improvement the first improvement is completed on one of the city lots we will receive the payment of the the market value for that lot so it's based on the lot we're selling the lots as they exist today so again there are five laws that are for the city so it would be based on on that and we would receive the money in a in the lump sum we would get the entire proceeds from the sale of that lot upon the improvement being completed so just to clarify with this thing completed when you say improvement you mean the infrastructure improvement and do you mean literally the building is done it's occupied people are in it um the building is done it may not be occupied but the building is completed and they have received a certificate of occupancy and the same thing applies to the money contributed to hometown for all the same timing um the the do you mean the the direct the in-lieu cash payment for the housing affiliate 10 the 10 million to home time for all that that's amazing as well with certificate occupancy yes it is is bait that is is the um the public benefit for the the giblet so it is phased in over the term of the giblet um per lot so each lot that gets a certificate of occupancy that's when it goes on on a diploid lease and that's when the money for the direct payment to housing starts to be felt so we'll start receiving it then um as each diplomat occurs so when in actual real timing do you think this is i mean i know sometimes projects get approved and they take a while but we talking you know first phasing a year two years three years what are we talking about the first phase um is supposed to uh come out of the ground by the end of next year and be completed by the end of but there are numerous phases so um we're expecting 15 years to complete this so it's hard to say when everything is going to be exactly completed but in your packets in the development agreement there's a very lengthy schedule of performance that we will be holding the developer to did i answer your question yes you did you did thank you sounds good thank you councilman qb um anyone else from council any other uh comments mayor can i make a motion sorry i'm sorry casper go ahead i also i didn't realize i was i was asking questions but it realized we were also giving comments now could i continue absolutely go ahead i do have to say and um casper navarro don't know if you'll be upset with me saying this and but we you know i want to apologize to the residents because we did not have a presentation of discussion in january on the south care project it was a really long night if you all recall and we just neglected to ask for a full presentation and uh because its development agreement council has that opportunity in e-session to talk about some of these issues and yesterday we got a really complete memo it was a confidential memo so again it wasn't something that that could be shared with the public and it was helpful you know much more helpful than maybe that memo and that that we have in the packet and explaining all the public benefits but um i do think we owe it to our residents to to better share information considering this is 1.8 billion this is a sale of you know 35.5 million dollars worth of of city land and um you know had there been a presentation last month you know we probably would have had a lot of feedback from residents uh because generally our residents are not very supportive of the giblet process um you know and i don't really blame them it's it's a tool that's designed for uh to incentivize development in difficult areas and we've seen i mean there is remediation issues to be to be handled i realize that but it's also when we develop the giblet um ideas along the lake there was not much development going on now there's you know a lot of interest along the lake so um you know we're getting this eight year uh eight-year giblet and the developers are going to be contributing 10 million dollars to a hometown for all and and that's going to help directly to fund affordable housing and the 2 million for transportation the money for education the pedestrian bridge like all of these things are very good um and are very appealing but because of the size and scope i really do think we should continue the discussion just for until march 3rd so we can fairly call this the first read because it truly is the first read and it is such an important project for the city there are so many good things about it so if we're so proud of this we should be proactive i believe in explaining it to people and you know i would even call for you know more a dedicated event for public outreach so we can provide all the details to the public they're hearing it tonight we're also voting on it tonight right so the first time they've heard it is tonight we're going to vote on it and um i think it's important that they understand the different financial scenarios that are before us and and that it come back for a final discussion on may 3rd i'm sorry on march 3rd and so i guess i would like to make a motion that we could continue to vote um vote uh until march third and then it also you know like to have comment on i liked it well let's just see i just want to make a motion to uh to continue this till march 3rd mr mayor yes councilman adams yeah i'll second that motion based on uh the feedback that we've received about people not understanding or having enough information on the project and i'll leave it at that i well i won't leave it at that i i think this is a great project i think it's it's amazing and um what they're contributing to home hometown for all and the pedestrian bridge and all of that i think it's a great project i'm supportive of the project uh i just am concerned about uh our community not feeling if they had enough impact and input into this process thank you thank you councilman adams so there's a motion on the table from councilmember qb at a second by councilmember adams for a continuance to the next regular council meeting date uh now we've got time for discussion uh councilman garland i had my hand up before the motion was made so i have a couple questions that aren't specifically related to that motion but i'll get to those um in a minute um so i this might be from maria or for donna um for the opportunity for the public to give input it's typically not done on a development agreement is that true true when we do that or and when is the time that they are going to be able to have the public comment is it when the zoning information comes and that will give our residents the opportunity to to review to look at this information and then to give comment i can take that uh mayor councilmember garlad this is donna kennedy economic development director out of all the development agreements we do we typically do not do presentations we have the rifka with all the information for the first hearing and the second hearing so the information is available to the public and that's generally too even after the first hearing if someone has a question they can contact me um the information's out there so and as i stated earlier um the rfp and how we verbalized it in our rivka was not part of this project so maybe because they didn't read it in the rfq they thought we just didn't include it but it was three years ago like i mentioned that we started this rfp so even if there was a continuance we couldn't legally unless we go back and re-evaluate this and it might take more than march but typically the public hearings aren't here and i i really thank the members of the community that came out and expressed their opinions um something that we all are confirming that we do understand where they're coming from but in this scenario with this rfp and moving forward um the public hearing is today is the second one so we can go again and i can discuss what's in the agreement at another date of council chooses um but the first hearing and the second hearing were to get and solicit comments as we did so you've got those comments to make your decision tonight but if you still need more information we're happy to provide it okay so that's the right question hold on a council councilman still oh i'm so sorry um so the the up so the our the public will still have our residents will still be able to have the opportunity to have comments to review this information as we move forward when it comes to us for zoning and things like that right i just want to make sure that that that the public knows that our residents know that they still have an opportunity for us to make decisions and make comments regarding this issue um regarding the zoning and the development issues yes there's a modular boss will bring that case forward give a full presentation of what the project is what it's going to look like what they're going to include and so that'll be she may want to have some input on what she's going to present at that time as well okay then i had another question so the um the remediation that's part of what the developer is taking care of that they're paying for that the remediation that's going to be needed to take care of that property so that they can start building right that's correct that's on them okay and do you know about what the value or what the cost of that is i know that we're doing it on some of our properties um mayor woods just mentioned right and we've done it at the idea campus um councilmember garland the ver it varies on the remediation this is old infrastructure they're going to do the soil testings i believe manjula may have some preliminary results from that but it is an added expense for example even just around the corner at rio 2100 it was 20 million dollars for their remediation so it's it is quite expensive um it's a it's an expense the city doesn't have to go out and remediate great we're very fortunate that lavon has funds to do it for some of his projects but um it would add up for all of these projects okay then i have just one last question just it didn't get mentioned tonight by our residents but it was mentioned the last um at our last meeting um they talked about the ferris wheel and about the ferris wheel being in the way of the rowing races and the activities um at the lake can you just address that um they have an engineering team that has been working with the city staff and preliminary and over um the past couple years have determined the appropriate location for it so would not interfere with um city recreation on the lake okay i just want to make sure we got that in because she had asked that the last one and we didn't get that answered so i appreciate it thank you donna you're welcome thank you councilmember garland uh i see i see councilmember uh navarro yeah thank you mary no i real short and to be honest mayor you you said it very well in your speech i think you hit every bullet point that was on my mind um councilman garland those are great questions you know we still have opportunity for input and and to be able to talk to our community but at the end of the day um through my tenure of being on council 2008 mayor you too we've seen this i mean right we've seen projects come in come out we've seen projects start to get in full steam we have one right now to be honest i think well it sounds like the project that you propose might help build the one that's being built right now um but at the end of the day we have identified in numerous meetings numerous public meetings what this area was to look like what this area was going to enhance what a giblet was for this area where the giblet was i've had numerous coffee talks on these issues and on this lake on this this uh area in the past i've had professors from or doctors staffs from asu come in and give a presentation on real estate on this area exactly and have that gaming opportunities for residents that have had concerns today to this issue to come to those discussions and so it's not i know this is a new deal but it's not like this is something new we knew what we were going to do we knew what the council was going to prepare to give to get something for this area we knew that this is really a place that we want to identify as a gateway to tempe also when you fly over when you drive over to totally understand about the affordability aspect what we're doing in our community but we're getting money i mean i can't believe mayor what you just said six million we're hoping for four million and we're going to outgain that even more so but the ability and we've said this and i've said this multiple times we're never going to get to the affordability that we want in perpetuity unless we control it unless we run it and we're on our way of doing that this city has done so much in affordability compared to cities around our area and around our region i think that we by far are trying to balance our affordability but we can't balance the affordability for chandler scottsdale phoenix everybody we have to do it conservatively and appropriately and to be honest with you we're out gaining those other cities in that regard in terms of affordability how we're going about it how we're doing it so i i think we're a template for a lot of communities to look at on how we're doing it how we're addressing affordability but we obviously know that on the sides of the lakes up and down we know that we have the opportunity to really gain a whole bunch of interaction with just retail with just the property tax with just all these things and yes there's an eight mil eight year giblet on these things but as we speak right now the mayor you said it so well it's been doing nothing since we've gone on it's been doing nothing since i've been here in tempe um it's been a parking lot and that's 54 years so we're seeing the fruits of past council members our council doing things to improve this area and these are the things that and and here we are having the opportunity to really you know uh you know gain from all the fruits of the labor of everybody else so i think this is a great opportunity for us it's a beautiful place we're going to increase visitors coming into our era that that helps us increase our money within the city all these things are going to have benefits so i think this is a great project um and i you know will go forward on passing thank you thank you councilmember navarro we still have a motion on the table in a second uh any more comments or am i going to take a vote on the motion uh mayor i have a comment yes please counselor donald savage i know you don't like it when i raise my hand i i love when you raise your hand in any way you know i just i i just want to like say just a couple things because honestly mayor i think what you said and what council member of navarro said is exactly kind of where my brain is and what i've been thinking i mean the reality of it is for me i've been on this council for 11 years and this has been something that's been on the radar not only for myself and my council members throughout that 11 years but those that were here before us like councilmember navarro said and to be this close and at a point where we can actually see some ground uh turning to me is really exciting i want to just say thank you to donna and her team community development for lavon for all the work that you guys are doing the three years of work that has really gone into trying to find a good partner that wants to walk alongside us to create the vision that we had at tempe town lake and this is exactly that quality type of project that we want a quality type of project that helps us leverage some of our goals and objectives and other areas in the city and i know what i heard tonight from the individuals that came up and spoke was there concerns about affordable housing and affordable housing well i will say this we have not lost sight in any means of continuing to increase our housing inventory and our different types of housing stock in the city of tempe i think we've had that discussion a little bit earlier we continue to have that discussion so when we sent the rfp out for this particular development we intentionally did not incorporate affordable housing we the council agreed on this rfp the way it is so we never intended to put affordable housing here however we have a great opportunity in the ability to leverage 10 million dollars to be able to create the type of affordable housing that we want that we can control and that we can secure for years to come which to me like the mayor mentioned earlier is actually advantageous to our community so i i've looked at this from a lot of different perspectives i want people to really understand that there are so many issues that touch people in this community and and what i heard tonight was about affordable housing and i will say this that we have come so far with what we're doing in affordable housing i would hope that people would take a minute to really understand that when we make decisions we don't take those lightly you know we take them really strategically we use data we try to be as smart as we possibly can we have an outstanding strategic priorities that are there we have performance measures and one that actually addresses our housing inventory ratio so that is always at the top of our mind whenever we do any developments and when we can get a great quality project like this that not only gives us money to allocate to address one of our highest priorities of housing and also incorporates the cool pedestrian bridge money to our school districts and really just turns a blighted piece of land into something that everybody can really enjoy and be proud of so i'm super excited about this project i think that we need to move forward i don't understand why we would want to postpone this so i'm not going to be supporting the postponement and i'm hoping that we'll have the ability to vote on this tonight thank you mayor thank you councilmember savage any other comments councilman qb yeah and i just wanted to make it clear to councilman mcgarland before when i was trying to speak it was that parliamentary procedure to that point because donna had some said something i wanted to address it then and there so i hope it didn't appear that i was interrupting because i i wanted to address the point that she made that about public engagement that we've had a first hearing we've had a second hearing but that it was precisely my point that we kind of we kind of ripped on it last last on session in january we did not have the same presentation we had tonight it's the first time we've had that presentation or the public has seen it so my point was that we didn't have that presentation and hey i you know i i blame myself too i wasn't on top of it that night i believe we should have had that first read that present the presentation we got tonight um back in the first read and we didn't that is why i'm calling for a continuance to march 3rd and then i would you know if it's if it fails i'd like to talk about some aspects of the proposal because i have suggestions i have a suggestion that i wanted to make but i really do want to have this vote on just this continuous just until march 3rd this is a 1.8 billion dollar project and i think we air we air on more community engagement not less uh i'll i'll just make one quick comment and then we can definitely uh go to the go to the uh vote here um you know i i i understand you know the comments or the the concerns about transparency it's definitely something i've heard a lot in the last you know a few days by a number of people who've raised that issue but two things i mean one i think the city is one of the most transparent places that you could ever possibly have we have more opportunities for public meetings public comment than most other cities that i know of i routinely hear it from people who actually do attend meetings in other cities they talk about the amount of debate that goes on with this council at meetings such as this one where we're still going strong at 9 20 p.m where we have tons of public meetings i know the developer here had public meetings for the purpose of this project and there were people who showed up it wasn't a lot of people but they were absolutely advertised publicly and there was an opportunity to attend uh as we talked about earlier this evening when we do presentations whatever i always read when the next meeting is actually going to take place and when the vote's going to actually go down you know i it's always incorporated into every script that i read to ensure that people know exactly when the next vote is going to be taken and from my you know perspective i i think that you know this city does an exceptional job even when it comes to you know the open government uh you know feature that we have that councilmember qb was responsible for from a national league of cities meeting you know going back and bringing that back and saying hey this is a way we can actually post data and things that we do on a portal so residents can go directly to that portal and see what we're doing i think about the public safety advisory task force and the work that we've done there and and the ability for to show people our community safety plan and for them to be able to go to a project checklist on the web and be able to see exactly where we are from a percentage standpoint with each issue that was raised over the course of all of those meetings those are just a couple of examples though of the transparency and the data that the city shows every single day and and most of us as council members i know all of us as council members go to public meetings and neighborhood meetings and i am constantly on social media always answering questions and trying to make sure that i'm accessible to anyone whether you're a resident or not a resident so i do think that the city is extremely transparent and we do everything we we try to make sure that people have multiple opportunities to speak on these issues i think we are the best to do it i think it's i don't think we are top notch but secondly when it comes to just even the concept of the continuance and i respect what councilmember qb is saying on this but from my perspective we're having the opportunity tonight to have a very thoughtful robust discussion and i think that from the data that the staff has showed not just to council uh quite honestly but but to the entire public about all of the tangible concrete public benefits that will be gained as a result of this project and so if you know donna didn't have those numbers this evening or maria didn't have those things listed out by line item i would be the first one too coming up and saying we don't have enough information the public is going to watch this and they're going to go what are they voting on i don't have the information but the fact of the matter is we've had this conversation now for the last hour or so and the public has learned every single detail about this project and what we're seeing here is that the amount of public benefit we are getting in return outnumbers the giblet that we're giving by about two million dollars and tangible public benefit so i feel that once once people have the information there's no need for the continuance because we've done everything we can to give people the information they would need to make the decision that any of us would frankly make and so in most situations if there was something that staff wasn't able to present or something that the developer wasn't able to present i would be the first person saying let's push this to march 3rd and have a conversation at that point but i feel like we have been so transparent in terms of our public hearing process the public meetings that we offer people and even the conversation that's happened tonight where staff has done an exceptional job of providing information to the members of the public and anyone watching at home as well as to our city council so i know so i just so i will go ahead and see if there's any more probably any more comment on this and if not i'll just go ahead and entertain a a uh a vote on the continuance motion all right hearing none i will go ahead and entertain a motion on the motions on the floor uh for a continuance to march 3rd made by councilmember qb and seconded by councilmember adams i'll go ahead and take a roll call vote uh councilmember navarro no councilmember qb and to explain my vote we did not have a presentation at the first read so that is is why i am voting i counselor regardless no vice mayor keating yes councilmember arredondo savage no councilmember adams aye and i vote no that motion fails three to four okay so next up here um is there any further comment on this item i know councilmember cube you said you had something else you wanted to add i did um so you know i'm glad we can have this discussion mr mayor and i would hope that as a council you know we don't do it formally but i think it's really important and i know things were maybe different before you know we served together 18 months when you were a council member when i was a council member and so sometimes we have presentations for streets sometimes not now i'd like just to make it a practice that we always have presentations on the first read and if second read wants to be briefer that's okay but i just think it's important so we don't get into the situation again and i actually um i appreciate how respectful you were about about why i was bringing that forward um so that's just one thing the other thing is you know we have this opportunity to you know invest heavily in hometown for all and there's been six million dollars raised and i salute you mr mayor and i have on numerous occasions i think hometown brawl was a really great response to to you know preemption that we are preempted from requiring affordable housing and that is a very frustrating fact of life and we know that um you know i do this work at asu my stardust center for portable affordable housing it's frustrating that you know we don't have this very important tool that other cities have so i recognize that this is going to bring us this is going to bring us 10 million dollars to that um to the hometown for all and that's going to more than double what we've received since it began and we'll be able to make significant investments buying more housing buying more um apartments and uh we'll be able to kind of continue continue that acquisition from our affiliate so that's really good it's not just a public benefit it meets an immediate and growing need in our city but here's here's going to be my suggestion tonight and it's not asking more of the developer but we are talking about money that's still left on the table if we are going to sell this property for 35.5 million dollars um it's not you know not necessarily finalized but it's likely to be that amount and you know if we don't approve the project we don't get the money so this isn't part of a current budget forecast i confirmed that with our chief financial officer we don't have that 35.36 sorry five million dollars in our general budget that's general fund budget that's coming up we're not planning for that so um what i'm hoping is that we could direct if not all of that at least a percentage of that to hometown for all and so then we're talking about real a win-win i think it really increases the public benefit and um we would be able to invest up to 45.5 million in the next let's say it's let's say it's eight years i'm not sure exactly the time frame we know it's not a simple black and white thing but if we could commit i mean i would like to see us commit the entire amount and the reason i'm asking for that tonight and i appreciate your passion mr mayor and i i know you appreciate my passion is that we often say in council member navarro you say it you know often that we really can't do much we we do best when we take our land and we sell it and or we we give it to a developer to build affordable housing or work with newtown community land trust development work with habitat work with um with gorman construction and we do best that way so here we have this land and it's 36.5 million so shouldn't we consider investing if not if not all of it a percentage of it in hometown for all and that that would be a very strong public benefit that would really be transformational and it would reflect this council's highest priority which is affordable housing and i'm not sure if we can decide on that tonight to me you know i kind of my vote's kind of contingent on it i want to make sure that that money is doesn't just go the general fund but a percentage of it goes into hometown for all um but i i asked council is this something you'd be interested in directing the sales of that the sale you know whether it's percentage or all of it to home time for all considering that you know we we can't necessarily build affordable housing on the lake the prices are too expensive it doesn't pencil out but can we consider doing that and and really making it incredibly strong statement and investment in our affordable housing future thank you councilman cube not up for discussion oh yeah no no thank you appreciate it two uh two quick points that i want to go to councilmember navarro uh one on the first point you made regarding um having um full presentations during first hearings i just wanted to make sure i commented on that i know that's something you talked about i know councilmember arredondo savage has talked about that quite a bit as well um you know from my perspective yeah if we are going to kind of establish a sort of a new norm as a council that for let's say kind of big projects or big ticketed items that we always have a full presentation during that first hearing i i'm totally fine with that if that if that's something that you know people feel like would give more insight into the process and give people more time to digest and typically come back two weeks later during the second hearing of the final vote i'm totally all good with that so you have my you know my full support of that item um the second thing whatever regarding the um like the 36 million dollars roughly of the land sale you know there there's obviously some precedent for us doing that we did a we had a project uh within the last year or so where we dedicated it was a 2.6 million dollar land sale i believe we dedicated all of that money to the tempe coalition for affordable housing this is you know 36 million so it's quite a bit more money and i'm not ruling that out i think the only thing from my perspective though would be i would love to schedule it for even an upcoming work study maybe even our next work study session so the council could have a conversation about it because the real thing i want to do and i know you're saying that that money isn't currently like encumbered somewhere else but i want to make sure in terms of you know talking to our chief financial officer and deputy city manager tom dunsing that we actually because we have a lot of needs here whether it's you know we get calls all the time as we all know about you know homelessness is a big challenge in our community transportation needs alley maintenance streets all of these items and i just want to make sure that we're making a decision about what the right percentage is so to make sure that we're not shortchanging other needs that the city actually really needs to have done i mean i got off the phone with the gentleman last night who was talking about alleys and potholes and streets and we routinely hear comments about that and a lot of other items so i don't have a problem i'm actually supportive of having that conversation at a future work study session and maybe even the next one frankly to put like an actual timeline on it because i i don't want to just push it off until may or june i understand that but my but my biggest thing is like i i don't feel comfortable talking about an actual percentage tonight because i haven't had a chance because this is a new proposal to talk to our chief financial officer or mark day who heads up municipal budget to make sure that what we're doing whatever is sort of spreading the money out in the way that really benefits all of our residents so that's my so that's my only concern but i think your concept is one that we've done before and that i and that i approve of obviously um or or support i should say and uh and and would be happy to schedule that for a future work study session so the council could have that conversation which would also give tom and mark some time to do some analysis so that's that's my perspective um but let me go to councilmember navarro no mayor uh thank you for that uh no i agree with you i i won't do this from the diocese i mean that's just with all the things that are going on in our community and there's so many needs out there and especially i want to talk about this and i've talked to the council i say this over and over our core responsibilities to the citizens you know our public works our police our fire our um you know streets rose all those things the things that are starting to deteriorate the fact that we're lacking in stacking in both public works pd and and fire the fact that apparatus uh vehicle all these things are happening the behind the scenes stuff with just um the support staff we are far far behind and we've also in in infused news new programs um with with new roles within the city that actually need support behind those programs to be to help run efficiency i sit in another city and i beg for money for various things in in just my area and i'm still waiting and waiting years putting supplementals in year after year after year and it's critical it's absolutely critical so a discussion later on sure that's fine but at the the day i can't do that from the dyers right now that's not not responsible with the money so i will not do that okay thank you councilmember navarro uh any of the council members any comments yeah may i amanda yes please councilman donald savage yeah you know 100 agree with councilmember navarro i mean i think it's totally irresponsible that we even consider that right now at the ninth hour um it's like a hail mary and i think it's just really inappropriate and very irresponsible i think if we want to change the our practice and our policies to open the door for different things and we need to have that as a bigger discussion i'm fine to have that conversation i think that we have to remember that we have a lot of residents in this community that are expecting quality services too we have a great focus on affordable housing and i'm really proud of the work that we've done to date and the work that we're going to continue to do and the impact that we've made we're making dents we're making strides we're moving forward but there are a lot of things that we need to take care of whether it's our roads if you look at our citizen satisfaction survey there's quite a few things that we can be doing better on and if if safety is one of those things which we all know it is we want the very first and foremost thing is people need to feel safe in this community and for me to just allocate a chunk of money away that could be going to a lot of different things that i feel are just as important just as necessary impactful to so many people there's just no way i would make that decision now i'm happy to have that conversation in the future but i will not have that impact my decision on this vote here tonight thank you mayor thank you councilmember rodondo savage um any of the council members any uh comments i'm here this is a council member garland i i just wanted to say that i i agree with um the new and a new policy or idea that we um have presentations at the first read i think that's a really i think it's a really good idea um and uh i i think we should try to do that because i think it does give people the opportunity to be able to see the presentation if they hadn't seen it before it gives us another opportunity to see it so it really embeds the information in our brain so we can study a little bit more i just think it's a right a good idea so i agree with lauren i think that's a good thing to do sounds good thank you councilman garland any other uh council members any uh other comments uh counselor cutie i'm a bit taken back that my fellow council members would state that i'm making an irresponsible statement um to bring up something that we have done before in other occasions where we've donated uh funds for land sales that to you know to affordable housing so um i'm not being dr nair i'm not saying it should be 100 i said a certain percentage and i would hope that we would have you know a commitment to talk about at least to talk about that at a work study session because we know that you know the money is not going to come in as quickly probably as you would hope and we have made this stated council priority at retreats in the past that we want the affordable housing is the number one priority so you know yes i would probably want all of it go to affordable housing to really truly make a difference um and and and not such you know little bites around the edges um and we're doing so much i realize that because mother navarro you're right and we do compare so favorably to other cities i don't think it's quite fair to say i was being irresponsible um but you're you're obviously entitled to your opinion but but to me you know i think we need to to really explore this in a work study i don't know if we have consensus can we find out if we have consensus to talk about this the future work study about what percentage or what amount of the sales price that we would like to donate to hometown for all i would like to find it out tonight for my fellow council members if we have a commitment to talk about it at either the next work study or a future work study i i i was going to say customer queue i think we def i think we definitely do from the conversation that that i was sort of you know hearing whatever you know there was definitely i heard people saying hey we'd be willing to have this conversation at a future date you know and i can clearly work with um you know work with you know carla reese our clerk to see what a good time would be to make sure that we are you know have enough time for a conversation but i definitely heard enough support to at least at a minimum have that discussion and see if that would work so but i gotta quit i want to make sure you know we've got a lot of things on the agenda this evening i didn't have other comments or but the chair would also entertain a motion as well ocean approved project it's been moved by councilmember navarro and seconded by councilmember arredondo savage uh any further comments or questions all right hearing none i will go ahead and take a roll call vote council member navarro hi councilmember cubing i'd like to i'd like to explain my vote i am going to vote i tonight but it was it's with the understanding that we will have a serious substantive discussion about how we can truly invest in hometown for all with the sale of this land we have this an opportunity to really supercharge and really walk the talk of our affordable housing priorities so with that i vote thank you i to be councilmember garland aye vice mayor keating yes councilmember eridando savage hi mayor councilmember adams aye and i vote i as well that item passes seven to zero the last item into the section is seven c five which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopted ordinance amending chapter 2 article 2 division 2 tempe city code section 2-3-1 relating to the judicial advisory board's operating procedures when considering appointments reappointments and qualifications of judges were there any comments received from the public regarding this item hi mr mayor thanks kara sorry no no additional comments or speakers okay sounds good thank you so much i'll close the public hearing counsel any comments or discussion on item 7c5 motion to approve mayor okay it's been moved by councilmember adams do i have a second second seconded by vice mayor keating i'm going to take a roll call vote councilmember navarro hi councilmember qb bye councilmember garlic hi vice mayor keating vice mayor keating yes councilmember eredando savage aye mayor councilmember adams aye and i vote i as well that item passes seven to zero next up we have item eight here current events council announcements and future agenda items i'm going to start with councilmember adams this evening uh mr mayor uh can you uh pass on me for a second and i will get my information okay you got it uh which means i'm going next to councilmember arredondo savage awesome thank you mayor i think jason got a couple slides for me so whenever they get up we'll see uh i'll i'll base it from there i'm sure it's gonna they're gonna be really good no i don't know oh that's good yeah okay oh yeah there we go now we're talking now i mean i think this is totally appropriate i mean since we've got the waste management open going on um up north i just want to remind everybody that we have some really awesome facilities right here in the city of tempe so if you want a great value and incredible course conditions i would highly recommend you check out rolling hills or um kenny mac ken mcdonald there's definitely a lot of fun to be had out there and also try to stop by the clubhouse after year round they have some great food and drinks and they actually have a lighted driving range at kenny mac on thursdays through saturdays i believe so check out the tempe website right there tempe dot go front slash golf and you'll be able to uh make a tea time so it's pretty fun i would highly recommend it and secondly we have an upcoming stand down and they actually need some volunteers so the stand down is on march 17th that's the arizona state fair and you can see here that they need help with just event setup and breakdown checking and registration and if you're if anybody's interested and has some time and would like to participate you can register right there hsc forms dot com front slash veterans stand down so if you've never been to one or seen a stand down before they're pretty incredible and it's a great opportunity to see the great work great resources that are there for so many veterans that need it and it's just life-changing so it doesn't happen by itself it definitely needs some volunteers to be able to do that so i highly encourage you to if you can to participate all right thank you mary that's what i got thank you councilmember arredondo savage i'm gonna go back to councilmember adams uh thank you mr mayor i really appreciate it i uh my my phone and all my computer equipment was dying so i had to get it charged and go to a different location anyway uh a couple things first of all uh valentine's day is next week the 14th and so i want to wish everybody a happy valentine's day and remember to wish your loved ones a happy valentine's day uh second on february 14 20 uh 1912 arizona became the 48th uh state to join the united states and uh so it's really exciting that uh you know it's almost our statehood day um so when we became a state we were only 200 000 people strong in arizona and now we're the 14th most populous state in the country with over 7 million residents so while things change and tempe uh is the state's ninth largest city and arizona um is also the sixth largest geographical area um and home to over 20 federally recognized native american tribes so proud of arizona and uh everything that we do here and uh just love love living here uh the second sundays is coming up and this one is about game on in downtown tempe in honor of the super bowl so we're gonna have lots of activities downtown tempe um including from 10 a.m to 3 p.m and it's gonna be a whole lineup of family fun so we're going to have outdoor yogurt classes we're going to fitness classes live music performances cool kids activities like jumbo checkers i really want to check that out no pun intended um and we're gonna have free mini golf sidewalk chalk and kids game themed crafts so named a unique gift for um or you need an a unique gift for a valentine's day we're gonna have over 75 local arizona vendors at the outdoor market on mill so i for one am going to do some christmas shopping early so thank you and go to downtowntempe.com for details and schedules thank you thank you councilmember adams except councilmember garland hi mary thank you i'm gonna wait till my slides come up here so i can tell you what i'm gonna be talking about i think i have slides there you go jason oh first thing i want to do is uh thank everybody all the volunteers and the staff and our police department everybody who came out to help out with the point in time count um we you know the volunteers have to get there about 5 30 we leave and start um doing the counting of our unsheltered in our community at six o'clock and we stop at noon so it's a it's a long day but it is um it is really beneficial to our community and i just want to say thank you so much for all the volunteers and i want to give a really good shout out to councilmember qb because um over the past number of years she has been providing the breakfast for everybody so the meal that we get to sustain us while we are out walking around um she gives that to us i just want to sell it counselor remember cube i just want to say thank you again that was i really appreciate you doing that and then the next slide um is my backstage pass we had to move it from february 2nd because of covid but we're going to be doing it march 2nd i hope that you guys can come out and join me we're going to get a tour starting at 5 30 we're going to break up in a couple groups and we're going to get a chance to go backstage at the tempe center for the arts and we're going to see this back of the stage we're going to learn about um the building itself there's going to be a lot of really really cool things to see backstage and we hope you can join us after that we're going to do questions and answers with me on the rooftop and then they also have open mic that night so when we're done you can just go downstairs and let's just listen to some good music so i hope that you can join me that's march 2nd at 5 30 um until seven so hope you can join us and that's it thanks mayor thank you councilmember garland next up vice mayor keating thank you mayor i don't have a slide but i do want to congratulate council member grandma on the birth of her first grandchild i thought we were going to see pictures and all kinds of slides about it today but i guess not so congratulations to you doreen thank you i cannot believe i did not bring up pictures i'm such a bad grandma thanks randy i mean i wasn't going to say it it's not my it's to say congratulations to you again i appreciate that thank you um you know i just want to um you know the super bowl is on sunday and i always like to invite all tempians and joining me and rooting for the los angeles rams and here's why you know i hate to root for a team from la i don't like the city i don't like the people um but um you know their quarterback matthew stafford was a long time 12-year detroit lion who stuck with the team he's a class act even after he got traded he invested millions of dollars of his own money into um human services shelter in the city of detroit i mean the guy is just as good as you can possibly be for you know have been elevated to um you know a superstar status at such a young age so you know here's hoping matthew stafford finally gets that ring i know i think the whole country outside of ohio is rooting for them so um i'm excited for the super bowl and i hope that all long-suffering detroit fans and all long-suffering any franchise fans get to see this this class act finally get the win that he deserves so um you know super bowl sunday go rams thank you vice mayor keaney uh next up councilman qb thank you i too want to congratulate councilmember garlad and uh you know i'm on your human puppy and i i just have grand granddogs and i'm very jealous so congratulations that's such a blessing and i do have a slide so we'll come up connecting with qb so it's going to be march 12th saturday 10 to 11 30 daily park at the pavilion and i so miss miss i'm talking to people directly in person about any sort of um controversy or non-controversy potholes larger issues but please come to daily park i would love to engage and talk to you and follow up with the issues of concern thank you thank you councilman cubey uh councilmember navarro thank you mayor i think i have a slide coming up and there it is um so tempe uh timpy and care7 are proud to support teen dating violence awareness month in february dating violence is more common than people think especially among teens and young adults one in three teens in united in the united states will experience physical sexual and emotional abuse by someone they are in a relationship with before they are an adult tempe is unique in the in that we have 13 care 7 youth specialists in our high schools and middle schools providing social and emotional support to our students our specialists focus on education about healthy relationships promotes self-empowerment and connects students with resources that they need the impact of the pandemic are especially felt within our teens and they need to support now more than ever we're grateful for care7 and youth specialists this month and every month so if you guys can support this and i appreciate it thank you mayor and bill ranch thank you council councilmember brevard really appreciate it all right uh next up is me i just have uh one slide here and another announcement after that but uh so play day so tempe's annual day of play is going to be held from 10 a.m to 2 p.m on saturday february 26th at kiwanis park and we would just encourage all tempe residents to come join us for free family fun that is guaranteed to get your feet moving and of course your heart pumping uh activities include kayaking sports arts library and stem activities plus a football agility course we're talking a lot about the super bowl tonight so i think that's that's totally uh what we i was going to say par for the course that i figured i'd be mixing sports and vice mayor keating would uh jump on and yell at me when i put a football agility course hosted by the arizona cardinals and fit so please check out tempe.gov playday for more information secondly i wanted to congratulate councilmember garland on becoming a grandmother as well i know it's a i know how excited she has been about that experience and so i'm just so so happy for her and i know that uh you know it's just i i look forward to that day at some point myself so but seriously congratulations um and i wanted to also uh just as my last announcement just say uh so our our city attorney judy bauman is stepping down after 14 years of service to the city of tempe uh including nine uh as the city attorney here and i just wanted to say you know to judy thank you so much for 14 years of service in our attorney's office for your legal advice for your professionalism for your candor for everything you did on behalf of the city council and city councils before to really provide exceptional legal advice and support and leadership of that office especially the last nine when you were the city when you were the top person in the department as the city attorney i always had a great time working with judy i know the other members of council did as well and we are really going to miss her i know she's going to be with us till uh until may helping out with the transition uh but honestly judy is the consummate professional and we are really gonna miss her and we wish her all the best of luck in her future for all of our future endeavors so judy thank you so much for all of your service to the city of tempe our staff and our residents and with that we have number nine public appearances were there any additional public appearances madam clerk mr mayor all the comments and speakers were taken care of at the first public appearances thank you okay all right well then i will uh go ahead then since that's over and adjourn the meeting at 953 council i just wanted to say very quickly uh we are going to just go ahead and postpone the executive session uh the remainder of it due to the late hour and i will just we'll work to schedule another one uh but just want to let everybody know we are done for the evening but thank you everyone for joining us at home we really appreciate it and thank you council