Tempe approves 1,161 housing units, liquor license despite community opposition and mayor concerns

all right good evening everyone welcome to the tempe city council regular city council meeting i apologize for a little bit late start we're having some technical difficulties we're trying to get worked out members of the public who attend the meeting physically are asked to maintain distance between other parties and maths are optional for all attendees for a city of tempe policy alternatively members of the public may attend the meeting virtually through cisco webex events by visiting tempe.gov council meeting info for more information council meetings can also be watched in real time via cox cable channel 11 and at tempe.gov tempe 11.

i'd now like to invite everyone who's able and willing to stand to join me in a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance uh 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 is item number four meeting minutes tonight i'll be assisted by councilmember keating councilmember keating thank you mayor i move we approve items 4b 1 through 10.

okay it's been moved that we uh i kept my council rekeating do i have a second i'll second also seconded by council member garlad please vote aye all right all right and it is councilmember hodge still not here okay then that vote passes six to zero with councilmember hodge absent next up is item five reports and announcements i have a few i was going to ask to um madam clerk you want me to do these down here or should i stay up here wherever you're comfortable mayor all right z just kicking it right back to me i see so all right okay then i will start i will go down for these next couple here so the first proclamation i have is for ovarian cancer awareness month i just i think a lot of you who know me for a long time know how personal this one is to me uh june 4th 2012 10 years ago was when my mother passed from ovarian cancer i still remember the council meeting i was sitting in in an executive session at the time where my dad sent me an email that had three words in the subject matter that said mom has cancer and i remember sitting there in the meeting not knowing what to do at that point should i leave the meeting should i stay and finish the meeting i reached out to my father by email and he said stay and finish the meeting that's what your mom would want you to do which is exactly what i did um you know she unfortunately passed about 10 and a half years ago now so ovarian cancer is something that's very deeply personal to me and i know to a lot of people in this audience and a lot of people here in the city of tempe so i wanted to make sure that i read a proclamation whereas ovarian cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer among women and causes more deaths than any other type of female reproductive cancer and whereas arizona has the sixth highest incidence and mortality rates of ovarian cancer in the southwest with over 70 percent of its cases being diagnosed at a late stage and whereas there is no test or screening exam that can detect ovarian cancer in its early stages and whereas the city of tempe recognizes the need to raise awareness of the disease and its impact on arizona's we encourage all residents to learn more about the subtle signs symptoms and current treatment options available to women to identify and overcome this disease and whereas the city of tempe will be participating in the national ovarian cancer coalition arizona statewide event light up for ovarian cancer to promote awareness about the disease that whispers honor survivors and remember lives now therefore i corey d woods mayor of the city of tempe arizona to hereby declare september 2022 as ovarian cancer awareness month in tempe arizona i'd like to i have someone i'd like to invite up to come stand with me while i present this do a quick introduction for one thank you good evening my name is rachel cuttman i am a one-year ovarian cancer survivor as well as actually a breast cancer survivor so it's just super important that we get the awareness out there for this um silence disease that whispers just like the mayor said symptoms can be really vague so it's just important that we create awareness about this important initiative and we really appreciate your support thank you [Applause] the next one i had the honor of actually wearing uh these very interesting socks today in honor i i wear very interesting socks on most days here i'm sure that someone watching at home didn't hear my intro to all this they're like why is he pulling up his socks um but these socks were given to me to promote child childhood cancer awareness i wanted to make sure that i wore these tonight in honor of and this proclamation says whereas childhood cancer is the number one killer of children in the nation it is one of the most overlooked and underfunded areas of all cancer research and whereas children's cancer network is an east valley nonprofit dedicated to inspiring hope and healing for thousands of families in arizona and whereas ccn is a constant source of support filling in the gaps where hospitals and insurance companies leave off lending financial assistance to families in need offering superhero and sibling therapy through dedicated counselors at phoenix children's hospital and promoting healthy lifestyles through physical and confidence building programs and whereas ccn is a tireless advocate of its tight-knit community of survivors helping them be strong smile often and dream big from their initial diagnosis through treatment and beyond and whereas the city of tempe recognizes the need to raise awareness for childhood cancer and shine a light on the nation's six hundred thousand young cancer survivors and the more than 1900 children diagnosed with cancer in the united states each year now therefore i corey woods mayor of the city of tempe arizona do hereby declare september 2022 as childhood cancer awareness month in tempe arizona [Applause] and of course councilmember garland getting the socks before i had a chance to roll my pant leg back down all right next up is item 5a3 city of tempe veterans commission appointment just want to congratulate aaron mcbride on his appointment to the veterans commission as outlined in item 7a1 on the agenda next up item 5b city managers reports an announcement specificity manager i believe you have a couple this evening i do thank you mr mayor members council first up we're going to have a presentation uh from engineering and transportation regarding survey performance goals and the public monument system staff is coming up to make that presentation thank you good evening mayor and council uh julian driessen deputy engineering and transportation director city engineer and tonight i'm joined by troy wyora who is our business systems supervisor and part of his duties is to oversee our survey group we have a licensed land surveyor glenn unfortunately he's not able to join us today but troy will be giving the presentation about something that often we don't think about a lot our survey monument system in the city but something that is really important for anybody that's a property owner a business owner deals with any kind of right-of-way issues and so troy's is going to give a very brief presentation tonight about our um our survey monument program [Laughter] so good evening my name is troy wayora and i am the gis and survey supervisor for the city of tempe engineering and transportation department uh thank you mayor and council and city staff and residents for allowing me to take a few minutes to talk about the city survey staff the public monument system and the survey staff's performance goals there we go in november 2019 the survey team identified the need to locate and survey as many as as many quarter section monuments as in the city as possible in an internal staff initiated performance goal the survey team identified the need to resurvey 100 of the quarter section monuments in tempe by surveying these monuments the team could verify the geographic data long associated with them was correct and use those new measurements to move forward on a second goal of modernizing the city's projection system the city of tempe has 181 quarter sections defined by 232 quarter corner monuments most often they're found in the center of major intersections the survey performance goals involve locating and taking duplicate measurements of each monument as of february 2022 all locatable quarter corners have been measured with approximately 70 percent having their second measurement they're shown in green on this map the yellow ones have had their first occupation but still require a second the 18 red marks are monuments that are lost destroyed or otherwise unoccupied unoccupiable while the performance measure is important there are also over ten thousand separate intersection monuments which is what i passed out to you that the survey department is also charged with protecting there are three primary goals identified in their program the first goal is to revisit all the possible quarter corner monuments with modern gps survey equipment and verify the latitude longitude and elevation of the points survey staff will then use that information to update the monument data report or mdr which is shown on the screen with modern measurements and pictures this data will be pooled with an arcgis online map that is accessible by the staff and the public including surveyors engineers developers drafters or anyone who's interested to get the most up-to-date information possible finally that data will be used to convert the city's custom low distortion projection based on a 1927 standard to a new modern projection system shared with other municipalities named state plane coordinate system 2025 or spcs 2025 so why are the survey monuments important survey monuments are used to maintain the integrity and continuity of adjoining properties neighborhoods subdivisions roads highways cities counties and even countries the land surveying community has observed an increase in the destruction of control monuments for right-of-way and public and private property boundaries with each destruction the potential for conflicts and uncertainty of boundaries arises after all the control monument network is the basis for all plats easements land divisions water sewer and storm utility plans and any other design work that relies on correct location to tie into or any act interact with anything else already constructed and so what do these survey monuments look like there are many different types of monuments and survey markers in tempe they signify many different things you'll find brass caps which are examples of something i gave you pk nails cotton picker spindle that's the silver thing i passed out rebar metal posts and other markers usually on the ground in sidewalks in pavement sometimes in hand holds in walls dirt carved into stones and in many other places and the city of tempe both in the right-of-way and in public or private property these markers signify some type of land right and it's our duty to preserve them it does happen occasionally monuments will be lost destroyed either covered by pavement lost under dirt destroyed by construction or just grown over by brush and when that happens city survey staff must find the monument by measuring from the nearest known or found monuments this usually involves running a measuring tape often through traffic for hundreds of feet from the known monuments to the expected location marking the expected location search and searching for the monument this can now be either be through jackhammering up the pavement digging through the dirt or chopping down vegetation now it's difficult to see in this picture but the lime green rod is resting on a survey monument that was inches away from this excavation and destruction city survey staff were notified and were able to save the location of the monument before the excavation destroyed it it's occasionally unavoidable that a monument is destroyed but if the location is surveyed prior to destruction the monument can be reset in its correct location normally this is within a quarter of an inch of the previous location it's this tight tolerance that allows us to maintain a rigid control network that is the basis of the city survey team's performance goals so once this project project is complete the survey data will be used to move the city from a custom low distortion projection or ldp based off of that standard nearly 100 years old to spcs 2025 a modern low distortion projection shared with other municipalities in our area this was going to make data sharing more easy and open by publishing this data to a central arcgis web map we can make the data available as it is updated instead of weeks to months to years later and thank you all for your time i'm hoping any questions you may have thank you so much for the presentation really appreciate it uh any members of council have any comments or questions uh councilmember garland i just have to say i i'm absolutely impressed with what you guys are able to do i did not realize that there were so many markers that we had and how incredible it is that you've been able to find them my my husband's from minnesota and and where he grew up outside of columbia outside of this twin cities all the streets are all different directions and the grid is actually looking very nice it must make it a little bit easier for you to do but my question is when you were looking for these points and you marked them um did you find with the new technology that they things were off at all or you don't do strangely enough the the old-time surveyors did a really good job uh given the technology they had at the time and things are almost always where they say they're gonna be it's been pretty impressive that's not to say everything is there you're dealing with 10 000 monuments you're going to have some that are are off but the vast majority of them are right where they say they're supposed to be yeah thank you thank you sounds comfortable anyone else comments or questions uh anyone on the phone all right hearing none thank you so much really appreciate it thank you for the presentation uh vista city manager thank you mr mayor i'm members of council our next presentation uh concerns uh the sixth consecutive unprecedented sixth consecutive international accreditation for our city of tempe fire medical rescue department we were one of the beta cities in 1997 our former chief cliff jones who's also the 2022 recipient of the don carlos humanitarian of the year award started us on this path and these accreditations come up every five years and in every five year increment since then we have been internationally accredited this is a big deal and it's a much bigger deal to me now that i had the honor of being able to join our accreditation team as we presented to the full international accreditation board uh last month in denver colorado that consists of chief greg reese who's here assistant chief andrea glass who's also here the president of our local 493 don young word data dan dan petty was with us as well and myself and we again not to brag too much but what the heck we're all friends here i'll just say that we went in a pod of three different cities each of whom had been previously accredited and the number of questions that we had total i want to say was six our follow-ups and theirs were i'll just say quite a bit more the point being is that the only real uh comment of any substance we got from the the committee uh that morning was we would love to see you do more uh patient advocate advocacy services because that's a really uh forward-thinking and progressive program that you've done in kudos all around even the most kind of reputationally scrupulous and questioning members of that board were duly impressed by the work that was done uh to prove up why we should be accredited once again i have to give a tremendous amount of credit to assistant chief andrea glass who headed up the accreditation team and all the many people within uh tempe fire medical rescue and all the other supporting departments who who who lent a lot of time and effort the site visit that happened earlier this year went incredibly well to the point where the site visit leader was saying that he was literally searching for things to say for follow-up and that's just an incredible testimony to the type of work that we do in tempe fire medical rescue it's uh an outstanding department we know that our residents know that but now we have for the sixth consecutive time uh the international accreditation body affirming that um for an unprecedented like i said six times so great kudos to all involved chief reece has brought the accreditation plaque with him and this is an opportunity for a photo opportunity with council the picture has to be up because i guess it's comfortable to me okay thank you chief uh gee freeze if you want to say a few words are anything to add okay all right good enough you gotta wing it thanks i'll keep it short yeah you know what i i did get to speak at the uh hearing and i'll say this uh it is extremely i'm extremely proud of of what we accomplished and our ability to continue to do this and we couldn't do it without the support of city management um the other departments they play a significant role you know when they come to evaluate us and through the five years that it takes you know the work to stay up and and be worthy of going before that commission and only having six recommendations um i said at that that hearing that i started out in this department when chief jones brought us the department i've only known a department that has been accredited i made that commitment to stay accredited in my time in this in this role we've been reaccredited three times it's been an honor to represent not only this city but really the membership who day in and day out they do the heavy lifting and though i won't um be in this position to receive this recognition again i will tell you this we'll be committed and we're going to do it again in five years so thank you all very much and and i couldn't be prouder of what we've accomplished [Applause] thank you so much chief congratulations mr city manager thank you mr mayor just a couple of other announcements first uh congratulations are in order for craig hayden craig uh was just appointed as the director of our community services department and you want to recognize him craig stepped in on in the interim role after the uh promotion of keith burke to deputy city manager and he's done a great job and we look forward to continuing to work with him in this capacity so thank you second thing uh i previewed this at work study session a couple weeks back but uh the closer we get to the date uh the more real it gets and it bears second repeating and that is the impending retirement of our good friend and colleague mr mark wittenberg after 30 years of service just this week at our monthly breakfast honoring pretty good stuff this is a very compelling slide you know they always say make visuals that people will remember and i don't think any of you will forget this i just hope it doesn't haunt your dreams um the uh i've had the pleasure of knowing mark not his entire 30-year career but a pretty good chunk of it and you know he uh sent out just a a wonderful note to his um to his staff as he leaves the position as the i.t director for the city of tempe noting quite a few highlights of his 30 years of service in that department including at the time he started that there was no internet no email and no cellular phones and that's kind of amazing to think that since 1992 that we've come that far in technology and it gives you a really good idea as to the kind of agile leadership you need in it to keep up with the continuing sort of dizzying pace of technology and that doesn't happen by accident happens because great leaders like mark wintenberg step up and and help us to navigate through all of that um and you know there's there's people who who do their job and do it well and they're people who have a true passion for it and you can feel it and see it and you know mark exudes that passion and has every single day that he's worked here he truly likes you know computers he's the guy who uh who isn't afraid to get his hands dirty and to really kind of continue to to advance us in our our technology needs here and you know we we certainly wish him all the best in what i know will be a brief retirement because although he is leaving us he uh and the the city of raleigh north carolina is going to be very very fortunate he is moving across country and will be joining them in a very similar capacity that he's had here at the city of tempe so our loss will ultimately be rally's gain um but we are very very sorry to see him go but we're also wishing him nothing but the best in his future endeavors and uh and uh that's what i wanted to say again uh it certainly bears second repeating and thank you so much mark for your for your storied 30-year career [Applause] that's all i have now thank you mr mayor thank you so much city manager appreciate it next up is item number six 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 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 present at the podium must state their name and city of residence and provide a speaker card members of the public shall refrain from making personal impertinent 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 choosing did not appear in person or virtually may provide their written comments to counsel prior to the meeting for their review 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 as a specific item for 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 now i'm going to go into my cards here let's see here okay the uh first card i believe i have here is from mario martinez please come forward state your name in place of residence you have up to three minutes to address the council thank you good evening my name is mario martinez and i live in tempe as a tax paying citizen i am here to condemn the impotent lack of leadership that corey woods displayed in the city council budget meeting held around june 23rd no criticism of any other council member is intended or implied at the subject meeting there was a public hearing on the property tax levy i attempted to speak the standard three minutes on the issue a local newspaper reported my comments as quote at least one resident came forward during the meeting to endorse the property tax increase so that residents could get more say in city services particularly near the lake end quote on this rancorous night because of the public protests about the tragic uh tempe lake drowning some meeting participants were understandably angry and use profanity this was clearly against the rules but corey and the city attorney did not equitably enforce the rules even though i complied with all the council rules and did not use profanity i was the only one that the city attorney repeatedly interrupted i will not tolerate this discriminatory conduct using some bizarre rationale the city attorney evidently did not see the connection between taxes and the government services that are funded by our taxes but incidentally between the city attorney and corey's taxpayer subsidized salaries they're knocking down about 250 dollars a year to underscore the discriminatory treatment i received right after i spoke former council member cooby talked about the lake incident in far greater detail far longer time than i did and the city attorney did not interrupt miss kuby once corey you oversee the city attorney and you are responsible for making sure that the residents have the right to speak at public hearings the buck stops with you not your advisors this incident is not only disgrace to our city but our rights as american citizens i demand a public apology from you as mayor corey you're always publicly show boating about your heroic commitment to leadership accountability transparency and engagement but respectfully your public uh your professional cowardness displayed at the subject meeting was the exact opposite thank you thank you sportiness all right next public speaker is lyla joanne baginski please come forward state your name in place of residence you have up to three minutes to address the council my name is lila baginski i go by joni and uh i represent the american legion post 138 in tempe and i live in mesa arizona right now so we started the post by typing in triplicate paperwork and we had to have 35 new members to start the post and it took a while we got our charter in 2010 but we didn't receive it until the beginning of 2011.

so it's still been there quite a long time it's not going to be there very much longer which is the reason that we're here i had the job of starting the paperwork and uh going through i looked up arizona's um iraq killed an ayat killed in action and after about a week it was a tough job i came across a young man james witkowski his father is here um i wasn't sure if i had the right person so i needed to get a hold of family that we wanted to name the post after their son they were out of town we eventually got back together and i explained what i wanted on the phone by um it was hard because i was trying to find out if they were the parents of this deceased soldier and uh chose my words rather carefully but we got the okay from his parents lovely lovely people that was a hard thing to do was to try to leave a message about that but uh since that time we've been here in tempe for since 2011 and to me it's home it we make veterans feel welcome no matter what war era and uh passionate about veterans all of us but we uh are gonna have to move and we would like uh suggestions on where you know or if you all can help in any way i realize you can't answer me right now but the commander has something to say also thank you so much appreciate it the next speaker is john boyle please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes thank you very much mayor thank you council members i appreciate the opportunity to speak before you i am john boyle i am a member of uh i live in tempe i am a business owner in tempe and i love dempy let's just go with that um what johnny just spoke about be that person be the person you have to make that phone call too hi i'm joni began i want to start an american legion i understand i've heard your son's story uh would it be okay ouch right here we are we have been in tempe for um many years and now we have to move and it's that simple our building got sold and here we are why do i do what i do i have a 60 hour like all of you i have 60 hour a week job and here i am volunteering standing before you i spent 11 years in the united states air force and it's about veterans it's about when someone walks in and goes hi i need help and you go how can i help he says can i just uh wash my clothes can i just shower and you say yes i want to stay in tempe to offer that service it's really that simple it's not complicated it's not a mat it's that simple many of my members are here tonight i am privileged to be their commander we nominate and we vote members in that sometimes feel like we don't deserve it i've never asked for a service that i haven't needed myself if you see the purple shirts behind me there's a reason for that those purple shirts represent 22 veterans a day that are no longer with us for one reason or another i was almost one of those so i reach out and i touch those that i can i am not perfect i am not who we are we just do what we can there will be we have reached out to the veterans commission we will continue to reach out we want to stay in tempe i believe there's a service and a need for us to do so we have an opportunity unlike any others in 10 seconds or less i will say this you don't always get an opportunity to create something really really good be the one is the american legion initiative this year be the one i will i hope that you will help me be the one that creates a place and a space for veteran veterans in tempe thanks very much thank you so much sir appreciate it thanks councilman yeah if it's possible i know that maybe staff has reached out but if staff can can um please work with the veterans here and just seeing about opportunities i'll let the city manager for that can be directed and i just want to say i appreciate their services thank you counselor tomorrow next speaker i have is zach muncie please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes to address the council mayor woods city council my name is zach muncie i live in iwatuki but i will say i reside in tempe because everything that i do for these veterans these brothers and sisters here is here it is my home um joni and john did a great job of describing how passionate we are how much we love what we do um councilman garland you said when you walked out you said thank you for your service and immediately in my head people people say thank you for your service i don't believe that our service is ever done because once we get out people think oh we're done with the military no no john referenced the 22 veterans that call themselves a day it is a huge undertaking i am the service officer for this post that's if you have issues with a medical education housing it doesn't matter john said that there's a gentleman that wanted to take a shower it was very coincidental that we were doing our officer and working statements that very day he walked in he wanted to take a shower i said cool we had a bunch of people there we had a potluck brought him food out and while he was taking a shower and charging his phone i walked out and i took somebody's hat off their head and i said i just went like this i went back to help the gentleman out came back with the hat 400 in there without question five minutes nobody asked questions we just knew there was a veteran veteran in need i get shaking here i can't say it enough we love what we do we would love the opportunity to keep doing keep doing what we do anything and everything you guys have we will take it doesn't matter what it is please and thank you have a good night thank you appreciate it the next speaker i have is kim gaffney loza please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes to address the council good evening mayor and council i'm kim gaffney loza north tempe and i just wanted to speak in favor of the dewitt project that is going in along miller and curry roads mr humantle was nice enough because he knows how passionate i am about plants to actually present the landscape plan to me i made a couple suggestions of things i thought that may not make it through the summers and they gladly made those adjustments but one of the other reasons that i'm really in favor of this i think it's a perfect location for large density it won't be overlooking any single family homes but the other thing that it will do i feel it will help activate that indian bend wash area which i hope at some time in the future we will master plan i know that's much future project but i think that area really does need to be master planned i think this is also ideal because of where it's located as far as directing traffic um it is between a couple of major arteries which are easily accessed by both miller and curry roads neither of which are very busy at this time i also think that we'll help activate hopefully scottsdale road so we can get some better businesses in along that way and not look so much like a stop along the freeway which i know you've heard me say before so anyway i just wanted to let the other thing i want to let you know too is i've heard some rumblings about the traffic but when they had a virtual public meeting even though i already knew about the project i wanted to see what the neighborhood was concerned about i was the only person at that virtual meeting that really disappointed me and the only reason i knew about it was because of the sign on the area so i didn't even receive a postcard so even the people that received postcards no one showed up for that virtual public meeting so i just wanted you to be aware of that thanks very much thank you next speaker i have is philip yates please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes to address the council i must apologize because i put down the wrong number that's okay so really this is you item ap one do you you could even just tell us which um which item it was you wanted to speak on yeah well we can make the adjustment for you i'm just gonna look at the agenda sure sure see which one it was uh yeah for the record my name is philip yates and i'm the president for the riverside neighborhood association and i just wanted to say there's going to be a development that is going to uh probably be down the street from us on roosevelt and 5th street and it used to be an adobe house and for years and years it was just an empty lot as in the dopey house is sort of uh decrepitated and there were a lot of homeless people that lived there and on tuesdays excuse me on tuesdays uh at the park right around the corner from that there is a lot of uh people that go to the park and they take whatever they can get from the people that got that will come clothes or food or water or whatever it is uh but um which is and that's a lot of the people that stayed there would go over to that uh adobe house and stay overnight and they can't do that anymore but my point is going to be that i have seen the plans for the project and it's fantastic looking building but i would hope that the developer that has proposed this would incorporate something to do with native american architecture or art on the buildings that that are going to be there and or in the landscaping one way or another uh just incorporate something that is made of american nature that's all i have thank you thank you mr yates just one quick clarifying question from mr city manager do you um just want to make sure i have the right item that mr yates was talking about on the agenda so i can make sure to correct the card here or or mata madam clerk if you see it as well if you can shout it out to me 8b1 yes we believe it's 81 champion 11 projects yeah okay and actually misty uh you were quick is it 8b1 you were you were totally correct so thank you all right uh and the last card i have here is from shimaki jama yes please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes to address the council hi i don't know i've been having fun justice for the police to ask me for dui wrongful dui and denied for access of justice and then they kick ass out from the court me and my wife she's kind of playing there for like nine months they call the security laws till now i'm still struggling by the state bar i'm still trying to figure out me like the reason i've been getting charged for i mean i don't know what to go from there but it's like there's no justice this is kind of values on an individual i don't know i mean for the reason they changed me for i'm asking for the body cam they didn't deprive me for they're forcing me to take my fingerprints because i got a concealed carrier i mean there's no proof of witness or like for anything so i just want to see i mean the city council well thank you i was going to uh mr city manager since we're not allowed to engage since it wasn't actually on the listed agenda i was going to ask mr city manager uh can we follow up or have a member of staff follow up about the matter that gentleman raised sure if he stays uh during the meeting here a little bit longer we'll try to connect him with somebody before he goes okay okay sounds good thank you so much really appreciate it okay that concludes all the comment cards that i had is there anyone else in the audience who wishes to address the city council if so please get my attention all right seeing none i will move forward with item number seven which is 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 as public hearing item at the beginning of the item title 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 if you wish to speak on a public hearing item please fill out a speaker card and submit your completed card to the clerk prior to the agenda item coming forward for council discussion i will call your name when it is your turn for public comment the consent agenda this evening is listed as miscellaneous items 7a1 through 7a11 awards of bids and contracts item 7v1 through 7b18 and resolutions items 7c 1 through 7c11 with the exception of items 7a6 7c2 7c10 and let's see and seven beads okay so so seven seven a six seven b two seven c two and seven c ten which are being removed from consideration and item seven c one which is being removed from the agenda is there any other item that council members wish to have removed for separate consideration all right is there any other item here for someone in the audience that anything does it as a public hearing item can be removed for separate consideration if anyone would like to have a public hearing item removed just get my attention all right hearing none i'll ask for a motion then to approve the consent agenda with the exception of items 7a6 7b2 7c1 7c2 and 7c10 uh it's been moved by councilmember navarro seconded by councilmember chin please vote aye okay hi all right and that vote passes seven to zero all right first item here that's is removed for separate consideration is item 7a6 which is to hold a public hearing to recommend the approval of a series 10 beer and wine store liquor license for one ohm car llc dba tempe market at 1125 south terrace road would staff like to make a statement on this item i see tom dunsing our deputy city manager and chief financial officer yes thank you marin good evening mayor and council tom dunsing for the record deputy city manager before you this evening is a request to hold a public hearing to recommend approval of a series 10 wine store or excuse me beer and wine store license at 1125 south terrace road recommendation of this and any other liquor license is based on a review of the application by the police fire and community development department to ensure the establishment meets city code criteria no issues have been identified by any department on this particular license as council knows the city is not the final approval the action tonight is then forwarded to the arizona department of liquor license and control or dllc who ultimately issues the liquor license department representatives are here if marin council has any questions i also understand there's there's um public speakers wishing to address this item um i also understand that the applicant's agent is also in attendance and can and answer any questions mayor i'm available for questions or we can we can open up public hearing sounds good thank you mr dunsing uh anyone from the council have any comments questions all right hearing none i will see if the applicant's agent is president would like to make a statement no you don't have to if you don't want to but if you want to i prefer to wait you for wait okay sounds good all right then i will go ahead and close the public hearing oh wait a minute my bad got the cards right here all right before i close the public hearing i have a number of speakers here um the first speaker i have here is meek hamad michael mod yes sir please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes to address the council yeah good evening guys i know we all lost a game tonight we're not gonna watch any game tonight nfl let's enjoy it my name is mike hamad and uh i'm a resident of the scrasdale but i've been the tempe since 2004.

and everybody knows me i own a sunstop liquors and hangover hoagies it's good sandwiches by the way and i never have any complain about any business to open around around me at all but this is the first time i've been complaining the reason i'm complaining is safety safety is number one for those kids they come from east coast they don't know nothing about the light room and i took some picture if you guys want to pass it to the mirror or anything i really appreciate it it's safety is number one this business has been like 10 times they've been opening and probably city of tempe they wrote like over 400 tickets citation those kids they don't know nothing about the ladder they're gonna hate they're gonna do a lot of things you know that there's a lot of drunk kids there's kids they don't know that and we are worried about those kids and always everybody knows me i have a sign please do not cross the light rail and this location is very very dangerous we are worried about those kids and also i have another big villa they have like a 2000 employee president they all complain about this location please let's not be open and let's not be save some lives and we are worried about those kids those kids they don't know nothing about it they are 19 and there is another liquor store around here there is a lot of alcohol there is a lot of things no matter what they're gonna cross the line and they're gonna hit by the train and so i'm just worried about the those kids their life is matter i'll be honest with you i'm that's it thank you so much guys i really appreciate it thank you so much really appreciate it thank you the next speaker i have is jose hernandez please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes to address the council my name is jose hernandez i live in uh here in tempe um i will be speaking on behalf of the following businesses el paso mexican food llc uh fatima llc chen's noodle house analytical enthusiast llc desi plaza sherma paradise and the 400 signatures collected from residents who live within 1.5 miles of the address uh one 1125 south terrance road we are asking if there is a possibility of bringing other type of businesses near the asu campus that are not liquor stores we believe in equality and for anyone to have an opportunity to establish a new business here in tempe our concerns come from having multiple liquor stores within the same area which will lead to competitive prices and competitive competitive prices will mean that alcohol prices will be reduced and it will lead to making alcohol more accessible to asu students this is also a safety risk for the community and our emergency resources the more alcohol that is consumed by tempe residents the more possibilities of accidents where police and fire departments need to be dispatched the second concern that this businesses share in common is the increase of homeless traffic within the area students and residents have reported to business owners the harassment by homeless people asking them for money food or liquor um the last thing we would like to request from the city council is to further review the data on alcohol-related accidents and arrests before a private before approving new liquor licenses in an area where there are 10 liquor stores within less than a mile this is not including restaurants bars and then also pharmacies who sell alcohol thank you thank you so much appreciate it next speaker i have uh is i believe it's jane or jake smith i apologize i couldn't tell no i just have horrible handwriting you you and me you and me both my friend no worries please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes to address the council council members my name is jake smith i'm a resident of tempe i'm here to represent noor enterprise llc concerning the matter of 1125 south terrace road in tempe the liquor store that they're planning on opening there in the half mile radius around that store there are already 10 separate liquor stores and so the neighborhood has raised concerns and we're requesting that you remain stationary on the number of liquor stores until that's taken into consideration there's a few concerns that we raise one is that we aren't sure how confident we are in their id verification requirements if they were looking to undercut the businesses surrounding them they could become lacks on the idea requirements be willing to take losses for a few years and after that they undercut all the businesses in tempe and that's that's why we're that's one of our concerns the other one is safety as raised by the prior members that spoke before you were worried about drunken related alcohol-related incidents tempe is already fifth in the entire state of arizona for accidents 4.5 roughly is alcohol related in the entire state the 18 to 25 age bracket consists of 20 percent of all alcohol-related incidents in any capacity considering that we're right next to the campus with this location the asu campus we're right next to it that's the bracket that we need to be concerned with and so we're just we're raising concerns that this may be a safety issue as well as a possible business failure on their part and ruining the city of tempe in their stead yes that you take this under consideration thank you thank you so much the next speaker i have is preston smith please come forward and state your name in place of president you have three minutes to address the council good evening mayor woods and council members my name is preston smith i'm a student here at asu i'll be a senior this year and i'm here because of the liquor license located at 1125 south terrace road um i came forth today and hope to keep my community i live in a safer place i lived in tempe the past three years apollo right next to this news story is where i lived last year almost every day last year i would pass the empty building by my apartment thinking how cool would be for a business in that place to help the community when i heard the news it would be turned into another liquor store my heart kind of sunk in the surrounding area we already have a plethora of stores already selling liquor so why another the opening of this business is not to help the community but instead make money off of college students like myself in the area because of convenience with the surrounding area being mostly college students what use does the store actually have this new this new store would add to an overflow of liquor and intoxicated individuals to my neighborhood something that my neighbors and i don't need adding this store to this area will do nothing but cause problems to the community and i'm here to try and stop it thank you thank you so much the next speaker i have is janelle simpson please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes to address the council hi my name is jebel simpson and i'm a resident here in tempe arizona thank you all for this opportunity to speak before you i'm here on behalf of kohinoor llc about the liquor license for the um tempe market located at 1125 south terrace road in tempe stated by the previous gentleman there are quite a few liquor stores already in the area and one of the main concerns is that this opening of another liquor store is going to further like hurt the community as i've been in this area for quite some time i see there's i got to see the the transformation got to see the new buildings being built going from empty lots and also with that seeing more people move into the area the thing that i think it kind of sucks is that you also start to see um more loading around the stores that are already there several of the businesses have already had to you know start hiring um security just to kind of help out with uh the drunkenness around there so it would be nice to add a business in the area that actually helps the community and it actually gives tempe a positive image and gets asu away from the party school image that you know that we have so um you know hopefully i know if there's anything you can do to prevent this and you know hopefully we can get a better qualified business in the area thank you thank you so much next up i have gene rosen kaiser please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes to address the council hi my name is jean rusin keyser i live in tempe in hudson manor and i'm also here as an employee of new school for the arts and academics which is in the neighborhood in question for this liquor license at 1125 south terrace road i am not speaking on a official capacity but our admin has discussed it and we have talked to the owners of sunstop who we have a great relationship with and we trust their karting processes particularly for tobacco in our cases with kids and we really haven't had any issues any we've had have been to our east in with previous owners over there but um overall um i think as one of the people who gives the tours and is a spokesperson for the school we do get questions about all the liquor stores in the area so the more there are the more that gets difficult to explain and it's one thing to explain something like sunstop which was there before we moved in we didn't move in until 2002 to that site so um so it's one thing to explain something like that and i can confidently tell the parents that we have a good relationship we trust them they're not going to let the kids loiter they're not going to let them stand outside and ask people to buy things for them we're confident we are not confident about all the new stuff that's popping up and so we just wanted it known that we're concerned and we're watching that's all that you know keeping an eye out thank you very much for your time thank you so much that is all the cards i have i just want to turn back to see uh if the applicant of the applicant's agent would like to speak you don't have to but if you'd like to you were more than welcome to yeah okay yes please come forward wonderful thank you so much just uh please state your name and uh in place of residence name is jared rapinski and i have with me gita bat we are both residents of chandler i i think the the two primary things to address uh within this first off the safety concerns um it's it's a brand new build out it was completely gutted uh there's a a kitchen you know going in this is a a market in in the truest sense of what a market can be so if there's any you know safety concerns about lighting or anything along those lines because everything is still you know very much under construction those things can be addressed and that's that's very easy to do especially within the build-out the the second thing in in in my experience as an agent um sometimes this happens when there is opposition it's a mischaracterization of what is actually the business that is going in there it is not a liquor store uh it is a marketplace there is going to be anywhere from band-aids to ban or to bananas uh that people are not you it's very much convenient store it's not a liquor store it's a beer and wine the beer and wine is very ancillary to the primary which is convenience items for the students energy drinks sodas chips you know uh just quick service items that they run out of at home and that they're going to need so as far as the um you know the disappointment that there's a liquor store going in there that is just not the case that's not what this this business is or or anything along those lines but i will turn this over to if you had anything else to add on how you um from what you've heard and what you would want to say and address yeah just what do you say it's it's i have experience with i have a jerry's liquor and i know how to handle the liquor store i have a i'm in a business since 2002.

used top convenience store 2002 we took over in mesa we have no single tickets we've been handling business since long time and i always stay there me or my husband she also owns a uh another market in phoenix called lucky market and she was also the owner and sold back in i want to say two thousand two so she has a wealth of experience if there's concerns about ideon and and she has an impeccable record with a variety of those employees who check the id and everything and myself is the agent from which part of the services that i provide as the agent i'm a title for uh approved title for trainer within uh the department of liquor so it's a requirement that you know an agreement that everybody's title he is with us since 2002.

sounds good okay awesome thank you so much appreciate it thank you seeing that that's all the speakers i have uh and the applicant spoke and i will now close the public hearing and look to the council for any comments i just have one quick question i guess for mr dunsing in does that so i'm just sort of just hearing you know what both uh folks on both sides of this issue have said and obviously as you talked about it's sort of a very uh different thing that to have a liquor license pulled usually they just sort of go through very quickly and easily without any concern and so the fact that this one has risen to this level gives me a little bit of concern a little bit of heartburn i was going to ask you is there any reason why this specifically has to go this evening or is there time if this was delayed to a future meeting for us to do a little bit more investigating and to get some additional information to see if we could clear up a lot of what's going on here because quite honestly that's my big thing it's trying to make sure that you know everyone in the community and folks in this area are living at a level of harmony with one another and if there are kind of misconceptions on either side about what's going on here i would love to see if we could find a way to broker some of that and bring people together so my going back to my question i guess is uh is is there a hard and fast stop on this having to go this evening or if the council made the decision uh to move this to a different meeting could we actually do that yeah members of the council thank you there's a statutory deadline we have to get our the recommendation to the department of liquor license and control that statutory deadline we're well within it this item could be pushed to the september 22nd regular council meeting and we will still be within that 60-day statutory limit okay thank you next up we go to councilmember chin mayor i move to approve okay move by councilmember chin and it's been seconded by second and seconded by councilmember navarro uh yes uh now additional comments councilmember garland i just want to say is um you know what was stated earlier i think by tom that you said that this is a recommendation from the city council if this goes through but there's still up opportunity for appeal or concern from the same residents to state correct yes members of council that's correct because the license doesn't get approved by us it just gets recommended to go to a to the state correct a protest can be filed with the state okay and then you know the other thing i'd say that however this ends up going i mean i think this is a really great opportunity the people who are concerned with the um the owner of what this place could be like is sitting right there um i can't remember your name ma'am i'm sorry the the art school um having the opportunity to to talk to her and tell her what your expectations are or your hopes are this is a great opportunity for you guys to exchange numbers and maybe talk to each other and really get to know each other and find out what you know what you guys could do as a community just in your area but just a thought let's just want to say that thank you thank you councilman garland uh any of the council members in the additional comments i guess my my one quick comment is that you know and and just a quick kind of procedural thing one of the challenges of being mayors that you don't get to make or second motions i basically just sort of run and conduct the meeting um which is just fine um you know my preference would have been you know frankly on this one to have pushed this to a future meeting because i think that there are some additional questions that need to be uh kind of answered i appreciate the work that the staff has done on this though in terms of all the work that goes into the um into the recommending of the approval of this you know i hate to see uh you know business owners all kind of within the same corridor with some level of disagreement whatever dispute about kind of what this is or some of the safety concerns or things of that nature and that would be my personal preference would be to move this to a future meeting to allow us to get a little bit more time on this matter at the end of the day though i am happy that you're at least saying though that there is another option whatever for an approval at the state level uh if a lot of the folks here who are very passionate would like to continue to appeal this uh at least there's some other mechanism to do something uh because i want to make sure i'm definitely honoring the motion that's on the table and been seconded so i want to wanted to make that statement but i am done so councilmember mayor thank you yeah and and i agree and thank you for the people that came up and shared the concerns and i think it obviously um you know just for the council to listen to is is great in seeing what we can do but at the end of the day this is a state matter uh this is a matter that that the state would have to address and look at um and i hope that with the explanations that have been set here tonight being a convenience store versus the lakers there is a clear difference within that um and it is set up as a convenience store as an old circle k i guess it looked like from one day at a time uh back in the day but um when i'm looking around the whole area and actually lived there on limited terrace as a kid i know exactly you know the locations of all this stuff um and there is plenty of liquor stores right around the street um around there and so i do agree with that but at the end of the day this is gonna be a state matter that has to be addressed there so i appreciate you guys coming out and saying your concerns but um this just like i said this is just a recommendation to go to the state for the final approval one thank you casper one quick one last question tom i was just going to ask you what does that approve what does that process look like at the state level just so for everyone here just even for my own edification yeah members of council state statute kind of spells out the protest process um if the if the protester's unaware of the process i'd be happy to point them to state statute i mean it's it's pretty straightforward and it prescribes the actual items that they need that they would file directly with the department of liquor license and control i'm not i'm not aware of the the exact items but i know it's spelled out pretty clearly in state statute okay sounds good thank you all right any other comments or questions from council all right call for the question uh with that being said uh please vote hi and that item passes seven to zero thank you very much all right let's see next item is 7b2 which is to award a two-year contract with three one-year renewal options to fabric tempe hustle phoenix pacific southwest minority supplier development council rail cdc and tempe chamber of commerce for business consulting services and the administration of grant funds relating to the growing bipoc manufacturing micro manufacturing program this has been pulled for separate consideration i believe was supported by council member chin council thank you mayor um i just wanted to pull this and acknowledge this item and the magnitude of it and what it means for many people it's the growing bipark micromanage micro manufacturing program it supports local entrepreneurs and small business owners especially those who've been traditionally left behind and they face the greatest obstacles in manufacturing which is space and capital to do so the one item that i remember from my macro economics class is that in order to affect an overall economy you have to support small and medium businesses i think this is critical to the success of the overall economy and i'd like to thank city staff and all of our community partners in launching this program i want to congratulate and recognize the partners and their commitment to this success and i look forward to future updates on its progress and i move to approve thank you councilmember chin seconded by councilmember garland with that please vote i and that item passes seven to zero next up we have item seven c two item seven seat two is to adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager or his designee to execute an agreement between the chandler police department and the city of tempe police department to allow tempe police department to utilize chandler police department swot for special events on an as-needed basis counsel any comments or discussion okay one of mine all right uh if if there's none i would entertain a motion by councilmember navarro and seconded by councilmember garlad please vote i and that item passes seven to zero the next item on the agenda is 7 c 10 which is to adopt a resolution that proven and accept grant funds from the us department of agriculture natural resources conservation service for the grow local tempe policies and road maps to expand urban agriculture for a healthier and happier tempe grant to the city of tempe a couple of quick things on this item i should ask first of all to any any comments or questions but i've got some comments i can find them ah there we go i wrote i wanted to make sure i wrote these down just to make sure that i could actually talk about this so the office of sustainability and resilience for the city of tempe which is doing a phenomenal job uh they're receiving a 200 000 urban agriculture and innovation production grant for the us department of agriculture the grant funding is going to go towards the grow local tempe initiative to expand urban agriculture development and education within our community which is great it's going to help to connect more vulnerable tempe residents to the benefits of urban agriculture which include increased economic opportunity nutrition food security and well-being and we'll continue to partner with many uh partners like arizona state university the arizona sustainability alliance unlimited potential and sadasana to name a few in order to elevate voices in the planned development from urban agriculture experts to the region's indigenous communities as well so the funding lastly i should say is going to be utilized to develop a plan for community gardens and other access to food in a specific part of the city which is the apache boulevard corridor uh area businesses are tempe elementary schools such as thu and connolly elementary and other city facilities will be potential sites and eventually this pilot could be expanded to be something city-wide so i just wanted to thank the great work that our office of sustainability and resilience has done to uh acquire disease funds and to continue to do a lot of the great work that they are already doing so i just wanted to say thank you with that anyone else every additional comments been moved uh by council regardless do you have a second seconded by council member chin please vote i and that passes seven to zero next up we have item number eight which is the non-consent agenda all items listed on the non-consent agenda will be considered separately agenda items scheduled for introduction in 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 second um oh 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 the first item under the section is item 8a1 which is to approve one-year contract renewals with pride outfitting and airwave communications for the installation of emergency communication and lighting products on public safety vehicles and warning lighting and accessories on city utility vehicles council any comments or discussion okay it's been moved by councilmember navarro to have a second seconded by councilmember garwood please vote hi and that item passes seven to zero the next item into the section is eight a two which is to approve a one year contract renewal with somerset landscape a yellowstone landscape company for the installation of landscaping and irrigation for street beautification and right-of-way landscaping projects for the engineering and transportation department council any comments or discussion been moved by councilmember navarro do i have a second seconded by councilmember chin please vote hi hi and that item also passes seven to zero the next item under the section is 883 which is to adopt a resolution authorizing a maximum dollar amount for an individual job order of up to 1.5 million dollars for the purpose of procuring construction services for the hvac improvement city hall campus west garden project number 6708842t council any comments or discussion i'll make a motion to approve it's been moved by councilmember navarro i'm going to give the second device mayor adams please vote i i and that item passes seven to zero the next element of the section is 8 a4 which is to award job order number 29 to foresight design and construction incorporated for the hvac improvement city hall campus west garden project located at 31 east 5th street council any comments or discussion so move been moved by councilmember hodge do you have a second all seconds seconded by vice mayor adams i love it please vote i and that item passes seven to zero i like it the phone game is strong tonight the next item under the section is eight a five which is to adopt a resolution authorizing a maximum dollar amount for an individual job order of up to 1.25 million dollars for the purpose of procuring construction services for the city elevator improvements municipal parking garage police building prisoner tempe escalante multi-generational center council eddie comments a discussion moved by councilmember navarro and seconded by councilmember garland please vote mr bear oh yes vice mayor adams uh knowing those elevators is very important that we uh keep them up to date as a lot of them are aging so i will be voting uh yes on this thank you sounds good thank you vice mayor adams any other comments or questions all right guessing none please vote uh vice mayor adams aye okay thank you so much that item passes seven to zero next item under the section is eight a six which is to award job order number thirty forward calliante construction incorporated for the city elevator improvements municipal parking garage police building prisoner tempe escalante multi-generational center located uh project located at 117 east 5th street 120 east fifth street and 2150 east orange street respectively council any commentation it's been moved by vice mayor adams who have a second second seconded by councilmember hodge any comments or questions all right please vote hi hi and that item fast is seven to zero the next item of the section is 8a7 which is toward a construction contract to b f contracting incorporated for the jointly owned rehabilitation 2022 project located at various locations throughout the city counsel any comments or discussion moved by councilmember navarro seconded by councilmember garwood please vote hi uh vice mayor adams oh yes you didn't hear me i did say i perfect thank you so much that item passes seven to zero the last item under the section is eight a eight which is to approve a change order allowance to builders guild incorporated for the envision center resiliency hub project located at 1310 east apache boulevard council any comments or discussion move by councilmember hodge seconded by councilmember garland oh dude sir yes i was just gonna say just reading the the details and information about this building i'm so excited about the envision center going on and it just made me feel so sad that we have now have to do with deal with the roof issue that that that was not seen and going through construction in my very old house right now doing some remodeling i understand that you peel back a wall and you're just shocked what's back there or not back there um but i just appreciate you guys forging forward because this envision center is going to be pretty incredible in our community it's the right location and the right thing to do so i'm i'm glad that it's moving forward and we're going to get the roof fixed thanks thank you councilman garland any other comments or hearing none please vote hi hi and that item 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 votes will be taken the second hearing and vote for these items is scheduled for september 22nd 2022 the first item under the section is 8b 1 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a planned area development overlay to modify development standards and a development plan review for a new two-story single-family development consisting of 11 dwelling units on 0.59 acres for tempe 11 located at 408 east roosevelt very south roosevelt street excuse me the applicant is ajt development llc would the applicant like to give a presentation yes sir mr kasich evening mayor council members my name is tom gosicki okay this uh uh this is uh the corner south west corner of fifth street and roosevelt this rendering is taken from say someone standing right in the center of the corner looking both north and west i'd like to mention that this is not my first development at tempe this is 600 west 5th street i've done 1214 west 5th street 1300 west 5th street also 1301 west 4th street this is standing on the north end of the property on roosevelt looking south and again west it's the corner of the property i'd like to know right here that the the front porch area there all the projects i've done if any of you have driven down to priest have front porches in them and i found in all the projects people really use these front porches it adds to a little community you know people say hello people see people on the front porches here's our site plan we've divided it up into three buildings we're entering off a roosevelt i like dividing up the project not creating a straight two rows of buildings i find it more attractive we're also doing two stories we made choices on the last two projects not to do a three-story we find that sometimes it's overpowering on a small street like fifth street or any of the other streets in the neighborhood i see a lot of buildings here i've been doing this in tempe now 14 15 years so we have two car garage parking for everyone we have four guest parking off off the alley we also you can see here inside on the side of the garage i offset the garage doors i've talked to the refuse people we're going to do private individual cans on this that people take out to the streets there's an area inside the garage the four foot side of the garage where the two recycling cans and the trash cans will be placed here's our location here i i happen to really like this area of tempe i think it's pretty exciting vibrant area especially with all every time there's new stuff going on you know it's pretty great here's a large shot of the corner right here these are just different shots of the street but i'm guessing everyone's familiar with the street right there if anyone has any questions please ask here some some straight on elevations of the building in the planning review those dark boxes down below are the front porches they wanted them to remove from the drawing so there could be a clear visual of the unit this is the three unit building on the north side of the property these are the side elevations of building a the three unit building the building be the two unit building in the back of the property these garages will enter from the alley side elevations of building b i personally think our buildings are pretty interesting a lot of movement and a lot of changes in color this is the roosevelt i mean straight on 5th street side elevations i like landscaping again if anybody's been by the project you see a lot of landscaping in there i really like a lot of landscape i pick out all my trees and stuff for unit sizes floor plans how many bedrooms per unit three bedrooms three bedrooms one on the down three bedrooms three baths one on the downstairs floor one on the uh two on the upstairs floor in the upstairs floor where the uh can i go backwards oh where the window towers is up in the living room it's a copalop and the living room uh takes living off 14 feet and creates extra light without the sun coming directly into the units people really enjoy that particularly i'm sorry so so rent or for sale rent or for sell for sale this is a subdivision we're requesting a plot map which will be going on yeah and then the floor plans come into play right here i can only say that you know people like living in my projects people buy my projects they find them attractive and very livable landscaping you can see all the trees and stuff i mean i i do enjoy my landscaping um this is our grading and drainage plan you know and i just i'm not sure how much detail you guys want me to go into or use at the time well i see a couple of folks have questions uh councilmember george okay you're good well i'll go after her let me do uh councilman garland councilmember chin i'm just gonna say that i i like that this is owner that this is an owner not a rental um i think that's a great thing for us to have in the community um i appreciate that it's a two story and not a three i do like the idea because i think that that's more welcoming to the community you've got houses that are around you so i think having a two story back there is not as bad as going three or four or something like that so i appreciate that i like the drawings and the renderings um uh and i like the patios i i 100 believe that you have a patio in the front yard and you're out there people are going to come out there and join you i have one in my front yard people walk by we share coffee wine in the evening i guess um but i just i'd like that welcoming feeling and i like that you added that too to the project so i think it looks great thank you councillor garland councilmember chen thank you for coming tonight i i love front patios and porches also i think they look very nice i'd like to ask you to look at your landscaping and and recognize that we're in a drought condition just to be mindful i'm not asking for any changes right now but just to be mindful of the types of trees and the landscape that you plant that we try to conserve as much as possible absolutely absolutely most of the smaller plants are in the drought tolerant category even lantana you know the flowers go nice on them but they're in a uh ruela another drought-tolerant plant yet it's green and it has flowers on it and so forth the trees are governed a little bit to some degree by uh the city of tempe and they recommend certain trees for us to put in and what i'm putting in is recommended by the city thank you councilmember chin councilmember navarro oh mayor thank you and appreciate it and thank you uh these are great uh i i think i've seen a few of your projects um you're just it's very mindful of the neighborhood how you creating what you're creating there two-story is great i'm not opposed to three every now and then but you know where you're at and how you're doing it is is perfect um when it comes to landscape my biggest thing is how we're matching the streetscape how we're integrating with the other looks um and what the city is doing uh types of trees i don't say it's the type of tree that the city is implementing within the right-of-ways but i know fifth street has this very treescape uh you know arena going up and down and just being able to semi-match the vibrance of what this street is doing i think it's strategically important as we are transforming you know potentially that that street and other streets off that street maybe single home home residential or a multi you know condo unit type of thing i think you know just making that connection um i think just really does uh good for the whole entire neighborhood yes i i agree with you i have contact you have two people in tempe one does the street maintenance work and another one is in fact a tree uh tree person and i'm in contact with both of them and we'll discuss further because i have concerns about a couple of things but that'll get taken care of with them excellent thank you uh anyone else on the phone have any comments or questions mr mayor i did had a question but council member lebron took my he just took my question right away from me i was going to ask about the trees and the landscaping to involve in it so he just kind of stole my thunder thank you councilmember navarro if if if it's any consolation councilmember hodge great minds think alike so you're good there we go thank you sir thank you all right um i don't have any immediate uh comments or questions um anything else specifically no if you guys are good i'm good all right sounds good excellent thank you so much appreciate the presentation thank you uh is there anyone else in the audience wishing to address the city council on this item speakers have up to three minutes to address the council i'll get my attention please okay seeing that i'll close the public hearing uh counsel any additional comments or discussion all right seeing none just want to reiterate that the second and final public hearing of this item is scheduled for september 22nd 2022 the next item under the section is 8b2 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a zoning map amendment from r2h multi-family residential district with a with a historic overlay property designation and removal of a portion of the historic overlay property designation for the new from the new rear lot within approximately .08 acres for the butler house property located at 1220 south mill avenue council would you like to hear a presentation from staff on this item i just have one quick thing that i would love is there someone from staff who could talk about this ryan i don't even see you down there wow it's like good to see you ryan levake our deputy community um development director uh ryan just a question so i know there's been a lot of conversation about this in our community and just i just want to kind of explain what the council moving forward with this item actually does when it comes to the preservation of a historic home and frankly what would happen if the council didn't choose to take this action sure thank you mayor so the utmost um goal and effort of this request specifically was for preservation of the historic butler gray house that is designated on the local tempe listing back in november last year we had received a demolition permit request to demolish the property and build a larger property development um that request because it's historically designated was taken to the stock preservation commission and was denied by this historic preservation commission that gave us the opportunity to create a 180-day stay of demolition and to negotiate alternatives from demolition for the property site we met with historic preservation staff we met with the property owner on a number of occasions discuss their reasonings and concerns for demolishing the property were able to discuss the significance of the property and then looking into alternatives for the site there was many different alternatives there was discussed there was discussions about preserving the property property possibly selling the property conservation easements possibly an accessory dwelling off the back of the property as an alternative to to redevelopment ultimately we landed on being able to preserve the home by one splitting the property in half and developing a facade conservation easement on the property the historic home that would basically then allow the the the owner of the property or a future owner to build a future um home off the back of the alley so a lot of properties in the maple ash neighborhood have accessory dwellings that have either rear yard access or a second unit on the property because the property is zoned multi-family but this preservation is now we have a five-year facade conservation easement that preserves the home in its current state and current condition and there's already a subdivision plot for the property this request before you tonight is to remove the historic designation over the vacant portion of the site but we are still keeping the historic designation over the butler greyhouse property wonderful thank you ryan i appreciate that thank you uh anyone else from the actu actually we just quickly checked with the audience is there anyone in the audience wishing to address the city council on this item okay seeing none i will close the public hearing cancel any comments or discussion all right hearing none just want to reiterate second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for september 22nd 2022.

the next item under the section is 8b3 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a zoning map amendment from gid to mu4 a planned area development overlay to establish development standards a public hearing to adopt a resolution authorizing a general plan density map amendment from medium to high density to high density urban core and approve a development plan review for a new six-story mixed-use development consisting of 207 dwelling units and commercial area for the dewitt at north miller road located at 907 north miller road the applicant is heal mantle and affiliates uh with the applicant like to make a presentation mr hillmail up to the council happy to make one if you'd like happy to not uh if you prefer not i'd love to at least see one this evening since it's the uh first uh first hearing so just the public has an opportunity to see the project absolutely it's still early in the evening and uh so we've got plenty of time so we sure do having said that in all seriousness so thank you kim for your comments kim has really done a great job at articulating some of the issues so i'll try to go quickly today of course happy to spend more time if you'd like you've seen me talk about this area in the past this area was previously known as sort of the county island area this piece has always been in the city but it's on an island sort of of its own this area you probably recognize from the powder coat shop that's been there almost forever although ironically not much powder coating has gone on the outside of it and and so this building has seen its uh it's probably best days long long since a lot of storage happens on site as the neighborhood has really taken the county island in and tried to transform things and miller road comes back into parts of tempe that the city has spent lots of time and money along the lake and transforming and we'd like to continue this transformation in fact one of the things the council spoke of earlier was mr navarro i think it was you who brought up the desire for tempe to continue to have street trees uh early in the process you indicated that was something that was important to you and so we've matched the street trees along with what's happened across the street on a project that's well underway the banyan project you can see this project will be similar in scale to what's under construction across the street the the homes that are being built across the street are homes that were in fact in the counter county island until this council took action you can see that the industrial nature of what's across the street doesn't fit this area or the indian bend wash that kim and others have spoken of recently i'll go through some of these more quickly knowing that it's been a long evening already this is the building we have proposed i think it's worth noting that kim darlene lane and others have been supportive we have not heard at any of our neighborhood meetings with the planning commission any negative comment and the planning commission supported us 7-0 and i say us i mean the applicant as well as staff we're in complete agreement with staff and the conditions of approval appreciate the work that staff has done to work with us on a pretty tight site to come up with a project that works for everyone and i'm happy to spend significantly more time talking but i don't know that it's helpful at the moment got it thank you mr hillman really appreciate it uh anyone from the council any comments or questions mr hillman mr yes vice mayor adams well i just want to say that i really like the looks of this project um it's it's got some really nice features and uh i just appreciate uh such a a cool project being brought forward in our city so thank you sounds good thank you vice mayor adams councilmember garland i was going to say i think it's i think it's the right thing at the right location this is i mean this was a pretty easy one for me when i was going through the paperwork on it you know i i recognize this area because it volunteered with the keep tempe beautiful likes to pick up things around in that area they've been out there a number of times but i i like what you're going to do because i think it's really going to transform that area and make it more of a place where people are going to want to bike and ride and be a part of that because the community another really strong community will be there so i think it's again it's the right thing at the right location so thank you thank you very much thank you councilman garland any of the council members comments or questions yeah my only comment was going to be mr hillman too i really appreciate uh you know kim being here this evening and you talking about a lot of the uh long-time neighborhood advocates and presidents of the associations up in north tempe being supportive of the project that definitely uh i says a lot about what you're doing in terms of the outreach of the quality of this project and the ability to uh continue to transform the area kind of like what uh what kim talked about earlier uh not just simply transforming the area with other high quality housing uh but also the ability to change some of the demographics to get some of the different kinds of retail and food and beverage options uh that i know residents of north tempe have wanted for quite some time so i do believe this project will absolutely help to continue to do that so i appreciate the presentation and appreciate the outreach you've done to the neighborhood thank you i think that one of the things that makes tempe as strong as it is one of my favorite things about it is residents like kim will take the time to work on a project and and make uh things better to come with forward positive comments uh some communities have people who just complain we have people who care and show up and participate and work to make things better and so i i thank kim and others like you thank you kim excellent thank you mr helmet really appreciate it all right anyone else in the audience wishing to address the council please get my attention all right i will go ahead and close the public hearing counsel any additional comments or discussion hearing none just want to reiterate that the second and final public hearing of this item is scheduled for september 22nd 2022 the next item under this section is ab4 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance amending chapter 29 article 2 of the tempe city code by amending section 29-25 relating to the use of alleys as thoroughfares counsel any comments or questions mayor yes councillor keating thank you mayor we received a council communicator on this issue um i did talk to pd to get some clarification but you know just for the sake of the public if there's a member of the police department that can kind of clarify what exactly this is doing because in the email there was definitely a misconception that we were criminalizing people walking in the alley and we all know that that's not the case so just for like the public record if there's a member of pe that could clarify what this is sounds good thank you councilmember keating is there a member of the police department here who can speak to this item oh no i i i see chief glover coming in he's here almost awesome thank you thank you so much chief lover if you wouldn't mind uh councilman keating just had a question about this item because he said you know talked about a council communicator being received and uh the concern from the resident was about uh criminalizing sort of trespassing in the alley and basically he had he'd spoken to you before and you know you had kind of reassured him that that's not the case but just for the sake of the public if you could talk about exactly what this does just to clear up any misconceptions yeah uh yes uh mayor and council the alleyway ordinance was basically uh amended to basically clear up the language that we had prior so the new ordinance and the amendment is to basically be able to provide a clear direction for us to be able to understand exactly what is um appropriate for the uh for alleyway uh in terms of just the right-of-way for for those that are in the public so essentially the new ordinance would read no person shall use an alleyway within the city as a thoroughfare either as a pedestrian or in a vehicle except authorized emergency vehicles property owners residents and tenants so it doesn't disclose those that are actually residents or community members it would it it would basically exclude those that are that are coming into the alleyways that um that really do not have a right to be there or that are essentially trespassing within that area sounds good thank you chief appreciate it um councilman keating does that answer your question yes thank you very much chief and mayor thank you so much appreciate it anyone else from council have any comments or questions for the chief wonderful thanks so much chief glover appreciate it is there anyone in the audience wishing to address the city council on this item if so please get my attention seeing that i'll close the public hearing we're going to reiterate second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for september 22nd 2022.

the next item under the section is 8b5 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing abandonment of a portion of an irrigation and utility easement lying west of river drive and located in the southeast quarter of section 24 township one north range four east hila and salt river base in meridian maricopa county arizona is there anyone in the audience wishing to speak to address the council on this item seeing none i will close the public hearing counsel any further comments or discussion all right hearing none just want to reiterate second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for september 22nd 2022.

the last element of the section is 8b6 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance abandoning a portion of an existing public utility easement on property located near larkspur lane and palm drive is there anyone in the audience wishing to address the city council on this item seeing that i'll close the public hearing council any comments or discussion hearing none the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for september 22nd 2022 next up we have items for second public hearing and final adoption these items were read and introduced back on august 18th 2022 and votes on these items will be taken this evening first item of the section is eight c one which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance for an amended planned area development overlay and a development plan review for a new five-story multi-family development consisting of 591 dwelling units on 16.8 acres for emerald multi family located at 1607 west commerce drive the applicant is barry riddell llc i see miss riddell coming to the podium here would you like to make a presentation yes mayor members of the council wendy riddell with the law firm barry riddell 6750 east camelback just briefly to give a presentation here it's my pleasure to be here this evening on behalf of davis there we go just uh as a reminder this is part of the emerald center this is an approximately 16.8 acre site at the northwest corner of priest drive and warner drive it's lot 5 of the larger emerald center we are here this evening seeking an amendment to the pad to allow there to be multi-family allowing the density as well as a major development plan review so again to put it in context the proposed multifamily is located on the northern portion of lot five the southern portion of lot five will remain as future commercial development and then here is a little bit of better graphic again showing how the site lays out showing the connectivity we are looking at two wrap apartment buildings with a total of 591 units there is a proposed building height of 80 feet and it does have a full amenity package gives you an idea again we are looking at market rate of the type of amenities that we are talking about you'll note that there is a new addition at the bottom of this list of a dog run for each of the individual buildings i know that was raised at the last council meeting and i wanted to show here that that was something that we took to heart and have been able to include one of the other mentions was about the building color the concern that that white was really very very bright so we took a look at that as well and we'll it'll be a more muted white and to address that concern that the vice mayor or pardon me councilmember keating had at the time gives you another picture and yet one more so with that mr mayor member i'm we respectfully request approval and i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have thank you mr dell really appreciate it once again appreciate the abbreviated presentation and she gave a much more full one uh during the first public areas just wanted to note that for those watching at home councilman garland i just want to say that i i appreciate the fact that you took into consideration what was mentioned at the last meeting and that you have incorporated not only incorporated it but brought it to show us so i just have to say i really that's that's a great way for us to work together to do something great for tempe so thank you thank you councilman hi mayor uh let me let me go i've got three folks on the phone let me go to councilmember keating first given the fact that i know ms riddell uh was mentioning his item from the previous meeting so councilman for keating thank you mayor yes wendy thank you very much i really appreciate you guys working on that i do think it looks better and i think it will be a great addition to that area of the city and we'll be supporting it tonight really appreciate you working with me thank you thank you councilmember keating uh vice mayor adams thank you mr mayor uh wendy i really really appreciate you bringing uh the dog parks into this into this community and we've had such a hard time getting dog parks in south tempe and this is this is a perfect example of really looking outside the box and making this happen um the dog parks one of the reasons i'm so set on dog parks is because people meet their neighbors and apartment buildings sometimes people don't meet their neighbors that well and the dog parks will really bring a sense of community and a sense of home and also get the dogs exercise along with the owner's exercise so it's a win-win on every level and i just really appreciate you incorporating um the my concern about dog parks into your design i also like the trees i like the look of this project i think it's it's very innovative and exactly what what we need and i'm happy that south tempe will at least have an uh area that people that live in that area can can uh run their dogs so thank you for that so much i will be approving i will be um supporting this project moving forward tonight thank you thank you vice mayor adams councilmember hodge okay so vice vice mayor just took my glory again and vice mayor i was the one who asked for the dog parks in there so i'm gonna go back and say that was i that was one of my things because the mayor himself kept saying why you keep asking for dog parks and everything i did so i literally did ask for that in there so i'm taking my glory back and saying yeah i'm excited about the dog parts um i i ask every i ask every time for dog parks uh councilmember hodge i know you do i'm just messing with you but it's i deserve it i just i'm happy that i'm happy that i have another person on council that's supportive of dog parks it's lovely it's lovely wendy um everything you've done thank you so much um that area i i worked in for over 15 years right down the way at the spheres center right there so um i just i think that's going to be a great addition to it so thank you wonderful thank you so much yes councilmember davar yeah a little hurt here what about the cats [Laughter] all right sounds good um no i just want to say you know i mean ms riddell thank you very much i people have already said it that uh you know for working um to kind of alleviate some of the concerns that council members raised during the first public hearing and uh you know i remember when i first talked to you about this project that area had been vacant for so long that i was beginning to believe that that was actually how it was designed to be it was a vacant patch of land and you said no this was originally planned to have some kind of development on it so i'm glad that we're adding uh more housing in this community that is desperately needed one of the things um you know that the arizona department of housing has talked about is that we're you know 270 000 units short of housing when it comes to this entire state and so i do believe that all cities need to do their part to make sure we're bringing housing in both rental and owner occupied which this council is doing so i really appreciate the fact that this project's going to add another 591 units to an area that needs it and to our city and i appreciate you listening to the concern so thank you so much thank you mayor it's um refreshing to have a council that really recognizes and understands that and can cite those numbers off the tip of their tongue so thank you [Laughter] i had to say that they took the dog park thing away from me so i had to say something um okay uh with that said uh is there any other comments or questions from council uh actually before i do that let me just really quickly here uh was there anyone in the audience wishing to address the council on this item it is a public hearing okay i will close the public hearing the motion was made by councilmember navarro and seconded by councilmember garland with that please vote i and that item passes seven to zero thank you so much mr dale appreciate it the next item under the section is hc2 which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance for an amended planned area development overlay and a development plan review for a new 21-story mixed-use development consisting of 352 dwelling units and commercial use on 2.23 acres for lincoln south bank located at 1122 east vista del lago drive the applicant is snowing wilmer llc and i see uh mr nick wood there the front row would you like to give a presentation or i'm good you're good okay all right sounds good i want to also note for people in the audience either here or watching at home that mr wood did give a pretty extensive presentation as well during the first public hearing just for public transparency and we appreciate that um is there anyone in the audience wishing to address the city council on this item if so please get my attention okay seeing that i'll go ahead and close the public hearing counsel any comments or discussion oh i was just going to make a motion to approve um okay so uh we can get comments later let's do a motion by vice mayor adams do i have a second seconded by councilmember navarro now any additional comments was that councilmember hodge yes yes please okay i just want to tell mr woods i heard what he said about not giving me my dog park in there but um i did go by and walk and i know there's a lot it's a beautiful area for dogs to walk along the along the river bank so thank you i i i'm voting yes thank you councilmember hodge anyone else any other comments the one thing i'll say mr wood just once again wanted to know uh really appreciate you doubling that ground floor retail space you know from 2 000 to 4 000 square feet you know one of the things that the council knows that i'm very passionate about i know councilman chin and i have this conversation practically every day uh about the need to turn tempe into really the premier food and beverage destination in the entire valley uh and with all the different residents moving in at the different assets we're adding to the city we want to make sure that all those options reflect the diversity of not only this council but frankly our entire community so we really appreciate you adding that additional retail space because that can help to land a great food and beverage concept or perhaps even a couple which would also continue to activate an incredible asset which we have which is the tempe town lake uh that people will be able to utilize whether they're walking their dog or just enjoying some recreation or now you know potentially in the future uh having a nice lunch or dinner and just sort of looking out onto the uh onto the water in the skyline so just really appreciate you uh listening to the drc's recommendations and doubling that retail space so thank you with that said i'll call the question here please vote all right and that item passes seven to zero the next item of the section is eight c three which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a code text amendment to the zoning and development code consisting of clarifications modifications and additions within the zoning and development code amending various sections within part one part three part four part six and part seven the applicant is the city of tempe anyone in the audience wishing to address the city council on this item i will close the public hearing council when he comments a discussion hearing that is there a motion on item 8c3 moved by councilmember navarro seconded by councilmember garland please vote i and that item passes seven to zero the next item to the section is eight c four which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a code text amendment to the zoning development code pertaining to subdivisions in section 6-101 and 6-3 6-3-307 the applicant is the city of tempe anyone of the audience wishing to address the council on this item seeing that i'll close the public hearing council with comments of discussion been moved by councilmember garland seconded by councilmember chin please vote and that item passes seven to zero the next item of the section is eight c five which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a code text amendment to the tempe city code by repealing chapter 30 subdivisions of the tempe city code and replacing it with the new chapter 30 subdivisions the applicant is the city of tempe anyone in the audience wishing to address the council on this item i'll close the public hearing then counsel any comments of discussion been moved by council member garland and seconded by councilmember hodge please vote i i and that item passes seven to zero the next item into the section is 8c6 which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the abandonment of a portion of waterline easement located in the development south of greentree drive east of interstate 10.

anyone in the audience wishing to address the council on this item seeing that i'll close the public hearing council any comments of discussion been moved by councilmember garland seconded by councilmember chin please vote aye aye and that item passes seven to zero the next item under the section is eight c seven which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the abandonment of a portion of a waterline easement located the development north of curry road and east of college avenue anyone in the audience wish you to address the council on this item seeing that i'll close the public hearing council when he comments a discussion moved by council member garland seconded by councilmember chin please vote hi aye and that item passes seven to zero the next item of the section is eight c eight which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the abandonment of a water line easement located in the development west of scottsdale road and south of sr 202 anything with the audience wishing to address the city council on this item seeing that i'll close the public hearing council any comments or discussion uh it's been moved by councilmember chin and i think seconded by council member hodge please vote and that item passes seven to zero the next item under the section is eight c nine which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the abandonment of a water line easement located in the development south of don carlos avenue and west of smith road anyone in the audience wishing to address the council on this item saying that i'll close the public hearing counsel any comments or discussion if not i'll entertain a motion on item eight c9 said moved by councilmember chin seconded by councilmember garland please vote hi and that uh vice mayor adams hi okay and that item passes seven to zero the next item into the section is eight c ten which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the granting of an irrigation easement to salt river project agricultural improvement and power district over certain city-owned land located on the north side of apache boulevard between smith road and river drive and authorizing the mayor or his designated execute an easement agreement and related documents anyone of the audience wishing to address the council on this item i'll close the public hearing council with any comments or discussion so move moved by councilmember hodge of a second seconded by councilmember navarro please vote i and that item passes seven to zero and that ends that next up we have item number nine current events council announcements and future agenda items i'll call upon the council members for their comments in alphabetical order which means i'm starting with vice mayor adams thank you mr mayor i appreciate that and i'm just going to do my announcements fixing my camera here as uh most of you already know about a week and a half ago i was bucked off my horse as most of you already know i suffered six broken ribs and a punctured lung and a concussion this has been the most painful injury i have ever suffered what many of you don't know is that i was incredibly lucky i was wearing a helmet and truly believe that saved my life i don't remember the accident because i suffered from a concussion but what i've been told by my friends who were in the arena with me i bounced several times after being bucked off my horse with my head that means my head bounced also several times on the hard arena floor without a helmet i can only imagine the damage that would be done to have would have been done to my head so if some good can come out of all this i sincerely hope that more horse lovers and bike lovers will wear helmets and look at my experience and the decision to start wearing a helmet when they ride a horse or ride a bike heads don't bounce so wear a helmet protect your head and brain from severe injury wear a helmet horses are dangerous and so can bicyclists especially with the way some folks drive around tempe so please wear your helmet i'd like to thank my fellow council members tempe residents family and friends who've reached out to me sent me an enormous amount of flowers and wrote so many get well cards i could not have gotten through the last week and a half with a smile without all your support thoughtful wishes and love so thank you from the bottom of my heart that ends my announcements mr mayor thank you vice mayor adams and definitely i think i could speak to the entire council by saying we are really glad you're okay and uh we're wearing a helmet um you know but obviously we know it's sort of a long road recovery but we just want to say you know we're really glad you're doing well and that you're recovering at home and uh and still very much able to participate in all of these council meetings and we miss you and we look forward to having you back at the council chambers with us whenever you're ready anyone else from council in the comments all right let me next go to councilmember chin thank you mayor last week tempe hosted representative greg stanton the assistant secretary of the army for civil works michael connor at the kyrene reclamation facility congressman stanton's role in the house committee on transportation and infrastructure has been instrumental in designating that facility as a water resources development act project which opens the door for future funding to bring that facility back online i'd like to on behalf of the city of tempe residents marin council i'd like to thank the congressman for his commitment to arizona in a very crucial time for water resources thank you so much councilmember chin really appreciate it one last short announcement but a very important one and timely for many of our families students who are settling back into any of our local high schools i want to remind them that you have great resources available through the college connect program the college connect lab is based at the tempe public library additionally in addition to your high school counseling resources we have college connect advisors available at each of the high schools and the fall labs begin soon and the website on the slide is the best source of information for times and dates thank you thank you so much appreciate it next up councilmember garland all right thank you very much um i want to announce that next thursday is my next backstage pass that's going to be the tempe history museum it is going to be a lot of fun you get to go to the back rooms and see some of the really cool things that are not on display we're going to have storytellers there you're going to learn a lot about the city of tempe see some maps and pictures and things like that it'll be really fun um if you're interested please um rsvp if you can we right now are over 50 people that have rsp repeats so it's going to be a big event but it'll be an awful lot of fun and we want to be able to share that with you so that's that event the next thing i want to mention i think it's we have a slide for this no okay so um joel and i attended the national league of cities um summer leadership board um meeting and it was an awful lot of fun we got to meet with our constituency groups and um one of the things i'm really proud of that i wanted to mention is that um with joel sitting as chair of the crime prevention federal advocacy group thank you um with joel being chair he was able to vote on a booklet that i would took part in writing and with some other national league of cities on people from our indigenous municipal officials group and it's called the road map to repair it's a guide to how cities can acknowledge and address the history of harm to indigenous peoples rebuild trust and repair relationships they're going to do a big kickoff for this with the national league of cities it's going to happen around indigenous people's day so you'll be hearing a little bit more about that but it was with the leadership from national league cities and the board members that approved this joel was one of them that approved not only this roadmap to repair but also including now the indigenous municipal as officials as an official group of the national league of cities so we've been trying to do that for two years and we are now an official group so thank you joel you're welcome thank you you're so grateful thank you so much all right uh next up oh uh councilmember hodge [Music] thank you i i don't think i have a slide do i have a slide up uh for the kickoff fundraiser for yes for tempe union you sure do okay well i first want to say thank you mayor mayor woods i just want to announce that on tuesday september 13th from 6 to 9.

tempe union will be doing their first kickoff fundraiser to raise awareness and money for our three initiative that's on the board we would love for you to come out and enjoy it it's at it's at um four peaks tasting room um it's 25 to get in and that all goes towards uh helping get the cause out in the movement for their fundraiser and also if you would like to get educated on what the three uh initiatives are that we're putting on the ballot and any other information this is a great time to come out thank you so much so please stop by on tuesday and my second piece that i don't have a slide for is i want to also remind everybody that my breakfast with birdetta is on saturday um and i don't want to say the wrong time i think it starts at nine o'clock nine to ten thirty if i'm wrong i apologize because i don't have to slide right here with me um and um it's at the tempe historical museum um and please join me there's i'm i'm like councilman garland i have a high turnout i have about 70 people who have rsvp and we would love to have it even more i want everybody this is my initial kickoff on it and i want everybody to come out and meet me and greet me and have a great time and eat some breakfast with verdetta and it's also my birthday month so we're gonna do my birthday cake and everything at the same time so enjoy my birthday with me thank you thank you so much councilmember hodge next up councilmember keating thank you mayor i just wanted to wish both of my colleagues a full and speedy recovery glad you both are doing all right and looking forward to seeing you in chambers again soon thank you councilmember keating uh thank you so much thanks councilmember keating okay thank you next up councilmember navarro thank you mayor appreciate it uh first i want to thank councilman garland uh at the nlc committee uh her efforts and in getting indigenous people in the committee going it really says a lot about uh her group and nlc and what they've been doing um but i have to give kudos to her because she really pushed the issue um very hard to get this through the committee and and with her efforts uh it did pass and it was it was just great cause um on the other end of nlc that we're at in atlanta i have to tell you is it was a great meeting uh being a chair for the public safety crime prevention uh advocacy committee uh we did a number of things um using uh we're talking about law enforcement talking about uh public safety talking about our first responders uh fire uh medical um teams and and just issues that are out there in the community so it's a great great opportunity for us to talk with the community to leverage law enforcement technologies uh to utilizing um different technologies to help law enforcement to um help reduce uh uh engagements that lead to lethal outcomes and i think that we had great presentations on that we also talked about things to improve our transparency data collection how do we gain trust within our community how do we get our community back on board to understand what our police officers what our fire departments are dealing with what they're what they're trying to do to help protect not only the members of the community but but themselves and and trying to do things in the in the right and most transparent way in addition to that we we talked about things like mental health and um finding solutions to help curtail that i have to say what we do in tempe when we do when we have these open discussions is top notch rosa and her team and and and the data collection uh our hope team our care7 uh the partnership with fire and pd utilizing those resources um fire or pd's uh opioid program working with asu having uh people that fall off or or get into a position where they take oh have an overdose the follow-up uh at the hospital with a counselor to make sure those the the people that that went through that process are getting the right help as needed i mean these were great examples of what we're discussing um with our groups and they're great it was great information sharing with with our partners across the nation as other departments are struggling with various things of of training and what new is out there here in our discussion and and being able to present what we're offering was great uh mesa had it you know i know we're doing it in tempe and and phoenix too but having a mental health uh um uh counselor at the 9-1-1 dispatch to be able to unload those calls onto her and to get the most appropriate resources out there besides fire and pd to go out there those are just examples that we're sharing in terms of communication how we're trying to better our system in addition to advocate and also to get support for funding by the federal government to support those initiatives when it comes to training with our police officers and how to reduce um you know a violent uh outcome but maybe a more appropriate outcome so i have to say it is tremendous in addition to that we had a joint session with uh councilman garland's committee with the human development committee and talking with uh um the cdc and uh samhsa on mental health and and and and what is out there and what they're offering and the guidelines that they're providing for us and the information that they're giving us to utilize um to show our residents you know on on their dashboards you know the outcomes of of mental health and what the communities are going through and then the opportunities of funding uh having the ability to utilize those resources for funding of various resources that we're trying to achieve within our community so at the end of the day it was a really a long robust conversation on these issues and there's so much more that this committee is so involved in which to be honest with you everybody within the with that throughout the nation is dealing with some real struggles especially with staffing um and trying to find solutions with that so appreciate the uh the information that was shared i enjoyed uh chairing this committee and and uh we're going to be out there in another conference here in november and should be some good stuff so thank you [Music] thank you very much councilman bravaro appreciate it uh my comments were really uh quick just wanted to once again congratulate uh craig hayden on his promotion to the the director of community services i wanted to thank once again mark wittenberg for his 30 years of service here to the city we really appreciate it and we're we're sorry to see you go but as andrew said i mean that you know your loss will be rally's gain but we're just sorry to see you go and just want to appreciate your three decades of service and once again thank you uh to chief reece again and congratulations on the accreditation uh just you know continued affirmation of the great work that tempe fire medical rescue does each and every day so thank you with that said i'd never attend public appearances if is there anyone in the audience who'd like to address the council would have so please come forward state your name and city of residence for the record none i just want to remind everyone that the next regular city council meeting is scheduled for september 22nd 2022 and with that we are adjourned have a great night and a great weekend everyone you