Mesa Council Approves All Agenda Items Unanimously Amid Debate Over Police Data Partnerships, Municipal Fee Hikes, and Foreclosure-Property Nuisance

Welcome to the Mesa City Council meeting for June 1st, 2026. All of our council members are present. We'll begin the meeting with an invocation by Reverend Tony Garcia from the First Christian Church, and following her prayer, we'll be doing the Pledge of Allegiance. So, would you please stand? Let us pray. God of wisdom and grace, thank you for the gift of this city we call home and for the people who make Mesa such a special place.

Thank you for our neighborhoods, schools, businesses, parks, churches, and community organizations. Thank you for the many people who quietly serve others every day and help this city thrive. Tonight, we lift up Mayor Freeman, the members of the City Council, city staff, and all who serve the people of Mesa. Give them wisdom for the decisions before them. Remind them that they represent people who are counting on them.

Help them listen well, even when they disagree, and keep the well-being of our community at the center of all their work. We also pray for the people of Mesa. Be with those who are struggling. Be with families facing difficult decisions, neighbors who feel alone, and those working hard to build a better future for themselves and their loved ones. As this meeting begins, guide the conversations and the decisions that will be made here.

May this be a place where people work together to make our city stronger, safer, and more connected. Thank you for this community and for the opportunity to work together for its amazing future. In your mighty name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Reverend. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic [groaning] for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with and justice for all. Thank you.

Uh tonight we're going to begin with item one is the appointment of Jacob Brown as our newest city magistrate. And before the congratulations and swearing in, I'm going to ask for a motion to appoint Mr. Brown as the city magistrate. Magistrate, is there a motion to that effect? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Please cast your vote. Thank you. Council votes unanimously. Congratulations, Judge Brown.

If you and Judge Umbley will come forward for the swearing in, and we'll do that up here in front. All right, Mr. Brown, please raise your right hand and repeat after me.

I, state your name, I, Jacob Brown, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution and laws of the state of Arizona, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and allegiance to the same and defend them against all enemies, and defend them against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that I will faithfully and impartially and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office of city magistrate, of the city of Mesa, Arizona, according to the best of my ability, so help me God.

Congratulations. [applause] Okay, Council, let's go down for a photo with our new judge and our chief magistrate. And after which uh Judge Brown, you you'll say a few words. Mr. Butler, do you want to be in? Mr. Sun? We'll turn the mic to you. No funny stuff, Scott. Well, thank you, Judge Brown. You have some words you'd like to share with us? Yes, thank you, Mayor Council. And And thank you for the trust that all of you have have placed in me in in allowing me to serve the citizens of Mesa.

Um I I'm I'm standing here humbled by the opportunity to continue to serve. And And what I'm committing to do is to follow the code that applies to all judges in the state of Arizona that a judge shall act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the independence, integrity, and impartiality of the judiciary.

How we handle specifically the primary purpose of the municipal court in Arizona is is the criminal justice system along with protecting those that are most vulnerable in our in our city. And how we handle those duties says so much about who we are as a society. The first duty of society is justice, as Alexander Hamilton said. And that is what I've done for the last 13 years as a prosecutor. It's what I will continue to do as a judge here in the city of Mesa.

I'm excited for this opportunity and I commit to do my best as I continue. Thank you. Thank you, Judge Brown. Congratulations on this professional achievement in your life. And we welcome you to the city of Mesa, your hometown. Great. You bet. Okay, before we start the consent agenda, Ms. Mosley, could you say the names of the three people have been selected to speak for item citizen present? Yes, Mayor.

So, we have randomly selected Crystal Price, Noah James Markham, and Jim Bannon to speak on item 9A when we get to that point of the agenda. Okay, thank you. Who was the third? Jim Bannon. All right, that with Mr. Christopher, if you'll come forward, there's 1 2 3 4 5 six items off the consent agenda. Do you have those? Yes. Good evening, Mayor and council members. These are the items on the consent agenda.

All items listed with an asterisk will be considered as a group of the city council and will be enacted with one motion. There'll be no separate discussion unless a council member or citizen requests, in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered as a separate item. Item three, approval minutes of previous meetings as written. Item 4A has been removed from the consent agenda.

Item 5A approving three-year term contract with two-year renewal options for private security guard services for various city facilities. Item 5B approving three-year term contract with two-year renewal options for on-site vehicle glass services for the fleet services department. Item 5C approving 10-month use of a cooperative term contract with four one-year renewal options for the purchase of bus shelter cleaning services for the transit services department.

Item 5D approving contract for North Higley Lift Station and Thomas Road Sewer Project guaranteed maximum price number one of one. Item 6A approving resolution to enter an amendment to an intergovernmental agreement with the Flood Control District of Maricopa County for design and construction of drainage improvements. This project is funded by local streets urban transportation funds. Item 6B has been removed from the consent agenda.

Item 6C approving resolution entering into an intergovernmental agreement with the city of Apache Junction for cooperative law enforcement training. Item 6D approving resolution an intergovernmental agreement with the city of Phoenix, Maricopa County for distribution of federal grant funds for Arizona State University to provide technical and training assistance in criminal analysis within Police Department Planning and Research Division.

Item 6E approving resolution modifying fees and charges for the Community Services, Business Services, Fire and Medical and Police Departments. Item 6F has been removed from the consent agenda. Item 6G approving resolution modifying and adding new fees and charges to the Business Services Department. Item 6H approving resolution adding new fees and charges for the City Clerk. Item 6I has been removed from the consent agenda.

Item 6J approving resolution modifying and adding new fees and charges for the Development Services Department. Item 6K approving resolution modifying fees and charges for the Municipal Court. Item 6L approving resolution modifying fees and charges for the Office of Urban Transformation. Item 6M approving resolution modifying fees and charges for the Transportation Department.

Item 6N approving resolution designating the general election date as November 3rd, 2026 and the purposes of the general election including submitting to the voters two bond questions and two Mesa City Charter amendments. Item 6 O has been removed from the consent agenda. Item 6 P, approving resolution adopting a pension funding policy and accepting the employer's share of assets and liabilities under the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System as required by state statute.

Item 6 Q, approving resolution designating the Chief Financial Officer to submit the city's 2026-2027 fiscal year expenditure limitation report to the Arizona Auditor General as required by state statute. Item 7 A, approving ordinance repealing the existing personnel rules applicable to City of Mesa employees and adopting new personnel rules. Item 7 B, approving ordinance for amendments to Mesa City Charter Section 211 relating to ordinances to conform with state law modernization efforts.

This is subject to approval by qualified electors of the City of Mesa. Item 7 C, approving ordinance for amendments to Mesa City Charter Section 209-A relating to council meeting procedures to conform with state law. This is subject to approval by qualified electors of the City of Mesa. Item 7 B, or excuse me, Item 7 D has been removed from the consent agenda. Item 7 E, approving ordinance for zoning case 25-635 known as Ascension located at the northeast corner of Brown Road and 32nd Street.

This is for a rezone with planned area development overlay to allow for a 46 lot single residence development. Mayor and council members, these are the items on the consent agenda. Thank you, Mr. Christopher. Mr. Smith, did we miss anything? Okay. Ms. Mosley. I have no other requests for consent agenda items. Okay. Council, then we'll go ahead with the consent agenda. Um I I have a a motion. 6 G. I don't have a 6 G. Let me refresh the screen. No, the last um comment was at 5:55 p.m. of 6B.

I don't have a 6G. Business services. Online before you like the online comments don't come in through here. The kiosk is the request to speak, yeah? I guess I can get back to the mayor. I don't have it's not on our online system. I'm not hearing the conversation. I'm sorry. 6G? She said that she submitted a request to speak on 6G. On consent? So we can we can remove 6G and we can have her comment on 6G, okay? Thank you. Okay, Council, other than 6G is off consent along with the others.

Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? Please cast your vote. Thank you, Ms. Duff. Thank you, Ms. Go forward. Motion passes unanimously. Great. Thank you. All right. Mr. Smith is okay. Can I listen to all the speakers that have taken agenda items off and then we'll vote on the encompassing all seven of these. Okay. Thank you. All right. First, we have item 4A off consent agenda. Noah James Markham has wished to speak on this item. Noah, if you'd come forward.

That's the China City Super Buffet. I hope you like Chinese food. [laughter] Aloha Mayor and to the rest of the City Council. Yes, um, I really saw this on the agenda and I really think we need this as a um a Chinese American um because they really represent America too and um I really like seeing more Chinese um stuff here. So, thank you so much. Mahalo. Thanks. Thank you, Noah. This is to approve a liquor license. They do serve lunch and dinner there so you can go anytime you like.

Okay, with that uh item 6B, I have a Reggie Brown followed by a Jeff Netmyer Net- Netmyer. Uh so, Reggie, you're up. You have 3 minutes, please. Thank you. Reggie Brown, District 4, an engineer risk analyst. I'm speaking directly to item 6B regarding the police department's ASU crime analysis amendment. This amendment alters the analytical data infrastructure of the Mesa Police Department.

Every dollar and resource allocated to this data data sharing system represents a choice in how this city tracks public safety telemetry. Currently, our crime analysis frameworks mask a severe resource misallocation prioritizing specialized analytical parameters while failing to allocate sufficient tactical data integrated to resolve and prevent physical, human, sexual assault, and acute violent crime within municipal borders.

For instance, uh we may think sex crimes might include incest, statutory rape, and and uh other non-violent, non-pedal crimes. They are sex crimes, but they're not considered violent crimes. The public statement issued by the city of Mesa is hiding information. Specifically, 287G fiscal obfuscation.

In June 8th, 2020, a MOA completely altered our operational liabilities eliminating contract expiration dates to avoid public votes, stripping out requirements to pursue local charges, change charges to completion, and forcing a mandatory local 48-hour detention hold that shifts housing costs directly out to the municipal budget. Since 2014, we spent $12 million MSO to detain Where is this program that infrastructure directly kills local economic development?

Stanford Institute research and independent fiscal audits confirm that 287G agreements generate widespread workforce disruption. After 70% staffing shortages for local commercial employers, 90% delay in construction as seen in Pinal County, and a contraction of local gross product. Taxpayers are finding an agency data framework that intentionally operates hidden data silos and maintains a deeply unpopular federal enforcement framework that repels overseas investment. Yes, sir.

You need to be talking about the crime analysis. You're talking about a totally different budgetary [clears throat] item. amendment modifies data analysis infrastructure Mr. Smith, can you weigh in? within the Mesa Police Department. Pointing out that our current police databases are actively suppressing fiscal telemetry and ignoring public record requests goes directly to the operational integrity of the tracking system. We are voting to amend. I am an SME in this.

So, I ask for 174 days since my formal municipal public records request in December 2025, I've received slow rolling by the administration and suppression of telemetry. Clean database silos. Publish fiscal audit trail before approving intergovernmental analytical amendments. Thank you. Thank you, Reggie. We have a Jeff Nedmire. Jeff, are you Pardon? Joe. I have a Jeff here. You're Joe? Yeah. Okay, Joe. Sorry about that. No, you're good.

Um yeah, so my questions are uh I understand the concept of having, you know, increasing our public safety and using tools to better help our law enforcement to um effectively use our resources, uh implement them and so that uh we can be a little bit more efficient and not wasting money. Um one of my questions would be is that with the integration of all these different cameras with over I believe there's 5,000 public school cameras that are going to be implemented into this program potentially.

How do you protect the data and protect minors from misuse of this information or misuse of this data? One of the big issues that's kind of going on right now is Flock and everything with their cameras and how their data systems are not very secure. So, how do you guys for secure the data that it's not being misused and how do you protect the minors from being viewed and watched and everything of that nature.

Not if they're committing crimes, I understand that, but you know, there's a big blanket statement and people can abuse happens within those big blanket statements. And so, what I would ask is that the city manager prepare present a full public report at the next council meeting. Mayor, I don't see how this is connected. connected either. This this the speaker hasn't said one thing in relationship to this agenda item yet that I can see.

You guys So, Joe, you need to talk about the agenda item, which is the crime analysis that our police department is doing. Okay, well, this is going to be a part of it. So, how are you going to secure ASU from implementing or securing the data? Is it a portal system that they're going to be logging into that they have credentials?

Also, have you looked at possibly hiring actual crime professional analysts to view it in-house instead of outsourcing it to ASU where you just have two graduate students being supervised by a professor. So, you know, it seems like a pretty nice paid internship for these graduate students. Why aren't we getting it for free? They should be paying us or something for this information. Thank you. You know.

So, I just want to know how you guys are going to protect this information, but and also how are you going to uh look at the aspects of the in-house cost versus the outsourcing and contracting with them to with ASU. Thank you. So, Joe, to your answer your question, we'll have our police chief up and and he can answer some of your questions and then we have some analysis that we could do some offline, too, once we uh end our council meeting, we can talk to you as well. Okay.

So, we had an in-depth discussion downstairs in our study session. coming in from work, so I didn't make it. Couldn't make it, so yeah. Chief Butler, would you like to come forward and just share anything about or Chief Nesbit or whomever, both of you. You can take a seat, Joe. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. So, the question typically about crime analysis, why we're using ASU and not uh employees or other professional staff. Sure, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of council.

I appreciate the opportunity to come and talk about that. We do have full-time employees. I believe it's about 13 full-time employees that work entirely across the city, so each one of our patrol stations has an employee. Um the relationship with Arizona State University is in addition to that. So, the analysts that come, they're not at Arizona State University, they actually come and work in our buildings. They go through a comprehensive background investigation as well.

We call it a level four clearance. So, they are vetted by the state, by state law, state statute in order to come and access the data while in our buildings to analyze crime that is occurring there and help us with our targeted mission area. Um in addition to that, I mean, it is one of the and we spoke about this downstairs, it is one of the reasons that we are the safest major city of our population side and size in the entire country.

Every day when crimes occur, we are analyzing the areas where the crimes are occurring and we're deploying resources. Patrol officers each day get credit for being in the mission area where we know crimes have occurred or or likely to occur to prevent those crimes prior to them occurring in the future. One of the questions was how do we protect data, you know, crime data from the analysis? Uh so, the crime data is our data. It's the the police department's data.

Um when those contract employees, that's kind of how we can we can envision them, come and work with us, they have all the proper clearances the same as every other city of Mesa Police Department employee. So, it is our data. Now, if we're lucky at the end of it, they'll have a really cool project that we assign them to and they can go back to Arizona State University and present on what they learn as a capstone project or something along those lines as they're graduating from their program.

And even more likely to happen is we get an opportunity to see these graduate students and we have hired them on to full-time staff when we have openings as well. So, it's a nice pipeline for us to be able to vet out future employees and to give them opportunities to be full-time employees of the Police Department. Good. Thank you, Chief. Any questions, Council? Okay. Thank you. All right. We'll move over to item 6F, uh Mary may be in all and 6G, Mary.

[clears throat] Good evening, Mayor and Council members. Um first, I'm going to talk about just the justification that um you want to you want to give for raising fees and taxes and then I'm going to do an actual thing on the arts and crafts. So, one of the parts This is G. Hold on. You're fine. The time's just running. That's all. You're Okay, I'll go fast.

Okay, first of all, I do applaud you for wanting to lower the secondary property tax by 1% and for making the 2% budget cuts in each city department. But, I have to question in light of these department cuts, why are you now looking to raise a lot of rates and fees related to certain departments?

The push now in the Arizona legislature is to cap fee raises, increases in rates to what they currently are now in order to make it easier for hard-working Arizonans to deal with the high cost of living, which I'm sure is also your concern for Mesa residents. Um Where's my time? I don't even know what time it is. Oh. You're fine. Um One of the reasons described for budget shortfalls, falls, and for the necessity of raising fees, taxes, and rates was due to decreased revenue.

Cities complain this was because of the flat tax law passed and the elimination of rental taxes leading to a higher deficit problem. However, the other side of that coin was that when Governor Ducey signed the flat tax law, the Arizona legislature increased the general fund distribution that cities now get from urban revenue sharing from 15% to 18% and also, lest we forget, in 2019, municipalities were able to start receiving online sales taxes, which they never got before this time.

So, again, where's the real justification for raising fees and rates? On this particular agenda item for arts and culture, one part concerns raising admission fees to the IDEA Museum from $10 to $12 and then then to $15 um in 2028 for individuals age one and up. So, a family with two kids would be paying instead of $40 $60. The more kids a family has, it's going to be getting terribly expensive. Apparently, the only exception would be if a person has an EBT card.

Then, it would only cost them $4 a person to get in. That's really nice, but it doesn't seem fair or equitable in light of all the belt-tightening families not on welfare are going through now. This should be a no vote. Thank you for listening. Thank you. You want to stay there for G? I do. Okay. Um okay. So, 6G is concerning the business services department.

One of the One of [clears throat] the parts on this agenda item is adding a $1.50 fee if residents want a paper utility bill mailed to them instead of electronic building billing. It kind of seems like you're nickel and diming residents at this point. We have a lot of older residents who may not have a computer or printer and prefer getting their bills the way they've always gotten them.

On a side note, I thought the smart meters were so much more economical since employees don't have to go around every month reading analog meters. Look, I'm just trying to be an advocate for the little guy. The ones most affected by this nickel-and-diming, the ones who feel they don't have a voice, the ones on fixed incomes and to whom every dollar matters to them. Please keep this in mind before you vote. Thank you for listening. Thank you, Mary. Uh Mr.

Butler, would you anyone maybe want to address um 6F, why we're modifying the fees for arts and culture? If you So Mayor and Council, each year we go through a comprehensive effort that's vetted by council at subcommittee and then ultimately up to to the council where all of our departments evaluate their fees and charges and look at what is the fair and equitable rate depending on the service provided. You can imagine throughout all our different departments that's different.

It could be the price for renting a ramada. It could be as in this case entry into the Idea Museum. So staff had looked at similar facilities and also the increased operating costs of the facility. This is and you can think of this as a partial offset from the users of the facility that are helping offset those costs of operations. And so instead of it being worn by every taxpayer, then this is part of looking at a fee structure that helps offset that.

So users pay their fair share along along the way. So that's what we look at. Of course, we're very cognizant of of what we look at in overall fee structure and that's why we do our due diligence at the staff level of vetting this. That's why it goes through the audit and finance committee for scrutiny each year and then ultimately up to the city council. So we don't raise any fee or charge lightly.

We understand the burden that folks are are under, but depending on the fee is also allowing the user to bear some of that cost than the general taxpayer. So with that Mayor, that that's the overall um philosophy that we use when we when we have to go this route. So is is vetted pretty in depth not only by the respective boards and but through council audit and finance, everything comes through. That's correct, yes sir. Mhm. [clears throat] Okay.

All right, the next item I have is six, I think it's I, uh Reggie Brown. Reggie Brown, District 4, an engineering analyst. I'm speaking directly to item 6I regarding the modification of fees and charges for the code compliance department under the statutory 40 fees of ARS 9499.15. Every fee adjustment in this packet directly funds an admin enforcement system that has failed a basic transparency audit.

I'm glad that people are concerned about dollars and nickels and dimes, important everyone, and that the city is uh saying that they're approving everything as it goes along. I want to know where my money is spent. So, if we are arresting violent criminals and boarding 287G, I want to know how much it costs to house them, how much it costs to send them away, and who we're paying. There's no connection between that.

This is an item It's a statutory fee hearing under ARS 9499.15 considering the cost recovery metrics of our enforcement infrastructure. That's not related to this fee. Modifying and adding new fees and charges I'm going to ask you to stand down if you do not stay on this item, okay? I am, sir. This is to clarify to stand down if you do not address this one budget item. You're not talking about the other subjects, this one item. Sure. Fees and charges. This This involves code compliance.

So, uh Mayor, if the speaker can't um stay on that, we would ask him to sit down or Channel 11 can cut the um microphone. But what is code compliance except for complying to what we do operationally? Code compliance is in our community services division. Correct. That's it. Correct. There are uh engagement efforts that our code compliance department oversees, none of which deal with the subjects that you're talking about right now. Those are law enforcement matters, not code compliance matters.

All right. Um, how about administrative fees for requests for PRs? Those are also not covered by uh this department as well. So, if you have an issue with that, that is not covered by our code compliance department, which these fees and charges that you're speaking to are related to. Okay. Thanks for letting us know. It is difficult to understand everything as it's put out there as they change. And as citizens, we're trying to participate in this process.

So, You can go to you can go to mesaaz.gov and go to code compliance and you can list everything they do. List everything right there as a drop-down menu. Thank you, sir. And we can also all read our terms of agreement for everything we do. That's the difficulty. But I I understand. Appreciate you for educating me, sir. All right. Thank you, Reggie. Uh next we'll hear uh from Mr. Winstanley on item six O. Calling a special bond election to submit qualified electors to the city of Mesa. Mr.

Winstanley. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Staff, thank you for letting me speak. Uh I'm speaking in favor of the transportation bond. We do need the the improvements that are there, but the reason I'm speaking is I also spoke in favor of Mesa Moves in 2020, much to the chagrin of my conservative colleagues when I speak in favor of a bond. Um and so, I will have two requests.

One is Mesa Moves was approved in 2020 for $160 million, but but because I'll say we couldn't get the job done, it held on until inflation overused the money. I think the amount that was estimated for those is now over $300 million. Do is there lessons learned so that we can make sure that these get done in a timely fashion? Uh on the way here, I pulled up to guess what? Railroad and Ellsworth.

My favorite thing for which I got the plans from the city traffic engineer in 2022 cuz I was that's my favorite subject. Here we are. It's still sitting. I understand it's SRP again. But you understand my concern. Number two, I would like to ask and I've already had this discussion with Eric. Um if you would re-review this the uh shared use paths. Um and in particular the Gateway 3 uh shared use path. I don't think that's an appropriate use of our money. It will not get used.

I'm a big bike rider. I won't use it. I can't get to it. Um my suggestion is have a little bit more uh community input. Use the transportation advisory board to review those uh and and make a final determination. I understand this decision is how much and you'll decide the details later. I'm just asking for a little bit more review. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. With Stanley. You can work with your vice mayor, too, about the Gateway shared use path. Yep. Okay. Great. Thank you.

Uh next we'll move over to item 7D. 7D, I have a Reggie Barron and that is the New Life Fellowship Hall on Broadway and South Dobson. Reggie, you have 3 minutes followed by Noah James Markham. I want to apologize for that heat exchange, Mr. Butler. You are the highest what? $350,000? You are very well paid. You must know your stuff. I apologize.

So, for this one, before we get into saying that whether or not this is appropriate, does this cover land use violations on municipal land and Mesa property? Please stop my time if you're answering. What was your question? Does this mayor I don't want to get into it. This is This is not a deposition. He doesn't He can He can make a statement. He doesn't get to depose the city manager or council. cuz before you were talking And his time doesn't need to stop for anything. Okay.

Item 7D is a zoning case. So, it relates to a land use issue. On May 2nd, I witnessed animal abuse, puppies in heat. At the time I reported it, and it was considered a non non-issue by Mesa PD. At that time this has no connection to this land use or the rezoning case. Reggie Yes, sir. But we're talking about Reggie, please stay on the topic. This is a land use is zoning rezone for the New Life Fellowship Hall. That's all it is. We're not talking about pets or anything like that.

Uh under this civil sanctions violations, double this misdemeanors on this land. If it's not supposed to be addressed by law, then This is a land use issue, a zoning case. So, this is not on topic. Let him talk. It's It's okay. Reggie, you need to stay on this topic. I The topic was for the idea of some violations that are repeated. That if it is that you have the power under Jerry's Law to enforce the protection of dogs and animals in heat. Reggie, again, this is a zoning case only.

I understand that narrow interpretation. I appreciate your time. I'll be back. See you. Uh I also want to applaud John Dufford meeting with me, Mesa Commander Carlos Santos, Officer Adela Hernandez for helping. Good people. Thank you. Thank you, Reggie. Okay, Council, I will entertain a a motion to approve items 4A, 6B I'm sorry, we have one more for item 7D. Noah James asked to speak on this. Noah James Markham, please. Noah, are you still here?

You're going to be speaking on the same item, the New Life Fellowship Hall building and zoning case. This isn't my favorite kind of stuff. Hello her mayor and to the rest of the city council. Um, you know, I I love God. Is he isn't he great? Um, as a Democrat, I um, you know, I I love this stuff, but I I I want to make sure that when we are doing this kind of stuff that people are worshipping God, you know, and they are trying to change their lives when they come out of this church.

I've only heard one pastor, not even in this um, this state that has really talked like this pastor and um, it's really awesome to hear that pastor, but I'm yeah, so I really like that we are um, doing this and um, yeah, we really do need more of the Lord here cuz uh [laughter] But yeah, um, please approve it. Thank you so much. My love. Thank you, Noah. Ms. Mosley, have I missed any? That was the last one there. Okay. Thank you. Council will entertain a motion to approve items 4A, 6B, 6 and 7D.

Is there a motion to that effect? Thank you, Mr. Adams. Thank you, Ms. Riedy. Please cast your vote. Passes unanimously. Thank you, everyone. Okay, for our first speaker tonight for our items from citizen present Pardon? Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. Back one. Items 8 and 8B are to conduct a public hearing and take action on the proposed five-year capital improvement program for fiscal years ending 2027 to 2031. I declare the public hearing open. Ms. Mosley, do you have any requests to speak?

I do not have any requests for this item. No one to speak? Nobody speak for the public hearing, no. Okay. Do any council members want to address this item? Okay, hearing none, I declare the public hearing closed. Is there a motion to approve item 5B 8B, the five-year capital improvement program resolution? I see a motion by Ms. Duff. Thank you, Mr. Summers. Please cast your vote. Vote passes unanimously. Um next is item nine, items for citizen present.

We allow three speakers, three minutes to speak. Ms. Mosley, can you remind us who our speakers are? Yes, so the first speaker is Crystal Price, followed by Noah James, followed by Jim Bannon. Okay. Ms. Price. Hi. Good afternoon, or is it this one? Um good evening, council members, mayor. Um I'm happy to be here tonight, speaking on behalf of my neighborhood. I live on the 400 block of North Mountlock, near Stapleton University.

And uh since uh 2024, so 2 years ago, um a house was foreclosed on that is adjacent to where I live, and my neighbor, who's also here with me tonight, Rafe um Portales. And that foreclosed property has uh been occupied illegally since then from uh uh we know of one person, uh we know him by name, and he's subletting, and there's been all kinds of traffic in that in and out of that um home for 2 years.

And we're we're talking not just a little bit of traffic, but like all hours of the day, all kinds of vehicles, and not the same vehicle, different kinds of vehicles. So, we come before you and we plead with you to help us Rich Adams, you're our council member, and especially we we petition we took a petition to all of our neighbors um to join in solidarity in the problem that this has become in our neighborhood. We need support, we need action.

We've sent a demand letter to the mortgage company um asking them to take ownership or uh you know, vacate the premises and um help us out. We suspect that there are um many illegal things happening there. We've had many police incidences, we've had a SWAT team out there. We've had um an illegal substance uh found in the driveway of my neighbor. Um lots of We've even had a seen a child there. Um which was really disturbing.

Uh we suspect prostitution is happening there as we see the um occupants coming in and out. And it is not something that I think any of you would want to live next to. I We don't have a homeowners association. We live in um a part of Mesa that we want to keep a safe and dignified neighborhood.

And so, we come before you tonight to request some help as we um we've we've talked to the code compliance and we um petition you to help us do a full inspection um initiate a formal nuisance abatement proceedings and help us remove the unauthorized occupants who are paying taxes and want to um claim ownership of that property. And um help the uh the owners the mortgage company, um, secure the premises. Thank you so much for all that you do. We appreciate you. nice. Thank you. It's on our radar.

Yeah, Mayor, if um, if she would not mind staying after uh, the session adjourns, staff would love to follow up with her. Um, thanks to Councilmember Adams and some of you on the dais, we're very aware of this property and we can give an update on how we're working through some of the legal, um, ramifications of being able to take action on this property. Okay. Noa? Um, aloha, [clears throat] Mayor, and to the rest of the uh, city council.

I don't usually win the lottery, but I I guess God wanted me to win today cuz [laughter] I didn't win any money, but okay. Um, but okay. So, let's talk about the Flock cameras because I know people are really I I don't understand it because I I think people are afraid of them. I don't know, maybe they're doing something bad and so they don't want people to have the Flock cameras and that's why.

I think that's the purpose why people are getting mad about it and I think we really do need these Flock cameras. It's a good thing to have in Mesa and [clears throat] other parts of this uh, estate, too. Um, also, there you know, there's this thing that it it it's really tiring because um, you know, there's a Palestinian thing going on right now with Israel and I am for both of them. I'm for Israel and Palestine and people have been very aggressive over Israel.

And um, I'm not okay with that and I hopefully you guys are standing up for Israel, too, and not just Palestinians. They both matter.

Also, I I I think that um, ice matters in Mesa and thank you so much, but I I'm thankful for Greg Stanton and what he's doing and telling us about the the the crazy uh, the crazy facilities here the ice facilities here in Mesa that he's been talking about it a lot and I'm so thankful that he's my congressman and it's awesome to see also I would like to talk about one more thing and this is the absurd thing and I know that people are not going to like this either but we may have to talk about this and that's private restrooms and restaurants and grocery stores that we need to please get this done and we need to protect our transgender people even though I don't believe that they should be playing in women's sports and I you know as having six sisters I I believe that a trans person is not a woman it is a man.

And thank you for taking care of the water here and also please we need to make sure we take care of our electricity here too and the power doesn't go out in Mesa. Thank you so much Mahalo. Thank you Noah. Next speaker. Jim Bannon here we go. I am a seldom effusive with my compliments. I watched your earlier session I've listened you are blowing me away with a professionalism. My name is Jim Bannon I'm not going to ask you if you watched the January 6th hearings I did every minute.

I am on Adam Kinzinger's countryfirst.com on three committees and yes I'm the good Bannon and it took me and my friends 9 years to get the other one in prison. Now I can get to the governor I can get to both senators I can get to a lot of powerful people and obviously my friend Mark Lamb is in the news I cannot get to Dan Butler. And he doesn't know that I have long ago set to make him the most famous sheriff in America. So, I am formally asking him to give me an appointment.

Um I was hoping you would be the first police department Miami is. I created #belovingmyfriendisacop and I've not been able to present it to him. Uh Jerry Sheridan, Phoenix police, Globe, Kearney, Superior, they're all blocking or marching to my office and I went to see Mr. Butler and I ended up in shackles. And the judge threw me out of court civic.

So, I again am trying to meet with Dan Butler so I can present a program that'll make him the most famous sheriff in Mesa, the most famous police department in America. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Ms. Mosley, is that all we have for tonight? That ends the citizens Okay, that's all the items for this meeting. Is there a motion to adjourn? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Please cast your vote. I. All right, we're adjourned.