530 PM, a regular scheduled council meeting. They get a roll call, please.
7 Council members are present. Vice Mayor Brumman is participating via Zoom. Vice Mayor, can you hear us?
Well, we're having some audio problems before, but we know that she's hooked up, so she is with us.
Okay, we're going to start with the invocation. Our pastor could not make it tonight, so, Grace, do you know what I'm saying?
Thank you for the time that we can come together as a community.
Please give all of us that are up here with them and guidance as we listen to the people
that we represent.
And thank you for this opportunity.
Thank you.
Good morning.
Please be seated.
We're going to start tonight off with Call of the Public.
Anyone like to come up?
Yes, ma'am?
Sure.
Hello.
Good evening.
My name is Mr. David.
I've been a resident for about two years now.
But just recently I've come to learn of some things that I'd like to bring before you
I'm passing out just informational websites and organizations that are helping J6 political prisoners.
And I would appreciate the ribbons or representing them to be released and the orange is that they still
in Carson, after over 700 and 70 odd days, good evening, residents and city council members
in Mayer.
I am here to speak of the injustices that are ramparts in our country and our state right now.
We have an illegitimate, impersonating governor who needs to be removed from office.
We have political hostages from January 6 that are detained without speedy trial and
do process.
Each defend it needs to be released.
The process Cursion needs to cease until special select committees can expose the truth.
The events of January 6 was merely a protest of a proof permitted event to protect our
public from a fraudulent, uncertified, and non-recounted presidential election of 2020.
I ask you to read over the fires. I have presented to go to the websites, to come to your
own conclusions of the J6 political hostages and the travel states that have a reason since
January 6th, 2021. Please take note that of the 1,000 arrests that have been made since
January 21st of 2021, 10% of those are veterans who are being targeted, abused with
curled and unjust punishments due to their honored status of serving our great country.
I'll take a moment to point out a couple who were there praying with their heads about, in front
of the barricades, and in front of the capital, not behind the barricades, not within the
capital itself.
They were tacked from behind with their belt heads,
with the taunts from an officer.
When Julie's went to defend herself and her husband, she was grabbed and yanked to be brought over the barricade.
Citizen had to go in physically yank her from the grasp of the officer.
Come to two months later.
They were woken.
May I have more time, sir?
that's your time. I'm sorry. Okay. If I can ask you, whether it's you, you can't do that. I'm sorry.
Okay. That's your time. Sorry. I'm sorry.
And we're going to continue with the call of public. I just want to make an announcement that I kind
of got to help myself. We have a population. We're going to do immediately following the call of the public.
So next we would like to come up and speak.
Good evening everybody. My name is Donna Doyle. I'm on the Board of Directors for the St.
organization. Thank you for allowing me to come up. First of all, I want to thank everyone
up there about the new shelter that's being planned and built. That's a wonderful
addition to our community and it will help a lot of animals while they are in there
to be housed more comfortably. My next but information is shelters are great and they're
to decrease. Over 20,000 animals per day in this country are going into shelters, 70% breast
being recognized for space. How do you change that? Spay a neuter. So we have committed
as an organization, along with talking with the shelter, to start doing low-cost and
three spade neuters more aggressively for the city of Bullhead residents only.
This way we can at least make a dent in the population.
If you don't know the statistics, one female cat in seven years, along with her offspring,
produces 370,000 animals, kittens, and our community, and every community.
a female dog and her pups, 67,000 are added to that population.
So if we start decreasing the population for unborn, just being unborn, we can solve a lot
of that.
So I met with Jeff and Ali today and we are going to start aggressively donating money into
the Spaniarder programs and taking some of the population out of the area.
Along with that, the backyard breeding really needs to be addressed, that should not be allowed in our community, and we're hoping that
along with law enforcement that can be addressed.
We're willing to do anything it takes to help the animals live a better life.
And we are committed as our mission going forward to improving the lives of the animals here.
Thank you.
Next.
Steven Lee, I'm behalf of Voices for Freedom. Thank you, Mayor. I think
one for being participating in our group and we have so many things that we're dealing
with right now. I'm going to be leaving the council meeting early today to see if Tucker
Carlson actually makes it on the air.
Chuck Schumer and Mitch McCuckle are trying to literally get him pulled as his
Jean-Pierre and the Biden administration trying to force box from him airing his
show tonight on the grounds of what-in-quote capital security.
So, that's one thing that's going on, and I think that although people by now on Council,
the mayor, everybody here has got to see that what have been pointing out has its basis
in fact, and has proven true over time, and I would really hope that all of us here can
do our best to try and come together and understand what's going on, what we're dealing with,
and how we as a community can best prepare ourselves to survive, what is literally an
attack on our survival.
And I really hope that that's the case and that we can work together to do things like
to grow food locally, do more things with Mahavi Electric to generate power locally, and make
this a true least sustainable community.
On a very important, called Action Note, we've got to stop the digital currency.
members of Congress are seeking to enact legislation to prevent the Federal Reserve from issuing
a digital currency which would decimate personal privacy and implement a full-fledged surveillance
state. HR-1122 titled the CBDC, which stands for Central Bank Digital Currency, Anti-Surveillance
Act, is sponsored by Tom Emer, Republican of Minnesota, and co-sponsored by nine other
representatives. If enacted, this would ban the Central Bank Digital Currency. For example,
states except as specifically authorized under this act, a Federal Reserve may not offer products
or services directly to an individual to maintain an account on behalf of an individual or
issue a central, digital currency directly to an individual. The Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System open market committee may not use the central bank digital currency to implement
monetary policy. In a press release, announcing, announcing HR-1122's introduction, representative
Andy Biggs stated, a government-run digital currency presents a real threat to Americans
freedom to use their hard earned money and fundamentally to the value of that money. Embers
bill ends the threat before it can begin.
From big tech censorship to COVID mandates now regulating digital currencies, unelected bureaucrats
continue to push our nation towards an authoritarian state.
This road behavior must stop.
This legislation gets us closer to achieving that.
A digital currency is a major imminent threat to America's liberty and privacy.
The deep state has been planning a digital currency for many years due to the control over people that it would gain.
In fact, a digital currency is a crucial component of the great reset plan to control humanity.
Ultimately, the Federal Reserve, a blatantly unconstitutional agency, must be completely abolished
in the United States must return to constitutional money.
However, HR-1122 are first good steps
that would protect our privacy and liberty.
Contact your U.S. representative and senators
to urge that they enact the CBDC Anti-Surveillance Act
HR-1122 and to oppose the creation of digital currency
as I have.
We'll have City representatives contact.
Paul Goesar 48-0, 182-265.
Thank you.
Kristen, you're welcome.
I'm pleased to have you.
Thank you.
Good evening, Mayor.
Dear me, go.
Council members and City officials.
Before I get started, I'm here to impact tonight represents Saint and our next upcoming event.
But I want to thank Toby Cotter, which two Council meetings ago.
He spoke about the burrows and what they're doing with them and I was really happy to hear that that they're gathering them because I'm up at Dolphin Ranch quite often and I was so worried every time I went up there because there was like herds of them right in the road.
So thank you Toby for that. Anyway, our next event is in honor of Nikki Reagan and she was fabulous. We love Nikki. She was our marketing director for Saint for a good time.
And she, of course, passed away.
So we're honoring her at the wiggle waggle walk.
And we want to invite all of you out there.
It's March 25th, 10 to 2 at Rotary Park.
And Steve, Steve, Mary, excuse me.
I'm so used to just Steve.
We'll be there with his dog doing the walk.
I heard that today.
So great.
You'll be there at 1 o'clock, walking the walk
with one of their dogs.
And also we're going to have Walter,
the orphan burrow there. And he's going to be of course a big hit with everybody.
Audults are ten dollars children five to do the walk. Pets, of course, are free. And I hope you'll all take time to come out there. We need to raise some money for all these animals that Donna Doyle are saving life's director is getting lots of calls on medical. We always do, and we need that money to still keep coming in. So I hope you will. Real quickly, I want to thank APL. That's Arizona pipeline. I don't know if anybody's listening out there that belongs to that organization.
but they did a fabulous job on my gas lines and I've never seen guys work so hard they should
be getting paid more than the football players. That's for sure. So thank you very much and
everybody have a good night and I hope I see you at wiggle waggle. Thank you.
Good evening. My name is
Grace Faustner and I'm a resident of Bullhead City. I would like to discuss issues concerning the
Bullhead City nutrition center. The staff and volunteers were tirelessly to provide an environment
that is welcoming and help seniors manage issues with health, home, nutrition.
Many seniors spend the day in the environment instead of staying home alone.
Breakfast, lunch, craft, games, and exercise our daily activities.
Extra items are provided for seniors to take home.
A lot of them offer bread, some canned goods, fruit and vegetables that the community stores
and other services provide to supplement seniors' nutritional budget.
During this time of year, an influx of snowbirds, citizens new to the area and homeless
individuals need these services.
There are professionals, there are professional volunteers too, they take the time out of
their busy schedule to provide medical programs, military information, how to use a computer,
a cell phone, provide games, how to sew, quilt, paint, make crafts and much more, and their
services are free to the seniors. These opportunities are invaluable to our senior community.
Several years ago, a plan was put in place to expand the space of the building with and extension.
This project is really needed now. New visitors to the center have caused an increase in the need
for these services.
There are times when some of the activities have to be moved
to a different location to accommodate the activity.
It is difficult to change habit when you are this age,
and it does cause confusion.
Please consider updating your timetable for this
to happen sooner than later.
And lastly, with all the new visitors to the center,
volunteers are desperately needed to help prepare
for the influx of seniors, for breakfast, lunch, and meals on wheels.
If any of you folks out in TV land need something to do,
the Nutrition Center could use your elbow grease to help the
center to continue the outstanding job they do.
It is a meaningful and rewarding volunteer opportunity.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Thank you.
Hello, everyone. Hello, mayor. So good to see you all. I'm Jean Brooks. I'm the founder of
Saint, saving animals and need together. And I just wanted to speak a little bit about
the animals that are abused and neglected. This has to stop. I do know that I have, I've never
stopped. I've not on the board anymore, but I have never stopped and I never will
caring for the animals and helping them in need. So I, there were, there are two
little Chihuahas that have been living outside for over seven years now. And I
tried to get help for them, but nobody, I mean, as far as calling the police and
the shelter back then, they said there was nothing they could do, which to me, we're in one of the hottest and coldest states.
So there needs to be a difference between laws.
So anyway, we need to find out where there's dog fighting.
That is so cruel, and I've tried to find out I call the police department, the fire department,
the airport, and nobody can tell me.
It's indoors, but isn't there some way that we can find out where it is and get this stopped?
So, I am very happy about the new shelter.
I, that's awesome, and they will be happier as well.
So also, if, if anybody knows anyone or needs to have their pets fan neutered,
I have brochures with me and I'll be happy to pass them out.
So please let me know.
And it's just, if you, I don't know if you get the newspaper or not,
So my letter to the editor was in last Tuesday and I hope it woke some people up about
what's happening when they leave them outside 24-7, no food, no water, no shelter and this
is not right, this is not fair and like I said, if you're not treating them like if you can't
treat them like family then don't have them, they are family and that's the way it is
And that's the way it should be.
So I just hope and pray that we can get some,
oh, I thought my phone was off, I'm sorry.
Oh, my phone's not even working.
Well, anyway.
So, but I just wanted to say thank you to everybody
that is being such awesome tech owners,
because that's the way it should be.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Next.
Good evening, everyone.
Oh, that's true.
That's it?
Okay.
Thank you so much.
I'll send you the bill.
Mike, my honor president of River fun.
Thank you for that warm welcome.
I just came to visit tonight to share some really good news with you folks, everyone.
We're going to do a fundraiser, and we've got a lot of them in the past, but we've always
had a big crowd this had to help us, something like the casino or something along those
lines that can has a manpower because we're a staff of five and a board of 13.
We came up with a dream.
We've got an issue going on with unrestricted funds.
That's one category that's really, really, really important just like they all are, but they're not dedicated restricted funds like a cancer fund or memory fund or money like that.
This is the fund that takes care of things like birth certificates and like a bus ticket to move to another place where they can have a home, or any other thing that is not a grant.
And we lost quite a bit of money by going through that period of the pandemic, where we had
a lot of people that used to donate to us that haven't been able to anymore because they
were going through payroll deduction.
And when their business went out of business or are quit for a while, when the casinos were
down, we lost those folks.
they went to other jobs or they changed the casinos and they didn't sign up again or
what any number of things. The bottom line is we have really stressed that unrestricted fund
really, really low. And we need to put some bucks back in the war chest. So April 15 is a big
And we're going to be out at Bohec Community Park.
And we're going to somehow drop 5,000 ducks in the river.
And the last these ducks were used during 2018.
And I think at the time it was either a cancer event,
or it was habitat for humanity or one of those other charities.
But you would not believe what shaped these things were.
And I thought they would all be dried up and we're going to have to throw them away, but
they were really in good shape.
So we got them out in the count of them.
We have all 5,000.
And we're going to start at Second Street.
David, he helped us with that.
We're not an explored to see where the safest and best place was.
And so we're going to be depositing these little guys in the river on 10 o'clock in the morning
on that Saturday.
And bring them down to Vulhead Community Park.
And we have these experts that are going to help us
as he given me two more minutes.
I'm sorry.
Anyway, we're going to do this fundraiser
and then when we get done, we're going to hopefully
have the money we need to get our fund back together.
So I just want to share that with you.
Get you started because we're going to be selling these ducks.
We've already started and there's a administrative group here in town that works down on
Marie and a boulevard and they went into their park that's pretty deep today for us and I want
to thank them for that.
People have been stepping up quite a bit already because they know that river fund uses that
money for good things and so anybody wants to participate wants to find out more about it.
where we have more time.
Just go on our website, and it's just river fund,
and the letters iNC.com.
And you can see it at all the information on it.
And you can also buy your tickets online.
So come out and enjoy the day.
And there's going to be a lot of other folks there
to that day.
Grace is going to be out there.
And we have the college also participating
to make scholarship money made available to the students.
That's it.
We're done.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mayor.
Thank you.
Anyone else?
Good evening, Mayor.
City Council, Toby, and team.
I want to come to you guys tonight to talk about some restoration and construction process.
Just real brief.
I'm not going to take much, much of your guys this time, but I heard some concerns about the
registration process and what it involves and the timing so on and so forth. So we brought
Jeremy Brunk here with TWN. He's going to go through it a little bit. If anybody has any questions
after the meeting for any of you guys or anybody out in the audience, we will be here after the meeting
too as well. Happy to discuss anything with you guys. So I'll turn it over to Jeremy Brunk.
Hello, staff. Councilman. Mayor, thank you for having me. So there's many different stages of
construction, or some of you have seen it, basically all we're telling the community after
we've met with the city, that we have 30 days after the area has been turned on or lit up
or however you want to say it. So, 30 days after everything's been placed and tested,
the restoration will start and complete. So that's basically what I'm here to tell you guys.
So, thank you.
Thank you.
Anyone else?
Mayor, City Council?
Well, Easter is just around the corner.
Gary Jenavise.
Thank you, Paul Ed City.
And, you know what that means?
The Ham Man is back.
Three times a year, first one being Easter.
The doing this is a fundraiser for the Colorado River Historical Society and Museum.
Now, as you well know, that the museum is our local point in town for our history, and
Carol Finkelstein being the president has shepherded that little group of people, the volunteers,
for many years now, and they provide a wonderful service for you folks to go and see the history
of Bullhead and the environmental area around it.
So, to fundraise for the upcoming propositions that they have going for their yard work and they've maintenance of the building whenever we have this annual fundraiser at Easter time for Honeybaked Hands, which, as you well know, are very, very delicious, very, very delicious, they're plump,
have a golden brown crust on the exterior. They're crunchy when they're eaten and they're also very moist on the inside.
That's just for your dinner, for the people who have your Easter party. And don't forget the following morning. Scramble days with a little diced at some peppers and onions. Oh boy.
Can't be the best restaurant town to be in your own kitchen. The fundraiser, of course, will have a deadline. That will be April 6th. We'll be the cutoff at noon, and for the orders to come in, and we will be putting them out on April 6th, that evening between 630 and 8 o'clock at Susanna's House, and I'll give her her phone number at a moment.
But there are just excellent hands and he will be doing a benefit to the community by allowing
this process to go through.
I will take them up to Henderson to pick up the hands and I take Eva and I take Susanna and
I take Carol and we all have a good time at Mimi's and pick up the hands and come home and
distribute them to the folks that want them.
So please enjoy the hands and we are doing a good thing for the community.
Also, the orders will be taken by Susanna Vansloten, and her phone number is 9282344807, Susanna,
just call her Susanna, 9282344807, and you get to hear me two more times.
Okay, thank you very much.
Thank you.
Don't you
remember we made that.
Well, I'm glad that the Saints people are still here because it's a wonderful job they do with the dogs and cats.
Nine minutes.
Wow, thank you.
I'm still not going to heck about this part down there where you put that tank.
You wiped out the whole area there, you know, these ducts have babies in March, April, and May, and April around the park inside there.
Somebody went and cut all the brush and you know where they patch their eggs, make their nests, it's all gone now.
I'm living over that.
Ducks and liberty is going to find out about that.
And since you ought to be, matter in hell too,
these are animals too.
Um, yeah, you go down there.
They cut every damn piece of grass down there.
There's no place for them, except a little bit in front.
They're lazy heres, where they usually do their leg in.
But you rest of it, you cut out, you butcher it.
You put a new gates up, you put five posts in the ground.
You had to cut, in order for an ambulance to go down there all the way to the end or anywhere down there.
You had to cut undue five locks at the minimum of three.
And these ain't cheap locks, you can't just bang them with a hammer.
So I don't know who decided on that.
Somebody dies down there because they couldn't get in there.
Whatever, you guys don't care. Look, cute, it's five little gates.
these bricks that you laid down there for the monuments.
Here's the photos of the insides of the trash inside.
Then they put the monuments on there.
Here's the trash.
Then at the insides, time you walk by there,
there's trash in all three of those monuments.
Trash!
The reason I get so mad about that,
and you put them at angles.
This is going to be, we have no justice going to lay on there.
These guys aren't down there cleaning the darn things after time.
The bird poop's gonna get them every time those pigeons in an area or something else.
You may rules about pigeons if you don't go down or do nothing about them.
And rain is gonna go in the back, because you'll have to a little bit of seemin' there.
It's just a perfect place for the mosquitoes to go in there and hatch.
Good job!
All the who-to-spent contractor is a buzz-downer, but I swear to God he'll never work at my house.
And those signs you got down there by the hours of those little black things, the information
something was already running her right now in their history.
I don't know.
Same to you, I'll be pissed off about the next chapter.
Next, Harvey.
Well, that's city.
I just wondered if anybody would hold it.
We had a great time.
I'm out there here at the park with all the drag racing.
that drifted and gave away some really cool prizes to everybody.
This month, on the 19th, on Sunday from 10 to 3, over here,
in the parking lot of Gary Keyes, we're going to be running the drag
races again.
Have a little show in Shanghai and Contest.
Have some ribbons and other prizes to give away.
On April 1st, up here on the treadless trail on Contel Lane,
And we're going to have a scale crawling competition hosted by the trellis scalers and can
all rich.
There will be a $15 buy-in on each class that you'll enter.
And all the money is going to be going towards making better prizes and stuff like that.
We're going to have a great time out there.
So we hope everybody will give our COChants it seems to be going pretty darn good around
town now.
Thank you again for the track, it seems to have pretty much almost got done this week.
A lot of good folks are out there working on it from Las Vegas and everything.
We've got some team from Lake Havishy City with their dragsters,
or going to be coming up on against us.
We've got the guys out of kingdom with chaotic R.C.,
that are going to come out and meet us with the crawlers.
So the race is coming out from Las Vegas.
This is really starting to shake up.
We have pretty cool R.C. town.
I took a little while, but we're getting there.
So thank you very much for everything that is going on.
Question, time, you got a minute, 19.
Oh, what time, oh, from 10 o'clock till 3 o'clock on the 19s.
And the one on the first, I believe it's starting in the morning.
I'm not really sure on time, but I'll be back at the next city council.
I mean, to let you know.
Well, thank you very much, bigger and better things.
We're going to go faster.
Thank you.
Hi everyone, welcome to the City Council and welcome to the Mayor of the Bullhead City.
My name is Ivy Youngman and I've been a resident here for more than 25 years and I've
been without a car for a long time, I've been a walker, I've seen everything that goes
on the city.
I think the most important thing we need to address right now is for the place for the younger
dogs need to go and congregate like maybe a place where they could have a dance and you know it's important for young people to be off the streets and be away from drugs and cigarettes and alcohol.
And I think you know I remember I'm almost 70 years old and I remember when I was a kid we always had a dance to go to
And I think it would be an incentive for the young girls to have something to look forward to,
you know, to get their hair done or to get their nails done and find a new dress to wear,
rather than what a lot of young adults are choosing nails to take the dress and the alcohol.
And this would be good for the guys.
But I don't know, you know, I realize Rotary Park is building a recreation center for the, I don't know if the younger people are taking advantage of it, but I think this is one thing that we should consider in our budget this year, and I think that's really important to the kids.
And the kids are the future of both her city and we have to take care of them.
You know, by setting a good example and providing them good resources where they can go
to get away from the drugs and the alcohol.
And then I have one more thing to address and that is I believe that both her city needs to
of fireworks because what happens is there's a lot of people who come into the city
for fireworks for the July and what they do is you can't account for all the people
that are coming into the city so what this means is there's people that go to the river
from high school and from high schools all over when I was in high school of the popular
place to go to the river. So there's a lot of people that I know have died at the river.
So the whole point of the day is that fireworks can be disguised as done fire.
I have a
here is a whole parameter of the city of what goes on and when the fireworks go, you know,
I can't tell if it's shotgun or a fireworks. So I think we need to outlaw fireworks.
Anyone else? All right. Yes, Eva.
Good evening, Council. Mayor. And Toby Gauder. I couldn't find it on my, could you hear me?
Oh, Eva Corbett, but let's see.
Let's look at that.
Anyway, I couldn't find it on my chamber events calendar,
but this Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
we're having a car show and a home and garden show.
Is that correct, Toby?
At the field house.
And I'm excited about it, but I can't find it on my calendar.
So maybe Toby could give us a little more information
about that.
OK?
Thank you.
Anyone else?
We're going to call the close to the call of public.
And like I said, I messed up and jumped again.
We have a proclamation to do tonight.
We're going to be declaring Saturday, March 18th, 2023 as the 27th Annual Carry
a growing bicycle safety rodeo day in Bolton, Sydney.
We'll meet Lorraine, everybody down here.
Business, fund, independent mobility for children of all ages, and whereas many
Children could be spared injury each year by communities making bicycle safety a priority.
And whereas bicycling is recognized as an activity that can reduce child obesity,
and create more positive way to increase activity for children in bullhead city.
And whereas the bicycle safety rodeo is set for Saturday, March 18, 2023,
from 90am until noon providing children of all ages of fun time to learn the rules of the road,
Safe biking and receive a free bike helmet and we're as the bike rodeo sponsored for the youth of our community by the bullhead city morning to on us
Wal-Mart
Western Arizona Regional Medical Center and the bullhead city police department and the bullhead city first
Fire department
Now therefore I steeply amico marable hit city
Do hereby proclaim Saturday March 18 2023 as a 27th annual carry a
segment, Bullhit City, or bicycle safety rodeo.
And what is there, I am there to set my hand on the 7th day of March, 2023.
Thank you, everybody.
I have pliers for the event available in the back.
This is completely free.
If the children bring their bike, the corners have provided money, and we have volunteers out there,
safety check in the bike and fixing them for them.
If they don't have a bike, we have loaner bikes available.
every child is fitted by bullhood city fire department for a correctly fitting helmet free of charge.
And we've had a local resident that owns Maurice and Laura Trudell, a riverfront RV resort.
They purchased all the helmets for this year's event and it's very generous of them.
In addition, they bought 10 bicycles that will be given away at the end of the event.
And air control services purchase 10 bicycles they're going to be on scene from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. giving those bikes to lucky winners if it is faith that hour.
And Western Arizona Regional Medical Center who's been a partner with us for years is going to be giving two bikes away.
And Walmart will also give two bikes away. So we'll give out 24 bikes plus the bike poster winner.
that fire does as a poster contest in the schools
and gives a helmet, it's a helmet contest.
So the kids learn the importance of the helmet,
the helmet.
We'll receive a bite out there that day and it will be on display for you to see. If you get a chance,
come by. We have a lot of community partners at table and give information to the families while they're waiting for their children to ride the safety course.
And it's such a fun day and it's amazing community partnership of coming together a lot of donors to make this wonderful event available again this 27th year.
It's Bullhead City Walmart, 90am to noon, March 18th.
We've got it on our Bullhead City Police Facebook page.
We've put out 6,500 flyers thanks to warm sea and throughout the community that were out
delivering glory and eye and just our entire team.
So I just want you guys to know that we're really working to keep the kids safe and busy in
our community and help us spread the word so they take advantage of it.
Okay, agenda modifications, so are there any items to be with John from remove to the appropriate place on the agenda?
If not, I'll take away from motion.
Mr. Mayor, I moved to the base that we need to get to the position.
The resolution.
At the seat.
Second.
Everybody, pressure.
I'm glad to hear you with this, Norma.
Yes.
Aye.
Councilmember Alfonso, did you press?
by Mayor Brummit your vote.
Seven in favor of the motion motion, Karen's.
Hey, our manager, your court.
Good evening, Mayor.
Deemico Council members.
The first item on my report is a bridge update.
And I thought it'd be appropriate to show you a quick video
from Fox 5 in Las Vegas.
Then update on the second lockland bullhead city bridge beam.
You turn that up a little bit.
It took a drive to the Colorado River to get a first hand look at the progress
and has more on when it's expected to be completed.
It's been decades of the making.
The second lockland bullhead city bridge is under construction.
And the construction right now is in high gear.
Now residents and first responders have been asking for this for literally decades.
Let's check it out here.
You can see all the construction and some of the giant pure columns that are currently under construction.
Now the last bridge that was constructed was back in 1987.
in the current Luffland Bullhead City Bridge, just north of the Riverside Casino in the
heart of Luffland, but that's all about the change by the end of the year.
Yeah, we're really happy to bring this project to the systems Luffland, it's a big impact for
them, it's not only economic impact, but also a safety improvement allow for, you know, a second
or third bridge across the river for the residents of the Luffland.
Better like than never as residents and business owners on both sides on the Colorado River,
have been wondering why it took so long to start construction of a second
Loughlet-Mullhead City Bridge considering federal funding for the bridge was
secured back in the 1990s there's a lot of different agencies of the
environmental impact process takes a long time we have to do with you know
memory agency such as a Loughlet-City Loughlet the Coast Guard BLM FHWA which is a
funding partner on the project RTC so we have to get all those different agencies
together. Besides all the bureaucracy, the other reason for the years long delayed a
finally construct the new bridge was political squabbling on where to build the bridge
in the first place. Loughlin and Bullet City both wanted to bridge across over at Riverview
Drive west of Rotary Park. But the federal government said that the bridge was built through
the park. They would pull all funding, essentially sinking the entire project to the bottom
of the Colorado River, so Clark County and Bullhead City official decided that a lining
the new bridge with Bullhead City Parkway was the best compromise.
Yeah, so this bridge connects right to Bullhead City Parkway.
So this is a big safety improvement, it allows for a second bridge for the area residents,
in case something has to happen with other bridge maintenance or anything like that.
Now, the 52.4 million dollar project here to construct this secondary bridge here for
had parkway across the Colorado River on over toward Needles Highway. This should
wrap up by the end of the year, finally offering a second access point between the
two states and the two communities. I'm Ken Smith, Fox 5 news, local Las Vegas.
I thought Fox 5 did a nice job of recapsulating and kind of telling the story of the bridge
and showing it up close in person. Also, I just wanted to share that with you. We
to anticipate the bridge being open and having a huge event there, hopefully by the end of
this calendar year or the first part of next year.
So stay tuned for that project to really ramp up and finish out over the next 8-12 months.
I would have saved that for last because it could be hard to talk to.
It is hard to talk to that.
I am impressed that you got a box by your news to do for a beer manager report.
Thank you.
Appreciate that.
They did that just for the report.
The next item on my report is a couple updates for council, one is our especially events and
calendar activities coming up here.
March and April will be extremely busy, no different than past March and April's.
So part of this is for our community, the council members, the leadership, but primarily our
in this is who sometimes tend to forget how busy we get and it's a gentle reminder that
the next couple weeks really through May are going to be extremely busy especially on the weekends.
So this Thursday Friday Saturday we've got one of the best softball tournaments in the country here
for high school girls, the tournament champions. There's also a carnival over at Gary Keith Park
And as Eva mentioned, the car show, classic car show,
and home show out at the Field House party in Saturday
from 10 to 5 Sunday, 10 to 4, $5 to get in.
So you can go to the Field House for that event.
Then the Chamber's hosting the Winter Visitor
Expo for all our snowbirds and new residents on March 16th.
On March 18th, the 19th, we have a senior softball,
40s, worlds, championship down to Rotary Park,
March 24th through the 26th.
of adult slow-pitched softball tournament. We have the kids export, a canful of our park on the
25th, the giant air show, as you all know, on April 1st. At that same weekend, though, we also
have an international soccer, youth soccer tournament, and USSA adult slow pitch tournament. So if you
think we're busy this weekend, wait till the first weekend in April. We also, the six through the
have what's called the Vegas shows an inflatable amusement park out of Gary Key Park replacing the
carnival which just replaced the circus. We also have a farmer's park it on the A and then
River Day soccer tournament which is locally run soccer tournament. The 15th and 16th of April
same time is Mike's duck race that we can and that same weekend there's also an adult
Slow-pitched softball tournament, and directly a major country music star is on stage over in law
Flynn. So if you thought that weekend of the first was busy, that weekend of the 15th will be really, really busy.
And then also the 21st in 22nd, the following weekend, we have a 7 on 7 youth football tournament
Out of rotary park and a one nation slow-pitched softball adult tournament at rotary park.
And then after that, we have the lawful and bullhead city river run, the motorcycle event that's been kind of rebranded and renamed so that's April 25th through the 29th.
And then the 29th and the 30th is the river madness, fast pitch girl softball tournament.
That's the weekend, there's a Brooks and Dunn concert in lawflint.
And there's a whole bunch of other local, smaller events happening all throughout that time.
So I don't know if time to go through all of them,
but just a note to all of our businesses,
because this is the time of year when we get those,
you know, a little bit of weight and some of our restaurants,
and we also have some of our businesses who say,
geez, didn't know we're gonna have that many people in town.
There will be traffic on the highway.
We typically have about 40,000, 35 to 40,000 cars a day.
Some of these weekends could increase to 50 to 60,000 cars
per day, and then of course this brings millions of dollars to our small businesses, restaurants, hotels,
and retail establishments. So it is big business for the city. Travis is going to give us a quick
interview report. He's got some news about him in the mayor going to Phoenix again.
Thank you, City Manager Carter. Good evening Mayor, City Council members and residents.
Tonight I'll talk about the intergovernmental updates.
We're about halfway through the legislative session at this point, depending on how things shape up, we'll see how the budget goes and how long the session actually goes.
But a little more than halfway through at this point.
I'm going to touch on just probably about four bills that are applicable to the City of Bullhead City.
Obviously there's much more than that going on down there.
But I think due to the time I'll just touch on four bills.
First one I wanted to mention was Senate Bill 1588.
This is criminal justice collection system bill.
This is a bill that's asking for all the courts, all of the prosecutors offices, all the police agencies
to dump all of their information into one central reporting system with the thought process.
This is making the data available for researchers and other folks interested to kind of review
it and make some political decisions and administrative decisions.
Now, it's a lot of work, a lot of effort, so we didn't think this was a good bill.
We asked the League of Cities and Towns to oppose this bill because it's just too much
work on the police department. They already have enough to do and it's so much
information. I don't think they're going to be able to do this effectively. So
that bill went to it was received a due process recommendation from the
appropriations committee on February 27th and scheduled actually went
got a reading at the rules committee on March 6th. They haven't gave us a response yet.
So we'll continue to watch that one and see where that one goes but we did
to oppose that bill. We're also keeping an eye on as everyone knows the state land
transfer that's House Bill 2375 asking for the state land to be transferred to
the City of Bullhead City. Now this is some of the, this is the land at the
Memorial Site and a few other parcels that are sovereign land. This is the one
that the mayor and I will go down and testify on this bill, share information on it and try
to support it and get it passed.
So look forward to that and look forward to testifying on that this week.
We're also keeping an eye on House Bill 2543.
This is a greater Arizona transportation project.
This is the bill that includes initially included a $2 million for restoration of hand
The bill just went through some amendments on, looks like March 1st, so they made a few adjustments to the bill and actually decree some of our funding for that road, but as mentioned, the mayor and I are going down there, we're going to have a discussion with this
on Highway 95. We were looking for 15.5 million dollars to do that. So we'll continue to talk
about that, try to push for that. And then there is also House Bill 2555. This is a requirement
that businesses as well as governments accept cash and when they're selling a taxable will good
or service. Now this particular bill, it will have some impact on us if it does pass. Typically
we don't accept cash at or last year we didn't accept cash at our Robo store. Just in the
interest of making things more efficient and reducing the adapt. We also didn't accept cash
at our parking. Now that won't be impacted because that's a non-taxable function. But the
of the store if this passes as well as the boat, they would require two except cash.
This bill was heard on March 1st, it had a reading on March 1st, it hasn't been an
next action yet, but we'll continue to keep an eye on it and see how it goes. Other than that,
once we wrap up this meeting tonight, the Mayor and I will both be on our way to Phoenix
to kind of push some push for all of this stuff. With that, I stand for questions.
They don't have any questions?
Thanks, Travis.
Thank you.
Thank you, Travis.
And the last item on my report this evening is weed abatement.
As you all know, it has rained a lot this year.
In fact, snowed even a little bit in the mountains, so we're just wet right now.
And that means weeds are going to be abundant.
and we have codes against weeds, in yards, inside yards, in backyards with neighbors
complain. So we will be enforcing weed abatement. We do have code enforcement and they
will be out. So what we can do now is encourage everyone. Take the time to pull spray. Do
you need to do to get rid of your weeds. We'll give people time but as we go into the spring
season and then the summer season we can't have weeds all over the place and that includes
the city.
We're going to hold ourselves responsible as well. We're already out there doing everything we can do to take the weeds off our own properties and our own rights of ways. So we'll be doing the same thing. So we just want to get the message out that weeds need to be evaded and we all need to work toward that goal. Thank you.
Thank you.
Mary, council member from Fort son current events, do you put it on me then?
Mr. Mayor.
I would just like to, this last week on the 24th fawn, who herner has been charlie.
They were 25 years busy.
25 years they owned the donuts to go shop here.
And fawn had a brain aneurysm and she passed away.
And so they had her memorial service this last weekend, which was open to the public.
it was beautiful and I just like to say thank you to her and her has been for so many years of
serving our community and I also wanted to mention that on March 18th we will be having our food
distribution from this location. It starts at 8 o'clock in the morning and we always need volunteers.
We had so many last months but we can always use more so if you'd like to volunteer you could get
you can stay for as long as you want but that's very very helpful and I'd like to
say thank you very much to the city for letting us use this facility as well as the
parking lot and to all the people that come we give out 20,000 pounds of food every single
month that is free and you just drive up I want to say thank you to food for families and
Mary's Food Bank for Making Not Donation and Not Distribution Hospital.
The Center didn't always have one of those things.
Thank you, Mayor.
Mr. Mayor.
Oh, I'm sorry, Norma.
I forgot.
You're sick.
Sorry.
That's the case.
I do have to think that I just want to be learning this exam.
That's the top of that.
This raises questions.
This is the thing I have to think of.
This is the center of the state.
And then on the wrong sheet, Mr. Clark, I need to be with the focus of this meeting.
But before I go into that, I just want to hear what everybody does.
I ask you, Mr. Clark, if we have less with the military, the municipal Queen's frontman, it was fabulous.
The audience was so engaged, they were dancing and singing and clumping and stomping
and they had their phones out, and it was just such a wonderful, wonderful event.
So don't despair, the upcoming filters of spring, a string which will be marked 28, 7 p.m.
as a lobby high school auditorium,
tickets to 30 dollars, that they'll bless the box office,
box office opens at six o'clock.
You will be enjoying the energy and the exciting music
from the snow sea, award-winning Canadian string
to the supergroup, bringing their unique blend
and global music to the audiences.
So we were forward to seeing you all there
and Colorado River Conflict wants to thank everyone who has supported us this season and all 45 years that the Colorado River Conflict has been providing top-notch talent to our community.
So we want to thank each and every one of you and look forward to seeing you on March 28 at seven spots for the filters of screen.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Norma.
Okay, now I'll take a motion for the consent agenda.
Just to make your motion to approve.
Item number one is right.
Second motion.
Everybody test your vote.
Place mayor, brum at your vote.
All right.
Seven in favor of the motion motion carries.
I don't know about the rest of you, but this is one I've been waiting for.
I'm very excited about.
Item number two.
to approve the purchase of the real property located at 2435 Miracle Mile for $1,750,000
in authorizes the city manager to enter purchase and sell agreements, execute all required
real property transfer documents and issue payment to complete the transaction.
Mayor Dimeco Council members, this is a request of the city council to purchase the building
parking lot at 24, 35, Miracle Mile for 1.75 million from Brem Communications.
This building, as you all know, is utilized as the office space for the Mojave Valley Daily
News.
So they were recently purchased as part of that purchase.
They did not purchase the building.
So over the past few months, we've heard that building was going to be vacated and we knew
that the daily news was going to move their operations
over to the Colorado place.
So got the mayor and I to do some thinking and soul searching
and looking at that building, because part of the consideration
that we always have on any empty building
is what can it become, what can it be used for.
And as we look at our facilities,
we are, in fact, building a new senior center.
There's only one place for that.
It's between our existing facilities.
It's almost ready to be bid out.
It will be constructed over the next few months, open a year from now, so that's not an appropriate place for a senior center.
We know we're in the process of building a new animal shelter.
When you look at this building, it's over 27,000 square feet.
The building that we were proposing to build was about 12 to 13,000 square feet.
Probably by the time we get it out to bed and the contractors' offers come in, fully fixed would be about $5 million for a very small
12 to 13,000 square foot facility, which in our world is a very big one compared to the existing small
4,000 or so square foot facility that we've been using for a very long time. Maybe only Rod is the only one here who remembers when that building was actually built.
and first occupied, but I remember it from 1998 and it was certainly before that.
So for at least the past 25 years or more, the city has needed a new shelter.
Run around 8788.
8788, right? So we've outgrown that facility, we all know it,
and we've struggled to find the funding as the primary objective.
We've had to do a whole bunch of other things here at the city, but we all knew that we would
find the time, the money, and make it a priority.
So today, it is a priority, it's a priority for everyone in this room, it's a priority for all
of us, that we found that 5 million to build that 12 or 13,000 square foot facility.
As time would show and luck would have it, the daily news was purchased and that building became available.
So what is in that building right now, back in 2014 it was a praise for 1.78 million
after it was remodeled and the daily news put well over two million dollars into a remodel.
Because remember, they had their existing building there and they also bought the parking lot next door.
So really it's about 1.59 acres.
So the building size is about 27,353 square feet.
So about 14,000 more than we were going to build.
We know we'll have to put another $2 to $3 million into this facility.
So it actually makes it less gaining at least 14,000 square feet
that we can use for other things like police storage.
Chief Trees and his team has been talking to me,
talking to you all.
What do we do with our boats and UTVs and jet skis
and other technical and tactical equipment,
and we were talking about building another building.
This provides some storage capacity,
at least for the next decade or so,
and as the animal shelter grows,
they can occupy that space
and then we can build a police storage facility.
So it gives us at least, from what our architect would say, at least $60 or put in savings
probably more.
And then it also provides us with at least what we were proposing in other $1.6 million savings
from a police storage facility.
Maybe most important everybody in here provides a very accessible public facility for the adoption
of cats and dogs.
I look at the dollars and cents and many of you are like just get to the cats and dogs part of this presentation.
And so the current facility doesn't allow us to do a lot of great things.
And we know that this new facility would be big.
Modern allows to have veterinarian services.
Other opportunities that we could talk about with our community moving forward.
board, there's even been some discussions of an indoor dog park, but they haven't
do buy.
I think that he showed me one in Dubai.
Well, guess what?
We could have an indoor dog park if that's what the community wants.
So as we look at low cost pay and neuter, we look at adopting out cats and dogs,
Jeffrey minded me that there's an occasional guinea pig and a pot belly pig that goes through
that facility as well.
So we have to be able to service all of our animals.
So, as we looked at that, the facility, Mayor Diomico, myself, and Rob Sames, and from
self-regicosehits, really Rob was there for the technical aspects of what is this building
offer at 1.75 million, it's huge, right, 27,000 square feet, all the things I talked about,
but it's modern, numerous bathrooms, modern, very well-designed facility, beautiful lobby, many
you have probably been in the building, maybe you haven't been in the office is where the
reporters are, where the graphic artists are, the IT room, there's so many possibilities
for the things that happen at our shelter. There's space for the community together, there's
space for our staff to meet, there's a break room, there's lockers, there's actually showers
in there by the printing presses. So many different things, and so the mayor and I started
talking about it and we said what would we offer for a building like that if we could even get
brem communications to consider and the only thing we had to go on because we didn't want to
call any brokers or realtors or get this conversation going the community was a 2014 appraisal
and that 2014 appraisal came back at 1.78 million so we were in the mayor's office we called
one of the key executives of brem communication and we offered less than the apprais value
They took it to their board, and they accepted that at least preliminary, of course, you all have to approve that tonight of the offer at $1.75 million.
And some people may say, why? I think the newspaper did a good job, interviewed the executives from Bram.
It offers a few things. There's not a lot of contingencies, there's no concerns on our end.
It's a quick sale. You keep the brokers out of the deal, save some commissions, but
primarily, they see the city and the animal shelter as one of the most viable uses,
so it won't sit on the market. But also, you know, whether it's a million dollar donation,
they're making $2 million dollars, depending on how you value it. Some people might even say
we're getting a $3 million discount, who knows? You wouldn't know unless you put it on the market.
Tammy Shakener had, I mean she knows how the real estate market works here, it's a substantial
deduction that brand communications is making for all of us, for the community, for the
dogs and cats.
So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.
At the end of the day, Allison Harms, Jeff Tippedon, we're kind of sitting on the sidelines
as the mayor and I went through this process because we didn't know if we would do it.
And B, we didn't know if they would actually sell it to us for less than a 2014 appraisal.
When we all know property has escalated twofold, threefold since that time.
And so, extremely happy with the folks,
Abraham Communications and San Diego.
They have a soft spot for bullhead city.
They've owned this newspaper for a long time.
And they're very pleased to be able to offer this to the city.
They certainly could list it, it could be sliced and diced, something else could go there.
But I think in their hearts, they saw the opportunity to work with the city and have the city,
have an opportunity to have a first class, maybe world class animal shelter.
We need it.
We're in the process of building a new one.
So we hired Selberg Associates.
We have a contract with them for $180,000 to design a new facility.
They've spent about $10,000 so far designing the new facility.
This mostly conceptual ideas, how many canals do you need, what's the cap room look like,
where the office is.
So that's really not lost.
That can be re-implemented in this new strategy.
And we talk to their lead architect, one of their executives, they will do it for less than
$180,000.
So, the agreement we have with them will not need to come back to the city council, it's
the same scope of service, so we will have the same architect taking those same concepts,
redesigning the daily news building, repurposing some of the storage for a police department,
but turning the bulk of that facility into a first class animal shelter for our team here and
community here. I think that hits most of the highlights. I'm happy to answer any of your
questions. Thank you Toby. I just want to add a couple of key things that you didn't
purposely leave out, but they are also very important. The fact that we're going to save money,
we're going to have to work for the police facility. It's going to be a state of the art place for animal.
But we will also have it done. I would probably say at least a year, maybe two years sooner than we would have had the other shelter done. Two years. We already have the structure, now we just have to go in and get the insight done. And another important thing, where we're going to do the other shelter was be a land. So we never, we always would own the building. We never would own the land. Over here, we're going to own the land and the building. So there's a lot of things we could do there that we couldn't do over here. So I don't want to waste everybody's time. I'm excited about that.
this. And Mayor, that is a key point, and just just to not reiterate what you said, but
focus on that, using veterinary services as an example. When it's on federal land, the city
cannot contract out its buildings. We have to pay the vet. We have to be that person. Now we can have
partnerships with some of our agencies, but truly, if we own the building, we can have a contract with a
that can operate and offer services without our engagement, without our agreement, we can at
just lease them space in a building on BLM land, we cannot do that.
So it's a very good point that you made.
And for those that don't know, the city doesn't really own much of land.
No, no.
Well, hopefully, all of the NINCE will have a special use.
But just we'll, everything we have is on BLM.
You're sitting on B.O.M. rent land right now. City Hall is on B.O.M.
Our parks are on B.O.M.
So it's nice that we could finally have something that is actually the cities.
And hopefully, through my tenure as mayor, we're going to try to get as much as we can,
I'll invite the cities.
But with that being said, I don't want to waste your time.
So I'll start the council.
Are there any comments or questions for anyone here?
Mr. Mayor, I know we discussed this.
I mean, but could you just guess, like, how the businesses that are surrounding might feel about this and then also if somebody does want to adopt a dog, specifically how we might use the parking lot, you know, as an area that people might be able to.
So there's a multitude of ideas, Councilwoman, about how we can arrange this facility and you know, let we'll let the community and our committee and our staff, you know, get the community engaged and find the right.
design for this facility. Some of the parking lot could in fact be a dog run or an area because it's a big parking lot over 70
parking spaces and a bunch of on-street parking major malls next door. So parking is not an issue there
So there could be some outside space
As we mentioned there could be some inside space for dogs and we looked at some of those indoor dog parks
Some of the businesses surrounding this are some of the biggest advocates for
animals in our community, swanies, as a prime example, are once again giving the city $5,000
for free adoptions next month. So, that's just an example of the neighbors we have. We'll
have a state house that can go on through the whole neighborhood. These are people who love and support
the shelter. Now, there's an alley that runs through there and that alley has to stay. Now, there's an
to look at because I think that might be one that we talked to the neighborhood about
stopping that traffic and if people want to cut out the back like for example
through Mojave Stakehouse just take the alley to the side streets rather than
taking it to Miracle Mile. That would be helpful beneficial but we'll talk to
all the neighboring businesses about that. Keep in mind that when we design this
modern, beautiful facility we will be considering the neighbor so soundproofing,
ventilation, drainage, all of that will be designed with them in mind, as well as the animals so that
the best neighbors that they could have.
And there are ways to conceal sound.
Keep in mind, there were very loud printing presses in that building, not too long ago.
And so we'll be able to work with the sound.
We'll be able to work with any emissions through modern technology.
And then, of course, one of our largest expenses will be concrete and drainage so that we can be able to
hose down and maintain a very clean and sanitary condition there.
Last question, sorry.
So how many animals with the previous design have housed compared to this new animal shelter?
Jeff, for Alice, and do you know that off the top of your head, what we currently have, what you were designing for?
This can be double that of whatever number Jeff has, so there's two numbers right the one that we currently have and then what you were designing for in the current silver design
Yeah, currently the animal shelter. We have capacity for 31 dogs 51 cats
we were looking at going to
approximately 50 dogs and
60 cats in the new one and of course this guy's a lemon on the
additional.
My goal would be to have more canals. Hopefully my ultimate goal would be to not have to use any of them.
But it was nice to have them. We all know what just happened in Golden Valley recently, where that isn't bullet city.
We got to help our neighbors out too when stuff like that happens.
So this has been a good time. We have all that from space to help them out.
And the city's been doing great on adopting them out also lately.
So I think I look forward to it.
I would ask whoever we're doing the planning, I'm not involved in that, Toby knows I would go crazy on it.
But I would like to see a portion of outside insights fine too.
I think that's a great idea.
I think Toby brought that up to have insight.
This we're not talking like rotary park where everyone brings her dogs in.
This would be for the dogs in the shelter.
But I would love to almost demand that we have an outside area too.
So these dogs still see daylight at some point in their life too.
But that being said, just in.
Yes, I mean, I've got about five courses I like.
I'd like to ask the Tobi regarding this property.
A couple of more combined.
Are there any leans against the property of the current time,
and are there any current unsolvable lawsuits against the property?
Yeah.
My city attorney will advise me that we're waiting for the title report
in the final.
But none that we're aware of, and we've asked those questions
and none that we're disclosed to us, but of course, through a transaction, our legal team will make sure that we discover anything that should have been discovered.
Look, that's the question I have, as it gives us an approximation as to what the taxes will be for you.
Zero. So we do not pay property tax on any municipal own facilities.
Thank you. One more. A couple more. I should say.
If you mentioned about having a vet, if we could have a vet that is on call 24 hours
because I know there's approximately 900 families transitioning between here and
Kingman on an annual basis, and a lot of people don't want to be running back and forth
because of the wilderness in the dark, inclement weather, et cetera.
I know I'm wonderful. I've done that. I've been down when I had my dark,
eventually, I could unfortunately have lost it.
But that would be a big help to a lot of people
in town too, especially in the night when they're
doggy and a golf ball or something like that.
Next question I have is, as far as the building is
something, the cooling that would get exists right there
with an extra generator, it need to have an additional room
that would be used as a satellite cooling facility.
One would get high temperatures and we have people
looking for more cooling rooms.
I think Council Member, we've looked at that and we won't rule it out because certainly
generation, if the power goes out, will be beneficial to all the dogs and cats there there.
So, could it be used for other dogs and cats?
Well, we've been talking to Catholic charities and now this something that wasn't brought up
earlier in the presentation, but one of the reasons people don't stay at a shelter at our shelter
is because of their pet.
And so one of the things we've looked at is
do we have a kennel or two that we can house them overnight
while that person takes care of themselves.
And so that's another opportunity that we've talked to.
We were looking at that over here now it's so much closer.
So what a true benefit if we can work that program out some day.
So ideally the generator for sure to power that building.
So that if the power goes out our cats and dogs are all okay, but at the end of the day, if other people want to bring their dogs and cats in and we can offer that service
That's something that we'll have Jeff and his team look at.
Okay, one last question is as far as meeting groups that go up before both.
Prop again.
Correct.
Well, if there are some opportunities for meeting rooms, training rooms in there, I mean, they're already there actually.
There's a board room, a lunch room, some conference room or two, so depending on the ultimate design of this, and again, I think we've got great community members here.
We're going to give Jeff and Allison a lot of input on how we should design that, and that's what the committee will do.
And so if it ends up being a really nice community meeting room, I think the first priority would be those with animal issues, but if there's capacity, why not?
No further questions. Thank you very much.
Mr. Mayor, just a quick comment.
I just want to give a shout-out to the cell,
we're going to associate it and to brand communications
and we're working with the city of making this possible.
Thank you.
Anyone else who may open it up to the public?
Anyone from the public?
Eva has her hand up first.
You didn't even put your hand up, so sit back down.
All right. Go ahead and jump up anyway.
Good evening. My name is Terry Constantino, Mr. Mayor, City Council. Thank you so much.
I love the idea. I think that most of us love the idea of a less costly brand new shelter
with the skies, the limit. It almost sounds like I have just two concerns.
I have experienced flipping houses. We can do an amazing inspection in the house
but until you get into the house and actually break walls, you don't know what you have.
That's one of my concerns in building out this shelter from the existing building,
what possibilities there may be. So excuse me, my guess would be 10 to 15 percent
over anticipated cost just to cover those unknown expenses. The other piece and maybe the biggest
piece for me as our mayor suggested is the outside section. All of us, we need vitamin D. We
know animals need vitamin D. We need to allow our animals to have access to the outside.
Having brand new canals that have an in and out capacity would be ideal. Will that be able
to be built within this existing building? That would be my other.
Happy to answer both questions. As I mentioned in the presentation, we're hoping it can come in for less than two to three million in the remodel, but our architect had said plan for two
Hope for two, it could be more. So there there is work to do
So we have that money right now to buy the building
We'll put it for the 3 million in the upcoming fiscal year, it'll take two about July and August to do all the design work and then we'll go out to bid and we'll find out from our contractors
If we can in fact do it for that two to three million, we believe that three is on the extreme high end
But I didn't want to come here until council would be a million in an end of being three. I don't want to do that. So, and then as far as the design
And those aspects haven't been done, saying it's more than welcome to come to all of our
meetings and participate and be part of Jeff's team as we design this new facility.
It's probably not possible to have dog runs go right out in the back alley or right into
the front yard, but it hasn't been designed yet.
What we do know is that there's half-acre parking lot that we can work with.
So is there a hallway, is there a design that can work?
So those are things that we really need to sit down and take the plans and start working with
the architect on.
What we do know is there are some opportunities there, and we know that we've got the
land outside to make it work.
We don't need 70 parking spots on a typical day, and with hundreds of on-street spots we
know we can do something with that parking lot.
So there are some options there.
So, a little bit different design, but nevertheless, we're going to get something great for our animals, so can there be some natural light coming in?
Can they have opportunities outside? Can they have an inside place space? There's a lot of those things can be researched.
Thank you so much. Thank you, Jerry.
Even, and then your next, after you.
Even, Corbett Bull has city congratulations.
This is what we've been waiting for for so many years.
My other, my question is, what's going to happen with the old facility?
You're going to turn it into something else?
Or, you don't know yet?
Yeah, I can answer that question.
I mean, we do have an ongoing storage need for public works.
as they've grown, police as well.
So that facility is old-aged, as Councilmember Head said,
it was built in the 80s.
And so it's going to need to be remodeled,
but our main priority would not be what's going there.
Our main priority would be how we renovate
the daily news building.
And then ultimately, once we're moved out
and everything's operational,
then we can focus on what that may be.
There is a trailer next door that has pretty much served its useful life.
Billy has looked at that with our planner and it's at the end of its life.
So that trailer will probably be gone as well.
And then that building can be modified for some very limited small 4,000 square foot facility used to be determined.
Okay, G.
She has more friends than I do. She's such a good girl. I was just wondering, when this building is going to be so big, it could be a no-kill, right? A no-kill shelter.
Well, I'll let Jeff address that, I mean, essentially over the past two years, I mean, we've been functioning in that capacity, except for those individuals who bring their
That's too awesome, you know, that are ill and dying, but all at Jeff, speak to that because what he was telling me was pretty impressive.
Yeah, the, which I'll give credit to Ali and the team, the savory, which we've been working with best friends a lot the last six months, and of course was Satan, all the other groups.
The numbers from two to three years ago are,
savory was 57%.
This past year from January 22 through December of 22,
we were 86% currently February was one of our best
months we've had and we were 91.5% on our savory.
With the addition of bet services things like that
and we're partnering with other shelters that are
achieving that, like then Lake Havasu, we're almost there and can easily hit that.
Well, I know some people will come in and bring their dog in or cat, whatever they put them down.
But we don't have to do that.
So, you know, and I hope that the new shelter will have an outside the kennels of the dogs and whatever.
We'll be able to go out, to go potty in a fence-dane area right outside their kennels.
And again, we're going to work on all of that and determine what that future looks like for
the design and that can start as early as when we, you know, when we approve this item,
if the council does that tonight and getting our architect on that job.
Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay, real good because no kill is what I'm hoping for and yes. Thank you.
Thank you.
Sir anyone else?
She's not a baby, and she has six adorable puppies on her side.
No, too.
She had six adorable puppies, and I found them all amazing homes.
And there is a place here in full head if you haven't already been there.
It's called happy place.
And they sell soup and salads and sandwiches.
is happy as one of her babies.
I'm sorry.
I told you, answered a lot of my questions.
Like the dog noise, I think you'll be able to do something about that.
That is my non-industrial, although it can certainly be with the water going through there.
You've had nothing but problems that have cleared that place up every kind of range.
It's got to, I wouldn't be our intention to build on it, but maybe talk about traffic going through there.
But certainly it would always operate for drainage.
So we're going to be, well, it's actually better for us to own that because we can do what we want to.
Because that drain is going across us for, you know what I'm saying?
I think you're better off having that and gust your road.
You know what those snakes come down there? That was in the paper?
four-quarters? Yeah, four-minute camel.
What I go, I did. Well, I don't know. It sounds
like you guys did. There's some talking about appraisals. There's not a whole bunch
of, I just worked for an MMI, so I've had a experience, so I'm not taking every real estate
class of him, a leader from the county recorder's office, so this is the property that
just sold down the street there, just west of the homeless shelter, that whole strip
land there on the between Riverview and up to open, the whole thing, only went for $200,000.
It's pretty close to the same property you're buying, you know, the vacant lot.
But yeah, I wouldn't pay a set for anything here, that's almost shelter to start with.
Now, like these, that place down on American mile, 2730, it's sold for 649,000, the building
on it and that's quite a bit older but
yeah we're going to get some more
storage units guess who bought it my hobby story don't boy pods are coming
overpriced there had to be something illegal about if I have the whole town
okay
but I'm also worried about what I've run into and I've rebuilt some schools
stuff. We ran into a lot of us Festos.
Anywhere there's the kitchen or water in that place,
you better check if that can be really expensive to get rid of. Or even if you in case
that you don't want to do that, I've had to run in. I've run in there as Festos has been in case.
Kicking a can down the road, so I don't know, a man, a couple of me or whatever it was.
I think the price is pretty cool,
willing buyer, willing seller.
Scottie, Mayor DiMico, if I could just address that real quick through the new build.
There's not a lot of us best as concerns because it was remodeled here recently.
$2,000.
And there was over $2.2 million put into that remodel and almost all of its good portion of
its new I should say half of it.
We also looked at other appraisals just so you in the community know, where Maverick is
building on the corner where the old L. Plascia was, they paid $1.5 million to tear that building
down.
So we're paying about the same amount, what they paid to tear building down.
And then the strip mall just took over here, right in your Buffalo Wild Wings, two building
south of Buffalo Wild Wings, just sold for 1.5 million, and it's basically about a third
of the size, even less than a third of the size.
So we looked at appraisals as well, and again, competitive pricing, we believe we're getting
a very fair price.
Yeah, this property is sold.
Yeah, you probably didn't even know about that.
It wasn't, yeah.
It wasn't one that we factored in.
All right.
Does anyone else?
Yes, ma'am.
No.
We have to come up here if you don't speak.
Yes.
Take your name.
My name's Ivy.
And I'm not going to give you my phone number.
Wait, I need your phone number.
There was no, that would be putting my advertisement out for free.
Yeah, my wife would get mad too.
Well, I'm a seamstress.
I'll see there.
Okay.
But I have my city business license.
But my main concern is right now with the shelter being open.
It's not open on Friday, Saturday or Sunday.
And people who work five days a week,
they want to come in and bring their children to pick up, you know, pet.
And I think that, I mean, if you guys can afford $3 million to build a new building, I think you need new employees to run
Friday, at least Friday, and Saturday, I mean, what's, you know, that's, and then, and then, too, have a permanent, you know, you guys have enough money if you're going to spend $3 million on a building, you can have a full time staff at night
to employ people that go out and help the animals that are in distress, laying in the street,
might being alive still, might being able to save them alive.
And then, so I believe the hours need to be changed, and I realize the police department
And how are these people that's not doing more?
No.
So you answered on what the hours will be once the new shelters open.
We considered expanding and with the new one, of course,
Friday would be an absolute in Saturday.
We're currently looking at some adoption events where we'll have a couple of Saturdays each month
where we're doing some adoption events currently.
So with the new building, yes, that's our intent to be open on Friday and Saturday.
What you're going to spend $3 million on the building for increasing animal shelter, I mean,
there's week here for animals for the cats, where Rebecca is the sponsor of week here
for animals and what she does is she teaches people how to trap the apparel cats and then
once they trap them, they transport them to the low-cost Bay and Luther Clinic in Kingman.
and so that that that feral cat can become a house cat so rather than have a great big
animal shelter I think we just need to keep the one that we have and this is about the new
animal shelter. That's a lot of money. Is it is? Mayor Dimeco. Just for clarification the police department
does not hire the the shelter employees Mr. Tipton and Elson harms do just when a fundamental
change in that. It's certainly nothing against the police department. It's just they hire
different people than we do. I just want to read one sentence that I didn't read when I introduced
the item. This new shelter, staff police will significantly improve community engagement, fundraising,
volunteerism, and increased partnerships with all animal service agencies. It is anticipated
that additional hours of operation will be available once the new shelter is open. And if that
You told me it comes true that was just mentioned at the podium, and we have no more dogs and cats to adopt out and no one's bringing them to us
We have a 27,000 square foot facility that we own that can be
Reaper-pist, reused, remodeled, down-sized, up-sized
But history tells us that that's not gonna happen every day people bring us cats and dogs
It won't happen. We need the space our communities growing and the reality is we will
grow into 27,000 square feet someday. We've been budgeting and planning for this day for many
years and I'm here to tell you we have the funding to buy the building today. We will budget
the 3 million to repurpose the facility and then we will also budget our ongoing operations and
maintenance costs to fully operate the shelter. And if I had it my way I would put some of these
about owners in the cages, but not a preview.
If there's no one else from anyone else from the audience,
if not, then I'm going to make a motion
to approve item number two as written.
All right, catch your votes.
Vice Mayor Brummit, your vote.
Seven in favor of the motion motion carries.
Item number three.
Scussion-poss collection to want to approve and direct the mayor
to execute opioid settlement agreements
with Tiva, L again, CVS, Wal-Mart, and Wal-Greens, too, authorized the mayor or any person
succeeding to that office to execute future settlement agreements reached under the umbrella
of the one Arizona settlement agreement and further three direct city staff to receive settlement
disbursement amounts account for and expend funds in accordance with controlling agreements
in applicable law.
Mayor, do you meet go council members?
Our city attorney, Garnam, we will present this item.
Good evening, Mayor.
Council members.
This is a second distribution opportunity of the opioid settlements.
There will be more coming.
This settlement involves a TAVA allergen CVS Walmart and Walgreens.
It nets about $434 additional million dollars to the state of Arizona.
And that brings up the state of Arizona as we see to about 976 million.
This settlement itself will net the city of Bullhead City about one and a half million
about the same as the last settlement did with other distributors in Jansson.
It's anticipated there will probably be three or more settlements.
This all comes under the umbrella, the agreement of that, a number of the attorneys general
Mark Braunovich reached a resolution with this multi litigation that's been taking place in the district courts.
Most of the, when we first started this, we weren't sure how many of these were going to come to the table.
It looks like most of them are all coming to the table. Now, they all want a global resolution.
They want to resolve them.
We don't want to have other parties litigating. They want to enter settlement agreements. And so there's going to be a number of these coming this way. That's what this is about.
These monies have to be used for the same purpose for the opioid abuse treatment, the effects of the entry of the opioid abuse and responses to it.
So Toby and his team already have a program in place where this is going to be used primarily in their backup program.
So we're just asking for your approval of this as the distributors have to have to have actual affirmative approval on each one of these because they're different distributors that are involved.
But it's basically the same rules that are evolved for a county and use of the funds.
But the additional thing we're asking for at this point in time is knowing that these are going to be coming forth.
With additional ones in the future, we're asking that you preauthorize these things.
If there's changes in the terms or use of these monies, they're different than what exists right now.
them we'd certainly come back and inform you of that so you could make another determination.
But given that we anticipate they're going to be the same, we're going to be asking for your
approval in advance to have the city mayor, whoever that might be, because he's maybe passed
a new council to go ahead and be able to approve these. Any questions?
I
don't know a question in the comments. Anyone from the audience?
Billy?
This sounds like something that's really, really positive.
With this funding go for to help the homeless,
that so many of them are probably addicted or veterans that are out there,
that have addiction problems?
It would, and Mayor, if you don't mind having the chief give a 30-second commercial on the
backup program, because it really is in just for the homeless or veterans, it's for the
entire community, and the chief could probably explain to you in 30 seconds what that program
does.
Thank you, Toby.
Yeah, so the backup program that's work currently hiring for hopefully get that up and
and real soon is model off to our program out of Eugene Oregon PD and it's mental health
professionals and medical professionals that will be out responding to mental health issues,
homeless issues, and other things that usually have some kind of component to mental health
and or substance abuse, so they'll be out in the community responding so police who are
handle such things, we'll be able to take those over from police after they make it safe.
It sounds like something's really be positive for our community.
We need it.
Thank you.
Anyone else just?
I need a side of the young men's.
And I have a question about, what did Tiva and Johnson are both from a suitable company?
But what do they have to do with the control of the opioid use?
These are settlements on the distribution and consumption of opioids.
So these are broad ranging overreaching lawsuit settlement cases because they devastated
our community over the last 20 years.
They're paying for the people they've killed.
Go Tiva and Johnson are, Tiva and Johnson are, oh, the Orbid Suppliers, oh, okay, thank you.
Anyone else? If there's no one I'll take a moment. Mr. Mayor, I'm moved if we approve. I have number three as prison.
Second.
Vice Mayor Brumman, your vote.
Did you lose her?
Six in favor of the motion motion carries.
All right, thank you. Those are really, thank you.