Good evening, we have a college study session to order. It is just after 5 o'clock or just right at 5 o'clock. Could I have a roll call, please? Yes, of course. Councilmember Switzerland. Councilmember Phillips. Here. Councilmember Holt. Here. Councilmember McCafferty. Here remotely.
We can see you, but you're muted. Can you hear me? Yeah, we can.
I assume that means present.
Thank you very much.
Item 2, discussion regarding a requirement for a roll call vote for all town council
action.
Madam Clerk.
So this was an item that came out of requests from council members.
And I, if I remember correctly, this is a council member Switzerland request.
Yes.
Thank you.
So, um, I don't really have anything further than that, then I'll have a new guys just open up for discussion.
And I believe councilmember Holt was the sponsor on it.
Okay, gentlemen, we brought it forward. Discussion on it?
I just feel like, uh, even though it, it, it comes out in a minute.
Who voted which way I believe in the minutes, Greg? Aaron?
That's correct.
the minute show. I think fly that meetings to add an extra 30 seconds
roll call votes should be mandatory.
Okay. Anything else to add?
I agree. Somebody gets say that TV has a system where you vote on your
computer and it lights the light in front of you and everybody else too.
So either way, I think it's just allows us to be a little more transparent.
Okay.
I think we just wanted a little more discussion amongst the council to see if there was appetite to bring this back forward for any kind of action in the other opinions discussion.
Just know maybe.
No, I don't think we have.
I don't think we're bad.
for an action warden because it sounds good.
John, I support it. You support it being a roll call
vote all the time or use the vote. Yeah, I mean, I can see on the consent agenda maybe not,
but other things, yes. Okay. All right. Possibility. Are you concerned with a consent agenda item?
Yeah, it would be fine if the consent agenda could just be a non-roll call vote, but anything that's
under consideration. That's on the agenda. Larry, okay with that.
Could you propose sponsored? Okay. So I'll bring the item back for a vote at try for
the end of the month meeting might be the March 10th meeting. Okay. Thank you.
We'll bring it forward. You're welcome. Okay. Item three presentation and
discussion by Katie Pill, finance director regarding the Aquatics fee analysis.
Madam Pillett. Anything mayor? Vice mayor and council members. So I think you're
going to get tired of me tonight. I've got a few presentations. You'll have to bear
with me. I apologize. I'm just getting over a cold. So at our recent budget retreat,
we did talk about aquatic center fees and cost recovery and potentially increasing some of those.
So this is just information for you all on that. It was prepared in conjunction with Cindy Thomas
and Morgan Heiner in community services.
So currently our current financial picture
for the aquatic center.
The annual operating costs is around 302,000
with annual revenues at about 74,000.
So we're at about a 24% cost recovery.
And primarily we operate this facility as a community service.
That's why it's supplemented so highly from the general fund.
So this is just a picture showing our operating costs, the column in blue next to our current
revenue, the column in green.
So you can see where we are falling short of that full cost recovery.
Now with that, if we were going to go to a full cost recovery requirement, we would need
300 in 2000 in revenue, which would require an increase of four times the current revenue.
And that assumes usage remains constant, which it probably wouldn't if we raised our fees that
high. Additionally, that's not market-based pricing. So if we were to do that and have 100% cost
recovery, you're looking at daily admission going from $3 to $12 and family swim from 10 to 41
one senior admission from $2 to $8, swim lessons from $45 to $183 swim, going from $1, $4,
family pass, going up to $1,000, pool party rentals, going to $300, pool facility rentals,
going to over $1,200.
So that obviously is very expensive, so not feasible for our community.
So looking at that right now, the blue column is where we are currently, and then if we were to try and get to different cost recovery levels, we looked at a variety of different analysis.
The fees I just told you were the ones if we get to 100% cost recovery. So if we got to that blue column on the far right, we don't think that's realistic and we think there's a better option because we do want to balance quality of life with the aquatic center and the costs.
because it supports, you know, our youth programs, seniors, and families, we want to make it affordable to those users.
It also is a public health benefit and encourages recreation and we really want to balance that subsidy level.
So with that, we do think there is some potential for movement in the fees.
And potentially what could happen is move it to a 34% cost recovery in the first phase.
So perhaps for the 2026 season and then moving on to a 42% cost recovery for the 2027 season.
So that would up the daily admission amount in the first year by a dollar, two dollars the second year, same with senior admission.
And then dollar swim would have to go up as well and then all the other fees in conjunction with that.
so family swim. Swim lessons we kept a little lower than what we would normally do,
and that's primarily because of the benefit it provides and the safety to our
younger residents to get those swim lessons that are reasonable cost. We don't want to make it cost
prohibitive for them to learn those skills that are very valuable. An area where we were able to
increase a little more is like the pool facility rental because that's an optional thing but we don't
get a lot of those annually anyway as it is and then season passes. We have the prices of those a
little bit so for some families it'll make sense to get a season pass if they're frequent users but
in other cases it won't it'll just depend kind of like it is now. So this is where staff recommends
we potentially go. So we would, if Council likes the direction of this, then we would come back to
you to go through the fee adjustment process to try and get something in place before the
2026 season. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions you have. Questions, discussion, Bob?
No question, this discussion. Go ahead, sir. I keep it the way it is.
I said, about the only thing we give to the town is to pull, other things, but it's
to pull us packed every day.
Larry?
Same way.
Two points.
Number one is, how much are we losing by giving the Paul and people free swim?
And two is, and we afford to give up a quarter million dollars every year, plus additional
maintenance like the decking this year.
What was it last year?
We have the pumps go down or something. I mean, how long can we keep doing this and try and keep our revenue stream?
And it's a lot of money to lose the quarter of a million a year.
Right? I like to phase one. I don't know if we need phase two, at least that rapidly.
You know, maybe that could be 28 or even 29 season or something like that. And then
I like everything up to the pool facility rental. You know, when those get into the laser, later phases, those are really increasing a lot. So, maybe, you know, like the daily admission, I'd like the senior admission, I'd like the dollar swim, the family swim, I think those are all reasonable increases. But when you get up to the season passes and the family season pass at 675, you know, nobody, I don't think anybody's going to do that.
So maybe those could be dropped,
but
yeah, I like Larry said I think that's a huge red item and
I granted it's great for the town. I think we should don't need to keep it affordable.
It's affordable as we can without having a nosebleed that's going to bankrupt the town.
I think phase one is pretty good, but I also agree with Bob that there's not a whole lot
of recreation for kids in Chino besides the pool.
So you start raising the prices, then they're going to be staying home or they're going
to be out getting trouble, so Eric,
how are we, and Cindy might know this, how are we
We've compared it to why.
So the why I believe is $15 for a single day if you're not a member.
And then you get that's for an adult and you get a child free with that.
So they're much higher and then comparatively like in Prescott Valley,
they don't charge a rate for their pool of mission.
And those are two that are in the area.
So that is free of mission for residents.
For anybody.
anybody. Yeah, I mean, I don't see a problem with phase one of what I do see is like Rob said
after the aqua party facility rentals. Yeah, that increases quite a bit, but a couple of blocks too.
And then we have a fair amount of people coming here for PV, don't we? So I heard Cindy might have
more information on that. So I mean that's something too they're willing to pay to come
to a nicer pool. So yeah I mean phase one is fine. So something with the pool facility
rental. So that is rental of the full facility. I think we had two last year. So it is pretty
minimal. So is there a damage? Is there anything or I mean does there are a lot of cleanup
to do after the. It's just because it reserves it only for that party. So lifeguards have
to be a on staff and everything for that usage.
And that's why we suggested going a little higher on that one on the season passes.
So like for a season pass for a family in phase one at 525, if you're looking at a family
of four, that's 32 visits to the pool.
So that is, you know, something we could definitely look at and prepare some options for a council.
It sounds like we're kind of mixed right now on direction, so perhaps the best thing would
be to bring back a menu of options for Council as far as the potential increases will kind
of tweak from your comments tonight and then have a few options on whether it's a state
the way it is or move forward with a notice of intent and so on so much to change these dollars
went up five dollars family of five more than doubled okay then this is outrageous you know
dollar here dollar there are five dollars there more than double for a family and mostly families
We're not going to go and then it's all going to be bad news back to the council.
So I'm definitely against phase one.
Yes, sir.
Then.
Cool staff back there.
You got anything to add?
I.
Mayor.
Go ahead.
One thing I would like to speak to.
Do I know that councilmember Holt talked about the amount of money that we spent in the last
I think three years between the mechanical, the pool surface and the pool deck and part of that was deferred maintenance.
We hadn't done anything in 20 years.
So one of our policies now is not to put ourselves where we don't spend anything for 20 years and then all of a sudden we're spending 300,000.
So but I will give you that we've had to do those things because they were deferred and we had some really big expenses that we haven't had in the last three years.
I just think that I'm with Robert and Sherry. I could support most of phase one. I don't think we need to talk about phase two yet.
Okay.
I do have one more question. On your daily admission when they pay when they come in and pay and that's to swim how long?
Is it all day?
All day.
Okay.
All day for open smoke.
Mayor council, thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening.
I do want to address the pool facility rental.
It does seem like it's steep, but like Katie said, we had two rentals last year.
And those that rent the entire facility are generally or typically speaking, those that can afford it.
They're not usually, you know, the family of four that's doing it for a birthday party.
It is a church. It is an organization. It is an outside company that's doing it for their employees.
So typically speaking, they can afford it. We did look at these and I did question that also.
And once I realized who was renting it, I feel a little bit better about that cost.
Swim lessons, also like Katie said, was something that we are very concerned about
increasing the price because you do have these families that have multiple children
and they are trying to just get something for their kids and make sure that
they are learning to swim and doing it safely. So, thank you Kim Morgan and I
answer any other questions. Anything else for Cindy? Yes, so how do you feel about
the season passed for our families more than that one? I mean your whole
people know who comes to these folks. They do. And if you look at that, I personally think that it's
still reasonable. Now, I can afford it. And I think that for the most part, the families that come,
they can afford it. And the visuals that come, the families that are just sending little Bobby and
little Sally they can't necessarily always afford that.
I don't see the reason why we need to raise it
that much because we've ever for the rest of it's never been a money made. The only thing that makes
money is the concession. That's it. It was always for the people. And all the while I've been on
accounts of we've always okayed everything because it's packed every summer for the people.
And it is packed in like-
It's not money maker.
Yes, sir.
And this last year I think really goes to show the multitude of people that are using the pull.
We had the highest numbers we've had in 10, 12 years.
Well, you're going to lose a lot of those people.
Thank you.
John, anything else to add?
Well, I mean, Bob's got to play.
I mean, this is one of those things where the town contributes
to the overall being of the community.
But I think some of the increases on phase one are appropriate.
Maybe not all of them, but most of them.
Wait.
So, yeah, the daily admission, senior admission,
dollar swim, family swim, swim lessons,
those are all reasonable, especially phase one.
Those are very small increases, maybe the seasonal pass,
seasonal family pass, and seasonal senior could just be adjusted slightly, but
and maybe keep the pool facility full rental, maybe increase that substantially,
it's like you're saying, it doesn't really happen anyway, so that's just my thoughts.
I don't have a problem with rentals, like you said, and we've talked about that, the people that
run it can. And there was a time where a lady wanted to reimbursement because of the
pool issues. She was in no hurry to get any of that money back. So I don't have a problem
with that. It's the family past thing that really hurts me.
Okay general consensus and correct
me if I'm wrong from what I'm hearing that phase one would be okay up until the aqua party but the
The aqua party, the pool facility, the season pass individual and the season pass family
should be considered to be adjusted downward.
I would really just say just the season pass.
Just the season pass.
Yeah, the three season passes.
The three season passes adjusted downward to some extent.
Can you work out a formula?
We're in you going to get out here without saying anything?
Okay.
How far would we work that down though Tom, do you have any idea?
I don't have any idea.
I, this pool, I've been around here a while, and this pool has never been a money maker, never established to be a money maker, it's strictly for the families.
And we've done a good job of keeping it open by spending money when we had to.
And if it were brought to a vote right now, I'd say leave it where it is.
But I would agree with you.
Consensus with other council members wanting to see a possible diminished scale on one end.
I'd like to see that brought back.
I want to want the price to go up either, but the cost of chemicals and everything is not going down either. It's going up faster than we get money coming in. So that's another thing to take into consideration. The polls are super expensive to run, but it also isn't a money maker.
We're not trying to make it a money maker.
No, not making any money at all, but just trying to keep it open.
Exactly.
If we don't keep it open.
And if we don't maintain it, we're not going to be able to keep it for anybody.
Whoa, Terry said it makes a lot of sense.
All what happened this year because it wasn't here, Michael.
Maybe there were one more.
I don't have one.
And if I could just remind everybody, because there's a few of you that I'm going to try
and just release your microphone, but it's because of the expense that it got away with,
They did the neglect that it was so long that so that's what price that is that's driven it way up on top of that 250 year.
No, but it's still 50,000 every year no more because of that because everything keeps going up.
How are you going to find money somewhere in this town other than the residence pocket to keep this going?
So we will bring back options to counsel, whether that's a stay as it is currently, or an adjustment of some type. So we'll bring that back at a future museum.
Please.
You people in the audience, you'll be collecting at the door also.
That's tight.
All right. Thank you, Katie.
Like most of them work for the town.
I'm coming.
Really?
I know.
A big sale.
You're great.
Yeah.
Item 4 presentation and discussion by Katie Pill, Finance Director regarding property tax
options.
Madam Pill.
Hello again.
I told you you were going to get tired of me.
So property tax options.
This also came up at our recent budget retreat.
And so we just want to go over a little bit about the difference between primary and secondary
and what that would look like for us.
So primary property tax can be used for general government operations.
It's subject to theirs on a constitution levy limit, which is typically 2% of the levy
plus any new construction can be added into that.
And then it counts towards the 1% homeowner constitutional cap.
So that means if it's a owner occupied residential structure, there's a cap on the amount of property
tax that is primary on that home.
home. And then it's a permanent base once it's established. So if a town already has it,
then Council annually adopts the levy ordinance during the budget and you follow a truth
in taxation and other requirements to increase over the prior year amount. If you've never
had a property tax, primary property tax, it requires voter authorization to establish the
initial base. So in our case, that would mean it would need to go to the voters for approval.
And once the basis set, then future increases are limited to the 2% increase along with the new construction.
So that being said, a secondary property tax is another option.
That's for specific purposes, typically not general operations.
It's bonds, debt service, and special districts.
So that could be something like if the town were to take out a bond for road improvements.
that bond could be paid through a secondary property tax.
Again, it needs to go to the voters for approval,
and it's not subject to the 2% levy limit,
because in that case, it's a specific issue that's approved by the voters,
and it doesn't count towards the 1% homeowner cap
because it's in the secondary classification, not the primary.
It does require the voter approval, like I said,
and it's based on the actual debt schedules or the voter approved limit.
And the secondary ends when the bonds are paid or the override expires.
So sometimes that's a little more palatable to the residents,
because it's got an end in sight. It's not a forever thing.
It's based on a specific issuance.
So, the primary differences, primary is ongoing up.
Operations funding, and the limits that we discussed, it affects the long-term base, and it is less common on ballots, and I'll show you why in a moment. And then on secondary, their specific voter approved purposes. They're for project or time limit. So they're not forever, and they're more commonly seen on ballots. You see them a lot for school districts and fire districts. So in the last 15 years.
There's all of the primary property tax efforts have failed that I was able to research.
So page had one in 2013 that failed Fountain Hills in 2018, us here in Chino Valley in 2019,
and then San Luis in 2019 in 2024.
So successful first time municipal primary tax adoptions are extremely rare and I wasn't
able to locate any in my research if there's not already one established.
And on secondary property tax and numerous bond and override elections happen through Arizona and those are common for streets and public safety and schools and buildings, those kind of things.
And those may ask because of the project centered focus, where secondary taxes are typically much more palatable like I mentioned to the voters versus primary.
So as far as the actual amount on the property tax bill it doesn't change how it's calculated whether it's primary or secondary except for the limitations that are in place for it.
So for a brief example, if our tax rate were the number on the far left column, so say we had a 1% tax rate on a $100,000 primary assessed home, it would bring in approximately 1.2 million in tax revenue.
but it would cost the property owner around $100.
And that would be around $8 a month.
And that goes up obviously as the tax rate goes up.
But where these often fail is because there's so many other taxes that are already on properties in Arizona and in our jurisdiction.
So for example, this box on the right side shows taxing authority.
So, if somebody is located in our street lighting improvement district, this is just a sample from there.
They would have Yavupite County Tax, Chino Valley School District, Yavupite Community College, Chino Valley Fire District,
the Fire District Assistance Tax, the Slid Tax for our street lighting improvement district,
library, flood control, and then the Mountain Institute.
So all of those added together and I added Chino Valley on there just so you could see what a 1.5% tax rate would do.
It would bring in $150 for us from that home, but then that boosts the overall tax bill for that property that's only valued at limited property value at $100,000 to $100,000.
So that's pretty significant when you're looking at it that way from the property tax side and what they're already paying for like the fire district and school district.
And that's probably why we've had very unsuccessful attempts in the past to push something through with that.
In fact, at the last election when we did try and pass the primary it was I think it was like a 26% something like that 25, 26% approval.
So three to one on it not passing.
So that's just something to keep in mind as we continue to look at this.
You know primary property tax can be great for a town if it's already established.
But I don't think it's a feasible situation for us to engage in one.
What might be more feasible is looking at if there's truly like a schedule of streets
that need to be done more urgently than we put a bond through to go to voter approval
for a secondary property tax on a specific set of projects or roads.
And really voter history and community expectations matter.
So generally in our community there's not been strong support for that nor is there strong
support for additional taxes in general. So it is something that we could put before
the voters, but I have concerns whether it's a primary or secondary that it would not
fare very well at this time. But that's, I would recommend a secondary over a primary for,
for sure, after what we've seen in the past. But if there's any questions, I'm happy to.
Question is no discussion, Bob.
You said a second there.
It would spell out what the project was.
And then it would end.
Correct.
Once that project was done complete.
Correct.
But what if there's other projects like roads?
It would have to be very specific.
So if it's taken out for a specific project and funding for that project.
And it's already approved by the voters that way it would have to go back to the voters to get approved again if it was a different set of roads or additional bond amount.
So you can't just continue it on like you could if it were primarily put one or two items there.
You could put multiple in the initial that multiple one or two.
Good. Yes.
You could initially yes, but it would have to go to the voters that way.
Right. And then once those two infrastructures are done, the taxes are not there anymore.
Correct.
When one quick clarification there, the ballot questions what drives the projects that
can be, the bonds can be issued for, but the tax goes away when the bonds are paid off.
Right. So the project might be done in two years, but the bonds are probably 20 years.
The bill is correct. Right. Right. But they're, they go on for quite a few years after the projects are done, I just want to make sure we're, yeah, we are clear with folks on that.
Thank you, Andrew.
Anything else, Bob? No, sure. Very.
Yeah. Okay. You said it's, uh, be a bit approximately $100 per 100,000 value.
The average home in this town right now is what 450?
do? Except it's not. So yes, sales price? Yes. But they go off limited property value,
not full cash value. And that's a substantial difference. So this was one in the area of
bright star. So they're nicer homes, typically they're selling for around the 400,000 plus range.
And I think the LPV on one of the ones I looked at was like 158,000. So I dropped it down to 100,000
for this example because a lot of our properties that are in like Chino Meadows area are going to be
around 76,000 in LPV even though even those are selling for over 200,000 you know it's just the way
that property tax is done in Arizona so it's a different calculation essentially is what they use.
And on the bonds, you said that on that second that they aren't locked into the percentage
of increase.
So it could increase over time if we weren't going to be making our deadlines.
In other words, we put past a 10-year bond, and after five years, it was apparent that
we're not going to make it, then we could just arbitrarily raise that or...
The way they're structured is you actually structure the tax age.
year to meet your debt service requirement. So we would look at whatever debt services
do and that's how we calculate the rate for that secondary property district. So it would
be if, you know, a million was due on the bonds that year, then we would structure the property
tax for that year at a million to cover that. Now where you run into issues is if your debt
schedule has large differences from year to year. So you want to try and keep it as a standardized
amount so you're not seeing a huge jump each year over the next so people aren't seeing a large change in their bill.
It's just enough to cover that actual debt service so as new additional homes are added to that secondary property tax area.
It actually reduces the amount on other people's homes because the actual total valuation of the area goes up so it spreads it out more.
So it's only to pay those debt service requirements.
Okay.
And so if we wanted to say pass a bond to fix all the roads.
I think the last bid we had to do all the road,
the last estimate from Frank was $90 million.
Not feasible.
So this isn't feasible to pass this for roads or unless you're just going to say
we're going to do this one road.
You would be looking at more like maybe like a $15 million bond.
You could probably.
significant increase. Yeah, and that would be around 100 per home, and you're looking at the whole area of
Chino Valley, so some people's roads might not be impacted by that. So there's a lot of further
discussions we need to have if this is a direction we want to pursue. Not me, but go ahead, Robert.
Yeah, I think, Andrew, so bonds are typically 20, 20 years? Yes, typical. Yes.
And the one that the recent one, the most recent one that failed, what percentage was it a percentage
bond or was it just a flat amount or? It was to establish a primary property tax with primary.
Correct. But it was not a bond.
It was specifically dedicated for roads as well. But it was a primary tax.
It was primary, yeah. So it had been ongoing permanent.
permanent. It was for ongoing road maintenance, I believe, as well.
Well, that's actually a set of tax. That one was going to be, I think,
needing the 26 percent approval rate at the 74 percent.
Yeah, but I'm just wondering what the percentage of it was.
It was going to generate about 1.5 million at the time. So it was, I think,
right around at the time, I think that was about 1.5 to 2 percent.
So it was fairly high percentage, okay, if I remember the discussion back then too, as all
it was going to do with slurry coat most of the roads, it was just for ongoing road
maintenance period.
Minimal contract ongoing.
Okay, thank you.
Jerry.
No.
John.
I'm not in favor of another property tax.
I'm in favor of Terry getting more economic development and revenue coming in.
I'll second that one.
Here.
general consensus. Thank you very much for your presentation. I at this point don't see a reason to bring it back without further discussion coming up at a later study session or something where we can pin down the numbers a little bit.
Right now.
For the town, but it's not going to happen.
I don't see it.
So thank you.
Thank you.
Item five.
Cherry.
I make a motion to adjourn.
Second.
I have a motion of 2nd Ellen Favourite.
I see about 20 to 5 minutes.
Okay.
Aaron, is this going to be the same link?
Yes, it will.
All right, thank you.
Thank
you, could I have a roll call, please? Yes, councilmember Switzerlandzer, councilmember Phillips, here, councilmember Holtz, here, councilmember McCafferty, here remotely.
Thank you very much, item two. Introductions, presentations and proclamations, item A presentation
by Josh McIntyre, Chief of Police Department and receiving their agency accreditation.
Chief McIntyre.
Thank you.
I'm going to flip the script a little bit, Mayor.
Vice Mayor Council. Thank you for having me. We're going to do some cadets stuff first.
Then we'll move into the other thing. Make sure that the mayor agrees with changing up that.
Yes, thank you.
Also, that we change those things.
As I said, good evening. We're here this evening to provide an update
on the Chino Valley Police Department cadet program and to recognize several outstanding young men and women
for their hard work, commitment and dedication. The Chino Valley Police cadet program was established
in 2022. From the earliest planning stages, Sergeant John Zamaski played a crucial role in developing
the program and a soon responsibility for guiding it forward to ensure both its success and continue
growth. Under his leadership, the program has expanded significantly and has become highly
successful and respected part of our department. Unfortunately, Sergeant Zamaski couldn't be here
today. He's in advanced trading in the valley, so we'll give him a pass on that. The cadet program
I also would not be where it is today without the many members of the police department who invest their time and energy into mentoring, instructing, and supporting our cadets.
I would like to personally thank Officer Jason Eller back, Officer Arcasio and cadet advisor McKinsey-Zamanski for their unweight-referring commitment not only to our department, but to the young men and women who make up our cadet program.
I would now like to turn it over to cadet advisors Amanski, who will provide additional updates
and details of the cadet program and highlight the cadets recent accomplishments.
Thank you again for having us. Let me lower this just a little bit.
The Chino Valley Police cadet program serves teens ages 14 to 20, who are interested in pursuing
a career in law enforcement. Our cadets meet biweekly to learn and practice essential law enforcement
skills, such as traffic stops, buildings such as defensive tactics, and more.
In 2025, with the support of the Chino Valley Police Foundation, cadets competed for the
first time in the Chandler Tactical Competition against more than 40 cadet and explore post-nation
wide.
Running third place in wilderness, wilderness marksmanship, which is archery, the patrol bicycle
rodeo, motivated by their success, and with the assistance of the Chino Valley Police Foundation
again this year, the cadets returned in 2026 after a year fundraising and volunteering, competing
Once again, against 40-plus posts, they delivered an outstanding performance and earned four awards.
Cadet Lindsay Norbell earned first place in the female postal shoot.
All of our cadets earned second place in the high-risk vehicle stop.
All of our cadets earned second place in incident command systems.
Cadets Ryan Garden and Liam McIntyre earned third place in the patrol bicycle rodeo.
And you can see there are awards that they've earned over the years.
Their dedication supported by outstanding instructors prepared them for every challenge.
The Chief of Public Police Department is incredibly proud of our cadets' hard work and accomplishments.
And we look forward to them committing again next year.
I'm going to have cadet advisors Amanski, and by each cadet forward individually,
so you can put a face to the name.
And I will have the honor of presenting each cadet with a chief citation of achievement
and recognition for their outstanding performance and dedicated service to the Chino Valley Police Department
cadet program.
Skyler Warpaw,
Jacob Castillo.
Alina Ponce,
Ethan Joylet,
Lindsay Norbell, who is unfortunately not with us today issues at
the University. Ryan Garden,
Whirlington Sid Ortega, who is also unfortunately not with us tonight,
and Liam McIntyre.
For that advisor, do you want to stand up here for a picture?
I don't like how some of them are taller than me, so.
I know this.
Here we go.
Okay, item A which became B and it's now back to.
Sorry.
Okay, I was at the throw ranch in the system.
All right, so we let this leak, as you all have heard, I am proud to share that the
Chino Valley Police Department has officially earned accreditation through the Arizona law
enforcement accreditation program also known as A-Leap. This achievement represents a significant
standard of excellence and underscores our ongoing commitment to professionalism, accountability,
and best practices in law enforcement.
This achievement reflects a rigorous two-year process
that include an in-depth self-assessment, a mock review,
an on-site evaluation, and final approval by the A-Leat Board.
Accreditation is not a one-time check-the-box thing.
It's an ongoing commitment that we continue to absorb
as a core element of our strategic plan.
In fact, re-accreditation process started the moment
we walked out of the room with that nice plaque and stuff.
So the clocks started ticking again.
This milestone requires significant effort and dedication.
It has strengthened our department, reinforced accountability, and delivers lasting benefits
to our entire community.
This achievement would not have been made possible without the exceptional leadership and tireless
dedication of Lieutenant Randy Chapman.
He took on this immense responsibility and was truly the driving force behind our success.
Lieutenant Chapman, would you please come up and join me and
make him stand here and awkwardly
face the audience?
Just a side note, Lieutenant Chapman actually jumped on this.
We were already six months, almost six months into our accreditation process, and we're
only given 18 months to get our self-assessment done.
So he started at a huge disadvantage with very little resources available to him, and he
muscled it out.
So, for that tonight, it is my privilege to present Lieutenant Randy Chapman with the Chief's
Exemplary Leadership Award, honoring his dedication, perseverance, and exceptional service
to both the department and our community.
Please join me in congratulating Lieutenant Chapman
as we celebrate this well-deserved achievement
for the Chino Valley Police Department
and the town we proudly serve.
Mayor and Vice Mayor and Council,
I'd just like to say that it wasn't all just me.
There were many people in the PD that played a critical role
and throughout the town that's involved finance
and human resources as well being documents from them.
So it was a team effort.
I was just the one that put it all into the program
that we use and the chief was a helpful tenant chamberlain. McKinsey's amansky was the humongous
help in getting a lot of the proofs that we required. So it's a team effort and it's for the
entire department. Great job very much.
And I'm just you follow Chief Lee's I was down there
at the ceremony with the limited number of police departments.
It's that have this accreditation, particularly our size. We are fortunate to have the PD. We have here and their level of commitment and professionalism is exemplary. I think their engagement with the community and the trust the community has in them. And this is just one more important stop in showing that professionalism and being held to a standard being held not just in action, but within accreditation and with a process that says we are professional and we will remain professional and deliver the highest level.
of public safety. So thank you.
Moving to the answer, Andrew.
Okay, that's making sure.
Carrier out there.
You see your trophy here.
We'll forget the hardware.
Okay, item C presentation and update by Vinny Gallegos,
White Plan Executive Director.
Mr. Mayor, council, good to be with you all today.
Vinny Gallegos Executive Director.
You have a pipeline plan formally, simple,
essentially you have a pipeline metropolitan planning
organization.
I'm sad to see that the crowd didn't out.
I thought they were here for this update.
But they got the applause going.
So we'll see if we can keep it going.
So I appreciate this opportunity to come in
and really share the value of regional transportation planning
on our partnership with you in the town of Chino Valley.
Many of you have heard several of these points before.
We got some newer faces, but just a reminder
of what the vision and the mission of Yavupai Plan is, it's to promote and maintain a regional
coordinated transportation system for the safe and efficient movement of people, goods,
and services. Our mission is to use regional leadership and planning, promoting a comprehensive
multi-modal transportation system. I always like to start with this because I think this hopefully
really sets the tone for one of the many things that we bring in partnership to the town of Chino Valley.
So, one of the key parts, and I really would like to take a moment to appreciate Mayor Armstrong.
Also, the other elected officials that represent the region, Supervisor Cooke-Nioh, I also
see former County Supervisor Craig Brown, and a lot of work over the years has gone into
this and continues to go into this.
And when you start looking at this, you know, this alone is really impressive.
Over the last five years, through Yavapai Plan, we've been able to secure four of the
essentially you have a pie region, about $27 million.
When you break that down over the five years,
that's on average about $5.5 million a year.
To put it in context, we are asking the state legislature
for one time funding of almost $48 million.
In that last five year number, the number I didn't add in there
is the I-17 improvement,
because that would have really blown the number up.
But I want to be transparent in that.
But if you include the legislative ask and what's been apportioned, that's at the bottom
of the screen.
It's about 103,000.
Why that I-17 matters?
We all drive it.
But what's significant about me bringing it up, it's the organization of the ABAPI plan
formally simple that actually started the ball rolling on that formally.
It was the executive board that passed a resolution and got regional support.
and they said what we were all we're saying was I-17 needs to be improved. When it gets shut down
it's detrimental to safety, to the economy. So it really got the ball rolling with us, but that
that apportionment has been monumental in those improvements that you see today.
So just to put this in context, and this is a key part of kind of my update to you today,
is your annual match is around $80,000 in this fiscal year for 26 to be exact tonight.
Terry pleaded this number in because it's going to come up on a later action item at a different meeting.
But the exact number for a fiscal year 26 is $77,447.35.
If we just looked at what we're doing with the regional legislative ask and the return,
And that's all that we were able to bring to the town of Chino Valley in the region.
That's about 68% or 68 times on that $80,000 in contribution.
And again, in a moment, I'm going to show you these projects, but I'm going to show them
also as we move forward.
But I wanted to pause here to really be able to illustrate just this alone with your being
elected officials working with senators, wind, bliss, and representatives, and the senator
Finchum is really, really important to continue to keep this success and to keep it going.
So, I just want to put this in context of last year and we're going to talk a little bit more
as we go through this. Your contributions last year were around 20,000. We jumped up to 77,000 and
this presentation is going to go into be able to explain why that jump is shaped in place.
As the executive board with your representation of Chino Valley continues to identify priorities
and opportunities that I'm going to be outlining, that really shows kind of the match going to
support the agenda. I'll come back to this in just a moment.
But I want to be able to show what we've done the last five years. One of those is the round
about at $69.169 Glassford Hill Road Improvement, $69.99 and then the interchange at $89.89A.
And then like I said, you add the I-17 in there and you have a little over $100 million dollars
worth of regionally significant projects. Why that history is important because it brings us
to where we are today. So currently in the House, you have House Bill 2304 and represented as bliss
and when have signed off on this bill and they're moving this bill forward, if completely successful fingers crossed our region would get about $48 million.
The number one project on this list is the improvement of state route 89 in the town of Chino Valley between three and five north.
Here's what's a real big breakthrough with Mayor Armstrong's help is we've really got representative bliss to really advocate for this project.
She's been working with ADOT staff to be able to understand the opportunities to really
be able to deliver this much needed project of improvement for safety and capacity.
The number two project we have in here, we really want to acknowledge Senator Irms,
I keep saying sorry, representatives win for this on-ramp project.
He has already committed this as his number one project for the region.
He's already spoke to the speaker, he's already running a separate ask of this.
So I'm incredibly hopeful for that $4 million to be delivered by the State Legislature and what this will do is it will add an additional on ramp as you go from either Chino Valley or Prescott to Prescott Valley.
And then we're also looking to support the 89 through the Dell's project which the City of Prescott is discussing today.
I want to also acknowledge that the bottom of this page is House Bill 2760.
This is also another bill being run by Representative Wynn for $15 million.
What this program is, is if you are successful in achieving a federal grant, this will help
you in the match reimbursement that would be the local responsibility.
So it really is $15 million to unlock two to $300 million worth of projects.
It's a very, very smart program, but please speak to the representatives and the senator
about both House Bill 2304, House Bill 2760, incredibly and directly beneficial to this
community and the region.
So again, to recap on this, we really do have, through our regional partnership with you,
we really bring that proven advocacy, it is a direct local impact.
In fact, what you get in the Avapai plan is a regional voice.
It's not just Chino, not just Prescott, not just Dewey Humboldt.
It's the region speaking that saying, look, this is the priority of the region.
So you know you can have all these conversations with our representatives, but it really matters
a great deal when you come in and you're representing the region.
And it is about leveraging investments.
So we've talked to you about this before, but I think this is a great time to highlight
our investment in Chino Valley and the region for $275,000, we just completed our 25-year
transportation plan. We update this every five years. What this gives the town of Chino
Valley is, it gives you a list of regional, significant road projects. It helps you to prioritize
what projects need to be prioritized and how do those projects get delivered. We look at
this from three different perspectives and I'm not going to go into great detail, but we
look at preserving what we have, we look at modernizing what we have, and we look at expanding
when and where necessary, but this really is a great support to the town of Chino Valley and
your decision making and your regional support from us and others to be able to prioritize projects.
I'm going to go through the next couple of slides. If possible, I'm happy to answer specific
questions, but it's not so much today about the specific projects because there's plenty of time
to circle back and talk through them. What's important about these next couple slides though
is looking at the big dollar amount. You know, that $71.3 million of high priority projects that
really need to be delivered in the next 15 years. And if you know the work that we do working together,
it can take all of that time to get some of these much needed roadways. So you're welcome to look at
these projects specifically, but what we've identified through the planning process in order
for our traffic and order for our transportation to operate safely and efficiently, there
needs to be a $71 million investment. So really the conversation for us as we move forward
is how do we work together to make that happen? How do we work side by side with the state
of Arizona, with our neighboring cities and towns? And I'm going to put this in the context
that as a region, we've delivered over the last 10 years about $77 million worth of projects.
So, we could get stuck here pretty, pretty easy, and this is just from the town of Chino Valley.
This isn't necessarily Prescott Valley, so we do have a lot of regional needs.
As we look to the medium priority, this takes us to that 2041 year, up to 2050.
And again, we have another list which is close to the last number, which is about $71 million worth
the projects. On this list is where you start to see that SR 89 widening between roads
three and five north. Again comes with about a $38 million price tag. We just did a ribbon
cutting. Some of you were able to attend on state route 69 to put that in context. That was
about one mile of widening from Prescott to Prescott Valley. That was about 12 to 13 million
dollars took about 12 years to make that happen. So when I start throwing out these numbers,
It's helpful to be a little bit grounded in kind of the state of needs and the resources that we have in the work that's cut out for us.
As I go into low priority, this starts to look 25 years and beyond and some of these things depending on how the media covers it or the public views it.
You know, might raise some red flags and say what there's a new road there. What's going on?
Again, I want to couch that today in the conversation by saying this is a planning study.
This does not commit to these projects.
This shows that the 25 year and beyond mark, so we have some conversations to have between
now and then, but as we look at regional traffic and how it's moving around with the population
today and an estimated 25 years in the future, you start to see what the needs are.
Again, the number that's placed here should be a big sticker shocking number when you start getting into eight hundred and thirty three million dollars.
But part of our conversation as a region is where are the needs and how do we help in response to those particular needs.
Next thing I want to talk about is our act up our active community transportation for the first time we've went ahead and focused on bicycle and pedestrian throughout the region.
We understand that each community is a little bit different from Prescott to Chino to
Dolly Humboldt.
So this wasn't a one-size-fits-all, but again, what we did with the town of Chino Valley
is prioritized around the schools, where are the kids, the families, and the community,
where are they currently biking, where are they walking?
What can we do to support you in improvements, which I'll show in a moment?
I think I can flip to the next slide on this project.
We were successful in getting a grant for $292,000 to help you with the design of a sidewalk
project on Road 1 East and Perkinsville Road. So this came out of that ACT UP study. This
helped to prioritize what are the needs of the community. But again, how do we find the resources
to deliver these projects? I'm incredibly proud of this project because rather than coming to you
and saying here's a list of problems you need to fix, we're here to work side-by-side with you
and be able to figure out a solution and that's what's happening here is we were able to find the funding to do the design after that's done we'll work with you to find the funding for the construction of it.
So I think that's a great example of our grant program and what we're doing.
I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge our regional transit system.
It represents about $2.5 million of federal dollars at work in the town of Chino Valley and throughout the region.
So we have two systems.
We manage Yaveline, which services Prescott and Prescott Valley.
You have Yavapai Regional Transit, which is born out of the town of Chino Valley, but serves the region.
And between those two systems, you have Regional Connectivity.
The idea is that residents of the town of Chino Valley could use both transit systems, but sometimes it's a matter of connecting one to the other.
So it's very the opportunity that we want to create is getting people to jobs, to healthcare, to the VA.
That's one of the number one destinations.
And if a resident in Chino Valley can get on the other Pyregional Transit,
And then connect with the Avaline and get to Prescott Valley for DES, we want to make that happen. I really appreciate tonight seeing some of the founders of the Avalpire Regional Transit here in the room in Ron and Sherry Romley. And without that real vision and leadership over a dozen years ago, we wouldn't be where we are today. And I also appreciate Mayor Armstrong through the executive board really taking on this leadership to really show, again, how do we help our citizens and our
residents get where they have to go. The Prescott and Prescott Valley system right now,
40% are using it for jobs. They're using it to get to jobs. 30% are for healthcare.
In the city of Prescott, our number one line that we're running right now is from U.S. vets to the
VA. The vets are in desperate need of public transportation. It is an incredibly successful program,
and we're all working together to move the citizens around that need that type of service.
I want to kind of wrap up here at this point on regional conservation planning.
So again, when you look at what are some of the reasons that matched increased from the
number last year to where we are to this year, well, this was part of it.
This was us being able to understand what are the priorities in the region.
Clearly, we have a big list with roads, but you can't go and build a new road without impacting
the environment.
You know, if you followed the news the last couple years, you saw us put our next out there for the Sundog connector and there was a few comments that we received over that period of time.
And one of that one of the overarching comments was don't harm the environment, don't build the road here in my backyard, build it somewhere else.
So for us, as we look at the need for new roads, the need for expanded roads, we realize that our role in the regional conservation needed to be at the table.
One of the things that we're very proud that's underway now is our regional trails plan.
Why this is significant for the town of Chino Valley is, with your leadership and your efforts
in making that the state park, we want to be able to support services into there, such as trails.
We want to be able to bring regional trails with the p-vine, but we want to be able to connect
Crescott Valley for, again, bicyclist hikers, pedestrians, and we realize that trail connectivity
as I have listed at the bottom represents tourism, economic growth and equality of life.
So this is underway now. When we're done with it, we're going to deliver it to you.
What it's going to do is it's again going to identify the opportunity for a regional trail system.
It's going to identify grants and funding opportunity. It's going to prioritize
these type of projects to be able to move forward. And that's what we want to work side by side with
you so that we have a regional trail system.
So to wrap up, your investments are results.
So what Chino receives for its annual match contribution.
So again, at the very bottom,
the match this year is $80,000.
What that gets you is a $4.5 million
operation budget of which you have a pipeline operates,
and that's a 52 time return on your investment.
So I am incredibly proud and honored to be not only a leader,
But to serve side by side with you, I'm very much about stewarding our tax dollars. I understand how important these dollars are what they mean in your decision making.
I'm born and raised in Prescott Arizona third generation, so I take a lot of pride in the work we do.
I take a lot of pride in the conservative approach to the tax dollars, how we watch them, how we steward them.
So whenever I can come back and say you gave us $80,000 this year and we're giving it back to you times 52 or whatever the number ends of being and I did it again kind of recapped on this slide.
Those various things that we're doing side by side, we're going to continue to deliver projects for the entire region.
We're going to represent the town of Chino Valley and all of our communities not only at the legislature, but through grant funding through planning through priority.
We just talked recently, we met with the manager and the mayor, and talked about some
of the challenges with economic development along the ADOT Corridor on 89.
We want to be able to facilitate a conversation so that businesses aren't prohibitive,
I shouldn't say prohibited, but there's great challenges in promoting business.
So we want to facilitate between ADOT and those businesses, what's the best way to have businesses
is that are new, but also be able to work it within policy and guidelines that are also not
prohibiting that type of business. So I've given you quite a bit of examples today. I'm always
proud to be here. I'm also available to answer questions. But the highlight today is I really wanted
to demonstrate what your match contribution gets you out of the regional participation. Mayor,
I appreciate your participation and leadership always. So with that said, happy to answer questions
The connection with you have a pie and you're you have a line.
Not working.
The mic's not working.
Any little closer to it.
The connection with you have a pie and you have a line that was supposed to be meeting in Prescott.
You talked about that last time. That's not happening yet.
It is. So the two systems, sorry, Mayor and Councilmember, they are currently meeting what we are
doing currently as we are strategizing. Our next phase is opening up the connection for us
between Prescott and Prescott Valley. Currently, Yavupai Regional Transit out of Chino Valley services all
those communities. So what the planning that's doing now is trying to identify how do we serve all the
communities and is that a Yavalan, Yavapai regional transit. So right now those two services are meeting. There is an exchange of writers, but we are looking at the next phase, which will better connect Prescott and Prescott Valley, but they are connecting now sir.
Okay. Thank you. You're welcome.
Hey, no sir, Robert. John,
I don't have any questions. Jerry. No, no. Thanks, Ben.
Well, you're all easy tonight. Don't don't jinx me, Mayor. I have to write a
moment who knows what will happen. I want to go back to all these figures one more
John. I haven't seen him enough. Okay. You could have done this presentation.
I
you got turned down. Thank you very much. Appreciate you coming out. Thank you.
Thank you. And there's staff that came with you. I can see you hiding back there in the back.
Thank you all for your service. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.
Item 4 presentation and update by Katie Bill. Again,
finance director regarding the October, December 2025 quarterly finance and
sales report. By then, thank you. Is that a word?
Good evening, Mayor by smearing council again. So it is time for your second quarter update.
So that is through the end of December as a reminder to all our public, the full report can be viewed online on our town website to go to government and finance. You can find all our financial reports for the town there.
So at a glance, everything is on track to budget, which means for revenues that they're less than 5% less in budget and for expenses, they're less than 5% more than budget.
With that, our TPT revenues to date, this is only for five months, as we talk about each time,
it's a month behind due to the timing. Everything is on track right now as far as what we budgeted,
in fact, we're in a little excess of what we budgeted, but it's important to note that even though
we're above where we budgeted based on what we collected last year, we're still only 53,000 over
what we collected last year at this time. So, it's a very, very slight increase.
Well, you call it the conversation and the gallery, please.
That's your work, I'm going to go ahead and do it.
So, it is something that we're watching still because we do have quite a bit of the year
left and our individual sales tax revenues are strong currently but it's always very challenging
as we continue the year and new federal things that come out and other things can impact
how people are spending what they're spending and that translates into our retail, which I do
want to point out the retail line because compared to last year at this time we have actually
collected about $22,000 less than what we collected last year at this time.
And that is one of our more stable sources of revenue.
So even though it's good, it's not great and we're watching it closely.
As far as the rest of the revenues in the general fund go, overall we're doing well and
we're about $200,000 above where we had budgeted for the quarter, and then year to date it's
about $250,000, just under $250,000.
There are a few areas where we're seeing a little bit
of a under budget, and that is primarily
due to state-shared TPP and state income tax.
With the state income tax, we knew it was going to be going down,
and then there's been reallocations for state-shared TPP,
as well as vehicle license tax, but it hasn't impacted us
as much for the Santan Valley incorporation.
So, that did reduce our share a little bit there, but we're just continuing to watch that
as this year progresses.
Chargers for services were pretty close to budget, with just a slight 3,000 under.
And on a positive note, our licenses and permits, so new home construction and other permits
are actually up 100,000 to what was budgeted, and about 84,000 over the prior year at this
time.
As far as expenditures go, all general fund activity for expenditures is within budget.
In fact, there's quite a few areas that have significant savings right now, primarily
non-departmental and that's due to contingency fund because we haven't spent that yet, as
well as some of the other areas where one time projects are just starting to kick off and
And we typically budget those averaged out between all 12 months.
So earlier in the year we show better to budget situation and then as those one time projects
are getting completed, that'll line more closely with our budget.
And then public works is an area I wanted to call out just because second quarter is over
budget for the quarter and year to date they're still within their budget, but that is primarily
do to in parks, we actually had significant increase in our utilities for watering, so
our water bill for parks maintenance was significantly up this year, over 100,000 more
than what it was last year, and that was primarily due to the higher temperatures this,
the first two quarters of the year, as well as reduced precipitation.
These are the same expenditures,
just categorized by types, so personnel is within budget. Operating is within budget for
year-to-date slightly over for the quarter. Like I was mentioning, that has to do with those
one-time projects. And, or excuse me, the one-time operating is below that. The operating is due to
the Parks Maintenance Water, is the primary source there. And then contingency, we have not spent
any contingency funds to date however council did allocate 197,200 of contingency for the town
homes project for the extension of the water and sewer lines so that's even though that's
not an actual expense yet that is something that we're tracking as well. Herf, again we are seeing
a slight decrease in our herf revenues because of the Santana Valley incorporation as well.
Again, we're watching it. It's better than it was last quarter to where now we're less
than 5% discrepancy. And so we are just continuing to watch that as the year progresses.
It's pretty minimal, even though it's under your today, it's only around 30,000, so we still
have some time in the year to accumulate more revenues in some of those other areas as we
We sell equipment that's no longer being utilized.
That'll increase our miscellaneous line, that's surplus equipment that we sell as well
as interests that we receive.
Then our expenditure side on the herb side as well within budget and water fund, we have
seen significant increases in our water revenues for the fill station receipts as well as the
water service fees, and that's primarily due to the changes that we took into or the
council put into place starting July 1. And then as of January 1, we did see those rates
go up again, which was already programmed in. So that's significant because as you know,
we were operating at a deficiency in the water and waste water funds for some time. So this
is helping align those in a better way. And then our buy-in fees for the year, so for new
home construction. Very close to budget with only about one permit under where we would be.
And then on the expense side, we're looking at remaining in budget for all of the
personnel operating one time operating or isn't any and then debt service and contingency has not
been used on the water side. On the waste water fund, in this you see a little bit more red but the
that actual dollar amount isn't concerning your looking really, really good, actually in
our sewer service fees. We're about 10,000 underwear we expected, but for six months
of the year, that's not bad, and it's a lot better than where we were last year, as you
could see on the far right, we're about 85,000 over where we were the prior year this time,
which is significant. And then same with our...
Suer system buy-in fees. We're over where we were last year, but a little under budget to date,
but we do have some large projects that are coming through soon that should help that as well.
And then on our expense side for wastewater, we are looking good to budget,
personnel between water and wastewater, we split personnel, but we do an entry at the end of the year
because of how our payroll system interacts with our financial accounting software.
So it shows a little bit over budget in the wastewater side and a little under budget in the water side, but we do a correcting entry and June.
And then our operating expenses are well within budget as well as contingency that hasn't been utilized this year.
So fund health or cash balances by fund, we are seeing a little bit of improvement in the general fund compared to the beginning cash balance.
it dropped, but quarter one had dropped a little bit more significantly, so we're building
that back up, and then Herf is going down a little bit. Those were planned decreases,
and we bought some of the bigger construction equipment. So we had two of the three big
construction items actually purchased in the first six months of the year, so that drawing
cash was about 200,000, and we'll see that kind of reaccumulate through the next six months.
And this is just a table of all those cash balances.
It's also in the full report.
Overall, we're doing well, but we're just monitoring
and watching things closely because of the volatility
of sales tax revenues.
And with that, happy to answer any questions or comments.
Questions, Bob?
No.
Larry, I think I'm overloaded.
Good job, Hayley.
No, sir, great.
No, John.
No, Eric.
No.
Wow.
What you guys are getting out for your.
Thank you, Katie.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
Item three.
Call to the public.
Call to the public is an opportunity for the public to address the council on any issue within the jurisdiction of the council.
Public comment.
Is that the discretion of the council and not required by law?
Individuals are limited to speak for three minutes.
yielding of time will not be permitted. The total time for call to the public may be up to
30 minutes per meeting. Council action taken as a result of public comment on items not on the
agenda will be limited to directing staff to study the matter, scheduling the matter for further
consideration and decision at a later date or responding to criticism. Public comment is
invited and encouraged, however personal tax on individuals is not appropriate. This respectful
behavior will not be tolerated. This includes loud outbursts for vanity and disruptive discussions
among our audience. For the first one, I did have an email that was sent to my office and the
citizen requested that I read this aloud during public comment. Take care of that, hang on once again.
This is from David Craig, Chino Valley resident. Dear Mayor, Councilman and members of the Chino
Valley Council, as you know, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University is proposing to build a training
air-filled in Chino Valley. To do this, they need to rezone the land owned by Mr. Perkins.
No doubt this is a process. I heard that one of the council members, Larry Holt,
has already said it's their property, and they can do whatever they want.
It was disappointing to hear that a sworn councilman has already reached a conclusion
without hearing all the evidence or listening to the people of Chino Valley.
Larry Holt has shown poor judgment by us in an inability to navigate a balance between
transparency and maintaining an appearance of open-mindness before the final evidence is presented
at the public hearing. Larry Holt should recuse himself from this vote.
I don't believe that Mr. Perkins has really thought about the ramifications of this deal.
I believe he can't see past the revenue income and has not been told the whole truth.
I believe that Emery Riddle Aeronautical University knows exactly what they're doing.
I believe they know that this is a health hazard. This action will pollute the error with
lead and benzyne from the small aircraft fuel. I believe they know this fuel travels for miles
and how affects people, animals, and the land.
This is why the FAA and partnership with the aviation industry through the Eagle Initiative
eliminate aviation gasoline-led emissions is actively working to transition small piston
engine aircraft from let it fuel to unlet it alternatives by the end of 2030.
There's also the issue of a chainsaw flying over your house.
This will decrease property value to everyone within air shot of a flight path.
Property owners will have to disclose it and believe me, it's not a plus when selling
your home.
I believe they just don't care.
I hope that you have investigated Embry Roodle Air Notical University to know exactly who
you're dealing with.
Look at the way they run their company and who they support.
Believe me, it's not what the City of Chino Valley supports.
I believe the businesses that we have here are partners, and I don't think we should
partner until this company has been thoroughly investigated for acts of
inappropriate safety issues and violations. We need to do our due diligence.
It's hard to trust a company that puts their company before the people of our
community. I believe we need more airports, pilots, and air traffic
controllers, but I think there has to be better places to do it than here in
Chino Valley, Arizona. If you approve this rezoning, then you are taking a blind
risk with our residents. You are our voice. I believe the correct answer is a
resounding no on this rezoning issue. You have the power to stop this on behalf of the people of
Chino Valley. A final word, if I might be so boldest to suggest to Mr. Perkins that he should
concentrate his noble cattle and ranching business instead of the business of poisoning and
making people miserable. Mr. Perkins, please withdraw your request for rezoning. To the city council,
please read this into the record at the appropriate council meeting. You can't escape Google search.
C.C. Elijah Crane, David Craig, Maple Lane, Chino Valley, veteran and property owner.
Thank you, ma'am.
Will that be read into the record at the council meeting as he requested or does called the public.
He requested called the public for tonight's meeting.
So it's a damn deal.
One of the rules of public public is to respond to public criticism.
I will allow council member hope to answer those questions or allegations if he so desires.
I just answered it real quickly. He heard. I didn't say that the Perkins could do it
ever they wanted. So, I'm listening to that. Thank you very much.
All right. So, next up, I have Annie Perkins. Yes, the town of Chinatown by the resident.
Be sure on that one.
Good evening, Madam Perkins.
Take a deep breath. Right?
Knock and I'm nervous up here. Good evening, Mayor Vice Mayor and Council. My name is Annie
Perkins and I'm a resident of Chino Valley. I requested to speak tonight to clarify and apologize.
I speak only for myself. At the January 6 planning and zoning meeting, I spoke on behalf of
my strong beliefs and the importance of personal property rights. Shortly after, I quietly observed a
few posts on the note of the airfield Facebook group that were disturbing to me personally.
I have been silent in the group watching and observing the legitimate reasons of members
of the group who are against the project.
To my extreme shock, I saw a post where members say that they had found our personal
home address and concluded the post with if nothing else.
My internal question was if nothing else, what?
I was extremely angry and my protective nature kicked into overdrive.
If you know me, you know, as much as that shocked and angered me, I remained silent and
continued to have served in the group.
The administrators of the page deemed it appropriate to leave as is without correction
or deletion.
Another post came up in that same group, personally disparaging my name and time in office serving
the Tonichino Valley.
When that second post came up, I responded with the intention of clarifying my personal commitment
to our town and defending my character.
I erred greatly in my statement.
I stated that the town reasoned the property
without the owner's knowledge, and that was incorrect.
I was thinking back to the 2040 general plan
changed to open space.
This error was quickly brought to my attention.
I verified the information and edited the post
to remove that portion.
When I saw a few comments regarding my prior statement,
and I deleted the post altogether.
I understand my comment created a lot of confusion
and fueled questions amongst those against the project
and the community.
Please know that was not my intent.
I believe in personal property rights.
I believe in personal autonomy.
I believe in honesty and accountability.
I should have verified the information in advance
and I am truly sorry.
Please accept my sincere apologies
for stating incorrect information
that has caused any additional contention to planning and zoning commission, town council, staff, and to the community at large for the confusion. Thank you.
Thank you.
Next
I have Andrew Marwick, not a town of Chino Valley resident.
Andrew Marwick, um,
Prescott resident formerly of 6,900 North's 5,200 West in Chicago, 7 miles east of O'Hare.
To put this project into context, back in the late 60s when I was walking to school,
there was a continuous roar, 7 miles away from O'Hare, with the early jets.
In the 1980s, it was impossible to hold a conversation for about a minute as 727s passed overhead,
seven miles from over there.
And then on October 4th, 1982, the nightmare started, a 747 Parago jet,
taking off from Amsterdam once two engines and crashed into the Department of
Plant Complex, calling nearly 900 people in the apartments.
The 3 o'clock in the morning, the 747 freighters would take off from over there.
then they would clean up their slats and flaps and accelerate and it sounded like
they were starting to dive and they could not sleep through that so they have an
800,000 pound 747 sound like it's coming straight towards your house it was
just scary for years this is a project the 7 miles away these are little
Taney says in the 172s, they're not going to be funding over Central Chino Valley that
air is undeveloped for the most part.
And the economic development is not only what's emerald middle has discussed, but if you
look at it, I was in Las Vegas airport a couple weeks ago, and the solicitor came up to me
and said, you want to take a trip to the Grand Canyon?
The 55 million passengers last year in Las Vegas Airport, 52 million in Phoenix, Sky Harbor,
50,000 at Prescott.
The amount of revenue and parking in rental car taxes and everything at Phoenix, it is
staggering.
And if this area of Prescott, Chino Valley, Yavapay County, you get a small percentage of that,
it is going to be a big economic bonanza.
Not just Prescott, but also Chino Valley, the traffic will be coming through from the Prescott
airport towards the Grand Canyon, towards Sedona, towards Flagstaff.
And this is the amount of economic development, the small amount of noise interference.
It's basically going to be over under-populated areas versus what this can do for the Embry
Rettling University, which keeps expanding the number of students and professors, the
economic impact of the whole region, and also the airports in general in the area, especially
freeing up some of the traffic that's clogging the Prescott Airport.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Next, I have Laura Chan, not a town of Chinavallia resident.
Hello, council.
Good evening.
My name is Laura Chan.
The following are the public expectations from many of the people who have signed the petition
For the upcoming town council public comment session on Monday, February 23rd, the expectation
is that a summary of letters and emails received for and against the proposal are presented.
A summary of petitions and opposition of this proposal, the total number of signatures
received were 471 and the total number of town and Chino residents 208 that were verified.
A presentation of how this Perkins Ranch airfield does not fit into the general plan.
Many concerns have been brought forth by the people and need to be presented versus a summary
by development services of how this proposal fits.
A presentation of noise issues three miles out from the airfield and at least two miles
from the proposed flight path, all masks are to include all structures for everyone to see
the impact of this proposal and the flight path with altitudes, especially along the east side
of 89. Answers to check Marit P&Z's request for information on the impact of memory
riddle training flights on the residents of cottonwood and Clarkdale. This should not
be how this proposal is different, but discuss the impact in neighborhoods and more than two
miles from the air strip. The definitions need to be spelled out and added to the UDO. Currently,
the only term on the UDO is airport. The last meeting Tom Perkins and statues, different
definitions and redefined definitions. Definitions were required for the solar ordinance,
What is different here?
Are we to assume that this is really an airport, and that's what is being described in the
cut?
Annexation agreement needs to be included in the meeting per package in a statement about
how this relates to the Perkins Ranch airfield status of the water annexation negotiations,
although attorney negotiations are not public record.
The status remains relevant since this proposal is up for the approval.
The water annexation topic has not been a part of the agenda for the previous meetings, but has been discussed without specific details given in the absence of information and transparency. This lends itself to the appearance possibly of a quick pro quo arrangement. Clarification of what exactly the town of Chino Valley is voting on phase one or all four phases of the cup, which states in the package proposal. A fire station is required, so how can the town council vote to approve the cup? They do not even know how the fire station will be staffed. It must be written into the cup agreement.
Now, so that the citizens know they will not be required to fund a private fire station.
If these issues are not addressed, the town council cannot make an informed decision on
the rezone and Perkins branch airfield.
All relevant information must be shared with the council to avoid bias and ensure residents
understand the proposal's impact.
Transparency, locking so far is essential for the next presentation.
Thank you so much for your time.
I know you're hearing this and I know you will make the best decision if you get all of the
information. Thank you so much. Thank you, ma'am.
That's all I have.
Thank you all.
I do
forward status reports by Mayor and Council regarding current events. Bob, no sort of, Larry.
No, sir. Robert. No, sir. Don. No, sir.
Cherry? No. Eric? No. Yeah, Lee. Tom, making it easy. Okay. Two things. There is a
town hall meeting in Poland, Friday evening at six o'clock at the Paul and community church.
Supervisor Coutinho from District 4, and I'm told Senator Fincham will be present to answer
questions and let you address common subjects that are available right now both in Chino Valley and
in Poland. Probably a good thing to attend and express your opinions, those people should listen to you.
from Supervisor Coutinho. I know he will listen. I'll leave it at that. Also, I did my second podcast today. Please go online wherever you can. I believe it's going to be today or tomorrow or the next day for it's available. Please go on. Listen, see what's going on in Chino Valley. There's some excellent information there. I feel but I provided it so you know I feel that way. Also, I learned in a meeting today that there is a person in a prominent position.
new person coming to ADOT. I don't know who that person is, I don't know what that position is, but he'll know me and heartbeat. Thank you.
Stan's report by town manager Terry Denney.
Good evening Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council. I have a few items tonight just to it is posted.
I know there's a lot of public interest on the next steps in the airfield project and it's
consideration by council. So we want to make sure people are aware that on Monday, February 23rd,
2026 at 5 p.m., the open council will take the item up and have the public hearing.
And that will be at 5 p.m. at Grace Church because it has plenty of space for everyone that wants to
10 and that will be council will be open. Have that public here open until all people are heard.
Then that will conclude in the next day. The regular council meeting will be back here in the
chambers at 6 p.m. There will be no public comment. We will have this number of seats. We will have
some seats of lobby and we will have viewing over at the police station as we did before. If people
come in and find that there is not parking, there will be a sign and there's overflow parking
just on the other side of us to the north of the entire station.
Other items of public interest, the Arizona Traveling Museum, Liberty Bell Road to Prescott
is coming on Friday, February 13th.
It's subject to change, but it's supposed to be in Blackhanging City at noon, mayor at
1230 Prescott Valley at 1245 and the Prescott Chamber at 115 so if you want to see that please
put that on your calendar.
Arizona has a new 2026 primary election date. Governor Katie
Hobbs signed a bipartisan bill passed by the Arizona legislature to change the date of the
2026 primary and permanently moves Arizona primaries to the second to last Tuesday in July.
this year's primary election will take place on Tuesday, July 21st, 2026. Again,
that's Tuesday, July 21st, 2026. The town of Chino Valley's ballot will include
the mayor seat and three council member seats. And finally, reminder that
administrative offices will be closed next Monday, February 16th and
observance of President's Day. Thank you, sir. Thank you, ma'am. A couple other
items that were mentioned in the podcast. I'm not going to tell you about the too far
out in the future, so now you have to go listen to it on guest. That's my pluggable plug for that.
I did forget one item, sir. What's that? On February 27th from 11 to 2, Chino Valley job fair,
the Youth by College job fair will be going on at the Chino Valley High School, and they also always
have tons of really great employers there recruiting. So that's a good opportunity for anyone that's
looking for employment. Thank you very much. Item 5, is it consent agenda? Would anyone
like to remove an item from the consent agenda to be heard separately? Bob? Nope, Mary? No, sir.
Robert? Yes, sir. John? No. Cherry? No. Eric? No. I'll entertain a motion.
Make
Opposed?
Are you opposed?
I have.
No.
I appreciate that.
I have just a little late coming to.
We got it.
Thank you.
Delay on the Internet.
Item six, action items, and a May Discussion Update, consideration, post election, to delay
the permanent base adjustment ballot measure previously recommended.
Madam Phil.
Last time you see me tonight, just good.
I don't know if my voice can handle another presentation out of this.
So good evening again Mayor Vice Mayor and Council.
So in November we talked about a permanent base adjustment and
then in December Council approved on consent for that item to move forward.
Since that time, a couple of things have come up.
There were a few development and infrastructure projects that we were hoping would be finalized before our final numbers needed to be in for the permanent base adjustment.
So that includes like the RV park and how that's going to actually be facilitated and if that will
truly be finalized or the status of that is unknown at this time along with there's a few other
retail establishments like the Circle K and another couple retail stores that we're waiting to get
final information on. We were hoping all of those things would be resolved in time so we'd have a
better base for our revenues, but right now they're not resolved and they could change the long-term
base depending on how those projects move forward. So we still think permanent base is a good idea,
just not at this time. So because the permanent base sets the expenditure base for future years,
we think we'd be better off right now to stay under the home rule because we're covered
under fiscal year 2028, and then at that point we would go for a home rule again for four more years, and then two years into that, so four years from now, we could look at a permanent base again to see if the community has changed in a way that we need to restructure or rethink what our growth pattern is, because we do have a lot of things on the forefront right now that could impact that.
Additionally, the election timeline moving up a few weeks also complicated that issue because
we don't have as much time to wait to finalize some of those other projects.
So why this matters is if we set the base too low, it could cap us from being able to spend
the revenues that are collected from those other sources.
But conversely, if we set it too high, it can create kind of a structural issue because those
the revenues might not materialize and we don't want it to be a pie in the sky kind
of number, we want it to be actually supported with what we're actually seeing.
And with that, we believe this is the best option for us at this time to maintain that
fiscal flexibility with home rule and then look at adjusting to a permanent base once it
will be a more long term permanent base and not need to be adjusted in a short term manner,
which we fear might, if we move forward with that right now.
And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions.
Questions about those are Larry, no sir, Robert.
No sir.
John, no sir, Jerry, no, Eric, no.
Thank you, Madam Bill, appreciate it, thank you.
And I will entertain a motion.
Questions with that.
I'll make a motion.
Nobody has questions.
I'll make a motion for action items.
6A. Delay the permanent base adjustment ballot measure that was previously recommended.
I have a motion to have a second, second, motion and second all in favor.
Aye. Aye. Opposed? None heard, motion carries. Thank you very much. Item B, consideration
and possible action to authorize the submission of an application to the Department of Transportation's
Bill Grant Program.
Good evening, Mayor Vice Mayor and members of the Council.
Fessie Sortaberg, executive analyst, and I'm happy to be up before you today talking
about the build grant application.
So one of the benefits of my role with the town is that I get to research in depth
these funding opportunities and analyze how the town of Tino Valley can strategically
access these resources to progress our projects and council priorities over time.
So if you don't mind, I'd love to talk about the build grant program in general and then
and the project that we've identified as a good candidate
for this program.
And being aware of what's available ultimately,
strengthens our decision making and leadership.
So with that, the build program is the better utilizing
investments to leverage development.
It's offered by the US Department of Transportation.
So the goal of this program is to fund
surface transportation projects.
So we're talking about roads,
We're talking about sidewalks and it even covers public transportation.
We're in our final year of the IIA, so the Infrastructure Investments Job Act.
So this year there's about $1.5 billion in IIA funds.
Of course we don't know if these programs are going to be renewed.
The administration still hasn't decided what the next bill will be for transportation projects.
So there's a little bit of a pressure to jump onto this opportunity while we know that it's available.
So according to the notice of funding opportunity, so that's kind of the instruction book for how the grants are written.
There's two different project types. There's planning grants, which are for planning and design.
And then there's capital grants, which also include right-of-way acquisition.
So there's different applicant parameters and as the town of Chino Valley we qualify as a rural community and this is important because typically for this grant is an 80 20 split.
So typically we would be held to the 20% local match requirement. However, because we are a rural community and every grant program defines this differently in this situation.
It's less than 200,000 people in an urban area.
We can actually apply to be 100% federally funded.
There is a chance that they could read our application, score it well,
and then send it back to us and say that they desire a local match.
And at that point, we would bring that decision to you for the final decision.
minimum award size for planning grants, there isn't one.
For rural capital grants, it's $1 million and for urban capital grants, it's $5 million.
The maximum award size is $25 million.
So that gives you a good idea of how much funding is available.
And I mean, typically planning grants are 10% or 20% of the capital project total.
But so they are typically less, but you have a good idea of how much they're willing to give per project.
So the application is going to be graded on a merit criteria.
So in order to have a strong project, you want your project to score strongly in all of these areas.
So you want it to improve safety, you want to promote environmental sustainability.
So that also includes like weather resiliency, which is important to our town because we have a lot of potholes and our drainage isn't always perfect.
So that falls under that category.
Does the project improve quality of life? Does it improve mobility and community connectivity?
Is the project economically competitive and does it promote tourism? Is it a state of good repair?
Will the project be supported by partnership and collaboration and is it innovative?
So we often hear about East Brookingsville Road.
We hear about the paved section and the potholes.
We hear about the graded section and how often the town is out grading to try to maintain
the road out past this point, which you can see with the arrow.
So under the definition of eligible project types within this grant, which is different
defined by Title 23. So we're talking about surface transportation projects that are
close to a large corridor. So, State Route 89 here. So that...
Qualifies us to look at this project for design. So this design would look at Jerome Junction, which is that red point. And it would design the drainage and the pavement all the way to our town boundary. So you're looking at six and a half miles. And the pre-construction costs are three and a half million. Again, I want to remind you that we are not held to a local match requirement at this time. And so we believe that this would be a strong
candidate to apply for some funds to bring back to a rural community.
So I plan to submit a grant
on February 24th, so there's a couple of weeks. Awards selections will be announced June 28th.
The obligation deadline, so that's when you have to assign, go into a written contract,
would be September of 2030, and then the expenditure deadline is in September of 2035. There should
be a correction there.
So with that, I recommend that the Town Council authorizes the submission
of an application to the Department of Transportation's Build Grant program to develop a
Rehabilitation Design for East Brookings Bill Road. I'm happy to take any questions.
How long have you been here working for the town?
Four months. You're doing an awesome job. Thank you. I have no questions.
Thank you very much.
Larry.
Hi.
He said it all.
Robert.
Thank you.
He's a good.
It's ditto to that comment.
John.
Good job.
Thank you.
Eric.
Thank you.
Go forth.
Do great.
Thanks.
We got all the things that you need.
Thank you so much.
I bet you've already got it written.
Don't you?
12 pages out of 27.
In there.
Okay.
Okay, no questions for staff, other than what we just asked her, I'll entertain a motion.
Okay, I'll make a motion to provide them.
Action item 6B, consideration and possible action to authorize a submission of an application
to the Department of Transportation's build grant program.
I have a motion to have a second.
Okay.
I have a motion to second.
I'll in favor.
All opposed.
None heard, motion carries.
Thank you very much.
Item C, discussion and possible action to require the appointment subcommittee conduct interviews
of planning and zoning applicants with vacancies occurred.
Madam, please.
Madam Clerk.
Good evening, Mayor.
Vice Mayor and Council.
So during the January 13, 2020, 2016 Council meeting, members of the Council requested that
this topic be brought back at a later date for discussion and possible future requirements
of the appointment subcommittee regarding planning and zoning applicants.
what that I will open it up for discussion.
No, very, no.
Robert, what do you have in there?
And just smiling.
Just that maybe, you know, we wouldn't have to require a list.
There's a, you know, a good number of applicants.
If there isn't be more than, if there's two openings,
there needs to be more than two applicants kind of thing to do interview.
We need to be more applicants than this is open to conduct interviews.
John, I'm with Robert on that point.
If there's more applicants than there are slots, we should use critical thinking and decision
making on who gets on the board.
Gary, no, Eric.
None.
Well, this is going to require a motion since it was brought up in discussion to possibly do
this, or we can just return it for an action item later if you need more discussion.
I would entertain a motion.
Mr. Mayor, I would put a motion for action to require the appointment subcommittee to conduct
interviews of the planning and zoning applicants when vacancies occur as long as there's more
applicants and positions available.
I have a motion.
Do I have a second?
I'll second that.
I have a motion in a second, I'll in favor.
Aye.
any opposed?
May.
One opposed, my vote is aye.
Motion carries, six to one.
Thank you very much.
Item seven is Sherry.
Make a motion to adjourn.
I have a motion to have a second.
I have a motion and a second.
All in favor?
Aye.
All right.
Nope.