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I call to order the like advocacy city council regular meeting on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at 6 p.m.

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We'll now have an invocation from chaplain B. Evans, from K&L, the Christian radio.

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Followed by the Pledge of Allegiance, led by Paul Antnidue, from the Elxlage, 2399.

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Good evening everybody. May I take a minute to congratulate our new old seated members.

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We, the people, have spoken, and obviously they liked what you've done in the past, and they want to watch what you're going to do in the future.

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Let's pray.

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Father God, we just love you so much, and we thank you, Lord, that all these decisions aren't only in our hands.

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That when we ask for wisdom you are so gracious to give it, and this council knows that.

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So we just thank you, Father, for them tonight.

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We just asked that there is BS and there will be no, that they know that you're behind

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their answers.

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And we just thank you, Father, they know that you love the people of Lake Havasu City

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and I know they do too.

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Father, I just looked at the United States of America before you tonight.

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How can we not ask you to continue to keep your hand on us, Father?

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We just know what would happen if you lifted that hand from us.

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We would be a puff of smoke and we know it so we just thank you Lord for all that you do all that you're going to do tonight

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and we give you all the praise, all the glory and the mighty name of Jesus, amen.

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Please remove covers and recite with me the Pledge of Allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

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One nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Mayor Shee, and Council members, for the sapportunity this evening to speak to the masses.

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I am Paul at NATO, exalted ruler of Lake Havasu City, Elx Lodge, number 23, 99.

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The benevolent and protective order of Elx was established in 1868 for the purpose of practicing

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four cardinal principles of the order, charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity.

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With me this evening is Pauline the Nod, my chaplain, Jackie Turcott, my Esquire and

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also the Lodge photographer, and my brother-in-law, Hank the Nard, who's the past exalted

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ruler, past deputy district, grand exalted ruler, and currently a West district leader.

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So we have a history, a family history in the Elx.

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The charitable or benevolent side of the lodge, we are committed to support our veterans.

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We hold a flag day ceremony which is open to the public.

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At Christmas time we send gifts to the Prescott VA hospital for the patients.

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We participate in parades in our community.

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We say thank you for your service as long as there are veterans the order of Elx will help.

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We also are a major supporter of the Steel Children's Hospital in Research Center

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and the Jacksea Water Youth Camp free to all youth in Arizona.

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We are also committed to the youth and drug at witness programs here at home.

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We host the family swim day during youth week, and at the end of the Sikkim event,

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grant funds are utilized to host team break and additional swim day in February to express our love of this entire community.

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Several of our members have been certified by the city to assist in after school programs, such as soccer shoot and who shoot.

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one of those. At Christmas time, we are very busy at the

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lodge. Our auxiliary, the Elkets sponsor kids turn to shop at the

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lodge, where children can shop for gifts for their family. We receive a

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grant each year to sponsor a giving tree program, which allows

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How's us to close the Proximately 90 children? And finally, our Christmas basket program, which provides food for the families, the needy families, and Christmas gifts for the children in the household, all delivered by Elx to homes in our community.

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Our large features, numerous activities, card playing, shuffleboard,

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a book exchange library, and so on.

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It's just a busy place with a bar seven days a week, restaurant six days a week served food,

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entertainment on Fridays and Saturdays and Wednesdays in the fall and winter.

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We also have an RV park with 25 full hookups and several dry sites.

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We are a member's only lodge in order to become a member.

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You must be an American citizen who believes in God.

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Our lodge currently has a little over 4,000 members with 67 awaiting initiation this month.

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If you would like to be part of the Great Order of Elcs,

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not by the law, John McCollock Boulevard,

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and we'll be happy to give you an application.

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And in closing, remember Elcs,

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Care, Elcs, Share. Thank you.

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Thank you so much, and thank you for being here.

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And for all the great work you do in our community.

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Thank you. Thank you.

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All right, the next item on our agenda is our local misplains.

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If you please call the roll.

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Council members, Nancy Campbell, here.

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Jenny Coke here David Lane here Michelle Lynn here Cameron Moses here Vice Mayor Jim Dolan here me are Kalshigi here. Thank you. Thank you

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I don't five on the agenda is our call to the public. This is where citizens have an opportunity to address the city council within items with in the jurisdiction of Lake Habsou city

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You have three minutes to make your remarks to the council. There is a light indicator box next to Miss Williams green means you have three minutes

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the 11-inch of one minute remaining and red means up at three minutes is up.

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If you are here for one of the public hearings, we do encourage you to wait until that

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time so that we can have a two-way conversation because during call to the public, since

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it's not on the agenda, we can just listen intently to whatever your comments may be.

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You don't have to sign up necessarily to speak a call to the public, but we did have several

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citizens do so, so we'll start with those citizens and then we'll open up to anyone else.

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So the first person that signed up for calls to the public is Karen Bannerjack.

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Good

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evening, Karen Vanderchack, 45-year tax payer in Lake

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Addasu.

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I just wanted to take this opportunity during call

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to the public to acknowledge and thank

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a few city council members and clarify some misunderstandings.

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Thank you, Councilman Lynn, for suggesting agenda 8.3

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and Councilwoman Campbell for a second need to,

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so it would go on to the agenda.

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We need a discussion of accountability for Go Lake Addasu.

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Now, I also wanted to commend Vice Mayor Dolan, Councilman Lane,

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and Councilman Moses. These men stood firm on not wanting to go ahead with a three-year contract

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to the city with Go Lake Havasu. They wanted more accountability. Good job, gentlemen.

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However, they lost the vote. So now we're dealing with this three-year contract in 1.3 million

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of our bed tax and our restaurant tax that belongs to the city going to an out-of-control advertising

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entity. One other, I put pretty luminary item. I'd like to address is the law.

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namely title 13 criminal code 13-4102, which I passed out to the council at the last meeting.

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Mayor Xi had gone on KMTR and he said he was not concerned because it only deals with

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it only deals with indecent exposure and so it shouldn't be as concerned for the drug show.

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So he stated that on the radio. So for the record, the statement, that statement is in disingenuous

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And under the A part of that, it states the defendant is reckless about whether the other person would be offended or alarmed by the act and twice in part C and D of the law.

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It mentions minors. It says quote in decent exposure to a person under 15 years of age is a class 6 felony unquote and D.

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a quote involving in decent exposure or public sexual

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in decency to a minor, who under the age of 15 is guilty of a classroom felony.

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So, I'm asking Mayor Sheehy to just that track his statement that this is not,

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it does mention these minors, and that just wanted him to make sure that, you know, he's aware of that.

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I will put my statements forward, I go like have a sue, issues, and I point three,

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But I'd like to just mention something a man said in my church.

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Picking them with a clown, makeup, and clothing depicting a prostitute on the street corner. I'm insulted and little girls who attend this event are being exposed to this as normal and okay to insult womenhood. Many towns throughout the U.S. are stopping these shows. We have only asked that you stop supporting the show with advertising and perhaps a statement going on the record that you would make this an adult only event for the safety of the children. Thank you.

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Thank you. The next speaker is Cindy Johnson.

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Good evening. Cindy Johnson,

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resident of Havasu City. I'd like to clarify the misunderstanding in regards to the rallies

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about the drag queen shows. They are not, nor have they ever been. Any hatred towards our gay community.

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It is not about that. It is not about being gay. It is not about being transgender. It is about the kids.

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Have the show, don't include the kids.

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It's not uncommon to have an age restricted event.

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I see all the time, by your tickets, must be 21 years and older.

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It's not the government telling parents what they can and cannot do with their kids.

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Have the show, don't include the kids.

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Last month in Dallas, Texas, at a family friendly, all ages welcome, drag queen show.

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A drag queen created a little boy from the audience in front of a pink neon sign.

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This said it's not gonna lick itself.

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Maybe that was the comedy part of the show I heard these are supposed to be comedy.

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But if you saw the report after the show, it wasn't so family friendly there.

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So I'm asking you how the show don't include the kids.

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Your city council, you are our mayor and the manager of the venue.

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If anyone can make this an age restricted event, it's you.

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Have the show.

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Don't include the kids.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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The next speaker is Dale Ray.

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Dale Ray.

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My name is Dale Ray.

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Mr. Mayor, council and city leaders.

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I thank you for all that you've done for the citizens of Lake Havasu and for our children.

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And I am greatly concerned about a scheduled drag queen event.

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I'm the local pastor for 42 of my 50 years in Lake

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Aviso City, and I've been with the Lake Aviso City Police

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Department.

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I said volunteer chaplain for 38 years.

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I have the same amount of time with the Mojave County Sheriff's

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Department.

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I've heard confessions of men and jail who have abused

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their children and grandchildren.

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One city had no idea it was wrong to sexually abuse

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his granddaughter, he had done the same to her mother, and never gotten in trouble.

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Abuse of children is reprehensive. As a pastor, I'm obligated to watch over the children

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in my care and report any abuse to the authorities. Passers have gotten into a great deal

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of trouble in recent history. For not protecting, I'm reporting child abuse. You are a part

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of the moral gatekeepers of Lake Havasu City, and are sworn to watch over and protect

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all citizens. Certainly the children interested in your care deserve protection. You have

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sworn obligation to do your duty. Child abuse is wrong. Abuse of parents should be prosecuted

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and potentially jailed when found guilty of child abuse. Pastors should be prosecuted

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and potentially jailed when deemed guilty of child abuse were lack of its report. As mayor

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and city administrators, you have a civic and moral obligation to protect the citizens of

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And the more so, the most vulnerable among us, if not, there should be prosecution and potential

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jail time, when deemed guilty of child abuse.

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Be it parent, clergy, civic leader, or other.

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Drag queen events may be a constitutional right, but there is a moral law that is even

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higher.

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And parents, grandparents, pastors.

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And city leaders must protect our children. In doing so, it is the city's position to consider and restrict any contract with go like have a suit or any other entity in an entity.

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In doing so, the city's position must make it clear that sexual behavior and that affects innocent children.

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possibly consider sexually abusive to their eyes, mind, or body of a child. None of us should ever be so ignorant as to say, I had no idea it was wrong.

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Thank you.

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That concludes that concludes this is a signed up for Call to the Public.

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Would anyone else like to address the city during called it yeah, please make way to stay at the podium and stay to name for the record?

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Hi, my name is Peggy Pollock. I live in Lake Havasu for 23 years.

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I came up with an idea that I would like to present.

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How about instead of having all of the energy going towards gay pride? Why don't we as a community do something like have a pride?

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and how picnics and for the July type celebrations where we have something planned for the kids,

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a boat parade, a patriotic boat parade, boats with real flags on them, going down the channel,

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foot races, softball. I've been to some of the best for the July celebrations ever, and we could

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take away the significance of gay pride by saying we're proud of how to sue and have another

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event planned. Thank you. Thank you, but everyone else I'd like to address during

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the public and again if you are here for a particular item we'd do encourage you to wait till

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that time.

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Don Wisdom. Good evening, Kassel. I see a lot of talks about the

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the parade they're going to have with the show. Something that's dark

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sanity, and nobody know what that is. Constitutionally. When that

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be nice if we celebrate the Constitution, I think that's a little bit more

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important in what everybody's talking about. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Mr.

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Tom Goodfell 08-7

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for Shalain Drive. First and most important thank you for what you all do. I've done that

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role twice. It's not an easy job at all. So thank you all very much. I'm here to talk to you

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about coincidentally Lake Havocicity U.S. Constitution Week.

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What that is, in case those that don't know, it, in 1955, the daughters of the

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American Revolution, Petition Congress, to set aside some time annually, September 17th

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to the 23rd.

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So, we're going to, my group or my committee is bringing that to Lake Havasu for the first year, however, I know Dar has done some things in the past, but we're bringing that event for an entire week.

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And just if you were to, on your cell phone, if you were to type in 36 US code 1008, you would find constitution week. Here's the guidelines.

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The President has requested to use you each year a proclamation, designating September 17th through the 23rd as Constitution Week and inviting the people of United States to observe Constitution Week in schools, churches and other suitable places with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

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So that's what we intend to do.

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Our web address is www.lakehaversuscity.us Constitution Week.

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I did this for 10 years in Colorado.

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And it ended up being the biggest event in the county.

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And certainly the town too.

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It was pretty successful.

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So I'm hoping that it'll be a success here.

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We bring in constitutional scholars to get us started, and then hopefully in the future we might have parades or those things.

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We don't political parties, we don't support political parties, either Democrats or Republicans,

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This is totally about the Constitution in America, and so I hope you come, and

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Our schedule, you'll see at a QR code that will get you to our website and, you know, there's a whole lot more to tell you, but I think that that probably gets it, gets it going, and I will say also that the business community has been very generous with donations to get this going where a 501C3 and this first year has just been phenomenal. So thank you all.

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Thank you.

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What do you would also like to address the Council during call to the public to make

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your way to the Ponyman station name for the record?

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I don't know.

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That's tall as him.

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My name is Frankie Lyons, Veterans United Arizona.

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If you guys recall, last November, I brought to this city council an opportunity for you to

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stand for this community and bring it together with a dental fair clinic.

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The only one of you who stood up with us from Michelle and the gentleman from Adosae who

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provided food for 300 people, both days.

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It was a free event for this community.

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And for whatever you're reason you have with me, Cal.

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It's not fair for this city to miss out on something like that.

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We're going to try to bring it back here in 2024.

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And I'm hoping you guys have the integrity to step up.

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Thank you.

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And for the record I was there, Frank, these two days actually.

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So yeah, thank you.

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All right. Yeah, it would just somebody else like to speak during call to the public.

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Yes. Okay.

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I'd like to

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speak in generous. Thank you for listening to me.

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And by the way, life is a great precious gift. Please don't ever forget that part.

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Oh, thank you.

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I actually wrote myself notes that I remembered. First of all, I want to make sure-

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Hi, Kelly. I'm Bonnie Toy.

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Just in case.

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Okay, so I forget going out.

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First, first, I won't forget the fact that I would like to remind you to please look after the children's summer vacation next year, consider lowering the rate.

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I never asked for it to be free, asked for it to be a considerable, reasonable cost for parents to be able to send their multiples of children to the aquatic center every single day of the week that it's open.

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period. And at $5 a kid, if you have $5 a child, if you have three children, that's

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$15 a day. At five, six days a week, that becomes unsustainable. And having to pay

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some $2,300 for one child's little pass type thing again, unsustainable for a family who can't

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and I'm just saying to please lower the call during the summer vacations only for those

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kits. Next, I would like to remind you that you guys promised to consider lowering the tax rates

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for next season. Don't want to forget to remember to say that. Now, I do have a couple of

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other issues that I happen to notice with the city and I hope that you guys can figure out

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to address some of those. One, during the power outage that the city had, the portions of the city

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had no power for over 33 hours and some of them had pets and grief were told. They were told.

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They asked that they could not bring the pets to the only emergency shelter that was available for them

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to use an access during the time of the power outage.

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Next, you have a gentleman who's you guys on your city Facebook page

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is being requested to attempt to locate whether he's missing or not.

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Several people have asked on the Facebook page.

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Hey, is this person still in need of medical assistance

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that you guys claim that he needs medical assistance for?

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And instead of one Facebook manager answering that question, not one person has ever answered

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that question to anybody on that post.

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So they are under the assumption that that man is either found and being who knows what

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because apparently he was also the person who may have or may not have done school threats.

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So I have no idea if any of that's true, however your Facebook page does not answer those questions.

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Would anyone else like to address the city council to take a hold of public? Please make a right

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of the podium, a station name for the record.

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Robert Fisher, I'd like to suggest that the

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go like have a suit, add the agenda for Constitution week to their page so that people can

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see it. It's not on there and it's a really interesting event with some really interesting

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high-quality out-of-town speakers coming to it, as well as the barbecue on Saturday.

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So I would encourage this, the Golden Academy Zoo to add that agenda to their page, so people

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can find it.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Hi.

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Greg Logan, local eccentric.

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I'd like to just see, it's true.

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I'd just like to amplify what Tom Goodfell said about Constitution week.

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It starts at the 10 o'clock eight o'clock this Saturday in the library with a flag

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raise it to her morning?

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Bell ringing to her morning.

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Well, I told you I was eccentric.

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Anyway, that's what's going on.

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So start getting involved with the Constitution.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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What am I also like to address the city council's drink

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called the public?

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Ginger Lake, have a seat.

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I just want to say they're trying to watch it online.

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And whoever your AV guy is, they don't seem to be getting it online.

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Thank you for that feedback.

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When I would also like to address city councils during public public.

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All right, seeing that, I'm going to go ahead and close the, oh yeah, again, if you're here for a particular item, we'd do encourage you to wake that up.

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I'm going to talk on a speak on an item on the agenda in the future, but I did want to say how important it is to have constitution week.

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We've tried to teach our youth a lot of gotten country over these a number of years, and we're trying to reach them so that they could be not only good citizens, but that they can be the stars of their community.

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And so I'm hoping that people will come and hear these excellent guest speakers.

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The Mr. and Mrs. Goodfellow have coordinated to have here.

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The admissions free, except for a seminar.

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However, the benefit we can derive from it is worth a million.

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God bless you and God bless America.

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Thank you.

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Hi guys, me again.

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I'm Trostos Chelsea.

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I came this time.

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I'm going to stay for the other parts, but I just wanted to

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tell you that the person in charge of the Greg show has sent me to read this to you because

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they're obviously out of state and just hoping that you know can clear something up.

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So he says you know each entertainer signs a contract and knows the performance should be

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family friendly.

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They will be mindful of the language and music and will act accordingly knowing that

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knowing it is all age event.

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No child is allowed in the venue without a guardian.

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Those families who are of the community, who are LGBTQ plus children, or simply one exposer

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children to the art, should be able to do so.

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They are the parents making the decisions for the children and what they do or don't do

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not decide to do for their children, should be the preview of that parent.

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If we care about children, let's also talk about the suicide rates.

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There's too many children of the LGBTQ community community suicide because of the messages

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that are being sent to them.

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People need to know that they are accepted and loved and at this event hopefully helps

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provide such space because we know that Havasu has enough events that are more far more

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risk-a than this event will be.

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Go Lake Havasu does not fund the event.

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This event is funded strictly through ticket sales.

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Last year we sold 330 purchase tickets,

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and we had to turn people away at the door.

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While some may not want this event, there are many who do.

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Lake Havasu is actually the leading sales of our tour,

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and is already nearly sold out.

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The director of the Pride Tour is wondering if two shows

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are actually needed because of the demand.

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Lake Havasu is over 50,000 people.

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one in 10 individuals are said to be LGBTQ plus and through their yeah please please we

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have to be respectful yes it is true and through the research of that number the race the race

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are going up. Go link have a suicide.

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This is about have a suit as a whole and supports its community, including the approximate 5,000 LGBTQ plus individuals within the city. They have a right to the events, they pay taxes, just as much as the next person.

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And I'm here to tell you, this is in term, that you are going to stop you event. I have three commercial buildings, and there will be a venue for this resort if London Bridge Resorts is sized to pull out.

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After the protest and the picketing, I want to tell you that ticket sales skyrocketed.

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So thank you everybody because promoting it has been great for us.

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I also have videos and pictures from last year's show that I took because I went to the event.

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If anyone is interested to be educated, you are more than welcome to come see me and I'll give them to you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Would anyone else like to speak to the public?

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All right.

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We'll go ahead and close the public and come on to our next item, which is item 6, the

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consent agenda.

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What are any of the council members like to remove any of the items that consent for

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separate discussion?

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We are having a challenge with our electronic voting systems, so we're going to do a voice

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vote throughout this evening.

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This evening's meeting.

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Mayor?

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Yes.

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Councilmember Coke?

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Motion?

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Move that we approve the consent agenda as presented.

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Second.

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We have a motion from Councilmember Koch and a second from Councilmember Lane, is there any additional discussion?

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Seeing, and now we're ready to vote, I'll bear a please say aye.

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Aye.

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Opposed.

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Motion carries.

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Am I going to call that out?

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Either way.

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Motion carries.

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Seven to zero.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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We'll now move on to item seven, which is correspondence, communications,

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petitions, announcements, and the city manager report.

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Item seven point.

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And one is announced vacancies on the Kansas City Board's Committees and Commissions, Ms.

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Williams.

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Thank you, Mayor and City Council.

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There are a couple of vacancies on the Kansas City Board's Committees and Commissions.

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The following is a listing of those vacancies.

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Board of Adjustment, three alternate members.

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For anyone interested, we have packets available at City Hall, and they are also available

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on the City's website at LHCAZ.gov.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Item 7.2 is our investment report as of June 30, 2022.

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to Mr. Olson provided this in your packet.

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This is just for our records and let's do our any questions.

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Moving on to item 7.3 is the fiscal year of 2021-22 Fourth

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Quarter Contracted Agents and Reports.

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Chief Doyle provided this in the packet for our reference.

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And it is just to be filed for the record.

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And then item 7.4 is our city manager report.

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Good evening, Mr. Connitson.

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Good evening, Mayor.

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Good evening, Council.

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What that's loud.

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Start the report this evening, recognize the excellence, and from our high school students,

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our habits to youth advisory council recently delivered school supplies, collected from

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the inaugural support our schools supplied drive.

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It was held last month in August.

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Youth members met with the team at the Lake Kavice Realtor Center, and everyone dispersed throughout

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the, and dispersed the, the items throughout the community, and delivering supplies to

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all the schools.

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Every school benefited from this fundraiser, special thanks from the Habits to Youth Advisory Council,

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which again is our high school students, early our leaders, we'd like to thank the mayor and council as well as city staff and the community for their donations to help support our school teachers and the schools.

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Mayor she, he, council members, Dave Lane, Cameron Moses, Nancy Campbell and Michelle Lynn.

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You'll attended the Marine Corps League ceremony in honor of the one year anniversary of the loss of 13 US service members and other victims killed in a terrorist attack on August 26.

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Just last year in Kabul Afghanistan.

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As commemorate the anniversary, the London Bridge was a little made red, white, and blue for that for that evening.

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Like you have the City Police Department, Jail Supervisor, John Alena, received special

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recognition from Mayor Sheehy and Judge Klawli for his active involvement in the Veterans

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Treatment Court.

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John, who is a United States Marine Corps veteran, serves as delays on between the courts

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and the police department to give back to the community and help our local veterans, as well

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as this recognition is well-earned, and we thank you for your service, John.

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Mayor Sheehy proclaimed September 9th as al-Elroy Long Day, and Lake Havasuciti, and

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of his 100 and 3rd birthday.

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He was also joined by Senator Sonny Burrelli and the American Legion Post 70 to recognize

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his distinguished military service and 29 years of service to the American Legion.

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Mayor Xi and Vice Mayor Jim Dolan, you kicked off the annual Suicide Prevention Awareness

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Walk just last Saturday with a proclamation which proclaimed September as National Suicide

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Prevention Month.

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I think they had over 150 participants at that walk.

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Mayor, she reclaimed the week of September 17th through September 23rd as Constitutional Week.

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And honor of the documents 234th Anniversary and presented the proclamation to the daughters of the American Revolution.

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This proclamation urges all of our citizens to reaffirm the ideals if framers of the Constitution had.

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In 1787, by violently protecting the freedom guaranteed to us through this guardian of liberties.

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And, Mayor, she ordered that the London Bridge be eliminated purple to be the final royal fee

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to mourn the loss of Queen Elizabeth II. Over the past 50 years, the iconic London Bridge

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has stood as a symbol of historic ties between Lake Havasus city and the city of London,

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and the pledge of continuing friendship between our two cities. Consequently, a letter was received

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in the mayor's office from the king, from the king by way of the British consulate general

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of Los Angeles, thanking Lake Hamister City for the kind and thoughtful message on social

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media, paying tribute to her majesty, offering condolences to the people of the UK, as

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well as lighting the London Bridge purple. Mayor and Mayor Shee and Council Member Nancy

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Campbell and Michelle Lynn, you attended the 9-11 ceremony just this last Sunday, in honor

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of the 21st Anniversary of the Terrace of Attack on U.S. soil and paid your respects to the

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nearly 3000 people that died that day, and to celebrate our reclaimed unity that followed

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followed after that tremendous event.

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The bridge was led, was led red, white, and blue in their honor, and we remember, and we will never forget.

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They are in council that concludes my report for this evening.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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We'll move on to our public hearing portion of our meeting.

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We'll start with item 8.1.

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This approved the cooperative purchase agreement of Police Department duty weapons from

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Forest Law Enforcement, Captain Sterling.

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Good evening, Council.

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Mr. Mayor.

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Thank you for having me.

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Tonight, we are seeking Council's approval of a cooperative purchase agreement for department

442
00:36:50,890 --> 00:36:55,670
duty weapons from pro-force law enforcement utilizing an Arizona State contract.

443
00:36:56,570 --> 00:37:03,210
So the police department is currently utilizing the SIGS sour P320 for patrol and the P365

444
00:37:03,210 --> 00:37:07,570
for playing close assignments and we're perfectly happy with the weapon system that we currently

445
00:37:07,570 --> 00:37:08,230
have.

446
00:37:08,590 --> 00:37:16,550
What we are seeking is to move to a newer version of this weapon platform which will be

447
00:37:16,550 --> 00:37:18,550
instead of traditional iron sites.

448
00:37:19,110 --> 00:37:21,130
This optic emits a red dot that allows officers

449
00:37:21,130 --> 00:37:23,070
to have a more improved target focus

450
00:37:23,070 --> 00:37:24,730
in various lighting conditions.

451
00:37:25,890 --> 00:37:28,930
Optics allow shooters to be target focused versus site focused.

452
00:37:29,770 --> 00:37:32,510
Being target focused allows for more accurate shots

453
00:37:32,510 --> 00:37:35,170
and a clear sense of the background or the backdrop.

454
00:37:35,850 --> 00:37:37,530
That's important for allowing officers

455
00:37:37,530 --> 00:37:39,230
to make good use of force decisions.

456
00:37:40,250 --> 00:37:42,790
What agencies have witnessed with transitioning to optics

457
00:37:43,290 --> 00:37:45,470
is an increase in overall shooter performance

458
00:37:45,470 --> 00:37:51,390
increase in shooter confidence, and the accuracy of rounds on target, which are all good

459
00:37:51,390 --> 00:37:53,350
things from liability perspective.

460
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,980
In addition to providing the new weapons, pro-force

461
00:37:57,980 --> 00:38:03,620
will provide us with a trade credit for the purchase of our current duty weapons. So ultimately

462
00:38:03,620 --> 00:38:12,620
the cost of breakdown is the new weapons will cost $78,353.61. With an offsetting trade credit

463
00:38:12,620 --> 00:38:19,600
of $27,000, $3.21 for an ultimate net cost of $51,349 in $0.40.

464
00:38:20,660 --> 00:38:26,360
To go along with that, we recently sold that our surplus option seized weapons, which we

465
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:31,840
do on occasion, in that case we collected just over $80,000, so these proceeds will go

466
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,440
towards the funding of this purchase.

467
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,560
With that, I'm more happy to answer any questions.

468
00:38:37,340 --> 00:38:38,260
Thank you, Captain Sterling.

469
00:38:38,460 --> 00:38:40,780
Are there any questions of members of the council for the captain?

470
00:38:40,780 --> 00:38:45,900
All right, this is the public hearing when I would like to address the City Council on this matter.

471
00:38:49,270 --> 00:38:52,610
Seeing that, I will close the public hearing and bring it back to Council for discussion or possible motion.

472
00:38:53,190 --> 00:38:54,850
Mr. Mayor, motion, yeah, Council on the line.

473
00:38:55,050 --> 00:39:02,530
I move to approve cooperative purchase agreement with Pro Force law enforcement utilizing areas on the state contract CTR 049168.

474
00:39:03,350 --> 00:39:10,650
For the purchase of duty weapons for the Lake Hav City Police Department in the amount of 70,000, 352 dollars and 61 cents,

475
00:39:10,650 --> 00:39:14,290
Then I've set in trade credit of $27,000, $3.21,

476
00:39:15,030 --> 00:39:17,350
I've authorized the City Manager to execute the agreement

477
00:39:17,350 --> 00:39:20,150
and I've authorized City staff to exercise the option

478
00:39:20,150 --> 00:39:23,850
to renew for two additional one-year terms for defense

479
00:39:23,850 --> 00:39:24,910
and law enforcement services,

480
00:39:25,090 --> 00:39:26,890
material or equipment under contract.

481
00:39:28,050 --> 00:39:30,350
Second, we have a motion from Councilman Lane

482
00:39:30,350 --> 00:39:31,950
in a second from Council Member Moses.

483
00:39:31,950 --> 00:39:33,290
Is there any additional discussion?

484
00:39:35,090 --> 00:39:36,210
Hearing none, I'm ready to vote.

485
00:39:36,350 --> 00:39:37,470
Do all those in favor, please say aye.

486
00:39:39,050 --> 00:39:39,570
Opposed?

487
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,200
Motion carrying 700.

488
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:45,800
Thank you.

489
00:39:46,340 --> 00:39:46,440
All right.

490
00:39:46,580 --> 00:39:48,420
Item 8.2 is approved of cooperative purchase

491
00:39:48,420 --> 00:39:50,120
with extra play ink for the removal

492
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,260
and installation of the software playground service service

493
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,940
that remada B and rotary community park.

494
00:39:55,060 --> 00:39:55,740
Mr. King.

495
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,380
Thank you, Mayor, in the Honorable Council.

496
00:39:58,600 --> 00:39:58,660
Yeah.

497
00:39:58,780 --> 00:39:59,960
So the item in front.

498
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:06,880
I mean, the night is to remove and replace the soft place surface at the Romata B playground in Rovery Park.

499
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:15,780
For those of you that are on from might be unfamiliar with exactly where the playground is, it's in the middle of Rovery Park, it's the little kids playground.

500
00:40:16,340 --> 00:40:26,740
On the soft place surface was installed in 2011, and it's beyond its life and is very pot-hold right now, and needs to be repaired and replaced.

501
00:40:26,740 --> 00:40:34,420
The purchase price of 92,000 and 92,85 cents is in our budget this year to replace that

502
00:40:34,420 --> 00:40:39,900
surface. The surface around some of the other playgrounds you'll see that we have rubber

503
00:40:39,900 --> 00:40:46,260
chips that's for fall protection. This surface provides that same fall protection, but

504
00:40:46,260 --> 00:40:53,020
also allows wheelchairs, strollers to be able to access the playground itself. So with that,

505
00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:55,860
would look forward to your approval.

506
00:40:56,060 --> 00:40:57,200
Thank you, Mr. Keen.

507
00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:58,060
Do there any questions?

508
00:40:58,100 --> 00:40:58,860
Members of the council?

509
00:40:59,160 --> 00:40:59,980
Mr. Keen?

510
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:02,060
All right.

511
00:41:02,220 --> 00:41:03,020
This is a public hearing.

512
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:04,800
Would anyone like to address the city council on this matter?

513
00:41:16,430 --> 00:41:17,450
It's a really simple question.

514
00:41:17,650 --> 00:41:20,050
Bonnie, just in case you need that too.

515
00:41:22,150 --> 00:41:25,050
Is how long will this new stuff last?

516
00:41:25,790 --> 00:41:26,970
Great question, Mr. Keen.

517
00:41:30,580 --> 00:41:32,280
We got 11 and 12 years out of this.

518
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:33,500
We expect to get the same.

519
00:41:33,780 --> 00:41:36,260
The product is guaranteed for five years.

520
00:41:36,260 --> 00:41:40,680
But again, we do expect to get the same life expectancy out of it.

521
00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:41,280
Thank you.

522
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,560
But even else, I'd like to address the counts on this matter.

523
00:41:46,930 --> 00:41:50,750
Seeing now, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing and bring it back to Council for discussion or possible motion.

524
00:41:51,350 --> 00:41:52,170
Mr. Mayor.

525
00:41:52,270 --> 00:41:52,850
You'll for a jump.

526
00:41:52,950 --> 00:41:53,910
I'd like to turn it on.

527
00:41:53,970 --> 00:41:55,110
I'd like Cameron to make a motion.

528
00:41:59,040 --> 00:41:59,400
Okay.

529
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:01,120
Mayor.

530
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:07,980
I moved a group of operator-persons agreement with extra-playing for the removal and installation of the soft playground surface.

531
00:42:07,980 --> 00:42:16,260
that were mod of B in Rotor Community Park in the amount of $92,000, $92 and 85 cents

532
00:42:16,260 --> 00:42:18,820
and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement.

533
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:20,060
Second.

534
00:42:21,180 --> 00:42:25,220
We have a motion from Councillor Moses, second from Vice Mayor Dolan, is there any additional

535
00:42:25,220 --> 00:42:25,920
discussion?

536
00:42:27,660 --> 00:42:29,700
Seeing number right to vote, I'll very please say aye.

537
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:30,420
Aye.

538
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:31,640
Opposed?

539
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:35,000
Motion carries.

540
00:42:35,140 --> 00:42:35,740
Seven to zero.

541
00:42:36,300 --> 00:42:36,880
Thank you.

542
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:43,760
The next item on the agenda is item 8.3 discussion and presentation from Gold Lake

543
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:44,120
Cavassu.

544
00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:47,360
This is Convention and Business Bureau regarding the professional services

545
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,060
agreement with Lake Cavassu City.

546
00:42:49,620 --> 00:42:50,160
Mr. Conutten?

547
00:42:50,860 --> 00:42:51,160
Yes.

548
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:52,680
Yeah.

549
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:53,500
Thank you, Mayor and Council.

550
00:42:53,940 --> 00:42:57,920
Before I start with that too, just a technical issue in terms of the

551
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:03,680
Organicists software program that runs the avoiding mechanism and the video on

552
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:04,980
the website is down.

553
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,080
But for those that want to pass along the word is available on Channel 4.

554
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:12,320
and it's available at lacaz.gov slash tv.

555
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,220
So I just wanted to put that out there.

556
00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:16,680
We're working to correct that issue as soon as we can.

557
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,940
Mayor, Council Member Lynn, and Council Member Campbell,

558
00:43:21,140 --> 00:43:24,600
at that your request, we've brought forward this agenda item

559
00:43:25,580 --> 00:43:28,180
for yours and for the Council's consideration.

560
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,620
And what you have in here is the,

561
00:43:31,620 --> 00:43:35,140
and the request was, excuse me, for the contract between the city

562
00:43:35,140 --> 00:43:42,380
and go like Avisu, that contract is in your packet and be able to answer any questions that

563
00:43:42,380 --> 00:43:47,520
you may have. I can quite write a quick summary. This was an agreement that was entered into

564
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:55,500
back in March of last year. It became effective in April 21st of last year and it is a contract

565
00:43:55,500 --> 00:44:03,160
that's good for three years. It includes an annual sum of $1.6 million that goes to go like Avisu

566
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:04,460
on an annual basis.

567
00:44:05,180 --> 00:44:07,020
This is a professional services agreement,

568
00:44:07,180 --> 00:44:10,320
so those funds go to go like Havasu, go to that entity.

569
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:15,560
And in return, we expect, and we are given

570
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,340
professional services for the dollars that are provided.

571
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,000
We've asked the, and some of those responsibilities

572
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,960
that are included are to promote like Havasu City.

573
00:44:25,980 --> 00:44:27,900
That's pretty much the first and foremost.

574
00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:31,060
To promote like Havasu City as a tourism,

575
00:44:31,060 --> 00:44:36,920
destination and to drive traffic to Lake Havasu City to serve as the primary

576
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,420
contact for tourism and the promotion of Lake Havasu City. They've been

577
00:44:40,420 --> 00:44:44,940
designated as the main contact through the Arizona Office of

578
00:44:44,940 --> 00:44:51,500
Tourism to establish a visitor center that takes place here in

579
00:44:51,500 --> 00:44:55,620
Lake Havasu City and do a fine job with that, that's the leadership of

580
00:44:57,300 --> 00:44:59,980
there is a Britain Court of the Republic.

581
00:45:01,230 --> 00:45:12,910
But you specify exactly what's supposed to be in that report. And that is a delivered by Vice-Volna Cavassum that comes directly to my office and then I pass that report on to all of the council, to all the council.

582
00:45:13,670 --> 00:45:25,590
They are asked to collaborate with my office on policy development related to policy development, that's related to tourism, including activities, events, and other events in Lake Cavassum City.

583
00:45:26,410 --> 00:45:30,290
to provide a seat on the board to the city manager.

584
00:45:30,990 --> 00:45:35,910
Provide an ex-efficial seat on the board to one of our council members.

585
00:45:36,870 --> 00:45:39,510
Provide a city with studies and reports that are commissioned

586
00:45:39,510 --> 00:45:45,370
to seek alternate grant funds, so not a sole reliance on the city dollars

587
00:45:45,370 --> 00:45:51,010
and perform a special project as a sign by the city council or by my office.

588
00:45:51,910 --> 00:45:58,610
And they, and the challenges here every year in the springtime to provide an annual presentation

589
00:45:58,610 --> 00:46:04,050
to the council and to the public about the things that, you know, the accomplishments

590
00:46:04,050 --> 00:46:10,350
for the previous years and some of the goals that have been set forth for the next 12 months.

591
00:46:10,390 --> 00:46:13,390
I did some of that as you read through the contract, you'll see that there's some language

592
00:46:13,390 --> 00:46:19,310
in there that regarding fiscal responsibility and the need for them to adopt for their

593
00:46:19,310 --> 00:46:27,510
to adopt a annual budget and provide the counting that's necessary to segregate the city of taxpayer dollars that go to the

594
00:46:27,510 --> 00:46:35,620
to the organization. And as you flip through the pages to some different requests and legal obligations for

595
00:46:35,620 --> 00:46:37,380
or insurance, the implication,

596
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:39,060
I'm not a preparation of funds,

597
00:46:39,260 --> 00:46:40,120
conflicts of interest,

598
00:46:41,380 --> 00:46:43,840
and the termination costs is 120 day.

599
00:46:43,940 --> 00:46:46,300
We're gonna notice from like,

600
00:46:46,300 --> 00:46:47,760
or excuse me, yeah, from like, like,

601
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:49,100
advocacy city,

602
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:54,580
some language for disputes and some other legal language

603
00:46:55,580 --> 00:47:00,720
that is needed to provide a executed agreement

604
00:47:00,720 --> 00:47:03,400
to change the entities and protect both parties,

605
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,240
including the taxpayer dollars of Lake Havasu City.

606
00:47:07,300 --> 00:47:12,180
So with that, that's a very quick summary of the contract.

607
00:47:12,420 --> 00:47:13,800
I'm available for any questions.

608
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,900
And I know Terence Conquenent, the President's CEO,

609
00:47:17,180 --> 00:47:20,560
of the Lake Havasu City, is here with the presentation

610
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,880
and available for any questions that may arise.

611
00:47:23,700 --> 00:47:24,560
Thank you, Mr. Conquenent.

612
00:47:25,060 --> 00:47:27,840
Well, maybe let's segue over to Mr. Conquenent

613
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,320
to give us an update and then we can ask questions

614
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,500
of both Mr. Conquenent and the same time.

615
00:47:32,500 --> 00:47:36,480
Okay, first of all, I'd like to address the gentleman that mentioned putting Constitution

616
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,460
week on our, absolutely.

617
00:47:39,260 --> 00:47:41,840
As soon as we can find out some more information, we'll put that up there immediately.

618
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:44,800
Second of all, thank you so much for having me.

619
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:46,420
I always love to come and talk about cool.

620
00:47:46,500 --> 00:47:50,980
They have a suit to this board and to any board that has me or any group that has,

621
00:47:51,220 --> 00:47:52,160
ask me to come visit.

622
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,920
I do have, I'm going to address 15 things from the contract.

623
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:57,000
I don't have 15 slides.

624
00:47:57,460 --> 00:47:59,500
I am keeping it very short for you.

625
00:48:02,490 --> 00:48:04,130
I'm going to press it right there.

626
00:48:12,650 --> 00:48:12,950
Perfect.

627
00:48:17,030 --> 00:48:17,530
Oh, it should.

628
00:48:20,220 --> 00:48:20,620
Left side.

629
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:21,520
There we go.

630
00:48:22,580 --> 00:48:23,340
Thank you.

631
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:23,940
Thank you.

632
00:48:24,180 --> 00:48:24,360
Thank you.

633
00:48:25,720 --> 00:48:30,240
So I wanted to talk about, I'm going to go through a 15 different parts of the contract.

634
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,400
I think the most important parts of the contract.

635
00:48:32,540 --> 00:48:34,960
I want to let you guys know how we are addressing those.

636
00:48:35,300 --> 00:48:38,780
I want to ensure that you, that, not only we're meeting the requirements of our contract,

637
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:40,540
but in some ways we are exceeding them.

638
00:48:40,780 --> 00:48:44,940
So the first one is promote Lake Havasu City and serve as primary contract for two or

639
00:48:44,940 --> 00:48:45,980
and promotion.

640
00:48:46,460 --> 00:48:51,000
To this, I will talk first that our current marketing budget is 53% of our annual budget

641
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:57,240
and we spent about $630,000 on marketing this city as a tourism destination.

642
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:04,220
We feel that what we spend comes back to us in spades with the current tourism revenue,

643
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:09,880
the bad taxes up 26% year over year, and up 59% over 2017.

644
00:49:10,460 --> 00:49:17,380
the R&B tax or restaurant and bar taxes, we know it is up 20% and up 32% over

645
00:49:17,380 --> 00:49:21,940
2017. I want to talk a little bit about media management, that's a huge

646
00:49:21,940 --> 00:49:29,920
part of what we do. So our organization has, has, brings content creators into town,

647
00:49:30,020 --> 00:49:35,000
we work with content creators outside of town. And what we do is we create and bring

648
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:39,380
wonderful stories about our city outside the city so people can know what incredible

649
00:49:39,380 --> 00:49:45,560
city we have. In note, in that we have covered every continent except Antarctica with hundreds

650
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:51,840
of positive articles every year, including for our London Bridge 50th anniversary, we worked

651
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:57,700
with several journalists, several publications, and managed to get over almost, I should say,

652
00:49:57,760 --> 00:49:58,080
almost four years.

653
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:07,120
14 million dollars in ad-value equivalency. And for those that aren't sure what that is, for every piece of editorial

654
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:13,800
that we get. The columnage is that that represents the amount we would have to pay equivalent

655
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:15,920
to an ad. So that's very, very important.

656
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,940
Staff work weekly, as I said, we have TV campaigns

657
00:50:22,940 --> 00:50:27,620
this particular year in four different markets. I'm sorry, five different markets in this country,

658
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:31,720
including Las Vegas, Phoenix, Southern California, Northern California, and Chicago.

659
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:38,400
So, in the next one, designate a established and operated visitor center, I think most people

660
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:43,220
here have probably been to our visitor center, especially since we did about $135,000

661
00:50:43,220 --> 00:50:49,500
with renovations four years ago, I want to let the council and everybody here in the gallery

662
00:50:49,500 --> 00:50:54,400
know that all the operations and the payroll of one of my staff members are not paid through

663
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:58,520
any dollars of taxes, they are paid through merchandise sales in our visitor center.

664
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:03,040
So again, not $1 tax payer money is used to operate that particular facility.

665
00:51:07,220 --> 00:51:07,700
There we go.

666
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:11,780
So provide City Manager with a written quarterly report.

667
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:12,880
We do do this.

668
00:51:13,020 --> 00:51:15,540
It's approximately 110 pages for times a year.

669
00:51:15,820 --> 00:51:21,560
And in that report, we offer up the board agenda and minutes and financials that we have that we bring forth every month.

670
00:51:21,700 --> 00:51:26,000
My monthly Presidents report our annual budget and any updates on grants.

671
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:32,160
We also give you an indication of the sales and the attendance of our visitors in our at our visitor center.

672
00:51:32,380 --> 00:51:35,900
We do a marketing and media report so that you know how we're getting the word out.

673
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:40,480
We give an update on our community programs and how we maintain and fund events.

674
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:44,600
Number four, collaborate with City Manager on events and promotions.

675
00:51:45,100 --> 00:51:52,260
This is one thing I'm very happy to say that we work very, very well and we work diligently with the Assistant City Manager Anthony Couselowski

676
00:51:52,260 --> 00:51:54,300
And I'm sorry that I misspelled your name, Anthony.

677
00:51:55,700 --> 00:51:58,640
But he works with us on several committees.

678
00:51:58,900 --> 00:52:02,740
He advises a city's position on lots of things we do.

679
00:52:03,020 --> 00:52:06,980
And as always, anytime the city or a city manager

680
00:52:06,980 --> 00:52:10,280
needs anything from us, we are always happy to help insist.

681
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,380
As for updating and maintaining a user-friendly website,

682
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:19,060
as you can, sorry about that.

683
00:52:19,180 --> 00:52:22,940
GoLakeHavicy.com is our visitor-facing website.

684
00:52:22,940 --> 00:52:26,500
It is also very useful to what the residents of our city.

685
00:52:27,020 --> 00:52:31,660
Our users are up 46% year-over-year and our new users, which is even more important, getting

686
00:52:31,660 --> 00:52:34,860
the word out to a bunch of new people, 44% year-over-year.

687
00:52:35,240 --> 00:52:39,760
We are the largest creator and aggregator of online content about Lake Havocicidium-Bohave

688
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:40,180
County.

689
00:52:40,660 --> 00:52:42,640
And we also own a several other websites.

690
00:52:43,020 --> 00:52:48,440
Go hikeavocu.com, have us who springbrake.com, LondonbridgeTouric.com, and we're working

691
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:50,460
on something right now trying to work the bugs out.

692
00:52:50,460 --> 00:52:56,660
but we have a new app coming, Lake Havasu Ailes and Trails, which helps people, it's an

693
00:52:56,660 --> 00:53:02,520
interactive app, which promotes health and wellness by hiking on our trails, but also promotes

694
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:08,300
a good time afterwards by enjoying some of our tap rooms and our group hubs. Provide a voting

695
00:53:08,300 --> 00:53:13,480
seat for city manager and non-voting seat for a council member. I'm happy to say that city manager

696
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:18,000
canudson attends monthly as this council member Dolan, and I'd like to put forth there that

697
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:23,740
do the attend, but they are very committed. They are contribute to our efforts, and they are always,

698
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:30,100
always there, always understanding what we do, and we are very happy to have them as part of our

699
00:53:30,100 --> 00:53:35,620
board. Provide City Manager with Studies and Reports. So since this contract started last year,

700
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:40,620
we have not commissioned any studies or reports, but I will say that before this contract,

701
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:46,900
during COVID, I did commissioned two studies. One was a COVID recovery study, and one was a study

702
00:53:46,900 --> 00:53:49,000
to gauge interest in commercial air service

703
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:50,780
to Lake Havison City, which I provide,

704
00:53:50,780 --> 00:53:53,020
which I both of which I provided it to the city.

705
00:53:55,530 --> 00:53:56,410
Excuse me.

706
00:53:58,150 --> 00:54:00,330
Part of our contract says for us to seek grant funds.

707
00:54:00,430 --> 00:54:01,390
And as you can tell this year,

708
00:54:01,550 --> 00:54:03,710
we've been very, very successful with that.

709
00:54:03,970 --> 00:54:05,810
I wrote two grant proposals this year,

710
00:54:05,890 --> 00:54:08,810
one for a visit Arizona initiative, Marketing Grant,

711
00:54:09,010 --> 00:54:11,770
which allowed us to spend $228,750

712
00:54:11,770 --> 00:54:13,910
on our emerging markets campaign,

713
00:54:14,730 --> 00:54:17,530
and allowed us to get the word out farther out

714
00:54:17,530 --> 00:54:19,870
from the tri-state area about the wonderful city

715
00:54:19,870 --> 00:54:22,230
that we have here in the incredible destination that we have.

716
00:54:22,850 --> 00:54:24,330
I also wrote a very successful grant

717
00:54:24,330 --> 00:54:26,830
for the Visitor Arizona Initiative Partnership grant,

718
00:54:27,070 --> 00:54:30,590
which gives us $125,000 to begin funding

719
00:54:31,170 --> 00:54:32,230
holidays in Havasu.

720
00:54:33,010 --> 00:54:36,870
At the same time right now, we are waiting on a on-word

721
00:54:36,870 --> 00:54:40,110
for our Visitor Arizona Initiative outdoor recreation grant

722
00:54:40,110 --> 00:54:43,470
in which we are applying to improve some community space

723
00:54:43,470 --> 00:54:44,330
for first Fridays.

724
00:54:46,130 --> 00:54:59,790
Under, perform project assigned by City Council, we have not, unless you consider this, we have not had any projects assigned to us, but we are always happy, and I always, I will always appear in front of the City Council to assist on any tourism.

725
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,220
My update, as I understood, was received very, very favorably by council.

726
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:09,760
In terms of fiscal responsibility, while I have proposed deficit budgets the last two years, we

727
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:14,240
have managed to make the necessary cuts to ensure a balanced budget before the funding

728
00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:19,540
cap and our current contract. I always kept our expenditures, at least $100,000,

729
00:55:19,740 --> 00:55:25,200
below budget, why to save for larger projects or to do something innovative that we might not

730
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:29,520
see now, but might see a couple years in the future. And obviously to save for an economic

731
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:30,700
economic downturn.

732
00:55:35,820 --> 00:55:41,540
Discrimination, the contract does not allow us to discriminate, and so Gole-Cavis who believes

733
00:55:41,540 --> 00:55:46,560
in an inclusivity and promotes a community that is welcome to all, regardless of race,

734
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:53,080
age, faith, politics, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical or neurodiversity

735
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:54,960
challenge, language or culture.

736
00:55:55,700 --> 00:55:59,800
Additionally, I do want the council to know that every member of Gole-Cavis who is

737
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:06,140
certified autism professional, travel professional, and that our visitor center and our offices,

738
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:12,520
our certified autism center. So those that are traveling that are on the spectrum or their caregivers,

739
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:18,860
we are able to recognize an issue and we can help. To that end, we do have a quiet space and

740
00:56:18,860 --> 00:56:27,460
nervous visitor center to assist with those kinds of problems. I always, as you guys know, I always

741
00:56:27,460 --> 00:56:31,280
talk about this as being storytellers and we'd love to talk about the positive aspects of

742
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:33,940
Lake Havana City, of which there are so many.

743
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:39,040
So I thought again with this, we love our city and it shows, and this, to me, is one of

744
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:41,900
my favorite examples of our amazing collaboration with our city.

745
00:56:42,380 --> 00:56:46,460
We are very proud of this award, an even prouder of the massive collaboration that it took

746
00:56:46,460 --> 00:56:47,340
to make this happen.

747
00:56:47,780 --> 00:56:53,320
The city, community, individuals, businesses, and organizations, and the bureau that made

748
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,940
this celebration legendary and this award so meaningful.

749
00:56:55,940 --> 00:57:05,460
So, it's not us, it's the community, it's the city that makes this community great and makes this award so much a part of our hearts.

750
00:57:06,260 --> 00:57:12,140
So, City Council, that is my presentation and I'm of course I'm happy to take as many questions as you have.

751
00:57:12,660 --> 00:57:13,380
Thank you, Mr. Concannon.

752
00:57:14,020 --> 00:57:16,640
So, I'll bring up to questions or comments from members of the Council.

753
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:17,800
I'll be there, Mr. Concannon.

754
00:57:23,630 --> 00:57:24,450
Mr. Mayor.

755
00:57:26,510 --> 00:57:40,450
I have some information in front of me, but the entire council has had this before, so I had the Lake Havasu Convention of Missouri Bureau statement financial from May 31st, 2022, that's the most recent one, secret city manager.

756
00:57:41,890 --> 00:57:44,490
I believe that's the last financial statement that was put out.

757
00:57:44,490 --> 00:57:51,090
So I'm looking at your budget and I saw that that you want to well-rounded budget.

758
00:57:51,410 --> 00:57:57,330
I guess that's some questions that I have are I'm looking at what I love your revenue as your

759
00:57:57,330 --> 00:58:02,650
expenses and I just want you to explain to me because I maybe don't understand it so I'm looking

760
00:58:02,650 --> 00:58:11,570
under assets and there's over two million dollars in assets and most of that's at Horizon's

761
00:58:11,570 --> 00:58:18,570
you as being, food holes being, they're all money markets and I'm just wondering if we're

762
00:58:18,570 --> 00:58:26,510
providing to you $1.6 million, why there's still $2 over $2 million that's in these

763
00:58:26,510 --> 00:58:33,150
assets that's to me I'm assuming that's cash, why that's there and why that's not being

764
00:58:33,150 --> 00:58:38,290
used and why we're continually going to provide you at $1.7 million. I'm sorry, $1.6 million.

765
00:58:38,290 --> 00:58:42,250
Well, we have had those reserves for quite some time.

766
00:58:42,410 --> 00:58:48,470
I don't believe we added any significant amounts since this contract, because we are working

767
00:58:48,470 --> 00:58:53,050
right down to the letter out of the budget right now.

768
00:58:54,570 --> 00:59:01,470
Most of that reserve came before I came in where I am not the kind of person I worked for

769
00:59:01,470 --> 00:59:04,330
a higher education where if you didn't spend it, you didn't get it back.

770
00:59:05,090 --> 00:59:11,970
One of the reasons why I like to keep reserves is because there are times and I do think

771
00:59:11,970 --> 00:59:17,030
that the coronavirus pandemic helped us out with this.

772
00:59:17,650 --> 00:59:22,390
But I do pay attention to economic trends and it was my understanding that we were going

773
00:59:22,390 --> 00:59:25,530
to get something along the lines of 2008 and economic downturn.

774
00:59:26,230 --> 00:59:31,170
In those periods of time, during an economic downturn the last thing our organization needs

775
00:59:31,170 --> 00:59:33,470
to do is spend less to bring people into town.

776
00:59:33,470 --> 00:59:41,150
So, that's something that we have as a backup in case our fortunes go down.

777
00:59:41,750 --> 00:59:49,090
Also, we had been saving for a project that we wanted to work on with the city in the downtown

778
00:59:49,090 --> 00:59:53,330
catalyst, which didn't come to fruition a couple of years ago, I was

779
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:16,000
We're marking money for that particular project. Having said that, we do have that much money and reserves. So any if the council would ever like to come to our board meetings and discuss ways that we might capitalize on the use of that money, I would certainly welcome that.

780
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:24,040
I just had a follow up question, because I remember a couple of years ago we had 1.6 million.

781
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:31,880
And so now we're up to two and it's starting, it made me uncomfortable when I first saw it the very first

782
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:38,120
meeting I went to I'm like well 1.6 million dollars sit there and now it's going to two just a couple

783
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:44,460
years later when that much money taxpayer money that we designate to go to work for the city of

784
01:00:44,460 --> 01:00:53,220
Lake Havasu to promote our city is just sitting there and it makes me uncomfortable okay I understand saving

785
01:00:53,220 --> 01:00:59,160
I understand having some reserves, I think that our last contract gave you a little bit

786
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:04,460
of certainty because now it's not tied to a floating number, now you know what you're

787
01:01:04,460 --> 01:01:05,040
getting kind of doing.

788
01:01:05,180 --> 01:01:08,600
And it's in the contract and that'll show up no matter what.

789
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:17,860
So just take that from my overall feeling of that money and how much is sitting there.

790
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:23,000
That being said, working towards a project, there's something creative we can do to

791
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:24,520
to push our city forward with that money.

792
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:27,940
I would love to see it, and I'd love to team up with you on it.

793
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:30,080
Well, and just to respond to that,

794
01:01:30,260 --> 01:01:31,600
Council Member Lynn and Moses,

795
01:01:33,980 --> 01:01:35,680
I have not my staff.

796
01:01:35,860 --> 01:01:36,640
I won't put them into it.

797
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:43,040
I have begun creating a list in May of possible things

798
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:44,220
that we might do.

799
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:48,660
One of our previous, the head of Chairman of my board,

800
01:01:49,820 --> 01:01:51,560
a couple years ago, Mr. Don Callahan.

801
01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:57,300
we all know them. That is he was concerned as you are about the amount of reserves we have.

802
01:01:57,660 --> 01:02:03,040
And so when he was my board share we started talking about ways that we might do things in

803
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:09,640
the city maybe even brick and mortar type of things that can help the city make the city a better

804
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:16,460
place for residents but also for tourists. When Don left I've just been doing it on my own. So

805
01:02:16,460 --> 01:02:20,820
to having said that if you guys have any projects and we talked about this in the

806
01:02:20,820 --> 01:02:33,680
It's part of my contract. I would love for any of you. If you have a great idea, it might be, I know that my staff member Regan Ross Robertson has talked about the downtown Main Street Association about an arch.

807
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:47,080
So please bring these things to me. I do want to keep maintain reserves in our, as any good organizations should do, but I'm also open to anything that will make this place a better place to live and a better place to visit.

808
01:02:49,060 --> 01:02:53,640
If I just give a little bit of a follow-up to that point of question that will turn back

809
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:58,200
over to Councilumberland, is that don't forget that this council is the one that adopted

810
01:02:58,200 --> 01:02:58,960
this current budget.

811
01:02:59,460 --> 01:03:04,760
We know that those assets were increasing and so we really negotiated the contract so it wasn't

812
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:10,400
a percentage of attacks or restaurant bar attacks and we knew it was a certain amount of what

813
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:15,800
it would cost to do the program of work, so that is why we have this contract in place today

814
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:18,620
I was to address some of those concerns that we were having at the times.

815
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:20,360
Those are the actions that we took.

816
01:03:20,780 --> 01:03:21,320
Comments from Berlin?

817
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:26,700
I guess maybe our city manager can answer this.

818
01:03:26,900 --> 01:03:28,060
That's saying that this is a direction.

819
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:30,400
I'm looking at, I'm just have a question.

820
01:03:32,020 --> 01:03:40,340
If we did cut ties with the CVB and with the contract that over $2 million, where does

821
01:03:40,340 --> 01:03:40,720
echo?

822
01:03:42,580 --> 01:03:43,620
Mayor, Comments from Berlin.

823
01:03:43,620 --> 01:03:49,660
We have a professional services agreement, like Havasus City, the city, the city, and the city.

824
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:52,660
We have a professional service agreement with Col Lake Havasus.

825
01:03:52,940 --> 01:03:56,700
They had their own separate board, their own separate accounting,

826
01:03:57,060 --> 01:04:01,380
and their own separate accountability, accountability measures, and so forth that are there.

827
01:04:01,940 --> 01:04:06,780
Any funds that Col Lake Havasus has within their budget within their accounts.

828
01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:11,560
The use of those funds is decided upon by their board.

829
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:21,340
So what you're saying is if just say tonight just just I'm just trying to paint a picture here that we said

830
01:04:21,340 --> 01:04:28,360
We're gonna cut the contract in 120 days if they still have that 2 million dollars, which is taxpayer money

831
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:34,160
And I'm gonna give them credit for I looked at their grants that they received about 361,000 dollars at grants

832
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:36,020
So I'll give them credit for that

833
01:04:36,020 --> 01:04:39,100
But that money then which is taxpayer money

834
01:04:39,100 --> 01:04:43,920
They don't, they can take it, they can do whatever they want after those 120 years.

835
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:45,100
That's correct.

836
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:52,080
So the contract that was negotiated by Council just about a year ago, again, as Council member,

837
01:04:52,260 --> 01:04:57,900
Moses indicated that we looked at a static number, rather than a percentage of the

838
01:04:57,900 --> 01:04:59,800
the bed tax and the food and beverage tax.

839
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:05,400
Turn for the professional services that call, they have as delivers. The city has other contracts

840
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:12,040
in place with entities like Haven or the partnership for economic development and other entities

841
01:05:12,860 --> 01:05:19,100
remain society. We have contracts in place for based on services with all those agreements

842
01:05:19,100 --> 01:05:23,180
with all those contracts that are all managed by their own separate entity with their

843
01:05:23,180 --> 01:05:31,100
board and once payment is made to that entity, those funds are then managed by the respective

844
01:05:31,100 --> 01:05:31,560
boards.

845
01:05:32,180 --> 01:05:35,800
Can you remind us when their next installment is?

846
01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:40,380
Payment is made for the contract on a monthly basis.

847
01:05:42,660 --> 01:05:43,040
Mr. Mayor.

848
01:05:43,060 --> 01:05:43,260
Yeah.

849
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:48,300
Just to bring a little perspective to that too, we're not outsourcing to a private company that those

850
01:05:48,300 --> 01:05:48,940
funds are there.

851
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:50,520
I mean, it is a community event.

852
01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:55,040
a community, it is a organization that was formed for this specific purpose.

853
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:58,240
I guess that'd be my question would be, hypothetically, what happened if we ended our

854
01:05:58,240 --> 01:05:59,580
contact with Gold Lake Havasu?

855
01:06:00,020 --> 01:06:04,320
I'm assuming Gold Lake Havasu would then shut down because it would have no other use in

856
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:04,880
Lake Havasu.

857
01:06:05,380 --> 01:06:10,080
It's ran, it has no shareholders, it's ran by the board which are all community members.

858
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:14,360
So, you know, I would see in that situation that the money would then go back to the community

859
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:20,500
or because it's not, if we were paying to XYZ Corporation to run our marketing company

860
01:06:20,500 --> 01:06:24,020
and they had all this money, we wouldn't be discussing their assets, we would just be,

861
01:06:24,020 --> 01:06:27,640
this is what we pay them every year to do this service. The fact that they have this money

862
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:32,100
and it's set up the way it is, there is the transparency we can see where it is and I do

863
01:06:32,100 --> 01:06:36,400
like the fact that we are saving for a rainy day because I think once we get to that point,

864
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:40,420
you know if we were dealing with a private company they could just, okay we're done and we're only

865
01:06:40,420 --> 01:06:44,120
spending the money you're giving us. So in a way this is definitely having to sue money because like

866
01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:49,760
I said I'm not a voting member on the board but I know the community members out there and the community,

867
01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:52,360
They are the ones that get to make that decision.

868
01:06:52,620 --> 01:06:55,480
So it is a community, correct me if I'm wrong, it's a community.

869
01:06:55,920 --> 01:07:00,280
It was put the CBB was put together for the specific purpose and if we no longer negotiate

870
01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:04,500
with them, then it would cease to exist because it's not like it's a marketing company that's

871
01:07:04,500 --> 01:07:07,320
going to go to Phoenix and market for UMA or Tucson.

872
01:07:08,220 --> 01:07:12,540
It's a community marketing organization that was set up for that.

873
01:07:12,580 --> 01:07:13,960
So it still is community money.

874
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:19,940
So, City of Andrew Newton and Vice Mayor Jim Gullin.

875
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:26,040
It's my understanding in the contract that if you guys choose to disengage from Gullin

876
01:07:26,040 --> 01:07:30,440
Cavassu that our assets refer to the city.

877
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:32,460
That's my understanding, but if I'm wrong,

878
01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:36,540
the city attorney can certainly tell me differently.

879
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:38,660
Can we have clear communication?

880
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:41,120
We just got two different answers there.

881
01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:46,600
Yes, you know, it's the contract is all in front of each one of us, so

882
01:07:49,710 --> 01:07:54,490
As far as the dollars are voting back, there's no language that I'm

883
01:07:55,130 --> 01:07:58,710
I'm aware of in the contract that would do just that

884
01:08:00,390 --> 01:08:00,870
Mayor

885
01:08:01,570 --> 01:08:06,790
Yes, Councilmember Campbell. I did speak with the board previously and they said it wasn't based on the contract

886
01:08:06,790 --> 01:08:12,410
It was based on the bylaws of the board that stated that I did not see that with my own eyes

887
01:08:12,410 --> 01:08:17,170
but I do remember that. Mr. King Cannon, do you remember that conversation as well? It's kind of

888
01:08:17,170 --> 01:08:22,570
part of the bylaws of the board not so much the contract with you. If you can help you with this.

889
01:08:22,810 --> 01:08:27,790
Sorry, I was reading something when you started. Okay, basically I was at a board meeting or spoke

890
01:08:27,790 --> 01:08:35,710
with the board at one time about the same concern a couple years ago and they told me that it was under the bylaws.

891
01:08:35,710 --> 01:08:46,850
It was an under-consumer encounter actually correct and then they I think it was one of our previous board members as citizens of the community that also had the same concern and wanted

892
01:08:46,850 --> 01:08:54,890
whatever balance of that money to go back into like have a few city reserves for the full purpose of tourism

893
01:08:56,030 --> 01:09:01,910
Again, I don't have it all right in front of me, but that's what I recall you're absolutely right. It's not in the contract with the city

894
01:09:01,910 --> 01:09:08,670
but it is in our organizational bylaws that if the city disengages or or I shouldn't put it that way

895
01:09:08,670 --> 01:09:14,490
if the organization has no no reason to exist any longer then the money set up and given to the

896
01:09:14,490 --> 01:09:21,170
organization by the city and its physical assets go back to the city. It's not in the contract again

897
01:09:21,170 --> 01:09:24,390
let's clarify it's in the bylaw my organizational bylaws.

898
01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:29,220
That's your question councilman. Is there any way to

899
01:09:29,220 --> 01:09:30,460
with that in the contract?

900
01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:33,440
In the future, contract certainly that can be

901
01:09:33,440 --> 01:09:34,840
direction that we give.

902
01:09:34,860 --> 01:09:35,440
Be more accurate.

903
01:09:35,460 --> 01:09:36,940
Are we doing discussion today?

904
01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:40,160
We are discussing yes.

905
01:09:40,580 --> 01:09:42,540
So discussion can give possible direction.

906
01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:44,060
It says reading here.

907
01:09:44,700 --> 01:09:46,600
So we could give that possible direction tonight.

908
01:09:46,940 --> 01:09:47,900
We could, yes.

909
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:50,560
I would like to see that.

910
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:54,280
Any other questions?

911
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:03,820
Any questions or comments for Mr. Concannon or Mr. Concannon or Mr. Concannon? Mayor.

912
01:10:04,180 --> 01:10:04,720
Yeah, Council Member Campbell.

913
01:10:04,940 --> 01:10:05,920
I do.

914
01:10:07,420 --> 01:10:08,120
So let's see.

915
01:10:08,260 --> 01:10:15,360
I'm going to read off this so that I actually get across all everybody's voice that I've heard.

916
01:10:16,580 --> 01:10:18,200
So, good evening, Mr. Concannon.

917
01:10:18,380 --> 01:10:18,860
Good to see you.

918
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:23,500
This is my opinion, but also the opinion of many people that I've spoken to in this community.

919
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:26,980
Now, I would like to play a recording really quickly.

920
01:10:26,980 --> 01:10:31,640
It's a very quick one that's hopefully all technical, stuff will work.

921
01:11:05,500 --> 01:11:10,360
So you state that it's not up to the tourism bureau to make moral decisions and I'm not

922
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:15,160
here to do this, but I'm going to just repeat what I've heard and how I want our relationship

923
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:21,120
to move forward, but this is what I'm hoping will happen. Maybe it is time for the CVB to start

924
01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:27,100
making moral decisions for the sake of the city and how our tax dollars are spent, marketing

925
01:11:27,100 --> 01:11:34,920
to the highest, two of the highest crime states, encouraging large events, which leaves our city

926
01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:41,320
a mess, overtaking our services from fire, police, and parks, and leaving the citizens of

927
01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:47,320
Lake Havasucity to clean up after the party like you meet at crowd. We as a city need to unite

928
01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:54,600
more than ever, and go in on to live radio speaking out highly, about highly controversial topics,

929
01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:57,200
I think calling the citizens of Lake Cavusy City

930
01:11:57,200 --> 01:12:00,280
bigots is not what the taxpayers pay for.

931
01:12:01,460 --> 01:12:04,100
I believe it's time for us to look at a healthier way

932
01:12:04,100 --> 01:12:05,540
to remote our city.

933
01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:08,100
Over capacity is not what we need.

934
01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:10,080
More like questionable events,

935
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:14,240
not what we want, what we need is a tourism,

936
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:18,480
which educates and promotes a healthy community

937
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:21,540
where visitors are welcome to come

938
01:12:21,540 --> 01:12:24,340
without turning our city upside down.

939
01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:28,520
I was a big advocate of yours, Mr. Kagan, and you know it.

940
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:33,180
I believe excessive tourism is what our city wanted and needed.

941
01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:36,160
Congratulations, massive growth.

942
01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:39,100
But now it's time to look at a new direction.

943
01:12:39,820 --> 01:12:42,440
Will the CVB consider a new marketing strategy

944
01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:44,980
that will take these items into consideration?

945
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:48,360
The citizens of Lake Habasu would like to hear

946
01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:51,260
from you in 30 days to see what you can come up with

947
01:12:51,260 --> 01:12:55,240
including proper protocol for adding events to your site.

948
01:12:55,700 --> 01:12:57,840
You've already said some things about your app

949
01:12:57,840 --> 01:13:01,060
and how we can be better tourists

950
01:13:01,060 --> 01:13:05,580
and how we can be better at our short-term rental.

951
01:13:06,140 --> 01:13:07,140
We need your help.

952
01:13:07,420 --> 01:13:09,940
We don't want to get rid of you by all means.

953
01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:13,260
But I'm asking the citizens are here asking,

954
01:13:13,820 --> 01:13:15,880
what are we doing, what are we paying,

955
01:13:16,220 --> 01:13:17,700
what's going on with our community?

956
01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:20,520
And I was really upset today when I heard

957
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:27,720
that the Constitutional event had come to you guys quite a while ago and also dropped off

958
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:31,500
flyers and yet their events not on the page.

959
01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:38,360
I was disappointed to hear that Gini Kent, who has been working with you for quite a long

960
01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:46,540
time, about her tax, some seminar, was not on your event and was told that we don't promote

961
01:13:47,460 --> 01:13:56,180
I thought you were the convention and visitors bureau and I know for one thing whenever I go onto your events, and I want to show up because I've used your website for decades.

962
01:13:57,580 --> 01:14:07,540
When I show up and I push the button, I get a bunch of options of hotels that I can, you know, reserve and then that brings revenues to us.

963
01:14:07,540 --> 01:14:12,520
So, I'm not here to throw you under the bus or call the CVB horrible people.

964
01:14:13,020 --> 01:14:16,740
I just want to be the voice of this community that says, let's rain it back.

965
01:14:16,780 --> 01:14:19,240
Let's take another look at it and can we move forward?

966
01:14:26,630 --> 01:14:30,410
We do have an event protocol that is listed explicitly on our website.

967
01:14:31,330 --> 01:14:37,370
Jeannie Canches tax conferences, not a public event, and so we didn't list it on our website.

968
01:14:37,370 --> 01:14:44,890
I will say though that we spent $1,300 on Swagford for her event and so we did do that much.

969
01:14:45,370 --> 01:14:48,330
I'll be and I apologize for that for the Constitution week.

970
01:14:48,750 --> 01:14:52,290
I only found out about it from a flyer today in my office.

971
01:14:52,890 --> 01:14:58,170
I was not aware that it came to our office but I'm more than happy to put it on the calendar.

972
01:14:58,350 --> 01:14:59,970
I think it's very important and we're certainly more important.

973
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:07,460
Even if it's a private convention, people are still looking for hotels, restaurants, whichever. I would think that would be a great idea.

974
01:15:08,180 --> 01:15:14,900
I also know that we have a freedom bar, because I think this weekend as well.

975
01:15:15,220 --> 01:15:21,840
And I'm seeing it on go, like, have a suit. I mean, lakehavesu.com websites. They've been all up to date on that.

976
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:51,760
And I think that I would like to see a better protocol like if somebody comes into your office and does XYZ do they get a flyer that says sorry this is the reason why we don't do your events on ours or you know because I know that people were confused they said why are we promoting and I didn't want to use the word a drag show and February but we're having conventional constitution week next week these are things that I would like to kind of unite us a little bit better.

977
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:56,700
Sure. Okay. Absolutely. Thank you. Yeah, Mr. Confane. Can you answer that question? How do you

978
01:15:56,700 --> 01:16:02,040
advance skills? Yes. Thank you. I'm protocol. I did print it out and bring it with me.

979
01:16:09,300 --> 01:16:13,740
And Mr. Good fellow. You're in the audience. Did you reach out to the CVV?

980
01:16:15,180 --> 01:16:19,700
Yes. How long ago? Okay. Where? Mr. Good fellow. Not on my phone. Okay.

981
01:16:19,700 --> 01:16:25,360
The public hearing. Okay. Sorry. I just wanted to bring that. Yeah. That he has been reaching out. Okay.

982
01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:30,700
These are some of the questions we think about when an event come.

983
01:16:31,020 --> 01:16:32,420
Will visitors be interested in attending?

984
01:16:32,940 --> 01:16:35,600
I remember we love this community and we want to do things for the residents,

985
01:16:36,260 --> 01:16:39,780
but our website is visitor-facing, so we have to think about tourists and visitors.

986
01:16:40,420 --> 01:16:42,180
So will visitors be interested in attending?

987
01:16:42,900 --> 01:16:44,520
Is it of interest to a wide audience?

988
01:16:44,900 --> 01:16:46,020
Is it open to the public?

989
01:16:46,880 --> 01:16:49,980
To answer your question about the private event like the tax conference,

990
01:16:50,500 --> 01:16:53,860
tax conferences like that always send information about where to stay,

991
01:16:53,860 --> 01:16:58,100
They can still look to see where to stay on our website, but they won't find any information

992
01:16:58,100 --> 01:16:59,640
about the task conference itself.

993
01:16:59,940 --> 01:17:02,500
Does it take place within Lake Habesu City, obviously?

994
01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:08,580
Does it possess unique cultural significance, I.E. art, history, health, sports, civic,

995
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:09,240
et cetera?

996
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:10,840
Is it non-political?

997
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:12,920
Is it a one-time event?

998
01:17:13,300 --> 01:17:23,840
Because if it's a weekly monthly or a occurring over a long time, we add it to our local

999
01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:30,480
community events page, because if we listed every single community event, like don't want to,

1000
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:35,160
I'm not disregarding your barbecue, but all these massive events, then I don't think

1001
01:17:35,160 --> 01:17:40,180
their calendar events would be as useful as it could be. So what we do is we do the events

1002
01:17:40,180 --> 01:17:45,860
based on this criteria on our tourism facing website, and then we partner with the River Seeing

1003
01:17:45,860 --> 01:17:50,600
Calendar of Events for the more community-oriented events, and we have a link to that on our page.

1004
01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:51,600
Thank you.

1005
01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:56,920
Yeah, there are any questions, other questions or comments to remember the council for Mr.

1006
01:17:57,040 --> 01:17:57,760
Concantor and Mr. Concantor?

1007
01:17:58,020 --> 01:17:59,240
Can I ask you one quick question?

1008
01:17:59,460 --> 01:17:59,740
I'm really.

1009
01:18:00,100 --> 01:18:04,080
You're agreement with Riversea, do they get paid to do that or that just a survey?

1010
01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:05,080
No, it's just a survey.

1011
01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:05,460
Just a survey.

1012
01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:10,820
And then I have kind of, I'm going to change this just a little bit and I might need the help

1013
01:18:10,820 --> 01:18:12,100
of the chiefs on this.

1014
01:18:13,260 --> 01:18:20,120
So I think you're here, I talked to some people down at the chamber today and I think you're

1015
01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:25,100
doing a great job at promoting, you know, where we can see that with our revenues and our businesses

1016
01:18:25,100 --> 01:18:27,540
and our restaurants and our hotels, we can see that.

1017
01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:32,360
I think the question that I have for one of the chiefs, and I know chief doils in here.

1018
01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:35,240
Maybe chief ploughs can answer this question.

1019
01:18:35,740 --> 01:18:40,580
Is what do our, what does that look like on our public safety when these,

1020
01:18:40,580 --> 01:18:42,520
events of these busy weekends and these holidays?

1021
01:18:43,040 --> 01:18:48,120
Like, what does that look at the extra cost to put our guys and gals all down there?

1022
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:50,580
Can you answer that?

1023
01:18:50,620 --> 01:18:54,920
Mayor, Council Berlin, sure I'd love to answer that if I can, because there are the

1024
01:18:54,920 --> 01:18:57,620
terms of like tourism in Lake Havana City, right?

1025
01:18:57,660 --> 01:19:00,960
We're very reliant as a tourism community.

1026
01:19:01,580 --> 01:19:09,360
We have small businesses and that rely on tourism in Lake Havana City, and we rely on tourism

1027
01:19:09,360 --> 01:19:13,840
dollars in terms of questions to pay for services like police fire and throughout the organization.

1028
01:19:13,840 --> 01:19:21,620
But there's a cost that that's associated with tourism, and so that there's a strain that

1029
01:19:21,620 --> 01:19:29,100
gets placed on fire and on police in the public safety agencies, not just for the special

1030
01:19:29,100 --> 01:19:33,600
events that occur throughout the year, but for our holiday weekends.

1031
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:41,380
So we have overtime that is a direct cost associated with that for fire and for police.

1032
01:19:41,380 --> 01:19:45,060
We're talking about just in those two departments, so we're talking a million dollars.

1033
01:19:45,740 --> 01:19:49,420
In addition to that, we're talking about parks and parks maintenance and the ability

1034
01:19:49,420 --> 01:19:56,320
to maintain our parks from free from trash and, of course, all the maintenance that to the

1035
01:20:02,200 --> 01:20:29,980
So we have some folks that come to, well, they can have a way, then legal system, strain on the jails that it can occur there as well. So there is a cost associated with all of that in terms of just special events and major holidays. Now, let's also have a conversation about short-term rentals in the Lake Havasu City and the response that's needed to be done.

1036
01:20:29,980 --> 01:20:36,800
from Jill and Ed been and been services and to be able to track and as we bring an ordinance

1037
01:20:37,340 --> 01:20:43,620
as city attorney, Gary, we bring an ordinance before the council here in the next several weeks

1038
01:20:43,620 --> 01:20:48,080
for short-term rentals. We're going to be creating a permit process so we need the local

1039
01:20:48,080 --> 01:20:53,020
short-term rentals to be permitted. That's not cheap. That's a cost associated with that.

1040
01:20:53,180 --> 01:20:59,280
We got no relief from the state legislature this year in terms of our ability to enforce some

1041
01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:04,060
the rules that are provided by the conversations with the city manager in Paradise Valley and

1042
01:21:04,060 --> 01:21:10,760
with the Scottsdale. And they're talking about having a five-person team out of their

1043
01:21:10,760 --> 01:21:14,400
police department that's solely going to be used for. It's a little task force that's

1044
01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:19,700
totally going to be used to enforce the registration and the permit process for church or rentals.

1045
01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:25,640
If they're on permitted, the only way we know how to take a look at that situation and

1046
01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:29,860
enforce that they're not permitted is to show up on Friday at five o'clock and see

1047
01:21:29,860 --> 01:21:34,020
anybody is there. And that's what there's a task force that's being created for that.

1048
01:21:34,040 --> 01:21:38,940
There's a strain on the city's resources and again there's a benefit in terms of the

1049
01:21:38,940 --> 01:21:42,500
tourism and the and the questions that are needed and the benefits to the to the

1050
01:21:42,500 --> 01:21:46,820
to the residents we get fantastic special events in Lake Havasu City and that's a wonderful

1051
01:21:46,820 --> 01:21:51,500
wonderful thing. But yeah there's obviously two sides and appreciate the opportunity to talk

1052
01:21:51,500 --> 01:21:57,540
about the side that the team at Lake Habits of City and the staff that does a wonderful job

1053
01:21:57,540 --> 01:22:03,460
and making sure that downtown Main Street is looks pretty spectacular after a really busy

1054
01:22:03,460 --> 01:22:07,660
desert storm of that. Go down to the channel and roll every park after a very busy and a

1055
01:22:07,660 --> 01:22:13,000
world they weekend. It looks pretty dang good, doesn't it? And that's so that's thanks to our team

1056
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:18,900
and parks and public works and throughout the police and fire and throughout the organization.

1057
01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:25,980
I think that's just why it's really hard for me to digest this over $2 million that they

1058
01:22:25,980 --> 01:22:32,780
have an account that if to put that back into those services that are needed during those

1059
01:22:32,780 --> 01:22:33,100
times.

1060
01:22:33,580 --> 01:22:36,940
That's just why it's hard for me to see when that money sitting there and then we're over

1061
01:22:36,940 --> 01:22:39,720
here is a city having to pay that offset on that.

1062
01:22:40,040 --> 01:22:44,480
That was kind of what this whole wrap around a lot of this for questioning what our contract

1063
01:22:44,480 --> 01:22:46,000
is looking at the financials.

1064
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:51,420
I just want to make that very clear that I'm watching that in and it just concerns me.

1065
01:22:51,440 --> 01:22:52,300
Thank you.

1066
01:22:52,700 --> 01:22:53,580
Thank you.

1067
01:22:53,620 --> 01:22:54,220
It cuts me really.

1068
01:22:56,040 --> 01:22:56,920
Thank you, Ms. Mayor.

1069
01:22:58,180 --> 01:23:03,000
It's almost like we could take away words from when we did the contracts and bring

1070
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:04,080
on forward to tonight.

1071
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:07,800
First off to Mr. Con Cannon and his staff.

1072
01:23:07,940 --> 01:23:09,680
I think you guys do a great job on promoting.

1073
01:23:10,020 --> 01:23:10,580
Thank you.

1074
01:23:10,940 --> 01:23:14,940
I've always thought that I've always thought that we were paying too much for it.

1075
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:18,840
And that was because we were given a certain percentage.

1076
01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:23,540
So one of the things that I had pushed the city manager for was a flat contract.

1077
01:23:24,660 --> 01:23:29,540
And part of that concern was the fact that you're reserves in my opinion at that time we're getting too high.

1078
01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:32,900
They were about 1.5, 1.6 million at the time.

1079
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:43,080
So I wanted a flat contract so that any of those excess funds would then come back to the city to be used for items such as the police, the fire, the parks,

1080
01:23:43,080 --> 01:23:45,580
to solve the stuff I brought up with that meeting.

1081
01:23:47,420 --> 01:23:48,220
And we did that.

1082
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:51,140
But now what we're seeing is that the reserves are still going up.

1083
01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:53,700
So when it comes time to negotiate the contract,

1084
01:23:53,860 --> 01:23:56,020
I think that's something that we'll have to look at.

1085
01:23:56,960 --> 01:23:59,240
Maybe with that money, we are working on

1086
01:23:59,240 --> 01:24:00,620
to downtown Calis Project.

1087
01:24:00,700 --> 01:24:04,420
Maybe you could partner up with, we need additional funds for that.

1088
01:24:05,180 --> 01:24:06,700
I have a question for you.

1089
01:24:06,700 --> 01:24:10,520
And that is if the citizens in the city are unhappy

1090
01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:17,300
with an issue or do they call you and tell you that they don't like this or they don't like that?

1091
01:24:17,780 --> 01:24:21,380
I've received quite a bit of feedback in the last month or so.

1092
01:24:21,380 --> 01:24:29,140
In the last month or so, just because I don't want to talk about the one item because we're here talking about the contract, not the...

1093
01:24:29,140 --> 01:24:37,920
But beyond that, Council Member Baleen, yes, if residents do reach out to us, they may stop in, they may call, they may usually email.

1094
01:24:37,920 --> 01:24:44,820
But they do let us know if there's something we're doing that we should be doing better or if there's something we're doing that they think we're doing very good

1095
01:24:44,820 --> 01:24:52,080
And do you ever work with the event promoter to try to make it an advertisement that that would be?

1096
01:24:52,900 --> 01:24:59,980
I don't want to say user friendly, but more open to the people we do reserve the right to make change

1097
01:25:02,460 --> 01:25:09,100
We're not to make changes because it's their thing but to suggest and to coach. Let's put it that way. Okay.

1098
01:25:09,720 --> 01:25:15,700
And if you look at on your contract, I don't know if you have it with you or not, but on your contract on section four.

1099
01:25:16,380 --> 01:25:19,260
I'll bring up that account right here for just a quick second.

1100
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:25,820
And I think this is something that you could use when you're speaking with people.

1101
01:25:26,380 --> 01:25:31,520
and they're talking about their contracts under number four, a, one,

1102
01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:36,800
promote like have a Citi, our community, our vision, and our goals.

1103
01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:41,600
So one of the things that we have heard with a particular incident,

1104
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:46,920
or I shouldn't say incident, but something that is going to be going on here in the city,

1105
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:53,260
if they would have just taken off under the age of 18, nobody would have a complaint.

1106
01:25:53,260 --> 01:25:58,140
Um, that's what I've heard as people wanted to say is, I don't care what you do is, and

1107
01:25:58,140 --> 01:25:59,820
at all, we just want the children to go there.

1108
01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:05,020
For the promoter, that might be something that they could do working with, go like have a

1109
01:26:05,020 --> 01:26:08,660
sue, um, and I'm not saying just the event, because that's not really what we're talking

1110
01:26:08,660 --> 01:26:13,560
about, but you could use your contract, um, with that verbiage right there about our vision

1111
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:17,740
and our goals to ask them to change those types of things.

1112
01:26:17,740 --> 01:26:24,440
So, not only are our tours happy, not only are our ben promoters happy, but our citizens are happy.

1113
01:26:25,120 --> 01:26:30,240
And as a council, that's what we're looking at is we want our citizens to feel that we are

1114
01:26:30,840 --> 01:26:33,540
answering to their goals and what their visions are.

1115
01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:38,940
Yes, sir, Council Member Layne. What I will do as regards to your comment is I have an executive

1116
01:26:38,940 --> 01:26:43,860
committee meeting next week and a board of directors meeting the week following that and I will

1117
01:26:43,860 --> 01:26:49,760
this concern to them as well. If we, I would, is there some place or some website that I

1118
01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:54,860
could look up and find out, what do we have community goals and community visions that

1119
01:26:54,860 --> 01:26:58,340
does out there that I can, so I don't have a free website.

1120
01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:03,060
Our city website has our vision goal. I'll print that out for every one of my staff members.

1121
01:27:03,840 --> 01:27:09,220
And I do think you guys are doing a good job. I never, I never thought otherwise, I just thought

1122
01:27:09,220 --> 01:27:12,040
we could pay you a little bit less to do the same job. Right on.

1123
01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:15,540
Thank you. Thank you.

1124
01:27:15,580 --> 01:27:16,040
Thank you.

1125
01:27:17,910 --> 01:27:19,090
Are there any other questions?

1126
01:27:19,150 --> 01:27:20,830
Some could say the same about you, David.

1127
01:27:22,890 --> 01:27:24,850
How much is less than zero?

1128
01:27:27,910 --> 01:27:32,610
On your executive board, is the ex officio council member included in that?

1129
01:27:32,790 --> 01:27:33,450
Who's all on?

1130
01:27:34,130 --> 01:27:37,310
The executive committee is myself.

1131
01:27:37,310 --> 01:27:43,590
I'm the Secretary, and then the Board Chairman, the Vice Chair, and the second Vice Chair.

1132
01:27:45,190 --> 01:27:50,790
I personally believe that it might be a good idea to have the council liaison on there with you as well.

1133
01:27:53,650 --> 01:27:56,490
Mr. Mayor, would be okay if he told us the names of those people?

1134
01:27:56,870 --> 01:27:57,210
Oh, absolutely.

1135
01:27:57,990 --> 01:28:03,650
The Chairman on my board currently is the General Manager of the Nautical Beachfront Resort.

1136
01:28:03,710 --> 01:28:04,990
That's Alfredo Anguyano.

1137
01:28:05,650 --> 01:28:10,210
The vice chair is Heather Petticheski, who works for London Bridge Resort and Arizona State

1138
01:28:10,210 --> 01:28:10,650
Lottery.

1139
01:28:11,230 --> 01:28:15,970
And the second vice chair is Jen Wetton, who wants grape seed rains.

1140
01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:25,480
Are there any other questions or comments before we open the public hearing?

1141
01:28:28,270 --> 01:28:28,470
All right.

1142
01:28:28,690 --> 01:28:29,370
Thank you, Mr. Kennedy.

1143
01:28:29,770 --> 01:28:29,850
Thank you.

1144
01:28:30,090 --> 01:28:32,770
If you could stay close, because we have a lot of questions that are going to come up.

1145
01:28:33,050 --> 01:28:34,690
We'll now go ahead and open the public hearing.

1146
01:28:35,070 --> 01:28:38,290
You don't have to sign out for the public hearing, but we did have some citizens do so.

1147
01:28:38,410 --> 01:28:39,470
So, we'll start with them first.

1148
01:28:39,710 --> 01:28:41,550
Please remember, same rules apply before.

1149
01:28:41,550 --> 01:28:45,350
we can have a two-way conversation, which is fantastic. There is a light indicator box next

1150
01:28:45,350 --> 01:28:49,510
to Miss Williams and just remember that you'll be addressing the Council directly. The first

1151
01:28:49,510 --> 01:28:51,930
speaker will be Karen Vanerjack.

1152
01:29:02,690 --> 01:29:06,030
Karen Vanerjack, 45-year tax payer of Lake Havasu City.

1153
01:29:06,630 --> 01:29:11,930
When funds are provided from our city to an organization that represents Lake Havasu City,

1154
01:29:12,390 --> 01:29:17,290
there needs to be accountability. I'm not sure of the basis of Terrence Kantana,

1155
01:29:17,410 --> 01:29:21,050
and how he's hired, but I know if I was going to put someone in charge of tourism

1156
01:29:21,050 --> 01:29:23,230
and drawing people to our city to live.

1157
01:29:23,370 --> 01:29:24,590
I wouldn't go to New York City,

1158
01:29:24,610 --> 01:29:26,190
and I know he's not from New York City.

1159
01:29:26,490 --> 01:29:27,690
It's just an example, okay.

1160
01:29:27,730 --> 01:29:30,490
The values and lifestyles of people in New York

1161
01:29:30,490 --> 01:29:32,930
is fast, pace, and wouldn't miss well,

1162
01:29:33,370 --> 01:29:36,270
with the layback friendly city vibe of Lake Havasu.

1163
01:29:36,730 --> 01:29:39,910
Yet, Terence seems to spend most of his time

1164
01:29:39,910 --> 01:29:43,450
advertising in places like San Francisco and Chicago.

1165
01:29:44,210 --> 01:29:46,790
Does he even understand who we are as a community?

1166
01:29:47,350 --> 01:29:49,770
There's nothing wrong with alternate lifestyles,

1167
01:29:49,770 --> 01:29:52,450
but we're not advertising Kansas City or Atlanta.

1168
01:29:53,170 --> 01:29:57,010
They offer diversity, but values are more in line with Lake Havasu.

1169
01:29:57,690 --> 01:29:59,770
Then there's the decision to welcome the pride tour.

1170
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:28,180
Which includes the draft show, encouraging minors to attend. This is where accountability comes in. Perhaps a city council should be overseeing how Mr. Comcana is running his, this bureau, and with our city taxes being used. He has a board, which I understand includes Vice Mayor Dolan. That might be the perfect way to have that accountability. Terrence could report his plans to go Lake Avesu board and Vice Mayor could be the liaison to the city.

1171
01:30:28,180 --> 01:30:35,480
That's just an idea. In the meantime, we're now faced with a drag show posed by 64% of the citizens,

1172
01:30:36,040 --> 01:30:41,940
as reported by the survey reported in the Lake Havasu Harald. This show, degrading women,

1173
01:30:42,280 --> 01:30:46,780
with men in clown makeup and dress as cheap prostitutes, is bad enough in itself,

1174
01:30:47,120 --> 01:30:55,280
but encouraging minors to attend is unconscionable. Ask yourself this, not why do they invite children,

1175
01:30:55,280 --> 01:31:01,500
but why is the presence of children so important to these men dressed as cheap sloppy women?

1176
01:31:02,340 --> 01:31:09,000
The triangular Pito symbol is connected to their website, which is a signal to men looking for

1177
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:14,680
like-minded men, attracted children. These children to attend need to be with an adult,

1178
01:31:14,980 --> 01:31:20,060
but what adult doesn't mean it's our parents? They're also allowed, so where are these children

1179
01:31:20,060 --> 01:31:26,380
going to sit, laps, laps of who? They're encouraged to have small bills, so the miners can

1180
01:31:26,380 --> 01:31:31,600
touch these men to place money on their bodies. I don't need to attend one of these shows

1181
01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:37,420
to know what they are like. They're all over the web and I watch the children who look

1182
01:31:37,420 --> 01:31:42,480
bewildered, awkward, and don't really want to participate with what they are seeing. Let's talk

1183
01:31:42,480 --> 01:31:48,640
this out. Find a solution. At the very least, we need this to be removed from the the Go Lake

1184
01:31:48,640 --> 01:31:54,100
have a website and the calendar that Councilwoman Lynn had suggested, as soon as possible.

1185
01:31:54,900 --> 01:31:59,640
And for the safety reasons and to avoid the city possibly being sued and cut for

1186
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:03,840
bit of child being harmed, make this an adult only venue.

1187
01:32:04,980 --> 01:32:13,060
So I really don't need to communicate with you all, but I'm hoping I'm right Jim Mr.

1188
01:32:13,060 --> 01:32:19,980
vice mayor that you are on the board and is it you know I thought someone made that suggestion

1189
01:32:19,980 --> 01:32:24,520
I forgot it was someone made it was it you Councilman Lane someone made this a gesture

1190
01:32:24,520 --> 01:32:29,180
I'm having a liaison and I'm going yay that was my suggestion. Oh thank you. Yes

1191
01:32:30,140 --> 01:32:34,720
Councilman made Moses good suggestion so I'm just putting out some ideas

1192
01:32:34,720 --> 01:32:40,720
I'm just trying to work with you and these are my suggestions yeah thank you there's some of the

1193
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:47,240
Some of the target items are, some of the target cities, Karen, are done with AOT.

1194
01:32:47,440 --> 01:32:51,440
So there's an office of tourism, has target cities based on where air traffic comes from,

1195
01:32:51,560 --> 01:32:55,720
and you might be surprised to know the Naperville, which is a suburb of Chicago, was one

1196
01:32:55,720 --> 01:32:59,680
of the largest markets for Mr. McCollick and his flights to get people to purchase land

1197
01:32:59,680 --> 01:33:00,760
here back in the 70s.

1198
01:33:01,500 --> 01:33:05,360
So we have to be careful when we're picking what cities and who and what they are, because

1199
01:33:05,360 --> 01:33:10,080
we have co-ops with airs and officers and that brings some additional dollars into what

1200
01:33:10,080 --> 01:33:13,700
is marking efforts look like. So I know sometimes it can be confusing, but there are

1201
01:33:13,700 --> 01:33:16,980
marketing dollars and in terms maybe you can speak to the dollars that are

1202
01:33:16,980 --> 01:33:21,180
spent in theapolis and some of the other areas as well that reach some of those

1203
01:33:21,180 --> 01:33:23,920
outlaying, outlaying, community space, non-seasonality of our market.

1204
01:33:24,440 --> 01:33:27,920
Sure, and another thing that we look at when we when we choose where to advertise,

1205
01:33:28,400 --> 01:33:31,860
so we're always advertising Phoenix and Las Vegas and Southern California because those

1206
01:33:31,860 --> 01:33:35,920
are our largest drive markets, so always be our largest markets. But when we got a

1207
01:33:35,920 --> 01:33:39,800
chance to get some additional funds from Arizona Office of Tourism, what we

1208
01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:47,960
put together was, we have a hierarchy of where attention is paid to us, geographically.

1209
01:33:48,640 --> 01:33:54,720
And so we always find Arizona a southern Nevada, southern California, as the top three.

1210
01:33:55,060 --> 01:33:59,320
But always bubbling under four, five, and six, somewhere in there, were the two communities

1211
01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:02,060
of Northern Calate San Francisco and Chicago.

1212
01:34:02,840 --> 01:34:08,740
And so, as long as we got these extra funds, and I wrote a proposal for this specifically,

1213
01:34:08,740 --> 01:34:15,800
and emerging markets. We wanted to see if we could appeal to those particular markets.

1214
01:34:16,240 --> 01:34:20,520
Now, I will say, I've been in the hospitality business for over 20 years. You never

1215
01:34:20,520 --> 01:34:27,200
usually see this kind of response to advertising, but in our visitor center, we have had

1216
01:34:27,200 --> 01:34:31,480
a huge influx of people from the San Francisco Bay area who have said that they have come

1217
01:34:31,480 --> 01:34:35,420
to this city to experience it for the first time because they saw those ads.

1218
01:34:35,420 --> 01:34:45,540
So yeah, and it's been several years since I've read the visitor study, but when I read it I recall that our biggest competitive market is like Tahoe and the citizens

1219
01:34:45,540 --> 01:34:55,600
Go to like Tahoe are from the San Francisco Bay area, so it would make sense that we would want to invest dollars in something on those lines, especially in the partnership with the O.T. that uses, you know,

1220
01:34:55,600 --> 01:34:59,680
additions and others to pick in and determine those markets so thank you for

1221
01:34:59,680 --> 01:34:59,980
like hard for getting

1222
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:02,380
Speaker for this item, is Cindy Johnson.

1223
01:35:17,260 --> 01:35:21,180
I wanted to first tell you all, it's been very educational tonight.

1224
01:35:22,020 --> 01:35:29,470
And I appreciate all of your time spent on this. So we in the community can know what's going on.

1225
01:35:30,080 --> 01:35:39,100
And we do appreciate your thoughts, your comments, your good intentions, undoing what's best for the community. We really do. Thank you.

1226
01:35:39,100 --> 01:35:46,740
Um, I'm a little bit concerned about Mr. Concannon's remarks on the radio.

1227
01:35:48,480 --> 01:35:54,020
This was really not good. Not good to do that.

1228
01:35:54,200 --> 01:36:00,040
I would hope that that wouldn't happen anymore because it has something to do.

1229
01:36:00,060 --> 01:36:03,960
City, you do we are, I'm sorry, I thought that this was about Mr. Concannon's.

1230
01:36:03,960 --> 01:36:08,120
But you're the opportunity for the public hearing, because the council, so you certainly

1231
01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:13,120
Okay, don't have time. That's fine. I thought since we were talking with him.

1232
01:36:13,320 --> 01:36:18,060
You know, yeah, you'll be able to respond as well, but okay. My mistake. No problem. I'm sorry.

1233
01:36:20,260 --> 01:36:28,280
I do want to say a little bit about everyone, the diversity and no discrimination about the

1234
01:36:28,280 --> 01:36:39,580
the pride tour. And I want to maybe educate you a little bit on what the gay community is saying about these.

1235
01:36:39,860 --> 01:36:41,000
And this is something

1236
01:36:43,820 --> 01:36:58,640
we aware of. I don't know if you have heard of them before. It's an organization that just started in June of this year and it's already up to 300,000 members of the gay community.

1237
01:36:59,240 --> 01:37:01,540
This is what it says on their website.

1238
01:37:02,900 --> 01:37:04,740
I wanted to share this with you so that you know,

1239
01:37:06,020 --> 01:37:08,520
our concern has nothing to do with our gay community.

1240
01:37:09,160 --> 01:37:13,200
They have very accepted like all the rest of our community.

1241
01:37:14,200 --> 01:37:17,080
They have earned, well, I don't know if that's the right word.

1242
01:37:17,580 --> 01:37:20,420
They've worked hard to get acceptance,

1243
01:37:21,040 --> 01:37:24,000
and they have achieved that at this point.

1244
01:37:24,320 --> 01:37:27,960
And they're just as much of our community as everybody else.

1245
01:37:27,960 --> 01:37:46,600
Gaze against groomers is a coalition of gay people who oppose the recent trend of indoctrinating, sexualizing, and medicalizing children under the guise of LGBT QIA+.

1246
01:37:46,600 --> 01:37:54,920
Our community that once preached love and acceptance of others has been hijacked by radical

1247
01:37:54,920 --> 01:38:02,260
activists who are now pushing extreme concepts on society, specifically targeting children

1248
01:38:02,260 --> 01:38:03,520
and recent years.

1249
01:38:04,560 --> 01:38:12,080
The overwhelming majority of gay people are against what the community has transformed into,

1250
01:38:12,080 --> 01:38:18,060
and we do not accept the political movement pushing their agenda in our name.

1251
01:38:19,140 --> 01:38:25,080
Gaze against groomers directly opposes the sexualization and indoctrination of children.

1252
01:38:25,920 --> 01:38:31,080
This includes drag queen story hours, drag shows involving children,

1253
01:38:31,840 --> 01:38:38,440
and transitioning and medicalization of minors, and gender theory being taught in the classrooms.

1254
01:38:38,440 --> 01:38:50,520
The activists backed by school boards, government, woke media, and corporations have been speaking on our behalf for too long.

1255
01:38:52,140 --> 01:38:57,860
When fighting for equality, our goal was to successfully integrate ourselves into society.

1256
01:38:58,680 --> 01:39:05,620
But now these radicals aim to restructure it entirely in order to accommodate a fringe minority,

1257
01:39:05,620 --> 01:39:09,760
as well as seek to indoctrinate children into their ideology.

1258
01:39:11,340 --> 01:39:12,620
We're saying no.

1259
01:39:13,940 --> 01:39:17,320
There are millions of gaze within the community

1260
01:39:17,320 --> 01:39:20,280
that what nothing to do with this alphabet religion

1261
01:39:20,280 --> 01:39:22,500
and join the fight with parents

1262
01:39:22,500 --> 01:39:26,060
and concern people everywhere to protect children.

1263
01:39:27,340 --> 01:39:30,160
Who also aim to return sanity

1264
01:39:30,160 --> 01:39:34,480
and reclaim the community we once called our own.

1265
01:39:34,480 --> 01:39:37,380
The gay community is not a monolith.

1266
01:39:37,860 --> 01:39:42,620
Those pushing the agenda do not represent or speak for us all.

1267
01:39:43,060 --> 01:39:47,220
Nor do we want to be associated with them in any way.

1268
01:39:48,260 --> 01:39:51,480
What we are witnessing is mass scale child abuse,

1269
01:39:52,040 --> 01:39:54,600
being perpetrated on an entire generation.

1270
01:39:55,400 --> 01:39:58,260
And we will no longer sit by and watch it happen.

1271
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:10,760
It is going to take those of us from within the community to finally put an end to the insanity, and that's exactly what we're going to do.

1272
01:40:11,700 --> 01:40:21,400
So this is the gay community speaking out about what the pride tours have changed into. Maybe they once weren't these things.

1273
01:40:22,440 --> 01:40:23,120
Shoot.

1274
01:40:24,860 --> 01:40:26,060
All right.

1275
01:40:26,320 --> 01:40:26,980
Yeah.

1276
01:40:26,980 --> 01:40:28,900
You wrap it up your thought, sir.

1277
01:40:29,820 --> 01:40:31,800
Just a few more if you wrap it up.

1278
01:40:31,980 --> 01:40:32,900
Thank you very much.

1279
01:40:33,120 --> 01:40:33,700
Just thank you.

1280
01:40:33,720 --> 01:40:34,960
I appreciate that.

1281
01:40:35,540 --> 01:40:38,600
So we're not fighting against the gay community.

1282
01:40:38,760 --> 01:40:43,500
We're fighting with the gay community to make this right.

1283
01:40:44,680 --> 01:40:47,940
And maybe nothing will change this year.

1284
01:40:48,820 --> 01:40:50,560
But hopefully by next year,

1285
01:40:51,280 --> 01:40:57,400
their voices will be heard. Thank you very much. Yeah, thank you.

1286
01:40:59,750 --> 01:41:01,270
All right, the next speaker is

1287
01:41:01,270 --> 01:41:02,230
Pastor Fred Bennett.

1288
01:41:11,540 --> 01:41:14,200
The good thing is not doing speeches tonight. We're just doing a two-way

1289
01:41:14,200 --> 01:41:23,760
conversation. So yeah, if you want to share your comments. Yeah. Well, as a pioneer of this town,

1290
01:41:23,760 --> 01:41:27,500
like some of us, you know, to kids walk across the bridge

1291
01:41:27,500 --> 01:41:29,480
day, it opened up.

1292
01:41:29,920 --> 01:41:31,000
We've been on the several committees.

1293
01:41:32,340 --> 01:41:32,780
We've been on the committee.

1294
01:41:33,000 --> 01:41:34,980
It started to serve as a mirror in the town.

1295
01:41:36,120 --> 01:41:37,580
It's 77, I was in the woods building.

1296
01:41:40,080 --> 01:41:44,440
And we did it to promote have a suit, you know, good light.

1297
01:41:45,520 --> 01:41:47,320
Safe place for people to bring their families,

1298
01:41:47,580 --> 01:41:51,240
raise their kids, feel safe on the streets.

1299
01:41:54,830 --> 01:41:57,490
And the police department are going

1300
01:41:57,490 --> 01:42:03,730
great job breaking some of the drugs and stuff going on in town, community ran us together

1301
01:42:03,730 --> 01:42:08,330
and reported anything and it goes on it's not right, which is the right thing to do that's

1302
01:42:08,330 --> 01:42:09,890
supporting each other.

1303
01:42:12,560 --> 01:42:15,140
We've seen many acts of heroes and over the years,

1304
01:42:17,650 --> 01:42:18,010
but I know it's

1305
01:42:18,010 --> 01:42:22,390
coming in here. There's some spots in the carpet with her.

1306
01:42:24,930 --> 01:42:26,310
Now unless you got the right person

1307
01:42:26,310 --> 01:42:31,670
that knows what they're doing to clean up those spots, they're growl and it's just like sin in

1308
01:42:31,670 --> 01:42:39,430
city. You don't take a stand and rebel against it, not so much rebel, but speak out against

1309
01:42:39,430 --> 01:42:47,510
it, to keep that disease as a spot from spreading, you'll all over take us. Let's not let

1310
01:42:47,510 --> 01:42:51,350
that happen. There's a pastor, chaplain,

1311
01:42:54,760 --> 01:42:57,740
and a member of this community. I'm out to protect.

1312
01:42:58,220 --> 01:43:01,200
Now, I got great grand children here,

1313
01:43:03,510 --> 01:43:05,510
and I take up a school in the morning.

1314
01:43:06,210 --> 01:43:08,530
So, thank you.

1315
01:43:09,710 --> 01:43:09,730
Yeah.

1316
01:43:09,950 --> 01:43:09,970
Yeah.

1317
01:43:09,970 --> 01:43:13,270
Mr. Bennett, if you could just clarify what disease are you thinking spreading?

1318
01:43:13,690 --> 01:43:13,870
Pardon?

1319
01:43:13,970 --> 01:43:14,850
What disease?

1320
01:43:15,910 --> 01:43:17,190
It would be spread out might be misleading.

1321
01:43:17,190 --> 01:43:19,070
Well, let's say it's a response over here.

1322
01:43:19,250 --> 01:43:23,590
I got the carpet piece, but I think you're trying to make an analogy to disease.

1323
01:43:23,590 --> 01:43:25,430
Well, it's a disease.

1324
01:43:26,890 --> 01:43:28,310
It can be treated in a family.

1325
01:43:28,310 --> 01:43:35,450
And they can grow, being good people, or they can foster it, and the people that kids grow up,

1326
01:43:36,750 --> 01:43:40,850
hateful, and spread it, that's where you're crying come from.

1327
01:43:42,450 --> 01:43:43,850
Okay. Okay. Yeah, thank you for the clarification.

1328
01:43:45,490 --> 01:43:52,950
All right, so the next speaker is Diane Klassen, a classifier, which I believe she stepped out,

1329
01:43:52,950 --> 01:43:54,570
I don't know if anyone gave her.

1330
01:43:55,550 --> 01:44:01,730
Okay, so we are now open to anyone that likes to address the council on this subject.

1331
01:44:01,890 --> 01:44:04,090
Just please make your way to the podium, stage your name for the record.

1332
01:44:11,150 --> 01:44:11,990
Don wisdom.

1333
01:44:13,670 --> 01:44:15,690
My mind is burning right now.

1334
01:44:18,020 --> 01:44:19,360
Would we not be

1335
01:44:22,240 --> 01:44:32,180
enlightened to send brochures, to federal parts and state parts?

1336
01:44:32,180 --> 01:44:45,180
For example, we would send when the people check into a national park or a state park they would get a brochure about Lake Abbasoo, Bryce Canyon, for example.

1337
01:44:47,140 --> 01:44:53,160
The card would be about hiking and Lake Abbasoo. Here's the point.

1338
01:44:54,160 --> 01:44:59,430
We would give them a credit card for $50. It can't be cashed.

1339
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:09,340
We would give the merchant back 50 percent, $5 dollars. We have $2 million to spend on customers.

1340
01:45:10,140 --> 01:45:16,280
These are the kind of people I would like to see come to a council. There are campers,

1341
01:45:16,700 --> 01:45:22,900
there are water skiers, there are ballooners, all kinds of fun things instead of just sending a note

1342
01:45:22,900 --> 01:45:28,940
to Chicago or to San Francisco, forget them.

1343
01:45:29,180 --> 01:45:32,020
Let's send it to the people who really want to come to have us

1344
01:45:32,020 --> 01:45:35,460
to and have fun and get a little money back.

1345
01:45:35,780 --> 01:45:38,740
If they don't use the card, it's not here.

1346
01:45:39,940 --> 01:45:40,640
Thank you.

1347
01:45:40,720 --> 01:45:41,600
Thank you, Mr. Wisdom.

1348
01:45:43,620 --> 01:45:45,060
Yes, so there's a CVB.

1349
01:45:45,240 --> 01:45:47,640
It does have a rack program that's all long

1350
01:45:47,640 --> 01:45:49,000
all of the inter-sates within this area.

1351
01:45:49,100 --> 01:45:50,760
And it does generate a lot of traffic.

1352
01:45:50,760 --> 01:45:56,060
So, the comments that I'm giving feedback on are just based on the comments I'm hearing from you.

1353
01:45:56,200 --> 01:45:59,340
It's a very large marketing plan that's available on there.

1354
01:45:59,540 --> 01:46:00,360
Is available on the website?

1355
01:46:00,800 --> 01:46:03,480
I know it's provided to the council in the court of the meetings, but

1356
01:46:03,480 --> 01:46:11,760
If anyone wants to come to our office or board me, we'll certainly provide that for you.

1357
01:46:13,120 --> 01:46:15,800
By the way, they are having a car show from Riverbound.

1358
01:46:16,340 --> 01:46:18,220
I don't know if you know about that.

1359
01:46:18,220 --> 01:46:24,460
they went and got special rates for the people who's coming to the water river

1360
01:46:24,460 --> 01:46:31,140
bound and see where the money is sitting. I thought that was a great idea. But

1361
01:46:31,140 --> 01:46:36,120
the idea that they actually went to a park, they get a brochure about Lake

1362
01:46:36,120 --> 01:46:43,640
House, have some nice beautiful pictures. And they get a credit card. Oh, but they

1363
01:46:43,640 --> 01:46:53,200
to use it, they can only use it five times. But we will get a report back. It's not a website.

1364
01:46:53,700 --> 01:46:58,820
Not everybody goes to a website. I got a bad story about websites. But they would actually

1365
01:46:58,820 --> 01:47:03,560
get something in their hand, they'd get a credit card in their hand, and then we could

1366
01:47:03,560 --> 01:47:08,900
track exactly where they're coming from and the money we spent on them.

1367
01:47:08,900 --> 01:47:09,860
Yeah. Thank you.

1368
01:47:12,100 --> 01:47:14,680
We'll also address the considering calls of the public.

1369
01:47:15,000 --> 01:47:16,180
Yeah, just make a way to the podium.

1370
01:47:16,340 --> 01:47:17,120
Stage an name for the record.

1371
01:47:17,820 --> 01:47:19,020
Jan Boyd.

1372
01:47:19,300 --> 01:47:20,100
City Council, Mr.

1373
01:47:20,580 --> 01:47:21,040
Concannon.

1374
01:47:22,100 --> 01:47:24,280
Do you feel that you work for the citizens of Lake

1375
01:47:24,280 --> 01:47:25,120
Havasu City?

1376
01:47:25,940 --> 01:47:28,300
I am not a big hit, Mr. Concannon.

1377
01:47:28,980 --> 01:47:31,020
As you have a call, citizens.

1378
01:47:31,900 --> 01:47:35,100
As a concern, citizen is my duty to bring to attention

1379
01:47:35,100 --> 01:47:37,180
to the citizens I go.

1380
01:47:37,180 --> 01:47:48,620
That Go Lake Habasu has involved itself with the Asi Pride Tour, a drag queen show that feels it needs to enlighten the residents and make us tolerable for our greater good.

1381
01:47:49,220 --> 01:47:58,820
I have correspondences between Go Lake Habasu and the drag queen show stating it is for the citizens, where's the tourism in that.

1382
01:47:58,820 --> 01:48:06,560
The majority of the cities, citizens requested that the drag show be removed on the Go Lake

1383
01:48:06,560 --> 01:48:12,980
Habasu event calendar. Furthermore, we request that the children not attend. A male

1384
01:48:12,980 --> 01:48:20,320
dance show, the men next door, will be here October 6 and 26 at bars such as B.J. and Jeremy's

1385
01:48:20,320 --> 01:48:27,940
Duke box. It states 21 and older, those are male dance shows coming to our city, two bars, 21 and

1386
01:48:27,940 --> 01:48:34,580
older this year, they're coming. Why is it that when men dances men, it's 21 and older,

1387
01:48:34,960 --> 01:48:42,040
and it's at bars, where when men dress as women, it's children, it's children welcome.

1388
01:48:42,800 --> 01:48:51,440
A just 6, 8, 10, 12, 14. Those children should not be attending the events such as a drag queen show.

1389
01:48:51,440 --> 01:48:53,400
It seems like there's an agenda.

1390
01:48:54,000 --> 01:48:58,560
If the majority protest in the city, we are called bigots.

1391
01:48:59,000 --> 01:49:02,600
Out of your own mouth, Mr. Concannon on live radio.

1392
01:49:03,280 --> 01:49:05,240
You represent Lake Havasu City.

1393
01:49:05,700 --> 01:49:08,380
Please explain how a drag show promotes tourism.

1394
01:49:09,460 --> 01:49:15,140
Lake Havasu is known for its many outdoor events, boating, hiking, gofishing, golfing,

1395
01:49:15,300 --> 01:49:16,260
good restaurants.

1396
01:49:16,260 --> 01:49:25,920
We see red flags when tourism money is directed towards failing states with high crime rates such as Chicago and San Francisco.

1397
01:49:26,800 --> 01:49:33,900
We, the people, are concerned that Go Lake Havasu is taking our city in a morally defunct direction.

1398
01:49:34,660 --> 01:49:42,660
We are now aware of that direction that Go Lake Havasu is heading and we want a new direction with complete transparency.

1399
01:49:43,820 --> 01:49:49,180
We, the people, want to say in how our taxpayer dollars are used for the betterment of our city.

1400
01:49:49,860 --> 01:49:56,680
We want to see in-house items, things like cleaning the parks, maintaining the police.

1401
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:07,140
And fire departments during tourist weeks, bridging the legs, picking up tourist trash, we don't want

1402
01:50:07,140 --> 01:50:13,740
to see the money sit in investment accounts. Nor do we approve of big buildings being built for

1403
01:50:13,740 --> 01:50:21,100
a small amount of staff. If the money is not used to better our city and keep it morally correct

1404
01:50:21,100 --> 01:50:27,060
with moral correct events, keep it clean, keep it law enforcement here. We want the money return

1405
01:50:27,060 --> 01:50:33,740
to the people, or we want their budget lowered, we want transparency, we want the direction

1406
01:50:33,740 --> 01:50:38,800
of the Convention Visitors Bureau, go like Habisou change and re-evaluated.

1407
01:50:39,340 --> 01:50:40,140
We're seeing what's happening.

1408
01:50:40,980 --> 01:50:47,460
We want the update on the taxes for 2021, we want to see quarterly postings, okay?

1409
01:50:47,900 --> 01:50:50,640
I could not find their taxes for 2021 listed.

1410
01:50:52,560 --> 01:50:58,500
Like here, where we meet a citizens, we get involved with the city, you hear us, we need

1411
01:50:58,500 --> 01:51:01,100
to do that with GoLake Havasu as citizens.

1412
01:51:02,420 --> 01:51:08,540
The voters need to reevaluate the taxpayer dollar to CBB and how it is managed.

1413
01:51:09,120 --> 01:51:10,500
You work for us.

1414
01:51:10,700 --> 01:51:13,320
If there's no accountability, it's not acceptable.

1415
01:51:14,360 --> 01:51:20,280
Right here, since I have a little more time, I do have the email where it says, to

1416
01:51:20,280 --> 01:51:26,380
go Lake Habasu. Hello, thank you so much for reaching out and for promoting performing here.

1417
01:51:26,920 --> 01:51:32,580
We are excited for this event. The event is now on live calendar. Thank you so much again,

1418
01:51:32,900 --> 01:51:38,600
and yet I think in the past they denied being in contact such as this.

1419
01:51:40,980 --> 01:51:42,200
Then I have another one

1420
01:51:42,200 --> 01:51:48,500
that says, of course, abundance between the pride event.

1421
01:51:49,500 --> 01:51:54,500
It says, they created a blog, long after we left.

1422
01:51:54,560 --> 01:51:57,120
Like Habasu, the community, and some of its leaders

1423
01:51:57,120 --> 01:52:00,980
are trying to keep the spirit of pride alive in an area

1424
01:52:00,980 --> 01:52:02,840
that highly needs it.

1425
01:52:02,880 --> 01:52:06,280
They created a blog to celebrate Pride Month.

1426
01:52:06,580 --> 01:52:08,460
Well, it may not seem all that important.

1427
01:52:08,600 --> 01:52:10,480
This is a big deal for the community.

1428
01:52:11,260 --> 01:52:14,200
Please be sure to look for it.

1429
01:52:15,680 --> 01:52:18,680
And then they listed Go Lake Havasus website.

1430
01:52:20,780 --> 01:52:23,460
So their denial is they can't deny that anymore.

1431
01:52:23,960 --> 01:52:24,720
All right, thank you.

1432
01:52:24,940 --> 01:52:25,960
Yeah, thank you.

1433
01:52:27,400 --> 01:52:29,600
And many of the comments that you made,

1434
01:52:29,780 --> 01:52:32,840
Ms. Boyd, is why we would re-integrate the contract last year.

1435
01:52:33,200 --> 01:52:35,560
So for those who sit at the transparency of the money,

1436
01:52:35,920 --> 01:52:38,020
lowering the budget, those types of things to bring certainty

1437
01:52:38,020 --> 01:52:42,780
and transparency to the contract, the business side of it, is why that contract was being

1438
01:52:42,780 --> 01:52:43,640
negotiated last year.

1439
01:52:43,920 --> 01:52:49,640
Mayor Shee, can I also add that some of the things we've done, we provide programs for

1440
01:52:49,640 --> 01:52:50,100
our community.

1441
01:52:50,360 --> 01:52:55,120
We fund first Fridays, we fund the farmers market, we fund the community youth market,

1442
01:52:55,640 --> 01:52:58,900
Regan Ross Robertson, who's here in this administers, all of these events.

1443
01:52:59,600 --> 01:53:06,320
We join forces with Lake Havaswos, Pitalia Association, and put together $60,000 and got donations

1444
01:53:06,320 --> 01:53:11,760
from business and individuals, back during COVID to form Havasu Health's Hospitality, which

1445
01:53:11,760 --> 01:53:17,620
fed 8535 of our furloughed hospitality employees and their family members.

1446
01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:22,600
We worked with partnership for economic development during COVID to develop the hashtag

1447
01:53:22,600 --> 01:53:28,780
open together program, which was a promotional program to let restaurants and their guests

1448
01:53:28,780 --> 01:53:32,260
understand what can be expected of each other post COVID.

1449
01:53:32,260 --> 01:53:38,480
So we do very much, to the extent that we can and can afford it, provide services for the community.

1450
01:53:39,220 --> 01:53:41,080
Thank you.

1451
01:53:46,980 --> 01:53:49,180
Tom Goodfellow, 8th and 4th Shlon Drive.

1452
01:53:50,200 --> 01:53:58,520
First one thing to get clear, I want to make sure it was mentioned that the barbecue on Saturday

1453
01:53:58,520 --> 01:54:02,100
has nothing to do with Constitution Week.

1454
01:54:02,100 --> 01:54:09,020
So I thought I heard some people thinking that it was affiliated and it was not.

1455
01:54:09,980 --> 01:54:21,180
To address a Councilman Campbell's questions or concerns, this is how I remember the events

1456
01:54:21,180 --> 01:54:26,720
take place and just take at any emotion out of it.

1457
01:54:26,740 --> 01:54:29,900
This is just the facts as I remember them.

1458
01:54:29,900 --> 01:54:47,880
So in March or April, I have all the, I probably have the emails, I approach Go Lake Habasu, and they, the representative was fine.

1459
01:54:52,260 --> 01:54:59,980
She directed me to the town events manager and this is all some of this is all new to me because I'm fairly new to

1460
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:12,040
And gave me names to help. And so that exchange happened for a while, because at the time we were thinking about it, possibly I'm in a parade, but it's kind of warm and September.

1461
01:55:12,240 --> 01:55:19,920
And that was always a concern. So we ditched that idea and still conversing with her, and then probably,

1462
01:55:21,960 --> 01:55:28,700
I want to say, may June, maybe I had a myself, my wife,

1463
01:55:28,700 --> 01:55:35,300
and two other volunteers had a meeting in the room at the go like have a suit with this

1464
01:55:35,300 --> 01:55:41,380
representative and we just discussed things fine everything was fine she told us you know what

1465
01:55:42,580 --> 01:55:48,500
what to do so there's nothing going on there and she said well when you get to that point where you

1466
01:55:48,500 --> 01:55:57,520
know you're ready to squeeze the trigger or whatever bring us the information and we'll help you

1467
01:55:57,520 --> 01:56:06,240
we'll do anything we can to help you. So if memory serves the week before Labor Day weekend,

1468
01:56:06,920 --> 01:56:13,300
my wife and I dropped off at 11 by 17 schedule and a tabletop schedule,

1469
01:56:14,000 --> 01:56:18,180
gave it to the lady. We went there to hopefully meet the person that we've been working with. She

1470
01:56:18,180 --> 01:56:25,680
wasn't there. So I met the receptionist. I handed, we handed and heard those two documents.

1471
01:56:25,680 --> 01:56:30,700
I think a business car, because I always, if I can't get a hold of it, I always try to leave a business card.

1472
01:56:30,820 --> 01:56:37,600
We have business cards for constitution week, and the reply was, I'll have a call you.

1473
01:56:39,380 --> 01:56:41,360
So, that's kind of where it was left.

1474
01:56:43,040 --> 01:56:51,980
And I, at that point, was pretty busy just trying to promote the event and spending all the time in businesses.

1475
01:56:52,560 --> 01:57:00,240
So the next question you're going to ask me is probably, well, did you ever call her back the following week?

1476
01:57:00,500 --> 01:57:08,460
The answer to that is no, I didn't even think of it because I was quite honestly, I'm just trying to promote the event.

1477
01:57:09,280 --> 01:57:13,780
And we were just super busy. There was four of us out just trying to promote things.

1478
01:57:14,660 --> 01:57:19,880
So that is my recollection of what happened.

1479
01:57:19,880 --> 01:57:22,620
Okay. Thank you.

1480
01:57:30,240 --> 01:57:34,620
Dale Ray, long time resident of Lake Havasu.

1481
01:57:36,100 --> 01:57:39,660
A couple of questions. One is our statement first.

1482
01:57:39,960 --> 01:57:42,320
We actually need go Lake Havasu.

1483
01:57:42,700 --> 01:57:46,120
We need a group that will promote tourism.

1484
01:57:46,960 --> 01:57:51,440
And so I think that should be clear.

1485
01:57:51,440 --> 01:58:00,240
What isn't clear, and Councilman Lynn began to address it, and that is who benefits.

1486
01:58:01,000 --> 01:58:10,920
At the end of if there was a disillusionment of the dissolving of the organization who benefits.

1487
01:58:11,580 --> 01:58:14,760
And that absolutely must be clear.

1488
01:58:14,760 --> 01:58:21,760
I've worked with organizations for my lifetime and you'd be surprised what you'll end up in

1489
01:58:21,760 --> 01:58:22,800
court over.

1490
01:58:23,460 --> 01:58:32,780
And so that the City Manager, the City Attorney, you cannot just go on right now, we have

1491
01:58:32,780 --> 01:58:34,240
an integral group.

1492
01:58:35,640 --> 01:58:41,920
I've lived here long enough, there is, I don't know, the fact of it, but supposedly someone

1493
01:58:41,920 --> 01:58:50,440
left with funds that were to a built a second bridge over our years and it involved city council.

1494
01:58:51,200 --> 01:59:04,120
And so even right now, every one of us can be of utmost integrity and yet let something go for a few years and run into someone who wasn't sitting here tonight.

1495
01:59:04,120 --> 01:59:07,260
So please, please clarify that.

1496
01:59:07,560 --> 01:59:12,160
The other thing is, who admits the entries on the calendar

1497
01:59:12,160 --> 01:59:18,520
and apparently we don't have a review board beyond Go Lake

1498
01:59:18,520 --> 01:59:22,400
Habasu, that's where the city council really should come

1499
01:59:22,400 --> 01:59:24,820
into play through the years.

1500
01:59:25,040 --> 01:59:31,360
I've used Go Lake Habasu and I've also done events with the city

1501
01:59:31,360 --> 01:59:33,540
and the city has a procedure.

1502
01:59:33,540 --> 01:59:42,920
an extensive procedure that we follow that seeks the approval of whether we can do it or whether

1503
01:59:42,920 --> 01:59:52,000
we don't do it. And so I'm asking that there be a clarity on someone from the City Council.

1504
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:13,600
So, sitting on that board so that we know what is going on. The generic doesn't work, and so we need to be very specific.

1505
02:00:13,600 --> 02:00:21,540
to that, I would like to ask the mayor and the city council to work with the city attorney

1506
02:00:21,540 --> 02:00:29,940
and that we would come up with an ordinance that would specify then that certain events

1507
02:00:31,200 --> 02:00:37,080
that would be the miners would be protected and would not go to such events.

1508
02:00:37,180 --> 02:00:41,800
And I realize I may be asking a lot especially for this year,

1509
02:00:41,800 --> 02:00:45,620
But I believe that in ordinance, we have ordinances that prevent

1510
02:00:45,620 --> 02:00:47,840
in decent exposure.

1511
02:00:48,980 --> 02:00:53,440
Those things are enforced every holiday here in Lake Abbasu.

1512
02:00:53,860 --> 02:00:55,640
Our judges and our courts are busy.

1513
02:00:56,220 --> 02:01:01,420
Certainly, we can be reasonable and come up with some kind of an ordinance that will

1514
02:01:01,420 --> 02:01:10,040
do exactly what council and woman Campbell spoke and what the city wants.

1515
02:01:10,040 --> 02:01:12,160
And that is protect the minors.

1516
02:01:12,920 --> 02:01:17,980
If the city approves and on the calendar goes these events,

1517
02:01:18,960 --> 02:01:22,300
consenting adults, that's not the problem with the citizenry.

1518
02:01:22,920 --> 02:01:25,400
I would, I certainly have my standards,

1519
02:01:26,120 --> 02:01:29,960
but other people have their own, but when it comes to children,

1520
02:01:30,740 --> 02:01:33,540
we are speaking up and speaking loud and clear.

1521
02:01:34,100 --> 02:01:36,620
You have a responsibility, I have a responsibility,

1522
02:01:36,620 --> 02:01:42,800
We all do, and we're speaking very strongly, protect the children from such events.

1523
02:01:42,840 --> 02:01:43,180
Yeah.

1524
02:01:43,480 --> 02:01:44,620
Thank you.

1525
02:01:45,860 --> 02:01:46,060
Today.

1526
02:01:47,880 --> 02:01:53,780
So what you described, Pastor Ray, on the event application process that you do, is when

1527
02:01:53,780 --> 02:01:55,240
you're having an event on city property.

1528
02:01:55,500 --> 02:01:56,820
This is on private property.

1529
02:01:56,840 --> 02:01:59,680
This is not permitted by the city in any respect.

1530
02:01:59,960 --> 02:02:02,820
But just clarification of what the separation of those two things are.

1531
02:02:03,580 --> 02:02:03,680
Yes.

1532
02:02:03,680 --> 02:02:09,830
Mayor and City Council, Ted Boyd, in regards to the drag show, I'll keep hearing from

1533
02:02:09,830 --> 02:02:13,710
this particular group of entertainer that it's all about the art.

1534
02:02:14,610 --> 02:02:17,410
If it's all about the art, why is it so important if kids are?

1535
02:02:19,830 --> 02:02:23,090
That's my last statement on that, because pre-woa covered by previous speakers.

1536
02:02:23,550 --> 02:02:31,110
Also in regards to their budget, after hearing what Councilwoman Lenset about the coffers

1537
02:02:31,670 --> 02:02:36,730
that this particular group has around the city, I immediately came to mind to me, that

1538
02:02:36,730 --> 02:02:43,030
want to belong to us, that's our money. Why is it sitting in their coffers making interest for them?

1539
02:02:44,010 --> 02:02:47,470
I'd like to put forward to the board that they consider for their next budget.

1540
02:02:48,370 --> 02:02:55,090
That they budget, they pay them what they are budgeted for, where the line item that says

1541
02:02:55,090 --> 02:03:01,810
whatever is not used does not go into their coffers, it's returned to the city. Thank you. Thank you.

1542
02:03:01,810 --> 02:03:02,990
All right,

1543
02:03:07,920 --> 02:03:12,240
Greg Logan, eight months and I've been sitting here today and I have two items

1544
02:03:12,240 --> 02:03:20,440
calm food for thought for everybody. If any organization runs out city property in any way,

1545
02:03:20,800 --> 02:03:26,680
they should be on go Lake Hathison. If it's a proper venue, if the city approves,

1546
02:03:27,960 --> 02:03:34,280
a venue coming in and being on city property, it should go into the, on the agenda.

1547
02:03:34,920 --> 02:03:41,000
Second of all, and this probably most important, on the advertising, all the way, where

1548
02:03:41,000 --> 02:03:41,800
are we advertising?

1549
02:03:42,080 --> 02:03:48,420
It's so cold, sanctuary cities, I mean, are we asking these sanctuary cities to bring

1550
02:03:48,420 --> 02:03:53,200
their values, you know, like, have a sip, just food for thought?

1551
02:03:53,880 --> 02:03:55,400
Why are we doing that?

1552
02:03:55,720 --> 02:04:00,820
Let's stoop it, pardon my language, yes, thank you.

1553
02:04:09,200 --> 02:04:14,000
My name is Dan Koblosh, I'm the interim pastor at Havasu Alliance Church.

1554
02:04:16,630 --> 02:04:21,910
We are instructed not to appropriate other cultures for fear of insulting them.

1555
02:04:22,270 --> 02:04:28,930
Sports teams change their names, faces are taken off, butter boxes, instant rice,

1556
02:04:29,370 --> 02:04:31,170
even pancake syrup.

1557
02:04:33,760 --> 02:04:39,700
And imagine a very idea of someone, some outside agency, bringing in a black face

1558
02:04:39,700 --> 02:04:42,400
menstrual show to Lake Havasat.

1559
02:04:44,560 --> 02:04:47,240
It would be met instantly with derision and

1560
02:04:47,240 --> 02:04:56,500
censure. Yet an outside organization is bringing a drag show to Lake Havasat.

1561
02:04:57,760 --> 02:04:59,900
We fear to offend anyone.

1562
02:05:01,100 --> 02:05:11,220
But this is fine. No, it's better than that. It should be lovable and commendable to perform in what I call women face.

1563
02:05:13,330 --> 02:05:25,690
A woman named Alice Smith tweeted just two weeks ago, not only to drag queens present women in a gender stereotypical way, but as horrors too.

1564
02:05:25,690 --> 02:05:31,070
could they inso women more if they tried?

1565
02:05:33,120 --> 02:05:36,940
Why are we trying to defile women? These men

1566
02:05:36,940 --> 02:05:43,360
dressed as women cast genuine women in the most hateful manner men and children encouraged

1567
02:05:43,360 --> 02:05:50,800
to hand them dollar bills as they perform or in many cities read stories as ridiculous

1568
02:05:50,800 --> 02:05:54,980
of fake women to children in a public library.

1569
02:05:55,800 --> 02:05:57,720
Some say, well, what about the channel?

1570
02:05:58,540 --> 02:06:00,420
Should children be exposed to that?

1571
02:06:00,940 --> 02:06:04,240
I say the debauchery and nationally famous sexual abandon

1572
02:06:04,240 --> 02:06:07,120
of Lake Kavosu City, especially in the channel

1573
02:06:07,120 --> 02:06:09,760
on the Sandbar and in Copper Canyon,

1574
02:06:10,180 --> 02:06:12,420
ultimately being expressed with MTV

1575
02:06:12,420 --> 02:06:17,100
having a multiple episode back and out on TV

1576
02:06:17,100 --> 02:06:19,980
promoting the immorality of Lake Kavosu City.

1577
02:06:20,800 --> 02:06:23,500
has greatly lessened in recent years.

1578
02:06:24,420 --> 02:06:27,320
Even during spring break, Lake Havasu is no longer

1579
02:06:27,320 --> 02:06:29,460
an icon of immorality.

1580
02:06:30,280 --> 02:06:32,820
We are clawing our way back to respectability.

1581
02:06:34,120 --> 02:06:36,380
Meanwhile, San Francisco and Chicago

1582
02:06:36,380 --> 02:06:39,200
have become the very definition of failed government

1583
02:06:39,200 --> 02:06:40,700
and failed humanity.

1584
02:06:41,400 --> 02:06:44,120
Without of control homelessness, drug abuse,

1585
02:06:44,500 --> 02:06:48,820
shoplifting, auto-breakings, human feces in the streets,

1586
02:06:48,820 --> 02:06:55,880
death, murder, and debatory, demeaning the once wonderful cities to all the world.

1587
02:06:56,860 --> 02:07:03,800
Yet of all the cities in America, we are seeking people from those cities to party in

1588
02:07:03,800 --> 02:07:04,800
Lake Havasu.

1589
02:07:06,340 --> 02:07:08,480
Come and see our drag show.

1590
02:07:08,940 --> 02:07:11,100
Where is out of control as you are?

1591
02:07:12,540 --> 02:07:17,280
Do we really think our quality of life here in Lake Havasu will be lifted up by emulating

1592
02:07:17,280 --> 02:07:25,460
San Francisco. We don't have to ask where this all leads. We already know. It's in the news right now.

1593
02:07:25,820 --> 02:07:32,840
Amber Parker, an English teacher at the Franklin High School in El Paso, Texas, was caught on video

1594
02:07:32,840 --> 02:07:40,660
commanding her students to refer to pedophiles as MAPs or minor attracted persons.

1595
02:07:40,660 --> 02:07:48,420
and even scolded one of her students not to judge people just because they want to have sex with a five-year-old.

1596
02:07:49,940 --> 02:07:58,620
Is this city council in favor of this pedophilia? Is this your direction for our city? Why are children being targeted?

1597
02:07:59,480 --> 02:08:05,140
Is our intent to groom and recruit in personable children into this lifestyle?

1598
02:08:05,140 --> 02:08:11,420
You may say, this is not up to the city council, it's some faceless bureaucracy doing this.

1599
02:08:11,620 --> 02:08:18,200
I asked, did we, the people of Lake Havasu City elect those contractors to reign over us,

1600
02:08:18,400 --> 02:08:22,800
to call us bigots for resisting their private agenda?

1601
02:08:23,980 --> 02:08:28,520
Who else do we appeal to, except you, are elected representatives?

1602
02:08:30,840 --> 02:08:33,780
You are inviting disaster upon us.

1603
02:08:33,780 --> 02:08:39,700
Many of us moved the tranquility and safety of Lake Abbas who precisely to escape the

1604
02:08:39,700 --> 02:08:41,000
standard of debauchery.

1605
02:08:41,900 --> 02:08:43,980
City after City has failed morally.

1606
02:08:44,800 --> 02:08:49,600
Please resist the temptation to emulate these failed cities.

1607
02:08:50,620 --> 02:08:51,500
Thank you.

1608
02:08:55,640 --> 02:08:56,320
Thank

1609
02:08:59,330 --> 02:09:00,010
you.

1610
02:09:00,010 --> 02:09:00,450
Good evening.

1611
02:09:00,830 --> 02:09:01,770
It's me.

1612
02:09:02,270 --> 02:09:03,070
Bonnie Toy.

1613
02:09:05,290 --> 02:09:09,770
Okay, I really wish I could address the people behind me to stop calling women who

1614
02:09:09,770 --> 02:09:14,950
are not wearing appropriate clothing, not women because whether women are wearing appropriate

1615
02:09:14,950 --> 02:09:20,290
clothing in their mind, they're still women and they deserve respect just for the record

1616
02:09:20,290 --> 02:09:28,970
on that part because but I also don't like the word rumor and I really dislike, you know, I

1617
02:09:28,970 --> 02:09:36,230
never thought about a drag queen show as appropriating my gender. That kind of actually does hurt

1618
02:09:36,230 --> 02:09:41,870
little bit, the whole thought of that. Anyway, actually the reason I wanted to come up was to discuss

1619
02:09:41,870 --> 02:09:50,410
the Facebook page and the advertising of GoLick Havasu. I don't understand why they are limiting.

1620
02:09:51,550 --> 02:09:59,110
They're advertising to Chicago and San Francisco or wherever they're limited to.

1621
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:26,960
In case you didn't know this Facebook is free and it reaches over a billion people in any city in the world and all you need to do is you as a person. Go to your Facebook page, go to any city and say, hey, how you doing today. I live in like have a city. Look at this. This is what's going on this week in our city again. You know where some really good places to do that?

1622
02:10:28,560 --> 02:10:37,280
other city new stations. So like, I don't say, Washington, D.C., Channel, whatever, go to their

1623
02:10:37,280 --> 02:10:42,480
page, say, well, don't look like you guys are having fun. You've come here and have some

1624
02:10:42,480 --> 02:10:51,440
fun kayaking on our lake. You know, there are limited social media ways that really doesn't

1625
02:10:51,440 --> 02:10:58,480
cost $2 million to advertise. And also, I would like to say that I am greatly disappointed

1626
02:10:58,480 --> 02:11:08,420
to find out that they have $2 million and we're threatening telling you during the tax

1627
02:11:08,420 --> 02:11:16,140
thing that, oh my gosh, if you change your mind on your tax thing, then you were going to

1628
02:11:16,140 --> 02:11:21,020
be taking money from the fire department. Probably should have been taking money from

1629
02:11:21,920 --> 02:11:26,580
because it was only going to cost you under a million dollars and they have two million

1630
02:11:26,580 --> 02:11:28,980
that they said they have to spare right now.

1631
02:11:29,340 --> 02:11:29,680
Thanks.

1632
02:11:30,240 --> 02:11:30,420
Yeah.

1633
02:11:30,560 --> 02:11:31,320
Thank you for your comments.

1634
02:11:37,520 --> 02:11:40,260
Morgan Raiden, city resident here for eight and a half years.

1635
02:11:40,980 --> 02:11:46,880
First thing I want to address is interesting about all of this talk about the gay pride

1636
02:11:46,880 --> 02:11:47,920
in the show.

1637
02:11:48,320 --> 02:11:55,160
Did anybody read the article in Saturday's Sunday's paper about Moisi Idaho had the exact same

1638
02:11:55,160 --> 02:12:01,060
problem, and their city council stood up and said, no, no children can go.

1639
02:12:01,280 --> 02:12:02,840
Maybe that's something you ought to think about.

1640
02:12:03,200 --> 02:12:09,700
But main thing I wanted to say when I got up here first is I agree with Cameron and Michelle

1641
02:12:09,700 --> 02:12:13,660
and Nancy over there, and I think David actually said it.

1642
02:12:13,800 --> 02:12:17,400
I think we're overpaying this organization to go Lake Hathus at right now.

1643
02:12:17,880 --> 02:12:25,140
If they have $2 million in reserve and it's built up over the 1.6 million they had before

1644
02:12:25,140 --> 02:12:27,500
for, we're given a way too much money.

1645
02:12:28,120 --> 02:12:31,280
What I would recommend we do next time,

1646
02:12:31,600 --> 02:12:32,580
and as soon as possible,

1647
02:12:33,020 --> 02:12:34,980
cut their budget in half.

1648
02:12:35,560 --> 02:12:38,440
Give that other half to our police, our fire,

1649
02:12:38,680 --> 02:12:41,580
and our parks department, so they can help maintain

1650
02:12:42,240 --> 02:12:45,040
the problems that they are addressing

1651
02:12:45,980 --> 02:12:49,520
with that become up because of the major weekends

1652
02:12:49,520 --> 02:12:50,520
and so forth we have.

1653
02:12:50,760 --> 02:12:52,700
It's just a suggestion I would recommend.

1654
02:12:53,140 --> 02:12:58,920
And last thing I would like to address is number one, I heard the statement that over

1655
02:12:58,920 --> 02:13:04,520
64% of the people in town are against the drag queen show and we're all bigots.

1656
02:13:04,980 --> 02:13:10,580
Well, I'm sorry, I'm not a bigot, I have a grand daughter that is lesbian and I love her

1657
02:13:10,580 --> 02:13:11,080
dearly.

1658
02:13:11,600 --> 02:13:16,140
In the ambulance service that I worked at, I worked with a lot of gay people, they are fantastic

1659
02:13:16,140 --> 02:13:16,800
people.

1660
02:13:17,140 --> 02:13:19,020
I never had a problem with them, I'm not a bigot.

1661
02:13:19,020 --> 02:13:25,240
I would like to hear an apology for being called a bigot on the radio from the person that runs

1662
02:13:25,240 --> 02:13:26,340
Go Lake Hepsis.

1663
02:13:26,540 --> 02:13:27,320
Thank you.

1664
02:13:27,320 --> 02:13:28,260
Thank you.

1665
02:13:35,440 --> 02:13:36,460
Good evening Council Mayor.

1666
02:13:36,760 --> 02:13:41,900
First of all, I'd like to apologize to Kelly for all the four years that I've requested

1667
02:13:41,900 --> 02:13:43,080
in the last month.

1668
02:13:43,400 --> 02:13:49,160
I've had about 10 of them in almost 1,500 pages of four years of stuff that the City Council

1669
02:13:49,160 --> 02:13:51,960
has done with and to this community.

1670
02:13:52,760 --> 02:13:55,320
One of the things I know I said here two or three times.

1671
02:13:55,320 --> 02:14:02,300
Several people on this council asked for a copy of expenditures from go lay Cavalry for months.

1672
02:14:02,520 --> 02:14:03,380
Did you ever get them?

1673
02:14:04,740 --> 02:14:06,120
Did you ever get a button?

1674
02:14:06,640 --> 02:14:07,140
Any of that?

1675
02:14:08,440 --> 02:14:09,900
Yeah, we received it, uh, quarterly.

1676
02:14:10,960 --> 02:14:13,260
You do receive them for almost two months in a row.

1677
02:14:13,400 --> 02:14:14,280
You guys request them.

1678
02:14:14,400 --> 02:14:15,520
You haven't received it.

1679
02:14:15,760 --> 02:14:19,000
Did you receive it or just receive it or did everybody receive it?

1680
02:14:19,180 --> 02:14:22,220
Yeah, per the contract goes to Jess and then Jess Ford stouts the entire council.

1681
02:14:22,420 --> 02:14:23,440
Okay, did you do that, Jess?

1682
02:14:24,040 --> 02:14:24,260
Okay.

1683
02:14:24,260 --> 02:14:31,260
So, their statement for asking for a budget was incorrect as what you're telling me.

1684
02:14:32,600 --> 02:14:37,580
In order to do the things that we had asked for them was for a constant budget of accountability.

1685
02:14:38,340 --> 02:14:41,100
We don't want to get back to interagency.

1686
02:14:41,400 --> 02:14:46,300
You know, or that landed, because you guys didn't, not just specifically you, but City Council,

1687
02:14:46,720 --> 02:14:49,560
did not make them accountable for once and dime.

1688
02:14:49,840 --> 02:14:52,820
And our community suffered greatly for that.

1689
02:14:52,820 --> 02:14:58,840
It's up to you to keep a string on those issues.

1690
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:09,680
We have with our city council. Just to use it on any of the board, just go Lake Havasu, or the visitor's

1691
02:15:10,160 --> 02:15:10,620
bureau.

1692
02:15:11,500 --> 02:15:14,540
Mr. Mayor, Ms. Lyonsa, yes, for the contract.

1693
02:15:14,700 --> 02:15:18,200
Should have been. On, do you sit on the board?

1694
02:15:18,440 --> 02:15:20,900
Should have been. With Lake Havasu, or?

1695
02:15:21,140 --> 02:15:26,800
Per the contract, that was the, that was a, executed last year. At that time when the agreement was

1696
02:15:26,800 --> 02:15:29,460
to place me on the board as the voice.

1697
02:15:29,480 --> 02:15:34,560
Okay. And you also wrote the contract. Is that not a conflict of interest?

1698
02:15:36,040 --> 02:15:37,500
How would that be a conflict of interest?

1699
02:15:37,620 --> 02:15:43,100
You're sitting on a voting board and you're sitting there as a city manager to write a contract for the city.

1700
02:15:43,180 --> 02:15:45,260
I'm just asking, is that a conflict of interest?

1701
02:15:45,440 --> 02:15:53,400
So the process that's in place in terms of my role as a city manager is working very closely with the council as a whole and council as individuals.

1702
02:15:53,400 --> 02:16:00,200
working with the executive team on the staff side and identifying the key components of an agreement

1703
02:16:00,200 --> 02:16:05,400
that to make the best sense for Lake Havasu City. We then take those thoughts and those concerns

1704
02:16:05,400 --> 02:16:10,620
and those ideas on paper and then start the negotiations with the other entity which is

1705
02:16:10,620 --> 02:16:15,760
called like Havasu. I occurred with the President of the Board of the Time and with Mr.

1706
02:16:15,920 --> 02:16:19,000
Conquenit and that's a process that exists for country negotiations.

1707
02:16:19,000 --> 02:16:23,440
Okay, so you were not a member of the board of GoLake Havasu or the visitors were all?

1708
02:16:24,520 --> 02:16:29,660
For the contract that was executed in the May of or excuse me, March of last year,

1709
02:16:31,520 --> 02:16:33,060
I am on the GoLake Havasu board.

1710
02:16:33,980 --> 02:16:36,240
And you're a voting member of that board.

1711
02:16:36,680 --> 02:16:42,680
Yeah, it is a conflict of entrance. Yes, so no, the, I'm a contract representative prior to

1712
02:16:42,680 --> 02:16:46,680
the city manager position being the voting member. That was, that was the direction of the council

1713
02:16:46,680 --> 02:16:50,220
let me have an ex officio member of the council that access the liaison.

1714
02:16:50,440 --> 02:16:53,360
Okay, who was the lazy on for that?

1715
02:16:53,440 --> 02:16:54,420
Currently is vice-meragual.

1716
02:16:55,120 --> 02:16:59,480
Okay, and during this period of time, I think you even asked for a budget report from them

1717
02:16:59,480 --> 02:17:01,080
about two months ago.

1718
02:17:01,340 --> 02:17:02,100
Is that true?

1719
02:17:03,080 --> 02:17:04,220
I don't remember asking a few months ago.

1720
02:17:04,220 --> 02:17:07,720
I know we did the budget presentations and we did the contract.

1721
02:17:08,000 --> 02:17:08,860
I asked for some information.

1722
02:17:09,280 --> 02:17:10,040
And did you get that?

1723
02:17:10,380 --> 02:17:12,060
I'd have to check when we officially get up.

1724
02:17:12,060 --> 02:17:12,880
Yeah, we got it quarterly.

1725
02:17:13,500 --> 02:17:15,240
Okay, but you didn't get it.

1726
02:17:15,240 --> 02:17:18,500
I'd have to look to see when I got what, but I mean I'm happy with it.

1727
02:17:18,500 --> 02:17:19,020
Okay, yeah.

1728
02:17:19,080 --> 02:17:20,700
Miss Lines, where are you going with it?

1729
02:17:20,840 --> 02:17:21,020
So yeah.

1730
02:17:21,020 --> 02:17:26,520
What we're going with it is either you are getting the budget or you're not.

1731
02:17:26,620 --> 02:17:28,060
And we're not getting the budget.

1732
02:17:28,260 --> 02:17:30,140
These guys are in breach of contract.

1733
02:17:30,500 --> 02:17:34,460
He's in breach of contract because he didn't make him do it.

1734
02:17:34,660 --> 02:17:35,600
We received it.

1735
02:17:36,480 --> 02:17:37,900
We received the budget immediately.

1736
02:17:37,980 --> 02:17:40,700
The next day from Mr. Kagan directly via email.

1737
02:17:41,020 --> 02:17:43,000
And then we get it quarterly updates.

1738
02:17:43,000 --> 02:17:50,960
Okay, because I, what I had requested was in a foyer from, of course, just knows about it.

1739
02:17:51,460 --> 02:17:53,480
Go Lake Havasu in the Visitors Bureau.

1740
02:17:54,120 --> 02:17:58,800
And with everything in that guy, it was 582 pages, which I went through today.

1741
02:17:59,440 --> 02:18:02,280
And there's so much conflict of interest in there.

1742
02:18:02,700 --> 02:18:06,260
Our people need to be represented by people who are going to actually do their job.

1743
02:18:08,350 --> 02:18:10,370
Mr. Mayor, if I can to kind of clarify,

1744
02:18:12,890 --> 02:18:17,430
My role on the goal that you have is to represent the city's interest.

1745
02:18:18,290 --> 02:18:19,470
And I want to make a perfectly clear.

1746
02:18:19,750 --> 02:18:21,610
My role on there is represent the city's interest.

1747
02:18:23,090 --> 02:18:23,970
Thank you.

1748
02:18:24,150 --> 02:18:24,550
Hi.

1749
02:18:24,810 --> 02:18:25,070
Good evening.

1750
02:18:25,250 --> 02:18:26,250
Patricia Shanski.

1751
02:18:27,050 --> 02:18:29,030
First of all, the Constitutional event.

1752
02:18:29,250 --> 02:18:31,950
I wanted to ask, would there be Democrats there too?

1753
02:18:31,990 --> 02:18:34,390
I looked on the website and it just seems like it's mostly Republican?

1754
02:18:35,310 --> 02:18:36,210
It is going to be?

1755
02:18:36,270 --> 02:18:37,190
It's not partisan.

1756
02:18:37,430 --> 02:18:37,730
Okay.

1757
02:18:37,730 --> 02:18:43,850
Yeah, because really all I saw was Republican side and so I was kind of like wondering, you know, make sure it would be like history.

1758
02:18:44,270 --> 02:18:50,970
Sir, folks in the gallery, this is a conversation we're having with Council and the folks at the board and we have to be respectful when folks come through.

1759
02:18:51,530 --> 02:18:55,150
So it is an on-partisan event as reported by Mr. Good fellow who's put on the event.

1760
02:18:55,570 --> 02:18:59,410
Okay, and then back to the drag thing of course, which is why I'm here.

1761
02:19:00,070 --> 02:19:04,550
I hear people making statements and you know, none of them are facts.

1762
02:19:05,350 --> 02:19:13,250
I've been to the drag shows here, I'm affiliated with them, you know, there was no kids there last year and they were over 16.

1763
02:19:13,850 --> 02:19:18,770
These are ones that are, you know, maybe, you know, have the thoughts of being gay, no one's encouraging them.

1764
02:19:18,950 --> 02:19:22,390
No one's going to be sitting on anybody's lap, there's no little kids there.

1765
02:19:22,990 --> 02:19:31,430
The jokes there, less than techs are. Now, everybody wants to make their comments behind me, but I offered to show you, you know,

1766
02:19:31,430 --> 02:19:38,350
My video from last year, I am willing to answer any questions that anyone has, and no one's

1767
02:19:38,350 --> 02:19:39,170
approached me.

1768
02:19:39,530 --> 02:19:43,550
I think they just want to come in here and complain and make it about, you know, they're

1769
02:19:43,550 --> 02:19:47,710
trying to say like, it's not a gay issue, but you're basically saying, all gay people,

1770
02:19:47,990 --> 02:19:50,230
or all drag people, or pedophiles.

1771
02:19:52,250 --> 02:19:57,090
No, no, no, it's a conversation with Kassel and the, it's not like, I kind of feel like

1772
02:19:57,090 --> 02:19:59,970
they're saying it's not a gay issue, but you're, you're grouping these.

1773
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:29,540
People together in saying, oh, because they're drag queens, they're pedophiles. And that's not a fact. And so there is no little kids there. And it's just like if a person, you're the parent, you're in charge of your child. And you go to see grandpa or Uncle Steve. You are responsible for that kid's life. You know, they're most kids get sexually abused by a family member. Or I mean Catholic churches,

1774
02:20:29,540 --> 02:20:32,260
just voice scouts, you know, there's whole thing.

1775
02:20:32,800 --> 02:20:34,360
These people are there with their kid.

1776
02:20:34,720 --> 02:20:35,940
And again, there's no little kids.

1777
02:20:36,220 --> 02:20:37,400
They're pushing the agenda.

1778
02:20:37,940 --> 02:20:41,740
I heard someone say there's a pedo logo

1779
02:20:41,740 --> 02:20:43,000
that's on their website.

1780
02:20:43,380 --> 02:20:44,800
That's none of this is true.

1781
02:20:45,280 --> 02:20:48,020
And as far as, like, it as far as,

1782
02:20:48,020 --> 02:20:50,920
yeah, so we're gonna have to close the public hearing

1783
02:20:50,920 --> 02:20:54,560
if we can't have a conversation with the council

1784
02:20:54,560 --> 02:20:55,200
and the speaker.

1785
02:20:55,640 --> 02:20:57,840
So as far as it being different than a strip club,

1786
02:20:57,840 --> 02:20:59,940
It's like, these people who are in the strip club,

1787
02:20:59,940 --> 02:21:02,560
they're naked, they have a little g string on.

1788
02:21:03,120 --> 02:21:04,420
These people that are on the direct shows,

1789
02:21:04,440 --> 02:21:06,700
they have layers and layers and layers of clothing.

1790
02:21:07,960 --> 02:21:10,880
It's, there aren't, there's no wear,

1791
02:21:10,940 --> 02:21:12,220
and there's no, and you don't put the money

1792
02:21:12,220 --> 02:21:15,660
in their purse or anything, you throw it up on the stage.

1793
02:21:16,320 --> 02:21:18,840
I just wish that you guys would educate yourself

1794
02:21:18,840 --> 02:21:20,820
before you came in and made judgments.

1795
02:21:21,160 --> 02:21:23,600
I mean, I'll buy your ticket, and you can come.

1796
02:21:23,640 --> 02:21:25,160
I went last year, and it was fun.

1797
02:21:25,240 --> 02:21:26,380
It was just a lot of fun.

1798
02:21:26,380 --> 02:21:33,180
no one's pushing his to come. It just says on there that they can't come because maybe you have a child who maybe needs acceptance.

1799
02:21:33,940 --> 02:21:41,320
Maybe needs to see that, you know, it's okay to be different. It's okay. It's not just drag queens. It's pride people who are singing and entertaining.

1800
02:21:42,020 --> 02:21:47,900
It's just, no one's making anybody go. I'm not, I don't have to go to the bingo events that are going on.

1801
02:21:48,040 --> 02:21:51,580
And they don't have to come to my drag things. It's a private event.

1802
02:21:52,120 --> 02:22:00,000
It's just they're they're trying to say it's a whole kid issue. It's not a kid issue. I know these people. It's not a kid issue. I've been there. It's not a

1803
02:22:01,140 --> 02:22:07,900
A pit of file issue. It's it's just I just see all these things that they're making it about kids because they don't want to say it's about days

1804
02:22:07,900 --> 02:22:13,660
And it's really it it's very clear to the rest of us that it's about days and they can say whatever they want to about it

1805
02:22:14,280 --> 02:22:18,760
It is about case and it's it's it's really sad to see that people aren't accepting

1806
02:22:18,760 --> 02:22:24,400
of others and these people aren't hurting anybody and the one that she brought up where it

1807
02:22:24,400 --> 02:22:30,760
said gaze against groomers. Yeah, there's 300,000 of them. I'm against groomers too. But

1808
02:22:30,760 --> 02:22:35,480
there's 300,000 gay people who are against groomers. Maybe they're in the saw of Dreadshow.

1809
02:22:35,680 --> 02:22:38,960
I mean, it's like, why are you saying that the people are in the Dreadshow aren't, you

1810
02:22:38,960 --> 02:22:46,620
know, ARPS? It's just so hypocritical back and forth all this stuff. I'm going to stop coming

1811
02:22:46,620 --> 02:22:54,400
here, because I feel like I've offered as much as I can offer. I've offered to educate these people,

1812
02:22:54,640 --> 02:23:00,380
help them understand, they can come and talk to me, whatever they want. I mean, I appreciate if

1813
02:23:00,380 --> 02:23:04,380
they talked to me when I was over there and that when I'm up here talking to you, that would be nice.

1814
02:23:05,920 --> 02:23:11,400
But what else can I do? But no one wants to listen, they're all closed-minded and they only see things

1815
02:23:11,400 --> 02:23:17,960
own way and I guarantee you that you have gay people in your families and you know you just

1816
02:23:17,960 --> 02:23:21,480
you aren't aware of it because maybe they're afraid to come out to you because you are the

1817
02:23:21,480 --> 02:23:22,420
way you are.

1818
02:23:24,590 --> 02:23:25,510
Yeah, thank you.

1819
02:23:28,780 --> 02:23:31,580
So a lot of assumptions there, I hate to want to dress all of them,

1820
02:23:32,380 --> 02:23:38,800
but number one, this meeting could have been probably cut in half and we just took the kids out of it.

1821
02:23:38,960 --> 02:23:44,960
Has that been brought to their attention parents to take the no kids allowed out on the

1822
02:23:51,820 --> 02:23:55,680
I've heard that council member Latte has asked for that.

1823
02:23:56,500 --> 02:24:00,860
If that is actually the case, I would ask for council member Latte or somebody to come

1824
02:24:00,860 --> 02:24:03,140
to our board of directors and make that request formally.

1825
02:24:03,740 --> 02:24:08,200
The reason for that is we have never taken an event off our website as far as I know in

1826
02:24:08,200 --> 02:24:09,260
history of this organization.

1827
02:24:12,420 --> 02:24:15,940
So in care of any possible legal challenge,

1828
02:24:16,600 --> 02:24:18,960
I won't do it, but I will do it at the direction of my board.

1829
02:24:19,140 --> 02:24:21,520
So if anyone feels strongly about that,

1830
02:24:21,600 --> 02:24:23,920
come to our board meeting on September 28th

1831
02:24:23,920 --> 02:24:25,800
and make that request of my board.

1832
02:24:28,390 --> 02:24:28,810
Thank you.

1833
02:24:28,950 --> 02:24:30,930
And then the other thing, the woman back here earlier

1834
02:24:30,930 --> 02:24:32,970
was talking about the gaze against groomers.

1835
02:24:33,630 --> 02:24:35,970
And so once again, the woman that was just up here

1836
02:24:35,970 --> 02:24:42,810
they're working in skates, we're not against skates at all, it's about the kids, and the

1837
02:24:42,810 --> 02:24:48,250
gays against groomers, what she read was on their website and they put that on Facebook

1838
02:24:48,250 --> 02:24:57,250
and Twitter and Facebook banned them and blocked them immediately. Because of that, it's

1839
02:24:57,250 --> 02:24:59,570
in the library, in the drag queens' shows.

1840
02:25:00,000 --> 02:25:10,920
Addiment that we're not bigots, we're not against gaze, we're against having kids exposed to this time of type of stuff. That's all pretty simple.

1841
02:25:12,020 --> 02:25:12,440
Thank you.

1842
02:25:20,220 --> 02:25:36,920
My name is Deborah Fedock and I am not a bigot and I'm not against gay people, but I have looked at their website thoroughly and I'm not going to put anything on here that isn't on their website.

1843
02:25:38,670 --> 02:25:48,770
They say that they are an adult theme of show, they say that they are serving alcohol,

1844
02:25:50,410 --> 02:26:03,350
they give the names of their performers, Justin Deeper Love, dirty acts, Kamala Slate, Charlie Angel,

1845
02:26:03,990 --> 02:26:08,930
and Sandra X to see. Do those sound family friendly to you?

1846
02:26:11,190 --> 02:26:12,470
So this family with friendly

1847
02:26:12,470 --> 02:26:21,630
website is coming here and they can bring children if they have a parent. They don't say

1848
02:26:21,630 --> 02:26:26,390
those are going to check to make sure that they're a parent. They just say that they have

1849
02:26:26,390 --> 02:26:29,950
to have a parent. That person bringing them may not be their parent.

1850
02:26:32,840 --> 02:26:34,740
Let's see what else do I have here.

1851
02:26:35,620 --> 02:26:39,800
They do allow tipping, are the children allowed to give the tips.

1852
02:26:40,460 --> 02:26:42,740
We don't know that, but it does allow tipping.

1853
02:26:44,500 --> 02:26:50,740
And when you look at their flyer online, you see the gay pride, flag, colors, not the

1854
02:26:50,740 --> 02:26:57,140
flag, but the colors, but you also see the pedophile flag colors, and you might not even

1855
02:26:57,140 --> 02:27:02,660
know that there is a pedophile flag, but there is, I will have to destroy my phone when

1856
02:27:02,660 --> 02:27:07,180
done with this conversation because I've got way more information than I ever

1857
02:27:07,180 --> 02:27:08,220
wonder how I'm here.

1858
02:27:10,730 --> 02:27:14,770
They also have on a mobile device when you're scrolling

1859
02:27:14,770 --> 02:27:21,030
through the petafile logo is a hologram that comes up on your screen which I have a

1860
02:27:21,030 --> 02:27:23,430
picture of if anybody wants to see it.

1861
02:27:26,680 --> 02:27:29,600
There are lots of events that are not

1862
02:27:29,600 --> 02:27:38,100
children. You can't take your child to an NC 17 movie. You can't take as someone else

1863
02:27:38,100 --> 02:27:42,540
said, you can't take them to a strip show. There's lots of things that you can't do with

1864
02:27:42,540 --> 02:27:50,100
your kids. You might want to, but the government says you can't. And in this situation,

1865
02:27:50,100 --> 02:27:59,700
And this is a show that by their very description is not child friendly, not.

1866
02:28:01,540 --> 02:28:03,960
So are you guys going to stand up for our kids?

1867
02:28:04,960 --> 02:28:08,700
You have the choice to stand up for our children.

1868
02:28:10,870 --> 02:28:13,150
We can't do it without your help.

1869
02:28:27,900 --> 02:28:33,160
Some people have said that you can't let just light morality, but when you think about it,

1870
02:28:33,160 --> 02:28:38,160
what is law, all law, is morality canonized, all of it.

1871
02:28:39,540 --> 02:28:41,640
Morality sees further than intellect.

1872
02:28:42,700 --> 02:28:43,580
I didn't make that up.

1873
02:28:43,600 --> 02:28:45,120
Somebody else smarter than me, didn't.

1874
02:28:46,440 --> 02:28:49,200
So I've got to comment with the organization

1875
02:28:50,000 --> 02:28:51,340
of the Golik Havasu.

1876
02:28:51,540 --> 02:28:52,920
He said they've been coming,

1877
02:28:53,680 --> 02:28:56,220
marketing on all the continents except Antarctica.

1878
02:28:56,900 --> 02:28:58,460
I think he's missing a good bet there.

1879
02:28:58,520 --> 02:29:01,080
I think everyone in Antarctica would like to come here.

1880
02:29:02,300 --> 02:29:11,840
And so I think he should probably make an effort to expose those other stuff there in the icy Antarctica to come here where it's nice and warm and sunny.

1881
02:29:12,260 --> 02:29:20,420
As far as some of the crowds in the channel, I have young granddaughters and we don't go down the channel when they're here on weekends.

1882
02:29:20,420 --> 02:29:36,420
During the weeks, we go down the channel, but on weekends we generally avoid that because it's just a lot more exposure than we want our grandchildren, our granddaughters to get used to seeing something that's acceptable.

1883
02:29:38,500 --> 02:29:45,800
So the bridge has been here for over 50 years. A lot of people know about it all over the country. It's been publicized quite a bit.

1884
02:29:45,800 --> 02:29:50,060
I don't think we really have a problem attracting people because as you said,

1885
02:29:50,280 --> 02:29:52,760
the place gets pretty crowded on holiday weekends of people.

1886
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:29,980
Common here for vacation. We've got Airbnb rentals that are pretty busy and creating all kinds of other issues, but there's it's a popular place. So apparently they've done a job at promoting it, because it's working we're overrun with tourists. San Francisco and Chicago, the mayor of Chicago is a big hit. She's refused to allow white reporters to have interviews with her. And she's got the highest murder rate.

1887
02:30:30,000 --> 02:30:36,660
in the city that's in years and so I don't know if you want to visit San Francisco, the place

1888
02:30:36,660 --> 02:30:39,920
is a trash heap, you've seen videos on the news.

1889
02:30:40,600 --> 02:30:44,760
Maybe people that live in that area would like to come here and get away from some of that,

1890
02:30:44,840 --> 02:30:49,360
but we should all want to bring in their politics here because they don't seem to learn from

1891
02:30:49,360 --> 02:30:56,740
their lessons of the district attorney that they've got there and their law enforcement

1892
02:30:56,740 --> 02:31:00,340
allowing all this debauchery, people in San Francisco,

1893
02:31:00,640 --> 02:31:04,700
please read your comments on how they impact Lake Habitsu City.

1894
02:31:05,000 --> 02:31:07,640
I'm sorry, keep your comments on how they impact Lake Habitsu City.

1895
02:31:07,920 --> 02:31:10,800
Well, if we have people from California come here

1896
02:31:10,800 --> 02:31:12,700
and bring their politics here, we'll wind up

1897
02:31:12,700 --> 02:31:14,060
with those drug problems here.

1898
02:31:14,200 --> 02:31:15,940
We've already got some drug problems here,

1899
02:31:16,020 --> 02:31:16,800
I've seen it in the paper,

1900
02:31:17,420 --> 02:31:19,580
and we really don't need that for our children.

1901
02:31:20,840 --> 02:31:23,040
So I like the low crime rate here.

1902
02:31:23,040 --> 02:31:25,420
I like the safety that's here

1903
02:31:25,420 --> 02:31:28,020
and bringing some of that kind of stuff from Chicago

1904
02:31:28,020 --> 02:31:31,500
and San Francisco doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

1905
02:31:32,200 --> 02:31:35,680
So as far as the two million bucks that are in the bank

1906
02:31:35,680 --> 02:31:39,260
for the Go Lake Havasu controlled by the bylaws,

1907
02:31:39,840 --> 02:31:41,560
who can change the bylaws?

1908
02:31:41,760 --> 02:31:45,580
Can those bylaws be changed by the Go Lake Havasu staff

1909
02:31:45,580 --> 02:31:49,540
or in the board and then has changed the where that money goes?

1910
02:31:49,940 --> 02:31:53,320
If the bylaws currently say that it comes back to the city,

1911
02:31:53,320 --> 02:32:00,140
can those bylaws be changed and give somebody a pay raise and and spend it somewhere else.

1912
02:32:00,200 --> 02:32:02,960
I'd like to know who can change the bylaws.

1913
02:32:03,440 --> 02:32:07,800
Yeah, traditionally, the bylaws can be changed by the board of directors of the organization,

1914
02:32:08,220 --> 02:32:12,920
but maybe Mr. Concanton can speak specifically to how your bylaws are written on who can change those.

1915
02:32:15,640 --> 02:32:20,280
So, yes, you're correct that our bylaws are created by our board of directors and they can be

1916
02:32:20,280 --> 02:32:21,480
change by our board of directors.

1917
02:32:22,300 --> 02:32:28,280
My board of directors is made up of community leaders, business leaders in this community who

1918
02:32:28,280 --> 02:32:33,500
have integrity and understand what it is that we do and the importance of the bylaws and

1919
02:32:33,500 --> 02:32:37,260
more importantly, the importance of the contract and our relationship with the city.

1920
02:32:37,680 --> 02:32:42,820
Under no circumstances, I will state this for the record, under no circumstances, will that

1921
02:32:42,820 --> 02:32:50,060
clause and our bylaws ever be removed in that it says that whatever happens if our organization

1922
02:32:50,060 --> 02:32:56,080
results. We will never change that. And you have my word on that, a further record.

1923
02:32:56,840 --> 02:32:57,640
Thank you.

1924
02:33:00,640 --> 02:33:12,660
Okay. We've heard people's words before, but I would like to see it in writing somewhere that says those bylaws would not be changed to reallocate that money someplace else.

1925
02:33:13,580 --> 02:33:14,180
Thank you.

1926
02:33:14,180 --> 02:33:15,320
Yeah, thank you.

1927
02:33:18,380 --> 02:33:19,200
Mr. Mayor.

1928
02:33:19,340 --> 02:33:19,680
Yeah, quite a bit.

1929
02:33:19,680 --> 02:33:22,100
We can also, too, before we go and hypothetical modes

1930
02:33:22,100 --> 02:33:24,740
in different ways, I think we need to look at those by-laws

1931
02:33:24,740 --> 02:33:26,640
and find out exactly what the facts are

1932
02:33:26,640 --> 02:33:28,860
before we assume one way or the other.

1933
02:33:28,920 --> 02:33:30,580
If we do have concerns about it, that's something

1934
02:33:30,580 --> 02:33:32,060
we should do our research prior, too,

1935
02:33:32,660 --> 02:33:34,280
just forming a lynch mob and going after it.

1936
02:33:34,480 --> 02:33:36,480
Go like have a suit for something we think is there,

1937
02:33:36,560 --> 02:33:37,400
but we don't know if it's there.

1938
02:33:37,860 --> 02:33:40,280
So I think we definitely need, it's definitely a good point.

1939
02:33:40,380 --> 02:33:42,280
And I think we should have looked into it prior to the meeting

1940
02:33:42,280 --> 02:33:44,780
if it was a concern instead of just bringing it out there

1941
02:33:44,780 --> 02:33:49,420
is a gotcha thing but if it's out there and it's in the bylaws then it's there if it's

1942
02:33:49,420 --> 02:33:53,080
not it's definitely something we need to work to fix to but if it's a hypothetical we just

1943
02:33:53,080 --> 02:33:57,200
don't know the values of it I think we just need to wait and and find that out and it sounds

1944
02:33:57,200 --> 02:34:01,200
like definitely something we all agree on is we think it's there and I think it shouldn't be there

1945
02:34:01,200 --> 02:34:05,660
and if it's not it's definitely something we're going to fix but be careful going down that

1946
02:34:05,660 --> 02:34:09,660
road of we should have done this we should have not we don't even know for sure we haven't

1947
02:34:09,660 --> 02:34:14,860
And just to clarify as a board member of Goley Cavassou, both you and City Manager,

1948
02:34:14,980 --> 02:34:20,720
can you have those bylaws in your packet. But just to be on the safe side next time we have

1949
02:34:20,720 --> 02:34:26,020
a meeting, I will reassure it and make sure that every board member has a copy of our bylaws just

1950
02:34:26,020 --> 02:34:26,200
in case.

1951
02:34:29,000 --> 02:34:34,320
Thank you. Hi, Ginger Daddy, have a city. For the two million, if it's in the bylaws

1952
02:34:34,320 --> 02:34:40,080
and not tied in the contract, why do we have to wait till next spring to address it? I think that

1953
02:34:40,080 --> 02:34:42,400
to be addressed right away for the $2 million.

1954
02:34:43,480 --> 02:34:47,280
Additionally, because California shut down,

1955
02:34:47,500 --> 02:34:51,860
I knew some actually was the blue chair did

1956
02:34:51,860 --> 02:34:54,080
employer the month in December of 2021,

1957
02:34:54,660 --> 02:34:57,220
and knew some was it, because we were slammed

1958
02:34:57,220 --> 02:34:59,160
with Californians, everyone knows that.

1959
02:34:59,440 --> 02:34:59,960
Because California...

1960
02:35:00,000 --> 02:35:07,200
When you shut down, we were slammed here. Why could we have cut back our budget to advertise when everyone

1961
02:35:07,200 --> 02:35:12,860
here knows? We could even keep the people we had. If you go on the island, the Sam's Beach

1962
02:35:12,860 --> 02:35:21,180
Comer, the Islander and Crazy Horse never filled up in April and in April of 2020, they were slammed.

1963
02:35:21,560 --> 02:35:29,100
They were all filled up. Also, we only had a stop sign going over the bridge. And you guys know it was a temporary stop sign that was put up

1964
02:35:29,100 --> 02:35:37,160
Memorial, Labor, and for the July because of the 2020 pandemic, we now have a permanent stop

1965
02:35:37,160 --> 02:35:42,360
sign there. So I don't want to stand why we spent so much money on advertising when we

1966
02:35:42,360 --> 02:35:51,340
didn't need to. Additionally, okay, going to the organizers of this drag show or show, we say,

1967
02:35:51,340 --> 02:35:55,380
Transvestite Show, AZpriteShow.org.

1968
02:35:55,860 --> 02:35:58,080
Those organizers, there's one gentleman

1969
02:35:58,080 --> 02:35:59,380
that's a logistics guy.

1970
02:35:59,720 --> 02:36:02,680
He put us on his Facebook when we were here three weeks ago,

1971
02:36:03,100 --> 02:36:05,080
and he was making fun of us because we're old,

1972
02:36:05,500 --> 02:36:07,220
and that we don't get it.

1973
02:36:07,460 --> 02:36:09,400
And that we are reddix,

1974
02:36:09,560 --> 02:36:10,820
that he didn't say the word reddix.

1975
02:36:11,360 --> 02:36:13,500
But I wanna encourage you guys to go look.

1976
02:36:13,760 --> 02:36:14,820
This gentleman,

1977
02:36:16,940 --> 02:36:19,120
John, let me get to his name.

1978
02:36:19,740 --> 02:36:25,620
Christopher J. Hall, on their website, ADPriture.org, they truly have that Pito symbol.

1979
02:36:26,100 --> 02:36:31,140
That Pito symbol in 2007, and I gave a couple of you guys copies of the article, and

1980
02:36:31,140 --> 02:36:33,000
I also gave Chief Doyle, a copy of the article.

1981
02:36:33,580 --> 02:36:40,100
That Pito symbol in 2007 FBI identified it as Pito symbol, and it is on their website only

1982
02:36:40,100 --> 02:36:43,780
when you go through the mobile, not when you go to the actual computer.

1983
02:36:43,780 --> 02:36:50,120
So, this talk about legality, if we take this off, what about the legal part of it being a

1984
02:36:50,120 --> 02:36:55,700
pedo, and pedo for anyone that doesn't know is pedophilia, it's love of children, love

1985
02:36:55,700 --> 02:37:01,080
of children, you guys, and then these, so anyway, that's one thing, and then let me read you

1986
02:37:01,080 --> 02:37:04,640
something, unfortunately, you know, I have to go stalk their Facebook, but Christopher

1987
02:37:04,640 --> 02:37:12,560
J. Hall, just a couple of days ago, yesterday, he is the logistics guy at AVPrycho.org and

1988
02:37:12,560 --> 02:37:13,920
He's also a Mrs. Nature.

1989
02:37:14,780 --> 02:37:17,600
And so a lot of his videos, if you go look at him,

1990
02:37:18,360 --> 02:37:20,540
not at this drag show, but at other drag shows,

1991
02:37:20,960 --> 02:37:21,760
it's just pornography.

1992
02:37:22,380 --> 02:37:24,140
It's just absolute pornography.

1993
02:37:24,320 --> 02:37:27,020
And remember, this is always about the children.

1994
02:37:27,700 --> 02:37:29,960
Always, they will tell you, and they use that word,

1995
02:37:30,060 --> 02:37:32,260
expose, they want to expose the children.

1996
02:37:32,860 --> 02:37:33,860
We want to protect the children.

1997
02:37:34,340 --> 02:37:37,120
We've all been at Halloween costumes when,

1998
02:37:37,120 --> 02:37:38,940
why I smite dress like there has winter men's dress

1999
02:37:38,940 --> 02:37:41,160
like there, why so where they're, and that's funny.

2000
02:37:41,160 --> 02:37:48,820
But we're adults, we're not children that don't understand why these clown faces are mocking women.

2001
02:37:49,460 --> 02:37:55,220
So anyway real quick let me wrap up with obviously prayers for Christopher J. Hall he's the logistics guy that's

2002
02:37:56,460 --> 02:38:02,320
AZPrycho.org. Okay, this is yesterday. Hello friends on this Facebook. I know someone in need of help.

2003
02:38:02,320 --> 02:38:07,860
I've a friend who lives in Fredonia, Kansas, in quotes small town, near Tupica and Wichita.

2004
02:38:08,460 --> 02:38:12,180
They're nine-year-old son recently came out as gay.

2005
02:38:12,540 --> 02:38:14,980
You guys, nine-years-old, if that doesn't break your heart,

2006
02:38:15,800 --> 02:38:19,800
this town is very small and was described to me as a very rural and reddick.

2007
02:38:20,360 --> 02:38:23,480
Mom has let their child know that she supports him and has asked that he

2008
02:38:23,480 --> 02:38:25,980
not say anything in school as he has worked about being bullied.

2009
02:38:26,580 --> 02:38:29,020
For a nine-years-old, that's like a third-grader.

2010
02:38:29,020 --> 02:38:39,060
Does anyone know of any resources in this area for parents and youth and if I'll see if there are local PFLAGs for LGBT organizations in the area?

2011
02:38:39,500 --> 02:38:41,100
But I hope someone may have some connections.

2012
02:38:41,860 --> 02:38:46,560
PFLAG on Wikipedia is an organization for LGBT to help.

2013
02:38:47,040 --> 02:38:48,500
But you guys this kid's nine years old.

2014
02:38:48,860 --> 02:38:54,060
If you don't think that there's an agenda here, you, and this is the gentleman again.

2015
02:38:54,220 --> 02:38:57,240
That's AZ Pride Show that's putting us that's the logistics guide.

2016
02:38:57,240 --> 02:38:59,780
If you don't think there's an agenda here for our children,

2017
02:38:59,960 --> 02:39:03,820
who are babies, a lot of it, anyway, thank you.

2018
02:39:04,020 --> 02:39:04,640
Thank you.

2019
02:39:05,740 --> 02:39:10,000
We have an ults like to address the council during the public hearing.

2020
02:39:10,860 --> 02:39:12,100
Mayor, can I make one difference?

2021
02:39:12,100 --> 02:39:12,600
Yes, council.

2022
02:39:13,360 --> 02:39:13,560
Council.

2023
02:39:14,320 --> 02:39:17,180
I've spoke with a city manager in regards to this.

2024
02:39:17,180 --> 02:39:20,820
We get $X amount of dollars from the resolution that we amended

2025
02:39:21,320 --> 02:39:25,580
back in 1996 if I remember correctly, which increased

2026
02:39:25,580 --> 02:39:33,480
start funding to be used specifically for promoting tourism and for promoting the partners

2027
02:39:33,480 --> 02:39:41,500
of economic development. I am happy that we did reduce the contracts per your direction,

2028
02:39:42,060 --> 02:39:48,620
kelts member lane and city manager just reducing that because I think the number would

2029
02:39:48,620 --> 02:39:53,140
be pretty huge that we would be giving both of these organizations and it sounds like to

2030
02:39:53,140 --> 02:39:59,980
Nobody here really would like them to just be holding big reserves of this money. None of us feel that way, but I'm

2031
02:40:00,000 --> 02:40:16,200
That passed for direction from you, our city council, to literally make a line item in the budget showing exactly where we're getting from the one in the 2% and the 3% taxes per the resolution that we put in place, the amended.

2032
02:40:16,700 --> 02:40:26,040
Below that, I want to make sure that we're documenting everything to be under tourism to show that, including the contracts for both of the organizations.

2033
02:40:26,040 --> 02:40:29,260
plus every dollar we spend on tourism,

2034
02:40:29,640 --> 02:40:33,400
because in that resolution, if not many of you know,

2035
02:40:33,560 --> 02:40:37,340
I'm very aware of it, and I know Councilmember Lynn is very aware of it.

2036
02:40:37,340 --> 02:40:41,300
It says it's a misdemeanor if we don't allocate the money properly.

2037
02:40:42,200 --> 02:40:44,600
So in front of all of us today, as direction,

2038
02:40:44,880 --> 02:40:47,440
I would really like to have it very transparent.

2039
02:40:47,640 --> 02:40:49,720
How much money we get from this organization,

2040
02:40:50,480 --> 02:40:52,180
and exactly where the money goes to,

2041
02:40:52,180 --> 02:40:56,680
because I don't want to go to jail over all this. Is anybody okay with that?

2042
02:40:57,240 --> 02:41:01,780
Yeah, so we'll come back to that. So that's turning, make the left turn and we still have

2043
02:41:01,780 --> 02:41:06,940
citizens to hear from just a couple of things on that is one council member Lane did help

2044
02:41:06,940 --> 02:41:10,980
drive this contract renewal with the assistance of the city managers office, but it was this council

2045
02:41:10,980 --> 02:41:17,300
that adopted it. So that's we all understood what the challenges were of this. When it comes to

2046
02:41:17,920 --> 02:41:22,020
money that we're receiving from Go Lake Avenue, we don't receive money from Go Lake Avenue. We pay

2047
02:41:22,020 --> 02:41:26,840
them a fee for service based on the contract. Well, we get are the sales tax that are generated

2048
02:41:26,840 --> 02:41:28,780
from that. So I don't know.

2049
02:41:29,180 --> 02:41:32,760
No, I totally understand what I was saying. And I think most people out here understood

2050
02:41:32,760 --> 02:41:38,400
what I was saying. But again, I thought this was about contractual agreements with go like

2051
02:41:38,400 --> 02:41:43,460
have a suit. So I was kind of trying to bring it back to the topic of how we make sure that

2052
02:41:43,460 --> 02:41:49,620
we allocate the money properly. That's very transparent where the money goes to. And I believe

2053
02:41:49,620 --> 02:41:53,840
that City Manager just mentioned that we spend millions

2054
02:41:53,840 --> 02:41:56,320
a dollars on tourism in this community.

2055
02:41:56,640 --> 02:41:59,520
And I just want it all to be totally transparent to everybody.

2056
02:41:59,740 --> 02:42:00,940
I'd like to see a line item.

2057
02:42:01,520 --> 02:42:03,520
So again, I'm aware of that's tax dollars.

2058
02:42:03,620 --> 02:42:04,980
And I am aware of the resolution.

2059
02:42:05,380 --> 02:42:08,360
And I am aware of how much money we would have been

2060
02:42:08,360 --> 02:42:11,840
giving two organizations under the direction of the City Council.

2061
02:42:12,100 --> 02:42:14,480
It was changed to reduce those contracts,

2062
02:42:14,640 --> 02:42:18,140
leaving us a surplus of extra money that I absolutely

2063
02:42:18,140 --> 02:42:23,800
you want transparent and documented for every one of the citizens to make sure that we are not

2064
02:42:23,800 --> 02:42:28,920
using the money and just the general fund. That's all I'm asking. Yeah, thank you.

2065
02:42:30,840 --> 02:42:31,620
Yeah, Pastor Zimmer.

2066
02:42:33,940 --> 02:42:36,860
I thought maybe I was off the hook that I'm not.

2067
02:42:37,640 --> 02:42:42,900
I'm Keith Zimmerman and something's been burning in me as I've been sitting here.

2068
02:42:44,180 --> 02:42:52,740
And I'm not, I'm a pastor in this city, but I'm not here representing my church.

2069
02:42:52,800 --> 02:43:01,320
I'm not here representing being the citizen of this city since 1978, but I'm here representing

2070
02:43:01,320 --> 02:43:07,160
the children because I grew up with a pedophile father.

2071
02:43:08,560 --> 02:43:15,760
It's the first time I've ever said that word out loud, referring to him, but he was.

2072
02:43:16,180 --> 02:43:18,660
He also was a very abusive alcoholic.

2073
02:43:19,280 --> 02:43:24,960
And if he said, I was going to one of these events that would be, yes sir.

2074
02:43:26,760 --> 02:43:36,960
So I am saying these children could be dragged there, not on their own will, but by someone

2075
02:43:36,960 --> 02:43:46,700
who had ulterior motives to stimulate them, and so I didn't want to say that, but I had to

2076
02:43:46,700 --> 02:43:47,480
say that.

2077
02:43:47,600 --> 02:43:50,540
We can't allow children in there.

2078
02:43:50,840 --> 02:43:51,180
I'm sorry.

2079
02:43:51,460 --> 02:43:58,140
We just can't, and I'm saying that on behalf of all of the children who have suffered that

2080
02:43:58,140 --> 02:43:59,860
or would suffer that.

2081
02:44:00,300 --> 02:44:01,020
Thank you.

2082
02:44:01,080 --> 02:44:02,140
Thank you.

2083
02:44:03,950 --> 02:44:05,470
What do you want to say to a press?

2084
02:44:06,430 --> 02:44:07,790
Mr. Mayor, can I ask you a question?

2085
02:44:07,790 --> 02:44:08,790
Yes, councilor Lynn.

2086
02:44:08,990 --> 02:44:16,410
To Terrence, do you have to, if you wanted to remove the family friendly on the event, if

2087
02:44:16,410 --> 02:44:19,170
you wanted to remove, they have to go to your board desk that are, can you yourself remove

2088
02:44:19,830 --> 02:44:20,190
that?

2089
02:44:20,530 --> 02:44:21,230
Just that, just that.

2090
02:44:21,230 --> 02:44:27,110
You simply added the, I mean, added the listing itself and take the, I'm not asking for

2091
02:44:27,110 --> 02:44:27,710
the whole listing.

2092
02:44:27,950 --> 02:44:29,650
I'm just trying to get a little piece here.

2093
02:44:29,690 --> 02:44:34,710
Can you at least take off the child, friend, they are family friendly, part, are you allowed

2094
02:44:34,710 --> 02:44:35,630
to do that yourself?

2095
02:44:35,890 --> 02:44:37,430
Or do you have to go to your board desk to do that?

2096
02:44:37,430 --> 02:44:44,770
I would I would I would I would with all due respect count remember then I would again deferred to my board just to be honest first to be safe so one

2097
02:44:45,410 --> 02:44:49,630
Because we've never done it for any other any other event and so I'm

2098
02:44:50,610 --> 02:44:59,970
Conscious that a precedent may be set and that we may I don't want to put this city and I don't want to put my organization at legal risk, so I will

2099
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:06,620
For my board is the body that oversees me and my staff and our efforts. And I think it would be better served if we went through my board.

2100
02:45:07,040 --> 02:45:15,560
So I thought I read somewhere in your contract that you can decide how an event is promoted. You can decide how that's promoted.

2101
02:45:16,400 --> 02:45:22,460
So if that poster came there and it says, family friendly, you can choose to take that family friendly part off.

2102
02:45:22,460 --> 02:45:32,500
Okay, well, first of all, I don't see us as promoting event just like every other event in this city and a stakeholder business like London Bridge resort, we are simply listing this event.

2103
02:45:32,960 --> 02:45:38,740
We have given no money to this event, we have not given them any help. I think we talked to them once on the phone.

2104
02:45:39,860 --> 02:45:49,460
I can talk with the organizer, we can talk with the organizer about that and see if there's a compromise. Other than that, I would be very hesitant to do that.

2105
02:45:49,460 --> 02:45:52,720
And it's been, how long has it been up on the, on the, on the calendar?

2106
02:45:53,420 --> 02:45:55,880
Uh, since the day after the last one, so February.

2107
02:45:56,080 --> 02:46:00,060
And you've been hearing from the people, just take the family friendly, and we're waiting

2108
02:46:00,060 --> 02:46:02,040
till now to have that conversation with the promoter.

2109
02:46:02,220 --> 02:46:05,480
I've been hearing with people, we've been hearing them for about a month, and I get

2110
02:46:05,480 --> 02:46:06,340
to hear about them from last month.

2111
02:46:06,360 --> 02:46:07,960
So I've heard about it before a month.

2112
02:46:08,420 --> 02:46:11,160
And I, I don't believe that when I read the listing, it doesn't say family

2113
02:46:11,160 --> 02:46:11,420
friendly.

2114
02:46:11,540 --> 02:46:12,640
It says, Ollie, just welcome.

2115
02:46:12,800 --> 02:46:19,280
I don't, is, do what I read, so I don't know, I'm not interpreting definitions.

2116
02:46:19,540 --> 02:46:21,140
I'm just telling you what, what I read, so.

2117
02:46:21,140 --> 02:46:23,720
That was on the golly cab as to listing.

2118
02:46:24,240 --> 02:46:27,440
That's where I saw that, is it all ages welcome?

2119
02:46:27,520 --> 02:46:28,040
Yeah.

2120
02:46:29,320 --> 02:46:30,280
So Mayor?

2121
02:46:30,680 --> 02:46:30,720
Yeah.

2122
02:46:30,980 --> 02:46:31,420
Councilor Campbell?

2123
02:46:32,140 --> 02:46:32,460
Mr. O'Connor.

2124
02:46:34,260 --> 02:46:41,440
We could be legally responsible to, if we're not allowing a constitutional event to run,

2125
02:46:41,500 --> 02:46:42,840
but we can do a drag show.

2126
02:46:43,320 --> 02:46:49,100
We could probably dig in thousand different ways and find a reason why how the city

2127
02:46:49,100 --> 02:46:57,200
and it's go like havoc so it could be sued on some level and you've heard from Mr. Goodwill.

2128
02:46:57,600 --> 02:47:05,260
Goodwill, goodwill, goodwill, goodwill, goodwill, that he tried several times to ask your help and you responded back,

2129
02:47:05,360 --> 02:47:11,860
but this item is not on the event calendar and that is literally next week.

2130
02:47:11,860 --> 02:47:18,940
So we could some people in this room could claim that you were prejudice based on your direction

2131
02:47:18,940 --> 02:47:25,300
of why you would put one invent on there and why not. I'm not saying that, but let's be crystal clear,

2132
02:47:25,700 --> 02:47:31,800
we can't just protect one item and not another. And we've had a lot of voice in here tonight

2133
02:47:31,800 --> 02:47:38,880
that are literally just asking a simple thing, just remove the kids. And I do agree in the contract

2134
02:47:38,880 --> 02:47:43,660
in the contract that we have in front of us and the contract that you had it literally stated

2135
02:47:43,660 --> 02:47:48,980
we read it out loud I think you read it or somebody read it that it said that you can make

2136
02:47:48,980 --> 02:47:57,020
that direction. So I think personally I can't speak for everybody else up here or my attorney

2137
02:47:57,020 --> 02:48:02,620
or attorney at the city attorney but I'm willing to take that risk.

2138
02:48:04,200 --> 02:48:05,000
Mr.

2139
02:48:09,810 --> 02:48:15,730
Mayor, Mr. City Council, there was a drag queen show two weeks ago last Sunday in Texas

2140
02:48:16,270 --> 02:48:29,230
where Antifa showed up and with uniforms, arms, long rifles, shields, we're going to

2141
02:48:29,230 --> 02:48:36,870
on Tifa here at the Lundipritory's org, guarding the this event like they did in Texas?

2142
02:48:39,230 --> 02:48:42,790
Sort of the first time hearing about this. So yeah, I don't know anything about that.

2143
02:48:42,910 --> 02:48:47,890
So Antifa is aligned with this drag queen show over there in Texas. It's like,

2144
02:48:47,890 --> 02:48:53,770
I guess it's a national promotional event. So I would think that they would,

2145
02:48:53,770 --> 02:48:58,810
If the Antip is going to become an over here to be their protectors,

2146
02:49:01,030 --> 02:49:02,330
you did not know that

2147
02:49:02,330 --> 02:49:03,270
they did that.

2148
02:49:03,590 --> 02:49:04,150
No, I did not.

2149
02:49:05,350 --> 02:49:08,190
Well, I think that that's a big concern here.

2150
02:49:08,950 --> 02:49:15,890
If there was a 30 or 40 Antip members, all dressed and black-looking like ISIS terrorists,

2151
02:49:16,310 --> 02:49:21,390
standing in front of the London Bridge resort, I don't think that would be a very good

2152
02:49:21,390 --> 02:49:24,730
look for our city, and I think it would be dangerous.

2153
02:49:24,730 --> 02:49:28,450
for everyone involved if that were to be allowed.

2154
02:49:29,350 --> 02:49:30,470
Thank you.

2155
02:49:32,050 --> 02:49:34,190
All right, everyone else, I'd like to address the council.

2156
02:49:35,670 --> 02:49:36,810
All right, we'll go ahead.

2157
02:49:37,410 --> 02:49:39,350
Yeah, I believe you already give what opportunity.

2158
02:49:40,210 --> 02:49:41,530
One more thing.

2159
02:49:42,250 --> 02:49:45,610
I was working the batting cages during COVID.

2160
02:49:46,490 --> 02:49:49,390
When the temperature was comfortable.

2161
02:49:52,330 --> 02:49:57,690
And we shut down during the summer, and there was a period there.

2162
02:50:00,000 --> 02:50:08,220
There were every single one of our ball parks. Across the entire city was maxed out with baseball games,

2163
02:50:09,060 --> 02:50:15,600
all from California and Nevada, who had closed down their economies. I'm sure that the channel

2164
02:50:15,600 --> 02:50:22,680
was full of boats. I, as I understand, councilman Lane told us one time that it was an attempt

2165
02:50:22,680 --> 02:50:29,940
to close down the channel early on in the COVID. But so many people set up pop ups on the beach,

2166
02:50:29,940 --> 02:50:33,200
that they were closer together than if they'd been on their boats.

2167
02:50:33,980 --> 02:50:40,300
So we went back to the channel operating, and business actually, as Arizona is a recent Arizona,

2168
02:50:40,360 --> 02:50:41,820
and we moved here in 2016,

2169
02:50:43,940 --> 02:50:48,600
2015, business actually hardly ever changed in the scheme of things.

2170
02:50:48,880 --> 02:50:51,400
There was a few weeks where we kind of slowed down.

2171
02:50:51,740 --> 02:50:56,600
But then all of the I look back at the whole two years of COVID as being,

2172
02:50:56,740 --> 02:50:58,680
I hardly changed my lifestyle at all.

2173
02:50:58,680 --> 02:51:04,680
I was out going out to dinner with friends. I was attending church. I was going to sporting events

2174
02:51:04,680 --> 02:51:11,420
whatever I needed to do. I mean, it was amazing. The people who came to Lake Havasu came here because we were free.

2175
02:51:11,820 --> 02:51:17,760
It was that simple. And they're to this day, California is locked down and masked and

2176
02:51:18,680 --> 02:51:23,560
their health director controls 10 million people and their ability to go to the beach

2177
02:51:23,560 --> 02:51:32,180
to go into the water and so people instinctively flocked here to have a soup because we were

2178
02:51:32,180 --> 02:51:37,880
free we were open and this had nothing to do I highly doubt that it was you could wrap

2179
02:51:37,880 --> 02:51:41,320
it up you already had your five minutes earlier so please if you grab up your comment.

2180
02:51:43,060 --> 02:51:49,740
I'm just saying is that the Lake Gull Lake Havasu I think is a small, a small part of the

2181
02:51:49,740 --> 02:51:56,200
attraction of what Lake Kavatsu and Arizona in general is, people come here because, as we

2182
02:51:56,200 --> 02:52:02,740
did, we evacuated California for the freedom of Arizona and I think that that's a great

2183
02:52:02,740 --> 02:52:07,420
thing to maintain and to promote, but it doesn't need promotion.

2184
02:52:07,860 --> 02:52:12,460
People already know, the snowbirds come here by themselves, the balloon is come here by themselves.

2185
02:52:12,800 --> 02:52:17,920
Everybody that comes here, the boaters, they know where it is, I don't think that they're

2186
02:52:17,920 --> 02:52:23,800
and some advertising somewhere in order to come to come to Lake Havocet.

2187
02:52:24,200 --> 02:52:24,920
Thank you.

2188
02:52:26,140 --> 02:52:27,020
All right.

2189
02:52:27,160 --> 02:52:27,340
Yes.

2190
02:52:27,340 --> 02:52:28,100
Something real quick.

2191
02:52:28,100 --> 02:52:28,600
Yeah, please.

2192
02:52:29,520 --> 02:52:31,680
Sam Schkemerdo, Mayor and Council.

2193
02:52:32,720 --> 02:52:36,300
I could be labored everything here in spoke for 20 minutes on what's going on right here,

2194
02:52:36,360 --> 02:52:37,580
but I'm not going to.

2195
02:52:37,920 --> 02:52:41,840
And I understand the position you're in because they said that right where Nancy was 20

2196
02:52:41,840 --> 02:52:45,560
years ago when we did that in 1996 effort right there.

2197
02:52:45,560 --> 02:52:53,260
My issue right here is with that and I was a little bit unsure about this, too, was, was the,

2198
02:52:53,440 --> 02:52:57,660
Mr. Kent Cannon, he's essentially getting his pay from the city and from the taxpayers.

2199
02:52:58,280 --> 02:53:04,580
So we're going to let an employee of the city of Lake Kavosu City in salt, all of the voters,

2200
02:53:04,780 --> 02:53:07,780
and the citizens of Lake Kavosu by calling us big hits.

2201
02:53:08,220 --> 02:53:09,340
That's my main issue.

2202
02:53:09,460 --> 02:53:13,920
The rest of the stuff, the one lady says that 110 people in this room are gay.

2203
02:53:14,460 --> 02:53:17,040
I don't know, I don't believe that that's the figure's at high.

2204
02:53:17,260 --> 02:53:19,320
I'm sure there are some gay people in this room.

2205
02:53:19,720 --> 02:53:24,700
I'm not one, you know, so it's just that it is, so I leave another nine people to go with

2206
02:53:24,700 --> 02:53:25,560
someplace else.

2207
02:53:26,060 --> 02:53:30,380
I'm just a little bit irritated in the fact that Mr. Khan can and makes the policy himself

2208
02:53:30,380 --> 02:53:37,820
for one issue, I eat the, the Constitution week and doesn't make it for this, this drag

2209
02:53:37,820 --> 02:53:38,400
clean thing.

2210
02:53:38,520 --> 02:53:40,020
It's little kids all I'm worried about.

2211
02:53:40,020 --> 02:53:41,440
I'm not worried about the adults.

2212
02:53:42,140 --> 02:53:44,020
Think of a thousand people, as far as I can see

2213
02:53:44,020 --> 02:53:46,140
and they can come in as long as they're 21 or older.

2214
02:53:46,960 --> 02:53:49,860
You know, because this thing is regardless of what he says

2215
02:53:49,860 --> 02:53:53,300
and what the defenders of the gay lifestyle say,

2216
02:53:53,840 --> 02:53:56,240
this is recruiting is exactly what it is.

2217
02:53:56,360 --> 02:53:59,820
The whole thing is recruiting youngsters and kids

2218
02:53:59,820 --> 02:54:00,800
to the gay lifestyle.

2219
02:54:01,540 --> 02:54:04,020
They want to become gay with them later on,

2220
02:54:04,120 --> 02:54:06,040
but we don't need recruiting effort there.

2221
02:54:06,320 --> 02:54:08,540
And as far as antifa, I welcome them.

2222
02:54:10,100 --> 02:54:14,310
I'd love to see a T-FA come here and throw it to us. Thank you. Thank you.

2223
02:54:25,030 --> 02:54:31,970
I guess I'm on the same note as a couple of the last two that said what they said about Lake

2224
02:54:31,970 --> 02:54:37,350
Havasus City. But I came here for the record. What's your name for the record?

2225
02:54:38,710 --> 02:54:42,430
Margie Eckert. Okay. Thank you, Margie. Slash Doran.

2226
02:54:45,820 --> 02:54:59,660
I came over on a McCullough flight in 1967 and my husband and I thought this was a wonderful place to be away from the big city and all the things it happened in a big city.

2227
02:55:00,000 --> 02:55:28,940
Partying kind of like a new fresh life. And it was wonderful. And then we moved, actually moved over here in 78. And shortly after that, we opened a business and we've been in business for a lot of years. We sold it not too long ago. But I just thought, how wonderful for people to bring their children here and have that fresh new life like I did as an adult.

2228
02:55:30,000 --> 02:55:46,260
And there's so many wonderful things for the children to do here and we had the lake and you can go kayaking or boating or whatever you want to do here and you're away from the things that happen in big cities that are not good for our children.

2229
02:55:46,260 --> 02:55:51,600
So, we want that same feeling here in Lake Cavusucity.

2230
02:55:52,100 --> 02:55:56,180
We want our children to be brought up to know goodness.

2231
02:55:57,420 --> 02:56:04,920
And we want our children to know that there's a creator here who created all of this.

2232
02:56:05,020 --> 02:56:12,440
And so we just, we just ask that we do wonderful things for our children and have wholesome,

2233
02:56:13,000 --> 02:56:15,660
so they can have a wholesome life here.

2234
02:56:15,660 --> 02:56:30,420
And not be subject to things that are not good for them, and so I think that that's the main thing that I feel and I think there's a lot of us that feel that.

2235
02:56:30,680 --> 02:56:41,060
So we need to ask our creator and the one that's in charge make this a whole someplace for all of our children and all of our people.

2236
02:56:41,580 --> 02:56:42,300
Thank you.

2237
02:56:42,480 --> 02:56:42,980
Thank you.

2238
02:56:46,460 --> 02:56:48,920
All right, we're going outside to address the

2239
02:56:49,480 --> 02:56:50,500
Council's very public hearing.

2240
02:56:51,880 --> 02:56:53,260
All right, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing

2241
02:56:53,260 --> 02:56:54,820
and bring it back to Council for discussion

2242
02:56:54,820 --> 02:56:57,140
and follow up on any possible direction.

2243
02:56:58,420 --> 02:56:58,800
Mr. Mayor.

2244
02:56:58,920 --> 02:56:59,660
Yeah, Vice Mayor Dolan.

2245
02:56:59,820 --> 02:57:02,660
As liaison, I'd like to say some points.

2246
02:57:03,500 --> 02:57:04,880
There's also history in this room.

2247
02:57:05,060 --> 02:57:07,700
We don't want to say it, but no one wants to be called a bigot.

2248
02:57:07,760 --> 02:57:09,980
And I'm not defending what Karen said,

2249
02:57:11,140 --> 02:57:13,920
but the truth is, a year ago, there are people in this room

2250
02:57:13,920 --> 02:57:15,440
It had nothing to do with kids.

2251
02:57:15,780 --> 02:57:16,040
Nothing.

2252
02:57:16,640 --> 02:57:17,820
It was about them case.

2253
02:57:18,180 --> 02:57:19,580
Those we don't need this in our neighborhood.

2254
02:57:20,140 --> 02:57:21,800
You can go back and you can watch the video

2255
02:57:21,800 --> 02:57:22,760
from our Patriot group.

2256
02:57:22,760 --> 02:57:24,000
And that's what it was all about.

2257
02:57:24,500 --> 02:57:26,920
So yes, I am very concerned about the kids.

2258
02:57:27,000 --> 02:57:28,860
And I'm going to be talking with the police department.

2259
02:57:28,920 --> 02:57:32,180
I'm going to be talking, bring my concerns to the board.

2260
02:57:32,460 --> 02:57:33,700
But let's call it what it is.

2261
02:57:33,820 --> 02:57:35,840
There are people in this room right now that are bigots.

2262
02:57:35,940 --> 02:57:37,640
And they were bigots last year and they still are.

2263
02:57:38,200 --> 02:57:39,880
So let's not walk around that.

2264
02:57:40,260 --> 02:57:45,380
Okay, well, like I said, last year had nothing to do with the kids, it had to do with the gays.

2265
02:57:46,120 --> 02:57:49,440
So I am, okay, but do I not allow to talk?

2266
02:57:49,900 --> 02:57:50,880
Show a little bit of respect, please.

2267
02:57:51,580 --> 02:57:53,780
Yes, like I said, I do have concerns.

2268
02:57:54,460 --> 02:58:02,740
I'm also not a big fan of this whole gacha thing, where old, the convention wasn't allowed to post it.

2269
02:58:02,800 --> 02:58:04,800
Okay, well, he said, it never was an official.

2270
02:58:04,900 --> 02:58:06,180
There was a miscommunication there.

2271
02:58:06,180 --> 02:58:07,700
I think it should definitely be put up there.

2272
02:58:07,700 --> 02:58:11,100
I'm a sponsor of the event as well, and I'd like to see it on there.

2273
02:58:11,560 --> 02:58:15,060
But to go out and make it sound like it's a vindictive thing, and it wasn't done right,

2274
02:58:15,600 --> 02:58:18,300
because, you know, he even said it, it didn't happen that way.

2275
02:58:18,700 --> 02:58:21,640
So that's another thing that I'm going to be bringing into the board that I would like

2276
02:58:21,640 --> 02:58:22,200
to see fixed.

2277
02:58:22,520 --> 02:58:26,800
I am concerned that, and you don't want me as a liaison being the person that makes that

2278
02:58:26,800 --> 02:58:27,120
decision.

2279
02:58:27,340 --> 02:58:31,280
I'm not going to decide what's allowed to happen, and what's not going to happen based

2280
02:58:31,280 --> 02:58:32,820
on my opinion, or what I feel.

2281
02:58:33,380 --> 02:58:36,740
You also don't want me censoring, there's people out there that are offended by the gun

2282
02:58:36,740 --> 02:58:44,320
Should I not have the gun show? We not have the gun shows because it offends people? No, our job is to abide by the Constitution and follow the laws

2283
02:58:44,320 --> 02:58:51,680
So my follow up is going to be to our chief what concerns do we have our way if we're actually concerned about specific things that

2284
02:58:51,680 --> 02:58:57,940
We're brought up about pedophilia and be a friend grooming. What is the police going to do about this event? Are they concerned about it?

2285
02:58:58,160 --> 02:59:04,040
So those are things that I promise to take to the board and you can record this. It's also recorded live on the TV channel anyway

2286
02:59:04,040 --> 02:59:09,860
So, but I think we need to stay within that topic, and that is my concern is, like I said,

2287
02:59:09,960 --> 02:59:11,900
it was painted as a totally different picture last year.

2288
02:59:13,920 --> 02:59:18,240
So, like I said, I think we definitely have some things that we need to look at, two hours

2289
02:59:18,240 --> 02:59:23,620
and two and a half hours just to present an event and have a bunch of opinions, which I think

2290
02:59:23,620 --> 02:59:27,060
are great, but now our job is to sort through them and what can we do?

2291
02:59:27,340 --> 02:59:32,060
There are people in this audience that are for a small government, you don't want me getting in

2292
02:59:32,060 --> 02:59:34,140
regulating based on my opinion.

2293
02:59:34,340 --> 02:59:35,240
We need to follow the law.

2294
02:59:36,160 --> 02:59:39,760
So please, just relax, we will follow up with what the law says,

2295
02:59:40,060 --> 02:59:43,840
but like I said, as a liaison for the goal they have to

2296
02:59:43,840 --> 02:59:46,120
see, those are things I promise to bring to the board.

2297
02:59:46,660 --> 02:59:47,740
So, thank you.

2298
02:59:48,120 --> 02:59:49,180
Thank you.

2299
02:59:50,320 --> 02:59:52,160
Any additional comments or thoughts to remember

2300
02:59:52,160 --> 02:59:52,700
to the council?

2301
02:59:52,920 --> 02:59:53,520
Mr. Mayor.

2302
02:59:53,840 --> 02:59:54,420
Councilmember Lynn.

2303
02:59:54,960 --> 02:59:57,300
So I kind of want to go back to the purpose of

2304
02:59:57,300 --> 02:59:58,800
why I asked to have this on the agenda.

2305
03:00:00,820 --> 03:00:19,200
I want to repeat. I did not bring this here, so that it could be discussed about the drinking. I'm glad we talked about it. Everybody got their opinions, thoughts on it. I have mine. Everybody else has theirs. You have yours. But I want to talk about the professional service agreement that we have with have a suci, with the go lake have a suci.

2306
03:00:20,440 --> 03:00:29,520
And I would like to see the current budget because I don't think we saw yet. I know you just finished it. I'm looking at your notes. Can we get the final budget?

2307
03:00:31,100 --> 03:00:39,220
Okay, I just can use an and Vice Mayor do have the budget, but I will make sure that each one of you gets it when I return to the office.

2308
03:00:39,420 --> 03:00:46,460
And then I was wondering, when you're making this final budget, is it similar as when we make our final budget, do you have your goals or what you're going into there?

2309
03:00:46,660 --> 03:00:48,100
Would we be able to see that?

2310
03:00:48,420 --> 03:00:48,840
I guess it comes back.

2311
03:00:48,840 --> 03:00:50,560
I'd like to see what your goals are.

2312
03:00:50,780 --> 03:00:57,940
Well I think one of the reasons why we have a city council liaison is Vice Mayor Dolan attends our meetings goes through a budget process,

2313
03:00:57,940 --> 03:01:02,460
which I start in January for completion at the end of July.

2314
03:01:03,480 --> 03:01:06,600
And he brings those concerns and what we do

2315
03:01:06,600 --> 03:01:08,500
and what we're looking at to the council.

2316
03:01:09,160 --> 03:01:11,520
If you guys would like more than that,

2317
03:01:12,460 --> 03:01:14,220
then bring it to Vice Mayor Dolan.

2318
03:01:14,380 --> 03:01:17,420
And again, he can bring it to the board of directors.

2319
03:01:18,380 --> 03:01:21,900
And he can direct me right now to put anything on the policy.

2320
03:01:21,900 --> 03:01:22,800
Right on the board of directors.

2321
03:01:22,800 --> 03:01:24,760
I want to be on the spot because I know both of you

2322
03:01:24,760 --> 03:01:26,280
were at the liaison's on that.

2323
03:01:26,280 --> 03:01:30,900
So, yeah, maybe because I'm not sure maybe if they don't report it to us then we're not going to know.

2324
03:01:31,140 --> 03:01:34,560
And I don't want to have to go to ask them, you know, where we're just holding that.

2325
03:01:34,860 --> 03:01:40,140
I did report that was one of the goals I gave to like go to the council as well as the council

2326
03:01:40,140 --> 03:01:44,460
that I would be very vigilant about the direction that they were going.

2327
03:01:45,040 --> 03:01:50,400
And I gave updates monthly, maybe every other month.

2328
03:01:50,400 --> 03:01:55,600
about stuff that they were working on and overall, you know,

2329
03:01:55,620 --> 03:01:57,020
direction of our marketing campaigns.

2330
03:01:57,240 --> 03:01:59,260
Yep, I don't want to, I don't want to,

2331
03:01:59,260 --> 03:02:00,780
I don't want to, I don't want to, and I'm not defensive,

2332
03:02:01,040 --> 03:02:03,080
I just want to, I just want to, I just want to count to

2333
03:02:03,080 --> 03:02:03,460
never learn.

2334
03:02:03,480 --> 03:02:05,580
If you ever want to attend, we would love to have you.

2335
03:02:05,580 --> 03:02:05,800
Okay.

2336
03:02:06,680 --> 03:02:08,220
I just want to see what those goals are.

2337
03:02:08,220 --> 03:02:08,500
Okay.

2338
03:02:08,500 --> 03:02:10,260
But what that looks like wouldn't have how that feels and

2339
03:02:10,260 --> 03:02:10,760
hit the budget.

2340
03:02:11,120 --> 03:02:16,560
And then I really want to go back to this discussion of the money that

2341
03:02:16,560 --> 03:02:18,820
that money that right now is in the coffers and what that looks like

2342
03:02:18,820 --> 03:02:21,840
with the bylaws, I would like to leave here tonight,

2343
03:02:24,020 --> 03:02:26,000
knowing exactly what that looks like

2344
03:02:26,000 --> 03:02:29,560
and where that money would go, if there was a...

2345
03:02:29,560 --> 03:02:32,560
Yeah, if I may, I think you're points for an aid.

2346
03:02:32,820 --> 03:02:35,660
I think that the bylaws have that in there,

2347
03:02:35,720 --> 03:02:38,040
I think that we can give direction to Mr. Knudsen

2348
03:02:38,040 --> 03:02:40,320
and Ms. Gary to come back with an amendment

2349
03:02:40,320 --> 03:02:43,700
to our contract that has that language in there

2350
03:02:43,700 --> 03:02:45,420
that we can have, but if you check out some meeting

2351
03:02:45,420 --> 03:02:49,440
to ensure that that's from the nose of the heads

2352
03:02:49,440 --> 03:02:50,640
and the conversation with the council.

2353
03:02:50,720 --> 03:02:52,460
I believe we have a consensus on that item.

2354
03:02:53,060 --> 03:02:54,840
Would that suffice for your request?

2355
03:02:55,440 --> 03:02:56,460
I was just waiting for that.

2356
03:02:56,520 --> 03:02:57,680
That's exactly what I was waiting for.

2357
03:02:57,960 --> 03:02:58,260
Yeah, thank you.

2358
03:02:58,280 --> 03:02:59,440
I think we have that.

2359
03:02:59,740 --> 03:03:01,240
And I can go like have a suit welcome that.

2360
03:03:01,520 --> 03:03:01,960
Yeah, thank you.

2361
03:03:02,000 --> 03:03:03,640
It seems like you already have based on your policies,

2362
03:03:04,060 --> 03:03:05,580
and your by-law statistics, and that's not the issue.

2363
03:03:06,340 --> 03:03:06,900
So, okay.

2364
03:03:08,320 --> 03:03:11,260
If I made it, if customer Coke has any thoughts?

2365
03:03:11,260 --> 03:03:17,140
Well, I've been quiet, and not for the lack of interest, I just want to make very clear

2366
03:03:17,140 --> 03:03:19,940
because a lot of the people in the public probably are not aware of this.

2367
03:03:20,260 --> 03:03:26,260
But my first 15 years in, like, have a city I spent working in the same office as that was

2368
03:03:26,260 --> 03:03:27,280
then the CVB.

2369
03:03:27,560 --> 03:03:31,140
I worked for the CVB for my first year that I lived in, like, have a zoo.

2370
03:03:31,420 --> 03:03:33,920
And then the next 14 years I worked for the Chamber of Commerce.

2371
03:03:34,040 --> 03:03:39,040
So I'm very well versed on how they operate, they're budget, and all of the things that go

2372
03:03:39,040 --> 03:03:39,580
on in the office.

2373
03:03:39,580 --> 03:03:44,460
So I don't have a lot of questions regarding a contract because I've been involved and been

2374
03:03:44,460 --> 03:03:45,860
around it for so many years.

2375
03:03:46,260 --> 03:03:50,260
So please don't take my silence as the lack of interest in the topic.

2376
03:03:50,420 --> 03:03:54,680
The topic that we were presented was the discussion and presentation regarding the professional

2377
03:03:54,680 --> 03:04:00,520
services agreement, which that wasn't really the primary focus of the public comments,

2378
03:04:00,800 --> 03:04:01,380
which is fine.

2379
03:04:01,700 --> 03:04:05,580
I just didn't have a lot of comments on the contract because I'm well aware of it.

2380
03:04:05,580 --> 03:04:07,120
So I just wanted to make that clear.

2381
03:04:07,120 --> 03:04:15,260
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, and there were some comments that were made throughout right of the statements about about the funding and what that funding looks like

2382
03:04:15,260 --> 03:04:26,440
So there is an ordinance that came in 1986, but long before that back in the 80s there was the initial ordinance that started by it was industry led by hotels

2383
03:04:26,440 --> 03:04:34,120
To want to find a way that we could have funding for tours of promotion and so those hotels came to

2384
03:04:34,740 --> 03:04:39,420
counsel and said that we like to do, I suppose, the self-tax, basically, to create what

2385
03:04:39,420 --> 03:04:43,620
that bureau was. It sounds like Mr. Bennett was a part of those early conversations on what

2386
03:04:43,620 --> 03:04:49,340
that looked like. That created a 3% bed tax. The intent of those were for tours and promotion.

2387
03:04:49,780 --> 03:04:52,780
And there's some other language because it's back in the 80s, so it had like bridge maintenance

2388
03:04:52,780 --> 03:04:57,980
and a couple of other things that were in there. And then in 1996 there was a strong refer to

2389
03:04:57,980 --> 03:04:59,980
based on increased dim-

2390
03:05:00,000 --> 03:05:12,980
Command and competition in the marketplace for additional revenues to be able to support go like how to assume what that, excuse me, the tourism, marketing efforts for our community, which happened to go through what it's now, but like how to suit.

2391
03:05:13,520 --> 03:05:26,320
So that was an additional 1% food and beverage tax. So the intent was the 3% bed tax and the 1% food and beverage tax when folks go to restaurants or bankwall halls would go into a tourism and economic development.

2392
03:05:26,320 --> 03:05:33,080
fund way 25% of the funds going to the partnership economic development and 75% of the

2393
03:05:33,080 --> 03:05:36,700
funds going to tours and development by way of Gold Lake Habsuit.

2394
03:05:37,020 --> 03:05:41,000
What comes from Berlin and the rest of the California discussions over the last two years

2395
03:05:41,600 --> 03:05:45,480
was, you know, that was in perpetuity, I mean, it was a percentage based on the volume, so

2396
03:05:45,480 --> 03:05:50,520
maybe at one point we're rewarded by their success, which is fantastic, but then when

2397
03:05:50,520 --> 03:05:55,220
is enough too much and we noticed that the assets were large on the balance sheet.

2398
03:05:55,220 --> 03:06:03,640
They were a large initially for my understanding at one point was the instability of where the visitor center was located in that

2399
03:06:03,640 --> 03:06:10,080
My fund to be able to build a permanent visitor center for the future or whatever that might happen something something we still wrestle with

2400
03:06:10,080 --> 03:06:16,960
Yeah, so I don't know if that still was the goal with that's where those dollars were this council then came forward with a lot of the concerns that many of you

2401
03:06:17,440 --> 03:06:22,760
brought forward when it comes to the operation component of that and that's why we have a

2402
03:06:22,760 --> 03:06:28,920
are certain amount for go like have a sue and the PD for the professional services in which we

2403
03:06:28,920 --> 03:06:33,600
are asking them to do for us. So there are other ways that we could do this. We could not do

2404
03:06:33,600 --> 03:06:41,520
any tours of promotion as one person suggested that would, in my opinion, be affordable to service

2405
03:06:41,520 --> 03:06:45,780
to our community. There are studies for every dollar invested in tours of promotion, the returns

2406
03:06:45,780 --> 03:06:53,420
that we get our, you know, well above eight or nine dollars in return, local and state sales taxes

2407
03:06:53,420 --> 03:06:54,820
that help pay for the other services.

2408
03:06:54,900 --> 03:06:59,480
So please, fire, parks, roads, all the same things that we enjoy today if we didn't do tours

2409
03:06:59,480 --> 03:06:59,980
in promotion.

2410
03:07:00,660 --> 03:07:04,780
So maybe the number is incorrect, and that's what we need to monitor and manage.

2411
03:07:04,920 --> 03:07:07,300
We have another year and a half or so of this contract.

2412
03:07:07,640 --> 03:07:12,740
We can do an amendment going forward so we can just solidify it contractually, the obligation

2413
03:07:12,740 --> 03:07:18,120
of if something were to happen with the Bureau where those monies on the assets would go,

2414
03:07:18,500 --> 03:07:23,240
which would revert back to the city in some fashion, we'd absolutely have that to our staff

2415
03:07:23,240 --> 03:07:27,320
to be able to work through on what that looks like, and then bring back that amendment.

2416
03:07:27,820 --> 03:07:32,200
But that's just some history of where the monies went and why you did that and why we were

2417
03:07:32,200 --> 03:07:33,200
doing tours and promotion.

2418
03:07:34,380 --> 03:07:38,520
But some of the events that we have in Joy and like have a city are at the direct results

2419
03:07:38,520 --> 03:07:40,360
of going to have a suit in the works that they do.

2420
03:07:40,360 --> 03:07:42,720
So, we cannot take for granted that we would just have

2421
03:07:42,720 --> 03:07:45,780
to have vegetables and boat regardless and off-road fares

2422
03:07:45,780 --> 03:07:48,080
and all of those things because we wouldn't.

2423
03:07:48,440 --> 03:07:50,820
There's a lot of competition that is out there.

2424
03:07:51,180 --> 03:07:53,460
Thor's and promotions are very important component.

2425
03:07:54,020 --> 03:07:56,340
And we're just talking about this one small asset,

2426
03:07:56,780 --> 03:08:00,000
but we have thousands of people that work in this industry.

2427
03:08:00,320 --> 03:08:02,660
That this is the main lifeblood of our community,

2428
03:08:02,780 --> 03:08:06,300
is Thor's and it's very important that we continue to keep

2429
03:08:06,300 --> 03:08:07,160
that as an economic driver.

2430
03:08:07,620 --> 03:08:09,540
Now, the great benefit, if you're not one of the people

2431
03:08:09,540 --> 03:08:14,100
work in the industry. You certainly are impacted by it by one of the great restaurants we have

2432
03:08:14,100 --> 03:08:19,200
that you can choose from all the great events that we have, the good roads. We have one of the

2433
03:08:19,200 --> 03:08:24,580
best park systems in my opinion and a lot of good quality of life that comes from what tours it

2434
03:08:24,580 --> 03:08:29,040
looks like. So I think this council has been focused and forward thinking on how to address

2435
03:08:29,040 --> 03:08:34,820
this contract, like I said based on some of the feedback we've received because of these actions,

2436
03:08:35,480 --> 03:08:39,420
we can take a look at it and monitor and see if that number is not right number or if it's a

2437
03:08:39,420 --> 03:08:45,020
different calculation, or something on those lines, but to get back to the intent of what

2438
03:08:45,020 --> 03:08:48,060
Councilman will then said her intent was for this item is the contract.

2439
03:08:48,300 --> 03:08:53,600
So I think by consensus, we have that we'll come back with the amendment, however, that

2440
03:08:53,600 --> 03:08:59,420
can work, and we will continue to monitor the activities of the contract and how the professional

2441
03:08:59,420 --> 03:09:04,620
services are delivered, and we will have an opportunity in about a year or so to start the

2442
03:09:04,620 --> 03:09:11,800
for the renewal, or direction of a contract and what that might look like for tours of promotion.

2443
03:09:12,920 --> 03:09:18,120
Is that a good synapses and do I have support of the council to move in that direction on this item?

2444
03:09:19,220 --> 03:09:19,240
Okay.

2445
03:09:19,960 --> 03:09:24,320
So with the nod of everyone's head, I'll go ahead and move on to the next item on our agenda.

2446
03:09:24,320 --> 03:09:28,260
at the name of the special item, and from my phone, please.

2447
03:09:29,400 --> 03:09:31,200
One more direction.

2448
03:09:32,820 --> 03:09:35,600
The reason why we had two and a half hours of this tonight

2449
03:09:35,600 --> 03:09:38,900
is I believe of a kind of almost a code of conduct.

2450
03:09:39,640 --> 03:09:43,100
I personally do not want any my drivers calling our customers

2451
03:09:43,100 --> 03:09:47,380
names on radios or which I really love

2452
03:09:47,380 --> 03:09:50,220
to have elevated the professionalism a little bit.

2453
03:09:50,280 --> 03:09:52,720
I have not called anybody a name in here.

2454
03:09:52,720 --> 03:09:58,720
I don't have any intention to do that, and that's what I did want to bring was as there

2455
03:09:58,720 --> 03:09:59,660
a code of conduct.

2456
03:10:00,000 --> 03:10:04,780
Or, really, we're offended by the radio. And that's what I heard over and over.

2457
03:10:05,680 --> 03:10:11,400
Yes, so currently, as the contractor, that's in front of us, that we all had the opportunity to either pass and

2458
03:10:11,400 --> 03:10:15,660
adopt and then read, of course, before our meeting today, does not have a code of conduct listed specifically.

2459
03:10:16,520 --> 03:10:24,100
If that's something that we can address in future contracts, certainly, that if we find out what that looks like and what that matter,

2460
03:10:24,780 --> 03:10:29,220
what focuses that is for us, we heard a lot of different feedback from a lot of different citizens,

2461
03:10:29,220 --> 03:10:32,120
It's all very valuable and very important, but we have to do a lot of work.

2462
03:10:32,860 --> 03:10:48,100
There was some emotional, so brought into the conversation of facts on both sides of the argument that I don't know to be true or not to be true, but worth looking into, again on both sides of the issue, but I do think that we can bring that forward for future contract discussions.

2463
03:10:50,160 --> 03:10:52,920
All right, with that being said, we'll move on to the next item on our agenda.

2464
03:10:52,920 --> 03:10:58,460
So it's item 8.4 is our next item, it's to approve a change order number 1 to construction

2465
03:10:58,460 --> 03:11:03,740
contract for the island-based water treatment, plant flow equalization basin, replacement

2466
03:11:03,740 --> 03:11:07,440
project with technology construction LLC.

2467
03:11:08,480 --> 03:11:11,980
Good evening Mr. Hart, we'll give you a second to get set up there.

2468
03:11:15,910 --> 03:11:18,770
Thank you, just take a second here.

2469
03:11:25,140 --> 03:11:26,040
Uncle Desk,

2470
03:11:30,900 --> 03:11:31,740
I will go this, please.

2471
03:11:37,510 --> 03:11:39,290
City Council, right?

2472
03:11:39,430 --> 03:11:39,890
There we

2473
03:11:49,140 --> 03:11:49,140
go.

2474
03:11:49,580 --> 03:11:51,800
Okay, we're on our own mirror and city council.

2475
03:11:52,320 --> 03:11:55,180
That's an honor being in front of you this evening.

2476
03:11:55,940 --> 03:11:58,760
And I appreciate you waiting here for me.

2477
03:11:58,960 --> 03:12:00,020
To visit this project.

2478
03:12:00,120 --> 03:12:02,900
It's a very important project to us.

2479
03:12:03,180 --> 03:12:06,920
One that we obviously are bringing before you

2480
03:12:06,920 --> 03:12:08,980
and looking for direction.

2481
03:12:09,440 --> 03:12:12,420
So this is our island wastewater treatment plant

2482
03:12:12,420 --> 03:12:18,740
visualization basin replacement project. This project just does a little bit of background

2483
03:12:18,740 --> 03:12:27,880
is they're at the island of wastewater treatment plant. The FEB is what we use for an acronym

2484
03:12:27,880 --> 03:12:32,620
everybody loves acronyms so we throw that around to that is our flow utilization basin and it

2485
03:12:32,620 --> 03:12:38,280
is located when you first come off of, which is actually McCode Boulevard and come into the

2486
03:12:38,280 --> 03:12:44,780
and it's there on the left and it's something that we have been working to replace.

2487
03:12:46,140 --> 03:12:52,460
The original FEB was constructed in 1983 and then modified in 1999 for odor control.

2488
03:12:53,360 --> 03:13:02,500
The FEB was shut down due to various issues in 2011 and we were able to sustain operation during that time

2489
03:13:02,500 --> 03:13:05,860
because flows were low and such to where we didn't need it,

2490
03:13:05,940 --> 03:13:09,420
but we could see that we needed to move forward

2491
03:13:09,420 --> 03:13:13,680
with replacing this very important piece

2492
03:13:13,680 --> 03:13:16,040
to our treatment plant there.

2493
03:13:16,660 --> 03:13:19,320
And this is a condition that it was in at the time

2494
03:13:19,320 --> 03:13:21,060
when we were starting the project.

2495
03:13:22,000 --> 03:13:23,560
The City Council awarded construction

2496
03:13:23,560 --> 03:13:26,220
of the contract to replace it as its CNAFEB

2497
03:13:26,220 --> 03:13:30,280
to technology construction on July 13, 2021.

2498
03:13:31,000 --> 03:13:31,940
So quite a while ago.

2499
03:13:31,940 --> 03:13:38,960
And that was for $4 million, $199,000, and $1, which was nearly $1.2 million below the budget

2500
03:13:38,960 --> 03:13:41,300
of the lotment and engineers opinion of cost.

2501
03:13:41,700 --> 03:13:46,940
And we talked about that at that time and went through, you know, why it was lower and

2502
03:13:46,940 --> 03:13:53,040
there actually were, I believe, five bids and two were comparable to this in the City Council

2503
03:13:53,040 --> 03:13:56,500
to move to go ahead and award that project to them.

2504
03:13:56,500 --> 03:14:09,100
Due to material delays, some challenges there, we began a construction in late November of 2021, and it was suspended late December

2505
03:14:09,100 --> 03:14:13,340
due to the field conditions that arose at that time that the contractor found.

2506
03:14:13,480 --> 03:14:19,060
And if you were to go out there today, this is what you would see on-site there.

2507
03:14:20,380 --> 03:14:27,520
As a reminder, after that, we went to, I approached the City Council with a recommendation

2508
03:14:28,160 --> 03:14:33,640
to amend the design contract with the Corolla Engineers back on February 8th, of 2022 for

2509
03:14:33,640 --> 03:14:39,320
some design revisions, and I had told you at that time that I would be coming back with

2510
03:14:39,320 --> 03:14:43,040
a change order result of that design revisions.

2511
03:14:43,040 --> 03:14:51,740
There are several weeks for them to go ahead and complete the design changes which ended up being on March 28, 2020.

2512
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:09,080
Do with the package delivered to technology construction. Technology construction provided original costs and

2513
03:15:09,080 --> 03:15:15,840
documentations for proposed changes, costs, exhibitions, and, et cetera, on May 24, 2022.

2514
03:15:16,120 --> 03:15:24,180
I would like to say staff met with technology constructions. They sent a team order, including their

2515
03:15:24,180 --> 03:15:31,380
president back in the first part of January when we were suspended the work saying that they

2516
03:15:31,380 --> 03:15:37,300
wanted to get out of the contract. They wanted to end it, which that is not what we wanted

2517
03:15:37,300 --> 03:15:43,460
to do. And one of the reasons was the cost escalations that they were experiencing. And we share

2518
03:15:43,460 --> 03:15:49,980
with them at that point that if you're able to justify these cost escalations, we were able

2519
03:15:49,980 --> 03:15:55,880
the city in the past has worked with the contractor to help cover some of those costs and

2520
03:15:55,880 --> 03:16:02,260
I refer back to our tank in 2AZ07 project where we had steel and aluminum costs that were

2521
03:16:02,260 --> 03:16:08,620
increasing quite a bit that we ended up negotiating with that increasing for that very reason.

2522
03:16:09,860 --> 03:16:14,900
The review of the growth package was performed by Corolla's special construction group and

2523
03:16:14,900 --> 03:16:21,660
stuff, so Corolla that themselves has a group of contractors, a current and former

2524
03:16:21,660 --> 03:16:26,740
contracts at experts in the field, and can look at these numbers that were being presented,

2525
03:16:27,480 --> 03:16:33,280
and it was quite a big package of the little exhibit A here of what we had to go through

2526
03:16:33,280 --> 03:16:39,380
to get back to them. And so that if he was complete on June 21, 2022, with comments and questions

2527
03:16:39,380 --> 03:16:44,400
sent back to technology. So there were some things we looked at that we were questioning some

2528
03:16:44,400 --> 03:16:52,640
things that we wanted to address and negotiations. As a result of that, they came back on July 5th

2529
03:16:52,640 --> 03:17:00,340
with a cost reduction of nearly $124,000. But unfortunately, as you probably seen the number

2530
03:17:00,340 --> 03:17:05,280
on the Council of Communication in the overall contract, and increased for the change order

2531
03:17:05,280 --> 03:17:12,420
just $1,000,000,000. And 53,000, I believe, somewhere in there, which if you were to look at

2532
03:17:12,420 --> 03:17:17,720
The project has a whole, it's about a 25% increase in cost of construction, which is what

2533
03:17:17,720 --> 03:17:21,820
we are seeing, the kind of as a standard right now on all of our projects that are coming

2534
03:17:21,820 --> 03:17:22,600
in.

2535
03:17:23,240 --> 03:17:29,020
So, while there's a large number, it is something that is a kind of a standard when we look

2536
03:17:29,020 --> 03:17:31,200
at cost escalations and such.

2537
03:17:32,840 --> 03:17:39,160
To talk about a few things, one is obviously the ADQ component of this, whereas when we originally

2538
03:17:39,160 --> 03:17:49,260
want to submit plans to get the approval to construct, 80Q, so whoa, you don't have an FB in place,

2539
03:17:49,380 --> 03:17:55,380
and we said, well, no, we haven't had it since 2011, which there's a lot of discussion

2540
03:17:55,380 --> 03:18:02,120
there, and obviously a lot of work had to be done to make 80Q happy so that we can move forward

2541
03:18:02,120 --> 03:18:05,300
the part of that was a modifying our APP plan,

2542
03:18:05,480 --> 03:18:10,560
which is our aquifer protection permit,

2543
03:18:11,680 --> 03:18:15,420
and a flow equalization plant closed out as well.

2544
03:18:16,100 --> 03:18:18,100
They want to know that things were to go bad

2545
03:18:18,100 --> 03:18:20,760
and not related to the FB, but down the road,

2546
03:18:21,360 --> 03:18:23,260
that we had the money says side to close it up.

2547
03:18:23,360 --> 03:18:24,580
So as a quite long process,

2548
03:18:24,580 --> 03:18:26,700
they went through to finally get a pool

2549
03:18:26,700 --> 03:18:28,500
to do construct, which we started construction.

2550
03:18:29,460 --> 03:18:30,600
As part of this process,

2551
03:18:30,600 --> 03:18:37,480
As we have been negotiating and waiting, you know, when the contractor, obviously there's a

2552
03:18:37,480 --> 03:18:41,260
order to project one of the first things they do is they go out to secure materials.

2553
03:18:42,700 --> 03:18:49,620
And as materials were coming in, we will pay for materials on hand if they have truly been delivered

2554
03:18:49,620 --> 03:18:55,580
and we see them, it's just more as we understand, there's a cost for them to purchase them.

2555
03:18:55,580 --> 03:18:58,980
And we can pay for that portion of that that I am.

2556
03:18:59,400 --> 03:19:02,880
So we currently have roughly about half a million

2557
03:19:02,880 --> 03:19:06,460
and the terminals on hand that are sitting there at the island.

2558
03:19:07,180 --> 03:19:08,780
This first slide that I showed you here,

2559
03:19:08,800 --> 03:19:14,340
that's our 30-inch piping that relates to the FBI.

2560
03:19:14,700 --> 03:19:16,120
Obviously, coming from the headworks building,

2561
03:19:16,820 --> 03:19:20,640
we have in these boxes here that is our mixers.

2562
03:19:20,640 --> 03:19:23,780
For their order control, there's also some bridge.

2563
03:19:23,780 --> 03:19:30,400
They call in bridge anchors for the mixtures if they go out to support them over over the FB

2564
03:19:30,400 --> 03:19:39,000
And we have a lot of rebar and other material that is not they're just waiting to be utilized. So

2565
03:19:39,620 --> 03:19:45,300
That is another component of this project and that would conclude my presentation

2566
03:19:47,020 --> 03:19:50,620
Thank you, Mr. Hard. Are there any questions or comments from members of the council?

2567
03:19:52,500 --> 03:19:54,640
Yeah, I can't count remember late

2568
03:19:55,220 --> 03:19:56,120
I'm almost catch it.

2569
03:19:57,640 --> 03:19:58,200
Hi.

2570
03:19:59,200 --> 03:19:59,980
So, um...

2571
03:20:01,070 --> 03:20:09,170
The original engineer's estimate was 1.2 million higher than what the bid actually came in.

2572
03:20:10,070 --> 03:20:17,210
That is correct. It was 5.3. So even with this change order, we're still under what was originally the engineer's bid.

2573
03:20:17,710 --> 03:20:31,610
Yes, that's the force tools to it. That's very, very good point. So at 5.3 with the construction project coming in at 4.1, that left 1.2, this change over here is for just over 1 million.

2574
03:20:32,350 --> 03:20:43,430
So we're still under budget, fortunately, the money is there. You folks approved it in our new budget. So it's just it's sitting there, not that we want to spend it.

2575
03:20:43,430 --> 03:20:48,230
it is there. And that's the point I wanted to get to is, then we approve the original budget.

2576
03:20:49,210 --> 03:20:54,290
You're still coming in under what the original budget was. It's just sounds like we're making a

2577
03:20:54,290 --> 03:20:59,310
big change order and we're having to move things around, but we're not using any contingency funds.

2578
03:20:59,490 --> 03:21:04,250
There's no extra costs. This is actual money that we already had budgeted. It just,

2579
03:21:04,950 --> 03:21:09,230
we were hoping to get away with not spending that one point too, but it didn't happen.

2580
03:21:10,530 --> 03:21:12,290
Thank you. Yeah, Council Member Coatman?

2581
03:21:12,290 --> 03:21:18,770
I just wanted to clarify, and Jason, if you could, I pretty sure I have the answer straight forward.

2582
03:21:19,610 --> 03:21:23,090
We could say, noted this, we could go back to the drawing board, read the project.

2583
03:21:23,430 --> 03:21:29,870
We take the chance of it coming in even higher, and more than likely, if it's a new contractor,

2584
03:21:30,110 --> 03:21:32,650
not even utilizing the materials we've already purchased.

2585
03:21:32,750 --> 03:21:34,990
We would already lose out on that on top of it, correct?

2586
03:21:36,570 --> 03:21:45,370
That is correct, you could deny this and then we would have to terminate the Kelly would have

2587
03:21:45,370 --> 03:21:46,170
to step in.

2588
03:21:46,350 --> 03:21:51,130
And she's not really excited about hearing that idea, but with terminate the contract, we would

2589
03:21:51,130 --> 03:21:57,890
have to go back to the consultant and repackage the bid package, so they'll be cost there.

2590
03:21:58,710 --> 03:22:04,570
In our minds, we would want to utilize the material that's on hand because it's specialty items

2591
03:22:04,570 --> 03:22:09,890
that you just can't use anywhere else and that always is a touch of subject with contractors

2592
03:22:09,890 --> 03:22:14,910
when they have to provide a warranty for stuff that they didn't buy that's been sitting there

2593
03:22:14,910 --> 03:22:24,470
and such the idea of could we get a bid anywhere near the the say the 5.3 that this might

2594
03:22:24,470 --> 03:22:30,730
in the or the 5.2 that's just going total. I just the way the industry is going right now

2595
03:22:30,730 --> 03:22:35,690
of visitors seeing coming in, I don't see how that's possible, but I'm not a, don't have

2596
03:22:35,690 --> 03:22:36,410
a magic ball either.

2597
03:22:36,510 --> 03:22:37,530
I think it would be much higher.

2598
03:22:37,670 --> 03:22:38,630
And I agree with you.

2599
03:22:38,670 --> 03:22:43,230
I just wanted to, for those out there that say, why are we just, why are we entertaining

2600
03:22:43,230 --> 03:22:43,730
the idea?

2601
03:22:43,790 --> 03:22:47,390
Because I think the alternative would be much worse, so I just want to bring that up.

2602
03:22:47,450 --> 03:22:48,290
Thank you.

2603
03:22:48,490 --> 03:22:49,170
Very good point.

2604
03:22:49,650 --> 03:22:49,730
Thank you.

2605
03:22:49,790 --> 03:22:50,170
That's my vocabulary.

2606
03:22:51,130 --> 03:22:51,570
Hi.

2607
03:22:54,650 --> 03:22:57,230
Was there other contractors putting this job originally?

2608
03:22:58,650 --> 03:23:00,030
There was, yes.

2609
03:23:00,830 --> 03:23:00,970
Okay.

2610
03:23:01,230 --> 03:23:03,230
And I absolutely agree with you.

2611
03:23:03,270 --> 03:23:09,210
Every job that I am touching is way above the 25% margin from a door to a door

2612
03:23:09,210 --> 03:23:09,490
knob.

2613
03:23:09,750 --> 03:23:10,290
It's unbelievable.

2614
03:23:10,810 --> 03:23:12,090
So I agree with you.

2615
03:23:12,130 --> 03:23:14,750
I don't know if it's good to go back through the process.

2616
03:23:15,250 --> 03:23:17,750
But that would be up to legal as well.

2617
03:23:17,850 --> 03:23:22,650
Is this something legally that we can do if...

2618
03:23:22,650 --> 03:23:24,770
Am I asking a good question?

2619
03:23:24,770 --> 03:23:29,190
that if there is there a protocol in place that I'm sure you guys are all following it for

2620
03:23:29,190 --> 03:23:32,650
bed everybody out there that wants to hear that there was other contractors that

2621
03:23:32,650 --> 03:23:38,890
bid it on this job. Going back and accepting a change order at the size even though it's

2622
03:23:38,890 --> 03:23:43,430
under budget is that all okay. Yes. Thank you so much.

2623
03:23:43,950 --> 03:23:45,870
Any other questions or comments from members of the council?

2624
03:23:46,330 --> 03:23:50,150
Yeah. Has at any time did the resilience in your say I told you so?

2625
03:23:54,260 --> 03:24:00,800
No, I mean, I agree, we've got all that a product sitting there, and I think we need to

2626
03:24:00,800 --> 03:24:03,280
move forward, as soon as we can.

2627
03:24:04,140 --> 03:24:07,800
It's unfortunate that it went down the way it did, but I think we need to move forward

2628
03:24:07,800 --> 03:24:08,120
fast.

2629
03:24:10,660 --> 03:24:13,580
All right, this is a public hearing when I like to address the city council on this

2630
03:24:13,580 --> 03:24:14,180
matter.

2631
03:24:16,630 --> 03:24:17,470
Yes, actually.

2632
03:24:17,910 --> 03:24:18,730
Hi, I'm Bonnie Stewart.

2633
03:24:19,250 --> 03:24:22,130
I would just like to suggest in.

2634
03:24:22,130 --> 03:24:32,390
I'm really a little frustrated to hear you guys ask the question about whether or not it is

2635
03:24:32,390 --> 03:24:42,890
it more difficult if you do a change and honestly you don't know if it's more difficult unless

2636
03:24:42,890 --> 03:24:49,450
you actually do the change and every time you guys are faced with these kind of situations

2637
03:24:49,450 --> 03:24:56,710
very frequently, you are, oh, we're not going to change anything, because it may be more difficult.

2638
03:24:57,390 --> 03:24:59,970
You don't know unless you actually...

2639
03:25:00,000 --> 03:25:08,680
Oh, it's going to take more time. It's going to, well, we were already taking time. So what happens if you take

2640
03:25:08,680 --> 03:25:15,780
the time extra and it actually works into your benefit, but you didn't actually go ahead and

2641
03:25:15,780 --> 03:25:21,560
take the extra time. So I was just curious as to why you don't ever want to take the extra time.

2642
03:25:22,780 --> 03:25:27,760
You have thoroughly confused me. It's been a long night, but I'm not really sure if I know what it is you

2643
03:25:27,760 --> 03:25:34,980
saying, but point well taken. Any other comments? Yes, please just make your way to the podium.

2644
03:25:40,920 --> 03:25:46,180
This may be a dumb question. Robert Fisher's again. Maybe a dumb question, but you've got material

2645
03:25:46,180 --> 03:25:51,420
and I couldn't really understand from the picture you showed what it was a picture of and you mentioned

2646
03:25:51,420 --> 03:25:57,760
rebar and so that means concrete and so forth. Have rebar's been laying out in the weather for

2647
03:25:57,760 --> 03:26:04,140
weeks and weeks and weeks get rained on, it gets rusty and it's no longer usable. You have to do

2648
03:26:04,140 --> 03:26:09,560
something else with it to make it usable. Is that product that's been laying there and being protected

2649
03:26:09,560 --> 03:26:10,860
for its utilisation?

2650
03:26:14,000 --> 03:26:16,680
We are aware that we're going to have to take a hard look at the rebar and

2651
03:26:16,680 --> 03:26:21,060
see if it needs sandblast it or see if it needs replace. I mean we have a standard we have a spec that

2652
03:26:21,060 --> 03:26:29,660
have to meet, you know, tickling when we are at this stage. So, yes, we're, we're, we will be

2653
03:26:29,660 --> 03:26:34,640
taking a look at the reward. And from what I've seen, it's got some rest code in on a day that

2654
03:26:34,640 --> 03:26:39,660
could be sandblasted off, you know, we'll, we'll take a deeper look at that, but the reward itself

2655
03:26:39,660 --> 03:26:46,940
is kind of a minor cost and this whole component. Well, it could be a minor cost now to sandblasted,

2656
03:26:46,940 --> 03:26:50,160
But if it wasn't, it'd be a major cost to repair the damage

2657
03:26:50,160 --> 03:26:52,640
if it was installed in the concrete and failed.

2658
03:26:53,960 --> 03:26:54,220
All right.

2659
03:26:54,260 --> 03:26:54,600
Thank you.

2660
03:26:54,840 --> 03:26:55,240
Good point.

2661
03:26:56,100 --> 03:26:56,220
Yeah.

2662
03:26:56,260 --> 03:26:56,900
Thank you.

2663
03:26:57,600 --> 03:26:59,620
What do you want to take to address the council on this item?

2664
03:27:01,570 --> 03:27:02,650
Seeing that, we'll close the public hearing.

2665
03:27:02,830 --> 03:27:04,690
We're back to Council for Discussion and Possible Motion.

2666
03:27:05,170 --> 03:27:05,630
Mr. Mayor.

2667
03:27:05,850 --> 03:27:06,050
Yeah.

2668
03:27:06,150 --> 03:27:10,210
I just want to, you know, we could start this whole process all over again.

2669
03:27:10,330 --> 03:27:14,390
But as I'm reading the community impact, it's saying that this is crucial to continue the

2670
03:27:14,390 --> 03:27:15,950
reliable service at treating wastework.

2671
03:27:15,950 --> 03:27:16,710
This is important.

2672
03:27:16,850 --> 03:27:17,790
We have to do this now.

2673
03:27:17,790 --> 03:27:23,330
Correct, so pushing this on they couldn't this could cause a bigger problem for us, right?

2674
03:27:23,770 --> 03:27:26,530
Yes, it could and it could come back higher

2675
03:27:27,410 --> 03:27:32,710
But I'm not talking about the cost part that I'm talking just in general the project if we don't do this now

2676
03:27:33,210 --> 03:27:37,670
If you cause bigger problem. Yes, we have a process of 80 key. We've committed to build this

2677
03:27:38,250 --> 03:27:41,770
FEP and through the permit process. So

2678
03:27:41,770 --> 03:27:44,690
It is needed. Thank you.

2679
03:27:46,900 --> 03:27:48,400
In any other comments, sir

2680
03:27:48,400 --> 03:27:48,840
Mayor.

2681
03:27:49,300 --> 03:27:49,900
Yeah, Council Member Moses.

2682
03:27:50,160 --> 03:27:55,840
I'm going to approve changer number one to the construction contract for the island, wastewater treatment plant, FEB.

2683
03:27:55,960 --> 03:28:05,360
Replacement project and technology construction LLC in the amount of 1 million, 53,864 dollars and 13 cents.

2684
03:28:05,480 --> 03:28:05,700
Second.

2685
03:28:08,240 --> 03:28:11,720
Motion from Council Member Moses and a second from Council Member Coke.

2686
03:28:12,060 --> 03:28:12,900
I'm sorry for the discussion.

2687
03:28:14,080 --> 03:28:14,320
All right.

2688
03:28:14,340 --> 03:28:15,420
All very please say aye.

2689
03:28:15,460 --> 03:28:15,920
Aye.

2690
03:28:16,880 --> 03:28:17,360
Opposed.

2691
03:28:19,180 --> 03:28:27,080
Motion carries 70 zero. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Hart. And our final public hearing item is 8.5.

2692
03:28:27,100 --> 03:28:32,840
Approved cooperative purchase of auto parts and services from car quest DAB Auto Inc.

2693
03:28:33,620 --> 03:28:38,600
DBA Jax Auto Parts for annual expenditures exceeding $50,000.

2694
03:28:38,780 --> 03:28:43,180
You didn't even have a good evening, Mr. Young. Good evening, Mayor. Ladies and gentlemen,

2695
03:28:43,180 --> 03:28:51,200
Council, you know, they say be in last campaign that sucks, Bill Ha. Well, after all this,

2696
03:28:51,340 --> 03:29:01,040
and mine looks easy. So I'm here to ask for approval to exceed 50,000 with in our

2697
03:29:01,040 --> 03:29:05,840
cooperate purchase agreement with Jack's, excuse me, Car Quest doing business as Jack's

2698
03:29:05,840 --> 03:29:10,880
federal parts for aftermarket parts for our fleet and equipment services.

2699
03:29:12,580 --> 03:29:15,780
So, you know, be happy to answer any questions on that last year.

2700
03:29:15,900 --> 03:29:21,540
We did owe about 80, 2000 and we're apparently almost at 20,000 with them right now.

2701
03:29:22,220 --> 03:29:22,440
So, yeah.

2702
03:29:22,760 --> 03:29:23,500
Thank you, Mr. Young.

2703
03:29:23,660 --> 03:29:27,800
And for those in the audience in watching our code requires if we're going to spend

2704
03:29:27,800 --> 03:29:35,720
from one vendor more than $50,000 in a budget year that we have to get to

2705
03:29:35,720 --> 03:29:39,340
for many, many years, and provides critical parts

2706
03:29:39,340 --> 03:29:40,840
for our fleet management.

2707
03:29:41,740 --> 03:29:43,360
There are additional questions for Mr. Righong.

2708
03:29:43,740 --> 03:29:44,160
Mr. Mayor?

2709
03:29:44,200 --> 03:29:44,820
Yeah, I can't remember when.

2710
03:29:44,980 --> 03:29:47,580
I'm assuming the reason is because of our inflation,

2711
03:29:48,120 --> 03:29:49,160
this is why this is going on over.

2712
03:29:50,120 --> 03:29:51,340
Is that part of it?

2713
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:11,900
But every year it goes up a little bit, but with our aging fleet and now with the complications of getting new vehicles and stuff, it just continues as far as that, that yes, inflation is a great part of that currently.

2714
03:30:14,460 --> 03:30:16,740
Are there any other questions or comments before we open the public hearing?

2715
03:30:17,640 --> 03:30:20,920
All right, this is a public hearing. Would anyone like to address the city council on this matter?

2716
03:30:23,650 --> 03:30:27,170
Seeing that, I'm going to close the public hearing. Bring it back to council for discussion or possible motion.

2717
03:30:27,750 --> 03:30:28,150
Mayor.

2718
03:30:28,150 --> 03:30:28,910
Comments?

2719
03:30:29,230 --> 03:30:29,370
Comments?

2720
03:30:29,370 --> 03:30:29,690
Motion?

2721
03:30:30,690 --> 03:30:35,170
I'm going to have to approve the Cooperative Purchase Agreement for Aspera Market, Autopart Supply

2722
03:30:35,170 --> 03:30:41,490
Services from DAB, Auto Inc., Lake Havasu, Carquest, DBA, Jax, Autoparts, and access

2723
03:30:41,490 --> 03:30:48,110
a $50,000 annually utilizing Omnian Partners Contract, authorized the City Manager to sign

2724
03:30:48,110 --> 03:30:52,010
the Cooperative Purchase Agreement, and authorized the City staff to exercise the option

2725
03:30:52,010 --> 03:30:54,650
to renew as provided for in the agreement.

2726
03:30:57,540 --> 03:30:57,740
Second.

2727
03:30:58,060 --> 03:30:58,240
Sorry.

2728
03:30:58,240 --> 03:31:02,400
All right, that was like a tie, I think.

2729
03:31:02,580 --> 03:31:06,240
So, Council Member Coke made the motion seconded by Council Member Moses.

2730
03:31:06,360 --> 03:31:10,380
Is there any additional conversation here?

2731
03:31:10,600 --> 03:31:10,820
None.

2732
03:31:10,860 --> 03:31:12,920
All those of you who are very pleased to say aye.

2733
03:31:13,800 --> 03:31:14,240
Opposed.

2734
03:31:16,480 --> 03:31:17,500
Motion carries 70.

2735
03:31:17,980 --> 03:31:18,620
Thank you.

2736
03:31:18,640 --> 03:31:19,500
Thank you, Mr. Young.

2737
03:31:20,100 --> 03:31:22,260
Item 9, a current events.

2738
03:31:22,680 --> 03:31:24,300
Are there any council committee reports?

2739
03:31:25,820 --> 03:31:29,100
And we'll make a quick report for the Mojave County Water Authority.

2740
03:31:29,440 --> 03:31:34,440
We did have a meeting today, and one of the action items was talking about obviously

2741
03:31:34,440 --> 03:31:38,500
water in the southwest and on the system and what that looks like, we've all read the news

2742
03:31:38,500 --> 03:31:46,340
reports and had information about the poor condition of the flows, but one area that the board

2743
03:31:46,340 --> 03:31:50,840
elected to move forward with was hiring a federal lobbyist so that when the conversations

2744
03:31:50,840 --> 03:31:55,460
are happening at the federal level, which is good news that those are happening that we do

2745
03:31:55,460 --> 03:31:59,740
have to see at that table. So I'll continue to keep you all posted on what happens, what

2746
03:31:59,740 --> 03:32:03,640
occurs throughout that, but that's a win for us moving forward in those discussions.

2747
03:32:05,100 --> 03:32:06,640
Are there any other council committee reports?

2748
03:32:08,260 --> 03:32:13,080
All right, item 10, future meetings, our next meeting is on Tuesday, September 27, 2022,

2749
03:32:13,100 --> 03:32:18,680
S6PM, and then we will have another meeting on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, S6PM.

2750
03:32:19,240 --> 03:32:20,960
are there any future discussion items?

2751
03:32:23,160 --> 03:32:26,380
Motion to adjourn? All right. We are adjourned. Thank you

2752
03:32:26,380 --> 03:32:28,900
all for joining us. Be kind and we'll see you next time. We are adjourned.