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We are ready to get started. Today is tuesday, june 18th, 2024.

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this is the city council's regular meeting and I'm calling it to order and giving notice
That the city

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council may vote to go into executive session, which will not be open to the public for
Discussion and consultation with the city's attorneys for legal advice on any item listed

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on the following agenda. Can I have roll call mayor daggett here.

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vice mayor aslan, present. Council member harris here. Council member house.

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council member matthews here. Council member mccarthy here. Council member sweet.

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here. Chief musselman, could I have you lead us in the pledge of allegiance?

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thank you. Mayor. I'd be honored. Please stand if you're able.

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thank you, chief.

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the mission of the city of flagstaff is to protect and enhance the quality of life for
All.

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the flagstaff city council humbly acknowledges the ancestral homelands of this area's
Indigenous nations and original stewards.

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these lands, still inhabited by native descendants, border mountain sacred to the
Indigenous peoples.

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we honor them, their legacies, their traditions, and their continued contributions.

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we celebrate their past, present and future generations who will forever know this place
As home.

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thank you. All right, next up, we have open call to the public.

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this enables the public to address the council about an item that is not on the prepared
Agenda.

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comments related to items that are on the agenda will be taken at the time the item is
Discussed.

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we have two open calls to the public. One is at the beginning of the meeting, the other is at the end.

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our first call to the public is limited to 30 minutes, and additional comments will be
Held until the second call to the public.

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if you wish to address us during open call to the public or for an item that's on the
Agenda, please fill out a comment card that is in a speaker's card that's in the back.

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you have three minutes and there is a timer here.

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and during open call to the public, the city council cannot interact with you.

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we can't respond to you or ask you questions. So we are very honored to have with us today, secretary of state adrian fontes.

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mayor and members of the council. Thank you so much for having me. And I will precursor a little bit of congratulations to the guy who was standing up here
A minute ago, because I may have to leave before anything else happens, but what I'd like

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to do is draw everyone's attention to the copper star that represents arizona's mineral
Legacy.

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it flies in the middle of our flag. The blue portion represents the field on the american flag and the colorado river.

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the red and yellow rays represents inform the state's sunset and in color, the spanish
Flag, which is part of the heritage of the state of

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arizona. This flag was commissioned by colonel harris back in 1910 because he was needing
A banner for a shooting

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competition in ohio. He was to take arizona's team across the country to compete.

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and the first flag that looks like the one hanging behind you was designed right here in
Flagstaff, arizona by may hicks.

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now what I'm calling the may hicks house stands at 13 larue south larue street, just up
The way.

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the lot has been sold and the house is set for demolition.

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sadly. But we are not without hope.

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we have a series of historical preservationists who I first met in tucson at the annual
Conference that those folks have down there.

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they told me about this, and I said, myself and my office will do whatever we can to help
Preserve this important part of arizona's heritage.

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so that old may, which is what I like to call our state flag and the heritage behind it,
Will be preserved.

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now we have understandings based on some of the studies, environmental studies that I
Have in my hand that hopefully we'll be able to get in your hands discussions with a

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variety of different city staff. And of course, council member mccarthy was there with us this morning earlier at the
Mayor's house.

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there's a variety of different plans and proposals that are on the table.

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I am committing to you today to put the full force of the arizona's department of state,
Our state archives, and our state libraries who fall to my charge to

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make sure that this important piece of arizona's heritage is preserved. I hope and pray that you, mayor, and the council will utilize whatever power you have
Here in the city of flagstaff and the resources that your staff may bring to

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bear to help us do whatever we need to do to preserve this house.

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now, one of the proposals is to put it on the site of the murdock space, which is a
Community gathering space already.

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there is some land right there that's plenty big. It's only an 800 square foot house, by the way, and there's already a lot of folks around
The state who are looking at this and looking to help out.

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I know my time is just about up, but I'm here to ask you to please engage with our
Office.

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we will designate a staff member to make sure that we can make this thing happen. And we hope and pray that the city of flagstaff will be able to host the mayor's house
Somewhere, so that we can make sure that we preserve this very important part of arizona's

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history. She is, after all, arizona's betsy ross. Thank you very much. Mayor and council.

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thank you, secretary fontes. Thank you. Staff.

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I'm sure that we will get an update from those who have been talking to the secretary's
Office and working on this.

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indeed, mayor. Thank you, thank you. Dennis gibbons.

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right. Thank you, mayor daggett, city council staff, the good citizens of flagstaff.

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hi, I'm dennis gibbons of the south side and lead reporter of justice news.

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seeking justice is in one's best interest. I just want to go around the room and say a couple of nice things about everybody.

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lori matthews, I appreciate your conservative values and your fiscal responsibility to
The taxpayers.

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deb harris I like how you never forget about the low economic status people and
Minorities in our community.

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you also like to speak your mind, which is awesome. Vice mayor austin aslan you are very punny, smart, and have peace in your heart more than
I.

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mayor becky daggett, you're an excellent leader who's full of knowledge. You run the meetings well and you ask questions when no one else has one.

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jim mccarthy, you are wise, caring and your engineer mindset is an asset to the council.

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miranda sweet. You are a nice person and you're always very thankful of everyone.

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and you are the hardest working person in flagstaff. I see you all the time at events and meetings around town.

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good job! Kara house. You are extremely intelligent person.

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you speak, read and write good. You ask in-depth questions and talk better than me.

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staff. You're all expert professionals and flagstaff is lucky. Lucky to have you all.

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as you know, the sunshine mission was closed for a month or so.

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there was nothing but peace and quiet on south san francisco street. Now there are people loitering, littering, public urination, more police presence.

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a fire was caused by an unsheltered person which almost burnt down a house.

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the tenant suffered smoke inhalation and burns putting out the inferno.

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and there's a lot of self-medication going on on the streets. Do we want south san francisco street to turn into san francisco?

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the city? I would suggest paying someone minimum wage to be a neighborhood watch who
Always helps the surrounding area of the mission at all hours.

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I know a lot of niu students are walking by the mission to and from school all the time.

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remember, if you build it, they will come. I also want to declare every day international health awareness day.

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let's do it for the health of it. And also, I think we should create mandatory exercise camps where citizens can exercise,
Learn about nutrients, and reconnect with nature.

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since I have a little bit of time. I wanted to sing a song. It's called kumbaya. If you know the words, please join me.

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kumbaya. My lord. Kumbaya. Kumbaya.

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my lord. Kumbaya. Someone's hurt, my lord.

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kumbaya. Oh, lord. Kumbaya. All right, everyone together now.

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no, I'm just kidding. But thanks a lot, everyone, for having this time with me.

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and good job, everyone. I really appreciate you all. And yeah, you guys do a great work and it's an honor to be here today.

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thank you so much. God bless america. Thank you. Dennis. Jeanine. Kelly.

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jeanine. Kelly. French. Canadian. Scandinavian. Irish. Flagstaff.

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let's dance. Raise your hand if you've seen any, please address the city council.

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raise your hands if you've ever seen any episodes of bridgerton, smile.

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if you've read any of jane austen's novels, how about pride and prejudice?

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sense and sensibility, mansfield park husbands and boyfriends.

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aslan. Jim. Mr.. Galliard, greg.

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chief officer, please address the city council. The last time you took your wife dancing, were you going to have a chance?

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july 6th.

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like dickens and shakespeare, jane austen is for everyone. Her wit and warmth touched the heart of the youth and the young at heart.

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o jane austen's characters love to dance, and often a dance is that prelude to the all
Important first kiss, true love, a proposal and

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ultimately a happy marriage between dashing duels? The jane austen society of north america is gifting all students in high school,
Community college, university and graduate school free membership from now to december

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31st because we're celebrating jane austen's 250th birthday. Hello, I'm jeanine kelley, and I'm the new regional coordinator for the jane austen
Society from flagstaff to phoenix.

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many of us are sadly aware of the skyrocketing depression of students through the
Negative influence of social media.

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so jane is hosting student friendly events to encourage students to put down their cell
Phones and to experience life face to face.

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we're going to have a rapping jane austen contest and on saturday, june 6th, july 6th from
1 to 3:30 p.m.

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at flagstaff federated church. Pastor pat dimond, who is a jewel, is with us and hosting a free, fabulous english
Country dance workshop.

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it's multi-generational. I drop off fliers to peaks senior living residents this morning.

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no experience is necessary. As jim, you can come as you are.

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light refreshments will be served and I hope to see the mayor and city council members
There, as well as flagstaff, dashing firefighters and the knightly officers from the

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flagstaff p.d.. Jane austen has a big umbrella. All in our community are most welcome to come to the dance.

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and who knows, you just might meet your true love while dancing on july 6th.

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and to give this to you. Thank you. Thank you. Alicia.

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formanek.

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okay. Good afternoon. Mayor, vice mayor and city council members.

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my name is alicia formanek and I am a proud member and the current president of high
Altitude roller derby flagstaff's local roller derby league.

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high altitude roller derby has been a part of the flagstaff community since 2012.

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our league has 45 active members and an internationally ranked travel team, the dark sky
Starlets.

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we are dedicated to sustaining roller derby by promoting athleticism, empowerment and
Sportsmanship among our league members and the community.

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beyond our athletic pursuits, high altitude roller derby enriches the flagstaff community
Through charitable donations and service.

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each year, the league chooses a new local nonprofit to support through monetary donations,
Drives, and fundraisers.

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coconino casa for kids is the nonprofit we are supporting this year.

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in the past, we've supported flagstaff shelter services, 1 in 10 and over the rainbow
Butterfly garden, just to name a few.

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so you might be wondering, where do we practice roller derby and flagstaff?

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well, recently we've lost one of our practice spaces at flagstaff junior academy due to
Its closure.

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currently, we practice at mount elden middle school, sharing the space with other local
Sports leagues.

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since the closure of the available rental spaces through fsd are becoming increasingly
Limited.

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while fsd has been a supportive partner, the increasing demand for their gymnasiums from
Various sports leagues and clubs means our practice time will be significantly

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reduced. Currently we practice for 12 hours over the course of four days, but this will
Be cut nearly in half this fall.

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this reduction severely impacts our ability to accommodate all skill levels, from
Beginners to a level travel team.

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we urgently need your support. Flagstaff is in dire need of a multi-purpose indoor sports complex that can accommodate a
Roller derby, flat track, among other activities like

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pickleball, volleyball, indoor soccer and roller hockey.

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given our climate with cold temperatures, snow, rain and smoke from wildfires, an indoor
Sports complex would allow the community to stay

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active year round, regardless of the weather. So we are asking you to hear our voice and consider the development of a multi-purpose
Indoor sports complex as a future agenda item.

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we are confident that other sports groups would join us in expressing their need for such
A facility.

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thank you for your time and consideration. We look forward to your support.

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thank you. Joanne kean.

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good evening, mayor and council. I just wanted to take just a quick opportunity to introduce somebody to all of you today.

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this is amelia krajeski. I said it correctly.

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amelia was with us all day yesterday.

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learning about the city. She's currently interning at coconino county, and she's an aqma marvin andrews fellow,
Which is a really big deal.

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she's a graduate of niu, and this fall will be going to asu and working on her master's
Of public administration and will be a marvin andrews

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fellow, where she's actually assigned to work at a city.

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anywhere around the state, there's several cities she can choose from, but they're going
To be choosing her.

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so I just wanted to take an opportunity. Definitely somebody that you will see again.

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she's a real up and comer. Ask some great questions yesterday, and we are really lucky to have her with us
Yesterday.

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so welcome. Thank you. Thank you.

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joanne. Dapper. Dre.

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mayor. Vice mayor, council staff. Good to see everybody again.

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I probably have to be at another meeting. I'm in between meetings right now, but I know they're having the cmp.

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update carbon neutrality plan. And what kind of that integrates?

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I hope I can make it back to see their information and what they're sharing.

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I guess I always kind of try to talk in the observation of just a concerned citizen
Person who likes to walk around the city and, of course, bike around the city.

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we all know that in the fact that even if your carbon neutrality goals are to 20, 30 most
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kind of infrastructure or things that would help be people and get people less car
Dependent won't be built until like 2030.

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so just the consideration of the information that you're getting from them, what can we
Do to speed up that process?

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I mean, I know the city council declared the climate emergency, what, five years ago now?

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something like that. And then from what I understand of the word emergency, it's usually like stuff should be
Happening rapidly to change our course or to make different

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things. But as a person who observes, I still see just mostly things being built
Primarily for car use.

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anything that is built for bicycle or pedestrian use or extension is often poo pooed.

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complained about. We don't have funding, we can't make it happen. But yet. Lone tree overpass, bula roundabout j.w.

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powell extension. They somehow all have budgets and mass amounts of money to get done.

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and yet, how can we reinforce for people to be less car dependent by not helping to think
Strategically?

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how where is the most use of pedestrian and multimodality and reinforce that?

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it's all pretty much downtown within these three blocks.

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but the sidewalks aren't wider for people. The bike lanes aren't more distinct for bike riders.

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you have pretty much a really distinct corridor from fmc to north campus on beaver in san
Francisco.

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if that was really reinforced and really inviting to multimodality, maybe you would see
People use it.

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but yet the concern is always, always, always. How do we get cars through level of service, level of service, level of service, and
Maybe we'll get a little bit of amenity help when you do the downtown mile and we have

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some pedestrian underpasses. But again, how do you strategically invite the community to be less car dependent?

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you, I don't know, close down streets sometimes like first friday art walk.

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wouldn't it be awesome if aspen was closed and people could just walk?

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again, strategize and not just consider these bigger plans, but small steps to make
Larger things happen.

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thank you, thank you. Jasmine jewell.

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hello, everyone. I'm mayor, vice mayor, council staff.

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my name is jasmine jewell and I was born and raised here in flagstaff, arizona.

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I am a third generation now alum, and I care very deeply about this place and the people
Who live here.

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I don't know about you all, but I am getting incredibly tired of courts and legislators
Coming for my body.

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we have clearly all been involuntarily engaged in a battle for the most fundamental of
Universal human rights the right to do what we want with the

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body that we inhabit, specifically with reproductive health care.

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I currently work for arizona list as a part of the nonpartisan coalition arizona for
Abortion access, and we are trying to get initiative on the ballot in november that, if

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passed, will enshrine safe access to rowe standards of abortion, meaning until fetal
Viability in the state constitution as a right,

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as I believe it should be. Please join me in our arizona for abortion access in standing up to protect our fellow
Human beings.

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I hope that you will tell your constituents cis women, trans, non-binary, your mother.

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everyone knows someone who has a uterus, loves someone who has a uterus, and that makes
This issue their business.

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that makes helping out in this effort their responsibility too.

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I know everyone's busy, but they need your signatures. We need your signatures right now.

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your constituents signatures. Roe was overturned two years ago this sunday, and we should not let this anniversary pass
Quietly.

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this is a call to action. You've heard we have more than the necessary 383,000 signatures we need.

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but the truth is, we need to keep our collective foot on the gas. We expect at least 20% of those signatures to be invalidated due to poor handwriting
Addresses, not updated, and other things.

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no one can sign this petition online. I need you to tell your constituents please sign it in person.

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time is running out. I need them to act quickly. Please let me tell you where you can tell them.

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they can do this monday through friday in the flagstaff ice house, suite six, from 10
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to 2 p.m.. Yes, that is the coconino county democrats office. But please let me say again, this is a nonpartizan coalition and independence.

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you are more than welcome republicans. You are more than welcome. I would be so happy to see you there.

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this can be a nonpartisan issue if we all decide that it is one.

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we are also at the flagstaff farmers market at city hall on sunday from 8 a.m.

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to noon. We are also going canvasing to knock on doors for signatures this saturday.

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just show up at 10 a.m. At the ice house. I have petitions with me.

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you can find me afterwards. And I would love to meet you.

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please, let's make these rights also unalienable, because abortion is health care.

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thank you, thank you jasmine.

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all right. We're moving on to proclamations and recognitions.

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we have two proclamations today. The first is waste and recycling workers week.

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the second is juneteenth. So we'll start with waste and recycling workers week.

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and everyone who is here for this proclamation, would you please join council down here?

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do we have everyone? Okay. We're we'll take a photo after this.

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and then if there's anyone who would like to say a few words, we will give you the time
To do that.

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the nation celebrates the week of june 17th as waste and recycling workers week.

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the city of flagstaff solid waste section plans, implements, coordinates and directs
Programs for the safe and compliant collection,

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recovery and disposition of the solid wastes and recyclables incurred, including the
Operation of the cinder lake landfill hazardous

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product hazardous product center. The men and women employed by the city of flagstaff solid waste section makes significant
Contributions to the safety, health and welfare of our

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20,000 solid waste customers and countless visitors of flagstaff.

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the proper collection and disposal of waste and recyclables is vital to preventing
Disease, litter and dump heaps.

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according to the center for disease control, the eradication of many diseases in the
Western world is due in large part to higher public

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sanitation standards resulting from effective garbage disposal.

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the city of flagstaff values and celebrates the refuse collectors, dumpster haulers,
Landfill staff, and all others employed in the sanitation and

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sanitation industry to serve residents and local businesses.

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now, therefore, I, becky daggett, mayor of the city of flagstaff, arizona, do hereby
Proclaim the week of june 17th as waste and

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recycling workers week.

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I'd like to say a few words.

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you got? Thank you mayor. Thank you council I appreciate the recognition tonight.

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this group here works every day, 70, 80 hours a week, day in, day out, out there
Collecting trash, making sure that our streets are clean, that our

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alleyways stay clear of debris and other solid waste operating our landfill, just
Ensuring that we keep a good, clean, sanitary environment.

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and they do it without any hesitation every day. So I appreciate everything that you all do.

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the many, many hours that you put in seven days a week. We're truly grateful for everything that you do for this community.

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thank you.

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and do we have representatives here for the juneteenth proclamation?

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okay. Come on down.

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it is my honor and privilege and pleasure to read this proclamation on behalf of the
Mayor.

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whereas juneteenth. You start again. Whereas juneteenth, also known as juneteenth, national independence day,
Jubilee day, freedom day and emancipation day, recognizes the anniversary of the

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events of june 19th, 1865, when union major general gordon granger.

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gordon granger led some 2000 union troops into galveston bay, texas, to read the order
Announcing that the more than 250,000 enslaved black persons

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in the united states, in the state, and other states in rebellion against the united
States were free by executive decree.

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and whereas juneteenth is the oldest known public celebration of the end of the slavery
In the united states, and celebrates and commemorates both the legacies of

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black liberation, endurance, and joy, and the broader legacy of american freedom.

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and whereas juneteenth marks both the end of most black american enslavement and the
Start of an era of great hope, resiliency, uncertainty, and continued struggle for newly

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freed black persons in america. With it comes a call to reflect, remember, and never repeat the historic, dehumanizing
Impacts of slavery, segregation, racial violence, voter

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disenfranchisement, or other historic and persistent examples of injustice witnessed
Throughout african american history.

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and whereas, collectively, juneteenth reminds us all of the invaluable, inalienable
Rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as well as the precious promises of

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freedom, equity and opportunity core to so much of what our nation holds dear.

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and whereas, as stated by the naacp, we have recognized that the fight for true freedom
Since the days of the emancipation proclamation is delayed and admittedly

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incomplete, promises have been continuous and full of barriers.

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we join them in declaring that freedom is a thread and a fight woven through this
Nation's history and current political climate.

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we join organizations like the naacp and flagstaff's own lived black experience community
Project in celebrating the resiliency of black americans who continue to

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thrive in spite of attempts to limit voting rights, continue in spite of continued
Attempts to limit voting rights, economic advancement, and

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basic civil rights historically and into the present. And whereas we take up and extend the call to action to celebrate and ensure true freedom
For all, doing our part to collectively strive to close gaps of immeasurable

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distance between us. Affirm the promises of the declaration of independence that all people have the right to
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, reject acts of violence, and expand

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opportunities to understand and learn from our frank yet compassionate, challenging, yet
Courageous conversations.

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now, therefore, I, austin aslan, on behalf of mayor baker becky daggett, respectfully join
Municipal leaders across the country

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in spirit and solidarity and by proclamation in declaring june 19th, 2024, juneteenth,
National independence day and encouraging all citizens to

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honor this day as a day of reflection, cultural and public education, earnest assessment,
Planning and commitment to end systemic racism and all forms of

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dehumanization which threaten equity and freedom for all.

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I just want to say thank you to mayor and the city for this proclamation.

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the juneteenth celebration has been in this community for probably 60 years, if not more.

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currently, the south side community association and its lived black experience project,
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sponsors this yearly event. And so thank you to everyone who came out and who celebrated.

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all right. We are moving down to a very special and significant recognition of police
Chief dan

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musselman.

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thank you, mayor. Council. Indeed. It's a special recognition.

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chief musselman joined the flagstaff police department in 1995 as a police officer.

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he served as corporal, detective, police sergeant, police lieutenant and deputy police
Chief.

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in 2020, he was promoted to police chief and has served in that capacity since that time,
A promotion that was well deserved and

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well performed. Prior to joining the city. It's notable that chief musselman served in the coconino county sheriff's office and in
The united states army reserve.

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he has dedicated over 30 years to public service.

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so to tell you a little bit more about our chief musselman here standing to my left, he
Has certainly encouraged community engagement, as you can see by the

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many pictures here on the screen, whether it's the toy drive every year it's
Participating in the special olympics cocoa with the

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po po or pizza with the police or coffee with the cop.

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all of those fun rhyming opportunities in order to make sure that our police department
Is engaging with our community on a regular basis.

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he's been incredible at supporting the team's growth, encouraging training, bringing
Training here locally so that we can ensure they're still getting developed even though we

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might be short staffed. And focusing more on wellness to make sure that our police officers have the support that
They need.

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there's been a tremendous focus on retention through compensation, through providing
Additional resources, by making sure that our resources are cutting

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edge. Those are things that help us keep our officers here in the community.

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and he has certainly had a lot of focus in that particular area.

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he's established additional support for crisis calls. One of the newest items is actually getting to crisis individuals within the dispatch
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and as you know, the implementation of the care unit, we're now in year three.

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he was instrumental in helping the community understand what a benefit this type of
Alternate response model would be, and how it would help address calls with the right

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types of individuals to help those in need.

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the high country police academy. That's the picture at the bottom left.

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it was a partnership with our northern arizona law enforcement agencies, as well as our
Coconino community college has been a huge success and allowed us to train our

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officers here locally. There's been a reduction in property and violent crime during his time as our police
Chief.

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he served on united way of northern arizona on their community investment team, so
Helping identify areas of need enhanced customer

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service. You may have seen the most recent notice about spider tech, a new technology
That's going to allow us to better inform customers who are calling

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911 as to the status of the officer and what's happening with their particular concern.

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and most recently, I know you know this, but in order to also share it with the public
Chief was recently recognized by northern arizona

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university by an mpa public service award.

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so huge accomplishments over his time as chief. And we're so very proud of him.

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so again, appreciate your dedication and service. And we have a short video if we might be able to share that with you.

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it's with sincere. Gratitude and great appreciation that we recognize chief dan musselman
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flagstaff community. He has served as police chief since the year 2020, leaving a very positive and profound
Impact upon our police department.

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dan, I want to thank you for your amazing leadership and the positive mark that you have
Left upon flagstaff community.

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now let's hear from a few others. Hi, chief musselman, I just want to say thank you for your years of service to the
Flagstaff community.

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we're going to miss you, but I know that you'll still be involved.

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and I look forward to seeing you around town. Hey, dan, just a short note from your fire chief.

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that we're all very excited about your retirement. We're very grateful for your service and grateful for having the opportunity to work with
You and wish you the very best in

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retirement. Thank you so much, chief musselman.

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I just wanted to express my sincere joy in having had the opportunity to work with you
Over these many, many years.

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congratulations on your retirement and happy retirement.

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thank you for everything that you've done for flagstaff, 1980. All right, chief, well, you did it 28 years.

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now, this is your leadership team and all your servants and sport managers here.

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hebrews, all the way through the ranks just started as in the detention facility over 30
Years ago.

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he rose to the rank of chief of police. You worked at the patrol division?

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you were in the criminal investigations. You got into as a sergeant. You were internal affairs sergeant, select enforcement sergeant.

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you were a lieutenant. You were one lieutenant. That was all over all of us for a long time, making sure we were doing things right.

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and then as deputy chief you ran operations at support services for several years, did a
Very good job, and set us up in a good direction.

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2020 became our chief during coronavirus, you led us through a very difficult time in the
Pandemic, and you left us in a place where we reduce

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crime and victimization by over 30% over your term as chief.

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so on behalf of all your employees your command staff your leadership team, like you'd be
A big thank you.

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everybody got to.

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thank you all. That's pretty. Pretty moving. I couldn't have done it without my lovely wife behind me.

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my parents, who are here today.

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and the rest of city hall. The rest of my employees, they made it easy on me most days, so thank you.

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my plan is to stay in flagstaff, be a better dog walker, get in a little more cycling
Volunteer so you will see me around.

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so thank you flagstaff for a very rewarding career.

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I appreciate you all.

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I didn't want him to run away.

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so the city manager's office wanted to give chief musselman a memento to recognize your
Service and just express our appreciation.

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so we have this.

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thank you. Thank you. Perhaps a photo with the chief and the the award.

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and then we're at your pleasure, mayor. About a reception.

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his wife too. And of course, his wife.

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so yes, please, let's take a photo and then let's take a 15 minute break and everyone can
Share their

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congratulations and then go in the bathroom and cry. Yeah. Thank you.

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mayor. Maybe if we could gather in the front, we'll grab a quick photo. Thank you.

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all right. We are ready to get started again.

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that was a lovely little reception. Thank you, everyone, for being here to celebrate chief musselman.

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next is our council liaison reports, and I'm going to start with council member.

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sweet. Thank you. Mayor. I don't have a lot. I will say that this thursday there is the water commission 4:00 here in the chambers.

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council member mccarthy. Thank you. Mayor. I attended the transportation commission meeting and it was a very
Short meeting.

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and then I also attended the bicycle committee meeting, which was a couple of hours.

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thank you. Vice mayor some upcoming meetings later this week and next week, but nothing
To report right now.

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council member harris. I just want to say thank you to city council members who attended the juneteenth gala on
Friday night.

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we had a great time and the juneteenth festival on saturday.

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and so thank you all very much. And that's all for me.

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council member matthews. Last week was our cdgk meeting where we started the celebration of saying goodbye to
Chief musselman.

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it was a nice meeting, as always. And then I missed the notes on the indigenous commission.

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but I did meet with a youth group from the indigenous circle of flagstaff regarding the
Future planning of the indigenous

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cultural center. Just really great to to talk with and work with our younger activists in our city and see
All their enthusiasm and their

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great ideas and just I'm anxious to see them participate in whatever level and that
Future location.

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all right. Nothing from me. So we will move on to number seven.

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liquor license, public hearings. Welcome up.

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but first, I will open the public hearing, and then we will have the staff presentation.

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okay. Good afternoon, mayor, vice mayor and council.

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my name is nick almendarez. I'm a sergeant with the flagstaff police department. I'm before you today to present a new liquor license application.

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this is for a series nine s liquor store sampling license for cinders liquors at 5620
North highway 89 here in flagstaff,

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arizona. The application was filed by jacob polk, who is the agent and controlling
Person.

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in my investigation, I discovered no derogatory records on the applicant and no current
Or historical liquor violations on the business.

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I found evidence the applicant had taken the mandatory liquor license training, and a
Representative for the business was invited to be here today.

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thank you. Council. Do you have any questions?

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all right. Do we have any public comment? No, mayor, we do not.

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all right. Thank you. I'm going to close the public hearing and council.

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I will entertain a motion to either forward with a recommendation for approval or forward
With a recommendation for

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denial. Mayor, I'd like to move that we forward this application to the state with a
Recommendation of approval.

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is there a second? I'll second. Just.

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yes. Council member mccarthy, just for clarification, there's two applications.

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I presume the motion was for both of them. Is that true? No.

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no, because we only got a presentation on the first one.

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I apologize.

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any further discussion. All those in favor? Aye, aye. Any opposed?

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all right. Next. Oh, I will open the public hearing and we will have the staff presentation.

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okay. Once again, I am nick armendariz, a sergeant with the flagstaff police department.

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before you today to present a new liquor license application. This is for a series 12 restaurant liquor license for route 66, located at 2620 north
Seas boulevard here in flagstaff, arizona.

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the application was filed by jamie thousand, who is the agent and controlling person.

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judy hill, who is the premise manager, and hayden kennel, who is the premise manager.

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my investigation, I discovered no derogatory record on the applicant and no current or
Historical liquor violations on the business.

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I found evidence the applicants had taken the mandatory liquor license training, and a
Representative for the business was invited here today.

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thank you. Council. Do you have any questions?

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do we have any public comment? No, mayor. All right. I'm closing the public hearing.

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and I will entertain a motion.

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mayor. I move that we forward the application to the state with a recommendation for
Approval.

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thank you. Is there a second? I'll second any discussion.

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all those in favor? Aye aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you very much.

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all right. We're moving down to the consent agenda. All matters under consent agenda are considered to be routine.

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unless a member of the city council expresses a desire at this meeting to remove an item
From the consent agenda for discussion, it will be enacted by one

363
00:49:56,670 --> 00:50:00,330
motion approving the recommendations listed on the agenda. Unless otherwise indicated.

364
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:02,040
expenditures approved by council are budgeted items council.

365
00:50:06,750 --> 00:50:06,750
are there any items that you would like to pull from the consent agenda?

366
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:15,960
all right. Do you have. Okay. I will entertain a motion to adopt.

367
00:50:22,940 --> 00:50:22,940
mayor, I move that we approve the consent agenda, which is items eight a through h.

368
00:50:30,650 --> 00:50:34,510
thank you. Is there a second? I'll second. Any discussion.

369
00:50:37,890 --> 00:50:41,010
all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye aye. Any opposed?

370
00:50:43,150 --> 00:50:43,150
all right, moving down to item number nine, routine items, a consideration and adoption
Of resolution number 202422.

371
00:50:52,990 --> 00:50:52,990
and ordinance number 2024-16.

372
00:51:04,350 --> 00:51:04,350
all right. We've do we have an additional.

373
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,310
we have nothing additional on this, right? Correct. Mayor. Okay, so we are looking to read the ordinance for the final time.

374
00:51:18,790 --> 00:51:20,290
council mayor. Oh, looks like you're going to adopt the resolution first.

375
00:51:23,890 --> 00:51:25,840
yes we are. Does anyone have any questions before I entertain a motion?

376
00:51:33,130 --> 00:51:36,760
did you want to motion? Make a motion? Yes, please.

377
00:51:39,130 --> 00:51:42,370
please go ahead. I move, we adopt resolution number 202422.

378
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:51,420
second. Any discussion? All those in favor?

379
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,140
aye, aye. All right. How about a motion to read ordinance number 2024-16 by title only for the
Final time.

380
00:52:03,590 --> 00:52:07,110
so moved. Second. Any discussion?

381
00:52:08,610 --> 00:52:12,570
all those in favor? Aye aye aye aye. Any opposed? City clerk.

382
00:52:14,250 --> 00:52:14,250
an ordinance of the city council of the city of flagstaff amending the flagstaff city
Code title two.

383
00:52:19,290 --> 00:52:21,750
boards and commissions. Chapter 2-03. Parks and recreation commission two.

384
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:23,880
dash 13. Tourism commission two dash 14 beautification and public art commission and two
Dash 20 open spaces commission and title three business regulations.

385
00:52:32,940 --> 00:52:32,940
chapter 3-06 hospitality industry tax revenues by adopting by reference that certain
Document entitled 2024 amendments to chapters

386
00:52:42,780 --> 00:52:42,780
two, dash 032, dash 13 two dash 14, two dash 20 and 3-06 of the city code related to the
Parks and recreation commission, tourism

387
00:52:52,590 --> 00:52:52,590
commission, beautification and public art commission, open spaces commission and
Hospitality industry tax revenues providing for repeal of conflicting ordinances.

388
00:53:00,810 --> 00:53:00,810
severability, clerical corrections and establishing an effective date.

389
00:53:06,380 --> 00:53:08,480
sure. Thank you. All right. How about a motion to adopt?

390
00:53:11,690 --> 00:53:11,690
I move, we adopt ordinance number 2024-16.

391
00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:20,340
I second. Any discussion? All those in favor?

392
00:53:21,810 --> 00:53:25,680
aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right.

393
00:53:28,820 --> 00:53:28,820
moving down to be consideration and approval of ratification of contract.

394
00:53:33,950 --> 00:53:33,950
this is a cooperative purchase contract with motorola solutions.

395
00:54:08,020 --> 00:54:11,770
good evening, mayor, vice mayor and council. My name is kristen decker. I'm a special services supervisor for the flagstaff police department.

396
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,790
I'm representing the department here today. And our request for the purchase of these motorola portable radios.

397
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:28,920
yes. Okay. Thank you.

398
00:54:37,410 --> 00:54:41,020
there you go. Thank you. So a little bit about the history of our portable radios.

399
00:54:44,590 --> 00:54:44,590
in 2010, we had a $4.7 million bond that was approved for public safety communication
Radio system.

400
00:54:53,770 --> 00:54:53,770
in that bond, motorola was awarded that contract, and our city first partnered with any
You as a part of that purchase in

401
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:03,280
2020. Asu joined when we did an upgrade to that particular system.

402
00:55:11,250 --> 00:55:11,250
last year, the flagstaff police department worked to replace all our mobile radios.

403
00:55:18,420 --> 00:55:18,420
so those are the radios that go in our police vehicles.

404
00:55:22,890 --> 00:55:22,890
at the same time, we also replaced 20 of our handheld radios.

405
00:55:29,240 --> 00:55:29,240
over time. These radios are the particular radios we are proposing to replace.

406
00:55:36,590 --> 00:55:40,100
our were last purchased in 2012. And so they are aging, and we are seeing an increase in the failure of these radios,
Which is one of the reasons that we're

407
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:49,400
requesting to begin the process of replacing them bits at a time.

408
00:55:57,010 --> 00:55:57,010
so one of the reasons that we are interested in motorola in particular is because of our
History with them.

409
00:56:06,430 --> 00:56:06,430
one of the benefits of using motorola radios is we already have in place the battery
Chargers, the

410
00:56:16,210 --> 00:56:16,210
microphones the batteries themselves, and they're interchangeable with the different
Models of the motorola radios.

411
00:56:26,780 --> 00:56:26,780
we have a 20 year history with that particular brand.

412
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:31,760
and plus to the motorola radios that we are currently using and that we are proposing to
Purchase is that they have encryption,

413
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:41,480
which keeps I'm trying to think of the right word.

414
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:50,400
information that should not be made public and secure and safe.

415
00:56:59,310 --> 00:57:03,120
we do have good longevity with the motorola radios. And let's see.

416
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:07,360
as I mentioned before, we are planning for the future and eventual replacement of all
These radios.

417
00:57:12,970 --> 00:57:12,970
but at this particular point in time, we are just requesting for the purchase of 20.

418
00:57:20,100 --> 00:57:22,020
the contract specifications are. We are requesting $183,072.68 for this purchase.

419
00:57:27,540 --> 00:57:31,230
it will get us 20 portable radios. They're motorola apex 8000.

420
00:57:35,580 --> 00:57:35,580
18 of these will go directly to our regular patrol officers, and two will go to our bomb
Team.

421
00:57:43,140 --> 00:57:43,140
they are special radios that are considered intrinsically safe.

422
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:52,160
we went to procurement for this particular request.

423
00:57:56,180 --> 00:57:56,180
they found a state contract already in place and requested.

424
00:58:00,350 --> 00:58:00,350
we requested a ratification of that particular contract.

425
00:58:06,490 --> 00:58:06,490
we are we learned of the availability of arpa funding which is dedicated for
Communication equipment.

426
00:58:15,340 --> 00:58:15,340
we learned that this funds needed to be utilized by the end of this current fiscal year,
Which is the reason that we are here and asking for this ratification.

427
00:58:25,990 --> 00:58:25,990
the soonest time that we could get on the agenda for this request was this evening.

428
00:58:33,570 --> 00:58:36,970
do you all have any questions? Council questions.

429
00:58:42,420 --> 00:58:45,030
thank you. We do have public comment. I don't see any online comment, but we do have a comment card.

430
00:58:48,990 --> 00:58:48,990
kelly cullen.

431
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:06,480
hi, I'm kelly cullen, 1602 northeast street, flagstaff, arizona.

432
00:59:11,830 --> 00:59:11,830
I'm here to express my concern over the city of flagstaff's ongoing anti local business
Practices in regards to this purchase.

433
00:59:21,060 --> 00:59:21,060
anti local business because this is a sole source purchase and does not allow any local
Bids.

434
00:59:29,460 --> 00:59:29,460
it's a straightforward issue that needs to be resolved.

435
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:33,960
over the last two years, this council has approved nearly $5 million in related purchases
Without going through a competitive

436
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:43,920
bid. Now.

437
00:59:48,830 --> 00:59:48,830
the justification that the city is using for this purchase is that.

438
00:59:53,950 --> 00:59:55,690
you need specific. You need this specific brand radio.

439
00:59:58,240 --> 00:59:58,240
they want because they want to use old existing batteries with these brand new $9,000
Radios.

440
01:00:06,010 --> 01:00:06,010
now just keep in mind that motorola provides a five year lifespan with these radios, and
They consider them outdated.

441
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:19,160
the additional justification that they have. The additional justification is that they have encryption, which is not which.

442
01:00:24,350 --> 01:00:24,350
I want to point out that all major manufacturers provide the identical p25 encryption.

443
01:00:32,930 --> 01:00:32,930
the reasoning also mentions some unknown survey that's not attached to the package for
Review.

444
01:00:40,330 --> 01:00:40,330
now the city purchasing justification is that the items are on the arizona state
Contract.

445
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:48,320
please be aware that all major radio brands are also listed on the arizona state
Contract.

446
01:00:54,650 --> 01:00:57,210
there's nothing special. In my opinion, this is not this is insufficient reasoning to bypass local vendors from
This opportunity.

447
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:06,960
one comparison that I want to point out is that the surrounding county.

448
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:12,960
the surrounding tribal lands to surrounding cities page, camp verde, winslow, williams.

449
01:01:20,310 --> 01:01:20,310
they all use a legitimate competitive bid process when purchasing their communication
Equipment, and they use other manufacturers.

450
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:30,800
and generally at a substantial savings.

451
01:01:35,010 --> 01:01:35,010
this purchase needs to be tabled until it is processed through an acceptable bidding
Method.

452
01:01:44,340 --> 01:01:44,340
win or lose, I'm only looking for the opportunity to bid.

453
01:01:48,690 --> 01:01:52,590
that's the only reason I'm here. Give me a chance to bid. Now, if there's some kind of good guy deal that for some reason gets to reason, gets to
Sidestep, sidestep the process,

454
01:02:02,610 --> 01:02:04,970
then please just state. This as your stated as such for your justification.

455
01:02:09,590 --> 01:02:11,270
thank you. Thank you, mr. Cullen.

456
01:02:14,810 --> 01:02:18,710
could staff come back up here? So that we could ask a couple of questions.

457
01:02:27,580 --> 01:02:27,580
would you mind going back to the slide where you talked about?

458
01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:33,240
y you went through the state procurement.

459
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:37,800
process versus doing our own.

460
01:02:44,230 --> 01:02:47,470
partially because it was already in place. Partially because of the immediacy of the need to make this purchase before the end of
The fiscal year.

461
01:02:54,570 --> 01:02:54,570
and the need to do the end of the fiscal year is because of the arpa funds.

462
01:02:59,340 --> 01:02:59,340
do the arpa funds pay the entire cost of the radios?

463
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:05,860
I believe so, yes. Okay. Do we have plans to purchase additional radios?

464
01:03:15,500 --> 01:03:15,500
not in the immediate future, but yes, within the next few years.

465
01:03:20,150 --> 01:03:20,150
and what type of procurement process do we expect to use for that?

466
01:03:28,660 --> 01:03:28,660
mayor council emily markle, purchasing manager.

467
01:03:33,170 --> 01:03:33,170
with given amount of time of about three years, we can actually do a formal solicitation
To ensure that we can.

468
01:03:40,370 --> 01:03:40,370
get any unit that we need that my department is utilizing.

469
01:03:46,100 --> 01:03:46,100
so if we will go out for a formal solicitation that will offer everyone the ability to
Bid and or propose, what we were doing right now

470
01:03:55,850 --> 01:03:55,850
was handling the standardization of our equipment, of equipment that our staff required
For safety.

471
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:09,400
okay. Thank you. Council member matthews. Then council member. Harris.

472
01:04:10,750 --> 01:04:10,750
thank you. Mayor. When did we become aware that we needed to use this arpa funds?

473
01:04:18,290 --> 01:04:18,290
before the end of our fiscal year, which is the end of this month or july, right?

474
01:04:22,790 --> 01:04:24,710
end of june? Yes. I believe it was about a month ago.

475
01:04:29,910 --> 01:04:29,910
our chief at that moment decided that he needed to put the request in immediately to
Utilize the funds, and the other reason we did it so quickly was.

476
01:04:38,820 --> 01:04:38,820
like all technology, the price increased monthly, and so rather than paying a larger sum,
We wanted to get down right away and

477
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:50,220
then also take care of it in the fiscal year. And I have rick tadder.

478
01:04:52,980 --> 01:04:54,240
well, I have one more question. So don't go away because you might be able to answer it.

479
01:04:57,660 --> 01:04:57,660
how long does it. Can I clarify a statement that's being made, please?

480
01:05:02,100 --> 01:05:04,170
rick tadder. Management service director. Hello, mayor, vice mayor and city council.

481
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,090
it's been referred that this is arpa funds. Related. It is not.

482
01:05:10,890 --> 01:05:10,890
just as clarity is really a budget expiration decision we're talking about, we did not
Carry over to funds.

483
01:05:18,210 --> 01:05:18,210
the budget is in the current year, and we're trying to spend that within the budget year
That they had the funds available.

484
01:05:24,450 --> 01:05:27,150
if we don't do it now, we will have to carry it over. We have to rebudget it in 2025, perhaps 2026 fiscal year.

485
01:05:32,370 --> 01:05:36,240
so it was a timing to get it spent with the budget like we do for council initiatives. We want to get it done and spent by june 30th.

486
01:05:39,030 --> 01:05:39,030
that was the reason we wanted to get this completed.

487
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:43,320
so just declaring. So in pure procurement.

488
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:47,880
what's the current time frame to put something out for bid and get it back?

489
01:05:59,250 --> 01:05:59,250
let's do this. The timeline of a formal solicitation usually takes about three weeks
In-house to develop, and then we have to do the legal amount of time of

490
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:09,240
open to close on a platform of about a month.

491
01:06:14,070 --> 01:06:14,070
usually it takes a little bit longer, especially with something as complicated as radios.

492
01:06:20,010 --> 01:06:20,010
so that's why we will often utilize an already set up agency contract, and we call it a
Cooperative I piggyback.

493
01:06:28,260 --> 01:06:28,260
there. He did the hard work and the footwork to set this up for us to go through the
Formal solicitation process.

494
01:06:34,560 --> 01:06:34,560
so what you're looking at is anywhere from.

495
01:06:39,030 --> 01:06:42,990
a month and a half to about three months. And then there's the process of two weeks till we get to council to get approval.

496
01:06:49,610 --> 01:06:49,610
thank you. I just I'm disappointed that our timing and decision making, because our local
Businesses

497
01:06:59,840 --> 01:06:59,840
do struggle a lot with all the stuff that we put in front of them, from rate increases to
Minimum wage to other taxes,

498
01:07:09,740 --> 01:07:09,740
and then to miss out because of our timing process are whatever is impacting that is just
Disappointing.

499
01:07:18,380 --> 01:07:18,380
I understand that this is something that now all of a sudden we've got to spend in three
Weeks, two weeks it just doesn't feel like a really great way to do

500
01:07:27,920 --> 01:07:27,920
business. I just wanted to say that out loud.

501
01:07:32,430 --> 01:07:32,430
council member harris, then council member mccarthy.

502
01:07:37,110 --> 01:07:37,110
okay, so I'm not sure who gets to answer this question, but whoever just jumped right in
There.

503
01:07:42,900 --> 01:07:42,900
so let me see if I understand this correctly.

504
01:07:47,220 --> 01:07:49,920
so the state. Did a procurement process, is that correct?

505
01:07:52,830 --> 01:07:53,970
you are correct. Okay. In that procurement process, is it open to any and every business in the state?

506
01:08:02,250 --> 01:08:04,710
everybody okay. All right. So I'm just trying to think this through.

507
01:08:12,300 --> 01:08:12,300
so if every business in the state can go through this process.

508
01:08:20,060 --> 01:08:20,060
then they could if they won the bid.

509
01:08:24,860 --> 01:08:24,860
I guess that's where if they get the bid, then they could they could purchase.

510
01:08:33,780 --> 01:08:33,780
I mean, they could go, they could come back to the city and say, we got the bid, and if
You need anything, you come to us.

511
01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:41,280
is that correct? Yeah. Okay. Do they have to do that for every state agency that has a need?

512
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:48,720
no. Okay.

513
01:08:53,020 --> 01:08:53,020
so I am going to make a suggestion and I'm just throwing it out there.

514
01:08:58,750 --> 01:09:02,170
we have a business organization. Heidi hansen.

515
01:09:03,460 --> 01:09:05,710
are you in here somewhere? Do we offer assistance or any support to our businesses to help them be more competitive
Around the state?

516
01:09:15,650 --> 01:09:19,370
I don't know if that's an appropriate question or not. City attorney, you can tell me if I'm asking.

517
01:09:22,790 --> 01:09:24,080
I'm fine with that question. I personally reach out to businesses and recommend them when there are open solicitations
That I think that they would be great at proposing

518
01:09:33,710 --> 01:09:33,710
at, or if I'm able to do it where I can just ask for quotes because it's under 100,000,
Because that's our cap.

519
01:09:40,310 --> 01:09:43,850
then I go out and I go to personal businesses. When I am asked for something, I'm not to ask them exactly why or that my my question is
To how.

520
01:09:52,520 --> 01:09:52,520
how do I legally and fair procure equipment and or services for departments?

521
01:10:00,140 --> 01:10:00,140
okay. And so what I did was a legal fair procurement of going through a cooperative to
Get them exactly what I was being asked of.

522
01:10:07,430 --> 01:10:08,510
I do agree with you. I would like to go out and do a formal solicitation, because that is one thing I've been
Working on with every department is a formal solicitation to allow us to work with all

523
01:10:17,660 --> 01:10:20,600
vendors around us and give them the opportunity. Okay, so it kind of makes sense to me.

524
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:23,120
it's that if the state is continuing to do this process, then it might be to our
Advantage to encourage our businesses, if possible, to reach out

525
01:10:33,110 --> 01:10:33,110
to, to reach out so that they can be more competitive and not just depend on us.

526
01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:41,000
but they could they could maybe get business from around the state. Correct? Okay.

527
01:10:42,110 --> 01:10:42,110
all right. I just wanted I just I'm just curious as to how that kind of works, being
Transparent and open with businesses.

528
01:10:48,050 --> 01:10:51,500
that's what I do. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Council member mccarthy.

529
01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:54,120
it seems like we had the same discussion maybe two years ago.

530
01:10:58,980 --> 01:11:00,540
one year ago. Okay. So do you have any reflections on that conversation a year ago and how that interplays
With what's happening tonight and

531
01:11:10,230 --> 01:11:10,230
procurement 101.

532
01:11:17,970 --> 01:11:21,670
oh, I'm not afforded an opinion. My reflections is I'm just moving forward to make sure that my police department has the
Equipment they're requesting and what they need.

533
01:11:28,810 --> 01:11:30,550
I'm trying to do it in a fair process. And if would you like another reflection on maybe procurement?

534
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:34,360
it it probably makes sense to approve this tonight, but I guess I'm just thinking about
For next year.

535
01:11:42,190 --> 01:11:42,190
I guess one thing we do is encourage local businesses to apply on this state wide
Procurement.

536
01:11:50,020 --> 01:11:52,540
and, you know. I don't know if there's anything else.

537
01:11:54,190 --> 01:11:54,190
yeah, it looks like their procurement agency contract should be expiring soon, which
Means they'll be going out again for a formal solicitation.

538
01:12:02,740 --> 01:12:02,740
just like we will probably be going out for a formal solicitation to see about getting
Products through local and or.

539
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:12,850
how do I put this national? Purveyors. Thank you.

540
01:12:15,410 --> 01:12:15,410
mayor. Patrick has his hand up.

541
01:12:23,380 --> 01:12:27,340
thank you, mayor. I guess I'm used to teams meetings. Always put my hand up. I should have put a comment I see in the comment.

542
01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:31,690
my apologies. Honorable mayor, vice mayor and council patrick brown, your purchasing director, just to
Respond to what council member mccarthy was just

543
01:12:41,290 --> 01:12:41,290
asking about, there was reflection back at that time that we needed to develop some
Specifications of what

544
01:12:51,070 --> 01:12:53,380
radios and standardizations we needed. We didn't anticipate the need this soon in the process, and in order to accommodate the
Pd's needs for these radios

545
01:13:03,340 --> 01:13:03,340
and spending, the funds utilizing the cooperative contract was the most expedient way to
Do so.

546
01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:10,120
otherwise, they would not have been expended through a formal procurement process.

547
01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:15,160
but we always want to strive to do our own solicitation and have our own contracts in
Place, as they have our terms and conditions specific to the

548
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:28,090
city. I hope that helps. Thank you, city manager.

549
01:13:32,180 --> 01:13:35,090
thank you mayor. Thank you for the discussion. A little bit hazy on this, but I do recall one previous discussion at the dais on this
Topic.

550
01:13:40,940 --> 01:13:40,940
also involved services, repair services with certifications involved.

551
01:13:47,540 --> 01:13:50,330
and it wasn't an outright purchase of radios. That's about as much as I could remember on it, but I don't know that it all of the
Previous discussions have been directly on point with the purchase of radios as we have in

552
01:13:59,690 --> 01:14:02,040
front of us tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Council member matthews.

553
01:14:06,140 --> 01:14:08,780
I'm just curious and maybe rick can answer this. Or maybe you can answer this on the state procurement for a business to go through them.

554
01:14:14,830 --> 01:14:14,830
are businesses that go through the state and apply their.

555
01:14:19,090 --> 01:14:19,090
do they typically be a size that could handle a statewide ask?

556
01:14:24,850 --> 01:14:27,280
or is it just random? They can either apply through them or wait and see if a city just sends out an rfp
Individually.

557
01:14:35,290 --> 01:14:37,990
like, what does that mean? Am I bothering you? No, no, no, I'm okay.

558
01:14:39,370 --> 01:14:40,840
going through my words. So what it would go through is a request for statement of qualification.

559
01:14:45,930 --> 01:14:45,930
this is what allows us to determine what is a company and or vendor that has all the
Qualifications needed, including licensing and ability to sell

560
01:14:55,650 --> 01:14:57,120
within arizona. So this is a bit of a larger project process and a rfp, which is a request for proposals.

561
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:07,980
that's usually more for the idea of how to move a project forward. So what they would be doing was a request for statement of qualifications.

562
01:15:11,910 --> 01:15:11,910
and part of that, it has a area of what you will be graded upon and what the evaluators
Will be reviewing.

563
01:15:19,410 --> 01:15:19,410
and some of it is can you go to sell for a grand scale, or are you able to provide the
Exact product that we're asking for at a small

564
01:15:28,860 --> 01:15:28,860
scale? It all depends on the exact formal solicitation that's being done for us.

565
01:15:34,260 --> 01:15:34,260
we tend to do the are you able to provide to us in a legal, fair manner with licensing
That we're looking for in the product that we're what that we need and require?

566
01:15:44,220 --> 01:15:46,530
so I think you answered my question. So for a local company to be.

567
01:15:51,830 --> 01:15:53,870
in the states bucket. They really have to be able to service on a statewide level.

568
01:15:56,960 --> 01:16:00,680
so that's not always the case. I knew I'd get rick up there.

569
01:16:02,390 --> 01:16:02,390
I know, right, that was good game.

570
01:16:07,010 --> 01:16:07,010
thank you. No, I don't think it's always a case that they have to surface everybody and
Everything.

571
01:16:11,810 --> 01:16:11,810
they just have to respond to what the state is requesting for the services or goods.

572
01:16:17,420 --> 01:16:17,420
and then, you know, they have a decision whether somebody from lake havasu calls and
Says, I want these products.

573
01:16:24,620 --> 01:16:27,650
they say, well, I can't do that right now. I don't have the capacity. They can say no to others.

574
01:16:29,690 --> 01:16:29,690
but there's language in the state, as we do for our contracts, that says you will allow
Other municipalities, counties and so forth to utilize the

575
01:16:39,410 --> 01:16:42,830
same bid and response as you provided us. And that just allows people to directly go to those cooperative type agreements.

576
01:16:47,570 --> 01:16:50,430
they don't have to. Agree to them all and do everything, but they have the option and they don't have to
Accept the bid when it's reached out to them.

577
01:16:58,230 --> 01:17:00,570
thank you. Yes. And hopefully we won't have this discussion again.

578
01:17:05,130 --> 01:17:05,130
right. Vice mayor.

579
01:17:10,450 --> 01:17:13,840
thank you. I'm not sure I have a question here or not. I did want to make a comment. I share the public comment.

580
01:17:15,340 --> 01:17:16,390
there's frustration. Mr. Cullen. I do remember you being a part of this conversation last time we had it, and
I'm very disappointed that you're feeling the same frustrations and coming to us

581
01:17:26,230 --> 01:17:28,810
with the same concerns. I find myself weighing the.

582
01:17:32,040 --> 01:17:32,040
perhaps conflicting values of helping a local business.

583
01:17:39,950 --> 01:17:39,950
is buying local versus the expediency and the safety need of our police department.

584
01:17:47,180 --> 01:17:47,180
immediately, I would like a little bit more clarity on how urgent, on a scale of 1 to 10,
It is that we get these radios now.

585
01:17:57,230 --> 01:17:57,230
because I would like to weigh getting them, getting our local businesses into a
Competitive process over getting these

586
01:18:07,130 --> 01:18:08,930
radios now. If we can afford to do that from a public safety perspective, maybe we can't.

587
01:18:14,930 --> 01:18:14,930
the other thing I just wanted to say real quickly is I'm not sure what we can do about
This.

588
01:18:20,390 --> 01:18:20,390
I'm not questioning the numbers, but there's a little bit of sticker shock to buying 20
Radios for $183,000.

589
01:18:28,250 --> 01:18:29,780
I just want to throw that out there. No one said that. But that's that's incredible to me.

590
01:18:35,180 --> 01:18:35,180
good evening. I'm allison hughes, support services manager for the flagstaff police
Department.

591
01:18:39,470 --> 01:18:39,470
so the urgency specifically is because we do have funding now to support this purchase
That will expire at the end of this

592
01:18:48,950 --> 01:18:51,770
month. That is the highest level. So it's not a public safety issue.

593
01:18:53,300 --> 01:18:55,940
it's a financial expediency. It's both it's hand in hand.

594
01:18:58,040 --> 01:18:58,040
we do have several radios that are like we've mentioned that are failing.

595
01:19:04,850 --> 01:19:08,690
they're old. We purchased them in 2012 or later. We're making due we're doing a really good job of getting our our patrol staff up and
Fully staffed.

596
01:19:16,580 --> 01:19:16,580
and part of that includes having radios at our academy and everybody having one in hand.

597
01:19:21,860 --> 01:19:21,860
and so that they are familiar with the tools that they are going to use for the job.

598
01:19:27,380 --> 01:19:30,980
and so it's it's twofold. We do have radios that are failing. We do have radios that are older, where parts are hard to come by and hard to replace.

599
01:19:36,950 --> 01:19:36,950
and we do not have a large supply of these radios on hand in case one does fail.

600
01:19:44,900 --> 01:19:44,900
it may not be an emergency today, but tomorrow we could have three radios go down, and I
Not have a single one to give to officers on the road.

601
01:19:53,900 --> 01:19:56,840
so that, to me is an emergency. So having these in hand immediately is a big deal for us and making sure we have enough
On hand in case something does happen.

602
01:20:05,330 --> 01:20:05,330
and part of the reason we went with motorola specifically is because that is what our
Officers have.

603
01:20:10,250 --> 01:20:13,010
it's what they've been using. It's what they're trained on. And not even our officers only also our fire and public works.

604
01:20:18,830 --> 01:20:21,140
other city entities also use these radios. So if there were emergency to happen and something a radio needs to be picked up and be
Utilized everybody is trained and knows how to use these motorola

605
01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:32,840
specific radios the same. And they have the encryption and the security that is required for for our needs.

606
01:20:38,450 --> 01:20:40,730
thank you so much for your response. I'm not frustrated with any of you.

607
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:47,510
specifically I think I know where you're coming from. I still find myself frustrated with the position that we're in.

608
01:20:57,390 --> 01:20:58,920
I think. I think I might echo and share council member mccarthy's perspective, that it may make
Sense for us to move forward with this tonight, but I really don't want to see mr..

609
01:21:10,980 --> 01:21:10,980
colin come up here again with these same frustrations.

610
01:21:19,010 --> 01:21:22,610
I. What's going to make a comment? I'm forgetting what it was, so I'll leave it there for now.

611
01:21:26,090 --> 01:21:26,090
maybe it'll come back to me.

612
01:21:30,110 --> 01:21:32,900
city manager and then council. Vice mayor. City manager.

613
01:21:35,420 --> 01:21:37,040
council member mccarthy. I just wanted to add that I do understand and recognize that even if we did a competitive
Bid locally, the the local bidder might not win the the

614
01:21:46,550 --> 01:21:50,390
bid. And I think kelly recognizes that, too. He just wants the opportunity to participate in the bid.

615
01:21:54,710 --> 01:21:58,410
I just wanted to clarify that. City manager.

616
01:21:59,760 --> 01:21:59,760
thank you mayor. Thank you council for the discussion.

617
01:22:03,930 --> 01:22:05,760
vice mayor, for your comments just now. I thought that was a nice summary of of things.

618
01:22:10,890 --> 01:22:10,890
you know we have had this discussion and I think almost always when we're in the realm of
Fire or police, there's an

619
01:22:20,670 --> 01:22:23,280
element of urgency attributed to it. And there's also an element of the inequity of the product that's being sought.

620
01:22:28,830 --> 01:22:28,830
we have. Not real similar discussions, but somewhat parallel discussions when we're
Talking about acquisition of vehicles.

621
01:22:37,690 --> 01:22:40,720
and that's been in front of the dais recently as well. Specific to radios, we have heard the comments.

622
01:22:44,410 --> 01:22:44,410
I will take accountability here and assure council that in the future, we will do
Everything possible to make sure that

623
01:22:53,920 --> 01:22:53,920
acquisition of radios like this will be brought through a competitive process initiated
By the city and not not at the benefit of tapping onto a statewide

624
01:23:03,760 --> 01:23:03,760
contract just so that we can allow local businesses to bid.

625
01:23:08,740 --> 01:23:11,980
and again, as the vice mayor just noted, there are no guarantees. We do not have a local preference criteria, but we want our local businesses to have an
Opportunity.

626
01:23:20,410 --> 01:23:22,060
and I think that's what's been requested. And that's what we will certainly adhere to.

627
01:23:25,270 --> 01:23:25,270
we apologize to you that it's coming to you in this late fashion.

628
01:23:30,100 --> 01:23:32,650
I don't know what else I can add, but that assurance. Thank you. Thank you.

629
01:23:34,570 --> 01:23:34,570
and to clarify something that you just said not only do we not have a local preference,
But it is not allowed under arizona law.

630
01:23:44,440 --> 01:23:48,370
okay. Council member mccarthy and then council member harris. Thank you. Mayor. So it sounds like there's two basic issues tonight.

631
01:23:52,330 --> 01:23:55,270
one is when do we need these radios? And the other is, well, this money, we only have it right now.

632
01:23:59,470 --> 01:23:59,470
so my question is, if this isn't hooked to a grant or something, can't we just roll this
Money over into the next year?

633
01:24:09,790 --> 01:24:10,990
I see mr. Tatter is getting up.

634
01:24:15,540 --> 01:24:15,540
in a short while. You'll be approving the budget for next fiscal year, so we don't have
Time to adjust next year's budget.

635
01:24:21,390 --> 01:24:25,140
so we'd have to roll it over to fiscal year 26. So it would be the next budget process where we take it from fund balance and make it
Available for other needs in the following year.

636
01:24:31,980 --> 01:24:31,980
it's a timing issue, or we've got to find what we're going to cut out of the budget and
Delay, possibly from other things that have been requested through the long process

637
01:24:41,850 --> 01:24:43,980
we went through in providing a balanced budget for you. So that's how it works.

638
01:24:47,050 --> 01:24:47,050
so the money that's in this year, it just disappears if we don't spend it right?

639
01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:52,360
it doesn't disappear. It rolls into your fund balance and becomes available for for
Expenditures in next year's budget.

640
01:24:57,880 --> 01:25:00,220
and we talk about those every february. Well, right.

641
01:25:03,340 --> 01:25:06,370
it's just not a manager. You have any comments on this? It would seem if the money's there and it's not going to evaporate, that we could move it
Three weeks so we don't have time to make an amendment.

642
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:14,320
it's a matter of authorization to spend budget expenditures.

643
01:25:18,880 --> 01:25:21,700
we don't have that line item in our budget next fiscal year. It wasn't rolled over, carried over like the council initiative funds we spend in the
Current year.

644
01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:27,640
if it's not spent, it rolls into the fund balance and is available for next fiscal year.

645
01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:36,250
I'm kind of new on council, so I don't know all this stuff. That's all right. There's just timing issues.

646
01:25:39,930 --> 01:25:43,590
council member harris. I was going to say that the cities are.

647
01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:49,400
checkbook doesn't work the same way. My checkbook works. So. So I get it.

648
01:25:53,030 --> 01:25:53,030
the other thing that I was going to say specifically to city manager is that I don't
Think any of us up here are blaming you, so we don't want you taking responsibility.

649
01:26:02,270 --> 01:26:04,280
wait, let me finish. We don't want you, you know, sitting there, taking responsibility for for this stuff
Happens all the time.

650
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:11,000
and we are not purposely we're not purposely trying to cut our local businesses out of
Anything.

651
01:26:18,950 --> 01:26:18,950
you know, we all know how difficult it is for them in this time.

652
01:26:23,210 --> 01:26:24,950
and so we understand that. So we're going to do our best to make sure that we give them as much opportunity as
Possible to compete.

653
01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:35,780
and then it's going to be up to them. I would encourage them encourage them to compete everywhere, not just in flagstaff,
Because there's no way that we can

654
01:26:45,170 --> 01:26:45,170
support every business in flagstaff to make sure that they don't lose any, any revenue.

655
01:26:52,730 --> 01:26:54,230
and so I'm just. So anyway, but thank you very much anyway.

656
01:27:01,080 --> 01:27:01,080
okay. So I will entertain a motion to

657
01:27:10,510 --> 01:27:10,510
ratify the cooperative purchase contract.

658
01:27:14,830 --> 01:27:14,830
and authorize the city manager to execute all necessary documents.

659
01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:22,130
who would like to make that motion? So moved.

660
01:27:24,710 --> 01:27:26,570
and a second. I'll second. Any discussion?

661
01:27:29,810 --> 01:27:31,400
all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye.

662
01:27:34,320 --> 01:27:35,580
any opposed? No. All right.

663
01:27:38,780 --> 01:27:42,170
moving down to item number c. Consideration and approval of preliminary plat.

664
01:27:46,430 --> 01:27:48,920
mayor, I'm sorry to interrupt. Could I just get a clarification on that last vote?

665
01:27:52,220 --> 01:27:53,840
did I have an a in there? Yes. Thank you.

666
01:28:06,730 --> 01:28:10,210
oh. Was there anything more you were saying? Okay, cool. Hello.

667
01:28:11,500 --> 01:28:11,500
thank you. Council. My name is wesley with city flagstaff planning department.

668
01:28:15,550 --> 01:28:15,550
I'm here to present the preliminary plat for ghost tree two down in pine canyon.

669
01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:21,580
so just a little overview. It's from tlc, pc land investors, llc for a preliminary plat approval for ghost tree two.

670
01:28:27,310 --> 01:28:27,310
it's 3201 south clubhouse, circle b, a single family subdivision with 12 single family
Home lots on 7.87 acres in the r1 zone.

671
01:28:36,490 --> 01:28:36,490
staff approved the plat on april 8th, 2024, and the planning and zoning commission
Recommended approval on may 8th.

672
01:28:43,750 --> 01:28:47,530
here's a little vicinity map for you. So it's right towards the entrance in the clubhouse area. This has been an area that was reserved on the initial pine canyon plat for future
Development.

673
01:28:53,200 --> 01:28:54,340
a little bit of a background. The final plat for ghost tree two, if anyone was here a few years ago, was originally
Approved january 3rd, 2023.

674
01:29:01,480 --> 01:29:03,670
was unable to be properly recorded. There was a lot of scrivener's errors, so this plat is to clean up some minor errors.

675
01:29:08,170 --> 01:29:08,170
so it's 7.87 acres r1 zone 12 single family lots resource protection.

676
01:29:13,810 --> 01:29:15,430
so here's a little overview of the plat. This should be attached to the staff agenda.

677
01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:19,720
I'll leave it here for a second to look at it. I can come back if you have any questions.

678
01:29:22,600 --> 01:29:25,210
so there's three findings that has to meet in order to be approved. So the one is that it meets all of our zoning code regulations.

679
01:29:27,790 --> 01:29:29,890
it does meet the r1 zone standards. Minimum density in the r1 zone is two units an acre lot design.

680
01:29:33,850 --> 01:29:36,790
it meets the minimum lot size, width and depth requirements. And then due to the unique topography of the site, individual building envelopes are on
Each site as opposed to the classic setbacks in the zone.

681
01:29:44,740 --> 01:29:48,670
so here's just a little overview of the resource protection standards. You can see for trees. They're required to save 50%.

682
01:29:50,410 --> 01:29:54,400
they've saved 50.47. So they hit that steep slopes. There is a little bit of a deficiency, I believe, in the 17% to 24.99%.

683
01:29:59,980 --> 01:30:03,100
so that's going to be a 1.5% deficiency. Our zoning code allows the director to approve up to a 5% reduction of the 70%, and the
Commission to approve up to 10%.

684
01:30:11,020 --> 01:30:14,510
we let the commission make that decision for this one. So the applicants are requesting a reduction of the required slope.

685
01:30:17,240 --> 01:30:17,240
so 70 and 85, as I just said, reductions up to 5% may be approved by the planning
Director.

686
01:30:22,250 --> 01:30:22,250
10% planning and zoning commission was approved by them with the recommendation on may
8th.

687
01:30:28,400 --> 01:30:31,550
so also the item for resource protection. It identifies four items that need to be addressed for the commission to grant the
Reduction.

688
01:30:36,110 --> 01:30:38,630
the why they're described cannot be retained. There are no reasonable methods to implement the resource protection proposal for
Mitigation, and that mitigation proposals should not create future fire problems and have

689
01:30:47,000 --> 01:30:48,980
approved by the pfd. So here's a little overview of the resource protection plan.

690
01:30:51,590 --> 01:30:53,630
it's got the building envelopes on there. And then kind of shows the different slopes and the trees to be removed.

691
01:30:57,530 --> 01:31:00,080
as you can see, there's just right here. And I can come back to this if you need me to.

692
01:31:02,240 --> 01:31:04,250
here's a little zoom in a little closer. This is an overlay of the originally approved building envelopes and then the new
Building envelopes in the green.

693
01:31:10,760 --> 01:31:10,760
so there was some topography sites once they started kind of getting on the site and
Developing it, instead of doing side loaded garages, they wanted to do front loaded

694
01:31:18,230 --> 01:31:18,230
garages. So that changed some of the some of the driveway envelopes.

695
01:31:23,620 --> 01:31:27,400
so the other relevant standards of the code is that the historic and cultural resources. This was approved by our historic preservation officer.

696
01:31:30,400 --> 01:31:33,400
parks. Open space. Pedestrian and bicycle facilities. Pine canyon development contains ten foot wide paved foots through foot trail throughout
The development.

697
01:31:38,740 --> 01:31:41,230
finding number two is that it meets the engineering standards. Public systems analysis was conducted.

698
01:31:43,450 --> 01:31:47,260
compliance was confirmed with the civil engineering plans after the preliminary plat. Approval, access and traffic.

699
01:31:49,360 --> 01:31:49,360
traffic impact analysis is prepared and approved for the entire pine canyon community, it
Says.

700
01:31:54,640 --> 01:31:54,640
a private street with a cul de sac track day, which provides direct access to the rest of
The lots.

701
01:32:00,220 --> 01:32:01,300
water and wastewater. There will be a new water line for the subdivision as well as a sewer line.

702
01:32:04,300 --> 01:32:07,480
storm water analysis has been completed for pine canyon. Applicant proposes to add several basins within the subdivision and just outside of the
Subdivision on the golf course.

703
01:32:14,380 --> 01:32:16,930
finding three is that it meets the subdivision standards. Title 11. So the preliminary plat procedures and application requirements, minimum
Required subdivision improvements just identified on the previous slides and the

704
01:32:25,150 --> 01:32:25,150
subdivision standards and regulations, lot design, street design, easement and block.

705
01:32:30,130 --> 01:32:31,150
so it meets these. So here I am telling you the planning and zoning commission recommendation that city
Council, based on the findings of the recommendation and the planning zoning commission

706
01:32:38,470 --> 01:32:38,470
seven zero, approves the preliminary plat with the following conditions and that is
Granted the 1.5% reduction from the preservation requirement of 70%.

707
01:32:47,260 --> 01:32:48,640
I'm here if you have any questions. The applicant is also here virtually if you'd like to ask them some questions.

708
01:32:51,820 --> 01:32:53,980
thank you, vice mayor. Yeah. Wesley, can you reassure me real quickly where the arizona trail is in relation to
This development?

709
01:32:59,890 --> 01:32:59,890
and if it's if it kind of gets close to here, if there's any consideration for that.

710
01:33:06,990 --> 01:33:09,030
so I believe it's just the foot trail. I don't know as much on the arizona trail for this.

711
01:33:11,490 --> 01:33:14,820
I can pull it up on our gis if you want me to, just to make sure. Yeah, I'd like to just be sure that.

712
01:33:22,690 --> 01:33:22,690
there are other questions while that is being looked up.

713
01:33:29,580 --> 01:33:31,890
we'll see if. We'll see if I can multitask. We'll try it out. Council member mccarthy.

714
01:33:35,110 --> 01:33:37,660
well, it's kind of a related question. This is a gated community, is that correct?

715
01:33:40,990 --> 01:33:43,840
yes. No. There is a gate. It's open during the day. Yes. So my question is, are the foot trails open or there's.

716
01:33:51,070 --> 01:33:51,070
are they closed off to the public or how do you.

717
01:33:55,470 --> 01:33:57,900
you see where I'm going? That's a great question. I believe the foot's trail will need to be open to the public at all times.

718
01:34:00,840 --> 01:34:02,820
I don't know that for a fact. I'm not sure if the applicants on here and they know more about the access in the
Community itself.

719
01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:13,120
I signed in once and got blocked. So she's going to grab her surface and we'll pull it up for you.

720
01:34:22,730 --> 01:34:22,730
and it looks like lindsay is on the.

721
01:34:27,800 --> 01:34:31,350
is in the meeting as well. Lindsay, do you want to speak to the access?

722
01:34:36,340 --> 01:34:36,340
is she trying? Oh.

723
01:34:41,610 --> 01:34:44,340
cool. Here we go. Mayor of council. Wesley, can you all hear me?

724
01:34:46,110 --> 01:34:48,870
yes. Yes. Perfect. Lynn.

725
01:34:52,420 --> 01:34:53,830
for your record. Lindsey chubby with law firm of gammage and burnham.

726
01:35:00,300 --> 01:35:03,990
all. Phoenix, arizona. So thank you so much, vice mayor. Great question. So first question.

727
01:35:05,460 --> 01:35:05,460
no, there is no negative impact to the arizona trail with this development.

728
01:35:10,440 --> 01:35:10,440
again, as wesley said, there was an approved final plat that was approved in january of
2023.

729
01:35:16,710 --> 01:35:16,710
it we had some some scrivener's errors as well as some, some lot modifications that we
Had to make.

730
01:35:24,210 --> 01:35:24,210
and therefore that is why we're going back through the plat process.

731
01:35:28,470 --> 01:35:30,720
so no negative impact the arizona trail. You'll be seeing that when we talk about the the gwp right of way and future development
In this corridor.

732
01:35:38,820 --> 01:35:41,610
as for the the development, it is open during the day. So it is a gated community, but it's open during the day.

733
01:35:44,190 --> 01:35:44,190
if anyone comes, they are welcome to come in and those foot trails are open to the
Public.

734
01:35:51,220 --> 01:35:51,220
so as a follow up, the foot's trails are open just at the same hours that the main gate
Is open to the public.

735
01:35:58,420 --> 01:36:02,380
in other words, they'd be closed at night. Mayor. Councilman mccarthy.

736
01:36:03,790 --> 01:36:06,670
correct. They are closed at night, but they are. Frankly, there are a lot of citizens of flagstaff and residents, part time residents, but
Some full time residents who do live in pine canyon and

737
01:36:16,570 --> 01:36:16,570
are taxpayers and voters, and they will have access to the to the foot trails 24 hours a
Day.

738
01:36:22,410 --> 01:36:22,410
and just to clarify, the foot trail that this is near is actually outside of the pine
Canyon development.

739
01:36:27,570 --> 01:36:27,570
there's only one portion of the foot trail that goes through, and it's up in this corner
Over here.

740
01:36:36,770 --> 01:36:38,360
thank you very much, wesley. Thank you lindsey. Thank you lindsey.

741
01:36:40,880 --> 01:36:42,320
additional questions. Comments. Vice mayor.

742
01:36:45,020 --> 01:36:45,020
thank you. Yeah. I suppose the important thing is that someone who's not a member of that
Community can get can navigate the foot system from one end to the

743
01:36:54,860 --> 01:36:54,860
other using public trails after hours.

744
01:36:58,970 --> 01:37:02,270
I think that would make a lot of sense to make that available. And also, just for context, I know the arizona trail in this region where john wesley
Powell development is happening, there's talk that it's going to

745
01:37:12,260 --> 01:37:13,490
be moved at some point. So my question is not necessarily is the arizona trail going through there now, but is it
A viable candidate for where the arizona trail might pass through once

746
01:37:23,270 --> 01:37:25,670
those changes are made? This is an important conversation.

747
01:37:27,710 --> 01:37:27,710
the arizona trail is 800 miles of connected right of way that the public can use any time
Of day.

748
01:37:35,990 --> 01:37:35,990
and it it comes through flagstaff and it needs to continue to come through flagstaff into
Perpetuity.

749
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:44,000
so just want to make sure maybe the developer can reassure me that whatever that
Conversation looks like as it develops, that you guys are open

750
01:37:53,870 --> 01:37:53,870
to responsible stewardship of the arizona trail resource if it happens to fall in your
Lap.

751
01:38:02,230 --> 01:38:06,220
yeah. Mayor. Vice mayor. First to address the foot's trail. As wesley said, the majority of the foot trail is outside of the gates.

752
01:38:10,180 --> 01:38:10,180
so, absolutely, we're committed to the foot trail, and anything outside of the gates is
Open absolutely.

753
01:38:15,310 --> 01:38:15,310
to the public 24 hours a day as far as the arizona trail.

754
01:38:19,930 --> 01:38:22,360
and we can have further conversations. This this flat tract, 23 of the original pine canyon does not have a negative.

755
01:38:28,630 --> 01:38:28,630
and plotting this in these additional 12 lots and 12 homes has no impact on the future of
The arizona trail.

756
01:38:36,280 --> 01:38:39,010
and mayor, vice mayor and members of council. Rest assured, we're having very productive, great conversations with members of your
Trails community, your parks department and the private developers, the private,

757
01:38:48,790 --> 01:38:52,510
large landowners, as we like to call them in the gwp corridor. About. You have a commitment that stl 405 right now, where is the current placement will
Accommodate the arizona trail?

758
01:39:01,510 --> 01:39:04,600
we think it's a very important part of future development. And if there is any relocation, it's done.

759
01:39:07,990 --> 01:39:11,680
so out of respect for the topography, the trail. And really frankly, I feel like a teenager lean in to to the natural beauty and what we
Have going on there.

760
01:39:19,390 --> 01:39:19,390
so any any relocation of the trail is only to for the natural beauty and for the natural
Topography in the area

761
01:39:29,140 --> 01:39:29,140
as opposed to having it maybe go through a more, you know, sub traditional subdivision.

762
01:39:34,210 --> 01:39:34,210
so, mayor, vice mayor, council, you have a commitment at least from all of my clients in
The area that that the arizona trail is something that's very important to us and in

763
01:39:42,280 --> 01:39:42,280
future. Development and we are working with staff on that.

764
01:39:46,950 --> 01:39:49,150
thank you lindsay. Council member mccarthy.

765
01:39:51,220 --> 01:39:51,220
so when the trail is closed during certain hours.

766
01:39:55,330 --> 01:39:55,330
how is that done? Is there a does someone go over and close the gate, or is it just have
A sign that don't go in here after a certain time, or how is it handled?

767
01:40:08,190 --> 01:40:10,530
mayor. Council member mccarthy. We have a gate. So there's a there's there's a physical presence at the entrance of pine
Canyon, and there's just a, you know, a an arm.

768
01:40:18,540 --> 01:40:20,070
I, I'm used to being in front of you. So I'm making hand motions that you cannot see, but just an arm that goes up and down,
Like if you were entering any type of parking area.

769
01:40:26,670 --> 01:40:28,290
but that's just to pine canyon. The foot trail that is on the exterior of pine canyon is open to the public.

770
01:40:34,570 --> 01:40:36,790
it's open to the public 24 over seven. Is that correct? Through the mayor.

771
01:40:40,670 --> 01:40:42,050
councilman mccarthy. Correct. The foot trail that is exterior to the pine canyon development is open to the public.

772
01:40:48,640 --> 01:40:48,640
I just like to point out there's also a public parking area off of lone tree, that it's
My understanding that that area is a place where the public

773
01:40:58,540 --> 01:40:58,540
can go park and then utilize the foots in this area.

774
01:41:04,750 --> 01:41:04,750
that would mean that even if that gate is closed, that you can still park somewhere and
Be able to access that trail.

775
01:41:14,680 --> 01:41:14,680
I would think theoretically 24 over seven, you should have access to that trail.

776
01:41:19,690 --> 01:41:19,690
and the trail doesn't actually go through where the gate house is.

777
01:41:24,820 --> 01:41:24,820
there's an area further to the east where it goes through the subdivision and kind of by
Kind of a waterway, a

778
01:41:34,780 --> 01:41:34,780
low area where kind of their facilities building is that that's where that foot's is.

779
01:41:41,560 --> 01:41:41,560
so that that is accessible to the public at all times.

780
01:41:48,350 --> 01:41:50,030
mayor. Vice mayor, council member. Mccarthy. Alex is correct.

781
01:41:52,490 --> 01:41:56,150
there is a parking area that's open to the public. Alex and wesley, thank you. Thank you both very much for your additional contributions.

782
01:41:59,950 --> 01:41:59,950
so on this map that's on the screen right now, could you point out the parcels that are
Being considered tonight?

783
01:42:09,910 --> 01:42:11,200
be this location right here, mr. Mccarthy. Right where?

784
01:42:14,570 --> 01:42:17,850
parcel. Sorry. If I click on it it does that. So it's this outlined right here.

785
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:19,680
you can see it even has the address points for the lots right now.

786
01:42:24,910 --> 01:42:26,710
right, I understand, thank you. Of course. Council member harris.

787
01:42:31,180 --> 01:42:31,180
okay. So the the the trail is it's near the subdivision, right?

788
01:42:38,260 --> 01:42:38,260
yes. Council member. And so the trail is public land, right?

789
01:42:42,700 --> 01:42:45,760
anybody can walk up and down that trail. Correct? Correct.

790
01:42:47,020 --> 01:42:47,020
so if I'm walking down the trail, when am I on private property and not public property?

791
01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:57,590
and how do I know that? So I think the trail is going to go along the sidewalk on gwp in that area.

792
01:43:02,330 --> 01:43:02,330
for most of the time, that area we were looking at in the upper corner, this would be the
Area where you start to go onto the pine canyon development.

793
01:43:14,050 --> 01:43:14,050
it's kind of hard to see, but it's this brown line which goes along the sidewalk right
Here.

794
01:43:18,910 --> 01:43:18,910
so you won't be off the trail on private development until you're into that one corner,
Until you win, until you're up in this corner to connect you over

795
01:43:28,660 --> 01:43:32,120
to the fisher point trail. Okay. I'm not going to be walking the trail, but I'm just curious.

796
01:43:38,950 --> 01:43:38,950
any other questions?

797
01:43:44,400 --> 01:43:45,750
all right. I don't see any public comment.

798
01:43:51,690 --> 01:43:51,690
so. Yes.

799
01:43:58,360 --> 01:43:58,360
please. So, mayor, I move that we approve.

800
01:44:03,070 --> 01:44:03,070
item nine c the preliminary plat with the conditions as approved by the planning and
Zoning

801
01:44:12,760 --> 01:44:14,680
commission. Thank you. Is there a second?

802
01:44:17,420 --> 01:44:21,380
I'll second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Aye aye. Any opposed?

803
01:44:24,990 --> 01:44:28,530
all right. Thank you, wesley. Thank you, mayor and council. All right. Moving down to item number ten.

804
01:44:31,470 --> 01:44:31,470
consideration and adoption of resolution number 2024-30 and ordinance number 2024-19.

805
01:44:45,790 --> 01:44:45,790
we will open the public hearing at this time and have presentations from staff.

806
01:44:58,460 --> 01:44:58,460
good evening, mayor, council members erin young, water resources manager.

807
01:45:02,660 --> 01:45:02,660
and as you just read the topic, we're here for the first read consideration of a changing
Water, reclaimed water and

808
01:45:12,110 --> 01:45:14,540
wastewater fees and charges. We don't have a formal presentation.

809
01:45:16,670 --> 01:45:17,930
we're available for questions. We have some slides prepared just in anticipation of any questions.

810
01:45:22,340 --> 01:45:25,820
and we have stantec online for technical questions. So I'll turn it back over to you, mayor.

811
01:45:31,870 --> 01:45:34,830
all right. Council. Additional questions of staff or our consultant?

812
01:45:41,430 --> 01:45:43,680
council member. Matthews. Thank you. Mayor. Karen since we're not seeing the exact.

813
01:45:52,440 --> 01:45:52,440
plan. In the past, we've talked about that 5% after five years.

814
01:46:00,990 --> 01:46:03,570
that's just on there because the the model uses that. But we're not doing that.

815
01:46:05,370 --> 01:46:05,370
so is that in the written document that we'll be finalizing at some point that that
Information is dropped off of there.

816
01:46:15,240 --> 01:46:17,040
mayor council member. Matthews. The red line to the code is in your packet, and all the red lines are for five years.

817
01:46:24,030 --> 01:46:24,030
the formal adoption reads, I believe five year time period.

818
01:46:31,170 --> 01:46:32,820
not beyond that. And the stantec technical reports you know, state that we're in a five year adoption
Plan, even though

819
01:46:42,780 --> 01:46:42,780
the financial model is made, assumptions beyond that time.

820
01:46:47,130 --> 01:46:47,130
and then shannon said he explained to us in one of your presentations that shannon, you
You

821
01:46:56,310 --> 01:46:56,310
review every three years, water, wastewater.

822
01:47:00,900 --> 01:47:00,900
you talked about throwing stormwater in the mix just so we could have a better overview of
Where we are.

823
01:47:07,890 --> 01:47:07,890
and I don't know, besides just saying this publicly, but you know, I'm still not real
Comfortable with the increases that we're

824
01:47:17,840 --> 01:47:17,840
going. You guys did a great job of reducing and making some concessions, but it's still a
Huge impact to our community.

825
01:47:28,490 --> 01:47:31,040
I'd like some kind of. General understanding or agreement.

826
01:47:33,470 --> 01:47:33,470
if the rest of the council agrees with me that in three years I'd like to see some
Progress reports, I know that inflation, costs of construction

827
01:47:43,100 --> 01:47:43,100
different you know, impacts to our successes.

828
01:47:49,130 --> 01:47:51,860
but I'd really like to stay transparent. And I hear from the community a lot that we make these, you know, significant changes not
Water department, but

829
01:48:01,700 --> 01:48:03,770
just in other city business. And then a lot of stuff happens, and then we don't we don't deliver.

830
01:48:09,590 --> 01:48:09,590
and I think this is as a huge project or list of projects, and I think it would be great
To

831
01:48:19,640 --> 01:48:19,640
be able to tell the community that we're going to monitor the progress and make sure
We're able to deliver, and if not, pivot and do make another just have another

832
01:48:29,630 --> 01:48:29,630
discussion on, okay, were we are we ahead of schedule, were we not able to deliver, you
Know, 50% of the projects or whatever and

833
01:48:39,500 --> 01:48:39,500
have a discussion in three years instead of just, you know, once we sign on the dotted
Line, it's just out there regardless of what happens.

834
01:48:47,510 --> 01:48:47,510
and so I don't know how to just say it and agree to it or have it in writing.

835
01:48:53,030 --> 01:48:55,700
carol smiling. Thank you, carol, for being on, but I just think that we owe it to our community to let
Them know that we're all in agreement, that we're going to watch these things, because

836
01:49:05,420 --> 01:49:05,420
there's so many outside influences that can impact these plans that are out of our
Control until we get into it.

837
01:49:12,560 --> 01:49:12,560
right. So I just wanted to say that out loud and see if you guys have an agreement or any
Thoughts on that.

838
01:49:22,740 --> 01:49:26,220
mayor council member matthews. Thank you for that. I think two things. One, I think a majority of the work that was done, I would say was done by council.

839
01:49:31,200 --> 01:49:33,510
we were here listening, taking the direction. I feel council did a good job of of navigating and looking for the best outcomes results
Within that.

840
01:49:41,460 --> 01:49:41,460
and absolutely I say water services committed for that.

841
01:49:45,840 --> 01:49:45,840
that reporting back I believe there's already functionality where that occurs.

842
01:49:49,980 --> 01:49:49,980
and we can be more intentional on highlighting that through that process is the annual
Budget review through the annual budget review is where we look at the both the

843
01:49:59,940 --> 01:49:59,940
short long term plans, the cost of service that we pin down to commit to do every three
Years.

844
01:50:07,440 --> 01:50:10,920
that cost of service study is not a rate increase. It's not a rate study. The cost of service is again, just that metric where we look at how much revenue is being
Collected and who's it coming from, and making sure that we're staying on course, that

845
01:50:20,280 --> 01:50:22,560
that's proportional across the classes. That making sure that we don't deviate from that and that.

846
01:50:27,270 --> 01:50:27,270
so I also feel when that study is completed, that would be something that brought forth
To council as an informational item saying, we did the check.

847
01:50:33,780 --> 01:50:37,170
this is where we're right on point. This is where we're deviating. But it doesn't always trigger a rate increase.

848
01:50:39,270 --> 01:50:42,450
it's there's more factors than just the cost of service. So I think that's two things the cost of service.

849
01:50:44,610 --> 01:50:44,610
and then that annual budget annual review of our financials and how we can point that out
Of what's, again, what are the things being accomplished?

850
01:50:52,410 --> 01:50:55,560
what are the things being carried forward if they're delayed? That's our that's our mechanism for that communication.

851
01:50:57,960 --> 01:51:01,350
and we're happy to to highlight and emphasize that. No problem. Sure.

852
01:51:04,710 --> 01:51:06,000
mayor. Council member. Matthews. If I could add to that, we're already discussing keeping clean water.

853
01:51:09,270 --> 01:51:09,270
flagstaff going for the purpose of communicating rate study related messaging.

854
01:51:15,870 --> 01:51:15,870
so that's another way I'm excited to use to help the public understand the investment
That they're making in their public

855
01:51:25,420 --> 01:51:25,420
infrastructure. City manager.

856
01:51:33,130 --> 01:51:35,980
thank you, mayor and council, and thank you for the question. While shannon jones spoke to operational costs and other deliverables on this or updates,
I'd like to speak to the

857
01:51:46,210 --> 01:51:46,210
capital projects which comprise a large part of this rate increase.

858
01:51:51,280 --> 01:51:51,280
council can be assured that there will be regular updates at the dais for the council and
The community to hear as to how we're doing on these contracts.

859
01:52:00,220 --> 01:52:00,220
as I was listening to the question, we've already started this discussion internally, but
I was reminded of how

860
01:52:09,910 --> 01:52:09,910
diligent and transparent we have been on the.

861
01:52:14,440 --> 01:52:18,280
bond for 41 expenditures. Spruce wash improvements. I know it's apples to oranges.

862
01:52:20,140 --> 01:52:20,140
we're talking about flood mitigation and a whole different set of circumstances.

863
01:52:24,640 --> 01:52:24,640
nevertheless, council's hearing regular updates.

864
01:52:29,560 --> 01:52:32,080
the most recent one, you know, just occurred. Those same updates are going out to the community.

865
01:52:35,590 --> 01:52:35,590
and I think it has done a lot in terms of letting our citizens, ratepayers, taxpayers
Know.

866
01:52:43,710 --> 01:52:43,710
what the deliverables are and when when they can be expected to be finished.

867
01:52:48,270 --> 01:52:48,270
we have such a large list of capital projects tied to this rate increase.

868
01:52:55,770 --> 01:52:55,770
we owe it to our citizens to report as to the status of those projects.

869
01:53:00,300 --> 01:53:03,390
and you have my assurance that that's going to happen. It will not be within the annual budget.

870
01:53:06,390 --> 01:53:08,700
we're talking about something much more frequent than that. I'm thinking quarterly reports to the council.

871
01:53:10,770 --> 01:53:14,000
thank you. Council member matthews. Thank you. Mayor. City manager just.

872
01:53:18,050 --> 01:53:18,050
and maybe it's just me, but we have received great updates.

873
01:53:23,390 --> 01:53:27,290
but I'm such a visual that I get caught up in that. Oh, great that we finished that project.

874
01:53:29,870 --> 01:53:33,140
but how does it compare to what the timeline that we promised. And there's there is a difference there.

875
01:53:34,430 --> 01:53:36,830
and saying we've completed this project, this project. And then I get I get lost in.

876
01:53:39,800 --> 01:53:39,800
yeah, but did we not finish three other projects because I don't have it in front of me
And I see editors standing up back there.

877
01:53:46,670 --> 01:53:47,990
he was a minute ago. Hi, ed. Same with storm water.

878
01:53:51,230 --> 01:53:51,230
you know, our residents haven't really felt the effects of the rate increase that we
Approved last year.

879
01:53:57,500 --> 01:53:57,500
and I'd like to see on both those stormwater and water rates, not just the projects, the
Capital improvement projects that we

880
01:54:07,430 --> 01:54:07,430
complete, but how does it compare to what we thought we were going to complete?

881
01:54:12,160 --> 01:54:12,160
yet. We'll provide that and we'll provide how we're comparing with how with the estimated
Cost as well.

882
01:54:18,130 --> 01:54:18,130
you'll it'll be the timeline, it'll be the cost, it'll be all of that.

883
01:54:23,230 --> 01:54:25,000
and so yes, very good question. And thank you. Thank you.

884
01:54:30,750 --> 01:54:32,190
additional questions. Comments? All right.

885
01:54:37,590 --> 01:54:37,590
I am going to take public comment.

886
01:54:41,610 --> 01:54:41,610
first up, michelle james.

887
01:54:54,250 --> 01:54:56,910
that caught me by surprise. I'm just trying to find my comments.

888
01:55:00,180 --> 01:55:01,380
that was kind of quick. Sorry. Wait, I just started to look for it.

889
01:55:05,120 --> 01:55:05,120
are frustrating to.

890
01:55:13,590 --> 01:55:16,320
oh. Got it. Thank you. I'm michelle james. I'm executive director of friends of flagstaff.

891
01:55:19,410 --> 01:55:19,410
future of f cubed would like to express our thanks to the water services staff for taking
The time to discuss with us the details and decision making behind the

892
01:55:29,280 --> 01:55:32,550
proposed water rate increases over the last few months. Staff input has assisted us in our understanding of how the rate study worked and the
Factors considered, and that determine the proposed rate increases, as well as why rate

893
01:55:41,640 --> 01:55:41,640
increases are needed now, and how these rate changes would impact the flagstaff community
Through december of 2029.

894
01:55:49,260 --> 01:55:49,260
last month, council responded to concerns expressed by many in the community regarding
The significant five year increases in single family residential rates by reducing the

895
01:55:58,800 --> 01:55:58,800
overall percentage of funded cip projects and increasing debt f cubed in the community
Greatly appreciates this.

896
01:56:06,510 --> 01:56:06,510
however, as we stated at our may 21st council work session, f cube continues to be
Concerned about the ability of lower and fixed income households to absorb the increases

897
01:56:16,440 --> 01:56:19,470
in water and wastewater rates during the next five years. These community members would be significantly impacted by past decisions, resulting in
Delays to maintain to to maintaining existing facilities and preparing for future

898
01:56:29,010 --> 01:56:29,010
growth. F cube hopes that shifting the burden of rising water rates away from low income
Residents will be considered comprehensively in the next water rate study.

899
01:56:39,090 --> 01:56:39,090
that said, we believe the city can address some equity issues now.

900
01:56:43,230 --> 01:56:43,230
water equity occurs when all communities have access to clean, safe, affordable drinking
Water and wastewater services.

901
01:56:50,400 --> 01:56:50,400
specifically, we would like to see the city holistically address assistance,
Affordability and collection practices by starting to implement the suggestions outlined

902
01:56:59,460 --> 01:56:59,460
in the publication, advancing racial equity across the water sector a tool kit for
Utilities.

903
01:57:05,490 --> 01:57:08,520
this was written by the us water alliance. F cube believes that the those most impacted by the rate changes should be included in a
Citizens committee formed by the end of 2024, at the latest, to determine how

904
01:57:18,480 --> 01:57:18,480
to both generate emergency funding for those who cannot pay the increased water bills,
And to modify collection practices and minimize shut offs for those with financial

905
01:57:27,570 --> 01:57:27,570
hardships. We also encourage the city to look into ways that the flagstaff can community
Can assist our neighbors.

906
01:57:35,130 --> 01:57:35,130
thank you. Thank you.

907
01:57:39,580 --> 01:57:39,580
joe galli.

908
01:57:50,280 --> 01:57:51,570
thank you, your honor. Members of council joe galli, 101 west route 66, in flagstaff.

909
01:57:55,890 --> 01:57:55,890
I am the senior advisor of the greater flagstaff chamber of commerce, and I'm here on
Behalf of our 1000 plus members.

910
01:58:05,490 --> 01:58:07,890
I want to first take a minute or a couple seconds. Excuse me to thank the water services director, mr.

911
01:58:11,040 --> 01:58:11,040
shannon jones, and his staff, aaron and others who have engaged the business community
Throughout this process.

912
01:58:17,250 --> 01:58:17,250
it's been a long process going back to january of 2023, and we have been a part of the
Conversation the entire way that has brought us to this

913
01:58:27,060 --> 01:58:29,250
moment in time. I want to also thank mayor and council for listening to the business community and our
Concerns about the initially proposed rate hikes of

914
01:58:38,790 --> 01:58:38,790
15% per year on water and sewer for the first five years, and having revised that now as
It sits before you down to ten, you know,

915
01:58:48,720 --> 01:58:52,650
we have 1600 commercial meters in this town. And so we're a large participant in paying into the utility for both water and sewer.

916
01:58:59,160 --> 01:58:59,160
and we understand that the city has very large needs, very large capital projects related
To these, to utilities, water and sewer.

917
01:59:08,340 --> 01:59:08,340
and I want to share with you that the business community needs certainty and we rely on
Certainty.

918
01:59:14,580 --> 01:59:14,580
so I think we'll be happy when this is behind us, as we'll know what our rates are moving
Forward.

919
01:59:19,650 --> 01:59:19,650
we also need a reliable delivery for economic growth in this community of water and sewer
Services.

920
01:59:30,090 --> 01:59:30,090
we're here today, unfortunately, because we've not done the projects that we were
Supposed to do.

921
01:59:35,760 --> 01:59:35,760
and now that we are taking this money in form of rate hike in the next five years, it's
Encouraging.

922
01:59:42,390 --> 01:59:42,390
having had several meetings with several city staff and others and just listening to the
City manager a moment ago to know that we're going to get these projects done.

923
01:59:51,660 --> 01:59:51,660
and we hope that, of course, the water services department will follow through.

924
01:59:56,100 --> 01:59:56,100
I do want to share, you know, in one of our meetings, our business community members
Spoke.

925
02:00:02,100 --> 02:00:04,800
they were very concerned about the upcoming increases. And they said, you know, we're kind of in a situation where it's death by a thousand
Cuts.

926
02:00:09,210 --> 02:00:09,210
it's this it's storm water, it's minimum wage and other things that you have heard.

927
02:00:13,950 --> 02:00:13,950
I want you to know that this will be very impactful to our community, not just to our
Residents, but our residents will also pay this at the

928
02:00:23,580 --> 02:00:23,580
local retail and in other places, too, as well.

929
02:00:28,500 --> 02:00:28,500
having said all that, I am grateful for a very judicious process, and I'm grateful for
Your consideration that you have accepted or planned to accept here a

930
02:00:38,340 --> 02:00:38,340
lower fee increase over the next five years, which will add, of course, by doing that,
You extending out the debt on the capital

931
02:00:47,760 --> 02:00:50,970
projects is something that we encouraged you to consider. So thank you.

932
02:00:53,850 --> 02:00:55,530
and I'll take any questions, your honor. Thank you. Thank you.

933
02:00:58,980 --> 02:01:01,590
I don't see any. Thank you. Steven poor.

934
02:01:12,260 --> 02:01:13,460
good evening. Mayor. Vice mayor. Council.

935
02:01:16,610 --> 02:01:16,610
one thing I've been here, I've presented to you and presented to stantec an opportunity
To fund 100% of the cip projects.

936
02:01:26,510 --> 02:01:29,360
not once I talk against them. I'm just pointing out the need for you to have a little bit more sharper pen.

937
02:01:34,310 --> 02:01:34,310
and look at this from a standpoint of what the inflation is.

938
02:01:38,690 --> 02:01:38,690
your consultant admitted she uses long term inflation forecasts from the fed, and she got
Burnt one time.

939
02:01:44,960 --> 02:01:48,080
so she's kind of shy about using it again. But nobody can predict the pandemic.

940
02:01:50,720 --> 02:01:54,380
and I've suggested that you continually use long term numbers. And one thing I'll do at this point in time is I went and and carol, as has said that she
Back on the may 21st meeting that they're going to

941
02:02:04,310 --> 02:02:06,470
provide an update on the website. There's no updates on the financials, on the execution, on the water financials that go
From 75 to 90%.

942
02:02:13,280 --> 02:02:17,120
so please, city, we're almost a month down the road. Provide that to your citizens.

943
02:02:18,710 --> 02:02:20,480
it's not there. Number two, going forward, if you want to do some adjustments and if our our big
Disagreement here is trying to predict inflation, which nobody can do

944
02:02:30,470 --> 02:02:34,400
100%. But we look to the market and we look to long term trends. And if you look at the long term trends, some of the some of the indexes that were
Brought to you by the department by stantec, use them, okay, use them

945
02:02:44,960 --> 02:02:46,940
and come back in two years. If that's down, reduce the ongoing rate going forward.

946
02:02:51,230 --> 02:02:54,110
that's simple. Use your rates. These are your indexes.

947
02:02:55,880 --> 02:02:55,880
the long term index for one of them is is -1.7 for nine years.

948
02:03:00,920 --> 02:03:03,890
and they're getting six. They're asking for a 6% increase. And it's only on 25% of the expenses.

949
02:03:07,010 --> 02:03:08,750
but there's a big variance. So why don't we hold them to okay let's make this an inflation adjustment.

950
02:03:12,620 --> 02:03:16,010
if it doesn't happen they're way off the mark on these numbers. And I've formed you about this.

951
02:03:17,930 --> 02:03:19,910
we don't need to go this high. And I'm not taking away from any cip.

952
02:03:22,340 --> 02:03:25,280
it's just inflation. They ain't going to happen. Or if it happens you can adjust it down the road given where you are today.

953
02:03:30,590 --> 02:03:32,510
thank you for your consideration. I'll answer any questions if you had any.

954
02:03:35,340 --> 02:03:38,940
thank you, mr. Porter. I don't see any. Thank you.

955
02:03:43,890 --> 02:03:47,730
all right. Any additional questions from council? I'm going to close the public hearing.

956
02:03:51,240 --> 02:03:53,220
you have a question? Council member harris.

957
02:03:56,360 --> 02:04:00,110
and I'm not sure who. So staff, jump in here. Is it possible for us to go back in two years if we find that things are looking
Different than we anticipated?

958
02:04:09,200 --> 02:04:12,260
could we? And what kind of problem does that create? Or does it create an issue?

959
02:04:18,140 --> 02:04:18,140
mayor, councilors, the process we're going through is, is a policy process.

960
02:04:23,210 --> 02:04:23,210
so I would say absolutely, it is within the council's authority to bring that back.

961
02:04:27,920 --> 02:04:27,920
it's written into the ordinances the same way we're asking you to change them now you
Would have the ability to change those in the future.

962
02:04:37,420 --> 02:04:37,420
all right, I'm closing the public hearing, and thoughts or emotion.

963
02:04:46,720 --> 02:04:48,370
council member mccarthy. Well, just a quick follow up.

964
02:04:50,890 --> 02:04:52,510
miss harris's comment. Yes, we can do that any time we want, but every time we go through this process, it costs
A lot of money and a lot of effort to, in other words, to go through

965
02:05:02,500 --> 02:05:06,070
all these calculations and hire a consultant and everything. That's a cost that we might want to consider before we say we're going to do it or not do
It.

966
02:05:15,160 --> 02:05:18,310
all right. Additional thoughts or emotion? Council member matthews.

967
02:05:20,170 --> 02:05:20,170
thank you. Mayor. Just to add on to that the discussion and the the comments that mr.

968
02:05:27,280 --> 02:05:27,280
wood was bringing up was about using a guesstimate on inflation numbers which are never
Guaranteed.

969
02:05:36,160 --> 02:05:39,340
they always change. They're never what we project them to be. Or rarely, maybe they have been.

970
02:05:42,040 --> 02:05:42,040
but I think in our three years if that's what's been off the map, if the

971
02:05:51,100 --> 02:05:51,100
inflation rates that we use for the next three years are way off the mark.

972
02:05:57,190 --> 02:05:57,190
when we do the review, it's not just the the cip that's been produced, but if we're
Collecting more money

973
02:06:07,120 --> 02:06:07,120
than we need based on those inflation rates, I think that is it may cost the city a few
Extra dollars, but nothing compared to what it's costing our community.

974
02:06:15,220 --> 02:06:15,220
so I'll be in favor in that three years to also look at that inflation rate and make an
Adjustment there.

975
02:06:22,240 --> 02:06:22,240
hopefully we don't need to go through nine months of analytics that we can just say,
Well, we don't need a debt coverage ratio of 7 to 1%

976
02:06:31,870 --> 02:06:31,870
because we were collecting all this because the rate of inflation may not be that high,
Hopefully.

977
02:06:36,940 --> 02:06:39,250
so I would just in three years. I think that's a good discussion.

978
02:06:42,980 --> 02:06:45,630
council member harris. Yeah. I don't ever want to waste the city's money.

979
02:06:49,080 --> 02:06:49,080
and I don't think we ever waste money when we try to save money.

980
02:06:53,490 --> 02:06:53,490
and so I would I would ask us to really, really think about how we do this.

981
02:06:59,160 --> 02:06:59,160
if we if we do find out that we've got more.

982
02:07:03,270 --> 02:07:03,270
I'm in agreement with you, council member matthews, is that if we do find out that we
Have more and that the inflation rates have changed

983
02:07:12,660 --> 02:07:14,010
because, like mr. Porter said, nobody could have anticipated that pandemic.

984
02:07:18,840 --> 02:07:18,840
we in a million years, none of us would have thought that that would have happened, at
Least not in our lifetime.

985
02:07:24,870 --> 02:07:27,450
so it could change. And if it does, I want us to be open to looking at that, because folks, folks in our
Community are hurting and every penny counts.

986
02:07:36,210 --> 02:07:37,290
and I'll say this. Boys and girls club is using the murdock center this summer because they couldn't afford
To rent any other space, and we could use that space that so that

987
02:07:47,160 --> 02:07:47,160
parents who did not have a place for their kids to go during the summer, the ones that
Are under age that can't stay by themselves, they could help

988
02:07:57,000 --> 02:07:59,520
them out and provide a space for them to go. So, you know, when this is just not affecting some of us, this is affecting all of us.

989
02:08:05,010 --> 02:08:08,850
and so we need to think about that. You know, I didn't have that issue when my son was that age because as I keep saying, I
Was very privileged at that point in time.

990
02:08:17,640 --> 02:08:20,040
but there are a whole bunch of folks that are not. And so we need to think about that.

991
02:08:21,900 --> 02:08:21,900
and this is going to hurt people.

992
02:08:26,700 --> 02:08:29,410
council member sweet. Thank you. I did want to echo what my colleagues have stated, and I know that staff is
Hearing us loud and clear.

993
02:08:37,210 --> 02:08:37,210
and I last meeting we had with you, I mentioned that I would like to look into ways that
We can help community members that may not be able to pay

994
02:08:47,170 --> 02:08:49,990
their full bill, or maybe having a hiccup in life. And I hope that we continue to do that and look into the equity issue that was brought
Up.

995
02:08:55,450 --> 02:08:59,310
and when appropriate, I'd like to make a motion. Please do.

996
02:09:02,250 --> 02:09:02,250
I move to read resolution number 2024-30 by title only.

997
02:09:09,510 --> 02:09:11,100
is there a second? Second? Any discussion?

998
02:09:13,680 --> 02:09:16,500
all those in favor? Aye aye aye. Any opposed?

999
02:09:18,210 --> 02:09:19,890
city clerk. A resolution of the flagstaff city council declaring as a public record that certain
Document filed with the city clerk and entitled water services rates, code changes.

1000
02:09:29,930 --> 02:09:29,930
thank you. Is there a motion for number three?

1001
02:09:35,440 --> 02:09:35,440
I moved to read ordinance number 2024-19 by title only for the first time.

1002
02:09:42,340 --> 02:09:44,230
is there a second? Second. Any discussion?

1003
02:09:46,630 --> 02:09:49,360
all those in favor? Aye aye aye. Any opposed?

1004
02:09:50,830 --> 02:09:50,830
city clerk, an ordinance of the city council of the city of flagstaff.

1005
02:09:55,000 --> 02:09:55,000
amending the flagstaff city code, title three, business regulations, section three dash.

1006
02:10:00,130 --> 02:10:00,130
ten dash 001-0008 license fees and title seven health and sanitation.

1007
02:10:07,150 --> 02:10:07,150
chapter 7-02 wastewater regulations and chapter 7-03 water regulations.

1008
02:10:13,570 --> 02:10:13,570
by adopting by reference that certain document entitled water services rates, code
Changes providing for penalties, repeal of conflicting ordinances, severability and

1009
02:10:22,240 --> 02:10:26,200
establishing an effective date. Thank you. All right. Moving down to be.

1010
02:10:28,690 --> 02:10:31,030
mr. Frankel, I have a question. Do I hold the public hearing before I convene the special meeting, or do I open the
Public hearing and then convene the special meeting?

1011
02:10:38,920 --> 02:10:41,380
looks like we're going to hold the public hearing first. All right, so I am opening the public hearing, and I believe we have a presentation from
Staff.

1012
02:11:07,650 --> 02:11:09,600
thank you. Thank you. Stacey saltzburg much appreciated.

1013
02:11:12,840 --> 02:11:14,070
good evening. Mayor, vice mayor and council brandy to the city's finance director.

1014
02:11:19,110 --> 02:11:19,110
my presentation tonight will cover agenda ten b, 11 a and 12 a, and are all related to
The adoption of the city's fiscal

1015
02:11:28,980 --> 02:11:28,980
year 20 2425 budget and property taxes.

1016
02:11:36,690 --> 02:11:40,140
so here is the timeline for the city's budget adoption. Two weeks ago we had tentative budget adoption on june 4th.

1017
02:11:44,430 --> 02:11:44,430
tonight, we first have our public hearing both on budget and tax levy.

1018
02:11:50,190 --> 02:11:50,190
then we go into a special meeting where we will do the final budget adoption via
Resolution, followed by the first read of the property tax ordinance

1019
02:12:00,030 --> 02:12:02,700
setting the property tax rates. And then on june, on july 2nd, we will have the second reading and the adoption of the
Property tax ordinance.

1020
02:12:13,300 --> 02:12:13,300
the city's fiscal year 20 2425 budget is $579 million,

1021
02:12:20,590 --> 02:12:20,590
$432,772 of which is a $39.7

1022
02:12:29,080 --> 02:12:29,080
million increase over the prior year, or a 7.4% increase.

1023
02:12:36,010 --> 02:12:36,010
much of this increase is related to capital projects, especially in our transportation tax
Fund, as well as our general obligation bond funded capital projects,

1024
02:12:45,940 --> 02:12:45,940
specifically proposition 441 and proposition 442.

1025
02:12:51,360 --> 02:12:51,360
the city's budget is made up of five fund types.

1026
02:12:55,560 --> 02:12:55,560
we have the general fund, special revenue funds, debt service funds, capital project
Funds, and enterprise funds.

1027
02:13:04,670 --> 02:13:04,670
the general fund portion of the budget is approximately 113.6 million, or 20% of the
Budget.

1028
02:13:11,390 --> 02:13:11,390
our special revenue funds make up 172.8 million, or 30% of the budget.

1029
02:13:17,660 --> 02:13:17,660
special revenue funds include our highway user revenue fund, our transportation tax.

1030
02:13:28,040 --> 02:13:28,040
pak flag rbb funds our library.

1031
02:13:32,610 --> 02:13:32,610
debt service funds make up $19.8 million, or 3% of the budget.

1032
02:13:38,130 --> 02:13:38,130
these funds include our general obligation bond, debt service, as well as our pension
Bond funds.

1033
02:13:46,350 --> 02:13:46,350
we also have our capital project funds for both our general obligation bonds and our non
General obligation bond projects.

1034
02:13:54,660 --> 02:13:54,660
it makes up $66.4 million or 11% of the budget.

1035
02:13:59,550 --> 02:14:01,620
and lastly, we have our enterprise funds. This includes drinking water, wastewater, reclaimed water, stormwater, our solid waste
Fund, sustainability and environmental management fund,

1036
02:14:11,220 --> 02:14:11,220
the the flagstaff housing authority, as well as the airport.

1037
02:14:15,870 --> 02:14:15,870
those funds make up $206.8 million of the budget, or 36%.

1038
02:14:26,360 --> 02:14:29,390
included in the city's budget is the following. Proposed property taxes based on council direction this spring for a flat levy, the
City's primary for the city's primary property

1039
02:14:39,020 --> 02:14:39,020
tax, the total proposed city primary property tax levy is just over $7.2 million.

1040
02:14:48,080 --> 02:14:48,080
this levy includes new construction revenue of $71,670, and on average, assessed values on
Existing

1041
02:14:58,250 --> 02:14:58,250
properties increased approximately 4.3%.

1042
02:15:02,780 --> 02:15:02,780
so, based on a flat levy, the proposed tax rate will be 0.6363 per $100 of assessed
Value, which is a

1043
02:15:12,650 --> 02:15:12,650
rate decrease over the prior year rate of 0.6634.

1044
02:15:18,480 --> 02:15:18,480
this lobby is $752,293, below the maximum allowed levy by state statutes and primary
Property

1045
02:15:28,410 --> 02:15:28,410
taxes are used, are unrestricted funds, and are included in the city's general fund.

1046
02:15:35,240 --> 02:15:35,240
the total proposed secondary property tax levy is a flat rate, which is at approximately
$9.1 million, at a

1047
02:15:44,900 --> 02:15:44,900
rate of 0.8000 per $100 of assessed value.

1048
02:15:50,360 --> 02:15:50,360
this is approximately a 5.3% increase in the tax levy per state statutes.

1049
02:15:56,930 --> 02:15:56,930
this levy cannot exceed our estimated general obligation debt service payments for the
Fiscal year 20 2425.

1050
02:16:10,480 --> 02:16:10,480
here's a slide that provides a five year history on the city's property tax rates.

1051
02:16:15,310 --> 02:16:15,310
and as you can see, the city's overall property tax rates have decreased year over year
For the last five years.

1052
02:16:22,180 --> 02:16:22,180
for fiscal year 2425, the maximum allowable rate is 0.7025 per $100 of

1053
02:16:31,870 --> 02:16:33,070
assessed valuation. And the city's proposed rate, which also again equals the flat levy rate, is 0.6363.

1054
02:16:46,690 --> 02:16:48,850
the city's property. Assessed values have increased over the last year over prior year.

1055
02:16:54,220 --> 02:16:54,220
the city's limited net assessed valuation increased 5.3% over the prior year, which
Includes new construction of approximately

1056
02:17:03,670 --> 02:17:03,670
$11.3 million, and our full cash value evaluation increased 23.5%.

1057
02:17:13,780 --> 02:17:17,620
the county assessor's office determines these values. These values are based on evaluations done in late 2022.

1058
02:17:22,540 --> 02:17:22,540
for the tax year 2024, per state statute, limited assessed value is used to calculate
Both our primary and our secondary

1059
02:17:31,990 --> 02:17:31,990
tax taxes, and limited assessed valuation is value is limited to a maximum of a 5%
Increase per year for most real

1060
02:17:41,590 --> 02:17:41,590
property. So how do these rates impact our communities, property taxes.

1061
02:17:51,140 --> 02:17:51,140
so for example, we have a residential for a property with assessed valuation of $100,000.

1062
02:17:59,300 --> 02:17:59,300
assuming no increase in assessed valuation from the prior year, they would see an overall
Small decrease of $2 and 6 or

1063
02:18:09,180 --> 02:18:09,180
$0.71. For commercial property with an assessed value of approximately $4 million, again
Assuming no

1064
02:18:19,020 --> 02:18:20,760
increase in assessed valuation. Again, each property is unique and the assessors value determines what that assessed
Valuation changes year over year.

1065
02:18:27,690 --> 02:18:27,690
but again, it can never go up more than 5%.

1066
02:18:33,360 --> 02:18:33,360
over the prior, they would actually see a decrease of $191.05.

1067
02:18:40,080 --> 02:18:40,080
so that concludes my presentation and I'm available for any questions.

1068
02:18:45,780 --> 02:18:45,780
thank you. Brandi council questions.

1069
02:18:53,090 --> 02:18:54,830
all right. I will take public council member matthews.

1070
02:18:58,790 --> 02:18:58,790
thank you. Mayor. So this slide that you were just showing us.

1071
02:19:07,620 --> 02:19:07,620
shows if the assessed values don't change.

1072
02:19:12,890 --> 02:19:14,750
how much? For commercial and how much for residential has assessed values on average changed.

1073
02:19:20,060 --> 02:19:22,190
so on on average, right. Because every property is different but on existing properties, approximately 4.3%
Increase.

1074
02:19:28,910 --> 02:19:32,130
yes. Is that for residential? It's for all properties.

1075
02:19:34,950 --> 02:19:36,870
so I'm curious. Why didn't you show that?

1076
02:19:41,320 --> 02:19:41,320
I do not know, but I do have the numbers for a 5% what the maximum would be.

1077
02:19:47,410 --> 02:19:47,410
and the reason why I ask that is because that's what is meaningful to our residents, is
Not like.

1078
02:19:53,050 --> 02:19:54,640
well, our values aren't changing. And so, look, we're we're not paying as much in taxes.

1079
02:19:57,280 --> 02:20:00,250
but the reality is our values are changing a lot. And that increase that number is significant.

1080
02:20:05,020 --> 02:20:05,020
it's not a negative.

1081
02:20:13,570 --> 02:20:14,920
please go ahead. Well brandy did you have I do I have for.

1082
02:20:18,790 --> 02:20:18,790
so for example I didn't put it on the slide but I try to have numbers in my hip pocket
When I can.

1083
02:20:25,000 --> 02:20:25,000
so for example, if this property went up the 5% maximum allowed, their taxes would
Increase

1084
02:20:33,550 --> 02:20:37,430
$1.27. So. So there is a small increase.

1085
02:20:38,930 --> 02:20:42,920
yep. And then for commercial there's actually still goes down. It's down $53.79.

1086
02:20:47,630 --> 02:20:49,550
that's information that I was looking for. Okay. Thank you. Yep I will make that note.

1087
02:20:53,260 --> 02:20:56,230
to provide those both. Council member mccarthy did you have a comment? I do. So.

1088
02:21:01,520 --> 02:21:01,520
we're not calculating the number of taxes.

1089
02:21:05,750 --> 02:21:09,170
let me put it this way. What we're doing in the budget is determining a tax levy, and the tax levy is going down
In

1090
02:21:18,500 --> 02:21:21,650
proportion. No, the tax levy stays the same. So the tax rate is going down by the same amount that this valuation is going up.

1091
02:21:31,100 --> 02:21:31,100
so we are not increasing taxes except for new construction.

1092
02:21:36,530 --> 02:21:38,450
correct me if I'm wrong. Yes. New construction would be in addition to the levy.

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I think the other thing to note. So for primary property tax we're keeping a flat levy for secondary property tax we are
Keeping a flat rate so that based

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02:21:53,780 --> 02:21:53,780
on what we approved with the voters.

1095
02:21:57,920 --> 02:21:57,920
oh okay. So the primary taxes are not going up, but the secondary is going up.

1096
02:22:04,310 --> 02:22:04,310
and those secondary taxes are for things that the voters have approved.

1097
02:22:09,800 --> 02:22:11,240
that is correct. Yep. Specifically proposition 442 and 441.

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02:22:15,650 --> 02:22:15,650
with those recent debt issuances.

1099
02:22:22,750 --> 02:22:25,810
all right. No additional questions. And I don't see any public comment.

1100
02:22:28,060 --> 02:22:29,890
correct. All right. So I am going to close the public hearing and convene the special meeting so that we

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02:22:39,640 --> 02:22:39,640
can consider resolution number 2024-27.

1102
02:22:56,770 --> 02:22:56,770
questions or comments or a motion.

1103
02:23:00,800 --> 02:23:02,330
here. I'd like to move that. We read resolution number 2024-27 by title only.

1104
02:23:07,340 --> 02:23:08,630
is there a second? I'll second any discussion.

1105
02:23:11,800 --> 02:23:13,330
all those in favor? Aye, aye. Any opposed city clerk.

1106
02:23:18,260 --> 02:23:18,260
a resolution of the flagstaff city council adopting the budget for the city of flagstaff
For fiscal year 2024, dash 2025, and establishing an effective date.

1107
02:23:32,930 --> 02:23:36,650
all right. Do I have a motion to adopt? So move. And a second second.

1108
02:23:42,280 --> 02:23:45,700
any discussion? All those in favor? Aye aye aye.

1109
02:23:46,930 --> 02:23:50,520
any opposed? All right. I am now reconvening our regular meeting.

1110
02:23:54,350 --> 02:23:54,350
regular agenda item 12 a.

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02:24:00,360 --> 02:24:00,360
consideration and adoption of ordinance number 2024-17, an ordinance levying upon the
Assessed

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02:24:10,050 --> 02:24:10,050
valuation of the property within the city of flagstaff.

1113
02:24:14,310 --> 02:24:14,310
I always regret starting to read this when it's this long subject to taxation, a certain
Sum upon each

1114
02:24:23,580 --> 02:24:23,580
$100 of valuation sufficient to raise the amount estimated to be required in the annual
Budget, less the amount estimated to be

1115
02:24:33,330 --> 02:24:35,850
received from other sources of revenue. Providing funds for various bond redemptions for the purpose of paying interest upon
Bonded indebtedness and providing funds for general municipal

1116
02:24:45,150 --> 02:24:45,150
expenses, all for the fiscal year ending the 30th day of june 2025.

1117
02:24:52,110 --> 02:24:52,110
so I are there any questions or comments?

1118
02:25:01,860 --> 02:25:05,490
are at council member mccarthy. Yes. Real quickly. Since we're keeping the primary tax levy level adjusted for inflation, we're actually
Reducing the primary taxes.

1119
02:25:17,060 --> 02:25:17,060
all right. Is there a motion to read ordinance number 2024-17.

1120
02:25:24,080 --> 02:25:25,280
mayor, I'd like to move that. We read ordinance number 2024-17 by title.

1121
02:25:29,120 --> 02:25:31,100
title only for the first time. Thank you. Is there a second?

1122
02:25:33,610 --> 02:25:36,580
second. Thank you. Any discussion? All those in favor?

1123
02:25:37,990 --> 02:25:41,380
aye, aye. Any opposed? All right. City clerk, an ordinance of the city council of the city of flagstaff levying
Upon the assessed valuation of the property within the city of flagstaff, arizona,

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02:25:51,310 --> 02:25:51,310
subject to taxation, a certain sum upon each $100 of valuation sufficient to raise the
Amount estimated to be required in the annual budget, less

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02:26:01,270 --> 02:26:04,630
the amount estimated to be received from other sources of revenue. Providing funds for various bond redemptions for the purposes of paying interest upon
Bonded indebtedness and providing funds for general municipal expenses, all for

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02:26:14,620 --> 02:26:14,620
the fiscal year ending the 30th day of june 2025.

1127
02:26:19,130 --> 02:26:22,100
well said. All right. Moving down to item b, consideration and approval of ground lease agreement
Between the city of flagstaff and housing solutions of northern

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02:26:31,910 --> 02:26:31,910
arizona. Welcome, justina.

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02:26:38,610 --> 02:26:38,610
thank you.

1130
02:26:50,670 --> 02:26:50,670
mayor council justine acosta, your assistant housing director.

1131
02:26:55,920 --> 02:26:55,920
today, I'm in front of you for the consideration and approval of a ground lease between
The city of flagstaff and housing solutions of northern arizona for the development of

1132
02:27:05,790 --> 02:27:09,580
affordable rental housing. The site that we're referencing is located at 2240 north isabel, and here's a nice
Picture of it.

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02:27:16,870 --> 02:27:20,770
the original site is 0.87 of an acre. The actual building area is 29,583ft, and the community garden area that is on that site
And will remain on that

1134
02:27:30,280 --> 02:27:30,280
site, is a little over 8000ft².

1135
02:27:37,690 --> 02:27:39,250
so some partial history. A lot of you may still remember a lot of this, but I wanted to kind of tackle it so that
You can jog your memory.

1136
02:27:44,920 --> 02:27:44,920
in 2018, the city of flagstaff housing section did a procurement for the to hire a
Partner to construct

1137
02:27:54,490 --> 02:27:56,830
affordable housing on city owned property. The successful respondent for that procurement process was brynn shaw, and they proposed
A scattered site project for us.

1138
02:28:06,280 --> 02:28:06,280
unfortunately, in 2019, brynn shaw had to withdraw and the project came to a close before
Even starting due to

1139
02:28:15,790 --> 02:28:17,140
insufficient funding. And unfortunately, they also had to give back the low income housing tax credit that they
Were awarded to the state, which was something that had never happened

1140
02:28:27,070 --> 02:28:29,890
before. At least not for brynn shaw. So it was a big bummer for them and us in 2021.

1141
02:28:36,010 --> 02:28:36,010
brynn shaw donated plans for the ysabel parcel to housing solutions of northern arizona.

1142
02:28:42,190 --> 02:28:42,190
as housing solutions was interested in taking a look to see if they could do rental
Housing on that parcel and if it would be feasible for them in 2022.

1143
02:28:52,060 --> 02:28:52,060
you council approved a lease option with housing solutions for this parcel in order to
Enable housing solutions to apply to the arizona department of

1144
02:29:01,300 --> 02:29:04,750
housing for funding. Housing solutions was able to attain that funding or a commitment of that funding in
2023.

1145
02:29:11,590 --> 02:29:11,590
and it's referenced as home arp dollars.

1146
02:29:16,250 --> 02:29:16,250
so the details of the project include 11 units, all of which would be three bedrooms.

1147
02:29:23,390 --> 02:29:23,390
they are two story buildings plus a leasing office.

1148
02:29:27,800 --> 02:29:30,590
the agreement with the arizona department. The funding agreement with the arizona department of housing has a 15 year compliance
Period, under which the the units are required to

1149
02:29:40,490 --> 02:29:40,490
serve households that are under 30% ami.

1150
02:29:44,840 --> 02:29:44,840
victims of domestic violence and or households experiencing homelessness.

1151
02:29:52,680 --> 02:29:52,680
here is a the original site plan for that parcel.

1152
02:29:56,940 --> 02:29:56,940
this will be amended as part of the coming process by housing solutions of northern
Arizona.

1153
02:30:02,730 --> 02:30:04,490
so you can see. If you can see my cursor, here is the community garden area.

1154
02:30:09,320 --> 02:30:11,880
there's the first building. Here we have parking.

1155
02:30:14,290 --> 02:30:14,290
the leasing office right here to the right, and then the other buildings right here on
Top.

1156
02:30:22,520 --> 02:30:22,520
we threw in some pictures of elevations that were submitted by brant shaw.

1157
02:30:27,110 --> 02:30:28,730
again, these might change. I have a team behind me that will answer a lot of questions if you have them.

1158
02:30:33,080 --> 02:30:36,770
but these are the pictures we had, so we threw them in here. So here's that. Here's the south building.

1159
02:30:41,620 --> 02:30:41,620
the leasing office.

1160
02:30:45,790 --> 02:30:48,790
and then most importantly, the terms of the ground lease. So the ground lease that is for your consideration today is a 99 year term.

1161
02:30:54,520 --> 02:30:54,520
housing solutions would pay the city of flagstaff an annual fee of $100 annually.

1162
02:31:00,760 --> 02:31:00,760
improvements are to be built, owned and operated by housing solutions.

1163
02:31:06,370 --> 02:31:06,370
and then after the 15 year compliance period required by the arizona department of
Housing.

1164
02:31:12,880 --> 02:31:12,880
the units would not average 30 or would not be at 30% ami any longer, but they would
Average up to 80% ami to broaden

1165
02:31:22,660 --> 02:31:24,670
that scope of individuals served. And of course, as part of the ground lease, we're going to preserve the community garden
That's on that site.

1166
02:31:31,000 --> 02:31:31,000
similes requirements specific to the community gardeners that during the construction
Phase, that garden will be fenced off to protect the area, the

1167
02:31:40,390 --> 02:31:40,390
topsoil will be preserved and housing solutions will replace any lost fruit trees.

1168
02:31:49,330 --> 02:31:51,280
so like I mentioned, I have a team behind me. I have housing solutions of northern arizona is here.

1169
02:31:54,220 --> 02:31:57,550
I have folks from sustainability available as well as folks from planning. Should you have any questions?

1170
02:32:00,520 --> 02:32:00,520
council. Do you have any questions before I take public comment?

1171
02:32:05,090 --> 02:32:08,290
council member harris. Okay, so my question is the same as it was a couple of weeks ago when we revisited when
We visited another issue regarding housing solutions.

1172
02:32:17,440 --> 02:32:17,440
and so let me first clarify by saying that I am very well aware of the housing
Regulations regarding preferential

1173
02:32:27,100 --> 02:32:29,380
treatment and all of that. So I get that. And so when I ask my question, I want people to understand what I'm asking.

1174
02:32:34,240 --> 02:32:34,240
I want to know how we're going to ensure that everyone who qualifies for this particular
Housing

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02:32:43,840 --> 02:32:43,840
unit is going to be made aware of it.

1176
02:32:49,350 --> 02:32:49,350
does that? And I have some suggestions about how that can be done, but I want to hear
What whoever is responsible is that housing solution.

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02:32:58,340 --> 02:33:01,280
so I want to hear what they have to say. Sure. Thank you. We will punt that to devonna mcglaughlin with housing solutions.

1178
02:33:07,310 --> 02:33:09,410
thank you, madam mayor. Council member harris, my name is davonna mclaughlin, and I have the honor of serving as
The ceo of housing solutions of northern arizona.

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02:33:16,130 --> 02:33:16,130
I would first like to say that housing solutions is committed to serving households in
Our community, and has embraced a culture of diversity and inclusion.

1180
02:33:24,230 --> 02:33:24,230
our sharon manor and jojo's place programs are required due to funder guidelines and hud
Best practices to take referrals from the community's front door coordinated entry

1181
02:33:33,530 --> 02:33:36,320
program as a hud supported best practice. We partner with catholic charities and flagstaff shelter services to accept referrals from
These programs that serve households experiencing homelessness.

1182
02:33:44,240 --> 02:33:44,240
the proposed project before you today will also serve households experiencing
Homelessness, those who have a history of domestic violence, and households under 30% of

1183
02:33:53,600 --> 02:33:55,190
the area median income. Referrals for this program will likely come from the same source the front door
Coordinated entry system, as we're serving a similar demographic population, as required

1184
02:34:04,850 --> 02:34:08,600
by our grant funder, the arizona department of housing. Our staff specifically works with the front door program to ensure that households
Experiencing homelessness can access multiple housing resources through one front door.

1185
02:34:18,320 --> 02:34:18,320
our staff specifically attends weekly case conferencing with housing partners and front
Door staff to accept referrals for our housing programs, including the proposed isabel

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02:34:28,370 --> 02:34:29,960
rental development. In the past year, sharon manor, one of our transitional housing programs, has served 87
Individuals in 39 households.

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02:34:37,160 --> 02:34:37,160
52% of individuals are native american, 36% are caucasian, and 10% are hispanic.

1188
02:34:43,850 --> 02:34:43,850
at jojo's place, which we opened in late january, seven households and were moving in an
Additional two households.

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02:34:50,360 --> 02:34:53,900
today, I don't have their demographic information. Out of the 27 initial households we've served, 58% are caucasian, 23% are native
American, 16% are hispanic, and 3% are african

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02:35:03,800 --> 02:35:03,800
american. 30% of our clients at jojo's are disabled, and our average household area
Median income served as 24.57%.

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02:35:13,250 --> 02:35:16,730
the average age of residents is 56 years old. So we continue to serve those who are struggling in our community to identify housing,
Serving very low income households, as mandated by

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02:35:26,630 --> 02:35:26,630
our grant funders and in partnership with those other homeless service providers that we
Work with on a regular basis to accept referrals.

1193
02:35:34,370 --> 02:35:34,370
I'm happy to answer questions about specifics about how referrals come to us, but the
Coordinated entry front door system is one that we've worked hard through partner agencies

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02:35:44,060 --> 02:35:44,060
to cultivate over the last several years, and one that is embraced by department of
Housing, the continuum of care hud itself, and one that we

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02:35:53,750 --> 02:35:53,750
enjoy working with partners to ensure that households experiencing homelessness have one
Access point to multiple services, including ours.

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02:36:02,210 --> 02:36:05,780
I don't know if that answered your question, council member harris. No, I think it it really doesn't.

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02:36:08,720 --> 02:36:08,720
and so I'm going to make a comment here about why I keep asking this question.

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02:36:13,760 --> 02:36:13,760
I keep asking this question because all of us know that historically, people who have
Been

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02:36:23,660 --> 02:36:23,660
historically marginalized oftentimes does not access the services that are systematic
Because they have heart

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02:36:33,530 --> 02:36:36,590
failings or they have distrust of those services. And what I'm trying to get at is that I want us to look at how we get into those spaces.

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02:36:44,540 --> 02:36:44,540
and the person is shaking their head in the audience because they know what I'm talking
About.

1202
02:36:48,980 --> 02:36:48,980
how do we get into those spaces where those people are, those people where people who are
Experiencing historical trauma or

1203
02:36:58,430 --> 02:36:58,430
whatever from systems that have historically abused them, how do we get into those spaces
To get this

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02:37:07,700 --> 02:37:09,350
information to them? That's the question that I'm trying to ask.

1205
02:37:12,020 --> 02:37:12,020
and I guess I haven't been really real successful at articulating my concerns.

1206
02:37:19,070 --> 02:37:19,070
what I'm wanting to know is that, well, what I'm I shouldn't say wanting to know, but
What I'm going to say is that oftentimes domestic violence

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02:37:28,250 --> 02:37:28,250
shelters a lot of women will not go to those shelters for a number of reasons.

1208
02:37:35,180 --> 02:37:35,180
and so I want to know, what else can we do to get information out to people who may be
Experiencing that other than the

1209
02:37:44,900 --> 02:37:44,900
traditional ways of going to another institution?

1210
02:37:49,880 --> 02:37:49,880
you know, so I may if I'm a domestic violence person and I'm african american,
Probability that I'm going to go to one of those other places is not very

1211
02:37:59,450 --> 02:37:59,450
likely, especially if I have had issues with systems before.

1212
02:38:06,410 --> 02:38:09,020
or so. Am I making sense? You are. But I think it's a broader discussion that just doesn't involve our agency.

1213
02:38:14,480 --> 02:38:14,480
so I would love to have the conversation with some of those agency partners that we work
With.

1214
02:38:20,270 --> 02:38:20,270
we are not a homeless outreach agency.

1215
02:38:24,440 --> 02:38:24,440
we're not the path team that's out making sure that individuals who are unhoused in the
Forest or in

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02:38:34,100 --> 02:38:37,280
unsuitable living conditions, that's not what I'm asking you to do. Okay, then that is not what I'm asking you to do.

1217
02:38:40,160 --> 02:38:42,080
so our hands are tied in some ways. And how we have to accept referrals given our funding partners, if we're mandated by the
Department of housing, who has given us millions of dollars to build housing to

1218
02:38:51,650 --> 02:38:51,650
utilize referral systems like the front door, then we can certainly work with our front
Door partners to make sure that that outreach is happening in a better, more equitable,

1219
02:39:01,460 --> 02:39:02,540
thoughtful way. But we can't have side doors to get into our programs because we will have findings from
The department of housing because we're not utilizing their best

1220
02:39:12,050 --> 02:39:12,050
practices. So I do understand what you're saying, and I wholeheartedly support efforts to
Increase outreach and to ensure that folks that have

1221
02:39:22,040 --> 02:39:22,040
historically been marginalized and unable to access services have the ability to get into
Our programs.

1222
02:39:28,610 --> 02:39:28,610
but I do need to have those conversations with our partners and our funders because we
Can't be putting at risk our agency because of noncompliance.

1223
02:39:38,740 --> 02:39:41,860
okay. So I'm going to make this last comment and then I'm going to let this go. I'm not asking you to do that.

1224
02:39:43,420 --> 02:39:46,750
I would never, ever ask you to put your funding at risk. Okay. And I'm very well aware of the restrictions that come along with a lot of funding.

1225
02:39:51,580 --> 02:39:53,230
so let me say that up front. So I'm not asking you to do that, nor would I ever ask you to do that.

1226
02:39:57,220 --> 02:39:57,220
but I am asking people that run certain kinds of programs to try and make sure that
People who traditionally may not

1227
02:40:06,730 --> 02:40:06,730
access those programs, that we try and reach out to them.

1228
02:40:10,870 --> 02:40:10,870
and there are a number of ways that that can be done without doing the things that you're
Saying.

1229
02:40:16,090 --> 02:40:16,090
so I'm going to stop right there and and leave it.

1230
02:40:20,650 --> 02:40:20,650
and I know for a fact that you have hired some people, and I'm hoping that they will help
You to do the kinds of things that

1231
02:40:30,220 --> 02:40:33,850
I've articulated here today. Okay. Thank you. Council questions.

1232
02:40:41,570 --> 02:40:44,090
all right. I'm going to take public comment. So davonna.

1233
02:40:49,200 --> 02:40:51,750
I just finished saying I was like, this is going to be me again. Yes. All right.

1234
02:40:53,250 --> 02:40:54,360
hang on one second. I'm sorry. Let me find what I want to say.

1235
02:40:57,690 --> 02:40:59,580
eek! Awesome. All right. So thank you so much.

1236
02:41:02,160 --> 02:41:02,160
madam mayor and members of city council we are grateful and excited to be before you
Tonight for your consideration to move forward with approval of the lease agreement

1237
02:41:11,850 --> 02:41:11,850
that will allow us to develop and construct 11 three bedroom apartments on the isabelle
Property owned by the city of flagstaff.

1238
02:41:18,900 --> 02:41:21,630
the idea of this development has been a long time coming. And and justina went through the history of this property, and it requires many partners
To make this possible.

1239
02:41:27,240 --> 02:41:27,240
we're thankful to the city's partnership in this project, as the first domino to fall for
Affordable housing is often land and site control.

1240
02:41:34,980 --> 02:41:38,460
without access to land, it's impossible to develop housing. We're also excited to bring forward additional leverage and funding partnerships to make
This possible.

1241
02:41:43,890 --> 02:41:43,890
development and construction takes significant financial investments, and we're thrilled
To be working with the arizona department of housing to complete the environmental review

1242
02:41:52,320 --> 02:41:52,320
and site control requirements, to execute our grant agreement, to be able to secure the
Necessary funding to construct these apartments.

1243
02:42:00,150 --> 02:42:00,150
as a community housing development organization, housing solutions has the experience and
Expertise in affordable housing development.

1244
02:42:07,080 --> 02:42:07,080
we've successfully redeveloped jojo's place, utilizing funding from the department of
Housing to renovate an aged motel property and create 44 studio apartments serving

1245
02:42:16,620 --> 02:42:18,720
households experiencing homelessness. With your help at the city of flagstaff utilizing cdbg funding and private financing, we
Were able to expand and remodel our sharon manor transitional housing

1246
02:42:28,470 --> 02:42:32,400
program to serve 29 households at any given time. We're excited about this new opportunity to build affordable housing, which will serve
Our community for 99 years, providing decent, safe and affordable housing to very low

1247
02:42:41,250 --> 02:42:45,090
income, formerly homeless households or victims of domestic violence. We know the need for decent, affordable housing continues to grow in our community, and
We're honored to work with partners such as the city to bring these units forward.

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02:42:53,100 --> 02:42:53,100
we currently own and lease 25 scattered site permanent rental units, 24 located in
Flagstaff.

1249
02:42:59,670 --> 02:42:59,670
we'll expand that to 26 units in the fall with the acquisition of two new condominiums in
Partnership with the city, and we'll expand even more with the completion of these units,

1250
02:43:09,510 --> 02:43:09,510
managing an inventory of 37 affordable rentals that provide permanent affordable housing.

1251
02:43:14,790 --> 02:43:14,790
that's in addition to the 44 transitional housing units at jojo's place, the 29
Transitional housing units at sharon manor, and the 32 housing units we're working to open

1252
02:43:24,720 --> 02:43:26,220
in the fall in cottonwood. In case you were adding that up, it will be 142 total units of affordable rental housing,
Benefiting low income households in our northern arizona communities.

1253
02:43:35,460 --> 02:43:35,460
we are grateful for this opportunity and partnership, and we thank you for your
Investment in affordable housing.

1254
02:43:41,280 --> 02:43:44,640
and I really wanted to get down for that. Timer came off because it scared me twice. So thank you. Thank you.

1255
02:43:47,970 --> 02:43:47,970
giovanna. And I would just like to say to.

1256
02:43:54,480 --> 02:43:54,480
to you and your staff at housing solutions, as well as to all of our other partners in
This work, that

1257
02:44:04,230 --> 02:44:04,230
I appreciate that you have taken on such a huge part of the burden of addressing

1258
02:44:13,830 --> 02:44:13,830
our housing crisis, and I'm glad that we can we can partner in this way, and I'm looking
Forward

1259
02:44:23,700 --> 02:44:23,700
to many more partnerships and looking forward to all of us working together to attract
Additional resources to this community so that we can get our

1260
02:44:33,660 --> 02:44:33,660
neighbors housed and safe and and keep our residents living in flagstaff.

1261
02:44:43,310 --> 02:44:46,730
any additional comments or questions? Because I will entertain a motion to approve and to authorize the city manager to execute
The ground lease.

1262
02:44:55,730 --> 02:44:55,730
mayor, I'd like to move to approve the ground lease with housing solutions of northern
Arizona, as well as authorize the city manager to execute the ground

1263
02:45:05,420 --> 02:45:07,370
lease. Is there a second? I'll second any discussion.

1264
02:45:10,100 --> 02:45:12,950
all those in favor? Aye, aye. Any opposed?

1265
02:45:14,990 --> 02:45:17,870
all right. Thank you very much. All right. Moving down to item number c consideration and adoption of ordinance number
2024-18.

1266
02:45:51,110 --> 02:45:53,330
good afternoon, mayor and council. Bryce doty, real estate manager.

1267
02:45:55,160 --> 02:45:55,160
today, I'm here to present an ordinance proposing a property exchange related to real
Property that we need for the lone tree overpass.

1268
02:46:03,260 --> 02:46:05,030
so here's where we're at in the world. The yellow star.

1269
02:46:07,850 --> 02:46:10,820
and here is the aerial. So what we're at where we're at right here is the northwest corner intersection of butler
And colorado, which will become lone tree.

1270
02:46:21,470 --> 02:46:21,470
we previously purchased the corner lot, which which had a house on it that's since been
Demolished.

1271
02:46:27,710 --> 02:46:27,710
and now that we have 100% design, we know exactly kind of what we need from that lot.

1272
02:46:32,570 --> 02:46:32,570
and so what what is highlighted here in the red or outlined in the red, that's actually
Land that we do not need for the project.

1273
02:46:40,160 --> 02:46:40,160
and so what we do need, though, is about 223ft² on the neighboring parcel owned by the
Hondells.

1274
02:46:48,050 --> 02:46:48,050
and so what this ordinance does is propose that instead of purchasing theirs outright, we
Actually do a swap.

1275
02:46:54,800 --> 02:46:54,800
and we did it's not quite apples to apples, because what we have left over is not really
A lot that has as much value as it used to

1276
02:47:04,280 --> 02:47:06,710
because it's 1000ft². So it's not really a legal lot.

1277
02:47:09,620 --> 02:47:09,620
and, and so really we, we valued that for more of its assemblage purposes to the adjacent
Lot.

1278
02:47:16,190 --> 02:47:16,190
so that's why even though we're giving them more square feet the numbers are about the
Same, but it ends up being that the proposed trade would be about $400, that they would

1279
02:47:25,760 --> 02:47:28,790
owe us to the city for the, for the exchange. And so that's really all there is to this and that.

1280
02:47:34,250 --> 02:47:37,160
there we go. That's a bit better idea of understanding. So we're giving them the yellow and we're receiving the green.

1281
02:47:40,760 --> 02:47:43,550
and that will become part of their lot. And that's that's all there is to it.

1282
02:47:46,010 --> 02:47:46,010
I'm happy to address any questions if you have any concerns about it council.

1283
02:47:50,090 --> 02:47:50,090
any questions.

1284
02:47:55,730 --> 02:47:55,730
all right. I will entertain a motion to read the ordinance for the first time.

1285
02:48:03,410 --> 02:48:03,410
mayor. I'll move to read ordinance number 2024-1 8 or 1 eight by title only for the first
Time.

1286
02:48:12,640 --> 02:48:14,320
is there a second? I'll second. Any discussion?

1287
02:48:17,440 --> 02:48:20,260
all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed?

1288
02:48:21,960 --> 02:48:25,020
you did such a great job of explaining everything. There were no questions.

1289
02:48:26,820 --> 02:48:26,820
perfect. Okay, so moving down to d.

1290
02:48:32,260 --> 02:48:35,560
oh, what did I do? I still have to read. Oh that's what we were voting on this one for me.

1291
02:48:40,840 --> 02:48:40,840
an ordinance of the city council of the city of flagstaff authorizing the exchange of
Real property of substantially equal value with property owners gary g.

1292
02:48:49,000 --> 02:48:50,590
and mary eileen hundelt. Providing for severability, authority for clerical corrections and establishing an
Effective date.

1293
02:48:55,810 --> 02:48:58,300
thank you. My apologies. Now we're moving down to d consideration and adoption of resolution number 202432.

1294
02:49:04,810 --> 02:49:04,810
and ordinance number 2024-20.

1295
02:49:12,640 --> 02:49:14,110
good afternoon, mayor and council. I believe that's me if I'm reading it correctly.

1296
02:49:17,140 --> 02:49:17,140
so we're here today to talk about chapter 12 of the city code.

1297
02:49:21,640 --> 02:49:24,250
so that is the floodplain regulations. Again, my name is ed schenck.

1298
02:49:25,810 --> 02:49:28,030
I'm the stormwater section director. I do want to give a thanks to other staff.

1299
02:49:31,090 --> 02:49:31,090
so chase mcleod, who's the project manager for floodplain management, as well as
Sterling, who did a very thorough review of chapter 12.

1300
02:49:39,790 --> 02:49:42,340
I do not have a presentation today. This is a fairly minor revision of our chapter 12 code.

1301
02:49:47,650 --> 02:49:50,200
the last revision was in 2011. Since that time, fema has changed a lot of their terminology within their own federal
Code and federal regulations.

1302
02:49:59,410 --> 02:49:59,410
and with those changes in their terminology, both fema as well as the state regulators.

1303
02:50:04,510 --> 02:50:07,420
so that would be the arizona department of water resources. Have reached out to the city to revise our code.

1304
02:50:10,840 --> 02:50:10,840
accordingly. So if you read through the red line that's in your packet, you'll see it's
Very minimal.

1305
02:50:16,630 --> 02:50:19,240
it's really just clarifying a few terms. Changing a few terms to be up to date and changing a few things that were implicit to
Explicit.

1306
02:50:25,750 --> 02:50:28,930
so there's no change in policy, there's no change in financial implications. There's no change to the community in terms of how we regulate.

1307
02:50:33,670 --> 02:50:37,210
this chapter 12 happy to take any questions. If not happy to to move this along and, and hopefully get done before recess.

1308
02:50:43,570 --> 02:50:45,370
thank you. Thank you. Any questions?

1309
02:50:48,800 --> 02:50:48,800
how about a motion to read the resolution by title only?

1310
02:50:53,240 --> 02:50:53,240
mayor, I move to read resolution number 2024-32 by title only.

1311
02:51:00,900 --> 02:51:03,720
second. Any discussion? All those in favor?

1312
02:51:05,010 --> 02:51:08,130
aye aye aye. Any opposed? City clerk.

1313
02:51:09,750 --> 02:51:09,750
a resolution of the flagstaff city council declaring as a public record that certain
Document filed with the city clerk and entitled 2024 revisions to floodplain regulations.

1314
02:51:20,250 --> 02:51:20,250
thank you. And another motion, please.

1315
02:51:24,920 --> 02:51:24,920
I moved to read ordinance number 2024-20 by title only for the first time.

1316
02:51:32,640 --> 02:51:35,640
and a second second. Any discussion?

1317
02:51:37,110 --> 02:51:40,410
all those in favor? Aye, aye. Any opposed? City clerk, an ordinance of the city council of the city of flagstaff.

1318
02:51:44,190 --> 02:51:47,460
amending the flagstaff city code. Title 12, flood plains. Chapter 12 dash zero one floodplain regulations by adopting by reference that certain
Document entitled 2024 revisions to floodplain regulations providing for penalties,

1319
02:51:57,360 --> 02:51:57,360
repeal of conflicting ordinances, severability and establishing an effective date.

1320
02:52:01,710 --> 02:52:04,680
thank you. See you on july 2nd. See you soon. Thank you.

1321
02:52:06,750 --> 02:52:06,750
all right. Moving down to item number e consideration and adoption of resolution number
2024-31.

1322
02:52:20,640 --> 02:52:20,640
all right.

1323
02:52:31,180 --> 02:52:35,050
oh. Sorry. Just bear with me. One moment.

1324
02:52:39,440 --> 02:52:39,440
yes. Good evening, mayor and council.

1325
02:52:49,010 --> 02:52:49,010
I'm here to talk about the woodshire on butler condominiums and a proposed amended
Development agreement.

1326
02:52:57,450 --> 02:52:57,450
the site is located just south of east butler, near harrold ranch road.

1327
02:53:03,420 --> 02:53:03,420
and then to the kind of south and west is little america, just to orient where everybody
Is at.

1328
02:53:11,490 --> 02:53:11,490
the site is zoned high density residential, and then a portion of it is highway
Commercial.

1329
02:53:18,870 --> 02:53:21,150
and here's an aerial for context. So during the site planning for the proposed woodshire development in the summer of 20.

1330
02:53:26,970 --> 02:53:26,970
yeah. 2018, it was proposed that about a three quarter of an acre remnant parcel from the
Planned harold harold ranch roundabout be sold to the

1331
02:53:36,930 --> 02:53:36,930
developer to achieve two goals to increase the number of units in the development from 40
To 50, and to provide secondary access to the development from the

1332
02:53:46,860 --> 02:53:46,860
roundabout. So while currently that lot line is going straight down the middle, there's
Actually been a plot that creates that about just an acre parcel to

1333
02:53:56,760 --> 02:53:56,760
that site. The city's estimate of the property's value was about

1334
02:54:05,230 --> 02:54:05,230
175,000. The city posted an invitation for bid from for the sale of the property in
January of 2019, with a minimum bid

1335
02:54:15,160 --> 02:54:15,160
requirement of $130,000, plus the legal obligation to construct a minimum of five
Permanently affordable ownership units.

1336
02:54:24,580 --> 02:54:24,580
berkshire brookfield was the sole bidder and council accepted the offer in march of 2019.

1337
02:54:31,330 --> 02:54:31,330
this allowed berkshire to move forward with their site plan, which was approved in may of
2019.

1338
02:54:38,200 --> 02:54:38,200
then, in july of 2019, the preliminary plat development agreement and purchase contract
Was approved by council.

1339
02:54:45,490 --> 02:54:49,330
the final plat was approved in february of 2021. Of the five required affordable ownership units, only one has been built and sold to
Date.

1340
02:54:55,000 --> 02:54:55,000
the first affordable purchase contract was signed in 20th october of 2021 for $278,000.

1341
02:55:03,700 --> 02:55:03,700
however, the home builder ultimately withdrew the following year due to construction
Delays and rising interest rates.

1342
02:55:12,040 --> 02:55:12,040
the second affordable purchase contract was signed in may of 2022 for $326,000 give or
Take a little.

1343
02:55:22,000 --> 02:55:22,000
and in september of 2023, the first affordable condo was built and sold.

1344
02:55:27,910 --> 02:55:27,910
however, soon after that, we began conversations with brookfield about possibly amending
The da.

1345
02:55:35,580 --> 02:55:35,580
so the construction process at woodshire has been greatly impacted by covid 19 due to
Labor shortages, supply

1346
02:55:45,030 --> 02:55:48,210
issues and delivery delays. So the initial affordable sales price was about 275,000, which is about 20% less than the
Market rate units of 330,000.

1347
02:55:58,350 --> 02:55:58,350
the affordable sales price has increased by roughly $100,000 since the initial units were
Offered for sale in 2020, and are currently going for about

1348
02:56:08,130 --> 02:56:08,130
368,000. The latest challenge has been raising interest rates and the cost that that adds
To a monthly housing payment.

1349
02:56:18,080 --> 02:56:18,080
the da currently restricts the housing payment to 30% of the eligible buyer's monthly
Household income, with no exceptions.

1350
02:56:27,950 --> 02:56:27,950
housing staff members have been have seen consistent interest in the affordable units
From eligible buyers since 2020, but the eligibility.

1351
02:56:38,000 --> 02:56:38,000
the ability of eligible buyers to enter into a successful purchase contract has been
Hampered by the issues previously discussed, and there have been no more

1352
02:56:48,140 --> 02:56:48,140
purchase contracts since may of 2022.

1353
02:56:53,330 --> 02:56:55,910
so there's a lot on this slide. I'm not going to read it all. But in summary, since 2020 3rd september of 2023, city staff members have been working
With brookfield on the proposals that have

1354
02:57:05,120 --> 02:57:05,120
included in fee options, as well as greatly reducing the price of two units to 275,000
And

1355
02:57:15,080 --> 02:57:17,750
then selling the other two at market rate. These were ultimately not acceptable by staff.

1356
02:57:21,200 --> 02:57:21,200
and then the the applicant proposed an amendment to simply increase the army of the
Eligible buyers from 100%

1357
02:57:30,110 --> 02:57:30,110
to 125% ami.

1358
02:57:34,160 --> 02:57:38,030
staff agreed to this increase if the current sales price. Remains at $368,000.

1359
02:57:41,390 --> 02:57:43,370
for the remaining affordable units. And the applicant has agreed.

1360
02:57:47,190 --> 02:57:47,190
so mutually acceptable and supported by several members of the community.

1361
02:57:51,900 --> 02:57:51,900
the proposed change that we're presenting tonight is to section 4.3, one of the existing
Development agreement.

1362
02:58:00,870 --> 02:58:00,870
so changing the 100% ami to 125% locking in the commitment that the remaining units be
Sold

1363
02:58:10,830 --> 02:58:14,290
at 368,000. Also allowing a little flexibility on that 30% and allowing the housing director to
Approve,

1364
02:58:24,220 --> 02:58:24,220
you know, a little bit more in case we do run into those issues again with the rising
Interest cost.

1365
02:58:30,310 --> 02:58:30,310
and then also, we've built in the ability for a two year extension at the request of the
Written request of the developer for two years extension of this

1366
02:58:39,880 --> 02:58:39,880
agreement, understanding the different challenges that are proposed.

1367
02:58:46,770 --> 02:58:46,770
here is just a bit of an affordability affordability analysis with the 2024 new median
Income limits.

1368
02:58:54,540 --> 02:58:54,540
so you can see that with the new sale adjusted price, that that would likely serve
Households of 3 or 4.

1369
02:59:02,190 --> 02:59:02,190
and if you have any questions about this specific slide, I'm going to turn to my friends
In housing to address those.

1370
02:59:09,450 --> 02:59:12,690
and that's all we have for presentation. As I said, this is a mutually agreed upon and acceptable by both housing staff planning
As well as the applicant.

1371
02:59:19,920 --> 02:59:19,920
and the applicant is here as well to answer additional questions.

1372
02:59:25,190 --> 02:59:26,860
thank you. Council questions.

1373
02:59:32,730 --> 02:59:36,630
I don't see any public comment. So if I will entertain a motion.

1374
02:59:43,130 --> 02:59:43,130
mayor. I move that we read resolution 2024 dash 31 by title only.

1375
02:59:50,440 --> 02:59:51,670
is there a second? I'll second. Any discussion?

1376
02:59:54,460 --> 02:59:55,780
all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed?

1377
02:59:59,020 --> 03:00:00,400
city clerk. A resolution of the flagstaff city council authorizing the execution of the first
Amendment to the development agreement between woodshire en butler, llc and the city of

1378
03:00:09,640 --> 03:00:09,640
flagstaff, related to the development of approximately 4.06 acres of real property,
Generally located at 3001 east butler avenue and establishing

1379
03:00:19,570 --> 03:00:19,570
an effective date. I moved to adopt resolution 2024 dash 31.

1380
03:00:26,670 --> 03:00:29,640
is there a second? I'll second any discussion. All those in favor?

1381
03:00:31,080 --> 03:00:34,800
aye, aye. All right. Thank you, thank you.

1382
03:00:37,520 --> 03:00:37,520
all right. Moving down to item number or letter f consideration and adoption of
Resolution number

1383
03:00:44,480 --> 03:00:44,480
2024-28. If I can get my papers together here.

1384
03:00:52,910 --> 03:00:54,170
good evening, mayor and council. Stacey saltzburg. I serve as your city clerk.

1385
03:00:57,170 --> 03:01:01,130
I'm actually going to talk just a little bit about the next two items. So items 12 f and 12 g, as they're both related to our upcoming november election.

1386
03:01:07,700 --> 03:01:07,700
so the first resolution is to officially call the special election of november 5th, 2020
For this special election will be held in conjunction

1387
03:01:17,660 --> 03:01:20,720
with our regular election. As it relates to our new council members and mayoral election.

1388
03:01:27,200 --> 03:01:27,200
there are two questions that are going to be put on that november 5th ballot.

1389
03:01:34,640 --> 03:01:34,640
we've had discussions here with council about these two items.

1390
03:01:38,750 --> 03:01:38,750
the first relates to the continuation of our existing b-b-b tax, and that will be an
Extension of a through

1391
03:01:48,320 --> 03:01:48,320
2043. And the second question is a continuation and possible increase of our local public
Transit

1392
03:01:57,830 --> 03:01:59,840
transaction privilege tax. And this tax relates to mountain lion and their services.

1393
03:02:10,220 --> 03:02:13,610
moving on to item 12 g. That resolution will approve an intergovernmental agreement with coconino county
Elections.

1394
03:02:20,750 --> 03:02:23,900
and this is to conduct the actual election in november. This is a very typical and standard iga that we do each election cycle.

1395
03:02:29,660 --> 03:02:33,470
there is a financial component to this iga. The county charges us $2 per registered voter.

1396
03:02:37,820 --> 03:02:37,820
so we're looking at approximately $100,000 for the november election based on current
Registered voter numbers.

1397
03:02:48,650 --> 03:02:48,650
so with that, I stand for any questions that you might have.

1398
03:02:54,110 --> 03:02:57,620
thank you. Stacey council questions. Vice mayor. That's the price of five radios.

1399
03:03:00,650 --> 03:03:00,650
let's do it. I would just like to ask some

1400
03:03:10,210 --> 03:03:10,210
clarifying questions for the public so that they can hear the city of flagstaff is not
Equipped

1401
03:03:19,150 --> 03:03:19,150
to. To carry on our own election, correct?

1402
03:03:25,610 --> 03:03:26,990
correct. Yes, mayor. And so we have contracted with the county.

1403
03:03:32,530 --> 03:03:36,040
I mean forever. Forever? Yes. Thank you. And I think those were the two biggest questions I had.

1404
03:03:45,900 --> 03:03:45,900
I'm just thinking of emails that I've received from people in the past about elections
And also mail

1405
03:03:55,140 --> 03:03:55,140
ballots. Mailed ballots will come to voters.

1406
03:04:01,210 --> 03:04:01,210
if you're on the active early voting list or if you request an early ballot.

1407
03:04:07,240 --> 03:04:07,240
that's correct. This election is not an all mail ballot, as was the special election last
November.

1408
03:04:16,210 --> 03:04:17,260
yes, you are correct. There will be a this will be a polling place election in addition to those early ballots.

1409
03:04:22,370 --> 03:04:25,110
okay. Thank you. Questions? Comments?

1410
03:04:27,030 --> 03:04:27,030
I will entertain a motion for f mayor.

1411
03:04:35,760 --> 03:04:37,170
before. Before we take a motion. I'm sorry I failed to mention that part of the call of election is that we will begin to
Solicit pro con statements for the two ballot

1412
03:04:47,010 --> 03:04:47,010
measures that are going to be advanced to that ballot.

1413
03:04:51,960 --> 03:04:51,960
the period to provide those statements ends on.

1414
03:04:58,460 --> 03:04:59,720
I should have this at the top of my head. I believe it is august 5th by 5 p.m.

1415
03:05:03,710 --> 03:05:03,710
to my office, but that will be published in the newspaper and also on our website, and a
Press release will be going out for that.

1416
03:05:10,730 --> 03:05:13,580
so I wanted to make sure I mentioned that for the public. Yes. Thank you.

1417
03:05:14,870 --> 03:05:18,140
and the city doesn't charge for statements. Correct? Correct. And do you know the word limit?

1418
03:05:23,890 --> 03:05:26,690
that's fine. It is. If you give me just a moment, I can clarify that it's in exhibit b that I did not have
Printed for me in front.

1419
03:05:34,520 --> 03:05:37,910
no need, no need. I think it's 300 words. Okay. Thank you.

1420
03:05:40,130 --> 03:05:40,130
all right, so I will entertain a motion to read resolution 24 dash 28 by title only.

1421
03:05:49,680 --> 03:05:49,680
I move to read resolution number 202428 by title only.

1422
03:05:56,150 --> 03:05:57,770
is there a second? I'll second. Any discussion.

1423
03:06:01,470 --> 03:06:02,970
all those in favor? Aye, aye. Any opposed?

1424
03:06:06,330 --> 03:06:09,240
all right. City clerk. A resolution of the flagstaff city council ordering and calling a special election of the
City for november 5th, 2024, in conjunction with the city's general election, to

1425
03:06:19,200 --> 03:06:19,200
submit two questions to the qualified electors of flagstaff with respect to the possible
Continuation of the city lodging, restaurant and lounge, b-b-b tax, and the

1426
03:06:28,860 --> 03:06:28,860
possible increase in continuation of a local transaction privilege tax sales tax for the
Purposes of public transit.

1427
03:06:36,450 --> 03:06:39,610
thank you. Can I get a motion to adopt? I moved to adopt resolution number 202428.

1428
03:06:44,650 --> 03:06:46,920
is there a second? I'll second any discussion.

1429
03:06:49,380 --> 03:06:53,100
all those in favor? Aye, aye. Any opposed? All right. Moving down to g.

1430
03:06:55,980 --> 03:06:55,980
I will entertain a motion to read resolution 2429.

1431
03:07:00,750 --> 03:07:00,750
mayor, I move to read resolution number 202429 by title only.

1432
03:07:06,670 --> 03:07:08,350
is there a second? Second? Any discussion?

1433
03:07:11,110 --> 03:07:14,530
all those in favor? Aye, aye. Any opposed? City clerk.

1434
03:07:15,580 --> 03:07:15,580
a resolution of the flagstaff city council approving an intergovernmental agreement
Between coconino county and the city of flagstaff for election services for the november

1435
03:07:24,020 --> 03:07:27,350
5th, 2024 general election. Can I get a motion to adopt?

1436
03:07:29,180 --> 03:07:29,180
so moved. Is there a second?

1437
03:07:35,010 --> 03:07:38,860
second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Aye aye aye. Any opposed?

1438
03:07:41,530 --> 03:07:44,980
all right. Thank you. Question for stacey real quick. Sure. Stacey.

1439
03:07:46,870 --> 03:07:46,870
if citizens just want to I know it's going to be on the pamphlet, but if they want to do
A comment pro or con.

1440
03:07:56,440 --> 03:07:56,440
besides, we just had recent presentations by b-b-b and, and transit.

1441
03:08:02,950 --> 03:08:02,950
is there any other place where they can go and see the actual numbers so they could talk
Intelligently about the increase or what's being proposed?

1442
03:08:12,160 --> 03:08:12,160
so. Yes, we'll have the ballot questions on our website, on our election website, so that
They can see the exact numbers that are being proposed in terms of

1443
03:08:22,060 --> 03:08:25,270
percentages associated with those taxes. And that will also be published in the newspaper.

1444
03:08:30,010 --> 03:08:30,010
and again, we'll have a press release that will go out that includes that.

1445
03:08:34,810 --> 03:08:38,260
absolutely. It should go out, if not by the end of this week, early next week. Thank you. You bet. All right so that we can stretch our legs and be super sharp.

1446
03:08:47,600 --> 03:08:47,600
for this presentation, I am going to call a ten minute break.

1447
03:08:55,280 --> 03:08:55,280
I've learned not to. All right, let's get started.

1448
03:08:59,740 --> 03:09:03,620
moving down to item number 13. 13 a to be specific carbon neutrality plan by annual progress report.

1449
03:09:12,140 --> 03:09:14,150
good evening, mayor and council. I'm jenny neiman, climate action section director.

1450
03:09:16,700 --> 03:09:16,700
thank you for making time on a busy night for our bi annual progress report on the carbon
Neutrality plan.

1451
03:09:22,970 --> 03:09:22,970
tonight I'll be joined by danny pressler, our climate analyst, brady henderson, one of
Our climate corps volunteer members, and nicole antonopoulos.

1452
03:09:32,750 --> 03:09:35,120
we do have a lengthy presentation. We'll work to be concise and move throughout this important information.

1453
03:09:38,840 --> 03:09:41,240
in the powerpoint, we've added one slide. It's slide 22 that was not in your packet.

1454
03:09:44,240 --> 03:09:45,680
we'll call it out when we get there. Just so you all know, we got some updated information.

1455
03:09:49,700 --> 03:09:49,700
in past biannual updates, we focused on the climate action programs that we have put in
Place to achieve our carbon neutrality plan goals.

1456
03:09:59,510 --> 03:10:01,040
tonight's presentation is different. We're focusing on the goals themselves and the metrics that will help us get to those
Goals.

1457
03:10:08,090 --> 03:10:08,090
this update will be the first step towards a more data informed approach, and will be the
Basis for our progress reports to council moving forward.

1458
03:10:16,790 --> 03:10:16,790
our goal tonight is to build a foundational level of knowledge for our carbon neutrality
Metrics, to help both council and the community understand our key performance

1459
03:10:26,450 --> 03:10:28,400
indicators and how we'll achieve them. And then over the next six years, we'll come back to council and coming back to these
Metrics to illustrate our progress.

1460
03:10:36,470 --> 03:10:38,660
we'll start with a bit of background information. We'll go through the foundations or building blocks of the work that we've done so far.

1461
03:10:43,370 --> 03:10:45,590
we'll review our greenhouse gas emissions. Talk about buildings and transportation are two largest sectors.

1462
03:10:50,240 --> 03:10:50,240
we'll talk a little bit about beyond greenhouse gas emissions and then discuss next
Steps.

1463
03:10:56,770 --> 03:10:56,770
for the benefit of our community listeners, we wanted to review the basics of the carbon
Neutrality plan and introduce our climate action team.

1464
03:11:04,630 --> 03:11:04,630
the carbon neutrality plan includes 15 target areas of action.

1465
03:11:08,920 --> 03:11:10,600
they are visualized here. It's a lot to wrap your arms around.

1466
03:11:13,150 --> 03:11:13,150
we we know that it it really demonstrates the breadth of climate action.

1467
03:11:17,350 --> 03:11:17,350
climate action fundamentally entails change changing from our status quo to a more a more
Resource efficient

1468
03:11:26,680 --> 03:11:26,680
future. And we really must make change across every area of our community, which is why
Our work is so broad.

1469
03:11:33,160 --> 03:11:33,160
we have five and a half team members to support that very broad work and all of this
Change.

1470
03:11:39,820 --> 03:11:39,820
I've briefly summarized a little bit of what our team members do.

1471
03:11:43,840 --> 03:11:43,840
it's an oversimplification, but the point is that because the cmp is so large, all of our
Team members cover many different topics, and we rely heavily on city staff across the

1472
03:11:53,830 --> 03:11:53,830
organization and residents and partners across the community to take action.

1473
03:11:58,450 --> 03:12:02,080
and you'll hear a lot about those different actors today. About half of our work involves supporting those partners.

1474
03:12:06,040 --> 03:12:06,040
half of our time goes to programs that we've developed, and a third magical half goes to
Writing grants.

1475
03:12:12,730 --> 03:12:12,730
kidding aside, I didn't put it on here, but everyone on our team is a grant writer, and
We're also supported right now by six americorps members.

1476
03:12:22,270 --> 03:12:25,900
they serve as either vista or climate corps volunteers. These are temporary position positions.

1477
03:12:28,480 --> 03:12:28,480
they're made possible through a really strong partnership with niu and a strong
Commitment to mentorship in our office, and they're completely critical to all of our work

1478
03:12:37,300 --> 03:12:37,300
and to being able to expand the capacity as we've been able to change.

1479
03:12:41,680 --> 03:12:41,680
and yes, I'm sorry to to you're on your second slide and I'm interrupting.

1480
03:12:46,690 --> 03:12:46,690
that is okay. One of those americorps members is the young man who's working also with
The fire

1481
03:12:56,050 --> 03:12:59,890
department. Am I am I correct? No. So that is actually noah. Noah is he is with the fire department, but he works really closely with us.

1482
03:13:04,480 --> 03:13:07,750
so there are multiple other americorps climate corps members. I believe storm water has one as well.

1483
03:13:10,210 --> 03:13:11,470
and maybe beautification. So there's a couple more actually throughout the city as well.

1484
03:13:14,560 --> 03:13:16,900
thank you. No problem. And now I'm actually thrilled to hand this over to danny to discuss our carbon neutrality
Plan goals.

1485
03:13:27,030 --> 03:13:28,470
good evening, mayor and council. I'm danny pressler, and my role as a climate analyst is focused on understanding and
Mitigating sources of excess greenhouse gas emissions.

1486
03:13:36,780 --> 03:13:36,780
it's an honor to join you this evening to to report on the state of emissions in our
Community.

1487
03:13:41,460 --> 03:13:41,460
we'll get warmed up with a quick refresher course on emission reduction goals and the
Carbon neutrality plan, and focusing tonight on the two major sources of greenhouse gas

1488
03:13:50,970 --> 03:13:54,060
emissions building energy and transportation. The cnp establishes other metrics that are critical to achieving carbon neutrality,
Including reducing emissions from our landfill and significant carbon dioxide removal

1489
03:14:03,330 --> 03:14:05,490
efforts. For the sake of time. We'll only touch briefly on these important topics tonight, but we will be giving more
Detailed attention to them when we come back in the fall for our next presentation.

1490
03:14:16,690 --> 03:14:16,690
flagstaff ability to achieve carbon neutrality will depend on actions taken across
Residential, commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the city itself, which owns and

1491
03:14:26,680 --> 03:14:29,770
maintains nearly 1,000,000ft² of buildings. There are several strategies to reduce emissions from building energy, but I like to sum
These up as using cleaner energy and using it more efficiently in the using it

1492
03:14:39,670 --> 03:14:40,900
more efficiently bucket. Our goals include reducing energy and natural gas use and completing energy retrofits of
Existing buildings on the city's part.

1493
03:14:48,580 --> 03:14:48,580
our goals include reducing energy by 28%, cutting natural gas use by 60%, and
Retrofitting all of our existing city buildings on the residential

1494
03:14:58,480 --> 03:14:58,480
side, the goals are to reduce energy use by 43%, cut natural gas use by 62%, and retrofit
50% of homes, which is about

1495
03:15:07,990 --> 03:15:07,990
12,500 homes.

1496
03:15:12,490 --> 03:15:12,490
for the commercial sector, the path to carbon neutrality calls for an 11% reduction in
Energy use, 20% reduction in natural gas use, and completing deep energy retrofits on

1497
03:15:22,030 --> 03:15:24,160
15% of commercial buildings. The cnp, determined to not rely on energy and natural gas use reduced from the industrial
Sector, and this is only because these processes can be a lot harder to

1498
03:15:33,310 --> 03:15:33,310
decarbonize. As such, we don't have any goals established for these metrics.

1499
03:15:37,840 --> 03:15:39,190
for the industrial sector. However, this means that any work in energy efficiency or electrification taking on by
The industrial sector is really a bonus and helps us get closer to our

1500
03:15:49,180 --> 03:15:49,180
carbon neutrality goals.

1501
03:15:53,480 --> 03:15:56,120
in the use cleaner energy bucket. Our goals are established for installing new solar systems, leveraging clean or zero
Emission electricity, and converting buildings to run fully on electricity instead of

1502
03:16:06,020 --> 03:16:08,870
using natural gas for our city buildings. Carbon neutrality calls for expanding solar to cover 100% of our municipal energy demand.

1503
03:16:14,570 --> 03:16:17,360
and electrifying all of our new city buildings. For the residential sector, the goals are to increase solar system, excuse me, increase
Solar capacity by ten megawatts across 2000

1504
03:16:26,870 --> 03:16:26,870
homes and leveraging 72% clean energy and electrifying 68% of our homes.

1505
03:16:34,680 --> 03:16:35,910
for the commercial sector. Clean energy goals include installing ten megawatts of new solar systems, leveraging 69%
Of clean energy, and electrifying 25% of these commercial buildings.

1506
03:16:45,720 --> 03:16:45,720
on the industrial side, this carbon neutrality plan calls for five additional megawatts
Of solar energy and 68% clean energy by 2030.

1507
03:16:57,860 --> 03:16:59,810
the carbon neutrality plan. Transportation strategies fall into two main buckets supporting multimodal transportation
And the adoption of electric vehicles.

1508
03:17:06,830 --> 03:17:06,830
our path to carbon neutrality by 2030 calls for holding the number of miles traveled by
Vehicles to the same levels as 2019.

1509
03:17:15,580 --> 03:17:15,580
by increasing residential density, reducing the distance to transit lines, and fully
Funding our active transportation master plan, it will be easier for our community members

1510
03:17:24,520 --> 03:17:26,920
to skip the car ride to get where they need to go. Recognizing that vehicles are still an important part of our transportation system, the
Carbon neutrality plan seeks to reduce emissions by having 30% of those vehicle miles

1511
03:17:36,490 --> 03:17:38,740
traveled from electric vehicles. The city aims to enable greater adoption of evs by providing 50 public charging stations
And walking the talk by transitioning our own fleet to electric vehicles, starting with

1512
03:17:48,580 --> 03:17:52,000
sedans and suvs and more recently, pickup trucks. I'm going to hand the mic back to jenny now.

1513
03:17:58,050 --> 03:18:01,830
thank you. Danny. We're going to do a little switching back and forth. Danny is really the one that we let do the phone numbers.

1514
03:18:05,790 --> 03:18:05,790
I'm going to discuss how we've been laying the foundations for our carbon neutrality
Work.

1515
03:18:10,650 --> 03:18:14,580
this is some way a brief summary of what we've been up to the last three years. It is only highlights, but you will definitely have heard some of this in cmp updates.

1516
03:18:20,100 --> 03:18:20,100
I think a good way to think about it is, you know, the first time you buy an electric
Vehicle as a big organization, there's a lot to learn.

1517
03:18:26,310 --> 03:18:27,510
there's a lot to know about procurement. There's a lot of things. The 10th electric vehicle gets easier, right?

1518
03:18:30,870 --> 03:18:33,150
the 30th electric vehicle, it gets easier. And so we're we're in similar situations like that throughout basically all of our work
Because again, the the foundational aspect here is change.

1519
03:18:44,130 --> 03:18:44,130
I'm going to briefly review our timeline, and I don't want to get too bogged down in it.

1520
03:18:48,540 --> 03:18:48,540
but again, for the benefit of the community, we really wanted to kind of do a quick look
Back.

1521
03:18:53,850 --> 03:18:56,040
we adopted the carbon neutrality plan. Council adopted the carbon neutrality plan in june of 2021.

1522
03:19:00,330 --> 03:19:02,340
that is the yellow star here. The pink arrow is where we are today.

1523
03:19:06,910 --> 03:19:06,910
the first thing that we did, the first major action that we took was actually revising
Our regional plan to make sure that our regional plan matched where we were going with the

1524
03:19:16,210 --> 03:19:17,650
carbon neutrality plan. It was they were in line with each other, but we really wanted to incorporate that.

1525
03:19:21,340 --> 03:19:21,340
and so we took a very lengthy process of talking to the public.

1526
03:19:25,780 --> 03:19:29,770
pretty much as soon as the carbon neutrality plan was passed. The next thing we did was revise the carbon neutrality plan.

1527
03:19:33,430 --> 03:19:33,430
this integrated the adaptation elements into the cmp that were prior in the 2018 climate
Action and adaptation plan, and one

1528
03:19:43,420 --> 03:19:43,420
notable item is that due to the june adoption of the carbon neutrality plan in 2021, the
First fiscal year that we actually had impacted by the carbon neutrality

1529
03:19:53,290 --> 03:19:53,290
plan was just last fiscal year, fiscal year from 2022 to 2023.

1530
03:19:58,930 --> 03:19:58,930
finally, as discussed in april, we plan to revise second time starting next year.

1531
03:20:06,310 --> 03:20:06,310
and so really taking back a step back from that timeline, we wanted to kind of talk about
The sorts of things we've been doing in the last three years and the sorts of things that

1532
03:20:15,760 --> 03:20:19,390
we're going to be doing in the next four years. Quick math. We've been really busy, incredibly busy planning those seeds for change.

1533
03:20:24,580 --> 03:20:27,250
this includes laying foundations. It might be new programing, it might be new positions.

1534
03:20:30,010 --> 03:20:33,850
it's new data collection. It's building community capacity. Sometimes that starts one conversation at a time.

1535
03:20:36,340 --> 03:20:38,260
that goes through partnerships. It includes nudging folks to change behaviors, helping to change sort of the idea of,
Could I have a heat pump in my home?

1536
03:20:45,520 --> 03:20:48,700
or could I take the bus to work one day a month? It also involves working with industry to change technology.

1537
03:20:52,300 --> 03:20:52,300
soon we'll move into code and policy changes, and we'll talk a little bit about that
Later.

1538
03:20:57,460 --> 03:21:01,420
and these are all step one. And these really lay the seeds for emission reductions. And then step two and these are these later years that we're coming into is when we hope
To start to see those emission reductions.

1539
03:21:08,020 --> 03:21:08,020
and so that's when you move from early adopters into more and more people adopting that
New technology.

1540
03:21:14,770 --> 03:21:14,770
that's when you get those community changes, when you have increased community capacity
For these conversations and more.

1541
03:21:21,520 --> 03:21:21,520
and once these changes start to take place, that's when you start to see those emission
Reductions, those generally we expect to start happening around year six, which is

1542
03:21:30,520 --> 03:21:30,520
2027. And so one thing again, that's not on here.

1543
03:21:34,990 --> 03:21:34,990
our grants grants are available to support much of this work.

1544
03:21:39,670 --> 03:21:41,950
and we are actively pursuing that. But this is generally supported by a large mix of existing staff capacity, a bit of new
Staff capacity, grant funding, etc..

1545
03:21:52,080 --> 03:21:52,080
I'm going to expand a bit on some of those foundational elements that I mentioned.

1546
03:21:57,150 --> 03:21:58,770
the first is really fundamentals. So we got one new position with the carbon neutrality plan one and a half.

1547
03:22:03,060 --> 03:22:03,060
really. The energy specialist is half grant funded for three years.

1548
03:22:07,500 --> 03:22:10,260
we started with expanding our existing programs. We said, what are we doing right now and what can we ramp up really, really quickly?

1549
03:22:13,530 --> 03:22:13,530
that is our rebate programs, our hepa filter distribution program, those we were doing
Before the start of the adoption of the carbon neutrality plan.

1550
03:22:21,750 --> 03:22:25,410
we've also created new offerings to respond to community needs. One highlight is our flood proofing assistance program as well as our climate resilience
Project.

1551
03:22:31,290 --> 03:22:33,960
and we've also found new ways to collect data. These are sort of the fundamentals that support all the rest of our work.

1552
03:22:37,830 --> 03:22:41,100
building community capacity involves supporting our many partners. Now you see the county helping them to also move forward because they are big players in
Our community.

1553
03:22:48,510 --> 03:22:48,510
we also work with members of our climate advisory groups who actually advise on our
Programing, and they're from the community, and we support climate action in schools

1554
03:22:58,410 --> 03:22:59,610
to take climate action. We also really need businesses and industry partners.

1555
03:23:02,910 --> 03:23:02,910
so we've been working to catalyze businesses and develop local industries.

1556
03:23:07,230 --> 03:23:11,100
the best example of this is the four corners carbon coalition. This coalition provides seed funding for carbon dioxide removal pilots throughout the
Four corner states.

1557
03:23:17,640 --> 03:23:20,670
the city founded that this coalition. We're really excited. We have a local project in town that we hope will be removing
Carbon dioxide from the air by the end of 2024.

1558
03:23:28,560 --> 03:23:28,560
we also work to support small businesses through trainings and things like our ev sales
Tax rebate program that supported local ev purchases.

1559
03:23:39,030 --> 03:23:42,630
now, incentives involve working more directly in homes. We know that to see change, we have to change behavior.

1560
03:23:45,780 --> 03:23:48,510
and to change behavior you have to change the incentives. It's the only way that it really works.

1561
03:23:50,790 --> 03:23:54,210
the most effective way to do this is to change it through financial incentives. And so the city has provided increased assistance for home energy rebates, as well as a
Bonus for low income families.

1562
03:24:01,710 --> 03:24:05,100
finally, code and policy changes on the timeline. This is where you really start to see those large changes, right?

1563
03:24:08,460 --> 03:24:08,460
the the larger scale as opposed to working house by house or vehicle by vehicle, to see
That sort of policy level change.

1564
03:24:15,060 --> 03:24:15,060
all the projects are here are ongoing, and I know council has heard much about them.

1565
03:24:20,070 --> 03:24:20,070
we haven't yet completed these changes, but we are in the process of analyzing what code
And policy changes need to be made to help us reach our climate goals.

1566
03:24:29,640 --> 03:24:29,640
and now I'm going to hand it back to danny for more numbers.

1567
03:24:37,440 --> 03:24:37,440
thanks, jenny. Tracking our emissions is really critical to measuring our progress on our
Carbon neutrality plan, and understanding how far we still have to go.

1568
03:24:46,090 --> 03:24:46,090
the sustainability office monitors community wide emissions through greenhouse gas
Inventories, which are done annually, and this entails gathering data from external

1569
03:24:55,000 --> 03:24:55,000
partners such as aps, metroplan, unisource and others, as well as city divisions
Including public works, water services and the airport.

1570
03:25:03,820 --> 03:25:03,820
we use software through italy to calculate emissions that are associated with the data
Sets that we collect, following methods that are established by global protocols.

1571
03:25:11,950 --> 03:25:11,950
while the methods are sound, I do want to caution that these inventories are our best
Estimates based on the data that's made available to us.

1572
03:25:19,450 --> 03:25:19,450
for instance, we have really good data on energy excuse me, on energy use.

1573
03:25:24,550 --> 03:25:27,700
and we have a high level of confidence in these emission estimates. Transportation, on the other hand, is significantly more complicated to calculate.

1574
03:25:32,380 --> 03:25:32,380
and it relies on computer models which are getting better all the time but are still not
Perfect.

1575
03:25:38,410 --> 03:25:39,910
so now we'll take a look here. Here we have a high level summary of flagstaff community emissions from 2019, 2021 and
2023.

1576
03:25:46,900 --> 03:25:46,900
the bar on the far right shows where we're striving to be by 2030.

1577
03:25:51,430 --> 03:25:51,430
the big picture takeaway here is that emissions have decreased only slightly from 2019
Levels by a little over 1%.

1578
03:25:58,600 --> 03:25:58,600
that might seem insignificant, but just to put this in perspective, that reduction is
Equivalent to the electricity used by 2000 homes for a year.

1579
03:26:07,810 --> 03:26:07,810
within each bar, the emissions per year are broken down by source across all years.

1580
03:26:14,080 --> 03:26:14,080
the largest source of of emissions are from the building energy sector, followed by
Transportation and then solid waste.

1581
03:26:21,430 --> 03:26:21,430
water and wastewater emissions make up a small sliver of 2% and a few others that are
Lumped into the other category.

1582
03:26:28,360 --> 03:26:28,360
if we zoom back out again, there was a near 6% decline in emissions between 2019 and
2021.

1583
03:26:34,810 --> 03:26:34,810
this was largely because of the pandemic and the restriction on travel at that time.

1584
03:26:39,790 --> 03:26:39,790
however, we did see that emissions increase once we were able to move around freely
Again.

1585
03:26:45,210 --> 03:26:45,210
to reach carbon neutrality, we'll need to further reduce emissions from 2023 levels by
37% and then offset the remaining emissions through carbon dioxide removal.

1586
03:26:54,990 --> 03:26:54,990
and if you're doing really quick math, that would be equal to a pandemic sized shift
Every year for the next six years, which can feel pretty daunting.

1587
03:27:04,820 --> 03:27:04,820
there have been countless conversations on the importance and urgency of taking action on
Climate change within these walls.

1588
03:27:12,040 --> 03:27:12,040
so tonight I just want to remind council that we are not alone in this journey.

1589
03:27:16,480 --> 03:27:19,900
council member matthews has a question. Quick question. Can you explain by 2030, solid waste and water and wastewater are.

1590
03:27:28,540 --> 03:27:30,010
you can't hardly even see the line. So how are we reducing emissions in those areas?

1591
03:27:32,920 --> 03:27:34,900
yes. Mayor. Council. Mayor, council member. Matthews great question and good observation.

1592
03:27:38,560 --> 03:27:38,560
it is a 90% reduction in solid waste that we would need to achieve that carbon neutrality
Path that's outlined in the cnp.

1593
03:27:45,400 --> 03:27:45,400
we're going to be coming back in the fall with some really good detailed information on
How we would be looking to achieve that.

1594
03:27:53,060 --> 03:27:53,060
so if I may hold that that follow up until a little bit later.

1595
03:27:59,000 --> 03:27:59,000
thank you. That's fine. Council member mccarthy.

1596
03:28:04,410 --> 03:28:04,410
I presume the large, large part of the reduction for solid waste would be methane
Collection,

1597
03:28:14,790 --> 03:28:18,660
which is a very strong greenhouse gas. So if we start collecting that and, and at one point we actually collected it and
Generated electricity with it,

1598
03:28:28,570 --> 03:28:30,850
but I don't think we're doing that anymore. But anyway, that's probably the biggest part of it.

1599
03:28:35,560 --> 03:28:37,600
and mayor council member mccarthy. That is a great spoiler alert for the fall.

1600
03:28:40,840 --> 03:28:42,400
you're spot on with that. That is, capturing the methane production at the landfill will get us a good majority of
The way there.

1601
03:28:48,430 --> 03:28:48,430
but before you go on, though I remember being told that when they measured the methane
Gas currently in our landfill, it was

1602
03:28:58,220 --> 03:28:58,220
almost nonexistent, that they didn't project, that there was going to be anything
Significant to capture for at least.

1603
03:29:05,140 --> 03:29:07,880
20 years. Yeah. So it is it is not.

1604
03:29:11,810 --> 03:29:14,330
at the point of being regulated right now. Is is probably what the idea is that it's not significant.

1605
03:29:17,840 --> 03:29:17,840
there is still a lot of methane that comes out, and that is why our emissions from solid
Waste are so high.

1606
03:29:23,840 --> 03:29:23,840
it is because of those methane emissions, but it is not at the level of being regulated
Yet.

1607
03:29:28,580 --> 03:29:31,880
and so that is why we have not made that investment yet. There was a time around when we wrote the carbon neutrality plan, when we actually
Thought that the regulations were going to be shifted so that we would have to do it

1608
03:29:39,890 --> 03:29:41,990
sooner rather than later. And, you know, with the carbon neutrality plan, you make projections and you think
Regulations are going to change and then they don't.

1609
03:29:47,000 --> 03:29:47,000
right? So we know we're going to have work to do there because we are not on track right
Now to have kepek ou cap our landfill

1610
03:29:56,840 --> 03:29:58,130
cells right now for methane. But yeah, it is not a regulated and yes, please, sam, feel free to come on up.

1611
03:30:05,820 --> 03:30:07,620
all right. Good evening, mayor and council. So, sam beckett, I'm serving as the solid waste director right now.

1612
03:30:10,980 --> 03:30:12,720
I think they said it very well here. Right now, we just don't generate enough methane to even qualify as a as a service to to
Start capturing that.

1613
03:30:21,360 --> 03:30:24,660
we've been watching that really closely with the epa adeq. We just don't generate enough.

1614
03:30:26,220 --> 03:30:29,160
there's a lot of factors to that. Our elevation is a big piece of that. The location of the landfill, the design of it.

1615
03:30:32,840 --> 03:30:36,020
on the original cells that we developed and we're working off of now. They're unlined.

1616
03:30:37,100 --> 03:30:37,100
so when they do finally close and that's many years down the road, they will be required,
Even though that they have a very low threshold of, of actual

1617
03:30:46,820 --> 03:30:50,780
production of methane. They'll be required after the closure. But again, that's many, many years down the road if we see a change in that, they're
Constantly monitoring this.

1618
03:30:56,780 --> 03:30:56,780
if there's any sort of change or we start to see an uptick in that, then we will fall
Under different regulations and we'll start monitoring that.

1619
03:31:02,960 --> 03:31:02,960
but as of now, we're kind of fortunate in that case that we don't see the same thing they
See at lower elevations, where they have high production of methane, and they have to

1620
03:31:12,110 --> 03:31:14,210
monitor and capture a ton of that. So that big yellow block.

1621
03:31:16,830 --> 03:31:19,470
of methane gas is not really. There yet.

1622
03:31:21,870 --> 03:31:25,470
I'll let jenny speak to that. Sure. So the emissions are there. These emissions, we calculate not at site.

1623
03:31:28,290 --> 03:31:31,320
right. As danny said, this is all really modeling. But the emissions do come out.

1624
03:31:33,000 --> 03:31:35,670
they're just not at that level of being regulated yet. Every community has a lot of emissions from their landfill.

1625
03:31:38,730 --> 03:31:38,730
and so it's just based on those regulations as to when you have to cap your landfill and
Capture that methane.

1626
03:31:45,360 --> 03:31:45,360
so we right now are not projecting to see the decrease in those emissions because we are
Not projecting to cap our, our landfill

1627
03:31:55,320 --> 03:31:55,320
by then. So we will have, as I said, we'll have like a lot to make up for in 2030 to get
Our emissions down that low without the cap

1628
03:32:04,500 --> 03:32:07,500
in and the capturing of emissions. Does that make sense? Yeah, I guess sam just said we didn't have any emissions really
Coming out.

1629
03:32:13,170 --> 03:32:13,170
no, he said we don't have enough that are regulated to be captured.

1630
03:32:17,770 --> 03:32:17,770
yeah. There. They're they're pretty finicky on where that threshold is.

1631
03:32:23,520 --> 03:32:24,960
we're just under the threshold. That's where we're at. It's still produces.

1632
03:32:27,600 --> 03:32:27,600
you know, I'll go with the numbers they have here on the screen, but it's just not at a
Level that the arizona department of environmental quality or the

1633
03:32:37,290 --> 03:32:37,290
epa requires us to, to capture those.

1634
03:32:42,870 --> 03:32:46,830
california has some great golf courses with methane gas. Yes, he's played on a couple of them.

1635
03:32:49,470 --> 03:32:49,470
if we were in california, we would probably already be capped and capturing council
Member mccarthy.

1636
03:32:57,470 --> 03:32:57,470
so if we don't capture our methane at the landfill.

1637
03:33:01,690 --> 03:33:01,690
in 2030, we can add that same little block of yellow on top of the the column.

1638
03:33:11,580 --> 03:33:13,950
yep. Mayor council member mccarthy. Great observation. That would be true.

1639
03:33:15,900 --> 03:33:15,900
and then, if I may just want to note, council member matthews, that data that we have in
Here is from solid waste.

1640
03:33:21,450 --> 03:33:21,450
so they are tracking the methane emissions, and we are just inputting that into the
Model.

1641
03:33:31,590 --> 03:33:34,530
oh, actually, let me just make sure I got. All the good stuff here.

1642
03:33:41,510 --> 03:33:41,510
okay, so I just want to note real quick that in order to get to that 2030 goal, it would
Be that 6% decline

1643
03:33:51,410 --> 03:33:52,790
per year. And where I was going with this is that that does feel like a lot.

1644
03:33:56,720 --> 03:33:58,910
however, we're not alone in that journey. For instance, aps is committed to providing 65% clean electricity by 2030, and that
Change alone gets us one third of the way closer to our goal.

1645
03:34:12,790 --> 03:34:15,700
this is the new slide that jenny referred to. It wasn't included in your packet, but we thought it would be helpful to also look at our
Community emissions by population.

1646
03:34:21,550 --> 03:34:21,550
so if you take all the greenhouse gas emissions in flagstaff in a given year and divide
It by the population, in that same year, we've hovered around 9.3 and ten metric

1647
03:34:31,210 --> 03:34:31,210
tons of greenhouse gas emissions per person for the past year or five years.

1648
03:34:37,210 --> 03:34:37,210
and just for a little comparison, in 2020, the per capita emissions in maricopa county
Was 10.5, so we are below that level.

1649
03:34:45,790 --> 03:34:45,790
overall, the emissions intensity for flagstaff has decreased by 3% per person from 2019
To 2023.

1650
03:34:53,560 --> 03:34:53,560
and really importantly, the note here is that flagstaff was able to reduce its emissions
And its emission intensity while our population grew, while more extreme temperatures were

1651
03:35:03,250 --> 03:35:03,250
brought. And and while more extreme temperatures brought increased demand for energy.

1652
03:35:08,200 --> 03:35:11,830
the heat wave that we had earlier this month is a good example of this challenge. Those with air conditioning were able to cool their homes.

1653
03:35:15,040 --> 03:35:17,590
that increased the demand for electricity. Ac is often considered a luxury in our community, but it is quickly becoming more
Necessary and prevalent.

1654
03:35:23,650 --> 03:35:23,650
and so we do see this as a as a challenge to our emission reduction goals.

1655
03:35:28,060 --> 03:35:28,060
and in the future, we'll plan to overlay our weather with our population in the same
Graph.

1656
03:35:37,800 --> 03:35:41,310
this is the last emissions bar graph that we'll look at tonight, I promise. And I'll make it brief.

1657
03:35:42,630 --> 03:35:45,240
this chart just further details the source of emissions. For instance energy is subdivided into those different sectors.

1658
03:35:48,960 --> 03:35:48,960
but recall that I mentioned that we needed the equivalent of a 6% decrease in emissions
Each year for the next six years.

1659
03:35:55,350 --> 03:35:55,350
and what I want to note is that in reality, we don't expect these reductions to be linear
Or evenly distributed across the years.

1660
03:36:02,550 --> 03:36:02,550
it's more likely that we'll start seeing significant reductions in 2027, in year six of
The plan.

1661
03:36:08,370 --> 03:36:08,370
and that's because the scale of change that the city and the community and our partners
Are working at to create a more sustainable future requires capacity building at all

1662
03:36:16,560 --> 03:36:16,560
levels, as jenny has elaborated on and will touch on a bit more soon.

1663
03:36:22,880 --> 03:36:24,620
okay, so now here comes the fun part. We're going to be reporting on progress on the carbon neutrality plan goals and actions.

1664
03:36:29,540 --> 03:36:29,540
the progress update is organized with a high level overview of the cnp actions first.

1665
03:36:35,450 --> 03:36:38,120
and then we'll be dividing these into three topic areas. Looking at building energy, transportation, resilience and equity within each area will
Include the work that's being undertaken and why, who the actors

1666
03:36:47,870 --> 03:36:47,870
are and how progress is measured, and update on the progress.

1667
03:36:51,950 --> 03:36:51,950
a program highlight and then a quick recap.

1668
03:36:56,350 --> 03:36:56,350
these progress meter bars give just a quick snapshot in time of our work across the four
Priority areas of the carbon neutrality plan to help meet the goals that we discussed

1669
03:37:06,250 --> 03:37:06,250
earlier, the cnp details 215 opportunities for action to implement across these four
Areas.

1670
03:37:13,420 --> 03:37:16,780
the greenish teal color shows the percent of actions that are completed. Yellow indicates actions that are in progress or ongoing, and the salmon represent
Actions that have not yet been started.

1671
03:37:24,070 --> 03:37:24,070
in the three years since council adopted the cnp 115.

1672
03:37:28,450 --> 03:37:28,450
of those, 215 actions have been or are being implemented.

1673
03:37:33,160 --> 03:37:33,160
I'm really proud of the city and the council and the community's significant efforts
Undertaken in each of these priority areas, and the remainder of this presentation will

1674
03:37:41,770 --> 03:37:41,770
highlight several of these actions and show how they align with the cnp goals.

1675
03:37:47,020 --> 03:37:47,020
first, we'll take a look at our energy priority, starting with renewable energy, then
Energy efficiency and electrification.

1676
03:37:53,380 --> 03:37:53,380
we'll discuss project progress on city owned buildings and buildings across the community.

1677
03:37:58,720 --> 03:37:58,720
we'll also note where there are gaps in the data and where progress on some goals cannot
Yet be quantified.

1678
03:38:08,170 --> 03:38:08,170
clean and renewable sources of energy are not just important for lowering emissions, they
Are also good for improving public health by reducing air pollution and can help residents

1679
03:38:17,950 --> 03:38:20,230
save on energy bills. We're focused on supporting renewable energy generation through expansion of solar on
Homes, commercial and industrial buildings and flagstaff and being a leader by installing

1680
03:38:29,770 --> 03:38:29,770
solar on city property as well as purchasing renewable energy.

1681
03:38:36,080 --> 03:38:36,080
a common theme that you're going to hear tonight is that the city isn't alone in these
Efforts, and we can't do it alone, either when it comes to expanding solar.

1682
03:38:43,940 --> 03:38:43,940
other key actors are those who own buildings, and that includes residents, businesses and
Institutions, as well as those who install solar.

1683
03:38:53,210 --> 03:38:53,210
our local utility providers and their regulators to track progress.

1684
03:38:57,890 --> 03:38:57,890
we look at our key performance indicators, or kpis, which are directly related to the
Goals we just went over.

1685
03:39:05,590 --> 03:39:05,590
there's been significant progress made on the renewable energy front in the past three
Years.

1686
03:39:10,510 --> 03:39:10,510
this slide has been updated from what was included in your packet based on recent data
That aps provided, showing the total number of solar installations in flagstaff since

1687
03:39:20,110 --> 03:39:20,110
june 2021, when the cnp was adopted, the city has already met its it's goal of 100%
Renewable electricity for municipal operations, and this was done

1688
03:39:29,950 --> 03:39:29,950
ahead of schedule because of onsite solar systems and purchasing renewable energy.

1689
03:39:35,620 --> 03:39:35,620
through the green power partners program with aps, we are on track to meet or exceed our
Residential solar goal.

1690
03:39:42,460 --> 03:39:42,460
with nearly 1000 residents choosing to go solar and adding six megawatts of renewable
Energy to the grid.

1691
03:39:49,150 --> 03:39:52,360
however, progress is lagging on the commercial and industrial side. There's only been seven new systems brought online since june 2021, adding less than one
Megawatt of the 15 megawatt goal.

1692
03:40:02,320 --> 03:40:02,320
the northern arizona solar co-op has helped to boost these residential solar
Installations.

1693
03:40:07,690 --> 03:40:07,690
the city partners with a nonprofit called solar united neighbors, and we team up with
Coconino county and the city of sedona to bring neighbors together to learn more about

1694
03:40:16,720 --> 03:40:20,560
solar and then use their collective power to negotiate better prices. In the first two rounds, more than 100 flagstaff residents went solar through this
Program, and they're projected to save 4.7 million on electricity

1695
03:40:30,400 --> 03:40:32,890
bills over the life of those solar systems. The third round of the co-op is underway, and we expanded outreach to small businesses as
Well as residents.

1696
03:40:40,680 --> 03:40:40,680
just to recap on the renewable energy update, we've been busy setting foundations for
Solar ready building codes, making it easier and less costly for residents to go solar.

1697
03:40:50,580 --> 03:40:50,580
and looking ahead, we're excited to expand the benefits of solar to more low income
Households and encourage the business community to go solar.

1698
03:40:59,130 --> 03:40:59,130
I'll turn it back to jenny now to give us an update on energy efficiency and building
Electrification.

1699
03:41:06,340 --> 03:41:10,210
thank you. Thanks, danny. Thanks, council. I'm going to follow a similar sort of structure to danny, and I'm going to talk about
Building energy use.

1700
03:41:16,810 --> 03:41:16,810
so building energy use is how much energy we use in our buildings.

1701
03:41:21,220 --> 03:41:24,280
it's one of the most foundational building blocks. We have two goals here to use less energy through efficiency and to choose cleaner energy
In our homes and in our buildings by

1702
03:41:34,120 --> 03:41:36,880
choosing electric appliances and equipment. The y here is similar to renewable energy and this is what gets us excited.

1703
03:41:42,310 --> 03:41:42,310
this work improves health, it reduces cost for our residents, and as a bonus, it leads to
Lower emissions.

1704
03:41:49,600 --> 03:41:52,600
and we get there through retrofitting our buildings. We will do this with new buildings as well.

1705
03:41:54,700 --> 03:41:54,700
but the focus that we really have is, is retrofitting new buildings.

1706
03:41:58,780 --> 03:42:01,960
that's the harder work in a lot of ways. I want to be up front.

1707
03:42:03,400 --> 03:42:05,200
this work is difficult. It's existing buildings are people's homes.

1708
03:42:07,780 --> 03:42:09,910
their businesses, their where they spend time in. Right. And so our challenge is to convince them that retrofits are a good idea, that this
Is going to save them money, that this is going to make their home more comfortable,

1709
03:42:19,690 --> 03:42:22,030
that this is going to help their health. Right. We've discussed this before.

1710
03:42:23,830 --> 03:42:25,930
no one has to retrofit their home. No one will be forced to retrofit their home.

1711
03:42:28,030 --> 03:42:30,610
and instead, we want to work with our community. We want to build trust with our community.

1712
03:42:33,100 --> 03:42:33,100
we want to persuade folks that retrofitting even just one appliance, replacing one
Appliance, maybe it's your stove, maybe it's your water heater.

1713
03:42:40,900 --> 03:42:42,580
that that can be good for your health. It can be good for your monthly utility bills.

1714
03:42:44,920 --> 03:42:48,700
and so it's about spreading information. It's about changing incentives. It's facilitating change.

1715
03:42:50,200 --> 03:42:52,690
and again it goes back to building trust. The actors here are the people who control buildings.

1716
03:42:55,630 --> 03:42:59,000
so yes. Vice mayor. Yeah. Ginny, just briefly, maybe highlight for us some of the ways in which retrofitting
Improves health.

1717
03:43:04,520 --> 03:43:08,360
sure. So gas stoves are the biggest thing. There's a lot of research these days on the harmful effects of essentially combusting gas
In your home.

1718
03:43:15,290 --> 03:43:15,290
and I say this as a person who had a gas stove for most of my life and also slept next to
My water heater, combusting gas, right.

1719
03:43:23,510 --> 03:43:23,510
really close. And and there's just a lot of research on particularly if you have existing
Health challenges.

1720
03:43:31,460 --> 03:43:31,460
so maybe if you've got somebody with asthma in the home gas combustion in your home can
Really exacerbate that.

1721
03:43:38,000 --> 03:43:40,670
and that is because it is methane gas. And there are a lot of pollutants that come from that process.

1722
03:43:44,360 --> 03:43:46,460
so that's really the number one. Other things, though, when you weatherize a home, when you insulate somebody's attic or
You fill in cracks in the wall seal around windows, you're also keeping smoke out.

1723
03:43:55,910 --> 03:43:57,470
you're keeping allergens out. You're kind of creating a better air quality inside the home, as well as just making that
Home more comfortable.

1724
03:44:04,490 --> 03:44:04,490
so those are the two big things that we go to when we think about health.

1725
03:44:09,620 --> 03:44:13,580
council member matthews said. I'm getting through my 75. Sorry, I said, I'm getting through my 75 questions.

1726
03:44:16,760 --> 03:44:16,760
I love it. Can you expand a little bit more on saving a resident?

1727
03:44:23,660 --> 03:44:23,660
I know retrofitting to make it weatherized and stuff helps.

1728
03:44:28,850 --> 03:44:30,920
I mean, we don't have ac at our house. We open our windows at night, close them during the day, and we wear a sweater inside.

1729
03:44:37,040 --> 03:44:40,660
so, you know, we're lucky in that regards, but. Gas without talking about the emissions is a cheaper utility than electricity, and aps
Continues to raise

1730
03:44:50,590 --> 03:44:54,430
rates. And so how do we get to that? Saves a resident money.

1731
03:44:57,190 --> 03:45:00,430
sure. So as you mentioned we start with energy efficiency. Right. So when we talk retrofits we talk both energy efficiency and electrification.

1732
03:45:05,500 --> 03:45:07,840
the energy efficiency cases is pretty there. I think you mentioned that, you know, folks can save so much by just insulating their
Attic.

1733
03:45:13,930 --> 03:45:13,930
right. And we we really do try to help folks do insulation first.

1734
03:45:18,010 --> 03:45:20,080
right? Do energy efficiency first. In terms of electrification, you're right.

1735
03:45:22,600 --> 03:45:25,960
gas by the unit of energy is cheaper. But electric appliances are much, much more efficient.

1736
03:45:29,980 --> 03:45:29,980
and so they are using much less energy by unit of energy.

1737
03:45:34,420 --> 03:45:34,420
and so a water heater folks can save, you know, the new heat pump water heaters, they are
Significantly less expensive to operate

1738
03:45:43,990 --> 03:45:43,990
than gas because they are something like 400 times more efficient than a gas water
Heater.

1739
03:45:49,660 --> 03:45:49,660
and so it's really because of the efficiency of those appliances.

1740
03:45:53,980 --> 03:45:57,430
a lot of our gas appliances are oversize for the home. They're using gas.

1741
03:45:58,600 --> 03:46:01,630
and we used to kind of compare it. You're you're using sort of a chainsaw when you could have a butter knife right there,
Just overpowered for our homes in a lot of ways.

1742
03:46:08,260 --> 03:46:08,260
and so the efficiency of these new electric appliances and equipment is pretty
Incredible.

1743
03:46:14,950 --> 03:46:17,110
from a cost savings perspective. Water heaters are sort of the heroes there because they're incredibly good at it, adding
To efficiency.

1744
03:46:22,750 --> 03:46:22,750
same with heat pump dryers incredible efficiencies.

1745
03:46:27,130 --> 03:46:27,130
their furnaces are where you get a little bit more to closer to that cost comparison.

1746
03:46:32,290 --> 03:46:32,290
but the studies are finding that it's about equal with replacing a gas furnace with an
Electric heat pump, as long as it's a cold climate heat pump, so that

1747
03:46:42,280 --> 03:46:42,280
it's made for our climate in terms of rates over time, electricity is much, much more
Stable than natural gas rates.

1748
03:46:49,900 --> 03:46:49,900
natural gas rates are incredibly influenced by world events overall in economics.

1749
03:46:56,170 --> 03:46:56,170
all kinds of things happening across the country and over time, when you look at the
Graphs, one is up and down and up and down, and one is very, very steady.

1750
03:47:04,240 --> 03:47:04,240
and so there's a lot there in terms of consistency and reliability for that cost
Calculation for families.

1751
03:47:11,240 --> 03:47:11,240
of course. So too fast.

1752
03:47:16,200 --> 03:47:17,580
we're not at the recap yet. Sorry. Thinking about the progress.

1753
03:47:21,300 --> 03:47:24,510
we're starting to make a dent. As I said, this is house by house. It's sometimes conversation by conversation, but we can say we're now sponsoring far more
Homes through energy rebates than we used to.

1754
03:47:32,880 --> 03:47:32,880
we do need better data about what retrofits are happening without city incentives.

1755
03:47:37,620 --> 03:47:39,240
we know that they're happening in town. And so we're going to be working with contractors to figure out how we get better data
About what work they are doing.

1756
03:47:44,970 --> 03:47:47,550
we're also just trying to get more people to use the incentives. But there's a lot of incentives federally right now that dwarf our incentives.

1757
03:47:51,660 --> 03:47:54,210
and so a lot of people may just be going that route. The same goes for commercial businesses.

1758
03:47:56,340 --> 03:47:56,340
we are working to encourage businesses to take advantage of current incentives for energy
Efficiency retrofits that are available federally.

1759
03:48:04,350 --> 03:48:04,350
and we're working again to find creative solutions to some data challenges that we have
When we wrote the carbon neutrality plan.

1760
03:48:11,490 --> 03:48:14,730
this is what we need, right? These are the things we need to do. And and we've really got to figure out good ways to track it.

1761
03:48:17,520 --> 03:48:19,170
but we are making progress. We're working with a small cohort of businesses this spring in a green business program
To work with them on energy and water savings.

1762
03:48:26,790 --> 03:48:26,790
so little by little, we are starting to make a dent here.

1763
03:48:31,260 --> 03:48:31,260
I'm really thrilled here to and I should have just gone to this slide to highlight our
Home energy and weatherization rebate program.

1764
03:48:38,310 --> 03:48:38,310
over the last three years, we've increased funding for this program significantly.

1765
03:48:42,510 --> 03:48:43,980
so thank you, council. Mainly this was through federal funding that the city received, and this has helped us
Support almost 300 residents in improving their homes.

1766
03:48:52,260 --> 03:48:55,080
I'm really proud of this chart because it reflects that. The most common retrofit that we support is attic insulation.

1767
03:48:58,440 --> 03:48:58,440
and again, you know, some people come and say, should I electrify or should I get solar?

1768
03:49:02,460 --> 03:49:05,070
and my first question is always, is your attic insulated? Right. Because you can save so much money.

1769
03:49:07,110 --> 03:49:07,110
and with our cold climates, this can be a huge money saver for folks.

1770
03:49:11,340 --> 03:49:14,430
and so the first four topics here. So attic insulation, crawl space insulation, duct sealing and air sealing which is
Closing up those gaps in your homes.

1771
03:49:21,420 --> 03:49:23,760
those are all energy efficiency practices. And they make up the majority of our rebate dollars that are given out to folks.

1772
03:49:29,610 --> 03:49:29,610
finally, our cold climate heat pumps this really just tells us these are happening there
In town.

1773
03:49:35,910 --> 03:49:35,910
they work in town, they work in flagstaff, they work with our cold climate.

1774
03:49:40,740 --> 03:49:42,870
and folks that we talk to are really happy with them. So just really thankful to the staff that work on this program.

1775
03:49:47,910 --> 03:49:47,910
in terms of distribution, we are doing all right with getting throughout flagstaff
Neighborhoods.

1776
03:49:53,490 --> 03:49:53,490
we haven't hit everywhere, and we're working really hard to get into every neighborhood.

1777
03:50:01,140 --> 03:50:01,140
here I want to talk about we do provide increased incentives for households that have
Lower incomes.

1778
03:50:06,840 --> 03:50:06,840
that makes this upfront investment easier to make before people get those cost savings
Over time.

1779
03:50:12,690 --> 03:50:12,690
so we are working to spread our work into every neighborhood and ideally every home in
Flagstaff.

1780
03:50:22,670 --> 03:50:25,870
council member harris. So for the.

1781
03:50:27,520 --> 03:50:30,670
just go back. One more slide. Sure. Yeah. The attic insulation.

1782
03:50:32,650 --> 03:50:33,700
yes. Okay. So so are these rebates programs, are they mostly for homeowners or what about people who
Are renting.

1783
03:50:41,830 --> 03:50:45,460
so can they because it's not their property. Right. So.

1784
03:50:47,590 --> 03:50:49,840
sorry. Okay. Go ahead. Thank you. Sorry. Aaron council member harris.

1785
03:50:52,600 --> 03:50:55,450
a landlord can take it upon themselves. And we do have landlords that participate in the program.

1786
03:50:58,000 --> 03:50:58,000
we do collect that data about, you know, is this a home that you live in or is this a
Home that you rent?

1787
03:51:04,090 --> 03:51:06,970
a tenant could do it if they got their landlords permission. Right. But they likely wouldn't put in that investment in their home for renters.

1788
03:51:11,260 --> 03:51:11,260
we do have a program where we try to just give them tips on what they can do, things like
Window insulation.

1789
03:51:17,800 --> 03:51:20,620
and we know people do do that filling gaps. But these are those larger investments that a renter is unlikely to make.

1790
03:51:24,070 --> 03:51:24,070
but we do make sure that if it is a rented home you actually can a landlord can insulate
Or participate in the rebate program for multiple

1791
03:51:33,940 --> 03:51:37,030
homes. If a landlord is willing to do that, we don't want to stop them. Right? We're trying to do everything we can to reduce that barrier, because what it is,
Is a mixed incentive, right?

1792
03:51:42,520 --> 03:51:42,520
the tenant is paying the bill, but the landlord is the one making the investment or not.

1793
03:51:47,680 --> 03:51:51,400
right. So they don't have a ton of investment to do that. Or sorry to a ton of incentive to do that.

1794
03:51:53,050 --> 03:51:55,300
so we do want to remove every barrier we can. So the so the landlord has to put the money up front.

1795
03:51:59,560 --> 03:51:59,560
right. It's not coming from the tenant, but they get their money back through their rents
Probably.

1796
03:52:05,110 --> 03:52:08,470
and maybe they even raise them. But whatever we hope they don't. We hope they don't. But yeah, we live in the real world.

1797
03:52:11,380 --> 03:52:11,380
okay. Thanks. Of course.

1798
03:52:15,670 --> 03:52:18,940
so just to recap really quickly on building energy use. This is tricky area.

1799
03:52:20,200 --> 03:52:23,440
we're asking people to make change. And so it's slow work. It's hard work. We know that we're working conversation by conversation, home by home upcoming.

1800
03:52:28,810 --> 03:52:28,810
we're really excited because we have the energy upgrade for healthy homes program.

1801
03:52:33,070 --> 03:52:34,600
this is our hud funded program. We are finally in the procurement stages.

1802
03:52:37,960 --> 03:52:37,960
it is it is a little bit slow working through the levels of federal government.

1803
03:52:42,700 --> 03:52:45,070
but we are working through procurement now. And this solves that problem about the upfront investment.

1804
03:52:48,280 --> 03:52:48,280
this program is only for low income homeowners or low people who rent to low income
Tenants.

1805
03:52:56,230 --> 03:52:56,230
and what it does is instead of asking people to make that investment upfront, is the city
Is actually helping facilitate that investment with those hud dollars.

1806
03:53:05,050 --> 03:53:05,050
and so we're able to really solve that problem of folks just don't have the upfront
Investment to make these changes themselves.

1807
03:53:12,460 --> 03:53:14,680
we're also doing contractor outreach. We've got rebates coming through federally, and we hope soon from the state, which is
Also passed through federal money but will help to encourage more of these investments.

1808
03:53:25,090 --> 03:53:28,480
and now I'm going to hand it over to danny. Council member mccarthy.

1809
03:53:31,100 --> 03:53:31,100
well, I'm going to be accused of saying this before because I have.

1810
03:53:35,750 --> 03:53:38,300
but it's so important. I'm going to say it. It's. Substantially more efficient to insulate a home during initial construction.

1811
03:53:47,540 --> 03:53:47,540
it's essentially negligible, and the increased cost of putting like 21 in the walls
Instead of 19.

1812
03:53:57,000 --> 03:53:57,000
and incidentally, our 19.

1813
03:54:01,740 --> 03:54:01,740
is rated at six inches, but a two by six wall is 5.5in.

1814
03:54:08,820 --> 03:54:11,610
so it's really only our 15. Yes. And our 21 is rated at 5.5in.

1815
03:54:15,720 --> 03:54:18,030
so it really is our 21. So you're increasing your insulation by the ratio of 21 divided by 15 for essentially
Nothing.

1816
03:54:25,350 --> 03:54:28,470
and I did that when I built my house. And my house is literally never been hot in the 20 years I've lived in it.

1817
03:54:34,710 --> 03:54:34,710
and almost all my neighbors have added air conditioning at substantial expense and a lot
Of power generated

1818
03:54:44,550 --> 03:54:44,550
where I just opened the windows at night, put a fan on in one bathroom and suck the air
Out, and by morning it's cold enough that I have to

1819
03:54:54,840 --> 03:54:57,960
wear the same kind of shirt I wear in the winter. So I would think that it would be very important that we change our codes to require
Better insulation, because it's a minor cost and

1820
03:55:07,890 --> 03:55:07,890
amazing difference in efficiency and and emissions reduction.

1821
03:55:14,130 --> 03:55:16,230
thank you, thank you. I just add one more thing.

1822
03:55:20,330 --> 03:55:24,290
if you open your windows in the winter. In the summer. You're. Getting fresh air through the house if you don't.

1823
03:55:29,590 --> 03:55:29,590
a lot of houses in flagstaff have radon problems, which is radioactive gas, and it's
Dangerous, so it also

1824
03:55:39,130 --> 03:55:40,510
solves that problem. So if you seal the house up really well, you're sealing the radon inside the house.

1825
03:55:47,260 --> 03:55:50,770
we highly encourage radon testing. All right, danny. All right, switching gears now, we'll look at our progress in enabling
Vehicle electrification and

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03:56:00,690 --> 03:56:00,690
encouraging active transportation within the city and within our broader community.

1827
03:56:05,340 --> 03:56:05,340
reducing emissions from transportation is one of the hardest nuts to crack.

1828
03:56:09,630 --> 03:56:09,630
and that is because it depends on the choices of 75,000, some residents and countless
Visitors deciding where they'll go and how they'll get there every single day

1829
03:56:19,680 --> 03:56:23,520
to shift commute choices. Low emission modes needs to be safe. They need to be convenient, affordable, and reliable.

1830
03:56:28,320 --> 03:56:28,320
electric mobility is becoming more viable for residents and fleet operators due to
Industry developments, charging network expansion, market changes and incentives.

1831
03:56:38,040 --> 03:56:38,040
compared to gas or diesel vehicles, electric vehicles are better for the local air
Quality because they don't emit any harmful pollutants as they're driven, and they're

1832
03:56:46,290 --> 03:56:46,290
generally cheaper to fuel and maintain, saving drivers an average of 60% on fuel costs
Annually.

1833
03:56:52,290 --> 03:56:52,290
they're also more efficient and generate an average of 80% fewer emissions compared to
Those gas or diesel vehicles.

1834
03:57:00,750 --> 03:57:00,750
electric bikes and electric scooters bring even greater cost savings and reduced
Emissions.

1835
03:57:10,070 --> 03:57:10,070
the adoption of electric vehicles, e-bikes and scooters involves a lot of players,
Including everyone that makes commute choices, public transportation providers, auto

1836
03:57:18,620 --> 03:57:18,620
manufacturers and mechanics, charging station manufacturers and mechanics, local
Utilities, and many more.

1837
03:57:25,520 --> 03:57:25,520
next, we'll look at our key performance indicators.

1838
03:57:30,700 --> 03:57:30,700
we are still working with adot to quantify our progress on the ev adoption in our
Community.

1839
03:57:35,500 --> 03:57:35,500
we do know that there are 766 evs registered in flagstaff, and this was a 57% increase
From just two years ago.

1840
03:57:43,540 --> 03:57:43,540
based on statewide data, evs make up about 1% of vehicles currently, but they have
Doubled in the past two years.

1841
03:57:50,170 --> 03:57:50,170
so the recent growth in the evs in our community and across the state is a promising
Sign.

1842
03:57:55,480 --> 03:57:58,030
the city is striving to lead by example here. We adopted our ev first policy.

1843
03:58:01,030 --> 03:58:01,030
we've integrated 16 evs into our fleet, and we've installed charging infrastructure at 14
City facilities.

1844
03:58:08,530 --> 03:58:08,530
the city has also installed 18 public charging stations, putting us a little over the
Third of the way to our goal of 50 public charging stations.

1845
03:58:19,700 --> 03:58:19,700
city council has been actively involved and kept up to date on the city's fleet
Electrification efforts.

1846
03:58:25,370 --> 03:58:29,150
so we thought tonight we would share a little bit of the work of one of our partners. Northern arizona university has been also electrifying its fleet and now has 12 evs.

1847
03:58:35,210 --> 03:58:35,210
today, this makes up 4% of their vehicle fleet, which puts them right on par with the
City of flagstaff.

1848
03:58:41,240 --> 03:58:44,570
they'll be purchasing their first electric shuttle busses. These are full size 40 footers and the fast charging to support these, thanks to a grant
That they were able to secure, now is working to increase the share of evs in their

1849
03:58:54,470 --> 03:58:54,470
fleet by 10% annually through right sizing their fleet and replacing ice engines with evs
Where viable and ice is internal combustion engine.

1850
03:59:06,570 --> 03:59:06,570
so to quickly recap, the city has made progress on expanding our charging network for
Fleet vehicles and the community at large, and has encouraged the adoption of evs through

1851
03:59:15,690 --> 03:59:17,730
that ev sales tax rebate. Looking ahead, we'll continue to add charging infrastructure at city facilities, with a
Focus on adding dc fast charging for our fleet vehicles.

1852
03:59:26,250 --> 03:59:26,250
and at the same time, adot is working to expand fast charging across the I-17 and the
I-40, as well as other interstates and highways.

1853
03:59:34,640 --> 03:59:34,640
jenny will now report on our progress for active transportation.

1854
03:59:41,250 --> 03:59:41,250
all right. This is our last sort of topic area highlight to close out transportation.

1855
03:59:46,890 --> 03:59:49,920
and I'm going to quickly go through our active transportation work. This is an area I know that council is really familiar with.

1856
03:59:53,070 --> 03:59:53,070
and this is really due to the many projects going on that you hear from our amazing
Colleagues across the city on.

1857
04:00:00,300 --> 04:00:00,300
this is the one that is driven most by those amazing partners, both within the city as
Well as out.

1858
04:00:06,870 --> 04:00:06,870
when I refer to active transportation, I'm referring to basically any car non-car mode of
Transport.

1859
04:00:13,230 --> 04:00:13,230
and the reason for that is because all of the other modes are just much more resource
Efficient.

1860
04:00:18,990 --> 04:00:18,990
it's not a value judgment, it's really just it's about resources to move around town.

1861
04:00:23,700 --> 04:00:23,700
this includes bus walking, rolling, scootering, skateboarding, hoverboarding and more.

1862
04:00:30,360 --> 04:00:32,160
and the benefits are really strong. Again, we've got health benefits from reduced pollution, health benefits from just having
More active travel in your day, cost savings, and a more equitable community.

1863
04:00:42,060 --> 04:00:42,060
transportation costs are a really big part of overall cost of living.

1864
04:00:46,530 --> 04:00:46,530
to increase our active transportation, we rely really on both land use and transportation
Planning.

1865
04:00:54,030 --> 04:00:56,580
it's it's sort of that long game, right? When we think about density by increasing density within our community, especially in our
Existing neighborhoods, we decrease distances between someone's home

1866
04:01:06,120 --> 04:01:06,120
and where, wherever they're going, by increasing transit, we decrease the distance from
Their home or their work to the closest bus station.

1867
04:01:15,090 --> 04:01:15,090
and we also support walking and biking by implementing the active transportation master
Plan.

1868
04:01:21,420 --> 04:01:21,420
as I mentioned before, active transportation depends heavily on our partners.

1869
04:01:25,710 --> 04:01:25,710
internally, this is the real heroes in engineering and community development that are
Delivering these projects and making these plans.

1870
04:01:33,750 --> 04:01:33,750
it's also outside agencies like our friends at metro plan, mountain line and adot, as
Well as now and changing our land use and changing how we travel are

1871
04:01:43,200 --> 04:01:43,200
also really include partnerships in our development community.

1872
04:01:47,460 --> 04:01:47,460
those developers that are choosing where to develop, how we increase density, as well as
Finally, those residents who make choices every single day in

1873
04:01:57,090 --> 04:01:58,260
terms of progress. As danny said, active transportation really is that hardest nut to crack.

1874
04:02:02,400 --> 04:02:02,400
it depends on every resident in the city and their and their daily travel choices, and
It's our job to make those travel choices easier, right?

1875
04:02:09,690 --> 04:02:12,630
we don't need everyone to bike. We don't need everybody to bus. We don't need everybody to walk.

1876
04:02:13,920 --> 04:02:13,920
but what we do want to do is make those options as accessible for as many people as
Possible.

1877
04:02:19,260 --> 04:02:22,380
most of our trips are pretty short trips. They're under three miles. And so how can we help people make that choice and how can we make that choice easier?

1878
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transportation and land use are really connected. As you all know, when somebody lives downtown or in south side, they have a pretty easy
Trip to go to nyu or to go to the post office, or to go to the main library.

1879
04:02:41,460 --> 04:02:41,460
when somebody lives around fourth street, they have a pretty easy trip to a lot of schools
And maybe to the grocery store.

1880
04:02:47,490 --> 04:02:47,490
and so it's really about density and infrastructure together to make those trips easier
Here, I'm really excited to highlight the work of our transportation

1881
04:02:57,090 --> 04:03:00,330
engineering team to improve safety on butler avenue. I know you all know a lot about these programs, this progress, so I'm not going to
Belabor it too much, but it's a really good combination of grants, partnerships, council

1882
04:03:10,080 --> 04:03:12,720
policy decisions to lower the speed limit. And all those things come together to a really cool example of what we can do.

1883
04:03:17,250 --> 04:03:17,250
butler can be the example of what we do across the city, which I know is a lot of apple
Bites.

1884
04:03:23,880 --> 04:03:23,880
right? But little by little, we will fill those gaps.

1885
04:03:28,050 --> 04:03:28,050
we'll make those sort of safe corridors better, and we'll make that sort of trip choice
Easier.

1886
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to recap our transportation work, we're working to lay foundations, implementing the
Active transportation plan.

1887
04:03:40,320 --> 04:03:40,320
we've got right sizing of roads going on in multiple places across the city.

1888
04:03:44,730 --> 04:03:44,730
there's a lot of work coming up with our large grant funding projects delivered by our
Capital team and an upcoming transportation master plan, which will be led again by

1889
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engineering and planning. And as I've said before, this is a hard area, but the the goals are really broad and they
Align really significantly with other goals for our community

1890
04:04:05,760 --> 04:04:05,760
council. I'm now going to briefly go beyond buildings and transportation.

1891
04:04:10,560 --> 04:04:10,560
as we round out this presentation, I'm going to talk about the work that we do that goes
Beyond mitigation.

1892
04:04:16,230 --> 04:04:16,230
that hasn't been a focus tonight, but it is often a focus of our work and of our updates
To you.

1893
04:04:21,630 --> 04:04:21,630
this work generally centers on our two other goals for the carbon neutrality plan that is
Resilience and equity.

1894
04:04:29,130 --> 04:04:29,130
building resilience and and building community equity have strong outcomes beyond
Greenhouse gas emissions.

1895
04:04:34,710 --> 04:04:37,080
this work improves community health. It creates more resilient neighborhoods.

1896
04:04:38,760 --> 04:04:40,710
it reduces costs for our residents. Sometimes the most fun work that we do and it's really critical to all of our work.

1897
04:04:46,050 --> 04:04:46,050
we have to ensure that as we take climate action, that we're including everybody in that
Climate action, and also that we're not decreasing our resilience as we go, that we're not

1898
04:04:55,470 --> 04:04:57,570
less prepared as we go. And so this work is really hard to measure, which is why it wasn't necessarily earlier in
The conversation.

1899
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it's hard to know where a one on one conversation goes. And that is really the work of our team a lot of times, is having these one on one
Conversations about flooding in their neighborhood and what they can do, or why they might

1900
04:05:15,840 --> 04:05:19,380
think of a different, you know, way to go about their daily day. So we we try to really critically address this throughout all of our work.

1901
04:05:24,420 --> 04:05:24,420
but I wanted to highlight a couple things here really quickly with equity.

1902
04:05:29,700 --> 04:05:29,700
before I get started, what's really important is that we try to incorporate equity into
All of our existing programs.

1903
04:05:34,560 --> 04:05:37,560
so we incorporate equity into our flood prevention program. We incorporate equity into our rebate program.

1904
04:05:40,050 --> 04:05:43,200
but we do have things where equity stands alone. That's our equity at climate advisory group.

1905
04:05:45,990 --> 04:05:45,990
it's our sustained engagement because we know we need a really broad and diverse
Coalition to move this forward.

1906
04:05:51,990 --> 04:05:51,990
it's also things like hepa filtration, hepa filter distribution, which you'll hear about
In a second.

1907
04:05:58,350 --> 04:05:58,350
in terms of upcoming work, we've got wood stove rebates that we want to, you know, work
More with people because the health benefits are so, so strong, not only for

1908
04:06:08,010 --> 04:06:08,010
inside your home, but also for your neighbors, as well as fully launching our retrofit
Program.

1909
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and now I'm excited to hand it over to brady henderson for the best part.

1910
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good evening, mayor and council. My name is brady henderson, and I'm honored to be representing the climate section of the
Sustainability as an americorps volunteer.

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so to provide some background, I just graduated with my bachelor's degree in public
Health from nyu, and I'll be pursuing my master's in public health this fall.

1912
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my role here at the sustainability office is to help coordinate the free hepa program and
The flood prevention grant program.

1913
04:06:48,200 --> 04:06:48,200
so I am here today to provide an update on the free hepa air purifier program, a grant
Funded initiative that aims to reduce the effects of wildfire

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smoke seen by flagstaff city residents. And has done, yes, and has done so for the past four years.

1915
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since its inception, this program has been supported by multiple small grants, enabling
Us to distribute 200 hepa filters to our residents since 2021.

1916
04:07:15,260 --> 04:07:15,260
so wildfire smoke poses a major health risk when when exposed to it for long periods of
Time, and these effects can be exacerbated for certain populations.

1917
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because of this, our targeted outreach has focused on these most popular on those most
Vulnerable to these air quality issues, specifically residents with

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preexisting conditions, households with four or more members members over 65 and under 15
Years of age, and finally households with incomes under the area median

1919
04:07:44,120 --> 04:07:44,120
income. So, with more background of the overarching goals of this program, I'd like to
Bring your attention to the outcomes of the most recent round from april 1st through april

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30th, 2024. So through a dedicated and sustained outreach efforts via social media and tabling
Events.

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primarily, we received 345 applications this most recent application period.

1922
04:08:07,530 --> 04:08:07,530
the demand is far greater than previous application periods and as a as a grant funded
Program, we had a limited amount of hepa filters to distribute.

1923
04:08:16,350 --> 04:08:16,350
so in this last round, 45 flagstaff city residents received free hepa filter.

1924
04:08:21,930 --> 04:08:21,930
upon receiving this new filter, residents can breathe easy inside regardless of the air
Quality outside.

1925
04:08:27,210 --> 04:08:27,210
this initiative has not only provided immediate relief to these households, but has also
Significantly improved awareness about the impacts of wildfire smoke on health and

1926
04:08:36,210 --> 04:08:36,210
well-being. So here's a quick map displaying the distribution of hepa filters since 2021,
And despite limited funding, we have been able to distribute filters all over the city of

1927
04:08:46,200 --> 04:08:48,150
flagstaff to people who need them most. And as you can see by the map, the distribution has taken place in all of the cities most
Smoke impacted areas.

1928
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so looking ahead, we plan to continue distributing hepa filters using available grant
Funding.

1929
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our goal is to build upon the established demand for these filters, and to further
Increase community education and partnerships.

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by doing so, we hope to enhance the resilience of our community against air quality
Issues, particularly those related to wildfire smoke.

1931
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throughout my time distributing filters, I've been able to see so many excited faces. Grateful for the opportunity to have cleaner air during wildfire season at no extra cost.

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with still such a high demand for the hepa air filters and flagstaff, we hope to increase
The program's capacity to ensure every household has access to clean air, no matter the

1933
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weather. So with that, thank you for your time and I will be passing it back off to
Jenny.

1934
04:09:39,860 --> 04:09:42,380
thank you so much brady. Moving on really quickly to community resilience.

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again, we try to embed resilience in all of our work, in all of our mitigation work to
Reduce emissions.

1936
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but we have stood up a number of resilience focused programs in the last three years.

1937
04:09:56,090 --> 04:09:56,090
these include help for residents in buying flood prevention materials if they live in a
Flood prone neighborhood, the stream stewards program, and basically all of the work of

1938
04:10:05,810 --> 04:10:05,810
our neighborhood engagement program with this activates volunteers in our community.

1939
04:10:09,980 --> 04:10:09,980
it helps volunteers get to know each other while improving our streams or our streets and
Our trails.

1940
04:10:16,400 --> 04:10:16,400
coming up, we just two weeks ago launched our resilience hub project that is epa funded
And will develop three resilience hubs in flagstaff.

1941
04:10:25,790 --> 04:10:25,790
we're creating new projects and partnerships on biomass to improve the health of our
Forests and working closely with wildland fire.

1942
04:10:34,430 --> 04:10:34,430
with all that, I've got just three more slides quickly reviewing where we're heading in
Our next progress report.

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in the fall, we will review our carbon dioxide removal work as well as our food systems
And waste work.

1944
04:10:47,090 --> 04:10:50,120
in the meantime, we continue to seek grant funding. We're working on three federal grants right now.

1945
04:10:53,990 --> 04:10:55,460
it's really fun. We've got a lot of planning and policy change coming up that council is quite familiar
With, and we're really excited about these opportunities because they will help us create

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04:11:04,790 --> 04:11:04,790
that larger scale change at that policy level, which is just a much more efficient way to
Create change.

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the city is going to continue working towards large infrastructure projects from landfill
Gas capture, as we talked about, to transportation planning, and from a staffing

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perspective, we've got some grant writing capacity coming on board. Thank you. Council, as well as two grant funded positions to support our fire, climate
And health work, as well as the resilience hub project.

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before I close, I just want to take a moment to shout out our americorps volunteers, just
Some of whom we've mentioned earlier.

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we have six on the climate team, but we actually have ten americorps, vistas or climate
Corps members in our office.

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they're pictured here with our team on earth day, and we're just so grateful for the work
That they do.

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they make so much work of so they make so much of our work possible.

1953
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many of their terms will come to a close in august, so we will have ten fewer people on
Our team starting in september.

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so just to felicia, to katie, b to sydney, to bella, to gracie to katie s to bri, to
Kaylee, sam and brady.

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thank you for your service to the flagstaff community.

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thank you. Council I know this was long and late, and we just really appreciate your time
And attention to this update.

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we're really grateful to have the opportunity. We're really grateful that you brought this great update to us, so thank you.

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I mean, this was time very well spent. So council questions or comments?

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council member matthews. Thank you. I just want to echo that, that it's really helpful to see, you know, we get
Piecemeal information, but it's really helpful to see just a whole

1960
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picture in one one presentation and to see you guys are busy bees.

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and we appreciate that because it does take a community. And it does. Thank goodness for the americorps helpers and stuff.

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so just thank you to all your team part time full time borrowed.

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so thank you, thank you.

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council member sweet. Thank you and thank you for the presentation.

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I'm glad to see that you are continuing to reach out to the business community.

1966
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and I've actually had a couple of downtown neighbors say that they were approached and
Given information on it.

1967
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so I was excited to hear and I was able to ride my electric bike.

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kicking off a parade this past weekend. It was really fun, and I'm wondering if you can remind me what the e-bike initiative is.

1969
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yes. So this is something that we are just working on and what we want to do.

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nicole do you want to speak to it or do you want me to? I'm happy to. So what we're working to do and this was a request by council.

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we're working to figure out ways to make it work, because e-bike initiatives are
Incredibly complex and turns out incredibly time intensive.

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what we want to do is actually work within communities that are already served by the
City of flagstaff.

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so we're looking to potentially partner with our housing team to think about, can we do
Something like offering e-bikes at our

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city of flagstaff owned housing developments, and so can we offer those on a loan?

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we're still working out the logistics of how we can do that. But the essentially, you know, e-bikes can be car replacers, right?

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and we know that a lot of folks who are lower income, they don't have access to a car a
Lot of the times, or they don't have access to as many cars as they might need for their

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families. And so e-bikes can sort of be that car replacement. And so this is very tbd.

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but we're really excited about it. And the idea is really to say, all right, folks that were already serving, can we sort of
Bring these bikes to these communities.

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and again, we've got a lot of logistics to figure out there, but we're really excited to
Launch that.

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thank you. Of course.

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council member harris. Hi. Great presentation.

1982
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just a couple questions. So for the ev charging stations, the one, the public ones.

1983
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yes. Or do we charge for those? Not quite yet. And I know that danny maybe has an update on that, but based on council direction, we
Will be moving in that direction.

1984
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we need to do I believe a little bit of a fee study as our, as our next step.

1985
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but we will be getting there and we're excited. Good. And then back to the whole density issue.

1986
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yes, I have a question about that. So when we have filled up all the.

1987
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the neighborhoods that we think density should be in.

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what do we do then? Do we start going into other neighborhoods that don't want density?

1989
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density? I'm just asking. I think it's a great question.

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the so the land availability and suitability study and the client code analysis project,
Or looking at this as the regional plan.

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I my neighborhood is one of those neighborhoods, right? You can't put density in my neighborhood due to a lot of history and a lot of zoning.

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right. And so it is something that we have to talk about as a community. We have a ton of land in our community that is incredibly low density.

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the downtown study even came out and said, even our downtown is incredibly low density.

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and so it will take hard conversations with our community about how can we accommodate
Density.

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building out and out and out is incredibly expensive. The infrastructure is incredibly expensive, the water is incredibly expensive.

1996
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and so density is in many, many ways, a ways to use our existing infrastructure.

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if you could say, have a duplex in my neighborhood, right. Somebody would have a really nice commute to work that I get to enjoy, right?

1998
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maybe you can have a triplex. Maybe you can have, you know, a small apartment building.

1999
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I might even say. And so these studies are really asking these hard questions.

2000
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we have a we owe a lot to our planning team and everybody on the land availability and
Suitability study, as well as the code analysis project, who

2001
04:17:33,190 --> 04:17:33,190
are asking these questions to say, why are we so low density?

2002
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a lot of our developers really, really struggle to meet the even the minimum densities
Required because of our zoning.

2003
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and so, you know, people are are asking the hard questions. It's part of why we're really excited about this study because it really looks at, man,
Why are we so low density not only in our downtown, but also in most of our residential

2004
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neighborhoods? And what can we do about that? We talk a lot about missing middle housing, right?

2005
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we're not talking about six story apartment buildings in these neighborhoods, but we're
Talking about like, how can we integrate some of that density that south side has?

2006
04:18:10,090 --> 04:18:10,090
that town side has that that flagstaff actually was built on sort of this missing middle.

2007
04:18:15,820 --> 04:18:15,820
and that's the that's the that's back to the whole issue with equity.

2008
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yes. And so while we say on one hand we want our plan to.

2009
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think about equity or take that into consideration. But then the people that want our plan don't want the density in their neighborhoods.

2010
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so, I mean, we have a six of one, half a dozen of the other.

2011
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so anyway, just a comment. Thank you. And I'll say that your office has helped me so much in just

2012
04:18:49,560 --> 04:18:52,650
understanding what's available. I joined solar partners through you, had a solar array installed on my roof, and often
End up

2013
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selling power back to aps. And I of course love to see that.

2014
04:19:08,580 --> 04:19:11,670
and I love to see an aps bill. That's really just the different fees that come with an aps bill.

2015
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I've replaced my windows. I replaced my doors. That had a huge impact and insulation.

2016
04:19:28,110 --> 04:19:28,110
I have almost electrified all of my appliances.

2017
04:19:33,480 --> 04:19:36,810
I'm I'm doing it as they're wearing out. Awesome. So I've got a couple more appliances.

2018
04:19:40,200 --> 04:19:40,200
I'm contemplating a heat pump, and I have watched the videos that you have on the
Website,

2019
04:19:50,070 --> 04:19:50,070
so I just appreciate the amount of information that you make available to the public so
That we can learn more about

2020
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what's available to us and why, if we're in a position to take advantage of some makes
Sense for us to do so.

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04:20:08,280 --> 04:20:11,670
so thank you, thank you. And we have an online public commenter.

2022
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mayor and council, I have jason kotowski. Jason, you may go ahead and address mayor and council.

2023
04:20:23,890 --> 04:20:27,460
hi. Mayor, vice mayor and councilors. My name is jason kardoskee, and I've been a resident of the greater flagstaff area for
Seven years.

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I'm the regional field organizer for the northern arizona climate change alliance.

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so depending on who you ask, they may call me something else. I would like to thank the city council, the sustainability office and the staff for
Working toward the critical goal of ensuring the flagstaff community is carbon neutral by

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04:20:52,160 --> 04:20:52,160
2030. If every locality across the world were taking we're working toward the same goal.

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we could significantly reduce the threats of the climate crisis.

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I would like to add that I am very impressed by the amount of work your five and a half
Sustainability staff members are performing.

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this presentation was very informative. But I am here today to encourage city council to consider the scopes of the community's
Emissions next year when you revise the carbon

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neutrality plan. Companies include financial services, contracted and investments made as scope three
Emissions when accounting for their carbon footprints.

2031
04:21:37,170 --> 04:21:37,170
it may not be the common model to account for community emissions, but models can change.

2032
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I don't think many on the city council would consider a direct investment in our offshore
Arctic drilling as being in unison

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with the carbon neutrality goal. Maybe it would technically not affect the goal, but it's not in harmony with it.

2034
04:22:01,480 --> 04:22:01,480
and directly providing money to a bank that invests in harmful fossil fuel extraction has
The exact same result.

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so as we continue to make progress toward the goal of carbon neutrality, I think we
Should strongly reconsider how we analyze the scope of flagstaff

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04:22:19,620 --> 04:22:19,620
emissions and include scope three emissions.

2037
04:22:23,870 --> 04:22:26,390
I really actually hate to throw that out there. After seeing this presentation and all the hard work your staff has done and kind of throw
It on your step.

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but I do think it's critical to the overall problem since we don't live in a bubble.

2039
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thank you so much for the opportunity. Thanks. Bye. All right.

2040
04:22:44,900 --> 04:22:48,740
there's no additional public comment. Just. Thank you. I know that it takes a great deal of time out of what you're already working on to put
Together a presentation like

2041
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this, and I appreciate it. I know council appreciates it, and I know the public appreciates it, so thank you.

2042
04:23:07,430 --> 04:23:07,430
thank you all. Okay, we're moving down to open call to the public, and I don't see any of
That.

2043
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we're moving down to informational items two from mayor, council and staff and future
Agenda item requests.

2044
04:23:21,850 --> 04:23:21,850
let's start with council member sweet.

2045
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just real quick. It was a very busy few days and I got to celebrate quite a bit of
Different events with our council,

2046
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and it was very inspiring to see everyone out and working hard, and I'll just leave it at
That.

2047
04:23:41,620 --> 04:23:41,620
thank you. Council member mccarthy.

2048
04:23:46,310 --> 04:23:48,080
well. Thank you. I was lucky enough to be invited to the may hicks house.

2049
04:23:53,630 --> 04:23:57,260
this morning. And that's the house, of course. Where may hicks lived.

2050
04:23:58,790 --> 04:23:58,790
who was the one that made the first flag for the state of arizona?

2051
04:24:03,980 --> 04:24:03,980
and the secretary of state, adrian fontes, was there.

2052
04:24:08,600 --> 04:24:10,700
and he spoke earlier tonight. As you know it seems like I and other council members also have been to a lot of meetings
About this may hicks

2053
04:24:19,910 --> 04:24:19,910
house and how it can be preserved and ideas, but I think it would be a good idea if the
City could

2054
04:24:29,270 --> 04:24:32,870
appoint someone to kind of take the lead on this. So the some of the staff has already involved in a mr.

2055
04:24:41,740 --> 04:24:41,740
clifton. I can give you a list of some of the people that were at the meeting today.

2056
04:24:46,390 --> 04:24:49,420
I actually made a list, but I forgot to bring it tonight. So I guess my request.

2057
04:24:51,640 --> 04:24:51,640
I don't know if this is a fair or just something that you could do is to appoint someone.

2058
04:24:57,490 --> 04:24:57,490
I don't know if that'd be in community development or if it be in real estate or
Whatever, to kind of take the lead from the city's viewpoint.

2059
04:25:06,580 --> 04:25:07,870
for a couple of reasons. One is it's a valuable house, and it's in danger of being demolished because there's a
Big project going in there.

2060
04:25:15,280 --> 04:25:15,280
and one of the lead ideas is to put the to move the house over to the murdoch center, and
Then it

2061
04:25:25,270 --> 04:25:25,270
can be used for various things meetings, maybe boys girls club, whatever.

2062
04:25:31,150 --> 04:25:31,150
so I'm, I don't know if you want to answer that now or come back to me later, but I'm
Just hoping that we can kind of help the process along.

2063
04:25:41,080 --> 04:25:41,080
I think mister fontas was a little frustrated, like, there's all these ideas, but he
Says, well, who's heading this up?

2064
04:25:48,040 --> 04:25:48,040
you know, and he he did offer that maybe he could help as far as maybe some fundraising
Or something.

2065
04:25:55,420 --> 04:25:59,350
but somebody has to kind of take the lead on it, so I'll leave it at that. Thank you. Mayor, would you like a response?

2066
04:26:04,190 --> 04:26:07,790
thank you, council member mccarthy, for bringing that back up. It was a wonderful discussion by our secretary of state earlier.

2067
04:26:14,240 --> 04:26:17,390
allow us to huddle internally and talk about this. There's already discussions occurring offline, and expect us to report back.

2068
04:26:25,240 --> 04:26:25,240
just might note that he was planning to leave town, but he actually stayed over so that
He could make a presentation at council tonight.

2069
04:26:34,030 --> 04:26:35,980
so he's taking this very seriously. We were quite honored to have his presence.

2070
04:26:38,470 --> 04:26:39,670
absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, vice mayor.

2071
04:26:42,790 --> 04:26:45,000
council member harris. Council member matthews.

2072
04:26:51,940 --> 04:26:51,940
yeah, it was a very busy couple of days, and I had the honor of being joined by coconino
County

2073
04:27:01,960 --> 04:27:01,960
chair judy begay in welcoming the first lady doctor, jill biden, at the airport when she
Came to flagstaff.

2074
04:27:11,260 --> 04:27:11,260
and it was just our airports.

2075
04:27:16,060 --> 04:27:18,220
brian was there. And this all took place at wiseman aviation.

2076
04:27:21,670 --> 04:27:21,670
and they're just so well equipped and well trained and able to pull together.

2077
04:27:28,030 --> 04:27:28,030
kind of a big feat to have that type of a airplane land on our, at our

2078
04:27:37,150 --> 04:27:37,150
airport. And I think I will leave it at that city manager.

2079
04:27:43,060 --> 04:27:44,140
nothing for me. Thank you. Mayor. All right then, we're adjourned.