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I'd like to call the Maranah Town Council special council meeting to order.

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Roll call, please.

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Mayor Post.

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Here.

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Vice Mayor Ziegler.

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Present.

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Council Member Kavanaugh.

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Here.

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Council Member Cumberford.

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Here.

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Council Member Kai.

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Here.

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Council Member Murphy.

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Present.

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Council Member Officer.

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Here.

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The quorum is present.

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Thank you very much.

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Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a moment of silence.

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I

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pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

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which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Thank you. Please be seated.

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Approval of agenda?

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We have a motion and a second. All those in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed? Motion passes.

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Call to the public.

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at this time any member of the public is allowed to address the Town Council on any issue within

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the jurisdiction of the Town Council except for item schedule for a public hearing at this meeting.

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Do we have any speaker cards? Mr. Mayor, I do not have any cards.

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Thank you. Mayor and Council Member Officer. No report, Mayor.

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Council Member Murphy. I just want to say we had our first event at the Heritage Arena.

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a huge success. About 300 people just from the general public came to watch. Also the

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mutton busting for the Fall Festival opened up, completely sold out. So we have 90 mutton

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busters at the event.

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Thank you. Council Member Kai.

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I know report, Mayor.

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Council Member Kavanaugh.

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Thank you, Mayor. Last week I attended a one-day summer policy retreat from the

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Policy Academy at Morrison Institute, Arizona State University up in Tempe.

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And they talked about three or four different topics, mainly water.

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The fact that even though Lake Mead and Lake Powell were shrinking,

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we're in pretty good shape here in Arizona, both Phoenix area as well as

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Southern Arizona, including Marana.

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And also talked, there was a data center panel there that were talking

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about different things.

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And one of the main topics about at the data center panel

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was that the data center people have done a terrible job in their PR, trying to tell

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the story about data centers and what they can do. That's all mayor. Thank you.

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Thank you. Councilmember Comfort? Yes, Mayor. I promise I won't have a meltdown

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this time. Apparently I had a meltdown last meeting. Yeah, I was a resident, Lynn H,

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from some bird watching group. In any case, my my clarity is, do you thought that

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was a meltdown? You gotta talk to my husband. That was not a meltdown. All I

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was trying to make my point and I will reiterate it today is that it's so

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important in what we do every day in government to make good relationships

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because when you have good relationships with the good bad and ugly I

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don't care who it is or what it is that's when things get done and things

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get accomplished. That was that. The other thing was, I've been off social media for

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months and I went back and

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it's kind of funny to watch and I wish I could just get my old

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friends back and see what they're doing. But what's so funny is everybody always

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sinks this Council's on the take. Their favorite thing. Council's on the take. That's why they

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do that. Their Council's on the take. They do that. I just want to know from anyone who's

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making that decision, would you let me know where the take is? Because I've never gotten

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my share. And I'm pretty sure I can speak for the rest of you, that you all haven't

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gotten your share either. I'm pretty confident of that. So the minute you say

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we're on the take, I want proof, because I want mine. Okay? So I'm just telling you.

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A lot of things said during elections, a lot of things out of context, and we'll

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learned from everything. That being said, I want to welcome our new assistant

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town manager, not new to the town, Andrea, and I'm not going to say the last name

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because I will mess it up. I finally got De La Cruz. Okay.

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I was

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been assistant to the town manager for a couple of years now, and she was promoted to this

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position.

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We're lucky to have her.

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She's an excellent, excellent choice and an excellent employee, along with all the rest

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of our wonderful employees, good at picking out good people.

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So I think I got what I wanted.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Thank you, Andrea.

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Maria is

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a good, she's a good cookie. Anyways, I think that's enough for this time, Mayor.

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Thank you. Vice Mayor?

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Just a tag onto you for a minute. I haven't got any of that money either, but let's be

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clear. We do get hats sometimes.

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We get a hat?

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Yeah, we get a hat.

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You say you get a hat?

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I mean, we might get a $10 hat and we get pins.

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You can do pins.

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We get pins.

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I don't know.

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What is that?

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Five bucks.

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And then we get pin pins, you know, if we go somewhere and so, I'm with you.

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I haven't seen it done except for my salary, $18,000 a year.

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That's it.

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Secondly, what was I gonna say, oh, so you said not to mention it, but I'm gonna mention

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it.

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The wheels on my car are much better, and it took him so long to do it, what, two hours?

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The public works over where I live, near, I won't say where I live, but I, I'm caught

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in a rant, near Palm Brook, you guys painted over the humps, you know, when we did

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the pavement preservation.

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And so there's a sign there that says, we have speed bumps on Conbrook.

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And there's a sign there that says speed bumps.

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It's been sitting there for what, 20 years?

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But when I go over the bumps and they're not painted the white, hmm.

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So I did that a couple of times.

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It wasn't speeding.

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Maybe, maybe not.

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So thank you for putting the white, what do you call them, chevrons or something on there?

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Thank you so much.

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Other other things I can't talk about up here it's politics so

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I'm just trying to help our LD 17 people Republicans get into LD 17 so I know I'm

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not supposed to say that but I'm sure I'll get in trouble other than that I'm

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doing well. Thank you very much vice mayor I don't have a report tonight so

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So, uh, Mr. Rosema.

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Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council, a few things to share with you.

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Our SFR update for the month 28 permits through today, 39 for all of August of 2020, 2025.

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We did have a visit with Juan Ciscomani, he came into town with some of his folks.

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We met over by Miranda and I-10 to share with him the project that we'll be doing there

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to improve the interchange and Congressman Ciscomani sits on the Appropriations Committee

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and he has committed to working to get us $3 million in funding for that project.

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So that will go a long way toward helping us get that project paid for, about a $9

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million project in total.

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Also, I know it's been in the news a little bit out there, the new artwork at Rattlesnake Pass.

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It's out there. It's beautiful if you like rattlesnakes.

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And we're looking right now for somebody to name it.

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And we've had a few names thrown out there, so we'll see what becomes of that.

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Parks and Recs department submitted for a grant from the Gila River Indian

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community and we're awarded $28,000 which is going to pay for free swim lessons

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for 720 kids. So pretty pretty neat thing that Parks and Recs department was able

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to get a big thanks to Melissa and the finance department for her work on

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grants in getting the town that money. And speaking, staying on parks and recs, we do have the

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master plan update going on. So we are open for public comment. We'll be taking that over the

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next couple of months so people can go online and provide any input feedback that they'd like to.

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This is halfway through our 10-year master plans where we're doing an update at the

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five-year mark. So an opportunity for the public that last opportunity will be at

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the Fall Festival on October the 17th, October the 17th, and then we'll do

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some very targeted meetings and interactions with people through the

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community to get additional feedback. Also Discover Marana was awarded $50,000

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in cooperative marketing funds. So that's something that's going to help

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them out greatly with the Safe Travel Guide, the Tucson Visitor Guide, the Arizona Highways,

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so on and so forth. So a tip of the hat to Stephanie and her crew. And lastly, Discover

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Marana Team won Best Marketing Campaign for the Southern Region. So a couple meetings in a row,

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we've been talking about staff in the different departments winning awards. And here again,

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discover Miranda, the Tourism Marketing Department, one another award. So congratulations to them.

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And that concludes my report, Mr. Mayor. Thank you very much.

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Yes, Vice Mayor? It's more of a statement, you know, for a couple of months there we were

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getting some negative press about not getting grants. And so I'd just like to show that we do

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a lot in getting grants and I'd like to what is her name that does our grants

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Melissa Melissa yes so Melissa does a great job on getting grants and we'll

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continue to get these grants and so I just want to make that clear that we do

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try very hard to do that thank you. Consent agenda. Council's pleasure.

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Motion to approve Mayor. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye.

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Post. Motion passes. Mr. Mayor, we had an emergency clause on the consent agenda so we need you a

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roll call vote. Please do. All right. Councilmember Kavanaugh. Yay. Councilmember Comerford.

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Councilmember Kai. Aye. Councilmember Murphy. Aye. Councilmember Officer. Aye. Vice Mayor Ziegler.

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Item A-1, resolution number 2026-059, relating to development, approving and authorizing the

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mayor to execute the second amendment to Morana Main Street Development Agreement and right

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away license.

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Ms. Farrell.

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Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor Ziegler, members of the council, I'm here tonight to discuss

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of proposed second amendment to the Marana Main Street Development Agreement.

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I put the map up on the display to talk to display what development we're talking about.

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The main provision in this agreement that was entered into back in October of 2020 was

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that the developer would build Main Street through the development and Center Street.

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And if completed, the original deadline was October 31st, 2020.

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The town was going to use $300,000 from the Downtown Marana Reinvestment Fund to reimburse the developer.

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In April of 2021, we did come forward to the council with the First Amendment to the DA to extend the deadline for the completion of the roads to, I believe, in June of 2021.

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2021. Yes, June 1st, 2021. Eventually, the roads got completed in July of 2024. It was

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substantially completed July 12, 2024. The proposed second amendment will not recognize

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that July 12, 2024 completion date and give an extension from the June 1st, 2021 deadline

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to the actual completion date and then the town can reimburse the developer the

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$300,000 from the downtown Marana Reinvestment Fund. That is the main

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provision of the agreement. There are a couple of secondary issues. One was that

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when we did the First Amendment we had agreed to share water bills and some

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irrigation of costs for landscaping on Marana Main and Center Street and the

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town never actually paid its share of those costs so what we did was we worked

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with the developer to go through all the bills and determine what the town's

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Fair share should be, and that's in the materials, it's $19,265.89 to be precise. So if this agreement

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is approved tonight, we would add that to the $300,000 to pay what we think is fair for what

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we've received from the developer in this subdivision. And the final item was this is a development

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that is part of the downtown Marana overlay zone and the developer opted into that mixed-use zone

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which some of you might remember we adopted in 2018 with an implementation plan and they

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have provided us with an updated implementation plan which is basically what I'm showing you

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here on the screen here. It covers what's left undeveloped in this development south of

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of Main Street, these areas in color,

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and then these couple up here that also are in color.

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And with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions.

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Do we have any questions?

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Mayor?

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Yes, sir.

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Yeah, Mr. Farrell, the $19,265 reimbursement,

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well, what does that cover?

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You said water and landscape?

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Mr. Mayor, Councilor Kavanaugh,

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it's mostly the water bills from the last few years up until we took over the water

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count in October of 2024 that we were supposed to split 50-50 with the developer and just

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nobody's fault it just didn't happen. And then I think it's also some of the actual irrigation

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equipment that was installed. Help me understand where is the water? Where is the water being

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used in that in that area? It is irrigation or can't mere post councilor

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Kavanaugh it's irrigation equipment is in the right-of-way on the right-of-way in

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Marana Main Street and in Center Street so that it can irrigate the

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landscaping that's been placed in those areas. Okay okay thank you. Do we have

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any other questions for staff?

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Do we have a motion then? Make a motion. Vice

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Thank you, sir. I moved to adopt Resolution 2026. So 59, approving and authorizing the

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mayor to execute the Second Amendment to Miranda Main Street Development Agreement and right-of-way license.

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We have a motion and a second. All those in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed? Motion passes.

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Thank you.

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We have an executive session tonight. Is that correct?

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Yes, mayor. We do.

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Yes, mayor.

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I don't remember if it's E1 or E2. I don't have my agenda.

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Motion to adjourn for executive session.

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Second.

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All those in favor?

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Second session.

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No action is necessary on the executive session.

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Future agenda items.

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Motion to adjourn?

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Motion to adjourn.

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We have a second.

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All those in favor?

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Aye.

232
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We are adjourned.

233
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Thank you very much.