I'd like to call the Maranah Town Council special council meeting to order.
Roll call, please.
Mayor Post.
Here.
Vice Mayor Ziegler.
Present.
Council Member Kavanaugh.
Here.
Council Member Cumberford.
Here.
Council Member Kai.
Here.
Council Member Murphy.
Present.
Council Member Officer.
Here.
The quorum is present.
Thank you very much.
Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a moment of silence.
I
pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for
which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you. Please be seated.
Approval of agenda?
We have a motion and a second. All those in favor?
Aye.
Opposed? Motion passes.
Call to the public.
at this time any member of the public is allowed to address the Town Council on any issue within
the jurisdiction of the Town Council except for item schedule for a public hearing at this meeting.
Do we have any speaker cards? Mr. Mayor, I do not have any cards.
Thank you. Mayor and Council Member Officer. No report, Mayor.
Council Member Murphy. I just want to say we had our first event at the Heritage Arena.
a huge success. About 300 people just from the general public came to watch. Also the
mutton busting for the Fall Festival opened up, completely sold out. So we have 90 mutton
busters at the event.
Thank you. Council Member Kai.
I know report, Mayor.
Council Member Kavanaugh.
Thank you, Mayor. Last week I attended a one-day summer policy retreat from the
Policy Academy at Morrison Institute, Arizona State University up in Tempe.
And they talked about three or four different topics, mainly water.
The fact that even though Lake Mead and Lake Powell were shrinking,
we're in pretty good shape here in Arizona, both Phoenix area as well as
Southern Arizona, including Marana.
And also talked, there was a data center panel there that were talking
about different things.
And one of the main topics about at the data center panel
was that the data center people have done a terrible job in their PR, trying to tell
the story about data centers and what they can do. That's all mayor. Thank you.
Thank you. Councilmember Comfort? Yes, Mayor. I promise I won't have a meltdown
this time. Apparently I had a meltdown last meeting. Yeah, I was a resident, Lynn H,
from some bird watching group. In any case, my my clarity is, do you thought that
was a meltdown? You gotta talk to my husband. That was not a meltdown. All I
was trying to make my point and I will reiterate it today is that it's so
important in what we do every day in government to make good relationships
because when you have good relationships with the good bad and ugly I
don't care who it is or what it is that's when things get done and things
get accomplished. That was that. The other thing was, I've been off social media for
months and I went back and
it's kind of funny to watch and I wish I could just get my old
friends back and see what they're doing. But what's so funny is everybody always
sinks this Council's on the take. Their favorite thing. Council's on the take. That's why they
do that. Their Council's on the take. They do that. I just want to know from anyone who's
making that decision, would you let me know where the take is? Because I've never gotten
my share. And I'm pretty sure I can speak for the rest of you, that you all haven't
gotten your share either. I'm pretty confident of that. So the minute you say
we're on the take, I want proof, because I want mine. Okay? So I'm just telling you.
A lot of things said during elections, a lot of things out of context, and we'll
learned from everything. That being said, I want to welcome our new assistant
town manager, not new to the town, Andrea, and I'm not going to say the last name
because I will mess it up. I finally got De La Cruz. Okay.
I was
been assistant to the town manager for a couple of years now, and she was promoted to this
position.
We're lucky to have her.
She's an excellent, excellent choice and an excellent employee, along with all the rest
of our wonderful employees, good at picking out good people.
So I think I got what I wanted.
Yes.
Thank you, Andrea.
Maria is
a good, she's a good cookie. Anyways, I think that's enough for this time, Mayor.
Thank you. Vice Mayor?
Just a tag onto you for a minute. I haven't got any of that money either, but let's be
clear. We do get hats sometimes.
We get a hat?
Yeah, we get a hat.
You say you get a hat?
I mean, we might get a $10 hat and we get pins.
You can do pins.
We get pins.
I don't know.
What is that?
Five bucks.
And then we get pin pins, you know, if we go somewhere and so, I'm with you.
I haven't seen it done except for my salary, $18,000 a year.
That's it.
Secondly, what was I gonna say, oh, so you said not to mention it, but I'm gonna mention
it.
The wheels on my car are much better, and it took him so long to do it, what, two hours?
The public works over where I live, near, I won't say where I live, but I, I'm caught
in a rant, near Palm Brook, you guys painted over the humps, you know, when we did
the pavement preservation.
And so there's a sign there that says, we have speed bumps on Conbrook.
And there's a sign there that says speed bumps.
It's been sitting there for what, 20 years?
But when I go over the bumps and they're not painted the white, hmm.
So I did that a couple of times.
It wasn't speeding.
Maybe, maybe not.
So thank you for putting the white, what do you call them, chevrons or something on there?
Thank you so much.
Other other things I can't talk about up here it's politics so
I'm just trying to help our LD 17 people Republicans get into LD 17 so I know I'm
not supposed to say that but I'm sure I'll get in trouble other than that I'm
doing well. Thank you very much vice mayor I don't have a report tonight so
So, uh, Mr. Rosema.
Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council, a few things to share with you.
Our SFR update for the month 28 permits through today, 39 for all of August of 2020, 2025.
We did have a visit with Juan Ciscomani, he came into town with some of his folks.
We met over by Miranda and I-10 to share with him the project that we'll be doing there
to improve the interchange and Congressman Ciscomani sits on the Appropriations Committee
and he has committed to working to get us $3 million in funding for that project.
So that will go a long way toward helping us get that project paid for, about a $9
million project in total.
Also, I know it's been in the news a little bit out there, the new artwork at Rattlesnake Pass.
It's out there. It's beautiful if you like rattlesnakes.
And we're looking right now for somebody to name it.
And we've had a few names thrown out there, so we'll see what becomes of that.
Parks and Recs department submitted for a grant from the Gila River Indian
community and we're awarded $28,000 which is going to pay for free swim lessons
for 720 kids. So pretty pretty neat thing that Parks and Recs department was able
to get a big thanks to Melissa and the finance department for her work on
grants in getting the town that money. And speaking, staying on parks and recs, we do have the
master plan update going on. So we are open for public comment. We'll be taking that over the
next couple of months so people can go online and provide any input feedback that they'd like to.
This is halfway through our 10-year master plans where we're doing an update at the
five-year mark. So an opportunity for the public that last opportunity will be at
the Fall Festival on October the 17th, October the 17th, and then we'll do
some very targeted meetings and interactions with people through the
community to get additional feedback. Also Discover Marana was awarded $50,000
in cooperative marketing funds. So that's something that's going to help
them out greatly with the Safe Travel Guide, the Tucson Visitor Guide, the Arizona Highways,
so on and so forth. So a tip of the hat to Stephanie and her crew. And lastly, Discover
Marana Team won Best Marketing Campaign for the Southern Region. So a couple meetings in a row,
we've been talking about staff in the different departments winning awards. And here again,
discover Miranda, the Tourism Marketing Department, one another award. So congratulations to them.
And that concludes my report, Mr. Mayor. Thank you very much.
Yes, Vice Mayor? It's more of a statement, you know, for a couple of months there we were
getting some negative press about not getting grants. And so I'd just like to show that we do
a lot in getting grants and I'd like to what is her name that does our grants
Melissa Melissa yes so Melissa does a great job on getting grants and we'll
continue to get these grants and so I just want to make that clear that we do
try very hard to do that thank you. Consent agenda. Council's pleasure.
Motion to approve Mayor. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye.
Post. Motion passes. Mr. Mayor, we had an emergency clause on the consent agenda so we need you a
roll call vote. Please do. All right. Councilmember Kavanaugh. Yay. Councilmember Comerford.
Councilmember Kai. Aye. Councilmember Murphy. Aye. Councilmember Officer. Aye. Vice Mayor Ziegler.
Item A-1, resolution number 2026-059, relating to development, approving and authorizing the
mayor to execute the second amendment to Morana Main Street Development Agreement and right
away license.
Ms. Farrell.
Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor Ziegler, members of the council, I'm here tonight to discuss
of proposed second amendment to the Marana Main Street Development Agreement.
I put the map up on the display to talk to display what development we're talking about.
The main provision in this agreement that was entered into back in October of 2020 was
that the developer would build Main Street through the development and Center Street.
And if completed, the original deadline was October 31st, 2020.
The town was going to use $300,000 from the Downtown Marana Reinvestment Fund to reimburse the developer.
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.
2021. Yes, June 1st, 2021. Eventually, the roads got completed in July of 2024. It was
substantially completed July 12, 2024. The proposed second amendment will not recognize
that July 12, 2024 completion date and give an extension from the June 1st, 2021 deadline
to the actual completion date and then the town can reimburse the developer the
$300,000 from the downtown Marana Reinvestment Fund. That is the main
provision of the agreement. There are a couple of secondary issues. One was that
when we did the First Amendment we had agreed to share water bills and some
irrigation of costs for landscaping on Marana Main and Center Street and the
town never actually paid its share of those costs so what we did was we worked
with the developer to go through all the bills and determine what the town's
Fair share should be, and that's in the materials, it's $19,265.89 to be precise. So if this agreement
is approved tonight, we would add that to the $300,000 to pay what we think is fair for what
we've received from the developer in this subdivision. And the final item was this is a development
that is part of the downtown Marana overlay zone and the developer opted into that mixed-use zone
which some of you might remember we adopted in 2018 with an implementation plan and they
have provided us with an updated implementation plan which is basically what I'm showing you
here on the screen here. It covers what's left undeveloped in this development south of
of Main Street, these areas in color,
and then these couple up here that also are in color.
And with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions.
Do we have any questions?
Mayor?
Yes, sir.
Yeah, Mr. Farrell, the $19,265 reimbursement,
well, what does that cover?
You said water and landscape?
Mr. Mayor, Councilor Kavanaugh,
it's mostly the water bills from the last few years up until we took over the water
count in October of 2024 that we were supposed to split 50-50 with the developer and just
nobody's fault it just didn't happen. And then I think it's also some of the actual irrigation
equipment that was installed. Help me understand where is the water? Where is the water being
used in that in that area? It is irrigation or can't mere post councilor
Kavanaugh it's irrigation equipment is in the right-of-way on the right-of-way in
Marana Main Street and in Center Street so that it can irrigate the
landscaping that's been placed in those areas. Okay okay thank you. Do we have
any other questions for staff?
Do we have a motion then? Make a motion. Vice
Thank you, sir. I moved to adopt Resolution 2026. So 59, approving and authorizing the
mayor to execute the Second Amendment to Miranda Main Street Development Agreement and right-of-way license.
We have a motion and a second. All those in favor?
Aye.
Opposed? Motion passes.
Thank you.
We have an executive session tonight. Is that correct?
Yes, mayor. We do.
Yes, mayor.
I don't remember if it's E1 or E2. I don't have my agenda.
Motion to adjourn for executive session.
Second.
All those in favor?
Aye.
Second session.
No action is necessary on the executive session.
Future agenda items.
Motion to adjourn?
Motion to adjourn.
We have a second.
All those in favor?
Aye.
We are adjourned.
Thank you very much.