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[0:01] I'd like to call the Maranah Town Council special council meeting to order.
[0:06] Roll call, please.
[0:07] Mayor Post.
[0:08] Here.
[0:08] Vice Mayor Ziegler.
[0:09] Present.
[0:10] Council Member Kavanaugh.
[0:11] Here.
[0:11] Council Member Cumberford.
[0:12] Here.
[0:13] Council Member Kai.
[0:14] Here.
[0:14] Council Member Murphy.
[0:15] Present.
[0:16] Council Member Officer.
[0:17] Here.
[0:18] The quorum is present.
[0:19] Thank you very much.
[0:20] Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a moment of silence.
[0:23] I
[0:28] pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for
[0:35] which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
[0:48] Thank you. Please be seated.
[0:56] Approval of agenda?
[0:58] We have a motion and a second. All those in favor?
[1:01] Aye.
[1:02] Opposed? Motion passes.
[1:05] Call to the public.
[1:05] at this time any member of the public is allowed to address the Town Council on any issue within
[1:10] the jurisdiction of the Town Council except for item schedule for a public hearing at this meeting.
[1:16] Do we have any speaker cards? Mr. Mayor, I do not have any cards.
[1:22] Thank you. Mayor and Council Member Officer. No report, Mayor.
[1:30] Council Member Murphy. I just want to say we had our first event at the Heritage Arena.
[1:33] a huge success. About 300 people just from the general public came to watch. Also the
[1:39] mutton busting for the Fall Festival opened up, completely sold out. So we have 90 mutton
[1:44] busters at the event.
[1:49] Thank you. Council Member Kai.
[1:51] I know report, Mayor.
[1:53] Council Member Kavanaugh.
[1:54] Thank you, Mayor. Last week I attended a one-day summer policy retreat from the
[2:01] Policy Academy at Morrison Institute, Arizona State University up in Tempe.
[2:06] And they talked about three or four different topics, mainly water.
[2:10] The fact that even though Lake Mead and Lake Powell were shrinking,
[2:13] we're in pretty good shape here in Arizona, both Phoenix area as well as
[2:17] Southern Arizona, including Marana.
[2:22] And also talked, there was a data center panel there that were talking
[2:25] about different things.
[2:27] And one of the main topics about at the data center panel
[2:29] was that the data center people have done a terrible job in their PR, trying to tell
[2:37] the story about data centers and what they can do. That's all mayor. Thank you.
[2:42] Thank you. Councilmember Comfort? Yes, Mayor. I promise I won't have a meltdown
[2:51] this time. Apparently I had a meltdown last meeting. Yeah, I was a resident, Lynn H,
[3:01] from some bird watching group. In any case, my my clarity is, do you thought that
[3:09] was a meltdown? You gotta talk to my husband. That was not a meltdown. All I
[3:15] was trying to make my point and I will reiterate it today is that it's so
[3:21] important in what we do every day in government to make good relationships
[3:29] because when you have good relationships with the good bad and ugly I
[3:35] don't care who it is or what it is that's when things get done and things
[3:40] get accomplished. That was that. The other thing was, I've been off social media for
[3:49] months and I went back and
[3:56] it's kind of funny to watch and I wish I could just get my old
[4:02] friends back and see what they're doing. But what's so funny is everybody always
[4:07] sinks this Council's on the take. Their favorite thing. Council's on the take. That's why they
[4:14] do that. Their Council's on the take. They do that. I just want to know from anyone who's
[4:19] making that decision, would you let me know where the take is? Because I've never gotten
[4:26] my share. And I'm pretty sure I can speak for the rest of you, that you all haven't
[4:33] gotten your share either. I'm pretty confident of that. So the minute you say
[4:39] we're on the take, I want proof, because I want mine. Okay? So I'm just telling you.
[4:50] A lot of things said during elections, a lot of things out of context, and we'll
[4:57] learned from everything. That being said, I want to welcome our new assistant
[5:07] town manager, not new to the town, Andrea, and I'm not going to say the last name
[5:14] because I will mess it up. I finally got De La Cruz. Okay.
[5:23] I was
[5:26] been assistant to the town manager for a couple of years now, and she was promoted to this
[5:34] position.
[5:34] We're lucky to have her.
[5:36] She's an excellent, excellent choice and an excellent employee, along with all the rest
[5:43] of our wonderful employees, good at picking out good people.
[5:48] So I think I got what I wanted.
[5:51] Yes.
[5:52] Yes.
[5:53] Thank you, Andrea.
[5:53] Maria is
[5:57] a good, she's a good cookie. Anyways, I think that's enough for this time, Mayor.
[6:05] Thank you. Vice Mayor?
[6:08] Just a tag onto you for a minute. I haven't got any of that money either, but let's be
[6:14] clear. We do get hats sometimes.
[6:19] We get a hat?
[6:20] Yeah, we get a hat.
[6:21] You say you get a hat?
[6:21] I mean, we might get a $10 hat and we get pins.
[6:27] You can do pins.
[6:29] We get pins.
[6:30] I don't know.
[6:30] What is that?
[6:30] Five bucks.
[6:32] And then we get pin pins, you know, if we go somewhere and so, I'm with you.
[6:40] I haven't seen it done except for my salary, $18,000 a year.
[6:47] That's it.
[6:49] Secondly, what was I gonna say, oh, so you said not to mention it, but I'm gonna mention
[6:54] it.
[6:55] The wheels on my car are much better, and it took him so long to do it, what, two hours?
[7:04] The public works over where I live, near, I won't say where I live, but I, I'm caught
[7:09] in a rant, near Palm Brook, you guys painted over the humps, you know, when we did
[7:14] the pavement preservation.
[7:15] And so there's a sign there that says, we have speed bumps on Conbrook.
[7:21] And there's a sign there that says speed bumps.
[7:23] It's been sitting there for what, 20 years?
[7:25] But when I go over the bumps and they're not painted the white, hmm.
[7:31] So I did that a couple of times.
[7:33] It wasn't speeding.
[7:34] Maybe, maybe not.
[7:36] So thank you for putting the white, what do you call them, chevrons or something on there?
[7:42] Thank you so much.
[7:47] Other other things I can't talk about up here it's politics so
[7:51] I'm just trying to help our LD 17 people Republicans get into LD 17 so I know I'm
[7:59] not supposed to say that but I'm sure I'll get in trouble other than that I'm
[8:03] doing well. Thank you very much vice mayor I don't have a report tonight so
[8:09] So, uh, Mr. Rosema.
[8:13] Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council, a few things to share with you.
[8:17] Our SFR update for the month 28 permits through today, 39 for all of August of 2020, 2025.
[8:29] We did have a visit with Juan Ciscomani, he came into town with some of his folks.
[8:35] We met over by Miranda and I-10 to share with him the project that we'll be doing there
[8:41] to improve the interchange and Congressman Ciscomani sits on the Appropriations Committee
[8:49] and he has committed to working to get us $3 million in funding for that project.
[8:54] So that will go a long way toward helping us get that project paid for, about a $9
[9:00] million project in total.
[9:03] Also, I know it's been in the news a little bit out there, the new artwork at Rattlesnake Pass.
[9:10] It's out there. It's beautiful if you like rattlesnakes.
[9:15] And we're looking right now for somebody to name it.
[9:18] And we've had a few names thrown out there, so we'll see what becomes of that.
[9:25] Parks and Recs department submitted for a grant from the Gila River Indian
[9:31] community and we're awarded $28,000 which is going to pay for free swim lessons
[9:37] for 720 kids. So pretty pretty neat thing that Parks and Recs department was able
[9:44] to get a big thanks to Melissa and the finance department for her work on
[9:48] grants in getting the town that money. And speaking, staying on parks and recs, we do have the
[9:58] master plan update going on. So we are open for public comment. We'll be taking that over the
[10:06] next couple of months so people can go online and provide any input feedback that they'd like to.
[10:13] This is halfway through our 10-year master plans where we're doing an update at the
[10:18] five-year mark. So an opportunity for the public that last opportunity will be at
[10:23] the Fall Festival on October the 17th, October the 17th, and then we'll do
[10:31] some very targeted meetings and interactions with people through the
[10:36] community to get additional feedback. Also Discover Marana was awarded $50,000
[10:43] in cooperative marketing funds. So that's something that's going to help
[10:48] them out greatly with the Safe Travel Guide, the Tucson Visitor Guide, the Arizona Highways,
[10:55] so on and so forth. So a tip of the hat to Stephanie and her crew. And lastly, Discover
[11:01] Marana Team won Best Marketing Campaign for the Southern Region. So a couple meetings in a row,
[11:10] we've been talking about staff in the different departments winning awards. And here again,
[11:14] discover Miranda, the Tourism Marketing Department, one another award. So congratulations to them.
[11:23] And that concludes my report, Mr. Mayor. Thank you very much.
[11:26] Yes, Vice Mayor? It's more of a statement, you know, for a couple of months there we were
[11:32] getting some negative press about not getting grants. And so I'd just like to show that we do
[11:40] a lot in getting grants and I'd like to what is her name that does our grants
[11:48] Melissa Melissa yes so Melissa does a great job on getting grants and we'll
[11:55] continue to get these grants and so I just want to make that clear that we do
[12:01] try very hard to do that thank you. Consent agenda. Council's pleasure.
[12:09] Motion to approve Mayor. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye.
[12:14] Post. Motion passes. Mr. Mayor, we had an emergency clause on the consent agenda so we need you a
[12:20] roll call vote. Please do. All right. Councilmember Kavanaugh. Yay. Councilmember Comerford.
[12:27] Councilmember Kai. Aye. Councilmember Murphy. Aye. Councilmember Officer. Aye. Vice Mayor Ziegler.
[12:38] Item A-1, resolution number 2026-059, relating to development, approving and authorizing the
[12:49] mayor to execute the second amendment to Morana Main Street Development Agreement and right
[12:53] away license.
[12:55] Ms. Farrell.
[12:57] Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor Ziegler, members of the council, I'm here tonight to discuss
[13:02] of proposed second amendment to the Marana Main Street Development Agreement.
[13:07] I put the map up on the display to talk to display what development we're talking about.
[13:15] The main provision in this agreement that was entered into back in October of 2020 was
[13:21] that the developer would build Main Street through the development and Center Street.
[13:26] And if completed, the original deadline was October 31st, 2020.
[13:33] The town was going to use $300,000 from the Downtown Marana Reinvestment Fund to reimburse the developer.
[13:42] 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.
[13:56] 2021. Yes, June 1st, 2021. Eventually, the roads got completed in July of 2024. It was
[14:04] substantially completed July 12, 2024. The proposed second amendment will not recognize
[14:12] that July 12, 2024 completion date and give an extension from the June 1st, 2021 deadline
[14:21] to the actual completion date and then the town can reimburse the developer the
[14:26] $300,000 from the downtown Marana Reinvestment Fund. That is the main
[14:33] provision of the agreement. There are a couple of secondary issues. One was that
[14:38] when we did the First Amendment we had agreed to share water bills and some
[14:42] irrigation of costs for landscaping on Marana Main and Center Street and the
[14:50] town never actually paid its share of those costs so what we did was we worked
[14:56] with the developer to go through all the bills and determine what the town's
[15:00] Fair share should be, and that's in the materials, it's $19,265.89 to be precise. So if this agreement
[15:10] is approved tonight, we would add that to the $300,000 to pay what we think is fair for what
[15:18] we've received from the developer in this subdivision. And the final item was this is a development
[15:26] that is part of the downtown Marana overlay zone and the developer opted into that mixed-use zone
[15:33] which some of you might remember we adopted in 2018 with an implementation plan and they
[15:41] have provided us with an updated implementation plan which is basically what I'm showing you
[15:46] here on the screen here. It covers what's left undeveloped in this development south of
[15:55] of Main Street, these areas in color,
[15:58] and then these couple up here that also are in color.
[16:03] And with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions.
[16:06] Do we have any questions?
[16:07] Mayor?
[16:08] Yes, sir.
[16:09] Yeah, Mr. Farrell, the $19,265 reimbursement,
[16:15] well, what does that cover?
[16:16] You said water and landscape?
[16:18] Mr. Mayor, Councilor Kavanaugh,
[16:21] it's mostly the water bills from the last few years up until we took over the water
[16:28] count in October of 2024 that we were supposed to split 50-50 with the developer and just
[16:35] nobody's fault it just didn't happen. And then I think it's also some of the actual irrigation
[16:41] equipment that was installed. Help me understand where is the water? Where is the water being
[16:47] used in that in that area? It is irrigation or can't mere post councilor
[16:52] Kavanaugh it's irrigation equipment is in the right-of-way on the right-of-way in
[16:57] Marana Main Street and in Center Street so that it can irrigate the
[17:02] landscaping that's been placed in those areas. Okay okay thank you. Do we have
[17:07] any other questions for staff?
[17:14] Do we have a motion then? Make a motion. Vice
[17:17] Thank you, sir. I moved to adopt Resolution 2026. So 59, approving and authorizing the
[17:24] mayor to execute the Second Amendment to Miranda Main Street Development Agreement and right-of-way license.
[17:30] We have a motion and a second. All those in favor?
[17:32] Aye.
[17:33] Opposed? Motion passes.
[17:35] Thank you.
[17:37] We have an executive session tonight. Is that correct?
[17:41] Yes, mayor. We do.
[17:42] Yes, mayor.
[17:44] I don't remember if it's E1 or E2. I don't have my agenda.
[17:49] Motion to adjourn for executive session.
[17:52] Second.
[17:53] All those in favor?
[17:54] Aye.
[18:01] Second session.
[18:03] No action is necessary on the executive session.
[18:09] Future agenda items.
[18:12] Motion to adjourn?
[18:14] Motion to adjourn.
[18:15] We have a second.
[18:16] All those in favor?
[18:17] Aye.
[18:18] We are adjourned.
[18:19] Thank you very much.