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Good afternoon question.

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» There we go.

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I would like to welcome everybody to the
Springville Town Council special meeting

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with the August 10th, 2026 at 6:00 p.m.
I call this meeting to order.

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Will everyone please stand for the
Pledge of Allegiance?

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Kim, I guess you can lead us.
>> I pledge allegiance to the flag

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of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands,

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

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» Thank you.
I have invited Councilman

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Dyson
to offer our invocation.

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» Father, our heavenly Father, we thank
you for bringing us here tonight. We

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thank you for the rain.

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We ask your blessing on our town. We ask
your blessing on the newly elected,

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on Justin and Bridget,
and all our council and staff.

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Help us to do your will. Help us to make
wise decisions.

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Help us to serve the people that we
represent.

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And we ask for your blessing on our town
for whatever it needs,

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help us to supply.
We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

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» I think we have a roll call.
>> Councilwoman Henderson?

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Mayor Davis?
>> Present.

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» Councilor Dyson?
>> Present.

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» Councilor Williams?
>> Present.

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» A quorum is present.
>> I'd open this meeting to public

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participation.
Please state your name and limit your

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comments to 3 minutes.

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» You need the microphone up at all or is
it even working?

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» It's not up. We can
>> We can hear you.

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» Okay.
>> Hello Mr. Mayor, councilors, and staff.

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I'm Monica Banning, a 44-year resident
of Round Valley.

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For the past 5 months, after Arizona
State Land Siting Committee's remand

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hearing on the Lower Run Interconnection
Line, the Corporation Commission has not

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voted on that project yet, and company
reps have been pretty quiet here.

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Then last month, the company submitted a
new application to the FAA for a review

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of more wind turbines at top or half in
the same project area. They want FAA's

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approval for 125
turbines, all at 699

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ft tall. That review has been put on
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Then we just learned that Repsol
submitted their wind project CUP

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application to County Planning and
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It fills two massive three-ring binders.
The county now has the company's digital

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files to post the entire application
online at the county's website. Maybe by

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next week the public can start to see
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Concurrently, Repsol also submitted two
more two more thick binders for their

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Lower Run Solar Project CUP application.
So presently, the Community Development

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Department and P&Z have three active
renewable project applications to

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review. The massive Black Ridge Wind and
Solar Project, which proposes 146 wind

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turbines, all at 780 ft tall, with 4
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from Vernon to Concho to St. Johns, plus
directly adjacent is the Lower Wind La

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Paz wind projects starting just west of
Springerville on both sides of highway

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60, plus 5 square miles of La Paz wind
solar near the Springerville power

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plant. Then flying soon will be a fourth
project, Jack Rabbit solar, planned near

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the Coronado power plant east of St.
Johns. These projects are huge and

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complex. The county is beyond
overwhelmed to handle it all.

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Meanwhile, last month May, we citizens
started pressing county leadership to

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enact a moratorium that would reject all
these applications until after PMZ

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finishes revising their renewable energy
ordinance. On June 3rd, planning and

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zoning did vote to recommend a
moratorium to the board of supervisors,

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but it was not placed on the July board
agenda. We can only hope it might show

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up on next Monday's August 17th board
agenda. As for the ongoing ordinance

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rewrite, a citizen subcommittee was
rejected in last Wednesday's PMZ

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meeting. Instead, the PMZ commission has
set up a series of special work sessions

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on two Tuesdays each month from tomorrow
through January to finish their rewrite

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using special ad hoc advisers from the
public.

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There is reason to hope we can still
beat La Paz wind. Vernon and Concho and

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St. Johns folks are fired up and
attending these county meetings big

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time. Corporation Commission hasn't
approved their interconnection line.

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We're fighting them at the FAA. We can
persuade planning and zoning to

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recommend denial of their permit for
many reasons. Thank you for all you have

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done already to oppose it, but more town
help will be needed soon. We hope I can

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We hope I can count on you.
Thank you.

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» Thank you.
Anything else?

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We will come out of public
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regular regular special meeting.
Uh council manager staff reports,

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Robert.

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» Yes.
>> Good evening Mr.

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Ansel.
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» Double Works Airport, everybody be
busier than the merchants.

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and with some of the other people to
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of the other taxiway.
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» [clears throat]
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That project needs to move along as best
as we can. Um we did make some reach

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outs. We did find that the money for the
Winning a Bridge is still there. That is

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still in our pocket.
We want to keep moving so we have the

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engineers
getting it started again. Hopefully now

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that uh
their summer vacation is over.

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Um
South Mountain project, we have a

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inspection next week with ADOT.
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looking forward to that meeting with
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exactly where we want it. The crews been
putting in some great work with

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Maricopa. Actually portions going to be
getting paved this next spring. Well,

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with the top of Vulture Hill, we've been
widening it and paving some different

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things with the drainage and everything
that's going to be going on. Um so

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that's that's been a heck of a project
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Try to get that moving again.
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here last week. Um we had submitted some
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We submitted a couple of them. Uh
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number two
for our district right now. And the

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Coronado Acres project is sitting at
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or at least hopefully one of them might
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fruition and we might be able to get
some other road work done.

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With that, I said
everybody, Kevin, Brad, and everybody

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has been been
phenomenal work to get everything done

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as best we can.
Um we're a little bit behind. We've been

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short-staffed on the DOC end of it.
We're trying to get that up to snuff,

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but um we have plenty of work.
And then Amy

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decided she wanted to do us a solid.
That's what it

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We love having Amy. Amy's amazing.
Any questions for us?

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» You didn't have anything going on with
the sewer project?

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» No. Uh so, that was also one of the
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on is to we could go back to RFB.
So, we again we wanted to take out uh

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we weren't going to do all three phases.
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two. Um so, he went back to the drawing
board and he started drawing it up so we

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could go with RFB for those two phases.
Um but with his kids getting ready to go

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back to school, he took a week off, so
now that he's back, um

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he we're going to try to whip one
going to beat him with some wet

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spaghetti, I guess.
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» Oh, I tell you I've been dragging my
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we are we're running we're running some
guys pretty thin on

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on the on the way that he's been. So,
we've been dragging our feet. We've got

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a couple big projects we're going to get
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A waterline project and stuff, but
um I'm not going to put people in a

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ditch when it's time to bless the
spirits.

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» Yeah.
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» You what?
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It's off.
>> Did you take those second innings?

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» Knock on wood. Take those innings. Our
blasting is going pretty good. Do uh

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um
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all of our GPMs have been hitting
average. We haven't really had any deep

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runs.
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so, we're
we we still got our fingers crossed.

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We're still going through the hoops with
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but ADEQ is a lot of fun in our
vacation.

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But we we will outlast them and we will
get through all of that fun there.

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Do you have questions?

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» Congratulations on your election.
>> All of you.

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» [clears throat]
>> Chief.

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» Good evening Mayor, Town Council.
So, this month was a very busy month for

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us. Going with the July, that's
obviously a busy month for the police

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department.
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it went off without a hitch on most of
the the stuff that we had. Uh we had a

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total of 300 incidents during the the
month of July.

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» [clears throat]
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if you remember last month, that this is
actually a pretty huge increase from

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last year.
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um
the guys have been just

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knocking it out. They're doing really
good with stuff.

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Uh they had a total of 39 traffic stops
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Um they got only two accidents with all
the people and the visitors we had in

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town. I believe mine was one of them.
>> Not I did anything my car was hit.

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» Yeah, yeah you did. You go, "No, stop,
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» Uh couple of
notable things that we had. We had three

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internal complaints come in this month.
Um two of the complaints were referred

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to the Department of Public Safety
Internal Affairs for investigation.

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Um one of the complaints was
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That resulted in written discipline.
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a [snorts] huge thank you to the public
works director of Peña and his crew for

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all the work that they did this morning
with Amy.

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Um they've been in there helping us get
some things reorganized with the PD. We

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were kind of changing the rooms up quite
a bit where we're just

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flows a lot better before we're able to
kind of function a lot better out of

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this.
Um so, thank you very much for your

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patience today.
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couple of the bigger cases that we had
this month, we had a death investigation

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um where we had the White Mountain
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come out.
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Um that will should be closed out here
real soon.

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We had a multi-agency arrest of a major
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Um
this case actually involved a couple

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different states.
But the subject was known to be a threat

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to law enforcement and made several
threats to law enforcement throughout

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Well, not all of them, sorry. Arizona
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Um so, it was good to get him off the
streets. And then we had a barricaded

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subject that resulted in several several
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Um the subject was apprehended without
further incident. You know, the subject

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ended up actually being charged with
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So, that was a pretty big case for us
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our animal control position was filled
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um has started with us. She's doing very
well so far. We had a little hiccup

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there where she was out for a couple
weeks. She had an injury at home, so

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that kind of took her out of the out of
play for a little while. But she's back

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now. Um and then I attended the
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of Police Conference in Flagstaff. That
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Uh just being able to to speak with
other chiefs and some of the issues that

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they're they're dealing with and how
they were addressing that. It was good

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collaboration, though.
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» [snorts]
>> And then we had some upcoming training

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which is going to be

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Oh, I'm sorry. No, it's not upcoming
training. It's upcoming training in

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advance.
Um we have a tentative date set for the

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end of the month for
uh filling the last two positions for

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Any questions?
>> I have one. Um what does a person do

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when they have a dog growl on a weekend?
>> So, that's what the the the new animal

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control position actually fills. So, it
it is a 7-day a week.

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» Okay, and they call the police
department or who do they call?

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» So, they would call the the dispatch
center, which will then dispatch now to

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our our
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» Okay. Is that number widely
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advertised?
>> It should be. If it's not, then we can

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definitely put it on
>> Yeah, we would like to put it out there

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so people know what to do
so they don't call us.

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» I'll make a note of that and we'll get
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» And can you make any comments regarding
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week?
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Yes, more information be put out
tomorrow. So, we have to go through all

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the information and we'll get back to
>> Okay. Just confirming rumors.

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» Yeah, we will be putting some
information out. And if you do if you

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are hearing rumors, please let us know
because you never know when those rumors

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actually may be good information as
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» Okay.
>> So, please do let us know if you have

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something that we should know.
>> Chief, but do you have anything? Uh

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moving dispatch to Shiloh? Is that
moving along?

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» So, right now the date is set for the
first week of September.

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Um it's been a long That's a huge
project, so

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it'll take It's It's been a lot of work
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right now it does look like that we're
aiming for sometime in the first part of

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September.
Is what we're shooting

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» Did you guys figure out communications?
Have you You have to got something up

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there to get this to get over there?
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So, they came out and did several uh
tests out here and they were able to

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adjust what they needed to adjust on
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um I'm sure we'll be okay with that.
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Pretty much.
>> Thank you. Thank you, guys.

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» Can I leave you anything?
>> No.

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» Yeah, sure.

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» Thank [clears throat] you. Keep up the
fast work.

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» We need one other staff.
>> Okay, sure.

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» So, I have much to add, but when I had
done my staff report earlier, it was

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before my planning and zoning meeting
was done. So, I just wanted to let you

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know at the planning and zoning meeting
last week we held a public hearing and

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did a vote to recommend the adoption of
the update to the general plan. So, that

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will be coming forward to you guys for
public hearing next month. I just kind

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of wanted to let you learn about the
your questions and then

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um
that's all. Oh, and then in my staff

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report, I said that I was taking a class
on manufactured home installation. I

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received my certification this
afternoon.

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I finished my staff report.
Do you guys have any questions for me?

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» How many attended the public hearing for
the general plan?

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» Um there we had one person that spoke at
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» Thank you.
Good.

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» I have one.
I don't have anything, but I'd like to

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thank Kels Minnick and Allison for all
of her time and efforts.

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As long as I've known her and her
husband, they've been

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totally involved in our community, and I
really appreciate it.

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No matter where you go to some
public deal, they're there.

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And
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her husband for many years.
Mainly from the forest service and

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Alpine, but
I always see him down at the Madonna's,

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see him all all over town doing
service projects, and I really

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appreciate you. Thank you.
Thank you, mayor.

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Yeah, thank you.
>> I have some comments.

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» Yeah.
>> You don't mind

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if I just say something?
First of all, I just want to

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congratulate Justin and Bridget on the
election.

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You're going to do a great job. You're
going to really enjoy serving the

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people.
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here's to you.
I want to thank the council for letting

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me come on as a temporary appointment
for the last 8 months.

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I appreciate that.
It's been a privilege to fill in and

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serve again.
I'd like to thank Ted and the staff

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for all the work over the last several
months, 8 months, in stabilizing town

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government
during a difficult time. It's been a

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rough year.
Uh but progress has been made.

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And I want to mention it.
We have a good budget. We have an

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updated general plan.
We have new legal counsel. We have new

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police chief
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We've updated policies and procedures.
And we have a staff that's competent and

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willing to work hard for the people, and
we appreciate it.

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And uh we have some rain, so life is
good.

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Uh but now it's time to move forward. I
have just a couple of ideas to leave. Um

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it's time to uh
move on.

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Leave the remembrances of past mistakes,
poor communication,

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broken laws, town code violations.
That's the past.

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Okay?
It's uh time to put aside those

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remembrances
and focus on best practices of

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management and governance of our town.
In so doing, I have two proposals.

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One, I encourage the new council
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to start the process of advertising for
a permanent town manager.

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Um we nearly killed Ted. I don't know if
you knew that, you know,

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physically with his heart problem and
everything else. So,

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it's time. It's time to move on, find a
permanent town manager.

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Uh but by the time we have a new mayor,
it's about 14 weeks from now, okay?

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You could go ahead and start this. You
could start this now, the advertising

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process.
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after that 14 weeks is up, you'll have a
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and then you could sit down with all the
applications

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and make your decisions. There's no
reason to not go ahead with that now.

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Um
the goal

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he or she
will be a manager who will respect and

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follow the town and state laws,
understand mayor-manager form of

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government,
have administrative experience,

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and work well with others.
That's the goal.

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Number two, the general plan.
Thanks Ted for updating it,

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uh but as you just heard, one person
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That's not good enough.
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this is a 10-year plan. This is a
a goal-setting, vision-driven document

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that sets the pace for what we're going
to be

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into as we go forward for 10 years.
And, um

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how many of you
have read it?

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How many of you even know what it is?
It's time we get it out. Yeah.

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Hopefully, our new people,
and our P&Z, know.

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Um but, there's a great need for
citizens to weigh in on this document.

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It's not just something you put on the
shelf.

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It's uh it's a a process
where people can give their ideas about

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what they want this town to be, what
they want it to look like, what they

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want it to act like.
Uh I encourage the council, the new

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council,
to have more um

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informative sessions that present the
plan,

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uh
and take further public comment other

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than the one person. And, I you know,
I don't have an excuse. I was on

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vacation. So, I haven't read it. I'd
like to read it. I'd like to make

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comments on it.
Uh we're at the crossroads. You know

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that.
We [snorts] heard our all our elected

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people um
all the things they want to do.

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Uh water issues, infrastructure needs,
poverty, economic insecurity,

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are all part of our issues.
All of these were mentioned during the

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election.
And, you heard Monica's report in

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addition to all that,
Apache County P&Z has received the

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conditional use permit for Lava Run.
Two separate applications, solar and

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wind.
Uh after they review that, I'm

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imagining that will take some time.
Uh they turn that over to the Board of

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Supervisors.
And, those three men

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will decide the fate
of whether these projects

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come or go away.
But this is uh

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a critical stage in Apache and Navajo
counties.

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And we need to be present and we need to
be there

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and we need to have our voice heard.
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there is still time to reach out if you
have not had your voice heard in letters

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or attending meetings, you still have a
chance

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uh
to reach out to these elected officials.

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What about a small nuclear generating
facility? It's being done in the East.

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Why not biomass? Look at all the dead
trees, folks.

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Why not a bio- a biomass plant?
Why can't we look at these things?

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Or maybe just solar.
We don't know.

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It's time to come to the table and start
really thinking about some of the other

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alternatives.

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I wish the new council short meetings,
kind and productive discussion with the

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public,
decision-making based on facts,

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and accomplishments of positive work
projects for the people

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of our town and valley.
Thank you for letting me serve the last

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eight months.
>> Thank you.

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First, I want to say thank you, Kay.
Your Your service to to the community of

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Springerville and Round Valley is is
above and beyond

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most folks ever seen, and I truly
appreciate the sincerity and the

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openness and
the willingness to listen and

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look at ideas. Thank you. Thank you.
>> Thanks, Jared.

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» Um I I just want to call to attention I
haven't seen it yet. Kelsey, maybe it's

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not done. The Arizona Department of
Transportation

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is still seeking community input on
their next move Arizona.

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And it's an opportunity for the citizens
of this area to respond online, provide

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comment. Uh I'm hoping that the town
will promote that and get the

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information out. It's just a hyperlink
on

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on a website. I know I Did I share it
with you, Kelsey?

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» It's on our social media.
>> It's on social media.

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» Yeah, we can see it, Jared Man.
>> Uh I I think we've got to keep pushing

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the button because if we don't squeak
the wheel, if we do not speak up and

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continuously do that, we're we're going
to be

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left out and
we'll be taking what's left over. We'll

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be taking the dregs. So,
uh

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that that piece is was an email that I'd
gotten about a week ago and

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uh really important to do that. Uh
Tomorrow, I I will be attending my in

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NACOG transportation meeting tomorrow.
Uh it's will be a Zoom meeting and then

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on Thursday is the NACOG's Community
Services

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uh
NACOG meeting and so I will sit in on

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both of those.
Uh I don't have a whole lot of comment I

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can do. It's mostly sit and listen. Uh
it's the work that Robert does with the

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ones that are writing the the notes. I I
sit there and listen and

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I wonder, well, dang. Oh, why is
Why don't I see Springerville or why

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don't I see Eagar? I see all of these
other projects and then I listen that

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the state legislature is not going to
fund any of them. So, so we go through

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all this exercise and work and and then
it's

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it's uh
it's many times you left

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you left kind of
wishing that I was it worth putting my

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time and effort
to do that.

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Okay,
I'm just going to just speak. I did

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attend the planning and zoning meeting
to specifically listen and

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and I appreciate Brianna was the only
Brianna was the only one to speak.

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Myself and Bridget and Brianna were the
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That is unsatisfactory for a 10-year
plan.

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If we're going to make a community
service if we're if this plan is any

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more than a bookshelf item.
If that's just for the bookshelf, that's

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then tell me so.
I know it has statutory

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responsibilities.
But we've got to get more input into the

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plan.
I have begun to read it.

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The 72 pages of the plan and that's not
something you sit down and just do in a

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few minutes. I Ted has done worked on it
quite a little bit but I

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I knew that public meeting was coming so
I started reading the online version and

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then I asked Kelsey if she wouldn't mind
printing a copy for me because

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it was getting hard to read online after
a while. So I needed to want want to

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make some notes as I read it but
our the plan itself I

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there's I think it just needs input
and it needs input it needs we need

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study sessions from this council. Don't
just bring it to me and ask me to vote

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for it.
When I know I don't know who's met I

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know Ted's made efforts to meet reach
out to certain folks in the community,

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the school district, the hospital.
Maybe some others but I think we got it

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we need to grow grow that ring make it a
bigger ring for the future. So I'll stop

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with that. Thank you.
>> Thank you.

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Dave?
>> Just briefly, um spending family time.

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Was in Connecticut for a wedding. Hadn't
been back in 15 years. Enjoyed that. In

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a couple weeks I get to go to Idaho to
see a new grandson.

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Just spending time with the family.
Thank you.

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» Yeah, um I just wanted to remind you
guys this meeting's going to serve in

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lieu of our regular council meeting for
August. So, unless something comes up,

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we won't see you again until our regular
September meeting.

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Um and
and then a reminder that we have some

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staff and some council gone next week
for the League conference in Phoenix.

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» Thank you.

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We want to consider item the consent
items.

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You have a motion?
>> So, I'll move to approve consent items

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6A and 6B as presented.
>> Second that.

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» Any discussion?
All in favor?

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» I.
>> Any opposed?

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Motion passes. Thank you.
Resolution 2026-R017

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canvass
primary election.

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A resolution
number 2026-R017,

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resolution of the mayor and council of
the

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town of Springerville, Apache County,
Arizona

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canvassing the returns and declaring and
adopting the results of the primary

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election
held on July 21st, 2026

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and authorizing
the taking of

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of all other actions necessary to carry
out the purpose and intent of this

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resolution and providing
for an effective date of this

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resolution.
Council member

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» Yeah, so like graduation states the
primary election on July 21st for the

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purpose of filling two council member
seats, four-year terms, and one mayor

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seat, four-year term.
We did have a majority

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return on our council member seats and
then for our mayor seat we will go to a

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general election in November.

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Any other discussions?
>> May I move that we adopt resolution

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number 2026-R017?

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» I'll second.
>> Any discussion?

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All in favor?
I.

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Any opposed?
Thank you. Motion passes.

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Oath of office.
Nothing.

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» Yes, so with the counting of the
election, Justin Burrell has received

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the majority of votes cast for the
office of council member. Upon taking

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the oath of office prescribed by law,
Justin Burrell shall assume the office

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of council member K Dyson, who has
currently served as an appointed member.

443
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:04,240
Um, do you guys have any questions
before we administer his oath?

444
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» Okay.
Sir,

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will you come up?
>> [snorts]

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» All right, do you have the general oath?

447
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Okay, raise your right hand.
I, state your name.

448
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» I, Justin Burrell.
>> Do you solemnly swear or affirm?

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» Do you solemnly swear or affirm?
>> That I will support the Constitution of

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the United States
>> That I will support the Constitution of

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the United States
>> and the laws of the state of Arizona

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» and the laws of the state of Arizona
>> and of the town of Springerville

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» And the of Springerville
>> that I will bear true faith and

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allegiance
>> that I will bear true

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public
>> true faith and allegiance

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to the same
>> to the same

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» and defend them against all enemies
>> and defend them against all enemies

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» foreign and domestic
>> foreign and domestic

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» that I will faithfully and impartially
>> that I will faithfully and impartially

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» discharge the duties
>> discharge the duties

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» as a councilor
>> as a councilor

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» of the town of Springerville
>> of the town of Springerville

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» according to the best of my abilities
>> according to the best of my abilities

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» so this I do affirm.
>> So this I do affirm.

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» All right.
Any questions?

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» Thank you.
We have no further

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items.
Meeting adjourned.

468
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» Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good night,
everyone.

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» [snorts]