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All right. Good evening, everyone. I am Mayor Juan de Florida. Today is September 8th, and I would like to call the city council meeting to order. Even though I've already cabled in. We're going to be with the invocation and pledge of allegiance. We invite everyone to participate in the invocation if they wish to do so. Participants participate is optional. City Attorney will you please deliver the invocation and councilman regiments will you please lead us in the pledge. And if you can't stand, please do. If you can't, I understand.

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Our dear beloved Heavenly Father, we come before the at this time to

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to give the thanks for the freedoms that are ours to be able to exercise self-governance

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for grateful for this council and for their service and pray that that would bless them.

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We're particularly mindful of Council Member Edivas at this time with the passing of her

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father, Mr. Contreras, we're grateful for his influence in the community and for all that

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he has been to show a true, how to live a true life.

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And we're grateful for those that provide us those examples.

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And we're grateful for all of those that serve our community

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and that make this a great place to live, work, and play.

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We pray, again, a special blessing upon this council to make decisions that will be wise

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and be guided and directed by thee and we pray for these things in the name of the Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

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We are going to move on to our roll call.

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Please let the record reflect that we have four council members present today.

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which is great because we have a quorum. We have three absent and they weren't able to attend today.

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And so they'll join us in the next council meeting. Moving on to D final call to submit speaker request forms.

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All speakers will be limited to three minutes for comments, only actions taken as a result of public comments will be limited to one responding to criticism to directly staff to review the matter or three asking that a matter be put on a future agenda item. City clerk.

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We don't have any more.

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Call to the public.

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It is now called to the public city clerk.

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Do we have any submissions?

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Not.

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All right.

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Moving on to F schedule public experiences and proclamations for discussion of course.

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First item is proclamation.

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Recognize the September 11th, 2026 as a day of remembrance unity and service in the city

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of Tollison honoring the lives lost and those who served in response to the events of September.

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There's a flag in response to the events of September 11, 2001 and encouraging acts of kindness,

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volunteerism, community service, and civic engagement.

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Today, we have gentleman, his name is Juliano Lodillas, he's with the tossing in high school.

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Joss for Arizona graduate, he's a junior grade level president.

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Joss for Arizona graduates, also known as JAG.

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Some of us, if not all of us, have had an opportunity to be members of JAG.

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So Mr. Juliano, you have the floor.

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and your team?

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Yes, it on.

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Thank you.

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Right there.

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Yeah, right there.

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Good.

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Good evening.

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Mayor, councilmembers, city staff, and members of the tallest and community.

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My name is Hilary Dregus, and I am honored to serve as the president of the tallest senior

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in your high school, junior class for Josfair's undergraduates.

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With me today, I have some of our Jack team, including Mr. Richard Warbrock,

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Mission at Ellipsi, Tulsa and Union High School leadership are JAG students and yeah thank you for

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allowing me to stand before you tonight on behalf of our JAG students to represent our request

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for a confirmation recognizing September 11 as a day of remembrance, unity and service in the

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city of Tulsa. For those who may not be familiar with JAG, Tulsa is in a graduate that's a program

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dedicated to helping students succeed in high school and prepare for their futures through leadership

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leadership, career development, life skills and community service. Jack teaches us that

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leadership isn't simply about hooding position. It's about using our voice, our time,

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and our ability to make a positive difference. September 11th is a day that our nation will

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never forget. We remember the thousands of innocent people's who lives were lost in the

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families and communities forever changed. We also honor the firefighters, police officers,

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emergency personnel, volunteers and ordinary citizens who showed incredible courage and compassion

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during one of our nation's darkest moments. But as students and future leaders, we believe

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September 11 should be more than a day we remember. It should be a day that inspires us to act.

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We cannot change what happened that day, but we can decide how we carry its lessons forward.

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We can honor those who were lost by helping someone in need. We can honor those who served

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by serving our own community.

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And we can honor the unity that brought people together

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after September 11th by choosing to build that same unity

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here in Tulson.

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This population represents that we believe young people can do.

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We can remember the past, learn from it,

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and use those lessons to create a better future.

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As members of JAG,

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we want to lead by example,

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not just through our words,

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but the meaningful service to our community.

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So tonight, on behalf of the Tulson Inner High School JAG

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program. I respectfully ask the city of Tulsa to recognize September 11th as the day of

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remembrance, unity and service because remembering gives us perspective, honoring, give us gratitude,

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and service gives us a way to make a difference. We remember those who were lost, we honor those who

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served, and we commit ourselves to serving those around us. So thank you mayor and council for

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giving us the opportunity to use our voices and for supporting the young people who are working

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in to make tall sent a stronger community.

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Thank you.

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Can we look at the banner?

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Council, any comments from council?

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Thank you very much.

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Good job, new man.

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Yeah, I'm trying my hardest to be objective.

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I don't want to make too many comments

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because one of them is my son.

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We do have the proclamation here, so bring it up here.

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Come on, sponsor, you got to get back up here with him.

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So before I do, though, I got to say these words.

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Now, therefore, I'm Mayor Juan Infeligius to hereby proclaim September 11, 2026 as a day of remembrance, unity and service and city of toss and be proclaimed.

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in front of us.

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In between, yeah, just so that you don't get this in the book.

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Well, if I come in, we're not letting you up the hook. You got to come up here too.

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You guys can come up here.

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You don't want to get the other one?

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You're hiding her face.

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Ready?

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One, two, three.

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One more.

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I'll kick it over to ice mayor.

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Great job, Julian.

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You've come before several times speaking, I think you're getting better and better at

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So keep it up.

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What a wonderful proclamation and I think, you know, September 11th, I think that's something

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that if you were alive then anyway, you remember that day, right?

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I just think I don't have a great memory for my childhood, but I distinctly remember that

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day. And the days that followed, it was a day that really brought us together as a country.

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It's kind of crazy to think 25 years ago how united we were after the events of that day

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because we're so divided. So I think it is a great reminder on the 25th anniversary

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to remember that we are one. We are one human race, right? And we do need to come together. And we

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do need to perform acts of kindness and, you know, just protect each other, care for each other,

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and most of all love. And I think that's something that we do very well here in

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Tollison. We spread that Tollison love, right? So it's just a great reminder. So

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good job, William, for bringing this forward. Thank you, Jack. Thank you, Tollison,

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high school district and keep up the good work, guys.

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Yes, awesome. Anybody else?

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Okay. Well, and again, we want to think our

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firefighters and police officers for their service here locally too. I know 911 is,

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I can't believe it's been 25 years. That's crazy. But it sits in our mind. You're right.

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as if it happened yesterday but you know we always got to be thankful for our public service

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employees and specifically our public safety public employees because they do for us things that

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most of us weren't willing to do or aren't able to do and so thank you thank you both and all the

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other people that serve on you guys leadership for everything that they do day in and day out.

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Thank you guys and again thank you Jack and I don't want to show my age but a long time ago I was in

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jack and many, many moons ago. I won't say how many, but a lot of folks on this on this board

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has have had connections to jack. So you guys create a beautiful fruit. So I want to commend

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the sponsors for everything you do on behalf of them and continue to develop them. We need good

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leader. So thank you very much. All right. We're going to move on to item number two proclamation

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declaring September 2026 as price prostate cancer awareness month and the city of Tawson

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and recognizing those affected by prostate cancer

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and encourage you residents to learn about risk factors,

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support, patients, and survivors

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and consult qualified healthcare professionals

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regarding individuals, health, and screening decisions.

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I'm gonna call up Chief of Social Impact, Chief Good.

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Will you please say some words on behalf of this proclamation?

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Thank you, Mayor, members of the council.

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Thank you for this proclamation this evening.

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Recently, we've had four cases of prostate cancer

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in the senior center.

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We've had several other cases of cancer

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where people passed away. And we've got a couple that are currently going on with other types of

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cancer. So cancers are real thing out there. I'd also like to, we're going to talk about the

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importance of early detection, but also support. We have a few members of our senior center here tonight

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who have been involved with prostate cancer. So I'd like to thank them for coming. But also it's very

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important that the ladies that the women out there encourage men to get tested because

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sometimes men are being one I know we're kind of hard headed we don't want to go to the doctor

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we're fine we're going to be fine we don't want to get checked and then we sometimes find out

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we we wouldn't have had to deal with it if we'd been checked earlier so it's my honor to introduce

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to you Ramon Serrano who's going to come up and speak for just a couple minutes who's one of our

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current prostate cancer cases, Ramon, would you come up with?

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There you are.

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So, all good evening.

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Good evening.

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Good evening.

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Thank you for the opportunity to really come and speak on a state-tensual awareness.

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Even up to evenings, if you suffer time, family time away, but what I come to say, I bring

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a message.

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I bring a message, a very strong message that we need to hear.

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It's not what you want to hear, it's what you need to hear.

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That's why I'm here tonight, but I also got my senior friends behind me.

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We've all known somebody with prostate cancer, we lost many of them.

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Currently, I'm diagnosed with prostate cancer, we've seen four days before my birthday, but

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that was probably known for that.

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Currently, I'm living with four chronic illnesses, they could take me out at any time, but I'm

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man of resilience, I never give up. I may not stay down because of me not going to stay down,

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but I have a voice. I have a voice. I'm 73-year-old. I'll go here at the center. I'm a combat veteran,

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Vietnam veteran. I'm a retired nurse of 28 years. I worked in the ICU, so I have background.

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I was coming on here. But never in my wildest mind, I thought that would be funny.

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which I am. I learned to accept the role, but September 1st, his cancer awareness month

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for men. This is a topic that most men keep us, because brother be because of a man

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or whatever it is, we don't want to talk about it. We don't want to talk about his reality.

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It's impacting men now at an early age. It has to, maybe, of how the world we're living.

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It seems to be about having a direct target of baby boomers, which I am one.

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There's a lot of computing facts to it, it could be economic, social,

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but it is a matter of not awareness.

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Nobody's taking the time out to speak, taking time out to listen to what we have to say.

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September 1st is Cancer Awareness Month. Tomorrow, I'm looking forward for both starts,

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and you're going to be seeing commercials through sharing some man that are going to be talking about

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I'll say cancer because it's been pushed for so many years, but we have a lot of uprising.

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Currently, I'm living with, I've got two types of cancer. There are two types of cancer.

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There is one of them. I just know that that's the one that's contained within you. That's the one

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that I've diagnosed. After a multiple testing, me, I was smart enough. I'm going to get tested.

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I recognize the signs. There's something going on here. I have a kidney transplant patient for five

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years I'm going to work with my kidneys working fine.

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And I knew there is something that cannot be my kidney. My main focus wasn't the function of my kidney, totally ignoring what else the other symptoms are going on. And so I told him, you know what? We need to do an MRI. We need to further this. And that's when you discover that.

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Minnesota cancer is the one that's the bad one. That's the one that attacks your body.

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I've seen that. I've seen that happen. Okay. I have a report here which I gave George

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it. Come a good friend. I'll show it to your brother with me. Upon all the testing, not

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once did I give in. I attacked it. But first of all, like my military background came

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with to me. It said to know your enemy and what you did, you got to steady him. And I began

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research and research and what is this? Is it curable? Is it beable? Yes,

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to awareness,

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to awareness and reacting on time, recognize some, yes, it is curable. The report that I got back,

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I knew that I knew A was from the curable report. It came back 70 to 80 percent

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with a 20% of reoccurrence. So in other words, I've got to speak. I've got to refer to

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the oncology department, radiation department, giving treatments, five treatments with follow

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up with blood work in this. And you know what? To me, that was a big victory. I was shouting

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and then they're clapping and just having a good time. I thought they weren't

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cost-security. Take this man out, but I was rejoicing because I'm known as a

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happy person.

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But you know what? It was it was something that every man here is

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going to go through sooner or later. Sooner or later we're all going to face it, but

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we can be preventable. I'm going to give you a good example of that. You know

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you know that if something's wrong with you, you know you're something's just

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saying, right, you're urinated, something just ain't right, get checked out, get checked

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out. That could be preventable. You're just, I'm going to give you a good example. Would

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you have a vehicle and you have the engine light comes on. A lot of us put a little piece

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of paper and cover it and ignore it. But this one has the same thing. This is what men do.

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When you got this into, we ignore it's going to go away. But sooner or later, you ignore

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that morning, so in that agent line, the thing is going to happen. That car is going to

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give out. And then you're going to be stuck. What are you going to do? Knowing that you should have

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paid attention to that. Knowing. Today I wear this blue ribbon.

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I'm going to give each and everyone

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here, hopefully, that you will stand up because we need to be a voice for this. It's a good way of

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getting people, hey, what's that blue ribbon for? And I'll tell you. But before I get into that guy,

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I know I have limited time, but, you know, it is curable if you catch it in time.

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But the thing is, what are you going to do about it?

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Are you going to pressure it away?

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No, you cannot.

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You know, the American cancer side, a lot of men, it's attack men are earlier.

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Well, I've been fine, so I started the minute that I was diagnosed with that.

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Dr. Snurson took me into the oncology unit, let me know how this is what I'm going to be facing.

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as a nurse, I worked around it, but it was a job. It was a job. This time around, it's personal.

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I went in there, you know, and I worked a lot with a chap, and I'm property of male clinic

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hospital. That's where I go.

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He took me to the in college for dinner, and I saw man frail.

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In a fancy unit, you can smell, I'm going to be blunt death, the body of people just dying,

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and hooked up to chemo. And there was just a man, Hispanic man. I'm going to say,

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and he was afraid. I told him I would mention him. And he caused me over.

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Ben, we come here.

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And he reached over. He wanted to touch my head. He wanted somebody to listen

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to what he has to say.

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He longed for a human touch, a human touch, but I took the time

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out to listen to this man, and he was frail looking, you know, and he was just, you know

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what, from home. If only I would have listened to my wife, to my kids, to the history, a lot

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a man like myself to get prostate cancer. It's got to be a history. Somebody's got to be a father

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figure. I never knew my dad, my father. So now I'm the baseline. Five children, 28 grandchildren,

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11 great grandchildren. Most of them male. So now I'm the baseline. Now they can say, my God,

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it's where it's come. It's a history. It's got to be there. You're going on talking to a

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afraid about that. I pulled up a chair. I knew that. You know what? I'm going to give this man

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some time to listen. And I listened to him and letting him use his freedom. He was in my year

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talking, talking. If only when I listen to my wife, to my kids, now I'm alone.

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I took that personal

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and I said, I felt compelled to be his voice, the voice from many other afraid. They were out there.

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They are asking for people to listen to me, listen to me, and that's what we don't do.

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Take time out to listen.

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And I said, I want to be your voice.

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As if today I took it personal, and I took on this mission standing here before you.

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Talk about the spread of awareness because it's serious.

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It's serious.

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It can be preventable.

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There's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of, the death rate is incredible, but we're

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like in the United States alone, we're the second leading cancer, long cancer is one leading

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to death, but it can't be, there's a 99% if you catch it in time, it's a 99% of survival

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around

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the world. Worldwide, number four, prostate cancer, with chances of survival, slim.

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Because it's already too late, it's already attacking your body, other parts of your world.

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Talking about all it is the PSA, yes. It takes your racial where you're at.

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you listen to your doctors you know but you know they're right and I'm going to talk to you

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about the role of the woman of a wife. A wife is a very very solid structure that you need

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because she's a one that knows you day and night. This is the woman man that married you,

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that married you and bond together man. But like I said when we talk about this issue we stay

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She is a driving force behind all this because prostate cancer, not only this effect, everyone

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from your wife to your kids to your grandkids on down, five generations of Toronto, it affects

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you.

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So I'm here before you expect this awareness with you, you're going to be hearing a lot

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about prostate cancer. It's not going to be harsh anymore because there's a lot of us living

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with it. I've lost, I can't tell you how many friends I've lost over that. And you're going to

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be seeing these commercials. You like football, like I football, you like sports. You're going to be

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seeing it.

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We're wearing what I'm here today. Am I asking you? I thought to a lot, a lot of people.

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I spoke to a lot of Hispanic men because we're the one. We're ranked up there.

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not one, two, three, four, five, but one, because we don't listen. We don't listen.

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Whether it be pride, whether we want to humble ourselves, but I took time out to do my research

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and listen to what is it that's keeping you. I'm getting checked out. I've already got checked out.

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I'm fine, but that can change at any time. At any time, there was change. What are you going to do

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about it. I'm fine. You know,

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another thing, you know, that they don't want to do, you know,

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is they don't want to go through the testing because they have this, this backward thinking of,

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they fear the most number one thing they fear, they fear the glove,

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they fear the glove.

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When the doctor puts that on and you assume the position, you know what I'm talking about,

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men that are in. But that's only those backward think that they're gone. Nowadays, it's a simple

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blood test. But in Spanish culture, we try now. I'll go to the Yavarito with my neighborhood

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with my herbs. They're not give whatever I need. You're not good.

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They don't listen until it's too late.

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It's too late. The statistics of mind blowing when the American Cancer Society, I mean too much,

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I mean, I don't have limited time, but I'm here, as I close, it's real, it's real

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ladies and gentlemen here. And I'm here today asking you to actually challenge you.

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Who will stand with me? Who will stand with others? And be a voice for them who can't.

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Will you stand? I'm asking you. Will you stand? And if you feel that you are

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going to stand, I want to see you stand up. Stand with me if you are

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resupporting this, if you would. Would you stand? If I have any other men

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there are a stand up. Any more more brave men. I'm going to decide we got somebody

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that has a valid stand up that can be avoid.

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Look around.

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We need some hand.

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I close with that.

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I'll leave these blue ribbons for my director here.

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Has it out where?

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That'll be a nice breaker.

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What's that ribbon for?

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Well, I'll tell you.

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Come on in.

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I'm one of the ones that ask you to thank you very much, sir.

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So much for allowing me the time to do that.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah, a couple of things,

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a couple of items I want to underscore.

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We're, um, prostate cancer, as I'm all stated, is a matter of awareness and being proactive.

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Um, it's speedable, but you have to be proactive.

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We all have to be proactive about it, uh, and, and, uh, open your eyes.

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And everybody says, well, you know, I'm the man and the provider of this house.

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You can't be the provider if you're not present.

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So your number one thing to do in this world, if you, if you have a family reunion, if

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you don't, is to be present.

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And then once you're present and you're healthy, then you can be the provider and you can

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be everything else, but I think it's a very important message in a much that I

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just for sharing that with us. And also thank you for your service and not only

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in the military, but as a medical professional throughout the years. And

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much that I just and best of luck to you also on your own battle. Yeah. So now

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comes the fun part. Therefore I may or want to for the years to hear by

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proclaim September 2026 as a prostate cancer awareness month in the city of

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the year proclaimed.

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Keep good, we do have a proclamation, so I don't know if you want to take a picture or if you just want to take it with you, it's up to you.

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Okay, and you can share it with all the seniors and everybody else.

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So they know that this is a serious matter, and we can definitely proclaim it.

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If I'm one again, thank you very much for your time, sir.

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All right, we're going to want to item number three proclamation declaring September 15 to October 15, 2026 as Hispanic Heritage Month in the city of Tolson.

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recognizing the central role of Hispanics and Latino communities in the

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toss and history growth and identify and honoring generations of leadership,

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public service, entrepreneurship, education, arts, and civil participation that

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continue to enrich our community. So I believe we have Elad or Reyes, take this one

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sir. Thank you Mr. Memembers, a council. I need my honor to present this

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proclamation to you tonight,

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recognizing September 15th through October 15th

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as Hispanic Heritage Month.

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This recognition is especially meaningful to me

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because Thomas is not simply a community I serve.

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It is the community that raised me and my family.

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My family has long believed in the importance

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of education, public service,

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and giving back to this community.

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Those values have been passed down through generations

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and have shaped my own commitment to serving Taloson.

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That story is not unique to my family.

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It's a part of a much larger Taloson story.

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For generations, Hispanic slash Latino families

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have helped build this community

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through public service education, local businesses,

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faith, civic involvement, and most importantly,

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through families who have invested in Taloson

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and in one another.

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Hispanic Heritage Month gives us an opportunity

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to honor those who came before us, recognize those who continue serving our community today,

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and remind our young people, and that their heritage is part of Thomas and his history,

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and that they have an important role in shaping the future. I am proud to have grown up in this

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community, proud to serve it today, and proud that Thomas and continues to honor the culture,

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traditions and contributions that have shaped who we are. With that, it is my privilege to present

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this proclamation declaring September 15 through October 15, 2026, yes, Hispanic Heritage Month

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in the city of policy. Thank you, city manager. So now therefore, I may have wanted for the

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you guys to hear about proclaim September.

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Number 15, through October 15, 2026, Hispanic Heritage Month, and the city of Tollison, via proclaimed.

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We also have a signed proclamation here.

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Council, any comments for the last two proclamations before we move forward?

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Yeah,

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thank you very much. So we're never going to want to item G business from the floor. This is public hearing and action items.

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We have number one public hearing, so this is in comments from interested parties regarding reason application PNZ 26-021 submitted by

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the applicant and property owner, Costco wholesale corporation to reason on approximately 10.55 acres located along east side of 91st Avenue

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and north of Buckeye Road from planned area development, PED to light industrial I1, the reason would allow the subject property identified as

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APN 101-12-739 to be combined with Costco existing lots. I'm going to call up

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our Development Services Director Jason Herp. Speak on this. Thank you Mayor

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Vice-Mayor, members counsel. So brief history, JBS had on this property. It was

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PAD which in that PAD allows for I2 uses which is heavy industrial uses. They

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sold it to Costco. Now Costco wants a reason I won to match their existing and staff thinks it's a

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great idea because now you you have a more restrictive uses on that property. So you don't have the

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heavy users that come in and build on that property. And I can answer any questions you may have.

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Do we know what they're proposing to do with the property? Yeah, they're just expanding. So they're

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They're just using it for parking and or additional building, but for now that it'll be parking vehicle parking for their employees and stuff

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Well, I mean, it's it's a huge warehouse. So we can't bring a business like this into our city and not provide adequate parking

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I believe and it's a good use and if it's parking lot, then it can always be redeveloped to something different down the road

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And it's behind the matanzas. So I mean probably he's not gonna have homes built there anytime soon

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So it's it's it's ideal it's kind of hidden in the back there. So those are my

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comments on it. On the council.

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Yes, we have a motion to approve by Vice Mayor

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Davis. We have a second by council member Gomez. All is a flavor in favor of

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preceding by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed. All right. Motion is approved

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unanimously. Thank you. Thank you.

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If you're going to want to consent agenda

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action items. Item one through three. These are really meant to to just get approved. It's available

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to you by way of the agenda, but it's all pretty much straightforward business stuff. So I will

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enter it if you had an opportunity to review it. I will entertain a motion. We got a motion to

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approve by Councilman Reggamesh. We have a second by Vice Mayor Jimmy Davis. All those in favor of

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of approving item one, two, three on the consent agenda

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action items, please signify by seeing eye, eye,

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all those opposed, not hearing any.

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This motion passes unanimously.

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We're going to move on to regular agenda action items.

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We have one of those.

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All right, discuss and consider the reappointment

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of Jimmy Davis, Wendy Sears, Marlene Pignam,

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and Kino Flores as the board of directors

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of the toss and alliance against substance abuse,

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also know in Estasa to serve you term from October 1st, 2026 to October 1st, 2028.

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Council, does anyone have any questions or comments about this item?

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We have a proof of them. Okay, we got a motion to approve.

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I want to take Linda over there. Seconded by Councilwoman Linda Laburin. All those in favor,

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seem to file by saying aye. All those opposed? All right, well, we happen to have both of the TASA

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So we've been really working on, you know, just putting the nonprofit together and putting it into action.

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We have had some community meetings with some of the faith communities from around. I know we're having another one coming up.

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We've done several surveys in the community.

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You know, we're really trying to approach this from a holistic standpoint.

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Substance abuse.

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is very, very multifaceted. There's so many layers to it. We want to make sure that we're addressing

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all of the root causes as well as serving the whole family that is affected by substance abuse.

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That's pretty much where we are. We do have our next meeting as a meeting with the faith community

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again the second one.

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I talked it correctly at all the points and this came out a couple of years

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ago in terms of the importance of addressing the issue of fentanyl overdose that we were having.

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It was a lot that's kind of decreased and it's gotten better but we're here to help and that's

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00:35:41,780 --> 00:35:47,180
basically what we want to do and address those issues. Oh yeah you're right there's a lot more work

430
00:35:47,180 --> 00:35:52,220
to do and unfortunately right now it's fentanyl but who knows what the next drug of choice is going to be

431
00:35:52,220 --> 00:35:56,740
down the road. So this this board really is instrumental in helping us to

432
00:35:56,740 --> 00:36:00,480
choreograph or to put together a plan of action so that whatever that next

433
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,520
challenge is we're kind of in front of the curb and we're starting to have a

434
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:09,360
positive impact in reducing fatalities or even incidents of drug overuse in our

435
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:13,180
community. So thank you both for your time on this panel and I look forward to

436
00:36:13,180 --> 00:36:16,780
more good work as we move forward with it. I look forward to another term and

437
00:36:16,780 --> 00:36:21,300
thank you guys for approving that. Absolutely. So next we have work studies and

438
00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:27,260
In presentations for discussion, we're going to start with emergency preparedness department

439
00:36:27,260 --> 00:36:27,800
update.

440
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:28,360
Chief Good.

441
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:36,620
Thank you, Mayor and members of the Council.

442
00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:41,920
Just a couple of brief items on things that we did in fiscal year 2026.

443
00:36:47,630 --> 00:36:52,950
And we've implemented a visitor management system as part of our overall city security.

444
00:36:54,170 --> 00:36:58,510
We're not very good at keeping track of who was coming in and who was coming out in this

445
00:36:58,510 --> 00:37:02,570
of different incidents which occur throughout the country, throughout the world,

446
00:37:02,750 --> 00:37:08,370
we wanted to have a better idea of that. So with the help of IT, we have implemented a visitor

447
00:37:08,370 --> 00:37:13,150
management system which is effectively an iPad, but when people come into a building other than

448
00:37:13,150 --> 00:37:17,330
employees and a couple of public-facing areas, such as the senior center and the library,

449
00:37:17,930 --> 00:37:21,770
we can keep track of who is there, it notifies the person they're visiting that they're there,

450
00:37:21,910 --> 00:37:25,870
it keeps a record of who is there. So we're tracking that a little bit better now.

451
00:37:28,510 --> 00:37:31,330
that falls under community responsiveness and preparedness.

452
00:37:31,890 --> 00:37:33,590
Also a vehicle barricade system

453
00:37:33,590 --> 00:37:36,190
which we started last fiscal year.

454
00:37:36,830 --> 00:37:38,570
And that is a series of barricades

455
00:37:38,570 --> 00:37:41,770
which we use in conjunction with the police department

456
00:37:41,770 --> 00:37:43,990
and with field operations and streets

457
00:37:43,990 --> 00:37:46,450
in order to better protect our parade routes.

458
00:37:46,950 --> 00:37:50,010
We have seen more and more vehicle-borne attacks

459
00:37:50,010 --> 00:37:52,330
throughout our country, throughout the world,

460
00:37:52,490 --> 00:37:53,990
the one that comes to mind more recently

461
00:37:53,990 --> 00:37:56,690
is the one on New Year's Eve in New Orleans

462
00:37:56,690 --> 00:38:01,750
a couple years ago where a bunch of people got mowed down by some fanatic who wanted to make

463
00:38:01,750 --> 00:38:06,790
whatever statement and just drove on the parade route and killed a bunch of people. So we didn't

464
00:38:06,790 --> 00:38:12,650
want to think about why is it if something were to happen here. Did you guys think about that? Well,

465
00:38:12,970 --> 00:38:18,190
no, that's not a good answer for anybody. So we have implemented that. We're going to have a

466
00:38:18,190 --> 00:38:23,790
more discussion about that in the current fiscal year. And there is no guarantee that that can stop

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00:38:23,790 --> 00:38:27,850
a vehicle but it's certainly a major deterrent and we're hopefully that we

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00:38:27,850 --> 00:38:32,790
will not experience something like that here. And then the emergency shelter

469
00:38:32,790 --> 00:38:36,890
we use is project we've been working on for a couple years now where we have

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00:38:36,890 --> 00:38:41,170
designated the parks and wreck building as the emergency shelter for the city. We

471
00:38:41,170 --> 00:38:45,170
have a partnership with the Red Cross. They're able to use that facility as

472
00:38:45,170 --> 00:38:52,890
well. Our primary I guess threat at this point is heat if the grid goes down

473
00:38:52,890 --> 00:39:22,870
where are we going to put everybody if it's 118 degrees and we're without power for three days what does that do to our community so we have identified that we had a large scale drill this year involving the Red Cross where we set up the shelter at the Parks and Rec Building a number of our seniors who are in the room today participated in that drill and the fire department police department the city wide drill so we're making sure simultaneous to that we had an activation of the emergency operations center at the police department.

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00:39:22,870 --> 00:39:26,330
department, which was overseen by Lieutenant Mike Winks.

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00:39:29,460 --> 00:39:34,720
And then just moving ahead to the current fiscal year, we have a program which is called

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00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:39,540
the panic button, which is on many of our phones, hopefully on many of your phones, where

477
00:39:39,540 --> 00:39:45,520
we can notify the police department if we are not able to make a 911 call and we can transmit

478
00:39:46,060 --> 00:39:47,080
information to them.

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00:39:47,220 --> 00:39:51,300
A situation might be an active shooter type of scenario where you just can't use the phone,

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00:39:51,300 --> 00:39:58,840
But we can notify 911 and get some emergency resources rolling this particular program is a community white notification

481
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:06,720
So the public can opt in on this and then we can notify the entire community whoever is opted in that there is something going on

482
00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:12,760
Whether it's a hazard materials incident or whatever it may be so that people don't go into that area

483
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:20,540
So that's this program. We're looking to implement this here and our goal is to get up to 750 people signed up

484
00:40:20,540 --> 00:40:23,760
But this year we have a couple of strategies in terms of how we'll do that.

485
00:40:25,260 --> 00:40:31,420
And then more on the vehicle barricade system, so we've got 130 different individual

486
00:40:31,420 --> 00:40:33,360
barricades which can be locked together.

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00:40:33,720 --> 00:40:38,040
That was purchased under this fiscal year in conjunction with the prior fiscal year

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00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:38,420
purchased.

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00:40:38,700 --> 00:40:44,300
So that will enhance and solidify our preparedness in terms of deterring those vehicles.

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00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,980
They'll also be used at parks and we have community partners that will benefit from these

491
00:40:48,980 --> 00:40:52,520
as well as they conduct events with the city.

492
00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:56,920
And then we continue to work with the Red Cross as I mentioned.

493
00:40:57,100 --> 00:40:57,980
We had the shelter drive.

494
00:40:58,180 --> 00:41:01,440
We just had a blood drive, which was very successful here in the Lantana room.

495
00:41:01,660 --> 00:41:05,440
This past Saturday or two Saturdays ago on the 29th.

496
00:41:05,860 --> 00:41:10,000
We do have another readiness drill set with the Red Cross as citywide.

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00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,280
Drill will be inviting community partners to participate in that.

498
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:14,400
That'll be our third one.

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00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:19,260
and then the Red Cross has, we were the spotlight city

500
00:41:19,260 --> 00:41:21,800
for the entire state of Arizona two years ago

501
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,280
and they designated what we do as the tallest and model.

502
00:41:25,620 --> 00:41:28,340
They have spoken about this model at the White House.

503
00:41:28,660 --> 00:41:29,500
So we're very flattered.

504
00:41:29,660 --> 00:41:31,700
They're very pleased with their relationship with us

505
00:41:32,100 --> 00:41:34,560
as we are with our relationship with them.

506
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,520
And then we continue a number of ongoing projects

507
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:41,700
with Miraclepa County.

508
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:44,180
We have multi jurisdictional hazard management plan

509
00:41:44,180 --> 00:41:46,380
coming up, which is do every couple of years.

510
00:41:46,380 --> 00:41:50,920
There's one that's not listed on there is a fire plan, which is threats, hazards,

511
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:55,420
identification of risk analysis, and that's coming up.

512
00:41:55,900 --> 00:41:59,900
We do the community health needs assessment so that the county comes in and says, what

513
00:41:59,900 --> 00:42:01,620
do the people of Tollison need?

514
00:42:01,780 --> 00:42:04,920
What are the needs here in Tollison, not throughout the county?

515
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:10,520
And then they help steer us in terms of specific projects that we can do to address those needs

516
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,800
that were identified, how fire is listed on there.

517
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:24,700
So I'll move on. We still are dealing with community health opioid awareness as has been mentioned a couple times tonight through TASA and other efforts.

518
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:29,760
We do have police department and fire who are using the leave behind program.

519
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:36,540
We believe that programs such as the Narcan training and the program at the library have decreased help contribute to the decrease.

520
00:42:36,540 --> 00:42:39,000
in the total numbers this past year as we mentioned

521
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,600
an opioid awareness month last month

522
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,660
that those numbers went down 22% year over year.

523
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,380
Sister City Program continues a number of you

524
00:42:49,380 --> 00:42:52,080
have listed on the screen up there have gone down to Mexico

525
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,640
and we're involved with a number of things down there.

526
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,760
Some of our seniors have also gone down

527
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,040
along with our city manager.

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00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,100
We do have some events planned

529
00:43:01,100 --> 00:43:04,740
and they are invited and expected to our tend

530
00:43:04,740 --> 00:43:10,780
are lucid than Abidad program coming up and hopefully we will be participating in their

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00:43:10,780 --> 00:43:18,620
holiday parade as well. I participated in the National Firefighter Day which they have down

532
00:43:18,620 --> 00:43:26,420
there which was on the 22nd this year and every year and then they are expected to attend our

533
00:43:26,420 --> 00:43:31,500
third Friday also coming up in October which will be on the second Friday this year only but

534
00:43:31,500 --> 00:43:35,260
But so we have a number of ongoing programs with them.

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00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:40,240
And then we continue the hydration stations and to monitor COVID, there's been a big

536
00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:45,440
uptick in COVID throughout the country as like 47 of the 50 states have seen an increase

537
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:45,900
in COVID.

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00:43:46,100 --> 00:43:53,140
So we thought we were out of the woods on this one and we're still monitoring that.

539
00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:56,640
And then we had an A-Dosch investigation.

540
00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:09,580
We were working with Deputy City Manager Wendy Jackson, who championed that event for the city and through her efforts and our team efforts, we were able to have $108,000 fine reduced to zero.

541
00:44:10,420 --> 00:44:12,580
And so that was a big thing for us at the city.

542
00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:18,360
And then I'll just mention briefly, we've had poll stations installed at City Hall.

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00:44:18,500 --> 00:44:22,980
So we now have seven poll stations, which were not in the original construction of the building.

544
00:44:24,540 --> 00:44:47,940
but they are in now and there's one right outside this door here. You'll see it if you look for it on your way out. It's a red pole station and that concludes the presentation. I did want to mention also in terms of the sister city, how helpful our public safety partners here locally have been in terms of supporting the programs through the fire department primarily and some with PD as well.

545
00:44:47,940 --> 00:44:54,000
So, I'm happy to take any questions, I know I'm trying to go fast, but we're running a little

546
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,020
behind tonight, so any questions?

547
00:44:57,240 --> 00:44:59,960
No, I just think it's, I love the fact that we're being very-

548
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,860
We proactive on certain things. We're not waiting for an incident to happen. We're putting things in place to prevent them from happening. And that's what we need to be doing when it comes to public safety. You know, the best thing about an incident is preventing it. And so as long as we're doing things like that, it's going to be a win-win for a community. And you're right, well, you can't stop everything from, you know, everything can be 100% safe. But we can get it to a position where we feel that we've done what we need to do to put our people in the best position, our residents in the safest position.

549
00:45:30,300 --> 00:45:34,080
and so your office along with Public Safety Departments

550
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,300
and City Management all working together, it's a win-win.

551
00:45:38,220 --> 00:45:39,180
So, once again, that's yes.

552
00:45:39,700 --> 00:45:40,700
Thank you, Mayor and Mr. Cal.

553
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:43,200
Thank you.

554
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,920
Right, and now we're gonna move to utility departments update.

555
00:45:52,660 --> 00:45:54,400
Just so you guys know, we have updates

556
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,940
from every department throughout this season.

557
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,780
So for financial reasons, but also because we like to know

558
00:45:59,780 --> 00:46:01,000
what's kind of happening in every department.

559
00:46:01,460 --> 00:46:03,160
Very complex organization that's important

560
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:04,000
that we're on top of everything.

561
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,020
So we have a director, Mr. McCrackian here today.

562
00:46:07,700 --> 00:46:08,760
And so welcome to the meeting.

563
00:46:08,980 --> 00:46:09,580
You have the floor, sir.

564
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,420
Mayor Vice Mayor, members of Council, good evening.

565
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:14,520
And all the members of the public as well.

566
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:16,500
Here's a brief update on utilities.

567
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,300
So the project's going on.

568
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,920
We have over 25 capital projects currently underway.

569
00:46:24,300 --> 00:46:26,440
Most projects are multi-year and are tied

570
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:27,660
to federal funding assistance.

571
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,460
There are many projects that are not most.

572
00:46:31,260 --> 00:46:33,280
The initiatives identified in this presentation

573
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:34,720
are the top ones that are entirely

574
00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:38,220
or almost entirely budgeted and considered full speed ahead.

575
00:46:39,860 --> 00:46:45,980
So the first one right now is initiative number one, its capacity utilization, maintaining

576
00:46:45,980 --> 00:46:49,280
and ensuring effective utilization of the tallest and wastewater treatment plant helps

577
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:50,680
ensure control of rates.

578
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:54,960
So this is the status of this is ongoing.

579
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,580
We've been focusing heavily recently on right sizing.

580
00:47:00,020 --> 00:47:03,840
So we've got this 17 and a half million gallon in a day plant and we've been around

581
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,780
around seven and a half million gallons a day of flow.

582
00:47:06,300 --> 00:47:09,260
And we've got about 10 and a half for 10 or 10 million

583
00:47:09,260 --> 00:47:10,180
gallons a day issued.

584
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:14,400
And so we may not ever reach that 17 and a half.

585
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,020
So what we're trying to do is make the best use

586
00:47:17,020 --> 00:47:18,460
of what we need.

587
00:47:18,820 --> 00:47:21,340
And that involves identifying the right projects,

588
00:47:21,340 --> 00:47:24,860
and the right partners to maintain here at the plant.

589
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:26,160
So that we maintain those costs,

590
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,660
those economies of scale and the efficiencies

591
00:47:28,660 --> 00:47:29,300
that we have today.

592
00:47:30,300 --> 00:47:32,540
So right now we're discussing terms with one of our major

593
00:47:32,540 --> 00:47:40,520
plan partners to extend them through at least 2033 possibly 2035 so that'd be a five to seven-year extension upon what we currently have

594
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:48,140
We also engage GHD to support efforts to identify and pursue additional partners

595
00:47:48,780 --> 00:47:50,540
potentially like a vault and haul program

596
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:52,100
outside of

597
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,060
Residentials away from residential areas and

598
00:47:58,000 --> 00:47:59,540
This is tied to council priorities

599
00:48:00,140 --> 00:48:04,140
city services for residents and businesses in smart city infrastructure and housing

600
00:48:04,140 --> 00:48:05,060
and revitalization.

601
00:48:05,660 --> 00:48:08,120
Chimetric is that partnerships with these key stakeholders

602
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:10,500
have helped keep our rates low for our community

603
00:48:10,500 --> 00:48:11,700
for many, many years.

604
00:48:13,660 --> 00:48:15,100
Initiative two, so right now,

605
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,260
we are currently using gaseous chlorine

606
00:48:17,260 --> 00:48:18,620
at the wastewater plant,

607
00:48:19,180 --> 00:48:21,220
so we completed a study recently

608
00:48:21,220 --> 00:48:23,000
that identified sodium hypochloride,

609
00:48:23,420 --> 00:48:24,400
household bleach roughly,

610
00:48:24,980 --> 00:48:27,560
to be our new disinfectant.

611
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,560
And it's much safer and it's much more readily available

612
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,700
than gas, cheese, chlorine.

613
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,720
The next step right now is completing the design and construction.

614
00:48:37,980 --> 00:48:40,200
And it's tied to community preparedness and responsiveness,

615
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:41,880
city services for residents and businesses.

616
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,140
And the city estimates that the conversion to sodium up chloride will

617
00:48:46,140 --> 00:48:49,640
save hundreds of hours per year in just program administration and training.

618
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:51,500
Since it is a Danish chemical,

619
00:48:51,780 --> 00:48:55,260
we want, it takes an extensive amount of work and training from staff

620
00:48:55,260 --> 00:48:59,820
to make sure that we're handling it and managing the program properly.

621
00:48:59,820 --> 00:49:04,420
The conversion, along with some technology upgrades, will hopefully get us away from

622
00:49:04,420 --> 00:49:09,460
having a third shift at night time, and that's one of the goals we have there at the

623
00:49:09,460 --> 00:49:09,640
plant.

624
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,240
Initiative number three, water master plan.

625
00:49:15,740 --> 00:49:21,580
So in September 25, 2025, the city officially completed our comprehensive water master plan.

626
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:26,620
The plan provides a strategic roadmap for responsibly managing our water resources, ensuring

627
00:49:26,620 --> 00:49:29,640
a safe, reliable drinking water supply for current and future generations.

628
00:49:30,620 --> 00:49:33,480
The status is complete, and it's tied to the services,

629
00:49:33,860 --> 00:49:36,460
smart city infrastructure, and community preparedness and response.

630
00:49:37,240 --> 00:49:42,740
And a very important statistic that we are very lucky to be in right now

631
00:49:42,740 --> 00:49:45,040
is that even through build-out and drought conditions,

632
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:47,320
the water mass front has says that,

633
00:49:47,420 --> 00:49:49,820
medicine has enough water supplies to service community.

634
00:49:50,580 --> 00:49:52,660
The challenge that we have is that it's currently,

635
00:49:53,060 --> 00:49:56,220
we currently lack the infrastructure to provide treatment to our SRP

636
00:49:56,220 --> 00:50:01,980
allotment. Recently, I think it's been in the news a lot that the CAP or the Colorado River

637
00:50:01,980 --> 00:50:06,480
allotment has been significantly reduced in the state, and that's going to provide ripple

638
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:10,900
effects throughout the industry. Well, luckily because we have SRP water, we're in a much better

639
00:50:10,900 --> 00:50:17,400
advantageous situation, and the drought hits SRP a little bit less than on the Colorado River.

640
00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:26,920
Initiative number four, one number nine. So the description of this one is to equip the existing

641
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,540
well for operations. So we have a hole in the ground. Now we just need to get the equipment,

642
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:35,320
the pump, the motor, everything installed, maybe a little tank and some treatment there as well.

643
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:40,720
And we are working on a CMAR delivery method, which should expedite the construction.

644
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:45,080
And something that's very important, I'll go back here, is that the testing that we just completed

645
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:51,060
last month shows it to be an extremely high producer. So the couple wells that we have right now are

646
00:50:51,060 --> 00:50:54,980
in the 7 to 800 gallons of minute range. It's a little over a million gallons a day.

647
00:50:55,500 --> 00:50:59,500
This one had positive results in the 3,500 gallons in that range.

648
00:51:00,860 --> 00:51:03,120
So much, much greater capacity than the other wells.

649
00:51:03,260 --> 00:51:08,180
So what we're working right now on is getting to see if we can get our allotment, how many

650
00:51:08,180 --> 00:51:11,460
acre feet or how much water we can pump out of the ground per year.

651
00:51:11,540 --> 00:51:14,220
We're trying to get that increased to match that that capacity.

652
00:51:16,580 --> 00:51:17,400
How many would see Mars?

653
00:51:19,820 --> 00:51:20,760
Production management at risk.

654
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:24,080
Yeah.

655
00:51:24,340 --> 00:51:25,420
It's Liberty.

656
00:51:38,340 --> 00:51:41,520
So I got lucky, I think one of the flies flew that way and then this one's sitting right

657
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:47,020
here. This one's behaving. This one's listening. Let me use this one. I might need it. That'd be

658
00:51:47,020 --> 00:51:52,360
perfect actually. So this is tied to city services for residents and businesses and smart city

659
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:53,480
infrastructure and housing.

660
00:51:57,140 --> 00:52:00,520
So and I mentioned, yeah, the volume of this well is just awesome.

661
00:52:02,540 --> 00:52:07,280
All right, a new tank. So new tank is needed for both capacity and redundancy. Several tanks are

662
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,780
identified for maintenance of our existing tanks.

663
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:11,400
They need to be taken offline,

664
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:12,980
but to be able to have that redundancy,

665
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:14,780
we need to break this new tank online,

666
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:16,960
so that we don't put ourselves in a bad spot,

667
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,720
should there be a fire or any sort of other situation.

668
00:52:22,020 --> 00:52:24,260
We're looking, I believe it about a 2 million,

669
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,920
a 3 million, 3 million, 3 million, 3 tank.

670
00:52:27,380 --> 00:52:31,540
Yeah, it was probably around the 2 million, I think.

671
00:52:33,620 --> 00:52:35,820
So the federal component, this is one of the projects

672
00:52:35,820 --> 00:52:38,160
that we should be receiving federal funding on.

673
00:52:38,820 --> 00:52:40,820
It made significant progress early in the years,

674
00:52:41,140 --> 00:52:44,700
which is triple-astric.

675
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,860
And clearing the path for further activities

676
00:52:47,860 --> 00:52:48,560
with this project.

677
00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:51,880
City services residents start city infrastructure

678
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:52,960
and community preparedness.

679
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:57,200
So due to tariffs and other industry pricing,

680
00:52:58,040 --> 00:52:59,880
we're actually considering for the first time

681
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:03,800
trying out a concrete tank instead of steel tank.

682
00:53:04,620 --> 00:53:06,840
Obviously, there's been a lot of terrorist and

683
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:08,200
some volatility with the steel market.

684
00:53:08,740 --> 00:53:11,160
Now, concrete still has some rebar within it, but

685
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,800
it may be more cost effective and something

686
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,040
where we can try out going with the concrete

687
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:16,860
take instead here.

688
00:53:22,500 --> 00:53:24,260
Then a listation rehabilitation.

689
00:53:24,980 --> 00:53:26,640
This lift station is due for rehabilitation,

690
00:53:26,940 --> 00:53:29,460
including some safety improvements.

691
00:53:29,980 --> 00:53:33,600
Project is underway waiting long lead times right now.

692
00:53:33,740 --> 00:53:35,600
We're supposed to be done around December, January.

693
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:45,540
The lift station that I'm speaking about here is just specified further. It's at the south west core. I'm sorry north west corner of 99th and Buckeye Road.

694
00:53:47,140 --> 00:53:48,820
It's also known as lift station 20.

695
00:53:50,720 --> 00:53:58,700
Similar counts priorities that it matches up to and geometric is that this is one of the most heavily used of the city's four total lift stations.

696
00:53:59,420 --> 00:54:06,100
We're lucky in Arizona, things are relatively flat, so you don't have too much pressure or elevation changes.

697
00:54:07,540 --> 00:54:10,120
So these are some of the other projects that we're working on.

698
00:54:10,380 --> 00:54:16,660
So in addition to the initiatives already underway, here are some priorities that we expect significant progress on in the current fiscal year.

699
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:24,220
Newtank at EDR7, that's one of our treatment facilities, goes to back to

700
00:54:24,220 --> 00:54:29,980
winter dependence and wastewater and emergency preparedness. And again, installing

701
00:54:29,980 --> 00:54:36,780
additional capacity and redundancy. And then next to council meeting, we'll

702
00:54:36,780 --> 00:54:41,600
become a before you for request approval on an amendment to our city of Phoenix,

703
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:46,780
IGA regarding the treatment and delivery of water what we'd like to do is add a third

704
00:54:46,780 --> 00:54:51,400
interconnect with the city of Phoenix a big thing that that's going to do for us even though we've

705
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:57,080
we're trying to build up our portfolio on our side and our treatment capacity is that it's going to

706
00:54:57,080 --> 00:55:03,080
increase our redundancy so right now we get we have two interconnects on the east side of the city and

707
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:07,740
we want to bring one closer to the industrial base so we're proposing that to be at around 91st and

708
00:55:07,740 --> 00:55:08,740
and Buckeye Road.

709
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:13,720
And another major thing that could help us out here is that we have a large water user

710
00:55:14,100 --> 00:55:16,700
that is very interested in joining the system as well.

711
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:22,820
And since we do have the portfolio available as far as the capacity, the SRP allotment,

712
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:29,220
if we are able to add them, which our water master plan says it's feasible, then that could

713
00:55:29,220 --> 00:55:33,920
actually reduce the rates and spread the rates for our water customers.

714
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,040
It's pretty much the economies of scale.

715
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:43,640
So they'd be probably our number number number one number two water water user at that point. So and we'd still have enough for our community.

716
00:55:47,240 --> 00:55:54,900
And then we're also undertaking our skate master plan and electrical and structure improvements of the waste water plant with back water independence and wastewater.

717
00:55:55,360 --> 00:56:01,520
We're just preparedness. We're trying to identify gaps for improvement and make already identified electrical and structural repairs.

718
00:56:02,700 --> 00:56:09,640
And then sand separation. So one of our well sites, well site eight, it's a very high sand producer.

719
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:13,920
So where it's pulling out within the water table, it's bringing sand into our treatment system.

720
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:19,580
So what we've had to do historically is had to throttle that capacity back down to 50%.

721
00:56:19,580 --> 00:56:30,260
So we're losing capacity there. So we're undertaking a study right now to identify some alternatives, possibly sand separation device or some other methods

722
00:56:30,260 --> 00:56:33,580
so that we can actually ramp that capacity back to a hundred percent.

723
00:56:36,210 --> 00:56:42,890
Will 8 is, it's just, it's just south of I-10 and east of, I forget the exact street,

724
00:56:44,830 --> 00:56:48,030
growing up in a smaller town, looking for more self-evident things, always visual, right?

725
00:56:48,750 --> 00:56:51,330
So it's east of 99th Avenue, just south of I-10.

726
00:56:52,590 --> 00:56:53,290
There we go.

727
00:56:54,030 --> 00:56:54,530
All right.

728
00:56:55,690 --> 00:56:56,330
I think you raised.

729
00:57:00,410 --> 00:57:00,650
All right.

730
00:57:00,730 --> 00:57:04,530
I recommend the next step, right now we're undergoing a rate study.

731
00:57:06,550 --> 00:57:12,930
and we're also utilizing the right, right sizing approach and we're continuing to explore

732
00:57:12,930 --> 00:57:19,070
effluent options, possibly exchange options. But the most important thing out of all of

733
00:57:19,070 --> 00:57:24,270
this is that we're continuing to be strategic with large expenditures and improvements.

734
00:57:25,070 --> 00:57:29,530
No, there's a lot, there's price increases everywhere throughout the value right now for

735
00:57:29,530 --> 00:57:33,770
for every utility, for every type of utility, electric water, gas, everywhere.

736
00:57:35,250 --> 00:57:40,630
And so we understand that what we do makes a large impact to the community.

737
00:57:40,870 --> 00:57:44,450
So we're making sure that every project that we do, we're planning it out very thoroughly.

738
00:57:44,730 --> 00:57:46,350
We're being very deliberate about everything.

739
00:57:46,990 --> 00:57:52,210
And we're looking extensively, whenever there's opportunities to save money and be more efficient,

740
00:57:52,770 --> 00:57:55,330
the team gets together and other takes that.

741
00:57:55,330 --> 00:57:56,570
So if

742
00:57:58,580 --> 00:58:03,140
that all opens up to any questions I think this is this is great great

743
00:58:03,140 --> 00:58:06,660
information I mean the reality is this is one of those departments that folks don't

744
00:58:06,660 --> 00:58:11,760
think about a lot but it's extremely expensive and extremely necessary so you

745
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:15,440
know to really take the time and do it right you got to know what you're talking

746
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:19,400
about number one and number two is you have to think outside the box and in this

747
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:22,360
case there's a lot of opportunity to save but there's a lot of opportunity for us

748
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:26,180
to have to spend significant also to keep the infrastructure where it needs to be

749
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:33,800
So we all enjoy good clean water and we all enjoy fleshing our toilets. So it goes somewhere we never have to worry about it

750
00:58:34,180 --> 00:58:38,720
But we don't really think about what goes into keeping that infrastructure in place for our residents

751
00:58:39,100 --> 00:58:42,640
And so this is a very crucial department as much as any any other department in our city

752
00:58:42,980 --> 00:58:48,760
So I just want to thank you for taking the time and your team to keep it where it needs to be identified improvements to keep that stuff going on

753
00:58:50,700 --> 00:58:52,060
So anybody else?

754
00:58:53,060 --> 00:58:54,180
Good job.

755
00:58:54,460 --> 00:58:57,860
I'm sure that we do have what we need for our future.

756
00:58:58,180 --> 00:58:58,520
Very simple.

757
00:58:58,900 --> 00:59:00,880
And it's water, you take care of business.

758
00:59:01,340 --> 00:59:01,600
Very good.

759
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:03,480
And I'm glad we have you there.

760
00:59:04,860 --> 00:59:05,420
Absolutely.

761
00:59:06,100 --> 00:59:06,640
And keep the fly.

762
00:59:07,740 --> 00:59:11,480
And we'll try to keep it.

763
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:12,420
Keep the fly.

764
00:59:14,620 --> 00:59:18,260
And we'll keep it.

765
00:59:18,300 --> 00:59:18,320
Keep it.

766
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:19,120
Keep it.

767
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:19,120
Keep

768
00:59:22,580 --> 00:59:25,480
it.

769
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,880
last item of the night, which is Community Events and Updates. I'm going to kick it over to our

770
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:34,100
Parks and Recreation Director, Mr. Batcha. Thank you, Mayor and Vice Mayor and members of the

771
00:59:34,100 --> 00:59:40,760
Council. This month, we're starting off our third Friday series, starting here in September,

772
00:59:40,900 --> 00:59:46,620
September 18th, keeping with the theme celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. We'll be having the

773
00:59:46,620 --> 00:59:50,420
Cachito Dance Project and Banda La Vega Dora,

774
00:59:51,390 --> 00:59:56,020
performing at the third Friday's September 18th,

775
00:59:56,020 --> 00:59:59,440
along with some arts and crafts for the kids and Lotoria.

776
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:28,740
Done by the tallest and teen council. So invite your friends and families out for a great night out. It starts our series. The next one will be October 9th. We'll be partnering with Blessed Sacrament. We've been working with that partnership for the last few weeks now. So we'll be enhancing both events per save. So we'll have the dead that was worked those theme for our October event.

777
01:00:28,740 --> 01:00:43,060
So one corporate are Franco treat with that as well, along with a parade. So those two are the two upcoming events. And so if I believe we have all the entertainment acts for our loose the Navidad event as well.

778
01:00:44,930 --> 01:00:54,840
Any questions for Brandy that parade on that Saturday October 10th morning.

779
01:00:56,120 --> 01:01:01,420
morning event will start at 10. The parade will start at 10. Line up. We'll start at 7 a.m.

780
01:01:06,010 --> 01:01:11,290
Anything else? I've seen any. Well, I may take a motion to adjourn this meeting. All right,

781
01:01:11,310 --> 01:01:15,970
we have a motion to adjourn by Councilmember Gomez. We have a second by Vice Mayor Jimmy Davis. All those

782
01:01:15,970 --> 01:01:20,990
in favor, please seem to fly by saying aye. Aye. Folks, please for coming out and have yourself a wonderful evening.