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[0:00] Yes.
[0:03] 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.
[0:33] Our dear beloved Heavenly Father, we come before the at this time to
[0:38] to give the thanks for the freedoms that are ours to be able to exercise self-governance
[0:44] for grateful for this council and for their service and pray that that would bless them.
[0:49] We're particularly mindful of Council Member Edivas at this time with the passing of her
[0:56] father, Mr. Contreras, we're grateful for his influence in the community and for all that
[1:02] he has been to show a true, how to live a true life.
[1:11] And we're grateful for those that provide us those examples.
[1:17] And we're grateful for all of those that serve our community
[1:20] and that make this a great place to live, work, and play.
[1:28] We pray, again, a special blessing upon this council to make decisions that will be wise
[1:36] and be guided and directed by thee and we pray for these things in the name of the Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
[1:59] We are going to move on to our roll call.
[2:04] Please let the record reflect that we have four council members present today.
[2:10] which is great because we have a quorum. We have three absent and they weren't able to attend today.
[2:17] And so they'll join us in the next council meeting. Moving on to D final call to submit speaker request forms.
[2:24] 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.
[2:36] We don't have any more.
[2:40] Call to the public.
[2:41] It is now called to the public city clerk.
[2:43] Do we have any submissions?
[2:44] Not.
[2:45] All right.
[2:46] Moving on to F schedule public experiences and proclamations for discussion of course.
[2:50] First item is proclamation.
[2:51] Recognize the September 11th, 2026 as a day of remembrance unity and service in the city
[2:56] of Tollison honoring the lives lost and those who served in response to the events of September.
[3:01] There's a flag in response to the events of September 11, 2001 and encouraging acts of kindness,
[3:08] volunteerism, community service, and civic engagement.
[3:11] Today, we have gentleman, his name is Juliano Lodillas, he's with the tossing in high school.
[3:17] Joss for Arizona graduate, he's a junior grade level president.
[3:21] Joss for Arizona graduates, also known as JAG.
[3:24] Some of us, if not all of us, have had an opportunity to be members of JAG.
[3:28] So Mr. Juliano, you have the floor.
[3:32] and your team?
[3:45] Yes, it on.
[3:51] Thank you.
[3:52] Right there.
[3:53] Yeah, right there.
[3:53] Good.
[3:55] Good evening.
[3:56] Mayor, councilmembers, city staff, and members of the tallest and community.
[4:00] My name is Hilary Dregus, and I am honored to serve as the president of the tallest senior
[4:03] in your high school, junior class for Josfair's undergraduates.
[4:08] With me today, I have some of our Jack team, including Mr. Richard Warbrock,
[4:12] Mission at Ellipsi, Tulsa and Union High School leadership are JAG students and yeah thank you for
[4:19] allowing me to stand before you tonight on behalf of our JAG students to represent our request
[4:25] for a confirmation recognizing September 11 as a day of remembrance, unity and service in the
[4:30] city of Tulsa. For those who may not be familiar with JAG, Tulsa is in a graduate that's a program
[4:36] dedicated to helping students succeed in high school and prepare for their futures through leadership
[4:41] leadership, career development, life skills and community service. Jack teaches us that
[4:47] leadership isn't simply about hooding position. It's about using our voice, our time,
[4:52] and our ability to make a positive difference. September 11th is a day that our nation will
[4:57] never forget. We remember the thousands of innocent people's who lives were lost in the
[5:02] families and communities forever changed. We also honor the firefighters, police officers,
[5:07] emergency personnel, volunteers and ordinary citizens who showed incredible courage and compassion
[5:12] during one of our nation's darkest moments. But as students and future leaders, we believe
[5:18] September 11 should be more than a day we remember. It should be a day that inspires us to act.
[5:24] We cannot change what happened that day, but we can decide how we carry its lessons forward.
[5:28] We can honor those who were lost by helping someone in need. We can honor those who served
[5:33] by serving our own community.
[5:36] And we can honor the unity that brought people together
[5:38] after September 11th by choosing to build that same unity
[5:41] here in Tulson.
[5:43] This population represents that we believe young people can do.
[5:47] We can remember the past, learn from it,
[5:49] and use those lessons to create a better future.
[5:53] As members of JAG,
[5:55] we want to lead by example,
[5:56] not just through our words,
[5:58] but the meaningful service to our community.
[6:00] So tonight, on behalf of the Tulson Inner High School JAG
[6:02] program. I respectfully ask the city of Tulsa to recognize September 11th as the day of
[6:07] remembrance, unity and service because remembering gives us perspective, honoring, give us gratitude,
[6:13] and service gives us a way to make a difference. We remember those who were lost, we honor those who
[6:19] served, and we commit ourselves to serving those around us. So thank you mayor and council for
[6:25] giving us the opportunity to use our voices and for supporting the young people who are working
[6:29] in to make tall sent a stronger community.
[6:32] Thank you.
[6:36] Good.
[6:37] Can we look at the banner?
[6:50] Council, any comments from council?
[6:53] Thank you very much.
[6:55] Good job, new man.
[6:56] Yeah, I'm trying my hardest to be objective.
[7:00] I don't want to make too many comments
[7:01] because one of them is my son.
[7:03] We do have the proclamation here, so bring it up here.
[7:07] Come on, sponsor, you got to get back up here with him.
[7:11] So before I do, though, I got to say these words.
[7:13] 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.
[7:30] Absolutely, yeah,
[7:34] in front of us.
[7:37] In between, yeah, just so that you don't get this in the book.
[7:42] Well, if I come in, we're not letting you up the hook. You got to come up here too.
[7:47] You guys can come up here.
[7:53] You don't want to get the other one?
[8:04] You're hiding her face.
[8:13] Ready?
[8:14] One, two, three.
[8:16] One more.
[8:23] So
[8:30] I'll kick it over to ice mayor.
[8:36] Great job, Julian.
[8:37] You've come before several times speaking, I think you're getting better and better at
[8:40] this.
[8:40] So keep it up.
[8:41] All right.
[8:42] What a wonderful proclamation and I think, you know, September 11th, I think that's something
[8:47] that if you were alive then anyway, you remember that day, right?
[8:51] I just think I don't have a great memory for my childhood, but I distinctly remember that
[8:55] day. And the days that followed, it was a day that really brought us together as a country.
[8:59] It's kind of crazy to think 25 years ago how united we were after the events of that day
[9:06] because we're so divided. So I think it is a great reminder on the 25th anniversary
[9:11] to remember that we are one. We are one human race, right? And we do need to come together. And we
[9:17] do need to perform acts of kindness and, you know, just protect each other, care for each other,
[9:23] and most of all love. And I think that's something that we do very well here in
[9:27] Tollison. We spread that Tollison love, right? So it's just a great reminder. So
[9:30] good job, William, for bringing this forward. Thank you, Jack. Thank you, Tollison,
[9:35] high school district and keep up the good work, guys.
[9:39] Yes, awesome. Anybody else?
[9:43] Okay. Well, and again, we want to think our
[9:45] firefighters and police officers for their service here locally too. I know 911 is,
[9:50] I can't believe it's been 25 years. That's crazy. But it sits in our mind. You're right.
[9:55] as if it happened yesterday but you know we always got to be thankful for our public service
[10:00] employees and specifically our public safety public employees because they do for us things that
[10:08] most of us weren't willing to do or aren't able to do and so thank you thank you both and all the
[10:14] other people that serve on you guys leadership for everything that they do day in and day out.
[10:18] 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
[10:24] jack and many, many moons ago. I won't say how many, but a lot of folks on this on this board
[10:31] has have had connections to jack. So you guys create a beautiful fruit. So I want to commend
[10:36] the sponsors for everything you do on behalf of them and continue to develop them. We need good
[10:40] leader. So thank you very much. All right. We're going to move on to item number two proclamation
[10:46] declaring September 2026 as price prostate cancer awareness month and the city of Tawson
[10:51] and recognizing those affected by prostate cancer
[10:53] and encourage you residents to learn about risk factors,
[10:57] support, patients, and survivors
[10:58] and consult qualified healthcare professionals
[11:01] regarding individuals, health, and screening decisions.
[11:04] I'm gonna call up Chief of Social Impact, Chief Good.
[11:07] Will you please say some words on behalf of this proclamation?
[11:11] Thank you, Mayor, members of the council.
[11:12] Thank you for this proclamation this evening.
[11:15] Recently, we've had four cases of prostate cancer
[11:18] in the senior center.
[11:19] We've had several other cases of cancer
[11:21] where people passed away. And we've got a couple that are currently going on with other types of
[11:27] cancer. So cancers are real thing out there. I'd also like to, we're going to talk about the
[11:33] importance of early detection, but also support. We have a few members of our senior center here tonight
[11:39] who have been involved with prostate cancer. So I'd like to thank them for coming. But also it's very
[11:45] important that the ladies that the women out there encourage men to get tested because
[11:51] sometimes men are being one I know we're kind of hard headed we don't want to go to the doctor
[11:56] we're fine we're going to be fine we don't want to get checked and then we sometimes find out
[12:01] we we wouldn't have had to deal with it if we'd been checked earlier so it's my honor to introduce
[12:06] to you Ramon Serrano who's going to come up and speak for just a couple minutes who's one of our
[12:12] current prostate cancer cases, Ramon, would you come up with?
[12:16] There you are.
[12:16] Thank you.
[12:17] So, all good evening.
[12:19] Good evening.
[12:19] Good evening.
[12:20] Thank you for the opportunity to really come and speak on a state-tensual awareness.
[12:30] Even up to evenings, if you suffer time, family time away, but what I come to say, I bring
[12:35] a message.
[12:36] I bring a message, a very strong message that we need to hear.
[12:42] It's not what you want to hear, it's what you need to hear.
[12:46] That's why I'm here tonight, but I also got my senior friends behind me.
[12:52] We've all known somebody with prostate cancer, we lost many of them.
[12:56] Currently, I'm diagnosed with prostate cancer, we've seen four days before my birthday, but
[13:02] that was probably known for that.
[13:04] Currently, I'm living with four chronic illnesses, they could take me out at any time, but I'm
[13:10] man of resilience, I never give up. I may not stay down because of me not going to stay down,
[13:17] 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,
[13:24] Vietnam veteran. I'm a retired nurse of 28 years. I worked in the ICU, so I have background.
[13:31] I was coming on here. But never in my wildest mind, I thought that would be funny.
[13:36] which I am. I learned to accept the role, but September 1st, his cancer awareness month
[13:43] for men. This is a topic that most men keep us, because brother be because of a man
[13:50] or whatever it is, we don't want to talk about it. We don't want to talk about his reality.
[13:56] It's impacting men now at an early age. It has to, maybe, of how the world we're living.
[14:02] It seems to be about having a direct target of baby boomers, which I am one.
[14:08] There's a lot of computing facts to it, it could be economic, social,
[14:12] but it is a matter of not awareness.
[14:15] Nobody's taking the time out to speak, taking time out to listen to what we have to say.
[14:22] September 1st is Cancer Awareness Month. Tomorrow, I'm looking forward for both starts,
[14:27] and you're going to be seeing commercials through sharing some man that are going to be talking about
[14:32] I'll say cancer because it's been pushed for so many years, but we have a lot of uprising.
[14:38] Currently, I'm living with, I've got two types of cancer. There are two types of cancer.
[14:42] There is one of them. I just know that that's the one that's contained within you. That's the one
[14:46] that I've diagnosed. After a multiple testing, me, I was smart enough. I'm going to get tested.
[14:53] I recognize the signs. There's something going on here. I have a kidney transplant patient for five
[14:58] years I'm going to work with my kidneys working fine.
[15:00] 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.
[15:17] Minnesota cancer is the one that's the bad one. That's the one that attacks your body.
[15:22] I've seen that. I've seen that happen. Okay. I have a report here which I gave George
[15:28] it. Come a good friend. I'll show it to your brother with me. Upon all the testing, not
[15:34] once did I give in. I attacked it. But first of all, like my military background came
[15:43] with to me. It said to know your enemy and what you did, you got to steady him. And I began
[15:47] research and research and what is this? Is it curable? Is it beable? Yes,
[15:53] to awareness,
[15:55] to awareness and reacting on time, recognize some, yes, it is curable. The report that I got back,
[16:02] I knew that I knew A was from the curable report. It came back 70 to 80 percent
[16:12] with a 20% of reoccurrence. So in other words, I've got to speak. I've got to refer to
[16:19] the oncology department, radiation department, giving treatments, five treatments with follow
[16:26] up with blood work in this. And you know what? To me, that was a big victory. I was shouting
[16:33] and then they're clapping and just having a good time. I thought they weren't
[16:36] cost-security. Take this man out, but I was rejoicing because I'm known as a
[16:41] happy person.
[16:46] But you know what? It was it was something that every man here is
[16:50] going to go through sooner or later. Sooner or later we're all going to face it, but
[16:55] we can be preventable. I'm going to give you a good example of that. You know
[16:59] you know that if something's wrong with you, you know you're something's just
[17:02] saying, right, you're urinated, something just ain't right, get checked out, get checked
[17:07] out. That could be preventable. You're just, I'm going to give you a good example. Would
[17:12] you have a vehicle and you have the engine light comes on. A lot of us put a little piece
[17:19] of paper and cover it and ignore it. But this one has the same thing. This is what men do.
[17:24] When you got this into, we ignore it's going to go away. But sooner or later, you ignore
[17:29] that morning, so in that agent line, the thing is going to happen. That car is going to
[17:33] give out. And then you're going to be stuck. What are you going to do? Knowing that you should have
[17:41] paid attention to that. Knowing. Today I wear this blue ribbon.
[17:48] I'm going to give each and everyone
[17:49] here, hopefully, that you will stand up because we need to be a voice for this. It's a good way of
[17:55] getting people, hey, what's that blue ribbon for? And I'll tell you. But before I get into that guy,
[18:02] I know I have limited time, but, you know, it is curable if you catch it in time.
[18:08] But the thing is, what are you going to do about it?
[18:12] Are you going to pressure it away?
[18:14] No, you cannot.
[18:16] You know, the American cancer side, a lot of men, it's attack men are earlier.
[18:20] Well, I've been fine, so I started the minute that I was diagnosed with that.
[18:25] Dr. Snurson took me into the oncology unit, let me know how this is what I'm going to be facing.
[18:30] as a nurse, I worked around it, but it was a job. It was a job. This time around, it's personal.
[18:39] I went in there, you know, and I worked a lot with a chap, and I'm property of male clinic
[18:44] hospital. That's where I go.
[18:48] He took me to the in college for dinner, and I saw man frail.
[18:52] In a fancy unit, you can smell, I'm going to be blunt death, the body of people just dying,
[19:01] and hooked up to chemo. And there was just a man, Hispanic man. I'm going to say,
[19:08] and he was afraid. I told him I would mention him. And he caused me over.
[19:13] Ben, we come here.
[19:17] And he reached over. He wanted to touch my head. He wanted somebody to listen
[19:25] to what he has to say.
[19:32] He longed for a human touch, a human touch, but I took the time
[19:38] out to listen to this man, and he was frail looking, you know, and he was just, you know
[19:45] what, from home. If only I would have listened to my wife, to my kids, to the history, a lot
[19:56] a man like myself to get prostate cancer. It's got to be a history. Somebody's got to be a father
[20:00] figure. I never knew my dad, my father. So now I'm the baseline. Five children, 28 grandchildren,
[20:07] 11 great grandchildren. Most of them male. So now I'm the baseline. Now they can say, my God,
[20:14] it's where it's come. It's a history. It's got to be there. You're going on talking to a
[20:20] afraid about that. I pulled up a chair. I knew that. You know what? I'm going to give this man
[20:25] some time to listen. And I listened to him and letting him use his freedom. He was in my year
[20:29] talking, talking. If only when I listen to my wife, to my kids, now I'm alone.
[20:40] I took that personal
[20:44] and I said, I felt compelled to be his voice, the voice from many other afraid. They were out there.
[20:55] They are asking for people to listen to me, listen to me, and that's what we don't do.
[21:01] Take time out to listen.
[21:04] And I said, I want to be your voice.
[21:06] As if today I took it personal, and I took on this mission standing here before you.
[21:13] Talk about the spread of awareness because it's serious.
[21:18] It's serious.
[21:19] It can be preventable.
[21:21] There's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of, the death rate is incredible, but we're
[21:26] like in the United States alone, we're the second leading cancer, long cancer is one leading
[21:33] to death, but it can't be, there's a 99% if you catch it in time, it's a 99% of survival
[21:39] around
[21:42] the world. Worldwide, number four, prostate cancer, with chances of survival, slim.
[21:55] Because it's already too late, it's already attacking your body, other parts of your world.
[22:02] Talking about all it is the PSA, yes. It takes your racial where you're at.
[22:09] you listen to your doctors you know but you know they're right and I'm going to talk to you
[22:14] about the role of the woman of a wife. A wife is a very very solid structure that you need
[22:24] because she's a one that knows you day and night. This is the woman man that married you,
[22:30] that married you and bond together man. But like I said when we talk about this issue we stay
[22:36] She is a driving force behind all this because prostate cancer, not only this effect, everyone
[22:46] from your wife to your kids to your grandkids on down, five generations of Toronto, it affects
[22:55] you.
[22:57] So I'm here before you expect this awareness with you, you're going to be hearing a lot
[23:03] about prostate cancer. It's not going to be harsh anymore because there's a lot of us living
[23:09] with it. I've lost, I can't tell you how many friends I've lost over that. And you're going to
[23:13] be seeing these commercials. You like football, like I football, you like sports. You're going to be
[23:18] seeing it.
[23:20] We're wearing what I'm here today. Am I asking you? I thought to a lot, a lot of people.
[23:28] I spoke to a lot of Hispanic men because we're the one. We're ranked up there.
[23:35] not one, two, three, four, five, but one, because we don't listen. We don't listen.
[23:43] Whether it be pride, whether we want to humble ourselves, but I took time out to do my research
[23:48] and listen to what is it that's keeping you. I'm getting checked out. I've already got checked out.
[23:53] I'm fine, but that can change at any time. At any time, there was change. What are you going to do
[24:00] about it. I'm fine. You know,
[24:05] another thing, you know, that they don't want to do, you know,
[24:07] is they don't want to go through the testing because they have this, this backward thinking of,
[24:15] they fear the most number one thing they fear, they fear the glove,
[24:22] they fear the glove.
[24:25] When the doctor puts that on and you assume the position, you know what I'm talking about,
[24:31] men that are in. But that's only those backward think that they're gone. Nowadays, it's a simple
[24:37] blood test. But in Spanish culture, we try now. I'll go to the Yavarito with my neighborhood
[24:42] with my herbs. They're not give whatever I need. You're not good.
[24:49] They don't listen until it's too late.
[24:53] It's too late. The statistics of mind blowing when the American Cancer Society, I mean too much,
[24:59] I mean, I don't have limited time, but I'm here, as I close, it's real, it's real
[25:05] ladies and gentlemen here. And I'm here today asking you to actually challenge you.
[25:14] Who will stand with me? Who will stand with others? And be a voice for them who can't.
[25:25] Will you stand? I'm asking you. Will you stand? And if you feel that you are
[25:31] going to stand, I want to see you stand up. Stand with me if you are
[25:35] resupporting this, if you would. Would you stand? If I have any other men
[25:42] there are a stand up. Any more more brave men. I'm going to decide we got somebody
[25:46] that has a valid stand up that can be avoid.
[25:53] Look around.
[25:55] We need some hand.
[26:01] I close with that.
[26:03] I'll leave these blue ribbons for my director here.
[26:06] Has it out where?
[26:09] That'll be a nice breaker.
[26:11] What's that ribbon for?
[26:12] Well, I'll tell you.
[26:14] Come on in.
[26:15] I'm one of the ones that ask you to thank you very much, sir.
[26:17] So much for allowing me the time to do that.
[26:19] Absolutely.
[26:20] Yeah, a couple of things,
[26:25] a couple of items I want to underscore.
[26:27] We're, um, prostate cancer, as I'm all stated, is a matter of awareness and being proactive.
[26:33] Um, it's speedable, but you have to be proactive.
[26:36] We all have to be proactive about it, uh, and, and, uh, open your eyes.
[26:40] And everybody says, well, you know, I'm the man and the provider of this house.
[26:43] You can't be the provider if you're not present.
[26:45] So your number one thing to do in this world, if you, if you have a family reunion, if
[26:50] you don't, is to be present.
[26:52] And then once you're present and you're healthy, then you can be the provider and you can
[26:55] be everything else, but I think it's a very important message in a much that I
[27:00] just for sharing that with us. And also thank you for your service and not only
[27:03] in the military, but as a medical professional throughout the years. And
[27:07] much that I just and best of luck to you also on your own battle. Yeah. So now
[27:12] comes the fun part. Therefore I may or want to for the years to hear by
[27:16] proclaim September 2026 as a prostate cancer awareness month in the city of
[27:21] the year proclaimed.
[27:26] 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.
[27:35] Okay, and you can share it with all the seniors and everybody else.
[27:38] So they know that this is a serious matter, and we can definitely proclaim it.
[27:42] If I'm one again, thank you very much for your time, sir.
[27:45] 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.
[27:52] recognizing the central role of Hispanics and Latino communities in the
[27:56] toss and history growth and identify and honoring generations of leadership,
[28:00] public service, entrepreneurship, education, arts, and civil participation that
[28:07] continue to enrich our community. So I believe we have Elad or Reyes, take this one
[28:13] sir. Thank you Mr. Memembers, a council. I need my honor to present this
[28:19] proclamation to you tonight,
[28:21] recognizing September 15th through October 15th
[28:24] as Hispanic Heritage Month.
[28:26] This recognition is especially meaningful to me
[28:30] because Thomas is not simply a community I serve.
[28:33] It is the community that raised me and my family.
[28:36] My family has long believed in the importance
[28:39] of education, public service,
[28:40] and giving back to this community.
[28:43] Those values have been passed down through generations
[28:46] and have shaped my own commitment to serving Taloson.
[28:50] That story is not unique to my family.
[28:53] It's a part of a much larger Taloson story.
[28:56] For generations, Hispanic slash Latino families
[29:00] have helped build this community
[29:01] through public service education, local businesses,
[29:05] faith, civic involvement, and most importantly,
[29:08] through families who have invested in Taloson
[29:10] and in one another.
[29:13] Hispanic Heritage Month gives us an opportunity
[29:15] to honor those who came before us, recognize those who continue serving our community today,
[29:22] and remind our young people, and that their heritage is part of Thomas and his history,
[29:28] and that they have an important role in shaping the future. I am proud to have grown up in this
[29:34] community, proud to serve it today, and proud that Thomas and continues to honor the culture,
[29:39] traditions and contributions that have shaped who we are. With that, it is my privilege to present
[29:46] this proclamation declaring September 15 through October 15, 2026, yes, Hispanic Heritage Month
[29:53] in the city of policy. Thank you, city manager. So now therefore, I may have wanted for the
[29:57] you guys to hear about proclaim September.
[30:00] Number 15, through October 15, 2026, Hispanic Heritage Month, and the city of Tollison, via proclaimed.
[30:09] We also have a signed proclamation here.
[30:21] Council, any comments for the last two proclamations before we move forward?
[30:33] Yeah,
[30:37] 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.
[30:42] We have number one public hearing, so this is in comments from interested parties regarding reason application PNZ 26-021 submitted by
[30:52] the applicant and property owner, Costco wholesale corporation to reason on approximately 10.55 acres located along east side of 91st Avenue
[30:59] and north of Buckeye Road from planned area development, PED to light industrial I1, the reason would allow the subject property identified as
[31:12] APN 101-12-739 to be combined with Costco existing lots. I'm going to call up
[31:20] our Development Services Director Jason Herp. Speak on this. Thank you Mayor
[31:25] Vice-Mayor, members counsel. So brief history, JBS had on this property. It was
[31:33] PAD which in that PAD allows for I2 uses which is heavy industrial uses. They
[31:41] sold it to Costco. Now Costco wants a reason I won to match their existing and staff thinks it's a
[31:50] great idea because now you you have a more restrictive uses on that property. So you don't have the
[31:56] heavy users that come in and build on that property. And I can answer any questions you may have.
[32:03] Do we know what they're proposing to do with the property? Yeah, they're just expanding. So they're
[32:07] 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
[32:18] 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
[32:25] 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
[32:30] And it's behind the matanzas. So I mean probably he's not gonna have homes built there anytime soon
[32:36] So it's it's it's ideal it's kind of hidden in the back there. So those are my
[32:40] comments on it. On the council.
[32:44] Yes, we have a motion to approve by Vice Mayor
[32:48] Davis. We have a second by council member Gomez. All is a flavor in favor of
[32:52] preceding by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed. All right. Motion is approved
[32:57] unanimously. Thank you. Thank you.
[33:05] If you're going to want to consent agenda
[33:06] action items. Item one through three. These are really meant to to just get approved. It's available
[33:14] to you by way of the agenda, but it's all pretty much straightforward business stuff. So I will
[33:20] enter it if you had an opportunity to review it. I will entertain a motion. We got a motion to
[33:25] approve by Councilman Reggamesh. We have a second by Vice Mayor Jimmy Davis. All those in favor of
[33:31] of approving item one, two, three on the consent agenda
[33:34] action items, please signify by seeing eye, eye,
[33:36] all those opposed, not hearing any.
[33:39] This motion passes unanimously.
[33:41] We're going to move on to regular agenda action items.
[33:44] We have one of those.
[33:46] All right, discuss and consider the reappointment
[33:49] of Jimmy Davis, Wendy Sears, Marlene Pignam,
[33:52] and Kino Flores as the board of directors
[33:55] of the toss and alliance against substance abuse,
[33:57] also know in Estasa to serve you term from October 1st, 2026 to October 1st, 2028.
[34:06] Council, does anyone have any questions or comments about this item?
[34:09] We have a proof of them. Okay, we got a motion to approve.
[34:13] I want to take Linda over there. Seconded by Councilwoman Linda Laburin. All those in favor,
[34:19] seem to file by saying aye. All those opposed? All right, well, we happen to have both of the TASA
[34:33] So we've been really working on, you know, just putting the nonprofit together and putting it into action.
[34:39] We have had some community meetings with some of the faith communities from around. I know we're having another one coming up.
[34:47] We've done several surveys in the community.
[34:49] You know, we're really trying to approach this from a holistic standpoint.
[34:54] Substance abuse.
[34:55] is very, very multifaceted. There's so many layers to it. We want to make sure that we're addressing
[35:00] all of the root causes as well as serving the whole family that is affected by substance abuse.
[35:08] That's pretty much where we are. We do have our next meeting as a meeting with the faith community
[35:13] again the second one.
[35:17] I talked it correctly at all the points and this came out a couple of years
[35:24] ago in terms of the importance of addressing the issue of fentanyl overdose that we were having.
[35:31] It was a lot that's kind of decreased and it's gotten better but we're here to help and that's
[35:41] basically what we want to do and address those issues. Oh yeah you're right there's a lot more work
[35:47] to do and unfortunately right now it's fentanyl but who knows what the next drug of choice is going to be
[35:52] down the road. So this this board really is instrumental in helping us to
[35:56] choreograph or to put together a plan of action so that whatever that next
[36:00] challenge is we're kind of in front of the curb and we're starting to have a
[36:04] positive impact in reducing fatalities or even incidents of drug overuse in our
[36:09] community. So thank you both for your time on this panel and I look forward to
[36:13] more good work as we move forward with it. I look forward to another term and
[36:16] thank you guys for approving that. Absolutely. So next we have work studies and
[36:21] In presentations for discussion, we're going to start with emergency preparedness department
[36:27] update.
[36:28] Chief Good.
[36:35] Thank you, Mayor and members of the Council.
[36:37] Just a couple of brief items on things that we did in fiscal year 2026.
[36:47] And we've implemented a visitor management system as part of our overall city security.
[36:54] We're not very good at keeping track of who was coming in and who was coming out in this
[36:58] of different incidents which occur throughout the country, throughout the world,
[37:02] we wanted to have a better idea of that. So with the help of IT, we have implemented a visitor
[37:08] management system which is effectively an iPad, but when people come into a building other than
[37:13] employees and a couple of public-facing areas, such as the senior center and the library,
[37:17] we can keep track of who is there, it notifies the person they're visiting that they're there,
[37:21] it keeps a record of who is there. So we're tracking that a little bit better now.
[37:28] that falls under community responsiveness and preparedness.
[37:31] Also a vehicle barricade system
[37:33] which we started last fiscal year.
[37:36] And that is a series of barricades
[37:38] which we use in conjunction with the police department
[37:41] and with field operations and streets
[37:43] in order to better protect our parade routes.
[37:46] We have seen more and more vehicle-borne attacks
[37:50] throughout our country, throughout the world,
[37:52] the one that comes to mind more recently
[37:53] is the one on New Year's Eve in New Orleans
[37:56] a couple years ago where a bunch of people got mowed down by some fanatic who wanted to make
[38:01] whatever statement and just drove on the parade route and killed a bunch of people. So we didn't
[38:06] want to think about why is it if something were to happen here. Did you guys think about that? Well,
[38:12] no, that's not a good answer for anybody. So we have implemented that. We're going to have a
[38:18] more discussion about that in the current fiscal year. And there is no guarantee that that can stop
[38:23] a vehicle but it's certainly a major deterrent and we're hopefully that we
[38:27] will not experience something like that here. And then the emergency shelter
[38:32] we use is project we've been working on for a couple years now where we have
[38:36] designated the parks and wreck building as the emergency shelter for the city. We
[38:41] have a partnership with the Red Cross. They're able to use that facility as
[38:45] well. Our primary I guess threat at this point is heat if the grid goes down
[38:52] 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.
[39:22] department, which was overseen by Lieutenant Mike Winks.
[39:29] And then just moving ahead to the current fiscal year, we have a program which is called
[39:34] the panic button, which is on many of our phones, hopefully on many of your phones, where
[39:39] we can notify the police department if we are not able to make a 911 call and we can transmit
[39:46] information to them.
[39:47] A situation might be an active shooter type of scenario where you just can't use the phone,
[39:51] But we can notify 911 and get some emergency resources rolling this particular program is a community white notification
[39:58] 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
[40:06] Whether it's a hazard materials incident or whatever it may be so that people don't go into that area
[40:12] So that's this program. We're looking to implement this here and our goal is to get up to 750 people signed up
[40:20] But this year we have a couple of strategies in terms of how we'll do that.
[40:25] And then more on the vehicle barricade system, so we've got 130 different individual
[40:31] barricades which can be locked together.
[40:33] That was purchased under this fiscal year in conjunction with the prior fiscal year
[40:38] purchased.
[40:38] So that will enhance and solidify our preparedness in terms of deterring those vehicles.
[40:44] They'll also be used at parks and we have community partners that will benefit from these
[40:48] as well as they conduct events with the city.
[40:54] And then we continue to work with the Red Cross as I mentioned.
[40:57] We had the shelter drive.
[40:58] We just had a blood drive, which was very successful here in the Lantana room.
[41:01] This past Saturday or two Saturdays ago on the 29th.
[41:05] We do have another readiness drill set with the Red Cross as citywide.
[41:10] Drill will be inviting community partners to participate in that.
[41:13] That'll be our third one.
[41:14] and then the Red Cross has, we were the spotlight city
[41:19] for the entire state of Arizona two years ago
[41:21] and they designated what we do as the tallest and model.
[41:25] They have spoken about this model at the White House.
[41:28] So we're very flattered.
[41:29] They're very pleased with their relationship with us
[41:32] as we are with our relationship with them.
[41:37] And then we continue a number of ongoing projects
[41:40] with Miraclepa County.
[41:41] We have multi jurisdictional hazard management plan
[41:44] coming up, which is do every couple of years.
[41:46] There's one that's not listed on there is a fire plan, which is threats, hazards,
[41:51] identification of risk analysis, and that's coming up.
[41:55] We do the community health needs assessment so that the county comes in and says, what
[41:59] do the people of Tollison need?
[42:01] What are the needs here in Tollison, not throughout the county?
[42:05] And then they help steer us in terms of specific projects that we can do to address those needs
[42:10] that were identified, how fire is listed on there.
[42:13] 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.
[42:25] We do have police department and fire who are using the leave behind program.
[42:29] We believe that programs such as the Narcan training and the program at the library have decreased help contribute to the decrease.
[42:36] in the total numbers this past year as we mentioned
[42:39] an opioid awareness month last month
[42:41] that those numbers went down 22% year over year.
[42:46] Sister City Program continues a number of you
[42:49] have listed on the screen up there have gone down to Mexico
[42:52] and we're involved with a number of things down there.
[42:55] Some of our seniors have also gone down
[42:57] along with our city manager.
[42:59] We do have some events planned
[43:01] and they are invited and expected to our tend
[43:04] are lucid than Abidad program coming up and hopefully we will be participating in their
[43:10] holiday parade as well. I participated in the National Firefighter Day which they have down
[43:18] there which was on the 22nd this year and every year and then they are expected to attend our
[43:26] third Friday also coming up in October which will be on the second Friday this year only but
[43:31] But so we have a number of ongoing programs with them.
[43:36] And then we continue the hydration stations and to monitor COVID, there's been a big
[43:40] uptick in COVID throughout the country as like 47 of the 50 states have seen an increase
[43:45] in COVID.
[43:46] So we thought we were out of the woods on this one and we're still monitoring that.
[43:53] And then we had an A-Dosch investigation.
[43:56] 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.
[44:10] And so that was a big thing for us at the city.
[44:13] And then I'll just mention briefly, we've had poll stations installed at City Hall.
[44:18] So we now have seven poll stations, which were not in the original construction of the building.
[44:24] 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.
[44:47] So, I'm happy to take any questions, I know I'm trying to go fast, but we're running a little
[44:54] behind tonight, so any questions?
[44:57] No, I just think it's, I love the fact that we're being very-
[45:00] 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.
[45:30] and so your office along with Public Safety Departments
[45:34] and City Management all working together, it's a win-win.
[45:38] So, once again, that's yes.
[45:39] Thank you, Mayor and Mr. Cal.
[45:42] Thank you.
[45:49] Right, and now we're gonna move to utility departments update.
[45:52] Just so you guys know, we have updates
[45:54] from every department throughout this season.
[45:57] So for financial reasons, but also because we like to know
[45:59] what's kind of happening in every department.
[46:01] Very complex organization that's important
[46:03] that we're on top of everything.
[46:04] So we have a director, Mr. McCrackian here today.
[46:07] And so welcome to the meeting.
[46:08] You have the floor, sir.
[46:10] Mayor Vice Mayor, members of Council, good evening.
[46:13] And all the members of the public as well.
[46:14] Here's a brief update on utilities.
[46:19] So the project's going on.
[46:21] We have over 25 capital projects currently underway.
[46:24] Most projects are multi-year and are tied
[46:26] to federal funding assistance.
[46:28] There are many projects that are not most.
[46:31] The initiatives identified in this presentation
[46:33] are the top ones that are entirely
[46:34] or almost entirely budgeted and considered full speed ahead.
[46:39] So the first one right now is initiative number one, its capacity utilization, maintaining
[46:45] and ensuring effective utilization of the tallest and wastewater treatment plant helps
[46:49] ensure control of rates.
[46:53] So this is the status of this is ongoing.
[46:56] We've been focusing heavily recently on right sizing.
[47:00] So we've got this 17 and a half million gallon in a day plant and we've been around
[47:03] around seven and a half million gallons a day of flow.
[47:06] And we've got about 10 and a half for 10 or 10 million
[47:09] gallons a day issued.
[47:10] And so we may not ever reach that 17 and a half.
[47:14] So what we're trying to do is make the best use
[47:17] of what we need.
[47:18] And that involves identifying the right projects,
[47:21] and the right partners to maintain here at the plant.
[47:25] So that we maintain those costs,
[47:26] those economies of scale and the efficiencies
[47:28] that we have today.
[47:30] So right now we're discussing terms with one of our major
[47:32] 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
[47:42] We also engage GHD to support efforts to identify and pursue additional partners
[47:48] potentially like a vault and haul program
[47:51] outside of
[47:52] Residentials away from residential areas and
[47:58] This is tied to council priorities
[48:00] city services for residents and businesses in smart city infrastructure and housing
[48:04] and revitalization.
[48:05] Chimetric is that partnerships with these key stakeholders
[48:08] have helped keep our rates low for our community
[48:10] for many, many years.
[48:13] Initiative two, so right now,
[48:15] we are currently using gaseous chlorine
[48:17] at the wastewater plant,
[48:19] so we completed a study recently
[48:21] that identified sodium hypochloride,
[48:23] household bleach roughly,
[48:24] to be our new disinfectant.
[48:28] And it's much safer and it's much more readily available
[48:30] than gas, cheese, chlorine.
[48:34] The next step right now is completing the design and construction.
[48:37] And it's tied to community preparedness and responsiveness,
[48:40] city services for residents and businesses.
[48:43] And the city estimates that the conversion to sodium up chloride will
[48:46] save hundreds of hours per year in just program administration and training.
[48:50] Since it is a Danish chemical,
[48:51] we want, it takes an extensive amount of work and training from staff
[48:55] to make sure that we're handling it and managing the program properly.
[48:59] The conversion, along with some technology upgrades, will hopefully get us away from
[49:04] having a third shift at night time, and that's one of the goals we have there at the
[49:09] plant.
[49:13] Initiative number three, water master plan.
[49:15] So in September 25, 2025, the city officially completed our comprehensive water master plan.
[49:22] The plan provides a strategic roadmap for responsibly managing our water resources, ensuring
[49:26] a safe, reliable drinking water supply for current and future generations.
[49:30] The status is complete, and it's tied to the services,
[49:33] smart city infrastructure, and community preparedness and response.
[49:37] And a very important statistic that we are very lucky to be in right now
[49:42] is that even through build-out and drought conditions,
[49:45] the water mass front has says that,
[49:47] medicine has enough water supplies to service community.
[49:50] The challenge that we have is that it's currently,
[49:53] we currently lack the infrastructure to provide treatment to our SRP
[49:56] allotment. Recently, I think it's been in the news a lot that the CAP or the Colorado River
[50:01] allotment has been significantly reduced in the state, and that's going to provide ripple
[50:06] effects throughout the industry. Well, luckily because we have SRP water, we're in a much better
[50:10] advantageous situation, and the drought hits SRP a little bit less than on the Colorado River.
[50:21] Initiative number four, one number nine. So the description of this one is to equip the existing
[50:26] well for operations. So we have a hole in the ground. Now we just need to get the equipment,
[50:30] the pump, the motor, everything installed, maybe a little tank and some treatment there as well.
[50:36] And we are working on a CMAR delivery method, which should expedite the construction.
[50:41] And something that's very important, I'll go back here, is that the testing that we just completed
[50:45] last month shows it to be an extremely high producer. So the couple wells that we have right now are
[50:51] in the 7 to 800 gallons of minute range. It's a little over a million gallons a day.
[50:55] This one had positive results in the 3,500 gallons in that range.
[51:00] So much, much greater capacity than the other wells.
[51:03] So what we're working right now on is getting to see if we can get our allotment, how many
[51:08] acre feet or how much water we can pump out of the ground per year.
[51:11] We're trying to get that increased to match that that capacity.
[51:16] How many would see Mars?
[51:19] Production management at risk.
[51:24] Yeah.
[51:24] It's Liberty.
[51:38] So I got lucky, I think one of the flies flew that way and then this one's sitting right
[51:41] here. This one's behaving. This one's listening. Let me use this one. I might need it. That'd be
[51:47] perfect actually. So this is tied to city services for residents and businesses and smart city
[51:52] infrastructure and housing.
[51:57] So and I mentioned, yeah, the volume of this well is just awesome.
[52:02] All right, a new tank. So new tank is needed for both capacity and redundancy. Several tanks are
[52:07] identified for maintenance of our existing tanks.
[52:10] They need to be taken offline,
[52:11] but to be able to have that redundancy,
[52:13] we need to break this new tank online,
[52:15] so that we don't put ourselves in a bad spot,
[52:16] should there be a fire or any sort of other situation.
[52:22] We're looking, I believe it about a 2 million,
[52:24] a 3 million, 3 million, 3 million, 3 tank.
[52:27] Yeah, it was probably around the 2 million, I think.
[52:33] So the federal component, this is one of the projects
[52:35] that we should be receiving federal funding on.
[52:38] It made significant progress early in the years,
[52:41] which is triple-astric.
[52:45] And clearing the path for further activities
[52:47] with this project.
[52:49] City services residents start city infrastructure
[52:51] and community preparedness.
[52:54] So due to tariffs and other industry pricing,
[52:58] we're actually considering for the first time
[52:59] trying out a concrete tank instead of steel tank.
[53:04] Obviously, there's been a lot of terrorist and
[53:06] some volatility with the steel market.
[53:08] Now, concrete still has some rebar within it, but
[53:11] it may be more cost effective and something
[53:13] where we can try out going with the concrete
[53:16] take instead here.
[53:22] Then a listation rehabilitation.
[53:24] This lift station is due for rehabilitation,
[53:26] including some safety improvements.
[53:29] Project is underway waiting long lead times right now.
[53:33] We're supposed to be done around December, January.
[53:35] 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.
[53:47] It's also known as lift station 20.
[53:50] 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.
[53:59] We're lucky in Arizona, things are relatively flat, so you don't have too much pressure or elevation changes.
[54:07] So these are some of the other projects that we're working on.
[54:10] So in addition to the initiatives already underway, here are some priorities that we expect significant progress on in the current fiscal year.
[54:19] Newtank at EDR7, that's one of our treatment facilities, goes to back to
[54:24] winter dependence and wastewater and emergency preparedness. And again, installing
[54:29] additional capacity and redundancy. And then next to council meeting, we'll
[54:36] become a before you for request approval on an amendment to our city of Phoenix,
[54:41] IGA regarding the treatment and delivery of water what we'd like to do is add a third
[54:46] interconnect with the city of Phoenix a big thing that that's going to do for us even though we've
[54:51] we're trying to build up our portfolio on our side and our treatment capacity is that it's going to
[54:57] increase our redundancy so right now we get we have two interconnects on the east side of the city and
[55:03] we want to bring one closer to the industrial base so we're proposing that to be at around 91st and
[55:07] and Buckeye Road.
[55:09] And another major thing that could help us out here is that we have a large water user
[55:14] that is very interested in joining the system as well.
[55:17] And since we do have the portfolio available as far as the capacity, the SRP allotment,
[55:23] if we are able to add them, which our water master plan says it's feasible, then that could
[55:29] actually reduce the rates and spread the rates for our water customers.
[55:34] It's pretty much the economies of scale.
[55:36] 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.
[55:47] 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.
[55:55] We're just preparedness. We're trying to identify gaps for improvement and make already identified electrical and structural repairs.
[56:02] And then sand separation. So one of our well sites, well site eight, it's a very high sand producer.
[56:10] So where it's pulling out within the water table, it's bringing sand into our treatment system.
[56:14] So what we've had to do historically is had to throttle that capacity back down to 50%.
[56:19] 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
[56:30] so that we can actually ramp that capacity back to a hundred percent.
[56:36] Will 8 is, it's just, it's just south of I-10 and east of, I forget the exact street,
[56:44] growing up in a smaller town, looking for more self-evident things, always visual, right?
[56:48] So it's east of 99th Avenue, just south of I-10.
[56:52] There we go.
[56:54] All right.
[56:55] I think you raised.
[57:00] All right.
[57:00] I recommend the next step, right now we're undergoing a rate study.
[57:06] and we're also utilizing the right, right sizing approach and we're continuing to explore
[57:12] effluent options, possibly exchange options. But the most important thing out of all of
[57:19] this is that we're continuing to be strategic with large expenditures and improvements.
[57:25] No, there's a lot, there's price increases everywhere throughout the value right now for
[57:29] for every utility, for every type of utility, electric water, gas, everywhere.
[57:35] And so we understand that what we do makes a large impact to the community.
[57:40] So we're making sure that every project that we do, we're planning it out very thoroughly.
[57:44] We're being very deliberate about everything.
[57:46] And we're looking extensively, whenever there's opportunities to save money and be more efficient,
[57:52] the team gets together and other takes that.
[57:55] So if
[57:58] that all opens up to any questions I think this is this is great great
[58:03] information I mean the reality is this is one of those departments that folks don't
[58:06] think about a lot but it's extremely expensive and extremely necessary so you
[58:11] know to really take the time and do it right you got to know what you're talking
[58:15] about number one and number two is you have to think outside the box and in this
[58:19] case there's a lot of opportunity to save but there's a lot of opportunity for us
[58:22] to have to spend significant also to keep the infrastructure where it needs to be
[58:27] 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
[58:34] But we don't really think about what goes into keeping that infrastructure in place for our residents
[58:39] And so this is a very crucial department as much as any any other department in our city
[58:42] 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
[58:50] So anybody else?
[58:53] Good job.
[58:54] I'm sure that we do have what we need for our future.
[58:58] Very simple.
[58:58] And it's water, you take care of business.
[59:01] Very good.
[59:02] And I'm glad we have you there.
[59:04] Absolutely.
[59:06] And keep the fly.
[59:07] And we'll try to keep it.
[59:11] Keep the fly.
[59:14] And we'll keep it.
[59:18] Keep it.
[59:18] Keep it.
[59:19] Keep
[59:22] it.
[59:25] last item of the night, which is Community Events and Updates. I'm going to kick it over to our
[59:28] Parks and Recreation Director, Mr. Batcha. Thank you, Mayor and Vice Mayor and members of the
[59:34] Council. This month, we're starting off our third Friday series, starting here in September,
[59:40] September 18th, keeping with the theme celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. We'll be having the
[59:46] Cachito Dance Project and Banda La Vega Dora,
[59:51] performing at the third Friday's September 18th,
[59:56] along with some arts and crafts for the kids and Lotoria.
[1:00:00] 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.
[1:00:28] 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.
[1:00:44] Any questions for Brandy that parade on that Saturday October 10th morning.
[1:00:56] morning event will start at 10. The parade will start at 10. Line up. We'll start at 7 a.m.
[1:01:06] Anything else? I've seen any. Well, I may take a motion to adjourn this meeting. All right,
[1:01:11] we have a motion to adjourn by Councilmember Gomez. We have a second by Vice Mayor Jimmy Davis. All those
[1:01:15] in favor, please seem to fly by saying aye. Aye. Folks, please for coming out and have yourself a wonderful evening.