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to order. Town of Pres Valley regular town council meeting March 12th, 2026.
Clerk, please call the role. >> Council member Lopez,
» present. >> Council member Kio,
» present. >> Council member Bringing.
» Council member Greer, >> here.
» Council member Schumacher, >> present.
» Vice Mayor Searcher, >> here. Mayor Podan
» here. >> We have a quorum.
» Thank you, ma'am. I don't have it in my notes on who our person for the
invocation is, so they're here. Oh, come on down, ma'am.
» Please let everyone know who you are. And if you can, please stand.
» My name is Cheetah Olsen. And if you don't mind, I'm going to read a
scripture before I pray. Thank you.
from Psalm 46. It says, "God is our refuge and strength, always ready to
help in times of trouble. So we will not fear when earthquakes come and the
mountains crumble into the sea. Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains
tremble as the waters surge. The Lord of heaven's armies is here among us. The
God of Israel is our fortress." I just thought in light of everything that's
happening that would be an appropriate scripture. So Lord, we just come to you
tonight and we thank you for the opportunity to gather here in freedom.
Lord, I ask tonight as we as we talk about what needs to be talked about that
your presence would be here and that wisdom would be given to our town
leaders. I thank you for the Lord for those who have chosen to lead our
community. And I just ask right now that you would grant great blessing upon this
time in your name. Amen.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and
[clears throat] to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
» Thank you, ma'am. This time, can I get a motion to approve the agenda as
presented? >> So moved.
Have >> a second.
» I'll second. Cl. >> Please call the vote.
That passes unanimously. Mayor, >> thank you ma'am. At this time I'd like
to welcome down William Kushnes in reference board of adjustments
recognition of his service. >> Good evening everyone. So tonight we are
honored to recognize an individual who has generously volunteered his time
while serving as a dedicated and engaged member of our community. We would like
to recognize former board of adjustment member William Kunish. The board of
adjustment interprets and uphold town code related to zoning and regulatory
matters, helping ensure decisions are made fairly and in accordance with
established standards. Mr. Kunish served two terms on the board, contributing
nearly six years of volunteer service. On behalf of the town and the residents
we serve, we sincerely thank him for his dedication and public service to our
community. Please join us in thanking William Kunish for his service.
Thank you. Um Stacy Bristo, development services director. I just want to say
it's such a pleasure to have people that are willing to sacrifice um what
precious time we all have to doing something like this. and without you, we
could not do what we do. Um so even if we don't get to see you very often, um
that's okay sometimes, too. But um we're really really grateful and I'm so thank
you for all of the the time that you spent with us. So thank you.
» Thank you. Appreciate it.
» And I would just like to thank the mayor, the vice mayor, the council for
giving citizens the opportunity to participate in local government like
this and to be part of the town. I've lived in Presca Valley since 2007 and I
saw this as a great opportunity to give back to our community and to really be
part of it and it's it's a wonderful thing. It's great getting to know the
people who work for the town and I want to thank the staff as well for all of
the support they've provided to the board of adjustment throughout my time
on the board. Thank you.
» [laughter] >> She just texted me and I
Next up, Steve Versetti from the Chamber of Commerce.
» [clears throat]
» Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, members of town council and staff.
On behalf of the Pres Valley Chamber of Commerce, thank you for the opportunity
to speak with you tonight. It is always a privilege to share the work we are
doing to support our local businesses, strengthen our economy, and cultivate
the sense of community that makes Presca Valley such a special place to live and
work. At the Chamber, we often say that strong communities are built on strong
businesses. When local businesses thrive, jobs are created, families are
supported, and more importantly, our homegrown talent does stay here. Over
the past several months, the chamber has continued to focus on programs and
initiatives that connect commerce with community. And I'd like to highlight a
few recent accomplishments. This past Friday, the chamber proudly
hosted a fourth annual International Women's Day lunchon. This event
continues to grow each year and this year was our largest gathering yet with
240 attendees. It was truly inspire an inspiring afternoon celebrating
leadership, resilience, and the important contributions women make in
business and our town. We were honored to feature two
outstanding speakers. Our chamber board chair Meredith Dunlap, who delivered a
powerful message about resilience and how to have self-awareness and believe
in yourself. We're also fortunate to welcome nationally recognized
professional speaker, author Bevon Ferrand, whose book, Your Damn
Manifesto, has inspired individuals and organizations across the country. Her
keynote message encouraged attendees to be intentional about their purpose and
leadership resonating strongly resonated strongly with everyone in the room. In
fact, at one point as she was telling her story, you would be hardressed to
find a dry eye in the room. I would like to send a sincere thank you to the town
council members and town staff who joined us for the lunchon. Your presence
means a great deal to our business community and demonstrates strong
partnership that exists between the town of Presca Valley and the chamber. And
for those who could not attend, I have some gifts for you guys. Here is Ben's
book, The Damn Manifesto.
» [clears throat] >> During the lunchon, we're excited to
announce the launch of our brand new women in leadership program. This
program will officially kick off in May and will meet quarterly throughout the
year. The goal is to provide opportunities for mentorship, leadership
development, and professional growth for the leaders in our town. We are also
have our business academy in full swing. Our next class is on March 24th and we
partner with Desert Financial Credit Union and the classes are being taught
by Jerry Tarling. The next class will be on balance sheets and cash flow
statements. So for those of you who want to know about balance sheets and cash
flow statements, the exciting terms of that, please come and join us. Another
encouraging sign for our local economy is continued growth in the chamber
membership. I am pleased to report that Prescuit Valley Chamber of Commerce now
has 611 members. Recently, we're proud to welcome several new members to our
chamber family, including including Reed Plumbing, Tri-State Metal Roofing
Supply, Leap and Learn Preschool, and Hoey Construction. It is especially
encouraging to see growth in the trades sector. business businesses in
construction, plumbing, and related fields are essential to supporting
Prescuit Valley's continued development and infrastructure needs. Their
participation in chamber helps ensure that our local workforce and business
community remain strong and connected. The chamber's message is simple but
important to connect commerce and cultivate community. We accomplish this
through the business advocacy, professional development, and community
events and partnerships such as this one we have with the town of Presca Valley.
As Presca Valley continues to grow, collaboration between the town
government and chamber of commerce and local businesses remain essential.
Together, we are creating an environment where entrepreneurs can succeed,
families can build their future, and our community continues to thrive. Thank you
again, mayor, town council, for your continued support of the chamber and the
business community we serve. We look forward to continue working alongside
you to ensure Prescuit Valley remains one of the most vibrant businessfriendly
communities in Northern Arizona. Thank you.
» Thank you, sir. Next up, call the public. This time,
members of the public may comment on matters listed on the agenda or solely
on matters within the jurisdiction of the town. Any persons wishing to address
the council must register their name with the town clerk prior to the
commencement of the meeting. At the conclusion of call to the public, the
council may respond to criticism, ask staff to review a matter commented upon,
or ask ask that a matter be put on a future agenda. Such remarks shall be
limited to three minutes unless additional time is granted by the mayor.
Clerk, >> mayor, council, we have three speakers
tonight. We have Patricia Bets, James Kimes, and Walter Kosar.
» Thank you, Miss Betold. You're up. Mr. times if you would work your way down to
the front that would be great. >> You don't need to speak. Okay. Go ahead,
Miss Bitchel. Okay. Patricia Betsel 391 Armmitage Way
um Chino Valley. This is concerning resolution 226-2446,
the proposed annexation and purchase of state trust land parcel 800-200-065P
and the placement of this item on the consent agenda. The combination of these
uh items on this particular um resolution annexing land that the town
already owns as part of the intergovernmental agreement for the
purchase of Glastford Hill for the p purpose of preservation of hundreds of
acres for a U price of about $3.6 $6 million and combining that with the
annexation and purchase of 128 acres of state trass land um appear to be
combined here for the sole purpose of misleading the public. Placing it on the
consent agenda and robbing the public of their rights to hear the issues only
confirms that annexation of this property will burden the Prescott Valley
residents because it will then become the responsibility of the town to extend
infrastructure, water, sewer, police, etc. to this property. That is the law.
The use of evasive language in the resolution does nothing to protect the
town against these responsibilities, nor does it render any confidence on the
public's part. In other words, the resolution is irresponsible. And that's
not all. Finally, the public needs to be aware that this could involve a purchase
price of approximately $8.4 million. If you base it on the sale of an
immediately adjacent parcel that sold for approximately $65,000 an acre, that
was a total of approximately $6.5 million in November of 2025,
only 3 months ago. Understand that the adjacent parcel was also specifically
purchased for development, not for recreation or public space. And there is
nothing in this resolution that guarantees that this land purchase would
not meet the same fate. So this item, I'm asking that it be
removed completely from this resolution and be presented as a completely
separate item on a future agenda for discussion. $8.4 million plus the cost
of infrastructure is not considered quote routine by Prescott Valley
residents and the taxpayers. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Next up,
» Walter. >> Welcome, sir.
» Mayor, vice mayor, council members, and staff. My name is Walt Kosar, uh,
Granville, Prescuit Valley. I wanted to talk tonight on the issue of the
affordable housing and the plan that you'll be talking about later. And one
of the aspects of that is the employer support for you providing um affordable
housing for workforce. To me, one of the key one of the top employers in town
that should be involved here is the medical center. Yavapai regional medical
center. Um they're obviously a really important part of our community and
provide critical health care to all our residents. Um I watched the tape from
the state of the town meeting. Um, and they have some very big plans for the
future in the town here, but I worry a little bit about whether or not there's
affordable housing for some of the staff that they'll need for some of these uh
new plans. And it's not just about doctors or nurses, but you have people
cleaning the floors, cooking the meals, changing the light bulbs, keeping
records. Um, it's important that you without this staff, these these staff
people, the the facilities don't function. So I think it would be good to
have the medical center be directly involved and take kind of a leading role
in the side of the employer sponsored um affordable housing whether that be reap
based employees or maybe even developing their own housing. For example, on
Windsong, the east side of Windsong Road, just out from all the medical
buildings, there's a nice open plot of land. And I'm not sure what the
long-term plan there is, but that would be a great location to put in some
rental housing for for hospital and medical staff. Um, even new people
moving into the area, new doctors or nurses or employees that are new to the
area, they're going to be working for the medical center, having to lay out a
half a million dollars to buy a new home, which is kind of the average price
these days. That could be a little steep. So, having that ability to have
some dedicated housing for those employees, I think, is really critical.
So, I just wanted to bring that up to you. Thank you.
» Thank you, sir.
» Confirming, Mr. times. You do not wish to speak?
» No.
» Okay. Well, next time, ladies and gentlemen, if you're not familiar with
Mr. Kimes, he is a uh a political rock star. He he served some time with former
Governor Npalitano um in the political world. So, I've known Mr. Kimes for a
very long time. And he's a man that speaks words of wisdom, and when he
speaks, you should listen. So, we'll catch you next time, sir.
» Moving on. Council communications to my right. Councilwoman
» Councilwoman Greer. >> Thank you, Mayor. Um, I just wanted to
report that last week I spent a wonderful lunchon with the entire board
of SRP and learned a lot about water and the development that they're doing for
the state of Arizona. um and that it'll kind of go into a little bit about
tonight, but they are looking at some of the rural areas. So, very impressed with
what they plan on doing in the future. >> Councilman Greer,
» I just want to thank the the chamber again for a spectacular event. Um,
everybody enjoyed it so much. So, thank you,
» Mr. Davidson. No report, Mr. Mayor. >> Thank you. Consent agenda. All matters
listed under the consent agenda are considered routine by the town council
and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these
items. If discussion is desired, that item will be removed from the consent
agenda and be considered separately. Uh Councilman Fry, you advised me you would
like to remove item 8F. Is there another item you'd like to remove?
» No, sir. I just uh what I've seen is it seems like it has created 8F has created
some confusion among town people. So, uh, I think it deserves
a separate, um, airing thing. >> And that's fine. Councilman Ke, you have
an item you wish you removed. >> Uh, yes. Um, I was at coffee with the
cop, um, yesterday and some citizens were a little bit concerned about, I
believe it's item a 8C >> and so I just wanted um to give Chief
Tyer an opportunity to address what that's, you know, what it's for.
» All right. Thank you. We'll start with uh, item 8F. We'll just do them
individually. This is direction steps annexation town owned and ASLD property
outside town limits. Councilman Frey, any questions you have for staff that is
not in the staff report. M >> Mr. Mayor, c could I just explain it
since I'm probably the one who caused this?
» Sure, sir. >> Would that be okay? First of all, you
probably remember that the town has already bought 1300 acres up on the
hill. 352 of those acres happened to be in the
county. So, at some point, we needed to annex it and we just haven't gotten
around to it. We bought it back in 2023. We needed to annex it. It was our
property. It was out in the county. We had never annexed our own property
before. Normally, when you annex property, you annex somebody else's
property. And the statute is set up for you to do it that way. you you you get a
petition from them and uh they sign it and you go through processes. So we had
actually never annexed property that we own before. And so we talked with
outside counsel and said, "Do you have any idea how we can do that? It the
statute doesn't quite fit really easily." And he said, "Well, why don't
you adopt a resolution and just basically say this is what we'll do.
This is how we'll do it in terms of annexing our own property." It doesn't
annex the property. You still have to file the petition, hold the hearing,
adopt the ordinance, and all of that is to come in the future. And so this was
put on the consent agenda only because it says when you do this, the mayor can
sign instead of a private property owner and and just went through and explained
how the statute would be followed for annexing the town's property. So it it
it it really is housekeeping is all it is. Councilman F.
» Uh thank you, Mr. Leler. Uh I think that answers my questions. Um but Mr. Mayor,
can can we open this up to public questions on this one particular item?
» No, it's not common. It's not in our agenda. We can't have a public hearing
without agendaizing it. >> Okay. Thank you.
» Uh I I just wanted to also follow up. Um I had spoken to Gilbert today um because
it had talked about um including certain infrastructure within 10 years and um
Gilbert explained to me that that's legally required language that needs to
be within the contract and um and when the annexation actually occurs, it will
come back to council, I'm told. So so this is just the first step in the
process and council will approve the annexation should that go forward. And
let me just add that it there's no contract. What we're doing under the
statute is if you annex property, you have to tell the world how you plan to
provide infrastructure for that property. And so it's not binding. You
simply have a plan. And so we've actually been criticized by folks from
time to time who said they didn't think we had done enough to set out a plan
when we annexed property. And so we thought, ah, well, this is a good
opportunity to say, well, this is property that's going to be used for
trails, so we don't think we're going to do this and we don't think we're going
to do that, but we are going to do this and this is how you'll get into it. And
it's pretty benign stuff. Mr. Leg, just to confirm, this is just approving a
process. We will have plenty of public hearings in the future. People from the
audience will be able to come. We'll be able to answer questions through email.
This isn't just a one and done. This is just giving staff direction on a process
to handle this. >> Let me explain one more thing about it.
Some of that property that we reference in this resolution, we haven't purchased
yet. It's still owned by the state. What we're suggesting is that we go ahead and
annex that, which is a challenge because you got to go get the approval of the
selection board at the state before you can even do that. But if we do that,
once it's inside the town limits, the day may come where the town will then go
to the state and purchase that piece and it'll end up being or doing the same
thing that the piece next to it is doing, which is for recreation. It was
all part of the Glassford Hill process. So, it was just it it was again if we
annex it, this is what we'll do. We'll go to the state. We'll ask them if we
can annex it. and we just included that in this resolution.
» Any other questions for Mr. Leggler? Again, this is all part of the process
and this was originally discussed when we first purchased Glassford Hill back
um a couple years ago. So, Vice Mayor >> Oh, so for clarification, are we adding
um AF back into >> We'll vote on ADF by itself.
» Okay. >> No further questions. I'll entertain a
motion to approve. Just AF at this time.
Mr. Mayor, I make a motion to approve item 8F on the consent agenda as stated.
» I second.
» That passes unanimously. Mayor, >> thank you ma'am. Item 8 C. Chief,
any qu any clarification that is not in our staff report that you wish to share?
» Good afternoon, mayor, vice mayor, counsel. Thanks for the opportunity.
It's really a good opportunity to share what what this is uh this task force
operation is about. Um this is not unlike task forces around the United
States. When you talk about the joint terrorism task forces, drug enforcement
administration task forces, um FBI safe street task forces. When you have those
task forces, you have multi- agencies working together, state, local, and
federal. Federal credentials are granted to those state and local officers on
that. This uh credentiing is a United States Marshall Service credential to
one of our detectives assigned to the state gang task force which is under the
leadership of the Arizona Department of Public Safety GDUM task force. That
detective will have this as an additional uh certification and
incillary duties as a credentialed US marshal which will also bring additional
resources to our town to apprehend violent felony subjects who are wanted
on warrants. Uh it'll also open up jurisdictional opportunities so that if
we need to make arrests on tribal land or other jurisdictions, we can move
those uh marshals over there, including ours. And then um it also brings
significant resources to the Pres Valley Police Department in training equipment
over time. And it is really a force multiplier. If I need a United States
Marshall to come and support our operations, I'd have a task force uh
officer there. and it makes it a lot easier to bring in in in that uh that
type of force multipliers. Same thing with the state gang uh task force by
having that detective on there. When we have a gang pop uh problem pop up in
Pres Valley, frankly, I can make that phone call and we can have as many uh
DPS detectives as we need here in the community. So, it's about those
relationships and the ease of operations.
» Thank you, sir. Any more questions for Chief?
» Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. Thank you. I'll entertain a
motion for item 8 C.
Well, says I made the motion. So, Mr. Mayor, I'll go ahead and make the motion
to approve item 8 C as stated. >> A second. All
» in favor or I'm sorry, clerk follow the vote.
» That passes unanimously. Mayor, >> thank you, ma'am. Now I entertain a
motion for item 8 A, 8B, 8 D as in David and 8 E as in Edward.
» Mr. Mr. Mayor, are we going to do 8F? Didn't we do those before? So if we
could do C and >> we did 8F separately.
» Okay. >> Yes, we already did 8F and 8 C.
This is approving the rest of the agenda items.
» Correct. >> Mr. Mr. May, I'll make a motion to
approve all under the uh items 8 A, 8 B, 8 D, and 8E on the consent agenda by
electronic vote. >> I'll second,
» Council Member Fry. Thank you. That passes unanimously. Mayor,
» thank you, ma'am. Doesn't get any more transparent than that, I guess. Item 9A,
Prescuit Valley Affordable Housing Plan Consideration and possible action. Lar,
welcome. Mayor, vice mayor, council members,
thanks for having me. This is Tracy Lera, neighborhood services director.
So, I'm here to talk to you about an affordable housing plan for Presca
Valley. So, why why do we have one? Why do we need one? Um, well, last year we
did a survey for our residents and attainable housing or affordable housing
was ranked as a top priority. Housing cost has um risen faster than wages here
in Presca Valley and nationwide. U 29% of our households are costburdened and
41.5% of our renters are costbururden. Cost
burden is 30 over 30% of their household income is going to the pay their rent or
their mortgage and economic growth depends on workforce housing.
So, what we've done already, we did create the neighborhood services
department to help with these initiatives. We've implemented the home
of my own PB edition to help support opportunities to build your own home um
with pre-approved plans. We've updated some zoning that allows smaller lot
sizes and housing flexibility. Completed a residential property study.
So, we had an audit last year where um City Detect came and drove the
neighborhoods and evaluated our current conditions
and we completed our 2025 housing needs assessment.
Here is some of our data that had helped support the affordable housing plan that
came from the needs assessment. So on the left uh table one you can really see
the gap when you chart our wages which have had an increase just not as extreme
as our housing costs. And on the table two um this kind of
does a comparison over time showing going back to 1980 what our income was
versus our um housing monthly payments. And 1980 it was about 40% of their
income. So it was still really high then but you can see as it gets to 2010 2010
um it was only 16% of your income was used for paying for your home. Um now up
in 2025 we have a 48% of your income is [clears throat] going to your home.
So our recommendations in the housing plan focus on four key areas. One,
neighborhood and housing preservation. And this is really just to keep our
current homes preserved so that nobody is displaced.
Some tools for that program are home repair partnerships, using our CDBG
funding um to do home repairs for those that need it, doing cleanup coordination
and targeted infill incentives. The second focus area is employer
support for workforce housing. Uh this is working with employers in town to
create partnerships, help provide them tools and resources to create their own
um employer assisted programs. It's looking at home buyer assistance
and incentives for those employers. And the goal with that is to really live
where you work. So, we want to keep Prescuit Valley residents living and
working here.
Next is affordable owner occupied housing. To support that, we want to
continue to look at maybe other pre-approved plans, flexible zoning
options, fee reductions tied to affordability,
and looking at development of our own town-owned uh properties.
And similar to this is affordable renting housing. So 12.5% vacancy rate
here in Presca Valley overall, but that's limited affordability.
So nearly half of our renters are costburden.
So to tackle this, we're looking at flexible zoning for multif family,
density bonuses, looking at reduced or deferred fees, and partnerships for
mixed income projects. All of this is supported by community
engagement. We definitely need the community to support this. It takes
everyone. Um so this will evolve with our community, but we just want to
continue listening sessions, some coffee chats, popup booths just to be a
presence and have those conversations and organizational partnerships.
I did want to provide some clarifications of what this plan is not.
So, this plan does not mandate specific developments.
It does not commit the town to new spending without council approval.
Um, it does not override zoning without public process.
And it does not eliminate private market solutions. So, it just does provide a
framework for action and evaluation. With that, I'll take any questions.
» Thank you, ma'am. Good job. We have questions for staff
or comments. >> Uh, I just got a quick question. Um I
believe Mr. Kosar had mentioned um partnering like with dignity and and
having discussions getting in the room. Are you are you doing that with some of
our employers? >> We have not yet but it's definitely on
our list. >> Yes.
» It's one of the challenges when it comes to supply and demand. Right.
» Right. >> When supply is uh low and demand is
high, prices go high. I know our neighbor to the west, they have, I
believe it's about 18,000 lots that are able to be permitted in in their
jurisdiction that they haven't even touched yet and we are much much lower
than that. So, it creates that challenge and this isn't obviously a flip a switch
type of solve a problem. So, I I commend you and staff to do what you can and
let's see what we can hear. I know unfortunately when we have our listening
sessions we're going to hear prices are high, rent is high, sales sale of homes
are high and that's because one there's not a lot of flat lots out there left in
Presa Valley. For those of us that have been here for a while, a lot of them are
sloped. A lot of them require a lot of dirt work and uh that drives the price
of homes up. So, uh your work is certainly cut out in front of you and we
appreciate all the hard work you've done so far.
» Thank you, mayor. >> And we should entertain a motion.
Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve the Prescott Valley affordable
housing plan by electronic vote. >> I'll second that. Cler, please call
vote.
» Mayor, that passes unanimously. >> Thank you, ma'am. Next up, final
item.Uou Salt River Valley Water Users
Association and Salt River Project agricultural improvement and power
district to assist financing storm water recharge pilot project. Mr. Leggler, I
believe this is yours. >> Mr. Mayor, members of the council, I'll
lead off with it if there's any followup. Uh, Mr. Leggler can kind of
chime in on it. Uh, this is something we've been working on for quite some
time. Uh this memorandum of understanding is with Salt River Project
which is a government entity here in the state of Arizona that's tasked with uh
not only supplying water to the met uh metropolitan area of Phoenix uh and some
of the surrounding communities there um but also they have a whole power
division as well. And so we have been working with uh SRP as a partner on one
of our exciting storm water uh pilot projects. This is one of the first uh
projects of its kind in the state of Arizona. Uh and we are testing how we
can try to get storm water uh down into the aquifer without it evaporating off
which almost probably 95% of all rainwater uh either is uh is lost
to evaporation. So this is testing how can we try to get more of that water
back into our aquifer for the benefit of not only the aquifer but you know uh all
of us and so this is SRP has agreed to provide
$40,000 uh to the overall cost of the pilot
project. There is a companion pilot project that's taking place down in Red
Rock, Arizona. Uh, and we'll be kind of the second one testing with our
particular types of soils. We have had to work with SRP extensively on and as
you can imagine, Salt River Project has water rights in northern Arizona and
they had great concern in terms of anything that would divert any of what
they perceive as their water rights. And so we had to work with them on a whole
formula of what was is called uh urban enhanced runoff. So it's basically water
that would be considered pre-development that is not part of would you know would
be not part of their uh entitlement. uh and trying to figure out how do we
quantify that so that we make sure whatever water we do get back into the
aquifer is not water that they would have received uh as part of their
reservoir system. Uh so this is a very positive thing. uh SRP is very selective
in who they work with on different items and so to have them at the table with us
is is I think very important and and as a strong testament to the council's
leadership on trying to make sure that we're really thinking long term with our
water resources. So with that um I'll take any questions that you have.
» Questions for Mr. Davidson? None. Nicely done sir. I entertain a
motion.
» Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve a memorandum of understanding with Salt
River project to assist in funding the in Prescuit Valley storm water recharge
project involving an anal analyst an [laughter]
anal analysis of the Iris system in the
amount of $40,000. Sorry. >> I second.
» Please hold.
Mayor, that passes unanimously. >> Thank you, ma'am. Thanks for coming out,
everyone. Drive safe.
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