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Home My WebLink AboutAGENDApacket__05-06-25_0619_710 NOTICE OF MEETING REGULAR MEETING EAGLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT Board Chairman Gerry M. Friedel Board Vice Chairman Hannah Larrabee Board Member Gayle Earle Board Member Brenda Kalivianakis Board Member Rick Watts Board Member Peggy McMahon Board Member Allen Skillicorn TIME:5:25 P.M. – REGULAR MEETING WHEN:TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2025 WHERE:FOUNTAIN HILLS COUNCIL CHAMBERS 16705 E. AVENUE OF THE FOUNTAINS, FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ Members of the Eagle Mountain Facilities District will attend either in person or by telephone conference call; a quorum of the Towns' various Commission, Committee, or Board members may be in attendance at this meeting. Notice is hereby given that pursuant to A.R.S. §1-602.A.9, subject to certain specified statutory exceptions, parents have a right to consent before the State or any of its political subdivisions make a video or audio recording of a minor child. Meetings are audio and/or video recorded and, as a result, proceedings in which children are present may be subject to such recording. Parents, in order to exercise their rights, may either file written consent with the Town Clerk to such recordings, or take personal action to ensure that their child or children are not present when a recording may be made. If a child is present at the time a recording is made, the Town will assume that the rights afforded to parents pursuant to A.R.S. §1-602.A.9 have been waived. REQUEST TO COMMENT The Public is welcome to participate in meetings. TO SPEAK TO AN AGENDA ITEM, please complete a Request to Comment card, located in the back of the Council Chambers, and hand it to the Town Clerk prior to discussion of that item. If possible, include the agenda item on which you wish to comment. Speakers will be allowed three contiguous minutes to address the Board. Verbal comments should be directed through the Presiding Officer and not to individual board members. TO COMMENT ON AN AGENDA ITEM IN WRITING ONLY, please complete a Request to Comment card, indicating it is a written comment, and check the box on whether you are FOR or AGAINST an agenda item, and hand it to the Town Clerk prior to discussion, if possible. TO COMMENT IN WRITING ONLINE: Please feel free to provide your comments by visiting https://www.fountainhillsaz.gov/public comment and SUBMIT a Public Comment Card by 3:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting. These comments will be shared with the Board. 1.CALL TO ORDER 2.ROLL CALL A.CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION: Approval of the minutes for the Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District Regular Meeting of June 4, 2024. B.CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION: Resolution EMCFD 2025-01 approving the Tentative Budget of the District for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, and setting a hearing date for the budget. 4.ADJOURNMENT Dated this 1st Day of May 2025. /s/Bevelyn J. Bender, Town Clerk The Town of Fountain Hills endeavors to make all public meetings accessible to persons with disabilities. Please call 480-816-5100 (voice) or 1-800-367-8939 (TDD) 48 hours prior to the meeting to request a reasonable accommodation to participate in the meeting or to obtain agenda information in large print format. Supporting documentation and staff reports furnished the Council with this agenda are available for review in the Clerk's Office.On the day of the Council Meeting, the Council Chamber doors open at 5:15 p.m. for public seating. ITEM A. TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS STAFF REPORT Meeting Date: 05/06/2025 Meeting Type: Eagle Mountain CFD Agenda Type: Submitting Department: Administration Prepared by: Request to Eagle Mountain CFD (Agenda Language): CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION: Approval of the minutes for the Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District Regular Meeting of June 4, 2024. Staff Summary (Background) The intent of approving meeting minutes is to ensure an accurate account of the discussion and action that took place at the meeting for archival purposes. Approved minutes are placed on the town's website and maintained as permanent records in compliance with state law. Related Ordinance, Policy or Guiding Principle N/A Risk Analysis N/A Recommendation(s) by Board(s) or Commission(s) N/A Staff Recommendation(s) Staff recommends approving the minutes of the Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District Regular Meeting of June 4, 2024. SUGGESTED MOTION MOVE to approve the minutes of the Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District Regular Meeting of June 4, 2024, as presented. Attachments VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE EAGLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT JUNE 4, 2024 A Regular Meeting of the Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District Board was convened at 16705 E. Avenue of the Fountains in open and public session at 5:23 p.m. Members Present: Board Chairman Ginny Dickey: Board Vice Chairman Brenda J. Kalivianakis; Board Member Gerry Friedel; Board Member Peggy McMahon; Board Member Sharron Grzybowski; Board Member Hannah Toth; Board Member Allen Skillicorn Staff Present: District Manager Rachael Goodwin; District Attorney Aaron D. Arnson; District Clerk Linda Mendenhall Audience: Approximately forty-three members of the public were present. TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS JUNE 4, 2024 REGULAR MEETING - EAGLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT Page 1 of 4 Post-Production File Town of Fountain Hills Regular Meeting of the Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District June 4, 2024 Transcription Provided By: eScribers, LLC * * * * * Transcription is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. * * * * * TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS JUNE 4, 2024 REGULAR MEETING - EAGLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT Page 2 of 4 CHAIR DICKEY: And we will start the next meeting, which is the Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District. Roll call, please? MENDENHALL: Board Chairman Dickey? CHAIR DICKEY: Here. MENDENHALL: Board Vice Chair Kalivianakis? VICE CHAIR KALIVIANAKIS: Present. MENDENHALL: Board Member Friedel? FRIEDEL: Present. MENDENHALL: Board Member McMahon? MCMAHON: Here. MENDENHALL: Board Member Grzybowski? GRZYBOWSKI: Present. MENDENHALL: Board Member Toth? TOTH: Present. MENDENHALL: Board Member Skillicorn? SKILLICORN: Here. CHAIR DICKEY: Thank you. Again, our first item is to approve the minutes. Can I get a motion? FRIEDEL: So moved. GRZYBOWSKI: Second. CHAIR DICKEY: Thank you. Roll call, please? MENDENHALL: Board Member Skillicorn? SKILLICORN: Yes. MENDENHALL: Board Member Grzybowski? GRZYBOWSKI: Aye. MENDENHALL: Board Member McMahon? MCMAHON: Aye. MENDENHALL: Board Member Toth? TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS JUNE 4, 2024 REGULAR MEETING - EAGLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT Page 3 of 4 TOTH: Aye. MENDENHALL: Board Member Friedel? FRIEDEL: Aye. MENDENHALL: Board Vice Chair Kalivianakis? VICE CHAIR KALIVIANAKIS: Aye. MENDENHALL: Board Chairman Dickey? CHAIR DICKEY: Aye. Thank you. I will open up the public hearing again and we'll hear from Paul. SOLDINGER: All right. Thank you. Chairman and Board, tonight we'll be discussing the final budget option for the Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District, which we discussed at length at the last meeting. The budget is at $19,500 for the project we discussed. And with that, that concludes my presentation. CHAIR DICKEY: Thank you. Do we have any speaker cards? MENDENHALL: No, Chairman, we do not. CHAIR DICKEY: Thank you. I'll close the hearing. Any discussion from council, or a motion? VICE CHAIR KALIVIANAKIS: Motion to approve. TOTH: Second. CHAIR DICKEY: Thank you. Roll call, please? MENDENHALL: Board Member Grzybowski? GRZYBOWSKI: Aye. MENDENHALL: Board Member McMahon? MCMAHON: Aye. MENDENHALL: Board Member Toth? TOTH: Aye. MENDENHALL: Board Member Friedel? FRIEDEL: Aye. MENDENHALL: Board Member Skillicorn? SKILLICORN: Yes. TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS JUNE 4, 2024 REGULAR MEETING - EAGLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT Page 4 of 4 MENDENHALL: Board Vice Chair Kalivianakis? VICE CHAIR KALIVIANAKIS: Aye. MENDENHALL: Board Chair Dickey? CHAIR DICKEY: Aye. Thank you. We'll adjourn that meeting. Having no further business, Mayor Ginny Dickey adjourned the Regular Meeting of the Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District held on June 4, 2024, at 5:25 p.m. TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS _______________________ Gerry M. Friedel, Board Chairman ATTEST AND PREPARED BY: __________________________ Bevelyn Bender, District Clerk CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that the foregoing minutes are a true and correct copy of the minutes of the Regular Meeting held by the Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District of Fountain Hills in the Town Hall Council Chambers on the 4th day of June 2024. I further certify that the meeting was duly called and that a quorum was present. DATED this 6th Day of May 2025. _____________________________ Bevelyn Bender, District Clerk ITEM B. TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS STAFF REPORT Meeting Date: 05/06/2025 Meeting Type: Eagle Mountain CFD Agenda Type: Submitting Department: Administration Prepared by: Request to Eagle Mountain CFD (Agenda Language): CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION: Resolution EMCFD 2025-01 approving the Tentative Budget of the District for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, and setting a hearing date for the budget. Staff Summary (Background) The Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District was formed by the Town Council in FY1996 for the purpose of constructing infrastructure in the Eagle Mountain subdivision. The Town Council serves as the governing Board for the District. In the past, the annual expenditures for the community facilities district were for repayment of the bonds that were issued to pay for the subdivision infrastructure. The last bond payment was made on July 1, 2021. As such, there will not be a property tax levied for the community facilities district in FY26. Staff will likely recommend that the Board considers closing the District beginning next year. Related Ordinance, Policy or Guiding Principle A.R.S. § 48-723 Risk Analysis If not approved, the District will not be in compliance with state statute. Recommendation(s) by Board(s) or Commission(s) N/A Staff Recommendation(s) Staff recommends approval of Resolution EMCFD 2025-01. SUGGESTED MOTION MOVE to adopt Resolution EMCFD 2025-01. Attachments Resolution EMCFD 2025-01 Exhibit A Presentation RESOLUTION EMCFD 2025-01 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF THE EAGLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT, MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA, APPROVING THE TENTATIVE BUDGET OF THE DISTRICT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 2025, AND ENDING JUNE 30, 2026, AND SETTING A HEARING DATE FOR THE BUDGET. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE EAGLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT, as follows: SECTION 1. The statements and schedules attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by this reference are hereby approved for the purpose as hereinafter set forth as the tentative budget for the Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District, Maricopa County, Arizona (the “District”) for the fiscal year 2025-26. The statements and estimates of the operation and maintenance expenses of the District (collectively, the “District Expenditures”) are hereby filed with the District Clerk. SECTION 2. The District Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be (i) mailed to the governing body of the Town of Fountain Hills and (ii) published in the manner prescribed by law, a notice in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, that the District Board will meet for the purpose of conducting a final hearing for District taxpayers on the statements and estimates of District Expenditures filed with the District Clerk and on the adoption of the 2025-26 Annual Budget for the District; said hearing to be conducted on June 3, 2025, at 5:20 p.m. in the District offices (the Council Chambers at Fountain Hills Town Hall), 16705 E. Avenue of the Fountains, Fountain Hills, Arizona, 85268. At the conclusion of the hearing, the District Board shall pass upon any objections and shall adopt the Final Budget for the District. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of the Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District on May 6, 2025. Gerry M. Friedel, District Chairperson ATTEST: Bevelyn J. Bender, District Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: District Counsel EXHIBIT A TO RESOLUTION EMCFD 2025-01 [Notice/Tentative Budget] See following page. NOTICE EAGLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT PROPERTY OWNERS The taxpayers of the Eagle Mountain Community Facilities District (the “District”) are hereby notified that the Board of Directors will hold a public meeting on June 3, 2025, at 5:20 p.m. at the District offices located at 16705 E. Avenue of the Fountains, Fountain Hills, Arizona (the Council Chambers at Fountain Hills Town Hall), when and where any taxpayers of the District will be heard in favor of, or against, any of the proposed expenditures for the District, after which the foregoing estimates as modified or as now existing, will be adopted by the Board of Directors as the basis for the fiscal year 2025- 2026 budget. Taxpayers may file written objections at any time prior to the hearing, and the Board of Directors shall hear and pass upon any objections at the hearing. Copies of the tentative fiscal year 2025-2026 District budget may be viewed prior to the June 3, 2025, meeting at the District Clerk’s office, 16705 E. Avenue of the Fountains, Fountain Hills, Arizona 85268, the Town of Fountain Hills website, www.fountainhillsaz.gov/budget, and the Fountain Hills branch of the Maricopa County Library, 12901 N. La Montana Drive, Fountain Hills, Arizona 85268. EAGLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT TENATIVE BUDGET FISCAL YEAR 2025-2026 For the Fiscal Year Revenues Ended June 30, 2026 Tax Levy at $0.00 per $100 Limited Property Value Assessed Valuation $ 0 Prior Year Assessments (Delinquent) 0 Interest Income 0 TOTAL $ 0 Expenses Annual Debt Service Payment on Refunded Bonds $ 0 Advertising 200 TOTAL $ 200 WWW.FOUNTAINHILLSAZ.GOV/BUDGET Eagle Mountain CFD • 5/6/2025 Tentative Budget Adoption • $200 for FY2026 • Final bond payment made July 1, 2021 • No tax levy for FY2026 • Budgeted amount for public notices • Public Notice for publication • Staff recommends considering EMCFD closure next year