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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCSAC.2025.0224.MinutesC�MM[]NiTY SERVICES ADVI5�RY �OMMI55I�N FEBRUARY 24, 2025, VERSATIM MEETING MINUTES T�WN OF F�UNTAIN HILLS MINUTES 4F THE REGULAR MEETING C�MMLTNITY SERVICES ADVIS�RY COMMI55IDN FE�R[JARY 24, 2Q2S The Community Services Advisory Cammission can�ened a regular meeting at 5:40 p.m. at 1 b705 E. A�enue ❑f the Fauntains in an open and public sessian. Preseni: Chair Carey Reddick II; Vice �hair Rary Wiison; Commissioner Barnes, �ommissioner Craig Rudolphy; Commissianer Ran Rupper�; Commissioner Natalie Varela Absent: Yauth Commissianer Shreyaan Nath Staff Present: �ammunity Services I7irector Ke�in Snipes, Economic Development Amanda .Tacobs, Executi�e As�i�tant Patti Lopuszanski ����N� A �. , ; ',,l,C �;r, S� �� o �� r � ����:�� � �� °� ' r .� �. .y�! ��r..= o�� ��a t i s AC'�'� - 1 - httqs:llotter.ai C�MMLINITY SERVICES ADVI50RY COMM1551�N FEBRIJARY Z4, 2025, VERSA7'IM MEETING MINUTES REDDICK: I will call this meeting to order. Will the secretary pl�ase dv a Roll Call'? LDPUSZANSKI: We will be cailing the meeting at 4:59 p.m. Chair Reddick? REDDICK: Here. LDPUSZANSHI: Vice Chair Wi��on? WILSON: Here. L�PUSZANSKI: Gommissioner Barnes? BARNES: Here. L�PUSZANSKI: Commissioner Rudalphy? RUDULPHY: Here. L�PUSZANSK�: Commissioner Rupert? RUPPERT: Here. LUPUSZANSKI: Commis�ioner Varela? LQPEISZANSHI: Youth Commissioner Natha is absent today. REDDICK: All right, we have a quorum. i will make a Call ta the Puhfic. LQPi152ANSHI: We da not have anyane for Call ta Public. REDDICK: I will ma�e ❑n �o our next agenda item, a presentation, and I will gi�e the flaor to Amanda Jacabs with the Economic De�elapment Director. So, thank you for joining us. JACUBS: Good afternoan, e�erybady. I'm Amanda Jacabs, Economic De�elopment Directar af the tawn. It's going to be aimost three years since I reloca#ed from Tucson to Fountain Hills, and s❑ I work here, and I'm also a resident if anybody asks, and they sure did. I wa� asked for my first mvnth. They were iike, "Sa when are you going ta mo�� here? I'm like, how ab�ut I already did move here. Mo�ed right befare I started. They're like, whoa. They're like, okay, I heard that was a big dea� with same of rny predecessars. So, the magic happened. 50, Patti told me you wanted an update from economic de�elopment, so I'll �acus on busines� attractions, our dawntown strategy. I know you guys ha�e a full agenda, and I did recei�e a few questions fram the Commission, and s❑ I'�e placed that in the slides. All right. So as far as husiness attraction, so as I'm cal�ing it coming svon, Caffee Roasters has been coming sovn far a little while. So, as yau are lea�ing the Bee Line and coming on to Saguaro, there's a former Mexican restaurant that was burnt down befare my time. But again, when I was going through the interviewing process, I was like, not a gaad look for the town. Sa that is gaing to be, it's called Coffee Roasters, and the gentleman will ha�e that on the first floor, and then the second floor - 2 - httvs:llatter.ai COMMI]N3TY SERVICES ADVI50RY COMMI55ION FEBRi.IARY 24, 2025, VERBAT]M MEETIN� MINI]TES will be his sign company. And so, there's nathing, as I always say, as residents, commissioners, you are all ambassadors. 5a, if anybody's asking or thinks we're halding up the pracess an the development services side, that is nat true. He's just building at his own pace. Good Living Greens, which is currently located �n Park View, will be relocating to the A�enue of the Fountains, and it will be acrass from dka 5ushi. And there has been demand fram the residents of Park Pla�e that, vh, wauldn't it be nice to have a grocery store nearby, ar we can go dawnstairs if, after we'�e work�d a long day, oopsy daisy, we fflrgot the milk, ar we forgot some eggs. EggS, hopefully, are sort af a�ailable, it would be nice t❑ ha�e that. Sa, happy to see that move. But what I like t❑ share with the �oun�il and the residen�s, when we are happing from one street to another, we're not generating new economic d��elopment or wealth ifthey do expand their foatprint and then a�d new employees, that's Busine5s Retention and Expansian. And so, we could be generating new wealth, but we'�ve been seeing a lot of people mo�e fram one side of the avenue tv the other mvve from Park View to the A�enue. And that's, it's not new. You know, they're just, they're just mo�irag. So just a heads up on that Club Pilates will ga, be gaing into the Basha'� shopping center. Sa, some health and weilness. And then we'�e recei�ed, we're still trying to figure out what suite number. 5a, all I can tell you is it's going to be off of Saguaro. They are requesting a liquor license, but what yau're seeing in blue is that All-natural Wine and Dli�e Dil will be new to the town. And then I'll atso shar� with you, and Coun�il's not getting this update for a couple more weeks. So don'� rat on me, but we ha�e been entertaining a couple af different healthy food store�. That is all I can tell yau. But people will be happy. It has been narrowed down to ane. It will he a new huilding. So that means one-time constructian sales tax, one-time permit fees, and then if you are nat aware af the state capital, they are trying to eliminat� the foad tax ar cap that. And so, we are monitaring that very closely because ab�iously, that will be a hit ta the pocketbook. As my family from New York says, the pocketbook, not a purse. 50, we're examining that and what that could mean for the town, and we're haping to un�eil that as we get claser and claser. So, we`�e been warking an this since September. They're anxious. Then they said, "Hold off a little bit." But now they'�e come to talk about a healthy grocery store. Hopefully, we'll be able to announce that within the next 3� to �0 days, the former Vu Restaurant was acquired last year by a real estate �ompany. They were thinking of ha�ing a real estate office as well as a coffee shop that fell through. De�elapment 5er�ices and I have been working with them far - � - ntt�5:rrott��.a� CflMMUNITY SERVICES AI]VIS�RY C�MMISSION F'E$RllARY 24, 2025, VERBATIM MEETING MINUTES months, pitching ideas to retain this as a restaurant. They put it up fvr an au�tion in the wintertime, and fortunately, unfortunately, someone did bid on the farmer Vu Restaurant. It sold for $1.5 miilian. But what we're tald is they want to cvn�ert it ta an office. 5o the gaad news, the bad news is, the good news is we're taking up a �acancy. The bad news, depending on the office, you know, if it's a majar employer, it's good to ha�e that le�el of employment in tawn. But again, it's not generating sales tax, and I think it's a big ald bummer that's nat staying as a restaurant being near the Inn at Eagle Ma�xntain, the residents being close to the Scottsdale bord�r, Adero S�attsdale. But this is an example of the town pitch and trying to educate our de�elap�rs and aur brokers but at the end of the day, it's, it's a private de�elopment, and if they're within the zoning, they basically can do what they want, the former Walgreens. And sa, it's displayed by the brakers as the dark Walgreens off 5hea there is still so it's very fascinating. I've never seen anything like it, but Walgreens still has a lease on it far two to three years. Howe�er, a new de�etoper has purchased it. It was under escrow. E�erything went through �ahn Wesley, aur de�elapment ser�ices director, and i faund aut about a week or two ago, and what he is trying to da is try to, e�en though there's that lease in place, i� to try ta re�italize that building as well as put �omething in there. And so, we did tell them, I'm like, I've heard since I've started, you know, a Trader Jae's or the kiddas the Yvuth Ad�isory Council, they're like Amanda. It would be great to ha�e a Chipotle ❑r same type of theme af Dka sushi. 5o that's what we'r� pushing on our side. What comes of it? We shall see so. But we are in contact with that new developer. RL1DnLPHY: �Vhat abaut th� former KFC in the shapping �enter acrass fram Walgreens? JAC�BS: So, we are working with Sandor. So last year, Sandor, the praperty owner, the council did approve a rezoning to allow apartments on the half side, and then ihey're hoping ta re�italize the commercial side. So, we ha�en't heard anything yet, Craig, but we're trying. All right, sa the foz�mer Appian Way, Italian cuisine. Sa again, that closed befor� my time, but also just to educate you hecause, of course, I heard when I started abvut al� the empty spaces. What am i going to da? lt was, of course, a big topic during �lection season. What I want to point out with this building toa is, yes, it was �acant, but it was purchased in 2�21 by the current owners ❑f Qka 5ushi. So, my point in this is, yau may see that it's empty, but it daesn't mean one that it's a�ailahle, and two, just the point Laoking at it's been four years, and finally, we'�e received a tatal that is going to be a - 4 - httvs:llotter.ai C�MMU1�iITY 5ERVICES ADVIS�RY C�MMISSION FEBRI]ARY 24, 2025, VERBATIM MEETIIVG MIN[1TE5 new Korean barbecue restaurant. And sa, they are working with De�elopment 5e�vices on the permitting process. 50 of course, tenant impra�ements inside, and then yau'll see they are doing an exteriar facade and making it a bit more modern. And what we lo�e about that, and econamic de�elopment is sometimes that inspires ather peaple to say, oh, I need to laok at the outside af my buiiding. And am I up ta, up to par? Qr, you know, should i approach the tawn and do a little bit of a facelift? So, these are some of the business attraction item5 that we �an share. 5o next to aur dawntawn strategy, when I started, it had been 15 years since the town had updated our downtown strategy, and it just kept coming up over and o�er again with Econamic De�elopment, with staff as we were loaking at updating ❑ur economi� de�elapment strategy, and so we'�e made this a priority. And luckily, we brvught forth a strategy last year to the mayor and council, and they unanimously appro�ed the strategy. So super excited about that. 50, some of the big things that are coming down the pipeline is in I]ecember. We presented a path ta sort of rede�elop, and re�italize the A�enue of the Fountains, Verde Ai�er, and Park View and the goal is to expand our sidewatks so it's easier for walking. We like to use the example a�er by Sofrita's. It gets a bit tight, and if you're someone who is walking, or if yau're sameone tao who is possibly in a wh�elchair or has mobility issues, it's a bit af a challenge. But also from an economic de�elopment standpoini, how can we attract new husinesses? Aestaurants ha�e that outdoor seating, and again, that type of husiness brings sales tax re�enue� to the town. 50, we presented to the council a five-year and an eight- year budget process, and we were all super excited that they said, "if we can do it, let's do it in fi�e years" which is fabulous, and sa we'll be presenting that ta the council tomorrow. We ha�e a Council Retreat, and what we want to d❑ is a bit aggressi�e, but next year, start wvrking �n the design on one half of the A�enue, and then the fallowing year do the design of the next half as well as start canstruction. So svmetimes you'll �ee with municipalities that ane year i� design, only the next year is construction. 5a that's where you know, you can see a project ga on and on fore�er. And sometimes the ga�ernment can get a bad name. And so, we're trying to expedite that process. At the same time, development ser�ices are working an an v�erlay district downtown, sa there's one that exists today. I dan't usually like to pick on peaple, but if yau look at the Avenue and yau see al] the real estate offices when you see the Kitty 5helter. That's not typical for a �ibrant dawntown. So, we will be presenting an a�erlay district in March to the Planning and Zaning Cammission, and if they don't ha�e too many changes, we'll be - 5 - htEps:llotter.ai COMMllNITY SERVICES ADVt50RY CQMMI55IQN FEBRUARY 24, Zp25, VERBATIM MEETIN� MINUTES bringing that forth to ihe Mayor and Council in April. I'll say, thus far as we'�e been talking ta the cammunity, the current pr�perty owners, and the tenants, they're ex�ited with the �ision. And this doesn't mean we'r� gaing to go aut and kick people out. It's just If there's a change in use that then the town is working with the owner of the property to make sure that we're trying to get entertainment-like uses. Sa again, think bars, restaurants. I like to jake and get judged for acts, throwing more artists galleries, but just to li�en up the downtawn and to make sure we're nvt shutting things down at six or eight a'clock at night. 5a those are exciting things coming forward. And are there any questions on any of those two things? RUDdLPHY: �at abaut Fearless Kitty? I don't see them as an entertainment �enue, although people lo�e to go in there and look at the cats. .IAC4BS: They do. 5a, they'll stay unless they decide ta sell their building, because they do naw own their building, if no one knows that it'll stay thexe. It's only if there's a change of use that we would then work with the property awners. VARELA: Dkay, s� current peaple can all stay. JACOBS: Carrect, cnrrect. VARELA: I know at first because I'�e been hearing different. JACQBS: So, people think, oh, it's the big old government. T'hey probably think it's Ke�in. They're afraid of Kevin. But no, everybody stays unless there's a change af use, so by the property owner, or if a tenant lea�es, then the town works with the praperty owner, here are the allowable use�, so yau cauld tell them ta came talk to me ar John W�sley, yes. RUPPERT: Amanda is yes. Tn these strategies and budgets far the next X number of years, include a public restroom. �ACDBS: So gaod, gaod question. No. So for about a y�ar, we've talked a lot with the council abau� restrooms and I'll share with yau that we'�e talked about a public-private partnership. We'�e talked abaut opening our daors, hut e�eryane says we're far away, e�en the farmers market and are on the a�enue. So, to do something Central, it costs about $50�,Ofl0. Am I earrect, Ke�in? Because Ke�in was my partner in crime on that. And so, to see that, and then these other things that we're wanting to do, Council and staff ha�e decided, okay, we're going ta put that an the back burner. But what I asked them with as part of the downtown strategy is to keep restrooms in there sa that we're thinking abaut it if, if you dan't place it in there, and then it is shel�ed, nane of us are thinking - 6 - https:llotter.ai COMMUNITY SERVICES ADVIS�RY C�MMISSI�N FEBRUARY 24, 2025, VERSATIM MEETING M1N[,ITES a6out it, but that there could be opportunities thraugh a public, pri�ate partnership. 50, if there is another big de�elopment that a de�eioper wvuld pay far, build it, and then we takeover, we maintain there's so many different things that we can do, but I'll say right now, in the immediate the direction is like Park Place. REDDIC�{: Pertaining tv the budget, do we ha�e anything outlined for a�i.zture pool for a lat of our residents here in the cammunity, we ha�e lats of people who are swim masters who must head o�er t❑ 5catt5dale. 50, has that been discussed for a future budget? JACUBS: Mr. Chair, it has nat. And I'll defer that to Mr. 5nipes if he wants to address that because he daes this ta me because, in �ro Valley, we ha�e an ayuatic center. And he'll probably come after me after this meeting, but I'll defer it ta Kevin, what he thinks about poals. SN�PES: The costs with paols are the funding that it takes to run one, and the youth it takes to suppart ane, getting lifeguards ❑n duty is na small task, and in a small tawn, that's a difficult task to get it fully taken care of. And in general, pools are hea�y hits on municipalities as far as financially, and s❑ it's tough to do that with a town this size and demographic-wise. R�3D�LPHY: Haw much maney is in the downtown fund? �A�QBS: Of course, Craig's going to ask me this. I'm gaing to have to get back to you. RUDQLPHY: Be�ause I knaw you've heen spending some of it. JAC�BS: We ha�e been spending some time we ha�e reque5ts that we're going to talk to the council tamorrow. So, we wanted ta add $15fl,0�0 ongoing funds, but the budget will nat support that. 5o I belie�e it's what's in there right now is less than $Zfl0,000 but I wil� get back ta all of yau, because the �apital projects I'm discussing is we have talked with the caunci�, and we're going to har�e that come fram the capital fund, and then over the fi�e years, it'll be a little a�er ten millian in the Gapital Fund. Yes. And as I teli Council, I used to tell them 20 million, sa I'm lik�, I came in under any other qu�stians related to that, and then, because then I'll di�e intv these questions I received. RUPPERT: Yes, one question that's not on there. But ha�e the new owners of the Adero Canyan Hotel contacted the tawn? JAC�BS: We �a�e noi met officially yet with the owners, but in December, we met with the general manager who is staying as part of the property management company, and sa we'�e started con�ersations with them. The owners were an site while I. Was there, but they're like, "�Ve still haven't signed e�erything ❑n the dotted line." 5a, he's like, I can't - 7 - nttp5:rrott�r.�� COMMUNITY SERVICES ADVISORY COMMI55ION FEBRUARY 24, 2aZ5, VEA$ATIM MEETfNG MINUTES introduce yau, but we have followed up and said, you know, whenever th�y're back in tawn, we would lo�e ta meet with them. 5a, I'll share it with you, be�ause the general The manager shared it with me, and he did share it in public because they do have plans to impro�e their landseaping. They want to expand their convention rooms, and they want to update al1 their rooms, loaking at potentially adding another restaurant, and then really capitalizing on the Marriott Autograph Collectian, which is based off our dark skies, of maybe having a small absez�vatory on-site at the resort. So, they ha�e lots of fun plans. It's just getting them in a room. VARELA: I ha�e one more questian, if that's fine, is your whale downtown area like plant like? Daes it include all of plant Z48`? Yes. Qkay, sa all those businesses like the vet, yes. JAC�SS: So Correct, correct. It includes all of that. It in�ludes Plaza Fauntainside, just the frant of Fountain Paark. 5o back in the day, i S years ago, the entire Fountain Park wa� included, and some thaughts were that it cou�d possibly be mixed-use. As we all knaw, our Fountain Park is used for recreation. It has become an e�ent �enue, so we'�e remo�ed that fram any con�ersations. And then Nataiie also goes up ta Palisades in LaMantana, and then with that, for the overlay district, we're loaking to add some light, �ery light industrial to that area. We ha�e a lat of healthcare aptivns, but it would be wonderful to be able to say to a bioscience company or an optics company, you can be here downtown right now. We've had a few opportunities, but when they ialk with John Wesley, De�eiopment Services Director, and Zoning Administratar if they 5tart to say that a lat of what they do is mare industrial and there's less office, then it steers them towards industrial zoning, which is not zoned praperly. And sa, we ha�e t� say, No. RUflULPHY: Wauld any of the o�erlay impact Park Place three and four? JACaSS: No. REDDYCK: Sa, the questian that Natalie asked was a great segue to my question that I don't think is on here. Ha�e we done any outreach to partners with outside tech campanies in different states, to bring in their iocal businesses, incenti�ize them, from a tax perspecti�e, to help drive families to mave in, and to that case, bring in some people that can wark at the pool? JACflBS: 50, Chair, I'll say we don't have any formal incenti�e policy. The beauty is that it doesn't box us in and so we can be creative with a partner we have not been dri�ing hard in actually going outside, because one, it's gaing ta be three years, I'�e been telling the cauncil, we need to fix our zaning, and so we're in the process of doing it, but it takes - 8 - httt�s:Jlotter.ai COMMUNITY 5ERV10E5 ADVISQRY CQMMISSIDIV FESAUARY 24, 2Q25, VERBATIM MEETING MINLITES time, and then it's j ust ha�ing thase con�ersations that fram the dais, iF they start adding projects, And this is public, you knaw, e�ery year talking abaut this, the sign code, or Adding these other things from the dais, then guess what? Where's the staff`� Time t� work on same of these things. And �a, they ha�e been recepti�e to that. I have also shared with all the cauncil members, e�en the new anes, that I'�e been burned, not h�re, but in my career of okay, yes, we want this company. We're going to gi�e you this. And then when the rubber meets the raad, there's a rezoning, then it's like, na, no, you'�e killed that deal, and yau've killed that relationship fore�er, so until we get the zoning in place, then we'�e positioned our oursel�es. You're welcome. All right, sa I'll ma�e on ta some of the questions. So, businesses being impacted by town programs and ��ents, I wauld say for t�ae mast part, it's positive. So, if you ga into the next one, we'll hear from sam� of you. �ur businesses abaut �he fare of just because you're shutting down the road, and then the way the booths are faced, which, again, is partially a staff requirement for safety, some of the businesses feel a bit blacked. And then that's when the town and then the Chamber af Commerce work with the businesses ta be a little bit creati�e. So, ane of our businesses, the first year, really struggled. I won't pro�ide their name, but mare restaurant type, and so naw they d❑ exceptianally well during the fair because what they're doing is making connections with the folks that are in the boath. And so svmetimes they can't leave the baoth, and so they're running smoathies ar hamhurgers or sandwiches. And so, it's just trying ta understand, ❑kay, what the problem is, and trying to came up with a solution. And same folks dan't want ta meet halfway and campromise. So, then I Say, all right, there'� 365 days in a year. It's clos�d far the fair six days. 50, but I would say, mast of the businesses, when we da the concerts an the A�enue, just lo�e it. So Safrita is aur real estate group. They think it's fabulous, and then we are in talks. rt won't now start until the next fiscal year, which is .luly one, but doing a concert at Plaza Fountainside, so in the back, where there are their Arri�ederci, Grapeables, Euro Pizza, making sure they are not conflicting with their programming that they're affering, but again, to show that prvximity t� Fountain Park and then the commercial Plaza, because some pevple don't understand. And then let's see. JAC�BS: 5o for a de�elopment tool, I may need the person who Shared this t❑ pra�ide more informatian, but I'll say, as a k�y point to try to attract businesses, the parks are �ery attracti�e because, again, the quality af life, and then to the chair's point, you know, for trying ta go to tech companies and families, Arad ihat's what I'm used to working with, - 9 - https:llotter.ai CDMMUIVITY SER�IICES ADVISDRY C�MMISSI�N FEBRUARY 24, 2d25, VERBATIM MEETING MINUTES is bio science companies, aeraspace companies, and again, you're warking with people, CEQs. The CEQ� are emplaying peaple, and we're trying to attract families. So being able ta pramote that. We ha�e parks, we'�e received the gold medal, we ha�e all these ��ry attractive e�ents, especially far a tech company, and then ju5t the outdaor recreatian that is huge. So hopefully I answered that. Did yau answer that? Perfect. 4kay. Thanks, Rory. And then the main challenges I've heard this last week with the 5trategic Planning Ad�is�ry Commission, Kiwanis, okay, so same af the challenges is, one, the zoning, and so we'�e talked a bit abaut that, that we need to be a bit more flexible. And again, as I'�e been here three years when I first brought up an industrial to like the real estate Ratary, they're like, what big cars? I'm like, na, no. Yau know, think of pharmaceutical campanies, opti�s, bioscience, a �ery clean industry. And so, like, okay, Amanda, we can support you. That is one afour challenges, too. We are �lose to building out. We can't annex any more land. Sv, ha�ing �ome of those canversations in the near or next, you know, a few years of you knaw, what dves that mean for the town of Fountain Hills? Is it revitalizing? I5 it being rede�eloped? Again? Because we dan't ha�e primary property tax and rely hea�ily on Iocal sal�s tax. I witl aiso say so I think only a cauple of you know me, and so I keep it real, but aur brand, we'�e been ha�ing to try to impro�e our brand. Sa, what I mean by that is, some fo�ks think we axe �ery difficult to work with. �1Ve are far away from our business, and so those are same of the things we're ha�ing to deal with. Last year, there were a couple af what we call hit piec�s in the town. So again, just being �ery difficult, nat business fi`iendly. I don't want ta rezvne. And so, some people think, oh, you know, only a few people saw that. `1Ve11, I'll tell you. So, each year at the cammunity center, we host ail the town cl�rks in the state of Ariz�na. Yeah, and so did one of my friends we met up far dinner while she was here at the conference. And so, again, they're located in Qro Vall�y, Tucson. Her husband works for an engineering firm of o�er 400 peaple. He saw the hit piece so I'm �hinking, �h my gash. Like, I don't want to know How widespread this is, like, you knaw, it's statewide, but is it? Is it national? So �hose are some of the things we're working on, and then just doing a better jab with thrr�ugh tourism grants and print ad�ertising, to talk aboui our restaurants, the autdovr recreation, being specific, the hiking, what we're trying to do with the downtown and shawing that, hey, you knaw, Cauncil has unanimausly appro�ed the downtown strategy, ❑ur econamic de�elapment strategy. But sometim�s it takes a while. They say, right? It takes se�en, se�en secands, you know, to create that brand for yourself. And so sametimes people then are like, we're dane, like, we don't want tn deal with you. So thase - 10 - httns:llvtter.ai COMMUNITY SERVICES A�VISQRY COMMI55�ON FE$RUARY 24, 2025, VERBATIM MEETING MINUTES are same of the big challenges. And I would �ay they're big, but we're trying to work on it. I like challenges. It's a great presentation. Thank you. Any other questions? WILSUN: I don't ha�e any more questions, but I just want to thank you for coming ta present ta us. You answered all the questions that I put. So, thank you. And, just so you knaw, e�er since yau'�e started in the tawn, I'�e really seen the impro�ement in Economic Devetopment and the awarenes5 that you're sharing information with residents. So, thank you far all that you do, Amanda. .IACOBS: ThankS Rory. JACOBS: I appreciate it. Thank you Ghair and Commissianers. RUDOLPHY: I will echo that. Thank yvu, Amanda. Appreciate you. REDDICK: Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, Amanda, for a great presentation. JACUBS: Let them know when yau want me hack in a year in a quarter, or I'll let them know wh�n I ha�e some juicy scoops that I can share. Do yau need m� to change this? Kevin or clase it? �kay? Thank you so mu�h. Yau're welcvme. REDDICK: Okay, thank you. AlI right. We will now mo�e on to aur Reports by Commissioners, VARELA: Yes, I went an the tour, but tw❑ weeks ago, was it? Yeah, it was great because I had toured the park myse�f the month prior that � was going to talk about, but I missed the last meeting. And so, it was great because Ke�in answered all my questions that I was going to ask, just like the bathraoms weren't open when I toured and ihe water fountain wasn't wnrking, but it was just I was there toa soan. So yeah, but I think the park laoks great with all the pickleball tields or caurts, I guess, for getting used and sa, thank yau. WILS�N: I want ta second that, yeah, the park is amazing. The restrooms are amazing. The whole thing ju�t came oui perfectly. RLIPPERT: Yeah. I want to, just want to stress, yau know, the impor-tance of these tvurs. And you can hear it just from yaur camment5 that ypu know we have an opportunity here, e�en more than say, the leadership group daes get hands-an tours from peaple who care about it and spend the time showing us ihese things. And I just think it's an ad�antage, and I think it's something that we should, you know, keep doing in the future. And, you know, aur last tour was great, and I'm hoping we do another one here. Just other notes on a little tour l did when I waiked the other day. I walk Golden Eagle Park a lat, and some changes are gaing on that I just wanted to, you know, bring up - 11 - httas:llotter.ai C�MMUNITY SERVICES ADVISORY CQMMISSIdN FEBRlJARY 24, ZOZ5, VERBATIM MEETING MINLITES a coupie of comments about. And, you know, this place on weekends is absolutely jammed, which is a great thing. Part af that is, yau know, we ha�e a lat of people coming in fram out of town and with the new parking lanes on bath sides of the street and the street itself, Golden Eagle, which is kind of a speedway. I ha�e just noticed that I live in an area where, you knaw, we ha�e people that are cutting across the street, you know, it is right between cars, and you know, a lot of them are kids. And I don't know if the future Ke�in, that the town has any plans on a crosswalk or some kind of signage flr speed bump, but it I just, you know, I hear tires screeching, and I just pray to God e�ery time I hear a siren that I hope it':; s�mething that you know we're not causing oursel�es, because the people coming down, Golden Eagle are going up. The Golden Eagle aren't. Are you paying tna much attention, other than there's a bunch af cars there, but they're zipping across 4(� different spots. SNIPES: Sa, I just wanted to bring that up, you know, I j�st because it bathers me, And I can add to that a litt�e bit, I do belie�e that there is a crosswalk that's being conszdered t❑ g❑ across there. But don't hold me to that, but I feel like I heard in a meeting a couple of weeks aga that that was one �f the spots that they're laoking at for next year. VARELA; 50, I'm thinking ❑f a crosswalk on Saguaro. And I think it's LaMantana, because I see peaple cross there all the iime, and same thing, like they're running, getting to the middle, and then, because there really isn't, I mean, yau must walk far either way. Sa, I dan't know if that one's an the list also. SNIPES: I dan't know, but I can check into that. I you know, that's, that's a spot that we laoked at two years ago, maybe putting a, a light vr something, in that location, t❑ change that entire intersectian around, and it was �oted down by the council. Sa, I da know that that happened, but I don't know if there's any new plans for that particular area. REDDICK: 4kay, well, thank you a�l for sharing the repart, and we'll ma�e on tv our next agenda item, the cansideration possib�e action for the appro�al af the community service ad�isor commissian, minutes frvm .Ianuary 27 Can I get a motivn to appra�e? Move ta approve. REDDICK: �an I get a s�cond? Ri]PPERT; I second. REDDI�K: Perfect. �kay. All right, we wiil ma�e on to aur next agenda item, the con�ideration vate.... Sorry. - 12 - https:llotter.ai CflMMUNITY SERVICES ADVIS�RY �bMMISSI�N FEBRLIARY 24, 2025, VERBATIM MEET]NG MINUTES L�PU5zAN5KI: Mation passes, 6-�. Thank yau. REDDICK: All right, the Considerativn and Passible Ac#ivn for the T Mabile Hvmetown Grant. SNIPES: Yeah, so here recently, we located a couple of grants that we're going to be gaing for. So, this particular one is a hometown grant, and there isn't a match to it. It's for municipalities that are under 50,dOQ people, and it is up to $SD,��O request. So, what we decided that we were gaing to go after making the Centennial Pavilion a mare enjayable space by adding lights, as you can s�e there, and ❑rdering for the �ktoberfest that we ju4t had. They had to hang a whole bunch of lights from the stru�ture, which makes it less desirable for both the structure itself and for the participants and the users of to have ta da that kind of extra work. And sa, we're looking at some I meant to bring it down, and I forgot ta ha�e a sample in my aff ce, but I'll try and hring that down next meeting. But it's a track lighting that's narrow. It's maybe an inch wide in total. And we're iaoking into hanging them fram the actual framework. The red lines there on the picture that's an the hand the packet kind of show how they will g❑ aut firom the center of the structure. We worked with �ur dark sky graup, as well as the lighting campany that we're working with has se�eral state and federal dark sky ad�isors on their team as well. 1 think �his is gaing t❑ be a cool way to do this and nat impa�t an the Dark Sky Disco�ery Center that's next to it, but still get the job done of adding adequate lighting to that space for nighttime and e�enings. �1Ve're alsa loaking into adding same banquet type four top tables and chairs around underneath it, j ust ta make it a daily attractian as weii. Yeah, that's our main goal for this. And this is alsa a capital improvement prvject that I'll be put�ing in for tamorrow as well. So, trying to get it co�ered one way, the other, both ways, whate�er it takes. And so, we can get this dane in �he next fis�al year. RUD4LPHY: `1Vill the cauncil appro�e the grant application`? SNIPES: I don't knaw. We'll find that out on March 1 Sth so we'll take this ane and the next one ta the cauncil ta see if they witl apprv�e it. WILS�N: How many tables and chairs are you gu}�s thinking? SNIPES: I'm thinking vf the eight ta 1� range of tables, and then faur tops for each ane of tho�e. Sa, kind af thinking abaut ha�ing same around each ane af the iegs af the structure to where that it's just kind of all the way around it and yet keep some op�n space in the middle. - 13 - https:llatter.ai COMMUNITY 5ERV10E5 ADVI5�RY CDMMi5510N FE�HUARY 24, 2025, VEABATIM MEETING MIN[]TES REDDICK; lf for that report, and I think we'll mo�e on to our next agenda item, Ke�in, you can fil� us in ❑n the Arizana State Puzzle Donor Pragram. We got one more, ah, yes, I'm so sarry I skipped the agenda item eight. SNIPES: Yeah. First, can we get yau guys to �ote an this so that we can have your recommendation for the council for this grant applicatian as well as far the next ❑ne. So, if in fa�or af it, we'd appreciate yaur suppo�t so that we can share that with the Cauncil. REDDI�K: All right, �an I get a mation? RUD�LPHY: I will mo�e that we appro�e the application for the grant for the T-Mobile Hometawn as well as the Arizona Sparts and Tourism Authority. BARNES: I'll secand that. REDDICK: All right, all those in favor? ALL: Aye. LQPUSZANSI�: The �ote passes b-0 an bath grant motion�. We will ha�e ta speak to the second one as well. REDDICK; Kevin, I'll ha�e you take o�er far the �'onsideration and Possible Activn far Arizana Spor�s and Tourism. 5NIP5: The Arizona 5ports and Tourism grant is ane that we have d�rne. I think we'�e gone after it three times sin�e I'�e been here. It is affered e��ry ather year. We'�e been awarded it twice. We bu�lt �he tennis courts at Golden Eagle, as well as the tennis courts at Four Peaks Park. My first year here. That was kind af the keys they handed me was, here, ga build this. We got the grant. Naw you're in charge. Ga. So that was ane of my first projects, and now we're inta it far enough that the surfaces themsel�es are starting to fail and need recording. And so, this one, we are looking at dving out ❑f probably out af Fred and our facility replacement fund, if we can't get this grant, I Yeah, and so it'll b� a multi-year praj�ct if we are between the basketball �ourt at Golden Eagle and these twa tennis caurts, or these two sets of tennis courts, I shauld say so they do a twa-thirds, 113 ma�ch. Sv, we will have to match a third of the prize. I'm hopeful thai this one gets support from Ari�ona Sports and Touri sm because they'�e already helped by building them, and this will be a lesser ask than what that was. So hapefully we can, we can work with them to help co�er it, and if not, then we'll be loaking at our facility replacement fund to do this, alsa starting next year, and then we s�heduled it out ta be a three year pracess between tennis courts, basketball court at Golder� Ea�le, and then we'll probably, at ihat time, we'll be getting close to daing the basketball caurt at four peaks as well. 50 that's what we're looking at. Any questions about that? All right, thank you. - 14 - httqs:ll�tter.ai COMMUNITY SERVICES ADVISaRY C�MMISSION FEBRLIARY 24, 2025, VERgATIM MEETIIVG MiNUTES REDDICK: And since we �oted. VVe don't need to go ba�k to ihat. LOPUSZANSKI: We're good. REDDICK: perfect. So, we'll mave on to Agenda Item number nine, Update far the Arizona State Puzzle Donor Prvgram. SNIPES: 50, we shauld ha�e counted how many we gat. I don't know. We're probably around wanting something better up there, something like that. I think we're at six the last I heard for our next round of orders, which is great, nght after we hung the last set of puzzle pieces. Mike Peltan and I went out and shot another little quick �ideo that we posted. An� I think we got three that weekend and then got three the following week. 50, it's starting to �ill up, and starting ta loak like svmething. If yau ha�en't seen it lately, it's certainly been added to it, and hop�fully, we'll get a few mare orders and get this one placed here shortly. REDDICK: Thanks for that, Ke�in and I did see you on LinkedIn by the way. Yau're popular. The �idea is floating around. We'lI mo�e on to Agenda item number 10, the update an the Tree Protectian ardinance. SNIPES: So, this ❑ne has kind ❑f run all o�er the town hall. Now we wanted to make sure that we had �uppart fram e�erybody else as well as what we thought was right. And so, then it made a weird turn the other day dawn �vde enfor�ement road. And so, we're like, well, that'S not exactly where we w�re planning an taking this. 50, we're getting close to ha�ing our final �ersion together, and then we'll be sending ihat out ta you. I think we'�e got the blessing of all the peaple that we're laaking ta get so that we can make it a public document and get it shared back wi�h you, so yvu can see where we came to our f nal conclusians an our biggest thing was more protecting the tawn owned trees fram contractors and nflt making it to w�er� that if they come in and they do something to a tree that harms it or ki115 it, thai they don't go, okay, we'll plant yau a l 5- gallan tree. Wel�, that tree's worth 3� grand. That 15-galion tree is worth 1 Q� bucks. I don't think we're talking about apples and apples and so this way it'll help put monetary �alue inta iree� based on size and the damage that you'�e dane to them and just makes it a little bit taugher far someone to come in and take advantage af and do damage that will affect the tawn far years to come. Sa that's the mair� goal that we ha�re. REDDICK: S�undS gaod? We'll mo�e an to Agenda Item 12, the consideration possible actian for Park taurs. Oh, gosh, 11. Geez, I'm n�er 1 l. Well, sarry, are we? Is this 1Q`? SNIPES: Yeah, we just did 1�, sa now we're 11. REDDICK: flh my gosh, sorry. - 15 - https:llvtter.ai COMMI]NITY SERVICES ADVISORY COMMI�SIQN FE$RUARY 24, 2�25, �ERBATIM MEETING MINUTES SNIPES: It's all goad. REDDICK: We're gaing to skip that one. SNIPES: Actuaily, Shreyaan sent us something. He wanted to share that the Mayor's Youth Council had a meeting with the newly elected mayar, and gat to kind af gi�e him a rundown of things that they were interested in, as well as f nding aut what kind af accamplishments and impacts he's looking to have on the �ommunity and sharing with them the events that they'�e planned and are getting ready to run the �olunteer work that They do the Teen Takeo�er that's coming up here on March 1 st, and that's from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. o�er at the Cammunity Center. Then at the next meeting Paul 5aldinger, Chief Finance �fficer came in to explain the financial management side of things far the town and spoke to their group abaut the town buckets that we often refer to the cvuncil t❑ kind ofexplain how the funding is allocated, and that al� money that's al�acated is not a�ailable for all things. And sa, they ha�e got a good way ta see haw the town sa�es money, and how they get money in the resezves, and how they're able to do things. And then the final thing is that they'�e been working a lat towards this Teen Takea�er that's happening, and so he was asking if e�erybady here could help shar� that with anyone that's in �heir teens ta come and celebrate with them at the teen takea�er event. It is a cool e�ent, and we continue to push to tzy and get more things that our teens will appreciate and like, and sometimes that's aur tau�hest crowd to grab and win. 50, e�ents like this goes a lang way. There's, you know, it's all free. There's free fo�d. They ha�e all kinds of different e�ents that are caming in. There'll be an escape raom if they shaw up. We ha�en't got confirmatian, so we'�e been waiting until the last minute, hoping that they wi�l came thraugh. Sa, that's kind of where we're at for aur Mayar's I�outh Council. VARELA: I ha�e one thing to add to that I saw their videos alsa an, I think maybe Insta�ram. It was great. I was impresse�i. Did he happen to say haw the mayor recei�ed his informatian, +ar like, was he recepti�e? SNIPES: Nathing specific. I was up there, well for both of those meetings fflr a little bit, and it's c�rtain�y something that the mayor holds in high regard with the teens and tzying to help them anyway, again. Great. Thank you. REDDICK: Yeah, thank yau far that report, and I apolagize. I guess I was excited to get thi� next agenda item. Ran, so w�'ll g❑ to Agenda Item 12, the Cvnsideration Passihle Actian far Park Tours. RUPPERT: I think we discussed in our last meeting a pecking arder, and I think Adero �anyon Trai]head wauld be next on the docket. - 16 - https:ll�tter.ai C�MMUNITY SERVICES ADVISORY COMMTSSI�N FEgRUARY Z4, Zd25, VERBATIM MEETING MINUTES REDDIC�{: Do we need to get a motion to approve`? SNIPES: No. REDDICK: We'll go to Agenda Item 13, Re�view and Discussian for the Future Agenda Items and 5peakers. REDDICK: I don't ha�e any suggestians. RUD�LPHY: My oniy suggestion rnight b� SPA�, 5trategic Planning and Action Cammittee. SNIPES: Da you mean like an update from thezn, just whai they're working on`? RUD�LPHY: Whai is the current plan that they ha�e? I think they just adopted one a year ago, but I'm nat positi�e. L�PUSZANSKI: Are yau interested in a joint meeting to attend one of their meetings if you have questians for them to get same kind of context of what you are laaking for`? RUD�LPHY: I dan't know if I w�uld ha�e any questi�ns for them, more �ust infarmatian and find aut what th�y're doing, how they're doing it, because I'm not sure many of us know. VARELA: How about Rache� coming back and talking to us about what's happenin� naw? REI)DICK: � think that's a great idea. I]o you ha�e any other future agenda items, na, ❑kay. Agenda item 14, Re�iew and Discuss Upcoming E�ents and Volunteer Qpportunities. I will turn that o�er to you. SNIPES: We're getting claser to our Eggstra�aganza, and we da need �olunteers for that. It lavlcs like we need 1Q more �olur�teers as af the time this was printed. It's an e�ent that's grawn rather large o�er the last se�eral years. When we ma�ed it o�er ta Four Peaks Park, I think it made a big difference in the amaunt af space that we had. Sa, we could certainly use some help with volunteers for that. And it's a relati�ely short ��ent, which makes it an easy one to g�t in and get out of. Upcoming e�ent5, include Teen Takea�er, which we just talked abaut, and there is Irish Fountain Fest right around the corner as w�ll that'll be on Saturday, Mar�h 1 S, frvm 11:00 a.m. to 5:�fl p.m. The Fauntain will go green at noan and 4:0� p.m. if I do my jab right. I guess Brandon, I'll blame Brandan. Brandon does his job right. We'll go that way. The Cancerts ❑n the A�enue are getting ready ta start here in April. We just got our full boaking of mu5icians that are going to be playing, that's turn�d into a good e�ery-week e�ent during April and loak farward to seeing haw that gae5 thi� year. This is our third or f�urth year in a raw. Naw that we'�e don� samething on the a�enue, we started onesie-twosie here or there and - 17 - httqs:llvtter.ai C�MMllNITY SERVZCES ADVISORY CflMMISSION FEBRUAAY 24, 2Q25, VERSATIM MEETING MINUTES saw that there was a niche for it, and so we cantinue t❑ add to that. Then our Music Fest is on April 5. I'm excited about this one. It's going t❑ run from rock music fram the'��s ta the'9as, and I think that it's going to be fun all co�ers this year. We've tried in the past to always bring in a headliner that was a smal�, upcoming headliner, and we kind o� �oncluded that e�erybady left befare the headliner got on. So why are we paying ihat much money for the headliner to come on? 50, we de�ided to try this aut, and I think starting with the'6�s and working aur way through, I think it's gaing to hopefully keep more peaple araund for a longer period. And I think it's a goad lis� of bands that are gaing to play in it, so I think that one's gaing ta be good as wel�. REDDICK: Rory and I are loaking forward ta Irish Fest. SN�PES: It's a fun one, that's for sure. REDDICK: All right, we'll mo�e on to the next Agenda. Item 15, Update for the Next Community Service Ad�isory Commission Meeting will take place ❑n March 24, 20�5. Agenda Item 1 G, can I get a Motian tv Ad�ourn the meeting? RU DQLPHY: Ma�e to adj ourn. REDDICK: Can I get a second? VARELA: I secand. REDDICK: All those in favor`? ALL: Aye. LOPU52ANSKI; Motion passes 6-0. Thank you. Ha�ing n❑ further business, �Chair Carey Reddick II adjourned the Regular Meeting vf the Community 5ervices Ad�isory Commissian held on February 24, 2Q25, at 5:57 PM. COMMUNITY SERVICES ADVISURY CDMM�SSI�N Ch ir Carey Reddick, II ATTEST AND PREPARED BY; � Patti Lopusz nsk', xecuti�e Assistant - 18 - https:ll�tter.ai C�MMUNITY SERVICES ADVIS�RY CQMMISSI�IV FEBRUARY 24, 2Q25, VERBATIM MEETING MINLITES CERTIFICATIQN I hereby certify that the faregaing minutes are a true and correct copy of the zninutes of the Regular Meetin� held by the Comm�nity Sen�ice5 Ad��isory Commission in the Town Hali Caun�il �hambers an the 24th day of February 2025. I further certify that the meeting was duly called and that a quorum was present. DATED 24th Day of March 2a25 ���j - Patti Lapuszanski, E cuti�e Assistant - � 9 - https:llotter.ai