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CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AGENDA

REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING
TUESDAY
APRIL 18, 2023

COUNCIL CHAMBERS
211 WEST ASPEN AVENUE
3:00 P.M.

All City Council Meetings are live streamed on the city's website (https://www.flagstaff.az.gov/1461/Streaming-City-Council-Meetings)

***PUBLIC COMMENT***

Verbal public comments may be given through a virtual public comment platform or in-person

If you want to provide a verbal comment during the Council Meeting, use the link below to join the virtual public comment room.

VIRTUAL PUBLIC COMMENT WAITING ROOM

Written comments may be submitted to publiccomment@flagstaffaz.gov. All comments submitted via email will be considered written comments and will be documented into the record as such.

CALL TO ORDER

NOTICE OF OPTION TO RECESS INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION

Pursuant to A.R.S. §38-431.02, notice is hereby given to the members of the City Council and to the general public that, at this regular meeting, the City Council may vote to go into executive session, which will not be open to the public, for legal advice and discussion with the City’s attorneys for legal advice on any item listed on the following agenda, pursuant to A.R.S. §38-431.03(A)(3).

ROLL CALL

NOTE: One or more Councilmembers may be in attendance through other technological means.

MAYOR DAGGETT
VICE MAYOR ASLAN
COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS
COUNCILMEMBER HOUSE

COUNCILMEMBER MATTHEWS
COUNCILMEMBER MCCARTHY
COUNCILMEMBER SWEET

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, MISSION STATEMENT, AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the City of Flagstaff is to protect and enhance the quality of life for all.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Flagstaff City Council humbly acknowledges the ancestral homelands of this area’s Indigenous nations and original stewards. These lands, still inhabited by Native descendants, border mountains sacred to Indigenous peoples. We honor them, their legacies, their traditions, and their continued contributions. We celebrate their past, present, and future generations who will forever know this place as home.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

Public Participation enables the public to address the Council about an item that is not on the agenda. Comments relating to items that are on the agenda will be taken at the time that the item is discussed. If you wish to address the Council at tonight's meeting, please complete a comment card and submit it to the recording clerk as soon as possible. Your name will be called when it is your turn to speak. You may address the Council up to three times throughout the meeting, including comments made during Public Participation. Please limit your remarks to three minutes per item to allow everyone an opportunity to speak. At the discretion of the Chair, ten or more persons present at the meeting and wishing to speak may appoint a representative who may have no more than fifteen minutes to speak.

COUNCIL LIAISON REPORTS

CONSENT ITEMS

All matters under Consent Agenda are considered by the City Council to be routine and will be enacted by one motion approving the recommendations listed on the agenda. Unless otherwise indicated, expenditures approved by Council are budgeted items.

Consideration and Approval of Contract: Approve Change Order No. 17 with Shephard Wesnitzer, Inc. in the amount of $190,700.00 and a 365 calendar day time extension for the Rio de Flag Flood Control Utility Relocation Design Services Contract. Click this link to view Agenda Item

STAFF RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Approve Change Order No. 17 with Shephard Wesnitzer, Inc. the amount of $190,700.00 and a 365 calendar day time extension for the Rio de Flag Flood Control Utility Relocation Design Services Contract; and
Authorize the City Manager to execute the necessary documents.

ROUTINE ITEMS

Consideration and Adoption of Ordinance No. 2023-07: An ordinance of the Flagstaff City Council authorizing the acquisition of real property for the Cinder Lake Landfill Road Improvement Project; providing for delegation of authority, repeal of conflicting ordinances, severability, authority for clerical corrections, and establishing an effective date Click this link to view Agenda Item

STAFF RECOMMENDED ACTION:

1) Read Ordinance No. 2023-07 by title only for the final time
2) City Clerk reads Ordinance No. 2023-07 by title only (if approved above)
3) Adopt Ordinance No. 2023-07

Consideration and Adoption of Ordinance No. 2023-08: An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Flagstaff authorizing the acquisition of real property interests for the Schultz Creek Stabilization Project and the Highway 180 Culvert Project; providing for delegation of authority, severability, repeal of conflicting ordinances, authority for clerical corrections, and establishing an effective date Click this link to view Agenda Item

STAFF RECOMMENDED ACTION:

1) Read Ordinance No. 2023-08 by title only for the final time
2) City Clerk reads Ordinance No. 2023-08 by title only (if approved above)
3) Adopt Ordinance No. 2023-08

Consideration and Adoption of Ordinance No. 2023-09: An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Flagstaff dedicating a public access easement across city-owned property located at 3500 N. West St.; providing for delegation of authority, repeal of conflicting ordinances, severability, clerical corrections, and establishing an effective date Click this link to view Agenda Item

STAFF RECOMMENDED ACTION:

1) Read Ordinance No. 2023-09 by title only for the final time
2) City Clerk reads Ordinance No. 2023-09 by title only (if approved above)
3) Adopt Ordinance No. 2023-09

Consideration and Approval of Audited Financial Reports: Year ending June 30, 2022 Click this link to view Agenda Item

STAFF RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Approve the FY 2021-2022 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report and the FY 2021-2022 Single Audit Report

DISCUSSION ITEMS

Discussion on Public Notice of a Possible Primary Property Tax Levy Increase Click this link to view Agenda Item

Discuss and receive direction from City Council related to posting a Public Notice related to a possible Primary Property Tax Levy (revenues) increase.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

10.

INFORMATIONAL ITEMS TO/FROM MAYOR, COUNCIL, AND STAFF, AND FUTURE AGENDA ITEM REQUESTS

11.

ADJOURNMENT

CERTIFICATE OF POSTING OF NOTICE

The undersigned hereby certifies that a copy of the foregoing notice was duly posted at Flagstaff City Hall on                      , at                a.m./p.m. in accordance with the statement filed by the City Council with the City Clerk.

Dated this               day of                                       , 2023.

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Stacy Saltzburg, MMC, City Clerk