Recap of Chandler City Council Meeting on June 9, 2022

CHANDLER, Ariz. – The Chandler City Council met at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 9, taking motion on a complete of 21 agenda objects. Meeting highlights included:

• Approved as introduced the 25 one-time funds amendments totaling $340,500 and three ongoing funds amendments totaling $37,000 for a complete of $377,500 utilizing Council Contingency funds.
  • Provide one-time funding of $10,000 to the City Clerk Department for a research on information retention and doc authentication utilizing blockchain know-how. (Councilmember Stewart)
  • Provide one-time funding of $2,000 to the City Clerk Department for American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation companies (as wanted). (Councilmember Harris)
  • Provide one-time funding of $20,000 to the Community Services Department for tree elimination/alternative at Hoopes Park. (Mayor Hartke and Councilmember Orlando)
  • Provide one-time funding of $28,000 to the Community Services Department for a Folley Park Interim Study, which can function a preliminary research to gauge residents’ pursuits on the upcoming transform of Folley Park. (Councilmember Orlando)
  • Provide one-time funding of $20,000 to the Community Services Department for a For Our Parks Clean-Up Day the place volunteers and employees focus on cleansing up City parks and ball fields. (Councilmember Stewart)
  • Provide one-time funding of $10,000 to the Community Services Department for veterans’ actions to acknowledge Chandler veterans on holidays and all year long. (Councilmembers Harris, Ellis, Orlando and Stewart)
  • Provide one-time funding of $15,000 to the Cultural Development Department for Museum Wayfinding Signage to simply direct company to their numerous locations all through the Museum campus. (Mayor Hartke, Councilmembers Harris, Ellis, and Orlando)
  • Provide one-time funding of $10,000 to the Cultural Development Department for Jazz Appreciation Month Expansion for the creation of two new packages to serve downtown and the encompassing neighborhoods. (Councilmembers Harris and Ellis)
  • Provide one-time funding of $10,000 to the Cultural Development Department for downtown benches that can function ornamental and practical seating within the Courtyard, a parklet on the nook of San Marcos Place and Commonwealth Avenue in Downtown Chandler. (Councilmembers Harris and Ellis)
  • Provide one-time funding of $15,000 to the Cultural Development Department in partnership with native faculties for a youngsters’ artwork venture to interact native kids and college students. (Councilmember Orlando)
  • Provide one-time funding of $10,000 to the Cultural Development Department for added funding for the End Zone Experience to additional improve attendee expertise. (Councilmember Harris)
  • Provide one-time funding of $10,000 to the City Manager Department, DEI Division, for DEI Mini-Grant funding which permits the City to fund as much as 20 packages that present variety training to Okay-12 Chandler college students. (Mayor Hartke, Councilmembers Harris, Ellis and Orlando)
  • Provide one-time funding of $10,000 to the City Manager Department, DEI Division, for added funding for Chandler Contigo. (Mayor Hartke, Councilmembers Ellis and Orlando)
  • Provide one-time funding of $12,000 to the City Manager Department, DEI Division, for Sister Cities. This preliminary funding would kick-start this system and fundraising efforts, with the purpose of the newly established board to create ongoing fundraising alternatives in future years. (Mayor Hartke and Councilmember Lopez)
  • Provide ongoing funding of $10,000 to the City Manager Department, DEI Division, for a First Ladies of Chandler occasion to acknowledge ladies’s contributions to Chandler’s successes in coordination with International Women’s Day. (Councilmembers Ellis and Harris)
  • Provide one-time funding of $5,000 to the City Manager Department, DEI Division, to assist the International Film Festival to reinforce the attendee expertise and hyperlink Sister Cities worldwide efforts to the occasion. (Councilmembers Ellis and Harris)
  • Provide ongoing funding of $7,000 to the City Manager Department, DEI Division, for the Chandler Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (MLK), Jr. occasion to spotlight the contributions of the African American neighborhood to Chandler. (Councilmembers Harris and Ellis)
  • Provide one-time funding of $5,000 to the City Manager Department, DEI Division, for Mental Health Resources to assist community-wide packages and occasions geared to assist kids and adults who’re scuffling with psychological well being points of melancholy, anxiousness, suicidal ideas and self-harm. (Councilmember Harris)
  • Provide one-time funding of $5,000 to the City Manager Department, DEI Division, to assist actions for the Juneteenth vacation. (Councilmembers Harris and Ellis)
  • Provide one-time funding of $7,500 to the City Manager’s Department, Economic Development Division, to assist the Start-Up Weekend occasion. (Councilmember Stewart)
  • Provide one-time funding of $1,000 to the City Manager’s Department, Economic Development Division, for Business Roundtables focusing on African American, Women and Hispanic owned companies. (Councilmember Harris)
  • Provide $74,000 to the City Manager’s Department, Facilities and Fleet Division, for a Solar Car Charging Station Pilot Program. Funds might be used to amass a photo voltaic automobile charging station for use to cost the City’s growing electrical automobile fleet. (Mayor Hartke, Councilmembers Ellis and Orlando)
  • Provide one-time funding of $30,000 to the Fire Department for the rehabilitation of a Fire Support automobile for use as an incident cooling station (Mayor Hartke, Councilmembers Ellis and Orlando)
  • Provide one-time funding of $10,000 to the Neighborhood Resources Department for a particular occasion at Hoopes Park as a comply with as much as the Envision Amberwood occasion. (Mayor Hartke and Councilmember Lopez)
  • Provide one-time funding of $1,000 to the Neighborhood Resources Department for Public Housing senior vacation occasions. The Housing and Redevelopment Division hosts annual vacation packages that serve roughly 50 Public Housing seniors from Kingston and Chandler’s household housing websites. This request is for objects not coated by donations or by the Division’s funds. (Mayor Hartke, Vice Mayor Roe, and Councilmembers Orlando, Ellis, Stewart, Lopez and Harris)
  • Provide one-time funding of $10,000 to the Neighborhood Resources Department for provides for Chandler back-to-school occasions. (Councilmembers Ellis and Harris)
  • Provide one-time funding of $10,000 to the Police Department for the acquisition of Human Trafficking Surveillance tools. (Mayor Hartke, Councilmembers Orlando, Ellis, Stewart, Lopez and Harris)
  • Provide ongoing funding of $20,000 to the Police Department for Human Trafficking Officer Training. (Councilmembers Lopez and Stewart)
• Approved a decision authorizing the Enhanced Municipal Services District (EMSD) settlement for fiscal yr 2022-23 between the City and the Downtown Chandler Community Partnership, and approved the City’s voluntary contribution to the EMSD within the quantity of $118,804.
• Approved the only supply buy of two Beam Global EV ARC 2020 photo voltaic powered EV charging stations in an quantity to not exceed $145,350. The automobile charging station might be put in on the City Fleet Division constructing on the Armstrong Yard, situated close to McQueen Road and Armstrong Way. There is at the moment no charging station at this constructing.
• Approved an settlement with Accela, Inc., for annual upkeep, in an quantity to not exceed $674,686, for a three-year interval, starting July 1, 2022, via June 30, 2025. The Accela utility is the system that manages the City’s allowing and inspection companies, new installations for water meters, impression charges, and on-line plan submittal and assessment. This utility is significant to City revenues and operations and have to be saved absolutely maintained and supported.
• Approved an settlement with Parsus Solutions, LLC, for enterprise license portal functions managed assist companies, within the quantity of $222,000, for the interval of June 15, 2022, via June 14, 2023. This on-line portal permits prospects to register their enterprise, provoke a liquor license or particular occasion liquor license, and apply for specialty licenses (e.g. therapeutic massage, peddler, second hand seller, and many others.), in addition to renew, pay, and print enterprise registrations with out the necessity to go to City Hall.
• Approved the acquisition of information backup and restoration capability growth, from vCore Technology Partners, within the quantity of $628,769. Chandler depends on information safety companies to make sure vital information and companies are backed up on a daily foundation, with the flexibility to revive/get better in assist of enterprise continuity in accordance with native and state pointers.
• Approved the acquisition of community infrastructure tools, from Sentinel Technologies, Inc., in an quantity to not exceed $1,196,037. Chandler’s budgeted tools lifecycle for community infrastructure tools is evaluated yearly to find out reliability, supportability and viability for continued use.  This assessment recognized that the community tools used to offer community connectivity at numerous areas within the City has reached the top of helpful life.
• Approved the only supply buy of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system annual assist and upkeep, from CentralSquare Technologies, LLC, within the quantity of $101,474, for the time period of July 1, 2022, via June 30, 2023. Lucity is the EAM system that manages the City’s service and work requests, coordinates preventative upkeep packages, and tracks City asset upkeep all through the asset’s life cycle. This system additionally handles resident service requests.
• Approved the acquisition of Oracle annual assist and upkeep, from Mythics, Inc., within the quantity of $300,171, for the time period of Aug. 1, 2022, via July 31, 2023. The City makes use of Oracle database merchandise to retailer information for the next main techniques: Permits and Inspections, Utility Billing, Geographic Information Systems, Tax & License Application and quite a few different departmental techniques.
• Adopted a decision authorizing acceptance of the award of the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission FY22 Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding Program within the quantity of $60,545.25. The award gives funding to help eligible state, native, and tribal models of authorities responding to the novel coronavirus. The Police Department utilized for the funds to buy AVON gasoline masks for law enforcement officials, laptops for officer recruits and software program licenses for the awarded laptops.
• Approved the acquisition of Police Property & Evidence walk-in freezer and set up companies, growing the spending restrict by $16,500.00, for a revised quantity to not exceed $72,538.12. The Police Property & Evidence Unit receives, shops, and disposes of objects of proof impounded by officers as allowed by regulation. The present proof freezer is nearing capability and a further freezer is required.
• Approved the acquisition of silo platform set up companies, from SDB, Inc., in an quantity to not exceed $250,000. This buy will fund each the development and set up of the brand new security platform on the Ocotillo Water Reclamation Facility (OWRF), situated at 3333 S. Old Price Road. The facility treats as much as 18 million gallons per day of wastewater from the companies and residents of Chandler.
• Approved an settlement with Simpleview, LLC, for search engine marketing and ppc companies on Go toChandler.com, in an quantity to not exceed $75,200, for the interval of one yr, starting July 1, via June 30, 2023. Funding for this settlement comes from the Proposition 302 Maricopa County Grant program accessible to vacation spot advertising organizations within the County and is run by the Arizona Office of Tourism.
• Approved the acquisition of EditShare tools, from EAR Professional Audio Video, within the quantity of $71,987. The buy is for a video manufacturing storage system that permits video footage to be uploaded, saved and shared amongst employees as they edit and produce video packages that includes City packages and companies.
• Appointed Beatriz Ramirez to the City’s Human Relations Commission.

In addition, a public listening to was held to permit taxpayers to remark and supply enter on the funds, capital enchancment program and property tax levies. The employees presentation might be seen on-line: bit.ly/3xtaiyD.

The Regular City Council assembly adjourned at 6:08 p.m.

In addition to the Regular Meeting on June 9, the City Council additionally had a Special Meeting the place they authorised a decision to undertake the Annual Budget within the quantity of $ 1,352,658,536; setting forth the receipts and expenditures, and the quantities proposed to be raised by direct property taxation for the varied functions for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-23, and adopted the 2023-2032 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) within the quantity of $1,664,735,200.

During a Study Session held on Monday, June 6, Mayor Harkte and the Council acknowledged Warren White from the City’s Public Works and Utilities Department for 20 years of devoted service.

The subsequent assembly of the Chandler City Council might be at 6 p.m. Monday, June 20. Council conferences are aired reside, in addition to replayed on the Chandler Channel – Cable Channel 11, streamed on-line at chandleraz.gov/video and on YouTube at youtube.com/cityofchandler.

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Note: These are usually not official assembly minutes of the City Council however slightly a quick recap of the Council’s actions supplied as a courtesy of the Chandler Communications and Public Affairs Department.

 

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