City Council Meeting

Meeting location: City of Apache Junction, Arizona City Council Chambers at City Hall Meeting Minutes 300 E Superstition Blvd Apache Junction, AZ City Council Meeting 85119 www.ajcity.net Ph: (480) 982-8002 Tuesday, August 20, 2013 7:00 PM City Council Chambers This document may not reflect the most current legislation adopted by the City of Apache Junction and is for convenience and informational use only. For further information on the official version of council meeting minutes please contact the Apache Junction City Clerk’s office at (480) 982-8002. A. CALL TO ORDER The regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Apache Junction, Arizona, was held on August 20, 2013, at the Apache Junction City Council Chambers pursuant to the notice required by law. Mayor Insalaco called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. B. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Councilmember Wilson gave the Invocation. Councilmember Serdy led the Pledge of Allegiance. C. ROLL CALL Present: 6- Mayor Insalaco Vice Mayor Barker Councilmember Rizzi Councilmember Serdy Councilmember Waldron Councilmember Wilson Absent: 1- Councilmember Evans Staff Present: City Manager George Hoffman Assistant City Manager Bryant Powell City Clerk Kathleen Connelly City Attorney Joel Stern Acting Public Safety Director/Deputy Police Chief Tom Kelly Finance Director Donna Meinerts Assistant to the City Manager Matt Busby Others Present: None. City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 1 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 D. CONSENT AGENDA Yes: 6- Mayor Insalaco, Vice Mayor Barker, Councilmember Rizzi, Councilmember Serdy, Councilmember Waldron and Councilmember Wilson No: 0 Vice Mayor Barker MOVED THAT THE CONSENT AGENDA BE ACCEPTED AS PRESENTED. Councilmember Waldron SECONDED THE MOTION. VOTE: Unanimous. The motion carried. 1. 13-217 Acceptance of agenda. Consideration and action. 2. 13-221 Approval of minutes of special meeting of August 5, 2013. Consideration and action. 3. 13-222 Approval of minutes of regular meeting of August 6, 2013. Consideration and action. E. AWARDS, PRESENTATIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS 4. 13-205 Presentation of Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting as awarded to the city by the Government Finance Officers Association for its comprehensive annual financial report. Presentation. Assistant City Manager Bryant Powell presented Finance Director Donna Meinerts with a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association for the city’s comprehensive annual financial report. F. ANNOUNCEMENT OF CURRENT EVENTS Councilmember Serdy announced the public needs to be aware of possible solar panel scams. He suggested they see some of their work and get some references. The city is looking into this further. G. CITY MANAGER'S REPORT 5. 13-195 City manager's report. Presentation and discussion. City Manager George Hoffman complimented Finance Director Donna City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 2 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 Meinerts and her staff, commented on the library winning the national Harry Potter Award and the activities held with the event, and read a note from Acting Police Chief Tom Kelly to Public Works Director Giao Pham and Parks and Recreation Director Jeff Bell thanking their departments for their help in the coordinated search with Tempe Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding a homicide victim. H. PUBLIC HEARINGS 6. 13-225 Application for a temporary extension of premises permit for Lost Dutchman Fraternal Order of Eagles #3850, located at 2315 South Coconino, for September 28, 2013. This public hearing is the next step in the procedure. The city council shall make a recommendation of approval or denial to be forwarded to the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control. Consideration and action. Yes: 6- Mayor Insalaco, Vice Mayor Barker, Councilmember Rizzi, Councilmember Serdy, Councilmember Waldron and Councilmember Wilson No: 0 City Clerk Kathleen Connelly briefed the council on the item. Mayor Insalaco requested the applicant address the council. An unidentified woman representing Fraternal Order of Eagles #3850 stated this is a fundraiser for the Apache Junction kids. It is a tribute to the Kiss band. All the proceeds will go to the four elementary schools and the middle schools for sporting events and anything else they need. Councilmember Serdy asked if it will be open to the public or just members. The Eagles representative stated it is open to the public. It will be outside in the parking lot. They will be selling tickets for a minimum donation. Councilmember Serdy asked if they want people to come dressed as Kiss. The Eagles representative stated if they would like to. Vice Mayor Barker commented she noticed in the planning division memo they recommended several things for this event - a water truck to wet down the temporary parking lot, additional security personnel and the possibility of noise City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 3 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 complaints. She is sure they are well aware of the last one as they usually shut down before that happens anyway. The Eagles representative stated they have a water truck on the property already and the AJ Mounted Rangers have signed a contract donating their security services for the event. There will be 13 of them. They will also have about 15 of their own officers attending. Mayor Insalaco opened the public hearing on the item. There being no one wishing to speak, he closed the public hearing and reopened it to council discussion. There being no further discussion, he called for a motion. Vice Mayor Barker MOVED THAT THE APPLICATION FOR A TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF PREMISES PERMIT FOR LOST DUTCHMAN FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES #3850 FOR SEPTEMBER 28, 2013, SUBMITTED BY WILLIAM KIMBALL, BE RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL TO THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF LIQUOR LICENSES AND CONTROL. Councilmember Rizzi SECONDED THE MOTION. VOTE: Unanimous. The motion carried. 7. 13-235 Application for an interim permit, person transfer, limited liability co., series 7 liquor license for Handlebar Pub and Grill located at 650 West Apache Trail. This public hearing is the next step in the procedure. The city council shall make a recommendation for approval or denial to be forwarded to the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control. Consideration and action. Yes: 6- Mayor Insalaco, Vice Mayor Barker, Councilmember Rizzi, Councilmember Serdy, Councilmember Waldron and Councilmember Wilson No: 0 City Clerk Kathleen Connelly briefed the council on the item. Mayor Insalaco requested the applicant address the council. Ms. Candace Plzak addressed the council. Councilmember Serdy asked if they would be doing pizzas in the oven outside. Ms. Candace Plzak stated they do not have an outside pizza oven at this time. She added if it is possible to do that in the future they would love to. City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 4 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 Mayor Insalaco opened the public hearing on the item. There being no one wishing to speak, he closed the public hearing and reopened the item to council discussion. There being no further discussion, he called for a motion. Vice Mayor Barker MOVED THAT THE APPLICATION FOR AN INTERIM PERMIT, PERSON TRANSFER, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, SERIES 7 LIQUOR LICENSE FOR HANDLEBAR PUB AND GRILL, SUBMITTED BY PATRICIA CANDACE PLZAK, BE RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL TO THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF LIQUOR LICENSES AND CONTROL. Councilmember Rizzi SECONDED THE MOTION. VOTE: Unanimous. The motion carried. 8. 13-238 Application for an interim permit, new license, limited liability co., series 12 liquor license for Skies Kitchen located at 1535 Old West Highway. This public hearing is the next step in the procedure. The city council shall make a recommendation for approval or denial to be forwarded to the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control. Consideration and action. Yes: 6- Mayor Insalaco, Vice Mayor Barker, Councilmember Rizzi, Councilmember Serdy, Councilmember Waldron and Councilmember Wilson No: 0 City Clerk Kathleen Connelly briefed the council on the item. Mayor Insalaco requested the applicant address the council. Ms. Lee Nugent addressed the council. Councilmember Waldron asked if Superstition Skies is closed. Ms. Lee Nugent stated it is. It has been closed for two months. It will be re-opening on Thursday. They opened the old Sundance back in May. The former Sundance is owned by some people that live in London. They flew in and asked them to take it over. They are leasing it; they have not bought it yet. Councilmember Waldron asked if the other one is opening in a couple of months. Ms. Lee Nugent stated it will be opening in a City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 5 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 couple of days. Mayor Insalaco asked if the liquor license is clear on that one, too. Ms. Lee Nugent stated it is. There was never an issue about the liquor license. It was a personal issue with her. Their attorney did a little double clutching of the law. They got it straightened out and they have to give everything back, including taking everything off the liquor license. Mayor Insalaco commented the application has a question about if they have any live entertainment or dancing and, if so, what type and how often. Stephanie Smith marked no. Ms. Lee Nugent stated they do not plan on having any entertainment in there. They plan on being closed by 9 p.m. The liquor license is primarily for people that come in for dinner, they want to have a drink with dinner, and they close early. She does not intend for it to be a bar. She has a bar and one is enough. This is a restaurant that happens to serve drinks. Stephanie Smith is no longer with us; they will be changing the agent to her son after the council meeting. They will only have entertainment on Friday during dinner. Mayor Insalaco commented it is just entertainment, there is no dancing or anything like that. Ms. Lee Nugent stated it is a single individual. They have a dance floor but it is half the size of this area here. Mayor Insalaco asked the city clerk how this could be taken care of. City Clerk Kathleen Connelly stated they should probably give an updated page or something in writing verifying that there is not going to be entertainment. She just mentioned there will be a change in agents. Ms. Lee Nugent stated she called the city this morning to see if that would be an issue and was told no, they would just need someone here at the meeting to represent the corporation. City Clerk Kathleen Connelly stated that is for this meeting but she may need to update the paperwork with the state. Ms. Lee Nugent stated she called the liquor board and she is more afraid of them than anybody. She called City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 6 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 to find out the procedure and was told to go to the council meeting and if everything is approved there she was then to make an application for a new agent. The agent does not need to be part of the company. City Attorney Joel Stern commented he thinks this should be called an amendment to the application and put the following amendments have been made. Mayor Insalaco asked if he meant the music. City Attorney Joel Stern stated in regards to what they have been talking about such as the person and the music. It should be submitted to the city clerk. Ms. Lee Nugent asked if there was any other problem. City Attorney Joel Stern stated there is no other problem. Ms. Lee Nugent asked if there is a problem with her name here. City Attorney Joel Stern stated there is not and he believes they can still act on this tonight. He thinks for the purpose of the record that the city clerk is correct. It does need to be amended. Ms. Lee Nugent asked if she does that. City Attorney Joel Stern stated she should do that and submit it to the city clerk tomorrow. Ms. Lee Nugent stated she could do that tomorrow. Councilmember Serdy asked if the menu is available for take-out. Ms. Lee Nugent stated it is. They have a lot of things. Mayor Insalaco opened the public hearing on the item. There being no one wishing to speak, he closed the public hearing and reopened the item to council discussion. There being no further discussion, he called for a motion. Councilmember Waldron MOVED THAT THE APPLICATION FOR AN INTERIM PERMIT, NEW LICENSE, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, SERIES 12 LIQUOR LICENSE FOR SKIES KITCHEN, City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 7 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 SUBMITTED BY STEPHANIE LYNN SMITH, BE RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL TO THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF LIQUOR LICENSES AND CONTROL. Vice Mayor Barker SECONDED THE MOTION. VOTE: Unanimous. The motion carried. I. OLD BUSINESS None. J. NEW BUSINESS 9. 13-207 Presentation and discussion on the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 Legislative Work Plan. Presentation and discussion. Assistant to the City Manager Matt Busby briefed the council on the item. Vice Mayor Barker commented the code changes under internal issues are the result of the legislative actions that were taken. Assistant to the City Manager Matt Busby stated that is correct. With the tax simplification there will need to be a couple of specific changes that need to take place, along with some of the election bills. Councilmember Waldron asked if it were possible to get a status update on some of them that are being carried forward and are in the process of being done. Assistant to the City Manager Matt Busby asked if he wanted that in written format or a verbal update in a meeting. Councilmember Waldron commented it could be tacked on in here. An example would be where they stand on the process of the comprehensive zoning code update. Assistant to the City Manager Matt Busby stated it would be a status update in the narrative right below it. Councilmember Waldron commented that is what he was thinking. Vice Mayor Barker commented there are several City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 8 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 of these they have been working on and she knows work has been done on them. Assistant to the City Manager Matt Busby stated that one was a good example as they have been working on it for over a year. They are almost there. Councilmember Waldron commented they just want to see where things stand. Assistant City Manager Bryant Powell stated there has been a lot of work done on the first four, in fact, the first six. Vice Mayor Barker asked if the public safety pawn shop change was brought up last spring. Assistant to the City Manager Matt Busby stated it might have been a year ago. This is the second year this had been on. Vice Mayor Barker asked if they are working with that. City Attorney Joel Stern stated this goes back almost two years. To his knowledge, there has never been a direction to staff to bring this back. Although there has been no direction, in contemplation of that happening he did several drafts and it has been discussed internally. There have been changes to those drafts and council has not seen it as it is not ready. Vice Mayor Barker commented so we are actually working on it, but slowly. City Attorney Joel Stern stated that is correct but they have been looking at it with no direction. There has been no official direction to bring it back as an ordinance. City Clerk Kathleen Connelly commented some of the Chapter 8 changes caused by the tax simplification process will most likely impact how we collect taxes and regulate pawn shops. Vice Mayor Barker commented she was thinking about that while she looked at the new changes. It looked as though some of them would impact that. City Clerk Kathleen Connelly stated we have to stop looking from the tax collection process to the licensing process. City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 9 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 Councilmember Serdy asked if there is still the one active pawn shop. City Clerk Kathleen Connelly stated she thought the city has several. City Attorney Joel Stern stated he believed that is a police chief issue. He knows the answer. Acting Public Safety Director/Deputy Police Chief Tom Kelly stated there are four or five. Vice Mayor Barker commented she did not realize that. Mayor Insalaco asked where they are all at. Councilmember Serdy commented for a long time we had none. City Clerk Kathleen Connelly stated the city has a few. Vice Mayor Barker asked where they are. Acting Public Safety Director/Deputy Police Chief Tom Kelly stated a couple of them are not what one would call a traditional pawn shop. They take in things but sell them elsewhere. They do not actually sell but they are still classified pawn shops. They also have some that are considered a pawn shop by ordinance that are taking in gold, jewelry and other items. Vice Mayor Barker commented they would take in coins. Acting Public Safety Director/Deputy Police Chief Tom Kelly stated there are probably four or five that they actively get continual, limited information from. Councilmember Serdy asked about the antique mall. Acting Public Safety Director/Deputy Police Chief Tom Kelly stated the antique mall is one of the quasi- spots where they do take in things for sale and pawn. They are back and forth with them. They were working with them at one time and it comes and goes as the investigations go back and forth. They have been working with the police department on a regular basis. City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 10 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 Vice Mayor Barker commented she would like to see a couple of these come back in the very near future. She would like to see number ten come back for a discussion in the first work session in October. It is the school district intergovernmental agreement. She would also like to see the alternative street funding in the second work session in October. Councilmember Serdy commented they talked about something once before when the budget was being cut but it is kind of stabilized now. Without putting it onto a work session, he would like some information on the feasibility of broadcasting the planning and zoning commission meetings. He knows staff is overworked on that, but they are also looking at succession. He asked if there was anyone else that could do that. It does not have to be as elaborately broadcast as these. They could use one automatic camera. It would be nice to tune in and watch them for the council’s research. City Manager George Hoffman stated what would be ideal in his perspective is to have that be an item that is put on the legislative work plan. Staff can do their assessment, come back, have a conversation, and get council direction to staff on it. They can consider that an item if there is head nodding. They can bring it back in a draft and it will be a perfect discussion item. Vice Mayor Barker asked if they can also look at the possibility of in town folks getting some kind of break when they bid for items. Several cities have done that now. City Attorney Joel Stern commented there are some really, deep legal issues with that. They have talked about it and there has never been a direction on that, also. He has talked to the city manager about it. He has seen ordinances from other cities. Summing up the legal issue, if it is a charter city they can probably do it, although some charter cities do not necessarily agree with that interpretation. If it is not a charter city, some non-charter cities have done it and, while he does not want to get into the legal issues here, there is a legal issue if that is done. Mayor Insalaco asked him to explain a charter city very quickly. City Attorney Joel Stern stated a charter city is where a charter is basically the constitution of the city. If the city does not have a charter, then basically the Arizona Revised State Statutes guide everything that is done. In Apache Junction, that is how it is. The statutes are used to guide City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 11 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 everything we do. Apache Junction does not have a charter. City Manager George Hoffman stated establishing a charter is a multi-year process where they end up going to the voters to ask if the city can conduct itself in a certain manner. Some cities have done that but many have not. We have to comply with state legislation. Councilmember Serdy commented one of the cities in the far west side just did this. They are set up differently than us and that is how they were allowed to do this. Vice Mayor Barker commented they are not a charter city. City Manager George Hoffman stated he has on his desk a three or four page summary from Anna McCray on this subject. Tomorrow staff is meeting to go over that. If it works for the council, they will wrap up that analysis and get it to them. They can then decide whether they want to consider this item further and put it on a work plan or decide it is not something they want to pursue. He asked if that plan works. Vice Mayor Barker stated it does. Assistant to the City Manager Matt Busby stated he has an item highlighted that he believes is a combination of two older items. It is a little different than a local preference, but it may be what the council wishes to amend this item to reflect. City Manager George Hoffman stated he was thinking that it had a best value, but he did not remember. City Clerk Kathleen Connelly stated that was from Tucson. Vice Mayor Barker asked if that is the one where they did not necessarily look at this. It was the lowest bid. They looked at the bid which would give us what we considered the best value for what we were putting out there. In her mind this is a totally different thing. City Attorney Joel Stern stated he thinks there was some sort of aspect of local preference built in to that with the Tucson ordinance. City Manager George Hoffman stated the Tucson ordinance is definitely with a local preference. Vice Mayor Barker commented they are a charter City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 12 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 city. City Attorney Joel Stern stated they are a charter city and they do all sorts of things. They won some recent case law on certain election issues. Councilmember Wilson asked a question about number fifteen (his microphone was off). Assistant to the City Manager Matt Busby stated he believed Public Works Manager Shane Kiesow had already brought this forward. Vice Mayor Barker agreed. Assistant to the City Manager Matt Busby stated he might be thinking of number eleven. It is a little more tied to the revenue discussion, the transportation strategic ordinance. Vice Mayor Barker stated it is the 10 year plan. Assistant to the City Manager Matt Busby stated he did not know if it was more along what he was thinking or not. The annual street maintenance plan has already been approved by the council. City Attorney Joel Stern stated he is not trying to disagree with him but there was an item involving a certain contractor and planned street maintenance and construction projects for fiscal year 2013-2014 where it was mentioned in the line. There was a discussion about the annual maintenance plan even though it was not the main agenda item. The main agenda item was to select a certain contractor who would supply the maintenance items. Vice Mayor Barker commented this is where we saw all the colored lines, et cetera, that said this would be done first and this needed to be done but probably could not. City Attorney Joel Stern stated that is correct. Technically that item was not this item. He believes that item was to select Sunland Asphalt. They could do another one and talk more in depth. He believes it has not technically been brought to them as an item. City Manager George Hoffman stated practically it was and technically it was not. Realistically, if they are going to have a discussion item on the big picture on streets, they will get all that data and they will want to look at it again. They need to be informed on what has been done so far, City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 13 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 what the current condition of the roadway system is, what they are doing about it this year and what gaps exist for the future. Whether they break it out or hear it again separately, to have a holistic, comprehensive discussion of roads they will need to consider all those things. Vice Mayor Barker agreed and requested they all be put in there. Councilmember Serdy commented he is very interested in numbers 38 through 41. He would like to see them blend some of this together and bring in more. There is also the Arizona Commerce Authority, the Arizona Office of Tourism, and Greater Phoenix Economic Council and they have the land down south the city wants to highlight and showcase. He suggested upping the involvement with our public information and visitor center. Right now they are separate. This could even involve parks and recreation. When looking at other cities, parks and recreation is the face of the city. They are the welcoming center whenever there is an event. He is not sure how to word this but he would like to have more highlighting of the city for business/commerce events instead of having all these together. In the future the city can merge the economic development to make it stronger. Instead of having one person do this, have them all cross-trained and work on this. If something starts to break loose with Portalis, he thinks it would be important that we have all these resources. He does not think they are using all the resources now that are at our disposal. If other people are already doing it, whether it be the Commerce Authority or Office of Tourism or Greater Phoenix Economic Council, have someone on this. We have not used all the assets in the past. City Manager George Hoffman asked if that would be reflected on a work plan as a discussion about how we expand and have a coordinated outreach effort. They could still work on the language but he wanted to make sure he had the right idea. Councilmember Serdy commented right now when certain things happen he is not sure if it goes to Janine, Matt or someone else. He wants to have a better understanding on how they are going to attract things to happen down there on the Portalis land, instead of just sitting back and waiting. If they do this effort, other people and other communities are going to see that and see that the city is laying the groundwork here to get things to happen out there. We have not done that in the past. They have hoped that someone comes and builds something. He would like to see more of an effort to showcase the land down there and showcase our downtown. They still will be separate entities with economic development and public information but have them together more. He suggested they bring in parks and recreation, too. When they have an event, City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 14 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 parks and recreation is the one who runs it. They are actually already a part of it even though we have not realized it in the past. He would like more discussion on if there is anything more they can do on that and how they can tie it together to use all of the state’s assets and the chamber’s assets. City Manager George Hoffman asked if there was enough information there for something to be drafted. Assistant to the City Manager Matt Busby stated there was. Mayor Insalaco closed the item with no further comments. This was a discussion item only and he moved on to the next item. 10. 13-232 Discussion on possible city council and staff strategic planning session. Discussion only. City Manager George Hoffman briefed the council on the item. Mayor Insalaco commented he does not like long meetings any better than anyone else, but when it came to that 3:00 p.m. time frame there were still a lot of people who had things to say and wanted to get done last time. It never got done. The time limit was more important. City Manager George Hoffman stated council made it clear at the start that they wanted to be done by a certain time. The facilitator worked to that. He or she will seek to be responsive to whatever time frame they are interested in. He thinks what happened is exactly what he said. It was a good, dynamic, vibrant discussion and it felt like it got artificially cut short. Mayor Insalaco commented they did not get the chance to finish what they were talking about. He asked what would happen if they cannot get their point across. City Clerk Kathleen Connelly stated the city manager is correct. It was a request of council that it end by a particular time because of NASCAR. City Manager George Hoffman stated now we are really getting honest about what happened. He left that out. He thinks it is far better to have had a working session in where we say we would have liked to have spent more time then next time keep it to two hours. Councilmember Waldron commented he would City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 15 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 personally like to just do it. They could even get Lance back to facilitate it. He did a great job. Councilmember Rizzi commented she thinks it is a very valuable tool. She would not hold anybody to a time limit. Mayor Insalaco commented they do not want to go to midnight. It seemed like they had just had something to eat and they had a couple of hours and then they have something else to eat and before they know it, it is 3:00 p.m. and they are done. He is not complaining; he is just trying to make it better next year. City Manager George Hoffman asked them to give it some thought. If it is alright, he will bring it back in a couple of weeks for council direction to staff. They can look at their calendars for spring of 2014 and they can give direction to do it and if they want a facilitator, such as having it in April or something. He asked the city clerk if she was aware of any issues for that time of year next year. City Clerk Kathleen Connelly stated she was not aware of any other than some people go away for Easter. City Manager George Hoffman stated they should look at the calendars for something like that. City Clerk Kathleen Connelly stated if it is going to run late they need to pick a venue that allows us to stay there. Mayor Insalaco closed the discussion with no further comments. This was a discussion item only and he moved on to the next item. 11. 13-236 Discussion on Ride Choice agreement for Fiscal Year (FY) 2013-2014. This item give the city council the opportunity to discuss the agreement for this fiscal year. Staff recommendation is to keep the funding at the same level as in FY 2012-2013. Discussion only. City Clerk Kathleen Connelly briefed the council on the item. Vice Mayor Barker commented it is at the same level. City Clerk Kathleen Connelly stated it is at the same level as it has been for at least the last two years and maybe even three. City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 16 City Council Meeting Meeting Minutes August 20, 2013 Mayor Insalaco closed the discussion with no further comments. This was a discussion item only and he moved on to the next item. K. COUNCIL DIRECTION TO STAFF None. L. SELECTION OF MEETING DATES, TIMES, LOCATIONS, AND PURPOSES Vice Mayor Barker commented the work session for September 2, 2013 has been cancelled due to the observance of Labor Day. She MOVED THAT AN EXECUTIVE SESSION AT 5:45 P.M. AND A WORK SESSION AT 7:00 P.M. BE HELD ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2013, IN THE CITY COUNCIL CONFERENCE ROOM AND CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS RESPECTIVELY. Councilmember Waldron SECONDED THE MOTION. (During the vote Councilmember Wilson advised he will be out of town that weekend and may call in.) VOTE: Unanimous. The motion carried. 12. 13-197 Executive Session at 5:45 P.M. and Work Session at 7:00 P.M. for Monday, September 2, 2013 is canceled due to the observation of Labor Day. 13. 13-196 Executive Session at 5:45 P.M. and a Work Session at 7:00 P.M. for Tuesday, September 3, 2013. Other meetings if necessary. M. CALL TO PUBLIC None. N. ADJOURNMENT Mayor Insalaco adjourned the meeting at 7:50 p.m. City of Apache Junction, Arizona Page 17