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Goodyear City Council approves consent agenda, adopts 2025 engineering standards ordinance; votes 7-0 to enter executive session on contract negotiations and a
Summary
At its Sept. 8 meeting, the Goodyear City Council approved a consent agenda of five items including adoption of an updated engineering design standards ordinance and later voted 7-0 to enter executive session to discuss contract negotiations and pending litigation.
At its Sept. 8 meeting, the Goodyear City Council approved a consent agenda of five items and later voted to convene an executive session to discuss contract negotiations and pending litigation.
The city clerk read consent-agenda items by title: approval of minutes (Item 1); approval of a Series 12 restaurant liquor license for Life Cafe (Item 2); approval of budget amendments and related expenditure authority (Item 3); adoption of Ordinance No. 2025-1638, "adopting City of Goodyear Engineering Design Standards and Policies Manual 2025 edition" and repealing Ordinance No. 17-1359 as read at the meeting (Item 4); and adoption of Resolution No. 2025-2488 ratifying conditional approval authorizing submission of an application for fiscal year 2026 Arizona Department of Public Safety anti-human-trafficking grant (Item 5). The council moved, seconded and the items were approved on the consent agenda.
During the meeting the council then voted to call an executive session pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes §38-431.03(A)(3) and (4) for legal advice and to provide instruction to the city attorney and city manager regarding the city's position in connection with contracts subject to negotiation associated with the "GSQ project," and to consult with the city attorney regarding pending or contemplated litigation to provide instruction concerning litigation or settlement discussions related to Foresight v. City of Goodyear Manor. The motion to call the executive session carried on a recorded voice vote; the mayor announced the ayes prevailed and the recorded result was "7 0." Council then cleared the chambers to convene the executive session.
The consent-agenda vote was taken without members removing items for separate discussion; no individual roll-call vote names were recorded in the minutes read into the record at the meeting. The executive-session vote was recorded as unanimous (7-0). No further details about the GSQ contracts or the litigation were disclosed in open session.
