Mesa City Council unanimously approves broad consent agenda including police headquarters renovation and public-safety vehicles

Mesa City Council voted unanimously Feb. 24 to approve a multi-item consent agenda covering infrastructure contracts, equipment purchases and several zoning ordinances.

The consent agenda approved contracts for the State Route 202 Red Mountain shared-use path (with most project funding to be reimbursed by a federal grant), a construction-manager-at-risk guaranteed maximum price (GMP No. 1) for renovation of the Mesa Police Department headquarters funded by the 2022 public safety bonds and public-safety sales tax, and a construction contract for Sloane Park women’s locker room and performance lab. The council also approved a range of term contracts and cooperative-purchase uses for water-reclamation chemicals, blower parts and services, industrial plumbing supplies, vehicle parts and fleet tires, building materials, locks and door hardware, and pavement preservation materials.

The council approved the use of a cooperative contract to buy one replacement aircraft-rescue-and-firefighting vehicle and one replacement platform aerial ladder truck for the Mesa Fire and Medical Department; the transcript shows the purchase is funded by the 2022 public-safety bonds. Council members also approved a resolution authorizing Mesa Police Department staff to submit grant applications to the Arizona governor’s office for highway-safety grant funds and approved a resolution to extend a natural gas transportation service agreement with El Paso Natural Gas Company for a 50-year supply period. The council voted to extinguish portions of public-utilities easements at 139 North Dobson Road to accommodate a multifamily development.

On land-use and fees, the council approved several zoning ordinances (zoning cases listed on the consent agenda) including rezonings with plan area development overlays and site-plan review, a rezoning to allow outdoor storage yards at a site near Sossaman Road and Pecos Road, and an ordinance amending Mesa City Code Title 5, Chapter 17 to remove the water-impact-fee category column to confirm discontinuation of that fee.

Mr. Christopher, who read the consent list at the meeting, outlined the items before the council vote. A motion to approve the consent agenda was made by Miss Bilsbury and seconded by Miss Duff; the vote was recorded as unanimous in the public meeting transcript.

No separate discussion or roll call of individual items is recorded in the public transcript; the items were enacted together by a single motion.

The council also separately handled Item 6, a request to continue introduction of a zoning ordinance for proposed lofts at 121 and 129 North Beverly. Vice Mayor Summers moved to continue the introduction to the March 17, 2025, council meeting; Councilmember Duff seconded, and the continuance was approved unanimously.

The council did not record further committee directions or additional staff assignments on these consent items in the transcript excerpt.