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El Mirage mayor touts technology, parks and public safety in 2025 State of the City
Summary
Mayor Alexis Edemancio presented the city’s 2025 digital State of the City, highlighting technology upgrades including OpenGov and ClearGov platforms, police accreditation, parks land purchase, water-meter replacement work and more than $2 million in recent grant awards.
Mayor Alexis Edemancio presented the City of El Mirage’s 2025 digital State of the City report at the council meeting on Feb. 19, 2025, outlining investments in technology, parks, public safety and infrastructure.
Edemancio said the city has adopted new cloud-based tools to improve permitting, procurement and budget transparency, mentioning a digital procurement portal through OpenGov and an interactive budget platform through ClearGov. “The city’s budget is available online and in a variety of formats on a platform called ClearGov,” Edemancio said.
The mayor listed several performance recognitions and program highlights. She said the city had received the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for five straight years and earned the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for the thirteenth straight year. The city’s police department recently became accredited through the Arizona Law Enforcement Accreditation Program, and the police responded to more than 12,000 calls for service in the last year, the mayor said. The fire department responded to more than 4,000 calls and expanded community outreach including CPR training, smoke-detector walks and car-seat safety events.
Edemancio described recent parks work and acquisitions: the city purchased 13 acres adjacent to Basin Park to expand its parklands and now manages more than 50 acres of parks, trails and open spaces. Infrastructure projects the mayor highlighted include the Geyser Road widening, the Fifth Avenue sanitary sewer replacement and the First Avenue roadway drainage project; the mayor said those projects and others are tracked on the city website.
On utilities, the mayor said the city had launched a water-meter replacement program and brought technicians in-house to improve customer contact during system upgrades. She also credited a grant that provided a new piece of training equipment for the fire department, saying it reduces water use by the apparatus involved.
Edemancio noted the city had secured more than $2,000,000 in grant funding since fiscal 2024 and emphasized partnerships with regional agencies and local businesses, including a Northwest Valley YMCA partnership that enabled free community swim Sundays.
The presentation was delivered as a city-produced video and accompanied by the city manager’s written annual report, which the mayor said are available on the city website and social media channels.
