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Votes at a glance: Phoenix council approves multiple ordinances, contracts and historic designations
Summary
At its Dec. 3 meeting, Phoenix City Council approved a range of items including a campaign finance ordinance (G 7,460), historic-preservation overlays, airport paving contracts, and multiple planning items; the council also disapproved item 30 (a HOME-ARP funding item for the Salvation Army).
The Phoenix City Council on Dec. 3 took a series of formal votes across consent, ordinance and zoning items. Highlights of actions taken at the meeting include:
- Item 11 (Hatcher Beer and Smoke Shop): Council recommended disapproval based on neighborhood protests and outstanding building/zoning compliance; the motion to disapprove passed unanimously.
- Item 16 (Ordinance G 7,460): Council adopted an ordinance amending Chapter 12, Article 7 of the Phoenix City Code to add a section on campaign finance reporting requirements for political action committees and candidate committees; vote passed 8–0.
- Item 68 (KPHO historic preservation overlay): City approved historic-overlay recognition for the KPHO studio building, honoring Arizona’s first television broadcast (12/04/1949); item passed unanimously.
- Item 30 (HOME-ARP funding for Salvation Army project): Council voted to disapprove the item (motion to disapprove passed 8–0); Councilwoman Hodge Washington had emphasized the importance of HOME-ARP funds for sheltering families and seniors in her remarks prior to the vote.
- Item 32 (Mountain Preserve maintenance services): Approved 8–0 (see separate coverage for details on Echo Canyon repairs).
- Items 46 and 48 (Deer Valley and Phoenix-Goodyear airport paving projects): Approved 8–0, with labor-union speakers endorsing local union contractor selection.
- Items 71 and 72 (administrative design review text amendment and Preserve Historic Phoenix 2025 plan update): Both adopted 8–0; staff outlined five goals for the preservation plan and proposed public education and incentive strategies.
Several other items in a larger omnibus motion (items 12–77) were approved with listed exclusions; where roll-call tallies were reported the results were recorded in the official minutes.
No ordinances were defeated at this meeting; several items were continued or withdrawn per the clerk’s announcements.
