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Votes at a glance: drone purchase, Axon renewal, Honeywell system, waste-water transfers, tank change order, liquor-license recommendation, IGA approved
Summary
The City Council approved purchases for public safety and infrastructure, ratified a wastewater budget transfer, approved a major change order for a water tank, recommended a liquor license, and adopted an IGA to provide weekend/holiday municipal court coverage with Yuma County.
At the meeting the council took the following recorded actions: it approved the purchase of two autonomous DFR drones and analytics for up to $85,000 (grant-funded); approved a five-year Axon contract renewal including cameras and cloud storage (total presented as $822,488.73; first-year payment ~ $164,296); approved purchase of a Honeywell Phoenix G2 station alerting system ($477,387.29); ratified a $65,000 wastewater budget transfer to fund a CMU wall at the East Wastewater Treatment Plant; approved change order 2A for Well Site 3 in the amount of $116,250; recommended approval of a liquor license for Superstar Smoke and Vape No. 4 at 541 N Main Street to the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control; and approved resolution 2408 authorizing an IGA with Yuma County for weekend and holiday municipal court coverage (under $100/month, renewable for four years).
Most approvals were completed by motion and voice vote after staff presentations and brief council questions. The meeting also included a contentious exchange over senior-center rules that ended with a motion to convene an immediate work session for further review.
