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Home My WebLink About05/01/2012 Regular Council Meeting Minutes�� r� a?e aau�«,� MINUTES REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING 11555 W. Civic Center Drive, Marana, Arizona 85653 Council Chambers, May 1, 2012, at or after 7:00 PM Ed Honea, Mayor Patti Comerford, Vice Mayor David Bowen, Council Member Herb Kai, Council Member Carol McGorray, Council Member Jon Post, Council Member Roxanne Ziegler, Council Member REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL. Mayor Honea called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. Town Clerk Bronson called roll. All Council Members were present. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE/INVOCATION/MOMENT OF SILENCE. Led by Mayor Honea. APPROVAL OF AGENDA. Motion to approve by Council Member McGorray, second by Council Member Bowen. Passed unanimously. CALL TO THE PUBLIC. David Morales spoke regarding wastewater/sewer issues. PROCLAMATIONS Municipal Clerk's Week Proclamation. Read by Gilbert Davidson. Relatin to su�port for Veterans. Read by Jocelyn Bronson. MAYOR AND COUNCIL REPORTS: SUMMARY OF CURRENT EVENTS Vice Mayor Comerford reported on the SK Run for the Chamber's fundraiser for a running track at Coyote Trail Elementary School which she and the Mayor walked. Council Member Bowen reported on the flight he took as part of the Collings Foundation Flight of Freedom event last weekend. Mayor Honea reported on the Pinal Partnership event he attended with Mr. May 1, 2012 Council Meeting Minutes 1 Davidson and Mr. Post. He also commented on the Chamber's SK event. MANAGER' S REPORT: SUMMARY OF CURRENT EVENTS Mr. Davidson highlighted that the Marana police department is the first in the state to achieve the status of 9-1-1 Call Center partner. This required hundreds of hours of training, drafting and adopting new policies and practices and that the dispatchers are prepared to take calls regarding missing and/or exploited children. PRESENTATIONS CONSENT AGENDA. Motion to approve by Council Member Post, second by Council Member Ziegler. Passed unanimously. C 1: Resolution No. 2012-24: Relating to Economic Development; Supporting the F-35 Lightning II Fighter for the United States Air Force and Air National Guard to be based at Luke AFB and Tucson International Airport C 2: Resolution No. 2012-25: Relating to Personnel; approving and authorizing staff to implement employee benefit rates for fiscal year 2012-2013 C 3: Minutes of the April 17, 2012 regular meeting LIQUOR LICENSES BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES COUNCIL ACTION ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION/POSSIBLE ACTION D 1: Relatin� to Intergovernmental Relations: Agreement with the State Cartographers Office for location of a base station. Presented by Carl Drescher, who stated that this is an opportunity to provide a higher level of accuracy for some of the town's GPS data. This would set up a GPS base station antenna and electronics at the senior center at no cost to the town. Once this is operational it will cover a 40-mile radius. This is not an IGA, and there are no conditions which means the town could opt out at any time. Mr. Drescher responded to Council Member Post as to how the town will use this equipment. Motion to direct staff to proceed and discussed by Council Member Fost, second by Council Member Ziegler. Passed unanimously. D 2: Relating to the Police Department; discussion, consideration and possible action regarding Section 4-1-8 of the Marana Town Code, entitled "Public safety employee-employer relations; meet and confer". Introduced by Del Post and presented by Suzanne Machain. Chief Rozema was also available for questions. He presented an overview of what is currently in place as well as a report of the current meet and confer process, and then Suzanne will provide a summary and then staff recommendations with a request for Council direction. He then gave an overview of Ordinance No. 2007.05, commonly referred to as the "meet and confer" ordinance. This formalizes the process where the town is authorized to meet with the Marana Police Officers Association (MPOA) to discuss topics such as wages, hours and working conditions of the May 1, 2012 Council Meeting Minutes 2 employees in the police department. Pursuant to the meet and confer ordinance, the discuss between the town and the MPOA are supposed to be memorialized in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which is to govern the parties' relationship for two years. The purpose of the ordinance is to create and maintain a harmonious and cooperative relationship between the town and members of the police department. He emphasized that he didn't believe that purpose is being accomplished with the current process. He then turned it over to Suzanne Machain to report on the current status of the discussions. Ms. Machain stated that this year's process got off to a much better start with MPOA filing a much more complete and comprehensive report for discussion. The town did the same. Between January and April, staff and MPOA representatives meet 11 times, spending approximately 25 hours of time. The discussions resulted in a few themes to move forward with the new MOU. One of the themes is the elimination of any language that the MOU can contain that was already captured in state law, the town code or personnel policies and procedures or the Marana Police Department general orders. They also reorganized to bring clarify to vague language and restructure the language to retain as much operational control as possible. While they are not completely finish, both sides have agreed to several items — only a few remaining. Staff and the MPOA are recommending the continuance of the discussions and plan to come back to Council with an agreed-upon MOU at the June 5, 2012 meeting. Mr. Post then continued with his earlier remarks that the current process doesn't accomplish the stated goals of the meet and confer ordinance. In some ways it creates more of an adversarial setting rather than a harmonious setting. The process is not really driven by the town's strategic plan and by the goal of the town for the police department. In its current form, it's more of a contract that pits one side against the other with conflict. One of the conflicts is the lack of opportunity for immediate communication on issues of importance. This hinders one of the goals stated in the strategic plan of becoming one of the best police departments in Arizona. Now is the time to develop a new model for Marana — one that reinforces the chain of command in the police department to be able to address issues that come up as they surface. There are two recommendations for Council. The first is that the Council adopt the draft MOU on June 5, 2012, with the themes Ms. Machain described earlier. The second recommendation is that after Council adopts the MOU currently in discussion, for Council to direct staff to create a new model for addressing issues in the future. The new model would be more team-oriented and focused on the strategic plan goals. Staff would bring back options for Council consideration for the new model. Mr. Post clarified the order of the recommendations for Council consideration. Council Member Ziegler stated that she didn't agree with the meet and confer process going on and the reasons given by Mr. Post. She and Council Member Bowen are in agreement with establishing a new process with the new command structure. Motion to direct staff to continue discussions with the Marana Police Officers' Association with the goal of reaching an agreement on the new memorandum of understanding for the time period beginning July 1, 2012, and to discussion with the MPOA options to revise or replace the current meet and confer process in the interest of collaboration behveen the Town and its public safety employees and bring back such options to the Council for consideration by Council Member McGorray, second by Council Member Post. Passed unanimously. May 1, 2012 Council Meeting Minutes D 3: Relatin tg o Legislation and Government Actions: Discussion and possible action regarding all pending state, federal, and local legislation/government actions and on recent and upcoming meetings of other governmental bodies. Presented by Del Post who noted that Council was provided a legislative tracking sheet with an update on the current actions at the Legislature. The big ticket items are the budget which is waiting for approval in the Senate. Council Member Bowen asked what was behind the Legislature trying to control elections. Mr. Post noted that the stated motivation behind HB 2826 is to increase voter turnout and reduce costs of elections. He noted that there is some dispute as to whether those actions are being accomplished with the bill. Mr. Davidson interjected that the driving force is the Goldwater Institute in the Maricopa region. They've taken a position that they feel this would help drive up voter participation. There is a lot of debate on that. The majority of cities/towns across the state are greatly concerned because it changes the nature of local elections. Mayor Honea noted that a letter was sent to the Governor requesting that she veto the bill. EXECUTIVE SESSIONS E 1: Executive Session pursuant to A.R.S. §38-431.03 (A)(3), Council may ask for discussion or consultation for legal advice with the Town Attorney concerning any matter listed on this agenda. E 2: Executive session pursuant to A.R.S. § 38-431.03(A)(3),(4) and (7), for discussion or consultation with the Town's attorneys and to instruct the Town's representatives concerning (1) the lawsuit entitled Town of Marana v. Pima County/Pima County v. Marana (consolidated), Maricopa County Superior Court No. CV2008-001131, Arizona Court of Appeals No. 1 CA CV 11 0381; (2) the lawsuit entitled Pima County v. Town of Marana, Pima County Superior Court No. C20116094; and (3) pending legal issues, settlement discussions and contract negotiations relating to the transition of Marana wastewater collection and treatment to the Town of Marana FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. Mr. Davidson noted that there is a possibility of a study session on May 8, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. for a presentation regarding the preliminary FY2013 budgets for the Enterprise Funds and other selected funds. Notwithstanding the mayor's discretion of what items to place on the agenda, if three or more council members request an item to be placed on the agenda, it must be placed upon the agenda for the second regular town council meeting after the date of the request (Marana Town Code, Title 2, Chapter 2-4, Section 2-4-2 B) ADJOURNMENT. Motion to adjourn by Vice Mayor Comerford, second by Council Member McGorray at 7:42 p.m. Passed unanimously. CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that the foregoing are the true and correct minutes of th ��'own Council eeting held on May 1, 2012. I further certify that a quorum was pr� � ��o� � f- �e��pRPORAfE�: = _ ° o00 = � r ocelyn C ronson, Town Clerk =:� � a° •° G e ♦ s ,9��i�u�uN�� ``! Ma 1, 2012 Council Meetin Minutes ,s �I � 1 � ��` Y g d��►�' 4