City set to continue pay discussions

Council to meet on Tuesday and Wednesday

The Yuma City Council is scheduled to continue discussions this week regarding proposed employee compensation and pay plans that were presented at the Sept. 18 work session.

The discussions will take place during the Tuesday work session, starting at 6 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers, 1 City Plaza.

The work session will also include an overview of the Construction Manager at Risk method of services by City Engineer Jeff Kramer. On the agenda for the Wednesday regular meeting are two preconstruction contracts for Construction Manager at Risk services for the Fire Station 4 remodel project in the amount of $14,946 and the Utilities System Division relocation project in the amount of $47,668, both with CORE Construction of Phoenix.

The council will then review the agenda for the Wednesday meeting, which begins at 5:30 p.m., also in the chambers. On the consent agenda are contracts for music promotion services with BMC Production and Entertainment of Yuma; Neste Event Marketing of Brentwood, Tenn.; Robb Bower Presents of San Diego, Calif.; Selak Entertainment of Pasadena, Calif.; and Tronix Sound of Somerton. Approval of this motion authorizes the city to enter into a one-year contract with each of the promoters at an estimated total cost of $135,000 per year.

Another item authorizes the city administrator to enter into two related intergovernmental agreements between the Yuma Police Department and Arizona Department of Public Safety Gang and Immigration Intelligence Team Enforcement Mission.

Six resolutions are on the agenda, including one designating the Old Town Zoning District an Entertainment District to “preserve and enhance the artistic, cultural and business opportunities in this historic part of the city.”

The remaining five resolutions declare different parts of the 2018 International Building Code as a public record. Generally all ordinances are required to be published in the newspaper. To avoid publication of the lengthy document and save costs, the code may be adopted by reference. If the council declares the proposed document a public record, it can be adopted by reference, as allowed by state statute.

One ordinance is scheduled for adoption and another for introduction. The ordinance scheduled for adoption declares 3.85 acres of city-owned real property on the southwest corner of 16th Street and 4th Avenue as surplus and authorizes the sale, lease or exchange of the property.

The ordinance that will be introduced declares the right-of-way at the southwest corner of Avenue B and 28th Street as surplus. The buyer of the adjacent parcel wants to purchase the additional 1,836 square feet, which the city no longer needs.

The agenda also calls for two code text amendments, one to abolish the Community Tree Board and allow duties to be assumed by the Parks, Arts and Recreation Commission, “thereby continuing to recognize the importance of the mission and goals of the committee.”

The other one broadens the functions of the commission to include the importance of maintenance and protection of city-owned trees and other woody plants and to further define the commission’s role as it relates to public art advocacy.

To view the complete agenda and staff reports, go to www.yumaaz.gov.