Changes to fireworks, dog barking laws proposed

City Council to meet on Tuesday and Wednesday

Proposed changes to Yuma laws regulating fireworks and dog barking will be presented during a work session scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday.

First up, Fire Chief Steve Irr and Fire Marshal Kayla Franklin will present the proposed updates and potential options to the city’s fireworks ordinance.

Then Emily Hart, the city’s assistant city prosecutor and police legal advisor, will present a brief overview of the current “Animals Disturbing the

Peace” ordinance, as well as proposed changes and possible modifications to the ordinance.

The council members will also review and discuss items on the agenda for the Wednesday regular meeting, which will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers, 1 City Plaza.

The agenda contains a construction services contract for $6.97 million for the Thomas F. Allt Utilities Complex with Core Construction. The complex, which includes a 20,356square-foot building and associated site improvements on city-owned property, is currently under construction at 200 W. 13th St.

The council previously awarded a preconstruction services contract to Core, and the company has completed the preconstruction services for the project, and the architect, NEI, has finished the design documents for construction.

The council will also consider the purchase of security video cameras and subscription services at a cost of $221,679 from Sentinel Technologies of Downers Grove, Illinois, and a job order with JSA Co., in an amount not to exceed $193,402, for capital improvements to Desert Hills Golf Course pumping stations.

The agenda also contains the following items:

• A $20,000 grant from Arizona Companion Animal Spay and Neuter Committee to Animal Control which would be disbursed to the Humane Society of

Yuma in support of community spay and neuter surgeries.

• A contract for professional real estate services with SVN Velocity Commercial Real Estate and Velocity Real Estate and Management of Yuma.

• The transfer of a Yuma Police Department canine to the Arizona Department of Corrections Service Dog Unit.

Two ordinances are up for adoption, the first for the sale of 758 square feet of city-owned property generally located at 1916 S. Ridgeview Drive, and the second the rezoning of 19.3 acres from agriculture to medium density residential and medium density single-family residential for the property located at the southeast corner of Avenue 8E and 44th Street. The developer, Yucca Land Co., intends to subdivide the property into the Desert Sands Unit No. 2 Subdivision and a multi-family complex.

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