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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPackets - Council Packets (1955)Stine, Michelle From: Standish, Michael Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 8:25 AM To: Stine, Michelle Subject: FW: OVPD pay increase From: Lowe, Stephanie Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 6:15 AM To: Standish, Michael <mstandish@orovalleyaz.gov> Subject: OVPD pay increase Dear Sir, I am unable to attend the Town Council meeting this afternoon regarding discussion for OVPD pay increase. They deserve an increase monetarily not just our vocal support. Having OV, once again rated the safest town in AZ, if not nationwide, deserves our support in every way. Please send this message to those that vote for these matters. YES, to OVPD pay raises. Respectfully, Stephanie Lowe, OV resident Sent from my T-Mobite 5G Device Get Outlook for Android Oro Valley Town Council Meeting- May 7 Council Letter Regarding OVPD Compensation Negotiations Dear Mayor and Oro Valley Town Council Members, I am a 25+ year resident of Oro Valley and a voter. I am a retired law enforcement officer and the primary reason we moved here was due to this community's safety. I think that is a strong statement, when a (then) working law enforcement officer is willing to relocate from their own community due to the superior safety aspect of another community. Oro Valley is where my husband and I, along with many of our law enforcement co-workers, wanted to raise our own families. Please, due your due diligence to ensure our OVPD members are highly compensated for all that they do to keep our community repeatedly recognized as one of the safest within the United States. This should be important to all of us! I realize there are areas within the budget that require tightening, but this should not be one of them. Fewer people are interested in entering the law enforcement profession these days, as it is often a thankless dangerous job. If we do not compensate our law enforcement as they deserve, and at a higher level than our neighboring communities, they will move to other jurisdictions that are clamoring for officers and more than willing to pay them what they are worth. Don't allow Oro Valley to lose our law enforcement professionals just to save a few dollars. In the long run, that is a decision we would regret and could take years to overcome. I support the Oro Valley Police Department and I hope all of you do as well I Thank you, Jeannine Elise Souter Oro Valley, AZ 85737 Stine, Michelle From: Sirois, Andrea Sent: Friday, April 25, 2025 11:10 AM To: Standish, Michael; Stine, Michelle Subject: FW: VFNP Pond development Sincerely, Andrea Sirois Executive Assistant Town Manager, Mayor and Council Town of Oro Valley Direct Line: 520-229-4714 From: Pat Tebo Sent: Friday, April 25, 2025 11:09 AM To: Town Council <Council@orovalleyaz.gov> Subject: VTNP Pond development WARNING: External Sender. Read Carefully. Report phishing. To: Oro Valley's Mayor and Vice Mayor, all council members and consultants: We were very pleased with the motion and vote at the Town Hall of 4/16/25 to move forward with the basics of a 2.5 acre pond. Thank you so much. I agree that just doing basic pond redevelopment first and later doing other features as presented in the proposal on a piece by piece basis is well advised. Personally, I believe that the proposal as presented goes too far, making the pond more like a park rather than simply an attractive focal point of the Preserve's trail system and signature entry into the Vistoso Highlands community. In particular, with reference to my "not a park" preference, I believe that putting in parking will bring too much vehicle traffic directly to the area and that access should be via walking or biking. Do it in a manner suitable for a Nature Preserve and preserve funds in the process. There are many good walking/biking paths to the pond area including those from Trailhead Parking at the old Vistoso Maintenance facility. The Vistoso Highlands street is already heavily trafficked, including dangerous sightline curves and often speeding vehicles including heavy construction equipment. The new high density apartment building and continued growth of Stone Canyon will greatly exacerbate that condition, not to mention the likely tumult that required bothersome and polluting stop signs will bring. Adding even one let alone two parking lots will result in awful conditions for residents and visitors alike. I was somewhat encouraged to see that some cleanup has been done of the area nearest the sidewalk fronting the pond but feel what was done falls short of the spirit of the city's responsibility. I believe that, between the city's ownership of the Preserve property and the area of the city's required setback, cleanup should extend to the edge of the pond. Also, if the piping, etc. and debris are not going to be needed for redevelopment, now would be a salutary time and an exemplary note of the city's intent to proceed as per the approved motion. I look forward to further inclusion of this issue in the 7 May Town Hall Agenda. Thank you for your attention. Pat Tebo, Oro Valley resident. Cell: Stine, Michelle From: Standish, Michael Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2025 9:28 AM To: Stine, Michelle Subject: FW: Oro Valley Police From: Naomi Alameda Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2025 6:02 AM To: Standish, Michael <mstandish@orovalleyaz.gov> Subject: Oro Valley Police IWARNING: External Sender. Read Carefully. Report phishing. Dear Mr. Standish, I am a resident in Oro Valley and have been for three years now. I love it here! After spending all of my life in the Tucson City limits, life in Oro Valley has been a breath of fresh air. I wanted to email you today because I was unable to attend the council meeting last night. I'm unsure if a decision was reached, but I wanted to voice my support for our beautiful town, our police force, and fair and competitive pay for our men and women in blue. I hope that if a decision has not yet been made, an agreement can be reached that takes into account all the concerns and budget of the town, and also tries to accommodate some of the requests of the unions representing Oro Valley Police Officers. I know compromises must be made for both parties. Anyway, this is just a message to share my support for OVPD. Best regards, Naomi Alameda 85737 Stine, Michelle From: Standish, Michael Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2025 9:34 AM To: Stine, Michelle Subject: FW: Support OVPD -----Original Message----- _ _ From: Amy DAmbrosio Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 5:16 PM To: Standish, Michael <mstandish@orovalleyaz.gov> Subject: Support OVPD WARNING: External Sender. Read Carefully. Report phishing. > Mr. Standish, > Our family would like to send our strong support to increase funding and any other needed support to the OVPD. We chose to move to Oro Valley 10 years ago to raise our family based on the safety of this community. > Keep Oro Valley safe and protected. We need to have base salaries higher than surrounding communities to attract and retain quality officers. > Sincerely > Amy and Anthony D'Ambrosio > Sent from my iPhone Stine, Michelle From: Sirois, Andrea Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2025 11:28 AM To: Stine, Michelle; Standish, Michael Subject: FW: May 7 Council Meeting Sincerely, Andrea Sirois Executive Assistant Town Manager, Mayor and Council Town of Oro Valley Direct Line: 520-229-4714 From:tucsonbass Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2025 10:19 AM To: Town Council <council@orovalleyaz.gov> Subject: May 7 Council Meeting WARNING: External Sender. Read Carefully. Report phishing. Due to my wife's medical condition I am unable to leave her alone after 3 PM. I have caretakers at other times. Therefore I was unable to attend the subject meeting. I attempted to speak remotely but was denied that privilege. Therefore I am submitting my prepared comments through this channel ,in order to make them a part of the public record. I welcome your responses. Have a great day. Don Cox Oro Valley Voting Resident Thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening about two things that are near and dear to my heart. Those are the Town of Oro Valley and the Oro Valley Police Department. Both sides of this dispute have known for 4 years that this was the year for negotiating the Memorandums of Understanding between the Town and the two police unions. I suspect that both sides prepared for this event. t The fact that we have reached "Impasse" is disheartening. But from what little I have learned about the back and forth it appears to me that "Impasse" was the orchestrated and desired result of the Oro Valley Town Council Our Town Manager is new to Oro Valley. After spending an hour with him, one on one, during his first week on the. job, I came away with the crystal clear impression that he was going to rely heavily on Mayor or Vice Mayor for counsel and guidance. After all he had never been a Town Manager. I mention this, because I believe that from the beginning of these negotiations. last November until now, his every move has either been directed by or blessed by the Mayor and possibly the Vice Mayor. And that brings me to the 800 pound gorilla sitting in the Chambers tonight. It's the current Town Council The Town is currently preparing it's 2025/2026 budget and it is very clear that we have a fiscal problem. Our cost of doing business continues to rise and our revenue continues to drop. Over the past 4-6 years this Town Council has been on a reckless spending spree with no attention being paid to increasing current revenue streams or creating new ones. They have been spending the revenues generated by the previous administration. Prime examples of this are the millions of dollars generated through Construction Sales Tax and the revenue coming in from the golf courses and community center. I remind you that we spent 25 million dollars on toys for Naranja Park. We paid nearly $900,000 to Romspen to settle a legal dispute created by the Winfield cabal in the aquisition of the Preserve. And the most recent fiscal and environmental faux pas is the approval of dumping millions of taxpayer dollars into a hole in Rancho Vistoso. The greatest asset this community has is it's Police Department. And that is exactly why for many years, prior to 2019, the priority of spending in Oro Valley was fund the police, then infrastructure and what's left on other NEEDS of the Town. And I will close with a reminder to everyone that hears me tonight. We are a short 16 months from the next Oro Valley Town Council election. Stine, Michelle From: Sent: To: Subject: Importance: Sincerely, Andrea Sirois Executive Assistant Town Manager, Mayor and Council Town of Oro Valley Direct Line: 520-229-4714 Sirois, Andrea Monday, May 5, 2025 9:01 AM Standish, Michael; Stine, Michelle FW: Upcoming meeting in support of Police Officer pay raises High From: Barbara Boyka Sent: Monday, May 5, 2025 8:33 AM To: Town Council <council@orovalleyaz.gov> Subject: Upcoming meeting in support of Police Officer pay raises Importance: High WARNING: External Sender. Read Carefully. Report phishing. Hello, I understand on the next agenda is discussion regarding raises for your officers. I am writing in support of what they are asking for. As a precursor, I am the mother of a 20 year veteran officer at Oro Valley. My hope is the council and the mayor actually read this or whoever is reading it passes along my thoughts. Unless you are a mother of an officer, no one realizes what they truly go through, the danger they face, what has happened to them on a daily basis, people yelling at them, spitting on them, calling them names, trying to fight them, etc. all because they are doing their job. The accidents they go to pulling people out of cars. The many holidays, birthdays and events they do not attend. The stress they carry every day. The first aid calls when they are first in. The child abuse calls. The spousal abuse calls. The drug addiction calls. The homeless people calls. All of this they must handle with dignity and consideration of this person. None of this leaves them when they go home after shift. Of course there are calls that the public actually appreciate the police being there. But they and you do not see the every day things they deal with as mentioned above. When you call 911 they will be there, no questions asked, not knowing what they will face with they arrive. I ask you to consider these things and vote to give these officers what they ask for and what they deserve. Being in a first responder family (there are three in our family) carries a burden of its own. Please vote to give them this deserved raise. Thank you for reading this. ORO VALLEY CONNECTIONS 1822 E. INNOVATION PARK DR. ORO VALLEY, AZ 85755 r' CHAMBER COMMUNITY 520.297.2191 COLLABORATION OROVALLEYCHAMBEHAMBER.COM Chair April 10, 2025 Ron Arenas Picture Rocks Cooling, Mayor Joe Winfield and Council Hearing and Plumbing Town Manager Jeff Wilkins Vice Chair Town of Oro Valley Susan Swan Swan Pirates Dear Mayor Winfield, Council Members, and Town Manager Wilkins, Secretary Zoo, Burnham On behalf of the Oro Valle Chamber of Commerce, I am writing to express our Y g P Kinghorn Law / Financial unwavering support for the Oro Valley Police Department and to underscore the critical role that public safety plays in fostering a thriving business environment in our community. Treasurer MarySchulz Schulz Financial Group A secure and safe environment is a fundamental pillar for economic prosperity. In a recent P P P tY� survey conducted by the Town of Oro Valley, business owners identified the town's safety Directors and low crime rates as primary factors influencing their decision to establish operations Bruce Barnett here. This sentiment reflects a broader understanding that businesses flourish in Pima Federal Credit communities where public safety is prioritized. Union Cody Barnhart Comparative data further highlights Oro Valley's commendable safety record. According Northwest Healthcare / to NeighborhoodScout, the violent crime rate of 0.58 violent crimes per 1,000 residents in Oro Valley Hospital Oro Valley is significantly lower than the national average of 4.09, with property crimes Lisa Bayless also notably low at 11.51 per 1,000 residents. Long Realty In contrast, neighboring Tucson experiences a violent crime rate of 5.86 and a property Lydia Camarillo crime rate of 29.43. An increased rate of crime has been associated with heightened Golder Ranch Fire District challenges for local businesses, including increased incidents of retail theft and vandalism, Shelby Francom increased security costs, and a decrease in foot traffic. El Conquistador Tucson, A Hilton Resort The proactive initiatives undertaken by OVPD, such as their widely emulated Community Renee McCuistion Policing model and 'Adopt a Business' program, exemplify their commitment to not only America First Credit Union maintaining low crime rates but also actively supporting the business community. These Maria Parham efforts have been instrumental in ensuring that Oro Valley remains an attractive Splendido at Rancho destination for businesses and residents alike. Visroso We urge Town Council and staff to recognize the indispensable value of our police Don Pearson Roche Tissue department. Adequate support and resources for OVPD are paramount to sustaining the Diagnostics safe environment that our businesses and community members have come to rely upon. James Piper We appreciate your continued dedication to the well-being of Oro Valley. Please feel free Piper Family Painting to contact us should you require any further information or wish to discuss in more detail. Rick Price The Views Golf Club Sincerely, Emma Reyes Republic Services Brian Stewart Pima Community College Kristen Sharp Ex-officio President/ CEO Paul Melchor Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce Town of Oro Valley Our Mission: We cultivate a vibrant economic region by empowering and uniting the Greater Oro Valley Business Community.