In their September 14 meeting, the first under new mayor Michael Sosh, the Miami Town Council passed an ordinance on purchasing limits and directed Town staff to prepare a second ordinance revising a chapter of town code that deals with historic buildings.
The approved ordinance increases a town manager's purchasing limit from $10,000 to $25,000, which Town Manager Alexis Rivera said would facilitate emergency purchases between those amounts. The ordinance was approved 6-0 in a roll call vote (Councilman Phil Stewart was excused from the meeting).
The ordinance to be prepared and brought back to the Council will revise Town Code Chapter 17.72 (Design Review Board), which created the town's Design Review Board and deals extensively with Miami's historic district, historic buildings, and their preservation. The Board began working to craft those revisions in April.
Rivera reported that the Town was working with Wilson & Company to apply for a $30 million USDA grant for flood mitigation. Rivera said the grant could fund work on the south side of town, to create a deviation from Bloody Tanks Wash near the railroad tracks.
Rivera added that the first meeting of the flood mitigation partnership between the Town of Miami, City of Globe, Gila County, and Freeport McMoran was scheduled for September 24. He also said a wastewater agreement between the Town and Freeport was being finalized.
The Miami Police Department welcomed a new member, as Officer Daniel Bruington was sworn in by Judge Jordan Reardon. Before coming to Miami, Bruington was an officer in Tennessee and in Yavapai County.
The Council directed Town staff to move forward with purchases of a 2026 Ford F-150 Police Responder for $92,005 and a 2026 Ford Police Interceptor Utility SUV for $76,665.
In addition the Council members, Rivera, and meeting attendees saluted Miami Police officers who had safely located a runaway teen three days earlier.
The Council approved the following closures of Sullivan Street: Friday, October 2 from noon to 2 p.m., between Bullion Plaza and Miami Avenue, for the Miami High School Homecoming Parade; and Saturday, October 24 from 5 p.m, to 9 p.m., for the Downtown Miami Trunk or Treat (the event starts at 6 p.m.).
The Council approved a request from Friends of the [Bullion Plaza] Museum, allowing the Friends to accept bids for turf installation in front of Bullion Plaza Museum. Joe Sanchez, of Friends of the Museum, said the area currently had a combination of desert landscaping and grass areas, and that the grass was “in bad shape” due to a non-working sprinkler system. Sanchez added that the turf would be installed at no cost to the Town.
A scheduled progress report on the Emergency Watershed Program flood mitigation project was tabled due to the absence of presenters from Wilson & Company and Tiffany Construction.
Mayor Sosh read a proclamation declaring September 15-October 15 as National Hispanic Heritage Month, with the theme “Unidos, Somos Más (Together, We Are More).”
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