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Buckeye Council blazes through short meeting agenda

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BUCKEYE — While voters, volunteers and staff were wrapping up primary elections around the state Tuesday evening, the Buckeye City Council was wrapping up some regular business.

It didn’t take long.

The council needed only 13 minutes to approve a 15-item consent agenda — and that’s with taking time to answer a council member’s questions about several items.

The consent agenda included a final plat approval for a 214-lot, 146-acre first phase of a development called Mayfield. Located in a sort of L-shape on the northwest corner of Apache and Maricopa roads, the phase will require irrigation ditches be placed underground, per city code.

Council member Craig Heustis asked planner Andrea Marquez if the ditch would still need to be underground, even if there is nowhere for water to go at the east end. Marquez said yes. Half-street improvements, including burying irrigation, will be made along Maricopa Road.

Heustis also asked a question about an $810,000 contract with Petra Contracting to place underground irrigation piping. He asked if it was sewer pipe as he recalled the area near the intersection being dug up about one year ago.

Multiple staff explained to Heustis the current project is irrigation and must be completed by November.

Also approved on the consent agenda was a pair of contracts with Cisco. Totaling more than $850,000, the two contracts are for a variety of IT support services.

The consent agenda also included a $1.34 million contract with Matrix New World Engineering to drill a production water well at Odyssey Well Site. The site is on the east side of South Verrado Way, just north of both the Roosevelt Irrigation Canal and Durango Road.

Final plat approval was granted for both the Apache Farms and Bentridge Phase 2 housing developments. Each include more than 130 housing units.