Downtown Advisory Commission March 2017

Vice Mayor, Micah Powel's response to Jon Vlaming when he presented the Triangle Park concept to the council.

“Less is more, as far as maintenance is concerned,” 

Source: Eloy considers new park on Main Street, By MARIA VASQUEZ, Staff Writer, Apr 26, 2017, https://www.pinalcentral.com/eloy_enterprise/news/eloy-considers-new-park-on-main-street/article_467201c1-927f-5593-9313-bc31e28b999f.html

Study session on Nov. 4 2019

“We as council hear a lot about this house and this house and the first thing they say is you need to go tear down this house and the city is really quick to go tear down somebody’s house. But when it comes to something like this we want to spend all this money,” Powell said. “If we’re going to be doing this why don’t we give the residents the money and let them rebuild their house. We’re quick to authorize a house being torn down, and there’s an empty lot. You talk about empty lots and now there’s blocks with empty lots because we have generously bulldozed those houses down.
“We have the same situation here where we have a building that has deteriorated and the people around there keep saying tear it down but nobody cares about the neighborhoods and the memories in all those houses,” he said.
Source: Dust Bowl Theatre: To save or not to save, Eloy officials must decide, By MARIA VASQUEZ, Staff Writer, Nov 13, 2019, https://www.pinalcentral.com/eloy_enterprise/news/dust-bowl-theatre-to-save-or-not-to-save-eloy-officials-must-decide/article_c95d0bf1-8fa8-5fd0-80c5-6f214c9358fd.html


Work session on Mar. 1 2021

“If we give you the green light and you guys start, then it fails, the mud is on our face,”. “We could have made other efforts somewhere else, that could have been done then and there. One thing I don’t want to do is paint a picture of everything, making it look nice and then egg falling on our face. I think we’re protecting ourselves from ghosts of the past. If it can be done, that’s great. I’ve told you that, but I’ve also told that it’s going to be a money pit. … I don’t want this to be a double-edged sword of negativity.”

Source: Pair of entrepreneurs present idea for using Eloy's Dust Bowl, By MARIA VASQUEZ, Staff Writer, Mar 5, 2021, https://www.pinalcentral.com/eloy_enterprise/news/pair-of-entrepreneurs-present-idea-for-using-eloys-dust-bowl/article_a9517c89-e935-56b8-bb11-9cc559970f15.html



Budget Work Session on Apr. 5 2021

Mayor Micah Powel's response to Schwann Hanns' question related to the Dust Bowl budget for 2021 and 2024.

Schwann Hanns:

   "I just noticed a couple of numbers about the Dust Bowl in this budget. I just want to know where it comes from because it was not familiar to me and I want to know if it's budgeted because it is a big number"

Mayor Powell: 

"The $100,000? I think that's just a placeholder. That's always been there."


Source: April 5, 2021 City Council Budget Work Session, https://eloyaz.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=1