CSAC_2026_0427_Minutes

TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS 
MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING 
OF THE FOUNTAIN HILLS COMMUNITY SERVICES ADVISORY COMMISSION 
April 27, 2026 
 
 
 
 
A Regular Meeting of the Fountain Hills Community Services Advisory Commission was 
convened at 16705 E. Avenue of the Fountains in open and public session at 5:01 p.m. 
 
Members Present: Chairperson Cary Reddick II; Vice Chairperson Rory Wilson; 
Commissioner Stephen Barnes; Commissioner Craig Rudolphy; Commissioner 
Ron Ruppert 
 
Members Absent: Youth Commissioner Adam Oberg and Commissioner 
Natalie Verela 
 
Staff Present: Community Services Director Kevin Snipes and Administrative 
Assistant Stormy Mazeikis

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RIDDICK:  We're going to call to order -- call this meeting of community service advisory 
commissions to order.  And we're going to start with the Pledge of Allegiance.   
ALL:  I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic 
for which it stands.  One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.   
RIDDICK:  All right.  Well, Clerk, if we can start our roll call.  
MAZEIKIS:  Chair Carey Riddick.  
RIDDICK:  Present.  
MAZEIKIS:  Vice Chair Rory Wilson. 
WILSON:  Here.   
MAZEIKIS:  Youth Commissioner Adam Oberg.   
Commissioner Natalie Verela. 
Commissioner Stephen Barnes. 
BARNES:  Here. 
MAZEIKIS:  Commissioner Craig  Rudolphy.   
RUDOLPHY:  Present.   
MAZEIKIS:  Commissioner Ron Ruppert. 
RUPPERT:  Here.  
RIDDICK:  All right.  A quorum is present.   
And in regards to our statement of participations, we ask that speakers must submit a 
card before meeting.  State your name, your residency, and you have three minutes.   
Do we have anyone that would like to speak?   
All right.  Moving on.  Consent to the agenda.  Can I get a motion to consent to our 
agenda?  
RUDOLPHY:  Do you mean approval of the minutes?  
RIDDICK:  Yes, sorry, approval of the minutes from our last meeting.  
RUDOLPHY:  Yes.  Let's approve the meeting of March 23rd, 2026.  
RIDDICK:  Can I get a second?   
WILSON:  Second.   
RIDDICK:  Perfect.  Motion carries.

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Okay.  We'll now move into our items that are listed on our current agenda.  And we'll 
start with the staff presentation.  
SNIPES:  Hang on just a second.  Let's do our recognition for Rory, if you would.  
RIDDICK:  Yeah, absolutely.  
SNIPES:  Back to number 5.  
RIDDICK:  We'll start with our recognitions.  Certificate of appreciation dedicated to the 
service of CSAC, in honor of our Commissioner Rory.  While spanning from November 
2020 to April 2026, I was wanting to save the best for last.  
SNIPES:  That happens.  As everybody knows here, we are losing one of our committee 
members, which I'm sad to see happen, but I am excited for all the things that you'll get 
to do from here on.  And just wanted to say thank you for all that you've done.  Truly 
appreciate it.  You know, being a part of something like this for six years now, which I 
wouldn't have guessed either, is really cool.  And we're just thankful for everybody's 
time that spends on this committee and being able to be a part of seeing you come into 
the group and grow into who you've been and how you've been a part of this group.  I 
just really appreciate it.  So I just want to say, on behalf of our whole department, thank 
you so much.  Appreciate it.  
SNIPES:  We got a little gift for you.  
WILSON:  (Indiscernible). 
RIDDICK:  Thank you, Kevin.   
And now we will move into agenda item number 6.  We'll start with the presentation for 
the fiscal year 2027 CIP.  
SNIPES:  Since it's easier from down here, I'll run it from down here.  So I just wanted to 
kind of get everybody up to date on what projects we have coming up for fiscal year '27.  
That starts on July 1st.  At this time, they're not officially approved, but we've gone 
through enough of presentations in our work sessions that I'm pretty confident that this 
will be what's happening.  And so I wanted to kind of get you guys up to date on where 
we're at and what we'll be expecting for our larger projects this coming year.   
One is the Desert Vista Pump House, as you can see in these pictures, it's kind of like a

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small dog house that's housing our pump and motor for the Desert Vista Park itself.  And 
last year we had an issue of a leak happening in the box, which then destroyed our 
electrical controls in there as well.  So we want to get everything out into a space where 
that won't happen as easily as it did this time.  And so we're looking at building a 
building there off to the side of the dog park to enclose both the controllers and the 
pump system so that we'll have easier access to it.   
We're looking at doing some turf reduction as well as some event space improvements 
over at Fountain Park.  We're going to -- there's a berm that's right behind where we 
host all of our events that if you've been down there for our Music Fest or Irish Fest, 
you'll see that we put the stage kind of back against this berm that's down there.  It 
used to be part of the flood control, and we re-delineated the park a few years ago, and 
so we're going to take that berm out and make it so that we have a larger great lawn 
area to have our events on.  If you've been to any of our events recently, you'll notice 
that our events are getting larger and our space is not.  So this is going to allow us to 
gain some more space in there and allow our events to keep growing.  There's a few 
other places around the park that had some low level areas that we're looking at, 
bringing in some material to help clean up and level up as well.   
And if you guys have questions on any of these, don't hesitate to speak up while I'm 
going through.   
The bollard lighting happened right before I started working here ten years ago.  And 
from the time they went in, they were still a little contentious on the brightness that 
they were at.  So we worked with a vendor to come up with a light that was a little more 
amber in color.  That center picture there kind of shows what they will look like when 
they're done.  The other two pictures, one is with our black bollards that we have out 
there that are painted, and the others with our original gray bollard.  And you can see 
that we can maintain our brightness of light, where you can see where you're going 
without necessarily having to have it be the bright white light that was out there 
originally.  So we've been working with our dark sky group on this, and they are in full 
support and fully excited about seeing this come into fruition.  So we're going to be

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doing all 300 bollards this summer.  
RUDOLPHY:  So not removing any, just replacing --  
SNIPES:  Yeah, just replacing -- the guts basically of the bollards that are out there.  We'll 
probably replace a few of the bottoms because we know we have some that are rotting 
on the bottom.  So we're just ordering the new body for a couple of them, but most of 
them will just be the guts, the light, the drivers.  It'll bring it to a warmer light.  But we 
pushed the candles in them a little bit to give us a better viewing capability down there.   
Our Lake Liner, we've been talking about, I think, since I started here.  And so this year, 
we're looking at coming up with a playbook, basically, for how we will do the lake liner 
replacement when that time comes.  No, we're not there now.  But in the future, when 
we do need to do it, or if something catastrophic were to happen, I want to have a plan 
in place so that we're not ever forced to be racing to replace the lake liner.  And it would 
just take one vehicle or something going into the lake and tearing the liner, and we 
would be needing it to do it tomorrow.  And so I would feel much more comfortable if I 
had an idea on how we could do that.  
RUDOLPHY:  But you had a study a year or two ago that said the liner was still pretty 
good and could last another five to ten years? 
SNIPES:  Yeah, it was five years ago, I think now that we did that, six years.  Six years 
actually, because we did the test that year and we did our test again this year on the 
evap test.  But yeah, we worked with Black & Veatch in 2020.  And now we're just -- 
we're at that point where, yes, everything's fine.  It could be -- even if it's ten years from 
now that we have to do it, I would still rather have an upfront idea of how to either 
move one hundred million gallons of water out of the town, because we can't do it the 
same way we did it last time, where we pumped it to the golf courses and they took the 
water, they pumped it right down the streets.  They had piping on the streets to run it 
from what I'm told.  They used the turf areas to dump the sludge in.  And all of these 
ideas are horrible for whoever takes over the park down the road.  It's caused nothing 
but problems for the turf in the park, since it happened.  And even to this day, when 
we've gone in, when we put in the shade structure next to the splash pad, we were

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down about four feet and then found a black layer that's still leaching through the soil 
and making it so that we couldn't grow grass in that area where we put the big shade 
structure right next to the splash pad.  So it sticks around for a long time.  And that was 
in 2000 when that was done, so.  
RUPPERT:  So a couple questions, Kevin.  If this comes to fruition, would you be 
upgrading the mill of the plastic liner for longevity?  
SNIPES:  It's all based on the companies that we're working with.  The one that we have 
in there currently, it's -- I don't know that there's a mill thickness.  I haven't gone into 
that, but I know that there's different varieties.  And the one that we have in there was 
a huge upgrade from the ones that was in the 90s.  But it may come down to material 
versus thickness versus any other ideas that people come up with and doing -- if we do 
coffer dams and we come in and we do a section of the lake at a time --  
RUPPERT:  I remember that first time --  
SNIPES:  -- that can be different as well.  
BARNES:  -- there was a lot of debate on the thickness of it and how long it would last, 
so I didn't know if any thought was given to that.   
Then the second question I have is there a contingency plan to get rid of the water if 
that happened -- if this comes to fruition?  
SNIPES:  That's what this will tell us as well.  
RUPPERT:  No, I mean --  
SNIPES:  To completely get rid of it, you mean or --  
RUPPERT:  I mean to drain the lake?  
SNIPES:  No.  
RUPPERT:  So there's no plan in place for that?  
SNIPES:  No, that's what -- that'll come out of this as well.  
BARNES:  Oh, okay.   
SNIPES:  We'll have all those discussions during this to figure out what our best options 
are.  We'll be visiting with the sanitary district and looking at wells.  And if we can do 
blends or what we can do to help get rid of it, cleaning up the water prior to it going into

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the wells, of course, will be a huge part of this as well.  It's no small task, and I'd like to 
be out in front of it as far as we can.  
RUPPERT:  The huge issue in round one also, so --  
SNIPES:  Yeah. 
RUPPERT:  -- just (indiscernible). 
SNIPES:  And that was kind of a speed round because it was already leaking at the time.  
RUPPERT:  I actually don't think any golf courses took it the first time, so I'm not quite 
sure where it went.  
SNIPES:  Yeah, well, from what I saw it all --  
RUPPERT:  (Indiscernible) district. 
SNIPES:  -- it all went south and went into some of the lakes on the golf courses down 
there.  Um-hum.  Yep.  So hopefully at the end of this time we'll have a good playbook 
that someone can grab and use, whether it's an emergency setup or if it's something 
that's planned to happen when it happens.  And hopefully it's long past when I retire 
and we're all not here.  So let's hope for that.  I'm hoping for a 50-year run at this thing.   
The next one there is we're replacing all of the ramadas at Fountain Park.  We just 
accepted the bid on this a couple weeks ago.  And so we'll be moving on that here 
probably in the next week or so.  We'll start working with our vendor and start going 
through to replace with the structure similar to the one that's there in the picture, but 
not quite as wide as that one -- or long as that one is.   
Another building that we're looking at doing is over next to the new restroom that we 
put in at Four Peaks Park.  There's a little itty bitty building there that houses way too 
much stuff for the size of the building that it is.  There's a pad there as well.  So we're 
looking to reuse that pad and build a structure on top of it so that we can get our 
electrical components a little bit further away from each other, plus add some storage 
over there as well to that pad, make it a useful space.  And it's not the prettiest building 
in the world.  When you put a brand new restroom building right next to it, it does not 
look so good.  So we'll try and improve upon that as well.   
The next one here is we're looking at bringing in a in-ground pump station for Golden

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Eagle Park.  Taking the area over next to the (indiscernible) ramada and putting an in-
ground tank -- storage tank there.  That way everything will be all within the park.  And 
we've already talked to the Sanitary District about it several years ago, and they're on 
board with it.  So this is to come up with a design for having our own pump station for 
that park.   
RUPPERT:  Where is that? 
SNIPES:  Golden Eagle.  Where's Golden Eagle?   
The next one just kind of fell in our lap is Sierra Madre Park.  Because of the school 
building -- school property being sold, this jumped into the realm of possibility to get 
started on.  It's about a 30-acre park, butts up right next to the school property that got 
sold that they're putting 25 new homes on.  I see confusion.   
Are you trying to figure out where it's at?  So it's just up just north of Golden Eagle Park, 
and it's pretty much due west of the new Skyview Park that's going in right there on 
Sierra Madre drive.  And it is a retention area just past the dam that's there.  So we'll be 
looking at both sides of the dam.  There's about 10 acres above the dam and about 22 
acres below the dam, that we'll be looking at building more of a community type park.  
Don't think of it as, like, sports fields and stuff like that.  It'll probably be more of a 
natural type setting, restroom, playground area.  But trying to take advantage of there's 
some awesome saguaros that are in there and some cool, natural type growth that we'll 
try and enhance and add to for this park.  But I think it'll be a good asset to our park 
system.   
Here's another overhead image that shows Aspen Drive there in red.  And that's where 
the new development is going in.  And then the town owns all of the land down from 
there down to Sierra Madre.  This is Sierra Madre down here.  This is Golden Eagle 
Boulevard here.  And so taking advantage of all of this space just past the dam up -- you 
know, obviously closer to the dam that we are, the less chances there'll be of it flooding 
in that area.  And so you know, the restrooms and playground area will be up into there, 
and then we'll go down into more of a natural area as you go down further from there.   
So it'll be a challenge for sure.  It wasn't something that we even talked about six

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months ago.  So this is going to be a rapid fire scenario.  They're planning on breaking 
ground sometime around I believe it was December of next year.  So turning around a 
park of this size to where that we can at least get a phased approach moving during this, 
I think, is critical.  While they're already seeing construction happen up for the new 
development, we're looking to work with them and potentially get some of the fine 
grade -- some of the larger scale grading done while they have their heavy equipment 
out there to help save some money for the town.  Doing that in exchange for their 
development fees, getting actual work done versus them paying money into the parks 
development fees, and then turning around and paying somebody else to mobilize, 
should help us save some money on that side of things as well.  We've already had 
preliminary talks with toll, and they're on board with it as well.  So we're excited about 
the opportunity.   
Questions on this?  Okay.  
RUPPERT:  That's a great idea to trade off.  You know, mass excavation, if you can, in lieu 
of the development fees, which God only knows where that goes.  So this is an exciting 
project for that piece of land right there.  So I know the drawings are in the conceptual 
status, but is there turf up there?  
SNIPES:  We haven't even gotten that far as to even decide if there's a need and/or if we 
would want to have turf in that area.  And so it'll kind of play itself out.  
RUPPERT:  Yeah, I was just thinking about in my head, running a pipe up there from 
down the street --  
SNIPES:  Yeah. 
RUPPERT:  -- if you know what I mean.  
SNIPES:  Yep. 
RUPPERT:  So keep that in the back of your mind.  
SNIPES:  Yeah, we talked about that, too, about -- because it ends, I think, right there at 
the lake for Sunridge. 
RUPPERT:  (Indiscernible)  --  
SNIPES:  And then pumping on up.  Yep.  Um-hum.

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Next is Skyview Park Construction which we'll start here on this fiscal year and complete 
in next fiscal.  This project with the challenge of the roadways did increase costs a little 
bit, mostly because of the structure that's here and the things that we had to do to 
protect the area from headlights from all directions with it being on the corner of a 
road.  We're really excited about getting this one started up and completed during 
hopefully through the end of summer to fall, having this one be completed.   
The next ones has a couple years in the making on this one.  But the back of the 
community center has a pretty significant slope on that turf.  It's hard to tell it in the 
picture, but it makes it kind of an unusable space because of it.  And so we want to tilt 
that up to where that we can use the turf out behind the community center as a 
programmable space.  Think of things like cornhole or yard games in that sort of a use.  
Right now it's so sloped that we can't even put like, food vendors and stuff like that on it 
get kind of weird because of the angles and slopes of it.  So that's what we're looking to 
do.  And I wanted to get this done before any development got started on the property 
behind it to where that we could kind of dictate what that grade would be, more so than 
us having to work to the grade of the property behind us.  And we'll end up coming 
down to their grade, but we'll take advantage of raising the storm grade that's in here 
and extending the turf on around the back corner a little bit to gain some more turf 
area.  We figure we can get -- trying to think now.  I think it was -- we'd be able to have 
at least six.  I think we could go three long cornhole games.  So 30-foot each around the 
corner there to where that we could have two rows of it, was our goal to where that we 
could have six games going on at the same time.  And I think that'll be a good touch to 
increasing the usage of that space back there.   
And then the following year, we're looking at coming in and putting up a cantilevered 
shade structure over the turf area that's right behind the -- right next to the community 
center.  If you've ever walked down the hallway that goes to the ballrooms during the 
summer, you can attest to it being more like a sauna hallway than it is a hallway.  The 
idea of the shade structure being cantilevered towards the building.  We have to stay 
ten feet away from the building per code.  So having it be high enough that it will shade

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that hallway the entire time, as well as using this entire turf area as a balance and flex 
fitness type area.  We've been doing a lot more eccentric chair yoga type classes in our 
community center, and they took off.  I mean, we were in a classroom.  Now we're in 
two ballrooms.  So it's really gained in size.  And so I wanted to kind of capitalize on that.   
And we talked about -- years ago, we talked about closing off this end of the building 
and adding actual walls and making this interior at an astronomical price of many million 
dollars to do it.  And we were planning on having it be a fitness center at that time, or a 
coffee shop or some combination of the two.  So this we're kind of taking advantage of 
being way cheaper in how we do it, by putting a shade structure over it, putting in the 
fitness equipment, more balanced type to help our elderly get to where they can 
strengthen up those cores when they -- which is exactly what our chair yoga classes and 
things like that are starting to do.  This will just help it to where they don't have to be 
there for a class.  They could go anytime they wanted to, to it.   
And then adding some tables along the walkway that's already out there, which would 
then become shaded walkway where you could potentially come outside and play some 
of the board games and card games and stuff like that that we're seeing kind of take 
over our lobby, which is exactly what we were hoping would happen when we 
redesigned -- when we redid the -- remodeled the interior of the community center.  If 
you go in there -- almost any day of the week, now, you go in there, the tables that are 
in that side lobby area there are packed full of people playing all kinds of different 
games almost on a daily basis.  So this will just kind of add some more space to be able 
to do that as well.   
The next thing, we kind of pushed this project because of doing the Sierra Madre design.  
This was intended to be part of -- the year three part of the Avenue of the fountains.  
Adding another large shade structure.  This is just outside of the -- here you can kind of 
see this is town hall.  This is the MCSO parking lot.  So this is going into the area that's 
just outside of the town hall parking lot.  Just to kind of mirror image, the one that's on 
the other end of the avenue.  This is one we'll certainly be looking for some champions 
for next year to help with.  Considering we had a couple of people that were against it

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when we did the first one, it's proven that it's being used a ton, but just one that we 
would like to have champions for, for next year.   
This next one is over at the skate park area.  We're looking at shaving down -- you can 
kind of see this slope that comes up from the road there on Tower.  We want to cut that 
off.  And that will greatly reduce the slope that goes down to the back of the skate park.  
And we want to take this area that's highlighted in yellow and put in a shade structure 
there for them.  It's the one thing that that area doesn't have any of, is a way to get out 
of the sun.  And with us adding the kids skate park that's going to be across the sidewalk 
from this same location here.  And really, next fiscal year is probably when it'll actually 
start.  They're working on designs for that right now.  This will greatly improve this 
space.  And this hillside has been a turf problem, and so we're going to get rid of all the 
turf that's there and make it all landscaped area except for where the shade structure 
will be at.  And there'll be some seating in that area as well.   
And that's about it for all of them.  This is kind of just a breakdown of all of the things 
that were on the list.  Like I said, it got positive reviews from the council members that 
were at the work study.  So I don't think there'll be any major issues, but you can kind of 
see the cost breakdown of when we plan on going from design into building Sierra 
Madre and the future outlook for that park.  When you take on a park of that size, it's 
costly, there's no doubt.  And so that was kind of a tough -- that was the toughest part 
of the decision is figuring out if we could afford to do it.  We had to look at a lot of 
different financing -- our finance side of things and determine that we felt comfortable 
with where we were at and at this time to be able to do a phased approach on it.   
And that's another thing that we'll be thinking about as we design the park is what kind 
of maintenance will it take to maintain it?  To make sure that we don't price ourselves 
out of being able to have the quality parks that we have today.  And that's always the 
case for me, is I'm a champion of things being as good as possible, and I can't stand it 
when they drop below a certain level.  So the last thing I would want to do is have a park 
come in and make it so we couldn't maintain all of our parks and the level they are 
today or better.  So that was probably the toughest part of the discussion.

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With that, I'll take any questions that you guys have on any of the projects.  
RIDDICK:  I guess I have a question in regards to the 300 lights you mentioned.  How 
long will that process take? 
SNIPES:    Through the summer. Yeah, we have a company that's building the retro kit 
fits -- kits for us.  We've worked with them a few different times now where in the 
process of replacing the lights at the basketball court at Golden Eagle right now, using 
their fixtures as well as the lighting project around the Centennial Pavilion, and they're 
doing all the box lights -- the shoe box lights that are over there as well.  So yeah, that'll 
be -- we talked about phasing that one too.  And we're like, the difference in color is 
going to cause not fun times for us.  And so we looked into our budget and figured it 
out -- a way to be able to pull it all off at once.  And so that's the route that we felt like 
would be best for doing something like this.   
Any other questions?  All right.  Thank you much.  
RIDDICK:  Thank you, Kevin.  Great presentation as well.   
I'll move past agenda item 7 since I was so excited and anxious to consent to the 
agenda.  So we'll move on to agenda item number 8A, update on Fountain Park and 
Splash Pad.  
SNIPES:  So Stormy and I were talking about this a little bit, and I think this was an item 
that was brought up during the last meeting with questions around opening earlier.  
Why we don't do it.  And so the biggest reason this year was we still had maintenance to 
do to get it -- because we plan everything around the open date and when we need to 
do stuff to the surface, it meant so that we weren't able to bump that time up, for 
starters.   
And then the other thing is, is we only have it budgeted to be open for the amount of 
time that it's open, because it doesn't run for free and it doesn't make money.  So both 
of those things mean that -- could we open it earlier?  Yeah.  We could.  It would require 
more budget.  And you'd have to get lucky enough that it was hot again, because the 
way our splash pad is run is it's a recirculating system.  And so all of the water that gets 
used on the surface is stored below ground.  And when the night time temperatures are

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cold, the water in the tank is freezing cold.  And so typically we don't have water that's 
even above 50.  It's usually right around 50 in March.  And so waiting until April makes 
more sense.  This year was an anomaly.  In all the years that I've been in Arizona, and we 
set a lot of records this year.  And so if that becomes the norm, then there may be a 
bigger discussion to be had.  But it's also a question that's been asked every year since 
I've started about either staying open later or opening earlier.  We don't open -- we 
don't stay open later because of overseeding with all the dust and dirt in the air.  It 
would be impossible for us to run the splash pad with all the dirt that we get into the 
water and then have to get filtered out, clogging up the filter and clogging up the 
nozzles.  And it just isn't worth the staying open later.  So that's the main reasons that 
we're -- where we are.   
Any questions on that?  
RIDDICK:  Thank you, Kevin.   
We'll move on to 8B, update on our Arizona State puzzle donor program, please.  
SNIPES:  So we've had a couple of more sales of puzzle pieces from the last time when 
we were here.  We did a push on social media as well.  So we're just looking to get up to 
where it got two sold right now; is that right?  Three?  Two?  Three?  Three sold so far.  
So we're looking to get seven more.  And then we'll place another order for those.  But if 
you haven't seen it lately, it is really starting to take shape.  And it's a cool look over 
there seeing it come together, so.  
RIDDICK:  All right.  We'll move right along to 8C, update on upcoming events and 
volunteer opportunities.  
SNIPES:  Well, we haven't really had any events this year, so there hasn't been many 
chances.  Well, maybe a lot of chances.  We're now getting down to having less chances 
to volunteer, but we're coming up on our summer kickoff which we've made some 
changes to this year, adding some local bands and some younger -- that are primarily 
younger kids that are in the bands.  And we started out really slow and reached out to 
several people, and now we ended up getting a substantial number.  And so we're 
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a stage kind of changes this event a little bit.  We'll have live music going on.  We'll have 
some dance competition or dance performance, I guess, that'll be going on as well.  So 
we're excited to see how this event changes once again.  This is when we've changed a 
few different times over the years, and we think we're coming into a pretty good niche 
of it and decided to add a little flair to it, I guess, for this year. 
Then we'll have our Veterans Memorial event here again, coming up soon.  Wacky Wet 
Wednesdays are right around the corner.  Summer games in the community center to 
keep our -- once it gets to where it's so hot.  And our 4th of July event.  Fourth of the 
Fountain is going to be bigger and better than any that we've done in the past.  We're 
looking forward to Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers being our headline act this year.  
They are a local band that's of substantial size if you're a Diamondbacks fan.  They wrote 
the -- wrote a song for the Diamondbacks that are played after all the home games.  
They've performed on their field.  They've performed some pretty good size venues.  
They definitely will bring in a good number of people for the event.  So we're really 
looking forward to that changing how our Fourth at the Fountain runs this year with the 
250th.   
And if you haven't seen our 250th sign that's down by the swings, you should go check 
those out as well.  It came out really well.  It's drawn a lot of attention.  There's a lot of 
people that have been taking pictures and posting it on social media platforms.  We've 
had some influencers out here going and showing, taking some video and pictures of it 
as well.  So we're excited about how that's kind of invigorated that space on a day-to-
day basis.  You drive by, you'll see people out standing by it and taking pictures for sure.  
So that's worked out really well for us.  Those are the main things we have coming up.  
RIDDICK:  Well, you've definitely been keeping busy, Kevin.   
SNIPES:  Yes. 
RIDDICK:  All right.  We'll move along to 8D, which is the upcoming May meetings.  
Review potential schedule change, and that will take place --  
MAZEIKIS:  Well, we were going to see -- well, I guess we're going to bring it to you 
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Thursday prior for our meetings.  And there's been a conflict with the room and the 
time.  And so we were wanting to see if it was okay with you guys instead of doing the 
week prior, just moving it to the week after.  
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER:  So --  
THE CLERK:  So this one would be May 28th instead of May 21st.  But prior to me 
stepping into this position, it's always been moved prior.  From this point forward, with 
y'all's permission, can we move to the following week versus what we've been doing?  
RIDDICK:  Does it work for you?   
RUPPERT:  Sure.  
RUDOLPHY:  I'm okay with that.  
BARNES:  Yeah.  I'm good.  
RIDDICK:  I'm okay with it as well.  
THE CLERK:  Okay.  Thank you guys.  Thank you so much.  
SNIPES:  Sounds good.  Yeah.  We had an issue with the room being needed the week 
prior, so I appreciate your flexibility on that.  
RIDDICK:  So to confirm, that will take place May 28th? 
MAZEIKIS:  Yes. 
RIDDICK:  Perfect.   
And we'll do our call to public.  Open call.  State your name.  Three minutes.  All right.  
No one.   
Commissioners, do we have anything to discuss, share? 
I guess I will just end with Rory has been a major impact, not only within the 
community, but this group and the next individual that we get in her place has big shoes 
to fill.  I wish you the best of luck on your new journey in life.  And you definitely have 
brought a lot to our group here, so you'll be missed.  Yeah.  
WILSON:  I just want to thank you all.  And of course, Kevin and your guys's team.  It's 
been a privilege serving on this commission, and it quite literally changed my life and 
career trajectory.  So thank you all for sharing your advice and experience with me the 
past few years.  I wish you all the best of luck.

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RUDOLPHY:  And Rory, I'd like to thank you also for your dedication and commitment to 
helping the town and us do as much as we can.  So best wishes for you in all your future 
endeavors.  
RIDDICK:  All right.  And I am going to get a motion to adjourn the meeting.  
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER:  (Indiscernible)? 
RIDDICK:  Yeah.  Do we have any future agenda items?  Nothing? 
MAZEIKIS:  So with me learning about the open meeting law, I was hoping that more of 
you guys would have been able to have shown for our training.  But I know we'll end up 
doing it again here in the near future.  But what I'm learning is when we come to the 
future agenda items, a commissioner needs to request a future item, and then we need 
two to support it.  There's no motion or vote or anything on that.  It just needs to 
happen in that course.  And the reason why I'm just bringing it up is because if you guys 
wanted to move on to a more formal board or commission or become a council 
member, then this would kind of prepare you guys for that as well.  
RUDOLPHY:  But it also could be requested by the chair without additional support? 
MAZEIKIS:  Absolutely, yes.  And you guys are more than welcome to email him at any 
time and then he'll bring it to our attention.  
RIDDICK:  Thank you, Stormy, for that.  
MAZEIKIS:  You're welcome.  
RIDDICK:  All right.  Since there aren't any future agenda items, is there a motion to 
adjourn?  
RUDOLPHY:  So moved.  
RIDDICK:  Can I get a second?  
SNIPES:  Second. 
RIDDICK:  All those in favor?  
ALL:  Aye.  
RIDDICK:  All right.  Meeting is adjourned.

Having no further business, Chairperson Reddick adjourned the Regular Meeting of the 
Community Services Advisory Commission meeting held on April 27, 2026, at 5:46 p.m. 
 
 
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Carey Reddick II, Chairperson 
 
 
ATTEST AND PREPARED BY: 
 
 
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Stormy Mazeikis, Administrative Assistant 
 
 
 
CERTIFICATION 
 
I hereby certify that the foregoing minutes are a true and correct copy of the 
minutes of the Regular Meeting held by the Community Services Advisory 
Commission of Fountain Hills in the Town Hall Council Chambers on the 27th of 
April 2026. I further certify that the meeting was duly called and that a quorum 
was present. 
 
DATED this 28th Day of May 2026. 
 
 
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Stormy Mazeikis, Administrative Assistant