Highlights

The Scottsdale City Council meets at 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 9, at City Hall Kiva Forum, 3939 N. Drinkwater Boulevard, with a consent agenda and regular items that touch property owners, city contractors, and the FY2026/27 budget.

The highest-profile consent item is the One Scottsdale zoning amendment (Case No. 20-ZN-2002#5). The request asks the council to adopt Ordinance No. 4703, converting a roughly 27-acre portion of the 130-acre site at 19601 N. Scottsdale Road, 19190 N. 72nd Way, and 19194 N. 73rd Way from Planned Community District to Planned Regional Center zoning, with amended development standards covering density, a revised development plan, and a land-use budget for a mixed-use project that includes residential, commercial, and hotel components. Alongside the zoning change, the council is asked to authorize Contract No. 2026-041-COS, a development agreement, and direct the city clerk to record it with the Maricopa County Recorder within 10 days of execution.

On the infrastructure side, the council is scheduled to authorize three mechanical and plumbing job-order contracts under Resolution No. 13697. Each contract runs two years with options to extend for up to three additional one-year terms. No single job order may exceed $2,500,000, and each contract is capped at $6,000,000 during the initial term, with up to $3,000,000 more per contract during any extension year. The three firms are Evolution Mechanical Projects, LLC (Contract No. 2026-088-COS), McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. (Contract No. 2026-089-COS), and Summa Mechanical Contractors, Inc. (Contract No. 2026-090-COS).

The council is also asked to approve a $3,700,000 purchase of real property from Scottsdale Unified School District No. 48 at 7575 E. Main Street for use as office and workspace for municipal employees (Contract No. 2026-075-COS, Resolution No. 13676).

At Scottsdale Airport, the agenda includes a preconstruction services contract with J. Banicki Construction Inc. for $23,677.43 for the Runway Rehabilitation Project at 15000 N. Airport Drive (Contract No. 2026-073-COS), as well as hangar lease agreements with 3R Ranch, Inc. and SDL AZ Holdings, LLC, doing business as Atlantic Aviation, and council consent to an indirect ownership transfer for Atlantic Aviation's existing airport contract.

Four liquor license recommendations appear on the consent agenda: a new Series 12 restaurant license for Not My First Rodeo at 7150 E. 6th Avenue; an owner-transfer Series 7 beer-and-wine license for Sonesta ES Suites at 6040 N. Scottsdale Road; a new Series 10 beer-and-wine store license for Hook N' Cleaver at 14144 N. 100th Street, Suite B125; and a new Series 12 restaurant license for Hummus Republic at 16211 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite A5. All four are forwarded to the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control.

Two conditional use permits are on consent: a vehicle-storage permit for Terawatt at 7018 E. Osborn Road on a roughly 0.72-acre C-3 DO site (Resolution No. 13706), and an automated car-wash permit for Super Star Car Wash at 8980 E. Shea Boulevard on a roughly 1.52-acre C-2 site (Resolution No. 13709).

The council will also consider abandoning approximately 25,560 square feet of General Land Office roadway easements at 28755 N. 79th Street and 28811 N. 79th Street for the Scarpulla and Ruggiero properties (parcels 216-69-143 and 216-69-145), both zoned R1-70/ESL/FO.

Two litigation settlements are on consent: $100,000 to resolve Linda Cebulski v. City of Scottsdale, et al., Case No. CV2024-030815, pending in Maricopa County Superior Court (Resolution No. 13713); and $34,812.20 to settle claims by Beverly Tyson from the city's Safety and Risk Management Department operating budget (Resolution No. 13705).

Why does the property tax rate matter to Scottsdale owners?

The council's Truth in Taxation hearing on Item 23 covers a proposed FY2026/27 primary property tax rate of $0.4801 per $100 assessed valuation, down from the current $0.4891. The rate is not formally adopted at this meeting; the agenda calls for a roll-call vote to approve levying the proposed taxes, with the assessment ordinance scheduled for June 23, 2026.

On the regular agenda, the council will also hold a public hearing on the FY2026/27 Municipal Streetlight Improvement District tax levy (Item 24) and a final public hearing on the FY2026/27 Operating Budget and Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan as tentatively approved May 19, 2026 (Item 25). The special meeting immediately following the regular session is scheduled to adopt Ordinance No. 4712 setting final FY2026/27 budget estimates and Ordinance No. 4713 approving the Capital Improvement Plan for the period July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2031.

Councilwoman Solange Whitehead has requested the council direct staff to agendize a future item on optional cancer screenings for firefighters every 36 months and up to five years post-retirement, with related budget identification (Item 27).

Formal adoption of the property tax ordinance is scheduled for the June 23, 2026 regular council meeting.

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  1. City of Scottsdale retrieved 29/05/2026 19:06
  2. Banicki Construction Inc (official site) retrieved 29/05/2026 19:06

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