Mesa City Council — Regular Meeting

Monday, November 16, 2026, 5:45 PM

City Hall, 20 East Main Street, Mesa, in the second-floor Council Chambers, unless the Council moves the meeting to the first-floor Study Session room for technical, order, or safety reasons. Members of the City Council may appear in person, telephonically, or electronically. The meeting is open to attend in person or electronically; the City's Council Meetings page says meetings are livestreamed on local cable Mesa 11, YouTube, and Facebook.

Agenda: https://legistar1.granicus.com/Mesa/meetings/2026/11/4471_A_City_Council_26-11-16_Meeting_Agenda.pdf

November 2 Regular Meeting minutes (26-0046 attachment): https://legistar1.granicus.com/Mesa/attachments/33df1d80-33f2-46f0-ab69-54a1d35058e3.pdf

October 5 Study Session minutes: https://legistar1.granicus.com/Mesa/attachments/89d0d0e8-a98c-4a06-88dc-195ec74e07b7.pdf

Council Meetings page (request to speak, written comments, and ADA): https://www.mesaaz.gov/government/city-council-meetings

Item: Consent Item 2, file 26-0046, "Approval of minutes of previous meetings as written." Items marked with an asterisk are on the consent agenda and "will be considered as a group by the City Council, without any separate discussion of these items, unless a Councilmember or citizen requests an item be removed from the consent agenda." The Legistar attachments to 26-0046 are the October 5, 2026 Study Session minutes and the November 2, 2026 Regular Meeting minutes. This is a vote to approve those minutes, including the November 2 minutes. It is not a vote on Flock.

• Item 2 would approve the attached minutes in one consent motion unless a Councilmember or a citizen asks that the item be pulled. Approving the minutes is not, on its face, a vote to keep or end Flock.

• The November 2 Regular Meeting minutes (page 6), under Item 8, "Items from citizens present," state: "Jerrica Trimble, a Mesa resident, shared her concerns with Flock cameras, including the safety of the Flock poles installed, violation of the Fourth Amendment, and the potential of lawsuits against the City. She suggested Council request an investigation and asked for transparency on audit data." The posted November 16 agenda has no item to investigate Flock, release audit data, or end the cameras.

Why it matters: A resident used public comment to ask Council for an investigation and for transparency on audit data. If those comments stay only in the minutes, there is still no action item. EZAZ opposes pattern-of-life tracking and believes profiling should happen only by warrant. EZAZ asks for a ban rather than rules that keep mass tracking in place, and asks Council for the investigation, for public audit data, and for an end to Flock.

How to comment: A person may request to speak on an agenda item for Council action, or during "Items from citizens present," by submitting a request to speak before the scheduled 5:45 PM start, via the kiosks, QR codes, or with City staff help in the lobby. Only one request to speak per person per item may be submitted. The City's Council Meetings page, which the agenda links, says the request-to-speak form becomes available at 5:00 PM on Council meeting nights and must be completed before the start. For an agenda item, including Consent Item 2, comments need to relate to that item; unless the Mayor determines otherwise, the number of speakers is not limited and each speaker is limited to three minutes. To request that a consent item be removed, submit a request to speak before the start. During "Items from citizens present," a person may speak on general issues within the Council's jurisdiction; unless the Mayor determines otherwise, the number of speakers is limited to three, and each speaker is limited to three minutes. The same City page says that, effective June 1, 2026, speakers for "Items from Citizens Present" are selected at random from all requests submitted before the start, and that selected speakers will be announced at the beginning of the meeting. Written comments may be submitted through the online comment card on the Council Meetings page. To have an online comment provided to Council before the meeting and posted that day, it must be submitted before 2:00 PM on Monday, November 16, 2026. Comments submitted after that deadline, or on a paper card at the meeting, are shared with Council and posted the next day and are not read aloud. You may also email council@mesaaz.gov; emails are not published on that page. Because the Flock contract itself is not a November 16 action item, spoken comments asking for an investigation, audit data, or an end to Flock belong at "Items from citizens present," or on Item 2 if you are speaking to the November 2 minutes.

The Ask: Attend and, during public comment, ask Council to request the investigation, to make audit data public, and to end Flock. To speak, submit a request-to-speak form in the lobby after 5:00 PM and before the 5:45 PM start. You can also submit an online comment card by 2:00 PM on Monday, November 16, or email council@mesaaz.gov.

ADA: The posted agenda says: "The City is committed to making its public meetings accessible to persons with disabilities. For special/reasonable accommodations, contact the City Manager's Office at (480) 644-3333 or AZRelay 7-1-1 at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting." For Spanish-language assistance or interpretation, the agenda asks people to call (480) 644-2767 at least 48 hours before the meeting. Agenda/source (agenda PDF): https://legistar1.granicus.com/Mesa/meetings/2026/11/4471_A_City_Council_26-11-16_Meeting_Agenda.pdf November 2 Regular Meeting minutes (26-0046 attachment): https://legistar1.granicus.com/Mesa/attachments/33df1d80-33f2-46f0-ab69-54a1d35058e3.pdf October 5 Study Session minutes (the other 26-0046 attachment): https://legistar1.granicus.com/Mesa/attachments/89d0d0e8-a98c-4a06-88dc-195ec74e07b7.pdf Council Meetings page (request to speak, written comments, and ADA): https://www.mesaaz.gov/government/city-council-meetings