Title
Arizona Coliseum and Exposition Center Request for Police Services for 2025 Arizona State Fair (Ordinance S-52201) - District 4
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to enter into an agreement with the Arizona Coliseum and Exposition Center for the Phoenix Police (PPD) and the Neighborhood Services departments (NSD) to provide traffic enforcement and vending enforcement. The Arizona Coliseum and Exposition Center will pay $67,848.71 for these services. Further request authorization for the City Treasurer to accept, and the City Controller to disburse, all funds related to this item.
Report
Summary
Since 1987, PPD and NSD have partnered with the Arizona Coliseum and Exposition Center to provide increased traffic enforcement and vending enforcement for the annual State Fair. Services for this year's event shall consist of four Police Assistants to assist with vehicle tows, traffic accidents and other non-enforcement issues related to the State Fair. NSD shall provide proactive parking enforcement on private property in the areas around the fairgrounds for residential and commercial properties and proactive vending enforcement.
The intent of this agreement is to recover costs associated with these services during the State Fair.
Contract Term
Services will occur from September 19, 2025, through October 26, 2025.
Financial Impact
The amount to be recovered is $43,490.09 by PPD and $24,358.62 by NSD. The remaining expenditures will be covered by the departments' budgets.
Location
The area surrounding the Arizona State Fairgrounds located at 1826 W. McDowell Road.
Council District: 4
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Lori Bays, Deputy City Manager Alan Stephenson and the Police and Neighborhood Services departments.