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Tucson Metro Chamber achieves super PAC status By Kaity Sitzman Inside Tucson Business The Tucson Metro Chamber has achieved super PAC status for its Southern Arizona Business Political Action Committee (SAZPAC), making it the only local super PAC in Southern Arizona. Bruce Dusenberry, 2012-13 chairman of the Chamber Board of Directors, made the announcement at the chairman’s luncheon on Tuesday (June 26). The SAZPAC will financially support candidates who will work to improve Tucson’s business sector. The significance of being a super PAC allows the chamber to contribute fourto five-times the amount of money that a regular Political Action Committee or individual could contribute, ex-

plained Robert Medler, the chamber’s vice president of government affairs. “This sends a message about the chamber’s seriousness to advocate for political action that has a positive impact on the business community. We have the ability to support candidates who support business-oriented policies and goals,” Medler said. As chairman, Dusenberry emphasized that the chamber will continue their top five priorities. “We are strategically sound and are going to build on our work from last year,” he said. These priorities include helping small businesses, government affairs, local economy, education and the community. “Forget R’s and D’s, we are the party of J for jobs. We will continue to advocate for the Rosemont Mine and the

F-35 (fighter jet),” said Dusenberry, who is President of Horizon Moving Systems. Dusenberry replaced 2011-12 chairman Wendell Long of Casino Del Sol. Additional officers of the board include chair-elect Kurt Wadlington of Sundt Construction; treasurer Brian Sonnleitner of BBVA Compass; and secretary Colleen Edwards. Others who joined the board April 1 include: Gary Clark, Southwest Gas Corporation Philip Dion, UniSource Energy Corporation Guy Gunther, CenturyLink Leonard Jessup, University of Arizona Eller College of Management Robert Lenhard, Hallmark Business Consultants, Inc. Lisa Lovallo, Cox Communications

John Low, ASARCO Colleen Niccum, Raytheon Missile Systems R. Tony Penn, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Robert Ramierez, Vantage West Credit Union Cody Ritchie, Crest Insurance Group Steve Rosenberg, Biz Tucson Magazine Misha Terrazas, Wells Fargo Richard Underwood, AAA Landscape Cyndy Valdez, Golden Eagle Distributors Wendy West, IBM Judy Wood, Contact One Call Center.

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Tucson Padres confident they’ll stay another year, maybe longer

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Despite a losing record, low attendance and a short history, it looks like the Tucson Padres will get another at bat in Tucson next year. Tucson Padres General Manager Mike Feder is working hard to overcome all of those challenges. “I’m really confident that the Padres will be here another year,” Feder said. Although the team is up for sale, there have not been any offers and there are no cities in the Pacific Coast League (PCL) region that have a stadium that meets Triple-A standards. This means that anyone who buys the team would likely have to build an entirely new stadium. The City of El Paso, Texas earlier this week approved a plan to spend as much as $50 million on a baseball stadium to entice a Triple-A team to move there. “We cannot worry about that. We have to keep doing our job. Then maybe whoever buys the club will look at keeping it in Tucson,” Feder said. The Tucson Padres are the minor league affiliation for the San Diego Padres. Tucson was meant to be a temporary home for the team while a stadium was being built in Escondido, Calif. But financial issues and political changes have killed the stadium plan. Since coming to Tucson two years ago, the team has struggled with ticket sales. They are in last place for attendance in the PCL for the second year in a row. Feder has been working to grow the fan base and to build a name and a local tradition for the Padres. People need to look past those issues for the team and the fans to connect, Feder said. “We hope the promotions get fans to the ballpark and then the baseball entertains them enough to want to come back,” he said about the strategy. For example, the Padres are doing various promotions such as Thirsty Thursdays and fireworks shows to hype attendance. Feder is especially excited about the Inde-

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Tucson Padres General Manager Mike Feder thinks “the Padres will be here another year.”

pendence Day fireworks on July 3. It is double the amount of any regular season fireworks show. Another popular activity is Bark in the Park, where fans are encouraged to bring their dogs to the stadium. In addition to promotions there are other exciting reasons to attend a Tucson Padres game. Despite their record, they have talented, young players worth watching such as Yasmani Grandal, Blake Tekotte and Jedd Gyorko. Many of the players have bright futures in the big leagues, Feder said. Like many teams, their mediocre record is partially the result of injuries. Feder said the San Diego Padres had 17 players on the disabled list out of a roster of 25 players. They need players to fill those spots so they look to their minor league team, but the constant movement of talent makes it hard to field a regular team, Feder said. “Whenever that happens it depletes our numbers,” he said. “There’s no continuity, so

that’s affected us on the playing field.” An active professional team in Tucson also can have an impact on the local economy. In addition to local ticket sales, opposing teams travel to Tucson and spend money on food and accommodations, pouring money into the local economy. Tucson’s history with baseball dates back to 1915. Tucson had several stints with major league Spring Training and was home to several minor league teams. Many residents were upset when the Tucson Sidewinders and Spring Training left, but the Padres has presented an opportunity to carry on the tradition of baseball in Tucson. To those who are reluctant to come out Feder says, “Give us a chance. Don’t give up on us. Our goal is to keep trying to figure out a way of making this work.”

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The long-awaited ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration statute known as SB 1070 came down on Monday and gave both sides something to claim as a victory. Supporters of the law cheered the court’s upholding of the section of SB 1070 that mandates local police inquire into the immigration status of individuals during contact with officers. Gov. Jan Brewer hailed the decision, as she and many viewed it as the heart and soul of the law. “Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court is a victory for the rule of law,” Brewer said in a prepared statement. “It is also a victory for the 10th Amendment and all Americans who believe in the inherent right and responsibility of states to defend their citizens.” The ruling upheld what police throughout the state have done for years, namely detain suspected illegal immigrants and request that federal authorities pick them up and process them for deportation. Tucson Police Chief Roberto Villaseñor was concerned about the ruling, saying it made police inquiries into a person’s immigration status mandatory. “SB 1070 takes away that discretion,” Villaseñor said. In the past, the chief said, officers had discretion to whether they would check a person’s status and request immigration officials to detain the person. Villaseñor said the law could potentially inhibit law enforcement if officers are required to check a person’s immigration status and request federal assistance, as a matter of law, even if they are in course of an investigation such as a murder, sexual assault or other violent crimes. In response to the ruling, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security notified the state that it would no longer respond to calls from local police to detain suspected illegal immigrants unless the individuals are convicted felons, deportees who have illegally returned to the United States or have recently illegally crossed the border. Of the four provisions of the law that the federal government challenged, the court found three were in conflict with federal law. The three provisions that were struck down made it a state crime for someone in the country illegally to not carry federally issued registration, for illegal immigrants to apply for work in a place or work as an independent contractor and allowed police to make an arrest of a suspected illegal immigrant if the person is suspected of having committed a crime that would make them eligible for deportation.

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NEWS The owners of the 104-room Wingate by Wyndham Hotel in Oro Valley have defaulted on a $7 million original note and have been noticed for foreclosure. The hotel, at 11075 N. Oracle Road in the Steam Pump Village retail center, opened in January 2009. Public records list the primary owners as MSJ Investment Properties LLC with members in Tucson; and in Huntington Park and Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. The Tucson group lists as its member 1830 E. 8th Street LLC, an affiliate of Stephen F. Grimm, 2601 N. Campbell Ave. Public records also list Rockinghorse Property Investment, 3341 N. Camino La Jiccarrilla, as an investor. A trustee’s sale notice issued on the hotel in October 2010 did not go through foreclosure. The amended trustee’s notice currently lists the balance at $7.225 million. Alliance Bank of Arizona, 4703 E. Camp Lowell Drive, is the beneficiary of the trustee’s sale, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Sept. 19 at Snell & Wilmer, 1 S. Church Ave., Suite 1500.

County approves sewer hookup credits The Pima County Board of Supervisors on June 19 approved a measure to give sewer hookup credits to new development. The move, opposed by District 5 Supervisor Richard Elías, provides credits to development projects with sewer hookups retroactively to Jan. 1. The approval follows actions the board took in May to change how the county assesses connection fees. Under the revised system, fees are calculated based on the size of water meters that provide potable water to the structure. Prior to the changes made in May, the county assessed connection fees based on the number of fixtures a building had, which was more expensive in most instances. The county will issue sewer hookup credits for projects that hooked in to the wastewater system between Jan. 1 and May 15. Those projects would be eligible for a credit valued at half the difference in costs from the new fee structure. Projects from May 16 to July 1 would receive a 100 percent credit, effectively paying under the new fee system. “This has been unprecedented to offer these kinds of credits,” said Amber Smith, executive director of the Metropolitan Pima Alliance. The group, along with the Southern Arizona Homebuilders Association, was among the stakeholders who worked extensively with county officials on the reforms. Smith said there were some logistical issues that remained over setting new connection fees and credits for commercial projects, which the county and stakeholders continue to work through.

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Alliance Bank lends expertise to visionary downtown redevelopers

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Wingate Hotel in OV defaults on $7M note

By Roger Yohem Inside Tucson Business During terrific and horrific economic times, evaluating business opportunities with “assertive consistency” can pay off. That strategy is playing out for Alliance Bank of Arizona, which has financed some $25.5 million in construction and redevelopment projects that are shaping downtown Tucson’s revitalization. Despite the Great Recession and the city’s troubled Rio Nuevo program, Alliance Bank ventured downtown in 2005. Several local clients with long and strong business relations with the bank saw intriguing opportunities there. Knowing that the bank was still lending, they brought proposals. Alliance Bank responded with a mix of 12 acquisition, construction and renovation loans to these “visionary” developers. “We did not go out of our way to go downtown. We put the word out that we had financing available throughout the marketplace. It just so happened this group of loans were placed there, a significant clustering,” said Duane Froeschle, senior executive of Alliance Bank’s Tucson division, 4703 E. Camp Lowell Drive. “We do have extensive loans outside downtown.” Officials financed the proposals based on each project’s merits and each developer’s positive history with the bank. Many are well-known downtown players, such as Ron

Top: Ross Rulney, right, explains to Alliance Bank’s Duane Froeschle (left) and Joe Snapp (middle) how he renovated the entire Lewis Hotel/Julian Drew block downtown. Right: Ron Schwabe of Peach Properties is one of the bank’s visionary clients. Authentic exposed brick and raw-wood doors attract new tenants to old spaces.

Schawbe of Peach Properties; Rialto Block owner Scott Stiteler; Rob Caylor of Caylor Construction; and Ross Rulney. Many of their undertakings are successful, creative, high-profile makeovers changing the face of Tucson’s urban core (on page 5). “The confidence of the relationship is a central theme in all these loans,” said Froehlich. Alliance Bank’s first downtown-area venture was with Peach Properties, a $712,000 loan to redevelop new retail and office space at the Firestone Building, 439 N. 6th Ave. “Look at the timeline, the first in June 2005 and from then, loans into 2011. That is indicative of our consistent ability to lend at the market peak and through the downturn. Each loan stood on its own, the underwriting parameters showed feasibility,” said vice

president Joe Snapp. “We also look at projects from the developer standpoint, not necessarily the downtown factor. We look for potential future upside and that upside has progressed steadily since we got involved,” he added. With a “critical mass” cluster of 12 loans downtown, Froeschle said the bank took precautions to minimize risk. There is a mix of borrowers and “a diversity of occupancy and tenancy that gives us confidence. It mitigates much concern.” During the due diligence process, Snapp also takes steps to reduce risk by

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Good News Wildcats win it all The University of Arizona Wildcat baseball team defeated South Carolina 4-1 Monday night (July 2) to win the College World Series and an NCAA baseball title. It was Arizona’s fourth national baseball championship and its first since 1986. The historic UA baseball accomplishments salvages what otherwise would have been considered a less-than stellar year for Arizona Athletics after a disappointing gridiron campaign that brought the firing of Coach Mike Stoops and a basketball season in which the Cats failed to make the NCAA basketball tournament.

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The historic Firestone Building was Alliance Bank’s first downtown-area venture.

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BIZ FACTS walking properties with the clients. He talks to tenants, tallies up rent rates and vacancies, and tries to get a feel for the validity of the proposal. His on-site intelligence is rolled into the loan evaluation. Then during the underwriting process, “we help them understand the risks we see in their investment as well as the potential,” he said. Alliance Bank’s biggest downtown deal was $6.1 million in 2007 for the One North 5th/Depot Plaza. This loan to Schwabe and Stiteler was to revitalize the Martin Luther King Building, a former public housing project. The renovation now features 85 marketrate and 11 low-income apartments. The makeover also includes 9,000 square feet of new street-front commercial space. “That’s turned out to be the benchmark for future multi-family projects downtown. It became very successful. Others looked at it, saw it was viable, and decided to do other multi-family downtown,” Snapp said. Two East (2 E. Congress) was another large loan for $5.5 million. Caylor received financing in 2007 to purchase and extensively renovate the historic Valley National Bank Building, built in 1929. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank is the current tenant. Loans under $1 million have been used to restore the Old Market Inn at 402 N. 6th Avenue, and to buy and rehab 829 E. 17th Street for Hi-Speed Rods & Customs. “Sometimes, renovations are a little more complex than straight construction. Often, we had to tailor a unique financing structure to the property,” said Froeschle, who helped found the bank in 2003 with native Tucsonan Robert Sarver. Froeschle, based in Tucson, also is president of Sarver’s Western Alliance Bank headquartered in Phoenix, which includes

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Alliance Bank of Arizona and First Independent Bank in Reno, Nev. “We characterize ourselves as a business bank, not a real estate bank,” he said. “We have a long vested interest here and operate essentially as a large community bank.” Throughout the 2007-2010 financial crisis, he said they were able to lend due to “assertive consistency” whether the economy is red hot or stone cold. As real estate “turned south, the builders had confidence we had financing.” “We were there when somebody else wasn’t,” added Snapp. “Based on relationships, they believed in our abilities to provide what they were looking for.” The quality of the business connection however, did not guarantee funding. Some proposals didn’t pencil out. Others were rejected very early in the pitch. So far, the bank has only one underperforming loan downtown of concern. “Our local understanding of the market allows us to understand these opportunities. We migrated through some difficult

economic times more favorably than some of our competition,” said Froeschle. Many factors are influencing downtown’s renaissance. Specifically, the University of Arizona’s expansion there, and the influx of apartments and student housing that the bankers characterize as “a critical mass of beds.” Also, new mixed-use commercial space is evolving and the business community has high hopes for the modern streetcar initiative. “Those all brought some long-term confidence to the stability of the downtown real estate market. We were able to make some of these loans as the economy and market was declining, something we’re very proud of,” Froeschle said. Added Snapp: “In our decisions, the people are as important as the projects.”

Contact reporter Roger Yohem at ryohem@azbiz.com or (520) 295-4254.

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A more impressive airport Last October, Tucson Metro Chamber director Richard Underwood planted the idea of cleaning up the city’s “dark little secret.” Because the road out of Tucson International Airport was so ugly, visiting executives often were flown into town after sundown by their host companies. That’s about to change. By mid-July, the chamber expects to have the necessary city permits to move ahead with the roadway’s $350,000 makeover. With little effort, members already have pledged some $30,000. Now that the project is rolling, the chamber’s First Impressions committee, formed specifically for this project, will meet Monday (June 2) to formalize a community-wide fundraising program to pay for the beautification. Once the permits and funds are in place, the plan is to complete the makeover by year-end.

El Paso to build ball ﬁeld The City of El Paso, Texas has approved a plan to fund a Triple-A baseball stadium, for which they plan to spend as much as $50 million. Since the city doesn’t currently have a Triple-A team of its own, city leaders intend to go on the hunt for a club. Some El Paso business interests already have been in talks with Pacific Coast League officials about bringing a team to the west Texas town. We hope if the Tucson Padres are not on the list for a possible move. But, the team remains on the auction block and Tucson wasn’t its preferred home to begin with, as the city was selected for a stopover while Escondido, Calif. debated building a new stadium for the team.

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NEWS Public records of business bankruptcies and liens filed in Tucson and selected filings in Phoenix.

BANKRUPTCIES Chapter 11 Business reorganization Zac the Cat LLC, 2921 E. Fort Lowell Road, #205. Principal: Carl Weinstein, trustee. Assets: $788,500.00. Liabilities: $1,748,400.00. Largest creditor(s): RRA Capital Management, Scottsdale, $1,400,000.00. Case No. 12-12572 filed June 6. Law firm: Eric Slocum Sparks William C. Martin doing business as Madera Realty, Madera Financial Inc., West University Associates LLC, Madera Realty and Mortgage, Gambit Investments LLC and Mt. Baldy Ventures and Patricia R. Martin, 5751 N. Kolb Road, Unit 3201. Principal: William C. Martin and Patricia R. Martin, joint debtors. Assets: $788,500.00. Liabilities: $1,748,400.00. Largest creditor(s): Nationstar Mortgage, Lewisville, Texas, $323,309.00; Bank of America, Simi Valley, Calif., $299,459.00; and Stewart Title and Trust, $202,000.00. Case No. 12-13600 filed June 18. Law firm: Eric Slocum Sparks

LIENS Federal tax liens Rafael Tovar Rooﬁng Inc.. 134 E. 25th St. Amount owed: $2,676.85. Appliance Sales & Service and Felipe C. Diaz, 3371 S. Placita Costa Riva. Amount owed: $10,601.10. Quihuis Construction LLC and Danny X. Quihuis, 4861 S. Hoel Drive Drive, Suite 105. Amount owed: $7,939.80. M&S Green Valley Enterprises LLC and James Estes, PO Box 1403, Sahuarita 85629. Amount owed: $3,260.08. Sonoita Fuel Stop LLC and Bradley Haber, 3270 Highway 82, Sonoita. Amount owed: $6,602.41. Jeff’s Total Performance Inc., 219 W. Calle De Las Tiendas, Green Valley. Amount owed: $5,642.22.

State liens (Liens of $1,000 or more ﬁled by the Arizona Department of Revenue or Arizona Department of Economic Security.) Jon’s Precision Rooﬁng Inc., PO Box 18590, 85731. Amount owed: $17,700.77. AAA Anything Gas Inc., 7950 S. Farmbelt Drive. Amount owed: $16,220.64. Richard’s Auto & Truck Sales & Salvage Inc., 4101 E. Illinois St. Amount owed: $7,741.34.

Mechanic’s liens (Security interest liens of $1,000 or more ﬁled by those who have supplied labor or materials for property improvements.)

Arizona Underground Inc. against QIP Tucson Office I LLC. Amount owed: $216,456.84. Southwest Hazard Control against Wetmore Plaza LLC. Amount owed: $12,954.00. Sundt Construction Inc. against QIP Tucson Office I LLC and US Bank. Amount owed: $2,718,684.00. Sierra Woodworks LLC against QIP Tucson Office I LLC and US Bank. Amount owed: $29,546.00. Wiese Painting Contractors Inc. against QIP Tucson I LLC and US Bank. Amount owed: $33,737.35.

Release of federal liens Dave’s Carpet Cleaning and David E. Walker, 2643 W. Wayward Wind Way Law Offices Dan W. Montgomery and Danny W. Montgomery, 432 E. Speedway Taqueria Pico De Gallo Inc., 2618 S. Sixth Ave., South Tucson Infinity Earthworks Inc., 7910 N. Casimir Pulaski Ave. Shear Performance and Metro-East Salon Inc., 5870 E. Broadway, Suite C62 Cattletown Steak House and John R. Kocis, 3141 E. Drexel Road Sushi Garden and Chae Su Kim, 15 N. Alvernon Way Verbatim Reporting & Transcription LLC, 1390 Copper Creek Place, Oro Valley Natural Pools & Gardens Inc., 2143 N. Country Club Road, Suite C Ron Fletcher Company Inc., 1980 E. River Road, Suite 250 Law Offices James J. D’Antonio PC, 751 N. Country Club Road Tiny’s and Tiny’s LLC, 4900 W. Ajo Way

With community survey complete, IGT prepares for next steps By Patrick McNamara Inside Tucson Business It’s been more than two years in the making, and now the community visioning process called Imagine Greater Tucson has reached a milestone. The group’s community survey has wrapped up, with more than 6,700 people participating. “I think we got a good cross-section of the community,” said Patrick Hartley, program director for Imagine Greater Tucson. Conducted through a series of workshops and online, the survey queried residents about their thoughts for future growth scenarios, the economy, environmental protection and the type of region they want Tucson to become. From the survey results, Imagine Greater Tucson plans to construct one scenario that encapsulates what the community said. But that doesn’t mean picking one winner from the growth scenarios that people chose from, Hartley said. “It has really showed us that people in the community are looking for choices,” he said. For instance, the survey asked which of four growth scenarios presented were most agreeable to participants. Those included continued growth along the same lines as the past, suburbs and centers, new centers and urban centers. Among the participants, 64 percent responded that urban centers were the most preferred scenario. “I think there is an understanding among many people in the community that trends are changing and demographics are changing,” Hartley said, adding that younger residents increasingly want to live in areas with mixed-use development that are amenable to walking. “People are really rethinking that model,” he said. Mixed-used, similar to what formerly was called high-density development, has proven a difficult sell in the past, however. “We support the ability to develop at high densities and mixed-use,” said David Godlewski, president of the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association. “We haven’t seen a track record or political will to do it.” Godlewski points to the controversies over the Main Gate Overlay District in the City of Tucson as an example. There, residents have been outspoken against high-density and mixed-use developments because of the potential impacts on traffic and views. The plan has allowed for buildings as tall as 14-stories to be built. “This is exactly what Las Vegas did when

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Robin Schambach, with BWS Architects, at a recent Imagine Greater Tucson event.

it was in its boom cycle of growth (in the late 1980s through the 1990s),” said Mike Varney, Tucson Metro Chamber president and CEO. Varney came to Tucson from a similar job in the Las Vegas area, where he said the community embraced an effort to alter the patterns of growth in the region that had for many years, like the Tucson area, favored continued outward sprawl. Instead, attempts were made to minimize sprawl by building higher-density developments and focusing on urban core areas. “It was a very different model of home building but it became the norm,” Varney said. Imagine Greater Tucson participants strongly supported the idea of higher-density development. Another survey question, which asked whether people would prefer to live among greater density areas if sensitive lands were preserved or in lower density with less environmental preservation, showed similar results. By a margin of 81 percent to 19 percent, survey participants chose the higher-density option. Survey results also showed that respondents were equally receptive to the idea of putting new businesses downtown in redeveloped commercial centers. Only seven percent of survey respondents supported concentrating new business development in the outskirts of the region. Other questions in the survey included asking participants to rank which items were most important to them from a list in-

cluding a vibrant downtown, availability of single-family housing and less travel time, among others. Participants ranked clean and sustainable water resources as most important, with 83 percent putting it at the top of the list. Clean air was the second most important with 75 percent and conservation of the natural environment had 70 percent of the vote. On transportation issues, participants overwhelmingly supported the idea of building a regional rail system. That issue garnered 51 percent support. Survey participants were equally split in support for more road widening, improved bicycle infrastructure and expanding the bus system, each with 40 percent support. Least popular on that list was building more roads, with 27 percent support, and adding more lines to the modern streetcar system, with 28 percent support. Whether the effort will find its way into government code remains to be determined. Hartley said the individual jurisdictions would have to decide whether the survey results and forthcoming scenario documents fit their community visions. “This is not Imagine Greater Tucson’s vision,” Hartley said. “This is a vision from the residents of the community for the region’s future.”

Contact reporter Patrick McNamara at pmcnamara@azbiz.com or (520) 295-4259.

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Matt’s Organics brings farm fresh groceries to your doorstep By Lisa K. Harris Inside Tucson Business As the sun peeks above the Rincon Mountains and most of Tucson thinks about coffee, Matt’s Organics’ Kathryn Hawkes thinks about dinner, more specifically, dinner for her customers. Packing bags of tasty tomatoes, crisp green beans, Yukon gold potatoes, firm eggplants and a fragrant watermelon, Hawkes’ employees fill bins with organic vegetable and fruits for home grocery delivery. “Our job is to make customers’ lives easier,” Hawkes said. “We offer a wide Kathryn Hawkes, owner selection of high quality organic produce at of Matt’s Organics, with box full of organic our clients’ doorstep.” groceries. She sells the Being a third generation grocer, produce, egg, too. especially organic produce, excites Hawkes. Her voice raises an octave after sampling a watermelon before placing the green globes into boxes. “They’re the sweetest I’ve BIZ FACTS had. You can’t get better than this,” she said. Purveying high quality food and delivering it with a smile Home delivery of organic contributes to Matt’s Organics success. As a kid growing up fruits and vegetables in New Jersey, she worked in www.mattsorganics.com her grandfather’s store delivering groceries. She bought Matt’s Organics in 1998 and operates the business from a warehouse in Corona de Tucson. Studying for a Ph.D. in psychology, with an eye to working with h the elderly, she thought she could run the business and have plenty of time for school. hool. “I didn’t intend to work full time.” she he said. “Boy, was I wrong.” Now she serves 400 to 500 clients throughout Tucson, Green Valley and Sahuarita, with most receiving a produce ce box every week. Hawkes stocks the containers ers with a mix of one-third fruit, one-third salad fixings and one-third vegetables. All of the produce comes from small organic farms. ms. “They grow the best fruits and vegetables es because the owners are in the fields and

really care about their plants,” she said. The peaches and apples from Wilcox and the rest of the offerings come from California. According to Hawkes, many of the Arizona organic farms have gone out of business. “I’d prefer to buy local, and if there were

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Local arts sector helps drive economy Even as funding for non-profit arts organizations, such as the Tucson Pima Arts Council, has been severely reduced in recent years, the Council continues to work hard to sustain and grow the local arts community and recently won a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts grant to further that cause. TPAC’s mission is to foster “artistic expression, educational development and the economic growth of our community by supporting, promoting and advocating for arts and culture.” The organization works to achieve this by awarding grants to individual artists and cultural and artistic organizations, expanding public art, engaging in community projects and supporting artistic professional development and educational initiatives. The Council’s two main annual events are the Lumies Arts and Business Awards ceremony, which earlier this month recognized citizens who have made a significant positive impact on the arts and to TPAC’s community-wide arts tour. Roberto Bedoya, TPAC’s executive director, said the NEA’s Our Town grant application process was rigorous and competitive. “Only 50 of the grants were awarded nationally, and Pima County received two,” he said. International Sonoran Desert Alliance in Ajo was the other local recipient. Grant funds are being used by TPAC to conduct surveys and generate asset mapping of artistic endeavors in the Historic Warehouse Arts District near downtown Tucson. The study area encompasses Toole Avenue to Sixth Street and Sixth Avenue where there is a hub of arts activities. “We’ll use a GIS (geographical information system) tool that documents the work force and real estate and the cultural sector,” Bedoya said. “If you’re an artist looking for a studio or you want to open a business in the district, you’ll have this information available.” A number of partners are involved with the Our Town project, Bedoya said. TPAC is doing research with the University of Arizona School of Geography and that the city and county will provide date on the work force. The Warehouse Arts Management Organization is helping out by conducting surveys, such as questioning art gallery tour attendees. Bedoya said TPAC is also looking at “the social impact” by interviewing artists and asking not only about their artistic endeavors, but also about where they live, where they buy supplies and how they conduct their businesses.

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“We gather information and through network analysis we see the impact of how vibrant the (artistic) community is,” he explained. Bedoya’s goal is to finish the mapping by the end of this year and then obtain more funding to extend the project to a larger area. He said work conducted in 2012 will be a “template” or a “tool” for future analysis of the economic and quality of life impact of the artistic community “all along the streetcar line” that is now under construction. He said he’s not concerned about where the money will come from for the project’s next phase. “We’ll cross that bridge when we get there,” Bedoya said. Other cultural attractions that may be considered next for mapping and surveying include Centennial Hall, Center for Creative Photography and the Poetry Center at UA; the Tucson Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art downtown; and the east end of Congress, which Bedoya calls the “entertainment district.” Knowing more about the economic and social aspects of each district could help in marketing them. “We want to make more visible what has been almost invisible,” Bedoya said. “We want to learn how to grow and to make the city more vibrant.” In February, NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman visited Tucson to learn more about how TPAC is using the grant money. He toured the Warehouse District, met with Mayor Jonathan Rothschild and participated in a panel discussion about culture. “He started at the Steinfeld building and walked along Toole and met artists and owners in the district,” said Bedoya. “We had a Town Hall conversation and discussed placemaking through arts projects and urban design. He was pretty positive; he wrote a blog on it.” The Our Town grant is certainly not the first time Bedoya has secured national funding for use in Pima County; in the past three years he’s brought in $500,000 in grants. A majority of TPAC’s financial support, however, comes from the city and the county, which provide $700,000. TPAC’s total annual budget is $1.2 million. Bedoya said non-profit arts in Pima County provide an economic impact of nearly $88 million per year. He said 2,602 people are employed in non-profit arts positions in the county.

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Proper sales training essential to creating revenue producers This is the next installment in a series about what it takes to attract, retain and motivate (or ARM) your revenue producers: ARM is a function of job fit, compensation, recognition, management style, support, culture and a few wild cards. From early February through June, I worked through the first four elements of the model and will now cover the fifth element, “support.” Support consists of those resources needed from an organization that help producers acquire and retain satisfied customers. Lack of it is the fourth most common cause for voluntary and involuntary terminations of producers. Having an untrained sales manager is the third, providing the wrong type of compensation is the second, and selecting producers with the wrong profiles is the first. Sales training is a key element of support, provided it’s any good. The saying, “If you don’t train them, don’t blame them,” applies to all employees, but most especially to your revenue producers. “Nonsense,” sputter some business owners, “I shouldn’t have to spend time and money training them. If they don’t know how to sell, we shouldn’t have hired them in the first place! If they can’t make their numbers – fire them!” While this may sound muscular and commanding, it’s just plain wrong headed and unenlightened. Remember that the incidence of “hunters” in the general population is only about one or two out of 50. What makes hunting producers so rare is, not only are they resourceful self starters, but they have the resilience required to withstand the repeated failures associated with prospecting. Hunters respond remarkably well to sales skills training. If you hired a hunter and you terminate them for poor initial performance due to lack of training, you are wasting rare and valuable resource.

At minimum, all new producers, need thorough training in the features and benefits of their organizations’ products and services. In bygone days, many large companies devoted weeks to this SAM WILLIAMS particular element. Not long ago, I met a senior vice president of sales for Cisco Systems who recalled that she and her fellow sales rookies at Lanier Systems were locked up in an isolated hotel for three weeks until they had memorized all of the key features, benefits, unique selling propositions and prices of not only their own products but those of their competitors. Another essential element of training is very different from product knowledge and concerns sales skills. There are basically two kinds, ancient and modern. There was a time when sales executives were trained to be cheerful and positive, à la early Dale Carnegie, to befriend and flatter their prospects, to dazzle them with features and benefits, to deftly overcome their objections and finally to land them with whiz bang closes. While those days are pretty much gone, there are still some dinosaurs hanging around, the most notable of which can be found in “controlled selling,” a training system for car sales execs still used by a few dealerships here in Tucson. You may enjoy British car salesman Barrie Crampton’s recollections: “It was my first day on the controlled selling course, but by lunchtime I’d had enough. The suggested sales technique that tipped me over the edge was ‘if you want to get a truthful answer from your customer, wait till they’re in a

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process, trained producers basically have their prospects write first drafts of their presentations or proposals. These trained producers have a few simple mantras. One, called the “platinum rule” is to “do unto others as they would have you do unto them.” Another is to “find out what they want and give it to them.” A third is called “prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.” Under this formula trained producers never give features and benefits recitals to prospects until they know the features and benefits that really have value to the client – and then they develop those values. So just where does one go to find this type of sales skills training? One avenue is to hire producers who have already received it while working for sales teams of larger organizations. Another is to send them off to sales skills training boot camps provided by any number of training companies: mine, Huthwaite’s, Dale Carnegie’s and Sandler’s, to name a few. Or you can have their trainers come to Tucson to deliver either boot camps or eight- to twelve-week courses with classes lasting a few hours each week. The Eller College is exploring the possibilities of providing this type of training via its Executive Education Programs. If you have your own training department, you can hire a trainer to develop a ‘leave behind’ train-the-trainer sales skills program. Or, if you read these three books, Rackham’s “SPIN Selling,” Parinello’s “Selling to VITO,” and Schiffman’s “Getting to Closed,” you can design your own sales skills training program from scratch. No matter which approach you take, just remember “If you don’t train them, don’t blame them!” Contact Sam Williams, president of the sales consultancy firm New View Group, at swilliams@ newviewgroup.net or (520) 390-0568. Sales Judo appears the first and third weeks of eacfh month in Inside Tucson Business.

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Are you looking for a diversion to help you escape the fact that it’s 100+ degrees outside? If so, perhaps you might consider celebrating National Ice Cream Month with a half-gallon of Christmas Cookies ice cream from Blue Bell Creameries. Available only during July, this cool concoction combines chocolate chip, snicker doodle and sugar cookies with red candycane shaped sprinkles and green icing swirls. If you are looking for a flavor with more summer flair, check out their newly introduced Summer Strawberry Pie ice cream. Blue Bell ice cream is available at all major grocery stores locally.

will be featuring cold drinks and a pig-roast inside the Mercado’s courtyard. At about 9 p.m., you will want to head upstairs to the roof-top deck for prime viewing MICHAEL LURIA of the fireworks display. • Mercado San Agustin, 100 S. Avenida del Convento – http://mercadosanagustin. com.

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Located adjacent to A Mountain, Mercado San Agustin may just be the perfect spot to enjoy pre-fireworks festivities as you wait to watch the city’s largest July 4th pyrotechnic display. The Mercado has partnered with the Tucson Food Truck Coalition and Local First Arizona to launch their first July 4th celebration. The event takes place from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. p.m and will feature 10-plus food trucks rucks surrounding the Mercado. In addition ion to live music, Agustin stin Brasserie

Mixology continues to be hot in the restaurant and bar industry and that’s as true in Tucson as anywhere in the country. Over at the Abbey, proprietor Brian Metzger has introduced guest bartenders on Friday night. All summer long, the Abbey will feature a guest mixologist from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. who will prepare their own special cocktail for only $6. On July 6, Ricky Anderson of Jax Kitchen (sister restaurant to the Abbey) will be the guest mixologist. If beer is more your style, there’s several new breweries represented for the summer including Coronado (Coronado Island, CA) inclu , Unibroue (Quebec, Canada) and Squatters Un and an Wasatch, both from Salt Lake City. • The Abbey Eat + Drink. 6960 E. Sunrise Drive. (520) 299-3132. http:// S www.theabbeytucson.com

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A new gallery named the Many Hands Artist Cooperative, is now open. Comprised of 11 artists working in ceramics, glass, watercolors, jewelry and more, the gallery is at 3054 N. 1st Ave. Also currently on display is Addition/ Subtraction at the Conrad Wilde Gallery, 439 N. 6th Ave. The show features the work of eight artists working in multimedia painting and sculpture, scheduled to be on display through July 28. And one more art exhibition of note this week is at Etherton Gallery, 135 S. 6th Ave. A Classic Collection; Photographs from the estate of Julian T. Baker (19392011), features a museum-quality collection of modern photography masters including work by Harry Callahan, Frederick Sommer, Wynn Bullock and others. On display through August 31, the show is a great one-stop survey of modern photography by some of the best in the medium.

Music The Invisible Theatre’s Sizzling Summer Sounds concert series concludes with performances on July 5-8 at the Arizona Inn, 2200 East Elm. On July 5 and 7, acclaimed singer Amanda McBroom will present Songs of the Silver Screen and on July 6 and 8, multi-talented cabaret star Steve Ross will be “Puttin’ On The Ritz,” with his tribute to the great Irving Berlin. Tickets and more information at InvisibleTheatre.com.

Museum The Mini-Time Museum has a few fun things in store this summer starting with the new game “In The Goodie Old Summertime,” in which participants HERB STRATFORD of all ages visit exhibits in the Victorian and Edwardian era, and try to answer riddles. At the end of the game, check your answers and receive an old-fashioned treat. The game is included in admission and will run through September at the Museum, 4455 East Camp Lowell Rd.

Film It’s an eclectic mix at the multiplex this weekend with the Elizabeth Banks and Chris Pine family drama “People Like Us,” and the male stripper film “Magic Mike” with Channing Tatum and other young men strutting their stuff. Also, the R-rated comedy “Ted” about a living, breathing teddy bear and his grownup best friend (played by Mark Wahlberg) which is aimed at an adult audience. In indie film releases, new “it-girl” Greta Gerwig returns in the film “Lola Versus,” about a woman whose world turns upside down overnight.

Contact Herb Stratford at herb@ ArtsandCultureGuy.com. Stratford teaches Arts Management at the University of Arizona. He appears weekly in Inside Tucson Business.

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Center, Livingston, New Jersey. He completed a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Miss.

Tim Vimmerstedt has been named director of operations and community affairs for the Arizona Aerospace Foundation which oversees the Pima Air and Space Museum and the Titan Missile Museum. J. Felipe Garcia has been promoted to executive vice president of the Metropolitan Tucson Convention and Visitors Bureau. As part of his new role, Garcia will take a lead in planning the MTCVB’s annual budget and developing a program of work. He will continue his duties from his previous position as vice president of strategic partnerships

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and Mexico marketing. Garcia has been with the MTCVB since 2004. Commerce Bank of Arizona has named John S. Lewis president and CEO responsible for managing the bank’s statewide operations. Former Commerce Bank president and CEO, Randall J. Yenerich, will now serve

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CALENDAR SPECIAL EVENTS

Marana Aerospace Solutions - Dinner Southern AZ Logistics Education Org. (SALEO) Wednesday (July 18) 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. Viscount Suite Hotel 4855 E. Broadway RSVP by July 17 noon: al@ saleo.org or (520) 977-3626 Cost: $30 ($25 members & 1st-timers, $10 students) Nike, The Brand Experience Thursday (Aug. 23) 7 to 10 a.m. The Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa 3800 E. Sunrise Drive Join the Tucson Metro Chamber and Pima Federal Credit Union in welcoming Nike executive, Loren Hoppes to hear about the Nike brand identity. Contact: Arlene achiovet@ tucsonchamber.org 792-2250 x135 Cost: $45/members; $65/non/members www.tucsonchamber.org REGULAR MEETINGS

BNI Platinum Chapter Business Network International Every Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Loop, 10180 N. Oracle Road RSVP: Rose Ann Weaver (520) 818-3673

BNI Sunrise Success Chapter Business Network International Every Thursday 7 to 8:30 a.m. Miguels, 5900 N. Oracle Road RSVP: Alexcis Reynolds (520) 690-6576 BNI Professional Partners Chapter Business Network International Every Wednesday 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tucson Country Club, 2950 N. Camino Principal RSVP: Kevin Wood (520) 260-3123 Business Principals of Tucson First and third Thursdays 7 to 8 a.m. The Hungry Fox, 4637 E. Broadway RSVP: Steve Dunlap at (520) 622-0554 Casas Adobes Rotary Club Every Wednesday 7 to 8 a.m. La Paloma Country Club, 3660 E. Sunrise Drive Information: www. casasadobesrotary.org Catalina Tucson Rotary Weekly meeting of the Catalina Tucson Rotary Club Every Friday 10 a.m. Viscount Suites Hotel 4855 E. Broadway Info: Steve Pender steve@ familylegacyvideo.com

or (520) 745-6500 Cost: $20 www.catalinarotary.org Cienega Rotary Club Every Tuesday 5 to 6:15 p.m. Del Lago Golf Club 14155 E. via Rancho Del Lago Information: http:// cienegarotary.org Connections Monthly contacts luncheon First and third Wednesdays 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse 2659 N. Swan Road RSVP: Cindy Morgan at (520) 403-8798 or morgansautoshop@aol.com Cost: $16 includes lunch Conquistador Toastmasters Every Wednesday 7 to 8:30 p.m. ASBA conference center 4811 E. Grant Road, Suite 261 Contact: Saul Silven at (520) 885-3497 RSVP: requested for guests Cost: guests free

Desert Stars Toastmasters Every Tuesday, noon U of A Science & Tech Park Building 9040, Room 2216 Contact: Jim Eng (520) 6639118 or jim_eng@juno.com Information: www.Desertstars. freetoasthost.com Entrepreneurial Mothers Association Monthly luncheon First Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Old Pueblo Grill 60 N. Alvernon Way Information: Sherry Goncharsky, sherry@ tucsoncomputerskills.com Financial Workshops for Women Every Tuesday at 6 p.m. Barca Financial Group 5470 E. Speedway Suite A106 Information: www. barcaﬁnancial.com Foothills Optimist Club First and third Wednesdays, noon Macayo’s Restaurant 7360 N. Oracle Road Info and RSVP: (520) 744-5927

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Foothills Rotary Club Every Friday, noon Metropolitan Grill 7892 N. Oracle Road RSVP: Eric Miller, (520) 979-1696 Foothills Club of Tucson Second Friday 12:30 p.m. McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse 2959 N. Swan Road RSVP: Leslie Hargrove lkhargrove_fct@hotmail.com Information: www. foothillscluboftucson.org Cost: $20 Fountain Flyers Toastmasters Every Tuesday 6:30 a.m. Coco’s Restaurant 7250 N. Oracle Road Information: Cheryl at (520) 730-4456 Cost: Free to visit Got a business challenge, 30 minutes & 20 bucks? Every Tuesday and Thursday 8 to 9 a.m. Savaya Coffee Market 5530 E Broadway Ste.174 Info: Dale Bruder, Dynamic Strategist strategy@ dalebruder.com (520) 331-1956 www.dalebruder.com $20 Group Referral Organization networking group First and third Wednesdays Luna Bella 2990 N. Swan Road Suite 145 Information: www.grotucson.com

GRO II Second and fourth Thursdays Sam Hughes Championship Dining 446 N. Campbell Ave. Suite 150 Info: www.grotucson.com Independent Business Networking Tucson “IBNT” Second and fourth Tuesdays El Parador 2744 E. Broadway RSVP: Jennifer Row at (520) 603-3315 or jenniferrr@ novahomeloans.com Cost: First time is free Inside Connections Second and fourth Wednesday, 7:15 a.m. Home Town Buffet 5101 N Oracle Road RSVP: Eric Miller at (520) 979-1696 Institute of Management Accountants Third Thursday, (September through May) 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Old Pueblo Grille 60 N. Alvernon Way RSVP: Gale McGuire (520) 584-3480 or gale. mcguire@roberthalf.com

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Next up: Package express and messenger services, Moving companies, Freight services, Storage firms Inside Tucson Business is gathering data for the 2013 edition of the Book of Lists. Categories that will be published in upcoming weekly issues of Inside Tucson Business are: • July 6: Biotech firms, Optics companies • July 13: Package express and messenger services, Moving companies, Freight services, Storage firms • July 20: Public school districts, Private elementary schools, Private secondary schools, Charter schools • July 27: Universities and colleges, Specialty and technical schools • Aug. 3: Health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations and indemnity plan providers, Supplemental plans and Childcare providers If your business fits one of these categories, now is the time to update your profile. Go to www.InsideTucsonBusiness.com and click the Book of Lists tab at the top of the page. New and unlisted businesses can create a profile by following the directions. The Book of Lists is a year-round reference for thousands of businesses and individuals. To advertise your business, call (520) 294-1200.

HEALTH CARE

Assisted living communities receive excellence accreditation Two Southern Arizona assisted living communities have been awarded three-year accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) International. This is the fourth consecutive year that the two communities, Amber Lights in Tuc-

son, and Silver Springs in Green Valley, have received the accreditation, which parallels a five-star rating in the hospitality industry and represents the highest level of accreditation for an assisted living operation. San Diego-based Senior Resource Group owns the communities. CARF officials commended both Amber Lights and Silver Springs on their dedication to improving the overall quality of life of its residents while maintaining the highest standards of excellence in service, personnel and documentation practices. Amber Lights, a 120-unit combined independent living/assisted living retirement community, is located in northwest Tucson. Silver Springs, a 107-unit combined independent living/assisted living community, is located in Green Valley.

FINANCIAL

Banker John P. Lewis retires after 43 years John P. Lewis, 66, vice chairman and secretary of the Bank of Tucson, has retired after 43 years of work in the banking industry. The Tucson native and University of Arizona graduate achieved national recognition in 2009 for his service on the elite 14-member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Advisory Committee on Community Banking under the leadership of FDIC Chair Sheila Bair. Lewis began his career as a messenger and proof operator, then moved into management training for Southern Arizona Bank and Trust Co. In 1985, he completed graduate work in banking at the University of Washington in Seattle. He then advanced to division head for Southern Arizona Bank. In 1998, he was part of the team that organized and launched the independent Southern Arizona Community Bank. He was president in 2011 when it was acquired and merged with Bank of Tucson and took on new responsibilities as vice chairman and secretary of the combined banks, that

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EDUCATION/RESEARCH

UA researcher gets $1.2M federal grant A professor at the University of Arizona’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health has been awarded a $1.2 million grant to research respirators. Dr. Philip Harber will be the principal investigator of a $1.2 million, three-year research project to improve the ability to rapidly enable community members to use respirators in case of a natural disaster such as a large brush fire or an epidemic such as influenza. The grant is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The study will be held on the campus of the University of Arizona. Harber is seeking volunteers for his research. Participants will receive training on how to use respirators and compensation for their time. Interested individuals should send an email to coph-occmed@email.arizona.edu or call (520) 626-1263.

GOVERNMENT

New facility to bring recycling improvements City of Tucson recycling collections will be taken to a new, state-of-the-art recycling facility operated by ReCommunity Recycling beginning Monday (July 2), which will allow for a greater variety of plastics to be recycled. ReCommunity Recycling has been contracted by City of Tucson Environmental Services to process and market the recyclables collected by the city from Tucson residents and business customers. The new facility at Ajo and Alvernon ways will use a combination of sorting machines, including optical sorting to make the process easier and more efficient. Optical

sorting can determine the type of material being processed so that it is correctly sorted. For Tucson residents, the biggest change is there will be less confusion about which plastics are recyclable. If it is a plastic container, it goes in the blue barrel. Residents will receive a copy of the new list of recyclables in their July water bill. More information is available on the web at TucsonRecycles.org or by calling the Recycle InfoLine at (520) 791-5000.

Learn the business of government The Town of Sahuarita plans to hold a Citizens’ Leadership Academy program beginning on Tuesday (August 21). Over the course of ten weeks, participants will learn how government works and how it impacts the community. Citizens’ Leadership Academy provides an opportunity to join interactive discussions with town officials and department representatives and visit some municipal programs and projects. The goal of the program is to give citizens a new appreciation for government and its day-to-day operations. Admission standards are: • must be at least 18 years of age, • must be a resident of the Town of Sahuarita. • must make the commitment to attend all the scheduled sessions, including the graduation ceremony that will occur at the November 13, 2012, during the Town Council meeting. For more information and to download an application, visit the town website at www.ci.sahuarita.az.us. Applications can be completed online, faxed to (520) 822-8891, hand-deliver or mailed to the town manager’s office, Town Hall Municipal Complex, at 375 W. Sahuarita Center Way, Sahuarita, AZ 85629. For questions about the academy or to request to have the application mailed, call (520) 822-8816. Deadline for applications is August 3.

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FINANCE YOUR MONEY

How much risk is too much for your retirement savings? “October: This is one of the particularly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.” – Mark Twain Yes, there is market risk; but for some, the gains justify the risks. The question is how much risk should you take if you are getting close to retirement? The answers will be varied depending on who is asked. For many baby boomers moving toward retirement, 2008-2009 decimated their portfolios and the housing market debacle has robbed them of their home equity. Recently the Federal Reserve reported the median net worth of families plunged 39 percent from 2007-2010. That puts Americans on par with where they were in 1992. Fear and uncertainty as well as current economic conditions have caused baby boomers to question whether or not they will be able to retire and if they will have enough money for the rest of their lives. There are a number of alternatives for retirement planning including securities, real estate investments and insurance. With securities, you shoulder all the risk. With insurance, such as Fixed Indexed Annuities, you transfer the risk to the insurance companies. Real estate has, in the past, been considered a good investment, but we have seen a downturn in real estate values unlike anything experienced in most of our lifetimes. The stock market offers some great opportunities for growth, but one must understand the risks. Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and successful billionaire businessman said, “Remember, it’s better to make less, or next to nothing than to lose everything. Don’t get greedy. Don’t get desperate. The stock market can’t save your financial future but it can end it.” (Business Insider, Jan 24, 2011). It is very important to understand the significance of the “sequence of returns” which can greatly impact the overall likeliness of outliving assets in retirement. An individual who suffers losses early in retirement is much more affected than an individual who suffers the same loss much later in retirement. The Putman Institute’s Director of Research, W. Van Harlow provides clear, substantiated answers in his report, “Optimal Asset Allocation in Retirement: A Downside Risk Perspective.” (See the full report at https://content.putnam.com/ literature/pdf/PI001.pdf ). The report addresses the question of asset allocation and risk factors particularly for those approaching retirement. We all

know we need to reduce our exposure to market risk the closer to retirement we get, but this report defies the commonly expressed recommendations for asset allocation typical in today’s SUSAN MOORE marketplace. Van Harlow’s report finds that investment options to individuals are overwhelmingly over-exposed to risk in comparison to goals and says this overexposure greatly increases the chance of failure in retirement, the outliving of assets. “When minimizing the risk of retirement plan shortfalls, we find that the optimal asset allocation mix for sustainable spending rates is surprisingly conservative,” concluded the report. Equity allocations for 65- to 85-year-old individuals are in the 5 percent to 10 percent range. “If mitigating the risk of outliving one’s retirement resources is the cornerstone of the asset allocation decision, it is critical to limit the equity exposure and recognize the impact that investment volatility can have on the sustainability of the retirement plan,” it said. Insurance, on the other hand, eliminates all market risk. Today’s fixed indexed annuities have available Income riders that provide a guaranteed stream of income for life. These products allow the owner to be passively linked to any number of indices while not owning a security. Additionally, the riders can allow a married couple to take a joint, guaranteed lifetime income much like a pension. Another advantage is the owner of the annuity still has access to the principal and accumulated value in the annuity until it is spent down, which is unlike a pension that has no access to the principal. Fixed indexed annuities are the safe alternative to the stock market. You can rollover your 401 (k) or an existing IRA into an FIZ and never worry about market volatility again. If you have lost money in the market, consider the words of Warren Buffet: “Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

Contact Susan L. Moore Vault, president of Moore Financial Strategies, at susan@ moorefs.com or (520) 296-4464. She also hosts “Safe Money Strategies” from 6-6:30 a.m. Saturdays on KNST 97.1-FM/790-AM.

TUCSON STOCK EXCHANGE Stock market quotations of some publicly traded companies doing business in Southern Arizona

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Southern Arizona presence Alcoa Inc (Huck Fasteners) AA AMR Corp (American Airlines) AAMRQ Augusta Resource Corp (Rosemont Mine) AZC Bank Of America Corp BAC Bank of Montreal (M&I Bank) BMO BBVA Compass BBVA Berkshire Hathaway (Geico, Long Cos) BRK-B* Best Buy Co Inc BBY BOK Financial Corp (Bank of Arizona) BOKF Bombardier Inc* (Bombardier Aerospace) BBDB CB Richard Ellis Group CBG Citigroup Inc C Comcast Corp CMCSA Community Health Sys (Northwest Med Cntrs) CYH Computer Sciences Corp CSC Convergys Corp CVG Costco Wholesale Corp COST CenturyLink (Qwest Communications) CTL Cvs/Caremark (CVS pharmacy) CVS Delta Air Lines DAL Dillard Department Stores DDS Dover Corp (Sargent Controls & Aerospace) DOV DR Horton Inc DHI Freeport-McMoRan (Phelps Dodge) FCX Granite Construction Inc GVA Home Depot Inc HD Honeywell Intl Inc HON IBM IBM Iron Mountain IRM Intuit Inc INTU Journal Communications (KGUN 9, KMXZ) JRN JP Morgan Chase & Co JPM Kaman Corp (Electro-Optics Develpmnt Cntr) KAMN KB Home KBH Kohls Corp KSS Kroger Co (Fry's Food Stores) KR Lee Enterprises (Arizona Daily Star) LEE Lennar Corporation LEN Lowe's Cos (Lowe's Home Improvement) LOW Loews Corp (Ventana Canyon Resort) L Macerich Co (Westcor, La Encantada) MAC Macy's Inc M Marriott Intl Inc MAR Meritage Homes Corp MTH Northern Trust Corp NTRS Northrop Grumman Corp NOC Penney, J.C. JCP Pulte Homes Inc (Pulte, Del Webb) PHM Raytheon Co (Raytheon Missile Systems) RTN Roche Holdings AG (Ventana Medical Systems) RHHBY Safeway Inc SWY Sanoﬁ-Aventis SA SNY Sears Holdings (Sears, Kmart, Customer Care) SHLD SkyWest Inc SKYW Southwest Airlines Co LUV Southwest Gas Corp SWX Stantec Inc STN Target Corp TGT TeleTech Holdings Inc TTEC Texas Instruments Inc TXN Time Warner Inc (AOL) TWX Ual Corp (United Airlines) UAL Union Paciﬁc Corp UNP Apollo Group Inc (University of Phoenix) APOL US Airways Group Inc LCC US Bancorp (US Bank) USB Wal-Mart Stores Inc (Wal-Mart, Sam's Club) WMT Walgreen Co WAG Wells Fargo & Co WFC Western Alliance Bancorp (Alliance Bank) WAL Zions Bancorp (National Bank of Arizona) ZION Data Source: Dow Jones Market Watch *Quotes in U.S. dollars, except Bombardier is Canadian dollars.

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Monthly new home permits highest since 2003 The construction industry continued its slow rebuilding process in May with 214 new home permits, the most since 243 permits in March 2003. Year-to-date, 791 residential permits have been issued, 25 percent more than the 616 units during the same 2011 period. New construction home sales in May were 123, eight more than a year ago. Yearto-date, there have been 520 closings of new-built homes. The new data is from housing analyst John Strobeck of Bright Future Business Consultants. After seeing the latest stats, he re-confirmed experts’ projections that some 1,500 permits will be issued in the region this year. “From a pure economic standpoint, we desperately need a vibrant new construction market,” Strobeck said. By subdivision, Robson Communities pulled the most permits with 12 at Saddlebrooke Ranch, northeast of Oro Valley. At 9 each, the next-highest volume was D.R. Horton Homes at Estancia del Corazon in Sahuarita and Las Flores at Star Valley; and Pulte Homes at Sierra Morado, in southeast Tucson. Habitat for Humanity sold the most homes, closing on 10 properties at Corazon del Pueblo, in southeast Tucson. Next was D.R. Horton Homes at Stonefield in Rancho Vistoso with 7 closings and Richmond America Homes at Palisades at San Lucas in Marana with 6 closings. Going forward, there is continued con-

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New home construction is 25 percent ahead of last year’s pace.

cern about the low supply of finished lots, currently estimated to be about 4,000. Many are not in desirable areas or in poor condition, Strobeck explained. Based on the prices paid recently for lots and future development costs, “it would appear that the homes to be built will have prices considerable above today’s market,” said Strobeck. The current gap between median new construction and resale pricing is about $50,000.

MPA seeks Common Ground THE PULSE: Median Price Active Listings New Listings Pending Sales Homes Closed

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$148,814 4,137 356 406 237

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It’s all about collaboration and working together to benefit the overall community. The Metropolitan Pima Alliance (MPA) is seeking nominations for its 8th annual Common Ground Awards. The event emphasizes uncommon collaborations between the private and public sectors, neighborhood and special interest groups, and other stakeholders. According to MPA executive director Amber Smith, the categories include land development, economic development, sus-

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More courthouse concrete Beginning at midnight Friday (June 29), Sundt Construction will begin pouring the second massive concrete slab that will form the foundation of the new Pima County/City of Tucson Joint Courts Complex downtown. A crew of about 190 workers will pour 4,000 cubic yards of concrete over eight hours at the site, located at the southeast corner of Stone and Toole avenues. On June 8, the first pour of 3,553 cubic yards took place at the foundation, which is 25 feet below grade. Together, the two pours will form a slab that covers about one acre and will support a seven-story steel-frame building. The work is done at night to take advantage of lower temperatures and for traffic considerations. Work on the 290,000-squarefoot court facility began in February and is scheduled for completion in August 2013.

Sales and leases • Rancho Bridge LLC acquired 134 residential lots for $1.47 million in Caddis Haley Estates east of 6700 S. Vahalla Road from Washington Federal Savings, represented by Ben Becker and Adam Becker of CBRE. The buyer was represented by Dan Feig and Aaron Mendenhall of Chapman Lindsey Commercial Real Estate Services. • Economic Development Authority of the Tohono O’odham Nation purchased a

7,343 square foot retail building on 34,744 square feet of land for $1,040,000 at Silverbell Pavilion, 1150 N. Silverbell Road, from Bank of Oklahoma. The seller was represented by Brenna Lacey of Volk Company Commercial Real Estate. The buyer was represented by Myrna Grijalva. • LivingSocial leased 30,500 square feet at 250 S. Williams Center from Kent Circle Investments LLC, represented by David Volk and Bruce Suppes of CBRE. The tenant was represented by Steve Burman, Jay Farmer and Andrew Medley of Jones Lang LaSalle. • Chuze Fitness leased 16,040 square feet at 4329 N. Oracle Rd. from Larsen Baker, self-represented by Andy Seleznov. The tenant was represented by Chad Iafrate of Cassidy Turley BRE Commercial. • Mural Consulting leased a two-story, 14,200-square-foot building at 2210 E. Fort Lowell Road from Cachita LLC, represented by Bruce Suppes and Ian Stuart of CBRE. • Aaron’s Rents leased 6,833 square feet at Tucson Place Shopping Center on the northwest corner of First Avenue and Wetmore Road from Larsen Baker, self-represented by Andy Seleznov. Dave Long, Cor Realty Services, represented the tenant. • Buffalo Wild Wings leased a 6,000-squarefoot pad at Wetmore Plaza on the southwest corner of Oracle and Wetmore roads from Larsen Baker, self-represented by Andy Seleznov. The tenant was represented by Chuck Wells of Phoenix Commercial Advisors. • Old Pueblo Vapor leased 1,800 square feet at 5470 E. Speedway from Larsen Baker, self-represented by Andy Seleznov. Greg Boccardo of Hoot Gibson Realty represented the Tenant. • Asian Eyebrow Threading leased 1,800 square feet at The Plaza at Williams Centre, 5340 E. Broadway, from Larsen Baker, selfrepresented by Andy Seleznov. • AF Sunrise LLC, doing business as Anytime Fitness, leased 1,200 square feet at Sunrise Village Shopping Center at the southeast corner of Sunrise and Swan from Sunrise Village Investors LLC, represented by David Hammack of Volk Company Commercial Real Estate. • Institute for Transformative Education leased 1,200 square feet in Suite 50 and Always Open & Shut Garage Door Service leased 1,200 square feet in Suite 95 at 4500 E. Speedway from Presson Midway LLC, represented by Rob Glaser and Paul Hooker with Picor Commercial Real Estate Services. • Games Workshop Retail leased 1,125 square feet at 7925 N. Oracle Road, Suite 101, from Weingarten Nostat Inc. The tenant was represented by Debbie Heslop of Volk Company Commercial Real Estate.

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EDITORIAL BIZ BUZZ

Let’s find a way to ignore Phoenix The other day, I was meeting with a principal and an advertising buyer for a major Tucson marketing firm. They were asking me about the kinds of things that pique our interest. Being the research geek that I can be, I thought about recent readership surveys that show very little interest among Inside Tucson Business readers about businesses in Phoenix. That’s when the ad buyer said, “That DAVID HATFIELD kind of thing doesn’t even register in Phoenix.” She’s right. Ask a Phoenician about Tucson and the best you might get is that we’re a weekend getaway for a close-by change of scenery. But ask a Tucsonan about Phoenix and something visceral happens. It’s one thing to have rivalry between the University of Arizona and Arizona State. In the Pac 12, there are six of them — Cal and Stanford, USC and UCLA, Oregon and Oregon State, Washington and Washington State and Colorado and Utah (sort of). But the thing of it is, outside of the rivalry there’s not a Berkeley versus Palo Alto debate, and Los Angeles doesn’t compete with Westwood, nor does Eugene fight with Corvallis, nor Seattle do battle against Pullman and whatever challenges they have in Boulder, they’re not in competition with Salt Lake City. But somehow, we in Tucson seem to think we’re in a fight with Phoenix. It’s just that Phoenicians don’t know it, nor do they care. As it invariably does these days, our meeting with the marketing firm got around to the economic recovery. According to reports, the Phoenix market, which got hit a whole lot harder by the recession, was in recovery mode. Companies there are beginning to spend once again. Other marketing firms are reporting upticks in business. Economists say, Tucson didn’t get hit nearly so bad — though the fact that home prices are down 45 percent from their peak was bad enough — but we’re still struggling. At his mid-year economic report, the University of Arizona’s Marshall Vest this month noted the Phoenix area is fast on its way to recovering jobs lost in the recession. Since August 2010, Phoenix has created 69,400 new jobs. Tucson? Just 800. At that rate it’s going to take a long while to get back the 32,000 jobs lost in the recession. Also this month, Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity ranked Arizona the No. 1 state in the nation for entrepreneurial startups as a steady stream of entrepreneurs migrate away from less business-friendly states. In May, that same foundation ranked Tucson among the five least friendly cities for business, along with Sacramento, San Diego and Los Angeles, all in California, and the infamous Detroit. If Arizona is the No. 1 state but Tucson is among the bottom five cities, there must be a lot going on in the Phoenix area. And they’re not even thinking about Tucson. Instead of being preoccupied with fighting Phoenix, we Tucsonans need to ignore Phoenix. That should come right after we get our economy booming again.

Contact David Hatfield at dhatfield@azbiz.com or (520) 295-4237.

Editorial

Reflecting on the glory of Independence Day Parades, fireworks, games, hamburgers, picnics, ice cream, pool parties and concerts – all are associated with the day of celebration that is the Fourth of July holiday. As Tucsonans and all Americans again enjoy this wonderful day of historical significance Wednesday, it is fitting to reflect on what all the jubilation, excitement and ceremony is all about. It is a joyous celebration of the signing of the United States of America’s Declaration of Independence in 1776, arguably the most important of all of America’s historical documents. Independence Day, or the Fourth of July, has become a gigantic birthday party for the most hopeful, democratic and influential country on earth. Two-hundred-thirty-six years ago, things were not so certain. The 13 American colonies were locked in a revolutionary struggle to declare their independence from Great Britain. On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress, which consisted of representatives of the 13 colonies, voted in favor of independence, and two days later its delegates adopted the Declaration of Independence, our nation’s most cherished symbol of liberty and justice. Its primary author was the brilliant Thomas Jefferson, who was just 33 years old at the time. Though Jefferson was a man of many talents – architect, inventor, scholar, politician and the third American president – he is best known for authoring the Declaration of Independence, a document not only of enduring historical and political importance, but one also of amazingly glorious prose that expressed the heartfelt beliefs of the American people at the nation’s revolutionary birth. The political views written by Jefferson in the Declaration were not original. These thoughts had been expressed before by John Locke and other Continental philosophers. However, Jefferson’s declaration provided an inspiring argument that the rights of men are found in “self-evident truths” that come not from kings, but from their God; and

that the purpose of governments was not to garner power and treasure, but to protect the rights of man. Here, in celebration of The Fourth of July 2012, are the words of Jefferson himself as expressed in an early portion of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness …” In the heart of the Declaration, Jefferson provided an indictment of King George III for willfully establishing an “absolute Tyranny” over the colonies. Jefferson states that the patience of the colonists had achieved nothing and it was therefore justified for the colonists to declare their independence. The final paragraph of the Declaration, which follows, is an intense and stirring pronouncement of independence. In it, Jefferson says the Continental Congress, “appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved … And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

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OPINION WAKE UP TUCSON

Can Mayor Rothschild make it happen? We hope so. The week City Manager Mike Letcher resigned, we authored a column headlined “Is Tucson the worst run city in America?” There was good reason to ask the question. Mayor Bob Walkup’s teamups with former city managers Keene, Hein and Letcher had brought our city to the brink of bankruptcy. You may remember that Walkup was once all-in on a 200-room hotel downtown that would have been backstopped with general fund dollars. Had that property been built next to an old and antiquated Tucson Convention Center, we would be cutting deeper into cops and fire to pay debt service on an empty hotel. Prior to the hotel fiasco, Letcher and Walkup pushed a ½-cent sales tax that was overwhelmingly turned down by city voters even as the duo said massive police department cuts would be necessary if the vote failed. Well, the tax went down and surprise, the massive layoff of 400 cops never materialized. From botched contracts on the entrance of the TCC and other Rio Nuevo deals, to the closures of fire stations and pools, it was clear the city couldn’t be trusted to manage a Sonoran hot dog cart, let alone a $1.3 billion public entity. Soon thereafter came the messy 2011 election, with Republican fumbling of petition signatures and the “two-N’s-andtwo-L’s” write-in candidacy of Rick Grinnell.

The Democrats stayed focused and won the big seat (if you can call it that) with Jonathan Rothschild. Not since Mayor Lou Murphy and City Manager Joel Valdez has Tucson JOE HIGGINS seen true leadership from the manager/ council form of government. With an average tenure of only 36 months, the revolving door of city managers was blamed (along with ineffective mayoral leadership and a lack of accountability) for numerous CHRIS DeSIMONE city missteps. With the departure of flip-flop wearing, earring-sporting, Che-Guevara-poster-on-the-wall Mike Letcher, we now have super-serious Richard Miranda, who brought professionalism back to the office. Miranda retired as chief of police, then worked with Hein and Letcher at the city

manager’s office, and survived palace coups to become top dog. Miranda is no nonsense, transparent and has a long history in Tucson city government. Speak to city or police staff and half the folks like him and the other half don’t. Miranda doesn’t really care. He’s got his pension, he’s done his time and he’s dancing like no one is watching – which is what we need to bring Tucson back from the brink. Walkup was a weak Republican. Rothschild is a Democrat. With Mayor Rothschild, the Democrats have their chance to turn liberal Tucson into the shining city on the progressive hill. Between the county and city, the Democratic machines have been firmly entrenched for more than 20 years. From the looks of this community, the experiment is not going well. It’s time Pima County Democratic Chair Jeff Rogers and Rothschild fix what their party has so badly broken. It’s time to prove a liberal city can work. Can the Democratic Party take a page from Bill Clinton’s playbook and move to the center, encourage a healthy business climate and find the balance between liberal utopia and a community that has the tax base to pay for modern street cars, low-income housing and free bus passes? Just like TUSD’s drastic enrollment decline was caused by years of ignoring academic basics, the City of Tucson’s

performance has resulted in the flight of business and middle- and upper-class residents to Oro Valley, Marana and Sahaurita. Rothschild campaigned on and, for the most part, delivered on his plan for his first 180 days in office. The denial of 12,000 petition signatures from a powerful neighborhood association aimed at blocking a major student development high rise on the light-rail line was a bold move. Bringing in small business liaisons to the mayor’s office is a positive move. Undertaking comprehensive land-use planning is a good move. Championing an annexation on River and Craycroft roads, even with Pima County opposition, is a bold move. But all is not perfect. The mayor’s non-stance on the F-35 fighter aircraft and sending money to TREO are concerns. The weeds and pot holes didn’t happen on Rothschild’s watch, but a vigorous clean-up would send the message that city government cares how this place looks. However, so far so good for Mayor Rothschild’s early performance. The Democratic machine broke the place; let’s see if a Democratic mayor can fix it.

Contact Joe Higgins and Chris DeSimone at wakeuptucson@gmail.com. They host “Wake Up Tucson,” at 6 a.m. weekdays ib The Voice KVOI 1030-AM. Their blog is at www.TucsonChoices.com.

SPEAKING OUT

Tucson Arts Brigade turning taggers into stewards A while back, I wrote about the burgeoning graffiti problem in Tucson. I suggested that we adopt a program similar to one in Philadelphia that engages taggers in painting murals. I later learned Tucson has such a program, but on a small scale. Michael B. Schwartz, who has a masters degree in fine arts, told me about the Tucson program. A native of Philadelphia, Schwartz is executive director of the Tucson Arts Brigade (TAB), a nonprofit, participatory community arts and education organization. TAB offers inter-generational opportunities for civic engagement. Schwartz explained that the concept is to “turn taggers into stewards.” Schwartz has a dedicated group of teachers and artists who work with the students to accomplish TAB’s goals. TAB facilitates communication with the students about graffiti, bullying, crime, and drug use. It stresses better health and wellness, community service, and the importance of staying in school. TAB empowers the youths to work with their elders to beautify and revitalize neighborhoods. TAB has achieved some success. Schwartz talked about the group’s mural arts program, which has completed murals at Barrio Centro Neighborhood, Miracle Manor, Bronx Wash, Wakefield Middle School, Dietz Elementary

School, and Drexel Elementary School. Businessman Josh Jacobsen of Lucky Wishbone wrote a testimonial for the group. In it, he said, “the mural that TAB painted on our wall (at the Lucky CAROL WEST Wishbone parking lot at 2712 E. 22nd Street) has become an invaluable part of our business, making us a local landmark. The mural has also attracted us tens of thousands of dollars worth of marketing on TV, radio, and in print.” Schwartz invited me to attend the recent dedication of the 29th Street and Columbus Blvd. art project, located next to the Jim and Vicki Click Boys and Girls Club. The overpass at 29th Street and Columbus was chosen for a work of art because it was a favorite target for graffiti taggers of all ages. Before the art project began, youngsters collected 80 pounds of litter and cleaned off hundreds of tags. After that was accomplished, 70 young people, ranging in age from 8 to 18, designed, created, and installed the works of art at the overpass. “Area youth have proven that they will

become successful leaders, business owners, and caretakers of this place,” said Schwartz. A diverse crowd gathered for the overpass project dedication, including Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, Vice Mayor Karin Uhlich, and Board of Supervisors member Richard Elias. Parents, neighbors, businessmen, and community artists also attended the event. The project cost about $22,000, and TAB thanked a variety of sponsors, including Pantano Christian Church, 4R Coalition, Pro Neighborhoods, Puffin Foundation, Tucson Pima Arts Council and Friends of the Tucson Arts Brigade. Adult support and encouragement helped the youngsters see the project through to completion. Organizations that provided support included the Julia Keen, Barrio Centro, Alvernon Heights, and Myers Neighborhoods, as well as the Tucson Department of Transportation, Sun Tran, the Ward 5 Council office, Tucson Pima Arts Council Public Art Program, Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona and the Western Institute for Leadership Development. Before the youths could work on the project, they signed a “no tagging” pledge, which stated: “I pledge to be a leader, a dreamer, a role model, a participant, take care of my community, not be silent in the face of injustice, be a peace

builder, walk away when I have to, ask for help when needed, work towards my goals, use creative and healthy options when facing challenges, (and) be the best I can be!” Students speaking at the mural dedication felt a sense of accomplishment and wanted the project to inspire others to become involved in area improvement projects. In accomplishing the project, older students took responsibility to be role models for the younger students. Students also learned life skills, such as self confidence, patience, communication skills, leadership, financial literacy, meeting deadlines, valuing different viewpoints, translating ideas into workable solutions, and development of a positive cooperative peer culture.” These young people have become more civic-minded, and most now realize the importance of graduating from high school. We need to build on this success by supporting TAB. In the long run, we will ensure a brighter future for these youths while saving tax-payer dollars for public safety and graffiti eradication. For more information, go to info@TucsonArtsBrigade.org or call 791-9359.

Contact Carol West at cwwfoster@aol.com. West served on the Tucson City Council from 1999-2007 and was a council aide from 1987-1995.

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OPINION GUEST OPINION

Time to let public TV, radio stations raise money for charities After the tragic Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, religious broadcasters and other noncommercial stations asked the Federal Communications Commission for waivers on our long-standing ban on third-party fundraising. The FCC doesn’t allow these stations to fundraise for any group other than the station itself, but after 9/11, broadcasters wanted to launch on-air campaigns for victims and their families. The FCC granted the waivers, and the broadcasters raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. We at the FCC have now moved to make this process a matter of course — another step in our ongoing efforts to modernize the FCC and eliminate unnecessary regulations. Currently, our policy prevents fundraising for charities and non-profits by public noncommerical broadcast stations. The concern has been that these stations must meet their educational mission to local communities through programming, not

through fundraising for other organizations. But allowing noncommercial stations to partner with charities, churches and other religious organizations, schools and JULIUS GENACHOWSKI other non-profits to raise money for worthy causes would enable these stations to help meet the needs of their local communities. On-air fundraising by these stations also can help raise awareness about important local and international topics, such as poverty, health care and humanitarian issues, thereby deepening the station’s connection to their communities. Specifically, the FCC has proposed relaxing the ban by allow noncommercial stations to spend a modest amount of their

total annual broadcast time — up to 1 percent or about 88 hours per year — conducting fundraising activities on behalf of non-profit organizations. Public and religious broadcasters have indeed shown they are capable of conducting this kind of activity without a conflict with their educational mission when the FCC granted waivers in the past. In addition to the fundraising that public and non-commercial stations conducted after 9/11, waivers also were granted for relief efforts for hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and most recently, the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. For example, radio station WMIT-FM in Asheville, N.C., used such a waiver to raise $272,250 in an on-air fundraiser in February 2010 for the Haiti relief project of nonprofit Samaritan’s Purse — an amount projected to help 1,185 Haitian families with shelter, clean water and medical supplies.

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Given our experience in these and other cases, where the ability to raise funds for third-party non-profits has been invaluable, we question whether it remains appropriate to require noncommercial stations to seek a waiver just as emergencies are occurring. This new FCC proposal would eliminate the need for such waivers and special requests. Noncommercial broadcasters have long served the American public by providing high quality and innovative educational, cultural, and news programming to their local communities. By changing our ban against fundraising by public or religious broadcasters, the FCC can give them a chance to deepen their relationship with their communities, and heighten awareness about disasters at home and around the world.

Julius Genachowski is chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

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CeeDee Jamaican Kitchen (JAMAICAN) 1070 N. Swan Road ■ 795-3400

2012 Ethnic Restaurant CHOW CARD RESTRICTIONS

■ CHOW Card is valid April 21, 2012 – October 31, 2012 ■ Purchase One Entrée at Full Price, receive another entrée FREE Of equal or lesser value. Maximum discount of $20 on any regular priced entrée ■ Not valid with any other promotions and cannot be combined with any other discounts, happy hour specials or coupons. ■ Only one use per restaurant, per card ■ Valid for Dinner or Lunch only (unless otherwise noted) ■ Remaining savings not used at the end of the promotion, not redeemable for cash ■ Valid only on regular priced entrées (higher price will prevail) ■ Restaurant reserves the right to add up to 18% gratuity based on original bill (prior to discount) ■ Not valid on Holiday’s including: Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, July 4th, Memorial Day, Labor Day ■ Lost, stolen or damaged cards cannot be replaced ■ Issuer is not responsible for restaurant closures ■ Purchased cards are non-refundable ■ Please check the website for details on restrictions and limitations (subject to change). www.tucsonchowcard.com