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City seeks voter OK for an array of projects
INSIDE This Week
BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Staff Writer
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Chandler author pens second thriller.
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Chandler woman makes soothing dolls.
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he City of Chandler for the first time is asking voters to authorize bonds to improve its facilities. With ballots set to go out this week for the all-mail election, some may wonder: why ask for about $33.5 million to upgrade facilities now? “It happens because, believe it or not, we are now an older city,” said former Mayor Boyd Dunn, who chaired the group of citizen committees that made recommenda-
tions on projects to be funded by selling bonds. “When I moved to Chandler in the 1980s there were 35,000 people,” Dunn said. “A lot of the things that we do have now are 20 years or older. We can always build new, but we want to maintain what exists so we don’t have to go back and rebuilt it.” The money raised from selling bonds for municipal facilities will be used to construct, improve, renovate, replace and remodel buildings across the city. High on the list is the Chandler Center for the Arts, which is still using the same HVAC
system that was installed when the building opened in 1989. Other buildings on the list include recreation centers, libraries and senior centers. Many of the items planned are not sexy, most residents may not see a difference. But any homeowner will tell you they are important; They include HVAC, roofing, plumbing, electrical systems, generators and technology. “All these systems are at the end of their useful life,” said Mike Hollingsworth, the
Ruling likely to extend Afraid no more Kyrene, TU mask mandates
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HOWARD FISCHER BY PAUL MARYNIAK and Capitol Media Services Arizonan Executive Editor
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ne of the most polarizing issues in Tempe Union, Kyrene and most other school districts likely won’t be going away any time soon after a judge last week ruled the ban on mask mandates and a slew of other measures passed by Republican legislators unconstitutional. In a blistering opinion Sept. 27, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper voided the ban on mask and vaccine mandates along with a number of other measures Republicans had tacked onto the state budget bill with no hearings in the waning days of the session. It is unclear if Cooper’s ruling will prompt a change in the optional mask policy in Chandler Unified, which is in the middle of a twoweek break. A district spokesman did not return a request for com-
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Mason Petersen said Halloween was a genuinely scary time for him when he was a kid. Now, he's returning the favor with a nifty Halloween display. See the story on page 6. (Pablo Robles)
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