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nly days after a 16-year-old Mountain View High School student hung herself in her parents’ garage, an Ahwatukee legislator last week introduced the latest version of a bill aimed at helping to prevent teen suicide. Sen. Sean Bowie’s bill would require the training every three years of all school personnel working in grades 6-12 in recognizing the early warning signs of teen suicide and appropriate intervention techniques. The bill comes as the Mesa teen’s death

brought to 33 the number of teenagers in the East Valley who have taken their lives since May 2017. The act is modeled after an initiative undertaken last year by Tempe Union High School District, which trained everyone from school bus drivers to teachers and principals in recognizing the early warning signs, using a consortium of experts organized by Teen Lifeline. In September 2018, more than 800 Tempe Union employees received the training in twohour blocks on two consecutive days. Bowie has named his bill the Mitch Warnock Act in memory of a champion pole-vaulter who took his own life in October 2016. His

Mesa’s Community Court helps break vicious cycles

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esa’s Community Court has a judge, a defense attorney and a prosecutor, but their roles have little to do with determining guilt or innocence and everything to do with saving lives. The Community Court’s defendants arrive in custody at times, though many are out on their own recognizance, working on sentences that focus on personal improvement – such as attending alcohol or drug counseling and finding a place to live. Unlike conventional courts, the Community Court adds “navigators’’– representatives of social service agencies such as Community Bridges and Lutheran Indian Ministries – to help defendants connect with the services they need to improve their lives. For many, such as Corrinne Thumb, Benito Anaya and Dustin Klimek, the Mesa Municipal Court program amounts to a court of

last resort – possibly their last opportunity to break free from the addiction that has derailed their lives, left them homeless and established an inexorable pattern of repeated arrests. The arrests – sometimes individuals are arrested as many as 100 or even 200 times – are mostly for crimes of desperation, misdemeanors such as trespassing or shoplifting that are committed by people with nothing to eat and nowhere to go. The goal of Community Court is to interrupt that cycle of addiction, homelessness and arrest, giving the most desperate of defendants an opportunity to regain their selfesteem and to live productive lives. Mesa Mayor John Giles hailed the program last week during his City of the State address, calling it an example of Mesa as “a compassionate city.” A video in his address featured the case of

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mother, Lorie, an English teacher at Mountain Pointe High School, has been a champion of suicide prevention. “I think this is a great first step to open up a courageous conversation,’’ said Katey McPherson, an East Valley education consultant and former teacher and assistant principal for Gilbert Public Schools. “This bill is addressing a public health crisis,’’ McPherson said. “Any bill with this kind of bipartisan support speaks volumes about how a problem is impacting a community.’’ “One child is too many,’’ said McPherson, a mother of four who has been building a net-

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rizona State University’s budding Mesa City Center campus stood out even among a long list of noteworthy business developments in Mayor John Giles’ annual State of the City address last week. Giles’ address was considerably less controversial than President Trump’s State of the Union address, coincidentally delivered later that same day with much more fanfare. The mayor enthusiastically listed numerous civic advancements, especially in business. These projects included a new AT&T call center in west Mesa, the City Creek development under construction near the Mesa Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and two large apartment complexes scheduled to break ground later this year along Main Street. But it was the much debated and controversial ASU campus that emerged as the centerpiece, with ASU President Michael Crow sharing center stage with Giles at the Mesa Convention Center. The event was sponsored by the Mesa Chamber of Commerce and attended by more than 800 people, many of them business leaders. “I can spend all day talking about downtown Mesa,’’ Giles said. He quickly ticked off a project to remove facades from historic buildings downtown, City Creek adding 30 new homes and 240 apartments, The Grid apartment complex starting near a city parking garage across the street on Mesa Drive and the five-story Chicanos por la Causa project planned at the former Bailey’s Brakes property at Country Club and Main. But it was the downtown Mesa Innovation District, which Giles helped steer through the divided City Council, that commanded a special place for the mayor. The city recently hired a construction manager to help develop the five-story building, estimated to cost $63 million. One of the manager’s jobs is to help design the building and determine a realis-

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Mesa Mayor John Giles, left, called Arizona State University President Michael Crow to the stage during his State of the City address last week, hailing the university’s plan for setting up an innovative school downtown over the next few years. (Special to the Tribune)

tic price tag. The manager also supervises construction to ensure it is completed properly. “It’s hard to imagine the rate of change in new business,’’ Crow said, with 80 percent of new jobs available by 2030 not even invented yet. “This will be the place with everything digital you can imagine,’’ he said. “Anything connected to digital, we will be doing in this highly creative center in Mesa.’’ Crow said after his remarks that research and innovation in Mesa will be consistent with other innovation districts in Singapore, Sydney, Australia and New York. “These are the epicenters of digital creativity,’’ Crow said, and that the innovations will go several stages beyond the “first generation’’ systems we know today, such as the Internet and cell phones. “We are very excited about this new facility,’’ Crow said. Giles said Mesa also values its quality of life and is the ninth safest large city in the nation. He said voters approved the

council’s priority on public safety by approving a sales tax increase that will pay for hiring 65 new police officers and 45 firefighters. Mesa also is tackling homelessness, and the repetitive series of minor crimes associated with it, through the landmark Community Court program, which connects defendants with social services that help them address root causes such as substance abuse, Giles said. “Mesa is a very compassionate city,’’ he said. An AT&T spokesman said his company is currently hiring 500 people for the call center, a state-of-the-art, 70,000-squarefoot building where 1.4 million calls will be handled annually from customers with multiple products and services from AT&T. After listing all business achievements, Giles sounded a bit like a high school football coach. “We will need your energy to get where want to be a community,” he said. “Let’s get to work.’’

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a previously homeless woman who appeared as a guest and was applauded after the video. Giles said 259 cases had been diverted from a conventional court since the social-services oriented court was launched in July. Defendants are motivated to succeed because they don’t want the long sentences they would face as repeat offenders in a conventional courtroom. They also know their health is deteriorating from the hard lives they are living and that their destructive behavior eventually will kill them. “The focus, truly, is to help you,’’ Judge John Tatz told the packed courtroom during a recent session of the Community Court. “The better thing for everyone is to help you turn your life around, so that you will not be picking up these types of charges.’’ Other staffers in the Community Court process chimed in while introducing themselves to the defendants, driving home a consistent message. They are trying to reach people who have been written off for years. “We have a lot of successes here and we hope you are one of our successes as well,’’ defense attorney Eileen Sullivan said. Ashley Halterman, a navigator with Community Bridges, added a more personal note. Halterman explained how she was addicted to drugs and alcohol for 11 years and how she was homeless for 4 ½ years. During the court session, she and the other navigators would meet with individual defendants, match them up with services and check on their progress. “My life is a complete 180 from what it was. I’m here to help you down the same path,’’ Halterman said.

Kevin Maulson of Lutheran Indian Ministries has helped 27 Native Americans get off the street.

Benito Anaya discusses his struggles with homelessness with other people who have been working to overcome the same crisis in their lives during a session of Mesa’s Community Court. (Photos by Pablo Robles/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Kevin Maulson of Lutheran Indian Ministries has worked with the court and the Native American Fatherhood Association to help 37 Native Americans from a variety of tribes to get off the street. Maulson lined up a series of six group homes, where the previously homeless defendants can stay from 60 to 120 days. They are required to attend substance abuse counseling and they act like a family, even going to church together. “They created a model that we tweak a little for the Native American people,’’ Maulson said. “You have to instill hope and self-worth. They have to have self-worth in order to see the value in what they do.’’ “I think it starts in early childhood. It’s the trauma of the family, something in their past that caused them to take this path,’’ Maulson said.

Helping all break a cycle

Maulson follows the curriculum developed by Albert Pooley, founder and president of the Native American Fatherhood and Family Association, a Mesa-based nonprofit that contracts with 400 tribes throughout the nation and Canada. Pooley said the program combines such concepts as developing pride, self-worth and gratitude, along with an appreciation of Native American heritage. He said a sense of purpose gives people direction and discipline and that life is about problem-solving. “A lot of these people have been told they are worthless, that they are good for nothing,’’ he said. “You can change, you can improve, you can make progress, you can flourish.’’ Community Court helps repeat offenders of all ethnicities to break a cycle of arrests, convictions and incarceration, said Paul Thomas, Mesa Municipal Court ad-

ministrator. Traditionally, these defendants have ended up in jail repeatedly. Because they were still alcohol or drug addicts, or saddled with some sort of mental illness, they would re-offend after their release from incarceration and end up in the same predicament, he said. “These cases accumulate against you. The justice system becomes a barrier to your success,’’ Thomas said, with defendants often missing a court date and ending up with an arrest warrant for failure to appear for a hearing. Thomas said it’s easy to give up on defendants with such a chronic arrest history, but simply recycling them through the legal system doesn’t accomplish anything. He considers it his moral obligation to help even the most chronic offenders improve themselves. “Just because a criminal complaint has been filed doesn’t make it a criminal matter,’’ Thomas said. “It’s a social problem.’’

has sidetracked her life for years. “I didn’t want to go to prison so bad,” she recalled. “I had six Gilbert cop cars surrounding me. I stabbed myself in the chest.’’ Thumb’s battles with alcohol and subsequent incarceration tell a sad story of a life unraveled in Maricopa County Superior Court records. Her latest prison sentence occurred when she left a treatment program, got intoxicated and kicked a Mesa police officer. She also hit a Mesa fire paramedic after getting drunk. Although Thumb still faces a long list of non-violent misdemeanor charges, she has hope for a better future for the first time in a long time. “This is my last hope, for me and my family,’’ said Thumb, who is going through the community court program along with her husband, Kevin Jodie, who was involved in domestic violence incidents with Thumb while both were intoxicated, according to court records. “This is our first holiday sober together,’’ Thumb said, including her husband and her daughter. “That’s a miracle in itself.’’ Because of Thumb’s progress, Tatz gave her and Jodie a 45-day continuance so that they could continue their alcohol counseling. He also advised them to start planning for a more permanent place to live.

Patient but firm

Although the Community Court is unusually patient with defendants, Tatz reminds those who have not complied with the program that even he has his limits. He gives them a two-week continuance, telling them to follow his orders or risk a jail sentence in a conventional court. When City Prosecutor John Belatti said

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But he said the threat of flunking out of community court by re-offending or not showing up in court can be used to motivate defendants to help themselves. “It’s the voice of authority. It’s the same authority that used to impose fines or jail time, many times over,’’ Thomas said. After two prison sentences and a life full of alcohol-related arrests and domestic violence, Corrine Thumb understands the stakes of her participation in Community Court include survival. Thumb said she could not face the prospect of more incarceration as she found herself surrounded by Gilbert police vehicles. “I relapsed,’’ Thumb said, referring to the vicious cycle of substance abuse that

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work of educators and parents to address the growing problem of teen suicides. “We caught the attention of the right people. Now, we need to get it passed.’’ The hope is that a cafeteria worker, a school bus driver, or a teacher will notice changes in a student’s behavior and notify a school counselor or someone else who can get that student psychological help. “I have softened the mandate considerably from last year,’’ said Bowie, whose first suicide prevention training bill last year required yearly training on the warning signs. The Arizona School Boards Association opposed it as an unfunded mandate, and the bill never got a hearing. This time, Democrat Bowie has drawn the support of a number of Republican legislators who also are alarmed by the trend in teen suicides. Bowie said the three-year requirement was added to appease school districts, which could train their staff during regularly scheduled in-service sessions and also use online training. “I am hoping they will start with this as a minimum state standard and improve upon it,’’ Bowie said. “I think there is broad agreement that we need to do something.’’ Bowie said 26 states require yearly training and several others require it at longer intervals. Rep. Jeff Weninger, R-Chandler, said the teen suicide problem has turned into an epidemic and that training in recognizing the early warning signs of suicide is essential to saving lives. A friend of Weninger’s son took his life last year.

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a defendant had successfully completed the program and recommended dismissal of charges, applause would ring through the courtroom, a violation of typical courtroom etiquette. At one court session, prosecutor Paul Hawkins explained how defendant Dustin Klimek had been homeless for six months, but now has a job as a house painter and shares an apartment in Chandler. “He’s a great example of what can happen when people buy in,’’ Hawkins said. Tatz not only dismissed all charges against Klimek; He also suspended $1,000 worth of fines. Klimek said afterward that he loves his job as a painter and finds it therapeutic. He said his outlook on life is much better. “I have felt hopeless for a long time. It was my drug addiction,’’ Klimek said, adding that it was no fun to sleep in his car

Rallying around a suicide-prevention training bill introduced in the State Legislature last week are, from left, Chandler Sen. J.D. Mesnard, bill co-sponsor Sen. Sean Bowie, and Chandler Rep. Jeff Weninger. The bill would mandate training for all school personnel on identifying early warning sides of suicidal inclinations among teenagers. (Special to the Tribune)

Weninger said the bipartisan support lined up by Bowie for the bill demonstrates that the epidemic is a widespread social problem and that a strong response is needed. Besides Weninger, Republicans who are joining Democrats to support the legislation include Chandler Sen. J.D Mesnard and Phoenix Sen. Heather Carter. Bowie said the entire delegation that represents Ahwatukee, Tempe and Chandler support SB 1468. “To me, this is bipartisan issue,’’ Weninger said. “It’s an all included community issue.’’ “I am hoping everyone comes together to work on this legislation,’’ Weninger said. “For me, it doesn’t matter if I am on top of this bill or the bottom of this bill, as long as we get it through.’’ Mesnard said he is hopeful the bill will

Mesa Municipal Court Administrator Paul Thomas joins a discussion with some homeless defendants in Community Court. (Photos by Pablo Robles/Tribune Staff Photographer)

when he had nowhere else to go. “This is a miracle.’’

be more palatable for the Arizona School Boards Association. Mesnard and Weninger also met with Gov. Doug Ducey’s office in hopes of winning support for the bill. “I think its chances are pretty good,’’ Mesnard said. “This has been a step-bystep process as we share our concerns.’’ Nikki Kontz, clinical director of Teen Lifeline, who helped coordinate a group of mental health providers that trained Tempe Union staff, said training was no small task, so the three-year requirement is reasonable. “I don’t think three years is too far off. It’s going to take some time initially. Three years takes some pressure off the districts,’’ Kontz said. “It gives them some time to make sure things are rolled out properly.’’ She said the training, which focuses

more attention on the behavioral needs of children, would “create an environment of compassion and connection for the kids.’’ The bill also requires the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System to post an approved training program to its website by July 1, 2020, along with a list of approved training materials. Kontz said this requirement also is important to give guidance to some school districts, which may find suicide prevention an “unchartered territory.’’ Many East Valley districts have extensive suicide prevention programs, including Mesa and Gilbert public schools, Kyrene and Tempe Union. While it is disturbing to think about the list of students who have taken their own lives, “there are many others who have been saved,’’ Kontz said.

Benito Anaya, another defendant, said his alcoholism was so bad that he got hit by a car while crossing Broadway Road, but still managed to stumble to a corner liquor store. Now, all he wants to do is to become a better person and to die sober, not as a drunk. Anaya has become an advocate for the Community Court program, urging other homeless Corrine Thumb discusses her climb out of homelessness and how Community people he knows to Court helped her get off the streets. seek help. “I was always fighting against the sys- Anaya said. “Now, I realize they are trying tem. I thought they were against me,” to help me.’’

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Bill giving charitable donors a tax break advances BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

oping to help charities fearing changes in federal tax laws, a House panel voted Wednesday to let Arizona residents take both the standard deduction on state tax forms and also write off their charitable giving. But that generosity could reduce state tax collections by up to $30 million. The 6-4 party-line vote on the Republican-dominated Ways and Means Committee followed pleas from various charities who said they already are seeing a drop in donations because of the federal Tax Cut and Jobs Act. That law not only decreased certain deductions but doubled the amount that individuals can claim in a standard deduction. That, in turn, is resulting in more people choosing not to itemize. More to the point, without any benefit of a deduction, some charities report that people are giving less. Arizona’s own standardized deduction has not changed. But Rep. Ben Toma, RPeoria, who chairs the panel, said HB 2359 could provide some additional incentive for those who take the standard deduction to also make charitable donations. Deductions are exactly that. Taxpayers get to reduce their taxable income by the allowed amount. That differs from tax credits, which are not at issue here, where people reduce what they actually owe the government on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Economist Dennis Hoffman of Arizona State University said his research predicts that donations to charities will drop by about 5.2 percent as a result of people choosing the now more-generous standard federal deduction instead of itemizing. Jeff Taylor who represents the Salvation Army, said his own organization’s experience to date shows that donations are down by anywhere between seven and 10 percent, what he said is a big hit for the division’s $93-million budget. All of that, he told lawmakers, affects the organization’s ability to operate the largest network of drug-treatment centers in the state and offer housing for domestic violence victims and families. HB 2359 would help compensate for that loss, as Arizonans who claim the standard deduction and may not give

would now have an incentive to do so. The other side of the equation, though, is that Hoffman said that allowing Arizonans to claim both the state standard deduction and get yet another deduction for charitable giving could reduce state revenues up to $33 million. Rep. Mitzi Epstein, D-Tempe, said the legislation is based on the premise that Arizonans will give to charities only if they get a financial incentive to do it in the form of an additional state deduction. She argued that people who give now will continue to do so. And Epstein said the solution offered by this legislation actually provides a double deduction: one for the standard deduction which is designed to factor in all typical deductions, including charitable donations, without having to itemize them, and an additional one on top of that for what’s given to charities. Kathryn Chandler, executive director of Northwest Valley Connect, told lawmakers of her own concerns about losing money for her organization’s services of helping people without other forms of transportation go to everything from doctor’s appointments to shopping and social trips. And she said that’s particularly critical in the communities served, including the Sun Cities, given the lack of mass transit. Chandler said virtually all of the $250,000 annual budget goes to the purchase, gasoline and maintenance of accessible vehicles, as there are just two paid staffers and many of the other rides are offered by volunteers in their own vehicles. She said if they take a hit in charitable donations that will require curbing some of the more long-distance trips, like veterans from as far away as Tonopah who need to get to the Veterans Hospital in downtown Phoenix. Rep. Andres Cano, D-Tucson, said he is grateful for all the work done by charities. “We need you to continue to deliver on the vital services,’’ he said. But Cano said he has to consider that money from state taxpayers is being diverted. “Our after-school programs need you,’’ he said. “Our kids depend on you for their meals.’’ And Cano said that, personally speaking, he will continue to give, whether or not he gets a state tax deduction. The legislation still has to clear the House Appropriations Committee before going to the full House.

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Planned closure of Mesa school riles parents BY JASON STONE Tribune Staff Writer

arents of special ed students who attend the Jordan Center for Early Education are urging the Mesa Public Schools District to reconsider a plan to repurpose it at the end of the school year. In a letter mailed to parents last week, the district detailed its plan to disperse Jordan’s current students to neighborhood schools across the district in the fall and turning the campus into a place for students with severe behavior problems. The late notice has left some parents confused about their children’s future and upset about what they feel is shoddy communication from a new district administration. In response to a week of parental concern, the district sent out Director of Special Education Theresa Baca to the school Thursday for two meetings to alleviate some of the anxiety. Baca said communication with parents and teachers could have been better, but that hasn’t stopped some people from believing the district is railroading plans through without governing board approval and trying to keep plans as quiet as possible to avoid public resistance. Jordan teachers weren’t allowed into Thursday’s meetings, but the four or five dozen parents who showed up to the early one vented their feelings for nearly two hours. “My kid can’t tell me her opinion,” said one mother of a non-verbal daughter. “I’m the only voice she has.” Baca said the district is trying to comply with the 2004 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which requires that children with disabilities be educated in the “least restrictive environment appropriate” to meet their “unique needs.” “We also believe inclusive practices are the best for all children,” Baca said. “And research shows that children learn the best when they are with their peers.” But many parents weren’t buying it. “If it was a requirement, why was it so last minute?” one angry mother asked Baca. “If you knew it was going to happen, why was nobody informed? Even the teachers were surprised.” Baca, who along with new Superintendent Ember Conley began their positions in July, called the unclear communication with parents and teachers a “learning experience.” “We were not prepared to sit with parents and say this is what happening,” Baca said about the early stages of planning.

the school,” said one SPED teacher. “Why is it not a budgetary issue? I feel like they’re snowing the board.” This time around, those opposed to the change will be limited to discussing the issue during the public comment portion near the end of Tuesday’s meeting. The board won’t be allowed to take action on the item. “I know there are teachers who are very upset,” said board member Marcie Hutchinson, who first heard of the change in December. “They seemed not to know this was in the works. Other teachers are excited because they believe the changes are a long time coming and best for kids.” The latest plan to repurpose Theresa Baca, Mesa Public Schools’ director of special education, talks with angry parents about the impending closure of the Jordan quietly began last summer, Jordan Center for Early Education in Chandler. (Jason Stone/ when Conley began the initial Tribune Staff) phase of the district’s new pre“In that six months, I have learned a treschool inclusion model soon after mendous amount. Am I better prepared she was hired. to have this conversation now? Yes.” “It has progressed successfully, and we The district started looking at inclusion are now in the second phase, which means options in August right after Baca and moving more children to neighborhood Conley took over their positions. Baca schools for preschool,” Hurst said. said district teams scoured neighborhood Hurst said the school will be repurelementary schools to make sure there posed to serve elementary-aged children was space to add the special needs pre- who need a “more structured environschool options to all campuses. ment than we can provide on a typical elThe decision then came down to clos- ementary school campus.” ing Jordan on the west side of the district Plans call for students from preschool or the Red Mountain Center, a similar through seventh grade to begin attending school on the east side. Baca said because in August. west side schools had more open space, Parents who attended Thursday’s earit made more sense to close that one. The ly meeting said they felt blindsided and Red Mountain Center will remain open confused about it. They said administrabut undergo a merging of the special edu- tors at the neighborhood schools their cation and general education populations. children may go to couldn’t give them The district first notified Jordan teach- any information about the changes. Others of the change at a hastily-called meet- ers said they don’t want to have their ing on Dec. 10. Word slowly leaked out to child included with the general student parents since then, but parents weren’t population. officially informed until last week. The plan calls for current Jordan stuParents are plannign to attend Tuesday dents to take one of four options for next night’s regular governing board meeting. year: Finley attempted to persuade Conley and • Attend the neighborhood school new board president Elaine Miner into closest to their homes; placing the topic on the agenda, but they • Attend the nearest school with prereportedly have told teachers that the school, if preschool is not offered at board didn’t need to vote on it. the neighborhood school; District spokesperson Heidi Hurst said • Attend the nearest school offering because the program doesn’t require a the appropriate services for a child; boundary change, the board isn’t required • Or attend the school the child’s curto vote on it. However, in 2013, when the rent teacher is assigned to. school was changed from the elementary Parents will likely have a new assignschool to the current preschool, the board ment for their students within two weeks, approved it by a 5-0 vote. Baca said. But she said finalizing all the “It’s going to cost money to repurpose placements won’t be done until late

March. The Jordan school, named after onetime Maricopa County immigration commissioner T.C. Jordan, has a long history in the East Valley. It first opened around 1899 on a one-acre plot on Mesa farmland near Baseline and Dobson roads, about two miles from the current campus. In 1905, a two-room brick building was built to replace the original adobe building. Florence Knox Mitten, of the famous Mesa Mitten family, was one of the students at that original school. That campus was closed right after World War II when four school districts in the East Valley were consolidated to create the Mesa district. But explosive growth led to the emergence of another Jordan campus in 1979. Jordan Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through sixth grade, opened in 1979 with two dozen buildings just south of Guadalupe Road and west of Dobson Road. It’s technically in Chandler but has always been a Mesa district school. The school was only designed for a little less than 700 students, but it reached a peak enrollment of around 1,100 in 1994. Enrollment steadily began declining in the late 1990s as newer schools opened, but Jordan still thrived for another decade. By 2008, Jordan’s enrollment of 486 students was down more than 200 from the previous year, right at a time when the district was facing $20 million in budget cuts because of enrollment drops across the board. That led administrators to make their first attempt to close the elementary school in early 2008, which would have made it the first Mesa school to ever close at the time. But parents were able to successfully convince the school board to change its plans. By 2013, enrollment was down to 370 regular education and special education students, as well as 150 preschool students. Then-Superintendent Mike Cowan told the board at the time that Jordan was the least-enrolled school in the district for eight straight years. Students were reassigned to other schools near to them, and it was repurposed as the Jordan Center for Early Education in time for the 2013-14 school year. The problem is the reconfigured school still segregates the special needs students from the regular students, which violates the inclusiveness law. The Arizona Department of Education sent the district a letter in late 2016 to order both Jordan and Red Mountain campuses in compliance with the law.

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Mesa needs 3-4 years to build slew of amenities BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

esa voters approved virtually every sort of municipal amenity in last fall’s $196-million bond issue – from a new library and public safety station to athletic fields and walking paths to new parks and even a dog park. But making these facilities actually available to the public is expected to take about three to four years for land acquisition, design and construction – and some will arrive sooner rather than later. One important consideration in adding the new facilities is whether there is enough money available to staff them with everything from librarians to police officers and firefighters. In East Mesa alone, the bond issue pays for a northeast police and fire facility, a southeast fire station and a new southeast library – all serving the city’s fastest growing areas, especially around booming Eastmark. The parks component also features a considerable east Mesa slant, but the new parks are more scattered throughout the city – including new soccer fields in north Mesa that will replace those at Riverview Park, and a new dog park in southwest Mesa. City Manager Chris Brady said most of the larger facilities, such as the new library, are scheduled for completion later in the bond cycle.

years. We will see if we continue to grow our tax base.’’ He said it makes no sense to open new libraries, police stations and fire stations without adequate staffing. Voters approved a ¼-cent sales tax increase, also part of the fall ballot, that is anticipated to add 65 additional police officers and 45 additional firefighters. Brady said the fire department has developed a new staffing model, reflecting the use of smaller vehicles to respond to more routine, less labor-intensive calls, although voters also approved $24.7 mil-

Thompson said. A schedule outlining the steps needed and the timing of various bond issues shows the Monterey Park expansion getting completed sometime during the 2022-2023 fiscal year, following land acquisition and design phases. The plan calls for adding four youth baseball and softball fields, plus three multi-purpose fields that could be used for soccer, said Marc Heirshberg, Mesa’s parks director. Freeman, Mesa’s newly appointed vice mayor, said some people have asked him

about the possibility of losing use of Riverview’s busy soccer fields when The Union office park is built on the property, which also doubles as parking for fans attending Chicago Cubs Cactus League games at Sloan Park next door. Mesa plans to move those soccer fields to a site near Center Street and the Loop 202, but first must acquire the land. “We don’t want those fields torn up,’’ budget coordinator Scott Butler said, until the North Center Street soccer complex is ready or at least under construction. “We want to close the gap as much as possible.’’ Brady said Mesa is negotiating with the land owner for the soccer complex site, but the city also does not have a development agreement yet with Harvard Investments that would outline The Union’s construction. He said parks officials have been told not to plan any activity at the fields starting in May. Heirshberg said the Riverview fields are not available for programing during five months a year. After serving as a baseball parking lot, the grass needs time to recover before play can resume. A similar arrangement occurs during Oakland A’s games at Hohokam Stadium. The new complex will accommodate more play than at Riverview, Heirshberg said. When the complicated series of parks bond projects are completed, “it will basically double our sports field inventory,’’ he said.

lion city bond issue. In fact, all the projects won’t be completed until mid-2024. Here is the schedule laid out by Mesa for implementing the projects under the bond is-

sue approved by voters in November. The city’s list goes by fiscal years, which begin July 1 and end the following June 30. In addition to these projects, the city Fire

and Medical Department will be spending $24.7 million over the next five years to buy new equipment, mainly pumpers and ladder trucks

That’s caused concerns about staffing and straining the city’s budget with an economic correction anticipated in two years as part of the plan. Brady said the impact of such a downturn on city revenues is hard to measure because its length and depth can’t be forecasted. “We are concerned as we get to the later part of it, when we deliver big parks and libraries, that will put a lot of strain on the budget,’’ Brady said. “In the past, we have deferred projects’’ for economic reasons. “This is a plan today. It’s just a plan,’’ Brady said. “Last year was one of our best

lion in bonds to replace expensive large fire trucks. “Police stations, fire stations and libraries are pretty intense as far as staffing is concerned,’’ he said. City Council members Kevin Thompson and Mark Freeman both weighed in on the new parks, with Thompson asking city officials to move up an expansion at Monterey Park near Guadalupe and Power roads. He noted that part of the project had been deferred after a 2014 bond issue. “If there is a way, I would really like to see the Monterey Park timeline move up,’’

“ We are concerned as we get to the later part of it, when we deliver big parks and libraries, that will put a lot of strain on the budget.”

- City Manager Chris Brady

How Mesa plans to build parks, other facilities

ome wasn’t built in a day, and neither will all the upgrades and new construction that Mesa voters approved when they passed the $196-mil-

FY 2018-19

Total spending: 14.9 million Land acquisition for: the Eastmark fire station, Monterey Park, North Center Street ballfields, Northeast public safety facility. Design for: communication fiber, City Center Plaza, Dobson Library improvements, Federal Building renovation, Harris Basin playground, i.d.e.a Museum phase 1, Lehi Crossing shared use path, Main Library improvements.

FY 2019-20

Total spending: $27.8 million Design for: Eastern Canal shared use path, Federal Building renovation, i.d.e.a. Muse-

um phase 1, Lehi Crossing shared use path, Monterey Park, Northeast public safety facility, Red Mountain Park community soccer and youth baseball/softball fields. Construction starts for: City Center Plaza, communication fiber, Dobson Library improvements, Eastmark fire station, Harris Basin playground, Main Library upgrades.

FY 2020-21

Total spending: $30 million Design for: Eastern canal path, Northeast public safety facility, Red Mountain fields, Signal Butte Park second stage, Southeast Mesa Library. Construction: City Center Plaza, Lehi Crossing path, communication fiber, Fed-

eral Building rehab, Eastmark fire station, Monterey Park, North Center Street ballfields.

FY 2021-22

Total spending: $49.6 million Design for: Crismon and Elliot basin, dog park at Countryside Park, i.d.ea. Museum Phase 1, Marlborough Mesa Park, Pao Verde park, police evidence facility, Southeast Mesa library. Construction: communication fiber, Eastern Canal and Lehi Crossing paths, Monterey Park, North Center Street ballfields, Northeast public safety facility, Red Mountain fields, Signal Butte Park second phase.

FY 2022-23

Total spending: $57.4 million Construction: Crismon and Elliot basin, Countryside Park dog park, i.d.e.a. Museum, Marlborough Mesa Park, North Center Street ballfields, Northeast public safety building, Palo Verde Park, police evidence facility, Signal Butte Park phase 2, Southeast Mesa Library.

FY 2023-24

Total spending: $16.3 million Construction: Crismon and Elliot basin, Countryside dog park, i.d.e.a. Museum phase 1, police evidence facility and Southeast Mesa Library.

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early a decade after a Gilbert Police Lt. was shot to death during a traffic stop, his killer is finally on trial. Christopher Angel Redondo, 43, went on trial Jan. 29 – nine years and one day after he shot to death Lt. Eric Shuhandler and then led police from three different agencies on a wild, 50-mile chase from Dana Park to Superior, where he and an accomplice engaged in a brief gun battle before their arrest. Gilbert police officers gather annually at the shopping center on Val Vista Drive and Baseline Road for a ceremony honoring the fallen divorced father of two. “He was larger than life in a lot of ways,” said Ken Fixel, a retired Gilbert police lieutenant and a friend of Shuhandler, in an interview last year. “He made you feel important. He was a guy who everybody wanted to be around.” Redondo’s accomplice, Damien Irizarry, is serving 107 years in prison for his role in the case. But prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Redondo, an inherently slower legal process. It has been made all that much slower by Redondo’s effort to evade trial on

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Mesa judge now a top dog at Westminster annual show BY JASON STONE Tribune Staff Writer

or most of America, the Super Bowl was played last week in Atlanta. For Christine Erickson, it’s this week in New York. The Mesa resident is in the Big Apple to judge the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the top prize in the dog-judging trade. After decades of showing and judging dogs, Erickson is making her second trip to Westminster as a judge, but it’ll be her first on the big stage in front of a national TV audience. To the 69-year-old retired HR manager, it’s a dream come true. “We all work toward this as judges,” Erickson said. “It’s very prestigious. We basically work our whole careers to get to this.”

Now in its 143rd year, Westminster is still the top dog in the showing circuit. It’s the oldest organization dedicated to the sport of purebred dogs in the U.S. The competition, today through Tuesday, will include 204 breeds and varieties of dogs who are competing in Best of Breed judging at Piers 92 and 94. The best of about 3,000 dogs who are entered from around the world will then advance to Tuesday night’s big event, which is the portion viewed by most Americans who watch dog shows. “It is the Super Bowl of dog shows,” Erickson said. “It’s held at Madison Square Garden. It’s our highlight of the season. It’s like the Academy Awards.” Erickson is among seven judges who will oversee the Terrier Group. She’s also been approved to evaluate the Junior Showmanship and Best in Show categories.

She was picked as a qualifying judge in 2014, but she didn’t make any of the TV coverage. This time around, however, she’ll be helping pick the four best in each terrier group. Fox Sports 1, NatGeo

see DOG JUDGE page 14

Christine Erickson of Mesa, a retired human resources manager, is realizing her dream this week as a judge in the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York City. (Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Mesa junior high girls team rules in robotics competition BY JASON STONE Tribune Staff Writer

S Fremont Junior High students (from left) Lucy Boyer, Sofia Carroll Covarrubias, Kassidy Lopez and Payton Maguire practice with the robot project they used for this year’s FIRST Lego League competitions. (Jason Stone/Tribune Staff)

eventh-graders Lucy Boyer, Sofia Carroll Covarrubias, Kassidy Lopez and Payton Maguire are part of an award-winning robotics team at Fremont Junior High. But it’s away from the official competitions that the real battle takes place among these girls. “Uh oh, it’s break time,” said Boyer’s mom, Julie, as the girls whipped out four yardsticks to balance on their fingertips. “The Ruler Game” is one of the girls’ favorites to play in the downtime at robotics competitions and practices. Each of them tries to balance the stick the longest. “Kassidy always gets the good meter stick and always wins,” one of them yelled out as the competition began. It was just another day in the lives of

these four long-time northeast Mesa friends, who recently earned some state and regional awards for their “Girls Out Loud” robotic team. The Fremont students earned the Project Award at the FIRST Lego League regional competition in December and the Presentation Award at the state tournament at ASU last month to end another successful season. Judging was based on three components at the competitions: a research project, robot programing and a teamwork-based category called “core values.” For the research project, the girls gave a presentation based on this year’s theme “Space in Orbit.” Teams were required to develop an idea for a problem that astronauts have with long-term space travel, then come up with an innovative solution.

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DOG JUDGE from page 13

Wild and Fox Sports Go are providing live television coverage and streaming of preliminary events during the day today through Tuesday. The Best of Show portion will air live at 5:30 p.m. (Arizona time) Tuesday on Fox Sports 1. Erickson said she doesn’t even know how she was picked, other than her great standing in the judging community. “I have a reputation for being a terrier specialist, shall we say,” said Erickson, who once owned a kennel in California that included 18 terriers. “And because I’ve been judging for a while and I do a good job, apparently a lot of people have taken note.” It’s probably because dog show judging is in the family blood. Erickson’s parents, Fred and Margaret, were once Westminster Kennel Club judges, and they also specialized in terriers after years of showing Bedlington terriers in Burbank, California. “To say I was born and raised in the kennel is unfortunately true,” Erickson said with a laugh. “I know it sounds bad.”

ROBOTICS from page 13

The girls picked long-periods of confinement as their problem and invented a pair of virtual reality sunglasses with retractable earbuds – with plans to add other sensory features, such as touch and smell. The goal was to allow astronauts to visit places on Earth they might miss while in space. The idea was unofficially approved by none other than April Blackwell, a control officer on the International Space Station. The team met Blackwell during the formation of the project. “We wanted to make sure it was a real problem,” Lopez said. “She really liked our idea.” For the robot game, the girls built a robot out of Legos with various attachments and programed it to run multiple tasks and avoid multiple obstacles. In competition, the teams had 2-1/2 minutes to complete the most tasks. Judges also factor in the mechanical design of the robot, such as how sensors were used. The third part, core values, is where the “Girls Out Loud” team really shined this year. “They see how well you work together

Erickson’s own career in dog shows started in the mid-1970s when she began showing and breeding soft-coated wheaten terriers. That was just the first in a series of breeds she has owned and exhibited over the decades. That list includes Australian terriers, Bedlington terriers, cairn terriers,

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her son and grandchildren. Erickson said her long work hours had delayed the start of her judging career, but once she began, it took off. Erickson began her climb to the top of the dog judging trade with stops that included the Montgomery County Kennel Club, Morris & Essex Kennel Club and the

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smooth fox terriers, silky terriers, Welsh terriers and wirehaired dachshunds. In 2010 and 2011, her miniature wire dachshund won the variety category in back-to-back years at Westminster, her first experience with the prestigious club. By that time, Erickson had already transitioned into judging. In 2002, she wrapped up a 30-year career as a human resources director for AT&T in California and relocated to Arizona to be closer to and how well you can come up with a solution to a design challenge or something,” Lucy Boyer said. Judges are looking for everybody to contribute and offer solutions without the help of coaches. “They want to see how much you can do on your own,” Carroll Covarrubias said. The team’s name has even made an impression on judges, Julie Boyer said. The team picked it as a play on a “Love Out Loud” shirt that she owns. “They took that and embraced it,” Julie said. “They made it an identifying thing with them, and the judges loved that.” The idea to get into robotics in the first place came years ago. The foursome met in first grade and have been close ever since. In fourth grade, a teacher at Zaharis Elementary School introduced Boyer and Carroll Covarrubias to competitive robotics in one of their classes. A year later, all four girls asked Carroll Covarrubias’s father, Patrick Carroll, to coach them. Carroll, a 20-year veteran in the Mesa Pubic School District, has been leading the Gifted and Talented Program at Zaharis since 2013.

Dachshund Club of America’s National Specialty. She’s also put in her time serving on the Great Western Terrier Association’s Board of Directors. Erickson said she plans to keep judging as long as she can physically keep up with the demands of frequent standing and regular traveling. In addition to the Westminster trip, Erickson has four or five other judging gigs in the works. Right after returning In their first shot at the state tournament in fifth grade, the team tackled the problem of dog abandonment. It didn’t win the project award but did take home an honor called “Gracious Professionalism,” which is graded on how team members treat others on their own and other teams. But the next year in sixth grade, instead of going further into the robotics program, the girls decided to concentrate on their club sports teams. After the year break, however, they decided to get back into the robotics game, even though the logistics weren’t easy. “When they asked me to do it again in seventh grade (this year), it became really tricky since they’re at the junior high and I’m at the elementary,” Carroll said. With the help of parents and others, the girls were able to travel between the two schools once a week and work in the Boyer home each Friday morning before school. “I guess because we all had done it before, we thought this would be fun,” Maguire said. And they wanted to improve their performance. “One thing we noticed looking back on

from New York, she’ll be judging a show in Baltimore before attending one at the Beverly Hills Kennel Club and another one in Texas. “I’m going to leave it up to health,” she said. “Each year I look at my situation with my feet and legs and physical condition. I’m hoping to go another five or six more years.” When she’s not on the road, she works in Mesa as a client specialist at Talbots Women’s Apparel and as a real estate sales consultant. She owns a pair of dogs, but she’s not allowed to have breeds that she judges. “When you go from owning and breeding and showing to judging, that’s when you have to give up the other half of you,” Erickson said. “There are certain rules. The AKC pretty much governs us and we have judges judging protocols that have to be in place.” That’s OK with Erickson, who said she is honored to be picked in the first place. And as she arrives in New York to take the stage at Madison Square Garden, she thinks of her parents. “I’m sure they’re looking down on me proudly,” Erickson said. fifth grade is we did come up with problem about abandonment, but we didn’t come up with a real solution to fix it,” Lopez said. “We kind of just like made posters. So, we can really see the growth we’ve made now in seventh grade.” Carroll said the growth was a product of hard work. “They grinded this thing out,” Carroll said. “We started over the summer working on some practice runs. Then they had to meet two hours before school started.” That’s on top of all the other activities the girls have going. Lopez, Maguire and Boyer play club softball for the East Valley Lions, which is the feeder team into Red Mountain High School. Carroll Covarrubias plays soccer for ASFC Barcelona. The four honor students also have their regular school work to keep track of. “We stay up late facetiming each other for homework,” Lopez said. It’s all part of the teamwork that has served the girls well so far. “Ninety percent of what they do is on their own,” Carroll said. “It’s incredible. When you talk about fathers’ pride and coach’s pride, it’s all about them.”

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Chandler apartment rent hike among top 10 in nation BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Executive Editor

he average apartment rent increase in Chandler last year ranked the seventh highest in the nation among the country’s top 100 markets, a new study says. Rent for a one-bedroom apartment increased 12.7 percent to an average $1,157 while the national average increase was 4.2 percent and the average rent nationally was $1,140, according to the study by apartmentguide.com. Scottsdale was the only other Arizona city to make the top 10 list of the highest rent increases in the country last year. Rent there increased on average 12.7 percent – the ninth highest nationally – to $1,157, apartmentguide.com said. Those increases in both cities occurred at a time when the overall cost of living in

both Chandler and Scottsdale decreased 2.6 percent, apartmentguide.com said. In terms of cost of living, only utilities showed a marked rise in 2018 – up by 10.2 percent – while transportation costs increased a fraction of 1 percent. But the report said one of the major factors pushing the increases in those two cities is Arizona’s continuing attractiveness to Americans who want to relocate. “For more than a decade,” it said, “Arizona has been a top-10 state for Americans choosing to relocate, and its status as the number two most popular state in 2018 after Idaho helps explain the presence of Chandler and Scottsdale on our list of cities with the largest hikes in rent.” Meanwhile, Mesa rents rose an average 5.9 percent for a one-bedroom apartment to $888 and increased 4.4 percent to $1,098 in Gilbert, according to the study. Of all the 100 markets studied, the big-

gest year-over-year rent increase was in Newark, New Jersey, where the average rent for a one-bedroom hit $1,692 a month and the overall cost of living soared 24.3 percent. New Orleans showed the biggest decrease – 11.4 percent to $1,418 – while its cost of living dipped a mere .7 percent. The increases in rent in the East Valley come at a time when housing affordability remains an issue Valley-wide and in many major metropolitan areas across the county. The apartmentguide.com report said available rental units declined last year nationally from 7.5 percent to 7.1 percent. Marcus & Millichap, a national commercial real estate firm, said most of the new apartment development “largely caters to more affluent renters.” As a result, it said, “The most affordable segment of the market, Class C apart-

ments, faces strong demand and vacancy for these rentals is expected to tighten to 3.9 percent, its lowest year-end level in 19 years.” Also nationwide, new home construction is falling while fewer existing homes are up for sale. “The question is no longer if the nation is in the throes of a housing slowdown, but rather how deep and wide it will wind up being – and how much of a blow it’ll deliver to the American real estate market,” Realtor.com said last week. “The signs are becoming ever more troubling. The number of existing home sales has dropped to the lowest level in three years, price growth has slowed precipitously, and some super-pricey, bellwether cities are actually seeing prices fall.

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Scottsdale firm helps Chandler mall save on water BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Tribune Staff Writer

Scottsdale-based company is selling a technology that can help businesses use water more effi-

ciently. Dynamic Water Technologies sells an electrochemical wastewater treatment technology to a variety of users – from hospitals to city governments – to treat the water used to run cooling towers that provide air conditioning and other industrial and commercial uses. It uses electrolysis to clean the water on-site without acids, inhibitors or other chemicals found in traditional processes and has been shown through the company’s case studies to provide significant water savings versus traditional, chemical-based methods. “There are 12,000 cooling towers in the Metro Phoenix area, and these cooling towers generally use millions of gallons of water each, and that’s why this is such a big thing,” co-founder and principal Michael Boyko said. The company installed its systems at both Scottsdale Fashion Square and Chandler Fashion Center in 2017.

According to a company case study, the system resulted in a 21 percent water savings at Scottsdale Fashion Square, the equivalent of 3.18 million gallons per year, and a savings of 22 percent, or 768,000 gallons per year, at Chandler Fashion Center. The technology is also in use at Valley hospitals, the Marina Heights office complex in Tempe that houses the State Farm regional headquarters and another highrise in Phoenix. The system at Marina Heights saved 1.8 million gallons of water in the first 11 months of operation, according to the company. The company is also active nationwide, having installed its systems at a federal General Services Administration building in Georgia and in a building at Los Angeles City Hall. According to a U.S. Department of Energy Report, the technology resulted in 33 percent water savings at the GSA building in Georgia. Boyko said the company has spoken with the city staff in Scottsdale and other Valley cities about adopting their technology. Scottsdale spokesperson Nicole Sherbert said that the city cannot comment on

Michael Boyko co-founded Dynamic Water Technologies in Scottsdale. He said the company can help industrial and commercial users, including hospitals, office buildings and local governments, conserve water. (Special to the Tribune)

a specific company’s technology. The process works by removing mineral buildup to allow users to cycle water more frequently through cooling towers before introducing additional fresh water into the system, said co-founder and principal Neil Ginsberg. Ginsberg spoke at the H20 Innovation

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The fact that home growth has slowed in 70 percent of the United States’ 200 largest housing markets has economists debating whether the housing slowdown is the canary in the coal mine, warning of economic woes to come,” it added. The Cromfort Report, which closely monitors home sales in the Phoenix Metro area, recently stated that the availability of existing homes on the market remains an issue. “Supply remains weak because many existing homeowners are more reluctant to move,” it said. “Doing so would require them to give up their existing cheap loan and take out a new more expensive one. They are tending to stay put.”

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– such as much of Arizona – efficient cooling towers can typically cycle water 2.5 to 3 times. In cities with softer water, users can cycle water anywhere between 3 to 20 times before introducing fresh water, according to Arizona Municipal Water Users Association, or AMWUA. Increasing the number of cycles can result in significant water savings. According to the AMWUA, a 109-ton cooling tower running 1,610 hours per year can save approximately 160,000 gallons of water per year by going from two to three cycles. “In desert cities, increasing the Cycles of Concentration from 1 or 2 up to 3 cycles saves the most water,” the organization wrote on its website. At Scottsdale Fashion Square, Dynamic Water Technologies system resulted in an increase from 3.55 cycles to 6.99 cycles. “The difference between 2.7 cycles and where we actually put the customers is a significant amount of water,” Boyko said. “And that’s the goal here; What can we do in a practical application to save the most water possible?” The process also provided energy savings of nine percent at Scottsdale Fashion Square and 13 percent at Chandler Fash-

Neil Ginsberg is co-founder and principal at Dynamic Water Technologies, a Scottsdale-based company offering a wastewater treatment solution that provides significant water savings for companies. (Special to the Tribune)

ion Center. Water conservation is a driving force behind the company. The technology was developed by Israel-based UET and, after an initial sixmonth distribution agreement, Dynamic Water Technologies signed a partnership with UET in 2015 and now owns the technology for North America, said Principal

Michael Boyko. “Neil and I were trying to figure out what else can we do in the water arena that is a broad spectrum application that can make a positive impact,” Boyko said. At a presentation to the Imperial Irrigation District of southern California in May 2018, Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman said that Lake Mead was only 39 percent full and was projected to be nearing levels that would trigger allocation cutbacks by the end of 2018. The Bureau of Reclamation predicted there was a 52 percent chance that Lake Mead would reach those shortage conditions by 2020. Arizonans have a low priority under current agreements with other Colorado River states, meaning Arizona water users – including the Central Arizona Project that supplies water to Phoenix and Tucson – would see the largest cutbacks under current agreements, according to Water Resource Advocates. Boyko said that companies must come to grips with the current water situation and do their part to limit consumption. “I think the first step in water conservation is saying ‘what am I doing today that I can actually optimize and make a change for the better?’” Boyko said.

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How readers responded to my question about Trump BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist

wo weeks ago, driven by curiosity, I wrote a column asking what felt like a relevant question: “Does anybody in America with the exception of blood relatives and maybe a small percentage of paid employees actually like Donald Trump?” You’ll note this is a different question than the one traditionally posed by pollsters, who ask not about likeability, but whether voters approve of the President’s job performance. Instead, I was curious about the man himself. Do people think President Trump is a good guy? A role model for America’s kids? Someone you’d like living next door? Approximately 300-some emails later, it appears we can divide readers’ opinions about this President into a few broad categories. Some people liked his

record while ignoring his personality completely, (thus also ignoring my question, but, hey, let’s not pick nits). Others loathe liberals and Democrats with a passion (also missing the point, but again, let’s not quibble). Many folks believe Presidents don’t exist to be liked, but only to do a job. Lots of readers really hate President Trump. About as many really hate me. Then there’s James McNamara of Glendale, who actually answered the question. “I admire (President Trump) because he is a good father,” McNamara wrote. “I say that because all of his children grew up with fame, having the name Trump, great education and of course the money…. With having all of that money, they grew up relatively normal. I think that goes back to their up bring (sic) and a father figure like Trump. He taught them the right way to do things.” For offering a cogent explanation about why he likes this President – although

some of you doubtless will disagree about the character of the Trump kids – I salute Mr. McNamara. There’s no prize involved, merely kudos for completing the assignment. Unlike, say, Duane from the West Valley, who wrote: “Typical little Jewboy &^%$#. Mamma’s boy #$^#$*. @$^*er. Whiny *^#@s like you are the problem with country #%$& today. Ur jealous that our President is a GREAT MAN. #@$& you.” There’s more to the email, but that was the most coherent paragraph and the best spelled. Duane, I asked our editors to include really big pictures in the paper this week and a coloring page for you, but they shot me down. As my late Aunt Sylvia would’ve said, “Sorry you’re so verklempt. Oy vey!” After filtering out personal attacks, the most frequently cited point paralleled the notion expressed by reader Loren Greenberg, who said, “You don’t need to like him - If he can do the job, that’s what’s important.”

Loren continued: “I don’t want a likeable president. I want one that will keep this country safe, not deplete it’s armed forces to the extent that Russia & China are ‘suddenly’ … military powers to match our and in some areas exceed our military. I want a president who will not allow open boarders like we see in Europe. I don’t care if I don’t like his personality, I don’t plan to have dinner with him.” In the end, all the responses taught me something: Likeable politicians are so few and far between on either side of the aisle these days, they rank not as icons, but as anomalies. The days of a President we can rally behind – or point to as a role model – seem gone and gone for good. What we have instead in 2019: the President as Rorschach blot. Each of us sees what we want to see in the most powerful leader in the world. In the end, I guess that says just as much about us individually as it does about the person in the Oval Office.

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aping has been a hot topic for parents and educators for some time now. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration recently declared e-cigarette use by young people a national epidemic. ICAN has gotten involved with this topic through the Chandler Coalition on Youth Substance Abuse, one of our programs. We have an incredible task force through CCYSA that is comprised of representatives from public safety, healthcare, education, city government and more. This group recently got together to produce an informative video about vaping: Many teens don’t realize that vaping devices contain nicotine. Most vaping

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fection through the cells surrounding the lungs. Recent studies are showing that vaping actually leads to cigarette use in consumers, not the opposite, which is so widely publicized. Vaping often leads to use of wax pens, which are a similar instrument but hold liquid marijuana. The amount of THC in wax pens can be as high as 80 percent, which qualifies it as a controlled narcotic substance and a felony offense. Many youth don’t realize the severity of a felony offense on one’s record – which can affect one’s credit, the ability to get a job and one’s permanent record. I highly encourage you to watch the video that CCYSA put together. There’s also a link to a test about vaping, along with the answer sheet. These can be valuable tools for parents who may be dealing with a teen

who has started vaping. Many of our public schools are offering parent educational sessions about vaping as well. Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk has said e-cigarettes’ popularity offsets the positive benefits from a drop in traditional cigarette use. “Decades of progress in getting our kids to stop using cigarettes has been undone in really two short years with the e-cigarette industry,” Polk said. Here at ICAN, we believe that further education is needed to combat this issue. Talk to the young people in your life about vaping and the potential negative side effects it can cause. As always, the Chandler Coalition on Youth Substance Abuse has incredible resources to support those conversations. Details: ccysachandler.org Shelby Pedersen is CEO of ICAN in Chandler.

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Seton boys want banner year to end with . . . a banner BY JOEL VISS Tribune Contributing Writer

ention Seton Catholic basketball and thoughts usually turn to the dynasty built by coach Karen Self and her girls teams. But there’s another successful team on campus this year, too, and the Sentinels’ boys are eager to end their banner season with . . . a banner. That would be a tall order, given that Shadow Mountain and Salpointe Catholic will be in the 4A bracket. Seton Catholic was 15-5 and in position for the No. 6 seed in the 16-team playoffs that open Feb. 12. It might have been even higher. Basketball is among the longest seasons in high school sports with summer leagues, fall conditioning and then the actual season stretching across two semesters. It sometimes is difficult for teenagers to stay focused when given any freedom. The Seton Catholic boys fell out of rhythm during winter break and dropped

two of their first three games when they returned for spring semester. “It’s funny when you play over Christmas break and then there’s that kind of a lull,” said Seton Catholic coach Commander King. “We got clipped on our first game back. It’s weird. We were playing really good before the break and kind of lost our way and we had to get back to the basics of what we do.” The players were quick to respond to the skid, especially senior captain Carson Mittun, who was motivated by this being his final season with his teammates. “We weren’t coming to practice with any energy and Coach kind of got on us,” Mittun said. “We had one pretty rough practice with a lot of running and a lot of yelling. We all needed to come out and play hard every game.” The Sentinels rebounded with four straight wins in January and put themselves back in position to win the 4A Desert Sky Region for the second straight year. Seton Catholic plays one of the hardest schedules in 4A and its largest margin of

defeat came against three-time defending state champ Shadow Mountain, arguably the best high school basketball team in Arizona. “I don’t think there are many teams that play as hard as us,” King said. “I’m proud to say that. Every team says they play hard, but I really think that our kids, every night, put it all on the line. That’s the expectation, to play your tail off for your teammates. “Our goal is to make the final four and we want to win the state title. We think we are fully capable of doing it. Shadow Mountain has been that team up top that’s really set the bar for our division, but the benefit of playing a tough schedule is we played them the last three years and we

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Seton Catholic’s Garrett Elkins not only is a leader on the Sentinels’ basketball team he is among 10 finalists selected from hundreds of nominees nationally for the $10,000 Character Counts Scholarship. (Special to the Tribune)

Toros girls’ soccer looks to reverse its playoff history BY ERIC NEWMAN Tribune Staff Writer

ountain View girls’ soccer never has made a long playoff run. In fact, three seasons ago the Toros won one game. And then, coach Jen Larsen took over. Mountain View went 11-7-1 and made the playoffs in her first year. Last season, it was 11-7-2 record and lost in the opening round of the 6A playoffs again. The Toros never have gotten through the first round, not even when Larsen was a team captain more than a decade ago. She often relays the winless playoff record to her team as motivation. Riding a 14-game streak and boasting a 16-2-1 record, Mountain View likely will host a first-round game on Saturday, enhancing its chances of finally winning in the tournament. This appears to be the Toros’ best chance to never again hear their coach hold postseason losses over their heads. “I think they get sick of hearing it,” Lars-

men varsity players on that onewin team. Through the years, they have seen Mountain View players rededicate themselves to rigorous off-season training, often joining new club teams to further develop skills. Senior Sadie Rosenbaum said that has made this Toros team the best one that she has been part of. “We’ve been just slowly breaking different records, getting to the playoffs and then getting higher seeds, to now hosting a game. It’s just cool to see the progression,” Rosenbaum said. After graduating seven players last year, senior Sarah Marske, the Toros leading scorer, was unsure how the current group would find success with young, inexperienced players claiming varsity starting Sarah Marske, a Mountain View senior, helped the girls soccer team improve from one win in her freshman season roles. to 16-2-1 and a high playoff seed this season. (Eric Newman/ “I know it’s bad to say, but I didn’t Tribune Staff) know if we’d be very good this en said, laughing. year,” Marske said. “But seeing everyone The current senior captains were fresh- play well and improving together and

Three seasons ago, Mountain View won one girls soccer game. And then, coach Jen Larsen took over. The Toros went 11-7-1 in her first year, 11-7-2 in her second. Now, they are on a 14-game streak at 16-2-1. (Eric Newman/Tribune Staff)

winning a bunch of games, it feels like something clicked.”

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have a familiarity with them and our kids aren’t really afraid. We think if we can get a shot at them down the road at the big arena we would love that opportunity.” Garrett Elkins, another senior, explained how the unity of the players separates this year’s squad from those of the past. “We’re all friends,” Elkins said. “Our chemistry translates off the court to on the court.” Elkins is among 10 finalists selected from hundreds of applicants nationwide for the Character Counts award, a $10,000 scholarship that recognizes high school student-athletes’ contributions on and off the court. Elkins helps his mom serve meals to homeless people one Saturday a month, led Vacation Bible School and retreats to Kairos and is a student ambassador for his school. The national winner is to be announced Feb. 28. “It means a lot,” Elkins said of the nomination. “At first, I didn’t really think too much of it because I didn’t even think I

was going to be picked. It was just mind boggling how I was chosen for the things that I did.” King and Mittun agree that Elkins’ leadership off the court enhances it on the court. “Garrett is as solid as they come,” King said. “He’s one of our glue guys. He’s just a quality young man. Works his tail off. He’s tough as nails. He is selfless, almost to a fault. He does everything right. On and off the court he is just a really solid young man. Great family. Great parents. He does his job in the classroom and busts his butt on the court. We’re definitely proud of him.” Elkins leads by example, according to Mittun. “We have a couple of guys who are more vocal, like myself, but Garrett probably is one of our hardest workers on and off the court and he plays the hardest on the court.” They agree that they need the same dedication from everyone. With playoffs now upon them, it is make-or-break time for the Sentinels.

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The team captains point to a mid-January 2-1 road win over rival Red Mountain, which had beaten them 3-0 earlier, as the turning point. However, Larsen knew her team could be great before their streak and 6A East Valley Region championship run began. “The first game we played was against Desert Ridge, and we lost a tough one to them,” Larsen said. “But my girls showed so well and played as a complete team. Right after that game, after that loss, I knew it was going to be a special team.” The Toros now take pride in how they’ve morphed into a team that could consistently challenge for state titles. “It’s nice to think about how the team has developed in our years here, and we hope they just keep getting better once we’re gone in the next years, too,” Marske said.

Through the years, Mountain View’s girls soccer players rededicated themselves to rigorous off-season training, often joining new club teams to further develop skills. That turned them into winners, senior Sadie Rosenbaum said. (Eric Newman/Tribune Staff)

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Ooh la la: Her French food truck is one of a kind BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Executive Editor

ith all the time she spends in the kitchen of her Ahwatukee home making more French dishes and pastries, it’s a miracle that Eve Visconti gets out at all. But the fact is, she does quite a bit on the weekends – tooling around to various places in the East Valley in the only all-French food truck in Arizona. She doesn’t just sell her crepes, quiches, lasagna and other items – along, of course, with a seemingly limitless variety of French pastries – from her specially designed truck with the bold moniker “La Petite Provence.” She also caters private gatherings big and small – most recently a 14-course gourmet Christmas dinner for 25 and, next month, 1,000 people for a Mesa church – and even makes dishes she delivers or arranges for pick-up. And she does it all herself, aided by a young woman who mainly handles paper work and takes orders, since Visconti speaks French, German and Italian – but not English. As interesting as her menu is, her back story is even more so. A native of Italy, she ended up with her family in Aix-en-Provence, the home of the painter Cezanne and the former capitol of a region that has long been a tourist capitol of the world, known for its food and wine, its weather and shopping and the French Riviera. When her father once asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, she unhesitatingly replied she wanted to be just like him – a baker – and take over his bakery. It only seemed logical, since she had learned how to bake and made a lot of pastries and bread for her father’s bakery by the time she was 10. But her father told her owning a bakery was not a job for a woman, so she became a physical therapist, relocating to Italy for a short time. And it turned out her father was wrong, as Visconti explained through her best friend and interpreter, Pascale Dunton, a longtime Ahwatukee resident. “She decided to get into the businesses and show her father that a woman

Eve Visconti, left, (pictured with her best friend Pascale Dunton) operates Arizona’s only French food truck, stocked with dishes and pastries that she makes in her Ahwatukee home. Her La Petite Provence appears at various food truck rodeos and special events throughout the East Valley. In addition, she caters private parties and dinners and makes dishes to order for pickup or delivery. (Special to the Tribune)

could be a baker and she went to Culinary Academy in the south of France,” Dunton said. And voila, before long, she was the chef and owner of three celebrated restaurants in Provence. But Visconti had another passion besides good food: She loved Arizona, and had been visiting annually for years, befriending Dunton along the way when they met on the beach at Rocky Point. That friendship brought her to Ahwatukee three years ago, after Visconti’s son and two daughters were old enough to be on their own. Dunton, a U.S. State Department-certified public diplomacy ambassador who coordinates exchange students visiting in the southwest from abroad, has lived in Ahwatukee since 1991, when her husband began working for Intel.

She introduced Visconti to the community some time ago – and eventually the two women had become such close friends that Visconti decided to move here. Before closing her three restaurants and moving here three years ago, Visconti had already been thinking about owning a food truck, as those vehicles also are popular in France. “She came, she bought the truck,” Dunton said. “It was converted into a food truck. Her husband did all the work. He is an architect and he built this food truck.” Equipping the truck with refrigerating and heating equipment was almost the least of Visconti’s hurdles. “It was quite a steep learning curve, to learn everything about licensing and getting a different license in different

places and figuring out what the American palate likes,” Dunton explained. To her surprise, Visconti quickly learned that it wasn’t just one palate she needed to adapt to. Even after operating the truck for more than a year, Visconti is continually amazed – and a little discouraged – by the American – or at least the Arizonan – palate as she works a couple standard places on the weekend in Gilbert and Queen Creek while making appearances at festivals, auto races and other outdoor events. (She had been invited by the BarrettJackson auction organizers to join its vendors, but declined when they told her it would cost $6,000.) “She’s discovered that in a lot of the

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places it’s the quantity that attracts a buyer versus the quality,” Dunton said. “So, people will get a block of French fries that are smothered with a yellow cancer-causing cheese versus a nice portion of a spinach goat cheese quiche.” She even has found that tastes can vary between cities in Arizona, noting that her clientele in Scottsdale seems more adventurous when it comes to trying new things. \“She finds that people are hesitant around here about trying things they don’t recognize,” Dunton said. Even at festivals in northern Arizona, she’s found “people come from all these little specks of towns and they are absolutely so adventurous in wanting to try new things,” Dunton said. Yet, regardless of where Visconti goes, “the truck sells out pretty fast,” Dunton said. Of course, besides her catering activities and her pickup-delivery services, Visconti also has to make all that stuff. And that means more driving to places far and wide across the Valley. “She goes to many different places because many of the things are specialty items,” Dunton said. “Like chocolate: she

needs to be Belgian chocolate. She cooks and bakes with pine nuts. She goes to the restaurant supply warehouses. “There’s also a Costco for businesses. She buys the fresh fruit wherever she can find it because she’s very picky about her fruit.” And of course, there‘s the baking and cooking. “She is the one that shops. She’s the one that cooks, that stocks the truck and then goes to the events,” Dunton added. She spends 12 hours a day for two days just to make enough for two food truck appearances on the weekend, storing dozens of handcrafted pastries in the commercial refrigerators in her home. While La Petite Provence sells items never found on food trucks – croque monsieur and tiramisu, crème brulee among them – there’s one dish she makes only for her catered affairs. “Her paella is so wonderful,” Dunton said. “The pan she has is as big as a table. She brought it here special from France.” La Petite Provence is a regular at AZ Feastival’s food truck rodeo 5:30-9 p.m. Fridays in the parking lot at Sam’s Club, 1225 N. Gilbert Road at Houston, Gilbert. To learn where else you can find it, or to order a special dish: 480-621-2486 or lapetiteprovence1@gmail.com

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Violinist goes intimate at MAC BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI GET OUT Editor

iolinist Joshua Bell speaks as eloquently as his music. Bell is traveling to the Mesa Arts Center for a recital on Feb. 14 with his pianist/friend Sam Haywood. The duo will cover Beethoven, Prokofiev, Grieg and additional works to be announced from the stage. “It’s basically a two-hour tasting menu of classical music,” he said. “We’re starting with Beethoven, then comes Prokofiev and then Grieg. We’ll finish it off with dessert-type pieces. “I leave room for spur-of-the-moment music from different periods of classical music. This is a different experience than seeing me at a symphony concert. I particularly like these intimate evenings. There’s more variety of music and you get to know the artist more directly.” At the Valentine’s Day show, Bell hopes the audience can relate on some level to what he’s playing. For example, Beethoven grabs listeners by the scruff of the neck. It’s Bell’s job to find that intensity and channel the great musician. The other pieces are more lyrical and vulnerable.

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he power of a spunky little girl is not be underestimated, for it can take her to great heights and make her detractors appear foolish. A determined girl’s journey is chronicled as “Camelot and Camelittle” unfolds in this East Valley Children’s Theater production’s 10-day run through Feb. 24 at Mesa Arts Center. This is the world premiere of an original work by Stacey Lane of Chicago, winner of the annual playwriting contest sponsored by the East Valley Children’s Theatre.

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Olivia VanSlyke of Mesa, right, plays Ruth in “Camelot and Camelittle,” the new presentation by East Valley Children’s Theatre at Mesa Arts Center starting Thursday. (Special to the Tribune)

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manuscripts for consideration to be produced by East Valley Children’s Theatre. “We are a founding resident company at Mesa Arts Center. We’ve been there since it opened,” said EVCT’s Kathie McMahon. The cast of “Camelot and Camelittle” features more than 30 youths, ages 8 to 18, from across the East Valley in the play di-

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so these young actors come in at all levels of experience,” McMahon said. In “Camelot and Camelittle” a spunky little girl, Ruth, who is played by Olivia VanSlyke of Mesa, has one dream: to become a Knight of the Round Table. King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Sir Lancelot and other heroes laugh at her when she demonstrates her skills by pretend-fighting a lizard dressed up like a dragon. Rejected, Ruth gathers a group of unappreciated misfits and leaves Camelot to start her own perfect queendom. Along the way, the power of a determined young girl and her sidekicks is on display. Among them is Lizard, played by Tre Moore of Mesa, whom Ruth dresses as a dragon. “Tre has done 12 or 13 productions with us, so he’s very experienced,” McMahon said. “Olivia is young. She’s just done a couple.” East Valley Children’s Theatre is an award winning theater in its 22nd year of presenting classic children’s stories and fairytales for children and their families. EVCT requires at least a $50 donation to the theater for any participant in its mainstage productions.

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MARTINEZ, Gloria Gloria Macias Martinez, 77, died peacefully on Jan. 30, 2019. Gloria, one of 10 children, was born in El Paso, TX. on Sept. 27, 1941 to Pedro and Maria Macias. She met and married her husband, Robert Olivo Martinez, in El Paso on Dec. 17, 1966. Albuquerque, NM was their home for 30 years before retiring in Chandler. Gloria had a wonderful way of making friends; she was a kind, generous, loving, and compassionate person. She was full of life and loved music and dancing. Above all, she was a strong Catholic and loved Jesus. Gloria had a very loving relationship with her husband, her children and her grandchildren. Gloria is survived by her beloved husband of 52 years, Robert; her son Rob; her daughters Theresa (Kevin), and Margie; and five grandchildren; Isaac, Olivia, Sophia, Gabrielle, and Benjamin. Gloria was loved by all, and she will be deeply missed. We love you Mamacita, Mom, and Nana. Mass service will be at 11:00 a.m. on Feb. 15 at St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church in Chandler. Sign the Guestbook at: obituaries.EastValleyTribune.com

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CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA PD MAIN GENERATOR REPLACEMENT 130 NORTH ROBSON STREET PROJECT NO. CP0785 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received until Thursday, March 7, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. All sealed bids will be received at Mesa City Plaza Building, Engineering Department at 20 East Main Street, 5th Floor, Mesa, Arizona; except for bids delivered 30 minutes prior to opening which will be received at the information desk, 1st floor, Main Lobby of the Mesa City Plaza Building. Any bid received after the time specified will be returned without any consideration. This contract shall be for furnishing all labor, materials, transportation and services for the construction and/or installation of the following work: This project will remove and replace the existing 100 kW generator and replace it with a 500 kW diesel generator and associated electrical work at the main police station in downtown Mesa.

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The Engineer’s Estimate range is $400,000.00 – $450,000.00. For all technical, contract, bid-related, or other questions, please contact Maggie Smith at maggie.smith@mesaaz.gov. Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified above. Contractors desiring to submit proposals may purchase sets of the Bid Documents from ARC Document Solutions, LLC, at https://order.earc.com/arcEOC/PWell_Main.asp?mem=152. Click on “Go” for the Public Planroom to access plans. NOTE: In order to be placed on the Plan Holders List and to receive notifications and updates regarding this bid (such as addenda) during the bidding period, an order must be placed. The cost of each Bid Set will be no more than $19.00, which is non-refundable regardless of whether the Contractor Documents are returned. Partial bid packages are not sold. You can view documents online (at no cost), order Bid Sets, and access the Plan Holders List on the website at the address listed above. Please verify print lead time prior to arriving for pick-up. For a list of locations nearest you, go to www.e-arc.com.

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If a pre-bid review of the site has been scheduled, details can be referenced in Project Specific Provision Section #3, titled “Pre-Bid Review of Site.” Work shall be completed within 275 consecutive calendar days, beginning with the day following the starting date specified in the Notice to Proceed. Bids must be submitted on the Proposal Form provided and be accompanied by the Bid Bond for not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid, payable to the City of Mesa, Arizona, or a certified or cashier's check. PERSONAL OR INDIVIDUAL SURETY BONDS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE. The successful bidder will be required to execute the standard form of contract for construction within ten (10) days after formal award of contract. In addition, the successful bidder must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self-Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service). The successful bidder, simultaneously with the execution of the Contract, will be required to furnish a Payment Bond in the amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, a Performance Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and the most recent ACORD® Certificate of Liability Insurance form with additional insured endorsements. The right is hereby reserved to accept or reject any or all bids or parts thereto, to waive any informalities in any proposal and reject the bids of any persons who have been delinquent or unfaithful to any contract with the City of Mesa. BETH HUNING City Engineer ATTEST: DeeAnn Mickelsen City Clerk Publish: East Valley Tribune, Feb. 10, 17, 2019 / 18520

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Public Notices CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA VENTURE OUT DRAINAGE BROADWAY ROAD/48TH STREET PROJECT NO. CP0818 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received until Thursday, March 7, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. All sealed bids will be received at Mesa City Plaza Building, Engineering Department at 20 East Main Street, 5th Floor, Mesa, Arizona; except for bids delivered 30 minutes prior to opening which will be received at the information desk, 1st floor, Main Lobby of the Mesa City Plaza Building. Any bid received after the time specified will be returned without any consideration.

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MESA, ARIZONA CADENCE SCHOOL OFFSITE INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS (CA160) ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received until February 25, 2019 at 1:00p.m. All sealed bids will be received at Mesa City Plaza Building, Engineering Department at 20 East Main Street, 5th Floor, Mesa, Arizona. Please mark the outside of the bid envelope with the name of this bid document. Any bid received after the time specified will be returned without any consideration, except for bids delivered 30 minutes prior to opening which will be received at the information desk, 1st floor, Main Lobby of the Mesa City Plaza Building. No bid shall be altered, amended or withdrawn after the specified bid due date and time. A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held on Monday, February 11, 2019 at 1:00p.m. in the upper level Council Chambers at 57 E. First Street, Mesa, Arizona.

This contract shall be for furnishing all labor, materials, transportation and services for the construction and/or installation of the following work:

There will not be a pre-bid review of the site.

Project will include installation of 54” and 36” RGRCP storm drain along Broadway Road between Greenfield Road and Higley Road. In addition, the existing catch basins will be disconnected from RWCD and tied into the new storm drain line. A series of new catch basins will be installed along the corridor and extending into 48th Street.

This contract shall consist of furnishing all labor, materials and equipment required to construct the facilities and features called for by the plans and specifications for the following work:

The Engineer’s Estimate range is $900,000 - $1,100,000. For all technical, contract, bid-related, or other questions, please contact Donna Horn at donna.horn@mesaaz.gov. Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified above. Contractors desiring to submit proposals may purchase sets of the Bid Documents from ARC Document Solutions, LLC, at https://order.e-arc.com/arcEOC/PWell_Main.asp?mem=152. Click on “Go” for the Public Planroom to access plans. NOTE: In order to be placed on the Plan Holders List and to receive notifications and updates regarding this bid (such as addenda) during the bidding period, an order must be placed. The cost of each Bid Set will be no more than $14, which is non-refundable. Partial bid packages are not sold. You can view documents on-line (at no cost), order Bid Sets, and access the Plan Holders List on the website at the address listed above. Please verify print lead time prior to arriving for pick-up. For a list of locations nearest you, go to www.e-arc.com.

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The installation of sewer, water, storm drain, concrete, paving, adjustments, signage, striping, street lights and landscape for Cadence Parkway and Toledo Road as outlined by the Improvement Plans for Cadence School Offsite Infrastructure Plans. Excludes rough grading (by others) and dry utility mainline trench and conduit. The ENGINEER’S ESTIMATED RANGE IS $750,000 – $1,250,000. For information contact: Stephanie Gishey, City of Mesa, Stephanie.Gishey@mesaaz.gov. Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified above. Contractors desiring to submit proposals may purchase sets of the Bid Documents from ARC Document Solutions, LLC, at https://order.e-arc.com/arcEOC/PWELL_Main.asp?mem=29. Click on “Go” for the Public Planroom to access plans. NOTE: In order to be placed on the Plan Holders List and to receive notifications and updates regarding this bid (such as addenda) during the bidding period, an order must be placed. The cost of each Bid Set will be no more than $20.00, which is non-refundable regardless of whether the Contractor Documents are returned. Partial bid packages are not sold. You can view documents on-line (at no cost), order Bid Sets, and access the Plan Holders List on the website at the address listed above. Please verify print lead time prior to arriving for pick-up. For a list of locations nearest you, go to www.e-arc.com

One set of the Contract Documents is also available for viewing at the City of Mesa’s Engineering Department at 20 East Main Street, Mesa, AZ. Please call 480-644-2251 prior to arriving to ensure that the documents are available for viewing.

One set of the Contract Documents is also available for viewing at the City of Mesa's Engineering Department at 20 East Main Street, Mesa, AZ. Please call (480) 644-2251 prior to arriving to ensure that the documents are available for viewing.

In order for the City to consider alternate products in the bidding process, please follow Arizona Revised Statutes §34.104c.

Work shall be completed within one hundred twenty (120) consecutive calendar days, beginning with the day following the starting date specified in the Notice to Proceed.

If a pre-bid review of the site has been scheduled, details can be referenced in Project Specific Provision Section #3, titled “Pre-Bid Review of Site.”

Bids must be submitted on the Proposal and Schedule Form provided and be accompanied by a Bid Bond, certified check, or cashier’s check (PERSONAL OR INDIVIDUAL BID BONDS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE) for ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the Bid, payable to Otago Development, Inc., as a guarantee that the contractor will enter into a contract to perform the proposal in accordance with the plans and specifications.

Work shall be completed within 150 consecutive calendar days, beginning with the day following the starting date specified in the Notice to Proceed. Bids must be submitted on the Proposal Form provided and be accompanied by the Bid Bond for not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid, payable to the City of Mesa, Arizona, or a certified or cashier's check. PERSONAL OR INDIVIDUAL SURETY BONDS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE. The successful bidder will be required to execute the standard form of contract for construction within ten (10) days after formal award of contract. In addition, the successful bidder must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self-Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service). The successful bidder, simultaneously with the execution of the Contract, will be required to furnish a Payment Bond in the amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, a Performance Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and the most recent ACORD® Certificate of Liability Insurance form with additional insured endorsements. The right is hereby reserved to accept or reject any or all bids or parts thereto, to waive any informalities in any proposal and reject the bids of any persons who have been delinquent or unfaithful to any contract with the City of Mesa. BETH HUNING City Engineer ATTEST: DeeAnn Mickelsen City Clerk Published: East Valley Tribune, Feb. 3, 10, 17, 2019 / 18317

The successful bidder will be required to execute the Otago Development, Inc. Contract and respective Addenda for construction within five (5) days after formal Notice of Contact Award. Failure by bidder to properly execute the Contract and provide the required certification as specified shall be considered a breach of Contract by bidder. Otago Development, Inc. shall be free to terminate the Contract or, at option, release the successful bidder. Payment and Performance Bonds will be required for this Work. The successful bidder, simultaneously with the execution of the Contract, shall be required to furnish a Payment Bond in the amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and a Performance Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. The successful bidder shall name Otago Development, Inc. as obligee on both the Payment and Performance Bonds and name the City of Mesa as an additional obligee on the Performance Bond using a Dual Obligee Rider form. An approved Dual Obligee Rider Form is included in Chapter 2. The right is hereby reserved to accept or reject any or all bids or parts thereto, to waive a ny informalities in any proposal and reject the bids of any persons who have been delinquent or unfaithful to any contract with Otago Development, Inc., the City of Mesa or Cadence Community Facilities District. BETH HUNING District Engineer ATTEST: Dee Ann Mickelsen District Clerk Published: East Valley Tribune, Feb 3, 10, 2019 / 18338

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REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified firm or team to act as the Construction Manager at Risk for the following:

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GENERAL LANDSCAPING CONSTRUCTION SERVICES JOB ORDER CONTRACT PROJECT NO. JOC-L19 The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Contractor to provide Job Order Utility Construction Services. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ). The following is a summary of the project: The Landscaping Construction Job Order Contract will require a variety of tasks to be completed, including but not limited to maintenance, repair, minor and major new construction services, including minor associated incidental design services, for a broad range of City landscaping renovation and construction projects A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on February 14, 2019 at 9:00 am, at the Mesa City Plaza Building, 20 E. Main Street, Conference Room 170, Mesa, Arizona 85201. At this meeting, City staff will discuss the scope of work and general contract issues and respond to questions from the attendees. Attendance at the pre-submittal conference is not mandatory and all interested firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether or not they attend the conference. All interested firms are encouraged to attend the Pre-Submittal Conference since City staff will not be available for meetings or to respond to individual inquiries regarding the project scope outside of this conference. In addition, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from the Pre-Submittal Conference. Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below. RFQ Lists. The RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/construction-manager-at-riskand-job-order-contracting-opportunities. The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation). Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Minimum font size shall be 10pt. Please provide seven (7) hard copies and one (1) electronic copy (CD or USB drive) of the Statement of Qualifications by February 26, 2019 at 2:00 pm. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer.

Delivered or hand-carried submittals must be delivered to the Engineering Department reception area on the fifth floor of Mesa City Plaza Building in a sealed package. On the submittal package, please display: Firm name, project number, and/or project title. Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service). Questions. Questions pertaining to the Job Order Contractor selection process or contract issues should be directed to Stephanie Gishey of the Engineering Department at stephanie.gishey@mesaaz.gov.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified firm or team to act as the Construction Manager at Risk for the following: GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION SERVICES JOB ORDER CONTRACT PROJECT NO. JOC-G19 The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Contractor to provide Job Order Utility Construction Services. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ). The following is a summary of the project: The General Construction Job Order Contract will require a variety of tasks to be completed, including but not limited to general building construction services for minor and major construction projects, maintenance, renovations, repairs, additions, demolition, re-construction and alteration services to City property. A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on February 14, 2019 at 9:00 am, at the Mesa City Plaza Building, 20 E. Main Street, Conference Room 170, Mesa, Arizona 85201. At this meeting, City staff will discuss the scope of work and general contract issues and respond to questions from the attendees. Attendance at the pre-submittal conference is not mandatory and all interested firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether or not they attend the conference. All interested firms are encouraged to attend the Pre-Submittal Conference since City staff will not be available for meetings or to respond to individual inquiries regarding the project scope outside of this conference. In addition, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from the Pre-Submittal Conference. Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below. RFQ Lists. The RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/construction-manager-at-riskand-job-order-contracting-opportunities. The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation). Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Minimum font size shall be 10pt. Please provide seven (7) hard copies and one (1) electronic copy (CD or USB drive) of the Statement of Qualifications by February 26, 2019 at 2:00 pm. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer. Delivered or hand-carried submittals must be delivered to the Engineering Department reception area on the fifth floor of Mesa City Plaza Building in a sealed package. On the submittal package, please display: Firm name, project number, and/or project title. Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service). Questions. Questions pertaining to the Job Order Contractor selection process or contract issues should be directed to Stephanie Gishey of the Engineering Department at stephanie.gishey@mesaaz.gov. BETH HUNING City Engineer

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THE SUNDAY EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE | FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Garage Sales/ Bazaars WELLS FLEA MARKET Feb. 16 7AM- 2PM Silent Auction, raffle, boutique, clothing, housewares, furniture, books, decor, sports, garden. Coffee and Pastries for breakfast. Hot sandwich, beverage and pie for lunch. 5735 E MCDOWELL RD MESA Citrus Gardens Park Wide Patio Sale. 4065 E. University Dr. Mesa between Val Vista & Greenfield. Sat 2/16 7am-1pm Look for Balloons.

Wanted to Buy Diabetic Test Strips by the box, unused. Any type or brand. Will pay top dollar. Call Pat 480-323-8846

Manufactured Homes

100- 500 +

Good Condition=More $$$

Best Prices! Fast, free pickup!

602-391-3996

WANTED BY COLLECTOR Want to buy older model original 22 rimfire rifles & pistols. Consider others. Call with what you have. I DO NOT SELL GUNS. Call Lee 602-448-6487

Peteris Berzins, EA, MBA, CLDP

(Enrolled Agent preparing taxes for over 30 years)

480-232-9645

CONCRETE & MASONRY **********************

NEW INSTALLS / REPAIRS DRIVEWAY, PATIO, WALKWAY BBQ, PAVERS

East Valley/ Ahwatukee

Broken Springs Replaced

CALL JOHN 480-797-2985 FREE ESTIMATE 16 YEARS EXP, REF INSURED

Apartments

FREE ESTIMATES! FREE DIAGNOSIS!

ALMA SCH & MAIN Partially Furnished 1bd/1 ba. Bad Credit OK. No Deposit. Quiet $680/mo. A/C. Includes all utilities (602) 339-1555

OPEN 24/7/365

APACHE TRAIL & IRONWOOD Secluded Cute Studio, A/C $600/Month Bad Credit ok No Deposit. Water/Trash Inc. (602) 339-1555

Appliance Repair Now

(480) 524-1950 Appliance Repairs

If It’s Broken, We Can Fix It! • Same Day Service • On-Site Repairs • Servicing All Major Brands • Quality Guaranteed

We Also Buy, Sell & Trade Used Appliances Working or Not

480-659-1400 Licensed & Insured Carpet Cleaning Best Cleaning You Will Ever Have!

SPECIAL! 3 Rooms for

99!

*(a room is up to 200 sq. ft.)

Call or Text

480-635-8605

• 25 years Cleaning Our Gilbert Neighbors’ homes • Family Owned and Operated • Truck Mounted Steam Cleaning for Fast Drying • Carpet, Tile & Grout, Upholstery, Rugs • Pet Stain Specialists

allstarcleaning3@gmail.com The All Stars of Cleaning!

TREE

TRIMMING 25 Years exp (480) 720-3840

Block Fence * Gates

602-789-6929 Roc #057163 Lowest Prices * 30 Yrs Exp Serving Entire Valley

ROC# 321648

Nights/Weekends Bonded/Insured 480-251-8610

Not a licensed contractor

YOU’LL LIKE US - THE BEST!

Concrete & Masonry

ALL TYPES OF CONCRETE

For Rent

Juan Hernandez

Fencing/Gates

MIKE’S CONCRETE ROC156315, ROC285317

HANDYMAN 37 years experience. Drywall, framing, plumbing, painting, electrical, roofing and more. Stan, 602-434-6057

REMOVAL

WE RESOLVE IRS ISSUES Air Conditioning/Heating

Landscape Maintenance

Handyman

BLOCK, STUCCO GRADING,

GARAGE DOOR SERVICE

179

DESERT ROCK

SPRINKLER

Personal • Business • LLC • Rental Estate & Other States Returns

AC-HEAT-PLUMBING

Manufactured Homes

Mila's House Cleaning. Residential & Commercial. Weekly/Monthly/Bi Weekly. Experienced and Reference's Available. 480-290-5637 602-446-0636

Garage/Doors

Concrete & Masonry

Cleaning Services

We come to you!

Call today for a FIRM price quote

Real Estate

CASH FOR JUNK CARS ~ All “As Is” Autos! ~

Mobile Tax $ervices

Average cost for a 1040 is only

Wanted to Buy $

Accounting

For Sale

5-year old Teeter Inversion Table for sale. Like new. Make this part of your New Year work-out resolution! Asking $225. Call 480-858-5949