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lar black receptacles, giving them only three chances to clean up their act. “We are taking that barrel away from you. I can tell you people aren’t happy about having that blue barrel taken,’’ said Scott Bouchie, director of the Mesa Environmental Management and Sustainability Department. “It’s three strikes and you’re out,” Bouchie added. “If we go three times and find contamination, we will remove the blue barrel.’’ The impact of the Chinese crackdown on the city’s budget is dramatic. According to the city, Mesa yielded $1 million in revenue from recycling just six years ago. After realizing about $577,000 in revenue

in the fiscal year that ended last June 30, the city began forecasting a severe downturn that is now estimated to put Mesa $400,000 in the red for recycling in the fiscal year that ends this month. The forecast for the new fiscal year is that losses will more than double to $1 million. Bouchie said Mesa is not targeting someone who makes an innocent, one-time mistake by throwing one non-recyclable item into the blue barrel. Chronic offenders put items such as plastic bags from supermarkets, wire coat hangers and cords into recycling bins. Currently, they can request the return of

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ector control specialist Jason Gillette checked a funky-looking mosquito trap hanging from a tree in the East Valley neighborhood. The gallon cooler is filled with dry ice and poked with holes that emit carbon dioxide — mimicking respiration and attracting mosquitoes that are then blown into a cylindrical net by a hand-size fan. “We catch mosquitoes year-round,” said Gillette, gathering the trap — one of 29 he collected that morning in Gilbert and part of Chandler for the trip back to the Maricopa County vector lab. “This season seems like it’s a little busy.” Not only is the mosquito season an active one but the county lab is seeing a significant number of traps

testing positive for West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis, said Johnny Dilone, spokesman for the county Department of Environmental Services. As of July 1, the number of mosquito traps testing positive for West Nile in the county was 315 and 153 for encephalitis, Dilone said. For all of 2018, the county reported 138 positive traps for West Nile and 106 positive traps for encephalitis. “If we keep on experiencing the same trend this week, we would most likely see those numbers go up,” Dilone said. West Nile virus, which can lead to neuroinvasive disease in humans such as meningitis and encephalitis, is the most common mosquito-borne disease in Arizona. So far this year there have been 18

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Schools can replace officers with counselors BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Executive Editor

ive East Valley school districts will now have to decide whether grant money they now use to pay for security officers should be diverted to hiring counselors or social workers. The state Superintendent of Public Schools has advised that Chandler Unified, Tempe Union, Mesa Public Schools, Tempe Elementary and Kyrene can reexamine their use of School Safety Program grants they now get for school resource officers. Meanwhile, districts that don’t have schools on a current waiting list for grant money won’t be getting any of the $20 million the State Legislature authorized for hiring resource officers, counselors or social workers. And while the 87 schools on that waiting list will be sharing in that new money, it’s unclear when. Both Chandler and Mesa districts are on the list. The state Education Board on June 24 voted to hold off immediately distributing those funds before the 2019-20 school year begins. “The State Board ruled to hold the money for the 87 schools on the wait list for the 2019-20 school year until the process for dispersing funds to either SROs and/ or counselors is further discussed,” said Stefan Swiat, spokesman for the state Education Department. “The schools that are already on the program — and about to go into the third year of the cycle of the program — are allowed to continue to those receive funds,” he added, explaining: “The State Board just wants more time to discuss the process of administering funds to schools who would like either an SRO and/or a school counselor or social worker in their schools.” The board doesn’t meet again until Aug. 26. School officials across the state had hoped that the $20 million appropriation would help them address the worst counselor-student ratio in the nation. Arizona’s student-to-counselor ratio is 905-to-1 — well above the national average of 455-to-1 and the recommended ratio of 250-to-1. “With the amount of school shootings and the importance of mental health in schools, we think it’s time that Arizona starts to lower that ratio,” Janine Menard, a member of the Arizona School Counselors Association’s board and a counselor with the Tolleson Elementary School

District, told KTAR Radio after the board vote. Grants are awarded every three years, and by law, the next round of applications are due by April 15, 2020. Schools that previously applied for a safety grant did so more than two years ago, at a time when the program exclusively funded school State schools chief Kathy Hoffman and Education Board member Luke Narducci discuss resource offi- the distribution of funds the Legislature made available for counselors or school resource officers. (Capitol Media Services) cers. But most Education Board members indicated an and mental well-being. Instead, the students said, counselors unwillingness to distribute the money until all schools can apply — something that were focused on college prep programs and other responsibilities handed them they can’t do before next April. Superintendent of Public Instruction by the administration. They also argued that counselors and Kathy Hoffman cast the sole vote against holding onto the money — and possibly social workers were more effective than making it unavailable before the 2020-21 SROs in preventing violence in schools because they were better equipped to school year. A week before the board meeting, Hoff- address the problems that can provoke man had issued a directive to schools a troubled student into attacking classmates. that state: Among the 114 schools that currently “Given the limited period between when the school safety legislation and budget receive grants that pay for SROs, Mesa passed and the start of the upcoming has 13, Tempe Union, seven; Chandler academic year, there simply is not enough and Tempe Elementary, three each; and time for (the Education Department) to Kyrene two. Mesa uses its money for SROs at all launch a new grant process for all schools following the criteria of the law. More- six of its high schools and at Fremont, over, if (the Education Department) were Rhodes, Taylor, Carson, Summit Academy, to release a brand-new application for all Poston and Kino junior high schools. Tempe Union has grants to have SROs at schools in 2019, schools would still need all seven of its high schools while Chanto reapply in Spring 2020.” Throughout late last year and early this dler is funded for SROs at Hamilton High year, students appeared before numerous and Bogle and Willis junior high schools. Kyrene uses its grant for SROs at Apreschool boards urging them to hire more nde and Pueblo middle schools. counselors and social workers. Although some parents have urged Some knew students who had taken their lives — or attempted to — and said Kyrene officials to put money into SROs they could have been helped if counselors at its other four middle schools, the board has opted not to use any district funds in were on their campuses. They expressed frustration that the its 2019-20 budget for armed officers. Feedback the district received from varcounselors that were at their schools were overwhelmed not only by their huge ious citizen and business advisory groups caseload but also by responsibilities that indicated little sentiment SROs over acahad nothing to do with student emotional demic and other programs.

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Downtown businesses fret over construction work BY COLLEEN SPARKS Tribune Contributor

owntown Chandler business owners say construction in and near the intersection of Arizona Avenue and Chicago Street is steering away customers and denting sales. Traffic has been limited to one lane in each direction on areas of Arizona Avenue since May 13 while improvements are made in preparation for the opening of the New Square development across from Chandler City Hall. New Square is a mixed-use development that will offer retail, office and restaurant spaces, as well as a Hilton Garden Inn. A traffic signal will also be needed to accommodate additional traffic expected as drivers head to a parking garage with about 930 parking spaces at the corner of Chicago and Oregon streets. Crews are beginning the second phase of Arizona Avenue obstructions as they close the west side of the street between Frye Road and Boston Street, with drivers able to use one lane in each direction on its east side. That work is expected to be finished in August. The construction work has left people with fewer parking spots near businesses and more congestion and delays, some business owners say. Brandon Fisher, owner of Crisp Greens at 250 S. Arizona Ave., said his three-yearold restaurant is feeling the crunch of the construction. “Many of my customers have told me that it’s hard to get in and out and it’s hard to access because it’s down to one lane,” Fisher said. “It’s stressful because trying to get through with one lane — it’s a wait,” he added. “Construction is right outside our store. They keep the entrance open and we’re very thankful. It is a hindrance.” He said the construction workers and everyone involved in the project have all made an effort to make businesses accessible but that the “general situation” remains difficult. People that know about Crisp Greens are likely to still go there, but those not familiar with it might not walk by and discover it as often with the construction going on, Fisher said. “While we do get a lot of walk-by traffic and people that would pop by, that part’s dwindled a little bit but we’ve got a lot of great customers that we are just so thankful for because they’re willing to put up with some of these difficulties to come

Construction on and near the intersection of Arizona Avenue and Chicago Street is impacting businesses in downtown Chandler including ImprovMANIA Comedy Club, pictured here behind the fence. (David Specht/ImprovMANIA Comedy Club)

see us and try our great food,” he said. Fisher said the New Square development and the new parking garage once they are in will benefit his business and other local companies. “In the long run it’s gonna help us,” he said. “In the long run we’re gonna have new customers, a larger customer base. There’s gonna be a hotel, a lot of things going on down here. It’s just getting through the temporary obstacle.” The Local, at 55 W. Chicago St., is also feeling the impact of construction. “Obviously with a limited (number) of lanes it’s definitely affected our business for sure,” owner Mike Smith said. “I do see the bigger picture and am very excited about New Square and the parking garage,” he added. “Being a small business, we don’t have multiple locations to rely on. We don’t have the support of leaning on another restaurant or store to support us.” Smith said The Local temporarily lost its regular parking lot due to construction so he leased a 20-space parking lot next to his restaurant. A dirt lot the public could use for free parking is gone as New Square is being constructed there. Smith said he believes The Local has seen at least a 10 percent decrease in its overall business since the construction project began. “What’s nice is we have support of our local customer base,” Smith said. “We really appreciated their support. It’s harder to create new customers.” John Wolfe, who co-owns Sibley’s West: The Chandler and Arizona Gift Shop with his wife, Michelle Wolfe, sympathizes with fellow downtown merchants. Sibley’s is at 72 S. San Marcos Place. “It’s definitely affecting businesses in downtown because the parking used to

be so close by but fortunately a lot of the businesses have been around for several years so they’ve attracted steady clientele who will find a way to get to the business,” John said. He added, “I also think that the opening of the parking garage next to Flix (Brewhouse) has been a big help, the Overstreet garage. People are recognizing it’s there and using it. The other nice thing has been the Wave shuttle service. That’s been a really nice addition Thursdays, Fridays and Saturday nights.” The Wave is a free shuttle service from four parking garages in downtown Chandler to destinations around the downtown area. John said the construction on Arizona Avenue at Chicago Street came up suddenly. “The Arizona Avenue at Chicago Street kind of sprung up on us quickly and I was a bit disappointed that it started in May,” he said. “I think if they had waited till June or July it would have been better.” John said he has put information on the Sibley’s Facebook page and in an e-newsletter he sends reminding people to keep visiting businesses downtown that are affected by the construction including The Local, ImprovMANIA Comedy Club, Crisp Greens and Pirate’s Fish & Chips. “The lane reduction has been kind of a distraction but it has not gotten to the stage of massive backups,” John said. “People who are aware of it are using Alma School (Road.) There’s not a long wait when you’re at Frye Road. We’re fortunate because we’re a destination.” David Specht, who co-owns ImprovMANIA Comedy Club with his wife, Colleen Specht, at 250 S. Arizona Ave., is keeping a sense of humor about the construction work.

He said people used to park right on the street in front of his business but now they have to find other places as construction work is going on right there. “The good news is a lot of what we do is online reservations,” David said. “It’s not been too bad. The downside are the walkins, the people who would walk to see us can’t get through. It just looks like our site is under construction. I’m sure people think we’re under construction or that we’re closed down for a little bit.” He created and shared a video on Facebook showing the construction going on, making light of the fence near where crews are working on the road near ImprovMANIA. David also posted photos showing the work on Facebook and videos on Instagram. He is encouraging people while the construction is going on to park at the free parking garage near Chandler City Hall, which is across Arizona Avenue from ImprovMANIA. Kim Moyers, cultural development director for the City of Chandler, said the city understands the concerns businesses have about construction affecting their traffic and the city’s trying to minimize the disruptions. “We’ve really tried to work with the downtown business community on the timing of our projects,” Moyers said. “The heat of the summer is when the businesses are at their slowest. We’ve tried to time these projects during their slow time. We know it impacts them but were trying to impact them as minimally as we can.” Downtown Chandler has four parking garages open, providing a total of more than 1,800 parking spaces in garages, not including on-street parking spots, she said. “We’ve been talking about this project for almost a year,” Moyers said. “As we started defining the timelines we met with the businesses. We understand that no matter what, it’s an inconvenience. We want all of the businesses to succeed down here. We need to continue to redevelop, which will bring in more people for them to continue to prosper. “We’ve put a tremendous amount of signage up letting people know they’re still open for business. We have pedestrian signs and vehicular signs to help with flow. We’ve worked really hard to not block any access. We’ve done a lot of social media; taking pictures; letting people know these businesses are still open for business,” she added. Information: chandleraz.gov/explore/ downtown-chandler

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confirmed cases of humans contacting West Nile virus from the bite of an infected mosquito, according to Jessica Rigler, assistant director for public health prevention at the state Department of Health Services. All of the cases were in Maricopa County. Eleven of those cases involved some kind of neurological complication, Rigler said. Chandler resident Julie GuiragozianKrajekian posted a warning on social media last week after her elderly neighbor was confirmed with the virus. The woman originally went to the emergency room because of vomiting and was discharged as having a stomach virus, according to Guiragozian-Krajekian.

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• Don’t allow any outside water to stand for more than four days. • Drill holes in the bottom of any unused containers so water can’t collect. • Remove or drain any standing water from birdbaths, discarded tires, flowerpots (check the dish underneath the flowerpot), wheelbarrows, barrels, tin cans that are left outdoors. • Immediately remove any water that collects on pool covers. • Make sure the pool’s pump is circulating water properly. • Fill in any low depression areas in lawns. • Remove areas such as dense shrubbery where mosquitoes breed and rest. • Make certain that door and window screens fit tightly and do not have holes. If there are no screens, keep doors and windows closed from evening to dawn. • Stay indoors from dusk to dawn when mosquitoes are most active, otherwise cover up and use insect repellent for extra protection. • Wear long-sleeved shirts, long pants and socks when outdoors during mosquito active times • Spray any clothing with repellents containing DEET, as mosquitoes easily bite through thin clothing such as cotton T-shirts. (Source: Maricopa County) For more information, go to FightTheBiteMaricopa. org or call 602-506-6616 for information and complaints. For free mosquito fish, call 602-506-0700 to schedule a pick-up time.

“She went home and symptoms worsened,” she said. “Second visit, once again discharged for a severe case of stomach virus.” The woman’s third trip to the hospital resulted in her being admitted and placed in ICU, according to Guiragozian-Krajekian. “Symptoms continue to worsen, high fever and in and out of consciousness and at times not recognizing family members,” she said. “Her husband states hospital informed him his wife is the ninth confirmed case in Chandler this week.” Guiragozian-Krajekian said the woman’s husband believed his wife was bitten while in her backyard. Last year, 27 human cases in the state tested positive for the virus — 24 in Maricopa County — resulted in six deaths, according to the department. St. Louis encephalitis, on the other hand, is rare in Arizona with no human case reported this year or last year. In 2015, Maricopa County saw an outbreak that sickened 22 people and resulted in two deaths. Dilone attributed the increase in positive samples mostly to a higher number of infected birds. “Obviously mosquitoes get the virus from birds and spread the virus to other birds and to humans,” he said. Rigler said pools testing positive for mosquitoes also are on the increase this year statewide. When adult mosquitoes are collected from a surveillance trap, they are divided by species, with one pool counted for each species. “We’ve had a significant increase of positive pools so far this year for West Nile,” she said. “We had 184 positive pools compared to 20 the same time last year. St. Louis encephalitis so far we’ve had 107 positive pools compared with four the same time last year.” She said most of the positive mosquito pools were in the eastern side of the county but could not explain the reason. She also could not explain the increase in mosquitoes testing positive for the two viruses. As of May 31, over 11,700 mosquito traps have been set in Arizona, mostly in Maricopa and Pinal counties, the state agency reported — about a third of the total 41,755 traps set up for all of 2018. Rigler said more surveillance traps will be added as the year progresses. Dilone said over 800 of those traps are deployed weekly in different locations in Maricopa County. Traps are set up in the afternoon and taken down the next morning. The traps that Gillette oversees are set in populated areas mostly near green

County vector control specialist Jason Gillette has been hanging a lot of mosquito traps around East Valley neighborhoods. (Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Photographer)

belts and on land next to horse properties. “We have thousands of areas identified as problem areas throughout the year that had issues with mosquito breeding,” Dilone said. “There are problem areas throughout the Valley. Obviously where there is water, there is a risk there. Lot of times it can be a property that has containers collecting water or a swimming pool not working properly or a pond.” So far this year, the county has received 1,016 complaints about green swimming pools — another source of mosquitoes. In 2018, it received 728, according to Dilone. Traps are brought to the county lab, where the captured mosquitoes are counted and sorted by species. “We separate the female mosquitoes and then we test each trap individually to see if they test positively for West Nile virus or St. Louis encephalitis,” Dilone said. Lab technicians also look out for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which are tested for Chikungunya, Dengue and Zika viruses. While Dilone attributed this year’s significant number of mosquitoes to wetter weather during the spring, things are starting to slow down. “We’ve not had the rain or accumulation of rain,” he said. “This situation of traps testing positive and having a large number of mosquitoes may change if we experience a dry summer. Weather is always a crucial one. Mosquitoes need water, need stagnant water for three to four days (to breed).” So far, the monsoon season, which generally brings rain and mosquitoes, is off to a late start. The season officially started June 15 but is delayed this year with the Phoenix area

seeing abnormally dry weather for the next few weeks due to El Niño persisting longer than expected, according to meteorologist Sean Benedict with the National Weather Service in Phoenix. Monsoon season ends officially on Sept. 30. “Just because it’s a dry start doesn’t mean a dry ending,” he said. “It could be like last year, when there was more rain toward the end of the season.” What moisture that’s come so far has been to the periphery of Phoenix and southeastern Arizona, such as along the White Mountains, he said. As for the upcoming winter, it’s trending toward a typical drier season, he said. But even in dry weather mosquitoes can still breed. Female mosquitoes can lay their eggs in a single bottle cap filled with water. And because mosquito eggs can remain dormant until activated by water, it’s important for people to dump out any standing water, Rigler said. Besides year-round monitoring and education, the county’s protocol for combating mosquito-borne diseases includes fogging, the airborne spraying of pesticides from the back of a truck from midnight to 5 a.m. Fogging is conducted in a 1-square-mile area of a trap provided it meets one of three conditions - 30-plus Culex mosquitoes present in the trap, 300-plus mosquitoes (primarily floodwater mosquitoes) in a trap or the trap tests positive for West Nile or encephalitis, according to Dilone. Asked if the department expected to increase fogging this year, Dilone said it depended on the weather. “Fogging is conducted based on traps meeting our fogging protocol or not,” he said. “We have been fogging quite actively this year, since April 21.” In Gilbert so far this year, areas surrounding traps meeting the county criteria have already been fogged once. The area that includes Zanjero Park and the area that includes Mercy Gilbert Medical Center have both been fogged three times already. Fogging also occurred three times in an area that encompasses Roadrunner Park in Chandler and a portion of the Layton Lakes neighborhood in Gilbert. “Usually the southeast is an area with lot of activity because we have lots of farms and lots of areas that are conducive for mosquitoes like the Riparian,” said Dilone, who lives in Gilbert. “I know there is still ‘ag land’ in Gilbert, more than in other areas.” The county also offers free mosquitoeating fish, called gambusias, that can be placed into personal ponds or stagnant swimming pools.

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their blue barrel after a three-month punishment, but they must pay a fee to have one delivered, he said. So far, fewer than 100 barrels have been seized, but Mesa is considering an additional fine to motivate residents to be more careful about what they toss into the blue barrel. Mesa uses a three-barrel system: black for regular trash, blue for recycling and green for yard waste. Bouchie conceded Mesa is not reaching its recycling target, with solid waste generally growing during a strong economy and different sorts of packaging being used. During fiscal year 2017-18, the city collected 120,000 tons of trash, 32,300 tons of recycling and 17,000 tons of yard waste. “Our focus is on the quality of the material, not the quantity of the material,’’ said Mariano Reyes, a department spokesman. “The best-case scenario is that we are able to improve the quality of our recycling stream and that new domestic markets will open up for recyclable material that will increase prices received for these items,” Reyes said. “We also want folks to remember that recycling is the last of the 3 R’s. We first want to reduce the amount of trash we generate (if we don’t create it, we don’t have to worry about what to do with it) and then we want to reuse what we personally no longer need,” he continued, adding: “Someone else may have a use for it. And then finally, we should recycle, but recycle right.” The Chinese contamination threshold of only .05 percent makes it more important than ever to throw only cardboard, alumi-

num cans, paper and plastic bottles into the blue barrels, city officials said. “We are trying to educate our residents more,’’ with Mesa’s cost of recycling expected to rise from $400,000 this year to more than $900,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, Bouchie said. “We are getting materials in the blue barrel that aren’t supposed to be there,’’ he said. “We have reached a point in recycling where we need to ask ourselves, how are doing and what can we do to change that.’’ In an attempt to counteract rising costs and dropping revenues, cities are exploring the formation of partnerships to make recycling more effective and less expensive. Bouchie said the city’s new approach to recycling is “back to basics,’’ trying to convince residents to err on the side of throwing something away in a black container. That way, they don’t ruin a recycling load by throwing something marginal into the blue barrel — a practice dubbed “wishful recycling.’’ “China’s intent was to purchase clean recyclables from the United States. Unfortunately, as curbside recycling programs aged, participants got lax in their recycling efforts and began what we call ‘wishful recycling,’” said Kelli Collins, Gilbert’s sustainability coordinator. “They tossed items into their recycling bin that weren’t acceptable, increasing contamination. China’s costs associated with cleaning these loads and disposing of the garbage increased, and they responded by decreasing the contamination level to .5 percent,” he added. East Valley recycling bales come nowhere close to this miniscule level of contamination. According to Collins, Gilbert bales contain an 18 percent contamination level on average.

Reyes said Mesa’s average is 14 percent, but it is still better than the national average of 25 percent, with one out of four items tossed into recycling bins inappropriate for reuse. Mesa, Gilbert and Chandler recycling officials all stress the importance of educating the public in reducing the contamination rate and keeping the program focused on its original mission of reducing avoidable waste. “We are also working hard to communicate that recycling is the last resort, and that the real key is reusing and reducing waste to keep it from entering into the waste stream in the first place,” Gilbert’s Collins said. Traci Conaway, Chandler’s recycling coordinator, said her city has not been financially affected by China’s curbs. “China made that requirement to the brokers that they are purchasing form. Chandler doesn’t sell directly to China,” said Conaway. “We sell to a material recovery facility that sorts for us. So, the requirement that China is making is on more of a broker level, it’s not standard that the City of Chandler meets.” But she said that doesn’t mean the city won’t eventually see the effects of China’s policy. “To date, we have not been impacted financially,” Conaway said. “But that doesn’t mean it won’t happen. It’s a challenge that we face not knowing how it will fluctuate. But as of now, the city of Chandler has not been financially affected.” Reyes said that Mesa follows a similar suit in their recycling process. Recycling items must be thrown into the blue barrel separately so that they can be sorted at the recycling plant and never stored in bags, Bouchie said.

In the world of recycling, public enemy number one is the ubiquitous plastic bag. Bouchie said the bags get stuck in recycling equipment, forcing Mesa’s contractors to shut the plant down and use a knife to cut it out of the equipment. Although the plastic bags can be recycled, they must be recycled separately to avoid clogging the machines, he said. “The best thing to do is to bring it back to where you got it from,’’ saving the plastic bags at home, putting them in a separate bag, and disposing of them in the recycling bin at the front of any supermarket or big box store. Bouchie encourages consumers to turn down the plastic bags whenever possible while shopping, or to bring their own, reusable bags to the grocery store. “Those plastic bags are the recycling enemy,’’ he said. “The odd thing is that they are recyclable, you just can’t put them in the blue barrel.’’ He said the losses in recycling stem from new contracts, which include a processing fee, along with a cut of revenue received from certain commodities. The processing fee is now out-stripping the amount Mesa gets back in return for commodities, with some commodities worth more than others based upon market conditions. Aluminum cans and cardboard are still valuable, but cardboard is often contaminated when consumers fail to remove bubble-wrap from shipping boxes. Glass items now have little or no value. “If you want to be more sustainable, drink canned beer,’’ Bouchie said.

those cities that were included in its survey. And some of the cities included in the study are far smaller than Chandler, Tempe and Gilbert. For example, the best-run city in WalletHub’s eyes is Nampa, Idaho, whose estimated population of 102,000 doesn’t even qualify it as the largest city in that state. Ditto for Provo, Utah, which holds the number 2 spot on the list and is Utah’s third-largest city, with a population of 107,000. Digging deeper into the survey, WalletHub ranked Mesa 55th in quality of city services. “We can learn how well city officials manage and spend public funds by com-

paring the quality of services residents receive against the city’s total budget,” WalletHub states. It said it used that approach to measure the “operating efficiency” of 150 of the largest U.S. cities “to reveal which among them are managed best.” “Running a city is a tall order,” the study says. “In addition to representing the residents, local leaders must balance the public’s diverse interests with the city’s limited resources. That often means not everyone’s needs can or will be met. Leaders must carefully consider which services are most essential, which agencies’ budgets to cut or boost and whether and how much to raise taxes, among other decisions.” Mesa’s rankings in the six categories

that WalletHub used to evaluate all 150 cities’ quality of their services are: financial stability (72), education (59), health (57), safety (35), economy (51) and “infrastructure and pollution” (136). Financial stability assessments were based on credit rating and per capita long-term debt while education quality was based on ratings by greatschools.org and graduation rates. Health was determined by infant mortality rates, life expectancy, hospital beds per capita and quality of the public health system as rated by Medicare. While safety assessments were based partly on crime statistics and motor vehicle deaths, they also incorporated

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Mesa is the 19th best-run city – kind of – in new study BY PAUL MARYNIAK Executive Editor

esa is the 19th best-run city in the nation and the best-run in Arizona, according to a WalletHub study. The personal finance website last week ranked Mesa as far-better run than Phoenix and Tucson, which it ranked 34th and 35th, respectively. But take the study with a grain or two of salt: They were the only Arizona cities that made the cut for the study. Moreover, when it comes to some of the individual categories WalletHub factored into its complex formula for determining the best-run governments, Mesa’s ranking fell to the middle of the pack among

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analyzed for its rankings came from 21 federal agencies, such as the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and private institutions. The study also identified the five best and five worst cities in a variety of categories, including quality of roads, percentage of the population living in poverty, unemployment, crime rate, infant mortality, graduation rates and per capita long-term local government debt. Mesa made none of the “top 5” lists in those categories. But it did score the dubious distinction of first place in one of the “worst” categories. Actually, Mesa tied with the California cities of Los Angeles, Santa Ana and Long Beach for having the dirtiest air while two other cities in that state, Riverside and Bakersfield, had only slightly better scores in that category. While a deeper dive into WalletHub’s numbers may take a bit of the shine off Mesa’s ranking as the 19th best-run city in the country, residents can take heart they don’t live in Detroit. That city not only was dead-last among the 150 cities included in the study, but also had some of the lowest scores in five of the six categories used to rank quality of services.

“share of sheltered homeless persons” and “perception of safety waking alone during daylight/night.” That last category was based on “perceptions of visitors of numbeo.com.” That website bills itself as “the world’s largest database of user-contributed data of cities and countries worldwide.” The number of contributors who weighed in at numbeo.com to answer questions about crime: exactly 13. WalletHub’s evaluation of cities’ health and infrastructure included the most factors among the six categories, ranging from water quality and greenhouse gas emissions per person to bike and walk scores as well as the quality of roads and average commute. The study’s “walk score,” WalletHub explained, “measures pedestrian friendliness by analyzing population density and road metrics such as block length and intersection density” while the bike score “is calculated by measuring bike infrastructure (lanes, trails, etc.), hills, destinations and road connectivity and the number of bike commuters.” It’s unclear how bike commuters were counted. WalletHub also said much of the data

Giles gets award for unique Municipal Court program TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF

esa Mayor John Giles came away last week from the 87th annual United States Conference of Mayors with a prestigious award. During a conference in which hundreds of mayors gathered to discuss immigration, trade, affordable housing, Census 2020 and jobs, Giles picked up the Outstanding Achievement 2019 Large City Livability Award for the city’s Community Court Program. The award, picked by former mayors from a pool of 100 contestants, recognizes “mayoral leadership in developing and implementing programs that improve the quality of life in America’s cities, focusing on the leadership, creativity and innovation demonstrated by the mayors,” according to a city release. The goal of Community Court is to interrupt that cycle of addiction, homelessness and arrest, giving the most desperate of defendants an opportuni-

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Mesa’s biggest office complex threatens Cubs parking BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

he Union, billed as the largest office complex in Mesa’s history and a source of good jobs, is moving closer to construction despite concerns about its impact on parking for Chicago Cubs games at nearby Sloan Park. The 1.3-million-square-foot office complex in northwest Mesa features four buildings, ranging in height from four to eight stories, and two large parking garages. The massive development would replace the soccer fields just north of Riverview Park, at Dobson Road and Rio Salado Parkway, which also double as critical parking lots during frequently sold out Cactus League games. Although the Cubs and the Mesa HoHoKams, a longtime civic organization that raises money for charity, carefully avoided criticizing The Union, they both expressed reservations about losing parking spaces during the project’s construction. Mesa economic development officials anticipate the first of four stages to be

Mesa Economic Development Bill Jabjiniak spelled out the details of the project to Mesa City Council last week and said he was confident that concerns about spring training parking at Sloan Park could be worked out. (YouTube)

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funding from Goldman Sachs. Documents attached to the council’s agenda show the city projects that it eventually will receive at least $11.3 million for the 28-acre site, although $5.1 million alone would be the city’s share of building the west parking garage. In the west garage, Mesa would retain control of the bottom floor, an estimated 430 spaces, which would be dedicated for use by Cactus League game attendees. In all, The Union would be required to provide 1,750 spaces for the use of fans after the office complex is completed. In addition, visitors would be allowed to use all floors in the garage after 7 p.m. on weekdays and all weekend while attending events or using nearby Riverview Park and the bicycle path. A series of progression charts in one exhibit shows a fluctuating number of spaces available for fans during the project’s construction, with field parking gradually disappearing and being replaced by garage slots. When Phase A starts, the Cubs would have 1,619 spaces of surface parking

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with 1,600 on the soccer fields. The number of spaces shrinks to 1,500 during other phases and eventually grows to 1,750 when the project is completed. Sloan Park has been a home run since it opened in 2014 as the Cactus League’s largest stadium. The Cubs, the league’s meal ticket, routinely draw sellout crowds of 15,000 or more per game, many of whome come from the Midwest and generate considerable revenue. Every spring, members of the Mesa Hohokams perform a rite of spring by handling the parking at Sloan Park. Justin Piper, the Cubs’ general manager of Sloan Park, made a rare appearance before the council last week, saying that while the Cubs support The Union project, Mesa must ensure that adequate parking is available during the huge complex’s construction. “To preserve the overwhelming success of Sloan Park, we must provide adequate and convenient parking solutions for all of our guests,’’ Piper said. “We want to ensure the fan experience does not suffer.’’ Piper said he is especially concerned about potential confusion caused by the Cubs selling parking, through the HoHoKams, and The Union selling parking in one of the new garages. The council report addresses that issue, saying the city would make every effort to have the same entity manage the parking at The Union and at Sloan Park. It says the city can charge for parking and revenues would be split 50/50 with the Cubs. Tim Baughman, president of the HoHoKams, said the main two entrances and exits to the soccer fields on Dobson Road would be lost immediately. He estimated about a third to a half of the parking on the soccer fields would no longer be available during Phase A of

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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

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The massive 1.3-million-square-foot Union office complex near the Sloan Park stadium and Riverview Park will be built in stages on 28 acres of land. (City of Mesa)

construction. “The traffic is already an issue. That would be exacerbated,’’ Baughman said. “Mesa is not known for a whole lot nationally. One thing we are known for is our commitment to spring training baseball.’’ He acknowledged the parking issue is only relevant for 16 days a year and the city needs to develop economically yearround. “The HoHoKams are very supportive of The Union and its potential for economic development in Mesa. This will be a great showcase,’’ Baughman said. “We have concerns about the unknown. We park a lot of cars.’’ Vice Mayor Mark Freeman, who was chairing the meeting because Mayor John Giles was out of town, said the city would

need to improve their lives. For many, 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

work things out for the Cubs. “We’ve had an open dialogue with the Cubs for decades,’’ Freeman said. “I know there’s a little more work on the development agreement, but I know in the end, it’s going to be positive for you.’’ Bill Jabjiniak, the city’s Economic Development director, said he anticipates that Phase A of The Union, in the northeast corner of the 28.2-acre site, will be under construction during the 2020 Cactus League season. The cost of 9.12 acres is $3.9 million. He said the rest of the site, closer to a Sheraton hotel and Sloan Park, will remain available for parking. The first phase features a four-story, 225,000-squarefoot office building and a parking garage. The last phase features the largest

desperation, misdemeanors such as trespassing or shoplifting that are committed by people with nothing to eat and nowhere to go. “Mesa’s Community Court is creating real change for our residents,” Mayor John Giles said. “It is an honor to be recognized by my peers at USCM.” Giles also received the Chairman’s Award from the Latino Leaders Network for “outstanding leadership, dedi-

building, up to eight stories tall with a matching parking garage. The city would retain ownership of the land for the west parking garage and lease it back to developers on a long-term lease, Jabjiniak said. A facilities-use agreement signed the Cubs and city, as part of a long-term lease on Sloan Park, requires the city to provide at least 2,500 parking spaces. A count during the 2018 Cactus League season found that the maximum number of cars parked was 3,876, according to the presentation. The city is replacing the soccer fields at a new complex being planned at Center Street and Thomas roads, part of the bond issue approved by Mesa voters last fall. The new recreational facility is scheduled to open in fall 2021.

cation to inclusion and friendship with the Latino community.: The Latino Leaders Network is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to “Bringing Leaders Together” to establish relationships, build unity and share personal stories since 2004. “Mesa is diverse, and I believe that our Latino community helps us be a vibrant, interesting and economically robust city,” Giles said.

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Mesa teacher wins annual excellence award BY JORDAN HOUSTON Tribune Staff Writer

Mesa Public Schools teacher is being celebrated for her dedication to her students and their academic

goals. Soumalee McNamara, a fourth-grade teacher at Salk Elementary School, recently received this year’s Excellence in Education Teacher of the Year Award from Phoenix radio station 99.9 KEZ and Taylor Morrison, a national builder and developer based in Scottsdale. McNamara was presented with a check for $999 at a luncheon hosted at the Hyatt Regency at Gainey Ranch for the nine teachers who had won the radio station’s monthly award. “It’s still surreal to me, I’m so humbled by it all,” said McNamara. “This was my personal five-year goal and I’ve reached it — it feels great.” Each month during the school year, a Valley K-12 teacher is selected from nomination entries to be recognized for “their outstanding contribution to education.” At the end of the school year, all of the teachers gather together for a banquet where one special teacher is awarded the

she has a burning passion for. “For me, seeing the growth over a long period of time and the impact you can have on even just one student is so rewarding,” she said. “Because in the moment, you don’t think you have an impact on a Soumalee McNmara, a teacher at Salk Elementary in Mesa, was the Excellence in kid, but as the Education Teacher of the Year for radio station 99.9 KEZ FM and Taylor Morrison. years go by and Retiring KEZ radio personality Marty Manning gave her the award. (Special to the Tribune) the fact that they still want that overall Excellence in Education Teacher of connection with you — that’s what makes the Year Award. it all worth it.” The luncheon also marked the last that McNamara got into teaching five years KEZ radio host Marty Manning presided ago, and never looked back. over. The teacher previously worked in the Manning, who has been handing out the restaurant and service industry, but said monthly and annual teacher awards for 14 she was inspired to get into teaching after years, is retiring after a 50-year career in she did volunteer work involving children. the radio industry. “I had opportunities to volunteer with McNamara said she couldn’t be more children and I fell in love with it,” she said. thrilled to be recognized for something “I spoke to some people, especially my dad

because he’s a retired teacher, and he said, ‘I think this could be your calling.’” McNamara studied early childhood education at Scottsdale Community College before transferring to Northern Arizona University for a bachelor’s in early education. She’s now pursuing a master’s degree in Educational Leadership at NAU and is teaching fourth grade at the Mesa Elementary School. McNamara said she prides herself in her approach to teaching and always strives to make her students feel included and valued. “I really thought about the social emotional needs of students,” she said. “I realize that school isn’t necessarily their whole life, but that they spend a majority of their time with us. I started treating my students as if they were my own family.” “I would bring them food, spend lunch with them or do fun activities to make them feel included,” she continued. “There are a lot of kids I work with who don’t have that connection in their home life, so I found it really important to build those relationships and maintain them.”

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Community activist named new city magistrate BY COLLEEN SPARKS Managing Editor

passionate Chandler community advocate with an extensive judicial background is excited to be working in his new position as presiding city magistrate for Chandler Municipal Court. David Fuller, who has lived in Chandler for nearly 18 years, took the reins in the court on June 3. Born on the south side of Chicago, Fuller received his law degree from DePaul University College of Law in that city and has spent 30 years in the legal profession. Fuller, 55, replaced Michael Traynor, who retired on June 21 after working as Chandler’s presiding city magistrate for the last 34 years. “I am thrilled,” Fuller said. “I think my background is ideal for it and I’m entirely invested in our community. I have nothing

but love for Chandler. I wanna keep us going in the right direction. “Judge Traynor has been a wonderful leader and I hope to continue his path of excellence. I’ve been involved in a lot of different things here. The community is just perfect for us. It’s been great to my wife and me and my kids.” He came to the Chandler court after having worked as the assistant director of the Office of Court Appointed Attorneys, of public defenders, for Phoenix since 2014. For most of the time he worked in Phoenix, Fuller also served as the liaison for Maricopa County Regional Homeless Court. Once a month the court is conducted in downtown Phoenix and other locations for homeless people to resolve outstanding minor, victimless, misdemeanor offenses and warrants. The defendants are diverted to the court if they are committed to ending their

homelessness, though outcomes can include punishment as well as treatment and services in supervised, rigorous rehabilitation programs. “I used to refer to that as my favorite court docket of the month,” Fuller said. “There’s a lot of success stories. A lot of people who have risen out of their situation and they did it.” Often the homeless people who went through the court system owed money and would perform community work that would “greatly exceed what they owed,” he added. Fuller, who earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in economics from Northern Illinois University, began his career as a county public defender. “My best friend moved out here while I was in college,” he said. “I just fell in love

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David Fuller, who has lived in Chandler for nearly 18 years, is Chandler’s new presiding city magistrate. (City

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But teaching isn’t always smooth sailing, she admitted. The most challenging part, McNamara said, is dealing with large class size — last year, she had a class size of 31. “With the class sizes, I don’t ever feel like I’m doing everything I can because the size is so large,” she said. “But you do what you can with what you have.”

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with Arizona.” Fuller worked for five years for the county, but was “lured back” to Illinois as a trial attorney at a personal injury firm. After some time, he was asked to create, open and operate a satellite office and met his wife, who is a judge in Tempe. Fuller was offered a partnership with the law firm and agreed, but was torn because he knew if he became a partner at the firm there he would not get back to Arizona until he retired some day. He signed an agreement for the partnership but then decided not to go through with it. “I said, ‘I’m really sorry,’” Fuller said. “I tore up the agreement. I told him I felt I wouldn’t get back to Arizona until I retired.” He moved back to Arizona and went back to work for the county before be-

In April, McNamara received April’s Teacher of the Month Award, but said she didn’t think she had a shot at winning the overall teacher of the year award. McNamara is now gearing up to put her prize money back into her classroom, ensuring that all of her students have the necessary supplies and support that they need. She’s also very thankful that an award of this nature, especially for educators, ex-

coming assistant town prosecutor for the Town of Gilbert. He worked in that position for about two years. Fuller saw benefits to working as a defense attorney and as a prosecutor. “I like them both because there’s a balance to the law that you have to have,” he said. “Having done both sides and personal injury and other types of law, it gives me a really broad-based perspective for this position.” Fuller opened up his own law firm, which he ran for about 15 years. His wife, Tara Fuller, was a Maricopa County Attorney’s Office prosecutor and after they had their second child, she joined her husband’s firm. David then became assistant director of the Office of Court Appointed Attorneys for Phoenix, keeping that position for nearly six years.

ists, she said. “I think it’s so important because we’re in a service of giving without really taking much time for ourselves,” she said. “It feels good to have an adult recognize you for doing something.” “I’m talking to 10-year-olds all day and they can tell me I’m great,” she continued. “But when you hear it from another adult, you feel somewhat validated and it gives you a lot more fuel to keep going.”

He served as a coach and then a manager and board member for Chandler American Little League for many years while his son, Michael, 17, was playing baseball. When Michael got too old to play in Little League, David became an umpire. David also volunteers with ChandlerTullamore Sister Cities, an organization that aims to cultivate and keep a strong, reciprocal relationship between Chandler and Tullamore, Ireland to encourage cultural understanding, community involvement, educational exchanges and economic development. David is also a big support of ICAN, a nonprofit organization that aims to empower youths to be productive, self-confident and responsible members of the community. The new magistrate also volunteers with Special Olympics Arizona.

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airstyling is in Laurie DeBusk’s blood, but she didn’t understand the magnitude of that until she was in her twenties. Unbeknownst to DeBusk, her paternal grandparents, Don and Christine Flanagan, were hairdressers for Universal Studios in the golden age of movies. Three years ago, she carried on the tradition by opening Mozzie Fox on McKellips and Recker roads, next to Mesa Donuts. “I had driven by this location and I just kept thinking about it,” she said. “I knew that was my next step. When the spot became available, I did research to see if the area could support a salon. Eventually, I felt it wasn’t too saturated.” The Dobson High School graduate also found it ideal because of nearby Mountain Bridge, Alta Mesa and Las Sendas, and the area’s growth with the new Sprouts and the under-construction Fat Cats. DeBusk specializes in curly hair but

Laurie DeBusk decided on the spur of the moment to be attend beauty school. She has parlayed that into the successful salon, Mozzie Fox. (Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

does not utilize the DevaCurl Method. “I don’t believe in cutting each curl individually,” she said. “Each curl sits differently every day.

“All of our haircuts are finished dry once they are blown out. That is when we do all of our balancing and finish work to perfect the hair. It’s more of a French method of

cutting, focusing on the shape and flow of the hair. “It results in a very personalized haircut that is easier to work with for the client. If we are not straightening a curly client then we will sometimes touch up the curls after it is diffuser dried. Because curls are so different on each person, the way we handle them depends on the curl type and how the client wears their hair.” She carries products by Kin, which makes DeBusk’s favorite, Kinessence Oil Cream. Kin also makes Kinactif and uses its color as well. “Kin is a company from Spain that has been around for 80 years and is still family owned,” she said. “We also carry Loma products, which are aloe vera based.” Mozzie Fox is peppered with photos of her paternal grandparents, Don and Christine Flanagan. They lived above one of their three salons, Christine and Don’s Coiffures. The Culver City location was near Universal Studios, which attracted a

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EV shop has sold flowers over four generations

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atson’s Flowers is still flourishing in the East Valley after four generations. The business started in 1927 by Irene Watson, the great-grandmother of current President/owner Nathan Johnson. “She was known in Mesa as the ‘Rose Lady,’” said Johnson. “She went door-todoor in the City of Mesa back in the late 1920’s, trying to get everybody to buy rose bushes. She wanted Mesa to be known as the City of Roses. “So, she sold thousands of rose bushes back in Mesa and she used the proceeds from that to make the down payment on the property we’re currently on.” That property is on Apache Boulevard just west of the Loop 101 in Tempe. When Irene bought the property, it was located on Main Street in Mesa but the boundaries changed. Watson’s Flowers more recently has opened locations in Mesa at Main Street

Nathan Johnson and his family are fourth-generation florists. His grandmother started the business, Watson’s Flowers, in 1927 and over time the family has opened shops in Tempe, Mesa and Gilbert. (Special to the Tribune)

and Higley Road and in Gilbert at Val Vista Drive and Guadalupe Road. Johnson’s great-grandparents bought

17 acres along with a one-room adobe hut and built around the original location. Johnson said he still has rose bushes

his grandmother had planted in the back

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slew of movie industry insiders. “I’ve always been fascinated with old movies,” she said. “I know more about old films than most people. I didn’t know much of the information about my grandparents until I went to beauty school. “I think I heard my brother say, ‘You know Grandma Christine owns a hair salon and it was in Hollywood somewhere or by the studios?’” She only met her grandmother a handful of times when she was younger. Her aunt gave her family heirlooms, such as photos, newspaper clippings and ads for the salon. “My grandfather was very outgoing and very friendly,” DeBusk said. “My grandma

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of the Tempe shop and that they still produce beautiful roses twice a year. Johnson’s great-grandfather was a chicken farmer but his business didn’t do so well because too many chickens died during the hot summer. But his greatgrandmother was able to grow beautiful flowers in the fall and spring. They lived down the street from a downtown Mesa hospital. Johnson said people would bring tin cans to his greatgrandmother and for a quarter, she would

was the rock. She was the one who made everything work. One day, my grandma was at the salon and my grandfather came in with the cast of ‘The Wizard of Oz;’ the actors who were playing the Munchkins. There were 20 of them and they’re still singing.” DeBusk has been obsessed with styling since she was young. “I was the kid who had Barbies and they were bald because I was cutting their hair,” she said with a laugh. “They had bobs and pixies. I loved it. I also wanted to be a journalist. I was dead set on being a reporter.” Instead, she worked as a nanny in California, but she eventually returned to Arizona, where she waited tables and trained

fill them with flowers. She then realized she could make money selling them. In 2000, Johnson’s parents sold all but one of the 17 acres at the Tempe location. On that one acre, flowers are grown March through May. “I grew up in the fields,” said Johnson. “From the time I could lift a broom, I was sweeping the floors but I mostly worked outdoors planting, harvesting, doing water turns and all of that. “When I became older in my teenage years, I finally came into the store and started doing a lot of deliveries. I then

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servers at Red Robin. On her 30th birthday, she was having lunch with her mother and told her she was going to beauty school. “So, I moved in with my parents and went to beauty school,” DeBusk said. “I was serious about it. I wasn’t going to mess around because I was older and loved it. I never, ever looked back from it.” Now she knows it’s genetic. She enjoys getting her hair done and wants her clients to have the same experience at Mozzie Fox, named after Fox Mulder on “The X Files” and Mozzie, a character she saw on television. “Clients walk in and they say, ‘I’m here,’” she said. “And then they walk out and they’re standing taller, they’re happier

went to college, got married. I graduated from ASU with a degree in finance. My family hired me back while I was still in college and made me a manager in 2004. Then I decided to buy the company.” After 92 years in business, Johnson credits the continued success of the family business on the quality of the flowers. Johnson said customers send him emails and tell him in person that their flowers are still fresh 2 1/2 to 3 weeks later. When not growing flowers at the Tempe shop, Watson gets the rest mainly from California and South America.

and they feel good. They feel pampered and they feel beautiful. It sounds cliché, but that’s what I love about it: that power to make somebody feel good about themselves, to give them a color or cut they didn’t know they were capable of having.” That applies to cancer survivors/patients like DeBusk, who recovered from non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. The staff at Mozzie Fox will shave cancer patients’ hair at no charge. “I went through chemo and lost my hair,” said DeBusk, whose son was 3 when she was diagnosed. “I said to myself, ‘Hey, this is not going to be the end.’ It made me much more compassionate.’” Information: 480-251-7837, mozziefox.com “I have great flowers,” said Johnson. “That’s my best advertising — one of my bouquets in someone’s home or at their work. The other reason why we’re still in business because our customers come back. They like us. They like our flowers. I have customers, fairly regularly, who have ordered with me for decades and some customers who are generational. “I’ll get a grandmother in here with her daughter and the granddaughter is getting married and they’ve all gotten their wedding flowers from us.” Information: watsonsflowers.com

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Since you didn’t ask, here are my opinions BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist

he argument came out of nowhere. One minute we were driving, debating where to get lunch. The next minute, my buddy — who apparently feels strongly about restaurants — was ready to punch me in the larynx. The sin that occasioned his outrage? My opinion about Chick-fil-A. And I quote: “Ah, Chick-fil-A sucks.” His defense of America’s third-largest fast food restaurant was pure poetry, a passionate ode to the joy of 100 percent breast meat served with dill pickle chips on a toasted and buttered bun. To hear him tell it, Adam and Eve wouldn’t have lasted six seconds in the Garden of Eden had it featured waffle potato fries — cooked in canola oil! — as opposed to an apple. And Chick-fil-A’s lemonade? Made from real lemon juice, it’s the nectar of the gods.

Me, I’m just not a huge fan of chicken. I enjoy debates, however, and this faceoff started me cataloguing my various unpopular opinions. We all have them: Personal truths that fly in the face of humanity’s consensus. Typically, we keep these opinions to ourselves because to reveal them is to risk a fight or being shunned by our peers. Doubt me? When the holidays roll around this year, mention how you think Star Wars is overrated. Cousin Luke — the one with the fraternal twins named Anakin and Leia — will attack you with a carving knife. My unpopular opinions? Here’s a sampler: The rules of the road should not grant bicyclists the same rights as automobile drivers. A human-propelled vehicle going 14 mph piloted by a skinny old guy in skintight pink Lycra should not compete for space with 4,000-pound vehicles going three times that speed. Bicycles should be restricted to bike paths and off-road trails — or sidewalks,

where bicyclists’ rights should be secondary to the rights of pedestrians. Giving up is a valid option. Everywhere in our culture, you see testaments to “hanging in there,” striving long past the point of reason. I’ve seen friends spend years in toxic relationships and dead-end jobs that bring them the bare minimum of satisfaction and joy. Why? Because they’ve been programmed to see quitting as weakness, a sign of failure, a shameful lack of intestinal fortitude. I’m not endorsing bailing at the first sign of trouble or challenge. But giving up, far from demonstrating weakness, often represents an act of strength, wisdom and self-affirmation. Some moments in life call not for “putting in the work,” but for merciful endings and new beginnings. “Seinfeld,” endlessly touted as a “show about nothing,” was nothing special. Friends and colleagues still begin sentences with “That reminds me of the Junior Mint episode!” Get over it. Seinfeld’s final episode

aired in 1998. Jerry’s antics have gotten less funny by the hour ever since. And finally: Journalism should require a license. Barbers need 1,500 hours of training, to pass a state exam and earn a license from the Arizona Board of Barbers. Attorneys do three years of graduate education. They pass the bar exam and get licensed by the State Bar. Doctors face an eternity of school, a residency and continuing education, plus career-long governance by the Arizona Medical Board. Reporters, meanwhile, face no requirements at all, including knowledge of the subjects they cover or accountability to a code of ethics. When these self-proclaimed guardians of the public interest screw up, you know what your recourse is? A big fat nada. At the very least, if an Arizona Journalism Commission existed, you could file a professional complaint about this column. Which would bother me a lot more than the time I gave in and suffered through a spicy deluxe sandwich at Chick-fil-A.

County supervisors step up election oversight BY STEVE CHUCRI Tribune Guest Writer

uilding on a year’s worth of momentum, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors just took an important step to restore our statutory responsibilities related to elections. These responsibilities were given to the Recorder’s Office as part of a charter that dates back to 1955 and hasn’t been amended since 1985. Clearly, our region is much different than it was back then. Rather than have one, partisanelected official responsible for overseeing all election activities, Maricopa County should align its operations with what is written in state law. Recorders in Arizona are given responsibility for several activities leading up to Election Day including voter registration and early voting. State law

gives boards of supervisors responsibility for much of what happens on election day, including the location and number of polling places, the equipment to count votes and the training and assigning of poll workers. The elections director is hired by and reports directly to the Recorder. This effectively limits the board’s role in the process to one of budget oversight. We sent our internal auditors into the Elections Department to look at processes. We hired outside consultants to show us the gaps that were preventing the county from delivering bestin-class elections. And we fast-tracked discussions that had been long overdue about amending the charter in a way that would allow the board more oversight while also respecting the clear line drawn by state law, which gives certain responsibilities to the elected Recorder.

Last week, my colleagues and I adopted the following: Maricopa County will acquire new vote tabulation machines that protect the integrity and security of each vote while also allowing us to count ballots more quickly. The county will complete a staffing analysis to guide the board’s funding and recruitment of personnel required to support a successful election. The board has hired a “point person” inside the Elections Department. This director will have oversight of the assigned statutory responsibilities of the board and report directly to the board. We designed it that way on purpose so that we are aware of every decision affecting our side of the elections house. The board will execute election day statutory activities. These activities include poll worker training and chain of

custody of tabulation equipment and ballots. This is about moving away from the past — from old technology and a decades-old charter to running elections in a way befitting the Maricopa County of tomorrow. We’re the fourth largest county in America. People expect us to get it right. These changes are designed to ensure we have the proper checks and balances to serve all voters in 2020 and beyond. We are focused on successful elections in 2020. With this newly amended agreement that allows for collaboration with the Recorder’s Office, we are better equipped for a successful election in 2020. -Steve Chucri is a Maricopa County supervisor.

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Community college offers personal training degree BY ZACH ALVIRA Tribune Sports Editor

tudents looking to jump into a career in personal training will now have a chance to obtain a highly sought after certification at ChandlerGilbert Community College. CGCC announced on June 24 it would begin a partnership with the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), a Chandler-based education company that offers a program for aspiring personal trainers to become certified. NASM’s program is accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies, and is among the top certifications requested by health clubs and training facilities around the world. “We’re seeing that our employers in the industry, especially in Arizona, want the NASM certification,” said Kim McGee, an exercise science professor at CGCC. “One of our core instructors of the program helped initiate the partnership and it took off from there.” Conversations between CGCC and NASM for a partnership began in February. After recently coming to an agreement, it was announced that classes with the new curriculum will begin in August. “This partnership allows students to obtain credentials early on in their career and begin making an impact on people’s lives,” said Kyle Flannery, a fitness education consultant at NASM who facilitated the partnership. “This area is thirsty for fitness professionals. It also allows students to do a variety of things once certified, including open their own gyms. “It just creates a lot of opportunity.” NASM was founded by Bob Goldberg in 1987 in California. The company was purchased a short time later by fitness specialist Neal Spruce and former Phoenix Suns physical therapist, Micheal Clark. Together, the two grew NASM into the leading authority in fitness education before it was acquired by Blackstone, a large equity company. A major aspect of NASM’s success is due to Clark’s Optimum Performance Training model, which is commonly used by fitness professionals. Along

The classrooms used in the exercise science program at CGCC is equipped with a variety of strength and cardio equipment for students to use proper form and coaching under the NASM and CGCC curriculum. (Zach Alvira/GSN Staff)

Kim McGee, an exercise science professor and program contact at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, was one of the leaders in the effort to partner with the National Academy of Sports Medicine to provide students with an opportunity to become certified personal trainers. (Zach Alvira/GSN Staff)

with personal training certification, the NASM curriculum also teaches sports performance, injury prevention and a new nutrition program. “People aren’t always aware that they can call up NASM and go through the program online,” said Matt Schuster, the academic B2B sales manager at NASM. “So with a partnership like the one with Chandler-Gilbert, they can be introduced to the program through their existing curriculum. “Hopefully, some of those students will realize that they can really make a career out of it,” said Schuster. CGCC is one of nearly 300 schools across the world that has partnered with NASM. Like the rest, the NASM curriculum will be integrated into the existing curriculum CGCC offers to its exercise science students. “We provide a very hands-on learning experience that could begin with preliminary learning in the class,” McGee said. “Our dean often calls us one of the best kept secrets, but we don’t want to be that. We want students to know what we can offer them.” Classes will take place Monday through Thursday in CGCC Coyote Center on the south side of its campus near Pecos and Gilbert roads. They will take place in a 4-hour block from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Each classroom is equipped with a

variety of fitness equipment for students to learn proper technique for strength training and how Students in the CGCC and NASM curriculum also have access to lead group classes. CGCC also to the fitness center inside the Coyote Center on campus. received a grant to purchase high- There, students can train and instruct each other indoors and end equipment including a Bod Pod, out on the turn field. (Zach Alvira/GSN Staff) which is a large egg-shaped machine involves a curriculum that will equip used to measure body density. students with the necessary training to The classes will also have access to the immediately begin working in a health fitness center located on the first floor club upon completion, which involves of the Coyote Center. Traditional bench becoming CPR certified. presses and a variety of cardio and All credits obtained in the program go training equipment are at the disposal of toward an associate’s degree. They are the students in the class. also transferrable to 4-year institutions Additionally, a turf field equipped with should students want to continue with tires and sleds is located right outside their education and become physical the fitness center. therapists. “We can do a lot of group training The program is open to all students, outside on the turf,” McGee said. “There regardless of fitness knowledge. will be times where we ask students to “If you are really interested in a field create a fitness regimen and lead the where you can make a big impact on class.” other’s health and fitness and lifestyle, McGee believes class sizes will be this is a great field and there’s so many limited to 24 students, allowing all five avenues,” McGee said. “So if you start of the program’s instructors to teach in a off here, you can get college credit to go more intimate setting. towards a degree and you still have so Students will be able to finish the many options as you continue. program within a year. The first “It’s a good starting place for some and semester will consist of 18-credit hours, it’s also a good career for others.” while the second is 12. The first semester Students interested in enrolling in will consist of the necessary knowledge becoming a NASM certified personal to obtain a license and become a certified trainer at CGCC are encouraged to personal trainer. contact Kim McGee at kimberly.mcgee@ However, the second semester cgc.edu.

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Cory McCloskey to star in ‘The Pajama Game’ BY BRIDGETTE REDMAN Get Out Contributor

ory McCloskey has come a long way. From “The Music Man’s” Man No. 2 in a small town of 3,000 in Pennsylvania to a popular Fox 10 News weatherman in the nation’s fifth largest city, McCloskey has entertained people since he was a child in the 1960s. Now, the Fox 10 weatherman is taking the stage as the leading man, Sid Sorokin, in the classic musical “The Pajama Game” with the Scottsdale Musical Theater Company from July 11 to July 21 at the Tempe Center for the Arts. McCloskey’s second stage musical he saw was “The Pajama Game;” the first was “Little Mary Sunshine.” “The Pajama Game” made a big impression on him. He was a young child and the high school theater director brought elementary students to attend dress rehearsals. “I remember so clearly this particular show,” McCloskey said. “‘Little Mary Sun-

TV weatherman Cory McCloskey is a man of many talents and he will be showing off his singing and acting ability when he stars this month in “The Pajama Game” at Tempe Center for the Arts. (Special to the Tribune)

shine,’ ‘The Pajama Game,’ ‘Damn Yankees’—we were allowed to say ‘damn’—it was a big deal. I could count the years of my elementary school with the shows.”

Staged first in 1953, “The Pajama Game” features a battle between labor and management. Sorokin is a new manager at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory where the

workers, led by Babe Williams, are about to go on strike for a 7.5-cent-per-hour raise. While the two protagonists are on opposite sides of the union battle, the two fall in love. “I really do enjoy that stretch of musicals,” said McCloskey, referring to the Golden Age musicals of the 1950s and 1960s. “I like a couple things about them. I like the predictability of the shows. You know they are going to tie a beautiful ribbon on everything at the end. I’m a real history fan, so for me, to do a show like ‘The Pajama Game,’ I love imagining Midwestern America.” Having grown up in a Pennsylvania small town fueled by two shoe factories and a garment factory, he recognizes the characters as the parents of his friends, the people who slugged it out day after day sewing soles onto shoes.

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Melissa Etheridge brings ‘Medicine Show’ to Chandler

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elissa Etheridge knows the nation needs a break from its unstable political and social climate. She’s hoping to do her part to ease that pain with “The Medicine Show Tour,” which comes to the Chandler Center for the Arts on Saturday, July 13. “If you’ve heard any of my ‘The Medicine Show’ album, you know I’m still rocking,” Etheridge said. “This time, we’re going to do the hits, as we always do. They will be surrounded by choice songs from ‘The Medicine Show’ and some deep album tracks. It’s mostly a show about feeling better. We’ve been through a

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lot in the last couple years. “Wherever you land in this big spectrum of the discussion we’re all having, it’s stressful and we need to take care of ourselves. Music can be medicine and my whole purpose is to make people feel better.” Her tour’s namesake, the album “The Medicine Show,” deals with universal themes of renewal, reconciliation, reckoning, compassion and healing. Through the songs, she processed the deep fears and hurting she saw in the nation on collective and personal levels: “Shaking” about national anxiety; the unifyRock singer-guitarist Melissa Etheridge will be lighting up the ing “Human Chain” about the hope audience at Chandler Center for the Arts this Saturday. (Special for healing; and the anthemic “Love to the Tribune) Will Live.” More highlights include the album-clos“When I was making ‘The Medicine er, “Last Hello” drawing on the incredible Show,’ I was concentrating on writing strengths and courage shown by the survi- songs that people can share in their lives,” vors of the Parkland, Florida, school shoot- she said. ings, and the infectious “Wild and Lonely,” “That’s what I’ve always done. That’s and “Faded by Design,” exploring themes been my life’s bread and butter. I’m so of her past with a new perspective. grateful for that. I wanted to look around

and I wanted to see where we all are at in 2017, 2018 and I wanted to comment on it,” she said, adding: “I didn’t want to bring us down. I wanted to bring us up and acknowledge some of the issues and things we were struggling with now like the opioid crisis and gun violence. I wanted to make it personal, not preach.” With more than 25 million albums sold worldwide, five platinum and three multiplatinum records, and 15 Grammy Award nominations and two Grammy wins, Etheridge worked with producer John Shanks on her 15th studio recording. Ethridge is looking forward to playing Chandler, especially in front of the former naysayers who now support her. She’s primarily referring to men who didn’t think she could “rock.” “I’ve seen many more men at my shows,” she said. “They’re really starting to go, ‘This girl can actually play.’ They’re starting to dig it. “I think I just stuck in there long enough to prove it to them. I’m not this Lilith Fair easy listening sort of gal. It’s about rock ‘n’ roll. Women can rock.”

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The role is a challenge because Sorokin is brusquer than most of the roles McCloskey plays and not as instantly likeable. “He’s a little bit more trouble than perhaps other characters I’ve played,” McCloskey said. “He doesn’t have a smooth time of it. He has a job to do and he cannot fail at being this factory supervisor. He has kind of bluffed his way into the position, so he has to make it work or he’ll be in big trouble. The challenge for me will be trying to make him evolve into someone people can like.”

Climbing the ladder

It was in the Pennsylvania town where McCloskey first saw “The Pajama Game” that he also got his first stage role as a freshman in high school — a bit part in “The Music Man.” “I’m sure everyone remembers that moving moment in Act 2 where (Man No. 2) vaults to his feet and said, ‘Yeah, that’s what I heard!’” McCloskey said. As a sophomore, he auditioned again, thinking maybe he’d get a role in the “Hello, Dolly!” chorus. The musical director, who was also the band and choir director, Bob Stoner, had other ideas. He cast McCloskey in one of the leading roles, that of

the chief clerk, Cornelius Hacki. “I was scared to do it,” McCloskey said. “I would never have presumed to audition for it. It was just a thrill of an experience to really be able to knock around the stage in an energetic role with lots of running around and some fun solos.” He would eventually go on to New York and earn a living as an actor and model in his 20s. He earned his Equity card and continued to perform until he decided to settle down and earn a regular paycheck. That came in the form of television and weather forecasting. Performances were occasional treats. As a morning show weather reporter, he typically wakes up between 2:30 and 3 in the morning and goes to bed between 7 and 9 p.m. — which makes it difficult to attend rehearsals or perform in shows. For the last six years, McCloskey has performed as “Scrooge” in the Hale Centre Theatre’s “A Christmas Carol.” When he does “The Pajama Game,” he’ll take enforced naps every day to make sure he gets enough sleep to stay healthy and perform all his jobs at top energy. “It requires a schedule that a mom would hold a toddler to,” McCloskey said. “There’s a scheduled nap that cannot be missed. Anyone can fight through a day or two of very little sleep, but if it stretches

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out, you’re not at your best, so I’ve learned how to do it. This will be fun and it’s a rather compressed rehearsal schedule.” McCloskey has attended shows at Scottsdale Musical Theater, though this will be his first time performing with them. He saw its most recent show, “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” and said it was fantastic. “The Pajama Game” is being directed by David Hock, with choreography by Hock and Hillary Conrad, and musical direction by Joni Van Rossum. McCloskey is looking forward to performing with live musicians, rather than recorded ones. “I love looking down into that pit and seeing a director who is looking right up to you, eyebrows kind of raised, waiting for you to make your decision,” McCloskey said. “Maybe there’s a longer pause if you’ve dropped a line and are trying to get back on track. That thrills me. I love to sing with an orchestra. You can’t beat it.” The cast is filled with people with whom he is excited to work. He had high praise for the actress playing Babe, Elizabeth Blair, saying she is a lot like the character she plays—no-nonsense and a triplethreat who can act, sing and dance. “I would like to be her friend,” McCloskey said. “She could pop me into next week if required. I’ve watched her in a

couple shows and I’m excited about playing opposite her.” McCloskey is thrilled that Hock asked him to be a part of the show and hopes it won’t be his last there. He also hopes Fox viewers will get a kick out of seeing him perform in a musical. “It will be a fun night for those who know me already,” McCloskey said. “I think they’ll enjoy it. I’m likely to break out in song on our show, we don’t have any rules. But they might not know this about me. They can see what else I do and if its fun and if I’m any good at it. It will be worthy of the ticket for sure.”

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CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA

CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

REHABILITATION OF A DUPLEX

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant for the following:

PROJECT NO. 691(3) ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS PUBLICATION JULY 7, 2019 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received until Thursday, July 18, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. All sealed bids will be received and must be date and time stamped prior to that date and time, at Mesa City Plaza Building, Housing and Community Development Division, 20 East Main Street, 2ND Floor, Suite 250, Mesa, Arizona; 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 demolition, construction and/or installation of the following work: Demolition of block fences, chain link fences, building elements, sidewalks, stone planter boxes, metal canopies, concrete slabs, landscape materials, installation of electrical services and underground conduit and wiring. Contractors desiring to submit proposals must attend all mandatory City of Mesa Housing and Community Development training classes, have a City of Mesa Tax License, possess at least a General Residential Contractor License (B-), be in good standing with the Arizona Registrar of Contractors, not be on the HUD Excluded Party List (EPL), registered with System for Award Management (S.A.M.), and have a minimum amount of $1 million per occurrence/$2 million aggregate Commercial General Liability insurance. All bidding contractors are subject to, and shall comply with Federal, State, County and City of Mesa procurement laws, policies and regulations including but not limited to; Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968; Woman and Minority Owned Business recruitments; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; Equal Employment Opportunities (EEOC) regulations not discriminating against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, age or national origin; Americans with Disability Act (ADA) of 1990; Drug Free Workplace regulations; Davis Bacon and Labor Standards regulations; Federal and local bond requirements; Lead Based Paint Hazard Control regulations; Maricopa County Air Quality Department environmental regulations regarding Dust Control, Asbestos and NESHAP; Energy Policy Act (EPA) of 2005; The Federal Immigration and Nationality Act (FINA) and Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, and Arizona Revised Statutes (ARS) 23-214 related to the verification of employment eligibility of employees or anyone working on the project. Woman and Minority owned businesses, and Certified Section 3 Businesses are strongly encouraged to participate. For more information or to request an “Invitation to Bid”, call Raymond Thimesch at 480-644-4521 Or by e-mail: ray.thimesch@mesaaz.gov A mandatory walk-thru of the site has been scheduled. Please refer to the “Invitation to Bid” for additional information. No contractors or sub-contractors are permitted on the premises at any time prior to the walk-thru. Work shall be completed within thirty (30) consecutive calendar days, beginning with the day following the starting date specified in the Notice to Proceed. If at any time the contractor is delayed in performing the work under this agreement by circumstances beyond his/her control, the contract may be extended by the same amount of time as was caused by the delay. The contractor shall request any extension in writing. Bids must be accompanied by a 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 contract within five (5) days after formal award of the contract, and 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, and a Performance Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, on all qualifying projects. 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.

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NORTH CENTER STREET SPORTS COMPLEX LOOP 202 AND CENTER STREET PROJECT NO. CP0915 The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant to provide design services for the North Center Street Sports Complex Project. 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 required tasks will be reviewed with the selected Design Consultant and defined to meet the needs of the project as part of the contract scoping. This project consists of a six-field multi-sport complex with 240’ x 360’ fields, LED sports lighting, a 360-stall parking lot, and a restroom/storage building. A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 9:00am at the Mesa City Plaza, 20 E. Main Street, Conference Room 170. 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. This RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/architectural-engineering-design-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 six (6) hard copies and one (1) electronic copy (CD or USB drive) of the Statement of Qualifications by 2:00pm on July 24, 2019. 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 and activated in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-selfservice). Questions. Questions pertaining to the Consultant selection process or contract issues should be directed to Maggie Smith of the Engineering Department at maggie.smith@mesaaz.gov.

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LEGAL NOTICES Deadline for Sunday's Edition is the Wednesday prior at 5pm. Please call Elaine at 480-898-7926 to inquire or email your notice to: legals@evtrib.com and request a quote.

QUALITY WORK, AFFORDABLE PRICING DISCOUNT RATES FOR: SPECIAL EVENTS • FLEETS • COMPANY CAR WASH DAYS

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Computer Sales/ Service

Cleaning Services

Kao Computer Service

RED MOUNTAIN MAIDS

REPAIRS + UPGRADES + NETWORKING @ YOUR HOME OR OFFICE

Home/Ofc/Comm'l Low Prices. Serving the East Valley for over 10 years! Prompt, courteous service.

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$17/hr using your supplies or $19/hr using ours. Call 480-354-7928 480-206-9998

Garage/Doors GARAGE DOOR SERVICE East Valley/ Ahwatukee

Residential & Office Hourly/Weekly/bi Weekly/Monthly Professional Experienced Supplies provided 910-818-6012

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Not a licensed contractor

Carpet Cleaning

ARIZONA ALL STAR CLEANING H Move In / Move Out Maids H Truck Mounted - Fast Drying - Deep Clean H Carpet and Tile Cleaning H Rug Cleaning H Upholstery Cleaning H Pet Odor and Stains Trusted for 25 Years H Family Owned & Operated

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RESIDENTIAL & SMALL BUSINESS CLEANING SPECIALISTS SINCE 2007 Weekly, biweekly, tri-weekly, or monthly; same talented crew each visit Flexible, customized services to meet individual needs of each client GREEN eco-friendly products used to clean and sanitize Move-in/move-out and seasonal deep cleans Small, family-owned company with GUARANTEED high quality services Always dependable, excellent references, bonded, and insured

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Drywall

Handyman

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GARAGE DOORS Unbeatable Customer Service & Lowest Prices Guaranteed!

Discount for Seniors &Veterans

Cutting Edge LLC • ROC 21671

Landscape Maintenance

S.N.A.P.P. REMODELING. LLC

Irrigation Repair Services Inc. Licensed • Bonded • Insured Technician

Specializing in Controllers, Valves, Sprinklers, Landscape Lighting, P.V.C. & Poly Drip Systems

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Garage/Doors

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Irrigation

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Medical Services/Equipment

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Mobility Scooter Center 3929 E. Main St., #33, Mesa, AZ 85205

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Landscape Maintenance

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drain repairs Treatment

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Jose Dominguez Painting & Drywall SEE OUR AD IN DRYWALL! Quick Response to your Call! 15 Years Exp 480-266-4589 Not a licensed contractor

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Public Notices

STATE OF CONNECTICUT

A True Copy ATTEST /s/ Fausto Carusone State Marshal Fairfuld County

RETURN DATE: JULY 23, 2019

SUPERIOR COURT

CITY OF MILFORD V. THE WIDOWER, HEIRS, DEVISEES, CREDITORS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF . HELEN MAYKUT a/kla HELEN KRAUSE, THE WIDOWER, HEIRS, DEVISEES, CREDITORS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF VIRGINIA MILLER, ROBERT D. MILLER, THE WIDOWER, HEIRS, DEVISEES, CREDITORS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF LINDA S. WRIGHT and STATE OF CONNECTICUT, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE SERVICES

JUDiCIAL DISTRICT OF ANSONIA-MILFORD AT MILFORD APRIL 17, 2019

NOTICE TO: The Widower, Heirs, Devisees, Creditors and Representatives of Helen Maykut AIK/A Helen Krause, last known address 14 Mohawk Drive, Trumbull, CT 06611. The Widower, Heirs, Devisees, Creditors and Representatives of Virginia Miller, last known address Middlebrook Farms, 2750 Reservoir Avenue, Trumbull, CT 06611. The Widower, Heirs, Devisees, Creditors and Representatives of Linda S. Wright, last known address 8020 East Inverness Avenue, Mesa, AZ. 85209 ORDER OF NOTICE The Plaintiff has named you as Defendants in the complaint which it is bringing to the above named court seeking foreclosure of its municipal blight lien and possession of he premises located at 62 Herbert Street, in the City of Milford, County of New Haven and State of Connecticut. This complaint is returnable the Superior Court, Judicial District of Ansonia/Milford at Milford on July 23, 2019 and will be pending therein after that date. The subscribing authority finds that the residence of the following Defendants are unknown and all reasonable efforts have been made to ascertain the same have failed: The Widower, Heirs, Devisees, Creditors and Representatives of Helen Maykut A/KIA Helen Krause, last known address 14 Mohawk Drive, Trumbull, CT 06611. The Widower, Heirs, Devisees, Creditors and Representatives of Virginia Miller, last known address Middlebrook Farms, 2750 Reservoir Avenue, Trumbull, CT 06611. The Widower, Heirs, Devisees, Creditors and Representatives of Linda S. Wright, last known address 8020 East Inverness Avenue, Mesa, AZ 85209 Now therefore, it is hereby ordered that notice of the institution of this action be given to each such defendant by some proper officer (or person) by causing a true and attested copy of this order to be published in the Connecticut Post, a newspaper circulated in Trumbull, Connecticut and Fairfield County and the East Valley Tribune, a newspaper circulated in Mesa, Arizona once a week for two (2) successive weeks, before July 11, 2019 and that such return of such service be made to the Court. /s/ John Urban 5/31/19 Assistant Clerk, Superior Court (John Urban) Judicial District of Ansonia/Milford at Milford STATE OF CONNECTICUT SS: BRIDGEPORT COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD The within and foregoing is a true and attested copy of the original Order of Notice in my hands for service by publication. ATTEST: /s/ Fausto Carusone Fausto Carusone State Marshal, Fairfield County Published: East Valley Tribune, Jun 30, Jul 7, 2019 / 21430

Public Notices

CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA

STATE OF CALIFORNIA-DEPT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS--WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD SPECIAL NOTICE OF LAWSUIT (Pursuant to Labor Code 3716 and Code of Civil Procedure 412.20 and 412.30) WCAB NO.: ADJ11134601 TO: DEFENDANT, ILLEGALLY UNINSURED EMPLOYER: DEAN MEYER Aviso: Usted esta siendo demandado. La corte puede expedir una decision en contra suya sin darle la opportunidad de defenderse a menos que usted acute pronto. Lea la siguiente information. DOUG MELANSON, Applicant vs. DEAN MEYER, et al. Defendant(s) NOTICES: 1) A lawsuit, the Application for Adjudication of Claim, has been filed with the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board against you the named defendant by the above-named applicant(s). you may seek the advice of an attorney in any matter connected with this lawsuit and such attorney should be consulted promptly so that your response may be filed and entered in a timely fashion. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney reference service or a legal aid office. You may also request assistance/ information from an Information and Assistance Officer of the Division of Workers' Compensation. (See telephone directory.) 2) An Answer to the Application must be filed and served within six days of the service of the Application pursuant to Appeals Board rules; therefore, your written response must be filed with the Appeals Board promptly; a letter or phone call will not protect your interests. 3) You will be served with a Notice(s) of Hearing and must appear at all hearings or conferences. After such hearing, even absent your appearance, a decision may be made and an award of compensation benefits may issue against you. The award could result in the garnishment of your wages, taking of your money or property, or other relief. If the Appeals Board makes an award against you, your house or other dwelling or other property may be taken to satisfy that award in a non-judicial sale, with no exemptions from execution. A lien may also be imposed upon your property without further hearing and before the issuance of an award. 4) You must notify the Appeals Board of the proper address for the service of official notices and papers and notify the Appeals Board of any changes in that address. TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS! Issued by: WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD Name and Address of Appeals Board: WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD 160 PROMENADE CIR. 3d Floor; Sacramento, CA 95834 Name and Address of Applicant's Attorney/Form completed by: Gold Country Workers' Comp Center PC Kim La Valley PO BOX 1070; Nevada City, CA 95959 TEL: (530) 362 7188 Notice to the person served: You are served as an individual defendant. Published: East Valley Tribune, July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2019 / 21865

NOTICE TO READERS:

NOTICE OF PRE-CONSTRUCTION PUBLIC MEETING MESA DRIVE IMPROVEMENTS PHASE 2 Project No. C01400 Haydon Building Corporation has been awarded the contract to construct improvements on Mesa Drive from 8th Avenue to Main Street and on Broadway Road from Wilbur to Lesueur. Improvements include pavement reconstruction, raised center medians, bikes lanes, adding drainage structures and facilities, new water and gas mains, landscaping and street lighting. Other improvements include undergrounding overhead electric in some locations and replacement of curb, gutter, sidewalk, driveways and handicap ramps in various locations. Construction is anticipated to begin late July 2019 and will last 19 months. You are invited to attend a Pre-Construction Public Meeting where City staff and Haydon Building Corp. will be available to answer your questions. NO FORMAL PRESENTATION WILL BE GIVEN. Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019 Time: 6:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Eagles Community CenterRoom 107 828 East Broadway Road Mesa, AZ 85204 If you have any questions or concerns regarding this project, please contact Michele Arrollado, Lucy Lopez with the City of Mesa Engineering Public Relations Department at (480) 644-3800. Your contact for Haydon Building Corp is Robby Shinn at (602) 695-9953

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Most service advertisers have an ROC# or "Not a licensed contractor" in their ad, this is in accordance to the AZ state law. Arizona Registrar of Contractors (ROC): The advertising requirements of the statute does not prevent anyone from placing an ad in the yellow pages, on business cards, or on flyers. What it does require under A.R.S. §32-1121A14(c) www.azleg.gov/ars/ 32/01165.htm is that the advertising party, if not properly licensed as a contractor, disclose that fact on any form of advertising to the public by including the words "not a licensed contractor" in the advertisement. Again, this requirement is intended to make sure that the consumer is made aware of the unlicensed status of the individual or company. Contractors who advertise and do not disclose their unlicensed status are not eligible for the handyman's exception. Reference: http://www.azroc.g ov/invest/licensed_ by_law.html As a consumer, being aware of the law is for your protection. You can check a businesses ROC s t a t u s a t :

http://www.azroc .gov/

For every offer that is published in the classiﬁeds, there is a reader out there someplace that is looking for just that offer. –Richard Clark

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