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tarting this week, Mesa voters can either endorse the aggressive pro-growth, prodowntown redevelopment policies of Mesa Mayor John Giles or choose an anti-Giles ticket recommended by his constitutionalist opponent.

Early voting by mail starts July 8 in a city election that has exposed a deep divide on City Council that has been apparent since a split decision in 2018 to approve Giles’ hallmark project, Arizona State University@mesacitycenter.

The ASU project has been billed as a stimulus for reawakening long slumbering down-

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Mesa Public Schools recent wrapped up an initiative that aimed to feed kids' bodies and minds. Besides distributing food bags, district officials also gave out hundreds of books to needy families in a collaborative effort. See story on page 16. (Pablo Robles/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Pandemic a health and economic crisis for Mesa arts

BY SRIANTHI PERERA Tribune Contributor

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ith the pandemic showing no signs of retreating in Arizona, the arts have taken a backseat in Mesa.

That’s not to say that the city’s arts groups are being complacent; they are working behind the scenes to resume operations as soon as it’s safe.

“We are very committed to bringing programming back as soon as we can do it safely and as soon as we have all our ducks in a row to make sure we can enact the new protocol,” said Cindy Ornstein, executive director of Mesa Arts Center and the director of Mesa Arts and Culture Department.

“We are very hopeful that we will at least have a very good array of programs available

to the community sometime this fall.”

Closed since March, the arts center is working toward a plan to reopen in October. However, because of the situation’s changeability, the time of reopening isn’t de�inite.

Last week, Broadway theaters in New York City announced that the Great White Way will remain dark for the rest of the year. Nationwide, the economic loss resulting from the pandemic has been put at more than $5 billion.

Ornstein said that the arts center closed initially because of the health crisis – which, in turn, created �inancial pressures.

“Being closed, from a �inancial perspective, is detrimental, not helpful, because we cannot produce revenue,” she said. “Now, because we have this health crisis, there are extra factors beyond the health crisis that are created by the health crisis that affect the �inances.”

Mesa Art Center laid off 12 full-time and 27 part-time employees. Across the department, 14 full-time and 50 part-time staffers were eliminated. The positions are to be reinstalled when normalcy resumes.

Following the social-distancing models of other institutions around the country, museums and classes within the arts center may resume without sweeping changes.

Programming in the theaters, however, poses greater challenges – and questions.

Could shows be moved to larger theaters so they can have an audience that works �inancially? Alternatively, could some shows function in a smaller theater? Or, how about moving them to an outdoor space? How do the �inances work for every adapted circumstance?

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“I call it a big, complex puzzle,” Ornstein said. “We are neck-deep in that puzzle right now.”

At the i.d.e.a. Museum, another of Mesa’s cultural institutions, staffers are working to recalibrate a possible fall reopening.

Summer is usually the busiest time of year for the arts museum, which focuses primarily on young children. Families treat it as a sanctuary from the high temperatures outside.

New sanitation protocols, adherence to social distancing with timed-ticketing, devising a one-way path through the various exhibit rooms and utilizing the outdoor space called the atrium are among the precautions being considered.

“We’re so hands-on and that’s what makes it a challenge,” said Sunnee D. O’Rork, executive director. “We are grateful that people will wear masks. That’ll help, most de�initely.”

The art museum temporarily let go of 14 of its frontline staffers and is sustained by a core group.

While a grant has come through, most of its revenue streams – admissions, membership and donations – are at a near standstill.

The combined annual budget of the museum is just under $10 million and, as of May, it is facing a �inancial loss of $260,000.

The museum is also in the middle of conducting a capital campaign to renovate and bring its buildings and offerings up to snuff. “Artville,” the popular toddler’s section, is slated for an expansion because it can only accommodate 75 people at a time.

With the pandemic, however, less than the maximum number may use it simultaneously.

Meanwhile, to tide over the public during this dif�icult time, both Mesa Arts Center and i.d.e.a. Museum have made available a huge array of online offerings.

The same broad issues caused by the pandemic are hampering the city’s private arts out�its. Mesa Encore Theatre, which canceled two mainstage shows and other events, is minimizing projected fall shows.

The nonpro�it may also move to another site with a lower rent. So far, it has lost reabout $30,000. Outdoor venues are also being considered for future shows.

“Arts will suffer when the world reopens as discretionary funds will be minimal,” said Suze St. John, managing director.

The theater’s online offerings via the video conferencing tool, Zoom, such as

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In the East Valley, it presents at the Hale Centre Theatre in Gilbert, Chandler Center for the Arts and Mesa Arts Center, as well as many senior housing communities.

Showtunes had to cancel its shows since mid-March and is awaiting the outcomes Normally in the summer, the i.d.e.a. Museum offers a respite from scorching temperatures with activities that engage kids but this year, children have to settle for virtual programs. of the various venues. “Ven(i.d.e.a. Museum) ues are trying livestream play readings, have increased to be creative in ways to proceed even if the virus is still with us,” said JR McAlexand are enjoying increasing audiences.

Southwest Shakespeare also cancelled ander, executive director. “Many are just at its spring and summer offerings and fur- a ‘wait and see’ mentality. It is truly a dayto-day decision and probably will be until loughed a few of its staff members.

The group is offering plays via Zoom, a vaccination is found.”

A glimmer of hope is that tribute artists including the StoryTime Classics LIVE! and concerts are a perfect transition back series, at noon from Monday to Friday, because the artists don’t move around the including “A Star Wars Shakespeare” and stage a lot and it is easier and safer for “The Wizard of OZ.” the performers than a theatre production On Saturdays, the Virtual Classics Readwith large casts and movement between ing Series offers Shakespearean actors the performers. who join from across the country to pres“I will adapt and survive whatever we ent plays such as “Lady Balthasar.” have to do,” McAlexander said.

With revenue stalled, the Shakespear“The singers, musicians and technical ean out�it has come up with some novel people are the true losers in this pandemic fundraising methods, such as the Sonnetsince live performances and entertainment Gram, where a professional actor will are going to be the last thing to come back send a personalized message, sonnet, and during this pandemic,” McAlexander said. a song anywhere in the world to mark a At the Mesa Arts Center, while reopenspecial occasion; Sponsor-An-Actor offers training and a part to a budding actor; and ing shows are dependent on health safety, the opportunity to join a network of Pa- a cost bene�it analysis is also important.

Backstage, front-of-house, bathrooms, trons who receive behind-the-scenes proconcessions and other areas have to be congramming, interviews and entertainment. �igured differently.

Social distancing inside In the works is a fall series of plays at theaters will mean lesser revenues. The Mesa Arts Center with reduced audience cost of opening must be weighed against numbers, with help from sponsors. the bene�it to the public, Ornstein said.

“Breaking even is okay - as long as we O’Rork said, ultimately, a successful begin to provide a source of income for opening will depend on the public. artists and the industries that support live “Even when we are open, we don’t know performances,” said Mary Way, executive how many will be comfortable coming director. “Keeping the scale small and the back,” she said. “What’s the trigger? Is it space large, we may be able to blaze a trail going to be the onset of vaccination, once that is both safe and uplifting.” there’s herd immunity; there are a lot of Mesa-based Showtunes Productions theories on what it will take to allow peobrings live professional productions, such ple to go back to normal.

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THE MESA TRIBUNE | JULY 5, 2020

Retiring Mesa chief magistrate leaves strong legacy

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

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esa Presiding City Magistrate Matt Tafoya and Mesa Municipal Court Chief Administrator Paul Thomas spent more than a decade carrying out vision of court reform long before it became trendy.

They removed obstacles to justice for the disadvantaged, based on a desire to help people help themselves by addressing the root causes of why they were landing in jail cells over and over again.

Mental health issues. Substance abuse issues. Homelessness. All of these life-altering problems were addressed by specialty courts set up by Tafoya and Thomas over a 15-year period after a voter-authorized bond issue replaced an over-crowded, outmoded courthouse with a new one designed to help Tafoya and Thomas carry out their vision.

Tafoya, 73, retired on June 30, ending a 17-year era that included the new courthouse and a long list of changes in how municipal courts are typically run.

The court deals mainly with misdemeanors, the kind of crimes typically committed by the homeless or people with addiction issues. Tafoya’s and Thomas’ efforts aimed to incarcerate defendants only when necessary.

Instead, the Mesa Municipal Court would offer a hand up, not act as a hammer to pound defendants into pointless jail sentences as punishment for minor crimes, only to have the defendants reoffend hundreds of times because their behavioral issues were not corrected.

Tafoya and Thomas rolled out their reforms one piece at a time, often as a pilot project funded with a federal or a state grant.

“It takes a little courage to do these things. You put yourself at risk. But we did not think we did anything we could not justify in many respects,’’ Thomas said.

“What I am proud of is that we never stopped having projects to improve the system,’’ Tafoya said.

Tayofa easily could have retired a decade ago, using the new courthouse and its dedication by now-retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor as his crowning achievement.

But the unassuming Tafoya was far from done, although he now reluctantly accepts

Mesa Municipal Court Chief Administrator Paul Thomas said he is contemplating retirement. (Tribune file photo)

that he has reached the right time in his life to leave.

“There was too much to do and we were moving. We were making the system better. A lot of dreams came true,’’ Tafoya said. “We didn’t ask for permission, we just did it.’’

“It was like a gift from God. We just took off, man, we got a lot done.’’

Tafoya said he often told people that his worst day on the job would be when he retires, but the recent death of Judge Richard Garcia, a close friend who had worked with him for years at the courthouse, had a sobering impact.

“There’s a time when you have to let the new energy come into the court,’’ Tayofa said.

Thomas, 70, is considering retirement sometime in the near future.

Tafoya and Thomas reorganized the court, creating two arraignment divisions where the goal was to resolve misdemeanor cases as quickly as possible.

“We wanted to settle cases at arraignment rather than have them accumulate in the trial division,’’ Tafoya said. “We have a prosecutor, a defense attorney and a judge. Whatever they want to do, we do.’’

During 2019, 3,286 out of 4,833 cases �iled, or 67 percent, were resolved at arraignment with plea bargains, with many people not wanting to come back a second time and others not showing up, generating an arrest warrant.

The remaining cases were sent to the specialty courts that were the focus of Tafoya and Thomas’s’ reforms: 130 to Com-

munity Court, 70 to Veterans Court and 90 to the Rule 11, or competency court.

“Here’s what needs to change, this is what needs to be done to make the system better, let’s get it done.’’ Thomas said.

Working as a team for most of Tayofa’s run as presiding magistrate, Tayofa and Thomas pursued a series of groundbreaking approaches.

A Veteran’s Court gave former military personnel a second chance to straighten out their lives, connecting them with substance abuse programs and housing programs aimed at eliminating homelessness.

A Rule 11 court gave defendants access to mental health examinations to determine if they were competent to stand trial, eliminating needless delays and jail time.

The two men also introduced electronic monitoring, releasing defendants charged with lesser crimes with an electronic bracelet monitoring their movements rather than sending them to jail and racking up hundreds of dollars in jail costs.

They developed a community court where defendants, many of them homeless, who had been arrested hundreds of times for nuisance crimes received counseling and other services to become selfsuf�icient.

“When the homeless sit in the community court, they pay attention,’’ Thomas said.

“The issue of guilt or innocence is not an issue in community court. You are there to provide services.’’

Tayofa said he realized that many of the underlying problems for defendants in community court focused on mental health and substance abuse and that patience was required.

He knew it was not possible to expect every defendant to make the changes necessary in their lives immediately even though representatives of social service agencies were in the court willing to help them.

“Our philosophy was that there are no failures. Maybe the timing is not right for that person. It may not be that person’s time,’’ Tafoya said.

Thomas said a lack of affordable housing reduced the program’s effectiveness in getting people off the streets. Homeless defendants completed the process in court, including counseling, but still had no place to live.

“It’s been a disappointment to some extent,’’ he said, “but part of the court’s mis-

Mesa Presiding City Magistrate Matt Tafoya retired last week after a 17-year era bringing numerous changes. (Tribune file photo)

sion is to identify the gaps in services that the community needs to supply.’’

Mesa Mayor John Giles praised Tafoya’s accomplishments during his long career, which was preceded by decades of service in Phoenix Municipal Court.

“It’s an amazing career, an outstanding career, for the city of Mesa,’’ Giles said.

City Council is following Tafoya’s advice and will �ill his position with an internal candidate already familiar with the court.

“We’ve got a very strong bench from which to choose,’’ Giles said.

Tafoya also inspired praise from state Chief Justice Robert Brutinel and the state’s top court administrators.

Marcus Reinkensmeyer, director of the court services division of the state Administrative Of�ice of the Courts, singled out the community court program as an important part of Tafoya’s legacy.

“Through Judge Tafoya’s highly collaborative team approach, the community court makes community services and rehabilitation available to individuals in dire need. This is just one example of Judge Tafoya’s many lasting contributions to our justice system, during his many years of dedicated service on the bench,” Reinkensmeyer said.

Dave Byers, director of the Arizona Administrative Of�ice of the Courts, said, “Judge Tafoya was one of Arizona’s judicial pioneers in bail and mental health reform.

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Mesa eyes bonanza from future auto malls

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planned auto mall in southeast Mesa represents a potential sales tax bonanza for a revenue-starved city without a property tax, recouping millions lost from the exodus of dealerships a decade or more ago.

One by one, major dealerships for such brands as Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Chevrolet left their locations along Broadway Road and Main Street for auto malls in Tempe, Chandler and Gilbert at the behest of manufacturers – who wanted locations along freeways to maximize marketing.

But now southeast Mesa has the new Gateway Freeway, or Arizona 24, beginning construction this fall.

The development boom it is spawning in one of Mesa’s last frontiers includes the new Destination Gateway auto mall, planned near Williams Field and Signal Butte roads.

“The whole region was coming to Mesa to buy cars,’’ before many dealerships relocated to malls with access to the Loop 202 freeway in Chandler and Gilbert, Mesa Mayor John Giles noted.

“As we lost these dealerships, we created a revenue shortfall in the city of Mesa’’ that still exists today with Mesa ranking “dead last’’ in per capita sales tax revenue, Giles said.

“I think it’s important that we recapture that revenue,’’ he said.

A study determined this dusty desert outpost east of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport is the only location suitable for a new auto mall in Mesa, while a heat map showed that the city’s largest sales tax generators are the auto dealerships that ring the city already near freeways.

“This is absolutely the result of the city looking for ways to bring car dealerships to Mesa,’’ Giles said. “We did look at the potential for car dealerships on this stretch of new freeways.’’

Not surprisingly, the Mesa City Council embraced plans for the auto mall’s development, using a sales tax rebate to build roads that will be deeded to the city, while reaping many times the incentive in sales tax revenues.

In essence, the dealerships would be carving out a new territory for future growth because a state law bars same make of new car dealerships from being within 10 miles of each other, according to a Mesa City Council report.

A chart attached to a power point presentation outlines Mesa’s �inancial windfall.

If there is one dealership built by the end of 2026, the city would give back $3.9 million in sales tax rebates by 2034 in return for $9.3 million in sales tax revenues.

If there are at least two dealerships

built, as anticipated, the cost of sales tax incentives would increase to $6 million while the anticipated revenues would soar to $18.9 million.

The strategic location allows for all but a Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram dealership, according to the presentation.

City Manager Chris Brady said the incentives are required because the current roads in the area are substandard, with the developer essentially starting from scratch.

Sean Lake, the zoning attorney handling the proposal, said the Berge Auto Group is planning to buy the entire 90-acre site. He said the Horne Auto Group has purchased land nearby.

“They are very interested. They are very hopeful of getting as many dealerships as possible,’’ Lake said, alluding to the Berge project. “We love this location and we love the opportunity to work with Mesa.’’

He said Horne has purchased land at the southwest corner of Signal Butte and Arizona 24 and their project would be separate from Berge.

“They like to cluster together to create synergy,’’ Lake said.

Berge has a lineup of eight dealerships in Mesa, Phoenix and Tucson.

Berge’s brands include heavyweights such as Ford, Toyota, Lexus, Mazda, Lincoln and Volkswagen.

Brady said many car dealers have ex-

pressed interest in the new auto mall and it’s conceivable the city could end up with more than two new dealerships.

A development agreement outlining the tax incentive refers to at least three dealerships. The incentive deal and zoning changes are scheduled to come before the council for approval on July 8.

Giles said he does not consider the tax incentives to be a true giveaway because the new roads eventually will be deeded back to the city as the “raw land’’ turns into an auto mall.

He said the incentives amount to 50 percent of sales taxes that would have gone to the General Fund and that the developers don’t get the deal unless they generate millions in sales tax revenue for the city.

“If they are making money, we are making money,’’ Giles said.

The agreement calls for Mesa to �inish the construction of Signal Butte Road to the new Arizona 24 by 2022, which was part of Mesa’s plans anyway, with a $100 million transportation bond issue scheduled to go before voters in November.

Because regional projects are scheduled �irst, Mesa will receive another $62 million in reimbursements from Proposition 400 through the Maricopa County Association of Governments to include more projects, said R.J. Zeder, Mesa’s transportation manager. 

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town Mesa and creating an innovation district that will spawn high paying, hightechnology jobs.

Councilman Jeremy Whittaker and mayoral candidate Verl Farnsworth have continued to attack the project even as construction progresses, while Giles, Vice Mayor Mark Freeman and council members Jen Duff, Dave Luna and Francisco Heredia have continued to defend it as a vital part of Mesa’s recovery from the pandemic-fueled recession.

The rift also is showing up in the election, with Farnsworth distributing a �lier endorsing an anti-Giles ticket that includes himself, Whittaker and Danny Ray, who is challenging Freeman in District 1 in north Mesa.

Heredia essentially was re-elected without a vote being cast because Christopher Bown, another opponent of Giles, withdrew from the race, conceding he erred in the collection of his signatures after they were challenged in court.

Giles, Luna, Duff, Freeman and Heredia have retaliated against Whittaker by endorsing his opponent Julie Spilsbury in District Two, east central Mesa.

Spilsbury, a political novice, was recruited by Giles to run against Whittaker. She said she did not know Giles previously.

“I’m de�initely not a puppet. I am opinionated, but I do it with respect,’’ Spilsbury said. “I think I was asked to run because I am easy to work with.’’

A long list of community leaders in Mesa

has endorsed Giles, along with the Mesa Chamber of Commerce and the United Mesa Fire�ighters Association.

Former council member Dennis Kavanaugh also endorsed Giles and disavowed any connection with Farnsworth despite being pictured and quoted in Farnsworth’s election �lier.

The �lier used quotes from a March 2019 East Valley Tribune story about the controversial auction of city land near Red Mountain Ranch.

Farnsworth’s campaign �lier also quotes two former presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with Irish statesman Edmund Burke, George Washington, Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy.

Kavanaugh said Farnsworth never called him for permission to use his photo or quote. He said he disagreed with Giles on the auction but greatly respects him as a man and a leader.

“I want to make sure people who know me, know I am not supporting Verl Farnsworth. I would not support Verl Farnsworth in a million years,’’ Kavanaugh said.

Farnsworth is a retired contractor from New Mexico and a constitutionalist who lost to Luna in 2018 in District 5, northeast Mesa.

He also ran for President of the United States in 2012 as part of Americans Elect, a novel but ill-fated effort to nominate a presidential candidate through a non-partisan online poll.

Farnsworth said he is proud he got thou-

sands of votes but could not remember an exact number. He said in his �lier that he would be guided by the Constitution and

by God, not by special interests, if he wins election.

If he had been mayor, Farnsworth said, he also would have never issued a proclamation requiring Mesa residents to wear face coverings, as Giles did as COVID-19 cases soared in Arizona.

“We’ve always been risk-takers. That’s how we found our freedom,’’ Farnsworth said. “For me, I think it’s optional. I think we’re smart enough.’’

Farnsworth said he never would have voted for the ASU building and disagrees with giving developers incentives by selling city land at a price lower than the appraised value.

“I think our message is a very timely one,’’ Farnsworth said. “I’m feeling like we have a great shot at getting the people’s con�idence and votes.’’

Giles said being mayor of his hometown is a dream job for him.

He has amassed a $272,000 war chest in a year – which includes many contributions from developers – but he said part of his job is to sell Mesa and that he is proud of support from the business community.

Pro-growth policies are necessary in Mesa because of its lack of a property tax and heavy reliance on the sales tax and utility revenues, he said.

“The City of Mesa is a shining star on the national stage in job growth and affordability,’’ Giles said. “I’m proud of what the city council has accomplished. The

economic development accomplishments of Mesa are very impressive. I hope to be back on track very quickly,’’ despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Giles said he takes his job seriously and will spend whatever is necessary on his campaign, donating the rest to nonpro�its. He said he has no aspirations for higher of�ice.

“I’m proud of the job I’ve done,’’ Giles said. “I think I can make a strong case for re-election.’’

He said Mesa not only is weathering COVID-19 thanks to $90 million in federal aid, but because its conservative �iscal management allowed the accumulation of $90 million in operating reserves.

But Whittaker said Mesa and other governments are based on a corrupt system he described as “crony capitalism’’ on his web site, in which special interests contribute to the campaigns of politicians with the expectation of access and favorable votes in return on zoning cases and other city business.

“My job is to represent the people of Mesa, not special interest groups,’’ Whittaker said.

“I take it with great pride,’’ he said, when asked about �ive out of seven council members endorsing Spilsbury, his opponent.

“In 2016, the entire council endorsed my opponent.’’

Whittaker has responded with another in a series of attacks on his fellow council members, accusing them in the past of

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Start of new school year clouded in uncertainty HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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two-week delay in the start of inclassroom learning ordered by Gov. Doug Ducey may give schools more time to prepare to teach in the middle of the pandemic.

But that assumes students are going to show up on Aug. 17 – and anyone will be there to teach them.

“A lot of parents are ready for their kids to go back,’’ said Joe Thomas, president of the Arizona Education Association. And he said teachers also are ready.

But Thomas said it’s not that simple in the days of COVID-19.

“We’re all starting to learn that there are people that we know who either they have it or their kids have it or a family member has it,’’ he said.

“So there’s a lot of anxiety,’’ Thomas explained. “They want to be back. But they just don’t feel safe.’’

Mesa Public Schools is contemplating a three-option reopening plan involving all-online, all-in-class and a hybrid and its reopening plan was scheduled to be rolled out next week, July 14.

But MPS’ plans likely will change in light of Ducey’s directive to keep campuses closed until at least Aug. 17. The district had been planning to begin school Aug. 4.

Even state schools chief Kathy Hoffman said there’s no guarantee that there will be children in classrooms on that date – or that it will be safe to open schools on Aug. 17.

Instead, she sees that date really as a point when education of�icials will evaluate conditions at that time.

“And there is a potential for that date to shift,’’ Hoffman said.

Chris Kotterman, lobbyist for the Arizona School Boards Association, said it all may come down to how extensive COVID-19 infections remain in the state.

“We don’t know any better than anybody else what the numbers are going to look like,’’ he said. But the issue, said Kotterman, is even more basic than that.

“We do know that we have a lot of school staff who had expressed a lot of concern about coming back into the classroom when the numbers are so high,’’ he said.

Hoffman agreed, saying any �inal decisions will have to be based on whether parents are willing and ready to send their

where we know that we have classrooms of 20, 30 or more students and high schools with upwards of thousands of students and teachers all coming together.’’

Even the governor conceded that Aug. 17 start date is “aspirational.’’

And if last school year is an indication, those dates tend to slip. Ducey’s original mid-March order got extended by another two weeks before he and Hoffman pulled the plug on the rest of the academic year, telling schools to do the best they can in remote and online education.

AriZona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman said keeping If nothing else, there campuses closed till at least Aug. 17 was the only thing state officials could do. seems to be an agree(Special to the Tribune) ment that pushing the children back into classrooms. start date for the new year back at least “We have seen and heard directly from two weeks – if not longer – makes sense. families and also from teachers and school “It has become clear over the past couple staff this growing sense of anxiety and of weeks that it is just not safe for students fear about returning to the school setting,’’ and staff to congregate in-person at school she said. facilities,’’ Hoffman said. “This was an unHoffman said some districts already fortunate, but necessary decision to protect have been sending out surveys to both the healthy and safety of all Arizonans.’’ parents and staffers to �ind out if they’re Thomas said it gives schools more time ready to be in a classroom setting. to consider options. And he said it may “I think that’s going to continue to be a provide time to answer some questions challenge,’’ she said. about whether classrooms can be made “It’s really hard to address those emo- healthy or at least relatively risk free in an tions because the COVID-19 virus is with enclosed space. us for now,’’ Hoffman said. “We don’t know “The Centers for Disease Control says when we’re not going to be living under you should be in a ventilated room,’’ these circumstances.’’

Thomas said. And that, he said doesn’t And the schools chief made it clear she’s mean simply having a vent in the room. not seeking to minimize those concerns.

“They mean open the windows,’’ he said.

“We’re talking about our loved ones,’’ “There’s not a school that can afford to she said. open the windows in August.’’

Hoffman said a lot of this is linked to the And until educators can feel safe, Thomas announcements June 29 by the governor said, they’re going to be reticent to return. in the latest efforts to curb the spread of How many will stay away remains the virus, including promoting and enforc- unclear. Thomas said he expects to reing social distancing. lease a survey of AEA members later “We can’t even have groups of more than this week.

10 people at the pool,’’ Hoffman said. “How In announcing a delay in in-class learncan we possibly open our schools safely ing, the governor did say schools can ac-

tually start operations on schedule -- but only using online or remote teaching.

“It does have the bene�it of starting to get teachers paid when they would normally expect to get paid,’’ said Chuck Essigs, lobbyist for the Arizona Association of School Business Of�icials.

Potentially more signi�icant, he said, is that starting “classes’’ as scheduled in early August eliminates the need for schools to either extend their academic year or eliminate mid-year breaks to get the required 180 days of education necessary to qualify for full state aid.

But that online start raises other issues, starting with the fact that some students lack access to computers as well as highspeed speed internet connections to actually participate.

“That was not something we could solve over the last several weeks or months,’’ Hoffman said. But doing nothing, she said, is not an option.

“Our kids need to keep learning,’’ she said.

“We can’t just stop the school year and push it back and push it back,’’ Hoffman said. “We need teachers teaching and students learning.’’

There’s another consideration for districts to consider when deciding whether to start the school year as scheduled with online learning. And it’s �inancial.

The state doesn’t provide as much aid per student for those who are in either fully online or “hybrid’’ programs, the latter being a combination of in-class and remote learning. That leaves the question of whether this early online-learning start will leave schools with less cash than they were anticipating to cover expenses, including teacher salaries.

The numbers can be meaningful.

If state aid runs about $5,500 a year, a 5 percent cut equals $275. Multiply that around several hundred – or several thousand – students and it’s a real hit to school budgets.

Kotterman said there is a presumption that if schools start online only and get less state aid, the missing cash eventually will be made up.

“But we still don’t have guidelines from the governor’s of�ice and the Department of Education on exactly how that process would work and the timelines for that,’’ he said. 

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new ruling Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court could aid legal efforts here to void a host of Arizona laws and regulations governing abortion.

In a 5-4 ruling, the justices said Louisiana has no legal right to prohibit doctors from terminating pregnancies unless they also have admitting rights at nearby hospitals. The majority concluded that the statute placed a substantial obstacle in the path of women seeking an abortion.

Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for himself and three other justices, said the requirement served no legitimate purpose in protecting the health of women. Chief Justice John Roberts joined in the conclusion with a separate opinion.

On one hand, the challenges �iled in federal court here in Arizona deal with different restrictions imposed over multiple years by the Arizona Legislature. These range from who can perform what abortion service to requiring women to make two trips to a clinic and forbidding doctors

from prescribing abortion medications via telemedicine.

But attorney Catalina Vergara – who is representing Planned Parenthood – said the Arizona lawsuit is about more than the individual regulations. She wants a federal judge here to look not just at the individual hurdles being placed in the path of women but what Planned Parenthood says is the cumulative effect.

That cumulative effect, the lawsuit says, resulted in the closure of Planned Parenthood clinics in Yuma, Goodyear, Prescott Valley and Chandler. And the Flagstaff clinic can provide abortion services only one day a week.

What makes all that signi�icant is the Arizona lawsuit cites the �irst time the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the issue in 2016 when the justices said restrictions need to be judges on whether they create an “undue burden’’ on women.

Alice Clapman, a staff attorney for Planned Parenthood, said that means the courts look at the statutes “to determine if the bene�its of the restriction outweigh the burdens.’’

What makes Monday’s Supreme Court ruling so signi�icant is that attorneys for Louisiana, while acknowledging the 2016 decision, were hoping to use it to get a different ruling from the high court that would have opened the door not just to uphold the existing Arizona laws but potentially paved the way for new ones.

But the high court majority concluded there was nothing wrong with the precedent set in 2016 and agreed it should remain.

That precedent, however, may hang by a thread.

Justice Clarence Thomas, in his dissent, acknowledged earlier court rulings af�irming a woman’s rights to have an abortion.

“But those decisions created the right to abortion out of whole cloth, without a shred of support from the Constitution’s text,’’ Thomas wrote.

The risk of overturning decades of precedent did not go unnoticed in a statement put out Monday by Arizona abortion providers who pointed out in a prepared statement that, technically speaking, there are still laws on the books that make it a crime to perform or get an abortion or

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even advertise for the procedure.

The only thing that keeps it from being enforced is the historic 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade which declared that women have a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.

The Arizona lawsuit surrounds three basic areas.

First are what as known as “physicianonly’’ rules, spelling out that abortions, both medical and surgical, as well as abortion-related procedures can be performed only by someone who is a doctor. Foes say there are many of these chores that can be done by specially trained nurses.

Challengers also say there is no medical reason to require a woman to visit a clinic and have an ultrasound at least 24 hours ahead of terminating a pregnancy for a consult with the physician.

The lawsuit also says Arizona nencourages the use of telemedicine, allowing medical advice to be given and prescriptions to be written after a video conference with the patients. But the lone exception is when an abortion is involved.’’ 

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THE MESA TRIBUNE | JULY 5, 2020

Ducey shuts some businesses as virus cases surge

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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onceding he made a mistake in allowing them to reopen, Gov. Doug Ducey last week shuttered all bars in the state for at least the next 30 days.

Ditto gyms, water parks, movie theaters and tubing along Arizona rivers.

And schools can’t open campuses until at least Aug. 17, almost two weeks later than Chandler Uni�ied had planned and nearly a month later than CUSD’s original start date. The order does not prevent schools from starting the year with all-online instruction, though it was unclear what Chandler or any other district would do.

The moves come as Ducey acknowledged the explosion of cases of COVID-19 that started two weeks after his mid-May order reopening the state economy. That two weeks pretty much coincides with the incubation period of the virus when people are exposed.

“We’re �ixing it’’ the governor said when asked if he screwed up in letting bars reopen six weeks ago.

He separately banned gatherings of more than 50 people.

Public swimming pools, those run by cities or in hotels or motels, will have to restrict groups in or out of the water to no more than 10. For semi-private pools at apartment complexes and condos, owners will need to post notices about the 10-person limit.

But Ducey, who repeatedly hammers home the message that people are “safer at home,’’ refused to reinstate his stay-athome order. He said it’s not necessary.

“The objective today is to slow the spread of this,’’ the governor said. And Ducey said he believes the state can get infection levels back to where they were in the middle of May -- when the restrictions were lifted -- without an edict.

“I think Arizonans are smart and have common sense and will demonstrate responsibility,’’ he said.

And what if the rate doesn’t decline?

“I wake up every day and there is an additional set of problems,’’ the governor responded. “And we solve them in their turn.’’

State schools chief Kathy Hoffman, in a prepared statement -- she was not at the press conference -- said she supports the two-week delay in sending students back

Gov. Doug Ducey last week took measures to curb the steadily rising number of COVID-19 cases in Arizona, shutting down bars, gyms, tubing, theaters and water parks and delaying the opening of school campuses until at least Aug. 17. (Capital Media Services)

to class.

“With COVID cases hitting new highs every week, it is clear it is not yet safe for students and teachers to return to school facilities,’’ she said, noting that some districts with year-round schedules were set to reopen in the next few weeks.

But Hoffman said that schools are free to start distance learning earlier than Aug. 17 or to delay the start of the academic year.

Less clear, however, is how that affects the requirement for schools to be operating for 180 days to get full state funding.

That mandate was reaf�irmed just a week ago when Ducey and Hoffman announced that schools needed to be open and operating for that many days if they want their share of $200 million of additional state aid that will be made available.

Ducey closed all bars and restaurants in March following decisions already made by the mayors of Tucson and Flagstaff.

He relented in early May, allowing sitdown dining at restaurants. Even then, however, he said that did not apply to bars.

But his administration relented, with the Department of Liquor Licenses and Control permitting any bar to open – and serve customers – as long as food was made available. That could include anything from snacks to a food truck parked outside.

The result has been some viral videos of bars packed full of patrons, with few wearing masks or social distancing.

As recently as Friday, Ducey was sticking by his decision to permit operation of bars even as Republican counterparts in Texas and Florida shuttered them. Instead, Ducey said he would crack down on those

“bad actors’’ who did not follow proper health protocols and work to educate all operators about safe operation The governor conceded that didn’t work out quite the way he planned, leaving him no option but to close down anything licensed as a bar, meaning any establishment where food sales account for less than 40 percent of revenues.

“When necessary, when needed, we will do what it takes to get the job done,’’ Ducey said.

So why did it take six weeks to �igure out that reopening bars was a mistake? The governor said it was all about providing clarity and guidance.

“We do want to open our economy,’’ he said. “We just want it to be safe and we want it to be successful.’’

It was only when he saw the spike in infections, Ducey said, “we had to adjust this.’’

Still, the governor was not willing to say he had any regrets about how he has handled the pandemic.

“No decision has been easy since we declared the emergency on March 11,’’ he said.

“I have made what I believe, in my heart of hearts, is the best possible decision to protect people’s lives in Arizona and to protect livelihoods in the state,’’ the governor continued. “That has been the standard.”

As of Monday, there were 1,588 deaths in Arizona and 74,533 con�irmed cases.

Those numbers included no new deaths reported and just 625 new cases. But state health of�icials said that latter �igure was because one laboratory had not met the

deadline for �iling reports.

By contrast, there were 3,858 cases reported the day before.

Chris Minnick, spokesman for the Department of Health Services, said that is unrelated to the problem with the laboratories. But he said that �igures after weekends often tend to be lower.

Separately, state Health Director Cara Christ said her agency is activating its crisis standard of care plans as hospitals are approaching rated capacity. That requires facilities to address space, staff and resource issues as necessary.

It also says that those approaching capacity must cease all surgeries except those that are essential and do not impair the care of other patients.

Meanwhile, state Rep. Kelly Townsend asked the governor to call a special session of the Legislature, which ended its session abruptly in May because of the pandemic.

The Mesa Republican said there was a need “to restore the balance of power in these trying times.”

“While I appreciate the Governor’s attempt to address the COVID-19 crisis on a day to day basis, addressing the needs of the state while trying to preserve livelihoods and personal freedoms, his state of emergency declaration has removed all other sources of input, outside of his consultation with his own attorneys,” Kelly said in a release.

“This has disrupted our critical balance of power and has authorized him to govern this state as a monarch, rather than an executive of a three-branch government,” said Townsend, who has been an ardent opponent of mandatory face mask orders.

“As the crisis worsens, I believe that calling a special session of the Legislature where 90 other individuals who are the voice of the people of this State can offer input and guidance, is now beyond prudent,” she said.

“I realize that past Legislators gave him this authority to act alone in a crisis, however that language was passed shortly after 9/11 when fears of biological warfare were cresting.

“I believe the entire state now realizes that this is not a good idea, and that the people in each district want their voice to be heard and desire the representative government that they were promised.” 

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Legalized weed headed for November ballot

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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ackers of a campaign to legalize recreational use of marijuana submitted about 420,000 signatures on petitions Wednesday to put the issue on the November ballot.

The �iling by Smart and Safe Arizona is far more than the 237,645 valid signatures needed to send the issue to voters.

That provides plenty of wiggle room if some of the petitions are declared invalid.

But it becomes only the �irst step in trying to convince Arizonans once again that they want to allow adults to buy and possess up to an ounce of marijuana or 12 plants.

A similar measure failed four years ago by about 4 percentage points amid an extensive campaign over whether easier access by adults leads to greater teen use.

There also was a fear by employers that it would allow workers to show up on the job stoned.

The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry already has positioned itself to oppose the 2020 measure.

Campaign Chairman Chad Campbell said the concern by the business community has been taken into account. He said this year’s version contains speci�ic provisions allowing employers to enact and enforce policies “restricting the use of marijuana by employees or prospective employees.’’

But chamber lobbyist Garrick Taylor pointed out the Arizona Constitution speci�ically prohibits lawmakers from tinkering with anything voters have approved unless it “furthers the purpose’’ of the underlying initiative. And even then, it takes a three-fourths vote of both the House and Senate.

“We should not pass a new law by initiative that will be impossible to ever change or undo,’’ Taylor said.

Efforts by some lawmakers to have the Legislature address the issue in a way where it could be altered if necessary have gone nowhere as Republican legisla-

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Petitions were delivered last week to the Secretary of State with more than enough signatures to get a proposition to legalize recreational use of marijuana on the Nov. 3 ballot. (Capitol Media Services)

tive leaders have refused to even consider legalizing marijuana.

Gov. Doug Ducey has hinted in the past that he would veto any attempt to do so.

“I don’t think any state ever got stronger by being stoned,’’ the governor said during the 2016 campaign. There was no immediate response from Ducey on Wednesday.

A 2010 voter-approved law allows Arizonans with certain medical conditions and a doctor’s recommendation to obtain up to 2 1/2 ounces of marijuana every two weeks. These conditions range from glaucoma and HIV to severe and chronic pain.

At last count there were more than 245,000 individuals who were quali�ied.

This measure seeks to follow in the path of 11 states, including California, Nevada and Colorado, where voters or lawmakers have decided that it should no longer be a crime for adults to purchase and use marijuana for recreational purposes.

There are some provisions designed to entice backers or blunt opposition.

It would impose a 16 percent tax on sales which proponents say would generate $300 million a year in new revenues to fund community colleges, public safety, health programs and construction and repair of roads.

There also is a prohibition on sales to anyone younger than 21. And the measure would bar the sale of marijuana products that resemble humans, animals, insects, fruits, toys or cartoons or sell or advertise marijuana with names or designs that imitate food or drink brands marketed to children.

But Lisa James, heading Arizonans for Health and Public Safety, said none of that ensures that items won’t be marketed to kids.

She said the list of what’s prohibited in designs leaves a whole host of what remains legal, like gummies with marijuana in the form of sports cars.

James also said it will lead to more accidents as motorists who are high get be-

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hind the wheel.

Campbell said the measure contains a ban on driving while impaired.

But he conceded there is currently no technology similar to a breath test that can determine the level of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, in someone’s blood.

And even if such a device becomes available, there is no standard in the proposal to say that a speci�ic THC level is a presumption of driving impaired, the way someone with a blood-alcohol level is presumed to be driving drunk.

Another possible objection could come from the fact that the measure is crafted in a way to pretty much guarantee that the �irst of the limited number licenses to sell marijuana for recreational use will be given to existing medical marijuana dispensaries.

Campbell said that is justi�ied.

“We don’t want a Wild Wild West implementation,’’ he said.

“We want proven operators that have operated safely who have established trust with the Department of Health Services and other agencies here,’’ Campbell said. He said they “will be able to hit the ground running and safely and effectively sell this product.’’

That preference, however, shows up in who is funding the initiative.

Virtually all of the $2.77 million reported raised in the most recent campaign �iling – mostly to hire paid circulators – has come from companies that sell marijuana.

More than $1 million alone came from Harvest Enterprises, which has been buying up dispensaries and cultivators in Arizona and across the nation.

Campbell said there will be opportunities for others as the number of allowable shops increases due to population growth as well as what he said is a setaside for “social equity licensing,’’ described as promoting ownership “from communities disproportionately impacted by the enforcement of previous marijuana laws.’’ 

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Pandemic defeats move to put city fund on November ballot

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

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esa City Councilman Jeremy Whittaker’s bid to add to the Nov. 3 ballot a controversial initiative restricting the Enterprise Fund fell short, another victim of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Whittaker, who has clashed with Mayor John Giles about the initiative for months, said he is “extremely disappointed’’ that a �inal push did not succeed in collecting the required 8,000 votes to put his Yes on Affordable Utilities Initiative on the ballot.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has stopped us in our tracks for a long period,’’ Whittaker said. “The coronavirus

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embezzlement and being more corrupt than Washington, D.C., based upon campaign donations from developers that he no longer accepts. He also has criticized some members’ use of a council expense account to buy gift cards.

“Who’s Buying Your Mayor and City Council? Ever Wonder Why?’’ Whittaker writes in a blog on his website, which includes a spread sheet he compiled charting campaign contributions during the last two election cycles.

“Politicians are bought by special interest groups,’’ he said.

But Giles said Whittaker conveniently left out the contributions he received in the 2016 election.

“He accepted donations from the very same people he is attacking,’’ Giles said.

Whittaker said he was a political novice during his �irst election and he did not fully understand how the system worked.

He said he personally �inanced both of his campaigns, in 2016 and 2020, but money from developers was donated after he won election.

“I think it’s fraud,’’ Whittaker said.

But Luna said he is not bought and paid for by anyone and he resents Whittaker’s accusations that he is corrupt.

“What he is trying to illustrate is that we are corrupt, we are bound by special interests. That is not the case,’’ Luna said.

“It doesn’t mean they are going to get what they want.’’

Spilsbury said that Craig Cardon, a developer and an old friend of hers, contributed to her campaign, as did several members

lockdown made it impossible to collect the signatures.’’

He said that Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs “should have stepped up’’ by allowing candidates to collect electronic signatures, when the infrastructure is in place to do so.

“It’s 2020, why are they forcing us to use this antiquated process?’’ Whittaker said.

The Yes on Affordable Utilities initiative has been described as “a bad idea’’

by Giles, who successfully spearheaded a more modest plan of his own.

Whittaker’s initiative would have capped transfers from the Enterprise Fund at 20 percent, instead of the maxi-

of his �irm. She said she hasn’t promised him any favorable votes in return.

“I could not tell you what they do in Mesa,’’ Spilsbury said. “There are zero strings attached.’’

Maricopa County will begin mailing early ballots on July 8 for the Aug. 4.

All registered voters will have the opportunity to cast ballots. Voters registered with a speci�ic political party will also be able to vote in their party’s state legislative and Congressional primaries.

Mesa voters who are not af�iliated with a political party and are on the early voting list will not automatically receive a ballot by mail.

In order to receive a ballot, those voters must contact the Maricopa County Recorder’s Of�ice to request a political party’s ballot or a Mesa-only ballot. They can call 602-506-1511 or go to recorder. maricopa.gov/earlyvotingballot/earlyvotingballotrequest.aspx.

The deadline to register for the primary is July 6 and the deadline to request a mail-in ballot is July 24. The last day to mail back a mail-in ballot is July 29.

Vote Centers for people to vote in person or drop off ballots will open in phases with �ive locations beginning Wednesday and 90-100 locations on Election Day. For a list of Vote Centers and hours of operations, go to Locations.Maricopa.Vote.

Voters will not have assigned polling locations on Election Day. Because of COVID-19, the county is moving to a “voteanywhere” model instead.

The county expects up to 600,000 ballots to be cast in the primary, a potentially historic voter turnout.

mum of 33 percent allowed by the plan approved by the council earlier this year.

Giles’ plan also gives low-income seniors a 30 percent discount on their utility bills starting this month.

The Enterprise Fund is mainly supported by pro�its from Mesa’s utilities, including its electric utility downtown. Giles argues utility fund transfers have been used to compensate for the city’s lack of a property tax since it was abolished in 1945, and later rejected by voters in subsequent elections.

Whittaker questions whether the city’s utilities are sustainable, with more than $100 million transferred yearly to the General Fund, an accusation that City Manager

While the council and mayoral races are nonpartisan, there is one hot partisan race in Mesa and plenty of �ireworks – mainly among Republicans – in county and legislative races.

Two Republicans are battling each other in the races for North Mesa justice of the peace and for constable. Incumbent Kyre Jones is facing a challenge from current constable Ed Malles while Jon Curtis and Robin Carlos Beach are duking it out for the constable position.

County races

For the Maricopa County races, the only primary contest involving a member of the Board of Supervisors is in Mesa, where incumbent Republic Steve Chuchri is facing a challenge from Kyle Cloud.

In the county assessor primary, former Gilbert Councilman Cook is squaring off against fellow Republican Rodney Glassman for their party’s nomination. The victor will battle unopposed Democrat Aaron Connor.

In the County Attorney’s race, incumbent Republican Allister Adel has no opponent while Democrats Julie Gunnigle, Will Knight and Bob McWhirter are vying for their party’s nomination.

The county recorder race has Republicans Stephen Richer and perennial candidate Clair Van Steenwyk seeing the nomination and the Democrat and incumbent Adrian Fontes is unopposed until November.

County Treasurer Royce Flora is facing a challenge from fellow Republican John Allen in the primary while Democrat Daniel Toporek skates free until November.

The county sheriff’s race is highly con-

Chris Brady has repeatedly denied.

Whittaker has expressed concerns in the past about the money being diverted to pay for other services, rather than being used for maintenance on aging water pipes.

But Giles argues that Whittaker’s initiative would have cost the city $50 million in revenue at the worst time possible, with sales taxes slumping from the recession, and would have likely forced layoffs in public safety.

He said the Enterprise Fund transfer has been used for many years to help �inance Mesa’s public safety costs, which are typically about 70 percent of the city’s budget. 

tested with former lawman Joe Arpaio battling against Lehland Burton, Mike Crawford and Jerry Sheridan for the Republican nomination. The winner faces Democratic Sheriff Paul Penzone, who is unopposed in his primary.

Legislative races

In the three main legislative districts covering most of Mesa, most of the action is among Republicans.

In LD 16, where incumbent Rep. Kelly Townsend has no opposition in her bid to take over the Senate seat from retiring Dave Farnsworth, there’s a four-way struggle for two House nominations. Incumbent John Fillmore is running again.

Opponents are Forrest John Moriarty, owner of an advertising �irm; attorney Jacqueline Parker, legal policy advisor to the state Corporation Commission; and respiratory therapist Lisa Godzich, former president of Mesa Republican Women.

A three-way scramble for the two House seats in LD 25 is pitting incumbents House Speaker Rusty Bowers and Michelle Udall against Kathy Pearce, who is aiming for Udall’s seat. 

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Preservation group wants rebel monuments removed

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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ew pressure is building on Gov. Doug Ducey to reverse his defense of having monuments to the Confederacy on state-owned property.

In a letter Wednesday, James McPherson III, president of the Arizona Preservation Foundation board, reminded the governor of the calls in 2017 by many, including his organization, to remove the monuments following violence by white supremacists in Virginia.

“Unfortunately, nothing was done,’’ McPherson wrote.

Now, he told Ducey, it is time to �inally deal with the issue “after yet another senseless killing of an African-American and the subsequent nationwide demonstrations seeking the elimination of systemic racism and bigotry.’’

But the foundation is aiming its ire at more than just the monument to Confederate soldiers, erected in the 1960s, that sits across the street from the state Capitol.

McPherson also is demanding removal of a

But McPherson told Ducey , “The removal of these monuments will not ‘change’ history or ‘erase’ it. What does change with such removals is what Arizona decides is worth of civic honor and recognition.’’

McPherson noted it’s not like any of these were erected close to A marker for the Jefferson Davis Highway that currently sits along Route 60 east of the time of the war.

Mesa. (Capital Media Services) The closest Ducey memorial to Confederate soldiers erected has come to acknowledging the controabout a decade ago in the state-run Vet- versy has come over the monument in eran Cemetery in Sierra Vista; a plaque at Wesley Bolin Plaza across from the CapiPicacho Peak State Park, where the only tol, erected by the United Daughters of the Arizona battle of the Civil War was fought, Confederacy in 1961.

Asked last month about new calls to dedicated to “Confederate frontiersmen who occupied Arizona Territory, Confed- remove that in the wake of protests that erate State of America;’’ and a monument followed the killing of George Floyd by a marking the “Jefferson Davis Highway’’ ad- Minneapolis police of�icer, the only thing Ducey would say is that he did not want to jacent to Route 60 east of Mesa.

Ducey in 2017, defended them as help- make such a decision on his own.

“There is a public process to be able to ing people “know our history.’’

put something into Wesley Bolin plaza or on state property,’’ the governor said.

But Ducey in 2018 abolished the Capitol Mall Commission, which until then had the power to decide what went in and what came out of the plaza. That law now gives the power of removal to the governor’s director of the Department of Administration.

Nicole Baker, spokeswoman for Wanda Wright, director of the Arizona Department of Veteran Service, said the monument in Sierra Vista is at near a “cemetery within a cemetery’’ tand that the marker in question was erected by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

“While we can’t erase our nation’s history, we can certainly learn from it and help future generations plot the way forward,’’ Baker said.

McPherson has a different take.

“These monuments celebrate and promote bigotry and racism,’’ he wrote. “They are devoid of true Arizona history and their very presence continues to hurt our African-American friends, neighbors, coworkers and strangers.’’ 

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MPS outreach feeds kids’ bodies and minds

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s Gov. Doug Ducey reminded Arizonans last week, the pandemic has impacted more than just reading, writing and ‘rithmetic in school districts.

For many, including Mesa Public Schools, closures also threatened the very lives of many children, who depend on districts for basics that their better-off classmates might not even think about much.

Like meals.

When campuses were �irst closed, MPS swung into action to provide curbside pickup of sack breakfasts and lunches.

And for about the last six weeks or so, a team of MPS employees not only helped to keep scores of needy children and their families fed. They also made sure they kept their minds engaged, delivering food and books to needy families at eight schools throughout the city.

“When we had to close schools, we were in triage,” recalled Marlo Loria, the district’s executive director of innovative partnerships. “We were in crisis management where you address the most immediate needs – which are making sure the institution stays a�loat �inancially; that people still have jobs and are paid; and then ensuring that kids have learning opportunities because that’s what our jobs are.”

After the meal distribution program settled into a groove, delivering thousands of breakfasts and lunches to kids who needed them, the district supervisor who works with the estimated 7,000 pupils from homeless families in the district raised a new alarm.

She noted that closures also deprived those children of the resources they get when they can go to school – such as hygiene products, books and computers.

So Loria and her team came up with a program that addressed a few issues: helping those needy families, providing jobs for district employees who would otherwise have been laid off because their jobs precluded working from home and

Stevenson Elementary School was the last stop that the Mesa Public Schools Feed to Read program made at the end of last month. (Pablo Robles/Tribune Staff Photographer)

responding to countless businesses, organizations and individuals that wanted to donate clothing and other necessities.

Among those businesses was Amazon.

Around a year ago, a teacher helped the district develop a relationship with the tech giant, which donated pallets of excess inventory.

“So we created a system where we turned one of our of�ice spaces into what I would call kind of our own little distribution center where we collected donations from Amazon,” Loria said. “We had books donated from United Way. We collected food from several different food banks and we started putting together food bags and hygiene bags.”

Employees from the district’s idled Community Education Department – which runs before and after-school programs – sorted and bagged donations.

Bus drivers who had no students to drive to and from school drove along established routes to deliver the bags of food and books to motels in the city where many homeless families live.

The goal of that outreach, Loria ex-

plained, was simple: “If our most vulnerable kids can’t come to us, we’re going to go to our most vulnerable students. Their families are in dire situations and really need resources sent to them.”

The next stage started after Governing Board member Marci Hutchinson raised concerns about what would happen with these children now that the district wasn’t running summer school.

“Libraries wouldn’t be open for them and we just had a donation of 600 books from United Way and we said ‘How are we going to give away 600 books?’” Loria said.

And that led to yet another stage of the district’s outreach – which was fueled by more than $5,000 in cash donations from local businesses.

In what Hutchinson called “a win-win for our students and local businesses,” the district used that money to buy books from Changing Hands Bookstore.

While Loria’s team could have simply put books in food bags that were delivered, there was a recognition that kids like to pick out their reading material.

Hutchinson noted that many families

were coming to school sites to pick up food bags and boxes and wondered “couldn’t we give out books as well at them,” Loria said.

The district identi�ied seven schools where the most families showed up for food bags and Loria’s team not only took food bags but also spread hundreds of books on tables for both children and their parents and guardians to peruse and take with them.

“We made sure we were very strategic,” Loria explained. “We paired the book distribution with the meal distribution.

We coined it ‘Feed to Read’and told them ‘come grab your food and then come next door and pick out some books.’”

The principals at the schools that were selected – Taft, Stevenson, Edison, Redbird, Webster and Emerson elementary schools and Carson Junior High – got the word out to their families.

“We didn’t advertise it on a district level because we didn’t want huge crowds,” Loria explained. “We had to keep social distance.”

The reaction delighted Loria and her team as well as Hutchinson.

“The children could put pick a few books that were personal to them,” she said.

“That was very important to board member Hutchinson.”

“I had one little boy who chose all Star Wars books,” she recalled, noting that his haul would be treasured far more than an impersonal distribution of bags with books that might not have as much meaning.

“I think some of them were a little timid because they thought ‘Oh, I can only get one book’ and we said, ‘Oh no, pick three or four books,” Loria said. “Some of them asked ‘Do we have to return them?’ and we told them ‘These are yours to keep so make sure they’re books you are really interested in reading.’”

“We also had quite a few adults that came in and just picked out books for their kids or their grandkids,” Loria added. “Some adults asked about books they

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could read.”

Among the entities that helped the outreach program were the City of Mesa,which provided some art kits; the i.d.e.a. Museum, which donated books; and, of course, Amazon, which over the past year has donated thousands of diapers, hygiene supplies, toilet paper, laundry supplies and an endless list of other items.

The outreach ended the last Friday of June as the district began shifting gears to prepare for the uncertainties of the new school year.

But the lessons Loria and her team learned have given them an idea.

At the beginning of summer, Amazon “gave us our biggest donation,” so the district began using space at Westwood High.

But now that space is getting too packed and the district and the city are discussing a takeover of the abandoned Mervyn’s store on Main Street and Stapley Road,

Food bags were laid out in one area of Stevenson Elementary. (Pablo Robles/Tribune Staff Photographer)

where a sign saying “Together” hangs.

Her vision is to have the city, school district and local nonpro�its run their pro-

gramming for needy families out of there.

“So, we would have our own Amazon distribution center and then all the schools

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would come there to get what they needed to distribute to their families,” Loria said.

“We have quite a few schools that report that they will �ind families living in their cars parked on their campuses – a lot actually – but they’re not quite sure where to go…because navigating the system can be very cumbersome.

“And my dream would be to have a location where staff could send a family that’s in dire need and then we would have A New Leaf or Save the Family or other representatives there to do kind of like intake and then get them out to the different community resources that are available and to kind of just streamline the process.”

Pointing to the mountain of research that links dire poverty with poor academic performance, Loria said, “If we could partner and align our resources better to help get a family on their feet, it’s going to be a win-win for both of our kids and their educational experience.” 

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Mesa brewery is one of the more than 700 breweries taking part in the Black Is Beautiful Initiative.

The Beer Research Institute at 1641 S. Stapley Drive is participating in the initiative that was started by Weathered Souls Brewing in Texas.

The Black Is Beautiful Initiative is a nationwide effort where breweries donate 100 percent of a special, stout-based beer’s proceeds to local foundations that support police reform and legal defenses for those who have been wronged.

“We’re involved in this project because it’s the right thing to do,” said Matt Trethewey, B.R.I. owner and co-founder.

“We need to band together as humans and denounce racism in all its forms.”

“It’s simple for us, really: We want everyone to be treated equally, and right now, we just don’t live in that world. If we can create some awareness about a message of inclusion, equality and love, then I feel good about doing that,” Trethewey added.

B.R.I. will begin selling their beer ondraft and in cans to-go on July 17.

Beer Research Institute owner and co-founder Matt Trethewey says people must band together to denounce racism in all forms. (Special to the Tribune)

They will donate proceeds to the Arizona Chapter of the ACLU, a nonpro�it organization that �ights to defend individual rights in Arizona through litigation, legislation, and public education.

“I can’t think of a better cause to make

The Beer Rsearch Institute at 1641 S. Stapley Road, Mesa, not only has beer flights but also some tasty homemade dishes that can be paired with their brew. (Special to the Tribune)

a donation to than an organization that It also includes a bacon bread pudding, a supports and defends the rights we have house-made bread pudding layered with as humans that are outlined in the U.S. vanilla beans and candied bacon.

B.R.I. has become so popular with beer Constitution,” Trethewey said.

The Black Is Beautiful Initiative of- lovers that the brewery has a line of merfers an Imperial Stout recipe created by chandise that it said “is getting stronger Weathered Souls Brewing Company, but and stronger.”

“We got shirts, baseball tees, �lannels, participating brewers can add their own brew shirts, hats, skateboards, pins, twist to the beer.

The other Arizona breweries taking glassware, coffee mugs, sun glasses and part in the Black Is Beautiful Initiative, koozies,” it brags on its Facebook page.

B.R.I. is following social distancing and so far, include Dark Sky Brewing Co. and Wanderlust Brewing Company in Flag- requiring customers to wear masks inside staff, Sedona Beer Company in Sedona, the establishment.

For more information on the initiaSingin’ River Brewing Co. in Florence and tive, visit blackisbeautiful.beer. InforHuss Brewing Company in Tempe.

B.R.I. brewed its �irst batch of beer in mation on B.R.I.: thebeerresearchinsti2003. “It wasn’t great, but we drank it tute.com  and it sparked a passion that eventually morphed into The B.R.I.,” the company says on its website.

It also boasts of being “a gathering place for craft beer drinkers in and around Mesa” and being “the place you want to be with your family, your friends and a pint of your favorite beer.”

In addition to tap beers that are primarily Hop Forward IPAs and Belgian beers, B.R.I. offers assorted harder beverages. It also sells beer in cans with four-pack options to-go as well as beer �lights.

The made-fromscratch menu, which also offers to-go items, includes offerings such as sriracha-wrapped bacon, putine, mac ‘n cheese and several The Beer Research Institute has grown a fan base steadily and now sells shirts, different sandwiches. scarves and other items. (Special to the Tribune)

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s our days �ill with talk of race, you wonder about the honesty of it all.

Blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians, so many shades of skin color, everyone screaming, posturing, but is anyone truly capable of telling hard truths?

You crave hearing someone plainly speak their mind without fear. So, you call the Reverend Jarrett Maupin.

To label Maupin a controversial �igure is to do him little justice.

Loathed by many, called out by Blacks and whites alike, Maupin nonetheless has been a �ixture in Arizona for more than 15 years. Say what you want about him – and I have – but the Reverend rarely holds his tongue for fear of bruising feelings on matters of race.

So, you ask him, point blank, what percentage of whites does he believe are racists?

“If I just had to put a number on it, I’d

say about 10 percent have some kind of prejudice because of their upbringing or their estrangement from minorities, any number of factors,” Maupin begins. “Now if you get deep in the weeds of race relations, I would say maybe 40 percent of whites have what you might call subconscious bias.”

This would be the “you people” crowd, Maupin explains: Whites who mean no offense, but blurt out lines like “You people have really good soul food.”

As he puts it: “They don’t mean anything by it but a compliment, but it’s interpreted the wrong way. That doesn’t bother me actually. I get a smile out of it.”

The Reverend’s summation: “The vast majority of white people are not racist.”

Which raises a second question, equally blunt: What percentage of Blacks does he believe are prejudiced?

“Now you’re asking me a tough ass question,” Maupin laughs. “I’ll tell you the honest to God truth. I think 50 percent of Blacks have some prejudice against

whites because of things they’ve experienced or heard �irsthand that have sort of jaded them. They’ve come across that one in 10 white men or one in 10 white women and they’ve painted with a broad brush.”

Considered from the perspective of statistics, Maupin’s response feels breathtaking. Of late, you have heard frequently that racism is a public health crisis, an af�liction with all the virulence of COVID-19.

To date, not even one percent of Americans have tested positive for coronavirus; Rev. Maupin has just pegged the infectiousness of discrimination at a rate of one in two.

You wonder which cohort you’re in, and your loved ones, friends, colleagues?

More to the point, you wonder if America has passed the point where a cure is possible, because unlike a virus, racism does not seem to fade due to herd immunity, at least not if the 155 years since Emancipation tell the tale.

But then Rev. Maupin preaches a little.

He speaks about his grandmother, the great Opal Ellis, and the late Lincoln Ragsdale, Arizona civil rights icons, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He talks about South Africa’s recovery from apartheid and America’s need for a similar formal reckoning. He talks about his belief that �ighting racism in 2020 is less about making new laws and more about changing minds. He shrugs off ideas like reparations or pumping endless tax dollars into public programs.

“Brother Leibowitz, we cannot spend our way out of emotional discord,” says Maupin. “I wish I had a better answer. I know I probably sound like I don’t have one.”

Not at all, my friend. You sound like a man struggling with something hard. And you sound like someone open to baring your soul. Maybe that is the best two men from opposite worlds can do.

And maybe – you pray – that is truly something. 

tion,” so that they can be properly tracked.

For two weeks upon arrival, travelers to Hawaii cannot “visit any public spaces,” such as meeting rooms or restaurants.

They are not allowed visitors.

And they “can only leave [their] designated quarantine location for medical emergencies or to seek medical care.”

Those who violate this mandatory, government-imposed quarantine are “subject to up to a $5,000 �ine and/or a year imprisonment.”

Orders like this are contrary to several well-established constitutional principles.

For starters, Americans have a fundamental right to interstate travel.

Since the early 1800s, relying on several constitutional provisions, the Supreme Court has consistently declared that citizens have a “right of free ingress into other States, and egress from them.”

In its most recent “right to travel” case

from 1999, the Court noted that the Constitution “protects the right of a citizen of one State to enter and to leave another state [and] the right to be treated as a welcome visitor rather than an unfriendly alien when temporarily present in the second State.”

If the government wants to interfere with a fundamental right, it typically must have a “compelling” reason to do so, and its law must be “narrowly tailored” to ensure that the right is minimally infringed upon.

These orders clearly do not meet this standard.

Hawaii’s order, for example, applies to “all individuals…arriving from out of state,” regardless of their symptoms or travel history. There is nothing “narrowly tailored” about this.

If the government wants to interfere with fundamental rights, it needs to draft

careful, well-thought-out laws. Blanket restrictions like this don’t cut it.

By declaring that out-of-state visitors will be subject to a mandatory, two-week sentence of house arrest, these states are clearly inhibiting the fundamental right to interstate travel.

Additionally, the Fourth Amendment prevents the government from unreasonably seizing people without adequate suspicion. For example, a police of�icer must have at least “reasonable suspicion” of criminal activity before he can momentarily stop you on the street; the of�icer must have “probable cause” that you have committed a crime before he can arrest you; and the government typically must initiate formal criminal proceedings before an impartial judge before it can con�ine you for a prolonged period of time.

States’ quarantine orders don’t pass smell test

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ver the last few months, several states—such as Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, and Texas—have been enforcing mandatory, two-week quarantines for those entering from out-of-state.

Hawaii, for example, has been enforcing a “mandatory 14-day quarantine” for all out-of-state entrants.

All those who arrive in Hawaii by plane or boat are required to “initial and sign” the governor’s self-quarantine order, “con�irming they are aware of the 14-day quarantine and acknowledging they understand violating the order is a criminal offense.”

Inbound travelers are further required to give the government a “unique government ID number,” their phone number, and their “designated quarantine loca-

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These government-enforced quarantine orders do not meet any of these Fourth Amendment standards.

As of June 29, there were 74,533 con�irmed coronavirus cases in Arizona – a state with a relatively bad coronavirus problem.

Given Arizona’s population of 7.3 million people, that means only 0.7 percent of Arizonans had been con�irmed to have the virus. And the odds of an asymptomatic, Hawaii-bound traveler having the virus are surely much lower.

These odds don’t even sniff what is needed to establish reasonable suspicion or probable cause.

The government needs more than a “hunch” before it can restrain your movement – it needs a particularized and objective basis for suspecting that you might harm others. The government clearly does not have that here.

If a person were symptomatic or had recently been to a coronavirus hotspot, then

of course the government’s efforts to temporarily restrict their movement would be more justi�iable.

But to blanketly impose house arrest on all travelers, regardless of the likelihood that they have the virus, is crazy.

The Constitution demands more from lawmakers.

The onus is on the government. If it wants to interfere with basic human rights – like the right to move around freely and not be con�ined to a hotel room—it needs to show that it is combatting a very serious problem, and it must draft targeted, well-thought-out laws that restrict fundamental rights in the narrowest way possible.

In other words, the government needs to have a good reason to believe that you are likely to harm others before it can lock you in a room. These near-exception-free quarantine orders do not pass the constitutional smell test.

Alexander J. Lindvall is Mesa’s assistant city attorney.

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s football programs across the East Valley try to carefully navigate through summer workouts, some have fallen victim to COVID-19 infections among players.

Tempe Union High School District spokesperson Megan Sterling con�irmed a player at Desert Vista had tested positive for the virus. According to Sterling, the player started to have symptoms the weekend of June 12. He was not present at any of the Thunder’s workouts leading up to his positive test result on June 18.

Desert Vista kept players in groups of 10, including a coach that was designated to remain with that group. Sterling said the player’s group were told to selfisolate out of precaution. Sterling said as of Friday, June 26, no other players or coaches showed signs of infection.

“Desert Vista has been following the guidelines released by the AIA and district,” Sterling said. “Once noti�ied of the test, players and the coach who came in contacts with the player were immediately told to self-quarantine for 14 days.

Players have to have a note from a doctor clearing them to return.”

In Scottsdale, a Chaparral football player also tested positive for the virus.

According to a statement from the Scottsdale Uni�ied School District, the camp was shut down for deep cleaning but has since resumed workouts.

Chaparral players also participated in small-group team workouts inside D1 Scottsdale, a new training facility. According to Kristen Baker, one of the owners of D1, the player was asymptomatic when inside the facility. About three days later, she said the player’s mother informed her of the positive test.

“We suspended all team workouts and

school starts going back, and we again don’t know what that will look like, then we can start making some decisions on what we do for the start of fall.”

Surveys for football and fall soccer will have a deadline of July 10, as those sports begin of�icial practice sooner than others.

The �irst of�icial AIA mandated practice Desert Ridge football coach Jeremy Hathcock believes shortening the football season for football is would be the best option so it doesn’t interfere with winter sports should the start be scheduled to delayed. (Zach Alvira/Tribune Staff) take place on closed so a professional cleaning compa- July 27. Responses for other fall sports ny could come in and sanitize the facility,” are expected to be submitted by July 24.

Hines said the committee would weigh Baker said. “This is something we will do every week going forward to ensure the all of its options in regard to the fall season, including a potential delay or shortsafety of all of our guests.”

East Valley school districts have started ening it.

“I don’t believe cancelling games would releasing initial plans to allow kids back onto campus for the fall semester. Most of be necessary but pushing everything which, however, have left athletics up to back would be bene�icial no matter what,” Mountain Pointe head Coach Eric Lauer the Arizona Interscholastic Association.

The AIA announced it would send out said. “I don’t think any teams, with the surveys in July to principals to gauge how limitations right now and not knowing they plan to welcome athletics back on when we can move into another phase, campus. From there, the association’s will be ready to go by August.”

Lauer said if the season was canceled, Crisis Management Committee will begin formulating a plan for a fall sports season. there should be an option for seniors to “We are going to look at in the next two be in pads sometime in the winter with or three weeks what is going on in the college coaches in attendance.

“Give us four weeks at the end of Janustate,” Hines said. “The problem is we just don’t know where we will be at. When ary and the �irst couple weeks of Febru-

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ary to get our guys in pads and let them try to earn a scholarship through showcases at schools,” Lauer said. “No refs, just guys working out in pads in front of college coaches. Even one day could be the difference for a player earning a scholarship.”

Desert Vista coach Dan Hinds said safety is at the forefront of his goals for the summer. After that, it’s preparing as if the season will go on as planned.

“Football players and football coaches all want to have a season,” Hinds said, “but �irst and foremost, I’m all about keeping kids safe. I’ve kind of come to a place where we are planning to have a season until they tell us otherwise.”

Desert Ridge head football coach Jeremy Hathcock said he was in favor of pushing the season back, no matter what that looks like. He suggested playing only eight games in the regular season and allowing for every team to make some sort of postseason tournament.

“If we are going to push things back, get rid of a game or two,” Hathcock said. “I don’t think we can push the entire season back because then we get into basketball and wrestling then start forcing kids to decide which sport to compete in.”

Like Arizona, Texas and Florida have also seen an uptick in infections. Some prep teams in both states began workouts in early June, similar to Arizona, but have seen infections among players or family members that triggered quarantines.

As COVID-19 case numbers continue to rise, Chandler coach Rick Garretson said he would be open to any changes that would result in having a season in 2020.

“I don’t think taking away bye weeks or going to an eight-game schedule would be a big deal,” Garretson said. “We need something. So, I would be �ine with herring on the side of caution in order to have a season.” 

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assing by the Arizona Theatre Company’s website or Facebook pages, patrons might think Arizona’s state theater is busier than ever.

Artistic Director Sean Daniels said the pandemic forced them to improve their online presence.

“A couple months ago, our online presence was just bad,” Daniels said. “It was very transactional. We were just using the internet to sell. Everyone knows that’s not how it works. You have to engage. You use it for a place to learn. Now, everyone is online for hours a day. It would have taken a long time to do what we have done. I can’t give (my staff) enough credit.”

They created four rooms where artists create and talk about art. Each week, they produce two podcasts that tie the content together.

“We looked back at what is the organization we always wanted to be but never had the time,” said Jasmine Roth, the director of education and learning.

Artistic Programs Director Will Rogers made sure the content was diversi�ied.

The rooms are named The Green Room, The Rehearsal Room, The Black Box and The Classroom.

“As long as we kept our eye toward �illing each of these rooms, we would have diverse content,” he said.

The Green Room The Green Room is where ATC members chat with national and local artists. Videos feature past performers sending messages and short performances to Arizona audiences.

Samples include: Brenda Jean Foley singing two songs from her home Brandon Espinoza, who played Cliff in the recent production of “Cabaret,” performing a song that was cut from that musical on his ukulele Ben Scheuer, a singer-songwriter, performing “Weather the Storm.”

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Puppeteer Raymond Carr was among the artists that Artistic Director Sean Daniels has interviewed on the Arizona Theater Company websited.

ing their experience of working at ATC. Each of these videos lets ATC artists connect with audiences.

“People want to feel they are closer to the work we do and the individuals who make it happen,” Daniels said.

The Rehearsal Room The Rehearsal Room is where artists explore plays, musicals and topics that affect artistic communities. The content here encourages conversation around art.

Some examples include: Carly Grossman, who starred in the ATC production of “The Music Man” talks about her experience as an intern as a UA student. She then sings “Making Love Alone” by Bernadette Peters.

Roth and Rogers host a podcast on gender queerness and theater with co-host Maybe Stewart, a playwright, director and stage manager who has worked at ATC and throughout the Valley.

Daniels hosts a podcast with Chris D’Arienzo, the writer and creator of “Rock of Ages,” talking about the musical and the new piece that will premiere at ATC. Acting intern Austin Killian discusses his experience on “The Legend of Georgia McBride” Actor Kevin Cantor presents a digital prologue to “The Legend of Georgia McBride”

The Black Box The Black Box room is the stage where there are play readings, online workshops of plays and musicals, live streamings of performances and community conversations around performances.

The content is ephemeral. It is posted for a time, and then, because of rights and contracts, is removed. It featured a streaming of “The Legend of Georgia McBride,” the show whose run had to be cut short because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

From May 11 to May 15, there was a live Zoom reading of Daniels’ play “The White Chip,” an autobiographical story about his recovery from alcoholism. It brought back the cast who performed in off-Broadway a year ago.

While the streaming was free, donations were split between the ATC and The Voices Project, a grassroots addiction recovery program.

“What we’re doing is really inspiring,” Roth said. “In supporting (‘The White Chip’), we are creating all this digital content around it and around recovery and trying to bring awareness for sobriety and recovery. We have two podcasts, a community conversation every day of the �ive days the show is able to stream.”

She said they wanted people to share this experience to provide support and inspiration for those who are struggling— especially when people can’t get together.

“I’m really proud of us for the way we’re stepping up and making sure people’s stories are heard and giving them a platform and tackling an issue in our society,” Roth said.

The Classroom The Classroom offers two opportunities.

ATC Teens can sign up for programs, or those of any age can attend a Zoom class on Thursdays or watch a YouTube video later.

“Jasmine Roth is our amazing theater educator,” Daniels said. “Every day she is teaching classes—not just for kids. Now, she is teaching adults. It’s progress we would have done over the course of sever-

al years, but now we’re doing it. Everyone on our staff has rallied and really made it happen.”

Roth said it’s exciting to bring in offerings that may not have happened otherwise, in part because performers would be too busy.

Also, performers who couldn’t afford to �ly in to teach a class for an hour or so can meet with students on Zoom. For example, she brought in Sally Cade Holmes.

“I sent (the students) an Instagram video that was a funny, quirky announcement,” Roth said. “I was on her website saying, ‘I wonder what project she’s done?’ pretending I didn’t know. ‘Oh, it’s Hadestown.’

They freaked out, fangirling so hard.”

The Future ATC was forced to lay off much of its staff.

“We had to let 65 percent of our staff go, which is less than average (among arts organizations),” he said. “Most let 80 percent go, some let everybody go. We made the choice that we wanted to stay connected to our audience, to still have content and that takes a certain amount of people.”

He said they’re having to be smart and make tough decisions. With the cancelation of its last two shows, the company lost $1 million. They’re paring down and trying to make sure their employees, artists and technicians have a theater to return to.

The ATC announced its fall season. Dates may shift, but the season will start as soon as it’s safe for audiences.

“We are not going to rush back if it is unsafe for our audience,” Daniels said. “We’re looking at a lot of things we can do. Will our balcony be a social distancing are? Do we want to limit the people who can be in the building? Can you enter the building from anywhere?

“Will there be masks you can pick up as you come in? It will look different. The most important thing is the safety of our audience and our staff and our artists.

We won’t do anything that puts people in harm’s way.”

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plus receive a with first $500 purchase (a $159 value)

for every additional $1000 purchase

One free ottoman per household with $500 minimum purchase. Copenhagen gift cards will be mailed after your order has been delivered. One $100 gift card per full $1000 purchased. Not valid with any other discount or promotion, previous purchases, Anniversary Specials Collection, Clearance Center or Stressless® products.

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great prices great design

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ALL THAT GLITTERS

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- Multi-course dinner with wine paring prepared by Hearth ’61 at Mountain Shadows - Swag bag for pick up before event

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The Mesa Tribune

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Cleaning Services

RESIDENTIAL & SMALL BUSINESS CLEANING SPECIALISTS SINCE 2007

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Classifieds 480-898-6465

Handyman

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LLC

Electrical Services HONESTY • INTEGRITY • QUALITY

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Block Fence * Gates

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• Panel Changes and Repairs • Installation of Ceiling Fans • Switches/Outlets • Home Remodel

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Marks the Spot for ALL•Your Handyman Needs!

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General Contacting, Inc. Licensed • Bonded • Insured • ROC118198

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Free Estimates with Pride & Prompt Service!

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ACTION CONTRACTING INC. WE DO IT ALL!

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

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Toilets

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• Sprinkler/Drip Repairs • New Installs Poly/PVC • Same Day Service

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Window Cleaning DIRTY WINDOWS? Call Fish Window Cleaning 480-962-4688 And you will have the cleanest windows and screens on the block.

Below is the list of services we offer: Windows – Interior & Exterior Screens – Sunscreens and Regular Tracks, Ceiling Fans, Light Fixtures Power Washing Your driveway, sidewalks and patios.

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Public Notices

Public Notices NOTICE OF CALL OF ELECTION

Your newspaper.

Your community.

Your planet.

Please recycle me.

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NOTICE NOTIFICATION OF LOGIC AND ACCURACY TESTING OF THE AUTOMATIC ELECTION TABULATION EQUIPMENT AND PROGRAMS PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, PURSUANT TO A.R.S. §16-449, THERE SHALL BE A LOGIC AND ACCURACY TEST OF AUTOMATIC TABULATING EQUIPMENT AND PROGRAMS TO ASCERTAIN THAT THE EQUIPMENT AND PROGRAMS WILL CORRECTLY COUNT THE VOTES CAST IN THE PRIMARY ELECTION TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2020, FOR THE CITY OF MESA. SAID TESTING SHALL COMMENCE ON TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2020 AT 1:30 PM AT MARICOPA COUNTY ELECTIONS OPERATIONS, 510 SOUTH 3RD AVENUE, PHOENIX, ARIZONA, AND SHALL CONTINUE UNTIL COMPLETED. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT THE MESA CITY CLERK’S OFFICE AT (480) 644-4868.

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SAME DAY SERVICE 30 Years Experience References Available Licensed Bonded Insured ROC 286561

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AVISO AVISO DE LA PRUEBA DE LÓGICA Y EXACTITUD DEL EQUIPO Y PROGRAMAS DE TABULACIÓN AUTOMÁTICA PARA LAS ELECCIONES SE DA AVISO PÚBLICO POR MEDIO DE LA PRESENTE QUE, SEGÚN A.R.S. §16449, HABRÁ UNA PRUEBA DE LÓGICA Y EXACTITUD DEL EQUIPO Y PROGRAMAS DE TABULACIÓN AUTOMÁTICA PARA AVERIGUAR QUE EL EQUIPO Y LOS PROGRAMAS CONTARÁN CORRECTAMENTE LOS VOTOS EMITIDOS EN LA ELECCIÓN PRIMARIA QUE SE LLVARÁ A CABO EL MARTES, 4 DE AGOSTO DE 2020, PARA LA CIUDAD DE MESA. DICHAS PRUEBAS COMENZARÁN EL MARTES, 7 DE JULIO DE 2020 A LAS 1:30 PM EN LAS OPERACIONES DE ELECCIONES DEL CONDADO DE MARICOPA, 510 SOUTH 3RD AVENUE, PHOENIX, ARIZONA, Y SEGUIRÁ HASTA QUE SE TERMINE. SI TIENE ALGUNA PREGUNTA, FAVOR DE PONERSE EN CONTACTO CON LA OFICINA DE LA SECRETARIA MUNICIPAL DE LA CIUDAD DE MESA AL (480) 644-4868.

www.TheMesaTribune.com

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THE SUPERSTITION FIRE & MEDICAL DISTRICT HEREBY NOTIFIES THE REGISTERED VOTERS OF ALL PRECINCTS WITHIN THE SUPERSTITION FIRE & MEDICAL DISTRICT THAT THREE (3) VACANCIES WILL OCCUR ON THE SUPERSTITION FIRE & MEDICAL DISTRICT FIRE BOARD AT THE GENERAL ELECTIONS ON NOVEMBER 3, 2020.

THE LAST DATE FOR CANDIDATES TO FILE PETITIONS FOR THESE POSITIONS IS JULY 6, 2020 AT 5:00 P.M. AT THE PINAL COUNTY ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT, CANDIDATE FILING OFFICE, 31 N PINAL ST, FLORENCE, AZ 85132.

THIS ELECTION IS NON-PARTISAN. THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE IS OCTOBER 5, 2020.

CONTACT THE PINAL COUNTY ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT FOR ANY PARTICULARS CONCERNING THIS ELECTION. Published: East Valley Tribune June 28, July 5, 2020 / 30756 FAMILY COURT FIRST CIRCUIT STATE OF HAWAl'I NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE OF HEARING (By Publication) CASE NUMBER FC-A. 20-1-6009 In the Matter of the Adoption of female child born October 29, 2008 by Steven Patrick Sabat, legal spouse of Prana Jetamia (Lackey-Macfield) Sabat, the child(ren)'s legal parent, Petitioner(s). THE STATE OF HAWAI'I TO: DAVID ANDREW PROVOST, Name of Non-Consenting Parent/Legal Guardian/Legal Custodian, 7726 Baseline Road #207, Mesa, AZ 85209, Address of Non-Consenting Parent/Legal Guardian/Legal Custodian YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the attached Petition of the above-identified child(ren) born to Prana Jetamia Sabat, the child(ren)'s mother, has been filed in the Family Court, First Circuit, State of Hawai'i. THE PETITION ALLEGES that your consent to the adoption of the abovenamed child(ren) by the above -named Petitioner(s) is not required and may be dispensed with pursuant to Section 578-2(c) of the Hawai'i Revised Statutes (HRS), as amended. A hearing on the Petitioner will be held on August 11, 2020 at 1:30 pm at the Family Court of the First Circuit located at the Ronald T.Y. Moon Kapolei Courthouse , 4675 Kapolei Courthouse, 4675 Kapolei Parkway, Third Floor , Kapolei, Hawai'i, 96707. IF YOU FAIL to appear at the hearing noted above or if you fail to file a writt en response to the allegations stated in the Petition for Petition, further action be taken , including the granting of the adoptio n, without further notice to you. Your written response should be addressed to the : Presiding Judge, Family Court, First Circuit , 4675 Kapolei Parkway, Kapolei, Hawai'i, 96707, ATTN: SPECIAL DIVIS ION CALENDAR CLERK. FAILURE TO OBEY this Notice may result in an entry of default and default judgment against you. YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the child(ren), the adoptive parent(s) , and the natural parents have rights under HRS Section 578-15 regarding confidentiality of adoption records after the child(ren) reach/reaches age 18.

DATE: June 23, 2020, CLERK'S SIGNATURE: /s/ R. Sabagala THIS NOTICE SHALL NOT BE PERSONALLY DELIVERED BETWEEN 10:00 P.M. AND 6:00 A.M. ON PREMISES NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC , UNLESS A JUDGE OF THIS COURT PERMITS, IN WRITING ON THIS NOTICE, PERSONAL DELIVERY DURING THOSE HOURS. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended, and other applicab le state and federal laws, if you require accommodation for a disability, please contact the ADA Coordinator at the First Circuit Family Court office by telephone at 9548200, fax 954-8308, or via email at adarequest@ courts.hawaii.gov at least ten (10) days prior to your hearing or appointment date. Please call the Family Court Service Center at 954-8290 if you have any questions about forms or procedures. Published: East Valley Tribune, June 28, July 5, 12, 19, 2020 / 31543

It Only Takes Seconds to Drown.

Always watch your child around water.

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Arizona’s Resort-Style Home Builder MASTER PLANNED CELEBRATED COMMUNITIES BY BLANDFORD HOMES

Award-winning Arizona builder for 40 years.

Blandford Homes specializes in building master planned environments with a variety of amenities and charm. Many offer resort-style amenities such as pickleball, event lawns, and lifestyle activities. You’ll find the perfect community to fit your lifestyle.

A Canyon Preserve at Mountain Bridge NOW SELLING

Vintage Collection • From the low $400’s • 480-988-2400 A Mountain Bridge CLOSEOUT Acclaimed Resort-Style Master Planned Community in Northeast Mesa Vintage Collection • From the low $400’s • 480-988-2400 B Sanctuary at Las Sendas ONLY A FEW HOMES REMAIN Northeast Mesa resort-style master planned community.

Vintage Collection • From the low $400’s • 480-988-2400

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Luxury single-level estate homes • From the $900’s • 480-661-3811

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Luxury single-level estate homes with eclectic architecture in the charming Groves area of Northeast Mesa • From the mid $500’s • 480-895-6300 Palma Brisa – In Ahwatukee Foothills NOW SELLING A Dramatic New Gated Community • From the $400’s • 480-641-1800

Belmont at Somerset – Prime Gilbert Location PRESALES HAVE BEGUN Luxury estate homes and timeless architecture • From the high $700’s

BlandfordHomes.com Not all photos shown are representative of all communities.

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