A gainst the backdrop of the state’s poor est high school graduation rate, the Mesa Public Schools governing board voted 3-2 to defeat a pay-for-performance measure that would have incentivized teach ers with an additional $1,000 if they attained academic benchmarks for their students. The board originally approved the measure by the same vote, but nearly 45 minutes after the vote, board member Kiana Sears interrupt ed proceedings and told board President Jenny Richardson that she wanted to change hers. “You want to go back to pay for perfor mance and change your vote on pay for per formance?” Richardson asked. “Yes, ma’am,” Sears said. “OK. We’ve never done this before,” said Richardson.Discussions seemed to indicate that the vote was not a reflection of the board’s sentiment toward teachers being paid for performance, but more a matter of the logistics around how and when teachers are compensated. It essentially revolved around whether the bonus should be part of their salary or given as a one-time award during summer months. Some pointed out that a one-time bonus can have negative tax implications.
BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer A California developer is thinking of buying 144 single-family homes in the Eastmark community in south east Mesa to create a neighborhood of shorttermVisitrentals.Mesa CEO Marc Garcia told the city’s Economic Development Advisory Board about the possible project during its Aug. 2 meeting. Visit Mesa is the city’s official tourism mar keting organization that is partially funded by bed taxes collected from hotels and shorttermGarciarentals.was discussing the outlook for new lodging in Mesa when he mentioned the pro posed short-term rental neighborhood.
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Mesa resident Troy Kotsur, who won the 2022 Oscar and numerous other awards this year for best supporting actor for his role in the movie “CODA” received the key to the city last Thursday from Mayor John Giles during a ceremony at the Mesa Arts Center. Kotsur, the second deaf actor to win an Academy Award, splits his time between Los Angeles and Mesa and won for his role of a father whose daughter wants to go away to college but is afraid of leaving her deaf parents behind. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)
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A growing number of police depart ments across the country are encrypting routine radio traffic, and Mesa PD said encryption of all radio traffic is becoming a standard best practice in law enforce ment
Trapaninationally.saidMesa modeled its encryp tion program after the Las Vegas Police De partment, which made the change in 2018. One group of residents that will be im pacted by the loss of live feeds are scan ner enthusiasts and social media groups that share information about incidents happening in their community.
The East Valley Scanner group posts public safety updates on Facebook. Group co-creator and ham radio en
In announcing the encryption, the de partment cited citizen privacy, officer safety and protecting criminal investiga tions.Inthe normal course of police business, names and addresses will go out over the airwaves, but these will still be in the de layed radio feed.
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The Mesa Police Department began encrypting its radio traffic last month, ending the ability of people with radio scanners to hear of ficers’ chatter. Sensitive, or “hot channels,” used by SWAT and tactical operations have been encrypted for over 10 years. For the sake of transparency, police said, the department will still publish an unredacted feed of its radio traffic online on a one-hour delay. The feed is available through links on the Mesa PD website or on the mobile app Broadcastify.Sgt.Chuck Trapani said that residents who want to know about events happen ing near their homes in real time can call the department’s non-emergency num ber for updates. He added that setting up the delayed feed on Broadcastify cost the department $23,071 and did not require Mesa City Council approval.
At times he’ll serve up insults and rude language to officers he’s filming, but he said he isn’t doing that for page views and revenue – he’s only dishing back what he’s receiving from officers. “That’s my personality,” he said. “When I show up to a traffic stop, I’m me. …The times when I become rude, I know what I’m doing – the respect levels have gone out the Wessingwindow.”toldthe Tribune last year that the number of video recorders the de partment was encountering on calls was reaching a “boiling point.” He described a call last year involving a felony warrant where eight auditors showed up on the scene.
4 NEWS THE MESA TRIBUNE | AUGUST 14, 2022 to within a foot of officers. That is a huge safety concern.” Trapani said that in the first month of the new encryption initiative, “there has been a decrease in the number of auditors showing up on scene,” though he didn’t have any numbers available. But Trapani said that the main reason for the decision to encrypt their radios was officer safety – they don’t want to telegraph their movements to the “crimi nalHeelement.”citedanecdotes of Mesa police of ficers arriving to addresses and hearing their radio traffic inside the house. In addition to the growing practice of police radio encryption, cop watchers will also have a new state law to contend with that goes into effect in September.
There are some exceptions, such as when the person filming is the one being questioned.Ruffhasbeen in that situation. He said he’s been cited and found guilty on three charges in Mesa related to his po lice auditing activity, such as trespassing. He said he’s appealing those cases. Ruff said he’s on a crusade to make po licing better and will not be deterred. “Just to be clear, I’m not anti-police,” he said. “We’re anti-bad police.” RADIO from page 3 thusiast John J., who declined to give his last name, said the group has relied in part on scanner traffic for information, as well as other sources, such as tips from residents and contacts in the public safety“Sincecommunity.MesaPDrecently fully switched encryption on, it does come as a shock, at least partially, to folks who like to monitor what’s going on,” he said. He understands the reasons for encryp tion, but thinks it’s ultimately better to keep the live feed accessible.
Caption: Mesa resident Christopher Ruff was arrested outside Mesa City Plaza last year on suspicion of violations related to filming in public in a screenshot of a video posted online by Ruff. Ruff describes himself as a “cop watcher” and “guerilla journalist” promoting trans parency by filming and posting videos of police activity. (Special to the Tribune)
“The big push for encryption is only 5 to 10 years old. Look at where we are at now: crime has been steadily rising over the last few years. … Being able to moni tor scanner traffic enables citizens a way to fight back by being the eyes and ears for first responders,” John said. Last year, Assistant Chief Ed Wessing also discussed radio encryption with the Mesa Tribune as a way to reduce the vol ume of “cop watchers” or “auditors” on scenes where they were creating chal lenges for officers. Auditors are members of the public who film police activity ranging from minor traffic stops to felony warrants. Some watchers post their videos of police activity to dedicated social media channels, where they may have thousands ofWessingsubscribers.told the Tribune last year the phenomenon was a growing trend.
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House Bill 2319, signed by Gov. Doug Ducey in July, makes it a misdemeanor to film within 8 feet of “law enforcement activity,” defined by the law as question ing a suspicious person, making an arrest or handling an “emotionally disturbed or disorderly person.”
Critics counter that auditors are trying to bait officers into losing their tempers in order to make videos go viral, which can translate into higher traffic and revenue. Some auditors make it harder to judge their motives by taking a brash ap proach, walking close to active scenes and engaging with people being ques tioned, offering unsolicited advice about their rights, sometimes heckling law en forcement personnel. Many of the interactions with police Ruff posts on his channel become adver sarial, but some are friendly.
Local watcher Christopher Ruff is con vinced Mesa’s move to encryption is most ly about making it harder for “people like himself to film police activity. “The reason they’re doing this with the scanners is because of us,” he said. “This is a total step in the opposite direction of transparency.”Policeare“tired of being on the inter net, so they’re creating new tools to hin der or limit our ability to publicize them,” Ruff said. Ruff has been filming police in Mesa and beyond for about a year-and-a-half and posts videos on his YouTube channel. The growing use of encrypted channels by law enforcement “makes it more diffi cult for us to find (police),” Ruff said, but he said he finds plenty of activity by sim ply driving around town. He’s also tipped off by police helicopters. He considers himself a “guerilla jour nalist” who is doing a public service by rooting out abusive practices and indi viduals by exercising his First Amend ment rights to stand in public rights-ofway and record.
“We could (not) care less about (audi tors’) videoing or posting videos – we all have video cameras on,” Wessing said. “What we are concerned about is inter fering with safety operations – getting up
Mesa firefighter Nick Martinez and Fire Capt. Tim Burleson were among more than 100 Mesa fires responders who were invited to a breakfast last week to sit down with folks like Carol Morrison and Pat White at The Summit at Sunland Springs Assisted Living Center. The center organized the breakfast because staff and residents wanted to thank Mesa police, paramedics and firefighters, said Summit Outreach Director Lori Marsh, because first responders are always quick to arrive and support their residents “Our goal with this event was to share our gratitude after a difficult few years,” said Marsh. “These first responders don’t hear ‘thank you’ enough.” (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)
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“If we want more restaurants and retail in this area, we have to have the bodies,” she said. “We have to have people that are willing to spend their time and money in those places. And I think that’s what mul tifamily is certainly (offering).”
When the avid hiker and paddle boarder says “it doesn’t get any better than this” of Mesa’s outdoor opportunities, it’s a pow erful statement; Goforth is an Air Force kid from Missouri who spent time in Florida and Hawaii as a child and has lived in Aus tralia, New Zealand and Italy as an adult. In an interview just before the Aug. 2 primary, in which the candidate ran un contested, the Las Sendas resident talked about Mesa and her vision for its future. As a council member, the self-described “voracious reader” with an active lifestyle aims to protect Mesa’s good qualities with “incremental growth.” Goforth wants to ensure that residents “get to say how their city grows and changes” without being a “total stopgap to growth and change.”
Goforth said she spoke with a lot of busi ness owners who would like to live in Dis trict 5 closer to work but found the cost of housingApartmentprohibitive.projects frequently generate pushback from single family neighbor hoods nearby. There’s an unsubstantiated fear often expressed that apartments will lower the quality of the area and be a gate way to crime and drugs. Goforth does not take such a dim view of multifamily housing. “The people that are going to buy our single-family homes are going to start in those multifamily units,” she said. Goforth said leaders need to respect that see
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Some growth and change is necessary, she said, to preserve what people love about their neighborhoods. Goforth took nearly all the votes cast for the uncontested council seat, and some time after city council reconvenes Aug. 22, it will officially declare her the winner of the race. She will be seated in January.
6 NEWS THE MESA TRIBUNE | AUGUST 14, 2022 BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer District 5 Councilwoman-elect Alicia Goforth says sun and warmth at tracted her family to Mesa in 2007, but it’s the people that have kept her, her husband and three kids in the community. And the schools. And the views and the outdoor lifestyle.
Mesa city Councilwoman Alicia Goforth and her husband, Chris Goforth, a sales executive, have three children and the entire family enjoys Mesa’s outdoor opportunities, schools and sunshine. She aims to expand the Mesa’s offerings to be a true live-work-play city. (Goforth campaign) I enjoy having a voice and being a voice and working hard for the public good. That’s why I volunteer.
“The quality of life up here is really good,” Goforth said. “Really what I hear about it is, ‘oh, I wish we had more res taurants, I wish we could get some more retail. The majority of the people I talk to, they go and they spend their dollars outside of Mesa when they go out to eat, when they shop. So I’d like to make sure that we can truly be a live-work-play city.”
Not a NIMBY On her listening campaign, Goforth said she heard from many that the Mesa needs more of “those extras – the restaurants, the retail, the entertainment scene.”
‘Listening Campaign’ Goforth frames her decision to run for city council as “the next step” in her long career of volunteer work. Mesa’s council members are compen sated about $41,000 per year, but many current council members describe it as a full-time job. “I enjoy having a voice and being a voice and working hard for the public good. That’s why I volunteer,” she said. Goforth is an experienced corporate at torney, but when she moved to Mesa, she decided to take a break from law and focus on volunteering and raising her kids. Locally, she’s served on the Mesa Public Schools Parent Council and the board of directors of the Las Sendas Community Association, as vice presi dent and secretary. Linda Barton, who worked with her on the Las Sendas board, said Goforth was an impressive colleague. Goforth chaired the board’s communitywide planning committee, and spearhead ed an effort to reno vate the Las Sendas community center and redesign three of the community’s four veysheadvantagewehadearly“Aliciaparks.recognizedonthatweanassetthatweren’ttakingof,”andcreatedasurandfocusgroups to find out what residents wanted for the community center. “Alicia is very smart,” Barton said. “She really knows and understands the issues, and when she doesn’t, she takes the time to learn. She’s just a really easy person to work with as well.” On the Las Sendas board, Goforth helped create the committee to study the issue of short-term rentals in Las Sendas, though she left the board before its vote to amend the HOA rules to prohibit rentals less than 31 days, which passed last spring. Last year Goforth was exploring other ways to get involved in the community, and discovered that city council “was kind of where the need was,” she said.It was a brave step.Current District 5 council member David Luna, who is termed out, said that “campaigning is a very difficult thing.”Luna said he met with Goforth before the start of election season and quizzed her on various issues. “I was immediately pleased with her responses and her vision for the future,” heSixsaid.candidates pulled candidates pack ets from the city and three filed paper work for Luna’s seat, but only Goforth sub mitted the required signatures to qualify for the Whenballot.shefound out she would be the only candidate, she started what she called a “listening campaign,” talking to residents and learning as much as she could about the council. It’s something she’s done informally for years. “I’ve always been very interested in the city and what brings people here, why do they leave, what do they love about it, so I’ve had these conversations for the last 15 years with friends and neighbors and volunteer groups.”
Goforth said that attracting those com mercial amenities involves adding more housing options, including multifamily.
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That’s the just approved Instructional Time Model, which allows for students to achieve their diploma both in class and/or completely online. Mesa will be trying something new to boost graduation rates, too. For perhaps the first time, head to head competition will go beyond teams on the athletic fields to com peting for students themselves with other schools in the same school district.
“Kids are shopping,” Mahlerwein said. “We have an open enrollment state. Kids are no longer boundaried. They are looking for the best opportunities so we want to pro duce the best product in our classrooms.”
A 5% increase over a single year is a lofty goal when compared to the national average. It took 10 years for educators to achieve a 6% increase. The challenge is not lost on Mahlerwein. “We’re not looking at a quick fix,” he said. “It’s not a year to year fix. It’s a change movement.”
“The flim-flam where everybody gets it and you got to be almost half horrible or horrible or almost never come to work and you don’t get it,” Sears said.“I think we are just too laissez faire with all of it. “People just getting money, getting mon ey,” Sears said. “That’s what they do. Some people are like what are they actually get ting money for?”
8 NEWS THE MESA TRIBUNE | AUGUST 14, 2022 BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer Mesa Public Schools is taking what teachers and administrators learned from the pandemic shut down and using it to better serve students and their families. When the pandemic completely crippled on-campus learning and forced students to attend classes remotely, many became disengaged and teachers reported dif ficulty keeping students and themselves motivated – if the students even showed up to virtual classes at all. There were anecdotal stories of con stant distraction, students doing other things online while they were supposed to be paying attention to lessons, and a heavily blurred boundary between home life activities and the virtual classroom en vironment (think dogs barking and other family members interrupting or making distracting background noise). But off-site learning wasn’t a negative thing for everyone, and MPS found that there was a bright side to remote learn ing for some students. In response, the board has adopted The Instructional Time Model. Created by state House Bill 2862, it al lows for three “pathways” to learning: Oncampus, off-campus and hybrid. On campus is pretty straightforward. Go to school. Do the work. Get the credit. Just like students have been doing for genera tions.Off-campus provides a completely re mote learning pathway allowing students to do their work on their own time, or, asynchronously, much like the Mesa Digi tal Learning program, which has been available for 20 years. For some kids, just doing the work on line and never setting foot on campus works best for them. But there is a sting in that tail. Some stu dents who were forced into isolation did not cope well with it at all and anxiety lev els among teens skyrocketed. Those students don’t necessarily want to cut ties with their campus and peers entirely. So, the Mesa schools administra tion came up with a third route to getting a high school diploma – the hybrid model. It is the biggest departure from the status-quo and potentially most useful to families, officials say. Part on campus, part off. Part distance learning, part virtual campus. What administrators figured out ser endipitously is that the hybrid pathway lends itself well to students who are deal ing with both physical and emotional mal adies.“We have an opportunity to think about “Almost 100-percent of folks get per formance pay in Arizona. I actually see it as somewhat of a barrier assigning goals with performance pay,” said Assistant Su perintendent Justin Wing. On the back of Wing’s comments, Sears wondered aloud whether there is much motivation for teachers to go above and beyond their standard duties to earn per formance-based pay.
MPS posted the graduation rates for its high schools over the last five years, comparing them to Arizona’s statewide average graduation rate. (MPS)
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To address chronic absenteeism, impov erished, at risk areas and other factors that contribute to Mesa’s low graduation rates, Mahlerwein’s team is focusing on academ ics, environments and communications. They aim to create a good fit between students and teachers, take full advantage of teachers’ areas of expertise, pairing them with the right students, and by taking ad vantage of on campus, hybrid and off cam pus learning pathways, which will allow for “more personalized learning experiences.”
The governing board is grappling with pay for performance against the ominous drumbeat of a 76% graduation rate – the lowest in Arizona and among the worst in theThoughnation.there is a task force of adminis trators and principals assigned to improv ing those rates, they have been an ongoing concern in Mesa. Next year’s target gradu ation rate is 81% “I am confident that we will surpass that,” said assistant superintendent Dr. Randy Mahlerwein. “Last year our gradua tion rate was 76%. We owe the City of Mesa a better graduation rate that,” he said. Mesa’s low graduation rate is tied to chronically high absentee rates, especially minority and socioeconomically disad vantaged students. Native American students accounted for 59% of the chronically absent at West wood High School last year, for example. But it didn’t stop there: 39% of seniors overall were chronically absent last year. “Our children in poverty were hit very hard by COVID,” Mahlerwein said. “They got out of the routine and they were in survival mode. A lot of that had to do with staying at home and helping out. Helping out with families helping out with siblings.”
Sears said many district employees don’t have “measurables” when it comes to job performance. “We need to get bet ter,” she said. “I hold myself accountable.” Board member Lara Ellingson won dered whether merit-based pay should even be part of the discussion when it comes to educating kids, suggesting teach ers don’t get into the field for the salary to begin“Doeswith.this money really drive great teaching?” she asked. “The answer would probably be no. Money doesn’t drive great teaching.”Ellingson, board member Dr. John O’Reilly and Sears voted against the mea sure. Richardson and board member Mar cie Hutchinson, a MPS former teacher, voted for it. “I think we’re stoking the fire, “she said. “This model to me funnels people togeth er into a common goal. And now we’ve got theTheresources.”issueisnot going away. Richardson said “We will reconsider pay for perfor mance again at our next meeting.”
Low graduation rates are a decades-old nemesis for MPS.
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Deputy City Manager Marc Heirshberg presented the plans for the two-story glass, steel and terracotta tile structure to the Design Review Board. Heirshberg said the materials were chosen to keep the building consistent with some of the recently built and exist ing buildings in this section of downtown, such as the ASU at Mesa City Center build ing not far from the site. Designers imagined the 160-seat main council chambers as a “building within a building,” sitting on the second floor, al most as if on display above an airy lobby.
“The idea with that nod of transpar ency and so much glass, is so that citizens and residents can see all the way through it, just like their government should be transparent,” Heirshberg said.
The building is topped with a thick met al roof overhanging the walls at an angle. “It’s a beautiful building. I really appre ciate it,” board member Jeanette Knudsen told city officials. The inside of the chamber is intended to be partially visible from the outside, and vice versa, the transparency achieved abundant panels of glass.
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INSTRUCTION from page 8 our students who are struggling with a chronic illness and miss a lot of school to use some seat time flexibility so that we can keep them on track,” said Jennifer Echols, director of teaching and learning with Mesa Public Schools. Those “chronic illnesses” Echols says, include a sharp uptick in students with anxiety, caused by the isolation of the pan demic but also due to environmental fac tors that are sending the rates of anxiety and other emotional and mental health issues skyrocketing nationwide, and even globally, according to the World Health Or ganization.“Thehybrid pathway is a way for kids to still stay connected to that brick and mor tar campus,” Echols said. “So that they stay connected to those teachers that they have already been working with. Then they can just walk right back into school when they are ready to do that.” “So, if you’re talking about a youngster of any age who maybe is in treatment for cancer or something and they have to miss, say, four weeks of school but they don’t want to withdraw from school and want to come back when they are able to, they might be able to do something while they are staying at home and undergoing some treatment, she said.”
Many windows will be deployed in the new Mesa Council Chambers to emphasize trans parency in government. (City of Mesa)
The second-story chamber is accessed by an elevator or a dramatic curving staircase. Designers arranged the chamber this way to be beautiful but also more secure than the current council chambers. In the current chamber building, the ground-level front door of the building is just a skip and a jump from the entrance to the upper chamber where city council and the planning and zoning board hold hearings.Whatlittle space exists now between the front door and the chamber is taken
BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer City officials are embarking on a “generational opportunity” to “rei magine and reinvent City Hall” with a new building and site for the city coun cilThechambers.chambers serve as the heart of Me sa’s democracy, where the public interfac es with elected officials and actions. Staff unveiled plans to Mesa’s Design Review Board on Aug. 9, giving Mesa’s review boards their first opportunity to weigh in on the look and design of the new building.Board members generally liked what they saw, offering just a few minor sugges tions to city staff. Mesa’s new chambers won’t be mas sive, but their symbolism is huge for a city whose leaders want to project the sense to residents and visitors that Mesa is a vital, modern city on the make. The plan is to relocate the chambers from their current location at 1st Street and Centennial Way to the southeast cor ner of Center and Main Streets at Mesa City Plaza, on the site of the current annex building.Crewswill demolish the annex building to make way for the new chambers. The city expects demolition to begin in January 2023. The city said that staff who currently work in the annex will be relocated to open office space in the City Plaza tower or other city buildings. Mesa’s current five-year capital improve ment plan calls for the building to be fund ed out of the city’s capital general fund. Officials said they are still working on an estimate for the final costs.
In response to increasing rates of anxi ety and emotional problems, Mesa has roughly doubled the number of grade school counselors on staff to 166 since 2018. That still leaves a counselor-student ratio of about 355:1. “People are really struggling with their mental health, young people and adults in our community,” said Mike Garcia, MPS director of opportunity and achievement. Those counselors documented 113,822 interactions with students last school year – up from 71,683 five years ago. “It’s not just our students. We’re notic ing it in our staff, as well,” Garcia said. “It’s almost like an awakening, I guess, that we need to pay attention to the social and emotional needs of our staff. “This is what our community has asked for. They want us to focus more on the mental health and well-being of our com munity, and since the school is a big part of our community this is big part of what we see as our charge as a school district,” he“Thissaid. is still going to be rigorous and meet academic criteria in order to award credit,” board member Laura Ellingson said.“We want to make sure that any time we are awarding credit, that it’s aligned to Arizona academic standards, that we have clearly defined outcomes that are expect ed in any learning experience and that all stakeholders are aware of those intended outcomes. Parents, teachers, students, ad ministrators,” she said. Echols said the schools will monitor students closely to be sure that the predetermined academic benchmarks have been“Thoseachieved.offcampus learning days,” she said, “attendance would be taken retroac tively, say at the end of the week and look ing at evidence of learning in the learning management system.” That system is called Canvas. Teams have been constructing the components of the separate pathways throughout the summer. “We want to make sure that we’ve got the documentation in place. That we are adhering to the law and that we will have a good outcome in case of an audit, which will happen,” Echols said.”
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Key features of the SR 24 project are not limited to the roadway. Crews also have constructed a regional storm water drainage channel parallel to the north side of the roadway.
The latest stretch of the new SR 24 in east Mesa connects Ironwood Drive and Williams Field Road. (ADOT)
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The Arizona Department of Transpor tation opened another stretch of the relatively new State Route 24 in east Mesa with a four-mile stretch between Williams Field Road and Ironwood Drive along the Maricopa and Pinal county line. The move makes it a little easier to trav el between Queen Creek and Mesa, but ADOT said the $77 million extension of SR 24 “was constructed as an interim fourlane expressway to provide drivers with a much-anticipated new local route to help ease traffic demands in a growing area.
The first section of SR 24, also called Gateway Freeway, opened between the Loop 202 Santan Freeway and Ellsworth Road in spring 2014.
In addition to intersections at Williams Field Road, Signal Butte Road, Meridian Road and Ironwood Drive, SR 24 has on- and off-ramp connections at Ellsworth Road. The roadway also crosses over Mountain Road. The city of Mesa is working to complete the Signal Butte Road interchange, set to open in 2023, which will connect SR 24 to an extended Signal Butte Road. While that construction takes place, drivers exiting SR 24 at Williams Field Road can access Signal Butte north of the newMeridianexpressway.Road’s access is limited to and from the area south of SR 24, since the road does not extend north of the highway.
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Construction started in November 2020. The SR 24 extension is not designed to operate as a freeway. In addition to traf fic signals at intersections, the new road way’s speed limit is 45 miles per hour. In April, crews opened the first mile of the project between Ellsworth and Wil liams Field roads as part of an agreement with Mesa and the operators of the nearby Bell Bank Park, a new sports and enter tainment“Gettingcomplex.ustothis point has taken a great deal of partnership between ADOT, the city of Mesa, the Maricopa Association of Governments and its member commu nities, as well as the Federal Highway Ad ministration and Pinal County,” said ADOT Director John Halikowski.
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At the current $625,000 median sales price for homes in Eastmark on Realtor. com, a 144-home deal would cost $90 million.Under Arizona law, a willing home builder could sell tracts of new homes to an investor for use as short-term rentals, and there’s nothing city planners could do about“Citiesit. cannot prohibit a person from buying or using property as a short-term rental,” a spokeswoman for the Mesa City Attorney said. That has frustrated some cities and towns in Arizona, such as Scottsdale and Sedona, which feel their limited workforce housing and quiet neighborhoods are be ing compromised by demand for shortstayOpponentsrentals. of transient rentals have ar gued that they are commercial properties in the midst of residential neighborhood.
The eight-story building was construct ed in 1975 and is heavily accented with copper stripping. The board seemed to agree that more could be done to visually tie the old and new buildings together. “You’re not going to get me to say any thing bad about the design, I think it looks nice,” board member Dane Astle said. “My only comments really come to the connection and the similarities that would come between the two (buildings) becoming one.”
He said a “California-based company with some representation here in the Val ley” wants 144 homes in Eastmark in or der to establish “a whole neighborhood of short-term rentals.” He told the board he has a meeting scheduled this month with the company, but a spokeswoman for Visit Mesa de clined to provide additional details. A spokeswoman for Eastmark developer Brookfield Residential said the company has not been approached about purchas ing lots for short-term rentals and that all of Eastmarks’s available residential par cels are owned by homebuilders, who are in control of homes now in development. She also noted that HOA restrictions for current Eastmark homeowners require a minimum 180-day lease. While the developer in question hasn’t signed any deals yet, Garcia said the com pany is “quite serious.”
Other critics call for rentals to be regu lated as businesses but zoning laws can’t discriminate between a house used for transient lodging versus one occupied long-term. For example, cities can’t re quire rentals to have more parking spaces than an owner-occupied home.
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“They’re paying the 5.5% (state) sales tax … they’re paying 1.77% of the county, and they’re paying 5% (transient lodging tax) to the city of Mesa, along with the 2% (transaction privilege tax) in the city of Mesa,” Garcia said. from up by a metal detector and table awk wardly added in.
The new council chambers would pres ent a much longer journey from the street to the actual chambers, enhancing the se curity aspect of the facility.
Mesa needs more visitor ac commodations, Garcia said, as lodging demand is expected to grow from the Bell Bank Park sports complex, Cannon Beach and other new or planned attractions.
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The latest short-term rental bill from the legislature, signed by Gov. Doug Du cey in July, granted cities a half-dozen new powers to regulate the rentals. It restricts them from being used as so ber living homes or sets for pornographic films and requires the owner to provide contact information for responding to complaints and emergencies. It also allows municipalities to require permitting and licensing and require home owners to notify neighbors of the property’s use as a short-term rental.
Garcia’s description of the idea for a neighborhood of short-term rentals in Eastmark caused a murmur on the board. Board President Rich Adams and anoth er member wanted to know if the shortterm neighborhood idea had been tried anywhere else in the country, and wheth er homes used for transient lodging have to pay the same taxes as hotels.
Some Arizona cities have been lobby ing the Legislature for the power to cre ate rules guiding where short-term rent als can be located, but so far the powers granted to cities have fallen short of that.
The city’s architect for the project, Adap tive Architects, wrote in the project narra tive that one of the themes of the project is “jewel in the desert,” and they nodded to this idea by making the building attractive when lit up from the inside at night. The building will have programmable LEDs so staff can change colors for certain occasions.Theroof will be embellished with touch es of red, amber and blue – Mesa’s prima ry city colors. The design board praised the design to incorporate color as well as other choices in the design. One of the main topics of concern for board members was whether the new council chambers building looked visually connected enough to the Mesa City Plaza tower to which it will be connected.
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The law goes into effect Sept. 22 and Mesa’s city attorney plans to bring a short-term rental ordinance to city council that aligns with the rules in the newGarcialegislation.saida short-term rental neigh borhood would benefit the city by quick ly growing Mesa’s stock of lodging where it is needed and push up the city’s aver age nightly rates, since rates for singlefamily homes are “much higher than the hotelSoutheastrates.”
The discussion last week was the first of two reviews the council chamber plans will receive from the board CHAMBER from page 10 those closest to a development are “the ones who have to live with it” and make sure their voices are heard, but the inter ests of the larger community also have to be“Youconsidered.haveto, I think, make sure that you don’t only hear the voice of a small group that feels the immediate impact because there may be a larger group that gets the benefit, but there’s an impasse because of a small group that’s closer, and the larger group doesn’t understand the benefit yet, and so doesn’t come in with their voice,” Goforth said. Goforth also said that many residents are interested in increasing the walkabil ity and bikeability of the city, and she is a believer in walkable communities. She said that for many people she’s talk ed to, increasing the number of space they can walk or bike to is at the top of their lists of priorities. She said when she’s considering proj ects, she will be looking for ways to make them more pedestrian-friendly.
Garcia said the idea of grouping shortterm rentals together could be a win-win for Mesa’s tourism business and neighbors.
The surging industrial sector may also create short-term rental demand from temporary workers in town to help set up new data centers and other operations.
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“You’ve heard or read in the news about a lot of people’s concern about short-term rentals and the noise and the parties and things of that nature. So the solution for this developer is ‘we’ll lo cate them all in one area,’ so they’re not impacting residents who live there 365 days a year,” Garcia said. Councilman Kevin Thompson, who represents Eastmark, had not heard any thing about the project, his assistant Alicia White said, adding, “He will now look into this further and will have the appropriate discussions with Eastmark,” she wrote.
Garcia was not sure the idea had been tried, but he assured the board that shortterm rentals now have to pay the same taxes that hotels do.
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ICAN has been providing needy families in Chandler with free after-school programs for 30 years. (Special to the Tribune)
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The need didn’t subside, but children were now doing a lot of it self-directed and she saw it as her charge to keeps those books in the hands of people who would use them. ”The pandemic actually helped to en courage growth and flexibility,” Payne said. “We did a lot of deliveries when we were really shut down. “Teachers and schools in general have just been wonderful about finding new and different ways to get books to kids. Even when they couldn’t actually, physi cally, have them in the classroom.”
15COMMUNITYTHE MESA TRIBUNE | AUGUST 14, 2022 TheMesaTribune.com | @EVTNow /EVTNow TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF A Chandler nonprofit that has served kids with free after-school programs has set up shop in Mesa to help local children and teens. With an eye toward helping 150 kids, ICAN opened at Longfellow Elementary School, 345 S. Hall St. and Adams Elemen tary School, 738 S. Longmore. "The pandemic brought to light the criti cal importance of accessible childcare - a service that is essential for the economic mobility of families in our community,” said ICAN CEO Shelby Pedersen. “Our board of directors identified Mesa as our next location because 17 percent of youth in Mesa schools live in poverty and 22 schools within the district have 75 percent of students qualifying for free and reduced lunch, she explained. “Due to the success of the Chandler sites, and the dire need for free programs like ICAN in other communities, we know we’ll make a positive impact on the youth and families in Mesa.”
“Starting from a small group project in 2007 and growing into a national non profit literacy organization that serves over 100,000 children, Kids Need to Read has only had one goal,” said Executive Di rector Jessica Payne. “Helping children discover the joy of reading and the power of a literate mind by providing inspiring books and literacy programs to underfunded schools, librar ies, and community agencies across the United States, especially those serving disadvantaged children.”
Of the group’s $1.38 million budget that comprises grants and donations from au thors and others, 95% fund the program’s three main initiatives: “Grow Your library,” “From Our Shelves to Yours,” and “The Page“We’dCoach.”do these things I called Page Coach Marathons, where I would just stop at several schools, fill up our Page Coach, which can hold about 3,000 books, and stop at several schools during the day and drop the books off,” she said. Kids Need to Read’s goal is to empower and embolden every child through a cul ture of reading.
“We’ve been able to bring classroom li braries to the teachers and also have book giveaways to students themselves so that they can start building their own home librar ies,” Payne said. While schools were shut down during the pandemic, Payne says, Kids Need to Read went into overdrive.
Mesa group aims to get kids to read more
The new sites offer an holistic approach to helping youth from vulnerable back grounds to prevent and overcome life challenges and prepare for healthy transi tions to adulthood. The program utilizes the “5 C’s of Posi tive Youth Development,” a nationallyBY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer K eep an eye for the “Page Coach” traversing Mesa streets during the months of August and September. Mesa-based Kids Need to Read – a na tional organization – is celebrating 15 years of literacy for children in communi tiesTheeverywhere.“PageCoach,” a takeoff on the oldwest stagecoach, is a cargo van outfitted with a flashy vinyl wrap.
That amounts to about a million dollars’ worth of mostly author-donated books getting into the hands of schools, at-risk kids and teachers annually. And it’s done 3,000 books at a time by the “Page Coach.”
Mesa-based Kids Need to Read uses members and a brightly wrapped van deliver its message. (Special to the Tribune) nonprofit offers after-school help in Mesa
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ICAN from page 15 recognized youth engagement model that focuses on “building and nurturing all a child’s beliefs, behaviors, knowledge, at tributes and skills. The 5 C’s include: connection, confi dence, character, competence and contri bution.Youth attend programs Monday – Friday afterschool until 6 p.m. Program activities include STEAM, academic support, litera cy skill building, sport and recreation, and all youth receive a healthy snack and din ner“Wedaily.expect all sites to continue grow ing in enrollment to serve 80-100 youth per site within the next two years,” added Pedersen.ICAN’s expansion into Mesa is made possible in part by a catalytic $100,000 grant from Bank of America, as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to advance ra cial equality and economic opportunity by building pathways to education.
The funding builds on Bank of America’s recent $1.65 million in grants to Arizona State University and Maricopa Commu nity Colleges Foundation and to increase student success in degree and certifica tion completion among students of color. “Access to high-quality, affordable child care is a game changer in terms of creating more positive educational and economic outcomes for under-resourced families,” said Benito Almaza, Arizona president for Bank of America. “ICAN programming and services impact multiple generations within a household, which ultimately constructs more wide spread economic mobility and strength ens our Valley economy as a whole.” The nonprofit provided some stark sta tistics:86% of students at Mesa Longfellow tested “not proficient” in English Lan guage Arts and 94% in math in 2021; 83% of students at Mesa Adams tested “not proficient” in ELA and 91% in math in20%2021.of students in Mesa District attend a Title I school; The average cost for an afterschool pro gram in the U.S. is $6,500 per year, per child, which can be a tremendous burden on a family living in poverty. To learn more about becoming a cor porate sponsor or donor for the new Mesa locations, contact Katie String ham at katie@icanaz.org
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For many of the children it serves, the program represents a crucial link to a strong literacy education, and its programs help build and nurture sup port systems for the development of lit erate minds. “By immersing children in an integrated world of literary experiences that teaches them, firsthand, the impact of reading on every aspect of life, imagination is ignited and confidence is built for a prosperous future, regardless of race, economic sta tus, or personal capabilities,” said Payne, who taught high school for 15 years. “We keep growing. We keep getting more books to make literacy equitable.” 1840 E. Tempe. Kids Need free, peo Need to Read and EOS three raffles of family books and swag. The cost to enter the raffle is one book. The raffle will only be held during the event but they do not need to be present to win. When: 2-4 p.m. Sept. 3 Where: Mesa Public Library, 64 E. 1st St., Mesa. What: Come help build reading buddies and reading buddy kits for Kids Need to Read. Volunteers from age 12 and up are needed. All sewing skill levels welcome. Space is limited, so reserve a spot by emailing Info@kidsneedtoread.org Cost: Free. Donations of Poly-fil and washable fabric are welcomed but not required.
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A recent nationwide study found almost 28% of households experienced barriers to proper veterinary care for their pets, with finances being cited as the most common reason. Dr. Kelly Patriquin, DVM, and Doug Patriquin wanted to help local residents have better access to affordable surgical care for their furry friends – cats, dogs and rabbits specifically. So in 2016, they opened Dr. Kelly’s Mo bile Vet, a veterinary practice on wheels that routinely sets up shop in Mesa, Gil bert and Queen Creek. “We were looking to open a veterinary service where we can help more pets,” said Doug Patriquin, CEO of the prac tice. “We found by specializing in surgi cal care we can help pets that might not receive care due to financial constraints. “Often, due to the cost, pets will go without proper dental care, spay and neutering or getting some of the growing lumps and bumps removed. The cost of veterinary care, like most things, is rising and services can be prohibitively expen sive for some “Unfortunately,clients.”ifthese services that fall under surgical care are left untreat ed, the issue often gets worse and more expensive down the line,” he continued. Noting owners “often make large finan cial sacrifices or take on debt to care for their fam ily pet,” he said that by specializing in likeservices,certainroutine surgery, “we can find effi ciencies and pass that savings to our inspecializesMobileDr.clients.”Kelly’sVetlow-cost surgical care includ ing spay/ neuter, den tal cleaning and practicethatexplainedandremovals,tions,extracmassmore.Patriquinthehas
six clinics: one free standing building and five custom-built mobile hospitals that provide surgical procedures right onHeboard.said that each day a mobile unit partners with a local business where they park their mobile clinic. People can find a clinic at drkellysvet. com/find-us and typing in a location. “We are not a door-to-door service but with our business partners all over town we connect to every corner of the Valley,” hePatriquinadded. said his business has strived to provide affordable services since it was formed. “We have amazing and long-lasting re lationships with rescues like Friends for Life and Ghost Town in Mesa, local and family-owned retail businesses like In spire Farms and multiple Pet Planet loca tions, incredible dog boarding facilities like 24/7 Dogs, Doggie District, Camp Bow Wow and Preppy Pet, and small and large grooming salons,” he said. In addition to providing affordable vet erinary care for individuals, Dr. Kelly also works with nonprofits. “We provide both financial support and service discounts to dozens of local non profit animal rescues as they are a key part of the community and align with our mission of helping pets,” Patriquin said. “Rescue pets have been a part of our fam ily from the beginning, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.” Looking toward the future, Patriquin sees their practice continuing to grow as affordable veterinary care is always in demand.
TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF L arry H. Miller Dealerships in Mesa are still collecting donations for an nounced today its second annual Food Fuels Learning campaign in partner ship with St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix. The campaign supports St. Mary’s Back pack Program, which provides chronically hungry children with a weekly food bag to help their families through the weekend. “The rising cost of fuel, food, and hous ing is a real concern and impacts us all,” said Pat Kroneberger, senior vice presi dent of operations, Larry H. Miller Dealer ships. “While many people are feeling the financial pain when filling up their empty tanks at the gas station, sadly, many chil dren are feeling the hunger pangs of emp ty stomachs.”
“Our company is focused on uplifting the community, especially the health of our children, and we hope this monthlong drive will help fill a gap at the local food banks,” he added. Through Aug. 18, employees and the general public can fill a vehicle at Larry H. Miller Ford Mesa, 460 E. Auto Center Drive, and Larry H. Miller Nissan Mesa, 2025 Riverview Auto Drive with nonper ishable food items. Some of the most needed items include bottled water, peanut butter, cereal, canned fruits and vegetables, rice, beans, pasta, and canned tuna, chicken and beef. food donations
Dr. Kelly Patriquin, DVM, and Doug Patriquin own a mobile veterinarian prac tice. (Courtesy Dr. Kelly’s Mobile Vet)
concluded that thought in a way that sounded both presidential and prophetic: “Or one day, we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
4th election defeat a sad end for Arpaio
BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist Unable to leave the fanfare behind, the great ones inevitably hang on too long. There’s a sadness watching them fade in plain sight.
The gimmicks seemed endless: pink underwear so jail inmates wouldn’t steal undergarments, Tent City tours on 117-degree days, meals of donated fruit and green baloney to save the taxpay ers money. There was a roguish charm to Arpaio then, like he was in on the joke, a hound for headlines who reveled in being despised by reporters and liberals alike. During my early days as a columnist for the Tribune, I went to Arpaio with an in sane idea: Put me undercover on the chain gang. He couldn’t say “yes” fast enough. MCSO deputies sneaked me into the jail at 3 a.m., gave me a sweat-stained uniform and chained me to a crew of convicts. To a man, my fellow inmates confided that chain gang duty was better than sit ting in the tents all day. We gathered trash from roadsides in the sweltering summer heat, passers-by constantly honking and giving us the finger. I got a column and a bunch of TV inter views out of the deal. Arpaio got to read his name in bold news type yet again. In the early days, Arpaio’s mantra I thought would serve him for eternity: You will never live better in jail than you live on the street. Eventually he lost sight of what made him a political rock star, in stead using the sheriff’s office to target politicalArpaioopponents.failedto investigate serious crimes and he misused the people’s money like a drunken lottery winner. As American politics got meaner after the turn of the century, tough Old Joe moved his crosshairs from criminals to anyone with brown skin. In 2016, Arpaio lost to Paul Penzone, a retired Phoenix cop who has returned law enforcement focus and decorum back to the Sheriff’s Office. Two years later, Arpaio lost in a GOP Senate primary. In 2020, he lost in the Republican primary for sheriff. Last year, announcing his candidacy for mayor of Fountain Hills, he told Fox News, “What do you want me to do? Go fishing? Go golfing? I don’t do anything. My hobby is work. I’ve done that my whole life. I’m not stopping now.” Arpaio in his prime fooled me totally. Back in 2001, “60 Minutes” did a bio piece headlined “Joe the Jailer.” How does it end for Arpaio? “It’s gonna wear out when this guy passes away giving his speech in Sun City at 9 at night and he slumps forward into his rubber chicken,” was my assessment. “That’s when it wears out and not a mo ment before.” We were younger then. The moment seemed eternal. It always does with the great ones, until it does no longer.
Sadly, it now appears that “one day” is fastWelcomeapproaching.to“Mourning in America.”
Then there’s former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Once a political juggernaut, a lawman sought out by presidents seeking to kiss his ring and parts further south, Arpaio, now 90, lost his fourth consecutive elec tion last week – for the lofty title of Mayor of Fountain Hills. To someone named Ginny Dickey. Who beat Arpaio, once America’s Toughest Sheriff, by 213 votes. This despite Arpaio spending $161,000, or about 31 bucks for each of his 5,207 votes. The great ones never know when to bid us goodbye. I met Arpaio in 1995, a few weeks after I moved to Arizona. He was two years into his 24-year run as sheriff, a law enforce ment sideshow full of bombast and bull.
Think Muhammad Ali out on his feet against Trevor Berbick; Willie Mays bat ting a feeble .211 in his last year with the Mets; Elizabeth Taylor picking up a pay check in the TV flick, “These Old Broads.”
Trump raid signals ‘Mourning in America’
No wonder the 40th president won a second term in a landslide of historic proportions, carrying 49 states and the District of Columbia. The television ad that typified the successful 1984 cam paign proclaimed that “It’s ‘Morning in America’ again.” That line so resonated within the na tional consciousness that even contempo rary critics employ it in a quick dismissal of the Reagan years. While conservative historian and for mer House Speaker Newt Gingrich de scribes Reagan’s distinguishing charac teristic as “cheerful persistence,” the fact is that the former radio sportscaster and Hollywood actor was likewise persistent in warning Americans about a fate con siderably less cheerful. “Freedom,” Reagan said, “is never more than one generation away from extinc tion. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do theReagansame.”
BY JD HAYWORTH Tribune Columnist The “Reagan Renaissance” is seldom heralded by today’s history scholars – and that’s a shame. A one-liner is usually all they can spare from their considerable labors to revise the past so that they may pacify the woke among us. And predictably, their minimalist as sessment goes something like this: “Ron ald Reagan’s boundless optimism induced his fellow countrymen into believing it was ‘Morning in America’ again.” That’s it. But for the vast majority of Americans who were of voting age in the 1980’s, and experienced the “Age of Reagan” first-hand, they know it was much more. The end of “stagflation.” The restoration of a strong national defense as well as a strong economy. And yes, a consensus that “America was back.”
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In a column for “The Hill,” Dershowitz goes on to explain that two figures who have enjoyed his political support—2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and former National Security Ad viser Sandy Berger—were spared raids of their homes “for comparable allegations of mishandling official records in the re centDershowitzpast.” has repeatedly warned against the criminalization of political dif ferences, but that appears to be precisely what the Department of “Just Us” is doing see HAYWORTH page 20
Thoughtful Americans, regardless of partisan label or political philosophy, find themselves mourning the unprece dented FBI raid on the home of a former President.Noless a liberal than Alan Dershow itz, lifelong Democrat and Harvard Law professor emeritus, wrote that the “fullscale morning raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home does not seem justified…If it is true that the basis of the raid was the former President’s alleged removal of classified material from the White House, that would constitute a dou ble standard of justice.”
rightSimplynow.stated, the Biden Administration authorized a raid of the home of a for mer President, who could very well face Joe Biden as the Republican presidential nominee again in 2024. Gingrich put the sordid episode into context: “If they can do this to a former and potentially future president, what can they do to you…or your cousin, or your friends, or your neighbors? And I think it’s a very scary step towards a police state.”
Newt’s concern is compounded by the Left’s goal of adding 87,000 new IRSRestagents.assured, when they show up at your door, they won’t be there for tea and crumpets…they’ll go for your “cookie jar” instead. What else will crumble? The cor nerstone of American jurisprudence—the presumption of innocence to which the accused is entitled. An earlier Congress (in which this col umnist served) enacted the “Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights” to assure that the burden of proof remained on the IRS during an au dit, but like the original Bill of Rights, cer tain individual freedoms appear headed for permanent misplacement in the “lost and found” of a newly-founded mentListenstate.”again to President Reagan: “The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.” Your vote can turn the current “Mourning” into “Morning” once again. That’s a promise.
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Zack Shepherd recognized from an ear ly age how important his father, Steve, was to him and his four siblings. He was Shepherd’s support system for difficult situations. He was his biggest fan when he played football growing up in Mesa and when he got to high school at Williams Field. He was there every step of the way when Shepherd led the Black Hawks to an undefeated record and state title in 2016. As important as it was to have Steve there for him growing up, Shepherd knew how important it was to his father to be there for his kids. That was something Steve didn’t have, as his father was an alcoholic and abusive. He vowed to never go down that path, and he stayed true to his word. “I get one extreme from the other. My dad was a great father, but his wasn’t so much,” Shepherd said. “He’s told me sto ries my whole life. One year, when he was a kid, all he got for Christmas was a beer and an orange. So, every year in our stocking we get an IBC root beer in our stocking along with an orange. “It’s a reminder we need to be grateful for what we have. It’s a constant reminder what we truly have in my fa ther and my parents because there’s tons of people who don’t have what I have.” The support Shepherd had and still has from Steve has been impactful. That’s why he created Fatherhood Ini tiative to raise awareness and promote how important fatherhoodShepherd’sis.
Athlete's foundation focuses on fatherhood
BY ZACH ALVIRA Tribune Sports Editor
Eastmark football coach Scooter Molander, wide receiver Austin John ston, “middle,” and quarterback Mack Molander have high expectations this season as the Firebirds return several key starters on both sides of the ball. (Dave Minton/Tribune Staff)
It hasn’t taken long for Eastmark’s football program to rise to the level of championship contender in the 3A Conference. They got their first taste of postseason action last year as they fell to River Valley in the first round of the playoffs. That came on the heels of a 2-6 campaign with a ma jority of their players freshman and sopho mores playing varsity football for the first time and during the pandemic in 2020. Now, in its third season, Eastmark’s roster is bigger and filled with talent across the board. So much so that the Firebirds have become one of the favor ites to hoist the gold ball in November at the end of the season. “I was reading something this morning, it was a quote from the great Bill Russell,” Molander said. “It said, ‘Do you listen to the boos or the negative comments or the racism?’ He says, ‘No, why would I? I don’t listen to the“Thecheers.’point being, if you’re locked in, we control what we control. We’re excited to be con sidered because it shows we’re build ing something special. But it’s all hypothetical. Ev eryone has to go out and play.” It should come as no surprise Molander has already built Eastmark up to a high level. He won two state titles at Brophy in his first three seasons and made the playoffs 12 out of the 13 years he led the Broncos. He resigned after a 1-9 season in 2017 and was hired to start the Eastmark pro gram a year later in 2018. His accolades while at Brophy, along with the boom ing Eastmark community that continues to grow in East Mesa near the border of Queen Creek, quickly attracted talent to theEastmarkprogram.graduated some players last season, but this year presents Molander’s biggest senior class. Most have been at the school since they were freshmen, and they have the chemistry to show for it. There’s also a sense of pride that comes along with that. They started the program. They built it into a playoff contender. They set the foundation.
Eastmark heads into first game with expectations high
journey to starting his non-profit be gan in Italy when he served a church mission. He spent much of that time on lock down due to the pandemic. It was there he had the opportunity to meet with Jimmer Fredette, a former standout basketball player at BYU. Fredette shared his non-profit, which then motivated Shepherd to start creating his own. When he returned from his mis sion, he began his football career at South ern Utah University. He played a year be fore deciding this season to hang up his cleats. Though, he still attends SUU. Fatherhood Initiative officially got off the ground last year while he was sitting in a classroom. His professor mentioned non-profit organizations and Shepherd decided it was time to take the plunge. He did research, started a website and offi cially announced Fatherhood Initiative on hisTheInstagram.support he received was unimagi nable.“Itblew me away how much support I got from it,” Shepherd said. “It gave me that motivation to keep going. My dad has been way on board, my mom has been see EASTMARK page
Mesa native and former Williams Field quarterback Zack Shepherd recognized how important having his father, Steve, in his life was growing up. He also saw how hesitant his generation was to be a father. So, he created Fatherhood Initiative to spread awareness and promote responsible fa therhood. (Courtesy Zack Shepherd) see SHEPHERD page 23 BY ZACH ALVIRA Tribune Sports Editor
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To learn more about Fatherhood Initiative and its mission, visit fatherhoodi nitiative.org or follow the organization’s Instagram, @fatherhood.initiative.
“Super excited about the leadership,” Molander said. “As coaches, we don’t have to say too much anymore. They handle it. They’ve embraced the lifelong skills we teach and it’s exciting coming out to prac tice. We aren’t having to babysit out here.”
Mack will benefit the most from return ing wideout Austin Johnston, who led the team with 1,186 receiving yards on 63 receptions last year with 15 touchdowns.
Eastmark football coach Scooter Molander, wide receiver Austin John ston, “middle,” and quarterback Mack Molander have high expectations this season as the Firebirds return several key starters on both sides of the ball. (Dave Minton/Tribune Staff)
Molander’s son, Mack, has become one of those leaders for the program. A senior, he’s heading into his final season playing under his father at the quarter backMackposition.saidit’s a unique circumstance being a coach’s son. There is some added pressure that comes along with it. Even more so due to the position he plays. But it’s also become enjoyable. He passed for 1,367 yards last year in six games for the Firebirds. He threw 18 touchdowns and just three intercep tions. He also rushed for 268 yards and a pair of Mack,scores.likethe other seniors, are aiming for a trophy to cap off their high school careers. They feel as if they have the tal ent to do it, even with three of their top players transferring to nearby Basha during the summer. But with other talented teams in the 3A Conference, including Valley Christian in Chandler, they know they have to take it a game at a time. That starts Saturday when Eastmark travels by plane to take on Rob ertson, the defending 3A champion from New Mexico. A flight and stay in a hotel will be a unique experience, as it is the first out-of-state trip for the program. It represents another opportunity for the team to become even closer while showcas ing what it can do outside of Arizona. “It’s exciting, we’re ready to go. We’ve been ready since the summer,” Mack said. “We’re ready to go against somebody else. We did a lot of fun draising for this trip, and I think we earned it after hav ing a good season in our second varsi ty season last year. “I think we can really show, at least New Mexico, what’s over in Ari zona.”Along with Mack, Eastmark also returns Diego Rodri guez, who was one of the Firebirds’ lead ing rushers last season. Linebacker Kaden Armstrong led the team last season with 131 tackles as a junior, and Ramar Wil liams figures to be a standout at defensive end and tight end after a big off-season that saw him grow physically and men tally. He is a junior.
Shepherd said the organization is planning speaking engagements at local high schools that will help younger gen erations understand the impact fathers make on children, a spouse and loved ones. They will also encourage respon sible fatherhood for young men and pro vide resources and helpful information to current fathers Overall, they aim to create a more father-present society, something that Shepherd believes will make an impact based on his research. He found that 71 percent of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. Sixty-three percent of youth suicides also stem from homes without a father present. Currently, there are more than 17 million children growing up without a father in the U.S. Shepherd also found that 40 percent of all births take place out of “Therewedlock.arestatistics I want to change,” Shepherd said. “One of our slogans is, ‘Ev eryone deserves a dad,’ and I think that is so true. As I go to speak with groups, my goal is to spread the good that comes with fatherhood.”Shepherd’s team with Fatherhood Ini tiative is small for now. He is currently in the process of applying for 501c3 status, which takes time. He still works and attends SUU, where he is studying business and political sci ence. This fall, he will work an internship in Washington D.C. for Utah Senator Mitt Romney. Even with a busy schedule, Fa therhood Initiative stays in the forefront of his mind. He wants to make a difference. He wants to make fatherhood cool, a life style and a goal for those in his generation.
The two have grown close to the point where they hangout nearly every day af terTheypractice.know what is at stake this season and with this team. They want to do every thing in their power to set an example for younger players and go out on top. “We want to set an example for the next class,” Johnston said. “It’s all good on the field but building the school and having a good leadership standard is important to us. We’re going to work hard in the weight room and practice field every week. It’s going to pay off every Friday night.”
23SPORTSTHE MESA TRIBUNE | AUGUST 14, 2022 way on board because she knows the im pact my dad made on all of us growing up. My parents both are super stoked and I’m excited to see where it goes.” Fatherhood Initiative’s mission is sim ple: They want to promote fatherhood.
SHEPHERD from page 22
The youngest of five, Zack Shepherd recalls stories his father told him about his abusive dad. His father vowed to never be that way toward his children, and he kept that promise. (Courtesy Zack Shepherd)
Shepherd is determined to get Father hood Initiative to succeed. It’s the same level of determination he had on the foot ball field. Just like he did at Williams Field, he wants to make an impact. “As I grew up in sports, I learned that hard work is everything in this life,” Shep herd said. “Football and all the other sports I played growing up taught me that. My coaches, for example, were all father fig ures to me. I grew up with them, in a way. “Every day when I go to work on this or ganization, I know there are a lot of things I need to get done. But little by little, step by step, I’ll get to where I want it to be. That’s exactly how it was in football.”
No matter how the season goes, it’s one Molander will cherish. Not only will it be his last with Mack, but all the seniors he has grown close with. To him, they aren’t just his players. They’re his sons. “I’m trying to remember to never take one day for granted and to enjoy every moment,” Molander said. “It’s my last goaround with (Mack) and some of my other sons, and what I mean by that is these kids have been in the program for four years. They’re going to be really missed.”
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Gibbs wanted his product to have the quicker response time that alcohol has –roughly 15 minutes.
“With cannabis, it’s been illegal for so long, so there’s no manual,” Gibbs said. “Nobody writes any of this stuff down; it’s not like almost any other industry. If you go into any other industry, there’s long legions of people that have done stuff before.”
After learning about nano-emulsifying technology, he was able to figure out how to correctly utilize it, and he had his fin ished product. In this case, nano-emulsifi cation converted the THC into something that would allow it to enter the blood stream faster.
Sweet Dreams Vineyard founder Bill Gibbs has found a unique product that blends the effects of marijuana with the taste of red wine. (Special to AFN)
Gibbs, however, said he doesn’t want people to expect a perfect flavor profile to a classic “You’reCabernet.nevergoing to drink that and go, ‘That’s the best Cabernet I’ve ever had,’” he said. “You’re going to say, ‘It’s wine like, and it tastes good.’”
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“You know, we’re close to California. I thought I’d get some (nonalcoholic) wine and put THC in it. There you go; there’s the product.”WhatGibbs hadn’t realized is that nonalcoholic wine is not exactly fruitful in the taste department. “It’s not just awful; it’s incredibly ter rible,” he said. “You would never want to have it by the glass. I don’t know exactly what causes that, but without the alcohol in there, it really is bad.’” Gibbs hired a sommelier and purchased “every kind of juice known to man.” The two of them, Gibbs said, sat in his kitchen to try and figure out the juice combination that would best mimic the taste of a glass of red wine. After finding the correct combination, Gibbs wasn’t exactly done with the beta stage. He said the “edible experience” is something he did not want his cannabisinfused beverages to mimic, as edibles can be unpredictable and take a long time to take effect. “When I was able to do some research, I realized that this was an issue that the pharmaceutical companies had solved a long time ago to be able to have the ac tive ingredients enter the bloodstream at a much quicker rate,” Gibbs said. “Then, I just went about trying to figure out how to do that.”
Sweet Dreams puts a new twist on wine, cocktails
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“The big reason about why I wanted the alcohol experience, is that it includes the social aspect of it,” he said. “You could bring a bottle of this to a party where you might not be able to bring a joint. This encourages the social aspect, which for alcohol, for me, I think is one of the most important and endearing properties of it.”
BY JORDAN ROGERS AFN Staff Writer Sweet Dreams Vineyard and founder Bill Gibbs have brought a cutting-edge product to the cannabis industry. As of early 2021, the company released a nonalcoholic, THC-infused red wine and margarita, dubbed “Cannabernet” and “Marijuarita,” respectively. Both products are sold to anyone over the age 21 at Herbal Wellness Centers, as well as a growing number of dispensaries around the Valley.
Gibbs said the flavor the of the juices serve as a blocker to the bitter taste can nabis brings.
The cost is in the low to high teens for the 187mL bottle of either Cannabernet or Marijuarita and in the low to high $30s for a 750mL bottle of Cannabernet, de pending on the strength. As they are both essentially juices, both products must be refrigerated after opening. “The impetus for this is I’m older, and I love to drink alcohol, but it’s just getting harder and harder for me to do,” Gibbs said. “But I love the social experience of being around people. So that was kind of the im petus about why I did it, it was selfish on my part. I wanted to drink less alcohol, but I didn’t want to change my lifestyle at all.” These beverages also offer fast-acting effects similar to that of an alcohol-based beverage without the hangover. By using nano-emulsification technology, which makes the THC water soluble, the effects are felt in as little as 15 minutes. Cannabernet has half the calories of tra ditional wine per serving, and the Mari jaurita only has 45 calories, which is far fewer than the traditional version of a margarita. Gibbs said keeping his prod ucts healthy was at the top of his list for things to accomplish. No stranger to the marijuana industry, Gibbs founded a dispensary called Urban Greenhouse Dispensary in Phoenix in 2012 and served as its CEO until he later sold the company to Harvest Health and Recreation. While he was with the company, Gibbs was at a marijuana convention in 2016 when, for fun, he threw a cannabis label on a bottle of wine. “Just out of a lark, I took a bottle of wine and put a cannabis label on it,” Gibbs said. “I got calls from – and of that convention at tracts an international crowd – all over the world, from people going, ‘We’re going to get the wine in my location.’ That was kind of an amazing response. I also literally got probably around 100 emails from people.” After selling that dispensary in 2019, Gibbs took a break from the industry. When he decided to get back into it, he fol lowed up on that response he received at that convention. “I thought there would be a million products out there by that time because at that time, nobody had done it,” he said. “I was surprised to see that there was virtu ally none.”
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line 2 sheet pans with parchment paper.
Ingredients: • 2 sheets frozen puff pastry, thawed in the refrigerator • 6 large Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and cut in half
3. Peel and core the apples. Slice the apples in half (from the top of the apple), then slice crosswise in 1/4- inch-thick slices. (8 slices per ½ apple). Place 6 overlapping slices of apples diagonally across each piece of pastry and place a slice of apple on each side. Sprinkle the sugar over all the pastry pieces and dot with the butter.
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• 8 oz. walnuts
• 8 oz. real maple syrup
5. When the galettes are done, heat the apricot jelly together with the rum and brush the apples and pastry completely with the jelly mixture. Loosen the galettes with a metal spatula so they don’t stick to the paper. Serve warm or at room temperature with a scoop of ice cream, walnuts and Maple Balsamic Syrup over top.
• Candied walnuts • 8 oz. powdered sugar
10. Heat a skillet with 1 TBSP oil. Over medium high heat, fry the sugar coated walnuts until a deep golden brown, stirring often. Do not burn walnuts. Allow to cool on a silicone sheet.
ooking for a “go-to” des sert recipe? You can’t go wrong with this delicious combination of apple pastry, candied walnuts, a drizzle of homemade balsamic reduc tion served with vanilla ice It’s a scrumptious culinary puzzle that fits perfectly together. Make it once, and you’ll go to it time and time again, guaranteed.
• 1 cup sugar • 8 TBSP cold butter, diced small • 1 cup apricot jelly • 3TBSP rum
• 7 oz balsamic vinegar
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4. Bake for 40 minutes, until the pastry is browned and the edges of the apples start to brown. Rotate the pan once during cooking. If the pastry puffs up in one area, cut a little slit with a knife to let the air out.
• Pinch of salt
9. Toss the walnuts in the confectioner’s sugar with a pinch of salt until well coated.
2. Unfold the sheets of puff pastry and cut each sheet into quarters. Place the pastry pieces on the prepared sheet pans and refrigerate while you prepare the apples.
• Vanilla ice cream
• Maple balsamic syrup
8. Heat the frying oil to 300 degrees.
• 1 TBSP vegetable oil for frying
11. Place one scoop of ice cream on each apple galette. Sprinkle candied nuts over ice cream and drizzle with balsamic syrup. Serves 8.
With JAN D’ATRI Contributor This go-to dessert will have guests saying ‘more, please’
7. In a pot of boiling water, blanch the walnuts in a pot of boiling water for 2 minutes. Drain walnuts.
6. Make the Balsamic Syrup. In a deep saucepan over medium low heat, bring the balsamic vinegar and maple syrup to a boil and cook until it reaches 230 degrees. Set aside and allow the mixture to cool to room temperature. (When cooled, it should be the consistency of honey.)
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t h e r e f o r e , t h e o r d i n a ry p r o c e s s o f l a w c a n n o t b e s e r v e d u p o n W i l l i a m D o d d I t i s, therefore, ORDERED that William Dodd be served by pub lication of the following notice for four consecutive weeks i n T h e M e s a T r i b u n e , a n e w s p a p e r p u b l i s h e d i n M a r i c o p a C o u n t y , A r i z o n a I t i s f u r t h e r O R D E R E D t h a t i f W i l l i a m Dodd does not enter an appearance or otherwise Answer the Petition, further personal service or service by further pub lication shall be dispensed with and service of any future no tices, motions, orders, or other legal documents in this mat ter may be made upon William Dodd by filing same with the Juvenile Court Clerk of Dyer County, Tennessee NOTICE TO WILLIAM DODD The State of Tennessee, Department of Children’s Services, has filed a petition against you seek i n g t o t e r m i n a t e f o r e v e r y o u r p a r e n t a l r i g h t s t o K a s s i a n Nicholas Junior It appears that ordinary process of law can n o t b e s e r v e d u p o n y o u b e c a u s e y o u r w h e r e a b o u t s a r e u n k n o w n Y o u a r e h e r e b y o r d e r e d t o s e r v e u p o n M a r l e n e S i m p s o n , a t t o r n e y f o r t h e T e n n e s s e e D e p a r t m e n t o f C h i l d r e n S e r v i c e s , 1 9 7 9 S t J o h n A v e n u e , S u i t e F , D y e r s b u r g , TN 38024, an Answer to the Petition for Termination of Par e n t a l R i g h t s f i l e d b y t h e T e n n e s s e e , D e p a r t m e n t o f Children’s Services, within thirty (30) days of the last day of publication against you pursuant to Tenn Code Ann §36 1 117(n) and Rule 55 of the Tenn R of Civ P for the relief demanded in the Petition You may view and obtain a cop y of the Petition and any other subsequently filed legal docu ments at the Dyer County Juvenile Court Clerk’s Office i n D y e r s b u r g , T e n n e s s e e Y o u a r e a l s o o r d e r e d t o a p p e a r o n September 16, 2022 at 9:00 am at the Dyer County Juvenile Court in order to contest the petition filed against you, an d failure to appear or otherwise file an answer with the clerk o f th is Co u r t b ef o r e th at d ate w ill r es u lt in a f in d in g b eing entered against you by default Entered this 25 th day of Ju ly, 2022 Jason Hudson Respectfully submitted, Mar l e n e S i m p s o n , B P R # 0 2 5 6 9 1 A t t o r n e y f o r D C S 1 9 7 9 S t John Ave , Ste F Dyersburg, TN 38024 731 286 8304 CER TIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that a true and ex act copy of the foregoing pleading has been served via email on the 20th day of July, 2022 to the following: Mark Butler, E s q P O Bo x 8 4 6 D y er s b u r g , TN 3 8 0 2 5 cc: Lo r ett a O ’ N eil, D CS Rep r es en tativ e Published: East Valley Tribune, July 31, Aug 7, 14, 21, 2022 / 48162 Roofing Tiles, shingles, flat, repairs & new work Free Estimates • Ahwatukee Resident Over 30 yrs. 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percentformancedredaecutionThechasing/vendor-self-service).(http://mesaaz.gov/business/pursuccessfulbidder,simultaneouslywiththeexoftheContract,willberequiredtofurnishPaymentBondintheamountequaltoonehunpercent(100%)oftheContractPrice,aPerBondinanamountequaltoonehundred(100%)oftheContractPrice,andthemost recent ACORD® Certificate of Liability Insurance form with additional insured endorsements. The right is hereby reserved to accept or reject any or all bids or parts thereto, to waive any infor malities in any proposal and reject the bids of any persons who have been delinquent or unfaithful to any contract with the
CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA QUEEN CREEK ROAD HIGH PRESSURE GAS LINE EXTENSION – PHASE B2 CRISMON ROAD TO SIGNAL BUTTE ROAD CITY OF MESA PROJECT NUMBER ADVERTISEMENTCP0520PHB2FOR BIDS
TheABLE.successful bidder will be required to execute the standard form of contract for construction within ten (10) days after formal award of con tract. In addition, the successful bidder must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self-Service (VSS) System City
This contract shall be for furnishing all labor, materials, transportation and services for the con struction and/or installation of the following work: Install 5,804 LF of 12-inch coated steel gas pipe by trenching and 518 LF of 12-inch coated steel gas pipe by horizontal directional boring. The City of Mesa shall supply all gas materials shown on the quantities list on the approved plans specified by “Gas System Quantities to be Furnished by the City of Mesa”. The Contractor shall supply all non-gas-related materials such as asphalt, sand and trench backfill. All welds on steel piping shall be 100% non-destructively tested per the City of Mesa Operations, Maintenance, Emergency Re sponse and Construction Practices manual and the specifications. The gas main being connected to on the west end of the project is currently on air. The gas main being connected to on the east end of the project can be valved off using an existing 12-inch valve east of the tie in. The Engineer’s Estimate range is $4,000,000 to For$4,300,000.alltechnical, contract, bid-related, or oth er questions, please contact Stephanie Gishey at stephanie.gishey@mesaaz.gov.
In order for the City to consider alternate products in the bidding process, please follow Arizona Re vised Statutes §34.104c. If a pre-bid review of the site has been scheduled, details can be referenced in Project Specific Provision Section #3, titled “Pre-Bid Review of Site.” Work shall be completed within 180 consecutive calendar days, beginning with the day following the starting date specified in the Notice to Proceed. Bids must be submitted on the Proposal Form pro vided and be accompanied by the Bid Bond for not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid, payable to the City of Mesa, Arizona, or a certified or cashier's check. PERSONAL OR INDI VIDUAL SURETY BONDS ARE NOT ACCEPT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received until Thursday, September 8, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. All sealed bids will be received electronically at EngineeringBids@mesaaz.gov
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Contact with City Employees. All firms interest ed in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of dis qualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This pol icy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized rep resentative identified above. Contractors desiring to submit proposals may purchase sets of the Bid Documents from ARC Document Solutions, LLC, at com/arcEOC/PWELL_Main.asp?mem=29.https://order.e-arc.Click
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Bids must be submitted as an unencrypted PDF attachment with a maximum size limit of 20MB. Any bid received after the time specified will be returned without any consideration.
One set of the Contract Documents is also avail able for viewing at the City of Mesa’s Engineer ing Department at 20 East Main Street, Mesa, AZ. Please call 480-644-2251 prior to arriving to en sure that the documents are available for viewing.
NOTE: In order to be placed on the Plan Holders List and to receive notifications and updates re garding this bid (such as addenda) during the bid ding period, an order must be placed. The cost of each Bid Set will be no more than $15.00, which is non-refundable. Partial bid packages are not sold. You can view documents on-line (at no cost), order Bid Sets, and access the Plan Holders List on the website at the address listed above. Please verify print lead time prior to arriving for pick-up. For a list of locations nearest you, go to www.e-arc.com.
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FREE ($1 OUTSIDE THE EAST VALLEY) | TheMesaTribune.com An edition of the East Valley Tribune BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer Former Mesa City Council member Scott Somers will be able to remove “former” from his title in January but Vice Mayor Jenn Duff is preparing for a November run-off contest with one of her two challengers. Somers’ 58%-42% lead was sufficient for businesswoman Darla Trendler to concede in the hotly contested southeast Mesa Council District 6 election. But there was no such concession in the downtown District 4 race, where Duff main tained the lead she started with Tuesday night’s release of tallies from early voting but appeared to fall short of the 50%-plus-1 ma jority she needed to win outright. Duff garnered 48% of the vote over new mother Trista Guzman Glover’s 28% and Ari zona State University undergraduate student Nathaniel Ross’ 24%. If those margins hold by the time all the bal lots are counted this week, Ross will be elimi nated and Duff and Guzman Glover will face off Nov. 8. "While we’ll be watching the final counts closely, it’s clear that we still have more work ahead of us," Duff said. "Close elections are not a new thing for me and I’m ready to earn every last vote for November’s win.” Sunday, August 7, 2022
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The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Contractor to Job qualified that invited to (SOQ)
Order General Utility Construction Services. All
The following is a summary of the project. This Job Order Contract is for a broad range of maintenance, repair, minor and major underground utility work for public utilities or city owned facilities. The work is required in support of the City of Mesa’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP) and other City depart ment requests. The contract will be an indefinite de livery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract and will include a wide variety of individual construction Thetasks.initial term of the JOC contract will be for three (3) years and may be renewed up to two (2) additional one-year terms. The maximum construc tion contract value for an individual job order is sued under this contract will be $4,000,000, or the maximum permissible limit authorized by the City at the time the job order is executed. Pricing shall be negotiated fee. Utility improvement projects an ticipated to be completed under this JOC contract are based on, but not limited to the current 5-year Capital Improvement Program. Information on the Capital Improvement Program may be viewed at Capital Improvement Programs | City of Mesa (me Renewalsaaz.gov).of the contract will be based on the suc cessful performance by the JOC Contractor and the needs of the City. During the contract period, the City will identify construction tasks required to complete each specific job and will issue individual Job Orders to the Contractor to complete those jobs. The Contractor shall be required to furnish all ma terials, equipment and personnel necessary to man age and accomplish the Job Orders. The Contractor shall be required to maintain a management staff in order to receive Requests for Proposal (RFP), pre pare and negotiate proposals, receive signed Job Orders (JO) and Notices-to-Proceed (NTP), receive and initiate contract correspondence and provide other construction services to accomplish individual Job Orders. Job Orders will vary in size, with many anticipated to be of small to medium size. Some Job Orders may require incidental design services. The schedule for the work will start after award and will be ongoing over the life of the contract. A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on August 17, 2022 at 8:00 am through Microsoft Teams. Par ties interested in attending should request an invi tation from Stephanie Gishey at stephanie.gishey@ mesaaz.gov. At this meeting, City staff will discuss the scope of work and general contract issues and respond to questions from the attendees. Attendance at the pre-submittal conference is not mandatory and all interested firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether or not they attend the con ference. All interested firms are encouraged to at tend the Pre- Submittal Conference since City staff will not be available for meetings or to respond to individual inquiries regarding the project scope out side of this conference. In addition, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from the Pre-Submittal Conference.
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The estimated construction cost is between $18 and $20 million including utility improvements, utility relocations and other ancillary costs. The City anticipates this project to consist of mul tiple GMP’s with the first construction to com mence in the winter of 2023. The City has entered into a professional services contract with Black and Veatch Corporation to de sign these improvements. The CMAR shall work closely with and be an integral part of this project team during the design and construction phases of the project.
firms
in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ).
The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Con struction Manager at Risk (CMAR) to provide Pre-Construction Services assistance and complete Construction Services as the CMAR for the Cen tral Mesa Reuse Pipeline – Plant Improvements Project. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ).
The City of Mesa is proposing various improve ments related to plant work associated with the Central Mesa Reuse Pipeline. This work includes the construction of upgrades, replacements, or new equipment associated with delivery of reclaimed water from the Northwest Water Reclamation Plant (NWWRP), the Southeast Water Reclama tion Plant (SEWRP), and the Greenfield Water Reclamation Plant (GWRP) to the Gila River In dian Community (GRIC). These improvements may include:
CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)
provide
• Pump station improvements at the NWWRP • Construction of a new Intermediate Pump Sta tion (IPS) including a storage reservoir and boost er pump facility near the intersection of Val Vista Drive and Thomas Road • Pump station improvements at the SEWRP • Piping improvements for the SEWRP East Mar icopa Floodway discharge (EMF) south of E. Baseline Road • Piping and pump station improvements at the •GWRPPiping improvements at the reuse water discharge location near Val Vista Drive and Hunt Highway • Other associated improvements as required.
are interested in providing these services are
A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on Sep tember 1 at 9 am athrough Microsoft Teams. If you would like to participate, please send an email to Donna Horn at donna.horn@mesaaz.govto re ceive the invitation. At this meeting, City staff will discuss the scope of work and general contract issues and respond to questions from the attendees. Attendance at the pre-submittal conference is not mandatory and all interested firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether or not they attend the conference. All interested firms are en couraged to attend the Pre-Submittal Conference since City staff will not be available for meetings or to respond to individual inquiries regarding the project scope outside of this conference. In ad dition, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from the Pre-Submit tal ContactConference.withCity Employees. All firms interest ed in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of dis qualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This pol icy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized rep resentative identified below.
submit their Statements of Qualifications
VARIOUS LOCATIONS PROJECT NO. CP0896PLNT
BETH HUNING City Engineer HollyATTEST:Moseley City Clerk Published: East Valley Tribune, Aug 14, 21, 2022 / 48432 Public Notices CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified firm or team to act as the Construction Manager at Risk for the following: CENTRAL MESA REUSE PIPELINE – PLANT IMPROVEMENTS
Job Order Contractor for the following: GENERAL UTILITY CONSTRUCTION JOB ORDER CONTRACT
RFQ Lists. The RFQ is available on the City’s website at gov.EngineeringissuestionQuestions.business/purchasing/vendor-self-service).dorMesaFirmsisanypm.neering-RFQ@mesaaz.govtronicsizetachedmaximumsumeschartPPVF’stoone-pageTheder-contracting-opportunities.ing/construction-manager-at-risk-and-job-orhttp://mesaaz.gov/business/engineerStatementofQualificationsshallincludeacoverletter,plusamaximumof10pagesaddresstheSOQevaluationcriteria(excludingandresumesbutincludinganorganizationwithkeypersonnelandtheiraffiliation).ReforeachteammembershallbelimitedtoalengthoftwopagesandshouldbeatasanappendixtotheSOQ.Minimumfontshallbe10pt.Pleaseprovideone(1)eleccopyinanunencryptedPDFformattoEngibySeptember15by2TheCityreservestherighttoacceptorrejectandallStatementsofQualifications.TheCityanequalopportunityemployer.whowishtodobusinesswiththeCityofmustberegisteredintheCityofMesaVenSelfService(VSS)System(http://mesaaz.gov/QuestionspertainingtotheConstrucManageratRiskselectionprocessorcontractshouldbedirectedtoDonnaHornoftheDepartmentatdonna.horn@mesaaz. IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified firm team to act as the PROJECT NO. JOC-U23
Contact with City Employees. All firms interest ed in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of dis qualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all poten tial firms, assure that contract decisions are made in public and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative iden tified below. RFQ Lists. The RFQ is available on the City’s website at CityDeeAnnATTEST:CityBETHattolectionQuestions.ness/purchasing/vendor-self-service).SelfMesaFirmsopportunityStatementsreservessaaz.govencryptedcopysizetachedmaximumsumeschartPPVF’stoone-pageTheder-contracting-opportunitiesneering/construction-https://www.mesaaz.gov/business/engimanager-at-risk-and-job-orStatementofQualificationsshallincludeacoverletter,plusamaximumof10pagesaddresstheSOQevaluationcriteria(excludingandresumesbutincludinganorganizationwithkeypersonnelandtheiraffiliation).ReforeachteammembershallbelimitedtoalengthoftwopagesandshouldbeatasanappendixtotheSOQ.Minimumfontshallbe10pt.Pleaseprovideone(1)electronicoftheStatementofQualificationsinanunPDFformattoEngineering-RFQ@mebySeptember1,2022at2pm.TheCitytherighttoacceptorrejectanyandallofQualifications.TheCityisanequalemployer.whowishtodobusinesswiththeCityofmustberegisteredintheCityofMesaVendorService(VSS)System(http://mesaaz.gov/busiQuestionspertainingtotheJobOrderseprocessorcontractissuesshouldbedirectedStephanieGisheyoftheEngineeringDepartmentstephanie.gishey@mesaaz.gov.HUNINGEngineerMickelsenClerkPublished:EastValleyTribuneAug7,14,2022/48372
BETH HUNING City Engineer
PERSONAL OR INDIVIDUAL SURETY BONDS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE. The following forms are to be submitted with the Bid Proposal for Federal- Aid Projects. 1. Surety (Bid) Bond 2. Non-Collusion Bidding Certification (See Proposal Documents and Forms) 3. Certificate With Regard to the Perfor
34 THE SUNDAY EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE | AUGUST 14, 2022 It SecondsTakesOnly to Drown. Always watch your child around water. Public Notices mance of Previous Contracts (See Proposal Documents and Forms) 4. Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Goal Assurance with DBE Goal of 1.43% (Form 3102C – See Proposal Documents and TheForms)successful bidder will be required to execute the standard form of contract for construction within ten (10) days after for mal award of contract. In addition, the suc cessful bidder must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self-Service (VSS) ulations,(Public49,252,VITheCityquenttheanyjectThetionalicatePrice,oneadredmentContract,simultaneouslyvendor-self-service).(http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/SystemThesuccessfulbidder,withtheexecutionofthewillberequiredtofurnishaPayBondintheamountequaltoonehunpercent(100%)oftheContractPrice,PerformanceBondinanamountequaltohundredpercent(100%)oftheContractandthemostrecentACORD®CertifofLiabilityInsuranceformwithaddiinsuredendorsements.rightisherebyreservedtoacceptorreanyorallbidsorpartsthereto,towaiveinformalitiesinanyproposalandrejectbidsofanypersonswhohavebeendelinorunfaithfultoanycontractwiththeofMesa.CityofMesa,inaccordancewithTitleoftheCivilRightsActof1964,78Stat.42U.S.C.2000dto2000d-4andTitletheCivilRightsRestorationActof1987Law100.259).CodeofFederalRegDepartmentofTransportation,Sub title A, Office the Secretary, Part 21, Nondis crimination in Federally-assisted programs of the Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contact entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consider ation for an award.
CITY OF MESA PROJECT NO. CP0981 DAVIS BACON WAGES APPLY ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received until Thursday, Septem ber 1, 2022, at 1:00pm. All sealed bids will be received electronically at EngineeringBids@ mesaaz.gov . Bids must be submitted as an unencrypted PDF attachment with a maxi mum size limit of 20MB. Any bid received after the time specified will be returned with out any consideration. This contract shall be for furnishing all labor, materials, transportation and services for the construction and/or installation of the fol lowing work: Replace end-of-life Econolite Solo-Pro video detection cameras with new Econolite Vision video detection cameras on existing traffic signal poles at 52 locations citywide. The project will utilize existing conduit and pull boxes for the installation of the new video detection cameras. None of the proposed installations are anticipated to re quire any ground disturbance. All work is to be done within the City’s public right of way or easements that have been acquired by the City in advance of the construction activities. The Engineer’s Estimate range is $1,877,710For$2,294,980.alltechnical, contract, bid-related, or oth er questions, please contact Stephanie Gishey at stephanie.gishey@mesaaz.gov. Contact with City Employees. All firms in terested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobby ists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will re frain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified above.
CityHollyATTEST:MoseleyClerkPublished: East Valley Tribune, Aug 7, 14, 21 2022 / 48373
Planroom to access plans. NOTE: In order to be placed on the Plan Holders List and to receive notifications and updates regarding this bid (such as addenda) during the bidding period, an order must be placed. The cost of each Bid Set will be no more than $27.00, which is non-refundable. Partial bid packag es are not sold. You can view documents online (at no cost), order Bid Sets, and access the Plan Holders List on the website at the address listed above. Please verify print lead time prior to arriving for pick- up. For a list of locations nearest you, go to www.e-arc. Onecom. set of the Contract Documents is also available for viewing at the City of Mesa’s Engineering Department at 20 East Main Street, Mesa, AZ. Please call 480-644-2251 prior to arriving to ensure that the documents are available for viewing. In order for the City to consider alternate products in the bidding process, please fol low Arizona Revised Statutes §34.104c. If a pre-bid review of the site has been scheduled, details can be referenced in Project Specific Provision Section #3, titled “Pre- Bid Review of WorkSite.”shall be completed within 365 consec utive calendar days, beginning with the day following the starting date specified in the Notice to Proceed. Bids must be submitted on the Proposal Form provided and be accompanied by the Bid Bond for not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid, payable to the City of Mesa, Arizona, or a certified or cashier’s check.
CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA ITS VIDEO DETECTION UPGRADES FEDERAL AID NO. MES-0(238)D ADOT TRACS No. T0301 01D/01C MAG TIP No. MES22-060D, MES22060R, MES22-060C
Contractors desiring to submit proposals may purchase sets of the Bid Documents from ARC Document Solutions, LLC, at asp?mem=29.order.e-arc.com/arcEOC/PWELL_Main.https://Clickon“Go”forthePublic
35THE SUNDAY EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE | AUGUST 14, 2022 H E G F B GERMANN BELL RD. ST.56TH C A D Arizona’s Resort-St yl e Home Builder MASTER PLANNED CELEBRATED COMMUNITIES BY BLANDFORD HOMES Award-winning Arizona builder for over 40 years. BlandfordHomes.com Not all photos shown are representative of all communities. Terms and conditions subject to change without notice. Blandford Homes specializes in building master planned environments with a variety of amenities, parks, and charm. You’ll find the perfect community to fit your lifestyle. A STRATFORD NOW SELLING A Dramatic New Gated Community in Gilbert Vintage Collection • From the low $600’s • 480-895-2800 Craftsman Collection • From the mid $700’s • 480-988-2400 B PALMA BRISA – In Ahwatukee Foothills NOW SELLING A Dramatic New Gated Community Vintage Collection • From the high $600’s • 480-641-1800 Craftsman Collection • From the low $800’s • 480-641-1800 C BELMONT AT SOMERSET – Prime Gilbert Location CLOSEOUT Luxury estate homes and timeless architecture • From the low $1,000,000’s • 480-895-6300 D MONTELUNA – Brand New Gated Community in the Foothills of Northeast Mesa NOW SELLING McKellips Rd just east of the Red Mountain 202 Fwy • From the low $700’s E RESERVE AT RED ROCK New Upscale Resort Community in the Foothills of Northeast Mesa COMING IN 2022 Stunning views of Red Mountain • From the $600’s F TALINN AT DESERT RIDGE – SALES BEGIN EARLY IN 2022 Spectacular location at Desert Ridge G ESTATES AT MANDARIN GROVE – In the Citrus Groves of NE Mesa CLOSEOUT 11 luxury single-level estate homes with 3- to 6-car garages plus optional RV garages and carriage houses • From the mid $1,000,000’s • 480-750-3000 H ESTATES AT HERMOSA RANCH – In the Citrus Groves of NE Mesa CLOSEOUT 12 single-level homes on extra large homesites with 5- to 6-car garages plus optional RV garages and carriage houses • From the mid $1,000,000’s • 480-750-3000
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