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Mayor’s Committee on Disability ends after 29 years
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t was a case of lack of interest and lack of participation. The Casa Grande City Council decided Dec. 5 to end the Mayor’s Committee on Disability. “It’s been a committee we’ve had for a number of years, always had trouble staffing it and getting them to attend the meetings,” outgoing Mayor Bob Jackson told the council. “About a year-and-a-half ago, we invited them into a strategic planning retreat because we thought maybe that would help focus them a little bit, identify what items they wanted to do. We had less than half of them go to the strategic planning session, even though we tried to coordinate
that weekend for everybody to go to.” He added, “And since then, we continue to struggle having any kind of quorum. Sometimes we have nobody show up for the meetings. It’s been that way for probably six or seven years and so the feeling was, if we can’t get a quorum, we can’t get members, it’s a committee that has to be dissolved by a council action. So that’s where we are.” According to the staff report accompanying the agenda item, the committee was formed in 1987 to be a clearing house for groups working to end the unemployment and underemployment of handicapped persons.
Three years later, the federal Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, taking over the reasons the committee was formed. “Over the years, the scope of this committee has changed until the past several years when they met only to help coordinate two events — the Halloween Dance and Disability Awareness Day,” the staff report says. “The Halloween Dance is overseen by the Community Services Department and the school district has taken the lead on Disability Awareness Day.” The report continues, “The Mayor’s Committee on Disability Issues has not met in nearly a year and the few remaining
members can still be involved by working as a volunteer for the two events with which they have stayed active. Should the need arise, the committee could be formed again in the future.” The vote to dissolve the committee was unanimous, with Councilman Dick Powell on excused absence.
Treated water (cont.) The operation and how it produces electricity is described in the above chart. Once all permits are obtained, the company has said, it would take about a year to be into operation. City Manager Larry Rains told the council that the equipment to be paid for by nFlux will include a system allowing the treatment plant to switch back to electricity from Electrical District 2, the current provider, if nFlux is temporarily unable to deliver. The plant also has a backup generator system, he said. The 300 acre-feet is about 10 percent of the reclaimed water the plant has left over from present uses, such as for parks and for sale to an electric generating plant to cool turbines. WINTER 2017 • HOME & GARDEN EDITION
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