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Early voting underway for council seats

BY KEVIN REAGAN Arizonan Staff Writer

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ith early voting in full swing for the Aug. 4 primary election, voter registration numbers in Chandler appear to be on an upward trend.

Early voting for three seats on Chandler City Council – as well as in county and state races – started July 8 and the latest registration numbers suggest there could be greater civic participation in this year’s local elections.

There is no school board primary and candidates had until last week to file petitions to get on the Nov. 3 ballot.

Like wildflowers in spring, political signs pop up in the weeks before early voting begins and Chandler streets have been no exception. (Pablo Robles/Staff Photographer)

At least 12,000 more Democrats, Republicans, and independent voters have recently

registered in Chandler’s two legislative districts within the last year, according to data maintained by the Arizona Secretary of State.

Registered Republicans still hold a combined majority in Legislative Districts 17 and 18, but the number of new Democrats registering in Chandler has been outpacing the opposing party over the last couple years.

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DPS sues to ground Chandler tutor with shaky past

BY KEVIN REAGAN Arizonan Staff Writer

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tate law enforcement officials are attempting to stop a Chandler teacher who has been arrested 10 times on suspicion of inappropriately touching children from being able to work in local schools.

Arizona Department of Public Safety Director Heston Silbert filed a civil complaint in court on June 24 aimed at thwarting other state agencies from granting a fingerprint clearance card to 37-year-old Brett James Smith, who has been criminally convicted in other states for touching the backs of children.

Smith, who changed his name from Brett

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Zagorac, had been tutoring children in the Chandler area and was waiting to receive a fingerprint card in Arizona – which would grant him the ability to be hired in most school districts.

But then DPS stepped in and exposed his lengthy criminal history.

In his 27-page complaint, Silbert outlines the sordid details of Smith’s 10 prior arrests and his recent interactions around Chandler that have raised the suspicions of some local residents.

His suit alleges that it would be a mistake for Smith to be given a fingerprint card.

DPS had denied Smith’s applications for a card in the past but he appealed to the courts to obtain a “good cause exception” – a legal remedy offenders can be given if

they’re found to be rehabilitated from their prior misbehavior.

The DPS director condemned an unidentified judge and the Arizona Board of Fingerprinting for thinking Smith had reformed himself and ultimately recommending he be given the “good cause exception” to obtain a fingerprint card.

The board was “arbitrary” and “capricious” in voting to give Smith a fingerprint clearance in January, Silbert’s suit states, and should hold another hearing to review evidence demonstrating Smith’s pattern of behavior.

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Homebuyers facing ‘feeding frenzy’ amid short supply

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Arizonan Executive Editor

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omebuyers are facing a steadily worsening market in Chandler and much of the Valley as the inventory of homes for sale plummets and prices continue to soar.

“The market is becoming so lop-sided it is approaching absurdity,” said the Cromford Report, which closely monitors the housing market in Maricopa and Pinal counties, which said the median sales price in June was $305,000 – up 9.3 percent from the same time last year and up 4.1 percent from May. Inventory of re-sale homes fell by 26.5 percent Valley-wide from May to June and the outlook isn’t much better for new homes, according to Cromford, which noted: “The lack of supply is driving many buyers towards new homes instead of re-sales. New homes are selling faster than last year and faster than they can be built, so supply will shortly become a major problem for the developers too.”

Some communities are actually close to running out of houses to sell, according to the Cromford Report, which monitors the Phoenix Metro housing scene.

In Chandler, 85228 had no active listings earlier this month and 85224 had only 16 homes on the market. The Chandler ZIP code with the most listings was 85248, where 104 were on the market.

Among the most astonishing ZIP codes is Chandler’s 85224.

Cromford developed an index showing the 10 hottest markets in the Valley, indicating that the higher the number above 100 the hotter. Chandler’s 85224 had a rating of 1525 – second highest in Maricopa County and only behind El Mirage’s ranking of 1600.

Cromford also reported that inventory of available homes for sale plunged 91 percent in 85224 between June 2019 and last month.

“Supply is crashing,” Cromford said.

“Without an improvement in supply, life will become ever more difficult for buyers while sellers will be dealing with many competing offers even if demand were to decline substantially.

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have, but for buyers the level of competition from other buyers presents a massive obstacle to them achieving their goals,” it added.

Late last month, the report said, “A surge in demand coupled with an unusually weak supply of new listings is creating an almost surreal market. In many segments, buyers outnumber sellers many times over.”

Cromford said it also is exhausting adjectives to described the “colossal” imbalance between buyers and inventory.

“In many cities the supply of active listings without a contract is dwindling to levels not seen since the bubble year of 2005,” it said.

“Calling it a feeding frenzy does not do it justice,” the Cromford Report stated, adding that even the luxury home market is shaking out of its sluggishness.

The 55-and-over communities, with the exception of Sun Lakes, “are also less

skewed in favor of sellers,” it said.

Sun Lakes showed a relative scarcity of homes for sale, Cromford reported and so buyers likely would not find many bargains – or much bargaining power.

Additionally, some sellers report being inundated by offers – sight unseen – within hours of listing their homes. In many cases, those offers were as much as $10,000 above the listing price.

Cromford warns that the nearly historic sellers’ market means that buyers have to be extra careful.

“In this environment things can get very frenetic and stressful,” it said. “Decision time is often very short and mistakes can result. Buying a home is one of the biggest decisions a buyer will make so I hope they will take time out to think carefully and not get caught up in the frenzy.”

The rapid change in the market surprised Cromford.

It said that as recently as May 21, Valley cities “were moving in favor of buyers.”

“The change in direction has been sudden and violent,” it said. “This is not normal.”

In the last two months, Valley inventory has plummeted, dropping from 6,653 available homes to 3,496.

“That is a decline of over 47 percent and so far no end is in sight for this trend,” it said, adding: “At the moment the supply of homes for sale is collapsing, making things extraordinarily tough for buyers, who must compete with each other for the few homes offered for sale.”

In Phoenix, only 1,285 homes were on the market on June 16 – a sharp difference from the historic average of more than 4,500. The 421 that were for sale in Mesa around the same time was a third of what usually is available.

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arents appear divided on Chandler Unified’s reopening plan even as the district prepares to start the new year with all online classes Aug. 5.

Parents were quick to either condemn or celebrate the district’s last month's decision to require mandatory maskwearing among students and teachers when in-person classes resume, tentatively on Aug. 17.

Online petitions and Facebook groups have been forming over the last couple weeks advocating for Chandler Unified to take a pro-mask or anti-mask position.

Some believe masks are essential at mitigating a potential COVID-19 outbreak, while others think they mostly create a culture of fear on campus.

“I don’t agree with this mask thing,” one Chandler resident wrote online. “This closes the children off – making them more alone. How do you learn social skills when everyone has their face hidden?”

The school district intends to give students the option of deciding whether they want to return to school in person or complete their coursework online for the upcoming school year.

On June 24, the district’s Governing Board spent nearly six hours probing administrators on the logistics of reopening all 42 of Chandler Unified’s campuses by Aug. 5 before narrowly voting 3-2 to authorize a plan that essentially gives students the option to determine whether they feel safe enough to return to school amid an ongoing pandemic.

But less than a week after the board’s decision, Gov. Doug Ducey on June 29 issued an executive order that forbids districts from reopening campuses until Aug. 17 – a date he called "aspirational and that still could push back further.

The directive allowed districts to begin offering online learning earlier than Aug. 17.

The district has told parents it needed time to possibly refine its campus-reopening plan.

But some parents are hopeful that Ducey’s decision to further delay the reopening of campuses might allow enough time for Chandler Unified to reverse its mandatory mask policy.

“If a delay means no masks, then I’d be for it,” one parent commented. “I won’t be sending my kids if they require masks.”

The district’s initial reopening plan revealed some divisions among its Governing Board members, some of whom felt the plan didn’t go far enough to protect the health and safety of Chandler’s students.

Board members Lara Bruner and Lindsay Love voted against the district’s two-option plan over concerns that too many students would return to campus

at the same time.

“I can’t support this plan,” Bruner said, “I wish that I could support it. I want kids back on campus.”

Ducey delayed campus reopenings amid a surge in COVID-19 cases and said he hopes the situation improves over the next month so that kids can eventually be in classrooms.

Assuming the virus won't disappear by Aug. 17, Bruner said that if not enough students voluntarily enroll in online schooling, it would be impossible to achieve any type of social distancing on campuses and the district could find itself in violation of the state health department’s guidelines.

“Our high schools are going to be shut down,” Bruner predicted.

Bruner, who has worked as a teacher for the last 28 years, said she proposed an alternative, contingency plan that

would account for the prospect of not enough kids choosing to take online classes.

She said the district could split the inperson students into two groups: one would come to school on Monday and Wednesday to take three classes, then the other group would attend classes on Tuesday and Thursday. Both groups would take their remaining classes online.

But because the district’s plan didn’t allow for this type of hybrid learning, Bruner said she didn’t feel comfortable voting for it.

District officials acknowledged the complexity of planning for the upcoming school year while the COVID-19 crisis continues to plague Arizona.

Superintendent Camille Casteel said the district is stuck in a “no-win” situation because parents have such a diverse range of opinions on how CUSD should react to the pandemic.

“There is not a right answer or a single solution,” she said. “We don’t have consensus from our community on the direction they think we should go.”

For every parent wishing the district delay its reopening date, Casteel added, there’s an equal number asking for the district’s calendar to go unchanged.

Though some parents have requested CUSD not reopen campuses at all, administrators say they must follow the lead set by the state’s leaders and prepare for the roadmap they’ve laid out.

Echoing concerns from experts across the country, state officials worry about the social-emotional health of students and want them engaging again with their school communities, Casteel said, so CUSD must prepare to offer some sort of in-person learning model.

During the June 24 meeting, the school board unanimously approved a new school calendar that shortens the fall and spring breaks by one week so that the district can still provide at least 180 days of instruction – a legal requirement

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mandated under Arizona law.

Casteel said those additional two weeks are needed to ensure all teachers will be properly trained on the district’s new protocols and models of instruction.

Furthermore, the extra time will allow families some “breathing room” to make an informed decision regarding whether to send their child back to school, the superintendent added.

Casteel made her decision despite a significant number of CUSD employees expressing opposition to delaying the district’s first day of school.

According to a recent survey of more than 3,700 district employees, 59 percent of teachers didn’t think the school year should have been delayed.

The students choosing to return to their respective campuses in August will undoubtedly notice several changes made to their school’s physical environment.

Water fountains will be closed, floors will be marked, desks rearranged, and younger students will walk about campus tethered together with a rope.

According to the district’s reopening plan, CUSD will heavily monitor

playground activity and make sure students are not clumping together in large groups. Lunch times will be staggered out so that a limited number of students will be inside the cafeteria.

Masks, gloves, face shields will be available at each campus and every school office will have plexiglass shields installed at their front desks.

Touchpoint areas inside school restrooms and health offices will be disinfected by staff at least twice each day.

Hand sanitizer will be available to use in all classrooms and cafeterias.

Teachers will ask students to bring their own water bottles to school each day and advise them not to share it with their classmates.

Classroom items that are commonly shared among students, like computer keyboards, will be regularly wiped down and sanitized.

Parents dropping off children at school will be told to remain inside their vehicles and non-essential visitors will have limited access to campuses.

Extracurricular activities at the elementary and secondary schools are expected to still be available with some new precautions that encourage social

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“We have no intention to reduce our electives,” said Assistant Superintendent Craig Gilbert, “we may just have to make some adjustments.”

The students choosing to enroll in the online program can still come to their home campus and participate in sports or extracurricular activities, Gilbert added.

The district’s online curriculum is expected to be radically different from what students were subjected to during the fourth quarter of the last academic year, which was when the pandemic first hit and triggered a statewide shutdown of Chandler’s schools.

Chandler Unified was in “crisis mode” at the end of last year, Casteel said, and had little time to provide a comprehensive online program for students.

The district’s new online academy for elementary students is intended to be more enhanced and engaging than what had been offered previously.

Online students can expect to have at least three live interactions with a teacher each day and have regular access to a school counselor.

Virtual students will follow a schedule that blocks out how much time they should spend studying math, English, science, and history.

Fifteen-minute “movement breaks” will be factored into the online schedule so students can get away from their computer periodically throughout the day.

The goal is to have the online academy feel the same as the brick-and-mortar classroom experience, said Jessica Edgar, the district’s director of elementary curriculum.

Chandler Unified wants the online option to be able to fit the needs of every student, Edgar added, so teachers and administrators will be tracking and assessing the progress of each pupil as they move through the semester.

Regardless of how comprehensive the online option may be, some of the district’s parents are already apprehensive about the unintended consequences that come with learning from home on a computer.

“I am deeply concerned about online school,” one Chandler parent wrote online. “I have one child with high-functioning autism and another who does poorly at online anything.”

The district’s secondary students have been able to enroll in online school for several years through the Chandler On-

line Academy, a state-accredited program that allows students to complete courses at their own pace throughout the semester.

Gilbert said the online academy will attempt to have more of a relationshipbuilding component this year between students and teachers so that students still feel connected to the district.

Since more high school students are expected to enroll in the online academy this year, the district’s planning to add more Advanced Placement courses to the academy’s catalog.

Students electing to enroll in the online program must commit to it for at least the first quarter of the new school year.

The district will consider special circumstances that may force a student to quickly switch between in-person and online learning, Gilbert said, and these situations will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

The school board’s decision to reopen schools came only a few hours after Ducey announced new monetary resources the state would be supplying to Arizona’s schools to ward off the pandemic’s economic impacts.

Ducey signed an executive order that provides up to $270 million in one-time funding to help districts reopen by paying for more digital resources and supplementing lost revenue.

CUSD Chief Financial Officer Lana Berry said the governor’s plan shouldn’t be viewed as schools getting an extra pot of money. These funds are intended to stabilize a district’s budget in case their enrollment was to suddenly drop due to the pandemic, she said.

Ducey’s spending plan wouldn’t allow for a district to quickly hire additional teachers, Berry added, which would help a district reduce class sizes.

Some board members repeatedly expressed concern over the number of kids expected to be in a classroom at one time and wished to try and reduce that number.

Board President Barbara Mozdzen conceded there are several fears and concerns about what the future will look like for Chandler Unified in the coming weeks.

The district won’t be able to qualm all of these fears and satisfy the demands of every family, she said, but the options mapped out for the upcoming school year appear to be as flexible and accommodating as the district can offer at this point in time.

“We cannot make every single person happy with what we do,” Mozdzen added.

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Between April 2018 and April 2020, nearly 17,000 Democrats registered in the Chandler area while 4,800 Republicans were added to the voting rolls.

Registered independents only grew by about 2,700 during this same time span.

This growing Democratic presence has earned Chandler the reputation of a potential “swing” city that could help determine some of the statewide and regional races.

In 2018, several of Chandler’s precincts narrowly helped U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema defeated her Republican opponent, Sen. Martha McSally. McSally was appointed to fill a portion of the late Sen. John McCain’s term and is running this year to finish the remaining two years of it.

District 17 also elected its first Democrat, Jennifer Pawlik, to the State House in 2018.

But the party numbers won’t make much difference in determining who gets elected to fill three seats on the Chandler City Council – especially since they are nonpartisan races.

Incumbent council members Mark Stewart and Jeremy McClymonds face challengers from one former council member and three newcomers.

Stewart, who owns a digital marketing company, is seeking a second term with a political platform that presents him as a “budget watchdog.” He’s been endorsed by the Chandler Chamber of Commerce.

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fill an empty council seat in 2018, is running his first campaign this year on a platform that emphasizes economic development and fiscal responsibility.

Rick Heumann, who served on the council from 2009 to 2016, is attempting to win his old seat back; the city’s term limits prevented him from serving a third consecutive term.

He’s relying on his extensive experience in local governance as a major selling point to win over voters, noting he also chaired the Chandler Chamber’s Public Policy Committee for several years.

Heumann has already earned the endorsements of the Chandler Chamber, Professional Firefighters of Arizona and Chandler Law Enforcement Association.

OD Harris, an entrepreneur and military veteran, is entering local politics for the first time this year with his bid for one of council seats.

Harris has received endorsements from state Rep. Jennifer Jermaine, DChandler, and former Vice Mayor Martin Sepulveda. He said he’s committed to supporting Chandler’s after-school programs and providing more affordable housing for the city’s residents.

Councilman Sam Huang, whose first term expires at the end of this year, chose not to run for reelection and is instead competing for the Republican nomination in Arizona’s 9th Congressional District race -- an area presently represented by Democrat Greg Stanton.

The council’s current all-male status could potentially change this year with the addition of a female presence if either Beth Brizel or Christine Ellis win enough votes in the primary election.

Brizel is a local business owner and former member of Kyrene School District Governing Board. She’s been endorsed by the Chandler Chamber, the Chandler Law Enforcement Association and the Arizona Conference of Police and Sheriffs.

Ellis has worked in the assisted-living industry for several years and promises to foster new relationships between Chandler and the higher-education community.

It’s unclear what type of impact the COVID-19 pandemic might have on Chandler’s voter turnout, but election officials have begun taking steps to ensure residents will still be able to easily submit their ballots in a safe environment.

Maricopa County is allowing voters to ignore precinct rules and cast their ballot at any polling place they want.

Several sites will be open during the two weeks leading up to Election Day on Aug. 4, which will allow citizens more time to vote in the evenings or on weekends.

“We had always planned to provide voters with precinct voting for the August primary,” said County Supervisor Clint Hickman, “but COVID-19 has required us to alter our initial plans in order to safely serve the voters.”

County elections officials expect more

than 600,000 ballots to be cast early during the primary election, which is prompting administrators to take extra precautions with how each ballot is being tabulated.

All poll workers in the county will be expected to wear masks and gloves and voters are asked to do the same when visiting a polling location.

The county has created a new online portal where voters can quickly and easily request a mail-in ballot.

“Our goal during this election cycle is to make voting at home easier and in-person voting safer for voters who choose to do so,” said County Recorder Adrian Fontes.

One of Chandler’s only contested, partisan primary races is for justice of the peace in the San Tan Justice Court. Republican Sam Goodman, who’s presided over the court since 2004, is being challenged by former state legislator Warde Nichols in the primary. There are no LD 17 or 18 primary battles.

Maricopa County Supervisor Jack Sellers, who represents the district encompassing Chandler, has no one challenging him this year for the Republican nomination.

Democrat Jevin Hodge – son of Tempe Union Governing Board President Berdetta Hodge – intends to run against Sellers in November’s general election.

Registered voters have until July 24 to request a mail-in ballot and the last day to vote early in person will be July 31.

get on the ballot, according to the list of candidates maintained by the Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools.

Among the two newcomers attempting to join the board in 2021 is a former Chandler Unified administrator.

Joel Wirth, Chandler Unified’s former chief financial officer, submitted petitions to get on the ballot, as did architect Jason Olive, a parent to two CUSD students.

Wirth has decades of experience working as a certified public accountant for various government agencies. He worked for the state Auditor General’s Office and Phoenix’s Roosevelt Elementary School District before starting his 37-year tenure at CUSD. He also essentially oversaw all of Chandler Unified’s finances and spearheaded various lobbying efforts. Before his retirement in 2018, the district ac-

knowledged Wirth’s extensive service by naming Casteel High School’s sports stadium after him.

“Joel is not only the state’s best CFO; he is a man of great integrity, with a deep sense of loyalty, ethics, and a truly compassionate nature,” the CUSD school board wrote about Wirth in a 2016 resolution.

Wirth said he’d like to give back to his former employer by using his financial experience to guide CUSD through any possible revenue declines it may encounter in the near future.

Though Chandler Unified has been projecting positive enrollment growth – enough so to warrant the construction of another high school – Wirth said he wants to help the district prepare for a scenario where enrollment might suddenly drop and state funding subsequently falls with it.

Districts also face some uncertainty in the next few years as Arizona grapples with declines in sales tax and income tax revenue brought about by unemployment and business shutdowns resulting from the pandemic.

“It is imperative that the Chandler Unified School District look for other sources of revenue to support the future budget,” Wirth said. “When enrollment starts to decline, it negatively impacts everything in the school district budget.”

“I will help CUSD actively research and implement solutions now to reduce the impact of projected budget reductions in the upcoming years,” Wirth added.

Olive briefly worked in education early on in his career and said he is now looking to get more involved in the community.

4 to compete for 3 seats on Chandler school board

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he field has been set for candidates running in the Nov. 3 election for three open seats on the Chandler Unified School District Governing Board.

Among them are two longtime incumbents seeking another four-year term in what appears will be a four-way race for the three seats.

Board President Barbara Mozdzen is seeking her third consecutive term while David Evans, who’s been serving on the board since 2005, is seeking reelection to a fifth term.

But board member Karen McGee apparently is not seeking reelection. Although she filed a statement of interest in running again, she did not meet the July 6 deadline for filing petitions to

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even twice violating his probation conditions,” Silbert’s complaint states.

Smith’s repeated contacts with Chandler Police and “pushy” tactics to tutor local school children should further disqualify him from obtaining a fingerprint card and prove his inability to change his behavior, Silbert’s complaint argues.

Lawyers representing Smith have accused DPS of creating a “false narrative” in order to smear Smith’s reputation.

In a statement, his attorneys claimed DPS’ portrayal of Smith’s arrest record is “false and misleading” and characterized his prior interactions with children as not being “sex crimes.” He’s never been convicted or accused of touching a child’s genitals, the lawyers stated.

Smith was first arrested in 2002 after a fourth-grader in Indiana accused the then-teacher of sliding his hand under the student’s shirt and rubbing their back. More students then came forward with similar allegations but the charges were later dropped due to uncooperative witnesses.

Over the next 13 years, Smith was arrested several more times for similar incidents involving rubbing the backs of girls and boys. He was convicted at least three times for misdemeanor offenses and spent some time in jail, court records show.

During one arrest in 2010, police in northern Indiana uncovered numerous school badges and teaching certificates that had been altered to display a fake name. Local authorities warned Smith to stop trying to tutor children in the area by advertising his services online.

In 2015, an Indiana court granted Smith’s request to have one of his arrest records expunged after prosecutors dropped the charges after a former student declined to testify against him out of fear of being in the defendant’s presence.

Smith eventually relocated to Arizona, changed his last name and started looking for new tutoring clients.

None of his prior arrests were known

by Kim Kriesel when she hired Smith earlier this year to tutor her 11-year-old son at their Chandler home.

The mother was looking for someone who could help supplement her son’s education while the local schools were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Chandl;er resident Brett James Smith has been arrested 10 times for inappropriate touching of children but a judge still allowed him to teach. (File photo)

Kriesel saw Smith’s advertisements on Facebook a few times and decided to contact him.

Smith seemed to have an impressive resume, the mother recalled, and claimed to have earned several college degrees.

She hired Smith to come to their house a few times per week and the arrangement seemed to work out well in the beginning.

Smith and Kriesel’s son got along well, she said, adding they could often be heard laughing and joking from the family’s dining room table.

But then Kriesel saw a post on social media that suddenly changed her opinion of Smith.

Another local parent had published Smith’s mugshot and warned other parents not to hire him. Kriesel then did some internet sleuthing and confirmed Smith’s extensive criminal history.

“I was in total shock,” Kriesel recalled, “I was disgusted.”

She asked her son if anything strange had ever happened between him and Smith. There had been some touching on his back, the son told his mother.

Kriesel said she immediately called the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and claimed an officer told her the touching

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Councilman donates his city expense account to nonprofits

BY KEVIN REAGAN Arizonan Staff Writer

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handler Councilman Jeremy McClymonds has transferred nearly $5,000 of his city-funded expense account to a separate city fund that distributes money to local nonprofits.

In what was described as an “unusual” transfer of public funds, City Council authorized McClymonds to give away nearly all the funds he is allocated each year on personal expenses such as travel reimbursement.

Each member of the council is annually given $5,000 to spend on traveling expenditures or costs associated with their public duties. Any money a councilman doesn’t spend is rolled back over into the city’s general fund at the end of the fiscal year.

McClymonds, who is running for reelection this year, had $4,940 left in his expense account by the end of this month and decided to reallocate the funds to the city’s Neighborhood Resources Department.

That department contracts with several local nonprofits to provide community services.

The $4,940 will specifically be split between AZCEND, which operates a food bank in Chandler, and Chandler Men of Action’s back-to-school program.

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The Chandler resident said he decided to enter the race to add a parental voice to the school board from someone who still has a child attending CUSD schools.

“I am happy with the way that the district has been run,” Olive said. “I hope to help and contribute to the culture that so many people around the district have worked so hard for.”

Olive said he’s always been a strong

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Gilbert and Chandler showed even bigger imbalances, with only 255 and 237 houses for sale, respectively, as compared to an historical average of around 1,100.

Despite the widespread loss of jobs driven by the pandemic, the Valley’s housing market is reflecting a nation-

Chandler City Councilman Jeremy McClymonds has shunned his city expense account in favor of nonprofits. (File photo)

“I felt it was vital to help these nonprofits,” McClymonds said. “I know this money will go to good work.”

The councilman said he was motivated to reallocate his personal funds after the city cut its funding to local charities by $500,000 due to the financial uncertainty generated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

During these extraordinary times, McClymonds said, it seemed best to rededicate these unutilized funds for a greater purpose.

McClymonds, a self-described “fiscal conservative,” claims he typically tries not to utilize money out of his council fund to supporter of public education and would like to guarantee the district continues to serve every child in the community.

“When we invest in our kids the entire community benefits,” he added. “I would like an opportunity to make a positive contribution to our children’s education.”

Like all other districts across Arizona, Chandler Unified’s elected representatives have been forced to make some tough decisions over the last few months while navigating through the COVID-19 pandemic.

wide scarcity of inventory, according to Realtor.com.

Experts partly attribute that to historically low mortgage rates as well as a downturn in new construction – although even new construction has not been as adversely affected by the recession as it had been after 2008, experts say.

reimburse himself. Financial records show McClymonds used $60 this last year on attending Chamber of Commerce events.

The council’s other six members have used their personal funds at various levels. Each member is given a certain amount of discretion to spend these funds however and whenever they choose.

During the 2019-2020 fiscal year, Councilman Mark Stewart spent $4,560 on attending various conferences and Chamber events – the highest amount utilized this last year by any member of the council.

Mayor Kevin Hartke spent $4,380 to attend conferences in Washington D.C., Houston and Tucson.

Other spending included: Vice Mayor Rene Lopez, $3,290; Councilman Matt Orlando, $2,960; Councilman Sam Huang, $1,390; and Councilman Terry Roe, $490.

The $13,000 not spent by the six other council members will carry over into the 2020-2021 budget and drop back into the city’s General Fund.

The Neighborhood Resources Department has recently decided how it will divvy up $1.2 million of its general fund dollars among Chandler’s charities and nonprofits.

Fifty-two organizations applied for funding from the city – totaling nearly $2-million worth of requests. City officials decided not to recommend any funding for 12 of the applications.

Mozdzen, Evans, and the other board members have sat through lengthy meetings discussing all the complex logistics that come with trying to educate 46,000 students amid the health crisis.

In a rare move last month, the CUSD board was notably split on deciding how and when the district should reopen its 42 campuses for the upcoming semester. Mozdzen, Evans, and McGee voted in favor of a reopening plan that allows for in-person instruction while the board’s

Also fueling the imbalance in the Valley between sellers and buyers is a continuing influx of newcomers from other parts of the country, especially California.

“At the moment the supply of homes for sale is collapsing, making things extraordinarily tough for buyers who must compete with each other for the few homes offered for sale,” Cromford said, adding:

The House and Human Services Commission reviews each application and discusses its merits before deciding how to carve up the $1.2 million.

Some of the organizations that did not receive funding this year include the Arizona Burn Foundation, Chandler Lacrosse Club, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, United Food Bank and the Young Entrepreneurship Foundation.

Public records show the city attempted to prioritize the Neighborhood Resources funding this year to target three population groups: basic needs, youth, special populations.

“Staff believe these funding recommendations will grant financial support to organizations that provide valuable services to Chandler residents and are responsive to the current needs of the Chandler community,” the Neighborhood Resources Department wrote in a memo.

Other applicants received sums smaller than requested and some organizations got allocations that were significantly lower than what they received last year.

Community Bridges Inc., which provides mental health services across the East Valley, was given $68,750 for the upcoming fiscal year to prevent its clients from becoming homeless. During the last fiscal year, the city doled out $110,000 for this service.

two other members voted against it.

The school board race had at least four other individuals express interest in running for a seat this year, but none of them are listed as official candidates.

The election is nonpartisan and candidates are elected by earning a simple majority of votes cast. Early voting for the general election starts Oct. 7 and the last day to request a mail-in ballot is Oct. 23. There is no primary race for school board candidates in Arizona.

“At the start of the pandemic, we saw a moderate bump in supply as a few investors sold in a panic, particularly those who owned vacation rentals who suddenly lost almost all their bookings. But now we are seeing a chronic shortage of entry-level and mid-range homes turn into a feeding frenzy for the few properties that remain on sale.”

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Ducey imposes new dining rules as virus cases rise

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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ov. Doug Ducey refused Thursday to reimpose his stay-at-home order even after conceding that his own data shows how effective it was in curbing the spread of COVID-19.

Instead, he is putting new rules in place on how many people can sit in restaurants.

Ducey acknowledged that the number of new cases each day pretty much stayed the same from the time he issued the directive in late March through the middle of May when he allowed it to expire. In fact, he said, the rate remained steady for about two weeks afterwards, the period of incubation and the time to get test results.

Only then was there an explosion.

Ducey’s decision to stay the course came as the state added 75 new deaths on Thursday due to the virus, bringing the total now to 2,038. There were also 4,057 new cases of COVID-19; the statewide tally since the outbreak of those af-

fected is now 112,671.

Hospitalizations of those with positive or suspected cases also continues to set records, with the figure on Thursday at 3,471. ICU bed usage was at 861, just 10 off the record set a day earlier.

Overall, the Department of Health Services reported 89 percent of ICU beds in use by patients of all types with 87 percent of in-patient beds in use.

And more than 28 percent of the tests for the virus reported on Thursday came back positive.

“I always look at the different options of where we are and what the possibilities are,’’ Ducey said when asked about re-imposing that stay-at-home order.

“We want to do what would allow us to navigate out of the situation we are in right now.’’

The governor said Arizona is seeing

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Gov. Doug Ducey last week said he is not considering another stay-at-home order, but strongly advises people do that (Capitol Media Services)

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Ex-Chandler mom at center of trail of deaths

BY KEVIN REAGAN Arizonan Staff Writer

She’s lost her mind, “ she thinks she’s a resur-

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ori Vallow’s former husband warned Gilbert Police that his wife had “lost her mind” a few months before he and his children wound up dead.

Vallow, a one-time Chandler resident, has spent the last couple months in an Idaho jail awaiting trial for criminal charges related to the abandonment of her two children: 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua Vallow.

The children were reported missing in 2019 and their bodies were discovered last month in a pet cemetery on land in Idaho located near the residence of Vallow’s newest husband, Chad Daybell.

Idaho authorities have filed charges against Daybell and Vallow in relation to the corpses’ discovery but neither has been charged with their deaths. They are both in custody.

Vallow’s convoluted case has attracted international media attention and sparked several theories that paint the former Chandler mom as a devoted member of a secretive, doomsday religious cult.

New videos and reports released this month by the Gilbert Police Department help to support these theories by providing some first-hand testimony from Vallow’s now-deceased husband.

Charles Vallow, who had been married to Lori up until his death last summer, contacted Gilbert Police on Jan. 30, 2019, claiming his estranged wife was acting “nonsensical” and had disappeared with their two children.

“I don’t know what she’s going to do with them,” Vallow told a Gilbert officer.

After returning home from a business trip in Texas, Vallow discovered his truck had been taken from the airport’s parking lot and suspected his wife of taking it.

Vallow told Gilbert Police his wife had locked him out of their home and withdrew $35,000 from the couple’s bank account.

“I’ve got $7 to my name,” the husband claimed.

A Gilbert officer kicked down the door’s home and found the family’s residence empty. Vallow worried his wife might have done something to their children, claiming she had been “brain-

rected being. Her religious stuff has gone way off the deep end.

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– Charles Vallow

Bottom photo: The late Charles Vallow was married to Lori Vallow. Top: Lori Vallow and her new husband, Chad Daybell, left, are in an Idaho jail after the remains of her two missing children by Charles Vallow were found in a makeshift grave. (Special to the Arizonan)

washed” by religious fanatics in Utah.

“She’s lost her mind,” Vallow told the officers. “She thinks she’s a resurrected being. Her religious stuff has gone way off the deep end.”

Vallow claimed his wife believed he was some sort of imposter pretending to be Lori’s husband – referring to Charles by the name “Nick Schneider” – and threatened to use her “powers” to harm him.

“She said, ‘I will have you destroyed,’” Vallow recalled.

This 2019 incident with Gilbert Police took place six months before Charles Vallow was killed by his wife’s brother, Alex Cox, during a domestic dispute at the family’s other home in Chandler.

Cox told Chandler Police his brotherin-law had threatened to harm the family with a baseball bat before Cox shot Vallow with his gun.

Cox last December died suddenly from what the Maricopa County Medical Examiner has determined were natural causes and was never criminally charged with killing Vallow. Lori uprooted her children from their Chandler home and

relocated to Idaho shortly after her husband’s death.

When Charles Vallow contacted Gilbert Police before his death, officers seemed reluctant to intervene in the affairs of his marriage.

They told him his situation presented a “grey area” since there was not enough evidence to suggest Vallow’s wife had broken the law.

“There was no information obtained that Lori had committed a crime,” a Gilbert officer wrote in a report. “There was no information obtained that Charles and Lori`s children were in danger.”

Despite a lack of assistance from law enforcement, Vallow was encouraged by officers to obtain a petition to have Lori involuntarily committed at a mental health facility. The husband later got Community Bridges to authorize a petition and attempted to serve it.

“She needs some serious help,” he told officers, “I want her to get help.”

Lori Vallow contacted Gilbert Police on her own and attempted to frame her husband as the person at fault for the

whole ordeal – alleging Charles had stolen her purse and cell phone.

The wife told officers she allegedly uncovered evidence of Charles having a romantic affair and reacted by moving her children into a hotel. Charles tends to be dramatic about their marital problems, Lori alleged, and didn’t want her kids around him.

“He just goes nuts sometimes,” Lori told officers in January 2019.

Melanie Gibb, a long-time friend of Lori’s, backed up her claims and went to the Gilbert Police Department with Lori to file a report against Charles.

Gibb would later turn on Lori by serving as a valuable witness during the investigation into the whereabouts of her friend’s missing children.

According to court affidavits, Gibb told authorities Lori called her two children “zombies” when she visited the family at their Idaho home in September 2019, when Lori’s children were last seen alive.

A couple months later, Gibb alleged Lori asked her friend to lie to police by claiming Lori’s son was living with Gibb in Arizona. Gibb refused to take part in the ruse and reported the incident to Gilbert Police in December.

As of late June, no one has been criminally charged for the deaths of Vallow’s two children. The authorities in Idaho have recently ordered additional postmortem testing be done on the children’s remains.

Six months before his death, Charles Vallow expressed wishes to possibly reconcile with his wife of 12 years and anguished he couldn’t protect Lori from whatever outside influences were tainting her thinking.

“I love her to death,” Vallow told Gilbert Police. “This is killing me.”

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was not enough to count as a crime in Arizona.

A Sheriff’s Office representative said it currently has an open investigation involving Smith and did not elaborate on the details of the case.

Not feeling satisfied with the actions of law enforcement, Kriesel did some more digging and came across Director Silbert’s recent complaint against the Board of Fingerprinting.

In the document, she found out there were other people in Chandler who have known about Smith’s behavior since 2018.

According to Silbert’s complaint, a woman contacted Chandler Police in 2018 after finding Smith’s tutoring

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advertisements online. They seemed suspicious to the mother who then unearthed Smith’s criminal history online.

The ads also mischaracterized Smith as a special needs teacher in the Phoenix Unified School District, which was not true.

The Chandler Chamber of Commerce reportedly interacted with Smith around this same time and staff felt there was something “not right” with him. The Chamber told Chandler Police that Smith was “pushy” about staff introducing him to local businesses and school administrators.

The Chandler Unified School District also told local authorities Smith had asked for permission to place flyers advertising his tutoring service in the backpacks of the district’s students.

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“It is my opinion that the AZ Board of Fingerprinting has been extremely neglectful in their role and share complete responsibility along with (Smith) for the assault on my son in what should have been the safety of his own home,” Kriesel wrote.

The Board has not yet filed a response to the DPS complaint in court.

Regardless of what happens between DPS and the Board, Krisel thinks there’s a good chance the Chandler community won’t be encountering Smith again. His tutoring website is down, his online advertisements removed, and he was quick to cancel his upcoming sessions with Kriesel’s son.

“I have a feeling this guy is long gone,” the mother said.

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Smith was persistent about being allowed to put flyers in the backpacks and became upset that he was unable to do so,” Silbert’s complaint states.

Kriesel said she was disappointed to learn so many institutions around Chandler had encountered Smith and did nothing to warn parents about his behavior or criminal history.

“I don’t even know who to trust now,” she said. “I’m guessing I will rely more on moms in the area.”

Smith is not listed on Arizona’s registery of sex offenders and has never been arrested nor convicted of a sex crime in the state, court records show.

Kriesel said she’s hopeful the Board of Fingerprinting will reconsider its previous decision and not recommend a clearance card to Smith.

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egistration is now open for the Area Agency on Aging’s Too Many Treasures Hoarding Therapy Group. The 14-week virtual sessions will begin in early September and run through mid-December.

The series is designed for Maricopa County residents over 60 “who are challenged by compulsive object hoarding and willing to self-identify and commit to addressing the disorder,” a spokesman said.

Groups will be limited to 12 people and online links will be provided to individuals who qualify for the program.

This is the only object hoarding therapy program in Maricopa County. Biweekly follow-up support groups are offered to individuals who successfully complete the free, confidential and voluntary therapy session.

Qualifying participants will need to complete an intake process by calling 602-241-5577 by Aug. 10.

Participants must be willing to attend the 90-minute weekly sessions, engage in group activities and complete home assignments.

“The goal of the program is to help someone understand their hoarding behavior and to know that they do have the ability to make changes in their lives,” said Heidi Donniaquo, a licensed clinical social worker who manages Too Many Treasures.

The sessions, which are moderated by a licensed professional counselor, are comprised of three phases: • Understanding the causes of hoarding disorder, techniques to identify obstacles and tools to help decluttering or acquiring.

• Discovering new ways to change unhelpful behavior.

• Techniques to help avoid recurrences and to maintain progress.

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“Through the therapy groups, participants suffering from hoarding disorder are introduced to new information and techniques to help them change their current behaviors and thoughts,” Donniaquo said. “Compulsive object hoarding is a serious problem that can be managed.”

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Landslides and deterioration of Apache Trail, right, prevent motorists from traversing its length between Tortilla Flat eastbound to Roosevelt Lake and prevent East Valley residents from reaching the sprawling Apache Lake Marina.

(Save the Apache Trail/Special to the Arizonan)

Apache Trail buffs, ADOT at odds over shattered road

BY GARY NELSON Contributor

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n any given weekend afternoon, the Apache Trail looks like one of those ant highways you see on the sidewalk – cars and trucks zipping by in either direction as East Valley sun-seekers take in the fresh air and Old-West ambiance.

That’s how it is, anyway, between Apache Junction and the tiny frontier out-

post of Tortilla Flat.

East of there, not so much.

Not so much because a few miles beyond Tortilla Flat the Apache Trail – also known as State Route 88 – has been closed since last summer because floodwaters from a fire-scarred piece of Tonto National Forest tore pieces of the road to shreds.

The shutdown has rankled thousands of East Valley residents and others who are demanding that the state repair the

wildly scenic but admittedly primitive road that serves as the shortest link from the Valley to Roosevelt Lake.

More than 18,000 people have signed an online petition under the museum’s auspices urging the Arizona Department of Transportation to repair the road.

The state has no intention of doing so, meaning that an iconic reminder of the region’s rich history might remain permanently severed.

The road, in fact, is so significant that

it’s one reason the East Valley is the East Valley, with its array of prosperous communities whose residents almost never have to give thought to where their precious water comes from.

The origins of the trail are lost in time, but it seems Native Americans traveled the route long before Europeans arrived here.

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the mercy of the capricious Salt River, sometimes in flood and sometimes in drought, a yearly gamble with the elements and hardly any basis for long-term prosperity.

With other Western regions in the same predicament, Congress in 1902 passed the Reclamation Act, which provided federal funding for dams and irrigation projects in the nation’s arid regions. That led quickly to the formation of the Salt River Valley Water Users Association, the forerunner to today’s Salt River Project.

Soon enough, plans were afoot to dam the Salt River 60 miles east of Mesa. Planners decided it would be less expensive to haul supplies to there from Mesa than from Globe, even though no road existed for doing so. Mesa, Tempe and Phoenix issued bonds totaling $75,000 to build it.

“Construction of the road was one of the more difficult and hazardous components of the dam project,” according to an official SRP history published in 2017.

“Apache laborers, who possessed skills in dry masonry and grading, signed on to the road construction crews,” it says.

“Some of the retaining walls they built using only fitted stones with no mortar out-

Apache Trail is a challenge for most motorists but a rockslide has made it virtually useless. (Special to the the Arizonan)

lasted the concrete and steel walls built by the project’s engineers.”

The road was substantially finished by September 1905, and in its first month, according to the SRP history, more than 1.5 million pounds of freight moved laboriously up the hilly, winding course.

A lot of that stuff came from the Wong family grocery store at the corner of Mesa Drive and Main Street. The building survived until a few years ago, when it was razed for a light-rail parking lot.

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“The Apache Trail combines the grandeur of the Alps, the glory of the Rockies, the magnificence of the Grand Canyon, and then adds an indefinable something that none others have. To me, it is the most awe-inspiring and sublimely beautiful,” Roosevelt said.

The “indefinable something” that Roosevelt praised has drawn legions of adventuresome drivers over the past century, though truth be told the awesome scenery may have been too much for some to

resist: It is said that you can still find the wrecks of cars that plunged off the roadway’s unguarded edges a half-century ago.

Over the years the Trail fed recreation and tourism in that reach of the Superstition Wilderness – one favorite site being the Apache Lake Marina and Resort, reachable only via the rustic roadway.

Then, last summer, disaster struck.

In June the human-caused Woodbury Fire consumed almost 124,000 acres of the Tonto National Forest. In September a storm dumped some 5 inches of rain onto the fire scar and the runoff ravaged 14 miles of the unpaved road. Seven miles between Fish Creek Hill and the entrance to the marina remain closed.

That cut off access to Apache Lake from the East Valley except for those willing to drive first to Globe so they could reach it via the Apache Trail from the northeast.

Starved for customers, the resort and marina closed in October.

That the road remains closed is frustrating to John Schempf, chairman of Apache Trail attractions at the Superstition Mountain Museum in Apache Junction.

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Since this special advertising announcement can’t stop anyone from buying up all the new 2020 Edition Arizona State Silver Bars they can get their hands on, the Federated Mint has not set a limit of how many Jumbo Silver Ballistic Bags residents can get – these are the bags pictured above that contain 10 individual Silver Vault Bags each. Everyone who gets these will be glad they did.

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Legalized weed headed for November ballot

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and

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

Industry already has positioned itself to oppose the 2020 measure.

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

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

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

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Tucson election calendar rankles Chandler senator

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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Chandler state senator is at the forefront of a new legal fight brewing over the ability of cities to set their own election dates.

Republican J.D. Mesnard is asking Attorney General Mark Brnovich to investigate whether Tucson’s odd-year elections violates a 2018 state law.

That statute says if turnout in those offyear events falls below a certain standard, cities must bring their election dates into conformity with statewide races.

If Brnovich agrees, he can order that the city more than $100 million of its state aid. both Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and City Attorney Mike Rankin concede that the city ordinance setting the next election for August 2021 conflicts with state law.

But both told Capitol Media Services that the statute can’t legally apply to Tucson – or any of the state’s 18 other charter cities – as they have voter-approved charters giving them the right to decide issues of strictly local concern. And they intend to fight it out in court if it comes to that.

Mesnard said he doesn’t see this as a local issue.

“The state has a vested interest in making sure that voter turnout is reasonably high, not abysmally low,’’ he said.

“You need to realign because you need more participation,’’ he said. “Otherwise it’s just a few people making decisions that impact the vast majority.’’

Rankin did not dispute that turnout is going to be higher in elections where Arizonans choose a president or a governor.

But he said that doesn’t translate to more local involvement.

J.D. Mesnard “Local issues get lost in those elections,’’ Rankin said.

“So even if there’s a higher voter turnout, we’re at the end of the ballot,’’ he said. “The local elections are drowned out by the state elections for governor and senator and, then, presidential.’’

Romero said the issue is even more basic than that.

She said Tucson voters have been asked multiple times whether they want to move to even-year elections. All have been rejected, Romero said, including the most recent proposal in November 2018, after the new state law was adopted, by a margin of 58-42 percent.

Mesnard’s complaint is the latest in a fight which started in 2012 when lawmakers voted to force cities to consolidate their elections with those already scheduled and taking place for federal, state, local and school issues.

The state Court of Appeals tossed the

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law two years later, saying that the state’s 19 charter cities can have their elections pretty much when they want, no matter what lawmakers said.

Appellate Judge Michael Miller said those charters, authorized by the Arizona Constitution, trump state laws on matters of strictly local concern.

He said there may be legitimate reasons for city officials to want their own election dates, saying it forces voters to focus only on those issues.

Two years ago, Mesnard, tried a new approach that he believes will withstand judicial scrutiny.

First, it declares that having consolidated elections “is a matter of statewide concern to increase voter participation in elections.’’

It also contains something not in the earlier version: a trigger. It would spell out that the mandate for consolidated elections would kick in only if there is a “significant decrease’’ in turnout in its off-year elections.

That would be computed by comparing the number of people who turn out for a local election with how many went to the polls in the same jurisdiction during two prior primary or general elections. If that drop off is 25 percent, the city loses its right to have elections on its own schedule.

In filing his complaint with Brnovich, Mesnard said Tucson’s voter turnout went from 67 percent in the 2018 general election to just over 39 percent in the 2019 city election. Yet he said the city has scheduled its next election for August 2021.

Mesnard wants Brnovich to declare that the ordinance setting that 2021 election date violates state law, subjecting the community to a loss of state aid.

“We do have a vested interest in democracy at large and making sure the people

are participating and elections aren’t set up seemingly to inspire lower turnout,’’ he said.

“At that point, it’s a whole ‘nother argument,’’ Mesnard said. “It’s not one that the court has looked at. So it is different than what they ruled on before.’’

Romero disagreed. She said the issue remains the same: The voters have approved a charter which also governs how they want to conduct local elections and have repeatedly said they want to keep that provision.

There actually already is a court case on this issue, with Tucson asking a Pima County Superior Court judge to declare that the 2018 state law does not apply.

But Mesnard said he chose this path rather than waiting for the outcome of the lawsuit which, with appeals, could take years.

By contrast, Brnovich is required to come up with his findings within 30 days, with a decision against the city setting the stage for automatic loss of state aid.

The fight over election dates isn’t the only time state lawmakers have tried to tinker with local elections.

In 2009, the legislature voted to forbid cities from having partisan elections for mayor and council. The same law would have voided Tucson’s modified ward system in which council candidates are nominated from each ward but elected citywide.

But the Arizona Supreme Court voided that law in 2012, ruling that the Arizona Constitution gives charter cities special rights to control their own local matters.

Charter cities in Arizona include: Avondale, Bisbee, Casa Grande, Chandler, Douglas, Flagstaff, Glendale, Goodyear, Holbrook, Mesa, Nogales, Peoria, Phoenix, Prescott, Scottsdale, Tempe, Tucson, Winslow and Yuma.

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the road, Schempf said, “They built it in less than a year, and they did it with pick and shovel. Now it’s been closed almost a year, and I don’t understand why, with modern technology and equipment, we cannot get it open.”

ADOT, which maintains the road, is adamant that it will not be reopened anytime soon.

“Because of widespread and extensive damage to the landscape from the Wood-

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tive leaders have refused to even consider legalizing marijuana.

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

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

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

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bury Fire, additional damage from massive flash flooding is not just possible but likely until vegetation recovers,” ADOT told The Tribune via e-mail. “This process will take several years.”

The ADOT statement added, “While ADOT has worked aggressively to maintain access to Canyon Lake, Tortilla Flat and Apache Lake, the seven miles between Fish Creek Hill overlook and Apache Lake will remain closed indefinitely because of the inevitability that flash flooding from

245,000 individuals who were qualified.

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

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

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

There also is a prohibition on sales to anyone younger than 21. And the mea-

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the Woodbury Fire burn scar will add to the already massive damage this unpaved section has suffered and the potential for flooding to trap and/or harm the public.”

Schempf doesn’t buy that explanation.

“It was an extraordinary storm we had last year,” he said. “It wouldn’t have made any difference if there was a fire or not, it still would have washed the road out.

That’s what happens in the Superstitions.”

Schempf said no one is asking ADOT to actually improve or pave the road, and that sure would bar the sale of marijuana products that resemble humans, animals, insects, fruits, toys or cartoons or sell or advertise marijuana with names or designs that imitate food or drink brands marketed to children.

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

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

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money for repairs is available from federal emergency relief funds. ADOT’s website says the repair bill would total in the millions.

Schempf said that in addition to the marina closing, the road blockage has negatively affected recreational destinations at Roosevelt Lake, in Globe and near Superior.

“A lot of people like to go the whole circle around – go out the Apache Trail and then come back by Boyce Thompson Arboretum or vice versa,” Schempf said. “It used to make a really nice circle trip.” 

hind the wheel.

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

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

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

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

Campbell said that is justified.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“some results’’ in the last 10 days since he ordered gyms, fitness centers and bars to once again close.

But Ducey said there’s also a reality that Arizonans are going to have to recognize.

“No matter what happens, we’re going to be dealing with this for some time,’’ he said. That, the governor said, makes education a better alternative than mandates, which is why his push has been his message that “you’re safer at home.’’

“So, the better way to do this, if possible, to have public buy-in to what is the more responsible decision, not from Mount Olympus or some government

entity, but by people in a positive peerpressure type of situation.’’

Still, Ducey is willing to impose some new rules that he said he got the blessing for from the Arizona Restaurant Association.

On paper, there already are some restrictions that the governor imposed when he once again allowed in-house dining as of May 11. That included requirements to reduce the number of tables and have at least six feet between tables unless there is a Plexiglas divider.

But aides to the governor said that became difficult to police, even to the point that there was no way to know how many tables there had been before.

In this new directive, the governor said dine-in facilities are now limited to half the number of people that fire inspectors have listed as capacity. The order exempts staffers from that cap.

Ducey said that both building officials and law enforcement can enforce a hard and fast number based on maximum occupancy as determined by the fire department.

That limit does not affect outdoor dining, where the risk of spreading the virus is less. The rules remain in place for six-foot distancing between tables.

And the latest order makes clear that any area beneath a roof counts as indoor dining, even if the entire side of the restaurant is open to the outdoors.

The order also requires patrons to wear a mask any time they are not seated at their table, prohibits people from standing around in groups, whether to wait for a table or simply go to the bathroom and encourages the use of reservations.

The governor denied that in allowing restaurants to remain open for in-house dining even while he is telling people to stay at home when possible is providing Arizonans with a mixed message.

“If you’re not home, you’re safer outside,’’ he continued. “If you’re not outside, you’re safer in a place with fewer people.’’

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Chandler High’s new principal ready for challenges

BY KEVIN REAGAN Arizonan Staff Writer

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ichael Franklin, Chandler High School’s incoming principal, is starting his new job at a chaotic

time.

Classes have been delayed by the pandemic, more teachers are preparing to teach online and students are facing the prospect of having to return to school wearing masks.

On top of all that is the certainty that there’s almost nothing certain about what may happen over the next few weeks.

Whatever the school district tries to plan out could be changed in an afternoon.

Chandler High was scheduled to start its fall semester on Aug. 5, before Gov. Doug Ducey suddenly decided this week he wouldn’t let campuses reopen until at least Aug. 17.

The day-to-day changes leave administrators like Franklin struggling to keep pace, but he said he has yet to feel overburdened by the pandemic’s turbulence.

“I haven’t felt overwhelmed by it,” he said. “People are so supportive and helpful.”

Franklin, who was recently picked to replace Larry Rother as principal of Chandler’s oldest high school, said he’s trying to remain optimistic about the current health crisis and believes it could wind up changing public education for the better.

The whole world has changed drastically over the last few months, he said, and schools are quickly having to adjust to operating in a more virtual environment.

“It’s politely pushed us into the 21st century,” Franklin said. “We’re exploring more online options for students. We’re having to utilize more technology in the classroom.”

Chandler High canceled in-person classes in March, closing down the school for the entire fourth quarter. That means it could be nearly five months by the time students return to campus

Michael Franklin is coming in as Chandler High School's new principal and remains upbeat despite the challenges posed by the pandemic. (CUSD)

again in August, Franklin noted.

These kids have had their whole routine disrupted, he added, and they may be facing challenges they’ve never experienced before.

The new principal has spent this last month surveying Chandler High’s students to find out specifically what concerns and questions they have about the future.

Franklin worries most about the students who depend on Chandler High as a safe haven from a troubled home life – or to even have a few regular meals.

“For so many kids, they rely on school for more than just the academic purposes,” Franklin said. “Sometimes it’s a way to get away from the realities of life.”

Despite all the uncertainty plaguing the upcoming school year, it’s hard for Franklin to not feel excited about starting his new job.

He’s a product of the Chandler Unified School District, having graduated

from Hamilton High in 2002 and wants to emulate the same educators who put him on a positive career path.

After earning a degree from the University of Arizona, Franklin spent 12 years working at schools around Tucson before accepting an administrative position at his alma mater a couple years ago.

He and his wife have two children who also attend Chandler Unified schools.

While serving as Hamilton High’s assistant principal, Franklin was put in charge of overseeing the district’s equity and diversity initiatives – a program Chandler Unified started a couple years ago to address achievement and discipline gaps among racial minorities and different socio-economic groups.

The issue of equity has come up again this summer as Black Lives Matter activists have staged civil protests across the Valley in reaction to recent incidents of police brutality committed against Afri-

can-Americans.

Several of Chandler’s local protests have been staged not far from the Chandler High campus.

Franklin said he fully supports approaching education from an equity mindset because every student – regardless of race or class – will encounter a feeling of inequity at some point during their high school experience.

“I am all for continuing our district’s initiatives in equity and inclusion,” he said.

As a school that dates back to 1914, Chandler High is considered one of the city’s oldest and most famous institutions. It has weathered through wars, economic depressions, racial segregation, and the flu pandemic of 1918. Parts of the school’s original campus were even designated a historic landmark in 2007.

Chandler High is already a great school, Franklin said, and has been so for a long time. That’s why the new principal is not exactly eager to come in and shake things up. Franklin wants to spend his first year on the job listening and observing, rather than instituting any rash changes.

“I’m not one to make a bunch of changes in isolation,” he added. “Change is not something I’m necessarily looking for or looking to make.”

Franklin said he’s essentially looking to continue a service that’s helped shape him into the person he is today.

Chandler Unified never left him feeling misguided or out-of-place as a teenager, Franklin said, and he hopes all the students attending Chandler High this year will feel the same way.

“I’m proud to be back home,” Franklin added. “I never thought I would have an opportunity to come back to the Valley and come back to the school district that’s given me so much.”

In a video to the Chandler High community, he said he will be guided by this mantra in all school decisions: “Go forth with pride, go forth with passion and go forth with heart.”

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Chandler woman brings yoga to homes, offices

BY COTY DOLORES MIRANDA Arizonan Contributor

N

icole Fonovich, owner of the mobile Nicole Anne Yoga, came to the practice of yoga at age 22 after living with chronic pain throughout her childhood and youth.

She was born with a degenerative disc disease and after innumerable hospital visits and multiple surgeries, she’d been told she had no reason to expect she could live a normal life.

“All my doctors said I’d be bedridden,” she recalled with twinkling eyes. “But it’s turned into a blessing.”

After advanced yoga and holistic health training combined with her ‘can do and will do’ philosophy, Fonovich founded her Chandler business.

Her team of 41 dozen holistic practitioners – specializing in a plethora of yoga and holistic services – go to work with individuals in their homes or groups at businesses and schools. Nicole Anne Yoga’s clients range in age from children to seniors.

And when some businesses faltered during the shutdown, Nicole Anne Yoga found itself doing better than it had in previous months.

“We’d made more by the end of May than all of last year,” said Fonovich. “We were struggling the first of this year, and with so many people unemployed and the economy shutting down, we didn’t know what to expect. And then, halfway through March, bang! Business! It was such a surprise, such a blessing.”

She said owning and operating Nicole Anne Yoga has brought great joy to her life.

The unexpected and surprising boom in business allowed her to help her own team members, many of whom found themselves hurting due to the loss of their own businesses’ customer base.

Enter virtual and telephonic services through Nicole Anne Yoga.

“The growth of Nicole Anne Yoga dur-

Chandler resident Nicole Fonovich runs a business, Nicole Anne Yoga, that brings a yoga master right to your door or in-home sessions.

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ing the pandemic was a win-win for all of us. Not only were we able to help people who were now stuck in their homes, but some of our own team members had to close down their own businesses. And now they were able to work from home,” she said. “I’m so grateful I’ve been able to provide work for them.”

Her team members, independent contractors, offer a wide range of services to fit the client’s stage in life or special needs, such as limited range of mobility.

“Some of the most popular services, besides yoga and meditation, are neu-

ropathic emotional therapy, nutrition coaching, life coaching and Reiki,” she explained.

Yoga is more than a career for Nicole Anne, it is a way of life that has served her well for two decades. It has helped her maintain her mental and physical health.

She knows of what she speaks when she tells others that yoga and meditation can help with depression and pain management. In her early years, as directed by her physicians, she relied on multiple pain medications.

Yoga changed that cycle of dependence.

Last August, at age 42, Fonovich underwent her fourth major back operation.

“And I’m fabulous,” she said emphatically. “Most people don’t know about me and my ongoing physical problems. This back issue is something I live with, and physically, yoga has made me both more flexible and balanced. And yoga has made it possible for me to work through my depression surrounding my back issue, and has helped me manage my pain naturally.”

A Nicole Anne Yoga team member and good friend Donna Lewen of Ahwatukee works with Fonovich weekly.

They met on a trip to India in 2019 and Lewen started a healing circle with a group of women at her home after that.

“We offer different healings monthly for each other,” said Lewen. “Nicole and I became fast friends. Beyond the Healing Circle, we practiced our new holistic modalities on each other every Thursday. I received Integral Breath Therapy Sessions, and Nicole received AumaKhua-Ki sessions.”

Lewen praised Nicole’s business acumen and ability to create a team spirit among the scores of disparate personalities.

“Nicole is a very bright businesswoman as well as a gifted holistic practitioner,” she said. “As Nicole says, It’s always important to have self-care.’ And that’s what we do for each other and others for whom Nicole Anne Yoga provides services for,” said Lewen. “She’s a warm, caring person and goes the extra mile so her team can get to know each other.”

Chandler’s Kerri Wade, a hypnotherapist, Reiki master and a Nicole Anne Yoga team member, echoed Lewen’s praise.

“Nicole is always very upbeat and works really hard to bring our personal services front and center,” said Wade,

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owner of East Valley Therapy. “She’s passionate about building us all up.”

Fonovich was born and raised near Chicago, and received her bachelor’s degree in business/leadership and advocacy at Kendall College in Evanston, Illinois. She earned her master’s in education at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

She’s also a graduate of the southwest institute of holistic arts in tempe, where she received her holistic practitioner degree, specializing in advanced yoga training (500 hour certified), integral breath therapy, Yoga Nidra, sound healing, restorative yoga, holistic nutrition, and life coaching.

She’s accomplished that despite her physical issues, explaining, “I’ve never let my disease define me in anyway.”

She admits there have been times when physical movement was impossible.

It was during one of those periods she discovered sound healing and meditation.

“Once I learned about sound healing and meditation – and the incredible

transcendence it allowed me to feel – I was truly never the same,” she said.

From 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. each Friday on Facebook, Nicole Anne hosts a donation-based sound-healing session.

It’s free to veterans, active military members and, after COVID-19 hit, was expanded to include free lessons to healthcare providers and first responders.

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days on Facebook Live.

“We want to make inner peace accessible to everyone,” she said, adding that was one of the major reasons she opted to start a mobile yoga business rather than open a brick and mortar studio.

Through her own trials, which included years helping her father move through his battle with leukemia, Fonov-

It’s my privilege to offer my knowledge and “ education about holistic nutrition to others, and to guide them on the healthy and natural path we were born to live.

”

“Sound healing uses the power of sound to restore one’s mind, body and spirit back to a state of balances,” she explained. “The sound waves from different instruments creates a harmonic resonance that trains the brain to move into deeper brain wave frequency.”

She also hosts a Live Meditation Mon-

– Nicole Fonovich

ich said, she became passionate about holistic nutrition. It is among the classes she teaches.

“It’s my privilege to offer my knowledge and education about holistic nutrition to others, and to guide them on the healthy and natural path we were born to live,” she said.

As businesses clients are more comfortable having team members come to their homes to provide services – whether one-on-one or with a small group – Nicole decided to continue offering virtual classes permanently.

She said many people told her they appreciated the convenience of learning yoga and meditation online as well as and receiving one-on-one nutrition coaching, life coaching, and more via Facebook Live.

Fonovich said she’s looking forward to the increased opening of schools and offices as she’d previously presented many classes in those sites.

In addition to being the president of Nicole Anne Yoga, Fonovich is also a children’s eBook author and app developer.

To honor her son Lucas, 11, she co-authored and co-created with her husband Damir, nearly 40 “Luca Lashes” eBooks and apps. She is also the president of Luca Lashes, LLC. For more information on her mobile yoga and meditation company visit her website at NicoleAnneYoga.com.

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He enjoyed a 39+ year career as a mechanical engineer in the aerospace industry with Rockwell/Boeing, working on the NASA Space Shuttle program in California and later on Apache helicopters at Boeing in Mesa before retiring in 2013.

He was active in the Speaker's Bureau and gave over 125 presentations across the country on NASA's space program, the benefits of space technology, and at high school career days. He also taught engineering classes at Cal State Long Beach, where he earned his master's degree.

Warren was a devout Christian who regularly attended church service. He enjoyed photography, playing the piano, listening to music (the Beach Boys were his all-time favorite), 3-cushion billiards, playing basketball, watching the Boston Celtics, drinking Pepsi — preferably with lots of ice — and most of all, nostalgic drag car racing. He was a member of Standard 1320, a group focused on drag racing from 1955 to 1971, and attended many nostalgic drag car racing events over the years, taking thousands of photos.

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

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ACTION CONTRACTING INC.

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Irrigation Repair Services Inc. Licensed • Bonded • Insured Technician

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

Call Lance White

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ROC# 256752

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Painting

Pool Service / Repair

Jose Dominguez Painting & Drywall SEE OUR AD IN DRYWALL! Quick Response to your Call!

15 Years Exp 480-266-4589

Juan Hernandez Pavers • Concrete • Water Features • Sprinkler Repair

Landscape/Maintenance Insured/Bonded Free Estimates

ALL Pro

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Not a licensed contractor

showing, Pool Light out? I CAN HELP!

Plumbing

FALL SPECIAL! $500 OFF COMPLETE REMODEL! 25 Years Experience • Dependable & Reliable

Prepare for Monsoon Season!

LANDSCAPING, TREES & MAINTENANCE

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480-354-5802

PPebbleOcracking, O L Plaster R Epeeling, P ARebar IR Call Juan at

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480-477-8842

480-720-3840 Not a licensed contractor.

Roofing SEWER CABLE

COMPREHENSIVE DRAIN CLEANING, SEWER SCOPING, AND MINOR PLUMBING REPAIR SERVICE

BOOK ONLINE! STATE48DRAINS.COM 20+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE FAMILY OWNED & OPERATED • BONDED & INSURED

Painting

NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR

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HOME IMPROVEMENT & PAINTING

Over 30 yrs. Experience

480-706-1453

Interior/Exterior Painting 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE

Licensed/Bonded/Insured • ROC #236099

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We Are State Licensed and Reliable!

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ROC#309706

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Anything Plumbing Same Day Service Water Heaters

24/7

Inside & Out Leaks

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Toilets

Insured

Faucets

Estimates Availabler

30 Years Experience References Available Licensed Bonded Insured ROC 286561

Disposals

$35 off

Any Service

SAME DAY SERVICE

ACCREDITED BUSINESS ®

Not a licensed contractor

Senior & Military Discounts

480-280-0390

Public Notices I, Gustave W. Lange, have sold my Glock 23 .40 Serial Number GVT155 on 7/3/2020 to a private buyer and no longer have possession of it.

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

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

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

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