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hen Skyline High senior Blake Roebuck left school on March 6, he was fully prepared to enjoy spring break and return to his classmates on March 16.

Red Mountain High School senior Makayla Donahoo thought the same, determined to help her softball team bounce back after a loss just before the break.

Then came one two-week school closure, then another. And last week, Gov. Doug Ducey closed all schools for the remainder of the

school year.

The not unexpected closure brought on by social distancing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic robs students like Makayla and Blake of some of the most treasured memories in many Americans’ lives – proms and commencement ceremonies.

“It was kind of sad realizing it was all actually over,” Blake said. “When it was official, it was kind of a blow to the heart. But I talked to a lot of my friends and we understand why it had to happen.”

Mesa Public Schools began remote learning for high schools on Monday, and announced it

will do the same for junior high and elementary students tomorrow, April 6.

MPS Interim Superintendent Dr. Peter Lesar told parents in a letter that the State Board of Education allows districts “to issue academic credit and high school diplomas if a student met or was on track to meet the minimum course of study and competency requirements prior to the school closure.”

“We will begin evaluating senior transcripts and reach out individually with any issues or concerns regarding graduation eli-

Mesa to ‘meet’ 3 Faith and virus superintendent finalists this week

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he Mesa Public Schools Governing Board has narrowed the search for the district’s next superintendent to two internal candidates and the president of an educational materials company whose last job as superintendent ended in controversy.

The board at a special meeting March 27 unanimously approved as finalists: Dr. Andi Fourlis, MPS deputy superintendent; Holly C. Williams, MPS executive director of master planning and bond projects; and Dr. Heath E. Morrison, president of McGraw-Hill Educa-

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Red Mountain United Methodist Church Senior Pastor Jen Lambert has seen the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on her church.. (Pablo Robles/Tribune Staff) See page 12 for story.

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Mesa wants to know how to help you

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

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undreds of Mesa residents will be getting calls from the city this week, but don’t worry: this is not a scam and they are not asking for money.

Instead, 100 city employees participating in the new Mesa Cares program will use contact lists from the various departments to reach out to residents and learn how they are being affected by the COVID-19 crisis and what the city can do to help.

The information from the telephone surveys will be presented to the Mesa City Council on April 14 and will influence how millions of dollars from the federal Cares Act will be put to the best use possible.

Mesa expects to receive about $4.6 million from the Cares Act for its response to COVID-19, starting in late April.

The funds are intended to cover a wide range of needs, ranging from rental and utility assistance for low- and moderateincome families, to getting the homeless off the streets.

Part of that effort is focused on slowing the spread of COVID-19, protecting the public health by isolating the homeless who display signs of carrying the deadly virus, such as a cough or a fever.

“All of our departments have connections with various groups. That’s the plan, to blanket these groups,’’ Assistant City Manager Kari Kent said. “We have so many departments stepping up. We want to assist our residents as best we can. We want to reach out to the community and see what the needs are.’’

Kent said she anticipates city employees making “hundreds and hundreds’’ of calls from a virtual call center, with most employees working from home and maybe a few of them located in the libraries in case technical issues need to be worked out.

Library employees also will field phone calls Mesa residents, hoping to connect them with the services they need. The new Mesa hotline is (480) 644-CARE. Residents can also get information about the COVID-19 response by going to www. mesaaz.gov/mesacares.

“Our libraries are going to be our knowledge center. As we bring programs on board, they will be the hub of the city,’’

Mesa City Manager discussed the impact of the coronavirus pandemic during a City Council session last Thursday, and said that even with massive injections of federal aid, layoffs of nonessential city employees may be inevitable. (Special to the Tribune)

Kent said.

The library employees are pitching in, despite facing potential budget cuts that could endanger their jobs and dealing with their grief from losing a fellow employee who died suddenly after suffering from some potential COVID-19 symptoms.

After receiving proposals from nonprofits, the city plans to plow $1.6 million in federal funds into the initial emergency response to COVID-19, and is making plans on how to target and spend millions more from the federal Cares Act. City Manager Chris Brady said that employees of departments whose facilities have been closed because of COVID-19, such as libraries, parks and museums, have been reassigned to organize the relief efforts.

“We want to keep our employees busy and they want to do something to help,’’ Brady said, with federal dollars possibly paying for some of their salaries. “We need to get money into the hands of our non-profits as much as possible.’’

The first wave of additional money from the $2 trillion-dollar Cares Act is expected to arrive in Mesa about a month from now, Brady said.

Mesa’s community development block grant funding is expected to increase from $3.7 million this year to more than $10 million over a two-year period for prevention, preparedness and response

to COVID-19.

Emergency solution grants – a second category aimed more at preventing homelessness and helping the homeless – will increase from more than $308,000 to $2.8 million.

Brady said the city is seeking proposals from experienced non-profit agencies, which know how to properly handle federal dollars and account for their use, a necessity that protects the city from being forced to reimburse the federal government at a later date.

He hopes to brief the council on some of these proposals next week.

“Hopefully, we will have programs in place so that we can get these dollars out as soon as possible,’’ he said.

The overwhelming job of responding to the crisis prompted a debate on setting priorities, with Vice Mayor Mark Freeman and Councilman Kevin Thompson saying that struggling Mesa residents – many of whom are seniors or have lost their jobs – should be a higher priority than the transient homeless population.

Freeman said the long line of more than 2,000 cars that stretched around the Mesa Convention Center for a United Food Bank event March 27 demonstrates that many Mesa residents are hurting and need immediate help.

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“I was astounded by the turnout,’’ Freeman said. “I would like to see a large amount allocated toward residents of our community.’’

Thompson said he would like to see a higher priority on the needs of Mesa residents than isolating the homeless.

“Our community is going to be in dire straits. A lot of people are living on the edge. I think sometimes it’s easier to keep people from falling into homelessness than to get them out of homelessness,’’ he said.

Thompson said many homeless people don’t want to live in shelters and just want to be left alone.

“I would hate to see a lot of our funding pushed to an entire class of individuals who really don’t want it, when we have an entire society of taxpaying citizens, the low and moderate income and seniors, who truly need help in this time of crisis,’’ he said.

Rent and utility assistance for low- and moderate-income families, especially those who recently lost jobs from the COVID-related economic implosion, are included as priorities in the immediate assistance plan.

But Deputy City Manager Natalie Lewis, who is developing the plan, said the homeless cannot be neglected because they are potential carriers of COVID-19.

“We know the homeless population is part and parcel to responding to COVID and slowing this down,’’ Lewis said.

Mayor John Giles said there is no doubt that a quarantine of homeless people who may be carrying COVID-19 is an essential part of any strategy in protecting public health against the vi-

Assistant City Manager Kari Kent said numerous city employees are stepping up to help Mesa residents weather the storm created by the pandemic. (Special to the Tribune)

rus spreading.

“One of the few things that are a clear priority is the elderly and other high-risk populations, including the homeless,’’ he said. “I don’t think it’s up for reasonable debate.’’

Bruce Liggett, Maricopa County’s Human Services director, said he is hoping to expand a screening program that began at Phoenix’s Human Services Campus recently in response to the outbreak.

“We are isolating the vulnerable people,’’ Liggett said.

He said Circle the City, which specializes in treating the homeless, is screening for symptoms of COVID-19 even though tests remain in short supply and has set up a 60-bed facility. He said he has no knowledge of any homeless person test-

ing positive, but he wouldn’t be surprised if someone is carrying the virus.

“We have a list of hotels and facilities that we are checking out,’’ Liggett said.

“I think everybody is going to step up.

I’m really confident we are going to get this done.’’

Liggett said he would prefer a closed medical facility for the program and that he is looking for potential sites in the East and West Valley. He said A New Leaf and Community Bridges are among the “strong players’’ in the East Valley.

“This is a public health crisis,’’ Liggett said. “The number of homeless on the streets has been going up for three or four years.’’

Liggett said the federal government is cutting red tape, allowing agencies to put

As students finished, we pinned their posters to the walls and admired them.

Some included big dreams like having a business career in Dubai or becoming doctors or lawyers.

Others detailed plans to stay in Arizona and attend state universities. Some students even wanted to buy houses for their parents when they settled into careers.

We ended the quarter in a festive mood and even talked about a year-end party for May. No one had an inkling we would not be

together again after winter quarter.

My students began talking about the COVID-19 virus in late January, but only because one girl’s sister was acquainted with a member of the Arizona State University community who had spent time in Wuhan, China this past winter. He was quarantined after becoming Arizona’s first known COVID-19 patient.

Fortunately, COVID-19 was not passed to my student. But kids being kids, students began joking that they felt feverish and needed to go home — the way

the funds to good use sooner.

“It’s going to help us amazingly,’’ he said.

Lewis said at least three motels in Mesa have agreed to provide space to isolate infected homeless as part of the regional plan.

Her proposal for immediate help includes additional shelter space at nonprofits for homeless who do not have COVID-19 symptoms but still fall into a high-risk group. She said the Mesa United Way has proposed paying for hotel rooms to help.

Another proposal would give Aster Aging, a non-profit which operates the Mesa senior centers, a grant to buy a new oven and steamer to increase the capacity of Mesa’s Meals on Wheels program, Lewis said.

Mesa Fire Chief Mary Cameli said she anticipates hospitalizations from COVID-19 cases to peak in late April and early May, based upon computer models, with the state expected to need 4,800 beds to treat COVID patients.

The city took one additional protective step by closing all playgrounds and most restrooms at parks, with the exception of large parks such as Pioneer, Red Mountain and Riverview.

Although playgrounds are now covered with yellow police tape, the public is still welcome to use the parks, as long as social distancing practices are observed.

In closing the playgrounds, Brady said the city is sending a message about limiting social gatherings and eliminating another place where the virus could be transmitted.

“This is going to be one of the largest challenges we have experienced in our lifetimes,’’ Giles said. 

A teacher’s journey through the shutdown nightmare

BY CATHRYN CRENO Tribune Guest Writer

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ight before spring break, I gave my Mesa Westwood High School students pieces of colorful poster paper and asked them to map out their futures in the Spanish future tense.

It was a way for them to practice grammar and to ponder things that are on the minds of most high school students: Graduation, college or trade school, first jobs, first apartments, love and marriage.

teenagers will see rain sprinkles and say that they need to leave class before the school floods.

None of us really thought at the time COVID-19 would shut down Westwood, or any other school in Arizona.

Still, as I left for spring break, I knew from news reports that I was going to need to step up my daily classroom cleaning routine.

Like most teachers, I use disinfectant

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gibility,” he said.

On the other hand, MPS – like virtually all districts in the state – canceled any other school activities, including proms, and all posted the death knell for traditional commencement ceremonies.

“We know a celebration and recognition are important to our graduating seniors, their families and our community. It is important to us, too,” Lesar said in an email to parents. “We are exploring various creative and virtual options for graduation.

High schools are developing plans to have vendors distribute caps and gowns to seniors, and yearbooks to students who ordered one.”

Governing Board President Elaine Miner said the board has not yet discussed with the administration what to do about commencement, citing the enormity of other more pressing issues, including the education of more than 50,000 students in this age of social distancing.

“I’m sure we will get to that,” she said.

“And we will listen to the community and take that input into consideration as we always do.”

Virtual classroom learning appears to have been executed across Mesa high schools with varying degrees of success.

One parent of a Mountain View High student told the Tribune her son is hearing from all his teachers, “He added a caveat that teachers can’t give zeroes for assignments not turned in, but that if becomes a habit with a student, the teacher will take it to administration,” she said.

Meanwhile, an MPS high school teacher complained that at her school, “Things are a mess.”

“Kids have district-issued computers but few are using them,” the teacher said.

“Some have good reasons, like no home internet, but others are just lazing around because district and state have said teachers can’t lower anyone’s grade.”

“We hear very little from the principal,” the teacher added. “Teachers spend a lot of time wondering what to do instead of working.”

“It’s very frustrating for teachers who are working hard to help disadvantaged kids get through the year,” the teacher added.

Many teachers in Mesa and across the country who were using Zoom live conferencing software last week encountered

Skyline senior Blake Roebuck and his girlfriend, Alexia Fowler, attended prom for her senior year last year. This year, however, it seems unlikely Roebuck will have that opportunity with schools closed. (Photo courtesy Blake Roebuck)

a problem beyond the district’s control when hackers began “bombing” Zoom conferences with singer Kayne West images, foul language and even pornography. Zoom was addressing the security flaw, according to published reports.

Blake said he found no difficulty adjusting to online instruction, saying the work he is getting replicates what would generally be done in a classroom.

“You kind of wake up and do everything at your own pace,” he said. “The work is basically the same but you’re at home, so it’s different. It can be tough if you have questions but overall, it’s been good so far.”

Makayla said she’s noticed a slight change in the coursework for some of her classes. While the material is similar, it’s also less hands-on than it would have been in-person, though she expected that would be the case.

One of the biggest challenges she expects with remote learning is preparing for her upcoming Advanced Placement (AP) exams during the first two weeks of May. The tests have been changed to shortanswer questions online.

Makayla said that even though her teachers have done well so far helping them prepare for the new exam style, she believes it may still present unforeseen

Red Mountain senior Makayla Donahoo saw her final season at Red Mountain cut short due to the coronavirus. She will continue her softball career next year at Weber State. (Eric Newman/Tribune Contributor)

challenges.

“It’s definitely harder to prepare for because the test itself is going to be more difficult,” she said. “My teachers have done a good job of sending out questions to set us up for the wording and difficulty of problems we will see on the test. They’ve at least helped me be a little more confident about it.”

Like other seniors, Makayla laments the loss of other hallmarks of a typical high school senior year.

She signed her National Letter of Intent to continue her softball career at Weber State in February, but was excited to see out the end of her high school softball career on her own terms.

She had planned to go to prom with the same group of friends she’s had for years at Red Mountain.

But now that is lost forever.

“We are taking things week-by-week,” Makayla said. “I hope I get to have a graduation. I know I have family that are going to fly in whether there is a graduation or not. I hope I get to walk at some point. It’s an experience you don’t really ever get to have again.”

Blake, who was the starting quarterback for Skyline and a member of the semifinal boys’ basketball team, said he feels for senior athletes who lost their spring seasons.

He had planned to rent a Mustang for prom this year for him and his girlfriend, Alexia Fowler, who graduated last year from Red Mountain. Now a freshman at the University of Arizona, she is finishing out her first year entirely online.

The two attended her prom last year together. Luckily, Blake was still in the process of finding a car to rent and Fowler didn’t purchase a new dress.

Blake hopes district officials will consider moving commencement exercise into the summer – echoing a hope other students and parents have expressed across the East Valley.

That would give him and his friends the opportunity to walk.

“I think at this point, if we got something, everyone would be happy,” Blake said.

Zack Denton, a senior at Desert Ridge, a Gilbert Public Schools high school located in Mesa, initially expressed his discontent with the situation on Twitter early on.

He listed the activities he and the rest

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of the Class of 2020 will miss out on as a result of the closures – including the rest of his senior volleyball season, prom, senior ditch day, the final assembly and yearbook signings, and, of course, graduation.

His tweet received several likes and retweets, which he said helped him come to grips with the losses and realize he isn’t alone.

“I was a little bummed, especially missing out on what people say is the most fun semester of your senior year,” Zack said. “But I realized how relatable my tweet was. There were others that were also bummed but we can’t really do much about it. Safety over everything at this point.”

Zack said his coursework has remained the same as what he would normally do during his half-schedule at Desert Ridge.

He hasn’t utilized applications such as Zoom, where he is able to see all of his classmates but said Canvas and Google Classroom have helped make the transition easier.

He also credited his teachers, who de-

Desert Ridge senior Zack Denton has started to gain a positive outlook on schools being closed for the year, as he plans to use it as motivation at Northern Arizona University next year. (Photo courtesy Zack Denton)

spite being asked to completely change their method of teaching, remain supportive for their students.

“Our teachers are being super generous to reach out and do everything they can to connect with us,” he said. “They keep things positive by telling us we will get past it and it will be something we tell our kids about some day. I have really appreciated my teachers.”

Zack contemplated pursuing his volleyball career at the next level, but since has decided on attending Northern Arizona University to major in business and minor in visual communications.

He said he remains open to walking at graduation, should it be deemed safe to do

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nities ahead for him and the rest of the senior class and is using the unique situation he and his peers have gone through as a friendly reminder for those that will come after him.

“There’s no telling when things can be stripped away from you at any point in time,” Zack said. “It isn’t the worst thing to not have the best high school experience. At the end of the day, we didn’t. We aren’t getting that prom. We aren’t getting that chance to walk across the stage.

It’s just a minor detail in life.

“At the end of the day we are going to go on to do bigger and better things because of this.” 

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tion.

The three candidates face a round of virtual interviews from tomorrow, April 6, through Tuesday as the Governing Board homes in on making a decision April 14 a replacement for former Superintendent Dr. Ember Conley.

Conley resigned in early December after the board placed her on administrative leave in November during an audit of unauthorized salary increases she gave to her senior staff.

The interviews will begin at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow with Mesa Chamber of Commerce CEO Sally Harrison asking the three candidates questions at mpsaz. org/live.

The one-hour session will focus on questions that community members said on a district survey that they’d like to ask.

On Tuesday, the board and groups of stakeholders – parents, students, administrators, teachers and members of the community at large – will interview the candidates in separate sessions.

“They’ll be pretty tired by the end of the day,” Governing Board President Elaine Miner said.

This was not how Mesa school officials had hoped to pick their next leader.

“Originally the board discussed taking the finalists and providing some tours to the finalists so they could visit some schools and get acclimated to Mesa public schools and some of the things that are going on in our district on April 6 as well,” Lesar reminded the board on March 27. ”And, of course, that was going to be in person. We tentatively had it scheduled for Brimhall Junior High auditorium where guests could come and attend and observe the live stream.”

But with social distancing restrictions in place, all that has changed.

Lesar stressed that tomorrow’s community session is not an interview per se.

“It’s not an interview with the community,” he said. “It is an opportunity to just talk virtually and get to know the candidates. The community won't have any vote or be able to give us any opinion on what they think of the candidate. It's

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really more for them to interface and be able to see the candidates and what is being considered.”

The stakeholder groups will be “provided the opportunity to write down positive attributes or concerns or additional thoughts about each candidate resulting from the answers to those questions,” he added.

The board would then be given those sheets prior to making a decision.

Miner stressed at the meeting that stakeholder groups “do have input and we do look, consider their input. We read it and that's important. That's why we want their feedback.”

She subsequently told the Tribune that she and the rest of the board “want the process to be complete transparent.”

34-school Montgomery County Public Schools district in Maryland 2006-09 before becoming superintendent of the Washoe County School District in Reno, Nevada, from 2009-12, where he oversaw a $550-million budget for a school system that served 65,000 students, nearly half of whom were from povertylevel households, according to his resume.

Morrison’s achievements there – including a 14 percent improvement in graduation rates in two years – earned him the titles of 2011 Nevada Superintendent of the Year and 2012 National Superintendent of the Year.

In announcing his national award, the National Association of Superintendents said: “In short order, Heath Morrison has become the go-to guy in public education circles whenever the Nevada state legislature is in session. Some elected representatives consider him as an all-star, having wowed members of both parties while on center stage.”

He then became superintendent of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District in North Carolina, where he abruptly resigned in 2014 – a move, according to multiple news accounts at the time, that came just before the board was scheduled to discuss firing him.

In his resignation announcement, Morrison cited family issues.

“I must now rededicate myself to my family, most especially my mother,” he told Charlotte media in a written statement. ”When I first started here in CMS, I was excited about having my professional career closer to her. However, I can't give my job the full attention it needs while making sure I address her needs at this critical time."

Questions surrounding his Nov. 3, 2014, resignation announcement surfaced quickly in multiple Charlotte news media organizations.

The Charlotte Observer got a hold of an internal report prepared by the district general counsel for board members.

The newspaper reported that the school board had begun an inquiry into Morrison in early October 2014 on several matters. One involved a project that he said would cost $35,000 – and wound up costing several million dollars.

The general counsel also reported, according to the newspaper, multiple staffers had complained that Morrison had created a “culture of fear.” His assistant said he drove her to tears on a daily basis, according to the newspaper.

The Charlotte Observer also reported

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The board reviewed 27 applications behind closed doors before unanimously approving the three finalists on March 27. Those applications were forwarded by a search firm that vetted all the responses to the district’s outreach for interested candidates.

Morrison has been in education since 1990, when he was a middle school social studies teacher in Maryland.

He worked his way up through principal and was a superintendent of the

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that the board’s chief counsel and two assistants spent more than 200 hours interviewing staffers and other associates before meeting with the board in midOctober 2014.

The board also talked in executive session about hiring outside counsel “to finish investigating Morrison” but decided against, that, the Observer reported.

Board members said Morrison would have to be suspended with pay and felt that “would have caused disruption within the district,” the newspaper said.

On Oct. 28, 2014, the board’s chair and vice chair met privately with Morrison to discuss the general counsel’s findings ahead of a time when the entire board could meet to discuss firing him.

Morrison said at that meeting he would resign and issued his resignation statement Nov. 3. Some members wanted it kept secret until after the Nov. 4, 2014, general election, when some school board seats were on the ballot.

Board members split

Morrison’s announcement the day before the election stunned people, according to various news organizations in Charlotte at the time.

The Observer said it had asked Morrison to comment on its findings but that he declined, citing only his official explanation for resigning.

In the wake of the Charlotte Observer’s report, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board chairwoman initially called for an investigation into the leak of the internal report itself.

But some of her colleagues noted that the internal report was not only leaked to the newspaper but also to Morrison’s lawyers, enabling him to resign before the board could discuss firing him, according to multiple Charlotte news accounts.

Morrison, who was earning $288,000 a year and had been with the district only about two years, also was the subject of a story in an alternative newspaper in Charlotte called “Creative Loafing Char-

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lotte.”

On Nov. 4, 2014, that publication reported there had been a “confrontation” between Morrison and the board the previous week that led to his resignation.

It said he had negotiated a separation agreement that included no severance pay but did include a confidentiality clause in which both sides agreed not to say anything critical of each other.

Charlotte’s public broadcasting station, WFAE, then published several stories and broadcast several podcasts about the resignation, quoting one school board member by name as stating, “He resigned with zero compensation, and I think that should tell the public a lot.”

That board member also complained the internal investigation hadn’t yet been completed and that it should have been – “to leave no stone unturned.” She declined to elaborate.

During a subsequent broadcast, the radio station interviewed three school board members. They essentially confirmed that the Charlotte Observer’s reporting was accurate and defended the way the entire inquiry was handled.

The board subsequently came under fire in Charlotte media in 2019 after it suspended the superintendent who replaced Morrison.

That superintendent resigned and the reasons for his suspension were never disclosed, according to WFEA, which also reported that the board decided to create an “Office of Compliance and Transparency” to investigate future complaints about misconduct by a superintendent or other top district official.

According to his resume, Morrison joined McGraw-Hill as senior vice president for educational policy and government affairs the same year he resigned from Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

He became chief sales officer and president three years later of the McGraw-Hill School Group. The company has 1,400 employees and generates sales of educational materials totaling more than $650 million, according to his resume.

In his cover letter, Morrison told the Mesa Governing Board, “While I have

learned a tremendous amount and grown my skills as a leader, I have an intense desire to return to more missiondriven work and continue my commitment as a public school leader.”

Mesa board aware of controversy

He said he has been “following the progress of MPS” ever since he became a school superintendent in Maryland and details his achievements in all his superintendent positions without commenting on why he left any of them.

In discussing his achievements in Charlotte, he said he helped drive the graduation rate in two years from 74 percent to 85.2 percent, with the greatest increases “with our students of color, impacted by poverty, with special needs, and with language diversity.”

That accomplishment mirrored some of his achievements in Nevada as well.

Miner told the Tribune that the board was aware of what happened in Charlotte, but declined to say how much the board had been told as of yet.

“We were made aware of that from the beginning and we have been working very hard to make sure that that was not a result of wrongdoing by Keith Morrison because we clearly are very concerned about bringing somebody to the district who has a colored background,” she said.

“We would not want to do that.”

She also stressed that the board has been doing additional vetting of all three candidates’ backgrounds and that it also has given them written questions.

“We are doing intensive background checking,” Miner said, adding that she did not want to taint the selection process by discussing any of the candidates at this time.

Of the two other competitors for the MPS top job, Williams has the longer association with the district.

A 1992 graduate of Arizona State University who is currently working on her doctorate at Northern Arizona University, Williams joined the district in 2000 as assistant principal of Mountain View High School and became Skyline High’s principal in 2006.

She has held various assistant superintendent positions with MPS since 2009 and also served as chief of staff from 2015 until 2019, when she was put in charge of the district’s master facility planning.

In her cover letter, she touts a “wealth of experience successfully leading teams” and her involvement in the community.

“I am particularly proud of my work on the Master Facility Plan, Equal Opportunity Schools, the Grading Practices Committee and the Assessment Task Force,” she wrote. “These projects resulted in clear guidance to move our district forward.”

Fourlis joined Mesa Public Schools in 2017 as assistant superintendent of teaching and learning after serving for two years as chief learning officer for the Arizona Science Center.

Prior to that, she held teaching and other positions in the Scottsdale Unified School District from 1996 to 2015.

Her last position in Scottsdale was assistant superintendent of teaching and learning and executive director of instructional services.

A 1992 graduate of Arizona State University – from which she earned her doctorate in 2011 – Fourlis in her cover letter wrote, “Throughout my career I have had the privilege of gaining the knowledge, skills and experiences required to lead Mesa Public Schools into the future.”

She noted her work “on behalf of the superintendent with day to day operations, seeking innovative strategies and partnerships to improve learning outcomes, developing and implementing a strategic plan, participating in the development and administration of budgets, supervising principal supervisors, department leaders of special education and teaching and learning, participating in the selection of school administrators and other personnel, and representing Mesa Public Schools in community, state and national platforms.

“I have spent my entire career developing relationships and refining my skills so that I can be the next superintendent of Mesa Public Schools,” Fourlis wrote. 

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on desks every day or so and keep a supply of tissues around for runny noses.

Finding tissues in Westwood supply cabinets had become a challenge during cold and flu season this year so I made a mental note to purchase my own supply over break. I also made a plan to ration alcohol wipes, which many students request from me like to wipe down desks and textbook.

But by the end of break, it became clear that I would not be putting a new cleaning routine to work anytime soon. Driving back from a trip to the Grand Canyon, I heard the news that Disneyland had closed indefinitely because of COVID-19.

Even though no formal announcement had been made about Arizona schools, I knew in my heart that if things were so bad that Disney had shut down its signature property, kids would not been gathering in classrooms anytime soon.

Just the thought of school closing for an extended period of time before the end of the year made me indescribably sad.

Sure, most teachers look forward to and appreciate their breaks from the

with them.

“To me what has been hardest about this is not having closure or an opportunity to prepare my students or say goodbye to them,” said Melinda Rohman, a friend who teaches Spanish at Kyrene Akimel A-al Middle School.

Rohman called the situation “heartbreaking.”

“We are missing out on all of my favorite end of year activities,” she said.

I had a hollow feeling in my belly as I contemplated the same thing.

Spring quarter typically is everyone’s favorite time of year.

After some discusCathryn Creno is a former education journalist and current Spanish teacher at sion by administrators, Westwood High School in Mesa. (Special to the Tribune) Westwood teachers were each given a few minutes to return classroom. But that does not mean that to their classrooms after the end of break most of us don’t love and bond with our to gather materials we would need to students during the nine months we are

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teach our classes online. When I arrived, I spent some of my time looking at and snapping photos of the students’ maps, with all of their dreams for the future – prom, graduation parties, award ceremonies were about to evaporate for the 2020 graduating class.

In the following days, I posted some Spanish music and grammar videos and phoned my 150 students to let them know I was thinking about them.

I didn’t reach everyone, but I promised those I talked to that I would get them through their Spanish classes by the end of the school year. I told everyone I spoke with how much I missed them.

By March 30 I, along with most other teachers around the state, set my own emotions aside so I could get to work on something brand new — teaching classes entirely online.

Public school educators often talk about using technology in the classroom, but typically that means students using laptops to takes notes and quizzes, using search engines for research and creating slide presentations.

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ocial distancing is forcing churches and synagogues across Mesa and the rest of the nation to retool their outreach to the faithful while bracing for the impact of lower financial support.

Social-distancing restrictions also are firmly in place at one of the most sacred times on the Jewish and Christian calendars as Passover begins at sundown Wednesday, April 8, and Holy Week begins today.

Red Mountain United Methodist Church in Mesa is typical of the way congregations in all faiths are feeling COVID-19’s impact.

Senior Pastor Jen Lambert said the move to virtual worship sessions has been a hard adjustment for some congregants, but everyone is learning to cope with new norm.

“There’ve been mixed reviews,” Lambert said. “We have some folks that aren’t technologically connected. I’ve had people ask if I can mail them copies of my sermons so they can read them. Then there’s others who are embracing the technology.

“It’s actually helped some of our winter residents who are going home for the summer stay connected,” she added.

It’s just not the people in the virtual pews who have had to adjust.

Some pastors also have had to master a virtual pulpit, said Bishop Deborah Hutterer, the leader of the Grand Canyon Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which covers 89 congregations serving 44,000 members across Arizona, southern Nevada and St. George, Utah.

“Most of them have figured out how to use their phone at the very least and put something online,” Hutterer said. “They’ve had to do a quick learning, master a sharp learning curve and they’ve done that.”

Lambert, in her fourth year with Red Mountain United Methodist Church, said her church has canceled a slew of other activities, from Sunday school to youth programs.

Lambert described that development as “disappointing,” given the number of people who turn to a church as a safe haven during life-changing events like a pandemic.

“Church is so structured around being in community together. We look forward to being together on Sunday mornings,” Lambert said. “All of a sudden, it’s all gone.

services for Congregation NefeshSoul, which meets in Chandler.

“We have cancelled our in-person congregational seder,” she said, adding she may have a virtual seder on YouTube, where she also is presenting Shabbat services on the NefeshSoulAZ channel.

“We have been including online resources for Passover on my weekly newsletter and hope that our congregants find a safe way to observe the festival,” Schanerman said. “Passover is one of the most celebrated of the Jewish holidays because it is so family- and community-oriented, so this year will be especially difficult for Jews all over the world.”

Social distancing and the shutLutheran Bishop Deborah Hutterer, an Ahwatukee resident, said tering of businesses also are putthe virus has posed numerous challenges for pastors both profesting some churches and synasionally and personally. (Tribune file photo) gogues – and their leaders – in a When 9/11 hit, I was an associate pastor financial bind as donations drop.

Red Mountain United Methodist saw a at a church and I remember the first thing we did was open the doors. People were dip in offerings when the church initially coming in to pray and just to feel safe and shut its doors on March 25, Lambert said, but they have started to pick back up. secure.

However, it’s still not up to par with the “That’s what church is to a lot of people.

It’s safe. Now all of a sudden, we are say- the results from in-person services.

“While we have had electronic giving in ing the safest thing to do is not be there. place for a number of years now, not evThat’s challenging,” Lambert lamented.

Many church leaders nationwide plan erybody is comfortable with it,” Lambert to host digital Easter as the country, ac- said. “We now have a text to give and the cording to a survey by Barna Group, an old-fashioned snail mail. I think people evangelical Christian polling firm based in are still trying to figure out the new norm California. of everything.”

Barna conducted the online survey Synagogues face the same challenges, among 180 Protestant senior pastors Schanerman said. from March 24-30.

“Rabbis, cantors and other synagogue “A majority of pastors, 58 percent, said staff absolutely depend on the financial supthey planned to hold a digital service with port of their congregations for their liveli45 percent sharing plans to livestream hoods,” she said. “We do not receive funds online and another 13 percent recording from an umbrella organization. If donations an Easter message to send out to congre- begin to decline, this will put a serious figants,” according to the survey. nancial strain on synagogues and staff.”

“While one in five or 20 percent admitChurches and synagogues also have had ted there was no plan in place yet, others to put a nearly complete stop to other cersaid they will hold an outdoor service, find emonies, including baptisms, funerals and another unique way to convene or meet as weddings. usual this Easter. Just 5 percent planned to Lambert said one celebration of life postpone their Easter celebration for the for one of their longtime members who time being.” passed away in January was scheduled for It’s no different for Jewish congrega- the end of March. However, the ceremony tions and their spiritual leaders as they was pushed back to fall. prepare for Passover.

Lambert said she has heard from colRabbi Susan Schanerman has cancelled leagues about possibly using video servic-

es to still host the celebrations of life, but for now all have been postponed.

In a few cases, Hutterer said, some weddings have been held, but only if the total attendance in church is limited to 10 people – including the bride, groom, witnesses and the presiding minister.

Central Christian Church since March 13 has hosted remote services on Saturday nights as well as at three different times every Sunday.

All Saints Catholic Church has hosted livestreams as well, with Mass celebrated by Father Robert Caruso each morning on the church’s Facebook page.

While some conduct their virtual service in an empty church during worship, Lambert has asked her worship leaders to seclude themselves in their homes.

“It’s still church,” Lambert said.

“Church doesn’t have to be about the building. Church is the people and what we do with our time.”

Online services hold promise for the future, according to Nona Jones at Barna.

“Up until now, church has really been deemed as a model that requires a date, a time and a location,” said Jones, head of faith-based partnerships at Facebook and a pastor, along with her husband Tim, at Open Door Ministries in Gainesville, Florida. “Now we’re seeing that technology allows us to actually minister to people 168 hours a week. I’m excited about what the opportunities are here.

“I think this present situation has allowed us to realize that just because we have physical distancing guidelines doesn’t mean that we have to truly socially distance,” Jones continued. “There are platforms where we can still connect.”

Still, pastors are saddened by the prospects of a very different Easter celebration next Sunday.

“For a while we had hoped maybe we could host a sunrise service but now we can’t,” Lambert said. “One of the things I focus on is the idea that the tomb was empty. So, while our church is empty, Christ is still with us. We are sending resources to our members so they can worship at home.”

“We are in this together,” she added.

“The church has left the building, but God has not left us. We will come through this and we will be stronger.” 

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Seniors can call Mesa for help at 480-644-5756

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n response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Mesa has launched a program called “Adopt-A-Grandparent” to help residents 60 years and older get essential supplies they need while remaining in their own homes.

The Mesa program is operated by the nonprofit For Our City Mesa, a network of faith, non-profit, municipal and business leaders that creates solutions for their community.

Volunteers will deliver prescriptions, food, and other essentials.

For Our City Mesa Director Paul Anderson said seniors in need can apply online at mesaaz.gov or leave a message on the Adopt-A-Grandparent Hotline 480-644-5756. They will be asked to fill out a form seeking details on the types of assistance they need – such as a food box, general supplies or a prescription pickup.

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Teachers use technology to project videos and slides on the classroom screen.

But there has been no need for lectures on web conferencing software because kids normally are still in the classroom.

On Monday, when many students returned to class online, that had changed.

Jim Archambault, an Advanced Placement physics teacher at Gilbert Highland High School, was online last week with the majority of his students. The previous week, they had answered online surveys about their home technology and it turned out that most kids at the middleclass school had enough equipment to continue their courses online.

Archambault said he would conduct videoconferences with students from a spare room in his home after moving a sofa and a foosball table.

He is confident that his students can take a home version of AP physics exam that will be given students this year.

But he expressed sadness that his students won’t have the full experience of doing physics experiments in class with lab partners the way they normally would.

“I volunteered at a food bank and saw many seniors, some with obvious underlying health conditions, waiting in line for food,” Mayor John Giles said. “I wanted to find a way keep those seniors safe at home and also connect to others who are suddenly finding themselves in need and alone.”

Anderson said, “We have an excellent team of volunteers ready to help. What we need now, is help finding seniors who don’t have access to what they need through family, friends, church or other means.”

The city also advised seniors they also can call the Area Agency on Aging if they have other concerns that the city line can’t address in relation to the pandemic. That 24/7 hotline number is 602-264-HELP (4357).

Giles said the volunteers are not expected to buy necessities for seniors and are merely delivering the supplies to their front door.

“We should be doing everything pos“Online physics will be 50 percent of what they would have had in class,” he said. “You can’t learn physics just by reading about it.”

My teaching situation could be described as the mirror-image of Highland High’s.

Many Westwood students are from low-income homes with little in the way of technology. While all have been issued laptops by the school, some lack home internet connections.

Many also lack time to attend video conferences during the school day because they are now looking after younger siblings who normally are in preschool or elementary school.

So, I have been putting links to grammar and vocabulary lessons into our classroom website and asking students to do small projects as time permits.

Spanish One students recently emailed me photos of objects from their homes that they had labeled in Spanish.

Spanish Three students emailed me video or audio recordings of themselves talking about their favorite mysteries — from the construction of pyramids in central Mexico to UFOs.

sible so they can stay home,’’ Giles said, noting that seniors are in the high-risk category for COVID-19 and he has been disappointed by the sight of many with physical limitations showing up at United Food Bank events in wheelchairs and on walkers.

“We want to identify the at-risk people in the community,” he said. “A lot of these folks, I can see the fear in their eyes.’’

Anderson said he hopes volunteers from For Our City will provide whatever they can to seniors within 24-36 hours from when they call, although delivery will be affected by supply and volunteer availability.

According to Anderson, food will come from supporting organizations and churches in Mesa.

In order to qualify for the program, applicants must be Mesa residents and at least 60. Applicants will receive assistance under a first-come, first-serve basis and must provide their name, adThe lessons have been a sea change for my students, who are used to being called on in class to talk in front of groups and also writing out notes and classwork on linked paper and keeping it in three-ring binders.

As a writer, I believe that the more students write out by hand what they need to know, the better they remember it.

I’m fairly certain that every teacher in Arizona right now is coping with similar challenges.

So, Westwood principal Christopher Gilmore set up a web conference chat that has pretty much run continuously since Westwood teachers learned they would not be returning to their classrooms this spring. Questions have ranged from how to connect families to food banks to whether its school wanted us to track daily attendance in our virtual classrooms.

Little by little our questions have been answered and Gilmore, like many other education leaders around the state, has called for patience and compassion. Right now, relationships matter more than straight A’s and perfect attendance.

“I am proud of the heavy lifting, positive

dress and phone number when they call the hotline.

In order to reach seniors who may not have access to a phone or to the internet, Giles and Anderson are encouraging residents to check in with elderly people in Mesa they may know.

Following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention social distancing guidelines of staying 6 feet apart from others, volunteers will drop items at doorsteps.

At the moment, For Our City Mesa does not need donations but the group is looking for churches of all denominations across Mesa to help address the needs of their senior citizens, Anderson said.

Giles said it is important for the faith community to “step up and take care for their own.”

“The faith community is one of Mesa’s secret weapons,” Giles said, adding that it is one of the biggest parts of the equation to solve this problem.  attitude, and ‘whatever it takes’ attitude the Westwood staff has had,” he told me in an email.

As student assignments have trickled into my email this week, I can say the same about the kids who are enrolled in my classes. I’m proud. I know they also have that “whatever it takes” attitude to come through this. 

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ee McPheters, research professor of economics in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and director of the school’s JPMorgan Chase Economic Outlook Center, offered his analysis of the of the economy last week.

He said that while the current economic free fall is unprecedented, recovery could potentially be quick.

Question: Have you ever seen anything like this pandemic?

Answer: No. That’s despite the fact that the common flu has tended to have increasingly greater fatalities in recent years.

We have built that into our common understanding of, “This is life in the 21st century and there’s flu, but life and the economy go on.”

Here, the higher fatality rate and the panic response of consumers has really changed everything. So, in addition to the economic problems is the overlay of panic on a national scale and apparently on a global scale, in most countries.

Q: So how do economists account for something like this?

Lee McPheters, an economics professor at ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business, foresees a rocky road for Arizona’s economy that could extend into next year. (Special to the Tribune)

A: After the severe recession of 2008, economists adopted the term “black swan,” referring to events that are rare, unpredictable and have wide impact.

The financial crisis was a black swan event.

One of the features of a black swan event is that typically, as you start working back through the history, all the analysis suggests we should have seen this

coming.

In hindsight, we should have had much better and wider investment in public health.

Q: So, is it too soon to predict what will happen with the economy?

A: We don’t have very many indicators that have a high level of frequency.

The stock market is a daily indicator and that’s why it has so much attention.

But the stock market is disconnected from the real economy, which is jobs and output and production.

One indicator that economists focus on is initial claims for unemployment insurance.

Arizona’s labor force is about 3.5 million people. So 1 percent is 35,000. So, if 35,000 file for unemployment, the unemployment rate goes up by 1 percent. That might continue for several weeks.

Arizona has been running at about 4.5 percent unemployment and I expect that to double.

Q: What about other segments of the Arizona economy?

A: The big picture is to look at the drivers of the Arizona economy and one of the drivers is population growth.

A big portion of our population growth is made up of people moving here from other states.

Well, people aren’t moving right now.

There has been pent-up demand for housing, but I think that with in-migration grinding to a complete halt, it will have an effect on construction.

What I think we’ll see possibly is small-

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Grocery warehouses addressing bare shelves

BY DZEVIDA SADIKOVIC Cronkite News

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mpty store shelves symbolize the frustrations and fears of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mark Miller, president of the Arizona Food Marketing Alliance, in an email interview, discussed how panic led to hoarding but warehouses are being replenished, the rising popularity of grocery delivery services and the appreciation felt by industry employees who are working hard for Arizonans.

“The Arizona Food Marketing Alliance is a trade organization that helps with education, legislation, regulation and connecting, he said.

“We represent most of the food industry – this includes large local and corporate grocery chains. AFMA supports independent grocery stores throughout

the state and helps the convenience store industry with the same goals.

“Our members are made up of the wholesalers, brokers and suppliers that service grocery and convenience stores with their food and beverage needs.”

Question: We’ve seen customers treat grocery store workers like heroes. What is that like?

Answer: This industry is made up of some of the hardest working people you will ever meet. This includes those involved with transporting food and beverages from the distribution centers to stores and those responsible for stocking

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Mark Miller, president of the Arizona Food Marketing Alliance, blames panic shopping for the empty shelves in supermarkets across the state. (Special to the Tribune)

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er businesses failing, which means commercial space available in more of the strip malls and smaller square footage offices and retail spaces because it will be hard for them to start back up.

That’s why there’s a tremendous emphasis on trying to stop small businesses from failing because they employ a large percentage of people working in this country.

Q: The new federal aid plan that’s expected to be approved provides for a $1,200 payment to many Americans.

Will that help?

A: This has been done before. It was done in 2001 and in 2008 and economists writing in economic journals,

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the shelves and checking out shoppers.

The grocery and food service industry has always focused on customer service and taking care of the customer. They’ve risen to the occasion to shine and have set a new standard in delivering worldclass customer care during this, one of our nation’s biggest crises.

Q: What is Arizona’s grocery industry doing to provide an uninterrupted food supply to the state’s grocery stores?

A: Looking back just a few weeks ago, our stores were full and well-merchandised. Our distribution centers had plenty of product on hand to keep all the stores full and well-presented for many weeks. Then the panic hit, the stress went across the state like a fire.

Our customers were unsure and frightened that they were not going to be able to get the food they needed to feed their families. The word came that the restaurants were starting to close. This started more panic throughout the industry.

The panic caused shoppers to over buy what they considered to be the es-

which are not widely read, show that in both cases, only about 20 percent of that stimulus money was spent on consumer goods and services.

About 50 percent was spent paying off bills. About 30 percent held onto the money because they thought things would get even worse than they were.

So, the effect of mailing people a thousand dollars may not be that a thousand dollars gets into the spending stream.

We can’t say if that will be the case now.

Q: And what about all those empty store shelves?

A: You’re getting into the world of psychology there. People feel they need to do something to try to control circumstances and they believe they can do this by buying toilet paper.

sentials. This included sanitation items, paper goods and most food items. Stores were under pressure every day to replenish merchandise that was sold out.

This panic caused most stores to put limits on the number of items that each customer could buy. These limits have helped to slow down the over buying and that is giving the industry a chance to replenish our warehouses.

Q: What do you say to people alarmed by empty shelves?

A: America has one of the best food systems in the world. Our sophisticated systems ensure that our stores have the ability to satisfy all the demands from our customers.

The uncertainty triggered hoarding on several high demand items. The hoarding caused the fear, the fear amplified the overbuying. Arizona has a large food supply that was moved very quickly into homes.

We are starting to see improvements over the last several days. With product limits, we believe our customers will start to see less out of stock, and that should calm the over purchasing of items.

There is no reason to believe there is a shortage, from my understanding. The problem is in the stocking and, to some extent, the distribution. There’s no reason to think there will be physical damage to production.

Panic buying in and of itself is somewhat of a black swan. It was totally unexpected by grocery stores and retail outlets but I guess in hindsight, they should have thought that like in a hurricane, people will empty the shelves.

Q: What could recovery look like?

A: If we see that, during that second and third quarter, the economy loses jobs, once the turnaround comes, there will probably be a rapid rehiring of all the people laid off.

It’s what economists call a V-shaped

Q: Is the issue one in which such items as chicken and toilet paper aren’t available in grocery store warehouses, or is manufacturing and processing not keeping up with high demand no one envisioned?

A: Certain items that come from animals have a natural limit. A hen can only lay one egg over a 24- hour period. A cow can only produce so much milk in a given time.

Q: Is it hard to force limits on the number of products customers are allowed to buy?

A: Our stores are in the customer service business, so putting these limits on these high demand products was not an easy decision, but it was necessary.

Q: In some U.S. stores, the police or the National Guard have been brought in to restock shelves and enforce purchase limits on certain items when they become available. Your thoughts?

A: This is not the case in Arizona. The National Guard is helping with transportation and stocking in some stores. Some stores do have security guards on a normal basis.

While there have been a few issues,

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recession, a sharp dropping down and a strong comeback.

For the 2008 recession, it took Arizona about seven to eight years to come back.

Here, I would expect that we will see a comeback probably in the early part of 2021, based on history and what we saw in previous sharp downturns.

I looked at some numbers for the 1918 flu, and when the recovery got going, it was only a couple of years to get back to the prior level of employment.

But all bets are off. We just don’t know.

In the long run, we still won’t be able to incorporate this sort of thing. But the hope is, as we did with the financial crisis, after we get out of this, we’ll say, “What could we as a country do better to prepare for this sort of thing?” 

in most cases our customers have been appreciative and supportive of our employees.

Q: Several chains, such as Bashas’ and Safeway, are reserving special hours for seniors, who are thought to have the highest risk of infection. Do you expect that to continue, and what has been the response from seniors?

A: We are not sure at this point. We will continue to keep our vulnerable customers safe during this crisis.

Q: Are rural areas or any other areas in Phoenix and elsewhere experiencing more shortages on food and other household items such as hand sanitizers and toilet paper?

A: The shortages on high demand items are consistent throughout the entire state.

Q: What are some measures that you are taking to protect workers at grocery stores and other food supply companies when it comes to the exposure to the coronavirus?

A: Several stores will be installing clear plexiglass to ensure customers and checkers have a barrier and safe distance at the checkout. 

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Mesa blacksmith keeps many irons in the fire

BY KATHERINE NOWICKI Tribune Contributor

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rom his spot in a Mesa storage facility, Donn Wagner practices a craft that is centuries old.

And from the testimonials he has received, there are plenty of people who are following in his footsteps.

The Mesa man is a blacksmith, who teaches his craft to some students while making tools and knives at his Lightning Creek Forge.

At 70, Wagner has spent more than half his life blacksmithing, though it was only after retiring as a millwright eight years ago that he turned what had been a hobby into a full-time occupation.

Wagner grew up on a dairy farm in northeastern Ohio, when farmers typically had their own blacksmith shops to repair their equipment. As a boy, he used to tinker in his family’s blacksmith shop.

After high school, Wagner joined the army and served in Vietnam and after leaving the military in 1969, became interested in blacksmithing while attending a Revolutionary War reenactment camp in Ohio.

He was largely self-taught for the next five years before meeting an experienced blacksmith who took Wagner under his wing.

“It worked out,” Wagner recalled. “That’s why I am the blacksmith I am today – because of him.”

His mentor basically told him to forget everything that he had taught himself and over three years as an apprentice, Wagner realized that while his self-taught techniques were not all bad, he had to relearn a lot.

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his past apprentices now have their own forges either in this country or abroad.

“You can’t do this without a good apprentice, somebody that wants further learning,” said Wagner.

Wagner says that he requires three things of his apprentices: determination, dedication and loyalty to the craft and to him.

He also offers blacksmithing demonstrations to local schools and is the official blacksmith for educational group We Make History.

His teaching techniques have won him plaudits that he proudly displays on his website, ironworksarizona.com.

Donn Wagner is a great teacher,” wrote Nicole Hanson of Mesa. “He knows what he is doing and takes the time one on one to make sure Mesa blacksmith Donn Wagner has drawn plaudits from his students who learn his craft and from people who buy his you understand how everything work. (Pablo Robles/Tribune Staff Writer) works as well.”

Taking Blacksmithing classes and He said he likes to determine if aspiring getting the honor to apprentice for Donn – including swords, knives, tools, guns, furniture candleholders, dinner bells and blacksmiths have what it takes before he Wagner was the best thing I’ve decided to other décor such as mattress frames, patio admits them to his 12-day classes. do in Arizona.

“I’m very selective in who I bring in as a furniture and plant holders.

“I came out with so much skill and pracAbout 80 percent of his items are made student, because we don’t hand this out to tice,” wrote Samantha Lawton. “Donn is an of black iron, though he also uses copper just anybody,” said Wagner. “They have to incredible teacher. He taught me plenty and brass. have something in themselves where they of metal work from absolute zero experiAnd most of them, he said, reflect a pe- can do this, safeguard it themselves.” ence. I learned how to work with an anvil riod of time before 1840 – a time he seems Part of his selectivity also is based on a and different techniques to moving metal comfortable with, given his frequent par- tradition among blacksmiths to keep their with a hammer.” ticipation in largely Revolutionary War formulas and techniques a relative secret.

He has also drawn praise from homeHe prefers one-on-one instruction and owners and people who needed a sword reenactment events.

He uses deer antlers or elk bone for his takes on no more than two students at a for a Renaissance costume. knife handles and frequently works with time, and neither age nor gender are barAnd he shows no sign of giving up his riers as his students have ranged from 7 nearly half-century love affair with blackleather and wood.

In addition, Wagner teaches blacksmith- to 68. smithing, explaining, “I can’t stop doing ing classes for $450, but he’s selective If students do well they can sign on for this. It’s who I am. I can’t imagine doing about who he takes on as students. a three-year apprenticeship and some of anything else.” 

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ith two of the biggest holidays on the horizon and a crisis that puts many healthcare workers in almost constant danger, Sue Carlisle has come up with a deal.

That the deal also helps her Mesa catering business – also a victim of the social distancing crisis triggered by COVID-19 – is a win-win-win.

For more than six years, Carlisle has owned and operated Straight to the Plate at 500 W. Southern Ave., which caters weddings, corporate meetings, celebrations and galas – in other words, events basically prohibited under guidelines restricting public gatherings to no more than 10 people.

So, she’s offering a deal that she hopes will keep her business breathing for a while, help people who still will celebrate Easter and Passover in this dark time and show some love for healthcare professionals.

Anyone who gives her a six-person order for Easter brunch or dinner or kosher-style Passover feast can also order and pay for a dinner for six for frontline healthcare workers.

Peoples can pick up their own meals curbside on the day they desire.

“For the frontline professional healthcare workers, we will be in touch with East Valley hospitals to see what the best way will be to handle the meals,” Carlisle said, saying she’ll either arrange a possible drop-off of heated meals or arrange for a pickup by the beneficiaries of the customers’ charitable act.

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Straight to the Plate has received recognition over the years for its customized menus overseen by an executive chef.

Her menus for six people for the upcoming holidays include items such as crustless Mediterranean quiche and baked French toast for brunch while Passover and Easter meals include salmon, beef brisket or ham as an entrée. Both the brunch and the two meal packages also include a number of side dishes. Prices start at $95 for brunch and $125 for the dinners and the packages include instructions for heating the chilled items.

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of the coronavirus and efforts to reduce its spread.

They chose the name for their business “to bring families together,” Sue explained, noting she and Brett “worked in corporate previously and did not see our kids enough because of long hours or business traveling.

“So, we thought Sue Carlisle, who creates eye-popping, mouth-watering displays as owner of Straight to the Plate Caterer in Mesa, hopes people will buy her Easter Straight to the Plate or Passover meals and treat healthcare workers to one as well. (Special to implies bringing famthe Tribune) ilies together, from our family to yours.”

Straight to the Plate after another With a daughter in college and a son in economic catastrophe – the Great high school, the Carlisles have felt the imRecession of 2008. pact of social distancing regulations just “Our previous business, Entrees as hard as restaurants and other small Made Easy, which was a meal prep businesses. business tanked when the economy “Normally our off-season is Memorial collapsed in 2008,” she said.

Day to Labor Day,” Sue said. “So, we have “Somebody said, ‘You have two chaff- lost virtually all of March and all of April ing dishes; why don’t you start a catering and May of weddings, social events, nonprofits, grand openings, etc. company?’” she recalled.

“Due to a great January and February, “We had no money, so we got out our four-ingredient cookbook for recipes. we have not had to lay off or furlough our Then we asked our friends to confiden- full-time employees and we would pretially taste and rate our first 25 recipes as fer not to,” she added. “We are evaluating ‘It’s a Winner!’ ‘I’ll have seconds please.’ this, every pay period.”

She added, “We are hopeful we can fur‘Ok, but nothing to talk about’ and ‘Please nish many meals. don’t serve this.’”

“We believe we can bring families toAfter settling on the recipes that made the first two categories, they started gether during this time, thank the frontStraight to the Plate and now have three line healthcare professionals and give our full-time employees and 15 part-timers team something positive to hold on to.”

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Criticism of Ducey over golf makes little sense

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist

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n an effort to catch a break from anxiety, boredom and coronavirus news non-stop, I made a trip to the golf course the other day.

This was not long after Gov. Doug Ducey issued his March 23rd executive order identifying “essential services” to be immune from closure orders during the COVID-19 quarantine period.

Ducey’s decision to include golf courses on that list has drawn a ton of criticism since then, from mayors statewide to scolding pundits to the self-appointed social media quarantine police.

Me? Personally, I felt safer from COVID-19 infection on the golf course than

I have in the grocery store, the gas station, the pharmacy, driving through a fast food joint, on local hiking trails and in casual face-to-face conversations with friends and neighbors – chats held at a distance of at least six feet, of course.

Equally importantly, because of the acreage of the golf course and the social distancing rules in effect, I can’t imagine how I could possibly have infected another soul, if for some reason I’m a coronavirus carrier.

What was different between a typical golf round and playing 18 amid a pandemic?

The Arizona Biltmore course, where I played, has instituted a comprehensive set of rules for golfers beginning with restricting players to walking or a maximum of one person per golf cart.

No more than four golfers were allowed into the pro shop at one time. Staff members were outfitted with rubber gloves and enough sanitizing equipment to disinfect a toxic waste dump.

The restaurant was closed to guests, leaving “to go” food as the only option.

Nor did the protective measures end once we teed off. Carts were sanitized before and after the round. Golfers weren’t allowed to touch the flags when putting. Rakes were gone from the sand traps.

The biggest change was to the actual golf holes: The course had flipped the cups upside down, so any putt that hit the plastic rim counted as good.

This made one of the world’s toughest sports a lot easier – and stopped golfers from making contact with the

cups and flags.

The course also asked people to avoid the traditional post-round handshake.

I’ve never witnessed more “air” high fives in my life.

As for the potshots aimed at Ducey, I think the Governor – who has done far better than most elected leaders at handling this crisis – did himself no favors by declaring golf as an “essential service” along with businesses like beauty salons.

But that seems mostly a semantic problem having to do with the word “essential.”

Could a human being live for months or years not going to the golf course?

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ceries, fueling up the car or having a prescription refilled.

But at a time when safe forms of recreation and businesses that put people to work are in short supply, I think Ducey made the right call.

It’s easy to portray golfers as privileged nitwits sacrificing the health of the public while the state descends into chaos. The trouble is, that has zero to do with reality as Arizona is currently living it.

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Every credible medical authority I’ve read or heard in the last month has suggested that we should exercise abundant caution for as long as this crisis persists.

If you can get some exercise – and a mental health break – on the golf course while taking care to practice social distancing and cleanliness, I don’t have a problem with it.

I had fun on the course for four hours, which is more than I can say for the days immediately before and after. It was, to paraphrase the famous quote about the game, a good walk sanitized. 

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rizona’s rise as one of the premier destinations for college coaches searching for next-level quarterbacks doesn’t come as a surprise to players or coaches.

It’s been one of the main goals for two of the state’s premier private trainers, Dan Manucci and Mike Giovando.

Now, both trainers and the players have made several adjustments to maintain a safe atmosphere for all involved.

“We all want to get a workout in, but be safe while doing it,” Desert Ridge junior quarterback Austin Kolb said. “We all keep a safe distance from each other, I wash my hands and just overall have good hygiene.

“This offseason I’ve been working harder, working out every day. I have to keep grinding for my team.”

Kolb enjoyed a breakout junior campaign throwing for 2,980 passing yards and 22 touchdowns to help lead Desert Ridge to the quarterfinal round of the playoffs.

He spent the entire offseason heading into his junior season working with Manucci, who has experienced his own success playing three seasons for the Buffalo Bills.

Manucci is now using his own experience to help players like Kolb seek a future at the next level.

“I tell them not to go through a workout but to grow through a workout,” Manucci said. “My passion is to teach them the right way, to respect the game and what it takes to get to that next level.”

Manucci has coached the likes of former Hamilton and current Oregon quarterback Tyler Shough, as well as former Notre Dame Prep and Auburn quarterback Cameron Yowell.

He’s also mentored former Chandler High quarterback Darrell Garretson, who went on to play for Oregon State.

Giovando has trained the likes of Spencer Brasch, a standout quarterback at Higley who is now at Cal-Berkeley. Others in-

us a lot of time to get the mechanics down,” Giovando said. “I really challenge them by making the throw a little uncomfortable for them or pressure them. We try to switch things up every day.”

Normally in large groups, both Manucci and Giovando have cut down the number of players allowed to attend each of their training sessions.

Dan Manucci (center) has trained several quarterbacks from Arizona high Other measures put in schools, including Notre Dame Prep’s Cameron Yowell (left), who is now at Auburn, and Hamilton’s Tyler Shough (right), who is now at Oregon. (Photo place include telling playcourtesy Dan Manucci) ers not to high-five, fist clude former Gilbert and University of bump or have any physical contact with Arizona quarterback Will Plummer and one another, remaining 5 to 10 yards apart at all times during drills. his brother, Jack, who plays for Purdue.

Landon Jury, a freshman quarterback at Perhaps one of Giovando’s most notable players, however, is former Pinnacle star Casteel High School and cousin of Shough, Spencer Rattler, an early candidate for the has been working with Manucci since he was in the sixth grade.

Heisman next season.

He’s seen his skills on the field improve Some players are also impressive, with Hamilton sophomore Nicco Marchiol, a four- drastically, as he’s become quicker, more star rated prospect, Higley junior Kai Mill- agile and overall more accurate inside and ner, who has picked up offers from Miami, out of the pocket.

Along with abiding by Manucci’s addiNC State, Michigan State and others, as well tional rules, Jury carries disinfectant wipes. as Red Mountain sophomore Jalen Daniels.

“We all keep a safe distance from each “A lot of these guys have been coming to me since the sixth grade, which has given other, and we don’t do a lot of close interactive stuff,” Jury said, who has worked with Manucci since he was in the sixth grade.

Similar efforts have been made by Campo Verde sophomore quarterback Reilly Garcia.

Still just over a year removed from an injury that left him with a torn meniscus, a fracture at the growth plate on his femur and a torn hamstring, workouts with Manucci became a key part of Garcia’s rehabilitation.

Now that he has recovered, he plans to compete for the starting role for a team that made it to the 5A Conference championship.

“With these training sessions I’m getDesert Ridge junior quarterback Austin Kolb has taken ting much better with my mechanics and extra precaution while training for his senior season in arm strength,” Garcia said. “I’ve improved the fall. (Eric Newman/Tribune Contributor) being able to move in the pocket and have

better pocket presence.”

Both coaches emphasize mechanics and footwork, putting each quarterback through simulation drills for what could happen in a game setting.

They admit it’s hard to replicate 11-on11 football in pads while in a small group setting and t-shirt and shorts. But both have seen some of the drills pay off during game situations.

Facing a third down deep in Florida territory during the 2019 Orange Bowl, former Chandler standout Bryce Perkins escaped pressure in the pocket, leaping over a would-be tackler and stiff-arming another to throw back across his body and find his receiver in the back of the end zone.

It was one of the premier highlights of the New Year’s Six bowl game, and it was something Perkins and Manucci worked on during training.

“The hurdling was him just being a phenomenal athlete,” Manucci said. “But we would go right and make him throw back to his left accurately. Things like that just happen automatically in games, even if it seems repetitive in training.”

Both trainers remain keen on emphasizing player safety as their main goal.

“We’ve got the wipes, we’ve got sanitizer, the kids all wash their hands and spray down the balls,” Giovando said. “We all have the same goal in mind to keep everybody safe.” 

Mike Giovando, who runs Elev8 Quarterback Academy, said he has limited the number of players at each of his workouts to maintain a safe environment while helping them train. (Photo courtesy Elev8 Quarterback Academy)

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ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified firm or team to act as the Construction Manager at Risk for the following: FIBER NETWORK EXPANSION PHASE 2 PROJECT NO. CP0696 The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) to provide Pre-Construction Services assistance and complete Construction Services as the CMAR for the Fiber Network Expansion Phase 2 Project. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ).

The following is a summary of the project. The required tasks will be reviewed with the selected CMAR and defined to meet the needs of the project as part of the contract scoping.

The scope of work for the Construction Services phase of the project will include the following: furnish & install new fiber optic cable installed in 157,700 LF of existing conduit; furnish & install 44,900 LF of quad 2” conduit w/1” conduit, #12 tracer wire, # 9 pull boxes, 4x4 manholes & new fiber optic cable; deliver the fiber optic cable to eleven (11) City facilities; and various fiber strand splices as needed on the project. The estimated construction cost is $5,000,000.

A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on April 15, 2020 at 8:00am remotely as a video and telephone conference. If you would like to participate, please send an email to stephanie.gishey@mesaaz.gov to receive the invite. At this meeting, the project team, including City staff will discuss the scope of work, general contract requirements and respond to questions from the attendees. The video conference Pre-Submittal Conference is not mandatory. All interested firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether they attend the conference or not. All interested firms are encouraged to attend the Pre-Submittal Conference since City staff will not be available for meetings or to respond to individual inquiries regarding the project scope outside of this conference. In addition, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from the Pre-Submittal Conference.

Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below.

RFQ Lists. The RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/construction-manager-at-risk-andjob-order-contracting-opportunities.

The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation). Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Minimum font size shall be 10pt. Please provide eight (8) hard copies and one (1) electronic copy (CD or USB drive) of the Statement of Qualifications by April 29, 2020 at 2:00PM. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer.

Delivered or hand-carried submittals must be delivered to the Engineering Department reception area on the fifth floor of Mesa City Plaza Building in a sealed package. On the submittal package, please display: Firm name, project number, and/or project title.

Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service).

Questions. Questions pertaining to the Construction Manager at Risk selection process or contract issues should be directed to Stephanie Gishey of the Engineering Department at stepha nie.gishey@mesaaz.gov.

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CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

MESA FALCON FIELD AIRPORT (FFZ) RECONSTRUCT HIGLEY RAMP

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

PROJECT NO. CP0918 FAA AIP NO. 3-04-0023-030-2020 DAVIS BACON WAGES APPLY

CENTRAL MESA REUSE PIPELINE 960 W. RIVERVIEW PROJECT NO. CP0896

The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant to provide design services for the Central Mesa Reuse Pipeline Project. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ).

The following is a summary of the project. The required tasks will be reviewed with the selected Design Consultant and defined to meet the needs of the project as part of the contract scoping.

• Design Services Package 1 – Design of upgrades, replacements, or new equipment associated with delivery of reclaimed water by means of new in-line pumping and equalization storage systems.

• Design Services Package 2 – Design of approximately 9.5 miles of new large diameter 36-inch or 42-inch waterline from Val Vista and Quenton Drive to Baseline and Recker Road A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on April 29, 2020, at 8:00amremotely as a video conference.If you would like to participate, please send an email to donna.horn@mesaaz.gov to receive the invitation. At this meeting, City staff will discuss the scope of work and general contract issues and respond to questions from the attendees. Attendance at the pre-submittal conference is not mandatory and all interested firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether or not they attend the conference. All interested firms are encouraged to attend the Pre-Submittal Conference since City staff will not be available for meetings or to respond to individual inquiries regarding the project scope outside of this conference. In addition, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from the Pre-Submittal Conference.

Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below.

RFQ Lists. This RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/architectural-engineering-designopportunities.

The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation). Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Minimum font size shall be 10pt. Please provide six (6) hard copies and one (1) electronic copy (CD or USB drive) of the Statement of Qualifications by May 28, 2020 by 2 pm. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer.

Delivered or hand-carried submittals must be delivered to the Engineering Department reception area on the fifth floor of Mesa City Plaza Building in a sealed package. On the submittal package, please display: Firm name, project number, and/or project title.

Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered and activated in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service).

Questions. Questions pertaining to the Consultant selection process or contract issues should be directed to Donna Horn of the Engineering Department at donna.horn@mesaaz.gov.

ATTEST: DeeAnn Mickelsen City Clerk

BETH HUNING City Engineer

Published: East Valley Tribune, Apr 5, 12, 2020 / 29944

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received until Thursday, May 7, 2020, at 2:00 p.m. All sealed bids will be received at Mesa City Plaza Building, Engineering Department at 20 East Main Street, 5th Floor, Mesa, Arizona; except for bids delivered 30 minutes prior to opening which will be received at the information desk, 1st floor, Main Lobby of the Mesa City Plaza Building. Any bid received after the time specified will be returned without any consideration.

This contract shall be for furnishing all labor, materials, transportation and services for the construction and/or installation of the following work: The project will consist of 3 phases. Each phase will consist of reconstructing a portion of the ramp to the limits shown in the project plans. The existing asphalt and base materials will be removed, and a new pavement section will be constructed. The ex-isting aircraft tie-downs in all phases will be removed prior to the pavement removal operation and new aircraft tie-downs will be installed after the new pavement section is constructed. Temporary and permanent pavement markings will be applied to the new asphalt.

The Engineer’s Estimate range is $3,000,000 to $3,500,000.

For all technical, contract, bid-related, or other questions, please contact Donna Horn at donna.horn@mesaaz.gov.

Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified above.

Contractors desiring to submit proposals may purchase sets of the Bid Documents from ARC Document Solutions, LLC, at https://order.e-arc.com/arcEOC/PWELL_ Main.asp?mem=29. Click on “Go” for the Public Planroom to access plans. NOTE: In order to be placed on the Plan Holders List and to receive notifications and updates regarding this bid (such as addenda)

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Public Notices during the bidding period, an order must be placed. The cost of each Bid Set will be no more than $45, which is non-refundable. Partial bid packages are not sold. You can view documents on-line (at no cost), order Bid Sets, and access the Plan Holders List on the website at the address listed above. Please verify print lead time prior to arriving for pick-up. For a list of locations nearest you, go to www.e-arc.com.

One set of the Contract Documents is also available for viewing at the City of Mesa’s Engineering Department at 20 East Main Street, Mesa, AZ. Please call 480-644-2251 prior to arriving to ensure that the documents are available for viewing.

In order for the City to consider alternate products in the bidding process, please follow Arizona Revised Statutes §34.104c.

If a pre-bid review of the site has been scheduled, details can be referenced in Project Specific Provision Section #3, titled “Pre-Bid Review of Site.”

Work shall be completed within 160 con-secutive calendar days, beginning with the day following the starting date specified in the Notice to Proceed.

Bids must be submitted on the Proposal Form provided and be accompanied by the Bid Bond for not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid, payable to the City of Mesa, Arizona, or a certified or cashier’s check. PERSONAL OR INDIVIDUAL SURETY BONDS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE. The successful bidder will be required to execute the standard form of contract for construction within ten (10) days after formal award of contract. In addition, the successful bidder must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self-Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/ pur-chasing/vendor-self-service).

The successful bidder, simultaneously with the execution of the Contract, will be re-quired to furnish a Payment Bond in the amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, a Perfor-mance Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and the most recent ACORD® Certif-icate of Liability Insurance form with addi-tional insured endorsements.

The right is hereby reserved to accept or reject any or all bids or parts thereto, to waive any informalities in any proposal and reject the bids of any persons who have been de-linquent or unfaithful to any contract with the City of Mesa.

BETH HUNING City Engineer ATTEST: DeeAnn Mickelsen City Clerk Published: East Valley Tribune, Apr. 5, 12, 19, 2020 / 29889

Public Notices CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant for the following: NORTHWEST WATER RECLAMATION PLANT PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS 960 W. RIVERVIEW PROJECT NO. CP0951 The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant to provide design services for the Northwest Water Reclamation Plant (NWWRP) Process Improvements Project. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ).

Various plant processes at The Northwest Water Reclamation Plant (NWWRP) have been identified as needing to be upgraded. This project includes an evaluation and detailed design of these processes as outlined below. Project will be constructed using the Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) delivery method.

A Design Concept Report (DCR) phase will precede a detailed design. The purpose of this phase is to evaluate alternatives for each of the plant processes based on capital cost, life-cycle costs, Operations & Maintenance (O&M) considerations, constructability and safety. This phase will include submittal of a report which shall include a detailed description of the evaluation along with a list of items for each process that should be considered as part of the upgrades. A Facilities Evaluation Report was recently completed for the plant. It will be made available and should be reviewed as part of the DCR phase.

After City approval of the selected process improvement alternatives, the detailed design phase will begin. Design shall include 30%, 60%, and 90% submittals, and be done in coordination with the CMAR contractor.

The following improvements have been identified as part of this project and are detailed below.

• Aeration basin upgrades • Upgrade or replace headworks and add a grit removal system • Upgrade or replace effluent disinfection system • Critical building Uninterruptible Power Source (UPS) and Electrical Instrument and Controls (EI&C) upgrades • Methanol system replacement • Programmable Logic Control (PLC) upgrades

Aeration basin upgrades to include improvements to meet the required oxygen demand at 12 mgd average daily flow. Improvements are also to include life-cycle equipment replacement including blower actuators, dissolved oxygen (DO) probes, air control valves, flowmeters, control loops, waste activated sludge (WAS) sampling equipment, electrical duct bank and wiring, return activated sludge (RAS) and WAS piping, and any other upgrades deemed necessary to keep the treatment capacity at 12 mgd average day.

Perform site evaluation to determine the feasibility of upgrading the existing Headworks. If a new Headworks is recommended, design to include a new building, odor control, bar screens, process flow channels, mechanical equipment, associated electrical instrumentation and controls, and replacement of the main flume, if necessary. The upgrade will also include the interconnection of the primaries to allow better flow split of downstream trains. The plant electrical room in the existing headworks building will be evaluated for code compliance, and if necessary, improvements to the building will be made. The electrical gear will also be evaluated and replaced, if necessary. Design grit removal system with (upgraded or new) headworks.

The effluent disinfection system will be evaluated to determine required upgrades. The existing UltraViolet (UV) system may be upgraded or replaced with a chlorine contact basin, depending on recommendations from the DCR. This project may also include the design of pump station modifications needed to deliver the effluent to the Gila River Indian Community for Central Arizona Project (CAP) water credit exchange.

Critical building UPS and EI&C upgrades to include a plant wide power study evaluating the need for a centralized UPS vs. separate building UPS systems. Recommended alternatives from the study will then be designed along with upgrades to the electrical system to accommodate the new UPS system.

The methanol system will be evaluated to determine the need of a carbon source at the plant. If it is determined that a system is required, a new methanol tank will be designed.

PLC upgrades to include design of replacement input/output (I/O) for PLC-C and PLC-D, and replacement I/Os and PLC processors for filter polymer, thickening centrifuges and dewatering centrifuges. Design also to include electrical system upgrades to accommodate the PLCs.

of Qualifications whether or not they attend the conference. All interested firms are encouraged to attend the Pre-Submittal Conference since City staff will not be available for meetings or to respond to individual inquiries regarding the project scope outside of this conference. In addition, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from the Pre-Submittal Conference.

Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process.

All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below.

RFQ Lists. This RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/architectural-engineering-design-opportunities.

The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation). Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Minimum font size shall be 10pt. Please provide seven (7) hard copies and one (1) electronic copy (CD or USB drive) of the Statement of Qualifications by April 30, 2020 at 2 pm. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer.

Delivered or hand-carried submittals must be delivered to the Engineering Department reception area on the fifth floor of Mesa City Plaza Building in a sealed package. On the submittal package, please display: Firm name, project number, and/or project title.

Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered and activated in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service).

Design team to create a record drawing master set for the entire plant including all the civil, mechanical and E&IC components. Design team to create a 3-D model for the processes upgraded in this project.

Questions. Questions pertaining to the Consultant selection process or contract issues should be directed to Donna Horn of the Engineering Department at donna.horn@mesaaz.gov.

City may include other miscellaneous improvements at the Site, as needed.

BETH HUNING City Engineer

A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on April 23, 2020, at 8 am, at the Mesa City Plaza Building, 20 E. Main Street, Mesa, AZ 85201, in Conference Room 501. A plant tour will follow.

At this meeting, City staff will discuss the scope of work and general contract issues and respond to questions from the attendees. Attendance at the pre-submittal conference is not mandatory and all interested firms may submit a Statement

ATTEST: DeeAnn Mickelsen City Clerk Published: East Valley Tribune, Apr. 5, 12, 2020 / 29888

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