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Wednesday, July 6, 2022
City preparing $500M bond package ask BY PAUL MARYNIAK Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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he city of Phoenix has begun creating a $500 million bond package it will put before voters in November 2023 to fund a variety of construction and renovation projects that have yet to be identified. The package is the city’s first general obligation bond package since 2006, when voters approved an $878.5 million bond program that brought to $4.6 billion the total amount of such bond issues voters have approved over the last 65 years. Since 2016, City Manager Jeffrey Barton told city council at a hearing last month,
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City officials prepared this chart to show how its proposed $500 million bond package would not affect the secondary property tax rate, which provides the revenue to pay off bonds. (City of Phoenix/Submitted)
City appears confident as water alarm shakes the West BY PAUL MARYANIAK Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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isclosures last month that Lake Mead’s water level is plummeting more quickly than expected and putting even more strain on the Colorado River jolted some Western cities, but Phoenix wasn’t among them. And that could be because of what city Water Services Department officials told city
council during a recent hearing. Those officials expressed confidence that the measures they’ve taken so far and their future conservation plans have left Phoenix in a safer position than many of its neighbors, including some other Arizona cities, for at least the next few years. Water Services Director Troy Hayes told the Council Committee on Cultural and Community Investment June 1 that Phoenix is nowhere
near considering outdoor water use curbs that already are in effect in Los Angeles and other California cities and are being contemplated in other states, including Nevada. Moreover, Hayes said, because the Colorado River supplies only 40% of Phoenix’s water, development likely can continue the way they are today.
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