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Report clears Gilbert mayor of ethics violations

BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

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n outside attorney has concluded that the five accusations of ethical violations against Mayor Brigette Peterson lacked merit, but said she showed poor judgment on one occasion.

Tucson attorney Frank Cassidy, in a report released last week, recommended that Council take no formal actions against Peterson. It is unclear when Council will review it, though it meets next on Oct. 19.

“This investigator concludes that Mayor Peterson exercised poor judgment in a few instances but did not violate the Gilbert Code of Ethics, “Cassidy wrote. “The Mayor has already been publicly castigated for her errors in judgment, and will face additional public criticism.”

Peterson called the complaints a political distraction.

“Over the past few months, I have faced a barrage of attacks by opponents who don’t like my politics, my leadership or me personally,” Peterson said. “They submitted multiple

false complaints against me – complaints, which today were dismissed. I’m glad to be able to put these political shenanigans in the past.”

Peterson also promised to address the criticism of poor judgment.

“As I always do, I will look for ways to improve as a leader, a public servant and a human being,” she said. “Where I can exercise better judgment, I will. And where I can do better representing all Gilbert’s many stake-

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BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

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erhaps, the Town of Gilbert should heed Mark Twain’s advice: “Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.”

Signmaker Jim Torgeson says as fast as he is putting up posters urging voters to reject a $515-million bond, the Town has been taking them down. Early voting begins this week for the Nov. 2 special election, which is mail-in only.

“They have interfered with the timing of the message before the ballots are mailed out,” said Torgeson, who has lived in Gilbert since 2008 and questions whether the town really needs such a big bond. “So, instead of people seeing it couple of times and thinking about it, I may be lucky if they’ve seen it once or twice.”

Town officials say the signs violated state statute by not containing the name of a contact person.

“Instead, the signs stated they had been paid for by a ‘Private

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Gilbert signmaker Jim Togeson is ready to take on the town over its removal of his signs urging the defeat of its bond issue. Ballots for the all-mail election will be hitting mailboxes later this week. (Pablo Robles)

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Some GPS parents seek mask mandate after ban tossed

BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor And HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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day after a judge ruled a state ban on mask mandates was unconstitutional, parents renewed their plea for Gilbert Public Schools to require masks.

Jake Given told the Governing Board Sept. 28 that each week he gets a letter from his daughter’s school about students being exposed to COVID-19.

“My daughter is in a school where the entire first grade class had to be quarantined because of COVID,” Given said, adding his children wear masks at school. “The CDC guidance is to wear masks yet we still don’t require masks.

“I’m concerned that we continue to allow people to exercise their personal freedoms but those personal freedoms hurt my own children’s personal free-

Stella Lawless

Jake Given

doms.”

He pointed to the 1905 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, which upheld a law that required mandatory smallpox vaccination in order to protect public health.

“We don’t allow people to drive drunk but we still allow people to harm others through causing others to get sick,”

Given said. “If my child gets sick I am responsible to bear those costs. The insurance companies are no longer covering those costs. It’s unfair to my family or anybody else’s family who get sick from people refusing to wear masks.”

He said Prescott Unified School Dis-

policy meeting is Oct. 19.

“This was born out of some of the issues that governing boards experienced not just in our state but nationwide,” Superintendent Shane McCord said.

Board member Jill Humpherys noted most times the district’s policies are recommended by the Arizona School Board Association for legal reasons.

“Sometimes we have to put those things in,” she said. “I think this is one of those where they just want to clarify what might be a common practice for a recess. In a difficult situation it’s nice to have things spelled out.”

Trina Jonas during public comments urged the board to not change the policy.

“The board already has the ability to end a meeting without a vote as long as you have multiple people vote to do so as opposed to just one person,” Jonas said.

She also spoke on a policy adopted Aug. 24 that set a time limit for speakers that depends on how many people want to address the board.

For example, one to 15 speakers will

get three minutes, 16-30 speakers, two minutes and over 31 speakers, one minute.

Previously the board president set the time limit on speakers, generally three minutes each.

“The ability to limit the amount of time when you have too many people, I feel like we’ve already done that,” Jonas said. “I feel like how we’ve been doing things has been really great.”

She said the change comes off as “trying to lessen community input.”

“I know that no one wants to really have that,” she said. “Even if that’s not the intent nobody wants that to be a perception.”

An attempt in August to control how long speakers can talk caused an uproar over at Town Council.

Mayor Bridgette Peterson was behind a proposed revision to the Town Code that would have given the mayor control over how long and if someone could speak at a council meeting. Many of her critics called it an attempt to quash negative comments against her.

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GPS board mulling new curb on speakers

BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

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hese days school board meetings have become a battleground for opposing sides on how a district should handle the pandemic.

From New York to California, there are reports of disruptions along with board members resigning and meetings canceled because of safety concerns. In May, the Scottsdale school board abruptly shut its meeting down after parents refused to wear a mask.

The Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board, which has heard it share of emotional outbursts from irate parents over classroom closures and the use of masks on campus, is looking to keep order at its meetings.

The board last Tuesday unanimously approved on first read a policy allowing the president to recess a meeting without a board vote to maintain decorum.

The policy will go back to a board policy meeting for further discussion and then brought back for a second read and formal adoption. The board’s next

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SIGNS from page 1

GILBERT SUN NEWS | OCTOBER 3, 2021

Citizen’ and included a phone number,” according to a statement from Town Attorney Chris Payne’s office. “In compliance with the Town’s long-standing practice, Code Compliance called the phone number to provide an opportunity to remedy the deficiency. Code Compliance did not receive a call back, and after the 24-hour notice period had passed, they removed 57 non-conforming signs. The signs were held until the owner was able to pick them up.”

Torgeson, however, isn’t giving up without a fight. He has hired attorney Tim La Sota who fired off a letter to Gilbert, telling the Town to back off or face a lawsuit.

La Sota in his Sept. 28 letter claimed the Town is violating Torgeson’s right to free speech and that the state statute Gilbert pointed to doesn’t apply to his client.

The statute states that a political sign must have “the name and telephone number or website address of the candidate or campaign committee contact

person.”

“There is no candidate or campaign committee in this instance,” noted La Sota, who also represented Councilman Laurin Hendrix in his suit against Gilbert last year to take his seat early.

And, La Sota reminded the Town that it has been down this road before and lost.

In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court in Reed v. Gilbert ruled that Gilbert’s sign ordinance violated a church’s freedom of speech. The justices found that the ordinance placed more restrictions on the church’s signs than with other types of signs.

“The Town of Gilbert seems not to have learned its lesson,” La Sota said. “I also understand that other persons and entities regularly place signs in rights-of-way without a person’s name and number affixed and these signs are not removed by the Town.”

La Sota accused the Town of showing a “willingness to cast the law aside for political purposes” and pointed to its attempt last year to keep Hendrix out of

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“The Town received the letter regarding the sign owner’s complaints and it is currently being reviewed,” according to Payne’s office last week. “However, the Town strongly disagrees with a number of the legal and factual assertions made in the letter.”

Torgeson said the Town’s interpretation of the law is meant to silence him.

“I no longer have safe harbor,” he said.

“It exposes me to the masses for retribution.”

Torgeson’s objections to the bond included it’s too big of an ask from taxpayers and amounted to a “slush fund” for the town.

A number of projects – like new roads included in the Transportation and Infrastructure Bond – would help improve safety and relieve congestion in Gilbert, according to officials. The last time the Town went to voters with a transportation bond was 13 years ago.

“That bond is just not right,” Torgeson said. “It’s not that the Town doesn’t need to bond for certain things but not double dipping.”

He was referring to the state’s allocation of $7.9 million for the construction of Ocotillo Bridge, which will connect two major arterials. The bridge also is included in the list of bond projects.

“When the ballot question was submitted to the county for inclusion in the upcoming election, the Town did not yet know if state funding would be granted,” explained spokeswoman Jennifer Harrison in an email. “Now that state funding has been awarded to Gilbert for the Ocotillo Bridge project, Gilbert will wait to see if voters authorize the remaining funding needed through the transportation Bonds.

“If voters authorize the bonds, the Gilbert Town Council will have the option to use less of the authorized bond amount or to use the full bonds and allocate less money to the Ocotillo Bridge project and more money toward another transportation-related project needed in the community.”

The Town’s current budget for the bridge was $53.8 million. The bridge is expected to open for traffic in spring

2024 and allow for faster emergency response times in the area and a direct access for people to Gilbert Regional Park.

Regardless, $515 million “is an incredible amount of money, an open check book,” said Torgeson, who preferred the Town go with a $100-million bond and later return to voters if more funding is needed.

Torgeson added that his lack of trust in Mayor Brigette Peterson’s leadership plays a role in his opposition to the bond.

Torgeson filed two complaints against the mayor. In the first complaint Torgeson alleged Peterson violated Gilbert’s Ethics Code by attempting to have pass amendments that would give her control over how long speakers could talk – or not at Council meetings. This was seen by detractors that Peterson was trying to shut down critics, who’ve demanded she resign from office.

In the second complaint, Torgeson claimed he was denied his First Amendment right to speak on an agenda item Aug. 3. The item was on the consent agenda, which is considered routine and generally voted on without Council discussion or public input.

An outside attorney found both of his complaints without merit.

In his signs, Togeson ties the embattled mayor to the bond. The messages included, “You can’t trust Mayor Peterson.

No on the Bond” and “Peterson supports taxpayer dollars for sex change surgery.

No on the Bond.” The second sign referenced Peterson’s support to include sex change surgery as an insurance benefit for employees, which did not pass.

Torgeson isn’t new to the inner workings of Town Hall.

He has served as an alternate on the Planning Commission and was on the Heritage District Redevelopment Commission. He ran unsuccessfully for council in 2016 and intends to run again. He’s filed a statement of interest with the Town, which will have four open seats next year.

Torgeson said he’s not deterred and that the signs will go back up at 100 of the Town’s major intersections. To date, he’s printed 500 anti-bond signs.

“I’m going to bury them with it,” Torgeson said.

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Survey shows why people move to, leave Gilbert

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he top three reasons people are moving to Gilbert are its safety, housing options and quality of life, according to a town-commissioned survey.

In turn, those who leave cite the cost of living, better housing options elsewhere and quality of life, the annual National Community Survey said. The survey was not administered in 2020.

The answers to both questions were the same as in the 2019 survey, according to Melissa Cannon, data content strategist.

Municipalities use the survey to help them make informed decisions, such as setting budget priorities, according to the National Research Center at Polco, which conducts the survey for hundreds of communities in nearly every state.

The center then compares local results with benchmarks compiled from surveys across the country.

Cannon said 350 residents took the survey, which the town likened to a community report card, from March 26 to May 14. Most of the respondents were 35-54 years old, white and owned single-family homes.

“Just for a frame of reference, this was right after we had our largest amount of (COVID-19) cases in Arizona,” Cannon said. “That was Jan. 4, which is the biggest peak so we’re heading down that epic curve peak when the survey was released in March.”

The survey gauged respondents’ opinions on issues such as community priorities, municipal services, public safety, customer service and resident participation in community events and programs.

Compared with the national community benchmarks of over 600 communities, Gilbert ranked higher or much higher in 40 categories. Among national communities, Gilbert ranked much higher for its vibrancy of downtown and shopping opportunities.

The town also ranked No. 1 for feeling safe from fire, flood or other natural disaster; No. 2 for sidewalk maintenance and No. 3 for number of times accessing the internet from home.

Cannon said the town ranked lower in four categories nationally – resident connection and engagement with community, overall health and wellness opportunities, use of public transportation and ease of public transportation.

Among its peers in Maricopa County, the town ranked higher or much higher in 61 categories, Cannon said.

Gilbert ranked higher for attributes like place to raise children, overall economic health, vibrancy of the Heritage District, street lighting and cleanliness.

Overall, using national benchmarks, 52 percent of the Gilbert respondents said quality of life in town was excellent, 45 percent said it was good and 2 percent thought it was fair, according to the survey.

For the town’s economic health, 35

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percent said it was excellent; 58 percent, good and 7 percent, fair while for safety, 45 percent considered it excellent; 47 percent, good; 7 percent, good and 1 percent called it poor.

For the 64 percent of respondents who responded to the question about their trust in government, 18 percent said it was excellent; 46 percent, good; 25 percent fair and 11 percent said it was poor.

From 2015 to 2021, the ranking for employment opportunities from respondents increased from 48 percent to 69 percent and for overall health, it went up from 76 percent to 81 percent.

According to Cannon, potential focus areas for the town were in the areas of public transportation and overall quality of the transportation system – less than one-fourth of the respondents gave it a positive ranking, a score that was lower than the national benchmark and a drop from the 2019 survey.

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trict is asking parents to sign a waiver releasing it from harm if students catch COVID-19 while on campus.

“If my kids got COVID, I will consider suing the school district,” he said. “And when I find out who give them COVID, I will sue their parents as well to cover the costs that my kids incur.”

Stella Lawless, a Greenfield Elementary School student, was the only other speaker in favor of a mask mandate. She said she wears a mask while dancing three to four hours a day, during recess and when playing soccer – all without having problems breathing.

“We should make a change and wear masks,” she said.

Additionally, 15 parents submitted comments to the district in support of a mask mandate while two did not support it.

Because the two speakers spoke during public comments, the board was prohibited from addressing the issue.

But district spokeswoman Dawn Antestenis said in an email that the district at this time will keep masks optional but strongly encouraged their use.

The president of the Higley Unified School District Governing Board in August attempted to institute mandatory masks but couldn’t muster support for her motion, leaving masks optional at the district.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper on Sept. 27 voided the mask mandate and a host of other laws approved by the Republicans in the Legislature and signed by Gov. Doug Ducey in the waning days of the session that all were supposed to take effect last Wednesday.

The mask mandate was introduced

by Rep. Jake Hoffman, who represents most of Gilbert.

The voided measures range from requirements for anti-fraud measures for ballots and prohibitions against cities and town from requiring face coverings or imposing curfews to banning proof of vaccination to attend universities or community colleges, and limits on teaching what lawmakers have incorrectly referred to as “critical race theory.’’

Cooper did not find that any of these

provisions, by themselves, is illegal.

What is, she said, was piling them into just four separate so-called “budget reconciliation’’ bills, each with what she said are broad, generic titles that fail to inform voters of the changes they enact.

The Legislature filed an emergency repeal with the state Supreme Court on Sept. 28 but lost its bid for a stay on Cooper’s ruling. Cooper also said she would issue additional orders if lawmakers attempted to get around her opinion.

The justices indicated a willingness to review her ruling on an expedited basis, setting a deadline of last Friday for both sides of the dispute to file any paperwork.

But none of that is a guarantee that they will buy arguments by Attorney General Mark Brnovich that Cooper exceeded her authority in invalidating the challenged provisions.

Cooper said there are separate constitutional requirements that legislation deal with only a single subject.

“Together these requirements promote transparency and the public’s access to information about legislative action,’’ she wrote.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “recommends universal indoor masking by students, staff members, faculty, and visitors in kindergarten through grade 12.

According to a CDC press release last week, three separate studies “found that school districts without a universal masking policy in place were more likely to have COVID-19 outbreaks. Nationwide, counties without masking requirements saw the number of pediatric COVID-19 cases increase nearly twice as quickly during this same period.”

And, the CDC noted, “One report from Arizona revealed that schools in two of the state’s most populous counties (Maricopa and Pima) were 3.5 times more likely to have COVID-19 outbreaks if they did not have a mask requirement at the start of school compared with schools that required universal mask-

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ETHICS from page 1

holders, I will. I will do everything in my power to improve every day. You have my commitment to that.”

Peterson said the Town can now focus on real issues at hand – improving transportation and infrastructure, continuing support of public safety and helping businesses with the workforce shortage.

The report’s findings did not surprise Dr. Brandon Ryff, who filed one of the complaints.

“I don’t think anybody is surprised by it,” Ryff said. “I’m disappointed with the outcome but respect the process. Those are the findings. I thought they might find at least something.

“The mayor if she keeps her nose clean she’ll probably won’t face a recall. I do think unless she changes fundamentally, changes her attitude and her behavior and conduct, I think she is going to have a tough time being re-elected.”

Peterson is in her first year of a fouryear term.

Ryff said his understanding of ethics is to do good and no harm, tell the truth and be fair and that he is mystified that the attorney could not find any violations in the five separate and independent complaints.

Besides Ryff, Ryan Handelsman, Jim Torgeson and employee Derek Konofalski each filed an ethics complaint over the summer. Torgeson filed two.

Morrison Ranch complaints Handelsman and Ryff filed complaints

Brigette Peterson

This screenshot from a neighborhood online meeting about the Morrison project shows from top right clockwise: Howard Morrison, Jim Linbloom, Dr. Brandon Riff (who filed an ethics complaint against the mayor) and Scott Morrison. (GSN file)

about the mayor’s communication and conduct over a proposed Morrison Ranch apartment project.

The two Morrison Ranch residents oppose the Morrison Family’s proposal to increase the number of apartment units.

The proposal has not yet been submitted to the Town.

Handelsman and Ryff claimed Peterson crossed the line of “fairness, impartiality and respect” with her friendly communications with Howard Morrison over the contentious issue ahead of a neighborhood meeting.

They called out her tone in discussing neighbor concerns, passing information to Morrison and identifying Handelsman by name to the developer.

That last action Handelsman called “the most aggressive.”

Cassidy looked at 117

email exchanges between Gilbert Council and 38 residents over the proposal. Peterson received or sent 82 of them.

Cassidy found Peterson’s March emails to Morrison to be “friendly, arguably to the point of deference.”

And though Morrison co-chaired Peterson’s mayoral campaign last fall, “an elected official is not expected to abandon her political platform or supporters after being elected,” Cassidy said He said the Town’s impartiality obligation in the ethics policy requires elected officials to be professional and open-minded in their communications and actions.

“An elected official whose campaign co-chair was a developer doesn’t violate her obligation to act with impartiality by being friendly and deferential to him any more than does an official elected on an anti-development platform who uses an unfriendly and undeferential tone with a developer,” Cassidy said.

He added that Ryff’s assertion that Peterson wishing Morrison “good luck” ahead of what was clearly shaping up to

be a contentious meeting on the proposal “does not show any preference for a particular outcome of the future apartment zoning case.”

Cassidy also didn’t find grounds for Ryff’s assertion that Peterson acted unprofessionally and had mocked the residents’ claims that Morrison didn’t give enough notice for the March 15 meeting.

Given the volume of neighborhood opposition ahead of the meeting, Peterson’s “dismissive attitude about the notices is perhaps understandable,” Cassidy said.

Regarding the claim that the residents were at a disadvantage because they found out about the meeting only two days in advance, Cassidy said the investigation found that the notices were mailed 10 days in advance – as required to all property owners within 300 feet and all HOAs within 1,000 feet.

But, he added, one would “expect the Mayor would at least forward the neighbors’ concerns to Town staff for review and consideration to see if sufficient notice was given and whether a second neighborhood meeting would be needed.”

The two men also asserted Peterson was dismissive toward their concerns that the placement of a sign notifying the public of the meeting did not meet town guidelines, which the investigation supported. The Town required the posting of a sign on Warner Road and on Higley Road.

Cassidy said Peterson did not directly respond to the posted sign and instead she told Handelsman that Morrison would explain the process at the neighborhood meeting. And in an email to Morrison, Peterson wrote, “I’m sure you followed requirements.”

Cassidy concluded Morrison met all requirements for noticing the public except for the 3-foot discrepancy with posting one of the signs.

“Even so, Mayor Peterson’s failure to at least request Town staff follow up on neighbors’ concerns about notice was a lapse of judgment,” Cassidy said. “Mayor Peterson relied explicitly on the developer’s experience.”

Ryff said what he found most egregious

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otorists could see smoother traffic flows when they drive through 63 intersections in Gil-

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The Town this month was expected to receive 252 advanced traffic-signal detection cameras that will replace those that have become obsolete over time.

“A black Tesla with its smooth edges and limited contrasting features, such as a grill, may get missed at night by a camera with older technology,” Traffic Engineer Aaron Pinkerton explained.

“With these upgrades, drivers should begin to experience improved signal performance through these intersections. What frequently may appear as a signal-timing issue is generally a detection issue,” he added.

Without a detection camera, a signal in town will always run with a set-time plan, according to Pinkerton.

“For example, a left turn will be given 15 seconds each time it comes up, regardless of if there is a vehicle at the intersection or not,” he said. “With detection, the left-turn time can be reduced or lengthened based on the number of vehicles in the lane and the opposing through lanes.”

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was that Cassidy basically gave Morrison a pass with notifying the public even after finding that one sign was not within 25 feet of a street.

“We either have rules or don’t,” Ryff said. “The sign they put up was so tiny you couldn’t see it. They need to look at what actually happened.”

Cassidy also disputed the claim that residents were put at a disadvantage because of short notice by pointing out that 270 people attended the virtual meeting.

But Ryff said, “Had I not gone and make a Facebook post, no one would have known.”

“We didn’t have time to prepare because no one knew,” he said.

Also, Cassidy found no support to the claim that Peterson’s emails to Morrison

Traffic signal detection cameras help improve traffic flow, especially for left-turning vehicles.

(Special to GSN)

Pinkerton said that the cameras can be compared to a sophisticated motion detector, where, instead of motion, the detector recognizes when an object has entered a defined space.

Pinkerton said the installation of the new cameras – generally four at each intersection – will be installed in three phases this fiscal year.

Of the 216 intersections with traffic lights, 63 will have new cameras. The intersections include Gilbert and Warner roads, Higley and Williams Field roads and Val Vista Drive and Elliot Road.

The Town also is replacing 30 out-dated CCTV cameras at 30 intersec-

tions like Higley and Ocotillo roads and Lindsay and Germann roads.

“The CCTV cameras provide a bird’s eye view of the intersection,” Pinkerton said. “This allows us to view an intersection in real time.

“When problems are reported, staff refer to these cameras to view and better understand the intersection and its operational characteristics.”

For example, he said, staff can how far back cars are stacked and sometimes they can see how close the next platoon of vehicles is when the light changes.

“It is also used to observe and understand construction impacts or manage traffic events,” he added. And “the 911

gave him “a heads up, inside information” to prepare for the neighborhood meeting nor did he fault the mayor for sharing that the residents intended to hire an attorney and were circulating a petition against the proposal.

“Whether Mayor Peterson’s communications with the opposing neighbors and Howard Morrison helped or hurt the project is datable,” Cassidy said. “But it certainly helped citizens understand the process better.”

He also disagreed with the residents’ contention that their emails to Peterson were confidential.

“Morrison Ranch residents had no reasonable expectation that their concerns about the proposed Morrison Ranch apartment project would be treated as

confidential,” Cassidy said. “On the contrary, constituents notify their elected officials with the expectation of being heard and having their concerns acted upon.”

Cassidy also addressed the claim that Peterson called out Handelsman as the most aggressive. Handelsman in June said he felt that she shone a spotlight on him to Morrison as a person standing between the developer and a project worth millions.

Cassidy said Handelsman was by far the most engaged correspondent and his 10 messages to the mayor had “included several somewhat antagonistic statements.”

According to Cassidy, Peterson explained that she singled out Handelsman to Morrison because in her experience,

dispatchers for the Town may use them when they are dispatching emergency services, too.”

Gilbert currently has 152 CCTV cameras throughout the town. They can be found at most major intersections and at some half-mile intersections where needed if there is a site obstruction or bend in the roadway, according to Pinkerton.

Town Council in late September approved spending $414,201 for the installation of the cameras and CCTVs. Gilbert purchased the equipment with the help of grant funding in June 2020. The federal grant was $2.2 million and the town kicked in for its required share, $132,000. The town also paid $30,000 in administration costs to Arizona Department of Transportation for a total of $162,318.

Pinkerton said each of the signalized intersections in Gilbert has some form of detection device and that they are regularly updated and replaced as needed.

“This large-scale replacement is possible because the Town pursued and was awarded grant funds to pay for the majority of this effort,” he said. “The Town will do more large-scale replacements if and when more grant funding is awarded.” quite often land-use negotiations occurred between the developer and the most vocal opponent.

But Cassidy said Morrison’s responses clearly showed he had been closely following social media posts opposed to his increase in apartment units and “didn’t need any help identifying a likely spokesman for the opposition.”

Cassidy’s said Peterson “exercised poor judgment in singling out a constituent as the ‘most aggressive’ in her email exchange with Howard Morrison” but that it didn’t rise to the level of an ethics violation.

Cassidy also did not find a conflict of interest with Peterson’s friendship

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ing on day one.”

Cooper’s ruling, particularly about masks, cheered state schools chief Kathy Hoffman.

“With this ruling, Arizona school leaders, educators and community members can come together to make the best decisions on public health, safety and education,’’ she said. “Our school communities are tired of being political pawns in dangerous attempts to subvert democracy and ignore science.”

Ducey spokesman C.J. Karamargin called the ruling “clearly an example of judicial overreach.’’

“It’s the duty and authority of only the legislative branch to organize itself and make laws,’’ Karamargin said.

“Unfortunately, today’s decision is the result of a rogue judge interfering with the authority and processes of another branch of government.’’

But Cooper addressed – and brushed aside – claims that how legislation is crafted is a “non-justiciable political question’’ beyond the reach of her and the courts to conclude whether lawmakers are exceeding their constitutional powers.

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with Morrison or with Morrison having worked on her campaign or donated $6,000 toward her campaign.

“Campaign contributions, campaign committee membership and attitudes about development do not create financial or property interest in the outcome of a zoning case and therefore do not create a conflict of interest under the Arizona conflict of interest statutes,” Cassidy said.

Cassidy also could not find proof that Peterson attempted to persuade both from filing complaints against her because the separate phone conversations she had with each were not recorded.

Employee’s ethics complaint Cassidy found no ethics violation in Konofalski’s claim that the mayor went after him and created a toxic work environment because of her vocal dislike of the Town’s new logo. He worked for the department that was responsible for creating the logo.

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“The issue here is not what the Legislature decided but how (it decided what it did,’’ she wrote. “Whether the Legislature complied with the requirements of (the Arizona Constitution) and whether a provision is reasonably related to ‘budget reconciliation’ are questions properly before the court.’’

Last Monday’s ruling does more than void the challenged sections of the laws. Unless overturned, it also quashes the practice that lawmakers use of piling apparently unrelated issues into bills in an effort to corral the votes for the entire package.

“This is classic logrolling -- a medley of special interests cobbled together to force a vote for all or none,’’ the judge said. And banning that could result in difficulty in getting approval of future controversial measures.

The judge said nothing in her ruling should come as a surprise to lawmakers.

“The Arizona Supreme Court has made it clear that logrolling is unlawful,’’ she wrote, citing a 2003 ruling in a fight between the Legislature and thenGov. Janet Napolitano.

And as recently as 2018, Cooper said,

Gilbert’s controversial logo became part of employee’s complaint against Peterson.

(Special to GSN)

Konofalski also rapped Peterson’s conduct as an administrator of a Town-sponsored Facebook page for 4x4 enthusiasts, which he claimed she booted him out of and that she “improperly allowed inappropriate and misogynistic posts” on the page. Cassidy said one witness Knofalski named to support his claims refused to talk.

Peterson acknowledged her dislike of the logo and denied attacking Knofalski or anyone else on the logo team. She also

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the justices said the whole purpose of a single subject rule is to prevent lawmakers from “combining different measures into one bill so that a Legislature must approve a disfavored proposition to secure passage of a favored proposition.’’

The Arizona Constitution prohibits policy changes from being included in the actual budget. So, for example, allocating a certain amount of money for school construction goes into the budget. Instructions on guidelines for giving out the cash, however, go into a reconciliation bill.

Cooper, however, said what’s in these bills hardly qualifies. And she cited that constitutional requirement for a bill’s official title reflects what is included.

Attorneys for the state argued that the judge should interpret that requirement broadly. So, in the case of a “health’’ budget reconciliation bill, they said that can include anything related to health.

“That is not correct,’’ Cooper wrote.

“The Legislature has discretion to title a bill but having picked a title, it must confine the contents to measures that reasonably relate to the title and each

other to form one general subject.

More to the point, Cooper said, the title of the bill “must be worded so that it puts people on notice as to the contents of the bill.’’

“It should enable legislators and the public upon the reading the title to know what to expect in the body of the act so that no one would be surprised as to the subjects dealt with by the act,’’ she said.

That, Cooper said, did not occur here.

Consider the provision prohibiting schools from requiring students and staff to wear masks while on campus.

It was enacted not as separate legislation but instead tucked into what was labeled “budget reconciliation for kindergarten through grade 12.’’

Ditto language forbidding schools from requiring proof of vaccines.

She took a particular slap at arguments that banning mask and vaccine mandates in public and charter schools is related to the budget because it may “potentially reduce overall enrollment and funding,’’ calling that “particularly disturbing’’ and unsupported by the legislative record.

stated that she did not consider Knofalski as one of the top five people who worked on the logo and noted she did not remove him from the Facebook group.

Cassidy said the Facebook page is no longer affiliated with the a town Town and Peterson was no longer an administrator.

But Cassidy faulted Peterson for even being an administrator on a Facebook page linked to the Town, which he said made her vulnerable to employee claims of unequal treatment.

And he said the mayor failed to recognize the impact of her outspoken, negative comments about the logo on the morale of employees who worked on it.

Public comment procedures Torgeson filed a complaint against Peterson after she had placed on an agenda a proposal that would allow the mayor to determine how long a speaker can talk at

Council meetings.

He also alleged she attempted to mislead the public and council members by not disclosing she was behind the proposal.

Cassidy found no ethics violation but said the item should have first gone to a study session, he said.

Torgeson’s second complaint against Peterson was for not allowing him to speak on a consent item on the agenda.

Cassidy said Peterson did not commit an ethics violation because she followed Payne’s legal advice, which prohibits public speeches on consent items.

Cassidy also said the Town has not followed its policy requiring all public officials attend at least one Code of Ethics training session per term.

Neither Peterson nor any of the current sitting council members have had the training and should attend at least one session during their current term, he said.

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s a principal, Jamie Bescak is a far cry from what Catholic grade school students 50 years ago remember – dour nuns who freely used rulers to keep their charges in line.

A mom as well as the seventh principal to lead St. John Bosco Catholic School in Ahwatukee, Bescak is neither dour nor likely to find many – if any – rulers around the campus.

As St. John Bosco celebrates its 20th anniversary, it’s a 21st century Catholic school and she’s a 21st century principal.

Consider the school’s quick pivot to online learning when the pandemic shuttered campuses throughout Arizona in March 2020.

“We were able to get online right away that March and they had full instruction for their core classes – math, language arts. They got a little bit of social studies and science in there and they got their religion too,” Bescak said.

“Our teachers were able to still execute what was supposed to be taught to those kids at the end of the year.

So, they didn’t really miss too much academically. They missed a lot of fun.

They missed the in-person stuff….We were able to direct and instruct and those kids were so wonderful and very tech savvy.”

A product of Catholic schools throughout her years as a student in her native Ohio, Bescak is in her seventh year at St, John Bosco.

To say she’s worn many hats - often at the same time – is an understatement.

After 20 years as a teacher in Mesa Public Schools district, Bescak started as a third-grade teacher at St. John Bosco.

She quickly added reading specialist to her duties.

Jamie Bescak of Gilbert, right, is the principal of St. John Bosco Catholic School in Ahwatukee.

She and librarian Theresa Harvey are celebrating the school’s 20th anniversary.

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Then she taught kindergarten, simultaneously taking on the role of preschool director and after-school supervisor.

“And then a year later, they just kept adding on more things,” she said with a laugh, “where I became a facility supervisor, developing and marketing. And then basically, it was really whatever the principal wanted or needed…And then, she retired and in the spring of last year, I interviewed and applied for the position of principal.”

Bescak also is a school mom: Because Gilbert has no Catholic grade school, Bescak enrolled her daughter in St. John Bosco’s preschool program when she got her first job there. Today, she is a sixth grader.

The school got off to a rather inauspicious start when it opened 20 years ago.

Pat Sdao, its first principal, recalls how she was ready to welcome students after a year of doing everything

from helping to guide the construction committee to recruiting students and teachers.

But opening day was Sept. 11, 2001.

And while the Phoenix Diocese decided to keep schools opened, Sdao wasn’t about to let that happen on her watch.

“I thought to myself, ‘It’s the first day of school. These kids don’t even know their teachers. They don’t really know the other kids. I thought ‘if it was my kid, I would want to be with my kid.’

So, when parents would come to drop their kids off, I told them to keep going, told them what happened and just don’t drop their child off,” Sdao recalled.

“I just start calling them and telling them that we can keep them if necessary,” said Sdao, who retired after the school’s first full year of operation. “I told them, ‘I’ll be there. There will be some teachers there so they wouldn’t be there by themselves.’ But I thought parents would want to be with their

kids. And you know, every last parent appreciated that.”

Just as America survived that horrific day, St. John Bosco has thrived, drawing many students from as far away as Gilbert.

The Pre-K-8 private school prides itself on academic excellence, boasting that 99 percent of its graduates get into the first choice of a high school.

Building on a foundation initially laid down by Sdao and others who worked with four East Valley parishes to establish the school, it is St. John Bosco is far removed from the kind of Catholic grade school that Sdao recalled growing up in when she was a youngster in Detroit.

“The old nuns in my day were such disciplinarians,” Sdao said. “But the only thing is, they really prepared you for college. If you were going to go to college, man, you knew how to write.”

And Bescak added that even though St. John Bosco is light years’ ahead in technology from what she was exposed to as a Catholic elementary student, “the mission is the same: We are an extension of the church.”

That means weekly mass for the entire student body at adjacent St. Benedict’s, catechism instruction, a chapel used often by teachers and students alike.

With a faculty of about 25 teachers and an enrollment of 366 students, St. John Bosco also has at least one staffer who was on hand when it all began.

Librarian Theresa Harvey started as a fourth grade teacher at St. John Bosco when Sdao opened its doors.

Both women recalled how a group of parents, educators and priests had planned for years to open a school in Ahwatukee because there was no Catholic grade school.

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dents, St. John Bosco was an “interparish school” because it drew financial and spiritual support from four Catholic parishes – St. Benedict and Corpus Christi in Ahwatukee, St. Andrew the Apostle in Chandler and Holy Spirit in Tempe.

Now, it is a ministry solely of St. Benedict Church.

“These parishes started years before the school was built,” Harvey recalled.

“They really worked hard. They called people. They started this campaign to raise money and then it came to fruition. The parishioners of all four parishes really came together and really worked as a community to build it and stock it with books and things like that.”

Dotted by trees that have matured over the last two decades, the campus was laid out with plenty of outdoor space and classrooms run off outdoor corridors.

That layout made it far easier than most private or public schools for St. John Bosco to offer in-person learning

when the 2020-21 school year began since various grades could learn outdoors.

As Bescak continues to build like her predecessors on the foundation Sdao helped develop, the school draws its support from both tuition and an active body of parents.

“We do have tremendous technology here because our parents are so generous with our fundraising,” Bescak said. “For our annual gala that happens in the spring every year, we were able to raise virtually just last year about $70,000…We just purchased all the new Chromebooks for our teachers.

This year, every year we’re doing something to upgrade our technology and our curriculum.”

And Bescak said she plans to be there for those and other celebrations in years ahead.

“So my plan is,” she said, “I’m their seventh principal and it’s the 20th year.

I hope to be here for 20 years before I retire.”

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Gilbert couple get home with ‘love letter’

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adia and Ernest Saco of Gilbert already had been searching for a new home before the pandemic hit, but after that, their quest became more urgent.

“I was working from home all of a sudden,” said Ernest Saco, a senior product manager for a software company and a father of three. “And we have all five of us just on top of each other in this 1,500-square-foot house. I’m working out of our bedroom. And our kids are home because school’s out, but they’re also home because all the places they would normally go to for fun are closed.”

“We were pretty desperate to get out,” Nadia Saco added.

But as the Sacos’ search intensified, they found themselves competing for a shrinking pool of available homes.

From April to July 2020, active listings in metro Phoenix declined by 42 percent, according to data from Realtor.com.

So, to stand out among the bidders, the Sacos turned to a tactic that’s become increasingly common – and increasingly scrutinized – in the homebuying process: the love letter.

In a letter delivered to the seller of the home they closed on in August 2020, Nadia Saco introduced their family, mentioned what her husband did for a living and detailed the “dreams” they had for the home.

“I could picture the Christmas tree, where it would go and my kids coming down the stairs Christmas morning,” she said.

A photo of the Saco family accompanied the letter.

“Buyer love letters are a tactic used by some buyers in an attempt to stand out to a seller, especially in hot markets with low inventory and bidding wars,” the National Association of Realtors said.

This family photo of the Saco family was included in a letter they sent to the seller of the Gilbert home they now own. (Courtesy of Nadia Saco) ingly or through unconscious bias, as an unlawful basis for a seller’s decision to accept or reject an offer.”

The federal Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination against both homebuyers and renters based on race, color, national origin, sex, Ernest and Nadia Saco’s children enjoy their first meal at their new religion, home in Gilbert. To compete with others vying for the house, Nadia familial status or Saco wrote to the owner, introducing her family and sharing the disability. dreams they had for the home. (Courtesy of Nadia Saco) Even seemingly innocuous “Seemingly harmless, these letters actu- details can risk running afoul of fair ally raise fair housing concerns and could housing standards. open real estate professionals and their Describing children coming down clients to fair housing violations.” the stairs on Christmas morning, for “They often contain personal infor- instance, “not only reveals the potential mation and reveal characteristics of the buyer’s familial status, but also their relibuyer, such as race, religion, or familial gion, both of which are protected characstatus, which could then be used, know- teristics,” the Realtors association said.

To avert the potential for infractions, Oregon passed a law in June requiring sellers’ agents to “reject any communication other than customary documents in a real estate transaction, including photographs, provided by a buyer.” It’s the first state in the country to enact such legislation.

Jay Young, executive director of the Southwest Fair Housing Council, said he doesn’t expect Arizona to follow suit anytime soon.

“I think a law like that would not have a lot of chance of success in Arizona,” Young said. “I don’t think the political climate is such that the state Legislature would move to outlaw the practice.”

However, the Fair Housing Act applies across the country. Young said sellers who violate that law by choosing a buyer based on “protected characteristics” risk facing a lawsuit.

A complaint also could be filed with the federal government against the violator, which could result in monetary damages, he said.

But so far, claims of discrimination in Arizona based on buyer love letters appear to be rare, if they happen at all.

“I have personally not heard of any claims or lawsuits arising out of a buyer’s love letter to a seller,” said Michelle Lind, CEO of the Arizona Association of Realtors.

And the extent to which these letters actually result in discrimination is unclear.

“I think it’s one of those things that is really hard to prove,” Young said.

Although the Sacos acknowledge the potential problems of letters like theirs, Ernest, who works part time as a Realtor, suggested love letters may stave off investors, who have been “snatching up” homes across the Valley.

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According to a recent report from Realtor.com, the Phoenix metro area is the No. 1 market in the country where housing inventory is negatively impacted by investors.

“I prefer to sell to someone who’s not an investor, regardless of if their offer is the best offer,” Ernest Saco said.

Although selling a home is an “emotional transaction, sellers are generally most motivated … by price and terms,” she said.

But in the Sacos’ case, both price and emotion seemed to play a role in the seller’s decision to select their offer over five others. After the Sacos sent the letter, they still had to raise their offer.

But the letter may have opened the door to making that higher offer, Ernest said.

“In a weird way, maybe they were rooting for us to get the home now that they understood our character and how we fit into the community,” he said.

The strong sense of community in their new neighborhood was part of the home’s appeal to the Sacos. They also believe the sellers felt a responsibility to help maintain that community feel even after they left.

“Everyone on our street has grown really close,” Nadia Saco said. “And so I think they take it very seriously when a new family moves in that it’ll be a good fit for the street.”

Including a love letter doesn’t always ensure a successful bid, however. The Sacos put offers on two other houses before finally landing their new home, and one of those offers also included a letter, they said. And it hasn’t always

worked for Ernest Saco’s clients, either.

Still, he encourages homebuyers to do whatever it takes to land the home of their dreams.

“Typically, my clients will ask me if they should write a letter,” he said. “My advice to them is usually, anything you can do to attempt to make your offer seem more valuable, I’d advise doing that. Especially if it’s a bidding war.”

When he represents sellers, though, he strikes a somewhat different tune.

“My advice to my sellers is always take the emotion out of it and keep it strictly financial,” he said. “Whatever seems to be the strongest offer with the least amount of risk is what’s in your best interest, and move forward with that.”

One of Ernest Saco’s recent clients chose an offer that was “on par with the other top offers,” but also included a letter that described the buyer’s “life journey.” As the seller had a similar “life journey” of his own, he gave the buyer a chance to raise his offer, Ernest Saco said.

Saco thinks that, ultimately, homebuyers should be able to express their hopes and share their stories with sellers.

“Our home is more than just wood and stucco. It’s where we’re raising our family. It’s where we’re spending the majority of our time,” Ernest Saco said.

“Having a way to show someone that your home will be in good hands, the home that you spent living your life in, I think is a positive thing – if biases can be removed and discrimination can be removed,” he said.

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Gilbert Tigers conquering demons one game at a time

BY REMY MASTEY GSN Contributing Writer

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ead coach Derek Zellner of the Gilbert Tigers always preaches to his players, “don’t make a bad play a disaster.” This has been an omen for the Tigers season as they started the year off 0-2.

After losing in Week 1 to Desert Mountain 34-7 and falling to Mesquite 20-0 in Week 2, the Tigers went into practice understanding that they have work to do.

However, they are ultimately prepared for the difficult road ahead.

The mood in practice was described by senior center Carson Bryce as very encouraging and the energy was a lot higher than usual.

Zellner knows the team can compete at a high level but feels that they are shooting themselves in the foot and the constant turnovers are the main cause of their downfall.

Despite these mistakes, giving up is not an option for Zellner or the Tigers and they have all still been working extremely hard.

“We have had a tough couple of weeks, but we have fought through everything, and fought until the very last whistle. If you watch the game, you will see that,” said senior wide receiver and safety Evan Smith. “We never gave up. We had each other’s back. Yes, things are not going to go our way once in a while, but you get back on the field. And once we get between the white lines, we are a family again.’’

A football season is filled with high and low points which the Tigers are fully aware of. Bryce says that the team knows that they need to put their recent struggles aside, keep their heads held high and push forward.

Not only do the Tigers remain confident in themselves but they also view their recent losses in a positive way to a

Gilbert head coach Derek Zellner has tried to keep his team foGilbert players such as Cooper Zellner have stepped up to the plate cused this season despite an 0-2 start in which they were blown to help the team remain focus on put past games behind them. That out in each game. He feels the team is now on the right path has worked so far for the Tigers. Photos Pablo Robles/GSN Staff) toward the playoffs winning their last two contests. certain degree.

“With every loss there is some sort of educational benefit that you are going to get out of it,” said Zellner. “What we can fix is what we did badly and try to improve on what we do offensively, and what we do defensively with our special team.”

Fixing is exactly what the Tigers tried to do as they watched film in the early stages of practice and nit-picked every play on the field. Zellner has been supportive of the team but also shows a bit of tough love making sure his team improves and does not commit the same mistakes again.

While fixing up their blunders from weeks prior, the team has stayed united.

This is largely due to the strong friendships they have built with each other as a result of going to war for one another.

Family and comradery are something Zellner has preached ever since he arrived at Gilbert in 2015. That has been the key to the success of this football team.

“That’s one thing we have done a better job of since I came in 2015. We have tried to become a more family-oriented

team whereas before I’m not really sure what took place,” Zellner said. “But that was one of our main goals coming in that we had to be tighter as a unit.

“So, you will do whatever it takes for the guy in front of you, behind you or wherever it may be. That full trust lets you know you can really rely on him, and he can really rely on you.”

By believing in each other and staying united as a group, the Tigers have been able to remain calm and positive during a tough stretch for their team. Their mindset is not to let a couple losses demoralize them but instead look forward to the football that is left to be played this season.

Since the Tigers are such a tight knit group, each player does not look at their individual stats but play for each other and have been focusing on how they can get better as a collective unit. The team is able to bond off the field by going to team dinners together and making sure to keep in contact with one another when they are separated.

Through the week of practice, the Gilbert players and coaching staff have stayed focused on the goal of making the

playoffs. They are aware what that would mean not only to themselves but to the school.

“If we made it to the playoffs and who knows maybe made it to States, I feel like it would be a huge moral boost to the school and bring more kids there into the football program in Gilbert,” Bryce added. “We need it since we are not such a big team.”

Zellner believes that because of the Tigers’ difficult schedule, by the end of the season that his team will ultimately deserve a spot in the playoffs.

A hard path in the regular season boosted Gilbert to the playoffs in seasons past and this year has helped them become more prepared for challenges that lie ahead of them.

“We just have to worry about this week and the goal is to go 1-0,” Zellner says, “We just take one game at a time.

We can’t look ahead. We can’t look behind because there is nothing we can do by looking ahead and nothing we can do about the previous games.”

Remy Mastey is a sports journalism student at Arizona State University covering Gilbert High School athletics.

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Clint Black is diving full bore into work

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lint Black considers himself lazy.

It’s a rather absurd statement considering what he did during the pandemic. In addition to performing on a regular livestream and launching Clint Black Cowboy Coffee, which is available on his website.

He pitched and was cleared to host “Talking in Circles with Clint Black,” a TV show that is a behind-the-scenes conversation with two entertainers talking shop (Travis Tritt and Brad Paisley have already guested).

All this came on top of releasing 2020’s “Out of Sane,” his 13th studio outing. And now with live music venues eager to get back up and running, the Nashville resident is finding the 70 to 90 dates he did between late February and Christmas during a pre-coronavirus year is now packed through Christmas 2021. Black’s welcoming his return to the road.

“My booking agent – we renamed him rescheduling agent – and he did a great job of keeping things moved up just far enough in front of us so they might happen,” he said.

“Now I’m as busy as I like to be. I’m streaming stuff, getting a coffee company off the ground and getting a TV show done and then bam! We’re back on the road. That’s how I dealt with the shutdown and then suddenly, we’ve started back up and I still have a TV show and a coffee company.”

Far from complaining, the singer-songwriter is diving full bore into the remainder of a year that will find him initially doing nearly a two-hour show dubbed “An Evening With” that will hit fairs, festivals and a few casino dates through the end of October. After a quick break, the New Jersey native

“I’m streaming stuff, getting a coffee company off the ground and getting a TV show done and then bam! We’re back on the road,” Clint Black said as he described his busy schedule.

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regroups with wife Lisa Hartman Black for the “Mostly Hits & The Mrs.” string of dates that will take them through the end of February.

And while he’s on the road, Black will be filling his free time creating stage videos for Hartman Black on his hard drives on the bus and mapping out lighting schemes. Not surprisingly, this nose-to-the-grindstone work ethic meant he spent most of 2019 holed up in his home studio working on “Out of Sane,” squeezing in 18-hour days when he wasn’t on the road playing roughly 70 dates that year.

“I had enough success to sustain me after the major label and also build a studio,” he said.

“I was able to learn more about engineering and I can record anything I want without an engineer. I wouldn’t do

a session because I want things to move quickly. I know my studio inside and out and there is a joy in that. Some people want to be able to take an old Chevy apart and put it back together.

“I can take my studio apart and put it back together and that to me is the joy. That’s why the album is titled ‘Out of Sane.’ It starts out with sanity and a mind at work, and it ends up with a mad scientist out of sane just doing the science work. It seemed like a good title, and it fit well into 2020 well.”

The latest collection of songs finds Black sticking with the tried-and-true, working with longtime collaborator Hayden Nichols. After opening with the bluesy slow-burner “Hell Bent,” Black switches gears into the twangy toe-tapper “My Best Thinkin’” and the sentimental “America (Still In Love With

You),” both penned with friend and fellow Nashville veteran Steve Wariner.

Elsewhere, Black delivers a solid reading of Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin’” (“It’s still one of the songs I can listen to when I’m overexposed to it and my ears are still happy.”)

And while he’s continued making music and touring, Black has expanded into TV and film roles.

Most recently, he and Hartman Black appeared in last year’s season of “The Masked Singer” as “Snow Owls,” competing as the series’ first duet competitors while riding in a mobile egg. As difficult an experience as it was, Black was happy coming out of the other end of it.

“It was really challenging in a good way,” he said. “The challenge in a bad way was singing inside that suit. You can’t see — the little lenses you’re looking out of are fogged up after 30 seconds and you’re sweating. If you have to move at all, it’s perilous because it’s inside of that egg. We had inches at a time. But I typically like stuff like that because I don’t see myself as too precious to step into weird things. I sometimes second-guess myself after getting in it. I like being a little afraid of things and I like finding myself in situations where something comes out that otherwise wouldn’t have happened.”

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS CASE PB2021-090901 SUPERIOR COURT OF ARIZONA MARICOPA COUNTY: In the Matter of the Estate of Danny D Montgomery Deceased. Notice is given that Stephen T. Montgomery was appointed personal representative of this estate. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented by delivering or mailing a written statement of the claim to the personal representative at 20102 E. Silver Creek Ln, Queen Creek AZ, 85142.

Dated 9/13/21. Published in the East Valley Tribune September 19, 26 & October 3, 2021 / 41430

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