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Report clears Gilbert of biased hiring practices BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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n outside attorney’s investigation has concluded that the Town of Gilbert did not push a liberal agenda that discriminated in hiring first-responders or disciplining employees. The Town retained Mesa law firm Pierce Coleman on Oct. 14 following a public records request from the conservative nonprofit Judicial Watch. The Town did not respond by deadline with the cost for the investigation.
“None of the allegations or implications of biased decision-making by the Town are supported by the evidence,” according to Pierce Coleman, which combed through roughly 500 documents and eight hours of meeting video recordings going back a year and a half. The activist watchdog group disagreed with the findings. The 16-page investigative report noted that although Judicial Watch didn’t make an outright
allegation of unfair hiring practices, it was implied by its request for “documents related to decisions to lower the qualifying employment for hiring test scores to match the lowest scores of applicants who had been moved forward in the hiring process based upon
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Higley plans another bond vote next year BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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igley Unified School District officials plan to take another stab at a bond proposal in 2022 after voters rejected a $95-million measure in November. The district has not yet determined the amount for the proposed second bond as it polls voters on why they supported or opposed the one that failed.
“Since the November election, the district has been reviewing and revising several of the categories presented in the 2021 bond proposal,” CFO Tyler Moore told the Governing Board recently. He said the district hired a consulting agency to survey voters but that effort’s on hold for now after a few people complained
see HIGLEY page 6
U.S. Army recruiters based in Gilbert conducted their first-ever toy drive and dropped off more than $2,000 worth of gifts last week at Child Crisis Arizona’s Mesa center. To see how they did it, see page 3. (David Minton/GSN Staff Photographer)
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