Memorial Day events / P. 12
Trouble in paradise / P. 4
An edition of the East Valley Tribune
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This Week ELECTION
2022
NEWS......................... 8 City Council candidates answer Trib questions.
Sunday, May 29, 2022
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City eyes $157M public safety bond proposal BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer
M
esa City Council will decide on June 6 whether to ask voters in November to approve a $157 million bond issue to build or rebuild three fire stations, revamp the Police Department’s headquarters and evidence building upgrade the public safety training facility.
Council faces a June 11 state deadline for cities to call a bond election for Nov. 8. The bond package includes a $43.4 million overhaul of the police headquarters at 130 N. Robson and adding $10 million to the $10 million already approved in a 2018 bond package for a consolidated evidence facility next door. It also includes another $41.9 million for improving the 57,500-square-foot public safety training facility on North 40th Street
by adding classrooms, parking and other site improvements. And the package earmarks money for two new four-bay fire stations – one at 80th Street and Elliot Road and the other at Lindsay and McDowell roads – while also upgrading the fire station near Greenfield Park that was built in 1978.
see BOND page 14
EV dad never forgets fallen warrior son For another Memorial Day remembrance ........... See page 23
COMMUNITY........
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Mesa man, twin brother reach for the skies.
SPORTS ..............
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Lopez makes mark on Desert Ridge football. COMMUNITY................................. 17 BUSINESS....................................... 21 OPINION......................................... 23 SPORTS........................................... 26 CLASSIFIED.................................... 29 Zone 1
BY KEN SAIN Tribune Staff Writer
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oy Conrad, father of the late Staff Sergeant Alex Conrad of Chandler, has been busy since his son was killed in combat in Somalia in 2018 – either the last or second-last Arizona warrior felled by enemy fire in the last four years. There are a lot of Gold Star Family events and dedications he has attended while he also volunteers with a number of organizations. “I was talking to one of the dads and I said, ‘You know, when does it slow down?’” Roy recalled. “And because his son was killed almost 10 years ago, he says, ‘You know, it slows down when you want it to slow down. OK?’ And he says, ‘You know, we’re here for you. Roy Conrad of Chandler stands in front of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Gilbert, which last month was renamed after his son, Staff Sgt. Alex Conrad, who died in combat in Somalia in 2018. Roy But if you need the space, you take it.’” memorializes his son in many ways, including with a decal on the rear of his motorcycle.
see MEMORIAL page 3 (David Minton/Staff Photographer)
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