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Rise Up! Glendale hopes to curb drug abuse

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Peoria Times Executive Editor

Glendale-based Youth4Youth has written a grant to help create Rise Up! Glendale, a group of concerned community leaders and members working to reduce youth alcohol, marijuana and prescription drug use/abuse in the city.

“Our goal is to mentor, develop them and then turn them loose,” said Larry Tracey, the Youth4Youth executive director.

“We want them to be on their own and exist for decades.”

Rise Up! Glendale began in October 2020, when it was discovered that the city had no localized substance abuse prevention efforts. The mission is to unite Glendale in preventing substance use among youth while providing the life skills to rise up to their potential.

According to Tracey, Rise Up! Glendale works with law enforcement, health care, education, and various other community-based organizations and volunteers

to reduce the demand for drugs through methods like websites and social media awareness, education campaigns, drug takeback events, Naloxone and Deterra drug disposal kit distribution, community surveys, assessment of community needs and in-school resiliency and prevention education, specifically tailored to meet the needs of the community.

In addition, we work hand in hand with the Arizona National Guard Drug Demand SEE DRUG PAGE 7

Peoria renews trial of self-driving technology

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Peoria Times Staff Writer

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The city of Peoria is taking another small step into the world of self-driving vehicle technology with a free shuttle service in the Plaza Del Rio medical district.

On Jan. 4, the city held an event at Freedom Plaza Arizona senior living community to celebrate the launch of its second pilot program to study the use of autonomous public transit shuttles. The self-driving shuttles began carrying passengers on Jan. 5.

The pilot program, branded as RoboRide, is slated to run for six months in the Plaza Del Rio area west of the Loop 101 and south of Thunderbird Road.

According to city documents, this area has over 100 medical offices, along with 500 residents liv- The city of Peoria launched its second pilot program, branded as RoboRide, offering SEE SHUTTLES PAGE 3

free autonomous public transit shuttles. The shuttles will cover the Plaza Del Rio area for roughly six months. (Submitted photo)

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ing in senior living communities, as well as single-family homes and a multi-family complex home to residents of all ages.

The city hopes that residents and visitors to the area will find the electric shuttles useful for going to and from doctor’s appointments. It will also be studying whether residents embrace riding in the self-driving shuttles, which will run autonomously but also have an attendant available to drive manually. The self-driving shuttles will operate at a maximum speed of 15 miles per hour.

The six-month program will help the city — and region — The city of Peoria held an event at Freedom Plaza Arizona senior living community on Jan. 4 understand how autonomous to celebrate the launch of its second pilot program to study the use of autonomous public vehicles could be used to en- transit shuttles. (Submitted photo) hance transportation.

During the six-month trithe pilot, the city decided to try using they don’t drink at night.” al, two continuously running MAG is supporting the program by electric shuttles — which look like fu- the autonomous shuttles in Peoria’s turistic mini-buses — will drive a fixed medical district, where it was thought contributing $99,000 of its $174,000 route with 13 stops among the medical enhanced mobility could have a big im- price tag. Peoria is contributing the balance, using a combination of transit offices and residential communities pact.

Another result of the 2020 pilot was budget savings from COVID-19 cloin the area. The service will run from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Sat- that the city got the attention of the sures and unused funds from the first urday. A representative with Beep, the Maricopa Association of Governments, pilot.

MAG also contracted with ASU to third-party vendor operating the shut- which is supporting the new pilot fitles for the city, said the entire route nancially and technically through its evaluate the program. Dr. Ram Pendyala, ASU professor of civil, environmenemerging technology program. takes about 40 to 45 minutes. tal and sustainable engineering, will During the launch ceremony, Eric Peoria became the first community in lead the team evaluating the program Anderson, the executive director of Arizona to experiment with self-driving shuttles in February 2020. This first MAG, said that “autonomous technol- from a technical perspective, as well trial program ferried shoppers around ogy is part of the future” and predicted as riders’ input and thoughts about the the P83 Entertainment District and was that in 10 to 20 years, the region would shuttle. Pendyala previously worked on intended to run for two months, but it see a “major influx” of autonomous a study of a trial program of self-driving was shuttered after one month, due to vehicles. Anderson sees Peoria’s pro- vehicles in Arizona operated by Waygram as a way for other communities mo, an autonomous vehicle company the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the launch event, Peoria Chief to learn about how to take advantage of owned by Alphabet, the parent company of Google.

Financial Officer Kevin Burke told the self-driving technology.

Joe Moye, the CEO of Beep Inc, crowd of about 20 Freedom Plaza residents that although the 2020 pilot was called Peoria’s new medical dis- A modest step Peoria’s RoboRide shuttles are piobrief, the city learned a lot from it. trict shuttle “an exciting use-case” of Among the lessons, he said, was that self-driving shuttles to “prove out” the neering self-driving vehicle technology by putting it into real-world situations, seniors were the demographic that was technology.

Moye said autonomous driving tech- but the RoboRide shuttles are not inmost enthusiastic about the new technology, seeing the benefits of increased nology would “transform transportation tended to utilize the full capacity of self-driving technology. For this pilot, mobility offered by self-driving vehi- as we know it.”

“It’s incredibly safe,” he said. “These cles.

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The Maricopa County Department of Transportation is making headway on a project to connect Deer Valley Road and Williams Drive with a 2.5mile road across the Agua Fria Riverbed. This project involves the construction of two bridges: one over the Agua Fria and one over Tessmer road.

MCDOT spokesperson Bryan Pahia said the project is about 45% complete, adding that work is on schedule and anticipated to wrap up in early fall.

Pahia said that some of the heaviest work is underway.

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Council appoints vice mayor, mayor pro tem

BY PEORIA TIMES STAFF

The Peoria City Council appointed Councilmember Bill Patena as vice major and Councilmember Vicki Hunt as mayor pro tem for one-year terms, starting Jan. 5.

Previously, Councilmember Jon Edwards served as vice mayor and Patena served as mayor pro tem.

The vice mayor performs the mayor’s duties during her absence or disability. This is a succession position in the case of the mayor’s permanent absence. The mayor pro tem performs the duties of the mayor during the absence of mayor and vice mayor.

“The appointment of these positions is critically important to ensure uninterrupted leadership and representation,” Mayor Cathy Carlat said.

“I am grateful for the support that Councilmembers Edwards and Patena provided over the last year, and thankful that Vice Mayor Patena and Mayor Pro Tem Hunt will step into these important positions. As we begin the New Year, council and I remain committed to cohesive leadership that enhances the safety and the long-term prosperity of our community.”

The appointment of both positions is pursuant to the Peoria City Charter, which states council shall designate one of its members as vice mayor and a separate member as mayor pro tem.

Both positions serve in such capacity at the pleasure of city council and at terms established by council.

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take over driving using an Xbox game controller to pass the golf cart on the left side. The driver of the cart tilted his head quizzically at the shuttle as he watched it pass.

Passengers are asked to be prepared for sudden stops, because the shuttle will come to a halt for any obstacle. The shuttle “notices the squirrel or the little bird in front of it,” the attendant said of RoboRide’s computer vision.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has tried to accommodate the development of autonomous vehicles in its rulemaking. Current-

ly, autonomous vehicles driven under 25 miles per hour do not need any of the features required for motor vehicles driven by humans, such as steering wheels, brake pedals or mirrors.

In the Navya-brand shuttle used in the demonstration ride, NHTSA rules allow the human driver to steer with a game controller, which was a little jarring to see as the attendant navigated a left turn onto Plaza Del Rio Boulevard.

Though the two self-driving shuttles in the program, one made by Navya and the second by the Chandler-based Local Motors, are cute and modern-looking

on the outside, the ride and interior felt familiar, like riding a conventional airport shuttle or bus. Each shuttle can carry a maximum of about 10 passengers, six to eight passengers comfortably.

The exact number depends on the size and mobility needs of the passengers.

Freedom Plaza residents who took a test ride on RoboRide following the opening ceremony were curious and asked critical questions about the new vehicles during the ride. After stepping off the self-driving shuttle, they generally spoke favorably of the experience.

the road later to install pipe for the expansion. MCDOT and Peoria entered into an intergovernmental agreement in October to have the pipeline work done at the same time as the bridge project.

MCDOT’s contractors will install the piping, and Peoria will compensate the county an estimated $734,000 for the cost of the work.

The new expanded piping is part of

Peoria’s plan to help the city to capture and deliver reclaimed water to more parts of Peoria, which, according to the city, is critical to the city’s sustainable water plans.

Reclaimed water — also called treated effluent — is sewer water treated to a high level of purity. While not considered suitable for human consumption, it’s safe for use in irrigation, ponds, watering sports fields

and golf courses and other uses where humans aren’t directly consuming it.

Reclaimed water can take the place of potable water that would come from the Colorado River or groundwater.

The city’s Reclaimed Water Pipeline project aims to install a 7.6-mile pipeline from the Beardsley Water Reclamation Facility up to the new Paloma

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the shuttles are programmed to mostly leave obstacles to the attendant, who is there to assist riders entering and exiting the shuttles and drive the shuttles manually for many routine obstacles.

During a test ride, the shuttle frequently came to a stop and let the attendant take over whenever an object blocked its pre-programmed path. In one instance, a parked pickup truck sticking too far out into the lane caused the shuttle to halt. In another instance, a golf cart waiting outside the lobby of a medical office brought the shuttle to a stop, requiring the young attendant to

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a separate project, a large expansion of Peoria’s reclaimed water system.

Though separate, there’s a connection between the Reclaimed Water Pipeline project and the Deer Valley Road extension project.

MCDOT and Peoria are taking advantage of the overlap in timing to incorporate the water pipeline work into the Deer Valley Road project. This will save Peoria from having to dig up

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Join Peoria’s MLK Day of Service

In celebration of the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., the city of Peoria will host Peoria’s first MLK Day of Service on Saturday, Jan. 15, at the Peo-

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ria Community Center, located at 8335 W. Jefferson Street. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the city has invited a variety of health and wellness organizations and local community assistance groups to showcase their services for residents.

The Franchise Band will be the featured entertainment, along with other multicultural entertainment and activities. Chaz Jackson, the president of the Arizona chapter of the Buffalo Soldiers of America, will kick off the event at 10 a.m.

There will be volunteer opportunities, food trucks, a storytime by First Things First, free books for children, service providers and community resources. The on-site clinic will also provide vaccines for COVID-19, flu, pneumonia and shingles vaccines for adults and children. For more information about the MLK Day of Service, visit peoriaaz.gov/events or call 623773-7436.

In observance of the holiday, city of-

fices, facilities, the Peoria Community Center and both public libraries will be closed on Monday, Jan. 17.

Rio Vista Recreation Center will be open during regular hours from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. All city parks, including the new Paloma Community Park, will be open for the holiday. Also, trash pickup will change for the holiday. Monday, Jan. 17, pickup will move to Tuesday, Jan. 18. Tuesday, Jan. 18, pickup will move to Wednesday, Jan. 19. There will be no changes to the Thursday and Friday trash pickup. For the full 2022 trash schedule, visit peoriaaz.gov/ holidaytrash.

Peoria hosts vaccine clinics

The city of Peoria is partnering with Safeway to provide flu, shingles, pneumonia and COVID-19 vaccines throughout January at the Peoria Community Center, located at 8335 W. Jefferson Street. Free COVID-19 booster shots are now available for all vaccine types as well. Clinics will be 9 a.m. to

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3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 15, Wednesday, Jan. 19 and Friday, Jan. 28.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, visit https://bit.ly/ PeoriaVaccine.

West Valley Art Museum features fiber artists

The West Valley Art Museum is hosting the 4 Common Corners Fiber Artists Group at the art gallery in Peoria City Hall until Thursday, Jan. 13.

Notable fiber artists from the four corners area have come together to interpret themes under the exhibit title of “Extremes in the Southwest.”

Visitors can see the complexities of fiber art quilts and the various methods used in this art form for free. The WVAM Art Gallery is on the first floor of Peoria City Hall, at 8401 W. Monroe Street. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and noon to 6 p.m. Thursdays.

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Reduction Outreach. Youth4Youth and Arizona National Guard are also working with Peoria for 3PC (Peoria Primary Prevention Coalition).

Rise Up! Glendale, Tracey said, wants to educate schools and youth on the dangers of opioids, including fentanyl. Glendale and Peoria were chosen for reasons such as Glendale having the highest overdose rate in the state, he said.

“That’s not good news,” Tracey added. “In January, we’re working on focus groups and with parents and teens to find out from them where the hotspots are and what they are seeing.

We want to get a student and parent perspective.

“After that, we’ll interview people on the street as well as medical and fire.”

Working in tandem, Youth4Youth will expand its drug takeback event.

Over the last year, during four events, more than 1,300 pounds of unused prescription drugs were collected.

“That’s a record,” he said. “It blows all the other places away. We had 43

boxes filled with nothing but pills.”

The goal for Rise Up! Glendale, as well as Youth4Youth, is to educate and create awareness of issues affecting students. Since it was founded, there have been more than 2,730 unique Rise Up! Glendale website visitors.

There was recently a major drug bust in Glendale in which law enforcement found more than 4 pounds of fentanyl powder, over 200,000 fentanyl-laced pills, and more than 5 pounds of cocaine. Although this was taken off of the streets, there is far more out there, Tracey said.

“Fentanyl is a bigger problem than people know,” Tracey added. “That’s the part that kills. When I come out of surgery, and I feel like a Mack truck hit me, I know they used fentanyl.

“On the streets, they’re making counterfeit pills. They look like the real deal unless you’re a trained professional. Percocet, Vicodin, oxycontin, all pills on the street are counterfeit.

The mixture inside is not regulated.”

Marijuana, he said, comes laced with fentanyl on the black market.

Drug use up

Based on the 2020 Arizona Youth Survey data between 2016 and 2020 when comparing the past 30 days: • 10.9% increase in alcohol use among Glendale youth.

• 64.5% increase in marijuana use among Glendale youth.

• 58.2% increase in e-cigarette use among Glendale youth.

• 65.1% increase in RX opioid use among Glendale youth.

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Community Park at Lake Pleasant Parkway and Dixileta Drive. The new pipeline will allow the city to use reclaimed water for landscape irrigation and the lake feature at the park.

“The goal is to have reclaimed water everywhere in the city,” Adina Lund, Peoria’s development and engineering

director, told the city council in October.

According to city documents, in addition to supplying Paloma Park, the new pipeline will be a “reclaimed system backbone to prepare for future growth in the northern extents of the city, enhancing the city’s ability to

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Rise Up! Glendale works with law enforcement, health care, education, and various other community-based organizations and volunteers to reduce the demand for drugs through methods like websites and social media awareness, education campaigns, drug takeback events, Naloxone and Deterra drug disposal kit distribution, community surveys, assessment of community needs and in-school resiliency and prevention education, specifically tailored to meet the needs of the community. (Photo courtesy of Rise Up! Glendale)

“Your cocaine, your opioids, your heroin, everything has it in there. Fentanyl is highest addictive. It’s proba-

bly 50 times more potent than heroin.

That’s the whole thing right there. It’s easy to get addicted to it.” PT

• 72.2% increase in RX stimulant use among Glendale youth.

• 485.7% increase in RX sedative use among Glendale youth.

As shown above, the Glendale community and its youth need support, said Larry Tracey, the Youth4Youth executive director.

For more information, visit wowcoalition.org, riseupglendale.org or 3pcoalition.org.

gain beneficial use of all reclaimed water produced.”

The city anticipates completion of the pipeline in mid to late 2023.

Maricopa County District 4 Supervisor Clint Hickman praised the cooperation between the county and the city of Peoria in a statement.

“Maricopa County continues to take advantage of opportunities to be more efficient and deliver cost savings to the taxpaying public,” he said. “This agreement is a result of our commitment to provide great customer service through intergovernmental collaboration and cooperation.” PT

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Pandemic response is less than impressive

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Peoria Times Columnist

If there’s one thing that continues to surprise me about the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s not the death toll of 831,000 and rising, or that we’re approaching year three of the presence of the virus in our lives. It’s how poorly we as a nation have handled this public health emergency.

When you grow up believing that you live in an exceptional country — a “shining city on a hill,” to borrow a phrase Ronald Reagan borrowed — it’s tough to see that country put in no better than a solid D-plus perfor-

mance. Graded generously.

Where have we gone wrong, you ask? I’d cite three major areas of failure: scientific, journalistic and political.

The scientific community performed amazing work creating effective vaccines against COVID-19 at warp speed. Where they’ve fumbled is not at the research level but where nerds stereotypically stumble — communicating with the rest of us.

Some of this is to be expected; science is an evolutionary process, forever re-examining, rethinking. Scientists change their minds constantly, especially studying a virus that itself mutates by the day. But with COVID-19, the mind-changes have been so many and so radical, vast swaths of the na-

tion seemed to have simply tuned out.

The early days of the pandemic feel quaint now, as does the initial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mask guidance from the spring 2020.

“If you are not sick,” the CDC told us, “you do not need to wear a face mask unless you are caring for someone who is sick (and they are not able to wear a face mask).”

We’ve traveled a long, twisty road since then. And thousands of news reporters have squawked about it every step of the way. It’s not the local hacks I have much of a problem with, but more the national networks and their style of mixing fact and bloviation.

CNN, Fox, MSNBC and their ilk have treated a public health emergency like Election Night or a war, bouncing be-

tween factual reportage and commentary, until even a sophisticated viewer can’t tell the difference. Then there’s the politicization of the pandemic, using party ID as the metric of truth-telling. To be an independent American watching cable news in 2022 is to be stupefied by how everything — even the basic decision to get a vaccination or wear a mask — is politics today.

Speaking of politics, remember President Trump’s ludicrous “15 days to slow the spread” campaign? That was about 666 days ago. Then we had President Biden’s June 2021 “month of action” that was going to launch a “summer of freedom.” Old Joe was positively giddy come Independence SEE RESPONSE PAGE 9

Arizona is ‘Ground Zero’ for ‘illegal’ invasion

BY J.D. HAYWORTH Peoria Times Columnist

The most transformational event in American history continues to unfold, but both media coverage and public understanding of it remain limited in what is supposed to be the “information age.”

For the better part of the last 40 years, with only the quadrennial span from 2017 until 2021 providing a respite, an illegal invasion across our southern border has been conducted.

It picked up again in January of last year, following the inauguration of Joe Biden.

Now, it is worse than ever.

And Arizona is “Ground Zero.”

Our nation’s “fiscal New Year’s

Day” occurred on Oct. 1 of last year, and in the first two months of FY 2022, the Yuma Border Sector bore the brunt of illegal immigration. To say “migrant encounters” with U.S. Customs & Border Protection rose exponentially is putting it mildly — in numerical terms, they increased 2,647% from the same period 12 months earlier.

By December, while children in the city of Yuma sang “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” city officials realized that scores of people who entered the country illegally would precede the Jolly Old Elf. During a five-day stretch early that month, more than 6,000 people entered the country illegally and made their way through the city limits; by Dec. 9 the influx forced Mayor Douglas Nicholls to declare a local “state of emergency.”

The mayor’s proclamation of emergency could be interpreted as an exercise in “diplomatic understatement.”

Perhaps Mayor Nicholls perceived that politically correct language would find favor in the Biden White House, so the document described the “humanitarian crisis and threat of injury, damage and suffering to persons or property, including to the migrant families temporarily located in the city of Yuma.”

Nice touch, that.

If one thing has become crystal clear in the first year of Joe Biden’s residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it is that he and his administration place a higher emphasis on the well-being of noncitizens than the concerns and complaints of law-abiding, tax-paying citizens.

So, the mention of “migrant fami-

lies” would attract interest from the Biden Bunch. After all, those people will wind up as citizens — and voters — as soon as Ol’ Joe and beleaguered House and Senate Democrats find enough “Open Border Republicans” to enact a total and unconditional amnesty.

And when that happens — if that happens — it would mean complete and abject surrender of our national sovereignty, rejection of our national heritage, and abdication of our capacity for self-governance.

Instead, our future would be controlled by “newcomers,” enticed by the promise of unfettered benefits passed along by their new relative — an indulgent “Uncle Sam.” The political implications are obviSEE INVASION PAGE 9

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Day, delivering news the nation had nearly reached the goal of 70% of adults with at least one vaccination.

“This is one of the greatest achievements in American history, and you, the American people, made it happen,” the president claimed. “We are emerging from one of the darkest years in our nation’s history into a summer of hope and joy.”

I guess summer was nice, at least in comparison to Biden’s recent description of how Omicron would create “a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated — for themselves, their families and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm.”

Except now it seems maybe science has changed its mind on Omicron,

which you may or may not have and which may or may not kill you. Except the CDC changed its mind on quarantines, shifting from 10 days to five for those with infections. Except you can’t tell if you’re infected because no home COVID-19 tests are in stock at the drugstore and the news says waits are eternal at testing centers. Of course, the news also says … blah, blah, blah.

Like I said, a solid grade of D-plus.”

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Sadly, in post-9/11 America, politicians of both parties have failed to see this for what it is: a direct threat to our national security and our very survival.

Instead, they mistake it for a political problem to be managed… and exploited.

Sure enough, Gov. Doug Ducey paid a visit to Yuma two days prior to Mayor Nicholls issuing his emergency proclamation. Before the TV cameras, backed by state, local and federal officials, the governor was in fine fettle, at least politically speaking.

“Mr. President, do something, do anything,” he said.

While that press event was taking place, and within view of the TV cameras, some illegal aliens were doing something — they were unlawfully entering our nation.

The date that this contrast between political speech and unlawful action occurred?

Dec. 7. A date that already “lives in infamy” in American history.

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Peoria’s home values increase by 30%

BY MELISSA DIERKS

Peoria Times Contributing Writer

The West Valley’s growth continues to elevate Peoria’s housing market.

Homes in Peoria have increased in value 30% from 2021.

The West Valley has 1.7 million residents, and that number is projected to grow to 2.1 million by 2030 — less than a decade from now. Peoria has an estimated 190,000 residents and is poised for considerable growth in 2022.

Named one of the top cities to live in

by Money Magazine, Peoria is one of the six fastest-growing cities in Arizona.

It’s noStarTimes_fall_parent.pdf secret that the pandemic 1 4/12/21

caused residential real estate market to skyrocket in value and demand. While some are waiting for the bubble to pop, the numbers show growth for the area.

In fact, according to the Multiple Listing Service, 351 real estate transactions closed in December. Nearly 800 residential homes were active, under contract or sold in Peoria in the same period.

Homes in Peoria are selling for a median list price of $579,000. On average, homes in the area are selling after just 27 days on the market — compared to 32 days this time last year. The price per square foot has grown by more than 30%.

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ditional housing, restaurants, shopping and attractions. Peoria offers its residents a variety of entertainment, including its historic Downtown area, the 23,000-plus acre Lake Pleasant Regional Park, Paloma Community Park, and Spring Training at P83 Entertainment District for the Mariners and Padres.

With an increase in activity, many businesses are looking at Peoria for commercial, industrial and health care development opportunities.

New restaurants have chosen Peoria as their next location, including Salad and Go, which recently opened.

There’s still plenty of room for continued expansion. It’s estimated that 40% of the growth taking place in the Val- Melissa Dierks, who landed a Lifetime Achieveley will be in the West Valley ment Award with RE/MAX, amassed 20 years in the financil services industry as a senior by 2030. The West Valley also business analyst. (Submitted photo) has great infrastructure and is connected to the rest of Arizona with the Loop 303 and the Loop 202 growth in Arizona, and while it’s a seller’s market, it’s still a great time to freeways.

So, what does this mean for the hous- consider a move to Peoria while we see ing market? While Peoria offers space more residential properties being built, for more residential real estate, poten- as well as more entertainment, shoptial home buyers will continue to see ping destinations and restaurants. Peoa competitive market this year. As we ria’s key economic indicators continue head into the colder winter months, we to show stable but solid growth going are seeing homes receive multiple of- forward. PT fers — even during what is traditionally a quieter season for homebuying and Melissa Dierks is a partner, selling. branch manager for the Peoria In Peoria, where RE/MAX Fine Propoffice, and West Valley director of erties opened a new office last year, the operations.

She recently received market action index — which offers a her Lifetime Achievement Award glimpse at market conditions based on with RE/MAX. Prior to her role at the rate of sale versus current industry RE/MAX, she spent 20 years in the — increased from November to Definancial services industry as a secember. nior business analyst.

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physician Dr. Tiffany Mitchell.

The asset sits across the street from Banner Thunderbird Hospital. The new buyer can exercise the option to purchase the hard-to-find fully built-out medical suite.

“In the West Valley today there are virtually no medical office properties available for sale,” Wakeman said. “I feel blessed to close not just one but three medical office building deals. I am so thrilled and proud for my clients in getting exactly what they requested and needed.” PT

Wakeman Integrity LLC, a Peoria-based woman-owned commercial real estate brokerage firm, represented the buyers in the acquisition of three medical office buildings in the West Valley for a total of $2.3 million.

President/designated broker Melynn Wakeman represented the buyer, internal medicine specialist Dr. Hamidullah Fala, in the $997,180 purchase of Auviana Medical Complex Condominiums, 14749 W. Mountain View, Building 400, Units 133, 135, 136, 138-141, in Surprise.

The sale comprises 4,271 square feet. Phil Wurth with Colliers International represented the seller.

The asset is a ground-up medical complex. The cli- Fountains Medical Center, 5620 W. Thunderbird, Suite E1, in Glendale, sold for $408,500 and totals ent acquired the last avail- 2,720 square feet. (Photo courtesy of Wakeman Integable suite in the complex rity) and in the immediate area.

Wakeman represented the buyer, colorectal surgeon Dr. Neeraj Singh, in the $900,000 acquisition of Arrowhead Office Suites Condominium, 20325 N. 51st Avenue, Suites 124/126, in Glendale.

Melynn Wakeman represented the buyer, colorecThe property totals tal surgeon Dr. Neeraj Singh, in the $900,000 ac3,069 square feet. Mari quisition of Arrowhead Office Suites CondominiLederman with JLL repre- um, 20325 N. 51st Avenue, Suites 124/126, in Glendale. (Photo courtesy of Wakeman Integrity) sented the seller.

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Fountains Medical Center, 5620 W. Thunderbird, Suite E1, in Glendale, sold for $408,500 and totals 2,720 square feet.

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Coyotes join pack with new betting app

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Peoria Times Staff Writer

The Arizona Coyotes hockey team launched a new sports betting app, SaharaBets, with partner Sahara Las Vegas on Jan. 12.

The release of SaharaBets, which takes “all bets” on “all sports” allowed by state law, comes more than four months after the Arizona Department of Gaming approved the professional hockey team’s sports betting license.

Under the terms Arizona’s sports betting law, passed in April, the state can approve up to 20 licenses: 10 for professional sports franchises and facilities and 10 for tribal gaming enterprises.

So far, eight sports teams and facilities

have received sportsbook licenses from the state. When the state announced license recipients on Aug. 27, all the Arizona sports franchises and venues except the Coyotes had inked partnerships with gaming companies.

That changed Jan. 5, when the hockey team announced the partnership with Sahara Las Vegas. That choice was not surprising to many: the Coyotes are majority-owned by Alex Meruelo, who also owns Meruelo Gaming, parent company of Sahara Las Vegas and Grand Sierra Resort in Reno.

SaharaBets President Andrew Patterson said the mobile betting app will cater to all Arizona sports fans, but there will be perks for Coyotes fans, like a greater variety of wagers available for

Coyotes games.

As a sports betting license holder, the Coyotes are entitled to also operate a physical sportsbook within five blocks of their arena, in addition to a mobile betting app.

So far there have been no announcements of a physical location, and Patterson said SaharaBets “is focused on the digital platform.”

For Patterson, the opening up of legalized sports betting across the country — roughly 30 states now allow it — is a boon for leagues and sports franchises. He said leagues are generating new revenue through selling betting data, and teams are also cashing in with partnerships and “increased ad revenue, increased engagement and increased

content.”

“Betting is the driver of increased commercialization” in sports, he said.

Patterson called the partnership between the Coyotes and the Sahara Las Vegas “a great opportunity for us to build a brand from the ground up.”

“Obviously there’s a lot of work that goes into it,” he said. “(But) we have a great team.”

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‘Idol’ Lakisha Jones brings tribute show to Surprise

a Vienna symphony was postponed. In February, she’s scheduled to sing with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra and then heads to Fremont, California, to perform with the symphony there.

She’s grateful, however, to still be working.

“I’m grateful to be consistently singing and being the artist I love to be,” she said. “I enjoy touching people through songs. If I touch one person through my gift of music, then I’ve done my job.”

The Houston resident is hoping to share that at The Vista Center for the Performing Arts.

“I want to do these women justice and take people back in time,” she said. “I love the reaction when I sing ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It’ or ‘Skyfall’ or ‘I Will Always Love You’ or Donna Summer’s ‘Last Dance.’

“Those are a few of the numbers I’ll be doing in the show. I have a live band coming down from LA. It’s going to be amazing.” PT

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Peoria Times Executive Editor

Lakisha Jones has performed with symphonies around the world.

She thanks “American Idol” for those opportunities. She placed fourth on the sixth season of the TV show. “‘American Idol’ change my life and my daughter’s life,” she said. “I was a bank teller at the time. ‘American Idol’ allowed me to touch people through music. It’s a blessing that so many people got to watch that show during my season. There was a record number of people watching and voting.”

Jones is set to hit the stage with her show “Queen of Rock & Soul” at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 15, at The Vista Center for the Arts in Surprise.

“I give you a little bit of Diana (Ross), a sprinkle of Whitney, a little Aretha, some Tina (Turner) and a little Adele,” she said enthusiastically. “It’s a fun, up-tempo program packed with your favorites.

“It’s a fun show. I get to transform myself — not physically, but vocally — into all these wonderful women who are iconic in my eyes. I grew up on Aretha, Tina and Whitney. I love, love Whitney Houston. It’s my chance to really pay homage and honor each one of those ladies and the things they contributed to music.”

She’s contributing in her own right, as she performed at the behest of the

Lakisha Jones finished fourth on the sixth season of “American Idol.”

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U.S. Embassy in Russia twice, for example. Jones called the visit a blessing and eye-opening.

“You don’t see a lot of people who look like me there,” she said. “It’s cul-

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Lovin’ Life Expos return to the Valley

BY ANNIKA TOMLIN

Peoria Times Staff Writer

After a 2020 pandemic pause, the Lovin’ Life After 50 Expos are returning.

They are set for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 24, at the Sundial Recreation Center in Sun City, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26, at the Mesa Convention Center.

“We’re going to have great entertainment, a lot of informative exhibitors, and it’s just a great way to get out and find out what is going on in the community,” Lovin’ Life After 50 publisher Steve Strickbine said. “It’s a great way to meet lots of people and have some fun.”

Previously, the Lovin’ Life After 50 Expos have attracted thousands of people who network and gather information, as well as participate in the raffle prize giveaway and take a shot at hourly $100 cash prizes.

“These expos were started as just a way to allow organizations in the community to come together with people over 50 to show what they have to offer,” Strickbine said. “To give them information about things that are coming up in their organizations.

“It has become a very good event, though, for entertainment and just a great way for getting out.”

Among the exhibitors that will have booths at both the Sun City and Mesa Expos are 4C Medical Group (Optum Care), Arizona Liver Health, Home Concepts Custom Remodeling, Humana, AFC Physical Medicine and Hospice of the Valley.

Specifically at the Sun City Expo will be Arizona Institute and Cosmetic Laser Center, Edward Jones and MediSolutions LLC. Unique to Mesa are Bright Health Plan, Mesa Marketplace Swap Meet, Emphasis Advisors and National Cremation Society.

“With COVID we are being very careful with how we proceed, and we are following the CDC guidelines, of course, to make sure that we are oper-

Lovin’ Life After 50 Expos will be held in Sun City and Mesa. (File photos)

A plethora of local businesses will be in attendance at the The Lovin’ Life After 50 Expo will be held Monday, Jan. 24, Lovin’ Life Expos to offer attendees networking opportuni- at the Sundial Recreation Center in Sun City and Wednesday, ties and gathering information about the businesses.

Jan. 26, at the Mesa Convention Center.

ating with best practices to make sure that everybody that does attend stays safe,” Strickbine said.

In terms of entertainment, the Duttons will be returning to the stage once again.

For those who don’t know, “they’re a band that has a theater in Branson,

Missouri, where they play during the summer months, and then they also have a theater in the East Valley (in Mesa) where they play during the winter months. They were on ‘America’s Got Talent’ at one point,” according to Strickbine.

The Duttons’ set list includes blue-

grass, country and pop music.

“They always attract a big crowd,” Strickbine said.

Ms. Senior Arizona 2022 winner Patricia Person will meet and greet with attendees.

“I think a lot of people are anxious to get back out,” Strickbine said. PT

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Lorraine Bossé-Smith, author and speaker, will autograph copies of her ninth book, “Defy Your Diagnosis: Overcome Any Obstacle,” from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 15, at the Peoria Barnes & Noble.

“This book shares about my life riddled with struggles and how I beat two incurable diseases to live a victorious life,” Bossé-Smith said.

“Because of my difficulties, I am able to share the FIT Life Formula to offer hope and encouragement to anyone needing a shift in their life. Make this the year to change your mindset and defy your fears, overcome any obstacle, and live your best life.”

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A mother looked out a window and saw Bryson playing church with their three kittens. He had them lined up and was preaching to them. The mother turned around to do some work. A while later, she heard meowing and scratching on the door. She went to the window and saw Bryson baptizing the kittens.

She opened the door and said, “Bryson, stop that! You’ll drown those kittens.” Bryson looked at her and said with conviction: “They should have thought about that before they joined my church.”

Well, we can say that in this story, Bryson was really into “task” and not

too much into relationships. Bryson’s accomplished “task” at the expense of “relationship.”

In today’s culture, we see this all the time. Someone wants to climb the corporate ladder and doesn’t care what they must do to get there. A media source wishing to win at any cost adopts an “end justifies the means” philosophy. They build themselves up by tearing down other opponents to advance their narrative. Both examples above leave a carnage of broken relationships and twisted truths on the side of the road. Remember, the first victim of any war is the truth.

Living a quality life without constant drama requires awareness of relationships and tasks. The first couple in the Bible is an excellent example of a blended relationship with a task.

“God created human beings; he created them godlike, reflecting God’s nature. He created them male and fe-

male. God blessed them: Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth.” Genesis 1:27-28.

God made us humans to be fruitful and multiply. The first thing that men and women learned about was the power and promise of “right relationships.” God gave them the assignment of learning how to become “one flesh.”

The two became one, and the one became many. Out of their relationship came a family and a community.

Then after “relationship,” God gave them a mission, or what I call “task.”

God charged them with subduing and ruling the Earth responsibly. He entrusted them with a task after establishing their relationship. Notice: The two become one, the one became many, and the many do work, that is, accomplish the task God has assigned

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There is a powerful principle here.

It’s called: agreement, unity, abundance. You see, it takes two parties with differing gifts to agree. If they can agree on their task, they move from agreement to oneness. Their oneness is for a purpose. When united parties work together to accomplish a task, it produces abundance or “be fruitful and multiply.” Most successful corporations exemplify the “agreement, unity, abundance” principle. It takes two or three to agree. This example is called “high relationship/high task.”

There are four ways of living life in terms of relationship/task.

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achieve very little. They have great hearts, but they will not change the world. They live in the idea realm.

While this is admirable, it generally leads to more and more ideas with less and less chance of ever happening. A vision unmanaged leads to frustration.

They are right partially, and it’s killing them and their ideas.

The second example is people or organizations with a low relationship/ high task orientation. In their world, the task becomes everything. Right relationships are a low priority for this type of person or organization. Often, this leads to utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is the tendency to only stay connected with people if they function “for me or us” in meeting our needs.

Hint: Don’t let your relationships be based solely on what others can do for you.

The third example is the low relationship/low task style. This group dislikes or judges everyone and gets nowhere. Generally, they are great

people who have retreated into the self-made bunker of the critic.

That’s sad because their existence is evidence that this generation needs something that only their life contains.

The final way of living is a high relationship/high task orientation. That’s how Jesus lived. And many other successful people and organizations have adopted Jesus’ style of living and leadership. High relationship/high task people finish the job well, build their marriage, family, business, team or country, often with people of different views.

And they can still get along. Opposites attract, then negotiate the differences if they understand the core value of relationships first, task second. God designed life this way.

In today’s world, many self-centered, emphasis-driven individuals, businesses and leaders have lost their desire to work for right relationships with others with differing viewpoints.

But conformity is no substitute for

unity. Believe me. No one should get their way all the time. Arrogance isn’t thinking too much of ourselves but thinking too little of others.

What if marriages, partnerships, businesses, cities and countries aligned to God’s pattern. The world would be an even better place.

Just think, from the beginning, God has been saying, teamwork makes the dream work. PT

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BY MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY Midwestern University, in partnership with the BHHS Legacy Foundation, is offering high school students a full slate of free programs designed to stoke their interest in health care careers.

Beginning March 2 with the Arizona Regional Brain Bee, the Glendale university will then host the Health Sciences Virtual Career Month for High School Students in April. The capstone event, the seven-day Health Careers Institute for High School Students, takes place from July 15 to July 23.

A live competition similar to a spelling bee, the Arizona Regional Brain Bee offers students the chance to compete for scholarships and other prizes by answering questions about the brain and central nervous system. Participation is free, and the winner will receive airfare and expense money to compete in the National Brain Bee Competition. This event will be held live and in person on the Midwestern University campus.

The Virtual Health Sciences Career Month is designed for high school classes to benefit from hands-on activities and interactive presentations designed by Midwestern University’s health care professionals.

Videos, hands-on activities and Q&A sessions will highlight careers in osteopathic medicine, optometry, dental medicine, pharmacy, physician assistant studies, occupational therapy, biomedical sciences, perfusion, podiatric medicine, clinical psychology, physical therapy, nurse anesthesia, speech-language pathology and veterinary medicine. This event will be accessible online throughout April.

For students who want to learn about health careers more in depth, Midwestern will offer its seven-day Health Careers Institute for High School Students in July. Each day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Midwestern faculty and advanced students will teach workshops in anatomy, physiology and introductory skills for various health professions, with a special focus on how to prepare for college and what to expect from each pro-

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Wednesday, March 2 Registration deadline: Feb. 25 Contact: 623-572-3310, azevents@ midwestern.edu More information/online registration: midwestern.edu/azbrainbee

Virtual Health Sciences Career Month: April

Teacher registration deadline: March 1 Contact: 623-572-3310, azevents@ midwestern.edu More information: midwestern.edu/ AZScienceMonth Health Careers Institute for High School Students, July 15 to July 23 Application deadline: May 1; must be current junior or senior in high school

Students must be current juniors or seniors and submit an application including short essays, grades and teacher letter by May 1. Only 50 students can be accepted each year. PT

Contact: 623-572-3310, azevents@ midwestern.edu More information: midwestern.edu/ azhealthcareersinstitute All on-campus events will require students to follow COVID-19 safety protocols, including wearing a mask and submitting proof of vaccination or negative PCR test. Midwestern University will monitor the COVID-19 pandemic situation and may substitute virtual sessions for live sessions in concert with state and local precautions.

Midwestern University’s interactive high school programs are funded by financial support from BHHS Legacy Foundation, which is an Arizona charitable organization whose philanthropic mission is to enhance the quality of life and health of those it serves.

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PUBLIC NOTICE STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION MIDVALE TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, INC. P.O. BOX 7 2205 KEITHLEY CREEK RD MIDVALE, ID 83645 2022 Midvale Telephone Exchange, Inc. is the recipient of Federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity (including gender expression), sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, family/parental status, income derived from a public assistance program, political beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity, in any program or activity funded by USDA (not all bases apply to all programs). Remedies and complaint filing deadlines vary by program or incident.

Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.) should contact the responsible Agency or USDA's TARGET Center at: (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.

To file a program discrimination complaint, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, AD3027, found online at http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint filing cust.html and at any USDA office or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by: Mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D. C. 20250-941 O; Fax: (202) 690-7442; or Email: program.intake@usda.gov

SUMMONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF KING SUMMONS FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION CAUSE NO. 19-2 -34001-1 KNT DENNIS MONTGOMERY, and BRENDA MONTGOMERY, Plaintiffs, v.

MIKE ZULLO, BRIAN MACKIEWICZ, JOE ARPAIO, TRAVIS ANGLIN, JERRY SHERIDAN, and MARICOPA COUNTY, a political subdivision of the state of Arizona, MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT, a political subdivision of the state of Arizona, RICK ANDERSON, and DOES AND ROES 1 THROUGH 10, Defendants.

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO DEFENDANTS MIKE ZULLO and BRIAN MACKIEWICZ You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this Summons, to wit, within 60 days of the 21st day of December, 2021, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the Amended Complaint of the plaintiff Dennis Montgomery and Brenda Montgomery and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for the Plaintiff, John Doubek, at his office below stated; and in case of you failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The Complaint alleges defamation, infliction of emotional distress, and other tortious acts and omissions by the Defendants often acting in concert with each other which damaged Plaintiffs. DATED this day of December, 2021.

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Published: Peoria Times, Dec. 23, 30, 2021, and Jan. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2022 / 43501

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PUBLIC NOTICE PROPOSALS FOR FY 2022-2023 On January 3, 2022, the City began accepting proposals for the use of HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and General Fund Not-for-Profit grants for the July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023 funding cycle. The City anticipates receiving CDBG funds of approximately $830,000 and a HOME Program allocation of approximately $220,000. The exact allocations will not be determined until finalized by the Federal Government. The City also anticipates General Fund monies of $196,500 to be available. The proposal submission deadline for agencies who wish to utilize these funds is January 24, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. Funds are anticipated to be available in July 2022, for General Fund programs and October 2022, for Federal programs.

All applicants are required to submit proposals utilizing ZoomGrants, an on-line, cloud-based system.

Applicants interested in applying for grant funding must register with ZoomGrants in order to obtain a login and access to the City’s grant applications. A link to ZoomGrants and the applications is available on the City’s website at www.peoriaaz.gov/notforprofitgrants.

Additional information may be obtained by writing to: City of Peoria Attn: Community Assistance Division 9875 N. 85th Avenue Peoria, Arizona 85345 Or by written e-mail to: communityassistance@peoriaaz.gov Accommodations for individuals with disabilities - Alternative format materials, sign language interpretation, assistive listening devices or interpretation in languages other than English are available upon 72 hours advance notice through the City of Peoria’s Community Assistance Division, 9875 N. 85th Avenue, Peoria, AZ 85345; (623)773-7601 TDD (623)773-7221, or email at communityassistance@peoriaaz.gov.

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PUBLIC NOTICE JOANIE K. LOW #7244 1007 East 530 North Heber City, Utah 84032 (435) 6540278 joanielow@msn.com ATTORNEY FOR THE PETITIONER, LARISSA ANN COWLEY IN THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT WASATCH COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADOPT AND NOTICE OF RIGHTS (CONSENT) For Service on: Jamie Mercurio Adoptee’s noncustodial parent Case Number: 212500007 Judge: Jennifer A. Brown In the Matter of the Adoption of: Miles Jamison J. Cowley A Minor Child. TO: JAMIE MERCURIO 4411 E. Chandler Blvd., Apt# 2122 Phoenix, Arizona. 85048 1.

You are being notified of the Petition to Adopt by Larissa Ann Cowley. Petitioner is married to the natural father, J Weston Cowley. 2. You have the right to ask to intervene in this adoption. If your request to intervene is granted, you have the right to oppose this adoption. If you want to intervene in this adoption, you must file a Motion to Intervene in this court within 30 days after this notice is served on you. The Motion to Intervene must show why the adoption is not in the adoptee’s best interest. 3. If you do not file a Motion to Intervene in 30 days after this notice is served on you, you: a. waive any right to further notice in this adoption; b. forfeit all rights in relations to the adoptee, and c. are barred from bringing or maintaining any action to assert any interest in the adoptee. 4. If your request to intervene is granted, you may obtain a copy of the Petition to Adopt and other court records from the clerk of the court at the address above. If your request to intervene is denied, you may appeal that decision to the Supreme Court. If you appeal the decision denying your request to intervene, you may obtain the records in this case if approved by the court, but all information identifying the adopting parent and the birth mother will be redacted. DATED this 17th day of November, 2021. /s/ Joanie K. Low JOANIE K. LOW. Published: Peoria Times, Jan 6, 13, 2022 / 43320 NOTICE OF HEARING REGARDING APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No: CV2021014688 SUPERIOR COURT OF ARIZONA IN MARICOPA COUNTY In the Matter of: Irina Pogorelova 1. NOTICE: An application for Change of Name has been filed with the Court by the person(s) named above. A hearing has been scheduled where the Court will consider whether to grant or deny the requested change. If you wish to be heard on this issue, you must appear at the hearing, at the date and time indicated below. 2. COURT HEARING. A court hearing has been scheduled to consider the Application as follows: DATE: 02/09/2022 TIME: 2:30p BEFORE: Commissioner, Brian Kaiser, 2222 E Javelina Ave., Mesa AZ 85210 DATED: 12/10/2021 /s/ Irina Pogorelova Applicant's Signature Published: Peoria Times Dec. 30, 2021 Jan 6, 13, 20, 2022 / 43451

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ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR I Name: ONE WAY INDUSTRIES LLC II The address of the registered office is: XXXX The name of the Statutory Agent is: Joshua Scott Johnson III Management of the Limited Liability Company is vested in a manager or managers. The names of each person who is a manager and each member who owns a twenty percent or greater interest in the capital or profits of the limited liability company are: MEMBERS: Joshua Scott Johnson and Evan Scott Johnson both of 10043 w Wizard Lane, PEORIA, AZ, 85383 . Published: Publication Peoria Times, Jan 6, 13, 20, 2022 / 43761

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PUBLIC NOTICE RESOLUTION NO. 2022-02 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA, DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO CREATE AN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT TO MAINTAIN LANDSCAPING INCLUDED WITHIN, NEAR AND ADJACENT TO A PARKWAY AND RELATED FACILITIES TOGETHER WITH APPURTENANT STRUCTURES AS SHOWN ON THE PLANS, FOR MAINTENANCE WITHIN AN AREA IN THE CITY OF PEORIA AS DESCRIBED HEREIN; ADOPTING PLANS FOR CITY OF PEORIA MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1252, VILLAGE H AT VISTANCIA PARCEL H-17, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN, AND DECLARING THE WORK OR IMPROVEMENT TO BE OF MORE THAN LOCAL OR ORDINARY PUBLIC BENEFIT, AND THAT THE COST OF SAID WORK OR IMPROVEMENT SHALL BE ASSESSED UPON A CERTAIN DISTRICT, AND PROVIDING THAT THE PROPOSED WORK OR IMPROVEMENT SHALL BE PERFORMED UNDER ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES TITLE 48, CHAPTER 4, ARTICLE 2, AND AMENDMENTS THERETO AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, declare that the Maintenance of the landscaping included within, near and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities in the District to be of more than local or ordinary public benefit, and further that the cost of said maintenance shall be assessed on a certain District; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, declare that the maintenance of landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities in the District is incidental to the maintenance and preservation of the parkway and related facilities, has aesthetic value, and maintains and increases the value of property within the District; and WHEREAS, the City Council declares that the maintenance of landscaping included within and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities preserves and promotes the health, safety, and welfare of those citizens of the City of Peoria living within the District as well as preservation of the streets and parkways which may be adversely impacted by drainage and other water formations; and WHEREAS, the City of Peoria declares that the maintenance of a landscaped buffer between a parkway and the adjacent developments reduces the visual and other impact of light, air and noise pollution and tends to increase personal and vehicular safety on the parkway and decreases the likelihood vehicular accidents will harm adjacent developments in furtherance of the health, safety and welfare of those citizens of the City living within the District; and WHEREAS, the City Council declares that maintenance of landscaped drainage and other water control facilities and features within, near or adjacent to a parkway and related facilities tends to preserve the structural integrity of the parkway and mitigates flooding of adjacent areas and the structural integrity of the parkway and mitigates flooding of adjacent areas and the parkway by draining water to and from the parkway in furtherance of the health, safety and welfare of those citizens of the City of Peoria living within the District: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA AS FOLLOWS: Section 1.

Definitions.

In this Resolution, the following terms shall have the following meanings: “Assessment Diagrams” shall mean those duplicate diagrams of the property contained in the Assessment District is to be filed with the Clerk and approved by the Mayor and Council.

“Assessment District” shall mean the lots, pieces or parcels of land lying within the boundaries described on Exhibit B attached hereto and as shown on the map on file with the City Engineer.

“City” shall mean the City of Peoria, Arizona. City.

“City Council” or “Council” shall mean the Mayor and Council of the “Clerk” shall mean the City Clerk.

“Engineer” shall mean City Engineer.

The maintenance of all landscaping, including replacement of landscape materials, in the area generally described as follows: SEE EXHIBIT “A”, LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF CITY OF PEORIA MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1252 The Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona designate as parkways, those areas set forth on Exhibit “B” Assessment Diagram in accordance with Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes. The public interest and convenience require, and it is the intention of the City Council to order the Work adjacent to the designated parkways to be performed as stated herein. All items of the Work shall be performed as prescribed by the Plans and Specifications hereby approved and adopted by the Council and on file in the Office of the City Engineer and no assessment for any lot shall exceed its proportion of the Estimate. The estimate of the cost and expenses of the work or improvements on file in the offices of the Superintendent of Streets and the Clerk of the City are hereby approved and adopted by the Mayor and Council of the City. In addition to the requirements of law, the procedures set forth in the City Code will be followed regarding acceptance of bids and setting tax levies. For purposes of this Resolution and of all resolutions, ordinances and notices pertaining to this Resolution, the improvement as herein described is hereby designated City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1252.

Section 3.

Determination of Need.

In the opinion of the City Council, the Work is of more than local or ordinary public benefit. The City Council hereby orders that all amounts due or to become due with respect to the Work shall be chargeable upon the respective lots, pieces and parcels of land within the Assessment District.

Section 4.

Preparation of Assessment Diagrams.

The City Engineer is hereby authorized and directed to prepare duplicate diagrams (Assessment Diagrams) of the property contained within the Assessment District.

The diagrams shall show each separate lot, numbered consecutively, the approximate area in square feet of each lot, and the location of the lot in relation to the work proposed to be done.

Section 5.

Exclusion of Certain Property.

Any public street or alley within the boundaries of the Assessment District is hereby omitted from the assessment hereafter to be made. Any lot belonging to the United States, the State, a county, city, school district or any political subdivision or institution of the State or county, which is included within the Assessment District shall be omitted from the assessment hereafter made.

Section 6.

Officers Not Liable.

In no event will the City of Peoria or any officer thereof be liable for any portion of the cost of said Improvement District nor for any delinquency of persons or property assessed.

Section 7.

Annual Statement.

The City Council shall make annual statements and estimates of the expenses of the District which shall be provided for by the levy and collection of ad valorem taxes upon the assessed value of all real and personal property in the District as provided in A.R.S. § 48-574 and amendments thereto.

Section 8.

Statutory Authority.

The Work and all proceedings pertaining thereto shall be performed under the provisions of Title 48, Article 2, specifically Section 48-574, and all amendments thereto and pursuant to Article I, Section 3, (8) of the Peoria City Charter.

Section 9.

Delegation of Authority.

The City Engineer is hereby authorized to fill in any blanks and to make any minor corrections necessary to complete the Plans and Specifications and the Contract Documents.

“Lots” shall mean all lots, pieces or parcels of land lying within the Assessment District.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, this 4th day of January, 2022.

“Parkways” shall mean those streets and rights-of-way which are designated in Exhibit B as “Parkways,” and specifically those portions of Pedestrian Facilities, Parks, Retention, Detention and Storm Water Management Facilities included within or adjacent to the Assessment District.

CITY OF PEORIA,

“Plans and Specifications” shall mean the engineer’s estimate for the Maintenance Improvement District No. 1252 filed with the Clerk prior to the adoption of this Resolution.

“Superintendent of Streets” shall mean the City Engineer.

Section 2.

Declaration of Intention to Order an Improvement.

The public interest or convenience requires, and it is the intention of the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, to order the following work, hereinafter “Work,” to be performed, to wit:

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Cathy Carlat, Mayor Date Signed ATTEST: Lori Dyckman, Acting City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: Vanessa P. Hickman, City Attorney Effective Date:

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CERTIFICATION OF CITY ENGINEER I hereby certify that I have read the description set out under the definition “Assessment District” and approve the same. I further certify that I have read the description set out under the definition “Work” and approve the same.

Adina Lund, Engineering Director CERTIFICATION OF CITY CLERK I hereby certify that the above and foregoing Resolution No. 2022-02 duly passed by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona at a regular meeting held on January 4, 2022 and that a quorum was present there and that the vote thereon was ayes and nays. were no vote or absent.

City Clerk, City of Peoria

RESOLUTION NO. 2022-03 RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO ORDER THE IMPROVEMENTS OF A CERTAIN AREA WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY AND CREATING AN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT KNOWN AS THE CITY OF PEORIA MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1252, VILLAGE H AT VISTANCIA PARCEL H-17; PROVIDING THAT THE COST OF THE MAINTENANCE OF THE LANDSCAPING INCLUDED WITHIN, NEAR, AND ADJACENT TO A PARKWAY AND RELATED FACILITIES TOGETHER WITH APPURTENANT STRUCTURES AS SHOWN ON THE PLANS, SHALL BE ASSESSED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE 48, CHAPTER 4, ARTICLE 2, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, AS AMENDED; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA, THAT: SECTION 1. The public interest or convenience require and it is the intention of the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona to order the maintenance of landscaping within the proposed district and that the cost of maintaining landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities together with appurtenant structures be assessed upon a certain improvement district to be known as Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1252.

The estimate of the cost and expenses for the maintenance of the landscaping on file with the Superintendent of Streets and the City Clerk is approved and adopted by the Mayor and Council of the City.

SECTION 2. The maintenance of the landscaping, therefore, in the opinion of the Mayor and Council of the City, are of more than local or ordinary public benefit, and are of special benefit to the respective lots, pieces and parcels of land within the real property described herein. The Mayor and Council of the City make and order that the cost and expense for the maintenance of the landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities together with appurtenant structures be chargeable upon a district to be known and designated as the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1252 and as described and bounded as set forth on Exhibits A and B attached, and declare that the district in the City benefited by the maintenance of landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities together with appurtenant structures to be assessed, to pay the costs and expenses thereof in proportion to the benefits derived therefrom.

The City shall not assess the costs and expenses for the maintenance of landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities together with appurtenant structures, which are for the general public benefit against the respective lots, pieces and parcels of land located within the boundaries of the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1252 and if a portion of the costs and expenses for the maintenance of landscaping is for the general public benefit, the City shall assess the boundaries of the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1252 only that portion of such costs and expenses which benefits the lots, pieces and parcels of land located within the boundaries of the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1252.

SECTION 3. The costs and expense for the maintenance of landscaping shall be made and all proceedings therein taken; that the Superintendent of Streets of the City shall post or cause to be posted notices thereof; that the City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Resolution of Intention; that the Engineer shall prepare duplicate diagrams of the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1252 described in Section 2 of this Resolution to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof, under and in accordance with the provisions of Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended.

SECTION 4. The majority of owners of all of the real property within the proposed district have executed a Petition for formation of a Maintenance Improvement District and the City Council has verified the ownership of the property. Publication and posting of the notice of the passage of the Resolution of Intention will be completed as prescribed by the State Statues.

SECTION 5. Any Resolutions or parts of Resolutions in conflict with the provisions of this Resolution are hereby repealed.

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PUBLIC NOTICE SECTION 6. The immediate operation of the provisions of this Resolution is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety and an emergency is declared to exist, and this Resolution will be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona as required by law and is exempt from the referendum provisions of the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, this 4th day of January, 2022.

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“City” shall mean the City of Peoria, Arizona.

City.

“City Council” or “Council” shall mean the Mayor and Council of the “Clerk” shall mean the City Clerk.

“Engineer” shall mean City Engineer.

“Lots” shall mean all lots, pieces or parcels of land lying within the Assessment District.

Section 9.

Delegation of Authority.

The City Engineer is hereby authorized to fill in any blanks and to make any minor corrections necessary to complete the Plans and Specifications and the Contract Documents.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, this 4th day of January, 2022.

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“Parkways” shall mean those streets and rights-of-way which are designated in Exhibit B as “Parkways,” and specifically those portions of Pedestrian Facilities, Parks, Retention, Detention and Storm Water Management Facilities included within or adjacent to the Assessment District.

Cathy Carlat, Mayor

Lori Dyckman, Acting City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM:

“Plans and Specifications” shall mean the engineer’s estimate for the Maintenance Improvement District No. 1253 filed with the Clerk prior to the adoption of this Resolution.

ATTEST: Lori Dyckman, Acting City Clerk

Vanessa P. Hickman, City Attorney

“Superintendent of Streets” shall mean the City Engineer.

Effective Date:

Section 2.

Declaration of Intention to Order an Improvement.

Cathy Carlat, Mayor ATTEST: _ Date Signed

RESOLUTION NO. 2022-04 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA, DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO CREATE AN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT TO MAINTAIN LANDSCAPING INCLUDED WITHIN, NEAR AND ADJACENT TO A PARKWAY AND RELATED FACILITIES TOGETHER WITH APPURTENANT STRUCTURES AS SHOWN ON THE PLANS, FOR MAINTENANCE WITHIN AN AREA IN THE CITY OF PEORIA AS DESCRIBED HEREIN; ADOPTING PLANS FOR CITY OF PEORIA MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1253, VILLAGE H AT VISTANCIA PARCEL H-15, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN, AND DECLARING THE WORK OR IMPROVEMENT TO BE OF MORE THAN LOCAL OR ORDINARY PUBLIC BENEFIT, AND THAT THE COST OF SAID WORK OR IMPROVEMENT SHALL BE ASSESSED UPON A CERTAIN DISTRICT, AND PROVIDING THAT THE PROPOSED WORK OR IMPROVEMENT SHALL BE PERFORMED UNDER ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES TITLE 48, CHAPTER 4, ARTICLE 2, AND AMENDMENTS THERETO AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, declare that the Maintenance of the landscaping included within, near and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities in the District to be of more than local or ordinary public benefit, and further that the cost of said maintenance shall be assessed on a certain District; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, declare that the maintenance of landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities in the District is incidental to the maintenance and preservation of the parkway and related facilities, has aesthetic value, and maintains and increases the value of property within the District; and WHEREAS, the City Council declares that the maintenance of landscaping included within and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities preserves and promotes the health, safety, and welfare of those citizens of the City of Peoria living within the District as well as preservation of the streets and parkways which may be adversely impacted by drainage and other water formations; and WHEREAS, the City of Peoria declares that the maintenance of a landscaped buffer between a parkway and the adjacent developments reduces the visual and other impact of light, air and noise pollution and tends to increase personal and vehicular safety on the parkway and decreases the likelihood vehicular accidents will harm adjacent developments in furtherance of the health, safety and welfare of those citizens of the City living within the District; and WHEREAS, the City Council declares that maintenance of landscaped drainage and other water control facilities and features within, near or adjacent to a parkway and related facilities tends to preserve the structural integrity of the parkway and mitigates flooding of adjacent areas and the structural integrity of the parkway and mitigates flooding of adjacent areas and the parkway by draining water to and from the parkway in furtherance of the health, safety and welfare of those citizens of the City of Peoria living within the District:

The public interest or convenience requires, and it is the intention of the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, to order the following work, hereinafter “Work,” to be performed, to wit: The maintenance of all landscaping, including replacement of landscape materials, in the area generally described as follows: SEE EXHIBIT “A”, LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF CITY OF PEORIA MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1253 The Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona designate as parkways, those areas set forth on Exhibit “B” Assessment Diagram in accordance with Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes. The public interest and convenience require, and it is the intention of the City Council to order the Work adjacent to the designated parkways to be performed as stated herein. All items of the Work shall be performed as prescribed by the Plans and Specifications hereby approved and adopted by the Council and on file in the Office of the City Engineer and no assessment for any lot shall exceed its proportion of the Estimate. The estimate of the cost and expenses of the work or improvements on file in the offices of the Superintendent of Streets and the Clerk of the City are hereby approved and adopted by the Mayor and Council of the City. In addition to the requirements of law, the procedures set forth in the City Code will be followed regarding acceptance of bids and setting tax levies. For purposes of this Resolution and of all resolutions, ordinances and notices pertaining to this Resolution, the improvement as herein described is hereby designated City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1253.

Section 3.

Determination of Need.

In the opinion of the City Council, the Work is of more than local or ordinary public benefit. The City Council hereby orders that all amounts due or to become due with respect to the Work shall be chargeable upon the respective lots, pieces and parcels of land within the Assessment District.

Section 4.

Preparation of Assessment Diagrams.

The City Engineer is hereby authorized and directed to prepare duplicate diagrams (Assessment Diagrams) of the property contained within the Assessment District.

The diagrams shall show each separate lot, numbered consecutively, the approximate area in square feet of each lot, and the location of the lot in relation to the work proposed to be done.

Section 5.

Exclusion of Certain Property.

Any public street or alley within the boundaries of the Assessment District is hereby omitted from the assessment hereafter to be made. Any lot belonging to the United States, the State, a county, city, school district or any political subdivision or institution of the State or county, which is included within the Assessment District shall be omitted from the assessment hereafter made.

Section 6.

Officers Not Liable.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA AS FOLLOWS:

In no event will the City of Peoria or any officer thereof be liable for any portion of the cost of said Improvement District nor for any delinquency of persons or property assessed.

Section 1.

Section 7.

Definitions.

In this Resolution, the following terms shall have the following meanings: “Assessment Diagrams” shall mean those duplicate diagrams of the property contained in the Assessment District is to be filed with the Clerk and approved by the Mayor and Council.

“Assessment District” shall mean the lots, pieces or parcels of land lying within the boundaries described on Exhibit B attached hereto and as shown on the map on file with the City Engineer.

Annual Statement.

The City Council shall make annual statements and estimates of the expenses of the District which shall be provided for by the levy and collection of ad valorem taxes upon the assessed value of all real and personal property in the District as provided in A.R.S. § 48-574 and amendments thereto.

Section 8.

Statutory Authority.

The Work and all proceedings pertaining thereto shall be performed under the provisions of Title 48, Article 2, specifically Section 48-574, and all amendments thereto and pursuant to Article I, Section 3, (8) of the Peoria City Charter.

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Date Signed

APPROVED AS TO FORM: Vanessa P. Hickman, City Attorney Effective Date: CERTIFICATION OF CITY ENGINEER I hereby certify that I have read the description set out under the definition “Assessment District” and approve the same. I further certify that I have read the description set out under the definition “Work” and approve the same.

Adina Lund, Engineering Director CERTIFICATION OF CITY CLERK I hereby certify that the above and foregoing Resolution No. 2022-04 duly passed by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona at a regular meeting held on January 4, 2022 and that a quorum was present there and that the vote thereon was ayes and nays. were no vote or absent.

City Clerk, City of Peoria

RESOLUTION NO. 2022-05 RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO ORDER THE IMPROVEMENTS OF A CERTAIN AREA WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY AND CREATING AN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT KNOWN AS THE CITY OF PEORIA MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1253, VILLAGE H AT VISTANCIA PARCEL H-15; PROVIDING THAT THE COST OF THE MAINTENANCE OF THE LANDSCAPING INCLUDED WITHIN, NEAR, AND ADJACENT TO A PARKWAY AND RELATED FACILITIES TOGETHER WITH APPURTENANT STRUCTURES AS SHOWN ON THE PLANS, SHALL BE ASSESSED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE 48, CHAPTER 4, ARTICLE 2, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, AS AMENDED; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA, THAT: SECTION 1. The public interest or convenience require and it is the intention of the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona to order the maintenance of landscaping within the proposed district and that the cost of maintaining landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities together with appurtenant structures be assessed upon a certain improvement district to be known as Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1253.

The estimate of the cost and expenses for the maintenance of the landscaping on file with the Superintendent of Streets and the City Clerk is approved and adopted by the Mayor and Council of the City.

SECTION 2. The maintenance of the landscaping, therefore, in the opinion of the Mayor and Council of the City, are of more than local or ordinary public benefit, and are of special benefit to the respective lots, pieces and parcels of land within the real property described herein. The Mayor and Council of the City make and order that the cost and expense for the maintenance of the landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities together with appurtenant structures be chargeable upon a district to be known and designated as the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1253 and as described and bounded as set forth on Exhibits A and B attached, and declare that the district in the City benefited by the maintenance of landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities together with appurtenant structures to be assessed, to pay the costs and expenses thereof in proportion to the benefits derived therefrom.

The City shall not assess the costs and expenses for the maintenance of landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities together with appurtenant structures, which are for the general public benefit against the respective lots, pieces and parcels of land located within the boundaries of the

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PUBLIC NOTICE City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1253 and if a portion of the costs and expenses for the maintenance of landscaping is for the general public benefit, the City shall assess the boundaries of the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1253 only that portion of such costs and expenses which benefits the lots, pieces and parcels of land located within the boundaries of the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1253.

SECTION 3. The costs and expense for the maintenance of landscaping shall be made and all proceedings therein taken; that the Superintendent of Streets of the City shall post or cause to be posted notices thereof; that the City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Resolution of Intention; that the Engineer shall prepare duplicate diagrams of the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1253 described in Section 2 of this Resolution to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof, under and in accordance with the provisions of Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended.

SECTION 4. The majority of owners of all of the real property within the proposed district have executed a Petition for formation of a Maintenance Improvement District and the City Council has verified the ownership of the property. Publication and posting of the notice of the passage of the Resolution of Intention will be completed as prescribed by the State Statues.

SECTION 5. Any Resolutions or parts of Resolutions in conflict with the provisions of this Resolution are hereby repealed.

SECTION 6. The immediate operation of the provisions of this Resolution is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety and an emergency is declared to exist, and this Resolution will be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona as required by law and is exempt from the referendum provisions of the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona.

WHEREAS, the City Council declares that maintenance of landscaped drainage and other water control facilities and features within, near or adjacent to a parkway and related facilities tends to preserve the structural integrity of the parkway and mitigates flooding of adjacent areas and the structural integrity of the parkway and mitigates flooding of adjacent areas and the parkway by draining water to and from the parkway in furtherance of the health, safety and welfare of those citizens of the City of Peoria living within the District:

Section 1.

Section 7.

Definitions.

In this Resolution, the following terms shall have the following meanings: “Assessment Diagrams” shall mean those duplicate diagrams of the property contained in the Assessment District is to be filed with the Clerk and approved by the Mayor and Council.

Section 9.

The City Engineer is hereby authorized to fill in any blanks and to make any minor corrections necessary to complete the Plans and Specifications and the Contract Documents.

“City Council” or “Council” shall mean the Mayor and Council of the “Clerk” shall mean the City Clerk.

“Engineer” shall mean City Engineer.

Vanessa P. Hickman, City Attorney

“Superintendent of Streets” shall mean the City Engineer.

Effective Date:

Section 2.

Declaration of Intention to Order an Improvement.

WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, declare that the Maintenance of the landscaping included within, near and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities in the District to be of more than local or ordinary public benefit, and further that the cost of said maintenance shall be assessed on a certain District; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, declare that the maintenance of landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities in the District is incidental to the maintenance and preservation of the parkway and related facilities, has aesthetic value, and maintains and increases the value of property within the District; and WHEREAS, the City Council declares that the maintenance of landscaping included within and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities preserves and promotes the health, safety, and welfare of those citizens of the City of Peoria living within the District as well as preservation of the streets and parkways which may be adversely impacted by drainage and other water formations; and WHEREAS, the City of Peoria declares that the maintenance of a landscaped buffer between a parkway and the adjacent developments reduces the visual and other impact of light, air and noise pollution and tends to increase personal and vehicular safety on the parkway and decreases the likelihood vehicular accidents will harm adjacent developments in furtherance of the health, safety and welfare of those citizens of the City living within the District; and

Statutory Authority.

City.

Lori Dyckman, Acting City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM:

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA, DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO CREATE AN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT TO MAINTAIN LANDSCAPING INCLUDED WITHIN, NEAR AND ADJACENT TO A PARKWAY AND RELATED FACILITIES TOGETHER WITH APPURTENANT STRUCTURES AS SHOWN ON THE PLANS, FOR MAINTENANCE WITHIN AN AREA IN THE CITY OF PEORIA AS DESCRIBED HEREIN; ADOPTING PLANS FOR CITY OF PEORIA MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1256, VILLAGE H AT VISTANCIA PARCEL H-11/12, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN, AND DECLARING THE WORK OR IMPROVEMENT TO BE OF MORE THAN LOCAL OR ORDINARY PUBLIC BENEFIT, AND THAT THE COST OF SAID WORK OR IMPROVEMENT SHALL BE ASSESSED UPON A CERTAIN DISTRICT, AND PROVIDING THAT THE PROPOSED WORK OR IMPROVEMENT SHALL BE PERFORMED UNDER ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES TITLE 48, CHAPTER 4, ARTICLE 2, AND AMENDMENTS THERETO AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

Section 8.

“City” shall mean the City of Peoria, Arizona.

“Plans and Specifications” shall mean the engineer’s estimate for the Maintenance Improvement District No. 1256 filed with the Clerk prior to the adoption of this Resolution.

RESOLUTION NO. 2022-06

The City Council shall make annual statements and estimates of the expenses of the District which shall be provided for by the levy and collection of ad valorem taxes upon the assessed value of all real and personal property in the District as provided in A.R.S. § 48-574 and amendments thereto.

The Work and all proceedings pertaining thereto shall be performed under the provisions of Title 48, Article 2, specifically Section 48-574, and all amendments thereto and pursuant to Article I, Section 3, (8) of the Peoria City Charter.

“Parkways” shall mean those streets and rights-of-way which are designated in Exhibit B as “Parkways,” and specifically those portions of Pedestrian Facilities, Parks, Retention, Detention and Storm Water Management Facilities included within or adjacent to the Assessment District.

_ Date Signed

Annual Statement.

“Assessment District” shall mean the lots, pieces or parcels of land lying within the boundaries described on Exhibit B attached hereto and as shown on the map on file with the City Engineer.

CITY OF PEORIA, Cathy Carlat, Mayor ATTEST:

Officers Not Liable.

In no event will the City of Peoria or any officer thereof be liable for any portion of the cost of said Improvement District nor for any delinquency of persons or property assessed.

“Lots” shall mean all lots, pieces or parcels of land lying within the Assessment District.

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Section 6.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA AS FOLLOWS:

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, this 4th day of January, 2022. an

omitted from the assessment hereafter to be made. Any lot belonging to the United States, the State, a county, city, school district or any political subdivision or institution of the State or county, which is included within the Assessment District shall be omitted from the assessment hereafter made.

The public interest or convenience requires, and it is the intention of the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, to order the following work, hereinafter “Work,” to be performed, to wit: The maintenance of all landscaping, including replacement of landscape materials, in the area generally described as follows: SEE EXHIBIT “A”, LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF CITY OF PEORIA MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1256 The Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona designate as parkways, those areas set forth on Exhibit “B” Assessment Diagram in accordance with Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes. The public interest and convenience require, and it is the intention of the City Council to order the Work adjacent to the designated parkways to be performed as stated herein. All items of the Work shall be performed as prescribed by the Plans and Specifications hereby approved and adopted by the Council and on file in the Office of the City Engineer and no assessment for any lot shall exceed its proportion of the Estimate. The estimate of the cost and expenses of the work or improvements on file in the offices of the Superintendent of Streets and the Clerk of the City are hereby approved and adopted by the Mayor and Council of the City. In addition to the requirements of law, the procedures set forth in the City Code will be followed regarding acceptance of bids and setting tax levies. For purposes of this Resolution and of all resolutions, ordinances and notices pertaining to this Resolution, the improvement as herein described is hereby designated City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1256.

Section 3.

Determination of Need.

In the opinion of the City Council, the Work is of more than local or ordinary public benefit. The City Council hereby orders that all amounts due or to become due with respect to the Work shall be chargeable upon the respective lots, pieces and parcels of land within the Assessment District.

Section 4.

Preparation of Assessment Diagrams.

The City Engineer is hereby authorized and directed to prepare duplicate diagrams (Assessment Diagrams) of the property contained within the Assessment District.

The diagrams shall show each separate lot, numbered consecutively, the approximate area in square feet of each lot, and the location of the lot in relation to the work proposed to be done.

Section 5.

Exclusion of Certain Property.

Any public street or alley within the boundaries of the Assessment District is hereby

Delegation of Authority.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, this 4th day of January, 2022.

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Arizona municipal corporation

Cathy Carlat, Mayor Date Signed ATTEST: Lori Dyckman, Acting City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: Vanessa P. Hickman, City Attorney Effective Date: CERTIFICATION OF CITY ENGINEER I hereby certify that I have read the description set out under the definition “Assessment District” and approve the same. I further certify that I have read the description set out under the definition “Work” and approve the same.

Adina Lund, Engineering Director CERTIFICATION OF CITY CLERK I hereby certify that the above and foregoing Resolution No. 2022-06 duly passed by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona at a regular meeting held on January 4, 2022 and that a quorum was present there and that the vote thereon was ayes and nays. were no vote or absent.

City Clerk, City of Peoria

RESOLUTION NO. 2022-07 RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO ORDER THE IMPROVEMENTS OF A CERTAIN AREA WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY AND CREATING AN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT KNOWN AS THE CITY OF PEORIA MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1256, VILLAGE H AT VISTANCIA PARCEL H- 11/12; PROVIDING THAT THE COST OF THE MAINTENANCE OF THE LANDSCAPING INCLUDED WITHIN, NEAR, AND ADJACENT TO A PARKWAY AND RELATED FACILITIES TOGETHER WITH APPURTENANT STRUCTURES AS SHOWN ON THE PLANS, SHALL BE ASSESSED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE 48, CHAPTER 4, ARTICLE 2, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, AS AMENDED; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA, THAT: SECTION 1. The public interest or convenience require and it is the intention of the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona to order the maintenance of landscaping within the proposed district and that the cost of maintaining landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities together with appurtenant structures be assessed upon a certain improvement district to be known as Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1256.

The estimate of the cost and expenses for the maintenance of the landscaping on

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PUBLIC NOTICE file with the Superintendent of Streets and the City Clerk is approved and adopted by the Mayor and Council of the City.

SECTION 2. The maintenance of the landscaping, therefore, in the opinion of the Mayor and Council of the City, are of more than local or ordinary public benefit, and are of special benefit to the respective lots, pieces and parcels of land within the real property described herein. The Mayor and Council of the City make and order that the cost and expense for the maintenance of the landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities together with appurtenant structures be chargeable upon a district to be known and designated as the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1256 and as described and bounded as set forth on Exhibits A and B attached, and declare that the district in the City benefited by the maintenance of landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities together with appurtenant structures to be assessed, to pay the costs and expenses thereof in proportion to the benefits derived therefrom.

The City shall not assess the costs and expenses for the maintenance of landscaping included within, near, and adjacent to a parkway and related facilities together with appurtenant structures, which are for the general public benefit against the respective lots, pieces and parcels of land located within the boundaries of the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1256 and if a portion of the costs and expenses for the maintenance of landscaping is for the general public benefit, the City shall assess the boundaries of the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1256 only that portion of such costs and expenses which benefits the lots, pieces and parcels of land located within the boundaries of the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1256.

SECTION 3. The costs and expense for the maintenance of landscaping shall be made and all proceedings therein taken; that the Superintendent of Streets of the City shall post or cause to be posted notices thereof; that the City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Resolution of Intention; that the Engineer shall prepare duplicate diagrams of the City of Peoria Maintenance Improvement District No. 1256 described in Section 2 of this Resolution to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof, under and in accordance with the provisions of Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended.

SECTION 4. The majority of owners of all of the real property within the proposed district have executed a Petition for formation of a Maintenance Improvement District and the City Council has verified the ownership of the property. Publication and posting of the notice of the passage of the Resolution of Intention will be completed as prescribed by the State Statues.

SECTION 5. Any Resolutions or parts of Resolutions in conflict with the provisions of this Resolution are hereby repealed.

SECTION 6. The immediate operation of the provisions of this Resolution is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety and an emergency is declared to exist, and this Resolution will be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona as required by law and is exempt from the referendum provisions of the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, this 4th day of January, 2022.

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Cathy Carlat, Mayor

for lighting the streets and public parks within the proposed district.

The estimate of the cost and expenses for the purchase of electricity for the operation of the streetlights on file with the Superintendent of Streets and the City Clerk is approved and adopted by the Mayor and Council of the City.

SECTION 2. The streetlights and the electricity, therefore, in the opinion of the Mayor and Council of the City, are of more than local or ordinary public benefit, and are of special benefit to the respective lots, pieces and parcels of land within the real property described herein. The Mayor and Council of the City make and order that the cost and expense for the purchase of electricity be chargeable upon a district to be known and designated as the City of Peoria Streetlight Improvement District No. 1157 and as described and bounded as set forth on Exhibits A and B attached, and declare that the district in the City benefited by the purchase of electricity for streetlights to be assessed, to pay the costs and expenses thereof in proportion to the benefits derived therefrom.

The City shall not assess the costs and expenses for the purchase of electricity for streetlights which are for the general public benefit against the respective lots, pieces and parcels of land located within the boundaries of the City of Peoria Streetlight Improvement District No. 1157 and if a portion of the costs and expenses for the purchase of electricity for streetlights is for the general public benefit, the City shall assess the boundaries of the City of Peoria Streetlight Improvement District No. 1157 only that portion of such costs and expenses which benefits the lots, pieces and parcels of land located within the boundaries of the City of Peoria Streetlight Improvement District No. 1157.

SECTION 3. The costs and expense for the purchase of electricity for streetlights shall be made and all proceedings therein taken; that the Superintendent of Streets of the City shall post or cause to be posted notices thereof; that the City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Resolution of Intention; that the Engineer shall prepare duplicate diagrams of the City of Peoria Streetlight Improvement District No. 1157 described in Section 2 of this Resolution to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof, under and in accordance with the provisions of Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended.

SECTION 4. The majority of owners of all of the real property within the proposed district have executed a Petition for formation of a Streetlight Improvement District and the City Council has verified the ownership of the property. Publication and posting of the notice of the passage of the Resolution of Intention will be completed as prescribed by the State Statutes.

SECTION 5. Any Resolutions or parts of Resolutions in conflict with the provisions of this Resolution are hereby repealed.

SECTION 6. The immediate operation of the provisions of this Resolution is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety and an emergency is declared to exist, and this Resolution will be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona as required by law and is exempt from the referendum provisions of the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, this 4th day of January, 2022.

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Lori Dyckman, Acting City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: Vanessa P. Hickman, City Attorney Effective Date:

RESOLUTION NO. 2022-08 RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO ORDER THE PURCHASE OF ELECTRICITY FOR LIGHTING THE STREETS AND PUBLIC PARKS WITHIN THE PROPOSED DISTRICT AND THAT THE COST OF THE PURCHASE OF ELECTRICITY FOR LIGHTING THE STREETS AND PUBLIC PARKS, BE ASSESSED UPON A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT TO BE KNOWN AS CITY OF PEORIA STREETLIGHT IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1157, VILLAGE H AT VISTANCIA PARCEL H-17; PROVIDING THAT THE COST OF THE ELECTRICITY REQUIRED TO OPERATE THE SYSTEM BE ASSESSED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE 48, CHAPTER 4, ARTICLE 2, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, AS AMENDED; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA, THAT: SECTION 1. The public interest or convenience require and it is the intention of the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona to order the purchase of electricity

WHEREAS, the Superintendent of Streets of the City caused to be posted along the streets of the District, no more than three hundred (300) feet apart, notices of the passage of Resolution No. 2022-08, said notices being headed “Notice of Proposed Improvement”, each heading in letters at least one (1) inch in height. Said notices stated the fact of the passage of said Resolution of Intention No. 2022-08 or alternatively a petition has been filed with the City Clerk having been signed by all the owners of the real property; and WHEREAS, more than fifteen (15) days have elapsed since the date of the last publication of said Resolution of Intention No. 2022-08 and since the completion of the posting of said notices or alternatively a petition has been filed with the City Clerk having been signed by all the owners of the real property; and WHEREAS, no protests against the proposed improvement and no objections to the extent of the District were filed with the Clerk of the City during the time prescribed by law; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City having acquired jurisdiction to order the improvements as described in Resolution No. 2022-08; and WHEREAS, the City Engineer acting as District Engineer has prepared and presented to the Mayor and Council of the City duplicate diagrams of the property contained within the District (“the Diagram”) and legal description copies of which are attached and incorporated as Exhibits A and B. NOW THEREFORE IT IS RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA, as follows: Section 1. By virtue of the authority vested in the Mayor and Council of the City

by Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes and all amendments thereto, the Mayor and Council of the City orders the work or improvement done as described in Resolution No. 2022-08 and in accordance with the Plans and Specifications approved and adopted by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona.

Section 2. The Superintendent of Streets of the City is authorized and directed to prepare and execute the notice of the passage of this Resolution, which is attached as Exhibit B. Such notice shall be posted and published as provided by law.

Section 3. That the Diagram, as prepared and presented to the Mayor and Council of the City is approved by the Mayor and Council of the City.

Section 4. That the Clerk of the City is authorized and directed to certify that the Diagram was approved by the Mayor and Council of the City on the 4th day of January, 2022, and after such certification, the Clerk of the City is authorized and directed to deliver the Diagram to the Superintendent of Streets of the City.

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Date Signed

WHEREAS, a copy of Resolution No. 2022-08 has been published in the Peoria Times, a newspaper published and generally circulated in the City, as required by law or alternatively a petition has been filed with the City Clerk having been signed by all the owners of the real property; and

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, this 4th day of January, 2022.

Date Signed

ATTEST:

ing the streets and public parks be assessed upon a certain improvement district, to be known as City of Peoria Streetlight Improvement District No. 1157; providing that the cost of the electricity required to operate the system be assessed under the provisions of Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended; and declaring an emergency; and

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Cathy Carlat, Mayor

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Date Signed

Vanessa P. Hickman, City Attorney

ATTEST:

Effective Date:

Lori Dyckman, Acting City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: RESOLUTION NO. 2022-09

A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA ORDERING THE IMPROVEMENTS OF CERTAIN STREETS AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN AND CREATING AN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT KNOWN AS THE CITY OF PEORIA STREETLIGHT IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1157, VILLAGE H AT VISTANCIA PARCEL H-17 PURSUANT TO TITLE 48, CHAPTER 4, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES AND AMENDMENTS THERETO FOR THE PURPOSE OF PURCHASING ELECTRICITY, WHICH INCLUDES A CHARGE FOR THE USE OF LIGHTING FACILITIES AND OTHER RELATED ITEMS TOGETHER WITH ALL APPURTENANT STRUCTURES AS SHOWN ON THE PLANS, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS on the 4th day of January, 2022, the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, passed and adopted Resolution No. 2022-08, declaring its intention to order the purchase of electricity for lighting the streets and public parks within the proposed district and that the cost of the purchase of electricity for light-

Vanessa P. Hickman, City Attorney Effective Date: RESOLUTION NO. 2022-10 RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO ORDER THE PURCHASE OF ELECTRICITY FOR LIGHTING THE STREETS AND PUBLIC PARKS WITHIN THE PROPOSED DISTRICT AND THAT THE COST OF THE PURCHASE OF ELECTRICITY FOR LIGHTING THE STREETS AND PUBLIC PARKS, BE ASSESSED UPON A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT TO BE KNOWN AS CITY OF PEORIA STREETLIGHT IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1158, VILLAGE H AT VISTANCIA PARCEL H-15; PROVIDING THAT THE COST OF THE ELECTRICITY REQUIRED TO OPERATE THE SYSTEM BE ASSESSED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE 48, CHAPTER 4, ARTICLE 2, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, AS AMENDED; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

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SECTION 1. The public interest or convenience require and it is the intention of the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona to order the purchase of electricity for lighting the streets and public parks within the proposed district.

The estimate of the cost and expenses for the purchase of electricity for the operation of the streetlights on file with the Superintendent of Streets and the City Clerk is approved and adopted by the Mayor and Council of the City.

SECTION 2. The streetlights and the electricity, therefore, in the opinion of the Mayor and Council of the City, are of more than local or ordinary public benefit, and are of special benefit to the respective lots, pieces and parcels of land within the real property described herein. The Mayor and Council of the City make and order that the cost and expense for the purchase of electricity be chargeable upon a district to be known and designated as the City of Peoria Streetlight Improvement District No. 1158 and as described and bounded as set forth on Exhibits A and B attached, and declare that the district in the City benefited by the purchase of electricity for streetlights to be assessed, to pay the costs and expenses thereof in proportion to the benefits derived therefrom.

The City shall not assess the costs and expenses for the purchase of electricity for streetlights which are for the general public benefit against the respective lots, pieces and parcels of land located within the boundaries of the City of Peoria Streetlight Improvement District No. 1158 and if a portion of the costs and expenses for the purchase of electricity for streetlights is for the general public benefit, the City shall assess the boundaries of the City of Peoria Streetlight Improvement District No. 1158 only that portion of such costs and expenses which benefits the lots, pieces and parcels of land located within the boundaries of the City of Peoria Streetlight Improvement District No. 1158.

SECTION 3. The costs and expense for the purchase of electricity for streetlights shall be made and all proceedings therein taken; that the Superintendent of Streets of the City shall post or cause to be posted notices thereof; that the City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Resolution of Intention; that the Engineer shall prepare duplicate diagrams of the City of Peoria Streetlight Improvement District No. 1158 described in Section 2 of this Resolution to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof, under and in accordance with the provisions of Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended.

SECTION 4. The majority of owners of all of the real property within the proposed district have executed a Petition for formation of a Streetlight Improvement District and the City Council has verified the ownership of the property. Publication and posting of the notice of the passage of the Resolution of Intention will be completed as prescribed by the State Statutes.

SECTION 5. Any Resolutions or parts of Resolutions in conflict with the provisions of this Resolution are hereby repealed.

SECTION 6. The immediate operation of the provisions of this Resolution is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety and an emergency is declared to exist, and this Resolution will be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona as required by law and is exempt from the referendum provisions of the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, this 4th day of January, 2022. an

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AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS on the 4th day of January, 2022, the Mayor and Council of the City of Peoria, Arizona, passed and adopted Resolution No. 2022-10, declaring its intention to order the purchase of electricity for lighting the streets and public parks within the proposed district and that the cost of the purchase of electricity for lighting the streets and public parks be assessed upon a certain improvement district, to be known as City of Peoria Streetlight Improvement District No. 1158; providing that the cost of the electricity required to operate the system be assessed under the provisions of Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended; and declaring an emergency; and WHEREAS, a copy of Resolution No. 2022-10 has been published in the Peoria Times, a newspaper published and generally circulated in the City, as required by law or alternatively a petition has been filed with the City Clerk having been signed by all the owners of the real property; and WHEREAS, the Superintendent of Streets of the City caused to be posted along the streets of the District, no more than three hundred (300) feet apart, notices of the passage of Resolution No. 2022-10, said notices being headed “Notice of Proposed Improvement”, each heading in letters at least one (1)

Date Signed

WHEREAS, more than fifteen (15) days have elapsed since the date of the last publication of said Resolution of Intention No. 2022-10 and since the completion of the posting of said notices or alternatively a petition has been filed with the City Clerk having been signed by all the owners of the real property; and WHEREAS, no protests against the proposed improvement and no objections to the extent of the District were filed with the Clerk of the City during the time prescribed by law; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City having acquired jurisdiction to order the improvements as described in Resolution No. 2022-10; and WHEREAS, the City Engineer acting as District Engineer has prepared and presented to the Mayor and Council of the City duplicate diagrams of the property contained within the District (“the Diagram”) and legal description copies of which are attached and incorporated as Exhibits A and B.

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