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Instruction disclosure bill upsets SUSD board members

BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer AND HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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cottsdale Unified School District Governing Board members are unhappy about a Senate-passed bill that spells out what schools and teachers must publicly disclose in classroom lessons and related materials,

calling it detrimental to teachers and students and “a solution looking for a problem.”

As approved last week on a 16-13 partyline margin, SB 1211 requires districts and charters to list on their website all instructional materials and activities – including textbooks and digital materials, online applications, school assembly topics and guest lectures.

SB 1211 also requires them to provide in-

formation on their websites the procedures for parents to access in advance to review current learning materials and activities.

The materials would have to be organized, at a minimum, by subject, grade and teacher as well as be displayed in electronic formats that can be searched or sorted.

“SB 1211 is a solution looking for a prob-

Scottsdale �irm locks and loads for Ukraine

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Further suggested by his board member, NASCAR Hall of Fame team owner Richard Childress, Wagenhals donated 1 million rounds of ammunition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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“This guy’s (Vladimir Putin) a madman.

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ou Rossi spent over 31 years as a Chicago-area police officer fighting to make neighborhoods better.

When he retired to a quiet rural neighborhood in northern Scottsdale, he never thought he’d have to take up to a new battle – combating investor-owners of a short-term rental “party house” next door.

Claiming that he has been putting up with noise, parking problems and other disturbances for three years, Rossi filed a lawsuit against the owners of the home, Matthew and Sarah Bassitt, who live in Bend, Oregon.

“I am simply trying to enjoy the retirement I believe I’ve earned,” Rossi said.

“We’ve tried unsuccessfully to work with the owners. We’ve had enough.”

The suit claims that by renting out the property as a short-term rental has unreasonably interfered with Rossi’s use and enjoyment of his home over an extended period of time – even to the point of preventing him and his wife from using their backyard and being awakened at 2 a.m.

Rossi, who is seeking $75,000 and court costs, claims he has had to put up with party buses, raucous parties with topless women, foul language, noxious odors and thumping music.

“We had a group of guys at 6:30 in the morning singing the U.S.C. fight song,” he said.

The Progress’ calls to Matthew Bassitt and the Bassitts’ attorney have gone unreturned.

It was a long-slow road, Rossi said, that led to court action.

He purchased a two-acre lot with a friend and split it in 1993, then built his home on 1.25 acres in 2007 before moving in a year later.

His friend built a home on the rest of the acreage, but sold it to a family with three kids.

There was no problem. “The noise of kids, that’s music,” Rossi said.

But the house was sold several more times and eventually landed in the hands of an Oklahoma owner who turned it into a short-term rental.

That’s when Rossi said his peace was

shattered.

At one point, Rossi said a professional valet service set up in the road outside the house for a travel event promoting wine tasting for an Oakland, California, company. Cars lined the narrow road, causing a potential access problem for first responders, he said.

Rossi said he tried working for two years with the property owner.

The parties never stopped so Rossi started calling the police and recording the parties as evidence.

“The property manager said they had to quiet down after 10:30 p.m. but as a former police officer, I know any time your peace is disturbed, you can call the police,” he said.

Finally, the owner sold the house to the Bassitts in October 2020 and Rossi hoped his problems were solved.

For the next year Rossi called the police every time he said he was disturbed and had his attorney contact the Bassitts, who told him they had installed NoiseAware decibel meters.

In return, Rossi got what he describes as a condescending letter from Matthew Bassitt.

“I can understand that you don’t like or appreciate short-term rentals,” the letter said. “However, you live in an area with no (home owners associations) or (covenants, conditions, and restrictions ), which is why homeowners like us are attracted to this area.

Based on the additional homes we have seen recently become short-term rentals in our area, we do not believe this trend is going to stop.”

That’s when Rossi filed a lawsuit.

The suit documents seven times that the police were called out to the home because of noise, but it doesn’t seem to be doing any good.

Scottsdale passed two laws in 2021 designed to curb abuses by short-term renters.

The first ordinance requires each property’s emergency contact to respond in person to the site within one hour for emergencies if police have to respond for complaints about unruly gatherings.

The second ordinance sets fines at the maximum amounts allowed un-

Lou Rossi, standing in his backyard, has filed suit against the owners of a shortterm rental next door. (J. Graber/Progress Staff)

der state law. For example, it creates a sliding scale of fines of $750, $1,500, $2,000 and $2,500 (the maximum allowed under state law) for owners and $250, $500, $1,000 and $2,000 for occupants based on the number of prior violations.

It also eliminates the police service fee provisions of the city’s nuisance party and unruly gathering ordinances and replaces it with civil sanctions through citations filed in City Court. Officials said that will improve enforceability, including the possibility of filing criminal charges against someone defined as a habitual offender.

But Rossi said the new laws have not worked as a deterrent. So for now he is relying on his lawsuit while keeping his fingers cross that the next short-term tenant is a family instead of a raucous group of partygoers.

“Every weekend, we don’t know what we’re going to get,” Rossi said.

Rossi said the Bassitts’ house is up for sale again.

“I was contacted by one of the potential buyers who was interested in what the lawsuit was about,” Rossi said. “I explained to him what it was about. He and his wife and two kids live in California. They were interested in buying the house and according to him, I believe they got out bid by a group of investors so we’re not sure if this is going to go back to square one again.”

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lem, and, worse, adds a destructive litigious component to learning,” said SUSD Governing Board Vice President Dr. Libby Hart-Wells. “Arizonans continue to signal public education investment is a top priority. It’s unclear how over-regulation achieves that goal. I sincerely hope this legislative session recalibrates to supporting and showing respect for students rather than hurting teachers.”

SUSD Governing Board President Julie Cieniawski said the Legislature should focus on better funding public schools in order “to make improvements and move Arizona from worst funding nationally, high average class sizes, worst teacher pay, and highest counselor-student ratios nationally.”

“I trust our well-educated, certi�ied teachers to make sound instructional decisions for our children,” Cieniawski said. “Undermining our professionals only exacerbates the teaching retention issue we are currently battling. Parents should be concerned about the reality of this scenario.

“We are at a point that if our students and teachers aren’t treated with more dignity, we won’t be able to lower class sizes or focus on real student achievement because the ‘well’ of highly quali�ied teachers is going to run empty.

Board Member Jann-Michael Greenburg called the new law detrimental to teachers and students.

“Transparency with our community is critical for building and maintaining trust, which is why SUSD follows all state laws for the adoption of textbooks and supplemental materials,” Greenburg said. “This includes publishing an approved list of materials and allowing families to choose alternative class assignments.

“However, giving teachers the �lexibility

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to incorporate current events and new information in real time is critical to engaging students in the world around them and developing critical thinkers,” he asserted. “Any legislation that prevents our staff from being able to create lesson plans with up-to-date information is a serious detriment to our students and the education profession.”

Sen. Paul Boyer, R-Glendale, said SB 1211 will not be a hardship on teachers as they need post only the titles and information within seven days.

All Democrats on the Senate �loor voted against the measure.

"I am 100% in favor of transparency and parental involvement," said Sen. Christine Marsh, D-Phoenix.

"I know �irst-hand that open communication between parents and teachers allows for better instruction and adaptability for the students," she said. "But there are other ways to facilitate that without this particular bill which will have ... unintended consequences on both students and on teachers."

Marsh said the additional requirements

will create more work for teachers that ultimately will result in less time with their students.

"They’re going to be busy loading thousands of points of data online every week or two," she said.

But Boyer called SB 1211 "one of the most important, if not the most important, bill of the session."

"It’s painless," said Boyer, who indicated he is returning to full-time teaching next year.

"As teachers, we’re always submitting lesson plans every single week," Boyer said. "It’s so simple teachers can just upload to a Google doc or a Word doc, just the titles of whatever it is."

"Some of you know that parents, not all of them, but some of them do distrust their school districts," Boyer said. "This bill helps to alleviate that."

He also said the requirement will help teachers, enabling them to see what others in the �ield are doing.

Sen. Tyler Pace, R-Mesa, questioned whether what’s in the bill is workable, particularly at the elementary level.

For example, he said his son is in the third grade, where he can choose what to read from perhaps a thousand books.

"Which one of those thousand books is required reading?" Pace asked, and has to be listed online. Still, Pace voted for the measure, saying he hopes there are changes when the measure is considered by the House where it now goes.

Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, R-Scottsdale, also voted with all the Republicans to approve the measure. But she questioned whether this was little more than window dressing – "to look like we are doing something" – to deal with a deeper problem.

"Putting up loads and loads and loads of information isn’t really going to solve the problem that we have in K-12," UgentiRita said.

"We have a leadership problem in K-12," she continued. "We have a problem with teacher unions. We have a problem with board members who sit on school boards who are elected in non-partisan races and nobody knows who they are."

Ugenti-Rita proposed legislation this session to require board candidates to list their political af�iliations, only to have it defeated.

"This will leave parents with the impression that something is done when nothing is done," she complained. Instead, UgentiRita said, SB 1211 will "add a lot of busy work for teachers."

The measure outlines enforcement procedures, including requiring a response from the school principal to a complaint within 15 days and then, if the parent is not satis�ied, gives the governing board another 25 days. It also spells out that parents can pursue legal action, as can the state school superintendent, the auditor general, the attorney general or the county attorney.

The measure spells out that materials on certain subjects actually have to be put on display at least 72 hours before �irst use. These include issues of discrimination and diversity and bias based on race, ethnicity, sex or gender.

Also covered by this 72-hour rule is "action-oriented civics," de�ined as assignments or projects that require students to contact elected of�icials or other outside entities, whether to advocate for a political or social cause or to participate in political or social demonstrations.

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Charros, others rejoice as baseball returns

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s it’s been so many times before in the recent past, Spring Ball is back in Scottsdale.

The lockout is over and Spring Training games started this weekend, albeit on an abbreviated schedule.

The Giants will play 17 games – nine at home – before heading back to the Bay Area for the start of their regular season on April 8.

The luxury tax was the biggest sticking point in discussions between Major League Baseball and the players’ union.

The two sides agreed to a threshold of $230 million in 2022, which will increase to $244 million by 2026. Players minimum salaries will also rise to $700,000 in 2022 and increase $20,000 per year for the next four years.

But even an abbreviated season is good news for the Cactus League, with its 15 teams and 10 facilities in the Valley, including the Giants, who play at

Scottsdale Stadium.

Scottsdale Charros Executive Director Dennis Robbins said wiping out a third of the games will be tough on the nonprofit’s budget but the organization will make it work.

“It’s fantastic, we’re super excited to have baseball back,” he said.

The Scottsdale Charros host the games Scottsdale. Half the money the Charros raise goes to about 50 different local charities while the other half goes to scholarships for students graduating from the Scottsdale Unified School District.

In a typical year, the Charros raise $1 million, but that won’t happen this year.

“Not missing out on a third of the season, that’s six games, but nine games is better than no games,” Robbins said.

The organization will still give its full complement of donations away this year, though. “We’re committed to fully fund our commitments and our donations,” Robbins said “If we have to dip into our savings, we will.”

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People are still taking their planned trips to Scottsdale whether baseball is playing or not, Barbera said.

And with no games to hurry off to, people are staying a little longer in the restaurant, he said.

“Things have picked up, we’re in kind of better place,” Barbera said early last week.

“We’ve got St. Patrick’s Day obviously coming up, March Madness and the Giants. I think it’s going to be a good month to say the least.”

Steve McDonald, manager of Social Tap sports bar, said he too saw a slight dip for about two weeks but things picked back up after that.

He figures once people have committed to the Airbn- The Charros made sure their spot at Scottsdale bs, hotels and air fare, they’re Stadium was ready for the first Giants’ game of coming whether there’s the abbreviated 2022 Cactus League season last Friday. (Special to the Progress) baseball or not. The weather, restaurants and other attracpancy was at 80% Feb. 20-26. tions are enough to keep peoBut it’s still difficult to overstate the ple coming, McDonald said.

Cactus League’s impact on the Arizona Stephanie Pressler, spokeswoman economy. for the Experience Scottsdale tourism Even in 2020, when the season was agency, said local hotels are not reportshortened

by COVID-19, the Cactus ing many cancellations yet.

League created over 3,000 jobs.

“For March 6 through March 12, hoIn 2018, widely considered the last tels and resorts saw 81.7% occupancy “normal” year of the Cactus League, – a 38.6 % increase over the same week spring training generated $644.2 milin 2021,” Pressler said. “This was our lion across Arizona, according to an strongest weekly occupancy since the economic impact report by the W.P. beginning of the pandemic.”

Carey School of Business at ASU. Likewise, resorts and hotels saw a Scottsdale has other things buffering 76% occupancy rate for the week of it, like Barrett Jackson and the Arabian February 27-March 5 – a 42% increase Horse Show though. from the same period in 2021, when “We’re happy to have baseball back, there was spring training. but we saw a lot of people who didn’t “This is really looking to be a strong cancel their trips,” Pressler said. “They month with or without baseball, but we just had a little more time on their really prefer with baseball,” Pressler hands because they weren’t going to said. games.”

It’s no fluke either. Hotel-resort occu-

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City work program helps unsheltered people

BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

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t’s 9 a.m. on a Tuesday and Laura Weed is busy picking up trash at WestWorld of Scottsdale.

Her weathered face and hands betray a hard life. At 51, she’s been living on the street for years.

She was evicted from her home in Washington State so she moved down to San Diego and got a full-time job with benefits as a quality control specialist.

But then COVID hit and the position dried up.

She lost everything and wound up on the street. She was assaulted so she fled and wound up in Chandler, where she was assaulted again. She was bleeding from the ear and they had to stitch up her lip.

She’s been urinated on while sleeping and had all of her belongings stolen multiple times.

Right now, she’s got two backpacks full of stuff “and pants that don’t fit.”

But today she’s participating in the Scottsdale Works program. She’ll work from 8 a.m. to noon. In return, she will get breakfast and lunch, and $60 for her efforts.

The Scottsdale Works program turned a year old in November.

Since its inception, over 691 shifts by 55 unduplicated individuals were completed and one participant was placed in permanent housing.

The program is an offshoot of the Phoenix Rescue Mission. It is funded for five participants to work Monday through Wednesday for four hours per day. However, five participants don’t always show up so the unused shifts can be pushed forward into the next day.

To be eligible a participant has to be homeless and live in Scottsdale.

Working with WestWorld is a recent development. Typically the program has provided labor for maintenance to the city parks department and the Brick By Brick program with the Scottsdale Human Services Department, where they make pressed earth blocks for use in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. On a good day, the crew can make anywhere from 150 to 200 bricks in a morning.

“A lot of different departments want to

Crews work on cleaning up WestWorld of Scottsdale as part of the city’s effort to help unsheltered people.

(David Minton/Progress

Staff Photographer)

have our clients as extra labor because the parks department can always use extra hands,” said Street Outreach Coordinator Jacob Wampfler.

“Certainly, the Brick By Brick program has been running off of our participants’ help, but then WestWorld also heard about us and wanted to use our services as well because they have a lot of day labor here and they have been having trouble just getting enough workers with all the events they have up here with BarrettJackson, the Arabian (horse) show and everything else.”

Lately, the participants have been getting younger.

“Typically, when I first started I was seeing older clients, 50 and above, but today in fact I have a 22-year-old young woman,” Wampfler said. “We also have a number of other clients in their 20s now and some of them in their 30s.”

Many are dealing with drug and alcohol addiction, mental health issues or just chronic homelessness.

“We took a client to detox last week,” Wampfler said. “She’s still there. She’s 26 years old and she’s been struggling with a fentanyl addiction probably for the better

part of the last year or two.”

Tom O’Hearn, 59, has been homeless for 21 years after he lost custody of his daughter when he was 38.

“I was depressed and I just hit the road,” he said.

He worked day labor for 15 years but he came down with valley fever about six years ago and just couldn’t keep up with the demands of that type of work.

“I was really sick for a few years,” he said.

Most of the time he sleeps near the intersection of Shea Boulevard and Pima Road.

“There’s some good places to camp out there,” he said.

Nights before he participates in the Scottsdale Works program, he sleeps in front of Giants’ stadium.

He’s hoping to get Section 8 housing soon through the program. It’s just getting harder living on the street as he gets older.

Wampfler said the working part of the program is just the first step in a larger effort. Aside from providing participants with basic necessities like water, blankets and hygiene products out of “Hope Coaches,” the program’s social workers also connect clients with things like hous-

ing programs.

“Yeah they're working, but the idea is to provide resources that’s going to get them plugged in to resources that are going to help them eventually get off the street for good,” Wampfler said. “I like to say, and it’s not being deceptive or anything, but the works program is kind of the Trojan Horse. They start working and then they get connected to case managers and then they get connected to housing and addiction recovery and mental health resources and all sorts of stuff like that.”

There’s a catch, though. To be eligible for those programs, participants need to have a driver’s license, a Social Security card and a birth certificate. Many just don’t have those things.

“That’s the hardest part,” Wampfler said.

He had one participant who lost his Social Security card so many times they would only issue it to an agency.

Weed isn’t eligible for any programs because she lost her driver’s license and social security card when her things were stolen. They also took her birth certificate but Scottsdale Works was able to get that scanned into their system before it was

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on the button. He can do whatever he wants. Here, it takes an act of Congress to push a button. We have to be careful.”

AMMO Inc. manufactures 762s, the bullet the Ukrainian soldiers need to fight Russia’s invading army. Although AMMO Inc. is based in Scottsdale Airpark, it produces ammunition and weapon components in Wisconsin.

“We’ve received an overwhelming response from our shareholders, customers, vendors and partners in support of our donation offer to help the Ukrainian Armed Forces in their fight for freedom,” Wagenhals said.

“I’m grateful for everyone’s generosity and willingness to provide additional financial support to supplement our efforts. The management team is working around the clock to navigate the logistical and legal complexities involved in seeing that the ammunition is swiftly delivered to the proper parties in Ukraine.”

Getting the bullets there was challenging, but Wagenhals turned to Rep. Victoria Spartz, who serves in Indiana’s fifth district. She is the first and only Ukrainian American in Congress.

“I took her call, and she was crying,” he said.

“She’s very instrumental in the handoff. I could tell how passionate she is about this. Between Richard Childress and myself, we’ve been getting text messages and emails — like stacks of them — from people who want to donate.”

Those wishing to donate funds can visit bit.ly/AMMOUkraine.

“I’ve had one guy wanting to give me $25,000, and I met another guy who wanted to give me $10,000,” he said.

“Richard Childress said people were just dropping off money at his winery I just had to get that money in the right people’s hands. We have to make sure everything is done properly.”

Wagenhals grew up in Mansfield, Ohio, about 40 miles from Columbus, and 70 miles from Cleveland.

Like most folks, Wagenhals couldn’t stand the Midwest snow any longer and relocated to Arizona.

“I had the cabdriver take me to Lincoln and Scottsdale roads,” he said.

“There was a hotel. I stayed there and got up one morning and everybody was happy. Everybody was smiling. Every-

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body was polite. I figured out it must be the weather. I moved here in ’77.”

He enjoys the Western lifestyle and the cowboys.

“I never looked back and never wanted to go back,” he said.

In 1992, Wagenhals founded Action Performance Companies, a simple idea that grew into a multimillion-dollar business.

“I saw an article in the Wall Street Journal that said baseball cards is a $500 million business,” Wagenhals said. “I said, ‘You know, why don’t I take a little die-cast car and put it with a trading card and come out with it?’”

At the time, the movie “Days of Thunder” was about to be released. Wagenhals traveled to China and met with the producers to see if he could have exclusive rights to manufacture its diecast promotional cars. They turned him down because Matchbox had the rights.

He asked about the premium promotions and those were handled already.

He turned his focus to Exxon, another partner. It agreed to offer Wagenhals’ cars for 99 cents when drivers filled up at Exxon gas stations.

“I went to the factory in China and they told me to put up the money because they weren’t going to build these little cars unless they had a letter of credit,” he recalls.

“I went to Exxon and said, ‘You need to give me a letter of credit so I can give the Chinese a letter of credit.’ I didn’t know anything about letters of credit.

They said, ‘We give letters of credit to countries, not people.’”

The only remaining options were for Exxon — or Wagenhals — to write a $3.5 million check.

“So Exxon writes me this check,” he recalls. “I thought, ‘Holy Christ. What if I don’t deliver?’”

He was honestly more confident than that—until tragedy struck. An infamous oil tanker dubbed the Exxon Valdez spilled oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989.

“They called me up and said, ‘Cancel the program,’” he said. “I said, ‘What do you mean ‘Cancel the program? You already paid me.’ They said the Valdez just happened and they didn’t want publicity. They said to just ship all the cars to every one of the stations and let them do whatever they want with them.”

Collectors bought entire racks of cars

Fred Wagenhals’ company, AMMO Inc., is based in Scottsdale Airpark but manufacturers bullets and weapon components in Wisconsin. (Special to the Progress)

and, subsequently, the cars went for $9 on the resale market.

Wagenhals teamed up with Earnhardt to sell his merchandise, and then “locked everybody up exclusively.

“I owned all the rights. NASCAR woke up one day and they were (mad). They said, ‘You own our drivers.’ I owned their rights because they were all independent contractors.”

He even persuaded Earnhardt to change the color of his car and T-shirts for one race.

“He said, ‘Are you nuts? Get out of here.’ He almost threw me out of this motor coach,” he said with a laugh. “I said it was the 25th anniversary of R.J. Reynolds sponsoring NASCAR. We’ll do a silver car for one race.

“Nobody will know about it. We’ll announce it the week before the race and I’ll have a trailer’s full of merchandise.’

He didn’t want to do it, but I guaranteed him $1 million for one race and he said, ‘Let’s do it.’”

Wagenhals sold $22 million in merchandise that day, and paid Earnhardt $3.5 million for one race.

“Earnhardt said, ‘What are we doing next year?’”

Wagenhals sold Action Performance Companies in December 2005 for $245 million.

In 2016, he moved into a different field — ammunition. AMMO Inc. was

acquired to change, innovate and invigorate the complacent munitions industry. The company designs and manufactures products for a variety of markets, including law enforcement, military, hunting, sport shooting and self-defense.

The Airpark-based company has manufacturing operations in Northern Arizona and Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

“I saw a niche market and I’m always the guy who thinks, ‘How can I take something and build it into something bigger?’” he said.

“I saw an opportunity here and I said, ‘OK, I’m going to take this company public because I’d done it before. I’d been public. I went to all my NASCAR buddies. I made them a lot of money.

I raised $5 million and said, ‘OK, let’s build this company together.’”

AMMO is bound to be successful, Wagenhals said, because of the prevalence of guns.

“Joe Biden and Obama are probably the two greatest gun salesman in the world,” he said.

“Every time they open their mouth, people run out and buy more guns, more ammo. Second Amendment, in my opinion, is the greatest thing that ever happened to this country. I mean, nobody’s ever going to land on our shore and try to take this country over. There are 80

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Homeland Security chief discusses cyberthreats

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

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yberthreats continue to pose a danger to Arizona but residents shouldn’t panic despite the increased world tension caused

by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

That assessment came from Arizona Homeland Security Director Tim Roemer during a presentation recently at Scottsdale Airpark.

“Cybersecurity has been a huge concern for our entire world over the last couple of decades and it has made itself so much more abundantly clear based upon the pandemic and what we have put on the backbone of technology moving forward,” Roemer said. “Our entire economy is on the backbone of technology.”

Roemer is especially wary of Russia’s potential collaboration with criminal organizations that steal personal data and sometimes install ransomware on servers.

“Right now, what’s top-of-mind is the relationship between the Russian government and criminal organizations,” he said. “My biggest fear … is that Russia is likely to escalate their situation in Ukraine by targeting the U.S. financial, healthcare or critical infrastructure sector for a number of different reasons – first, in retaliation for financial sanctions against Russia or potentially as a distraction for what’s going on in Ukraine.”

Roemer is no stranger to the Russian playbook of cyberattacks, recalling his work in the Obama administration in 2014, when Russia invaded Crimea.

“Putin is going to do one of two

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stolen.

She’s working to get the documents she needs but the social security office will only issue her a new card under her married name.

“They keep telling me I’m not ‘doc ready,’” she said.

It’s hard watching other people getting services she’s not eligible for, she said.

She tries to keep her sense of humor

things. Either his military objectives in Ukraine are going to reach a point of frustration and he’s going to lash out at the west through cyber-attacks because cyberattacks have no border. Or he’s going to achieve his military objectives in Ukraine and then he’s going to turn his attention back on the west in retaliation.”

But Roemer said people should not panic in the event of a cyber-attack, stressing, “Don’t let consumer response or public panic become worse than the actual emergency itself.”

He noted the secondary goal of a cyberattack is to create a state of mass hysteria.

“Our biggest fear in emergency management is when one pipeline gets hit and everybody rushes out to get gas, or when one bank gets hit and everybody rushes to get money out of the ATM,” Roemer said. “We can’t have that consumer response and public panic give us the emergency that the nation states like Russia want to happen.”

“Despite the cyber threat being such a significant threat to our way of life around the world and despite Russia’s latest aggression being a threat, it’s important to keep in mind that there is a lot of resiliencies in place built across our great nation,” he said. “It starts with the fact that we’re really fortunate to have a free country and a country that thrives on capitalism.

“There is not one network you can take down, one energy company, one pipeline or one bank that you hit everybody at once,” he added.

Roemer has spent the past three years in his role ensuring that state

but that only goes so far. Sometimes she drinks to cope and sometimes she’s been known to “scream in the street.”

“That’s the thing about it, you take one step forward, they knock you three steps back,” O’Hearn said.

Wampfler said most participants are very loving and loyal, and they work hard.

“I’ve found that just learning their names and just calling them by their names is a huge, important step for them,” he said.

employees practice safer online behavior. :We’ve really empowered every State of Arizona employee to care and protect their information and protect the state,” he said.0 His first act was to require that every state employee take an hour-long training on cybersecurity awareness and he also ensured that state employees were sent more phishing emails to better spot potentially dangerous emails.

He also stressed the importance of strong passwords.

“It sounds so basic, but if someone wants to get into your accounts, they’re going to social engineer you.”

Roemer said. “They will go to your social media accounts – which, if they’re public, make those private Arizona’s director of Homeland Security, Tim so you can limit the amount Roemer, warns of the threat Russia poses to our of information you put out nation’s cybersecurity at Airpark Forum. (photo there – by looking at basic courtesy of Matt Young Photography) terms they see in social me“We launched the Arizona Cyberdia against your account and if they can find a way in, they’re go- command Center in October – which ing to hope that you reuse the same is a joint partnership between my department, the National Guard and password for everything.”

Because of this, Roemer encour- the Department of Public Safety,” ages people to create passwords that he said. “That helps us share intelare phrases rather than names and ligence and information in real time encourages people to download a under one roof so we can work betpassword manager to keep track of ter together to protect all of the state networks.” passwords Roemer is also working with cities With myriad threats always plaguing internet users, Roemer worked across the state by providing funding to launch a statewide cybercom- and training to stay safe from cybercrime. mand center.

He sees little despair in the people he meets.

“Personality wise they tend to be incredibly hopeful, very approachable,” he said.

“I’ve been surprised, there’s only been a few people shut me down like they really don’t want to tell me anything. They don’t want to share their story. That’s been a rarity for me out on the street.

“Typically, when somebody is wanting to work or whatever a lot of times they approach me kind of like an open book.

They’re ready to tell me just about anything because I think a lot of them have kind of reached the end of their rope.”

Case in point, O’Hearn considers himself very lucky when he considers Weed’s situation.

“I’ve got nothing to complain about,” he said.

Mostly O’Hearn is just grateful for the program.

“If you really want it, it will change your life,” he said.

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Beckman’s Project Prom helps kids defray costs

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rom is a special time in a high school student’s career – and it can put the bite on the wallet.

For a young lady, there’s a dress, shoes and her hair to think about– and none of that comes cheap.

Scottsdale Unified Governing Board member Patty Beckman figures prom can cost a young lady $500 to $600 – which can take the magic out of a magical time – and so she did something about it.

She started collecting dresses three years ago for Project Prom and earlier this month Scottsdale girls got a chance to peruse from approximately 1,500 prom skirts, dresses and gowns and take one home for free.

“There’s a boutique called Bella Boutique that’s dropped off a ton, a community member named Mickey Courtney that has them from like theater and stuff and everyone from the community has been bringing their dresses from past events so we can kind of pay it forward,” Beckman said.

Scottsdale Unified students could select a free prom dress from more than 1,500 gowns and dresses at Saguaro High School, thanks to Governing Board member Patty Beckman’s Project Prom. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)

It wasn’t all just dresses, either. There were shoes and other accessories.

And the boys weren’t left high and dry: The Scottsdale Charros donated a slew of suits and ties for the young men as well.

Silk and bright colors seemed to be the order of the day on March 11, said Audrey Treons, president of the Arcadia High School Fashion Club.

“People are really venturing out and really showing their personal style with Saguaro High School Senior Ace Jones, left, and sophomore Charlie Haworth look prom dresses, which I think is cool,” Auover a rack of dresses at Project Prom on March 11. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer) drey said.

Saguaro High School Junior Libby Robson picked a navy-blue silk dress with who just dies at my desk, or while I’m AMMO from page 12 driving to work in the morning,” he said.

“I’m not complaining. I’m the luckiest million guns registered out there, right? guy in the world. I barely got out of high Probably another 80 million that aren’t school.

I was a hotrodder and I spent registered, right? Nobody will ever take all my time working on my car. I came this country over. No. up with a couple good companies. I’ve “But I think we got a lot of world unbeen an inventor my whole life. rest. Things aren’t like they should be.

“I got all the credit because I got to And I’m happy that we donated this be the guy at the top.

What made me ammo. People asked me what the cost proudest of anything is 21 of my people BY PROGRESS NEWS STAFF of that was. Our cost would be about became millionaires when they left. $700,000. So, it was not a small donaI’m not going to do AMMO alone.

There tion. It was big for a company our size, The North Scottsdale Democrats will are people helping me with that and hold their first in-person meeting of but it’s for the right cause.”

Wagenhals said retirement isn’t in they’re all going to be rewarded. I’m a 2022 between 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, his sights, but when it is, he’ll leave his firm believer in everybody needs to go March 23. home with a paycheck, but if we get it to company to his grandchildren.

Several candidates, including con“I will probably be one of those guys a particular level, everybody wins.” gressional hopeful Adam Metzendorf,

sequins across the top.

“Not everyone is fortunate enough to afford a nice prom dress,” Robson said.

Saguaro sophomore Parmis Keyhanzad said “(Prom is) very expensive, especially when they’re juniors and seniors, a lot of people should be saving up money for college but a lot of people think a prom has to be really big because of stereotypes. I think this is a great way to help them.”

These weren’t cheap dresses either.

“Some of these are really nice brands, like $200 dresses,” said Saguaro Junior Ashlyn Beckman, who helped put on the event with her mother.

North Scottsdale Democrats set meeting

will address the group at the meeting, to be held at the Florence Ely Nelson Desert Park Meeting Facility, 8950 E. Pinnacle Peak Road, Scottsdale.

The facility is directly behind the La Mirada Shopping Center. Attendees must RSVP to Jodie.norscodems@ gmail.com.

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Bill expanding lethal force for businesses fails

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rizona lawmakers are not going to give business owners the right to kill vandals who damage or deface their property.

But the reason for that decision is less than clear.

Only 13 of the 16 Senate Republicans voted in support last week for SB 1650.

The proposal by Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita sought to expand the ability of not just business owners but their employees to use deadly force beyond saving lives or stopping rapes to criminal damage if the perpetrator also was armed with a deadly weapon or “dangerous instrument.’’

And that latter category, it was pointed out, could include anything that, depend-

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ing on how it is used, is “readily capable of causing death or serious injury,’’ something that lawmakers debated in committee could include a block of wood or even a pen.

Monday’s vote was a surprise as it reflected what appears to have been a change of heart

by Sen. Sonny Borrelli, R-Lake Havasu City.

In committee, Borrelli said he sees the issue through the eyes of business owners who, unless they act, could see their entire livelihoods destroyed. He even recalled the 1992 Los Angeles riots that occurred in the wake of police being acquitted in the beating of Rodney King.

By Monday, though, Borrelli was telling a different story.

“I can understand you use force to save your life, of your friends, your family or another person," he said. “Any kind of reasonable force I will stand for, will stand with."

But this, Borrelli said, is different.

He noted that the crime of committing criminal damage is a Class 3 felony. It carries a presumptive prison term of 3.5 years.

“You can replace property," Borrelli said.

“You can’t replace life," he continued.

“This bill is a little on the extreme side."

Borrelli said he had hoped that UgentiRita would have “watered down" the measure. She did not.

But Ugenti-Rita told Capitol Media Services after the defeat that she sees something quite different in his vote.

“I think he was retaliating because I voted against his bill," she said.

That refers to SB 1457 which dealt with security issues for voting machines. It came up two votes short on Monday as UgentiRita and Sen. Paul Boyer, R-Glendale, joined with Democrats to vote against it.

Borrelli, for his part, said that has nothing to do with it.

“It’s not spite," he told Capitol Media Services. But he declined to answer other questions including why his views reversed in the six weeks between the time he supported it in the Senate Judiciary Committee and when it came for a final vote Monday.

Ugenti-Rita also lashed out at Senate President Karen Fann, R-Prescott. She said Fann knew that she was two votes shy of the majority 16 she needed but chose to schedule it anyway.

Fann, however, said there was nothing sinister about that, pointing out that she had delayed a final vote before. And the Senate president said she was trying to get final votes on all Senate measures by Monday so they could go to the House.

“We needed to keep moving,’’ Fann said.

erations, watershed restoration projects, irrigation or other related water projects.

Scottsdale’s Reclaimed Water Distribution was recognized for 30 years of using recycled water to supply 26 golf courses in the community – saving 100 billion gallons of potable water.

This facility, along with Scottsdale Water’s Advanced Water Treatment Facility, not only provides up to 3.9-billion gallons of highly treated recycled water every year but helps Scottsdale Water achieve 100% reuse of the city’s wastewater.

The city uses the highly treated recycled

water from the AWT to recharge the local aquifer, further advancing Scottsdale’s longterm water sustainability.

Biesemeyer was honored for his commitment on the WateReuse Board of Directors from 2016 – 2021. The WateReuse Association said his “leadership and vision have helped drive the national adoption of water reuse policies and programs.”

The WateReuse Awards for Excellence are given by the WateReuse Association which is dedicated to advancing laws, policy and public acceptance of recycled water.

The awards are to recognize recipients who

use water recycling in novel ways to solve water management challenges, advance policies that facilitate greater adoption of water recycling, and inspire others through their innovation and leadership.

Scottsdale Water – the city’s municipal water utility – has been providing quality drinking water and advanced reclamation services to Scottsdale businesses and residents for 50 years. The utility has been recognized with the Platinum Award for Utility Excellence by the Association of Municipal Water Agencies and the Utility of the Future Today from the EPA.

dale who died in 2014 at 31.

The online auction gave residents and members and organizations a chance to bid on handmade bowls crafted by local artisans and students. There were also additional miscellaneous items up for bid that were donated by local Scottsdale businesses.

All proceeds went directly to the SCP and City of Scottsdale Human Services’ program offerings.

“This just goes to show that we live in a community that is built on caring for each other. We are proud to be serving Scottsdale

residents and this funding is invaluable for necessary school supplies, assistance, and meal programs,” said Jenny Adams, executive director of Scottsdale Community Partners.

She went on to highlight how the programs gave assistance to 465 families, 320 seniors, and 753 students in Scottsdale the previous year.

“We are so proud of the support we receive from our sponsors and donors during the annual Alli Ortega Empty Bowls Fundraiser. As long as there is a need, we hope to

continue to provide these critical programs to Scottsdale residents facing hardship and crisis for many years to come,” said Rosemary Young-Karlin, Scottsdale Community Partners president.

SCP is a nonprofit on a mission to develop human services initiatives for the Scottsdale area residents. Founded in 1975 by Frances Young, previously named Concerned Citizens for Community Health. Scottsdale residents, including youth, families, and seniors, are provided humanitarian assistance through monetary donations.

Scottsdale Water snags 2 national awards

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cottsdale Water received two awards at this month’s 37th Annual WateReuse Symposium.

It won the Excellence in Action Award for its reclaimed water distribution system awhile the Service Award went to Scottsdale Water Executive Director Brian Biesemeyer.

The Excellence in Action recognizes utility leaders that demonstrate a commitment to water resiliency through the innovative use of recycled water for commercial op-

Empty Bowls raises $30K for Scottsdale’s needy

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cottsdale Community Partners’s annual Alli Ortega Empty Bowls Fundraiser raised $30,861 to provide assistance to students, seniors, and families through the City of Scottsdale Human Services division.

For the second consecutive year, the event was held online the last week of February because of concerns over COVID-19.

Empty Bowls is named after and dedicated to Mayor Ortega’s daughter, Alli Ortega, a passionate art teacher and mentor in Scotts-

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History Hall of Fame inducts 5 people, 2 groups

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ive people and two organizations have been honored for a lifetime of achievement by being inducted into the History Hall of Fame by the Past Presidents’ Council of the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce.

Joining the History Hall of Fame during the 27th annual induction event were Paul Messinger, Denny Brown, Melinda Morrison Gulick, Dennis Robbins, Gregg Tryhus, Experience Scottsdale and the Salt River Project.

“Over the past 27 years, the Council has inducted 139 past and present Scottsdale leaders and 27 organizations into Scottsdale’s History Hall of Fame,” the Chamber said in a release.

“These individuals and organizations have contributed immeasurably to the rich heritage of Scottsdale, dating back to its modern-day founding in 1888 by Army Chaplain Win�ield Scott. The event honors the people and organizations who have contributed so greatly to the legacy of making the City of Scottsdale one of the ‘best cities to live’ in the nation,” it continued.

Here’s a look at the honored individuals: Paul Messinger He and his wife established Messinger Mortuary on the family farm property in

1959 and also operated Scottsdale’s �irst ambulance business.

He became a Scottsdale Charro in 1962, was a member of the Elks Club and Friends of Scottsdale Public Library, Lions Club president and longtime, Chamber board director.

As a member of the Scottsdale Town Enrichment program in the mid 1960s he urged the creation of a junior college for Scottsdale and co-chaired the countywide bond election to raise $14 million for several community colleges, including the Scottsdale Community College.

He was appointed in 1971 to �ill an empty seat on City Council, then elected to a four-year term that ended in 1976.

He then won election to the State Legislature, where he served from 1979-1985.

He was a member of the Scottsdale Western Art Association and helped found the Scottsdale History Hall of Fame in 1994.

Denny Brown Brown is community leader and education champion. He has been a professional actor, taught in Egypt and was general manager of Performance Driving Events.

Arriving in Scottsdale in 1987, he was the sales manager at Firebird Raceway, then became a church maintenance worker and fundraising consultant for Scottsdale Community Partners, supporting programs at Vista Del Camino and Scottsdale’s senior centers. He served

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four years as president of the Hohokam Elementary PTA then was elected to a term on the Scottsdale Uni�ied Governing Board, serving one term.

Concerned that many SUSD students did not have enough to eat, Brown worked with the city’s Community Services staff, the Vista Del Camino Neighborhood Center Food Bank and SUSD staff to �ind solutions.

Brown championed the Back to School Event, raising participation his �irst year from 350 students to 900 and he cochaired the 2019 Yes to Children SUSD

Budget Override Campaign.

He sits on the East Valley Institute of Technology Foundation Board, and is a past member of the city Human Services Commission and the Arizona Association of Food Banks board.

Melinda Gulick Gulick is business and community leader, past executive with DMB and volunteer committed to conservation, education, animal welfare and a strong economy.

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She moved to Scottsdale with her family in 1979 and is a product of SUSD schools. The 1991 Scottsdale Charros Outstanding Woman of the Year, Gulick was Pan-Hellenic president at Southern Methodist University and was honored for exceptional service to SMU and the Dallas community.

She began her career as a collegiate leadership consultant for Gamma Phi Beta then served as community relations manager for Southwest Human Development.

Hired as executive director of Scottsdale Leadership in 1999, she oversaw classes 13 to 17 and grew its annual awards program.

During her time at the Foothills Land Trust and 13 years as an executive with DMB, Gulick focused much of her volunteer time on conservation advocacy. She chaired the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy Board and served two terms on the preserve commission.

She also chaired the Arizona Humane Society board, served on the Scottsdale Yes to Children campaign for more than 10 years, co-chaired the 2019 Yes to Children SUSD Budget Override Campaign and is a member of the Scottsdale Charros Foundation.

In January she was appointed CEO of the First Things First Arizona’s Early Childhood Development Board.

She has served on the boards of the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce,

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People Acting Now Discover Answers, Desert Foundation Auxillary, Arizona Townhall, Junior League Foundation and the St. Barnabas on the Desert Vestry.

Robbins was a member of the Scottsdale Leadership Class 7, served on its advisory board and received the Hodges Alumni Achievement Award in 2016.

He has served as the Scottsdale Education Foundation president and was a member of the Yes to Children SUSD bond and overide campaign committees and currently serves on the Scottsdale Community College President’s Executive Committee Advisory Board.

In 2019 he was co-chair of the Best Scottsdale Political Action Committee.

Dennis Robbins Robbins is the executive director of the Scottsdale Charros, a community volunteer, former Scottsdale City Council member, attorney and local business owner.

Born and raised in Scottsdale, Robbins attended Cocopah Middle School and Chaparral High School. He was a member of the 4-H club, Cub Scouts and Little League.

After college and law school in southern California, Robbins returned to Scottsdale, entered private practice then joined the family Midas franchise businesses.

Robbins served on the city Board of Adjustment and was elected to City Council in 1996. During his four-year term, Robbins weighed in on issues like the shopping bridge over Camelback Road, the canals concept, light rail and a voter approved bond package.

Winning re-election in 2010, he addressed facilities improvements at WestWorld of Scottsdale, budgeting to recover from the recession, and expanding the use of bed tax money to fund improvements at the Tournament Player’s Club and build the Museum of the West.

Robbins is a Scottsdale Charro, serving as ride chair, patron and chair of the group’s foundation. He is currently the Charro’s executive director.

Gregg Tryhus Tryhus is owner of Grayhawk Development, a land development, golf development, operations, and investment company. Gregg also serves as a community volunteer on numerous boards and commissions.

Growing up in Fargo, N.D., Tryhus came to Arizona to earn an MBA from Arizona

State University in 1980. He joined Treaccar Reality in 1982 and then started Grayhawk Development in 1984 and led a change in state law regarding holding leases and planning permits for State Trust Land.

He then partnered with other investors to acquire the 1,600-acre, 5,000-lot Grayhawk community.

In 1998 Tryhus acquired the land for Whisper Rock Golf Club and is a minority partner in developing the mixed-used Cavason project in north Scottsdale.

As a Scottsdale Charro he chaired the tennis, baseball and membership committees serving as treasurer twice and patron.

He’s served as a past board member of the Arizona Golf Association and the Junior Golf Association of Arizona, six years on the ASU Athletic Foundation and is currently spearheading efforts to build the Arizona Golf Alliance.

He has served on the boards of the Scottsdale Healthcare Foundation, the Scottsdale Industrial Development Authority, the Boys and Girls Club of Scottsdale and the Scottsdale Cultural Council.

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Condo protection bill facing rocky ride

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proposal to save condominium owners from being forced out of their homes has run into a problem.

It may be unconstitutional.

An attorney for a Chicago developer told state senators that their plan to rewrite the laws governing condos would retroactively change the laws under which the buyers obtained their property. And Charles Markle said that also would interfere with the contractual arrangements those buyers signed.

But the chief proponent of HB 2275 told Capitol Media Services he’s not ready to give up.

Rep. Jeff Weninger, R-Chandler, is armed with an opinion from legislative attorneys concluding that lawmakers can step in, as long as they do it before the developer ac-

quires 80% of the units.

That’s an important number.

Under current law, the owners of 80% of the units can effectively dissolve the condominium association if they want to do something else, like convert it to apartments. And that requires the owners of the other 20% to sell.

What it also means, however, is that a developer who wants to covert the units to apartments can obtain the voting rights of the 80% and tell the owners of the other 20% they have to sell – and go live somewhere else.

“These are people’s homes,’’ Weninger said. And he said the requirement to pay the owners an appraised value does little good for people who are retired and on fixed incomes and won’t find a comparable property in the same neighborhood.

That was underlined by a parade of wit-

State Rep. Jeff Weninger, R-Chandler, wants condo owners protected from unscrupulous building owners. (AFN file photo)

nesses from several condos being targeted who asked members of the Senate Commerce Committee this past week for help.

“I want to tell you how distressed I am about the current law that allows some big money developer to come in and force me out of my home,’’ said Ellen Marginson.

She told lawmakers she and her husband bought the condo 12 years ago and retired just last year.

“We will never be able to purchase another home in this economy,’’ Marginson said. “Are we supposed to go back to work to qualify and afford a home in an economy that sees day-to-day prices rising every single minute?’’

Anthea Harrison, 82, told of living alone on a fixed income after her husband passed away “My intention is to live out the rest of my

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SmartRent is opening doors for rental property life

BY ALLISON BROWN Progress Contributor

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rom the front door to the thermostat, everything is getting a “smart” upgrade and SmartRent combines all those devices into one system, saving property managers and renters money and time.

The Scottsdale Airpark company builds smart-device platforms.

Lucas Haldeman, chief executive officer of SmartRent, said he and other company leaders found a need for the product while they were starting their real estate careers.

“We discovered there were a lot of really good smart home devices – thermostats, locks, leak sensors – but none of them were designed to work together and then be deployed in mass,” Haldeman said.

The company provides property managers seamless visibility and control over their communities’ assets while delivering an all-in-one smart home control app for residents.

“We’re talking about people who own rental housing, whether multifamily apartments or single-family homes, it doesn’t really matter,” Haldeman said. “It helps rental operators sort of better understand their assets, better protect those assets and increase their revenue, because resident renters will pay more to have a smart apartment.”

He added that SmartRent isn’t just for the property managers. Renters get a lot more perks than just a convenient app.

“It helps both,” Haldeman said. “Owners save money by not cooling an empty gym, and then as a resident, you might pay more for rent but you’re actually saving $50 or

$75 on your utility bill. It’s a bargain.”

Especially in Arizona, having a smart air conditioner can help save residents big bucks. SmartRent also helps residents and property owners save money and avoid a big hassle by using leak sensors.

Haldeman said while most people don’t consider a leak to be a big problem, water actually causes 70% of damage done to apartments. SmartRent uses sensors that automatically write an emergency work order if they get wet.

Without the leak sensors, residents must find it, send in a maintenance request that could get buried in an inbox and wait for a response, as the problem gets worse or is forgotten about. With an automated emergency work order, someone is dispatched immediately to fix the issue.

More than just saving residents money, SmartRent can help provide peace of mind.

By using smart locks, residents can control and observe who is coming and going from their unit. Haldeman said this has many uses.

“It could be that you give your kids a code while you’re at work and you get notified when they get off the school bus and come home,” he said. “Or it could be letting Postmates to the front door or getting your dry cleaning put into your closet, there are services doing that.”

In addition, the smart locks can have a time sensitive code. For instance, a dog walker could be given a code that is only valid from 9 to 11 a.m. If the code is used outside that timeframe, it will not work and the resident will also be notified that someone tried to enter.

Other uses of SmartRent include parking

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management and self-guided tours.

What really sets SmartRent apart is the information can be viewed in one place.

Haldeman said other units may have a doorbell camera and smart air conditioning, but, unlike SmartRent, they aren’t really made to work cohesively for the entire unit. SmartRent has an app for the resident and the property’s sides.

“All of the devices in your homes, that could be the front door, the gym door, the thermostat, lights, outlets – whatever smart devices you have are all controlled through one app and one experience.”

Haldeman headquartered SmartRent in Scottsdale because Haldeman moved there for work several years ago. He fell in love with the area, but he said the company has a wide reach.

SmartRent is a national company with employees in 41 states and is used in over

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life in my current home,’’ she said.

“If forced to move, I would find myself in a very difficult situation,’’ Harrison said.

“There are no comparable properties available in this area and I would be required to pay a much higher price for another home.’’

And Cheryl Desimone told of purchasing a condo after her divorce.

“It was instilled throughout my life that you purchase a home or condo so that you have ownership,’’ she said. And now her daughter has leukemia.

“So the last thing I want to do is worry about losing my home,’’ Desimone said.

Only thing is, each and every condo purchaser signed documents agreeing to live by the conditions, covenants and restrictions of the association. And in each case, those documents referred to the existing Arizona law that spells out that 80% rule.

It is that contract, Markle said, that remains enforceable. And it is that contract, he told lawmakers, they are powerless to void or alter.

But Jill Evans, who told of buying her condo directly from the builder in 2007, said this was hardly clear.

She said the document she signed did have a statutory reference to ARS 33-1228.

That’s the section about the 80% rule to terminate a condo project.

“My husband and I did not review the law prior to purchase,’’ Evans conceded.

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300,000 units in the United States. It also has installations in the United Kingdom and Canada, and plans to continue expanding internationally. Haldeman said the company doubled its number of units in the last year and is on trajectory to do the same in 2022.

He credits SmartRent’s linear growth trajectory, in part, to having been on the other side in real estate and knowing the operations, language and frustrations people deal with when it comes to property management.

The other part of it is, according to Haldeman, the product practically sells itself.

He said it’s easy for customers to see the various advantages to SmartRent.

There are some who may be skeptical of the ever-increasing smart technology, but Haldeman said SmartRent is and has always been transparent with customers about their information. He said it’s even in their company policy that customers’

“We assumed state law was there to protect us as homeowners,’’ she said. “We didn’t realize it was going to protect a company that would force us to sell our home.’’

But Greg Patterson, lobbyist for Rockwell Properties which has bought up condo projects in Arizona, said that’s an oversimplification.

“One of the rights that is part of the bundle of rights that owners have is the right of an orderly termination,’’ he told lawmakers. He said it’s no different than laws on everything from corporations to marriages, where the legislature makes laws on how they can be formed as well as how they can be dissolved.

And Patterson said that’s important because condos are not forever and owners may want to sell.

“Real property becomes obsolete, can deteriorate,’’ he said. “In a hundred years, these are not going to be condominiums anymore.’’

Charles Markle, an attorney for Rockwell, told lawmakers the 2021 partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, a suburb or Miami, which killed 98, shows what can happen in situations where condo owners lose interest in paying major assessments for improvements.

Markle said that’s why Arizona law allows for the condo project to be dissolved -- and sold off for whatever reason -- once 80% of the owners conclude it no longer makes sense.

But Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, R-Scotts-

information will not be shared.

“We take safety, security and privacy very seriously. If you read our terms and conditions, we explicitly say, ‘We will not sell your data.’ We will not use your data for anything nefarious,” Haldeman said.

“I think it is something to be concerned about, to understand what’s happening with your data and who’s using it, but I think in our case, if you’re living in one of our smart apartments, you can rest assured that you’re very protected.”

Lucas Haldeman is CEO of SmartRent in Scottsdale Airpark. (Special to the Progress)

dale, said that isn’t the case here. Instead, she said, it’s a single entity coming in and making enough offers to enough owners to allow it to force out the ones who aren’t interested in selling.

“I think that the spirit of the 80%-20%, people thought individual ownership,’’ she said, not one entity controlling that 80%.

All that leaves the question of what, if anything lawmakers can do.

While Markle contends the contracts are beyond legislative reach, Ken Behringer, the legislature’s general counsel, said lawmakers are free to amend the law to impose a different vote requirement to terminate a project -- say 100%. More to the point, Behringer said that law could be applied to any condo where a single entity has not yet acquired 80% of the units.

Weninger said it’s simple: Condos are a creation of the Legislature, meaning lawmakers can alter the rules under which they have to operate.

Sen. J.D. Mesnard, R-Chandler, said another option would be to leave the 80% requirement in place but alter the law so that each owner gets only one vote, no matter how many units any person or entity owns.

But Markle, whose client has about $450 million in pending deals in Arizona, said it doesn’t matter how you phrase it. He said those CC&Rs are binding, enforceable and unalterable by state law.

Markle also said it’s not like people are getting thrown out into the street.

The law requires the owners of the remaining 20% to be paid market value plus 5%, along with another 5% for relocation costs. And he said each side has the option to pick an appraiser, with the differences ironed out in arbitration.

At the hearing this past week, several lawmakers questioned whether they should get involved in what essentially is a contract dispute.

“The problem here is that people have purchased condos and did not understand what they had entered into,’’ said Sen. Tyler Pace, R-Mesa.

He also noted that, had condo owners acted earlier, they may have been able to avoid this situation. That’s because Arizona law allows the CC&Rs to be amended with the vote of just 67% of the owners. That could have altered the percentage of votes required to dissolve the condo association or also avoid situations where one entity could simply buy up the majority and force out the others.

But that, Pace noted, wasn’t done when they had the votes. And now they are at the Capitol asking for lawmakers to intercede.

He was not sympathetic.

“That was the agreement that they entered,’’ Pace said. “Whether they were aware of it or not, it was disclosed in their contract, the statutes were cited in their contract.’’

The measure, which already has been approved by the House, faces an uncertain future when it now goes to the full Senate.

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Letters Kavanagh bill eliminates dog discrimination by insurers Arizona House Bill 2323 sponsored by Rep. John Kavanagh is making its way through the state legislature. It deserves to be signed into law.

This amendment to Arizona Revised Statutes Title 20 strips dog breed discriminatory pro�iling used by insurance companies to hit policyholders and policy seekers with higher rates and worse, result in homeowners or renters stripped of insurance in a tight, expensive housing market.

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Arizona’s early voting is under GOP attack

The year has begun with fresh legal challenges to early voting laws. In Arizona, the Arizona Republican Party has �iled suit challenging the validity of a decades-old law allowing no-excuse absentee ballots.

The suit, �iled in the Arizona Supreme Court in February, seeks to strike down the vote-by-mail system that was �irst adopted in the state in 1991. The Arizona lawsuit follows on the heels of a Republican-led lawsuit in Pennsylvania, in which a Pennsylvania court struck down the state’s mail-in voting law as contrary to that state’s constitution.

The Pennsylvania court said that voters would need to amend the state’s constitution to authorize no-excuse mail-in voting.

That decision is being appealed. The Arizona lawsuit, which is currently pending, also contends that the use of drop boxes for early ballots is illegal, and seeks to stop the practice.

In Arizona, recent laws have made it harder to vote early, including making it illegal to bring a person’s early ballot to the polls unless it’s by a family member or caretaker (to limit so-called ballot harvesting), and allowing counties to stop sending early ballots to people who do not regularly use them. These restrictions were adopted despite Arizona voters’ overwhelming preference for early-voting methods.

Other early voting proposals being considered in Arizona by the Legislature include requiring early voters to provide their date of birth and information from a government-issued document, such as a Social Security card or Arizona driver’s license.

Last year, the Arizona Legislature sent nearly 500 bills to the governor for signa-

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-Don Loose

GOP searching for ‘morals, spine, a history’

Let’s connect the ugly dots. For years former President Trump cozied up to Putin and threatened to pull the US out of NATO -- a move Putin salivated for. As the Russian dictator began his slaughter of Ukrainian women and children, Trump called Putin’s invasion of Ukraine “genius and savvy.”

In response, very few Republicans even blinked at this horrifying comment. Mitt Romney did muster the courage to call Trump a moron and Lindsey Graham said Trump words were “a mistake.” Bold, right?

Meanwhile, Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers, a gold-medal Trumpist, ranted at the white nationalist America First Political Conference. She told the crowd she fantasized about hanging her opponents and called the white nationalist audience “patriots.”

In response, the Arizona Senate passed a toothless “censure” of Rogers, but didn’t vote on kicking her out of the Republican- controlled body. Senate President Karen Fann said it “pained” her to pass the censure. GOP governor Doug Ducey was dead silent Meantime, Trumpist Rep. Paul Gosar (RAZ) also attended the hate-fest which is led by openly racist Nick Fuentes who believes America should be a “White Christian” nation. Fuentes got the crowd to chant “Putin!

Putin!” and compared him to another of his idols, Adolf Hitler. No penalty for Gosar.

Connecting these ugly dots and many more served up by the GOP, the party to which I once belonged, emerges a picture of a party in search of morals, a spine and a history.

-Lynne Reaves

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Fine Art Expo connects people with artists

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atrons rarely have opportunities to talk to artists while they’re working in their studios but the Arizona Fine Art EXPO lets patrons have these immersive experiences through March 27.

“They can come in, talk to each artist, see what they do, talk about their work and anything that might interest them,” said Judy Long, who runs the event with her husband, Dennis, and Judi and Roger Combs. Dennis is Judi’s brother. “Artists are very open to spending time talking to people.”

In its 18th year, the expo is in a 44,000-square-foot space at the corner of Scottsdale and Jomax roads, near MacDonald’s Ranch. Black panels and gray carpeting give it a consistent look. The show

boasts 124 studios and around 80 artists from around the world.

“It’s like going into a gallery. It’s not a hodgepodge of all different looks,” Long said.

To participate, artists must be juried, primarily by Judi Combs, who also runs Thunderbird Artists with her daughter. The artists pay $2,500 for the booth and a commission of 20% on sales.

The expo allows artists to put their work before a large diverse audience who is interested in a variety of artforms. Many commissions and long-term relationships between artists and patrons start at the expo.

Guests can see a range of artwork, including sketches in pencil, charcoal and pastels; clay, stone, metal and wood sculptures; watercolor, oil and acrylic paintings; furniture; photographs; jewelry and mixed-media artwork.

A 2-acre sculpture garden, where some

artists will work, displays metal, stone and mixed-media sculptures. Musicians perform on Saturdays and Sundays. Café food is available for a snack or lunch.

Long said that while there is a level of competition in getting sales, the artists have a strong camaraderie.

“The artists get along really well and help each other,” Long said.

“It’s really a big extended family. It’s wonderful for their creativity. It makes a huge difference,” Long said.

Returning artist Jon Crocker said his work can be very solitary. The expo allows him to work near others.

“The beauty of the Arizona Fine Art Expo is that the artists have the opportunity to work, show, learn and most amazingly share with each other throughout the tent,” Crocker said.

The watercolor artist, who divides his

time between Ireland and Colorado, started attending the expo in 2018. Crocker often paints portraits and landscapes. Through his company Art of Golf, he paints signature golf holes of notable courses.

At the expo, Crocker will have limited edition golf prints of golfers like Tiger Woods, his friends in Ireland, his family members and people he observes in his everyday life.

Crocker said he differs from other watercolorist painters because of his details, which can be difficult.

“Watercolor is like golf. Each stroke counts, and the second you think you have it mastered, it will come back to bite you,” Crocker said.

In his paintings, he tries to represent the people’s spirit, including the flaws that make them distinctive.

Butterfly Wonderland offers Bug Fest

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hey were absent the last two years, but bugs of all kinds will once again run free in the Arizona Boardwalk courtyard March 27 as the Butterfly Wonderland Foundation resumes its annual Bug Fest.

“We are so excited to be having our Bug Fest,” said Adriane Grimaldi, the director of education at Butterfly Wonderland. “With COVID-19 impacting a lot of gatherings, we’re so excited to be starting this back up again.”

The fest offers four hours of jam-packed educational booths and activities for families to participate in.

“We make it fun and interactive,” Grimaldi said. “There’s different booths that people can go up to and learn.”

For the first time in two years, Bugs will be the center of display when Bug Fest returns to Arizona Boardwalk March 27. (Special to the Progress)

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Exhibits range from the bee booth – where guests can view a live hive and learn how a single bee produces one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey – to more interactive displays like the pollinator garden station, where attendees can plant their own sunflowers and take them home to nurture.

Attendees also can get a close look at species that are not indigenous to Arizona, such as millipedes, walking sticks, scorpions and tarantulas.

“This is an opportunity to learn and be educated about bugs that they may not have ever seen before or were too afraid to learn about,” Grimaldi said.

Attendees can also get a competitive edge by naming and entering cockroaches in races on a conventional laned track or on a target-shaped raceway with the winner re-

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“When I’m painting someone’s portrait, it’s not enough to match their likeness. I want to expose their personality. I’m trying to capture a person’s essence, their soul. I think a quality painted portrait has so much more meaning than a photo,” Crocker said.

Crocker has dabbled with other types of paint, but he prefers watercolor because of the negative space.

“For me, watercolor’s true magic is the white of the paper,” Crocker said.

“Unlike painting with oils or acrylics, I use no white paint to create highlights or white areas. The paper creates a much crisper, cleaner and more natural white than I could ever achieve painting in the highlights.”

Growing up, Crocker drew and painted as a child. He earned a fine arts degree from Colorado State University, but went into marketing and advertising.

He ran two advertising agencies until 2008, when he left to take care of his ailing father, wife and daughter. He cared for them for four years before they died within the same year, which was difficult for Crocker.

His Irish partner Gina Phelan, whom he met online, said painting helped him

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through the grief. His first painting after the deaths was of his father peacefully napping. Soon, others wanted portraits of their deceased loved ones.

That emotional response affects him as an artist.

“My favorite part of painting a personal commission is the first second where the client sees the completed piece, and I see in their eyes the unmistakable recognition, often followed by a tear or two. That’s the best feeling in the world, an acknowledgement I captured and touched both their souls,” Crocker said.

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There’s even a photo booth in which a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach — the largest cockroach in the world — will join guests.

At this booth, guests are also encouraged to donate to the Butterfly Wonderland Foundation – part of Butterfly Wonderland — in its efforts to provide scholarships to Title 1 schools for field trips. Title 1 schools serve a majority of households at or below the poverty line.

“This event is really an extension of what Butterfly Wonderland does on a daily basis and this is an opportunity that we haven’t had in a while to share our passion for bugs,” Grimaldi said.

Although Grimaldi hopes to create a strong educational presence at this event, she also hopes it breaks attendees’ fears of the little creatures.

“There’s a lot of stigmas to bugs and things of that nature that people can be afraid of. This is a great opportunity to learn and realize that bugs are really essential and important in our environment,”

she said. “We make it fun; we make it educational and we talk about the importance of bugs in our environment.”

One way guests can conquer their fear of bugs is through entomophagy — the act of eating protein that comes from bugs.

A bug food vending machine offers cricket chips, dark chocolate cricket clusters, bacon-and-cheese-flavored larvets and salt-and-vinegar crickets.

Guests can also put their taste buds to the test by trying to tell the difference between an organic chip or a cricket chip.

Of course, not all bugs are friendly, so Banner Health Poison Control will have a venom booth displaying venomous critters.

“They educate people about scorpions and what to look for to make sure that their houses are protected,” Grimaldi said.

Whether people leave with a lingering fear or newfound appreciation of bugs, Grimaldi hopes that people leave learning something new and learn ways to preserve the environment.

“I want people to leave saying ‘wow, I didn’t know that,’” she said. “I want people to go home and know that there are things like planting a garden or avoiding using pesticides to help keep the garden natural.”

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Through the years of rescuing recipes and documenting many of your kitchen memories, I must have used that phrase 100 times.

This cookbook was a real find. I was visiting Casa Grande and stumbled upon it while wandering through antique stores in the downtown historic district. The entire cookbook was hand-written and hand illustrated.

In the introduction, author Nellie Edge tells the story of how so many people would ask her for her recipes that she began keeping a file with multiple copies of each dish. It didn’t take much of an aha moment to realize she practically had her cookbook done! I loved the flavor of this carrot pineapple bread.

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Ingredients: 2 and 3/4 cups all purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon soda 2 teaspoons cinnamon 3 large eggs 1 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla 1 cup vegetable oil 2 cups carrots, finely grated 1 (20 oz) can crushed pineapple with syrup, divided. (save half for Cream Cheese Spread)

1 cup chopped walnuts For the Glaze 1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup buttermilk, store bought or homemade.

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1/2 teaspoon baking soda Pineapple Cream Cheese Spread 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature 10 oz crushed pineapple (remainder of the can used for bread batter)

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