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City joins attack on state's $12B pension debt BY PAUL MARYNIAK Progress Executive Editor
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espite an $11.8 billion unfunded liability owed by more than 300 Arizona municipalities, counties and state agencies, some encouraging trends are emerging in the system that provides
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pensions for nearly 60,000 retired first responders, corrections officers and qualifying elected officials. Scottsdale is part of one trend by committing an extra $40-million toward reducing its unfunded police and fire pension liability that stood at $216.1 million when the 2020-21 fiscal year ended June 30.
Shaped in part by the unexpected surge in revenue many of those government entities have seen for nearly a year, that trend isn't just good news for the retirees who receive pensions from the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System.
across the board. Vaccinations are available – that wasn’t the case last year. Just about all of our athletes are old enough to receive the shot.
“The intention is, really, we would like to have teams not cancel games.”
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High school coaches cautious as COVID-19 rises BY ZACH ALVIRA AND DREW SCHOTT Progress Sports Staff
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Sunday, August 15, 2021
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he Arizona Interscholastic Association’s new COVID-19 guidelines for the 2021-22 high school sports season are causing a stir among athletes and coaches. Some of the key changes from last year’s guidelines open the opportunity for players with no symptoms to present negative tests to come out of quarantine after 10 days rather than 14. Teams as a whole can have a shorter quarantine period – 10 days from last known exposure – if an outbreak were to occur. But vaccinated coaches and players are excused from quarantine as long as they do not present virus symptoms. “We worked with our Sports Medicine Advisory Committee,” AIA Executive Director David Hines said. “They are our doctors, and they are in tune with what is going on
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Saguaro’s football program knows all too well what an outbreak can do to a program. Last year, the Sabercats were forced to forfeit their Open Division playoff game due to cases, something the AIA hopes to avoid this season with lesser restrictions for vaccinated players. (Pablo Robles/Progress Staff)
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