Scottsdale Progress 09-25-22

NEWS

City pulled into neighborhood spat over house

BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

Alegal battle among neighbors over the construction of a two-story house in the Peaceful Valley neighborhood has drawn the City of Scottsdale into the middle of the fight in Maricopa

County Superior Court.

Local attorney Rylan Stewart wants to build a two-story home and even got the building permits to do so. The only hitch is that the neighborhood’s CC&Rs only allow single story homes.

So, neighbor Keri Kirby sued Stewart to stop the home from going up, adding the

city as a defendant for approving a building permit that violates the CC&Rs.

Kirby filed the suit herself because the neighborhood has no HOA to champion the cause.

All sides had their day in court Sept. 19

BUSINESS

City seeks veterans’ names for special honor

BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

Some people may not realize it, but Scottsdale was founded by a veteran. Aside from being a pastor, Winfield Scott was also a captain in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. He was one of the “Fighting Parsons” and fought in several famous battles, including Gettysburg. He was wounded five times and given a medical discharge.

Dirty hands, cleaner earth

Scottsdale resident Lauren Click may have dirty hands at times, but it’s only because she’s found a cheap way of doing her part to save Mother Earth from excessive waste. She creates little composting operations with the help of worms. Her idea is taking off with others, but she needs more buckets. So, she’s turning to local businesses for help. For her story, see page 20. (David Minton/Progress

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Today the city wants to recognize Scottsdale’s veterans from every era by placing their names on banners hung from light posts throughout Old Town for about a week before and after Veterans Day.

The idea is to display the names of veterans who served in every era of military history, including World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, the Iraq war and Afghanistan. Even veterans serving today are eligible for a banner.

Veterans must be nominated by Sept. 30th online at scottsdaleaz.gov/veterans/scottsdale-salutes.

There is space for 30 banners and already about 35 names have been submitted but city spokesman Kelly Corsette is confident some vetting may disqualify a few names. Plus, the city is planning to possibly make this an annual event so if someone doesn’t make it on to a banner this year, there are future years to consider.

“Ultimately we know we’re going to have some decisions to make and we won’t be able to feature everybody,” Corsette said.

Some of the nominations are coming from the Scottsdale Veterans Advisory Commission but the majority are coming from the community at large, Corsette said.

The only stipulation is the veteran has to have some connection to Scottsdale.

“So they were born in Scottsdale, raised in Scottsdale, might currently

live in Scottsdale and they’ve been nominated as well … We’re going to try to have a nice mixture of veterans from all different eras, different services.”

Veterans who served in or are currently serving in the National Guard and the Reserves are also eligible for consideration.

“Essentially, anybody who has worn a military uniform for the United States or is currently wearing that uniform is eligible,” Corsette said.

Scott will get one of the banners.

“There are actually quite a few veterans in Scottsdale’s history that have been fundamental to creating the community that we all enjoy so much today,” Corsette said. “So there will be some of the historic folks who will be honored

alongside some of the nominations coming in are for young people who are just now beginning their military service.”

Steven Jackson, a disabled veteran who served in the Iraq war and cochair of Scottsdale’s Veterans Advisory Commission, said the time is right to honor veterans in this way.

“I think veterans, and I’m speaking from my generation, feel like they’re back in a community that did a lot to help them reintegrate but maybe forgetting that they made sacrifices over the past 20 years and 60 years in this country. I think that it will be a small step for the city of Scottsdale to be able to recognize the sacrifices that they made during their lifetimes.

Jackson said this is just a step one of a larger effort.

“We’re gonna try to expand the scope of this to not just be an annual banner event,” Jackson said. “I think one of the things that for me was important coming on to the commission was to make sure that historically we can start to document and have some of these things in our website and our videos for educational purposes for future generations. And so that veterans can look back on them and their children can look back on them here in Scottsdale.”

SUSD school board online forum slated Tuesday

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Voters can view the forum on the Parent Council’s YouTube channel at tinyurl.com/ WatchSPC.

Candidates will all be asked the same

TheScottsdale Parents Council and Scottsdale Progress are teaming up to present a virtual town hall for candidates for the Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27.

questions and have not been given the questions in advance. They also will have a chance to make introductory and closing remarks.

The questions came from both Parents Council followers and Progress readers.

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as Kirby and her attorney R. Lee Steers Jr. sought a temporary injunction to block the start of construction.

Assistant City Attorney Lindsey Gomez-Gray said the city would be willing to revoke the building permit if the court finds in Kirby’s favor in exchange for dismissing it from the lawsuit.

“The city is here because the plaintiff wants us to be the de facto HOA for Peaceful Valley and we’re not,” Gomez-Gray said. “The city doesn’t maintain, monitor or enforce CC&Rs and it shouldn’t.

“This case is a perfect example of why we shouldn’t because there is waiver, there’s abandonment, there’s amendments. There’s hundreds of subdivisions in the City of Scottsdale; some have restrictions, some don’t; some have HOA’s, some don’t. It would be an untenable situation for lay people to try and determine whether CC&Rs apply to a specific building permit.

She noted, as established by witnesses, that the International Building Code, which the city uses, requires a permit to be issued as long as the request does

not break any local ordinances.

“It was completely administrative,” Gomez-Gray said. “They looked to see if those plans comply, they did, the permit was then paid for and the city didn’t even have discretion to not provide it. They had to provide it per the IBC.”

Kirby’s attorney, R. Lee Steers Jr., said he would agree to drop the city from the suit, but he continued to push for the city to adhere to a petition with 97 signatures.

The petition states, “We ask the city to require applicants for building permits to 1) provide a copy of the existing Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (CC&Rs) for the neighborhood in which the applicants intend to build and 2) ask the applicants to sign a declaration that they are not violating those CC&Rs.”

Scottsdale Planning Director Tim Curtis testified that such a requirement would be a bad idea because it implies the city is going to enforce the CC&Rs when it has no intention to do so.

Kirby’s backyard is diagonally across an alley from the plot where the house is set to go up. She is afraid of losing her backyard privacy if the house is built.

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She said she likes to sit outside with her cat and use her hot tub in the nude.

“It very much concerns me someone could be watching me while I’m in my own backyard and my own life,” Kirby testified.

She said she bought her home in part because the CC&Rs do not allow for two-story homes.

She also raised concerns that if built, it could be used as a short-term rental.

“A two-story home increases the square footage and the occupancy, which would mean if it were a vacation rental, there would be more occupants in the home, thus increasing the probability of disruption to my peace and enjoyment of my home,” Kirby said.

Stewart testified that it is not his intent to turn the home into an rental. He said he does not currently own any and his only intent is to move into the home himself.

Stewart’s defense team went on the attack during the hearing.

“You said when you moved into the house, you relied on the covenants,” defense attorney Taylor Tondevold asked Kirby. “You went straight to the covenants. That’s a bunch of baloney, isn’t it?”

“Is that a question?” Kirby asked.

“It is,” Tondevold said.

“No,” Kirby said.

“You didn’t actually rely on the covenants,” Tondevold said.

Tondevold then pointed out that Kirby, who sometimes works from home, violates a restriction that states, “No store, office or other place of business of any kind is allowed in the neighborhood.”

the neighborhood, such as shrubs being too tall and fences too close to the curb.

They also pointed out that several short-term rentals are already operating in the neighborhood, which breaks the CC&Rs, but nobody has brought lawsuits against them.

They even pointed out there is currently one other two-story house in the neighborhood, which did not prompt a lawsuit.

Kirby replied that the family in the existing two-story home reached out to the community before it was built and explained it was needed for a person in need of constant care.

While defense asserted there are so many violations of the CC&Rs throughout the neighborhood that any use restrictions had effectively been abandoned, Steers pointed to case law that said a “waiver is an intentional act.”

“It is preposterous to suggest that residents of Peaceful Valley intended to waive restrictions,” he said.

Judge Melissa Iyer Julian seemed critical of the defense’s strategy.

“It does seem to me that the only violation of a two-story (home is) because of a disabled adult,” she said. “You do have an aggregate of violations with shrubs and that is what your client believes to be unsightly but those violations don’t have anything to do with the two-story home restrictions.

“Do violations about shrubs and walls give me grounds to find a waiver of the two-story home restriction?”

Tondevold replied, “Yes, your honor. We believe that all of these violations are demonstrating that these restrictions are not applicable,” he said.

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Tondevold and attorney Ryan Bailey went on to point out numerous instances of violations of the CC&Rs in

The judge has taken the matter under advisement and said she would rule as soon as possible.

Water supply future fraught with uncertainty, of�icial says

BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

Wecan no longer rely on past indicators to predict what Scottsdale’s water future is going to look like, a panel an audience last week at the city’s Breakfast with the Mayor and Council.

“The new normal is change and uncertainty,” Ken Seaholes, manager of resource planning and analysis at the Central Arizona Project, told a crowd of several hundred people Sept. 22.

Seaholes was a member of a four-person panel discussing water issues. The panel included Scottsdale Water Resources Executive Director Brian Biesemeyer, SRP Senior Principal Ron Klawitter and Arizona Municipal Water Users Association Director Warren Tenney.

Climate change is one reason for the new normal Seaholes cited.

For instance, some models suggest potentially more precipitation in the future will help the Colorado River Basin – but that doesn’t necessarily mean runoff will reach the river and its reservoirs, he said.

Increasing heat means less runoff will get where it needs to go, he said.

“Change is a huge thing, the level of certainty that we may have thought we had in the past, we were kidding ourselves,” Seaholes said, citing a “high level of uncertainty. We have to manage for those extremes and be prepared for a wide range of (variables).”

One thing is certain, though.: “It’s a

widely known fact that the Colorado River is over-allocated and facing diminishing supplies,” Seaholes said.

That doesn’t mean it’s time to panic, though.

Groups have been planning for a day like this for about 100 years.

“I think it’s important to understand the long tradition that occurred in Arizona since the compact and on to the 1980 Ground Water Management Act,” Biesemeyer said.

“There’s a lot of tradition to build on, but we do need to go forward and build on that because we are reaching times that are basically unprecedented. But I’m confident we have the will power, we have people who are smart enough, to figure some of these things out as we go forward.”

Last month, Biesemeyer told Scottsdale City Council that Scottsdale’s water from the Central Arizona Project would only be able to sustain growth in the city through 2035. “The assumption is growth would stop in 2035 and then we could handle our current citizens at that point forward,” Biesemeyer said.

Tenney said, “Arizona has been very proactive in its water management.”

“There’s been a lot of effort both as a state and the SRP and CAP,” Tenney said. “Having those resources in place has really strengthened us and at the local level so much effort has gone into really wise management of the water resources.

“The 1980 Ground Water Management Act was put in place for exactly this day, for

when things would start getting tough.”

Tenney said one of the keys elements to come out of the ground water management act was the assured water supply program, which requires new development in the Phoenix and Tucson areas to show they have a 100-year supply of water.

However, as the stress on the water Colorado River is starting to show, some have begun to rumble that number should be 40 or 50 years.

“This is not the time to do anything like that,” he said.

Ultimately, the group agreed, conservation by water end users will have to take center stage.

“Conservation is an important part of what we do,” Biesemeyer said. “Is it the end game? No, but it is hugely important in what we do. In this desert environment it only makes sense.”

Conservation campaigns aren’t a new thing, Warren said.

“We have just worked steadily over the years to make sure we are building a culture of conservation,” he said. “It’s really important that we encourage folks to understand that using water wisely is part of what you just do to be able to be fortunate enough to live in this Valley.”

Biesemeyer also pointed to other steps the city is doing to prepare for the situation, such as strengthening the city’s aquifer.

“Since 2006 we’ve put more water in the ground than we have taken out of the ground,” he said.

Arizona getting a fraction of $1.4 billion in water infrastructure aid

BY RYAN KNAPPENBERGER Cronkite News

Arizona

will get $109.5 million from the federal infrastructure bill this year to improve water systems in the state – a fraction of the $1.4 billion list of needs state officials say they have.

But even at that level some critics say Arizona is getting more than its fair share of its portion of the funds for lead-pipe replacement over other states with thousands more pipes to replace.

The $1.2 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, approved

last fall, includes $50.9 million for leadpipe replacement in Arizona, as well as $13.6 million to address PFAS contamination in the state and $32.3 million for other projects. That’s on top of a $12 million base grant to the state from the Environmental Protection Agency.

State officials welcomed the money, which they said is badly needed: They point to the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority (WIFA) of Arizona, which has received 34 applications from local governments around the state requesting more than $1.4 billion in water projects in the current fiscal year.

Those projects represent “an order of magnitude higher than the currently available IIJA funding … and the needs are growing,” Caroline Oppleman, an Arizona Department of Environmental Quality spokesperson, said in an email.

Of the 34 projects requested, 27 are for general water infrastructure projects, such as building new water pump stations in Prescott, new wells in Bullhead City, connecting water systems in Twin Peaks and more. The estimated cost of the 27 proposals is $1.3 billion – for which the state expects to receive $44.9 million under the infrastructure bill.

The remaining seven requests include three proposals to clean up perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substance contamination – PFAS, so-called “forever chemicals” that the EPA last month proposed designating as hazardous substances. The chemical has been detected in wells around Luke and Davis-Monthan Air Force bases.

The bulk of the state’s money is targeted to the remaining four projects, to inventory lead service lines in drinking water systems for possible replacement later in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tucson and Payson.

Gretchen Baumgardner, water policy manager for the Scottsdale Water Department moderated the panel of experts as Ron Klawitter, senior principal of water supply for Salt River Project looked on.. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)

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Those will cost an estimated $31.9 million total, far less than the $50.9 million the state is set to receive.

But that’s just the first year. Lindsey Jones, senior program administrator at WIFA, said in an email that the agency expects to use the entire $50.9 million in federal funding for lead-pipe projects as more communities submit proposals for the remainder of this fiscal year.

Arizona has an estimated 12,000 lead pipes currently in service. But critics of the EPA funding formula note that Arizona’s need is low when compared to states like Illinois, which has an estimated 679,292 lead service lines, and Ohio, which has about 650,000.

Arizona is 10th-lowest among states for the number of pipes, according to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council. But the NRDC notes that Illinois is scheduled to get $106.6 million for lead service line projects, a little more than twice the allotment to Arizona, despite having 50 times as many problem pipes.

NRDC senior policy advocate Cyndi Roper blamed the disparity on the use of a 2015 survey by the EPA that determined what each state needed to improve its wa-

ter infrastructure. The survey is supposed to be updated every four years, but that update was delayed in 2019 and again in 2020 by the pandemic.

Roper said the next round of distribution could be made more equitable if the EPA were to update the survey to better reflect the needs of each state.

“We want them to move as quickly as possible because we don’t want to have any chance that they might miss the deadline for getting the formula right for the next allocation,” Roper said. That next round of funding would be for fiscal 2024, starting next July.

The EPA did not respond to requests for comment on the NRDC report on the funding formula.

Oppleman said ADEQ agrees that using the EPA survey to “distribute funds to the states in the defined categories misses the mark.” She suggested that funding be made more flexible for states to use as they need rather than directly linking it to specific projects, like lead-pipe replacement.

She highlighted the fact that the $13.6 million designated for PFAS cleanup projects is nowhere near the $80.5 million requested. Oppleman said PFAS is “a far larger-scale concern in terms of a resource need for Arizona.”

This chart shows how states differ in terms of the estimated cost improvements to water service infrastructure but those estimates are likely far below the actual cost because they are made in 2015 dollars. (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

Cherokee Elementary named Blue Ribbon School

Scottsdale

Unified School District’s Cherokee Elementary School was recently recognized for excellence as it was named a 2022 National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education on Sept. 16.

Nominated by the state Department of Education, the Pre-K-5 school received the coveted award based on student performance on state and national assessment tests. Fewer than 300 schools in Arizona won the recognition.

Cherokee Principal Walt Chantler said the learning environment created by his team of teachers and staff prioritizes high academic expectations and has the strong support of the school’s parent community.

“This award is the result of everyone working together to ensure that our students receive a first-class education,” Chantler said. “Our willingness to constantly improve is one of our strengths.

“Cherokee students work hard, are considerate, accountable and respectful, and are fully engaged in their learning on a

daily basis,” he added.

Cherokee was SUSD’s very first school to receive U.S. Blue Ribbon recognition in 1988. Six other SUSD schools have received the honor since then.

“Cherokee Elementary School’s Blue Ribbon designation is a testament to its stu-

dents’, staff’s, and community’s hard work and proof that Scottsdale public schools provide a world-class education,” SUSD Governing Board member Jann-Michael Greenburg said.

Superintendent Dr. Scott Menzel said, “This distinction is the result of hard work

and dedication by our students, staff, and families, with a focused commitment to creating a culture and climate that supports sustained achievement and student success.”

Bard member Libby Hart-Wells echoed that sentiment during the board meeting Sept. 20.

“I just wish to add my congratulations to the Cherokee staff, students, and parents and family,” she said. “They bested thousands of public, private and charter schools around the county for the second time to earn this award. A hardy congratulations.”

“I applaud all the honorees for the 2022 National Blue Ribbon Schools Award for creating vibrant, welcoming, and affirming school communities where students can learn, grow, reach their potential, and achieve their dreams,” U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said. Blue Ribbon Schools have gone above and beyond to keep students healthy and safe while meeting their academic, social, emotional, and mental health needs. These schools show what is possible to make an enduring, positive difference in students’ lives.”

Cherokee Elementary won a National Blue Ribbon from the U.S. Department of Education for creating a solid educational environment that encourages student success. (Courtesy of SUSD)

Scottsdale city manager retiring next month kind of

BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

Scottsdale

City Manager Jim Thompson is stepping down next month, but he’s not going anywhere just yet.

Thompson is retiring from his position on Oct. 10 but will begin a one-year stint as interim city manager.

“I have my own personal reasons for this request, much of it dictated by Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS) rules,” Thompson told city staff.

Scottsdale Interim Human Resources Director William Hylen noted in his re port to city council that Thompson wants to remain through next year’s Super Bowl season.

“That’s very big for the city,” Councilman Tom Durham said. “We’re very happy he’s going to be there for the Super Bowl.”

Thompson will take a pay cut as interim director. He currently earns $375,000 but will drop down to $347,000.

However, the move is not anticipated to save the city any money, according to Hylen.

“With the additional administrative fees paid to (Educational Services Incorporated – the contractor the city uses to manage re-hiring ASRS retirees) and additional savings that could also be realized under this new arrangement, the fiscal impact is

anticipated to be relatively neutral, but no more than his current total compensation,” Hylen told the council.

Thompson started with the city in Janu ary 2017.

He noted to staff in his email, “Being part of this community is something I enjoy im mensely. Scottsdale employees are the fin est public servants I have had the honor of working with over a 35-year career in a handful of different cities. Our mayor and city council have consistently supported this great organization, and I am thank ful for their leadership. This is an incred ible community in every sense, and I plan to continue my role for as long as the city council desires.”

Councilwoman Solange Whitehead not ed that after the one-year contract is up, “If he wanted to stay, he would have to apply like anyone else.”

She said the next step in the hiring pro cess “should be to draw up what we want to get done in the coming years.”

Linda Milhaven and Kathy Littlefield were the only current council members who were in office when Thompson was

hired.

“We’ve been lucky to have him,” Milhaven said. “I hate to see him go. I’m hoping we’ll take our time finding his replacement.”

When Thompson first began with the city, much of the staff was concerned about compensation levels not being com petitive, Milhaven said. So one of the first things Thompson did was to undertake a compensation study and bring salaries in line where necessary.

“That was a major, big win for him,” Mil haven said.

She also said Thompson “did a magnifi cent job with the COVID crisis.”

“He kept everybody safe; he kept every body calm,” she said.

He worked with hospitals and erred on the side of caution to make the city a safe place to work, she said.

Littlefield agrees Thompson has done a good job dealing with COVID and working through the building projects on the $319 million bond issue passed in 2019.

“I know we’ve had trouble with getting

Scottsdale City Manager Jim Thompson will stay on for a year as interim city man ager when he formally retires next month.

(Courtesy Scottsdale Rotary)

Small survey shows some people not happy living here

BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

people of color.

Women,

people of color and young adults aren’t as happy living in Scottsdale as other demographics because they feel a lower sense of community, see fewer opportunities to participate in community matters, and experience less openness and acceptance of diverse backgrounds.

That was the message Kacey Short, a Harvard Bloomberg City Leadership Initiative fellow, presented to the Scottsdale City Council earlier this month.

A national community survey showed in general, people are happy living in Scottsdale and want to live in town for at least the next five years, but there was some dissent among women, people of color and people between the ages of 18 and 34.

That’s where Short stepped in.

She surveyed 49 residents in 10 focus groups about their satisfaction with living in Scottsdale. Of people in those groups, 63% were women, 29% were between the ages of 18-24 and 67% identified as

She asked focus group members to describe their ideal community and they came up with words like “friendly,” “safe” and “diverse and inclusive.” However when asked to describe Scottsdale, they used words like “segregated” and “homogeneous.”

And she uncovered sentiments like the one given by an Hispanic woman over 55 who said, “It’s a beautiful town. If you’re affluent … you can fit in well.”

An African American woman over 55 said, “The city can reach out more because City Council meetings are intimidating. I can’t imagine people of color going there to ask for something culturally different.”

To overcome these hurdles, Short recommended city staff and elected officials work with residents to create engagement strategies, address the changing landscape by fostering existing minority-owned businesses and establish business diversity imperatives.

She also suggested they bring city hall to the community through strategies like manning booths at city-wide events and

Kacey Short, a Harvard Bloomberg City Leadership Initiative Scottsdale Scottsdale

“Whenever we have projects we want to introduce, we have meetings, but all of the meetings are around here and I feel that we need to get a more diverse voice in what people think about projects we are pursuing,” she said. “I really like your ideas about how to go about it; let’s use our libraries to meet with the people that are dispersed all over the city.”

Councilwoman Tammy Caputi agreed Scottsdale is “homogeneous” and that the city needs to pull in more diverse opinions when it comes to new plans and initiatives.

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attending morning coffee meetings at the Paiute Neighborhood Center.

Mayor David Ortega, who is a member of the Harvard Bloomberg City Leadership Initiative, said, “Many cities wish they had Scottsdale’s problems. I say that because there’s many obstacles in crime and infrastructure and other issues that provide big challenges, but I think also that if we want to improve things, we have to improve communication. That’s really the root of the solution in any case and good government.”

Councilwoman Betty Janik said she particularly liked the recommendation of having council members read to children at public libraries.

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(construction crews) and supplies,” she said.

However, Littlefield’s view of Thompson is mixed.

“He’s a little bit more pro-development than I would like,” she said. “I wish he would listen to the citizen’s a little more when it comes to development issues.”

Whitehead said Thompson is adapting to the makeup of the council. “Much of his time he worked with a very pro-development council and now he’s working with a ‘less is more’ council’” she said.

It’s a tough position but it’s one Thompson has handled well, Whitehead said.

“I feel like we’re always hearing the same voices,” she said. “I don’t necessarily have the solution but I do think we need to do a better job of including other voices. When we go to meetings and outreach meetings and hearings of all sorts, we tend to get the same people speaking. Even in council meetings which I agree are very intimidating for all of us.

“We’re always hearing from the same people so I do think it’s really important that we try to increase our reach. I think these are some great first steps and lets just keep pushing the needle,” Caputi added. “We would definitely benefit from hearing from more young people from a more diverse crowd of folks.”

Councilwoman Kathy Littlefield said she liked Short’s recommendations but “was a little concerned about a sampling of 49 people in a town of about a quarter million. I think we need a bigger sampling and to be able to reach more people to get a broader base and lower any kind of error margins for that kind of a testing.”

“He has seven bosses, you know,” Whitehead said.

She also praised him for building a strong report with city employees and reigning in some of the city’s financial priorities.

Councilwoman Betty Janik said it will be hard finding someone to fill Thompson’s shoes. He has a good relationship with local businesses and has done a good job with cleaning up after storms.

“He’s done a very good job with placing people where we need them, like with short-term rentals,” Janik said.

Thompson and Mayor David Ortega did not respond to a request for comment for this article. Councilwoman Tammy Caputi said she had no comment.

BY RITHWIK KALALE Cronkite News

When Brenda Dickason switched from private insurance to Medicare shortly after turning 65, she was shocked at how much more she had to pay for the EpiPens she keeps on hand because of her severe bee allergy.

“When I got my EpiPen on regular insurance, it was $40 for two. When I went to get it last year on Medicare, it was over $300,” said Dickason, a retired Tucson police detective and former middle school science teacher who sells specialty soaps and seasonal wreaths at craft shows for extra income.

Dickason said her booth is often swarming with bees because of the scent. She also has to manage her asthma and a latex allergy.

“The season is starting, and I work to pay my Medicare and my insurance,” she said. “So I have to make a choice: Do I go without the EpiPen, or do I buy supplies I need for my job?”

Under the Inflation Reduction Act, Dickason and millions of other Americans no longer will have to shell out thousands of dollars to pay for prescription medications through Medicare, the federal health insurance program for those 65 or older and people with disabilities.

The sweeping measure includes several provisions aimed at reducing the cost of prescription drugs for the 64 million Americans on Medicare.

In addition to cutting drug costs, the act extends tax credits to those insured under the Affordable Care Act – preventing an estimated 2 million people nationally and 41,000 Arizonans from losing coverage and ensuring others avoid premium increases.

“What the (inflation) act will do is improve affordability for Americans who purchase coverage from the health insurance marketplaces across the board by improving the amount of tax credits that those folks are eligible for,” said Christina Cousart, senior policy associate at the National Academy for State Health Policy.

“Eleven million individuals are now enrolled in marketplace coverage,

largely because of these affordability provisions, and that will be maintained because of this (law)."

Experts call the new law one of the most significant steps toward improving health care in the country since the 2010 passage of the ACA, then-President Barack Obama’s signature policy.

One big change allows the federal government to begin negotiating drug prices directly with manufacturers of 10 drugs starting in 2026 and 10 more drugs by 2029. That’s expected to reduce government spending by about $100 billion over 10 years, according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.

“That’s huge savings to Medicare beneficiaries, as well as the Medicare program,” said Dana Kennedy, the state director of AARP Arizona.

Many provisions of the new law affect only those enrolled in Medicare and, specifically, Medicare Part D, which covers prescription drugs. About 1.3 million people in Arizona are enrolled in Medicare, with just over 1 million in Medicare Part D, federal data show.

Medicare enrollees who have diabetes or require vaccines will be the first to reap the benefits of the new policies. Starting in 2023, Medicare beneficiaries will pay no more than $35 a month for insulin – for which prices have soared in recent years.

And although influenza vaccines are always free under Medicare, other shots, including the shingles vaccine, often require co-pays. Under the new law, Kennedy said, “vaccines will also be free for Medicare beneficiaries.”

Kennedy recalled hearing from one woman recently who was quoted $400 for a shingles vaccine. “She actually got shingles because she couldn’t afford” the shot, she said.

Starting in 2025, Medicare Part D enrollees also will see a new $2,000 cap on annual out-of-pocket spending for drugs. That will save a lot of money for people with conditions that require expensive prescriptions.

For example, Medicare enrollees using the cancer drug Revlimid spent nearly $9,000 out of pocket in 2019, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.

Another provision will penalize drug companies if prices for drugs covered under Medicare rise faster than the rate of inflation. Sarah Bourland, legislative director for the advocacy group Patients for Affordable Drugs, said that could help all Americans by incentivizing drug manufacturers to keep prices in check.

“The monetary penalties paid by drug manufacturers that hike their prices

are based on Medicare sales and paid back to the Medicare program,” Bourland said, adding:

“But this does not mean Medicare beneficiaries will be the only ones that benefit or that prices will rise in other sectors. That’s because the penalties are based on market-wide measures of prices. This should discourage drug

companies from hiking prices in the private sector as well.

“Commercial payers are not helpless here,” Bourland added. “They have a tremendous amount of market power to push back on potential price increases.”

Federal research shows that Americans pay two to three times more for prescription drugs than people in other countries.

For Dickason, those increased costs have been hard to manage.

She had to utilize coupons through GoodRx to get her EpiPens, an injection device that delivers epinephrine to counter life-threatening allergic reactions. That cut the cost to about $150. But Dickason also uses an inhaler because of severe asthma and needs Botox injections to help alleviate chronic migraines. Botox alone can cost $800.

Although it will take time for some of the law’s cost-saving provisions to go into effect, Dickason is hopeful that once they do, she’ll have more money to spend on other necessities.

“It’s actually more than just income,”

Scottsdale forbids HOA overseeding mandates

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officials say the city is believed to be the first in Arizona to forbid homeowners associations from mandating overseeding in their communities.

Scottsdale City Council approved a code amendment Sept. 19 that forbids HOA overseeding mandates and a city spokesman said the move gives homeowners “an effective way to save thousands of gallons of water per property.”

Fall is the traditional season for planting seasonal grass over dormant, warm season grass.

Stating Council’s directive “came as a direct result of the water supply shortages on the Colorado River” and the possibility of further cuts to Arizona’s water supply early next year, the city issued a statement that said:

“Scottsdale Water and Council listened to homeowners frustrated with their HOAs who mandated them to overseed their Bermuda grass. Benefits to not overseeding include lower water bills, less

maintenance, and increased water conservation. It is also the healthiest option for a summer lawn.’

Scottsdale already has launched a campaign against overseeding with a motto that says, “Overseeding uses a lot of water. It is the right thing NOT to do.”

“The result has been an overwhelming positive response from both homeowners and HOAs on the efforts the City is making to reduce its water footprint,” the city’s statement said.

It said one city water customer wrote, “I decided last season not to overseed the back yard and it not only looked awesome, but we received all the benefits of low watering, ozone protection, time, money, and much healthier Bermuda this summer which had significantly lower weeds than my front yard Bermuda- requiring less herbicides, less repair and attention.”

It also said Montage HOA “aw incredible results when they decided to not overseed their green belt last year.”

Montage HOA President Paul Traiforos was quoted as stating, “My community HOA voted to not overseed last winter for

the first time in our history to help conserve water. We saved over 1,200,000 gallons of water during a 4-month period. That is enough to fill 120 average size residential pools. We plan on doing the same this year and have reduced irrigation use by 40% over the past year.”

Council’s action comes amid continuing uncertainty about the next move that federal officials will make to reduce Colorado River water consumption.

In a statement released Sept. 22, the U.S. Department of Interior reiterated its determination to cut allocations to Arizona and the other Lower Basin States “to ensure that the Colorado River System can sustainably deliver vital water supplies, power and other services.”

It also said it aims to ensure “that the Lower Basin states continue to work on developing voluntary measures and agreements to conserve water and finalizing those agreements as soon as possible."

Interior officials have scheduled “listening sessions” Friday, Sept. 30, for states and other stakeholders to discuss future measures.

State GOP chief must surrender phone records, judge rules

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

The House committee investigating the events around the Jan. 6 riot is entitled to get the phone records of the head of the Arizona Republican Party, a federal judge in Phoenix ruled last week.

U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa rejected the arguments by Kelli Ward that the subpoena lacks a valid legislative purpose. She said it is clear that the House empowered the panel to look into not only the events of that day but also make recommendations for changes in laws, policies and procedures as the committee “may deem necessary.’’

And Humetewa said that courts generally defer to the decisions of lawmakers about the scope of their investigations.

The judge was no more impressed by Ward’s arguments that the subpoena will endanger not only her rights but those of the entire Arizona Republican Party.

It seeks the phone numbers of those she called or texted, or who called or texted her, as well as those of her husband, Michael. He, like his wife, were part of a slate of fake electors submitted to Congress saying, incorrectly, that Donald Trump had won the state’s 11 electors.

“If the subpoena is not quashed, members of the AZGOP will be made to feel that every time they communicate with party leadership, they risk those communications disclosed to law enforcement followed by a knock on the door (or worse) from federal investigators,’’ argued Alexander Kolodin, her attorney. “A stronger risk of associational chilling can scarcely be imagined.’’

Kolodin also argued that because the House panel is controlled by Democrats that it would use the information in the phone records “to harass or persecute political rivals by inquiring into their dealings with the party chair.’’

And he even claimed that giving the list of Ward’s phone contacts might induce people to quit the Arizona GOP

“and dissuade others from joining it because of fear of exposure of their beliefs rhrough their associations and the consequences of this exposure.’’

But Humetewa called those contentions “highly speculative.’’

“Plaintiffs have provided no evidence to support their contention that producing the phone numbers associated with this account will chill the rights of plaintiffs or the Arizona GOP,’’ the judge wrote. She said that, at best, the claims “constitute a subjective fear of future reprisal,’’ something that federal appellate judges have said is insufficient to show any infringements on associational rights.

And, if nothing else, Humetewa said she has to presume the committee “will exercise its powers responsibly and with due regard for the plaintiffs’ rights.’’

The judge also said she was not buying arguments that the records from any phones that Ward and her husband were using – both are doc-

tors – would violate the rights of their patients who used those numbers to contact them on those lines. She said the House panel was not seeking confidential contents of any patient’s medical records.

Ward already has filed paperwork asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the ruling.

In refusing to quash the subpoena, Humetewa agreed with arguments by Douglas Letter, the general counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives. He told the judge in his own legal filing that the committee wants only call data, things like the numbers of calls and texts sent and received, not actual content.

“But the real key, Letter said, is that this is not some wide-ranging request. He pointed out what the committee wants covers only from Nov. 1, 2020, just prior to Election Day, through Jan. 31, 2021.

“That date range was specifically designed to obtain information referring are relating to activities sur-

rounding the 2020 presidential election, including false assertions that the election had been stolen and actions related to the appointment of an alternative slate of electors from Arizona,’’ he said.

It is Ward’s role in all of that the committee seeks to discover.

“Dr. Kelli Ward participated in multiple aspects of these attempts to interfere with the electoral count in Jan. 6,’’ he said. “She told officials in Maricopa County to stop counting ballots and promoted inaccurate allegations of election interference by Dominion Voting Systems.’’

“While Congress was recessed due to the mob’s violence and attack on the Capitol, Dr. Ward continued to advocate for overturning the results of the election,’’ Letter said, citing a Jan. 6 Twitter post. And even after the riot and congressional certification of Biden’s win, he said, Ward continued to maintain that the slate of fake electors contained “the rightful and true presidential electors for 2020.’’

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Scottsdale woman starts drive for composting

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

LaurenClick has never been a fan of seeing waste dumped in a land�ill or on the ground.

In early 2021 Click was part of a large cleanup project behind her apartment complex at The Halsten at Chauncey Lane near Scottsdale Road and Loop 101 and although she has since relocated to McCormick Ranch, her efforts to properly dispose of trash have not ceased.

Click began researching composting and purchased a high-dollar composting machine but then realized there was a cheaper alternative to handling food waste.

She discovered that the same result could be achieved with an old trash can, some newspapers, leaves, mulch, dirt and – most importantly – worms.

“After getting the bin and doing it for about six months, I said, ‘why have I been paying for these things when I can do it out of a free bucket that I could �ind on the side of the road and $5 worms from PetSmart or free from a community garden?”

The composts work best with two bins, with the second used to collect any seeping water or waste.

From there, she drilled holes in the bottom of one bucket and stuffed it with her worm habitat before disposing of eggshells, stale toast, cardboard, banana peels and other biodegradable wastes in the bins.

After seeing success from her compost, Click wanted to spread the word.

“I saw like the gap in the market and I didn’t want to see people getting screwed over for having to spend $100 to $300 thinking that’s what they need to compost when it’s relatively free and shouldn’t be such a commodity.”

Click began spreading the word to her sister and the trend caught on in her community.

Although there were several misconceptions about composting –the biggest being that it would create a pungent smell – Click said that when done right, her composts have been odorless.

“If you have the right mix of browns and greens, as they like to say will be completely odorless,” Click said.

She also noted that she eliminated the is-

sues of having to keep her dogs out of the trash and taking out the trash frequently.

“I love not having to take the trash out as much. I love that my dogs are trying to get in the trash because there are no food scraps in there,” Click said.

Following her success came requests from her neighbors to try out her composting methods.

Because of her soaring demand, Click began reaching out to businesses to take their excess bins off their hands.

She was able to score some excess bins from Crumbl cookies off of Hayden Road and McCormick Parkway, PIEfection on the corner of 90th street and Via Linda and the Safeway grocery store off of Chaparral Road and Hayden Road.

However, Click still doesn’t have enough bins to accommodate the 50 people she currently has on a waiting list to receive their free composters.

So, she is searching for more businesses to donate discarded bins to her efforts to promote composting.

“I’ve been calling around and trying to get more donors to donate regularly,” Click said.

Despite having success with grocery stores she still has a growing list of neighbors interested in composting.

“I’d like love to get more support there from people who maybe work at a cafe and just want to start collecting buckets that I can pick up once a month,” Click said.

Although she mostly wants to �ind more buckets to give out, Click also wants to create a community project similar to the Free Library and Phoenix Plant Stand movements. in which the community rallies around a cause and the cause almost becomes self-sustaining with the number of people that contribute to it.

Click also said she is in the process of �iling for nonpro�it status for her organization, Let’s Go Compost, so that she could give patrons a tax-deductible receipt for their donation of buckets.

“My goal is to be able to offer that incentive to major corporations in addition to informing them that by using their waste, we are helping out the environment,” Click said.

For more information: letsgocompost.

Scottsdale resident Lauren Click creates buckets of compost, complete with worms she raises. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)

Old newspapers, food scraps, dead leaves and other organic matter break down into compost in a bucket. (David Minton/Progres Staff Photographer)

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OdySea Aquarium re-launches animal encounters

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

Guestsat OdySea Aquarium who have been waiting to have an encounter with penguins or a sloth, feed stingrays or take a behind-the-scenes tour can �inally rejoice.

OdySea Aquarium re-launched these programs, though the tours and encounters will only be available on weekends and select weekdays for the time being to allow the animals to re-acclimate to human interactions after not having any for over two years.

“It’s something that a lot of people were looking forward to when we had them, pre-COVID and I think that based on the response that we’ve already gotten, it’s pretty clear that people enjoyed that opportunity to be able to get up close and personal with some of the different animals here,” said Josh Jarnagin, OdySea Aquarium senior animal care specialist.

Despite the high demand for animal encounters, the aquarium is only offering encounters on weekends and will offer two time slots for groups of eight to 10 people to interact with a sloth or a waddle of penguins.

The creatures have not interacted with strangers for two years because of pandemic-related restrictions.

“Because we just brought them back online, this is kind of to gauge the interest from our guests, but also to make sure that we approximate (the interest) for the animals,” Jarnagin said.

“The animals are always our number one concern and so we want to make sure that we ease them back into that operation of potentially going seven days a week.”

As another precaution, each interaction will begin with a brief seminar where guests will learn fun facts about the animals and receive instructions on how to pet the animals.

OdySea Aquarium senior animal care specialist Josh Jarnagin is excited to allow guests to encounter animals like Barny the sloth after a two-year pause on animal encounters. (Orlando Pelagio/Progress Contributor)

“One of the �irst things is we always we teach people is how to touch them, where to touch them and when to stop touching them,” Jarnagin said.

“Most people, for whatever reason, have an instinct to go for the face or the head to touch and that’s probably the worst place you want to touch any animal because that’s where their teeth are, that’s where their eyes are and it’s startling to most animals. So, we always touch our animals on the backside of their body usually going

away from their head.”

In addition to educating guests about the animals, specialists use these interactions as an opportunity to drive home OdySea Aquariums’ conservation efforts.

“In all of our educational programming, we do have conservation messaging that goes along with it,” Jarnagin said.

“With our sloth program and our penguin program, we talk speci�ically about certain threats that those animals face and we give guests opportunities on things

that you do when you go home or things that you can take away with you like websites or brands to shop from that also promote that same goal of conservation.”

Jarnagin also admits that once guests get an up-close and personal experience with these creatures spurs a newfound love for the creatures.

“The opportunity to have that up-close interaction gives guests a better appreciation and understanding of the animals,” he said. “Plus, guests get to learn from the animal care specialists themselves as they get to learn from the people who take care of those animals daily and ask them questions, so it kind of gives us that up-close educational opportunity.”

Not only is the encounter informative for guests, but Jarnagin also says it can be an emotional experience.

“Sometimes we get people who cry because it’s an emotional experience for them to be able to see some of these animals that they see in pictures or movies or read about but never have the opportunity to meet.”

These exclusive interactions are not the only thing to return to OdySea Aquarium as guests can once again feed the sting rays or take an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour to see how food is prepared for the animals and get a rare look at the top of OdySea’s 450,000-gallon shark habitat.

Tickets are selling fast for all experiences.

If you go

What: OdySea Aquarium animal encounters and tours

When: Weekends and select weekdays. See website for times.

Where: OdySea Aquarium

Cost: Sloth and penguin encounters are $64.95 each, behind the scenes shark tour is $9.95. Admission is not included in these prices.

Info: odyseaaquarium.com

OdySea Aquarium senior animal care specialist Josh Jarnagin is excited to allow guests to encounter animals like Barny the sloth after a two-year pause on animal encounters. (Orlando Pelagio/Progress Contributor)

Scottsdale Unified board speak about the race, issues

The Progress invited the candidates for Scottsdale Uni�ied School District Governing Board to write two Op Ed columns on a topic of their choice. These are their �irst columns. They were advised to keep within a 550-600-word limit and told that their columns would be edited for space in print but run in their entirety at Scottsdale.org with their questionnaires.

Carney: SUSD needs proven parent leaders

BY AMY CARNEY Progress Guest Writer

Inthe past, most of us have not put much thought or care into voting for local school board members, especially if we don’t have children being educated in the district.

However, we have learned how impor-

tant these elections are, and it’s imperative we pay attention to the non-partisan races at the bottom of our ballots this year.

The people we send to the school board can profoundly impact the direction of our district, and we must elect proven parent leaders who have been invested in our schools to represent us.

As a mother of six children educated in our Scottsdale Uni�ied schools, I’m stepping up to serve on the district’s govern-

ing board because I have always been a champion for children, parents, families, teachers, and our community.

My husband and I graduated our �irstborn triplet sons and daughter from Chaparral in 2020 and 2021. We recently adopted our two younger sons from foster care here in Arizona, and they are currently enrolled in our Scottsdale public schools.

In addition, I am a writer, speaker, and

entrepreneur working with parents and families in our community and nationally.

So, serving on our local school board is a natural extension of how I have already been living my life personally and professionally: with purpose and integrity.

Our public schools must be a strong pillar in our community. Therefore, we need to elect leaders who will ensure that we

Keck: I want children to maximize their potential

BY ANDREA KECK Progress Guest Writer

Why am I running?

To see every child maximize their potential and graduate with the academic and life skills needed to succeed in their next chapter. My focus will be:

Academics

I’m the only candidate who from the very beginning has had improving academics as their �irst priority, and who has a concrete plan for doing so. I was the �irst candidate to demand ANY academic accountability for our current Superintendent.

There are many things to celebrate within SUSD. However, we’re failing at our most important task: to educate.

• Before COVID, 54% of high-schoolers weren’t pro�icient in English, Math, & Science

• 40% of 3rd-8th graders aren’t pro�icient in English or Math

• SUSD ranks 6th of 10 suburban districts in 10th grade Math We must do better.

Safety

Recently a student was INSIDE Arcadia H.S. with a gun in his backpack. We must

secure campuses to keep students/staff safe.

Parental rights/transparency

I adamantly oppose political and sexual indoctrination; and divisive, identitybased curricula. Time spent on these detracts from academics. Schools assist, but cannot supersede, parents in raising children. Parents have the right to know

Gaudio: I have a proven record of collaboration

BY MARY GAUDIO Progress Guest Writer

What began as frustrations over COVID school closures and safety protocols in America’s public schools has morphed into a nationwide misinformation campaign involving critical race theory, LGBTQ+

education, social-emotional learning, and more.

These issues have motivated an increased number of candidates to run for school board positions across the nation.

Here in Scottsdale Uni�ied School District, there are �ive candidates vying for two open seats on the Governing Board this November. On one end, there are candidates running on a platform steeped in radical-conservatism. On the

other end, there are two candidates running in defense of public education and support of teachers’ and students’ rights.

Please choose wisely!

Governing board members are unpaid, elected of�icials who serve as ambassadors for public education and as advocates for the students they serve.

I am one of the two candidates running in defense of public education and support of our teachers and students. I

wish to serve my community and ful�ill the governing board’s purpose of providing the best education possible for every child in our community.

Unfortunately, the culture war being waged against public education has made this race all too political.

School board races are nonpartisan, so you won’t �ind a D or an R after our

Vaules: I seek the best for Scottsdale public education

BY ROBB VAULES Progress Guest Writer

Iam a business executive in health care, current board president of the Arizona Center for Disability Law, proud Scottsdale Uni�ied School District graduate. Most importantly, I am a parent. My son, Anderson, is a recent special needs graduate of SUSD.

I have volunteered as a member of Desert Mountain’s site counsel and have answered the call to assist in the classroom as a substitute teacher.

Through my role on the governing board, my goal is to improve the district by increasing the academic performance of all students, while assuring the district is a welcome place for all students.

A main priority is to attract and retain the best educators. Our district faces many challenges, but with continued excellent leadership from Superintendent Menzel and a governing board steadfast

in its commitment to public education, SUSD will continue to improve and grow.

Unfortunately, making sure that all students feel welcome in our district has drawn the ire of a select group of noisy individuals who seek to marginalize othered populations and to target those teachers and candidates who support the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community with allegations of criminal sexual deviancy.

Using defamatory and slanderous verbiage like “groomers” and “pedophiles” and utilizing harassing anonymous accounts on social media pages, some seeking to destroy our neighborhood schools attack anyone who supports our schools, our teachers, and our community.

Several days ago, it was brought to my attention that a Twitter account was created featuring clips from pornographic videos with my head superimposed on some of the actors. Since I began running for of�ice, anonymous opponents and some well-known community activists have relentlessly targeted my cam-

paign, me, my family and private citizens with allegations of criminal sexual deviancy that I will not dignify.

The threats to my family have been harder to bear. … It is unfortunate that these opponents hate gay people so much that they think that portraying me having homosexual sex is the worst insult they could possibly give someone.

Unlike my opponents, I stand with Mayor Ortega and the Scottsdale City Council and support the Scottsdale’s anti-discrimination ordinance…

These same individuals have made a concerted effort to weaken our educational system in Scottsdale by cheering on legislation that restricts educational freedom, defunds our schools, demonizes our teachers, childishly mocks SUSD’s administration, and outright lies about what happens in our children’s classrooms.

…

What the children and parents and taxpayers of our community deserve is robust debate and open dialogue that is transparent and intentional.

My intent is to serve our schools and,

therefore, the future economic interests of our community.

The truth is, the Scottsdale Uni�ied Schools are safe, excellent, well-run educational institutions that we, its residents, are responsible for maintaining.

Our district has a 125-year track record of producing some of the brightest and most talented children who grow and develop and graduate and accomplish great things.

Our schools stand as places that are open to everyone. Without them, most children in need of special services would never receive them. That would be a tragedy. We must all protect their access to special programs.

Please, join me in protecting the district from con artists wanting to distract us from the truly important things that will make our community better: equitable and inclusive schools that strive for academic excellence. I stand resolute in my commitment to our community that all students, parents, educators, and neighbors will be seen and heard as we strive towards excellence.

Werner: A public school mom who wants to serve

BY CARINE WERNER Progress Guest Writer

t 11 years old, I landed on the tarmac to “America” by Neil Diamond playing over the loudspeakers. Three weeks later, I walked into a public-school classroom and stood for the Pledge of Allegiance. While I did not speak English, I knew at that moment I was in the greatest country on earth.

As a public-school mom of three, I have been involved in our Scottsdale Unified Schools for a decade, as my youngest just graduated in May. I attend board meetings — even the ones no one else goes to. I meet with administrators and review the curriculum on their devices; I know where the bad stuff is and have a plan to remove it. I served on various committees in SUSD and have built relationships with par-

ents, teachers, and administrators.

AIn May 2020, the community was in lockdown, and Zoom was the new classroom, while athletic programs and extracurricular activities were canceled. I recognized the harmful impacts that closing down these outlets had on students. So I took action and launched a campaign, rallying 140 parents, and successfully got sports and extracurricular activities restarted. I recently spoke with a coach in the athletic department who told me, “Carine, had you not done that, we would not have had sports in 2020.”

I have witnessed the steady decline in merit-based academics, with test scores tanking and teachers leaving the district in droves. Even the eightyear age gap between my oldest and youngest has revealed stark differences in how our children are educated.

In 2021 the 10th-grade math proficiency rate at Coronado High School was 8%, and Desert Mountain High

School was 49%, according to the state exam. Not one of SUSD’s five high schools graduated their students at above 50% proficiency in math or ELA.

We must:

• Put our students and academic achievement first.

• Empower parents and give our community a voice.

• Support our quality teachers-putting more money back in the classroom.

• Build a culture of trust – ensuring transparency and accountability.

• Restore traditional education, focusing on academics, not politics, and return to developing students’ interests, not identities.

Real change will take common-sense leaders who can influence others to see their vision for our schools. I am that leader who experienced the disarray in our district, and I am committed to getting our public schools back on track for Scottsdale students, parents, teachers, and our community. As your

next school board member, I will bring an enduring passion to secure our children’s future, respect for our parents, restore trust, and build consensus without compromising our values. However, most importantly, I have a proven track record of positively impacting our community.

I‘m ready to serve our community on the Scottsdale Unified Governing Board. With an extensive professional background in finance, as a business owner, and on-the-ground experience in causing positive change for students, parents, teachers, and community members, there is no better voice to advocate for you. Learn more here: wernerforsusd.com

Editor’s note: In the Sept. 18 edition, the Progress inadvertently misidentified Carine Werner in her questionnaire responses on page 4. She was correctly identified on our website and you can read her questionnaire at Scottsdale. org under the election 2022 link.

offer rigorous academics and enriching extracurriculars so parents can con�idently send their sons and daughters to our neighborhood schools. We must strive to retain and attract quality educators and employees as well.

We must elect proven parent leaders to our board who have a vested interest in the success of our district.

We don’t need anyone representing us who suddenly decided they care about our public schools even though they’ve never had a child in them and have never been involved before this election season.

Instead, we need to elect parents like myself, who have built positive working relationships in the schools and the community.

Five candidates are running for two seats on our Scottsdale Governing Board.

Carine Werner and I have graduated seven students from SUSD between us, while the other three candidates have only had one student in our schools between them.

We no longer need out-of-touch or goalong-to-get-along board members who put the education establishment before students and parents in Scottsdale Uni�ied.

While our statewide races can be the attention-grabbers, we must pay attention to the down-ballot races because who

we elect to our local school board matters much more than you think.

Whether you are a parent with kids in the schools or a concerned voter living in the district, now is the time to send common-sense, proven leadership to Scottsdale Uni�ied. Vote Amy Carney and Carine Werner on Nov. 8 to put students �irst again.

Learn more about my campaign at amycarneyforsusd.com.

everything their minor children experience at school.

Fiscal Responsibility

Prioritize spending on core subjects, reduce overhead/waste, spend tax dollars wisely producing a good return on investment

Why Me?

I am the most quali�ied candidate in this race, with top-tier academic credentials and BOTH signi�icant business AND education experience.

• Both my parents were teachers, so I’m clearly an advocate for teachers!

• Graduated in the Top 1% of my class

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names. Our names appear further down the ballot. Your choices of candidates are in stark contrast with one another.

My plea is for all SUSD voters to take the time to research the governing board candidates and cast your vote for the two candidates you believe will work collaboratively and respectfully with their fellow board members to deliver the excellent education our students deserve and

at age 20 from the Indiana University School of Business. Have an MBA with majors in Finance and Marketing from the University of Chicago, ranked again as the #1 graduate business school in the country.

• Have six children/grandchildren, with a combined 65-years of public-school education.

• Scottsdale resident 25 years.

• Proven community leader--- founding member of the core leadership team that produced one of the most signi�icant city-wide victories in recent history (approval of Prop 420 preventing development in the Sonoran Preserve).

• I spent the bulk of my corporate career

as a brand manager for Kraft Foods and NutraSweet, managing $100-millionto-$300-million businesses such as Parkay Margarine and Celestial Seasonings Tea.

• More than the typical parental activities, I also have nearly 30 years of substantive experience in education.

• Founded my own education company 11 years ago: writing curriculum for, teaching, and coaching over 1000 7th12th students.

• Both Gifted and Special Ed experience.

• Eight years at Pappas Schools, whose entire enrollment consisted of homeless children.

• Seven years on Board of BoysHope-

GirlsHope Arizona.

• Established numerous community partnerships supporting schools.

• Mentored more underprivileged students than I can count!

I strongly believe education should be a non-partisan issue. I’m steadfastly independent. Not managed or endorsed by any political organizations (as all of the other candidates are); I’m beholden to no one. My only loyalties are to students, staff, parents, and taxpayers.

I’d be honored to work for you, and for all of Scottsdale’s children, as a member of the SUSD Governing Board.

“What the heck, vote for Keck!” VoteAndreaSUSD.com.

are committed to the continued success of our Scottsdale schools.

My professional experience in advertising account management, 14 years of service as a classroom volunteer, board leadership in PTAs and communitybased organizations, and two years of substitute teaching will serve me well as a school board member.

I have a proven track record of working in collaboration with families, teachers, and administrators to support stu-

dent learning and academic growth in public schools.

I listen. I make thoughtful decisions. I understand the impact those decisions have on students, families, teachers, and staff.

I believe a teacher’s work includes helping students understand the world around them. It includes teaching the full, complex story of our nation’s history. This includes teaching the facts, regardless of how uncomfortable those

facts may make us feel. Learning that everyone deserves respect creates a safer, more inclusive environment for all students and staff.

If elected, I will work with my fellow board members to foster an environment in which all students can thrive and everyone, including our educators, feels safe, valued, and respected.

This race matters to our students, our teachers, and our entire community. I would be honored to have your vote.

Experience matters in race for Scottsdale City Council seat

The candidates for Scottsdale City Council have been narrowed down to the final two: Pamela Carter and Barry Graham. The two hold similar visions for Scottsdale. Both share an opposition to new apartments. Both are native Arizonans. Both are active in Republican politics; both are precinct committeemen.

It’s in the matter of experience where the two candidates separate.

Pamela Carter is experienced in media, having worked on both sides of the camera. Carter hosted both talk shows and fitness programs that ran on cable networks. She has directed and produced feature films and documentaries, some winning awards at the Houston International Film Festival. Carter served on the business side as station manager of a local television station.

Earlier, Carter co-founded and managed a sports medicine and fitness facility in Scottsdale with ASU’s great powerlifter Jon Cole, her husband at the time. Currently she provides consulting services through her business, Creative Genius Media.

Carter has a long history of serving through charitable non-profits as well. She is presently on the board of Help4Kidz, a nationally recognized outreach to at-risk youth and families.

Thus Carter has decades of experience in working with people of all types, starting and operating businesses, producing products and services, bringing people together, developing solutions, pressing for change.

Barry Graham has worked as an accountant with a local accounting firm for less than twelve years. In that capacity he audits businesses and assists

with tax preparation. Before that, Graham spent three years as an analyst for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, while in school.

Graham previously served on various seven-member Scottsdale commissions, through which he opined on proposals presented on behalf of businesses.

The difference is dramatic.

Pamela Carter: decades of experience working with people, building businesses, managing operations, organizing and producing. Learning from others and sharing with others. Creating value.

Barry Graham: early stage of an accounting career. Audits the financial records of what businesses have already done. And reviewed developers’ proposals for Scottsdale.

Our current Scottsdale City Council

consists of accomplished and highly experienced people. Mayor Ortega is an architect who designed several buildings in Old Town. Tammy Caputi built an electrical supply business from scratch. Kathy Littlefield and her husband Bob developed an IT business. Others are experienced professionals – engineering, education, and law.

Whether you agree with the Council’s decisions, one thing you can count on: They make their judgments using the wisdom they’ve gained from experience. Experience in business. Experience with people. Yes, experience matters. A lot.

As you make your choice for Scottsdale City Council, pay heed to the candidates’ experience.

-George Ertel

Arts & Entertainment

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BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

What’s more western for the West’s Most Western Town than horses?

A stampede of Arabian stallions is heading for town and it’s not part of the Arabian Horse Show at West World –though the show is the title sponsor of the event.

The life-size stallions – 36 of them in all – are made of fiberglass. They will be painted by local artists and put on dis play in Scottsdale’s Old Town, Fashion Square and the Waterfront before they are auctioned off for charity.

Charles Kester, who mastermind ed the project for the Rotary Club of Scottsdale Foundation hopes to make $300,000 from the auction during the

first year of the program, though he’s hoping to improve that total to as much as $1 million in the future.

“It’s a community celebration of the arts,” Kester said. “It benefits the people

who get to view the art. It benefits the artists in that they get exposure and for some people who are starting out, they get a chance to make some money. It benefits area businesses because it cre

ates foot traffic and it helps the city as a whole because it kind of reinforces the concept of place.”

Painted stallions stampeding into Scottsdale for charity ariZoni awards returning with gusto to arts center

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

TheariZoni awards are set to re turn to the Center for the Perform ing Arts and that’s good news for the 35 community theaters that will be represented at the awards ceremony.

The 32nd annual awards are set to oc cur on Oct. 3 and as good as that news is for those theaters, it is better news for Meribeth Reeves who wears many hats as both the managing director for the Center for the Performing Arts and the president of the ariZoni awards.

“We are looking forward to this,” Reeves said. “To celebrate that we have made it through these two years and we’re going to be back over 200 pro ductions again being adjudicated, we’re looking forward to seeing just every body coming back and being a part of

what we do.”

To say that the past two years have been arduous for Reeves would be an understatement.

Reeves took on the role of President of the ariZoni awards in 2019. Her first cel ebration – the first time the awards were hosted at the Center for the Performing Arts - was a hit.

The next two were unlike anything Reeves could have imagined.

The show was moved to a virtual for mat in 2020 and a small pool of shows to be judged because of the pandemic. That was the first-year virtual theatre was added as an adjudicated category of the awards.

In 2021, Reeves had planned to hold a pre-show party that included perfor mances by the casts nominated for best

Meribeth Reeves, second from left, is ariZoni awards president and Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts managing director and is excited to have the awards back in person this year. (Facebook)

These are examples of the life-sized horses that will be painted by invited artists and auctioned off by the Rotary Club of Scottsdale Foundation to raise money for charities. (Courtesy of Charlie Kester)

overall production outdoors in the atrium by the center.

But Mother Nature had other ideas and the show was rained out forcing the festivities indoors.

Although Reeves said both events were successes, she is anxious to go back to the traditional in-person setting but impart some lessons she learned from the past two years of celebrations.

“This year, we’re finally returning to a little bit more of what our normal is but we’ve also learned from these other two awards the connections of coming together and celebrating and having fun are important,” Reeves said.

“People generally did not miss the extra length of the celebration; they liked the short and sweet. So, we’re incorporating a lot of things that we did that allowed it to be short and sweet and yet, we’re bringing back the performances.”

This year’s youth and adult celebrations will each have three performances by theatres nominated for best overall production.

“Because the ceremonies will be a little bit shorter and we will have a little

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The horses – portrayed in a variety of poses ranging from rearing to grazing –will arrive in town in October. Local artists will then be selected to paint them in “everything from realistic to fanciful,” by December. Besides the name recognition, artists will also get 20% of the proceeds from the auction of the horse they worked on.

Once the horses are completed – including a cover of automotive clear coat to protect the paint – they will be leased to local companies for three months for $10,000. There will be downloadable maps identifying the “stampede trail” and possibly a scavenger hunt.

“The horses will be stampeding around Scottsdale from the second week in January through March,” Kester said.

The horses will be auctioned on April 15 at Royal Arabians equestrian training and breeding facility. Forty percent of the proceeds from each horse will go to a charity chosen by the business that leased it and the remaining 40% will go

bit more time between the ceremonies and after, people can come to connect and hang out in the atrium, have a good time and see everybody, which is so im-

portant,” Reeves said.

Even though the show is set to be shorter, Reeves and the pool of adjudicators have their hands full as over 200 productions were nominated for awards across 40 categories for adults and youth.

Among the 200 nominations, some Scottsdale theatres could clean up big as Desert Stages Theatre has 31 nominations and Scottsdale Community College theatre has 19.

Reeves admits that adjudicating this show can be tough, so she has the judges undergo extensive training before casting their votes.

“We have a pool of trained adjudicators that go through annual training and they are given a set of rubrics, very specific rubrics that they use for the adjudication process,” Reeves said.

Each nominated show is adjudicated by five administrators and their scores are input into an online system that is then calculated by and reviewed by an accountant to determine the winning show, according to Reeves.

“It’s highly competitive, just by the nature of the number of people that are adjudicating, and are a number of produc-

tions that are adjudicated,” Reeves said.

“It’s like soccer how soccer is with criticizing the referees. That is always going to be a part of soccer no matter what you and here there’s always going to be that Monday morning quarterbacking about the adjudication process, who won and who didn’t win, but you know, that’s just the nature of the beast.”

Reeves is most excited to have the theatre community back together for a night of awards.

“The reality is that it is a way that we have to try to acknowledge and recognize the incredible work that all of these theaters in the community do and even if a theater doesn’t get a lot of nominations, we still make sure that they’re included in the ceremony,” Reeves said.

If You Go:

What: The 32nd annual ariZoni awards

When: 5:30 p.m. (youth) 8 p.m. (adult) Oct. 3

Where: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. Second St.

Cost: $21.50

Info: arizoniawards.net

to the Rotary Club of Scottsdale Foundation to fund various charities.

The event will also have two paintings of horses showcased. The first will be by local artist Niki Woehler at the Scottsdale Fashion Square.

“I want him to be a glamorous stallion with black and white, gold and silver, with perhaps some mirror ball on his hooves and tail,” said Woehler, who owns Niki Woehler Gallery in town.

Painting one of the horses will be a new experience for Woehler.

“The way I paint, everything has to be flat so this is definitely going to be a challenge,” she said.

The second live painting exhibit will be held at the Museum of the West, though the artist has not yet been selected.

The Rotary Club of Scottsdale Foundation has been recognized as a partner by the Scottsdale Super Bowl planning committee and at least one horse will feature the Super Bowl LVII logo.

Experience Scottsdale Executive Director Rachel Sacco said its purpose to fund charities and shine a spot light on the arts Scottsdale is so famous for, is a

perfect blend for the city.

“We think that anything that helps the community, helps charities, helps branding Scottsdale in a positive light and creates a great experience for visitors is worth supporting,” she said.

The concept isn’t new. Kester got the idea from growing up in Seattle in the 1980s and 90s. The Emerald City had the same sort of program called Pigs on Parade.

“There were as many as 200 brightly colored, funny pigs – funny to I guess beautiful, if you can have a beautiful pig, all around the city,” Kester said. “It was really this fun, fun thing. Three months of the pigs being on display culminated in the Parade of Pigs down Seattle’s Fifth Avenue … and then after the parade they would have an auction where some of the pigs were auctioned for as much as $50,000, $60,000.”

Other cities have similar programs like Chicago, which hosts painted cows, Anchorage and Los Altos, Calif., which displays bears and St. Louis with it’s hearts.

Similar programs are also in Europe and the United Kingdom, Kester said.

Woehler, who grew up in Victoria, British Columbia said her mother, who is also an artist, painted an orca for that city’s parade when Woehler was a child.

Kester said a program featuring horses was ideal for Scottsdale.

“The equestrian community is getting excited about this and getting behind it,” Kester said. “The people at West World have been very supportive, as have been the people at the City of Scottsdale … because they see it fitting with Western Week.”

But it’s more than that, Kester said.

“Everyone sees the car shows here but Scottsdale is also one of the centers of the equestrian world,” he said. “People fly their horses in from South America for the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show. We have Barrett-Jackson, of course, but equestrian minded people are just as passionate about horses as the BarrettJackson people are about cars or the TPA guys are about golf.”

Artists interested in painting one of the horses can go to stallionstampede. com/artists for more information and to apply.

ariZoni awards president and Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts managing director Meribeth Reeves (right) is excited to have the awards back in person this year. (Facebook)

Opening late 2022 Cholla Health Center

Scottsdale Quarter tunes up for concert series

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

Music has returned to Scottsdale Quarter as the mixed-use complex will be a venue for live music again this fall.

Concerts will be held every Saturday beneath the palm trees 5-7 p.m. with a lineup of artists ranging from rock cover bands to dance groups to country acts.

“We were looking for a wide variety of genres that would appeal to different audiences,” said Scottsdale Quarter marketing director Christina Calhoun. “We have a diverse mix of bands this year ranging from rock to country to reggae to Latin, so hopefully there’s something in that lineup that everyone will enjoy.”

In the past, the concerts have been well received by shoppers at Scottsdale quarter and neighbors of the apartment buildings at the Quarter.

“We always get such positive feedback from the residents of the two apartment complexes that we have here on the property and it certainly is a nice amenity for them to be able to just sort of walk downstairs and have a concert to attend without having to pay,” Calhoun said.

Not only do the concerts draw nearby residents, but Calhoun said that the concerts also increase foot traffic at the neighboring businesses.

“We do see an increase in foot traffic during the concerts and a lot of people arrive early to get their seats or put down their lawn chairs and their blankets to make sure they have a good spot,” Calhoun said. “This becomes a weekend routine for people who live in the area.”

One neighboring business is already seizing the opportunity as Etta will sell picnic baskets for patrons to pre-order to enjoy during the concert.

“We’re excited to launch this partnership with Etta this year. It’s something that we’ve been hoping to include as an amenity to our concert series in the past and finally, we found a partner in Etta that was willing to test it out,” Calhoun said.

“What they’re offering weekly is the opportunity for guests to pre-order a picnic

basket so they can dine alfresco while they’re enjoying the concert and the picnic basket features different signature favorites from the restaurant along with some exclusive items that they’ve chosen to round out the picnic basket like charcuterie and they also have some nice fresh baked focaccia there.

Guests can pre-order those and then pick them up right before the concert, and then they listen to music.”

Although Calhoun is excited to see a packed Quarter and hear the sweet sounds of live music, she is most excited to see guests congregate with one another and let loose to the sound of music.

“We do see a lot of dancing, a lot of people like to just get up and dance and enjoy themselves whereas others like to spread out on a picnic blanket and relax under the palm trees,” Calhoun said.

Remaining Concerts:

Oct. 1, Verry Cherry - A high-energy rock band mixing a modern sound with a classic rock vibe.

Oct. 8, Sugahbeat - A refreshingly different, seamlessly blending world rhythms with contemporary beats,

Oct. 15, Shallow Water - Mixes the best of classic hits from the past with your favorite popular hits of today.

Oct. 22, Chad Freeman & Redline - a local band with a unique sound combining classic and modern country with a touch of southern and classic rock. Over the years they have been able to hit the stage for NASCAR, Super Bowl, CMA Fest and countless festivals.

Oct. 29, Rock Lobster - plays the biggest hits of the ‘80s, ’90s and beyond. For almost two decades, top-caliber musicianship and an electrifying stage show have made Rock Lobster one of Arizona’s most popular cover bands.

Nov. 5, Desert Dixie - A country rock band with versatility that spans from Bluegrass to Country to Heavy Metal.

Nov. 12, Flying Squirrels - An upbeat trio boasting Vocals, Steel Drum, Guitar, and Drums/Percussion creating a unique blend of instrumentation that permeates each tune, regardless of style.

Scottsdale Quarter is located at 15279 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale.

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NOTICE OF PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING accepted 3 3 f o o t w i d e G L O roadway easement along the south property line and the west 8 feet of the 33 foot wide GLO roadway easement along the east property line for a parcel located at 31610 N 71st Street with Single family Res i d e n t i a l , E n v i r o n m e n t a l l y S e n s i t i v e L a n d s , F o o t h i l l s O v e r l a y ( R 1 7 0 E S L F O ) z o n i n g T h i s c a s e w a s scheduled to be heard at the September 14th, 2022 Planning Commission meeting, which was canceled due to no quorum. Staff contact person is Jeff Barnes, (480) 312 2376. Applicant contact person is Alan Grochowski, (602) 292 2261

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2-ZN-2022 (NEC McDowell Road and Hayden Road, Scottsdale, AZ) Request by applicant for a zon ing district map amendment to amend the Development Plan and zoning stipulations of Case 101 ZN 1 9 8 4 t o a l l o w a d r General S c o t t s d a l e , A Z t o p a r t i c i p a t e i n a l l p h a s e s o f t h e S o f t w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t L i f e C y c l e M a s t e r ’ s i n C o m p S c i / C o m p E n g / a n y E n g f i e l d / r e l a t e d f i e l d + 2 y r s e x p O R B a c h e l o r ’ s i n C o m p S c i / C o m p E n g / a n y E n g f i e l d / r e l a t e d f i e l d + 5 y r s e x p r e q ’ d . Req’d skills: ETL processes, Agile Methodology, T SQL, Informatica Power Center, SSIS, Shell Scripts, O r a c l e , S S R S , N e t e z z a , U n i x S h e l l S c r i p t i n g , S Q L S e r v e r M a n a g e m e n t S t u d i o , T F S , Q l i k V i e w , T o a d, Q A / U A T / P R O D B a c k g r o u n d c h e c k & d r u g t e s t r e q ’ d S e n d r e s u m e t o J M e l a n d R E F : T Y , 9 2 0 1 E M o u n t a i n V i e w R o a d , S u i t e 2 2 0 , S c o t t s d a l e , A Z 8 5 2 5 8 re

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