Mayor John Giles has a long way to go to re-double his weak and ineffective efforts to engage most citizens here in Mesa - he admits that publicly.
After two years in elected office, how would YOU SAY HE'S DOING?
At this forum he says he needs to "re-build" trust among immigrants that are more than 1/3 of the entire population????
Let's first ask how he never gained the confidence and the trust from what he calls 'immigrants' . . . and why?
Giles is anxious to engage with Mexico???? . . .
At forum, mayors depict city government as locus of action
" . . . Joining a lively panel discussion on April 18, Whaley drew a picture of proactive local-government responsiveness and effectiveness, along with John Giles of Mesa, Arizona; Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana; and Toni Harp of New Haven, Connecticut.
The “Urban Transportation Forum: Mayors Changing Cities” was held at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture. The sponsors were the US Conference of Mayors, the David Bohnett Foundation, and NYU Wagner.
After two years in elected office, how would YOU SAY HE'S DOING?
At this forum he says he needs to "re-build" trust among immigrants that are more than 1/3 of the entire population????
Let's first ask how he never gained the confidence and the trust from what he calls 'immigrants' . . . and why?
Giles is anxious to engage with Mexico???? . . .
Published on May 9, 2018
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On Wednesday April 18, NYU Wagner together with the US Conference of Mayors and the David Bohnett Foundation sponsored a panel event called "Urban Transformation Forum: Mayors Changing Cities." Four leading mayors came together to discuss how they’re changing their respective cities to meet today’s unique challenges—bringing forth big, bold, and inventive ideas to tackle today's most pressing issues.
___________________________________________________________________________At forum, mayors depict city government as locus of action
" . . . Joining a lively panel discussion on April 18, Whaley drew a picture of proactive local-government responsiveness and effectiveness, along with John Giles of Mesa, Arizona; Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana; and Toni Harp of New Haven, Connecticut.
The “Urban Transportation Forum: Mayors Changing Cities” was held at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture. The sponsors were the US Conference of Mayors, the David Bohnett Foundation, and NYU Wagner.
". . . Mesa, meanwhile, is a politically conservative border city with 485,000 residents, one-third of them recent immigrants. The long national debate over immigration, Mayor Giles said, threatens to force Mexican-Americans into the shadows. It has also had a negative effect on inter-border trade discussions, and could dampen the Census count, critical to future state aid levels for the fast-growing city.
Giles and other local officials in his city are redoubling efforts to rebuild trust among immigrants—“the people we shop with, go to church with, that our children go to school with."
“If you’re bringing in someone to talk about immigration, you might ask why it is not Jeff Flake, John McCain, or somebody who actually deals with the issue. I would suggest to you that just like opioids, where the issue is being dealt with is at the local level—far more effectively and in a more meaningful way—than at the national level,” the Mesa mayor said. “Folks don’t move to ‘America,’ they move to neighborhoods, they move to cities."
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