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REALITY CHECK
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Pioneer
Park is not properly located inside the grid of the original One-Square
Mile where the eastern boundary is Mesa Drive. It's just east of that
across from the Mesa LDS Temple Area and the public park takes its name
from a dedication of a statue in 1987 honoring four Mormon families
sent by Joseph Smith from Salt Lake City to colonize Arizona. That Pioneer Monument is what you see arriving on Main Street at the entrance.
Founding Pioneers of Mesa
Daniel Webster Jones • [ ] Rogers • Dudley J. Merrill • [ ] C. Merrill • [ ] Merrill • S. [ ] Merrill • George Steele • Thomas Biggs • Austin O. Williams • Ross R. Rogers • Joseph McRae • Isaac Turley • John D. Brady
First Mesa Company - February 14, 1878
Francis [ ] Pomeroy • [ ] • Charles I. Robson • Warren E. [ ] • Elijah Pomeroy • Theodore [ ] • [ ] • [ ] • John Pomeroy • Chris [ ] • William M. Newell • Will E. Pomeroy • Hebe [ ] • Job Henry Smith • William Schwazz • Charles Mallory • Jess M. Perkins • George Noonan
Second Mesa Company - January 17, 1879
Hyrum S. [ ] • John [ ] • George C. Dana • Charles C. Dana • William LeSueur • John T. LeSueur Charles Crismon, Jr. • Joseph Cain • Charles Warner • John Davis • William Brimm
The Third Mesa Company - January 19, 1880
William N. Standage • Chauncey F. Rogers • Henry Standage • Hyrum W. Pew
Photographed By Bill Kirchner, May 4, 2010
6. Mesa Pioneer Monument
< Take the time to read it
"Early in 1878 with a straight edge and a spirit level they proved the feasibility of using the ancient Montezuma Canal to bring life-giving water from the Salt River to the desert sands. On February 14th work began on the project, A survey was made and stakes driven, May 16, 1878 to plat the townsite according to the "City of Zion" Plan given by Joseph Smith. the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. Elijah Pomeroy was the first bishop and A.F. Macdonald was the first mayor."
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BLOGGER NOTE: Ever since then there's a direct pipeline from the religion of the Pioneers where their descendants who are bishops and the leaders in LDS stakes and wards get elected to become mayors or elected/unelected power brokers in a closely-connected network of cohorts in Government, Finance, Insurance and Real Estate.
The pipeline still produces results from A.F.Macdonald the first mayor > the 40th mayor John Giles was also "a bishop'"
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Other than that, no other mention in the public park for the two indigenous cultures already living on the land for centuries before the arrival of The Pioneers in the late 19th Century.
Is that in any way a respect for the well-documented history or two earlier first peoples - Spanish-Mexican and the Hohokam/Salt River Pima Maricopa - or is it a skewed and flawed a one-dimensional interpretation?
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REMEMBER THIS
20 July 2019
Mesa
City Manager Chris Brady's Big-League Schemes: Trick Mesa Taxpayer's To
Finance A Ball Park For The Billionaire-Ricketts Family 
Sloan Park at Riverview was named after a plumber for some reason after that Chicago chewing-gum original Wrigley Field just wasn't juicy enough here in Mesa.
Here are former mayor Scott Smith and current city manager Chris Brady in 2012 making a sales-pitch to get the Cubbies Spring Training Facility financed on-the-backs of Mesa taxpayers to the tune of over $200,000,000 for the Billionaire-Ricketts Family who bought the sports franchise in 2009.
From what we know now it was a shake-down [Use the search box on this blog for more]
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Here are former mayor Scott Smith and current city manager Chris Brady in 2012 making a sales-pitch to get the Cubbies Spring Training Facility financed on-the-backs of Mesa taxpayers to the tune of over $200,000,000 for the Billionaire-Ricketts Family who bought the sports franchise in 2009.
From what we know now it was a shake-down [Use the search box on this blog for more]
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Email dump: More dirt on Cubs purchase, family conflict from Joe ...
Chicago Sun-Times
The Ricketts family at Wrigley Field in October 2009:
(from left) Joe Ricketts, Pete Ricketts, Todd Ricketts, Laura Ricketts, Marlene Ricketts and Tom ...
On Tuesday, Deadspin broke news that leaked emails revealed Cubs ownership contemplated moving the team out of Chicago due
to a difficult relationship with Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2013. As it
turns out, the suggestion was made by Todd “Fredo” Ricketts and was
likely never taken seriously.
Here’s a list of other Todd Ricketts’ suggestions revealed in additional leaked emails:
– “It’ll be totally fine if our family gets involved in politics. No one will ever find out about it so it won’t be controversial at all.”
– “Now that we own the McDonald’s across the street from Wrigley, I’m going on an all Quarter Pounder diet. Please don’t tear that place down Tom. I’m sure any hotel we put up there won’t do nearly as much business as the McDonald’s. Plus, where will all the rats go?”
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– “It’ll be totally fine if our family gets involved in politics. No one will ever find out about it so it won’t be controversial at all.”
– “Now that we own the McDonald’s across the street from Wrigley, I’m going on an all Quarter Pounder diet. Please don’t tear that place down Tom. I’m sure any hotel we put up there won’t do nearly as much business as the McDonald’s. Plus, where will all the rats go?”
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In some conservative Republican circles it was "a home run." Here in Mesa most city officials and real estate developers went-to-bat to get it built and financed
> Donald Trump's $14 billion Cabinet
#2 Todd Ricketts @$5.3 Billion
Ricketts is a co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and CEO of Ending Spending, an organization “dedicated to educating and engaging American taxpayers about wasteful and excessive government spending,” according to its site.
[Reference: https://www.cbsnews.com ]
> Donald Trump's $14 billion Cabinet
#2 Todd Ricketts @$5.3 Billion
Ricketts is a co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and CEO of Ending Spending, an organization “dedicated to educating and engaging American taxpayers about wasteful and excessive government spending,” according to its site.
[Reference: https://www.cbsnews.com ]
✓GROUNDWATER INFORMATION RESOURCES
This is from an earlier post on this blog 18 July 2019
Digging-Deeper: Know Your Water + Water-Rights 
Don't
really intend to be silly or light-hearted about water rights and
water, but it is the most precious commodity here in the Desert
Southwest.
Here in Arizona in what we now call The Salt River Valley, ancient indigenous cultures created a vast system of canal networks over the centuries before the arrival of new 'Pioneers'. They expanded the open canals to supply natural water resources, converted to private-ownership or municipal control to build vast fortunes for agricultural lands and ranches. After World War II those same lands were needed to create large tracts of housing for Suburban Sprawl and shopping centers and for new industries. Irrigation districts had to be created. Water usage increased. Groundwater had to be tapped into. Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants had to get built. Planning for the future, the city of Mesa once owned 11,400 acres in Pinal County called the Mesa Water Farm. That acreage - and the water-rights - were sold off to Saints Holding Company.
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West
of the Continental Divide, there's a noted demarcation in the geography
where there's less than 20 inches rainfall annually.
Readers of this blog can also note there is a very distinct different pattern of what are defined as water rights in the nation's westward expansion.
Homesteading and Water Settlement Acts were the federal government incentives to lay claim to tracts of lands and territories. More than anything else, that's what led to the colonizing of Mesa and The Salt River Valley by family groups in wagon trains sent by Joseph Smith from Salt Lake City.
Their mission was to expand the Kingdom of Deseret here to create The New Zion.
Here in Arizona in what we now call The Salt River Valley, ancient indigenous cultures created a vast system of canal networks over the centuries before the arrival of new 'Pioneers'. They expanded the open canals to supply natural water resources, converted to private-ownership or municipal control to build vast fortunes for agricultural lands and ranches. After World War II those same lands were needed to create large tracts of housing for Suburban Sprawl and shopping centers and for new industries. Irrigation districts had to be created. Water usage increased. Groundwater had to be tapped into. Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants had to get built. Planning for the future, the city of Mesa once owned 11,400 acres in Pinal County called the Mesa Water Farm. That acreage - and the water-rights - were sold off to Saints Holding Company.
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West
of the Continental Divide, there's a noted demarcation in the geography
where there's less than 20 inches rainfall annually. Readers of this blog can also note there is a very distinct different pattern of what are defined as water rights in the nation's westward expansion.
Homesteading and Water Settlement Acts were the federal government incentives to lay claim to tracts of lands and territories. More than anything else, that's what led to the colonizing of Mesa and The Salt River Valley by family groups in wagon trains sent by Joseph Smith from Salt Lake City.
Their mission was to expand the Kingdom of Deseret here to create The New Zion.
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19 June 2021
www.axios.com
COVID-19 relief funds paid for crime surveillance and more in Arizona
Jessica Boehm
3 - 4 minutes
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"Mesa allocated $3.3 million of federal pandemic relief funds to create a citywide crime surveillance program called the Real Time Crime Center.
- The center allows officers to use security cameras on roads and in public spaces to have virtual eyes around the city.
How it works: Detective Richard Encinas tells Axios Phoenix the center is used to deliver information to police in real time, allowing them to quickly identify and apprehend criminals and respond to "suspicious activity."
- He says center operators witnessed a serious rollover vehicle accident at the intersection of Stapley Drive and Southern Avenue recently and were able to deploy police and fire officials to the scene before a witness called in the accident, saving "precious minutes."
- Glendale operates a similar program.
State of play: Mesa is one of hundreds of cities across the nation, including many others in Arizona, that are using some of the funds they received from the American Rescue Plan Act to supplement their law enforcement operations.
- Cities and counties across the country received $350 billion total through ARPA and have allocated about $101 billion so far.
- The money was meant to help alleviate the impacts of the pandemic, but few limitations were put on local governments, so municipalities are using it for a range of projects, Axios Phoenix found through a partnership with the Marshall Project.
Zoom in: Many Arizona cities allocated the funds to pay for police officer salaries or bonuses.
- Phoenix dedicated $29 million for up to $2,000 in bonuses for full-time essential employees, including officers.
- Chandler allocated $750,00 toward hiring incentives for sworn police officers, detention officers and dispatchers.
- Scottsdale plans to spend all $29 million it received to pay for police and fire operations.
Zoom out: A new Marshall Project report found that localities across the country have allocated around $52.6 billion so far for "revenue replacement," a vague catch-all category.
- Nearly half of that went to projects that mentioned police, law enforcement, courts, jails and prisons.
Between the lines: President Biden is embracing the law enforcement spending and using it as evidence that Democrats don't want to defund the police.
Of note: Cities and counties also allocated hundreds of millions of dollars on other categories that don't directly relate to the pandemic.
- Phoenix will spend up to $10 million on the rehabilitation of its 27th Avenue Recycling Facility.
- Maricopa County allocated $3 million to improve drinking water infrastructure at county parks.
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