Heads Up! City Council Study Session Tomorrow > Big Buck$ + A Tax increase

Public Safety and Higher Education Funding Recommendation
City Council Study Session May 19, 2016
City of Mesa
Meeting Agenda - Final





Mayor John Giles
Vice Mayor Dennis Kavanaugh - District 3
Councilmember Dave Richins - District 1
Councilmember Alex Finter - District 2
Councilmember Chris Glover - District 4
Councilmember David Luna - District 5
Councilmember Kevin Thompson - District 6
7:30 AMCouncil Chambers - Lower Level
Roll Call (Members of the Mesa City Council will attend either in person or by telephone conference call)

1 Presentations/Action Items:
16-0575 Hear a presentation, discuss and provide direction on funding options including sales taxes for the following:
1.  Public safety staffing and equipment needs, and the associated costs
2.  Higher education projects and the associated costs
1-a
16-0593 Information pertaining to the current Job Order Contracting projects.2
3 Hear reports on meetings and/or conferences attended.
4 Scheduling of meetings and general information.

5 Convene an Executive Session.
 
ES-003-16 Discussion or consultation for legal advice with the City Attorney. (A.R.S. §38-431.03A (3)) 
Discussion or consultation with designated representatives of the City in order to consider the City’s position and instruct the City’s representatives regarding negotiations for the purchase, sale, or lease of real property. (A.R.S. §38-431.03A (7)) 
Discussion or consultation with the City Attorney in order to consider the City’s position and instruct the City Attorney regarding the City’s position regarding contracts that are the subject of negotiations, in pending or contemplated litigation or in settlement discussions conducted in order to avoid or resolve litigation. (A.R.S. §38-431.03A(4))
  
1. Intergovernmental Agreement with Arizona State University for a Mesa campus on City-owned property.

Higher Education Projects
Phase 1
 •ASU Buildings $68.2 to 78.9 million
•Civic Plaza $20 to $25 million
•Parking $10 to $12 million
•Benedictine Buildout $6 to $7.5 million
•Off Site Improvements $4 million
Total $108.2 to $127.4 million
Phase 2
Building C Total Area:     60,000 square feet No. of Floors: 4 –New Construction
Building D Total Area:     18,800 square feet No. of Floors: 2 –Existing IT Bldg.
Total Estimated Cost $32 million

Next Steps
•May 26, 2016 -Council Action on Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA)
•June 8-10, 2016 –Arizona Board of Regents Action on IGA
•June 20, 2016 –Council Call for E

Who's Having Fun in The New Urban Downtown Mesa???

Chalk-on-Blackboard > front of LoFi Coffee

On/Off Main Street anyone taking a walk can find some surprising great stuff that's slightly to the left and off-center and outside the official Chain-of-Command that approves and funds public art installations or wayfinding signage, appearing on blackboards or in empty lots ... like these two.

They may not conform to the official line drawn for public art on the sidewalks with all the bronze statues of a pig, Mormon town founders, a bear, frogs, dinosaurs and Humpty Dumpty located around town, but ya gotta admit they are "charming" and quite "innovative" in the eyes of some people with a sense of humor and delight.

On the stretch of Main Street between Robson and Country Club your blogger could find only one source of information to point the way to find businesses located downtown - see image to the left.

If you take a close look at the base you'll see a colorful extraterrestrial on the base of the drum from which rises an over 12-foot tall support for arrows with names of downtown businesses pointing in the directions to find them.

If you're wondering what purpose that big empty wall in the background has other than marking off the side of a building, it's used as the screen for a series of night-time family-oriented movies that take place in an empty lot in downtown close to a new lightrail station at Country Club Drive called The Sliver Lot.

Valley Metro provides some funding for these outdoor movie showings to make The New Urban Downtown an attractive place for families who want something to do at night. It's part of the Neighborhood Community Series.

Link here:  
Mesa Diversity Office Community Cinema

Image Mosaic On The Streets in The New Urban Downtown Mesa

A sampling of some of the small and big and wonderful and surprising expressions of people that don't come from a Chain of Command - people are spontaneously Creating their own Place-Making - no committees to get permission from, no bureaucracy, no politicos who take six months to come up with a vision - these are the visions created by everyday people using their own resources and talents.

Starting from Upper Left and going Clock-wise by rows

• Portion of a huge mural seen on the back of a building on Hibbert Street just above Broadway - close by Mesa Grain & Feed.
• Artist signature from 2006 - anybody know who the artist is?
• A detail from the same mural - what's with those cows parachuting?
• Panoramic view of entire mural with Grain Elevator way in the left background
• Mural on the East side of Department of Economic Security building that faces McDonald
• Rear of building next to VFW Post on McDonald & First Avenue, in back of the newly-opened Prime Cut Barber Shop & Boutique
• On the Blackboard @ LoFi Coffee - who's the Fun Guy [artist?] doing that stuff?
• Sidewalk Sculpture for Welding Shop
• Larry in front of LoFi - streetlife is getting colorful, The Mad Hatter with the WOW
• Back of what-used-to-be O.S. Stapley Store - big graphic on the alley
• First vertical gardens in Downtown Mesa: happy to see these [first in bloom and second with new plantings]

The New Urban Downtown Mesa: Ideas City?

This posting is about another artist who is A SOCIAL ACTIVIST. [Readers of this blog are encouraged to read and watch Theaster Gates on a screen that pops up in an earlier post]. 

Readers are likewise advised that your blogger enjoyed life for many years inside The Big Apple, leaving Manhattan shortly after the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers - circumstances one could hardly imagine happening, but they did. He was there during the events of 2001 - What a Space Odyssey that was! - and now I'm here.

Too often we skim over or quickly scan words or initials: take for example "ozone" or "smog" or "HPA" or "precusors" or "ultraviolet radiation" - words and initials you see in an ADEQ Press Release, again in an earlier post on this blog. 

Sometimes it takes "a political stunt" by an artist to create a visceral response to a common man-made phenomenon: that HPA from ADEQ is one of many High Pollution Alerts

An Edible Geography piece from Nicola Twilley, the mastermind behind the smog meringue endeavor, offered a more compelling explanation for the whimsical treats:
"Our hope is that the meringues will serve as a kind of 'Trojan treat,' creating a visceral experience of disgust and fear that prompts a much larger conversation about the aesthetics and politics of urban air pollution, as well as its health and environmental effects

From The Huffington Post > Smog: A Frivolous Affair?

It's a Wonder-filled life: LRT reducing emissions of carbon monoxide - ya know, like from all those cars on the freeways getting to work by commuting from long-distance sub-urbs. 

Anybody ever think about 

what a day without cars might look like?

Jump Into The Jurassic! here in the New Urban Downtown Mesa? ... Get Off My Cloud

Received an announcement in the MesaZona inbox the other day from Kevin Christoper, City of Mesa Office of Public Information:
Your blogger's immediate question was: Why is an educational non-profit institution owned by The City of Mesa - or "literally owned" by the public - part of a pre-release media advertising campaign for a Hollywood movie? No one's impressed by dinosaurs anymore . . .and rather than jumping back into The Jurassic ... how about a jump into forward-thinking here in the New Urban Downtown Mesa?
. . . With reports of worldwide record-breaking revenues from the weekend opening I guess ya gotta say "We live in Jurassic World", Huh?
Mesa, AZ – Arizona Museum of Natural History, 53 N. Macdonald in Mesa, is celebrating the opening of the ‘Jurassic World’ movie with a special “Jump into the Jurassic” program Saturday, June 6 from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.  Try your hand at the Wheel of Time with our paleo-educator for a free ‘Jurassic World’ mini poster.  The museum will have children’s craft activities and a dinosaur touch cart available, plus lots of fun facts about the Jurassic Period!  We will have an enter to win contest featuring a prize pack including four free passes to the preview opening of ‘Jurassic World’ on June 9.  The contest will be in the lobby and no purchase is necessary.
Regular museum admission rates apply and members are always admitted free. Plan to come and enjoy a cool indoor afternoon jumping into the Jurassic! 

LOS ANGELES — In “Jurassic World,” scientists create a living theme park attraction called Indominus rex [a female dinosaur] by splicing the DNA of two very different species.. 
They are ecstatic. Behold!  
The glorious future, a ticket-selling machine.

But there are naysayers. 

Madness! 

This Franken-beast monster may draw crowds, but it is not natural. You cannot be two things at once.

excerpt from a review in The New York Times June 3, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/movies/in-the-shadows-of-a-giant-and-dinosaurs.html?_r=0

OK ... What are you having with your cake?

Advertising Branding Campaigns - and corporate support for social justice - are coming out this month with a series of well-placed endorsements. 

Here's just one:
The Maytag Man ✔ @TheMaytagMan

Proud to be in any home. Happy #Pride Month.

7:19 AM - 1 Jun 2015

Maytag took a strong stand in favor of LGBT rights with a tweet Monday showing its beloved repairman calling for "equality and cake for all" on the first day of LGBT Pride month.

The rainbow-colored cake held by the Maytag man alludes, of course, to those bakers who have refused to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples on the grounds that doing so would violate their religious beliefs.

Way to go, Maytag.

Matt Salmon [R] AZ 5th CD

Believe It or Not:  

Arizona 5th Congressional District U.S. House of Representatives Republican Matt Salmon, who represents the City of Mesa as part of his constituency] appeared on MSNBC this morning. Recorded live at 07:09 a.m. [18:00 minutes] with link supplied by his press office

http://salmon.house.gov/media-center/videos/rep-salmon-joins-morning-joe-to-discuss-the-usa-patriot-act 

SALMON: "And -- and I think that we can have our cake and eat it, too, Joe. We have for years and years and years."

He appeared on "Morning Joe"  . . . just a coincidence that these two items were out in the media within 10 minutes of each other???

Matt Salmon, like Mesa Mayor John Giles attended public school in Mesa, Arizona . . . maybe they forgot a history lesson from The French Revolution, giving birth to  Liberty & Equality rights that were written into the U.S. Constitution? 

Art Assets & Good Bones? It Takes More Than That To Build a Better Downtown

Comic from Build a Better Downtown

The image here is from a May 20, 2015 post "Cindy Ornstein's Love Letter to Mesa" on another blog about Mesa Build A Better Downtown Mesa.
Please hit the link and read the whole article

Cindy Ornstein is the Arts and Cultural Director for the City of Mesa and the Executive Director of the Mesa Arts Center. 
She oversees the Arizona Museum of Natural History, the I.D.E.A. Museum, the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, and cultural events in the City of Mesa.
According to the post, Cindy got the job after an interview in 2010, not having seen Mesa or been to Arizona before that.

Put Some Meat On Those Bones!

Good Bones …  

It takes more than ‘good bones’

That's a phrase I've heard and used more than once.  It is admittedly casual and ill-defined.
In real estate it's usually used in the “distressed” property market that is our reality today.

The problem with the entire notion of good bones—to draw a further anatomical analogy—is that it lacks any discussion of the viscera: the bloodstream, neurology or fascia that flesh out, protect and inhabit this skeletal system. 

Cindy is quoted saying " . . . we manage facilities that are literally owned by the public. My mission is for every citizen to feel pride, ownership and engagement with these assets and resources. . . . It is really about finding the things that are going to be most effective, . . "
[See how the names of bones are turned into a visual in the image to the left]


A city with "good bones" would be one that is well thought out and works well for the people who live there.
Or, does saying that "Mesa has good bones" mean that we have an impressive infrastructure supporting our transportation network?

 

Here's A Vision: Light Rail on Main Street inThe New Urban Downtown Mesa

It's taken from a article by a Distinguished Professor of Architecture, Michael Sorkin City College of New York. Hit this link:  City Limits: How Localizing Is the Key to Our Urban Future

QUESTION: How does a vision like this get localized?
Although many people have questioned building light rail tracks running "right through the heart of downtown Mesa", when it could have been planned on the path of earlier railways from Mesa to Tempe and Phoenix on what is now University Drive, it will now become a warp in weaving the urban fabric important to both the original "One-Square Mile" extending for blocks on/off and north/south of Main Street while creating a long-range transportation corridor.

Mesa History Museum image

Keep in mind that Main Street was once a parking lot as you can see from the visual to the left. Traffic patterns have since moved to highways, freeways, shopping malls, sub-urban sprawls, corporate and industrial parks, technology corridors, and Aerotropolis.

Open Downtown space is now available to plan a clear vision for how the new urban downtown will evolve that is not car-dependent

What you do not see in the visual above are no cars at all - you see light rail and a lot of green with people and activities on the streets.
You see low-rise higher density buildings and vertical gardens, not asphalt-covered heat islands.

It may be a stretch of the imagination to figure out how to localize here in the New Urban Downtown Mesa the features in the urban future envisioned by Michael Sorkin, so let's imagine and seriously get together at a "grassroots" level to regenerate not only the vision of our new urban environment, but make it the world around us. If New York City can transform an old rusty abandoned elevated railway into the High Line surely we can do that on the ground here on Main Street.

Your blogger used to walk by this every day in Central Park: it stuck in my mind

You might want to contact your local organization called ULTIMATE IMAGINATIONS and find out what the Downtown Mesa Association is incorporating into their vision ....
Ultimate Imaginations Inc

You may say I'm a Dreamer, but let's trust I'm not the only one!

YES: From Blabbermouth News - At The Mesa Arts Center

YES To Release "Like It Is - Yes At The Mesa Arts Center" 2CD/DVD And Blu-Ray
Read more at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/yes-to-release-like-it-is-yes-at-the-mesa-arts-center-2cddvd-and-blu-ray/#f6vri3hXgGmQxdEY.99

In a previous post, information about Mesa came from a disclosed source far-away in The Netherlands, Plasticnews so it's not surprising to get news from another source called BLABBERMOUTH.net - this time a live performance here in Mesa will be going out to the world.

When your MesaZona blogger went on a guided public tour of the arts exhibition, performance and arts education facilities at the Mesa Arts Center, the theater spaces are amazing. The Ikeda Theater was impressive, with a media control studio up in the back behind tinted glass. 

Now there's a live release of a performance from August 12, 2014  that brings the magic and wonderful music of that evening here in the New Urban Downtown Mesa to fans everywhere in the world.

Frontiers Music Srl will release "Like It Is - Yes At The Mesa Arts Center", a new concert recording from the legendary rock group YES, on July 3 in Europe and July 10 in North America.

The Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust Announces Encore Prizes

 For Individuals

Recognizes individuals in Maricopa County for meeting important social needs, solving problems, and improving well-being for people and communities through the encore movement.

According to a press release dated May 5, 2015 nominations can be submitted now on only an online portal through June 15, 2015. 
For more information,  please go to whole press release with important details here : http://pipertrust.org/my-news/virginia-g-piper-charitable-trust-accepting-nominations-for-2015-piper-trust-encore-career-prize/

What you might ask is The Encore Movement?  

To nominate someone for the Piper Trust Encore Career Prize, visit www.pipertrust.org/encore for more information, including an extensive Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section. Nominations are due June 15, 2015 through the online portal. The Piper Trust Encore Career Prize awardee will be selected by mid-September 2015 and celebrated at a special public event in November 2015. - See more at: http://pipertrust.org/my-news/virginia-g-piper-charitable-trust-accepting-nominations-for-2015-piper-trust-encore-career-prize/#sthash.i4rpc33W.dpuf

The encore concept—engaging people age 50+ in roles that combine personal meaning with social impact—is growing across the country, and particularly in Phoenix with its 1.1 million baby boomers. As such, it’s critical to understand this population’s great potential for positive impact on the region’s communities. . . They want to contribute to their community, act on their values and convictions, and apply their years of experience and skill to something different. . . they look for a whole new kind of work—a career at least as fulfilling and engrossing as their previous one, and maybe more so.
For them, the next step is their encore career – and many organizations are finding among these encore adults a rich source of professional and technical expertise, maturity, and vision.
In the best cases, innovative organizations and skilled encore workers create remarkable things together—new forms of human and community service, new avenues of leadership, new solutions to common problems. When that happens, all of us benefit.

Encore on First @ 25 W First Avenue

Here in the New Urban Downtown Mesa we, of course, know the award-winning 81-unit affordable housing that opened in November of last year  for "encore adults"  62 years and older - the first privately funded residential building in over 30 years.
 It was one of the first form-based zoning projects with support from LISC, City of Mesa HOME grants and funds from Arizona Department of Housing LIHTC. It was developed by Mesa Housing Associates LLC

Encore of First West

  In the image to the right, you can view the new Encore on First West Final Rendering Alt 2  a plan from Shopworks Architects of Denver of the new 44-unit, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments, oriented on the building site near the southeast corner of First Avenue and Macdonald, one block from Main Street and two blocks away from the new Light Rail station on Center & Main Street. In the Eastmark master-planned community, farther out in the urban fringe, there is also a community of homes called Encore.

 In addition to the Piper Charitable Trust information about the encore concept, you can look into more details at this organization.

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Accepting Nominations for 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize

VIRGINIA G. PIPER CHARITABLE TRUST Press Release
May 5, 2015
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Accepting Nominations for 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize
$50,000 Award for an Exceptional, Inspiring Leader Applying Experience to Improve Social Good
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust is now accepting nominations for the 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize for an Exceptional Individual. The Trust will award one individual, who is age 50 or older and considered an encore role model, a $50,000 Prize in recognition of significant, innovative work that combines personal meaning with social impact.
- See more at: http://pipertrust.org/my-news/virginia-g-piper-charitable-trust-accepting-nominations-for-2015-piper-trust-encore-career-prize/#sthash.i4rpc33W.dpuf

 

To nominate someone for the Piper Trust Encore Career Prize, visit www.pipertrust.org/encore for more information, including an extensive Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section. Nominations are due June 15, 2015 through the online portal. The Piper Trust Encore Career Prize awardee will be selected by mid-September 2015 and celebrated at a special public event in November 2015. - See more at: http://pipertrust.org/my-news/virginia-g-piper-charitable-trust-accepting-nominations-for-2015-piper-trust-encore-career-prize/#sthash.i4rpc33W.dpuf

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Accepting Nominations for 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize

VIRGINIA G. PIPER CHARITABLE TRUST Press Release
May 5, 2015
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Accepting Nominations for 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize
$50,000 Award for an Exceptional, Inspiring Leader Applying Experience to Improve Social Good
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust is now accepting nominations for the 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize for an Exceptional Individual. The Trust will award one individual, who is age 50 or older and considered an encore role model, a $50,000 Prize in recognition of significant, innovative work that combines personal meaning with social impact.
“Piper Trust is eager to launch its second offering of the Encore Career Prize. Mike McQuaid, our inaugural awardee in 2013, set the standard as an exceptional encore role model—Mike’s inspirational service to our community helps further advance the momentum of the Maricopa County’s encore movement,” said Susan M. Pepin, M.D., president and CEO, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust.
Mike McQuaid, board president of the Human Services Campus in Phoenix, was awarded the first Piper Trust Encore Career Prize in fall of 2013. McQuaid was recognized as an encore career role model for applying decades of his experience as a commercial real estate developer to building the Human Services Campus. The Human Services Campus is the first of its kind in the nation and a national model that works to achieve a sustainable end to homelessness.
Piper Trust is now seeking nominations for its 2015 Encore Career Prize. Candidates are people, age 50+, leading significant social purpose efforts in Maricopa County in their encore careers. One $50,000 Prize will be awarded in recognition of an exceptional encore role model. Nominations are due June 15, 2015.
As it relates to the Piper Trust Encore Career Prize, social purpose work combines the experience of a person, age 50+, with a social cause that he/she is passionate about—a meaningful issue that someone applies years of experience and talent to, and through this work a significant difference in the well-being of people and communities is achieved.
While approximately 10,000 people in the U.S. turn 65 every day, an age often associated with retirement, many are not retiring in traditional ways, or at all. There are more than 1 million people in Maricopa County age 50+. Piper Trust recognizes that this highly talented human resource pool can help solve social problems by applying experience and innovation to meaningful work which strengthens quality of life in our community.
To nominate someone for the Piper Trust Encore Career Prize, visit www.pipertrust.org/encore for more information, including an extensive Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section. Nominations are due June 15, 2015 through the online portal. The Piper Trust Encore Career Prize awardee will be selected by mid-September 2015 and celebrated at a special public event in November 2015.
About Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust:
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust supports organizations that enrich health, well-being, and opportunity for the people of Maricopa County, Arizona. Since it began awarding grants in 2000, Piper Trust has invested more than $338 million in local nonprofits and programs. Piper Trust grantmaking areas are healthcare and medical research, children, older adults, arts and culture, education, and religious organizations. For more information, visit www.pipertrust.org. View Piper Trust’s FY14 Annual Report at: www.pipertrust.org/annualreport2014
Follow us on Twitter @PiperTrust / visit us on Facebook. #pipertrustencore
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MEDIA CONTACT:
Karen Leland, 480-556-7125 / kleland@pipertrust.org
Director, Communications and External Relations
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
1202 East Missouri Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85014

- See more at: http://pipertrust.org/my-news/virginia-g-piper-charitable-trust-accepting-nominations-for-2015-piper-trust-encore-career-prize/#sthash.i4rpc33W.dpuf

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Accepting Nominations for 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize

VIRGINIA G. PIPER CHARITABLE TRUST Press Release
May 5, 2015
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Accepting Nominations for 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize
$50,000 Award for an Exceptional, Inspiring Leader Applying Experience to Improve Social Good
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust is now accepting nominations for the 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize for an Exceptional Individual. The Trust will award one individual, who is age 50 or older and considered an encore role model, a $50,000 Prize in recognition of significant, innovative work that combines personal meaning with social impact.
“Piper Trust is eager to launch its second offering of the Encore Career Prize. Mike McQuaid, our inaugural awardee in 2013, set the standard as an exceptional encore role model—Mike’s inspirational service to our community helps further advance the momentum of the Maricopa County’s encore movement,” said Susan M. Pepin, M.D., president and CEO, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust.
Mike McQuaid, board president of the Human Services Campus in Phoenix, was awarded the first Piper Trust Encore Career Prize in fall of 2013. McQuaid was recognized as an encore career role model for applying decades of his experience as a commercial real estate developer to building the Human Services Campus. The Human Services Campus is the first of its kind in the nation and a national model that works to achieve a sustainable end to homelessness.
Piper Trust is now seeking nominations for its 2015 Encore Career Prize. Candidates are people, age 50+, leading significant social purpose efforts in Maricopa County in their encore careers. One $50,000 Prize will be awarded in recognition of an exceptional encore role model. Nominations are due June 15, 2015.
As it relates to the Piper Trust Encore Career Prize, social purpose work combines the experience of a person, age 50+, with a social cause that he/she is passionate about—a meaningful issue that someone applies years of experience and talent to, and through this work a significant difference in the well-being of people and communities is achieved.
While approximately 10,000 people in the U.S. turn 65 every day, an age often associated with retirement, many are not retiring in traditional ways, or at all. There are more than 1 million people in Maricopa County age 50+. Piper Trust recognizes that this highly talented human resource pool can help solve social problems by applying experience and innovation to meaningful work which strengthens quality of life in our community.
To nominate someone for the Piper Trust Encore Career Prize, visit www.pipertrust.org/encore for more information, including an extensive Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section. Nominations are due June 15, 2015 through the online portal. The Piper Trust Encore Career Prize awardee will be selected by mid-September 2015 and celebrated at a special public event in November 2015.
About Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust:
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust supports organizations that enrich health, well-being, and opportunity for the people of Maricopa County, Arizona. Since it began awarding grants in 2000, Piper Trust has invested more than $338 million in local nonprofits and programs. Piper Trust grantmaking areas are healthcare and medical research, children, older adults, arts and culture, education, and religious organizations. For more information, visit www.pipertrust.org. View Piper Trust’s FY14 Annual Report at: www.pipertrust.org/annualreport2014
Follow us on Twitter @PiperTrust / visit us on Facebook. #pipertrustencore
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MEDIA CONTACT:
Karen Leland, 480-556-7125 / kleland@pipertrust.org
Director, Communications and External Relations
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
1202 East Missouri Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85014

- See more at: http://pipertrust.org/my-news/virginia-g-piper-charitable-trust-accepting-nominations-for-2015-piper-trust-encore-career-prize/#sthash.i4rpc33W.dpuf

 

VIRGINIA G. PIPER CHARITABLE TRUST Press Release
May 5, 2015
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Accepting Nominations for 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize
$50,000 Award for an Exceptional, Inspiring Leader Applying Experience to Improve Social Good
- See more at: http://pipertrust.org/my-news/virginia-g-piper-charitable-trust-accepting-nominations-for-2015-piper-trust-encore-career-prize/#sthash.i4rpc33W.dpuf

VIRGINIA G. PIPER CHARITABLE TRUST Press Release
May 5, 2015
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Accepting Nominations for 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize
$50,000 Award for an Exceptional, Inspiring Leader Applying Experience to Improve Social Good
- See more at: http://pipertrust.org/my-news/virginia-g-piper-charitable-trust-accepting-nominations-for-2015-piper-trust-encore-career-prize/#sthash.i4rpc33W.dpuf

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Accepting Nominations for 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize

VIRGINIA G. PIPER CHARITABLE TRUST Press Release
May 5, 2015
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Accepting Nominations for 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize
$50,000 Award for an Exceptional, Inspiring Leader Applying Experience to Improve Social Good
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust is now accepting nominations for the 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize for an Exceptional Individual. The Trust will award one individual, who is age 50 or older and considered an encore role model, a $50,000 Prize in recognition of significant, innovative work that combines personal meaning with social impact.
“Piper Trust is eager to launch its second offering of the Encore Career Prize. Mike McQuaid, our inaugural awardee in 2013, set the standard as an exceptional encore role model—Mike’s inspirational service to our community helps further advance the momentum of the Maricopa County’s encore movement,” said Susan M. Pepin, M.D., president and CEO, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust.
Mike McQuaid, board president of the Human Services Campus in Phoenix, was awarded the first Piper Trust Encore Career Prize in fall of 2013. McQuaid was recognized as an encore career role model for applying decades of his experience as a commercial real estate developer to building the Human Services Campus. The Human Services Campus is the first of its kind in the nation and a national model that works to achieve a sustainable end to homelessness.
Piper Trust is now seeking nominations for its 2015 Encore Career Prize. Candidates are people, age 50+, leading significant social purpose efforts in Maricopa County in their encore careers. One $50,000 Prize will be awarded in recognition of an exceptional encore role model. Nominations are due June 15, 2015.
As it relates to the Piper Trust Encore Career Prize, social purpose work combines the experience of a person, age 50+, with a social cause that he/she is passionate about—a meaningful issue that someone applies years of experience and talent to, and through this work a significant difference in the well-being of people and communities is achieved.
While approximately 10,000 people in the U.S. turn 65 every day, an age often associated with retirement, many are not retiring in traditional ways, or at all. There are more than 1 million people in Maricopa County age 50+. Piper Trust recognizes that this highly talented human resource pool can help solve social problems by applying experience and innovation to meaningful work which strengthens quality of life in our community.
To nominate someone for the Piper Trust Encore Career Prize, visit www.pipertrust.org/encore for more information, including an extensive Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section. Nominations are due June 15, 2015 through the online portal. The Piper Trust Encore Career Prize awardee will be selected by mid-September 2015 and celebrated at a special public event in November 2015.
About Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust:
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust supports organizations that enrich health, well-being, and opportunity for the people of Maricopa County, Arizona. Since it began awarding grants in 2000, Piper Trust has invested more than $338 million in local nonprofits and programs. Piper Trust grantmaking areas are healthcare and medical research, children, older adults, arts and culture, education, and religious organizations. For more information, visit www.pipertrust.org. View Piper Trust’s FY14 Annual Report at: www.pipertrust.org/annualreport2014
Follow us on Twitter @PiperTrust / visit us on Facebook. #pipertrustencore
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MEDIA CONTACT:
Karen Leland, 480-556-7125 / kleland@pipertrust.org
Director, Communications and External Relations
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
1202 East Missouri Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85014

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Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Accepting Nominations for 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize

VIRGINIA G. PIPER CHARITABLE TRUST Press Release
May 5, 2015
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Accepting Nominations for 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize
$50,000 Award for an Exceptional, Inspiring Leader Applying Experience to Improve Social Good
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust is now accepting nominations for the 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize for an Exceptional Individual. The Trust will award one individual, who is age 50 or older and considered an encore role model, a $50,000 Prize in recognition of significant, innovative work that combines personal meaning with social impact.
“Piper Trust is eager to launch its second offering of the Encore Career Prize. Mike McQuaid, our inaugural awardee in 2013, set the standard as an exceptional encore role model—Mike’s inspirational service to our community helps further advance the momentum of the Maricopa County’s encore movement,” said Susan M. Pepin, M.D., president and CEO, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust.
Mike McQuaid, board president of the Human Services Campus in Phoenix, was awarded the first Piper Trust Encore Career Prize in fall of 2013. McQuaid was recognized as an encore career role model for applying decades of his experience as a commercial real estate developer to building the Human Services Campus. The Human Services Campus is the first of its kind in the nation and a national model that works to achieve a sustainable end to homelessness.
Piper Trust is now seeking nominations for its 2015 Encore Career Prize. Candidates are people, age 50+, leading significant social purpose efforts in Maricopa County in their encore careers. One $50,000 Prize will be awarded in recognition of an exceptional encore role model. Nominations are due June 15, 2015.
As it relates to the Piper Trust Encore Career Prize, social purpose work combines the experience of a person, age 50+, with a social cause that he/she is passionate about—a meaningful issue that someone applies years of experience and talent to, and through this work a significant difference in the well-being of people and communities is achieved.
While approximately 10,000 people in the U.S. turn 65 every day, an age often associated with retirement, many are not retiring in traditional ways, or at all. There are more than 1 million people in Maricopa County age 50+. Piper Trust recognizes that this highly talented human resource pool can help solve social problems by applying experience and innovation to meaningful work which strengthens quality of life in our community.
To nominate someone for the Piper Trust Encore Career Prize, visit www.pipertrust.org/encore for more information, including an extensive Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section. Nominations are due June 15, 2015 through the online portal. The Piper Trust Encore Career Prize awardee will be selected by mid-September 2015 and celebrated at a special public event in November 2015.
About Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust:
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust supports organizations that enrich health, well-being, and opportunity for the people of Maricopa County, Arizona. Since it began awarding grants in 2000, Piper Trust has invested more than $338 million in local nonprofits and programs. Piper Trust grantmaking areas are healthcare and medical research, children, older adults, arts and culture, education, and religious organizations. For more information, visit www.pipertrust.org. View Piper Trust’s FY14 Annual Report at: www.pipertrust.org/annualreport2014
Follow us on Twitter @PiperTrust / visit us on Facebook. #pipertrustencore
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MEDIA CONTACT:
Karen Leland, 480-556-7125 / kleland@pipertrust.org
Director, Communications and External Relations
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
1202 East Missouri Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85014

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