Tentative Agenda for Mesa City Council Meeting 17 October 2016

Mesa City Council Meeting Agenda - Tentative
Monday, October 17, 2016 5:45 PM
Link to entire 13-page file can be accessed here

Blogger Note: more details to follow

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION All citizens are permitted and encouraged to speak on agenda items including and preceding “Items from citizens present.” If you are interested in speaking on such an agenda item, please fill out a blue card in the back of the room and give it to the City Clerk.  When the Council considers the item, you will be called to the podium to provide your comments.
CONSENT AGENDA All items listed with an asterisk (*) will be considered as a group by the City Council and will be enacted with one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Councilmember or citizen requests, in which event the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered as a separate item.  If a citizen wants an item removed from the consent agenda, a blue card must be completed and given to the City Clerk prior to the Council’s vote on the consent agenda.
OOPS!
On August 22, 2016, Council approved the initial three-year term contract to the lowest, responsive and responsible bidders.  Due to a typographical error on the bid tabulation, Group 5 - 400 Series Poles was inadvertently awarded to the second lowest bidder, Cem-Tec Corporation. 
Both contractors were contacted and the City will re-award Group 5 to the actual lowest, responsive and responsible bidder, Southwest Fabrication, LLC. 
The Business Services and Transportation Departments, and Purchasing recommend awarding the additional vendor, Southwest Fabrication, LLC, at $55,895 to this term contract.

Ranked By Budget Mesa Office of Economic Development is #1 .... ranked by result TBD

Economic Development Organizations Ranked by 2016 budget

Locally Researched by: Dale Brown, Phoenix Business Journal Oct 07, 2016, 3:00am MST

The City of Mesa Office of Economic Development scored its first No. 1 ranking when the Phoenix Business Journal published the 2016 edition of its annual Economic Development Organizations list.
The list was previously dominated by the City of Phoenix Community and Economic Development Department, but that agency dropped workforce connection funding and personnel from its budget total. As a result, the group's annual budget dropped from $29.5 million to $5 million, and staffing dropped from 90 to 44.
Phoenix's Community and Economic Development Department now ranks fifth on the list.
The list is ranked by 2016 annual budget and the City of Mesa Office of Economic Development reported $10.22 million with 14 employees.[Bill jabjiniak in image above left] 
Second on the list was the Arizona Commerce Authority with an annual budget of $10 million, and third went to the City of Chandler - Economic Development Division at $5.74 million.
Source >> Phoenix Business Journal

City of Mesa Office of Economic Development works to enhance Mesa’s economy by

• supporting the creation of jobs,
• increasing per capita income and
• improving quality of life for residents.

Website >> http://www.mesaaz.gov/business/economic- development                                      

2016 Featured results

Office of Economic Development receives international Excellence in Economic Development award		Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Authority Names J. Brian O'Neill Executive Director
Mesa Office of Economic Development welcomes new deputy director		$10M project gets underway at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport
Dexcom to expand manufacturing operation to Mesa		City of Mesa launches Business Districts Opportunity Maps
City of Mesa Office of Economic Development receives state economic development awards		H Mart to bring Asian-American supermarket to Mesa
Lots of moving parts led to new manufacturing facility in Mesa		Harvard Investments and East Valley Institute of Technology create partnership through development of Cadence at Gateway Master-Planned Community
Dexcom brings 500 jobs to Mesa		Top reason why Dexcom chose Mesa
The $120M acquisition of Mesa's Alpine Valley Bread Co. was ACG "Deal of the Year"		CEOs rank Arizona 6th best state to do business
Grand opening for Santander Consumer USA in Mesa's Fiesta District		Grand opening held for American Traffic Solutions headquarters in Mesa
Holmes Spring Manufacturing moves to Mesa, brings 21 jobs		Grand opening for new ATS headquarters in Mesa
Chicago Cubs post another record-breaking spring training season in Mesa, AZ		Boeing's Mesa plant gets $1.5B Apache contract
Textron Aviation purchasing Mesa-based Able Engineering		New owners purchase downtown Mesa Marriott hotel, will invest $13 million in renovations
AT Still University will expand Mesa campus adding 122K SF academic building		$10M international supermarket opening in Mesa

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Mesa Ballot Measure Town Hall > Prop 205 and Prop 206

Opponents and proponents of the measures have been invited to speak at the meetings.

A meeting is set for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11 in the Saguaro Room at the Mesa Public Library, 64 E. First St.

Pie Interviews a Young Conservative

Published on Oct 9, 2016

Views: 16,253

Pie attempts polite conversation with a Tory teenager.

Mormonism Has A Reputation For Secrecy & Political Power.

Really? ... in the open democratic society we are proud to have created here in the United States, that post headline statement might raise more than a few eyebrows if it were not accurate to describe a religion.
This is not "rabble-raising" by your MesaZona blogger.

It's part of one the Top Stories in the October 7, 2016 issue of The Mormon News Report about the so-called "leaks" that didn't get much attention last week following an article by Laurie Goodstein published on October 6, 2016 Mormon videos leaked . And so hoping to drum up what was lost in the news cycle this top story [???] is given the full money in the MNR: "I was just talking to someone today who told me they were surprised that the leaked videos of committee meetings including members of the Quorum of the Twelve wasn’t making national news. Well, here you go . . . "
The news report is archived here 
Kathleen Flake, a professor of American religious history, said “Mormonism has a reputation for secrecy and political power. I think these tapes probably fit that story, and explains the delight that people are taking in their leakage.” I would also add that some of those reputations don’t go away easily, and are still accurate.here

Growth in Personal Consumption Decelerated in 2015

EMBARGOED UNTIL RELEASE AT 8:30 A.M. EDT,

Tuesday, October 4, 2016 BEA 16—55

Personal Consumption Expenditures by State, 2015

Growth in state personal consumption expenditures (PCE) – the measure of goods and services purchased by or on behalf of households – decelerated to 3.6 percent on average in 2015 from 4.4 percent in 2014 (Table 1), according to statistics released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In 2015, PCE growth ranged from 1.5 percent in Wyoming to 5.0 percent in Florida.
Growth in PCE accelerated in only three states in 2015 – Alaska, Kentucky, and Missouri – and was largely concentrated in the Far West and Rocky Mountain regions.
The states with the fastest growth in PCE were Florida (5.0%), Oregon (4.9%), and Colorado (4.9%). These states were also among the fastest growing states in 2014. After Wyoming, the states with the slowest PCE growth were Mississippi (1.9%), North Dakota (1.9%), and Maine (2.0%).
View entire press release and tables here

What is Market Urbanism? | Trailer Parks = Low-Cost Higher Density Housing

Today’s guest on Economics Detective Radio is Nolan Gray. Nolan is a writer for Market Urbanism and the host of the recently launched Market Urbanism Podcast.

Market urbanism is the synthesis of classical liberal economics and an appreciation for urban life. Market urbanists are interested in economic issues specific to cities, such as housing affordability and urban transportation.

Nolan wrote an article titled “Reclaiming ‘Redneck’ Urbanism: What Urban Planners Can Learn From Trailer Parks.” As Nolan points out, trailer parks are remarkable in that they achieve very high densities with just one- and two-story construction. They do so while providing remarkably low rents of between $300 and $500, or $700 to $1,100 per month to live in brand new manufactured homes. They are also interesting in that the park managers provide a form of private governance to their tenants.

William Fischel’s homevoter hypothesis states that local homeowners engage in political activism to prevent development, thus protecting their home prices. They may justify their opposition to development in terms of environmentalism or preserving local character, but homeowners stand to gain or lose a significant portion of their life savings depending on the price of their homes. This makes local politics particularly hostile to new development and denser, more affordable housing.
How Home Values Influence Local Government Taxation, School Finance, and Land-Use Policies. ... Fischel has coined the portmanteau word “homevoter” to crystallize the connection between homeownership and political involvement. .
http://economicsdetective.com/2016/09/trailer-parks-zoning-market-urbanism-nolan-gray/