Mesa City Council Study Session - 11/21/2016

Published November 21, 2016
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Richins asked for more details about Item 4b [radios for new cars?] 3-year program with all 1700 received in first year with a $400,000 discount
ACTION ACTION FOR THE CONTRACT AWARD:

4B 16-1197 November 21, 2016
Three-Year Term Contract for Portable and Mobile Two-Way Radios for the Police Department (Citywide)
This contract will provide portable and mobile two-way radios and related accessories and equipment to replace the radios currently being used by the Police Department. The radios currently in use are up to 14 years old and have reached the end of their useful life. The radios are no longer guaranteed support from the vendor and users have been experiencing increasing radio failures. 
The Police Department will lease-to-purchase an initial quantity of 1,793 radios and related equipment.  The cost of this purchase, $8,492,324, will be paid over three years ($2,830,774.67 per year).  These payments will be funded by General Fund Capital. 
Additionally, the Police Department requests additional capacity of $713,130 annually through the three-year term to purchase equipment as needed for new hires and expanded programs requiring the need for radio communication.  As these purchases are needed, funding sources will be identified.  *4-e 16-1202
The evaluation committee recommends awarding the contract to the highest-scored proposal from Motorola Solutions, Inc., up to $3,550,000 annually, based on estimated requirements


No other questions about other contract awards
Item 5c: will be continued
Community Outreach efforts about Site 17

Monday, November 21, 2016 Views: 9 who are watching the live stream yesterday 
Note numbers of the public at the meeting please

Re: McVay's Presentation
Some questions about whether residential or mixed-use is the top result e.g...see what the presentation has to show
2 public comments
D. Montague -who lives a mile west of Site 17 - who urges the council for single-family homes and residential development to follow resident input instead of developers
[see what councilmember Thompson corrects later in that statement].
Mayor John Giles waits for another blue card from Nancy who lives in the Escobedo neighborhood, moving here when demolition took place in 1992. City Council discussion:
Giles has 2 words: people and quality [same as Country Club/Main] and notes that when he and Kavanaugh were on the council 20 years ago they approved projects they are embarrassed about now that are not sustainable.
Kavanaugh chimes in about previous RFPs that didn't work out, now in favor of residential use Luna also thankful for residents
Finter has one word: Agritopia [like in Gilbert]
Thompson notes higher vote for NON-RESIDENTIAL and mixed-use and wonders if the city officials are putting words into residents' mouths

Lot of side-talk about restaurants as the second most voted on resident suggestion [even those anyone with food business ownership experience would hesitate]  with Giles making comments that might not fit into the discussion with  City Manager Chris Brady taking charge to note caution in what the mayor just said .....

Glover, whom residents have complained they don't see him after getting elected, talks briefly

Richins says along with many other vacant sites they are risks that need to get "de-risked" at the same time Chris Brady still tries to clarify his remarks mentioning "a master developer" Instead of 5 or 6 for the 25 acres

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NEW QUAKE: 7.3 Quake/Off the Japan Fukushima Coast./10 FT. TSUNAMI.

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Mesa Office of Economic Developments Wants To Make Sure You Know This

City of Mesa Office of Economic Development receives Arizona Data Center Award

Post Date: 11/21/2016 10:27 AM

Just retrieved from Email Inbox a short time ago ...     

The City of Mesa’s Office of Economic Development has been honored by the Global Data Center Alliance (GDCA) with the Economic Development Team of the Year Award.
The award was presented at a ceremony November 17 at the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale, Arizona.
“We are very pleased to be recognized with this esteemed Data Center Award for Economic Development Team of the Year,” City of Mesa Economic Development Director Bill Jabjiniak said. “Our team has worked diligently to make Mesa a premier location for technology companies and to provide assistance to data centers considering Mesa as a place to locate.”
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411 Session: Mesa ArtSpace Lofts

Is this in-fill project the remedy to heal a scar of vacant real estate here in The New Urban Downtown Mesa?
Due to strong local momentum for the arts as a strategy for downtown development, Artspace has been working with the Mesa community since 2012 to explore the feasibility of an Artspace live/work project . . . good things take time

Opposite Visions? Cornucopian Vision of Development + Humanity OR Environmental Catastrophe

Podcast

The Second Ehrlich-Simon Wager with Joanna Szurmak

November 19, 2016 Garrett M. Petersen 

Today’s interview features Joanna Szurmak of the University of Toronto. Our topic for today is the second proposed bet between Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon. Joanna has written a paper titled “Care to Wager Again? An Appraisal of Paul Ehrlich’s Counter-Bet Offer to Julian Simon” along with coauthors Vincent Geloso and Pierre Desrochers, both former guests of this show. We mentioned the original Simon-Ehrlich bet briefly in my conversation with Steve Horwitz, but in this episode we talk about it in more detail.

Julian Simon had a cornucopian vision of development and humanity. In his view, things are getting better as we develop new ideas for improving our lives and our world. Paul Ehrlich has precisely the opposite vision. He has been predicting environmental catastrophe since the 1960s.
Julian Simon famously challenged Ehrlich to a wager. Simon challenged Ehrlich to choose any five commodities whose prices were not controlled by governments, betting that their inflation-adjusted prices would fall rather than rise. While Ehrlich was very publicly predicting the depletion of many commodities, Simon challenged him to put up or shut up. The five commodities Ehrlich chose—copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten—all fell in price between 1980 and 1990.
The subject of Joanna’s research is the counter-bet Ehrlich offered Simon in 1994. Ehrlich, along with climatologist Stephen Schneider, bet that 15 trends would worsen between 1994 and 2004:

1. The three years 2002-2004 will on average be warmer than 1992-1994.
2. There will be more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2004 than in 1994.
3. There will be more nitrous oxide in the atmosphere in 2004 than 1994.
4. The concentration of ozone in the lower atmosphere (the troposphere) will be greater than in 1994.
5. Emissions of the air pollutant sulfur dioxide in Asia will be significantly greater in 2004 than in 1994.
6. There will be less fertile cropland per person in 2004 than in 1994.
7. There will be less agricultural soil per person in 2004 than 1994.
8. There will be on average less rice and wheat grown per person in 2002-2004 than in 1992-1994.
9. In developing nations there will be less firewood available per person in 2004 than in 1994.
10. The remaining area of virgin tropical moist forests will be significantly smaller in 2004 than in 1994.
11. The oceanic fishery harvest per person will continue its downward trend and thus in 2004 will be smaller than in 1994.
12. There will be fewer plant and animal species still extant in 2004 than in 1994.
13. More people will die of AIDS in 2004 than in 1994.
14. Between 1994 and 2004, sperm cell counts of human males will continue to decline and reproductive disorders will continue to increase.
15. The gap in wealth between the richest 10% of humanity and the poorest 10% will be greater in 2004 than in 1994.

Simon declined the second bet because the measures were both too difficult to quantify and too disconnected from the thing Simon was actually interested in: human welfare. Simon explained it as follows:

Let me characterize their offer as follows. I predict, and this is for real, that the average performances in the next Olympics will be better than those in the last Olympics. On average, the performances have gotten better, Olympics to Olympics, for a variety of reasons. What Ehrlich and others says is that they don’t want to bet on athletic performances, they want to bet on the conditions of the track, or the weather, or the officials, or any other such indirect measure.

Joanna, Vincent, and Pierre have gone to great lengths to figure out who would have one on each of the 15 points had Simon accepted the bet. Listen to the episode to find out!

[Note: The sound quality drops about an hour into the episode. Skype failed and we had to switch to a telephone line.]
Other links:
Here is a 1998 interview with Julian Simon detailing his Cornucopian worldview.
Pierre Desrochers and Vincent Geloso wrote a detailed article on the first bet.
Download this episode.

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Looking Back + Ahead > All Too Soon or Too Much Too Late ? // Party Time @ Fiesta Again? [Gary Nelson Takes Another Look]

Pre-Note: Your MesaZona blogger is always surprised when Conservative Republicans in the most conservative city in America want to use government intervention to grant tax advantages to developers. . . there's gotta be a reason for that [even though the City of Mesa OED is very careful to state no properties or owners are identified]
Now a "Contributing Writer" for The East Valley Tribune, Gary Nelson who has been covering Mesa and the east Valley far longer than your MesaZona blogger, hits the pulp pages again in the paper print version of Sunday's Tribune with three articles about Fiesta Mall, Fiesta Village and the Fiesta District in its current reincarcarnation called the Southwest RDA by the City of Mesa Office of Economic Development [OED] shown in opening image for this post.