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March 7, 2018: In this video we show an example of how intense the sunlight is getting and can be at times. The example in this video occurred in the first 2 months of 2018. Be safe out there...
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
WKONIT! Your City of Mesa Government At-Work?
Holy Bullshit again, Batman!
What Kind Of Nonsense Is This to fix a label and give it a new Hashtag #WKONITmesaazGov
kind of nonsense/waste-of-time is this?
we just don't know . . . NOTHING about any of the discussion
there isn't a single recording in the Meeting Minutes by what is called 'discussion' from any of the Mesa City Council members that are published in the Meeting Minutes
Please take a look for yourself
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What kind of nonsense is this, put me on the council and not make me ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gd70dfjBXo
Dec 6, 2017 - Uploaded by Star Wars Clips
The clip is from "Revenge of the Sith"| Meeting Name: | City Council Strategic Planning Session | Agenda status: | Final |
| Meeting date/time: | 3/5/2018 8:00 AM | Minutes status: | Draft |
| Meeting location: | Red Mountain Library - THINKspot 635 North Power Road Mesa, AZ 85205 | ||
| Published agenda: |  Agenda | Published minutes: | Minutes |
| Meeting video: |
| Attachments: |
File 18-0288
| File #: | 18-0288 |
| Type: | Presentation | Status: | Agenda Ready |
| In control: | City Council Strategic Planning Session |
| On agenda: | 2/5/2018 |
| Title: | Hear a presentation and discuss the City Council's existing Strategic Priorities and priority projects, and provide direction on modifying those Priorities and projects. |
| Attachments: | 1. Presentation |
PRESENTATION:
City Council Strategic Priorities
Same old tired and un-informative Power Point slides presented by whom?
Just one slide-after-another-slide with vague action verbs like 'building', 'creating', 'striving for', and 'cultivating' . . . and wonderful whacky questionable statements like this:
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Mesa’s neighborhoods are clean, safe, diverse, and economically vibrant places where residents and businesses are engaged, informed, and take pride in their properties and community.
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> Community Safety
Building communities that are safe, healthy, and welcoming
> Workforce Development
Creating an enriching environment where the skills required to succeed in today’s economy are made readily available and easily accessible
> Sustainable Economy
Striving for continued economic growth and increased prosperity for all Mesa residents
> Transform Neighborhoods
Mesa’s neighborhoods are clean, safe, diverse, and economically vibrant places where residents and businesses are engaged, informed, and take pride in their properties and community
> Place Making
Cultivating vibrant unique spaces ranging from a city block to entire economic centers that attract and benefit residents, businesses, and visitors
> Budget Priority Projects from May 4, 2017
Public Safety Staffing Models
Opioid Usage
Homelessness
Transportation Policy Updates
Library Services in Southeast Mesa
Early Childhood Education
Redevelopment Areas
Downtown Development
Digital Engagement/Open Data
Uconnect
Convention Center Modernization
City Council Strategic Priorities >
COUNCIL PRIORITY PROJECTS
Blogger Note: The City may be wishing to raise taxes for any or all of these.First ask, What are the measurable results and outcomes for million$ already borrowed?
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PRIORITY PROJECTS
[No vote taken and no discussion available to the public]
> COMMUNITY SAFETY
Public Safety Staffing Models
Opioid Usage
Homelessness
Transportation Policy Updates
> WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Library Services in Southeast Mesa
Early Childhood Education
> SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY
Redevelopment Areas | Downtown Development
> TRANSFORM NEIGHBORHOODS
Digital Engagement/Open Data
Uconnect
> PLACEMAKING
Convention Center Modernization
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Meeting Minutes City Council Strategic Planning Session
March 5, 2018
08:00 am
Red Mountain Library - THINKspot
635 North Power Road Mesa, AZ 85205
City Council Strategic Planning Session
- Mayor John Giles
- Vice Mayor David Luna - District 5
- Councilmember Mark Freeman - District 1
- Councilmember Jeremy Whittaker - District 2
- Councilmember Francisco Heredia - District 3
- Councilmember Chris Glover - District 4
- Councilmember Kevin Thompson - District 6
Roll Call
Mayor Giles called the meeting to order with all Councilmembers present at 8:00 a.m.
> 1 Presentation:
1-a Hear a presentation and discuss the City Council's existing Strategic Priorities and priority projects, and provide direction on modifying those Priorities and projects.
Presentation and discussion only;
OK Where is it in these meeting notes?
no formal action taken by Council.
> 2 Adjournment
Without objection, the meeting adjourned at 10:42 a.m.
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New State-Level Data for 2015 Arts and Culture Grow for Fourth Straight Year
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 10:00 A.M. EST, Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Arts and Culture Grow for Fourth Straight Year
New State-level Data Available for the First Time
The Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA) released today by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) show that arts and cultural economic activity nationwide increased an inflation-adjusted 4.9% in 2015.
That compares with a 0.4 percent increase in 2014 (table 1).
Arts and cultural economic activity accounted for 4.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), or $763.6 billion, in 2015 (table 2).
> Core arts and cultural production industries, including performing arts, design services, fine arts education, and education services, increased 4.9 %
> Supporting arts and cultural production industries, including art support services and information services, increased 4.8%
Real Value Added for Arts and Culture Industries Nationwide
PLEASE NOTE THESE DETAILS:
- For the performing arts aggregate, which includes performing arts companies, promoters of performing arts and similar events, agents/managers for artists, independent artists, writers, and performers, real valued added increased 6.2% in 2015, after increasing 4.6 percent in 2014. The increase was primarily attributed to an increase in independent artists, writers, and performers.
- For design services, which include seven industries ranging from advertising to all other design services, real value added increased 6.7% in 2015, after increasing 5.6 percent. The leading contributor to the increase was architectural services, which increased 10.0%
- Fine arts education services increased 2.4% in 2015, after increasing 5.1 percent.
- Education services decreased 0.2% in 2015, after increasing 1.7 percent.
> It increased 8.1 percent in the core arts and cultural production industries, to a level of $153.0 billion.
The increase was primarily attributed to an increase in design services, which include advertising and architectural services (table 3).
> Nominal value added increased 5.9 percent in the supporting arts and cultural production industries, to a level of $583.8 billion.
The increase was primarily attributed to an increase in information services, which include the motion pictures and broadcasting industries.
Today's release marks the first time BEA has released statistics on arts and cultural value added for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The arts and cultural share of total value added ranged from 8.4 percent in the District of Columbia to 1.3 percent in Delaware.
The top industries in the District of Columbia are government, broadcasting, and advertising (table 3). In New York, the top industries are motion pictures, broadcasting, and government. In California, the top industries are motion pictures, other information services, and broadcasting.
Value added in arts and cultural industries increased in 45 states and the District of Columbia in 2015.
The percent change in value added in arts and cultural industries across all states ranged from 12.6 percent in Missouri to -5.9 percent in Kansas in 2015 (table 4).
- The broadcasting industry led growth in Missouri, Idaho, Florida, and Utah.
- The motion pictures industry led growth in Louisiana.
> The total number of arts and cultural jobs for the nation was 4.92 million.
> Arts and cultural employment increased in 37 states and the District of Columbia.
> The percent change in arts and cultural employment across all states ranged from 5.5 percent in Georgia to -3.4 percent in Oklahoma.
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Updates to the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account.
Today, BEA also released updated estimates of output, value added, intermediate inputs, employment, and compensation for 2013 and 2014.
The updated statistics incorporate the most recent data from BEA's Industry and Regional Economic Accounts.
Important Notice. BEA's Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA) is supported by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
This release makes available, for the first time, prototype estimates of ACPSA state value added for 2001 to 2015. The estimates are being released for evaluation and comment, and BEA requests suggestions for refinement and improvement. Comments can be addressed to artsandculture@bea.gov.
This release makes available, for the first time, prototype estimates of ACPSA state value added for 2001 to 2015. The estimates are being released for evaluation and comment, and BEA requests suggestions for refinement and improvement. Comments can be addressed to artsandculture@bea.gov.
All About CDFI from LISC CEO Maurice Jones > IMPACT INVESTING
< Take a look at the infographic to the left
WHAT IS IMPACT INVESTING?
. . . to generate positive social or environmental impact
Why does this matter along with expecting financial returns?
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Next Street: There is a perception that CDFIs have become too bank-like to fulfill their mission to provide capital and resources to underserved communities. Do you agree?
Maurice Jones: There’s no question that CDFIs need to continue to push deeper into our communities and take more risk – smart risk – but more risk. Frankly, we need to demonstrate that we can invest in small businesses, entrepreneurship, commercial corridors – and we do that by mitigating risk, and finding good partners to work with. We need to help transform people and neighborhoods.NS: And to what extent do you think the ability to take more risk is driven by your current funding sources?
Let me add on to that: Before going to access the capital markets, our significant motivation was to get funding with fewer restrictions – both geographic restrictions and term restrictions (long-term versus short term) – so we could do more work in rural America, so we could do more work on economic development, and so on. I want to be clear that we can’t take the funding sources out of the game.
NS: Do you believe that by changing the types of capital used to fund your activities, you would be able to take more smart risk in terms of lending to entrepreneurs?
NS: One of the buzzwords of the day is "impact investing"
Do you believe that there is a new group of investors who believe in financial returns with social impact?
MJ: I kid with people a lot on this:
we were doing impact investing before it was cool. In my mind, it’s not a new thing. I do think, though, that there are new sectors that are investment prospects … whether you look at it from a mindset of an impact investor or not. I’ll give you a couple of examples:
> First, healthcare.
This has little to with what people are calling “impact investing” and much more to do with an awakening around the health of communities – including what’s happening beyond clinics themselves.
We need to get involved in housing, jobs, healthy food, other community facilities that contribute to the reduction of stress, and so on.
I see incredible alignment between health care and what we’re doing; whether they want more social return or financial return is unclear, but this will definitely be a big area of investment going forward.
> The second example is technology.
The technology community is ripe for partnering with us. They come at it more from a standpoint of realizing that if they want to be able to attract and retain talent, they need to do something about the issues in the communities that surround them. If you look at those communities – take Boston, where housing affordability is a key issue around talent recruitment. San Francisco is also experiencing this, and we’re seeing more and more tech companies realizing that it’s in their best interest to be helpful.
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CDFI Leaders Thinking Ahead and Acting Now:
Maurice Jones
This interview is part of Next Up: CDFI Leaders Thinking Ahead and Acting Now, an 8-part series exploring the Community Development Financial Institution industry.
JUST SAY NO: Double-Trouble | 4-Year Terms For AZ State Legislators??
On Monday, the Arizona House of Representatives voted 33-22 to pass a constitutional amendment to increase the length of terms for both state senators and state representatives from two years to four years. The measure would not change the length of term limits in years. Both state senators and state representatives would continue to be limited to serving eight years (two terms under the proposal, rather than four terms as currently allowed).
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Arizona State House votes to double legislator's term-lengths . . . Approval in the State Senate will send to November Ballot
At least 31 votes were needed in the state House to approve the amendment, which will go before voters at the election on November 6, 2018, if the state Senate also approves the proposal. The amendment received bipartisan support and bipartisan opposition in the state House. It passed with 33 votes, with 48 percent of Democrats and 60 percent of Republicans voting "yes" on the amendment. The amendment will need the vote of 16 state senators to make the ballot. Republicans have a 17-13 majority in the state Senate.
During the 2017 legislative session, the Arizona State Senate voted on a constitutional amendment to increase the length of a term for state senators from two years to four years. The amendment did not increase the length of a term for state representatives. While the state Senate approved the proposal 19-11, the state House did not vote on the measure before the session adjourned.
QUESTION: Why make the change?
These term-limits are in effect for good reasons, especially here in Arizona where State House politics deserves more timely scrutiny and vigilant oversight to keep government HONEST: more open, transparent and accountable NOT LESS
If you want more information > Go here > https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page
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Tuesday, March 06, 2018
Nice Guy. Goofy To Say The Least: Ben Carson WOHH
Your MesaZona blogger always wondered what kind of medications this dude is on from the very first time hearing him speak in public. Ya gotta wonder why The Donald nominated the likeable brain surgeon in the first place, followed by Senate approval. Mebbe all their heads need to get an examination, do ya think? Set-up to Fail +
Another Tall Tale from The House of Trump.... is this stuff amusing anymore??
Here's more fodder for the grist-mill media saying the obvious (backing it up with details)
Ben Carson, Retired Brain Surgeon, Has Lobotomized HUD
After a year of overseeing the anti-poverty department, Carson is realizing he may be in over his head.
by Tina Nguyen 05 March 2018 12:02 pm The Hive
Neurosurgery, one would assume, is a difficult task requiring intelligence, skill, and intense focus. But as former presidential candidate and current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson recently declared, it is a positive cakewalk compared to working in Donald Trump’s White House. “There are more complexities here than in brain surgery,” Carson told The New York Times in an interview, perhaps a lame excuse for what the Times revealed to be a morass of problems at HUD: steep cuts to both staffers and budget; a brewing ethics scandal over Carson’s furniture budget; and a president indifferent to both the mission of HUD and to the man he appointed to lead it, whom he reportedly considers a beta “winner,” not an aggressive “killer.”
The result, as the Times reports, is that Carson has been either unable or unwilling to secure the funds that HUD desperately needs to take care of the millions of low-income Americans who rely on public housing and other forms of assistance:
When the Times brought up the fact that he allowed his businessman son to attend a HUD listening tour, despite the department’s warning about a possible ethics violation, Carson replied that he’d solved the problem by asking his wife and son whether they thought they were doing anything wrong. “I don’t have any problem with ethics, . . .HUH???????????
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Blogger Note: Just like here in Mesa, Such questionable quips have become another hallmark of Carson’s tenure
"I’m not going to just say no because it looks this way or that way,” Carson said. “We are ethically pure.”
Here in Mesa, add "conservative and religious"
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". . . In a subsequent appearance, he called poverty a “state of mind” that could be resolved with “the right mindset.” Both flubs caused a media uproar, largely overshadowing Carson’s vision for the agency: something called the EnVision Centers project, which seeks to establish thousands of centers to provide low-income families with job training, education, and health-care services. But even that, sources tell the Times, is floundering . . .
READ MORE > https://www.vanityfair.com/news
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