Mesa Police Union Wages No-Confidence Vote Against Chief Ramon Batista

Looks like from reports in mainstream media that the powerful Mesa Police Union is waging an internal battle over office-involved use-of-force against the New Chief. It's going very public. It's a political issue where the Mayor and Mesa City Council say they support both sides at the same time.
as explained farther down, Batista was hired in a shake-up over a case where the City of Mesa is still facing a $100M dollar lawsuit over an incident in January 2016 that is still pending with no settlement to date in-court proceedings
Here's a report from ABC15 > https://www.abc15.com/news with a video

Union representing Mesa officers initiates 'no confidence' vote against Chief Ramon Batista

by Sonu Wasu

Posted: 4:48 PM, May 03, 2019 | Updated: 10:17 PM, May 03, 2019

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About Sona Wasu
Sonu Wasu joined ABC15 as a Multi Media Journalist in March 2016. In Tucson, where Ramon Batista was Chief of Police, Sonu won three Edward R. Murrow awards, two Associated Press awards and a Rocky Mountain Regional Emmy for hard news reporting and feature reporting

MESA, AZ — Two unions representing Mesa police officers have initiated a "no confidence" vote against Chief Ramon Batista.
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More than 500 Mesa police officers took a survey put out by the Mesa police association, rating trust in the chief and morale within the department is very low.
Here is a link to that survey.
ABC15 has removed five pages which list names and badge numbers of Mesa police officers to protect their privacy.
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"Ballots will cast until May 17 and then votes will be delivered to the Mesa City Council.
Union representatives tell ABC15, morale within the department is extremely low.
Some officers are upset with Chief Batista's response to a high-profile "use of force" case "condemning" the officers to the media before disciplinary investigations were completed.
On Friday afternoon, Chief Batista issued the following statement:
“We are aware that a labor organization — working with a marketing firm — has initiated a poll of our officers. It is important to remember that their agenda does not represent the entire Mesa Police Department. . .
Mesa Mayor John Giles also issued a statement Friday evening:
“The Mayor and Mesa City Council fully support the brave women and men of the Mesa Police Department, including Chief Batista and his leadership team. The tireless work of our officers has brought Mesa’s crime level to historic lows and made it one of the safest big cities in America.”

So how did the department get to this point?
When Batista was hired there was a cry to change the culture within the Mesa Police Department by members of the community.
Batista was the choice of city leaders and citizens who were part of the interview process. Community members were invited to meet and interview all four finalists for the job, before Batista got the vote, making him the third police chief in Mesa in the last nine years. His predecessor, John Meza, lasted two years. Mesa Police Association leaders were in support of two internal candidates who were also vying for the job.
Instead, the city hired the new guy from Tucson . .

His hire was right on the heels of a controversial officer-involved shooting involving a man visiting from Texas. Former Mesa police officer Philip Brailsford was charged with murder, for shooting Daniel Shaver on January 18th, 2016. Brailsford was acquitted of the crime.
For the last few months, many community leaders in the City of Mesa have been calling for a "change in the culture" of the Mesa Police Department.For the last few months, many community leaders in the City of Mesa have been calling for a "change in the culture" of the Mesa Police Department.
"This is a culture that has been accepted within the city of Mesa," said Pastor Andre Miller after a questionable use of force incident by Mesa police. Several excessive use of force complaints were followed by marches and protests outside the Mesa Police Department.
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SLAMMED AGAIN! Agenda for Mesa City Council Study Thu 02 May 2019 @ 07:30 a.m.

This is Death-by-Power Point and one more calculated attempt to Wear-Out everyone's Attention Span!!
Way too much thrown at the public and City Council and so little time in advance to study it all . . . Maybe they plan it that way, huh?  
Tomorrow's study session agenda was made available today - only one day ahead of the "study session".
NOT ENOUGH TIME to seriously devote the time necessary

Once again there are three more City Department Budgets to hear, discuss and provide direction on:
(1) Community Services
(2) Library Services
(3) Arts & Culture.

Any one of them might individually need an hour of attention at the minimum.
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With that being said, before the department budgets presentations are made, there is a previous Item: to hear a presentation, discuss, and provide direction on 3 projects in what city officials like to call the "Downtown Innovation District". . . and before that is the first item . . .and at the same time in the same place [The Lower Chambers] there is another meeting for the Cadence Community Facilities District.

Review and Discuss 38 Items on the agenda for Mon 06 May 2019 Regular Council Meeting!! 
LINK: Mesa Legistar/Council, Committee & Board Research Center 

•  6 Liquor License Applications (Item 3a - 3e)
• 12 Contracts (Item 4a - 4l) Pay attention to these. Item 4-f is $2,000,000 annually
•  6 Resolutions (Item 5a -5f)
•  8 Ordinances (Item 6a - 6d) + (Item 7a - 7d)
•  2 Sub-Division Plats (Item 8a - 8c) 228 PCD single-residence lots. These are for   Cadence @ Gateway Phase 3
• 2 Public Hearings (Item 9a and 9b) on the release of petitions for signatures for 2 annexation cases:

> Item 9-a ANX18-00502 69.3 acres initiated by VIVO Partners in District 6.

> Item 9b19-00066 13.07 acres initiated by SeanLake, Pew and Lake, PLC in District 5.

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1 Review and discuss items on the agenda for the May 6, 2019 regular Council meeting

2 Presentations/Action Items: You can open the link to the Presentation in the File # insert

 ARTS AND INNOVATION DISTRICT PROJECTS

  DISCUSSION AND DIRECTION

> Item 2-a 19-0526

Hear a presentation, discuss, and provide direction on the following Downtown Innovation District projects:

• 1) ASU @ Mesa City Center
• 2) The Studios @ Mesa City Center
• 3) CO+HOOTS @ Benedictine University

The Presentation is 10 Power Point slides
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City Council Study Session

May 2, 2019

Jeff McVay Manager of Downtown Transformation

BLOGGER NOTE:
ASU @ MESA CITY CENTER
Project Update Overall Project Budget: $63.5M
Funding Sources: 

Proceeds from sale of City assets 

Construction sales tax 
Excise tax revenue bonds 
Economic Investment Fund
This is NOT what the proposed new building looks like.

BLOGGER NOTE: THE STUDIOS @ MESA CITY CENTERA renovation of the 1970's-Era old former City of Mesa IT Building on First Street @ SWC Centennial Drive. Next to the City Council Building. What you see is a view from the south. The proposed ASU @ Mesa City Center new construction for one building with an estimated cost of $63,000,000 is planned to go on the footprint of the parking lot in the back on the IT Building on the NWC of Pepper Place/Centennial.It is a very constrained site perimeter that presents multiple problemsSite excavation, connection of utilities and broadband/optical fiber, access and storage for construction machinery and building materials.__________________________________________________________________________

Budget Estimate 

Phase I: $5.0M 

Phase II: $3.0M 

Proposed Funding Sources: Economic Investment Fund

Program 

Former IT Building - Mesa’s first public library (26,500SF) 

Innovation District front door 

Open/Flexible community collaboration spaces 

Corporate partnerships 

City/ASU Inter-governmental agreement 

City design and construction: 6,00012,500 SF 

ASU annual public events: 25 film and 20 entrepreneur and innovation

> Partner with ASU Entrepreneurship and Innovation(E+I) for programming 

• E+I workshops and events 
• Entrepreneurship training and mentoring 
• Place-based programs (e.g. maker spaces) 
• Incubator and accelerator programs

> MEP systems upgrade 

Local Historic Landmark designation 

Design consultant selected 

Prepare concept design: 6-8 months

BLOGGER NOTE: CO+HOOTS @ BENEDICTINE UNIVERSITY
It's a proposed built-out for the existing city-owned building at the SEC Main/Hibbert Street. CO+HOOTS was originally intended as an anchor- partner for Tony Wall's GRID Project atop the Pomeroy Street Parking Garage.
Budget Estimate 

$1.5-2.0M (design and construction) 

Proposed Funding Source: Economic Investment Fund 

Program 

Design and construction of approx. 10,000 SF within Gillette Hall at Benedictine 
CO+HOOTS and Benedictine University partnership 
Entrepreneurship curriculum 
80-100 students in program/year 
Co-working space 
300 new Mesa jobs/businesses created 
CO+HOOTS responsible for FF+E 
Regular public entrepreneurship events 
10 year commitment (CO+HOOTS and Benedictine)

 

 

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File #:

19-0526

Type:

Presentation

Status:

Agenda Ready

In control:

City Council Study Session

On agenda:

5/2/2019

Title:

Hear a presentation, discuss, and provide direction on the following Downtown Innovation District projects: 1) ASU @ Mesa City Center, 2) The Studios @ Mesa City Center, and 3) CO+HOOTS @ Benedictine University.

Attachments:

1. Presentation

> Item 2-b 19-0408
Hear a presentation, discuss, and provide direction on the following department budgets:

• 1. Community Services
• 2. Library Services
• 3. Arts & Culture

3 Acknowledge receipt of minutes of various boards and committees.

Item 3-a 19-0535

Judicial Advisory Board meeting held on March 20, 2019.3-a

Item 3-b 19-0540

Community and Cultural Development Committee meeting held on April 4, 2019.

Item 3-c 19-0541

Joint Meeting with the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community held on April 15, 2019.

 

(Page 1 City of Mesa Printed on 5/1/2019)

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Cadence @ Gateway: Project Developer Harvard Investments

Seems just like yesterday (December 2018) that new residents started the move-ins after 25% of Phase 1 was sold. The builders for phase I included:

• Lennar with four neighborhoods and 256 homes.
• Pulte Homes with three neighborhoods and 193 total homes.
• Gehan with one neighborhood and 54 homes.
• David Weekly with one neighborhood and 72 homes.
• Newport Homes with one neighborhood and 82 homes

Phase 3 is up for a presentation tomorrow in front of the Mesa City Council Session at 07:30 a.m. That will add another 228 single-family homes in the Eastmark Community Facilities District

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Residents begin moving in to Cadence at Gateway community in Mesa December 2018

Dec 21st, 2018 · by Apache Junction Independent 

"We’ve had hundreds of families visit Cadence the past two months who are excited about our private, resort-style amenities,” stated Craig Krumwiede, president of Harvard Investments, the project developer. “We welcome those that have chosen to call Cadence home and delighted several new families are moving in before Christmas.”

Additional shaded play areas surround The Square as well as a dog park, sports field, tennis court, basketball court, resort-style pool with two slides, lap pool, spa pool, outdoor eating areas, barbecue and fire pit, the release stated.
Inside The Square are a community center, a café-style location, a fitness center, an indoor/outdoor center for events such as weddings, anniversaries and graduations and an outdoor garden area with courtyards, pavilions and more.
The community’s elementary school, part of the Queen Creek district, is under construction and will be open for the fall 2019 school year.
Additional parks are also under construction, according to the developer."
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Mesa foresees huge investment in roads near airport

East Valley Tribune-Apr 21, 2019

By Gary Nelson, Tribune Contributor Apr 21, 2019

"Phoenix Gateway Airport has proven the vision of a huge economic development engine that East Valley leaders foresaw two decades ago.

> Harvard Investments is developing Cadence, a much smaller slice of the former GM property, as a residential and commercial center near the intersection of Loop 202 and State Route 24. 

> A development called Gallery Park was announced last year, promising a dense, urban-style mixed-use project at the northeast corner of Power and Ray roads. 

Mesa project promises 'social destination' with eateries, shops ...

AZCentral.com-Nov 30, 2018

The project called Gallery Park is planned for 40 acres southeast of the Loop 202 and Power Road. ... Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport is to the east. “Southeast ...

there's a lot of land that needs infrastructure: roads, water, sewers, and utilities

Building those will cost ten$, if not hundred$$$$$$, of millions of dollar$$$$$$$$$.
But that money comes incrementally as voters approve bond issues one by one and as the county doles out regional transportation dollars.
So, Zubi said, Mesa has to play its cards in the right order. And what might have looked like the right order in 2008 might not work anymore.  

D6 Mesa City Councilmember Kevin Thompson said developments such as Cadence and Gallery Park will provide population density. And while early visions of urban cores in Eastmark have not materialized, Thompson expects them to develop over time. . .

He sees two major threats to Mesa’s high aspirations for the area: noise complaints and infrastructure . . . but there is potential for a great deal more if the roads, water lines and sewers get built.

Cadence at Gateway 50% sold in 6 months

Queen Creek Independent-Apr 30, 2019

Harvard Investments as of May has sold 50% of its phase I homes in Cadence at Gateway since its grand opening in fall 2018. . .

The master-planned community is in the Queen Creek Unified School District and will open Silver Valley Elementary School within its community this July.
“This community is special,” Tim Brislin, vice president of Harvard Investments, said in a release. “From our early planning stages to the final execution, we intended Cadence to be the finest master-planned community in the east Valley. It is gratifying to see the positive response just months after we opened from a variety of individuals and families eager to become part of Cadence, . . We anticipate this rapid sales pace will continue until Cadence is complete, . . Harvard Investments completed another park near the entrance, Cadence parkway, and is finishing up the infrastructure for the last neighborhood in phase I as it begins to focus on phase II, . . "

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HOW MANY SAME-NAME "GATEWAY PARKS" DO WE HAVE IN MESA?

Looks like 2

Gateway Park - Arizona Builders Exchange

https://azbex.com/developer-seeks-approval-for-33-acre-gateway-park-mixed-use-pro...

Dec 30, 2014 - Developer Seeks Approval for 33-Acre 'Gateway Park' Mixed-Use Project ... way toward the new terminal at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.

 

Gateway Park | Mesa Parks, Recreation & Community Facilities

https://www.mesaparks.com/parks-facilities/parks/gateway-park

Gateway Park Gateway-Park. 315 E. Main. Public Art; Benches; 1 acre. Free viewers are required for some of the attached documents. They can be downloaded ...

 

 

 

Playing-The-Punches: BIG BUSINESS or BIG DEBT

Now that the 2019 Chicago Cubbies Cactus League Spring Training is over with, let's take a little time-out to go back and cover some bases in what's now a seven-year run around at the City of Mesa's Sloan Park, built with taxpayer-funded debt service for the Billionaire-Ricketts Family in Chicago who own the sports franchise conglomerate.
Once city officials get that Play-Book down pat, they keep playing it. follow along if you can and see how this gaming of Mesa taxpayers works out now with the deals made with ASU

Blogger Note:
Both the Billionaire-Ricketts Family in Chicago and ASU in Tempe have one thing in common: both are rich enough to have financed these big deals if they wanted to.
Instead, "Sales Pitches" were thrown at the public here in Mesa to fund their fields-of-schemes to load up debt on the backs of taxpayers. 
What's the public benefit for a seasonal ball park? _______
Private real estate speculators and developers can reap the whirlwind of sizeable profits.
At least in some of the factoids and details extracted from an article in The Chicago Tribune two years ago, there are some dots that can get connected in the new power plays.

THIS IS NO LONGER TRUE: 

"A politician doesn't want to be known as the guy who put into place a funding mechanism that funneled public dollars to billionaire owners,"
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Let's go back to that Championship year 2017
Cubs mean big business, and big debt, for spring training home Mesa

Cubs spring training is a tradition and a major tourist attraction in Mesa, Arizona, which built the team a $100 million stadium to keep them from leaving for Florida

by Robert Channick

Source: Chicago Tribune 20 March 2017 06:30 a.m.

"When the Chicago Cubs opened spring training play last month in Mesa, nearly 15,000 far-flung fans packed the city's 3-year-old stadium, celebrating the defending world champions after more than a century of shared futility.
For Mesa, a city of 475,000 which bankrolled the $100 million ballpark to keep the Cubs from bolting to Florida, ownership in the team's success is a source of civic pride, an economic opportunity and a major league debt.
In Mesa, voters agreed to pay for the Wrigley-themed showplace in the Arizona desert more than six years ago. Full hotels, busy restaurants and sellout crowds have become the norm in March since Sloan Park opened in 2014, and on the heels of the Cubs championship last fall, the city expects sales tax revenue, tourism and its own marketability to reach new heights.
But beyond a new upscale hotel, adjacent development has come slower than some had hoped, and while the stadium's tax burden falls on Mesa, the economic benefit flows across the border to neighboring Scottsdale, Tempe and other Phoenix-area towns.
Whether the one-month exhibition season provides enough of a boost to justify building the stadium remains the $100 million question. . .
"The Cubs were in position to negotiate a very lucrative deal, and we're not begrudging       that at all," said Mesa Mayor John Giles. "There still is a significant amount of economic activity that occurs outside of the ballpark, in the restaurants and hotels and everything. It's very significant for us."                                                                                                                 
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FACTOIDS extracted from the report
*The Tribune Media Group owns a number of publications here in The East Valley, including the East Valley Tribune
> In 2009, the Ricketts family bought the Cubs and Wrigley Field from Tribune Co. (now Tribune Media) in an $845-million deal, launching a long-term plan to renovate the club and the century-old ballpark.
> Mesa first looked to fund the project through state legislation that called for a surcharge on Cactus League tickets. The so-called Cubs tax met with opposition from other club owners — notably White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf — and died on the vine.
> Under the gun, Mesa agreed to finance the $84 million stadium and $15 million in infrastructure improvements itself, a plan approved by voters in November 2010.

"The political appetite outside of Mesa for stepping up to build the stadium was not there," said Giles, a lawyer and former city councilman who was elected mayor in August 2014. "So the city of Mesa just took the whole thing on its shoulders."
> In 2013, Mesa sold $94 million in excise tax bonds to cover the cost of the Cubs stadium and an $18 million renovation of Hohokam for its new tenants, the Oakland Athletics.
The bonds mature in 2027 and 2032, but the city can pay off the bonds earlier, in 2017 and 2022.

> Mesa is planning to pay off the debtholders by selling nearly 11,400 acres of distant Pinal County farmland it acquired during the 1980s for water rights it no longer needs. In December 2013, Pinal Land Holdings, a Scottsdale-based developer, agreed to buy the entire property for about $135 million, closing on 1,613 acres for $24 million.
The deal included an annual option fee of about $4.9 million to buy the balance of the land in two phases — by June 30, 2017, and June 30, 2019 — with the remaining 9,734 acres priced at $89 million.
> The city expects the stadium bonds to be paid in full by 2022, according to Michael Kennington, Mesa's chief financial officer.
> In Chicago, the Ricketts family is spending $800 million of its own money for the ongoing renovation of 103-year-old Wrigley Field and the surrounding neighborhood.
> In 2015, the Cubs struck a 10-year naming rights deal with Sloan Valve of Franklin Park, plumbing supplier to Wrigley Field and the Mesa ballpark which now bears its logo, providing another revenue stream for the team.

> The Cubs keep the entire gate at Sloan — the team's primary source of spring training revenue — with average season ticket prices up 14.7 percent over last year, according to the team
> The Cubs have a 30-year lease on Sloan Park that pays the city $180,713 this year, with a 3 percent annual increase, according to Kennington. The team also assumed maintenance for the stadium, saving the city about $800,000 per year.
> Bob Leib, a Wisconsin-based financial consultant to professional sports teams and owners, said taxpayer fatigue and shifting economic priorities have made publicly funded stadiums a harder sell.
"A politician doesn't want to be known as the guy who put into place a funding mechanism that funneled public dollars to billionaire owners," Leib said.
 

The Phx-East Valley Is Growing Fast > Fast, Not-So-Smart & Dangerous To Public Health

Absolutely no matter what any six cities say, or the In-bred Real Estate Industrial Complex, or the "business-friendly" governments,,or the Arizona Department of Air Quality, the Valley just got an "F" in air quality by the American Lung Association's annual State of the Air review. 20 years on . . .

It's the political climate here in The Great State of Arizona: elected officials, state agencies and mayors of cities in The East Valley who show no leadership.
Welcome to Mesa, on of the fastest-growing cities in America!
Where secluded suburban gated enclaves are the hottest-selling "Master-Planned Communities" all along the Outer Loops, with industrial and high-tech corridors all along the Inner Loops. Yes, we do an Apple Center using solar power at the same time it uses lots of water. Commuter car-driven culture and fossil fuel-burning industries we got that too.

What do we do about that?
Except for the city of Phoenix, every other city in The East Valley is mostly conservative Republican. That's been that way for generations. It's a rare thing anywhere for mayors or Republicans of any stripe to be on-board stewardship for the environment unless they can extract or exploit natural resources and "develop" vast tracts of acreage. After the post-World War 2 1950's, the game became build-it-and-they-will-come.
Now we get to do with the consequences 50 years later.

Who's got a plan - any plan at all - for What's Next here in Mesa or the entire East Valley?
The moving image you see to the right only shows patterns of suburban expansion up to the year 2010. There was a pause for about eight years, then it started all over again.
The city bought 3,500 acres that were the old General Motors Proving Ground, only to prove the point that the horizontal single-home-with-backyard-and-two garages was the choice of those who could afford live there: commuting 50 miles each way to-go-to-work. The expansion of gated Master-Planned Communities like Eastmark and Cadence @ Gateway got their own legal structure as community facilities districts. Farther south housing exploded in Queen Creek and we got an entire new sprawling city called San Tan Valley with lots more single-family homes and shopping centers.

Whatever anyone thinks about Democrats in-general or giving cities like Los Angeles (The City of Angels) the tag "La-La Land", the new mayor there has wrapped himself around that New Green Deal initiative.
Here in Arizona, we don't hear much about that except for some more investment in solar renewable energy and trail runs for self-driving cars or autonomous vehicles. Net-zero is starting to get off-the-ground.
At least one mayor is showing leadership, according to a report in https://www.latimes.com 

L.A. Mayor Garcetti’s ‘Green New Deal’ would phase out gas-fueled cars

By Sammy Roth Apr 29, 2019 | 4:55 PM

Let's start somewhere - the big issue is Land-Use Planning that creates Suburban Sprawl.
According to Tim Frank, air quality director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, the ozone produced because of vehicles is the biggest problem, and it's the most controllable.
If 10 to 20 percent of Arizona's workers decided to telecommute instead of drive their cars each day, he said, the positive effect would overwhelm other causes of ozone pollution. . .
Maricopa County continues to be one of the fastest-growing regions of the country, and all signs point to increasing numbers of "vehicle miles traveled" in metro Phoenix, which means more, not less, pollution from cars. . .
The American Lung Association's "F" rating is a reminder that the air here is some of the most unhealthy in the country.
City Rankings > https://www.lung.org/our-initiatives/healthy-air/sota/city-rankings/ 
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Ozone Pollution in Phoenix Can't Get Much Worse From Climate Change

Ray Stern | April 30, 2019 | 7:00am

"Ground-level ozone, an invisible air pollution that has an effect likened to sunburn for the lungs, gets worse when it's hotter, according to experts. That effect has profound implications when linked to climate change, which predicts generally increased temperatures over time.
It's yet another reason why Phoenix is toast when it comes to climate change, right?
Not necessarily.

Studies show that mid-90s temperatures and higher result in "ozone suppression" according to Harvard University researchers.
The effect means climate change won't make the ozone problem in metro Phoenix and Tucson much worse . . ."
READ MORE > Phoenix New Times

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Ray Stern has worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona for more than two decades. He's won many awards for his reporting, including the Arizona Press Club's Don Bolles Award for Investigative Journalism. Contact > Click or tap Ray Stern

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The cities are ranked by the air quality in the most polluted county in the metropolitan area. Select your city name to open links to a chart of the trends for ozone and year-round particle levels, as well as more information about air pollution and the local Lung Association. Note that some cities rank high on one list and don’t show up on other lists because of the differences in their pollution problems. Each city includes all the counties that form the economic and transportation network that makes up the metropolitan area as defined by the federal government.