Any meeting over 2 hours
Is certainly deserving of more attention than these Board Meetings usually get .A..they're NOT BORING at all
Views at time of upload to this blog = 7 How pathetic is that?
Note: 4 items were asked to be removed from the Consent Agenda for individual consideration - Items 8a - 8d. City Planner Tom Ellsworth has put them all together since they are related and consolidated . . . Comments are asked to be withheld until conclusion of the staff presentation just to keep things on track . . and there's some people from the airport
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Did pedestrian malls ruin U.S. downtowns?
Covers all the bases...
Published on Oct 24, 2019
Views: 6,370+
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Grubby Philanthropy & The Real Nitty-Gritty @ Mesa Grande Cultural Park. . . It Could Have Been One of The Best Public Spaces In Central Mesa
Yes it sure does look like a mound of dirt from this view by air now - it just happens that once upon a time, a long, long time ago, it was A TEMPLE MOUND for millennia of The People who cultivated the lands and established settlements (called Pueblos) here in Central Mesa and Central Arizona centuries before their territories were taken over by incursions in the 15th-19th Centuries The City of Mesa is better known as the first site of the 2nd Temple outside of Salt Lake City, Utah for The Church of Jesus Christ of The Latter-Day Saints in 1927.
Quite fortunately, we do have maps of The Salt River Valley that clearly mark the locations and sites of earlier pueblos, plazas, canals, casas and casitas, las acequias(swamps), and reservoirs and even more temples - one of which is in an area called 'Pueblo Moroni' .
You can also see MESA marked on the map and can figure out the locations for Tempe, Scottsdale and Phoenix*
Unfortunately, a respect for more than a one-dimensional view of history and other cultures was slow to arrive here, overtaken by rampant real estate development and unrestrained growth at any price.
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* Note that the City of Phoenix has a more-inclusive view and respect for history than the City of Mesa, setting aside 1,500 acres for The Pueblo Grande Museum, doing much more not only to preserve 'the ruins' ...
LAST SUNDAY OCTOBER 20, 2019
INAUGURAL CELEBRATION
Portal to the Past
The first in a series of site-specific artworks, it's the largest monumental artwork ever for Mesa artist Zarco Guerrero opening the gates - a Portal to The Past - onto a pathway on a bridge spanning over the canal close to the 44th & Washington Streets.
For more information:
Here's the Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony >
"The Hohokam constructed one of the largest, most sophisticated irrigation networks ever created, with hundreds of miles of waterways winding out from the Salt and Gila Rivers. These canals are imprinted in the Threshold Stone at the base of the Portal, which all pedestrian visitors will cross over as they enter. . . "
Last Sunday: The Canal Loop Trail
Shown below on one side of the canal
Project Passage, Pueblo Grande Museum
City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture
Public Art Program 2016
Phoenix, AZ United States
Artwork Budget: $2,000,000
Overview
The final artwork, entitled Passage, was the overall design, integrated within a desert site and providing access to the existing architecture that comprises the Museum facilities.
The artist collaborated with a team which included landscape architects, structural engineers, city officials, public art officials, tribal leaders, archaeologists, fabricators, and the state historic preservation office.
- Any element below grade required archaeology to be performed.
- The design was reviewed by tribal leaders and the State Historic Preservation Office.
photo: Brad Goldberg
photo: Brad Goldberg 
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This Saturday is the Seasonal Re-Opening for "A Hidden Gem " in Central Mesa - most people don't realize this cultural park even exists, even though its long history goes back centuries before the mid-1850's when Mormon Pioneers from Utah were sent on a mission in oxen-carts to colonize Arizona for The Church. There were two waves, the first in an area now named "Lehi" after a Prophet in The Book of Mormon. 300 Latter-Day Saints arrived in indigenous lands and territories inhabited by more than 5,000 "Indians", staked out homesteads, claiming water-rights along The Salt River.
"The Hohokam, the ancestors of the Akimel O'odham (Pima), constructed the Mesa Grande temple mound and established many settlements in the Gila and Salt River valleys of southern Arizona. Mesa Grande is one of the last places to show how the Hohokam created an irrigation network that pioneers began to reuse in the late 1800s. Mesa’s first inhabitants realized the partially filled canals for what they were and began excavating them to start the Valley’s modern agricultural industry.
They built rectangular pit houses from earth, rather than stone, and lived in small villages. They were a peaceful people who cooperated to build large canal networks. Some of their canals were over ten miles long and used gravity to control water flow and to flush out the silt! The Hohokam were the only cultural group in prehistoric North America to rely on massive canal systems, irrigating up to 110,000 acres of corn, beans and squash. Archaeologists from the Arizona Museum of Natural History excavated one prehistoric canal that measured 15 feet deep and 45 feet wide. These irrigation systems represented monumental efforts of labor and engineering.
> In the late 1800s farmers rebuilt and opened the brilliantly engineered Hohokam irrigation systems – some remain in use today.
> Between the 7th and 14th centuries they built and maintained these extensive irrigation networks along the lower Salt and middle Gila rivers that rivaled the complexity of those used in the ancient Near East, Egypt, and China. These were constructed using relatively simple excavation tools, without the benefit of advanced engineering technologies.
Source for much of this information > 2012 K8 Librarian on WordPress
The story of the modern Mesa Grande Ruins is tied to volunteers that work to preserve the story of the past.Readers of this blog can access earlier posts about the Mesa Grande Cultural Park, Frank Midvale and Anna Madera Baker and at least one more unusual person named ""Acquanetta".
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The City of Mesa purchased the Mesa Grande ruins in the 1980s to preserve Mesa's premier cultural treasure and to open it to the public as an educational and recreational facility. Open from mid-October to mid-May.
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Grub with Grubb" Oct. 26 at Mesa Grande Cultural Park
October 21, 2019 at 2:22 pm
Mesa Grande Cultural Park, 1000 N. Date, is celebrating its seasonal re-opening and highlighting the addition of new Native American objects from the Evelyn and Lou Grubb collection Saturday, Oct. 26 from 10 a.m. to noon.
- New exhibits featuring Native American baskets from the Evelyn and Lou Grubb Collection
- Artifact show and tell
- Archaeology tours
- Basketry demonstrations by Pima artist August Wood
- Crafts and activities for all ages
- Special guests
Contact Danielle Vernon at Danielle.Vernon@mesaaz.gov or call 480-644-4569 with any questions.
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A Steady Drum-Beat of Unrest or Have We Got Global Revolutions?
That's the journalistic strategy for one of this morning's post.
Please have some patience and try to follow along . . .
Sorry it's only a form of streaming consciousness for the time being until all the information from different media can get processed.
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They followed mass demonstrations in Bolivia, Spain, Iraq and Russia and before that the Czech Republic, Algeria, Sudan and Kazakhstan in what has been a steady drumbeat of unrest over the past few months.
[add a few more: Afghanistan, Mexico, Guatemala, Indonesia, Canada, Nigeria . . .]
- a louder-than-usual howl against elites in countries where democracy is a source of disappointment
- corruption is seen as brazen
- a tiny political class lives large while the younger generation struggles to get by.
Few were as surprised as the leaders of those countries."
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> In countries where elections are decisive, like the United States and Britain, skepticism about the old political order has produced populist, nationalist and anti-immigrant results at the polls.
> In other countries, where people don’t have a voice, you have massive protests erupting,”
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From Chile to Lebanon, Protests Flare Over Wallet Issues
Small pocketbook items became the focus of popular fury across the globe in recent weeks, as frustrated citizens filled the streets for unexpected protests that tapped into a wellspring of bubbling frustration at a class of political elites seen as irredeemably corrupt or hopelessly unjust or both. "
> ". . . People are not being swept away by the madness of the crowds,” he said. “This is politics, with specific causes and specific issues. If you don’t acknowledge that, you make popular politics look like a series of crazy fashions, . . ."
The painstaking mobilization that once was a feature of grass-roots movements was slow but durable. Protests that organize on social media can rise faster, but collapse just as quickly.
> "And even where there is a spasm of protest, it takes a lot more for it to snowball into a full opposition movement. The soaring price of onions in India caused farmers to block highways and mount short-lived protests.
But frustration has yet to sharpen into mass demonstrations because there is nobody to channel it: India’s opposition is in disarray; divisions of caste and religion dominate politics; and the government of the Hindu nationalist prime minister, Narendra Modi, constantly raises the threat of neighboring Pakistan to distract the public. . . "
But frustration has yet to sharpen into mass demonstrations because there is nobody to channel it: India’s opposition is in disarray; divisions of caste and religion dominate politics; and the government of the Hindu nationalist prime minister, Narendra Modi, constantly raises the threat of neighboring Pakistan to distract the public. . . "
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
The Fall of "The House of Cards" > Is Trump Playing With A Full Deck???
< There's a higher power in The Universe: The Laws of Physics to illustrate what happens when a House of Cards tumbles.
For an illustrated and inter-active illustration, with details and background, of all the players in Trump's hands
Go Here > https://multimedia.scmp.com/widgets/
Friendly Reminder: LISC Phoenix Annual Breakfast 2019
Less then a month until the big event.
Do you have your tickets yet?
It all starts with roots in the community . . . and then building the capacity of communities to be investment-ready
Hay que bienes raices!
Details
Get your tickets now for the Valley’s premier event for the community development sector.
We are excited that Annie Donovan, LISC's new COO and the former Director of the U.S. Treasury's CDFI Fund, will be our keynote speaker at our annual breakfast.
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A Pittsburgh native, Donovan has spent more than 25 years driving impact investing strategies that fuel economic opportunity and stronger communities. At the CDFI Fund—a part of the U.S. Department of Treasury that provides capital to distressed communities—she steered innovative strategies to address local needs through programs like New Markets Tax Credits, CDFI Bond Guarantee Program, Capital Magnet Fund and the Healthy Food Financing Initiative.
Since leaving the CDFI Fund in January, she has been a senior fellow at the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University, as well as at the Center for Community Investment (CCI) at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, where she has helped advance CCI’s efforts to increase investment in health, housing and climate solutions in disinvested communities. She also organized a racial equity learning lab for CDFI executives.
“What I like about the LISC model is its rootedness in communities,” said Donovan, pointing to LISC’s 33 metro area offices and rural partnerships that span thousands of counties.
“As the community development finance space has advanced, the field has been keenly focused on how to connect to Wall Street and, in the process, sometimes the connection to Main Street gets overlooked. Building the capacity of communities to be investment-ready is so important. I’m excited for the challenge of putting those pieces together in an intentional way that is deeply connected to communities.”
READ MORE > Annie Donovan Joins LISC’s Senior Team
"For decades, Annie Donovan has led innovative efforts to spur economic opportunity and revitalize communities. Now, the former head of the CDFI Fund is bringing her considerable talent and experience to LISC, taking on the new role of chief operating officer to help drive strategies that support a broadly shared prosperity in urban and rural communities."https://www.lisc.org/our-stories
“What I like about the LISC model is its rootedness in communities,” said Donovan, pointing to LISC’s 33 metro area offices and rural partnerships that span thousands of counties.
“As the community development finance space has advanced, the field has been keenly focused on how to connect to Wall Street and, in the process, sometimes the connection to Main Street gets overlooked. Building the capacity of communities to be investment-ready is so important. I’m excited for the challenge of putting those pieces together in an intentional way that is deeply connected to communities.”
READ MORE > Annie Donovan Joins LISC’s Senior Team
"For decades, Annie Donovan has led innovative efforts to spur economic opportunity and revitalize communities. Now, the former head of the CDFI Fund is bringing her considerable talent and experience to LISC, taking on the new role of chief operating officer to help drive strategies that support a broadly shared prosperity in urban and rural communities."https://www.lisc.org/our-stories
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We will also be celebrating our 2019 Community Award Honorees:
- Exemplary Partner: Arizona Community Foundation, for their commitment to affordable housing and the 10th Anniversary of the Affordable Housing Pre-Development Fund
- Exemplary Project: The Marist on Cathedral Square, FSL’s new affordable apartment community for seniors that includes a renovated historic property and newly built midrise
We hope you'll join us!
Get more event and sponsorship information at liscphoenix.org.
8 to 9 a.m. - Breakfast and Networking
9 to 10 a.m. - Program
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