Politics In The Pantheon >> Self-Guided Tours of Mesa Cemetery with Special Speakers?

Who's going to show up to honor the dead and dearly departed for this press release yesterday  from the City of Mesa's Newsroom? . . . special speakers at the featured graves such as Mayor John Giles at Ernesto Miranda's grave, Vice Mayor Mark Freeman at Oscar Virgil Crismon's grave, Sheriff Lamb at Lehi founder Daniel Webster Jones's grave and a spotlight on missing Mayor Alexander Macdonald.

BLOGGER NOTE: There were thousands of Indigenous & First People living here for centuries before settlers from Utah were sent to colonize Arizona. 

 

A professional genealogist will talk about a Mesa pioneer who has over 20,000 direct descendants with a visual on how that many people come from one man

Ticket Prices + some other details https://www.mesanow.org/news/public/article/2674

DYK: Public Wi-Fi HotSpots Are ISPs Required To Collect + Report Your Data

One more WETF pre-cautionary tale today from Tim Cushing reporting in Techdirt today at 03:29 a.m. . . "At least five bar owners in Grenoble, France have been arrested for providing WiFi at their businesses without keeping logs. The bar owners were arrested under a 2006 law that technically classifies WiFi hotspot providing establishments as ISPs, and require them to store one year’s worth of logs or connection records for anti terrorism purposes. . .this is the first time data retention laws have been used against business owners who allow customers to connect to their WiFi. In 2011, the law was expanded to demand the logging of user login info and passwords, . .Not that staying home helps. Bar patrons face the same harvesting of data whether they stay in or go out. ISPs -- which includes anyone offering a "public" connection -- are under the same obligations. . ."

Five Bar Owners Arrested In France For Not Logging Internet Use By Patrons Using Bars' WiFi Connections

Tue, Oct 20th 2020 3:29am— Tim Cushing

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Economic Development Week 2020: The impact of GPEC

AWhat's this from Greater Phoenix Economic Council? AN ENTIRE WEEK

Why Won’t Tech Giants Stop the Spread of Online Conspiracies? | Amanpour...

There must be some good reason....wonder what it is

MEET THE MOST ADVANCED DRONE IN THE WORLD TODAY #WARTHOGDEFENSE

Pre-Quake Signal, Solar Plasma Coupling, Radio Dipole | S0 News Oct.19.2020

Trick-or-Treat Time! No-Risk Mode or Does City Manager Chris Brady Trust In "Playing-The-Market"??

Watch this from last week > TODAY there are 4 Resolutions asking to approve $185,000,000 in placement transactions in these times of unstable market conditions

2020 ISSUANCE DELAY
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 City typically issues each year in Spring
 2020 issuances initially planned for Apr/May
 Pandemic in Feb/Mar resulted in unfavorable market conditions
 2020 issuances deferred to current timeframe (Nov/Dec)
 2021 issuances still planned for Apr/May 2021

 

City of Mesa Bond Program
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City financing team:

• Internal Staff

• Financial Advisor (Hilltop Securities: Larry Given, Janelle Gold)

• Bond Counsel (Sherman Howard, LLC: Zach Sakas)

Annually, City financing team:

 • evaluates need to issue (sell) bonds

 • issues bonds to finance budgeted capital projects

 • looks for savings opportunities to refund (refinance) existing bonds at lower interest rate over same timeframe

• uses available cash to defease existing debt (pay off early)

 • retires, or pays off, bonds that mature (come due)