Friday, November 06, 2020

TENTATIVE AGENDA RELEASE > Remote Virtual Platform Meeting Mesa City Council. Mon 11.16.2020

Like they say "There's a lot of moving parts" - way too many to capture on just one page or in only one post.  . .there's plenty to get you started off here, and way much more and many many meeting details you will have to work harder to find > https://mesa.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx 


Well ahead of time printed on 11.05.2020. Please note there are 13 contracts on pages 2-7  to review and 'various other items' like 8 Resolutions in Item 5 - five of which authorize and approve the City Manager Chris Brady to do certain things: all about Finance, Insurance and Real Estate

ITEM *5-h

20-1149 Authorizing the City Manager to enter into insurance agreements, as recommended by the City Attorney’s Office, to obtain insurance for the City including insurance for property, liability, cyber risk, and aviation, and authorizing the ability to obtain additional insurance and authorizing up to four additional annual renewal periods. (Citywide)

ITEM

20-1133 Approving and authorizing the City Manager to enter into contracts for the purchase of firm natural gas supplies for the City's natural gas distribution system for a period of up to five years and in amounts up to the full requirements of the system, as well as a contract for associated gas management balancing and scheduling services. (Citywide)

Meeting Agenda - Tentative Monday, November 16, 2020 5:45 PM

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION All citizens are permitted and encouraged to speak on agenda items including and preceding “Items from citizens present." Public participation is available electronically. If you want to provide a written comment or speak telephonically at the meeting, please submit an online comment card by going to Mesaaz.gov/bluecard at least 1 hour prior to the start of the meeting.  If you want to speak at the meeting, you will need to indicate on the comment card that you would like to speak during the meeting, and you will need to call 888-788-0099 or 877-853-5247 (toll free) using meeting ID 5301232921 and following the prompts, prior to the start of the meeting.  You will be able to listen to the meeting; and when the item you have indicated that you want to speak on is before Council, your line will be taken off mute and you will be given an opportunity to speak.
For help with the online comment card, or for any other technical difficulties, please call 480-644-2099.
The City of Mesa is committed to making its public meetings accessible to persons with disabilities. For special accommodations, please contact the City Manager’s Office at 480-644-3333 or AZRelay 7-1-1 at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting.
Si necesita asistencia o traducción en español, favor de llamar al menos 48 horas antes de la reunión al 480-644-2767.
CONSENT AGENDA All items listed with an asterisk (*) will be considered as a group by the City Council and will be enacted with one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Councilmember or citizen requests, in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered as a separate item. If a citizen wants an item removed from the consent agenda, an online comment card will need to be completed by going to Mesaaz.gov/bluecard at least 1 hour prior to the start of the meeting and by following the instructions provided under “Citizen Participation” at the top of this page.

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Starting on Page 2

Mayor's Welcome
Roll Call
Invocation by Executive Director Luke Douglas with Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix. Pledge of Allegiance
Awards, Recognitions and Announcements
1 Take action on all consent agenda items.
Items on the Consent Agenda

20-1085 Approval of minutes of previous meetings as written.*2-a


3 Take action on the following liquor license application:

20-1111 Copper Stop Mini Mart
A convenience store is requesting a new Series 10 Beer and Wine Store License for Fiesta Palms Groceries Inc., 2111 South Alma School Road, Suite 4; Samer Mufid Kashou, agent.  There is no existing license at this location. (District 3)
*3-a
4 Take action on the following contracts: 20-1122 One-Year Term Contract with Four Years of Renewal Options for Vehicle Glass Repair and Replacement for the Fleet Services Department (Citywide)
This contract will provide goods and services related to vehicle glass replacement, repair, and tinting for the City’s fleet.  This may include larger construction equipment and heavy equipment, as well as automobiles and light duty vehicles.
The Fleet Services Department and Purchasing recommend authorizing the purchase using the State of Arizona cooperative contract with Safelite Fulfillment Inc., at $70,000 annually, with an annual increase allowance of up to 5%, or the adjusted Consumer Price Index.

 

 

AGENDA RELEASED: City of Mesa Design Review Board Virtual Platform Meeting Tue 11.10.2020


Here it is ahead of time - Please take a not-so-quick look, especially plans for development of a hotel in Item 3-a

Design Review Board
City of Mesa
Meeting Agenda - Final
Mesa Council Chambers 57 East First Street
Chair Randy Carter

Vice Chair Sean Banda

Boardmember Scott Thomas

Boardmember J. Seth Placko

Boardmember Jeanette Knudsen

Boardmember Tanner Green

Boardmember Paul Johnson
4:30 PMVirtual PlatformTuesday, November 10, 2020

City of Mesa Printed on 11/5/2020


1 Call meeting to order.
2 Approval of minutes from the October 13, 2020 Design Review Board meeting.

DSN 20044 Approve the Minutes from the October 13, 2020 work session.2-a

File #: DSN 20044   
Type: DSN Minutes Status: Agenda Ready
In control: Design Review Board
On agenda: 11/10/2020
Title: Approve the Minutes from the October 13, 2020 work session.
Attachments: 1. Minutes from the October 13, 2020 Meeting

BLOGGER NOTE: Read the comments - all of them


3 Discuss and provide direction on the following Preliminary Design Review cases:*

DSN 20045 DRB20-00489   District 3. Within the 300 to 400 blocks of East Baseline Road (north side) and within the 1800 block of South Mesa Drive (east side). Located east of Mesa Drive on the north side of Baseline Road. (5± acres). Requesting the review of a hotel development. Jack Gilmore, Applicant; Sundown Equipment LLC, Owner.
Staff Planner: Ryan McCann
3-a

File #: DSN 20045   
Type: DSN Presentation Status: Agenda Ready
In control: Design Review Board
On agenda: 11/10/2020
Title: DRB20-00489 District 3. Within the 300 to 400 blocks of East Baseline Road (north side) and within the 1800 block of South Mesa Drive (east side). Located east of Mesa Drive on the north side of Baseline Road. (5± acres). Requesting the review of a hotel development. Jack Gilmore, Applicant; Sundown Equipment LLC, Owner. Staff Planner: Ryan McCann
Attachments: 1. Vicinity Map, 2. Narrative, 3. Site Plan, 4. Landscape Plan, 5. Elevations, 6. Lighting, 7. Material Board, 8. Presentation

 

 
DSN 20046 DRB20-00623   District 6. Within the 10000 block of East Southern Avenue (south side). Located east of Crismon Road on the south side of Southern Avenue. (0.9± acres). Requesting the review of a new drive-thru restaurant. Jeff Kamtz, Applicant; V J Crismon LLC, Owner.
Staff Planner: Ryan McCann

DSN 20047 DRB20-00666  District 6. Within the 7600 block of East Guadalupe Road (south side). Located east of Sossaman Road on the south side of Guadalupe Road. (0.5± acre). Requesting the review of a restaurant with a drive-thru. Dan Scott, Stewart+Reindersma Architecture, PLLC, Applicant; AEI SOSSALUPE LLC, Owner.
Staff Planner: Wahid Alam
3-c
4 Hear the following presentation: DSN 20048 Presentation and discussion of the proposed “Kids Zone” addition to the Dobson Ranch Library, 2425 South Dobson Road
Staff Planner: Charlotte Bridges Presenter: Julie Christoph
4-a
5 Adjournment.
*The applicant and public may speak about a case, and the Board may provide comments and suggestions to assist the applicant with the proposal, but the Board will not approve or deny a case under Preliminary Review

 


 

 

SUPERSTITION VISTAS: The Saints Vision For A New Zion-in-The-Desert Expand


Another controversial Land-Deal - it's a 270-square mile parcel bigger than the four towns of Mesa, Gilbert, Tempe and most of Chandler combined, just east of the Maricopa County line. . . Here's the incredulous narrative-spin concocted by Jordan Rose who wants readers of the The Law Group Reporter to believe-in.

BLOGGER NOTE: Hang on to four towns ( it comes up in a story farther down)

She appends it to an seemingly innocuous account of a recent Arizona State Land Auction

"This is a tremendous accomplishment for the State Land Department and a great victory of education in Arizona. To have such a robust auction with multiple legitimate potential developers means this State Land Department made a great decision to go to auction”

Jordan Rose, Rose Law Group Founder and President

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WHAT? Exactly what is legitimate in how she frames that narrative?

It's an ENTIRE CLOUD to hide what the real story on-the-ground here in Arizona is - a smokescreen

Let's take a time-out on that and look at the real nitty-gritty and the use of that frequently-used word "Vistas". In Arizona that word and "Superstition Vistas" was the vision of Roc Arnett.

In Vermont - the birthplace of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith - it was a non-profit named The New Vistas Foundation that first made waves in 2016 when Utah millionaire bought up 900 acres. Those 900 acres were part of a larger plan to collect 5,000 acres across the four towns of Royalton, Sharon, Strafford, and Tunbridge, and carve out a walkable, mixed-use urban development for 15,000 to 20,000 people.
Hall claimed that the project isn’t religious...and that the LDS isn’t involved in any way...Hall had already dropped $100 million on kickstarting a chain of global NewVistas, and a prototype community in Provo, Utah, close to Brigham Young University, was still on track.

PARADISE LOST

Vermont’s Mormon megacity called off after preservationists sound the alarm

Plans for a utopian city based around the Mormon design principles of Joseph Smith have been scuttled by their Salt Lake City-based developer, after the National Trust for Historic Preservation put out a warning about the project. . .

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YESTERDAY ----------------------

Land in controversial state auction goes for 4 times appraised value; Jordan Rose with further comment

Photo via D.R. Horton Facebook

By Robert Anglen | Arizona Republic

FLORENCE — A state land auction near some of the most lucrative residential real estate in the region opened Wednesday with lowest possible legal price and only four bidders.

When the gavel came down a little more than an hour later, two homebuilders had pushed the purchase price of the southeast Valley land to more than three times the appraised value of $68 million.

Texas-based D.R. Horton cast the winning bid of $245.5 million for the tract known as the Superstition Vistas

 

 

 

 

 

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