Hmmm...A COLLECTIVE VISION To Make Mesa A More Vibrant, Prosperous, and Thriving City...'Taking Steps'

The City of Mesa is seeking public participation in two planning efforts to create Mesa’s Footprint for the Future.

Both efforts seek to develop a collective vision on how to make Mesa a more vibrant, prosperous, and thriving city for generations to come.

> The Climate Action Plan, a City Council priority initiative, calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and establishing strategies to increase sustainability in all City operations

> The PRCF Comprehensive Plan will guide present and future growth and development of Mesa parks, public spaces, recreation programs and facilities

 

> The aligned effort will ensure efficiency and effectiveness in the process for research, community engagement, and staff resources.

Mesa Takes Steps to Enhance the Quality of Life and Recreation Amenities

September 8, 2021 at 8:08 am
Mesa is launching the Footprint for the Future Campaign to encourage residents to provide input in the Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities (PRCF) Comprehensive Plan and the City’s first-ever Climate Action Plan. Both efforts seek to develop a collective vision for a more prosperous, vibrant and thriving Mesa.

Citizens can participate in six drop-in style community workshops this month to provide feedback through activities designed to identify key issues and opportunities for their neighborhoods.

> The PRCF Comprehensive Plan will guide present and future growth and development of Mesa parks, public spaces, recreation programs and facilities. This master plan will use national benchmarks and professional expertise, staff and resident input, demographics and other community attributes to provide a 20-year, comprehensive analysis of the recreational and public resources and needs of Mesa. 

> The Climate Action Plan, a City Council priority initiative, calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and establishing strategies to increase sustainability in all City operations.

The plan focuses on six areas to guide City efforts towards a healthy environment.

Those focus areas will be the topic of a series of virtual lunchtime meetings this fall.

 

The community workshops will be held throughout the City from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.:

1 Tuesday, Sept. 14 at Brimhall Aquatic Complex, 4949 E. Southern Ave.
2 Wednesday, Sept. 15 at Mesa Aquatic Parks and Sports Field Maintenance, 6945 E. Decatur St.
3 Thursday, Sept. 16 at Hale Elementary School Multipurpose Room, 1425 N. 23rd St.
4 Tuesday, Sept. 21 at Eastmark Community Center "The Mark", 10100 E. Ray Road
5 Wednesday, Sept. 22 at Eagles Community Center, 828 E. Broadway Road
6 Thursday, Sept. 23 at Dobson Ranch Library, 2425 S. Dobson Road

 

More information about the PRCF Comprehensive Plan, Climate Action Plan and upcoming virtual meetings is available at www.footprintfuturemesa.com.

 

For media inquiries please contact (480) 644-4699 or Kevin.Christopher@mesaaz.gov. 

Contact: Kevin Christopher
(480) 644-4699
Kevin.Christopher@mesaaz.gov

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Help Shape the Future of Mesa

We invite you to visit one of six community workshops to provide your feedback on the needs and priorities for creating Mesa’s Footprint for the Future.

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You're Invited! - Climate Action Plan Input Sessions

Virtual Lunchtime Series

The Climate Action Plan is our commitment to proactively and responsibly protect and conserve Mesa’s environment and natural resources. Your input is needed to help guide the next update of the plan related to community action and priorities.

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HARMLESS GOSSIP: Glorious Tool of Social Bonding /. An Equal Opportunities Pursuit

Just like almost everyone else, your MesaZona blogger loves stories - especially when someone adds ''You didn't hear this from me." OK let's leave that there... Gossip has a poor reputation (have you heard?). But I am going to argue in favour of this pastime, first coined by – who else? – Shakespeare.

Yet another victim of the social quicksand of the pandemic, which has dissolved the kind of commonplace interactions we now realise we took for granted, harmless gossip is a glorious tool of bonding. It’s not only me who thinks this. Prof Robin Dunbar, whom I trust implicitly not only because he heads up a fancily named department at Oxford, but because he is a fellow Liverpudlian, is of the same opinion.

I love a good gossip – life’s twists and turns intrigue and titillate

Whether it’s about football transfers, relationship scandals or Westminster feuds, gossip is a glorious tool of social bonding

Hannah Jane Parkinson

the Guardian

Gossip might be better if one is connected, however tangentially, to interesting and eminent people. But gossiping is an equal opportunities pursuit – as twitching curtains in suburban neighbourhoods and sidebar private messages between PTA members can attest.

It isn’t malicious tattling that I enjoy. . .but there is no doubt that the surprising twists and turns of life intrigue and titillate. Historical ones, too . . . "

Hannah Jane Parkinson

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It's a long story - here's a little of it and YOU can read a lot more: |Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem for anyone using it for criminal means: it was run by the police

Big Bang’s targets’ alleged crimes ranged from drug trafficking to attempted murder. What they had in common was their choice of texting app.

Hook, line and sinker: the An0m phone sting led to more than 800 arrests around the world in June 2021. Illustration: Sébastien Thibault/The Guardian

‘Every message was copied to the police’: the inside story of the most daring surveillance sting in history

Simon Parkin

the Guardian

". . .An0m was marketed and sold not so much to the security conscious as the security paranoid; its embedded suite of anonymising digital tools went far beyond the requirements of the average user. According to Australian police, it was the ideal telecommunications channel to arrange the safe passage of A$64m of cocaine across the world. An0m was not, however, a secure phone app at all. Every single message sent on the app since its launch in 2018 – 19.37m of them – had been collected, and many of them read by the Australian federal police (AFP) who, together with the FBI, had conceived, built, marketed and sold the devices. . ."

The scheme was seeded 10 years earlier, in Vancouver. There, in 2008, Vincent Ramos, a young entrepreneur who started out as a bathtub salesman before progressing to smartphones, founded Phantom Secure, a telecoms company that promised users absolute privacy. It was a prescient selling point. After years in which data has been endlessly mined, the idea that users of technology now want to avoid online surveillance is widespread in Silicon Valley; Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, recently pronounced: “The future is private.” In 2008, however, both the sentiment and the technology that enabled secure communication were niche concerns.

In contrast to An0m’s bespoke technology, Phantom Secure’s phones were off-the-shelf BlackBerries modified to remove the camera, microphone and GPS tracking software, and installed with a remote-wipe feature. Every message sent from one device to another was encrypted and routed through servers in Panama and Hong Kong. To build word-of-mouth interest in his new product, Ramos offered free devices to high-profile “influencers” – rappers and athletes for whom privacy was a primary concern. . . 

 

 

 

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