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It Was A LongRosatis Johnson Ranch San Tan Ad_4C.indd 1 How Have10/23/17 12:34 PM Our
Week of Testifying Local High
Hearings that were School Teams
scheduled to only last Done?
a few days have now
spilled over into week 2, San Tan Valley
with a possible week 3. Student Athletes
were hard at it last
week. How did they
Continued on page 9 all do?

Continued on page 13

Incorporation On The Agenda

The Board of Supervisors Will Discuss Incorporation on Monday

The Pinal County Board Did the Steering Com- San Tan Valley at 9:30
of Supervisors has a reso- mittee get the required Monday morning.
lution to discuss on Mon- amount of signatures?
day Morning. Is the San The board will decide the Continued on page 10
Tan Valley map legal? fate of an incorporated

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Monday’s Word Search Puzzle



Plan San Tan 29.7, and an average household size of
3.34, both of which are far larger num-
Where Is The County With bers than all of Maricopa and Pinal
Planning San Tan Counties.
So we are young and have big families,
By San Tan Times but where do we all work? According to
Continued from page 1 research done by Mr. Klyszeikko and his
team almost 32,000 people leave San Tan
Plan San Tan is a project Pinal County Valley everyday to get to work, while
has been working on to provide a “small only 1500 people commute to jobs in San
area plan” for better development in Tan.
the San Tan Valley area. This plan has One of the more striking statistics is the
been developed to provide economic de- amount of money that leaves San Tan
velopment, improved transportation, Valley because of lack of dining, shop-
strengthening our community, and help ping, and entertainment. As the research
to provide a healthier lifestyle to San showed San Tan Valley’s estimated po-
Tan Valley residents. tential retail spending is 1.13 Billion of
that some $900 Million is spent some-
Matthew Klyszeikko of Michael Baker where else.
International the consulting company So what all of this research has shown is
Pinal County hired for Plan San Tan was that we are a big area that is young, pro-
on hand to provide an update on where vides no jobs, and nothing to do. What
things stand, and he provided some pret- a surprise!
ty eye opening statistics about our area.
Continued on page 15
What is currently considered San Tan
Valley has a population of roughly
110,000 people with a median age of

April 23 - 25, 2018

San Tan Valley Weekday Weather

Monday Tuesday Wednesday

High 95° High 97° High 96°
Low 65° Low 66° Low 66°

Generally sunny despite Partly cloudy skies. High Some clouds in the morn-
a few afternoon clouds. 97F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 ing will give way to mainly
High around 95F. Winds mph. sunny skies for the after-
WSW at 5 to 10 mph. noon. High 96F.

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What If Details about any make up time will be
Teachers Strike? evaluated by administration and com-
municated through the school adminis-
FUSD Superintendent trative teams once details are known.
Has A Plan

By Chris Knutsen-Superintendent

Florence Unified School District

Last week, the Arizona Education As- All schools in the district will be closed to
sociation announced that teachers and the public.
school employees voted to hold a state- The District Office will run regular-
wide “Walk Out” beginning next Thurs- ly scheduled hours, similar to fall and
day, April 26th. spring break.

What does this mean? AIA spring varsity level activities, such
as practice, competition and tourna-
The District administration has been ments, will continue as scheduled. Oth-
apprised of plans for a “Walk Out” and er District extracurricular program-
will be meeting with teacher liaisons in ming, including celebrations, concerts
order for District Administration to plan and awards ceremonies, will continue as
for student safety; however, school will scheduled.
continue as scheduled. If the legislature Prom will continue as scheduled.
does not pass the Governor’s budget Graduation ceremonies will take place
by Wednesday, April 25, teachers may as scheduled. Diplomas will be released
“Walk Out”. when course requirements are met.
As details of a “Walk Out” are released, STEAM before and after school pro-
the District will provide updates on the grams will be cancelled.
website and will send email and phone
communications if needed.

The following plans are currently in Use of campuses on Saturdays and Sun-
place: days pursuant to facility use agreements
For student safety if a walk-out hap- will still be honored.
pens:
Schools will close during the “Walk We urge families to make plans for a pos-
Out,” and will continue being closed un- sible school closure. I would urge you to
til the “Walk Out” is over. call our local legislators to urge them to
pass the Governor’s budget proposal.
.STT

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April 23, 2018

Monday’s Sudoku Puzzle

ACC&JUHearings ~Trevor Baggiore, Arizona Department
of Environmental Quality - Water Quali-
It Was A Long Week ty Division Director

By San Tan Times “ADEQ does not have a position whether
Continued from page 1 an interim manager should be appointed to
Johnson Utilities.”
~Trevor Baggiore | ADEQ Director of
Water Quality

The Johnson Utilities Hearings were sched- “Johnson Utilities is #2 - second to the City
uled to run from Monday April 16 thru of Phoenix - in SSO’s (Sanitary Sewer
Wednesday April 18 or possibly into Overflows) in the state of Arizona.”
Thursday the 19th. Not only did the hear- ~Trevor Baggiore | ADEQ Director of
ings run through Thursday, but they con- Water Division
tinued on to Friday. We are now hearing
that they will continue on to next week “Odor problems on Hunt Highway has
and possibly into the following week. been satisfied and 99% of the customers are
pleased with the service.”
~Barbara Manning

For anyone who has been watching or in “53% of their (Johnson Utilities) compli-
attendance these have been long days of ance issues were overdue (surpassing their
listening to witnesses be questioned from due dates).”
both sides, interveners, corporation com- ~David Dunaway | ADEQ Waste Water
missioners, and the judge. Instead of go- Manager
ing through all of the details we thought
giving some key quotes from the past “No design problems because we had engi-
week would be a little more helpful, and neers who’ve designed this, but contractors
interesting, for our readers so here it goes! dumping mops and lumber and the grease
and baby wipes that clog up the pipes cause
“Johnson Utilities is a chronic region-wide SSO’s (Sanitary Sewer Overflows).”
problem that needs a chronic region-wide ~George Johnson
solution. An interim manager is the only
solution that will provide meaningful relief Queen Creek did not move forward with
to the region as a whole,” purchasing Johnson Utilities because
~Albert Acken Attorney for Florence they evaluated a $155-$160 million in-
and Queen Creek frastructure improvement + $112 million
dollars in financial obligations and pay-
“Johnson Utilities experiences more SSO back agreements QC would need to pay
(Sanitary Sewer Overflows) than any other (totaling around $282 million dollars).
private entity.”
Continued on page 16

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Incorporation On was found that of the 258 signatures re-
The Agenda viewed, 210 could be verified. This would
mean that of the total 5146 that the
The Board of Supervisors Will steering committee submitted only 4150
Discuss Incorporation are verifiable, which is below the mini-
mum of 4485 that was needed to get the
By San Tan Times measure on the November ballot.

Continued from page 1

A special meeting of The Pinal County Even if there were enough valid signa-
Board of Supervisors is scheduled for tures on the petition the problems don’t
9:30 AM Monday morning. The first stop there. The resolution also says that
item on the Agenda is Discussion/ap- many of the items that local opposers
proval/disapproval of Resolution No. to incorporation and the town of Queen
042318-STV concerning Petition for In- Creek have said are in fact correct.
corporation of the “Town of San Tan The Committee did not get the required
Valley,” Election Department Petition permission from declarant communities.
PC I20171006. The Committee did not get the required
This could be the final nail in the coffin permission from neighboring municipal-
for an initiative to incorporate San Tan ities. The map includes far too much ru-
Valley as the 11th largest municipality in ral land.
the State of Arizona. With this seeming like the end of the
The resolution states that a review of road for the current attempt to incorpo-
5% of the signatures submitted by the rate San Tan Valley what do you think
Vote San Tan Valley Steering Committee needs to be done with our community as
showed that there are too many invalid we move forward? If there is one thing
signatures on the petition to move for- we all know for sure it is that San Tan
ward. is growing, and does not have much sup-
During a review of the signatures by port.
the Arizona Secretary of States Office it .STT

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Hunt Highway & gin work on Hunt Highway be-
Gantzel Road tween Johnson Ranch Boulevard
Improvements and Red Road.  During this work,
all Hunt Highway traffic will be
By San Tan Times routed onto the new Gantzel Road
Here is whats coming up soon for San Extension as a detour around the
Tan Valley road construction, and more work zone.  Local access will be
specifically the Hunt Highway area. provided from the north for Rural
• Scheduled to begin late Friday, Metro Fire, Johnson Utilities staff,
and customers and staff of All-
April 27 at 11:00 PM through Sun- state Self Storage.
day, April 29, Hunt Highway will Note: San Tan Times has spoken with
have lane restrictions between All State Self Storage and Johnson
Stone Creek Dr and Chestnut Utilities who have both said that they
Trail for asphalt pavement resto- were told customers will have access to
ration due to previous utility work.   their facilities, they were just not told
The construction is scheduled to how or when those customers would
be completed by Sunday night have access. We also reached out to Pi-
around 9:00 PM. nal County Supervisor Mike Goodmans
• Scheduled to begin Monday, office who also had not been informed
April 30, through Friday, August of exactly what is going to happen. So
24, Hunt Highway will be CLOSED it seems that yes, you will be able to
to traffic between Johnson Ranch get to the businesses you need to get
Boulevard and Red Road (entry to, but nobody has any clue how! From
to Canyon Rock) for crews to be- the North is all that has been said.
.STT

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Local Sports

How Have Our Local High
School Teams Done?

By San Tan Times Softball
Continued from page 1 The softball team went 2-1 last week with
wins over South Ridge 20-6, and Imagine
Poston Butte Broncos Superstition 19-4. The lone loss on the

Baseball week was a 14-5 home game against Her-
It was a great week for the Broncos going itage Laveen.
3-1 over the last 7 days. The week start-
ed off rocky with a 9-2 loss to Catalina, Coed Soccer
but the boys bounced back with wins The Warriors started the week off with
over Cholla 7-0, Marana 13-3, and Desert a tough 11-3 loss to ASU Prep Poly, but
View 10-6 they bounced back to end the week with
a 6-0 win over LFPA.
Softball
It was a split week for the softball team Continued on page 16
with a 6-5 win over Marana, followed up
with a 2-1 loss in Tucson to Desert View.

Boys Volleyball
It was two big wins for the boys last week
as they took down Leading Edge Acade-
my 3-0, and Combs 3-0.

ALA Ironwood Warriors

Baseball
The Warriors had an undefeated week
last week beating WSST 13-1, El Dorado
21-0, and Heritage Laveen 13-3. Thats 47
runs in 3 games!

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Plan San Tan

Continued from page 5 shocking we did not see more requests for
employment in San Tan Valley, I see that
What Do They Plan as one of the areas biggest problems.”
To Do About It?

According to Mr. Kylszeikko local resi- Supervisor Goodman thanked the con-
dents and stakeholders were given 3 dif- sultant for all of his hard work and plan-
ferent options on what could be done and ning, while also saying that from talking
the decision was unanimous. We need a to residents, he would also agree that our
community/ urban center (details are in biggest need is employment. “We have
the photo below). great, talented people in San Tan Val-
Now where or if this will even happen ley and they are all leaving the area to
is still up for debate according to Mr. work.”
Kylszeikko “just because we put a col-
or on a map and decide that this should The project timeline was also a concern
be planned on does not mean it will ever for Supervisor Smith because as he said
happen.” “We are going to be asking these resi-
So this “plan” is really more of a sugges- dents to provide input on this planning
tion. during election season while they may
Once the presentation was over the su- also be deciding on incorporating.” He
pervisors were free to ask questions, and then asked if delaying the project was
as Supervisor Smith pointed out “it is an option, which it is not. “Delaying this
at all would push everything back by an
entire year.” Said Mr. Kyleszeikko.
.STT

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ACC&JUHearings Local Sports

Continued from page 9 Continued from page 13
The $282 million could not be covered
by the current JU water/sewer rates cus- San Tan Foothills Sabercats
tomers pay. - John Kross Queen Creek
Town Manager (The $282 million does Baseball
not include the cost of what George The Sabercats great season kept going
Johnson wanted to sell Johnson Utilities last week with wins over Superior 5-4,
for. The sale would’ve been $150 million San Pasqual Valley 9-0, and Gilbert Clas-
+ $282 million = $432 million total cost.) sical Academy 10-0.
RUCO Attorney: Did the system (John-
son Utilities) fail to meet municipal stan- Softball
dards? It was a split week for the ladies with
John Kross (Town Manager of Queen losses to Superior 10-0, and Horizon
Creek): Yes. Significant aspects of it. Honors 15-14. The two wins on the week
“36 lift stations are 36 points of failure.... came from a 19-1 game over Leading
There’s a direct correlation to the number Edge Academy, and a 28-8 game against
of SSO’s (Sewer Sanitary Overflows) in Gilbert Classical Academy.
relation to the number of lift stations.” ~
Paul Gardner | Queen Creek Utilities Combs Coyotes
Director
“The operational maintenance over the last Baseball
decade was quite alarming.” - Paul Gard- The Coyotes started the week off with a
ner | Queen Creek Utilities Director 12-3 loss to Bradshaw Mountain, and fol-
“It looks like; it is a system that was ne- lowed that up with a 9-7 win in Apache
glected.” - Junction. The week ended with a 4-3
~Paul Gardner | Queen Creek Utilities home loss to Apache Junction.
Director
“I can’t even believe there’s a section 11.” Softball
~ Paul Gardner | Queen Creek Utilities The Girls didn’t end the season the
Director way the wanted too with 3 losses, 10-0
to Bradshaw Mountain, 21-0 against
Apache Junction, and 10-0 also to
Apache Junction.

“Amazing how George Johnson doesn’t re- Boys Volleyball
call most things that are negative, but sharp It was another tough week for the vol-
as a tack on things that help his case.” leyball team with a 3-0 loss to Williams
~ Nick Myers Field, and a 3-0 loss at Poston Butte.
There are a lot more, and a lot more to .STT
come next week.
.STT

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I do not see this band very often. So I was
happy to see them and elated to catch these
two in a sparring session.

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