Chandler City Council

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City of Chandler Economic Development Advisory Board.

Members
Qualifications:
The Economic Development Advisory Board consists of fifteen (15) regular members with a term of three (3) years. Regular members must be citizens of the City of Chandler or business persons with operations in Chandler. The regular membership of the Board shall include one (1) representative from each of the following categories: major utilities, banking or financial services, real estate, large business, small business, higher education, a school district, Chandler Chamber of Commerce; three(3) representatives from at-large business. The Board shall also include the Chandler City Manager and the President of the Chandler Chamber of Commerce as ex-officio (non-voting) members.
Members (15) Term Expires Date Appointed
Scott Taylor 2014 05-26-2005
Mike Flanders 2014 10-28-2004
Vacant 2014
Michael Pollack 2012 10-28-2004
Steve Miller 2012 10-28-2004
Farrell Quinlan 2012 04-23-2009
Becky Smeraldo 2012 10-28-2004
Spike Lawrence 2013 08-19-2010
Linda Lujan 2013 08-13-2009
Jamie Natividad 2013 08-19-2010
David Schauer 2013 08-19-2010
Randy Clawson 2013 10-25-2007
Garry Hays 2014 05-24-2007
Ward Andrews 2014 01-14-2010
Victor Napolitano 2012 11-17-2005
Staff Liaison

Chandler, Arizona. Tax revenue sees huge increase due to Intel expansion.

Chandler’s sales-tax revenues continue to climb with big jumps from contracting and hotels.
But the city’s financial experts reminded council members that much of the windfall is tied to Intel’s $5 billion expansion. The expansion, the second largest construction project in the world behind the London Olympics, is credited with boosting construction and hotel stays by out-of-town contractors.
In a memo to the City Council, budget manager Greg Westrum said the massive project also is raising collections for building permit, plan review and encroachment permit fees. Other categories reporting double-digit sales tax collection increases are retail (10.5 percent) and restaurants (10.3 percent).
According to the most recent monthly revenue summary, local sales taxes collected in February were up 23.5 percent compared with the same month last year, larger than increases reported for recent previous months.
However, Westrum said that percentage was artificially high because a $270,000 sales-tax refund was paid in February 2011. The money, which was subtracted from revenues for that month, was made to a large telecommunications business that had been mistakenly overpaid sales taxes for four years.
Westrum declined to name the business but said an internal review by the company discovered the error.
Sales-tax revenues for the fiscal year to date are up 13.5 percent compared with last year and are nearly back to 2007 levels. According to Westrum’s report, Chandler has collected $63.1 million since July 2011, close to the $63.8 million reported in 2007-08. Collections were at their low point in 2009-10: $52.7 million.
The bright sales-tax picture will help offset declines in property-tax collections, which are tied to property values that dropped steeply during the recession and have not recovered.
Last month Tibshraeny promised residents that the council will not increase the municipal property-tax rate.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/2012/04/02/20120402sales-tax-revenues-tied-intel-expansion-rise.html#ixzz1rUrspl7e

Chandler, AZ native and Hamilton High School Graduate named Miss Arizona.

A Hamilton High School graduate in Chandler is joining the likes of recording artist Vanessa Williams, political commentator Sarah Palin and other beauty queens.
Jenny Sedler, student body president for the 2009-2010 school year, was crowned Miss Arizona two weeks ago. She will compete in the Miss America contest in January in Las Vegas.
 

Sedler, 19, would be a sophomore at the University of Arizona this fall but is taking the year off school to make appearances and do speaking engagements while preparing for the national contest.
“Now as Miss Arizona, it’s a full-time job,” she said. “There is a lot of work to do.”
Sedler beat out 15 other contestants for the Miss Arizona crown in the bathing suit, evening gown and talent portions of the competition. Her talent: jazz dance.
Her platform is making a difference for children with life-threatening illnesses. She volunteers for two children’s groups, including the Children’s Miracle Network. She is a pre-med student at the University of Arizona and wants to become a pediatric oncologist.
Working with sick children is “a complete reminder” of what’s important and has helped put Sedler’s life and others into perspective, she said.
“Sometimes it gets difficult when you get to know the kids and everything they’ve been going through,” she said. “It changes your entire perspective about your day-to-day life.
“I love being involved in something that means so much to me.”
Sedler represented Phoenix in the Miss Arizona contest because the Chandler contest fell on the night before one of her final exams. She was student body president and a cheerleader when she attended Hamilton High.
She also took advanced placement classes for college credit, which will help her not fall behind when she takes a year off from college.
“I always remember my senior year at Hamilton, taking a full schedule when all my friends were taking half-day schedules and thinking, ‘Why am I doing this?’ ”
Sedler now is glad of her choice and will be the cornerstone of talks she gives to other high school students and even to kids in juvenile detention centers.
“It’s not ever too late to work hard and to turn your life around,” she said.
The 2011 Miss Arizona pageant is only the second beauty contest in which she has competed. She was second runner-up last year.
“There are a lot of preparations that go into it, working on a 10-minute interview with judges, writing essays that are judged,” she said.
Sedler said she expects the year to be busy. In the two weeks since winning, she already has collected a 2-inch binder full of speaking engagements, media appearances and other responsibilities.
“Whatever I’m asked to do – parades, speak at high schools, ribbon cuttings. Requests come in through our website, www.miss-arizona.org,” Sedler said.
Sedler listens to the news and reads as many articles as possible to keep up on current events. Her on-stage two-part question was ripped fresh from the headlines, dealing with Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal and whether the federal government should legislate gay marriage. It took the questioner “about two minutes to read the question and afterward, the audience gasped,” Sedler said. “I just tried to focus on every word she was saying and answered that it (legislating gay marriage) wasn’t the federal government’s job and should be left to the states.”

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/2011/07/01/20110701chandler-miss-arizona-jenny-sedler-hamilton-hs-grad.html#ixzz1rUrTXE3C

Chandler, Arizona Intel plant expansion a boon to the local economy.

Taking a tour of the Intel Ocotillo Plant with Mr. Jason Bagley

 
Chandler residents are forunate to have the city’s largest employer Intel expand in Ocotillo. I got to take a tour of the Ocotillo plant with head of PR, Jason Bagley. We talk about many things like something in the Intel culture called “AR’s” Action Required. And we talked alot about Moore’s Law.
 
 
 
Moore’s law is a rule of thumb in the history of computing hardware whereby the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. The period often quoted as “18 months” is due to Intel executive David House, who predicted that period for a doubling in chip performance (being a combination of the effect of more transistors and their being faster).[1]
The capabilities of many digital electronic devices are strongly linked to Moore’s law: processing speed, memory capacity, sensors and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras.[2] All of these are improving at (roughly) exponential rates as well (see Other formulations and similar laws). This exponential improvement has dramatically enhanced the impact of digital electronics in nearly every segment of the world economy.[3] Moore’s law describes a driving force of technological and social change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.[4][5]
The law is named after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore, who described the trend in his 1965 paper.[6][7][8] The paper noted that the number of components in integrated circuits had doubled every year from the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 until 1965 and predicted that the trend would continue “for at least ten years”.[9] His prediction has proved to be uncannily accurate, in part because the law is now used in the semiconductor industry to guide long-term planning and to set targets for research and development.[10]

Scott Taylor, now endorsed by 3 members of CUSD School Board.

April 8th 2012
 
Karen Bredeson added her endorsmentt to the list of supporters for Scott Taylor for Chandler city council. She is focused on quality education for our kids. She along with Bob Rice and Annette Auxier support the effort to elect Scott Taylor to the Chandler City council. Mr Taylor’s 2 older sons attend Conley Elementary in Chandler, AZ.

Chandler School Board starts listen tour at San Tan Junior High.

Their suggestions ranged from high school teachers holding office hours to parents paying for students to compete on junior high sports teams.
On Wednesday night, 50 people offered ideas at an inaugural “Listen and Learn” session for improving Chandler Unified School District. The session was organized by the district’s five-member governing board.
The 90-minute gathering at Santan Junior High School broke the group into nine tables to discuss curriculum, instruction, specialeducation, student performance, athletics, school choice, facilities, technology and financing.
Participants chose a table to join for the first 25 minutes and were encouraged to move to another table for the next 25 minutes.
Parent Kat McIntosh wanted to talk about having one child at her neighborhood school and another at Knox Gifted Academy.
“Logistically, it’s hard to get both kids to school,” she said.
Another parent, Cecilia DeGravina, said she is worried about staffing at Hamilton Prep, which is being renamed Arizona College Prep.
“Those teachers aren’t available for students after school because they go back to Hamilton High,” DeGravina said.
Some teachers travel from Hamilton High to Hamilton Prep/ACP because they teach classes on both campuses. Another parent suggested that traveling teachers hold office hours similar to those of college professors.
“It’s a legitimate issue,” CUSD Superintendent Camille Casteel said of traveling teachers.
Another parent, Jim Bishop, put in a plug for adopting the Spalding method of reading, writing and spelling through phonics.
Other parents warned that students must begin learning the Spalding method in kindergarten or they will struggle in later grades.
Christina Nguyen, a parent of a son in junior high school, said her son was disappointed that he didn’t make the soccer team. That prompted Beth Krohmer, another parent, to wonder if CUSD could implement pay-to-play to allow more students to play sports.
CUSD is among the last districts not to charge students to play high school sports.
Sandra Niman, mother of two daughters at Hamilton High,, said the school focuses too much on football and not enough on non-sporting extracurricular activities.
“All you hear about is football, football, football,” she said. “I would really like to see more emphasis on extra-curricular activities other than sports.”
The district plans to conduct another “Listen and Learn” session in the fall.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/2012/04/05/20120405chandler-schools-forum-ideas.html#ixzz1rUhuDf5c

Scott Taylor and volunteers gather over 1,400 signatures for 2012 effort

Special Thanks to Caroline Coler, Kevin Jones, Bob Kampfe, Karen and Leo Mahoney, Robin Finlinson and Kevin Stoner for collecting 5 page each. Great teamwork, Thank you for making it possible for me to Run and serve the people.

Kevin Hartke leads life of service to his community.

Pastor Kevin Hartke is the director of For Our City- Chandler. Kevin, a 24-year resident of Chandler, is the pastor of Trinity Christian Fellowship, also in Chandler.

Kevin has been married to Lynne for 27 years. They have four incredible children:
Nathan (24 and married to Rachel), Aleah (20), Katelyn (16) and Zachary (14). Kevin and Lynne also take care of Kevin’s grandmother, Dorothy. She celebrates her 101st birthday this year.

Kevin has been highly involved in the community of Chandler. Currently he serves on Chandler’s Planning and Zoning Commission and chairs Chandler’s Complete Count Committee for the 2010 Census. He served on the City Council for a year after being appointed by the Mayor and Council to finish out the term of a Councilmember serving in Iraq. Kevin chaired Chandler’s Human Relations Commission during its first four years.

Other current areas of service include the following: literacy advocate with BookPALs and PencilPALs a Screen Actor’s program at a local underachieving school; Board member of the Desert Cancer Foundation Arizona, helping with Live Love Days and serving on a task force for ICAN (Improving Chandler Area Neighborhoods)

Kevin has a BS studying biochemistry from University of Missouri, Columbia and a MA in Theology with Fuller Theological Seminary. In his free time, he likes to hike, cycle, swim, read, do puzzles watch great movies or grab coffee or a meal with family and/or friends.