Gilbert staff and town council members are meeting Dec. 11 in a workshop to discuss how to prioritize the town’s capital improvement projects.
The meeting comes a month after staff reported to council at its annual strategic retreat how construction inflation was eating up available funds the town set aside to pay for those projects.
Staff reported last month Gilbert does not have enough money set aside to pay for the projects it had planned for the next fiscal year.
In fact, the town will look closely at public safety projects for the police and fire departments as well as parks and recreation department.
They also will discuss how to approach funding for the projects, all of which are considered necessary to maintain safety and quality of life in the town.
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Meet Tom Tom Blodgett joined Independent Newsmedia, Inc., USA, in 2022, when the company acquired Community Impact Newspaper's Phoenix-area properties. Raised in Arizona, he has spent more than 35 years in journalism in the state.
Community: He has served as an instructional professional in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication since 2005, and is editorial adviser to The State Press, the university's independent student media outlet. He also is director of operations for an 18U girls fastpitch softball team from Gilbert.
Education: Arizona State University with a BS in Journalism.
Random Fact: He lived in Belgium during his freshman year of high school.
Hobbies: Tweeting enthusiastically about ASU softball (season-ticket holder) and grumpily about other local sports (pessimistic fan).
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