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Scottsdale City Council puts two questions on the …

4/4/2024
The voters will speak this fall. The Scottsdale City Council voted during its April 2 meeting to put two issues centered on money on the November ballot for voter approval. The first question …

Gilbert will ask voters to increase expenditure limit

3/18/2024
Gilbert stands to soon bump up against a state law that limits how much money the town can spend if it goes through with plans to fund its priority capital projects.   That is why the town …

Boxing champion returns in card at Glendale arena

1/31/2024
A former two-division world champion will make his ring return in familiar territory and an undisputed four-belt queen will be crowned for the first time in the minimumweight division.   …

City treasurer: Scottsdale needs to be able to spend …

12/6/2023
The City of Scottsdale needs to be able to spend more money. That was the message city treasurer Sonia Andrews gave to the city council during its Dec. 5 meeting. The city is butting up …

Chandler senator proposes move to kill forms of …

3/17/2023
PHOENIX — The way Sen. J.D. Mesnard sees it, when the people who crafted the Arizona Constitution put in a $350,000 debt limit they weren’t kidding.

Bauders: Find permanent solution to school district …

2/17/2023
A few weeks ago, the Arizona Legislature voted to override the K-12 Aggregate Expenditure Limit, before the March 1 deadline. If they had missed this deadline and failed to override the AEL, the Apache Junction Unified School District, along with every other school district in the state, would have been forced to make devastating budget cuts in the last quarter of the school year.

Peoria district breathes sigh of relief after AEL vote

2/9/2023
Peoria Unified School District and the many public schools in Arizona again have dodged a bullet with a state legislature vote to lift the Aggregate Expenditure Limit for this school year.

Higley district will use carryover as contingency …

1/18/2023
Higley USD proposes to use more its more than $26 million in budget balance carryforward as a contingency against substantial budget cuts that could be required of it under the state …

New, re-elected Chandler leaders sworn in

1/14/2023
CHANDLER — Angel Encinas made sure to remove all doubt who he represents on the Chandler City Council. In his remarks just after being sworn in as one of two new at-large city councilmembers …

Deer Valley Unified could see ‘significant’ salary …

12/14/2022
Deer Valley Unified School District is planning “significant salary increases” for its staff if the Arizona Legislature takes action on approving the aggregate expenditure limit that continues to keep district budgets in limbo.

Peoria Unified may urge governor, legislature to act …

11/9/2022
The Peoria Unified School District could make its voice heard about a looming spending crisis that could occur if the Arizona legislature does not take action on an archaic state constitution amendment.

What to know about commuter rail in Gilbert

8/23/2022
In 1902, the Arizona Eastern Railway, looking to establish a rail line between Phoenix and Florence, asked for donations of right of way. Some of the track was built upon a donation from one …