A prominent Gilbert landowner contacted the mayor and a town council member in April with concerns that council members were making threats against a project coming before council.
Jeff Cooley, an owner whose family’s land has become the Cooley Station area in east Gilbert, separately emailed Scott Anderson and Mayor Brigette Peterson that unidentified council members were threatening to vote against the District at Cooley Station project “if Cooley doesn’t agree not to sue the town if commuter rail isn’t part of Cooley Station.”
Cooley declined to identify the council members to the Gilbert Independent, but Peterson said Cooley named council members Jim Torgeson, Bobbi Buchli and "the other new one” — Chuck Bongiovanni — in a phone call to her after the initial email and that Torgeson was leading that effort.
