Greater Catalina Golder Ranch

 Village Council General Meeting

Summer Institute of Linguistics, 16131 N. Vernon Rd. Catalina, AZ.

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 in the Main Auditorium

7:00PM to 9:00PM

www.catalinaaz.org

info line:  829-1111

 

 

  1. Call to Order:  1911
    1. Members Present:   Mark Miller, Tommy Tucker, Kristie Foss, JoAnne Linnemann, Sue Campbell
    2. Member Absent:  Paulette Stark, Mark Kendall
  2. Additions to Advance Agenda/Order of the Day - NOne
  3. Review/Corrections if any to prior posted minutes - None
  4. Secretaries Report – Joanne Linneman - None
  5. Treasurers’ Report – Tommy Tucker - $715.44 balance
  6. Public Safety/Community Services –
    1. Sheriff’s Dept Report – unable to attend
    2. Golder Ranch Fire Department Report – Brett Lane Bat. Chief.    New fire Sta. Canada De Oro and Lambert – looking to add 7th station in couple of years.   One fire engine and supervisor in California to help fight wildfires.   17 folks hired this summer.   For small calls, have started using a ford pickup instead of using fireengines secondary to high gas cost.   #376 – fire station number on Golder Ranch Road.  
    3. Mark Miller asked about Fire Danger consultant – Catalina Wildfire Protection Plan – identifying areas most at risk for wildfires.   Now at the Pima County Board of Supervisors and once it arrives on their agenda and hopefully gets approved, we hope to get federal dollars and get the plan implemented.   Then homes will be evaluated by Fire Dept.   Goal will be to educate public and do the most good for the most people.   Plan is to begin this winter.  
    4. What is the average response time?   Average is 5 minutes.   Mark Miller asked about extending Forecastle to facilitate increased response times for “other side of the wash” – Brett didn’t know the update on that issue.   Another question regarded why Fire Station sent two trucks to respond – Brett explained that paramedics need help in a bad situation and if a fire happens at the same time, the fire truck can respond immediately.   Is there a policy in place for saving an animal?   There is a policy regarding that – lives are risked for human life – there is a policy for domestic animals.  

7.    Meet the Candidates running for elected office:

a.   LD 26 House of Representative republican race:

·        Trent Humphries – Spoke about the resilency of Westerners – young family – concerned about values – doesn’t necessarily want to change things – wants to maintain valued traditions – Issues:  Healthcare (need more ER care & personnel), taxes (overspending), Crime (rates have dropped T/O country – Pima county we’ve increased), Education (AIMES testing in question).   Require drive, determination and courage to represent the people of Southern Arizona.   2nd amendment supporter.

·        Vic Williams -  Involved with Rep. Party 4-5 years.  Ran City Council elections for Tucson, several busy positions in local districts – community service work.     Small Business owner – understands what it takes to run businesses with common sense approach.  people that are elected HAVE to be accountable to the people of S. AZ.   People are looking for smaller government.   1.  Balanced budget – reduce spending – greater transparency in agencies – overlapping overhead cuts – need freeze on spending increase until we get out of deficit.  2.  Need to enhance Public Education – teachers need more pay – limit classroom size – funding review.  3.   Illegal immigration – implement and enforce quality immigration laws – modify employer sanction law – guest worker program.  4. better quality economic development – difficult to open small business – regulatory codes need to be reviewed – need to produce quality jobs.   2nd amendment supporter. 

·        Marylyn Zerull – Reagan Republican - State leg not willing to make tough decisions to required to balance budget.   Mother of two and wife of Air Force officer.   Much volunteer and teacher’s aide work.   Smaller Government, tax relief, support small business, 2nd

amendment rights, personal responsibility, property tax, border security, employer sanctions, education reform with increased teacher pay, keep government small.    Budget can be balanced without raising taxes – spending can be limited – much overlapping.   2nd amendment supporter. 

8.    Standing Committee Reports/Action items

a.    Commercial, Residential & Subdivision –Mark Kendall-not in attendance

b.    Finance- Mark Miller – Objective is to improve financial situation to reach out to community and provide services.  Working on grants right now  - looking for input from community.    Capacity building to work with community programs & community awareness and community building -  no specifics as yet – need community input for ideas to match with grants.  

c.    Arroyo Grande study committee- paulette starks and Kristie foss – At Council meeting 7-0 to reject approval of LaCholla extension program.   

9.    Dustin Heatherly donation campaign – Don Jorganson, Dem Candidate for Legislator - young boy in Catalina in dyer need of our help – raising money for medical condition – Dustin has a rare form of pediatric polycystic kidney dz – family on ACCESS – father cannot work because he’ll loose medical coverage – ACCESS will pay for transplant but won’t pay for pre-op consults – Nancy Young-Wright researching this.   Family needed $3,800 to pay for consult and testing.   This has been accomplished.  Family will need more for support during transplant in PHX.   Fund at Bank of America for Dustin Heatherly Medical Fund.  

  1. public anouncements – Nancy Young Wright in the audience.   Sheryl Cage running for State Senate.   Has no primary opponent and is running in November and Joe Higgins running for pima County Supervisor against Ann Day. 
  2. call to the audience - None
  3. Upcoming Meeting – Fourth Tuesday in August,
  4. Adjournment - 2045