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Green Valley Council extends $25,000 MedianGreen grant
By Jim Lamb, Green Valley News
The date to complete a $25,000 challenge grant to help fund beautification of roadway medians in Green Valley was extended by six months Thursday by the Green Valley Community Coordinating Council.
Extending the grant deadline was among items dealing with illegal immigrants in the area, the proposed 36-inch line to bring Central Arizona Project water to the area and a county supervisors’ report on the probable end of efforts for a large bond issue this years.
GVCCC represents most of the homeowners’ associations in the area and is a quasi community government for unincorporated Green Valley.
At the beginning of 2008, the GVCCC created a $25,000 challenge grant to fund improvements to the medians.
Susanne Blodgett, head of the MedianGreen effort, told the board paper work and other things have delayed actually launching the drive.
She said extending the drive until the end of GVCCC’s fiscal year, Dec. 31, should provide time to get the program rolling. The original grant was due to expire June 15.
Actually, work has already been done on some medians and work’s under way to find volunteers to tend the desert landscaped areas between lanes of some streets.
The money from donors and the GVCCC will buy equipment, fertilizer and other supplies.
Council President Russ Symes reported that names of volunteers to a new joint Border Patrol - Green Valley committee have been forwarded.
That committee was created by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and Arizona’s No. 1 Border Patrol officer Robert Gilbert after citizens complained about the increase of illegal immigrants in the area.
Fleeing illegals smashed a stolen SUV into a south side house, ripping away walls, breaking gas lines and stopping inches from the owner who was still in bed that morning.
Symes said the joint citizen - Border Patrol committee will meet 1 p.m., May 27, in a Green Valley Mall office adjacent to GVCCC, No. 14B.
Virgil Davis, treasurer of Green Valley Community Coordinating Council, told the members about the work of the new Upper Santa Cruz Providers and Users Group.
He said the organization, started late last year, has a varied membership, including water providers, smaller groups and big users like the mines, the pecan-growing Farmers Investment Co. and local golf courses.
“There’s a wide mix of companies,” said Davis.
It’s currently negotiating to bring a 36-inch water line to the Green Valley - Sahuarita area to connect to the Central Arizona Project.
Currently, Rosemont Copper has offered to bring a 20-inch pipeline from the nearest CAP connection point into the area, and local water users are negotiating to have that line increased to 36-inches which would service the area for years to come.
One of the last speakers was Ray Carroll, county supervisor whose district includes Green Valley.
He told the audience that next Tuesday’s supervisors meeting “should be exciting,” because the county will be adopting next fiscal year’s budget.
Carroll and fellow Republican Ann Day have offered an alternative to the budget calling for reduced tax billings.
Carroll also said plans for selling bonds for county improvements amounting to $750,000 to $1 billion is dead for this fiscal year.
Other supervisors have agreed with him.
jlamb@gvnews.com | 547-9749
Extending the grant deadline was among items dealing with illegal immigrants in the area, the proposed 36-inch line to bring Central Arizona Project water to the area and a county supervisors’ report on the probable end of efforts for a large bond issue this years.
GVCCC represents most of the homeowners’ associations in the area and is a quasi community government for unincorporated Green Valley.
At the beginning of 2008, the GVCCC created a $25,000 challenge grant to fund improvements to the medians.
Susanne Blodgett, head of the MedianGreen effort, told the board paper work and other things have delayed actually launching the drive.
She said extending the drive until the end of GVCCC’s fiscal year, Dec. 31, should provide time to get the program rolling. The original grant was due to expire June 15.
Actually, work has already been done on some medians and work’s under way to find volunteers to tend the desert landscaped areas between lanes of some streets.
The money from donors and the GVCCC will buy equipment, fertilizer and other supplies.
Council President Russ Symes reported that names of volunteers to a new joint Border Patrol - Green Valley committee have been forwarded.
That committee was created by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and Arizona’s No. 1 Border Patrol officer Robert Gilbert after citizens complained about the increase of illegal immigrants in the area.
Fleeing illegals smashed a stolen SUV into a south side house, ripping away walls, breaking gas lines and stopping inches from the owner who was still in bed that morning.
Symes said the joint citizen - Border Patrol committee will meet 1 p.m., May 27, in a Green Valley Mall office adjacent to GVCCC, No. 14B.
Virgil Davis, treasurer of Green Valley Community Coordinating Council, told the members about the work of the new Upper Santa Cruz Providers and Users Group.
He said the organization, started late last year, has a varied membership, including water providers, smaller groups and big users like the mines, the pecan-growing Farmers Investment Co. and local golf courses.
“There’s a wide mix of companies,” said Davis.
It’s currently negotiating to bring a 36-inch water line to the Green Valley - Sahuarita area to connect to the Central Arizona Project.
Currently, Rosemont Copper has offered to bring a 20-inch pipeline from the nearest CAP connection point into the area, and local water users are negotiating to have that line increased to 36-inches which would service the area for years to come.
One of the last speakers was Ray Carroll, county supervisor whose district includes Green Valley.
He told the audience that next Tuesday’s supervisors meeting “should be exciting,” because the county will be adopting next fiscal year’s budget.
Carroll and fellow Republican Ann Day have offered an alternative to the budget calling for reduced tax billings.
Carroll also said plans for selling bonds for county improvements amounting to $750,000 to $1 billion is dead for this fiscal year.
Other supervisors have agreed with him.
jlamb@gvnews.com | 547-9749
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