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2013 Forecast: Tucson will be last in state’s job growth By Roger Yohem Inside Tucson Business

Th rough 2013, Arizona’s employ-ment growth will continue to im-prove modestly, led by the Phoenix area that is projected to add 93,000 non-farm jobs.

Tucson, however is forecast to have the state’s slowest growth rate, adding only 5,800 jobs by January 2014.

Th e Arizona Department of Ad-ministration released an updated 2012-2020 employment forecast showing that through 2020, average annual growth rates in all job clas-sifi cations are expected to be “grad-

ual.”For 2012, Arizona’s job base is

forecast to grow 2.1 percent. In the Phoenix area, the anticipated rate is 2.6 percent. For the Tucson area, just a 0.6 percent gain in jobs is forecast.

In the “balance” of the state, for all counties outside Maricopa, Pinal and Pima, the projection is 1.6 per-cent growth.

Statewide, the fastest-growing job sectors will be construction; leisure and hospitality; and professional/business and fi nancial services.

In Tucson, the forecast is for the education and health services cat-egory to gain the most jobs this year, adding about 1,300 workers. Th e

second-largest growth sector is lei-sure and hospitality with 900 jobs.

Slight losses are likely in trade, transportation and utilities; and oth-er services. Th e information sector is expected to lose 200 jobs.

For 2013, the statewide data calls for modest employment gains of 2.5 percent. Phoenix-area jobs will grow the fastest at 2.8 percent, or 49,300 jobs.

In Tucson, only 3,600 new net jobs are expected, a 1 percent in-crease. Th e balance of the state should see 2.3 percent growth, add-ing 8,000 jobs.

Tucson’s leading sectors in 2013 are projected to be 1,400 jobs in edu-

cation/health services; 1,100 jobs in leisure and hospitality; and 400 jobs each in professional/business ser-vices, and government. Information services is expected to lose another 200 jobs.

Despite many positive economic signs, ADOA warned that many fac-tors could “dampen” local economic growth. Th ose issues include rising gasoline and food prices, energy and healthcare, low wages, and employ-ment insecurity.

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County considers $197M bond package for economic development By Patrick McNamaraInside Tucson Business

On the heels of one election, the Pima County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (Nov. 13) will discuss an economic devel-opment proposal requiring voter approval of nearly $200 million in bonds.

Among the recommendations of the Pima County Economic Development Plan 2012-2014 are $37 million in spending to expand and improve tourism venues, $30 million toward noise abatement around Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and Tuc-son International Airport, $30 million to support economic development eff orts in smaller municipalities and $10 million to improve infrastructure and access to the University of Arizona Science and Tech-nology Park.

When — or if — the county would pur-sue a bond election is something that is yet to be determined by the Board of Supervi-sors.

By far, the largest portion of the pro-posed $197 million bond package would be spent on roadway construction and im-provement projects. County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry suggests spending as much as $90 million to fund construction of an Aerospace Parkway south of Tucson International Airport that would stretch from Nogales Highway east to Interstate 10 at Rita Road. Th e plan also would extend Alvernon Way south to connect to with the new parkway.

Th e proposed parkway would realign Hughes Access Road south of the airport and Raytheon Missile Systems’ main plant. Th e road would connect with Old Vail Con-nection Road, which would also require widening and other improvements.

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Pima County leaders plan to discuss a bond package to increase economic development efforts in the region. The plan includes roadway improvements and a defense and aero-space industry business park proposal, as seen above.

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Th ousands of ballots couldchange election outcomes

As of Wednesday there were an estimated 80,000 votes left to be counted in Pima Coun-ty, according Elections Director Brad Nelson.

Roughly 54,000 of the outstanding bal-lots were early ballots that got dropped off at the polls or arrived in the mail too late for processing before Tuesday’s count. Another 26,000 are provisional ballots that were cast by people at their polling place but there was some irregularity.

Nelson confi rmed he had heard stories about “misprints or omissions within the sig-nature rosters” at polling places. He said he didn’t know if the problems were in specifi c areas.

“Th e Recorder is responsible for printing up those registers and rosters and would give you a better answer to that, but my gut feel-ing, from what I heard from the polls yester-day and traveling through the Tucson metro-politan area, it was countywide,” Nelson said. “I don’t know how deep the problem was, but I know they were experiencing it in Ajo, in midtown, in the Foothills. It seemed to be a little bit of everywhere.”

According to Nelson about 39,000 early ballots still needed to be processed to verify signatures before being counted, another 10,000 arrived in the mail on Tuesday and also needed to have signatures verifi ed, and about 13,500 were in the process of being counted.

Th e number of ballots remaining to be counted could impact two extremely close elections, the race between Ron Barber and Martha McSally in Congressional District 2 and Proposition 409, the City of Tucson’s pro-posal to sell $100 million in bonds to repair roads.

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Ben-nett said Wednesday there were more than 600,000 provisional ballots statewide that still needed to be verifi ed and counted. He said counties have until Nov. 16 to process those ballots.

Tucson gas prices continue downward

Tucson area gas prices are continuing their downward spiral, to an average of $3.34 per gallon for this week, according to AAA Arizona’s Weekly Fuel Gauge report.

Th e price was down from $3.39 per gallon a week ago and from $3.51 a month ago.Th e statewide average this week was $3.57½ per gallon, down from $3.64 a week ago.


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ACT University helps contractors with businesses By Alan M. PetrilloInside Tucson Busienss

Contractors and subcontractors gener-ally don’t attend college or university to get advanced degrees, but instead go the route of trade schools, apprenticeships and on-the-job training. In order to fi ll in some of the blanks that might occur when operating a con-tracting business, a Tucson-based non-profi t trade associ-ation of specialty contractors and suppliers has put togeth-er an educational eff ort for its members and others to get up to speed on the latest legal, business and safety issues.

“Specialty contractors usu-ally don’t attend the Univer-sity of Arizona to get a degree in plumbing, electrical, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), drywall or concrete,” said Jim Kuliesh, president and chief executive offi cer of the Alliance of Con-struction Trades (ACT). “Th ey may be the best in their fi eld, but sometimes they need help with their business organiza-tion plans. So we’ve formal-ized a series of seminars, workshops and programs in three major areas and are of-fering them through ACT Uni-versity.”

Th e three areas of instruc-tion being off ered are the le-gal aspects of construction, business strategies and safety. Kuliesh noted ACT University will conduct monthly pro-grams led by local specialists in each of the fi elds.

“In the legal fi eld of study, we want to be sure contrac-tors and subcontractors un-derstand the ramifi cations of all the legal aspects that apply to their companies,” Kuliesh said.

Instructors in legal pro-grams will include attorneys Neil Eckel, Pat Durazzo and Eric Hawkins, all Durazzo, Eckel and Hawkins; Terry Es-ser of Terry P. Esser Law Of-fi ces; and Lisa Th ompson of Th ompson Law Group.

Eckel said that subcon-tractors and suppliers are in continual need of updates on their contractual and pay-ment rights.

“Th e fi rst program we’re doing covers the benefi ts of having contractual terms

agreed to in advance, what fair contract terms are, and how companies can protect their payment rights,” Eckel said. “We’ll look at the tools subcontractors and sup-pliers have to collect payment — whether through the Prompt Pay Act, liens, bonds, Registrar of Contractor complaints or stop payment notices.”

Eckel noted that last year the Legis-lature “made changes to the substantial completion and fi nal completion terms in the Prompt Pay Act, which means we’ll also be talking about those changes.”

Th e business strategies programs through ACT University will revolve around running a business, business plan-

ning, project management, fi nancials and taxes, social media and marketing, Kuliesh said. Business courses will be presented by John Dennis of Strategy1 in Tucson.

Dennis, president and co-founder of Strategy1, noted the fi rst session on marketing and social media was conducted last month, while the current month’s course will deal with project management as a key to profi tability in a business.

“We anticipate that the hu-man resources and leadership courses and a couple of diff er-ent fi nance programs will be presented in the months after that,” Dennis said.

Safety is a continuing con-cern among subcontractors and contractors, so the Alli-ance of Construction Trades regular safety seminars will become part of ACT Universi-ty, according to Kuliesh. Sha-ron Powers, a certifi ed OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Act) instructor and owner of Powers Safety Ser-vices, will present the safety programs.

Powers noted that OSHA-approved safety classes to be off ered through ACT Univer-sity include fall protection and ladders, fork lifts, confi ned space, excavation and confi -dent person’s scaff old, among others.

“All required training meets OSHA standards and once the individual takes the class and passes the test, he or she gets a training card certifying he or she met the standard,” Powers said.

Powers noted that two other programs she expects to conduct will be on rigging safety and signal person safe-ty.

“Both of those courses are required by the new fed-eral construction crane stan-dard, so people involved with cranes should be involved in those programs,” she said.

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Investor buys last 63 Tangerine Crossing lots

As part of a large land portfolio, Mountain Real Estate Capital LLC of Charlotte, N.C., has acquired the last 63 residential lots in the Tan-gerine Crossing master-planned community in Marana. Th e parcels were sold by Cleve-land-based Forest City Land Group as part of its plan to sell off most of its residential real estate holdings nationally.

Overall, Mountain Capital acquired some 1,200 lots in master-planned communities from Forest City. In addition to Marana, the portfolio included a mix of fi nished and par-tially fi nished lots, and undeveloped land for residential and commercial development in Olympia, Wash., and in Pinehurst and Char-lotte, N.C.

Tangerine Crossing is at the northeast cor-ner of Th ornydale Road and Tangerine Road. Th e 300-acre development features single-family homes, open space and a 23-acre retail center. Mountain Capital did not disclose fi -nancial terms of the transaction.

All 63 Tangerine Crossing lots are fully de-veloped with a future sales agreement in place with Meritage Homes and Maracay Homes, according to Forest City. As the new owners, Mountain Capital will assume and administer those existing contracts.

More charges fi led against former Chuy’s owners

Th e U.S. Attorney for the District of Ari-zona has fi led additional indictment papers against two people accused of hiring illegal immigrants and avoiding taxes.

Mark Harold Evenson, Paradise Valley, and Christopher Mark Evenson, Oro Valley, owned Adobe Management Services LLC., a company that operated 13 Chuy’s Mesquite Broiler restaurants in Arizona, including sev-en in Tucson.

Th e pair had previously been indicted on charges they knowingly hired illegal immi-grants to work as kitchen staff ers at the res-taurants, paying the workers cash and not fi l-ing or paying the required payroll and other taxes.

In April 2011, federal authorities raided several of the restaurants where illegal im-migrants were found working. Th e Evensons, a father and son, were indicted that month along with a bookkeeper working for them. Th e latest indictment fi led Oct. 25 accuses the two of continuing to employ and hire people they knew to be illegally in the U.S. even after the April arrests and indictment.

A trial date for the Evensons has been set for April 2013.

Former bookkeeper Diane Ingrid Stre-hlow pleaded guilty to conspiracy to impede and impair the functions of the Internal Rev-enue Service. Her sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 27.

All of the Evensons restaurants in the Tuc-son region are now closed. Th e Chuy’s Mes-quite Broiler restaurants that are still open in the market are owned by other companies.


NEWSTuesday’s election results — questions still abound U.S. Senate

Flake defeats Carmona Inside Tucson Business

Arizona will continue to be represented by two Republicans in the U.S. Senate as Jeff Flake, who has served six terms rep-resenting the Mesa area in the U.S. House of Representatives, won the election to re-place Jon Kyl. Flake won slightly more than 50 percent of the vote in the three-way race.

Tucson Democrat Richard Carmona a few weeks preceding the election was thought to stand a chance of an upset, but in the end he fell about 5 percentage points behind.

U.S. House of Representatives

Democrats to Congress butMcSally-Barber undecidedInside Tucson Business

Democrats will continue to represent Southern Arizona in two of three Congres-sional Districts with the third race not ex-pected to be decided until possibly some-time today (Nov. 9).

Ann Kirkpatrick, a Democrat from Flag-staff , appears to have beaten Oro Valley Republican Jonathan Paton in Congressio-nal District 1. Th e margin of votes between the two was less than 7,300 votes, which was enough for the Associated Press to call it for Kirkpatrick. However, Pima County still had an estimated 40,000 provisional votes county-wide to tabulate. It was un-known exactly how many of those were in the Congressional District.

In Congressional District 2, Republican challenger Martha McSally was ahead of incumbent Democrat Ron Barber by fewer than 500 votes. It’s likely the uncounted Pima County votes will be a factor in the ultimate outcome since Barber’s strength was in Pima County.

In Congressional District 3 there was no contest, as Raúl Grijalva won with 57 per-cent of the vote.

Legislature

Democrats make gains butGOP still in control By Patrick McNamaraInside Tucson Business

In what was the most expensive and closely watched Tucson race, Democratic challenger David Bradley defeated incum-bent Sen. Frank Antenori. Bradley received 53.7 percent of the vote to Antenori’s 46.2 percent, in unoffi cial tabulations.

Antenori had become a leader in the GOP, earning leadership positions and chairmanship positions in his legislative career. But along the way he also alienated at least some people for his straightforward

but often argumentative demeanor.In the District 10 House race, Stefanie

Mach and Bruce Wheeler won the two, giving Democrats a sweep and toppling incumbent Republican Ted Vogt, who was considered a moderate.

In other Southern Arizona Legislative races, Legislative District 2, which includes Green Valley and Sahuarita, is also repre-sented entirely by Democrats. Sen. Linda Lopez ran unopposed and Andrea Dales-sandro and Rosanna Gabaldon won the House seats.

In Legislative District 9, north central Tucson and the Catalina Foothills, Demo-crat Steve Farley, who had been in the House, was elected to the Senate seat and the House representatives will be Demo-crat Victoria Steele and Republican Ethan Orr.

In District 11, which stretches from Ma-rana and SaddleBrooke nortwest around Casa Grande to Maricopa, Republican Al Melvin won re-election to the Senate and Republican Steve Smith, a former Senator, won election to the House. Adam Kwas-man, another Republican, won the other Hosue seat.

On Wednesday, lawmakers began meet-ing to pick leaders for the next two years. Although Democrats picked up some seats that cost the GOP its super majority, Re-publicans are still in control. Andy Biggs, R-Gilbert, was elected president of the Senate beating the current president, Steve Pierce, R-Prescott. Biggs is considered a hardline conservative.

Pima County Supervisors

Ally Miller, incumbents win Inside Tucson Business

Th ere will be only one new face on the Pima County Board of Supervisors next year. Republican Ally Miller beat Democrat Nancy Young Wright, 54 percent to 46 per-cent, to fi ll the seat being vacated by Ann Day.

Although Miller’s election keeps the seat in Republican hands, the fi ve-member board will continue to have a 3-2 Demo-cratic majority with the re-elections of Democrats Richard Elias, Ramon Vala-dez and Sharon Bronson. Th e only other Republican, Ray Carroll faced no general election opposition.

Ballot propositions

116 - Business property tax exmption rejectedBy Sophia SolisCronkite News Service

Voters by a margin of 56.5 percent to 44.5 percent rejected Proposition 116, a measure that was touted for what it would do to encourage businesses to spend on capital expansion.

Dubbed the Small Business Creation Act, the measure would have raised the annual tax exemption on property used for business, agriculture and trade from

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This Week’s Good News $7,800 more for students

Not to bruise the egos of Inside Tucson Business columnists and radio personalities Chris DeSimone and Joe Higgins, but the folks who turned out for the Auction by the Tucson Utility Contractors Association (TUCA) last week weren’t there to laugh at their jokes as the event’s emcees.

Th ey were there to raise money for TUCA’s Sam Witt Scholarship Program. Th e fund awards four–year college scholarships worth $8,000 to students who have a family member working in the utility construction industry

Th e Auction raised almost enough money to fund one scholarship, coming in at $7,800.

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County GOP couldn’t deliver Th e Pima County Republican party put

much of its eff ort into delivering the county for Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Too much of its eff orts, according to some party members who worked on get-out-the-vote ef-forts for local GOP candidates.

Many campaigns complained that GOP executive committee members actively dis-couraged candidates’ volunteers from calling or knocking on the doors of Democrats or independents for fear that those voters might support the local GOP candidates but not vote for Romney at the top of the ballot.

Despite these attempts, their eff orts fell short, although Romney carried Arizona he didn’t carry Pima County. President Obama took 51 percent of the county’s vote for presi-dent while Romney got 47 percent.

El Paso gets it doneTucson is losing its AAA Padres after next

year to El Paso and in this week’s election, and Tucson had trouble getting a $100 million bond passed to fi x roads. Something is sure diff erent in the political attitude in El Paso.

Th e city there put three “quality of life” measures on the ballot and everyone of them got approved and none were close.

One measure eff ectively raises the total tax on a hotel room another 2 percentage points to 17.5 percent. Th e money will be used to build a downtown ballpark the Padres will use.

But the other two measures were bond pro-posals that taxpayers will pay on their property taxes. One is for $245 million for park, recre-ation, open space and zoo improvements and the other is $228 million to fund museum, cultural, performing arts, library facilities, in-cluding a multi-purpose performing arts and entertainment and an interactive digital wall.

And none of the three came close to losing.


NEWS

PUBLIC NOTICESSelected public records of Southern Arizona bankruptcies and liens.

BANKRUPTCIESChapter 11 - Business reorganization Whetstone Partners LLP, 7101 N. Corrida De Venado. Principal: Ernest L. Graves, manager Kino V LLC managing general partner. Estimated assets: $50,000 or less. Estimated liabilities: $50,000 or less. Largest creditor(s): Schedule not fi led. Case No. 12-23881 fi led Oct. 31. Law fi rm: McEvoy Daniels & Darcy

Miguel P. Larios and Maria Larios, 4316 S. Lundy Ave. Principal: Miguel P. Larios and Maria Larios, joint debtors. Assets: $328,838.00. Liabilities: $519,603.55. Largest creditor(s): Green Tree, Rapid City, S.D., $173,435.92, and US Bank Home Mortgage, Owensboro, Ky., $126,747.91. Case No. 12-23889 fi led Oct. 31. Law fi rm: C.R. Hyde

LIENSFederal tax liens DJ’s Pizza of Little Italy and CEN Pizza Inc., 150 S. Eastbourne Ave., Apt A8. Amount owed: $2,411.28. Dependable Roofi ng and Repair LLC and Guillermo Ramirez, 3259 E. Alvord Road. Amount owed: $9,085.23. GRS Landscape Architects Inc., 11047 N. Cloud View Place, Oro Valley. Amount owed: $1,221.28. K&K Insurance Agency and Carlos M. Arias, 540 W. Utah St. Amount owed: $3,800.88. H Three Appliance Inc. and Timothy J. Hunt, 5648 E. Broadway. Amount owed: $1,450.47. Glass Blasters LLC and John Jansen, 5029 E. 29th St. 5029 E. 29th St. Amount owed: $1,126.65. Joe’s Landscape and Maintenance and Joel Vega Manriquez, 300 E. Vaquero Place. Amount owed: $1,924.36. Hollis Graphics Inc., 7360 N. Yucca Via. Amount owed: $8,771.79. Concrete & More LLC and Marcelo Oliva, 140 E. Elm St. Amount owed: $6,628.86. Los Campas LLC and Leonel E. Campas, 13116 S. Highway 191, Pearce. Amount owed: $80,305.48. Taqueria Juanitos Mexican Fast Food and Antonia Suazo, 708 W. Grant Road. Amount owed: $4,524.00. PACE Electrical Construction Inc., 515 E. 24th St. Amount owed: $95,428.71. Professional Appraisals Inc., PO Box 1122, Marana 85653. Amount owed: $59,255.40. Rosa’s Assisted Living Homes LLC and Rosa Quirrin, 3141 W. Painted Hills Ranch Court. Amount owed: $15,169.75.Aria International Inc., 9040 S. Rita Road, Suite 236. Amount owed: $121,733.63. DAR Tile LLC, 4300 W. Bilby Road. Amount owed: $10,335.72. American Meat Co. Inc., 1439 S. Fourth Ave. Amount owed: $63,313.55. Sigifredo Rodriguez LLC and Sigifredo Rodriguez, 2100 W. Grant Road, Suite 120. Amount owed: $12,138.40. Valor Hospicecare LLC and Grant A. Rowe, 1860 E. River Road, Suite 200. Amount owed: $33,835.03. Zytoon LLC, 2744 E. Broadway. Amount owed: $27,207.70. Belyn’s Bonanza LLC, 8431 E. Brookhill Drive. Amount owed: $26,947.95. Crimson Hair-Skin-Nail Salon Inc., 5060 S. Dominion Drive. Amount owed: $28,126.63. Eggrolls Etc LLC, 4955 N. Sabino Canyon Road, Suite 111. Amount owed: $5,067.16. 911 Towing and Recovery LLC and David H. Polsky, 1220 S. Calle De Las Casitas, Green Valley. Amount owed: $6,426.04.

State liens (Liens of $1,000 or more fi led by the Arizona Department of Revenue or Arizona Department of Economic Security.)Law Offi ces Steven G. Sandoval PC, 177 N. Church Ave., Suite 625. Amount owed: $1,137.98. Crescent Colours and Sharon Crescent, 1010 E. Palmdale St., Suite 103. Amount owed: $2,311.16. Bamboo Club Asian Bistro and Rim Restaurants Arizona LLC, 3420 N. Calle Largo. Amount owed: $74,492.20.

After years of battles over construction of house, owner fi les legal claim against countyBy Patrick McNamaraInside Tucson Business

When Adi Halili bought a three-acre parcel in the Tucson Mountains in 2007, he hadn’t anticipated it would take three years of battles with Pima County govern-ment and some of his new neighbors to try to get a house built.

Because of what Halili said was a sus-tained eff ort to prevent him from build-ing his family home in the already heavily populated westside foothills, he decided to fi le a civil rights complaint with the Arizo-na Attorney General’s Offi ce against Pima County Supervisor Sharon Bronson and Pima County Administrator Chuck Huck-elberry.

“Th ere were continuous attempts by Sharon Bronson and the Tucson Mountain Association to sabotage us,” said Halili, a physical therapist with a doctorate from Northern Arizona University. He runs two physical therapy clinics in the Tucson re-gion.

In his complaint with the Attorney Gen-eral, Halili said members of the Tucson Mountain Association, a neighborhood as-sociation, used their infl uence with Bron-son to get county offi cials to delay con-struction of the home on El Camino del Cerro west of Camino de Oeste.

Th e delays, stop-work orders, addition-al planning and legal expenses cost Halili an estimated $250,000, he estimates.

Th e county issued three stop-work or-ders during construction following what of-fi cials said were violations of code or work done that was inconsistent with plans.

During the early stages of construction, for instance, workers had cleared an area larger than allowed under original plans.

Halili said it’s true that a larger area was graded, but that it was only done because pipelines from the house to a septic tank and leech fi eld had to be installed.

“We restored it as we intended to all along,” he said.

To mitigate that and other issues, how-ever, the matter was sent to the county’s development review committee (DRC) where Halili requested an exemption to the hillside development zone ordinance, which seeks to protect desert areas from excessive grading.

Th at’s when the battles with the county and neighbors began.

“Th e moment he went to the DRC, that’s when all hell hit,” said Peter Petrowski, an architect who designed Halili’s house and worked with him throughout much of the building. “Th ey made him jump through hoops on every last item.”

Pima County Development Services Di-rector Carmine DeBonis said the troubles with Halili’s home building project were of his own making.

“I think Mr. Halili was one of the biggest obstacles of getting fi nal approval,” DeBo-nis said.

For instance, DeBonis said workers at Halili’s property began construction be-fore permits were granted. As the project moved ahead, DeBonis said there were numerous instances of work occuring out-side of what was allowed and in defi ance of a list of 24 conditions set by the develop-ment review committee.

“A path was set in motion that made it diffi cult for him to get through the approv-al and occupancy process,” DeBonis said.

Halili provided Inside Tucson Business with hundreds of pages of documents and emails, which he says show attempts by Tucson Mountain Association members to derail his project and a pattern of collusion among county offi cials and association members.

Th ose documents include numer-ous emails between Bronson and Tucson Mountain Association President Edwin Verburg, who occupied the neighborhood association’s seat on the development re-view committee. Verburg and other resi-dents watched construction activity at the Halili home closely and communicated regularly with Bronson and county offi -cials.

On several occasions, Verburg’s emails alleged improper construction activity at

the house, which Bronson later forwarded to Huckelberry and other county employ-ees asking for investigations.

Bronson said it’s normal for her to com-municate with residents in her district, particularly if they need help with county issues.

“Th e neighbors were concerned that he (Halili) wasn’t following the rules,” Bron-son said. “We merely asked him to play by the rules and he consistently has not done that.”

In an April 2010 exchange, Verburg and the Tucson Mountain Association sent county planner Sue Morman, who was the planner for the Halili project, a list of potential violations association members claimed that they saw at the Halili house and requested a stop-work order.

Th ose also included perceived improp-er dumping of excavation spoil and that a wash on the property had been fi lled with the material.

County staff ers investigated, but found no violations.

Th e emails also reveal an incident from April 2010, in which Halili said neighbors verbally assaulted workers at the house and hurled rocks at them.

In an April 7, 2010, email to Morman, Halili said the Pima County Sheriff ’s De-partment had been contacted about the incident and that he told workers to call police if they suspected neighbors were stalking them or trespassing on the prop-erty.

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In another exchange in February 2011, Verburg again contacted Pima County De-velopment Services with concerns that con-struction workers had improperly dumped excavation spoil on the property.

After county offi cials informed Verburg that there were no violations, his concerns were forwarded to Bronson.

“Why is staff allowing this? Is this normal procedure?” Bronson wrote in a Feb. 15, 2011, email to Huckelberry.

In response, DeBonis explained that Tucson Mountain Association’s allegation of improper dumping were incorrect.

“It is not customary to require materials that will be used at later stages of work to be removed, only to be brought back again,” DeBonis wrote. “At this point, the project is not deemed to be in violation of the condi-tion (for construction).”

Squabbling with TMA members contin-ued throughout the stop-and-start construc-tion process, when in late 2011 Halili, saying he was fed up with residents trespassing on his property, fi led for an injunction against Verburg in Pima County Justice Court.

Th e case was ultimately dismissed, with the judge fi nding no factual or legal basis to issue the injunction.

Verburg wrote of the judge’s decision in an email to Bronson, saying: “Th e case pre-sented by … Halili had no substance – they just wanted us to stop sending complaints to the County.”

In a brief response, Bronson wrote: “Score one for the good guys!”

Around the same time, Verburg wrote to

Huckelberry and other county offi cials that he was at the property and saw furniture on the patio and that other neighbors said they had seen a party going on at the house, which had still not been granted a certifi -cate of occupancy.

“We are concerned that Mr. Halili is es-tablishing residency before issuance of the fi nal occupancy permit,” Verburg wrote.

County offi cials again investigated but no citations were issued.

Halili said the constant battles with neighbors and the county and the delays those caused demonstrate a pattern of re-peated attempts to stop construction of his house.

“I think they thought I was just some foreigner and they could do to me what they’ve probably done to 100 other people,” said Halili, who emigrated from Israel 25 years ago. “Th is is not what a public servant should do – not to me and not to anybody else.” DeBonis, however, said frequent vio-lations at the home site required excessive time and attention of county offi cials.

“Th is was anything but typical or stan-dard,” he said.

Th e county issued the certifi cate of oc-cupancy earlier this year and Halili and his family have since moved into the house.

Halili said he has not gotten a response from the Attorney General’s offi ce concern-ing his complaint.

Contact reporter Patrick McNamara

at [email protected] or (520) 295-4259.

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berry casts the roadway aspects of the plan as a strategy to retain existing employers such as Raytheon and enable them to ex-pand.

“We can protect and help our existing employers and create an overall environ-ment that is attractive to companies desir-ing to relocate,” Huckelberry wrote.

In February, the county spent $5.9 mil-lion to purchase 382 acres south of the air-port to be used as a safety buff er between Raytheon and future development. In the new economic development proposal, Huckelberry is proposing to add more land south of the airport that would be available for commercial development by aerospace and defense industry companies.

“Creation of an aerospace oriented busi-ness park associated with Tucson Interna-tional Airport (TIA) must be a high priority in any economic development plan for the future,” Huckelberry wrote.

He suggests the county purchase as much as 455 acres from the Tucson Air-

port Authority (TAA) for about $8 million, which was the amount the authority spent to buy the properties in 1995 and 2002. Al-ternatively, Huckelberry said the property could be obtained through a non-specifi ed trade.

“However, it is likely most of this prop-erty would be acquired in an exchange with TAA for the second runway (which the air-port intends to build),” Huckelberry wrote.

Th e Tucson Airport Authority takes exception to that point and at this week’s board of directors meeting chairman Tom Zlaket said there is no way the airport would give away the acreage.

“First of all, we have a fi duciary re-sponsibility and under no circumstances we will ever give away that 500 acres of land,” Zlaket said at Tuesday’s TAA board meeting. “But more importantly we have responsibility to provide an airport that is functional and safe for many years into the future.”

Beyond that Bonnie Allin, president

and CEO of the Tucson Airport Authority, said the airport has met with stakeholders, including Raytheon, Bombardier and the Arizona Air National Guard and already has plans to add a second main runway within the next 10 years. Th ose plans don’t require the airport to acquire any addition-al property.

Zlaket and other directors at this week’s TAA board meeting indicated that the air-port authority is willing to work on solu-tions that could include leasing the prop-erty to Raytheon or selling it at fair market value.

In the planning for a potential 2,800-acre aerospace and defense business park near Raytheon’s plant, the county proposal identifi es potential uses for many of the properties around the airport. Preliminary drawings are posing safety concerns by the airport authority over plans to add taxiway development lots underneath the landing and take-off zones to the southeast of the airport’s main runways.

Under the bond program, Huckelberry proposes a $4 million contribution to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum to help create a new exhibit.

Another $4 million is recommended for the Pima Air and Space Museum to create a Cold War display.

Th e plan asks for an investment of $10 million toward a visitor center at Tumamoc Hill. Under the proposal, the the Children’s Museum Tucson would receive $6 million to build a new facility. Th e Tucson Muse-um of Art would receive $5 million to reno-vate the north wing of the Old Pima County Courthouse building. Th e project would create a Western art exhibit.

Th e plan also calls for the county to in-vest in improvements to its technology in-frastructure to help accelerate and stream-line building permitting and approvals.

Contact reporter Patrick McNamara

at [email protected] or (520) 295-

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MEDIAAfter 5 years, Julie Brinksout as GM of Journal Group By David Hatfi eldInside Tucson Business

After fi ve years and one month, Julie Brinks is out as vice present and general manager run-ning Journal Broadcast Group’s Tucson opera-tions — KGUN 9, KWBA 58/cable 8, Mix-FM KMXZ 94.9-FM, the Truth KQTH 104.1-FM, the Groove KTGV 106.3-FM and ESPN KFFN 1490-AM/104.9-FM.

She had been the longest tenured general manager at a commercial TV station in Tucson.

For now, the stations will be over-seen by Jim Prather, Journal’s execu-tive vice president of television and radio operations, who is headquar-tered in Las Vegas where he runs the company’s ABC-affi liate TV station.

Th e company says it is looking for a new vice president and general manager to run the Tucson operations but otherwise of-fered no explanation for Brinks’ departure.

Brinks apparently was working out the terms of her severance and couldn’t be reached for comment.

As general managers go, Brinks wasn’t par-ticularly high profi le but recently took that up a notch as the luncheon chair of the Ameri-can Heart Association’s Go Red For Women movement. Th e luncheon was held Nov. 1, the day before she was shown the door at Journal Broadcast Group.

Staff ers say that when management an-nounced the change to the staff , the reaction was matter-of-fact and people went on about their jobs.

Th ere had been off -and-on rumors for a couple of years about Brinks but at the same time, the company had put her temporarily in charge of its Palm Springs TV station when it lacked a general manager.

As for the timing, competitors note that this is when stations typically do their budgets for the upcoming year and that likely had some-

thing to do with it. Th is has been a relatively good revenue year

for Tucson TV stations, though radio stations are still having some issues.

With intense competiton from Clear Chan-nel, Cumulus and Lotus, Journal’s radio group was believed to be lagging in getting its share of advertising business, say the competitors.

When she arrived in Tucson Oct. 1, 2007, Brinks was originally the vice president and general manag-er of only KGUN. Four months later she oversaw the combining of the TV station with Journal’s four radio stations. Th en six months later, the company acquired the second TV station, KWBA.

All are now housed in a single fa-cility, at 7280 E. Rosewood St. near East Speedway and Kolb Road.

Before coming to Tucson, Brinks worked for two years at a station in her home town of Traverse City, Mich. She also worked in man-agement positions for companies in several markets including Lansing, Mich.; Peoria, Ill.; Davenport, Iowa; Syracuse, N.Y., and Las Ve-gas.

Wildcats TV Th e kickoff for the Nov. 17 University of Ari-

zona Wildcats football game at Utah will be an-nounced Sunday (Nov. 11). Th e TV networks make their decisions of games based on how well the teams play this weekend.

After their horrible showing against UCLA last weekend, the Wildcats will have to put on a heck of a performance against lackluster Colo-rado to snag a high-profi le network and time slot Nov. 17.

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TOURISMTOURISM IN TUCSON

Working on three fronts to market Tucson to the world Th e Metropolitan Tucson Convention

and Visitors Bureau (MTCVB) is the sole organization responsible for marketing Tucson and Southern Arizona as a premier travel and meetings destination to national and international audiences. Our eff orts to market the region take many forms: some out front, some behind-the-scenes — all looking forward.

Out front• US Airways Magazine. If you fl y US

Airways over the holidays you’ll enjoy a 45-page editorial spread on the Tucson region in US Airways Magazine — the result of a successful partnership among MTCVB, our partners in tourism and economic development and the US Airways Magazine team. Th e magazine will be on board US Airways’ fl ights in Decem-ber, reaching more than 3 million of the most affl uent and sophisticated travelers nationally and internationally.

• Leisure travelers in the United Kingdom. To encourage more visitors from the United Kingdom, MTCVB recently participated in a sales mission reaching more than 300 tour operators and travel agents with information and training on the “Southwest product” including Tucson-area ranches, resorts, outdoor recreation and unique visitor amenities. MTCVB partnered with the Scottsdale Convention and Visitors Bureau, Grand

Canyon, Detours of Arizona and the Boulders Resort to promote the “buy Arizona” message and ultimately reach high-end leisure travelers.

• Meeting planners in Washington, D.C. MTCVB partnered

with four area resorts on a sales mission to the Washington, D.C., area — home to many large associations and meeting professionals responsible for booking business into numerous cities. Th e group presented Tucson’s meeting amenities and attributes to more than 150 planners through sales calls and client receptions. Th e eff ort generated leads, bookings and room nights from pre-qualifi ed meeting planners and serves to introduce our product to new meeting planners who are considering the Southwest.

• Travel-lovers in Canada. Th anks to advance work by MTCVB’s public relations department, Canadian travelers’ enthusiasm for all things Southwest are getting a boost from a unique story that includes Tucson in the November issue of Canadian Geograph-ic Travel Magazine. Canadian Geographic is Canada’s sixth most-read magazine, with a subscription and newsstand circulation of

approximately 200,000 and an estimated 3.3 million readers per issue.

Behind the scenes• Business and tourism development

in Mexico. MTCVB is working with the Arizona District Export Council and other key partners to take a delegation of U.S. companies to exhibit at the Nogales Supplier Expo, Nov. 15, hosted by the Maquiladora Association in Nogales, Sonora. MTCVB saw an opportunity to strengthen our community’s business relationships and is taking the initiative to bring together suppliers and buyers from diff erent maquiladoras throughout Mexico.

• Preparation for Gem Show 2013. Area businesses will again participate in a “Welcome Program” coordinated by the MTCVB during the Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase, Feb. 2-17, 2013. MTCVB works with City of Tucson transportation, police and fi re departments to contribute to smooth operations for the 50,000-plus participants of this cornerstone event.

• Educating frontline hospitality employees. Each year, MTCVB partners with the Southern Arizona Attractions Alliance for a day of site visits to attractions and visitor venues. Th e seventh annual Ambassadors Familiarization Tour was Monday (Nov. 5) and drew more than 150 tourism and hospitality industry employ-ees, docents and volunteers (including

colleagues from Phoenix and Sedona). Participants chose one of seven half-day tours and honed their customer service skills during a luncheon presentation, followed by an attractions tradeshow.

Looking ahead• Branding the region for tourism.

During the next several months, MTCVB will engage in a destination branding initiative that will defi ne Tucson’s unique tourism attributes and develop new messaging to promote this region to potential visitors. In early 2013, Tucson’s business community and residents will be asked to weigh in on the process. We hope you will participate.

• Visitor analysis. MTCVB is in the midst of a visitor analysis, which is aggre-gating customer data from nearly 20 area hotels and resorts to determine top visitor feeder markets, when customers book, how long they stay and how much they spend. MTCVB will use this data to determine when and where to place future Tucson travel advertising.

Contact Vicki Doyle, vice president of

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Not everyone can jet off to Sundance, Cannes or Toronto for a fi lm festival, so the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speed-way, is going to do its part to bring a fi lm festival experience to Tucson.

Th is year is the third iteration of of the Loft’s event and includes a variety of documentaries, quirky and original narrative features as well as award winners.

Th e 40-plus fi lms culled from around the world in-clude “Post Tenebras Lux,” “A Royal Aff air,” “Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encoun-ters,” “Jobraith A.D.,” “Fame High,” “Holy Motors,” “Sister,” and “Teddy Bear.”

Th e festival, which began Th urs-day, runs through next Th ursday (Nov. 15). At 5 p.m. today the Loft will debut its new third screen with a ribbon-cutting and champagne.

See the schedule and buy tick-ets at the festival’s website, http://loftfi lmfest.com/fi lms.

Art studio tourMore than 200 artists are opening

the studios to the public for the annual Fall Open Studio Tour, which runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Th e event is free. A map and details are online at www.tucsonpimaartscoun-cil.org/programs/open-studio/ .

OperaTh e Arizona Opera presents a version

of the most famous of love stores, Shake-speare’s “Roméo et Juliette” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the Music

Hall at the Tucson Convention Center, 260 S. Church Ave.

If you haven’t seen an opera, this is a good one to start with because everyone knowns the story. It will be sung in French with English subtitles. Buy single performance tickets online at www.azopera.com.

More fi lmTwo major releases this

weekend, “Th e Sessions” starring Helen Hunt, John Hawkes and William H. Macy about a polio victim who has spent more than 30 years mostly in an iron lung and wants to experience intimacy, and “Skyfall,” the latest James Bond feature starring Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem.

Contact Herb Stratford at herb@

ArtsandCultureGuy.com. Stratford teaches

Arts Management at the University of Arizona.

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Loft Cinema brings fi lm festival experience to Tucson

MEALS & ENTERTAINMENT

Kingfi sher Bar and Grill is hosting its third annual Oyster Festival from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday (Nov. 10) featuring a dozen varieties of oysters on the half shell from regions including the Pacifi c, Pacifi c Northwest, Gulf, the mid- and north Atlantic.

Varieties of oysters have been expanded this year to include some from the East Coast that are unique.

In addition to oysters on the half shell, other specials include oyster stew, baked oysters and clam chowder. Also, Kingfi sher will have its daily lunch menu items available.

• Kingfi sher Bar and Grill, 2564 E. Grant Road — www.kingfi shertuc-son.com — (520) 323-7739

Herbs, brews, barbecueDragoon Brewing Company is partner-

ing with Loews Ventana Canyon for a Beer Garden dinner at 6:30 p.m. Friday (Nov. 16) that will feature the brewery’s craft beers with barbecue from Loews Executive Chef Ken Harvey. Dinner includes four courses of barbeque prepared using fresh herbs grown on the grounds of the resort and paired with Dragoon’s signature beers.

“Guests rarely get to interact with the chef who prepares their food or the vintner or brewmaster who makes their drink, and vice versa, so this is a really fun way to break down that barrier, educate our guests

a bit, have some laughs and share some great food,” said Harvey. “After all, there’s no better way to connect with people than over great barbeque and great beer.” Tickets are $50 per person (plus tax and gratuity)

and reservations are required.• Loews Ventana Canyon,

7000 N. Resort Drive — www.loewshotels.com/en/Ventana-Canyon-Resort — (520) 299-2020

$4,000 Reuben Congratulations to Beyond

Bread for taking second place in last weekend’s World Food Championships in Las Vegas. In the inaugural event, Beyond Bread’s Everything Reuben was

the runner-up in the sandwich category of the competition. Aside from the accolades, Beyond Bread received $4,000 for the accomplishment.

• Beyond Bread — www.beyondbread.com — 3026 N. Campbell Ave. (520) 322-9965; 6260 E. Speedway in Monterey Village (520) 747-7477; and 421 W. Ina Road (520) 461-1111.

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Copper State Communications grows as one-stop shopBy Alan M. PetrilloInside Tucson Business

Despite the anemic economy, Copper State Communications continues to grow. Th at probably has to do with the fact that it helps other businesses and organizations be-come more effi cient, productive and improve their bottom lines by intergrating their com-mu n i c at i o n s technologies.

C o p p e r State Commu-nications has been in busi-ness in Tucson since 1982, pro-viding custom-ers with what corporate sales director Fermin Perez calls “a one stop shop for all of their telecommunications and in-formation technology (IT) requirements.”

In addition to its Tucson corporate offi ces, the company opened a Phoenix offi ce in 1987 and a Flagstaff facility in 2008. Company-wide, it has 83 employees, with 34 in Tucson. President Steve Sutton and vice president Roger Bingham are the company’s founders.

Perez said Copper State Communica-tions sells and services telephone equip-ment from Avaya, ShoreTel, Mitel and Toshiba, and has business partnerships with CenturyLink, TW Telecom, Integra, Paetec and more than 60 other telecommu-nications providers around the country.

Th at gives Copper State Communications the ability “to assist businesses with selecting the most appropriate, cost eff ective services for their phone and Internet needs.”

Perez pointed out that as technology changes, the communications business also is affected.

“In the old days, a business might buy a phone system from us, computers from anoth-er provider, a server from a third party and In-ternet services from someone else,” Perez said.

“But technology is converging. Phones are now computers and computers are phones. Companies are looking for someone like Copper State Communications to help them with the complexity of converting to a simple, integrated platform,” he added.

Copper State Communications has certi-fi ed network engineers who install network-ing systems and equipment for customers, and also provide training where needed.

Perez noted that the company also is part of the Apple Certifi ed Network.

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Video surveil-lance services are another option off ered by Copper State Communi-cations.

For businesses that are required to track assets and monitor their fa-cilities, Copper State Communica-tions off ers options including analog and DVR-based systems, na-tive IP (Internet protocol) camera solutions, off site monitoring and response services.

Copper State Communications custom-ers run the gamut of business and group types, including construction, manufactur-ing, engineering and mining, as well as schools, hospitals and medical facilities.

Perez said the company recently com-pleted a large data infrastructure upgrade at Copper Creek Elementary School in the Amphitheater Public Schools District that now allows for high-speed Internet and vid-eo connectivity in each classroom.

Copper State Communications also in-stalled all the fi ber optic cables for the new scoreboard at the University of Arizona’s football stadium.

Liz Hershberger, facilities coordinator for M3 Engineering and Technology, said her fi rm uses Copper State Communica-tions for all of its networking and communi-cation needs.

“Th ree years ago, we moved 467 people to a new building on Sunset Road,” Hershberger said. “Copper State’s people were here work-ing day and night over the weekend so there were no lost work hours or any down time for

us. We’ve also used them to install commu-nication and networking systems when we added a building to our Chandler facility.”

As for the future, Perez sees Copper State Communications becoming more of an in-tegrated solution provider and focusing more on data, cloud-based services and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).

“Technology changes so fast, it’s diffi cult to predict where we will be,” Perez observed. “We think we’ll be on the bleeding edge of technology, helping businesses communi-cate with their databases and pushing things into cloud technology.”

Cloud technology has been around for the past 15 to 20 years to sell networking, he said.

“In the 1990s, we described it as a cloud of wires, but now instead of connecting point A to point B, we’ve expanded to a cloud of servers, switches and software ser-vices,” Perez said.

“Many people use cloud based services and don’t even know it, like Google email, which is a cloud-based service that you can get to anywhere with an internet connec-tion and need only simple identifi cation. We’re going to see more cloud-based ser-vices in the future,” he said.

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Some of Copper State’s Tucson employees. Front row, from left, Colleen Osland, Becki Ahrendt, Carolyn Henderson, Joanna Stidham, Phyllis Walker, Laura Wheeler, Karen Roberts and Gina Eckles. Back row Marcia Krumwiede, Rene Morales, Janine Pfeifer-Brown, David Kriegsman, Louis Anderson, Deborah Bayze, Fermin Perez and Ian Miller.

Copper State technician John Ahrendt routes and terminates a Cat6 cable to a data rack for a customer.


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Content versus channel — getting response, not followers

It is impossible to read or hear about business marketing and communication trends without being buried by a plethora of statistics on the power of the social medium.

All of them are true and all are over-whelming.

According to some reports, those under the age of 30 now represent 50 percent of the people in the world. One in eight new couples has reportedly met through social communication, as opposed to old-fash-ioned social interaction.

Even Baby Boomers, for example, are growing social media advocates.

Th is is in order that we might better communicate interpersonally in any fashion possible with grandchildren!

Th is young demographic group, the Millennials, has been raised on social media communication, just as I was raised watching television, my father was raised listening to the radio and my grandfather reading the newspaper.

It has proven to be much more than just a teenage fad and its WOM (word of mouth) direct appeal and scope far surpasses any communication channel we have yet seen.

As impressive as this exploding social media channel is, however, “content is still king”! As a matter of fact, content may be more important than ever through this blossoming channel.

A business certainly would and should want Twitter followers, YouTube viewers, webinar attendees and Blog readers. But as these followers have short attention and retention spans, an integrated understand-ing of “moving the needle” with a strategic fl ow of message content remains essential to business return on investment.

Your company doesn’t just “need” to be involved in social media any more than it “needed” to publish a newsletter to secure and promote business in the 1980s. Th at was responsiveness to the fad of desktop publishing, which many are inclined to associate now with social media. Social media, however, has proven to be much more.

Th e social media channel is something to be respected, attended to, utilized and managed for business, but not at the expense of conventional media.

Channels must be professionally

calculated in order to sell products in both the business-to-consumer (B-to C) or business-to business (B-to-B) environment, not just to create followers.

A sole depen-dency on social media communi-

cation may give you a greater sense of message control, but it does have one substantial drawback. Conventional media message vetting has and still does greatly benefi t business by adding third-party value that is lacking in direct social media.

Th e weight of credibility off ered through gatekeepers in the news media, such as TV, radio, trade magazine, and newspaper reporters and publishers, cannot be ignored. If you have any doubts, ask yourself how and why these conventional media members stay in business; their numbers may be dwindling as they adjust and consolidate their own social presence, but they have not died for a reason...people still follow them, too!

Professional understanding and counsel on fresh messaging content, information timing and the strategic incorporation of communication with business goals are imperative to the bottom line of getting results.

Compelling content remains the best way to accommodate for any perceived credibility imbalance.

Th at “content is still king” is a key matter your business needs to remember. And that is why professional communication counsel remains a trusted business partner in helping you achieve success through the navigation of all channels, including social media.

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Make your money count more,shop local this holiday season

Finally, November has arrived and with it the anticipation of increased sales for local merchants. I can hear the collective, “Hurrahs!”

Perhaps we welcome November because it fi nally brings to an end this year’s brutal election season and the joy of fi nally having it in the rear-view mirror.

Th e level of uncertainly has decreased. We may or may not be happy with the outcomes of the election, but at least moving forward we know what we have, what to expect and what we have to work with. Th is renewed sense of certainty will boost the level of activity in our economy, new investments in businesses and job creation. Th at’s good news for us all.

Too much money has been sitting on the sidelines for too long, and we need to get that money back where it belongs — in the playing fi eld we call our economy.

If gasoline fuels the engines that move our vehicles forward, then cash is the fuel that powers our economic engine that moves our economy forward.

Th e more cash that fl ows through our economic engine, the faster our economy moves forward.

Where we spend our money is critically important. We need to spend more locally.

I have friends who live and own businesses in on the Arizona side of Nogales and they talk about how local businesses struggle perpetually. Nogales is no charity case — there is a lot of wealth in that community and a constant fl ow of new money from outside sources generated by international trade and commerce.

Unfortunately, that new money does not exchange hands enough times locally as Nogales residents cross into Mexico to dine and get their dry cleaning done, and then travel to Tucson for shopping and enter-tainment.

Nogales is missing out on the multiplier eff ect.

Th e multiplier eff ect is caused when money recirculates in a local economy, and its economic impact multiplies each time that money is exchanged. It’s a ripple eff ect, and studies have shown that for every $100

spent in a local economy, about $45 is reinvested locally, further increasing economic activity and new business opportunities. Th e end results are big payoff s to local businesses, our local econo-

my and our community as a whole. Th ere are a number of cities and towns

across Arizona that have developed “shop local campaigns” to increase awareness and remind residents to shop local.

Th ere is also Local First Arizona, a non-profi t organization working to strengthen our state’s economy by support-ing and celebrating the contributions of local businesses across the state.

One of their latest economic develop-ment projects that I just love is their Small Wonders Map.

It’s a collection of 60 locally owned businesses and events found in and between the University of Arizona Main Gate area and downtown Tucson. It’s a great piece, and I invite you to pick up a free copy of the Small Wonders Map at the offi ces of the Arizona Small Business Association in Crossroads Festival (see the address at the end of this column). .

I encourage you to join me this holiday season and put the multiplier eff ect to work here in Tucson and Southern Arizona by shopping locally.

We have many locally owned businesses to choose from who are vested in our community and collectively leading the charge in our state’s recovery.

Th ey deserve our support and are a pleasure to do business with.

Jerry Bustamante is senior vice president of public policy and oversees the Southern Arizona offi ce of the Arizona Small Business Association, 4811 E. Grant Road, Suite 262, in Crossroads Festival, phone (520) 327-0222.

JERRY BUSTAMANTE


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development team to create rich, interactive online applications. Love’s work has been profi led by publications in the advertising industry including Graphis and HOW. She has also received numerous international, national and regional design and advertising awards.

NEW HIRES

Northwest Allied Physicians at Oro Valley Hospital has hired gastroenterologist Dr. Paul Butler. With more than 27 years experience, Butler provides care to patients with diseases and disorders of the GI tract and digestive system. Butler holds a medical degree from the Ohio State University and completed his residency and fellowship at Ohio State University Hospitals in Columbus, Ohio.

Loose, Brown & Associates, P.C. has hired

attorney Frank A. Scerbo. Scerbo attended St. Peter’s University, where he received a marketing management degree. Scerbo earned a law degree from the University of Detroit School of Law School. Scerbo is a member of the state bars of Michigan and Arizona. He practices in the areas of business and corporate law, contracts, fi nancial transactions, real estate and employment law.

Simpleview has named Lisa Love as its creative director. In her role, Love will establish website design goals for clients, and work closely with a

Prior to joining Simpleview, Love served as the CEO and creative director for L3 Creative – a strategic branding, advertising and graphic design agency she founded in 1991. Love earned a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from the Ohio University

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ELECTIONS

Arthur B. Sanders, MD, MHA, professor with the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Sanders also is a member of the Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center and the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fi elds of health and medicine and recognizes

individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Sanders earned his medical degree from Cornell University and completed his residency in medicine at the UA College of Medicine. He joined the UA faculty in 1977 and worked in the emergency department of University Hospital, now called The University of Arizona Medical Center – University Campus.

PAUL BUTLER


$68,079 to an amount equal to the combined earnings of 50 Arizona workers — estimated for 2013 at $2.4 million.

It would have applied to property pur-chased during or after 2013.

Supporters said the change would cre-ate an incentive for businesses to invest in equipment and add jobs.

Th ere was no formal opposition to the measure, something that Farrell Quinlan, Arizona director of the National Federa-tion of Independent Business, said worked against the ballot measure.

People thought it “was a no-brainer”, Quinlan said.

He said only about $66,000 was raised to support the proposition and it would have taken about ten times that amount to reach voters.

It was hard to win without a well-funded “yes” campaign, Quinlan said. Confusion, he said, was “our biggest enemy.”

119 - State land exchanges to keep military approvedBy Brittany SmithCronkite News Service

Proposition 199 to allow swapping state trust land for federal land to preserve mili-tary bases was approved by 62 percent of voters.

Th e state Constitution requires that mil-lions of acres of trust land managed by the state be leased or sold to benefi t education and other causes. Th at prevents the federal government from trading land elsewhere for state land that guards against encroach-ment around bases. Th e measure was sup-ported by a broad coalition of education leaders, state offi cials, conservation groups, military leaders and ranchers.

204 - Permanent 1% percent sales tax rejectedBy Danielle VerbriggheCronkite News Services

By a margin of 65 percent to 35 percent, voters decided to let a temporary 1 percent

sales tax expire as planned on May 31, roll-ing the state sales tax back to 5.6 percent.

Proposition 204 would have raised an estimated $1 billion in the fi rst year, most of which would have gone toward various education funds. About $100 million was earmarked for transportation projects each year.

Opponents, including State Treasurer Doug Ducey, criticized the measure as bad policy and said it would restrict the Legisla-ture’s ability to budget eff ectively.

“I traveled around the state and it was obvious to me that Arizonans think this is a bad idea,” Ducey said.

Supporters of the initiative, including Ann-Eve Pedersen, chairwoman of the Yes On 204 campaign, said Arizona needs a per-manent revenue source for education the Legislature can’t touch.

Pedersen said that while voters support education, many voted against Proposition 204 because they were misled by misinfor-mation spread by the opposing campaign.

Pedersen said she would continue her ef-forts by putting pressure on the Legislature

and possibly trying to get another measure on the ballot in the future.

“Some people assume we feel defeated, but the opposite is true,” she said. “We feel empowered and more motivated than ever to fi ght for our children.”

Tucson city proposition

Road repairs in jeopardy Inside Tucson Business

Compared to other recent requests for money, City of Tucson offi cials have to take some satisfaction that Proposition 409 didn’t get shot down by a huge margin. It wasn’t winning but the margin was just 0.7 percent, less than 800 votes with thousands of provi-sional ballots remaining to be counted.

If the fi nal outcome stands, city govern-ment faces a major fi nancial challenge of road maintenance and repair without a long-term dedicated funding source. Th e $100 million bond proposition would have funded a fi ve-year program to resurface over 200 miles of crumbling and pot-holed streets in the city.

ELECTION RESULTS CONTINUED FROM 5

GET ON THE LISTNext up: Hotels, resorts and guest ranches; Travel agencies

Inside Tucson Business is in the final stages of gathering data for the 2013 edi-tion of the Book of Lists. Categories to be published in upcoming weekly issues of Inside Tucson Business are:

• Nov. 16: Tourist attractions in Southern Arizona

• Nov. 23: Hotels, resorts and guest ranches; Travel agencies

• Nov. 30: Computer repair and mainte-nance firms, Computer network develop-ment companies

• Dec. 7: Art galleries, Sign companies • Dec. 14: Private golf course, Public

golf coursesIf your business is in one of these cat-

egories, please update your profile now. If the List for your business has already been published in a weekly edition of Inside Tucson Business but there have been changes since then, there is still time to make those changes before the Book of Lists is published.

To make any changes to a List, go to www.InsideTucsonBusiness.com and click the Book of Lists tab at the top of the page. New and unlisted businesses can create a profile by following the directions.

The Book of Lists is a year-round refer-ence for thousands of businesses and indi-viduals. The 2013 edition will be published in January. To advertise your business, call (520) 294-1200.

HOSPITALITY & LEISURECasino del Sol resortgets AAA four diamonds

The Pascua Yaqui Tribe’s Casino Del Sol Resort Spa and Conference has joined AAA’s list of four-diamond resorts in the Tucson region.

When the resort opened a year ago, on Nov. 11, 2011, — 11/11/11 — officials said it was a goal of theirs to be a top-tier resort and it has succeeded with AAA in just the first year.

Casino Del Sol joins other resorts that have been on the list for several years.

Loews Ventana Canyon has been a four-diamond resort for 28 years, the Lodge at Ventana Canyon for 17 years, Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa for 11 years, Arizona Inn for nine years, and both the Omni Tucson National and Wesward Look Wyndham Grand Resort and Spa have been on the list for four years.

Tucson restaraunts receiving four diamonds for 2013 are Anthony’s In the Catalinas, Gold at Westward Look Wyndham Grand, Main Dining Room at the Arizona Inn, Primo at JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort and the Grill at Hacienda Del Sol.

LEGALTucsonans plead guilty in embezzlement case

Tucsonans Mark Ophelia Islas and Mayra Jeannette Angulo have pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Tucson in connection with charges of mail fraud and money laundering.

BRIEFSAngulo pleaded guilty to mail fraud and

engaging in an illegal monetary transac-tion. She is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 7, 2013.

Islas pleaded guilty to the same charges earlier this year. He is scheduled to be sen-tenced Nov. 26.

The two were implicated in a scheme to defraud Woodbury Financial Services, a subsidiary of Hartford Financial Services. Islas and Angulo had worked for Woodbury as agents.

Beginning in 2002, Angulo and Islas embezzled insurance premium payments from clients, the government charged. They later transferred the embezzled money to personal bank accounts, using the monies for their personal benefit.

Lewis and Roca has 10 attorneys honored

Based on high standards of ethics and professional ability, 10 attorneys with the law firm of Lewis and Roca have been named as 2012 Arizona’s Top Rated Lawyers. The ratings are from Martindale-Hubbell, a national information services company that provides reviews of lawyers and law firms to consumers and profes-sionals.

In the specialty of real estate, the hon-orees were Roy Kyle, Linda McNulty, S. L. Schorr, Lewis Schorr and Andrew Schorr. Awardees in other disciplines were: Rob Charles (bankruptcy); John Hinderaker (real estate litigation); John Iurino (civil litigation); Michael McNulty (natural resources); and Doug Metcalf (tax).

Lewis and Roca, 1 S. Church Ave., was founded over 60 years ago and has offic-

es in Tucson, Phoenix, Reno, Las Vegas, Albuquerque and Mountain View, Calif.

KUDOSGreen kudos to Levitz, St. Michael’s School

Sam Levitz Furniture and St. Michael’s Parish Day School have been honored for their environmental efforts in Mrs. Green’s World’s third annual Arizona’s Greenest Workplace Challenge.

Sam Levitz Furniture, headquartered at 3430 E. 36th Street, won the People’s Choice Award. The retailer is on track to reduce its landfill waste by 16 percent this year and to recycle almost one million pounds of cardboard. The company also updated its truck fleet to lower carbon emissions and reduce fuel usage by almost 3,000 gallons.

St. Michael’s School, 602 N. Wilmot Road, was named Arizona’s Greenest Workplace. The school’s green initiatives focus on water, electricity and paper.

The school harvests over 50,000 gallons of rain water annually for its landscaping and recently installed 800 solar panels. Teachers use iPads to access education-al materials electronically instead of on paper.

Mrs. Green’s World features founder Gina Murphy-Darling as Mrs. Green. She advocates for environmental sustainabil-ity and green initiatives and also hosts a weekly Internet show.


FINANCEYOUR MONEY

Get your children involvedin saving for their education

Most articles about college planning focus on advice for parents or other adults who expect to pay the cost for a younger person’s education. But what about the benefi ciary who plans to attend college?

Although most young people don’t have the assets for college savings their elders do, being part of the planning process can be educational, off ering fi nancial lessons for the future. Children can earn money, learn about sources of fi nancial aid, research potential colleges and take other steps that may relieve their parents of some of the responsibility of college planning.

Starting earlyAccording to the U.S. Department of

Education, the best time to introduce children to college planning is when they are in the sixth, seventh or eighth grade. You may want to initiate discussions about college and explain the importance of developing good study habits and getting involved in extracur-ricular activities — to instill the idea that your family supports higher education.

You may also want to encourage your children to begin thinking about the career they would like to pursue, which is likely to infl uence their choice of college, as well as to establish a savings account that could be earmarked for education expenses.

Budgeting basicsYou can help your child plan for college

by assisting him or her with developing a realistic budget. Develop a basic budget illustrating the various costs a student is likely to pay in tuition, fees, books, supplies and room and board.

Higher gear in high schoolMany high school students are mature

enough to plan for college at a deeper level. Appropriate planning may include the following:

• Matching personal aptitudes with vocational interests. High school guidance counselors can help students learn about careers that utilize skills in math, science, language arts, social studies and other areas of interest, as well as postsecondary courses of study in these areas.

• Maintaining high academic standards. Colleges prefer applicants that have exceeded basic requirements and taken more challenging courses in language arts, math, science, social studies, foreign languages, and other areas. Many high schools permit qualifi ed students to earn college credits by taking Advanced Placement courses. Excelling in these classes may demonstrate motivation and reduce the number of academic require-ments after a student enters college.

• Learning about college costs. Students may gain a deeper apprecia-tion of their family’s fi nancial sacrifi ces when they realize how expensive college is. Th ey can learn about college costs from the College

Board at www.collegeboard.com, the U.S. Department of Education at www.ed.gov, and high school guidance offi ces.

• Researching scholarships. Th ere are numerous websites with information about sources of fi nancial aid. For example, www.fastweb.com and www.fi naid.org contain search engines with data about thousands of scholarships with varying eligibility criteria.

Points to remember1. Although young people may not have

access to the same level of assets that their parents do, there are many ways they can help their families plan for college — main-tain good study habits, take college preparatory classes, and set aside money from part-time jobs for college expenses.

2. Many experts recommend introduc-ing children to college planning when they are in the sixth, seventh, or eighth grade, depending on the child’s maturity level and interests. Children at this age can be encouraged to maintain good grades, enhance computer skills, and think about potential careers.

3. High school students can explore college planning at a deeper level, includ-ing using the Internet to research college costs and sources of fi nancial aid. Websites such as www.ed.gov, www.collegeboard.com, www.fastweb.com, www.fi naid.org, and www.fafsa.ed.gov provide considerable information in these areas.

4. Since attending and fi nancing college requires planning and attention to detail, high school students can help their parents develop a plan to make sure things get done on time.

5. Parents and students can work together to develop a budget for college expenses. Average costs for various types of two-year and four-year colleges are available at www.collegeboard.com.

Contact W. David Fay, a second vice

president in wealth management and

fi nancial advisor with Morgan Stanley Smith

Barney, at http://fa.smithbarney.com/

thefaymillergroup or (502) 745-7069.

W. DAVID FAY

TUCSON STOCK EXCHANGEStock market quotations of some publicly traded companies doing business in Southern Arizona

Company Name Symbol Nov. 7 Oct. 31 Change52-Week

Low52-Week

HighTucson companiesApplied Energetics Inc AERG.OB 0.03 0.03 0.00 0.03 0.14CDEX Inc CEXIQ.OB 0.18 0.22 -0.04 0.01 1.00Providence Service Corp PRSC 9.92 10.20 -0.28 9.56 15.94UniSource Energy Corp (Tucson Electric Power) UNS 41.35 42.64 -1.29 34.62 43.12

Southern Arizona presenceAlcoa Inc (Huck Fasteners) AA 8.48 8.57 -0.09 7.97 10.92AMR Corp (American Airlines) AAMRQ 0.37 0.38 -0.01 0.20 2.34Augusta Resource Corp (Rosemont Mine) AZC 2.70 2.73 -0.03 1.48 3.97Bank Of America Corp BAC 9.23 9.32 -0.09 4.92 10.10Bank of Montreal (M&I Bank) BMO 58.97 59.12 -0.15 50.95 60.99BBVA Compass BBVA 7.83 8.30 -0.47 5.30 9.75Berkshire Hathaway (Geico, Long Cos) BRK-B* 85.45 86.35 -0.90 72.60 90.93Best Buy Co Inc BBY 15.47 15.21 0.26 14.38 28.53BOK Financial Corp (Bank of Arizona) BOKF 57.99 58.65 -0.66 49.37 60.00Bombardier Inc* (Bombardier Aerospace) BBDB 3.45 3.80 -0.35 3.30 4.93CB Richard Ellis Group CBG 17.53 18.02 -0.49 14.18 21.16Citigroup Inc C 56.05 37.39 18.66 23.30 38.72Comcast Corp CMCSA 36.58 37.53 -0.95 20.90 37.96Community Health Sys (Northwest Med Cntrs) CYH 30.39 27.42 2.97 15.97 32.70Computer Sciences Corp CSC 35.80 30.45 5.35 22.19 37.80Convergys Corp CVG 16.36 16.81 -0.45 11.40 17.42Costco Wholesale Corp COST 97.30 98.43 -1.13 78.81 104.43CenturyLink (Qwest Communications) CTL 37.88 38.38 -0.50 34.14 43.43Cvs/Caremark (CVS pharmacy) CVS 46.69 46.40 0.29 35.57 49.23Delta Air Lines DAL 9.94 9.63 0.31 7.08 12.25Dillard Department Stores DDS 80.81 77.00 3.81 42.54 82.99Dover Corp (Sargent Controls & Aerospace) DOV 60.16 58.22 1.94 50.14 67.20DR Horton Inc DHI 21.42 20.96 0.46 10.75 22.79Freeport-McMoRan (Phelps Dodge) FCX 39.29 38.88 0.41 31.08 48.96Granite Construction Inc GVA 29.52 30.21 -0.69 21.38 30.97Home Depot Inc HD 61.99 61.38 0.61 36.41 63.20Honeywell Intl Inc HON 62.12 61.24 0.88 48.82 63.48IBM IBM 191.16 194.53 -3.37 177.06 211.79Iron Mountain IRM 34.26 34.60 -0.34 27.10 37.70Intuit Inc INTU 60.53 59.43 1.10 48.91 62.33Journal Communications (KGUN 9, KMXZ) JRN 5.57 5.61 -0.04 3.72 5.85JP Morgan Chase & Co JPM 40.48 41.68 -1.20 28.28 46.49Kaman Corp (Electro-Optics Develpmnt Cntr) KAMN 33.75 37.20 -3.45 26.10 37.54KB Home KBH 16.41 15.98 0.43 6.17 17.30Kohls Corp KSS 54.32 53.28 1.04 42.72 56.66Kroger Co (Fry's Food Stores) KR 24.64 25.22 -0.58 20.98 25.44Lee Enterprises (Arizona Daily Star) LEE 1.49 1.48 0.01 0.49 1.81Lennar Corporation LEN 39.05 37.47 1.58 16.31 39.33Lowe's Cos (Lowe's Home Improvement) LOW 32.77 32.38 0.39 20.78 33.63Loews Corp (Ventana Canyon Resort) L 41.20 42.28 -1.08 35.59 43.36Macerich Co (Westcor, La Encantada) MAC 56.69 57.00 -0.31 45.62 62.83Macy's Inc M 40.45 38.07 2.38 29.43 42.17Marriott Intl Inc MAR 36.01 36.48 -0.47 27.53 41.84Meritage Homes Corp MTH 37.42 36.98 0.44 17.75 42.59Northern Trust Corp NTRS 47.01 47.80 -0.79 34.87 49.68Northrop Grumman Corp NOC 66.70 68.69 -1.99 52.69 71.25Penney, J.C. JCP 22.80 24.01 -1.21 19.06 43.18Pulte Homes Inc (Pulte, Del Webb) PHM 17.76 17.34 0.42 5.08 18.30Raytheon Co (Raytheon Missile Systems) RTN 55.47 56.56 -1.09 42.00 58.68Roche Holdings AG (Ventana Medical Systems) RHHBY 48.15 48.02 0.13 36.50 50.82Safeway Inc SWY 16.30 16.31 -0.01 14.73 23.16Sanofi -Aventis SA SNY 43.35 43.85 -0.50 31.61 45.72Sears Holdings (Sears, Kmart, Customer Care) SHLD 64.16 62.67 1.49 28.89 85.90SkyWest Inc SKYW 11.21 10.94 0.27 6.25 14.32Southwest Airlines Co LUV 9.01 8.82 0.19 7.37 10.05Southwest Gas Corp SWX 41.85 43.47 -1.62 37.05 46.08Stantec Inc STN 37.26 34.25 3.01 23.21 38.00Target Corp TGT 62.79 63.75 -0.96 47.25 65.80TeleTech Holdings Inc TTEC 16.26 16.84 -0.58 14.04 18.23Texas Instruments Inc TXN 29.29 28.09 1.20 26.06 34.24Time Warner Inc (AOL) TWX 44.91 43.47 1.44 32.09 46.59Ual Corp (United Airlines) UAL 20.53 19.21 1.32 15.51 25.84Union Pacifi c Corp UNP 122.14 123.03 -0.89 95.15 129.27Apollo Group Inc (University of Phoenix) APOL 19.89 20.08 -0.19 18.46 58.29US Airways Group Inc LCC 12.59 12.18 0.41 3.96 14.51US Bancorp (US Bank) USB 32.39 33.21 -0.82 23.72 35.46Wal-Mart Stores Inc (Wal-Mart, Sam's Club) WMT 73.11 75.02 -1.91 56.26 77.60Walgreen Co WAG 33.44 35.23 -1.79 28.53 37.35Wells Fargo & Co WFC 32.91 33.69 -0.78 23.19 36.60Western Alliance Bancorp (Alliance Bank) WAL 10.17 10.26 -0.09 5.46 10.99Zions Bancorp (National Bank of Arizona) ZION 20.41 21.48 -1.07 14.52 22.81Data Source: Dow Jones Market Watch

*Quotes in U.S. dollars, except Bombardier is Canadian dollars.


INSIDE REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION

By Roger YohemInside Tucson Business

Based on the latest housing statistics, hundreds of struggling homeowners still have a long way to go to try to fi x their dis-tressed mortgages. During October, foreclo-sure notices remained on pace to exceed last year’s total.

With two months of the year remaining, 178 more notices have been fi led in 2012 compared with the same 10-month period a year ago. Th is year’s 8,221 trustee’s sale no-tices are up 2 percent over the 8,043 notices through October 2011 (see table).

During 2012, monthly notices peaked at 984 in May and have dropped somewhat er-ratically since. Th e comparable monthly av-erages now stand at 804 notices in 2011 and 822 in 2012. If that rate continues, about 400 more homeowners will receive foreclosure notices this year compared to last year.

Trustee’s notices are the fi rst step in the foreclosure process. Th e data is from the Pima County Recorder’s Offi ce.

Foreclosure sales increased signifi cantly last month but are still far behind last year’s pace.

Th e 627 distressed sales in October were 208 more than in September. Year-to-date, however, the 4,971 sales are 1,036 behind last year’s pace of 6,007 closings.

From January through October 2011, an average 601 foreclosures were sold monthly. Th e comparable 2012 average is now 497 per month, a 17 percent slow down in sales.

Long Realty brandIn a move to establish a powerful new

brand, holding company giant Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is combining its real estate

operations across the U.S. Th e move includes Long Realty, headquartered at 900 E. River Road, as an affi liate of Berkshire Hathaway.

“Our logo tagline will change and we will incorporate that over time. It will be along the lines of Long Realty Company, a Berk-shire Hathaway affi liate,” said Rosey Kober-lein, president and CEO of Long Compa-nies. “Where appropriate, the logo will change. Th e value of the Berkshire Hatha-way name is huge, we are very proud to be a part of this change.”

Berkshire Hathaway is run by famed business investor Warren Buff et, the com-pany’s chairman and CEO.

HomeServices of America, also a Berk-shire Hathaway company, has acquired a majority interest in the Prudential Real Es-tate and Real Living brands from a Canadi-an fi rm. In 2013, the Prudential and Real Living operations will be rolled into a new franchise brand to be called Berkshire Hath-away HomeServices.

In 1999, Long Realty was acquired by Home-Services of America, the nation’s second-larg-est residential real estate brokerage fi rm.

“Immediately, we grow by leaps and bounds by being part of a national network. To consumers, listings in Tucson will have

Residential foreclosures could exceed 2011 totals

greater exposure across the country. Like-wise, someone from Michigan thinking of moving to the Southwest will have greater exposure to our market and assurance through the strength of the new network,” Koberlein said.

On several occasions, Koberlein has met and dined with the legendary Buff ett, 82, during company events in Omaha, Neb. She described him as “very down to earth. With all his knowledge, he is absolutely fas-cinating.”

Multi-family investmentsIntegra Group Real Estate, 501 W. Grant

Road, has launched a program to provide education and opportunities for investors in multi-family properties. Th eir Multi-Family Home Investors Initiative expands the company’s traditional services and pro-vides a high level of education for potential investors.

Th e initiative off ers workshops, one-on-one consulting and an educational newsletter. Integra Group specializes in the property management and marketing and sale of bank-owned and other distressed properties.

For details, call (520) 308-6916.

Sales and leases• LM Investment Group purchased a

10,584-square-foot building at 1201-1215 E. Broadway for $520,000 from Target Com-mercial Interiors Inc., represented by Nan-cy McClure, CBRE, and Mark McCary, Tar-get, Minneapolis, Minn. Target Commercial Interiors has consolidated its offi ce, show-room and warehouse operations to 1665 E. 22nd St. Th e buyer will convert the Broad-way property into offi ces and TV studios for its Azteca America station, KUDF 14. Th e TV station is currently located at 245 S. Plumer

THE PULSE: TUCSON REAL ESTATE

10/29/2012 10/22/2012

Median Price $155,000 $144,500Active Listings 4,724 4,640New Listings 436 410Pending Sales 315 354Homes Closed 277 194Source: Long Realty Research Center

WEEKLY MORTGAGE RATES

Program Current Last WeekOne

Year Ago12 Month

High12 Month

Low

30 YEAR 3.50% 3.75%APR 3.63% 3.875%APR 4.95% 4.95% 3.50%

15 YEAR 3.00% 3.25%APR 2.88% 3.125% APR 4.22% 4.22% 2.88%

3/1 ARM 2.63% 2.875%APR 2.75% 3.00% APRThe above rates have a 1% origination fee and 0 discount . FNMA/FHLMC maximum conforming loan amount is $417,000 Conventional Jumbo loans are loans above $417,000Information provided by Randy Hotchkiss, National Certifi ed Mortgage Consultant (CMC) Hotchkiss Financial, Inc. P.O. Box 43712 Tucson, Arizona 85733 • 520-324-0000MB #0905432. Rates are subject to change without notice based upon market conditions.

11/6/2012

Ave. Th e buyer was represented by Jim Mar-ian, Chapman Lindsay Commercial Real Estate Services.

• DCTN3 360 Sahuarita Az LLC pur-chased a 33,000 square-foot pad in Madera Marketplace, at the northeast corner of In-terstate 19 and Nogales Highway, Sahuarita, for $345,000. Seller Evergreen-Interstate 19 & Nogales LLC, was represented by Brenna Lacey, Volk Company. Th e buyer, represented by Pat Sauer, Velocity Retail Group, plans to build a Mattress Firm retail store on the site.

• CP-East Valencia LLC purchased 4.52 acres of land at 2310 E. Valencia Road for $345,000 from Sterling Savings Bank, rep-resented by Rick Volk, Volk Company Com-mercial Real Estate.

• TMC Holdings purchased 1,500 square feet at 5200 E. Farness Drive, Suite 100, for $105,000 from Paul and Maureen Lichten-stein, represented by Andrew Sternberg, Oxford Realty Advisors. Th e buyer was rep-resented by Rick Kleiner and Tom Knox, Pi-cor Commercial Real Estate Services.

• Schletter Inc. leased 67,500 square feet at 3761 E. Farnum Place from L.B.S. Far-num Place LLC. Th e transaction was han-dled by Stephen Cohen and Russell Hall, Picor Commercial Real Estate Services.

• Cactus Portable Storage LLC leased 45,908 square feet at 6161 S. Palo Verde Road from Cobalt Industrial REIT II, represented by Rob Glaser and Brandon Rodgers, Picor Commercial Real Estate Services.

• Heating and Cooling Supply leased 28,500 square feet at 2301 S. Friebus from Oak Properties, represented by Rob Glaser with Picor. Robert Delaney with CBRE and Robert Bode with Mark V Commercial rep-resented the tenant.

• Long O. Lin leased a 10,808 square-foot building at 715 E. Wetmore Road, a for-mer Golden Corral restaurant, from Koi En-terprises Inc. Th e tenant was represented by Rick Borane of Volk Company Commer-cial Real Estate.

• Eden Customs LLC leased 8,000 square feet at 1700 W. Grant Road from Al-bert E. & Debbie L. Farner Trust, represent-ed by Rob Glaser with Picor. Th e tenant was represented by William Mordka of Harvey Mordka Realty.

• FreedomSmokeUSA leased 6,768 square feet at 3805 W. River Road, Suites 101 and 151, from Orange Grove Center LLC, represented by Debbie Heslop of Volk Company Commercial Real Estate.

• Conn Appliances leased 6,000 square feet at 750 E. Ohio, Suites 3 and 4 from Ohio Street Building No.2 Ltd. LLLP, represented by Rob Glaser of Picor. Th e tenant was rep-resented by Robert Delaney with CBRE.

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Pima County Recorder’s Offi ce data

Notices of Trustees Sales Pima County Recorder Foreclosure

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012January 346 699 882 863 975 705February 276 598 1,016 982 762 918March 305 661 1,154 1,089 948 904April 300 700 1,093 985 721 910May 396 720 991 890 748 984June 377 742 1,002 862 693 946July 419 721 1,063 1,111 666 797August 503 814 1,130 1,067 917 794September 394 782 1,008 1,090 797 625October 483 921 948 1,019 816 638November 540 675 859 829 754December 475 923 1,038 876 636 Total 4,814 8,956 12,184 11,663 9,433 8,221 Monthly avg. 401 746 1,015 972 786 822


Inside Tucson Business is a publica-tion about business for businesses. But business isn’t monolithic and business leaders’ views don’t all go down the same road either.

Th e point hit home with me at the annual luncheon for Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities (TREO) Nov. 1. Th e economic development organization has taken its share of PR hits this year. Its critics say it spends lots of money but doesn’t give us much in return.

Under its new funding formula relying more on private investment, it’s hard to say what its future will be. One not-so-good sign is that this year’s luncheon keynote speaker was about the least relevant in the seven years TREO has existed. Perhaps that has to do with the fact that last year’s speaker, Arizona State University President Michael Crow, may have been the most relevant — and was a heck of a speaker to boot.

So as I looked around the room at Casino Del Sol, I realized that despite the bad raps, TREO still can get together a few hundred of some of the most infl uential people in the region. Th ey are people who literally hold the purse strings of this region’s economy, representing Raytheon Missile Systems, Providence Service Corp., Roche Group’s Ventana Medical Systems, Sanofi , Accler8, Arizona Canning Co. and others.

Without these companies, Tucson wouldn’t have many dollars coming in from outside the region. Th ey are part of the foundation of our region’s economy. And they are companies that could be located anywhere else.

A lot of other businesses depend on them. Dillard’s or Macy’s might not be here without them. Th ere would be fewer dollars to spread around to our unique mom and pop busi-nesses, too. If you get right down to it, UNS Energy and Tucson Electric Power or Cox Communications would be shadows of what they are without these purse-string companies.

Tucson has had a rough go of it during the recession. And the future doesn’t look particularly bright. On the same day TREO was having its luncheon, the Arizona Department of Adminis-tration released a forecast showing that statewide Arizona is expected to add 112,200 jobs this year and next, but only about 5 percent of those jobs, 5,800, will be in the Tucson region.

Looking at it another way, Tucson’s rate of projected job growth is less than half than anywhere else in the state. Th e statewide forecast for job growth is 2.1 percent this year and 2.5 percent in 2013. Job growth in the Phoenix area will go up 2.6 percent this year and 2.8 percent next year. Th e rest of the state, not including Tucson or Phoenix, will see job growth of 1.6 percent this year and 2.3 percent next year. Tucson’s anemic forecast is for 0.6 percent job growth this year and 1.0 percent next year.

A lot of diff erent types of businesses contribute to Tucson’s economy. Tourism and retail are a couple that are outside of TREO’s domain. Small businesses have their own issues. Meanwhile other signifi cant employers, such as IBM for reasons I’ve never understood, stay outside of TREO.

Now that this year’s elections are over, maybe we can put at least some of the sniping behind us and agree that all kinds of businesses in this region could use some help.

Contact David Hatfi eld at dhatfi [email protected]

or (520) 295-4237.

EDITORIAL

DAVID HATFIELD

BIZ BUZZ

Elections are over, allbusinesses need help

EDITORIAL

Disarray in the Republican party When he switched political parties in 1962, Ronald

Reagan famously said, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. Th e party left me.”

You’d have to wonder what Reagan would think and do after the election we saw this week, especially in Arizona and here in Pima County. Would he even recognize what has happened to the party that claims to idolize him so much?

Obviously, Reagan nor many other Republicans would ever see themselves switching to Democrats. Th e thing to do these days is to become an independent. Th e two major political parties have become less and less representative of growing numbers of people. Of Arizona’s more than 3.1 million registered voters in Tuesday’s election, 36 percent were Republican, 33 percent independent, 31 percent Democrats. (Fewer than 1 percent were registered in other parties.)

Now, consider what happened, politically, to Republicans in this week’s election:

• It starts right at the top of the ticket. Arizona voters delivered the state’s 11 electoral votes to Mitt Romney, but it didn’t matter. Nationally, the race wasn’t close. Barack Obama had his re-election sewed up shortly after 9 p.m., only about two hours after Arizona polls had closed. Republican party leaders’ focus on deliver-ing votes for the top of the ticket produced a mixed bag further down the Arizona ballot.

• Jeff Flake, as expected, will keep both of Arizona’s U.S. Senate seats on the Republican side of the aisle. But Democrats held on to control of the body.

• Th e three Congressional districts that come into Southern Arizona show textbook examples of Republi-cans’ botched campaigns. Jonathan Paton had the best organization to overcome an initial fi nancial shortfall and ultimately ran a good race in District 1. Th e race was so close that it couldn’t be decided until provisional or otherwise questionable ballots were tabulated. In District 2, Republicans nearly ceded Martha McSally’s eff orts until close to the end of the campaign in another race that came down to a razor-thin margin. Who’s to

say how big a win she could have had if the Republicans were paying attention? And in District 3, where a well-run Republican campaign nearly upset Democrat Raúl Grijalva two years ago, the GOP this year found a candidate who didn’t even put a scare into the fi ve-term congressman. Grijalva claimed victory even before the fi rst offi cial vote count was released Tuesday night.

• In the Legislature, Republicans lost their 21-9 supermajority. When the next session starts in January, they’ll have a 17-13 majority and that means they’ll have play nice now with Democrats. Who is to say their fall isn’t a result of voters tiring of the cram-down politics of Republican ideologues? Nowhere was their a bigger target than state Sen. Frank Antenori, R-Tucson, who not only failed to win re-election, the Democrats took a clean sweep of the district, even ousting the politically moderate Ted Vogt from the state House. In the waning days of the campaign, Antenori said more than $200,000 was spent on advertising to try to defeat him. But Anten-ori had trouble raising funds. Saying things like he wouldn’t be a “butt boy” to business interests didn’t help him raise money, either.

• Ally Miller won her race for Pima County Supervi-sor, making her the fi rst avowed Tea Party candidate to win an election in this region. Considering Republicans have represented the district for 36 years, it’s not particularly remarkable that she won. Her biggest challenge now is to serve in such a way that she will win re-election, something that hasn’t always been the case for Tea Party candidates.

We started this editorial with a quotation and we’ll end it with another that’s apropos. Th is one is from Will Rogers who was supposed to have said, “I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat.”

Th at about describes the disarray of the Republican party. If Republicans ever hope to be a party that can make a diff erence, they’ll have to lose the ideologues and pugilists and put some adults in charge again.


OPINIONGUEST OPINION

7 questions to ask when looking for a home care agency When a home care worker goes bad, it’s

big news. Elder abuse, raided bank accounts, vanishing heirlooms — these events make splashy headlines.

But if someone in your family needs help with bathing, cooking, getting in and out of bed or other activities of daily living to continue living safely at home, you may need home care services regardless of the headlines. Your job is to fi nd the best provider.

In Arizona most health facilities — in-cluding hospitals, nursing homes, rehabili-tation centers and home health agencies (which provide skilled nursing and therapy care) — are licensed and monitored by the state Department of Health Services.

Home care agencies are licensed in 23 states but in Arizona it’s buyer beware. Here, agencies need only a business license. Th e state has no say in how well they serve their clients — until a client becomes a victim, and by then it’s a police matter.

Replacing scary headlines with solid information can help assure that a safe, qualifi ed worker is placed in the home. As you shop for a home care agency, here are some questions to ask:

• How do you screen applicants? Expect a current fi ngerprint card from the Department of Public Safety, a background check includ-ing driving and credit histories, verifi ed references, and current CPR training and TB test.

• Is your staff formally trained? Training needs vary. A companion-only placement doesn’t require formal training, but dementia and other conditions may call for

certifi ed nursing assistant or caregiver certifi cation. In Tucson, Pima Community College and the CareGiver Training Institute off er certifi cation classes at diff erent levels.

• What experience do your caregivers have? Caregivers can gain experience by working at formal nursing homes, assisted living facilities, home care agencies or private placements.

• How are your caregivers supervised? Th e agency should provide in-home supervisory visits to make sure medical protocols are being followed, the client-caregiver relationship is appropriate, agreed-upon tasks are being done and the client is satisfi ed.

• What insurance does your company have? Look for worker’s compensation (in case the caregiver is injured on duty), liability insurance (in case the client is injured), and bonding or third-party theft insurance.

• What if a caregiver misses a shift? Th e agency should have a staff member on call at all times in case a caregiver doesn’t show up for work, a problem arises during the shift or the client’s health changes sud-denly.

• Do you require a contract? If so, run. You should be able to cancel a service with 24 hours notice.

Th ese questions cover just the basics. You can also check with your physician or hospital social worker, friends and col-leagues, and the Better Business Bureau. At last count there were 72 home care agencies in Tucson — they can’t all be the best.

Choosing a home care agency is a big decision. For the safety and comfort of your loved one — and for your own peace of mind — ask the questions. Do due dili-gence. Don’t risk an uninformed choice.

Judy Clinco is founder and president of Catalina In-home Services Inc.

JUDY CLINCO

SPEAKING OUT

Domestic abuse is a costly problem for businessesClaudia, a hairdresser at the salon I

frequent, impressed me as a woman who had her life together. She was also a caring mother of two children.

Th erefore I was shocked to learn that Claudia’s former boyfriend went to her home, shot her to death and then turned the gun on himself! Few would have guessed that Claudia’s life would take such a tragic turn.

Sarah Jones, CEO of Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse, says one in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. In Arizona there is a domestic-related death every three days.

Nationally, an estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year. About 85 percent of domestic violence victims are women. Jones says, “domestic abuse does not discriminate. People in all socioeco-nomic levels of our society can be victims.”

Domestic abuse workplace costs exceed $5.8 billion each year; $4.1 billion of this is for direct medical and mental health services, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP).

In addition, the CDCP says “victims lost almost 8 million days of paid work because of the violence perpetrated against them by current or former husbands, boyfriends, and dates. Th is is the equivalent of more

than 32,000 full time jobs and almost 5.6 million days of household productivity as a result of violence!”

What warning signs should employers look for?

• An employee who is often

absent from work. • An employee who sometimes shows

physical signs of abuse such as bruises. • An employee whose behavior changes• A person who frequently calls the

workplace “to check up” on an employee; the victim.

• Sometimes an abuser will force an individual to quit a job which makes the situation even worse because the former employee becomes more dependent, both fi nancially and emotionally, on the abuser.

In a situation where a victim has confi ded in a friend, the confi dant can call Emerge’s 24 hour a day confi dential hotline — 1-888-428-0101 or (520) 795-4266 — as many times as necessary. Th e victim can call the hotline as well for help and advice. Th e hotline receives more than 6,000 calls per year.

Emerge’s Jones says each person’s case is unique. It takes courage for the abused to leave a relationship. Th ey won’t leave until they are ready. Victims are more vulnerable when they try to fl ee the situation, so it is vitally important for them to develop a safety plan.

Jones urges those experiencing any kind of abuse to seek assistance. Emerge has an outreach center where victims can come for help. Th ey can confi dentially describe their situation and receive advice on establishing a safety plan, along with how to deal with repercussions when they leave the abuser.

Employers are encouraged to talk about domestic abuse with employees. Human resource professionals and management teams concerned about productivity in the workplace and worker wellbeing should not hesitate to discuss the topic with employees.

Emerge is always available to make presentations to businesses because they can become part of the solution for this serious workplace problem if the business people are better informed.

Emerge is the result of a merger of several community agencies that served domestic abuse victims. It is “dedicated to stopping the cycle of domestic abuse and providing a safe environment and resourc-

es for victims and survivors of all types of abuse on their journey toward healing and self empowerment.”

Th e organization provides community education and outreach. Th ey teach awareness and send information out to churches and restaurants.

Emerge assists more than 2,500 women and children annually through two emergency shelters. Jones says it costs $67 per day per person for shelter, food, and housing. Th ere are referrals, information, legal assistance and support groups for those in need.

Emerge relies on private contributions and government support for its services. During the recession the agency has lost 25 percent of its funding, which amounts to $1 million.

What can the community do to help? Grocery store gift cards are needed for persons Emerge serves. Jones says we can become informed about domestic abuse and share the information with three other persons. Awareness is important.

Contact Carol West at [email protected]. West served on the Tucson City Council from 1999-2007 and was a council aide from 1987-1995.

CAROL WEST


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OPINIONBUSINESS INK

Vehicle emissions test should be called American ‘Idle’One hour and 6 minutes.Pull up to the entry gate. Take the little

customer ticket. Drive around the corner. Pick a line. Th ree lanes to choose from, each about six cars deep. Wait. Idle.

Welcome to another episode of “American Idle,” presented by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ).

Arizona’s vehicle emissions inspection stations are a place of business where you pay for the pleasure of wasting pricey gasoline while idling in line. Put it in park and spew those nasty pollutants. Plus, you get poor customer service.

One hour and 6 minutes.You know the routine. In pursuit of cleaner

air, ADEQ runs an emissions testing program. It’s mandatory, every year. Right up your tailpipe unless your car is 2008 or newer.

Don’t blow a gasket, I love to inhale clean air. Yet I realize the state also is in desperate pursuit of revenue. Th ere’s a $4 car title fee. Th e $8 registration fee. Plus, the vehicle license tax can be hundreds of dollars.

Last year, drivers “emitted” some $850 million to the state via the program. But it’s not the fees that grind my gears, it’s the poor service and unintended consequences.

Recently, we had a vehicle due for its test. Depending on your perspective, we’re either

mechanically fortunate or fi nancially cursed to have a 1995 Ford in our family.

Basically, after pulling into the testing bay after a long wait, the technician sneered that I was in the wrong lane. His

special lane was only for newer cars.Politely, I asked why he hadn’t walked the

line and told customers in old cars to please move over one lane. His impolite reply was, “that’s why we have signs.”

Back to the entry gate. Took another little ticket. Drove back around the corner. Th ree lanes to choose from, each now seven or eight cars deep.

What signs? Th ose rectangles? High above the tall bay doors?

Being over 50 with the eyes of an umpire, I crept forward to read them. Set into the building’s tile fi nish, the “that’s why we have signs” were about 18 by 24 inches and not especially noticeable.

Th e vague message was: Designated lane for 1996 and newer vehicles. I pulled into the

correct lane.While waiting, the lines grew to over 30

cars. After about 10 minutes, ADEQ opened up a fourth testing bay.

Driving away after one hour and 6 minutes, I started to wonder about the unintended consequences of the emissions program. With a little research, the dirty data spewed.

A car that idles 30 minutes (with the air conditioning on) burns roughly a half gallon of gas, according to the American Automobile Association. Since most of my 66 minutes was spent idling, that cost me about $3.25.

For those 30 other cars in line, if each idled an average 30 minutes, their communal burn was 15 gallons. Together, our fuel effi ciency was an amazing zero miles per gallon.

Typically, the smog stations are open about 60 hours a week. For the sake of discussion, say there are 15 hours a week of peak periods when 30 cars idle in line for 30 minutes. Th at’s 450 gallons of wasted gas.

Multiply that by two really busy local stations and the squander is 900 gallons. Th at’s about $2,900 in fossil fuel gone up in smoke. And speaking of smoke, what about toxic emissions like carbon dioxide, sulfur and benzene?

One gallon of burned gas emits about 20

pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2). So while waiting in line, that old 1995 Ford put 20 pounds of CO2 into the air. Th ose 30 other cars around me exhausted about 300 pounds of CO2 while idling for 30 minutes.

For a typical week, idling during those 15 peak hours produces 9,000 pounds of CO2. And when you include two really busy test stations, the exhaust is double that.

(For anyone wanting to quibble with the numbers, I’ll allow a generous plus or minus 5 percent margin of error. Th e bottom line doesn’t change much.)

Over time, residents should benefi t from other consequences. In 10 years or so, most of those 1995 and older cars will be history. So should the smog stations and emissions “tax” if there are no clunkers left to test.

Contact Roger Yohem at ryohem@azbiz.

com or (520) 295-4254. His Business Ink appears

biweekly and weighs in on local political, social

and business issues.

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