City News

I maintain a list of links to city departments and community groups that you can find on my Ward 2 page. Sometimes I get requests from one group or another to put on that page.

I got one this week from Literacy Connects. Literacy Connects is going to be celebrating their tenth anniversary next year, but many of the groups that merged to form their organization had been doing fantastic work in our community for decades.

Granite Construction, under contract with the City of Tucson Department of Transportation and Mobility (DTM), is scheduled to install five overhead arches at the intersection of Sixth Avenue, 18^th Street and Stone Avenue, in association with the Five Points Art Enhancement Project.

CITY OF TUCSON TO BREAK GROUND ON THE BUFFALO SOLDIER MEMORIAL ON THURSDAY, OCT 29

City of Tucson Ward 5 Council Member Richard Fimbres, the Greater Southern Arizona Area Chapter (GSAAC) of the Buffalo Soldiers, and Tucson Parks and Recreation will break ground on a memorial honoring the contributions of Black Americans when settling in Southern Arizona. The memorial is funded through donations to the GSAAC of the Buffalo Soldiers and funds from Tucson Delivers Parks + Connections, a 2018 voter-approved bond program..

Crews from Next Generation Electrical, under contract with the City of Tucson Department of Transportation and Mobility (DTM), are scheduled to rewire the traffic signals at the Pima Street and Dodge Boulevard intersection on Thursday, October 22, 2020.

The work is scheduled to take place between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. The traffic signals at the intersection will not be in operation during this work. Officers will direct travel through the intersection until the work is complete.

A Message from Steve K...

Please find Council Member Kozachik's Newsletter at the following link:

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/AZTUCSON/bulletins/2a6a121

There’s been a lot of national talk about mail-in ballots, but what gets lost in our local discussion is how long we’ve been doing mail-in ballots here in Arizona. Back in the 90’s the requirements were loosened for what were then called absentee ballots. Since then, Arizonans have been voting by mail in large numbers, usually close to 75% of the total vote. The fact that so many voters were voting by mail was among the reasons that Tucson decided to move to an all-mail system for city elections, leaving only a few polling places to staff for so few election day voters. 

Crews from Southern Arizona Paving and Construction Co., under contract with the City of Tucson Department of Transportation and Mobility (DTM), are fog sealing various roadways throughout the City. This scheduled work is part of the crack seal/fog seal program that was rescheduled due to weather conditions in July 2020.

The dates, times and locations where fog sealing will take place in the next two-weeks are: