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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHistorical Records - The Oro Valley Voice (48) TO'. 1 OF ORO VALLEY OFFICE Q 4 () t_A C LE RD TUCSON t A ___.O 57 04 AM . .11111.11. rim i MIMI AMMO MEM MINS ammo" i - , ..fir �� ! 1. C__� TTT is, - Oerel Vol.HII No.5 Published for residents of the Tows otOro Valley,Pima County.Arizona May(A), 1976 NEWCOMERS ARE IN MAJORITY . . councilw rn in urs a • New tobeso appointment of mayor will heaagenda Oro Valley's outgoing Mayor Kolt will relinquish his post• Mrs. Lois Lamberson and A. William Eldon Hanes, comprise Richard Kolt will turn his gavel after the five newly-elected Lauren Rhude are the only a majority of the five member over to a new mayor this town councilpersons are sworn returning councilpersons. The board. Thursday at the town council's in and appoint a new mayor three newcomers, Alan J. Hanes and Carey told the May meeting. from among themselves. Carey,E.S. "Steve" Engle,and Voice their first regular TACTiCmeetingTwlbeYTRIP` TO PHOENIX IS HEXA' mainly an orientation session. Mrs.Lamberson said the new • • council members will probably •e S •s•ncor oration r•ve/s stlon; decide with each agenda item whether they have enough OV'sfailuretopave ante knowledgeofthetopictovoteon Buenaena "With each item it will By JENNIFER BRUWER _4 depend on how much advance New Editor information they have. Some Disincorporation may be far -- . i things they may know nothing from the minds of Oro Valleys about," she said. five newly-elected council *" ' • Also at this Thursday's members as they take their . . � meeting the council will en- oaths of office Thursday —but d.,; tertain discussions of: a perennial foe says the 4 M — a water franchise with the movement is still active, and .. Metropolitan WaterCo.thatpetitions to disincorporate — r ,�¢ town attorney contract are still being signed. ....�, — the Phoenix police school Orville Shields, diehard ° i contract for accreditation of disincorporation advocate andOro Valley policeman Alan area resident for 25 years,told 4*- Shaffer. the Voice he's still determined = council memberset'rms of to have the Town of Oro Valley office dissolved. And, as one step — town budget for the 1976- towards this ,goal, he said he 1977 fiscal year plans a trip to Phoenix"as soon1 — membership in the Pima as my schec.ule allows it." Association of Governments. In Phoenix, Shields hopes to k", talk with officials from the stateRepublicans oppose - pollution control agency and Demos in Dist. 13 the State Department of Health Services — to inform them of Republicans Maria Mon- what he calls Oro Valley's plaisir and Lawrence Hawk are Failure to control dust pollution Orville Shieldssays dust from Calle Buena Vista[above'is ruining running for District 13 from the town's unpaved roads. his crops and his health. legislative seats, challenging If Oro Valleyhadn't been incumbant. Democrats Reps. claims that dust from the road speed limit for Oro Valleyans, Sister Clare Dunn, D-Tucson, incorporated, Shields said, he is ruining his crop and his Shields contends. Bruce Wheeler,D-Tucson. believes the county would have health because he charges, It's these speeders who In the State Senate had the roads paved by now. speed limits are enforced only consistently shower his home Republican H. Thomas Kincaid He didn't say on what this "selectively"by the Oro Valley and peach orchard with dust, will oppose incumbant Farr, D- belief is based. Police Department. Shields said. Tucson. Shields lives on an unpaved Hot-rodders from outside As long as unpaved roads in District 13 includes that stretch of Calle Buena Vista, in Oro Valley may get cited, but portion of Oro Valley that lies Linda Vista Citrus Tracts. He the police don't enforce the (continued on page 41 east of the Oracle Highway. I i Published once or morePr r month be The Sancruval corporation,P.O.Box 3003,Tucson,Az.85702. LETTERS TO THE ED I T O R Offices at 426 East Setienth St.,Tucson. Single copy 15 cent,.By mail,$2.00 for a 2 year subscription until July 1,1976;thereafter$3.00 for one-}ear subscription. [Editor's note: The following letter was addressed to the police Application to mail at second-class postage rates is pending at Tucson,Arvona. chief of the Oro Valley Police Department.] EDITORIAL Dear Sir: I was at Canyon Del Oro High School for the Class AA track Wierd meet on Saturday, May 8, and accidently locked my car keys in short @ o the trunk of my car. I saw officer Tim Matheson patroling the area and asked him • • o for assistance. He immediately took the situation in hand. I still ee Orvillee tifl wanted your department to know that he assisted me in every way possible until those keys were out of the trunk. I believe it took about one hour to get the car open, take the We've never been able to understand Orville Shields' par- seat out,and get into the trunk for the keys. ticular brand of looney logic, but we were kind of hoping that, In addition to the time spent, he also soiled one uniform and eventually, he'd discover his goals and those of most of his Oro had to do a lot of pulling to remove the seat.I don't know what Valley neighbors are the same. I'd have done without his help so please thank him for me and Which is: To preserve the Town of Oro Valley's pleasant, also thanks to your department for employing such an efficient suburban life-style and to ward off the wall-to-wall creeping officer. I believe officer Tim Matheson should be comended for urbanization which Pima County is encouraging. this courtesy. But no, Orville is still talking loudly about his pathetic Retha Jo Warren "disincorporation drive," which he may actually pull off if he Bisbee,Arizona and his early petition signers all live to the age of 150, EDITORIAL Meanwhile, he faults the Towirof Oro Valley for [1] not paving the road -- Calle Buena�Vista >lni„front of his house,' those"speeders" temerity - - _ and[2]not arresting who have the to Fromto worse- r1 e r drive on it, raising dust which bothers him and his peach or- chard r to Ash, OV Well,Orville,wegrantyou that a dustyroad is bothersome ill for , and agree that perhaps our Oro Valley police aren't cracking We Oro Valleyans have been tossed, politically, from the down as viciously on persons exceeding the speed limit as they frying pan into the fire.And we had nothing to say about it. should.But let us make a few points here: -- Why are you so sure the county would have paved"your" For the past four years we've had the misfortune to be road by now, if Oro Valley hadn't incorporated?Aren't you the represented on the Pima County Board of Superivsors by the same guy who used to traipse down to the courthouse a couple Republican flash, Conrad Joyner -- who probably did more than any other individual to hamper the incorporation efforts of times a week, regular as clockwork, to plead for the count of Y the Town of Oro Valley to take such action?Or, other times,to try [usually in vain]to Now,thanks to the district-carving and shuffling done by the beat down actions which would re-zone property near yours various supervisors,we are stuck with Democrat Ron Asta,the and threaten your rural life-style? only board member to the political left of Joyner. And not Or do you have too short a memory for that? incidentally, the man who threatens to becomeythe political Y� -- Do you really think, Orville,just because you settled here boss of Pima County. 25 years ago, that no one else has any right to live HIS way in "your"area? That is,,we're stuck with Asta if we do nothing about it this -- and don't you think that it's just possible an incorporated fall. town, the Town of Oro Valley, might have a little clout in We're stuck with him and his Big Brother, plan-your-future protecting the life-styles of its residents; more than the ef- policies unless we help defeat him in the coming elections. fectiveness of one lone cement plant worker? Who would be better?Almost anyone. The frontiers are shrinking, Orville, all over the world. Whether you know it or not, you're lucky to have a town True, it was Conrad Joyner who,as the"expert"about what we Oro Valleyans really think, convinced his fellow super- government that can help preserve yours a bit longer. visors that the likes of Holford, Brandon and Montgomery represented the will of the majority. Joyner was instrumental " in getting the first two appointed to that first,horrendous town Chip this to$p0■ — mail it is with $2 fit council,which we just survived. y o u t s a b s c r 1 p t 1!'R, to the e Oro Volley Voice! But he was aided and abetted every step of way by Board ,, j Chairman Ron Asta. My name , y -- . , That was Asta the hypocrite -- the same Asta who, while county planning and rezoning director, frequently counseled Street adttwev ; •• - Jim Kriegh as to the desirability of incorporating Oro Valley so the people here could have some control over their own neigh- City _ _ _ State s ZIP borhood. Later, of course, he did a politically convenient about-face, and battled incorporation at every turn. —— Asta is no friend of Oro Valley. He's no friend of the 'M to: homeowner, the wage-earner, the investor, or anyone who Oro Valley Voice, Sancti val Publications, Ted Turpin, wants to chart his own future instead of letting the government Editor. P.O. Box 3003, Tucson, Az. 85702 do it for him. • Oro Valley voters will be wise to remember that this fall. . . ,, • • oir-PAG negotiations are deadlocked By DENNIS JOYCE Governments. (PAG) will hers say. PAG could simply refuse to A stall in negotiations to probably prevent the town Oro Valley's Town Council act on Oro Valley's request for allow Oro Valley membership from joining PAG, the and PAG's three-member membership and the in the Pima Association of organization's current mem- regional council are each organization would continue waiting now for each other to business as usual. PAG could Contracts for OV town attorney reach a decision — one that do more than "nothing, each has " pledged not to make however, and vote to officially ma �� ������ �t ���//��/� ���t�� until the other has. deny the town membership, y g Unless the three new Castillo added. Current Town Attorney nounced at the April 26 council members of Oro Valley's Town Although Oro Valley has Walter Henderson and at least meeting that he knew of other Council — who now comprise a refused to officially indicate two other lawyers will be lawyers who would accept the majority on the five-member whether it would join PAG if body — reverse the policy set the weighted vote is adopted, considered by the Oro Valley town post for $500 per month. Town Council when it awards _ - ---- by the old council,no action will the town council has clearly the secondyear's contract fordMrs. Robinson said she un- be taken by PAG on the town's stated it .n v derstands the two applications request to join. a erthless opposes the attorney's post. submitted in addition to Hen- The q that system. new Town Council, three derson's were solicited by Kol.t. The rigid policy of the old Under the.weighted system, members of which will sit at "through word of mouth." Town Council has been a Oro Valley and small town ally their first regular session She added that no letters refusal to answer an often- South Tucson would receive Thursday, could vote then on soliciting applications were sent posed question from PAG:Will ,one vote each when a"roll call" the new contract,said returning by her from the town office. Oro Valley join under the 'is requested by any PAG council member M i s. Lois weighted voting system PAG ,member, while Pima County Lamberson. She declined to reveal the has voted to adopt if the town is I and Tucson would receive five As with all other items on the name of the lawyer whose to fill a fourth seat on the body? each. application was sent to the town ; agenda, however, the--new office. Rather than answering yes ' If Oro Valley's allowed to join council members will probably or no to the query,the town has under the present voting Henderson has changed the oi, decide if theyresponded have enough terms of his proposed contract p with a request of system — which the town and knowledge of the town attorney its own: Vote to adopt or South Tucson favored — it because he would have to ----j , subject to vote on it tonight,she handle possible lengthy reject that weighted voting would receive one vote, as said.. litigation involving the town,he system,then we'll tell you. would all PAG members. Henderson has submitted his said. Oro Valley reaffirmed this Oro, Valley indicated its payment terms for a second The new terms are based on stand as recently as its last support of maintaining the year's contract to the council, the same$500 per month fee,for regular council session, April present structure when PAG the main point of which is a which he will work up to 20 26,in response to PAG's repeat andits management staff were provision for a "closed in"rate, hours—an hourly rate of about request that the first make its reviewing in the past several This would allow him a higher $25.This amount is$15 less than intentions known. months proposed voting hourly rate when his work for lawyers' usual hourly fee, hesystems to allow for the town's the town exceeds a monthly said. PAG's regional council membership. average of hours worked, If Henderson must spend _members, representing Pima After that review, PAG County, Tucson .and ..South voted 2-1 to accept the 5-5-1-1 Henderson said. more than 20 hours per month "I couldn't accept a flat rate on town business, the rate for Tucson, voted at their last system, with Mayor Dan again," such as the $500 per the additional hours would rise monthly meeting April 29 to Eckstrom of South Tucson month he was paid — regard- to $30, he said. ask that question of the town dissenting. less of the number of hours Should the Town Council again` - -V-Despite Oro Valley's op- PAG— under his first year's provide him with less than 20 P'AG will meet Thursday position to the weighted contract, Henderson said. hours' for its regular May session and refused Berson wouldn't work per month, Hen- system, it has to an- That contract expires at theis scheduled, according to its .-------r-- _-- ---- accept less , soreto PAG whether it would end of this month, he said. than the$500 base fee under his agenda, to discuss Oro Valleys accept that system, because"it Town Clerk Elsie Robinsonresponse to its question. proposal,but would instead give _ _._ would be inappropriate for the said she has received an ap- the town credit for the missed PAG members told the Voice town to respond since it isn't plication from one other lawyer hours during a later month. thay will continue refusingto currently in PAG," said and added that outgoing Mayor Without the closed-in con- vote on the weighted voting outgoing council member and Richard Kolt has at least one tract, Henderson said, he is in system --- as the town has, Oro Valley PAG liaison other application in his danger of losing money on the asked them to — unless Oro Dorothy Montgomery. possession. town's legal business. Valley first indicates its in- Weymann and Castillo said Both of these were submitted If during some litigation he is tentions. they don't understand this based on the$500 per month flat required to put in 40 hours of What, then, will happen reasoning by the town and rate paid the town attorney in work in a month, the flat $500 when PAG sits down to review argue that Oro Valley doesn't the past year, she said. per month fee would pay him Oro Valley's answer, or non- need to belong to PAG to Kolt was out of town and not only $12.50 per hour — not answer,Thursday? ;answer a question from the immediately available to enough to cover overhead costs, One possible PAG action organization. confirm that he has an at- he said. would be to do nothing, said Even Eckstrom has criticized torney's application himself. "The council can still fluc- members Joe Castillo, Oro Valley for failing to Following a preliminary tuate the number of hours under representing the county Board respond, saying the town is indication from Henderson last this new proposal, according to, of Supervisors, and Barbara prolonging the search for a month that he would ask for a the number they want me to Weymann, representing the solution. closed-in contract, Kolt an- work," Henderson said. Tucson City Council. [continued on page 4] I AT MAY MEETING ,, . , _ Zoningamendmentsparks The narrow 3-2 defeat of a Richard Koh,who voted against Also at the April council the limit. controversial section of an the portion of the amendment. meeting, Town Engineer Jim — that two burglaries amendment to Oro Valley's Mrs. Montgomery, the Kriegh announced that amounting to approximately zoning ordinance highlighted principle author of the whole engineering estimates for the $3,000 had occurred since the the town council's April amendment, and Coun- one-half mile Calle Concordia March council meeting. meeting. cilwonian Lois Lamberson, improvement district ranged — that the widening of U.S. 89 The stricken portion of the Votf'd to approve it as written. from $20,992 to $37,134. had been postponed until the amendment would have Those opposing the town ap- Kriegh acknowledged that the 1977-78 fiscal year. Mayor Kolt required that development Koval section of the amend- estimates were higher than he told the council he would write plans be approved by the town ment were A. Lauren Rhude, had expected,but was adamant to William Ordway,the director Kolt, and Robert Hanson. in his support of the im- of the Arizona Department of council and zoning commission. provement district's com- Transportation to tryand The remainder of the If a development plan hap- P get pens to follow the standingpletion, terming this section of the date moved forward. amendment that received zoningpolicyof the town,but at Calle Concordia a "health — Mrs. Montgomery made a council approval allowed for g Y only minor changes in the the same time contains a hazard." motion requesting that Town existing ordinance. potentially offensive cir- The council also heard: Attorney Walt Henderson write Under the current ordinance cumstance the policy doesn't that drivers on Calle a letter reaffirming Oro development plans can be cover, staff members can only Concordia aren't respecting the Valley's desire to join the Pima make suggestions for im- 25 mile per hour speed limit. Association of Governments approved by staff (Oro Valley's provement, Mrs. Montgomery The council directed the police (PAG) under the existing by- town engineer, zoning ad- said. department to being enforcing laws. (see related story) ministrator, Metropolitan Utilities Management, Tucson Continued from page o n e Gas and Electric,and Mountain Bell) without the people of Oro Valleyknowing about the PAG negotiations project,according to the town's _ • zoning administrator, outgoing- "I support Oro Valley's If that system is adopted, prospectsof Oro Valley Councilwoman Dorothy Mont- membership in PAG on an then, and Oro Valley doesn't membership dim, it appears ,gomery. equal basis, but I'd like them to join, South Tucson would be unlikely he'll need to. The three council members answer the question," dominated by the 5-vote power opposed to the additional Eckstrom said. of the two larger members. OV voters can procedure allowed for the PAG has refused to obligate Tucson and Pima County register with contended that Oro Valley and vote to adopt have opposed vin Oro landowners already have the weighted system before the pp g Valley enough red tape to wade town's answer, because, its an equal vote because the town clerk through before developing their members say, South Tucson majority power they now hold land.Any further requirements, could "unnecessarily" lose its on the three-member board Oro Valley's Town Clerk theysaid, would be an in- equal vote. would be balanced by the Oro Y q Valley-South Tucson vote. Elsie Robinson is now a voting fringement on the landowners' It's likely that Oro .Valley registrar and Oro Valleyans rights. - would decline to Eckstrom said he would g � join PAG wishing to register to vote can "It's not the neighbors' anyway once weighted system recommend that-South Tucson do so with her at the Oro business what someone does is adopted, Mrs. Weymann pull out of PAG if-that weighted Valley town office, located at with their land," said Mayor said. vote is adopted,although as the 9040 N.Oracle. CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE Shields' drive 's still on Oro Valley are allowed to cause Valley people run up anu down casions. he sided with ex-Mayor Ken the dust pollution claims as fast as they want;_ this Shields has appeared at Holford and ex-Vice Mayor they now do, Arizona's mines problem (of dust pollution) has many Oro Valley town council Virgil Brandon, who favored should have the pollutions been even worse since the Oro meetings —as he did at county disincorporation even while restrictions lifted from them, Valley Police came---there was supervisor meetings before the serving on the council. he says. "These dirt roads no favoritism before," Shields town was incorporated — and Later, Holford and Brandon cause more air pollution than all said. demanded that "his" road be faded from action as pro- the mines put together," he Oro Valley is policed by paved. incorporation strength grew asserted. former officers of the In past months he has among the citizenry, but "The police out here are Rural/Metro Fire Protection commented on the patrol Shields remained adamantly worthless as hell...the county Co., now working directly for services of the Oro Valley active to the last. wasn't any good, but these the town. policemen, but his assessments He contends that petitions people (the current Oro Valley The sheriff's office still has range from pleased(infrequent) he's asking people to sign for Police Department)are worse," responsibility for dealing with to scathing(frequent.) disincorporation "will be good Shields said. felonies in the town, however, Shields was one of the forever," rather than having a "They get the outsiders and and may be asked for assistance original petitioners for the cutoff as the authoriteis have stick them with fines," he by the Oro Valley Police incorporation of Oro Valley,but ruled that previous petitionu conceded, "but they let Oro Department on special oc- later changed sides.For a while did.