Council considers censure
Next Wednesday, the Oro Valley Town Council will discuss censuring Council Member Tim Bohen for a rather innocuous remark. The remark can be heard at the beginning this three minute council discussion from the March 3 town council meeting. Bohen was questioning why town staff can produce a work product in two weeks that they said at a previous meeting could not be produced for a month; while, at the same time, saying that they could not quickly produce a request for proposal because they were too busy. The discussion centers's around the opening of the Pusch Ridge Course. The matter, we believe, is entirely politically motivated.
Maybe Bohen is on to something...read or next "bits".
Speaking of requests for proposal, the town is not too busy to produce a request for proposal for Tennis operations. El Conquistador Tennis has been ably run by Jennifer Fuchs through her company, El Conquistador LLC, since 2018. That's when she leased the facilities from the town. The lease includes operating the courts at Pusch Ridge and the ones at the Community Center. You can read about that auspicious start here.
The lease expires October 1. Per requirements, the town is going to initiate a request for proposal from interested bidders on March 15. Fuchs wrote to her members: "we are prepared to submit our proposal. Wish us luck!"
Seems to us that that lease is a model for what should happen with the Pusch Ridge Golf course.
For the record
We're posting The Conservation Fund's statement regarding their not participating in the town's purchase of the former Vistoso Golf course property. As reported this past Monday, those who have worked tirelessly for the past three years to get this land designated as town owned and run conservation land are "up in arms".
They identified and worked for a solution that would cost the town nothing more than the annual maintenance of a walking preserve. This is unlike those who live around the the town owned golf courses. Instead, they came to the town, hat in hand, begging for the town to keep their golf courses open. They won.
HIVE in effect
The town has recently increased its Oracle Road traffic surveillance. The target is between Ina and Magee. The town announces their high intensity vehicle enforcement ("HIVE") activities on their Twitter and Facebook pages. The most recent was from 3pm to 6pm yesterday. The focus was on the Oracle-Magee intersection. This is the town's highest traffic accident area.
