Tempe government doing the best they can to terrorize homeless people and run them out of town.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019, about 8:45 a.m. - at the front entrance to the Tempe Public Library - I just watched an electrician install a lock on the electrical outlet at the front entrance to the Tempe Library.
While the Tempe Library provides free electricity to normal people so they can charge their cell phones it looks like the library is doing the best they can to make it as difficult as possible for homeless people to get free electricity and use their cell phones.
The Tempe Library has already put locks on most of the electrical outlets in the library to prevent homeless people from using them. But there are a few of them they have missed.
Just how much money are the members of the Tempe City Council saving in their effort to prevent homeless folks from using electricity 6to charge their cell phones?
Let's say an electrician gets paid $30 an hour and it took him a half hour to put the lock on this electrical outlet.
That means it cost the city of Tempe $15 for the half hour the electrician worked to prevent homeless people from getting free electricity.
Electricity now cost about 10 cents a kilowatt hour at the retail rate.
So for the city of Tempe to break even on the cost of the electrician installing a lock on the power outlet it will have to save $15.
At 10 cents a kilowatt hour that will take about 150 kilowatt hours to break even.
So if a cell phone charger sucks up 1 amp, at 120 volts to charge a homeless folks cell phone, that is burning 120 watts, and that's not kilowatts, that's simple watts.
To convert the 120 watts into kilowatts you have to divide by 1000, which is .12 kilowatt hours. Which is slightly more than a tenth of a kilowatt hour.
So after the division the homeless person's cell phone sucks up 0.12 kilowatt hours for every hour the homeless person is there.
So to save $15 worth of electricity a homeless person has to charge their phone for 1250 hours.
That's about 156 days if the homeless person is connected 8 hours a day.
That's about 22 weeks if the homeless person is connected 8 hours a day, 7 days a week.
That's about 5 months if the homeless person is connected 8 hours a day, 7 days a week.
So when you look at it from a dollar and cents point of view, the city of Tempe isn't saving squat by preventing homeless people from charging their phones on electric outlets in the Tempe Library.
When a homeless person uses an outlet for 1 hour to charge his cell phone, it uses .12 kilowatt hours, which costs a lousy 1.2 cents. Sure that's a little more then it costs a homeless person to get a drink of water, from the free water fountains, but not much.
Are the members of the Tempe City Council a bunch of figging financial geniuses by figuring out that can save the city of Tempe a tenth of a cent an hour by preventing homeless people from charging their phones.
Sure a tenth of a cent an hour savings isn't much, but if a homeless person hangs out in the library for 8 hours day, that's a savings of almost a FULL PENNY a day. Make that almost a 5 cents a week.
On the other hand will the members of the Tempe City Council seem to think they are f*cking financial genius, I suspect they are just a bunch of bigots who hate homeless people
Thanks Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell, Mayor, Tempe Vice Mayor Lauren Kuby and Tempe City Council members Jennifer Adams, Robin Arredondo-Savage, Kolby Granville, Randy Keating and Joel Navarro.
And remember Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell is the son of former Tempe Mayor Harry Mitchell. Harry Mitchell is the guy who was arrested for stealing his competitors campaign signs when he was the Mayor of Tempe. Or what that when he was running for US Congress.
Robin Arredondo-Savage is related to Ben Arredondo, who was arrested and convicted of fraud, bribery and other crimes when he was a member of the Tempe City Council and the Arizona Legislator.
Kolby Granville is the Tempe Council member that was fired from his job as a teacher at a private school. That private school is the Tempe Preparatory Academy. According to the Arizona Republic Kolby Granville was fired on December 21, 2017.
I think Kolby Granville was accused of dating his hot underage female students and giving them liquor.
Tempe's Arredondo pleads guilty to bribes, mail fraud (updated)
By Michelle Reese, Tribune Oct 5, 2012
Longtime East Valley lawmaker Ben Arredondo will be sentenced in January after pleading guilty Friday to two felony charges in federal court.
State Rep. Arredondo, D-Tempe, who was indicted in May, was caught in a sting involving FBI undercover agents who said they represented a company that wanted to develop real estate projects in Tempe, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice. The department reports Arredondo’s actions took place while he was first a city councilman in Tempe and then a state representative.
On Friday, Arredondo, 65, pleaded guilty to one count each of honest services mail fraud and mail fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison with each charge and could be fined. His sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 22.
The release states that Arredondo accepted tickets to sporting events, and tables at charity events, with tickets sent to his home. In exchange, Arredondo agreed to use his influence to gain support for the fictitious company and its project.
“Arredondo took the bribe with the intent to be influenced in the performance of his official duties, first as a councilmember and later as an elected member of the Arizona House of Representatives,” the U.S. Justice of Department release said. “During his plea, Arredondo admitted that from February 2009 to November 2010, he solicited and accepted things of value, collectively a bribe, from representatives of ‘Company A.’”
During his plea, Arredondo also revealed that some monies given to a scholarship fund he set up were used by family members, which was not revealed to donors.
A call to Arredondo’s attorney was not immediately returned.
Arredondo was elected to District 17 in November 2010 following about 16 years as a Tempe councilman.
Sen. David Schapira, D-Tempe, told the Tribune that he expected Arredondo to “no longer be a state representative” by the end of Friday.
Several officials at the state House of Representatives said they expected his resignation as well.
At that point, Schapira said, precinct members will sit down to discuss who could fill Arredondo’s seat for the next three months. Their nominations will go before the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for final decision.
“The important thing to highlight is our district has been represented by somebody who has been distracted by a serious court case for some time. I called on him to resign when the indictments first came out. Sadly, our constituents in District 17 have been shortchanged,” Schapira said.
Contact writer: (480) 898-6549 or mreese@evtrib.com
What we know: Tempe Councilman Kolby Granville misconduct allegations
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy and Anne Ryman, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 5:29 p.m. MT Feb. 8, 2018 | Updated 12:59 p.m. MT Feb. 9, 2018
Tempe Councilman Kolby Granville was fired from Tempe Preparatory Academy in December 2017 over allegations that he gave former underage students alcohol and made unwanted sexual advances toward one. Wochit
Tempe Councilman Kolby Granville is accused of misconduct by three women in connection to his former teaching post.
Two councilmembers, Lauren Kuby and Randy Keating, called for his resignation Tuesday after The Arizona Republic reported a third young woman had come forward, filing a complaint alleging Granville made unwanted sexual advances toward her shortly after she graduated high school.
Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell said Tuesday that it is important that the Phoenix Police Department continue its investigation into the allegations against Granville.
Who is Granville?
Granville, 43, was twice elected to the City Council. His current term ends in 2020.
Granville is an attorney turned teacher, who began teaching at Tempe Preparatory Academy In January 2013. He was fired Dec. 21, 2017.
Why was he fired?
Granville was fired from Tempe Preparatory Academy after the school hired an attorney to investigate complaints of misconduct by two women who are former students of Tempe Prep but were not in Granville's classes, according to records and emails obtained by The Arizona Republic under the Arizona Public Records Law.
School officials said Granville was terminated for "breaching his Faculty Contract and for failing to comply with Tempe Prep's Employee Handbook and Code of Ethics."
In a statement, the school said: "We want to be clear that the reason for Mr. Granville’s termination has nothing to do with any known misconduct involving current students. We think it is important, however, to take allegations of any improper or unethical behavior seriously and to act swiftly, which we did in this case."
What's he accused of?
Two former Tempe Prep students in late November alleged to the school that Granville gave them alcohol when they were under 21; and one said he made unwanted sexual advances toward her. The women said the incidents occurred between 2013 and 2016.
A third student filed a complaint with the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools in late January, saying Granville made unwanted sexual advances toward her shortly after she graduated in 2013.
None of the three women were in Granville's classes and the alleged incidents occurred after they graduated.
What does Granville say?
Granville has acknowledged a relationship with one of the former students, which he said began when she was in college. He has denied the remainder of the allegations.
"Categorically, I’ve never provided alcohol underage to a minor, hands down," he told The Republic.
Granville declined comment on the third complaint, which The Republic reported on Feb. 6.
"There is nothing I can say about anything at this point. I’m totally on lockdown from my attorney," he said.
The first complaint
The school received the first complaint from a former student in late November.
The school would not release details of its meeting with the young woman, but provided a brief follow-up email between the former student and the school. In the email, she says Granville provided her with alcohol on at least four occasions while she was underage, including once in 2016 when they spent the night in the same room at the Luxor hotel and casino in Las Vegas.
Granville told The Republic he was in a consensual relationship with the woman, who he said he met when she was a student at Arizona State University.
The second complaint
Two days after the first complaint, another woman filed a complaint with the school.
In an email, the former Tempe Prep student, who is now 22, alleged that Granville invited her to a concert, "insisted on getting me drinks" and put his hand on her leg and kissed her without consent in 2013, which was shortly after she graduated from Tempe Prep.
In 2014, she said Granville served her alcohol at his home and made unwanted sexual advances, including sticking his hand down her pants.
“I pulled his hand out of my pants, grabbed my things and ran to my car and broke down in tears over what happened,” she wrote in the email.
The third complaint
Shortly after the The Republic wrote about the two complaints against Granville, a third young woman filed a complaint with the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools in late January.
She had graduated from Tempe Prep in 2013.
The woman, now a 22-year-old student at ASU, spoke with The Republic, which typically does not identify victims of alleged sex crimes.
The former student said in her complaint that Granville invited her to his house to talk about her plans to travel abroad. She said he began to talk "in detail" about his sexual experiences and kept taking her hand and putting it on his chest, according to the complaint.
When she told Granville she had to leave, he asked her if she was 18, according to the complaint. She told him she wasn't. She was 17 at the time.
"Well that shoots down my goodnight kiss idea," she alleges Granville said in reply.
Two months later, when she went to Granville's house again to return travel books, she said in the complaint that he closed the door and kissed her without her consent. At this point she had turned 18.
“Just the look in his eyes made me feel really scared,” she said to The Republic.
What more is Tempe Prep doing?
In the third complaint, the young woman said that she told a teacher about Granville's unwanted sexual advances shortly after she says they happened in 2013. In the complaint, she expressed concern that school officials didn't take action then.
"This belittled my experience and made me second guess coming forward not only to the school, but others," she said in the complaint.
The Republic has not reached the teacher, who no longer works at he school, for comment.
School officials said they are looking into the matter.
At this time, Tempe Preparatory Academy “does not have any reason to believe that the complaints regarding Mr. Granville of which TPA is now aware were made to TPA faculty members, or that such faculty members failed to report those complaints to school administration," a statement from the school said.
The statement goes on to say that the recent complaint confirms the school's "swift action to terminate Mr. Granville’s employment was the right decision."
What is the city doing?
Tempe officials said they were unaware of the allegations against Granville until reading The Republic's initial story on Jan. 18.
"The City of Tempe is reviewing the allegations made in the article, alongside the City Council Code of Conduct, and is evaluating what actions should be taken," a city statement on Jan. 19 said.
On Jan. 22, the city announced that Phoenix police would conduct an investigation into the allegations to avoid any conflicts of interest. Tempe expects to conduct its own investigation once Phoenix makes its determination, a city statement said.
What are Tempe leaders saying?
After the third complaint, councilmembers Lauren Kuby and Randy Keating called on Granville to resign.
"Granville has become a distraction from city business," Keating said in a statement Feb. 6.
"At a loss for words. She was 17," Kuby said on Facebook, "she was a CHILD."
Councilman David Schapira said he is confident the Phoenix investigation will be "comprehensive and expeditious" and Granville should resign immediately if the allegations are true.
Reach the reporters at jerod.macdonald@republicmedia.com and anne.ryman@arizonarepublic.com.
We Caught Them! Democrat Activist Charged with Criminal Damage to Schweikert Signs
October 27, 2010 by Press Release 11 Comments
For Immediate Release – October 26, 2010
Contact: Oliver Schwab, Campaign Manager
Tempe Police Report does not Bode Well for Mitchell Campaign Crime Record, Democrat Activist Charged with Criminal Damage to Schweikert Signs
(Scottsdale, AZ) In what has been a very rocky career path for Harry Mitchell and his opponent’s campaign signs, a developing story out of the Tempe Police Department this morning does not bode well for Congressman Mitchell’s record.
We all remember this:
“I did it,” said Harry Mitchell (Richard Ruelas, “Punishing a Statuesque Senator,” Arizona Republic, 2/5/10). The answer was in response to claims that Mitchell had been stealing his political opponent Gary Richardson’s campaign signs in 2000.
There was no question that Congressman Mitchell broke the law then.
Now, a police report out this morning reveals that Mitchell’s campaign appears to be up to their old tricks, yet again.
“On 10/23/10 around 0855 hours, [name withheld] committed criminal damage” says the police report (Tempe Police Department, 10/23/10, 10-163-420). The signs in question are the property of David Schweikert’s campaign. Below are images of the kind of damage that has been occurring.
“We are very disappointed to see this kind of behavior from the other side. Mitchell’s campaign team knows better,” said Oliver Schwab, Schweikert campaign manager.
“Sadly, this behavior has gone on since our primary and anyone who is interested can see this September Press Release, “The Return of the Sign Bandit” where our campaign announced concern,” continued Schwab.
“Vandalism and criminal destruction of another campaign’s property does not leave the feeling that our free speech is safe in our community,” continued Schwab. “The good news is that we caught them.”