What a great privilege it was to help recognize and honor Kim Covington on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Town Hall for her many years fighting for truth, understanding, healing, and justice! Thank you to the Paradise Valley Baha'i community for your continuing sponsorship, and to the great essayists, too!
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From the Paradise Valley Independent:
Expansion may be coming to the Town of Paradise Valley’s alarm monitoring service.
The Paradise Valley Town Council had this discussion and received an update on the false alarm ordinance at its Thursday, April 25 meeting at Town Hall, 6401 E. Lincoln Drive.
In regards to the alarm monitoring service, Police Chief Peter Wingert asked the council for direction on three topics: continuing the service, adding more subscribers and offering higher services.
In general, the majority of council expressed interest in expansion and requested more information on potential higher services. Mr. Wingert said he would gather more information regarding higher services and bring it back for a future study session item.
Mayor Jerry Bien-Willner, with the majority of council backing, told Mr. Wingert the council was interested in adding new subscribers.
“If someone comes in tomorrow and they say ‘I want to sign up,’ you’re getting direction from this council to give them the form, get it going,” Mr. Bien-Willner said.
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From Town of Paradise Valley Independent
The Town of Paradise Valley’s historic photo radar system yielded the lowest net revenue accrued in the past five fiscal years, records show.
While funds collected from tickets issued to speeders and red-light runners has topped $1 million in recent years, fiscal year 2017-18 saw only $147,040 in fees.
In 1987, the Paradise Valley Police Department became the first agency in the nation to utilize photo enforcement. At that time, the Town Council authorized the use of photo enforcement in direct response to a steady increase of collisions in town.
Now, there are five fixed photo enforcement locations, with two mobile photo enforcement vans, whose deployment locations vary.
Paradise Valley remits collected from photo radar goes to the town’s General Fund, and is considered part of public safety, according to Paradise Valley Police Department Lt. Michael Cole.
“The primary goal for photo radar is to improve public safety and with behavior changes it is expected that violations will decrease over time,” Lt. Cole said. “Photo radar is cost-effective, as photo radar revenues decrease, so do associated costs.”
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