Meeting with TON - CANCELED

Yep! the meeting has been canceled.... indefinitely. Mayor Skelton received a call from Chairman Nunez letting us know that the meeting scheduled for Wednesday May 20th has been canceled. No reason - that we know of - but it's canceled!

We are still planning on meeting on Sat 5/16 @ 9am at the Santa Cruz North end park to discuss our boycotting/picketing strategies. I checked out the Michael's on Irvington, they are out of orange shirts. Hopefully we can find at the Kolb/Broadway store of other local big box stores. We will keep you posted as we are informed.

Email from Sharon Bronson re: EA report

Update from our meeting on Tuesday with the Pima County Board (PCB) Supervisors.

Email:

Thanks for the update. As Ramon (Valadez, our PBC supervisor) indicated, our Public Works staff (Flood Control, Wastewater, Development Services, Natural Resources PRR, Cultural Resources) is preparing comments for the EA. Ramon and I will keep you apprised of the progress. We hope to have comments submitted by tomorrow.

Sharon (Bronson, TON's PCB supervisor)

Organizing Boycott

We will meet this Saturday May 16th @ 9am at the North Santa Cruz park. We will make signs, work out details of when the 2 boycotts will take place. We plan on having everyone at the protest wear bright orange shirts (you can buy them at Micheals for around $5). We are looking at getting funds from developers and anyone else who can help with the cost of supplies. Please if you have any contact information, please assist. At the meeting last Tuesday we were told by a tribal member, who is strongly opposed to the detention center, the TON hates publicity and boycotts.... so if they are unwilling to co-operate at the table, let's take it to the pocket.

See you Sat morning!

UPDATE - Letter to our Mayor

Mayor Skelton just received this letter.....

Dear Mayor Skelton,

This is to inform you that we cannot provide a presentation to your constituents on May 18^th as discussed with you and Mr. Stahle on May 7^th. This is due to scheduling conflicts with some of our development team members.

I propose an alternated date of May 20^th at 6 pm. The other change is that I would prefer having the meeting here in our community center instead of in Sahuarita.

Please let me know your response on this at your earliest convenience.

Also, we are finalizing our written responses to you from our May 7^th meeting and should be sending that out by tomorrow at the latest.

Thank you,

Austin Nunez, Chairman, San Xavier District of the Tohono O'odham Nation

May 15th Deadline

The official document stating we have until May 15th to make our comments! Please write your letters. Go to the clubhouse, sign a letter and let the staff mail it for you. Send your neighbors to the clubhouse, print a copy from below, write your own... get the letter OUT!!!!

http://ci.sahuarita.az.us/images/PDFs/planning/Cover_letter_EA.pdf

5/12 Meeting Update

Today Julia, Kara and I brought our problem before the Pima Co Supervisors, the Mayor and Councilman Sullivan were there for support. Also, in attendance were 2 members of the TON who also oppose the prison being built, for different reasons than ours, but still in opposition to the prison. Also, a gentleman from Humane Borders was there to state their opposition. I am very optimistic about today's meeting and that Pima Co will also begin to look into these "shady" at best dealings between TON/SXD and these Texas wheeler/dealers, along with the obviously error ridden EA report. Also, we just found out that prior info. was incorrect when it was stated that all of the TON/SXD allotees were in favor of the prison and had signed off. This is not true...all of the allotees have NOT signed off in agreement of it being built, and therefore it is NOT a done deal. I truly believe with everyone's help that we can still turn this thing around and keep any type of prison/detention center out of our backyard. There are many things we can do to help out and Julia is updating the blog site with some of them. Thanks everybody for your signatures and voices they are making a difference. PLEASE EVERYONE GO TO THE CLUBHOUSE AND SIGN A LETTER....

MEETING

......REMINDER......
Pima Co. Board Of Supervisors Mtg.
Tomorrow (5/12) @ 9am
130 W. Congress
1st Floor
PLEASE ATTEND IF YOU CAN!