You Make the Difference for Phoenix‏

Sales Tax Revenue Continues to Slide

As sales tax revenue dips ever deeper throughout the state, Phoenix is challenged to maintain and improve services. For the two-month period of July and August, city sales tax revenue was down 17.1% from the prior year. This trend makes revenue sharing more important than ever to our community. When you talk to your state representatives, remind them that revenue sharing keeps your city strong and safe. Contact information for legislators is available on the P.L.A.N. website.

But there's more you can do. Remember to "shop Phoenix." When you buy from retailers within the city, your money stays in the community and supports funding for local police, fire, libraries and parks. Everyone can be a part of maintaining essential city services through their shopping choices. Great local shopping destinations can be found at phoenix.gov/ECONDEV/shopphx.pdf

And there's still more you can do. In response to citizen requests for maintaining services on a reduced budget, Phoenix created the Community Involvement Web page where volunteer opportunities including Block Watch, Phoenix Police Reserve Program, Phoenix Boards and Commissions and other programs are featured. To learn more, visit phoenix.gov/residents/community/index.html.

Neighborhood Services Busting Blight

Phoenix’s Neighborhood Services Department (NSD) is hard at work engaging the local community to clean up graffiti and litter. Blight Busters volunteer to help keep their neighborhoods and major thoroughfares:

Clean of graffiti;
Clean of illegal signs;
Clean of litter; and
Clean of shopping carts
Residents who want to get involved can find more details at phoenix.gov/NBHDPGMS/grafbust.html.


Arizona’s Involved in Neighborhoods

Getting Arizona Involved in Neighborhoods (G.A.I.N.) is Arizona's answer to National Night Out, which is held around the country in August. Because of Arizona's 105+ August temperatures, communities statewide decided to observe National Night Out on October 17 and call it G.A.I.N. The events celebrate crime prevention successes achieved through community involvement by Block Watches, apartment complexes, neighborhood groups, parks, businesses, etc. across Phoenix.

Who: Block Watches, apartment complexes, neighborhood groups, parks, businesses, etc.

What: Celebration of the crime prevention successes through community involvement

Where: Local neighborhoods

When: Saturday, October 17

Tips for planning a G.A.I.N. party are available at phoenix.gov/police/gain_tips_2009.pdf.

G.A.I.N. Hyperlink: phoenix.gov/police/gain1.html

Source: P.L.A.N.