More than 700 members of the 14 subcommittees that will determine which projects will be included in Phoenixs planned $850 million bond proposal have only a short time to make some big decisions, Mayor Phil Gordon told them last week.
You will be asked to sort through and evaluate about $4 billion worth of requests and come up with projects that total about $800 million or so, Gordon said.
Members must attend one of their first two subcommittee meetings and cannot miss more than two meetings, under guidelines adopted by the 2006 Citizens Executive Bond Committee. There are actually 17 subcommittees, but three have already made their reports to the executive committee.
The executive group, mostly composed of the subcommittee chairs, unanimously approved the $850 million total as recommended by the fiscal capacity subcommittee.
The City Council is expected to set an election for March 14 on the general obligation bond program.
