To Every Mesa Resident:
A friend of yours has sent this request to you because we need your help. On March 12 the residents of Mesa will be voting on council candidates and the very important Proposition 300. We need your help to stop it by voting NO to Prop 300. A majority of our current city council is opposed to this re-zoning. Councilmembers Jaffa, Kavanaugh, Davidson and Whalen are all on record saying ''Don't Re-Zone''. Wal Mart has spent over 200,000 dollars to buy their way in to our neighborhood. Our group of concerned residents have spent less than 1,500 dollars (all we have). As a grass roots way of getting the word out to you, your neighbors, and the rest of Mesa, we must resort to ingenuity by asking you to copy this entire letter, add every e-mail address of Mesa residents you keep stored on your computer address book, and, forward the letter to them. Hopefully, if each of you will do the same, we will have the opportunity to reach out to great people, like yourself, in all parts of Mesa. We need you to help us spread our concerns, AND, vote NO on Prop 300.
Thanks for your help,
Neighbors helping Neighbors
NO
ON 300
Protect our Neighborhoods
Why are we so against a WalMart in Northeast Mesa? Here are the facts...
?? A business park will create 5618 jobs with annual average personal income of $61 million. This represents more than 7 times the number of jobs created for Mesa residents by the WalMart.*
?? WalMart brings 756 jobs with an annual average personal income of $7 million, and is expected to generate the lowest paying jobs at an average of $17,600 per job.*
?? For every ''full time'' (28 hrs per week) employee hired, 1.5 jobs are lost. WalMart offers job reallocation for current employees - not job creation - which eventually ends up in job loss.
?? WalMart undercuts the competition in the areas they build, thus closing existing businesses causing a loss of sales tax revenue and jobs for Mesa residents.
?? Roughly 60% of WalMart employees do not have healthcare. These costs fall back on the tax payers and crowd our emergency rooms.
?? The site in question is landlocked by Mesa. There are two WalMart SuperCenters within six miles, and a SuperKMart within five miles. This only creates REDISTRIBUTION of sales tax dollars within Mesa?¹s boundaries.
?? A business park development will bring $1.6 million to our school district.* WalMart will bring $500,000 in revenue to our school district in 10 years.*
?? WalMart SuperCenter is bigger than America West Arena.
?? Crime increases in neighborhoods by approximately 20%. This, in turn, requires more police officers, more tax dollars, and reduces our sense of safety right in our own backyards.
?? Other viable options for this site exist. Three prominent businessmen from Mesa offered to
purchase this site from Tally for the development of a business park. Tally refused their offer.
WalMart has the capability of out-bidding our local business leaders budgets.
?? This site does not meet the criteria for the proposed Big Box Ordinance council is considering.
Please join us in voting NO on Proposition 300
Thank you!!
*City of Mesa Megacorp, Office of Economic Development advisory board recommendation
dated 6/19/1999.
Created and Sponsored by NE Mesa Residents for Responsible Growth
www.nemrrg.org
By Concerned Citizens in Mesa
A friend of yours has sent this request to you because we need your help. On March 12 the residents of Mesa will be voting on council candidates and the very important Proposition 300. We need your help to stop it by voting NO to Prop 300. A majority of our current city council is opposed to this re-zoning. Councilmembers Jaffa, Kavanaugh, Davidson and Whalen are all on record saying ''Don't Re-Zone''. Wal Mart has spent over 200,000 dollars to buy their way in to our neighborhood. Our group of concerned residents have spent less than 1,500 dollars (all we have). As a grass roots way of getting the word out to you, your neighbors, and the rest of Mesa, we must resort to ingenuity by asking you to copy this entire letter, add every e-mail address of Mesa residents you keep stored on your computer address book, and, forward the letter to them. Hopefully, if each of you will do the same, we will have the opportunity to reach out to great people, like yourself, in all parts of Mesa. We need you to help us spread our concerns, AND, vote NO on Prop 300.
Thanks for your help,
Neighbors helping Neighbors
NO
ON 300
Protect our Neighborhoods
Why are we so against a WalMart in Northeast Mesa? Here are the facts...
?? A business park will create 5618 jobs with annual average personal income of $61 million. This represents more than 7 times the number of jobs created for Mesa residents by the WalMart.*
?? WalMart brings 756 jobs with an annual average personal income of $7 million, and is expected to generate the lowest paying jobs at an average of $17,600 per job.*
?? For every ''full time'' (28 hrs per week) employee hired, 1.5 jobs are lost. WalMart offers job reallocation for current employees - not job creation - which eventually ends up in job loss.
?? WalMart undercuts the competition in the areas they build, thus closing existing businesses causing a loss of sales tax revenue and jobs for Mesa residents.
?? Roughly 60% of WalMart employees do not have healthcare. These costs fall back on the tax payers and crowd our emergency rooms.
?? The site in question is landlocked by Mesa. There are two WalMart SuperCenters within six miles, and a SuperKMart within five miles. This only creates REDISTRIBUTION of sales tax dollars within Mesa?¹s boundaries.
?? A business park development will bring $1.6 million to our school district.* WalMart will bring $500,000 in revenue to our school district in 10 years.*
?? WalMart SuperCenter is bigger than America West Arena.
?? Crime increases in neighborhoods by approximately 20%. This, in turn, requires more police officers, more tax dollars, and reduces our sense of safety right in our own backyards.
?? Other viable options for this site exist. Three prominent businessmen from Mesa offered to
purchase this site from Tally for the development of a business park. Tally refused their offer.
WalMart has the capability of out-bidding our local business leaders budgets.
?? This site does not meet the criteria for the proposed Big Box Ordinance council is considering.
Please join us in voting NO on Proposition 300
Thank you!!
*City of Mesa Megacorp, Office of Economic Development advisory board recommendation
dated 6/19/1999.
Created and Sponsored by NE Mesa Residents for Responsible Growth
www.nemrrg.org
By Concerned Citizens in Mesa
