Phoenix will require contractors with employees working outside to follow measures intended to prevent heat injury and illness following a City Council vote Tuesday.Officials estimate the move will affect about 10,000 workers.Phoenix contractors, lessees and licensees must develop a heat-safety plan and make it available to city officials. Some minimum requirements are that
Phoenix officials are bracing for another scorching summer by making what a city memo called “several substantive changes” to its heat response strategy and revising several programs.
Phoenix leaders have awarded the first threatened building grant since the program was named after a former mayor.The City Council unanimously approved $400,000 to help preserve and rehabilitate a single-story home built in 1909. Mayor Kate Gallego said funding will come through the Phil Gordon Threatened Building Grant.