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Barro’s Pizza
Inspector observed a build-up of encrusted grease on the fryer baskets and debris on kitchen floors and on ventilation hood filters. Manager asked to clean at a frequency that negates buildup.
The internal temperatures of meatballs held in the steam well were 109-111 degrees. Manager instructed employee to reheat meatballs to at least 165 degrees. Foods in hot holding should be maintained at or above 135 degrees.
Papa John’s Pizza
An inspector observed an employee use bare hands to place a ready-to-eat pepper into pizza box for take-out order. It was discarded. The manager was instructed to provide a barrier between bare hands and ready-to-eat foods. The manager provided tongs.
Council OKs 208-unit Honeycutt Run rental community
The shortage of rental communities in Maricopa is quickly being addressed.
The city council Tuesday night approved, 7-0, the third significant build-to-rent development in the city.
Honeycutt Run is planned as a 20-acre, 208-unit community featuring one-, two- and three-bedroom homes for rent at the southeast corner of Honeycutt and Hartman roads. The gated community, which would lie within the larger development of Tortosa, will feature all single-story units.
Sandbox Development Consultants in Phoenix is the project manager.
The council recently gave the go-ahead to the Bungalows on Bowlin and West Maricopa Village, similar projects offering single family homes and duplexes for rent.
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Santa Cruz Elementary School. Photo by Raquel Hendrickson
All students at Santa Cruz Elementary School are learning from home until Monday due to positive COVID-19 tests and quarantines among faculty and staff. The move to distance learning began today, according to the Maricopa Unified School District.
“We have been closely monitoring the five recently reported COVID cases at Santa Cruz and the impact the associated quarantines have on the campus,” Mishell Terry, the district’s coordinator of communications and social media, said in an e-mail. “Due to the current number of quarantined staff as well as additional absences due to staff illness, we are unable to provide adequate adult supervision to support in-person learning.”
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Five are undeveloped.
In December, MUSD received $3.54 million from Arizona’s School Facilities Board to buy the Cortona property at the southwest corner of Murphy and Farrell roads near the far east edge of the district.
The SFB is also supplying more than $22 million approved by the state Legislature to help build the school.
MUSD closed escrow on the property Dec. 1, and hydrant flow tests began days later to determine design flow and pressure on the site.
Cortona is the latest in a series of land purchases and donations still in district possession that date back to the 1950s.