Mayor Mark Freeman is focusing his priorities on public safety and water during his term, building upon the foundation left by one of his grandfathers who helped found Mesa.
Freeman, who served eight years on the council before assuming the mayoral seat in January, touted all the good in Mesa and what’s ahead for the future in his first State of the City address last week.
“Mesa’s roots run deep,” Freeman told a full audience at the Mesa Convention Center. “Our story began in 1878 when pioneering families of Mesa – the Pomeroys, the Sirrines, the Robsons and my own ancestors, the Crismons, alongside Native Americans built homes, irrigated the land and laid the foundation for our future…