>> Ted: COMING UP NEXT ON"ARIZONA HORIZON," WHAT THE LACK OF A U.S. SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SAYS ABOUT THE COUNTRY'S CURRENT POLITICAL STATE.

>>> ALSO TONIGHT, AN UPDATE ON WHY TWO KEY MEMBERS OF THE WATER POLICY COUNCIL QUIT.

>>> THE CITY OF SCOTTSDALE CELEBRATES 50 50 YEARS OF PUBLIC ART.

THOSE STORIES AND MORE NEXT ON "ARIZONA HORIZON."

>> WELCOME TO.

GOVERNOR HOBBS NAMED COMMISSION TOMAR TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION WHO SERVED IN THE STATE SENATE AND SERVED AS THE MAYOR.

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OVERSEES PUBLIC EDUCATION STANDARDS IN EDUCATION AND TOVAR WILL BEGIN WORK IMMEDIATELY AND NEED TO BE CONFIRMED BY IT STATE SENATE WHICH IS LESS THAN RECEPTIVE TO A NUMBER OF GOVERNOR'S AGENCY NOMINEES.

>> THE CDC IS WARNING THAT THE COUNTRY IS HEADED FOR ANOTHER ROUGH SEASON OF RESPIRATORY DISEASE.

THE FORECAST IS FOR 15 TO 25 NEW WEEKLY HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR EVERY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE.

THEY SAY COVID WILL CAUSE MOST HOSPITALIZATIONS FOLLOWED BY FLU AND RSV.

HEALTH EXPERTS ARE URGING PEOPLE TO GET VACCINATED AGAIN THOSE ILLNESSES.

>>> WORLD NEWS, TWO MORE HOSTAGES WERE RELEASED BY HAMAS.

THE TWO DETAINEES WERE ISRAELI WOMEN.

ONE 75 YEARS AND THE OTHER WAS 89.

THEY WERE RELEASED DUE TO HUMANITARIAN AND HEALTH REASONS.

ISRAEL LAUNCHED ONE OF THE HEAVY AIR ATTACKS AND THE MILITARY SAID IT HUT HUT HIT HUNDREDS OF TARGETS.

THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT SAYS THEY BELIEVE ISRAEL HAS BEEN ADHERING TO THIS.

>> THE SECRETARY DISCUSSED THIS AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS PUBLICALLY, THE FACT WE BELIEVE IT'S IMPORTANT ISRAEL COMPLY WITH ALL LAWS OF WAR.

THAT'S THE RESPONSIBILITY OF DEMOCRACY AND ALL COUNTRIES AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO MAKE THAT CLEAR, THEN.

>> Ted: THE U.S. HAS ADVISED ISRAEL TO DELAY A GROUND INVASION TO ALLOW MORE TIME FOR HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS AND THE DELIVERY OF AID WHICH IS GETTING INTO GAZA AND ACCORDING TO THE U.S., IS NOT GOING TO HAMAS.

>> WE'RE NOT BLIND TO POTENTIAL CONCERNS TO OVERDIVERSION WHICH IS WHY AMBASSADOR SATTERFIELD IS ON THE GROUND AND TO MAKE SURE THE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE CAN GET TO THE ISRAELI PEOPLE.

WE HAVE NOT SEEN ANY MATERIALS HAVE BEEN DIVERTED TO HAMAS OR AND SOUNDEDABSCONDED BY HAMAS.

>> Ted: A SOBERING NEW STUDY ON ICEMELT IN ANTARTICA SHOWING RISING SEA LEVELS MAY -- AND THIS IS EVEN IF THE WORLD MEETS THE AMBITIOUS TARGETS.

FIT THIS IS HOMETHIS IS THE CONTINENT'S LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR TO RISING GLOBAL SEA LEVELS.

>>> THERE STILL IS NO SPEAKER OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

NINE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES HAVE ANNOUNCED THEIR CANDIDACY SINCE FORMER KEVIN McCARTHY WAS VOTED OUT.

THEY WILL HOLD A CANDIDATE FOR HIM AND THEORETICALLY SELECT A NOMINEE TOMORROW ON WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT THE POLITICAL CURRENT STRATEGY.

WE WELCOME PAUL BENTZ.

WHAT'S GOING ON THERE?

>> WE'RE SEEING THE SIMILAR DYSFUNCTION THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING HERE IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA ON A NATIONAL LEVEL.

WE HAVE SAID A LOT OF TIMES ARIZONA IS A BIT OF A MICROCOSM OF THE COUNTRY AND THIS IS PROVING TO BE TRUE.

>> Ted: THIS CANDIDATE FORUM HELD AS WE SPEAK AND, YOU KNOW, EARLY IN THE EVENING BACK EAST.

WILL THIS BE SOMETHING TO WHERE COMPROMISE MIGHT REAR ITS HEAD?

IS THAT POSSIBLE?

>> YOU CAN ASSUME SOMEONE WILL GET A LARGE MAJORITY AND WE HAVE FACTIONS THAT ARE COMPETING SOME.

WE HAVE SOME MAGA BACKED AND OUT NINE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THROWN THEIR HAT IN THE RING, TWO HAVE SERVED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES LONGER THAN 2015 AND ALMOST ALL OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT THEY HAVE TO CHOOSE FROM HAVE ONLY REALLY EXPERIENCED GOVERNING IN SORT OF OF THE ERA OF TRUMP OR MAGA ERA.

>> Ted: IS THAT A GOOD THING?

ARE YOU GOING TO GET SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HOW THE MACHINE WORKS IF THEY'VE BEEN AROUND THE MACHINE SO LONG?

>> I THINK IT'S CHALLENGING BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, POLITICS IS THE ART OF NEGOTIATION BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO SOLVE PROBLEMS.

THIS HAS BEEN AN ADVERSARIAL RELATIONSHIP AND INDICATIVE OF THE POLARIZATION AND POLITICALIZATION OF THE PRIMARY SYSTEM.

I THINK PEOPLE ARE SCORING MORE POLITICAL POINTS THAN TRYING TO SOLVE TEASE PROBLEMS.

AND THAT CREATES CHALLENGES WHEN IT COMES TO ACTUAL GOVERNING.

>> Ted: WE'VE HAD REPORTS OF SHOUTS AND SHOVES BEHIND DOORS.

WE'VE HAD REPORTS OF THREATENING PHONE CALLS TO THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF SOME FOLKS.

I MEAN, IS THAT HOW THINGS ARE DONE THESE DAYS?

WASHINGTON?

IS THAT THE NEW REALITY?

>> UNFORTUNATELY, THAT'S A STRONG INDICATION OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA CULTURE WHERE PEOPLE CAN SAY THINGS WITHOUT ANY SORT OF REPERCUSSIONS AND CALL UP AND THREATEN FOLKS FOR THEIR VOTE.

WE SEE PEOPLE WITH ELECTION THEFT OR ALLEGED ELECTION THEFT, PEOPLE WERE CALLING OUR OWN SUPERVISORS AND SOME OF THESE FOLKS ARE GOING TO JAIL.

WEAVE SEENWE'VE WE'VE SEEN SEEN A NASTINESS THAT DICTATES OUR ENVIRONMENT.

>> Ted: WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT THEY VOLUNTEERED TO BE PUNISHED IF THEY JUST VOTE FOR JORDAN?

WE MUST COME TOGETHER EVEN AT THE EXPENSE OF THIS?

>> BOTH CRANE AND BIGGS ARE FROM REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS.

CRANE WON BY 15,000 VOTES.

IT'S A LEAN REPUBLICAN DISTRICT AND HE DOESN'T HAVE THAT BIG OF A THREAT WITH THE GENERAL ELECTION.

THE PEOPLE TO LOOK INTO WOULD BE SCHWEIKERT AND BIDEN WON THAT DISTRICT BY ONE AND A HALF POINTS AND BIDEN BARELY EKED OUT SISKAMONI BY .6.

IN A HEY TURNOUT ELECTION, THE SUPPORT OF JORDAN CAN SPELL TROUBLE IN THE SWING DISTRICTS.

>> Ted: WHAT DO VOTERS IN GENERAL, INDEPENDENT VOTERS IN PARTICULAR, WHAT ARE THEY MAKING OF THIS?

HOW MUCH OF A HANGOVER WILL THAT BE FOR REPUBLICANS?

>> THEY'RE FED UP AND 70% DO NOT BELIEVE THEY'RE DELIVERING ON THE RESULTS WE WANT, NEED AND THERE'S A BIG SUPPORT IN BOTH DISTRICTS AND PROVE TO GO AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS IN 2022 AND UNLESS SOMETHING CHANGES, IT'S LIKELY TO HAPPEN IN 2024.

>> Ted: WITH THAT IN MIND AND WITH ALL OF THIS GOING ON AND THE INDICTMENTS HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE, IS TRUMP FEVER STARTING TO BREAK?

OR IS ALL OF THIS TURMOIL JUST MAKING TRUMP LOOK LIKE THE SAVIOUR AND HE'LL COME IN RIDING THE WHITE HOUSE?

>> THOSE WHO HAVE IT, THE TEMPERATURE IS GETTING HOTTER AND THERE'S MORE -- THEY'RE MORE PASSIONATE AND READY TO DO ANYTHING TO KEEP THIS GOING.

THERE'S JUST FEWER OF THEM.

THAT BASE OF SUPPORT IS IS SHRINKING AND NOT SEEING ANY LACK OF INTENSITY.

>> Ted: CONGRESSWOMEN DEBBIE LESKO SAYS SHE WON'T RERUN.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?

>> TO GO BACK THERE AND BE ONE OF 35 IS CHALLENGING.

IT ALSO CREATES A WIDE OPEN RACE IN A SAFE REPUBLICAN DISTRICT.

WE DIDN'T GET A DISTRICT AFTER REDISTRICTING AND THAT WAS SHOCKING AT THE TIME BASED ON OUR GROWTH AND I SAID THAT WOULD BE THE PRESSURE, THE LEASE VALVE FOR REORGANIZING THE DECK CHAIRS AND DIDN'T HAPPEN IN 2022.

I THINK IT WILL HAPPEN THIS YEAR.

I THINK IT WILL RESET SOME OF THE RACES IN AN INTERESTING WAY AND A RACE TO WATCH NEXT YEAR.

>> Ted: INDEED.

TALK ABOUT THAT DISTRICT.

IS THAT A MAGAZINE GA MAGA DISTRICT WHERE THE FEVER IS BREAKING A LIT LITTLE BIT?

>> IT GOES UP TO PEORIA AND THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THAT DISTRICT, IT'S MAGA ORIENTED BUT CLOSER TO THE MORE URBAN CORE, CENTRALIZED PORTION, MAYBE LESS SO AND IN A 7%, 8%, 9% RACE, WE'LL SEE QUITE A FEW REPUBLICANS SIMILAR TO THE NUMBER THAT JUMPED IN WHEN FRANKS WAS GOING TO RUN.

WHO COULD GET A GOOD FORTUNE OF PORTION?

>> Ted: WILL DEMOCRATS BOTHER FIELDING A CANDIDATE?

>> IN 2022, THEY DID NOT.

IT WOULD DEPEND ON WHO EMERGES, IF A FAR RIGHT OR MAGA EXTREME CANDIDATE WOULD EMERGE, MAYBE DEMOCRATS WOULD HAVE A CHOICE.

BUT IT'S BEEN A REPUBLICAN ADVANTAGE.

TRUMP WON THAT ADVANTAGE BY 13 POINTS.

>> Ted: ABOUT 30 SECONDS LEFT HERE.

TOMORROW NIGHT AT THIS TIME, WILL THERE BE A UNITED STATES' SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE?

>> I FIND THAT HIGHLY DOUBTFUL.

I THINK WE'LL HAVE A LITTLE BIT BACK AND FORTH.

WE'LL SEE TWO CANDIDATES EMERGE, A MAGA CANDIDATE AND MORE OF A TRADITIONAL CENTRIST CANDIDATE.

>> Ted: PAUL BENTZ, GOOD TO HAVE YOU.

>>> UP NEXT, WHY TWO MEMBERS OF THE WATER COUNCIL CUT AND HOW IT COULD AFFECT STATE WATER ISSUES.

>> TWO KEY MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNOR'S WATER COUNCIL RESIGNED.

THIS IS FAVOR OF PROGRESSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS AND JOINING US IS TRAVIS LINGERFELTER.

THIS GOVERNOR'S WATER COUNCIL, TWO PEOPLE RESIGNED FROM IT AND WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

>> WELL, OBVIOUSLY, AS YOU SAID, THEY BELIEVE THAT THEIR VIEWS WERE NOT GETTING THE ATTENTION THAT THEY BELIEVE THEY THOUGHT THEY SHOULD.

SO THIS WAS REALLY THEIR MESSAGE THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY WEREN'T GETTING HEARD, IS WHAT THEY THINK?

>> Ted: ONE IS FROM THE SENATE AND FARMHOUSE?

>> YES.

>> Ted: THEY MENTIONED ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS AND THAT SOUNDS SOMEWHAT STANDARD ISSUE COMPLAINTS IN GENERAL, BUT THEY MENTIONED LOCAL GROUNDWATER STEWARDSHIP LEGISLATION.

WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT BEING A POINT OF CONTENTION?

>> WELL, I CAN TELL YOU THERE MOHAVE COUNTY'S POINT OF VIEW, COBB WAS THE ONE FOUR YEARS AGO THAT STARTED THIS CONVERSATION.

IT HAS BEEN CALLED MANY DIFFERENT THINGS, RURAL MANAGEMENT AREAS, LOCAL STEWARDSHIP AREAS AND THIS LEGISLATION REALLY, YOU KNOW, STARTED IN RURAL AREAS LIKE MINE AND OTHERS.

AND WE'VE PUT TOGETHER A COALITION OF MOVHAVE COUNTY, YAVAPI COUNTY.

THIS IS NOT A LIBERAL CAUSE.

THIS IS FOR EVERYBODY.

>> Ted: HOW DOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT BECOME AN ENVIRONMENTALLY PROGRESSIVE ISSUE AND WHY DOES THAT COME FROM?

>> I THINK IT'S REALLY JUST A TALKING POINT.

WE'VE BEEN TRYING FOR SEVERAL YEARS TO GET THE FARM BUREAU AND OTHERS, DALE GRIFFIN AND CINDY KERR TO THE TABLE, ALL STAKEHOLDERS TO CRAFT LEGISLATION THAT EVERYBODY COULD LIVE WITH THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR CONSERVATION FROM ANYONE.

THAT IS ONE OF THE POINTS THEY CONTENDED WITH, THEY DIDN'T FEEL AGRICULTURE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD HAVE TO CONSERVE AS MUCH OF THE OTHER STAKEHOLDERS.

>> Ted: IT LOOKS LIKE THE IDEA FOR SOME OF THE RURAL AREAS TO HAVE THE SAME GROUNDWATER ASSURANCES FOR A SAME PERIOD OF TIME THAT URBAN AREAS HAVE?

IS THAT THE GENERAL IDEA HEAR?

>> HERE?

>> WE HAVE TO HAVE SOME LEVEL OF CERTAINTY IN OUR WATER PLANNING.

IN YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF THE MANAGEMENT AREAS, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY WATER PLANNING CERTAINTY, ESPECIALLY WITH AGRICULTURE WITH THE BIG FARMS AND THEY DON'T NEED PLANNING AND ZONING APPROVALS.

WHEN YOU COUPLE THAT WITH ZERO GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT, YOU CAN PUT IN AS MANY WELLS AS YOU WANT, PURSUANT AS PUMP AS MUCH AS YOU WANT SO WE CAN KEEP A PULSE ON THE BASIN.

>> Ted: THEN AGAIN, THEY SAY IT WILL KILL THE LIVELIHOOD LIVELIHOOD OF FARMERS AND RANCHERS?

WHY DO THEY SAY THIS WILL HAPPEN?

>> IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU TRY TO PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS AND YOU THAII DON'TTHINK THAT'S THE CASE.

IF YOU'VE READ THE DIFFERENT VERSIONS, IT WON'T PUT ANYBODY OUT OF BUSINESS.

ALL STAKEHOLDERS GET AROUND THE TABLE IN AN ADAPTABLE WAY AND NOT AS STRINGENT AND HOW TO HIT CONSERVATION GOALS.

>> Ted: ONE OF THE LAWMAKERS CALL THIS CALIFORNIA STYLE REGULATORY OVERREACH.

HOW DO YOU GET FROM THAT TO AN ALTERNATIVE PLAN THAT MAKES SENSES FOR FANS IN MOHAVE COUNTY AND MAKES SENSE FOR FARMERS AND RANCHERS?

>> MY DISTRICT, DISTRICT ONE IS 8,500 SQUARE MILES, BIGGER THAN SIX U.S. STATES.

I REPRESENT A LOT OF STAKEHOLDERS INCLUDING RANCHERS, VINEYARDS, SMALL COOP FARMS AND THESE FOLKS ARE TELLING ME THAT THE FARM BUREAU'S MESSAGE IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF THEIR VIEWS.

YOU CAN HAVE A WHOLE HERD OF CATTLE AND WON'T USE NEAR THE WATER THEY'RE FARMS ARE USING.

SO THERE NEEDS TO BE MUCH MORE NUANCED CONVERSATION WITH AGRICULTURE.

THERE'S A WAY FORWARD IF EVERYBODY CAN JUST BE OPEN TO IT.

>> Ted: TURN DOWN THE HEAT.

I KNOW THESE ARE HIGHLY REPRESENTATIVE AGGRESSIVES.

>> WE COME FROM A VERY CONSERVATIVE PART OF THE STATE AND THIS IS FAR FROM A LIBERAL PUSH.

THIS IS, AGAIN -- IT SHOULDN'T BE A PARTY ISSUE.

WARRANTWATER SHOULD NOT HAVE PARTY AFFILIATED WITH IT.

>> Ted: PEOPLE IN YOUR DISTRICT, WHAT YOU'RE HEARING THAT PEOPLE WORK OUT THERE, THEY'RE TIRED OF WHAT, PEOPLE COMING IN AND TAKING THE WATER?

PEOPLE TAKING TOO MUCH WATER, THESE CORPORATE FARMS?

THEY'RE SEEING US ALL AROUND THEM, ARE THEY NOT?

>> IN OUR AREA, MOHAVE AREA, THE CORPORATE FARMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, YOU'VE HEARD HEADLINES ABOUT THOSE, CALIFORNIA FARMS AND THESE FARMS IN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS OR SO, THEY WERE HERE LAST.

SO IT'S CHANGED THE DYNAMIC IN OUR AREA AND THEY'RE SAYING, HEY, WE UNDERSTAND THE NEED TO BRING EVERYBODY AROUND THE TABLE, TO HAVE A NEW ADAPTABLE FRAMEWORK, TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY'S WATER INTERESTS ARE ADDRESSED AND WE ADDRESS CONSERVATION.

>> Ted: THANKS FOR COMING IN.

>> OF COURSE.

>> Ted: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE AND WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO THIS?

>> 'STHAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

WE NEED NEW LEGISLATION NEXT YEAR TO MAKE IT TO THE GOVERNOR'S DESK AND THE GOVERNOR TO SIGN IT WHICH WOULD BE A NEW ADAPTABLE, MORE FLEXIBLE THAN AN AMA, A FRAMEWORK TO CUSTOMIZE FOR A RURAL BASIN DEEMED AT RISK BY SCIENTIFIC DATA FROM USGS OR DEPARTMENT OF AUTO RESOURCES TO BRING EVERYBODY TOGETHER THAT SAYS WE'LL LOOK OUT FOR THE FUTURE RESIDENTS HERE, EVERYBODY, NOT JUST AG.

AG IS IMPORTANT AND THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE AT THAT TABLE.

WE HAVE TO LOOK OUT FOR EVERYBODY AND I HOPE HOPE THAT HAPPENS NEXT YEAR.

>> Ted: TRAVIS LINGERFELTER, GOOD TO YOU HAVE HERE.

>> THANKS AGAIN.

WHEREVER.

>> Ted: SCOTTSDALE ARTS IS COMMEMORATING 50 YEARS OF INTEGRATING ART IN THE CITY'S PUBLIC SPACES AND IT LOOKS BACK AT THE HISTORY OF PUBLIC ART ALONG WITH THE DEDICATION OF A NEW WORK OF ART.

FOR MORE, WE WELCOME WENDY FROM SCOTTSDALE ARTS.

50 YEARS AND THIS IS A CELEBRATION AND A DEDICATION.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

WE ARE CELEBRATING OUR OLDEST AND NEWEST PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS FOR THE CIVIC CENTER AND THE WINDOWS TO THE WEST IS ONE WE DEDICATED IN 1973.

WE'RE ALSO DEDICATING OUR NEWEST ONE BY TAMMY LYNCH FOREST WHICH IS A TILE MOSAIC CALLED "THE DESERT'S GARDEN."

>> Ted: THE NEVILSON ONE, IF THEY HAVEN'T SEEN IT PERSONALLY, THEY'VE SEEN IT IN PHOTOGRAPHS.

WAS THAT AN UNUSUAL MOVE FOR THE CITY AT THAT TIME?

>> I THINK IT WAS AT THAT TIME.

MOST PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS WERE AWARDED TO MEN AND MOST SCULPTORS THAT ANYONE KNEW OF WERE MEN.

SO THE CITY OF SCOTTSDALE CHOSE A WOMAN AND SHE WAS THE PREEMINENT SCULPT TEROR OF THE DAY AND A BOLD MOVE, I WOULD THINK.

TED >> Ted: WHAT WAS HER RESPONSE WHEN SHE SAW WHERE IT WAS PLACED?

>> SHE WAS EXCITED ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL, CLEAR AIR HERE AND THE SPACE AND THE MOUNTAINS.

AND REALLY THE SCULPTURE IS MEANT TO CELEBRATE THOSE THINGS.

THAT YOU WOULD LOOK THROUGH THESE WINDOWS AND IMAGINE THE WORLD AROUND IT.

>> Ted: THE NEVILSON IN PARTICULAR, THIS IS MODERN ART AND NOT THE SAME OLD COWBOY.

DID IT GET PUSHED BACKING BECAUSE IT WASN'T WESTERN ART?

>> PEOPLE COMPLAINED IT WAS CRAZY.

IT'S THE MOST FAMOUS ART IN SCOTTSDALE.

>> Ted: THIS IS A MOSAIC THING?

>> A 40-FOOT LONG MOSAIC THAT THE ARTIST PRODUCED EACH ONE OF THOSE TILES HERSELF.

>> Ted: YES.

>> SO IT'S A TIMELINE PATHWAY THAT CELEBRATES THE FL ORA PHO AND AND PHO PHO NA.

>> THEY WANTED TO CELEBRATE THE BRAND NEW CIVIC CENTER AND THAT OUR TOWN NEEDED THAT KIND OF STATEMENT.

WE'RE ON OUR WAY, IN OTHER WORDS.

SCOTTSDALE IS HAPPENING AND WE WANT TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION.

>> Ted: THE CIVIC CENTER IS 55 YEARS OF CIVIC HALL, THAT WHOLE AREA?

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

THEY'LL BE CELEBRATING THE 55th ANNIVERSARY AND THE HISTORIC DESIGNATION OF CITY HALL.

>> Ted: WOW!

BACK ALL THOSE MANY, MANY YEARS AGO THAT SOME OF US MAY REMEMBER AND SOME MAY NOT, THAT WAS MODERN FOR A PUBLIC BUILDING.

>> IT REALLY WAS.

THE ARCHITECT BASED IT ON SORT OF NATIVE ARCHITECTURE WITH THE THICK WALLS AND THE ANGLES, BUTT BUTTTRESSES.

>> THE RENOVATION PROCESS, ARE PEOPLE CONCERNED, OH, NO, YOU'LL DO TOO MUCH OR I LIKE IT THE WAY IT.

>> WE LIKE IT THE OLD WAY AND LIKE THE GRASS, BUT WE HAD TO CHANGE IT TO MAKE IT MORE WATER FRIENDLY, TO TRY NOT TO USE SO MUCH WATER.

AND IT'S ADA ACCESSIBLE, THE WHOLE THING AND THERE'S A GREAT VIEW THROUGHOUT.

YOU DON'T HAVE ANY BARRIERS BETWEEN BROWN AND 75 PROCEEDING STREET.

75th STREET.

>> Ted: THE TWO PIECES OF ART, THE NEVILSON ART AND DESERT GARDEN, THEY'RE ON TWO DIFFERENT PARTS?

>> THEY TALK TO EACH ACROSS THE POND.

THERE'S BEEN PONDS ACROSS CITY HALL AND YOU CAN SEE ONE FROM THE OTHER BUT NOT RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER.

>> Ted: THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC ART, IN GENERAL, FOR FOLKS WHO ARE SAYING, WHO CARES, WHY SHOULD THEY CARE?

[ Laughter ] >> WELL, NOW YOU'RE GOING TO GET ME ALL EMOTIONAL.

PUBLIC ART IS LIKE A GIFT TO THE CITIZENS AND THE VISITORS AND IT'S MANAGE SOMETHING TO HELP PEOPLE FEEL PRIDE AND FIND A LITTLE PIECE, A LITTLE DISTRACTION FROM THE THINGS GOING ON AND IT'S A WAY FOR EVERYONE -- YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO A MUSEUM TO ENJOY ARTWORK AND THE VISION OF THE ARTISTS.

PUBLIC ART IS FOR EVERYBODY.

>> Ted: IT SOOTHES THE MOOD, TOO.

>> YES.

>> Ted: CELEBRATION DEDICATION?

>> THIS THURSDAY, THE 26th 26th FROM 4:00 P.M. TO 6:00 P.M. AND WE'LL HAVE DANCE PERFORMANCES AND A BRASS BAND AND SPEECHES AND FAD FOOD AND DRINKS AND A LOT OF FUN.

>> Ted: CONGRATULATIONS FOR ALL OF THOSE MANY YEARS.

THE CIVIC AREA HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HOOT.

THANKS FOR JOINING US AND CONGRATULATIONS!

>> THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR BRINGING SOME VOICE TO THE SITUATION.

WE LOVE IT.

>> Ted: THAT'S IT FOR NOW.

I'M TED SIMONS AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.

YOU HAVE A GREAT EVENING.