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Mesa resident criticizes '30x30' police hiring goal and raises objections to nondiscrimination ordinance
Summary
During the public comment period, a Mesa resident opposed a proposed goal to increase women on the police force and urged changes to the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance, citing privacy and single-sex facility concerns.
Mary Mabinow, a Mesa resident, used a three-minute public comment to criticize what she described as the city’s “thirtythirty plan” for police hiring and to urge changes to the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance.
Mabinow said the “thirtythirty plan aims to increase women on the police force by 30% by the year 02/1930” and argued for merit-based hiring instead of demographic targets. She told the council, “We the People are tired of all this woke agenda nonsense and would just like to get back to common sense.”
On the nondiscrimination ordinance, Mabinow said the measure “protects against discrimination based on *** orientation, gender, and gender identity” and warned it could affect places of public accommodation, including bathrooms and locker rooms. “Biological women are not comfortable with a biological male presence in their bathrooms and locker rooms,” she said. She also referenced actions in other jurisdictions, asserting that “Queen Creek has done away with DEI. Scottsdale has stopped DEI and its funding 2 weeks ago.”
Her remarks took place during Item 9, the citizens’ comment period. State law generally limits council responses during public comment; the council did not take action on the issues raised during the meeting.
The city clerk confirmed the meeting’s public-comment rules and time limits at the start of the item; no council response or follow-up action was recorded on the transcript for these remarks.
