Archive for December, 2008

Car dealers sell expensive items to and collect a lot of sales tax for the state and local municipalities. A $20k car pays out $1120 to the State of AZ and $420 to the City of Tucson. I’ve talked with big dealers  in town that have seen unit sales drop from 250 a year ago to 50 for the same month this year. Multiply that by the total number of car dealers in Arizona and you can see what a big issue this is. The big generators of sales taxes are the construction industry and retail sales.

A good friend of mine, Edmond Marques recently closed his Suzuki dealership. The drying up of the credit market was a major reason for his challenges. I’m sure there are more to come.

Tucson New Car Dealers Association
The new-car dealership industry in Arizona is a major economic driver, generating more than $18-billion in sales last year. New vehicle dealers employ more than 29,000 people in Arizona with annual state-wide payroll of nearly $1.5 billion, or 15% of the state’s total retail payroll. So to a large extent, as the state’s new vehicle industry goes, so goes the state economy. Ted Chapman, President of the Tucson New Car Dealers Association, has perspective Click HERE to watch the interview with Dana Cooper.

Did you know that spending $1 in a local business keeps .42 cents in the community compared to just .11 cents for the same dollar spent in a national chain?

A little history; Tucson First was an idea adopted by Mayor and Council in 1990′s. The idea to support local businesses was started by a few in the business community and was funded by the City of Tucson. The problem was that due to City procurement procedures regarding low bidders the printing for the Tucson First program was actually done by an out of state company. The media got a hold of the story and the programs funding went away.

I was involved in another program started in the mid 2000′s called Returning Business To Tucson. Charlie Odowd (now director of Southern Arizona for ASBA) and I were the co-chairs. The momentum started but we didn’t have the dedicated personel or the budget to keep the project going.

Now another group out of Phoenix is looking to start up a chapter here in Tucson. Local First Arizona is a well organized and funded grass roots effort started and championed by Kimber Lanning. Kimber was the owner of a local record store in Phoenix called Stink Weeds.  She watch how hard it was for other local businesses to grow and thrive and decided to do something about it.

In Phoenix Local First Arizona (LFA) is up to 1800 members and growing. Each month 30-40 locally owned businesses are signing.  Some of the things LFA is doing in the Phoenix market include, buy local maps for restaurants and retail locations, numerous events to draw attention to local shop keepers including farmers markets, fall festivals, meet and greet events to name a few.  Kimber has expanded the efforts to look at zoning and building processes in Phoenixes older downtown area where a unique selection of local businesses are actually a huge selling point for consumers. Kimber is also moving LFA into the procurement arena to push for preferential treatment for local businesses in the lucrative government contracting areas. She is working with Wisk Office Products to change State of Arizona procurement rules. I have hear that the City of Phoenix has already implemented a procurement process using small businesses modeled after the Minority and Women Business program already in place.

I’ve jumped on with LFA’s efforts to start a similar program here in Tucson/Pima County.  Currently we have just shy of 100 business registered – HERE is the Tucson listings. Once our membership hits 150 here in Tucson additional marketing and support will be coming our way.  The public relations efforts have been amazing. Lisette DeMarsfrom Mrs. Tiggy Winks Toys is the Tucson point of contact and tireless champion trying to get us going here in Tucson.

 The Mayor and Council proclaimed Black Thursday, the traditionally biggest shopping day of the year as Buy Local Day.  Click HERE for the story.

I encourage all of you to check out Local First Arizona. Join the organization and help us make it a success.

From the Tucson Citizen about Local First Arizona – HERE.

From Business Pundit.com – Buy Local! – HERE

Local flavor

From the Arizona Republic:

December 17, 2008, 8:58 p.m.

JEFFREY JAVIER
The Arizona Republic

Since the first Arizona charter school opened in 1995, charters have seen a steady enrollment boom as parents seek alternative choices to the traditional public-school district.

Statewide, there are 478 charter schools this school year compared to 455 in 2007-08, according to the Arizona Charter Schools Association. This year’s enrollment will not be known until February, but 100,119 K-12 students were enrolled in 2007-08.

In Pima County, 14,426 students attended 80 charter schools in 2007-08.

Arizona’s charter schools are operated by private companies or agencies which contract with the state and are paid by the state for each student they educate. They are smaller than most district schools and are less regulated by the state. No tuition is charged because they are public schools.

These specialty schools are one of the reasons for the success of charter schools in Arizona.

Matthew Ladner, vice president of research for the policy-research organization Goldwater Institute, said the idea of choice is what attracts parents to charter schools.

“When parents get to choose, no one knows kids better than the parents when it comes to looking for a good fit,” Ladner said. “Choice is part of the reason why charter schools are growing the way they are today.”

Arizona is one of the leaders of the national charter-school movement, said Larry Pieratt, executive director for university public schools at Arizona State University.

“Arizona charter schools are coming into its own and have risen to a level where it’s an integral part of the system,” Pieratt said.

Though specialty education and choice are major draws, there are some drawbacks. Transportation is sometimes an issue because some charter schools don’t offer buses to pick up and drop off students. There also is the question of whether a charter school is effective. Funding is an issue because charter schools receive about $4,000 for each student enrolled from the state, which is $2,000 less than what public schools receive.

Eileen Sigmund, president and CEO of the Arizona Charter Schools Association, said the economy is a concern for charter schools like it is for district schools. But despite these drawbacks, charter schools have managed and grown throughout the Valley because of stringent laws and oversight.

“There is a measure of quality control,” Ladner said. “If a charter school has really bad test scores, then parents can say they don’t want to go to that charter school. It is a very positive phenomenon that doesn’t happen in public schools.”

Charter schools are held accountable through the same state tests, such as AIMS, under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The Arizona State Board for Charter Schools can revoke a school’s charter should it perform poorly.

More discussion from Sonoran Alliance (an Arizona political blog) about Paton’s Non Partisan Elections – HERE.

The problem comes into play during the general election. All primary candidate winners (mayoral and councilmen) move on to the general election but instead of the voters in each ward electing their own councilman, the rest of the city gets to vote in the ward elections. (Tucson City Charter, Chapter XVI, Section 9) This means that the voters of one ward may overwhelmingly elect a councilman who is rejected by all the other wards voting. The best example would be akin to having Arizona nominating its two US Senate candidates only to have the rest of the states gang up and vote for the candidate who would have received the lesser votes by Arizona voters.

Sec. 9. Mayor nominated and elected at large; councilmen nominated from wards, elected at large.
Beginning in the year 1930, and continuing thereafter, the mayor shall be nominated from and elected by the voters of the city at large, and the councilmen shall be nominated each from, and by the respective voters of, the ward in which he resides, and shall be elected by the voters of the city at large.

It’s completely unfair to the voters of each ward.

And from  Espresso Pundit a blow by blow look at our local papers biased view that serves our community so well;

Apparently DM is in the running to be the base of choice for the Air Force’s new F-35 supersonic fighter jet.   We  may need to land the F-35 to ensure DM Air Force bases future in our community. Tucson Citizen ran a story today HERE.

DM’s current jet squadron, the A-10 preformed amazingly in the Desert Storm and Desert Shield campaigns but the 1960′s aircraft is starting to show it’s age.

If we loose the A-10′s and don’t replace them with a new fighter squadron DM could be in trouble the next time the military goes through a BRAC realignment.

The good news is a group of area business people and community leaders have banded together to create the DM-50. The sole purpose of the group is to makes sure relationships between Tucson and the military are as strong as they can be.  The DM-50 which was started in part by Dorothy Finley of Finley Distributing successfully helped DM avoid the hatchet on at least two other BRAC’s (Base Realignment and Closure). 

I’ve heard the story directly from Dorothy about how she stepped up and didn’t wait until it was too late. Dorothy took a group to Washington D.C. and requested that Senator McCain’s office set up a in chambers a dinner with the other members of the decision team. The schmoozing worked and we still have a military base.

The rumblings are starting already. Phoenix suburbs are swooping around and courting the F-35′s into their market. In the light of the recent crash in San Diego one fo the big advantages Pima County has taken was to make sure that the ‘flight paddle’ or no build zone is adequately large enough to handle the new jets

From article;

While Phoenix-area officials have been meeting with Air Force officials and touting the West Valley and Luke Air Force Base as an ideal home for the F-35, Tucson officials have apparently stopped lobbying.

Mayor Bob Walkup and Glen Kerslake, president of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base booster group DM-50, said this week that it had been more than two years since they had heard any news on whether the F-35 would come to Tucson or had formal conversations about it.

I’m a little uncomfortable having Mayor Bob on point for this issue or many other issues.  He’s ‘Big hat and no cows’. I realize he’s the lone Republican surrounded by a pack of Dems that want his job but come on use your position to get something done in our community.

Glenn Kerslake on the watch the other hand will let me sleep a little sounder.

There can be no doubt that if we loose DM our region would suffer greatly. Next time you hear the jets over head thank people like Dorothy Finley, Glenn Kerslake and the DM 50.

After meeting with top Air Force officials Thursday, Peoria Mayor Bob Barrett told the Arizona Republic, “If we are successful in acquiring the F-35 for Luke, it will help the mission of the base for the next 40 years.”

How about them apples? Baseball, bio-tech and now bases. Phoenix continues to beat us to the punch. Could it be that they are more organized, visionary  and focused on strategic economic development engines? Nah they are just getting all the breaks.

F-35 Joint Striker Jet

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Cutting Crime Pays — But At What Cost?

There isn’t a city that is escaping the knife in 2009 (if there is, please let me know). Budget cuts are coming, dashing the hopes of many cities to implement better transportation projects or sustainability plans. They’re also taking a toll on schools, libraries, fire departments and police stations. But out in Los Angeles, where the weather is predicted to be a balmy 72 this weekend, police chief William Bratton is adding more cops.

The city is adding 1,000 police officers, pushing its force levels in the Los Angeles Police Department to above 10,000 for the first time. Even as the city faces a more than $400 million shortfall for this fiscal year and next, the police budget — the city’s most costly department — is emerging largely unscathed.

— Wall Street Journal

Bratton has been at the job in LA for the past six years and overseen a dramatic drop in crime. According to the WSJ, Los Angeles is on target for 374 homicides this year, compared with 647 in 2002. (As a comparison Philadelphia, a city about one-third the size of LA, recently hit the 300-homicide milestone in a particularly macabre way.)

In order to prove that cutting crime is worth its cost, Bratton has been seriously crunching the numbers. Apparently, each homicide costs LA $1 million. Another $13 million has been saved in prison costs, more money saved with the 31 percent reduction in auto theft. Essentially, Bratton seems to be saying that the city reaps a good return on investment with money spent on cops. Add to that the safe feeling of being able to go outside, and you can imagine that people spend more money and are willing to invest in the city.

Diana Lind | Thu, Dec 4th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Los Angeles | Tags: philadelphia, los angeles, diana lind, budget cuts, william bratton, auto theft, homicide rate, 2009

From Councilman Rodney Glassman’s weekly email:

SPOTLIGHT ON THIS WEEK’S COUNCIL AGENDA – This week’s Council agenda has a few interesting items. …….The City Council needs to talk about concepts likewealth-creation and broad-based service provisions, which will dramatically impact the quality of life for our residents. Strong businesses feed tax revenue, which feeds government and keeps services coming!

Finally, maybe – just maybe - the City of Tucson will start seeing the connection to a healthy business climate and strong tax collection. 

Here’s my two cents…..Hey  Mayor and Council, Council Aides, bureaucracy, development services and the guy that wrote me up for having a banner hanging from my window in my downtown business; WE COLLECT YOUR SALES TAXES! We are fortunate enough to collect your 2% because we took a big risk to open our doors. We rolled the dice, cashed in our life savings, committed everything we have (lord knows the banks were useless in the beginning stages of our venture) and took the step to open a business.  Never mind that we employ almost 90% of the people that live in our community. I guess you’re finally seeing that we are a fairly important part of the community. 

Regulate Me To Death!

City of Tucson, we go through your maze of regulations to open our doors. We wake up each morning and live in constant uncertainty as to  what’s next. Who will have their hand in my pocket today? Will it be OSHA, a workers comp issues, a new business license I need, an unemployment claim I need to fight from an employee that should have been fired years ago. Do I need to get in the middle of a court garnishment for back child support from my manger?  Will the board of health come knocking? Will the federal government push corn based ethanol ( we all know the corn farmers have such a huge lobbing arm in DC). The ethanol revolution jacked up every single commodity price I pay from my suppliers? Of course I can’t pass along the price increases to my clients because they’ll stop coming – they are hurting too! I really don’t think you realize the ramifications on some of your decision. Rainwater harvesting, plactic bag ordinances, kidco, JobPath, an access cable channel, come on!

Development Services NIGHTMARE!

Heaven forbid I have to go to you for anything to expand my business. I’m so terrified about changing anything in my old ‘grandfathered’ building that I won’t even try. The stories I hear from fellow small business owners about having to move my toilet 1″ to the right, or that the new doorway they put in needs to be moved 1 foot to the left.  Never mind that the city design review ‘god’ downtown approved my neighbors plans said all was good to go. The inspector in the field told them it had to be changed and ‘wasn’t up to current code’ and had to be redone. It took my friend 8 months to open up their business on 4th Avenue. Do you have any idea how 8 months of writing checks without income feels? Of course not, even as we are experiencing some of the toughest economic times since the 1920′s I still don’t see the local governments laying off employees.  

CofO Process Broken

Oh and if I raise my head too far up you’ll learn that I don’t have a CofO(Certificate of Occupancy) and because I am downtown, I can’t meet your new parking requirements. My building was built in the late 50′s and you’ve changed the calculations at least a dozen times. What about the charm and character in an old building?  Why don’t you take some of the extra parking spaces and major heat islands from the new shopping center near my house. I have NEVER seen that parking lot more than half full. Who comes up with these calculations anyway?

Taxes, Taxes and More Taxes!

Then you tax me. I collect your 2% sales tax and have to report it and pay it monthly. But what about the County’s Personal Property Tax. This one is great! I pay a tax on every piece of equipment, every chair and every fridge my new meat slicer.  If I go out and buy something new I have to report it to you and pay a tax on it…FOREVER.  I paid you sales taxes when I bought it shouldn’t that be enough?

Truth in Bonding – Where are the roads?

Add in my exorbitant property tax bill I pay to Pima County for the privilege of letting the County plan, build and maintain the infrastructure….you know the roads, bridges and mass transit.  I should say LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE. We are STUCK IN THE 1970′s.  I voted for your 1997 bond package to fix roads AND I voted again for the RTA package. Come to find out over 2/3 of the RTA projects were the same projects unbuilt roads we approved in 97′. 

Oh Give Me A Home – Where The Pygmy Owls Roam

Here’s a thought, why don’t you take your credit card and max it out to purchase more open space. You have something line $200 million already lined up and now I hear your going back to me to approve another $500 million.  Am I missing something here…..open space?! I love the desert and environment as much as the next guy but how about a freeway or a easy way to go from east to west?  When a community values wildlife more than people we have a problem.

Did I mention that I lost 30% of my business since January? All those construction workers that used to come by for a beer after work, gone. How about we find some different industries other than construction?

Rio Nuevo…..I don’t even want to go there – I guess I’m not alone.

Wonder if I’ll make it?

Tucson has had a relationship with baseball since the 1940′s. That relationship is under some stress as the Chicago White Sox recently left our community for greener (as in $80.7 million in green backs) ball parks in Glendale.  First off, why would the State of Arizona Dept. of Commerce, or the AZ Sports Authority let one community poach from another. I guess we aren’t on the same team.

With the White Sox leaving the two remaining teams have clauses in their contracts allowing them to leave if there aren’t 3 Tucson MLB spring training teams. Baseball really could be heading north. The Cactus League of Spring Training teams is really becoming an economic boom to Arizona. Just not Southern Arizona.

Groups are working to build a new stadium, fix Hi Corbett and attract a third or fourth team. If all goes well the voters will get a crack at passing a special sales tax to fund the projects. Good luck with that in this tough economic climate. 

The reliable estimates are that MLB spring training brings in $10 million per club to our local economy. The $30 million injection annual means more hotel booking, golf course rounds of play and fans to eat and drink in local restaurants.  The big question is; Is it worth investing in staduims to attract or retain new teams?

Footing the Bill for a Ballpark

By David Wilkening

The once popular practice of spending public money to finance sports stadiums has recently been striking out. That’s no surprise when you consider the books economists and journalists are writing these days: “Loot, loot, loot for the home team,” is a chapter in a 2005 book called The Great American Jobs Scam by Greg LeRoy, founder of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit development watchdog group Good Jobs First. The 1999 book Field of Schemes offers a similar take. Its author, journalist Neil DeMause, sums up the situation as follows: “In almost eight years of reporting on stadium deals, I’ve spoken to every economist I can find about the impact of sports stadiums. And I’ve yet to find a single independent economist (by which I mean one not actually working for a sports team or league) who thinks that stadiums are any use as an economic engine.”

LeRoy explains in his book that the whole system of public financing is usually traced to the 1950s. Until then, team owners paid for their own stadiums— with few exceptions. The trend started in 1953 with the first team relocation in half a century, the Boston Braves’ move to Milwaukee. They were lured there with a new stadium built with public money. Since then, politicians everywhere have been “taken in by the assumption that the presence of a professional sports team is a leading contributor to the vitality of cities,” LeRoy writes. “That notion has so captivated politicians that they are willing to give sport team owners subsidies that are far beyond wha tother private-sector businesses can hope for.”

  Nationwide, there is growing opposition to funding sports programs with taxpayer monies. In a 1997 Rasmussen poll on the subject, 64 percent of respondents answered “no” to the question of whether taxpayer dollars should be used to build a professional sports facility. Still, Adam M. Zaretsky, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, wrote in a 2001 policy paper on the subject, “Should cities pay for sports facilities?” that between 1987 and 1999, 55 stadiums and arenas were refurbished or built in the U.S. with more than $8.7 billion. Fifty-seven percent of that, or roughly $5 billion, was financed by taxpayers.

Clearly, the debate about whether stadiums are good for cities extends far beyond Miami. The NFL’s San Diego Chargers spent five years trying to secure funds and a location to replace the outmoded, 40-year-old Qualcomm Stadium. San Diego residents also want a new stadium: in a January 2006 poll conducted by the San Diego Union-Tribune, 68.6 percent of 27,575 residents polled said the city should donate land to build a new football stadium. An overwhelming 95.6 percent said they would support a new stadium if the Chargers paid for it, along with the requisite infrastructure improvements.

According to the proposal the Chargers made to the city in October 2005, the new football stadium, completely funded by the Chargers and their development partner, would be built on 60 of the 166 acres of current Qualcomm Stadium land in Mission Valley. The remaining acreage would be used for parks, streets, parking garages, and commercial development. But as the Chargers’ general counsel, Mark Fabiani, explains, the plan didn’t pan out because the city of San Diego, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, decided to set aside the question of stadium funding for other priorities.

The Chargers consequently could not find a suitable development partner, according to Fabiani, “not because the project wouldn’t have worked out, but because no one wanted to get mired in the city of San Diego’s chaos.” Not surprisingly, last year the city amended the terms of its lease with the Chargers so that they could begin to look elsewhere for a home. And plenty of new cities are lining up to court them, including nearby Chula Vista, National City, and Oceanside, California. Even Las Vegas, Nevada, showed interest, though the Chargers’ contract restricts relocation talks to cities within San Diego County. “Private funding for a stadium is very difficult to pull off,” Fabiani says. “In California, people are just not eager to subsidize these stadiums.”

Stadiums have fared better in other cities. In Minneapolis, for example, after ten years of struggling with the issue, the Minnesota Twins last year reached an agreement on a new $522 million stadium that will be partially funded by a sales tax of 15 cents for every $100 in sales in Hennepin County, where the team plays ball.

But there seems to be a growing heap of evidence that stadiums don’t make such good long-term investments for cities. Robert Baade, an economics professor at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois, studied baseball stadiums specifically. He looked at the per capita income in 30 cities that have built new sports stadiums over the past 30 years and found that in 27 of the cities, there was no observable economic impact.

“In the other three cities, income looked to have gone down as a result of the stadium,” Baade says. Stadiums do offer some clear benefits to cities. “Bars next to stadiums see an increase in customers on game days,” Baade says. But even that has a down side, however, because the bars only do well when a team is winning. “When a team is losing, who wants to go out and celebrate another loss?”

Baade found that, “In only a small fraction of the cases examined does manufacturing activity… correlate significantly with the presence of a new or renovated stadium. We conclude that measurable economic benefits to area residents are not large enough to justify stadium subsidies and that the debate must turn to immeasurable intangible benefits like fan identification and civic pride.”

Stadium boosters in Miami are vowing to try again next year, especially if it means keeping the Marlins from pulling up stakes and heading to a new city. One man watching the Marlins’ quest with special interest is Jack McKeon, the former Marlins manager who led the team to their World Series victory in 2003. Now 76 and semi-retired in Elon, North Carolina, the cigar-smoking, tough-talking McKeon (nicknamed Trader Jack) still works as a part-time consultant for the Marlins, mainly as a talent scout. “It would be a shame if they don’t have baseball in Miami,” he says. The sentiment is certainly shared by South Florida Marlin fans, whatever their numbers.

Hey Jon,
Here’s the deal – TPD will still run the January academy with 30-34 recruit; however, today we are still down 75 authorized positions – that’s an entire division of officers. What the city doesn’t want to talk about is actual deployable number of officers which is less than 600 patrol officers (same as in 1998) , nor did they mention the officer to population ratio. If you take that in to account will are down at least 300 officers.

Now the budget. M&C did not mention the $130 million in discretionary spending – I know that you have mentioned this many times, but they “forgot” to discuss that in study session. M&C kept referring to “keeping a balance” with public safety and other services. What they are trying to protect are they pet projects, i.e., kidco, GLBT, etc. rather than cutting there and not cutting police. Romero compared public safety to kidco calling them “equal”. Uhlich stated they should be “holding to the communities priorities”, whatever that meant. And Leal is talking about raising taxes. Romero and Trasoff want to “keep an eye” on public safety for the next six months? They are hoping the violence will slow down and people will forget about the problem of not having enough police officers…period. Trasoff as of yesterday is still trying to figure out what the city’s priorities should be and what they should be doing – shouldn’t they know what they are doing and what those priorities are? Clearly public safety is not their priority.

Please continue to urge your listeners to question and demand answers from M&C.

Thanks, Larry

One of the important variables that determine quality of life in our region is the amount of violent crime. Crime statistics translate to real life decisions on where families move and where or if industries come to our community.  Clothcutter ran a blog post HERE detailing just how big of a problem we have here in Pima County.

From FBI statistics:

The Phoenix violent crime rate (per 100,000) is significantly lower than it is in Tucson. Both are higher than NY City. These states ONLY include crimes reported to the FBI, for example illegals, drug addicts, homeless etc are often not reported as crimes.

I came across a listing of all the known local gangs and their georgraphic region kind of shocking:

-Western Hills Posse Bloods (S of 36th E of Kino PKWY to Country Club (by Utterback); also some activity around 29th ST/Swan)
- Barrio Vista Bloods ( S of 36th E of Kino PKWY to Country Club (by Utterback) )
- 36th Street (Tre Six Bloods) (36th and Kino Area)
- South Park Family Gangsters (bloods) ( 36th and Park Ave area)
- Southside Blood Gang (unsure exact location)
- South Side Posse Bloods (various areas around Valencia and 12th ave)
- South Palo Verde Bloods (southside off Palo Verde road/ Valencia/Irvington)
- Mission Manor Park Bloods (between Irvington/valencia off of 12th ave)
- Edith Street Posse Bloods ( North of Grant between Country Club and Alvernon)
- East Side Posse Bloods ( spread out, but I know some live between 22nd and 29th around Craycroft Swan, etc)
- 29th Street Bloods (29th street, approx Craycroft to alvernon)
- V12 Bloods (valencia/12th)
- Midvale Park Blood Gang (Mission to Midvale Park, North of Valencia south of Irvington)
- Eastside Crips (Golf Links and Kolb area spreading out as far as Santa Rita HS)
- 29th street Crips (29th street spreading from Kolb to Craycroft?)
- Northside Crips ( NW side of town Orange Grove La Cholla?)
- 4th Avenue Sugar Hill Crips (Speedway to Grant, 1st Ave to 6th ave)
- Westside Crips ( Spread out over westside of town, from Cholla high south)
- Jollyville Crips ( Small hood located north of speedway, south of grant, east of silverbell)
-12th Avenue Crips( southside 12th ave area)
- Southside Loco Crips ( both sides of irvington, west of campbell east of park)
- A Mountain Crips (area just east/ SE of Cholla High School)
- 10th Ave PJ’s Crips (North of 22nd of 10th avenue, just south of downtown by Drachman elementary)
- Menlo Park Crips ( South of St Marys road, west of 1-10 )
- Barrio Loco Crips (unsure)
- Littletown Crips (Littletown neighborhood)
- Southside Crips/ Bilby Street Crips (Irvington to valencia, Campbell to Old Nogales HWY)
- Manzanita Park Lynch Mob Crips ( Mission to Cardinal, South of irvington north of Drexel Rd.)
- Surenos (located in various parts but primarily southside)
- Sur 13 Easy Riders (unsure, Southside)
- Eastside Brown Pride (all over eastside)
- Southside Brown Pride (all over southside, possibly north of valencia and 12th/6th ave area)
- Northside Chicanos (north of grant, south of Ft Lowell, 1st ave to Stone)
- Barrio Chicano Southside (42nd street to irvington, 6th to 12th ave)
- Barrio Libre South Tucson (City of South Tucson)
- Barrio Nuevo Loco (primarily by the Pascua Yaqui reservation)
- Barrio Santa Rosa (north of 22nd south of downtown)
- Barrio Viejo (same as above)
- Westside Barrio Hollywood ( St Marys to speedway, 1-10 to silverbell)
- Westside Barrio Sovaco (speedway to grant, 1-10 to silverbell)
- Westside Barrio Anita (speedway to 6th street, 1-10 to oracle/main)
- Barrio Kroeger Lane (North of 22nd, just west of 1-10)
- Barrio Centro (south of 22nd street, country club to aviation)
- Barrio Vista Brown Pride ( South of 36th street, Kino to Country Club)
- OP1 (Old Pascua) (North of speedway, to grant, 1-10 to oracle (by the movie theatre)
- Barrio Blue Moon ( same as above, but more towards speedway)
- 22 St Tiny Dukes (NW side of town Orange Grove up to Cortaro farms 1-10 to La Cholla)
- Brown Mexican Pride (southside, unsure approx territories)