Building permits issued by City of Mesa. Included: All building permits applied. Not Included: Applications for Documents or Services, Code Compliance Complaints, Planning Cases, or Engineering Projects. It is assumed that all permits have been issued based on meeting all building and zoning codes.

This dataset includes both Code Violations as determined by City of Mesa and reported complaints only, but no code violation found. Some data for cases between July 2017- July 2018 is unreliable and is excluded. This dataset does not include the status of the violation except to include the date the violation was closed. Individual up-to-date case status can be found at https://aca.accela.com/mesa/. Also includes violations that were voluntary complied with.

Included: Cases opened since Jan 1, 2005 (with one file per calendar year). These cases were found by a City of Mesa Code Officer to be in violation of one or more city or state codes and are denoted by a value of "N" in "Complaint Only" field. In 2005-2006, the City of Mesa employed 22 Code Officers. Since that time, the number of Code Officers has been reduced to 10.

Not Included: Commercial or Residential construction projects, Demolitions, Applications for Documents or Services, Planning Cases, or Engineering Projects.

Total number of participants in Cultural Programming at the Arizona Museum of Natural History (AzMNH)

Total number of participants

Number of volunteers, number of volunteer hours given each month, and dollar value of volunteer hours given each month. This public view redacts volunteer first and last names.

Total number of participants at the Mesa Arts Center events, performances, and programs.

Data dashboard and story page for the Mesa's Homeless Assistance Programs.

To ensure the timely preparation of financial statements, for both internal and external users, the financial period close should occur 5 business days after the period end. This dataset contains information from the Advantage FIN system related to when statements are posted relative to the period end.

**For 2020 Only - ACS 5-Year Estimates were used because ACS 1-Year Estimates were experimental (see https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/table-and-geography-changes/2020/1-year.html)

Demographic estimates of Mesa residents as sourced by US Census American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates. Race includes survey responses for "Race alone or in combination with one or more other races."
This dataset requires manually updates. Sources include:
https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=Mesa%20az&tid=ACSDP5Y2020.DP05&tp=false
Number of Households Only:
https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?text=dp02&g=1600000US0446000&y=2020&tid=ACSDP5Y2020.DP02

Confirmed cases of opioid overdose, locations are not actual but instead rounded to approximately 1/3 mile increments. Opioid overdose confirmed by 1) patient or witness verification, 2) Opioid found on scene or 3) positive response to Narcan treatment. For more information on opioid drugs see https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/opioids