Community Initiatives Coordinating Committee

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The Community Initiatives Coordinating Committee was formed by the MAG Regional Council in April 2025 after an extensive assessment of how MAG conducts regional human services planning. This resulted in the formation of the Community Initiatives Coordinating Committee and the dissolution of the Human Services and Community Initiatives Committee, the Human Services Technical Committee, and the Regional Domestic Violence Council. This was done to align regional activities with local priorities in a holistic, nimble, and action-oriented manner. 

The Community Initiatives Coordinating Committee has 21 members including 14 elected officials from geographically diverse communities and seven community leaders from the following sectors: business, domestic violence response, faith, healthcare, housing/homelessness, nonprofit, and philanthropy. 

The committee conducts a call for projects that will improve people’s lives and strengthen communities. Action teams are deployed with specific scope of work, timelines, and sets of deliverables to implement the selected projects. Subject matter experts serve on a variety of stakeholder lists to provide expertise on an on-call basis.
 

West Valley seats:

Councilmember Monica Dorcey
City of El Mirager

Councilmember Benita Beckles
City of Goodyear

Councilmember Tina Conde
City of Avondale

Councilmember Lupe Conchas
City of Glendale

Councilmember Clay Goodman
City of Buckeye

East Valley seats:

Vice Mayor Doreen Garlid
City of Tempe
CICC Chair

Vice Mayor Christine Ellis
City of Chandler
CICC Vice Chair

Councilmember Julie Spilsbury
City of Mesa

Councilmember Peggy McMahon
Town of Fountain Hills

Councilmember Chuck Bongiovanni
Town of Gilbert

Phoenix seat:

Councilmember Kesha Hodge Washington
City of Phoenix

Maricopa County seat:

Supervisor Mark Stewart
Maricopa County

Pinal County member agency seat:

Councilmember Amber Liermann
City of Maricopa

Native nation seat:

Vacant

Community leader seats:

Business:
Deb Sydenham
ULI AZ

Domestic violence system response:
Jenna Panas
Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence

Faith:
Rev. Katie Sexton
AZ Faith Network

Healthcare:
Meaghan Pocock
Terros

Homelessness/housing:
Kathy DiNolfi

Nonprofit:
Teniqua Broughton
The State of Black Arizona

Philanthropy:
Gene D’Adamo
Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, two years