Ward's council passed resolutions supporting two statewide ballot measures — one to authorize economic development districts (issue 3) and one to finance water/wastewater projects with $500 million in bonds (issue 4) — and voted to refer a local ordinance changing council terms from two to four years to the November ballot.

At a Ward City Council meeting, residents, council members and the police chief debated the cityontract for automated license-plate readers (ALPRs) from Flock, with testimony both warning about privacy and data security and describing a child-recovery case that supporters said justified the $21,000-a-year expense.