J oAnne Robbins arrived at Mesa City Hall May 27 with a box containing petitions signed by over 5,000 voters wanting to boot Councilwoman Julie Spilsbury from her District 2 seat.

Robbins, who filed for the recall Jan. 30 and needed to gather 3,070 signatures, turned in the petitions three days before the deadline.

The petition cited Spilsbury’s vote to hike council members’ salary, allowing the purchase and renovation of a former hotel for an emergency homeless shelter and raising the city’s utility rates as the reasons to remove the second-term councilwoman.

“A lot of people are not happy,” said Robbins, who lives in Spilsbury’s district, which covers central and south-central Mesa. “The main reason is she’s not representing her constituents. She voted for the homeless hotel despite

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