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| Testing. Testing. | 00:00:04 | |
| Test. | 00:00:05 | |
| OK. | 00:00:07 | |
| Yeah. | 00:00:11 | |
| I can certainly try. | 00:00:20 | |
| One more. | 00:00:24 | |
| Off first. Wow is it going by quick. | 00:00:25 | |
| So are we ready and patient? | 00:00:28 | |
| Actually. | 00:00:35 | |
| Hey there, we getting patient to go? | 00:00:38 | |
| But. | 00:00:42 | |
| OK, good deal. | 00:00:43 | |
| Cassie, you're ready. | 00:00:45 | |
| Alright, I'll go ahead and you guys get. | 00:00:47 | |
| Alright. | 00:00:50 | |
| I'll go and open the meeting August 1st. It's 10:00 o'clock. Randy, You want me to send the pledge And then Richard Contrado from | 00:00:51 | |
| Calgary Church will do the invocation. | 00:00:56 | |
| I thought. | 00:01:03 | |
| Ohh. | 00:01:14 | |
| Thank you. | 00:01:20 | |
| Heavenly Father God, we give you thanks for this day, God, and for your many blessings that you pour out on us. | 00:01:21 | |
| And God, for this meeting today, God for the issues that will be discussed and for the decisions to be made. God we we ask that | 00:01:27 | |
| you would give us wisdom of God, that you would give us discernment and all things God. And again we we pray for a blessing. God | 00:01:33 | |
| for your hand to be upon us all here today. Father God, for this we give you thanks. We give you praise. In Jesus name we pray. | 00:01:38 | |
| Amen. | 00:01:44 | |
| Yeah. | 00:01:50 | |
| Thank you, Sir. | 00:01:51 | |
| OK, we'll start with #2 presentations. | 00:01:55 | |
| 2A Presentation regarding the activities of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. | 00:01:59 | |
| In HeLa County and we have a map in order. | 00:02:04 | |
| Matt, good morning. Come on up and. | 00:02:08 | |
| Let's know who you are and who you're with and. | 00:02:10 | |
| Great. Thank you. Yeah, my name is Matt Narder. I'm a hydrogeologist with the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. And so | 00:02:14 | |
| we really appreciate your time here this morning allowing us to come and speak and have a busy agenda. | 00:02:20 | |
| Umm. | 00:02:26 | |
| So the reason that I'm here is the US EPA is proposing to regulate a new group of chemicals. They go by the acronym PFS or we call | 00:02:28 | |
| them PPAS. | 00:02:32 | |
| And these proposed regulations, they're gonna have an impact all throughout Arizona and here in the county, particularly drinking | 00:02:38 | |
| water providers. So one of the regulations that they're proposing is to limit the amount of these chemicals that can be in our | 00:02:43 | |
| drinking water. | 00:02:48 | |
| So. | 00:02:53 | |
| Our drinking water systems throughout the state are going to have to comply with these limits. | 00:02:55 | |
| And so ADQ is working throughout the state and here in the county with these water providers, we're helping them to sample. | 00:02:59 | |
| To understand what's in their water and to to be prepared for these new regulations. | 00:03:06 | |
| So we've got a short video here that's that's going to play. It's kind of just a brief overview kind of introduction to to what RP | 00:03:11 | |
| fast and then talks a little bit in general about what's going on throughout the state. And then I think that you've been provided | 00:03:17 | |
| fact sheets that talk more specifically about what's happening here in the county. | 00:03:23 | |
| So I think after the video I'd be happy to go through this in more detail. You may have seen that. | 00:03:29 | |
| There's a number of drinking water providers here in the county that have PCs in the water. And so I'm happy to talk about what | 00:03:35 | |
| we're doing to work with those water providers and get them prepared. | 00:03:40 | |
| Good. | 00:03:45 | |
| OK, so we have again playoff step. Sorry. | 00:03:46 | |
| There's a term for a group of chemicals that many Arizona residents are likely to hear more about in the coming years. | 00:03:49 | |
| We had 80 Q would like to provide you with a brief introduction of PFAS in Arizona so you can understand what PFAS are, what EQ is | 00:03:56 | |
| doing to address these chemicals in our environment and what steps to take now to protect your health. | 00:04:02 | |
| 1st it's important to understand some basic facts about PFAS. | 00:04:10 | |
| PER and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. | 00:04:15 | |
| Are a large family of man-made chemicals that have been in use since the 1940s. | 00:04:19 | |
| PFAS have unique physical and chemical properties that make them very useful for a wide range of applications. | 00:04:24 | |
| Most notably stain and water resistance. | 00:04:30 | |
| But these same properties can make them highly stable and resistant to degradation in the environment, earning them the nickname | 00:04:33 | |
| forever Chemicals. | 00:04:37 | |
| Because the length of their carbon fluorine tail and the structure of their functional head can vary. | 00:04:42 | |
| Thousands of unique PFAS molecules are possible. | 00:04:47 | |
| Some peace out there, been more commonly manufactured than others, including two of the most widely used and studied PFAS | 00:04:51 | |
| molecules. | 00:04:55 | |
| PFOA and PF OS. | 00:04:59 | |
| Scientific studies have shown that exposure to some PFAS may be linked to harmful health effects in humans and animals. | 00:05:02 | |
| Depending on how much PFAS someone is exposed to and for how long, certain PFAS can have potential harmful effects, for example | 00:05:09 | |
| increasing the chance of getting some cancers, increasing cholesterol levels. | 00:05:16 | |
| And affecting reproductive health and child development. | 00:05:23 | |
| Because of their unique and beneficial properties. | 00:05:27 | |
| Peasants have been incorporated into many common consumer products including carpets, furnishings, food packaging, cosmetics, | 00:05:30 | |
| clothing, cookware and many others. | 00:05:36 | |
| In some cases, consumers can choose to limit their exposure to PFAS, for example by avoiding products labeled as water or stain | 00:05:42 | |
| resistant. | 00:05:47 | |
| Avoiding food in contact with grease proof packaging. | 00:05:51 | |
| And avoiding personal care products with fluorinated ingredients on the label. | 00:05:55 | |
| Drinking PFAS contaminated water is another potential source of exposure, but one that for many is not easily avoided through | 00:06:00 | |
| personal choice alone. | 00:06:04 | |
| However, in most cases, exposure to contaminated drinking water can be eliminated through testing, regulation and treatment. | 00:06:08 | |
| Something we'll discuss more in just a bit. | 00:06:16 | |
| The life cycle of Pfaff starts when they are first manufactured by industry. | 00:06:19 | |
| Although Arizona has not historically been home to any PFAS manufacturers, these chemicals can make their way to our state through | 00:06:23 | |
| the purchase of consumer products. | 00:06:28 | |
| The use of firefighting foams. | 00:06:33 | |
| And as raw materials used in the production of other products. | 00:06:35 | |
| People may be exposed directly from using these products, but as they are used or thrown away, they also enter our landfills and | 00:06:40 | |
| our wastewater treatment plants. | 00:06:44 | |
| And in turn can be released into the environment where they can accumulate and do not easily breakdown. From there. They may end | 00:06:49 | |
| up in our food or our drinking water. | 00:06:53 | |
| With PFAS so common in the world today, it's not surprising that we find these chemicals in our bodies as well. | 00:07:00 | |
| The CDC has measured PFAS in the US population since 1999 and has found that PFAS are present in the blood of 99% of Americans. | 00:07:06 | |
| However, since 2002 the production and use of two of the most common PFAS, PFOA and PF OS. | 00:07:16 | |
| Has declined, and researchers have seen a corresponding decline in blood levels. | 00:07:25 | |
| In the case of PFOS, by more than 85%. | 00:07:30 | |
| Therefore, despite their forever chemical nickname, we can see that reducing exposure to these chemicals can have a positive | 00:07:34 | |
| impact on the levels in our bodies. | 00:07:38 | |
| These thoughts are not currently regulated at the national level or in Arizona. | 00:07:43 | |
| The US Environmental Protection Agency first released provisional PFAS health advisories in 2009, which defined advisory levels | 00:07:48 | |
| for PFOA and PF OS. | 00:07:54 | |
| Since that time, the advisory levels have been revised lower, first in 2016 and again in 2022, and were expanded to include | 00:08:00 | |
| additional compounds, PFBS and Genex chemicals. | 00:08:06 | |
| Health advisories are not legally enforceable. They identify the concentration of the contaminant in drinking water at which | 00:08:13 | |
| adverse health effects are not anticipated to occur over a lifetime. | 00:08:18 | |
| In March 2023, EPA took the next step. | 00:08:25 | |
| After many years of study and recent research, EPA proposed a national primary drinking water regulation. | 00:08:28 | |
| The proposed regulation would create a maximum contaminant level, or MCL, for six common PFAS. | 00:08:35 | |
| And MCL is the maximum concentration of the contaminant allowed in drinking water that can be delivered by a public water system. | 00:08:41 | |
| EPA has proposed to regulate PFOA and PFOS at a level of four parts per trillion, while four other Pfas are proposed to be | 00:08:49 | |
| regulated as a mixture using a standard calculation called a hazard index. | 00:08:56 | |
| These proposed MCL's were developed by EPA to account for chronic exposures to low levels of PFAS over time at concentrations | 00:09:03 | |
| typically found in drinking water. They're not dangerous in the same way as acute water contaminants like E coli, which may be | 00:09:09 | |
| dangerous if consumed even once. | 00:09:15 | |
| It may be helpful to understand the unit of measure that's being used by EPA for the proposed regulation. One part per trillion is | 00:09:22 | |
| equivalent to a single drop of water in 20 Olympic sized swimming pools. | 00:09:28 | |
| So this hopefully gives you an idea of just how small these numbers really are and also how cautious EPA is being about the long | 00:09:34 | |
| term risks associated with exposure to PFAS in our drinking water. | 00:09:40 | |
| 18 Q is closely following Pfaff developments at the federal level, and the EPA has developed a road map that lays out their | 00:09:46 | |
| commitment to take specific actions. | 00:09:51 | |
| It's expected that EPA will finalize the proposed drinking water regulation within the next year. | 00:09:56 | |
| However, implementation of the final rule will occur three years later, giving States and water providers the time needed to | 00:10:01 | |
| address contamination. | 00:10:06 | |
| In addition to drinking water regulations, EPA has proposed designating certain PFAS as hazardous substances. | 00:10:11 | |
| Which would allow the state and federal government to hold polluters accountable. | 00:10:18 | |
| An EPA has also proposed aquatic life standards to help protect wildlife in our streams and rivers. | 00:10:22 | |
| These are all just a few of the many federal PFAS developments that are expected over the next several years. | 00:10:29 | |
| So what is ADEQ doing about PFAS in Arizona? | 00:10:36 | |
| And Q is taking several steps to protect public health and help our state prepare for future EPA actions. | 00:10:39 | |
| Beginning in 20/18/80, Q conducted targeted screening efforts to understand the scope of PFAS impact in Arizona. | 00:10:47 | |
| This testing included drinking water, groundwater, wastewater and biosolids. | 00:10:55 | |
| In 2023, we began A comprehensive PFAS testing program to make sure that all of Arizona's regulated drinking water systems are | 00:11:01 | |
| sampled for PFAS in advance of federal regulations. | 00:11:07 | |
| If PFAS are detected, we can begin working right away with affected water providers to collect more data, find solutions and | 00:11:13 | |
| identify funding to reduce exposure to PFAS. | 00:11:18 | |
| We'll have more details on this important program in just a moment. | 00:11:24 | |
| While we're actively working to protect drinking water, we're also trying to identify the most effective ways to prevent more PFAS | 00:11:27 | |
| from entering our environment. | 00:11:32 | |
| Any Key recently piloted a program to help Arizona fire departments stop their use of PFAS containing aqueous film forming foams | 00:11:36 | |
| known as a Triple F. | 00:11:41 | |
| The program was allocated $395,000 during fiscal year 2023, which allowed us to take back and replace foam from over 50 fire | 00:11:47 | |
| stations, removing over 9000 gallons of PFAS containing foam from being used. We had 275 gallons that we no longer brutalizing | 00:11:53 | |
| because of risk. | 00:11:59 | |
| Had truck easily pulled up, loaded it and unloaded that at 500 that will now be able to distribute to our drugs. | 00:12:06 | |
| Being involved in this program and it was so essential and critical for us to get rid of these chemicals. | 00:12:14 | |
| As mentioned earlier, Aiding and Q is currently engaged in a comprehensive statewide effort to ensure that all regulated water | 00:12:19 | |
| systems are tested for PFAS. | 00:12:23 | |
| EPA is currently requiring that systems serving 3300 customers or more sample their drinking water for PFAS. | 00:12:28 | |
| However, in the state of Arizona, the majority of systems serve fewer than 3300 people and will not be sampled under the EPA | 00:12:36 | |
| program. | 00:12:40 | |
| Therefore, 80 Q has committed to using $3 million of federal Safe Drinking Water Act funds to sample these small water systems and | 00:12:44 | |
| help ensure that all regulated water systems in Arizona will be tested. | 00:12:50 | |
| Results are generally provided to water systems within two to four weeks of sampling and are posted to the ADQ website. | 00:12:56 | |
| If PFAS are detected, 80Q provides the system with the PFAS toolkit, especially developed to help water systems meet the | 00:13:03 | |
| challenges of this may cause. | 00:13:08 | |
| The toolkit includes information on funding, customer communication and potential next steps. | 00:13:14 | |
| Systems are asked to follow EPA recommendations to inform their customers of the results. | 00:13:20 | |
| Our program to test small drinking water systems has a number of benefits for the systems and their customers. | 00:13:26 | |
| First, it provides PFAS sampling to systems at no charge, potentially saving them thousands of dollars. | 00:13:32 | |
| These systems can then be notified of PFAS detections much earlier than if they wait until they are required to sample under | 00:13:39 | |
| forthcoming federal regulations. | 00:13:43 | |
| For those systems with PFAS concentrations higher than the EPA's proposed limits, they can get a head start planning for expanded | 00:13:49 | |
| testing, evaluating potential solutions. | 00:13:54 | |
| And applying for federal funding if necessary. | 00:13:59 | |
| With many systems across the nation facing similar challenges, it's important that Arizona's drinking water providers begin | 00:14:03 | |
| planning to meet the new rules as soon as possible. | 00:14:07 | |
| So what can you do if PFAS is detected in your drinking water? | 00:14:12 | |
| If your water is confirmed to contain PFAS, in many cases action is not necessary immediately. You can choose to reduce your | 00:14:16 | |
| exposure as soon as possible by not using untreated water for activities like drinking, cooking, washing produce, brushing teeth, | 00:14:22 | |
| or preparing formula. | 00:14:28 | |
| However, it's generally safe to continue using untreated water for activities like washing dishes, showering laundry, swimming and | 00:14:34 | |
| watering your yard. | 00:14:39 | |
| If you have concerns about PFAS in your water, there are a number of at home treatments available such as activated covenants and | 00:14:44 | |
| verse osmosis. | 00:14:48 | |
| You can check sources such as the NSF. | 00:14:53 | |
| Or your local filter installer For more information on effective treatment systems for your home. | 00:14:56 | |
| It should be noted that boiling water will not remove PFAS and bottled water providers are not required to test for PFAS, so use | 00:15:01 | |
| caution if you choose to drink bottled water. | 00:15:06 | |
| Pizzas can be a complicated topic and this presentation is meant only as a brief introduction. | 00:15:12 | |
| If you'd like to learn more about PFAS in Arizona. | 00:15:18 | |
| Please visit our My Community web page. | 00:15:21 | |
| There you can find a map displaying the results of statewide PFAS screening and links to other helpful resources. | 00:15:24 | |
| If you'd like to talk with someone directly, we have staff available to speak with you and answer any questions you might have. | 00:15:31 | |
| Thank you for listening. | 00:15:38 | |
| Xbox recently? | 00:15:43 | |
| Any questions I can answer? I'll bet there are Matt. Supervisor, Humphrey. | 00:15:47 | |
| Well. | 00:15:51 | |
| I I don't have a lot of questions. | 00:15:52 | |
| Because it was pretty explanatory and went through it, and they're going to be checking for it and it just seemed like they're | 00:15:56 | |
| going to sell an awful lot of osmosis purifiers because boiling water, nothing else will fix it. | 00:16:01 | |
| So. | 00:16:08 | |
| I I that that's what I got out of the presentation. | 00:16:10 | |
| And you know, I mean. | 00:16:13 | |
| And the funding for? | 00:16:15 | |
| All of this is, you know, it's it's for the water companies. | 00:16:17 | |
| Not necessarily the individuals that want to put a purifying system. | 00:16:20 | |
| On their home, is that correct? Correct. But the hope is that the the water systems will install treatment or find other ways that | 00:16:24 | |
| there's other ways to lower exposure to PFAS. So you know maybe turning off an impacted well if there's multiple wells versus them | 00:16:31 | |
| or or other things. But the hope is that the systems will be serving clean water, so that this. | 00:16:38 | |
| The burden doesn't go into the customers. And is this a federally? | 00:16:46 | |
| Funded. | 00:16:49 | |
| Process. | 00:16:51 | |
| So, so there is funding available to these water providers to help them initially. | 00:16:53 | |
| Eventually the you know, the cost of running the system with additional treatment will likely be borne by the water providers | 00:17:01 | |
| themselves, but there's a lot of funding available initially for systems to to help them find solutions to this. | 00:17:09 | |
| I I mean. | 00:17:17 | |
| The the people that are testing the systems. | 00:17:19 | |
| Is that a federally funded program? Yeah, so, so, so it's it's sort of both. So the larger systems that's a federally funded | 00:17:22 | |
| program, EPA is requiring these systems to to treat, but most of our systems in Arizona are smaller systems. | 00:17:29 | |
| And so that's where AQ stepping in now. We are using mostly federal funding to do that, but it's actually a DQ that's stepping in | 00:17:36 | |
| and doing the sampling right now. | 00:17:40 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chair. | 00:17:46 | |
| Thank you. | 00:17:47 | |
| Supervisor Christensen. | 00:17:48 | |
| Thank you, Chairman. Thank you, Matt. Very interesting. I've never heard of it before. | 00:17:49 | |
| And. | 00:17:55 | |
| You're saying that this does not naturally occur in our water. These are 100% chemicals. | 00:17:56 | |
| So when I see Christopher Creek, Jakes Corner Rim, Trail, Strawberry, how, I mean how those are very rural areas. So just | 00:18:02 | |
| interesting to think first of all. | 00:18:07 | |
| A part per trillion is an extremely small. | 00:18:13 | |
| Number. I don't even know how you find something that can test that, but. | 00:18:18 | |
| You know, that's a million, million parts. | 00:18:22 | |
| So yes, anyway. | 00:18:25 | |
| It's, it's how dangerous is this really and how does it end up in our rural areas? Yeah, so, So one of the things that kind of | 00:18:27 | |
| sets PFAS apart from a lot of other chemicals that we deal with is the fact that it bioaccumulates. So it can accumulate in plants | 00:18:33 | |
| and animals and can accumulate in our bodies. And that's part of the reason why EPA is concerned with such low levels because | 00:18:40 | |
| essentially our our bodies can't pass it out. | 00:18:46 | |
| Fast enough or faster than it's coming in and so it'll tend to build up. So even though we might be drinking these low levels, it | 00:18:53 | |
| can build up overtime. But you are right, these are very, very low numbers. The EPA, you know is looking at all sorts of | 00:18:58 | |
| uncertainty factors and trying to make sure that they're. | 00:19:04 | |
| Limiting this as much as possible and what we're We're drinking. | 00:19:11 | |
| OK. | 00:19:16 | |
| Alright. | 00:19:16 | |
| If something is passed legislatively, how will that affect us? | 00:19:18 | |
| Meaning if the border supervisors or. | 00:19:24 | |
| The county. | 00:19:27 | |
| So, so I think that the biggest thing is these making sure that these drinking water providers are are able to come incline, so | 00:19:29 | |
| you know for example for the county. So first of all we want to come here to make sure that you guys are informed of what we're | 00:19:36 | |
| doing that we're doing the sampling. So if you're going to questions about you know some of the sampling or these results, you | 00:19:44 | |
| know what's going on but then beyond that to be able to advocate for for funding so we have a a small water system fund. | 00:19:51 | |
| That it's really important that that gets funded because those funds go directly to these small water providers to help them in | 00:19:58 | |
| situations like this. | 00:20:02 | |
| So being able to help advocate for that on things like you saw the. | 00:20:07 | |
| Are the Triple F removal program so going to these rural fire departments and helping them to change out because that could be | 00:20:11 | |
| expensive to change out the the firefighting foam that had PFAS in it. | 00:20:17 | |
| So, so being able to find systems like that that that would be a real help from. | 00:20:23 | |
| OK. I appreciate it, Matt. Thanks. Thank you, Chairman. | 00:20:27 | |
| So Matt, did did you say in there that they don't test these? | 00:20:31 | |
| Correct. How come? | 00:20:35 | |
| Well, the FDA is, is in charge of rules for bottled water. It's not the EPA, it's the FDA, it's a food product. And so they, they | 00:20:37 | |
| don't have any regulations right now that requires bottled water providers to test for it. So it's not necessarily saying that | 00:20:44 | |
| it's there, although some studies have shown that there are. They've shown PFAS and bottled water, but we just don't know. | 00:20:51 | |
| So because they're not testing for it, I that that kind of amazes me because everybody drinks these, you know, bottled water these | 00:20:58 | |
| days. | 00:21:02 | |
| Yeah. | 00:21:06 | |
| Well, thank you for your presentation. | 00:21:07 | |
| Thanks for coming out and taking time. And Mr. Chairman. Yeah, of course. Yeah, go ahead on the handout that you that is being | 00:21:09 | |
| shown up here. We've got a list of water companies in HeLa County. | 00:21:15 | |
| There's certainly not all the water companies and Henry County that are listed. | 00:21:22 | |
| Most notably Clove and Arizona Water Company. That's in. | 00:21:26 | |
| Right here in. | 00:21:30 | |
| Gold Miami area. | 00:21:31 | |
| Why are they not listed and does that mean well? | 00:21:33 | |
| Yeah. So that's a really good question. So what's, what's on the fact sheet, This is our AQ's program to sample the smaller water | 00:21:37 | |
| providers. So the larger water providers are being sampled by EPA and that sampling is ongoing over the next couple of years. So | 00:21:43 | |
| we don't have those results in yet. The water providers themselves, for those larger water providers, they're going to be doing | 00:21:49 | |
| the sampling and then and then they're going to be getting those results back. AQ won't get them directly. So what these are are | 00:21:55 | |
| all the smaller. | 00:22:01 | |
| Other providers that we've gone out and sampled and then actually this list is subset of those. | 00:22:07 | |
| Because this is just showing the systems where we've actually detected Ppas. | 00:22:12 | |
| There's a number of systems, so it's 46 total systems that we've sampled to date. | 00:22:17 | |
| And of those, 28 which are listed here have had PFAS detections. | 00:22:21 | |
| Mr. Chairman, So there's of the 28 that are listed, there's some that say, yes, that means they're above the one park trillion. | 00:22:26 | |
| If they say no, then they're they're detected below the one part trillion. Yeah, so, so the the limit there that the yes or the no | 00:22:33 | |
| is what EPA is proposing is the limit. | 00:22:38 | |
| Um, so. | 00:22:43 | |
| Primarily it's about four parts per trillion depending on the chemical. But yeah, so the ones that say yes are. | 00:22:45 | |
| Would be if the proposed regulation is put into place, those would exceed the regulation. They would need to do something to to | 00:22:52 | |
| lower the amount in their water. | 00:22:56 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Judge, just one question. | 00:23:01 | |
| You say that the PFAS is in the firefighters foam that they're trying to replace. | 00:23:04 | |
| About the slurry that's dropped on rural fires. | 00:23:09 | |
| Is it contain it? It's a really good question. No, in general it does not. Those are phosphate based. So P pass is used primarily | 00:23:13 | |
| to control liquid fuel fires because the gasoline OK. | 00:23:19 | |
| You know, cause we we get a lot of fires and have had a lot of fire. So just a question that came up. Yeah, great question. Thank | 00:23:26 | |
| you very much. | 00:23:29 | |
| Matt, thank you. Thanks for being here. Thank you. | 00:23:34 | |
| All right, on to the TB public recognition of three employees through the County Spotlight on Employees program as follows. Reyes | 00:23:38 | |
| Barajas, Larry Dooley and John Desera and we have Erica this morning. | 00:23:45 | |
| Good morning. Morning. | 00:23:51 | |
| Again, thank you so much for your time today. | 00:23:53 | |
| Um, as mentioned, we do have three employees that were nominated for this month, and I'll read them off. | 00:23:56 | |
| Um, first and foremost we have raised Ross. Who? | 00:24:03 | |
| His Spotlight nomination read. | 00:24:07 | |
| A raise played a crucial role directly supporting the 2023 Globe in Miami Little League. | 00:24:09 | |
| Reyes worked with Little League officials to identify repairs, maintenance and support needs to prepare the baseball complex for | 00:24:15 | |
| the 2023 baseball season. | 00:24:19 | |
| Raise support of their creation of work orders, Maintenance Checklist, Resource allocation, task completion to ensure the baseball | 00:24:24 | |
| complex was in working order. | 00:24:28 | |
| Raised, his efforts successfully enabled hundreds of community members and youth to participate in Community Sport Ultimate, | 00:24:33 | |
| ultimately facilitating 235 baseball games. | 00:24:38 | |
| UM raises with facilities and has been with the county over 9 1/2 years and release. | 00:24:43 | |
| Yes, we just speech from this. Yeah. No, OK, just asking. | 00:24:54 | |
| Next we have Larry Dooley, his nomination read. | 00:25:02 | |
| UM Larry played a critical role in enabling the success of the courthouse electrical project. It was imperative that the | 00:25:06 | |
| electrical project went to plan, ensuring the continuation of Heela County Board of Supervisors, courts, recorders, assessors, | 00:25:11 | |
| treasurers. | 00:25:16 | |
| Sheriff's and school Superintendent operations. | 00:25:21 | |
| The process the project was a success due to Larry's direct support with logistics, communication and teamwork. | 00:25:24 | |
| Larry built a Power Distribution hub and installed a 777 kilowatt generator, safeguarding servers and communication. | 00:25:31 | |
| By providing emergent. | 00:25:39 | |
| Power and cooling. | 00:25:41 | |
| Once the project was completed, Larry worked with it, conducting inspections and reactivating communications. | 00:25:42 | |
| Larry is also with facilities and has been with the county over 13 years. Larry. | 00:25:49 | |
| You're welcome to give the speech as well. | 00:26:01 | |
| Congratulations, Larry. | 00:26:05 | |
| And next we have a John Desera. | 00:26:08 | |
| John also directly supported the 2023 Globe and Miami Little League. | 00:26:12 | |
| John Tyler tirelessly worked the baseball complex with field preparation, mowing, trash removal, watering, cleaning and conducting | 00:26:16 | |
| repairs. | 00:26:21 | |
| His efforts of preparing the baseball complex enabled the 2023 baseball season to kick off on schedule. | 00:26:25 | |
| John's hard work ensured the baseball complex was in working order throughout the season, successfully enabling hundreds of | 00:26:32 | |
| community members and youth to participate. | 00:26:36 | |
| And again, ultimately facilitating 235 baseball games. | 00:26:40 | |
| John is also with facilities and has been with the county over 13 years. John. | 00:26:44 | |
| Thank you, guys. Congratulations. Thank you. | 00:26:58 | |
| And that does conclude our spotlight sensation Erica. Thank you Supervisor Humphrey and comments. | 00:27:01 | |
| No, just thank you for all you do. We appreciate it very much. | 00:27:08 | |
| Supervisor Christiansen, thank you, Chairman. Thank you, Erica. And you know, it just goes to show we have the best employees. | 00:27:12 | |
| I did want to share something though. | 00:27:19 | |
| Because Reyes and John. | 00:27:21 | |
| Told me that they get a really great support from the incarceration, the, the. | 00:27:24 | |
| Prisoners. | 00:27:31 | |
| That come and help and there's about four of them, they said. | 00:27:32 | |
| And they do a fantastic job as well and I know we don't recognize them, but I just wanted to kind of do a shout out to say. | 00:27:35 | |
| That that program. | 00:27:43 | |
| Is beneficial to them and to us as well. | 00:27:45 | |
| So thank you. | 00:27:49 | |
| Thank you, guys. Good job. Thank you, Erica. Thank you. | 00:27:51 | |
| Okay Honda 2C Presentation of March 31st. | 00:27:55 | |
| 23 through April 30th, 23 and May 31st 23 Helen County financial data as it compares to the Fiscal year 23 HeLa County budget. | 00:27:59 | |
| And fiscal years 2020 2/21/20 and 19 year to date performance. Good morning Mayor. | 00:28:09 | |
| It's OK we got them now. | 00:28:21 | |
| Yeah. | 00:28:22 | |
| Sorry about that. My my agenda quick and I were not apparently cooperating with each other. | 00:28:38 | |
| So what each of you have are the past three months bar charts. | 00:28:43 | |
| That will go in the budget book. | 00:28:48 | |
| And those just show you and our constituents. | 00:28:50 | |
| Where we were relative to budget and that month. | 00:28:54 | |
| Targets. | 00:28:59 | |
| There's nothing super interesting in them and I know you've been through several presentations already this morning, so. | 00:29:01 | |
| I'm just going to give you the highlights for the month of May and then we'll be back. | 00:29:07 | |
| Probably in September with an update on where we ended through the year. | 00:29:13 | |
| So at the end of May 2023, which is 11 months into the fiscal year. | 00:29:18 | |
| Our general fund revenues were 89% of the annual budget. | 00:29:23 | |
| Which compares to 92% target. | 00:29:27 | |
| And in total. | 00:29:31 | |
| We were 1.6 million over the same time in 2022. | 00:29:33 | |
| Of that 1.6 excise tax made-up almost half of it with $741,000 in additional excise tax. | 00:29:39 | |
| And 18% of additional state shared sales tax. | 00:29:48 | |
| For expenditures. | 00:29:53 | |
| We were at 92% of the budget. | 00:29:55 | |
| Including encumbrances compared to 92% year to date target, which is exactly where you want to be, we were $5 million higher than | 00:29:59 | |
| the previous year. | 00:30:03 | |
| Um, and of that 2.3 million was encumbrances. | 00:30:08 | |
| And then? | 00:30:14 | |
| Compared to the prior year, our salaries were salaries and benefits were about. | 00:30:15 | |
| $4 million over the previous year. | 00:30:21 | |
| And then we had a couple other line items that were a little higher. So that summaries right there on the front page. | 00:30:23 | |
| Including a little bit of extra detail. | 00:30:29 | |
| So that you. | 00:30:32 | |
| As our supervisors and the public when we bring the budget book in a few months. | 00:30:33 | |
| Um, so that that data is available and we're being transparent? | 00:30:38 | |
| And so you, as the supervisors know, and so the general public knows, are. | 00:30:42 | |
| Financial data is uploaded quarterly to the state transparency site. | 00:30:46 | |
| And members of the public or members of staff or elected officials can go on that page. | 00:30:51 | |
| And use the different tools to see what kind of graphs and stuff you get out of that. They're not as granular as what we give you | 00:30:56 | |
| here for general funds, but they are transaction by transaction. | 00:31:03 | |
| So anybody that wanted to see could go look at that. | 00:31:10 | |
| Happy to answer any questions and happy to make sure I attach my attachments correctly next time. | 00:31:13 | |
| Thank you, Mayor Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:31:20 | |
| I have no questions. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Christensen. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. No questions. Good job as usual. | 00:31:22 | |
| Mayor, thank you so much for putting that together. Thank you to all the department heads and elected to make it possible to | 00:31:26 | |
| present. | 00:31:30 | |
| Data that. | 00:31:34 | |
| Shows everybody's doing really well. Sure does. So thank you so much. | 00:31:36 | |
| OK, we'll get on to #3 public hearings. | 00:31:41 | |
| And we'll start with three AM information, discussion, action. | 00:31:45 | |
| To consider a liquor license application counting number L-23-12. | 00:31:50 | |
| Submitted by Monica Goodwin for the transfer of the Series 6 BAR license. | 00:31:57 | |
| With an interim permit to operate at the Weekender. | 00:32:02 | |
| At 1:20 rolls drive. | 00:32:06 | |
| Located in Strawberry and issued a recommendation to the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses. | 00:32:09 | |
| And control whether the license should be granted. | 00:32:15 | |
| Sam, you ready for this? | 00:32:18 | |
| Just one second, I wanted to confirm something here really quick. | 00:32:29 | |
| Yeah. | 00:32:33 | |
| OK, as stated, this is a Series 12 restaurant liquor license application for the weekend or located in Strawberry. | 00:32:42 | |
| The county does have an internal review process whereby the treasurer reviews the application and ensures that the applicant is | 00:32:48 | |
| current on property tax payments for all properties owned in Hewitt County. | 00:32:53 | |
| The health department and the building permitting department both review the application. To date, there have been issues reported | 00:32:59 | |
| for the Weekender by the building permitting department relevant to that area of review, to which I'll ask Randy Plummer to | 00:33:04 | |
| explain. | 00:33:08 | |
| He come on up. | 00:33:14 | |
| The Weekender. | 00:33:17 | |
| We. | 00:33:18 | |
| Good morning, Chairman. So the issue that we found on this one is. | 00:33:20 | |
| It is the wrong address. This address is going to 105. | 00:33:25 | |
| I believe Paul or. | 00:33:31 | |
| Raleigh just 120 Rolls Drive and their structure is 7. | 00:33:33 | |
| Something. | 00:33:39 | |
| I can't remember the exact number but the. | 00:33:40 | |
| They have had it at that Weekender and I think that number has been used in the past. | 00:33:43 | |
| But during our review we saw that it had the wrong address. | 00:33:49 | |
| The I believe the applicant stated that they called. | 00:33:53 | |
| Liquor board. | 00:33:58 | |
| It was. That was the number of heck that was out there when. | 00:34:00 | |
| It first started. | 00:34:02 | |
| But it's the wrong address, so we denied it on our part. | 00:34:04 | |
| Wrong structure so. | 00:34:09 | |
| They don't even own the property that when we did our research for that number. | 00:34:11 | |
| OK. | 00:34:17 | |
| Ready for questions? Certainly, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:34:19 | |
| Yeah, well. | 00:34:24 | |
| Yeah, my question is, is the wrong address. Is the wrong address. | 00:34:24 | |
| And, you know, applying for one in one place and having it at another. Great difficulties I would, I would think. | 00:34:29 | |
| And if we passed it on to the. | 00:34:36 | |
| State liquor board of the wrong address. I I don't know that I could support that. | 00:34:39 | |
| Myself so. | 00:34:45 | |
| No further questions, Supervisor Chris. | 00:34:47 | |
| So one of the, if you Google search the 120 rolls versus the 7000 whatever and we did that this morning with Samantha, they're | 00:34:49 | |
| like virtually the same spot. | 00:34:55 | |
| Or are they not? | 00:35:00 | |
| When I googled them with staff, we found an empty field and the structure. | 00:35:02 | |
| Well, so we went on their Facebook page. We did the Google. | 00:35:07 | |
| So the 1:05 or the 1/20 shows an empty field. | 00:35:11 | |
| And then the seven. | 00:35:15 | |
| I'm sorry, I don't know, but we went through their their Facebook page and Google Earth and it shows the actual building. | 00:35:18 | |
| So they're kind of adjacent, are they? Even though the numbers are way far right, They they yes. And that street is not big. It's | 00:35:27 | |
| not huge. | 00:35:30 | |
| It could be, but the show two different owners. | 00:35:34 | |
| So my only question would be. | 00:35:37 | |
| What kind of legal jeopardy does that put us in if we? | 00:35:39 | |
| Go ahead and pass this without that correction being made. | 00:35:42 | |
| Chairman A member supervisors. | 00:35:48 | |
| So just to so that the board understands, you are not passing anything, you're not approving the liquor license. What you're doing | 00:35:49 | |
| is you're submitting a recommendation over to the liquor board who then makes the determination themselves. So your | 00:35:54 | |
| recommendation? | 00:35:59 | |
| Typically looks like something. | 00:36:05 | |
| Yes, we would go ahead and submit a recommendation for the liquor board to approve this. | 00:36:07 | |
| Here what you could do is. | 00:36:13 | |
| So that that recommendation, but indicate that it's the wrong address. | 00:36:15 | |
| OK. | 00:36:20 | |
| Alright, that's. | 00:36:21 | |
| Very helpful. Thank you. That's all I have. | 00:36:23 | |
| So, Jessica, I mean, if if it's just a matter of wrong address, isn't that an easy fix correction? | 00:36:26 | |
| If they have, I I'm not sure what the documentation looks like, but I'm assuming that the applicant is submitting A fiscal address | 00:36:35 | |
| there or a physical address. | 00:36:40 | |
| And you would have to clarify that what's pulling up on our books is something different. | 00:36:46 | |
| So we may have a chance here in just a minute to ask that question. I'm just I guess I'm curious if if the owner just messed up on | 00:36:52 | |
| the address and got the. | 00:36:56 | |
| Whatever wrong, Herman is a owner there and I think in person. | 00:37:01 | |
| She's there, yeah. I think she's at the podium when patient, so when I opened it up for. | 00:37:06 | |
| I'm here. | 00:37:10 | |
| Sure. OK. When you open up for public hearing, she can. Yeah. If you'll just hang on real tight, I'll have you. | 00:37:11 | |
| Talk about here in a minute. I just. I just. | 00:37:18 | |
| I'm just sitting here thinking if it's. | 00:37:21 | |
| It's not at this address. It should be this one. It should be an easy fix I guess, my simple way. And that was kind of what staff | 00:37:23 | |
| thought too, but. | 00:37:27 | |
| Like said, we didn't want to approve something that had the wrong address. No, I'm. I'm glad you brought to our attention. I mean, | 00:37:32 | |
| yeah, absolutely so. | 00:37:35 | |
| You guys have anything else you want to come in or see? | 00:37:40 | |
| I'm good, thank you. The only thing that I was concerned about because I have no objection to the to. | 00:37:43 | |
| Approving. | 00:37:48 | |
| But the uh that there would be no legal consequence. | 00:37:49 | |
| Because it was posted at 1:20, but the actual address is not not actually right there, but. | 00:37:54 | |
| I'm hearing from Jessica that we could make a motion that clarifies that in the motion. | 00:38:02 | |
| I think Jerry District has got more to add. Yes, chairman, members, supervisors. | 00:38:09 | |
| It's quite interesting. So there's no statutory authority. | 00:38:13 | |
| Giving the board the ability to submit this recommendation to the Liquor Licensing Control Board. However, they are asking the | 00:38:17 | |
| county for their input. | 00:38:21 | |
| OK. I think we've been down this road in the past and the weekenders been there. I don't want to leave any. | 00:38:26 | |
| Misconstrued that that that structure is fine. It's just some strong address, OK? | 00:38:34 | |
| Ohh, are we good for you guys? | 00:38:41 | |
| Alright, so at this time I'll open it up for public. | 00:38:44 | |
| Comments and we'll start with you there and. | 00:38:48 | |
| And pace and just let us know your name and. | 00:38:50 | |
| Address all that. | 00:38:53 | |
| Monica. | 00:38:55 | |
| And. | 00:38:57 | |
| Finish the reason why they've never redone it. | 00:39:04 | |
| And because whoever did it back in the past. | 00:39:07 | |
| Did that with the liquor board and with the liquor board. If you change, if you're just not transferring, if you change | 00:39:10 | |
| everything, you have to go, You have to go through the whole process of reapplying and even just to transfer. | 00:39:17 | |
| It takes. | 00:39:24 | |
| Numerous months to do that, but to reapply. | 00:39:25 | |
| For the address. | 00:39:30 | |
| Takes a lot longer and we're just trying to get. | 00:39:31 | |
| Everything kind of moving and everything and the names that it's supposed to be in. | 00:39:35 | |
| That that address has been recognized through. | 00:39:40 | |
| Google. It's recognized by the liquor board. It's recognized by Loopnet. | 00:39:43 | |
| It is a different address, but they do they are the same. | 00:39:48 | |
| For the Weekender. | 00:39:53 | |
| OK. | 00:39:55 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey, you have any questions for her? | 00:39:58 | |
| Yeah, I guess I do so. So being that's been licensed under the wrong address. | 00:40:03 | |
| We want to keep it licensed under the wrong address. | 00:40:08 | |
| Is that is that what I'm hearing? | 00:40:13 | |
| To make it to make it simpler. | 00:40:15 | |
| Yeah, so the the is is the person that that. | 00:40:17 | |
| Is the owner of this address aware? | 00:40:21 | |
| And and and and and OK with the fact that he's got a liquor license on his property. That's not his property or his liquor | 00:40:24 | |
| license. | 00:40:28 | |
| Yeah. | 00:40:33 | |
| OK. No more question. Welcome to North Arizona Supervisor Christensen. Yeah, thank you. I think I understand the predicament, | 00:40:37 | |
| Monica. | 00:40:42 | |
| So. | 00:40:47 | |
| I really have no questions. | 00:40:50 | |
| I really don't know what to ask at this point in time. | 00:40:52 | |
| You know I I. | 00:40:56 | |
| So how long is the weekend or been there? Monica, how long has this been going on? | 00:40:59 | |
| A bear prior to that. | 00:41:14 | |
| So we're talking back to. | 00:41:15 | |
| I think this is been at least. | 00:41:18 | |
| 1015 years, I think. Maybe even longer than that, I don't know. And this, this chairman that goes way back. It used to be the | 00:41:21 | |
| black bear and I've eaten there 40 years ago. I've eaten there, so. | 00:41:26 | |
| So I guess you know what? I what I'm hearing is, is part of this, this deal is our fault as well. I see we missed it in the past. | 00:41:32 | |
| No, no, no, not. | 00:41:36 | |
| We we missed. We missed. We missed in the hat dress there on this. I see. Go ahead, Jessica. | 00:41:40 | |
| The liquor board did. | 00:41:47 | |
| Since we're not statutorily required to do whatever. | 00:41:49 | |
| You're giving me a way out, aren't you, Jessica? | 00:41:54 | |
| Got it. I got it. | 00:41:57 | |
| Amazing. OK. | 00:42:00 | |
| Is there anybody here in Globe have anything to say about anybody else impatient want to talk on it? | 00:42:03 | |
| No one else. | 00:42:10 | |
| Monica, thank you. | 00:42:14 | |
| Thank you. And Cassie, is there anything on YouTube? I didn't think so. | 00:42:16 | |
| OK. | 00:42:21 | |
| So with that, I'll close the public public hearing and entertain a motion. | 00:42:21 | |
| Mr. Chairman, I will recommend I will move to recommend that the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control. | 00:42:26 | |
| Approved the liquor license application submitted by Monica Godwin or The Weekender, which is located on Walls Drive in | 00:42:33 | |
| Strawberry. | 00:42:38 | |
| Also, I can tell Mr. Chair. | 00:42:45 | |
| Having a motion and second all in favor, do so by saying aye, aye. | 00:42:48 | |
| Aye. | 00:42:52 | |
| Motion passes. | 00:42:53 | |
| OK. | 00:42:57 | |
| Yeah, I did. | 00:43:00 | |
| Yeah. | 00:43:01 | |
| I did. Are you sleep? | 00:43:02 | |
| OK, it's awful quiet over there. | 00:43:04 | |
| All right, on to 3B Information, discussion Action to consider a liquor license applicant application. | 00:43:07 | |
| Counting number L-23-13 submitted by Phoenix. | 00:43:13 | |
| Starsky. | 00:43:18 | |
| For a new Series 4 wholesaler license at Marlow Wines. | 00:43:19 | |
| 9634 W Fossil Creek Rd. | 00:43:25 | |
| Located in Strawberry and issued a recommendation to the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses. | 00:43:28 | |
| And control where the license should be granted Sam. | 00:43:34 | |
| Thank you, Chairman Ask stated. This is a Series 4 wholesaler liquor license application for Marlow Wines located in Strawberry. | 00:43:39 | |
| The county does have an internal review process whereby the treasurer reviews the application and ensure the applicant is current | 00:43:47 | |
| and property tax payments for all properties owned in. | 00:43:51 | |
| New accounting. | 00:43:56 | |
| The health department and building permitting department both review the application. To date, there have been issues reported | 00:43:57 | |
| from Marla Wines both by the health department and the building permitting department relevant to their area of review, which I | 00:44:02 | |
| asked that, Randy Plummer and Michael O'Driscoll explained. | 00:44:07 | |
| Mona Penny. | 00:44:14 | |
| Normally these are so easy. | 00:44:16 | |
| So this one is in the middle of the neighborhood which is zoned R1. | 00:44:19 | |
| And there are deed restrictions that say no businesses are allowed on this property. | 00:44:24 | |
| Um, so during our review process? | 00:44:29 | |
| With the home business like this. | 00:44:32 | |
| And the serious forest allows for taste testing. And we've kind of. | 00:44:35 | |
| Whether they do that or not, that is allowed under that series 4. | 00:44:39 | |
| And that's not what's supposed to be going on in this neighborhood. | 00:44:44 | |
| As the zoning. | 00:44:49 | |
| And again, there were. We looked at options for them to move forward. | 00:44:50 | |
| There are deed restrictions and say no businesses. | 00:44:55 | |
| And the structure of the garage does not meet the requirements. This would be an S2. | 00:44:58 | |
| Change in a garage is normally a you. | 00:45:04 | |
| So there would be structural or not structural change, but there have to be. | 00:45:07 | |
| Some reading. | 00:45:11 | |
| Changes that could occur. | 00:45:13 | |
| Or maybe be needed to to require depends on the. | 00:45:15 | |
| Alcohol limit on a wines and wines can be. | 00:45:19 | |
| Quite high in 10, some are fairly low so. | 00:45:23 | |
| It would go into an S2 requirement as far as the building code would require. | 00:45:26 | |
| OK, and did Michael did lesson from the health department? | 00:45:32 | |
| Thank you, Chairman. Members of the Board and currently the Health department can't sign off on this liquor license because. | 00:45:38 | |
| It's in a residential property. | 00:45:45 | |
| And the board, or planning and zoning, hasn't voted. | 00:45:47 | |
| To allow that type of business. | 00:45:51 | |
| In a residential property. | 00:45:53 | |
| But if that does come to fruition? | 00:45:55 | |
| Then they would have to adhere to the FDA 2017 food code construction guidelines. | 00:45:58 | |
| For any type of um. | 00:46:04 | |
| Food product and the state health department does define a food product as a winery, brewery or distillery. | 00:46:07 | |
| So that's where the health department stands right now. | 00:46:14 | |
| OK. Thank you, Michael. Supervisor Humphrey questions, comments. | 00:46:17 | |
| I don't have any question and my comments are is the it's you know the deed restrictions are against it. | 00:46:24 | |
| Of buildings not suitable for commercial. | 00:46:30 | |
| Health department doesn't support it. | 00:46:33 | |
| That's my only comment. | 00:46:35 | |
| Supervisor Christiansen, thank you. Thank you, Michael and Randy. So this is a, this is a interesting one. | 00:46:37 | |
| Because. | 00:46:45 | |
| We theoretically could approve. | 00:46:46 | |
| The liquor license. | 00:46:48 | |
| Knowing that the consequence of ever using that is extremely unlikely. | 00:46:50 | |
| If you understand my comment, so we could approve the license, but he would not be able to use it because he's in a residential | 00:46:57 | |
| area. He'd restrictions he'd have to apply for a CU P. | 00:47:03 | |
| To do it. | 00:47:08 | |
| Is that correct? Correct, Sir. And even if the liquor Commission in of Arizona? | 00:47:09 | |
| Issues of liquor license they still would not be able to use their home until they go through the process of going through | 00:47:15 | |
| planning and zoning, getting the deed restrictions lifted. | 00:47:20 | |
| As well as dealing with the health department, so normally. | 00:47:26 | |
| Would you do that first before you did this or correct anyway? It just seems out of order to me. | 00:47:30 | |
| And even though I I encourage business and everything, it seems to be the wrong location. | 00:47:38 | |
| For this type of business to me. | 00:47:43 | |
| I don't know that the neighbors have had any input on this. They they. | 00:47:46 | |
| Wouldn't have because there's been no CP applied for. | 00:47:50 | |
| Correct, Sir. So part of the setup process is to reach out to the. | 00:47:54 | |
| Neighboring properties within 300 feet. | 00:47:59 | |
| Of this particular property and get their feedback whether they are for this or against this. | 00:48:02 | |
| OK. And then we bring it in front of the Planning and Zoning Commission. | 00:48:08 | |
| And after the Planning and Zoning Commission, we bring it in front of the board. | 00:48:12 | |
| OK. I think I understand. Thank you. You've got your. | 00:48:17 | |
| I don't think I have any questions or not I I all I, I well I would have one I guess is it coming up in front of planning and | 00:48:21 | |
| zoning sometime in the future Randy or do you know? | 00:48:26 | |
| Alright. | 00:48:31 | |
| No application for CP is applied for at this. OK. | 00:48:32 | |
| Alright, thanks guys. | 00:48:36 | |
| With that, I'll open up to public hearing and paste in. I believe we have one. Go ahead and state your name and. | 00:48:37 | |
| Where you're from and we'll go from there. | 00:48:45 | |
| Hey, my name is Felix Depsky. I'm the owner of Mala Wines and I'm also the the resident of that spoken resident. | 00:48:47 | |
| So we are a wine importer mainly. | 00:48:55 | |
| And I am applying for a liquor license in order to sell wine to retailers. | 00:48:58 | |
| How we do it? I I've never intended to do any kind of business out of my house. | 00:49:03 | |
| The only reason why we did that is because of the first shipment that we received which was 2 pallets of wine which is around 800 | 00:49:08 | |
| bottles which I have currently stored in my garage and while we are resetting up our business operations. | 00:49:15 | |
| But we have done so far we have. | 00:49:23 | |
| Done by attempting said premises and we all are such sales are on premise so we go to retailers directly and then sample mine and | 00:49:25 | |
| it said like if they would. | 00:49:29 | |
| Place an order. | 00:49:35 | |
| And we had lots of interest. So I'm already preparing my next shipment of wine, which is going to be way larger, which I can no | 00:49:36 | |
| longer possibly store at my own property. So I'm already having an agreement with city storage in placement. They have a climate | 00:49:41 | |
| controlled warehouse. | 00:49:46 | |
| And this is the place where we're going to store all our merchandise. | 00:49:52 | |
| So I never intend to do any kind of business at my property. | 00:49:55 | |
| I I went to the I looked, talked to the zoning department and they said. | 00:49:59 | |
| I would Ohh no actually I talked to Nicholas and they said if I wanna. | 00:50:04 | |
| Change my whole address. I would have to reapply for the entire license, withdraw my current license, and that would probably | 00:50:08 | |
| throw me back three to four months. | 00:50:11 | |
| And. | 00:50:16 | |
| So what I'm here to make my case that we as model wines are solely storing our first treatment at at my. | 00:50:17 | |
| Property right now, but I'm already moving all my merchandise over to city storage and my subsequent shipping will also be stored | 00:50:24 | |
| there. And it's a commercial area. It's way easier to to go in and out and I don't have to deal with anything at my own home. | 00:50:30 | |
| The only reason why we did it at my home was to get started. You know, I didn't. I didn't know how the wine is going to. | 00:50:37 | |
| Performance. A lot of people love it. So we are already preparing our next shipment and I didn't want to. | 00:50:43 | |
| Pay for a warehouse that I wasn't using for many months, but now everything seems to be going on and we're already moving to a | 00:50:48 | |
| warehouse, so that's my current situation here right now. | 00:50:53 | |
| All right, Felix, thank you. Supervisor Humphrey, you have questions for Felix. | 00:51:00 | |
| Just one. | 00:51:07 | |
| So the the. | 00:51:08 | |
| You're applied for liquor license for your home, correct? | 00:51:09 | |
| I while I applied for medical license, I applied for my home because I I wasn't really aware that my business had my property is | 00:51:14 | |
| business restricted. | 00:51:19 | |
| And I just needed to have an address to apply for the Nikolai license. You know, because I didn't have a commercial address yet, I | 00:51:24 | |
| didn't want to rent a warehouse. | 00:51:29 | |
| For many months without having anything in there, so I thought might as well just use my own address. | 00:51:33 | |
| Um. | 00:51:39 | |
| Yeah. | 00:51:40 | |
| But I never intended to do business out of my home. I never intend to do wine tastings at my home, and my wife would kill me if I | 00:51:41 | |
| would do that. But I I I literally have it to store my first pallet there, and they are already moving out to a storage. | 00:51:48 | |
| If, if I may ask, if you're not gonna do any business at your home and you're you're gonna move your storage to another place in | 00:51:56 | |
| town? | 00:52:01 | |
| Where are you going to do your business with the license that you're applying for? | 00:52:06 | |
| Our business is solely on premise, so I go to so it will be at your home. | 00:52:11 | |
| No, no, on premise at the at the retailers premise. So I go to the valley, I go to wine bars, I go to restaurants, I go there by | 00:52:17 | |
| myself person to person and then I'll sample the wine and if they like it, they put an order in and then I personally delivered | 00:52:23 | |
| the wine. So literally it's just sitting in a storage, I go into the storage, take the cap the the boxes out and drive to the | 00:52:29 | |
| retailer. | 00:52:35 | |
| OK. No, no further questions, Mr. Chair. | 00:52:44 | |
| Other than I, I've been to the. | 00:52:49 | |
| Liquor board before to try to go against some of the like because if you get a license, you get the license. | 00:52:52 | |
| And whatever comes with the license, it doesn't specify storage, it doesn't specify anything. | 00:52:59 | |
| And so I've been to Arizona, the liquor board, to try to put restrictions on a license for certain things. | 00:53:05 | |
| And and it was a real difficult deal. Hmm. And so in in in this case. | 00:53:12 | |
| I feel it would be difficult. | 00:53:21 | |
| Umm. | 00:53:23 | |
| Or. | 00:53:25 | |
| For a license for a residential area. | 00:53:27 | |
| That that's against the deed restriction. | 00:53:30 | |
| I'll get to you in a minute, James. Go ahead, Steve. | 00:53:34 | |
| Mr. Stepanski, thank you for the information sounds like you're having. | 00:53:38 | |
| A diminishing need to have it. | 00:53:44 | |
| At your home. | 00:53:47 | |
| But my question really is not to you, it's to either Randy or. | 00:53:49 | |
| Umm. | 00:53:54 | |
| Michael. | 00:53:56 | |
| Is Mr. Stepanski. | 00:53:58 | |
| Allowed right now with no changes of. | 00:54:00 | |
| Or in conditions from community development to simply store wine in his garage. | 00:54:04 | |
| And then eventually move it to another location. Is that allowed? | 00:54:12 | |
| It is not allowed to have a business operation. | 00:54:25 | |
| At his current address. | 00:54:29 | |
| It is garage. | 00:54:32 | |
| Now. | 00:54:33 | |
| I'll leave it at that. Is it considered a business? | 00:54:36 | |
| To have. | 00:54:40 | |
| A pass through his garage on the product. | 00:54:42 | |
| Would I come to someone's house and say if they have a bottle of wine? If that's a business, no. But they have submitted for the | 00:54:46 | |
| liquor license. | 00:54:50 | |
| And and put this down as the business address. | 00:54:54 | |
| So we would consider this a a business. | 00:54:57 | |
| That he has stated that he is running. | 00:55:01 | |
| You was taking the wine and and doing his taste testing and trying to sell it. | 00:55:03 | |
| This is a business. | 00:55:08 | |
| Currently. | 00:55:10 | |
| Yeah, he reapplies for a liquor license at another. | 00:55:11 | |
| Location. | 00:55:14 | |
| That would allow for it, but it has some wine in his garage. | 00:55:15 | |
| Ohh is he in violation? | 00:55:20 | |
| Of the code. | 00:55:22 | |
| Currently the. | 00:55:24 | |
| He just admitted that he has one in his garage right now. | 00:55:26 | |
| So is that a vague area? | 00:55:31 | |
| Well. | 00:55:34 | |
| He could turn around and you know currently what has stated that his violation. | 00:55:36 | |
| He says he is running the business and he is taking the first shipment and it started in in his garage. | 00:55:42 | |
| So that is a violation of his deed restrictions. | 00:55:48 | |
| And of the zoning. | 00:55:51 | |
| Again when I come out and if you had a pile of wine in your garage that you were consuming. | 00:55:54 | |
| Is that a violation? No. | 00:55:59 | |
| But. | 00:56:01 | |
| Per the applicant and trying to get a liquor license for that address. | 00:56:02 | |
| Yes, that is a violation. | 00:56:07 | |
| OK. | 00:56:09 | |
| I just wanted to be clear on that. So I think Mr. Stefanski's looking maybe for some direction and that would be to continue | 00:56:11 | |
| seeking a different location and he may need to apply for another location. | 00:56:17 | |
| Due to the fact that it makes it very difficult for us. | 00:56:24 | |
| To approve something that's not going to work. | 00:56:28 | |
| Once he applies for a CU P. | 00:56:33 | |
| Right. And it sounds like he's found another warehouse. | 00:56:35 | |
| Right. That may be totally compliant. It's impatient. So really probably is not us. | 00:56:39 | |
| At that moment, then, it would be the town of Patient. | 00:56:44 | |
| They would go out and inspect to make sure that that. | 00:56:46 | |
| Businesses allowed there. | 00:56:50 | |
| Umm. | 00:56:52 | |
| So if that address was changed to there. | 00:56:53 | |
| I don't believe it would even be in front of you. Well, and I know of another person's good friend that was in the wine wholesale | 00:56:56 | |
| business. | 00:57:00 | |
| Lived in Elk Ridge. OK in Payson. | 00:57:05 | |
| Ohh and could not operate. | 00:57:10 | |
| Her business to her home, even though it was simply storage. | 00:57:12 | |
| So that's why I'm asking that specific question and again there there's. | 00:57:17 | |
| Alcohol content in wines. | 00:57:23 | |
| I went through this several times. Is is a pretty packed big difference. | 00:57:26 | |
| And 15% is the. | 00:57:30 | |
| Kind of the threshold number. | 00:57:32 | |
| And if you're under 15%, which a lot of wines are, but there's a lot of wines that are over that, that requires a whole nother | 00:57:34 | |
| risk level as far as building goes. | 00:57:39 | |
| OK. | 00:57:44 | |
| Thank you, Randy. | 00:57:45 | |
| James is covering something you wanna say. Michael, I just I had a question that first comments are made. | 00:57:47 | |
| Hi, Mr. Stefansky, that he had held. | 00:57:55 | |
| Wine tasting at his home or at his business location that he's at my home. I have. I had wine tastings. | 00:58:00 | |
| At the retailers premise, so I'm going to retailers. | 00:58:07 | |
| And I'm just simply sampling. I haven't sold a single bottle of wine. You know, I'm not allowed to sell any wine. I'm I'm, I have | 00:58:11 | |
| a federal permit, a federal permit from the TTB which allows me to import. | 00:58:17 | |
| And distribute wine. | 00:58:23 | |
| And I'm allowed to hold a samplings and solicit orders. | 00:58:24 | |
| And that's all we have done, but never at our own premise. We always went to the restaurants and through the wine bar. | 00:58:30 | |
| Good, James. | 00:58:37 | |
| I think he gets down to the fact that it's just not his own. It's not in the ordinance to do this and I think. | 00:58:40 | |
| Mr. | 00:58:45 | |
| Felix, there's gonna. | 00:58:47 | |
| And don't need to reapply. | 00:58:48 | |
| For sounds to me. | 00:58:50 | |
| Jessica There's no other way around that, is there? I mean. | 00:58:52 | |
| Chairman, Member supervisors. I'm not sure if it would be helpful for him. | 00:58:57 | |
| To have you guys submit a recommendation for approval for the other address. | 00:59:01 | |
| And. | 00:59:06 | |
| Doesn't seem like it would be sufficient for the liquor board, because they do require applicants to start the whole process over | 00:59:08 | |
| once there's a change of address. | 00:59:12 | |
| Yeah, and. | 00:59:18 | |
| But put me back probably four or five months of time. | 00:59:19 | |
| Yeah, and that's unfortunate. I I think it's just that our hands are gonna be tight on this one, but let's see where it goes. | 00:59:24 | |
| Is anybody else in pacing that wants to speak of this? | 00:59:30 | |
| No. | 00:59:35 | |
| No one in love. No one on YouTube. I'll close the public hearing. | 00:59:37 | |
| And. | 00:59:42 | |
| You too ready? | 00:59:44 | |
| And then a motion. | 00:59:47 | |
| Mr. I moved to not recommend that the Arizona Department of Liquor Licensing Control approved. | 00:59:49 | |
| The liquor license application submitted by Monica Goodwin. | 00:59:55 | |
| For the weekend. | 01:00:00 | |
| No, no, no. Wrong one. OK. I'm sorry. Yeah, wrong. Yeah. OK. I hang on. | 01:00:02 | |
| Are you wanting to submit a recommendation to the liquor board that you want them to not approve it? Or are you wanting to not | 01:00:08 | |
| submit a recommendation at all? | 01:00:12 | |
| Mr. Chair, I moved to not make a recommendation at all. | 01:00:19 | |
| I will second that having a motion and a second. | 01:00:27 | |
| On favor, do so by saying aye, aye, aye. | 01:00:30 | |
| Aye, motion carries. | 01:00:34 | |
| Alright. | 01:00:36 | |
| Onto regular agenda items #4. | 01:00:37 | |
| For a information discussion action to approve the intergovernmental agreement between the HeLa County Recorders Office. | 01:00:42 | |
| The Healer County Division of Elect Elections and the PACE and Unified School District. | 01:00:49 | |
| To provide election services through December 31st, 26. | 01:00:55 | |
| With one year automatic renewals thereafter. Eric, good morning. Good morning, Chairman, Finance, Supervisor Christensen, | 01:01:00 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey and this is just an approval that internal agreement for Election Services. First up on the list is the PACE | 01:01:05 | |
| and Unified School District. We back in the future with Miami Unified School District and others as we come up and we renew these | 01:01:10 | |
| contracts. | 01:01:15 | |
| That's just the verbiage change that was required and so that's what we're here for today. | 01:01:20 | |
| OK. Thank you, Eric, Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:01:25 | |
| I have no questions, Supervisor Christensen. No questions. I'm good, Eric. Thank you, Sir, that I entertain a motion, Mr. Chair. | 01:01:28 | |
| I'll move to approve the intergovernmental agreement between the Heela County Recorder's Office and the HeLa County Division of | 01:01:32 | |
| Elections. | 01:01:37 | |
| And the Paceman Unified School District. | 01:01:41 | |
| To provide election services as presented. | 01:01:44 | |
| I'll second that having a motion and a second all in favor. Do so by saying aye, aye, aye, aye. Motion carries. Thank you, Eric. | 01:01:48 | |
| Thank you. Supervisors 4B information discussion, action. | 01:01:53 | |
| To approve the use of the State of Arizona Contract Agreement number Ctr. 059323. | 01:01:59 | |
| With Santan Ford Partners LLC in the amount of. | 01:02:07 | |
| $528,891.36. | 01:02:12 | |
| For the purchase of 6 new 24 Ford Expedition 4 door 4x4 SUV's as outlined in the specifications. | 01:02:17 | |
| To be utilized as patrol vehicles for the Helix County Sheriff's Office and Homer. Good morning, Sir. Good morning, Chairman and | 01:02:27 | |
| board members. | 01:02:31 | |
| The agenda item we've talked about this before is for the board to consider approving the purchase of 6 new Ford Expeditions to | 01:02:37 | |
| use as patrol vehicles for the Heater County Sheriff's Department. | 01:02:42 | |
| Earlier this year, we shared a presentation for you with the, they're 60 patrol vehicles that we have. We have 24 of them older | 01:02:47 | |
| than 10 years and we're trying to continue to modernize our fleet and this is an effort to do that. | 01:02:52 | |
| The order window has opened and recently and we would like to use the same contract to purchase the six six Expeditions. | 01:02:59 | |
| The cost for the six new expeditions as specified and outfitted. | 01:03:06 | |
| Is $528,891.36. | 01:03:10 | |
| The source of funding is 500,000 from ARPA and the remainder from General Fund. | 01:03:15 | |
| So with that, I'll interesting questions and request your approval. Thank you, Homer. | 01:03:20 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. Mr. Supervisor Christensen, thank you, Homero, No questions. | 01:03:25 | |
| You know, when I read this agenda item I I thought that's kind of think back in the past I thought we'd already approved this as | 01:03:32 | |
| soon as the windows was open to go ahead and do it because that's been the hold up on a lot of our fleet. | 01:03:38 | |
| It's just the process of the opportunity to to. | 01:03:44 | |
| Place orders we had already and we wasted no time bringing it to you. And perhaps that may have been the case. I don't, I don't | 01:03:47 | |
| know exactly, but we're here, I think in a very prompt action. | 01:03:52 | |
| Yeah. OK. Well, thanks for updating us on this and we'll vote on it again if need be, so that. | 01:03:58 | |
| James, you're good. | 01:04:05 | |
| And entertain a motion as long as this isn't times 2. | 01:04:08 | |
| Oh my God, you you can put that in your motion. | 01:04:12 | |
| Chris, Chairman. I'll just say that there was a, it was a approved for 500,000. OK, and this is. | 01:04:17 | |
| They the actual bids came in $28,000 more and so this is because it's 28,000 more to get that approval, OK. | 01:04:23 | |
| So I just wanted to be sure it wasn't friends too. Mr. Chair. I move to approve the youth. | 01:04:32 | |
| On the State of Arizona Contract Agreement number Ctr. 0593. | 01:04:37 | |
| 2-3 with Santan Ford Partners, LLC. | 01:04:42 | |
| In the amount of $528,891.36. | 01:04:45 | |
| I will, Sir, as presented. I will second that having a motion in a second. All in favor, do so by saying aye, aye, aye, aye. | 01:04:52 | |
| Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you, Homer. | 01:04:57 | |
| Undersea Information Discussion Action to Authorize Advertisement of Invitation for bids number 071023. | 01:05:02 | |
| The Gazella Roadway improvement project on. Good morning, Good morning, Mr. Chairman, board members. | 01:05:10 | |
| This is a request to advertise an invitation for bids number 071023. | 01:05:16 | |
| Garcia Rd. Roadway Improvements Project. | 01:05:24 | |
| A little bit of background. The proposed work is on Garcinia Road. | 01:05:28 | |
| For approximately 1.7 miles. | 01:05:33 | |
| From the roadway high point to the Tunnel Creek. | 01:05:36 | |
| Shores intersection. | 01:05:40 | |
| The improvements consist of milling the existing chip seal. | 01:05:42 | |
| Compacting the milled material in place. | 01:05:46 | |
| And placing a double chip seal. | 01:05:50 | |
| With a fog coat on top of the compacted material. | 01:05:53 | |
| Additional work includes widening 3 curves. | 01:05:58 | |
| To improve visibility, visibility, and drivability. | 01:06:01 | |
| And then new striping will also be placed on the chip seal. | 01:06:05 | |
| What's an engineering and survey? | 01:06:10 | |
| Have prepared plans, specifications and a project estimate. | 01:06:12 | |
| The project is budgeted to be funded from the Half Cent Transportation Excise Fund. | 01:06:17 | |
| So Garcia Rd. is A2 lane roadway. | 01:06:25 | |
| With it had an average annual daily traffic of 596 vehicles and that was in 2022. | 01:06:28 | |
| And it's classified as a major collector. | 01:06:35 | |
| It provides access to the communities of Gisela. | 01:06:38 | |
| And the town on National Forest. | 01:06:43 | |
| This section of roadway has deteriorated. | 01:06:46 | |
| And shows signs of cracking, rutting, potholes. | 01:06:50 | |
| And other surface defects. | 01:06:54 | |
| The primary objective of the project is to. | 01:06:57 | |
| Improve the driving surface and improve. | 01:07:01 | |
| Driving ability. | 01:07:03 | |
| Of the three curves by widening them. | 01:07:05 | |
| On both the inside and outside of the curves. | 01:07:08 | |
| In conclusion, the project will improve drivability on this section of Garcia Rd. | 01:07:10 | |
| By widening those 3 curves and then milling. | 01:07:17 | |
| And doing a new double chip seal. | 01:07:20 | |
| On top of the old material. | 01:07:22 | |
| The Public Works Director recommends that the Board of Supervisors approve the advertisement for invitation for bids. | 01:07:27 | |
| 071023 | 01:07:34 | |
| for the Guy Sea Level Rd. Roadway Improvement Project. | 01:07:37 | |
| I'll be happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Tom. Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:07:41 | |
| I have no questions other than thank you very much for getting this up. | 01:07:45 | |
| Because I I believe it was supposed to be done about a year or so ago and so I I'm, I'm. | 01:07:50 | |
| I'm grateful that you have. | 01:07:56 | |
| Found it and found the funding. | 01:07:58 | |
| And I also appreciate the fact that you're widening some of those curves. | 01:08:01 | |
| Because on the first part going in. | 01:08:04 | |
| With a with a long gooseneck trailer, you can't make some of those turns without taking up the complete Rd. So nothing other than | 01:08:07 | |
| thank you very much. | 01:08:11 | |
| Supervisor efficiency. Thank you, Chairman. Thank you, Tom. Yeah, we need to keep our roads maintained. Looks like a good project. | 01:08:17 | |
| I remember when all this was dirt, so. | 01:08:22 | |
| That was bad. | 01:08:27 | |
| So thanks. Thank you. | 01:08:28 | |
| Tom, how, how long will this be out for bids? It'll be out there about 30 days, about 30 days and so. | 01:08:31 | |
| So we will be able to get to work on this this year. | 01:08:40 | |
| Yes, Sir. Our our goal is to finish it this year right on. Thank you. | 01:08:43 | |
| So with that again motion, Mr. Chair moved to authorize the advertisement of invitation for bid number 071023. | 01:08:48 | |
| Mr. Chair, I will second that having a motion in a second. All in favor, do so by saying aye, aye, aye, aye. Motion carries. Thank | 01:08:58 | |
| you, Tom. | 01:09:02 | |
| On to the information discussion Action to approve Amendment #1. | 01:09:06 | |
| To contract number 051122 Dash Bulk, Fuel and Lubricant with Synergy Petroleum LLC to extend the term of the contract for one | 01:09:11 | |
| additional year. | 01:09:18 | |
| From July 19th 23 to July 18th 24. | 01:09:25 | |
| For the purchase of bulk fuel and lubricants for a not to exceed the amount of 1,200,000. | 01:09:29 | |
| Hotmail. | 01:09:36 | |
| Thank you. | 01:09:38 | |
| Back in July of 22nd of 2022, the board approved a contract. | 01:09:40 | |
| 05/11/22 for bulk fuel and and lubricants. | 01:09:45 | |
| It was for a one year term but it allowed for 333 annual renewals. | 01:09:49 | |
| We would like to renew this contract for the first time using amendment number one to to this contract. | 01:09:55 | |
| And continue to. | 01:10:02 | |
| Use the prices that were offered to us on the competitive bidding that took place in 2022. | 01:10:05 | |
| And and the way that competitive bidding, the prices are established is using. | 01:10:10 | |
| A commodity price for fuels? | 01:10:14 | |
| It's a nationwide information system. | 01:10:17 | |
| Available to all Opus. | 01:10:20 | |
| And it publishes a weekly numbers for the price of fuel on a regional basis. | 01:10:22 | |
| And so when they deliver fuel to our various locations in the county, all the road yards, if the price is based on that location | 01:10:26 | |
| and based on the on the weekly price that is generated by that commodity index. | 01:10:33 | |
| So it's something that we can renew and and and feel good that we're enjoying the benefit of the competitive bidding that we that | 01:10:39 | |
| we undertook last year. | 01:10:43 | |
| The dollar amount that $1.2 million is similar as the last year, the first year. | 01:10:48 | |
| And we think that there will be sufficient to cover our fuel cost for this year. And with that I will entertain questions or. | 01:10:54 | |
| Ask for your approval. Thank you, Homer. Supervisor Humphrey, Mr. Chair, I have no question. Supervisor Christensen. Thank you, | 01:11:02 | |
| Homero. Is that money her money then? | 01:11:06 | |
| Hurt money? Yes. OK, thanks. | 01:11:11 | |
| Thank you, Homero, that I'd entertain a motion. | 01:11:14 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to approve amendment number one to contract, number 051122. | 01:11:17 | |
| With. | 01:11:23 | |
| Synergy Petroleum is present. I will second. | 01:11:25 | |
| Having a motion and a second all in favor. Do so by saying aye aye aye motion carries on the E INFORMATION Discussion action. | 01:11:28 | |
| To approve collection agreement number 070623. | 01:11:37 | |
| But the Arizona Game and Fish Department with a not to exceed amount of. | 01:11:42 | |
| $284,674 to provide environmental monitoring during the remaining construction of the Tunnel Creek Bridge. Thank you. | 01:11:46 | |
| So this is a request for approval of collection agreement number 070623. | 01:11:57 | |
| Between Hill County and the Arizona Game and Fish Department. | 01:12:04 | |
| For the environmental monitoring on the Tunnel Creek Bridge construction project. | 01:12:08 | |
| So a little bit of background. On December 28th, 2021, the US Fish and Wildlife Service. | 01:12:14 | |
| Issued the ballot biological opinion. | 01:12:21 | |
| For the Tonal Creek Bridge project. | 01:12:25 | |
| One requirement of the biological opinion is that. | 01:12:27 | |
| A qualified and certified biologist. | 01:12:31 | |
| Shall monitor the project. | 01:12:35 | |
| To avoid incidental take of Northern Mexican Garter Snakes Yellow Billed Cuckoos. | 01:12:38 | |
| And Southwestern Willow flycatchers. | 01:12:44 | |
| On August 15th, 2022, Wheeler County entered into an initial collection agreement number 072522. | 01:12:48 | |
| With the Arizona Game and Fish Department. | 01:12:58 | |
| That agreement expired on July 30th, 2023. | 01:13:01 | |
| And as I mentioned, the Arizona Game and Fish Department. | 01:13:07 | |
| Is providing an assigned biologist. | 01:13:10 | |
| To monitor the project on a daily basis, he has to be there prior to the start of work. | 01:13:13 | |
| He has to look under all the vehicles before any vehicles are moved and he has to remain there throughout the entire day until all | 01:13:19 | |
| work is finished. | 01:13:23 | |
| So yeah, the evaluation is again, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has required that qualified and certified biologists monitored | 01:13:29 | |
| the project. | 01:13:33 | |
| In Arizona, Game and Fish is doing that for us. | 01:13:38 | |
| And again, it's for the Mexican Garter snake. | 01:13:42 | |
| Yellow Bill Cuckoo and the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher. | 01:13:45 | |
| So Arizona Game and Fish has provided this requirement since the project started. | 01:13:50 | |
| August 15th, 2022. | 01:13:56 | |
| This. | 01:13:59 | |
| Is a. | 01:14:00 | |
| But request for a new agreement. | 01:14:01 | |
| That will be in effect. | 01:14:04 | |
| From. | 01:14:06 | |
| July 6th, 2023 to May 25th, 2024. | 01:14:08 | |
| And this agreement will be in the amount of 284,000. | 01:14:14 | |
| $674 | 01:14:18 | |
| So it is the recommendation of the public Works Director. | 01:14:22 | |
| And Heather County Public Works Department. | 01:14:25 | |
| That we enter into this collection agreement with the Arizona Game and Fish Department to continue. | 01:14:28 | |
| Their environmental monitoring during the. | 01:14:34 | |
| Remainder of the construction of the Tunnel Creek Bridge project. | 01:14:37 | |
| And with that, I'll be happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Tom. Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:14:41 | |
| I have no questions. | 01:14:46 | |
| Supervisor Christensen, I have a question, Tom. | 01:14:49 | |
| Is this part of the original bid that we did or is this on top of it addition to it? | 01:14:52 | |
| Because I know we agreed to have this. | 01:14:58 | |
| Done. | 01:15:02 | |
| But. | 01:15:04 | |
| We already agreed to do it, this is just a update. | 01:15:06 | |
| In the contract, correct. So it's kind of complicated in the in our agreement with Arizona Department of Transportation who's | 01:15:09 | |
| administering the project. | 01:15:13 | |
| We have set a set aside $175,000. | 01:15:18 | |
| For the. | 01:15:23 | |
| For this monitoring requirement. | 01:15:25 | |
| So so far we've only used. | 01:15:28 | |
| We've only paid 2 invoices. | 01:15:30 | |
| 2 Arizona Game and Fish totaling 61,625 dollars. | 01:15:33 | |
| So we still have. | 01:15:38 | |
| So you could take the 175,000 minus the 61? | 01:15:40 | |
| We have that remainder. | 01:15:44 | |
| Before. | 01:15:46 | |
| We would have to come up with additional funds so that so there is a remainder in the current contract that we have. | 01:15:47 | |
| With a dot and a. | 01:15:55 | |
| What we do is we send the invoices to a dot. | 01:15:56 | |
| They. | 01:15:59 | |
| Hate Arizona Game and Fish for us? | 01:16:00 | |
| Once we hit that. | 01:16:03 | |
| Once we run out of the 175,000. | 01:16:06 | |
| Then we would have to. | 01:16:09 | |
| Get into these new funds. The only thing this agreement is doing is. | 01:16:11 | |
| Establishing the new agreement because the old one expired and the rates did go up. | 01:16:15 | |
| About 5 to 10% on some of the some of the items. | 01:16:20 | |
| OK. | 01:16:25 | |
| Alright. Thanks Tom. | 01:16:26 | |
| Thank you, Tom. | 01:16:27 | |
| Entertain a motion. | 01:16:29 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll move to approve their Arizona again, the Fish Department Collection Agreement number 070623, and the amount of | 01:16:31 | |
| $284,674 as presented. | 01:16:37 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that function having a motion in a second. All in favor, do so by saying aye. Aye, aye. Motion carries. | 01:16:43 | |
| Thank you, Tom. Thank you. | 01:16:47 | |
| Onto F Information Discussion Action to adopt Resolution #23-08-01. | 01:16:52 | |
| Supporting a grant application to the HeLa River Indian Community. | 01:17:01 | |
| For the Christopher Coles Fire District and authorizing HeLa County to act as a fiscal agent. | 01:17:05 | |
| And except they Gaming Grant award to Christopher Cole Fire District in the Mount of. | 01:17:12 | |
| $235,000 for the purchase of a new Type 6 brush truck. | 01:17:18 | |
| And we have Marin here and a wreck, Conley Camp Basin I believe. So that would be the battalion there he is OK Christopher Cole. | 01:17:23 | |
| Hi, Mr. Chairman, members of the Board and I'm right now with Christopher Fire District and thank you for having me here. | 01:17:36 | |
| Today I'm here on behalf of Fire Chief Robert Lockhart. He was unable to attend, unfortunately. | 01:17:41 | |
| He he was successful in writing a grant to the Healer River Indian Community. | 01:17:47 | |
| And I believe it was for the amount of $255,000 for a a Type 6 brush truck for our district. | 01:17:52 | |
| One of the requirements of the grants, as you had stated previously, is. | 01:18:00 | |
| The grant money has to go through the county before we can receive it. | 01:18:04 | |
| And I believe that the Human River Indian community has to have a signed resolution prior to August 17th. | 01:18:07 | |
| OK. Thank you, Sir. Yes, Sir. | 01:18:15 | |
| You're good with that, Mary. That's it. Any questions? Care of it separated, Humphrey. | 01:18:19 | |
| Just one, did you say that the that the truck was, the amount of the truck was how much? | 01:18:25 | |
| I believe that they are. Grant was for a total of 255,000. | 01:18:32 | |
| OK, because I have in front of me 235,000. | 01:18:37 | |
| And of its 255,000, I'm just wondering where the other 20,000 was coming from? | 01:18:42 | |
| If you don't mind, let me check your e-mail real quick and I can verify verify that, Yeah, no that that. That's fine. I just. | 01:18:47 | |
| I just trying to. | 01:18:53 | |
| Save confusion if we approve a grant and it's. | 01:18:55 | |
| Short of of the amount. | 01:18:58 | |
| See if there's an amount on. | 01:19:02 | |
| Yeah, it it may very well be. Thank you. | 01:19:05 | |
| It doesn't 55, so we have a typo in the agenda item. | 01:19:08 | |
| So we'll need to change the requested resolution to be 255,000. | 01:19:12 | |
| Is that OK with the Healer River Indian community? | 01:19:23 | |
| Community that would just change it to 1. | 01:19:26 | |
| Well, this is the application. That was OK. Well, then in March, yeah, I'm looking at what's in front of me. | 01:19:29 | |
| On their approach to their approval, say 235, OK, sorry. | 01:19:38 | |
| OK. So the 2:35 is correct. OK. I'm sorry. | 01:19:45 | |
| So we looked at the wrong attention. May not be correct. | 01:19:48 | |
| And maybe maybe correct. It may not be correct. | 01:19:50 | |
| I think this would go around all day. If you're good, how? Supervisor Christensen, how about you? I have no questions. Thank you. | 01:19:55 | |
| I'm. I told him either. | 01:20:00 | |
| So with that, I'll entertain a motion. | 01:20:05 | |
| Well, I I guess I've got a question before I give you motion. Is is where's the other 20 coming from? No, it's Sam. You won't | 01:20:10 | |
| repeat what you just said. I'm gonna go. | 01:20:15 | |
| Yeah. | 01:20:21 | |
| Yes, they requested 200 and 35255 thousand, but the tribe only awarded them 235,000. That's all they're getting. 235 is it? Yeah. | 01:20:22 | |
| OK, then I guess they're gonna get it. | 01:20:34 | |
| Discount on the truck, or the hope so up with 1000 of constituent funds or something. So District 1. | 01:20:36 | |
| I just don't. I'll make, yeah, I just. | 01:20:46 | |
| Approving a grant for a different amount than what it what I OK. | 01:20:50 | |
| There it is. | 01:21:06 | |
| OK. | 01:21:11 | |
| OK, I'll make a motion. | 01:21:13 | |
| Umm. | 01:21:18 | |
| Mr. Chair, I moved to adopt resolution #23-08. | 01:21:19 | |
| Dash one as presented. I will second that. | 01:21:23 | |
| Having a motion and second all in favor, do so by saying aye, aye. | 01:21:27 | |
| Aye, motion carries. | 01:21:32 | |
| Thank you. Thank you, man. Thank you, thank you. | 01:21:34 | |
| Auntie G Information Discussion Action to Approve an intergovernmental agreement. | 01:21:38 | |
| Between the City of Apache Junction and Heela County Community Services. | 01:21:44 | |
| Housing Department to receive Community Development Block Grant allocations through central Arizona governments. | 01:21:49 | |
| For FY24 to HeLa County and FY25 to the city Kylie. | 01:21:57 | |
| Mr. Chairman, members of the board, good morning. | 01:22:04 | |
| This is a request for your approval so that we can share the Community Development Block Grant funding with the City of Apache | 01:22:06 | |
| Junction. | 01:22:10 | |
| This has come about because the funding amounts that we're getting continue to. | 01:22:15 | |
| The lower each year, and so they've allowed us to combine funds with the city of Apache Junction in order to. | 01:22:20 | |
| Really make an impact for developing viable communities, providing decent housing, suitable living environments for our | 01:22:28 | |
| communities. So there is no matching requirement and we're looking at approximately $130,000 give or take combined. | 01:22:36 | |
| OK. | 01:22:46 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey, I have no question. | 01:22:47 | |
| Supervisor Christian, thank you, Kaylee. No questions. | 01:22:49 | |
| Is, is this something we've done in the past? Yes, there's. So this is the second year that we're doing this combined with the | 01:22:53 | |
| city. So we actually did get. | 01:22:57 | |
| This is 2 years in a row that the county has had the funds, so next year it will be on the city of Apache Junction. | 01:23:02 | |
| OK. We'll be back on schedule for alternating. Thank you. Yes, Sir, that I'd entertain a motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve the | 01:23:08 | |
| intergovernmental agreement between the HeLa County. | 01:23:13 | |
| In the city of Apache Junction that's presented. | 01:23:18 | |
| Ohh, second that Mr. Chair having a motion in a second all in favor do so by saying aye, aye aye aye Motion carries. | 01:23:22 | |
| Onto each information discussion Action to approve Amendment #9 to an intergovernmental agreement contract number D IT0 Dash | 01:23:29 | |
| 002263. | 01:23:35 | |
| Between the Arizona Department of Economic Security and the Heela County Community Services Department to include the total value | 01:23:41 | |
| of the itemized service budget. | 01:23:45 | |
| Of $396,219 to be used as rent and utility assistance. | 01:23:51 | |
| For the period of July 1st 23 through June 30th 24. | 01:23:57 | |
| Philly, you're it again. Yes, Sir. Chairman, Members of the Board, this. | 01:24:02 | |
| IGA first came about in 2020, so this is amendment number 9/4. | 01:24:07 | |
| Like you said, utility and rental assistance just shy of $400,000 and this funding also has no matching requirement and it comes | 01:24:14 | |
| from the Department of Economic Security. | 01:24:19 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:24:24 | |
| Just one in Renton Utilities is the rent is is, is that for for like people that need rental assistance or is part of that would | 01:24:27 | |
| part of that be for temporary housing for homeless? | 01:24:33 | |
| So this is specific to rental? OK, we have other grants that are specific to homelessness. | 01:24:39 | |
| Um, this actually is. The acronym is TANAFF, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. So you have to have children under 18 in the | 01:24:45 | |
| household to qualify for that specific OK out of money. | 01:24:52 | |
| Thank you. | 01:24:58 | |
| Supervisor Christians, thank you. Chairman, No, I have no question. | 01:25:00 | |
| I'm good as well, so with that I'd entertain a motion. | 01:25:03 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to approve amendment. | 01:25:06 | |
| #9 to the. | 01:25:09 | |
| Inter Government Agreement contract number D. | 01:25:11 | |
| I 20002263 and the amount of. | 01:25:14 | |
| $396,000 to. | 01:25:19 | |
| 219 dollars. | 01:25:22 | |
| As presented. | 01:25:24 | |
| I will second having a motion. Second all in favor do so by saying aye, aye, aye, motion carries. | 01:25:25 | |
| Onto our information discussion action to approve funding agreement number. | 01:25:31 | |
| 203-24 between Arizona Department of Housing and HeLa County Community Services Department. | 01:25:36 | |
| Housing services to use Local Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and Department of Energy Weatherization Readiness Fund in | 01:25:43 | |
| the amount of. | 01:25:48 | |
| $218,482 for the period of July 1st 23 through June 30th 24. Kaylee. | 01:25:54 | |
| Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, this is another grant that we get every year for whether it's weatherization assistance. | 01:26:03 | |
| UM primarily used to reduce fuel and electricity expenses for our clients, while also improving the health and safety in their | 01:26:10 | |
| homes. | 01:26:15 | |
| Like you mentioned, it comes from the Department of Energy and this also has matching requirement. | 01:26:21 | |
| OK. Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:26:27 | |
| Are you having any luck with local contractors? | 01:26:30 | |
| Some. | 01:26:33 | |
| Some of the requirements are are a bit stringent but we are we are having some luck. | 01:26:34 | |
| And they're like BP I certified I. | 01:26:39 | |
| Certified with the state to do weatherization. | 01:26:42 | |
| OK. Thank you, Supervisor Christiansen. Thank you, Kaylee. No questions. I'm good as well. So that I'd entertain him. | 01:26:45 | |
| Motion. | 01:26:52 | |
| Mr. Chairman to Approve Arizona Department of Housing Funding Agreement #203-24 in the amount of $218,482 as presented. | 01:26:53 | |
| I'll second that Mr. Chair having a motion, and second all in favor, do so by saying aye, aye, aye, aye. Motion carries. | 01:27:04 | |
| Your last one, Kaylee Jay Information, discussion, action to authorize the HeLa County. | 01:27:12 | |
| Community Services Services department to submit a grant application. | 01:27:17 | |
| To the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona in the amount of $250,000 for a clean water project titled Countrywide | 01:27:23 | |
| Cesspool Elimination Project for the period of two years. | 01:27:29 | |
| We got two of you. So who's doing this? Michael, I'll, I'll do this one, OK. | 01:27:37 | |
| So it's a joint. | 01:27:42 | |
| Effort between the health department, environmental Health department and community services. So this is a unique opportunity | 01:27:44 | |
| that. | 01:27:48 | |
| HeLa County has working with WIFA to get funds available. | 01:27:52 | |
| For homeowners that meet the income qualifications if they live in a cesspool, to get their cesspool eliminated and get a brand | 01:27:57 | |
| new septic system for that property paid for. | 01:28:03 | |
| And this is the grant application that Kaylee and Josh have been working on with WIFA. | 01:28:09 | |
| Which allows that for HeLa County. So we would be sort of the test case in Arizona and Heela County. It's a great program. | 01:28:15 | |
| In in the body of the agenda, you see it's a loan forgiveness. | 01:28:23 | |
| Don't let that fool you. This is they're gonna pay the contractors directly. | 01:28:28 | |
| To get the work done for homeowners. So this is a great possible option for homeowners to eliminate their cesspools if they have | 01:28:33 | |
| issues with it. | 01:28:37 | |
| And also to protect the groundwater that we have in, in HeLa County. And so it's for two years, $250,000 a year. | 01:28:42 | |
| And it's a test case in Arizona to see if this program is is going to work good. | 01:28:52 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:28:58 | |
| Well, I one, I think it's a great program to qualify the only qualified. | 01:29:00 | |
| Think that you need to participate in this. | 01:29:05 | |
| Is to have a cesspool. | 01:29:09 | |
| Assess pool and there's going to be an income qualification, income, income as well, yes, correct. | 01:29:11 | |
| OK. | 01:29:17 | |
| Yeah, I I just hope that some of our properties are available because some of them may not have room for Leech and all those | 01:29:20 | |
| things, but. | 01:29:24 | |
| Because that can grow and so then they gotta do a perk test prior to. | 01:29:28 | |
| So that's included as well so. | 01:29:32 | |
| Umm. | 01:29:35 | |
| I hope it's a I hope. I hope a lot of the money is able to go to help people with cesspools. | 01:29:36 | |
| Instead of perk testing things that don't show up or people that don't have room so. | 01:29:41 | |
| Thank you very much for putting in for this and and I I hope it works for the people. | 01:29:46 | |
| Thank you Sir. Supervisor Christians to take Chairman Yeah, we need to get all the money we can get to fix accessible problems. | 01:29:52 | |
| So. | 01:29:56 | |
| This is not related at all to the discussion we've been having about Porta. John's right. I mean, it does not provide money to | 01:30:00 | |
| remedy septic systems that are acts or anything like that, right? This is something else. OK. Thank you. | 01:30:08 | |
| So Michael, what happens if you're in the Tri-City Sanitation District? | 01:30:18 | |
| So currently tri-cities is their plan is to move forward with construction in about a year if they find a location that's been | 01:30:21 | |
| approved for their wastewater treatment plant. | 01:30:27 | |
| So currently what we would do for this is hold off on the Tri-City area for a first year until we find out whether they're going | 01:30:32 | |
| to move forward with construction. | 01:30:37 | |
| In the future, if the construction doesn't come through, then those people in the Tri-City sanitary District area would be | 01:30:42 | |
| eligible as well. OK, And so what's the income level? | 01:30:48 | |
| Ohh I think guys about. | 01:30:54 | |
| Requirement of 59,321. | 01:30:57 | |
| OK. That's that. Yeah or less. OK. | 01:31:01 | |
| Had to get program sounds like a really good deal, so. | 01:31:04 | |
| Any more questions? | 01:31:09 | |
| They're good other than, Yeah, that that was that was. I'm glad you brought that up because. | 01:31:11 | |
| That would be under qualification so. | 01:31:16 | |
| If I get asked, it's like you're in a Tri-City district. Hold on. Because you know, well, The thing is, is if that's gonna go | 01:31:18 | |
| through, yeah, we'll just be throwing money out there for Ohh, you know? Yeah, I agree. I agree. But then again, a motion. | 01:31:25 | |
| Mr. Chair, I moved to authorize the HeLa County Community Service Department to submit a grant application. | 01:31:32 | |
| To the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona in the amount of 250. | 01:31:38 | |
| $1000 as presented. I will second having a motion and a second all in favor. Do so by saying aye aye, aye aye Motion carries. | 01:31:45 | |
| You got a lot of money now, Keely. | 01:31:54 | |
| Alright, on 2K information discussion, action to approve the Economic development Agreement number 05/3. | 01:31:57 | |
| 123 in the amount of $5000. | 01:32:05 | |
| Between HeLa County and Pine Strawberry Fuel Reduction Incorporated, which the board has determined to be for the benefit of the | 01:32:08 | |
| public to provide the Christians. | 01:32:13 | |
| Thank you. I have a request from the past property fuel reduction. | 01:32:17 | |
| Group in the plant strawberry area who conducts a brush pit up there as well. They've been working since 2007 to help Firewise | 01:32:23 | |
| properties. They have a great group of people and this is just a continuing. | 01:32:30 | |
| Request annually from my constituent funds and I'd be happy to answer any questions. | 01:32:39 | |
| Okay Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:32:45 | |
| I have no question. | 01:32:47 | |
| And neither do I. Good job. | 01:32:49 | |
| So they entertain a motion. | 01:32:51 | |
| I'll move to approve Economic Development Grant Agreement number 05. | 01:32:53 | |
| 3123 with the planetary fuel reduction. | 01:32:57 | |
| Incorporated in the amount of $5000, which the board is determined to be for the. | 01:33:01 | |
| Benefit of the public. | 01:33:06 | |
| I'll second that having a motion and a second all in favor. Do so by saying aye, aye, aye, aye. Motion carries. | 01:33:07 | |
| All Information discussion Action to Approve Economic Development Grant Agreement number 07. | 01:33:15 | |
| 0223. | 01:33:22 | |
| Between Hiller County and Katie's closet. | 01:33:24 | |
| Inc in the amount of $1000 to assist. | 01:33:27 | |
| And provide providing undergarments, socks, shoes and clothing. | 01:33:30 | |
| To marginalized youth of Heela County. | 01:33:35 | |
| Which the board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. Supervisor Christianson, thank you. And it's just that this is | 01:33:37 | |
| a group that's been around for a long time and they collect clothing, They purchase clothing. | 01:33:43 | |
| And to help those who cannot afford. | 01:33:50 | |
| The clothing for the youth in. | 01:33:54 | |
| He's a county in. | 01:33:56 | |
| I think basically the northern Hill County area. | 01:33:58 | |
| So if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer. | 01:34:02 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. | 01:34:05 | |
| Neither do I so but thank you for doing that. Thanks, You know, with that antenna motion. | 01:34:08 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to approve the Economic development grant. | 01:34:13 | |
| Agreement number 070223. | 01:34:17 | |
| With Katie's closet incorporated in the amount of $1000, which the board has. | 01:34:21 | |
| Determined to be for the benefit of the public. | 01:34:26 | |
| I will second that any motion, and second all in favor do so by saying aye aye, aye, aye. Motion carries M Information, | 01:34:29 | |
| Discussion, Action. | 01:34:34 | |
| To approve Economic Development Grant Agreement number 070323. | 01:34:39 | |
| Between HeLa County and the PACE and Pilots Association in the amount of 1200 dollars. | 01:34:45 | |
| To provide venue support and contribute to aviation education. | 01:34:51 | |
| In Healy County, which the board has determined to be for the benefit of the public, Supervisor Christians thank you once again, | 01:34:56 | |
| constituent funds being requested to support. | 01:35:01 | |
| An event that will occur this coming fall. If I remember right, the Payson Pilots Association is very active group to. | 01:35:06 | |
| They conduct an Arrow Fair event and they are also very involved in aviation education. I remember my own children going through | 01:35:18 | |
| that process. | 01:35:23 | |
| Back when they they offer rides and education on. | 01:35:29 | |
| Um, the future of. | 01:35:33 | |
| There's possible choices in becoming a pilot and learning more about aviation. | 01:35:35 | |
| Ohh answer any questions. | 01:35:41 | |
| So for Supervisor Humphrey questions, Yeah, I do. Are they a nonprofit organization? Yes, Sir, they are. | 01:35:43 | |
| Pardon me? | 01:35:52 | |
| Yes Sir, they are OK. | 01:35:53 | |
| Thank you. There are 501 C three, OK. | 01:35:54 | |
| You know, if I if I remember right, this particular association, they go around and work on different airstrips as well. | 01:35:58 | |
| Around the around don't they I couldn't speak to that I I believe that they've been they have in the past yeah I believe they do | 01:36:05 | |
| they kind of keep up on all that so which is a really good thing. | 01:36:10 | |
| Said Entertain a motion. | 01:36:16 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to approve Economic Development Grant Agreement 070. | 01:36:18 | |
| 323 with the Payson Pilots Association. | 01:36:23 | |
| In the amount of $1200, which the board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. | 01:36:26 | |
| Umm. | 01:36:33 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that. | 01:36:34 | |
| Having a motion and second all in favor do so by saying aye, aye, aye, aye motion carries. | 01:36:36 | |
| OK, on. I'm just gonna. | 01:36:43 | |
| Let you all know what we're doing on in at 1:30 this afternoon. | 01:36:46 | |
| Which we may have to reconvene for. | 01:36:51 | |
| There will be an auction. | 01:36:53 | |
| To conduct A to conduct an auction. | 01:36:55 | |
| For the cell of 1260 square footage of assessors, parcel number 206. | 01:36:58 | |
| Dash 10-076. | 01:37:05 | |
| Homer, I guess you'll be ready for that when it comes up so. | 01:37:08 | |
| Yes, ma'am. | 01:37:11 | |
| Member supervisors. I just want to note for the public that the bids will be accepted at 12:45 to 1:15. | 01:37:13 | |
| 12:45 to 1:15, correct? That is on the public notice. OK, we'll be conducted at 1:30 where you're making the determination, but | 01:37:22 | |
| those beginning bids are going to be accepted from 12:45 to 1:15. | 01:37:28 | |
| Ohh now. | 01:37:36 | |
| Correct. OK. So anyone out there listening, you can put your bid in at 12:45 to 1:15. You have 30 minutes to place the bid. | 01:37:38 | |
| Which will be sealed beards I would imagine, right? Is that right? | 01:37:46 | |
| Are they sealed? | 01:37:51 | |
| You can put your option your hat on. Is that what you're saying now? | 01:38:00 | |
| I I have a question go right ahead. So this is this is property owned by the county. | 01:38:04 | |
| That we're auctioning off. | 01:38:11 | |
| OK, I have been in situations lately where I have. | 01:38:13 | |
| Talked about selling county property and it had to at least be sold for 90% of the appraised value. | 01:38:18 | |
| So if this auction does not bring 90% of the appraised value. | 01:38:27 | |
| Of this property, Will that property still be sold? | 01:38:34 | |
| No. | 01:38:39 | |
| Chairman, member state advisor. So the minimal acceptable bid is $1520.00. So that is 90% of their praise value. OK, yeah, I just | 01:38:40 | |
| had to bring that up because I've had difficulties with county property and what we can sell it for and what we can't sell it for. | 01:38:47 | |
| And I would just be sure we're on the same page with all of them. That's it. | 01:38:54 | |
| So. | 01:39:02 | |
| Tell me that number again so people hear it. | 01:39:03 | |
| Jessica is 1500 and 120. | 01:39:06 | |
| 1520 dollars is the minimum bid or the starting bid price, correct? The appraised value was $1688. OK, cool. | 01:39:09 | |
| Well, hopefully we have love. | 01:39:19 | |
| Lot of interest from 1:30. | 01:39:21 | |
| But. | 01:39:24 | |
| Just one. So you wanted just one. All right. We're omaro thank you for that. We'll we'll look for you 130 on the #5. | 01:39:24 | |
| The do you, either one of you, have anything you want to address on the consented action that items? | 01:39:37 | |
| Ohh no Sir, I'm, I'm good. | 01:39:45 | |
| I only have a comment. It's impressive that it's from A-Z. | 01:39:48 | |
| Yeah, that that impresses me. | 01:39:54 | |
| One more sound you'd have been scrambling for letters. | 01:39:57 | |
| Alright, I'll take a motion to. | 01:40:02 | |
| Except these. | 01:40:05 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to approve consent agenda items 5A through five. ZI will 2nd every motion and second all in favor. Do so by | 01:40:07 | |
| saying aye aye aye. Motion carries. | 01:40:13 | |
| Until six call the public, are there any call the public in patient? I believe maybe we have one. | 01:40:20 | |
| Yes, we do. OK. If you could just state your. | 01:40:26 | |
| Name and address and. | 01:40:30 | |
| We'll give you about 3 minutes and hear what you have to say. | 01:40:32 | |
| That would have been nice though. Well. | 01:40:44 | |
| Good morning. My name is Ricardo Greg. | 01:40:47 | |
| Another 4916 N German Ranch Rd. in Strawberry. | 01:40:49 | |
| Oakland. | 01:40:53 | |
| OK. | 01:40:55 | |
| Hang on just a minute. I think we had a hard time getting that. | 01:40:56 | |
| It it didn't come through. | 01:41:01 | |
| Can you hear me? Sorry, is that better? | 01:41:12 | |
| Can you hear us? Yeah, we're we're testing it. | 01:41:15 | |
| OK. | 01:41:18 | |
| OK, give it another try. Let's see what we got. | 01:41:21 | |
| But. | 01:41:24 | |
| My. | 01:41:24 | |
| German Reich and Strawberry and. | 01:41:28 | |
| Neighbor of. | 01:41:33 | |
| In our neighborhood, we have the. | 01:41:35 | |
| All of German Ranch Rd. is amusement all the way from Fossil Creek Rd. down to the end. | 01:41:39 | |
| And where it curves around another easement. | 01:41:44 | |
| That leads to Elk Rd. in the next subdivision here. | 01:41:48 | |
| The gentleman that lives in. | 01:41:53 | |
| Lost the homes on the home that you're looking at there. | 01:41:56 | |
| Decided to block the easement there to to have anybody go through from German Ranch Rd. to South Road to the March neighborhood | 01:42:00 | |
| here. | 01:42:05 | |
| I called up the. | 01:42:11 | |
| No. | 01:42:13 | |
| Supervisor. | 01:42:15 | |
| Steve Burke. | 01:42:18 | |
| Christensen's office and I spoke to Melissa and explained the situation to her about. | 01:42:19 | |
| The gentleman blocking the easement, she said, well, you can't do that. He says you need to contact a community development and | 01:42:25 | |
| have them go out, investigate if there's a violation of the blockage, decide them and make them open it. | 01:42:32 | |
| And I said well that's that sounds good, so. | 01:42:39 | |
| Later on that same day I I contacted another neighbor that lives just next door to the gentleman that blocked the easement. | 01:42:44 | |
| Here Connie and Louie Bernard. | 01:42:53 | |
| Kindly call me. We've already been there and we spoke to code enforcement specialist there, Tiffany. | 01:42:57 | |
| Bronco. | 01:43:03 | |
| Brown. | 01:43:05 | |
| Call Croft. | 01:43:07 | |
| And she told us that there was nothing that she could do to force him to open the easement here. | 01:43:08 | |
| When I called up and spoke to Melissa again and Melissa said let me call in the development and and find out and I'll call you | 01:43:16 | |
| back. | 01:43:21 | |
| Melissa called me back and she said there's an event there and if he's got it blocked. | 01:43:27 | |
| Since it's not a county, maintained. | 01:43:33 | |
| Easement. There was nothing that they could do to force maybe they development. | 01:43:36 | |
| To do that, to have that easement open back up again. | 01:43:42 | |
| That is the only way, the 2nd way in and out of our neighborhood. | 01:43:47 | |
| The only exit and entry point that we have ingress and egress is. | 01:43:54 | |
| On German Ranch Rd. | 01:43:59 | |
| The other actions that we had is the one that was blocked, the easement that was blocked here. | 01:44:00 | |
| If there's a a situation where we can't use the the one entry and exit there, we're stuck. We can't go South, we can't go anywhere | 01:44:07 | |
| even we need that easement open. | 01:44:13 | |
| Umm. | 01:44:19 | |
| I called the. | 01:44:22 | |
| When I told Melissa that she had, Tiffany called them. | 01:44:23 | |
| And Tiffany explained to me that. | 01:44:28 | |
| Since it was not a county maintained easement, there was nothing that she could do. | 01:44:31 | |
| To get him to open up that easement, she gave me several. | 01:44:36 | |
| Fairs honor revised statutes, but to thank for easement. | 01:44:41 | |
| And I looked them up. | 01:44:45 | |
| And read them and and there's nothing in those ARS statutes, Arizona by statute that said there has to be a county maintained | 01:44:49 | |
| easement on enforcement to be to take place. | 01:44:55 | |
| I also. | 01:45:01 | |
| Review the. | 01:45:04 | |
| Pilot counties or minor land division ordinance. | 01:45:06 | |
| Sections are 100.01 and 02. This is establishes easement. | 01:45:10 | |
| There's nothing in there also that says it has to be a county maintained easement. | 01:45:15 | |
| Also look at the HeLa County. | 01:45:19 | |
| Planning and zoning ordinances sections 107.1 and 107.2 and they talked about violations in closing the easements here. | 01:45:22 | |
| And it doesn't show you anything about having to be accounting maintained. | 01:45:32 | |
| We need that easement open. I don't know why. The only recourse that they said that we had was to go to Superior Court. | 01:45:37 | |
| And present this to the judge and have the judge issue an order opening the easement. | 01:45:46 | |
| Cuba County doesn't have any. | 01:45:53 | |
| Thing that says it has to be a a. | 01:45:56 | |
| A county maintained engagement. | 01:45:59 | |
| And also Arizona revised statute that doesn't say anything about counties having to have maintained the easement. | 01:46:03 | |
| And. | 01:46:12 | |
| I asked also Tiffany this I should since German Ranch Rd. | 01:46:14 | |
| The only other entrance is all an easement. | 01:46:19 | |
| Owned by the people who live on on the. | 01:46:23 | |
| Each side of the screen. | 01:46:26 | |
| Should I try to if anyone of those people that live there land owners decided to block these but. | 01:46:27 | |
| She says what would be the outcome, it says, since it's not a maintained easement too. | 01:46:33 | |
| The guy that blocked the the easement here that you were using before, he's been using that easement to get back and forth through | 01:46:38 | |
| his house across German Ranch Rd. | 01:46:43 | |
| He would have to open up his house and take you to court to get you to open up the easement. So that's where we're at here, | 01:46:48 | |
| that's. | 01:46:52 | |
| I think Connie Marie wants to show you a few things here. | 01:46:58 | |
| Yeah, we are the owners of Parcel 1. | 01:47:03 | |
| Ohh, go ahead. Yes, can you state your name and and address as well? | 01:47:07 | |
| Yeah. | 01:47:13 | |
| I am planning. | 01:47:14 | |
| Years of Do you want our home address or the parcel one in Parcel 2? | 01:47:18 | |
| You want those addresses? | 01:47:25 | |
| Just your regular address is fine. | 01:47:27 | |
| OK, we live in Chandler 871 N Los Altos. | 01:47:30 | |
| Chandler, AZ. | 01:47:37 | |
| We bought parcels 1. | 01:47:40 | |
| 12, almost 13 years ago. | 01:47:43 | |
| And when we bought it we got this documentation. | 01:47:47 | |
| From the title company. | 01:47:51 | |
| We then bought Parcel 2. | 01:47:54 | |
| And with that parcel. | 01:47:57 | |
| We got this documentation again. | 01:47:59 | |
| They said our legal way in and out was really through Elk Rd. | 01:48:02 | |
| We do have a child, a son in a wheelchair that doesn't walk. | 01:48:10 | |
| Or talk. | 01:48:16 | |
| We bought this property to and let him enjoy because we cannot travel. | 01:48:17 | |
| If it is snowing. | 01:48:24 | |
| And we are up there visiting and it starts to snow. We cannot get up Fossil Creek Rd. With his wheelchair van. | 01:48:27 | |
| Because it goes uphill. | 01:48:37 | |
| We we always gone through Elk Rd. ever since we've owned the premises. | 01:48:40 | |
| Parcel 3. | 01:48:49 | |
| The woman there was supposed to be here. She's. | 01:48:51 | |
| Raised a lot of concern about this too, because she's lived there since 1990 and has never been able has always used Elk Road to | 01:48:54 | |
| go to her premises. | 01:49:00 | |
| So we're all very concerned we can no longer walk our son. | 01:49:08 | |
| We can no longer get out in case of an emergency. | 01:49:13 | |
| And. | 01:49:17 | |
| If our son if we call 911 and fossil German ranch Rd. is blocked. | 01:49:18 | |
| There's no other way for them to get in with him closing off that easement. | 01:49:25 | |
| In the beginning, he told us he was going to put up a fence and give us a key. | 01:49:31 | |
| And we thought, OK, we will wait. But may of this year when we came out, we noticed he had it totally wired off. | 01:49:36 | |
| And he had planted grass. | 01:49:45 | |
| Which means. | 01:49:49 | |
| He his intention was to totally close it off. | 01:49:50 | |
| Um, I'm just asking that. | 01:49:54 | |
| The community or does something to help U.S. Open this. | 01:49:57 | |
| Easement. | 01:50:02 | |
| It was documented in 1995, but it has been used. | 01:50:04 | |
| For over 40 years that he's been. | 01:50:09 | |
| OK. | 01:50:16 | |
| Is there anyone else who wants to speak to this? | 01:50:19 | |
| Yeah. | 01:50:22 | |
| There's appointments and in meetings, but this is. | 01:50:27 | |
| Also harming, I mean we could get a petition. | 01:50:31 | |
| A lot of people that have always walked through there. | 01:50:35 | |
| To go to. | 01:50:39 | |
| Type in the back area. | 01:50:42 | |
| Now they can't even do it. They ask us what's going on and we explained to them. | 01:50:45 | |
| We are. We talked to the owner of the property that who blocked the easement there. | 01:50:52 | |
| His name is Albert Sin. | 01:50:59 | |
| And he refuses to open up, to take down the fence, and he says no, I'm I'm closing it up. | 01:51:01 | |
| We also call the it's been about a month ago, we called the sheriff and explain the situation and the sheriff and the sheriff | 01:51:09 | |
| says, well, I can go talk to him, he says. But to me it's it's it's a civil matter. I can't force them to to open up the easement. | 01:51:16 | |
| The sheriff did go over to talk to him and then Mr. Clean refused to open up the easement. | 01:51:24 | |
| So here we are. | 01:51:29 | |
| OK. Thank you. | 01:51:32 | |
| So. | 01:51:35 | |
| Supervisor Christianson, this is your district. It is I'm. I'm looking at a map trying to figure out where we are here. So. | 01:51:36 | |
| Ohh, there's situations in that area where these are problematic, so. | 01:51:43 | |
| They're looking for a remedy. So I'm just going to ask our staff, what is the remedy for them? Is the remedy through the county? | 01:51:48 | |
| Is the remedy through lawsuits? Is the. I mean. | 01:51:53 | |
| Are we at all? | 01:52:00 | |
| Something that can act on this, the board or not. | 01:52:04 | |
| Jessica Chairman number Supervisors. | 01:52:08 | |
| Today this was a call to the public, so it was on the agenda. So what the board has with for you to do is to respond to criticism. | 01:52:11 | |
| Instruct staff to look into it or request that the matter be put on a future agenda. | 01:52:19 | |
| OK, then my comments would be that we in order to seek a remedy. | 01:52:25 | |
| Because it is a public comment that we would, I'm gonna ask staff to look into this. | 01:52:30 | |
| And come up with an answer. | 01:52:35 | |
| That we can provide for you. | 01:52:37 | |
| Christian. | 01:52:41 | |
| Yes, Sir. Go ahead James. I do have a question. This has been described to me as a utility easement. | 01:52:41 | |
| Is that in fact truth that it is a utility easement? | 01:52:49 | |
| That were killed. | 01:52:53 | |
| It's like. | 01:52:57 | |
| And utility easement. | 01:52:58 | |
| He all the above. | 01:53:03 | |
| Public private utility, yeah. | 01:53:06 | |
| You know, this isn't just a nice lady issue. I actually have one of these issues in my district. | 01:53:09 | |
| And. | 01:53:13 | |
| Quite honestly, it is going to civil matter. That's where it's headed and so. | 01:53:15 | |
| You know, and I think as time goes on and more properties are sold and changed and whatnot, it's going to be, it's going to be | 01:53:20 | |
| more but. | 01:53:23 | |
| So thank you for thank you for your your presentation and bringing this up to us and. | 01:53:27 | |
| And Supervisor Christiansen has instructed the our folks to look into it some more and. | 01:53:33 | |
| Hopefully you'll be hearing back from us fairly soon. | 01:53:39 | |
| OK. Can I? | 01:53:42 | |
| Yeah. | 01:53:44 | |
| Yep. | 01:53:51 | |
| Just getting quick claim deed. He did not get title insurance. He did not go through a title agency so. | 01:53:57 | |
| I'm wondering if that's part of the problem. It's already gone through all four. | 01:54:05 | |
| People signing the document and it's being recorded. It's not like it's just an easement that's being used and not recorded. | 01:54:13 | |
| I just want to point that out. Understood. Thank you. | 01:54:21 | |
| OK. Thank you. Anyone else in Payson or we're good? | 01:54:25 | |
| I think we're. | 01:54:33 | |
| OK. Anything on YouTube? | 01:54:34 | |
| How many? | 01:54:36 | |
| 25. | 01:54:41 | |
| Alright, good deal. Anyone. And no one in Globe and sorta. | 01:54:42 | |
| We'll move on to #7 for updates. James, do you have any updates? | 01:54:46 | |
| 1st. | 01:54:51 | |
| Mr. I'll just mention that the Local 1st is holding their rural policy form. | 01:54:51 | |
| Here in gold Miami this week. So Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, having. | 01:54:58 | |
| A bunch of people from all over the state coming into town. | 01:55:03 | |
| And enjoying. | 01:55:06 | |
| Tomorrow afternoon there's a. | 01:55:08 | |
| A tour economic development tour. | 01:55:11 | |
| It'll go on, see the things that are going on and. | 01:55:13 | |
| In the community. | 01:55:16 | |
| And then when Thursday and Friday you have sessions. | 01:55:17 | |
| Economic development and other things that will first. | 01:55:21 | |
| Aye. | 01:55:24 | |
| Supports. | 01:55:25 | |
| So that's a good thing for us. | 01:55:26 | |
| Thank you, James. | 01:55:28 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:55:29 | |
| Just first of the month meetings, I got a tunnel basin meeting tonight at 5:00. | 01:55:33 | |
| And then next week. | 01:55:37 | |
| Roosevelt on the radio, So. | 01:55:40 | |
| Just just meetings. | 01:55:43 | |
| To deal with public meetings. | 01:55:44 | |
| Good deal, Supervisor Christensen. I think it's Chairman a week from today, August 8th. | 01:55:46 | |
| I'm gonna be holding a town hall meeting in Pine at the Pine Community Center. | 01:55:53 | |
| It'll be from 9:00 to 12:00. I've been invited several of our. | 01:55:58 | |
| Of department heads and others to be there to represent the various departments of the county and also our departments and things | 01:56:02 | |
| like that. So we hope to have a good crowd and. | 01:56:07 | |
| Were there to answer questions, we're there to just make some brief presentations on what we're doing in HeLa County in general | 01:56:13 | |
| and also in that district, so. | 01:56:19 | |
| I look forward to doing that. | 01:56:25 | |
| Good deal. | 01:56:26 | |
| So I don't have a whole lot. Next week I got a Arizona Conservation and RCD meeting and. | 01:56:28 | |
| They're not kind of slow, so I'm enjoying it. | 01:56:34 | |
| And we'll move on to #8. | 01:56:38 | |
| Executive Session 8A Information Discussion Action. | 01:56:42 | |
| To vote to go into Executive Session for Senator ARS 38431.03 A 3. | 01:56:48 | |
| For discussions with representatives from Heela County Provisional Community College District. | 01:56:55 | |
| GCP CCD. | 01:57:01 | |
| And to obtain consultation for legal advice regarding how the county wants to move forward. | 01:57:03 | |
| With GCC and or their educational partner and authorize its attorneys. | 01:57:11 | |
| To proceed as discussed in executive session, so I'll entertain a motion. | 01:57:17 | |
| So move, Chairman. | 01:57:22 | |
| And seconded. | 01:57:24 | |
| All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. We'll be back. | 01:57:25 | |
| Sometime. | 01:57:30 | |
| You got everybody will stick together and all. | 01:57:34 | |
| To call us back in order and I'd entertain the motion. | 01:57:37 | |
| Mr. Chairman, I would like to move that the legal department. | 01:57:41 | |
| For Heela County would proceed as directed in executive session. | 01:57:47 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that having a motion, and second, all in favor, do so by saying aye, aye, aye, aye. Motion carries. | 01:57:52 | |
| And with that? | 01:58:00 | |
| Believe that is the. | 01:58:02 | |
| End of our most of our board meeting until 1:30. So I guess we'll adjourn till 1:30 and then come back. | 01:58:04 | |
| In order. OK, OK. | 01:58:12 | |
| We'll have a recess. | 01:58:15 | |
| So you could have just waited for that. | 01:58:17 | |
| No, maybe he thought that. | 01:58:20 | |
| And Art? Well, we're gonna start. We're gonna do 4N. | 01:58:24 | |
| And that is information, discussion, action to conduct the auction for the sale of of 1260 square footage of assessors parcel | 01:58:29 | |
| number. | 01:58:34 | |
| 206-10-076. | 01:58:39 | |
| Bids were accepted at 12:45 and quit it. | 01:58:44 | |
| 1:15 So we have one bitter registered. | 01:58:47 | |
| And Diane? | 01:58:52 | |
| Oropeza, is that right? Right on. | 01:58:54 | |
| At 7:05 E Plain St. Globe, AZ. | 01:58:58 | |
| 85501. | 01:59:02 | |
| And with that, Diane and Kelly are. | 01:59:04 | |
| You're Kelly. OK, well, welcome. So. | 01:59:08 | |
| Minimum bid is 1520, which you guys bid. | 01:59:11 | |
| 1520. | 01:59:16 | |
| You don't want to up it. | 01:59:18 | |
| #12 #12 for 1520, huh? | 01:59:21 | |
| Sold 1520. | 01:59:25 | |
| OK. There were no other registered bidders for this? | 01:59:28 | |
| She was the only one. | 01:59:32 | |
| So. | 01:59:33 | |
| Well, Chairman, thank you. | 01:59:35 | |
| Umm. | 01:59:37 | |
| Thank you for conducting the auction. | 01:59:38 | |
| Um, you have, on a previous resolution, authorized the sale of this property? | 01:59:40 | |
| Uh, and we did advertise it. We noticed the newspaper. | 01:59:47 | |
| Uh, we've conducted the auction. | 01:59:52 | |
| You've accepted a minimum bid of 1520, which was 90% of the appraised value. | 01:59:54 | |
| I would like to offer a motion, partly something that's already been done, but I'd like to offer that. | 02:00:01 | |
| The The objective of this meeting was not only to conduct an auction for the sale of 1260 square feet of Assessor Parcel #206-10 | 02:00:10 | |
| Dash Zero 76, but they're also authorize the Chairman to sign the Quick Claim Deed upon payment by the top bidder. | 02:00:18 | |
| Which are which are the autopass? | 02:00:27 | |
| With a minimum acceptable bid being 1520. | 02:00:29 | |
| And and it amends the motion for signing the quick claim. | 02:00:32 | |
| OK. Our our clerk of the Board has a copy of the of this proposed motion that's been approved by by by our attorneys. | 02:00:37 | |
| And and we'd like that to see if you could vote on that motion. | 02:00:44 | |
| To to authorize the signing of the quick claim. Why do you guys want to pick up that motion? | 02:00:50 | |
| And yeah, that's fine. I'll do it. And the amount was 1520, Yeah. | 02:00:55 | |
| OK. | 02:00:59 | |
| OK, I move to sell parcel #206-10 Dash. | 02:01:02 | |
| 07/6 to the successful bidder #12 in the amount of 1500. | 02:01:07 | |
| And $20 and two. | 02:01:14 | |
| Ask and to have the chairman sign the quick claim deed to transfer that property. | 02:01:17 | |
| A bump on receipt of payment. | 02:01:24 | |
| Umm. | 02:01:27 | |
| For the property. | 02:01:28 | |
| If if I could, just for the record, notice that it is a portion of that property that we're selling 1260 square feet. | 02:01:30 | |
| OK. OK. Yeah. | 02:01:37 | |
| OK. Then I will second that having a motion and a second all in favor, do so by saying aye, aye, aye, motion carries. | 02:01:41 | |
| Congratulations. | 02:01:45 | |
| Thank you for putting for us. | 02:01:50 | |
| And with that, I think that. | 02:01:54 | |
| Finalizes our meeting. Everything's covered, so all during the meeting for the day. | 02:01:56 | |
| Thank you. | 02:02:01 |