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  • A. Information/Discussion/Action to repeal Resolution No. 23-12-03 and adopt Resolution 24-02-02 authorizing the Gila County Recorder, as the Board of Supervisors' designee, to designate two emergency voting centers for the 2024 elections. (Sadie Bingham)
  • B. Information/Discussion regarding revised Policy No. BOS-FIN-016 - Community Agency and Economic Development Funding. (Maryn Belling)
  • C. Information/Discussion regarding the process and progress of the Copper Corridor Blight Busters Brownfields Coalition Assessment Grant, which is set to close in September 2024. (Aimee Staten)
  • D. Information/Discussion regarding improved methods for outreach and onboarding of contractors for Community Services projects. (Joshua Beck)
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I better turn that on. We ready to go, Lisa? 00:00:01
OK. Thank you, Cassandra. We're ready to go. 00:00:04
Samantha ready to go? OK, so. 00:00:08
Let's go ahead and get started. It's 10:00 on February 27th. 00:00:11
I'd like to call to order this special meeting, if you would. Let's all stand as we're led in the pledge of. 00:00:15
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. 00:00:25
One Nation. 00:00:33
Thank you. 00:00:35
No prayer this morning. 00:00:40
It's supposed to be a work session anyway. Got changed up a little bit. That's that's OK. We just don't think about God. 00:00:44
OK, so Sadie, you're here for item 2. 00:00:53
And I understand we're going to table that. Do I need to read this or can she just come up? 00:00:57
I should read it. OK. It's information, discussion and action to repeal. 00:01:03
Resolution number 231203. Introductory resolution 24/02. 00:01:08
Two, authorizing the Gila County Recorder as the Board of Supervisors designate to designate 2 emergency voting Centers for the 00:01:13
2024 elections. It's 80 Phyllis and. 00:01:18
It's a lot. 00:01:24
It is a lot. Well, thanks first of all for having me here and let me explain this. So on February 9th, the state legislatures. 00:01:25
Actually, I say the governor signed House Bill 2785. If you guys have read it, it's about 18 pages of. 00:01:35
Election laws that they decided to change right before the presidential preference. 00:01:43
One of them was to change the times of the hearing period. What hearing period is, is basically if you. 00:01:48
If your signature doesn't match what we have on file for the early ballot, you have so many days afterwards to come back and say 00:01:56
yes, I did sign this early ballot, it is me. You have to show all that stuff. They changed that to the calendar days instead of 00:02:01
business days. 00:02:05
So that would fall on the. 00:02:11
So then in the new bill, it says that you need to be open the weekend before the election and weekend after election for the 00:02:13
hearing period. 00:02:17
Well, in that little thing, there's emergency voting also. 00:02:21
So early that voting end. 00:02:26
Friday before the election at 5:00 PM, The new law says that we have to go until 7:00 PM. 00:02:29
Emergency voting starts at 8:00 AM. 00:02:34
And runs until 7:00 PM on. 00:02:37
So our resolution when I came back in December and asked for the emergency voting, because they have to be the emergency voting 00:02:41
locations have to be approved by the board, we said it was just going to be Monday. 00:02:46
Well, we're allowed to do it over the weekend, and if you do not approve it, then I would have to turn people away when they're 00:02:52
coming in to cure their ballots. And I didn't really feel like saying no, I'm sorry, you can't vote even though we're standing 00:02:55
here. 00:02:59
And so that's why we're going to do the resolution. Well, at 8:04 this morning, I received an e-mail from the state saying that 00:03:03
they are doing a trailer bill. 00:03:08
And all it has to do now is being passed by the House and signed by the governor and these. 00:03:13
New bills or these new laws do not take effect until after May 30th of this year. 00:03:19
This. 00:03:26
That we're discussing, Yes. OK. 00:03:27
Originally we're going to change the emergency voting to be over the weekend, but now we don't have to do it until afterwards it. 00:03:30
If you want to look it up, it is. 00:03:37
Sorry, let me grab the number. 00:03:40
Senate Bill 1429 is the new. 00:03:43
Trailer, Bill, That's going to explain a lot of. 00:03:46
So we would like to table this until after the Governor signs Senate Bill 1429. If she does not sign it, then I will be back in 00:03:50
here to do a resolution saying that we have to be open. 00:03:55
For emergency voting those days, if she does sign it, we're going to stick with the resolution from December. 00:04:01
Is that clear as much? Absolutely. 00:04:06
Absolutely. All right. 00:04:10
Yeah, Any question, Supervisor Humphrey? No, just that we hope that she signs or doesn't sign to give you enough time to do what 00:04:12
you need to do. 00:04:16
To notify the public of what the governor thinks she. 00:04:20
Thank you. I I'm with you 100%. 00:04:24
I I I hope that the burden doesn't bear on your shoulder. 00:04:28
Thank you. Yeah. It was this House bill that passed in there. It says that we had to change one word in the voting instructions. 00:04:31
You have to say male affidavit instead of affidavit. 00:04:38
But they didn't have his timeline, so we had to reprint 20. 00:04:42
Instructions before we could mail out the early ballots for the presidential preference election, because there's no timeline in 00:04:47
this. 00:04:50
Supervisor. 00:04:57
Sadie, I'm really glad you're here to take keep up with all this. Thank you so much. 00:04:59
I'm glad I'm here too, though. Yeah. Thank you, Sadie. This is. 00:05:05
Successful for you? 00:05:09
And so I'm going to call for a motion to table this item until we have a better indication of which way to go. So moved Mr. Chair 00:05:11
and I'll second that. Hey, we have a motion and a second to approve tabling item two and those. 00:05:17
Say aye, aye, aye. 00:05:26
Thank you. Thank you. 00:05:29
All right. And now we'll move on to item 2B. 00:05:32
And this is the information discussion regarding revised policy number BOSFIN 016 Community Agency and Economic Development 00:05:35
Funding Mar. 00:05:40
Good morning, Mr. Chair. Good morning, Supervisor Klein and Supervisor Humphrey. So today we have a work session item for you. 00:05:46
This is. 00:05:54
As you said policy number BOSFI NO16 community agency and economic development funding. 00:05:56
This. 00:06:04
Edit is in response to audit finding 2022-01. This audit finding first occurred in fiscal year or fourth fiscal year 2018, which 00:06:08
we got in fiscal 21 I believe. 00:06:16
The policy revision is attached. This revision formalizes the policy and procedure that you have been following for about the last 00:06:27
year. 00:06:33
Where? 00:06:41
Individual Dist. 00:06:43
Executive Administrators. 00:06:45
Are currently the ones who prepare the documentation for any Economic Development and Community Agency funding request. 00:06:48
And the only thing that. 00:06:56
Policy Ads that is not currently occurring is a monthly report from Finance. 00:07:00
To the consent agenda. 00:07:06
Everything else that's in here is a formalization of the current procedure that Kathy and Melissa and Terry are currently 00:07:09
following. 00:07:14
Thank you, Mayor and Jessica, yes, Chairman, member, supervisors. If you want to get into any sort of legalities of the policy, 00:07:21
then I recommend entering an executive session so we can have a discussion there. 00:07:26
I'll call for a motion. 00:07:32
And to adjourn here and enter an executive session. 00:07:35
I'll second it. Those in favor say aye, aye. 00:07:40
OK. 00:07:45
Our regular meeting. Again, our special meeting. 00:07:58
And with regard to Item 2B, Marin, if you would please continue Sir. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So to follow up on the discussion we're 00:08:08
having previously, this item will come back to the Gila County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, March 19th as the regular agenda 00:08:15
item for information, discussion and action. 00:08:21
OK. Thank you, Marin. There's no other questions. Then we'll move on to item 2C information discussion regarding the process and 00:08:29
progress of the copper Corridor Blockbusters Brownfields Coalition Assessment grant, which is set to close in September 2024. And 00:08:35
we have Amy with us. 00:08:41
Hello, Thank. 00:08:48
Board of for allowing. 00:08:50
Talk about this today. 00:08:54
I'm gonna have to work quicker and try not to forget as I go along. So the copper corridor of Light Busters. Brownfield Grant. 00:08:56
Is almost over. We have seven months left in the grants. We are going to go ahead and ask for an extension because we have several 00:09:03
projects that are. 00:09:07
Ongoing that will go after our grant is over and so we're going to do that. We're working on that right now, but so we have. 00:09:12
Wanted to go over the project output. 00:09:21
We prepared a quality Assurance project plan at the beginning. 00:09:23
And that was just basically to tell us what was going to, what was going to happen and we wanted to complete 36 phase one. 00:09:29
Assessments for petroleum and 32 hazardous. 00:09:38
We wanted to complete eight phase two to Petroleum 6 Hazardous. 00:09:43
And 28 Comprehensive. 00:09:49
In special surveys. 00:09:53
We oh, and then ten clean up plan. So we had two petroleum products and eight hazards what we found. 00:09:56
And going through the copper corridor is that the petroleum ones were a little harder to get at and because of private ownership 00:10:04
or you know whatever was happening with property at the time. So we we ended up having a lot more hazardous than we did the 00:10:11
petroleum, but we do have a few, a few of the others, so we do have. 00:10:18
We did complete the. 00:10:25
Well, that's interesting. 00:10:29
We did complete the quality assurance project plan and then for the phase one we. 00:10:31
No words up there except for I. We do have one petroleum completed and 21 hazard is completed and. 00:10:39
Oh, there we go. Thank you, Thank you. I know I put it on there. 00:10:47
So if you look up there. 00:10:50
That's bullion positive. That was one of our phase ones that was completed. 00:10:53
And then the company that. 00:10:57
Planning to purchase it went with another went somewhere else for their phase two that was one of our our phase. 00:11:00
Umm. 00:11:08
Apparently this is going to be a thing. OK, so we have we completed one petroleum for the phase two and four hazardous so far, and 00:11:12
we're working on more right now. You'll see a list in a moment of the other ones that we're doing. 00:11:20
We have completed. 00:11:29
28 Asbestos surveys 20. 00:11:32
Especially than 21 lead base actually. So we have two of those if you would like to see these reports, they're on our CC black 00:11:34
Busters. 00:11:38
Website and we're keeping that. We're keeping them updated as they're completed. I actually do have a couple to put on right now 00:11:44
that we've completed, but these are all up there and you can see you and anybody in the public can see what's going on as we go 00:11:49
along. 00:11:54
So we wanted to prepare, tin clean up plans and so far we've done. 00:12:02
Three and we have 4 underway. 00:12:08
And which means that they will have a couple of more if. 00:12:10
Can get them by the end of the grant and the extension will be able to do those as well. The only thing is, I'm not sure we'll 00:12:13
have enough money for all of all that we wanted to do because as we've gone through. 00:12:20
Just a little disclaimer, this was my first round. 00:12:26
Grant and. 00:12:30
Maybe overestimated some of the amount of things we could get done with the amount of money that we had. So that is that is why in 00:12:33
a moment we we did we are applying for another Brownfield grant so that we can finish some of those. We completed the historic 00:12:38
Superior High School campus. 00:12:44
Which I took a tour of not too long ago, which was very beautiful. And to explain to everybody, the Copper Corridor is from 00:12:50
Superior Globe Miami attorney Winkleman. So there's several different cities, towns that are involved in this. And then they 00:12:56
completed the Bullion Plaza. 00:13:01
He's one of inspiration school and then the superior land transfer. 00:13:08
Then these are all of the properties we have in process right now. 00:13:14
And and the reason I think for that and Kathy you can jump in anytime if you would like to and the the reason for that is? 00:13:18
I believe that because of past assessment projects. 00:13:28
The some of the the people who would be involved in these were like, well, you know, well we're going to have another assessment 00:13:35
and then what what happens after that? 00:13:39
And So what we had done with we, we applied for the EJ grant, which is going to take it past the assessment thing. 00:13:43
Which means that there's a cleanup needed, a cleanup will be done. If there's demolition needed, demolition will be done. And so 00:13:51
that that is that, that actually has encouraged everybody. OK, well, let's get this done. And so we had a rush of property. 00:13:57
Towards the end, so all. 00:14:03
Are to be done before the end of our of our grant and will not be done by September. So that's why we're asking for. 00:14:06
An extension, Kathy? Did you have anything? 00:14:16
You want to thank everything. OK. So of the $600,000 grant? 00:14:19
We have $235,000 left and that that will be taken more than taken up with these properties. 00:14:24
We do have the the E Vagrant that's going to help and it will do a few things like there's some assessments that we can do with 00:14:34
the Environmental Justice Grant, but most, but we're they don't want us to duplicate our efforts between these two grants. They 00:14:39
want us to move to the next, next level. 00:14:45
And so, So what we're going to do and and with the blight, we're going to keep up with these with these brownfields grant we're 00:14:53
going to do it until we until everybody is satisfied that all the buildings have been taken care of if they can be. And and we're 00:14:58
going to keep the the website going so that through the years people can go back if they want to buy a piece of property they can 00:15:03
go back and see what's been done. 00:15:09
And then they've done their due diligence and then they can move on and you know either purchase or not or or get more assessments 00:15:14
done. 00:15:18
So that is my my update. The input. Oh, thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. No, I think the Brownfield grant for a great thing. You 00:15:22
know, nobody realizes. But like the Tempe marketplace, it used to be chop shops and landfills. 00:15:29
And, you know, there's methane gas pipes coming up next to some of those buildings, but they're up high enough that they don't 00:15:37
bother the public. So, you know, I mean, some of the cleanups that can be done with brownfield grounds are amazing. 00:15:42
And I agree with you, when I was on the Industrial Development Authority, we did get in. We got a grant to kind of clean up some 00:15:47
of the gas station. 00:15:51
And nobody wanted this there because they didn't want to admit they had a problem. 00:15:55
Because then they thought that they would be made to take care of that problem and and they didn't want the expense or the bad 00:16:00
advertisement. So I think going forward we need to share our success stories as much as we can to let some of these property 00:16:07
owners know that we're there to help them. 00:16:14
And not penalize them for taking on phase one, because then there's a phase two and a phase, you know, until they get. 00:16:21
The property cleaned up. I think we need to, we need to show that more. We need to advertise more that we're there to help them, 00:16:29
not not hinder them as property owners. Yes, and that that is one of the objectives moving forward. We're going to get some of 00:16:36
this information out into the public because when we apply for another one and also for the EJ grant, we want people to understand 00:16:43
this is where we are, this is where we're going. One thing that. 00:16:50
With the that we found and that we didn't know before we started the grant was that if if somebody had purchased a piece of 00:16:57
property after 2002. 00:17:02
And it had not had a phase one and we couldn't help them, but we were able to work with ADEQ, with Travis Barnum is wonderful. He 00:17:07
just jumped right in there and and we were able to put several different grants together and get some of. 00:17:14
On properties done for instance, this Medical Center over here for the city of Globe, that was one of those. We couldn't actually 00:17:21
help them with this grant, but we talked to Travis about it. Travis said, Oh yeah, I can do that. So he was able to go in and and 00:17:26
get that complete and we found that. 00:17:30
Several different times. So we were. 00:17:37
We were able to not just work with the grant we had, but but to maximize our resources, our contacts and and reach out for other. 00:17:39
Other money. Mr. Chair, if I may, and if you don't mind, would you say those success stories are available? 00:17:48
You can go. I'm going to be writing some of the success stories for publication, but if you want to go and find these these 00:17:56
assessments, there are online on CC Flight Vista, OK. I I think I would like to be able to receive the success stories so that I 00:18:03
can share them in my public meetings of some of the cleanups and things that's been done and and and where we're going with some 00:18:10
of the cleanups that I can share them on the radio. 00:18:16
In some of my public meetings, OK, because we do a great job. We just don't tell a good story and we need to work on that. Thank 00:18:24
you. 00:18:28
Thank you supervisor. 00:18:33
Amy, thank you. And Kathy, you as well. This has been a real huge plus for him again. 00:18:35
Thank you I. 00:18:42
Coming in. 00:18:44
Go And we had that hotel that's down there in Winterman in Haiti. 00:18:46
That had been tackled. 00:18:54
For several years before I got here. 00:18:56
Couldn't get anywhere, you know. 00:18:59
Having everything all into place like we did on that hotel and now with what you all have been doing now this flight Buster Grant 00:19:02
and all that is a huge plus. 00:19:07
That's not just for he the county is for Pinal County as well. Town of Superior Copper Corridor like you said. And so hopefully we 00:19:12
can just keep it going and and do more and more. 00:19:18
That's the plan. I'm hoping, yeah, get all the get all these buildings that are falling down either down or or rehab. You bet. So 00:19:24
everything you guys are doing. Thanks. Thanks so much. 00:19:29
Yeah. Thank you, Amy. I appreciate all that. 00:19:36
There's a lot going on there. You've got a lot. 00:19:39
Different things. Pursuing future grants, all that. 00:19:42
Appreciate all that sounds that's good report. Thank you. Thank you. So we have no action on this item. 00:19:45
And so let's move on to Item 2D information discussion regarding improved methods for outreach. 00:19:51
And onboarding of contractors for community services projects. Joshua Beck, how are you? Good morning, Supervisor Christensen, 00:19:57
members of the board. 00:20:01
So at previous board meetings, we've talked a lot about and even sitting in the audience, we see a lot of services grants that 00:20:07
come up for weatherization and home remodels. And because of the way all these grants work, there's just a lot of pieces to the 00:20:14
puzzle, especially when it comes to weatherization. We receive money from APS, we receive money from Southwest Gas, we receive 00:20:20
state monies, we receive federal monies, and all kind of go into these pots and they're either for home remodels, weatherization. 00:20:27
And so it comes before the Board of Supervisors a lot. So one of the good things about Supervisor Humphrey asking this question is 00:20:34
again have a community services under us now. It gave me a chance to kind of dive into these and kind of see where we're at. So we 00:20:39
pulled the slide. 00:20:43
And she. 00:20:50
All right. 00:20:51
But so we have, there are 12 contractors that have been used. So I had Lisa from Community Services pull up just the last year. So 00:20:54
this is last calendar year. So January, December 2023 seems like the best chance for all of us to just look at here's what was 00:20:59
expended in one year. 00:21:04
So there are just quick notes, there are 8 vendors in county, 4 vendors out of county. 00:21:09
That we used last year. You will notice in the first thing that comes to mind right away. As you see, the smaller grants are all 00:21:15
the ones or the smaller pots of money are the ones that were used by the people in the county. 00:21:20
And then you'll see the larger ones, especially with Advantage Home Performance are the ones that have been done out of county. 00:21:26
Part of the reason as I look into that and I start looking into all these grants and where the money comes from is going to make 00:21:32
sense. The larger the pots of money we're getting typically come from the federal government. The federal government for 00:21:38
contractors requires a much more stringent list looking at their things. There's a walk, which is weatherization program like boot 00:21:44
camp class. It's 15 different courses. 00:21:50
Covered this all kinds of different things with weatherization, auditing, and compliance checks of the home. Once you're done, it 00:21:56
requires just, you know every person because they're working with people that are. 00:22:02
At need or at risk populations, they require level 1 fingerprint clearance cards for people to go into those homes because most of 00:22:09
the time we're doing weatherization projects that people are at home and we're going in there. So this isn't just the people that 00:22:15
even apply for these. Any of the contractors that are going into the home would require a Level 1 fingerprint. 00:22:20
So these larger grants require that the state grants require a little bit less for as far as what you know, the required of the 00:22:27
contractors that go in and then the Southwest gas and the APS grants even less. So they give us a lot more flexibility on who we 00:22:32
go with. 00:22:37
So as I look through this list, a lot of them were obviously with the general contractors I go to some of the larger ones just for 00:22:42
Windows. So there's the BMS cat of Arizona on there, the 4th from the bottom. 00:22:48
Another large one on there, see who it is here, the FSL company just so you know that is the company. So it's smaller dollar 00:23:26
amounts, 10,850 but just you see it's an out of county one, but that's the one that does most of the training. So like that walk 00:23:32
boot camp, a lot of those different trainings that we have the contractors go through and the audits once we if we have audits 00:23:37
which we do for, it sounds like for a lot of these it's just an inspection, the final inspections on the properties when they're 00:23:43
done. So that's what we use them for. 00:23:48
The big one that we see a lot that comes to the board a lot is this advantage home performance. So that's the big 498,000. Just if 00:23:54
you're curious last year the total for all contracts last year was $774,000. So it is a lot of money. So it's a good question 00:24:02
Supervisor Humphrey presents when we say why are we putting this much out of county. So looking at advantage home performance, I 00:24:09
was able to go back and agenda quick and we go all the way back to 2019 is when we started working with them we had. 00:24:16
A request to post. We went out to bid. 00:24:24
April of 20 ninet. 00:24:30
Contract in June of 2019. One bidder, Advantage Home Performance, started with about $450,000. 00:24:32
In 2020 that was extended. We added money to it in 2021 again and I assume this is a good thing as far as when I was looking at it 00:24:39
is if you know our procurement policy, we can go out to bid, sign the first year contract and we can extend that up to three 00:24:45
times. We haven't done that, which I look back and think is a good thing because we're allowing more and more contractors to apply 00:24:51
each time because this went back out to bid again and went. 00:24:57
Full request for positioning, request for posting and went out to papers and we put it out again in 2021 and again Advantage Home 00:25:03
Performance one, they were the only bid that time. Their contract was in like the $500,000 range and again in 2022 that got 00:25:09
extended again and then the last time in. 00:25:14
October of 2022 we went out to procurement a third time. 00:25:23
And a third time, one bid advantage home performance again where we're at right now is that last 1 from 2022 is expiring. 00:25:28
Past Community Services Director and Estelle who works this program. They are a good company. They it sounds like the advantages 00:26:07
they have. They really designed their company. 00:26:11
And everything people need to apply and then go out to bid and then, you know, we can counsel people up until that point. 00:26:45
You know what what level do we go because it is a large amount of money and I would like to see, I assume you all would too. It 00:26:53
would be nice to have for one, just have two or three different vendors so that each one of the projects kind of like what we did 00:26:59
with the flood projects with Emergency Management during the during the flood. So we have, we go out to bid, we take a. 00:27:05
Three or four different people and we have them all and they're all certified and qualified and we can go to the lowest bidder on 00:27:12
each project, which creates better competition, so. 00:27:15
I know that's a lot of information, but that's where I'm at. And we're at a good time period because right now there are no 00:27:20
contracts. I can just extend the contract advantage from performance, which we may have to do is like 8 months left on that fiscal 00:27:26
year. I don't know if we can get somebody else in time, but it's a good time for us to discuss what does the board have in mind or 00:27:32
what are some of the suggestions you would have to kind of improve this process looking at what we know of where we're at. 00:27:37
OK, Supervisor Humphrey. 00:27:44
Yeah, Mr. Chair. Yeah, I guess I do. Like, for instance. 00:27:48
Like I said, I was in the contracting business for 27 years and when I first started, I did a lot of work. 00:27:52
For the county. 00:27:58
Before I was a supervisor. 00:27:59
And and so at that time they required AVPI certification. I don't know if that's still required or not, but if not, probably 00:28:01
something similar. 00:28:06
And and there's got to be more than one company in the. 00:28:12
In the state of Arizona, as maybe even in the county that are certified and so I you know and as we go out to bid, is there like a 00:28:15
list or could we get information on who would be BPI certified? 00:28:22
And and and let them know that we're going out to bid. 00:28:30
Because it's not just notified in the back of face and roundup paper that we're going out forbid for BPI certification and some of 00:28:34
the companies that have. 00:28:39
Don't even know that we are. 00:28:45
We are reaching out for qualified bidders and and and as well as I know a lot of local contractors. 00:28:47
Now that we have a better view. 00:28:56
The money that is involved. 00:28:59
I will reach out to contractors. 00:29:03
That I know that I've worked with in the past. 00:29:07
To see with this amount of money, would they be willing to to go through the? 00:29:10
The training to become VPI certified to be able to add a little more work. 00:29:18
To. 00:29:25
And so, yeah, I would just, I appreciate all the time, energy and effort because now at least we know where the money went and who 00:29:28
it went to. 00:29:33
And before, I wasn't sure. Didn't. 00:29:38
And so I I appreciate. 00:29:43
Putting the time and effort in getting all of these numbers, contractors and things together. 00:29:46
For this information to bring before the. 00:29:52
And and like say as as we advertise for bid, I I can't believe that there's not. 00:29:55
More companies willing to take advantage of the amount of money that not just Gila County spending. 00:30:01
But you know, to also get in competition with some of the larger counties as well, or other smaller counties. 00:30:08
And so. 00:30:16
My two cents is to maybe reach out to more more certified contractors. 00:30:19
That we are. 00:30:26
Needing. 00:30:28
With some of our work, and I've already reached out to a couple contractors and I don't know if they've reached out to you or not 00:30:30
about your program because like I say, the little monies, if they don't need a BBPI certified to replace a window or to do a roof 00:30:36
or to put in a hot water heater or whatever. 00:30:43
A lot of those small monies at the end of 12 months adds up as well. 00:30:51
And so if we could get them signed up with your. 00:30:55
As qualified. 00:31:00
And then they could work to get certified eventually. 00:31:03
Hopefully because there is there is quite a bit of money in it and like I say that that's just heal accounting that there was 00:31:07
almost $1,000,000 so. 00:31:12
One thing I don't want to downplay in this, especially coming from the health department because we work with this a lot from the 00:31:18
director to all of our staff that work in schools is the significance of the finger level 1 fingerprint experience card for all 00:31:23
vendors. I mean it's have you ever looked at the exemption list or the Level 1 fingerprint parents card? It's it's not much, it's 00:31:29
a pretty significant undertaking and it it leaves very little. 00:31:35
Little past behavior unchecked when getting that fingerprints card. So I mean it is a it's a big barrier for a lot of places and 00:31:41
that's even for the non BPI certified. 00:31:47
OK, so boy, that's good information. Like I said, now I know more so I can reach out and try to help more because I I I've been a 00:31:53
squeaky wheel on local contractors, local contractors and so. 00:31:59
Now I can squeak in their direction and if they can't do a finger pass, it's not my fault and they tried to help. 00:32:06
So one of you guys tell me what BPI stands for? 00:32:15
I just see it on all the paperwork. 00:32:20
Yeah, I I don't remember what it stands for, but it's certified and and how air flows through a house. 00:32:23
We used to pressurize the house where you put a big fan at the front door and pressurize the home. 00:32:32
And see where the air was going. So you would. 00:32:39
What the plug up make it? 00:32:42
Or. Or you would suck the you know, or you would pull the air out of the house. 00:32:46
So then you would know where it's coming in the house or to make it more of a sealed unit and and even the ductwork as well. 00:32:51
So what, just what I heard you say as well is they all have to do fingerprint cards. 00:33:00
So if there's any small issues along in their past, it shows up in the fingerprint cards. 00:33:06
There's no correcting that. 00:33:13
Is there? And Jessica could probably go more on this, but I mean, in my experience, when you go it's usually a board hearing when 00:33:14
you have to. If you have something in your past and you want to, usually you almost have to have it expunged. 00:33:20
And then you can go back to the clearance clearance board and have them reevaluate if you can expunge whatever it was that they 00:33:27
don't. 00:33:31
So like, is that just like if you had a? 00:33:35
Prior felony against you or is it a misdemeanor or what is it there? 00:33:39
Chairman, Member Supervisors. 00:33:46
Arizona doesn't really do expungement. They do recognize expunging. 00:33:49
Marijuana charges, but as far as felonies, I don't see any sort of route to. 00:33:54
Get that off anyone's record. So then, Jessica. But on these Fingerprint cards, would it also show up, show misdemeanors or 00:33:59
anything like that? Well. 00:34:04
Yeah, Josh is saying yes. 00:34:09
There's a list of like 30 misdemeanors in most films at. 00:34:12
Count against. 00:34:17
Type one thing, so if you're a contractor and you have some misdemeanor against you or in your past and you fingerprint card it 00:34:18
comes up that kind of kicks you out as far as the contractor. 00:34:24
Wow. So when do we have any at all? 00:34:30
You know, I mean being being honest, I mean misdemeanor can be a number of things, different things, so. 00:34:33
It does look like there is a process to consider expungement, and I'm not sure how likely that is. I know that it's very easy to 00:34:42
expand the misdemeanors for and even the felonies for marijuana or the possession of paraphernalia that arose from marijuana, but 00:34:50
it does look like there is a process that Arizona accepts to consider expungement. 00:34:58
Probably a pretty lengthy process, I would almost imagine. 00:35:08
Constantly the boots, which is where I'm not saying when I look at that I'm like please, but it's where I say when I look at the 00:35:11
funding that's not specifically tied to those programs. 00:35:17
Community services, I see it because I'm kind of giving compliments that Helium was on. When you look at the funding, that's not 00:35:23
tied to that. They actually do a very good job of sorting that out with the local contractors. So they're definitely not 00:35:27
intentionally. 00:35:31
Freezing behind. So Josh, like the lower dollar figures, those projects, we don't have to have the fingerprint cards. 00:36:05
OK. So that that's only for like your HUD type projects, federal projects? 00:36:14
Well, I mean, I I I don't. I'm no different than Supervisor Humphrey. I'd like to see as much money as we possibly can stay in 00:36:22
Hina County. 00:36:26
But there's only so much we can do. 00:36:31
And I I think this, Mr. Chair, if I may, I think that. 00:36:35
I think the I think. 00:36:38
The difficulty might lie with the crew because they the people that work for the contractor also have to have fingerprint cards. 00:36:41
Because I don't think you can hold a contractor's license save Arizona if you have a felony. So it's the crew as well, I think. I 00:36:49
think the difficulty would lie not in the contractor. 00:36:55
But in in the crew that would be on the job so you could you would need like a three man crew. 00:37:01
With all of them to have a fingerprint card and you could have some employees that not but they just couldn't work on these 00:37:08
projects and a lot of that is that their concern is is. 00:37:14
Well, I see the sense in that, yeah, I I see that it just, you know it if if it covers the crew as well. 00:37:50
I mean, you could have a contractor that's clean. 00:37:57
And justice? Fine. But if you've got a crew that has something in their past. 00:38:01
He just needs one or two people that can get their cards as well to be on these projects, which is hard because today you know, I 00:38:05
see lots of help wanted signs and not many people wanted to help and also I can see the issues there. 00:38:13
Right. So thank you. I do fall through president for anything. When I see a number like 498,000 that sure at least is capitalist, 00:38:22
you think to yourself, well there's a there's an opening there, right. It's a lot of money if you can put the idea together and 00:38:29
carry to fruition. Yeah, as a small business owner that would be a good yearly income you know for three for a three man crew. 00:38:35
So, Joshua, yeah, I I believe that they should have those programs, those stringent programs, the fingerprinting. We do that with 00:38:43
our schools. We don't want teachers in our schools. We don't, you know. 00:38:48
Things and but it's hard to find the construction. 00:38:54
Is full of a bunch of squeaky clean people. It's kind of hard to imagine. And also there's got to be some level of smaller 00:38:59
contractors that just don't want all that. 00:39:05
They don't want to have to pay federal wages. They don't have to fill out all these papers or have $2,000,000 in insurance or 00:39:11
whatever. All the requirements are so. 00:39:16
I'll ask a question to Jessica. 00:39:23
Listening to all this discussion about our preference of keeping the money in Gila County using local contractors. 00:39:25
At what level are we allowed? 00:39:33
Even. 00:39:36
Legally. 00:39:37
Chairman, member, Supervisors. So by statute you're required to advertising. 00:39:40
Roundup or whatever newspaper advertising. 00:39:44
One, the procurement for that year. However, there's no barrier to go above and beyond advertising to let other companies know 00:39:48
that you are going to be putting something out for. 00:39:55
I see a benefit to the county as well. For example, this advantage home performance. You know they have a monopoly here in Gila 00:40:03
County with being the only bidder. So it would be in the benefit of the county to have other bidders to lower that cost. And so 00:40:09
you wouldn't be prohibited from putting out other advertising means to let the public know that you're going to be putting 00:40:16
something out for bid. 00:40:22
OK, but we don't have a system in our. 00:40:30
Ordinance or anything that would give preference to a local. 00:40:34
By by a certain percentage or an amount or anything like that. 00:40:38
There are different kinds of experience and stuff that would give a local person or a rural person those advantages over somebody 00:41:19
else that are perfectly fair and equitable. 00:41:23
Well, I would think there would be a considerable amount of advantages using local versus out of town, just for a number of 00:41:29
reasons that a person is locally available, they can respond to something that didn't go well or that needs to be revisited. 00:41:37
Versus someone that's in Tucson or something, they're not going to want to come back up and fix some little thing that's. 00:41:45
Whatever. So there would be a number of reasons to use someone locally just for the logistics of it. 00:41:52
So, but so in other words, you're saying doesn't always have to be the low bidder? 00:41:59
Sometimes it's the best qualified. Best qualified at a reasonable price, OK, but we need more than one person to find out. Best 00:42:05
qualified person, you know? 00:42:10
Or. 00:42:15
Yeah. And that's what's hard because you know we are small place and these big companies like that, I'm sure they're busy 00:42:17
elsewhere as well Argentina County. 00:42:21
Which makes you wonder about the quality, if they're doing that much work in even county and that much in other counties. 00:42:26
So there is, there is an extra level that we could, as we will really continue to work harder to get it out, Mr. Chair, if I may. 00:43:38
There's got to be a school for training, for certification. 00:43:47
Would I would imagine that their list of successful? 00:43:52
People. 00:44:00
There would there would be a list of people that have been certified through them. 00:44:02
Would that be public information that we could obtain? 00:44:07
I mean, if I want to conquer, I could go to the registered contractors and find out licensed contractors in state Arizona. 00:44:13
I wouldn't know that one, but I will say not to open a can of worms. 00:44:20
I have thought and then I spoke, Mr. Driscoll, about this. I know this much longer than this year, but other project of what are 00:44:25
the possibilities that we're bringing it in house and just hiring our own fingerprint parents for people and just doing the work. 00:44:29
And then the money all stays in the county because we run the program through community services and hire contractors that way and 00:44:33
then all the money stays. 00:44:38
There is an Ave. to petition the Board of fingerprinting. 00:45:17
For good 'cause to, you know, basically contest. You know, I have a criminal record, but I want to go ahead and get this 00:45:21
fingerprint clearance card for XY and Z reasons. So there is a list of offenses that would prohibit somebody from getting a 00:45:28
fingerprint clearance card. It looks like they mostly involve children or sexual crimes, but then there's a list of other crimes, 00:45:36
mostly misdemeanors or shoplifting, forgery. 00:45:43
Just to name a few. That would allow someone to petition the board to try to obtain that fingerprint clearance card. 00:45:51
OK. 00:46:01
I like your way of thinking, Josh. 00:46:06
So, Mr. Chair, if I may, Yeah, if. If we could get certified. 00:46:08
I think. 00:46:13
Definitely an Ave. to look. 00:46:15
'Cause then we could we could also be a subcontractor. 00:46:18
To people that qualify. 00:46:22
Instead of hiring a general, we could be the general and. 00:46:25
Higher subcontractors. 00:46:29
Councillor just as a note, I noticed that he'll county. 00:46:32
Puts like a two page. 00:46:37
Add in the pace and roundup, it's every quarter or something like that and I don't know if that would be an additional Ave. 00:46:40
To say calling all contractors, do you realize you have opportunities if? 00:46:49
You know, as an additional incentive for them to understand that because maybe the contract. I'm a contractor and I don't see how 00:46:56
many I've never sought. 00:47:01
Bids and. 00:47:07
Didn't even think about it. Maybe there's a lot out there that don't think about it. 00:47:09
It's just a thought. 00:47:13
And I won't be seeking. 00:47:17
And so as a contractor, I've never desired to become big. I've never desired to go through that whole deal with a bunch of 00:47:22
employees and. 00:47:26
Building and accountants and all of that. To me, that was just not ever a desire. 00:47:30
So there's probably a lot of smaller. 00:47:36
Mom and pop time that people that just don't want that hassle. 00:47:40
They want to be able to name their price, not. 00:47:46
You know, so anyway, what else we got for Josh? 00:47:49
I'm good. That's good information. It's not an action item. 00:47:54
Hopefully that helps you to understand maybe what we're thinking. 00:47:58
OK. Thank you very much. And if there's anything I can do? 00:48:02
To help, let me know. 00:48:08
What's for all of us? Thank you, Josh. 00:48:12
OK, so our next item is a call to the public. I'm not sure if we have anyone here today, but let me ask you, Cassandra, is there 00:48:14
anyone on the Internet? 00:48:20
Wishes to speak. Is there anyone here in Globe that wishes to? 00:48:26
And is there anyone in? 00:48:29
OK, how many do we have, Cassie? 00:48:34
Internet today. 00:48:37
15, OK, great. So our next item number four is to get a report from the Board of Supervisors and County Manager. I'll go ahead and 00:48:39
turn it over to Mr. Manlow. 00:48:44
Mr. Chairman of the board, last week attended Small. 00:48:50
Dinner and form with the other small counties in Arizona. 00:48:54
Really good dinner that was hosted by Apache County. 00:49:00
And then the CSA board meeting on Thursday. 00:49:03
I just wanted to let you know that it they go alphabetically and so at its Heela counties term to turn to host small counties 00:49:07
dinner. 00:49:12
The CSA board meeting is on March 21st. 00:49:17
And so the small counties dinner will be the evening of March 20th. 00:49:21
And it would be great if you could all have that on your calendars. 00:49:26
Apache County. 00:49:30
Serve traditional. 00:49:32
Apache Naval talk, Not Apache Navajo. 00:49:35
And had their a lot of their home homemade recipes. 00:49:39
Is really good. 00:49:42
And so they also brought a number of their board staff and stuff and just wanted. 00:49:44
With your permission, extend that to your board staff and be able to come to that event. 00:49:49
On the 20th. 00:49:54
Porch. OK, that is it, Mr. 00:49:57
We'll also extend invitations to our representatives and senator that represent in the county to come to that and perhaps. 00:50:02
For the meeting that we have small counties agenda is up to the Hill County Board of Supervisors and so we're working with you to 00:50:11
put together that agenda for the small. 00:50:15
Dinner and meeting. 00:50:20
I think we should offer healer monster poppers. 00:50:22
Just Hill County Hila Monster. 00:50:27
OK, that's a joke. 00:50:29
Before someone quotes me, I'm not sure what they are but. 00:50:32
OK. Thank you, James, Supervisor Humphrey. 00:50:39
Just keeping up on projects. There's a lot of projects going on in District 2 right now, from the bridge to the paving to the Guy 00:50:43
Sela Road to the sidewalk project going down golden hills. So that's great. My hats off to all staff for helping with those. 00:50:52
And the Board of Supervisors for approving them. And then I've been kind of interested in Tri-City Sanitation district. I was at 00:51:01
one of their meetings here a while back in defense of. 00:51:07
Of rumors that we're going around and I'll be at. 00:51:13
Tonight with Tri-City as well, there's a group that's called. 00:51:17
Citizens Against Higher Taxes committee That's presenting a lot of grief to. 00:51:23
And they say nothing about taxes. They it's all, it's all they're negative against. 00:51:30
Tri-City. And so I don't know why they call themselves Citizens against higher taxes. But anyway, so working with Tri-City to try 00:51:37
to work through that issue and so that's all I have, Mr. Chair. 00:51:43
Thank you, Mr. Klein. 00:51:49
Yeah. 00:51:52
When I was in Superior for that breakfast with the governor. 00:51:56
Here's been a while back I guess. 00:52:00
When I was talking to her about some of our some of what Heila County has been doing and what not, one of the things I mentioned 00:52:04
was our youth program. 00:52:08
In the place here in the. 00:52:12
Brought back to the county actually, because it is here prior to us. 00:52:15
She's really was really, really interested in that particular topic and so yesterday. 00:52:19
Me and Kathy set in on a Zoom meeting with two of her. 00:52:26
I guess once cabinet staff another. 00:52:30
For workforce. 00:52:33
Yeah, and they they were there to talk to us about our youth program. 00:52:36
And one of the things, well to back up a little bit, we went through it all how we started with numbers and where we were like up 00:52:43
to last year. It's increased, it's done well. 00:52:47
And everything like that. So what they're really interested in is looking at. 00:52:53
Partnering with. 00:52:58
I guess you would say Kathy's gonna write up some things and. 00:53:00
And quite possibly we could get some funds from the state. 00:53:04
That will end up coming straight to the. 00:53:09
And for some to help with this program. 00:53:12
And there's some things in there where I could see that would be real beneficial to us and also our neighbors. 00:53:17
Because one of the issues is, is where we bordered Pinal County right there in Kearney and. 00:53:25
And we have kids that live across the road. 00:53:31
And. 00:53:35
It's kind of a pitch to have to really look at addresses. 00:53:37
I really didn't care in all the years we dealt with it because in that corner down there, there's not any opportunities for our 00:53:42
youth to work and stuff like that. So I never really cared what side of the street can come from. It was all about helping these 00:53:47
kids. 00:53:51
But this could be a way we could have some extra funds come into this program that we could go ahead and help some of those kids 00:53:57
that's across the highway. In addition to that we are going to be talking to. 00:54:03
No accounting. 00:54:10
Here in about a week I think it is. 00:54:12
On maybe they would be willing to step in and help us. 00:54:15
With this program. 00:54:19
But these guys that we talked to yesterday, 2 gentlemen and lady, they were real impressed about the doing it. 00:54:22
One of the biggest things, one of the biggest advantages to what we do in our youth program is we don't deal with eligibility. 00:54:28
If a kid needs a job and we got the money, we give them. 00:54:36
When you go through Workforce and other programs, it has eligibility requirements that can really be a Det. 00:54:40
To some you somewhere that really needs a job so. So that's a big advantage to that we have in in the program that we're doing 00:54:48
here is accounting and. 00:54:53
Hopefully we'll keep it that way and keep going and so that was a real good conversation with those two. I I really enjoyed their 00:54:59
enthusiasm and and they spoke highly of it. They were, I thought they were pretty appreciative of our program. 00:55:06
Overall 00:55:14
so I'm hoping to see more coming out of that. The other day I participated in the ECO meeting. 00:55:15
On Zoom good meeting talking about. 00:55:23
Getting our story out there as well, you know what Eco's doing as a group and and all that, so. 00:55:28
When I go back to DC, I'll probably be taking some of that with me and talking to senators and congressmen. 00:55:34
About that as well, so. 00:55:41
And other. 00:55:43
I think I'm. 00:55:45
OK, good. Very good. 00:55:47
So I have an appointment to make with the Industrial Development Authority. Had a good conversation with Cliff Potts. He's. 00:55:50
Excited that the idea is changing some of its membership to a stronger position, something more positive that will enhance and 00:55:57
work better. And so I have the responsibility of making one of those appointments. I think you have another one. 00:56:06
If I'm not wrong. 00:56:16
So check into that. And so there's two vacancies right now. 00:56:18
And I believe you have one to a point. I just appointed one to the board. 00:56:24
More than more. OK. So maybe that's the one I'm speaking. OK. OK. 00:56:30
And so I have someone in mind, they're going to get back with me and I think it'll be good, so. 00:56:34
So industrial development, economic development, all those things are important. So I think it's good that. 00:56:41
Maybe the the energy there is shifting to more positive thing. 00:56:47
And I read in the paper today. I know it's not our. 00:56:52
Review exactly. But Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District is making some headway with their flow, getting their wells to 00:56:57
function a little bit better and so they're producing more water and fixing more leaks And so that's a positive good thing in that 00:57:02
area. 00:57:07
Also, I did. I'm sure all of us have been receiving a lot of emails when it comes to the short term rentals. 00:57:14
And so I've been keeping track of all of those myself. 00:57:22
We've been marking the the, the positive or the negative and the, you know the concerns. And so I think it's April 30th that we're 00:57:26
going to have a work session on that. That's also the day we're also going to have the Healer provisional college. 00:57:33
Board of Directors come speak with us on their progress. There was another article in the paper today. 00:57:41
That I believe Preston Pollock who is the newest member of that board kind of led and with regard to some of the situation that's 00:57:48
going on with that and it is concerning and so we do need to have a a conversation about that though. 00:57:55
That's all good. I'm glad that's all coming up. And so that's really all I think I have to say. 00:58:03
So if. Unless there's something. 00:58:08
Then I will adjourn our meeting. Thank you. 00:58:11
Ah. 00:58:22