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| Thank you everyone for coming. I'd like to call this regular meeting Tuesday, April 16th, 2024. | 00:00:02 | |
| To to order and it's 10:00 AM and I wanted to introduce before our pledge and invocation. I wanted to introduce Tammy and Pastor | 00:00:10 | |
| Joe to see married couple they run U-turn for Christ. | 00:00:18 | |
| Ian Payson decided to drive all the way down here to offer the prayer, and we really appreciate that. And so then I've also asked | 00:00:27 | |
| Tammy, who will nervously lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. If you just say I pledge, we'll take it from there. | 00:00:36 | |
| So if you would, let's let's all stand. | 00:00:46 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. | 00:00:52 | |
| And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation on God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:57 | |
| And then, if you still choose, would you bow your heads with me and pray? | 00:01:08 | |
| Papa, we come before you, and we thank you, Lord, and lift up this county supervisors meeting. | 00:01:13 | |
| We ask you to draw them close to you, Give them wisdom. | 00:01:18 | |
| And may your ways and Your grace be evident today in this meeting. | 00:01:22 | |
| We ask you to lead them in making the right decisions that align with what you would like to accomplish. | 00:01:26 | |
| In this county and through your people, Lord. | 00:01:31 | |
| We ask you, Lord, to help us to submit to our leaders that you've placed over us and give us an understanding that ultimately you | 00:01:34 | |
| are in control. | 00:01:38 | |
| May all leaders seek your guidance in all they do. Surround them with godly counsel and with advisors who know you and walk | 00:01:42 | |
| faithfully with you. | 00:01:46 | |
| Lead them according to your perfect will. Let our leaders fulfill their God-given destiny and accomplish their assignments you | 00:01:50 | |
| have given them. | 00:01:54 | |
| Both today in this meeting and for the time appointed to them. | 00:01:58 | |
| Here in Gila County, Gila County look. | 00:02:02 | |
| Amen. I'm still new to the county. I still call it Villa. | 00:02:04 | |
| Thank you. | 00:02:10 | |
| OK. We have quite a bit today, so we'll just move right on into it. And I need a motion to recess as the heel county Board of | 00:02:13 | |
| Supervisors and reconvene as the Gila County Library Board of Directory. So moved, Mr. Chair. | 00:02:22 | |
| And I'll second that, hey, and all those in favor say aye, Aye. | 00:02:30 | |
| Good morning. We have information, discussion and action to approve the renewal and acceptance of grantee agreement number GRA | 00:02:36 | |
| RC004-24-1209-01-Y2 between the Gila Regional Partnership Council, Arizona Early Childhood Development and Health Board, First | 00:02:46 | |
| things first and the Hua County Library District in the amount of $60,000 for fiscal year July 1, 2024 through June 3020. | 00:02:56 | |
| 25 and good morning, Elaine. | 00:03:06 | |
| Good morning, Chairman, Christensen, Supervisor, Client, Supervisor Humphrey. This is our First things first Parent Education | 00:03:10 | |
| Community Based Training Grant. | 00:03:14 | |
| Renewal that began in 2011. | 00:03:19 | |
| This grant fosters and promotes parent training on the importance of helping children to develop pre reading skills that are | 00:03:22 | |
| necessary for literacy in young children. | 00:03:26 | |
| In addition to the parent training, each child age birth to five, who resides in Gila County is eligible to receive a book through | 00:03:30 | |
| the mail. | 00:03:34 | |
| This can be. This can provide the child with up to 60 books that are free and age appropriate for their own personal library. This | 00:03:39 | |
| is possible through the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. | 00:03:43 | |
| This grant has a goal of enrolling 1300 children and distributing 15,600 books in the new fiscal year. | 00:03:49 | |
| We currently have 1017 enrolled and have distributed approximately 11,000 books so far to date. | 00:03:57 | |
| We ask that you approve the First things first grant renewal for FY25 in the amount of $60,000. | 00:04:03 | |
| You have any questions? I'll be happy to help. Thank you Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:04:09 | |
| I have no questions. Thank you very much for reaching out and helping them get all they can get. | 00:04:14 | |
| Thank you very much. Supervised client and neither do I Elaine, but thanks for doing this, it's a good program has been so | 00:04:20 | |
| appreciate it. | 00:04:23 | |
| Thank you and thank you, Elaine. I don't have any questions. With that, I'll call for Motion. | 00:04:28 | |
| Mr. I move to approve grantee agreement numbered. | 00:04:32 | |
| GRA RC004-2. | 00:04:35 | |
| Dash 1209-01-Y2AS Free. | 00:04:40 | |
| Mr. Charles 2nd. I have a motion to the second to approve. All those in favor. Say aye. Aye. Thank you, Elaine. Motion passes. I | 00:04:46 | |
| will now entertain a motion to adjourn at the Hua County Library Board of Directors and reconvene as by Hula County Board of | 00:04:52 | |
| Supervisors. So move, Mr. Chair. Now second, all those in favor say aye, Aye. | 00:04:58 | |
| Motion carries Aye Item 2B Information. Discussion Action to authorize the advertisement of invitation for bids number 030724. | 00:05:06 | |
| Purchase of AR15 rifles for the Sheriff's Office and we have Sheriff Shepard and we also have. | 00:05:16 | |
| Miss White, good morning, Chairman, members of the Board. I brought the gun expert with me because I figured if you started asking | 00:05:26 | |
| me some questions I might get a little bit hairy. So we are just coming before you today to ask you guys to advertise for BIN and | 00:05:32 | |
| the purpose for this is to purchase. | 00:05:38 | |
| 50AR15 rifles to standardize and the rifles that we have across the board in the Sheriff's Office. | 00:05:45 | |
| And with that, I'll take any questions that you have. | 00:05:53 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:05:56 | |
| I I have no question. | 00:06:02 | |
| Supervisor Klein. | 00:06:04 | |
| Sheriff for you guys. You guys aren't packing New York 15 S now. OK, here the situation currently is, is that we have a mixture of | 00:06:06 | |
| some that were donated some 20-30 years ago. | 00:06:11 | |
| We have some military surplus which are, you know, all configured different and we have some that folks carry on their own and | 00:06:18 | |
| then of course some with none. | 00:06:23 | |
| So what we like to do with this program is standardize this across the board, standardize the training, the equipment, you know | 00:06:29 | |
| how they they're loaded out to where just kind of like what we did with the site on a few years back. So that if there is a | 00:06:34 | |
| situation out there that needs. | 00:06:39 | |
| That type of response, everybody's equipment's the same. | 00:06:45 | |
| We can throw you, you know, ammunition if you need it. And it all works exactly the same. Instead of having this hodgepodge that | 00:06:50 | |
| we have right now. Gotcha. Yeah. So the only other thing I'd say is, is when you get them all in and you can go break them in and | 00:06:56 | |
| start shooting them, you can send me an invite. Absolutely. You know, you're welcome. | 00:07:03 | |
| Yeah, I'll, I'll concur with that. So, um. | 00:07:11 | |
| Yeah, I think law enforcement needs to have the kind of equipment that they will meet in the field sometimes. And so this | 00:07:15 | |
| particular profile of a of a firearm AR15 is very common. | 00:07:20 | |
| Out there, and I'm going to ask Sarah White, I said. You know what Arkansas stands for? | 00:07:27 | |
| Automatic rifle? No. | 00:07:33 | |
| Armalite, there you go. It does not stand for. | 00:07:36 | |
| Does not stand for assault or automatic, OK? | 00:07:43 | |
| It's Hermalite and a lot of people don't know that, so it's just a matter of interest. So with that, I'll call promotion. | 00:07:47 | |
| May I have a question now? | 00:07:53 | |
| On You're replacing a lot of mismatch rifles. Are those going to go up for option? Well, the military ones we either have to keep | 00:07:57 | |
| or send back, either to the military or to another agency. | 00:08:03 | |
| The ones that are personally owned. | 00:08:10 | |
| Of course we'll they'll just keep those and not bring them to work. And then the ones that are surplus that we own, that doesn't | 00:08:12 | |
| have to go back to the military will be surplus to. | 00:08:18 | |
| You know by state regulation to one of. | 00:08:24 | |
| That the surplus agencies we have one that we work with pretty constantly on a constant basis that does this pretty well so. | 00:08:28 | |
| We'll definitely be working with them to see what their what the value is. | 00:08:35 | |
| OK. And and the money for the new rifles is coming from, it's generally it's general fund? | 00:08:40 | |
| General Fund. This is a project we've been working on and had in the. | 00:08:45 | |
| You know, in the potential budget for a few years took us a while to decide what we wanted, how do we want to standardize it, what | 00:08:51 | |
| equipment we wanted. And of course as you know if you're sportsman, I know that you are, things change every year. There's always | 00:08:58 | |
| some kind of new gadget or new this or that. So it's been kind of hard to do that part of it. But we're pretty much sure that | 00:09:04 | |
| right now we got what we what we need will work, what will be effective and we can go forward from there and. | 00:09:11 | |
| You know if there are changes in the future we can it would be smaller modifications instead of a across the board purchase. | 00:09:18 | |
| Thank you, Sheriff. No more questions, Mr. Chair. Thank you Supervisor, supervisor, Client anymore? | 00:09:26 | |
| No, I think I'm good. OK with that. I'll call for a motion, Mr. Chair. I'll make the motion to authorize the advertisement of | 00:09:32 | |
| invitation for bids number. | 00:09:36 | |
| 0302724. | 00:09:41 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second motion in a second to approve all those in favor. Say aye. Aye, Aye, Aye. Thank you. We'll move on to item | 00:09:45 | |
| 2C. | 00:09:49 | |
| And Sarah White again information discussion action to approve an agreement regarding local orders work between the Arizona | 00:09:54 | |
| Department of Public Safety and Gila County Sheriff's Office in the amount of $502,326 which will include salary and employee | 00:10:01 | |
| related expenses for one canine Sergeant, 2 deputies at a cost of two. | 00:10:09 | |
| 171. | 00:10:17 | |
| $1882 and funding for three up fitting and canine equipped. | 00:10:18 | |
| Chevrolet Tahoe vehicles at a cost of $230,444.00 that will be dispersed for a performance period of July 1, 2023 through June | 00:10:26 | |
| 30th, 2025. | 00:10:32 | |
| Good morning again, Chairman, members of the board, if you remember a couple of weeks ago or a couple of meetings ago, we | 00:10:40 | |
| presented the task force grant and I stood up and kind of gave you the spill about how I'd be here in a couple of weeks to talk | 00:10:47 | |
| about the border support funding that we would be getting from the Department of Public Safety. So this is it. It will bring just | 00:10:54 | |
| over $500,000 into the Sheriff's Office, which we have. | 00:11:01 | |
| And decided would be best used to fund AK-9 Sergeant and to K9 deputies as well as will be reimbursing the county for the K9 | 00:11:08 | |
| vehicles that were purchased for them. | 00:11:15 | |
| And so that's kind of a good win win for both of us. And then we will also be sitting down internally and working on these will be | 00:11:23 | |
| Q9 deputies that will be on patrol and so in uniforms and marked cars, but we'll also be working with how they can support the | 00:11:29 | |
| task. | 00:11:35 | |
| The Gila County Drugging and Task Force as well. | 00:11:42 | |
| So to benefit Huey County as a whole. So with that, I will take any questions. Thank you, Sarah. I'll say goodbye to Humphrey. | 00:11:45 | |
| Yeah. I I guess I'm wondering what our role as a county at at the border is going to be and if the states wanting all the counties | 00:11:52 | |
| to get together to send officers down to the border. | 00:11:58 | |
| This was money that we had asked the legislature to redirect toward the sheriff's for the simple reason of the fallout that we | 00:12:07 | |
| have even being 100 miles north of the border from the activities down there. | 00:12:14 | |
| The the illegal crossing, the drugs that are coming across the, you know, money, firearms, a whole problem that's going on | 00:12:21 | |
| certainly effects Gila County as it does pretty much every county in Arizona. So This is why this money was granted back to us as | 00:12:28 | |
| the sheriff's where it was being used in other places before to combat kind of the what's coming across and what we have no | 00:12:34 | |
| control over. | 00:12:41 | |
| So it's not like we're being asked to send resources down there. I wouldn't agree to that. But it is to help us fund those types | 00:12:48 | |
| of activities that we are involved in to kind of counteract what's coming, what it, what it's creating for you here. Yes. OK. | 00:12:55 | |
| Yeah. No, thank you very much because I think there's Big Brother needs to step in and so you know, to ask the counties to go down | 00:13:02 | |
| and it's like wait a minute, we're we're having a hard time keeping staff here and keep things going here so. | 00:13:09 | |
| I thank you very much for clearing that up that they're not going to ask on each to go. | 00:13:18 | |
| And this is probably Sarah probably agree with me, this is probably the least strings. | 00:13:21 | |
| Of state money that we've had in a long time and we kind of hope it stays that way. We've actually been lobbying for him to | 00:13:28 | |
| continue this funding past this year. | 00:13:33 | |
| OK. Thank. Thank you very much, Supervisor Klein. | 00:13:39 | |
| So I think this is a great step in the right direction. You know it'd be nice if we had six more of those positions and that were | 00:13:43 | |
| funded, but absolutely you know, but at least we're kind of headed in the right direction. So I've had that interest for a long | 00:13:48 | |
| time on your task force and. | 00:13:54 | |
| Have watched what your folks have done, just a few of them that's there and it's amazing. | 00:13:59 | |
| And so you can't help but think if we had. | 00:14:04 | |
| Yeah, how much would help too. So this is a really good thing I. | 00:14:07 | |
| Thanks for pushing for that. | 00:14:11 | |
| It just demonstrates to me the cost of not having. | 00:14:14 | |
| A secure border. It cost us locally, it cost us culturally. And I have noticed over the last few years that there has been a | 00:14:17 | |
| tremendous uptick of a traffic stop turning into a major drug bust. | 00:14:24 | |
| And so it's coming through. I know it's coming through northern Gila County. I'm sure it's coming through everywhere in Gila | 00:14:31 | |
| County and it's blight to our culture. | 00:14:35 | |
| So with that I will call for a motion. | 00:14:41 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to approve the Arizona Department of Public Safety agreement regarding local border support as presented. | 00:14:45 | |
| Mr. Cheryl, second cat. OK We have a motion in the second to approve all those in favor. Say aye. Aye, Aye, aye. Thank you. And | 00:14:53 | |
| let's move on to item 2B. Information discussion. Action to ratify the Sheriff's Office. Electronic submission of four. | 00:15:01 | |
| FFY 22025 grant applications to the. | 00:15:09 | |
| Governor's Office of Hwy. Safety for Law Enforcement Projects. | 00:15:14 | |
| One is $25,000, of which $20,109 is for personal and 404,891 is for employee related expenses. | 00:15:18 | |
| #2 is $241,545 to purchase 2 unmarked vehicles. | 00:15:31 | |
| Three is $10,459 for lidar units and four is for $31,028.00 for inch. | 00:15:37 | |
| Into Excelsior desires. | 00:15:47 | |
| They enter intoxielyser. Is that how you say it? Intoxicated? OK, that. | 00:15:51 | |
| That's the word I've never seen before. | 00:15:57 | |
| 9000 units to be used for speed and DUI enforcement. Adopt Resolution #24-04-03 and authorize the Chairman's signature on the | 00:15:59 | |
| certification form, all of which are components of the grant application. | 00:16:07 | |
| And Dennis Newman, Your look. Good day, Sarah. | 00:16:15 | |
| Leadership training in Phoenix. So I'm gonna step in for him and this is just the normal grant application for the Governor's | 00:16:21 | |
| Office of Hwy. Safety. If you remember last year they granted us overtime for speed enforcement throughout Hewitt County. So what | 00:16:30 | |
| we did this time is we put in four applications again for overtime for speed and DUI enforcement. | 00:16:38 | |
| Two unmarked vehicles. | 00:16:48 | |
| Lidar units which are for speed enforcement. | 00:16:51 | |
| And then of course, the three intoxilizer 9000 units which are used for DUI enforcement. | 00:16:54 | |
| So with that, I'll take any questions you have. | 00:17:01 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey, I have no question by the client. | 00:17:04 | |
| Well, I think this is a good deal. I mean, intoxilizer, do you guys, you guys already have some of those too, right? I mean they | 00:17:10 | |
| work good. | 00:17:14 | |
| And. | 00:17:19 | |
| This is an update if an. | 00:17:21 | |
| Make sure I'm speaking correctly. I believe that we have an older unit, so the antioxidant riser 9000 is like the newest, latest, | 00:17:24 | |
| greatest. So we just put in to replace the ones that we have. | 00:17:29 | |
| And is that actually carried in the patrol rig with them, So that's not the PBT is what which is the portable one, which is the | 00:17:35 | |
| little one and the governor's office funded those maybe eight years ago. I remember doing a grant for those when I was first with | 00:17:42 | |
| the sheriff. So those are the portable ones. These are actually the. | 00:17:48 | |
| Like units that are in the substations. | 00:17:56 | |
| So when they come in to sit down, they're either drawing blood or putting them on the breathalyzer machine in the actual | 00:17:59 | |
| substations and offices. | 00:18:04 | |
| OK, cool. Cool deal. Well, thanks. Good deal. Thank you, Sarah. | 00:18:09 | |
| I have no questions. So what that I'll call for a motion, Mr. Chair. I'll make the motion to ratify the Sheriff's Office | 00:18:15 | |
| electronic submission. | 00:18:19 | |
| 4. | 00:18:23 | |
| 2025 Grant applications to the Governor's Office of Hwy. Safety for Law enforcement projects and adopt resolution #24-O4-O3 and | 00:18:26 | |
| authorize the Chairman's signature on the certification. | 00:18:33 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that. | 00:18:40 | |
| We have a motion and a second to approve those in favor. Say aye Thank you, Sarah. Item 2 E Information Discussion. Action to | 00:18:42 | |
| authorize the Sheriff's Office, department, and submittal of a grant application for fiscal year 2025911 program funding in the | 00:18:50 | |
| amount of $141,732.00 to support ELO911 network infrastructure and services for the Basin Police Department and Heela County | 00:18:57 | |
| Sheriff's Office and include defined project request. | 00:19:05 | |
| It may also be approved in the award for the performance period of July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025. And we have Miss Williams. | 00:19:13 | |
| Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the Board, this is the annual grant request. | 00:19:23 | |
| To. | 00:19:29 | |
| For your authorization to. | 00:19:31 | |
| For the grant this year, the. | 00:19:34 | |
| The amount of the grant is pretty stable. | 00:19:38 | |
| Because of our ATT purchase order for that, we're in our third year of a five year purchase order, five year agreement. | 00:19:41 | |
| And so there is a minimum cost that will be submitted. | 00:19:49 | |
| Which is the 140,000. | 00:19:54 | |
| $732.00 Above and beyond that we will be asking for projects. | 00:19:59 | |
| And since I wrote. | 00:20:06 | |
| This item we have two projects that one for Payson and one for Healing County that I'm asking for an additional 911 seat. | 00:20:09 | |
| So that we right now Hala County has three seats. | 00:20:18 | |
| The Town of Peace and that has four. | 00:20:22 | |
| Umm Heila County can add an additional seat, up to four seats and I think remains stable in the amount of funding that is needed | 00:20:24 | |
| to support that. | 00:20:29 | |
| Other than the monthly cost may go up a little or I'm sorry the not the monthly cost, the there's just an installation cost. | 00:20:36 | |
| And then for the town of Payson, whether they can continue with their same monthly cost or get have an increase? | 00:20:43 | |
| I've put in for both of those, the installation and a possible increase. | 00:20:50 | |
| For their. | 00:20:55 | |
| To support their additional seat, we'll see if the. | 00:20:57 | |
| State will approve it. They have not approved it for us for years, but you know we're doing a lot more with Ng 911 and we're | 00:21:02 | |
| needing more people and we have increased our staffing and so we can, I can show that we actually need that additional seat above | 00:21:08 | |
| and beyond what we have right now. | 00:21:13 | |
| OK, so. | 00:21:20 | |
| The projects right now are looking at. | 00:21:23 | |
| $86,000. | 00:21:27 | |
| If as long as I don't add anything else. | 00:21:29 | |
| If anything else comes up though with my discussions. | 00:21:33 | |
| With the state I may be adding additional requests to that, but the projects are not necessarily. | 00:21:36 | |
| I I don't know if the projects will be approved. I do know that our base amount will be approved. | 00:21:44 | |
| With that, I'll take any questions. OK. Thank you very much, Professor Humphrey. | 00:21:52 | |
| I have no questions Mr. Chair, supervisor, Client. | 00:21:57 | |
| Deborah, do you guys have have pretty good luck finding dispatchers and whatnot and keeping them or recently we in this last year? | 00:22:01 | |
| About the last year we've had some really good candidates come in and we're able to keep them getting through training. | 00:22:09 | |
| So right now we have we have increased our staff by about four total. | 00:22:17 | |
| Five Beauty. | 00:22:23 | |
| In the last two years, OK. So it's, it's very, very helpful. We are still very understaffed. | 00:22:24 | |
| But let Sarah continue that answer and I just wanted to let you guys know, I always like to bring to your attention that we worked | 00:22:31 | |
| with county management a couple of years ago when we brought on the town of Miami and the Tunnel Apache tribe. | 00:22:39 | |
| So when we brought on those contracts, it allowed us to create like a stipend for the dispatchers that we paid directly to them. | 00:22:47 | |
| And so when we were allowed to do that, it has really opened our hiring pool quite a bit. So when I left the office yesterday, we | 00:22:54 | |
| had four vacancies. | 00:23:00 | |
| That's with the open, you know, the positions that we have budgeted, we have 4 openings and one near the end of the background | 00:23:09 | |
| process. | 00:23:13 | |
| So I mean that's pretty substantial for us considering what vacancy rate we we've had in the past. Sure. So that stipend really | 00:23:18 | |
| made the difference. It did make a difference for them. Good, good deal. That's good to hear, very helpful. Yeah and considering | 00:23:23 | |
| that for the last. | 00:23:29 | |
| Since the Covic years. | 00:23:35 | |
| Our staff has been working mandatory. | 00:23:37 | |
| 12 hour shifts, so four days a week at a minimum. And many of them have worked so much more than that because of understaffing. | 00:23:40 | |
| And so with these increased positions being hired, we will, we're on the road to. | 00:23:47 | |
| Changing the schedule to four 10s. | 00:23:55 | |
| So and what we have to do that over, you know, since it's 24/7. | 00:23:58 | |
| It's it's a little bit of a juggle. | 00:24:04 | |
| But it is getting better. | 00:24:06 | |
| So it's giving people better good, I would imagine. | 00:24:08 | |
| Yeah, I would imagine those 12 hour shifts is a little bit tough on people. | 00:24:13 | |
| Thank you for all that. | 00:24:19 | |
| A lot of challenges. So just so everyone can kind of know about how many one calls do you process in a year's time? | 00:24:22 | |
| We process approximately. | 00:24:31 | |
| The annual report, I believe, says. | 00:24:34 | |
| Something somewhere around 40,000. | 00:24:38 | |
| Calls are 40,000 calls are dispatched. Of those, about 25 or 9 actual 911 calls. | 00:24:43 | |
| So you know our. | 00:24:50 | |
| Our call rate has stayed relatively stable over the last few years, but because of our increased abilities and increased. | 00:24:53 | |
| Population. There's just so much more to do with with phone calls. Now there's text to 911. | 00:25:03 | |
| We're looking at. | 00:25:11 | |
| Right. The incoming incoming photos, incoming videos. We have not started that yet, but it is something that. | 00:25:15 | |
| As a future project, we're looking at a real time crime center and so those things are part of a real time crime center. So there | 00:25:23 | |
| are quite a few additional bells and whistles that come with that. So it's not, you know, you really because of the mapping. | 00:25:32 | |
| Software's the. | 00:25:41 | |
| The alerting notification software's there's a lot more technical need. | 00:25:43 | |
| A lot of more technical tasks associated with one-on-one. | 00:25:50 | |
| Than they're ever used to be. | 00:25:53 | |
| I can see that and it'll only get more and more as time goes by. So thank you for that presentation. With that, I will call for a | 00:25:56 | |
| motion. | 00:25:59 | |
| Mr. Chair, I moved to authorize the Sheriff's Office. | 00:26:03 | |
| Implement in the middle of a grant application for physical year 2025 nine. | 00:26:06 | |
| 11 program funding as presented. | 00:26:13 | |
| And Mr. Charles, second back here. We do have a motion and a second to approve all those in favor. Say aye, aye. | 00:26:16 | |
| Thank you very much. | 00:26:23 | |
| Item 2F is Information Discussion Action to Approve Funding Agreement #120-24 between the Arizona Department of Housing. | 00:26:25 | |
| And Gila County Public Health and Community Services Department to receive $150,107.00 of Arizona Department of Housing Community | 00:26:33 | |
| Development Block Grant Regional Account Funds for the period of February 1, 2024 through September 15, 2025 for housing | 00:26:40 | |
| rehabilitation work. Good to see you. Good morning. Good to see you Chairman Members of the Board, I'm here today in my with my | 00:26:47 | |
| community service hat. | 00:26:54 | |
| And we are receiving. | 00:27:02 | |
| Your umm. | 00:27:05 | |
| Some additional funding from the regional account with the community development block grant. We've already received some funding | 00:27:07 | |
| and this is additional funding that Apache Junction did not wish to use. So we will take that if you will approve that. So this | 00:27:14 | |
| funding will allow us to do rehabilitation for approximately 5 low income to moderate households in Gila County and we have until | 00:27:21 | |
| September to actually. | 00:27:28 | |
| Utilize this 150,000. | 00:27:37 | |
| And we are doing, we have fantastic staff, we have a new staff member. | 00:27:39 | |
| Estelle is in the audience, but she has an additional person with her and they are doing a great job with getting. | 00:27:46 | |
| Into these households and getting through. | 00:27:54 | |
| The rehabilitation process. So we're asking today that you approve this so that we can. | 00:27:57 | |
| Continue and keep adding more. | 00:28:02 | |
| For rehab, so. | 00:28:05 | |
| Any questions? Yeah. Thank you, Paula. Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:28:08 | |
| Yeah, my regular question. This is certified. This is Money that needs to be certified. The contractor needs to be certified in | 00:28:12 | |
| order to qualify for these positions. This is the one that requires. Have we had any local contractors interested in being | 00:28:18 | |
| certified as of yet? | 00:28:23 | |
| OK, then I will and we do still have, I believe we are going to have, are we having a work session on the. | 00:28:30 | |
| Or are we just going to have a meeting to discuss? Because I know that came, we were talking a little bit about the contractors. | 00:28:38 | |
| Yeah, we can get with Mr. O'Driscoll on that. I think he's going up, was kind of. | 00:28:44 | |
| Working on the program. And so we were, yeah, we're gonna try to see what we can do. And honestly, they use the same a lot of the | 00:28:51 | |
| contractors that we use. | 00:28:55 | |
| Are being used from everyone across the state, but because we have a fabulous person and and they've worked with us for many, many | 00:29:02 | |
| years. | 00:29:06 | |
| We tend to go to the top of the list because they know that what we're going to provide for them is what they need to submit to | 00:29:12 | |
| actually get payment. So I mean 20 years of experience doing it. | 00:29:18 | |
| You know, does pay off, so. | 00:29:24 | |
| Yeah, and I mean it's it's just a long process I believe and it's very tedious, but. | 00:29:26 | |
| Yeah, I I did. You know, we approve a lot of money and I think it's a great program. I would just like to see some local | 00:29:33 | |
| contractors. | 00:29:36 | |
| Interested in taking part? | 00:29:40 | |
| In some of this funding that could stay in Hill County, so. | 00:29:43 | |
| That's that that that's my only question and and. | 00:29:47 | |
| I appreciate all you do. Thank you. | 00:29:52 | |
| Supervisor Klein. | 00:29:54 | |
| Paul, was there any other money out there we can get? | 00:29:57 | |
| How much more do you? | 00:30:00 | |
| Every meeting I think you just keep us a little little place on the agenda because they just keep. We ask, they usually fulfill | 00:30:04 | |
| and some of these like this one they're like so Kayla County would you like to take and so we do we you know that's why we're here | 00:30:11 | |
| before you almost every meeting. So no, it's great, it's fabulous. It is a lot of work. | 00:30:19 | |
| And the staff are doing you know and it's a lot of work for the homeowners as well. So you know it is coordination of that is is a | 00:30:28 | |
| little difficult but yeah any money that. | 00:30:32 | |
| You know, we think, but we do want to be conscientious and spend what we can to, you know, we don't want to take $1,000,000 and | 00:30:38 | |
| expect to spend that here, you know, with our resources. But with that being said, Paula, I would imagine there's just a long list | 00:30:44 | |
| of applicants for these projects, right? Yes. | 00:30:50 | |
| Yes, there we do have a waiting list. We've been going through the waiting list and. | 00:30:56 | |
| Because people change, you know, I mean. | 00:31:00 | |
| Your status changes your situation, your income. So yeah, we do have a list of people kind of waiting to see, you know, if | 00:31:04 | |
| additional funding is coming, so. | 00:31:08 | |
| And. | 00:31:14 | |
| Active and you know they have different lists that they're running. You know one is being completed and one is being started and. | 00:31:16 | |
| Can we get them together on the same day? So there's a lot of coordination done so well thanks for everything. You letting your | 00:31:24 | |
| gun that's great. So. | 00:31:27 | |
| Yeah. Thank you, Paula. And this is just another demonstration of how ELA County. | 00:31:32 | |
| Budget We receive a lot of grant money. | 00:31:37 | |
| So it's not dependent on. | 00:31:41 | |
| Property taxes to. | 00:31:43 | |
| Well, that's probably almost 2/3 of our budget. | 00:31:45 | |
| Grant money. So we need to be out grabbing as much of that as we can. It helps our citizens. So with that I will call for a | 00:31:49 | |
| motion. | 00:31:53 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion to approve the Arizona Department of Housing and Funding Agreement #120-24. | 00:31:58 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion, and a second, all those in favor say aye, aye. | 00:32:06 | |
| Thank you. Item 2G is information discussion action to approve Amendment #2, the funding agreement #203-24 between the Arizona | 00:32:13 | |
| Department of Housing and Hua County Public Health and Community Services Department Housing Services Weatherization Program to | 00:32:19 | |
| Use Low Income. | 00:32:24 | |
| Home Energy Assistant Program funding and increase the amount. | 00:32:30 | |
| Of the contract by 349,648 dollars. | 00:32:34 | |
| $0.68 for a total contract of. | 00:32:39 | |
| $776,079.68 for the period of July 1, 2023 through June 30th, 2024. | 00:32:42 | |
| I am here today to present the Second Amendment to Funding Agreement 2/03/24 between Hilly County and the Arizona Department of | 00:32:57 | |
| Housing. | 00:33:01 | |
| This amendment pertains to our Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. | 00:33:05 | |
| The proposed amendment seeks to increase our funding by $349,648.68. | 00:33:10 | |
| This adjustment will bring the total value of the agreement to $776,079.68. | 00:33:17 | |
| This does not alter the time frame of the agreement. | 00:33:24 | |
| The current end date is June 30th, 2024 and this will increase our required weatherization units to 46. | 00:33:27 | |
| We are seeking your approval for this amendment as it will enable us to provide crucial weatherization assistance to eligible | 00:33:35 | |
| citizens in Hilly County. | 00:33:38 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:33:43 | |
| Would this money will go to 1 contracting firm? | 00:33:48 | |
| This money will mainly be spent through Advantage Home Pro, yes, because they are our weatherization contractors that we go with | 00:33:53 | |
| mostly. | 00:33:57 | |
| Because they. | 00:34:02 | |
| They've done really good work for us. You know that. That's fine, I understand, and you got to do what you got to do. But I would | 00:34:04 | |
| like to take this material and show it to some of our local contractors and said could you use another $1,000,000 through your | 00:34:09 | |
| account in the year, You know what I mean? It's kind of worth the education. | 00:34:15 | |
| And so anyway, that's why I asked and it's not to put you on the spot, it's just like I'm trying to help some of these guys that | 00:34:21 | |
| would, you know, could use an extra $1,000,000 a year. | 00:34:26 | |
| Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Klein. Stella, how many extra homes would we be able to do with that money? Did you say this? | 00:34:32 | |
| This will bring our required units up to 46. So it it increases it by 13 because we are. | 00:34:40 | |
| And you're probably the same way. You keep a long list of people that want the weatherization and all that done. That's correct. | 00:34:47 | |
| Yeah. But so baloney. She's 20 years of experience. She's got it down. Yeah. OK, Well, thank you. | 00:34:53 | |
| Thank you, Stella. With that, I'll call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve Amendment #2. | 00:35:00 | |
| To Arizona Department of Housing Funding Agreement #203-24 as presented, and I'll second that. We have a motion and a second to | 00:35:05 | |
| approve those in favor. Say aye, aye, aye, aye. | 00:35:11 | |
| Item Two Age Information Discussion Action to approve Amendment #4 to an Intergovernmental Agreement Contract number Ctr. 055258, | 00:35:19 | |
| with the Arizona Department of Health Services for the funding of Title 5, Maternal and Child Health Healthy. | 00:35:27 | |
| Arizona Families Initiative to revise the price sheet for the public health. | 00:35:36 | |
| Improvement portion of the contract to 48,000. | 00:35:41 | |
| $652 And we have Kaylee, not Joshua, no, not Joshua. Good morning. Good morning, Mr. Chairman, members of the Board. This is just | 00:35:44 | |
| a small adjustment to the price sheet for this portion of the block grant. | 00:35:52 | |
| This portion of the grant that I'm grateful to manage is where our community Health improvement plan comes from. So that's been | 00:36:01 | |
| something really great to work on with our community stakeholders. And in addition to that plan, we also have been able to develop | 00:36:07 | |
| the software that tracks our staff, education, all of our grant activities. | 00:36:13 | |
| For community members and then any community education requests that we've gotten. So this funding while small, has been has been | 00:36:21 | |
| great for our department so. | 00:36:25 | |
| Open any questions. | 00:36:31 | |
| Thank you supervisor. | 00:36:33 | |
| I have no questions. Supervisor, client, I'm good. Katie, thanks. Thank you. And thank you, Kaylee for that. And so with that, | 00:36:35 | |
| I'll call for motion. | 00:36:39 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve Amendment #4 chairs to Arizona Department of Health Services. | 00:36:45 | |
| You know governmental agreement Contract number Ctr. 055. | 00:36:52 | |
| 258 as presented. | 00:36:57 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that, and we have a motion and a second to approve those in favor. Say aye, aye. | 00:36:59 | |
| Thank you. | 00:37:06 | |
| Item two I Information Discussion Action to authorize the advertisement of invitation for bids number 032124. | 00:37:08 | |
| Northern Gila County Water Storage System project Carl, good morning. | 00:37:18 | |
| Morning, Chairman. Board members, really excited to bring this for you. This is the request for bids for the actual tanks. | 00:37:23 | |
| For the northern Gila County water storage project. So we met with the Fire Chiefs Association, which also includes the FFM. | 00:37:30 | |
| And the Forest Service to kind of come up with the specs of adequate tanks that would replace the existing bladders with something | 00:37:39 | |
| a little more durable, long lasting. We got that quote or the request for bids together with exactly what we need to make sure | 00:37:45 | |
| that it's universal, fits all the machines that they may be using is compatible with the pip tanks. So we get that together and | 00:37:52 | |
| we're ready to go forward and seek bids for that. | 00:37:58 | |
| Any questions? Thank you, Carl. Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah. And and the amount of tanks that we were replacing. | 00:38:06 | |
| Umm, so this will be. | 00:38:13 | |
| Acquiring 56 tanks. | 00:38:16 | |
| Which will put four for each of the 14 sites. Each of the tanks is 5000 gallons, which will put 20,000 gallons at each site. | 00:38:18 | |
| The bladders are kind of all different shapes and sizes, so there is an average of 20,000 gallons of capacity at each site, which | 00:38:26 | |
| is what we, the association, deemed adequate. | 00:38:32 | |
| But again, it varies from site to site and how many other things are the existing bladders are actually functional. OK, yeah. So | 00:38:39 | |
| they're actually, there's 14 sites, yes, yes, OK. Some of those sites have, you know, a 10,000 gallon bladder, some have two 20s. | 00:38:45 | |
| I mean it really varies and then again. | 00:38:50 | |
| Depending on the condition, if it's still standing, still holding the water and the plan is also when we roll these out, we will | 00:38:57 | |
| run them parallel just for the increased capacity until those ladders fail and then we can eliminate them as they fail instead of. | 00:39:04 | |
| Continuing the constant maintenance. | 00:39:11 | |
| Thank you. Thank you, Professor Klein. Karl, thanks for picking this up and getting back on at this is something we addressed a | 00:39:13 | |
| long time ago. | 00:39:17 | |
| And so first question is, is what kind of price difference are we going to see in our tanks now versus? | 00:39:21 | |
| I believe the, the bladders were military surplus, but the tanks, I mean the price is increasing. I mean that's that's what I was | 00:39:28 | |
| curious. I don't care about the bladders because we can't replace those, but the Poly tanks. | 00:39:35 | |
| It's been, I mean the first quote that I got was in the neighborhood of 265. The last quote I got was in the neighborhood of 310. | 00:39:42 | |
| We did decide to go with the 5000 gallon instead of the 10,000 gallon one because that saves a huge amount in transportation fees | 00:39:48 | |
| because anything over the 5000 gallon tank is going to require a wide load transport. And then also, I mean you guys are | 00:39:54 | |
| intimately familiar with some of these areas. That's not somewhere you want to take a wide load vehicle. So this also creates | 00:40:00 | |
| somewhat of a redundancy. | 00:40:06 | |
| These tanks won't be tied together, so something happens and there's a failure on one tank. It's not a failure on all the tanks, | 00:40:12 | |
| so operate independently. But yeah, the price kind of with the economy has increased. | 00:40:18 | |
| So I I would guess that we're probably going to spend in the neighborhood on the tanks. | 00:40:24 | |
| 325,000. | 00:40:29 | |
| But again, with the Biermark funding, that will help with that tremendously. | 00:40:32 | |
| Yeah, but the offshoot of that earmark funding a mystery. | 00:40:35 | |
| James can help me here, but that's a one to one match. | 00:40:39 | |
| Mr. Chairman, I surely Klan. This was congressionally directed spending. | 00:40:43 | |
| And I do not believe that there was any match, OK? He congratulated. Spending was up to $600,000. | 00:40:48 | |
| And so is she covering the costs, including transportation, installation and fully implementing the whole project. So there's | 00:40:55 | |
| plenty of money to cover all of it. So we still should be good with the 600,000 to cover the whole project. | 00:41:01 | |
| OK. | 00:41:08 | |
| What I was thinking, man, so I'm glad you clarified. I got a rain on everybody's parade. | 00:41:30 | |
| Still one of them match is good. I want to thank Marin for saying that's why I didn't have to. | 00:41:36 | |
| I still believe that this will be cost effective moving in the future because this is going to require significantly less | 00:41:42 | |
| maintenance. | 00:41:46 | |
| The existing bladders have been a victim of vandalization many times in the past, both from human and the wildlife that likes to. | 00:41:51 | |
| Tread on them and damage them. | 00:42:00 | |
| Umm, these will also hold water better on a day-to-day basis. I mean I don't think I saw a single one of those platters that | 00:42:03 | |
| doesn't have some sort of leak or patch on it or they're just constantly losing water. These won't have that issue for quite some | 00:42:09 | |
| time. So, so this is just for the tanks, the, the rest of the contract has already been let out, right, correct. The contract is | 00:42:16 | |
| awarded once we get the the approval for the tanks or the bids for the tanks, we can bring the the best bidder forward. | 00:42:23 | |
| And then we're ready to hit the ground. | 00:42:30 | |
| OK. And so what's our time frame? | 00:42:33 | |
| I'm fingers crossed I'm thinking we can. | 00:42:36 | |
| Get this done this summer. | 00:42:39 | |
| Fingers crossed. | 00:42:42 | |
| How about by the end of May? | 00:42:44 | |
| I'd like that if we can get this before the board. | 00:42:46 | |
| Facing another fire season that. | 00:42:50 | |
| That I think. | 00:42:57 | |
| Start going to explain under that realm why our bladders are in place. | 00:43:00 | |
| So the sooner the better we can get those going. I appreciate that. Thank you, Carl. | 00:43:04 | |
| Yes. Thank you, Carl. Yeah, this is something we've been hoping for for a while. So the maximum amount we can get from the grant | 00:43:12 | |
| is 609,000. | 00:43:16 | |
| We have to match 50%, but we should be well under that I think though. Yeah. OK, Carl, thank you for that. So with that, I will | 00:43:22 | |
| call for the motion. | 00:43:26 | |
| The chair move to authorize the advertisement invitation for. | 00:43:31 | |
| Number 032124. | 00:43:36 | |
| And Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion, and a second to approve those in favor. Say aye. | 00:43:39 | |
| Two J Information Discussion Action to Approve Amendment number one to Collection Agreement number 070623 with the years on the | 00:43:49 | |
| Game and Fish Department to extend the term of the contract through August 30th, 2024, but then not to exceed amount of 284,600 | 00:43:55 | |
| and $74,000. | 00:44:01 | |
| Good morning, Homero. Good morning, Chairman and Board members. | 00:44:08 | |
| So this item is to approve an extension of time with a contract that we have for the Arizona Game of Fish. | 00:44:13 | |
| This is not about an increased dollar amount. We just want to give them enough time for them to bill us for the work that they're | 00:44:18 | |
| doing. | 00:44:22 | |
| And back in August 1st of 2023, the Board of Supervisors approved a collection agreement with the Arizona Game and Fish for the | 00:44:25 | |
| Tonto Creek Bridge project and the reason the board was asked to have make that approval. | 00:44:32 | |
| With that, the biological opinion. | 00:44:39 | |
| That was issued required a qualified certified biologist to monitor the construction footprint. | 00:44:43 | |
| At great crossing action areas and in areas affected by the proposed action. | 00:44:49 | |
| To avoid incidental take of the northern Mexican Garter snake. | 00:44:54 | |
| The yellow bill cuckoo and the southwestern Willow eye catcher. | 00:44:58 | |
| I did read a report from Arizona Game of Fish and they had relocated 17 snakes. | 00:45:03 | |
| Up until the point that I read that every quarter couple of months ago. | 00:45:11 | |
| They had they did not find that at that point any Mexican Garter snakes. | 00:45:15 | |
| So we have an assigned biological monitor there that is every day before the start of work. | 00:45:19 | |
| And they provide the monitoring as well as training and other things like that and it fulfills. | 00:45:27 | |
| Other requirements of the biological opinion. | 00:45:33 | |
| So they're going to be there till the end of construction. Again, the bridge is scheduled to. | 00:45:37 | |
| Be basically completed for traffic end of May. | 00:45:43 | |
| With all work completed by our grand opening scheduled for June 22nd. And with that we would like to ask the Board to approve the | 00:45:47 | |
| Amendment #1 to this collection agreement. | 00:45:53 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:46:00 | |
| I have no comment. | 00:46:04 | |
| Supervisor. | 00:46:06 | |
| Thanks, Homer. We really don't have a choice but to approve this amendment, because without that person setting up there, we can't | 00:46:08 | |
| be building a bridge. | 00:46:12 | |
| And that's just the reality of it. So thank you for putting it all together. | 00:46:17 | |
| And thank you, homeroom. So they relocated 17th. | 00:46:22 | |
| Did they find any cuckoos? | 00:46:27 | |
| I I don't remember they being mentioned in that report, so I don't believe they did good. | 00:46:29 | |
| With that, I'll call for motion, Mr. Chair. I'll make the motion to approve Amendment #1. | 00:46:37 | |
| To Arizona Game and Fish Department Collection Agreement number 070623, as presented. | 00:46:43 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion is a second to approve those in favor. Say aye, aye. Thank you, Humira. Item 2K, information, | 00:46:50 | |
| discussion and action to approve amendment number one to contract 120422. | 00:46:56 | |
| A Roosevelt Lake Resort Stagecoach Trail Improvement Project in the amount of $91,151.89, increasing the total contract amount to | 00:47:03 | |
| $761,226.89 America. | 00:47:11 | |
| Thank you. I was ready to present this item, but our county engineer would like to present it, Tom Goodman. And before I turn it | 00:47:20 | |
| over to him, I would just like to say a couple of things. Number one, this is about a change order. | 00:47:26 | |
| But behind and inside of that change order is a tremendous achievement that the team went through. We turned this stone, I don't | 00:47:32 | |
| know how many times to find the very best solution that we put and we ended up with bearing the burden of if if there was water | 00:47:38 | |
| main break that we would repair it. And that's actually what took place. The project completed. It's conveying water the way we're | 00:47:44 | |
| designed to. And with that I'll turn it over to. | 00:47:50 | |
| Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Board members. So Merrill mentioned this is a request to for amendment number one for the Stagecoach | 00:47:59 | |
| Trail project, which is has been completed now for several weeks. | 00:48:05 | |
| A little history back in September of last year, the board approved. | 00:48:13 | |
| Contract with. | 00:48:17 | |
| ISIS in construction. | 00:48:19 | |
| And that was. | 00:48:21 | |
| For $668,800 and that included contingency of 10%. | 00:48:23 | |
| Which was $60,800. | 00:48:29 | |
| So we had five change orders during the project. | 00:48:33 | |
| Totaling $153,226.89. | 00:48:37 | |
| That brought the total cost of the project to 761,000. | 00:48:43 | |
| $226.89. | 00:48:48 | |
| After we had deducted out our owners contingency. | 00:48:51 | |
| And a $12175 credit on some work from the construction firm. | 00:48:56 | |
| We need to ask for an amendment to the contract. | 00:49:01 | |
| For an amount of $91,151. | 00:49:05 | |
| And $0.89. | 00:49:09 | |
| We had. So on the change orders, we have 5 change orders total. | 00:49:12 | |
| When I'm with the delay change order, there was we changed the thickness of the asphalt, that was another change order we had to | 00:49:17 | |
| lower 2 water mains. | 00:49:21 | |
| We had to fix a couple leaks on the water mains. | 00:49:25 | |
| And so those total up to the five change orders that we had. | 00:49:29 | |
| So we're here to today to ask for an amendment. | 00:49:33 | |
| For this contract. | 00:49:37 | |
| I'll be happy to answer any questions. | 00:49:38 | |
| Thank you, Tom Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:49:40 | |
| Yeah, I can't say enough about this project. Other things staff very, very much. It's a project that started on eight years ago. | 00:49:43 | |
| And and and we've got it complete and it drains a community that used the yards hold water with septic tanks in those yards and | 00:49:51 | |
| there's six inches of water in the yard so, so the drainage of this project to watch it go where it needs to go back to the Creek | 00:49:58 | |
| is is amazing. And so I appreciate everybody's efficiency and working through difficulties because we went through property owners | 00:50:06 | |
| and had to had to purchase property had to get easements. | 00:50:13 | |
| And then water company owners change and that we put off time for for trying to work with those new water. | 00:50:21 | |
| Of owners to help us with the project and. | 00:50:30 | |
| And on and on. And it's just been painstaking, but staff, thank you. | 00:50:35 | |
| Very much for your continued. | 00:50:40 | |
| And and and making a project of success and just hanging on to it like a bulldog, like I say eight years ago. | 00:50:43 | |
| When this started so hats off to you and thank you very much and. | 00:50:52 | |
| I I yeah. I can't say enough. Thank you. Thank you. | 00:50:57 | |
| Supervisor client. | 00:51:02 | |
| Yeah, I echo the same comments. | 00:51:04 | |
| You know, you guys did an awesome job on that and that is going to help a lot of people right there in that neighborhood. | 00:51:07 | |
| And it's good, I mean for all the. | 00:51:14 | |
| Hurdles and challenges that you guys were faced with that that's good. Pulling that one out of the hat and get it done. So thanks. | 00:51:17 | |
| Very challenging project. Thank you, Tom. With that, I'll ask for motion. | 00:51:24 | |
| Mr. Chair, I haven't moved to approve amendment number one to contract, number 120422. | 00:51:29 | |
| With vicious engineering construction incorporated as presented. | 00:51:38 | |
| And I'll second that, Mr. Chair. OK. Motion to approve it. And all those in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you, Tom. Thank you. | 00:51:43 | |
| Item 2 Hour Information Discussion Action to approve. | 00:51:52 | |
| An agreement between Hill County and Cobra Valley Regional Medical Center, which authorizes the use of the parking lot adjacent to | 00:51:55 | |
| the Yule County Globe Rd. Yard located at 1001 W. | 00:52:01 | |
| How do you say that, Besich? | 00:52:08 | |
| Message Essex Blvd. In Globe. | 00:52:11 | |
| Romero. | 00:52:15 | |
| Thank you. This is an agreement that we're asking the board to approve between Heather County and Cobra Valley Regional Medical | 00:52:17 | |
| Center to allow the use of the Globe Rd. Yard parking lot. | 00:52:22 | |
| For the annual health fair that the hospital conducts every year. | 00:52:28 | |
| The agreement provides for indemnification and insurance favorable to the county. It satisfies the indemnification and our | 00:52:33 | |
| insurance requirements. | 00:52:38 | |
| And and that is a big objective for for this agreement. | 00:52:42 | |
| In exchange for allowing them to use the parking lot, the hospital will provide favorable public relations. | 00:52:48 | |
| For the county. | 00:52:56 | |
| And so there is a. | 00:52:57 | |
| A State statue 2011-201, paragraph eight. It says the powers of the town A shall be exercised only by the Board of Supervisors or | 00:53:03 | |
| by the agents and officers acting under its authority and the authority of the law. It has the power to make such order for the | 00:53:09 | |
| disposition or use. | 00:53:15 | |
| Of his property, as the interests of the inhabitants of the county required. | 00:53:22 | |
| So we're working with the county's attorneys where we use that to enable us to bring to you this agreement that we're asking you | 00:53:26 | |
| to approve. | 00:53:29 | |
| In exchange for the use of the parking lot. | 00:53:34 | |
| At Cobra Valley Regional Medical Center will advertise the Hila County Partnership with the annual Health Health Fair. And and | 00:53:38 | |
| with that. | 00:53:43 | |
| We ask that you approve the agreement with Cobra Valley Regional Medical Center for the purpose of that additional parking at our | 00:53:49 | |
| Global Guard. | 00:53:53 | |
| For the annual health fair on April 20th, 2024. | 00:53:57 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:54:01 | |
| Yeah, I think that very much for working with the Copa Valley Regional Medical on helping them with their health fair. It's a | 00:54:04 | |
| great thing it it it does a lot of things for for the people of Gila County and and they work real hard to be a great partner in | 00:54:11 | |
| the in the community and and Gila County in general. So thank you very much for working with them on this. | 00:54:19 | |
| Supervisor client. | 00:54:28 | |
| One more thing, you know this is one thing that I, I, I, I look at is we we need to be helping as many people in Hila County as | 00:54:30 | |
| and those folks are all of our constituents. | 00:54:36 | |
| And so anytime we can pull something together, and I know we're always up against the gifting clause and who has to do what for | 00:54:42 | |
| who. | 00:54:45 | |
| But anytime we can work work through that and be able to pull something off like this, it's a plus. | 00:54:48 | |
| Especially for us. | 00:54:55 | |
| And it's a big, big help to our constituent soul. | 00:54:56 | |
| Thank you so much. | 00:55:00 | |
| If I could Chairman and Supervisor Klein. | 00:55:02 | |
| We yes, we actually, this is something that the County Attorney, Jessica Chabelli helped us put together and this is different | 00:55:06 | |
| than an IGA or or some other agreement that we have. | 00:55:12 | |
| This is is a little simpler. | 00:55:19 | |
| And it's an agreement that just satisfies our insurance and indemnification. | 00:55:21 | |
| And I look forward to utilizing this in the future and finding perhaps even an easier way to do this, working with our County | 00:55:28 | |
| Attorney, Mr. Chair from a simpler is always better Homer from where I stand. And then we get bogged down in all of our processes, | 00:55:33 | |
| sometimes to the point and we don't know if we're coming or going. So if you can make any of that better, that's going to be a | 00:55:38 | |
| good deal. | 00:55:44 | |
| Thank you. Thank you, Humira. With that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve an agreement between | 00:55:51 | |
| Henna County and Cobra Valley Regional Medical Center as presented. | 00:55:56 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that we have a motion and a second to approve those in favor. Say aye. | 00:56:02 | |
| Motion carries item 2M Information Discussion asking to approve amendment number one to contract number 010522 Dash One with Pace | 00:56:08 | |
| and Concrete and materials to extend the contract for one additional year from Sept from February 7th, 2024 to February 6th. | 00:56:16 | |
| 2025 were they not to exceed amount of 154 thousand Zero $77.51 a Maryland. | 00:56:25 | |
| Thank you again. This is an amendment, Amendment #1 to a contract that we have with facing concrete for the purchase of double | 00:56:34 | |
| watch chips. | 00:56:40 | |
| It totals $154,077 and it will provide sufficient. | 00:56:45 | |
| 3/8 chips to. | 00:56:53 | |
| Chip seal 18 miles of roads this year. | 00:56:56 | |
| I think that's the highest level that we've done in that approach is the the amount of mileage that we should be doing every year | 00:56:59 | |
| if we were to double chips, if we were to chip seal our roads every 10 years. | 00:57:04 | |
| So it's it's a it's an accomplishment by the team. | 00:57:10 | |
| It we will be doing chip chipping and double chip sealing and blow. | 00:57:13 | |
| I'm sorry, Globe, Strawberry and. | 00:57:21 | |
| Are the three areas that we're going to be and we're going to be working starting on May 13th. | 00:57:23 | |
| From the 13th through the 23rd of May and then starting up again in June from the 3rd through the 20th. | 00:57:28 | |
| And in the June timeframe will be at Strawberry Young and in the main time May time frame will be and go. | 00:57:34 | |
| If you were to add the cost of the oil and the chips, they they add up to about $500,000 and that's about from a material cost. | 00:57:41 | |
| For just the chip seal operation, it's around $30,000 a mile. | 00:57:51 | |
| And so again, it continues to be an efficient way for us to. | 00:57:56 | |
| Address our payrolls, and with that, we ask for you to approve this Amendment #1. | 00:58:00 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:58:06 | |
| I have. I have no questions other than again thank you very much for us doing our own shipping. And I I know it takes a lot of | 00:58:09 | |
| staff from the sign shop and everything. So there's projects that we get behind on especially roads that need to be bladed, but in | 00:58:15 | |
| the long run being able to take care of our chip shield roads. | 00:58:22 | |
| And get that done for the cost that we're able to do it, it's worth taking the phone calls for some of our roads that don't get | 00:58:28 | |
| attention for to maintain our other roads so. | 00:58:34 | |
| Thank you very much for continue to support. | 00:58:40 | |
| Letting us support you in shipping makes a big difference on our roads. | 00:58:44 | |
| That's all, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Supervisor Klein. | 00:58:49 | |
| Homeowners patient concrete the only one to supply chips or is there any other outfit or an outfit down here that supplies them | 00:58:52 | |
| or? | 00:58:56 | |
| No, there's there's various. | 00:59:01 | |
| A company that would supply chips, I don't remember the one that we that we. | 00:59:03 | |
| That we reviewed at the last the last time we went out for both, but. | 00:59:08 | |
| That chips are in the state of Arizona. The chips are offered by many different companies. | 00:59:13 | |
| I just I'm asking this question for a patient concrete to haul the chips for for this globe area down here for our chips eating. | 00:59:19 | |
| I just would think there's somebody here locally that would be able to provide that. | 00:59:26 | |
| So when we when we chicken, strawberry and go and young, they haul for us. | 00:59:32 | |
| When we chip in tunnel basin, we haul ourselves. We could if we had the manpower. | 00:59:38 | |
| Could ship ahead of time. | 00:59:44 | |
| Because actually we stockpile chips ahead of time. And so again, it would be taking up our team. We want our team to do that or we | 00:59:46 | |
| want somebody else to be doing that. | 00:59:51 | |
| The chip sealing operation does take. | 00:59:57 | |
| Want to say a couple of months for our team and this year for the first time we're actually going to leave some people behind at | 01:00:00 | |
| the road yard to handle some emergency calls etcetera in previous years and with everybody. | 01:00:06 | |
| And and and this year, because we've added a few folks in the last six months to our Rd. yards. | 01:00:12 | |
| Filled some of the vacancies, not adding headcount, and filled some of those vacancies. | 01:00:19 | |
| And so we're able to leave one or two folks behind that are going to try to take some of the emergency calls that we get, so. | 01:00:24 | |
| It's it's it's a decision for us to make in the future whether we call or or pay for the Holly. | 01:00:31 | |
| OK, so but but I'm going to go back to this question is, is there not another outfit down here that would provide chips? | 01:00:38 | |
| We should, we need to look into that and to see if there's if we want to address our purchasing of chips on a more regional basis. | 01:00:47 | |
| So that we don't end up with having to add up, what's the total cost for all of Gila County, maybe we do. | 01:00:57 | |
| Maybe we request for prices and are able to split up depending on the region. | 01:01:04 | |
| If it's in Globe, maybe we somebody can offer it cheaper here in Globe and if it's facing somebody can offer cheaper and patient | 01:01:10 | |
| and that the contracting that we go out would allow us to split the contract that way if if the price was. | 01:01:17 | |
| Who was listening to the county? I'd appreciate you looking into that. You know, it seems like recently. | 01:01:25 | |
| More recently, we're always getting the question of how are we spending money and patient compared to Globe or vice versa and | 01:01:32 | |
| things like that. And so to give both ends of our county a shot at something would be a pretty good deal. | 01:01:39 | |
| So thank you, Oma. | 01:01:47 | |
| Thank you, Humero. With that, I'll call for a motion. | 01:01:49 | |
| Mr. Chair, I moved to approve Amendment #1, contract number 010522. | 01:01:53 | |
| Dash one with pasting concrete materials as presented. | 01:02:02 | |
| Now second there, Mr. Chair Motion and 2nd to approve those in favor. Say aye, Aye. Thank you. | 01:02:05 | |
| To an Information Discussion Action to adopt Resolution #24-04-04, which authorizes the execution of a intergovernmental agreement | 01:02:13 | |
| #24-000 nine 581-I between Hila County and the State of Arizona. | 01:02:21 | |
| Acting by and through the Arizona Department of Transportation for the Golden Hill Rd. Sidewalk Final Phase Project. Good morning, | 01:02:32 | |
| Alex. | 01:02:36 | |
| Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Board. Thank you for having me. | 01:02:41 | |
| This is a request to adopt Resolution #24-0404 for the execution of the Internet Governmental Agreements IGA24-000 nine 581-I. | 01:02:45 | |
| So it's between the State of Arizona through the Department of Transportation and Beulah County. | 01:02:58 | |
| As you guys know, between 2019 and 2023. | 01:03:04 | |
| Gila County engineering staff worked on a sidewalk in Golden Hills. | 01:03:08 | |
| And through the course of that project, we found out that we're going to have a shortfall in funding. | 01:03:13 | |
| In order to keep the project going, we've truncated the project. | 01:03:19 | |
| Between Alberta and Elm. | 01:03:23 | |
| That project finished the summer of last year, and since then we've been searching for funding to finish that project. | 01:03:26 | |
| In January of this year, we received a Transportation alternative grant, which is a federal grant which requires. | 01:03:34 | |
| A lot of administration. | 01:03:43 | |
| So this IGA is. | 01:03:44 | |
| Between a dot and Gila County in order to administer this TA grant for us so that we can complete the project. | 01:03:48 | |
| So the sidewalk will go from university all the way to Main Street. | 01:03:55 | |
| OK. Thank you, Alex. Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:04:01 | |
| Again, hats off to staff for being project minded and hanging on to something like a bulldog. Like you say it started in 19. | 01:04:03 | |
| And it started construction and then there was some lawsuits because of utilities and things. But but you know thank you guys | 01:04:12 | |
| because you could have just dropped it and you know things of that nature because it was difficult but you didn't you just kept at | 01:04:18 | |
| it and kept reaching for funding. By the time we got funding like you say, we had to cut the project in half. But you guys just | 01:04:25 | |
| kept reaching and reaching and getting the funding to do phase two of that project. And so again I I can't thank staff enough for | 01:04:31 | |
| being project oriented and and and. | 01:04:38 | |
| Continuing to to work at these projects. | 01:04:45 | |
| Be a lot easier sometimes to say we can't and you don't. So I appreciate it very, very much. | 01:04:47 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Klein. | 01:04:53 | |
| Alex, thanks. When are what's the scheduled completion date for this? Do you know what the goal is to have it done by the end of | 01:04:56 | |
| the calendar year? | 01:04:59 | |
| By the end of the calendar year. OK, good deal. Thanks. | 01:05:03 | |
| Yes, thank you, Alex. And with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll move to adopt resolution number 24/04/04. | 01:05:07 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that. OK. Motion of the 2nd to approve those in favor. Say aye, aye. Thank you, Alex. Thank you. All right, | 01:05:14 | |
| let's go to item 2O information discussion action to approve contract agreement number Ctr. 059886 with Frontier Technology LLC | 01:05:21 | |
| doing business as. | 01:05:27 | |
| Micro age in the amount of $57,899 and. | 01:05:35 | |
| $0.18 for the purchase of seven Cisco. | 01:05:40 | |
| Meraki 48 port switches and seven Cisco Meraki 24 port switches as part of the IT department seven-year replacement plan. Good | 01:05:45 | |
| morning, Carrie. Good morning, Chairman, Board members. | 01:05:51 | |
| We're looking to purchase 14 Meraki switches, 724 port and 748 port switches. This will help us update our equipment stay on track | 01:05:59 | |
| with our seven-year replacement plan. The old equipment will be used for training our technicians. | 01:06:05 | |
| If they are not in working order, we'll dispose of them properly. And just to let you know, this is our last scheduled capital | 01:06:13 | |
| request we'll be making for the physical 24th. | 01:06:17 | |
| 2024 fiscal year so. | 01:06:22 | |
| I can answer any questions you only have. OK. Thank you, Terry. Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. OK, Supervisor Klein. | 01:06:24 | |
| I'm sure I have questions, but I'm not even sure what this all means, Gary. So anyway, thanks for putting that together. You're | 01:06:32 | |
| welcome. Yes, thank you, Terry. With that, I'll call for a motion. | 01:06:37 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to approve contract agreement number Ctr. 059886. | 01:06:42 | |
| With Frontier technology LL. | 01:06:50 | |
| DBA micro age. | 01:06:56 | |
| As presented. | 01:06:59 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that. | 01:07:00 | |
| OK. And motion and a second to approve those in favor, say aye. | 01:07:02 | |
| Item 2P Information Discussion Action to approve Economic Development Agreement number 03192024 between Gila County. | 01:07:10 | |
| And the patient for rodeo committee incorporated in the amount of $20,000 we support as determined to be for the benefit of the | 01:07:21 | |
| public. And this is my item. And we also have with this the President of the Payson Rodeo Committee and Weil. Good morning, Dan. | 01:07:29 | |
| Good morning. Can you hear me? | 01:07:39 | |
| I can hear you just fine. Thank you and so. | 01:07:41 | |
| Sure, for Mike. | 01:07:44 | |
| Yeah, it's on. So this is an annual request that we have offered to the rodeo committee to the benefit of the public. They do a | 01:07:46 | |
| tremendous job and just to let you know how the split of money will be for everyone, it's 15,000 from. | 01:07:55 | |
| Mr. Menlov's account for such activity and 5000 from my constituent funds. So tell us, Dan, what does the Payson Pro Rodeo do for | 01:08:05 | |
| Gila County? | 01:08:11 | |
| OK, oh, I got the request and I have that laying in front of you there. | 01:08:20 | |
| So I'm just going to kind of briefly go over this and like like Steve said, it is a request for $20,000 and he told you how it | 01:08:25 | |
| would be broken out. | 01:08:30 | |
| Our advertising funds and this is how we will be using the the finances. | 01:08:37 | |
| We advertise with Gary Hart Memorial Rodeo and that's about $10,000 and the world's oldest continuous rodeo we advertise. | 01:08:42 | |
| Out of town for like $19,531. | 01:08:52 | |
| And this is what it does for the town. | 01:08:56 | |
| Is actually our occupancy and our room rates and our motels. | 01:08:59 | |
| Equates out. | 01:09:07 | |
| About 11155 people staying here for two nights or 23110. | 01:09:09 | |
| And if you equate that out with the AOT estimates. | 01:09:15 | |
| That comes out to about $681,000. | 01:09:19 | |
| That is brought back into the town and also to heal accounting also there is. | 01:09:23 | |
| The other attendance at the Rodeos. | 01:09:31 | |
| There's a total of 9500. Actually there was 14,000 people. | 01:09:35 | |
| They came to the rodeos last year. | 01:09:40 | |
| And of that amount, 7500 of those? | 01:09:43 | |
| We're from out of town. | 01:09:47 | |
| And they we calculate that they spend between 150 and $195 of fuel and food. | 01:09:50 | |
| And so that is approximately another 1.4 million. | 01:09:58 | |
| In spending for a total month. | 01:10:02 | |
| $2,081,450. | 01:10:06 | |
| In addition to the economic impact for the rodeos. | 01:10:11 | |
| All proceeds that we can't get distributed back to the community. | 01:10:15 | |
| And that, like I said, equated about $40,000 last year. It goes back to charitable contributions made to breast Cancer Support | 01:10:23 | |
| groups. | 01:10:27 | |
| And to those supporting our veterans and school activities. | 01:10:32 | |
| And then we have. | 01:10:37 | |
| Additionally down there. | 01:10:39 | |
| Exactly what the sponsorships are. | 01:10:42 | |
| For the rodeo. | 01:10:45 | |
| And our production costs. | 01:10:48 | |
| Are approximately $315,000 a year. | 01:10:50 | |
| Is there any questions? | 01:10:55 | |
| Thank you, Dan, for that presentation, Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:10:57 | |
| Oh, thank you very much for all you do putting this rodeo on and and I I have appreciated being a. | 01:11:01 | |
| Part of that rodeo and helping sponsor and you guys to do that. | 01:11:09 | |
| And and I'm I'm really happy to be doing that. A question that that I I'm going to ask is does the town of Payson contribute | 01:11:15 | |
| anything to the patient rodeo? | 01:11:21 | |
| They they do contribute in the way of their employees preparing the ground. | 01:11:28 | |
| And the police officers are. | 01:11:35 | |
| Actually we do a trade out with them, very similar to what if this is. | 01:11:39 | |
| For the county and sponsorships for the rodeo. | 01:11:43 | |
| And I think I don't have that number in front of me, Tim, but if I remember correctly, it was about 15,000 for the May rodeo and | 01:11:47 | |
| about 23,000 then for the. | 01:11:53 | |
| August Rodeo. | 01:12:00 | |
| Well, good. Yeah. Then I'd, I'd, I'd like to thank them for helping you with the rodeo is. | 01:12:02 | |
| And and I've had people ask me that. So that's the reason I asked the question and. | 01:12:08 | |
| From down here, I don't really always know what's going on up north. | 01:12:13 | |
| And so thank you very much in town face and thank you for helping the rodeo as well. | 01:12:17 | |
| Supervisor Klein. | 01:12:22 | |
| Dan, thanks. You know, we've been a part of this for eight years. We've been on the board and it's always been a good thing. | 01:12:24 | |
| You know, the amount of people you guys have up there and patient is absolutely A plus for the county. | 01:12:32 | |
| Sheriff might not think that all the time, but but anyway, it is good and I I'm glad to be a part of it and I as well, I'm glad to | 01:12:38 | |
| see Payson involved with it, you know, and those folks helping you out. It's it's a huge plus. So thanks for all you do. | 01:12:46 | |
| Yes, Thank you, Dan. This really just shows too that this is one of the gems that we have in Gila County. It's the world's oldest | 01:12:55 | |
| continuous rodeo. Really. The origins of rodeo began on Main Street in. | 01:13:02 | |
| Hasten and for you guys to continue on that tradition. | 01:13:09 | |
| Is really great, and the amount that we can contribute is multiplied tenfold a hundredfold. | 01:13:13 | |
| Thank you for that. | 01:13:21 | |
| And uh. | 01:13:23 | |
| I don't really have any other questions. I think it would be great if we could also have. | 01:13:25 | |
| A rodeo. | 01:13:32 | |
| Re established in the southern part of the county as we develop that property. | 01:13:33 | |
| As you can see, it really brings in a lot of people, so. | 01:13:39 | |
| With that I will call for a motion. | 01:13:43 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll make the Motion to approve Economic Development Agreement number 031292024. | 01:13:45 | |
| Which the board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. Mr. Chair. I'll second that. Have a motion, and a second to | 01:13:55 | |
| approve all those in favor, say aye. | 01:13:59 | |
| Thank you, Dan. | 01:14:04 | |
| Thank you. | 01:14:06 | |
| Item 2 Q Information Discussion Action to approve Economic Development Agreement number 03264 between Haley County and Veterans | 01:14:08 | |
| Helping Veterans Incorporated in the amount of 5000 to assist veterans of Gila County and their families, which the Board has | 01:14:15 | |
| determined for the benefit of the public. This is my item. It'll be paid for through my constituent funds. It is something I've | 01:14:22 | |
| given in the past. Veterans Helping Veterans is a powerful group there in Northern Arizona. | 01:14:30 | |
| I'm sorry, Northern Heila County and it looks like we have representatives from them and so they do a lot of transportation and | 01:14:38 | |
| other things. I will let them go ahead and expand on the benefits that they. | 01:14:45 | |
| Are doing for the public, so good morning. | 01:14:52 | |
| Good morning, panel. | 01:14:56 | |
| My name is Rick again with veterans, health veterans. | 01:14:57 | |
| Last year, 2023, we were able to help more than 60 households with the emergency assistance is what we call it for utilities and | 01:15:02 | |
| you know. | 01:15:07 | |
| Emergency needs of the household. These funds go a long way with the the transportation and helping them. | 01:15:13 | |
| The families are the better and well. | 01:15:19 | |
| OK. Thank you. Any comments from the young lady? | 01:15:24 | |
| She does a lot of our grant work. OK, good. | 01:15:31 | |
| All right. Appreciate that, Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:15:36 | |
| I have no questions other than thank you very, very much for. | 01:15:39 | |
| For the for the service that you did and the service that you're providing now. | 01:15:43 | |
| Supervisor Klein and that goes along with me as well and it's really good to be able to sit here and help support you guys on on | 01:15:49 | |
| that as well and. | 01:15:53 | |
| We'll visit some more here in the future, so thanks. | 01:15:58 | |
| Yes, thank you. We do have a lot of veterans in ELA County and. | 01:16:02 | |
| Have a lot of need there and so I'm happy to support veterans helping veterans in that way. So with that, I'll call for motion. | 01:16:06 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to approve Economic Development Agreement number 03. | 01:16:15 | |
| 2624, which the board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. Mr. Chair, I'll second that. OK. We have a motion and a | 01:16:21 | |
| second to approve those in favor. Say aye. Aye. Thank you very much. | 01:16:27 | |
| OK, item two, our information discussion action to approve Economic development agreement number 03122024 between Haley County and | 01:16:35 | |
| the George. | 01:16:40 | |
| Bellavado Junior Memorial Sports Association in the amount of $10,000, which will be used toward the construction of a meeting and | 01:16:46 | |
| exhibition building at the Elvado Park in San Carlos, which the board is determined to be for the benefit of the public supervisor | 01:16:52 | |
| Klein. | 01:16:58 | |
| Thank you. So this is Belvedere Park right there in San Carlos. Wilbur's the one in charge of it right now and and I've supported | 01:17:04 | |
| Wilbur pretty much all the time I've been in office. | 01:17:09 | |
| Done an awesome job at this ballpark. | 01:17:14 | |
| And if anybody has a chance to go down and see it, I really suggest you do that and take a look. | 01:17:17 | |
| He does a lot with the kids right there. They have a lot of games right there locally. This exhibit and meeting building is right | 01:17:25 | |
| at the park. | 01:17:30 | |
| This 10,000 is only part of it. He's got other money coming in to help you as well and so this will be a great addition to what | 01:17:35 | |
| they have and and a place they can use. So with that. | 01:17:41 | |
| Entertain any questions. | 01:17:48 | |
| I don't have any questions other than you know. | 01:17:50 | |
| Thanks for helping the youth. You know it's amazing what those baseball fields do and over in Central Heights we we work with it | 01:17:54 | |
| and and the kids that are there in the evenings amazing. And so I think it's great that you're able to do something for them. | 01:18:01 | |
| In their sovereign nation, with with the help of the kids, I appreciate. | 01:18:09 | |
| Yes, good job. It's anything that helps kids get away from the. | 01:18:15 | |
| Keyboard. | 01:18:21 | |
| In essence, yeah, do something physical and outside. So with that I'll call for motion, Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve | 01:18:22 | |
| Economic Development Agreement number 03122024, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of. | 01:18:30 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion in a second to approve those in favor. Say aye aye aye. Motion passes. Now on to Item 2 S | 01:18:38 | |
| Information Discussion Action to ratify the Board of Supervisors approval. | 01:18:44 | |
| To submit a proposal to the Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity in the amount of $306,140.00 for Hema County Summer Work | 01:18:51 | |
| Program and approved grant agreement number. | 01:18:57 | |
| OEO Quality Job 24. | 01:19:04 | |
| 06 in the amount of $306,000. | 01:19:09 | |
| $306,140. | 01:19:13 | |
| And I have Supervisor Klein and Catherine Melvin on this one. | 01:19:17 | |
| So I'll take the lead on this and Kathy will correct me when I'm wrong. | 01:19:21 | |
| This this was an opportunity that hit us when I was invited to a governor's round table in Superior. | 01:19:25 | |
| And there was, I don't know, a dozen of us sitting around the table with the governor. | 01:19:34 | |
| And that those round tables what they do is they go around and each of you kind of give an update what's going on and. | 01:19:39 | |
| Projects or issues or whatever. And and they came to me, I was telling them about different things. Gila County, but. | 01:19:45 | |
| I told the governor, I said, you know, one thing that I wanted to set out there is the fact of our youth program. We started it | 01:19:54 | |
| eight years ago and it's really been going good and we have a good success and everything and. | 01:20:00 | |
| The governor doesn't say anything but her staff's right now. | 01:20:08 | |
| And right now, all the time I'm talking, they're writing, so we get all done. | 01:20:11 | |
| Everybody gets up and shaking hands, getting ready to walk away. Staff comes over to me and Kathy and says, hey, we want to talk | 01:20:15 | |
| to you guys about your youth program. | 01:20:18 | |
| So they did. They set it up on a Zoom call me and Kathy participated in that and. | 01:20:22 | |
| Asked us the insurance and outs of our youth program. The big difference in Arizona and with the youth especially. | 01:20:29 | |
| Is on the WIOA areas. They have a lot of money for youth. | 01:20:37 | |
| But the problem is. | 01:20:43 | |
| It's mostly for out of school youth. | 01:20:47 | |
| So like the kids that are going to school, they're not eligible to apply. | 01:20:50 | |
| And so there's these eligibility requirements that WIA has that a lot of kids can't hit. | 01:20:55 | |
| And I I've always said that that's just a. | 01:21:01 | |
| They're just hammering those kids that's wanting to get an education and by cutting them out of those programs, I still believe | 01:21:05 | |
| that and. | 01:21:08 | |
| We don't. | 01:21:13 | |
| We don't do that. We never have done that. You know these ladies with HR, they go through there and then kids apply and we do the | 01:21:15 | |
| interviews and. | 01:21:18 | |
| And we put kids on board, you know, and the way we go, and it's worked out very, very well. | 01:21:23 | |
| So we explained all that to them and they really liked it. There was a lady that got back with Kathy and kind of. | 01:21:29 | |
| Up there I I would say kind of the head of the finance finances of WIOA. | 01:21:36 | |
| OK, Anyway, she went through it with Kathy, and Kathy and Mr. Minilov worked up three different options for him. | 01:21:43 | |
| The first option was to finance all of it. | 01:21:52 | |
| Pay for the whole program in HeLa County. | 01:21:56 | |
| And everyone was a partial and everyone was to put on workshops however it was. | 01:21:58 | |
| So what came about was she contacted us back and said hey. | 01:22:03 | |
| If you can spend the money by the end of June. | 01:22:08 | |
| We'll fund it all. | 01:22:12 | |
| And so, getting with Mr. Menlove and working out a few minor little details, we said absolutely we can do that. | 01:22:14 | |
| And so with that in mind, they're they're putting in this 300,000 plus dollars for our youth program this year. What that does is | 01:22:22 | |
| last year we were able to put. | 01:22:27 | |
| About 60 somewhat kids in there. We'll be able to do that again. | 01:22:33 | |
| But also. | 01:22:37 | |
| We worked with the YCC crews, Arizona Conservation Corps through the Forest Service and helped finance and and put all that | 01:22:39 | |
| together. We'll be able to do that again with them as well. They have some money there and put put in there, but we're going to | 01:22:44 | |
| have more money to to. | 01:22:49 | |
| Balance that out. | 01:22:54 | |
| In addition to this, a copper corridor down that other side down there against Pinal County. | 01:22:56 | |
| You get down there around Hayden and Winkelman. | 01:23:02 | |
| The only thing that divides us the counties is the highway. | 01:23:04 | |
| Well, there's kids on the other side of that highway that need the job just as bad as our kids on our side. | 01:23:08 | |
| And So what we've done seeing is this is oh yo money. | 01:23:14 | |
| Is that we said OK, now we can go out. | 01:23:18 | |
| And maybe. | 01:23:21 | |
| I guess I'll say this. | 01:23:25 | |
| Upfront solicit for some kids out of Kearney, Dudleyville and things like that that are looking for jobs because this is state | 01:23:26 | |
| money that's taken from the WIOA part. So now we can legitimately say hey this whole area down here we can we're interested in | 01:23:32 | |
| picking up some kids. | 01:23:38 | |
| That is going to mean a lot to those families down there. | 01:23:45 | |
| When we did our last year's program, the majority of the kids, the highest number of kids to apply was from Winkelmann and Hayden. | 01:23:48 | |
| And we, we feel like it's going to just go from there now. And so this will be a good opportunity to do that. Kathy's been working | 01:23:59 | |
| with Kearney and some other places down there. We're working with the Pinal County Supervisor, Supervisor 30. | 01:24:06 | |
| And his staff down there as well to try and get the agreements in place to to work these kids so. | 01:24:13 | |
| No doubt we hit a lick on this one. | 01:24:20 | |
| It's a good thing and what I'm most proud of is the fact that we can put that money to good use and work these kids. | 01:24:23 | |
| And really maybe use it as a model to show like the WIOA programs which is federal to through the state. | 01:24:30 | |
| But show that, hey guys, you guys aren't going down the right path here. You need to change some things and get some | 01:24:37 | |
| participation. | 01:24:39 | |
| I was a chair on the WIOA program between Alcohol Apache and Hila County. | 01:24:42 | |
| That was an issue to find those kids. | 01:24:48 | |
| To work and our hands were tied. | 01:24:51 | |
| We couldn't get them, so maybe this will help that a little bit too and. | 01:24:53 | |
| We'll go from there. I'd be willing to take any questions. | 01:24:57 | |
| I don't have any questions. I just it's just a great deal to plant a seed. Like I say eight years ago we had a work session | 01:25:02 | |
| because they were only putting County was putting like two or three kids to work over the summer and it's like we got to do | 01:25:07 | |
| something and we had had a work session and. | 01:25:12 | |
| And Kathy took it over in. | 01:25:18 | |
| And started growing it and and and it's just great to to see when you plant a seed. | 01:25:20 | |
| And and being able to turn it into what we did, we started it with constituent funds what we could have maybe afford and see what | 01:25:26 | |
| we could do with the kids. And Kathy put an awful lot of time into it And so it it it's just great to see it turn into this to | 01:25:34 | |
| where it starts growing and then other people see it happening and then they want to be part of it And you know we reach out to | 01:25:42 | |
| different cities and and then they have a little bit of money and they want to put a youth together and and it's great because. | 01:25:50 | |
| They're not sitting out there on the road crew with a with a pick and shovel or things. If they're interested in IT then then we | 01:25:59 | |
| try to place them with IT or place them in their interest of what they want their careers to be so. | 01:26:05 | |
| I I just. | 01:26:12 | |
| It's just a great thing and and to see plant a seed and and watch it grow as this did and some of the other projects. Hats off. | 01:26:14 | |
| Thank you very much. | 01:26:20 | |
| Thank you, Tim. Thank you too for doing this. You and Kathy both put a lot of effort into this. | 01:26:25 | |
| Yeah, it it has been a huge. | 01:26:32 | |
| Huge undertaking. I mean, Kathy's got down pat, so. | 01:26:35 | |
| She's she's good right now, but Kathy is getting ready to retire. So be prepared folks. Somebody else is going to have to. | 01:26:39 | |
| Pick up that slack because that would be a big hole. I'm not going to quit on this program. And so the one thing I will throw out | 01:26:45 | |
| there too is this isn't something new to the county. The county had this back when Sherry. | 01:26:51 | |
| Long time ago. | 01:26:58 | |
| So early 90s is whenever I participated, yeah. | 01:27:03 | |
| And there's quite a handful of folks in the county that had started in the program and they end up where they are now and Sherry | 01:27:08 | |
| being one of them. | 01:27:11 | |
| And what was really, really cool, I thought about this when we started was when. | 01:27:16 | |
| Kathy and HR is working with these kids on the interviews to find out what their interests were. | 01:27:22 | |
| And where they were headed out of school and whatnot and we were placing people in the health department because they're | 01:27:27 | |
| interested in in nursing or doctors and. | 01:27:31 | |
| Putting them in the attorney's office because they want to go to law school. | 01:27:35 | |
| It worked out really, really well. | 01:27:39 | |
| And I don't, I don't know that we had but maybe just two or three that actually fell out of the program. I think most all of them | 01:27:41 | |
| for the most part made it through so. | 01:27:45 | |
| Thank you all. | 01:27:51 | |
| And thank you. And with that, I'll call for a motion. | 01:27:52 | |
| Mr. Chair. | 01:27:56 | |
| I move to ratify the Board of Supervisors approval for the submittal of proposal. | 01:27:58 | |
| To the Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity. | 01:28:04 | |
| And approve grant agreement number OEO. | 01:28:09 | |
| Quality jobs. | 01:28:14 | |
| 24-06AS presented. | 01:28:16 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that. OK Motion. And a second to approve those in favor. Say aye. Aye. Aye Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. | 01:28:19 | |
| Item 2T Information Discussion Action to consider a sealed bid for the purchase of assessors. Tax parcel #205-05-003B and if | 01:28:27 | |
| accepted, authorize the Chairman's signature on a quick claim deed. Samantha. | 01:28:36 | |
| Thank you Chairman and Board Members. On June 25th, 1992 the Hewlett County Treasurer dated parcel number 20705003 B. | 01:28:45 | |
| To the State of Arizona and care of the Board of Supervisors because the previous owner did not pay taxes on the subject property | 01:28:55 | |
| for seven consecutive years. | 01:28:58 | |
| The lean amount for this property is $337.70. | 01:29:02 | |
| The clerk of the board's office has a process for selling properties that did not sell at the annual POS auction of state dated | 01:29:07 | |
| tax properties via silk bid. | 01:29:12 | |
| Only an owner of land that adjoins a state needed tax property may submit a sealed bid for the board consideration. | 01:29:16 | |
| However, at the time they placed a bid, they must show proof of adjoining ownership. | 01:29:23 | |
| The board may consider selling a property for less than a lien amount from then adjoining owner. | 01:29:27 | |
| The subject property adjoins Hewlett County assessors parcel number 207050038, which is owned by Miss Vanita Molina. | 01:29:31 | |
| Miss Molina has submitted A sealed bid for the board's consideration. | 01:29:41 | |
| If the board accepts Miss Molina's fifth, she intends to request that the height county assessor assessor combines the parcels. | 01:29:44 | |
| Chairman, if I may open the seal pit, please do. | 01:29:49 | |
| I know it's OK. | 01:30:15 | |
| That's interesting. | 01:30:24 | |
| It's a cash bid. | 01:30:31 | |
| It is for the lean amount $337.70. | 01:30:34 | |
| Pfizer Humphrey. | 01:30:38 | |
| If you're asking for comments. | 01:30:42 | |
| I love to see these homeless properties get a home. I, you know, they somebody to take care of them, somebody to pay the taxes on. | 01:30:44 | |
| Think it's a great thing and and and. | 01:30:53 | |
| You see a lot of blighted properties around Heila County. So any of. | 01:30:56 | |
| Properties that don't have a home, which is great for the now they got a home and an owner. I think it's fantastic. | 01:31:01 | |
| Supervisor Klein I am there too. What was the amount? It's 337733770. Yes Sir, it's for the full lien amount. | 01:31:08 | |
| Yeah, I'm, I'm good when getting back on the tax rolls and I'm going again. That's good. Absolutely. Thank you, Samantha. With | 01:31:19 | |
| that, I'll call for motion, Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to sell assessors tax parcel #207-05. | 01:31:27 | |
| Dash 003B to Veneta Molina in the amount of $337.70 and authorize the chairman's signature on the quickly indeed. | 01:31:35 | |
| Mr. Chair, I will second that. | 01:31:46 | |
| Motion, and a second to approve all those in favor. Say aye, aye, aye. | 01:31:49 | |
| Very good. | 01:31:54 | |
| We are to item 3, consent agenda items. It is items 3A through 3G. Supervisor Humphrey, would you like to remove any of the | 01:31:56 | |
| consent agenda items? I care to. I don't care to discuss any of them as an individual item. OK. Supervisor. Client, do you? No, | 01:32:05 | |
| I'm good. Hey, so then I will call for a motion for consent agenda items A through G. | 01:32:13 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to approve consent agenda items 3A through 3G and I will second that motion to approve and 2nd those in favor | 01:32:23 | |
| say aye, aye, aye. | 01:32:29 | |
| Item number four is called to the public. | 01:32:36 | |
| Do we have anyone here? | 01:32:40 | |
| Globe that wishes to speak at a call to the public. | 01:32:43 | |
| Cassandra, how about you? No. How about you, Lisa, Tyler or what? Anybody. | 01:32:49 | |
| OK. Thank you. We'll move on then and we will offer Board of Supervisors and County Manager to brief report, brief summary. So | 01:33:00 | |
| we'll turn it over to. | 01:33:05 | |
| Mr. Menlo. | 01:33:11 | |
| Chairman, Members of the board, I do have a few items that wanted to present to you today. | 01:33:13 | |
| First of all is the county Health and Benefits fair. Miss Sherry Grice is our Wellness Coordinator for the county as we've put in | 01:33:18 | |
| a lot of effort to coordinate to help health and benefits fair which will be held. | 01:33:25 | |
| Here in Globe on Monday, May 6th at the Huey County Fairgrounds. | 01:33:31 | |
| From 2:50 PM. | 01:33:36 | |
| And on Tuesday, May 7th at the TCM Complex building. | 01:33:38 | |
| From again from 2:50 PM, so May 6th. | 01:33:45 | |
| Globe, May 7th. | 01:33:48 | |
| And Payson. | 01:33:51 | |
| There will be a luncheon provided for our employees. There's questions of. | 01:33:53 | |
| Departments say the lunches from 11 to 2 each day. Departments that they would please work with their staff to enable employees to | 01:34:00 | |
| go to the healthcare. It would very much be appreciated. | 01:34:07 | |
| There's a question asked, do we compensate for gas to drive out programs? No, we do not, and it is on their own time to go. | 01:34:14 | |
| And participate in this. It's not a it's their lunch time. | 01:34:22 | |
| And. | 01:34:27 | |
| We do want to express appreciation to our employees for all that they do, as you've heard today and as you have expressed to those | 01:34:30 | |
| employees that we have that. | 01:34:35 | |
| We have really good employees with the county. | 01:34:40 | |
| The money that. | 01:34:43 | |
| Money that there's available through the state. | 01:34:45 | |
| Is not spent and that money comes back to the state and they're. | 01:34:48 | |
| In the housing deal that are saying we've got to have this money spent because the federal money spent by June 30th. | 01:34:52 | |
| So you come to find an available way to spend that money through Hilly County. That's the way it is through a lot of the programs | 01:34:58 | |
| that you've heard today that you've been presented with and approved today. | 01:35:03 | |
| Is that the kind of staff stepping up and taking these programs and these projects under their wings? | 01:35:09 | |
| Give them to the constituents, to the people of Healing County. | 01:35:16 | |
| All these brands and things takes a lot of effort. | 01:35:20 | |
| As Kathy, I'm looking at you takes. | 01:35:24 | |
| Of time and effort to. | 01:35:28 | |
| To all the reports, the coordinating there were so many stipulations, federal laws, state laws. | 01:35:30 | |
| Grant regulations, stipulations that all have to be met and sure that we are meeting and spending the money the way they're | 01:35:36 | |
| supposed to be spent. | 01:35:40 | |
| And staff steps up and takes parallels. So I, along with you members of the board, want to express appreciation to them for all | 01:35:44 | |
| that they do. | 01:35:48 | |
| And ensuring that we are getting the absolute most amount of money that we can to the citizens of Healing County. | 01:35:54 | |
| You as a board have have been very progressive. | 01:36:00 | |
| That you have. | 01:36:04 | |
| Seen caught a great vision of the things that can be done for the citizens of Healing County. | 01:36:06 | |
| And that you have encouraged all of this activity. | 01:36:13 | |
| And you have set the pathway, set the road that we could follow. | 01:36:16 | |
| In order for all of this activity, all this, these programs that bless and insist people. | 01:36:21 | |
| You are set the example you have given direction you have. | 01:36:28 | |
| Given the resources, something that we're doing in the finance department is. | 01:36:32 | |
| That. | 01:36:36 | |
| Taken a position that already existed and repurposed it so that now instead of just aiming. | 01:36:38 | |
| Statement in the Ministry of all the grants because. | 01:36:43 | |
| She has been spending all overtime in ministering grants and hasn't really had much time to go out and get new grants. | 01:36:47 | |
| So we have a second person in the finance department that will be working with Amy. | 01:36:52 | |
| I'll incite her to help, Mr. Grant. We're also working to get others. | 01:36:57 | |
| Involved and assist with the grant administration, grant applications and administration events. | 01:37:03 | |
| So we are continuing to look for that as we go forward the money for. | 01:37:08 | |
| All the COVID money. | 01:37:15 | |
| Drying up and going away. | 01:37:18 | |
| And so, but there's still plenty of opportunities. | 01:37:20 | |
| To get grant money from the federal government and from the states, we need to continue to do that. | 01:37:24 | |
| One of those things that we are have been working for is Russell Rd. here in in town that got washed away by the flooding from the | 01:37:30 | |
| Telegraph Fire. | 01:37:34 | |
| Nearly half mile mile, it's just washed the roadway completely. | 01:37:40 | |
| And so Homer and his team, Mr. Alexander and his team in public works, has been looking for resources to find. | 01:37:44 | |
| A money to plan or to do the engineering and design for repairing that road cost for just design and engineering is nearly | 01:37:53 | |
| $1,000,000. | 01:37:58 | |
| Mr. Vela and his staff have put together a grant and. | 01:38:03 | |
| I think I've gotten. | 01:38:09 | |
| I hope I'm not stealing your Thunder. | 01:38:11 | |
| Homer, but have gotten maybe some tentative approval from the state Department of Transportation through the transportation board. | 01:38:14 | |
| And I know Mr. Bailey is planning to attend the transportation board. | 01:38:19 | |
| In Buckeye on Friday. | 01:38:26 | |
| To again convey our interest and our appreciation to transportation board for nearly $1,000,000 to design. | 01:38:29 | |
| An engineer Repairs of Russell Rd. For access to the great recreation area that we have here South of Globe in the Pinal | 01:38:37 | |
| Mountains. | 01:38:41 | |
| I do also want to make you aware and express appreciation to you and our County Sheriff. | 01:38:48 | |
| Recently or been an ongoing long term lawsuit from Greenlee County that the sheriff in Greenlee County has. | 01:38:55 | |
| Through kind of a nominal state statute. | 01:39:05 | |
| I expected that they could have. | 01:39:09 | |
| Any resources that the Sharp deemed. | 01:39:12 | |
| Necessary. This lawsuit in this case has gone on for a number of months and and and years. | 01:39:14 | |
| And the courts recently made a determination that you as the Board of Supervisors do have control over the finances of the county. | 01:39:21 | |
| And that's what we've always discussed and always. | 01:39:26 | |
| Stated that board super writers allocates resources based on priorities that you as a Board of Supervisors determine. | 01:39:32 | |
| Again and back to as progressives as you are investing in our employees and the different things you have, we have been moving | 01:39:39 | |
| forward tremendously express appreciation to Sheriff Shepard. | 01:39:45 | |
| He has. | 01:39:51 | |
| I think then the model of sheriff's in Arizona. | 01:39:53 | |
| That he has. | 01:39:57 | |
| He's progressive. He continues to work for ways that he can enforce the laws and enforce safety and security for all the relevance | 01:39:59 | |
| of Felon County and has done a tremendous job with that. It recognizes that. | 01:40:06 | |
| It's a big picture and works with the board and has been willing to. | 01:40:13 | |
| To work with. | 01:40:18 | |
| Management and the Board of Supervisors to ensure that we're getting the maximum resources for the Sheriff's Office. | 01:40:20 | |
| And doing it in a way that's fiscally responsible. So thank you, Sheriff. I really appreciate. | 01:40:26 | |
| All that you do in supporting Gillick County. | 01:40:31 | |
| And finally wanted to. | 01:40:36 | |
| Give you an update on the state of Arizona to the. | 01:40:39 | |
| The budget the state of Arizona had recently. The Finance Advisory Committee had a quarterly meeting just last week. | 01:40:43 | |
| And it gives us status because. | 01:40:50 | |
| As a county finance person. | 01:40:56 | |
| Lived through the Great Recession of 2008, 2009. | 01:40:59 | |
| And know how it is for the state to. | 01:41:03 | |
| Balance their books. | 01:41:08 | |
| Balance their budget on the backs of counties. | 01:41:10 | |
| And municipalities. | 01:41:13 | |
| The state would go and state. | 01:41:16 | |
| How they proudly balance their budgets while cutting revenues counties. | 01:41:19 | |
| And also adding. | 01:41:27 | |
| Expenses or hers? | 01:41:29 | |
| Putting more expenses on the council. | 01:41:31 | |
| So with the state budget and the deficits that they're facing. | 01:41:34 | |
| Latest numbers show that there is a. | 01:41:38 | |
| 1.8 billion. | 01:41:42 | |
| Dollar deficit over the next two years. | 01:41:45 | |
| It's hard to say what the state will do. | 01:41:50 | |
| One of the things that I know that the justice is with our probation officers. | 01:41:53 | |
| That the probation officers state is not willing to fully fund. | 01:41:58 | |
| State state probation or collision officers have a real unusual funding. About half of the Gila County probation officers are | 01:42:03 | |
| funded by the state. | 01:42:07 | |
| Half of them were funded by the counties. | 01:42:11 | |
| And. | 01:42:14 | |
| As of this point, has not included included funding. | 01:42:16 | |
| Full funding for our county probation officers. | 01:42:20 | |
| And so it's really difficult. We recently heard from a state legislator that it's more important. | 01:42:24 | |
| For the state. | 01:42:31 | |
| At least one state legislator to. | 01:42:34 | |
| Fund their. | 01:42:37 | |
| Special interests. | 01:42:39 | |
| Than it is to fund their obligations to counties. | 01:42:42 | |
| And. | 01:42:46 | |
| I'll leave it at that that. | 01:42:50 | |
| The state needs to be recognized counties for who we are, the services we provide. | 01:42:53 | |
| And that they fully fund. | 01:42:58 | |
| The services that the county provides that are the state's responsibility. | 01:43:00 | |
| I'll stop there before I get further up on my soapbox and and. | 01:43:08 | |
| Want to go? But there's the state budget $1.8 billion deficit that is down. | 01:43:12 | |
| It was 2.2 billion at their last meeting in January and so, umm. | 01:43:19 | |
| Revenues have improved slightly. The whole deal of doing the flat tax for personal income tax is stabilizing somewhat the. | 01:43:24 | |
| Refunds that people are getting from their tax. Individual taxes. | 01:43:33 | |
| Or less so it is starting to stabilize on it. | 01:43:37 | |
| Income tax? Personal income tax. | 01:43:40 | |
| Refunds that they from the 2.5% flat tax. | 01:43:43 | |
| So things are stabilizing there, but. | 01:43:47 | |
| Against elders China's deficit that the state is going to deal with, they're going to work on the state budget in earnest here | 01:43:50 | |
| over the next few weeks. | 01:43:54 | |
| And we will continue through county efforts and county supervisors Association Arizona Association counties to emphasize. | 01:43:59 | |
| That the counties are. | 01:44:07 | |
| Facing some of the same fiscal challenges that the state are, and hopefully. | 01:44:10 | |
| Keep ourselves whole to the greatest extent possible. | 01:44:15 | |
| That's my report, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Thank you, James. You have a lot of concern there. Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:44:19 | |
| Held a Roosevelt community meeting. | 01:44:27 | |
| On the 8th at 1:00 and after that I was on KQSS radio at 5:30 PM. | 01:44:30 | |
| And after that, I attended a Miami Town Council meeting. | 01:44:37 | |
| On later that evening at six. | 01:44:41 | |
| And so anyway, umm then on. | 01:44:46 | |
| On Saturday, I went to attend a candidate forum in Payson. | 01:44:50 | |
| And it was. It was interesting. | 01:44:57 | |
| There were four people speak and all of them all four speakers. | 01:45:00 | |
| We're running against incumbents and so. | 01:45:04 | |
| That was the. | 01:45:08 | |
| A different deal. | 01:45:10 | |
| I I wasn't speaking. | 01:45:11 | |
| Will hold a southern Heela County preseason fire meeting. | 01:45:14 | |
| On the 18th and so that's great started that. | 01:45:19 | |
| Again when? | 01:45:25 | |
| I was elected to have a fire meeting down here. I know you had one up north that Tommy started that. But I remember the first fire | 01:45:26 | |
| season meeting that we had, we kind of got together and we didn't talk about evacuations or things of that nature. We were just | 01:45:34 | |
| trying to get all the Chiefs and everybody on the same page and and it's grown into A to a great meeting where we get a lot | 01:45:41 | |
| accomplished for services there kind of let us know the areas that are going to be. | 01:45:48 | |
| Difficult if they do catch fire and the ones that are less going to be less aggressive fires. | 01:45:56 | |
| If they catch, you know, DPS for Rd. closures. | 01:46:03 | |
| You know, the water storage. | 01:46:08 | |
| Evacuations now the the ready set go. There's just been a lot of things develop over the years and and with our past. | 01:46:10 | |
| Fires and creating floods and stuff. Emergency services thank them all very much because they've all built a fantastic resume if | 01:46:21 | |
| they would carry anywhere else. So appreciate their input because as far as the state goes, I don't think they've had as many | 01:46:28 | |
| evacuations as Hila County has over the last several years, so. | 01:46:35 | |
| It's turned into a great meeting and and a lot accomplished into to help people be a lot safer. | 01:46:43 | |
| And and and move. | 01:46:51 | |
| Better in in these conditions. So I want to thank staff and all the people that attend to this to to just keep making us better | 01:46:53 | |
| for emergencies and so. | 01:46:59 | |
| That's all I have, Mr. Chair. | 01:47:06 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor, Supervisor Klein. | 01:47:08 | |
| OK, so I'm sorry I couldn't make it to your fire meeting, but I was a little bit preoccupied, so. | 01:47:12 | |
| The fire meetings are always good. | 01:47:18 | |
| I guess the highlight of our our last few days has been HB 1829 that's the bill that's coming out of the House that will that will | 01:47:21 | |
| convey the. | 01:47:26 | |
| The property, the vet center to the county and that passed out of the House last weekend. It's on its way to the Senate. | 01:47:33 | |
| The Senate hopefully will be addressing that soon. | 01:47:40 | |
| And then hopefully that'll be wrapping it up. | 01:47:44 | |
| So we're really, really close and. | 01:47:47 | |
| Congressman Crane called me and let me know about that. And so I'm hoping that they're all staying on top of it and we'll see that | 01:47:51 | |
| it gets gets over the finish line. | 01:47:57 | |
| Here this last week there at the Vet center, there's been a group of about 20 plus people. | 01:48:04 | |
| About 26, I think, counting staff and it was a treatment set up for for veterans in there and they had their own chefs and | 01:48:09 | |
| everything else like that went really, really well as far as I know. I heard really good things about the site and and whatnot, | 01:48:14 | |
| so. | 01:48:20 | |
| They're they're gone now. They left Monday, I believe it was. | 01:48:26 | |
| And then like I said earlier on the summer work, we've been working with Pinellas County agencies on our youth program. We're | 01:48:31 | |
| going to continue to do that. | 01:48:35 | |
| And that should be good to go here pretty quick. And then this week I'll be at the small county CSA executive meeting. | 01:48:40 | |
| I'm in running for the WIR board. | 01:48:50 | |
| Position and that is the. | 01:48:54 | |
| Voting position on on WIR for Arizona. | 01:48:56 | |
| And so hopefully I'm hoping I can get in there on that. | 01:49:01 | |
| Carry that on, Richard Luntz. | 01:49:05 | |
| The member on it up to now, Tommy Martin, was before Richard. | 01:49:07 | |
| And they've done an exceptional job. Hopefully I could do half as good as they have and so looking forward to that and then. | 01:49:11 | |
| On the 24th April 24th, I've been invited to the Western Governors Conference in Phoenix. | 01:49:22 | |
| And what they've done is they've put together a panel. | 01:49:29 | |
| There, that I believe there's like six of us. | 01:49:33 | |
| That will spend a little over an hour question and answering session. | 01:49:37 | |
| On how we could go by go about. | 01:49:42 | |
| Reducing or helping smoke issues in these big cities and outlying areas. | 01:49:45 | |
| In the event of wildfires. | 01:49:52 | |
| And so that's going to be a real interesting topic. I'm really looking forward to addressing that and. | 01:49:55 | |
| And being a part of that, I I think that would be really good. And with that, Mr. Chair, that's all I had. | 01:50:02 | |
| Big supervisor, Yes. You were missed at the preseason fire meeting. That's an annual event. It went really well, very well | 01:50:11 | |
| attended. It's not really about, it's not centered around the Board of Supervisors. We just host it, we accommodate it and. | 01:50:19 | |
| It's just amazing the amount of a. | 01:50:29 | |
| Collaboration that occurs at a meeting like that and I. | 01:50:31 | |
| Really got a shout out to our own staff. When you start talking about fire seasons, you don't really think about Gila County that | 01:50:35 | |
| much. But we have our sheriff's posse, we have the Sheriff's Department involved, we have our public works department involved, we | 01:50:41 | |
| have our Emergency Management involved. | 01:50:48 | |
| As well as others and. | 01:50:55 | |
| We have just recently. | 01:50:57 | |
| Through Carl's help established a building up in Pine to become a new designated emergency center. | 01:50:59 | |
| And I will be using constituent funds. | 01:51:09 | |
| Make that. | 01:51:14 | |
| Better and more endearing, maybe a generator or something like that. So we are growing, we are planning the the whole bladder | 01:51:16 | |
| replacement system, all of that integral part of the fire safety concerns. What we heard from the Forest Service was that we're | 01:51:25 | |
| going to have an average or normal, whatever that means. | 01:51:33 | |
| Season. OK, not abnormally hot and windy or dry or abnormally wet, just average with an average monsoon. So I think, as we all | 01:51:43 | |
| know, I. | 01:51:49 | |
| It's danger every year. So we just watched for that. And so then yesterday I was on KMOG, my normal once a month and it went | 01:51:57 | |
| really well, always good there. And so that's really all I'm going to report on. So unless there's any more from the other | 01:52:04 | |
| supervisors, what I would like to do is just take a break right now. Let's reconvene at 12 high 12 noon and start our work | 01:52:11 | |
| session. | 01:52:18 | |
| OK, stretch our legs. Thank you. | 01:52:25 | |
| Session, which means it's a lot more relaxed. We get to talk about stuff. | 01:52:28 | |
| Let me read it here. It's item number six information and discussion. | 01:52:34 | |
| No action regarding Arizona Public Service Companies 2024 wildfire mitigation efforts, including the addition of a new public | 01:52:39 | |
| safety power shutdown plan. | 01:52:45 | |
| And Carl, go ahead and start things off. I know we have a lot of people. | 01:52:53 | |
| That's your this, this afternoon, Yes, good morning. | 01:52:57 | |
| Afternoon, Chairman, members of the board. So I brought some folks from APS here today to talk to you about the public safety | 01:53:02 | |
| power shut off program. | 01:53:07 | |
| I won't take any of their time away from them. I'll introduce Janet Dean from APS who's brought a team of experts here to fully | 01:53:13 | |
| discuss this program with you. Thank you, Carl, and thank you, Janet Dean. | 01:53:18 | |
| For being here you did a presentation at our pre our season meeting. | 01:53:25 | |
| And so please go ahead. OK. Well, thank you, Chairman, Supervisors, it's a real honor to be here and to talk to you about | 01:53:30 | |
| something that we take very seriously, which is the safety of all of our communities. We've talked to you in the past and over the | 01:53:36 | |
| last several years about our very extensive wildfire mitigation program. | 01:53:43 | |
| So we're here to do that again, give you a 2024 update. And as Carl mentioned, we do want to dive deeper into a new tool that we | 01:53:50 | |
| have in our toolbox designed to keep communities safe. | 01:53:55 | |
| I'm going to introduce our team. We're going to kind of tag team it as we talk through it. But before we get started, I do want to | 01:54:02 | |
| kind of jump on the theme of this meeting, which was the wonderful employees you have in the county and give a special shout out | 01:54:08 | |
| to Carl and Justin and the work they do in Emergency Management because. | 01:54:15 | |
| They have been key partners with us. If we as we have talked through and began to to develop our plan on public safety, power | 01:54:22 | |
| shutdowns, the county is going to be a key partner. We're going to be working side by side, hip to hip with Carl and his team if | 01:54:27 | |
| we ever do have to enact one of these. | 01:54:33 | |
| So. | 01:54:39 | |
| Which means he has responsibilities for northern Gila County. We also have today Brian Goslin, who is our N I'm sorry SE Division | 01:55:14 | |
| manager, who he's got responsibilities for Southern Heila County. And then we also have a member of our statewide administrative | 01:55:20 | |
| team that works with Frank, Katie Wells. | 01:55:27 | |
| So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Wade to kick us off. Oh, first, our objectives today, I think I've covered them. We're | 01:55:33 | |
| going to talk about what we do to reduce and mitigate wildfire risk. We're going to share our new tool, public safety power shut | 01:55:39 | |
| offs. And then we're going to share with you what we're asking community members and residents to do to help us prepare for this | 01:55:44 | |
| fire season. | 01:55:50 | |
| Thank you, Janet. | 01:55:56 | |
| Good afternoon, German and supervisors. Thank you very much for having us here today. | 01:56:01 | |
| Click to the next slide. | 01:56:08 | |
| And I I hope it will be as interactive as possible, so please ask questions. | 01:56:09 | |
| Clarify. We have a lot of information to cover, but we'll try to hit it at a high level and then you all. | 01:56:15 | |
| Ask us questions based on what you think we're missing. | 01:56:21 | |
| So certainly want to express to you the appreciation again for being here today and presenting our program because although we're | 01:56:24 | |
| here to talk a little bit about PSPS, public safety, power shutdown, that is just one of the tools that we have in our toolbox and | 01:56:30 | |
| we hope it's a tool that we have to use. | 01:56:36 | |
| Very sparingly. | 01:56:43 | |
| But we do realize with the changing conditions. | 01:56:44 | |
| And both weather climates and our infrastructure that is important to have that tool in our toolbox. | 01:56:47 | |
| And that we'll use it responsibly. | 01:56:55 | |
| But to begin with, our vegetation management program really is the crux of our fire mitigation program. | 01:56:58 | |
| It all starts with clearing our right aways the best that we possibly can. | 01:57:05 | |
| To make sure that we don't have any grow into those utility right away. | 01:57:09 | |
| As well as potential for falling. | 01:57:13 | |
| Which I'll talk a little bit more later when I talk about our partnership with our publicly managed lands. | 01:57:15 | |
| But we're allowed to do things outside of our right away because of those relationships and some of those relationships that. | 01:57:21 | |
| Supervisor coin and I even talked about the beginning of this meeting and and. | 01:57:28 | |
| Attempting to widen some of those right aways where we can, or at least thin on them. | 01:57:33 | |
| Aren't are enhanced inspection programs? | 01:57:38 | |
| Continuing our maintenance inspections, we do not only our annual inspections or our on cycle inspections, so in other words. | 01:57:42 | |
| Sometimes those inspections are two, three, five years, depending on what. | 01:57:51 | |
| Needs to be done and inspecting the equipment. | 01:57:57 | |
| But also the vegetation inspections. | 01:58:00 | |
| And then we have inspections on top of inspections. So we are doing hazard tree inspections as well as our defensible space around | 01:58:03 | |
| poles. | 01:58:07 | |
| Which I'm sure you're familiar with. So we're clearing 10 feet in all directions of those poles, including vertically. | 01:58:12 | |
| To protect those poles for the oncoming wildfire because if we can keep the. | 01:58:19 | |
| Holes and wire up in the air. | 01:58:23 | |
| It's a whole lot safer for our first responders to go in and for our communities to get out. | 01:58:25 | |
| Improved monitoring. | 01:58:31 | |
| So we have invested in a. | 01:58:34 | |
| Program called WFA Wildfire Analyst. | 01:58:37 | |
| That allows us to do situational awareness. | 01:58:39 | |
| As well as when a wildfire does start, we can project what the forward progress of that fire is going to look like anywhere from | 01:58:43 | |
| one hour to. | 01:58:47 | |
| 24 hours to 48 hours out. | 01:58:53 | |
| It's a pretty impressive tool. It has a lot of horsepower. | 01:58:55 | |
| We haven't even fully got the reins around it yet. | 01:59:00 | |
| In terms of understanding what we can do with it in terms of situational awareness. | 01:59:04 | |
| As well as helping our partners, but certainly is something that we'll be doing in the future. | 01:59:09 | |
| Grid hardening. I'll just mention a couple of them, but making sure that our systems are coordinated. | 01:59:14 | |
| And that we can isolate. | 01:59:22 | |
| And lower the impact to our customers as much as possible when we do have outages. | 01:59:24 | |
| So creating isolation points is very important to creating a better customer experience. | 01:59:29 | |
| And keeping the lights on both for. | 01:59:35 | |
| Our customers as well as our first responders because as well as you know a lot of. | 01:59:39 | |
| Radio communications. | 01:59:45 | |
| Water pumps, things like that, are all a part of that system. | 01:59:47 | |
| Trying to make sure that we have those isolation points in place so we can minimize the impact. | 01:59:51 | |
| And then the risk modeling, which is a part of an improved monitoring. | 01:59:57 | |
| So we can long term forecast. So Simply put, if we have money to spend in a particular area when Joe and and. | 02:00:01 | |
| Brian are looking at where would spend money. | 02:00:10 | |
| We look at that fire modeling to say, OK, this is the highest impact area within your service territory. | 02:00:12 | |
| Here's the best place to spend that money. So we look back at all of those things. Vegetation management, inspections, monitoring, | 02:00:18 | |
| grid hardening. | 02:00:22 | |
| These are some of the best places to spend that money. | 02:00:27 | |
| So questions here, wait, if I could ask, ask you a question when it comes to the modeling part, are you looking? | 02:00:31 | |
| On that, are you looking at veg types, Are you looking at population or what are you doing or fire currents from this, you know, | 02:00:39 | |
| from the past, How are you going to do that? Yeah, it's a great question and it's all of the above. | 02:00:44 | |
| That's the exciting part. We've had multiple tools that do certain things at a certain level. | 02:00:50 | |
| Now we have not that it's going to replace everything that we're already currently doing, but it will enhance it. | 02:00:56 | |
| And be able to look at all of those things together. | 02:01:02 | |
| OK. Thanks. | 02:01:04 | |
| So I talked a little bit about veg maintenance, but certainly the hazard tree program. | 02:01:09 | |
| Just the one thing that I'll mention here is really. | 02:01:15 | |
| We do our routine maintenance within all the right of ways. | 02:01:18 | |
| And then we look outside of the right of ways. So there are more hazard trees unfortunately. | 02:01:21 | |
| One of the beauties, I'm sure that everybody recognizes that we have the largest contiguous stand upon the Rosa Pine in the world | 02:01:28 | |
| that goes from young all the way up to the North rim of the Grand Canyon. | 02:01:33 | |
| And that is a fire dependent ecosystem. | 02:01:39 | |
| But because we all live here, we've removed that fire component that. | 02:01:41 | |
| Really makes for a healthy forest. I'm not blaming anybody for that. I'm just saying I live there too. It's a reality that we have | 02:01:47 | |
| to recognize and. | 02:01:51 | |
| And do what we can so. | 02:01:56 | |
| What we're doing at EPS is making sure that those right of ways are clear. | 02:01:59 | |
| And then everything outside of that right away, we're working with our publicly managed lands with our county. | 02:02:03 | |
| With our state to make sure that we remove as much as we can and thin as much as we can. | 02:02:08 | |
| All right, enhanced inspections, conducting line patrols. As I said, deploying drones. | 02:02:16 | |
| Using Lidar. | 02:02:21 | |
| Much different than the sheriff's lidar. | 02:02:23 | |
| But kind of the same concept we use. | 02:02:25 | |
| All of these tools to make sure that our. | 02:02:29 | |
| Inspections. As you see, they're doing an inspection on a tower. | 02:02:32 | |
| All the way down to our. | 02:02:35 | |
| Vegetation maintenance as well. | 02:02:38 | |
| And then improved monitoring. So we're using weather stations and leveraging our cameras to quickly. | 02:02:42 | |
| Monitor fires I would say. | 02:02:48 | |
| Versus detect. | 02:02:51 | |
| We're not in the detection business, none of these cameras that are monitored 24/7. | 02:02:52 | |
| But when we do get a fire reported to. | 02:02:57 | |
| WSA model. | 02:03:01 | |
| That comes directly from Irwin system, which is the CAD dispatch for. | 02:03:03 | |
| All the fire services across the state. | 02:03:08 | |
| Then we can go and look and see what the potential impact to our line is. | 02:03:11 | |
| So all of these weather stations and cameras are sitting on our assets. | 02:03:16 | |
| And the reason for that is we want to make the best data-driven decisions. | 02:03:21 | |
| As we possibly can about reclosing, about the potential shutdown because of wildfire, About communicating to our first responders. | 02:03:26 | |
| And to our communities about the potential for that to come, we are not. I want to make sure clear. | 02:03:34 | |
| For the county is for the sheriff as well. We're not in the business of. | 02:03:40 | |
| Notifying customers of the wildfire. This is strictly for our purposes. | 02:03:46 | |
| But certainly any information that we do have. | 02:03:51 | |
| Through this, we will leverage that with the county. | 02:03:54 | |
| And Emergency Management. | 02:03:57 | |
| So wait, the. | 02:04:00 | |
| So basically you're going to have cameras set up on your lines in strategic places, yes. So what you're going to have and so | 02:04:03 | |
| that'll that'll those cameras will be accessible by you guys, right and so. | 02:04:10 | |
| How is the coordination between you guys and the Forest Service with their detection? | 02:04:17 | |
| Very, very good. We're integrated seamlessly with them. | 02:04:22 | |
| Even more so now with WFA and Irwin system. | 02:04:27 | |
| Because I know that in some lookouts now they have the cameras on the lookouts rather than people there. Yeah, and the difference? | 02:04:31 | |
| No, you're good then the difference for us is. | 02:04:40 | |
| We're not. In a lot of cases their cameras are sitting up very high on a lookout position and they're looking at top smoke as we | 02:04:43 | |
| call it. | 02:04:47 | |
| What we're trying to do is look straight down our circuit and understand what the risk is potentially right there. Now they can | 02:04:51 | |
| look out. | 02:04:54 | |
| But we have some blind spots that they don't have and we've got some blind spots heard. | 02:04:58 | |
| Cover some of those blind spots that they don't have, so certainly they're aware that we have them. | 02:05:04 | |
| And we're aware of the need and we'll share back and forth as necessary. | 02:05:09 | |
| Cool grid and hardening. I talked a little bit about this, I guess probably one of the biggest things that I would mention. | 02:05:13 | |
| Outside of which you can read on the slide. | 02:05:24 | |
| Is we have some, a lot of people have seen this, especially if you're driving from Payson. | 02:05:26 | |
| To pine. | 02:05:32 | |
| You see a lot of funny looking poles that have looked like chicken wire on them. | 02:05:34 | |
| It's fire mesh and the first time that we ever deployed it was on the Telegraph Fire here. | 02:05:38 | |
| We did a test right at Pinto Creek, I believe it was. | 02:05:46 | |
| Brian, is that correct? Yeah. | 02:05:50 | |
| Where the fire was on coming, we had just received this material. We hadn't even tested it yet. We had the ability to put it on a | 02:05:53 | |
| bunch of poles that were coming from the top. | 02:05:57 | |
| I don't know. Into a Creek all the way down to the first community. | 02:06:02 | |
| Yeah, short trance. | 02:06:08 | |
| And it was very successful. | 02:06:10 | |
| Simply put, this literally is basically like chicken wire. It either comes in a wire mesh or a fiberglass mesh. | 02:06:12 | |
| And the easiest way to explain it is it's got a material on it that's coded. | 02:06:20 | |
| And when heat a very low temperature about 200°. | 02:06:24 | |
| Hits it. It burns up like the little snakes that you use to light on 4th of July and it swells up. | 02:06:28 | |
| It excludes oxygen and therefore the pole doesn't run. | 02:06:34 | |
| So we're deploying that on a lot of really high risk areas. | 02:06:37 | |
| The replacement program and we're looking at even accelerating that further to. | 02:06:41 | |
| Some new construction projects. | 02:06:47 | |
| The modeling again, as you can see the little white wash with the lights but. | 02:06:53 | |
| When a fire goes into. | 02:07:00 | |
| That Erwin system automatically populates into our WFA model. | 02:07:03 | |
| Has an overlay of our system in our community. | 02:07:08 | |
| And it allows us to look at what is the worst case scenario, so this model. | 02:07:11 | |
| Runs based on no suppression activity, so again. | 02:07:15 | |
| It communicates to us with. The worst case scenario is. | 02:07:22 | |
| And allows us to forecast out one hour, 24 hours, 48 hours. | 02:07:26 | |
| The model actually produces movement. | 02:07:31 | |
| Based on three hour intervals. | 02:07:34 | |
| And that is combined with. | 02:07:38 | |
| A lot of information that comes from DOE. | 02:07:40 | |
| As well as historical information that we've put into the model from from APS. | 02:07:42 | |
| And from. | 02:07:48 | |
| Fire historical fires. | 02:07:51 | |
| Talked about our partnership, again very strong with all of these folks. | 02:07:55 | |
| Work very closely with emergency managers as well. | 02:08:00 | |
| The boots on the ground, as I'll say so our fire mitigation specialists. | 02:08:04 | |
| Are tied in with those. | 02:08:09 | |
| Fire resources that are deployed to these fires integrate seamlessly. | 02:08:12 | |
| They know what the risk is. | 02:08:17 | |
| Our number one objective is to make sure that it's safe for the firefighters to go in. | 02:08:20 | |
| And make sure that it's safe for the community to get out in the event of an evacuation. | 02:08:24 | |
| So along with all the other tools that we have at our. | 02:08:33 | |
| Like non reclose strategy. | 02:08:38 | |
| Vegetation maintenance, system hardening, all those things that we've talked about, we recognize and understand that the | 02:08:41 | |
| conditions are continuing to get worse, not better. | 02:08:46 | |
| Our wind and dry conditions, especially the wind event, are much shorter than some other states that have. | 02:08:52 | |
| Used PSPS as a tool. | 02:08:59 | |
| It's just not the way the wind blows here. It does blow hard and it blows strong. | 02:09:03 | |
| But not for as long as some other states. | 02:09:08 | |
| And some other utilities that had to use PSPS. | 02:09:11 | |
| We have taken. | 02:09:15 | |
| A lot of time and a lot of energy to make sure that we get this as right as we possibly can. | 02:09:17 | |
| When an event happens, So we've been spending the last year and a half. | 02:09:24 | |
| Particularly about the last nine months, looking very closely. | 02:09:29 | |
| With the WFA model. | 02:09:34 | |
| And the 200 worst weather days in Arizona. | 02:09:36 | |
| And correlating that with our circuit. | 02:09:39 | |
| Circuits, I should say. | 02:09:42 | |
| And then looking at the highest risk circuits that we have and then what are the worst? | 02:09:44 | |
| So in terms of impact from hide. | 02:09:48 | |
| Excuse me high winds and dry conditions. | 02:09:52 | |
| Those are the two main drivers. | 02:09:55 | |
| The other important thing to remember with PSPS, this is a forecastable event. | 02:09:57 | |
| So this isn't. | 02:10:02 | |
| Although our meteorologists, we have two meteorologists and the fire scientists. | 02:10:03 | |
| Looking at this. | 02:10:07 | |
| 24/7 365. | 02:10:09 | |
| Doing ongoing forecasts and one of these events shows up on the radar five to seven days out and we start to look at it and we | 02:10:11 | |
| reevaluate every day up to the event. | 02:10:16 | |
| So we looked at those 200 worst weather days and tried to figure out exactly. | 02:10:24 | |
| How many times it could have happened in the past? | 02:10:29 | |
| And at least template let's see forecast. | 02:10:32 | |
| How many times it could happen in the future? | 02:10:36 | |
| So that's difficult to do with weather as you know it's extremely dynamic. | 02:10:39 | |
| But we feel pretty comfortable with the numbers that are on here that. | 02:10:44 | |
| Our outages, including. | 02:10:47 | |
| Our inspections after the outage takes place. | 02:10:50 | |
| That you know, approximately 20 hours. I know everybody wants a number. | 02:10:54 | |
| Wants to hang their hat on a number. | 02:10:58 | |
| I just caution you that. | 02:11:01 | |
| You know, weather is super dynamic and we're going to make. | 02:11:03 | |
| The right decision based on that current forecast. | 02:11:06 | |
| And the current observations that we're taking in. | 02:11:11 | |
| That time, so going back to those cameras and weather stations. | 02:11:14 | |
| It's not based on something that's happening 10 miles away or even 5 miles away. | 02:11:18 | |
| We even felt that one mile away was not acceptable to make it. | 02:11:23 | |
| Solid data-driven decision. | 02:11:26 | |
| So that's why we're putting those weather stations on those 13 circuits. | 02:11:28 | |
| So, so your weather stations, are they going to be? | 02:11:33 | |
| Correlated with your cameras like the same place, so they can be strung out. | 02:11:37 | |
| More or they're in proximity. So on those 13 feeders that we have for PSPS. | 02:11:41 | |
| Will have a minimum of two weather stations and a camera. | 02:11:48 | |
| So one thing the government always went by, and they still do, still do today, is the Haynes index. | 02:11:52 | |
| And so, you know, it isn't just high winds or dry conditions or extreme heat. I mean, June, we have all that anyway. | 02:12:00 | |
| But it's humidity and everything else involved. And so is that kind of the same basis you're going to use is is that or how are | 02:12:07 | |
| you going to? | 02:12:12 | |
| I didn't want to get too deep, but I. | 02:12:20 | |
| As these people know behind me, I can talk about this forever. | 02:12:23 | |
| So be careful what you ask because I'll I'm not happy to entertain anything, but I'm very high level. We use FBI which comes out | 02:12:27 | |
| of the wildfire analyst. | 02:12:33 | |
| So FBI is fire potential index. Fire potential index includes hands. It also concludes 8 different things. | 02:12:39 | |
| We take that into consideration and we have an FBI score. Then we also take two other components, our meteorologists I should say. | 02:12:47 | |
| And look at those two and that is the burn index. | 02:12:56 | |
| And. | 02:13:01 | |
| Wind speed. | 02:13:03 | |
| So, excuse me, wind gusts. | 02:13:05 | |
| So those two are then calculated with FBI. | 02:13:07 | |
| And then there's a third one and that is P. | 02:13:11 | |
| So the wind peak really tells the story about the wind gusts. | 02:13:13 | |
| So if you have wind gusts that are sustained at 2535 miles an hour, but you have forecasted peak of 66 miles an hour. | 02:13:17 | |
| You've got to get somewhere between the two, right? | 02:13:25 | |
| And that takes time. | 02:13:28 | |
| And that is where we are starting to calculate the extreme conditions. | 02:13:30 | |
| So wind blows here all the time when it blows pretty strong. | 02:13:35 | |
| And it's no good for fire, as we all know. | 02:13:39 | |
| It increases the growth rate exponentially. | 02:13:43 | |
| But we're looking at is those extreme conditions where the potential for. | 02:13:46 | |
| Our wires to come down. | 02:13:52 | |
| Is where we're enacting. So a lot of those predictions wait are like for. | 02:13:53 | |
| An area, a big area like across the face of the rim or you know, your desert areas or whatever, they'll they'll they'll hit those | 02:13:59 | |
| indices. | 02:14:03 | |
| And they'll be pretty high there. Are you gonna go by that as a area as a whole? Are you gonna narrow it down to more? | 02:14:09 | |
| Specific parts of your line or how you do that, that's a great question. And that that is specifically why we're putting these | 02:14:16 | |
| weather stations on our circuits so that we don't have to rely on that. | 02:14:21 | |
| There are times the National Weather Service will issue a red flag. | 02:14:27 | |
| There are also times the National Weather Service will not issue a red flag that impacts our area. | 02:14:31 | |
| We have operational. | 02:14:36 | |
| Procedures in place when we do have red flag. | 02:14:39 | |
| We know that we have red flag in a certain area and national services, not what issue did. | 02:14:43 | |
| We put our operational procedures in place regardless of what they said, what they issue or don't issue. | 02:14:48 | |
| I'm not saying that's good or bad. I'm just saying that to your point, it's a very generalized big geographic area. | 02:14:54 | |
| So we're trying to get as specific as possible. | 02:15:02 | |
| To give you an example. | 02:15:05 | |
| You've got two feeders that are on the PSPS that is tunnel 14. | 02:15:06 | |
| And PJ excuse me. | 02:15:11 | |
| Preacher, Excuse me, I got so many fingers in my head I can't remember sometimes. So Preacher Canyon, which runs all the way along | 02:15:14 | |
| to 60, down to young, all the way up to Forest Lakes. It's a big area. | 02:15:20 | |
| Is there a potential for one to be on at PSPS and not the other? The answer to your question is yes. | 02:15:26 | |
| Got you. | 02:15:33 | |
| Well, you know, that's going to be a hard balance for you guys when you really get diving into that part of it. I mean, I don't. | 02:15:37 | |
| I don't know how, how it's extremely hard, but we understand that the consequences of not making the decision to do this is far | 02:15:47 | |
| greater. | 02:15:51 | |
| With much more risk for all of us. | 02:15:56 | |
| Of not doing PSPS. | 02:16:01 | |
| And it's really similar to our non reco strategy. | 02:16:04 | |
| So when we have a circuit that trips. | 02:16:07 | |
| And goes offline, we don't re energize that in those same conditions until we do a patrol. | 02:16:11 | |
| The difference is this is proactive. | 02:16:17 | |
| So we know extreme weather conditions are coming. | 02:16:20 | |
| The potential for the feeder to trip. | 02:16:23 | |
| And a wire to come down. | 02:16:26 | |
| Is too great for us to take that risk. | 02:16:28 | |
| Not from an APS perspective, and I can tell you this from from This is me talking. | 02:16:31 | |
| This is not this. | 02:16:36 | |
| We understand that risk. | 02:16:38 | |
| And the the risk that outweighs benefit. | 02:16:41 | |
| So having to take a few 100 or a few 1000 customers out of service in extreme conditions versus leaving them on and having | 02:16:45 | |
| something happen is far greater. | 02:16:50 | |
| Again, it's a tool that we hope we don't have to use a whole lot. | 02:17:00 | |
| We looked at the past five years. | 02:17:05 | |
| And determined that. | 02:17:08 | |
| In those circumstances, in those 200 worst weather days where those conditions are met. | 02:17:10 | |
| It only happened a few times. | 02:17:16 | |
| Over five years. | 02:17:18 | |
| So I can see from a liability standpoint, APS could be very vulnerable if they knew that one of their lines was very likely to | 02:17:21 | |
| fall down. | 02:17:25 | |
| And start a fire burn down just one house. | 02:17:30 | |
| Versus saying we're going to do something that will be inconvenient for approximately 20 hours. | 02:17:34 | |
| But it's because we have you in mind. I I can see where in extreme conditions not. You're not going to be doing this every time | 02:17:42 | |
| there's a the wind is blowing. | 02:17:47 | |
| But in extreme conditions, I think it would be totally wise to say let's turn it off because something's going to happen likely. | 02:17:54 | |
| Yeah, exactly. And I appreciate the comments. I think it's important to understand too though that we have gone to a great extent | 02:18:02 | |
| to. | 02:18:06 | |
| To figure out. | 02:18:10 | |
| Even down to patrol times. How long it'll take? Is this on foot? Is this by truck? Is this? | 02:18:11 | |
| By helicopter. | 02:18:16 | |
| Everything so. | 02:18:18 | |
| The ability to shorten those outages as much as possible. Like I said from the beginning, doing isolation points. | 02:18:19 | |
| As we get better at this, I think we can. | 02:18:27 | |
| Also cut down on those times. | 02:18:31 | |
| In the future. | 02:18:34 | |
| So it's where we're starting. | 02:18:36 | |
| 13 feeders on it. | 02:18:39 | |
| These are the estimations that we're making. | 02:18:40 | |
| That certainly will get better at it, The community will get better at it. | 02:18:43 | |
| And hopefully we won't have to use it, but we want to be ready. | 02:18:47 | |
| And use it if we have to. | 02:18:52 | |
| All right. I'll turn it over to Frank. Thank you very much. Thank you. | 02:18:58 | |
| Good afternoon, Chairman and board members. I really appreciate being here today. | 02:19:02 | |
| As we begin our communication and brainstorming over how this would go, I want you to know that your Emergency Management team was | 02:19:09 | |
| there at the table and and they have been, you know, excellent partners. | 02:19:16 | |
| And and that's what we want to be as a partner in this. | 02:19:24 | |
| As you look at the map here, as Wade mentioned, there's 13 feeders, 13 circuits. | 02:19:29 | |
| Across Northern Arizona. | 02:19:36 | |
| That you know, we're targeted for this and it was a hard decision I know Wade and team spent a lot of time looking at. | 02:19:38 | |
| Different areas. There are areas where we don't have to take out the full circuit. | 02:19:47 | |
| And just to add a little bit to. | 02:19:54 | |
| You know Wade's comments in the inspections from a forestry perspective and then also from alignment and troubleman perspective, | 02:19:57 | |
| those are the the resources that we utilize to patrol the. | 02:20:02 | |
| It constantly every year starting in January in preparation for this we have 237 fire what we call fire mitigation feeders and 13 | 02:20:08 | |
| PSPS feeders. So we're doing extra inspections on these to make sure that our equipment is hardened that we get the the right work | 02:20:17 | |
| done so that you know even with adverse conditions. | 02:20:25 | |
| Our infrastructure will hold up. | 02:20:34 | |
| And then in these scenarios that I'm sure the ones. | 02:20:37 | |
| That you're most focused on are those that fall within Gila County. And so, as Wade mentioned, Tonto, 14 and Creature Canyon 6. | 02:20:41 | |
| I I I think we're very familiar with these areas. Umm. | 02:20:52 | |
| And I'm sure. | 02:20:56 | |
| Janet will no doubt we we want to understand. | 02:20:58 | |
| You know, in a scenario. | 02:21:02 | |
| That we have to do this you know where. | 02:21:04 | |
| Where our route. | 02:21:07 | |
| How are we communicating through our incident command structures? How do we liaison with the county as you guys conduct your | 02:21:10 | |
| operations during a scenario like this and how we're communicating specifically? | 02:21:16 | |
| My team is tasked with how do we take the power out? | 02:21:24 | |
| Effectively. And how do we get it back on as quickly as possible once that window of extreme fire danger is gone? | 02:21:27 | |
| And so each of my teams this, this one having to do with our pace in what we call dock under the leadership of Joe Weathersby has | 02:21:35 | |
| looked at each of these areas, these troubleman and lineman know you know this terrain very well, they know our equipment very | 02:21:41 | |
| well and knowing that this. | 02:21:48 | |
| Can't take hours to patrol? | 02:21:55 | |
| So they sat down and in some cases there's. | 02:21:58 | |
| You know, between helicopter on trucks, side by sides, drones. | 02:22:01 | |
| We've gotten these expansive areas, but that we can patrol them within two hours. It's pretty impressive and and I guarantee if | 02:22:09 | |
| you were to ask these guys that roam this country frequently, they. | 02:22:15 | |
| They would have never thought you could do it that fast because it would seem like it takes 6 or 8 hours, but they've really done | 02:22:21 | |
| a good job. | 02:22:25 | |
| Putting together a plan. | 02:22:29 | |
| And then then along with that plan in a scenario like this, knowing that our resources are going to be out on the roads, they're | 02:22:31 | |
| going to be in some of these areas that we're communicating and in lockstep with any type of operations the county's doing and | 02:22:38 | |
| making sure that you know where we're at and and we know where you're at. That way we're not getting in each other's way. | 02:22:44 | |
| So I I wanted to kind of present. | 02:22:53 | |
| This section and then the other section of line as was stated is. | 02:22:58 | |
| The Preacher 6 area and so as you know also there the terrain is is pretty treacherous. | 02:23:05 | |
| Getting in and out of these areas with the utilization of helicopters and things like that. | 02:23:12 | |
| It. | 02:23:19 | |
| You know, lowers the the amount of time it's going to take us to patrol these and get these on in an efficient manner. The one | 02:23:23 | |
| thing I do want to bring up just so you have awareness to it is that we're we're turning these off so if a wire falls it won't | 02:23:28 | |
| start a fire. | 02:23:33 | |
| There may be a scenario where we do. | 02:23:40 | |
| Pull down or wire down, things like that. We will have crews, material, everything on the standby while these patrols are taking | 02:23:42 | |
| place simultaneously and and. | 02:23:49 | |
| But what I also want to make sure that's understood is that that may delay in some circumstances the power coming back on. The | 02:23:56 | |
| good thing is, is the sectionalizing devices we have on these lines is that if you know, let's say it's further on down the line, | 02:24:02 | |
| we can sectionalize it there, get this section of customers back on and then these customers, hey, we got to wait till we get this | 02:24:08 | |
| pulled back up the wire and the air and things like that. | 02:24:15 | |
| But we will be communicating with you the the whole time as far as that goes. | 02:24:23 | |
| Other than that, I I want to just make sure that you guys know that we're here to partner if there's something you're concerned | 02:24:31 | |
| with. I I know when we had the meeting with the emergency managers, we personally have our our APS has a list of medically | 02:24:38 | |
| monitored customers. We have an idea where you know some of our more vulnerable customers are and and I'm sure you know through | 02:24:45 | |
| Emergency Management you guys have. | 02:24:51 | |
| Line of sight to different areas and making sure that we're talking what's needed and just make sure we can work together as | 02:24:59 | |
| closely as possible. | 02:25:03 | |
| So Frank, a question for you. When you look at all these lines, you know this one and the one before how many miles is that lines? | 02:25:09 | |
| So I couldn't tell you on Tonto, but I know Preacher 6 is 138 miles long. | 02:25:18 | |
| It is 138 miles long, so a lot of territory to cover. | 02:25:25 | |
| In in very. | 02:25:32 | |
| Interesting terrain, beautiful terrain, but interesting, yeah. | 02:25:35 | |
| Yeah, exactly. | 02:25:38 | |
| So this between these lines, I think Janet, you told me once before that. | 02:25:41 | |
| If something was to happen, it could effectively. | 02:25:47 | |
| He had like, 6000 people. | 02:25:50 | |
| Yeah. So with with if you were to take the number of customers and this might not be exactly what you're talking about, but if you | 02:25:54 | |
| were to take the total number of customers on those 13 circuits. | 02:25:59 | |
| It's right around 13,000 customers. So even if all of them were out at the same time, yeah, that's all that's. | 02:26:04 | |
| I think the number I gave you I I added together customer numbers on these two lines. So OK so let me ask you this, what are you | 02:26:11 | |
| both the errors? | 02:26:16 | |
| From APS standpoint, you know to have power out in the winter time is one thing. | 02:26:22 | |
| Have power out in the some time is another. | 02:26:28 | |
| And so is there going to be any programs or anything like that out there from your guys standpoint that people could? | 02:26:31 | |
| Applied to to help fix things that. | 02:26:38 | |
| May not come back up, ice boxes, air conditioning units, things like that, I mean. | 02:26:42 | |
| Do you see what I'm saying or what I'm asking? | 02:26:47 | |
| I mean to me it is like. | 02:26:51 | |
| There's a little bit of a difference to me because in the winter time it's usually a tree falls across the lines because it's | 02:26:55 | |
| weighted down with snow and the wind blows in there. | 02:26:59 | |
| But here you're physically looking at we're going to flip the switch because of this. | 02:27:04 | |
| And so there's going to be some issues with. | 02:27:10 | |
| People's personal. | 02:27:14 | |
| Household appliances, things like that. | 02:27:17 | |
| It is. Are you guys thinking anything like this or? | 02:27:20 | |
| I haven't heard discussions along the type of program you're outlining right now, Woody, but super decline. But one of the things | 02:27:25 | |
| that as Wade mentioned, these are predictable, these are going to be predictable, so. | 02:27:32 | |
| I'm going to go to the next slide. | 02:27:39 | |
| And help if I need it. These are going to be predictable, so we're going to start talking to our customers several days in | 02:27:43 | |
| advance, so. | 02:27:47 | |
| You know, four to five days before we're going to have a sense that there's a possibility that we're going to have. | 02:27:53 | |
| Weather conditions, that will mean we'll need to call a public public safety power shutdown. So our first point of contact is | 02:27:59 | |
| going to be with our Emergency Management partners. | 02:28:04 | |
| And then we're going to start talking to our customers and they're going to be getting daily communication from us saying we think | 02:28:10 | |
| this is coming, the weather is, you know, the weather shaking up that way. Be prepared. Everything we're going to do is push | 02:28:16 | |
| preparedness. And I think what we can do maybe to mitigate what you're asking about Woody, is make sure that we're including in | 02:28:22 | |
| that messaging. | 02:28:27 | |
| Unplug. You know if we have to call one of these. Unplug your. Unplug your electronics. Unplug your, you know, whatever you need | 02:28:34 | |
| to unplug to protect it. | 02:28:39 | |
| And I think that's probably how we would approach that. But as I said, every day leading up to one of these, we're going to be | 02:28:44 | |
| talking to our customers and we're going to be sending them text messages. We'll be doing e-mail. We'll be doing some phone calls | 02:28:49 | |
| to our very vulnerable customers, making sure that they're prepared if they've got to get more oxygen on hand, whatever it might | 02:28:55 | |
| be. | 02:29:01 | |
| With that and then during the outage we'll be communicating and it could come that you know, two days out, one day out, we say | 02:29:08 | |
| weather conditions have changed. We're calling off that warning. | 02:29:13 | |
| One of the things that we're doing and focused on right now, and I think it's something that your emergency managers are | 02:29:20 | |
| constantly focused on is. | 02:29:24 | |
| We're only as good at communicating if we have contact information. So we are really pushing for people to sign up, make sure they | 02:29:28 | |
| go in and sign up so we have good contact information for them. We're also actually trying to as we're messaging that we're also | 02:29:35 | |
| messaging make sure you sign up for your county alert system and we're giving. | 02:29:42 | |
| E-mail and website We're giving information to drive them to your site so that they'll sign up for your alert system. | 02:29:51 | |
| So that's a big focus of ours right now. | 02:29:58 | |
| So there was Once Upon a time, Janet, when you'd have, you know, I grew up in young, so I'm really used to power outages. I mean | 02:30:01 | |
| that it'd be, it wouldn't be for 20 hours, it'd be for a week or so at a time, you know, normally always in the winter time. | 02:30:08 | |
| People aren't accustomed to that these days. | 02:30:17 | |
| In paragraph, when you guys are testing your generator and the power is flickering on and off, people get really excited. | 02:30:20 | |
| You know and and I just I just see that being. | 02:30:27 | |
| Kind of a big issue. I mean, even though we try to put it out there, you try to warn them, you try to prepare them for it. | 02:30:32 | |
| I don't know that a lot of people really understand that. And then we have the older people that are on some kind of medical | 02:30:40 | |
| equipment. | 02:30:43 | |
| So that isn't going to work. | 02:30:48 | |
| On top of that. | 02:30:51 | |
| In the summertime, like we're talking, we're talking the month of June. A lot of it is the best chance. You know it's 105° in | 02:30:53 | |
| young. | 02:30:56 | |
| And so there's there's some really. | 02:31:01 | |
| Really convict concerns and I don't know how. I mean, we try our best to help. | 02:31:05 | |
| Prepare people however we can. | 02:31:12 | |
| But you know, there's going to be some no big concerns on for some of these people. | 02:31:14 | |
| Yeah, I just add. So in the research that we did our. | 02:31:22 | |
| Our biggest wind events that happened over those 200 worst days? | 02:31:27 | |
| Were actually sandwiched in between those heat. | 02:31:31 | |
| Waves that we have. So typically it's. | 02:31:34 | |
| It's it's April to the end of May, and then you have the monsoons come on and then you have another windy event that happens after | 02:31:36 | |
| the monsoons. So yeah, the wind isn't your only factor, correct? | 02:31:42 | |
| Yeah, wind is not the only factor, but if. | 02:31:49 | |
| And that's also why we're. | 02:31:52 | |
| Forecasting that we'll be able to use this tool. | 02:31:54 | |
| Very limitedly so then when the heat is combined with that. | 02:31:58 | |
| It shrinks that window down even more, so I I think the biggest. | 02:32:02 | |
| Take away The most important thing is for all of us to be prepared. | 02:32:07 | |
| And that's why we're. | 02:32:11 | |
| Taking all the time to make sure that we communicate this out. | 02:32:13 | |
| That we're being proactive about it, getting out as much as we possibly can to make sure. | 02:32:16 | |
| People are aware, so that those vulnerable. | 02:32:21 | |
| Folks, vulnerable customers of ours understand that this is coming. And I know what you're saying. We understand it. | 02:32:25 | |
| No matter how many times you try text, e-mail. | 02:32:32 | |
| Mail Bill inserts whatever you possibly can. Commercials. | 02:32:37 | |
| Us being here today, whatever we possibly can, you're never going to reach everybody or you. | 02:32:41 | |
| Get them to click. | 02:32:46 | |
| Right. But we're trying to make sure that we get as much as we possibly can so that they're prepared. | 02:32:48 | |
| That's why the number one customer that we spoke to 1st is the emergency managers. | 02:32:53 | |
| Is they're better at this than we are? | 02:32:58 | |
| But this is their job. | 02:33:01 | |
| Not that we're pawning it off. | 02:33:02 | |
| Don't get me wrong, but we're trying to partner. | 02:33:04 | |
| And make sure that they. | 02:33:07 | |
| That what we're doing is going to have an impact. | 02:33:09 | |
| We understand that that there's always going to be an impact to taking away power and then this is the first thing that we. | 02:33:13 | |
| That I think of too. As soon as the power goes off, How long has it been up? | 02:33:20 | |
| My daughter's a manager at Costco whenever the power goes off in Prescott. | 02:33:23 | |
| The first poem call that she makes it to me. I tell her to call the outage. | 02:33:27 | |
| Hotline. I don't know. | 02:33:32 | |
| But we'll try to minimize it as much as possible. | 02:33:34 | |
| Yeah, It's just that the folks just aren't used to that. I know. I mean, lights go out and panic kids well, and we've we've seen | 02:33:38 | |
| that, especially as we've had new people move to more rural areas where they were used to, you know. | 02:33:45 | |
| Living in the city and the power could be rerouted quickly and their power was out for a very minimal amount of time. So we are we | 02:33:53 | |
| are cognizant of that. As Wade mentioned our first, the first folks we talked to were our emergency managers in the three | 02:33:59 | |
| counties. We also have been working really closely with the Red Cross because we know that there are some areas in Gila County | 02:34:05 | |
| through conversations with Carl and others that. | 02:34:11 | |
| There are areas where the Red Cross doesn't have volunteers, doesn't have an identified location and so we're trying to support | 02:34:17 | |
| and perhaps even expand some of the efforts that Carl and his team have been having. | 02:34:24 | |
| We're talking, we've talked with the Red Cross about how do we get a lot of APS employees and retirees who live throughout these | 02:34:32 | |
| three counties trained as Red Cross volunteers so that perhaps we can have more response if there is a situation like a public | 02:34:39 | |
| power, public safety power shut off or any other kind of emergency. So we're really focused. We don't have all the answers, but | 02:34:46 | |
| we've put a lot of time and effort and thought into this. | 02:34:52 | |
| And we're looking for feedback and you know what, what Carl thinks, what what challenges he's going to have, what you see so that | 02:35:00 | |
| we can continue to refine this program and do everything we can to support the communities. You know, that's a hard one, Janet, | 02:35:07 | |
| and you guys can shut me up anytime you want. But but that's a hard one because we all don't really know this is going to be like | 02:35:14 | |
| a work in progress. You know, we're going to dive into it up over our eyebrows and and then swim our way out of it so. | 02:35:21 | |
| I yeah, When I think about it, I just think about. | 02:35:29 | |
| About the difference in people in a lot of these rural areas, it's like, yeah, it's going to be tough. | 02:35:35 | |
| Yeah, it is going to be tough, but we also notice some of these communities are very resilient and. | 02:35:42 | |
| And and you take personal preparedness very seriously. So we want to capitalize that and and expand on that and do do what we can | 02:35:48 | |
| to support that. | 02:35:53 | |
| Janet, I I had asked Kathy to pick this up and I wanted to give it to you. It's coming up really quick, but it might be something | 02:36:03 | |
| that you guys are interested in. | 02:36:08 | |
| Because I'm pretty sure there will be a big. | 02:36:14 | |
| Amount of people. | 02:36:17 | |
| Oh, OK. | 02:36:20 | |
| I had not heard about this. So yeah, let us, let us look and see what we can do, because this is the kind of event that was one of | 02:36:22 | |
| the things I was going to offer and that I've offered it Supervisor Christensen's. | 02:36:28 | |
| Preparedness, fire preparedness meeting is if there are community events that we can come to, especially in a PSPS affected area, | 02:36:36 | |
| we want, we want to try to be there if we can. | 02:36:42 | |
| So, so I don't know how we can do it because in a lot of ways, unless we're sitting here in the work session, none of us three can | 02:36:48 | |
| talk. But but if there's some way working with the manager and our executive assistance to organize something for a lot of these | 02:36:54 | |
| areas. | 02:36:59 | |
| Now we could go into with Carl and Justin and you folks as well and and have these discussions with the neighborhoods. | 02:37:05 | |
| I for one would be all for it. If you've got community meetings, if you think other meetings we can take advantage of, if you know | 02:37:13 | |
| we'll we'll be there and this actually I'll talk to the team, but. | 02:37:19 | |
| This might be something that I can be down there this weekend to talk about. It might be a star. Yeah, absolutely. | 02:37:26 | |
| Yes, Sir. Yeah. Janet. | 02:37:32 | |
| 100 million yesterday, 112 years ago, yesterday was the sinking of the Titanic. | 02:37:36 | |
| OK. And they were not prepared for that? | 02:37:45 | |
| So they didn't have. | 02:37:48 | |
| Life rafts, for one thing, Or boats, and then they. | 02:37:49 | |
| Underutilized them, so 1500 people died. | 02:37:53 | |
| And so I look at this as it's a tool in your box, It's the life raft on the boat. We never want to use it. | 02:37:57 | |
| But it's there just in case we need it and it's going to be uncomfortable for some people and we need to prepare. And that's why | 02:38:05 | |
| I'm working with Carl for a station in Pine where people can go and be air conditioned or comfortable if need be. So I I | 02:38:11 | |
| completely agree that you should have. | 02:38:18 | |
| More tools in your toolbox, but use them sparingly unless you need to. | 02:38:25 | |
| So well, and I know, I think as Wade said, the way I've described it is we're being as surgical as we can. We are not, our PSPS | 02:38:30 | |
| program is not the same PSPS program that you've heard about in other states. We're developing this program to work for our state, | 02:38:37 | |
| our communities, our infrastructure. So we appreciate that. | 02:38:44 | |
| Other thoughts? Questions. | 02:38:53 | |
| Well to start with, I appreciate you guys, you know being here today and being coming to us and and. | 02:38:56 | |
| We have the ability to be a partner with you on trying to help out with this, that's that's really good. As a supervisor, I think | 02:39:02 | |
| my main goal. | 02:39:06 | |
| Going forward like I've talked with you guys about before too is. | 02:39:11 | |
| Is to work you out of this situation. | 02:39:16 | |
| We go in there and we start securing these lines, even if it's a line here, line there, but at least it's a start something. | 02:39:19 | |
| To start with and and I think working with the local Forest Service and different. | 02:39:26 | |
| State. I'm hoping that that would be a real big opportunity to get some things done to where maybe in the. | 02:39:31 | |
| Not too far off future, this will be something we're not that concerned about. | 02:39:39 | |
| So, and I think that's a. | 02:39:44 | |
| I think that's a real concern from a county standpoint as far as I am concerned when we're talking you know around 13,000 people, | 02:39:47 | |
| that's a pretty good lot of folks. | 02:39:51 | |
| And so. | 02:39:57 | |
| Change Mr. Yeah. | 02:39:59 | |
| If I could ask a question, you might have stated this already. If it's response has been stated then I apologize, but very rare | 02:40:03 | |
| circumstances. I think you explained at the beginning. Do you know how many it was like over the last three years? How often? | 02:40:09 | |
| This would have happened that this. | 02:40:16 | |
| Turning off the switch would have happened in either county to. | 02:40:20 | |
| Like the control Rd. corridor, the young corridor in the different areas. So we talked about a historical look back and that | 02:40:24 | |
| historical look back was over five years and in that five years we would have had, we would have had conditions that would have | 02:40:30 | |
| warranted a public APSPS event four different times. | 02:40:36 | |
| Wade, you know. | 02:40:43 | |
| Were they across all 13 feeders or do you have? | 02:40:45 | |
| More drill down on Tequila County. | 02:40:49 | |
| I don't have a drill down on Tehila County, but she's correct. There was 4. | 02:40:52 | |
| There was actually 5, but there was a study of all 13. | 02:40:56 | |
| So there was 5 events. | 02:41:00 | |
| So if you take the average, it's zero to. | 02:41:02 | |
| Zero to 1 is what it. | 02:41:06 | |
| Averages. I know you can play with numbers either way. | 02:41:08 | |
| But umm, yeah, just looking at the historical, that's what it was. So. | 02:41:11 | |
| It's a small amount, I can't guarantee that's what it's going to be in the future, but. | 02:41:16 | |
| That's where we started. | 02:41:22 | |
| So, so Wade, was that like like one time a year or was that like two times in one year or? | 02:41:24 | |
| Two years, we had 01 year. So if you average it out, that's what it came out to be. | 02:41:32 | |
| OK, Supervisor Humphrey. | 02:41:38 | |
| Yes, thank you all very much. As a company I. | 02:41:42 | |
| I have public meetings in town basin once a month and you your company has showed up there and helped very much with constituents | 02:41:48 | |
| who had electrical problems with the deals and you guys show up and you're they're using my meetings as a public outreach. So I | 02:41:54 | |
| thank you very much and I trust you a lot and I think this is a great program and the reason beings is because they're in our | 02:42:01 | |
| rural areas birds set it off. Lightning sets it off and and and elderly people all of a sudden their electricity goes up and they | 02:42:08 | |
| didn't know it was coming. | 02:42:14 | |
| Yeah. So if they're on auction, if they need AC, if they need something they didn't know ahead of time. | 02:42:21 | |
| So I think this is a great thing. Like I said, my first fire meeting we didn't have ready, set, go. We didn't even think about | 02:42:28 | |
| evacuation. So this RSO ready set off. You know how simple couldn't that be And it's going to happen. So if you if you need to | 02:42:34 | |
| prepare for an RSO. | 02:42:40 | |
| Get prepared. And we're not just it's not just gonna you're gonna be walking down the hall and your electricity's gonna go on. | 02:42:46 | |
| You're going to pretty much know ahead of time, so you're not going to walk down a dark hall. | 02:42:52 | |
| In an emergency and you didn't know it was coming. I so I think it's AI think it's. | 02:42:58 | |
| I think it's great forward thinking. | 02:43:04 | |
| And I I appreciate you very much for for your forward thinking and sharing it with us and working with our Emergency Management so | 02:43:07 | |
| the people know that RSO is coming so that we can work with the evacuation centers. | 02:43:14 | |
| And things and get the evacuation centers. | 02:43:21 | |
| Prepared for the off. | 02:43:24 | |
| It's going to happen you know and and so I think it's great forward thinking I I think it's it's. | 02:43:28 | |
| And instead of like you say, have damage to a line because of the wind is going to peak at such and such time. | 02:43:37 | |
| And then we've got a power outage that nobody knew was coming. Now you have to repair it. | 02:43:43 | |
| And nobody knew it was coming. | 02:43:48 | |
| Except maybe, you know the odds were coming. So I think it's, I think it's it's not a great thing but I think it has to happen and | 02:43:50 | |
| and I think it's great that now we have the ability to let people know. | 02:43:57 | |
| That it's going to happen and we're willing to help you any way we can. So let us know what you need it's going to happen. We're | 02:44:05 | |
| happy to help and and we'll work through it and go forward and and turn the lights back on on the 1 Crystal. | 02:44:12 | |
| I appreciate the comments and thank you very much. | 02:44:20 | |
| I do also appreciate that you mentioned RSO in a public meeting, so you own that from now on. | 02:44:23 | |
| Everybody had to get used to ready, set, go. They never knew what that is. What is that right? | 02:44:31 | |
| RSG, it's ready, set going. You know, we're not just going to come and tell you grab your dog, you got to go. It's like, OK, back | 02:44:37 | |
| your back, get ready. So yeah, this is pretty much the same thing. It's forward thinking and it can and it can help. | 02:44:44 | |
| In my opinion, in the long run keep people safer and and keep lights on so we don't have these emergencies and and create problems | 02:44:52 | |
| for ourselves. | 02:44:57 | |
| But it is a partnership and we want to make sure that we're with you guys all the way along and communicating to our customers. | 02:45:03 | |
| I I thank you very, very much. Thank you. | 02:45:10 | |
| Thank you guys. | 02:45:13 | |
| Yeah. | 02:45:15 | |
| Mike, Mr. Chair, if I might. | 02:45:18 | |
| Carl. | 02:45:20 | |
| What are we going to do to be ready for this? | 02:45:21 | |
| So I think the most important part from the Emergency Management standpoint is making sure that that notification takes place. So | 02:45:32 | |
| we've been working with APS on kind of coming up with some draft messaging and pre canned messaging. | 02:45:39 | |
| They're working on and also assisting with advertising our notification system to get more people signed up for ready heal alerts. | 02:45:47 | |
| So they're going to bring us into the loop once they're forecasting one of these days, so we can start talking about what that | 02:45:55 | |
| unified release looks like and. | 02:45:58 | |
| Assisting them, reaching out and making sure that we get a hold of people. Also, we've been tossing around ideas about some public | 02:46:02 | |
| awareness. | 02:46:07 | |
| Campaign items such as talking about what, you know, what devices people can buy to better outfit their homes. One of the big | 02:46:12 | |
| thoughts and concerns that actually came up in a conversation yesterday was, you know, if somebody has. | 02:46:19 | |
| A landline phone, but it's supplied by power, whether it be a wireless phone or any other kind of phone that's not just a, you | 02:46:25 | |
| know, straight to core landline. | 02:46:30 | |
| They don't have access to call on one unless they have a cell phone. Umm. | 02:46:35 | |
| So one of the thoughts is you know, promoting the people purchase battery backup surge protectors. | 02:46:40 | |
| So that they have that. | 02:46:47 | |
| That redundancy when it comes to communication. | 02:46:49 | |
| So we're kind of in the in the process of, I mean already have established A protocol pretty much for the notification portion of | 02:46:52 | |
| this. Now we're looking at more proactive measures, what can we do to make people aware to kind of soften the blow of losing power | 02:46:57 | |
| for an extended amount of time. | 02:47:03 | |
| So one thing that happens in young, I don't know if it happens in some of these other. | 02:47:10 | |
| Areas or not, maybe you know. | 02:47:14 | |
| A lot of times power goes out. Cell phones don't work either. | 02:47:17 | |
| So the majority of phones now since the upgrade to the 5G network for 911 access will actually utilize satellites rather than | 02:47:21 | |
| towers. | 02:47:25 | |
| The majority of times when you see cell phones not working is because you know tower access is affected as well. | 02:47:30 | |
| 911 access from. | 02:47:36 | |
| The majority of cell phones now will go straight to satellite and if there's not tower access, so that helps with. | 02:47:38 | |
| Part of that problem, but that's that's our top priority right now, is addressing that emergency contact, that access to having | 02:47:45 | |
| 911 for medical emergencies or whatever have you. So that is definitely a priority that we're looking at from every angle. | 02:47:52 | |
| Go ahead, Sir. | 02:48:03 | |
| And Carl, now that now that we. | 02:48:05 | |
| Know that this cat's out of the bag and we have a. | 02:48:07 | |
| A budget? You're coming up. | 02:48:12 | |
| I'm I'm not sure about how that works with Mr. Menlov and, but maybe if we have. | 02:48:15 | |
| A new challenge facing? | 02:48:23 | |
| Maybe we can put some thought into. | 02:48:26 | |
| What? What we need to do prepare? To prepare? | 02:48:29 | |
| And and maybe if it's going to increase the cost in emergency services. | 02:48:32 | |
| It's nice to know ahead of time before budget comes out. | 02:48:38 | |
| Absolutely. It's definitely something that we're looking at as well. | 02:48:43 | |
| One of the things that we've tried to kind of offset that in APS is actually a big partner in that it's kind of leveraging 2 | 02:48:48 | |
| campaigns at the same time state the governors moving. | 02:48:53 | |
| Very progressively towards, you know, extreme heat. | 02:48:59 | |
| And preparedness for that. | 02:49:03 | |
| So I've had several meetings with them, been a part of that campaign campaign. | 02:49:05 | |
| And of course, you know, not having access to power does present a risk with heat. | 02:49:10 | |
| So we started reaching out to some of our private sector partners for donations of any sort of equipment that we can give out to | 02:49:15 | |
| the public. APS is the first to step up, actually working on getting us some cooling towels. | 02:49:21 | |
| Which I myself have used them. They are fantastic, especially for long durations of outdoors. | 02:49:27 | |
| In in the extreme heat. | 02:49:34 | |
| So we're going to continue to work on that to kind of help offset that on the budget. But I mean, yeah, it's definitely | 02:49:36 | |
| conversation I'd be interested in. | 02:49:39 | |
| Talking about. | 02:49:44 | |
| I'll get in there someday. Go ahead. No, go ahead. | 02:49:49 | |
| So Carl and a lot of these remote areas. | 02:49:53 | |
| There isn't like Red Cross isn't going to show up. They're probably not going to be there. So we talked about this once about | 02:49:57 | |
| community involvement and having a community group that would more or less. | 02:50:03 | |
| Do that. | 02:50:09 | |
| What do you think? Are you going to try and put something like that together in some of these areas or promoted or from a county | 02:50:11 | |
| standpoint? How are you going to work that? | 02:50:16 | |
| So as of right now, we've been really pushing for recruitment with the American Red Cross since they have these. | 02:50:21 | |
| Kind of models and documents established for running emergency shelters. | 02:50:28 | |
| I would not be opposed to exploring the idea of. | 02:50:34 | |
| You know, either better bolstering one of our existing volunteer groups, or even. | 02:50:37 | |
| Reviving some of the old ones or establishing a new one, I'm definitely on board with that. We learned from the Telegraph Fire | 02:50:43 | |
| where, you know, we didn't take some public Flack from people saying, you know, why aren't you coordinating these standard | 02:50:48 | |
| volunteers? Well, unless they're vetted volunteer, we can't send. | 02:50:53 | |
| Stranger to somebody's home to assist. | 02:50:59 | |
| So I am on board and willing with basically anything that we can do to bolster our volunteer community because. | 02:51:02 | |
| American Red Cross is short staffed not only in our county but statewide nationwide. So if we have these. | 02:51:10 | |
| Days that we need them and their value resources are deployed elsewhere. | 02:51:18 | |
| We're we're stuck. So I really think that. | 02:51:23 | |
| As of right now, the big push is to. | 02:51:27 | |
| Promote people to enlist in this existing organization. | 02:51:30 | |
| You too. OK. Thank you. | 02:51:35 | |
| I want to thank APS for their presentation, Janet, Frank, Wade, Katie and I'm sorry Joe and. | 02:51:39 | |
| Brian, very good and thank you Carl for all of your. | 02:51:46 | |
| Collaboration and cooperation with the process. | 02:51:53 | |
| I will say in a general sense, people are not prepared like Boy Scouts are supposed to be prepared. They're not prepared for food | 02:51:57 | |
| shortages, toilet paper shortages. They're not prepared for not being able to buy gasoline or whatever. There's a lot of. | 02:52:05 | |
| Things that people think it's just going to always be available, all that and. | 02:52:13 | |
| Here we're talking about a power shortage short-term. | 02:52:18 | |
| Hopefully, but it does put some people at risk that are pretty vulnerable to not having all of that going. So it is important that | 02:52:23 | |
| we don't just Slough it off that we are concerned and what do we do? We educate our public. | 02:52:30 | |
| Possible this could happen, but it's possible every day of the week that that could happen, so we need to be prepared for just in | 02:52:38 | |
| case it does. | 02:52:42 | |
| One of the things I think I mentioned earlier is we are. | 02:52:48 | |
| Focused on trying to get people to sign up for alerts, but it's we also want. | 02:52:52 | |
| People that have. | 02:52:57 | |
| Medical needs, we need to know that. And sometimes they might sign up for our alerts or sign up in their account, but their | 02:52:59 | |
| account in our system isn't flagged as they rely on medical equipment. And so that's another big push we're trying to do because | 02:53:05 | |
| anybody flagged that way in our system is going to get personal phone calls saying we think this is going to happen. What do you | 02:53:11 | |
| need to do to get, you know, make sure you're getting enough? | 02:53:17 | |
| Backup oxygen tanks, what do you need to do to be prepared? We want to give them that notice. I just shared yesterday with Carl | 02:53:24 | |
| our list of medically monitored patient, our customers on the 2 lines so that he could take a look at it. Unfortunately, I didn't | 02:53:31 | |
| like the numbers. I wish there were. I I know there's more people out there than a very small number that are registered that way | 02:53:38 | |
| with us. So we're going to be focused on that. And I know Carl and I have talked about how do we kind of mesh our data. | 02:53:46 | |
| And make sure that we know where all these people are who might be impacted. So we are thinking those are some other steps we're | 02:53:53 | |
| taking. One other thing I forgot to mention is. | 02:53:58 | |
| When we a couple of days out from a PSPS, we think there's an event coming, we're going to start pushing that customers go get ice | 02:54:04 | |
| that we will reimburse them for ice. This is the process go by ice. And then when there is an event we will be setting up kind of | 02:54:11 | |
| we can't be in every community, but we're going to try to set up ice distribution with dry ice, wet ice Supervisor Klein Young is | 02:54:18 | |
| one of the areas that we know is. | 02:54:24 | |
| Not very close to anywhere. When you consider the roads you've got to travel so young is we'll try, we'll we're planning to get | 02:54:31 | |
| ice down into young. | 02:54:35 | |
| Dry ice, so, So those are some of the other steps and we again we want to continue to hear feedback so we can refine this and make | 02:54:40 | |
| sure that we're working together to support your residents and our customers. | 02:54:46 | |
| Thank you, Janet Supervisor Humphrey anymore. | 02:54:54 | |
| I'm good. Thank you. | 02:54:59 | |
| Super client. | 02:55:01 | |
| I think I'm tapped out for now. Are you good, Carl, No more to add? | 02:55:03 | |
| Manager Men love. | 02:55:08 | |
| Well, good. We're all good. Everybody's good, and we are a jerk. Thank you. | 02:55:10 | |
| Ah. | 02:55:22 |