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Thank you everyone for coming. I'd like to call this regular meeting Tuesday, April 16th, 2024.
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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
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Joe to see married couple they run U-turn for Christ.
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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
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Tammy, who will nervously lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. If you just say I pledge, we'll take it from there.
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So if you would, let's let's all stand.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
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And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation on God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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And then, if you still choose, would you bow your heads with me and pray?
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Papa, we come before you, and we thank you, Lord, and lift up this county supervisors meeting.
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We ask you to draw them close to you, Give them wisdom.
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And may your ways and Your grace be evident today in this meeting.
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We ask you to lead them in making the right decisions that align with what you would like to accomplish.
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In this county and through your people, Lord.
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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
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are in control.
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May all leaders seek your guidance in all they do. Surround them with godly counsel and with advisors who know you and walk
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faithfully with you.
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Lead them according to your perfect will. Let our leaders fulfill their God-given destiny and accomplish their assignments you
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have given them.
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Both today in this meeting and for the time appointed to them.
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Here in Gila County, Gila County look.
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Amen. I'm still new to the county. I still call it Villa.
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Thank you.
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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
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Supervisors and reconvene as the Gila County Library Board of Directory. So moved, Mr. Chair.
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And I'll second that, hey, and all those in favor say aye, Aye.
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Good morning. We have information, discussion and action to approve the renewal and acceptance of grantee agreement number GRA
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RC004-24-1209-01-Y2 between the Gila Regional Partnership Council, Arizona Early Childhood Development and Health Board, First
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things first and the Hua County Library District in the amount of $60,000 for fiscal year July 1, 2024 through June 3020.
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25 and good morning, Elaine.
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Good morning, Chairman, Christensen, Supervisor, Client, Supervisor Humphrey. This is our First things first Parent Education
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Community Based Training Grant.
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Renewal that began in 2011.
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This grant fosters and promotes parent training on the importance of helping children to develop pre reading skills that are
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necessary for literacy in young children.
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In addition to the parent training, each child age birth to five, who resides in Gila County is eligible to receive a book through
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the mail.
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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
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is possible through the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.
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This grant has a goal of enrolling 1300 children and distributing 15,600 books in the new fiscal year.
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We currently have 1017 enrolled and have distributed approximately 11,000 books so far to date.
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We ask that you approve the First things first grant renewal for FY25 in the amount of $60,000.
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You have any questions? I'll be happy to help. Thank you Supervisor Humphrey.
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I have no questions. Thank you very much for reaching out and helping them get all they can get.
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Thank you very much. Supervised client and neither do I Elaine, but thanks for doing this, it's a good program has been so
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appreciate it.
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Thank you and thank you, Elaine. I don't have any questions. With that, I'll call for Motion.
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Mr. I move to approve grantee agreement numbered.
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GRA RC004-2.
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Dash 1209-01-Y2AS Free.
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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
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will now entertain a motion to adjourn at the Hua County Library Board of Directors and reconvene as by Hula County Board of
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Supervisors. So move, Mr. Chair. Now second, all those in favor say aye, Aye.
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Motion carries Aye Item 2B Information. Discussion Action to authorize the advertisement of invitation for bids number 030724.
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Purchase of AR15 rifles for the Sheriff's Office and we have Sheriff Shepard and we also have.
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Miss White, good morning, Chairman, members of the Board. I brought the gun expert with me because I figured if you started asking
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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
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the purpose for this is to purchase.
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50AR15 rifles to standardize and the rifles that we have across the board in the Sheriff's Office.
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And with that, I'll take any questions that you have.
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Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey.
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I I have no question.
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Supervisor Klein.
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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
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some that were donated some 20-30 years ago.
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We have some military surplus which are, you know, all configured different and we have some that folks carry on their own and
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then of course some with none.
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So what we like to do with this program is standardize this across the board, standardize the training, the equipment, you know
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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
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situation out there that needs.
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That type of response, everybody's equipment's the same.
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We can throw you, you know, ammunition if you need it. And it all works exactly the same. Instead of having this hodgepodge that
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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
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start shooting them, you can send me an invite. Absolutely. You know, you're welcome.
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Yeah, I'll, I'll concur with that. So, um.
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Yeah, I think law enforcement needs to have the kind of equipment that they will meet in the field sometimes. And so this
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particular profile of a of a firearm AR15 is very common.
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Out there, and I'm going to ask Sarah White, I said. You know what Arkansas stands for?
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Automatic rifle? No.
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Armalite, there you go. It does not stand for.
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Does not stand for assault or automatic, OK?
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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.
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May I have a question now?
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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
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or send back, either to the military or to another agency.
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The ones that are personally owned.
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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
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have to go back to the military will be surplus to.
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You know by state regulation to one of.
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That the surplus agencies we have one that we work with pretty constantly on a constant basis that does this pretty well so.
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We'll definitely be working with them to see what their what the value is.
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OK. And and the money for the new rifles is coming from, it's generally it's general fund?
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General Fund. This is a project we've been working on and had in the.
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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
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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
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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
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right now we got what we what we need will work, what will be effective and we can go forward from there and.
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You know if there are changes in the future we can it would be smaller modifications instead of a across the board purchase.
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Thank you, Sheriff. No more questions, Mr. Chair. Thank you Supervisor, supervisor, Client anymore?
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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
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invitation for bids number.
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0302724.
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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
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2C.
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And Sarah White again information discussion action to approve an agreement regarding local orders work between the Arizona
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Department of Public Safety and Gila County Sheriff's Office in the amount of $502,326 which will include salary and employee
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related expenses for one canine Sergeant, 2 deputies at a cost of two.
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171.
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$1882 and funding for three up fitting and canine equipped.
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Chevrolet Tahoe vehicles at a cost of $230,444.00 that will be dispersed for a performance period of July 1, 2023 through June
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30th, 2025.
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Good morning again, Chairman, members of the board, if you remember a couple of weeks ago or a couple of meetings ago, we
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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
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about the border support funding that we would be getting from the Department of Public Safety. So this is it. It will bring just
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over $500,000 into the Sheriff's Office, which we have.
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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
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vehicles that were purchased for them.
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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
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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
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task.
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The Gila County Drugging and Task Force as well.
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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.
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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
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to get together to send officers down to the border.
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This was money that we had asked the legislature to redirect toward the sheriff's for the simple reason of the fallout that we
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have even being 100 miles north of the border from the activities down there.
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The the illegal crossing, the drugs that are coming across the, you know, money, firearms, a whole problem that's going on
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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
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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
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control over.
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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
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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.
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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
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and it's like wait a minute, we're we're having a hard time keeping staff here and keep things going here so.
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I thank you very much for clearing that up that they're not going to ask on each to go.
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And this is probably Sarah probably agree with me, this is probably the least strings.
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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
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continue this funding past this year.
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OK. Thank. Thank you very much, Supervisor Klein.
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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
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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
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time on your task force and.
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Have watched what your folks have done, just a few of them that's there and it's amazing.
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And so you can't help but think if we had.
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Yeah, how much would help too. So this is a really good thing I.
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Thanks for pushing for that.
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It just demonstrates to me the cost of not having.
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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
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tremendous uptick of a traffic stop turning into a major drug bust.
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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
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County and it's blight to our culture.
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So with that I will call for a motion.
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Mr. Chair, I move to approve the Arizona Department of Public Safety agreement regarding local border support as presented.
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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
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let's move on to item 2B. Information discussion. Action to ratify the Sheriff's Office. Electronic submission of four.
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FFY 22025 grant applications to the.
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Governor's Office of Hwy. Safety for Law Enforcement Projects.
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One is $25,000, of which $20,109 is for personal and 404,891 is for employee related expenses.
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#2 is $241,545 to purchase 2 unmarked vehicles.
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Three is $10,459 for lidar units and four is for $31,028.00 for inch.
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Into Excelsior desires.
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They enter intoxielyser. Is that how you say it? Intoxicated? OK, that.
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That's the word I've never seen before.
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9000 units to be used for speed and DUI enforcement. Adopt Resolution #24-04-03 and authorize the Chairman's signature on the
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certification form, all of which are components of the grant application.
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And Dennis Newman, Your look. Good day, Sarah.
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Leadership training in Phoenix. So I'm gonna step in for him and this is just the normal grant application for the Governor's
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Office of Hwy. Safety. If you remember last year they granted us overtime for speed enforcement throughout Hewitt County. So what
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we did this time is we put in four applications again for overtime for speed and DUI enforcement.
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Two unmarked vehicles.
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Lidar units which are for speed enforcement.
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And then of course, the three intoxilizer 9000 units which are used for DUI enforcement.
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So with that, I'll take any questions you have.
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Supervisor Humphrey, I have no question by the client.
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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
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work good.
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And.
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This is an update if an.
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Make sure I'm speaking correctly. I believe that we have an older unit, so the antioxidant riser 9000 is like the newest, latest,
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greatest. So we just put in to replace the ones that we have.
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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
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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
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the sheriff. So those are the portable ones. These are actually the.
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Like units that are in the substations.
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So when they come in to sit down, they're either drawing blood or putting them on the breathalyzer machine in the actual
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substations and offices.
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OK, cool. Cool deal. Well, thanks. Good deal. Thank you, Sarah.
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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
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electronic submission.
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4.
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2025 Grant applications to the Governor's Office of Hwy. Safety for Law enforcement projects and adopt resolution #24-O4-O3 and
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authorize the Chairman's signature on the certification.
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Mr. Chair, I'll second that.
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We have a motion and a second to approve those in favor. Say aye Thank you, Sarah. Item 2 E Information Discussion. Action to
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authorize the Sheriff's Office, department, and submittal of a grant application for fiscal year 2025911 program funding in the
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amount of $141,732.00 to support ELO911 network infrastructure and services for the Basin Police Department and Heela County
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Sheriff's Office and include defined project request.
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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.
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Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the Board, this is the annual grant request.
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To.
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For your authorization to.
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For the grant this year, the.
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The amount of the grant is pretty stable.
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Because of our ATT purchase order for that, we're in our third year of a five year purchase order, five year agreement.
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And so there is a minimum cost that will be submitted.
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Which is the 140,000.
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$732.00 Above and beyond that we will be asking for projects.
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And since I wrote.
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This item we have two projects that one for Payson and one for Healing County that I'm asking for an additional 911 seat.
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So that we right now Hala County has three seats.
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The Town of Peace and that has four.
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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
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to support that.
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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.
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And then for the town of Payson, whether they can continue with their same monthly cost or get have an increase?
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I've put in for both of those, the installation and a possible increase.
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For their.
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To support their additional seat, we'll see if the.
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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
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needing more people and we have increased our staffing and so we can, I can show that we actually need that additional seat above
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and beyond what we have right now.
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OK, so.
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The projects right now are looking at.
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$86,000.
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If as long as I don't add anything else.
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If anything else comes up though with my discussions.
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With the state I may be adding additional requests to that, but the projects are not necessarily.
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I I don't know if the projects will be approved. I do know that our base amount will be approved.
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With that, I'll take any questions. OK. Thank you very much, Professor Humphrey.
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I have no questions Mr. Chair, supervisor, Client.
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Deborah, do you guys have have pretty good luck finding dispatchers and whatnot and keeping them or recently we in this last year?
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About the last year we've had some really good candidates come in and we're able to keep them getting through training.
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So right now we have we have increased our staff by about four total.
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Five Beauty.
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In the last two years, OK. So it's, it's very, very helpful. We are still very understaffed.
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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
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with county management a couple of years ago when we brought on the town of Miami and the Tunnel Apache tribe.
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So when we brought on those contracts, it allowed us to create like a stipend for the dispatchers that we paid directly to them.
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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
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had four vacancies.
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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
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process.
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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
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made the difference. It did make a difference for them. Good, good deal. That's good to hear, very helpful. Yeah and considering
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that for the last.
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Since the Covic years.
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Our staff has been working mandatory.
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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.
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And so with these increased positions being hired, we will, we're on the road to.
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Changing the schedule to four 10s.
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So and what we have to do that over, you know, since it's 24/7.
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It's it's a little bit of a juggle.
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But it is getting better.
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So it's giving people better good, I would imagine.
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Yeah, I would imagine those 12 hour shifts is a little bit tough on people.
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Thank you for all that.
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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?
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We process approximately.
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The annual report, I believe, says.
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Something somewhere around 40,000.
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Calls are 40,000 calls are dispatched. Of those, about 25 or 9 actual 911 calls.
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So you know our.
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Our call rate has stayed relatively stable over the last few years, but because of our increased abilities and increased.
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Population. There's just so much more to do with with phone calls. Now there's text to 911.
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We're looking at.
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Right. The incoming incoming photos, incoming videos. We have not started that yet, but it is something that.
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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
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are quite a few additional bells and whistles that come with that. So it's not, you know, you really because of the mapping.
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Software's the.
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The alerting notification software's there's a lot more technical need.
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A lot of more technical tasks associated with one-on-one.
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Than they're ever used to be.
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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
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motion.
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Mr. Chair, I moved to authorize the Sheriff's Office.
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Implement in the middle of a grant application for physical year 2025 nine.
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11 program funding as presented.
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And Mr. Charles, second back here. We do have a motion and a second to approve all those in favor. Say aye, aye.
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Thank you very much.
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Item 2F is Information Discussion Action to Approve Funding Agreement #120-24 between the Arizona Department of Housing.
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And Gila County Public Health and Community Services Department to receive $150,107.00 of Arizona Department of Housing Community
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Development Block Grant Regional Account Funds for the period of February 1, 2024 through September 15, 2025 for housing
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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
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community service hat.
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And we are receiving.
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Your umm.
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Some additional funding from the regional account with the community development block grant. We've already received some funding
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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
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funding will allow us to do rehabilitation for approximately 5 low income to moderate households in Gila County and we have until
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September to actually.
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Utilize this 150,000.
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And we are doing, we have fantastic staff, we have a new staff member.
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Estelle is in the audience, but she has an additional person with her and they are doing a great job with getting.
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Into these households and getting through.
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The rehabilitation process. So we're asking today that you approve this so that we can.
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Continue and keep adding more.
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For rehab, so.
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Any questions? Yeah. Thank you, Paula. Supervisor Humphrey.
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Yeah, my regular question. This is certified. This is Money that needs to be certified. The contractor needs to be certified in
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order to qualify for these positions. This is the one that requires. Have we had any local contractors interested in being
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certified as of yet?
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OK, then I will and we do still have, I believe we are going to have, are we having a work session on the.
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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.
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Yeah, we can get with Mr. O'Driscoll on that. I think he's going up, was kind of.
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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
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contractors that we use.
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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
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years.
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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
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actually get payment. So I mean 20 years of experience doing it.
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You know, does pay off, so.
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Yeah, and I mean it's it's just a long process I believe and it's very tedious, but.
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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
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contractors.
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Interested in taking part?
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In some of this funding that could stay in Hill County, so.
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That's that that that's my only question and and.
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I appreciate all you do. Thank you.
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Supervisor Klein.
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Paul, was there any other money out there we can get?
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How much more do you?
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Every meeting I think you just keep us a little little place on the agenda because they just keep. We ask, they usually fulfill
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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
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before you almost every meeting. So no, it's great, it's fabulous. It is a lot of work.
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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
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little difficult but yeah any money that.
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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
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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
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of applicants for these projects, right? Yes.
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Yes, there we do have a waiting list. We've been going through the waiting list and.
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Because people change, you know, I mean.
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Your status changes your situation, your income. So yeah, we do have a list of people kind of waiting to see, you know, if
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additional funding is coming, so.
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And.
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Active and you know they have different lists that they're running. You know one is being completed and one is being started and.
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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
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gun that's great. So.
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Yeah. Thank you, Paula. And this is just another demonstration of how ELA County.
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Budget We receive a lot of grant money.
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So it's not dependent on.
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Property taxes to.
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Well, that's probably almost 2/3 of our budget.
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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
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motion.
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Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion to approve the Arizona Department of Housing and Funding Agreement #120-24.
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Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion, and a second, all those in favor say aye, aye.
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Thank you. Item 2G is information discussion action to approve Amendment #2, the funding agreement #203-24 between the Arizona
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Department of Housing and Hua County Public Health and Community Services Department Housing Services Weatherization Program to
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Use Low Income.
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Home Energy Assistant Program funding and increase the amount.
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Of the contract by 349,648 dollars.
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$0.68 for a total contract of.
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$776,079.68 for the period of July 1, 2023 through June 30th, 2024.
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I am here today to present the Second Amendment to Funding Agreement 2/03/24 between Hilly County and the Arizona Department of
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Housing.
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This amendment pertains to our Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
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The proposed amendment seeks to increase our funding by $349,648.68.
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This adjustment will bring the total value of the agreement to $776,079.68.
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This does not alter the time frame of the agreement.
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The current end date is June 30th, 2024 and this will increase our required weatherization units to 46.
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We are seeking your approval for this amendment as it will enable us to provide crucial weatherization assistance to eligible
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citizens in Hilly County.
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Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey.
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Would this money will go to 1 contracting firm?
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This money will mainly be spent through Advantage Home Pro, yes, because they are our weatherization contractors that we go with
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mostly.
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Because they.
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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
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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
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account in the year, You know what I mean? It's kind of worth the education.
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00:34:15
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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
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would, you know, could use an extra $1,000,000 a year.
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Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Klein. Stella, how many extra homes would we be able to do with that money? Did you say this?
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This will bring our required units up to 46. So it it increases it by 13 because we are.
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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.
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Yeah. But so baloney. She's 20 years of experience. She's got it down. Yeah. OK, Well, thank you.
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Thank you, Stella. With that, I'll call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve Amendment #2.
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To Arizona Department of Housing Funding Agreement #203-24 as presented, and I'll second that. We have a motion and a second to
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approve those in favor. Say aye, aye, aye, aye.
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Item Two Age Information Discussion Action to approve Amendment #4 to an Intergovernmental Agreement Contract number Ctr. 055258,
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with the Arizona Department of Health Services for the funding of Title 5, Maternal and Child Health Healthy.
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Arizona Families Initiative to revise the price sheet for the public health.
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Improvement portion of the contract to 48,000.
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$652 And we have Kaylee, not Joshua, no, not Joshua. Good morning. Good morning, Mr. Chairman, members of the Board. This is just
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a small adjustment to the price sheet for this portion of the block grant.
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This portion of the grant that I'm grateful to manage is where our community Health improvement plan comes from. So that's been
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something really great to work on with our community stakeholders. And in addition to that plan, we also have been able to develop
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the software that tracks our staff, education, all of our grant activities.
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For community members and then any community education requests that we've gotten. So this funding while small, has been has been
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great for our department so.
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Open any questions.
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Thank you supervisor.
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I have no questions. Supervisor, client, I'm good. Katie, thanks. Thank you. And thank you, Kaylee for that. And so with that,
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I'll call for motion.
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Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve Amendment #4 chairs to Arizona Department of Health Services.
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You know governmental agreement Contract number Ctr. 055.
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258 as presented.
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Mr. Chair, I'll second that, and we have a motion and a second to approve those in favor. Say aye, aye.
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Thank you.
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Item two I Information Discussion Action to authorize the advertisement of invitation for bids number 032124.
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Northern Gila County Water Storage System project Carl, good morning.
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Morning, Chairman. Board members, really excited to bring this for you. This is the request for bids for the actual tanks.
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For the northern Gila County water storage project. So we met with the Fire Chiefs Association, which also includes the FFM.
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And the Forest Service to kind of come up with the specs of adequate tanks that would replace the existing bladders with something
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a little more durable, long lasting. We got that quote or the request for bids together with exactly what we need to make sure
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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
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we're ready to go forward and seek bids for that.
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Any questions? Thank you, Carl. Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah. And and the amount of tanks that we were replacing.
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Umm, so this will be.
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Acquiring 56 tanks.
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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.
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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
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is what we, the association, deemed adequate.
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But again, it varies from site to site and how many other things are the existing bladders are actually functional. OK, yeah. So
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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.
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I mean it really varies and then again.
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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
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run them parallel just for the increased capacity until those ladders fail and then we can eliminate them as they fail instead of.
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Continuing the constant maintenance.
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Thank you. Thank you, Professor Klein. Karl, thanks for picking this up and getting back on at this is something we addressed a
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long time ago.
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And so first question is, is what kind of price difference are we going to see in our tanks now versus?
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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
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curious. I don't care about the bladders because we can't replace those, but the Poly tanks.
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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.
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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
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because anything over the 5000 gallon tank is going to require a wide load transport. And then also, I mean you guys are
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intimately familiar with some of these areas. That's not somewhere you want to take a wide load vehicle. So this also creates
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somewhat of a redundancy.
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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,
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so operate independently. But yeah, the price kind of with the economy has increased.
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So I I would guess that we're probably going to spend in the neighborhood on the tanks.
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325,000.
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But again, with the Biermark funding, that will help with that tremendously.
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Yeah, but the offshoot of that earmark funding a mystery.
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James can help me here, but that's a one to one match.
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Mr. Chairman, I surely Klan. This was congressionally directed spending.
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And I do not believe that there was any match, OK? He congratulated. Spending was up to $600,000.
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And so is she covering the costs, including transportation, installation and fully implementing the whole project. So there's
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plenty of money to cover all of it. So we still should be good with the 600,000 to cover the whole project.
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OK.
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What I was thinking, man, so I'm glad you clarified. I got a rain on everybody's parade.
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Still one of them match is good. I want to thank Marin for saying that's why I didn't have to.
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I still believe that this will be cost effective moving in the future because this is going to require significantly less
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maintenance.
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The existing bladders have been a victim of vandalization many times in the past, both from human and the wildlife that likes to.
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Tread on them and damage them.
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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
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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
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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
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awarded once we get the the approval for the tanks or the bids for the tanks, we can bring the the best bidder forward.
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And then we're ready to hit the ground.
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OK. And so what's our time frame?
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I'm fingers crossed I'm thinking we can.
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Get this done this summer.
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Fingers crossed.
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How about by the end of May?
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I'd like that if we can get this before the board.
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Facing another fire season that.
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That I think.
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Start going to explain under that realm why our bladders are in place.
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So the sooner the better we can get those going. I appreciate that. Thank you, Carl.
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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
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is 609,000.
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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
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call for the motion.
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The chair move to authorize the advertisement invitation for.
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Number 032124.
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And Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion, and a second to approve those in favor. Say aye.
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Two J Information Discussion Action to Approve Amendment number one to Collection Agreement number 070623 with the years on the
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Game and Fish Department to extend the term of the contract through August 30th, 2024, but then not to exceed amount of 284,600
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and $74,000.
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Good morning, Homero. Good morning, Chairman and Board members.
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So this item is to approve an extension of time with a contract that we have for the Arizona Game of Fish.
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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
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doing.
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And back in August 1st of 2023, the Board of Supervisors approved a collection agreement with the Arizona Game and Fish for the
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Tonto Creek Bridge project and the reason the board was asked to have make that approval.
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With that, the biological opinion.
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That was issued required a qualified certified biologist to monitor the construction footprint.
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At great crossing action areas and in areas affected by the proposed action.
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To avoid incidental take of the northern Mexican Garter snake.
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The yellow bill cuckoo and the southwestern Willow eye catcher.
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I did read a report from Arizona Game of Fish and they had relocated 17 snakes.
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Up until the point that I read that every quarter couple of months ago.
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They had they did not find that at that point any Mexican Garter snakes.
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So we have an assigned biological monitor there that is every day before the start of work.
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And they provide the monitoring as well as training and other things like that and it fulfills.
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Other requirements of the biological opinion.
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So they're going to be there till the end of construction. Again, the bridge is scheduled to.
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Be basically completed for traffic end of May.
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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
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Amendment #1 to this collection agreement.
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Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey.
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I have no comment.
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Supervisor.
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Thanks, Homer. We really don't have a choice but to approve this amendment, because without that person setting up there, we can't
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be building a bridge.
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And that's just the reality of it. So thank you for putting it all together.
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And thank you, homeroom. So they relocated 17th.
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Did they find any cuckoos?
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I I don't remember they being mentioned in that report, so I don't believe they did good.
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With that, I'll call for motion, Mr. Chair. I'll make the motion to approve Amendment #1.
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To Arizona Game and Fish Department Collection Agreement number 070623, as presented.
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Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion is a second to approve those in favor. Say aye, aye. Thank you, Humira. Item 2K, information,
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discussion and action to approve amendment number one to contract 120422.
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A Roosevelt Lake Resort Stagecoach Trail Improvement Project in the amount of $91,151.89, increasing the total contract amount to
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$761,226.89 America.
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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
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over to him, I would just like to say a couple of things. Number one, this is about a change order.
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But behind and inside of that change order is a tremendous achievement that the team went through. We turned this stone, I don't
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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
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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
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designed to. And with that I'll turn it over to.
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Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Board members. So Merrill mentioned this is a request to for amendment number one for the Stagecoach
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Trail project, which is has been completed now for several weeks.
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A little history back in September of last year, the board approved.
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Contract with.
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ISIS in construction.
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And that was.
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For $668,800 and that included contingency of 10%.
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Which was $60,800.
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So we had five change orders during the project.
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Totaling $153,226.89.
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That brought the total cost of the project to 761,000.
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$226.89.
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After we had deducted out our owners contingency.
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And a $12175 credit on some work from the construction firm.
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We need to ask for an amendment to the contract.
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For an amount of $91,151.
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And $0.89.
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We had. So on the change orders, we have 5 change orders total.
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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
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lower 2 water mains.
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We had to fix a couple leaks on the water mains.
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And so those total up to the five change orders that we had.
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So we're here to today to ask for an amendment.
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For this contract.
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I'll be happy to answer any questions.
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Thank you, Tom Supervisor Humphrey.
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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.
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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
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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
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is is amazing. And so I appreciate everybody's efficiency and working through difficulties because we went through property owners
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and had to had to purchase property had to get easements.
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And then water company owners change and that we put off time for for trying to work with those new water.
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Of owners to help us with the project and.
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And on and on. And it's just been painstaking, but staff, thank you.
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Very much for your continued.
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And and and making a project of success and just hanging on to it like a bulldog, like I say eight years ago.
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When this started so hats off to you and thank you very much and.
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I I yeah. I can't say enough. Thank you. Thank you.
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Supervisor client.
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Yeah, I echo the same comments.
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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.
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And it's good, I mean for all the.
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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.
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Very challenging project. Thank you, Tom. With that, I'll ask for motion.
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Mr. Chair, I haven't moved to approve amendment number one to contract, number 120422.
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With vicious engineering construction incorporated as presented.
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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.
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Item 2 Hour Information Discussion Action to approve.
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An agreement between Hill County and Cobra Valley Regional Medical Center, which authorizes the use of the parking lot adjacent to
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the Yule County Globe Rd. Yard located at 1001 W.
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How do you say that, Besich?
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Message Essex Blvd. In Globe.
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Romero.
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Thank you. This is an agreement that we're asking the board to approve between Heather County and Cobra Valley Regional Medical
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Center to allow the use of the Globe Rd. Yard parking lot.
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For the annual health fair that the hospital conducts every year.
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The agreement provides for indemnification and insurance favorable to the county. It satisfies the indemnification and our
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insurance requirements.
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And and that is a big objective for for this agreement.
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In exchange for allowing them to use the parking lot, the hospital will provide favorable public relations.
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For the county.
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And so there is a.
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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
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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
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disposition or use.
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Of his property, as the interests of the inhabitants of the county required.
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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
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to approve.
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In exchange for the use of the parking lot.
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At Cobra Valley Regional Medical Center will advertise the Hila County Partnership with the annual Health Health Fair. And and
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with that.
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We ask that you approve the agreement with Cobra Valley Regional Medical Center for the purpose of that additional parking at our
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Global Guard.
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For the annual health fair on April 20th, 2024.
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Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey.
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Yeah, I think that very much for working with the Copa Valley Regional Medical on helping them with their health fair. It's a
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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
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the in the community and and Gila County in general. So thank you very much for working with them on this.
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Supervisor client.
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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
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and those folks are all of our constituents.
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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
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who.
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But anytime we can work work through that and be able to pull something off like this, it's a plus.
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Especially for us.
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And it's a big, big help to our constituent soul.
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Thank you so much.
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If I could Chairman and Supervisor Klein.
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We yes, we actually, this is something that the County Attorney, Jessica Chabelli helped us put together and this is different
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than an IGA or or some other agreement that we have.
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This is is a little simpler.
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And it's an agreement that just satisfies our insurance and indemnification.
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And I look forward to utilizing this in the future and finding perhaps even an easier way to do this, working with our County
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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,
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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
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good deal.
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Thank you. Thank you, Humira. With that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve an agreement between
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Henna County and Cobra Valley Regional Medical Center as presented.
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Mr. Chair, I'll second that we have a motion and a second to approve those in favor. Say aye.
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Motion carries item 2M Information Discussion asking to approve amendment number one to contract number 010522 Dash One with Pace
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and Concrete and materials to extend the contract for one additional year from Sept from February 7th, 2024 to February 6th.
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2025 were they not to exceed amount of 154 thousand Zero $77.51 a Maryland.
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Thank you again. This is an amendment, Amendment #1 to a contract that we have with facing concrete for the purchase of double
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watch chips.
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It totals $154,077 and it will provide sufficient.
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3/8 chips to.
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Chip seal 18 miles of roads this year.
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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
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if we were to double chips, if we were to chip seal our roads every 10 years.
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So it's it's a it's an accomplishment by the team.
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It we will be doing chip chipping and double chip sealing and blow.
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I'm sorry, Globe, Strawberry and.
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Are the three areas that we're going to be and we're going to be working starting on May 13th.
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From the 13th through the 23rd of May and then starting up again in June from the 3rd through the 20th.
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And in the June timeframe will be at Strawberry Young and in the main time May time frame will be and go.
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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.
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For just the chip seal operation, it's around $30,000 a mile.
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And so again, it continues to be an efficient way for us to.
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Address our payrolls, and with that, we ask for you to approve this Amendment #1.
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Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey.
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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
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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
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the long run being able to take care of our chip shield roads.
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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
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attention for to maintain our other roads so.
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Thank you very much for continue to support.
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Letting us support you in shipping makes a big difference on our roads.
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That's all, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Supervisor Klein.
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Homeowners patient concrete the only one to supply chips or is there any other outfit or an outfit down here that supplies them
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or?
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No, there's there's various.
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A company that would supply chips, I don't remember the one that we that we.
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That we reviewed at the last the last time we went out for both, but.
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That chips are in the state of Arizona. The chips are offered by many different companies.
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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.
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I just would think there's somebody here locally that would be able to provide that.
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So when we when we chicken, strawberry and go and young, they haul for us.
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When we chip in tunnel basin, we haul ourselves. We could if we had the manpower.
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Could ship ahead of time.
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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
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want somebody else to be doing that.
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The chip sealing operation does take.
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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
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the road yard to handle some emergency calls etcetera in previous years and with everybody.
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And and and this year, because we've added a few folks in the last six months to our Rd. yards.
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Filled some of the vacancies, not adding headcount, and filled some of those vacancies.
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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.
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It's it's it's a decision for us to make in the future whether we call or or pay for the Holly.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Maybe we request for prices and are able to split up depending on the region.
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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
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and that the contracting that we go out would allow us to split the contract that way if if the price was.
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Who was listening to the county? I'd appreciate you looking into that. You know, it seems like recently.
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More recently, we're always getting the question of how are we spending money and patient compared to Globe or vice versa and
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things like that. And so to give both ends of our county a shot at something would be a pretty good deal.
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So thank you, Oma.
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Thank you, Humero. With that, I'll call for a motion.
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Mr. Chair, I moved to approve Amendment #1, contract number 010522.
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Dash one with pasting concrete materials as presented.
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Now second there, Mr. Chair Motion and 2nd to approve those in favor. Say aye, Aye. Thank you.
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To an Information Discussion Action to adopt Resolution #24-04-04, which authorizes the execution of a intergovernmental agreement
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#24-000 nine 581-I between Hila County and the State of Arizona.
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Acting by and through the Arizona Department of Transportation for the Golden Hill Rd. Sidewalk Final Phase Project. Good morning,
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Alex.
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Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Board. Thank you for having me.
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This is a request to adopt Resolution #24-0404 for the execution of the Internet Governmental Agreements IGA24-000 nine 581-I.
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So it's between the State of Arizona through the Department of Transportation and Beulah County.
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As you guys know, between 2019 and 2023.
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Gila County engineering staff worked on a sidewalk in Golden Hills.
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And through the course of that project, we found out that we're going to have a shortfall in funding.
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In order to keep the project going, we've truncated the project.
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Between Alberta and Elm.
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That project finished the summer of last year, and since then we've been searching for funding to finish that project.
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In January of this year, we received a Transportation alternative grant, which is a federal grant which requires.
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A lot of administration.
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So this IGA is.
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Between a dot and Gila County in order to administer this TA grant for us so that we can complete the project.
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So the sidewalk will go from university all the way to Main Street.
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OK. Thank you, Alex. Supervisor Humphrey.
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Again, hats off to staff for being project minded and hanging on to something like a bulldog. Like you say it started in 19.
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And it started construction and then there was some lawsuits because of utilities and things. But but you know thank you guys
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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
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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
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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
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being project oriented and and and.
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Continuing to to work at these projects.
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Be a lot easier sometimes to say we can't and you don't. So I appreciate it very, very much.
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Thank you, Supervisor Klein.
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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
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the calendar year?
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By the end of the calendar year. OK, good deal. Thanks.
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Yes, thank you, Alex. And with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll move to adopt resolution number 24/04/04.
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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,
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let's go to item 2O information discussion action to approve contract agreement number Ctr. 059886 with Frontier Technology LLC
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doing business as.
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Micro age in the amount of $57,899 and.
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$0.18 for the purchase of seven Cisco.
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Meraki 48 port switches and seven Cisco Meraki 24 port switches as part of the IT department seven-year replacement plan. Good
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morning, Carrie. Good morning, Chairman, Board members.
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We're looking to purchase 14 Meraki switches, 724 port and 748 port switches. This will help us update our equipment stay on track
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with our seven-year replacement plan. The old equipment will be used for training our technicians.
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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
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request we'll be making for the physical 24th.
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2024 fiscal year so.
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I can answer any questions you only have. OK. Thank you, Terry. Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. OK, Supervisor Klein.
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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
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welcome. Yes, thank you, Terry. With that, I'll call for a motion.
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Mr. Chair, I move to approve contract agreement number Ctr. 059886.
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With Frontier technology LL.
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DBA micro age.
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As presented.
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Mr. Chair, I'll second that.
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OK. And motion and a second to approve those in favor, say aye.
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Item 2P Information Discussion Action to approve Economic Development Agreement number 03192024 between Gila County.
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And the patient for rodeo committee incorporated in the amount of $20,000 we support as determined to be for the benefit of the
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public. And this is my item. And we also have with this the President of the Payson Rodeo Committee and Weil. Good morning, Dan.
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Good morning. Can you hear me?
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I can hear you just fine. Thank you and so.
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Sure, for Mike.
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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
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tremendous job and just to let you know how the split of money will be for everyone, it's 15,000 from.
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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
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Gila County?
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OK, oh, I got the request and I have that laying in front of you there.
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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
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would be broken out.
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Our advertising funds and this is how we will be using the the finances.
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We advertise with Gary Hart Memorial Rodeo and that's about $10,000 and the world's oldest continuous rodeo we advertise.
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Out of town for like $19,531.
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And this is what it does for the town.
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Is actually our occupancy and our room rates and our motels.
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Equates out.
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About 11155 people staying here for two nights or 23110.
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And if you equate that out with the AOT estimates.
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That comes out to about $681,000.
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That is brought back into the town and also to heal accounting also there is.
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The other attendance at the Rodeos.
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There's a total of 9500. Actually there was 14,000 people.
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They came to the rodeos last year.
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And of that amount, 7500 of those?
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We're from out of town.
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And they we calculate that they spend between 150 and $195 of fuel and food.
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And so that is approximately another 1.4 million.
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In spending for a total month.
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$2,081,450.
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In addition to the economic impact for the rodeos.
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All proceeds that we can't get distributed back to the community.
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And that, like I said, equated about $40,000 last year. It goes back to charitable contributions made to breast Cancer Support
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groups.
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And to those supporting our veterans and school activities.
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And then we have.
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Additionally down there.
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Exactly what the sponsorships are.
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For the rodeo.
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And our production costs.
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Are approximately $315,000 a year.
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Is there any questions?
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01:10:55
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Thank you, Dan, for that presentation, Supervisor Humphrey.
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01:10:57
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Oh, thank you very much for all you do putting this rodeo on and and I I have appreciated being a.
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01:11:01
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Part of that rodeo and helping sponsor and you guys to do that.
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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
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anything to the patient rodeo?
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They they do contribute in the way of their employees preparing the ground.
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And the police officers are.
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Actually we do a trade out with them, very similar to what if this is.
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For the county and sponsorships for the rodeo.
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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
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about 23,000 then for the.
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August Rodeo.
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01:12:00
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Well, good. Yeah. Then I'd, I'd, I'd like to thank them for helping you with the rodeo is.
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And and I've had people ask me that. So that's the reason I asked the question and.
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From down here, I don't really always know what's going on up north.
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And so thank you very much in town face and thank you for helping the rodeo as well.
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Supervisor Klein.
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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.
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You know, the amount of people you guys have up there and patient is absolutely A plus for the county.
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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
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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.
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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
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continuous rodeo. Really. The origins of rodeo began on Main Street in.
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Hasten and for you guys to continue on that tradition.
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Is really great, and the amount that we can contribute is multiplied tenfold a hundredfold.
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Thank you for that.
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And uh.
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I don't really have any other questions. I think it would be great if we could also have.
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A rodeo.
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Re established in the southern part of the county as we develop that property.
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As you can see, it really brings in a lot of people, so.
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With that I will call for a motion.
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Mr. Chair, I'll make the Motion to approve Economic Development Agreement number 031292024.
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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
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approve all those in favor, say aye.
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Thank you, Dan.
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01:14:04
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Thank you.
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01:14:06
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Item 2 Q Information Discussion Action to approve Economic Development Agreement number 03264 between Haley County and Veterans
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Helping Veterans Incorporated in the amount of 5000 to assist veterans of Gila County and their families, which the Board has
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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
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given in the past. Veterans Helping Veterans is a powerful group there in Northern Arizona.
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I'm sorry, Northern Heila County and it looks like we have representatives from them and so they do a lot of transportation and
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other things. I will let them go ahead and expand on the benefits that they.
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Are doing for the public, so good morning.
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Good morning, panel.
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My name is Rick again with veterans, health veterans.
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Last year, 2023, we were able to help more than 60 households with the emergency assistance is what we call it for utilities and
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you know.
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Emergency needs of the household. These funds go a long way with the the transportation and helping them.
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The families are the better and well.
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OK. Thank you. Any comments from the young lady?
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She does a lot of our grant work. OK, good.
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All right. Appreciate that, Supervisor Humphrey.
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I have no questions other than thank you very, very much for.
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For the for the service that you did and the service that you're providing now.
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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
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that as well and.
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We'll visit some more here in the future, so thanks.
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01:15:58
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Yes, thank you. We do have a lot of veterans in ELA County and.
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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.
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01:16:06
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Mr. Chair, I move to approve Economic Development Agreement number 03.
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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
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second to approve those in favor. Say aye. Aye. Thank you very much.
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01:16:27
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OK, item two, our information discussion action to approve Economic development agreement number 03122024 between Haley County and
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the George.
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Bellavado Junior Memorial Sports Association in the amount of $10,000, which will be used toward the construction of a meeting and
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exhibition building at the Elvado Park in San Carlos, which the board is determined to be for the benefit of the public supervisor
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Klein.
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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
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Wilbur pretty much all the time I've been in office.
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01:17:09
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Done an awesome job at this ballpark.
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And if anybody has a chance to go down and see it, I really suggest you do that and take a look.
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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
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at the park.
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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
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they have and and a place they can use. So with that.
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Entertain any questions.
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I don't have any questions other than you know.
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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
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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.
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In their sovereign nation, with with the help of the kids, I appreciate.
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Yes, good job. It's anything that helps kids get away from the.
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Keyboard.
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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
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Economic Development Agreement number 03122024, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of.
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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
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Information Discussion Action to ratify the Board of Supervisors approval.
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To submit a proposal to the Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity in the amount of $306,140.00 for Hema County Summer Work
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Program and approved grant agreement number.
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OEO Quality Job 24.
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06 in the amount of $306,000.
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$306,140.
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And I have Supervisor Klein and Catherine Melvin on this one.
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So I'll take the lead on this and Kathy will correct me when I'm wrong.
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This this was an opportunity that hit us when I was invited to a governor's round table in Superior.
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And there was, I don't know, a dozen of us sitting around the table with the governor.
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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.
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Projects or issues or whatever. And and they came to me, I was telling them about different things. Gila County, but.
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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
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eight years ago and it's really been going good and we have a good success and everything and.
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The governor doesn't say anything but her staff's right now.
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And right now, all the time I'm talking, they're writing, so we get all done.
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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
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to you guys about your youth program.
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So they did. They set it up on a Zoom call me and Kathy participated in that and.
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Asked us the insurance and outs of our youth program. The big difference in Arizona and with the youth especially.
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Is on the WIOA areas. They have a lot of money for youth.
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But the problem is.
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It's mostly for out of school youth.
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So like the kids that are going to school, they're not eligible to apply.
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And so there's these eligibility requirements that WIA has that a lot of kids can't hit.
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And I I've always said that that's just a.
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They're just hammering those kids that's wanting to get an education and by cutting them out of those programs, I still believe
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that and.
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We don't.
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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
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interviews and.
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And we put kids on board, you know, and the way we go, and it's worked out very, very well.
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So we explained all that to them and they really liked it. There was a lady that got back with Kathy and kind of.
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Up there I I would say kind of the head of the finance finances of WIOA.
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OK, Anyway, she went through it with Kathy, and Kathy and Mr. Minilov worked up three different options for him.
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The first option was to finance all of it.
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Pay for the whole program in HeLa County.
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And everyone was a partial and everyone was to put on workshops however it was.
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So what came about was she contacted us back and said hey.
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If you can spend the money by the end of June.
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We'll fund it all.
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And so, getting with Mr. Menlove and working out a few minor little details, we said absolutely we can do that.
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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
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last year we were able to put.
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About 60 somewhat kids in there. We'll be able to do that again.
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But also.
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We worked with the YCC crews, Arizona Conservation Corps through the Forest Service and helped finance and and put all that
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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
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have more money to to.
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Balance that out.
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In addition to this, a copper corridor down that other side down there against Pinal County.
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You get down there around Hayden and Winkelman.
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The only thing that divides us the counties is the highway.
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Well, there's kids on the other side of that highway that need the job just as bad as our kids on our side.
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And So what we've done seeing is this is oh yo money.
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Is that we said OK, now we can go out.
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And maybe.
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I guess I'll say this.
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Upfront solicit for some kids out of Kearney, Dudleyville and things like that that are looking for jobs because this is state
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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
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picking up some kids.
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That is going to mean a lot to those families down there.
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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.
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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
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with Kearney and some other places down there. We're working with the Pinal County Supervisor, Supervisor 30.
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And his staff down there as well to try and get the agreements in place to to work these kids so.
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No doubt we hit a lick on this one.
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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.
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And really maybe use it as a model to show like the WIOA programs which is federal to through the state.
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But show that, hey guys, you guys aren't going down the right path here. You need to change some things and get some
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participation.
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I was a chair on the WIOA program between Alcohol Apache and Hila County.
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That was an issue to find those kids.
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To work and our hands were tied.
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We couldn't get them, so maybe this will help that a little bit too and.
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We'll go from there. I'd be willing to take any questions.
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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
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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
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something and we had had a work session and.
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And Kathy took it over in.
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And started growing it and and and it's just great to to see when you plant a seed.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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try to place them with IT or place them in their interest of what they want their careers to be so.
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I I just.
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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.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you, Tim. Thank you too for doing this. You and Kathy both put a lot of effort into this.
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Yeah, it it has been a huge.
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Huge undertaking. I mean, Kathy's got down pat, so.
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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.
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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
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there too is this isn't something new to the county. The county had this back when Sherry.
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Long time ago.
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So early 90s is whenever I participated, yeah.
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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
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being one of them.
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And what was really, really cool, I thought about this when we started was when.
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Kathy and HR is working with these kids on the interviews to find out what their interests were.
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And where they were headed out of school and whatnot and we were placing people in the health department because they're
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interested in in nursing or doctors and.
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Putting them in the attorney's office because they want to go to law school.
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It worked out really, really well.
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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
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for the most part made it through so.
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Thank you all.
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And thank you. And with that, I'll call for a motion.
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Mr. Chair.
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I move to ratify the Board of Supervisors approval for the submittal of proposal.
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To the Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity.
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And approve grant agreement number OEO.
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Quality jobs.
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24-06AS presented.
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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.
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Item 2T Information Discussion Action to consider a sealed bid for the purchase of assessors. Tax parcel #205-05-003B and if
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accepted, authorize the Chairman's signature on a quick claim deed. Samantha.
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Thank you Chairman and Board Members. On June 25th, 1992 the Hewlett County Treasurer dated parcel number 20705003 B.
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To the State of Arizona and care of the Board of Supervisors because the previous owner did not pay taxes on the subject property
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for seven consecutive years.
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The lean amount for this property is $337.70.
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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
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tax properties via silk bid.
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Only an owner of land that adjoins a state needed tax property may submit a sealed bid for the board consideration.
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However, at the time they placed a bid, they must show proof of adjoining ownership.
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The board may consider selling a property for less than a lien amount from then adjoining owner.
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The subject property adjoins Hewlett County assessors parcel number 207050038, which is owned by Miss Vanita Molina.
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Miss Molina has submitted A sealed bid for the board's consideration.
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If the board accepts Miss Molina's fifth, she intends to request that the height county assessor assessor combines the parcels.
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Chairman, if I may open the seal pit, please do.
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I know it's OK.
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That's interesting.
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It's a cash bid.
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It is for the lean amount $337.70.
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Pfizer Humphrey.
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If you're asking for comments.
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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.
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Think it's a great thing and and and.
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You see a lot of blighted properties around Heila County. So any of.
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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.
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Supervisor Klein I am there too. What was the amount? It's 337733770. Yes Sir, it's for the full lien amount.
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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
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that, I'll call for motion, Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to sell assessors tax parcel #207-05.
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Dash 003B to Veneta Molina in the amount of $337.70 and authorize the chairman's signature on the quickly indeed.
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Mr. Chair, I will second that.
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Motion, and a second to approve all those in favor. Say aye, aye, aye.
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Very good.
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We are to item 3, consent agenda items. It is items 3A through 3G. Supervisor Humphrey, would you like to remove any of the
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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,
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I'm good. Hey, so then I will call for a motion for consent agenda items A through G.
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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
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say aye, aye, aye.
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Item number four is called to the public.
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Do we have anyone here?
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Globe that wishes to speak at a call to the public.
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Cassandra, how about you? No. How about you, Lisa, Tyler or what? Anybody.
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OK. Thank you. We'll move on then and we will offer Board of Supervisors and County Manager to brief report, brief summary. So
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we'll turn it over to.
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Mr. Menlo.
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Chairman, Members of the board, I do have a few items that wanted to present to you today.
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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
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a lot of effort to coordinate to help health and benefits fair which will be held.
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Here in Globe on Monday, May 6th at the Huey County Fairgrounds.
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From 2:50 PM.
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And on Tuesday, May 7th at the TCM Complex building.
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From again from 2:50 PM, so May 6th.
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Globe, May 7th.
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And Payson.
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There will be a luncheon provided for our employees. There's questions of.
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Departments say the lunches from 11 to 2 each day. Departments that they would please work with their staff to enable employees to
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go to the healthcare. It would very much be appreciated.
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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.
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And participate in this. It's not a it's their lunch time.
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And.
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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
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employees that we have that.
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We have really good employees with the county.
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The money that.
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Money that there's available through the state.
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Is not spent and that money comes back to the state and they're.
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In the housing deal that are saying we've got to have this money spent because the federal money spent by June 30th.
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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
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that you've heard today that you've been presented with and approved today.
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Is that the kind of staff stepping up and taking these programs and these projects under their wings?
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Give them to the constituents, to the people of Healing County.
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All these brands and things takes a lot of effort.
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As Kathy, I'm looking at you takes.
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Of time and effort to.
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To all the reports, the coordinating there were so many stipulations, federal laws, state laws.
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Grant regulations, stipulations that all have to be met and sure that we are meeting and spending the money the way they're
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supposed to be spent.
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And staff steps up and takes parallels. So I, along with you members of the board, want to express appreciation to them for all
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that they do.
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And ensuring that we are getting the absolute most amount of money that we can to the citizens of Healing County.
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You as a board have have been very progressive.
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That you have.
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Seen caught a great vision of the things that can be done for the citizens of Healing County.
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And that you have encouraged all of this activity.
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And you have set the pathway, set the road that we could follow.
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In order for all of this activity, all this, these programs that bless and insist people.
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You are set the example you have given direction you have.
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Given the resources, something that we're doing in the finance department is.
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That.
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Taken a position that already existed and repurposed it so that now instead of just aiming.
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Statement in the Ministry of all the grants because.
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She has been spending all overtime in ministering grants and hasn't really had much time to go out and get new grants.
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So we have a second person in the finance department that will be working with Amy.
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I'll incite her to help, Mr. Grant. We're also working to get others.
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Involved and assist with the grant administration, grant applications and administration events.
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So we are continuing to look for that as we go forward the money for.
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All the COVID money.
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Drying up and going away.
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And so, but there's still plenty of opportunities.
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To get grant money from the federal government and from the states, we need to continue to do that.
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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
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Telegraph Fire.
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Nearly half mile mile, it's just washed the roadway completely.
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And so Homer and his team, Mr. Alexander and his team in public works, has been looking for resources to find.
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A money to plan or to do the engineering and design for repairing that road cost for just design and engineering is nearly
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$1,000,000.
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Mr. Vela and his staff have put together a grant and.
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I think I've gotten.
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I hope I'm not stealing your Thunder.
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Homer, but have gotten maybe some tentative approval from the state Department of Transportation through the transportation board.
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And I know Mr. Bailey is planning to attend the transportation board.
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In Buckeye on Friday.
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To again convey our interest and our appreciation to transportation board for nearly $1,000,000 to design.
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An engineer Repairs of Russell Rd. For access to the great recreation area that we have here South of Globe in the Pinal
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Mountains.
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I do also want to make you aware and express appreciation to you and our County Sheriff.
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Recently or been an ongoing long term lawsuit from Greenlee County that the sheriff in Greenlee County has.
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Through kind of a nominal state statute.
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I expected that they could have.
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Any resources that the Sharp deemed.
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Necessary. This lawsuit in this case has gone on for a number of months and and and years.
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And the courts recently made a determination that you as the Board of Supervisors do have control over the finances of the county.
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And that's what we've always discussed and always.
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Stated that board super writers allocates resources based on priorities that you as a Board of Supervisors determine.
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Again and back to as progressives as you are investing in our employees and the different things you have, we have been moving
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forward tremendously express appreciation to Sheriff Shepard.
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He has.
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I think then the model of sheriff's in Arizona.
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That he has.
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He's progressive. He continues to work for ways that he can enforce the laws and enforce safety and security for all the relevance
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of Felon County and has done a tremendous job with that. It recognizes that.
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It's a big picture and works with the board and has been willing to.
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To work with.
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Management and the Board of Supervisors to ensure that we're getting the maximum resources for the Sheriff's Office.
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And doing it in a way that's fiscally responsible. So thank you, Sheriff. I really appreciate.
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All that you do in supporting Gillick County.
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And finally wanted to.
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Give you an update on the state of Arizona to the.
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The budget the state of Arizona had recently. The Finance Advisory Committee had a quarterly meeting just last week.
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And it gives us status because.
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As a county finance person.
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Lived through the Great Recession of 2008, 2009.
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And know how it is for the state to.
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Balance their books.
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Balance their budget on the backs of counties.
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And municipalities.
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The state would go and state.
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How they proudly balance their budgets while cutting revenues counties.
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And also adding.
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Expenses or hers?
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Putting more expenses on the council.
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So with the state budget and the deficits that they're facing.
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Latest numbers show that there is a.
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1.8 billion.
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Dollar deficit over the next two years.
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It's hard to say what the state will do.
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One of the things that I know that the justice is with our probation officers.
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That the probation officers state is not willing to fully fund.
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State state probation or collision officers have a real unusual funding. About half of the Gila County probation officers are
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funded by the state.
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Half of them were funded by the counties.
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And.
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As of this point, has not included included funding.
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Full funding for our county probation officers.
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And so it's really difficult. We recently heard from a state legislator that it's more important.
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For the state.
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At least one state legislator to.
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Fund their.
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Special interests.
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Than it is to fund their obligations to counties.
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And.
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I'll leave it at that that.
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The state needs to be recognized counties for who we are, the services we provide.
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And that they fully fund.
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The services that the county provides that are the state's responsibility.
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I'll stop there before I get further up on my soapbox and and.
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Want to go? But there's the state budget $1.8 billion deficit that is down.
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It was 2.2 billion at their last meeting in January and so, umm.
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Revenues have improved slightly. The whole deal of doing the flat tax for personal income tax is stabilizing somewhat the.
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Refunds that people are getting from their tax. Individual taxes.
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Or less so it is starting to stabilize on it.
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Income tax? Personal income tax.
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Refunds that they from the 2.5% flat tax.
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So things are stabilizing there, but.
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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
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over the next few weeks.
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And we will continue through county efforts and county supervisors Association Arizona Association counties to emphasize.
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That the counties are.
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Facing some of the same fiscal challenges that the state are, and hopefully.
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Keep ourselves whole to the greatest extent possible.
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That's my report, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Thank you, James. You have a lot of concern there. Supervisor Humphrey.
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Held a Roosevelt community meeting.
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On the 8th at 1:00 and after that I was on KQSS radio at 5:30 PM.
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And after that, I attended a Miami Town Council meeting.
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On later that evening at six.
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And so anyway, umm then on.
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On Saturday, I went to attend a candidate forum in Payson.
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And it was. It was interesting.
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There were four people speak and all of them all four speakers.
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We're running against incumbents and so.
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That was the.
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A different deal.
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I I wasn't speaking.
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Will hold a southern Heela County preseason fire meeting.
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On the 18th and so that's great started that.
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Again when?
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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
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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
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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
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accomplished for services there kind of let us know the areas that are going to be.
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Difficult if they do catch fire and the ones that are less going to be less aggressive fires.
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If they catch, you know, DPS for Rd. closures.
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You know, the water storage.
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Evacuations now the the ready set go. There's just been a lot of things develop over the years and and with our past.
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Fires and creating floods and stuff. Emergency services thank them all very much because they've all built a fantastic resume if
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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
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evacuations as Hila County has over the last several years, so.
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It's turned into a great meeting and and a lot accomplished into to help people be a lot safer.
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And and and move.
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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
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for emergencies and so.
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That's all I have, Mr. Chair.
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01:47:06
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Thank you, Supervisor, Supervisor Klein.
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01:47:08
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OK, so I'm sorry I couldn't make it to your fire meeting, but I was a little bit preoccupied, so.
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The fire meetings are always good.
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01:47:18
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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
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convey the.
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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.
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The Senate hopefully will be addressing that soon.
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And then hopefully that'll be wrapping it up.
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So we're really, really close and.
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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
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it gets gets over the finish line.
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01:47:57
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Here this last week there at the Vet center, there's been a group of about 20 plus people.
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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
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everything else like that went really, really well as far as I know. I heard really good things about the site and and whatnot,
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so.
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They're they're gone now. They left Monday, I believe it was.
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01:48:26
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And then like I said earlier on the summer work, we've been working with Pinellas County agencies on our youth program. We're
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going to continue to do that.
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01:48:35
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And that should be good to go here pretty quick. And then this week I'll be at the small county CSA executive meeting.
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01:48:40
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I'm in running for the WIR board.
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01:48:50
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Position and that is the.
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01:48:54
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Voting position on on WIR for Arizona.
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And so hopefully I'm hoping I can get in there on that.
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01:49:01
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Carry that on, Richard Luntz.
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The member on it up to now, Tommy Martin, was before Richard.
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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.
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01:49:11
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On the 24th April 24th, I've been invited to the Western Governors Conference in Phoenix.
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And what they've done is they've put together a panel.
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There, that I believe there's like six of us.
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That will spend a little over an hour question and answering session.
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On how we could go by go about.
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Reducing or helping smoke issues in these big cities and outlying areas.
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In the event of wildfires.
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And so that's going to be a real interesting topic. I'm really looking forward to addressing that and.
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01:49:55
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And being a part of that, I I think that would be really good. And with that, Mr. Chair, that's all I had.
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Big supervisor, Yes. You were missed at the preseason fire meeting. That's an annual event. It went really well, very well
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attended. It's not really about, it's not centered around the Board of Supervisors. We just host it, we accommodate it and.
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It's just amazing the amount of a.
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Collaboration that occurs at a meeting like that and I.
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01:50:31
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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
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much. But we have our sheriff's posse, we have the Sheriff's Department involved, we have our public works department involved, we
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have our Emergency Management involved.
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As well as others and.
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We have just recently.
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01:50:57
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Through Carl's help established a building up in Pine to become a new designated emergency center.
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And I will be using constituent funds.
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Make that.
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Better and more endearing, maybe a generator or something like that. So we are growing, we are planning the the whole bladder
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replacement system, all of that integral part of the fire safety concerns. What we heard from the Forest Service was that we're
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going to have an average or normal, whatever that means.
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Season. OK, not abnormally hot and windy or dry or abnormally wet, just average with an average monsoon. So I think, as we all
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know, I.
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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
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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
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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
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session.
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01:52:18
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OK, stretch our legs. Thank you.
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Session, which means it's a lot more relaxed. We get to talk about stuff.
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Let me read it here. It's item number six information and discussion.
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No action regarding Arizona Public Service Companies 2024 wildfire mitigation efforts, including the addition of a new public
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safety power shutdown plan.
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And Carl, go ahead and start things off. I know we have a lot of people.
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01:52:53
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That's your this, this afternoon, Yes, good morning.
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Afternoon, Chairman, members of the board. So I brought some folks from APS here today to talk to you about the public safety
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power shut off program.
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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
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discuss this program with you. Thank you, Carl, and thank you, Janet Dean.
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For being here you did a presentation at our pre our season meeting.
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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
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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
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last several years about our very extensive wildfire mitigation program.
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01:53:43
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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
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have in our toolbox designed to keep communities safe.
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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
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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
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to Carl and Justin and the work they do in Emergency Management because.
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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
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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
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we ever do have to enact one of these.
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So.
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Which means he has responsibilities for northern Gila County. We also have today Brian Goslin, who is our N I'm sorry SE Division
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manager, who he's got responsibilities for Southern Heila County. And then we also have a member of our statewide administrative
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team that works with Frank, Katie Wells.
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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
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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
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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
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fire season.
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Thank you, Janet.
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Good afternoon, German and supervisors. Thank you very much for having us here today.
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Click to the next slide.
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And I I hope it will be as interactive as possible, so please ask questions.
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01:56:09
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Clarify. We have a lot of information to cover, but we'll try to hit it at a high level and then you all.
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Ask us questions based on what you think we're missing.
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01:56:21
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So certainly want to express to you the appreciation again for being here today and presenting our program because although we're
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01:56:24
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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
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01:56:30
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we hope it's a tool that we have to use.
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Very sparingly.
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But we do realize with the changing conditions.
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And both weather climates and our infrastructure that is important to have that tool in our toolbox.
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And that we'll use it responsibly.
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But to begin with, our vegetation management program really is the crux of our fire mitigation program.
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It all starts with clearing our right aways the best that we possibly can.
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To make sure that we don't have any grow into those utility right away.
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As well as potential for falling.
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Which I'll talk a little bit more later when I talk about our partnership with our publicly managed lands.
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But we're allowed to do things outside of our right away because of those relationships and some of those relationships that.
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Supervisor coin and I even talked about the beginning of this meeting and and.
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Attempting to widen some of those right aways where we can, or at least thin on them.
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Aren't are enhanced inspection programs?
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Continuing our maintenance inspections, we do not only our annual inspections or our on cycle inspections, so in other words.
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Sometimes those inspections are two, three, five years, depending on what.
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Needs to be done and inspecting the equipment.
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But also the vegetation inspections.
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And then we have inspections on top of inspections. So we are doing hazard tree inspections as well as our defensible space around
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poles.
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Which I'm sure you're familiar with. So we're clearing 10 feet in all directions of those poles, including vertically.
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To protect those poles for the oncoming wildfire because if we can keep the.
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Holes and wire up in the air.
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It's a whole lot safer for our first responders to go in and for our communities to get out.
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Improved monitoring.
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So we have invested in a.
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Program called WFA Wildfire Analyst.
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That allows us to do situational awareness.
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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
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one hour to.
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24 hours to 48 hours out.
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It's a pretty impressive tool. It has a lot of horsepower.
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We haven't even fully got the reins around it yet.
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In terms of understanding what we can do with it in terms of situational awareness.
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As well as helping our partners, but certainly is something that we'll be doing in the future.
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Grid hardening. I'll just mention a couple of them, but making sure that our systems are coordinated.
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And that we can isolate.
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And lower the impact to our customers as much as possible when we do have outages.
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So creating isolation points is very important to creating a better customer experience.
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And keeping the lights on both for.
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Our customers as well as our first responders because as well as you know a lot of.
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Radio communications.
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Water pumps, things like that, are all a part of that system.
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Trying to make sure that we have those isolation points in place so we can minimize the impact.
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And then the risk modeling, which is a part of an improved monitoring.
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So we can long term forecast. So Simply put, if we have money to spend in a particular area when Joe and and.
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Brian are looking at where would spend money.
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We look at that fire modeling to say, OK, this is the highest impact area within your service territory.
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Here's the best place to spend that money. So we look back at all of those things. Vegetation management, inspections, monitoring,
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grid hardening.
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These are some of the best places to spend that money.
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So questions here, wait, if I could ask, ask you a question when it comes to the modeling part, are you looking?
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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,
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from the past, How are you going to do that? Yeah, it's a great question and it's all of the above.
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That's the exciting part. We've had multiple tools that do certain things at a certain level.
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Now we have not that it's going to replace everything that we're already currently doing, but it will enhance it.
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And be able to look at all of those things together.
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OK. Thanks.
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So I talked a little bit about veg maintenance, but certainly the hazard tree program.
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Just the one thing that I'll mention here is really.
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We do our routine maintenance within all the right of ways.
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And then we look outside of the right of ways. So there are more hazard trees unfortunately.
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One of the beauties, I'm sure that everybody recognizes that we have the largest contiguous stand upon the Rosa Pine in the world
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that goes from young all the way up to the North rim of the Grand Canyon.
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And that is a fire dependent ecosystem.
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But because we all live here, we've removed that fire component that.
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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
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to recognize and.
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And do what we can so.
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What we're doing at EPS is making sure that those right of ways are clear.
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And then everything outside of that right away, we're working with our publicly managed lands with our county.
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With our state to make sure that we remove as much as we can and thin as much as we can.
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All right, enhanced inspections, conducting line patrols. As I said, deploying drones.
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Using Lidar.
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Much different than the sheriff's lidar.
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But kind of the same concept we use.
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All of these tools to make sure that our.
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Inspections. As you see, they're doing an inspection on a tower.
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All the way down to our.
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Vegetation maintenance as well.
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And then improved monitoring. So we're using weather stations and leveraging our cameras to quickly.
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Monitor fires I would say.
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Versus detect.
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02:02:51
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We're not in the detection business, none of these cameras that are monitored 24/7.
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But when we do get a fire reported to.
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WSA model.
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That comes directly from Irwin system, which is the CAD dispatch for.
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All the fire services across the state.
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Then we can go and look and see what the potential impact to our line is.
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02:03:11
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So all of these weather stations and cameras are sitting on our assets.
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And the reason for that is we want to make the best data-driven decisions.
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As we possibly can about reclosing, about the potential shutdown because of wildfire, About communicating to our first responders.
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And to our communities about the potential for that to come, we are not. I want to make sure clear.
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For the county is for the sheriff as well. We're not in the business of.
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Notifying customers of the wildfire. This is strictly for our purposes.
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But certainly any information that we do have.
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Through this, we will leverage that with the county.
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And Emergency Management.
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02:03:57
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So wait, the.
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02:04:00
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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
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that'll that'll those cameras will be accessible by you guys, right and so.
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02:04:10
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How is the coordination between you guys and the Forest Service with their detection?
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Very, very good. We're integrated seamlessly with them.
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Even more so now with WFA and Irwin system.
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02:04:27
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Because I know that in some lookouts now they have the cameras on the lookouts rather than people there. Yeah, and the difference?
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No, you're good then the difference for us is.
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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
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call it.
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02:04:47
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What we're trying to do is look straight down our circuit and understand what the risk is potentially right there. Now they can
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look out.
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02:04:54
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But we have some blind spots that they don't have and we've got some blind spots heard.
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Cover some of those blind spots that they don't have, so certainly they're aware that we have them.
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02:05:04
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And we're aware of the need and we'll share back and forth as necessary.
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02:05:09
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Cool grid and hardening. I talked a little bit about this, I guess probably one of the biggest things that I would mention.
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Outside of which you can read on the slide.
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Is we have some, a lot of people have seen this, especially if you're driving from Payson.
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To pine.
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02:05:32
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You see a lot of funny looking poles that have looked like chicken wire on them.
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02:05:34
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It's fire mesh and the first time that we ever deployed it was on the Telegraph Fire here.
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02:05:38
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We did a test right at Pinto Creek, I believe it was.
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Brian, is that correct? Yeah.
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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
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bunch of poles that were coming from the top.
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02:05:57
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I don't know. Into a Creek all the way down to the first community.
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Yeah, short trance.
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And it was very successful.
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02:06:10
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Simply put, this literally is basically like chicken wire. It either comes in a wire mesh or a fiberglass mesh.
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02:06:12
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And the easiest way to explain it is it's got a material on it that's coded.
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02:06:20
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And when heat a very low temperature about 200°.
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Hits it. It burns up like the little snakes that you use to light on 4th of July and it swells up.
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It excludes oxygen and therefore the pole doesn't run.
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02:06:34
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So we're deploying that on a lot of really high risk areas.
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02:06:37
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The replacement program and we're looking at even accelerating that further to.
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Some new construction projects.
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02:06:47
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The modeling again, as you can see the little white wash with the lights but.
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When a fire goes into.
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02:07:00
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That Erwin system automatically populates into our WFA model.
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Has an overlay of our system in our community.
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02:07:08
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And it allows us to look at what is the worst case scenario, so this model.
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Runs based on no suppression activity, so again.
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It communicates to us with. The worst case scenario is.
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And allows us to forecast out one hour, 24 hours, 48 hours.
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02:07:26
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The model actually produces movement.
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Based on three hour intervals.
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02:07:34
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And that is combined with.
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A lot of information that comes from DOE.
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As well as historical information that we've put into the model from from APS.
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And from.
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Fire historical fires.
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02:07:51
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Talked about our partnership, again very strong with all of these folks.
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Work very closely with emergency managers as well.
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The boots on the ground, as I'll say so our fire mitigation specialists.
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Are tied in with those.
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Fire resources that are deployed to these fires integrate seamlessly.
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They know what the risk is.
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02:08:17
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Our number one objective is to make sure that it's safe for the firefighters to go in.
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02:08:20
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And make sure that it's safe for the community to get out in the event of an evacuation.
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02:08:24
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So along with all the other tools that we have at our.
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Like non reclose strategy.
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02:08:38
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Vegetation maintenance, system hardening, all those things that we've talked about, we recognize and understand that the
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conditions are continuing to get worse, not better.
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02:08:46
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Our wind and dry conditions, especially the wind event, are much shorter than some other states that have.
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02:08:52
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Used PSPS as a tool.
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It's just not the way the wind blows here. It does blow hard and it blows strong.
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But not for as long as some other states.
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And some other utilities that had to use PSPS.
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We have taken.
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A lot of time and a lot of energy to make sure that we get this as right as we possibly can.
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02:09:17
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When an event happens, So we've been spending the last year and a half.
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Particularly about the last nine months, looking very closely.
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With the WFA model.
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02:09:34
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And the 200 worst weather days in Arizona.
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And correlating that with our circuit.
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Circuits, I should say.
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02:09:42
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And then looking at the highest risk circuits that we have and then what are the worst?
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02:09:44
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So in terms of impact from hide.
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Excuse me high winds and dry conditions.
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Those are the two main drivers.
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The other important thing to remember with PSPS, this is a forecastable event.
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So this isn't.
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Although our meteorologists, we have two meteorologists and the fire scientists.
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Looking at this.
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24/7 365.
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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
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reevaluate every day up to the event.
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So we looked at those 200 worst weather days and tried to figure out exactly.
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How many times it could have happened in the past?
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And at least template let's see forecast.
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How many times it could happen in the future?
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02:10:36
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So that's difficult to do with weather as you know it's extremely dynamic.
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02:10:39
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But we feel pretty comfortable with the numbers that are on here that.
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Our outages, including.
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Our inspections after the outage takes place.
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That you know, approximately 20 hours. I know everybody wants a number.
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Wants to hang their hat on a number.
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I just caution you that.
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You know, weather is super dynamic and we're going to make.
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The right decision based on that current forecast.
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And the current observations that we're taking in.
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That time, so going back to those cameras and weather stations.
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It's not based on something that's happening 10 miles away or even 5 miles away.
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We even felt that one mile away was not acceptable to make it.
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Solid data-driven decision.
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So that's why we're putting those weather stations on those 13 circuits.
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So, so your weather stations, are they going to be?
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Correlated with your cameras like the same place, so they can be strung out.
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More or they're in proximity. So on those 13 feeders that we have for PSPS.
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Will have a minimum of two weather stations and a camera.
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02:11:48
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So one thing the government always went by, and they still do, still do today, is the Haynes index.
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And so, you know, it isn't just high winds or dry conditions or extreme heat. I mean, June, we have all that anyway.
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02:12:00
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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
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you going to?
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I didn't want to get too deep, but I.
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As these people know behind me, I can talk about this forever.
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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
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of the wildfire analyst.
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So FBI is fire potential index. Fire potential index includes hands. It also concludes 8 different things.
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We take that into consideration and we have an FBI score. Then we also take two other components, our meteorologists I should say.
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And look at those two and that is the burn index.
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And.
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Wind speed.
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So, excuse me, wind gusts.
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So those two are then calculated with FBI.
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And then there's a third one and that is P.
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So the wind peak really tells the story about the wind gusts.
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So if you have wind gusts that are sustained at 2535 miles an hour, but you have forecasted peak of 66 miles an hour.
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You've got to get somewhere between the two, right?
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And that takes time.
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And that is where we are starting to calculate the extreme conditions.
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02:13:30
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So wind blows here all the time when it blows pretty strong.
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And it's no good for fire, as we all know.
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It increases the growth rate exponentially.
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But we're looking at is those extreme conditions where the potential for.
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Our wires to come down.
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Is where we're enacting. So a lot of those predictions wait are like for.
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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
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indices.
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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?
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