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| Like to say before we start we have Mr. Joe Alva will be sitting in for our. | 00:00:01 | |
| Legal representation? We're glad to have you. Umm. | 00:00:07 | |
| There's the Mr. Dalton is retiring soon and so there's some scheduling things there so and and we know Jessicas also kind of busy | 00:00:12 | |
| with babies right now so we're very happy to have him. So okay so it is. | 00:00:22 | |
| May 7th. | 00:00:33 | |
| 10:00 AM 20/24 and I'd like to call this meeting to order. And if you would, let's all stand. | 00:00:35 | |
| I've asked Roy Sandoval to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance and then Mr. Montague will lead our prayer. Thank you. | 00:00:41 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:00:50 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:56 | |
| Dear my father, we are thankful for this day and we're thankful that the Board of Supervisors able to meet and that they will have | 00:01:10 | |
| time to discuss what is best for the county. And we're asked to please have your spurt to do with them, to help them discern what | 00:01:15 | |
| is best and to have. | 00:01:20 | |
| Wise discussions and what is needed to do? | 00:01:27 | |
| Say these things and Jesus Christ. Amen. | 00:01:29 | |
| OK. Once again, good morning everyone we have. | 00:01:37 | |
| Pretty good list. So we're gonna get started right away. Item 2A is a presentation by the Arizona Auditor General's office | 00:01:41 | |
| regarding Hila Counties fiscal year 2022 financial and single audit results and findings. And start things off we have. Good | 00:01:49 | |
| morning Mr. Chair. Good morning Supervisor, Client, Supervisor Humphrey. I guess we're starting the day after the typo. This is | 00:01:56 | |
| the summary of the county's fiscal year 2023 Annual Audit Annual Financial report. | 00:02:04 | |
| And audit. | 00:02:12 | |
| And I'd like to introduce Melanie Chesney from the Auditor General's office as well as Dan Hunt. They will be presenting this | 00:02:13 | |
| morning's presentation. | 00:02:17 | |
| Good morning. | 00:02:27 | |
| Good morning, Chairman Christensen, members of the Board and County Manager Menlo. I am Melanie Chesney, Deputy Auditor General | 00:02:29 | |
| and Acting Director of the Financial Audit Division. I'm going to be presenting behind you. Thank you for having our office join | 00:02:35 | |
| your regular meeting today to present our audit results and findings for Gila County. Joining me today is Michelle Walters, | 00:02:41 | |
| Financial Audit Manager and Dan Hunt, Financial Deputy Manager. Before we discuss the county's audits, I wanted to refresh your | 00:02:47 | |
| memory. | 00:02:53 | |
| On the Arizona auditor general's background, the office is a legislative agency made-up of nonpartisan staff. | 00:02:59 | |
| We provide impartial information and specific recommendations to improve the operations and programs of state and local | 00:03:07 | |
| governments, which includes Chila County. We are well versed and follow several standards, including governmental auditing | 00:03:12 | |
| standards. | 00:03:17 | |
| Similar to our previous presentations with the board, we are here today in accordance with Arizona Revised Statutes 11. | 00:03:26 | |
| 661 D, which directs the County Board to require its auditors, our office, to present audit results and any findings to the board | 00:03:33 | |
| in a regular meeting without the use of a consent agenda within 90 days of the audit completion. This is a great opportunity for | 00:03:42 | |
| us, your auditors, to be in front of you to provide information about our work and to answer any questions that you may have. | 00:03:50 | |
| Now now, I will turn over the presentation to Michelle. | 00:03:59 | |
| Good morning. Good morning. | 00:04:07 | |
| Hi, good morning. Chairman Christensen, members of the Board and County Manager Menlo. | 00:04:10 | |
| Before I begin, I would like to thank all the County staff for the prompt attention to our request. Together with the County we | 00:04:16 | |
| established the report issuance deadline of March 29th, 2024 and due to the counties responsiveness we will be able to meet this | 00:04:23 | |
| deadline. So thank you for your efforts in providing us with our requested information when needed. Today we'll be we will be | 00:04:29 | |
| discussing our three required annual reports, the financial statement or the annual financial report, the report on internal | 00:04:36 | |
| control and non compliance. | 00:04:42 | |
| And the federal single audit report, as we have done in the past, we've emailed you each of you the links to these reports on | 00:04:49 | |
| March 29, 2024 when your annual reports were completed and issued together. | 00:04:55 | |
| The first report, the County's annual financial report, presents the annual financial statements in our opinion on them. The | 00:05:02 | |
| objective of the audit is to obtain reasonable assurance about whether financial statements as a whole are free from material | 00:05:09 | |
| misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a report that includes our opinions. It's wonderful to report that for | 00:05:16 | |
| fiscal year 2023, we reported an unmodified or clean opinion, which means the county's financial statements are reliable. | 00:05:24 | |
| The second report, the Report on Internal Control and Non Compliance, is where we report any findings and recommendations | 00:05:31 | |
| resulting from our audit of the County's financial statements. This report included five findings that Dan will go over with you | 00:05:36 | |
| shortly. | 00:05:40 | |
| Finally, the third report, the Federal Single Audit report, includes our assessment of the County's compliance with federal | 00:05:46 | |
| requirements over each federal program will require to audit. | 00:05:51 | |
| In the report on internal control over compliance with federal programs, the objective of these audits is to obtain reasonable | 00:05:57 | |
| assurance about whether material non compliance with the compliance requirements occurred, whether due to fraud or error and | 00:06:03 | |
| expressed an opinion on the county's compliance. Based on our audit. We reported one finding for fiscal year 2023 that Dan will | 00:06:09 | |
| review with you shortly. | 00:06:15 | |
| To commit fraud management not using internal controls and other factors. | 00:06:57 | |
| We did not identify any fraud in the fiscal year 2023 audits of the game. | 00:07:03 | |
| Sales taxes and county sales taxes. | 00:07:48 | |
| As you can see from the graph, the counties revenues for property taxes, shared state sales taxes, and county sales taxes have | 00:07:51 | |
| gradually increased over the last five years. Federal and state grants substantially increased starting in fiscal year 21 because | 00:07:57 | |
| of increased federal grant revenue directed towards the COVID-19 pandemic. | 00:08:04 | |
| Really Overall total county revenues increased $11.4 million from the prior fiscal year. | 00:08:12 | |
| As you can see from this graph, over the past five years, the counties 4 primary expense purposes consist of general government, | 00:08:21 | |
| Public Safety, Health, Health and Welfare, and Highways and Streets. While Health and Welfare and Highways and streets | 00:08:27 | |
| expenditures remain relatively constant between Fiscal years 22 and fiscal year 23, the general government expense increase of 5.7 | 00:08:34 | |
| million from fiscal year 22 to fiscal year 23 was due to progress on ARPA funded projects and the Local Assistance in Tribal | 00:08:40 | |
| Consistency Fund. | 00:08:47 | |
| Which was a new federal program for fiscal year 23. Finally, public safety expenditures decrease of 4.3 million from fiscal year | 00:08:53 | |
| 22 to fiscal year 2023 was primarily primarily due to a decrease in expenditures related to the flood mitigation efforts related | 00:09:02 | |
| to the Telegraph fire. Overall, total county expenses increased $5.8 million from the prior fiscal year. | 00:09:10 | |
| On this slide, we highlight the five year trend of the county's revenue shown in light blue exceeding the expenses shown in dark | 00:09:23 | |
| blue. As you can see from the black line, the county's net position is increased every year since fiscal year 2019. Most | 00:09:31 | |
| importantly, the county's overall net position increased by 11.4 million from fiscal year 22 to fiscal year 23. Because revenues | 00:09:39 | |
| continue to exceed expenditures, total net position for the county was 39.6 million as of June 30th, 2023. | 00:09:47 | |
| Which was an increase of 22.1 million or 126% since 2019. It is important to note that not all net position balance with spendable | 00:09:55 | |
| at the end of the fiscal year because $38.4 million is invested in capital assets and the and the remaining balance was subject to | 00:10:02 | |
| external restrictions such as grants and contracts. The county had an unrestricted balance of -35 million at the end of fiscal | 00:10:09 | |
| year 23. | 00:10:16 | |
| Finally, I would like to highlight the county's federal expenditures that are presented each year in the single audit report. | 00:10:27 | |
| Although the county received grants from 12 federal agencies during the fiscal fiscal year 23, you can see from the table that | 00:10:34 | |
| most of its federal expenditure were from the US Department of Treasury, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the | 00:10:39 | |
| Department of Agriculture. | 00:10:43 | |
| And specifically for the Department of Treasury, those expenditures related to were to the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal | 00:10:50 | |
| Recovery Fund and the Local Assistance and Travel Consistency Fund. | 00:10:56 | |
| You can also see that the county has consistently had a large portion of federal expenditures from the Department of Health and | 00:11:03 | |
| Human Services for the last five years. So now I will turn it over to Dan who will be discussing the counties fiscal year 2023 | 00:11:09 | |
| financial and single audit findings. | 00:11:15 | |
| Thank you. | 00:11:22 | |
| Good morning. | 00:11:26 | |
| OK. | 00:11:35 | |
| Our financial finance can be found in the report on internal controls and on compliance, along with the county's responses to | 00:11:36 | |
| them. | 00:11:40 | |
| We reported by financial planning through fiscal year 2023. It's important to note the county corrected One Financial statement | 00:11:44 | |
| finding from a prior year audit that initially occurred in fiscal year 2013. | 00:11:49 | |
| By completing its capital asset inventory and reconciling it to its capital assets records. In addition, County management revised | 00:11:56 | |
| its IT policies and procedures and began implementing them during 2023, which reduced the number of IT recommendations. | 00:12:03 | |
| I would like to compliment the IT staff and management for their development of some of the best IT policies and procedures that I | 00:12:12 | |
| have personally reviewed. Just commend them on that. | 00:12:17 | |
| Our first financial statement finding identified deficiencies in the County's process for awarding 27 economic development awards | 00:12:24 | |
| to community, nonprofit and governmental organizations. | 00:12:30 | |
| That is to ensure that the $135,461.00 paid to these organizations was used. | 00:12:38 | |
| Only for activities that benefit the public while the county has developed written policies and procedures. | 00:12:45 | |
| They did not include pre award or follow up steps to ensure that the money spent or were done as intended or money's were returned | 00:12:52 | |
| if unspent. | 00:12:56 | |
| Extended out expected outcomes and performance measures and provide sufficiently detailed budgets indicating how and when the | 00:13:35 | |
| requested funds would be used. | 00:13:40 | |
| Require awarded entities to report and certify how the monies were spent. These report and certification should be required | 00:13:45 | |
| periodically or at least once during the specified approved time frame for expanding the months. | 00:13:51 | |
| And require awarded energies to return in the unexpended or MIS spent money. A similar finding has been reported since fiscal year | 00:13:58 | |
| 2017 and the county reported it concurred with the planning and plans to correct the deficiencies by June 30th, 2024. | 00:14:05 | |
| The second financial planning identified deficiencies in the County's procurement or purchasing card review and approval process. | 00:14:18 | |
| Specifically, the County did not review and approve or ensure appropriate support was obtained for $99,755 of public money Its | 00:14:25 | |
| employees spent on various purchasing card expenditures in categories such as building and home improvement materials, equipment | 00:14:31 | |
| rental, and leasing to ensure they were, for authorized purposes necessary for official County business. | 00:14:38 | |
| Resulting in a risk that possible misuse of public money or potential violation of state constitution. Specifically, for 42 of the | 00:14:46 | |
| 52 purchasing card transactions we tested, the county paid for the the purchases prior to ensuring they were for an authorized | 00:14:51 | |
| purpose as follows. | 00:14:57 | |
| 10 transactions totaling 9243 dollars were not reviewed and approved by the assigned county department supervisor. | 00:15:04 | |
| 32 transactions totaling $90,512.00 lack the required supporting documentation, including to support the purchase was for an | 00:15:11 | |
| authorized county purchase And in addition, $44,329 of the $90,512.00 purchases lack supporting documentation that lacks | 00:15:20 | |
| supporting documentation. Did not obtain a minimum of three written quotes as required by county policy. | 00:15:29 | |
| Therefore, we reckon recommend that the county update its existing policies and procedures for purchasing card expenditures to | 00:15:39 | |
| specify a time frame when department supervisors are expected to review and approve purchasing card transactions, what supporting | 00:15:45 | |
| documentation is required, and specify penalties for purchasing card holders who violate counting policies. | 00:15:52 | |
| Required department supervisor responsible for reviewing and approving purchasing card transactions to approve those transactions | 00:16:00 | |
| that are supported by documentation that evidence purchases are for authorized county purposes and to do so prior to the county | 00:16:05 | |
| paying for them. | 00:16:09 | |
| Require its Finance department to develop and implement a process to monitor department's compliance with county the county's | 00:16:15 | |
| policies. | 00:16:19 | |
| And train county employees who are purchasing card holders and department supervisors on its policies and procedures for using | 00:16:23 | |
| purchasing cards. The similar finding over purchasing cards has been reported since 2017 and the county reported it concurs with | 00:16:29 | |
| the finding and expects to correct these recommendations by June 30th, 2024. | 00:16:36 | |
| The third financial statement finding identified deficiencies in the County's process for managing and documenting its information | 00:16:51 | |
| technology risks. Specifically, the County's process for managing and documenting its risk do not include identifying, | 00:16:57 | |
| classifying, and inventory sensitive information that might need stronger access and security controls. | 00:17:03 | |
| We recommend the County administration and IT management should plan for where to allocate resources and where to implement | 00:17:10 | |
| critical controls. Ask reasonable administrative officials, management over finance, IT and other functions to input on the | 00:17:16 | |
| county's process for managing risk. Perform an annual entity wide risk assessment process that includes evaluating and documenting | 00:17:22 | |
| risks and safeguards, and evaluate management risks holding sensitive information by identifying, classifying, and inventory | 00:17:29 | |
| information the county holds. | 00:17:35 | |
| To assess whether stronger access and security controls are needed to protect the data in accordance with state statutes and | 00:17:41 | |
| federal guidelines. | 00:17:45 | |
| A similar finding has been reported since fiscal year 2014. The county continues to work toward implementing our prior | 00:17:50 | |
| recommendations. It concurred with our finding and reported as anticipated correcting needs deficiencies by June 30th, 2024. | 00:17:57 | |
| Our core financial statement finding identified deficiencies in the county's control over its IT systems. | 00:18:10 | |
| Our report identified several recommendations, including what the County should continue to implement its comprehensive written IT | 00:18:15 | |
| policies and procedures and ensure they are being followed, remove access for terminated employees or modify access if employees, | 00:18:21 | |
| roles or responsibilities are changed, and periodically perform reviews to ensure access to its systems and data remains | 00:18:26 | |
| appropriate and necessary. | 00:18:31 | |
| The similar finding was reported in fiscal year 2014. As discussed earlier, county management and IT staff developed and began | 00:18:37 | |
| implementing its comprehensive policies and procedures during 2023 and we are very appreciative to carry Bartlett and Darrell | 00:18:44 | |
| Griffin for their assistance in our test work over those revised policies and procedures. | 00:18:51 | |
| The County anticipates fully correcting these deficiencies by June 30th, 2024. | 00:18:59 | |
| Our fifth and final statement financial statement finding found the county did not obtain one of fifteen elected officials and 32 | 00:19:08 | |
| of 508 employee conflict of interest questionnaires. Contrary to county policy, we recommend the counties management monitor all | 00:19:14 | |
| elected officials and employees. | 00:19:20 | |
| To provide an annual conflict of interest questionnaire after its initial requested, and follow up with those who do not do so to | 00:19:26 | |
| ensure it attains A questionnaire for everyone, the county reported. This finding would be fully corrected by March 31st to May | 00:19:31 | |
| 24. | 00:19:35 | |
| Our federal compliance findings are reported in the fiscal year 2023 single out of report. | 00:19:47 | |
| First, the county corrected three of four prior year single audit deficiencies related to late issuance of the single audit | 00:19:52 | |
| report, timely and accurately reporting of the COVID-19 community programs to improve minority health grant program and a | 00:19:59 | |
| procurement non compliance for the COVID-19 Coronavirus State and local Fiscal Recovery Funds program. However, similar to prior | 00:20:06 | |
| year finding #2022-103, we reported a federal compliance finding related to a reporting for the COVID-19 Coronavirus state and | 00:20:12 | |
| local. | 00:20:19 | |
| Fiscal Recovery Funds program. | 00:20:26 | |
| Specifically, we found that the County's Finance Department did not review and approve all four better progress reports prior to | 00:20:29 | |
| submitting them to the federal agency to ensure they were accurate. We recommended that the County management should develop | 00:20:34 | |
| policies and procedures requiring the department to perform and document an independent review and approval of all federal program | 00:20:40 | |
| reports before submitting them to the federal agency to ensure the reports are accurate, agree to county records, and contain only | 00:20:45 | |
| allowable expenditures. | 00:20:51 | |
| 30th 2024. | 00:21:28 | |
| This completes our presentation of the County's fiscal year 23 audit reports and associated findings. | 00:21:30 | |
| And I'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:21:36 | |
| I have no questions. | 00:21:43 | |
| Supervisor Klein. No, I'm good. Thank you. | 00:21:45 | |
| And thank you for your report. I have one question. You mentioned that sometimes there's a failure to. | 00:21:48 | |
| Show that three bids were not obtained for a particular project. What if you cannot get 3 bits? Let's say you just work. When you | 00:21:57 | |
| work at it, you can only get two. I would say just document it in the file. They would need to document the process that that they | 00:22:04 | |
| attempted to follow policy, and that was documented. So we did not find any documentation. OK, so it's really a lot of what you're | 00:22:11 | |
| saying is a matter of having the appropriate papers. | 00:22:18 | |
| That indicate what we're doing. So OK. | 00:22:26 | |
| Thank you for your presentation. Anymore. Yes, Mr. Minlaw, Mr. Chairman, I'd like to express appreciation to the Arizona Office of | 00:22:29 | |
| the Auditor General. | 00:22:33 | |
| As you know, when this Board of Supervisors came on board, we were behind in our audits, almost unaudible. There were significant | 00:22:41 | |
| physical challenges with helican through your dedication and devotion of of your resources to heal a county. You acknowledge it at | 00:22:48 | |
| the beginning, Miss Chesney, that we were. | 00:22:55 | |
| His report was issued on March 29th, which was a few days before the end of the year and the deadlines required. Mr. Hunt, you | 00:23:03 | |
| just acknowledge that several of the findings that we had for being late and tardy in prior years that those deficiencies that | 00:23:11 | |
| come from that have been addressed. So thank you to the Auditor General and all that you've done to help heal a county and work | 00:23:18 | |
| with us and help us correct efficiencies through these years and while this board has set and. | 00:23:26 | |
| Board of Supervisors has been had made it very clear that they expect HEAL accounting to be current with our audits that we | 00:23:35 | |
| address the findings. So thank you Mr. Hunt for bringing those to our attention that we can be addressed. And and I know that | 00:23:42 | |
| misspelling and the finance department and as you mentioned the IT department is partly that we take them seriously and I want to | 00:23:49 | |
| address them sometimes with. | 00:23:56 | |
| I can't say a super large organization, but we do have over 500 employees. Our budget for this year $150 million that it takes a | 00:24:06 | |
| consistent and profound effort to be able to correct some of these deficiencies, but they are important to us and we intend to | 00:24:12 | |
| address all of them and overcome them. | 00:24:18 | |
| Again, thank you for coming. Thank you for your presentation and thank you for your partnership with HeLa County to help us | 00:24:25 | |
| improve and help us. We as as demonstrated our financial position continues to improve and we are improving in every way fiscally | 00:24:31 | |
| I believe. So Thank you. | 00:24:37 | |
| And also like it think Chairman Christensen, members of the Board and manager member of and the staff that we participated, we'd | 00:24:44 | |
| have a good working relationship with professional relationship with them and we look forward to working them again in fiscal year | 00:24:50 | |
| 2024. Thank you. | 00:24:56 | |
| Thank you. It's, it's good to hear that we're consistently improving. Our staff is really working hard on it and that we're | 00:25:03 | |
| getting praised from the Auditor General. | 00:25:08 | |
| With recommendations. So thank you for that. All right, let's move right along to Item 2B, presentation of VELOCITY General fund | 00:25:15 | |
| financial data as it compares to the fiscal year 2024, the Hilo County budget and fiscal years 2023222120 and 19 year to date | 00:25:23 | |
| performance. Aaron, good morning again, Mr. Chair, Supervisor, Client Supervisor Humphrey this morning. We are here with our year | 00:25:30 | |
| to date performance through the end of February. | 00:25:38 | |
| 2024 and how that compares to the prior 4 fiscal years, as you can see? | 00:25:46 | |
| Our general fund revenues were at 54% of the annual budget compared to an 8 month target of 67% in total fiscal year 2024. Year to | 00:25:55 | |
| date, revenues are 2.4 million more than the same time frame in the prior fiscal year. It is notable that that overage amount is | 00:26:04 | |
| entirely attributable to the Arizona Department of Veterans Services grant that we've received without that. | 00:26:14 | |
| This year to date revenues would be 600,000 less than the prior year. | 00:26:23 | |
| As far as expenditures go, general fund expenditures and including encumbrances as of February 29th are at 63% of the budget | 00:26:28 | |
| compared to an 8 month target of 67%. Total expenditures are 3.5 million more than the prior year at the same time and those year | 00:26:36 | |
| over year increases are almost 50% attributable to salaries and employee related expenses which is in part due to the salary plan | 00:26:43 | |
| and in part due to. | 00:26:51 | |
| Restructuring how our reporting system. | 00:26:59 | |
| Is working in new world so that you get more accurate reporting. Then we have some bond fees and interest that are showing higher | 00:27:02 | |
| in 2024 than prior years due to timing. Utilities are again those are showing higher in the general fund due to a restructure and | 00:27:12 | |
| then support and care of persons which is our ALTEX and Access which is the long term care and the Arizona cost containment. | 00:27:22 | |
| For health care systems, those are 264,000 higher than the prior year. These are all expected expenditures and HeLa County | 00:27:32 | |
| departments continue to align with the Healer County strategic plan and its priorities, including responsible resource management | 00:27:39 | |
| and robust communication. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you, Mayor and Supervisor Humphrey. I have no | 00:27:46 | |
| question. Supervisor Klein, man, I'm good. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Excellent. All right. | 00:27:53 | |
| And oh, with that. | 00:28:01 | |
| We also have a presentation to receive regarding the results of the March 29th, 2024 online auction held by Public Surplus. | 00:28:05 | |
| On behalf of Yuba County for the sale of surplus for obsolete county vehicles and equipment parent Yes, Good morning. We had our | 00:28:17 | |
| public surplus auction on March 29th, 2024. It was held online this year, in contrast to prior years live auctions. It was | 00:28:24 | |
| advertised as required by. | 00:28:30 | |
| By statute and this year we received about $70,000 in successful bids on these items and all but three of the items sold. Those | 00:28:39 | |
| three items were pulled out of the auction for for clerical concerns. So everything that was listed did sell and we look forward | 00:28:49 | |
| to being able to use this approach in the future. This does compare to about a $25,000 live auction. | 00:29:00 | |
| In our last go round. So it was significantly more successful and we had a substantial number of out of state purchasers. | 00:29:10 | |
| Which was interesting. | 00:29:20 | |
| Great, Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah, the length of the auction, was it like a day you had a day to get on and bid or three days to | 00:29:22 | |
| get on a bid or like I said, it was online. So I'm just wondering the length that people had to to participate, I would have to | 00:29:30 | |
| double check with staff on that and get back to you. I don't exactly recall how long it was. | 00:29:37 | |
| OK. Yeah. I mean, if it was just a day, that's OK. Whether it was 4 hours or 10 hours, it doesn't matter. | 00:29:44 | |
| But I was just wondering if people had. | 00:29:50 | |
| Maybe a couple days to to to check their bed and and stay with the product, I guess. Mr. Chairman. Sorry, Humphrey, there was, it | 00:29:52 | |
| was over a several day process. I went online and looked at it and it was open and available for bids over several day process. | 00:29:59 | |
| OK. They've been even up up to a week, but it was at least several days. OK, I'll report back to your staff and let you know. OK. | 00:30:05 | |
| Thank you. Thank you. | 00:30:12 | |
| Simplify the query. | 00:30:19 | |
| Mariner, is it easier putting this online auction together versus a live auction? | 00:30:21 | |
| That's not really something that I can quantify. | 00:30:32 | |
| It took fewer staff members, OK? | 00:30:37 | |
| Cool. That sound like you did really well. So thank you, Mr. Chair. One more question if you don't mind. Also too, it seemed to me | 00:30:41 | |
| that they got all of the merchandise at one place prior to the auction. | 00:30:49 | |
| And if they were going to have it online, I was wondering about the benefit of getting it all in one place, if it was going to be | 00:30:58 | |
| a sale online because most of the viewing and stuff would have been online instead of being able to walk kick tires. I was just, I | 00:31:06 | |
| was just just wondering going forward if that's necessary to get everything and all everything to pay some for the sale when it's | 00:31:14 | |
| going to be an online sale. So this location was specifically the Star Valley Impound yard. | 00:31:22 | |
| Those items were largely already there. There were a few items that got moved there. They were largely already there and we really | 00:31:30 | |
| needed to get them moved out so that we can move forward with a project and program to secure the Star Valley Yard with a new | 00:31:38 | |
| fencing project. And in order to do that, this, this surplus material needed to get moved out to increase security with | 00:31:46 | |
| advertising it in the newspaper for a month ahead of the auction. We included Sergeant High Street's phone number. | 00:31:53 | |
| Anyone interested was more than welcome to contact Sergeant High Street and make an appointment to kick tires as it were, or to | 00:32:01 | |
| see the items in person and. | 00:32:07 | |
| In order to maintain the integrity of capital Asset Control, which the Auditor General just shared with you, is a key resolved | 00:32:14 | |
| finding for Healer County. It's important that the person who has the keys and the person that has the title is in one place so | 00:32:22 | |
| that we can make sure that the person who actually obtains the item gets the keys and the title. And when we had live options, we | 00:32:29 | |
| did actually have someone. | 00:32:37 | |
| Depart with a vehicle and how to enlist the assistance of law enforcement to return that vehicle. So while I understand that that | 00:32:46 | |
| it's, it could be perceived that it was inefficient to have everything in one place and we did not have to enlist law enforcement | 00:32:53 | |
| assistance to retrieve anything this time. So that's an improvement. Yeah that's fine. Just asking people to Tonto basin is is not | 00:33:00 | |
| not a finance. | 00:33:07 | |
| Skill set. | 00:33:15 | |
| OK, ask and answer. Thank you. | 00:33:19 | |
| Thank you. So 7000, that's a good amount. Does that go to our general fund or does that go into the Sheriff's Department, It goes | 00:33:22 | |
| to wherever the wherever. If it was something that we purchased, it goes wherever that was originally purchased. If it's general | 00:33:27 | |
| fund, it goes to general fund. | 00:33:32 | |
| So, right. So if you purchased it out of like Rico funds, the money would have to go back to the Rico funds and following along | 00:33:37 | |
| those lines, OK, so but if it's a compensated by the Sheriff's Department or? | 00:33:44 | |
| Okay. All right. Thank you. All right, so let's start then. Our public hearing Section 33A, Information, discussion and action or | 00:33:51 | |
| action to adopt Resolution #24-05-01 to name Eternal Creek Bridge Rd. | 00:34:01 | |
| In the Toro Basin area, Mr. Holman. | 00:34:11 | |
| Good morning, Mr. Chairman, members of the board. | 00:34:16 | |
| Yeah, this item. | 00:34:19 | |
| Came about during the construction process of the bridge, the original. | 00:34:22 | |
| Construction documents said that the Greenback Valley Rd. That is on the east side of Tunnel Creek would be carried all the way | 00:34:30 | |
| back to the highway. | 00:34:35 | |
| That ended up with the net result that there are a number of residents behind the Pumpkin Center bar that have Greenback Valley | 00:34:41 | |
| Rd. Addresses that would sort of strand them. | 00:34:46 | |
| So since the bridge isn't open. | 00:34:52 | |
| Yet we felt it was relevant to. | 00:34:55 | |
| Name the bridge going back to the highway. That way we don't negatively inconvenience the residents by changing their addresses. | 00:35:01 | |
| OK. That if you have questions, sure. Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:35:11 | |
| I have no questions, makes sense to me. | 00:35:17 | |
| And Supervisor Klein, I'm good, Tom, thanks. OK, with that, I'll open up the public hearing. Is there anyone here in Globe that | 00:35:20 | |
| wishes to speak to that? | 00:35:24 | |
| Or in Payson. | 00:35:29 | |
| And Cassandra. | 00:35:32 | |
| And I'll close the public hearing and call for motion. | 00:35:34 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to adopt resolution #24-05-01 and Mr. Chair, I'll second that. OK, Motion to approve and seconded those in favor | 00:35:38 | |
| say aye. | 00:35:44 | |
| Thank you, Item 3B Information Discussion Action to adopt Resolution 24-05-02 to name E Gypsy Rd. in the Colonel Basin area. | 00:35:52 | |
| Good morning again. Yes, on this item. | 00:36:05 | |
| Development within. | 00:36:10 | |
| Tunnel Basin Minor Land Division, that sort of stuff has um. | 00:36:12 | |
| Created the need for a road. This one's been going back and forth for a couple of years because the since we'd like to involve the | 00:36:18 | |
| constituency. | 00:36:22 | |
| We just couldn't come with agreement to a name that finally occurred, so we are presenting E Gypsy Rd. for your consideration. | 00:36:28 | |
| OK, Supervisor Humphrey, so you're saying there's no complaints on the name of? Correct? OK, I have no other questions. 2/2 of the | 00:36:38 | |
| residents were some brothers and they wanted to name it after the family name where the other resident that owned multiple parcels | 00:36:44 | |
| did not. | 00:36:50 | |
| So we were just in a holding pattern until they got. | 00:36:57 | |
| To their liking. | 00:37:02 | |
| OK. Thank you, Klein. I'm good. Thanks. OK with that, I will open it up to public hearing. Anyone in Globe wish to speak to this | 00:37:04 | |
| item no in Payson? | 00:37:09 | |
| On the Internet? No. I'll close the public hearing and call for a motion, Mr. Chair. I'll make a motion to adopt resolution | 00:37:16 | |
| #24-05-02. | 00:37:22 | |
| I'll second that motion and 2nd to approve those in favor. Say aye aye motion passes item 3C, Information Discussion Action to | 00:37:28 | |
| adopt resolution #24-05-03 to name W accuracy trail in tunnel Basin. | 00:37:36 | |
| Oh yes, again, more land splitting in the tunnel basin on the east side of the Creek we had named before the Board of Supervisors | 00:37:44 | |
| back in 2022 accuracy way and a recent parcel split into five pieces. Since it came off there, we figured while we try to have no | 00:37:55 | |
| duplication of names because Accuracy way was already there, it would not impede 911 access. | 00:38:06 | |
| By having accuracy trail next to it. So we're presenting this for your consideration provider, Humphrey. I don't have an issue | 00:38:16 | |
| with it. | 00:38:22 | |
| As a climb, I'm good. | 00:38:28 | |
| As well. With that, I'll close the discussion and open it up for public hearings. Anyone at Globe? Anyone in Payson? | 00:38:30 | |
| Cassandra OK, fine. Then I'll close that and call for motion. | 00:38:40 | |
| Move to adopt resolution #24-05-03 and Mr. Chair, I'll second that. | 00:38:44 | |
| OK, we have a motion and a second to approve those in favor. Say aye, aye. | 00:38:53 | |
| Aye Motion Passes Item 3D Information Discussion Action to adopt Resolution #24-05-04 The name E Perkins Store Lane in Young. | 00:38:57 | |
| Yes, Sir. | 00:39:12 | |
| The the store, if you've driven through the young area, was across the street from Antlers, just a little bit South of the the | 00:39:15 | |
| county yard. | 00:39:19 | |
| And the property owners, as part of their splitting of the properties, wanted to recognize the store history. So put forth that | 00:39:25 | |
| name, we had no objection. So now we're here before you. | 00:39:32 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:39:40 | |
| I have no questions, Supervisor Klein, I'm good. Thank you. Tomorrow closeout and open it up to public. | 00:39:42 | |
| Hearing anyone in Globe? Anyone in Payson? | 00:39:50 | |
| Cassandra, we're good. Thank you. I'll close that and then call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to adopt resolution | 00:39:55 | |
| number 240504. | 00:40:00 | |
| I'll second that motion to adopt and seconded those in favor, say aye, aye. Thank you, Tom. Thank you gentlemen for your | 00:40:07 | |
| consideration. It'd be great with clump those altogether, wouldn't it? | 00:40:13 | |
| All right, moving on to agenda item four, Regular agenda items for a information discussion Action to approve modification #3 to | 00:40:22 | |
| Cooperative Law Enforcement Agreement #21-LE-1103, one 200-038 between the County Sheriff's Office and the US Department of | 00:40:32 | |
| Agriculture Forest Service to the added funding in the amount of $74,800. | 00:40:42 | |
| For the performance period of the last signature through February 1st, 2026. | 00:40:53 | |
| And change the cooperator name from Hilah County to Gila County, Arizona to match the S AM registration. And I believe we have | 00:40:59 | |
| Sarah White in Payson. | 00:41:06 | |
| Good morning, Chairman, members of the board, this is the annual Forest Service agreement that you guys approve every year for the | 00:41:14 | |
| Sheriff's Office. | 00:41:18 | |
| This provides reimbursement funding for any of the enforcement and stuff we do out on the Forest Service roads throughout the | 00:41:24 | |
| county. It'll be in the amount of 74,800. And with that, I'll take any questions. Thank you, Sarah. Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:41:33 | |
| Supervisor Klein. Neither do I. Thank you, Sarah. | 00:41:44 | |
| Yes, thank you. And with that I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'm going to approve Modification #3 to Cooperative Law Enforcement | 00:41:48 | |
| Agreement #21-LE-1103 one 200-038 between Healer County Sheriff's Office, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service as | 00:41:57 | |
| presented Mr. Chair. I'll second that motion to approve and seconded all those in favor. Say aye, aye. | 00:42:07 | |
| I Item passes unanimous for B Information Discussion Action to approve an intergovernmental agreement between Panau County Schools | 00:42:17 | |
| and Healer County Schools to have all school aged children from HeLa County that are detained in the Pinal County Youth Justice | 00:42:23 | |
| Center detention to be served by. | 00:42:30 | |
| Now county schools through Hope School during the period of their detention in the Canal County Youth Justice Center detention for | 00:42:40 | |
| the period of July 1, 2024. | 00:42:46 | |
| Through June 30th, 2025, Mr. Sandoval, Good morning, Mr. Chair, Supervisors. This is an annual MOU in intergovernmental agreement. | 00:42:52 | |
| In 2017 we begin to send our. | 00:42:58 | |
| School age children to Pinal County to receive education services. It has been a good relationship. It is certainly much more. | 00:43:06 | |
| Beneficial for them educationally because they have the numbers there so that they're able to retain full time teachers, full time | 00:43:17 | |
| special Ed, full time services. So I would just recommend that you that we continue that relationship if you'll approve that. | 00:43:26 | |
| I'll take questions. OK. Thank you. Supervisor Humphrey. I have no question. Supervisor Klein Roy, how many kids do we have in | 00:43:35 | |
| there on an average? You know what? I I don't know. And the reason is I'm not notified when they're transferred. Yeah, there's | 00:43:42 | |
| there's not a regular notification in the process. It goes right in the Sheriff's Office. | 00:43:50 | |
| OK. I'm sorry. No, let's find out. No, no, that's good. I'm just curious. So thank you. Yeah. | 00:43:59 | |
| Yeah. Thank you, Roy. With that, I'll call for motion, Mr. Chair. I'll make a motion to approve an intergovernmental agreement | 00:44:04 | |
| between Pinal County Schools and Healer County schools as presented. I'll second that. A motion and a second to approve all those | 00:44:11 | |
| in favor. Say aye, aye. Motion passes unanimous. Thank you. Thank you. | 00:44:17 | |
| Roy, I think you also have the next one. | 00:44:25 | |
| Item 4C. | 00:44:29 | |
| Information, discussion, Action to approve a memorandum of understanding between the Pinal County School Superintendent he the | 00:44:34 | |
| County School Superintendent, Pinal County Super Superior Court Presiding Juvenile Court Judge in the County Superior Court | 00:44:41 | |
| Presiding Juvenile Court Judge agreeing the Pinal County will be the county of jurisdiction for Pinal County's Youth Justice | 00:44:47 | |
| Center Detention Education Program, which will serve Yuli County School resources during the period of their detention at the | 00:44:53 | |
| Pinal County Youth Justice Center. | 00:45:00 | |
| Thank you. Same concept, same population, same services, same relationship. | 00:45:07 | |
| Supervisor, hopefully I have no questions. | 00:45:15 | |
| Supervisor thank you Roy. Thank you. Thank you. | 00:45:18 | |
| With that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve a memorandum of understanding between the Planal County School | 00:45:21 | |
| Superintendent, HeLa County School Superintendent, Pinal County Superior Court presiding A juvenile court judge and Hila County | 00:45:29 | |
| Superior Court presiding Juvenile Court judge. As presented, Mr. Charles. Second that so that we have a motion and a second to | 00:45:37 | |
| approve all those in favor, say aye, aye, Aye. | 00:45:45 | |
| Thank you, Roy. Thank you. Now you can go. | 00:45:53 | |
| Item 4D Information discussion actions are authorized this middle of the security courts fiscal year 24 Quote fill the gap UN | 00:45:57 | |
| quote Grant application to the Administrative Office of the courts in the amount of $18,641.00 for audio visual upgrades to two | 00:46:04 | |
| courtrooms and Globe and Mr. Barrett Yes good morning, Mr. Chairman, members of the board, I actually have the next two items. | 00:46:12 | |
| They're very closely related. So a lot of you information in my briefing. | 00:46:20 | |
| Will pertain to both of those. Both of these items are. | 00:46:28 | |
| Part of our initiative to move digital evidence forward, Digital evidence is exactly what it sounds like. The vast majority of | 00:46:33 | |
| evidence is documents, sometimes video footage, video footage, and images. We do have physical exhibits, guns, drugs, stuff like | 00:46:41 | |
| that. But we manage a lot of paper and digital evidence, once it's fully operational, will mitigate some of the costs of paper | 00:46:48 | |
| exhibits and the maintenance of those saving exhibits. | 00:46:56 | |
| Benefits not only the courts, where the court's office obviously the County Attorney and the indigent defense attorneys as well. | 00:47:04 | |
| So the quote which is the subject of the next item was obtained after a full day of analysis with court staff and helicopter it. I | 00:47:13 | |
| wanted to thank them. I see that carry left, but her team was. | 00:47:21 | |
| Very helpful in helping us size this up and the. | 00:47:29 | |
| Quote is from a group called Technology Providers Incorporated. They're the subject of the financial agreements. | 00:47:34 | |
| In the next agenda item. | 00:47:43 | |
| And jumping ahead, perhaps if you'll allow it, the TTI quote is for a total of 65,000 thereabouts, and this grant will provide | 00:47:46 | |
| $18,641.00 towards that cost. And then we also obtain $20,000 from the Clerk of Courts office to contribute towards that $65,000 | 00:47:55 | |
| total. So this grant application in front of you is part of that funding scheme. | 00:48:05 | |
| And I'll take any questions. | 00:48:15 | |
| OK. Thank you. Surprise your Humphrey. I have no questions. Supervisor Klein, I really don't either Jonathan. Just looks like a | 00:48:16 | |
| good way to work towards. So thank you. Yes, thank you. And with that I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair. I'll make the motion to | 00:48:24 | |
| authorize a submittal of the superior courts and clear FY24 fill the gap grant application to the Administrative Office of the | 00:48:32 | |
| Courts as presented. I'll second that Mr. Chair motion on the 2nd to approve all those in favor say aye, Aye, Aye. | 00:48:40 | |
| Motion passes Unanimous Item 4 E Information Discussion Action to approve the use of Contract Agreement #GSA47QT C A24D007E with | 00:48:49 | |
| technology providers incorporated to provide audio visual upgrades to the Globe Superior Court courtrooms in the amount not to | 00:49:00 | |
| exceed $65,201.59. So this is the technical contract for the vendor to perform the enhancements and upgrades that we'll need to. | 00:49:12 | |
| Operate digital evidence. | 00:49:23 | |
| Again, thanks to GCIT and also to Mr. Minlaw for helping. | 00:49:25 | |
| Get this thing moving forward. | 00:49:31 | |
| I calculate after the grant application that you just approved, in addition to the special revenue funding from the clerk's | 00:49:33 | |
| office, that the county share of that $65,000 price tag would be about $26,560. | 00:49:42 | |
| I'll take any questions. | 00:49:50 | |
| I have no question about the client. I'm good. Thank you. Yeah, I'm good. Thank you very much. So with that, I'll call for a | 00:49:53 | |
| motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve the use of contract agreement number. | 00:49:59 | |
| GSA47QT C A2 Four D 007 E with technology providers incorporated as presented and Mr. Charles second time. OK, so we have a motion | 00:50:07 | |
| and a second to approve those in favor, say aye. | 00:50:15 | |
| Aye. Motion passes. Thank you John King Item 4F Information Discussion Action to approve Amendment #3 to Contract number 012021, | 00:50:24 | |
| Dash 2. | 00:50:30 | |
| With GH2 architects to extend the contract through December 31st, 2024 for enough to exceed contract amount of $200,000. And we | 00:50:37 | |
| have Melissa Good morning, Chairman, Board of Supervisors. | 00:50:45 | |
| On March 21st, 2023, the Board of Supervisors approved Amendment #2 professional service contract number 012021 Dash 2. This | 00:50:54 | |
| amendment increased the contract amount by $100,000, bringing the total contract amount to $200,000 and extended the contract | 00:51:02 | |
| until May 3rd, 2024. | 00:51:10 | |
| We are pleased to propose the final amendment #3 to Professional Services contract 012021 Dash 2 with GH2 Architects. This | 00:51:18 | |
| amendment proposes to extend the contract date until December 31, 2024, which will allow for the successful completion of the | 00:51:26 | |
| design phase for several capital projects. We are committed to delivering these projects on time and within budget, which is why | 00:51:33 | |
| the cost will remain unchanged. | 00:51:41 | |
| And is approved up to a maximum of $200,000. The Facilities and Land Management Department staff recommend that the Board of | 00:51:49 | |
| Supervisors approve Amendment #3 to Professional Services contract number 012021 Dash 2 with GH2 Architects to extend the contract | 00:51:58 | |
| date to December 31, 2024. This will allow GH2 Architects to continue to provide necessary project support. | 00:52:08 | |
| Allowing for the completion of several ongoing Gila County capital projects. | 00:52:18 | |
| OK. Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:52:24 | |
| I have no questions Supervisor Klein list of which are projects are they working on. I know there is a. | 00:52:26 | |
| The fairgrounds improvements project is the one that they're finishing up on. OK, That's the one they're finishing up. And then do | 00:52:35 | |
| they have any new ones in the works or not under this contract? OK. So and then we increase the contract $100,000 on this and we | 00:52:43 | |
| did in 2023. Yes. OK. OK. Thank you. Thank you. | 00:52:50 | |
| And I'm good. Thank you so much for that. And with that I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve Amendment | 00:52:58 | |
| #3 to contract number 012021, Dash 2 with GH2 Architects as presented. Mr. Chair, I'll second that. OK, good. We have a motion and | 00:53:06 | |
| a second to approve those in favor. Say aye. Aye, Aye. Thank you very much. Item 4G. Information Discussion action to receive an | 00:53:15 | |
| update on the activities of the Pinal Gila Council for senior citizens and approve agreement numbers 03152024 with. | 00:53:23 | |
| That. | 00:53:33 | |
| The Senior Citizens Council where I the county will disperse $165,000 and further the board finds and determines this is for the | 00:53:34 | |
| benefit to provide services to persons with disabilities and Aged persons, Aged Persons. Within Heela County we have both Marin | 00:53:42 | |
| and then we have Annie Anna Medina. | 00:53:50 | |
| Good morning again, Mr. Chair, Supervisor, Client, Supervisor Humphrey. Annually we receive an update from the Penalty Council for | 00:53:59 | |
| senior citizens on how their services are positively affecting the elderly and. | 00:54:06 | |
| And other eligible persons in our community, and with that I'll hand it over to them. | 00:54:15 | |
| Good morning. | 00:54:23 | |
| Good morning, Chairman Christensen and Supervisor, Client, Supervisor Humphreys, I'm back here again to provide you our annual | 00:54:28 | |
| presentation. Anna Medina with penalty account for senior citizens and we're going to go through and give you some outcomes | 00:54:34 | |
| related to the funding that we receive annually from you to fund nutrition programs with the centers that we contract with it here | 00:54:40 | |
| in, excuse me, in Healer County. | 00:54:46 | |
| Sorry not to use this. | 00:54:54 | |
| OK. So the funding breakdown you receive 165? | 00:54:57 | |
| Sorry, $65,000 in funding for last fiscal year, which is the period of July 1st, 22 through June 30th, 23. The funding is | 00:55:04 | |
| specifically allocated to fund home delivered meal programs as well as congregate meals and case management services for Hilo | 00:55:12 | |
| County, all of the individuals that receive home delivery of service through our contracted senior centers. | 00:55:20 | |
| Must be case managed and so we have roughly 3 to 400 individuals every year that are case managed to receive that service. | 00:55:29 | |
| The distribution of friends, here's a breakdown of how those funds are distributed. Majority of the funds are, I should say | 00:55:40 | |
| majority, but a large amount of the funds do go to our larger programs And then we break down the the allocations depending on | 00:55:47 | |
| number of meals are produced each year. Payson being the largest program here in Hilo County and down to some of our smaller | 00:55:54 | |
| programs which include Hayden, the town of Miami, as well as the Pine Senior Center. | 00:56:01 | |
| Although the Pioneer Center is not a contracted Senior Center within our umbrella of senior centers, it is a program that we | 00:56:09 | |
| support and you support as well through this funding case management as well and other areas as I mentioned earlier. And then the | 00:56:17 | |
| Mom's Meals program, which is a program where individuals who do not live in a service area in Hilo County that cannot be serviced | 00:56:25 | |
| by a Senior Center receive meals through a 1/3 provider, which is mom's meals. The meals are delivered and packaged. | 00:56:33 | |
| Temperature controlled boxes to their homes, so this is more for those seniors that are in isolated areas. | 00:56:41 | |
| Some numbers to report for last fiscal year for the patient and Star Valley area, you can and you can follow those across. I won't | 00:56:49 | |
| go through each of these, but you'll see for each of the centers, I should say the number of individuals served as well as the | 00:56:57 | |
| unit served, which in the case the senior centers is meals. And again that's a combination of congregate meals that are served in | 00:57:05 | |
| each site as well as home delivered meals. So for the year, the total number of individuals served in Hewlett County was 1441. | 00:57:13 | |
| Seniors or persons with disabilities. | 00:57:21 | |
| And then total number of meals, 122,000 meals produced last year to support our seniors. And again case management, 468 | 00:57:24 | |
| individuals received case management services. These are are are seniors that live in their home, they're homebound and 100,950 | 00:57:33 | |
| units of case management hours were provided to those individuals. | 00:57:41 | |
| And please stop me at any time if you have any questions. | 00:57:51 | |
| Some victories to report from each of the Senior Center sites. The Payson Senior Center reports that what they're hearing from | 00:57:55 | |
| their clients are that it helps me to eat more and worry less. No more hunger is one of the seniors reported any meal I get. It | 00:58:02 | |
| means I can live long, excuse me? That I can live alone. Without the service, I would not have a balanced meal each day and I can | 00:58:08 | |
| count on something to eat. And so those are some of the victories reported from the patient Senior Center for some of our program | 00:58:15 | |
| recipients. | 00:58:21 | |
| From Globe, our clients appreciate not only the quality of the meal but also the consistency of service, particularly during the | 00:58:29 | |
| pandemic. The social and emotional support provided by volunteers and drivers brings smiles to our clients faces. | 00:58:35 | |
| And then in Miami, many seniors we serve throughout Heila County are lonely in that camp companionship. They look forward to | 00:58:44 | |
| seeing the driver not only for the meal, but the daily communication that lives their spirits. And we know that many of our | 00:58:50 | |
| seniors who are homebound, many times they don't see anyone but the drivers. So that's very important. | 00:58:57 | |
| Hayden Senior Center reports that their center was able to serve a 91 year old veteran who lives alone and is legally blind, | 00:59:05 | |
| diabetic, and experiencing mobility issues that prevent him from being able to stand and cook for himself. This gentleman now | 00:59:11 | |
| receives a weekday and weekend meals which have helped to improve his health and nutritional risk and many birth centers. | 00:59:17 | |
| Traditionally we serve meals Monday through Friday, so you're getting 5 meals. It's usually a lunchtime meal, but in some cases | 00:59:23 | |
| where. | 00:59:29 | |
| Our case matters determined that someone has a higher nutritional risk or is very isolated. We do authorize weekend meals, so we | 00:59:35 | |
| do have some seniors that are receiving more than than the traditional service. Many of their and then from from Pine Senior | 00:59:41 | |
| Center. Many of the seniors in Pine are low income receiving small Social Security payments that limit their ability to purchase | 00:59:47 | |
| adequate amounts of nutritional food. In one case, the center received a referral from a couple who were surviving on peanut | 00:59:53 | |
| butter and Jelly sandwiches. | 00:59:59 | |
| They were in tears when they were told their meals would be free and delivered directly to their door. | 01:00:05 | |
| And just a reminder that our services because there are federally funded as well as state and local and of course the funds are | 01:00:11 | |
| received from from Yue County. We do not charge for any of our services nor do we determine eligibility based solely on on their | 01:00:18 | |
| income. The person is 65 years or older and is unable to. | 01:00:24 | |
| To cook for themselves, then they are most likely eligible for service. | 01:00:31 | |
| Challenges. | 01:00:40 | |
| As we move into this next fiscal year, one of the challenges that we're facing across the board, and I know that many nonprofit | 01:00:42 | |
| organizations are are dealing with these challenges, but the lack of increased funding opportunities just aren't what what they | 01:00:49 | |
| were a few years back. The older Americans actually, which is the federal funds that we receive annually are stagnant. We're not | 01:00:56 | |
| seeing any movement there. In fact, there is some discussion about possibly some cuts in in in funding to nutrition services. | 01:01:03 | |
| And senior services across the board. So that's something that we're having to work through and in many cases having to cut | 01:01:11 | |
| service as well as the spend down of the ARPU funds which at the height of of of the pandemic, our agency received a couple of | 01:01:17 | |
| $1,000,000 in funding and we distributed that to all the senior centers which was helping to helping to cover some of the costs | 01:01:24 | |
| and challenges that they were experiencing. We have spent down all of the Arkansas funds. So we are no longer able to tap into | 01:01:31 | |
| those dollars. So really we're moving into. | 01:01:37 | |
| Level, Funding Level, Service. | 01:01:45 | |
| Other challenges staffing continues to be a challenge for our senior centers. The rising cost of food we're all we're all | 01:01:48 | |
| experiencing that the seniors for sure are and our centers are also having to look at you know other options in terms of reducing | 01:01:55 | |
| their cost for food fuel as well. And then the recruitment and retention of volunteers has been a consistent challenge for them | 01:02:03 | |
| but they they make do and and they put all their effort into making sure that there's no interruption of services. | 01:02:11 | |
| And the impact of the Gila County funding, certainly it it your funding and your continued support of our program allowed through | 01:02:20 | |
| the significant improvement of the diet quality, increase in nutrient intake and overall reducing food insecurity in their | 01:02:27 | |
| communities as well as malnutrition amongst our seniors. | 01:02:34 | |
| Increasing socialization opportunities for seniors to attend Senior Center programs, which improves the quality of life of our | 01:02:42 | |
| seniors. | 01:02:46 | |
| And then a daily well check and we've heard from many seniors that say the meal is is wonderful. We love the meal, but the daily | 01:02:50 | |
| well check is so, so important to so many of our seniors. They want someone to come in and check on them and make sure that | 01:02:56 | |
| they're doing OK. In many cases, we have found seniors on the floor and over weekends sometimes. And so that's an incredibly | 01:03:03 | |
| important, important service for them. | 01:03:09 | |
| And. | 01:03:17 | |
| Let me turn my page here providing access to community resources and supporting seniors in their home and in car get meal | 01:03:19 | |
| settings. And the the funding and the programs that we provide align with federal and state policies which aim to reduce. | 01:03:27 | |
| Institutionalization of seniors in nursing home, which we know is incredibly expensive and so for seniors to remain here in the | 01:03:35 | |
| community to age in place of course helps ensure that their health is improving and. | 01:03:42 | |
| Combat functional decline and it really makes these community how grow safely and healthy. | 01:03:50 | |
| For this area, we know that 18 to 20% of your population are seniors and they are seeking these services. And the calls to us, to | 01:04:00 | |
| our office continue to grow. And we know that one in eight seniors is suffering with either food insecurity or malnutrition, and | 01:04:07 | |
| senior funds help us to ensure that we are combining those issues in the community. | 01:04:14 | |
| To help the senior disabled in our community and I just can't thank you enough because I've actually seen what you know it it | 01:04:56 | |
| helps and know people that that you've been working with. And so I thank you very much and I support anything that we can do to | 01:05:03 | |
| continue helping and with our rising economy you know things the way they are and help the way it is and no God bless you for all | 01:05:11 | |
| you do and anything that I can do to help support you I'll I'll be willing to. | 01:05:19 | |
| What we call the annual allocations over the course of maybe four or five years. So yeah, there are some increases in particular | 01:06:03 | |
| in special programs and we, we run a variety of programs. So we have everything from the investment program to Medicare, Medicaid | 01:06:11 | |
| counseling depending on the program, we're seeing some increases. But in terms of nutrition services, we're not seeing any | 01:06:19 | |
| increases there. So it's no way keeping up with the inflation or anything like that. | 01:06:27 | |
| Not keeping up with inflation nor is it keeping up with the need and we are seeing growth in our senior population. More and more | 01:06:35 | |
| people are living longer and and moving into that eligibility area where they are seeking additional services. We just don't have | 01:06:42 | |
| funding to be able to to support them. Recently we implemented a wait list for home delivery deals which is the first time we've | 01:06:49 | |
| had to do that in 10 years. | 01:06:56 | |
| So, yes, and I think we've been able to serve more people in Gila County, but Pinal County is is very backed up because we have | 01:07:04 | |
| more of a of a need there in in our county that we just can't. But in Hilah County I think we were able to bring people on not as | 01:07:11 | |
| quickly as we'd like to. I mean just the fact that we have to tell people that they have to go on a wait list for food is | 01:07:18 | |
| incredibly difficult to do that, but unfortunately we don't have the funds. | 01:07:25 | |
| So in Healing County right now, we don't have that way. Yes. Not, not now. No. We're serving now. I can't. Yeah, I can't really | 01:07:32 | |
| imagine telling anybody they're going to wait. Exactly. So when I first came on the board, we've upped the money from the county | 01:07:38 | |
| considerably since then. So I. | 01:07:44 | |
| Mr. Menloff can start sharpening this pencil and we'll have more discussion. So anyway, but Anna, thank you so much for everything | 01:07:52 | |
| you guys do and and please pass that on to your seniors. I will thank you very much. We appreciate your support. Yes, thank you | 01:07:58 | |
| for your presentation. So if you don't have family members in your own family like myself that are struggling with meals or | 01:08:05 | |
| struggling with isolation, you don't really realize the magnitude of. | 01:08:11 | |
| How many people are out there that you know real cause of their own just end up alone, unable to get around. So it's vital that we | 01:08:19 | |
| have a program like this. And also you can see where the bus system that we support also supports that and that the the Healer | 01:08:26 | |
| provisional college also provides things to help people get out, do things and become healthier as a result. So yeah, your efforts | 01:08:33 | |
| are vital. | 01:08:41 | |
| And so it's great to hear. Well, we appreciate it. It really is a collaboration. I mean, we have some funding from Older Americans | 01:08:49 | |
| Act. It does not cover the full cost of running a Senior Center. So it really is a partnership on our behalf. But then also with | 01:08:55 | |
| all of the senior centers, it provides a space, it provides the staff, they provide the other resources and we're always looking | 01:09:02 | |
| for other organizations that can bring in some of those resources. So it really speaks to a collaborative. | 01:09:09 | |
| Ability of the organizations in this area to work together. | 01:09:17 | |
| Yes, thank you, Supervisor. I have one more question for James. James, when it comes to the town's Globe case and whatnot, how do | 01:09:22 | |
| they contribute to the senior centers? | 01:09:29 | |
| Mr. Chairman, as far as decline, I was exactly asking that exact question myself. I do not know what the contributions. | 01:09:39 | |
| Those amounts are and how they participate. Medina may have that answer. Sure. So you're at, you're asking specifically about the | 01:09:46 | |
| amount of funds or yeah, so we have a, we have a contract with each. | 01:09:52 | |
| Gotcha. I I was just curious. So thank you. Thank you for that. | 01:10:36 | |
| Thank you very much. Thank you. And with that, I will call for a motion. | 01:10:41 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to approve agreement number 03152024 with the now County Council for Senior Citizens as presented and which the | 01:10:45 | |
| Board finds and determines. This is for the benefit to provide services to persons with disabilities and aged persons within Halo | 01:10:56 | |
| County. And Mr. Charles second that Very good. We have a motion and a second to approve those in favor. Say aye, aye, aye. | 01:11:07 | |
| Motion passes Item 4H Information Discussion Action to Approve Professional Services Contract number 012924 with Bose. | 01:11:18 | |
| Public Affairs Group in the amount of 84,000 per year at the rate of 7000 per month plus up to $4000 in travel related expenses to | 01:11:27 | |
| continue providing lobbying and consulting services to the Federal government level to Healer County Affected February 1st, 2024 | 01:11:36 | |
| through June 30th, 2025. Mayor Good morning again Mr. Chair, Supervisor, Client Supervisor Humphrey This is our annual renewal of | 01:11:45 | |
| the Bose Public Affairs Group contract that provides the County with Federal lobbying services. | 01:11:54 | |
| We meet monthly with Bose and they provide us with information about ongoings in Washington, DC and different access points for | 01:12:03 | |
| federal funding opportunities. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you, Mayor and Supervisor Humphrey. I have no | 01:12:10 | |
| question. Supervisor Klein. | 01:12:16 | |
| How can I put this so I don't really sound horrible, but tell me the benefits of having our lobbyists in in DC, man, please. | 01:12:30 | |
| So our lobbyist in DC knows and has access to the ongoing day-to-day operations and the day-to-day culture within the offices that | 01:12:40 | |
| we're working with to get access to funding, especially for congressionally directed spending. As you know, congressionally | 01:12:48 | |
| directed spending requires us to work closely with the different Senators offices. And I don't know if you're familiar with this, | 01:12:56 | |
| but I know the City of Globe has been having a real struggle lately trying to get their congressionally directed spending from. | 01:13:05 | |
| Two years ago. | 01:13:14 | |
| APP Directed here for the Michelson project because we have access to our lobbyists in in DC, we don't base those struggles when | 01:13:15 | |
| we have congressionally directed spending. We know exactly what we need to do and exactly how to do it. We don't have to have | 01:13:23 | |
| additional meetings with other federal agencies to try to facilitate getting those funds. Here we also have. | 01:13:31 | |
| Access to get appointments with various individuals in Congress when. | 01:13:41 | |
| When you or county management are in DC and we also have access to to better understand what's going on in Capitol Hill without | 01:13:47 | |
| one of us having to be there in person to do it. For example, when when Congress was talking about potential decline back the | 01:13:55 | |
| American Relief Plan Act, ARPA with what the auditor General's office refers to a slur, the state and local federal recovery | 01:14:02 | |
| funds. | 01:14:09 | |
| Are. | 01:14:18 | |
| Our lobbyist was on the phone with us as soon as that was an issue, to advise us. | 01:14:19 | |
| Of how we could go into the ARPA reporting platform and show the feds that we had committed all the funds so that he's accounting | 01:14:26 | |
| was not in risk of those funds being clawed back and they were funds that had been in the bank for at that .6 or 8 months. And we | 01:14:33 | |
| were able to be advised that very first day that there was the potential of Congress doing that. Congress didn't end up doing that | 01:14:39 | |
| but having that boots on the ground or high heels on the ground knowledge of of what we ought to do to protect ourselves from | 01:14:46 | |
| potential. | 01:14:53 | |
| Federal Behaviors has been really helpful to us. So we've had a contract with them from before I took office. It's been a while. | 01:15:00 | |
| It looks like on the agenda item that this began in 2009. So quite a while on there, I mean. | 01:15:09 | |
| So I'm always, I'm always kind of questioning this to be honest with you and turning things around and and whatnot. But I know | 01:15:19 | |
| Patty, I know she's very capable of getting in the offices and doing things up there too. And so and I Mr. James, we've we've | 01:15:27 | |
| talked about before and you've you've said that she's been helpful to you in the past. | 01:15:35 | |
| Go ahead. | 01:15:44 | |
| Mr. Chairman through our client. | 01:15:48 | |
| There is one specific. | 01:15:50 | |
| All the purposes that misspelling had laid out. | 01:15:52 | |
| I wanted to go over it later in the meeting, but the Arizona State Department of Transportation has awarded HeLa County $3,000,000 | 01:15:57 | |
| to. | 01:16:02 | |
| Of a SMART grant which will be used to do the design and engineering for Russell Rd. | 01:16:07 | |
| Part of that SMART grant award is that we are required. | 01:16:14 | |
| And if we don't, we have to pay that smart money back. But we are required to apply for a raise grant with the federal government. | 01:16:20 | |
| I ask. | 01:16:27 | |
| Darcy plead that we continue this because we have we are required to apply for this RAISE grant and we need to have that | 01:16:30 | |
| continuity of a voice in Washington DC that gives us every opportunity, every chance of being successful for our RAISE Grant to. | 01:16:39 | |
| Complete Russell Rd. and make it passable, make it accessible. So that's to me, I. | 01:16:49 | |
| Request. | 01:16:57 | |
| Your support I understand. I do. I just and and what you just said is. | 01:16:59 | |
| Is viable. We need that road and if Patty can help us nail that down and and keep that going. | 01:17:06 | |
| That would be great and we'll look at it again next year, so. | 01:17:13 | |
| Thank you, James. Thank you, Mary. | 01:17:19 | |
| OK. And thank you, Mayor. And so the message I'm getting is that the cost is well worth the benefit that we get. | 01:17:21 | |
| Mr. Chairman, one example we have is the Tunnel Creek Bridge on nearly $25 million project that it was a lot of voices, a lot of | 01:17:32 | |
| things that went into that. Patty certainly had a a part in getting that nearly $25 million bridge almost to completion here. | 01:17:41 | |
| OK. And I can see that and I agree with that. So with that I will call for motion, Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve | 01:17:51 | |
| professional services contract number 012924 with Bose Public Affairs Group as presented. | 01:17:58 | |
| Mr. Gerald, I'll second that. OK, We have a motion and a second to approve those in favor, say aye. | 01:18:06 | |
| Thank you, Mary. We have item 4I, information discussion asking to approve the implementation of budgeted and unbudgeted interfund | 01:18:14 | |
| transfers from fiscal year 2024 has approved for preparation at the Board of Supervisors, November 7th, 2023. | 01:18:22 | |
| Regular meeting, Mary. Good morning again. This is an annual transaction that the Board authorizes and in order to be in | 01:18:32 | |
| compliance with ARS 4217106, we have to come before the Board to authorize the transfers. You did authorize the preparation of | 01:18:40 | |
| them back in November on November 7th. We are here today so that we can get these prepared or completed before June 30th. So that | 01:18:48 | |
| everything is where it needs to be for the fiscal year end. | 01:18:56 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. I have no question. Thank you, man. Thank you, Mayor. And with that I'll call for a motion next | 01:19:06 | |
| year I move to approve the implementation for budgeted and unbudgeted unbudgeted inner form transfers for physical year 2024 as | 01:19:14 | |
| approved for preparation at the Board of Supervisors November 7th, 2023 regular meeting. Mr. Chair. I'll second that motion to | 01:19:22 | |
| have a second to approve those in favor, say aye. | 01:19:30 | |
| Aye, aye. Thank you, Marin. Item 4. J Information discussion action to review the bids for request for proposals number 011224 | 01:19:38 | |
| Cost Allocation Plan and CFR Cost Allocation Plan Services award to be most responsive, responsible and qualified bidder and | 01:19:46 | |
| authorized the Chairman's signature on the award contract, Mayor. | 01:19:54 | |
| Good morning again. We are here to request your signature on the contract with Management Consulting to prepare the county's cost | 01:20:02 | |
| allocation plan and CFR Federal Cost allocation plan for the coming fiscal year. | 01:20:09 | |
| Our previous vendor has taken this off their menu of services, so we had to go out to bid. We did that in January and evaluated | 01:20:16 | |
| the responses and there were two that we were able to consider of the four that we received and of those two, MGT Consulting is | 01:20:23 | |
| the most cost effective. | 01:20:29 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:20:38 | |
| I have no question, Supervisor Klein. Yeah, I'm good. Thank you, man. Yeah, thank you, Mary. With that, I'll call for motion. | 01:20:39 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to award a contract to UGT Consulting in the amount of $23,000 per year for three years, totaling | 01:20:46 | |
| 69,000, in response to Request for Proposals number 011224 and authorize the Chairman signature on the award. | 01:20:55 | |
| Mr. Carroll second, then OK motion and seconded to approve those in favor, say aye, aye. | 01:21:05 | |
| Thank you, Marin. Thank you item 4K information discussion action to approve Amendment #2 to the service agreement number 10042021 | 01:21:12 | |
| with Atlas Technical Consultants to extend the term of the agreement through October 31st, 2025 and increase the contract budget | 01:21:22 | |
| by $97,400, which will be utilized for blatant property assessments anything. | 01:21:31 | |
| Good morning, Chairman and Supervisor. Thank you. This is the Copper Corridor Fightbusters grant, known as the CCBB grant, which | 01:21:42 | |
| is almost done. It should be done by the end of October 2024, but we're not quite there yet. So we're asking to extend it through | 01:21:50 | |
| the end of October 2025. | 01:21:57 | |
| And the reason for that is that we had a little bit of hesitancy with. | 01:22:06 | |
| Some of the people coming forward with their properties, I think more because they weren't sure what would happen once they had | 01:22:14 | |
| the properties assessed. And now that they've seen that they're going to be OK and booty man is not going to get them, they're | 01:22:22 | |
| they're moving forward and the the properties can be assessed. And so we had a bunch of properties kind of come forward at the | 01:22:30 | |
| last. So we're getting those assessed that I think that property probably we should have said increase the contract. | 01:22:38 | |
| To do so, if you get that approved, we can get those in. | 01:23:22 | |
| OK. Thank you. | 01:23:28 | |
| Yeah. And you you say you're looking for other grants, grants from where? From EPA. It's actually the same grant. EPA is aware | 01:23:31 | |
| that we're moving forward with another ask for this and they're aware that we have a lot of other properties. We we received the | 01:23:38 | |
| Environmental Justice grant, Justice Grant. It's not, we don't want it to do the exact same thing you want to do other things like | 01:23:45 | |
| demolition. So we're asking for another grant to do the assessments like lead and. | 01:23:52 | |
| The other one. | 01:24:02 | |
| Definitely. Thank you. Thank you again that type of assistance. | 01:24:03 | |
| OK. And Mr. Chair, if I may, thank you very much. I mean I did properties my big deals and in my district it is a big deal. So | 01:24:07 | |
| thank you very much. Yeah, we can use every dime we can get to to fix blighted properties cause a lot of them don't have owners | 01:24:16 | |
| and and a lot of them are investors and and so we do have issues. So thank you very much for all the, all the funding that we can | 01:24:24 | |
| get for fighting flight is, is a is a great deal. So I appreciate it if I may. | 01:24:33 | |
| To that we have learned a few things about those properties with the absentee land owners. And so we're moving ahead with a few | 01:24:42 | |
| things that maybe we can some of these things is that rotting for so many years? | 01:24:47 | |
| Move on them, you know, within the law. But things that we didn't know that we could do before we're we're starting to to look | 01:24:54 | |
| around and and see what else we can do to move move them so that they don't. We don't have properties just sitting there doing | 01:25:00 | |
| nothing, right. Yeah. No, thank you very much. Yeah. Because I've been, I've been kicking in clawing and reaching here. So all | 01:25:06 | |
| that all the help is, is, is really appreciated. | 01:25:13 | |
| And and I'm very grateful. | 01:25:19 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Klein. | 01:25:22 | |
| Amy, thank you for everything you guys are doing. I, I, I get the lowdown from Kathy over so often. So it's really good and you | 01:25:25 | |
| guys have done an awesome job with that flight Buster Grant and all that. So it's it's good. So thanks again. | 01:25:32 | |
| Yes, thank you. And with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve Amendment #2 to service agreement number | 01:25:41 | |
| 10042021 with Atlas Technical Consultants as presented. | 01:25:49 | |
| And Mr. Chair, I'll second that here we have a motion and 2nd to approve those in favor, say aye, aye. Thank you, Amy, thank you. | 01:25:58 | |
| And we have item four, our information discussion action to approve an IGA contract to Ctr. 068202 with years on the Department of | 01:26:07 | |
| Health Services in the amount of $226,000 which will allow the Public Health and Community Services department to continue to | 01:26:15 | |
| provide HIV care and services for Hewlett County from April 1st, 2024. | 01:26:23 | |
| In March 31st, 2028. Good morning, I'm here for Josh. She was unable to attend today. Good morning, Chairman Christensen, | 01:26:32 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey, Supervisor Klein. I'm happy to present a new replacement by your contract with the Arizona Department of | 01:26:39 | |
| Health Services. This contract entails securing 226,000 in funding designated for the Ryan White HIV Services Grant. This grant | 01:26:46 | |
| term spouse five years from April 1st, 2024 to March 31st, 28. | 01:26:54 | |
| The Ryan White HIV Service Grant plays a crucial role in our efforts to provide comprehensive care and support to individuals | 01:27:02 | |
| affected by HIV and AIDS. With this funding, we can enhance access to vital services including medical care, treatment, support | 01:27:06 | |
| services and improve the well-being and quality of life for those impacted by this disease and fostering A healthier community for | 01:27:11 | |
| all residents. | 01:27:16 | |
| I'm available for any questions you might have. Thank you. Supervisor Humphrey. I have no questions. Supervisor Chloe. Thank you, | 01:27:22 | |
| Stella. | 01:27:26 | |
| Yes, thank you. With that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve an intergovernmental agreement | 01:27:30 | |
| contract number Center 068202, at the Arizona Department of Health Services. Mr. Chair, I'll second that. OK. A motion and a | 01:27:37 | |
| second to approve those in favor. Say aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. We have another one for you. For M Information Discussion action | 01:27:45 | |
| to approve amendment #8 to contract #019-0444 between the penalty the county. | 01:27:53 | |
| And now he the Council for Senior Citizens Area Agency on Aging Region 5 and Hayley County Public Health and Community Services | 01:28:02 | |
| Department to receive additional funding of $55,000 to continue providing eligible citizens with home repair, renovations and | 01:28:11 | |
| housing supportive services from July 1st, 2023 to June 30th, 2024. | 01:28:19 | |
| Yes, good morning. Again. This amendment proposes to allocate an additional 55,000. These funds are designated to designated for | 01:28:30 | |
| home repair and renovations for eligible citizens. This will enhance your living conditions and overall quality of life, ensuring | 01:28:36 | |
| they have access to resources necessary for comfortable and safe living environments, especially with the extreme heat that we are | 01:28:42 | |
| expecting. This amendment does not extend the terms of the contract. The original contract remains stated to conclude on June | 01:28:47 | |
| 30th, 2024. | 01:28:53 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:29:01 | |
| No questions, Supervisor Klein. Neither do I. Thank you for doing that. Thank you. And with that, I will call for a motion that | 01:29:03 | |
| Chair I move to approve Amendment #8 to Contract #019-0444 with the FINALE Council for Senior Citizens. | 01:29:12 | |
| Area Agency on Aging Region 5 as presented Mr. Chair. I'll second that we have a motion and a second to approve those in favor. | 01:29:22 | |
| Say aye. | 01:29:27 | |
| Aye, thank you, Stella Rumos. We have 4 N information discussion action to approve Amendment #2 to the Independent Contractor | 01:29:34 | |
| Agreement and that number is 07012023 Dash 24 between the Arizona Community Action Association doing business as Wildfire and the | 01:29:42 | |
| Healer County Public Health and Community Services Department whereby Wildfire will administer an additional $30,000 of funding | 01:29:49 | |
| for total contract number of. | 01:29:57 | |
| Amount of $70,000 Seventy $1020.00 which will be used to provide APS crisis pill assistance to eligible citizens residing in Hilo | 01:30:06 | |
| County for the period of July 1, 2023 through June 3024. | 01:30:14 | |
| Thank you and Supervisor Humphrey, I have no question. Supervisor Klein still with that money, how many people are we able to | 01:30:57 | |
| help? Do you know with the additional funding, I believe they can help probably 10 to 11 people. Last year with this funding, they | 01:31:05 | |
| were able to help 47472023 with the same kind of money basically, right. Well with with the 70,000 the total amount. OK, thank | 01:31:12 | |
| you. | 01:31:20 | |
| Yes, thank you very much. And with that, I'll call for motion. | 01:31:28 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve Amendment #2 to the independent contractor agreement contract number 070120, two 3-24 | 01:31:32 | |
| with Arizona Community Action Association DBA Welfare as presented. Mr. Carroll. Second that OK motion and a second to approve | 01:31:41 | |
| those in favor. Say aye, aye. Aye. Thank you, Stella. And let's move on to item 4 O Information discussion Action to approve | 01:31:50 | |
| Amendment #1A, Contract number 071023. | 01:31:58 | |
| With Cactus Asphalt to extend the term of the contract through October 31st, 2024, we have home error with us. | 01:32:07 | |
| Good morning, Chairman and Board members Morning. This is the contract to extend the time frame for the work that we're trying to | 01:32:14 | |
| do on Garcia Rd. with Cactus Asphalt and it would allow for up through October 31st. | 01:32:23 | |
| For the contractor to continue to be in place, actually the work is scheduled to take place. The latest news is on June 3rd. It's | 01:32:33 | |
| going to start. It should be completed on June 20th and perhaps that we know that information, we may not have come to the board. | 01:32:40 | |
| But there is rain associated with the month of June sometimes and rain could delay the the ship seal. The temperature needs to be | 01:32:47 | |
| 65° and rising that the air temperature, the ground temperature is supposed to be 85°. If for an example tomorrow, the next day | 01:32:55 | |
| they wouldn't be able to start till about 9/30 10:00 in the morning based on accurate weather. So there is and we're just getting | 01:33:03 | |
| insurance here that we have enough time on the contract. Once again, the work is scheduled to take place in June. | 01:33:11 | |
| And the dollar value does not change with the contract. We both parties agreed. We tried to do this work. We actually the board | 01:33:19 | |
| approved this in September and actually it was too late to try to do it in October and we were maybe perhaps thinking about it, | 01:33:26 | |
| but we changed our mind and now we're going to get it done early summer like I mentioned in the June time frame. | 01:33:33 | |
| So we that we would like to recommend your approval to approve amendment number one to contract number 071023 to extend the | 01:33:41 | |
| termination, the expiration date till October 31st of 2024. | 01:33:49 | |
| Thank you, Romero. Supervisor Humphrey. I have no questions. Just thank you. This project's been put off for years and then I got | 01:33:56 | |
| called and so I'm I'm, I'm great and very happy and gracious for all your hard work to have this coming up in June. I appreciate | 01:34:03 | |
| it very much. So that's all I have Mr. Chair. Thank you. And Supervisor Klein. Oh, Merrill, thanks. No that's this would be good | 01:34:09 | |
| to get it. | 01:34:16 | |
| Very good. So let's I'll call for motion. | 01:34:23 | |
| I move to approve amendment number one to contract number 071023 with Cactus asphalt as presented and then Mr. Chair, I'll second | 01:34:27 | |
| that motion and a second to approve those in favor, say aye, aye, thank you, homeroom. Thank you. And next we have item 4P, | 01:34:38 | |
| Information discussion action to approve amendment #2 to Emergency Management performance Grant #EMF-2023-APP-0000 eight Dash S01. | 01:34:49 | |
| With the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Fair Division of Emergency Management, which corrects the award number to | 01:35:01 | |
| that really long number. Thank you, Carl. | 01:35:06 | |
| Morning, Chairman, Members of the Board, Ironically, last time we brought this item to the Board, it was the same thing. They did | 01:35:12 | |
| modify the award number just to give a little information for the Emergency Management. | 01:35:18 | |
| Performance grant, which is the grant that funds 50% of our division. There are no other changes as we're kind of wrapping up the | 01:35:24 | |
| year. We have accomplished all of our programmatic goals for for the fiscal year. So it's just a modification of the IGA number. | 01:35:31 | |
| There are no other changes necessary within the IGA thus far. Looks like this should be the last one to carry us through the | 01:35:38 | |
| remainder of the year, but there are no other questions. That's pretty much the only change in this IGA. | 01:35:45 | |
| Thank you, Carol. Supervisor, I have no question. I don't either. Thank you, Carl. Yeah, thank you, Carl. Simple change in the | 01:35:53 | |
| number. So I'll call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve Amendment #2 to Emergency Management Performance | 01:36:01 | |
| Grant #EMF2023. | 01:36:09 | |
| App 00008 S 01 but the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs Division of Emergency Management as. | 01:36:16 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion and a second to approve those in favor. Say aye. Aye. Thank you, Carl. Thank you. All right. | 01:36:27 | |
| Thank you, gentlemen for hanging around up there in Payson. The next four items, just for your information, are requests from my | 01:36:34 | |
| constituent funds, so. | 01:36:40 | |
| Let's get started with item 4P. I'm sorry, Four Q Information Discussion Action to approve Economic Development Agreement number | 01:36:48 | |
| 04084 between Gila County and the Tunnel Rim Search and Rescue Squad, incorporated in the amount of $14,788. | 01:36:57 | |
| To support the purchase of Garmin and Reach Mini 2 for the two way satellite communications that will be used while conducting | 01:37:08 | |
| search and rescue in the rough terrain of HeLa County, which support is determined to be for the benefit of the public. And we | 01:37:15 | |
| have Bill Pitterley with us from Tonal Rim Search and Rescue. Could you tell us how this will benefit? | 01:37:23 | |
| Your organization and Gila County. | 01:37:32 | |
| I would be glad to morning. | 01:37:36 | |
| Germany Christensen, Supervisor Humphrey and Supervisor Klein I have been a member of Search and Rescue for 22 years. I have been | 01:37:39 | |
| commander of the organization for 20 of those years. I've done over 600 missions and. | 01:37:47 | |
| One of the problems that we continually run into and of course we live in a very vertical county. Hewlett County is a very | 01:37:55 | |
| vertical county compared to a lot of places that we have been involved in. And of course communications, first responders is | 01:38:04 | |
| always the biggest issue that we have and of course it's exacerbated by the terrain that we live in. | 01:38:12 | |
| My most critical problem when I run into issues with safety. | 01:38:22 | |
| Critical nature incidents with our The subjects that we're rescuing have to do with the fact that we just simply cannot | 01:38:28 | |
| communicate from where we are to where we need to get help from. The garment Enrage is an item that I've looked at for a long | 01:38:35 | |
| time. We've tried a number of other things. They they just have not come up to what the garment in reach can do. I have some of | 01:38:43 | |
| the older models. I have 5 of them. | 01:38:50 | |
| It's not enough. I need these devices in the hands of the rescuers because they're dispatched at 10:00 at night, 2:00 in the | 01:39:00 | |
| morning. They go direct from their home to the the trailhead. And what I've decided and determine is I just need to have these in | 01:39:06 | |
| the hands of the people that will be out there and so that they will have them when I need to know what's going on out in the | 01:39:13 | |
| field. | 01:39:20 | |
| OK. Thank you, Bill. Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. Thank you for all you do. Supervisor Klein, same with me. Thanks. | 01:39:29 | |
| Yes, thank you for that presentation. Anything to improve public safety. So with that I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I move to | 01:39:38 | |
| approve Economic Development Agreement number 040824 with Tunnel Rim Search and Rescue Squad Incorporated as presented. | 01:39:47 | |
| And which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. And Mr. Gerald Second, we have a motion and a second to | 01:39:57 | |
| approve all those in favor say aye aye motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Bill and let's move on to item 4R information | 01:40:05 | |
| discussion action to approve economic development agreement number 040524 between HeLa County and Immogeon Valley pit program | 01:40:13 | |
| incorporated in the amount of 5000 support covering some of the costs. | 01:40:21 | |
| Associated with making the brush pivot cleaner and safer area to propose a firewise materials which the board is determined to be | 01:40:30 | |
| for the benefit of the public and this is once again Frank Aspleaux came to me and said that they purchased $20,000 worth of | 01:40:37 | |
| granite. Could I help in in some way? I decided yes I think I can is anyone there from the pit? | 01:40:45 | |
| No, OK. So that's the explanation. They just they run a great program and it benefits basically the entire region. And so it is | 01:40:56 | |
| cleaned up the area quite a bit from having a lot of really hazardous soot and everything that was just in the air constantly with | 01:41:03 | |
| people driving in. | 01:41:11 | |
| So with that. | 01:41:19 | |
| Take any questions Supervisor Humphrey. I have no questions. Supervisor Klein. | 01:41:21 | |
| What? Mr. Chair, what Pierce is involved? Is this all it's the blacker pit, specifically the black nerd pit, the Blattner pit. And | 01:41:26 | |
| So what you're saying is they're cleaning up or covering up that old ash that was in there because now they're chipping it and | 01:41:34 | |
| hauling it out, right? Yes, correct. There's no burning and but it it from past burnings has been quite problematic. So I thought | 01:41:42 | |
| he actually got this granite donated, but he told me no, he spent $20,000. | 01:41:50 | |
| So I'm sure he would. | 01:41:59 | |
| In the amount of $1200 to support venue expenses and aviation education at the Payson Aeroferry event scheduled for October 19th, | 01:42:44 | |
| 2024, which the Board determined before the benefit of the public, we have someone there from the PACE and Pilots Association. | 01:42:53 | |
| Yes, we have. My name is Larry Earthman and I represent the Patient Pilot Association and the chairperson for the patient Aerofer | 01:43:02 | |
| 2024. | 01:43:07 | |
| Thank you, Larry. So tell us a little bit about what you do and the revitalization of this. | 01:43:12 | |
| Aerofare and how much it benefits the area. | 01:43:22 | |
| To do so, thank you and good morning. So the PACE and pilot association together with the cooperation of the Town of Payson and | 01:43:29 | |
| certain departments such as Parks and Recreation, that town Street department put on a free event for the public last year. We had | 01:43:36 | |
| about 3500 attendees. | 01:43:43 | |
| Come to the Aerofare, we expect this year perhaps to exceed 4000. In the Aerofare, we have a display of military aircraft. | 01:43:51 | |
| Together with private pilots to bring their airplanes in, the whole focus of the event is to provide an opportunity for the public | 01:44:03 | |
| to come out and see the resource they have, which is the patient airport, but also to provide educational opportunities. | 01:44:12 | |
| For primarily children to learn about programs that they could apply for, to get into aerospace, to get into different educational | 01:44:23 | |
| programs. We provide, for instance, a free simulators so the kids can actually sit down and and work with pilots to see what it's | 01:44:31 | |
| like to actually fly in an airplane. | 01:44:40 | |
| We have, we will be having this year several of the. | 01:44:50 | |
| Local Arizona fight schools have represented there, so again, the public and primarily children who might be interested in a | 01:44:54 | |
| career path in aerospace would have that opportunity to engage with them. | 01:45:02 | |
| OK, sorry, that was feedback there. I thought there was a question that came up and so this money that we're requesting will help | 01:45:13 | |
| us with. This is again a free event for the public, but these expenses will help us with things such as the trash. | 01:45:22 | |
| All the different security that we will need parking and and so forth to be able to put that on. We of course are completely | 01:45:32 | |
| volunteer organization and no paid staff to do this. | 01:45:39 | |
| And I'm happy to answer any questions. OK. Thank you very much, Larry. | 01:45:49 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey, I have no question. So this is going to take place October 19th. I see, right? That is correct. We're trying | 01:45:53 | |
| to make it a standard date and to in cooperation with the town of Payson, we've agreed that the third Saturday of October every | 01:46:01 | |
| year will be Aerofair. It tends to be a very good seasonal time in which winds aren't too bad and we're hopefully beyond monsoon | 01:46:08 | |
| season. We haven't really gotten into the cold yet. | 01:46:16 | |
| OK, sounds good. We'll be in touch with you. Maybe there's a way we can help you out as well. So thank you. Oh fantastic. And I | 01:46:24 | |
| invite everyone to attend if possible. | 01:46:29 | |
| Yes, it's a great event. Thank you very much. With that I'll call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve Economic Development | 01:46:34 | |
| agreement number 040624 with Payson Pilots Association Incorporated as presented and which the Board has determined to be for the | 01:46:42 | |
| benefit of the public. And I'll second that Mr. Chair got a motion to the second to approve those in favor, say aye. Aye. Thank | 01:46:50 | |
| you very much. And by the way, I got to say that microphone is working exceptionally well. | 01:46:58 | |
| Clear the belt. So thank you for that. And last item will be #4T in our regular agenda Information Discussion Action to Approve | 01:47:07 | |
| Economic Development Agreement number 040424 between Healer County and the Payson Military Honor Guard incorporated in the amount | 01:47:15 | |
| of 3000 to provide military honors members with proper military uniforms and flags for families of fallen soldiers and veterans, | 01:47:23 | |
| which the Board is determined to be for the benefit of the public. | 01:47:31 | |
| And I know we have a couple representatives there from the honor guard. We have Randy Kaufman. And who else? | 01:47:40 | |
| Brad Hoffman. | 01:47:47 | |
| Oh, but OK. It's hard to see. Good. Good to have you, bud. | 01:47:49 | |
| Tell us. Tell us how you're going to use this money and how that benefits HeLa County residents. | 01:47:54 | |
| Well, when we. | 01:48:01 | |
| Are all volunteer in the uniforms are quite expensive so this will help offset the expense of the uniforms and we go to all of the | 01:48:03 | |
| schools to do flag presentations 13 folds and. | 01:48:14 | |
| Just to introduce ourselves and everything around the area and do some patriotic stuff. | 01:48:26 | |
| The Honor Guard is proud to say that we are one of three honor guards in the state of Arizona that is certified to do military | 01:48:33 | |
| honors in a National Cemetery in Arizona. | 01:48:43 | |
| And we have worked our way from 13 people to. | 01:48:53 | |
| 33. | 01:49:01 | |
| And we have been trying to be a proud unit and so far we are successful. Thank you very much. | 01:49:03 | |
| So all of our all of our funds. | 01:49:16 | |
| Come from donations. | 01:49:21 | |
| We do not solicit. | 01:49:24 | |
| Funds in any manner. | 01:49:27 | |
| And. | 01:49:30 | |
| So we just want. | 01:49:33 | |
| Wanted to let you know that that. | 01:49:37 | |
| The. | 01:49:42 | |
| The $3000 if you still approve it. | 01:49:44 | |
| Would be very. | 01:49:48 | |
| Much appreciated. | 01:49:50 | |
| Thank you, gentlemen. Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:49:55 | |
| No questions, Supervisor Klein. | 01:49:57 | |
| So the same goes with you guys, but maybe we'll get in touch with you and see how we can help out as well and we'll we'll go from | 01:50:01 | |
| there. But I see you guys at all these events and special occasions and you do a fantastic job. So thank you so much. Thanks for | 01:50:06 | |
| your service. | 01:50:11 | |
| One other thing we we will be at the at the. | 01:50:17 | |
| At the opening of the bridge. | 01:50:22 | |
| In in June. | 01:50:26 | |
| Oh, good. Well, we look forward to seeing you guys there. It's always an honor to so. Thank you so much. | 01:50:29 | |
| Yes, thank you. And I honestly believe I don't have anything to compare to, but if you guys are not the best owner guard in the | 01:50:36 | |
| state of Arizona, I would be surprised. | 01:50:41 | |
| Very professional. You're at all of the various. | 01:50:47 | |
| Memorial services. Funeral services. You do all this voluntarily. You guys travel. You're you're everywhere. You veteran's day, | 01:50:52 | |
| Memorial Day, you do flags at the cemetery. | 01:50:58 | |
| You retire flags. There's so much you do, and so to help in this small way is a real honor. So thank you for everything you do. | 01:51:04 | |
| And with that I will call for a motion. | 01:51:10 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll make the Motion to approve Economic Development Grant Agreement number 040424 with Patient Military Honor Guard | 01:51:17 | |
| Incorporated as presented in which the Board has determined determined to be for the benefit of the public. | 01:51:25 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion and a second to approve those in favor. Say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimous. Thank you | 01:51:34 | |
| for your time, gentlemen. And we'll move on to item 5, consent agenda. Item 5A through I. Does either one of the supervisors wish | 01:51:41 | |
| to remove one or more items from the consent agenda and talk about it separately? I do not. Yeah, neither do I I'm good. OK, I'll | 01:51:48 | |
| call for motion to approve. | 01:51:55 | |
| Let's chair move to approve consent agenda items 5/8 through 5I and I will second that okay motion. The 2nd to approve all items | 01:52:04 | |
| in the consent agenda I. | 01:52:10 | |
| Say aye, aye, aye. Thank you. And we have now next call to the public. Anyone here in? | 01:52:17 | |
| Globe that wishes to speak from public figure out where I'm at. Cassandra no. And I do know that we have Chief Morris from | 01:52:27 | |
| Healthcare Department which is wishes to address us. Good morning. | 01:52:34 | |
| Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the Board, thank you very much for the opportunity to be here and speak to you today for a few | 01:52:43 | |
| reasons. | 01:52:46 | |
| First of all, I would like to thank the board for the excellent employees that I have come to know, work with and get needed | 01:52:50 | |
| results completed. I would like to thank just a few of them at this time former Employee Finance Director Mary Springer, she was | 01:52:57 | |
| very beneficial in helping health gate fire department have a pass through account for several Indian communities that have have | 01:53:04 | |
| had Prop 202 gaming grants. She would always be there for us. | 01:53:11 | |
| Current Finance Director Marilyn Belling. She is also very instrumental in working not only with Healthgate, but several of my | 01:53:19 | |
| counterpart fire chiefs from neighboring communities and have been accepted by Marin and allowed us to go forward and getting | 01:53:25 | |
| grant and help from the grant communities, the grants coordinator Amy state. If I could not get a hold of Mary or Marin, Amy was | 01:53:31 | |
| there for us. | 01:53:37 | |
| Sheriff Adam Shepard and his deputies, of which we have an excellent working relationship. | 01:53:44 | |
| Chief building official Randy Plumer. | 01:53:50 | |
| If I ever had a zoning question or a code question or just needed advice, Randy was able to perform and provide the information or | 01:53:52 | |
| support needed. Emergency managers Carl Milford and Justin Quarrels. If I needed help at any time, they would answer the phone. | 01:54:00 | |
| They work not only with me, but with all the fire departments in Gila County. When we had a tornado that blew through Star Valley | 01:54:07 | |
| back in November, I called called Carl and he immediately responded with his wealth of knowledge, expertise and support. | 01:54:14 | |
| I know that there are several other. | 01:54:22 | |
| People who I've worked with, but I would like to point out one special individual Public Works direct. Excuse me, Public Works | 01:54:24 | |
| Supervisor Wayne Jones on April 28th, Engine 21, which is my one of my engines had an issue with mud. I. | 01:54:31 | |
| This happened about midnight on Saturday night. It got caught as stuck in the in the road where we could not get it out and so a | 01:54:40 | |
| phone call to Wayne about 2:00 in the morning to see if he would be able to help help us pull the the truck out. And early that | 01:54:47 | |
| next morning he was out there with a greater and found out it was a little bit more than what it could could do and so we had to | 01:54:54 | |
| get a a heavy tow truck to come out and was able to remove it on Monday. | 01:55:00 | |
| Finally, I would like to point out that I've had a great work in the relationship with each member of this board. Supervisor | 01:55:08 | |
| Client has been the supervisor over most of my district and I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to work with you, especially | 01:55:15 | |
| when it came into a Board of Supervisor meeting asking for support in getting a grant. | 01:55:21 | |
| Speaking of brands, I would like to let you know that over my 3.9 years as the Fire Chief of Hell Skate Fire Department, I have | 01:55:28 | |
| been successful in obtaining grants totaling over $925,000. This has allowed us to buy 5 new vehicles which have been which have | 01:55:35 | |
| replaced old and worn out units. These purchases have decreased the hit to our budget. | 01:55:42 | |
| So we could address other concerns. I'd also like to inform you that last Thursday. | 01:55:51 | |
| I received an e-mail from the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management that we were successful in obtaining $175,000 | 01:55:57 | |
| grant for a Type 6 brush truck to replace our older one or one of our older Type 6 supervisor. Client had written a letter of | 01:56:04 | |
| support to DF FM for this variant and was very instrumental in obtaining a very high score. Other grants that we have received | 01:56:10 | |
| have replaced old handheld radials, mobile radios, extrication tools, required station repairs and safety enhancements. We even | 01:56:17 | |
| received a FEMA. | 01:56:24 | |
| Working with Cyber Intelligence and Security Agency that allowed for several site visits to northern Gila County. These site | 01:56:31 | |
| visits produced a study and recommendation to our radio communications issue. If a dollar value was to be assigned to the cease of | 01:56:39 | |
| study, it was around $230,000 that cost the taxpayers of accounting $0.00. Finally, I would like to announce that back in April | 01:56:47 | |
| with Chairman Christensen, I did stand and announce my retirement. | 01:56:55 | |
| And so I am retired from the Hells Gate Fire District effective the 30th of June. Don't look at me that way, the 30th of June, | 01:57:03 | |
| I've spent well over 41 years in the fire service. I can't meet some of the other fire chiefs in the area, but I appreciate the | 01:57:10 | |
| opportunity having to get to know everybody here working with the employees of Gila County and with other agencies. So I would | 01:57:16 | |
| like to say thank you very much. I hope they get to meet you in the future sometime on the road and I would wish everybody God | 01:57:22 | |
| bless. | 01:57:29 | |
| Wow, great. Thank you Supervisor. Hope for any comments. No, thank you very much for appreciating all those people and and that | 01:57:36 | |
| work with the county and and we're happy to have had that working relationship with you and I wish you well in your retirement and | 01:57:43 | |
| thank you very much for your dedication and what you've done for us. | 01:57:50 | |
| In your in your working years. | 01:57:59 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Klein. Yeah, Chief, thank you for everything you've done, and it's been a real pleasure working with you | 01:58:02 | |
| over these years and you'll truly be missed. So maybe we'll bump into each other somewhere along the way and have a cup of coffee | 01:58:06 | |
| and visit. | 01:58:11 | |
| Sounds good, yeah. | 01:58:17 | |
| Chief Morris, it's it's been a pleasure knowing you and helping in any way I could. So your boots are going to be hard to fill, | 01:58:20 | |
| quite honestly. And so you will be missed and that we wish you the best of luck and having fun in your retirement and traveling | 01:58:27 | |
| around. I know you have plans and so we'll carry on and there'll be others that step up into your place and we'll help as we can | 01:58:35 | |
| with them as well. | 01:58:43 | |
| So thank you for mentioning all those mentioned that were helpful to you personally. | 01:58:51 | |
| If we have a long list of really great employees here and Heila County. | 01:58:59 | |
| Thank you. | 01:59:05 | |
| Mr. Mammoth, did you have anything? | 01:59:07 | |
| No, no. OK. | 01:59:10 | |
| OK. Thank you for that. I don't believe there's any more public to be called upon. So last item, let's talk about some of the | 01:59:13 | |
| different summaries and current events that are occurring and. | 01:59:20 | |
| Mr. Mendra, please. | 01:59:27 | |
| This Chairman is appropriate. Chief Morris highlighted some of our employees. It just happens that yesterday and today we are in | 01:59:29 | |
| the middle of an employee health fair and employee appreciation yesterday here in Global Credit event took place out of the | 01:59:36 | |
| fairgrounds. You notice that we're in the large conference room at TCM. That's because our employee appreciation and employee | 01:59:43 | |
| health care is taking place in the large larger room there at the TCM building. | 01:59:50 | |
| Express appreciation to all of our employees as well. Cannot do what we do without them. You have many dedicated employees that | 01:59:59 | |
| contribute significantly to our success as Healer County and I am very grateful for those that work for and serve the residents of | 02:00:05 | |
| Helicon. | 02:00:11 | |
| Last week I won't think too much about it, but attended a three day event with the Eastern Counties Organization. It addresses | 02:00:20 | |
| environmental issues throughout Eastern Arizona and great event. Enjoyed it very much and I'll let others speak about that more. | 02:00:28 | |
| I did want to mention that. | 02:00:39 | |
| Homerobella and I attended the Arizona Department of Transportation board meeting in April. | 02:00:44 | |
| And at that board meeting, Healer County was awarded nearly $5 million of grants from a dot and if you know a dot, it's a it's a | 02:00:50 | |
| shark frenzy, it's a free for all feeding event that there are very limited dollars and everyone is scrambling to get those | 02:00:58 | |
| dollars. Healer County is very blessed, very fortunate to have the a dot Ward award as $5 million at $5,000,000, approximately | 02:01:06 | |
| $5,000,000 as was mentioned earlier, $3,000,000 for Russell Rd. Design and Engineering. | 02:01:14 | |
| Umm. | 02:01:23 | |
| And so that that is just a great benefit. Thank you to Homer and your staff for putting that grant application together and being | 02:01:26 | |
| awarded. | 02:01:30 | |
| In addition, there is approximately $1 million for East Mesa Rd. They will be widening the road with five foot paved shoulders for | 02:01:34 | |
| a portion of Houston Mesa Rd. On the southern southern end of that and then also approximately $500,000 for resurfacing in Tonto | 02:01:41 | |
| Village. | 02:01:48 | |
| Homer was there too, and I know has much more detail. If you have a question about those, Mr. Veiler could reinforce that. | 02:01:57 | |
| We've talked for another two hours on a lot of financial issues, grants and things and I appreciate your support and the consent | 02:02:06 | |
| agenda was a one contract and we are with the federal government nearly 2 trillions of dollars that they have appropriated that We | 02:02:14 | |
| are trying to expand our ability to reach out and get brands. Amy and Marin and Marin has taken one of her full time positions and | 02:02:22 | |
| repurposed that and. | 02:02:29 | |
| So we now have two people in the finance department that will focus our attention on grants and we've also have started to reach | 02:02:37 | |
| out and contract with certain individuals to write grants for us and help with the administration. We heard from the Auditor | 02:02:44 | |
| General today, we get the money and there is a lot of red tape to talk about red tape and federal government and all kinds of | 02:02:50 | |
| government. There's a lot of red tape with each one of these grants and contracts that we talked about and then was approved today | 02:02:57 | |
| and so. | 02:03:03 | |
| I appreciate your support and our ability to. | 02:03:10 | |
| Administer both grants and to seek for additional dollars through the grant process that will we can utilize in services for human | 02:03:14 | |
| county. Mr. Chairman, that's my report for today. Thank you. Thank you, James. Supervisor Humphrey. | 02:03:23 | |
| Just got a meeting this afternoon to discuss ideas for the Hidden County Fair. I'll hold the Tunnel Basin community meeting | 02:03:34 | |
| tonight at 5:00. We'll attend an animal control officer oath of office ceremony on Friday the 10th. | 02:03:43 | |
| And that's about all for me, Mr. Chair. OK. Thank you for that, Supervisor Klein. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So last week was a busy | 02:03:53 | |
| week. | 02:03:58 | |
| I went and attended a White Mountain Apache inauguration for some council members, 123 and four districts. They all new electees | 02:04:05 | |
| in there. Well, one one of them's been there for a while, but anyway, there they were. They were put in place on that day and then | 02:04:13 | |
| later in the week we attended the eco trip like Mr. James talked about. That was a really good trip had. I don't know what was | 02:04:20 | |
| there like 30 legislatures. | 02:04:27 | |
| More right there. We bused them from Phoenix to Payson at lunch. And Payson, you were there and it was a good lunch. And I want to | 02:04:35 | |
| thank the mayor of Payson for working with us on that Rumsey Park. | 02:04:42 | |
| And then from there they had helicopter flights up over CC Kragen and part of the RIM looking at different watershed projects. We | 02:04:50 | |
| continued on from there to show low that evening and then the next day we turned around and came back in down towards Young to a | 02:04:56 | |
| thinning project. There's a logging operation going in there and that was really cool. Sat there and watch all that and then | 02:05:02 | |
| proceeded from there on to the Noble power plant, hooked it yet and the sawmill and everything and then went on back into Sholo | 02:05:09 | |
| and. | 02:05:15 | |
| Left the next day. | 02:05:22 | |
| That that evening, that Saturday evening, I attended the Lincoln Day dinner and patient. It looked like they're pretty well | 02:05:24 | |
| attended and got to visit with some folks. It was really good. | 02:05:30 | |
| I want to give a quick update on summer work. We have 8 jobs available in Payson and we've only collected 2 apps for those jobs. | 02:05:37 | |
| And so we're looking for more outside of the patient area. And in Young, we have 5 jobs available and we've only collected. So | 02:05:47 | |
| we're going to continue to work on that and see what we can do. I'd encourage any any of the youth in Payson or President, either | 02:05:53 | |
| one to put in for that, either one of those jobs, so. | 02:05:59 | |
| We will keep working on it. | 02:06:07 | |
| And I think Kathy's got a lot of the agreements all done and been working with a lot of their accounts and schools so. | 02:06:09 | |
| Great. I did notice in the paper today your letter to the editor feeling for the youth to come. So can I, can I see some on that | 02:06:17 | |
| road? Thank you for bringing that up. I did receive an e-mail today from Pete Alshire talking about that and I really appreciate | 02:06:25 | |
| him reaching out to me. And so hopefully we'll get it all set straight and it'll be good to go. Good, good. Very good. And so I | 02:06:32 | |
| was also at the Eco. | 02:06:39 | |
| Event. | 02:06:50 | |
| The weather was great. SRP was a great participant. They provided a couple of helicopters. I was able to go up. | 02:06:51 | |
| And take a tour over the watershed for CC Craig. | 02:07:00 | |
| It's it's very telling when you can see it from that angle, how rough the terrain is, how difficult thinning or logging would be, | 02:07:04 | |
| the various patches of burnt out areas where you can see the dead standing trees where nothing was harvested, it just went up in | 02:07:12 | |
| smoke. | 02:07:19 | |
| In comparison to where they are thinning and the thinning is where you take a natural resource and you retain the value of the | 02:07:27 | |
| resource while also increasing the health of the forest, the watershed, reducing fire danger and all of that. So all of that's all | 02:07:35 | |
| very good and it also shows you the sheer magnitude of the situation and how large the issue really is. CC Craig and Watershed, he | 02:07:43 | |
| said, was only. | 02:07:50 | |
| And I'm working off the memory 300 and some square miles. | 02:07:59 | |
| Does that sound about right? | 02:08:03 | |
| 300 and some square miles sounds like a lot. That's not a lot. That's like 10 miles by 30 miles. It's just kind of a little patch | 02:08:05 | |
| area. Yet if there was a catastrophic fire in the area, SRP estimates somewhere around an $80 million damage to the reservoir, 80 | 02:08:15 | |
| to 100 million. So it's by far cheaper. To prevent the problem, I also went to the Lincoln Day dinner. | 02:08:25 | |
| Always a good time, a lot of people there and the food was really good too. So appreciate that. And so that's that's all I really | 02:08:37 | |
| have to report on. So if there's nothing else then we will adjourn the meeting. | 02:08:44 | |
| Thank you. And Romero, before you leave, I'd like to ask you something before you leave. I've got to sign my name 1000 times right | 02:08:52 | |
| now. | 02:08:56 |