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  • A. Information/Discussion/Action to approve the economic development grants by entering into various Intergovernmental Agreements with the following entities to jointly cooperate in Gila County's24 Summer Work Employment Program: City of Globe ($22,378); Town of Miami ($22,378); Town of Winkelman ($22,378); Town of Hayden ($22,378); Town of Payson ($14,919); Young Public School ($14,919); Hayden-Winkelman USD ($33,561); Town of Superior ($22,378); Town of Kearny ($22,378), and the Arizona Conservation Legacy $82,400, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. (Cathy Melvin)
  • B. Information/Discussion/Action to terminate Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) No.072022 and approve IGA No.212024 with the Gila County Provisional Community College District. (James Menlove)
  • C. Information/Discussion regarding an update on the Northeastern Arizona Workforce Development Board (NAWDB) from NAWDB Executive Director. (Jeremy Flowers)
  • D. Information/Discussion regarding the services that are provided by Eastern Arizona College Small Business Development Center to future entrepreneurs of Gila County. (Sarah Alexander)
  • E. Information/Discussion regarding the Board of Supervisors' priorities for the Local Area and Tribal Consistency Fund utilization. (Maryn Belling)
  • F. Information/Discussion regarding future Gila County capital improvement projects. (Joseph Dickison)
  • G. Information/Discussion regarding the ongoing, planned, and future Public Works Department's revenues, expenditures, and projects. (Homero Vela)
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Well, it's 10:00 here on Tuesday, May 28th, 2024. I'd like to call this special meeting to order of the Board of Supervisors and 00:00:03
I've asked Romero if he would lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:09
Please join me. 00:00:17
Of the United States of America, and to Republic, for which stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for 00:00:20
all. 00:00:25
Thank you. 00:00:32
Well, I trust everyone had a good weekend. Memorial Day, a lot of celebrations yesterday. 00:00:36
And so let's get started. We've got a pretty full agenda, I think today. So we'll start off with our regular agenda items item #2A 00:00:43
information discussion action to approve the economic development grants by entering into various intergovernmental agreements 00:00:54
with the following entities to jointly cooperate in Gila County's 2024 Summer Work Employment Program. City of Globe 22,378. 00:01:04
On a Miami 22,378 turn of Local men 22,378 Town of Hayden 22,378 Town of Payson 14,909 young public school 14,909 Hayden winkelman 00:01:15
USD 33,561 Town of Superior 22,378 Town of Kearney angle Mount 22,378 in the Arizona conservation legacy. 00:01:31
82,400. 00:01:48
Ordinance fees for the benefit of the public. And good morning, Kathy. How are you, good Sir, How are you good? Let us know what 00:01:50
we're doing. Mr. Chairman, I'm supervisor client Supervisor Humphrey this, we've talked about this a little bit prior to this 00:01:58
meeting. This was a chance opportunity that Supervisor Klein and I ran into, I think back in February over at the town of 00:02:06
Superior. And at that time it was the Governor's roundtable breakfast and she asked for some updates and. 00:02:13
Some supervisor client talked about the summer work program because we're just starting into the discussions, the planning part of 00:02:21
that, and they asked us afterwards to contact them. They want to talk to us about a couple of things. So they want to talk about 00:02:27
our summer work program. So one thing led to another. They asked us to put together the cost for the program. So we put it 00:02:33
together, kind of put our wish list together in love and I came up with some figures. So we put our wish list together about what 00:02:39
we would like to do. 00:02:44
Should some money come available so hopefully I know how to work this thing. 00:02:51
Which way do I go? 00:03:00
So, right, OK, there we go. 00:03:03
So here's what we came up with. We put all the costs together to do to fund all of the Healer County communities, which in the 00:03:05
past we've funded town of Payson. 00:03:11
So we decided to put two crews in there. We've always had to be great to have two crews, one in the north and one in the South. So 00:03:50
this gave us the opportunity to at least ask for the money if we could get it. 00:03:54
Talk to them about how we could join forces and have have them kind of go with us and be able to fund in that journey. Flowers is 00:04:35
on a call with us, I think last week, no, two weeks ago. 00:04:41
To try and talk about how we can get that done between the two areas. So in there we included 12 extra kids that we could fund 00:04:47
through this in our proposal to them. 00:04:53
The funding was the result of unspent workforce dollars at the state level. So it was money that was going to time out and it was 00:05:00
going to have to go back to the feds by June 30. So nobody wants that to happen. So we put together, like I said, pretty good 00:05:06
package and send it off to them. Part of this, this is like my saying what I used to do grants for a living. 00:05:12
Was good news you got the grant, bad news you got the branch because this one has some heavy strings attached. The funds had to be 00:05:19
obligated by May 30th and they have to be spent by June 30th. So that means everybody had to be on board to say yes, they were 00:05:26
going to cooperate in the agreement, they wanted to be a part of it and that they had to get. 00:05:32
IGA is back to us before June 30, so they could be approved and that's what we're doing today. Then they have to be spent by June 00:05:39
30th. So that means Finance department has to hurry up and get all of those Igas, the request done and sent out by June 30th. So 00:05:45
we will be able to get that done. 00:05:50
The final report is due July 30. So that's telling them basically what they want to know is what did you do? How many kids did you 00:05:57
put to work? Any outstanding projects? How were you able to get all of that accomplished? 00:06:02
So here's how it comes out. Now you look at the funding globe. 00:06:10
All those areas there gives you the total of what the five communities asked for were able to give a little bit more load Miami, 00:06:13
Hayden, Wigman, Payson all came back and it's a total of 28 positions. 00:06:19
Hayden and Winkler Hayden Winkleman Unified school districts. Pretty big area there. They have quite a few buildings, quite a bit 00:06:27
that they cover. They asked for 9 and that's both maintenance and. 00:06:33
In office positions including IT. 00:06:40
And then young public school, we were able to get four and that came right down to the wire like on the very last day. Getting 00:06:43
enough kids in the Army well end in Payson as well. It's just hard in those two areas for. 00:06:49
Whatever reason, but anyway, we got that one. So we asked for the 12 positions for Pinal County and it kind of focuses on the 00:06:55
Copper Corridor area. So for people that don't understand what the Copper Corridor, where that is, it actually starts in Glow, so 00:07:02
it goes Globe, Miami, Superior, Kearney, Hayden and Winkelman. 00:07:09
Here's our Healer county department. So all of the county departments, typically those are paid for out of general funds. All of 00:07:47
those positions will be now paid for this summer through this project as well. 00:07:53
And the total amount of the funding, as I said is injured a little over 300 thousand, 306,140 dollars. 00:07:59
Being able to find the two youth conservation cores. 00:08:08
I think that's any questions. 00:08:45
Thank you, Kathy. Supervisor Humphrey. 00:08:47
I have no questions other than just a lot of thanks because I can remember what many years ago when we started this, there were 00:08:51
very few kids working and, and you guys just kind of grabbed ahold of it and ran with it. And it's great to see these youth 00:08:57
getting positions in areas that they're interested in. So thank you very much. And we've been supportive of it for a long time. 00:09:04
And so thanks for all your work to keep this rolling and going. And then funds start coming. So it's great to plant a seed and 00:09:11
see, see what happens. 00:09:17
We're hoping it's not the only year. 00:09:24
Yeah. So it's been great. Thank you very much. I want to thank the finance Department, Mr. Menlo, for helping me up front because 00:09:28
it took a little bit to. I just wasn't sure I'd know we hadn't done it this way before. And I always, I just do the same thing and 00:09:34
I sometimes not very creative, but they were creative and willing to help out. So that makes a big difference too. 00:09:40
Supervisor client. 00:09:48
Kathy, on that lower corner of Winkelman down there, how many total applicants end up with out of out of there this year? 00:09:52
Well, Erica and Larissa are there today doing interviews. Let's say there were 40 plus kids down there with. 00:10:01
691521 positions available in 47 well. 2127 positions so. 00:10:09
Went between Kearney, Hayden, Winkleman and the school. So there will be like, you know, 15 to 20 kids that won't get jobs. 00:10:17
See, those numbers are real important to me and especially it always is in that corner because there's not a lot of opportunities 00:10:24
for those those folks down there. I mean, they don't have the fast food business and, and, and different businesses down there. 00:10:30
And because we are limited to working with basically other governmental entities, you know, it makes it kind of a challenge there 00:10:36
to have enough transitions to, to, to. 00:10:42
Get those kids in, you know, with any hope one of these days, maybe we can branch out from the government, one of these two 00:10:49
private enterprise. But right now we there hasn't been a case. But with youth workforce folks sitting here, well, maybe we can 00:10:55
work on that. And so I wanted her to talk about those numbers so you could hear that. 00:11:02
And the fact is that they just don't have anything down there to speak of for opportunities. And really this year with the state's 00:11:10
involvement, it opened up some more doors for us to cross that highway, whereas before we just never asked any questions what side 00:11:16
of the road they were on. We just went with it. But this year was a big plus, so. 00:11:23
Build physicians up there. The town will get the four that they asked for. 00:12:05
So it just makes it's just I don't know if the kids in these areas just get used to the positions and that's why they apply pace 00:12:09
and does have every fast food you can think of, I think. 00:12:13
So I think that makes a difference to they work those jobs year round, maybe don't want to give them up in the summer, you know, 00:12:19
to come work for the county for six weeks. I don't know if that's the case or not, have no idea. 00:12:24
My name is Mr. Chair. One thing too, is working with the Conservation Corps is a real advantage to these kids because they get to 00:12:30
participate in different functions of the of the government, meaning recreation, fire range, whatever it is. And so I'm hoping 00:12:37
that'll catch on better. It's been really hard to feel and pacing. Pacing's been tough to come out with numbers. And I think that 00:12:44
has a lot to do with, like Kathy said, just the amount of jobs already available. 00:12:50
But if nothing else, if kids can get used to looking at this conservation corps that really want to want a government job, maybe 00:12:58
later down the road, this is a really good way to go and get in, get in that door. So and the good thing about. 00:13:04
They're all members of AmeriCorps, so they get education credit, so if they finish their hours. 00:13:12
Hydrologist archaeologists come out and help out, so they get a really broad range of things in that 6 to 8 weeks that they work. 00:13:53
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Kathy. Is there anyone present that wishes to speak somewhere on this? 00:14:03
No, no, thank you very much for that. And so with that then if there's nothing else, I'll just call for a motion on Item 2A. 00:14:09
Mr. Chair, I move to approve the Economic Development grant by earning entering into various intergovernmental agreements with the 00:14:22
following entities to jointly cooperate in Healer Counties. 2024 Summer work Employment Program City of Globe $22,378 Town of 00:14:31
Miami $22,378 Town of Winkelman $22,378. 00:14:40
Town of Hayden, 22. 00:14:51
1378 dollars. Town of Payson 14,919 dollars. Young public School 14,919 dollars. 00:14:53
Hayden Winkelman, USD. 00:15:06
$33,561.00 Town of Superior $22,378, Town Attorney $22,378 and Arizona Conservation Legacy 82,400, which the Board has determined 00:15:10
to be for the benefit of the public. And I'll second that, Mr. Chair, thank you. And we have a motion and a second to approve. All 00:15:21
those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Motion passes unanimous. Thank you. 00:15:31
Item 2B Information, discussion, action to terminate intergovernmental Agreement IGA number 01072022 and approve IGA number 00:15:42
05212024 with the Healing County Provisional Community College District. Thank you, James, Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, 00:15:50
thank you for the opportunity to present a new intercom agreement. But they get a kind of Provisional Community College District. 00:15:58
I might, with your indulgence, read the recital that we have for this. 00:16:06
Is an indication of what healer County and the kind of board supervisors consider support for the. 00:16:14
For education and development in Houma County. 00:16:23
I'll start with the first. Whereas is regarding the statutory authority we have. Second is to terminate the prior agreement dated. 00:16:27
01/07/2022 and entered into this current one today. Third. Whereas the parties have mutual interest in economic development, 00:16:36
educational opportunities and workforce development in Gila County. And WHEREAS Gila County has an interest in providing 00:16:43
vocational and skills training, a nursing program, and other educational opportunities to support the residents within Healer 00:16:50
County. And WHEREAS ARS 1514 O2 dot O1 allows college to seek fully organized and accredited status after satisfying the 00:16:57
conditions. 00:17:03
Outlined therein and whereas the College is engaged in the provision of secondary education services and additional. Additionally 00:17:10
provides vocational training, retraining and small business development opportunities for Healer County residents and WHEREAS the 00:17:18
parties have a mutual interest in working towards full accreditation of the County Provisional Community College District to 00:17:26
support economic development and workforce development for either County residents and whereas the County support. 00:17:33
Is warranted in order to move forward with the eligibility process as required for regional accreditation. And whereas the Hay 00:17:41
County Board of Supervisors has determined that supporting the college and becoming a fully organized and regionally accredited 00:17:48
Community College will assist in creation and retention of jobs in Cuba County will otherwise improve or enhance the economic 00:17:54
welfare of the inhabitants of the county. 00:18:00
Gets into now Therefore, for and in consideration of mutual covenants contained herein the party's degrees falls the details of 00:18:08
the intercommel agreement. Just wanted to point out item number two, that is an addition other than some other minor awarding 00:18:15
changes. This is with the addition and change from the 2022 IGA and a 92 college degrees to present a detailed budget to the 00:18:22
county within 60 calendar days of July 1st of each year. 00:18:29
For which the agreement is in effect, College agrees to provide the County with the documentation to report how the funds have 00:18:37
been utilized. If documentation is not provided to the County, or if the documentation does not demonstrate that all the funds 00:18:44
were used to support the above stated purpose, the County will not disperse funds the following fiscal year. 00:18:51
Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, I would like to acknowledge that the Huda County Provisional Community College District Board 00:19:00
did adopt and approve. 00:19:04
This IGA last Wednesday May 22nd, so they have approved it and ask for your approval today. 00:19:09
Available for any questions or comments. 00:19:18
Thank you, James. Supervisor Humphrey. 00:19:21
James, thank you very much for bringing this to us today. After comments made in prior meetings, I weren't sure which direction we 00:19:23
were going. 00:19:27
So thank you very much for, for bringing this to us and to, to have made word changes and stuff that'll make it more professional 00:19:32
and, and, and then they will, you know, come to us and, and do their meetings and let us know. And so thank you very much for for 00:19:39
redoing that. I appreciate it very much. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Supervisor client James, thanks. This is a good direction. And 00:19:47
that, that spells it out just fine. And I think it's fair and across the board and I'm glad they like it so. 00:19:54
Anyway, I'm good with it. 00:20:02
Thank you. Yeah, thank you, James for redoing this in such short order. I think it's a better IGA. And I think the message should 00:20:04
be sent that I myself and I believe all of us are very interested in the success of the provisional college and that this is part 00:20:11
of achieving that success and. 00:20:19
Continuing to fund the process to get where we need to be because we all believe in. 00:20:27
The higher education and the development of that program in HeLa County, I want to see that grow exponentially. And so we, we I 00:20:35
think it's appropriate to ask the questions, where's the money going, how's it being spent? And because we are the stewards of the 00:20:42
taxpayers dollar. 00:20:49
Absolutely agree, Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, that we always ask ourselves internally where the money's going, is it going 00:20:57
the right place we need to and external. 00:21:02
Always have to ask the question. 00:21:08
Thank you. All right, well, if there's nothing else, I'll ask for a motion on item 2B. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to 00:21:11
terminate the intergovernmental agreement, IGA number 01072022. 00:21:18
And approve IGA number 05212024 with the HeLa County Provisional Committee College. Mr. Chair, I'll second that. OK, We do have a 00:21:26
motion and a second to approve. All those in favor say aye, aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Mr. Chairman. I might point 00:21:35
out that the there was a big news, big news from the Community College district. They announced that the application for 00:21:43
accreditation has been accepted by the Oversight Commission. So there is progress being made and we look forward to partnering. 00:21:52
With educational opportunities in Healer County going forward. Thank you. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Item 2C 00:22:00
Information, discussion regarding an update on the Northern Eastern Arizona Workforce Development Board. 00:22:08
From NAWDB Executive Director Jeremy Flowers, good morning. Good morning. 00:22:16
Supervisors and Mr. Chair, it's a pleasure to be here. So I'm just going to scroll back to the beginning of our presentation. 00:22:26
Can I, before we start, just get a show of hands from the supervisors and from the audience here in the room, is familiar with 00:22:35
what a workforce development program is and does generally? 00:22:42
We got, our board members are aware of Mr. Memo, but not we got a few people in the room. But there's a, there's a saying that 00:22:51
kind of drives us crazy that we are the best kept secret in government services and we are trying to break away from that as much 00:22:59
as possible. So I appreciate the chance to present here. The workforce development program essentially is a, it's a network of 00:23:07
organizations and services that all have the same purpose, which is connecting job seekers with jobs. 00:23:15
Right. So there are two sides to that coin. On the one hand, we have job centers throughout the region where people can come and 00:23:23
get assistance of different kinds to help make themselves more employable and improve their personal situations. We also work with 00:23:31
employers and business owners and even economic development at the government level to try to create more jobs, help those 00:23:38
businesses create more places for those people to work, so. 00:23:46
We approach that problem from both sides. Arizona at work is a state workforce development program. There are 12 workforce boards 00:23:54
covering the state. Ours serves Gila, Navajo and Apache counties. And so you can see on the map there that blue area is all ours 00:24:02
and it's we operate four job centers within the region, two of them here in Gila County to in Navajo County, and we have a staff 00:24:10
member. 00:24:17
With Hotelling spaces that we've arranged throughout Apache County since they're. 00:24:26
Des facility there. 00:24:30
We in the program for the last year have really been in a stage of rebuilding and reactivating our basic services. I think it's I 00:24:34
have a different perspective and set of priorities than my predecessor and I think then probably the director before before them. 00:24:43
I'm coming from a Human Services background where I am very much focused on. 00:24:52
This program accomplishing its mission as effectively as possible, and to me, that's what success looks like is. 00:25:02
Our job seekers and our employer customers getting what they need to out of us, you know, benefiting from our services. 00:25:11
And hopefully having a decent experience doing it. 00:25:20
And that's really where all of our effort has gone for the last year. So we're going to talk a little bit about the specifics of 00:25:25
what's been happening in Healing County. But I, I would like you to have the chance to hear it from my colleagues here who work in 00:25:31
our job center rather than just for me. So I would like to introduce our our one stop operator, Jessica Head, who will come up and 00:25:37
tell you about what new job centers in 12. 00:25:44
Thank you. Good morning. Good morning, Chair. Good morning, board members. 00:25:52
My name is Jessica Head, like like Jeremy said, and I am the one stop operator or OSO that covers Northeastern Arizona. And what 00:25:56
that means is I oversee six job centers and try to make sure that they function properly, effectively and seamlessly for our job 00:26:05
seekers. Two of those job centres are in Gila County. We have a comprehensive center in Globe and then we have an affiliate site 00:26:13
in Payson. So I wanted to give you guys a little bit of an update on how things are going this year for us. 00:26:22
Total placements as you can see since January 2024 is 114. So what that means is 114 people have come into our job centers looking 00:26:33
for work, looking for training, trying to get to where they can be self-sufficient and those 114 people were successful in doing 00:26:40
so with our health. 00:26:47
Out of those 114 people, they make an average hourly rate of $17.30 and the total annual income created for participants in since 00:26:55
January of 2024 has been $143,915.20. I take these numbers every month and I decided to focus it down on just Healer County so you 00:27:05
guys can see the impact that that's going on in your community. 00:27:15
And just a little side note, if you'd like these numbers on a quarterly basis, I'm more than willing to do that. 00:27:26
Some of the great things that are happening in our job centers and in Gila County specifically is we have a new business service 00:27:32
representative and a new Title 3 employment services supervisor hired to focus just on Gila County. 00:27:39
We're implementing a new referral system. It's called Atlas and it's, it's really neat. One of the barriers, as you guys know, is 00:27:48
just how how spread out everything is. It's transportation is an issue for people. They can't get to us. It's we don't want to be 00:27:56
the barrier for people seeking our help. So Atlas is a neat little system where it doesn't matter where you are. You can get on 00:28:03
your cell phone, you can apply for our services. 00:28:11
It'll be able to. We're, we're in the process of building some forms so it'll easier, more easily identify some of those eligible 00:28:19
barriers so we can get them enrolled in the more individualized programs that that they might qualify for. 00:28:27
I oversee a lot of job center flow and function. You know, if you think you perfected something, you better go back to the drawing 00:28:36
board because you can always improve. So that's basically my mission again, just to make sure that anybody who walks into our 00:28:44
centers or tries to get ahold of us are having the best experience possible and the best outcome possible. 00:28:51
And we've done, we've done so much within Gila County. I wish I could tell you at all, but I think it's better to hear it from 00:29:00
Sherry Davis, our title one staff. She would be a lot more appropriate to tell you what's going on boots on the ground. So Sherry. 00:29:09
The total placement since January, that 114, that's just in Hayley County. Is that through the whole program just in Hilah County? 00:29:20
OK. And so how many actually tried to or came through the system? But I mean, how many total applicants was there? Is that the 00:29:27
total? So I'm not we, I only tracked the ones who are successful. 00:29:33
Accident or accident in general. It just so happens that all of these were successful treatments, placements they found 00:29:40
employment. I can part of one of the things that I'm trying to implement is getting a better track at how many people enter our 00:29:48
job centers. So we can kind of see what's going on. And the building of Atlas is really going to help that because it's not going 00:29:55
to be a tally mark system. It'll kind of be automatic and build those reports. Well, that 114, that's a good number, so thank you. 00:30:03
And. 00:30:11
Does that 114 include the summer workforce? 00:30:13
Project, I'll talk about that a little bit. Thank you. OK, that's just just ask and answer. Thank you. 00:30:19
Anybody else? I'll be available to answer questions presentation too. 00:30:26
Good morning. Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the Board. Thank you so much. My name is Sherry Davis. I'm the Program 00:30:34
Manager of Northeastern, and we have 5 case managers total. We have one here in Globe, that's Eileen. And then we have Sarah and 00:30:43
Payson. So they each have their own separate caseload. Wanted to just share with you a little bit about our program and what we 00:30:52
do. So people that come into our job center, they have barriers to employment. 00:31:00
So that can be anywhere from being justice involved, being homeless, low income, being on food stamps, what we call SNAP, if they 00:31:10
have a disability, if they're single parenting. So people that come into the Title One program, they have barriers to employment. 00:31:18
So we help them not just to find employment, but to work through those barriers. Sometimes that includes training, sometimes that 00:31:26
includes supportive services. 00:31:34
Sometimes it can mean just as simple, I got a job through employment services, but I need help getting to work. I need clothing 00:31:43
for work. I need, you know, I need gas to get to work. So we can provide that for them. For those that are looking to go into 00:31:50
training, we do offer training. Nursing is a big one. So I'm very glad to hear with Hila Community College because that was always 00:31:58
a big, big part of our nursing program. 00:32:05
In the past we've had, you know, usually anywhere from 15 to 20 nurses. 00:32:14
You know coming through our program every single year if that's a two year program. So this year in Healing County we have 4 00:32:21
nurses graduating from Payson and we have 4 nurses graduating from Globe. So that is a really good thing. I did give some fires to 00:32:28
Samantha. So one of them is just this one right here that talks a little bit about our program and things that we do and people 00:32:35
that we. 00:32:41
Help. As far as the events, we have been very, very busy in the last six months. Now that I am fully staffed, we're able to really 00:32:49
just work on outreach and connecting with different programs. 00:32:55
University of Arizona Coop, they offer a financial literacy class. So we have partnered with them because with our youth program, 00:33:04
one of the 14 elements is financial literacy. So when they get a job, how are they going to spend their paycheck? How are they 00:33:10
going to just spend it all? Are they going to save it? So. 00:33:17
That's one of the 14 elements. And so we've been able to partner with you of a cough extension. They have a really good program 00:33:25
called Where does Your Money Go? And so they have offered to do this remotely. So not just people in Healing County, but also in 00:33:31
Navajo County and Apache County can attend this program and they can do it virtually. So we're so glad to be able to connect with 00:33:37
them. 00:33:43
The other thing that we've been doing in Tyson, you have the Route 87 Teen Center. So Sarah, who's our case manager, and Payson, 00:33:51
she's been working. 00:33:56
With Jeremy there pretty much every week going there, they only have three youth so far that are going to the Teen Center on a 00:34:01
regular basis, but they did have a ribbon cutting a couple weeks ago. So we're really hoping that more youth will start attending 00:34:10
that Teen Center. What Sarah has been doing is we have these really great VR virtual reality headsets in which you can do career 00:34:19
exploration. So she's been taking those VR headsets to the Teen Center and giving the youth an opportunity. 00:34:27
To use them and look at different. 00:34:36
Careers. 00:34:39
For job fairs, we do two job fairs every year, so we do one in the spring at Miami High School, we do one in the fall at Globe 00:34:41
High School. We also attended the college and career fair at San Carlos High School. So we did all three of those this year. It's 00:34:50
a great turn out. We have employers there, we have different colleges there and we invite all the community high schools there as 00:34:58
well. So it's not just one high school, it's all the high schools in the area that attend that. 00:35:07
We also with Miami High School, I'm sure you are familiar with the Miami Cafe 2.0. So we were able to attend that last meeting 00:35:18
that Doctor Ramos has been doing. So that was a a great piece of just tying in with the Miami, The Miami Cafe 2.0 and coordinating 00:35:25
our efforts with that. 00:35:33
Stephen Palmer, who is the CTE teacher at Miami High School, he wants us to start coming in in the fall and using those VR 00:35:42
headsets. 00:35:46
And tying it into the CTE classes. So one of the Flyers that I that I have for you actually talks about the VR headsets. We now 00:35:52
have 24. 00:35:59
If you would please continue. Fantastic. So one thing I had failed to mention when I was talking about the job fairs is we also 00:36:13
did a job fair in Payson. So that was tied with local 1st and that was a very well. 00:36:21
Attended job fair, so we did that. All of these events that we have done in the last 6-7 months. 00:36:29
Have been fantastic because as Jeremy had mentioned, you know it used to be that our program was that well kept secret and so the 00:36:39
more contacts that we make the more we're out there in the community, the more that people see us, the more people are going to 00:36:45
hear about our program so. 00:36:50
Anybody in everybody really could use our program in one form or another, whether it's just looking for a job or or helping them 00:36:58
with their resume or connecting them to another source. So as I was talking about the different events that we have attended, we 00:37:06
also attended the health fair at Cobra Valley Regional Medical Center. So we did that. That was fantastic. I was able to connect 00:37:14
with Bonnie at the hospital who is with social services. 00:37:22
She was telling me that people that come into the hospital, one of their stress factors is not being able to pay their hospital 00:37:30
bill, their hospital expenses, and they need a job. So her and I are going to be connecting to help those folks out. And then 00:37:39
Christine Morales, who is the HR generalist at Cobra Valley Regional Medical Center, her and I have been talking a few different 00:37:47
times on the work experience opportunities so that we can connect. 00:37:55
Our youth to maybe some work experiences at the hospital. So I will talk a little bit about the wax in a minute. But as far as 00:38:04
other events that we have attended, the Copper Corridor attainment meetings, that is something new that just started. There have 00:38:12
been two meetings that have taken place so far and all of that is focused on youth and it's what can we do to engage youth, what 00:38:19
can we do to retain youth in our community. 00:38:27
A lot of it is, you know, youth go to the valley to attend college, go to university, are they coming back to our local area and 00:38:35
working? Are they bringing those skills back? So that whole top of quarter attainment is how do we get youth engaged? How do we 00:38:43
keep them engaged, How do we retain them in our community. So really is a brainstorming meeting that we're doing. A lot of your 00:38:51
partners are there, so your principles, your superintendents. 00:38:59
Hello, Miami Hayden superiors. They're all there. Your chambers are there, ASU was there, Education forward. They're the ones that 00:39:08
put forth that copper corridor attainment meeting. So that's been very good. All of us together looking at how do we engage youth. 00:39:18
Umm, the other thing, the other events that we've been doing. 00:39:29
So the VR headsets, so I mentioned that before the VR headsets you put you put the the the headset on, you've got two goggles here 00:39:34
and you are actually in a virtual reality space and we have construction, we have automotive, we have solar, there's electrical, 00:39:43
there's medical on there there's. 00:39:51
The, the clean room, you know, where you're working with the semiconductors and you're in that clean suit. There's so many 00:40:01
different broad careers that a young person could look into. So they're quick, they're 5 minutes. It's just a taste. It's nothing 00:40:09
that takes very long. But it's, if a young person says, hey, this is something that I want to learn more about, then we can do a 00:40:17
deeper dive into career exploration, looking at onet, looking at the labor market. 00:40:24
Looking at what are the jobs here in the local area and then working towards either a wet opportunity on the job training or even 00:40:32
sending them to schooling for training. So with the VR headsets, we are partnering with Arizona Youth Partnership, which I'm so 00:40:40
glad to announce that they do a summer program. They do a summer conference in each of the areas that they serve and they invited 00:40:48
us to partner with them. 00:40:56
They do a game of life. So as the kids are going through this game of life, when they pick up a career card, they have matched 00:41:05
those careers with the careers that are on the VR headset. So let's say they pick up one for automotive. Then they would come to 00:41:13
us and they put the beer headset on and they can look at that career. So June 3rd we're going to be at Globe High School. June 5th 00:41:21
we're going to be at Miami High School. June 6th we're going to be at Hayden High School. 00:41:29
June 10th we're going to be at Payson at the EAC campus, June 21st Superior High School, June 28th the Pine Elementary School 00:41:38
campus and that'll be for all the youth and prime. 00:41:44
For Hayden Winkleman area, June 4th. So in between all of that, June 4th, I'm also doing a presentation at the Hayden Library. 00:41:51
So that is really good to just be a part of the Hayden area because we haven't always had those opportunities to be there and do 00:42:01
outreach. So I'm so glad that we're able to do that. Other other events. So Casa, which is part of the foster care system, they're 00:42:10
always looking for volunteers. I'm doing a presentation with them on June 14th because as those youth are aging out of of the 00:42:19
class of program, they too will be looking for job opportunities. 00:42:27
And career exploration. So Emily reached out to me. So I'm going to be doing a presentation with her and her staff in regards to 00:42:36
how our our program can help their youth and their program. And then the last event that I wanted to mention that we did, we 00:42:43
partnered with Parenting AZ, which is part of the council for Lufthansa. And they did a community baby shower in Miami at the old 00:42:51
YMCA. 00:42:58
And they invited a lot of their participants who are young moms that are that recently had a baby or are expecting to come to the 00:43:06
community baby shower. So we were able to share our information with those young moms too, because eventually they're going to be 00:43:13
wanting to get back into the workforce. At that baby shower, I actually had a dad approached me and said, hey, I'm looking for a 00:43:20
job. 00:43:27
So that was a really good opportunity. 00:43:35
WEX opportunities, I wanted to talk about WEX. WEX is for work experience, similar to the summer youth program that you do, but 00:43:40
but different. So how are different? Well, let's talk about how we're the same. We're the same in that it's short term, right? 00:43:48
Just like your summer program, it's a short term experience in which a youth can gain some soft skills. 00:43:56
They can learn how to work with, you know, different people learn that critical thinking. But after the work experience is 00:44:05
completed, we keep going with them because depending on what their goals are, if they're an in school youth, then we're going to 00:44:11
keep working with them until they graduate high school. 00:44:18
So that's really important when you're looking at youth that are at risk, they're at risk. So maybe, you know, maybe they're on 00:44:25
the verge of dropping out of high school. We want to keep them engaged so that they complete that high school diploma. But if you 00:44:31
do have a youth that has dropped out and they're part of our adult Ed program, then we'll work with them to, again, with the focus 00:44:38
on making sure that they get that GED. 00:44:45
With the work experience program, the other thing that we're different is that we're looking at jobs. So they do the, they do the 00:44:52
work experience, they discover if that's something that they're interested in doing. Sometimes we've had youth that say, this is 00:45:00
not what I want to do. I thought this is what I wanted to do, but this is not what I want to do. So let me share with you a 00:45:08
success story of one of our youth right here in Globe. Her name's Jessica. 00:45:15
She came to us, well gosh, about 2 1/2 years ago and she was going to work for the Cobra Valley Youth Club, Boys and Girls Club 00:45:24
for the summer program because she really wanted to go into early education. So Carmen Casillas reached out to me. Jessica met the 00:45:31
eligibility criteria for our program, so we did the work experience with the the youth club. Halfway through, she came to me and 00:45:38
she said, Sherry, this is not what I want to do. I thought that I thought I wanted to work with kids, but this really is not what 00:45:45
I wanted to do. 00:45:52
So we continued with the with the wax, with the youth club. But in the process of that, we also did a lot of career exploration, 00:46:00
had her do a career assessment just to find out where are her strengths, what are things that she likes, what is she good at, what 00:46:06
is she interested in doing. 00:46:12
In that we discovered that she really liked computers, computer software. She was looking at maybe being a computer developer 00:46:19
just, you know, looking at different, different computer things. So the following summer she did a work experience with Hilo 00:46:27
County IT and it was fantastic. She loved it, they loved her. She really got a lot of hands on just to kind of get a feel for what 00:46:36
that field was like. And she decided at the end of that that she wanted to actually get a credential. 00:46:44
And that so we center to for Scholars, which is one of our training providers that we work with. She was able to do it 100% 00:46:52
online, which was great. She didn't have to travel to Phoenix at the end of that. She got her credential. The way that program 00:47:01
works is they have big tech companies that write the curriculum. So we're going through Priscilla's. She had an automatic job with 00:47:09
text systems, but that was going to be down in the Valley and she wanted to find something here locally. 00:47:17
She had an opportunity to work for Pino Valley, but she decided she didn't want to do that due to some health reasons, so she just 00:47:26
kept applying, kept applying. She had two interviews with TikTok, which was really exciting, but that didn't happen, so she kept 00:47:32
applying. 00:47:38
I'm happy to say she is now employed with Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security. So she is 20 years 00:47:45
old, 20 years old. She's a contractor. So she's not, she's not employed directly with Department of Homeland Security, but she has 00:47:53
her foot in the door. So that was the whole process. And, and that's what we like to see with our youth sometimes, you know, 00:48:01
they'll go through a work experience and they'll go fantastic. This is what I want to do. 00:48:09
Sometimes they'll go through it and say no, this is not what I want to do, which is fine, that's fine. Because then we go back to 00:48:18
the drawing board and we say what is it that you're interested in doing 'cause we want to set them up for success, not for 00:48:25
failure. So we wanna set them up for success. So just to kind of give you another example we had, we had a youth and this was a 00:48:32
few years ago and she was going through the medical assisting program. 00:48:40
But that required high math and you know, for some people, math is just not their thing. And so she really struggled. She really 00:48:48
struggled. And that in the end, she didn't give her credential medical assistance because that just was not the right fit for her. 00:48:54
So through that, you know, you have to go back and, and from the beginning, ask those right questions, do those assessments, find 00:49:01
out what it is that they're good at, what do they like to do and what's going to make them good money and what does the labor 00:49:07
market look like? 00:49:13
So I called her at the sweet spot. That's the win. That's the win. Something that you're going to make good money at, something 00:49:20
that you're good at and something that you like to do and that you can make a good living at. 00:49:26
We also partner with Hill County Adult Education. So youth that have dropped out of high school, you know, they're automatically 00:49:33
eligible for our program. Not everybody that comes into our program follows through. You know, I mean, we do have some of those 00:49:43
people that they, they just drop out. Life happens, life happens and they go another direction. 00:49:52
But we really do work with all of our clients, with our adults are dislocated workers and our youth to make sure that they are 00:50:03
successful. And when we send them to training and after they get that credential, we work really hard to make sure that they are 00:50:11
employed and have a job. And sometimes, you know, that is going to look different for each person. You know, they'll complete that 00:50:19
credential. And then again, life happens. Maybe health issues happen, family issues happen, maybe they make poor choices. 00:50:27
But we really do try to work with them diligently to make sure that they have a job and so they'll stay on our caseload for as 00:50:36
long as it takes. 00:50:41
We're not going to rush them through. They stay in our caseload for as long as it takes and we hold their hand and we always tell 00:50:47
them we're in your corner, we're your advocate. We're here to make sure that you're successful no matter what. 00:50:54
So that that's the end of mine, but if you have any questions for me, I'd be glad to answer. Thank you very much. Supervisor 00:51:01
Humphrey. No question. Supervisor Klein. 00:51:07
I think I'm good, Sherry. I have. No, I've got questions for you, but I'll catch up with you later. OK. That sounds great. Thank 00:51:13
you, Sir. Thank you. Thank you. OK, so now we turn it over to Lori. 00:51:18
There we go. 00:51:31
Good morning. 00:51:34
Good morning. I'm Laurie Weitman. I'm the new business service Rep with Arizona at Work and I am super excited to be here today. 00:51:37
I'd like to do a shout out to Adam, which is our business engagement specialist with theirs on that work and he is showing me the 00:51:44
ropes, getting me trained up so I can take care of all those businesses out there in Hilah County. My history came from Arizona at 00:51:52
Work recently. I was at the job Center for the last 6 plus years helping those clients. 00:51:59
Referring to our partner programs, which would be title one, title two, Title 3 for all of that. So I was Title 3 in the jobs 00:52:07
office helping those clients. So I got really familiar and built a lot of relationships with those businesses in Payson 00:52:14
specifically and the surrounding areas because I was working directly with those those clients, those job seekers that were coming 00:52:21
in. And so I was connecting with those businesses already. 00:52:28
Referring those those job seekers for jobs, trying to find out what jobs were open. 00:52:37
Setting up job fairs, doing all that stuff that these that this business service Rep role that I've walked into is doing already. 00:52:41
So I feel like I've already kind of been doing this have. 00:52:46
Which I do really well. I can get out there and meet them where they are, find out what services they need. What we're going to do 00:53:32
on Arizona Job Connection is check and see if they have an enrollment. We're going to get them on the website if they don't or 00:53:37
reactivate their account and then talk about what services that we can provide them on the website would be entering job orders if 00:53:43
they have job openings and. 00:53:48
Of course they can. There's a lot of other resources on that website, labor market information. 00:53:56
Lot of people. So I'm looking forward to building those relationships with those existing businesses already now and then getting 00:55:13
to know those businesses in Hayley County Globe. All this little rural areas like Young and San Carlos, Pine, Strawberry, all the 00:55:20
little communities that might be forgotten prior to having a business service Rep in the area. Spent a few years since we finally 00:55:27
Moody's doing this and it used to be a state function so anyway. 00:55:34
So I am really excited to be connecting with these employers. 00:55:42
And. 00:55:46
Referring to our partners. 00:55:48
And all of those community organizations that we are so close with, like the Chamber DES, I've attended an interagency meeting 00:55:52
every month that has like agencies. Everybody knows we're out there. They're all spreading the word. Everyone's excited to get 00:55:58
these services for their businesses. So we wanted to make sure that we are referring to all those places to ensure that Tila 00:56:05
County businesses. 00:56:12
So we're here to refer those businesses to all of our services, including apprenticeship. Our apprenticeship program is pretty 00:57:04
amazing and we can share exactly how that goes, set up the apprenticeship department to come in and speak with those businesses. 00:57:11
So if that's something that they want to move forward with, We do have a special workforce project including the copper corridor, 00:57:18
which I'm really excited to get to know all those businesses and all those mines and the pacing career fairs we have. 00:57:26
The college and prayers at the school. I'm looking forward to getting to know Globe and getting in to our career fairs here. This 00:57:34
is showcase. I'm sure that there's one in in Globe. I know we have them in Payson, so I will be just connecting with all of those 00:57:39
resources to help. 00:57:45
Our business community to give the county. So that's what I want. 00:57:51
We're here to grow. 00:58:32
Yeah, thank you for that. Supervisor Humphrey, any questions? I have no questions. I'm just glad to see that we have this much 00:58:35
interest and enthusiasm in workforce development because it seems like we've tried to have it in the past and it went nowhere. I I 00:58:42
was the owner of the general contracting company and and tried to help and even training and it just didn't work. And so we do 00:58:48
have the need, people do need jobs and so. 00:58:55
I'm glad to see a lot of wind in the sail and people working with enthusiasm. So I wish you, I wish you well because it can be a 00:59:02
great program if it's worth the effect effectively. So thank you all for coming today and talking and having enthusiasm inhaler 00:59:10
County for workforce development. 00:59:17
Thank you for having us. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor Klein. Do you have anything? Yeah. 00:59:25
I was going to catch you before you sit down, but. 00:59:32
And probably one of our other. 01:00:07
Programs and we're going to chat with that business and make sure that they know all about what the apprenticeship can do for 01:00:11
them. We do have on the state website there is a so the plan is we'll be very successfully launched in Neville County is we do an 01:00:16
apprenticeship workshop in collaboration with the state registered apprenticeship team. And so far I proud to say we do have two 01:00:22
apprenticeships now in show up that just we didn't know they were there. They came to the workshop and within a month they were 01:00:28
registered apprenticeship. 01:00:33
So there's different levels of apprenticeship is what we're trying to teach them. But we are Laurie will be running workshops 01:00:39
throughout Globe and Payson and throughout all the area. We're going to run them. We're going to start quarterly and then start 01:00:45
working. If we need to do monthly, we'll do monthly. But our objective is to get as many apprenticeships that we we can in the 01:00:50
area because again, something that title one can put. 01:00:55
So it's something we're trying to bring that together. We've never had that either. And we're we're doing it, we're working on it. 01:01:01
It's again, the state owns the program where they are to transport them to that state program to make sure they're successful. So 01:01:08
we have we are on the ground. Hope that helps. So it it does, Adam. And the reason I ask is like in homeroom started talks on this 01:01:15
long time ago and homeroom you kind of started a somewhat apprenticeship program in public works, right? 01:01:23
Going on one for operators and the other one for what we call techniques. 01:01:31
That that's very critical. 01:03:28
As far as apprenticeship, and yeah, you're right, you're gonna lose someone, but if that employer is collecting fees, they've got 01:03:29
their own stuff, helping them out on the side. It's not as much of a loss to the business, but they're supporting the industry, if 01:03:35
that makes sense. It does. And Lori, so you do live in Payson. And so, OK, somewhere along the line, maybe we'll sit down and 01:03:41
visit some more. Thank you. Thank you. 01:03:46
If I may, I wanted to just. 01:03:54
Sorry, just real quick, we do have an electrical apprenticeship program. So as you're talking about apprenticeships and that's 01:03:58
what the IBEW right here in town. 01:04:04
In our program, we have 19 adults. We have. 01:04:11
8 youth that are in the electrical apprenticeship program, it's a five year program. They have to do 8000 hours in the five years. 01:04:16
So they're doing about 1600 hours a year. It's an urn when you while you learn they go to school every other Saturday. It's right 01:04:24
here at the IBEW hall and it's a fantastic program. So that's throughout our whole region. So they do have. 01:04:32
Participants in show Low, Hatch County and. 01:04:42
Of course. So I just wanted to mention that. Thank you, Sherry. 01:04:46
Jeremy, are we at the end of your presentation? OK. 01:04:51
Provide a conclusion here. This is a bullet point list. When I sit down to think about what have we done for Ela County lately, 01:04:57
Here's kind of the high points and I'm not going to go through a rundown of every single one of these other presenters waiting to 01:05:03
go here. 01:05:09
If there's if any of the supervisors have any questions about any of these, I would be happy to. 01:05:16
Talk about it if you want to reach out. I do want to just say that I'm very happy to have Laurie on board. Our Employment services 01:05:25
program also has a new supervisor in Payson. We have case managers for our program in both the Payson and Globe Job Centres for 01:05:33
the first time and a lot of that staffing. 01:05:40
And and just building the team and building the foundation of the program has been my priority over the last year that back to 01:05:47
basics with the core services. 01:05:53
With that said, I do have some ambitions for the program and one of them is a municipal and county jobs pipeline that will just, I 01:06:00
think we, we kind of were just touching on that. And it is something I think in in Navajo County, I think in Apache County, 01:06:07
they're seeing the same thing that they're seeing here where the struggle is to retain youth who are of an age to enter the 01:06:13
workforce and to get them to settle down and gainful careers here where they can raise families here and repeat that cycle for the 01:06:19
next generation. 01:06:25
Rather than losing them to other places where they are going to pursue opportunities. So to you know, in in all three counties, 01:06:32
one of the I think the biggest employer is the county government itself. And those are good jobs that can turn into gainful 01:06:40
careers that we want that I know the counties have difficulty filling. And so we want to bridge that gap in an important way that 01:06:48
we can do that is by registering apprenticeship programs which make it remove some of the constraints. 01:06:55
On who can enter and how we can use our funding to support people register apprenticeship makes it a little bit easier for them to 01:07:03
get in. And so we are trying to do that with city and county governments and we would love to expand that to here. I think that's 01:07:09
kind of our in terms of for the next few years, how can we have the biggest impact on the area. I think that youth retention is 01:07:15
probably it. And so we're we're very focused on the day-to-day. We actually we took advantage of the same DES funding 01:07:22
opportunities. 01:07:28
That we heard about earlier. 01:07:34
We just finished purchasing for about $445,000 that we were awarded for everything from new computers for the resource room at the 01:07:38
Globe Community Center that we're actually going to go set up right after we're through here, to consultants both in the job 01:07:45
centers working with Sherry and on the management team working with with us to help us improve our procedures. So we're really 01:07:51
trying to. 01:07:58
Just do workforce administration the best that we can And and the last thing I want to say is that we are. 01:08:06
We. 01:08:15
Are a state where the state workforce program for the area, but we are not the workforce program for the area. We are here to be a 01:08:17
resource to all of the community organizations that are. And so initiatives like the summer youth program here. As I said, we have 01:08:23
a lot of constraints on how we can spend our money. We have a lot of hoops that we have to jump through. We have a lot of 01:08:29
restrictions on who spend money to help. So it really helps us to connect with local organizations that can do things that we 01:08:36
can't and sometimes we can take over. 01:08:42
Where they leave off or we can support them in other ways. So we're, we're trying to really connect to that whole ecosystem 01:08:49
because there are a lot of organizations that are trying to help these communities and help the workforce here. We want to be a 01:08:56
resource for them as well. So just that's, I think that's all I feel like we had, we had some questions, but I do want to hear 01:09:03
from, from you all the economic trends, community events. 01:09:10
Areas of focus or concern for you as county management. 01:09:19
I think a lot of our success in in Navajo County and Apache County has come from our accessibility to the county management there. 01:09:25
And we really do want to be reachable and in touch with your management team, with your department directors to better understand 01:09:31
the needs here and what we can do, how we can bring some of these initiatives and, and get, you know, equitable service throughout 01:09:38
the region, which is what we're going for. 01:09:44
So if they're, I'd be happy to take questions. I know we've taken up a lot of your time already and. 01:09:52
And I'm happy to answer and you know, follow up communication instead of right here, but are there any questions that you'd like 01:09:56
to address right now? 01:10:00
You know, two or more steps forward for every step back. 01:10:48
So yeah, we have our contact information up there. And then just thank you for the opportunity to present here. 01:10:52
Mister Man Love. Mr. Chairman, just wanted to express appreciation to Mr. Flowers for the program. As he mentioned, it is very, 01:11:34
very complicated. It's a federal program, and there are. 01:11:40
Unlimited numbers of restrictions and. 01:11:47
Things that Mister Flowers and his team have to comply with. Mr. Flowers, your and your team are doing a great job and we 01:11:49
appreciate all you're doing in Elite County. I especially want to express appreciation for returning to Basics. 01:11:57
This program is intended to help those that are the most needed and essentially need life skills and being able to become an 01:12:06
employee, an employable individual. 01:12:11
And. 01:12:18
So thank you for doing that and giving those that don't have any other opportunity don't. This is safety net for those that most 01:12:20
need it. So thank you. Thank you. That means a lot too. And you know, yeah, the chance to really just connect with the people who 01:12:25
need us and to do right by them is it's a it's a really, you know, I feel very fortunate to be able to work in this field and do 01:12:31
what I'm doing. And I try to. 01:12:37
Bring up my team into our workplace in general. Thank you. I appreciate that. Well, thank you too, Mr. Flowers and all of your 01:12:43
team that showed up today. The presentation to job good efforts and I would ask at least for Lori to give a card to my executive 01:12:50
in the back. So thank you very much. Thank you for your time. 01:12:57
All right, non action item. We'll go to item 2D next. Information and discussion regarding the services that are provided by 01:13:04
Eastern Arizona College Small Business Development Center to future entrepreneurs of ELA County. We have two members from that 01:13:11
organization, Sarah Alexander. 01:13:18
Good morning. Thank you for having us. 01:13:29
What's that? 01:13:41
Thank you. So a little bit about our team. We are the SBC, the Small Business Development Center. And on the screen you'll see 01:13:43
myself, my name is Sarah Alexander. I am your business analyst for the Globe, Miami, San Carlos area. Next, we have Javier Raley, 01:13:50
she's our program assistant and Thatcher. Eric Bejarano is our center director is here with us today. He'll speak in a little bit. 01:13:56
And we have Simone Castillo from Payson. She's also an attendance prescription. 01:14:03
What is the SBDC? So we are funded partially by the SBA and then we're also partially funded through a host institution. So our 01:14:11
host institution is the AC. We provide no cost business counseling to current business owners and those just starting and then we 01:14:18
offer no cost low cost classes and seminars to educate and inform business owners. 01:14:25
We have 1100 plus centers nationwide, 4500 full-time counselors. 01:14:33
And we serve way more than that. As of today, clients business has served. 01:14:39
A little bit more about me before I go the next slide. I just started with SBC in 2021 and I'm also a local business owner. So I 01:14:46
work for the SBC part time and I business business own full and 1/2 time It's a it's a big job. 01:14:54
We also partner with Apex. They are in charge of all government contracts. So there's just information for Lori Hazos. She's our 01:15:04
contact if your business or anybody know is interested in any kind of government contract. 01:15:09
Is our EAT program coming up next month? We have Moon Shot coming to Globe and Payson in June. And then what we mainly do is 01:15:46
one-on-one business counseling. First, our EAT program, it stands for Young and Excellent Young Entrepreneur Excellence Training 01:15:53
and it's June 3rd to the 7th and it's open to any 9th through incoming 12th graders and it's 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM every day at the 01:16:01
college. We provide them lunch and they're going to pitch a business idea to us. So it's like a mini Shark Tank. 01:16:08
And they'll get prize money provided by Freeport and we're super excited about that. I was a high school teacher, so I am sort of 01:16:16
excited about it. 01:16:20
I also partner with workforce development and job training in San Carlos that I teach interview skills and resume writing. We just 01:16:56
taught one. I just taught one in May and then we'll teach again in in August. And Vilas, this is one of my favorite programs that 01:17:01
we partnered with. 01:17:05
Next we I started Dream Builder up and Globe for the first time in October. So a Dream Builder is a free online business education 01:17:11
certification program offered in English and Spanish online. There are 13 modules. It's basically the basic first steps to 01:17:17
starting a business and it was created by Freeport to make girls and young women have opportunities to be full participants in 01:17:23
economic development. So it's a hybrid program. So I teach in class, in person classes once a week and then they have an online 01:17:29
component they complete on their own. 01:17:35
We've done using Square kind of any kind of business topic this June we'll do funding your business, funding your small business 01:18:16
and those are all 5:30. You can register by scanning like QR code or just show up and we can register you there. 01:18:23
Another super exciting event that we love. This is our third year on the Moon Shot tour. So Moon Shot as an Arizona based 01:18:31
nonprofit and it is meant to develop an entrepreneurial ecosystem. This SPD supports by hosting preparation classes. So I teach 01:18:37
them every Wednesday. We had one last week, nobody came, but I'm hopeful we have 1:00 tomorrow somebody. So this tomorrow we have 01:18:44
a class 530 and then next Wednesday, but then the pitch is actually on June 14th all day and we have our section on June 13th. The 01:18:50
public is welcome. 01:18:57
And the people from Moon Shot were actually the wife was on Shark Tank. So it's really cool program. Last year Hilah County swept 01:19:03
the competition. We had first place winner with Kim Malinsky with pin drop trailers. And then we had the crowd favorite Duker 01:19:09
Ranch out of Payson. So they compete here for local money and our prize money this year is 2015 hundred and 500 to go towards 01:19:15
their business. And they go on to compete in the Arizona competition. And this year is in Cottonwood in August and they can 01:19:21
compete for $10,000. 01:19:27
So it's a free competition, anybody is invited and starting business, growing your business, expanding your business. They really 01:19:33
look for workforce development and job expansion. Just kind of anybody can can participate. So Payson is a Saturday, June 22nd and 01:19:41
there's a one day event and there's will be at Noe's and she was a past pitch participant. So really exciting. 01:19:49
And then lastly, before I turn it over to Eric, this is everything that I can try to help you with. Definitely not an expert. 01:19:59
Some of our clients are one time they need an LLC and I never see them again. I've had the clients from when I started. There's 01:20:41
still a client with us and their businesses continue to grow. So it's really a rewarding and fun job. So that's it for me. So I'm 01:20:47
going to welcome Eric Bejarano up and he's going to talk about SBDC Helicopter. 01:20:53
Good morning, Mr. Chairman. Members of the Board, thank you for having us today to hear some updates on the SBDCI. Think the last 01:21:03
time I met with you all was way back in October. We presented a proclamation to celebrate small business women in that month and 01:21:09
you accepted that to prove it. So thank you again for that. 01:21:15
The policy forum in Cottonwood in a couple of months. So exciting information. One other thing to to mention before I talk about 01:21:53
data is our team is all part time with the exception of me, which some of these this information I'll share with you in just a 01:22:00
moment is just totally exciting. So we cover Graham, Greenlee and helicopter. I actually mentioned our main office located on the 01:22:07
Thatcher campus of Eastern Arizona College with with an office here in Globe and also one in Payson. So for that tri-county area 01:22:13
in 2023. 01:22:20
We help serve over 261 clients, may not sound like a lot, but those are multiple meetings and I've done the math for about 8 years 01:22:27
into our fiscal year. We're we're looking at increasing that year over year by by about 73 clients. Now here's the exciting 01:22:34
information when it comes to numbers. Again, our team being part time. In 2022, we helped small business owners obtain $2.8 01:22:41
million in new capital for their businesses reinfused into our local economies. Last year our part Time Team helped the businesses 01:22:48
owners. 01:22:55
So you can see there's a lot happening at the SPC. We're certainly happy to be here and support your community as well as Graham 01:24:15
and Greenlee County. And with that said, if you have any questions, I'll be happy to entertain those at this time. Thank you both. 01:24:20
Supervisor Humphrey? I have no question. Supervisor Klein. 01:24:26
So what's the easiest way for folks to get ahold of you? The easiest way is Sarah does not shy away from sharing her phone. 01:24:33
Our main number is actually 928-428-8590, that's at the main Thatcher campus where our program coordinators at, but contact 01:24:42
information for your Heal accounting business analyst is on the screen. eac.edu/SBDC is also another easy way to track this down. 01:24:49
Great question. So. 01:24:55
From a county stem, maybe this is more for you, Mr. Miller. What can we do to help get these folks out out there too from our 01:25:02
standpoint? 01:25:06
Mr. Chairman, senior client, first step is to have them come and have this discussion in public so that we can be more aware of 01:25:13
the offerings that they do have. They do a significant part for small business and have a lot of resources that are available. And 01:25:20
so we need to be accurate in our community and to be able to steer people through the SPDC that is in helicopter. So then it would 01:25:27
be possible to roll these folks in on an agenda item and and make a decision. 01:25:34
Yes, I will. 01:25:43
Something for you guys to think about if you're interested. It's always interested driving on that works. 01:25:45
Thank you all for being here today. Gentlemen. Thank you for your time. Thank you both. I wanted to say as we're increasing our 01:25:51
broadband and fast Internet capabilities in the county, in the north, et cetera, does that help with the development of small 01:25:57
businesses? 01:26:04
Where it's possibly been a hindrance in the past, now it's helpful because they can locate in areas that they were not able to 01:26:11
before. Yes, great question. So Internet services are, are very important as you can imagine for a small business, especially 01:26:18
those that just operate primarily on the Internet. But having that capability is, is I don't know a small business that doesn't 01:26:24
use Internet services. So it's very important. 01:26:31
OK. And do you have any sort of a clue to what what is the most sought after new business of dynamic? 01:26:39
You know what the to speak to the business type, they they just vary so much. What we try to do it in Easter flowers said this, 01:26:50
you know, being the the best kept secret. So we just celebrated 35 years and one of the things I tasked our team with at the 01:26:56
beginning of this fiscal year is that let's break down those walls and not be a secret anymore and get the word out. So first, I 01:27:02
appreciate being here, but but we get all kinds of entrepreneurs coming through our doors that need assistance with anything and 01:27:08
everything. 01:27:13
And no action required. Their item 2 E is information discussion regarding the Board of Supervisors priorities for the local area 01:27:51
and tribal consistency fund utilization. And I believe James has been presented. Yes, Mr. Chairman, thank you. Miss Spelling is 01:28:00
excused today for personal reasons. She just really wanted me to relate to you that of our local area LATCF funding that we have 01:28:08
that there's about 5 little over $5,000,000 that remains. 01:28:17
And we're going to go into our next item F is for facilities and Land Management to describe some of the projects we have ongoing 01:28:26
to give us an idea of how we prioritize those projects and utilize that $5 million of LITCF money. So that's. 01:28:35
OK. Wanted to pass the buck, I guess to be Joseph and the facilities team. 01:28:45
Thank you. Any questions supervisor? I'm free on this item. I have no questions. Why decline? 01:28:52
5,000,000 / 3 is what James. 01:28:59
1.6 million. There you go, quick answer. 01:29:04
Good. OK, Thank you. And we're ready to move on to the next item 2F information and discussion regarding future Healer County 01:29:08
capital improvement projects. Mr. Dickerson and how are you today? Chairman, Board of Supervisors? I am doing well. 01:29:17
Mr. Miller, thank you for the introduction there. With the LA TCF in mind, these are some of the proposed projects that we've been 01:29:28
looking to the future on. 01:29:32
Now these proposed projects. 01:29:38
Is the presentation is provide the necessary information to assess the current list of projects and prioritizing based on their 01:29:42
status, level of urgency and potential value to help us move forward and achieve our goals. With that, we're definitely looking 01:29:49
for feedback from the Board of Supervisors. 01:29:55
We've somewhat stopped these in a prioritized way. Some of the ways that we prioritized it is the condition of whether it's 01:30:03
equipment or the land or the project and also a few other risk factors that we look at, whether that's risk management or critical 01:30:10
assets that steps us into our first project. 01:30:17
Excuse me, just I'd like to add, if there's any questions for each of these projects, please feel free to interrupt and I'd be 01:30:27
happy to answer any of those questions. Something also to keep in mind as I step through these projects, I'm trying to keep them 01:30:33
at a high level. There may be some numbers that I don't have in front of me. So any kind of technical specs or anything else like 01:30:38
that would be happy to get that information to you later. OK, Thank you, Joseph. 01:30:44
Have first project security camera initiative. Again just briefly, the Atlas cloud based video surveillance system is to be 01:30:51
installed in several of our complexes. Within those complexes the buildings are going to be the courthouse copper building, 01:30:58
railroad building, Central Heights, Payton Courthouse, TCM and star value storage building. The installation is expected to 01:31:06
enhance the overall coverage with particular focus on critical areas such as the courthouse. 01:31:13
Entrances. 01:31:21
And which are the high traffic locations and election spaces? With that being said, there's something really important with this 01:31:22
update. It's been a huge partnership with it and being able to have a new camera is a nice thing, but this is taking it a step 01:31:30
further with artificial intelligence, and that is really where the power comes into this project. 01:31:38
As an example, if we had someone that was yelling and screaming at designated locations, it would be able to identify that and 01:31:46
send out notifications immediately. So it's proactive, not just reactive, and that's very important for this system. 01:31:53
Also supervisor client, yes. So I'm just thinking back, are these these projects that you're going to come up and show us today, 01:32:01
Joseph, are all you're looking to maybe fund these with the LATCF funds or are they already funded like this one German? Great 01:32:09
question. So these projects currently are not funded or a designated fund outside of just a few that have had a general fund for 01:32:16
architectural design? 01:32:24
I'm falling underneath the project. 01:32:32
So. 01:32:35
To your point, we're gonna be looking at LATCF as possible funding, but of course that's gonna be up to the administration to make 01:32:36
the final call. But this is certainly projects considered for that. So as we go through this list of projects, are you gonna tell 01:32:42
us what in your opinion is the highest priority? 01:32:48
Yes, Sir, we're going to give you a recommendation. 01:32:56
OK. 01:32:59
All right with that project. Any questions? 01:33:05
I just sort of halfway remember we thought we were going to use ARPA money for this, but. 01:33:09
That's not the case. 01:33:15
So. 01:33:18
No, Sir. 01:33:23
All right. Next project is the fairgrounds electrical phase one. We have an estimated cost of 650,000. With that this phase of the 01:33:29
project we have had an assessment and evaluation conducted by an engineering and architectural firm and with a few internal 01:33:35
assessments, we identified and categorized each of the maintenance items related to the critical electrical infrastructure within 01:33:42
the fairgrounds. 01:33:48
Essentially, if we had to sum up that evaluation and assessment, as you can imagine, almost every bit of that electrical 01:33:56
infrastructure is not only outdated but degraded to a point of safety concerns. With that being said, this is out for solicitation 01:34:03
and we're looking at bringing up the entire site to just that baseline standard for safety and electrical infrastructure. 01:34:11
And Joseph, you're going to be looking at the same cost to do that. That's the cost. 01:34:20
It's going to take to do that. That's estimated. 01:34:23
We are, once we get the solicitation back we will have a solid number. 01:34:28
We anticipate it to be pretty close to this. 01:34:33
And so do you have any of that partially funded or anything like that right now or is it still sitting there on the table mean 01:34:36
funding? 01:34:40
All right. Next project steps right out of phase one into phase two for the Fairgrounds electrical infrastructure. And this is 01:34:50
where the critical infrastructure gets a little bit more exciting. We're looking at bringing at three phase and establishing our 01:34:57
main pavilion and the site which that's going to allow us to do is step into improving the existing infrastructure such as the 01:35:03
HVAC systems and a few other things related to the electrical. 01:35:10
The HVAC system is currently in place are swamp coolers which you can imagine once it gets into summer. Pretty rough to be able to 01:35:17
hold any events in there. That's probably over 20 people. That location is more than capable than 400 plus. 01:35:24
With that, it's important for us to look to the future of how we're progressing through that site. So there's other additions to 01:35:33
this repair that we're looking at doing or upgrade. Again, the primary focus is that each document three phase. 01:35:40
Yes, Sir. So we're talking 1.6 plus the other 600,000 to bring the electrical system up what what you would consider as adequate? 01:35:52
Yes, Sir, that is correct. So we're looking at $2.2 million to do. 01:35:58
Yes, Sir. 01:36:04
That's a chunk of change, Joseph. Yes, sure. So something to note when it comes to the fairgrounds is over the past year since 01:36:06
we've pulled on. 01:36:10
An event coordinator. We've more than doubled how much use that entire site has received and we're anticipating to the future. 01:36:16
There's some things that hopefully we can share over the next couple of months, but we're talking to a lot of rodeo groups and 01:36:23
working with the fair committee. So the site has been getting used quite a bit and we're looking to use it even more into the 01:36:30
future when it comes to the electrical infrastructure we already have in our Breakers. 01:36:38
Limit how many people we can put in there, how we can comfort them and how we present the site. If we want people to have the 01:36:46
weddings, to be able to have other large events, even to include intergovernmental, these are going to be some of the requirements 01:36:51
to be able to prove that site. 01:36:57
Mr. Chairman, and so like when we do a fair and things now we actually have to rent generators and lights and things of that 01:37:05
nature because of the electrical system. 01:37:11
Country, yeah, that's a really good point. I think the last year's numbers were a little bit lower, but they were running 50 plus 01:37:17
white plants and then I think it was closer to maybe 20 when it comes to generators. 01:37:23
And I guess that was very, Mr. Chairman, I guess what I'm reaching at is right now the fairgrounds to have the events that we do. 01:37:31
Cost us quite a bit per year where if we can get upgrades and stuff and have more functions there, it will be more on its own than 01:37:40
it is now. 01:37:46
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. 01:37:55
Mr. Klein, you have something on your mind. 01:38:02
So we've said here with the fairgrounds for eight years, this has been an issue that when we and Tim stepped on this board was was 01:38:06
just sitting there, wasn't being used. 01:38:10
And we have a real good opportunity to bring a lot of stuff into Eno County with the fairgrounds. Unfortunately, Anthony is going 01:38:15
to hit us at a big cost. 01:38:20
Umm, I. 01:38:31
Yeah, let's let's just go on with them with with your list. 01:38:33
Yes, Sir. Thank you, Joseph. Go ahead. 01:38:37
All right. The next one is the road shop wash Bay. The existing drainage system does not work properly, needs frequent pumping 01:38:40
which is from a contractor. Fixing or replacing the system will decrease the amount of Labor required being the contractor for the 01:38:46
pump out system as well as reduce. 01:38:52
The impact to the failing system. 01:39:01
Assessment is necessary to determine the most appropriate approach for achieving a well functioning system. With that being said, 01:39:04
design, however, this is one of those projects that we're taking a hard look at and seeing how we want to progress forward with 01:39:10
it. There's opportunity for I think some cost savings here. There's been some other really good ideas proposed and that's simply 01:39:17
saying that we have to comply with. 01:39:24
The state mandates federal law when it comes to oil separating from the water can't contaminate groundwater or ground with it. 01:39:32
So. 01:39:47
With that. 01:39:48
That's the part that we have to comply with. The other half is more of the design how how we're going to functionally use it. You 01:39:51
know, anything from do we want to cover, do we just need a simple pad so there's some cost saving opportunity. I think there were 01:39:56
some of these ideas. 01:40:00
How did this get built without all that already being addressed? Do you have any ideas? Do we just run rampant on projects I guess 01:40:09
in the past? 01:40:14
So this this system I think was built for maybe what it was intended to use at the time. As soon as they started washing parts and 01:40:22
components with it, like spraying off the engine or the undercarriage, I think the system was probably probably overwhelmed. 01:40:29
So with that in mind, Joseph, there's nothing that I would say and maybe Michael's going to ask this, but from oils and 01:40:37
contaminants like that, we we're going to end up pumping it out and hauling it off somewhere, correct? Or, or is there options to 01:40:45
go with a regular septic type system to disperse that? Good morning, chairman, members of the board. So this, the history of this 01:40:53
particular system is, is it was built for something was constructed for something completely different years ago. 01:41:01
Has been failing for about 10 years. So now we're taking a look at the usage of the existing fleet and and the mechanics and what 01:41:09
they're doing with this. And so we need to upgrade this system. 01:41:16
Into adequate approved, so as it must be 80 Q approved, it has to be engineered and it has to be an on site wastewater system that 01:41:24
is approved by the state. So that's where at right now. Right now. How about if we just go down the road to the car wash and call 01:41:30
it a day? 01:41:36
Yeah. So what what you're saying is, is this was something else in the past and now that we're using it for a was shot that isn't 01:41:44
adequate for what we're doing. And so we. So let me ask you this, rather than to tie into something like this and revamp it, would 01:41:52
it not be easier just to have rebuild a single base somewhere with what we need and be done? 01:41:59
Would you be more specific, Sir? Like, like right there, there's three bays, 4 bays sitting there for that. Do we need all four of 01:42:08
those bays for a washrack? You see what I'm saying? 01:42:12
Excuse me, Chairman, Supervisor Klein, I apologize. This photo was just to capture the the team. The actual location is barren, so 01:42:18
this is not. 01:42:23
You're killing me, Joseph. 01:42:29
OK, so let's start with that. Do we need to just build something that is just a bus rack for for the the use that the shops need? 01:42:32
I mean start from ground up and go rather than what I'm saying is, is when you start tying into something to revamp it or modify 01:42:39
it or change it. 01:42:47
Quite often. 01:42:55
Costs just go up when it's easier just to scoot over and build what you need and be done as far as your plan. It's a really good 01:42:57
point. That is one of the concepts that we're looking at and we've looked at a few other sites. That's why we had just the 01:43:03
opportunity photo there. We're looking at quite a few sites to look at the feasibility of bringing in a new system versus trying 01:43:10
to repair. We essentially have that answer, but we're still considering pretty much. 01:43:16
And you know, this is, this is a project. I mean, we can talk about things like the fairgrounds or whatever it is for electrical, 01:43:25
this place, whatever it is. But when you start talking about something where we're going to need to get with ADQ through systems 01:43:31
and all that, that could come to a point where it shut us down from watching anything. 01:43:37
Right. Yes, Sir, There is a risk there. 01:43:44
Yeah, that's what I figured. Thanks. 01:43:49
I have a question about it. So in your comments here you say by doing this it will reduce. 01:43:53
It will decrease the amount of Labor required and it will reduce the cost of hiring a third party vendor. Not eliminate the cost, 01:44:01
but reduce it so. 01:44:06
Can we keep things the way they are? First of all, that's the question. And 2nd, if we keep things the way they are, how much are 01:44:12
we spending to accommodate the way things are now? 01:44:19
Versus the 650,000, I just need to know the balance, what are we spending now? 01:44:28
Yes, Sir, we'd be happy to be able to put that together. 01:44:35
OK. 01:44:39
And then is this something that we are required to do or can we continue the way it's being done now? 01:44:42
Chairman, members of the board, currently what what's going on is when the system gets built, we we contact a local contractor to 01:44:53
come and pump out the system so we can continue to do that the limp along until we get a new system in place. Is a new system 01:45:00
going to be required for this type of work? Yes, Sir, it certainly is at some point in time in the future. However, right now we 01:45:07
are managing it with local contractor helping us pump it when needed. 01:45:14
So if I may, with that in mind, where's the fluids going? Isn't it? Is it just going across the road to our landfill? 01:45:22
No, it's going into a system right outside. If you, if you go look at the wash Bay and you got this little Gulch right down there. 01:45:29
The system is down in there in the wash and it's going down there. And that's what's failing. The occurrence is cost, I would 01:45:34
imagine, yeah. 01:45:39
OK. Mr. Chair, if I can ask you a question. If we do a new system, then what's going to happen to the product? Is it going to be 01:45:46
pumped out? 01:45:50
Of whatever filter it goes through. 01:45:55
Versa Humphrey. No, we're going to design the system. 01:46:00
Which will be approved by 80 Q to handle the waste and not pump out on a regular basis. It would be like an on site. It would be 01:46:04
like a septic system, just a much different engineering septic system that would handle the waste. We'd have an oil separator part 01:46:09
of the system and then it would go into. 01:46:15
Leach field or something like that. OK, thank you. OK. Thank you, Joseph. Keep going. 01:46:21
Joseph, your name Mr. 01:46:31
Back to the fairgrounds, did you guys apply for money for earmark money for the fairgrounds? 01:46:34
Here comes Michael. 01:46:41
Chairman, members of the board, I'll probably just stay here, you know. 01:46:47
So we worked with Paddy Powers on the earmark applications this year and as far as the fairgrounds did, we were not able to obtain 01:46:51
earmark funding for that we did. 01:46:58
Applied, we did attempt to apply based on that particular property out there is used for Emergency Management during forest fires. 01:47:06
We have first responders that stay there and that was not approved. So we we are trying. 01:47:14
OK, I. 01:47:23
James, what I would say is when we apply for something like that, if we know that you guys are applying, we can make those phone 01:47:29
calls that might help. 01:47:33
You know, it may not, but but it wouldn't hurt for us to be on the phone saying, hey, you know. 01:47:38
Heads up, this is coming through whatever it is. So just letting you know, I I didn't know it even talked about a plan for for 01:47:46
money for that. But what you said, Michael, as far as that facility being used for emergency services like that. 01:47:54
That's a valid deal. Real valid deal. 01:48:02
Mr. Chairman, I move his report. 01:48:06
One of our purposes is to identify the priorities and then we do have a, a grants team that we are trying to identify what our 01:48:10
needs are and then reach out and say, OK, if this is our priority for what our needs are, then we're going to work to identify 01:48:18
what grants potentially are available. So there might be earmarks or congressionally directly spending, but we're going to explore 01:48:27
the entire gamut of finding money. It's not necessarily that it's all going to, well, there's not enough money. 01:48:35
You know the LITCF to fund all these projects, but it is a part of finance department to continue to find the funding for these if 01:48:44
they are an absolute necessity and we have to go forward. It's incumbent on us as finance and administration to find the funding 01:48:51
to pay for these projects. 01:48:58
Mr. Chair, for me, and you're absolutely right, James, there's, there's never enough money to go around. I, I fully, I'm aware of 01:49:07
that, you know, whether it's here or at the top. But yeah, by all means let us know because it doesn't hurt for us to rattle every 01:49:14
tree we can rattle and then to step back and say no, we just can't get it, you know, so. 01:49:21
Mr. Chairman, through our decline, absolutely rattling the trees works. 01:49:30
We've seen it time and time again that those that have the loudest voices and continue to shake and rattle the trees are the ones 01:49:35
that. 01:49:39
Whether it's right or wrong, they're the ones that get the attention frequently, get the money, so absolutely that is essential 01:49:44
for us. 01:49:47
I'm not making you gunshot, am I? 01:49:58
All right, if there's no question, no further questions on the Roadshow wash day, we'll step into the Central Heights roof 01:50:08
replacement. 01:50:12
This has been brought before the board a couple of times. Again, just to kind of recap it briefly, we're looking at a new roof 01:50:17
installation. 01:50:20
Essentially reduce the current leaks and fix the damage that is existing there from the roof deteriorating. 01:50:26
There were two. 01:50:35
Perspective that we were looking at or options we were looking at is to replace the roof while at the same time taking the 01:50:39
opportunity to replace the HVAC systems within the the back end of the structure. That was important because of the HVAC systems 01:50:46
are 18 years plus and they are running on refrigerant that is no longer manufactured and the list goes on and on when it comes to 01:50:53
the repairs and the costs associated with that. 01:50:59
With that being an opportunity, we were originally looking at a $1.8 million project which was brought before the board as a 01:51:07
member. Again, we took that advice, went back to the drawing board and see how we can reduce that, but also take into 01:51:14
consideration how we're operating as a whole and distributed across the county as far as what's being leased with our facilities 01:51:21
and this played a role in that. 01:51:27
With this being a lease facility, we thought it was to the value to consider the HVAC. However, after looking at the cost and the 01:51:35
feasibility, the recommendation would be looking at just replacing the roof itself. 01:51:42
And to replace it would be the $654,000. 01:51:49
With that, we have to take any questions. Supervisor Klein. Yes, Sir. 01:51:55
I think this needs to have more discussion. I'm not so sure this is even worth logging ourselves down with this. I totally do not 01:52:02
like the idea of putting that kind of money into a lease building. I do not like that that in my opinion that money I think could 01:52:08
be better off better spent going another direction. 01:52:14
But I honestly think that. 01:52:22
I mean, I could probably talk about that quite a bit and I'm not so sure from my standpoint that. 01:52:24
It's a good thing. 01:52:31
Chairman, members of the Board. And you're absolutely right, Sir. One of the considerations for this project is. 01:52:34
This property is owned by the Miami School District and we have a 20 year lease with them. And part of the lease calls for a, it's 01:52:42
an unusual part of the lease, but it calls for a, a roof to be of sound condition on that particular structure. So that's one of 01:52:50
the reasons why we're looking into this because that roof is leaking in multiple, multiple areas. 01:52:59
So it's sort of part of our lease, which is one of the considerations of Mr. Menlove when we were talking about this is let's put 01:53:07
the 1.5 to 1.8 million for the HVAC not into the building at this particular time and possibly looking at other alternatives in 01:53:15
the future. And then just take a look at doing the roof replacement so we can get some of the water leaks repaired in the 01:53:22
structure. So I guess what you're saying is we have no option but to do a rough. 01:53:30
We need it. We need a new growth on that building. 01:53:38
It's part of our lease. You didn't answer my question. 01:53:41
I'll leave. I'll leave that up to the attorney, Sir. 01:53:46
But but our lease does call for the roof of sound condition. How old is that lease Michael? It was a 20 year lease and I think we 01:53:49
have five or six years and so that was in the discussion 15 years ago that. 01:53:57
I'm not sure how that that lease was signed prior to MY. It makes me wonder if they didn't realize there's issues with that roof 01:54:06
when they signed the lease. 01:54:10
Supervisor hungry. 01:54:18
Are we in renegotiations for another 20 years? 01:54:20
I mean, we get five years left, that's $100,000 per. 01:54:26
We have left to give him a new roof. Yeah. So, so we've been having conversations with County Manager Mr. Menloff as to all their 01:54:32
alternatives. Because if you take a look at that building it, it's a large complex with a lot of Chila County employees. And what 01:54:39
do we do with those employees? Where do we put them? So there's there's a lot of considerations for that particular project. 01:54:47
We have the health department, we have fiduciary, we have elections, we have community services, we have a lot of employees, 01:54:56
right. And I guess that was my question, if we're going to put a new roof. 01:55:01
And I was just wondering about negotiations for a new contract going forward. Certainly when or lease the lease would have to be 01:55:06
brought up in front of the board for approval prior to to us getting into the lease, which would go through the county attorney's 01:55:13
office as well. 01:55:19
OK. I believe at this time the cost for that Miami school district leases it to for $1.00 a year. 01:55:26
We also have some other structural issues with their complex too. We have some large trees in the middle of that that are. 01:55:36
Upgrading some of the bricks, posing some tripping hazards, and those kinds of things I would like to take care of as well. 01:55:43
Yeah. OK. Yeah, Mr. Chair, I would, I would. Just curious to our continuance with that. 01:55:50
Building, putting a new roof on it. That's it. Thank you. 01:55:57
Thank you. OK, let's keep going, Joseph. 01:56:02
Next on the list is the Courthouse Electrical. 01:56:08
This is another location that we did an electrical assessment and evaluation on, but this is also an item that. 01:56:13
We've had a lot of discussions on throughout the past. 01:56:20
Again, similar challenge that we're running into out of fairgrounds. 01:56:24
Most electrical infrastructure at the courthouse is in disrepair. 01:56:29
One that is functioning. 01:56:35
The portions that are functioning are still outdated. 01:56:37
Quite a bit. 01:56:41
With that being said. 01:56:43
We've had electrical issues where our switch gear has gone down and in order to get that component, we've had to reach out across 01:56:46
the nation and. 01:56:50
To different locations out of Texas, Florida. I think we finally got a switch gear that would fit ours. With that being said, it 01:56:55
wasn't quite refurbished. It was used, used again, refurbished and then sold to us because that's about the only way we can get 01:57:00
that. 01:57:05
When we talk about the switch gear and some of the concerns that come along with it, if we lose a switch gear, it's not just one 01:57:11
electrical component that gets put down throughout the the courthouse. You're typically looking at half four, several H doc 01:57:19
systems. And when I say half floor, you can lose all the lighting, you can lose the power to the. 01:57:26
Operation side with his computers and printers. So that just kind of gives you an order of magnitude when it comes to the 01:57:35
electrical infrastructure. 01:57:38
That would be happy to take any questions. 01:57:45
What are you supposed to cost us, Joseph, if this building goes down for. 01:57:48
Three days, it would be significant Sir. That's what I'm thinking. I mean we have we have a lot of things relying on that light 01:57:53
stand on. 01:57:58
In this building I. 01:58:04
I and that's, that's like, that's what I was asking you earlier about priority priorities, you know, because I've had this one in 01:58:09
the back of my mind. It's like you look at things and we can get by here, we can get by there, we can put things off. 01:58:16
Make things work. But when those lights go out and with the equipment that you're talking about that we can't, they don't make 01:58:25
anymore. So you can't find parts, it could be a substantial time that this building could be down. 01:58:31
And being the county seat, courthouse, everything that's involved in this building. 01:58:39
I don't know that we can take that chance. I'm just saying, but. 01:58:45
I think that's one that makes the top of the list for me. Yes, Sir. Thank you. 01:58:50
Supervisor Humphrey. 01:58:56
Yeah, I, I just, you know, when you say $3,000,000, does that mean 400, I mean 400 million or 4 million instead of 3 million 01:59:01
because that's, that's an estimate. Is that an estimate by a? 01:59:08
Contractor that would repair this or is that just kind of pulled out of a? 01:59:17
Estimated book. 01:59:23
That is a very good question. That's something that we constantly run into a challenge with. There's several ways that we attempt 01:59:26
to get those. Just as you mentioned, this particular estimate is a rough order of magnitude. It is several people put together 01:59:32
with that engineering assessment and put this number together. But to your point, it can vary significantly from this. This is 01:59:38
definitely an estimate. 01:59:44
Yeah, because I being in remodels most of my life. 01:59:50
You start opening cans of worms and it grows real fast because if you upgrade the equipment, is the wire going to hold the new 01:59:56
upgrade? 02:00:02
Yeah, I I could see our whole $5,000,000 going in in rewiring the courthouse. 02:00:08
Umm, but. 02:00:16
Yeah, because there's going to be downtime, because there's times they can't work on it because we have to operate. So if they're 02:00:19
working on weekends only. 02:00:22
Yeah, what? What a mess. 02:00:26
OK. That's all I have, Mr. Chair. Thank you. 02:00:28
So. 02:00:32
I'll just slip this in. So we've got a lot of zeros going on and. 02:00:34
Not anyone's fault that's here at all, but I think that if we have equipment. 02:00:39
And pavement. 02:00:45
Roof and electrical that's so outdated that now we have these outrageous numbers that it would be better to have a plan going 02:00:47
forward where we continue to maintain things rather than have the whole thing fall apart in the same year kind of thing, You know? 02:00:54
So it's not your fault, but it's like when all the pavement is bad, when all the roofs are bad and when all the electric needs to 02:01:00
be replaced, we can't do that. 02:01:07
So then we have to prioritize and I'd rather see us try and have a budget going forward to say, look in the next six years we need 02:01:15
to do this payment project. 02:01:20
Before it gets really bad. Anyway, that's just a suggestion. 02:01:27
Yes, Sir. So the good news is or the past year or two, we have been transitioning our maintenance into a preventative model. You 02:01:31
have to have a lot of work to do, but we've already started to see those numbers improving stepping into this year. 02:01:38
All right. As you can imagine, the same location, high priority courthouse paving, the paving improvement project, we've had this 02:01:51
before the board before. This is something that this entire chamber has been crossing on a day-to-day. There's a significant 02:01:57
amount of risk management that is tied into that. But even when we just look at it from from anyone just getting injured, we've 02:02:03
had a couple of injuries just this past year. 02:02:09
With that, we're looking at resurfacing. 02:02:17
The parking lot. 02:02:22
Essentially the entire complex. 02:02:25
OK. That we have to take any questions. We're out of money. 02:02:29
The good news is that we've limited it to 14. 02:02:33
OK. 02:02:39
Right. 02:02:41
Next one is the courthouse elevator. 02:02:43
Over the past couple of years, the elevator we've experienced a significant downtime. 02:02:46
Specifically, the South elevator. 02:02:51
That is the main point of access for any ADA going to the additional floors, whether it's down, below or above. Again, this runs 02:02:55
into the same issue as what we've just described and communicated in the past. 02:03:01
It's outdated. The equipment that we're trying to, we're limping along with a lot of our repairs. Repairs are becoming more 02:03:09
significant and the downtime is becoming more significant. With that, I'd be happy to take any questions. 02:03:15
Plans are for free. 02:03:23
I have no questions. We don't have a choice on this either, right? Because 88 says we have to accommodate, you know, the courts or 02:03:25
whatever it is. 02:03:30
So am I not correct? You are correct. We do have, I just wanted to note we do have another elevator. However, it's not a main 02:03:36
point of access because it goes to the courts operations. So we still have an alternative. But again, we have to start. It's a 02:03:42
huge workaround and it takes someone two or three staff to to get that person walked around escorted and it's quite, a, quite an 02:03:49
ordeal. 02:03:56
Hey. 02:04:09
Next is a courthouse roof replacement. 02:04:13
Some of the same challenges that we've run across the board again. 02:04:17
This one is just a different part of the infrastructure. We have multiple links throughout the roof, several points of damage 02:04:20
we've gone through. 02:04:24
I think it was five this year for repairs and contracting and also from internal. 02:04:29
So with that, the membrane to the. 02:04:37
Courthouse, you would be looking at replacing that. 02:04:40
So. 02:04:46
We have a metal roof. 02:04:47
So it is mixed. So yes, Sir. So only the flat surface. Here we have the membrane. 02:04:50
And that's the portion you're Speaking of? Yes, Sir. 02:04:58
Anything else? 02:05:03
Would you just go back with the membrane? I bet. I bet you'd have to, wouldn't you? Yes, Sir. We're pretty much held to it. There 02:05:04
are some other alternatives than my recommendation being go with the membrane. The good news is they've been developed. They've 02:05:11
improved over the years. So what we'd be putting on there would be a superior product compared to what we have up there. 02:05:18
And the. 02:05:25
Not just the quality, but the warranties are love. 02:05:28
Mr. Chair, if I may, I'm not a big fan of flat roofs. Is it structured to where there could be some pitch? 02:05:33
For that prior to putting a roof, so it's not just being a swimming pool, hoping that it holds water yes Sir, we can take a look 02:05:42
at that and see if we can create a pitch with. 02:05:48
It correct say again I'm sorry you got a parapet walls around most of the roads so it's a big swimming pool with a liner yes Sir 02:05:55
so. 02:06:00
And it holds water until it evaporates because there's not much of a drain. And so I'm just wondering if. 02:06:05
If we're, if we're gonna do it, if there's, if it's not structurally designed to where we could put a pitch to it to go to our 02:06:12
scuppers rather than just hoping it gets there just I mean, if we're gonna spend, you know, 450, why not spend 600 then not after 02:06:20
Band-Aid it again in another few years. 02:06:29
I appreciate that input, we'd be happy to take a look at it. 02:06:38
OK. 02:06:44
All right, Next we step into the HVAC systems. Again, we've run into some of the similar challenges. Good news over the past two 02:06:46
years, we've already replaced 3. 02:06:51
Also part of that criticality is also is what it controls. 02:07:33
The entire courthouse remains a priority. However, there are certain systems where there is going to our critical infrastructure 02:07:40
in IT or this boardroom. That's what we're looking at prioritizing with the 250. 02:07:46
OK. 02:07:55
Supervisor client. 02:07:58
Well, you say James would just take out a bond and just go over this building from one end to the other. 02:08:01
Mr. Chairman, throughout Klein, that is um. 02:08:08
1st is grant money that we'll seek for, for all these projects and other than that we will look for. 02:08:12
All the options that we have of paying for these needed repairs, you know what Supervisor Humphrey said is correct. Once you tie 02:08:21
into something like electrical like you're wanting to do, there's no telling what that's going to cost us. There just really 02:08:26
isn't. 02:08:31
You know and. 02:08:36
Mr. Chairman, I might. I just wanted to add, since I've got a chance here, that. 02:08:39
Umm. 02:08:45
I don't want to demand what has been in the past, but a lot of times if we just kick the can down the road and don't necessarily 02:08:48
address them here with Joseph and his team, we're bringing these out in public. Having this whole discussion, appreciate the open 02:08:54
discussion. It's to identify these things and. 02:09:00
Identify that they are projects that need to be done and we have to prioritize them and then go out and find the money like you 02:09:06
said. Yeah, it's, it's, it's not been handled well in the past and we're trying to correct that as Joseph said and be progressive 02:09:13
and look forward to fixing things and then having a deferred maintenance schedule so. 02:09:20
I told you. 02:09:29
I totally agree with you. It's just that everything is just kind of accumulated to where we are today. I mean, you know, we talk 02:09:32
about the the building with the new roof, the school building, we talk about this building. We have a gel system that that's just 02:09:37
a mess. I mean it it. 02:09:42
We just hit just right to be on this board to deal with this, what it was. 02:09:48
We're looking for your input, your direction, any of your thoughts today so that we could put together a package and then bring 02:09:53
back the future date, probably several months to look at all of our different options of what we do, how we go about doing it, and 02:09:58
how we pay for it all. 02:10:04
That. 02:10:09
Of course, I've heard very loud and clear for all the time that you have been on the board that we're not raising taxes. Really we 02:10:12
are not going. We need to live within our means that we have and we're not going to increase taxes. And it's up to us to take care 02:10:17
of this within what means we have available. 02:10:23
I think those discussions need to be sooner than later. Also, James, I mean, the further we put things off, I, I know how it is 02:10:35
scheduling meetings and whatnot, but we're, we're talking months, couple months, three months, whatever it is, but sooner we can 02:10:40
have these discussions in my opinion. 02:10:46
The better off we are going to be, I mean we've already been years getting to the point where we are right now. I mean, and now in 02:10:52
some areas it's pretty critical. So, so we we really need to step in there and address some of this and. 02:10:59
Let's see what we can do. Mr. Chairman, throughout your client, there are certain projects that might be easier to get federal 02:11:08
grants or grants from other locations. And so if if we've got a certain amount of $5 million. 02:11:15
And then we will on an ongoing basis commit a part of each annual budget to capital expenses. So between that, but if there are 02:11:23
certain of these projects that we can it's easier for us to get grants to pay for them, then we will certainly want to identify 02:11:30
those then bring those back and and go full force to get those grants. 02:11:37
That makes sense to me. So you guys, I got a bill out of here. I got to be in Phoenix here pretty quick, so I got to go. 02:11:46
And Joseph, thank you for doing all this. Sure. 02:11:52
And whatever helped me and Kathy can be to you guys, just holler and it'll be good. I really wanted to stay to hear how many roads 02:11:57
we could do today, but that'll be for next time anyway, so I gotta go guys, Thanks. 02:12:04
Thank you, supervisor and so Joseph so. 02:12:13
My thoughts again, we have a very, very challenging course forward because we have a lot of buildings, pavement and all of that. 02:12:18
We have the TCM building, which is new. 02:12:25
And so we don't want to neglect that for 20 years in order to pay for something else. So when we have something that's already a 02:12:33
gem, we need to maintain that as a gym and try and figure out we have a broken car, what's the most important thing to fix on our 02:12:39
car so we can keep going? 02:12:45
And it may not be a new paint job, it could be more or less getting new tires or the things that make it safe. And going forward, 02:12:52
we're not going to be able to fix this thing all at once, but that's OK as long as we have a plan. 02:13:00
So. 02:13:08
OK, absolutely. All right, so. 02:13:10
Keep it going. All right, So the last two, we can go and bundle those up again, they're very familiar projects at the Sheriff's 02:13:13
Office, gel paving and the Central Heights paving. The big highlight out of this one is just like our previous discussion about 02:13:19
Central Heights, there is a lease agreement with that. 02:13:25
With that being said, it was very specific just to the roof like Michael was talking, but something to keep in mind when we 02:13:31
operate out of there, there is a degree of risk management anytime someone steps, grounds, steps on our grounds. So with that, I'd 02:13:39
be happy to take any questions. Supervisor Humphrey Yeah, I I do have some questions. 02:13:46
1. 02:13:55
HVAC's we've replaced, electrical we've done maintenance on, roofs we've done maintenance on, I'm going to call that limp money 02:13:56
because that's just limping us along until we can do something better. Where's that limp money come from? Is that general fund? Do 02:14:03
you have a budget for limp money? Where? Where does our limp money come from? So Chairman, Supervisor Humphrey, it's a hybrid, 02:14:11
it's a combination. So out of our maintenance budget. 02:14:18
There's certain thresholds that we've identified that we spend within our discretion for maintenance. 02:14:26
However, once we cross other thresholds, roughly 25,000, sometimes 4000 depending on how it lands within the maintenance matrix 02:14:31
for us. And with that, we also reach out for support from the administration for any capital support, more specifically a very 02:14:40
large HVAC system costing 50,000 plus. We definitely have to reach out for support on that. 02:14:48
OK, and the reason I'm asking is because I've, I've got these papers laying all over here, just had to look through them all and 02:14:57
we're going to need a lot of limp money because there's no way out of five, you know, $1,000,000 we can fix some of this. And you 02:15:04
know, so I, I guess from a maintenance point of view, you know, your decision would be, would be a lot, but. 02:15:11
That we have available. I mean, that's my two cents. Work fairgrounds. I would love to have it. I'd love to have at least phase 02:15:51
one, but but you know, when you're looking at wiring for a courthouse and things of that nature. 02:15:58
That seems to be the the biggest burden. 02:16:05
And, and the most catastrophic if it, if it goes out. And so the rest is gonna be limp money in my opinion. And I guess we have to 02:16:09
look at our lent money as well for projects because this one's costing us a lot of money per year and this one's only costing us 02:16:17
so much. So OK, what, what's our, what's our next project after our biggest catastrophe project? And to me that's, that's just my 02:16:25
two cents worth because. 02:16:33
We don't need any major, major emergencies and if we can patch a roof, it's not falling. 02:16:41
But if we have an electrical go out and and we can't find replacement parts. 02:16:48
Then we just turned to 3,000,000 into a six million because it's an emergency and they're having to work 24/7. So I, you know. 02:16:53
If if we're having work, work sessions to communicate. 02:17:02
That's my communication, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Thank you. So Joseph, if I were to identify any sort of a priority, it would not be 02:17:08
any of your specific projects saying let's do this one or that one. It would, it would have to be filtered through what situation 02:17:15
is the most dangerous to the public that would cause us to have losses, Which project would be the most needed presently so that 02:17:22
we don't fail in? 02:17:30
Our services like say the electricity goes out or whatever, but also $3,000,000 for the electrical system here in this building. 02:17:39
And we don't need to spend it all in the in one tail swoop. If we can do half of it first and another half depending on what the 02:17:47
magnitude of the projects are, it dudes over three years or whatever and prioritize it that way. 02:17:55
And also the third would be the most. 02:18:04
Egregious thing that may be in the structure that looks like it might fail at the next storm or anything like that. In other 02:18:09
words, leaking roofs are no good and we can patch them. But I think if we start prioritizing from most important or dangerous to. 02:18:20
Down the scale to most convenient. 02:18:33
Then we can work our way through that. 02:18:37
But until I know how much money we have, or how much money we can possibly have, it's kind of hard to say which project would be 02:18:40
the first one to do. 02:18:45
I feel a little bit the same. If we're leasing a building, how much money we're going to be putting into that or? 02:18:53
Now, did someone say that we're leasing that Central Heights for a dollar? 02:18:59
OK. 02:19:04
So, and now I understand why we have to pay for everything. 02:19:07
So. 02:19:12
Basically they're saying it's yours to use. So you maintain it, you keep it up. 02:19:15
OK. Anything else, Supervisor? 02:19:23
You have any more to offer us, Joseph, that is everything OK? Is there any more that we need to talk about, James, so that you 02:19:27
kind of understand the direction we're going? 02:19:32
I think what we'll do is have Joseph and his team put together priorities that we can review with each of you. 02:19:40
And. 02:19:48
Kind of wise and what force and then we'll identify as long as that as the priorities of potential funding and wherever we might 02:19:49
draw from including the five million of LITCF grants and wherever it might be to. 02:19:56
Attach those together, OK, so that we can bring that to you and then make decisions based on that additional information. 02:20:03
Thank you. And I assume that we're working on making sure we spend all of the ARPA money before the deadline. 02:20:13
OK, great. OK. Thank you, Joseph. Appreciate it. You have some challenges. 02:20:21
OK. We're down to our last item 2G information discussion regarding the ongoing planning and future Public Works Department 02:20:31
revenues, expenditures and projects and Hormone. Good morning, Chairman. 02:20:37
You're hungry. We'll get to the facts of what our presentation. It's somewhat of an annual report and we're going to be touching 02:20:44
revenues, gloat projects, flood mitigation projects and our employees and I will have a county. 02:20:54
Engineer helped me with a couple of the slides and Deputy Director of Public Works Melanie helped me with a couple of slides as 02:21:06
well. 02:21:10
So we'll we'll get right into it and we're going to start with talking about revenue. And this first slide is showing the three 02:21:16
buckets of money that we get for rope maintenance, if you will. And I'm going to focus on the first couple of slides on roads and 02:21:23
then we'll get into flood and other issues, but. 02:21:30
We're going to be talking about growth for the first couple of slides. The three buckets of money includes exercise tax, excise 02:21:37
tax. We estimated going to finish out fiscal year 24 at point $3,000,000. That's about an 8% increase over the previous year and 02:21:44
that's a blue, the blue text that you see up there. 02:21:51
The yellow text is the vehicle license tax. That's $1.3 million that we would complete the year with for about a 1% increase over 02:21:58
the previous year. 02:22:04
HERF, which is the bigger amount of money is $5.4 million is what we estimate we're going to finish off fiscal year 24 and that's 02:22:11
about a 6% increase over the previous year for a total of about $9 million for all three buckets and 6% increase over the previous 02:22:19
year. And that's basically what I would consider good news. OK. 02:22:27
And so I'm going to go to the next slide and it's good to see good news because if we look back over time, 18 years is what this 02:22:36
slide shows. 02:22:40
It shows us that over this 18 year time frame, our mileage has gone up about 5556 miles. It's gone from 7:01 to 7:57. That's about 02:22:45
a 7% increase that we've added two or three miles on average each of those years. At the same time, inflation has gone up about 51 02:22:54
percent or what we could buy for a dollar eighteen years ago, now it takes $1.51. 02:23:03
So inflation has gone up, Rd. mileage has gone up, but our revenues to maintain these roads only went up 2/10 of 1% over that 02:23:13
engineer time frame. And part of the reason lies that we lost some excise tax when we when it's at sunset for the first, for the 02:23:22
first cycle and then when our constituents voted it back in, in 2015, we share half of that excise tax with the cities and towns. 02:23:30
But you see that excise test like excise tax and her have bone growth grown considerably over that time frame. 02:23:39
Whereas the vehicle license pack remains basically flat. 02:23:48
So I'll go to the next slide. 02:23:54
There's there's one slide here is showing a couple of years of actual fiscal year 22 and fiscal year 23. I'll walk you down fiscal 02:23:58
year 22 as an example, revenues with $9.7 million. That's actually more than the chart that I just showed you because it includes 02:24:06
now some of the grant money on the revenue side for fiscal year 22 and 23, salaries were in the three, three plus $1,000,000 02:24:14
range, 3.3 and 22 and 3.6 and 23. 02:24:22
This is act, this is not a budget number. This is the actual that we paid operating supplies were in the $2,000,000 range that the 02:24:30
amount that we spent on capital you see $3,000,000 in fiscal year 20 two, 1.8 of that was to pay for our local share for the 02:24:39
bridge, OK, 1.8 million. We were helped out by general fund. General fund also fixed in a similar amount at at that time, OK. And 02:24:47
you can see that then the the capital transportation improvements decreased to $1 million the following year. 02:24:55
In fiscal year 23, which is more typical of our spending for capital over the last years, capital equipment, you see we spent that 02:25:04
we probably bought a couple of motor graders in 22 and we didn't buy any heavy equipment in fiscal year 23. And the difference you 02:25:14
see that in both cases our revenue succeeded our expenditures in the first case of fiscal year 22 by 755,000. 02:25:23
In and then in fiscal year 23 by over $2,000,000. OK. So we have a carry forward, carry balance each of those years. In fiscal 02:25:34
year 22, we started off with $12.6 million because our revenues exceeded our expenditures. We left with $3.4 million more money 02:25:44
than what we came in with. And then similar story in fiscal year 23, we came in the year with a little over $13 million. 02:25:54
And we left that year with fifteen $15 million, a little bit over $15 million, so. 02:26:04
We have this current year we plan to spend on capital transportation a little over $2,000,000. We spent 535,000 on on equipment. 02:26:13
We actually have a positive difference between revenues and expenditures of of $300,000. And so we're starting a year with 15-7 02:26:21
and we're going to leave the year with the lower $16 million. 02:26:29
Having $16,000,000 in the bank and having inflation grow as it has is not necessarily a good a good thing. We should have some 02:26:38
reserve money. We believe 50 million is too much and we'd like to spend that money over time in a wise fashion over the next 3-4 02:26:46
years, not all in one year. Actually. We're limited by how much capital work we can do by our resources, but we should spend that 02:26:54
money wisely over time, taking care of our payroll, making sure that we've got material, material pips, etcetera. 02:27:01
And that's what we plan to do. So fiscal year 25, we've actually had a lot of projects in the funnel and they're all coming to 02:27:10
fruition in fiscal year 25 or many of them are coming to fruition in fiscal year 25. We plan on spending actually a little over 02:27:16
$3,000,000 of our own money. 02:27:23
In fiscal year 25 and Tom Goodman will go over exactly what those projects are. 02:27:31
We can't afford to pay these roads. And if we want to pay the new road, let's say we wanted to pay the Control Rd. if we want to 02:28:16
take care of Russell Rd. if we want to pay Young Rd. we're going to have to go after grant money to do that. It's not going to 02:28:23
come out of our three buckets that we just talked about. It's just it's just not possible. So you see fiscal year 25 up here, 02:28:30
which is a budget. Our budget that we're working on right now talks about revenues in the order of $9 million. 02:28:38
It talks about salaries of $4.5 million for fiscal year 25. That's about 50% of our revenue. But we we haven't spent four, four 02:28:45
and a half million dollars in salaries in the in the last four years. As you look back across time the last three years and that's 02:28:52
because of the vacancies today, 20, we have about a 20% vacant rate today as far as the road department is concerned. So if we 02:28:59
budget $4.5 million, you can say unless you fail those vacancies, you're only going to spend 80% of that. And the 4.5 also 02:29:06
includes some inflationary pressure. 02:29:13
Hopefully there's there's some money that we can use to improve what we pay people in fiscal year 25. And it it takes that into 02:29:21
account for that number. It also has a large number for operating supplies. We're we're going to be crack sealing close to 1818 02:29:30
miles in fiscal year 25 just like we're doing in fiscal year 24. That's exactly about 110th of the paved Rd. miles that we have. 02:29:38
And that's what that's our target. We want a chip seal 10% of our pay broach every year. 02:29:46
If needed, there may come a time when we say, hey, we don't need to do 18 miles, they're in excellent shape, fine, we'll do 02:29:55
whatever needs to be done that year. But between now and that point, we'd like to do about 18 miles a year. And you're going to 02:30:01
see a chart that talks about that in a little bit. And with that chip sealing, there's crack sealing, there's shoulder work. We 02:30:06
would like to foxtel our roads and then we'd like to strike them those. We'd like to strike all our paved roads or most of our 02:30:12
paved roads. 02:30:18
But for many of the chip shield roads as possible. 02:30:24
And for equipment, we're spending, we're planning on spending $1.3 million this coming year on equipment including a motor grader 02:30:30
and a dump truck. And you'll see a slide on that. The difference is a negative number. We're going to our expenditures are going 02:30:37
to exceed our revenue and we're going to eat away a little bit at our at our at our carry forward and we're going to come into 02:30:43
your $16 million. 02:30:49
And they were successful at completing the project that we just talked about. We would leave the year with twelve $12.6 million 02:30:56
going forward. 02:31:00
And so then the last, the last column is a model year. Once we start to eat away at this carry forward, we need to start living 02:31:05
within our means. And that's what that model year tries to say that in the absence of grant money, we have to live with those 3 02:31:12
buckets that we just talked about, excise tax per vehicle license that. And so that model year shows you that we would have some 02:31:19
money available for capital improvement, some money is available for equipment and that we probably ought to be carrying forward. 02:31:26
Six million, $5 million. 02:31:35
In the bank so that if an opportunity came to find a grant that we want to do work with this particular grant that we would have 02:31:37
seed money to support and make that grant submittal more competitive. And so that's the purpose of the model year, OK, To show us 02:31:45
if we have to live within our meaning, then that's the way we would have to behave. We're not that far from that today. We're 02:31:53
we're basically at that level. So the next chart that I wanted to show you and stop here if you have questions, please, OK. 02:32:00
I consider that last chart one of the more important charts because it gets us to start thinking about how we would behave at some 02:32:10
point in the future. We've been fortunate that that that that we save money. We save money, as you saw. 02:32:16
Because we budgeted a large amount for salaries and wages or an amount for salaries and wages and then we only spend a fraction of 02:32:24
it. But hopefully we're able to fill our position sometime in the future and and take care of our roads that we want to take care 02:32:30
of our roads. A couple of bits of information on this chart that are important. 02:32:37
On the blue box that you see at the top, you show that for service 458 miles out of 757, that's about 60% of our miles are in the 02:32:44
Forest Service and. 02:32:50
And we and we can't forget that after every time we talk with the floor service, we remind them of that, that we're maintaining 02:32:56
and often because we want to, because there's communities that we support out in the forest and it and it and they offer 02:33:02
recreational opportunities, etcetera. But there should be an ongoing partnership with the Forest Service. I believe there is. I 02:33:08
just don't believe that it's not sufficient enough that for service ought to be helping out even more than what they already do. 02:33:15
The other chart that you see here is. 02:33:21
The frequency of when we should crack, seal, chip, seal and reconstruct our paved roads and when we ought to re gravel our roads 02:33:28
because maintaining a gravel Rd. is not just running a motivator on it sooner or later yet to add material to it. I mean, that's 02:33:34
just the fact. And so if we also show a cost per mile, and this is the same chart that I shared last year, I, I looked at it and I 02:33:40
felt that it was sufficiently close that I was going to leave it as it was. And it shows like a million, $1,000,000 a mile to 02:33:46
reconstruct the road. 02:33:52
Showed you two pieces of information. One is $9 million of revenues that we get from our three buckets and 757 miles of roads that 02:33:59
we have to maintain. So if you wanted to look at this from the biggest picture possible, you take 9 million and divide it by 757 02:34:06
and you end up with $12,000 a mile. 02:34:12
OK. For each of those miles that we maintain, that's a very big picture because there's engineering cost there, GIS process. 02:34:20
Vegetation control costs and a lot of other things. But if you just wanted to look at those two numbers, $12,000 a mile and then 02:34:29
you look at $1,000,000 a mile to the pave a road that you're saving 83 years before, you can save $1,000,000 at $12,000 an on an 02:34:37
annual basis. And so paving a road for us is going to be I think more difficult in the future. 02:34:44
Kind of like an opinion on my part if we try to put a strategy together on how to maintain our trade roads. Question, yes, Mr. 02:35:23
Chair, if I may. Yeah. Question is with us doing our own chip seal, not a double chip seal, just regular chip seal, What what do 02:35:30
we save a mile by doing it ourselves versus? 02:35:37
Bidding it out. 02:35:46
We don't have an exact number for what it would cost for somebody to do a chip seal per mile. 02:35:48
We do have an example for you. A double chip seal is going to cost us around $500,000, okay. 02:35:54
We can do a single chip seal at $75,000 a mile and that would include the labor, the equipment and the material. The material cost 02:36:03
for doing a single chip seal is in the order of $40,000 a mile depending on the width of the road. 02:36:11
So you take, we do a single chip seal for 40,000 and that's a preventative measure that we take on our paved roads instead of 02:36:19
doing. 02:36:23
A total reconstruct which which is to pave the road, which again I think is is no longer really an option for it. We need to learn 02:36:29
how to do a double chip seal and do it do the best of our ability. We have a quasi phase Rd. that behaves like a paved Rd. that we 02:36:36
can maintain because we're able to do the chip ceiling in house now. 02:36:43
Again, we will be learning how to do the double chip sales ourselves or relearning. I think that in Gila County, it's been done in 02:36:50
the past, many years ago. We're going to start with Young doing a couple of double chip Shields ourselves and we're going to watch 02:36:57
others do it this year and I think we'll be able to learn from all of that activity. 02:37:04
That didn't quite answer your question, but I took a shot at but it seems significant. 02:37:12
A very significant when we do our chip shield. 02:37:19
One of the ideas going forward is to make sure that we stretch the money so that we do have some money in the bank in case of 02:37:59
grant opportunity shows up and we need to be competitive. 02:38:04
OK. And so this is, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this. It shows for the next five years that we're chip sealing in the 02:38:11
an average of about 18 miles per year. That's the target that we set. The team has gone out. The team is learning how to do 02:38:19
pavement conditions. They call it a pavement condition index. The PCI, Steve Williams sent out an e-mail to the team sharing with 02:38:28
them a little spreadsheet. 02:38:36
The things excited about actually going out and aging the condition of the road. Pavement condition index takes it takes a scale 02:38:45
from 100 to 0 for 100 is a brand new road 0 is a road that's in total disrepair and at the beginning of its life cycle you try to 02:38:51
do a story seal. 02:38:58
Later on your crack seal and then your chip seal repeatedly keeping the road in that condition for as long as you can until 02:39:05
perhaps 4050. Sixty years later, you may need to reconstruct it. But anyway, it's it's it's just a team effort to prepare this 02:39:13
life. The team is motivated to do chip seals. If you know they were working on chip Shields, I think it was last week and they go 02:39:20
back to chip feeling in up in the Payson area. 02:39:28
In the in the coming weeks and it takes a team effort by everybody, very intense. And I think in some ways for me it's rewarding 02:39:37
and hopefully for the team members they they feel essential reward based on the accomplishment at this time, I'm going to turn it 02:39:44
over to to Tom and he's going to talk about a couple of slides and then I'll be back. 02:39:52
Thank you, Meryl. 02:40:03
OK. Next slide please. 02:40:06
Good afternoon, Chairman Christensen, Supervisor Humphrey. 02:40:09
OK, So I'll go over some specific projects and if you have any questions feel free to ask me. So this is county funded project. So 02:40:15
this is where we have county funds involved. First one is Golden Hill Phase two, I call it the final phase. This project has been 02:40:23
awarded by a dot. We're responsible for 5.7% for design and construction and we estimate it'll be $35,000 in the coming fiscal 02:40:30
year. 02:40:38
Waldemon Rd. design and Chip seal in this this coming fiscal year, we estimate $300,000 of county funds. Round Valley Gibson Ranch 02:40:47
Rd. that has it is advertised now we've got approval from the board to advertise that at the last meeting and we're estimating 02:40:55
construction will be about $1.3 million. 02:41:02
6 Shooter Rd. is a couple is won't happen in this coming fiscal year, but we estimate $650,000 in FY20. 6 and that's just for 02:41:11
repairs to keep the road sound in case we have some big storms. We don't want to lose that road. 02:41:20
And then we are also pursuing the WFPO program through NRCS and we see that as coming in FY20 7. 02:41:31
Pine Creek Cemetery or Pine Cemetery and Princess Roads Chip seal $350,000 in the coming fiscal year. 02:41:42
Mesa Dell Phase 3IN FY20 7, FY20 8 we have 500,000 and 560,000 for that. 02:41:52
Monroe St. we just got the bid ready package. We'll be bringing that to the board here in June. 02:42:03
For permission to advertise for construction. 02:42:10
We're estimating it's going to be a little bit over $1,000,000 and that'll be a 40% general fund and then the rest will be her 02:42:15
fund or excise tax. So about 650,000 we're estimating on that. 02:42:22
Garcia Rd. Chip seal project, They're going to start on that one this coming Monday, a week from week from yesterday. 02:42:30
And so we estimate about $50,000 in FY25. That'll just be the final payment. Most of the payments will be made this fiscal year. 02:42:39
Young Rd. design, we need to take that from 60 to 100%. We took it to 60% with the EA that's currently underway. And so we're 02:42:50
estimating $300,000 to take that 200% design and then we will be ready to look for opportunities to start paving that. 02:43:01
The material pits EA. 02:43:12
We have a slide here in just a little bit on that one, but we got some money from the Tonto National Forest, but our part will be 02:43:14
$167,890.00 in this coming fiscal year. 02:43:22
We have some bridge projects, the next few ones, the bloody Kinks wash Bridge scoping and design. Just a little bit under $9000 02:43:30
for that one. 02:43:35
And then we're looking at several other bridge projects where we have, we don't have the exact fiscal year figured out for those, 02:43:41
but that's why you're seeing the question marks. That's E Verde, Pine Creek and the the road yard offices, Tonto and Young. So 02:43:49
with that, that is an FY20 6 and this just to do some. 02:43:58
Some upgrades to those buildings. 02:44:07
And then it's just for a road construction to be determined. We put $101 million in the FY20, 6/27/28 and 29 and then you're 02:44:10
looking at the the last. 02:44:17
Call the last row there for the totals FY25 about 3.16 million. 02:44:25
And then you can see what the numbers there for the remaining 4 fiscal years. So next slide, excuse me, Tom, before we move on the 02:44:32
Young Rd. 300,000. 02:44:38
For the design. 02:44:46
Correct. Did we receive money for that already and have we spent all that money or? So remember in my mind we got some federal 02:44:48
money to do the design work. Yeah, we got federal money to do the EA and that takes it to 60% design as part of the EA, the 02:44:55
environmental analysis that automatically will take it to 60. 02:45:02
Now and so we, we didn't have enough money to do 100% of it, right. So we want to take it from 60 to 100%. So that's what we're 02:45:12
looking at. 02:45:16
It was not included. 02:45:22
What we were meant to do with that money was to do the EA, and in order to get the EA done yet, they have to design it for 60%. So 02:45:25
that's what they were supposed to do. We know they're only going to get it to 60% of the grants of metal. We need 100%. And so 02:45:33
they're supposed to be done in September. We want to pick it up right where they left off and then say just finish the design. 02:45:41
With this additional money so that we can be ready to go out for grants as soon as possible. 02:45:50
It's overly complex, yeah. 02:46:00
So this slide hold on, I got, I got a question for you on the Bloody Tanks wash bridge scoping design. Is that Mackey camp? Is 02:46:05
that yes? 02:46:10
Schultz Rd. OK. And So what happened here is so it's not Mackie camp, it's not Mackie Camp, OK. And it's just a scoping. It's just 02:46:18
to find out if it's feasible for us to do something. 02:46:24
Money were available and our senior county engineer jumped on the opportunity on both on this one as well as the other. Bridge 02:46:30
Tonto. 02:46:34
Village Bridge, is that it? There's another bridge where monies were available and he was able to get them and so he applied for 02:46:41
them and got them. And it was an opportunity to get a grant that was within our reach. OK. I was just wondering where you're going 02:46:46
to bridge that Washington. 02:46:51
OK. So this is the next slide. So this slide kind of shows grants that are grants that we have gotten and grants that we will be 02:46:58
pursuing. 02:47:04
So I mentioned the Golden Hill sidewalk. So we have a grant for $615,000 and that should cover design and construction. 02:47:11
And that is that's an A dot, Grant tunnel, Village Bridge, again, a dot, SO $270,000. And then in the future we'll be looking for 02:47:22
another half a million on that one. 02:47:28
East Verde E Verde bridge, Pine Creek bridge will be looking for a dot grants to help us with those. Again that's those two are 02:47:36
undetermined. 02:47:41
The Bloody Tanks Wash bridge, scoping and design. We have a grant $141,450 in the coming fiscal year. 02:47:48
Russell Rd. We have a smart grant that is that will be a dot administered and that grant was just over $1,000,000 and that in the 02:47:59
coming fiscal year. 02:48:05
Russell, Rogue Reconstruction. 02:48:11
Undetermined at this time. 02:48:15
We are actively looking for opportunities for to construct that. We do have the money for design. We don't have the money for 02:48:17
construction. 02:48:21
Control Rd. HS IP project, that project is underway, actually started today. That was the one homeroom mentioned that we're going 02:48:27
to do a double chip seal on and so we have $682,000 for that. 02:48:35
Houston Mesa Rd. That project has been awarded by ADOT. We're just waiting for the pre construction meeting to get started and 02:48:43
that was about $3.16 million. 02:48:50
Control Rd. Whispering Pines we have $2,000,000 grant from the Tanto National Forest we just finished. 02:48:57
100% design on that. So we'll be taking that one to the board for a construct permission to advertise for construction. 02:49:05
Material kit EAS this is the again. Tonto gave us $163,000 for that. 02:49:15
For those EAS and we have a slide here in just a bit on that one. 02:49:25
The young Rhode Island, that was the one we mentioned, that's going to be the EA and ticket to 60% design $472,000. 02:49:30
Young Rd. Construction. So once we get that 200%, we're going to be looking for opportunity, grant opportunities to start paving 02:49:42
the sections of that. 02:49:47
Control Rd. Asphalt treatment. Again, that one is undetermined. 02:49:53
6 shooter Rd. The WFPO program under NRCS is undetermined, but we're moving forward within our CS on that one. 02:50:00
Russell Gulch, Wash, that is the different funds .64 million dollars. We just have to get our temporary construction easements and 02:50:10
drainage easements squared away and then we'll be ready to advertise for construction. 02:50:18
Campaign Creek buyouts. 02:50:27
$2,000,000. 02:50:29
We are hopefully that will be an FY25 move forward with that buyout. 02:50:32
And then we have $3,000,000 ready to go with the campaign, excuse me, Campaign Creek flood mitigation. So that'll be kind of 02:50:38
focused on that. N Bank, we'll be looking for ways to design some improvements there. So that's totals about $16.19 million in 02:50:46
FY25. 02:50:54
And then the rest of the slide just kind of goes over what I've already touched on about. 02:51:03
Where the different opportunities there for grants are coming from? 02:51:10
Any questions? 02:51:15
Oh, I don't thank you very much. Looks like you've got a lot of plates in the air here to juggle. So appreciate you keeping up on 02:51:18
all of that and and reaching for grants. And so thank you very much. Thank you, Tom. Thank you. 02:51:26
So part of the story on those two slides was we we commit to $3.1 million of our own money to take care of roads, that we should 02:51:40
take care of roads. And at the same time we're enjoying over $16 million of somebody else's money, whether it's adopt money, 02:51:46
whether it's state money. And while we're doing that, we all started working on a flood mitigation project, Russell Gulch, that 02:51:53
DEFM money that we're getting for Russell Gulch. 02:52:00
The team work hard to convert that from. 02:52:07
And there are three big projects that from my perspective, Russell wrote Young role control, growth, those three areas we spend 02:52:47
money spending, spend a lot of our effort blading those roles. They ought to be paid. They have the traffic volume to support them 02:52:54
being paid. And of course we need to restore Russell Rd. to give our our constituency that that second way to get around. So 02:53:01
anyway. 02:53:08
I'll go on to the next slide. 02:53:17
It's heavy equipment. 02:53:20
In the previous slide, you saw something like $700,000 for heavy equipment in the model year that that's buying two pieces of 02:53:23
large equipment. We have about 30 pieces of equipment here on this slide and some of them. 02:53:30
For motor graders are older than 30 years and 310 Wheeler dump trucks are older than 30 years. This year in fiscal year 24, we're 02:53:38
replacing C-15. 02:53:43
On the it's a 1992 Fanquel dump truck, 1982, I'm sorry, ten wheel dump truck and we're also replacing a vehicle that got total 02:53:50
that's a little newer than that 1998 C 71. 02:53:59
And going forward, we're going to buy in fiscal year 25 one more 10 Wheeler and we're going to replace the 1978 CC 29 that's there 02:54:09
motor grader. We're going to buy a new motor grader this year and we're going to replace. 02:54:16
Vehicle that was 1983 on a motor grader. So we are going to buy some equipment this year, fiscal year 25 this coming year 02:54:24
including like a skidster, a chipper, a transport truck and miscellaneous truck, all equipment that's needed when the equipment we 02:54:33
are going to try to auction this equipment instead of necessarily turning it over to to our vendor. 02:54:43
And gives us an opportunity to replace some of the equipment. 02:54:53
The chipper and the skid steer help us with vegetation control that we need to get a little bit more. 02:54:58
Efficient on. 02:55:07
So you've seen this chart before, so I'm not going to spend a lot of time. There's four material pits here, one that we're going 02:55:10
to expand, Ramer 824 is a new one, and the other two are Braddock and Castle Dome. They're important pitch for us. 02:55:17
If you would ask yourself how does that county manage with the amount of revenues that we get from the three buckets maintaining 02:55:26
757 miles? Because I'm here to tell you that in Navajo County, they got the same miles, but they got $12 million to spend. 02:55:33
How do we manage, how have we managed even better than that, How have we managed and have a carry balance that's positive? And I 02:55:41
think part of the reason is the material pits, not necessarily not that the material is free, we still have to extract it. And so 02:55:50
we recently crushed the material at young, one of our at the young material pit and it cost us $10 a ton to do that, OK. 02:55:58
It cost us time to extract that. If we're not crushing, if we don't crush it, then we're using a virtually to separate the 02:56:08
material. Either way there's a cost. But for us, the ropes that are for service roads, we have to pay double or triple that amount 02:56:15
because of the transportation costs and we were to buy it from someone else. And so because not just because the material is 02:56:23
available from a for service bid, but because the pits are located across the county, we get the benefit of both of those. 02:56:30
On the cost of the material. 02:56:39
And so now I'm going to turn it over to Melanie and she's going to share with you the next couple of slides. 02:57:17
Hello, Melanie. Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman. 02:57:24
Supervisor Humphrey. So here we have an update on the Townside Act purchase. We were here earlier in the year to discuss the 02:57:28
possibilities of purchasing this land. This land is adjacent to the Buckhead Mesa Landfill. The Buckhead Mesa Landfill operates on 02:57:36
the a special use permit and has for many years. And so we have the opportunity to purchase the land and then. 02:57:43
The adjacent land and some land up by the highway. 02:57:52
This is a consolidated effort or collaborative effort between General Services, consolidated roads with her funding and then the 02:57:56
landfill. So if you see to the right, it has the different costs for each contributor and there's many benefits to. 02:58:05
To this purchase, the essentials the essential uses of the land will be an expansion of the landfill and expansions of the 02:58:17
material pits. The material pit will be used to provide ground cover for landfill and to provide gravel material for gravel roads. 02:58:23
In the northern region of Hulu County. Healer County currently maintains approximately 500 miles of Rd. In the Tunnel National 02:58:29
Forest, 439 miles are gravel Rd. Positive outcomes of this Townside Act purchase would to allow Healer County to continue to 02:58:36
provide. 02:58:42
Strategically located solid waste services. 02:58:49
In that area as well as source gravel material pits, we had a appraisal done last October and the initial appraisal was about 02:58:54
$1800 per acre. With the environmental cost that double s it so that you're looking at $3600 per acre. And so far there's a 02:59:04
there's a 52 step process to this and we're well on our way in that process. So we've submitted our. 02:59:14
Our official application to the service, the Forest Service, and we're just waiting for application approval. Once that goes 02:59:24
through, then it would start all the environmental assessments that are done. We estimate that the process will be completed by 02:59:32
September 2026. Then we would get to start on our landfill design. Of course, the other services that may be acquired, they would 02:59:39
do what they're going to do at that time. We can't do anything until the purchase is done. 02:59:47
And as we talked about before, you know this is part of the planning that we've done for landfills with Landfill in Peace and 02:59:56
should reach capacity in 2032. And as we're going, we should be looking for ADQ approval. 03:00:04
On the finished construction in 2028, so that would give us plenty of time to have a landfill ready to be filled by the time it 03:00:14
meets capacity, so. 03:00:18
Any questions on that one? Thank you. I have, yes, I have a question. That's a lot of acreage. And so if they do find artifacts 03:00:24
there, is that something that will stop the sale of this or then there be removal of the artifacts for us to continue or just 03:00:32
portions of that fence stop that we can't deal with. How's that going to there's no one archaeological sites there and there's a 03:00:40
mitigation factor. So we would mitigate those areas. There would be some decisions made and that's all part of the environmental. 03:00:49
Process when speaking to the forest department, they're pretty confident that all of them would be mitigated and we may or may not 03:00:58
have like a couple fenced areas, but it wouldn't impede our our operation. OK. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Madeline. Thank 03:01:03
you, Madeline. Thank you. 03:01:09
So I also have the pleasure of speaking about the employee progression plan. So this is something that we were really excited and 03:01:17
actually accomplished this year. We talked about it in the last board session and again, Healer County public Works strives to 03:01:24
attract and retain qualified skilled employees. And so we. 03:01:30
We've not only have a progression plan for the vehicle and equipment technician, but also with the the road maintenance and 03:01:39
landfill. And this allows us to hire individuals without any training or a CDL, which is a commercial drivers license. And then 03:01:49
they're able to progress through our training program and to move up within two years is as long as they get the. 03:01:59
The trainings that are set up in the policies that we created. One of the interesting things I googled is. 03:02:09
The tuition for UTI, which is a automotive school, is about $41,000, and that's not what we're paying on our end, but they are. So 03:02:18
a trainee would make 31,200 to start, but they'd be basically getting that $41,000 of of training on top of that. So I thought 03:02:25
that was a really good thing to bring up. 03:02:32
We're really excited and happy about this and getting ready to do our first hiring on the new policy so. 03:02:42
Any questions about that one? 03:02:49
I have no questions. Thank you. Yeah. And I shared with you earlier, Melanie, that. 03:02:52
The folks that work for us are very excited about it. Yes, they are. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. 03:02:58
Couple more slides and so we did meet with the folks that were here earlier and we're going to have a second meeting with them. 03:03:11
I'll make sure that it rightly shared so that it'll be a Zoom type meeting. And hopefully there's ways that we can take advantage 03:03:18
of what they have to offer without losing the uniqueness of our program and the immediacy of our program because we, you know, 03:03:25
yes, we talk about an apprenticeship program. 03:03:33
And things like that. But these folks are already, as they are trainees, they're already starting to contribute to what we're 03:03:40
doing. They're actually working, doing something constructive while they're learning and hopefully. 03:03:46
We, they, they, when they get to be a senior level, either an operator or a senior level technician, they'll be at the grade 290 03:03:54
at today's beginning wage for that level at $21.95. Hopefully we're rewarding them and they decide to stay with us for a career. 03:04:04
Has a CDL and got it in April. This week we have six people testing the column that says CDL test. We have six people testing for 03:04:54
the CDL this week tomorrow and the next day, three from three from young, I think and three from patient, patient team. And it's 03:05:04
it's it'll be a success story if if four out of the six pass actually there's a lot of difficulty in passing. 03:05:14
Early learner driver training required you take the online test, but there's a second test that you take before you get in the 03:05:24
vehicle and drive, and that is a vehicle equipment safety test where they walk around the vehicle and they ask you all kinds of 03:05:32
questions about what are the safety features associated with that vehicle. And this is something new. 03:05:41
And, and, and they're being trained Michael Wick, who is very involved in that is, is training the folks I believe today. 03:05:49
And hopefully all six of them passed this week and we can bring them into the board meeting sometime in the future and celebrate 03:05:56
that dedication because it's what's going to keep us doing the things that we need to do. I can only imagine what it would be like 03:06:03
if we had all nine vacancies filled in our operators and what we could do with the chip shield operation. We could actually leave 03:06:09
a few folks behind to do some regular maintenance. 03:06:16
And so it's just we just need to fill those vacancies one way or the other. And this is a great step forward. And I'm happy to 03:06:23
share this information with you. By the way, we have new folks and we have Wendy Boyce. I don't know if Wendy joined us as a 03:06:32
project manager at learning. She's also kind of like in a training program under the mentorship of Tom and Alex. And I'm sure she 03:06:40
will learn everything that they have to share with her on project management and grading and drainage and the. 03:06:48
An excellent employee for us in the future, but she's another example of a person that is under training. And here's a slide that 03:06:56
talks about the training that many of the folks have completed in the last, I'm going to say 18 months there's been a manager of 03:07:03
landfill operations training. 03:07:09
Darren, Melanie, Jasmine and Joseph from the road. Your team attended that. It's a week long session. 03:07:16
Alex Alex Kendrick attended a week long FEMA training in back in back east and actually came back and took his certified 03:07:25
floodplain managers and tests and passed. So he is now also besides being a registered engineer, he's a certified select plan 03:07:32
manager as well. Melanie is a certified CPR trainer, recently did some training. 03:07:39
And then we have a whole list of people from our from our team that was involved in sweepy training. I think that's a three day 03:07:47
training or a number of day training. How many days is that? 03:07:52
Yeah, three days, three day training and they're qualified to do the storm water pollution prevention that's required of all our 03:07:58
Rd. yards and our and our landfills. So a tremendous amount of training that's taking place and it's not stopping here. This is 03:08:04
just the beginning. So with that I wanted to. 03:08:10
Give us an opportunity to talk about the future of public works and any questions you may have as well. 03:08:19
Supervisor Humphrey. 03:08:27
I have no questions tomorrow. I just think the direction that we have taken has been a great direction from chip sealing our own 03:08:29
roads to replacing our equipment to working with our people and their educations and, and not being able to hire people, but been 03:08:37
able to get people without the training and training them ourselves. And so I think it's it's fantastic forward thinking as far as 03:08:45
our roads and and better taking care of our roads and, and when it looks really bleak. 03:08:52
Now we're catching up on roads, doing them ourselves, we're able to do more roads and looking to the future of doing our chip 03:09:01
sealing and stuff just makes that maintenance get better. So thank you and your team and everybody working. I've seen a whole 03:09:08
attitude change in our departments and I thank you very much. 03:09:15
Yeah, thank you. Humira and Melanie, I've seen the attitude change to people don't, the general public doesn't understand the 03:09:23
magnitude of what it takes to maintain the roads and everything. And I really appreciate the proactive attitude that you're taking 03:09:30
toward vehicle replacement and. 03:09:36
Preparing for years to come with the landfills. 03:09:44
And paving and all the various things. 03:09:49
Because that's one of the areas where we're probably most criticized as far as well. Migrant Rd. hasn't been bladed. And so people 03:09:54
need to look beyond that, just that superficial thing and say, look, we're trying to do over 500 some miles of unpaved roads and 03:10:02
we're not going to be on it every single day. And we don't have the money to do that every single day. 03:10:10
And if you live on a dirt Rd. then you need to understand you live on a dirt Rd. 03:10:19
A lot of people, you know, they may take offense to that, but I mean, we're in reality, if you buy something on the dirt Rd. then 03:10:25
you need to consider it probably being that way ever since God made it a dirt Rd. so. 03:10:31
We're trying to work on that. We're working toward that. You guys seem to be proactive and in front of it. And I really appreciate 03:10:38
that. Other departments that we've heard from today are because of the magnitude of what they're doing, they're behind the curve 03:10:46
and it's really hard to catch back up. And so I really appreciate you guys doing what you're doing. 03:10:53
Thank you. OK, Thank you. 03:11:02
OK. 03:11:05
Oh my goodness. 03:11:07
Get close to the end of the meeting. Call to the public. Is there anyone here in Globe or Payson or the Internet that would like 03:11:09
to respond to Call to the Public? 03:11:14
OK, All right, we're good to go. Let's move on to item number four, which is a report from the county manager and the. 03:11:21
Various supervisors, So Mr. Manager, Mr. Chairman, Sergeant Humphrey. 03:11:30
Couple items real quick that. 03:11:35
Thank you for your for your guidance and direction as the Board of Supervisors and being able to do these things in public works 03:11:38
and attempting to get caught up in some of our facilities and other things. It's because of your support, your direction, guidance 03:11:45
that you give us as Elick County that we are moving forward, making progress and looking out on the horizon. Hopefully that can 03:11:53
take us through bigger things. So thank you for your support and all you do. 03:12:00
One to comment on the state budget that it is still not a state budget, is still not passed. The word is that the House does not 03:12:07
State House does not plan to reconvene until June 4th and state Senate could come back, but they are not anticipating coming back 03:12:14
for another four session until June 12th. And so there are certain things out on the state budget that could impact the county. 03:12:21
We're keeping an eye on those, but they are just. 03:12:28
Not in session. 03:12:38
That's it, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Manager, Supervisor Humphrey. 03:12:41
Not a whole lot. I did an interview with Channel 12 News last week on the bridge. I believe Channel 10 wants to do an interview 03:12:48
tomorrow at 10:30 on the bridge. I was supposed to have a Garcia meeting on Saturday, but they decided they were going to have a 03:12:56
party at the facility and so we're going to put that off for a little while and I'll be on KIKO open line on Monday the 3rd at 03:13:03
9:30. 03:13:10
And that's about all I have. OK, thank you. I'm not going to report on a lot, but yesterday was Memorial Day. It's the day that we 03:13:18
remember those who died fighting for freedom in the world, freedom for our country. And we had a great ceremony in Payson for that 03:13:25
put on by the veterans and and that group. And so it's very well attended. And we have a very patriotic county, and I appreciate 03:13:33
that. 03:13:40
So that's all I'm going to report. So if there is nothing else, then I will adjourn. Thank you. 03:13:48