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| OK. Good morning everyone. Welcome to the our regular meeting of Tuesday, July 2nd, 2020 4:10 AM. I'd like to call this meeting to | 00:00:02 | |
| order and we're going to have Cassandra lead us in the pledge and Mr. Menloving the invocation. | 00:00:10 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:00:20 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:27 | |
| I kind of gracious heavenly Father, we bow our heads before the at the beginning of this Board of Supervisors being we are | 00:00:44 | |
| grateful for that blessings. We're grateful for thy tender mercies that. | 00:00:49 | |
| Those that are in need been received by blessings. We're grateful that we can meet this morning at the board who writers can meet | 00:00:56 | |
| this morning and we pray for thy guidance that direction that we may do all in accordance with my will. Pray for those that are | 00:01:03 | |
| less fortunate that they might be blessed and that we may be observant and will it enable to help those that are in need. We ask | 00:01:09 | |
| this prayer in the name of thy beloved Son, Jesus Christ, Amen. | 00:01:16 | |
| Well. | 00:01:29 | |
| Welcome to a new fiscal year. | 00:01:32 | |
| And we have a lot of business to conduct this morning, so we'll get started with Item 2A, information, discussion and action to | 00:01:35 | |
| adopt resolution #24-07-03. To name W Tumbleweed Lane. In the Young area, we have Tom Holman. | 00:01:45 | |
| Good morning, Mr. Chairman, members of the Board. | 00:01:55 | |
| Once again, we've had some land splits and up in the young area. This time the residents were the ones that picked the Tumbleweed | 00:01:59 | |
| Lane Rd. name. Since it does not conflict with any other Rd. name within the county, we are amenable to it and I'll answer any | 00:02:07 | |
| questions. Thank you. Supervisor Humphrey. I have no question. Supervisor Klein, another guy. Thank you, Tom. Yeah, thank you, | 00:02:14 | |
| Tom. With that, I'll call for a motion. | 00:02:22 | |
| Public hearing, Sir. Oh, I'm sorry, you're right. Public hearing. So with that, I'll call for anyone in Globe. No, Payson and | 00:02:30 | |
| Cassandra, No. Okay, I'll close the public hearing portion. Call for motion. | 00:02:39 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to adopt resolution #24-07-03, and I'll second that, Mr. Chair. OK, motion to approve and 2nd, those in favor | 00:02:49 | |
| say aye, aye. And Item 2B. Also public hearing information, discussion and action to consider a liquor license application. | 00:02:58 | |
| The number LL-24-01 submitted by Jeffrey Miller for an owner transfer with an interim permit to operate for a series. | 00:03:07 | |
| Oh, or 010 beer and wine store liquor license at Chicks Corner general store are located. | 00:03:17 | |
| I'm sure in Jake's Corner it says Payson though, and issue a recommendation to the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and | 00:03:25 | |
| Control whether the license should be granted and Samantha? | 00:03:32 | |
| OK, thank you. Supervisor Humphrey, I have no question. The provider, Klein, neither do I think, neither do I. So I'll open it up | 00:04:11 | |
| for public hearing. Anyone in Globe? No, Ann Payson doesn't look like it and okay, thank you. Not on the Internet. So close the | 00:04:19 | |
| public hearing portion and call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to recommend that the Arizona Department of Liquor | 00:04:27 | |
| Licenses and Control approve the liquor license application submitted by Jeffrey Miller for Jake's Corner General Store. | 00:04:35 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that. Good. We have a motion and 2nd to approve. Those in favor say aye. | 00:04:43 | |
| Motion carries and now we'll move on to item three, our regular agenda items. Three, AI will call for motion to recess as the | 00:04:51 | |
| County Board of Supervisors and convene as the Healer County Library District Board of Directors. So moved. Mr. Chair, I'll second | 00:04:59 | |
| that all those in favor say aye, aye. OK. We have information, discussion and action to approve library service agreements. | 00:05:06 | |
| Between the Hewlett County Library District and the following entities. | 00:05:14 | |
| The City of Globe $131,900 Town of Miami $61,300 Town of Payson $275,300 Tunnel based in Public Library $84,000 Isabel Hunt | 00:05:19 | |
| Memorial Public Library $127,300. | 00:05:28 | |
| Supervisor Hunter, I have no question by decline. I don't either. Thank you. Thank you. I have no questions. So with that, I'll | 00:06:11 | |
| call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve the library service agreements with the City of Globe, Town of | 00:06:17 | |
| Miami, Town of Payson, Tunnel Basin Public Library, Isabelle Hunt Memorial Public Library and Pleasant Valley Community Library | 00:06:23 | |
| Board as presented. | 00:06:29 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye, aye, Thank you. Item 2B is | 00:06:35 | |
| information discussion action to approve a library service agreement between the Yuba County Library District and the Town of | 00:06:43 | |
| Hayden for the Hayden Public Library in the amount of $59,750 for the period of July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. | 00:06:51 | |
| Thank you again. This library service agreement is for the Hayden Public Library, which we currently run as a branch. This | 00:07:00 | |
| agreement provides the same funding as the other seven libraries with the inclusion of staff for current county employees, monthly | 00:07:05 | |
| utilities programming and collection support. | 00:07:10 | |
| The Town of Hayden provides the library building free of charge to the Library District and it is possible for maintaining and | 00:07:15 | |
| ensuring the library premises. | 00:07:19 | |
| Answer any questions. Thank you, Elaine. Supervisor Humphrey, I have no question. Supervisor Klein, thank you. OK, thank you. With | 00:07:23 | |
| that, I'll call for motion. | 00:07:27 | |
| Fiscal year 2025 drug, gang and violence crime control grant application approved the AC JC fiscal year 2025. | 00:08:09 | |
| UMM Drug, Gang and Violence Crime Control Grant Agreement number DC-25-023 in the amount of $91,758.81 for the period July 1, 2024 | 00:08:22 | |
| through June 30, 2025, and authorized the Board Chairman to electronically sign the agreement. Mr. Alva. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, | 00:08:30 | |
| Members of the Board, the County Attorney's Office is requesting that the Board of Supervisors ratify its prior approval for the | 00:08:38 | |
| submission of the grant application. | 00:08:46 | |
| In approval grant agreement between the Healer County Attorney's Office and the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission in the amount | 00:08:54 | |
| of $91,758.81, which is the amount received by Healing County from the Criminal Justice Commission. This is part of a federal | 00:09:04 | |
| appropriation that Elon County has received since the mid 1980s and provides provides valuable funding for drug. | 00:09:14 | |
| And gang activity within Healer County. | 00:09:25 | |
| Thank you very much. Take any questions. Supervisor Humphrey. I have no questions. Supervisor Klein, Neither do I Thank you, John. | 00:09:29 | |
| Thank you. And with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. I'm going to ratify the Board of Supervisors approval for the submittal of the | 00:09:37 | |
| Arizona Criminal Justice Commission on physical year 2025 drug, gang and violent Crime control grant application, approve ACJC | 00:09:45 | |
| agreement number DC-25-023 and authorized the Board. | 00:09:53 | |
| The field trainer position handles continuing education and training requirements for all court employees as mandated by the AOC, | 00:10:39 | |
| travels out to Hayden, Winkelman, Globe and Payson on a monthly basis to support Municipal Court operations and works to roll out | 00:10:46 | |
| new automation initiatives for Superior Court like digital evidence, which is currently underway. With that, I can take any | 00:10:54 | |
| questions. Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. Mr. Chair, I have no questions. Thank you. | 00:11:01 | |
| Supervisor client. | 00:11:09 | |
| I don't either. Thank you, Jonathan. Yeah, thank you. And with that, I'll call for motion. This is Carol Make the motion to | 00:11:10 | |
| approve this the middle of County Trial Courts Fiscal year 2025 field Trainer grant application to the Superior Arizona Supreme | 00:11:17 | |
| Court Administrative Office of the Courts is presented. | 00:11:23 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll 2nd that I have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor stay. Aye, aye. Thank you, John. | 00:11:31 | |
| Now we begin a portion of our meeting that focuses on Kerry. | 00:11:40 | |
| Item 3 E information discussion action to approve an intergovernmental agreement between Yuma county four and on behalf of the | 00:11:45 | |
| United County Sheriff's Office in the final Apache tribe by and through the tunnel fashion tribe Police Department for access to | 00:11:51 | |
| law enforcement related information systems and monetary. | 00:11:57 | |
| Good morning, Good morning, Chairman Christensen and board members. I'm pleased to present the intergovernmental agreement IGA | 00:12:04 | |
| between Gila County and the title Apache Tribe Police Department. This agreement facilitates connectivity between Tano Apache | 00:12:10 | |
| Police Department and the county allowing seamless access to the Spillman module. Additionally, robust security measures have been | 00:12:16 | |
| implemented to ensure both entities remain secure over the VPN connection. The IGA it will for the connectivity the tunnel Apache | 00:12:22 | |
| Police Department. | 00:12:29 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. Is there any cost to us for this? No, Sir. OK. | 00:13:08 | |
| No further questions, Mr. Thank you, Supervisor Klein. Jerry, what have we done in the past, do you know? | 00:13:16 | |
| As far as agreements, no. As far as communications and being tied in with them. | 00:13:23 | |
| Call. | 00:13:29 | |
| So this agreement is just to formalize a partnership that we've had that's been more of a handshake deal for several years between | 00:13:32 | |
| these different agencies. We've in the past had kind of like a one page. | 00:13:38 | |
| Memorandum of understanding we're going to do, we're going to provide these things to you. You're going to make sure that your | 00:13:48 | |
| people that are accessing the system are held accountable if they do something they shouldn't. | 00:13:53 | |
| And it dawned on us recently when we had an issue that we needed to be much clearer and had a much have a much better agreement. | 00:13:59 | |
| So like any good relationship, clearly defined expectations are important. So Carrie set out to create this agreement to make it a | 00:14:07 | |
| a much more encompassing and understanding agreement versus what we had before. But this doesn't change any of the the connections | 00:14:14 | |
| that they have. | 00:14:22 | |
| Or give them anymore or any less access to the system. | 00:14:30 | |
| OK. Thank you. That's good. | 00:14:36 | |
| OK, I don't have any questions, so I'll call for a motion. Mr. I move to approve an Arizona agreement with the Tonal factory | 00:14:40 | |
| Tribes presented. | 00:14:45 | |
| And I'll second that motion and a second to approve item 3F. All those in favor say aye, aye, thank you. And the next one is very | 00:14:50 | |
| similar, just a different agency information discussion action to prove an IGA between Gila County for and on behalf of the Healer | 00:14:58 | |
| County Sheriff's Office and the Town of Miami by and through the Town of Miami Police Department for access to law enforcement | 00:15:05 | |
| related information systems. | 00:15:12 | |
| And I would think, Terry, you could be more abbreviated with your presentation as we go through if you'd like to. Okay, Mr. | 00:15:19 | |
| Chairman. | 00:15:24 | |
| Can we address item 3G then? | 00:15:32 | |
| Yes, right now, since I've already read it. | 00:15:36 | |
| OK. | 00:15:41 | |
| This is good morning again. So I'm this is an IGA agreement in our government agreement between Gila County and the. | 00:15:43 | |
| Miami, the agreement facilitates activity between the town of Miami and the county for access for this film and mod for them. In | 00:15:51 | |
| addition, it gives robust security measures to implemented to secure the over the VPN connections. So we can answer any questions. | 00:15:58 | |
| OK, thank you. So supervisor, I have no questions Supervisor Klein and neither do I Thank you, Kerry. OK, so we're going to be | 00:16:05 | |
| voting now on item 3G. Previous to that we voted on item 3E. | 00:16:13 | |
| I got a little out of order here. So with that, I'll call for motion on item 3G. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve an | 00:16:20 | |
| intergovernmental agreement with the Town of Miami as presented. | 00:16:25 | |
| I'll second that a motion and 2nd to approve of if ever say aye aye, Thank you. We will now address Item 3F Information discussion | 00:16:31 | |
| action to approve an IGA agreement between Heal County Four and on behalf of the Gila County Sheriff's Office and the City of | 00:16:39 | |
| Globe by and through the City of Globe Police Department for access to law enforcement related information systems. | 00:16:46 | |
| And I'll second that. | 00:17:25 | |
| Motion and 2nd to approve those in favor say aye aye thank you. Item 3H Information discussion Action to approve an | 00:17:26 | |
| intergovernmental agreement between Hayley County and for and on behalf of the Hilah County Sheriff's Office in the Town of | 00:17:33 | |
| Hayden, buying through the Town of Hayden Police Department for access to law enforcement related information systems. | 00:17:41 | |
| I'll second that and we have a motion and a second to approve item 3H. Those in favor say aye. | 00:18:20 | |
| Aye. Thank you, Kerry very much. All right. | 00:18:27 | |
| Now we'll move on to item three. I information discussion action to adopt the proposed fiscal year 2025 salary plan not to exceed | 00:18:32 | |
| 1.2. | 00:18:37 | |
| Million for general fund salaries and employee related expenses. Good morning, Marin. Good morning, Mr. Chair, Good morning | 00:18:43 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey, Supervisor Klein. We discussed this briefly when you adopted the tentative budget and we wanted to bring you | 00:18:52 | |
| some details so that you and all the staff are aware that we are proposing a base 3% salary increase for all regular status non | 00:19:00 | |
| elected county employees or a $2080 salary increase for those. | 00:19:09 | |
| Who would for whom? 3% would be that or less. This does not. | 00:19:18 | |
| Applied this 2080 dollars does not apply to those covered by a STEP program. A STEP program employees would receive the 3% so that | 00:19:24 | |
| the steps remain 2 1/2% apart as originally adopted by the Board of Supervisors. There are elected official salary adjustments | 00:19:34 | |
| that are statutory that will occur in January and we are also requesting an additional 2% capacity for merit based pay increases. | 00:19:44 | |
| In January 2025 and you can see in the chart here that we expect the July 2024 implementation to include 765,399 and $0.39 in | 00:19:55 | |
| general fund salaries, $376,987.76 in special revenue salaries and anticipated employee related costs to go with those of | 00:20:05 | |
| $301,846.12. | 00:20:16 | |
| For a total of 1,444,000, which is well within the 1.2 million that we are requesting for the general fund maximum. | 00:20:27 | |
| Thank you, Marin. Supervisor Humphrey. I have no questions, Mr. Chair. | 00:20:42 | |
| Supervisor Klein. | 00:20:47 | |
| Where is that going to bring us Marin, as far as bringing our salaries up compared to inflation today? Are we close? So we are | 00:20:50 | |
| familiar with the inflation rate that the Feds are using to implement in Social Security and other areas and that is right around | 00:20:57 | |
| 3.6%. Most of the people receiving the 2080 dollars are getting closer to a 6% raise. | 00:21:04 | |
| Because of how it shakes out with their salaries and with this, the minimum salary for our current staff be 17,000 or $17.24 an | 00:21:13 | |
| hour, which is 35,864. | 00:21:20 | |
| Compared to our overall minimum hourly wage for that very beginning point, and we don't have anyone at that currently, would be | 00:21:28 | |
| 1550. | 00:21:33 | |
| And how many people do we have in a step program? Do you know off top of your head? | 00:21:39 | |
| I did. That knowledge may not have stayed in my head. I believe it's about 150. I'd have to look for sure. I can e-mail each of | 00:21:45 | |
| the supervisors administrative staff with that information. | 00:21:52 | |
| Thank you. Thank you, supervisor. I'm here. I have a question. So on the 2080 dollars approximately. | 00:22:01 | |
| How many employees would that be? | 00:22:10 | |
| It's about 2/3 we'll receive that that increase. Wow, OK, that's that's a significant. | 00:22:13 | |
| Right, right. And we have, we have 600 budgeted positions, not all of them are full. So this would, this does a good job in taking | 00:22:23 | |
| care of the vast majority of our staff and it also ensures that it more than covers any increase our staff would have experienced. | 00:22:33 | |
| In the increases for health insurance premiums. | 00:22:44 | |
| OK. And then I'm confused. Your numbers I'm sure are impeccably perfect, but I don't know, it says 1.444 million and we have a 1.2 | 00:22:49 | |
| million. What's the difference? So the 1.2 million? | 00:22:57 | |
| Is the maximum that the general fund could absorb. The 1.4 includes those special revenue funds. We have 33 general fund | 00:23:04 | |
| departments and 75 special revenue fund departments. So because we base the 1.2 on. | 00:23:12 | |
| Next year's increased property tax levy based on the increased value of properties. We, we chose to present this to you as not | 00:23:20 | |
| exceeding that amount so that you and our constituents can be assured that it is a sustainable ongoing source of revenue and not | 00:23:28 | |
| one time money where you'll have to come up with another resource next year. Very good. Thank you for all your work. That's all I | 00:23:35 | |
| have. If there's nothing else, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I move to adopt. | 00:23:42 | |
| The proposed physical Year 2025 salary plan as presented. | 00:23:51 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll 2nd that I have a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Thank you Marin. And next | 00:23:55 | |
| we have item rejay information discussion action to approve an intergovernmental agreement with the Healthgate Fire Department | 00:24:03 | |
| whereby Gila County Government will sell 9 vehicles is listed in the IGA to the Healthgate Fire Department for the price of $1.00 | 00:24:10 | |
| each. Parents. Yes. Good morning, Mr. Chair. Supervisor Humphrey. Supervisor, fine. | 00:24:18 | |
| The Healer County Sheriff's Department and the Hellgate Fire Department collaborated on this particular item. Hellsgate Fire needs | 00:24:26 | |
| old vehicles that don't have any value to them to use for training purposes. Their training class is at the end of this month and | 00:24:36 | |
| we we'd like to bring you this today. These are surplus vehicles from the impound yard that have no tangible value to. | 00:24:46 | |
| The county and only the Board of Supervisors has the ability to. | 00:24:56 | |
| Let go of surplus. | 00:25:03 | |
| Assets. So we are here this morning to ask you to. | 00:25:05 | |
| To rehome these two Hell's Gate at a cost of $1.00 each. | 00:25:10 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:25:14 | |
| I have no questions, Supervisor Klein. So these are for training purposes. | 00:25:17 | |
| I suspect that means they'll be setting them on fire using Jaws of Life. The various things that you can't you can't learn in a | 00:25:24 | |
| classroom that you need the hands on experience. | 00:25:28 | |
| After this is done right, the thick and cold beer. | 00:25:35 | |
| Thank you, Mary. | 00:25:42 | |
| Yes, thank you. And I think it's important to know that these vehicles may not have, they may have more than $1.00 value, but. | 00:25:45 | |
| In working with some of our other people in Gila County, other agencies. | 00:25:54 | |
| ETC, That this becomes a valuable thing for them rather than trying to capture whatever minimal amount that they would actually | 00:26:00 | |
| auction off for, right? They are not currently operational vehicles, right? OK. All right. So with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. | 00:26:08 | |
| Chair, I'll make the motion to approve an intergovernmental agreement with the Hellscape Fire Department as presented. | 00:26:15 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that. OK, Motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye, aye. Thank you, Mary. Thank | 00:26:23 | |
| you. Item 3K Information, discussion action to approve agreement number 06112024 with the Humane Society of Central AZ for the | 00:26:31 | |
| period of July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025. Well, good morning, John. Good morning, Chairman. Members of the Board, this impound | 00:26:39 | |
| agreement is with the Humane Society of Central AZ. | 00:26:47 | |
| And I'll understand any questions. Thank you, brother Humphrey. Yeah, John, I have no questions. Just thank you for all you're | 00:27:29 | |
| doing with animal control. | 00:27:33 | |
| Supervisor client same as me John, it's good. | 00:27:38 | |
| So thank you. Yeah, Thank you, John. I have no questions. It's working out much better than I think the agreement we have before. | 00:27:42 | |
| Great. With that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve agreement number 06112024 with Humane Society of Central AZ | 00:27:51 | |
| Incorporated as presented. And I'll second that motion to have a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye, aye. | 00:27:59 | |
| Three information discussion. Action to approve amendment #1. | 00:28:10 | |
| An IGA Contract Center 067227 with the Arizona Department of Health Services to increase the price sheet for personal and employee | 00:28:14 | |
| related expenses for the period of October 1, 2023. The September 30, 2024. Nepal. | 00:28:23 | |
| Good morning, Chairman. Members of the Board, this is a our WIC funding that we actually realized early on this last year that we | 00:28:34 | |
| were not going to meet our salaries. And thank you for the increases. That's great. But the grants don't always look at the | 00:28:41 | |
| increases for us. And actually we went back to the Department of Health Services and they were actually very diligent in looking | 00:28:49 | |
| at what we were needing in the upcoming years if they wanted us to continue. | 00:28:57 | |
| WIC services in Houma County and it's absolutely a vital program. So they did come back to the table and they brought this with | 00:29:04 | |
| some more employee related money so that we can pay our employees and continue to give them the raises that you're so graciously | 00:29:12 | |
| approved. So we ask that you approve this so that we can pay our staff members. OK, great. Thank you. It's a pleasure, Humphrey. | 00:29:20 | |
| I have no question, Professor Klein. Thanks for doing that, Paula. Yeah, that's good. | 00:29:29 | |
| Yeah, just extended it a couple of more months, right, Yes, OK. With that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion | 00:29:37 | |
| to approve amendment #1 to the Arizona Department of Health Services Intergovernmental Agreement Contract Number Center 067227, as | 00:29:45 | |
| presented. Mr. Carroll, second that. OK motion and 2nd to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye, aye. | 00:29:53 | |
| Motion carries 3 M information. Discussion Action to approve an independent contractor agreement number 07012024, Dash 25 between | 00:30:02 | |
| Wildfire and ELA County Public Health and Community Services Department Community Action Program whereby Wildfire will administer | 00:30:09 | |
| funding in the amount of $282,024 which will be used to provide weatherization services, utility repair, replacement utility | 00:30:17 | |
| deposits. | 00:30:24 | |
| Bill assistance to eligible citizens residing in Eva County for the period of July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025. Paula, thank | 00:30:32 | |
| you, Chairman. That said it really all of it for us and I know that we've put a very long motion in for you, but it is just | 00:30:40 | |
| extending this contract for another year. You will notice that they are no longer going to be considered. They're not going to use | 00:30:47 | |
| wildfire will be. It's saying they used to be, you know, as known as the association. | 00:30:55 | |
| So now they are just wildfire and it's just extending for another another term. | 00:31:03 | |
| OK, Thank you, Piper Humphrey. I have no questions, Supervisor. Good. Yeah, thank you. I'll call for motion then. Mr. Chair, I | 00:31:08 | |
| move to approve the independent contract agreement, contract number 070120 two 4-25 with wildfire as presented. And I'll second | 00:31:16 | |
| that motion and a second to approve those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Thank you, Paula. Thank you very much. Item 3, Ann, is | 00:31:25 | |
| information discussion action to approve an IGA agreement between Hino County and the Arizona Department of Forestry. | 00:31:33 | |
| And fire management for an effective term of 10 years from the date signed. Good morning, Carl Morning, Chairman and members of | 00:31:42 | |
| the board. So this is an agreement between Healer County and the Department of Forestry and Fire Management that kind of gives us | 00:31:50 | |
| a framework to an existing process. This IGA is uniform and is going to all of the counties in the state. The primary purpose of | 00:31:57 | |
| the IGA is to make us eligible for reimbursements through the fields exceeding the Fire Management assistance grants through FEMA. | 00:32:05 | |
| During the wildfire, so if the county is supporting in any way, shape or form whether it be through evacuations, notification, | 00:32:13 | |
| actual wildfire response, we are eligible for reimbursement for those services provided. Couple other highlights from this | 00:32:21 | |
| agreement is that DFFM will support in wildfire not only surrounding Healing County, but wildfire that originates on county land | 00:32:29 | |
| and can also support all risk emergencies. | 00:32:36 | |
| And also the same route for if DFM is requesting assistance from HeLa County, we can provide that assistance now with the | 00:33:20 | |
| framework established that allows us to be reimbursed for that assistance. | 00:33:25 | |
| With that short and sweet, I'm done. So any questions for me? OK. Thank you. Supervisor Humphrey? Yeah. Who initiated this IGA? | 00:33:32 | |
| This was initiated by DFM. Oh, OK. Good. Yeah. No. Thank you very much for all you do for emergency services. Of course. Thank | 00:33:39 | |
| you, Supervisor Klein. Carl, thanks and extend my thanks to DFFM. I think I see it is a good thing. I just hope we never have to | 00:33:45 | |
| use it. | 00:33:52 | |
| This is wood, right? Yeah, that's wood. So, Carl. | 00:34:01 | |
| House DFSM looking after the budget crisis the state is going through. They still got money. Well, the money specifically outlined | 00:34:08 | |
| in this IGA would come from a fire management assistance grant. But I mean, like a lot of government response agencies, they are, | 00:34:15 | |
| they will continue to move on regardless of the the challenges that they face. But of course, financial challenges have impacted | 00:34:23 | |
| them. They've also impacted Emergency Management on a large scale throughout the state. | 00:34:31 | |
| But they're they're getting by as we are. | 00:34:40 | |
| Thank you, Carl. Yes, Sir. Mr. Chairman, in the state budget for this year, it did include about $35 million for a little bit more | 00:34:43 | |
| closely or clearly defined programs and projects related to what D FM, DF FM does. So there is money in the budget. Actually this | 00:34:51 | |
| year, even amidst the state's financial woes, there's money for projects, so. | 00:34:59 | |
| OK. Thank you for that. All right, if there's nothing else, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve the | 00:35:07 | |
| Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management intergovernmental agreement as presented. | 00:35:13 | |
| Sure. I'll second that motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye, aye. Thank you, Carl. Thank you, | 00:35:19 | |
| chairman. Members of work Item three O information discussion action to approve modification number 002, the Forest Service | 00:35:25 | |
| agreement number 22 dash. | 00:35:31 | |
| RO Dash 11031200, Dash 232, extending the expiration date from September 21st, 2024 to September 21st, 2025. | 00:35:38 | |
| And updating Forest Service program manager from Corey Brunsting to Michelle Tom. And updating Forest Service administrative | 00:35:51 | |
| contract from Brian Spree to John B Chang. | 00:35:59 | |
| Tom, Good morning, Mr. Chairman and board members. So this is a time extension only. There's no money associated with this. We | 00:36:09 | |
| have a cooperative agreement with the Tonto National Forest to design and pave 1.3 miles of control Rd. So this will extend the | 00:36:19 | |
| contract time that expires September 21st, 2024 and it will extend it to September 21st, 2025 and then it will also update the. | 00:36:29 | |
| Tonto contact persons that were just mentioned. | 00:36:40 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to approve modification number 002 to for service agreement #22-R0-1103 one 200-232AS presented and I'll second | 00:37:15 | |
| that. All right, We have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, Thank you, Tom. Item 3P is information | 00:37:26 | |
| discussion action to approve contract agreement number center 058876 with kindly Horn and associates. | 00:37:36 | |
| Environmental documents, including an environmental assessment and supporting technical documentation in an amount not to exceed | 00:37:47 | |
| $279,779, which will facilitate environmental clearance and satisfy the National Environmental Policy Act requirements you're | 00:37:55 | |
| presenting. Tom. Yes, OK, thank you. Thank you. Again, this is a request to approve a contract agreement with Kimberly Horn and | 00:38:02 | |
| Associates. | 00:38:10 | |
| To prepare, prepare environmental documents for four material pits that are located on the Tonto National Forest. It includes | 00:38:18 | |
| Braddock, Ramirez, Castle Dome and the 824. They're kind of spread out around the county. | 00:38:26 | |
| The Forest Service is pitching in 165,000. The county would have to pitch in approximately 113,000. The total amount is 279,000, | 00:38:34 | |
| so this is a request to approve that contract. | 00:38:42 | |
| OK. Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah, No, I appreciate working with them in the Forest Service. Working. Now let's get those | 00:38:50 | |
| material pitched to help with all our roads. That's that's good. Thank you, Tom. | 00:38:55 | |
| Thank you. And Supervisor Klein, Tom, any estimation on how long that process is going to take? It's about 520 calendar days. So | 00:39:03 | |
| there's quite a bit of work they have to do. But yeah, it's it's that's what they're estimating. All right, thank you. | 00:39:11 | |
| Thank you, Tom. So with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve contract agreement number Ctr. | 00:39:19 | |
| 058876. | 00:39:24 | |
| With Kimberly Horn and Associates incorporated as presented. | 00:39:31 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion to approve in second. All those in favor say aye. | 00:39:34 | |
| Aye, aye, Thank you. And we want to item 3 Q information discussion action to declare portion of out all lane not necessary for | 00:39:41 | |
| public use and direct staff to begin the process to extinguish a portion of outlawing as shown on exhibit A. Good morning, Romero. | 00:39:50 | |
| Good morning board. This item is about extinguishing an easement for a portion of our floor lane that get in at Central Creek. | 00:40:00 | |
| Out on Lane was granted to Hilda County, is the County Dirt Rd. easement and it's in Dehuga County Maintenance. | 00:40:11 | |
| System, we maintain it today. You can see the map up on the screen. There's five partials that are basically petitioning for that | 00:40:16 | |
| portion that's highlighted to be no longer maintained by the county. It will be a private ingress egress easement that they will | 00:40:24 | |
| grant to each other, to their heirs and to their signs in perpetuity. It would allow public emergency vehicles to enter that to | 00:40:32 | |
| enter that area as well. It it would allow for whatever. | 00:40:40 | |
| The state requires for utilities to be granted based on this easement. We have a simple agreement that was prepared by our County | 00:40:48 | |
| Attorney Jeff Dalton previously that we have shared with them that captures all of this. They would be responsible for the | 00:40:54 | |
| maintenance of the road and the liability of the road as well. And, and they seen that type of a document. We haven't asked them | 00:41:01 | |
| to sign it yet. First, we would like to come and ask the board to declare a portion of Outlaw Lane not necessary for public use | 00:41:07 | |
| and direct staff to begin the process. | 00:41:13 | |
| To extinguish a portion of Outlaw Lane as shown on the Exhibit A, which is on the screen right now. | 00:41:20 | |
| Thank you, Mayor. Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah. Thank you, Homero, for working on this. I know it's kind of a can of worms because | 00:41:26 | |
| then as people, if they decided to split some of that property, then there would have been no access for new owners or if it was | 00:41:34 | |
| to sell. So thank you very much for working on this to make it their responsibility as they go forward for appeasement and access. | 00:41:41 | |
| So thank you very much, Supervisor Clue. I'm good. Thank you, Omar. Yes, Thank you, Humira. Without a call from Motion. | 00:41:49 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to the Vera portion, Outlaw Lane and not necessary for public use, and direct staff to begin the process to | 00:41:57 | |
| extinguish a portion of Outlaw Lane. | 00:42:01 | |
| As shown on exhibit A and Mr. Cheryl second that motion in the second to approve those in favor say aye aye aye aye and three are | 00:42:07 | |
| information, discussion action to approve amendment #2 to contract number 051122 bulk fuel and lubricants with. | 00:42:15 | |
| Synergy Petroleum, LLC to extend the term of the contract for one additional year from July 19, 2024 to July 18, 2025, for the | 00:42:26 | |
| purchase of both fuel and lubricants or enough to exceed the amount of $1.2 million. | 00:42:34 | |
| Thank you, Chairman. | 00:42:44 | |
| Did we do this every year? We don't quite spend. We didn't quite spend 1.2 million last year. We spent something like $850,000 on | 00:42:47 | |
| this contract. Nonetheless, we are asking for a total contract amount for the next fiscal cycle to to be $1.2 million. They use an | 00:42:55 | |
| oil price information system that is a commodity price that used worldwide and then they attached to it their cost to deliver | 00:43:02 | |
| their profits etcetera on top of that. | 00:43:09 | |
| That that it remains the same from last year. And with that, we would like to ask you to extend the term of the contract for one | 00:43:17 | |
| additional year from July 19th, 2024 to July 18th, 2025 for the purchase of both fuel and and and lubricants. Not for an amount | 00:43:24 | |
| not to actually. 1.2 million questions. Very good. Supervisor Humphrey. I have no questions. Supervisor client. Well, Meryl, is | 00:43:31 | |
| this the last year on that contract or I would have to check? I'm not I'm not certain that normally they have a three-year, | 00:43:38 | |
| three-year extension. | 00:43:45 | |
| So we could have another year that we could use this. I'm just curious. It seems like this was about the only company that even | 00:43:53 | |
| wanted to bid on it. So I just curious. Thanks. Thank you. Helero. Without alcohol promotion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to | 00:44:00 | |
| approve amendment #2 to contract number 051122 with Synergy Petroleum LLC is prevented. Mr. Chair, I'll second that here we have a | 00:44:07 | |
| motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Thank you. | 00:44:15 | |
| Thank you. You will have another one possibly or Oh it's gonna be Thomas 13S information discussion action to authorize the | 00:44:22 | |
| advertisement for invitation for bid number 060424 the control Rd. roadway improvements. Tom thank you. This is the request | 00:44:30 | |
| advertised for construction. This is control Rogan and Whispering Pines area 1.3 miles. The Forest Service has contributed | 00:44:38 | |
| $2,000,000 to this project and the county will be. | 00:44:46 | |
| Or have the administration of the construction project. | 00:44:55 | |
| So we just were requesting action to advertise at this point. | 00:44:59 | |
| OK. Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:45:03 | |
| I have no questions. Supervisor Klein. Tom, are we still looking at getting this inch down and getting it done this summer or? | 00:45:07 | |
| Yes, Sir, we would like to get it done this year by the end of this summer. Thank you, Tom. Yes, thank you, Tom. And remind me | 00:45:13 | |
| where this money comes from. It comes from the Tonto National Forest. That's what I thought I remembered. Thank you very much. | 00:45:20 | |
| With that, I'll call through motion. | 00:45:26 | |
| For bid number 060424 and I'll second that. | 00:45:33 | |
| Motion and 2nd to approve. Those in favor say aye aye aye. Thank you, Tom. | 00:45:38 | |
| All right, so I will call for a motion item 3. | 00:45:43 | |
| T is going to be call for a motion to recess of the county Board of Supervisors and convene as the Hilah County Flood Control | 00:45:48 | |
| District Board of directories so moved Mr. Chair, I'll second that those in favor say aye aye aye aye. If you we have information, | 00:45:57 | |
| discussion action to temporarily assign delegation for floodplain administration to civil engineer senior. | 00:46:05 | |
| Alex Kendrick until the floodplain Administrator Flood Control district position can be filled with a qualified candidate. Tom, | 00:46:15 | |
| thank you. So Guard was our floodplain administrator. He retired and we need to appoint a temporary one. So this is a request to | 00:46:24 | |
| appoint Alex Kendrick as a temporary floodplain administrator for the county. | 00:46:33 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:46:42 | |
| I have no questions. Supervisor Klein is darts position out on the street now? Yeah, it's been out for about a month now. OK, | 00:46:44 | |
| Thank you. | 00:46:49 | |
| And thank you. With that, I'll call for motion. | 00:46:55 | |
| Mr. I moved to temporarily assign delegation for floodplain administration to Civil Engineer Senior Alex Kendrick until the | 00:46:58 | |
| Floodplain Administrator Flood Control District position can be filled with a qualified candidate. And I'll second that Mr. Chair | 00:47:05 | |
| motion and 2nd to approve those in favor say aye. | 00:47:13 | |
| Thank you, Tom, and with that I will call the motion to adjourn as the Hill County Flood Control District Board of Directors and | 00:47:21 | |
| reconvene as the Board of Supervisors. So move. Mr. Chair, I'll second that all those in favor say aye, aye, aye, aye aye. Item 3. | 00:47:28 | |
| U information discussion, action to approve amendment #4. | 00:47:34 | |
| Number Center 050894 with Janice Irvine incorporated to extend the contract for an additional year. | 00:47:42 | |
| For the term of July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025 and increase the contract amount to $276,148.10 to provide janitorial services for | 00:47:51 | |
| both the southern and northern regions of Gila County. Good morning. We have Melissa. Good morning, Chairman, Board of | 00:48:00 | |
| Supervisors. I'm presenting amendment #4 to State Contract Ctr. 050894 with Janiserve for janitorial services for both southern | 00:48:09 | |
| and northern regions of Gila County. | 00:48:18 | |
| This amendment extends the contract term for additional year. Additionally, it increases the contract amount by $16,584.11, | 00:48:28 | |
| bringing the total to $276,148.10. This adjustment accounts for the 1.5% CPI increase for the year 2025. | 00:48:40 | |
| Facilities and Land Management Department and staff recommends that the Board of Supervisors approve amendment #4 to contract Ctr. | 00:48:52 | |
| 050894 with Janice Serve. The extension will cover the period from July 1, 2024 to June 30th, 2025 and will provide janitorial | 00:49:00 | |
| services for both southern and northern Gila County. | 00:49:08 | |
| I'd be happy to answer any questions. Oh, thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:49:16 | |
| Just one question, when will this come back up? Forbid do we bid that out? | 00:49:21 | |
| I can verify and get back to you on that. | 00:49:29 | |
| OK, thank you very much. No further questions, Mr. Chair. OK, thank you, Supervisor Klein. I think I'm good. Thank you, Melissa. I | 00:49:36 | |
| I have one question. So who? | 00:49:40 | |
| And you may not be able to answer this. So who holds this firm accountable for the quality of work that you do or don't do? | 00:49:46 | |
| That would be facilities, yes. | 00:49:55 | |
| So facilities and specs to make sure. | 00:49:59 | |
| That they're doing, they're they're cleaning. They're not just in and out in one minute. | 00:50:04 | |
| I'm not trying to be antagonistic, I'm just saying I have heard people say it's some things are not cleaned at a level they should | 00:50:10 | |
| be supervisors with that we always have audit control connection with the contractor. We do that. | 00:50:20 | |
| Through consistent meetings and also providing them feedback when we get feedback from the customer. | 00:50:30 | |
| So as an example, if one of the facilities say TCM was not getting the service, we need to say it's not getting mocked properly. | 00:50:37 | |
| We identify that, see if the symptom that's just an outlier or consistent and then we work with the contractor to rectify it or | 00:50:45 | |
| fix it. OK, So if something is observed, they would report to you or do facilities. | 00:50:52 | |
| All the same. Yes, Sir. OK, All right, great. | 00:51:02 | |
| That's all I have, so I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve amendment #4 to contract number Center 050894 with | 00:51:06 | |
| Janiserve Incorporated as presented. Mr. Chair, I'll second that. OK, We have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say | 00:51:13 | |
| aye. Thank you. OK, next we have item 3V. You're right. We made it through this in record time. Got almost the whole alphabet in | 00:51:20 | |
| there. | 00:51:27 | |
| And the shorter the agenda, the more dangerous. So Item 3, the information discussion action approved the US Department of | 00:51:35 | |
| Agricultural Agricultural Forest Service special use permit regarding the Crouch Mesa radio tower site with the Terminal National | 00:51:42 | |
| Forest, Young Arizona for the purpose of providing a better communication system. Supervisor Klein. Thank you, Mr. Chair, so this | 00:51:49 | |
| is. | 00:51:56 | |
| Just to bring everybody up to date on this one, this is a. | 00:52:04 | |
| Tower that sits just on the east side of Pleasant Valley, up on top of a mountain right there. And really what it was was a | 00:52:07 | |
| microwave tower that was tied into the Vet Center when it was an admin site for telephone services to time and point. And then it | 00:52:14 | |
| went on from there. Anyway, during all the change and whenever they vacated that site or that admin site, that became no longer | 00:52:20 | |
| needed for the Forest Service. So in 2019, Tim Scott came to me and had an interest from the Sheriff's Office side to to get ahold | 00:52:27 | |
| of that tower. | 00:52:34 | |
| So they can put additional repeater on there for better coverage and so forth. It's not a big tower. It's only about 20 feet tall. | 00:52:41 | |
| Really good place though. And so we started the process back then looking into getting a special use permit from the Forest | 00:52:47 | |
| Service to use that tower and. | 00:52:54 | |
| The Forest Service doesn't want it. They didn't want it, but because it was really, really low on their priority list, that | 00:53:01 | |
| process just set stagnant for all these years and would put in again. They'd lose the application and we'd go back and forth | 00:53:08 | |
| anyway. Finally they've gotten a permit together to do that. I have 3 entities right now that are interested in this tower. | 00:53:16 | |
| Sheriff's Office being the 1st, the local fire department being the 2nd, and then local emergency. | 00:53:24 | |
| Ham radio group being a third and that's the progress I told him would would follow to see what we could put on that tower. So | 00:53:32 | |
| with that. | 00:53:37 | |
| Umm, the Sheriff's Office has been notified that they can start taking a look at it and see what it's going to take. There's no | 00:53:43 | |
| electric, it just sits there on the mountaintop by itself. So whatever they run would have to be off of a solar panel, and that's | 00:53:48 | |
| what the feds back. | 00:53:54 | |
| Quite a while back SO. | 00:53:59 | |
| It should provide a lot of extra coverage for the fire department and the Sheriff's Office and then also provide some coverage for | 00:54:02 | |
| that emergency him group. | 00:54:07 | |
| That are taking questions. OK, supervisor yeah, just one will will that availability be a lease or donation to these people that | 00:54:12 | |
| want to use? Well, I think that that would be up to us. How are we going to do that? But you know, Sheriff's Office, fire | 00:54:19 | |
| department, emergency hand group. | 00:54:26 | |
| Go either way but. | 00:54:33 | |
| We're not going to have anything as far as. | 00:54:35 | |
| US associated with this tower at all and I believe it will fall under the facilities side of things is what it'll fall into so. | 00:54:39 | |
| Does that help? | 00:54:50 | |
| Yeah, that, that's fine. That that's an unknown answer at this time. It's just getting the agreement with the poor service. So | 00:54:51 | |
| thank you, ask and answer. Thank you, Mr. Chair, That's all I have. OK. I don't really have any questions. So with that, I'll call | 00:54:56 | |
| for a motion. | 00:55:01 | |
| OK, so I'll make the motion to approve the US Department of Agriculture for Service Special use permit regarding the Crouch Mesa | 00:55:08 | |
| Radio tower site with the Tunnel National Forest in Young. | 00:55:15 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that. OK. We have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Thank you. We're on | 00:55:22 | |
| to Item 4, consent agenda action items. Supervisor Humphrey, would you like to remove all, not all, any or a few or whatever you | 00:55:30 | |
| want from items 4A through I I am fine the way it is, Mr. Chair. Thank you. OK. Thank you for getting my words out. I'll ask you | 00:55:37 | |
| the same question. Yeah, I'm good. Thank you. OK, so then. | 00:55:45 | |
| I'll call for a motion on items 4A through I. | 00:55:54 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to approve consent agenda items for a through 4I and I will second that. And we have a motion to 2nd to approve | 00:55:56 | |
| those in favor say aye, great, Rhonda. Item number 5, which is a call to the public and we always call this at the at the end of | 00:56:05 | |
| our meetings. So public is able to address any things that they like to talk about, but we won't be able to discuss and vote on | 00:56:13 | |
| anything that's not specifically identified on the agenda. | 00:56:21 | |
| Call for the public here in the Globe Room. Anyone wish to speak? No. How about Payson and Cassandra? Anyone there? How many do we | 00:56:30 | |
| have on the Internet today? 32, Thank you very much. All right, I'll then move on to item number six and this will be our manager | 00:56:39 | |
| and supervisor's report. We'll start with Manager Manlove. | 00:56:48 | |
| This Chairman, members of the board, thank you. Last Tuesday after our board meeting did have a couple of conversations with Patty | 00:56:59 | |
| Carr from Washington, DC One of those was Tri-City Regional Sanitary District had a discussion about the the needs that are | 00:57:06 | |
| ongoing there and they're significant. | 00:57:13 | |
| But they are continuing to pursue and move forward with the Tri-City Regional Sanitary District. Secondly, we went out to Russell | 00:57:21 | |
| Rd. and didn't walk the whole 1 1/2 mile of that road that has been washed out, but did go see the results of the flooding from | 00:57:29 | |
| Telegraph Fire and the need for pushing that project forward. We do have $1,000,000 Spark grant from the State of Arizona to do | 00:57:37 | |
| design and engineering for redevelopment of the Russell Rd. | 00:57:45 | |
| Well, that's a great thing. Good start for us that we've been able to secure that funding from the state of Arizona. | 00:57:54 | |
| And then finally, as copper is so important to the county and region, we did didn't go down and went up to resolution copper and | 00:58:00 | |
| Oak Flats and took a site visit to what's up there on on top of their, where they're doing their mining operations and their. | 00:58:09 | |
| And then go down into the mine because they're not doing chores right now. But it's impressive and, and and quite the operation to | 00:58:19 | |
| gain a better understanding of what it takes and what it actually is going to entail with that. | 00:58:26 | |
| Finally yesterday Spelling and I were on Kmart radio up in Payson and I believe had a a good visit there talking about the budget | 00:58:34 | |
| for fiscal year 2425. | 00:58:40 | |
| That's my report, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Thank you very much, and Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:58:46 | |
| Attended District 2 project team meeting on the 26th. Attended a candidate forum on June 26th. Was on KIKO on July 1st. | 00:58:53 | |
| 9:30 in the morning. We'll hold a tunnel. Based in community meeting tonight at 5. | 00:59:08 | |
| Also is it a Central Arizona government meeting who is working as a go between with ADEQ on the plant for Tri-City on public | 00:59:16 | |
| awareness? And that's just tag making people aware of the plant and the design of the plant, the location of the plant, things of | 00:59:25 | |
| that nature. And it went a little bit S with people warning questions from Tri-City and that wasn't the purpose of the meeting. | 00:59:34 | |
| The purpose of the meeting was just public awareness for the plant itself, none of the functions of Tri-City. | 00:59:43 | |
| And also to staff will hold a meeting tonight because I've already scheduled and scheduled it monthly, my Connovation meeting for | 00:59:54 | |
| the GEICO Road to update because this is the earliest that we could have done it. I had an earlier meeting with the residents of | 01:00:03 | |
| Garcia when the road and the double chip seal that we subcontracted taxes for it failed. | 01:00:13 | |
| Miserably and so it's been a real difficult situation since then and so where I noticed that homeroom was really diligently on his | 01:00:23 | |
| deal. So I'm sure we're still working out things for the meeting tonight. And so if I can convince the people in in Tunnel Basin | 01:00:30 | |
| that I don't need to be there for the full meeting, I'm probably going to run out of that and try to make with staff and the guy | 01:00:38 | |
| Selah meeting this evening. | 01:00:45 | |
| And other than that, that's about all I have. Thank you. | 01:00:53 | |
| Thank you supervisor, supervisor client. Sorry so. | 01:00:56 | |
| I've been talking about that PBS project with APS and I've been working with Forest Service and APS. | 01:01:02 | |
| To try and mitigate. | 01:01:11 | |
| That power shut off and so on the 26th. | 01:01:14 | |
| Me and APS, the Forest Service didn't go with us because they couldn't get their prior approvals. But anyway, we flew the Preacher | 01:01:19 | |
| Canyon leg. It's Preacher Six, I think is what they called it. And we flew that line and videoed that line in the places that were | 01:01:26 | |
| the worst that, well, not the worst, but that needed to. | 01:01:32 | |
| The attention the most I should say the APS, you know you guys can all visualize a power line. Well APS is right away is 10 feet | 01:01:39 | |
| from the center of that power line each way. That's all they got 20 foot wide power line. So that's less than the width of this | 01:01:45 | |
| room down through there. | 01:01:52 | |
| Well, that's fine, except your trees are 100 and 2000 and 50 feet high above that, you know, and so they're well within range of | 01:01:59 | |
| hitting that power line. And, and So what their biggest issue is, is where access is the worst, that's where they really want to | 01:02:07 | |
| get in and try and work and mitigate those right aways, meaning they want to make sure they're 20 feet is clean, but then any | 01:02:14 | |
| problem trees outside of that. | 01:02:22 | |
| You want to take them down, and I want them to. That'd be a good lick. So there was some access that went to parts of that line | 01:02:29 | |
| that apparently washed out in the last, I don't know how many years, and nobody took really the initiative or whatever to go back | 01:02:35 | |
| and fix it. | 01:02:41 | |
| So when we got done with the flight, we took pictures of all that got done with the flight and sat back down and visited with the | 01:02:48 | |
| Forest Service. And looks like what's going to happen first is they're going to be able to go back in and reopen those routes into | 01:02:53 | |
| their power lines where they need it the worst and then start working on on their right of ways and some of those those trees | 01:02:59 | |
| outside that right away. So I guess in. | 01:03:04 | |
| Short way of saying that I think we're making progress. The one of the benefits right now is. | 01:03:11 | |
| We have everybody that's involved in this process. | 01:03:19 | |
| Has a need for it to happen. You know the Forest Service has a lot of projects along that power line that they can't pull off | 01:03:24 | |
| because they can't secure the power line so they don't even want to address it. APS has that power shut off deal that they don't | 01:03:30 | |
| really want to do. They want to keep the power on and keep making money and then I'm sitting there with a whole bunch of people | 01:03:36 | |
| that don't want to see that power shut off either and so. | 01:03:43 | |
| I think with that involved, I'm hoping that there's a way everybody's going to come to the table. | 01:03:49 | |
| And work through any issues that there may be. And I can tell you one issue already is the threatening and endangered species | 01:03:55 | |
| timeframes, the Mexican spotted owl, they can't get in there and do anything in some of those areas until September 1st. | 01:04:03 | |
| And so. | 01:04:12 | |
| They're going to have that to deal with, but that's a doable, doable problem. It can happen. So I'm really hoping that's going to | 01:04:14 | |
| play out and it's going to work. I don't know that we'll ever get away from the threat of them flipping the switch, but if we can | 01:04:20 | |
| lessen it, that'll be that'll be huge. And then on the 26th, I as well as Tim and and Kelly's here with us today. We were all in | 01:04:26 | |
| that candidate forum and I thought that was a good deal. They put on a good deal there for that candidate form. A lot lot going on | 01:04:32 | |
| that night, but it was good. | 01:04:38 | |
| On the 27th, I attended a meeting in Round Valley and met with some folks in Christopher Creek and met with the public works staff | 01:04:44 | |
| in Round Valley as well. And what it is, is there's a couple roads right there in the middle of lower Round Valley that we're | 01:04:52 | |
| looking to take over maintenance on. So we're going over that. | 01:04:59 | |
| Getting all that lined out and hopefully that'll that'll work out and come in front of us as a board to deal with that. | 01:05:07 | |
| And that evening we attended the Wagon Wheel Fire Department meeting and Whispering Pines. That was real interesting. That's that | 01:05:14 | |
| we we sat there and listened to their budgets and everything else. They they have a new chief who's very active and seems to be | 01:05:20 | |
| doing a very good job, you know, and don't you? Yes, I do. Yeah. And so I was glad to be there that night and visit those folks as | 01:05:26 | |
| well. | 01:05:32 | |
| And then on the 3rd, which is tomorrow, I'll be attending the Copper Valley Independence Day Liberty Dinner, the Knights of | 01:05:39 | |
| Columbus, and I'm supposed to speak about the Veterans Center in Young. They've asked me to come there and speak about that so. | 01:05:47 | |
| That's my schedule. | 01:05:55 | |
| OK, thank you. I don't have a lot to bring up today. I did listen to KMOG yesterday. I think James and Marilyn did an outstanding | 01:05:57 | |
| job presenting how money is taken in, how it's spent, the reserves that we have and the conservative nature of our financial | 01:06:07 | |
| status. I believe Huma counties in great shape. We never have enough money, but we are. | 01:06:16 | |
| Using very sound judgment in our finances. And so I appreciate all that you go through to manage that. And Marin, I don't know | 01:06:28 | |
| honestly how you manage the. | 01:06:34 | |
| Magnitude of finances that are involved here, but I thank you very much because you do a great job. | 01:06:41 | |
| And I think the 4th of July is coming up. So I wish everyone to have a good day there, be safe. If I do my calculations right, | 01:06:47 | |
| that should be 248 years. He wrote that document so. | 01:06:55 | |
| Will be. I remember when it was 200. | 01:07:03 | |
| The bicentennial and now it's coming up on 2:50 so, but I'm not getting any older. | 01:07:07 | |
| That's all I have. If there's nothing else, I'll adjourn the meeting. Thank you. | 01:07:14 |