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| And everyone. | 00:00:01 | |
| I'd like to call this meeting to order. It's Tuesday, July 16th, 2020, 4:10 AM special meeting of the Board of Supervisors. And | 00:00:03 | |
| we'll start with the pledge of ask Scott if he would lead us in the pledge and then we'll remain standing. Our invocation is a | 00:00:08 | |
| Laurie's. | 00:00:13 | |
| Gruders, I'm not sure if I got that right. OK, thank you. | 00:00:21 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:00:27 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:34 | |
| Heavenly Father. | 00:00:43 | |
| We thank you, Lord, police officers to fire men and women, the AMT, the Hotshots who serve and protect us in Cuba, safe work. We | 00:00:46 | |
| pray your blessings upon them. We thank you for the Healer, County Board of Supervisors and Father, we pray for a spirit of unity | 00:00:52 | |
| through the bond of peace and civility through their conversation, their discussion, their deliberations, their decisions, and | 00:00:59 | |
| even in their debates today, Lord, and then in their differences. Father, because we have blessed by you to live in beautiful | 00:01:06 | |
| country. | 00:01:12 | |
| In this beautiful county, this beautiful state, and in a remarkable country of the United States of America, He ask you, father, | 00:01:20 | |
| to forgive us our sins and in spite of ourselves, heal our land and continue to please bless these United States of America. We | 00:01:27 | |
| pray this Father in here in Jesus name, Amen. Amen. Thank you, Patrick. | 00:01:34 | |
| OK. | 00:01:45 | |
| Well, good morning, everyone. | 00:01:47 | |
| Again. | 00:01:49 | |
| And we got quite a bit to do today. We're going to start with item 2. | 00:01:51 | |
| Which is the public hearing section of our meeting so we get started with item 2A, Information, discussion, Action to consider a | 00:01:56 | |
| liquor license application. The number is LL-24-02. Submitted by Kelly Smith for an owner transfer with an interim period. | 00:02:06 | |
| Permit to operate a Series 6 bar license at Cactus Flats located in Tunnel Basin and issue a recommendation to the Arizona | 00:02:15 | |
| Department of Liquor Licenses and Control whether the license should be granted. And Samantha, would you like to fill us in on | 00:02:22 | |
| that? Yes, Sir. Thank you. Chairman and board members. As stated, this is an owner transferred with an interim permit to operate a | 00:02:29 | |
| Series 6 bar license for Cactus Flats. | 00:02:36 | |
| The county has an inter review process whereby the Treasurer reviews the application and ensures that the applicant is current on | 00:02:44 | |
| property tax payments for all properties owned in Hewitt County. The Health Department and building Permanent Department both | 00:02:50 | |
| review the application. To date there have been one issue reported so Grant is going to come and talk to us about that. | 00:02:56 | |
| Good morning, Randy. Morning. | 00:03:07 | |
| So during our process, we go to the site and look at the structures, make sure it's all code compliant. There has been work done | 00:03:11 | |
| without permits out there, they have and I don't. It looks like it was the prior owner that they're working supposedly to get it | 00:03:18 | |
| corrected, but we do have a code case because they built covers and. | 00:03:25 | |
| Added on to kitchens and done stuff that wasn't permitted and wasn't reviewed. And so that's why I wrote today on the application | 00:03:33 | |
| that that they have a cocation, that building permits are required. | 00:03:39 | |
| OK. Thank you, Randy. Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:03:47 | |
| Yeah, those are, even if they get their liquor license, they can't open until you give them the stamp of approval. Well, they're | 00:03:51 | |
| open now, so they're under. They would go to hearing officer that if they did not move forward. | 00:03:57 | |
| So it's not stopping them from operating. It would. It's up to you guys to decide whether you want to transfer the license before | 00:04:04 | |
| or after. | 00:04:08 | |
| The stuff you get corrected I will say the new owner seems to be very. | 00:04:14 | |
| Forward in trying to get the stuff corrected so I that's why I think it was a prior owner who's done this. Thank you supervisor | 00:04:19 | |
| Klein. | 00:04:24 | |
| So I. | 00:04:31 | |
| So what's been done has been done previous to this owner. So in my opinion, hold it if they're going to go back through the | 00:04:35 | |
| permitting process, a hearing officer and work it out and get it fixed. I don't have a forward with this and just listening to | 00:04:41 | |
| you, I feel like you have the impression they're doing. | 00:04:47 | |
| I have the impression they're going to correct what they want, that they're going to correct what needs to be corrected. Good. | 00:04:53 | |
| Thank you, Andy. Yeah, thank you, Randy. So that seems clear to me too, if if they don't follow through with their permits. | 00:05:00 | |
| Having a liquor license is a loop point. So with that I will call for no, I'm sorry, bones of it. Yes, sorry. Thank you for that. | 00:05:08 | |
| So at this time, I will close that discussion and open it up for public comments. | 00:05:15 | |
| Globe, anyone? Hasten anyone doesn't look like it and the Internet. So I'll close the public hearing portion and call for motion | 00:05:23 | |
| Item 2A. Mr. Chair, I move to recommend that the Arizona Department of Liquor Licensing Control approved the liquor license | 00:05:31 | |
| application submitted by Kelly Smith of Cactus Flats. Mr. Chair, I'll second that. OK, we have a motion and a second to approve. | 00:05:39 | |
| Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Motion passes Item 2B. | 00:05:47 | |
| I'd like to call for a motion to recess as the Healer County Board of Supervisors and convene as the Healer County Library | 00:05:55 | |
| District Board of Directors. So moved, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'll second that movement and a second those in favor say aye, aye. | 00:06:02 | |
| All right. We're going to convene a Truth in Taxation public hearing to hear from citizens regarding the proposed secondary | 00:06:10 | |
| property tax levy rate of .2425 per $100 assessed value for fiscal year 2025, excluding amounts that are attributable to new | 00:06:19 | |
| construction and any changes that may occur from property tax levies per voter approved bonded. | 00:06:29 | |
| Indebtedness or budget and tax overruns? | 00:06:40 | |
| That is $53,507.75 greater than the amount allowed without a truth and taxation public hearing and approve the proposed secondary | 00:06:43 | |
| property tax levy rate of .2425 per $100.00 of assessed value for fiscal year 2025. And this will require a roll call vote. So we | 00:06:54 | |
| have Elaine and Marin. Elaine, good morning Chairman, good morning. | 00:07:04 | |
| Advisors, as you just stated, we are doing this truth and taxation public hearing. The Hilo County Library Board District Board | 00:07:15 | |
| has published a notice of hearing. This is notified property tax, owners of the proposed secondary tax. This was published in the | 00:07:22 | |
| Payson Roundup on July 2nd and July 9th. The staff recommends that the Board hold a public hearing to receive all comments from | 00:07:29 | |
| the citizens regarding this. | 00:07:37 | |
| Our current tax rate of 0.2425 per $100.00 of assessed value and that any motion to adopt an increased levy be voted on by roll | 00:07:45 | |
| call vote for the board members. | 00:07:50 | |
| Thank you, Elaine. Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:07:57 | |
| I have no questions. He provides a client. We're holding steady at our tax rate and that tax rate has been in effect so long. | 00:08:00 | |
| 20/15/2015. | 00:08:09 | |
| OK, good. Thank you. | 00:08:12 | |
| And if I work my math right, that's about $0.25 per $100 evaluation, 24 and a quarter cents. | 00:08:17 | |
| And so I have no other questions, I'll post this discussion and open it up. | 00:08:26 | |
| To the public for any comments anyone in Globe? | 00:08:32 | |
| No. Anyone in pace? No. And anyone on the Internet. | 00:08:37 | |
| Now, I'll close the public hearing and I will call for a motion. Mr. Chair. Yes, Sir. Oh, yeah, pleasure. I got it. I'll make the | 00:08:42 | |
| motion to approve the Felix County Library District proposed secondary property tax levy right of .2425 per 100 of assessed value | 00:08:52 | |
| for fiscal year 2025. Mr. Chair, I will second that. Hey, we have a motion and a second to approve. | 00:09:02 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey, how do you vote? | 00:09:12 | |
| Yeah, Supervisor Klein, your vote. Yeah. | 00:09:15 | |
| And Supervisor Christensen votes, yay, unanimous approval, Thank you. And we now will go to Item C convene a public hearing to | 00:09:20 | |
| hear taxpayers who may wish to comment on the fiscal year 2025 Healer County Library District tentative budget, which was adopted | 00:09:27 | |
| on June 18th, 2024, or any proposed changes to the fiscal year 2025 Hewlett County Library District tentative Budget and adopted | 00:09:35 | |
| Fiscal year 2025 Yuma County Library District Budget. | 00:09:43 | |
| In the amount of $2,789,627.00 land. | 00:09:51 | |
| Good morning, Mr. Chair, Supervisor Klein, Supervisor Humphrey, today we are asking you to adopt the County Library District | 00:10:01 | |
| budget as the as the preliminary budget was adopted on June 18th. The amount has not changed. | 00:10:08 | |
| Thank you, Marin Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:10:18 | |
| No questions, Supervisor Klein, I'm good. Thank you and I as well. So I'll close this discussion and open it up for public | 00:10:20 | |
| hearing. Anyone in Globe. | 00:10:25 | |
| Hasten. | 00:10:31 | |
| The Internet. OK, no public comments at this time. We'll close the public hearing. I'll call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I move to | 00:10:34 | |
| adopt the physical year 2025 budget for the Healer County Library District in the amount of. | 00:10:42 | |
| 2,000,700 and. | 00:10:50 | |
| $89,627.00 Mr. Chair, I'll second that. A motion and a second to approve. Those in favour say aye, aye aye. Motion passes. Item 2C | 00:10:52 | |
| passes. Now I will call for. | 00:10:59 | |
| A motion to adjourn County Library District Board of Directors and reconvene as the Hewlett County Board of Supervisors. So we'll | 00:11:08 | |
| move. Mr. Chair, I'll second that those in favor say aye, aye aye. | 00:11:14 | |
| Motion passes Item 2D Convene a truth and taxation public hearing to hear from citizens regarding the proposed primary property | 00:11:22 | |
| tax levy or the rate of 4.19 per $100 assessed value for the fiscal year 2025, excluding amounts that are attributed to new | 00:11:31 | |
| construction and any changes that may occur from property tax levies for voter approved bonded indebtedness or budget and tax | 00:11:40 | |
| overrides, that is $924,530.07 greater than the amount allowed without AT&T public hearing. | 00:11:49 | |
| And approve the proposed primary property tax levy rate of 4.19 dollars per $100.00 of assessed value for fiscal year 2025. Good | 00:11:58 | |
| morning, Mr. Chair, Supervisor Humphrey, Supervisor Klein. | 00:12:07 | |
| While we were putting the budget together, you all made it clear that you wanted to keep the tax rate flat for this year. This tax | 00:12:18 | |
| rate has been in effect since 2010 and it is this flat as requested. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Supervisor | 00:12:25 | |
| Humphrey, I have no questions. No, I'm good. Mary, thanks. Thank you. Remains the same last 14 years. OK, thank you. With that, | 00:12:33 | |
| I'll close this discussion and open up to the public for any comments in Globe. | 00:12:41 | |
| No Payson. | 00:12:49 | |
| No and in on the Internet. | 00:12:51 | |
| OK. So with that, I'll close the public hearing portion and call for a motion. | 00:12:56 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to approve the Healing County proposed primary property tax levy rate of 4.19 per $100.00 of assessed value for | 00:13:02 | |
| physical year 2025. | 00:13:08 | |
| And Mr. Chair, I will second that. OK, we have a motion and a second to approve Supervisor Klein. How do you vote? Mr. Chair? It'd | 00:13:15 | |
| be easier if we let Sam do the roll call. | 00:13:20 | |
| Sam, go ahead. Thank you. Chairman. Supervisor Humphrey, may I have your vote? | 00:13:27 | |
| Supervisor Christensen, may I have your vote? Yes. Supervisor Klein, may I have your vote? Motion passes unanimously. | 00:13:34 | |
| Thank you. | 00:13:41 | |
| I'm learning things. | 00:13:42 | |
| Healer County Flood Control District budget in the amount of $675,884. Mary, good morning again, Mr. Chair, Supervisor Client | 00:14:26 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey, on June 18th, you adopted the tentative budget for the Healer County Flood Control District. We bring it to | 00:14:34 | |
| you as its own agenda item annually because it is its own taxing district. We do not presently tax that district. We don't levy a | 00:14:43 | |
| tax on it, but we do keep this information separate for you. | 00:14:51 | |
| As required. | 00:14:59 | |
| Thank you. Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. Supervisor Klein Baron, this this budget shows that it did go up from | 00:15:02 | |
| previous years and go ahead. I'm sorry, go ahead. The reason being I just want to point this out to people that may be looking is | 00:15:08 | |
| that we have Alex now that is a part or to being charged out of this district, right. Yes, in part it's that and also we got more | 00:15:15 | |
| detailed about how we presented the budget this year and the capital request for the flood control district are showing in the | 00:15:22 | |
| flood control district budget. | 00:15:29 | |
| Previously, they hadn't been this way. Our constituents, our staff and our supervisors can all see what those capital requests | 00:15:36 | |
| are. That way we're more transparent and everything right there on the surface. You don't have to go digging in the system to find | 00:15:41 | |
| it. Thank you for that. | 00:15:47 | |
| And with that, I will open it up for public hearing at this point, anyone in Globe? | 00:15:54 | |
| Anyone in Payson? | 00:16:00 | |
| And on the Internet, we're clear. Cassandra, thank you. And so I'll close the public comment portion and call for a motion. Mr. | 00:16:03 | |
| Chair, I move. | 00:16:07 | |
| Flood Control district in the amount of $675,884. Mr. Chair, I'll second that. OK, we have a motion and 2nd to approve. Those in | 00:16:12 | |
| favor say aye, aye aye. Motion carries. And now we'll call for a motion to adjourn as the Healer County Flood Control District | 00:16:19 | |
| Board of Directors and convene that the board of directors for the Healing County St. Lighting Improvement Districts. So move, Mr. | 00:16:27 | |
| Chair. | 00:16:34 | |
| Second, those in favor say aye aye, thank you. Item 2F Convene a public hearing to hear taxpayers who may wish to comment on the | 00:16:42 | |
| fiscal year 2025 in the County St. Lighting Improvement District or sleds tentative budget which were adopted on June 18th, 2024 | 00:16:50 | |
| or any proposed changes to the fiscal year 2025. Hilo County slid tentative budgets and adopt the fiscal year 2025 budgets for | 00:16:57 | |
| Gila County slids as follows. | 00:17:05 | |
| Heinz LED $1790, Apache heel slit $2910.00 Upper Glendale Central Heights 1744 dollars, E Birdie Park slid 5591 dollars, Miami | 00:17:13 | |
| Gardens slid 3512 dollars, Midland Central Heights slid $16,884 and Claypool Lower Miami slid 26,000. | 00:17:28 | |
| $71 Marin. | 00:17:44 | |
| Again, each year we bring to you the street lighting improvement districts with their budget. These budgets allow county to | 00:17:47 | |
| collect the amount from the taxpayers of that particular St. lighting Improvement District and then use those monies to pay the | 00:17:55 | |
| APS bills for that. There's no other expenditures or costs associated with that the way the budget is adopted. So these amounts | 00:18:02 | |
| would just go directly to the APS bill. | 00:18:10 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:18:18 | |
| No questions other than if anybody's out there and you see a street light out, let us know when we can contact them and they take | 00:18:20 | |
| care of it. There's, there's a yellow number on each one of the street light poles that you can go on the APS website or call APS | 00:18:28 | |
| and you just put in that, that poll code and they will get somebody out to take care of it for you. | 00:18:35 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Klein. Thank you, Mary. Thank you, Marion. I have no questions. So I will call for a motion. No, I will open | 00:18:44 | |
| it up for a public hearing. Anyone and Globe? | 00:18:49 | |
| Pay Center No And thank you. And Cassandra. OK, I'll close the public hearing portion and call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I move to | 00:18:57 | |
| adopt the physical year 2025 budget for the following Gila County St. lighting Improvement District Lids Pine slid 1790, Apache | 00:19:06 | |
| Hills slid 2910. Upper Glendale slash Central Heights 1744. | 00:19:16 | |
| East Verde Park sled 5591 dollars. Miami Gardens slid 3512 dollars. Midland slash Central Heights sled $16,884 playful or Miami | 00:19:26 | |
| sled 26,071 dollars. | 00:19:37 | |
| Good morning again, Mr. Chair, Supervisor Humphrey, Supervisor Klein. As adopted on June 18th, we brought you the Tentative | 00:20:43 | |
| Healing County budget in the amount of $146,774,151.00. The total budget amount has not changed since then. There has been some | 00:20:51 | |
| movement of expenditures within general fund departments, but the overall budget itself has not changed. Again to reiterate for | 00:20:58 | |
| our constituents. | 00:21:06 | |
| This sets the maximum amount that Gila County can expend in the coming year, accounting for every dollar of resources that are | 00:21:14 | |
| available to the county, including all of our cash reserves. We do not intend to actually spend $146 million for our constituents | 00:21:21 | |
| accessibility. Mr. Menlov and I did go on the radio earlier this month so that we could address any questions that our | 00:21:29 | |
| constituents. | 00:21:36 | |
| And other citizens have. So we got some good questions that we were able to address there. And we've also made sure that we're at | 00:21:44 | |
| other public events in case anybody has any questions. And the tentative budget has been at all nine of the libraries as required | 00:21:52 | |
| by statute. So our citizens are welcome to peruse that at any time. It's also on our website. | 00:22:00 | |
| Our 2025 priorities after we met with you, it seemed to be stewardship, compliance and transparency. So we brought those three | 00:22:10 | |
| values through the budget, including keeping our tax rate flat and making sure that we are looking to the future in a responsible | 00:22:16 | |
| way. | 00:22:23 | |
| One of the points that we made during the tentative adoption that we're reiterating here is that the primary property tax, which | 00:22:32 | |
| you all just have an item on, makes up 27% of the total revenue in the budget. Other revenues make up 73% of the budget. | 00:22:42 | |
| Our primary property tax rate again is $4.19 per hundred, that's consistent since 2010 and we will adopt all the tax rates county | 00:22:54 | |
| wide on the third Monday in August as per statute, which is August 19th this year. | 00:23:02 | |
| Our expenditure limitation as set by the Economic Estimates Commission, based on estimates from 1979 this year, is $51,593,295. | 00:23:11 | |
| Sorry, I'm not that interested. This is this is AI. It's muting me because I'm not interested. | 00:23:33 | |
| See, that's how not interesting I am. | 00:23:56 | |
| Caused an accident. | 00:24:00 | |
| Let's try it again. | 00:24:16 | |
| Good, I'm actually hard. | 00:24:28 | |
| There's no light on the little microphone. Does it need to be charged? | 00:24:45 | |
| Yeah. | 00:24:52 | |
| And it shows the little one in the corner here too, so. | 00:24:54 | |
| Oh, you're welcome to use mine. | 00:25:00 | |
| So these two guys went into a bar. | 00:25:30 | |
| Give it a shot, Steve. | 00:25:35 | |
| The time we say something inappropriate, the sound will work perfectly. | 00:25:38 | |
| I. | 00:26:05 | |
| OK. So we're going to continue. Thank you, Mary. Please continue. | 00:27:24 | |
| So as I was saying, the economic estimates commissions that are 2025 expenditure limitations at $51,593,295, that's up 3% from the | 00:27:32 | |
| prior year, which is consistent with what we expected. We do have a prior year carry forward of just over 7.4 million. That's just | 00:27:42 | |
| how we let the Auditor General and our constituents know that there are federal funds. | 00:27:51 | |
| Leftover from the previous year that we will be using in future years and that's our reporting it change and improvement for the | 00:28:02 | |
| current year. | 00:28:07 | |
| So our ongoing investment priorities as expressed by the Board of Supervisors, as expressed by our constituents and as mirrored in | 00:28:15 | |
| our budget include our employees, technology, infrastructure and public safety. Under each of these, we've highlighted things that | 00:28:22 | |
| affect each of those. Again, this is for you and for our constituents. For the employees, we adopted a new salary plan at the last | 00:28:29 | |
| meeting. | 00:28:37 | |
| The Board of Supervisors has also instituted the Tuition Assistance Program for this 2025 budget year for Technology and | 00:28:44 | |
| Infrastructure. We will be bringing you a work session on September 24th so that you can again re-evaluate what your priorities | 00:28:51 | |
| within those categories are and which resources you would like to allocate to which projects. | 00:28:59 | |
| For public safety, we have completed the retention and recruitment program that was given to us by the Department of | 00:29:07 | |
| Administration from the state level. We also have a STEPS plan in place and with that, our public safety deputies and detention | 00:29:15 | |
| officers who participate in this test program received a 3% increase with the salary plan adoption. | 00:29:24 | |
| And for anyone who is curious, that salary plan as adopted does go into effect. It is currently in effect and people will see that | 00:29:33 | |
| on their paycheck on Friday. | 00:29:39 | |
| So here are stewardship keynotes for 2025. We have budgeted reserves of 16 and a half million. Our expenditure limitation carry | 00:29:47 | |
| forward and that's a typo. That should be 7.4 million. Sorry. We have, we are looking into grants and collaboration not only with | 00:29:55 | |
| the state and federal resources, but with regional and local opportunities also. We will come to you on September 24th with our | 00:30:04 | |
| work session and then after you've had a chance to review information from the September 24th work session. | 00:30:12 | |
| Will come to you on October 2nd for a board meeting in case you have decisions about infrastructure, technology and expenditure | 00:30:21 | |
| priorities in those areas. | 00:30:27 | |
| And that is all I have for you today. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you very much, Mayor and Supervisor | 00:30:35 | |
| Humphrey, I have no questions. Supervisor Klein. Mayor, and thank you. Budget's a lot of work. You explain it very well. So I | 00:30:41 | |
| think our our goals are good. And I think we're on our way to another Goodyear when it comes to our expenditure limitation. James, | 00:30:48 | |
| have you ever come close to spending that I mean? | 00:30:55 | |
| Mr. Chairman, Mr. Roger Klein. | 00:31:04 | |
| I want to take a minute to talk about these finished limited if I could. | 00:31:07 | |
| And maybe in a rundown way, I'll answer the question that if I told him he could let me know. Expenditure limit was set in 1979, | 00:31:12 | |
| nineteen eighty, based on expenditures that occurred in Healer County at that point in time, the expenditure limit was put in | 00:31:17 | |
| place to limit. | 00:31:22 | |
| The ability for local governments to tax local residents. | 00:31:28 | |
| So that expenditure limit is the general fund and it's just controlling how much local taxpayers have to pay to spend on local | 00:31:33 | |
| government needs. | 00:31:38 | |
| So that $7.4 million that Marin referred to? | 00:31:44 | |
| Means that through the years, in particular in the last few years he was aboard have control or limited local tax taxes to the | 00:31:50 | |
| people in Gila County. | 00:31:56 | |
| To that amount of money, $7.4 million. Could we spend that money? We certainly have the tax cast capacity. We at that same point | 00:32:03 | |
| in time the expedition limit, the amount was based on the property taxes and the the property tax rate that existed at times that | 00:32:12 | |
| time. We could have a property tax rate of 6 1/2 dollars per $100 assessed value if we were consistent with what. | 00:32:21 | |
| What was on the books in 1979? Nineteen 80. | 00:32:31 | |
| It's $4.19, so about two and a half dollars less. | 00:32:35 | |
| Then property taxes. | 00:32:40 | |
| The level of property taxes that existed back 40 years ago. | 00:32:45 | |
| So it shows the restraint, the limitation that the Board of Supervisors here that you have on limiting the amount of tax burden on | 00:32:50 | |
| local homeowners in Gila County. Do we get close to that I. | 00:32:57 | |
| We certainly could, and the there's been some recent declarations by the Auditor General that has. | 00:33:06 | |
| Created a difficult hardship for that, for example, in the excise tax for roads that the voters approved, the Auditor General | 00:33:15 | |
| changed their mind halfway through and said, Oh well, that's not a limitation. That's not a. | 00:33:22 | |
| Something that excludable from the expenditure limit because. | 00:33:30 | |
| Even though the Borders approved that tax. | 00:33:35 | |
| So there's even with all of that, the conservative nature of the Board of Supervisors has made it so that there's a carry forward | 00:33:39 | |
| a 7.4 inch. Could we spend it? | 00:33:44 | |
| Yes, we could, but by the conservative nature of this board, I don't imagine that we're going to get there and that we will. | 00:33:50 | |
| Gets that point of spending those dollars, does that make sense or answer the question or that's perfect, James, that's what I | 00:33:59 | |
| wanted to hear so. | 00:34:03 | |
| I thought that's the track we were on, you know, so it, it means that we, the Yoga Board as a board, have made decision to. | 00:34:09 | |
| Ease the burden of local taxpayers. A conscious decision by the Board of Supervisors. | 00:34:21 | |
| So I would point out too that the the the budget and this is a question that came through on Marin answered on the radio up in | 00:34:27 | |
| pacing. | 00:34:32 | |
| That the budget is about three, 3% less than it was a year ago. | 00:34:38 | |
| And that is because those are available resources. It's actually our money that we're spending down, have invested in the | 00:34:43 | |
| community, invested in the county. Those dollars are one time dollars. You as a board have taken those one time dollars, invested | 00:34:51 | |
| them in one time projects and not built them into ongoing expenditures, which sometimes governments get in trouble with. Thank you | 00:34:59 | |
| for your wisdom and and not going down that path and I really appreciate that. | 00:35:06 | |
| So again, the budget as a whole down 3 something percent. | 00:35:15 | |
| And it was due to. | 00:35:22 | |
| Reductions or having invested in the county infrastructure and those things that are one time expenses. | 00:35:24 | |
| Oh yeah, I'm good. | 00:35:33 | |
| OK. All right. Thank you, Marin for your presentation. So. | 00:35:36 | |
| Our budget is lower than last year's was indicated. | 00:35:43 | |
| We have reserves financially speaking in Gila County is doing well. | 00:35:47 | |
| We're able to hold all of our tax rates without increasing them. | 00:35:53 | |
| And 27 percent of our budget spending is from. | 00:35:58 | |
| Property taxes. That's almost just a little over a. | 00:36:05 | |
| 4th correct. And so the message should be very clear to people that we do seek grant money at a tremendous level, almost 3/4 of | 00:36:09 | |
| our spending is. | 00:36:15 | |
| Not property taxes. So that's great. I just wanted to say that people are listening. All right? If that's all we are going to talk | 00:36:23 | |
| about, then I'll open it up to public hearing. Anyone in Globe or Payson? No. | 00:36:31 | |
| And thank you and Cassandra. | 00:36:40 | |
| No. OK. So I'll close the public hearing portion and call for a motion on item 2G. | 00:36:45 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to adopt resolution #24-07-01, authorizing the adoption of the physical year 2025 Gila County budget and the | 00:36:52 | |
| amount of $146,774,151. | 00:37:02 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion to 2nd to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Motion passes unanimous. Thank you, Marin, | 00:37:13 | |
| appreciate it. That closes off our public hearing portion and we'll move to regular number 3A. | 00:37:22 | |
| And her staff, this is a the budget is a six month process. Well, it's an annual process requires working on this all year round. | 00:37:32 | |
| And. | 00:37:44 | |
| There's particular emphasis for the last six months that Mary has been working with elected officials, department directors, Board | 00:37:46 | |
| of Supervisors to. | 00:37:50 | |
| Help ensure that the budget meets the needs that have been identified throughout the county. So Marin, thank you to you and your | 00:37:55 | |
| team for all that you do and prepare the budget. | 00:38:00 | |
| Thank you. It's our pleasure. And if I could, Mr. Chair, we'll say something about Marin and her bunch as well. There's never been | 00:38:06 | |
| a day I had talked to you about budget that I. | 00:38:10 | |
| And I wasn't comfortable with, I mean, you're right, spot on every time I ask you a question. And so it's great to have you | 00:38:16 | |
| aboard. Mayor, you've been awesome. Well, thank you. And I have to express appreciation to leadership and Tequila County. You | 00:38:22 | |
| continually invest in our knowledge and education in this area. Mr. Menlov and I were at the annual conference for GFOA last | 00:38:29 | |
| month, and we attended an exceptional seminar about taking the politics out of budgeting. And that gave us access to a really neat | 00:38:36 | |
| software tool. | 00:38:42 | |
| That will have access to for the next year so that we can continue to learn and grow and strengthen our ability to serve Healer | 00:38:49 | |
| County and a nonpartisan way. | 00:38:53 | |
| Cool. Thank you, Mary. I concur with the comments. We have one of the smallest counties in Arizona and we have a great team | 00:38:58 | |
| running the finances. You guys are really great. Appreciate it. Thank you. Makes our job easier. | 00:39:06 | |
| Right Regular agenda item 3A information discussion action to authorize the Treasurers Office to abate the taxes, interest and | 00:39:16 | |
| fees on 67 properties and authorize the Chairman signature on each of the related certificates of removal and abatement of tax and | 00:39:22 | |
| certificates of clearance. | 00:39:29 | |
| Good morning, Treasurer Monica, how are you? I'm well, thank you. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. Supervisor Klein, Supervisor | 00:39:36 | |
| Humphrey. I'm here this morning presenting 67 certificates of clearance to declare the taxes uncollectible on these personal | 00:39:44 | |
| property. In this particular case, they are mobile homes, manufacture homes, and this falls under the ARS 42 Dash 19118. These | 00:39:52 | |
| mobile homes have been either demolished or they have been removed from the park. | 00:40:00 | |
| Or from the land where they were sitting. This has been verified by a sheriff's deputy or by the assessor's office. Some of these | 00:40:08 | |
| accounts have been deactivated by the assessor's office. Some of them go back to 2015. And I'm just requesting the treasurer's | 00:40:16 | |
| office to abate these taxes, interest and fees for all 67 accounts. | 00:40:23 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:40:32 | |
| Yeah, just just one question is, is it a state deal that the mobile homes are taxed one and then the property that they said on | 00:40:35 | |
| are taxed differently? Do you ever see anything in the future about the mobile home being attached to the property for one tax | 00:40:42 | |
| rather than the separate taxes? Yes, Professor Humphrey, that is an option for a property owner. If they have land they and they | 00:40:49 | |
| have a mobile home, they could combine them together. | 00:40:56 | |
| OK. Yeah. Because I noticed in the past that a lot of these mobile homes, they weren't paying the taxes on the mobile home, but | 00:41:04 | |
| they were paying taxes on the property. So being that it was on private property that you couldn't do anything with the with the | 00:41:10 | |
| mobile home because you couldn't go and take it or whatever because it was on private property. So I know that that's been a | 00:41:16 | |
| difficulty. So it's good that we've gotten rid of 67 of these issues. | 00:41:22 | |
| A supervisor Clooney, so this will clean your records up Monica on the mobile homes you'll see me one more time for personal | 00:41:30 | |
| property which are the like a bar or any kind of business that have established business one or two years and they closed up shop. | 00:41:39 | |
| I'm always glad we can straighten something out, so thank you for doing. Thank you. Yeah, thanks, Monica, for doing that. And with | 00:41:48 | |
| that, I have no questions. So I'll call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to authorize the Treasurer's office to abate | 00:41:55 | |
| the taxes, interest and fees on 67 properties and authorize the Chairman's signature on each of the related certificates of | 00:42:02 | |
| removal and abatement of tax and certificates of clearance. | 00:42:09 | |
| Mr. Carroll, Second. All right. We have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye. Thank you. Thank you. | 00:42:16 | |
| Item 3B Information, Discussion. Action to approve the 5th Amended Intergovernmental Agreement between Hilo County and the Arizona | 00:42:26 | |
| Counties Insurance Pool, which shall become effective July 16th, 2024, and shall continue in force in effect for a period of 10 | 00:42:33 | |
| years or until terminated in accordance with the terms and provisions of the agreement and further. | 00:42:41 | |
| May be renewed for an additional 10 year term by mutual agreement by part or all of the parties prior to the expiration of the | 00:42:49 | |
| original or any renewal term of the agreement. Mr. Menlo. | 00:42:55 | |
| Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, aye. | 00:43:02 | |
| I'd like to request that we continue or extend the participation that the county has with the Arizona County's insurance pool. | 00:43:06 | |
| Arizona County's insurance pool is an intercom agreement that we have with 13. | 00:43:13 | |
| 12 other counties, 13 counties total, all counties other than Maricopa and Pima counties large enough that they are on their own, | 00:43:22 | |
| but we have all 13 other counties that are part of this pool. Coconut County was the last of the holdout of the smaller counties | 00:43:29 | |
| to become a member, but we all are participants the Arizona County Insurance pool. | 00:43:36 | |
| Provides coverages for property damage, automobile liability, workers compensation and employers liability, general liability | 00:43:44 | |
| including employment practices liability, public officials liability and law enforcement liability, and automobile physical | 00:43:51 | |
| damage. | 00:43:58 | |
| Other things that we can and do participate in is developing effective risk management programs to reduce the amount and frequency | 00:44:06 | |
| of losses. | 00:44:11 | |
| Cooling of self insured losses. Jointly purchasing excess insurance or reinsurance. | 00:44:16 | |
| Adopting memorandums of coverage. | 00:44:25 | |
| Providing claim service and claims administration. | 00:44:29 | |
| Providing or purchasing such administrative services as a Board of Trustees as defined by the ASIP Bylaws and determines any | 00:44:33 | |
| necessary appropriate administration of ESIP. | 00:44:38 | |
| And provide or purchase or provide other insurance or risk management services. | 00:44:45 | |
| So the this is a self managed program. So the board of trustees are 13 trustees. | 00:44:50 | |
| Definition and the bylaws. The county manager or county administrator for each of the 13 counties is the trustee with a alternate. | 00:44:57 | |
| Elite counties alternate is Rick Husk who is our HR director and is over risk management working the county. | 00:45:06 | |
| They would be available for any questions you might have. This is a 10 year renewal. There are options that if we force who I | 00:45:15 | |
| decided that we have need to do something different. We do have that option, but it is proven that it's local governance by local | 00:45:25 | |
| counties and I have a strong belief that local governance is the best and meets our needs the best that we can as trustees. | 00:45:34 | |
| Direct ASIP according to the needs that we have. | 00:45:44 | |
| Thank you. OK, Thank you. Supervisor Humphrey. I have no question. Supervisor Klein. | 00:45:48 | |
| I don't think we have an option but to go that route and I don't see any other options out there. | 00:45:54 | |
| Mr. Chairman, Suarez Klein, in comparing, we spend a lot of time looking at actuarial reports and things and. | 00:46:00 | |
| What it looks like in the industry, if we lose control, we just are under whatever somebody else tells us we have to do. | 00:46:10 | |
| And the rates that they pay or sometimes very significant to what we pay. | 00:46:18 | |
| Ourselves because we make decisions locally and we can change things as we need to address our needs and hold our costs to a | 00:46:23 | |
| minimum. So can we make a different decision? Yes. Is it advisable from my point of view, no, Absolutely not. This is a really | 00:46:31 | |
| good benefit for you. Thank you, James. Yeah. Thank you, James. Theo, I just have a question to to learn a little more. How long | 00:46:38 | |
| has Hila County participated in this pool? | 00:46:45 | |
| 30 years, 30 years. OK, We were one of the early participants in the Arizona County's insurance board, OK. | 00:46:53 | |
| Thank you. With that, I will call for motion as Chair, I move to approve the 5th amended Intergovernment Agreement with the | 00:47:01 | |
| Arizona Counties Insurance Poll as presented. Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion on a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, | 00:47:09 | |
| aye. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman of the Board. Item 3C, Information discussion action to adopt resolution | 00:47:17 | |
| #24-07-02 authorizing the acceptance of an easement from Barbara Roberts. | 00:47:25 | |
| For approximately 1341 square feet of assessors. Parcel #206-09-081. Good morning, Romero Vela. Good morning, chairman and board | 00:47:33 | |
| members. | 00:47:41 | |
| Counting the aerial show that you're encroaching on a corner of Barbara Roberts property. ATM 2/06/09 Dash Zero 81. | 00:48:25 | |
| And I want to extend my appreciation to the Barbara Roberts family for granting us this evening. They've been very cooperative in | 00:48:37 | |
| the whole process. It is in the best interest of the public for the county to accept this easement so that we can continue to | 00:48:44 | |
| maintain the road as it crosses this corner. It is approximately 1341 square foot is was contained in the easement that's granted | 00:48:51 | |
| to the county. | 00:48:58 | |
| With that with I would like to. | 00:49:07 | |
| Turn it over back to the board and answer any questions you may have. Thank you, Barrow. Supervisor Humphrey, No question, just | 00:49:10 | |
| tomorrow. Thank you and staff for going over some of these areas that have just been let go so we get squared away with easements | 00:49:17 | |
| and things so as we go forward. So I appreciate it very much on a lot of these. | 00:49:25 | |
| To think you **** no, that's good and Romero, I would assume that this 13141 square feet will then. | 00:49:34 | |
| Alter their assessed value in a. | 00:49:43 | |
| In a positive way for them. | 00:49:46 | |
| If they would have activists at the assessor and request that, yes, and that is possible. | 00:49:50 | |
| OK, all right, thank you. And with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to adopt resolution #24-07-02. Mr. | 00:49:55 | |
| Chair, I'll second that motion in a second to approve those in favor say aye. | 00:50:02 | |
| Thank you. And one more, we got 3D information, discussion, action to adopt Resolution 24-0705 authorizing the Chairman's | 00:50:12 | |
| signature on a purchase agreement and acquisition incentive agreement, a warranty deed and a temporary construction easement | 00:50:18 | |
| granted to the State of Arizona. | 00:50:25 | |
| By and through its Department of Transportation for construction of the State Route 260 Alliance Springs Section Widening Project. | 00:50:32 | |
| Thank you, Chairman. As you read, we're asking the board to sign multiple documents in this one document is to where a God is | 00:50:42 | |
| actually going to purchase 76,000 square feet of property from us. The other one is where we grant the interest in a right of way | 00:50:49 | |
| easement that we granted to a dot in years past. And the other one is the grant a dot, a temporary construction easement. And the | 00:50:56 | |
| final one is for us to receive extra money for expediting this request. | 00:51:04 | |
| And so I wanted to thank a number of people that helped me expedite this. County Manager James Banda, County Attorney Joe Albo and | 00:51:11 | |
| Samantha Trimble have all been very helpful in getting this together and and as well as Scott Warren, who sits behind me. And if | 00:51:19 | |
| you do have a question on this, probably Scott Warren's going to answer that question. OK, So in the early 2008 dot Whiten state, | 00:51:27 | |
| State Route 260 from Star Valley to the top of Mogion Rim, adding one lane in this in this direction, the only section. | 00:51:35 | |
| That was not white and it was a four mile strip in the Lion Spring section. A dot has finished. | 00:51:44 | |
| The design and they're ready to start work construction in 2026 and they needed some of these easements like the one that they | 00:51:53 | |
| that they're requesting some of these easements and some of these property purchases like they're requesting from Gila County. Ada | 00:52:00 | |
| is asking the county to also grant that underlying fee interest in the existing 100 foot right of way it owns as shown on a record | 00:52:08 | |
| of survey number 982. This 100 foot white East Point was originally granted to ADOT by C simple back in. | 00:52:16 | |
| C simple #1999, dash 3121. | 00:52:24 | |
| Again, it's, it's, it's a property that we're transferring paid out that they're buying a property that we're transferring to a | 00:52:28 | |
| dot that they have an easement from us from years past. The appraisal has the market value of the land to be acquired for the new | 00:52:37 | |
| right of way at $76,200. The county is being offered $675 for the temporary construction easement and in an effort to expedite the | 00:52:46 | |
| acquisition and incentive payment of approximately 20% of the of the value of the new right of way is being offered at $15,285. | 00:52:54 | |
| The documents must be postmarked July 26, 2024 or sooner to receive that incentive payment. The total offer from a dot is | 00:53:04 | |
| $92,160.00. It's in the best interest of the county to approve the land transfer for construction of State Route 260 whitening | 00:53:11 | |
| project. It's both a safety and a traffic congestion improvement, especially on holiday weekends with basically the safety is at | 00:53:18 | |
| all times. | 00:53:26 | |
| And with that I will accept any questions and. | 00:53:33 | |
| Hey, thank you supervisor Humphrey. I have no questions other than just thank you very much for the team that you built and the | 00:53:39 | |
| people that work with, especially with these time limited projects. Thank you very much for going forward and and everybody | 00:53:45 | |
| working together to get things like this done. Thank you supervisor for you. | 00:53:52 | |
| So yeah, single to me on this, this is quite a project and and regardless of the cost price, whatever it is, this is a project | 00:54:00 | |
| that needs to go on. | 00:54:04 | |
| And get finalized, so thanks for doing it. | 00:54:09 | |
| Yes, thank you. Much needed project. So thank you and everyone that you mentioned that has been helpful in this situation. With | 00:54:13 | |
| that I will call for a motion. | 00:54:18 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to adopt resolution #24-07-05. Mr. Chair, I'll second that. We have a motion and a second to approve. Those in | 00:54:24 | |
| favor say aye, aye. Motion passes. Thank you, Romero, we got another one for you. 3 E. Yes, Sir. The next item will be presented | 00:54:34 | |
| by our acting floodplain administrator, Alex. Alex, thank you. All right. Item 3 E is information discussion action to approve. | 00:54:45 | |
| What's that word supplicant opportunity. | 00:54:56 | |
| Agreement. | 00:55:00 | |
| What is that word of recipient? OK, thank you. | 00:55:03 | |
| Agreement Hazard Mitigation Grants Program HMGP FM5385-001-001 are between Healer County and the Arizona Department of Emergency | 00:55:08 | |
| and Military Affairs the amount of $1,541,258.25 with a county match. | 00:55:18 | |
| Of $539,606.75 and authorized the Chairman signature on the agreement. Alex. | 00:55:29 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chair, Board of Supervisors. So this is a again the request to approve the acceptance of the Hazard Mitigation | 00:55:39 | |
| Grant. FM 538-5001, Dash 001 are better known as the Campaign Creek buyout. | 00:55:47 | |
| On June 21st, 2022, the Board supervisors approved the. | 00:55:56 | |
| Campaign Creek postponed grant application to fund the buyout of eight properties that are most flood prone on Ash St. and | 00:56:02 | |
| Mesquite St. in Roosevelt Estates and the total project cost was going to be 2,080,000 dollars, $865. | 00:56:09 | |
| On June 17th of this year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, actually finally approved that grants. I know we were | 00:56:19 | |
| waiting on that for quite some time. So with that. | 00:56:25 | |
| This is the next step, and we're bringing this before you for your signature. Thank you, Alex. Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah, thank | 00:56:33 | |
| you very much. This has been a long project since the fires and the floods and, and homes getting flooded on Campaign Creek. And | 00:56:38 | |
| we've dealt with Campaign Creek a lot. | 00:56:43 | |
| And, and it's a good thing that we got this buyout because there's fires up above that Campaign Creek area right now still. | 00:56:49 | |
| Campaign Creek is not going to get any tamer in the future. And also to thank you for for diligently getting this in front of the | 00:56:57 | |
| board because we also have a time limit on this funding of when we need to be finished with the demolition of the properties. And | 00:57:06 | |
| so thank you for getting that here and, and working diligently with the team to get this done before we lose the funding. | 00:57:14 | |
| So thank you all very, very much. You know, three years that just people don't realize that the constant turn of the wrench that's | 00:57:23 | |
| necessary to to get some of these done. And thank you very much for for the team effort in getting this taken care of. Appreciate | 00:57:28 | |
| it. | 00:57:34 | |
| Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Klein. Alex, thanks. And one thing I see on there, there's a deed restriction on it. It'll be | 00:57:40 | |
| maintained as open space. So that deed restriction, nobody's going to be able to go back on that change it right. Correct. So | 00:57:46 | |
| that's FEMA's requirement, FEMA 480. So anytime there's a buyout, you're no longer allowed to build anything on that property ever | 00:57:52 | |
| again. And that gets recorded indeed. So and then so the buyout will be held in in the county's name that who's holding the | 00:57:58 | |
| property or. | 00:58:04 | |
| I believe so, yes. OK, so the county own it. Nobody's going to build on it and we're good to go. OK. Thanks, Mr. Chair, if I may. | 00:58:10 | |
| Yeah, We own some property. Same reason just below this area where it actually washed homes away years ago. So that Creek is | 00:58:17 | |
| wanted. It's it's wanted its space back for a long time. So it's nice that we're finally able to give it to the Creek. Oh, I don't | 00:58:24 | |
| disagree. I just want to make sure that come a day when we're not around by somebody else doesn't reverse it because that's the | 00:58:32 | |
| case. I'm happy. | 00:58:39 | |
| You know, that's fine. You don't, you know, like, yeah. | 00:58:46 | |
| It's good, yeah. | 00:58:50 | |
| Thank you, Alex. So with that, I'll call for a motion on the sub recipient agreement. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve | 00:58:53 | |
| the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs Sub recipient Agreement Hazard Mitigation Grants Program, HMGP. | 00:59:01 | |
| Mr. Chair, I will happily second that we have a motion to approve and a happy 2nd. All those in favor say aye. | 00:59:11 | |
| Motion approved. Thank you. Thank you, Alex. Item 3F. | 00:59:22 | |
| Information Discussion Action to approve Economic Development agreement number 05092024 with quote Miami Elks Lodge number 489 and | 00:59:28 | |
| the amount of $8500 for the installation of a boundary fence around the large property which the board has determined to be for | 00:59:37 | |
| the benefit of the public. Mr. Humphrey Yeah, we have someone from the Nails Club here to. Yeah. Danny Sanchez, thank you for. | 00:59:47 | |
| Chairman and board member. | 00:59:58 | |
| We're in a position right now where we have to the north. | 01:00:02 | |
| West Side, we've got to do a flood control with rocks and stuff. We're nonprofit so. | 01:00:07 | |
| We basically have to do my donations. | 01:00:15 | |
| We. | 01:00:19 | |
| Have a liquor license too. | 01:00:23 | |
| Now we're having people go on the backside of property drinking now going, we've got something up right now. | 01:00:25 | |
| To try and control the gut cameras so we can see people come in and we've got to drive over there and chase them off. | 01:00:34 | |
| Starting to be a hangout so we're trying to put a stop to that. | 01:00:43 | |
| We have the windows been busted already? | 01:00:48 | |
| People in the back. | 01:00:52 | |
| So it's money that we have to pull out. We do. | 01:00:54 | |
| Presently, we are. | 01:01:00 | |
| Got an agreement with the Global Unified School District. | 01:01:03 | |
| If there's an emergency, our hall will be used for students to get over there. | 01:01:06 | |
| Protection. That's one reason why control what's coming in. | 01:01:13 | |
| It's used for voting, county voting. That's the only place the county will vote is our area. So there's a lot going on with the | 01:01:22 | |
| county. | 01:01:28 | |
| With our lodge. So we're looking to help for some help to finish doing what we're doing. We've got some. | 01:01:35 | |
| Stephen, we got replaced. It's up right now to block people from coming in, so we just want to put new stuff up and. | 01:01:45 | |
| Hopefully the city will check it off. Yes, it's OK so. | 01:01:54 | |
| And add to that, Mr. Chair, the local Oaks does a lot of things for the community. Like I said, we do our voting here. They do a | 01:01:59 | |
| lot of dinners, they do a lot of funerals. They do a lot of things. And, and they're located right across the street from a from a | 01:02:07 | |
| big motel. And that motel leases, you know, I mean, they rent rooms to people with big vehicles and stuff and they park on a lot | 01:02:14 | |
| of the lot that is parking for the Elks Club, which enables the people. | 01:02:21 | |
| From being able to park there because there's a lot of big trucks. | 01:02:29 | |
| And a lot of the overflow park there. And so they, they definitely need help with a fence. And you know, people have asked me | 01:02:33 | |
| that, you know, working on a, on a boundary fence. How's that beneficial for the public? Will a non profit organization? Like I | 01:02:40 | |
| say, they, they do a lot of functions and they help our community a lot. And so if they have to spend some of their funding. | 01:02:47 | |
| To to protect their property, then that's funding that they don't have spend, have to spend for a lot of the public things that | 01:02:55 | |
| they do. | 01:03:00 | |
| For us and so that's that's why I have brought this to the board to help them for the things that they do for the public. | 01:03:05 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Kleiner. | 01:03:18 | |
| Oh well, thanks for proposing this and looking at it. It's somebody's good dealing and supervisor. If you need help with that | 01:03:20 | |
| $8500 like Kathy, no one will help you so. | 01:03:25 | |
| We got. | 01:03:31 | |
| Yes, you know, it's a good cause and and if you if you care to help that we you know, that's, that's fine with me and I'm sure | 01:03:35 | |
| it's fine with the Elks Club. If we if we were to partner on something of that nature, it's the assistance in the paperwork that | 01:03:41 | |
| might give us a rough time for deciding how we're going to divvy it up in a Board of Supervisors meeting. But but Oh well, forward | 01:03:48 | |
| to things like this, Tim. | 01:03:54 | |
| So I. | 01:04:01 | |
| As long as the paper works proper and and things I as long as they get the funding in for all they do to help us so appreciate it | 01:04:03 | |
| very much. | 01:04:07 | |
| Thank you. This is where I say I'll contribute as well. | 01:04:15 | |
| Yes. So we haven't approved it yet, so. | 01:04:20 | |
| If I'm going to do paperwork once, you might as well do that. So let's District One will also participate in that. And thank you. | 01:04:25 | |
| And with that, I will call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve economic Development grant number 05092024 with Globe Miami | 01:04:35 | |
| Elks Lodge #489 as presented. | 01:04:44 | |
| Which the board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. Mr. Cheryl, second that motion and a second to approve those | 01:04:54 | |
| in favor say aye, aye, thank you. We'll move on to item 3G information discussion action to approve another economic development | 01:05:01 | |
| agreement number that is 07012024 between Healer County and the Payson Book Festival in the amount of $1000 to promote local | 01:05:09 | |
| authors and literacy. | 01:05:16 | |
| In Hewitt County, which the board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. | 01:05:24 | |
| This is my item. This is a request that I've received multiple times for the book fair and it will be coming out of my | 01:05:28 | |
| constituents funds as well. And I think it by far benefits the public, it benefits our area, it enhances literacy and is a good | 01:05:35 | |
| project. So with that I will answer any questions. | 01:05:41 | |
| I have no questions. I don't either. OK, Steve, good job. All right, thank you. With that, I will call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll | 01:05:49 | |
| make the motion to approve Economic Development Agreement number 07012024, but the Payson Book Festival Incorporated is presented, | 01:05:58 | |
| which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion and 2nd to approve. Those | 01:06:06 | |
| in favor say aye, aye. Thank you. All right, we'll move on to the consent agenda item. We have items 4A and 4B. | 01:06:14 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey, is there either or both of those that you would like to discuss separately? I no, I'm good with it, as is | 01:06:24 | |
| Supervisor Klein. I believe I'm good. And with that, I'll call for motion and I'll consent agenda items 4A and B Mr. Chair, I move | 01:06:31 | |
| to approve consent agenda items 4A through 4B, and I'll second that. We'll see the 2nd to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, | 01:06:37 | |
| aye, aye. | 01:06:43 | |
| Thank you. Item number 5 is a call to the public. Is there anyone present here in Globe that wishes to address the Board of | 01:06:50 | |
| Supervisors at this time? | 01:06:55 | |
| No. How about in Payson? | 01:07:01 | |
| Thank you, Lisa. | 01:07:06 | |
| To Sandra know how many do we have on the Internet today? | 01:07:08 | |
| 40 All right. Thank you very much. | 01:07:14 | |
| All right, at this time, we will then now have the Board of Supervisors in the county Manager present a brief summary of current | 01:07:18 | |
| events. We'll start with Manager Menlove. Mr. Chairman, members of the board, if I can go back for a moment to the Campaign Creek. | 01:07:26 | |
| That was that was a grant from FIFA through Shoebury Humphrey and the Public Works team. There is an additional $3,000,000 that is | 01:07:37 | |
| been a grant that was secured. | 01:07:42 | |
| And I want to point out that there will be additional work on Campaign Creek to help with the flooding in that area. So we've been | 01:07:47 | |
| waiting for this moment that we can now carry forward or move forward on the Campaign Creek $3,000,000 that we have security to | 01:07:53 | |
| grant. | 01:07:58 | |
| Mr. Chairman, last and members of board, last week I was at the Arizona City County Managers Association being good to touch base | 01:08:05 | |
| with a number of my counterparts in both cities and counties. I want to identify that there's. | 01:08:11 | |
| Able to meet and discuss. There's been comments of what our financing options for, for different projects we might have coming up. | 01:08:20 | |
| We're looking at the end of September to have a work session on, on those different opportunities we have and there's it. | 01:08:29 | |
| Has encouraged and different things that we can have as we look at different projects of how we can organize those and what we can | 01:08:38 | |
| the tools that we can have to address different projects. So we look forward to having that discussion in September projects and | 01:08:43 | |
| financing for those projects. | 01:08:48 | |
| I think that's it for now. Thank you. OK. Thank you, President Humphrey. Yeah. I attended a GOP meeting and Payson on the 13th. I | 01:08:55 | |
| was the guest speaker at the Rotary luncheon on the 10th. | 01:09:02 | |
| Was on KQSS radio on the 8th. | 01:09:10 | |
| Umm held a community meeting at Roosevelt at one. Those are my monthly meetings and I will, I will be at a Tri-City sanitation | 01:09:15 | |
| meeting this evening at 5:30. They're going to do a presentation apparently and, and answer questions and things of that nature | 01:09:22 | |
| and I support them. So I will be there. It's their deal, not mine. But I'll I'll be there this evening. And as James said back | 01:09:30 | |
| when we when? | 01:09:38 | |
| We had the fires and floods and Campaign Creek was in houses. The state is the one that gave us the $3,000,000 and and at that | 01:09:46 | |
| time we could have used it for the buyout, but we had the opportunity to put in put in for the buyout grant. And so if we were to | 01:09:54 | |
| use that $3,000,000 to buy out the homes, then if we got the grant, that's what the grant was for. And that's the only thing we | 01:10:02 | |
| can use a grant for. But the three million we can use for other improvements on Campaign Crew. | 01:10:10 | |
| And so we've been patient for three years and, and I'm grateful for the public that lived there that was willing to work with us | 01:10:19 | |
| on that because now we have the buyout grant and we still have the three million. So that allows us to not only buy out the hounds | 01:10:26 | |
| that are affected, but also do some work on the north side of Campaign Creek, which was also needed. So, so if we just use that | 01:10:34 | |
| money early on to buy out the houses, then we still wouldn't have the the work that we're going to get by being patient. | 01:10:42 | |
| And so anyway, I just wanted to let the people know that and also to then the road between the the two sides of the estates will | 01:10:50 | |
| be able to be opened back up once we're not protecting the houses with the big firm. So anyway, all that's moving forward, it's | 01:10:57 | |
| just patience and perseverance. | 01:11:04 | |
| Thank you, supervisor or supervisor Klein. | 01:11:12 | |
| OK, so June 9th I had a campaign event here in Globe and I think those of you that were there, it was a good turn out, good visit, | 01:11:15 | |
| really good visit. Is it the train depot down here? And I don't know if you have been in there, Steve, have you? You'll get a | 01:11:21 | |
| chance to go in there and then check out the museum there. It's really cool. | 01:11:27 | |
| On the 11th, I, I went to Florida. I left and went to Florida for a few days. Do not go to Florida in July. I I'm going to tell | 01:11:34 | |
| you, hold it until like December. | 01:11:40 | |
| January something like that. You know, it's, it's bad when you have to chew that air before you can breathe it. So but I was there | 01:11:45 | |
| and it was naked annual conference. And so I was there and I attended the public lands, the WIR conference and rural caucus part | 01:11:54 | |
| of it. And so not a real good turn out and and after getting there I knew Hawaii. So anyway, but it was good. I learned some | 01:12:02 | |
| things. We had a lot of discussion on the amendment that the president signed on old growth timber. | 01:12:11 | |
| The Western states are fighting out really hard and so it's got a ways to go. | 01:12:20 | |
| There's some other talk on the Pilt part of things. Some, you know, when they gave us the LATCF money that. | 01:12:27 | |
| So some of us probably got used to that. I would say I had a lot of money, especially for the counties with a lot of public lands. | 01:12:36 | |
| And so that's gone as a one time deal that's gone. And so some folks are wanting to try and go back and and try and get more money | 01:12:42 | |
| out of that built pot. | 01:12:47 | |
| The other ones and, and there's talks in there from other ones that hey, let's be careful how hard we rock this boat because we | 01:12:55 | |
| could get no money out of that build pot. | 01:12:59 | |
| One thing that I didn't understand is PELT is huge when it comes out. It's a big pot of money, but there's twelve other entities | 01:13:05 | |
| that take money out of it. | 01:13:09 | |
| And so right now the talk is maybe to go back and kind of look at some formulas and percentages and maybe see if there's a way of | 01:13:14 | |
| adjusting some things like that rather than asking for more money from the feds in that program. So a lot of that'll be going on. | 01:13:20 | |
| The Pilt flying is going to be in September. | 01:13:26 | |
| So for you guys, I don't know, I'm pretty sure I am not going to be able to make that fly. And so if somebody from the county | 01:13:34 | |
| needs to be there, you know, and if I don't know whether you guys got going or maybe Mr. Min Love or even Michael or someone but. | 01:13:41 | |
| Someone from healer County needs to be on that. That's, that is a good showing there. And, and you go around, you hit all the | 01:13:50 | |
| offices on the hill and, and sometimes you talk to people that are already in our corner and it's kind of a maybe a waste of time, | 01:13:56 | |
| but other places you don't. So something really to look at and consider. But I'll tell you right now, it's too soon for me and I | 01:14:02 | |
| don't think I'll I'll be able to make that one. So. | 01:14:08 | |
| Also the war part of that was the first meeting that I took over as. | 01:14:16 | |
| For Arizona, and it's myself and Patrice. | 01:14:22 | |
| Horsemen from Coconino County, she was there as well. Richard Lunt, that's going off the board. He was there. And so it, it was a | 01:14:26 | |
| good deal. And then tonight I'm going to be heading to Star Valley for a council meeting. I'll be there tonight. Tomorrow night | 01:14:32 | |
| I'll be on Kmog. | 01:14:37 | |
| Friday the 19th, I'll be in Camp Verde is Arizona State cattle growers meeting there. But prior to that, first thing in the | 01:14:43 | |
| morning at 6:00, we have our Arizona, New Mexico coalition accountants meeting. And so I'm the chair on that and so I'll be there | 01:14:49 | |
| to chair that meeting. | 01:14:55 | |
| And then one more thing on short term rentals. Senator Rogers had made a, made a request to the Attorney General to look into and, | 01:15:03 | |
| and, and kind of review our ordinance. Well, it came back good. What we've been doing is, is OK, we're fine. If it gets into more | 01:15:10 | |
| zoning ordinances or whatever, that's that's a different story. But what we have done appears to be just fine from the attorney | 01:15:18 | |
| general standpoint. | 01:15:25 | |
| And so anybody that gets a chance to thank Senator Rogers for that, please do so. | 01:15:33 | |
| That was a good thing. And with that, I believe that is all I have. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Supervisor. | 01:15:38 | |
| The yesterday I was on KMOG, that's always good. Spent probably 3/4 of the time talking about national issues, what happened on | 01:15:48 | |
| Saturday with former President Trump and things like that. A lot of people wanted to talk about that. So I was able to fit in a | 01:15:55 | |
| number of things regarding the county as well, but we just kind of had a general conversation and people needed that. I believe | 01:16:02 | |
| last Tuesday was at the Veterans Coffee time. | 01:16:09 | |
| Candidate Kerry Lake was there and so we had pretty much a record number about 130 almost or right in that vicinity, which was | 01:16:19 | |
| good. Usually it runs right around 100 to 105 or 6. And Payson where where I'm at, we got rained on and ice hail all that just a | 01:16:28 | |
| tremendous on Sunday and yesterday. So we're really happy about that. | 01:16:37 | |
| And hopefully other areas are getting that rain. Well, it's really needed with also at the same precinct. GOP meeting on Saturday | 01:16:47 | |
| and spoke for just a few minutes. | 01:16:53 | |
| Along with the supervisor, Humphrey and. | 01:17:00 | |
| Unfortunately we had another drowning at Fossil Creek last week that makes 3 in the last couple months or so, a total of 10 over | 01:17:06 | |
| several year period of time, 800 plus rescues. And so hopefully all of this that's occurring will. | 01:17:18 | |
| Provide opportunities to. | 01:17:32 | |
| Get what we need done, which is improvement of trails for rescue purposes. | 01:17:35 | |
| Only. And so it just makes sense that we do that, but we're having some resistance and we're trying to work through that. So it | 01:17:40 | |
| becomes political and things and that's never good because when it becomes political, then decision making changes. | 01:17:48 | |
| Sorry to hear you're not going to be able to make pill because I'm not going to be able to make pill. And that's why I said you | 01:17:57 | |
| should go to Pilt. And so we do need to have representation there. And so whoever would like to do that, I'm not going to be able | 01:18:02 | |
| to make it neither supervisor client sounds like. | 01:18:07 | |
| No, I won't. It's gonna, it's gonna be a little bit too soon, I think for me to make that trip and and do that. But but by all | 01:18:13 | |
| means, somebody from the county needs to be there. Absolutely. So consider that. And that's coming up in September. | 01:18:20 | |
| All right. With that, I don't have anything else. So with that, I will adjourn the meeting. Thank you, everyone. | 01:18:28 |