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| And I'm going to call this meeting to order Tuesday, September 17th at a little after 10. And our pledge today will be by Samantha | 00:00:02 | |
| and our invocation will be by Nick Montague. Thank you for speaking on that. | 00:00:10 | |
| Which is of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty | 00:00:24 | |
| and justice for all. | 00:00:30 | |
| Dear Heavenly Father, we are thankful for this day and we are thankful for the Board of Supervisors and for the time that they | 00:00:45 | |
| spend helping the county. And we ask thee to give your spirit to them to help them make wise decisions for us and say these things | 00:00:50 | |
| and they just crash them. | 00:00:56 | |
| Okay. | 00:01:09 | |
| Good morning, everybody. | 00:01:10 | |
| Our first 2A presentation regarding the activities of the Hiba County Supervisor Association for physical year 2324 and Drake | 00:01:13 | |
| Sullivan is here. And we thank you very much for coming and doing the presentation and for all you do for all of us. Look forward | 00:01:21 | |
| to supervisors. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Klein, it's a pleasure to be here with you today. | 00:01:30 | |
| We do have a slide deck that we'd like to walk through. Thank you very much. | 00:01:39 | |
| Perfect timing on that. But for the record, I'm Craig Sullivan with the County Supervisors Association. I have Caitlin King with | 00:01:43 | |
| me too. She's our new legislative liaison joining the team. We're thrilled to have her working with us. My purpose today is to | 00:01:49 | |
| report out on the activities, the association. It's very important for me to be accountable to you, to see what we're doing to | 00:01:55 | |
| support you and your colleague counties across the state. And so we did provide a document that walks through a lot of the key | 00:02:01 | |
| activities that we're in. | 00:02:07 | |
| Areas like intergovernmental work, our data initiative, some strategic initiatives, and then the work we've been doing with the | 00:02:14 | |
| legislature. And so with your permission, Mr. Chair, I'd like to walk through some of it and just hit some of the key highlights | 00:02:20 | |
| that we've got going and field any questions that you all may have. Please do. | 00:02:26 | |
| And as I begin, I do want to thank you for your partnership in the association. I am so grateful for the involvement of this board | 00:02:32 | |
| with your colleagues from around the state. Thank you for that. I think it makes our organization stronger and it helps strengthen | 00:02:39 | |
| the partnership with the legislature. And I want to commend Mr. Menlo. He is the chair of our County Managers Association. So that | 00:02:46 | |
| makes sure that we have a very strong collaboration to this. So thank you for that, James. | 00:02:53 | |
| So just moving through, let me just briefly talk a little bit about what the association is for folks in the room who wouldn't be | 00:03:01 | |
| familiar with the county supervisors associations collaboration with 15 counties. We do nonpartisan research and policy work. The | 00:03:08 | |
| counties created this function because it's more efficient to work together to do these things as opposed to independently and | 00:03:14 | |
| we're all in the same business we're trying to support. | 00:03:20 | |
| You and state leaders in serving your constituents. So that's really what we're all about. | 00:03:27 | |
| And if you look on the right, you can see the various entities that have influence on what you do. And so we try to strengthen the | 00:03:32 | |
| intergovernmental relationship with those other parties. | 00:03:37 | |
| This slide shows you a little bit about how we're using our board meetings that occur regularly to bring in elected officials and | 00:03:47 | |
| policy decision makers to talk with all of you. So I wanted to identify just the folks who we came in through the last year. | 00:03:54 | |
| We really enjoyed the the robust conversation with legislators, including some of the new agency heads under the new | 00:04:03 | |
| administration. On the left, you can see some of the key task forces that we've been assigned to to work. | 00:04:10 | |
| On behalf of the counties to support, so things like the Governor's Water Council, PSPRS Advisory Committee, Arizona Criminal | 00:04:17 | |
| Justice Committee, we do a lot of task force work on behalf of all 15 counties and then provide information to all of you. But | 00:04:25 | |
| very importantly, at the bottom in the orange is the relationship we have is kind of a hub and spoke model with what we call | 00:04:32 | |
| county affiliate groups. So the finance director is the planning directors and those folks who all work very hard. | 00:04:39 | |
| We help come together to get information from them and we share information from our end and it really strengthens the overall | 00:04:47 | |
| collaboration. We also connect with the Arizona Association of Counties, who represents the row officers, and we try to make sure | 00:04:54 | |
| that we're all strengthened there. So it really creates a nice strong fabric of Arizona County. | 00:05:00 | |
| This next slide just highlights the county data initiative that we have all been involved in for several years. This is where | 00:05:10 | |
| we're developing a platform with county relevant data to help us analyze policies and create visualizations to bring both the | 00:05:17 | |
| boards as well as to the legislature. This is a very robust function that's managed by Vanessa Fielder in our office. It continues | 00:05:25 | |
| to grow. Right now we're building out additional budget information and core related information. So we just have more. | 00:05:32 | |
| At our fingertips to analyze policies. | 00:05:40 | |
| We have a series of strategic initiatives. | 00:05:45 | |
| We secured about $1.4 million in grants from the Arizona Board of Regents to do work into public safety retention and recruitment, | 00:05:47 | |
| and more recently partnering with the Sheriff's association to work on detention officer recruitment and retention. So that's | 00:05:54 | |
| occurring right now and over the next year we should get some good work to help inform strategies to recruit and retain folks in | 00:06:01 | |
| the detention offices. | 00:06:08 | |
| And one of the grants was to support a study into procurement. So we are working on this effort, but there's no State University. | 00:06:17 | |
| It's not the most exciting things for folks to think about, but as you know, procurement involves a massive amount of taxpayer | 00:06:23 | |
| dollars and we want to look at it, see how we can be more efficient at it and how we can measure the efficacy of our procurement | 00:06:29 | |
| strategies. | 00:06:34 | |
| You'll recall that over the last several years we've had a strategic initiative to work on the public safety pension problem where | 00:06:46 | |
| we wanted to identify strategies that could be deployed here at the board level, at the PSPRS Board of Trustees level and the | 00:06:53 | |
| legislative level. What you see here very briefly is the improvement in the funded status of PSPRS in court and that's because of | 00:07:01 | |
| the work of the managers group and we've all been doing together. And so real kudos to all of you. | 00:07:08 | |
| That's saving taxpayer money. And so as we transition from working on better assumptions at the pension system and paying this | 00:07:15 | |
| money down or this debt down, now we're focused on making sure that we, the Legislature, doesn't make policy changes that degrade | 00:07:21 | |
| this fund, right? We want to make sure that these commitments are made. So I thought that was a great chart showing how we've all | 00:07:27 | |
| come so far over the last several years. | 00:07:33 | |
| Broadband, all the counties are working on broadband. We have been serving as a hub, initially working with the legislature and | 00:07:44 | |
| then Congress and now with the NTIA and FCC and the governor's office and ACA. So all the partners who are working together to | 00:07:50 | |
| deploy broadband money. And so we talked about that regularly at the managers meeting and we are all in a common mission to deploy | 00:07:56 | |
| high quality broadband across the state. | 00:08:03 | |
| I'll transition now a little bit into the legislative side of this, which is a big portion of what we do with the | 00:08:12 | |
| intergovernmental work of the Legislature. And I do want to commend your staff for the feedback that we get on bills, as well as | 00:08:18 | |
| the work that we do with policy Development Group when when they're deployed to help assist Tila County and other counties on | 00:08:24 | |
| issues that are of common interest. The biggest issue we had going into this legislative session was the state's budget deficit. | 00:08:29 | |
| That's what we talked about, we were worried about. | 00:08:35 | |
| We took the legislators don't shift your problems down to us. And the good news is they did not. The legislature really focused on | 00:08:41 | |
| taking care of its problem within the four corners of its budget and that was a good thing. So they did solve their $1.4 billion | 00:08:48 | |
| problem with fund transfers, one time spending cuts, ongoing spending cuts at the state level, They preserve their $1.5 billion | 00:08:56 | |
| rainy day fund. And in the main they didn't affect the county. So. | 00:09:03 | |
| Result in that area. This shows you just some of the major buckets that they touched. | 00:09:11 | |
| Probably most notably when we were meeting with Greeley County and Richard Blunt recently, the sweeps of resources out of the | 00:09:18 | |
| Water Infrastructure Finance Authority, which was a pot of money dedicated to supplement water supplies down in the urban areas. | 00:09:25 | |
| Those dollars have been swept to a large degree. And so they're going to have to reset on how they're going to invest in new | 00:09:33 | |
| waters, not just moving waters around, but bringing new water to our water problem down in. | 00:09:40 | |
| County and I know the rule, the rural areas want that to be solved because there's always concerns about moving water at a rural | 00:09:48 | |
| area. | 00:09:52 | |
| But they did reduce those dollars that were available for it. They swept the opioid money at the state level that did not affect | 00:09:57 | |
| the county level monies, but I know some state monies were coming down as grants, but it was their choice to redirect that. | 00:10:03 | |
| This next slide will show you a little bit about the issues that were still lingering and still a big problem for the counties in | 00:10:11 | |
| the state budget. | 00:10:15 | |
| Most notably for Hilo County are the lack of ongoing state commitment to fund state funded probation officers. They did not follow | 00:10:20 | |
| through on a sustained allocation. When we recognize that that was likely not going to happen, we and the courts started pushing | 00:10:27 | |
| for at least a one time patch. That patch came from the governor's office in the form of ARPA money, federal dollars. So there | 00:10:35 | |
| still is a Cliff, a financial Cliff in. | 00:10:42 | |
| For the state's commitment to state funded probation office. So we're gonna have to get that fixed. We're gonna have to work with | 00:10:51 | |
| your legislative delegation to do that. It's not right to leave that undone. And similarly on JP salaries, cost sharing | 00:10:59 | |
| arrangement, counties pay 60% of JP salaries, state pays 40%. They Swatch the monies from the fund to reimburse the counties. | 00:11:07 | |
| We initially thought that would not be a big deal, but then they made some salary adjustments that put that fund in the deficit. | 00:11:15 | |
| So we're going to have to go get full funding from the state for their share of JP salaries. So just some basic technical budget | 00:11:22 | |
| stuff that was not solved this session. | 00:11:27 | |
| This slide will show you a lot of items that were in the budget. I wanted to put these in front of you because when the | 00:11:34 | |
| legislature does have a budget deficit often will undo a lot of commitments to the counties. And if you look under the prior | 00:11:41 | |
| county appropriations protected, this is where items that we worked on related to indigent defense, juvenile dependency, ERP | 00:11:48 | |
| relief, cyber security grants in the lottery money, even ECO grants, those were all protected and that's a good thing and. | 00:11:55 | |
| Legislative delegation had a big role in doing that, so they deserve a lot of accolades for that. | 00:12:02 | |
| A few slides remaining. A big part of what we do that's often understated is just reviewing the hundreds of bills that touch | 00:12:10 | |
| counties right? There are many every year. We call it reactive advocacy. It's where we review every bill, get feedback from county | 00:12:17 | |
| management, and then have a conversation with supervisors about our direction. This gives you a sense of the policy areas that we | 00:12:24 | |
| worked on this year. By and large, we were able to work out problems with lawmakers. | 00:12:32 | |
| That's a good thing. I think some of that is because of the split government with the Democratic governor and Republican | 00:12:39 | |
| legislature. So people who wanted to get bills done when we raised concerns wanted to talk about how to resolve that. So it was a | 00:12:43 | |
| good thing. | 00:12:47 | |
| This is just a list of bills that did pass. Our primary proactive agenda this year was really about the automatic recount issue. | 00:12:53 | |
| We did that early working with a Co. They took the lead on it and did a great job, but that was a good coalition result we were | 00:12:59 | |
| all proud of. | 00:13:05 | |
| Overwhelmingly, the other bills as I mentioned were kind of ironed out. New bills are effective September 14th, so just recently. | 00:13:11 | |
| And so all these things are now in law. So changes to public health for Tamale vendors and how we appoint legislators, all these | 00:13:18 | |
| things are now in statute. And I think it's up to Mr. Algo and team to and Mr. Menloff to implement those things and make sure | 00:13:25 | |
| that every everything is done properly. | 00:13:31 | |
| I'll bounce over this. | 00:13:41 | |
| We did distribute these four documents and they are very detailed analysis of and summaries of bills, budget issues, items for the | 00:13:45 | |
| finance director, just how counties implement those things. I wanted to flag it. They're already out in the field. Everybody's | 00:13:51 | |
| received those. | 00:13:58 | |
| This is just a quick scorecard on the number of bills that we tracked and the work we did in our LPC. Mr. Christensen is not here, | 00:14:07 | |
| but he sat in on all those calls every Friday and I want to commend him for that. It's a, it's a, not the best way to spend your | 00:14:14 | |
| Friday, but I appreciate the insight and guidance. Jacob on our team testified or we testified more than 30 times in committee | 00:14:20 | |
| this year. Jacob did most of that. And so we were really trying to hustle to get out there to get the message out. | 00:14:27 | |
| And then the final slide for you, the reward for finishing a legislative session and wrapping it up as you got to do it all over | 00:14:37 | |
| again. So we are treading water trying to plan for the next session. Please join us for our meetings that are coming up this | 00:14:44 | |
| Thursday. We have our first board meeting of the fall. And then we're going to have our legislative summit, our policy summit in | 00:14:50 | |
| Pinal County, where we're going to get all you together with your colleagues, set our agenda and move forward. | 00:14:56 | |
| And so with that, Mr. Chairman, I know I took a lot of your time, but I, I want to make sure that you see what we're doing. | 00:15:03 | |
| To work on behalf of your county, I want to thank you again for your partnership and I'd be happy to stand for any questions. | 00:15:10 | |
| Supervisor fine. Do you have any questions? | 00:15:17 | |
| I don't Craig, but I the 1st to say you've got an awesome team and and you guys have been so supportive for the full eight years | 00:15:19 | |
| I've been in this position. I just can't imagine you guys not being there. You know you do a lot. So I really wanted to tell you | 00:15:25 | |
| thank you for all this and we'll, we'll keep up being involved and help you out however we can. It's our pleasure, Sir. Thank you | 00:15:30 | |
| very much. | 00:15:35 | |
| And Greg, I support your team. I appreciate your team very, very much. I'm looking very full with the legislative Senate. I, I | 00:15:42 | |
| enjoy that, that we all can set and talk about things and what we want and what we don't want and where we're going with things. | 00:15:49 | |
| And I appreciate you guys for organizing us and everything else that you do. So thank you very much for taking the time to be here | 00:15:57 | |
| today. Well, thank you and, and I do apologize, but we are going to have to head back to the Valley, although. | 00:16:04 | |
| It's going to be the long way. So the roads closed, but so we will be stepping out. But I do want to thank you for all the time. | 00:16:12 | |
| You can go to the 88. I'm not the 88, but the 188, which takes you by Roosevelt. That's kind of a scenic. So we've got options. | 00:16:18 | |
| You have options. You can drive by Roosevelt at Jakes Corner in that 87 down. Perfect instrumental. I would like to say something, | 00:16:25 | |
| Mr. Chairman, Thank you. | 00:16:32 | |
| Mr. Sullivan, thank you. | 00:16:40 | |
| To you and your team, you are amazing. And during the legislative session there are things happening in the middle of the night, | 00:16:42 | |
| middle of day, all times in your your team. | 00:16:47 | |
| Is ready for those and they're on them and they're informative, they're communicating what is going on all the time. Appreciate | 00:16:54 | |
| that. That is a tremendous capacity thing that you have built into your team. But on top of that, all the different things that | 00:17:00 | |
| you described at the different analysis of the budgets and the things that impact us to the county at the local level and impact | 00:17:06 | |
| the board and what they do. | 00:17:13 | |
| You are supporting us and appreciate that just all the different organizations and support you had a list of those. | 00:17:20 | |
| It's. | 00:17:27 | |
| It's overwhelming, but you and your team handle it with these. | 00:17:30 | |
| Or make it appear that I could see. Well, thank you. I very much appreciate all that you and your team do. Thank you. And it's | 00:17:34 | |
| really a reflection of the close collaboration we all have together. So thank you for that. | 00:17:40 | |
| Have a safe trip. Will do. Thanks. Have a great day. OK. | 00:17:47 | |
| OK. Moving on, we're going to get into a regular agenda items and I want to let everybody know that our projectors are out today. | 00:17:53 | |
| So if our projectors aren't up and working, it's not, it's just the projector. So I guess we can work on getting those replaced. | 00:18:00 | |
| OK, moving on to regular agenda items, information discussion action to approve the Superior Court submission of the physical Year | 00:18:07 | |
| 25. | 00:18:15 | |
| Fill the Gap grant application to the Administrative Office of the Courts to fund the enhanced scanning program in the amount of | 00:18:22 | |
| $5278.04. Mr. Gunther, good morning. Yes, good morning, Supervisor Humphrey. Supervisor client, this is our annual grant | 00:18:29 | |
| submittal. | 00:18:35 | |
| The enhanced scanning program provides scanners to our justice courts and our municipal courts. We put it through on an annual | 00:18:42 | |
| basis since 2014. It really helps those municipalities out as well as our justice courts and I can take any questions. | 00:18:50 | |
| Supervisor plan, I don't have anything. Thank you, Jonathan. Yeah, I I don't have any questions either, so I'll call for a motion. | 00:18:58 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve the Superior Court submission of the FY25 Fill the Gap Grant application to the | 00:19:04 | |
| Administrative Office of the Courts as presented. | 00:19:10 | |
| I'll second that. | 00:19:18 | |
| All in favor say aye, aye aye passes unanimously because there's only two of us. So when you get up here, you got to convince both | 00:19:20 | |
| of us today because there's only two of us, but I'm kidding. Information gets an action to adopt, revise, Exhibit A, the | 00:19:29 | |
| resolution #24 O Dash 03 to correct tax information for Miami school district. | 00:19:38 | |
| #40 Pine Strawberries School district #12 and Hayden Winkelman School district #41. | 00:19:48 | |
| Add a section entitled Type 3 Schools Local Aid for Common Schools, all of which are on page two and four, Exhibit A and Springer | 00:19:56 | |
| and Company. | 00:20:04 | |
| Plus company today. So good morning, Mr. Chair. Good morning, Mr. Klein. To clarify, it's on page two of four, not two and four. I | 00:20:14 | |
| apologize for that typo. | 00:20:20 | |
| Originally, when we brought you the tax schedules for the coming fiscal year, we were using an old template and we were told by | 00:20:28 | |
| the Department of Revenue, the Property Tax Oversight Commission, that we needed to adopt the new template. So we did that for you | 00:20:36 | |
| and now we have updates to these taxing entities and all but one of them. | 00:20:44 | |
| Made it before the tax roll had to be submitted to the printer. There is one. | 00:20:52 | |
| That did not make it in time to get to the printer and will be corrected in the future year. That affects approximately 5400 tax | 00:20:57 | |
| bills and will get resolved in fiscal 26. | 00:21:04 | |
| Supervisor Klein. | 00:21:12 | |
| So the one that didn't make it, we'll go ahead and go through this year and then be corrected the following year. OK, All right | 00:21:15 | |
| is. | 00:21:19 | |
| And so is so explain to me the tax bill. How's what's that going to look like? I mean, is that are they are they going to be | 00:21:25 | |
| charged more, charged less or just the format for this particular one, it will be the type 3 schools, local aid for common schools | 00:21:32 | |
| and the rate will be slightly more than. | 00:21:39 | |
| What ADOR had sent to us in the revision and they will get a credit in the following year. | 00:21:46 | |
| Yes. OK. OK. Thank you. | 00:21:55 | |
| OK, I I have no question that that question was answered, so I'll call. | 00:21:58 | |
| For emotion, Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to adopt revised Exhibit A to resolution #24-08-03. | 00:22:05 | |
| And I'll second that all in favor say aye, aye aye passes unanimous. Thank you very much. And so we are moving on to 3C | 00:22:16 | |
| information actually to approve limit #1 to intergovernment agreement number 10042023 with the Town of Miami to provide funding | 00:22:26 | |
| for the Copper Mountain Transit system and the amount of $73,000 for the period of. | 00:22:35 | |
| Verse 2024 through June 30th, 2025. Alexis Rivera. | 00:22:46 | |
| And Melinda Baeza. Yeah, yeah. And. And Melinda, I'm just curious. And also Marian Billings is now. | 00:22:53 | |
| Good morning, Lux. It's good to have you here today. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, we declined. Thank you for the opportunity. We are | 00:23:04 | |
| here to continue this partnership for the community, for the Gila County. We want to provide and enhance the service that we have | 00:23:10 | |
| for the last 10 years with the Town of Miami. | 00:23:16 | |
| Our numbers are growing. We try to maintain the same numbers and expenditures and all that, but our numbers as part of the service | 00:23:23 | |
| that we provide and is increasing at least at 95% since 2022 and we want to continue provide the best service. | 00:23:31 | |
| To the community and today we want to continue the partnership and our director is going to be presenting the. | 00:23:40 | |
| Information. | 00:23:47 | |
| The boards go back. | 00:23:49 | |
| OK. Thank you. Good morning, Good morning. | 00:23:51 | |
| OK. Just a little history down right operational services since 1987, the dial right is the curb service that we provide for the | 00:23:59 | |
| community. | 00:24:04 | |
| So it's been like 37 years since we provided that. We also have a deviated fixed route since 2013. So it's been 11 years. | 00:24:12 | |
| Providing that ongoing service, and I'd like to add one thing that I've noticed. | 00:24:21 | |
| Being part of the. | 00:24:27 | |
| Managing the transit is that a lot of the people that call a lot of people that we service and I actually do drive on occasion | 00:24:30 | |
| when we need to someone 'cause I'm sick and we're short of driver. I do the dial a ride service. We're also building a community. | 00:24:38 | |
| And so I just like to add that that some of these Elder Scrolls, they don't have family locally, you know that. | 00:24:46 | |
| They just, they just have us and it's become pretty evident to me over the past. | 00:24:55 | |
| Few weeks and months that if we're not in operation to get these people to the grocery store or to the Senior Center, either Globe | 00:25:00 | |
| or Miami, to where they can have socialization or to their doctor's offices. | 00:25:06 | |
| There may be other sources out there, but we're actually out of the more affordable one and we've become also like family to them | 00:25:14 | |
| as well. So I just want to add that little piece there to that. As far as our numbers, July 2023 to June 2024, the fixed route | 00:25:20 | |
| average. | 00:25:25 | |
| The 13th 1309 people per month. July 2023 to June 2024 the dollar ride average was 372 people per month. About 78% to 82% of the | 00:25:31 | |
| customers originate in Globe or ending end up in Globe. Current local match split is 73,000 Globes and it's Thousand Hill County | 00:25:40 | |
| and 73,000 Miami. | 00:25:49 | |
| Our services we are open right now Monday through Friday. | 00:26:00 | |
| We offer the fixed route services the bus from 6:00 AM to 6:30 PM. | 00:26:03 | |
| The fees are haven't changed, there's still a dollar for a regular rate and $0.50. | 00:26:09 | |
| For somebody who has a person with a disability or a senior citizen or a student, children ride free through with an adult and | 00:26:15 | |
| they can also write three if they're 12 and over. Core services is our fixed route. Each route goes goes out back from each end of | 00:26:24 | |
| designated local area from Miami to go over go up to Miami. They kind of loop around. You might notice the copper buses. | 00:26:32 | |
| That come that go through here we do have our origination Globe is Alhambra is where we started in Miami. We started the magazine | 00:26:41 | |
| center and we start at 6:30 AM and just you know make the point complete loop. | 00:26:46 | |
| And they make that round about four times a date. | 00:26:53 | |
| Existing dialer ride services, as I mentioned, its services are disabled, elderly primarily in areas the buses cannot navigate. | 00:26:56 | |
| Typically DAR is used for seniors, persons with disabilities, doctor's visits, pharmacy shopping and recently we've seen an | 00:27:03 | |
| increase in people needing to go to work. | 00:27:09 | |
| So we've actually provided transportation for that as well. | 00:27:16 | |
| And this is just a map of the area. | 00:27:23 | |
| To give you an idea. | 00:27:26 | |
| It says Copper Valley Community Transit, that's our old name, is probably figured out how to change. | 00:27:29 | |
| So you've got all that. OK, so ridership. Let's see. | 00:27:36 | |
| From June 23 to June, July 2023 through June 24th, our ridership total fixed route and dial ride combined is 20,172 passengers. A | 00:27:41 | |
| fixed route 2023 to 2024 ridership total. Our writers 15,714 average averaging about 1309 a month. As I mentioned, it's usually | 00:27:51 | |
| one person getting on and one person getting off and then if they get back on again after a big do their shopping. | 00:28:01 | |
| Accounts again. So our revenue miles is 61,409, our debt miles are 4988 and our fuel gallons is $9230. Ride for the 2023-2024, the | 00:28:11 | |
| riders 4458 averaging about 372 a month. | 00:28:22 | |
| The revenue miles is 15,000 and 38 dead miles 12,663 and our fuel gallons is 1912. Our days of operation are 253 a year with an | 00:28:34 | |
| average of 21 days a month. | 00:28:40 | |
| Our top 10 destinations for public transport are the Globe Train Depot, Walmart, Miami Senior Center, Fry's, the Culver Valley | 00:28:48 | |
| Medical Center, Christina Apartments, Elick County Courthouse, Canal Mountains, Cobra Valley Plaza, Canal Mountain Apartment and | 00:28:54 | |
| the Low Mobile Home Park. | 00:29:00 | |
| Our reported requirements to a dot, we do reporting every month and requesting our reimbursements. They require that we do the | 00:29:10 | |
| ridership, which is the number of writers on and off at each location of these collective dial ride request logs with records of | 00:29:17 | |
| their name, their address, where they were picked up, whether it was my new globe or where they were dropped off at times and | 00:29:24 | |
| locations. We have a call log that records all the calls that come in that we type in. | 00:29:30 | |
| What was the purpose of their call? | 00:29:37 | |
| Like appointments, deviation requests, even complaints are even good. Good job. So maintenance, regular maintenance, certified | 00:29:41 | |
| repairs, and roadside compliance with Americans with Disabilities and Title 6. | 00:29:48 | |
| The drivers have training, they do a past training that's required every three years, certificates and the policy adherence. We | 00:29:56 | |
| also have online training that they do. | 00:30:00 | |
| Our goals for 2024 to 2025, we want to increase their ridership. We have noticed some of our writers, when I talk to them, they do | 00:30:08 | |
| mention that they do notice new people coming in to the area who might not have a vehicle. So they immediately call. We used to | 00:30:15 | |
| get these calls to to find out what is the transportation service that we provide. So we want to. | 00:30:22 | |
| Target the low performing bus stops by promoting them online and in person and see if that increases. | 00:30:31 | |
| Their numbers promote copper Mount transit services on the local radio stations reach out to public services in our community for | 00:30:38 | |
| possible collaboration. Review bus stops. You know, maybe map out tentative new stops that might perform better for us or provide | 00:30:44 | |
| a better service for our community and evaluate the pros and cons for a low performing bus stop. So we can figure out is do we | 00:30:51 | |
| still just keep it because it kind of helps the driver stay on on their. | 00:30:57 | |
| Scheduled route or is it something that we should probably, you know, decide to move to different locations? | 00:31:04 | |
| And that's it for my presentation so far. We appreciate your your continued support. Yeah, thank you for your presentation. Hold | 00:31:12 | |
| on. | 00:31:16 | |
| Questions or comments? So I think this is for James, probably over the years, the 73,000, this is what we've all partnered for | 00:31:21 | |
| quite a long time, right? Yes, since I've been here. So it's been probably a decade for the 73,000 with the Cobra Valley. Yeah. Is | 00:31:29 | |
| it, is there been any? | 00:31:37 | |
| Talks of increasing that, especially with like the inflation rates and everything everybody's faced with today or. | 00:31:45 | |
| I'm sure kind of Miami would anxiously engaged. | 00:31:53 | |
| But they've been able to be very efficient, yeah. And what they do and have been able to maintain. So hats off to the town of | 00:31:59 | |
| Miami absolutely managing the system and and not having come back to ask for more that they've been able to menu before through | 00:32:05 | |
| the increased fuel costs, labor costs and all that. So. | 00:32:11 | |
| That's where we're at. OK, Lexus, thank you That that is a big job to do that right now. I know that is going to be some of the | 00:32:20 | |
| partnership. And thank you for the opportunity to Make Love. And yeah, we're going to make a revelation later on. Like our | 00:32:26 | |
| director say, we have some projection. We want to make some. | 00:32:32 | |
| Better changes improve the county and the area. | 00:32:39 | |
| OK. And I have a couple questions on on fuel. You, you get your fuel at at the county. OK. So so we are helping you with kind of | 00:32:43 | |
| that as well. And and it's something I didn't notice employees. How many how many people do you employ with the transit system? We | 00:32:51 | |
| have 4 full time drivers once these little part time driver. | 00:33:00 | |
| And we just recently hired a part time. | 00:33:09 | |
| Office dispatcher and release driver and then we have me as a full time person, as a director coordinator and then I have a full | 00:33:13 | |
| time dispatcher. Yeah, great. So not only are you providing a service, you're providing jobs as well. So, so that's great. And and | 00:33:22 | |
| your dial arrived cost. If I call and and tell you that I need to go to a specific place, it's not one of your regular stops. | 00:33:31 | |
| I get. What's the cost of that and what's the distance you'll take me, OK. | 00:33:41 | |
| Good question. I mean, what if I want to go to the casino or whatever, you know, I don't know, but we've got, we've got people | 00:33:46 | |
| that may want to ask that question. Regarding to the casino, we have a partnership with San Carlos Apache Fry. We always try to | 00:33:52 | |
| maintain meetings one time a month to see how we can connect. Some people, sometimes they stop here. | 00:33:59 | |
| In accounting and go to Walmart in any other place? Yeah, right back to my original question. How much does that cost? | 00:34:07 | |
| That's OK. So we have our we have domes my from the beginning of Miami to just just at Walmart is zone 1 and then zone 2 is. | 00:34:18 | |
| Further into Central Heights, the fries. | 00:34:30 | |
| Global mobile Home Park. | 00:34:35 | |
| And then zone 3 starts at the Washington Bluff and goes into the town. And then zone 4 is after Canal Lumber or after Dollar | 00:34:37 | |
| General in that back area or in by past Vespergawa Pasadena Community Center. That's a dollar per zone. So somebody lives in Miami | 00:34:44 | |
| and they want to go to Walmart. That's all in zone one. That's something that cost them a dollar one way and a dollar back. And if | 00:34:50 | |
| they want to go all the way, let's say. | 00:34:57 | |
| Somebody's from the globe that lives out in Alhambra, that's 04, and they want to go to the mighty Senior Center. | 00:35:03 | |
| That's going to cost them $4.00, no way. And $4.00 back, OK. | 00:35:11 | |
| It's still pretty affordable. OK yeah, no that that's fine with that answered my question because you know that that just lets | 00:35:16 | |
| people know and and, and so someone asked me how you know now I could tell him it's it's per zone. It's either a dollar or $4.00, | 00:35:23 | |
| but still $4.00 is is not bad you know and and and so and the distance is within your mapping area from pretty much Miami to the | 00:35:31 | |
| other side of globe. So exactly like he mentioned we do try and partner up with. | 00:35:38 | |
| The times with San Carlos and people have picked us, given us or given a ride from us to the flow change people. And then from | 00:35:46 | |
| there they catch the San Carlos over here at Dollar General or they go walk over to good to go and catch them and go out to the | 00:35:52 | |
| casino. Well, well, thank you very much and thank you for the presentation and a great job in helping people and and it looks like | 00:35:59 | |
| you're getting more popular as far as people. | 00:36:06 | |
| Meeting right So. | 00:36:13 | |
| Thank you all very much for the presentation. | 00:36:15 | |
| And Mr. Chairman and Instrumental, I would like to comment. | 00:36:18 | |
| Thank you. Just since we're talking about an appropriation from the categories advisors 23,000, if there is a consideration for | 00:36:23 | |
| the board to change that amount, what I would recommend and and seek your guidance. | 00:36:32 | |
| Board members is to come in a work session to come and have that discussion and go through the financials in detail what is | 00:36:42 | |
| costing and what changes are being made so that so the board can thoroughly have a chance to go through a question and answer | 00:36:48 | |
| session and know what that the real. | 00:36:54 | |
| Well, you presented it with a more in depth discussion of what the financial needs are of the system. So that would be a next | 00:37:01 | |
| step. I would recommend that if there is that discussion that we do with the board and work session. | 00:37:08 | |
| Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Take care. | 00:37:15 | |
| Absolutely, and Mr. Chairman, Sir Klein would would like to report that, if I can, that the Intergovernmental Public | 00:37:26 | |
| Transportation Authority is established. We did have a clear meeting. | 00:37:33 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey did hold that meeting and the officers were elected of the IPTA, which Town of Payson mayor was the chairman, | 00:37:42 | |
| so it's kind of under. | 00:37:49 | |
| The mayor for the town patient under his direction of going forward, but kind of basically is working with CAG to develop that and | 00:37:56 | |
| that all will come into discussion more fully as we go forward with the IPTA and getting that established. OK, thank you. | 00:38:05 | |
| OK. Thank you all very much. Have a have a great day. | 00:38:16 | |
| OK, moving on to regular agenda item. We got a vote on this one. | 00:38:21 | |
| OK, no more questions. I'll call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve amendment #1 to intergovernmental | 00:38:31 | |
| Agreement number 10042023 with the Town of Miami as presented. I'll second that. | 00:38:38 | |
| I'll call all in favor say aye aye. | 00:38:49 | |
| Out of practice man. Unanimously between the two of us. OK, now we're moving on to regular agenda item 3D information actually to | 00:38:53 | |
| approve amendment number one to agreement number 03162023 between Helena County and the town facing in the amount of $73,000 to | 00:39:01 | |
| support public transportation services. | 00:39:10 | |
| And the patient Star Valley area for physical year 2025. Mr. Minlaw. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, if I might introduce, we are | 00:39:19 | |
| fortunate to have Julie Leonard representing the Town of Payson, who is managing the. | 00:39:24 | |
| The Northern bus system. So Julie, if you want to come up, if that's all right, that's more than fun. Thank you. Thank you for | 00:39:32 | |
| being here today with a presentation. All right. | 00:39:37 | |
| Well, good morning and thank you for. | 00:39:43 | |
| Considering I've been having this on the agenda today. | 00:39:46 | |
| So I am Julie Leonard. I'm the Community Development Coordinator for the town of Payson. | 00:39:51 | |
| And overseeing that at the higher level for the Beeline bus operations in. So we cover the town of Payson as well as Star Valley | 00:39:58 | |
| and also out into Mesa Dell, the Mesa Dell community, which is the unincorporated area around Payson but also. | 00:40:07 | |
| Umm, so just kind of go over some of the. | 00:40:18 | |
| Basic information, we began operating the Beeline bus, we acquired those services from the Senior Center in Payson in January of | 00:40:22 | |
| 2023. So we'll just about just a little over 18 months in doing that learning a lot. | 00:40:30 | |
| Umm, we did receive a new bus in February 2024. That was through a grant through a dot that actually Senior Center had originally | 00:40:40 | |
| applied for, but it took due to COVID and all those things, it took a long time for it to be delivered to the services. So that | 00:40:47 | |
| was added this year. | 00:40:54 | |
| We did reapply for the 5311 funding through a dot and we're awarded for that funding. So that new funding begins October 2024 and | 00:41:03 | |
| runs through 2026. | 00:41:10 | |
| One of the things that we have begun last year were free ride Fridays every other month and that was part of our marketing and | 00:41:19 | |
| just kind of outreach trying to get. | 00:41:25 | |
| Just have the more knowledge about the bus availability and the routes and things like that. So we've been doing that for every | 00:41:31 | |
| other month. Then in the month of August we actually had a non profit step up and provide a contribution of $700.00 which paid for | 00:41:40 | |
| all the fares for the entire month of August. So we have an entire month that was free. | 00:41:48 | |
| For our local bus, for the passengers. | 00:41:57 | |
| It covered all the costs that normally they would pay for their fares. We did see an increase in ridership and we also saw our bus | 00:42:01 | |
| drivers reported that a lot of new people tried it out that maybe had been a little bit on the fence whether they wanted to try | 00:42:07 | |
| it. And so that was successful, gave them a chance to kind of learn the routes and try it without there being a cost. So that was | 00:42:13 | |
| a successful month. | 00:42:20 | |
| And then? | 00:42:29 | |
| Recently, we just submitted a grant in August for to replace one of our other buses because all of our buses are outside of the | 00:42:31 | |
| parameters that a dot considers to be in good service. They all have either more miles or more years on them. And obviously in | 00:42:40 | |
| that case that costs us more and repairs and all those kinds of things. So we will see that was just. | 00:42:49 | |
| Submitted that would replace our 2015 bus. | 00:42:58 | |
| That we currently use. We do have a fixed route. We do not have a dialer right? Just a fixed route I. | 00:43:02 | |
| One of the things that has been worked on since we took over the bus is letting people know that it's not just for seniors. There | 00:43:13 | |
| had been kind of a mindset in the area because it was run by the Payson Senior Center. Not that they promoted that, but people | 00:43:19 | |
| just assumed that it was only for seniors and those with disabilities. So we've been, we've been out there just making sure people | 00:43:26 | |
| know that. | 00:43:32 | |
| It's community wide, anybody can use the bus services. | 00:43:39 | |
| So that's one of the. | 00:43:44 | |
| One of the focuses we've had. | 00:43:47 | |
| In the last year we some of our popular places that people ride or go to and from of course probably similar to here is Safeway, | 00:43:51 | |
| Walmart, the Big Lots of Ashes Plaza as well as our Sawmill Plaza over there by the theater. | 00:43:59 | |
| We have seen an increase in ridership in Star Valley. So that was kind of lagging when we first took over, but that's increasing | 00:44:11 | |
| and more people are writing from Star Valley as well. Now this is our ridership numbers. You'll see the yellow line is our 222. | 00:44:20 | |
| That's the that's when we took or that's the Senior Center. So they there was about 4000 riders there in. | 00:44:30 | |
| 23, we were able to get up to about 6400 riders and then right now we're, it didn't write down what the total is, but you'll see | 00:44:40 | |
| that we've continued to increase with the green light in the graph that we're continuing to increase ridership every month using a | 00:44:48 | |
| lot of social media. Our transit coordinator keeps our social media going. | 00:44:56 | |
| Not only to just kind of promote the service, but also let them know if there's delays or issues going on. For example, we've had | 00:45:05 | |
| some construction going on on our route, so trying to keep people updated when there's weekends where there's a lot of traffic | 00:45:12 | |
| coming from Payson to Star Valley can be a challenge in trying to keep our riders updated because they're relying on that service | 00:45:20 | |
| to get to work and do their shopping and do other things. So using that as a tool to kind of keep people informed. | 00:45:27 | |
| And our operational costs. | 00:45:38 | |
| So in 2023, our total, you can see our total best costs were a little over 339,000 a dot reimbursed from our revenues, which | 00:45:43 | |
| includes a contribution from Star Valley, the county and our our bus fares and the reimbursements from a dot that total came to | 00:45:51 | |
| about 314,000 and the additional covered by. | 00:45:59 | |
| Town of Payson, which is a match and whatever additional cost we have. | 00:46:09 | |
| Umm, I did want to mention that some of the costs that you don't see in there because we don't have dollar amounts for is | 00:46:13 | |
| obviously some of that indirect like you're our HR services, our finance services, nobody's paid out of those apartments by the | 00:46:21 | |
| bus and that's taken care of. Also primarily the work is done by our mechanics in the street department, so that. | 00:46:30 | |
| Saves a significant but does take time and money. The parts and those expenses come out of our budget, but not time. | 00:46:38 | |
| For the mechanics, so they primarily do that unless it's a either something under warranty or something that is beyond their | 00:46:45 | |
| capability. Recently we've had issues with air conditioners and we've had to use a contractor to come up and do that. And then | 00:46:53 | |
| that does go into the funds. But those are some of those costs that aren't actually in dollars and cents there. That would be more | 00:47:00 | |
| cost in 2024. We have just numbers through May of 2024 so far. | 00:47:07 | |
| For the cost, we're currently spending a little bit more for the town of Payson. We're at 160 right now. The revenues and | 00:47:16 | |
| reimbursements are 117. So currently pacing is covering about 43,000. So what we can tell just from kind of projecting out will be | 00:47:23 | |
| at our overall cost would be around 386,000 for the year once we get through all of you know if we kind of estimate based on what | 00:47:30 | |
| we've been spending the last. | 00:47:37 | |
| Months, so we're seeing about a just under 14% increase in costs, whether that's like I said, we have some older buses that cause | 00:47:45 | |
| that require more maintenance or some of our personnel costs as well so. | 00:47:53 | |
| We are requesting approval of the $73,000 that the county has provided in the past and we're very grateful for that contribution | 00:48:05 | |
| to be able to keep up the services. | 00:48:11 | |
| For the time being. | 00:48:18 | |
| And I also wanted to share. | 00:48:21 | |
| Some pictures of our bus drivers. They are a key part of our transit services. You know when you sit and talk with our bus | 00:48:22 | |
| drivers, they know the people that ride the bus, they know where the homeless person that they pick up, you know it's on and off | 00:48:31 | |
| and where they stay and it's they have just a care for those people that ride the bus. | 00:48:39 | |
| Each day and build relationships with them. So we're really grateful for those drivers as well as our transit coordinator, Juanita | 00:48:48 | |
| Juanita Coghill who's been. | 00:48:52 | |
| With us, since they were at the Senior Center and came over to the town of Payson. And again, they just build relationships with | 00:48:57 | |
| their riders and try to serve our community in the very best way that they can and we're grateful for their service that | 00:49:03 | |
| day-to-day contact that they have. | 00:49:08 | |
| OK, Supervisor Klein, thank you so much for your service and. | 00:49:17 | |
| Hopefully we can take a look at everything in the future and go from there. But we're glad, I'm glad to participate with it. So | 00:49:25 | |
| thank you for being here today. | 00:49:29 | |
| Yeah. And thank you for taking it over to another senior. Senior didn't want to continue. And it's a it's a great service for the, | 00:49:34 | |
| for the people. And like I say, the increase with the price of gas, you know, I mean that might be a lot for because that's a lot | 00:49:42 | |
| of your cost too is the increase in gas. And so I, I thank you very much for being here today and doing all that you do. | 00:49:49 | |
| And so if there's no further questions, Mr. And I'll be there. | 00:49:58 | |
| OK. Then I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve amendment number one to agreement number 03162023 | 00:50:02 | |
| between Handler County and the Town of Casein as presented. | 00:50:09 | |
| I'll second that. | 00:50:18 | |
| And with the motion and 2nd all in favor say aye, aye, aye, fast, unanimous. Thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate it. | 00:50:20 | |
| OK. We're moving on to 3 E. | 00:50:30 | |
| Information Coaching Acts to authorize the Healer County Public Health and Community Service Department to submit a grant | 00:50:35 | |
| application to the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry in the amount of $30,000 to extend oral health services in Halo County. | 00:50:42 | |
| Mr. Joseph. Good morning morning supervisors. So you know we continue to my health department staff continue to try to address the | 00:50:50 | |
| gaps in the services that are provided in the county of our local dentist and those. | 00:50:57 | |
| That are needed in the county with that we're still always working for a youth underserved population so that if they don't have | 00:51:05 | |
| dental insurance and are not access. So these funds will hopefully serve if the application is to serve 500 health screenings, 500 | 00:51:12 | |
| fluoride treatments and hopefully around 150 dental sealants. So the services that we don't typically have money for right now not | 00:51:19 | |
| funded by any dentals dental that we have in Healing County. Most of these people either don't get service or. | 00:51:27 | |
| Service since COVID or go out of county for those services. So try to look at access to care issues and bridge those gaps. | 00:51:35 | |
| That's a good. | 00:51:45 | |
| Josh, thank you for looking for some more money. That's always a plus for us. And do we have a pretty good shot of getting an | 00:51:50 | |
| additional 30,000 you think or our metrics give us a related opportunity? Good, thank you for doing that. Yeah, it's a great | 00:51:56 | |
| program because your your dental can affect your health in so many ways. So I think that's a great deal. And I guess the other | 00:52:03 | |
| question is do you have. | 00:52:09 | |
| Dentists locally or out of town that will help with these services. | 00:52:16 | |
| We have a dentist that's on staff now and not part of the county. We contract with them and we have a contract until hygienist as | 00:52:20 | |
| well that can perform a lot of these services. OK, great. Yeah, I know that that's super okay. I have no further questions, so I | 00:52:27 | |
| will call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to authorize the Healer County Public Health and Community Services | 00:52:34 | |
| Department to cement a grant. Application to the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry is presented. | 00:52:42 | |
| I will second that. | 00:52:50 | |
| And all in favor say aye aye. | 00:52:52 | |
| Thank you very much. Have a good day. | 00:52:57 | |
| We are moving on to F Information Action to authorize the advertisement of invitation for bid number 082824, Buckhead Mason | 00:53:00 | |
| Landfill Center Pond. | 00:53:07 | |
| Intern. | 00:53:16 | |
| Leech leaching piping project. | 00:53:19 | |
| Good morning. Good morning, Supervisor Humphrey and Supervisor. Good morning. | 00:53:25 | |
| This item is a follow up task from previous landfill expansions that the Buckhead Mesa Landfill. The last landfill expansion at | 00:53:31 | |
| Buckhead Mesa was completed in 2018. The Buckhead Mesa Landfill originally had one lead shaped evaporation pond known as the | 00:53:37 | |
| Center or Primary Leachate Evaporation Pond. | 00:53:43 | |
| A leche on is specifically designed containment system used to collect and used to collect and treat leachate, a liquid that | 00:53:50 | |
| results from decomposing waste materials. | 00:53:56 | |
| Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act requires landfill leachate evaporation ponds to be lined with a composite | 00:54:03 | |
| liner with an extra geomembrane to provide UV and general physical protection to the primary liner system. The original leachate | 00:54:09 | |
| evaporation pond was constructed with a single layer of geosynthetic clay liner protected by a rock armor barrier and does not | 00:54:16 | |
| subtitle deregulations. | 00:54:23 | |
| Subtitle D is the portion of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act which governs landfills. | 00:54:30 | |
| This act is enforced on a federal level by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and locally by the Arizona Department | 00:54:37 | |
| of Environmental Quality. During the Buckhead Mesa Landfill Phase two expansions, two additional evaporation ponds were | 00:54:43 | |
| constructed that meet subtitle deregulation. These ponds are known as the east and West leachate evaporation ponds. Both the east | 00:54:50 | |
| and West evaporation ponds are connected to the center leachate evaporation pond. | 00:54:57 | |
| Part of the original 2018 expansion documents included a leachate tie in plan, though it was removed from the scope of work before | 00:55:05 | |
| the bid process in 2017 due to a leak in the West evaporation bond. | 00:55:11 | |
| The West Pond experienced damage to the liner first in 2003, again in 2010 and twice in 2013. The damage was repaired in early | 00:55:18 | |
| 2022 and again was damaged shortly after the repair. In 2023, Recycling and Landfill management constructed A7 foot elk fence | 00:55:25 | |
| around the West Pond and repaired the damage, hopefully once and for all. The ADEQ approved the repairs of the West Pond earlier | 00:55:32 | |
| this year. | 00:55:39 | |
| And recycling and landfill management is ready to conduct the leachates. | 00:55:47 | |
| Is ready to connect the lead J system and remove the center pond. The Public Works Department director recommends the Board of | 00:55:51 | |
| Supervisors authorized the advertisement of invitation for bid number 082824 for the Buckhead Mesa Landfill center pond interim | 00:55:57 | |
| leachate piping project. Thank you. | 00:56:03 | |
| Supervisor Club. | 00:56:11 | |
| So. | 00:56:13 | |
| I was trying to follow you through all that, but. | 00:56:15 | |
| We went from one point to another. So is this just a piping project or are we actually looking at doing something with a pawn? | 00:56:18 | |
| This is specifically for the pipe, the piping project. So that original center pond that does not meet subtitle D has to be closed | 00:56:24 | |
| and removed. The other two ponds are already in place, but we have to rerun the leachate piping system before we can actually | 00:56:30 | |
| remove that. | 00:56:36 | |
| OK. Thank you. Thank you. | 00:56:43 | |
| Is there an elk fence around the other coupons? | 00:56:46 | |
| Yes, OK. If they're the ones putting holes in it, we need to keep them out of it. Yes, we, we got the, we got the fencing put up | 00:56:50 | |
| with our ponds because as you can see going through the presentation that I gave, that's been a persistent problem. Yeah, I, I, I | 00:56:58 | |
| understand that. And and second question, you are now are working with the county. Yes. OK. | 00:57:06 | |
| Welcome aboard. I have not met you, so thank you for being here. Thank you for the presentation and very, very nice to meet you. | 00:57:15 | |
| Thank you. It's great to meet you as well. Welcome. Welcome aboard. Thank you. OK. And if there's no further questions? | 00:57:24 | |
| I'll call for a motion, Mr. Chair. I'll make the motion to authorize the advertisement of invitation for bids number 082824. | 00:57:33 | |
| I'll second that and it has a motion and 2nd all in favor say aye aye aye. | 00:57:42 | |
| Thank you very much, Aaron. And we're moving on to G Information discussion action to approve the use of source will contract | 00:57:49 | |
| number 011723 CAT for heavy equipment with related accessories, attachments, supplies, parts, labor and purchases and approved | 00:57:58 | |
| source will contract number 062320 DASH. | 00:58:08 | |
| Cat for rental and Caterpillar equipment with. | 00:58:18 | |
| Empire Machinery and Empire Western in an amount of not to exceed $800,000 from September 5th, 2024 through August 27th, 2025. Mr. | 00:58:22 | |
| Homerovia, good morning. Good morning. Chairman and Supervisor Klein, I'd like to, with your permission, just step back a little | 00:58:31 | |
| bit and talk, Introduce Aaron to the board, OK. | 00:58:40 | |
| Could it? Should have done It should have done it ahead of time, but I'll do it now. | 00:58:51 | |
| Comes to us from Denver, where he worked for the City of Denver and the County of Denver. | 00:58:55 | |
| In the collection of solid waste and in the logistics of how you go about doing that and the operation of the fleet, he introduced | 00:59:02 | |
| a software system out there to to provide efficiencies and improvements through the the City of Denver software system called | 00:59:09 | |
| Rubicon. And he was very engaged in the implementation of that and putting that in place. He comes to us with a lot of experience, | 00:59:16 | |
| a lot of energy, a lot of passion. | 00:59:22 | |
| And as you could see. | 00:59:30 | |
| Very professional in the work that he does and we're happy to have him. But anyway, Aaron, thank you for the presentation and | 00:59:32 | |
| thank you for being with Helena County. | 00:59:37 | |
| OK, so on to my item then. This item is for board approval for an annual contract using a source well contract number 0117923 Dash | 00:59:44 | |
| CAT Cat and 06/23/20 Dash C at for heavy equipment purchases, related accessories, attachments, parts, supplies and rentals. | 00:59:56 | |
| And normally when we buy a motivator, we don't use this source of funding. | 01:00:09 | |
| That's a standalone. That would be a standalone item that the board approved. When it mentions equipment in here, it's talking | 01:00:15 | |
| about like a brush cutter that we bought last year, a Co planner that we bought last year with, with this type of money. So in | 01:00:22 | |
| August 7th of 2018, the board approved the first of these cooperative agreement for purchasing and and and and repairing heavy | 01:00:28 | |
| equipment. | 01:00:35 | |
| For a sum of $400,000. That was back in 2020. In 2021. | 01:00:42 | |
| The board again approved a $560,000 annual contract for this type of materials in 2020, two 600,000 Last year the board approved a | 01:00:48 | |
| contract for $800,000 of which we have spent $523,000 to this point. OK, some of the expenditures I mentioned. | 01:00:59 | |
| A brush cutter and a flow cleaner, but also a transmission reseal with the very highest resale and repair. | 01:01:11 | |
| With the highest item if I ranked order them from largest dollar amount to at least dollar amount you will see a $30,000 | 01:01:17 | |
| transmission resale and repair. OK another item was a bucket attachment for a wheel loader $25,000 a rental for a dozer of $24,000 | 01:01:27 | |
| and then you would see a multitude of items like edges and just repairs and and parts for the cat equipment. | 01:01:36 | |
| Totaling, like I mentioned earlier, $523,000. So we asked for $800,000, we didn't spend it. We're doing the same thing this year. | 01:01:45 | |
| We're asking for the board approve $800,000. | 01:01:51 | |
| Contract and our hope is not to spend it, but to have it as we need it. One of the items that we did my last year that was of | 01:01:58 | |
| interest to me is a generator for Canal Peak. It's for radio transmission at Canal Peak. And I asked the team to go out and get | 01:02:06 | |
| free folks on that. And it turned out that the lowest quote was this source for contract agreement that we have. | 01:02:14 | |
| And I was, I was happy to hear that. And nonetheless, this is a lot of this stuff is for, for Caterpillar parts that we would need | 01:02:22 | |
| to go to them anyway. It's a, it's a, it's a nationwide agreement used by many organizations and we would like to ask your, your | 01:02:28 | |
| approval for this particular contract. | 01:02:35 | |
| Supervisor client questions Comment I don't have any questions tomorrow. I know it's worked good with Force in the past so I'm | 01:02:43 | |
| good with it. | 01:02:47 | |
| I have no questions and nothing else. I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair. I'll make the motion to approve the use of Source Well | 01:02:53 | |
| contract number 011723 Dash Cat and approve Source Well contract number 062320 Dash Cat with Empire Machinery and Empire SW as | 01:03:01 | |
| presented. | 01:03:10 | |
| I'll second that. | 01:03:19 | |
| Aye, aye, OK, approved unanimously. Moving on to H&M, where are you still on the information action to approve the continued use | 01:03:23 | |
| of the purchase agreement, Caterpillar transaction number 355-8441? | 01:03:35 | |
| For a 2018 Model 120M2 AWD Caterpillar Motor grader, serial number M 980-0559 and authorized the 7th annual payment in the amount | 01:03:47 | |
| of $31,552.58. | 01:03:59 | |
| No, you're on. Thanks, Chairman. This, this item is to request your approval for the 7th payment of A7 year lease. But it starts | 01:04:12 | |
| with a payment at the beginning of the year and at the end of the year. So there's 8 payments in total. This would be the 7th, the | 01:04:21 | |
| 7th payment, the amount that that you mentioned earlier, Chairman, $31,552.58, we have 1 remaining payment of 95,293. | 01:04:30 | |
| 90 I'm sorry, $95,293.44 next year. | 01:04:41 | |
| That we'll be asking for your pool, but today we're only asking for that seventh payment for your approval. | 01:04:46 | |
| This is an unusual transaction for public works. We normally don't lease equipment, We lease this one. We're not in favor of | 01:04:54 | |
| leasing and will in the future perhaps not use lease unless we see something of value for it. But just for, for, for your | 01:05:01 | |
| knowledge, we bought this moderator. | 01:05:08 | |
| For 245,000 dollars $245,214.00 that was a principle that we paid for the motor grader, we paid interest of 54,181 when we're all | 01:05:16 | |
| said and done at the end of next year and so. | 01:05:23 | |
| If we want to have the money, perhaps the lease would be the way to go, but as long as we have money in the budget to buy | 01:05:32 | |
| equipment, the suggestion from staff will be in the future to pay for it outright. For today, we're asking for for you to approve | 01:05:38 | |
| the 7th payment. | 01:05:43 | |
| OK, Supervisor client question. Thank you. I know when we did this, it was to see how it's going to work out for us and, and what | 01:05:50 | |
| about the maintenance on the machinery like that is, is is there any benefit to that or, or if you went out and just bought say a | 01:05:58 | |
| brand new motor grader, how many years of warranty work would be available on that grader? | 01:06:05 | |
| I believe that there was seven years of warranty on that deal. | 01:06:14 | |
| And so we do get the benefit of that. | 01:06:19 | |
| OK, so. | 01:06:23 | |
| So fortunately, I know that piece of machinery and I don't believe you've had any real big major issues with it. So I mean, there | 01:06:26 | |
| wasn't a big cost. | 01:06:30 | |
| Mechanically on it supervisor and Chairman, I, I don't have that data point, but next time we come to the board with purchase of | 01:06:36 | |
| motivator will share the benefits of this one particular motivator over the seven-year time frame. | 01:06:44 | |
| So what you guys are suggesting is it cost us 50 plus $1000 to to rent this versus buying it outright? | 01:06:53 | |
| Correct. So going forward in the future, your suggestion is, is we just buy them outright? | 01:07:03 | |
| Correct. | 01:07:09 | |
| Because the interest is like, it's like leasing a vehicle. You still pay for brakes and you still pay for tires. Yeah. And you | 01:07:11 | |
| normally you don't see an engine or or a transmission fail on a motivator the first seven years. | 01:07:17 | |
| OK. Thank you, Homer. I have no questions, so I'll call for a motion. | 01:07:24 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve the continued use of the purchase agreement Caterpillar transaction number. | 01:07:31 | |
| 355-8441 and authorize the 7th annual payment as presented. | 01:07:39 | |
| I'll second that and all in favor say aye aye aye have approved unanimously moving on to aye information action to approve | 01:07:46 | |
| economic development agreement number 06102024 between Gila County and Geisela Valley Community Affairs Association in the amount | 01:07:56 | |
| of $12,915 and. | 01:08:05 | |
| $0.02. | 01:08:15 | |
| To assist with replacing the age group on a building and replacing damaged and broken windows, which the board has been. | 01:08:18 | |
| Which the board is determined to be for the benefit of the public. And this is my constituent funds. And so this is on me. And | 01:08:30 | |
| what this building is, is it's the Community Center for Garcela and and it also houses the Dicella fire engine. | 01:08:39 | |
| Or the fire department. | 01:08:49 | |
| And, and, and it actually benefits the community in a lot of ways. And, and the reason I know that is because in the past there's | 01:08:51 | |
| been issues where I have talked to maybe one of the churches to be able to use some of the church grounds or some of the, some of | 01:08:57 | |
| the deals from the churches. And the churches are very nice, but they also tell you what. Well, that's what our Community Center | 01:09:03 | |
| is for. | 01:09:10 | |
| So, so they, they do have, you know, they do have fundraisers there. They do have like you can drop off books and things there, | 01:09:17 | |
| so. | 01:09:21 | |
| So even even the churches in Garcia are, are promoting it as a Community Center. So that's, that's why I feel that it would be | 01:09:25 | |
| beneficial to the public because they, they hold a lot of functions there. They, they house the, the fire engine for the Volunteer | 01:09:33 | |
| Fire Department and so. | 01:09:40 | |
| If there's any questions, I'll be happy to answer questions best I can. | 01:09:49 | |
| Tim, I don't have any questions. I just, I just want to say that in a lot of these rural communities when they have those | 01:09:55 | |
| centralized buildings and Community Center, everything that happens in that community happens at that building. I mean that's just | 01:10:01 | |
| the focal point for every one of our rural communities that we have as some kind of establishment like that. And so it could be | 01:10:07 | |
| anything from weddings to fundraisers to. | 01:10:13 | |
| Whatever, but it'll it'll happen in those those places. So I totally support this. | 01:10:21 | |
| Well, I appreciate that very much, and if there's no further questions, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to | 01:10:28 | |
| approve Economic Development Agreement number 06102024 with the Garcia Valley Community Affairs Association as presented, which | 01:10:36 | |
| the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. | 01:10:44 | |
| I will. I will second that. | 01:10:53 | |
| And all fruits say aye aye aye passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Going on to Jay. Information discussion action to approve | 01:10:56 | |
| Economic Development Grant number 08282024 between Healer County and the Town of Winkelman in the amount of $2000 to assist with | 01:11:06 | |
| the production of the town's annual Halloween event and the annual Christmas event for the. | 01:11:16 | |
| Of Lincoln and the surrounding areas, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public, Mr. Supervisor Woody | 01:11:26 | |
| Clown. | 01:11:30 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chair. So as it says, this is there in Winkelman there at the town right across the street from the main office | 01:11:35 | |
| buildings. It's more or less the same type of setup. That's that's a place where they go to have a lot of different functions | 01:11:42 | |
| there. A lot of participants from the neighboring communities, Kearney, Dudleyville, other places around there are take part in | 01:11:49 | |
| that as well. So this is an event that's happened for. | 01:11:56 | |
| Pretty much every year I've been on the board, so any questions I won't be going down soon. | 01:12:03 | |
| I have no questions, but like you said, these rural communities, when they have events like this, you know, a lot of people show | 01:12:09 | |
| up. It's not just a few. I mean, it's it's a community supported event and so. | 01:12:16 | |
| Umm, If there's no further questions, I'll call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve Economic Development | 01:12:26 | |
| Agreement number 08282024 with the Town of Winkelman as presented, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the | 01:12:33 | |
| public. I'll second that. | 01:12:39 | |
| And call and all approved say aye aye aye fast unanimously moving on to Kay information gets national to approve economic | 01:12:47 | |
| development grant agreement number 08172024 between Hila County and the water wheel. | 01:12:56 | |
| Fire and Medical District for the purchase of two M-150 dash mount radios in the amount of $6474.69, which the Board has | 01:13:06 | |
| determined to be for the benefit of the public supervised client. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And so this is to help them out getting | 01:13:13 | |
| new radios in both of those those vehicles. It'll help them. It's the newer radios. They'll have capabilities of connecting to | 01:13:21 | |
| everything. | 01:13:28 | |
| So, so I was, I was really interested in helping do this. Now I will say that this one and the prior agenda I don't are both of my | 01:13:36 | |
| constituent funds. I, I failed to mention that to be going with so so it's coming down my constituent funds. I will say that | 01:13:43 | |
| personally, I think this is probably the limit to me buying radios this year. I think we've I've I participated in purchasing | 01:13:50 | |
| enough. | 01:13:57 | |
| So. | 01:14:04 | |
| And so I think communication is extremely beneficial to our first responders. Without it, it is there not much help. So, so I | 01:14:05 | |
| think it's great that we're we're that we're able to be able to help them. And with that, I'll I'll call for a motion. Mr. Chair, | 01:14:12 | |
| I'll make the motion to approve Economic Development Agreement number 08172024 with the Water Wheel Fire and Medical District as | 01:14:20 | |
| presented, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. | 01:14:27 | |
| I will second that and all in favor say aye aye aye. Passed unanimous. Moving on to L Information Action to accept a franchise | 01:14:35 | |
| application submitted by Whitney and Burke of Shapiro Law Firm, EC on behalf of Payson Water Water Company Incorporated and set a | 01:14:45 | |
| public hearing date of November 4th, 2024 at which. | 01:14:55 | |
| The Board of Supervisors will consider issuing a 25 year public utility franchise to pay some water company incorporated Samantha | 01:15:05 | |
| Grimm. | 01:15:11 | |
| Thank you, chairman and Supervisor Klein. So this is exactly as stated in the suggested motion. This is to accept 2 franchise | 01:15:17 | |
| applications. So item L and item M So the first one is for Peace and Water Company and the second one is for Tunnel Basin Water | 01:15:24 | |
| Company. This is the first step of the two step process that we do to issue franchises. So this is to accept the application and | 01:15:31 | |
| then set the public hearing date for November 5th, 2024. | 01:15:38 | |
| I will take any questions if you have them. | 01:15:46 | |
| Supervisor Klein. | 01:15:50 | |
| Sam, I do have one, but I'm not sure Randy might be the one to answer them. | 01:15:52 | |
| We accept these applications for the franchises, then we set the, then the November 5th public hearing date will take place after | 01:15:59 | |
| that hearing date. What would be the protocol then? I mean, what's our steps after that? And the other question I would have Randy | 01:16:08 | |
| for you is, is there any feedback on these applications or any concerns or anything that you're hearing? | 01:16:16 | |
| Can't hear you? | 01:16:28 | |
| That's better. | 01:16:38 | |
| And so someone, we've heard nothing back from anyone on any conference floor or against. | 01:16:41 | |
| This initiative and be honest with you, I think it would be the attorney that we would not do what the next step is. I don't have | 01:16:50 | |
| any really involved with that. OK, All right. So we go through today and whatever happens today, the next step will be the public | 01:16:57 | |
| hearing and then that's going to be in Payson. | 01:17:04 | |
| Do we know? | 01:17:13 | |
| OK. | 01:17:17 | |
| All right. Thank you, Randy. That's all I had. Mr. Chair. Homer, did you have something that you'd like to share with us? | 01:17:18 | |
| Yes, Chairman, thank you. The franchise agreements have to do with the use of our public roads. Yes, we would like to look at the | 01:17:27 | |
| at the applications that they submit and we'd like to review them. In the franchise agreement that I've seen almost in all of | 01:17:34 | |
| them, it requires them to use the right of way permit. When they do work on our Rd. we will be guiding them as to where the | 01:17:41 | |
| utility should go. We often times see boxes almost. | 01:17:48 | |
| In the middle of the road, they should be on the edges of the road. When they do apply for a right away permit they would get, | 01:17:56 | |
| they will get additional guidance from us. The franchise agreement, my understanding of the franchise agreement, it merely allows | 01:18:02 | |
| them to use our roads and they in turn provide the insurance, the warranty, the indemnification and that the acknowledgement that | 01:18:08 | |
| if they need to remove that that utility later on when we expand the road that they are obligated to do that. And so I see those | 01:18:14 | |
| as the benefits. | 01:18:20 | |
| For us, the benefits for them. | 01:18:26 | |
| Is that they have a, a, a license to use an agreement. Otherwise they would have to come to the board every time they were to | 01:18:30 | |
| Ashburn to use our Rd. they would have to come and ask for that license. They do it here for a long period of time. Usually | 01:18:37 | |
| they're 25 years. But the right of way permit is still required of them. And we will, we will work with them to, to make it as as, | 01:18:45 | |
| as, as as easy as can be. But we, we've seen so much evidence of the utilities placing utilities in in in the wrong place mostly. | 01:18:52 | |
| Convenience for them instead of where it ought to be on the edge of the road, 3 foot deep, etc. So we would like to look at that. | 01:19:01 | |
| The franchise agreement going forward, maybe public works have not done so, but we would like to be a participant in in looking at | 01:19:06 | |
| them ahead of the public meeting. | 01:19:12 | |
| Mr. Chair, for me. | 01:19:19 | |
| Homer for the Pace and Water company and the next item is going to be Tunnel Basin Water Company. | 01:19:24 | |
| In prior years they already have infrastructure in place, correct? | 01:19:31 | |
| Correct, yes. And so how, what happens when there's a new franchise put in place that that just automatically takes over all the | 01:19:38 | |
| old infrastructure that's there plus any new stuff that comes forward? Is that the way that works? | 01:19:46 | |
| Many of the franchises that I've seen. | 01:19:56 | |
| Require the same things that I just talked about right now we're using kind of like the same, the same format to issue these | 01:19:59 | |
| franchises. And so if in the past that required they were obligated to move equipment if we expand the road or something, they're | 01:20:07 | |
| still, in my opinion, they're they're still obligated to do that. But we would take that up with county attorneys for for input. | 01:20:14 | |
| So one more question if I may. With both of these water companies that we're going to be discussing today, is there any issues | 01:20:23 | |
| like you stated already with water boxes in the middle of the roads that are out there and things of that nature we would have to | 01:20:28 | |
| do? | 01:20:34 | |
| Overview of their determination. | 01:20:41 | |
| We're not, I'm not proposing that we ask them to move all of them out. I'm just saying that there, there may come a point in time | 01:20:45 | |
| when we need some of these things moved that have been put in the past. And, and at that point, we're going to have to determine | 01:20:51 | |
| who is responsible for that. Is it the county or is it the utility? Well, and I know we dealt with it there. Roosevelt, your, your | 01:20:58 | |
| street there. I mean, that was a big headache with all the water. | 01:21:04 | |
| Infrastructure in the road there. So questions I just wanted to ask since we're talking about and it's coming up is. | 01:21:11 | |
| Is all is this is to get off on the right foot? What are we going to need to do basically? | 01:21:17 | |
| To get up on the, on the right foot, I think that there's an issue where they need to show that they have the, the legal | 01:21:24 | |
| wherewithal to operate as a utility and that they're going to do it responsibly. I think that's part of the, the statements that | 01:21:29 | |
| are in the franchise agreement. And I think what they, what they need, what the utility needs to know is that there is a right of | 01:21:35 | |
| way permit that they're still obligated to abide by. And we, we need to, as they say county, we need to make sure that we're doing | 01:21:40 | |
| our very best. | 01:21:46 | |
| To place utilities on the edges where we can, unless they're very 3 foot deep. | 01:21:52 | |
| And make sure that they don't affect the safe passage on on roads as some of them currently do. Thank you. Homer. I guess I've got | 01:21:58 | |
| a question where you may not be able to answer this, but I I guess just out of the blue, why? Why are they? | 01:22:07 | |
| Applying for a franchise, is it because the state's requiring it? Is it because the county's requiring it? It's like, I'm | 01:22:18 | |
| wondering, OK, here we've had water companies for going on and everybody's had their water and all of a sudden we've got a couple | 01:22:25 | |
| communities that are applying for 25 year franchises. My question is. | 01:22:33 | |
| Why? | 01:22:41 | |
| That's OK. If nobody can answer that, that's fine. It's just a question I have. | 01:22:45 | |
| Mr. Chairman, in the interim time between now and in the daily hearing, the County Attorney's Office will reach out to this law | 01:22:52 | |
| firm. I'm not familiar with it, but we will ask them for a copy of their gratification in all the legal documents that they intend | 01:22:59 | |
| to present and go forward with at the time of that hearing and work with the Public Works Department to ensure that the county's | 01:23:07 | |
| needs are met should the board. | 01:23:14 | |
| Decide to grab the franchise agreement is the discussion is said. Franchise agreements are nothing new to Tehila County and a | 01:23:22 | |
| number of different types of utilities utilize franchise agreements if permitted by Arizona law to operate. But we have some say | 01:23:31 | |
| in how those agreements are structured and make sure that whatever the structure is. | 01:23:40 | |
| Works the benefit of heated county. | 01:23:49 | |
| Mr. Chairman, yes, Mr. Minimum, go ahead. If I could add that this is one of the projects that Marion Shepherd has been | 01:23:53 | |
| undertaking before she retired and was still working on it somewhat is to clean up our records. All, all utility covers are | 01:24:00 | |
| required to have a franchise agreement with the county. And so because of that, she's been working to go through and make sure | 01:24:07 | |
| that all of our utilities are properly recorded, registered through these franchise screens. | 01:24:14 | |
| OK, Yeah, that's good information because like I say, all of a sudden point and and yeah, I think it's great that the county is | 01:24:23 | |
| looking at that to be to be good with the county with our roads and stuff. But but we all have to have to look at it from the | 01:24:30 | |
| constituents point of view too. Is it going to help, you know, with the service and and responsibility to the constituents for the | 01:24:37 | |
| water that they consume. So anyway, OK then. | 01:24:44 | |
| Moving right along. | 01:24:52 | |
| For your information. | 01:24:54 | |
| Supervisor, client, I'll call for a motion before I forget. All right, Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to accept a franchise | 01:24:57 | |
| application submitted by Whitney Burke of Superior Law Firm, PC, on behalf of Patient Water Company, Incorporated and set a public | 01:25:03 | |
| hearing date of November 5th, 2024. | 01:25:10 | |
| I'll second that and having a motion to second all in favor say aye, aye aye. | 01:25:18 | |
| Was approved 100% and we're going to go on to M everybody's discussion actually to accept a franchise application submitted by | 01:25:25 | |
| Whitney Burke of Shapiro Law Firm, PC on behalf of the Tunnel Basin Water Company, Incorporated and set a public hearing date on | 01:25:35 | |
| November 5th, 2024 at which time the Board of Supervisors will consider issuing a public utility. | 01:25:44 | |
| Franchise to Tunnel Basin Water Company Incorporated Samantha Trimble is that kind of a Ditto. | 01:25:54 | |
| OK, you can say that, you know, I mean, it's up to you. | 01:26:05 | |
| OK. And then I guess that was a Ditto. Is there anybody that would care to comment on that one? No, I think we actually don't | 01:26:10 | |
| pretty good on the town of eight facing water. So supervisor plan, I'll call for a motion if you have no questions or comments, | 01:26:16 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to accept a franchise application submitted by Whitney Burke, a Shapiro Law Firm, PC, on behalf of | 01:26:23 | |
| Tunnel Basin Water Company, Incorporated. | 01:26:30 | |
| And set a public hearing date of November 5th, 2024. | 01:26:37 | |
| I will second that and call. | 01:26:41 | |
| Aye, aye, yeah, one of those. OK, moving on to four. | 01:26:45 | |
| Consent agenda items. | 01:26:53 | |
| Any matter on Consent Agenda will be removed from the Consent Agenda and discussed and voted upon as a regular agenda item upon | 01:26:56 | |
| the request of any member of the Board of Supervisor. Supervisor Klein, is there any item you would like to discuss from the | 01:27:03 | |
| consent agenda item A through G? | 01:27:09 | |
| I just let him walk all the way back to the room and sit down before he asked his question. Huh. | 01:27:17 | |
| I've got a question on B and that's the extension of the environmental documents and clearances on 512. I just curious as. | 01:27:22 | |
| The holdup. | 01:27:32 | |
| Wait, OK, do we need we need to remove DI? Don't have a problem with it. I just I just want to know the reason why it's held up. | 01:27:36 | |
| OK, well then I will. I guess I'll take D off. | 01:27:43 | |
| And we will be invested as a OB. Yeah. OK. Then item 4B will be a regular agenda. | 01:27:51 | |
| And then that way we can ask questions without worrying about it. OK. And so anyway, now agenda item, we're we're doing for the | 01:28:02 | |
| and a regular agenda item. And OK, we, we don't have a presentation, but we do have a question. So the question supervisor plan, | 01:28:10 | |
| go ahead. | 01:28:17 | |
| So. | 01:28:26 | |
| That we have an extension on this for these experiences, these environmental documents and on on the 512. So my question was, is, | 01:28:28 | |
| are we hung up on something or? | 01:28:33 | |
| No, the chairman and supervisor, the folks doing the environmental study, just needed more time. | 01:28:40 | |
| It's it's that simple. They they they asked for more time and laid out the work that yet needs to be done. | 01:28:49 | |
| And, and it's something that they're going to do within the budget number. And the only request on their part was signed. OK. I, I | 01:28:59 | |
| had a pretty good comment about about them and their work from the Forest Service here a few days ago. So I just made me think | 01:29:06 | |
| about that. So that's all I had, Mr. Chairman. | 01:29:12 | |
| Yeah, and that's great to hear that they're asking for an extension of time without more money, all the smoke. Good for them. | 01:29:20 | |
| Okay, then I guess we don't need to. Well, we do need to vote on that. So I will ask for a motion to approve item 4B as presented | 01:29:28 | |
| so much, Mr. Chair. OK, and I'll second that. | 01:29:36 | |
| All in favor say aye, aye aye. OK then I am also asking for a motion to accept consent, agenda item A and then. | 01:29:45 | |
| CDEFG so moved, Mr. Chair, I will second that. And all in favor say aye aye. | 01:29:56 | |
| Consent agenda items A/C DEFG approved. OK, moving on to five call to the public. Do we have any public up in Payson that cares | 01:30:07 | |
| for comment? | 01:30:13 | |
| I I I see none here. Do we have any comments in the computer world today? | 01:30:22 | |
| How many present did we have today? | 01:30:27 | |
| 52 How great that is, you know, I mean, because you look around here and you don't see a whole lot but staff, but it's nice that | 01:30:31 | |
| people do care and they do participate and then they get on Facebook and present to their friends. So it's great that our meetings | 01:30:39 | |
| are getting getting out there and and and viewed. So OK, then we'll move on to six at any time during the meeting pursuant to ARS | 01:30:46 | |
| 3. | 01:30:53 | |
| 431.02 K Members of the Board of Supervisors and County Manager may present a brief summary of current events. No action may be | 01:31:01 | |
| taken on information presented. Mr. Min Love, do you have something for us? I do, Mr. Chairman. | 01:31:09 | |
| 1st is having a discussion the horse riders approved a remodel of the pacing courthouse that we're work. I've been working on the | 01:31:17 | |
| logistics because that's going to upset and and 'cause they're actually a relocating of those staff that work in the patient | 01:31:24 | |
| courthouse who are up to six months. | 01:31:31 | |
| And so we're going to find a meeting a couple weeks with Judge Drive with County Attorney and differs to make sure we have ironed | 01:31:39 | |
| out the logistics of where they can work because. | 01:31:44 | |
| Essentially, that building is going to be completely closed down for business purposes for about 6 months. | 01:31:50 | |
| So that is coming up in a couple of weeks planning to start construction, I would say probably the first year in January. | 01:31:59 | |
| Last week I attended the PILT fly in part of that on one day was able to visit with Senator Kelly's and Congressman Cranes offices | 01:32:08 | |
| talked about our to take them. First of all, thank them for the support they've given Helena County for projects and all the | 01:32:16 | |
| different things they do on behalf of the county. | 01:32:23 | |
| So let them know that we. | 01:32:31 | |
| Have made good use of their support and secondly that to kind of gear up of the things and the projects that we're still working | 01:32:33 | |
| on that we may ask for congressionally directed spending for things like that. | 01:32:40 | |
| The umm. | 01:32:49 | |
| Then we also had visits with a number of federal senators and congressmen in their office to talk about PILT. The things that we | 01:32:52 | |
| use to PILT money for and how essential it is that because we have 96 1/2 percent of our land in Hewlett County is federal, are | 01:32:59 | |
| not within our taxing authority. That the built payment, which is a fraction of what we would collect on property taxes, that it | 01:33:05 | |
| is essential. | 01:33:12 | |
| Essential for us to continue operations to have that far with payment list last June was about $4.5 million and we hope that as | 01:33:19 | |
| reauthorized requires an reauthorization that Congress every year. So I appreciate the opportunity to go and and visit with those. | 01:33:28 | |
| Thorough senators and representatives. | 01:33:37 | |
| Finally, next week, I will be attending meetings with parents on the Local Government Employed Benefit Trust. So there's a work | 01:33:41 | |
| session plan for next week and I will be gone. Michael will be here to stop that and be here for support that this is our health | 01:33:50 | |
| insurance, that we will be gone next Tuesday for meetings related to our employee health insurance. | 01:33:58 | |
| That's it, Mr. Chairman. | 01:34:07 | |
| OK, thank you very much, Supervisor Klein. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So start with James. Thanks for doing the fly in. That's that's | 01:34:09 | |
| important. We show a presence there and talk to those folks. It's it's always a good deal to do. So appreciate that. Last weekend, | 01:34:17 | |
| last Saturday night we had the the gala and Payson for the PVBR Pleasant Valley Veterans Retreat. | 01:34:25 | |
| Went very, very well and I want to thank everybody who's there and. | 01:34:34 | |
| It was a really good turn out. It looks like the, the amount of money that was raised is going to be right around $58,000. And so | 01:34:39 | |
| that's that's a really, really big plus for our retreat and a lot of good comments and a lot of good discussions and, and all | 01:34:46 | |
| that. It was a really good turn out. | 01:34:53 | |
| On October 1st, I'll be headed to Washington State. I'll be attending the WI, our meeting for two or three days in Washington | 01:35:00 | |
| state, Colville, and we have been right. After that we're going to have the legislative summit down there at the casino in | 01:35:07 | |
| Maricopa, just outside of Maricopa. So that's all I had, Mr. Chair. OK, thank you very much. Supervisor Klein. Me, I held a | 01:35:14 | |
| Roosevelt community meeting. | 01:35:20 | |
| And like I say, some of those rural communities. | 01:35:28 | |
| Meetings like Tunnel Basement, they've turned a public outreach for for a lot of the others too. Salt River Project was at the | 01:35:31 | |
| Roosevelt community meeting talking about lines that they may work on in the future and where they're going to be placed. George | 01:35:39 | |
| Glocko from ADOT was there. Lieutenant Lottie from the Sheriff's Office was there. | 01:35:47 | |
| The road Superintendent through there and and the Fire Chief of Tunnel Fire was there. | 01:35:57 | |
| And you know, I was there to kind of let them know what we were doing with buyout and things of that nature. And there was about | 01:36:04 | |
| 20 people. So I can say that those role meetings have turned out pretty good because then it's outreach for some of these other | 01:36:11 | |
| departments. So it's, it's turned more into informative meetings rather than complaint meetings. But we do get some. And so, so I | 01:36:19 | |
| really appreciate staff and the Esso and stuff being there. So, you know, we can, we can get right on. | 01:36:26 | |
| Those issues may be so I appreciate that tentative County growers state fry and I showed up late. I guess I was I was on my | 01:36:34 | |
| calendar. I had from 12:00 to 2:00 and I guess it started earlier than 12 because I wasn't much earlier than you. So yeah, it was | 01:36:42 | |
| it was about over. But but anyway, I enjoyed it, you know, because even though I didn't make actual meeting, but you walk around | 01:36:49 | |
| to the tables and you sure get a lot of information. | 01:36:56 | |
| From walking around and visiting with with the people that were that were there that's for sure and then I'm looking forward to | 01:37:04 | |
| Thursday meeting with Jeremy playing out at Roosevelt Lake. He's out there for the Forest Service and what we're working on is a | 01:37:12 | |
| is a floating dock and beach area at Roosevelt because. | 01:37:21 | |
| So much of that lake is is not, you know, I mean it there's roads to boat ramps. | 01:37:29 | |
| But you can't swim and stuff around them. So we're working on on doing a layout there by Wendy Hill where there's be a whole Cove | 01:37:36 | |
| and turn it into kind of a beach where the floating dock for Ada, but it can be used by everybody and there's already a big | 01:37:43 | |
| parking place there. So I'm looking very forward to meeting with Jeremy there because there's there's grants available, but | 01:37:51 | |
| apparently he's unable to put in for grants. So working with Michael O'Driscoll and we're looking at things so. | 01:37:58 | |
| Maybe we can put in for the grants alone with him and the information to be able to get a better use area for for handicapped and, | 01:38:06 | |
| and and normal people to be able to use Roosevelt Lake Point so. | 01:38:14 | |
| Other than that, I have nothing. And if there's nothing else that anyone would care to share. | 01:38:22 | |
| I will adjourn today's meeting. Thank you, Albert, Mr. Chair. | 01:38:31 | |
| Good. | 01:38:37 |