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OK, you have something to tell.
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For The Who?
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May I have your attention please?
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We're about to call the meeting to order and but before we do that, Supervisor Klein has a few things, so thank you.
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Thank you all for being here this morning. I just want to introduce Christine Lopez, Chris, she's going to be my new executive
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assistant and Kathy Melvin will be taking over ramrodding the Vet Center in Young so.
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Anyway.
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Thank you both and with that.
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Already. OK, Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, Election Day. It's 10/03 in the morning here in Globe. I'd like to call this regular
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meeting to order. I've asked Sheriff's Deputy Cole Labonte, Cholitis in the pledge if you would. And then after that, Nick, you
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have the prayer.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
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indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Dearly Father, we are thankful for this day and we're thankful for the board to be able to meet and we ask they to have the spirit
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to be with them, to help guide them in what is best for the county and to help all the proceedings go well today and say these
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things in Jesus Christ. Amen. Thank you, Please proceed.
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Well, welcome aboard, Chris. Do you prefer Chris or Christina? Chris. OK, Welcome aboard.
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OK, we have a technical difficulty.
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Are we OK now?
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OK, how we doing?
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OK. I think we have everything in order now, so.
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Let's go ahead and start with Item 2 presentations. 2A presentation regarding Freeport Mcmoran Copper and Gold's contribution
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toward the contribute contribution toward the Healer County Michelson Building roof repair Menlove.
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Mr. Chairman, members of Board, thank you for the opportunity to acknowledge our participation, our partnership with several
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within the community for what is found to be a promising and very fulfilling project to help out in the county and the community
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that we live in.
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We have here with us today representatives from the City of Globe and from our corporate partners Report Mcmoran and Resolution.
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This is a project that we have been ongoing for a number of years. As you all know, sometimes we get involved with.
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Partnerships.
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Corporate nature and with federal dollars, these projects take a long time to get through and get all the funding arranged and
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looking through so that so we think thank these individuals for sticking with us and sticking with this project. First of all, I
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would like to acknowledge Freeport Mccarran for the participation and that they did with Healer County and the city of Globe and
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replacing the roof for the Michelson building in downtown Globe.
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I remember coming here as a finance director for Navajo County coming probably 1520 years ago and went to the Michaelson Building.
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It was a time when the Workforce Investment Act people were were there came to Globe with Hilo County to work on partnering with
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the Workforce Investment Act people. And I remember going on a rainy day and there were buckets all over the building 20 years
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ago.
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And so it's been desperately needed for a long, long time. The group of macaron has a community investment fund panel that they
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contribute and partner with the community annually. And this is a tremendous opportunity for those in the in the community to be
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able to put forward projects of a nature that will benefit and unless they help out schools and and a number of these different
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things throughout the years. So back in.
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19 There's an application to Simple Mac brand Community Investment Fund. Went through the process and report donated $150,000. I
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could get those from before if you want to come off it. And can you be recognized?
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That that now the project was completely the roof was completely removed. Engineering was done to ensure that it was. I don't know
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if you how much you know about the building, but there was a.
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It didn't span the entire width of the building. The trusses did not, and so there was.
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The roof had started to actually cave in because there were support beams and they taken things out and put things in just for not
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so that there's roofers reengineered completely span it. It's engineered to hold the mechanical or the building and it is then
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it's dry now. So when it rains and moisture comes, it's dry building. So I'd like to appreciate send appreciation to frequent
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Macaron for the $150,000 that.
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They donated to this project to further that and give you guys an opportunity to say if you weren't.
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Thank you, James. And we're happy our investment committee has changed, was happy to.
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Support that project back in 2019 and on behalf of Freeport Background Foundation.
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We are we are pleased to see it move forward.
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Thank you very much.
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Yeah. So it's a lot of.
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Good vision in the project, I believe.
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Hope we get stood up and and live soon but.
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The work and abilities of the members on the committee and the recommendations to see the value in it and.
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Anything that stands up, these incubator things, your small businesses and things that helps them get off the ground and things,
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there's a wonderful investment. It's hard to measure the benefits down the road from it, but we all know it's there. It's just how
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do you get the tangibles out of it? We appreciate the cooperation and the and the partnership and look to many more down the
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future presence.
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Thank you, thank you now and it's it's Robin and.
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Thank you.
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Is there any more James on that?
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Just a little bit I talked about that, hope it comes to fruition. That's kind of why we're having this recognition today and
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agenda item a little bit later of giving what the funding is. There's there's much more funding that's coming available to be able
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to do this project. And so that is is a good reason to celebrate the success that we've had. We'll get into on our business
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incubator.
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And support for small businesses in the southern portion of Healing County.
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And to so acknowledge where we've gotten to thus far and to.
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Plan of where we're headed and that this will come online and be support to the community.
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So we want to take pictures. So if we can go through the next acknowledgement, sure. Let me ask if the other supervisors have
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anything they'd like to add. So Supervisor Humphrey would.
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No, I don't have anything to add other than I think it's a great building in downtown Globe. And I think the restoration of it and
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what will be used for it is, is great for the community as well as even the mind community can use it for meetings and things as
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as we go forward. So I think it's AI think it's a great, worthwhile project and I appreciate the help very much.
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Supervisor Klein, thank you, Mr. Chair, Chad Robin, thanks for everything you guys do, not only for this building, but also
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everything you do in the community to help and all that. It's really great to have you guys around for partnership and whatnot. So
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I really appreciate it. Thank you. I I concur with all of that. Thank you so much. It's very helpful to have you as a partner.
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Really great in in our government community and everything. So, yeah, let's take a picture.
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The Michelson Building, Gaines.
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I'm going to jump the gun. We've got an agenda item like I mentioned a little bit later on, but I go through a little bit of the
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history that the Community Investment Fund application was back in 2019. I.
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Into April 2022, there's a request from the City of Globe to Senator o'halloran Representative at o'halloran that.
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For a congressionally directed spending grant of $750,000 that was awarded, there was also a USTA RISE request submitted and
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that's for programming and doing, putting together actually the activities that will take place in the center that was granted.
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The project bids came in, they were a little bit higher so and working in these partnerships.
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So the City of Globe in 2023, the CDs Congressional Director spending funding application was approved.
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And in 2024, the roof completion was performed. So what we have in the funding for the roof replacement total cost is about
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$400,000 and there's counties invested in a significant amount more than that to date, but the resources that will be available
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till about.
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Just under a million and a half dollars what you believe will be enough to complete the revital of that building. So resolution
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Copper has been looking for.
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Investment opportunities.
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You don't ask if you.
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Resolution Copper has has been a great partner as well as Freeport. The resolution has looked for opportunities to invest in
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economic development for Healing County. And so they are really bridging the gap that we had in what the what the bids were for
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completion of the project and the money that was available. And through Resolution Copper we should we will.
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Be able to finish the project with nearly a million and a half dollars total resources that are available.
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And budget for this. So we want to express appreciation.
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This resolution, maybe I should let you guys speak, but it's in the process now and looking forward to working with resolution on
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this project. So if you guys want to go ahead and take some news.
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Good morning chairman and board and and staff in public. Thanks for the opportunity to come today and and show our appreciation
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for this project. I know it's been in the works for a long time and we're excited to be coming into it at the tail end of, of the
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of the fundraising for this that resolution. Our economic development strategy is really on a focused on a few pillars, but the
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top one is economic diversification and we think that this project is crucial at assuring that the Copper Triangle and the Copper
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Corridor can remain competitive.
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In diversifying the local economy and helping growth small business, incubating new businesses and allowing residents that
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opportunity. Since 2020, our spend and globe alone with local suppliers and contractors is over $20 million and that's just
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through a permitting and some project upkeep. That's not even through our construction and operations. So as we get closer to what
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will be construction, there's going to be.
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A larger opportunity to really grow small business.
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Provide services and supplies that we need and we think an incubator project like this is crucial in that. So thanks again for
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this opportunity. We do look forward to supporting this and we'll have a draft agreement over for your attorney's review hopefully
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in the next month.
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Appreciate that. Thank you and remind me of your name Brian, Brian and.
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Honor, thanks for coming, Supervisor Humphrey.
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Just thank you all very, very much. So you know, we appreciate all that you do to help us and have in the past and, and looking
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forward to helping create businesses for your needs in the local community rather than bring businesses in from outside. So
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appreciate it very, very much. And I'm and I hope some of the younger people take advantage of what you're trying to present to
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them to help with these.
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Businesses start up and grow to be able to help the community. So thank you all very much.
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Supervisor Klein thank you Mr. Chair. Yeah, you too. Thanks for everything you do as well. You guys have been awesome for the
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community and the surrounding communities and we're really grateful to have you around as a partner. So thank you so much Yes,
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thank you. We want another photograph Mr. Chairman, if you might could We've been partnering with the county's been partnering in
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an unprecedented way with the C glove on this project all along and if anyone from city globe would like to make.
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Comments on their vision for the project and what it will mean to the community.
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Appreciate it. OK.
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Good morning Chairman and supervisors. This is such an incredible moment in in our timeline. As James mentioned in the first
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presentation, the seed was planted for this project in 2019 with a chance meeting with a board member of CAHOOTS, which is a Co
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work space that is an Arizona based one focused on entrepreneurial efforts. And so we were invited to to Phoenix to look at their.
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Workspace and when we walked in, just the fireworks went off. It's like this. This is what Hilah County needs in order to promote
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business and entrepreneurial growth. And so thank you so much for your support, long time support and everything that's going
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towards this project is truly a collaborative effort, really a barn raising enterprise as you see it. So thank you so much and the
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City of Globe, we're extremely appreciative and we can't wait to see you all at the ribbon cutting.
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Thank you to all of our stakeholders as well because without that everyone coming to the table for this project again, it would
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not be possible. So thank you. Thank you again.
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OK, let's do another photo.
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I'm not looking forward to that. Yeah, thanks once again for everyone that's participating in these great projects. All right,
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we're going to move on to our public hearings, which is item 33A is information discussion action to adopt resolution #24-11 Dash
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04 grant in a 25 year franchise to the Pace and Water Company Incorporated to provide water service to Pace and water companies.
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Customers in the Geisela Tonneau Creek shores.
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Needs ranch, deer Creek, E 30 park, blowing springs, Geronimo estates, elusive acres, Mesa, del Caballo and whispering Pines areas
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of Gila County and we have Marion. Thank you chairman Kristen standing board members today I asked Sam if I could present this
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item in the following one just because I have a lot of history with.
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Particular franchise company. I'll give you some history on September 17th.
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The Board of Supervisors accepted an application for a franchise license for Pace and Water Company, Inc. I've been working with
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Whitney Burke of Shapiro Law Firm, and she represents the applicant, Jason Williamson. Diego Dominic of Shapiro Law Firm is
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present today in Payson. Raise your hand, Diego.
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OK, I see. Thank you. If there's any questions I can't answer, you will.
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So in June 1998, the Arizona Corporation Commission approved Robert Hardcastle application to reorganize the water utility
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structure of Brook Utilities, which of some of the companies, there were many companies he reorganized and started new ones. One
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of them was Peace and Water Company and the other was Tunnel Basin Water Company, which I'll address in the next item.
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In June of 2013, JW Holdings, LLC.
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Which is owned by Jason Williamson acquired Peace and Water Company and tunnel based and water company through a stock purchase.
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What this means is it did not need to go through the ACC for approval Arizona Corporation Commission.
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The maps attached to the resolution, which is the franchise presented to you today, has the are the maps from the ACC decision in
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1998. They weren't really very good, but so I asked Miss Burke to go work with the ACC or do any other research to come up with
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better maps. So they were well. Also, we did get some new maps.
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And they're a little clearer, so they will be attached as supplemental into the resolution.
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I've reviewed the application, the county attorneys office has reviewed the application and I feel everything is in order. Mr.
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Williamson has been operating, like I said, since 2013 in good standing and overall it is the ACC that has oversight for utility
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companies. So I just recommend you conduct the public hearing and I do want you to know I have not received any written.
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Thank you very much. Supervisor Humphrey. I have no questions, Supervisor Klein, neither do I. OK. So at this time, I will close
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the discussion and open it up for the public's discussion on Item 3A. Is there anyone in Globe here today that wishes to speak to
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this item? No.
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Cassandra, do you have anything on the Internet?
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No, And Tyler, is there anyone in Payson wishes to discuss this?
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Nothing here. OK, thank you. So I will close the public hearing portion of Item 3A and call for motion.
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Mr. Chair, I moved to adopt resolution #24-11-04. Mr. Terrell second thought, have a motion and a second. All those approved say
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aye, aye aye. Motion carries unanimous item 3D information discussion. Action to adopt resolution #24-11-05 granting a 25 year
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franchise to Tunnel Basin Water Company, Incorporated to provide water service to Tunnel Basin water companies.
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Customers in the lake Roosevelt gardens, E lake Roosevelt Gardens, W Roosevelt lake estates and North Bay estates areas of gila
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county thank you Chairman Christensen and board members this.
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Agenda item basically mirrors what I just presented. It has to have its own public hearing and it does have a separate resolution
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for a 25 year franchise. And again, this company is in good standing with the ACC and I've not had any objection to the
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application. Thank you. Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. Supervisor Klein, I'm good. OK, I will now open it up to the
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public.
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Or any comments on item 3B? Anyone here in globe wishes to speak to this item?
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Now Cassandra, now Tyler. Anyone in Payson?
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OK, thank you. I'll close the public hearing portion and offer motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to adopt resolution number
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241105.
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I'll second that of a motion in a second to approve those in favor say aye, aye aye. Motion carries unanimous on the item. 3C
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Information discussion. Action to adopt resolution #24-11-02, which approves Hila county community development, case number CU,
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PP2408-001. A request of pine strawberry fuel reduction incorporated.
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Which are the applicant and lisi HeLa county owner and lisor or a conditional use permit upon Hula County's.
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Assessor's Tax parcel number 30127072, which is located at 3180 Old County Road in Pine, AZ, Pilot County. Randy, good morning,
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Chairman. Supervisors, we're here today for the CUC and this basically was they've been operating under a.
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Use permit or a temporary use permit for their special events which is a pain every year going through this and and the public
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didn't have any input. So by going through this CUP process, it was opened up to the public to see if they had any concerns or or.
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Questions about what is going on. So the Pine strawberry fuel reduction run 3 events a year. They also lease this property from
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Hilo County. This is the red barn there in Pine and they run the fire on the Rim mountain bike race. They run Pine trail run and
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community dinner and they have a car show and a yard sale.
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And they run these things out of this same property.
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And so we opened it up to the residence for any comments we received none so.
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We went forward, I will tell you around there it is R1D12 and R1 D 175 zoning property owners within 300 feet of the subject
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property were notified of the CEP and request notifications and legal ads were done on 10/15 and 10/16 in the Pace Roundup and the
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Silver Belt, respectively.
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We have went through they are basically there is like 15 conditions which they are meeting now. I can read them if you would like.
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But in moving forward, the board recommended unanimous approval. The PNC Commission and staff also sees this as a positive event.
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And so we're here today to finish up the CUP process and then move forward and again.
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If you recommend approval like there are 15.
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Stipulations that we put in here, again, they're meeting those now and they've seen these. And then we also provide a motion if
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you want 9.
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I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Randy. Supervisor Humphrey, I don't have any questions, Randy. Thank you, Supervisor
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Klein. Randy, what are just for curiosity, what are those 15 stipulations?
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Glad you asked I was wanting to read. Development, operation and maintenance shall be in performance with the application.
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Narrative materials provided with the conditional use permitted. Dated August 1st and August 4th of 2024. Two a certificate of
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insurance listing. Heal Academy is additionally insured is required to be provided to Hayley County Community Development prior to
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the date of the event.
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No alcohol on site unless an approved Arizona State liquor license is obtained.
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Requirements are followed. The Healer County Maintenance yard is not to be used unless has written authorization from the Heal
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County Public Works Director.
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Prior to the event, an event, permit or approval from the Strawberry Fire Department will be required. Please contact the fire
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department and the Fire Marshall. All lighting must be in conformance with the Hilah County Outdoor Lighting Ordinance.
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Seven noise shall be generated shall not be generated by any use to the point of disturbing of the peace that can be considered a
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nuisance. No generators between 6:00 PM and 8:00 AM must designate at least 2 parking spaces that meet the American with
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Disabilities Act and one space must be a van accessible.
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10 adequate sanitation facility shall be provided on site. Sanitary facility shall conform to state and county and health
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requirements. 25% of the porta potties.
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Being used must meet ADA loving provision shall be made for collecting and disposal of all solid waste generated in conjunction
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with the proposed uses. 12 Must verify that any food trucks or food stands that will be on site have a permit issued by the Hill
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County Health Department. Any requirements? 13 Any requirements.
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County state health Department Sheriff's Office permits license must be attained. It is.
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14 It is the responsibility of the applicant and we see of the subject property at APN 30127 OH 72 to obtain all necessary
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federal, state, county and local permits that may be required. The issuance of a conditional use permit does not relieve the
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applicant or the leasee of any liability for failing to obtain the required permits and 15 it if it is determined that any of the
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above noted conditions are violated, this condition of use will become void.
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Thank you, Andy.
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Yeah. Thank you. Randy, could you repeat that?
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Now, thank you. That's the end of your presentation. And I want to thank Elsa for coming representing the Pine Strawberry Fuel
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Reduction Group. So at this time, I will now open it up for the public.
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Hearing and so is there anyone in Globe that wishes to speak to this?
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Item 3C No, no. Cassandra and Tyler, no. OK, very good. So I will close the public hearing portion and call for a motion.
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Mr. Chair, I move to adopt resolution #24-11-02, and Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion and a second to approve. Those in favour
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say aye, aye, aye, aye. Motion carries unanimous. Thank you, Randy.
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All right, we'll move on to our regular agenda items at this point. And Item 4A, information discussion action to approve a lease
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agreement between Hasten Senior Center and Ela County for $11,800 per month from November 1st, 2024 to July 31st, 2025. And this
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is to relocate the court services during the remodel of the Gila County.
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Hazen Courthouse. Michael, good morning. Good morning, Chairman, members of the board.
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This is exactly what you read, Chairman. What we are is we're ready to start the pacing courthouse remodel that this board
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approved March of this past year to move forward. Construction is set to start in January and we were looking for a place to move
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all the court services into during the six to seven month remodel project which is going to start in January like I said. So we
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were looking for spaces and pacing and.
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We were put in touch with the Senior Center.
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Who had purchased a large building called the Longhorn building recently and they're going to be moving their services into this
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particular building but not until September of next year. So we have this small window of opportunity this this building in this
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space that we're looking to rent is about 8000 square feet that could fit almost all the services from the courts into.
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And that's what I'm here in front of you to seek your approval of this lease so we can get that construction project started.
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I'll be happy to answer any questions, but I would like to put out at least a thank you to the patient Senior Center. They've been
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extremely accommodating and extremely helpful with this process. So I really appreciate their their input and their cooperation.
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Thank you, Michael. Supervisor Humphrey.
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Yeah, Michael on, on a deal like this, if we're going to move into it and they're not going to move into it till later, what are
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we going to need to do to that building to be able to utilize it as we need to? That's a great question, supervisor. And in this
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particular case, this building is already set up for offices and it already has the IT wiring inside. So very minimal work is
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going to be needed. There's 15 offices. We have approximately 30 to.
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23 staff, we're gonna be moving out of the courthouse into this building and it's and it's set up almost to move in with a little
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bit of assistance from our IT department to get the computer system working and Wi-Fi and the network and everything else like
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that. So very little is going to need to be done, which is why this building is so nice.
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That many square feet of what remodel it's going to take for us to use it for them to be able to use later, so.
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Thank you. You betcha. Thank you, Mr. Chair, Supervisor Klein, Michael, I think that answered my question right there. But please
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pass along to the Senior Center that we really appreciate it. That's that is going to help a lot. So.
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Yes, thank you, Michael. And it is the perfect location really. And I'd like to extend my thanks to the Senior Center for allowing
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us to to be there and work together. So there's no other discussion then? I will call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion
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to approve a lease agreement with the Payson Senior Center as presented. Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion and a second to
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approve those in favor say aye, aye, aye, aye.
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One last thing thank you supervisor for connecting us with the patients Senior Center today. Thank you Michael. I appreciate that
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and all right so we're moving forward doing great for B information discussion action to review the submitted bids for requests
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for proposal number 073024. It's the pharmacy services for HeLa County detention medical and award a contract to the lowest most
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responsive responsible and.
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Bitter. Good morning, Mr. Pope. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, Board.
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The pharmaceuticals contract for pharmacy for the Union County Detention Center is due to expire.
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Open bidding was sent out. Three pharmaceutical companies applied. We looked at all three. I discussed it with my medical staff.
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Westwood Pharmacy was by far the best we've had Westwood Pharmacy since 2021.
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The bid price.
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Since 20/21 was $75,000 was the cap due to Suboxone and other pharmaceutical needs, it increased 20. So we're looking at 100,000
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for this bid cycle.
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If we get some pick up, some grants in there, it should lower that down.
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Picked up 15,000.
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Last or this year from the health department for the Suboxone.
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Have any questions? I'll be happy to try to answer them for you. OK, very good. Thank you. Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah, my only
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question is from month to month, I don't know how you can regulate what medications are going to be provided. And so if it's a
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pharmacy amount of $100,000, it's not to exceed $100,000. It's just for $100,000 like you say, if you get a cramp for 15 or 20.
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Do you still give them $100,000 or, or, or you know, I mean, because like I say, just in the, in the short way, the way it reads
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is we're just.
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We're just gonna do an award contract to them for $100,000. Here's $100,000. So no, they won't receive the 100,000. It's like the
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last 75,000 is the last contract we went over by 20,000. So that was 95,000 we looked at based on the last eight months with the
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Suboxone program that I got going, it burns up.
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A lot of money in their pharmaceutical.
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OK. So $100,000 or less, yes, OK. Yeah, but that's not the right reads, that's why I asked. So thank you.
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Thank you, Supervisor. Supervisor Klein. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Ray, thanks. I think you answered my questions earlier, so
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appreciate it. Thanks. Yeah, I think we're all set to go, so I'll just promotion.
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Mr. Chair, I move to award a contract to Westwood Pharmacy in the amount of.
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$100,000 or less than.
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Response to request for Proposal number 073024. Mr. Chair, I'll second that.
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2nd.
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If that's OK with the attorney that I changed for less instead of just $100,000?
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OK, so we have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye, aye. Thank you very much.
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All right, Item 4C Information discussion action to approve funding agreement #528-25 between the Arizona Department of Housing
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and the county public health and community services Department to receive 9000 of the continuum of care.
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Planning Fund and $64,106.00 of the Housing Trust Fund to be used through June 30th, 2025 whereby the department will act as the
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lead Hilo County Continuum of Care and build capacity for activities, discussions and meetings directed at ending homelessness.
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Joshua. Good morning Chairman. Members of the board so.
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The continuum of care funds, so this right now supports one full time position.
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That person's, the $9000 is specifically just for attending the state level meetings, usually virtual meetings that we attend on
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the state level where they just talk about the different pots of money and the problems that each county is facing and any
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possible potential solutions. The other 64,000 is for the intake of homeless population here in Yulick County, kind of get all the
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information why they're homeless, whether it's transitional.
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And then also to do our pit count, our homeless count each year.
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If you notice this year we got cut $64,000. That's the good part about this is we still receive the funding to have the position
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that does the work. The bad part about it was the funding that we were cut was the money that we used to do for the people that
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were more in like a transitional situation, whether it was putting them up in the hotel or something for 30 days or helping them
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with like first and last month's rental deposit to get into a place. That funding is now gone. So that's why the half cut in the
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in the grid so.
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Sure what this will be for the future, but at least for this next year as the funding kind of dwindles, we still have that
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opportunity to be a part of the state group, which is where we hear most of our grant and other opportunities so.
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All right. Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey.
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Now the only question I have is it seems to me that a lot of the homeless migrate, I mean, depending on temperature and weather,
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if it's if it's hot, then they're up north and if it's cold, then they move down South. And so that's got to be very hard for you
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to regulate in what what I guess how you qualify people for your service for that would seem difficult to me. And I think that's
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why, especially coming over from the health department, why I really focus on those transitional ones, right? It's a it's.
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People that are that are, you know, that we can actually help sustain the community that they're from that we, you know, focus a
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lot of our attention on. There's ones that are here, they've lived here, they became homelessness for a short period of time where
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you know, where we can step in and get them back into housing and back into the job and contribute. Thank you very much for all
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that you do Thank you, supervisor, Supervisor Klein, Josh, thank you for all you guys do, but I've got some questions so.
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It hasn't been that long ago that we started this continuum of care.
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Have we gone to the point, are we seeing the numbers starting to decline as far as homelessness or are they increasing? And how
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about the numbers that the folks that were able to help get off the streets and get them another start? Where are we with all
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that? From what I looked at when when this originally started, and I think you're right, I think we've had this for four or five
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years now. So it looked at a little bit of history this myself, I mean it started with around 30 or 40 people that were on that
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first pitch count.
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And then he dropped down a little bit. And then during the COVID years, it just kept going back up. And we kind of spiked there
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for a while in 2021, last year's count, I just emailed that Katie believes it was at 74. So we're going back down again. I think,
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again, it's difficult. Like Supervisor Humphrey said, with transitional, a lot of them bounce back and forth between Gila County
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and other places, California, the Valley, those places. But I mean, we have always been able to help with the transitional, at
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least from what?
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We count them, but like I said, there's never been a lot of funding to snow housing funding or anything like that or, or you know,
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we have different jobs programs, but there's not a lot of funding to help with the homelessness portion as much as there is to
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help with the transition.
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So from your standpoint then in community services, you don't see a lot of grants or opportunities coming through the state or
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anywhere to help with this?
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As I learn slowly what it means to be a Federal Housing authority.
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That we're not currently in getting into the housing like Pinella and Maricopa and some of these other counties do getting into
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that housing world. And whether that's the direction that we want to go or not, there are large grants in that area. There aren't
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a lot of like small individual like helping small homeless populations or those kinds of grants. It's more large scale housing and
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those kinds of projects which are much bigger asks. So your pit counts coming up pretty quick, right?
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And that'll be held in pace and adherent globe, correct?
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In Hayden, Lincoln, they go everywhere, OK, All throughout the county, OK. So I honestly think there's some homelessness folks out
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there that we're not going to be able to help. That's their lifestyle. They chose that they want to stay that way. But the ones
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that do want to want the help are the ones that I'm more interested in, to be honest with you. And also I'm really if there's a
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way we can come up with numbers.
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Some kind of?
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Tracking system to where we can see is just exactly how many folks we can get off the streets and into housing or whatever. It'd
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be good to see that in the future if if you guys got a chance to do that.
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Give you an update on on kind of where we're at and where we see the counts that we do get from the 5th count. We have to have
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that after the 5th count, we can put something for a work session, Yeah. And then also if there's something that we need to pursue
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as a board for more grant money to help homelessness or.
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Transitional housing, whatever it is then need Lewis in and hopefully we can make that push. So thank, thanks for all you do.
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Thank you, supervisor. Thank you, Josh. I don't have anything to add, so I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to
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approve Arizona Department of Housing Funding agreement #5528-25 as presented. Mr. Chair, I'll 2nd that I have a motion and a
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second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Thank you, Josh.
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Item 4D information discussion action to adopt resolution #24-11-01 designating Marin Blythe belling, financial director as the
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chief financial director for hilah county is required by Arizona revised statute #41 dash 1279.07 paragraph E to submit the fiscal
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year 2024 expenditure limitation report that the Arizona Auditor General.
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Good morning, Mary. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, supervisor, client supervisor Humphrey. This is an annual
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requirement. We were supposed to have had it done by July 1st, so I apologize that it's late. We will get it submitted to the
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state today and then we will have it on our due by July 1st list in the future.
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OK, Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. Supervisor Klein, I'm good. Thank you, Mary. And so and so Marin, we have
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to designate this every year. You just can't become the permanent apparently not. OK, gotcha.
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Unfortunately, so with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I move to adopt resolution #24-11-01. Mr. Chair, I'll second that we
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have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye aye. Thank you, very thank you. Item 4, E information
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discussion action to approve the use of State of Arizona contract number Ctr. 066876 with JE4 Hydrology and.
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Geomorphology incorporated on a time and material basis the amount not to exceed 95,000 for maintenance of the flood alert system
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in Yuma County. Good morning, Alex.
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Good morning, Chair for supervisors. Thank you.
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So Hill County has a series of 27 rain gauges and stream gauges throughout the county. They are maintained or well as of last
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year, they were maintained by a contractor we had with JE Fuller. They made 37 visits to those 27 sites and did 10 repairs and or
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improvements. And these 27 sites are throughout the entirety of the county. In fact, Director Bill and I just looked at it again
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this morning and they're spread out.
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Very well. And so with that, this is a request to put in a new contract with Jay Fuller to continue to maintain these 27 sites for
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the county until we can get a fully staffed floodplain department to eventually take over.
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OK. Thank you, Alex. Supervisor Humphrey.
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Yeah, I don't, I don't have any questions. I just think it's good information for us to have these ring gauges to kind of know
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what's going on upstream from potential floods downstream, so.
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I think, I think it's a good thing that we do keep these up, kept up and maintenance.
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Thank you, Supervisor Klein. So Alex, I don't have anything against the rain gauges, but the reason the rain gauges were put there
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to begin with was because of the fires. So are we seeing the fire scars starting to recoup enough to hold back a lot of that
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runoff and moisture, I mean?
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I would only imagine that in time, a certain period of time, I don't know what the rain gauges that they're going to do for us if
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it wants the brush and everything grows back so.
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If you have any idea where we are with all of that. So J fully does an annual report for us based on this. So I don't know the
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exact numbers for you, but I can, I can look at that report and let you know. I'd be curious to know, you know, it's been, it's
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been a few years anyway, So hope and I don't know with you looking at the rain gauges. Well, of course we didn't have much runoff,
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not yet anyway. So me a question.
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Thanks, Alex.
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Yeah. Thank you, Alex. And with that, I will call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve the use of State
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Arizona contract number Ctr. 066876 for JE Fuller Hydrology Incorporated as presented.
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Mr. Chair, I'll second that we have a, we have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye. Thank you, Alex.
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All right, Item 4F and this is this is an item I'm glad to see coming up today. Been working on for a little while. Information,
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discussion, action to approve a funding request in the amount not to exceed $25,000 for the new County Sheriff's Office Initial 18
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to 24 month effort opposed by the US Forest Service, Ela County Sheriff's Office and HeLa County Public Works Department and
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community partner.
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Collaboration to provide for the cost of towing and residual ways associated with removal of abandoned vehicles.
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RV's and travel trailers on the US Forest Service land within Gila County and we have representing the Sheriff's Department this
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morning, Cola Dante and we have representing our landfill department, Melanie and Dad.
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Morning, good morning. How are you? I appreciate you guys letting us present this again. If you remember the last time we
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presented this, it was very convoluted. There was a lot of steps to it and I think.
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Walked away from it thinking that it wasn't really the best plan for us financially. And then, you know, considering everyone's
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man hours. So we kind of went back to the drawing board on this program and we removed, we removed the section.
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Regarding.
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Charging the people who have.
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Dumped these RV's in the forest when we really got down to how it was going to actually work.
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With the county attorney's office, we didn't feel that we would end up actually prosecuting the people responsible for dumping the
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Arby's in the forest. And it was going to take a lot of time and money to to determine if we were going to be able to to charge
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them. So we kind of step back and said what what can we do to at least get rid of these eyesores in the forest, these items that
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are.
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Places for criminal activity and then over the last year we actually had some that that caught fire. So we all agree that we need
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to get rid of these. We just need to figure out a financially responsible way of doing it. So working with Melanie, I think we've
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come up with.
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A good program of doing it.
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We would meet that community partner at that location. The law enforcement officer that's there would run the VIN, make sure it's
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not stolen, it's not evidence to a crime, there's not a lien involved where maybe that that item needs to be sold to.
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Satisfy a tax burden of some kind for the for the county. So the law enforcement officer would make sure that none of those items
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are in play. They would provide this community partner with a document that says that this vehicle isn't towed to be dismantled.
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That community partner would tow the vehicle to a off site location, a private location. It's not a Forest Service location, it's
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not a healer county location. It's not the landfill. That was one of our biggest concerns is showing these.
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That have hazardous waste and.
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VIN numbers that we have to deal with in a in a different way to to county property we we needed to avoid doing that. So this
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community partner is going to tell it to their land they're going to dismantle the vehicle Public works has agreed to providing
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them with a large roll off so as that RV trailer whatever it may be is dismantled the.
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The trash, that is.
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Non steel doesn't have any VIN numbers associated with it and is not hazardous. That trash would go into a roll off. All the other
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items the community partner has agreed to dispose of appropriately and will kind of keep track of that as it goes along because we
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don't want to be involved in.
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Any, any illegal dumping activities there, since that's the whole point of this is to clean up the illegal dumping. So then
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community or I'm sorry, public works would be notified when that roll off is full, the landfill would respond, pick up that roll
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off, bring it up to the landfill. And then also in conjunction while that's happening, we've worked with the Forest Service.
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They've got some community partners that would clean up the other remaining trash around those areas of.
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The abandoned trailers and they would bring those bring that trash to the landfill to be dumped. So what this money is going to be
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used for the ask here, the 25,000 it's going to be used to pay the community program that's going to be towing and dismantling
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somewhere between 300 and $500 per unit. And then also it's going to.
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Bear the pay for the landfill disposal fees, landfills, enterprise, the the trash that goes in has to be paid for somehow, some
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way. So that's, that's the way this program would work. We've cut out all of the people and all these situations where the vehicle
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would have to be sitting for huge amounts of time. We would have to be dealing with hazardous waste. We found a partner that's
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willing to do this.
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Without really making much money, we we don't even think that that's going to cover.
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The majority of the cost, because all the other ways that we have tried to figure out how to do what this community partner is
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going to do, we were well over $1000 per unit.
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So do you have anything to add to that?
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Yeah, Good morning, supervisor, Chairman and supervisors. The landfill is in complete support of this program. In the past, RV's
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and vehicles have taken up a lot of space up the landfills and we are permitted to dispose of engine parts or anything like that.
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And and like Sergeant Labonte said that it's taken us about $1000 to take an RV that has an engine to the valley to be.
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And so we were able to connect with some of our community partners that have helped us in the past at the landfill and then some
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other cleanup community partners in the areas that that have made this extremely cost effective. And again, this is a pilot
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program and this is kind of a way to move forward and find a permanent solution for for these items that are abandoned in the
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landfill or in the Forest Service. The Forest Service is also playing a huge part.
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They are facilitating the cleanup of each site with every RV that's left in the Forest Service. There's an amount of residual
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waste. There's, you know, clothes and weird stuff like that you wouldn't think would be there. And so they will be handling the
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clean up there in the Forest Service and then transporting to the landfill as well and taking turns with the officers of being on
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site when those vehicles are towed. So that's all I have for this.
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OK. Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey.
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Yeah, I thank you all very much for all your work because flights, one of my big things and so being able to clean up some of
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these things because it, it, some places are, are pretty bad with some of this. So, so continue to work and and keep on working to
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make something work. And the community partner, you know, we have to thank him very, very much for for being willing to to help us
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with this. I think it's money well spent. The only thing is before you haul some of these off or are we going to need Josh to give
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him his?
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For the homeless, because we might be taking somebody somebody's home with no just kidding Josh, we want we won't sick them on you
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when they hold their home off. But but anyway, yeah, it these things shouldn't be there and if someone is in them they shouldn't
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be in them. So thank you very much for cleaning up some of those areas. Appreciate it very much Thank you goodbye to Klein. So you
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guys thank you for putting this together. It it is a it is a nasty mess out there in places and these are all.
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It's been there for several years.
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But they are they, you know, they, they kind of go through evolutions of being inhabited and then not being inhabited in any way
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you slice it. It's just more trash coming in and then leaving.
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The only part that I have against it is not pursuing the owners of those those vehicles and filing charges because my thought is,
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is is where does it end? You know, we go through there and, and it's what you guys are doing is awesome. It's going to be a really
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good project. I know it's a pilot project, but wants to keep other people from coming right in there behind, especially when they
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know they can go ditch an old trailer off in the woods.
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Yeah. And I think the last time I presented this, that was one of the Supervisor Humphries biggest concerns.
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And the, you know, I'm in law enforcement, my, you know, my job is to to charge people that that break laws. So cutting out that
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portion was really difficult for me to get up here and try to present a hey, we're just not going to deal with that. We're not
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going to deal with this. These people that have created a huge problem for us to have to figure out how to deal with what what it
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really came down to is actually being.
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Being able to how much man hours and time for the Sheriff's Office and the county attorney's office would it take for us to maybe
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determine who actually dumped that vehicle there? And the the process to kind of give a little bit of a high level overview of it
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is we for the most part would know who that vehicle's last registered to. That's the last person who did the right thing by
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illegally registering it. And then they probably sold it to somebody who never.
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Got it registered or insured and then maybe it sat on some of these land where it was used until it was no longer really
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roadworthy and then sold to somebody else. And then it just, there's this trickle down effect of I'm going to contact as the
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Sheriff's Office, I'm going to contact the last registered owner. Hey, who did you sell it to? They're going to provide me with
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maybe a name, maybe not. Maybe it was something on Facebook Marketplace and they can provide me with some user information.
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I'm going to have to get a detective involved to try to track down who that person is.
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Hey, who did you sell this to? And really at the end of the day, you know, as far as prosecution is concerned.
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All that person has to do is say, hey, it was in my front yard. Somebody rolled up and offered me 100 bucks for it. And I said
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sure. And I drove off with it. I don't know who they are. And then now they're they've got plausible deniability. The county
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attorney's office isn't going to charge them and we.
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We've spent a lot of time in man hours not to be used against this, but but all out of our budgets. You know, the Kennedy
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Attorney's office has got a man hour budget there and so do we. And we want to be fiscally responsible to make sure that we're
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using our finite resource of man hours appropriately. Now, if you know internally, we know that if we go there and we can look at
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receipts, we can look at mail, we can look at paperwork that's recent that's there if we happen to know who's coming and going.
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From there, our plan is to pursue charges for that, but saying that's part of the program and on every.
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Our view, we go out and deal with that. We're going to do XY and Z with the would probably be deceptive to the board here. So the
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the plan is just to get it removed. We want it out of there. We want it out of the forest. I know you guys do too. And if we can
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hold somebody responsible for the illegal dumping, who will? But it's going to be few and far between, quite honestly. I
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understand what you're saying, Nicole.
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It just kind of.
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Rubs me the wrong way to have to deal with with people doing this knowing that it's not going to quit. And and the other question
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I would have for you is.
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Where's the Forest Service with this? Where's their Leos? Are they going to be a part of this? I mean, those are federal charges.
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We're going to partner with them and determine the the most appropriate entity to charge with. They have in some cases stiffer
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penalties for dumping and sometimes they have more resources for investigating because this program is going to be lengthy. You
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know it's going to be a year or two. They they go through periods of time work.
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They don't have Elio's anywhere in the area because they're all off on a fire somewhere else dealing with other things. They don't
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have a lot of resources to help us with this. And we've been, you know, for as long as I've worked for the Sheriff's Office, we
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have always put it off on them. Hey, it's your land. You guys need to deal with this. We don't have the ability through state
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statute, county ordinances or other things to deal with abandoned vehicles. You guys do on a Federal Way, you need to handle it.
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They don't.
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They don't really have the resources to do it. And so at the end of the day, it's nothing's being done about it. And so our goal
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here is just to try to come up with some way that's still responsible to remove those items from the forest. And if, if we can
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charge them, we will. We're going to determine, you know, who can do that the best really their, their, their partnership and
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their role in this program that we know of right now. And it's going to go through iterations as it as it goes along through the
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years. But.
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Volunteer man hours to remove the trash. That's a start, but it's not enough quite honestly. And so hopefully and I and I know we
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have some good district Rangers that are there that are involved. And so hopefully they're looking at it from a team perspective,
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they're trying to get up some more federal funds to put in this or something because 25,000 isn't a lot of money and but I can
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see.
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I can see where this is going to go if people know that there's no.
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There's no accountability for dumping stuff, you know, but I really applaud you guys for putting this together because it is a
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nasty myth and it and it's only getting worse until we can find a place for these homeless people to go. Yeah. And I mean, as you
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guys come up with ideas, you know, we're open to suggestions. We didn't get this far on our own ideas. It was it was input from
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other people. So if you come up with ways to help us with those concerns.
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We'll, we'll address it. I appreciate all the work you guys have done and.
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Little caveat is that the the community partner that's working with us, he will sometimes pay residents if they bring their RV's
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to him opposed to dropping in the forest. And that's how I got in contact with him because I was looking for other ways that
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residents can dispose of material rather than bringing it to the landfill. And so we actually keep his number at each site letting
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them know that hey, instead of giving us the year 244 dollars you can actually get.
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$100 for this guy if you take it to him. So if we can get that word out, I mean that, you know, that's great. We do let them know
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at the at the landfills when they come in. So there are other options rather than disposing of things in the forest. And it could
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even be beneficial to the residents. Maybe as this program gets going and we know that he's got the ability to handle all of those
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incoming units, maybe that's something we've publicized in a way we haven't wanted.
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Just yet because we don't know if something is going to happen and he's not able to handle all of these dilapidated vehicles that
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could end up in the forest if they end up with him and that's and that's the way we prevent them from ending up in the forest,
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then we're going to be all about that. We just we don't want to put that out there until we see the the ramp up of this project.
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So, Mr. Chair, one more question. You know, I know we have a big issue and patient. Do we have that big of an issue down here as
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far as the RV's?
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Trailers.
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They're still occupied. It doesn't seem like it based on based on the calls for these vehicles or the citizen complaints that get
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filtered. To me, it doesn't really seem like it. It seems like like Melanie said, that the ones down here that are maybe in areas
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that seem abandoned are being used, are being used by folks and then.
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There's also a lot more cover in a lot of ways for people to hide, getting these out into the woods.
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That may not be the case here. Environment is beautiful. I guess they want to be camping and they just don't have any other place
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to camp. Thank you.
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Yes, it's it's a very needed program, really, honestly, a lot of abandoned stuff and it seems to cluster together and it seems to
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just completely fall apart. People break windows, everything just gets trashed. You can't even hardly tow anything out. It's just
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that destroyed. Then it creates a problem as far as crime or whatever. People don't want to hike into that area anymore.
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Fire, danger and all the other things. It's really something that's developed because I never remember this happening.
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A few years ago, it's just like suddenly, all of a sudden we have a problem. So I appreciate everything you're doing. This is a
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good start. Let's see how this program works and see if we can do something. But with that, I'll call for motion.
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That the position of the criminal division of the county police office has been.
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I'm very characterized during the recession in the second is that when I saw it on the towards Gene I reached out to make sure
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that this program coordinates with the county recorder and it's kind of craziness office because this will assist the county Plaza
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in maintaining and cleaning up the tax rolls in the county and if she's able to pursue.
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Parties for back taxes or satisfy that taxes.
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County in that regard.
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OK, thank you for that input. Call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve the funding request in the amount not to exceed
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$25,000 for the ELA County Sheriff's Office, Healer County Public Works Department and Community partners collaboration to support
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the removal of abandoned vehicles R VS Travel trailers on US Forest Service plan. Mr. Cheryl, second out of a motion and a second.
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Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Thank you very much for your presentation. All right, next we have 4G, which is information
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discussion action to set a public hearing date Tuesday, December 3rd, 2020, 4:10 AM. To consider increasing the turnage rate for
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the landfill fees by $18.00 while maintaining the minimum load at the current level. Melanie, tell us what we're doing.
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Thank you. Good morning again.
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Mr. Chairman and members of the Board, so we put together a presentation, we did this last year as well. And we take our long term
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planning along with our revenue, our revenue protections over the next 10 years. And then kind of give us a glimpse of what we're,
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we're dealing with our revenue over time. And then if we're going to be able to afford the things that are needed to them and it
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will be done in the landfill.
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This is an outline and this is the focus of this.
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Presentation And then we're going to talk a little bit about Enterprise Fund, what that means, what we should be doing with the
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Enterprise Fund and what we're actually doing with the Enterprise Fund.
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Some background on our landfills, recent landfill history, life expectancy, some revenue that isn't collected at landfills that be
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Dollar Day. And then the Pleasant Valley Transfer Station, we're going to go over equipment at the landfills and that Blue Ridge
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Services assessment that was conducted. They have some suggestions on equipment.
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Our closure post closure cost of those that have increased quite a bit or the radical 3A expansion, combined financials,
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operations expansions for all our funds, our cash flow overtime and then our existing fee structure. And then we do have a
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recommendation for the Board, but we're really looking for guidance to go into that public hearing.
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And we have a couple of options there and then again we have a a recommendation.
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So the purpose of this?
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This presentation that we put together is to inform the Board of the state of the Landfill Enterprise Fund and to receive guidance
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on a proposed fee increase for a public hearing. So the way that it works is that we would have to publish in the paper 15 days
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before a public hearing, have a public hearing, the residents would come in and and talk about it and then.
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You guys would make a decision basically and so.
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This is just over a little bit of enterprise fun and I don't feel like we really hit on this in previous.
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Presentations and so again, the recycling and landfill management is an enterprise fund. It's self supporting and it doesn't have
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any assistance from the general fund whatsoever. Operation costs and landfill enterprise funds should be 60%. That's textbook all
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the experts across the across the board.
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Say that 60% of all the revenue should be used each year.
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For operation costs and then the other 40% would go into a fund balance to save for future expansions, purchasing land and then
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purchasing capital equipment like landslide compactors and and bulldozers and things like that. Also that fund would go for like
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we did the Blue Ridge services gap assessment. That fund would also take care of those those types of things. So the annual
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revenue for.
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Bills has averaged about $2.6 million. So if you were to take the 6040 approach, $900,000 every year should be deposited into the
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the fund balance going forward. And right now we're about 82.7% of operation cost within that $2.6 million.
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A little bit of background on the increases. The last fee increase was about was 2017 and we didn't know when this was going to
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be.
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Brought to the board. So it was about seven or eight years ago. I think it was more like 7 years ago. The Russell Gilchrist
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landfill expansion ended up costing three times what was originally budgeted in 2013 because of the inflation factor after in the
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wake of Covad, it was three times its normal rate. So we ended up spending more money than anticipated on the landfill Cell 3
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expansion.
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A fee study was conducted throughout Arizona. So the lowest fee was about $36 per tonne and that was in highly a highly populated
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area.
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Landfill that has a large footprint, they have several 100 acres and then the most expensive one with $80.00 per ton and that is
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around 5 weeks management in Payson. And the reason why that fee is so high is because they are required to transport that waste
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to the valley area. I think it's either Apache Junction or Phoenix. And again we talked about any time we took anything to
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Phoenix, it cost about 1000.
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Dollars a load. And so at that transfer station in Payson, they charge $81.00 per time. The average, the national average all
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through the United States is right under $60.00 per ton at 5847.
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A couple things done recently at maximum history and the life expectancy. So I feel Cell 3A, we just finished and it's supposed to
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last about nine years.
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And then at that, between now and then, we would need to construct landfill cell 3B and it should reach capacity in 2032. So
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again.
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Landfill expansions take about 10 years to plan and and.
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And get moving. And so we need to start actual construction of Landfill Cell 3B expansion two years before it reaches capacity. So
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that would be about 20-30. We would need to have it in the works. And so that's actually less than 10 years. So those types of
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things we're planning for now Landfill Cell 3 will provide.
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Capacity up until the year 2045, which is 12 1/2 years from now.
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And before 2045, the Hill County will need to cite a new landfill. Again, that's another 10 year process. Otherwise, if we weren't
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able to put your land here in the Globe Miami area, we would need to turn it into a transfer station and transfer the waste to
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another landfill. The hope would be the Buckhead Mesa landfill in Payson. And so we'll move on to the Buckhead Meso Banfield. So
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currently, the landfill sits on 51 acres of US Forest Service.
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Under special use permit, we had a couple of expansions that were done and it was the landfill was.
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Hope we were hoping it lasted till about 2728, but we did a recent flyover and we found some extra capacity when we were doing
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some excavation with a leachate issue we were able to excavate a bunch of soil that we don't know how it got there, but it was
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probably brought in by staff when they were working on a project so we.
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During the fly over, we realized that we have capacity until 2032, which is about the same time that landfill S 3B would reach
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capacity and Russell Gulch.
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So.
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What we're doing at Buckhead Mesa, because we need to expand the landfill past 2032, is that we are working on a Town Site Act
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purchase with the Forest Service to purchase 526 acres of land.
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Some of it would be used for the landfill to last 100 years. So that's some long-term planning. And then there's some other areas
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that would be used for county purposes and we're splitting the cost of the the land purchase through general fund per funding
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would use some of it for the roads and then.
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Some for the landfill. The landfill cost is about $800,000 and we're planning to finish all of that. It's a very lucrative goal,
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but we're planning on finishing all of it by September 2025.
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Again, there's 52 steps to that process. We had a work session on that and but we're really pushing through that.
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So again, all of these costs of expansions, this would come out of the fund balance that we talked about and that's the 40% of the
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total revenue that we kind of it's like a savings account to where we can pay for these things in the long in the long term. So
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this is a a brief overview of the two item. One, this is one of the two items of revenue that's not collected at the landfill.
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And I'm a big supporter of Dollar Day. The purpose of Dollar Day is to reduce illegal dumping and support.
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Support the community employment mitigation and to help the residents keep their properties clear of fresh and greenways. Hilo
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County Dollar Day is a monthly discount that allows residents to dispose of up to 1000 lbs of waste for $1.00. This happens the
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second Saturday of every month, or yes, the second Saturday of every month. There was a short period during the expansion that we
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did not hold Dollar Day.
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Here in Globe, but we still held Dollar Day out in Buckhead Mesa.
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So these wouldn't be accurate representations of numbers for a normal year of full operating for a dollar day. So this year we
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received 4155 loads over the course of the year, which means that we received $4155 for those loads that came in. The total
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tonnage cost for those loads was $56,000 and so if you.
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Take the money that we received, we did not receive $52,000.
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This year for the tonnage that came in and to kind of shed some light on tonnage, the 1st $18.00 of every ton that comes across is
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what pays for the building of the landfill and the closing of the landfill, if we were able to put that in perspective. So right
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now it's around $54.00, so that first $18.
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It it it has paid for the building of the landfill and then the expansion and then landfills going forward.
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So this would be the equivalent of about $0.50 per time that comes into the landfill that is subsidized by landfill users to pay
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for these services that we offer to the county.
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Residents.
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This is another.
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Another.
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Item of revenue that's not received by county landfills. So this is the Pleasant Valley Transfer Station. This year we picked up
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70 loads from the Pleasant Valley Transfer Station. We it was a total of 310 tons of waste coming down from Pleasant Valley and
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the tenants cost was $16,000. The transportation cost of the roll offs going up to the Pleasant Valley Transfer station and back.
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UMM was $56,000 and so that's a total cost of $72,000.
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Well, almost $73,000. The revenue received from the gate fees going into the Pleasant Valley Transfer Station we're around
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$27,000. So there's about $45,000 that wasn't received from the operations of the Pleasant Valley Transfer Station. Again, it
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comes out to about 4550 cents per time that's subsidized by landfill users.
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Every year.
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There are during our Blue Ridge services assessment, they were able to look at a high level review of the landfill and give us
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ways to improve compaction operations and give us some advice on what we could do better and because our landfills are a very
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precious commodity here and a very needed utility.
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We're really working to compact waste in a way that would.
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Prolong the life of all of our landfills. And so a couple of the things that they noticed is that we have landfill equipment that
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isn't.
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Isn't suited for the landfills that we're operating. So we have two very large bulldozers that they're not finishing bulldozers.
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We finish a lot of slopes and they're a little our, our tipping areas are so small, they're extremely bulky and so traffic needs
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to be out of the way a lot whenever we use them. And so their suggestion is that we would buy two small.
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Umm, landfill equipped bulldozers, they have landfill packages so waste isn't getting in the tracks and, and there's a lot of
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things that go into them that really save the equipment and prolong the life of the equipment. And it makes the operate, it's
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quite easier for the operators to operate the bulldozers. And so if we were to purchase two small bulldozers, it's $1.7 million is
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about what it would cost.
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They also suggested that instead of using scrapers at the landfills to move soil and earthy material that we would auction off the
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the scrapers and then invest into 10 wheel dump trucks.
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That were equipped for the landfill, the one we have now has way too much torque and we we snap the drivetrain often because it's
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on the soft dirt. And so we fixed that on a regular basis. So 210 will dump trucks would be ideal and the cost for those would be
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about $415,000. The last one is to replace the landfill compactors that we have. If you look to the right all the red.
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The red miles and hours.
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That shows our equipment that's high in miles and hours and pretty much over our the expectancy for that equipment. Most of our
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equipment is over 20 years old and.
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And it costs a lot of money. We're constantly fixing them and, and, and rebuilding parts of them and, and the, our General
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Services team has been amazing and they do a great job. But we do repair them often. So the last one is to repair 2 or I'm sorry,
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replace 2 landfill compactors and save one of our existing ones for a backup. And a total of those would be $1.8 million.
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Of course we would.
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By those overtime, it wouldn't be like, hey, we need to buy all these today. They would be bought overtime and put in our budget
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worksheet.
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So this is our financial assurance with every landfill. The ADQ requires landfill owners to hold money into an escrow account and
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it calculates the cost for closing the landfills, the funds, the funds are included by an inflation factor factor that's provided
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by the ADEQ.
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And then we also need funds for aquifer protection forever landfill monitoring because we have a landfill now, we don't ever not
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have to take care of our landfill. So for 30 years we absolutely have to. And then after that, if there's monitoring issues, we
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still are responsible for those issues. So these funds would.
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Be held in an escrow account and then at the time we would close the landfill, there's closure costs and then there's post closure
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costs, which is for the monitoring of the landfills. So last year we had $6 million in the fund. We were required to add $881,000
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to the fund, bringing it up to $7,000,000. And this was for the post closure and the closure cost and the post closure for Cell
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3A. So that's now included in our escrow fund.
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Hit our fund balance pretty hard. I know that we when we brought it to the board last year, we were looking at about $12.00 and
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during our work session and that has gone up significantly since then. So this is our cash flow over time and hopefully everyone's
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still awake. I know this stuff is exciting to me, but.
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So what we do is we take our actual tonnage every time we go over this for the year.
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And so we have our actual tonnage for last year and then we have an inflation factor of 3%.
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And so we our average tenant is about $48. We took all of the tenant that we bring into the landfill and then we take an average
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tenant rate because we do have three separate tonnage.
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Rates that we have and then we pull it out over time and then.
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You can see here we have dollar days and we have the young transfer station.
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Umm, here. And this is an exercise that is using the assumption that the landfill would not be subsidizing the young
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transportation in dollar days. Instead it would be subsidized somewhere else, like by the general fund. If that wasn't subsidized
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by the general fund, then we would have to increase it.
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Well, this year it would be about $1.00. Last year was about $2.00 because those two items came to about $200,000.
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So.
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With this exercise, if we were to keep fees the same, we can see here in year 2029 based on all of the items that we have to do
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purchase equipment, capital expansion, purchasing the land, we would go negative in 20292030 and this is without any change to a
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fee increase.
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So this is.
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The very top 1 is what we just looked at and then these are three options for a fee increase. So if we were to increase the fee by
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$14.00, then we would go negative in 20-30 based on all of the items that need to be taken care of for long term planning. If we
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were to increase the fee for $16.00 a ton, we would still go negative in 20-30.
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We'd still stay negative in 2031 and 32.
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And that's about.
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$700,000 and so if you were?
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Take that amount, that would be the same as buying a piece of equipment that we really need. And so we would go negative. So we'd
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either have to forego the purchase of capital equipment that's much needed or borrow money to make up for those funds. It does go
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back positive in 2032 about $200,000 and then we're almost up to half a half, $1,000,000 in 2033.
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Our suggestion, our recommendation would be the $18.00 fee increase per ton.
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And you see here that we we don't go into the negative at least as far as 2033.
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The good news is for residents that would bring in trash on a regular basis, maybe once a week they load up their trash and bring
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it. There would be no change for them. We're proposing to increase the the tenant fees by $18.00, but keep our minimum load fees
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exactly the same. So anybody that.
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That was a regular user of the landfill of who's to subscribing to trash service. They wouldn't be impacted at all.
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And at the very bottom, you can see here through the years we have if we use our current, this is by 2033. If we don't increase
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fees will be -6 and a half $1,000,000 by 2033. If we increase it by $14.00 will be negative half $1,000,000 in 2033 will be up
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almost $500,000 if we increase at $16.
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However, we spent two years that were negative before that and we didn't get to buy the equipment that we need.
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And we only budgeted $300,000 every year for capital equipment. So that's not exuberant amount. So it would take us about three to
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four years to actually purchase and pay off one piece of equipment with the exercise that we've completed. And then here for
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$18.00 a ton, we'd be up $1.6 million in 2033 and ready for all the the new planning that that we would need to do over the next
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10 years.
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So again, we're looking for a decision guidance on.
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What the board sees fit and for the public hearing, again our recommendation would be to increase fees $18.00 per ton and use the
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and keep the minimum load fee for residents exactly the same.
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Any questions? Yeah, thank you. But today we're not deciding on a fee, deciding on.
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To conduct a public public hearing. Supervisor.
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I I hope a lot of the public was listening today on the deal because.
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Awful lot of information. No, no stones left unturned of purpose for this.
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Appreciate it, but like I say, I, I would very much like input from the, from the public. I mean, I, I fought hard for dollar dump
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day to help clean things up. And, and so I, I know it's, it's used a lot because I've been in those lines, but but I'd like to
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hear from the commercial people. I would like to hear from the people that, you know, take their trash.
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Every two weeks or something, I'd like to hear from dollar dump day. I mean, I, I fought hard for dollar dump day to help people
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clean up, but, but would they mind a $2.00 dump day so that the tipping fee instead of going to $18.00 a ton, it'd be $16.00 a ton
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because the everyday people or, or the dollar day people are going to pitch in a little bit too, you know, I because it.
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I hope a lot of people have access to this information and that we hear from them because in the end, I'm going to have to make a
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decision for the people and then I'm going to get a phone call that's in. Why are you putting me out of business? Well, because
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you didn't let me know how you felt. So I thank you very much for compiling all this information for public information. And I
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urge the public to look at some of this information and, and, and, and talk to your supervisors and, and.
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Give them some input because we have to, we have to someday close these landfills and it costs and that money has to come from
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somewhere and, and so.
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And I, and so, you know, raising the tipping fees is, is it necessary? And I'm wondering why we didn't already put the transfer
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basin and pacing out of business because they're 81 and we're like what, 56 or something. So I don't know why anybody goes there
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when they can take for $20 a ton less. OK, public, there's your information. So.
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We might know that everybody knows the dipping piece. But anyway, Melanie, thank you very much for the presentation and compiling
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this public take advantage of all of the work that was put into this and look and see and, and, and help me. Give me, give me some
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phone calls. Let let me know where you stand on this. And if you, if you don't mind paying $2.00 for a dollar dump day, let me
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know, you know.
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So, Melanie, thank you very much, Public. I thank you ahead of time for letting me know how you feel about the landfills and, and
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where we're going with them. And so I appreciate the information.
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Because it's so nice to be able to to look ahead this far and know where we're going instead of have surprises like we did on our
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last on our old landfill when we had to close it. So thank you very much, Mr. Chair. That's all. OK. Thank you. Supervisor Klein,
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Melanie Romero, thanks for putting this together. There is a lot of information and and I do have a little bit to say.
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The, the equipment part of it, we, we went through this before you were here.
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You know, that's why we have a scraper. That was the big thing back then. You got to have a scraper in the operations of landfill.
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I know a lot of other landfills have scrapers as well. So what's the right piece of equipment or what isn't? I'm not willing to
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tell you.
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But I'd like to have more than just one outfits opinion too, because equipment is very, very expensive and it needs to be the
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right equipment. Otherwise you do tear it up and the the repair costs are are a lot. So that's that's something that I feel like
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needs to be looked in pretty thoroughly is that.
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When it comes to you're looking out 10 years ahead, 12 years ahead of time, we don't know what the costs are going to be.
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We have no idea. We can put all kinds of numbers on these charts and make them look really good for today, and in 10 years we're
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way behind, which would be my guess. I very seldom ever see anything go down.
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So when it comes to the new acquisitions or land requirements and and putting together new systems, who knows just like that we
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were $3,000,000 over on on the landfill here Russell Gulch.
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So to really say that this is what's going to take to plan for that, well, I think we can plan towards that. But is that going to
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cover it? I'll bet you it won't.
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You know what I'm saying? The other part of this is, is we can't get to the point to where people can't use our landfill. We can't
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do that. We talked today about the, the things out there in the woods and the, and the trash. We've, we've been a part of cleaning
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up around these towns and stuff.
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We've seen what happens when people can't afford it, they just go out to the local wash somewhere and dump it off.
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And so if you up the fees, one thing will happen, I can almost promise you is I'll drive more people to the dollar dump day.
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That's what's going to happen. It'd be like, yeah, we can hold on to this till next month.
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You know, if I go for the extra money, it'll drive some people to go back to the washes and dump and stuff.
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There has to be that balance and I, I appreciate what Tim said about Dollar Dumb Day because I am a favorite fan of that as well.
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Now, is there a way of adjusting that for a few dollars or whatever? You know, it needs to be looked at? I would say the Pleasant
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Valley transfer station.
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That's not even weighed trash when it comes to the gate. So to spit numbers out on that is just arbitrary numbers. They mean
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nothing because we have no way there to weigh trash in. If we had a set of skills sitting there that people drive over the skills
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and we know what's in that vehicle.
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And they paid for it. There wouldn't be a deficit there.
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So, so there's some, there's some angles to this that I think really need to be adjusted. I'm not in favor of doing away with the,
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with the, the dumb day, whether it's a dollar dumb day or $5 dumb day, whatever it is, I'm not in favor of getting away with it.
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Definitely not in favor of doing away with the transfer station, and I'm not in favor of our general fund subsidizing it.
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And so I think there's some different ways that a person could sit down and sharpen a pencil, maybe go for a few extra dollars and
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set a scale in there at Pleasant Valley, even for a year, just to see what you're missing. You know, it's when you have somebody
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just standing at the gates and $7.20 bucks, whatever it is, that's that's what it is there. That's the way it happened. So we
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don't know that we're losing money there. Well, we are because of what happens when it's jumped off in pacing.
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The tipping fee.
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So there's ways I think we need to really look at this before we jump in there and really, really talk $18.00 a ton more or $25 a
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ton more or whatever it is. I think there's more to be done here to come up with some other ideas too and make sure we exhaust
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everything that is out there to turn around and say this is what we need and more likely it ain't going to be enough in 10 years.
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That's my two cents. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Thank you, Melanie and Merrill all involved. Great presentation, almost a
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work study kind of presentation. Very good though. It just shows to me that we're going to be in the red and around 7 or 8-9
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years, hopefully not sooner. So we need to plan now for that. And I have a feeling that what's occurred is maybe.
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Previous years or decades it wasn't planned for properly.
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So now it's time for us to step up and plan for it. And even though this seems like a big jump, I think what we're deciding today
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is are we going to let the public have some input on this? Let's see what that input is, and then we can start hashing out some of
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these details. But if we're going to run it like an enterprise, then we need to run it like an enterprise.
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And part of that is inflation, part of that is more cost, part of that's all part of running an enterprise. So I'm going to ask
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you, maybe it's going to be a hard question maybe.
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Can you convince me why the county should be in the landfill business versus private sector?
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So the landfills provide jobs to county residents and.
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Waste disposal is a very.
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Needed utility and.
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If we were to bring in private contractors to either run it or if we were to sell it to private contractors, we would be looking
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at what Payson is charging and it's probably about $81.00 a ton. So, so far we've been able to stay under.
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Those fees and whether or not they would want to purchase land or the Forest Service even let them purchase land. So we would
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probably end up with transfer stations much like Payson House through Waste Management.
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And rural communities rural counties end up paying more for these types of.
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Utilities because the nearest landfill is 78 miles away and and the transportation costs are high. And so I think the county
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staying in the landfill business, we have the opportunity to keep those fees as low as possible because here there are, you know,
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$71 for commercial, we're still coming in $10 under.
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What waste management is charging in Payson?
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Okay, okay, good answer. I like that. Because really what you're saying is that the county being involved in the landfill business
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is going to be less expensive for the residents of the county. And that's why we do it, not because it's fun and not because you
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know, it's, it's easy. It's not, it's, it'd be much easier to just say, let's just not do it and not have to do the equipment and
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the and the everything involved because we're dealing with Forest Service, we're dealing with environmental.
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Protection, we're doing a lot. And so that should be part of the conversation, I believe as we ask the public, would you be
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willing to pay another amount, $18.00 as you're recommending or we go into the red at some point anyway? Or would you rather us
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not be in the business and you pay $30 more per ton to do that and probably be even more impact?
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With people dumping in the forest and all of that sort of thing, so.
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Yes, Sir. I have one question, Mr. Chair and Joe, you may be able to answer this. Back in the day, didn't the county contract the
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landfill out?
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They're private individuals to run and operate.
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Microphone is job.
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Yes. It was operated by a company called Arizona Landfills Incorporated and then at some point the county.
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Terminated that contract and and took over operation of the the landfill. But the property has always belonged to Helen County.
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The Russell Gulch Landfill and then the Buckhead Mesa Landfill was created back in the 1980s after the landfill out in Star Valley
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was closed.
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And was it contracted as well?
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The the Star Valley Landfill was operated by Hilly County and then Hilly County took on operation of the Bucket Mesa Landfill once
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it was constructed. And that landfill was the first landfill constructed in Arizona, built the current ADQ standards and that's
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why the county's been able to operate it and expand it to date because it was built to Standard Dent.
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That's not the case. I don't. I'm not sure, but that may not be the case with the with the Russell Gelch landfill.
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Thank you, Joe.
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Any more discussion?
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OK. So we're I'm going to call for a motion on item CG which is 4G, not Fiji and which is about the public hearing date, Mr.
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Chair.
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I'll make the motion to set a public hearing date on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024 at 10:00 AM to consider increasing the tonnage
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rate for landfill fees.
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Mr. Chair, I will second that motion. OK, We have a motion of a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye, aye. Thank
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you, Melanie. And when you say 10:00, where will this meeting be conducted?
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I believe it's here, correct? I'm sorry I don't know the answer to that.
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Yes. Oh, it'll be a regular board meeting. I'm sorry. OK. So that's helpful to me. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. All
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right.
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So that'll be like a public hearing at our regular board meeting. OK, now I get it. All right. 4H information, discussion, action
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to adopt resolution #11-46-4, which authorized the execution of intergovernmental agreement #24-000. Nine, 775-I. Chairman, I'm
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sorry, can I back up?
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December 4th is a Wednesday.
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And so if it's part of the regular board meeting, it would be Tuesday, December 3rd, I believe.
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It's it's in red on mine.
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December 3rd, I have Tuesday, December 3rd, and that's what we approved. That is what we approved, yes. OK. Thank you for that.
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Yeah, we want to make sure that's clear. OK. I'll continue reading rather than repeat. Between Hilah County and the State of
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Arizona Department of Transportation in the amount of $1,041,199, which fully funds the scoping and design of Russell Rd. Good
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morning again, Alex. Good morning again, Mr. Chairman, Board of Supervisors.
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So as you know, Russell Rd. washed out in several places between milepost 3.5 and 5.2 after the flooding that occurred as a result
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of the Telegraph fire.
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We were, the Hill County Engineering Department was trying to figure out a way to fund the design and reconstruction of this road.
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And back in August, we actually got approved for the SMART grant from a DOTS. And so this is 100% funded by, so it's federally
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funded.
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Will need to be administered by a dot because of that, and this specific SMART grant is for getting $1,041,199 which includes the
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entirety of the scoping design.
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Plans, specification engineers, cost estimates, environmental assessment reports and a grants middle document to provide standard
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information so under the SMART grant requirements.
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In order to not have to pay back this funding, we have to actually apply for an additional construction grant immediately
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following the completion of the SMART grant, and so part of this money will go to this.
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Engineering firm to help us prepare to apply for that. What we are looking at are the PROTECT grants and the build grants to help
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fund the construction of this project after it has been designed. So 100% fairly funded and this will get us some options for
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fixing. Russell Rd.
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Thank, Alex. Supervisor Humphrey, I thank you very much for your persistence on this. It's been washed out a long time. And so
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thank you for continuing to work on this. And and that seems like an awful lot of money, but with all the requirements that are
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necessary to deal with US waterways and for service and all the things. So, yeah, I appreciate you continue to working on this.
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And the neat thing of it is, is once this is is.
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And we do have a design and that's all tied up in a bow, then we will have a cost amount that we can put in for a grant for
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because right now until this engineering is done, we don't have that information. So thank you. And I appreciate all the staff's
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persistence and continuing to work on that. And I'm looking very forward to when, when this is finished and we can put in for a
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grant. So Alex, thank you very much.
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Thank you, Supervisor Klein. I'm good. Thank you, Alex. Yeah, I'm good as well. I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I move to adopt
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resolution #11-06-24.
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Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion and a second to approve those in favor say aye, aye, Thank you, Alex. Item 4I information
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discussion action to approve amendment number one to state contract number Ctr. 0161840 with the SJ Anderson Company to extend the
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term of the contract through December 31st, 2024 and decrease the dollar amount of the contract.
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By $43,063.08 per, not to exceed amount of $177,020.57. Good morning, Joseph.
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Good morning, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, This request seeks approval for amendment number one to state contract with SJ
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Anderson Company for the Hilo County Fairgrounds prefab bathroom slab and earth work utility project.
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This project was launched and completed in response to community needs and funded by the American Rescue Plan grants for the
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fairgrounds improvements. The fabricated restroom facility was purchased for $325,759 with the slab, earthwork and utility
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contracted to USJ Anderson at $220,084.65. The Facilities and Land Management Department proposes extending the contract term.
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To December 31st, 2024 and reducing the total cost by $43,063.08, bringing the final contract to 170. Seventy $7020.57.
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This cost savings was achieved through efficient resource management, lower than anticipated material costs, and minimal use of
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contingencies.
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The extension provides also a buffer to complete financial administrative closeout task, ensuring compliance and allowing for
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minor adjustments as needed. This amendment will enable us to finalize the project within budget and with full operational
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readiness.
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Approval of this amendment reflects our commitment to delivering a high quality cost effective improvement for the community
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facilities and we just want to thank you for your support in advance. With that, I'd be happy to take any questions. Thank you,
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Joseph. Gotta love that. Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah, I have no questions other than thank you very much for for helping us continue
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to.
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To make the fairgrounds a better place for recreation. So thank you very much.
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I'm good, Joseph. Thank you. Savings is always good. Yes, Sir. Yeah, Thank you very much. I'm sure we can find a good use for
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that. I will call for a motion, Mr. Chair. I'll make the motion to approve amendment number one to state contract number Ctr.
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0161840 with the SJ Anderson Company as presented. Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion to the second to approve. Those in favor say
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aye.
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Thank you, Joseph. And now we have 4 J item information action to approve an intergovernmental agreement with the City of Globe.
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For the distribution of responsibilities pertaining to the renovation of the Michaelson building for the Coworks space and we have
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manager Menlo.
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Good morning, Mr. Chairman, members of the Board.
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Do you have Connie with me from the City Globe? This is a IGA for partnership that has been discussed earlier today. I want to
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review some of the items that was in the agenda item that.
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Already gone through the dates, but the sources and uses of revenues.
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And coming to an IGA of what those sources and uses of revenues are first of all, a roof replacement cost of 390,609 Freeport
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Community Investment Fund 150,000 of that and specifically for the roof replacement, the county investment 240,609 for the
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renovation portion of that there's a commitment or a.
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Proposed commitments of $1.3 million congressionally directed spending through the City of Globe 750,000 Presidents and copper
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economic development support through the City of Globe 150,000 resolution. Copper economic development support through Healing
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County 150,000 As part of the fiscal year 202425 budget, Healer County has budgeted $250,000 specifically for the.
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Michelson.
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Rehabilitation, remodel and also the City of Globe and their 2425 budget, they have an appropriation line item amount of $150,000
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total of $1,450,000 for.
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Completing the remodel and outfitting of the facility with the office equipment, those are the things that are necessary to let
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that purpose out. The intent is at this point that.
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There we've gone through a couple of times that they've tested for asbestos and lead and those kinds of things. There's been
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remediation done. They're testing again. I understand that there is black mold in the facility.
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And so.
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Part of this that there's.
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At this point is to gut.
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Existing.
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Walls and those types of things and completely clear out both floors of the Michelson building.
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If I could of what this agreement is, the whereas is I could take a moment and go through those that whereas both the third bullet
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of whereas. Both he the County and the City Globe have an interest in strengthening economic development in here, the county,
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Arizona and each political subdivision is statutorily enabled to expand public money for economic purposes and whereas the County
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owns the building described as Michaelson Building located at 157 S Broad St. in Globe, AZ. To date, the county has.
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A significant amount of to maintain the habitability of the property, including 309,000 to remodel, retire the roof and 250,000
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for interior demolition. To date, of that amount, Freeport Macron contributed one amount of 150,000. And whereas the property is
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available to be repurposed for appropriate public use, the state bulb has been awarded 750,000 by a congressionally directed
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spending.
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Field pack better bill appropriation that is specifically designated to fund the joint project to convert the Michaels and
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building office space into a functional.
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Business Incubator Center for Economic Development in Elite County Additionally, in the city of Globe anticipates receiving a 25%
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match of the federal funds from a local mining company intended for use in the development of the multi user business incubator
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facility. And now therefore, in consideration of the mutual promises contained in this IGA and of the mutual benefits result,
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there are the parties agreed as follows. Those agreements are several pages of the previous are included in in the IGA.
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Mr. Chairman, with your if you'd like to.
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Yes, welcome, Connie. Thank you, supervisors.
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We're just very happy at the City of Globe to be part of this partnership and to bring an incubator space. As you know with our
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First Friday project, we're kind of doing an outside incubator space. So now to bring everybody inside and enhance their
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businesses and give them resources, that would be awesome. And as a supervisor, Humphrey, I believe you said that this is a iconic
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building within our city and what a what an awesome place to do that. So we're just thrilled to be part.
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This and we thank you very much for being willing to be that partner that brings this incubator space to this this whole region in
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fact, you know.
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Thank you, County Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah, I, I think it's a great project and with all the partners going on and all the work
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that needs to be done now that we're doing some more demo and then some refurbishing, have we discussed the project management? I
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mean, as owners of the building, is there, is there a project manager or management group that that, that can kind of lead the the
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team, so to speak?
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This chairman's brother, Humphrey.
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It specifically is part of the USDA grant that they've got the city has got that they are required to be essentially the project
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manager and they being city of Globe, we will be heavily involved. And as part of those that 3 pages of conditions. It is that the
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the county, the county and the city goal will be weekly meetings are required to coordinate and to support that.
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As we've toured the facility in that.
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It is comments were made that we do need to have the county heavily involved in the entire process and it's insured that we'll
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have minimum at least weekly meetings in coordination with the county for the project. But as far as $700,000 required that City
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of Gold be the project manager.
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And I would hope maybe.
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Occasionally updates with the Board of Supervisors.
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Mr. Chairman, Sergeant, we could have them as often as you'd like. Absolutely. Thank you.
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Supervisor Klein.
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So I think it's really good to see a building getting put to use and renovated and not being torn down and and going to have a
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feature. So I'm really glad to see this going. The sooner we can get those doors open and get those folks in there, the better off
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we're all going to be. So thank you, Connie for your partnership from City of Globe and I look forward to it getting finished.
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Yes, thank you. I look forward to the partnership as well. So with that, I will call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve
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the intergovernmental agreement with the City of Globe as presented. And I'll second that, Mr. Chair, have a motion and a second
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to approve those in favor say aye.
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Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Members of the Board, the next step is going to be filled within the facilities team are
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working to get a contract. Hopefully we have a contract within the next few weeks.
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Do the demo and then we'll be jumping in to do the remodel. So hopefully within the next couple months we've got the building
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completely.
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The interior completely demonstrable and.
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So we're planning to move forward quickly with that. OK, very exciting. Thank you. Look forward to updates. Item 4K is information
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discussion action to approve an economic development agreement number 10162024 between Healer County and Katie's Closet
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Incorporated in the amount of $1000 to provide new clothing to marginalized children.
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Grades kindergarten through 12th grade of Healer County, which the board is determined to be for the benefit of the public. This
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is my item that.
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I've helped with in the past and we do have someone from Katie's closet. Would you like to say a few words about what how
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beneficial this is to the process of?
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What you do?
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My name is Bob Horn.
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I'm the director.
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Board has been very good about supporting us yearly since I've taken over directions in 2017.
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Let me give you a sense of what we've done with us for this year. We've assisted 383 children.
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I have 120 volunteers, including 346 volunteer hours.
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We have purchased and distributed 261 new pair of shoes to join.
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344 underwear to children 440 pair of new socks to children We is now 273 is generally used by a Walker and working coats and
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we've given out another 258.
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Some sort of new item, primarily shirts and pants.
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In addition, we've given.
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Trying to treat bags and some 35 RCLP books and children.
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Possibly the most challenging thing for me this past year if I've ever I had a child here on my shoes.
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And I moved her to the front of the road because she had no shoes on.
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It's too dangerous.
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This program has been existed since 2013 and has reached.
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Literally.
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Well over 1000 children.
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And we continue to assist children in any way we can. In your $1000 is very meaningful. I spent $1000. Well, I spent $5000 on
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shoes at Walmart this year.
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At $40 last Friday, so we're very pleased to have your support.
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Well, thank you. Thank you for that report and thank you for all that you do. Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah, thank you very much for
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all you do. And I think it's a great program and I would encourage anybody else that's listening to also help you with your quest
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to help the help close people. So thank you very much, Supervisor Klein.
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Yeah, that.
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That's that's a wonderful project and everything. Joe, I want to throw in another $1000 on this. Are you going to stop me?
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No if.
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If Mr. Christensen will accept an amendment to the amount of the grant.
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We can do that accomplish that by the motion to add $1000 to the total amount.
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The chairman will accept any additions to the original amount. Yeah, I think when you change it, you ought to change it to three.
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OK, very good. Thank you so much. That's very generous. And so the motion now will reflect that you will receive $1000 from each
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supervisor for a total of $3000. And with that I will.
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Ask for a motion, Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve the Economic Development Agreement number 10162024 with Katie's
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Closet in the amount of $3000 as presented, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public.
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Mr. Chair, I will second that. And we have a motion in the second to approve. And all those in favor say aye, very good, thank
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you. That'll be very beneficial. Thank you for coming.
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All right. Our next item, very generous. Thank you very much for all for that. Appreciate it means a lot.
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4L Also this is economic development grant, we're going to have information, discussion, action to approve the economic
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development agreement number 101724 between Hugh County and the Payson Hewlett County Sheriff's policy incorporated in the amount
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of $9000. And this will be to assist with the annual Shock with a Hero event.
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Which the board is determined to be for the benefit of the public. I will say that the $9000 also is being shared equally among
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all three supervisors for this event. We have with us Cole Avante and it looks like we have Sarah. There have been any up in
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Payson? Very good. Go ahead. Morning, Chairman Ford, A little bit of background on the ask for this. So this program got started
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by the Sheriff's Office here in Yuma County.
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Let's say about eight years ago or so, it got brought to us by a deputy.
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And we, that deputy went out and got some donations from local businesses and it it helped us fund a few kids. We put out
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applications, teachers, churches, regular citizens would.
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Fill out an application that would come to us and we would go through the application, try to determine which kids we could accept
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into the program and we turned away a lot of kids. So over the years it's grown and we're we're kind of to the point where we can
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only handle.
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About 30 kids on the north side of the county and 30 kids on the southern end of the county for this program. The reason why that
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is, is because it takes so many volunteers and 1st responders.
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To to appropriately handle this program. So as a kid comes in and the approval process they're approved, we tell them tell their
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current one to drop them off.
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Provided with breakfast that morning, they hop in an ambulance, they hop in a fire truck, they hop in the cop car and you take
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them to Walmart. We give them a a certain amount of money to spend and they're able to buy Christmas gifts for their friends,
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their family, other people in their household. And that is giving a better Christmas to some underprivileged kids and families. So
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the the $9000, we're asking for it.
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Puts out about $150.00 per kid to purchase some gifts. Some kids end up with a whole bunch of gifts because they're, they're
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choosing things that are a little more expensive than some kids end up with just enough Jennifer their, their immediate family in
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the home. But what this program does for those underprivileged kids and the rest of the community is, is really kind of hard to
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put into words, but it's, if you've ever had a chance to be there, it's, it's really a great program and we'd love your support to
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to keep it going.
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Very good. Sarah, did you have anything to add?
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Call dedicated job presenting it. Like I said, we're just always grateful for your guys to continue support this really as she
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comes to such event for the Sheriff's Office when it comes to our community involvement. The amount of you know people and kids
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being in touch with a positive.
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Interaction with law enforcement is huge, so thank you for your interview support and if you have any questions.
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OK. Appreciate that, Supervisor Humphrey.
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I have no questions other than, you know, it'd be nice if it's partially sponsored by the county Board of Supervisors put
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somewhere.
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Because, because I think, I think it, I think it's, I think it's a great program and, and that suggestion, I'm sure you've done a
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lot of this and haven't had a lot of suggestions. I also am part of a group that we do Christmas shopping with children morning
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for clothes and, but we found out in the past that we need to take the receipts off.
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Because some of those people that qualify, when the kids get home with the gifts, they are traded back, they're taken back for
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cash. So we found out a long time ago that although it's a great program and great intentions, we need to take the receipts off so
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that they can't return the items that we have purchased for cash and use it for their whatever they think is necessary. But I
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think it's a great program.
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Anything we can do to help the kids and the less fortunate.
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I'm behind 100%. Thank you very much. Those safeguards are in.
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Supervisor, they had thrown a line with the receipt. They also marked the tax of anything ever bought. So anything that bought
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during that event cannot be returned for money. Yeah, it's too bad we live in a world where we got to do that. But it's it's a
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great program and it's great that we keep working through to make it make it work for what it's supposed to.
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OK. Thank you, supervisor.
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Cole I remember when this started and it was, it has been an awesome program, really good. And so basically you're topped off
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about 30 kids, you say, yeah, so the, the amount of people it takes to to wrap all the presents in the is a lot like you've ever
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been to it. We, we take over the whole garden centre and Walmart to, to have enough people to wrap these presents and the amount
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of we don't have a lot of first responders.
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We've got enough to do with what we need to do for emergencies in Hulen County, but we don't have that many fire trucks, that many
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ambulances, that many cop cars. And we include every single the, the tribal police departments include the, the municipal police
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department's DPS, the fire departments, the even the helicopters show up. We can't put the kids in the helicopters, but we have
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them there just just for fun. So really with the amount of.
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Emergency apparatus as we have to put kids into where we're kind of stuck with that 30 number. So with that being said you've got
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enough money to go with this 9000. It keeps you in enough money to to cover that amount of kids. You're good. Yeah. That that
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amount of money gets us those sixty kids. OK all right. Thank you for all you guys are doing Sarah and Sheriff that it's it's just
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an awesome program. It's really good. So thank you all.
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It really is. I was at the event last year. It's just incredible. Yeah. So thank you very much for that. And so with that, I'll
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call for motion.
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I move to approve Economic Development Agreement number 10172024 with Payson Helen County Sheriff's Policy Incorporated, as
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presented, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. Mr. Charles, second time we have a motion and a
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second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye, aye. Thank you. Thank you, Sheriff, for being here today.
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Thank you very much.
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Yeah, you're very welcome.
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Stay safe out there.
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We're on item 5, consent agenda item item 5A through K Supervisor Humphrey, 81 or more items that you would like to remove to
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discuss here to remove anything today. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Klein. OK, so I will call for a motion to approve consent
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agenda items 5A through K. So moved, Mr. Chair, I'll 2nd that. I have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda items.
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Those in favor say aye, aye, aye.
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Motion carries.
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OK, We are to call to the public Item 6. This is where we allow the public to address the Board. The Board will not be able to
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make any decisions regarding this process and we allow three minutes per person that wishes to speak.
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Determined it.
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OK, umm, Tyler, I don't think anyone's in Payson, correct?
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How about you, Cassie? No. Just as a note, how many did we have today? 40, Very good. Anyone? Well, we do have two here in Globe.
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And I don't know who wishes to speak first, but we have both Vince and Cindy Hudson. Looks like Cindy is going to come forward.
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Good afternoon. Good afternoon Humphrey, Chairman Christensen and Supervisor Klein. I'm here to talk again. This is 1/4 time I've
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been we've been here on this topic, which is The Pioneers project. Healer County approved the Pine Ice project, which was
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basically a detention based in that collects all the water from their property and shoots it on to us through 5 pipes directly
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onto our property.
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As a result, three of the four homes on our property are now flooded with a little bit of rain we've had so far.
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Five properties are affected.
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And we've had a pretty dry monsoon, but.
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We did have one good rain at the beginning, I think it was in June, and with that one good rain, we had 16 inches of water in the
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basement of one of our homes.
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Now Public Works has stated and continues to state that this project was approved because the post development peak flows are less
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than the pre development flows for the two year, 10 year, 50 year and 100 year replacements.
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We haven't even had a two year and we're already getting flooded in four of our five homes.
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Alex Kendrick can testify or can say that those five properties that are reflected never got flooded before. He never had
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complaints to properties South of us, directly South of us, and the property South of him with this little bit of rain were
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flooded.
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The antique store is kind of like there's like SE southeast of us, so they aren't directly South. But if we do something to
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mitigate the flood, because isn't it our private property right to protect our property from water that's being directed to us?
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And if that is if we build a wall that floods the antique store. So this whole thing needs to be coordinated between all the
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properties affected. Now, we went to our supervisor as aunt was recommended because like I said, this is the fourth time we've
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been here. We went to our supervisor, supervisor Christian Christensen, and he said, quote UN quote, I want to fix this problem.
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Steve, you gave us your word.
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So we set up a meeting. We're actually supervisor Christensen Center for meeting in 30 days. We waited the 30 days because he was
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going elk hunting. I don't know how you did, but in the meantime, when he's gone on vacation, somebody cancelled the meeting.
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So the meetings are now cancelled.
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So no one's talking to us, no one is responding to our emails, no one is responding to our calls. Where is the transparency of
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government in that picture?
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It doesn't look pretty.
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Who's running Healer County? Is it our supervisors? I look at the organizational chart and who's in the town.
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Well, if one of the people on the top schedules a meeting, then how is it that everybody else can cancel it?
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That's my timer pretty good. I'm 3 minutes. Thank you, Cindy.
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I may respond, but Vince, did you want to say something? OK.
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Supervisor Christensen.
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Woody and Tim, please. Woody, I hope you're doing good with your.
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That's the first one. I just got a few things to say to you guys.
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We move into an area where not Mormons and we know that.
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And we're fighting everything every step of the way. We've got to spend almost 30 grand to put in a septic system. When our
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neighbors got J John's Steve, you promised you would help straighten this out. You said the good old boy system was going to stop.
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I got your words.
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Let's all get together and work on this. We're willing to work on it.
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I want to put the water down the northern side of our property. We got the water meters for the water company. So I talked to the
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neighbors at the Pine, I mean at the Timeless Antiques. They agreed to take the easement.
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I draft the easement, I get it notarized. I bring it to the county. You guys won't accept.
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You guys got a second? I mean, an attorney, Jessica won't return a phone call, won't return an e-mail, but is good at sending
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registered letters.
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We need to get this straightened out and we need to quit fighting with each other.
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Steve, you gave me your word. I got it on recording. Stand up like a man and do the right thing. Thank you.
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All right, so.
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I think I'll respond cautiously. We did have a meeting. It was cancelled, We did. I did say that I would like to meet you on your
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property with staff.
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That is true.
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Staff instructed you to apply for the appropriate permits and that did not seem to be forthcoming. Therefore the meeting was
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cancelled. I have since been advised because of the way the process has proceeded with our public, with the community development
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department, I've been advised by our legal department not to continue responding.
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And that's why I have not.
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In a way I feel I should be, but I have been advised not to so.
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I do believe the Hudson's have the resources and ability to solve this issue. There seems to be.
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Tension between them and the community development department which is not creating a smooth course of action to get this
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resolved. So I would just suggest that you no longer seek.
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For the supervisors to solve this for you but be very capable community development department to do that.
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OK, Supervisor Humphrey, anything you'd like to add?
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Supervisor Klein.
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Thank you. That concludes our public, our call to the public.
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At this time, we will have.
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Our reports.
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Mr. Menlove.
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Couple things, Mr. Chairman. Of course, it's Election day-to-day. And as of last Friday, the CSA reported that throughout the
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state that there were early voters that had been 51% of the eligible voters had already voted as of last Thursday.
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And is there oxygen day? I was here till in my office till about 8:00 last night, there was a non-stop stream of people that were
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depositing their ballots into the the receptacle right outside my office here. So it's there is appears to be very heavy. And of
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course, Gila County orders are typically second in the state as far as percentage the high volume.
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Second in the state for volume of percent of voters.
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Only vested slightly by Yavapai County. So it's appears that we have very heavy voting in the election. That's good. That's where
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Castro votes. That's the way our political system works to cast our votes for who we believe is the best candidate. And we
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appreciate all those who have contributed to that. I will make a comment about the Treasurer's office. I've spoken to her that
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last Friday was.
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Tax bills were delinquent as of last Friday, November 1st. The Treasurer is working with those. We did have the errors in Pleasant
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Valley for the school district assessment and also in the Payson Unified School District area.
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The treasure is working through those as fast as you can and is waving any late fees or penalties that there might be. As far as
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processing those, I'm glad to have the if you want to go talk to treasurer, I'm sure she'd welcome your conversation. But I have
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spoken to her and she they are working diligently to get all those processes when somebody pays for their tax, property taxes and
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it is an amount greater than what ultimately they should be paying.
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She's hanging on to those checks, contacting property owners individually and asking them if they would issue a new check for the
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corrected amount for the property taxes and little data. They don't want you. They they, they want to just have the treasurer's
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office cash those checks. Then either the treasury is issuing a check and a refund or just applying their taxes to the second-half
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payments. So she's trying to work with her citizens and get through this difficult circumstance.
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Community in the greatest ease possible.
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We have the challenges from but we are working throughout to try to get that corrected.
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I will close there, Mr. Chairman.
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Thank you, Mr. Manloth, Supervisor Humphrey.
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Yeah, I attended a CAG Regional Council meeting on the 30th Central Arizona Government.
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I carpooled with Mr. Menlov, the mayor, Camaros and and Paul Jepsen. It's nice to kind of carpool with them so we can communicate
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and not have to schedule a meeting that sometimes we don't have time for, so that that's always look forward to. I was on Kiko
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open line on the 30th at 9:30.
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I I talked about Tri-City Sanitation department.
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You know them. They've got some board members that are on the ballot that I was in favor of.
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And Speaking of Election Day and people on the ballot, everybody get out and vote. I think during the primary, we were like 43% of
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registered voters in Halo County. I'd like it to be 63%. If you know, if you're here, there's, there's people making decisions for
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you. So I think it, it's important that you're, it's your, it's your obligation and, and your, your, your right to vote.
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And so I would appreciate if people get out and exercise that I attended a District 2 team project meeting where we meet once a
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month over projects that we're doing in District 2 and projects that we want to do in District 2. And so it's, it's been pretty
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good to keep working on those and, and, and getting things accomplished. Attended ACSA Blight roundtable on October the 29th and
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you know, I've, I've been working.
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Since I've been here and there's a lot of properties that people have passed away that we end up with nobody responsible for the
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property, as well as investors who can foreclose on properties and have not. They can leave those properties in limbo for 10 years
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and then the process starts all over again. So some of these properties can be neglected for, you know, 10 to 20 years, which I'm
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really fighting hard. And so we're trying to get other counties involved.
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And see if we can't get the state involved to try to all get together and see what we can do as far as property.
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And legislation for the state to see where they maybe can help us with some of these of going through probate or something of that
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nature to help us clean up some of these properties. And other than that, that's all I have. Mr. Chair. Thank you, Supervisor.
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Supervisor Klein, I don't really have much at all this this go round. So all yours. Thanks. I don't either. I just would admonish
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people to vote today. That would be great.
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So that's that will conclude our reports, Mr. Chairman.
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I just want to express appreciation, Eric with as far as the election today that they they were working all weekend in.
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Long hours and start at 5:00 in the morning. This morning Eric and his team also I know IT department, it was working yesterday
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late into the night ensuring that everything would go smoothly for our election. I wanted to discuss appreciation to all of our
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many county employees are involved in sponsoring, putting on express, appreciating everybody that supports the election and they
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are we run good elections in Healing County that we do.
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And thanks to the Recorder's office as well, there's just an awful lot going on, so.
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We want to have the best and most accurate election that we can, and I believe we do.
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Our next item is an executive session item 8A. It's information discussion, action to vote to go into executive session pursuit
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ARS 38 dash 431.03 A 3-4 for discussion and consultation for legal advice regarding the application of Arizona administrative
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codes are 18-5-408 and.
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R18-9-8. I'm sorry, Dash A309.
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And I will call for a motion.
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So moved, Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion to approve and seconded to go into executive session. All those in favor say aye,
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aye.
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This meeting back to order.
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And call for a motion on the executive session Item 8. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion for staff to proceed as directed.
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Mr. Carroll, second that motion. I have a motion and a second to approve the direction and all those in favor say aye, aye, thank
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you. Meetings adjourned.
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