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| OK, you have something to tell. | 00:00:06 | |
| For The Who? | 00:00:10 | |
| May I have your attention please? | 00:00:13 | |
| We're about to call the meeting to order and but before we do that, Supervisor Klein has a few things, so thank you. | 00:00:16 | |
| Thank you all for being here this morning. I just want to introduce Christine Lopez, Chris, she's going to be my new executive | 00:00:25 | |
| assistant and Kathy Melvin will be taking over ramrodding the Vet Center in Young so. | 00:00:31 | |
| Anyway. | 00:00:39 | |
| Thank you both and with that. | 00:00:41 | |
| 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 | 00:00:44 | |
| meeting to order. I've asked Sheriff's Deputy Cole Labonte, Cholitis in the pledge if you would. And then after that, Nick, you | 00:00:51 | |
| have the prayer. | 00:00:57 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:01:07 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:01:14 | |
| 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 | 00:01:25 | |
| 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 | 00:01:30 | |
| things in Jesus Christ. Amen. Thank you, Please proceed. | 00:01:35 | |
| Well, welcome aboard, Chris. Do you prefer Chris or Christina? Chris. OK, Welcome aboard. | 00:01:42 | |
| OK, we have a technical difficulty. | 00:01:54 | |
| Are we OK now? | 00:01:59 | |
| OK, how we doing? | 00:02:05 | |
| OK. I think we have everything in order now, so. | 00:02:07 | |
| Let's go ahead and start with Item 2 presentations. 2A presentation regarding Freeport Mcmoran Copper and Gold's contribution | 00:02:14 | |
| toward the contribute contribution toward the Healer County Michelson Building roof repair Menlove. | 00:02:23 | |
| Mr. Chairman, members of Board, thank you for the opportunity to acknowledge our participation, our partnership with several | 00:02:37 | |
| within the community for what is found to be a promising and very fulfilling project to help out in the county and the community | 00:02:42 | |
| that we live in. | 00:02:48 | |
| We have here with us today representatives from the City of Globe and from our corporate partners Report Mcmoran and Resolution. | 00:02:54 | |
| This is a project that we have been ongoing for a number of years. As you all know, sometimes we get involved with. | 00:03:05 | |
| Partnerships. | 00:03:13 | |
| Corporate nature and with federal dollars, these projects take a long time to get through and get all the funding arranged and | 00:03:16 | |
| looking through so that so we think thank these individuals for sticking with us and sticking with this project. First of all, I | 00:03:22 | |
| would like to acknowledge Freeport Mccarran for the participation and that they did with Healer County and the city of Globe and | 00:03:29 | |
| replacing the roof for the Michelson building in downtown Globe. | 00:03:36 | |
| I remember coming here as a finance director for Navajo County coming probably 1520 years ago and went to the Michaelson Building. | 00:03:43 | |
| It was a time when the Workforce Investment Act people were were there came to Globe with Hilo County to work on partnering with | 00:03:50 | |
| the Workforce Investment Act people. And I remember going on a rainy day and there were buckets all over the building 20 years | 00:03:58 | |
| ago. | 00:04:05 | |
| And so it's been desperately needed for a long, long time. The group of macaron has a community investment fund panel that they | 00:04:13 | |
| contribute and partner with the community annually. And this is a tremendous opportunity for those in the in the community to be | 00:04:20 | |
| able to put forward projects of a nature that will benefit and unless they help out schools and and a number of these different | 00:04:28 | |
| things throughout the years. So back in. | 00:04:35 | |
| 19 There's an application to Simple Mac brand Community Investment Fund. Went through the process and report donated $150,000. I | 00:04:43 | |
| could get those from before if you want to come off it. And can you be recognized? | 00:04:50 | |
| That that now the project was completely the roof was completely removed. Engineering was done to ensure that it was. I don't know | 00:05:02 | |
| if you how much you know about the building, but there was a. | 00:05:09 | |
| It didn't span the entire width of the building. The trusses did not, and so there was. | 00:05:17 | |
| 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 | 00:05:24 | |
| so that there's roofers reengineered completely span it. It's engineered to hold the mechanical or the building and it is then | 00:05:31 | |
| 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 | 00:05:38 | |
| Macaron for the $150,000 that. | 00:05:45 | |
| They donated to this project to further that and give you guys an opportunity to say if you weren't. | 00:05:53 | |
| Thank you, James. And we're happy our investment committee has changed, was happy to. | 00:06:02 | |
| Support that project back in 2019 and on behalf of Freeport Background Foundation. | 00:06:09 | |
| We are we are pleased to see it move forward. | 00:06:16 | |
| Thank you very much. | 00:06:19 | |
| Yeah. So it's a lot of. | 00:06:21 | |
| Good vision in the project, I believe. | 00:06:28 | |
| Hope we get stood up and and live soon but. | 00:06:31 | |
| The work and abilities of the members on the committee and the recommendations to see the value in it and. | 00:06:34 | |
| Anything that stands up, these incubator things, your small businesses and things that helps them get off the ground and things, | 00:06:41 | |
| 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 | 00:06:46 | |
| do you get the tangibles out of it? We appreciate the cooperation and the and the partnership and look to many more down the | 00:06:51 | |
| future presence. | 00:06:55 | |
| Thank you, thank you now and it's it's Robin and. | 00:07:00 | |
| Thank you. | 00:07:07 | |
| Is there any more James on that? | 00:07:08 | |
| 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 | 00:07:10 | |
| 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 | 00:07:16 | |
| 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 | 00:07:22 | |
| incubator. | 00:07:29 | |
| And support for small businesses in the southern portion of Healing County. | 00:07:35 | |
| And to so acknowledge where we've gotten to thus far and to. | 00:07:40 | |
| Plan of where we're headed and that this will come online and be support to the community. | 00:07:47 | |
| So we want to take pictures. So if we can go through the next acknowledgement, sure. Let me ask if the other supervisors have | 00:07:53 | |
| anything they'd like to add. So Supervisor Humphrey would. | 00:07:59 | |
| 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 | 00:08:07 | |
| 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 | 00:08:13 | |
| as we go forward. So I think it's AI think it's a great, worthwhile project and I appreciate the help very much. | 00:08:19 | |
| Supervisor Klein, thank you, Mr. Chair, Chad Robin, thanks for everything you guys do, not only for this building, but also | 00:08:27 | |
| 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 | 00:08:33 | |
| 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. | 00:08:40 | |
| Really great in in our government community and everything. So, yeah, let's take a picture. | 00:08:46 | |
| The Michelson Building, Gaines. | 00:08:58 | |
| 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 | 00:09:01 | |
| history that the Community Investment Fund application was back in 2019. I. | 00:09:06 | |
| Into April 2022, there's a request from the City of Globe to Senator o'halloran Representative at o'halloran that. | 00:09:13 | |
| For a congressionally directed spending grant of $750,000 that was awarded, there was also a USTA RISE request submitted and | 00:09:23 | |
| that's for programming and doing, putting together actually the activities that will take place in the center that was granted. | 00:09:32 | |
| The project bids came in, they were a little bit higher so and working in these partnerships. | 00:09:45 | |
| So the City of Globe in 2023, the CDs Congressional Director spending funding application was approved. | 00:09:50 | |
| And in 2024, the roof completion was performed. So what we have in the funding for the roof replacement total cost is about | 00:09:57 | |
| $400,000 and there's counties invested in a significant amount more than that to date, but the resources that will be available | 00:10:04 | |
| till about. | 00:10:12 | |
| Just under a million and a half dollars what you believe will be enough to complete the revital of that building. So resolution | 00:10:20 | |
| Copper has been looking for. | 00:10:27 | |
| Investment opportunities. | 00:10:34 | |
| You don't ask if you. | 00:10:37 | |
| Resolution Copper has has been a great partner as well as Freeport. The resolution has looked for opportunities to invest in | 00:10:41 | |
| economic development for Healing County. And so they are really bridging the gap that we had in what the what the bids were for | 00:10:49 | |
| completion of the project and the money that was available. And through Resolution Copper we should we will. | 00:10:57 | |
| Be able to finish the project with nearly a million and a half dollars total resources that are available. | 00:11:05 | |
| And budget for this. So we want to express appreciation. | 00:11:11 | |
| This resolution, maybe I should let you guys speak, but it's in the process now and looking forward to working with resolution on | 00:11:16 | |
| this project. So if you guys want to go ahead and take some news. | 00:11:22 | |
| Good morning chairman and board and and staff in public. Thanks for the opportunity to come today and and show our appreciation | 00:11:29 | |
| 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 | 00:11:35 | |
| of the fundraising for this that resolution. Our economic development strategy is really on a focused on a few pillars, but the | 00:11:41 | |
| top one is economic diversification and we think that this project is crucial at assuring that the Copper Triangle and the Copper | 00:11:46 | |
| Corridor can remain competitive. | 00:11:52 | |
| In diversifying the local economy and helping growth small business, incubating new businesses and allowing residents that | 00:11:59 | |
| opportunity. Since 2020, our spend and globe alone with local suppliers and contractors is over $20 million and that's just | 00:12:06 | |
| through a permitting and some project upkeep. That's not even through our construction and operations. So as we get closer to what | 00:12:13 | |
| will be construction, there's going to be. | 00:12:21 | |
| A larger opportunity to really grow small business. | 00:12:28 | |
| Provide services and supplies that we need and we think an incubator project like this is crucial in that. So thanks again for | 00:12:31 | |
| this opportunity. We do look forward to supporting this and we'll have a draft agreement over for your attorney's review hopefully | 00:12:36 | |
| in the next month. | 00:12:40 | |
| Appreciate that. Thank you and remind me of your name Brian, Brian and. | 00:12:47 | |
| Honor, thanks for coming, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:12:55 | |
| 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 | 00:12:58 | |
| forward to helping create businesses for your needs in the local community rather than bring businesses in from outside. So | 00:13:05 | |
| 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 | 00:13:11 | |
| them to help with these. | 00:13:17 | |
| Businesses start up and grow to be able to help the community. So thank you all very much. | 00:13:24 | |
| Supervisor Klein thank you Mr. Chair. Yeah, you too. Thanks for everything you do as well. You guys have been awesome for the | 00:13:30 | |
| community and the surrounding communities and we're really grateful to have you around as a partner. So thank you so much Yes, | 00:13:38 | |
| thank you. We want another photograph Mr. Chairman, if you might could We've been partnering with the county's been partnering in | 00:13:45 | |
| an unprecedented way with the C glove on this project all along and if anyone from city globe would like to make. | 00:13:52 | |
| Comments on their vision for the project and what it will mean to the community. | 00:14:00 | |
| Appreciate it. OK. | 00:14:05 | |
| Good morning Chairman and supervisors. This is such an incredible moment in in our timeline. As James mentioned in the first | 00:14:13 | |
| presentation, the seed was planted for this project in 2019 with a chance meeting with a board member of CAHOOTS, which is a Co | 00:14:21 | |
| work space that is an Arizona based one focused on entrepreneurial efforts. And so we were invited to to Phoenix to look at their. | 00:14:30 | |
| 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 | 00:14:39 | |
| business and entrepreneurial growth. And so thank you so much for your support, long time support and everything that's going | 00:14:46 | |
| towards this project is truly a collaborative effort, really a barn raising enterprise as you see it. So thank you so much and the | 00:14:54 | |
| City of Globe, we're extremely appreciative and we can't wait to see you all at the ribbon cutting. | 00:15:01 | |
| Thank you to all of our stakeholders as well because without that everyone coming to the table for this project again, it would | 00:15:09 | |
| not be possible. So thank you. Thank you again. | 00:15:14 | |
| OK, let's do another photo. | 00:15:20 | |
| I'm not looking forward to that. Yeah, thanks once again for everyone that's participating in these great projects. All right, | 00:15:24 | |
| we're going to move on to our public hearings, which is item 33A is information discussion action to adopt resolution #24-11 Dash | 00:15:32 | |
| 04 grant in a 25 year franchise to the Pace and Water Company Incorporated to provide water service to Pace and water companies. | 00:15:41 | |
| Customers in the Geisela Tonneau Creek shores. | 00:15:50 | |
| Needs ranch, deer Creek, E 30 park, blowing springs, Geronimo estates, elusive acres, Mesa, del Caballo and whispering Pines areas | 00:15:53 | |
| of Gila County and we have Marion. Thank you chairman Kristen standing board members today I asked Sam if I could present this | 00:16:01 | |
| item in the following one just because I have a lot of history with. | 00:16:09 | |
| Particular franchise company. I'll give you some history on September 17th. | 00:16:19 | |
| The Board of Supervisors accepted an application for a franchise license for Pace and Water Company, Inc. I've been working with | 00:16:24 | |
| Whitney Burke of Shapiro Law Firm, and she represents the applicant, Jason Williamson. Diego Dominic of Shapiro Law Firm is | 00:16:31 | |
| present today in Payson. Raise your hand, Diego. | 00:16:38 | |
| OK, I see. Thank you. If there's any questions I can't answer, you will. | 00:16:47 | |
| So in June 1998, the Arizona Corporation Commission approved Robert Hardcastle application to reorganize the water utility | 00:16:52 | |
| structure of Brook Utilities, which of some of the companies, there were many companies he reorganized and started new ones. One | 00:17:01 | |
| of them was Peace and Water Company and the other was Tunnel Basin Water Company, which I'll address in the next item. | 00:17:09 | |
| In June of 2013, JW Holdings, LLC. | 00:17:18 | |
| Which is owned by Jason Williamson acquired Peace and Water Company and tunnel based and water company through a stock purchase. | 00:17:24 | |
| What this means is it did not need to go through the ACC for approval Arizona Corporation Commission. | 00:17:31 | |
| The maps attached to the resolution, which is the franchise presented to you today, has the are the maps from the ACC decision in | 00:17:39 | |
| 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 | 00:17:48 | |
| better maps. So they were well. Also, we did get some new maps. | 00:17:56 | |
| And they're a little clearer, so they will be attached as supplemental into the resolution. | 00:18:06 | |
| I've reviewed the application, the county attorneys office has reviewed the application and I feel everything is in order. Mr. | 00:18:14 | |
| Williamson has been operating, like I said, since 2013 in good standing and overall it is the ACC that has oversight for utility | 00:18:23 | |
| companies. So I just recommend you conduct the public hearing and I do want you to know I have not received any written. | 00:18:32 | |
| Thank you very much. Supervisor Humphrey. I have no questions, Supervisor Klein, neither do I. OK. So at this time, I will close | 00:18:43 | |
| 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 | 00:18:50 | |
| this item? No. | 00:18:58 | |
| Cassandra, do you have anything on the Internet? | 00:19:06 | |
| No, And Tyler, is there anyone in Payson wishes to discuss this? | 00:19:10 | |
| Nothing here. OK, thank you. So I will close the public hearing portion of Item 3A and call for motion. | 00:19:17 | |
| Mr. Chair, I moved to adopt resolution #24-11-04. Mr. Terrell second thought, have a motion and a second. All those approved say | 00:19:26 | |
| aye, aye aye. Motion carries unanimous item 3D information discussion. Action to adopt resolution #24-11-05 granting a 25 year | 00:19:36 | |
| franchise to Tunnel Basin Water Company, Incorporated to provide water service to Tunnel Basin water companies. | 00:19:46 | |
| Customers in the lake Roosevelt gardens, E lake Roosevelt Gardens, W Roosevelt lake estates and North Bay estates areas of gila | 00:19:56 | |
| county thank you Chairman Christensen and board members this. | 00:20:03 | |
| Agenda item basically mirrors what I just presented. It has to have its own public hearing and it does have a separate resolution | 00:20:12 | |
| 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 | 00:20:18 | |
| application. Thank you. Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. Supervisor Klein, I'm good. OK, I will now open it up to the | 00:20:24 | |
| public. | 00:20:30 | |
| Or any comments on item 3B? Anyone here in globe wishes to speak to this item? | 00:20:37 | |
| Now Cassandra, now Tyler. Anyone in Payson? | 00:20:44 | |
| OK, thank you. I'll close the public hearing portion and offer motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to adopt resolution number | 00:20:50 | |
| 241105. | 00:20:56 | |
| 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 | 00:21:03 | |
| Information discussion. Action to adopt resolution #24-11-02, which approves Hila county community development, case number CU, | 00:21:11 | |
| PP2408-001. A request of pine strawberry fuel reduction incorporated. | 00:21:19 | |
| Which are the applicant and lisi HeLa county owner and lisor or a conditional use permit upon Hula County's. | 00:21:28 | |
| Assessor's Tax parcel number 30127072, which is located at 3180 Old County Road in Pine, AZ, Pilot County. Randy, good morning, | 00:21:36 | |
| Chairman. Supervisors, we're here today for the CUC and this basically was they've been operating under a. | 00:21:48 | |
| Use permit or a temporary use permit for their special events which is a pain every year going through this and and the public | 00:22:02 | |
| 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. | 00:22:10 | |
| Questions about what is going on. So the Pine strawberry fuel reduction run 3 events a year. They also lease this property from | 00:22:19 | |
| 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 | 00:22:28 | |
| community dinner and they have a car show and a yard sale. | 00:22:38 | |
| And they run these things out of this same property. | 00:22:48 | |
| And so we opened it up to the residence for any comments we received none so. | 00:22:51 | |
| 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 | 00:23:00 | |
| 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 | 00:23:08 | |
| Silver Belt, respectively. | 00:23:15 | |
| 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. | 00:23:25 | |
| But in moving forward, the board recommended unanimous approval. The PNC Commission and staff also sees this as a positive event. | 00:23:34 | |
| And so we're here today to finish up the CUP process and then move forward and again. | 00:23:43 | |
| If you recommend approval like there are 15. | 00:23:52 | |
| 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 | 00:23:57 | |
| you want 9. | 00:24:01 | |
| I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Randy. Supervisor Humphrey, I don't have any questions, Randy. Thank you, Supervisor | 00:24:05 | |
| Klein. Randy, what are just for curiosity, what are those 15 stipulations? | 00:24:11 | |
| Glad you asked I was wanting to read. Development, operation and maintenance shall be in performance with the application. | 00:24:18 | |
| Narrative materials provided with the conditional use permitted. Dated August 1st and August 4th of 2024. Two a certificate of | 00:24:24 | |
| insurance listing. Heal Academy is additionally insured is required to be provided to Hayley County Community Development prior to | 00:24:30 | |
| the date of the event. | 00:24:36 | |
| No alcohol on site unless an approved Arizona State liquor license is obtained. | 00:24:43 | |
| Requirements are followed. The Healer County Maintenance yard is not to be used unless has written authorization from the Heal | 00:24:48 | |
| County Public Works Director. | 00:24:54 | |
| Prior to the event, an event, permit or approval from the Strawberry Fire Department will be required. Please contact the fire | 00:25:00 | |
| department and the Fire Marshall. All lighting must be in conformance with the Hilah County Outdoor Lighting Ordinance. | 00:25:08 | |
| 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 | 00:25:17 | |
| nuisance. No generators between 6:00 PM and 8:00 AM must designate at least 2 parking spaces that meet the American with | 00:25:25 | |
| Disabilities Act and one space must be a van accessible. | 00:25:33 | |
| 10 adequate sanitation facility shall be provided on site. Sanitary facility shall conform to state and county and health | 00:25:42 | |
| requirements. 25% of the porta potties. | 00:25:47 | |
| Being used must meet ADA loving provision shall be made for collecting and disposal of all solid waste generated in conjunction | 00:25:52 | |
| 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 | 00:26:00 | |
| County Health Department. Any requirements? 13 Any requirements. | 00:26:08 | |
| County state health Department Sheriff's Office permits license must be attained. It is. | 00:26:17 | |
| 14 It is the responsibility of the applicant and we see of the subject property at APN 30127 OH 72 to obtain all necessary | 00:26:22 | |
| federal, state, county and local permits that may be required. The issuance of a conditional use permit does not relieve the | 00:26:29 | |
| 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 | 00:26:37 | |
| above noted conditions are violated, this condition of use will become void. | 00:26:44 | |
| Thank you, Andy. | 00:26:53 | |
| Yeah. Thank you. Randy, could you repeat that? | 00:26:55 | |
| Now, thank you. That's the end of your presentation. And I want to thank Elsa for coming representing the Pine Strawberry Fuel | 00:27:00 | |
| Reduction Group. So at this time, I will now open it up for the public. | 00:27:07 | |
| Hearing and so is there anyone in Globe that wishes to speak to this? | 00:27:15 | |
| Item 3C No, no. Cassandra and Tyler, no. OK, very good. So I will close the public hearing portion and call for a motion. | 00:27:19 | |
| 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 | 00:27:32 | |
| say aye, aye, aye, aye. Motion carries unanimous. Thank you, Randy. | 00:27:39 | |
| All right, we'll move on to our regular agenda items at this point. And Item 4A, information discussion action to approve a lease | 00:27:47 | |
| agreement between Hasten Senior Center and Ela County for $11,800 per month from November 1st, 2024 to July 31st, 2025. And this | 00:27:55 | |
| is to relocate the court services during the remodel of the Gila County. | 00:28:04 | |
| Hazen Courthouse. Michael, good morning. Good morning, Chairman, members of the board. | 00:28:14 | |
| This is exactly what you read, Chairman. What we are is we're ready to start the pacing courthouse remodel that this board | 00:28:19 | |
| 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 | 00:28:26 | |
| 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 | 00:28:34 | |
| were looking for spaces and pacing and. | 00:28:41 | |
| We were put in touch with the Senior Center. | 00:28:49 | |
| Who had purchased a large building called the Longhorn building recently and they're going to be moving their services into this | 00:28:51 | |
| particular building but not until September of next year. So we have this small window of opportunity this this building in this | 00:28:59 | |
| space that we're looking to rent is about 8000 square feet that could fit almost all the services from the courts into. | 00:29:07 | |
| 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. | 00:29:16 | |
| 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 | 00:29:24 | |
| extremely accommodating and extremely helpful with this process. So I really appreciate their their input and their cooperation. | 00:29:30 | |
| Thank you, Michael. Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:29:35 | |
| 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 | 00:29:42 | |
| 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 | 00:29:50 | |
| particular case, this building is already set up for offices and it already has the IT wiring inside. So very minimal work is | 00:29:57 | |
| going to be needed. There's 15 offices. We have approximately 30 to. | 00:30:04 | |
| 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 | 00:30:12 | |
| bit of assistance from our IT department to get the computer system working and Wi-Fi and the network and everything else like | 00:30:19 | |
| that. So very little is going to need to be done, which is why this building is so nice. | 00:30:27 | |
| 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. | 00:30:35 | |
| Thank you. You betcha. Thank you, Mr. Chair, Supervisor Klein, Michael, I think that answered my question right there. But please | 00:30:42 | |
| pass along to the Senior Center that we really appreciate it. That's that is going to help a lot. So. | 00:30:49 | |
| 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 | 00:30:56 | |
| 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 | 00:31:04 | |
| to approve a lease agreement with the Payson Senior Center as presented. Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion and a second to | 00:31:11 | |
| approve those in favor say aye, aye, aye, aye. | 00:31:18 | |
| One last thing thank you supervisor for connecting us with the patients Senior Center today. Thank you Michael. I appreciate that | 00:31:26 | |
| and all right so we're moving forward doing great for B information discussion action to review the submitted bids for requests | 00:31:33 | |
| for proposal number 073024. It's the pharmacy services for HeLa County detention medical and award a contract to the lowest most | 00:31:40 | |
| responsive responsible and. | 00:31:48 | |
| Bitter. Good morning, Mr. Pope. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, Board. | 00:31:56 | |
| The pharmaceuticals contract for pharmacy for the Union County Detention Center is due to expire. | 00:32:03 | |
| Open bidding was sent out. Three pharmaceutical companies applied. We looked at all three. I discussed it with my medical staff. | 00:32:09 | |
| Westwood Pharmacy was by far the best we've had Westwood Pharmacy since 2021. | 00:32:16 | |
| The bid price. | 00:32:24 | |
| 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 | 00:32:27 | |
| for this bid cycle. | 00:32:34 | |
| If we get some pick up, some grants in there, it should lower that down. | 00:32:42 | |
| Picked up 15,000. | 00:32:47 | |
| Last or this year from the health department for the Suboxone. | 00:32:49 | |
| Have any questions? I'll be happy to try to answer them for you. OK, very good. Thank you. Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah, my only | 00:32:55 | |
| 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 | 00:33:03 | |
| 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. | 00:33:11 | |
| 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 | 00:33:20 | |
| is we're just. | 00:33:25 | |
| 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 | 00:33:29 | |
| 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 | 00:33:36 | |
| Suboxone program that I got going, it burns up. | 00:33:43 | |
| A lot of money in their pharmaceutical. | 00:33:51 | |
| OK. So $100,000 or less, yes, OK. Yeah, but that's not the right reads, that's why I asked. So thank you. | 00:33:54 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor. Supervisor Klein. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Ray, thanks. I think you answered my questions earlier, so | 00:34:02 | |
| appreciate it. Thanks. Yeah, I think we're all set to go, so I'll just promotion. | 00:34:07 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to award a contract to Westwood Pharmacy in the amount of. | 00:34:14 | |
| $100,000 or less than. | 00:34:20 | |
| Response to request for Proposal number 073024. Mr. Chair, I'll second that. | 00:34:23 | |
| 2nd. | 00:34:33 | |
| If that's OK with the attorney that I changed for less instead of just $100,000? | 00:34:35 | |
| OK, so we have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye, aye. Thank you very much. | 00:34:43 | |
| All right, Item 4C Information discussion action to approve funding agreement #528-25 between the Arizona Department of Housing | 00:34:52 | |
| and the county public health and community services Department to receive 9000 of the continuum of care. | 00:35:01 | |
| 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 | 00:35:11 | |
| lead Hilo County Continuum of Care and build capacity for activities, discussions and meetings directed at ending homelessness. | 00:35:19 | |
| Joshua. Good morning Chairman. Members of the board so. | 00:35:28 | |
| The continuum of care funds, so this right now supports one full time position. | 00:35:38 | |
| That person's, the $9000 is specifically just for attending the state level meetings, usually virtual meetings that we attend on | 00:35:43 | |
| the state level where they just talk about the different pots of money and the problems that each county is facing and any | 00:35:49 | |
| possible potential solutions. The other 64,000 is for the intake of homeless population here in Yulick County, kind of get all the | 00:35:55 | |
| information why they're homeless, whether it's transitional. | 00:36:01 | |
| And then also to do our pit count, our homeless count each year. | 00:36:08 | |
| 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 | 00:36:12 | |
| 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 | 00:36:18 | |
| were more in like a transitional situation, whether it was putting them up in the hotel or something for 30 days or helping them | 00:36:24 | |
| 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 | 00:36:29 | |
| in the grid so. | 00:36:35 | |
| 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 | 00:36:42 | |
| opportunity to be a part of the state group, which is where we hear most of our grant and other opportunities so. | 00:36:47 | |
| All right. Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:36:54 | |
| 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, | 00:36:57 | |
| 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 | 00:37:05 | |
| 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 | 00:37:12 | |
| why, especially coming over from the health department, why I really focus on those transitional ones, right? It's a it's. | 00:37:20 | |
| 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 | 00:37:27 | |
| 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 | 00:37:34 | |
| 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 | 00:37:40 | |
| that you do Thank you, supervisor, Supervisor Klein, Josh, thank you for all you guys do, but I've got some questions so. | 00:37:47 | |
| It hasn't been that long ago that we started this continuum of care. | 00:37:54 | |
| Have we gone to the point, are we seeing the numbers starting to decline as far as homelessness or are they increasing? And how | 00:37:58 | |
| 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 | 00:38:04 | |
| 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 | 00:38:10 | |
| 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 | 00:38:16 | |
| first pitch count. | 00:38:21 | |
| 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 | 00:38:28 | |
| 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, | 00:38:34 | |
| again, it's difficult. Like Supervisor Humphrey said, with transitional, a lot of them bounce back and forth between Gila County | 00:38:39 | |
| and other places, California, the Valley, those places. But I mean, we have always been able to help with the transitional, at | 00:38:45 | |
| least from what? | 00:38:51 | |
| 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, | 00:39:27 | |
| 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 | 00:39:31 | |
| help with the transition. | 00:39:36 | |
| So from your standpoint then in community services, you don't see a lot of grants or opportunities coming through the state or | 00:39:41 | |
| anywhere to help with this? | 00:39:47 | |
| As I learn slowly what it means to be a Federal Housing authority. | 00:39:54 | |
| That we're not currently in getting into the housing like Pinella and Maricopa and some of these other counties do getting into | 00:40:29 | |
| 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 | 00:40:36 | |
| a lot of like small individual like helping small homeless populations or those kinds of grants. It's more large scale housing and | 00:40:42 | |
| those kinds of projects which are much bigger asks. So your pit counts coming up pretty quick, right? | 00:40:49 | |
| And that'll be held in pace and adherent globe, correct? | 00:40:56 | |
| In Hayden, Lincoln, they go everywhere, OK, All throughout the county, OK. So I honestly think there's some homelessness folks out | 00:40:59 | |
| 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 | 00:41:06 | |
| 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 | 00:41:12 | |
| way we can come up with numbers. | 00:41:18 | |
| Some kind of? | 00:41:25 | |
| 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 | 00:41:27 | |
| be good to see that in the future if if you guys got a chance to do that. | 00:41:34 | |
| 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 | 00:41:43 | |
| 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 | 00:41:47 | |
| as a board for more grant money to help homelessness or. | 00:41:52 | |
| Transitional housing, whatever it is then need Lewis in and hopefully we can make that push. So thank, thanks for all you do. | 00:41:59 | |
| 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 | 00:42:09 | |
| approve Arizona Department of Housing Funding agreement #5528-25 as presented. Mr. Chair, I'll 2nd that I have a motion and a | 00:42:16 | |
| second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Thank you, Josh. | 00:42:23 | |
| Item 4D information discussion action to adopt resolution #24-11-01 designating Marin Blythe belling, financial director as the | 00:42:32 | |
| chief financial director for hilah county is required by Arizona revised statute #41 dash 1279.07 paragraph E to submit the fiscal | 00:42:41 | |
| year 2024 expenditure limitation report that the Arizona Auditor General. | 00:42:51 | |
| Good morning, Mary. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, supervisor, client supervisor Humphrey. This is an annual | 00:43:02 | |
| 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 | 00:43:08 | |
| state today and then we will have it on our due by July 1st list in the future. | 00:43:14 | |
| OK, Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. Supervisor Klein, I'm good. Thank you, Mary. And so and so Marin, we have | 00:43:22 | |
| to designate this every year. You just can't become the permanent apparently not. OK, gotcha. | 00:43:29 | |
| 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 | 00:43:39 | |
| 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 | 00:43:48 | |
| discussion action to approve the use of State of Arizona contract number Ctr. 066876 with JE4 Hydrology and. | 00:43:57 | |
| Geomorphology incorporated on a time and material basis the amount not to exceed 95,000 for maintenance of the flood alert system | 00:44:07 | |
| in Yuma County. Good morning, Alex. | 00:44:12 | |
| Good morning, Chair for supervisors. Thank you. | 00:44:18 | |
| So Hill County has a series of 27 rain gauges and stream gauges throughout the county. They are maintained or well as of last | 00:44:22 | |
| 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 | 00:44:29 | |
| improvements. And these 27 sites are throughout the entirety of the county. In fact, Director Bill and I just looked at it again | 00:44:35 | |
| this morning and they're spread out. | 00:44:42 | |
| 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 | 00:44:49 | |
| the county until we can get a fully staffed floodplain department to eventually take over. | 00:44:57 | |
| OK. Thank you, Alex. Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:45:05 | |
| 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 | 00:45:09 | |
| what's going on upstream from potential floods downstream, so. | 00:45:14 | |
| I think, I think it's a good thing that we do keep these up, kept up and maintenance. | 00:45:21 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Klein. So Alex, I don't have anything against the rain gauges, but the reason the rain gauges were put there | 00:45:29 | |
| 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 | 00:45:35 | |
| runoff and moisture, I mean? | 00:45:42 | |
| 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 | 00:45:49 | |
| it wants the brush and everything grows back so. | 00:45:53 | |
| 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 | 00:45:58 | |
| 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 | 00:46:05 | |
| 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, | 00:46:11 | |
| not yet anyway. So me a question. | 00:46:17 | |
| Thanks, Alex. | 00:46:24 | |
| 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 | 00:46:26 | |
| Arizona contract number Ctr. 066876 for JE Fuller Hydrology Incorporated as presented. | 00:46:34 | |
| 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. | 00:46:43 | |
| 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, | 00:46:54 | |
| discussion, action to approve a funding request in the amount not to exceed $25,000 for the new County Sheriff's Office Initial 18 | 00:47:00 | |
| to 24 month effort opposed by the US Forest Service, Ela County Sheriff's Office and HeLa County Public Works Department and | 00:47:06 | |
| community partner. | 00:47:12 | |
| Collaboration to provide for the cost of towing and residual ways associated with removal of abandoned vehicles. | 00:47:19 | |
| RV's and travel trailers on the US Forest Service land within Gila County and we have representing the Sheriff's Department this | 00:47:27 | |
| morning, Cola Dante and we have representing our landfill department, Melanie and Dad. | 00:47:34 | |
| Morning, good morning. How are you? I appreciate you guys letting us present this again. If you remember the last time we | 00:47:43 | |
| presented this, it was very convoluted. There was a lot of steps to it and I think. | 00:47:50 | |
| Walked away from it thinking that it wasn't really the best plan for us financially. And then, you know, considering everyone's | 00:47:57 | |
| man hours. So we kind of went back to the drawing board on this program and we removed, we removed the section. | 00:48:05 | |
| Regarding. | 00:48:14 | |
| Charging the people who have. | 00:48:17 | |
| Dumped these RV's in the forest when we really got down to how it was going to actually work. | 00:48:21 | |
| With the county attorney's office, we didn't feel that we would end up actually prosecuting the people responsible for dumping the | 00:48:28 | |
| 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 | 00:48:35 | |
| 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 | 00:48:41 | |
| are. | 00:48:47 | |
| 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 | 00:48:55 | |
| 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 | 00:49:01 | |
| come up with. | 00:49:07 | |
| A good program of doing it. | 00:49:15 | |
| We would meet that community partner at that location. The law enforcement officer that's there would run the VIN, make sure it's | 00:49:47 | |
| 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. | 00:49:55 | |
| 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 | 00:50:04 | |
| are in play. They would provide this community partner with a document that says that this vehicle isn't towed to be dismantled. | 00:50:12 | |
| That community partner would tow the vehicle to a off site location, a private location. It's not a Forest Service location, it's | 00:50:19 | |
| not a healer county location. It's not the landfill. That was one of our biggest concerns is showing these. | 00:50:27 | |
| That have hazardous waste and. | 00:50:34 | |
| 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 | 00:50:38 | |
| community partner is going to tell it to their land they're going to dismantle the vehicle Public works has agreed to providing | 00:50:46 | |
| them with a large roll off so as that RV trailer whatever it may be is dismantled the. | 00:50:54 | |
| The trash, that is. | 00:51:04 | |
| 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 | 00:51:06 | |
| items the community partner has agreed to dispose of appropriately and will kind of keep track of that as it goes along because we | 00:51:12 | |
| don't want to be involved in. | 00:51:18 | |
| Any, any illegal dumping activities there, since that's the whole point of this is to clean up the illegal dumping. So then | 00:51:26 | |
| community or I'm sorry, public works would be notified when that roll off is full, the landfill would respond, pick up that roll | 00:51:33 | |
| off, bring it up to the landfill. And then also in conjunction while that's happening, we've worked with the Forest Service. | 00:51:41 | |
| They've got some community partners that would clean up the other remaining trash around those areas of. | 00:51:48 | |
| 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 | 00:51:57 | |
| 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 | 00:52:05 | |
| somewhere between 300 and $500 per unit. And then also it's going to. | 00:52:12 | |
| Bear the pay for the landfill disposal fees, landfills, enterprise, the the trash that goes in has to be paid for somehow, some | 00:52:21 | |
| 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 | 00:52:28 | |
| 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 | 00:52:34 | |
| willing to do this. | 00:52:40 | |
| Without really making much money, we we don't even think that that's going to cover. | 00:52:48 | |
| 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 | 00:52:53 | |
| going to do, we were well over $1000 per unit. | 00:52:58 | |
| So do you have anything to add to that? | 00:53:04 | |
| Yeah, Good morning, supervisor, Chairman and supervisors. The landfill is in complete support of this program. In the past, RV's | 00:53:07 | |
| 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. | 00:53:17 | |
| 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. | 00:53:27 | |
| 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 | 00:53:38 | |
| other cleanup community partners in the areas that that have made this extremely cost effective. And again, this is a pilot | 00:53:45 | |
| 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 | 00:53:52 | |
| landfill or in the Forest Service. The Forest Service is also playing a huge part. | 00:54:00 | |
| They are facilitating the cleanup of each site with every RV that's left in the Forest Service. There's an amount of residual | 00:54:08 | |
| 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 | 00:54:15 | |
| clean up there in the Forest Service and then transporting to the landfill as well and taking turns with the officers of being on | 00:54:22 | |
| site when those vehicles are towed. So that's all I have for this. | 00:54:28 | |
| OK. Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:54:36 | |
| 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 | 00:54:40 | |
| 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 | 00:54:46 | |
| 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 | 00:54:52 | |
| 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 | 00:54:58 | |
| him his? | 00:55:04 | |
| 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 | 00:55:10 | |
| 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 | 00:55:18 | |
| 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 | 00:55:25 | |
| guys thank you for putting this together. It it is a it is a nasty mess out there in places and these are all. | 00:55:33 | |
| It's been there for several years. | 00:55:40 | |
| But they are they, you know, they, they kind of go through evolutions of being inhabited and then not being inhabited in any way | 00:55:43 | |
| you slice it. It's just more trash coming in and then leaving. | 00:55:48 | |
| The only part that I have against it is not pursuing the owners of those those vehicles and filing charges because my thought is, | 00:55:55 | |
| 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 | 00:56:01 | |
| good project. I know it's a pilot project, but wants to keep other people from coming right in there behind, especially when they | 00:56:08 | |
| know they can go ditch an old trailer off in the woods. | 00:56:14 | |
| Yeah. And I think the last time I presented this, that was one of the Supervisor Humphries biggest concerns. | 00:56:21 | |
| 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 | 00:56:28 | |
| 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 | 00:56:35 | |
| 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 | 00:56:43 | |
| really came down to is actually being. | 00:56:50 | |
| 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 | 00:56:58 | |
| 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 | 00:57:05 | |
| 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 | 00:57:13 | |
| illegally registering it. And then they probably sold it to somebody who never. | 00:57:20 | |
| 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 | 00:57:28 | |
| 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 | 00:57:35 | |
| 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 | 00:57:42 | |
| maybe a name, maybe not. Maybe it was something on Facebook Marketplace and they can provide me with some user information. | 00:57:49 | |
| I'm going to have to get a detective involved to try to track down who that person is. | 00:57:57 | |
| Hey, who did you sell this to? And really at the end of the day, you know, as far as prosecution is concerned. | 00:58:01 | |
| 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 | 00:58:06 | |
| 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 | 00:58:12 | |
| attorney's office isn't going to charge them and we. | 00:58:18 | |
| 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 | 00:58:26 | |
| 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 | 00:58:33 | |
| 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 | 00:58:40 | |
| 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. | 00:58:48 | |
| From there, our plan is to pursue charges for that, but saying that's part of the program and on every. | 00:58:55 | |
| 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 | 00:59:05 | |
| 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 | 00:59:11 | |
| hold somebody responsible for the illegal dumping, who will? But it's going to be few and far between, quite honestly. I | 00:59:18 | |
| understand what you're saying, Nicole. | 00:59:25 | |
| It just kind of. | 00:59:33 | |
| 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 | 00:59:35 | |
| I would have for you is. | 00:59:40 | |
| 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. | 00:59:46 | |
| We're going to partner with them and determine the the most appropriate entity to charge with. They have in some cases stiffer | 00:59:53 | |
| penalties for dumping and sometimes they have more resources for investigating because this program is going to be lengthy. You | 01:00:01 | |
| know it's going to be a year or two. They they go through periods of time work. | 01:00:09 | |
| 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 | 01:00:18 | |
| 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 | 01:00:24 | |
| 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 | 01:00:30 | |
| statute, county ordinances or other things to deal with abandoned vehicles. You guys do on a Federal Way, you need to handle it. | 01:00:36 | |
| They don't. | 01:00:42 | |
| 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 | 01:00:48 | |
| 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 | 01:00:54 | |
| charge them, we will. We're going to determine, you know, who can do that the best really their, their, their partnership and | 01:01:00 | |
| 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 | 01:01:06 | |
| years. But. | 01:01:12 | |
| 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 | 01:01:48 | |
| have some good district Rangers that are there that are involved. And so hopefully they're looking at it from a team perspective, | 01:01:55 | |
| 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 | 01:02:01 | |
| see. | 01:02:07 | |
| I can see where this is going to go if people know that there's no. | 01:02:14 | |
| There's no accountability for dumping stuff, you know, but I really applaud you guys for putting this together because it is a | 01:02:19 | |
| 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 | 01:02:25 | |
| 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 | 01:02:31 | |
| other people. So if you come up with ways to help us with those concerns. | 01:02:37 | |
| We'll, we'll address it. I appreciate all the work you guys have done and. | 01:02:44 | |
| Little caveat is that the the community partner that's working with us, he will sometimes pay residents if they bring their RV's | 01:02:48 | |
| 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 | 01:02:56 | |
| residents can dispose of material rather than bringing it to the landfill. And so we actually keep his number at each site letting | 01:03:03 | |
| them know that hey, instead of giving us the year 244 dollars you can actually get. | 01:03:10 | |
| $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 | 01:03:18 | |
| 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 | 01:03:25 | |
| 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 | 01:03:33 | |
| incoming units, maybe that's something we've publicized in a way we haven't wanted. | 01:03:40 | |
| 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 | 01:03:49 | |
| 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, | 01:03:54 | |
| 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. | 01:04:00 | |
| 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 | 01:04:06 | |
| far as the RV's? | 01:04:12 | |
| Trailers. | 01:04:18 | |
| 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 | 01:04:22 | |
| 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 | 01:04:29 | |
| that seem abandoned are being used, are being used by folks and then. | 01:04:36 | |
| There's also a lot more cover in a lot of ways for people to hide, getting these out into the woods. | 01:04:45 | |
| 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 | 01:04:50 | |
| to camp. Thank you. | 01:04:55 | |
| 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 | 01:05:00 | |
| just completely fall apart. People break windows, everything just gets trashed. You can't even hardly tow anything out. It's just | 01:05:08 | |
| that destroyed. Then it creates a problem as far as crime or whatever. People don't want to hike into that area anymore. | 01:05:16 | |
| Fire, danger and all the other things. It's really something that's developed because I never remember this happening. | 01:05:25 | |
| 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 | 01:05:31 | |
| good start. Let's see how this program works and see if we can do something. But with that, I'll call for motion. | 01:05:37 | |
| That the position of the criminal division of the county police office has been. | 01:05:52 | |
| 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 | 01:05:58 | |
| that this program coordinates with the county recorder and it's kind of craziness office because this will assist the county Plaza | 01:06:07 | |
| in maintaining and cleaning up the tax rolls in the county and if she's able to pursue. | 01:06:16 | |
| Parties for back taxes or satisfy that taxes. | 01:06:24 | |
| County in that regard. | 01:06:29 | |
| 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 | 01:06:33 | |
| $25,000 for the ELA County Sheriff's Office, Healer County Public Works Department and Community partners collaboration to support | 01:06:42 | |
| the removal of abandoned vehicles R VS Travel trailers on US Forest Service plan. Mr. Cheryl, second out of a motion and a second. | 01:06:51 | |
| Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Thank you very much for your presentation. All right, next we have 4G, which is information | 01:07:01 | |
| discussion action to set a public hearing date Tuesday, December 3rd, 2020, 4:10 AM. To consider increasing the turnage rate for | 01:07:10 | |
| the landfill fees by $18.00 while maintaining the minimum load at the current level. Melanie, tell us what we're doing. | 01:07:18 | |
| Thank you. Good morning again. | 01:07:28 | |
| 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 | 01:07:31 | |
| 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, | 01:07:38 | |
| 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 | 01:07:44 | |
| will be done in the landfill. | 01:07:51 | |
| This is an outline and this is the focus of this. | 01:07:59 | |
| Presentation And then we're going to talk a little bit about Enterprise Fund, what that means, what we should be doing with the | 01:08:03 | |
| Enterprise Fund and what we're actually doing with the Enterprise Fund. | 01:08:08 | |
| Some background on our landfills, recent landfill history, life expectancy, some revenue that isn't collected at landfills that be | 01:08:14 | |
| Dollar Day. And then the Pleasant Valley Transfer Station, we're going to go over equipment at the landfills and that Blue Ridge | 01:08:21 | |
| Services assessment that was conducted. They have some suggestions on equipment. | 01:08:29 | |
| Our closure post closure cost of those that have increased quite a bit or the radical 3A expansion, combined financials, | 01:08:36 | |
| operations expansions for all our funds, our cash flow overtime and then our existing fee structure. And then we do have a | 01:08:44 | |
| recommendation for the Board, but we're really looking for guidance to go into that public hearing. | 01:08:52 | |
| And we have a couple of options there and then again we have a a recommendation. | 01:09:01 | |
| So the purpose of this? | 01:09:08 | |
| This presentation that we put together is to inform the Board of the state of the Landfill Enterprise Fund and to receive guidance | 01:09:11 | |
| 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 | 01:09:20 | |
| before a public hearing, have a public hearing, the residents would come in and and talk about it and then. | 01:09:28 | |
| You guys would make a decision basically and so. | 01:09:37 | |
| This is just over a little bit of enterprise fun and I don't feel like we really hit on this in previous. | 01:09:43 | |
| Presentations and so again, the recycling and landfill management is an enterprise fund. It's self supporting and it doesn't have | 01:09:50 | |
| any assistance from the general fund whatsoever. Operation costs and landfill enterprise funds should be 60%. That's textbook all | 01:09:56 | |
| the experts across the across the board. | 01:10:03 | |
| Say that 60% of all the revenue should be used each year. | 01:10:11 | |
| For operation costs and then the other 40% would go into a fund balance to save for future expansions, purchasing land and then | 01:10:15 | |
| purchasing capital equipment like landslide compactors and and bulldozers and things like that. Also that fund would go for like | 01:10:23 | |
| we did the Blue Ridge services gap assessment. That fund would also take care of those those types of things. So the annual | 01:10:30 | |
| revenue for. | 01:10:37 | |
| 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 | 01:10:45 | |
| the fund balance going forward. And right now we're about 82.7% of operation cost within that $2.6 million. | 01:10:55 | |
| 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 | 01:11:09 | |
| be. | 01:11:14 | |
| 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 | 01:11:20 | |
| landfill expansion ended up costing three times what was originally budgeted in 2013 because of the inflation factor after in the | 01:11:26 | |
| wake of Covad, it was three times its normal rate. So we ended up spending more money than anticipated on the landfill Cell 3 | 01:11:32 | |
| expansion. | 01:11:38 | |
| A fee study was conducted throughout Arizona. So the lowest fee was about $36 per tonne and that was in highly a highly populated | 01:11:46 | |
| area. | 01:11:50 | |
| 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 | 01:11:55 | |
| around 5 weeks management in Payson. And the reason why that fee is so high is because they are required to transport that waste | 01:12:03 | |
| to the valley area. I think it's either Apache Junction or Phoenix. And again we talked about any time we took anything to | 01:12:10 | |
| Phoenix, it cost about 1000. | 01:12:18 | |
| Dollars a load. And so at that transfer station in Payson, they charge $81.00 per time. The average, the national average all | 01:12:25 | |
| through the United States is right under $60.00 per ton at 5847. | 01:12:32 | |
| 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 | 01:12:43 | |
| last about nine years. | 01:12:49 | |
| And then at that, between now and then, we would need to construct landfill cell 3B and it should reach capacity in 2032. So | 01:12:55 | |
| again. | 01:13:00 | |
| Landfill expansions take about 10 years to plan and and. | 01:13:07 | |
| And get moving. And so we need to start actual construction of Landfill Cell 3B expansion two years before it reaches capacity. So | 01:13:14 | |
| 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 | 01:13:23 | |
| things we're planning for now Landfill Cell 3 will provide. | 01:13:32 | |
| Capacity up until the year 2045, which is 12 1/2 years from now. | 01:13:40 | |
| 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 | 01:13:46 | |
| 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 | 01:13:53 | |
| another landfill. The hope would be the Buckhead Mesa landfill in Payson. And so we'll move on to the Buckhead Meso Banfield. So | 01:14:01 | |
| currently, the landfill sits on 51 acres of US Forest Service. | 01:14:08 | |
| Under special use permit, we had a couple of expansions that were done and it was the landfill was. | 01:14:16 | |
| 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 | 01:14:27 | |
| 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 | 01:14:33 | |
| probably brought in by staff when they were working on a project so we. | 01:14:40 | |
| During the fly over, we realized that we have capacity until 2032, which is about the same time that landfill S 3B would reach | 01:14:47 | |
| capacity and Russell Gulch. | 01:14:53 | |
| So. | 01:15:01 | |
| 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 | 01:15:03 | |
| purchase with the Forest Service to purchase 526 acres of land. | 01:15:10 | |
| 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 | 01:15:17 | |
| that would be used for county purposes and we're splitting the cost of the the land purchase through general fund per funding | 01:15:23 | |
| would use some of it for the roads and then. | 01:15:29 | |
| 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, | 01:15:36 | |
| but we're planning on finishing all of it by September 2025. | 01:15:43 | |
| Again, there's 52 steps to that process. We had a work session on that and but we're really pushing through that. | 01:15:52 | |
| 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 | 01:16:00 | |
| 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 | 01:16:08 | |
| 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. | 01:16:16 | |
| And I'm a big supporter of Dollar Day. The purpose of Dollar Day is to reduce illegal dumping and support. | 01:16:25 | |
| Support the community employment mitigation and to help the residents keep their properties clear of fresh and greenways. Hilo | 01:16:33 | |
| 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 | 01:16:39 | |
| second Saturday of every month, or yes, the second Saturday of every month. There was a short period during the expansion that we | 01:16:46 | |
| did not hold Dollar Day. | 01:16:52 | |
| Here in Globe, but we still held Dollar Day out in Buckhead Mesa. | 01:16:59 | |
| So these wouldn't be accurate representations of numbers for a normal year of full operating for a dollar day. So this year we | 01:17:03 | |
| received 4155 loads over the course of the year, which means that we received $4155 for those loads that came in. The total | 01:17:13 | |
| tonnage cost for those loads was $56,000 and so if you. | 01:17:22 | |
| Take the money that we received, we did not receive $52,000. | 01:17:32 | |
| 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 | 01:17:37 | |
| 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 | 01:17:44 | |
| now it's around $54.00, so that first $18. | 01:17:52 | |
| It it it has paid for the building of the landfill and then the expansion and then landfills going forward. | 01:18:01 | |
| 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 | 01:18:07 | |
| for these services that we offer to the county. | 01:18:13 | |
| Residents. | 01:18:19 | |
| This is another. | 01:18:21 | |
| Another. | 01:18:24 | |
| Item of revenue that's not received by county landfills. So this is the Pleasant Valley Transfer Station. This year we picked up | 01:18:27 | |
| 70 loads from the Pleasant Valley Transfer Station. We it was a total of 310 tons of waste coming down from Pleasant Valley and | 01:18:36 | |
| the tenants cost was $16,000. The transportation cost of the roll offs going up to the Pleasant Valley Transfer station and back. | 01:18:46 | |
| UMM was $56,000 and so that's a total cost of $72,000. | 01:18:56 | |
| Well, almost $73,000. The revenue received from the gate fees going into the Pleasant Valley Transfer Station we're around | 01:19:04 | |
| $27,000. So there's about $45,000 that wasn't received from the operations of the Pleasant Valley Transfer Station. Again, it | 01:19:11 | |
| comes out to about 4550 cents per time that's subsidized by landfill users. | 01:19:19 | |
| Every year. | 01:19:27 | |
| There are during our Blue Ridge services assessment, they were able to look at a high level review of the landfill and give us | 01:19:32 | |
| ways to improve compaction operations and give us some advice on what we could do better and because our landfills are a very | 01:19:41 | |
| precious commodity here and a very needed utility. | 01:19:49 | |
| We're really working to compact waste in a way that would. | 01:19:59 | |
| 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 | 01:20:04 | |
| isn't. | 01:20:08 | |
| Isn't suited for the landfills that we're operating. So we have two very large bulldozers that they're not finishing bulldozers. | 01:20:14 | |
| 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 | 01:20:21 | |
| to be out of the way a lot whenever we use them. And so their suggestion is that we would buy two small. | 01:20:28 | |
| Umm, landfill equipped bulldozers, they have landfill packages so waste isn't getting in the tracks and, and there's a lot of | 01:20:35 | |
| things that go into them that really save the equipment and prolong the life of the equipment. And it makes the operate, it's | 01:20:42 | |
| 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 | 01:20:48 | |
| about what it would cost. | 01:20:54 | |
| They also suggested that instead of using scrapers at the landfills to move soil and earthy material that we would auction off the | 01:21:02 | |
| the scrapers and then invest into 10 wheel dump trucks. | 01:21:08 | |
| 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 | 01:21:15 | |
| 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 | 01:21:24 | |
| about $415,000. The last one is to replace the landfill compactors that we have. If you look to the right all the red. | 01:21:33 | |
| The red miles and hours. | 01:21:43 | |
| That shows our equipment that's high in miles and hours and pretty much over our the expectancy for that equipment. Most of our | 01:21:46 | |
| equipment is over 20 years old and. | 01:21:53 | |
| And it costs a lot of money. We're constantly fixing them and, and, and rebuilding parts of them and, and the, our General | 01:22:02 | |
| 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, | 01:22:11 | |
| replace 2 landfill compactors and save one of our existing ones for a backup. And a total of those would be $1.8 million. | 01:22:20 | |
| Of course we would. | 01:22:30 | |
| 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 | 01:22:32 | |
| worksheet. | 01:22:36 | |
| So this is our financial assurance with every landfill. The ADQ requires landfill owners to hold money into an escrow account and | 01:22:43 | |
| it calculates the cost for closing the landfills, the funds, the funds are included by an inflation factor factor that's provided | 01:22:49 | |
| by the ADEQ. | 01:22:55 | |
| And then we also need funds for aquifer protection forever landfill monitoring because we have a landfill now, we don't ever not | 01:23:02 | |
| 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 | 01:23:09 | |
| still are responsible for those issues. So these funds would. | 01:23:15 | |
| 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 | 01:23:25 | |
| 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 | 01:23:32 | |
| 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 | 01:23:39 | |
| 3A. So that's now included in our escrow fund. | 01:23:47 | |
| 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 | 01:23:54 | |
| during our work session and that has gone up significantly since then. So this is our cash flow over time and hopefully everyone's | 01:24:02 | |
| still awake. I know this stuff is exciting to me, but. | 01:24:10 | |
| So what we do is we take our actual tonnage every time we go over this for the year. | 01:24:19 | |
| And so we have our actual tonnage for last year and then we have an inflation factor of 3%. | 01:24:24 | |
| 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 | 01:24:32 | |
| tenant rate because we do have three separate tonnage. | 01:24:39 | |
| Rates that we have and then we pull it out over time and then. | 01:24:47 | |
| You can see here we have dollar days and we have the young transfer station. | 01:24:53 | |
| Umm, here. And this is an exercise that is using the assumption that the landfill would not be subsidizing the young | 01:24:57 | |
| transportation in dollar days. Instead it would be subsidized somewhere else, like by the general fund. If that wasn't subsidized | 01:25:05 | |
| by the general fund, then we would have to increase it. | 01:25:13 | |
| Well, this year it would be about $1.00. Last year was about $2.00 because those two items came to about $200,000. | 01:25:23 | |
| So. | 01:25:33 | |
| 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 | 01:25:35 | |
| purchase equipment, capital expansion, purchasing the land, we would go negative in 20292030 and this is without any change to a | 01:25:42 | |
| fee increase. | 01:25:49 | |
| So this is. | 01:26:01 | |
| 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 | 01:26:04 | |
| $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 | 01:26:12 | |
| were to increase the fee for $16.00 a ton, we would still go negative in 20-30. | 01:26:21 | |
| We'd still stay negative in 2031 and 32. | 01:26:30 | |
| And that's about. | 01:26:34 | |
| $700,000 and so if you were? | 01:26:37 | |
| 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 | 01:26:42 | |
| 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 | 01:26:50 | |
| back positive in 2032 about $200,000 and then we're almost up to half a half, $1,000,000 in 2033. | 01:26:58 | |
| Our suggestion, our recommendation would be the $18.00 fee increase per ton. | 01:27:07 | |
| And you see here that we we don't go into the negative at least as far as 2033. | 01:27:13 | |
| 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 | 01:27:24 | |
| 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 | 01:27:32 | |
| exactly the same. So anybody that. | 01:27:39 | |
| That was a regular user of the landfill of who's to subscribing to trash service. They wouldn't be impacted at all. | 01:27:48 | |
| 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 | 01:27:55 | |
| 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 | 01:28:03 | |
| almost $500,000 if we increase at $16. | 01:28:12 | |
| However, we spent two years that were negative before that and we didn't get to buy the equipment that we need. | 01:28:21 | |
| 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 | 01:28:27 | |
| four years to actually purchase and pay off one piece of equipment with the exercise that we've completed. And then here for | 01:28:34 | |
| $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 | 01:28:42 | |
| 10 years. | 01:28:49 | |
| So again, we're looking for a decision guidance on. | 01:28:59 | |
| 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 | 01:29:05 | |
| and keep the minimum load fee for residents exactly the same. | 01:29:13 | |
| Any questions? Yeah, thank you. But today we're not deciding on a fee, deciding on. | 01:29:25 | |
| To conduct a public public hearing. Supervisor. | 01:29:32 | |
| I I hope a lot of the public was listening today on the deal because. | 01:29:37 | |
| Awful lot of information. No, no stones left unturned of purpose for this. | 01:29:45 | |
| 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 | 01:29:52 | |
| 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 | 01:30:00 | |
| hear from the commercial people. I would like to hear from the people that, you know, take their trash. | 01:30:07 | |
| 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 | 01:30:16 | |
| 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 | 01:30:24 | |
| because the everyday people or, or the dollar day people are going to pitch in a little bit too, you know, I because it. | 01:30:31 | |
| 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 | 01:30:41 | |
| 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 | 01:30:48 | |
| 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 | 01:30:55 | |
| urge the public to look at some of this information and, and, and, and talk to your supervisors and, and. | 01:31:03 | |
| 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 | 01:31:10 | |
| somewhere and, and so. | 01:31:16 | |
| 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 | 01:31:23 | |
| 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 | 01:31:30 | |
| when they can take for $20 a ton less. OK, public, there's your information. So. | 01:31:37 | |
| We might know that everybody knows the dipping piece. But anyway, Melanie, thank you very much for the presentation and compiling | 01:31:45 | |
| 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 | 01:31:51 | |
| 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 | 01:31:57 | |
| know, you know. | 01:32:04 | |
| 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 | 01:32:11 | |
| where we're going with them. And so I appreciate the information. | 01:32:17 | |
| 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 | 01:32:23 | |
| 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, | 01:32:31 | |
| Melanie Romero, thanks for putting this together. There is a lot of information and and I do have a little bit to say. | 01:32:39 | |
| The, the equipment part of it, we, we went through this before you were here. | 01:32:49 | |
| 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. | 01:32:54 | |
| 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 | 01:33:00 | |
| tell you. | 01:33:06 | |
| 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 | 01:33:14 | |
| 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 | 01:33:21 | |
| needs to be looked in pretty thoroughly is that. | 01:33:28 | |
| 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. | 01:33:36 | |
| 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 | 01:33:47 | |
| way behind, which would be my guess. I very seldom ever see anything go down. | 01:33:54 | |
| So when it comes to the new acquisitions or land requirements and and putting together new systems, who knows just like that we | 01:34:02 | |
| were $3,000,000 over on on the landfill here Russell Gulch. | 01:34:09 | |
| 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 | 01:34:18 | |
| cover it? I'll bet you it won't. | 01:34:24 | |
| 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 | 01:34:31 | |
| 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 | 01:34:37 | |
| up around these towns and stuff. | 01:34:44 | |
| We've seen what happens when people can't afford it, they just go out to the local wash somewhere and dump it off. | 01:34:52 | |
| 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. | 01:34:59 | |
| That's what's going to happen. It'd be like, yeah, we can hold on to this till next month. | 01:35:11 | |
| You know, if I go for the extra money, it'll drive some people to go back to the washes and dump and stuff. | 01:35:16 | |
| 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. | 01:35:22 | |
| 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 | 01:35:28 | |
| Valley transfer station. | 01:35:34 | |
| 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 | 01:35:41 | |
| 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 | 01:35:47 | |
| and we know what's in that vehicle. | 01:35:53 | |
| And they paid for it. There wouldn't be a deficit there. | 01:35:59 | |
| 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, | 01:36:04 | |
| 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. | 01:36:12 | |
| Definitely not in favor of doing away with the transfer station, and I'm not in favor of our general fund subsidizing it. | 01:36:20 | |
| 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 | 01:36:28 | |
| 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 | 01:36:36 | |
| 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 | 01:36:43 | |
| don't know that we're losing money there. Well, we are because of what happens when it's jumped off in pacing. | 01:36:50 | |
| The tipping fee. | 01:36:59 | |
| 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 | 01:37:01 | |
| 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 | 01:37:09 | |
| 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. | 01:37:16 | |
| That's my two cents. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Thank you, Melanie and Merrill all involved. Great presentation, almost a | 01:37:26 | |
| 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 | 01:37:34 | |
| years, hopefully not sooner. So we need to plan now for that. And I have a feeling that what's occurred is maybe. | 01:37:42 | |
| Previous years or decades it wasn't planned for properly. | 01:37:51 | |
| 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 | 01:37:54 | |
| 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 | 01:38:01 | |
| these details. But if we're going to run it like an enterprise, then we need to run it like an enterprise. | 01:38:08 | |
| 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 | 01:38:15 | |
| you, maybe it's going to be a hard question maybe. | 01:38:21 | |
| Can you convince me why the county should be in the landfill business versus private sector? | 01:38:28 | |
| So the landfills provide jobs to county residents and. | 01:38:36 | |
| Waste disposal is a very. | 01:38:43 | |
| Needed utility and. | 01:38:47 | |
| 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 | 01:38:51 | |
| at what Payson is charging and it's probably about $81.00 a ton. So, so far we've been able to stay under. | 01:38:59 | |
| Those fees and whether or not they would want to purchase land or the Forest Service even let them purchase land. So we would | 01:39:09 | |
| probably end up with transfer stations much like Payson House through Waste Management. | 01:39:15 | |
| And rural communities rural counties end up paying more for these types of. | 01:39:22 | |
| Utilities because the nearest landfill is 78 miles away and and the transportation costs are high. And so I think the county | 01:39:30 | |
| staying in the landfill business, we have the opportunity to keep those fees as low as possible because here there are, you know, | 01:39:38 | |
| $71 for commercial, we're still coming in $10 under. | 01:39:45 | |
| What waste management is charging in Payson? | 01:39:54 | |
| Okay, okay, good answer. I like that. Because really what you're saying is that the county being involved in the landfill business | 01:39:58 | |
| 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 | 01:40:06 | |
| 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 | 01:40:13 | |
| the and the everything involved because we're dealing with Forest Service, we're dealing with environmental. | 01:40:21 | |
| 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 | 01:40:28 | |
| 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 | 01:40:37 | |
| not be in the business and you pay $30 more per ton to do that and probably be even more impact? | 01:40:45 | |
| With people dumping in the forest and all of that sort of thing, so. | 01:40:54 | |
| 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 | 01:40:58 | |
| landfill out? | 01:41:04 | |
| They're private individuals to run and operate. | 01:41:10 | |
| Microphone is job. | 01:41:21 | |
| Yes. It was operated by a company called Arizona Landfills Incorporated and then at some point the county. | 01:41:24 | |
| Terminated that contract and and took over operation of the the landfill. But the property has always belonged to Helen County. | 01:41:32 | |
| The Russell Gulch Landfill and then the Buckhead Mesa Landfill was created back in the 1980s after the landfill out in Star Valley | 01:41:39 | |
| was closed. | 01:41:45 | |
| And was it contracted as well? | 01:41:54 | |
| The the Star Valley Landfill was operated by Hilly County and then Hilly County took on operation of the Bucket Mesa Landfill once | 01:41:58 | |
| it was constructed. And that landfill was the first landfill constructed in Arizona, built the current ADQ standards and that's | 01:42:06 | |
| why the county's been able to operate it and expand it to date because it was built to Standard Dent. | 01:42:15 | |
| 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. | 01:42:24 | |
| Thank you, Joe. | 01:42:32 | |
| Any more discussion? | 01:42:35 | |
| 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. | 01:42:37 | |
| Chair. | 01:42:43 | |
| 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 | 01:42:51 | |
| rate for landfill fees. | 01:42:58 | |
| 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 | 01:43:05 | |
| you, Melanie. And when you say 10:00, where will this meeting be conducted? | 01:43:11 | |
| I believe it's here, correct? I'm sorry I don't know the answer to that. | 01:43:19 | |
| 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 | 01:43:25 | |
| right. | 01:43:29 | |
| So that'll be like a public hearing at our regular board meeting. OK, now I get it. All right. 4H information, discussion, action | 01:43:34 | |
| to adopt resolution #11-46-4, which authorized the execution of intergovernmental agreement #24-000. Nine, 775-I. Chairman, I'm | 01:43:42 | |
| sorry, can I back up? | 01:43:51 | |
| December 4th is a Wednesday. | 01:44:02 | |
| And so if it's part of the regular board meeting, it would be Tuesday, December 3rd, I believe. | 01:44:06 | |
| It's it's in red on mine. | 01:44:13 | |
| December 3rd, I have Tuesday, December 3rd, and that's what we approved. That is what we approved, yes. OK. Thank you for that. | 01:44:15 | |
| Yeah, we want to make sure that's clear. OK. I'll continue reading rather than repeat. Between Hilah County and the State of | 01:44:23 | |
| Arizona Department of Transportation in the amount of $1,041,199, which fully funds the scoping and design of Russell Rd. Good | 01:44:30 | |
| morning again, Alex. Good morning again, Mr. Chairman, Board of Supervisors. | 01:44:38 | |
| 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 | 01:44:47 | |
| of the Telegraph fire. | 01:44:52 | |
| We were, the Hill County Engineering Department was trying to figure out a way to fund the design and reconstruction of this road. | 01:44:59 | |
| 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 | 01:45:05 | |
| funded. | 01:45:10 | |
| 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 | 01:45:16 | |
| entirety of the scoping design. | 01:45:23 | |
| Plans, specification engineers, cost estimates, environmental assessment reports and a grants middle document to provide standard | 01:45:31 | |
| information so under the SMART grant requirements. | 01:45:38 | |
| In order to not have to pay back this funding, we have to actually apply for an additional construction grant immediately | 01:45:45 | |
| following the completion of the SMART grant, and so part of this money will go to this. | 01:45:52 | |
| 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 | 01:46:00 | |
| fund the construction of this project after it has been designed. So 100% fairly funded and this will get us some options for | 01:46:07 | |
| fixing. Russell Rd. | 01:46:13 | |
| Thank, Alex. Supervisor Humphrey, I thank you very much for your persistence on this. It's been washed out a long time. And so | 01:46:21 | |
| 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 | 01:46:28 | |
| necessary to deal with US waterways and for service and all the things. So, yeah, I appreciate you continue to working on this. | 01:46:36 | |
| And the neat thing of it is, is once this is is. | 01:46:43 | |
| 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 | 01:46:52 | |
| because right now until this engineering is done, we don't have that information. So thank you. And I appreciate all the staff's | 01:46:58 | |
| 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 | 01:47:04 | |
| grant. So Alex, thank you very much. | 01:47:11 | |
| 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 | 01:47:18 | |
| resolution #11-06-24. | 01:47:24 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion and a second to approve those in favor say aye, aye, Thank you, Alex. Item 4I information | 01:47:30 | |
| discussion action to approve amendment number one to state contract number Ctr. 0161840 with the SJ Anderson Company to extend the | 01:47:39 | |
| term of the contract through December 31st, 2024 and decrease the dollar amount of the contract. | 01:47:47 | |
| By $43,063.08 per, not to exceed amount of $177,020.57. Good morning, Joseph. | 01:47:57 | |
| Good morning, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, This request seeks approval for amendment number one to state contract with SJ | 01:48:07 | |
| Anderson Company for the Hilo County Fairgrounds prefab bathroom slab and earth work utility project. | 01:48:13 | |
| This project was launched and completed in response to community needs and funded by the American Rescue Plan grants for the | 01:48:21 | |
| fairgrounds improvements. The fabricated restroom facility was purchased for $325,759 with the slab, earthwork and utility | 01:48:30 | |
| contracted to USJ Anderson at $220,084.65. The Facilities and Land Management Department proposes extending the contract term. | 01:48:40 | |
| To December 31st, 2024 and reducing the total cost by $43,063.08, bringing the final contract to 170. Seventy $7020.57. | 01:48:50 | |
| This cost savings was achieved through efficient resource management, lower than anticipated material costs, and minimal use of | 01:49:08 | |
| contingencies. | 01:49:12 | |
| The extension provides also a buffer to complete financial administrative closeout task, ensuring compliance and allowing for | 01:49:17 | |
| minor adjustments as needed. This amendment will enable us to finalize the project within budget and with full operational | 01:49:21 | |
| readiness. | 01:49:26 | |
| Approval of this amendment reflects our commitment to delivering a high quality cost effective improvement for the community | 01:49:32 | |
| 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, | 01:49:38 | |
| Joseph. Gotta love that. Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah, I have no questions other than thank you very much for for helping us continue | 01:49:44 | |
| to. | 01:49:49 | |
| To make the fairgrounds a better place for recreation. So thank you very much. | 01:49:57 | |
| 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 | 01:50:02 | |
| that. I will call for a motion, Mr. Chair. I'll make the motion to approve amendment number one to state contract number Ctr. | 01:50:09 | |
| 0161840 with the SJ Anderson Company as presented. Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion to the second to approve. Those in favor say | 01:50:15 | |
| aye. | 01:50:22 | |
| Thank you, Joseph. And now we have 4 J item information action to approve an intergovernmental agreement with the City of Globe. | 01:50:29 | |
| For the distribution of responsibilities pertaining to the renovation of the Michaelson building for the Coworks space and we have | 01:50:37 | |
| manager Menlo. | 01:50:41 | |
| Good morning, Mr. Chairman, members of the Board. | 01:50:49 | |
| 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 | 01:50:51 | |
| review some of the items that was in the agenda item that. | 01:50:57 | |
| Already gone through the dates, but the sources and uses of revenues. | 01:51:06 | |
| 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 | 01:51:11 | |
| Community Investment Fund 150,000 of that and specifically for the roof replacement, the county investment 240,609 for the | 01:51:19 | |
| renovation portion of that there's a commitment or a. | 01:51:27 | |
| Proposed commitments of $1.3 million congressionally directed spending through the City of Globe 750,000 Presidents and copper | 01:51:37 | |
| economic development support through the City of Globe 150,000 resolution. Copper economic development support through Healing | 01:51:46 | |
| County 150,000 As part of the fiscal year 202425 budget, Healer County has budgeted $250,000 specifically for the. | 01:51:56 | |
| Michelson. | 01:52:05 | |
| Rehabilitation, remodel and also the City of Globe and their 2425 budget, they have an appropriation line item amount of $150,000 | 01:52:06 | |
| total of $1,450,000 for. | 01:52:14 | |
| Completing the remodel and outfitting of the facility with the office equipment, those are the things that are necessary to let | 01:52:22 | |
| that purpose out. The intent is at this point that. | 01:52:30 | |
| 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 | 01:52:39 | |
| remediation done. They're testing again. I understand that there is black mold in the facility. | 01:52:46 | |
| And so. | 01:52:53 | |
| Part of this that there's. | 01:52:56 | |
| At this point is to gut. | 01:53:00 | |
| Existing. | 01:53:02 | |
| Walls and those types of things and completely clear out both floors of the Michelson building. | 01:53:05 | |
| 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 | 01:53:12 | |
| of whereas. Both he the County and the City Globe have an interest in strengthening economic development in here, the county, | 01:53:20 | |
| Arizona and each political subdivision is statutorily enabled to expand public money for economic purposes and whereas the County | 01:53:27 | |
| owns the building described as Michaelson Building located at 157 S Broad St. in Globe, AZ. To date, the county has. | 01:53:34 | |
| A significant amount of to maintain the habitability of the property, including 309,000 to remodel, retire the roof and 250,000 | 01:53:42 | |
| for interior demolition. To date, of that amount, Freeport Macron contributed one amount of 150,000. And whereas the property is | 01:53:48 | |
| available to be repurposed for appropriate public use, the state bulb has been awarded 750,000 by a congressionally directed | 01:53:54 | |
| spending. | 01:54:00 | |
| Field pack better bill appropriation that is specifically designated to fund the joint project to convert the Michaels and | 01:54:07 | |
| building office space into a functional. | 01:54:12 | |
| Business Incubator Center for Economic Development in Elite County Additionally, in the city of Globe anticipates receiving a 25% | 01:54:16 | |
| match of the federal funds from a local mining company intended for use in the development of the multi user business incubator | 01:54:24 | |
| facility. And now therefore, in consideration of the mutual promises contained in this IGA and of the mutual benefits result, | 01:54:31 | |
| there are the parties agreed as follows. Those agreements are several pages of the previous are included in in the IGA. | 01:54:38 | |
| Mr. Chairman, with your if you'd like to. | 01:54:46 | |
| Yes, welcome, Connie. Thank you, supervisors. | 01:54:51 | |
| 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 | 01:54:57 | |
| First Friday project, we're kind of doing an outside incubator space. So now to bring everybody inside and enhance their | 01:55:05 | |
| businesses and give them resources, that would be awesome. And as a supervisor, Humphrey, I believe you said that this is a iconic | 01:55:12 | |
| building within our city and what a what an awesome place to do that. So we're just thrilled to be part. | 01:55:20 | |
| 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 | 01:55:27 | |
| fact, you know. | 01:55:33 | |
| 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 | 01:55:41 | |
| that needs to be done now that we're doing some more demo and then some refurbishing, have we discussed the project management? I | 01:55:47 | |
| 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 | 01:55:54 | |
| team, so to speak? | 01:56:00 | |
| This chairman's brother, Humphrey. | 01:56:08 | |
| 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 | 01:56:10 | |
| 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 | 01:56:18 | |
| the county, the county and the city goal will be weekly meetings are required to coordinate and to support that. | 01:56:26 | |
| As we've toured the facility in that. | 01:56:36 | |
| 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 | 01:56:40 | |
| have minimum at least weekly meetings in coordination with the county for the project. But as far as $700,000 required that City | 01:56:46 | |
| of Gold be the project manager. | 01:56:53 | |
| And I would hope maybe. | 01:57:00 | |
| Occasionally updates with the Board of Supervisors. | 01:57:03 | |
| Mr. Chairman, Sergeant, we could have them as often as you'd like. Absolutely. Thank you. | 01:57:08 | |
| Supervisor Klein. | 01:57:13 | |
| 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 | 01:57:16 | |
| 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 | 01:57:23 | |
| 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. | 01:57:30 | |
| 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 | 01:57:37 | |
| the intergovernmental agreement with the City of Globe as presented. And I'll second that, Mr. Chair, have a motion and a second | 01:57:43 | |
| to approve those in favor say aye. | 01:57:48 | |
| Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Members of the Board, the next step is going to be filled within the facilities team are | 01:57:56 | |
| working to get a contract. Hopefully we have a contract within the next few weeks. | 01:58:01 | |
| 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 | 01:58:07 | |
| completely. | 01:58:11 | |
| The interior completely demonstrable and. | 01:58:17 | |
| So we're planning to move forward quickly with that. OK, very exciting. Thank you. Look forward to updates. Item 4K is information | 01:58:22 | |
| discussion action to approve an economic development agreement number 10162024 between Healer County and Katie's Closet | 01:58:31 | |
| Incorporated in the amount of $1000 to provide new clothing to marginalized children. | 01:58:39 | |
| Grades kindergarten through 12th grade of Healer County, which the board is determined to be for the benefit of the public. This | 01:58:48 | |
| is my item that. | 01:58:54 | |
| 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 | 01:59:01 | |
| beneficial this is to the process of? | 01:59:07 | |
| What you do? | 01:59:14 | |
| My name is Bob Horn. | 01:59:17 | |
| I'm the director. | 01:59:19 | |
| Board has been very good about supporting us yearly since I've taken over directions in 2017. | 01:59:24 | |
| Let me give you a sense of what we've done with us for this year. We've assisted 383 children. | 01:59:31 | |
| I have 120 volunteers, including 346 volunteer hours. | 01:59:40 | |
| We have purchased and distributed 261 new pair of shoes to join. | 01:59:47 | |
| 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 | 01:59:54 | |
| we've given out another 258. | 02:00:04 | |
| Some sort of new item, primarily shirts and pants. | 02:00:16 | |
| In addition, we've given. | 02:00:21 | |
| Trying to treat bags and some 35 RCLP books and children. | 02:00:26 | |
| Possibly the most challenging thing for me this past year if I've ever I had a child here on my shoes. | 02:00:36 | |
| And I moved her to the front of the road because she had no shoes on. | 02:00:49 | |
| It's too dangerous. | 02:00:55 | |
| This program has been existed since 2013 and has reached. | 02:00:59 | |
| Literally. | 02:01:05 | |
| Well over 1000 children. | 02:01:07 | |
| 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 | 02:01:10 | |
| shoes at Walmart this year. | 02:01:18 | |
| At $40 last Friday, so we're very pleased to have your support. | 02:01:27 | |
| Well, thank you. Thank you for that report and thank you for all that you do. Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah, thank you very much for | 02:01:34 | |
| 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 | 02:01:42 | |
| to help the help close people. So thank you very much, Supervisor Klein. | 02:01:49 | |
| Yeah, that. | 02:01:59 | |
| 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? | 02:02:01 | |
| No if. | 02:02:10 | |
| If Mr. Christensen will accept an amendment to the amount of the grant. | 02:02:12 | |
| We can do that accomplish that by the motion to add $1000 to the total amount. | 02:02:17 | |
| The chairman will accept any additions to the original amount. Yeah, I think when you change it, you ought to change it to three. | 02:02:24 | |
| 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 | 02:02:32 | |
| supervisor for a total of $3000. And with that I will. | 02:02:40 | |
| Ask for a motion, Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve the Economic Development Agreement number 10162024 with Katie's | 02:02:49 | |
| Closet in the amount of $3000 as presented, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. | 02:02:59 | |
| 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 | 02:03:10 | |
| you. That'll be very beneficial. Thank you for coming. | 02:03:16 | |
| All right. Our next item, very generous. Thank you very much for all for that. Appreciate it means a lot. | 02:03:24 | |
| 4L Also this is economic development grant, we're going to have information, discussion, action to approve the economic | 02:03:33 | |
| development agreement number 101724 between Hugh County and the Payson Hewlett County Sheriff's policy incorporated in the amount | 02:03:41 | |
| of $9000. And this will be to assist with the annual Shock with a Hero event. | 02:03:49 | |
| 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 | 02:03:58 | |
| 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 | 02:04:04 | |
| Payson? Very good. Go ahead. Morning, Chairman Ford, A little bit of background on the ask for this. So this program got started | 02:04:11 | |
| by the Sheriff's Office here in Yuma County. | 02:04:18 | |
| Let's say about eight years ago or so, it got brought to us by a deputy. | 02:04:25 | |
| 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 | 02:04:29 | |
| applications, teachers, churches, regular citizens would. | 02:04:36 | |
| Fill out an application that would come to us and we would go through the application, try to determine which kids we could accept | 02:04:44 | |
| 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 | 02:04:50 | |
| only handle. | 02:04:56 | |
| 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 | 02:05:03 | |
| is, is because it takes so many volunteers and 1st responders. | 02:05:09 | |
| To to appropriately handle this program. So as a kid comes in and the approval process they're approved, we tell them tell their | 02:05:15 | |
| current one to drop them off. | 02:05:20 | |
| 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 | 02:05:26 | |
| 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, | 02:05:34 | |
| their family, other people in their household. And that is giving a better Christmas to some underprivileged kids and families. So | 02:05:41 | |
| the the $9000, we're asking for it. | 02:05:48 | |
| 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 | 02:05:56 | |
| choosing things that are a little more expensive than some kids end up with just enough Jennifer their, their immediate family in | 02:06:02 | |
| the home. But what this program does for those underprivileged kids and the rest of the community is, is really kind of hard to | 02:06:08 | |
| 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 | 02:06:14 | |
| to keep it going. | 02:06:20 | |
| Very good. Sarah, did you have anything to add? | 02:06:26 | |
| Call dedicated job presenting it. Like I said, we're just always grateful for your guys to continue support this really as she | 02:06:31 | |
| comes to such event for the Sheriff's Office when it comes to our community involvement. The amount of you know people and kids | 02:06:38 | |
| being in touch with a positive. | 02:06:44 | |
| Interaction with law enforcement is huge, so thank you for your interview support and if you have any questions. | 02:06:52 | |
| OK. Appreciate that, Supervisor Humphrey. | 02:07:00 | |
| I have no questions other than, you know, it'd be nice if it's partially sponsored by the county Board of Supervisors put | 02:07:04 | |
| somewhere. | 02:07:08 | |
| 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 | 02:07:14 | |
| 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 | 02:07:22 | |
| for clothes and, but we found out in the past that we need to take the receipts off. | 02:07:29 | |
| Because some of those people that qualify, when the kids get home with the gifts, they are traded back, they're taken back for | 02:07:37 | |
| 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 | 02:07:43 | |
| 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 | 02:07:49 | |
| think it's a great program. | 02:07:56 | |
| Anything we can do to help the kids and the less fortunate. | 02:08:03 | |
| I'm behind 100%. Thank you very much. Those safeguards are in. | 02:08:05 | |
| Supervisor, they had thrown a line with the receipt. They also marked the tax of anything ever bought. So anything that bought | 02:08:11 | |
| 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 | 02:08:19 | |
| great program and it's great that we keep working through to make it make it work for what it's supposed to. | 02:08:26 | |
| OK. Thank you, supervisor. | 02:08:35 | |
| Cole I remember when this started and it was, it has been an awesome program, really good. And so basically you're topped off | 02:08:38 | |
| 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 | 02:08:45 | |
| 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 | 02:08:51 | |
| of we don't have a lot of first responders. | 02:08:58 | |
| 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 | 02:09:05 | |
| ambulances, that many cop cars. And we include every single the, the tribal police departments include the, the municipal police | 02:09:12 | |
| department's DPS, the fire departments, the even the helicopters show up. We can't put the kids in the helicopters, but we have | 02:09:18 | |
| them there just just for fun. So really with the amount of. | 02:09:25 | |
| 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 | 02:09:33 | |
| 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 | 02:09:39 | |
| 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 | 02:09:45 | |
| an awesome program. It's really good. So thank you all. | 02:09:51 | |
| 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 | 02:09:59 | |
| call for motion. | 02:10:03 | |
| I move to approve Economic Development Agreement number 10172024 with Payson Helen County Sheriff's Policy Incorporated, as | 02:10:08 | |
| presented, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. Mr. Charles, second time we have a motion and a | 02:10:16 | |
| second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye, aye. Thank you. Thank you, Sheriff, for being here today. | 02:10:24 | |
| Thank you very much. | 02:10:33 | |
| Yeah, you're very welcome. | 02:10:34 | |
| Stay safe out there. | 02:10:37 | |
| 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 | 02:10:39 | |
| discuss here to remove anything today. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Klein. OK, so I will call for a motion to approve consent | 02:10:47 | |
| 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. | 02:10:54 | |
| Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. | 02:11:02 | |
| Motion carries. | 02:11:11 | |
| 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 | 02:11:15 | |
| make any decisions regarding this process and we allow three minutes per person that wishes to speak. | 02:11:24 | |
| Determined it. | 02:11:36 | |
| OK, umm, Tyler, I don't think anyone's in Payson, correct? | 02:11:38 | |
| 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. | 02:11:46 | |
| 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. | 02:12:00 | |
| Good afternoon. Good afternoon Humphrey, Chairman Christensen and Supervisor Klein. I'm here to talk again. This is 1/4 time I've | 02:12:17 | |
| been we've been here on this topic, which is The Pioneers project. Healer County approved the Pine Ice project, which was | 02:12:24 | |
| basically a detention based in that collects all the water from their property and shoots it on to us through 5 pipes directly | 02:12:31 | |
| onto our property. | 02:12:38 | |
| 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. | 02:12:46 | |
| Five properties are affected. | 02:12:54 | |
| And we've had a pretty dry monsoon, but. | 02:12:57 | |
| 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 | 02:13:00 | |
| basement of one of our homes. | 02:13:04 | |
| Now Public Works has stated and continues to state that this project was approved because the post development peak flows are less | 02:13:09 | |
| than the pre development flows for the two year, 10 year, 50 year and 100 year replacements. | 02:13:18 | |
| We haven't even had a two year and we're already getting flooded in four of our five homes. | 02:13:28 | |
| Alex Kendrick can testify or can say that those five properties that are reflected never got flooded before. He never had | 02:13:34 | |
| complaints to properties South of us, directly South of us, and the property South of him with this little bit of rain were | 02:13:39 | |
| flooded. | 02:13:45 | |
| 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 | 02:13:52 | |
| mitigate the flood, because isn't it our private property right to protect our property from water that's being directed to us? | 02:14:01 | |
| 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 | 02:14:10 | |
| properties affected. Now, we went to our supervisor as aunt was recommended because like I said, this is the fourth time we've | 02:14:19 | |
| been here. We went to our supervisor, supervisor Christian Christensen, and he said, quote UN quote, I want to fix this problem. | 02:14:28 | |
| Steve, you gave us your word. | 02:14:37 | |
| 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 | 02:14:40 | |
| going elk hunting. I don't know how you did, but in the meantime, when he's gone on vacation, somebody cancelled the meeting. | 02:14:47 | |
| So the meetings are now cancelled. | 02:14:56 | |
| 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 | 02:14:58 | |
| government in that picture? | 02:15:03 | |
| It doesn't look pretty. | 02:15:13 | |
| Who's running Healer County? Is it our supervisors? I look at the organizational chart and who's in the town. | 02:15:17 | |
| Well, if one of the people on the top schedules a meeting, then how is it that everybody else can cancel it? | 02:15:27 | |
| That's my timer pretty good. I'm 3 minutes. Thank you, Cindy. | 02:15:34 | |
| I may respond, but Vince, did you want to say something? OK. | 02:15:41 | |
| Supervisor Christensen. | 02:15:56 | |
| Woody and Tim, please. Woody, I hope you're doing good with your. | 02:15:59 | |
| That's the first one. I just got a few things to say to you guys. | 02:16:04 | |
| We move into an area where not Mormons and we know that. | 02:16:11 | |
| 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 | 02:16:15 | |
| 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. | 02:16:22 | |
| I got your words. | 02:16:28 | |
| Let's all get together and work on this. We're willing to work on it. | 02:16:36 | |
| 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 | 02:16:41 | |
| neighbors at the Pine, I mean at the Timeless Antiques. They agreed to take the easement. | 02:16:47 | |
| I draft the easement, I get it notarized. I bring it to the county. You guys won't accept. | 02:16:55 | |
| 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 | 02:17:02 | |
| registered letters. | 02:17:06 | |
| We need to get this straightened out and we need to quit fighting with each other. | 02:17:11 | |
| Steve, you gave me your word. I got it on recording. Stand up like a man and do the right thing. Thank you. | 02:17:17 | |
| All right, so. | 02:17:30 | |
| 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 | 02:17:34 | |
| property with staff. | 02:17:40 | |
| That is true. | 02:17:48 | |
| Staff instructed you to apply for the appropriate permits and that did not seem to be forthcoming. Therefore the meeting was | 02:17:51 | |
| cancelled. I have since been advised because of the way the process has proceeded with our public, with the community development | 02:18:00 | |
| department, I've been advised by our legal department not to continue responding. | 02:18:09 | |
| And that's why I have not. | 02:18:18 | |
| In a way I feel I should be, but I have been advised not to so. | 02:18:22 | |
| I do believe the Hudson's have the resources and ability to solve this issue. There seems to be. | 02:18:30 | |
| Tension between them and the community development department which is not creating a smooth course of action to get this | 02:18:40 | |
| resolved. So I would just suggest that you no longer seek. | 02:18:47 | |
| For the supervisors to solve this for you but be very capable community development department to do that. | 02:18:56 | |
| OK, Supervisor Humphrey, anything you'd like to add? | 02:19:03 | |
| Supervisor Klein. | 02:19:10 | |
| Thank you. That concludes our public, our call to the public. | 02:19:13 | |
| At this time, we will have. | 02:19:19 | |
| Our reports. | 02:19:22 | |
| Mr. Menlove. | 02:19:25 | |
| Couple things, Mr. Chairman. Of course, it's Election day-to-day. And as of last Friday, the CSA reported that throughout the | 02:19:27 | |
| state that there were early voters that had been 51% of the eligible voters had already voted as of last Thursday. | 02:19:36 | |
| 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 | 02:19:46 | |
| depositing their ballots into the the receptacle right outside my office here. So it's there is appears to be very heavy. And of | 02:19:54 | |
| course, Gila County orders are typically second in the state as far as percentage the high volume. | 02:20:02 | |
| Second in the state for volume of percent of voters. | 02:20:11 | |
| 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 | 02:20:15 | |
| Castro votes. That's the way our political system works to cast our votes for who we believe is the best candidate. And we | 02:20:22 | |
| appreciate all those who have contributed to that. I will make a comment about the Treasurer's office. I've spoken to her that | 02:20:29 | |
| last Friday was. | 02:20:35 | |
| Tax bills were delinquent as of last Friday, November 1st. The Treasurer is working with those. We did have the errors in Pleasant | 02:20:43 | |
| Valley for the school district assessment and also in the Payson Unified School District area. | 02:20:52 | |
| 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 | 02:21:01 | |
| 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 | 02:21:09 | |
| spoken to her and she they are working diligently to get all those processes when somebody pays for their tax, property taxes and | 02:21:16 | |
| it is an amount greater than what ultimately they should be paying. | 02:21:24 | |
| She's hanging on to those checks, contacting property owners individually and asking them if they would issue a new check for the | 02:21:31 | |
| corrected amount for the property taxes and little data. They don't want you. They they, they want to just have the treasurer's | 02:21:39 | |
| office cash those checks. Then either the treasury is issuing a check and a refund or just applying their taxes to the second-half | 02:21:46 | |
| payments. So she's trying to work with her citizens and get through this difficult circumstance. | 02:21:53 | |
| Community in the greatest ease possible. | 02:22:01 | |
| We have the challenges from but we are working throughout to try to get that corrected. | 02:22:05 | |
| I will close there, Mr. Chairman. | 02:22:11 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Manloth, Supervisor Humphrey. | 02:22:15 | |
| Yeah, I attended a CAG Regional Council meeting on the 30th Central Arizona Government. | 02:22:18 | |
| 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 | 02:22:26 | |
| 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 | 02:22:34 | |
| open line on the 30th at 9:30. | 02:22:42 | |
| I I talked about Tri-City Sanitation department. | 02:22:51 | |
| You know them. They've got some board members that are on the ballot that I was in favor of. | 02:22:56 | |
| 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 | 02:23:05 | |
| 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 | 02:23:14 | |
| 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. | 02:23:24 | |
| 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 | 02:23:34 | |
| 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 | 02:23:42 | |
| good to keep working on those and, and, and getting things accomplished. Attended ACSA Blight roundtable on October the 29th and | 02:23:49 | |
| you know, I've, I've been working. | 02:23:57 | |
| 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 | 02:24:05 | |
| property, as well as investors who can foreclose on properties and have not. They can leave those properties in limbo for 10 years | 02:24:12 | |
| 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 | 02:24:20 | |
| really fighting hard. And so we're trying to get other counties involved. | 02:24:27 | |
| 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. | 02:24:34 | |
| 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 | 02:24:44 | |
| nature to help us clean up some of these properties. And other than that, that's all I have. Mr. Chair. Thank you, Supervisor. | 02:24:51 | |
| 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 | 02:24:58 | |
| people to vote today. That would be great. | 02:25:04 | |
| So that's that will conclude our reports, Mr. Chairman. | 02:25:12 | |
| I just want to express appreciation, Eric with as far as the election today that they they were working all weekend in. | 02:25:17 | |
| 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 | 02:25:24 | |
| late into the night ensuring that everything would go smoothly for our election. I wanted to discuss appreciation to all of our | 02:25:31 | |
| many county employees are involved in sponsoring, putting on express, appreciating everybody that supports the election and they | 02:25:37 | |
| are we run good elections in Healing County that we do. | 02:25:44 | |
| And thanks to the Recorder's office as well, there's just an awful lot going on, so. | 02:25:51 | |
| We want to have the best and most accurate election that we can, and I believe we do. | 02:25:57 | |
| Our next item is an executive session item 8A. It's information discussion, action to vote to go into executive session pursuit | 02:26:05 | |
| ARS 38 dash 431.03 A 3-4 for discussion and consultation for legal advice regarding the application of Arizona administrative | 02:26:13 | |
| codes are 18-5-408 and. | 02:26:22 | |
| R18-9-8. I'm sorry, Dash A309. | 02:26:31 | |
| And I will call for a motion. | 02:26:38 | |
| So moved, Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion to approve and seconded to go into executive session. All those in favor say aye, | 02:26:41 | |
| aye. | 02:26:46 | |
| This meeting back to order. | 02:26:56 | |
| And call for a motion on the executive session Item 8. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion for staff to proceed as directed. | 02:26:59 | |
| 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 | 02:27:11 | |
| you. Meetings adjourned. | 02:27:16 |