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788 So I'd like to call this meeting to order. It's November 19th, 2024. It's just a minute after 10:00 and I've asked Caitlin
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from the CSA to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance and then Mr. Men level our prayer following.
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United States of America and the Republic Coalition stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Our dear kind of gracious Heavenly Father, we humbly bow our heads before Thee at the beginning of this Healer County Board of
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Supervisors meeting.
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We have grabbed tuner hearts for the blessings that thou bestowed upon. We have much to be thankful for. We are grateful for.
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Our country that we live in, we're great for the elections that we recently had and that we as people have an opportunity to
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express our opinions on and have our voices be heard through the election process. We're grateful that the election went smoothly
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here in Gila County and throughout the state of Arizona.
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Heavenly Father, we're grateful for.
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The people that live here in Yulick County and pray thy blessings upon them that each may be blessed according to their individual
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needs pose that are lacking in.
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Physical resources, emotional strength, or have other needs. We pray on their behalf that they may bless.
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And the Father, we pray for Thy Spirit to attend us here and the supervisors meeting, that the dialogue may be open and free and
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that good decisions will be made and that we can all be blessed because of the.
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Things that the board supervisors do this day.
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For these papers and blessings we ask in the name of thy beloved Son, Jesus Christ, Amen. Thank you.
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Well, good morning, everyone. We have quite a bit to do today, so we're just going to get started.
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We have item two public hearings. 2A is information, discussion, action to adopt resolution #24-11-03, to name the following roads
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in the Pine area, E Canyonland Canyon Lands Lane, West Moab Lane, S Zion Lane, West Bryce Lane, and West Arches Lane. Good
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morning, Tom.
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Good morning, Mr. Chairman, members of the Board.
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Yeah, I'm before you to.
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Name the roads as requested.
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Our current ordinance as it's written, this one was interesting. Our current ordinance is written has this run through a single
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cycle of constituent contact and there was minimal response. So the addressing department selected these names. We had one request
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for Zion, so we decided to go with Utah National Parks as a common theme.
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Welcome. Any questions you have, Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. Any Supervisor Klein, I'm good. Thank you, Tom. Yeah,
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and thank you for that. And so with that, then I'll open it up to the public hearing portion. And I understand that we have a
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couple gentlemen here that would like to speak to this item, it's Barney Etzel and Michael Etzel.
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Both or one of you if you would please come up and introduce yourself.
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Thank you, Chairman.
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My name is Barney Epsilon and we own the property up in Pine, AZ and.
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We purchased the property in June of 2021.
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And basically it's on the undeveloped land. So we did typically what had it surveyed and the topographic maps on the sewage
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system.
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Design and.
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Had an architect on board and put a short Rd. into the property.
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For some reason I didn't get the information about Rd. naming and stuff, so I'm requesting that.
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This short Rd. that I have is aimed at my wife.
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And we'll give you.
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This road is 1 highlighted.
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While he's distributing that, it would be the proposed Rd. #2 which you have proposed W Moab Lane, OK.
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Thank you. There you go.
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I've got anyway.
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So anyway, after we did all that preliminary work.
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My wife took ill and.
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Subsequently passed away in July 1st of 2023, so Needless to say everything that we had done at that point.
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Went on hold.
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Now that the.
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She's gone and everything.
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Gives me the opportunity to to do something in her name. As you can see by the road it's probably hundred 200 yard.
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Piece of just to get us to the to the property we're going to build on so.
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I respectfully request that the name be changed to Helen's Lane. Helen. Yes. How would you spell that? ELLENELLEN Lane. Lane.
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OK.
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And with that, thank you for your time and.
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Well, thank you. Stay right there for a second. So Tom, I'll ask a question and then I'll let the others do as well. So would this
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be a conflict with any other names that we have or would it need to be a West or an East or a, you know, we would keep the
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directional as already assigned, but because we have like the Ellenwood Ranch and Ellen is used.
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Found throughout other portions of the county. My only concern would be.
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Radio traffic regarding the Sheriff's Office to avoid name confusion for response issues.
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We don't want to, you know, if we go to Ellen's Lane.
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I have not checked directly within the pine, but I know Ellenwood is used elsewhere in the county. Ellen Wood, Yeah. OK. So if I
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consider radio communications as marginal, would that cause a concern for response?
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OK, so that would be your only concern? That would be my only concern. OK, Supervisor Humphrey.
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Yeah, I, you know, I, I don't really have a problem with it. It's just if it's Ellen's Lane or Ellen Lane. So W Ellen Lane, West
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Ellen's Lane.
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I I think before it would it would go in further with. Which would you prefer?
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Probably W Ellen's Lane. Ellen's plural. Yeah, Ellen.
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For radio. OK, Pardon me. That by keeping the plurality, the S in there, that would help on the radio transmission, OK. Yeah, no
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good. And so anyway, that, that's the only question I had. OK, Thank you. Supervisor Klein. I yeah, I don't have any problem with
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that. I think they can sort that out real easily. If they can't, I don't really know what to tell them So, but I I don't really
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see that being a problem.
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OK. Then what I'm going to do is call for a motion and if we vote with, we all agree it sounds like we do to change it to West
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Ellen's Lane.
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I'm sorry, we need to close the public hearing portion. Yeah.
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We don't think you could do anything. Thank you, Chairman. I believe that the resolution is going to need to be redrafted. The
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resolution for this item states that it as we have it. I I would I would bring this back before the question is what what do we
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need to do from here? Probably table it. I don't know if we need to table it. You could make a recommendation that in your.
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Approving the.
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Approving you can make the change saying With this change we approve.
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The resolution, OK. All right. You concur with that, Joe. OK.
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The.
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Substitute.
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Just include that in the motion.
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All right, then we'll close the public hearing portion and call for a motion.
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Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution #24-11-03 to name the following roads in Pine Area, E Canyon Lands Lane,
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and change W Moab Lane to West Ellens plural lane.
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South Zion Lane, West, Bryce Lane and West.
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Arches Lane.
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Mr. Chair, I'll second that. Very good. We have a motion and a second to approve the motion. All those in favor say aye, aye.
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Thank you very much. You got your wish. Thank you very much. Thank you.
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All right. Moving on to Item 2B, also a public hearing information discussion action to consider Electro license application.
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#LL-24-05 Submitted by Aretha Morris for the transfer of a Series 009 liquor store license with an interim permit to operate at
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the Buddy's Gas and many more in Young and the issue of recommendation to the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control
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whether the license should be granted. Samantha. Thank you, chairman.
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So Theresa Moore submitted an application to the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control for the transfer of a Series 9
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liquor store license at Buddies Gas and Mini Mart in Young.
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I'm good as well, so without a call from motion.
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Oh yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. See that I just never going to get it.
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I will close. I will open it up now for the public hearing. Cassandra, no anyone here in Globe.
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Wish to speak no and no in person.
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OK, thank you. I'll now close the public hearing and call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to recommend that the
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Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control approve the liquor license application submitted by Theresa Morse for Buddies
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Gas and Mini Mart.
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Mr. Gerald Second that have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye.
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Motion carries moving on to regular agenda items 3A information discussion action the canvas E election results contained in the
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official canvas of the general election held on November 5th 2024 in Yula County, Arizona and declared the results as being
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official and we have Eric Berskow good morning good morning ask advisor Christensen chairman and supervisor Humphrey and Klein you
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have before you the canvas of the election in front of you there it's a rather large.
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The object, but we'll try and get through a minimal amount of pain and discomfort, I suppose you say. Starting off, we have you
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know, just our basic content here, Precinct listings, order turnout, our summary reports and of course our in depth and in detail
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reports for the precinct level voting. Our precinct listings here pretty much the same throughout the county as always. We did
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have some difficulties in the Chorizo and San Carlos areas this election, the fire that occurred in the month of July for the San
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Carlos area.
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Our normal polling place was taken over by disaster relief and so forth, so we had to find another location.
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We did pretty good distillation cycle. We came out second voter turn out in the state of Arizona. Finally got past Maricopa on
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this one, but we were not able to overtake the apple pie. We just they're just fanatically voting up there. So anyway, we came out
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with a 80.74 voter turn out in Healer County. And I can tell you I felt it out in the point places on Election Day. It seemed like
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the minute we opened the doors, we started coming in and it just kept going and kept going. So we had a really good voter turn out
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even though we had.
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A very long ballot with this election due to propositions.
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It was very well received by our voters in Gila County. We explained to them the situations that some really good marshals out
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there doing some good PR out there. I'm waiting the public now the voters know that it's going to be a little bit because there's
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a lot of data on this ballot. So it took a little bit of time to print, but because we were able to keep it to the one ballot
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page, it was it was very manageable for us. We did have some wait times at some locations, but they did not exceed anything that
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would put us in any serious jeopardy.
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On their job, they tame those lines pretty quickly and it was kind of like a flux of, you know, people come in going to vote for
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work or at lunchtime voting polling locations and so forth. But because of our poll workers and their their good work out there,
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they were able to keep it down to the minimums and stuff. That was a very good training point on on our Co workers in Healing
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County and also on the voters in Healer County. They didn't get upset. They were very well, you know, they just took it all in
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stride. So.
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They did what I'm not regarding.
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County offices, state legislative, federal, so forth and they're all there for your review. And then of course the precinct detail
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reports, that's where it gets in the down where you the bean counters love to go in there and look over that information and so
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forth and so on. And then in a couple of next section we just want to take a look at is just, you know, basically the early
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ballots, we had a very large turn out on those.
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They turned out a little north of 24,000 early ballots and so.
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We got, we had quite a few of them back. We received 22,467 and so then we processed those takes a little bit longer this time
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this election. There were a lot of those propositions did a real good number on the what we call hesitation works if it would put
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their pen down and rest it on yes and they change their mind and go to no. But they left that tiny little mark which registered as
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an unclear mark on our machine as we tabulated. And as I'm sure you're aware of, there's been a lot of talk about that that.
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We were able to get the job done with the minimal amount of heartache and heartbreak. I pushed out my early boards as hard as I
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could, but they are a volunteer force. They are citizens. They do have lives other than elections. So they were very, very
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meaningful to my working them on Saturday and Sunday in some cases to make sure that we get both this done and out of the way. So
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that's on the early ballot rejection summary.
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The other portion that sometimes is interesting of interest is the provisional ballot summary.
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We have 376 people cast their provisional ballots received. There were 184 rejected and 192 that were verified. The rejections ran
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the gamut from they were not eligible to vote or they already voted an early ballot. Some of them returned their ballots
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unfortunately empty with just the instructions and that was it. So.
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Help for them that way in the end. But those are the issues that we did have. Like I said, they're minimal in that regard. So we
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were able to get that taken care of. And of course, the last section that we have is the official writing candidate summary. And
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this is just basically all of the official writing candidates that were allowed on the ballot that we processed. And they were
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once again, very minimal in this regard. We did have a lot of people voting for Daffy Duck, Minnie Mouse, Goofy.
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And all over the place and a lot of your writings from the people that ran in the last primary election were also a lot of write
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insurance on that regard, but they were not official so.
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And we're just simply set off to the wayside and the ones that we have here are those ones that official. And of course we had two
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water district elections that allow for the voters from out of district who are property owners and register within the state of
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Arizona to participate. And so that is the final election result on this candidates report.
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We had the usual issues that we always had an election. We had a couple of poll workers call off a couple of locations. We had a
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couple of people that were key critical inspector got sick at one location. So we had some difficulties with the closing
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paperwork, which is to be understandable if we lose someone, bring someone at the last minute like that. But overall our poll
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workers held strong. We had minimal amount of issues with our equipment. However, we did have one location where we had an
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intermittent issue and thankfully.
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It night before.
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Other than that, if you have any questions about anything in the report, I'd be happy to answer. Thank you, Eric. Supervisor
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Humphrey. Well, Eric, I have no questions. I just want to inform you that great job because I don't, I didn't receive any phone
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calls. Didn't you know in the past, sometimes during election you get calls over things and I got no phone calls this year. So, so
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congratulations to you for a great job and I and I want to thank you very much and all of the people that helped you.
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With the election, because I know what a difficulty it is to get people to volunteer and to do things and to to try to get help
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and so.
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I want to, I want to thank all those people very much for, for taking the time and effort and interest to, to help us with the
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elections so that so that we can do a better job. So thank you for all you've done.
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Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor Klein. Same with me, Eric. You guys did an awesome job as usual and I really appreciate it. It's
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not an easy task, so. But it sounds like going forward, you know, we can get you more space and a few things like be good to go
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again. Yeah, just minor. OK. Thank you. Thank you. And Eric, I'll, I'll.
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Express my same feelings. You have one of the hardest jobs and you do it well and it's accurate and we can trust it and that's the
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most important thing. So I want to thank you, your staff and everyone that was involved really appreciate it. Thank you so much
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for the presentation.
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Mr. Chairman, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Mr. Could I echo all of your sentiments that you've expressed of appreciation, not only Eric
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and his team, but to all the volunteers throughout the county. That's significant. They are appreciated. I just wanted to thank
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you very much. Yes. So thank you. With that, and if there's nothing else, then I'll call for motion Miss Jeremy to declare the
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results of the general election held on November 5th, 2024.
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As being official, Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion of the second to approve.
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All those in favor say aye, Thank you, Eric.
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All right, Item 3B Information, Discussion, Action to approve amendment #1 The contract number is 072123 Fraternity Group
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Services, Incorporated, which extends the term of the contract for an additional year to November 6th, 2025, and increases the
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contract amount by $84,930.60 or not to exceed amount of $509,930.
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And $0.60 And in pacing we have Sarah.
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Good morning, Sarah. Do you go by now? I gotta ask you, Sarah, are you Sarah White? Sarah Binney?
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You're both.
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Sarah White, Benny.
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I spent 21 years of my career in Huey County. Is there a line that resulted in extremely complex? I'd like to notify every agency
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I've ever worked with and changed my e-mail address. I just wanted to.
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OK.
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OK. All right, Sarah, thank you. Go ahead.
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So today we're here to prevent our food services contract, particularly having detention.
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Center, we are asking to extend for one additional year which are the contract allows for three additional one year term. We're
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here for just one additional year to take us from November 7th of 2024 to November 6th of 2025 and there was a significant
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increase of $84,930.60.
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Due to the rising cost.
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The total contract for the year is not to exceed the 509935 and $0.60. And with that, I'll take any questions. Thank you, Sarah.
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Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. Thank you, Supervisor Klein. Sarah, just a few refreshing my memory, this Trinity Group
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services, where are they located at?
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And.
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I feel like I've prepared for everything but that. I will tell you that they do service.
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Quite a few places.
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Throughout the state, one of the reasons that it worked so well with them is they did service DFC at one point. So that's outside
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the fairgrounds. I can get that information for you and get a set back.
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No worries, Sarah. I was just curious. Thank you.
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Thank you and thank you, Sarah, and thank you under Sheriff Newman. With that, I will call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the
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motion to approve amendment number one to contract number 072123 with Trinity Group Services Incorporated as presented.
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Mr. Chair, I'll second that we have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Motion carries Item 3C
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Information and discussion action to authorize the preparation and implementation of budgeted and unbudgeted interfund transfers
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for fiscal year 2025. Good morning, Marin. Good morning, Mr. Chair. Good morning supervisor, Client Supervisor Humphrey. We're
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here this morning to ask for the board's authorization to.
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Implement interfund transfers for fiscal year 2025. This is an annual request and it is required by.
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By statute that we get your approval before we do that.
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The mayor and Supervisor Humphrey.
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I have no question. I'm good, I'm good. I'll call promotion.
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Mr. Chair, I will authorize the preparation and implementation of budgeted and unbudgeted interfund transfers for physical year
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2025. Mr. Chair, I will second that motion and a second to approve those in favor. Say aye. Motion carries item 3.
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The information discussion action to adopt the fiscal year 2025 Full Cost Allocation Plan and CFR, which stands for Code of
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Federal Regulations.
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Cost allocation plan again, Mary, Yes, good morning again. This agenda item is for our annual adoption of the cost allocation plan
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which allows for our grant funded departments and programs to recover some of their indirect costs by establishing the rate that
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they can charge for that. After you adopt this, we have to send it on to the cognizant agencies at the state for their approval
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and then the.
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Grant funded programs and departments can start recovering those costs.
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Thank you, Baron. Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. Supervisor Klein? Yeah, I'm good. Thank you, Mary. I'm good as well.
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I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to talk. Fiscal year 2025 full cost allocation plan and CFR Code of Federal
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Regulations Cost Allocation Plan. I'll second that we have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye. Motion
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carries. Thank you, Mary. Item 3.
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Information Discussion. Action to approve Economic Development Agreement number 10312024 between Healer County and the Southern
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Healer County Economic Development Corporation and the amount of $5836 to complete its $50,000 commitment to the Highway 60
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Corridor Beautification Project for fiscal year 2025, which the Board is determined to be for the benefit of the public.
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Marin, this is my last agenda item, I believe. So back in fiscal 2021, we finalized a collaboration with several community
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agencies.
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To work on the highway beautification for Hwy. 60 from the edge of Miami all the way to the end of Healer County or over here in
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Globe and over the past couple years, Gila County's commitment has remained and our.
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Non governmental partners have sought ways to strengthen the project and grow it some more, and one of the best ways we can do
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that is to hand it off to a non profit partner.
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Which is the Southern Healer County Economic Development Corporation. We have Linda Autonetto and Robin Huddleston here from the
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EDC. They will be taking over the administration of this program and they will be taking over the contract with Allegiance
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Builders and Lyle over there. And this amount is the difference between the 44,164 that we've already contracted and paid to
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Allegiance Builders this fiscal year and the 50.
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$1000 that the County Board of Supervisors pledged to the project for this year. Thank you. Aaron. I was wondering what these
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ladies were here for. Is would either one of you or both care to speak to this?
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Thank you, Mary.
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Good morning, good morning, chair and Supervisor Klein and Humphrey. So we we see this as a way for us to continue carrying the
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torch that Hilah County has been carrying for the last few years. This is an exciting project and really has made an impact in in
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reducing blight along the 60 corridor from the beginning of Miami to the end of the globe city limits. And it's also helped to
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bring a new company into town and create a new business that's picking up this project and making.
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Go and it's had the creation, I believe it's 12 jobs. So there there's a lot of good that's come out of this project and this
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project really was.
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A community barn raising type of effort. This project had been talked about for many years and it came up at a community
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facilitation that was at the Hilo County Fairgrounds and that was between the city of Globe and Gila County with RCAC recharging,
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excuse me, recharging communities.
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I can't even believe, I can't remember what RCAC was for that they.
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Rural Communities Assistance Corporation and they were just here last week. So this was a project that was identified by over 100
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community members and these members stayed at the table to make it go and and heal a county really stepped up to to put that into
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reality. And so we're very thankful and grateful and hope to continue this project for many more years to come. Thank you,
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fantastic. Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey.
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I'd just like to say thank you very much 'cause you sure noticed the difference. I mean, you can see, you know, when I start, by
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the time I get to the other end, you can see the other end needs to be started on again, so.
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It to me it's money well spent because like I say, if you know, when they get to 1 end, the other end is starting to grow again.
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And so you can imagine what it would look like if if they weren't starting over. And so it's made a big difference and, and, and
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me I you know, I mean it is and they got road. And so you can be angry at the state for not spending money all you want to, but it
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doesn't help us with the problem so.
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By stepping up and I think you all for stepping up to to kind of take care of.
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Our house because the state has not helped us with our house so thank you very much. Thanks my father did you want to say few
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words too You know I I just wanna say that you truly have been one of the best collaborations that I've known of all the years
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that you're doing community work and it's widely beneficial and just numerous direct and indirect impacts. So just appreciate so
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much appreciation to his accounting for having managed and.
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For the past 2 1/2 years and we will shout out to Amy and to James Moon Love.
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For all the work they did and overseeing it and we're happy to take it on and continue it and.
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You know, just just see it as a huge foundation for community pride and economic development. So thank you, very good. Thank you,
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Supervisor Klein. It's a great project and great partnership and we're really glad to see it going as well as this ban and
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continue. So whatever we can do to help you ladies holler. Wonderful. Thank you, Thank you. That's very good. So with that, I will
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call for motion.
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Mr. I move to approve Economic Development Agreement number 1031224 with a Southern Healer County Economic Development Corporation
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as presented, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. And Mr. Chair, I'll second that we have a motion
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and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye. Thank you very much, ladies. Thank you. Thank you, Mary.
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And on to item 3F, Information discussion, Action to approve amendment number one to an intergovernmental agreement contract
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number Center 068202.
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With the Arizona Department of Health Services to revise the price sheet and allow the Public Health and Community Services
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department to continue to to provide the an HIV care and services for Yula County through March 31st, 2028. Good morning Joshua,
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Good morning Chairman, members of the board. So this grant covers 2 full time staff.
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Whose primary job is to take all new clients or residents of Hilo County affected positive for HIV.
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We meet with them, they do counseling and then they kind of give them linkages to care and make sure that they're kind of meeting
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with and matching those care plans as well as all the previous residents that they've done, you know, prior to this you. And so
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they try to keep 90% of the clients in healing County up to date on their care plans. And they do this across all of the county,
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anywhere from 1530 to 40 people clients per year. So it's a good fun, fully staffed two people.
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And they do a lot of care services. They can pay for helping these people. If they can't get to their appointments, we can pay to
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help them get to their appointments. We connect to different care plans. So it's it's pretty great.
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Thank you very much, Supervisor Humphrey. I have no questions other than just thank you for all you do you and you keep a lot of
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programs that you juggle and and thank you very much for that.
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Yes, thank you. And with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve amendment number one to the
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Arizona Department of Health Services Intergovernmental Agreement Contract Number Center 068202 as presented. Mr. Chair, I'll
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second that a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye. Thank you, Josh, we have one more for you.
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3G Information Discussion Action to authorize the advertisement or of request for proposal number 091424 Consulting Services
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Opioid Abatement wrap around services to secure qualified organizations to support and supplement the opioid abatement work
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already accomplished by Heila County.
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So in December of last year, we did a RFP to bring somebody in for opioid abatement services. At that time. We are really the
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amount of different opioid abatement settlements that have come through continues to grow. So the amount of funding in the
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different opportunities that are available because of the amount of funding has really changed since then.
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Originally we were really looking at what public health always calls like policy system, environmental change work where we, you
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know, try to work on the environment and making it so less people run into these issues.
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As the amount of funding is increased, we're really trying to look at health officers have been meeting with the Arizona Attorney
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General's office, They've been coming to our health officers meetings and it's been very clear from the attorneys that worked on
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the settlement dollars that that the overarching thing they really want to see is that we prevent the loss of life from opioid and
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fentanyl type related death. So I spoke with my staff and looked at the needs assessment that we have for opioids and really
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decided that I think.
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Best way to do this is during COVID, we did like a wrap around service where we just really like connected with these people that
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had opioid and or that had COVID tested positive in the schools and we were able to work with them to make sure that they stayed
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home. And a much smaller version of what we want to do. Now what we're really looking at is Yavapai County, especially with like
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inmates, they're being released people from the, the state has a warm hand offline for people that are going through opioid
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problems.
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We're looking to have a bring in a consultant that could take these people that you know, will test each person, make sure that
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they're in the spot in their life where they're actually ready for change.
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My grants in other ways that I spend money in the health department. So working with them and we know that we're good to spend
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this amount of money through June 2027. So we're looking to really kind of commit to as many people as we can to help them get
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through and do what we can to save some lives between now and then.
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OK, thank you, Joshua. Supervisor Humphrey, again, thanks for all you do. But I do have, is there a, is there a local rehab or, or
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say if someone from our area has or or is willing to make a life change and go into rehab, where did I have to go for that? Now,
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most of the rehab places that we've looked into in the past is still true now because we don't really do a lot of the mental
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health on the public health side, but it is usually in Phoenix and beds are usually hard to come by.
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So sometimes it's even out of Arizona. So they can get pretty expensive, which is part of why we're looking at. Obviously we'll
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see what kind of bids we get, but we have upwards of 1.2 to 1.4 million that could be spent over the next 30 months once this
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fraud is in place. So I think the goal is really, as I said, to save lives so we can spend the money that we can spend the rehab
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even if they have to go out of state.
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That's a that's another thing that we could look at too, maybe try to how we can work to try to get rehab in the in the state,
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Arizona.
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Because it's definitely needed.
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Thank you, Sir. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor Klein.
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So Josh, going going into this, you're going to be working with a lot, a lot of people, a lot of different people. But I'm really
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going to be interested in is maybe in a year's time or whatever it is to see what number, what the percentage of those people
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actually would go on and better themselves versus the ones that don't.
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You know, you're, you're gonna have a ton of money to work with, so the opportunities are gonna be there to really work with these
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folks. But in my mind, I'm still curious as to how many people will actually take that opportunity forward. So.
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Saying that and saying that, if maybe in six months or a year you have a chance to present again on this, I'd really like to see
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some numbers on on how that's going.
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But other than that, it's worth a try for sure, so thank you.
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Thank you, Supervisor. Thank you, Josh. And with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I move to authorize the advertisement of a
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request for proposal number 091424. And I'll second that, Mr. Chair, we have a motion and a second to.
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Those in favor say aye aye. Thank you, Joshua.
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Item 3H Information Discussion action to review the bids submitted for the invitation for bid number 080724, the Russell Gulf
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Channel Improvement Project an award a contract to the lowest, most responsive, responsible and qualified bidder. Good morning,
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Romero. Good morning Chairman. Christensen, Board members.
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This is actually a good news story all around. It was this project was born from Telegraph Fire and it is about flood mitigation.
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We suffered significant flooding all the way from Little Acres to Hwy. 60 from the Telegraph Fire. The section that we're going to
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talk about today, the scope of work is the downstream and of Russell Gulch. And normally when you start on flip mitigation
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projects, you start at the downstream then and make sure you have.
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What this project will do is it will triple the capacity in the Gulch in that scope of work from Message Blvd. next to the
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hospital all the way to the covert crossing on Hospital Drive by Southwest Gas.
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And so we first thing I should do is I'd like to thank a couple of folks for working on this project because as I, as I tell the
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story and I'm going to be quick about telling your story, I think there's significant work that went through to getting us to the
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front where we're at.
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So we work with with different from the very beginning, different actually awarded us.
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$2,644,299 for this project and we attempted to make a design that met that that that level. We work with folks at, at the time it
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was a different director, but recently we worked with Thomas Torres, who is the director of Difflam and then John Richardson and
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William Boyd. And we've been working with John and William from the from the since the Telegraph fire.
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So they awarded us a little over $2.6 million. We designed it. We actually went, we went out for bids. We got 4 bids, very
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competitive bids by the way. But inflation had outrun our ability to design the project and we ended up with the lowest bid being.
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3,371,000 dollars, 556 and $0.50. So we were short with from the different money to undertake this project by something a little
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over $700,000 and and we knew we had a we would have to have a contingency on this project. So we were looking at a shortfall of
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about $1,000,000 and we went out to our community partners, we went out to the county manager, we went out to different folks, but
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we decided to.
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And ask them for additional money. And the story that we told them was that this is an important project for the community, that
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it provides all weather accessibility to the hospital and it triples the flow of the channel, helping both the hospital itself
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plus all the commercial and residential properties around the Gulch, the Russell Gulch, and that we had already invested
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significant funds in this. We had a significant design. You don't design something for $2.6 million with just a little bit of
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money.
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The monies that and actually they had front, they had helped us fund the design.
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Previously and that we had gone out for bits and we were ready, we were ready to actually put the shovel in the ground on this
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project. Actually we received the bids October 3rd of this year. We had worked out all issues with the with FEMA. There were some
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floodplain issues, but we worked them all out with FEMA and we had secured all construction easements and there was plenty of
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construction easements for for us to get. And that we had looked at cost reduction actually we looked at at the design.
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This is high. What can we do? And we looked at the digitated concrete block.
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Uh, flex net that was proposed and we had the engineers compared to what did we just do RIP rap, but the RIP rap would, would
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decrease the velocities and cost extra Excavations actually would cost more and it wouldn't help with with the flow. It would
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actually diminish the flow. So with that, we, we went back to a different and actually different being the good partner that
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they've been with us since the Telegraph fire, at least in, in our interaction with them since the Telegraph fire.
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Offered to pay the full cost of the bid. OK, So they offered to cover that 700 and 700 and $727,257.50. And, and part of that
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credit to getting it from them has to do with with our public works team that Tom Goodman, Alex Kendrick and also the Emergency
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Management folks that help us make the application, just the goals and and Carl Belfort. So that's the team that make this happen.
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Can you imagine on October 3rd we received bids, we received a go ahead from different on November 14th. So part of what I talked
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about this being a good story, the speed in which we found a solution. So we're left with the contingency funding $337,000 and
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155. And we talked to the county manager, Mr. Mandela and we agreed that because there is a low water crossing here on the road,
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hospital Drive and because this is a drainage project that we will split the contingency.
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Between public works perfect sales tax and general fund and and that is what we're bringing to you today. And so it is the
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recommendation of Public Works Department that the Board of Supervisors award a contract the action Direct LLC doing business as
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as RIP point contracting in the amount of $3,371,000 five 156 with $0.50 with an owners contingency in an amount of 300 and.
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$7000 a hundred 5565 cents or a total amount of 3,000,700 and eight $712.15. And with that, I'll be happy to answer any questions.
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Thank you, Mayor. Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions, Omar, other than thank you because we've been dealing with that.
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With the fire damage for a long time. And so I, I, I, I think different very much, but I think the county staff and yourself for,
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for building a, a good working relationship with different so that, so that they can help us with projects like that and work back
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and forth with them because building a relationship is, is tough. And so thank you very much for continuing to work with a good
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relationship with different. Thank you.
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Supervisor Klein.
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So absolutely different has been a major player since the fires and have have offered and helped us in many different ways. And so
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being able to do this is is really, really good and get a start on this. I I had one question. It's just curiosity is all it is
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Homer. The money that difflam is is thrown out there is that money from the original 100 million back when the Telegraph fire
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started or.
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I don't know for a fact, but actually another person that helped us that actually motivated us to do this carry our our finance
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manager. She had been talking to different about another project on on Walnut Canyon Covert where they funded it and we and we did
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it on budget on time. They had gave us a little over 300,000 and she mentioned to carry that.
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That that they would listen to.
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Asking for additional money on a project. And so with that, we, we were incentive to, to, to make that pitch to them. But I can't
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answer that question. Where are the source of funding? That's, that's fine, Homer. I'm just curious. I, you know, that money was a
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godsend to all of us at the time. And I just curious if that was still part of it. But no here nor there. It's just a really good
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to partner with them and have them help us like that's awesome. So thank you.
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Supervisor, thank you, Romero. And it goes to show too that the input from our staff.
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Of the names you mentioned.
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Has saved us 700,000 some dollars with having a good relationship, a good working relationship. And so thank them. We want to
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thank the state and we have a representative Marshall with us here today. We may want to ask him that question. We want to keep
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this funding that's been vital to Hilah County. And so with that, I'll call for a motion.
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Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to award a contract to Action Direct.
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LLC DBA Redpoint Contracting in the amount of $3,371,556.50 with an owner contingency in the amount of $337,155.65 for a total
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amount of $3,708,712.15 in response to invitation.
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Bids number 080724. Mr. Chair, I will second that. All right, we have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye,
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Thank you, Humira. Motion passes on to item three. I information discussion action to approve amendment number one to contract
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number 020221 Dash AAC with Agile fleet incorporated in the amount of 60,000.
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$12.66 from October 31st, 2024 through March 25th, 2025 with an additional one year renewal for the Fleet Commander software
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program. Thank you Chairman, I'm going to introduce it. I'm going to pass it on to Dave Laforge to present the item.
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So Public Works is at the present time is always looking at the different software that we use, whether it's the one we use for
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roads or the ones we use for, for General Services or whatever.
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And we do that with Agile fleet, but at this point in time we're basically happy with the with what we get from that job. St. I'd
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like to point out a couple of things. One of the things that it does, it allows us to look at the gasoline consumption, the fuel
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consumption, I should say. And so we, we recently did a comparison and it's ongoing. Every week I get a report and it shows us
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what's the cost for us to purchase gasoline and at our admin fee and at the hearth tax and then compare it to what it would it
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cost.
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Globe area to buy it here in the Globe area and actually we can gather all that information from a desktop very quickly and they
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do that and so far for this fiscal year.
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Have we bought it at the had we bought it commercially, we would end up paying $16,000 more just here in global loan. I'm sure
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there's a similar amount in pacing. So this purchase of gasoline, how we manage the fuel, the fuel pumps, etcetera is, is we're
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doing with that I would say we're doing a fair to good job.
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In managing the fuel and the dispensing of fuel.
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The agile fleet has always helped us with vehicle replacement plan. You've heard the various plants that we bring to it actually
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fuels the data for that and we're getting ready next year to very quickly at the beginning of the year. Come to you again, we
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didn't do one this year, but we're going to do one in the springtime ahead of ahead of the budget deadline so that we can share
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with you where we're at, what the fleet, where the fleet is at. We have looked at it. We've got a PowerPoint ready, but we've got
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other.
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Work sessions we'd like to bring to the board. So we're pushing that one out into February or March of next year, but we without
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presenting it to the board, we, we, we utilize that information for purchase of vehicles, et cetera.
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It, I, I, I asked one of our admin clerks in, in the patient area, what does she, what does she, when she interacts with Agile
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fleet? Can she tell me some of the things about Agile fleet? So I'm just going to read this and then I'm going to turn it over to
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her today.
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She says easy to work with and user friendly, able to run reports for the shops and vehicles, can use it for billing at end of
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month, easy to set up profiles for vehicles and users, service reminders, set up report detailed breakdowns, keeping track of
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vehicle usage. And basically I had her put that down. She verbalized something like that to me and she said, can can you, can you
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write that down for me? Because I wanted to share with you that it's not just important for the software to give us.
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But it's important that we be able to use it. And so with that, I'd like to turn it over to today.
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Good morning, David.
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Morning, the Chairman, members of the board.
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The Safely Commander has become a vital asset to General Services would be an understatement. It is the software that we use daily
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and it's used by every member of my staff, from the technicians, the the parts specialists, the admins, the supervisor and myself.
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I mean, this is used daily by everyone.
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The technicians are using it to document all their repairs and all the maintenance that we do, and because they can access it so
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easily, they can research past repairs and maintenance. In the past here at Healing County, we've had difficulty with that where
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the system we had could only be accessed by 5 users.
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And trying to access stuff that was done in Globe and then pacing became.
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Tried to applied a task so this is actually the way that the software is set up. You can access it from anywhere. I'm I've been
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called at home and asked to look something up and I can pull out my iPad and there's the information.
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Our parts specialist uses it. That's how we whenever we buy parts, we document it on the work orders and when they get put on the
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work orders, that's how we're also able to build out all of our parts that we use as well. We also attach all the invoices to all
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the parts we buy to the work order. So if we need to have, we have a heart failure, we need to go back, check warranties. All the
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information is documented in Fleet Commander.
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Our admins use it quite a bit. They open and close all the work orders. They they can run reports, open work order reports, work
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order billing reports, billing export reports. These all help us with keeping everything in line and scheduled and helps us at the
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end of the month when we're doing our billing.
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And the admins also get in their daily and they they document all the labor times that go into fleet commenders as well as Homero
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had mentioned all of the the information that we get for our vehicle replacement program, all the information comes out of fleet
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commander. So all the mileage, all the money spends, all the, the.
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All the information that shows up on those reports, I mean, it comes right out of fleet commander. And this is also a huge tool
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for the supervisor in one spot. He can look at every every job that he's got going on, some that are on the back burner, some that
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are in front of them, some that are coming up. He's able to look at it and say, OK, I can prioritize my day, my week, my month by
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looking at everything we have a work order open for or that the maintenance reminder.
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I as well use this quite a bit. It allows me that I don't have the day-to-day interaction with my my mechanics. It helps keep me
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in touch of everything that's going on. I can see what jobs we were working on and I don't even have to leave my office to do it.
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I mean, it's real helpful when you have a full plate that you can go to one place and have everything you need to know.
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As for the motor pool, it it provides a seamless and easy access to all of our motor pool cars, anyone in the county, as long as
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they're approved to rent vehicles and they have access to fleet commanders.
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Get on themselves, they can sign in, they can rent a vehicle without ever talking to anyone and it also allows that that person
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when they're renting it, if they have issues because of the way the system is designed, they can actually just make a phone call
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and we can if they can't get logged in, they can't get into the key box. We can do it remotely. They make this program so easy to
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use that.
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It's it's been working flawless for us since it since we included it.
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And it also extremely helps every month when we're we're doing our workload rebuilding, we're doing our lease billing and our
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motor pool rental billing. It runs the reports, it gives us the information and all we got to do is shuffle it around, put it on a
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PDF and send it off so.
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With that, I'll take any questions that you may have. Thank, David. Supervisor Humphrey.
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How long have we been using this service? Since 2018. Since 2018. How do we do? How how did we live without it? I mean, from from
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the presentation, we just, it seemed like a lot of times you were working in a fog trying to see things. Kind of seems like it's
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just kind of opened up a whole new world. For what? For what you're doing. Yeah. That. That's the only question I have. Thank you.
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Supervisor client. Yeah, David, it's been a good, good program for you guys and and there's no reason not to keep using it. So
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thanks. Alright, thank you. It actually sounds like it saves the county money.
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To have this a lot of time, a lot of money, yes, Sir, a lot of time and money, and it's more accurate and more accessible. So with
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that, I'll call for motion.
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Is that mine? Mr. I move to approve amendment number one to contract number 020221 Dash AAC with Agile Fleet Incorporated as
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presented. Mr. Chair, I'll second that a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor say aye. Thank you, David.
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Item 3J is information discussion action to approve the use of state Contract number Ctr. 061839 with Skyline Builders and
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Restoration incorporated in the amount of $62,308.84 for the removal of three Joseph 375 foot pine trees. Good morning, good
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morning, Chairman, Board of Supervisors.
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Zillies and Land Management Department recommends the removal of 375 foot pine trees at Central Heights Building to address
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significant safety and structural risks caused by their extensive root system.
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These roots have not only created hazardous uneven pavers, increasing the risk of trips and falls, but they have also compromised
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the structural integrity of nearby building foundations and walls. If left unaddressed, ongoing damage could result in costly
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repairs. Heightened liability for the county contractor will remove the trees, stumps and roots and replace the damaged pavers.
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This project will eliminate the safety risks, prevent further structural damage and restore the area.
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Safe, functional and visually appealing condition. Again, the total cost of the project is $62,308.84. With that, I'd be happy to
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take any questions. Thank you, Joseph. Supervisor Humphrey. I have no questions. I've seen them. That's bad deal and they're
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within the structure. And so, you know, any limbs break or fall and we're looking at damage to roofs or other buildings, so.
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Yeah, I.
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They're they're not, they're not really good for where they're at.
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Yes, Sir. Supervisor Klein, same as me, Joseph, They, they needed to be gone well back actually, but they're really causing a lot
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of damage now. So yes Sir.
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Yes, and I've seen him too. So yeah, they're a mess.
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This is the building we do not own, correct?
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OK.
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All right. And so with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve the use of state contract number
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Ctr. 061839 with Skyline Builders and Restoration incorporated as presented.
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Mr. Chair, I'll second that we have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye. Thank you, Joseph.
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All right, item 3K is information discussion action to approve economic development agreement number 10302024 between Healer
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County and the Payson Senior Center Incorporated. The amount is $3584.10 to provide funding for the purchase of two PC towers, a
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laptop and installation with the board to determine the for the benefit of the public, this is my item with us today. We do have
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Janice from the senior.
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Would come up pianist. And just briefly thank you for coming, by the way. And this is my item and you've requested for some
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computer equipment. Could you just help us with that?
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Muslim, short and sweet. I never want thank you for the opportunity to request funds for the for the extra things that we need to
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better our community. I had a whole thing I was going to do but driving down here from Payson this morning.
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To doctors anywhere in town plus take you to the center to eat so the computers circling background that's what this is for this
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is to upgrade our system to we have some computers that we're using with our software to schedule these rides and Meals on Wheels
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and congregate that are almost 15 years old so we had a plan we have a plan in place to get like 8 altogether but this will get us
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definitely started and be able to not only help us continue to serve the community but also.
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Grow the surfaces and and be able to do what we do.
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Thank you, Janice. Supervisor Humphrey.
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I have, I have no questions. I just thank you for working with the seniors and.
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Thank you, supervisor Klein Janice, thank you. It's always good to help out where we can. No, no problems. Appreciate you coming
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down today And so hopefully these that was all worth it ahead of you vision on the road. It's a beautiful drive. So with that,
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I'll call through motion I move to approve economic development agreement number 10302024 with the patient senior citizen.
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Patient Senior Center, Incorporated as presented, which the Board has become to be for the benefit of the public.
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And Mr. Cheryl second thought we have a motion with second to approve those in favor say aye, aye aye. And if we just take a
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second, Mr. go ahead and finish that and then comment after you after you finish the vote. Okay, I think I did finish the vote and
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it was unanimous.
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Mr. Chairman, if I could kind of jump to the item number seven of County Manager comment. I want to express appreciation to the
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patient's Senior Center. We're doing the remodel at the courthouse up there. Patient Senior Center has been fabulous in working
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with us.
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And allowing us to actually get this remodel done so.
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Thank you. Thank you for the patience and working with the county so well.
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I just think we can get a lot more done working together, can't we? Yes, we can. OK. Thank you, Janice. Thank you very much. So
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with that, we're going to move on to item number 4, which is our consent agenda items for a through 4D supervisor. Humphrey, would
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you like to remove one or more of those items for further discussion?
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I would not supervise a client. Same question. I'm good. OK, so then I'll call for a motion to approve the consent agenda items,
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action items for A through D So move, Mr. Chair.
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No. Second, we have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Thank you. Item number 5 presentations
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presentation of Hewitt County General Fund financial data as a compares to the fiscal year 2025 England County Budget and fiscal
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years 2423222120 and 19 year to date performance. Good morning again.
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Good morning, Mr. Chair. Good morning, City President, Client Supervisor Humphrey, before I get into this, I know you have other
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things you need to get to today. Would you prefer to table this on the next item to our next meeting?
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I have no problem doing that. That way you can get on with things. No, I don't want to do that, but if brevity is the word for the
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day, I will keep it brief then. So for our September 2024 fiscal year, 2025 year to date, we are on track for where we would
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expect to be 3 months in, given that our property taxes are primarily collected twice a year.
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And.
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With that, I don't have any other important things to say about September.
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That is free. Thank you, Mary. Supervisor Humphrey. I'm good. OK. Supervisor Klein? Yeah, I'll. I'll go with that. Thanks, Mary.
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Yeah, thank you. And so with that presentation, we don't vote on that.
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Let's move on to Item 5A, Presentation of the 6/30/2024 Healer County General Fund Financial Data as it compares to the Fiscal
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Year 24 Gila County Budget and Fiscal Years 23222120.
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Year to date performance. Thank you again, Mr. Chair. This is here today so that we can include it in the 2025 budget book when we
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publish that and also so that we can use it as a as an exhibit when we publish our financial statements. We got our financial
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statements yesterday afternoon and we'll be sending them off to the Auditor General by Friday.
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Very good Mayor and Supervisor Humphrey.
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No questions. Thank you, man. Supervisor Klein, Mayor, and we're still on track with everything. Then we're good for June 30 of
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2024. I hope so.
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Appreciate everything you do and your staff do what we can.
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Thank you very much and thank you for this presentation. All right, we're now going to move on to Item 5C. I'd like to we're going
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to have an introduction of the District 7 Arizona State Representative.
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David Marshall, who will be discussing Healer County issues with the Board of Supervisors in preparation for the upcoming
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legislative session. James, Mr. Chair, members the board. We have extended invitations to Representative David Marshall and
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Representative elect Walt Blackman. Mr. Blackman, due to health reasons, was anyone to join us today? He extends his.
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Apologies for not being able to make it, but we appreciate both of them willing to come. Wanted to offer congratulations to
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Representative David Marshall on his reelection to the Arizona State Legislature representing District 7. This is.
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That all of you, the county is represented by Representative Marshall and we appreciate his all that he's done for Hewlett County
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in the past. I also wanted to recognize several others that have come here to be involved in this discussion that we have with the
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County Supervisors Association Executive Director Craig Sullivan.
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And our legislative, new legislative liaison, Caitlin King and have joined us here today. They want to be here to hear what's
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important to hit the county as well. And then of course, Policy development group, Todd Bowman, Andy Jacobs are with us today to
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be a part of our conversation.
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Mr. Shermans, all right, Would at this point invite Mr. Marshall, Representative Marshall to podium to give us a little background
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if, if he could, on where we're at as a state and and what they're looking for down in the state. And then this is an opportunity
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just to have an open dialogue of what's going on in the state and what we have issues we have here at Gila County and just again,
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an open dialogue that we can.
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Be able to work together. I believe it's been said that we aren't. We do a lot better when we partner with one another.
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This opportunity, the Chairman that thank you, Representative Marshall.
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Front and center.
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Now, I understand that you're a preacher as well. Is that correct?
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I'm at the pulpit.
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We're ready.
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Yes, I am. OK. So what do you got for us today? Well.
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To be honest.
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I was invited down to come to lunch.
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Okay.
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Actually came down to hear what your priority, your priorities are.
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Because I'm hitting all the counties, you know that LG 7 is the largest legislative district in Arizona, but not just Arizona also
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is the largest legislative district in the United States. So we have a very large district. Unfortunately on Walt Blackman
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couldn't be with us today because he's sick. So he sent me down here to listen to your priorities, see what your needs are for
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your community. I know I've talked with Supervisor Humphrey.
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And we're supposed to get together and go look at some property, right?
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We can you bet I've got I've got photos for you. Yeah, showing you some blighted properties in Hayley County is not, not a
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problem. That's the problem.
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And I know that we're still working on Pleasant Valley Retreat Center, seeing what we can do for that. And, and especially right
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now I'm meeting with a lot of insurance companies because.
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We're having a lot of homeowners that are losing their insurance because of the force issues. So we have an ad hoc hearing coming
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up too. And we have a lot of insurance companies that are excited. They actually want to work with us to see what we can do to
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keep people in their homes because the people are are foreclosing or walking away from their homes and they're foreclosing because
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they don't have insurance any longer. There's a lot of things that are going on. I know the topic of what's happening in the state
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well.
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You know, you've seen the elections. We finally had our red wave. It was four years late, but we had it. And the mandate that the
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people have has given to President Trump, they have also given to us. We have the same mandate. And so there's still a lot of work
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to do. There's a lot of issues that are going on at the Capitol because of the new election. We just had for super for our speaker
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of the House, our Majority Leader, as well as our as our whip. And so there's a lot of discussions going on.
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They're announcing who the chairmans are of all the new committees. I've been elected as the chairman of public safety and law
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enforcement and fire, so I'll be chairing that committee for the next two years. But they've also added other committees, which
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we're still scratching our head and wondering why, but they're there.
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But the goal this year is to to be productive and successful the next two years before the 2026 elections.
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You ready for a sermon now? No. OK.
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Thank you for that. And so I've been tasked with presenting a couple of things and then I'll turn it over to the other supervisors
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as they have a few things probably as well. So congratulations on your re-election. Appreciate that. And I know that you and
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representative Black men are both friendly, very friendly to Hilah County and you have been and supported us in many ways. So
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we're just asking for that same.
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Attitude toward us, but there's a couple of things that I think the legislature.
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Is going to need to work on and.
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As you're facing budget shortfalls and the discussion of where your budget's going to fall, we don't want the counties don't want
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to have to pick up that deficit. So we want continued funding in a lot of the things and maybe even increased funding in a couple
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of the things that concern us. So the probation officers that we have are actually state employees.
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And so the budget there is only just short of $11 million or so. And but it seems like it's always up for grabs every year. It's
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not really annualized, it's not part of the regular budget. So that if that doesn't continue or there's a break and there has been
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breaks in that funding, then we have to pick that up. Well, just a real quick interrupt you that right now I've been meeting with
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probation and since that is.
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Purview now, OK, we're going to look at that and see what we can do because one of the other issues is retirement as well. They're
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under, you know, their pay scale is under DPS, it's under what Phoenix get, although it is a smaller group, but there's still law
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enforcement. And so we're going to see what we can do about that to increasing that and giving them better.
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Benefits this coming session.
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Very good. And so you understand the issues that we're talking about. I'm a retired cop so yeah, yeah, OK, so in those things,
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what's a small amount to me? 10, it's actually 10.1 million is a small amount of the state. It's it's a total deal breaker for us
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to have a share of that. So anyway then the other is the.
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Justice of the Peace, Salaries and the.
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I think you're funding 40%, is that what you said, Craig and?
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That needs to be increased. So when the, when the they get a pay raise, we're the ones that pay for it. And so and you're the guys
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that give them the pay raise. So it it's sort of anyway.
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I'm not sure if I'm saying all this correctly. You know, Craig tried to brief me this.
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So.
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We have unfunded mandates or we have funding that needs to continue or increase. Yeah, I think you understand that and the
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different we you know, you heard us talking about Difflam this morning. That's a very, it's a vital thing to heal a county. Many
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of the other counties have never used it. I don't even whatever know what's there. But to us it's vital. And you can see they gave
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us, they're giving us millions and we need that because we can't fix a Rd.
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Just to fix a road cost so much money.
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And right now we're not certain where we're, we are on the budget. We know that we have 1.3 billion and this will pass a budget.
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And I've been told that everything is looking good right now. But that's just words. We haven't seen it on paper yet. And also, if
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you remember to join the budget, the governor cut a lot herself, you know, and we, there was really no, no negotiations and, and
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you might be not happy with me. I was not happy with the budget. So I was not voting for the budget.
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And the reason I wasn't voting for the budget is because we didn't have an opportunity to read the budget.
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We had a day and a half to read who's, I think it was 18 budget ask and we didn't have the time to read it. So I, I voted on the
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budget, but I voted on three or four affirmative and the rest of them not voting on it until I get to read it. And So what
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happened was we asked the speaker of the House, we had two weeks, 15 days before the state was shut down.
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We asked for five days to read the budget, to debate the budget and write amendments that we need. Well, we were told absolutely
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not. We are voting today and that's it. And if you don't vote, you're going to lose money.
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And I lost money. Finale County lost $5,000,000 because I refuse to vote on part of the budget. I didn't read it that we didn't
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have an opportunity to read it. Now the whole county lost $1.2 million for daycare centers because I refused. And they said if you
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vote yes on everything, we'll give you your money back. Well, I don't, I don't roll like that. So I said no. And so hopefully this
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year we'll get everything.
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Done. We'll get all the budget asked done ahead of time instead of the the 11th hour.
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And then we'll see what we can do about getting all the appropriations that's needed for Gila County and the other counties that
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we represent.
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A lot of times it's just the uncertainty of not knowing what's coming, if it's going to continue or be cut and and those
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uncertainties really affect us a lot. Well under under the new speaker, speaker elect Steve Montenegro. We've been told that day
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one, January 13th when we are sworn in.
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That the budget, budget negotiations are going to start day one. And because this past year, I don't know, this past year, I don't
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know if you, if you know this or I know some of my guys back here, we didn't really start dealing with the budget until around
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May.
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And that's, that's nonsense, not enough time to negotiate, not enough time to do amendments or anything. So he says January 13th
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as we're sworn in, we'll start negotiating on the budget that day and hopefully try to have the budget done by May because we
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still, the governor wants to wait for that first quarter to get a report back to see where we are financially.
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Perfect. So Mr. Sullivan, is there anything you'd like to add to these topics that we brought up?
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Because I I just don't believe I've expressed it quite well, but.
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Well, first, Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, thanks for the opportunity to be here with.
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These are not items that you created either. These are items that you inherited. And so we appreciate your willingness to listen
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to them and to try to work with us to get this stabilized going forward. That is planning to work together to get you done. And
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with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. So I'll turn it over to Supervisor Humphrey.
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As far as the topics, I have no questions and thank you very much for being here today for taking the time to show the interest to
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the county of other two are very.
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And so I'm not going to get into much because I was over an agenda for us to have an agenda and then there was an agenda for after
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our agenda meeting. And so I'm kind of unprepared right now because I have.
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I have I was told that to my after.
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Our agenda meeting and so perhaps over lunch or something, but anyway, doesn't matter. But I will, I will be happy. I'll supervise
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them with you. I didn't know, I didn't know I was speaking before the lunch.
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I'm unprepared at this point in time. I'll be happy to get with you. After our agenda meeting, we'll have a priorities meeting.
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OK. OK. Thank you, Supervisor Klein.
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Is this?
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No early for that supervisor.
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Marshall, thank you for being here. I do have some some things I want to talk to you about and I think you're fully aware because
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you mentioned one of them already and that was the dealing with the insurance folks. So we, I can't tell you the number, but
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throughout the northern half of Hilah County, let's just say a number of people have been dropped.
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Because of fire.
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But it even expands way further than that. Earlier me and Craig Sullivan were in Washington state in Colville with the WIR me and
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that was the topic of discussion all the way up there. So basically in all 11 western states, this has become an issue. And it's
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not because people aren't paying their premiums or or whatever it is. It's just that they either get a.
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In the mail or a knock on the door and they no longer have insurance. And what's really hard it seems to be from what I'm
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gathering.
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There's not a lot of people out there to take the place of those that that quit providing that insurance, yes.
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And.
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I from what I see it is going to take the legislature, you all down there to try and pull that back together because as you
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mentioned, there's a lot of people that that have mortgages. I mean, that's normal fact of life. So many of those mortgages are
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based on having insurance.
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And when you get dropped just because you might be in the wrong spot or whatever it is or or elevation.
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Mortgage companies don't take that into consideration. You have to have it. And when you can't get it, what do they do? And that's
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the conversations that I'm having with a lot of different people that they're coming to me saying what's the deal and.
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There's nothing that I that I see as a county other than to support you all in some kind of, I don't know, a bill or something
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that would mandate them to provide insurance basically.
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We do have a bill, we are working on a bill right now. And however, though we have some little battles with the real estate
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industry and all that, however we are able to come to an agreement with the real estate agency now.
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Statewide that they're going to support this bill. So now we're meeting with the other insurance companies, not just your
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insurance agents. We're meeting with the heads and that's what the ad hoc hearing is for because we're going to give the voices to
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the people to vent and share. You're, you are also mentioning about the mortgages. You know, when the mortgages, once you lose
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your house, you know, what do you do? Well, what's happening with some of these folks?
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The mortgage mortgage company is putting insurance on.
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Them, but is it either triple or even more than triple what they were normally paying? That's through the mortgage company. So
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they're being robbed by the mortgage. That's why they're walking away from it. If you're only paying $1200 a year at one time
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young, you're paying 5000 a year or 7000. It's ridiculous. So we do have a bill that will be introduced day one at the legislature
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and stuff and and Lord willing, it'll pass through.
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And what they see that Bill, I don't want to divulge a lot yet because.
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There's a lot of changing going on, a lot of Wheeling and dealing with insurance companies, the real estate company and all that
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real estate companies. So, but basically what it is going to say is that you will, in the state of Arizona, supply insurance for
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all homeowners, not just homeowners in the, in the, in the urban areas, but also out in the forest throughout the state. And it's
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a mandate that they're going to have to support. And so far, like I said, the real estate agencies.
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State lobbyists are all on board with it right now.
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That that'll, that'll be good if we can work that away and get something done because it's just continuing to get worse right now.
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So I really appreciate you on that. And also if you all need support or whatever from me or if we need to go through the county
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and get on agenda where we can all vote on it, I'm sure hopefully we can do something. But if we can work the deal before the ad
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hoc hearing, I won't have to call witnesses. But if we have to go through the ad hoc hearing, I'll be.
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Definitely will be calling you to come down testify. Absolutely have people lined up, families lined up to testify.
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Good, that would be great.
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Another, another. I don't know. I wanted to talk to you about and I'm really glad you're here today. It saves me the phone call of
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you going down the road trying to talk to me, hearing about all this, but you made me drive all the way.
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So last year, well for, for about 7 years now, the county has had a youth program every year. And we work with the other
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municipalities in the county, town of Globe, town of Payson, Winkelman, Hayden. And what we do is we go out there and we hire
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these these kids out of school for the summer. It's a six week deal and we place them in these different municipalities and then
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they pay for them up front.
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Invoice us, we reimburse them. It's been a really outstanding program.
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Been really good.
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A year ago, I was able to sit at a roundtable meeting in Superior with the governor and.
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Got around to my presentation anyway. I brought up the fact of this program we have in Hilah County. Now you got take in
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consideration the state has a WIOA program that works with youth, youth as well. My opinion, and it's just my opinion, is that in
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a lot of ways they tie their hands behind their back on that program. It's not.
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A lot of it doesn't make sense, just just throwing it out there, but we have our own here and that's what we've been doing.
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I briefed her on our program, on and on and on and her staff was sitting there and later we were able to speak with her staff on
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it. They called back and what it ended up being is is they had passed along about $300,000 of leftover money that basically WIOA
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or whoever couldn't spend and they gave it to us to put in our youth program.
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Which was a big benefit to this county, but it also did something else that we had kind of.
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Kind of been not looking out real close and not asking questions, but we border Canal County and Winkelman and Hayden down well
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across the road is Kearney and Dudleyville and whoever else post office is on this side over here. Kids go to school here at at
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this school or whatever. And so but what is this extra money from the state did for us? It allowed us to cross those county lines.
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With the with working with the the district supervisor.
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Who is Jeff, 30, supervisor 30 and me and him, we work quite a bit together across boundaries, but we were able to put together a
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a really good program and it's thanks to Kathy and our HR department and several others.
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But what we've done is, is we've kind of maxed it out. We've had about 70 plus kids in this program last summer. There's only so,
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so much we can do as far as working with municipalities or the county government as a whole. There's only so many places you can
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put these kids to work.
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I for one want to take a look at this and try to reach out in some different aspects like to a PSSRP, the hospitals and start
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working with with some of these. Now there's a gifting clause that we have to deal with in the county. You know, that's why we use
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municipalities. And Joe, you can jump in here if you want.
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But what I'd like to do is try and expand this and see if there's a way we can work with some of these other areas.
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On some of these kids, we've had kids that are interested in becoming doctors, lawyers, mechanics, all this. And if we can broaden
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that and be able to help these kids get a foothold in what they want to do, we all win. You know, in my opinion, we're kind of way
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behind the power curve on a lot of people that's my age or a little younger. You know, some of them were going to be able to help
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and a lot of them were not going to.
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But if we can tie into these kids that are coming up and justice getting ready to jump into life in whatever direction that they
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want to go and we can give them that boost, we're going to win on that one. That's that's where we're going to get ahead of
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everything. But I, I'm probably going to need to work with you guys somehow, someway, because the gifting clause is statute.
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And I don't know if there's a way of working with that to for special programs or something that we can can look into a little
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harder because I honestly believe the way your WIOA program goes in the state.
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I, I would have a hunch that's going to be leftover money about every year and there's no reason for it to be turned back or not
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used. So I can tell you there's.
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Other agencies too, that I won't bring the agency up right now, but it had over.
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400 million leftover this year. So there's a lot of agencies that we can contact and but we do have to go through the governor's
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office to get that approval. And you know Chad, so we have a, you know, a good working relationship up there and we can get a lot
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of things done that way too. But and so basically what I'm saying, the point is that there's other agencies that we can go outside
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WI.
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And reap the benefits.
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You know that we, we just can't do enough for our youth. We really can't. And so if there's some way we can work together or see
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what's out there, is there a direction we could go? It would be awesome to do that and, and it'd really be nice to.
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I don't know, maybe change some things in the WIOA program or whatever to lighten it up a little bit and we can look at that as
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well. And I can give you just one example. You know they focus on on out of school youth.
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So the kids that are going to school in some instances can't apply because they're in school. Well, just because you're in school
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doesn't mean you don't need some money. A lot of these kids that we deal with every year, a high percentage, Kathy could tell you
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more, but a high percentage of these kids, they're not working for themselves to be able to go buy whatever it is they want to
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buy. A lot of them will be up front and in your face and tell you I'm working to help support my parents.
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And give by. And so we're almost, umm, we're almost, I don't know.
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Discriminating against the kids in school, you know, that are making the effort to go to school and, and, and everything by
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focusing just on the out of school use so that there needs to be some, some, some changes in there or whatever. But from our
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county standpoint, what we're doing is working and we've proven that and I have no intentions of letting that go for the next 4
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years. So hopefully we can go up, but I want to improve it. I want to build it bigger. And what you're saying to the.
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Plenty will expand the program. Yes it will.
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Well, you know, if you and the chairman wanna meet me at Mike's Fish and Chips and Payson gotcha, we can wheel and deal.
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After you address the open meeting laws.
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So so one more thing and I want to go back to different difflam has been.
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Huge help to heal accounting in more ways than just just the fire stuff.
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I mean what they did with this on the fires is just awesome.
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But Difflam has also become a part of the contracting and management on our National Forest with a good neighbor authority.
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They've been able to partner with the Forest Service on on a lot of our projects, especially in the Payson area, timber sales
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thinning things of that nature. And I only see that becoming more and more. The Forest Service in the past years is, you know,
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they've lost some staff and they kind of.
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Got cut back quite a bit, but it seems like Difflam is really stepping in there and and.
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To help them hold that together and help with a lot of those other projects. So I would just ask you or urge you, whatever you
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know, if you can do to support that different department, that particular department. We really need to we need to keep on going.
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And you know, we do have a force problem. We really do. You know, I had I ran a bill, started to run a bill last year on.
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Clean Force initiative.
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And they got held up for whatever reason. But we were trying to bring in other agencies, other companies that come into Arizona to
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help thin out our forest. Right now we have 1 company and one company will be here 100 years trying to thin out for us. So I was
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trying to bring in two additional companies so that they can work from the north, the east and the West. And you know, it might
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take 20 years, but the Apache Reservation, the White River Apache Reservation, they have cleaned their force out.
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Amazing job, you can drive a big rigs through the horse and it looks good.
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I don't like it personally because it messes with my hunting but that's that's selfish.
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Additional equipment and, and we would have two or three paper mills going at one time. So that's my goal and that's a good goal.
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The one thing I'm envious of the reservation, they're able to do a lot more than we can on this side. And the reason being is the
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hoots that we have to go through compared to theirs is way more extensive. And, and I say that because.
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As Craig heard when we were in Colville, WA, you know there's a lot of different issues when it comes to managing natural
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resources.
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And the one thing that is a constant denominator in all this is your T&E species and NEPA.
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And that's a federal thing. I, I get it. I'm really hoping that in the next few years maybe that can be revamped. I'm not saying
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take it away. I'm just saying take, take and revamp it so it isn't so that it can be litigated. It's about it as it is because
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that's really what the deal is. So the reservations have an easier way with that.
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There's no reason why we're not doing the same, but we're not, and so that's going to be an issue. I have one more thing I really
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wanted to talk to you about.
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Here the last meeting or so we we talked about the abandoned RV's and stuff around Payson.
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You know, that's just becoming homeless camps and whether it's somebody that.
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Goes down the woods and drops it off and leaves. Or somebody goes out there and lives in a while and leaves. Whatever it is, they
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get left there and then it's just one group or one individual after another just moves in in it when they move on.
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So we actually entered into an agreement to help start cleaning that up. A lot of it is a forced issue, but but we're to help with
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the force too. I mean 97% of us is public lands and so I don't know if there's something through the state or a program or 11 do a
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project.
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Of trying to throw in some funds we threw in 25,000 I believe on this to help.
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Start picking these RV's and whatnot up and getting rid of them, but that's just going to be a drop in the bucket.
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Honestly.
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But that's something that's out there that that is.
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Always a conversation with people.
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Especially in that patient area, a lot of folks travel that Houston Mesa Rd. going to Whispering Pines and north of Payson and
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out. Well, that's where these are setting, you know, and for whatever reason through the complaints, through whatever is sad, the
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Forest Service hasn't been able to pick those up and do away with them. You know, is that are we talking right now? When you're
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talking about right now, is that state land or public?
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It's public lands, yeah, because we have Pinal counties having the same issue, but.
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So what we've done, we've had DPS come in, site them, 72 hours later, if it's still there, they're towed out. So, so they're
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writing a citation, yes.
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So I won't get into this meeting real hard, but that was the one thing that we that was elected not to do was the citation part.
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And umm, I don't, I, I think that could lead to more issues. Well, the citation part gives them the authority after 72 hours to
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impound. And that's one, that's, that's where you want to move them. If you want to get a move faster than, you know, 30 days or
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six months out, it's a citation because they're abandoned and then you're taken out. Well, something comes across your desk where
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maybe you're bored and looking for a new project or something. I'm bored. Keep keep it in mind.
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OK, I will. I didn't know you that you were having the issues up there in pacing though. Oh yeah.
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Yeah, we have bad problems in pacing and so yeah.
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Mr. Chair, I think I'll take a breath for a minute and breather. Thank you. The only other thing in our James helped me with what
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we're doing on this extra agenda. What what is what is that? Is that an official listed from 12 to one? Are we just in a casual
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thing? What are we doing? Mr. Chairman, we can go ahead and complete the rest of the agenda, which is called Republic and then
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final comments by the board county manager conclude the meeting.
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Will take like a 1015 minute break. We're going to set up tables here, have lunch and Justice have a casual conversation over
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lunch. OK, that sounds great. So lunch is, as promised, about to be DIA, the reason you're here.
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Can I say one more thing, Mr. Chair? So I asked Sarah earlier about that Trinity Services that provide the mills for our folks,
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they are out of Florida.
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I was hoping somebody was closer to Arizona that was doing this, but.
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So it's just a sign of.
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What we deal with, I guess nobody in Arizona wants to do it or I don't know, but.
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Anyway, I just have one more thing to mention that I think is pretty important to us, and that's our hearth funding.
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OK. So we're operating on the same dollars that we were 2025 years ago, but we've had a lot of inflation since then. So we're
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actually operating 2530% below.
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What we were receiving then that's pretty impactful and then we have this rise of the electric vehicle and you guys need to come
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up with something for an electric equivalent or a gasoline equivalent fee of some sort so that we're not.
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Swirling in more and more. So we try and pay our employees and increase every year. We try and keep our equipment going. We try
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and we have 700 some miles we maintain in Healer County. So the tax base is really not here. So hearth is vital to us. And so if
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there's a way that you could look at that, that'd be.
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Helpful. Yeah, definitely.
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Yeah, umm.
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Is there anything else before we go to the next item? No, Thank you for having me here. Give me a platform that I wasn't
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expecting. And yeah, thank you.
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Yeah, No, thank you. No, I'm glad to be here and and we'll talk more. We're going to have more of a casual setting here in a few
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minutes, so.
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I don't forget everything that we just spoke about.
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Yeah. So thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for coming to. We'll see you in a minute. And I do want to say that Todd and
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Andy are here with us. They have been introduced. And so thank you for coming because they are vital to what we do as well. And
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thank you, Craig and Caitlin for coming as well. And I'm sure you're all going to be here for lunch. So the next thing is Item 6.
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Call to the public. Is there anyone here in?
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Globe. No Cassandra, How many do we have today?
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25 And Lisa doesn't look like you're too busy over there. So OK, so we'll close call to the public and open up #7 which is our.
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A summary of current events. A supervisor memoir.
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Mr. Chairman, let's just move on to lunch. So that's enough for me. Thank you. OK.
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Supervisor Klein, Thank you, Mr. Chair. So last year we had the ECO meeting and the CSA meeting. So thank you Craig and Caitlin
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for all that. That was really great. I.
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And then of course, we attended the Discover Hilah County relaunch. I was here in Globe for that one. Looked like a really good
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turnout for that. Have they done the one in pacing? They did it in pace and I was going to mention it and it was outstanding.
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Yesterday we spent the day with the.
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The ASIP, Arizona County Insurance Pool and we went through the veterans retreat from one end to the other and talked about every
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different aspect of all that. I thought it went really well. I thought that was a good deal.
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Today after this meeting, I'll be going on down to to Tucson where in the morning I'll be presenting an award from Arizona, New
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Mexico County, County Coalition of Counties to the Farm Bureau Agency for, for their work and natural resources and all that. So
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it's just going to be at their annual meeting. So that ought to be fine.
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That that's it. Yeah. Thank you for all you're doing.
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The relaunch which so healer County discoverhealercounty.com is probably the best.
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Website and marketing system, I believe any government has ever come up with, they keep winning best of awards over and over
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again. And so it's about 5 years old now. So they said we didn't, we just need to upgrade, continue to improve. And so that's why
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they called it a relaunch. And then we, we had a great time and pace and very well attended and really did well.
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I've been meeting with some more trails people.
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Angie from the Forest Service and Deb Jones and a few others have approached me. These trails actually involve both of our
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districts, district one and three along the Highline Trail. And so they want to talk about how the Board of Supervisors can assist
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them if in any way. And so that's coming up.
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Just recently in the last week or so, I've been on K RIM and also KMOG radio stations. And then there was a recent backbone fire.
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A backbone fire.
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Workshop that was conducted and I was not able to attend. So I know Kathy was there though and also Melissa was able to attend
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himself. That was good for that and that's about all I've been up to and so.
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If there's see an amount of pages, so if there's nothing else, I'm going to adjourn this meeting and we will conduct the social
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time and we'll we'll gather regather in about 10 minutes going to set up tables and all right, have lunch.
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