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| We ready to go, Lisa? | 00:00:02 | |
| Good morning. Good morning, everyone. Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024, it's 10:00 AM. | 00:00:12 | |
| Call this meeting to order. So this morning I've asked Josh Beck if he would lead us in the pledge. And Mr. Pastor Richie will | 00:00:22 | |
| from the First Church of the Nazarene will lead us in a prayer right after that. And I think with him as Pastor Ardo, who will be | 00:00:29 | |
| taking over after Pastor Richie. And so I wanted to make that announcement. And then I would like for everyone to remain standing | 00:00:36 | |
| after that prayer. I have something to say. | 00:00:44 | |
| So if you would, Josh? | 00:00:51 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:00:55 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:01:01 | |
| Ready to go? | 00:01:12 | |
| Our Heavenly Father we are. | 00:01:14 | |
| Grateful for your presence with us. We're grateful for for all the blessings that we have here. We're grateful to be able to live | 00:01:17 | |
| in such a beautiful part of the world. | 00:01:22 | |
| We are grateful for you and county and the leadership. We pray for your blessings on our supervisors Christensen, Humphries and | 00:01:29 | |
| Klein. Ukraine was a much care owed them. Ukrainians will give them wisdom and values. | 00:01:38 | |
| Great board for all of our Sheriff's Office deputies and those who work in jails and those who work in the various offices, and | 00:01:48 | |
| you'll watch over them and apply for them, protect them and bless them. Give them wisdom now. Lord, commit this time. | 00:01:57 | |
| Did you ask for your wisdom and guidance and your meetings? | 00:02:08 | |
| And we pray all these sinners in your holy name, Amen. Thank you and thank you for remaining standing. I want to acknowledge the | 00:02:13 | |
| fact that the Healer County assessor passed away, Joseph Williams, over the Thanksgiving weekend. And so I would like to us to | 00:02:20 | |
| reflect on that. | 00:02:27 | |
| And his loss, his family's loss, friends and fellow coworkers for him. | 00:02:36 | |
| And I would also like to include in that reflective time two young men that were killed in Tonal Basin over the weekend, also 15 | 00:02:43 | |
| year old in a shooting. And so there's going to be a lot of hurt there in those families as well. So if you would. | 00:02:53 | |
| Will have a moment of silence to reflect on those things. | 00:03:04 | |
| Thank you very much. | 00:03:17 | |
| OK, let's go ahead and get started with. | 00:03:27 | |
| Our public hearing 2A information discussion action to authorize the increase of the tonnage rate for landfill fees by $18.00 | 00:03:32 | |
| effective January 1st, 2025 while maintaining the minimum load at the current level. Good morning, Melanie. Good morning Chairman | 00:03:42 | |
| Christensen, Supervisor Humphrey and Supervisor Woody Klein. First of all, I just wanted to thank you for allowing us to have. | 00:03:52 | |
| This public hearing today. | 00:04:02 | |
| We've gone over a lot of things in the past, work sessions and board meetings and. | 00:04:06 | |
| And this is an exercise that we do on a yearly basis and we're going to continue to do on a on a yearly basis to make sure that | 00:04:16 | |
| the landfills are on track. We've talked about the enterprise fund being a 6040 split. What are 60% of revenue is used for | 00:04:23 | |
| operational costs and then the other 40% is put aside for capital projects. | 00:04:30 | |
| Capital equipment, landfill expansions and other things that need to be done in the landfill, kind of like a savings account. | 00:04:38 | |
| Again, we we touched on the wake of COVID-19 and the increased cost to the expansion that we did in at the Russellville Torrential | 00:04:47 | |
| with Cell 3A and the need to purchase land for the Buckhead Mesa Landfill expansion through the Town Site Act purchased. | 00:04:55 | |
| Chris Supervisor Christensen or Chairman Christensen brought up. | 00:05:05 | |
| A question at the last board meeting of what would happen if we decided to get out of landfill business and. | 00:05:10 | |
| And what would happen is we'd end up with some transfer stations because a private company wouldn't be able to come in and | 00:05:20 | |
| actually purchase that land at the by the Buckhead Mesa landfill to do the expansion there. And again, here in Healer County, 3% | 00:05:26 | |
| of the land is privately owned. | 00:05:33 | |
| So that's a really great opportunity that we have out there. And this is one of the things that this fee increase is gonna work | 00:05:39 | |
| towards. So we did our due diligence with the fee increase. We we put the public hearing notice and the piece in Roundup on | 00:05:49 | |
| November 15th, 2024. We also went and put it in the Silver belt on November 20th, just as a good faith to let everybody know. | 00:05:59 | |
| We posted the increase notices at each landfill and one at 745 N Rose Mofford way. That way the public would have access to what | 00:06:09 | |
| those fees are going to be. The last fee increase to place in 2017. And I just found out last night that actually we increased the | 00:06:16 | |
| ton of cheese for commercial. We also increased the tonnage fees for residential, but we did not increase the tonnage fees for | 00:06:24 | |
| green waste in 2000. | 00:06:31 | |
| 17 so the tonnage. | 00:06:39 | |
| What hasn't been increased for Greenway since 2008? So I found that interesting as well. | 00:06:41 | |
| So the new fee schedule would increase by $18.00. So it could residential waste at $62.51 per ton, commercial waste that's $71.12 | 00:06:48 | |
| per tonne, and green waste at 5250 per ton. The minimum load fee would stay the same, so any resident that was taking their waste | 00:06:56 | |
| every seven days instead of. | 00:07:03 | |
| Using a waste hauler, their fees would not increase, so they would still be paying the minimum loan fee of $7.50 for those minimum | 00:07:12 | |
| loads of 320 lbs as well as the green waste minimum load fee of $5.00 for 280 lbs. | 00:07:19 | |
| The Board of Supervisors may determine that a lower rate. | 00:07:30 | |
| With a probability of additional fee increase in the near future would be an acceptable alternative. The board item gives us three | 00:07:35 | |
| different options. | 00:07:40 | |
| To save the current rate, we would need to borrow $7,000,000 in seven years. | 00:07:46 | |
| At $14.00 per ton, we would need to borrow half a million dollars, $16.00. We would have to borrow $700,000 before we were able to | 00:07:53 | |
| do any expansions, and at $18.00 a ton, we would not need to borrow money to expand the landfills. | 00:08:02 | |
| So pretty much that's all I have. If you have any questions. | 00:08:16 | |
| Thank you, Melanie. Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:08:21 | |
| I, I don't have any questions because most of the questions that I had have been answered as we've progressed with this. And, you | 00:08:25 | |
| know, almost I, I apologize for having to do this, but it's extremely expensive to operate the landfill and to keep it going and | 00:08:33 | |
| to do these expansions and to, to have to have money for when we close them and, and like you say, a private company come in. | 00:08:42 | |
| No one can get the land. No, no one else has. | 00:08:52 | |
| Has showed up to operate a landfill. So what what would happen if if if we didn't operate landfill Healer county could not be a | 00:08:55 | |
| very comfortable place to live if no one had anywhere to take the their their trash. And so you know, I like I say I almost feel | 00:09:03 | |
| like I need to apologize that that we have to continue doing this and we have to increase the cost to do it. | 00:09:12 | |
| But but it but it is necessary. | 00:09:21 | |
| To keep us from, from having difficulties later in trying to close the landfill or, or, or trying to operate it as, as it should | 00:09:25 | |
| be operated. And so I, I have no questions and, and I appreciate all of the work that that staff has put in to the calculations | 00:09:35 | |
| and keeping us on track going forward. So we're not hit with a multi $1,000,000 emergency. | 00:09:44 | |
| And so I appreciate that very much. And and to the constituents, like I say, I, I feel like I almost need to apologize for us | 00:09:54 | |
| providing this service to you and having to increase the cost. That's that's all I have. I think Pfizer, Pfizer Klein, thank you, | 00:10:02 | |
| Mr. Chair nominee, thank you. Bring this together during our work session. | 00:10:10 | |
| When you presented, there was a lot of talk about different equipment and stuff like that. Now if we bumped it up to that $18.00 | 00:10:19 | |
| extra a ton, this is going to go just for the land expansions, not into equipment, right? | 00:10:27 | |
| Supervisor Chairman Christensen, Supervisor Woody Klein. Thank you for your question. | 00:10:38 | |
| So the Enterprise Fund 6040 split. | 00:10:47 | |
| That 40%, which in this case with our revenue being around $2.6 million is about $900,000 that would go into the fund balance. | 00:10:50 | |
| Even if we were to keep the equipment that we have currently, that type of equipment, this money would go towards equipment, yes. | 00:11:00 | |
| So even our equipment is outdated. It's over hours for operation. They require a lot of maintenance and so this money would go | 00:11:08 | |
| towards purchasing. | 00:11:16 | |
| New equipment, a portion of it, and so on the. | 00:11:25 | |
| The spreadsheet that we do every year, we've allocated $300,000 a year towards equipment and a piece of equipment like a landfill | 00:11:30 | |
| compactor costs about $1,000,000. So that $300,000 is really either payments made for that piece of equipment or we can save that | 00:11:38 | |
| money and then buy it outright in about 3 1/2 years. | 00:11:47 | |
| So a small portion of the increase does go towards. | 00:11:56 | |
| Capital equipment purchases, yes. | 00:12:02 | |
| And so we also talked about doing the $16.00 a ton. And what you guys are still thinking is that if we went that way out, we would | 00:12:06 | |
| be back in front of the board sometime for an additional race. Yes, it would be prior to 2033. We would need to go back to the | 00:12:14 | |
| board and ask for an additional increase. We would be -700. | 00:12:23 | |
| $1000 in 2033. | 00:12:32 | |
| So that's if everything stays as if as it is right now. | 00:12:35 | |
| Yes, if inflation drops, things drop, maybe we wouldn't be there, correct? | 00:12:39 | |
| OK. | 00:12:47 | |
| Unlike Supervisor Humphrey, I don't like raising fees on landfill. I really don't. And our dollar dumb day will stay the same. | 00:12:51 | |
| And the transfer station in Young will stay the same. Yes, we we are making some changes there, meaning some staffing changes, but | 00:12:59 | |
| other than that we don't have any. | 00:13:05 | |
| Like there's a possibility of bringing in a scale, something like that, but other than other than that, no real changes up there. | 00:13:13 | |
| OK, Mr. Chair. | 00:13:22 | |
| Thank you, supervisor, and thank you now Melanie, for everything. | 00:13:24 | |
| I I'm. | 00:13:30 | |
| One to say I support the $18.00 simply because it creates a future stability for those that are in the business of. | 00:13:33 | |
| Garbage business that they know that it's going to last for a while, that that we're not going to do a little now and some more a | 00:13:43 | |
| little later and some more a little later. So it creates a little bit more stability even though it is a leap. | 00:13:50 | |
| I have a question now like on these minimums like the the bottom 3, they're all going to stay the same. So what are the weight | 00:13:58 | |
| limits there? Just for my own knowledge. You drive up the commercial, residential and green waste, you get charged 5 or 750. | 00:14:06 | |
| How much weight is that up to? So for residential it's 320 lbs, for commercial it's 280 lbs, and green waste loads would be 280 | 00:14:16 | |
| lbs. | 00:14:22 | |
| And then we still have the dollar day, so all that stays the same. | 00:14:30 | |
| Um, let's see, I don't know that I really have any other questions other than I think that the increase, the reason it's this way | 00:14:37 | |
| now is because we just haven't kept up with the inflation and the increases as we probably should have in retrospect. So we're | 00:14:45 | |
| running a, it's good that we're looking into the future and saying, look, we're going to be insolvent if we don't act soon. | 00:14:53 | |
| And so. | 00:15:01 | |
| That's just my thoughts. | 00:15:03 | |
| Anyway, anything else before we call for action? | 00:15:05 | |
| OK, Yeah. | 00:15:12 | |
| I uh. | 00:15:15 | |
| If we went for the 16, we'd be good till 2033. | 00:15:17 | |
| We would survive. We would need to borrow money if everything stayed the same, so we would basically be passing it off. | 00:15:26 | |
| To 2033 to do a huge increase to pay off the loan that we need to acquire. | 00:15:38 | |
| And that's that's about 700,000, yes. | 00:15:46 | |
| OK. | 00:15:55 | |
| OK, so. | 00:15:57 | |
| With that, I, I think I'm sorry, I'll pick you, yes. | 00:16:01 | |
| This is the part I always goof up. So anyway, I'll close our discussion there and call for comments from the public. Anyone here | 00:16:07 | |
| in Globe? | 00:16:11 | |
| Anyone in Payson? | 00:16:17 | |
| Anyone Cassandra on YouTube? No. OK, that's a little surprising to me. I'll close the public hearing portion and call for a | 00:16:21 | |
| motion. | 00:16:26 | |
| Mr. Chair, I move to authorize the increase of the tonnage rate for landfill fees by 18 dollars. | 00:16:32 | |
| Effective January 1st, 2025, while maintaining the minimum load at the current level. Mr. Cheryl, second that we have a motion and | 00:16:40 | |
| a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye aye. Motion carries unanimous. Thank you, Melanie. | 00:16:49 | |
| Regular agenda items. Item three. I'm sorry Marin, you can have a seat. Again, we're going to go a little out of order. It's been | 00:17:00 | |
| requested that we do items 3, JK and L. These are all Woody's I. | 00:17:07 | |
| Items that Woody has, other things that he would like to do, like feel better. So well, I don't want to share. | 00:17:17 | |
| Yes, and we don't want him to share. So let's start with item 3J. | 00:17:26 | |
| It could have been on the phone for this. Oh, it's information discussion action to approve Intermental Government Agreement | 00:17:32 | |
| number 1004 with San Carlos Apache Tribe in the amount of $60,000 payable as follows, $30,000 to cover the period of January 1st, | 00:17:39 | |
| 2025 through June 30th, 2025 and 30,000 to cover the period July 125 through December 3125 to support the maintenance and public | 00:17:46 | |
| roads located within. | 00:17:54 | |
| In the boundaries of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation and Melanie, you have a presentation on that. | 00:18:02 | |
| Yes, good morning again Chairman Christensen and Supervisors. I do Camaros on vacation and so I am sitting in for him and back. | 00:18:11 | |
| Some background information is at Hilo County has been in discussions with the San Carlos Apache Tribe since 2004 trying to make | 00:18:18 | |
| this happen and here we are. | 00:18:25 | |
| Today. | 00:18:33 | |
| It's the Antenna County to provide $60,000 to the Tribe, payable 30,000 to cover the period of January 1st, 2025 through June | 00:18:35 | |
| 30th, 2025 and 30,000 to cover the period of July 1st through December 2025. | 00:18:43 | |
| It's for the tribe to support maintenance of public roads located within Gila County in the boundaries of the San Carlos Apache | 00:18:53 | |
| Reservation. The IG contribution will be paid out. | 00:18:58 | |
| Of the county's general fund. | 00:19:05 | |
| The Board may approve an IGA in order to provide funding to support maintenance of public roads located within the boundaries of | 00:19:10 | |
| San Carlos Apache Reservation. Public for funding Rd. Maintenance supports the safety and welfare of the residents living and | 00:19:17 | |
| traveling on the public roads located within Gila County in the boundaries of the San Carlos Apache Reservation. | 00:19:24 | |
| Funding for the Public Rd. maintenance supports the safety and welfare of the residents living and traveling on the public roads | 00:19:33 | |
| within the exterior boundaries of the reservation, which are within Gila County, therefore public. The Public Works Department | 00:19:38 | |
| staff recommend the Board of Supervisors. | 00:19:43 | |
| Prove IGA number 100224. So this is um. | 00:19:49 | |
| This is oh, sorry. | 00:19:58 | |
| Yeah, we're definitely in support of this. We think that it benefits the residents of Hilah County, not only the residents of the | 00:20:02 | |
| reservation, but other county residents that travel on on those roads as well. And we're in support of this. So if you have any | 00:20:09 | |
| questions. Thank you, Melanie. Supervisor Humphrey, Chairman, my apologies, can I jump in? Absolutely, Jessica. Yes. So the way | 00:20:16 | |
| that this agreement could work best is if we. | 00:20:22 | |
| Have it be an economic development grant. So I just want to make sure that the board also finds that it's for the benefit of the | 00:20:30 | |
| public. | 00:20:33 | |
| OK. Thank you. | 00:20:38 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:20:41 | |
| I, I, I guess I have a few questions. You know, the, the expense of maintaining roads anymore is just crazy. And so I, I guess, I | 00:20:47 | |
| guess one of my questions and, and maybe you can't answer it, maybe it doesn't need to be answered. Is, is how we came up with the | 00:20:54 | |
| 60 and, and if, if that's the limit on our economic development. | 00:21:02 | |
| Money or, or what I, I was just kind of wondering that magical number is not going to get a whole lot of Rd. maintenance done. | 00:21:10 | |
| And, and it's not that I don't, you know, support it. I, I'm, I'm just wondering that that's not going to benefit roads a whole | 00:21:18 | |
| lot in my opinion, with the cost of, of repairing roads, although every little bit helps. | 00:21:25 | |
| And then I, I, I guess my other question is, is, you know. | 00:21:34 | |
| Who or how are we going to know how or where this money spent and that it is going to be in charge of San Carlos? And, and like I | 00:21:40 | |
| say, I I'm in support of it, but those are the two, two questions I have. And maybe there's answers or no answers and either way | 00:21:48 | |
| it's fine. That's just questions that that. | 00:21:55 | |
| Seem to go across my mind when we were going over this. | 00:22:04 | |
| Chairman Christensen and thank you for your question, Supervisor Tim Humphrey. Within the IGA, there is a reporting period. So for | 00:22:10 | |
| the the payment period, January 1st, 25 through June 30, 2025, there is a reporting stipulation where they're required to give us | 00:22:20 | |
| their accounting, what they did on which roads and how they use that funding. | 00:22:29 | |
| I. | 00:22:40 | |
| Wasn't there during the negotiations of the actual dollar amount. And someone else may be able to answer that question that this | 00:22:41 | |
| comes from a request from the San Carlos Apache Tribe. And so I, I, I'm thinking that $60,000 is what they feel is appropriate to, | 00:22:51 | |
| to maintain the, the areas that they need to maintain. If that's what they requested, then that that's good. | 00:23:00 | |
| So I can speak to this quite a bit, but. | 00:23:11 | |
| There was, there was a lot of back and forth on, on the roads where the roads were and and like normally said, there is a list | 00:23:15 | |
| that's put together and the reporting process is there. And so you know, looking at that, talking with the that's kind of where we | 00:23:22 | |
| came up with the $60,000. | 00:23:28 | |
| This question that came up and like I said, I do support it and I was just kind of those were questions that I had. | 00:23:37 | |
| So thank you, Melanie and supervisor Klein and chairman on gun. Thank you surprise the client anymore like no, I just want to | 00:23:45 | |
| thank Jesse couldn't her department for helping us with this. It's been a it's been a long road. We've we've been working on this | 00:23:52 | |
| since I got an end off and so it's been a long time coming and and I you know, this is this is something we can start with and see | 00:23:59 | |
| and go from there how it works. | 00:24:06 | |
| And so. | 00:24:14 | |
| Yes, my apologies. For audit purposes, there are certain clauses that we did not include for the economic Development grant. So if | 00:24:17 | |
| we could please make the motion with the caveat that there will be an amendment to this IGA, I will get that over to Kathy today | 00:24:23 | |
| for the Tribe signature. | 00:24:30 | |
| Thank you, Jessica. So I have just a couple of things. I have no doubt that the money can be well used and I presume that these | 00:24:38 | |
| are roadways that tourists and a lot of people from Gila County off of the reservation will use to go to the various. | 00:24:48 | |
| Things they want to go and see. I'm assuming that's what it's for. | 00:25:00 | |
| And I do agree that probably won't go very far. So one thing though that I would like to suggest. | 00:25:04 | |
| And that is that the money not come out of the general fund that come out of the. | 00:25:13 | |
| Lottery fund, if that's possible, I think that that would be a little. | 00:25:22 | |
| Easier to swallow for the taxpayers of Hilo County that the money is coming from there rather than the general fund. I just think | 00:25:27 | |
| that that would be helpful. | 00:25:33 | |
| One thing too in the middle of all this, Mr. Chair, is that they are using their own equipment. So that's where we can have a | 00:25:40 | |
| little bit better benefit on the price. They're not going to rent it. | 00:25:45 | |
| So this money would generally be used for material and wages and cost of doing the road OK. | 00:25:51 | |
| So that's the only question. So we have a lot of caveats to it. I will call for a motion. We need to include benefit for the | 00:26:01 | |
| public. We need to include an amendment to make some of the changes that we have discussed, including where the money comes from, | 00:26:07 | |
| OK. | 00:26:13 | |
| OK, Jessica. OK. All right. So we're going to give Woody the chance to do it right first time, and I'll probably mess in and if he | 00:26:20 | |
| messes it up, we'll get some more instruction. I'll call for a motion. | 00:26:26 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve the intergovernmental agreement number 100224 with the San Carlos Apache Tribe in the | 00:26:33 | |
| amount of 60,000 as presented. That has been determined to be for the benefit of economic development and. | 00:26:41 | |
| What was the other one? | 00:26:52 | |
| Will be an amendment with the condition that there will be an amendment. | 00:26:53 | |
| And it's for the benefit of the public. Yeah, I got it. I already got all that in. We good go. All right, we have a motion. I'll | 00:26:58 | |
| second motion in the second to approve those in favor say aye, aye. Motion carries unanimous. Thank you. And item number K is | 00:27:06 | |
| information discussion action to approve economic development agreement number 100424 between healer county horizon health and | 00:27:13 | |
| Wellness in the amount of 1000 which the board is determined to be for the benefit of the public. Mr. Klein. | 00:27:21 | |
| And so this is a economic development that we've been participating in every year. It's for a good 'cause they they actually | 00:27:29 | |
| support about 600 kids and underprivileged families. And so they've been able to take this and help through the holidays or | 00:27:36 | |
| whatever. And so I just wanted to carry it on and. | 00:27:44 | |
| Go. Go again this holiday, Supervisor Humphrey. Haven't I split this with you in the past? Yeah, you want to. | 00:27:53 | |
| OK, so, so I did help on this one as well, Yeah, because it seems like we've been partnering on this one since we've been in | 00:28:02 | |
| office, right? And so yeah, if, if, if I did partner in this, then yeah, I. | 00:28:08 | |
| I thank you. I would, I would. I was just, I was just checking to be sure that they were covered with their needs. And so anyway, | 00:28:16 | |
| that's all OK, thank you and. | 00:28:23 | |
| OK, with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve Economic Development Agreement number 100424 with Horizon Health | 00:28:31 | |
| and Wellness, which the board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. No, I'll second that. Mr. Chair, we have a | 00:28:39 | |
| motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Motion carries and item L information discussion action to | 00:28:46 | |
| approve Intergovernmental Agreement number 100324 between Hayley County and Christopher Coles. | 00:28:53 | |
| Our district in the amount of 10,000 was the board determined to be for the benefit of the public under. | 00:29:01 | |
| And thank you, Mr. Chair, and this goes back to the day that we helped help them with drilling a well. They did get water and a | 00:29:07 | |
| lot of water, but their next step is to actually put some restroom facilities in that building. And they use it a lot for staging | 00:29:14 | |
| government engines and firefighters as well. So, so there's 10,000 won't do it, but they're planning on fundraisers and and using | 00:29:20 | |
| it as leverage for some other grant monies. | 00:29:27 | |
| To to put it in there. | 00:29:35 | |
| That are taking more questions and this is constituent money. | 00:29:37 | |
| So yeah, I I have no questions, Mr. Chair. | 00:29:41 | |
| Yeah, I have no questions other than I was also partner. | 00:29:48 | |
| Before you want to partner on this, I would like to if that's not too much trouble. | 00:29:52 | |
| So let's we're getting nods. Yeah. OK. So let's do that. And with that, I'll call promotion. Thank you, Supervisor Christensen. | 00:29:59 | |
| I'll make the motion to approve Economic Development Agreement number 100324 with Christopher Coles Fire District, which the board | 00:30:06 | |
| has determined to be for the benefit of the public. Mr. Chair, I'll second that. We have a motion and a second to approve. Are | 00:30:13 | |
| those in favor? Say aye, Aye, aye. Motion carries. | 00:30:21 | |
| Supervisor Klein, are you I'm, I'm gonna leave it to you guys, right. And thank you for very for allowing me to do that. We wish | 00:30:29 | |
| you well. We'll see you 17th. And so we'll continue with our meeting. We still have a quorum. | 00:30:37 | |
| Item 3A Information discussion Action authorized the Hewitt County Finance Department to disperse State of Arizona deputy and | 00:30:47 | |
| detention retention funds to eligible Healer County Sheriff's Office employees in the amount of $5000 before taxes as defined by | 00:30:54 | |
| Arizona Department of administration agreement number DBF FY23L22 Chapter 31304 with ELA County. Good morning, Mary, good morning, | 00:31:01 | |
| Mr. Chair, good morning super. | 00:31:09 | |
| Humphrey, We had funds leftover after we had dispersed all of the. | 00:31:16 | |
| Allocated funds were eligible line level staff and this is a plan that the Sheriff's Department, including Sheriff Shepherd have | 00:31:23 | |
| come up with in order to disperse additional funds. With your approval, this will be included in Friday's paycheck for these | 00:31:31 | |
| eligible individuals. OK, thank you, Mary. Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:31:38 | |
| Um, yeah, I, I guess and so, so the department will determine on how the $5000 is dispersed amongst the employees or will it just | 00:31:48 | |
| be split evenly or? | 00:31:54 | |
| There's a list attached to the agenda item and it was based on recruitment date. | 00:32:04 | |
| And it's $5000 each. | 00:32:11 | |
| For a total of 70,000. | 00:32:15 | |
| For eligible individuals. | 00:32:18 | |
| OK. Thank you. Already received the money from the state under this agreement. | 00:32:22 | |
| Thank you. | 00:32:28 | |
| OK, thank you. So I have no questions. And with Tara, I'll call for motion. Let's share. I move to authorize the Healer County | 00:32:30 | |
| Finance Department to divorce to disperse State of Arizona deputy and detention retention funds to eligible Healer County | 00:32:38 | |
| Sheriff's Office employees in the amount of $5000 before taxes. | 00:32:46 | |
| And I will second that motion. All those in favor say aye. | 00:32:55 | |
| Aye, aye. Item 3B Information, discussion action review the submitted bids for Request for Proposal number 061324, Financial | 00:33:00 | |
| Consultant Services and award a contract to the lowest, most responsive, most responsible and qualified bidder. Mary. Good morning | 00:33:09 | |
| again, Mr. Chair, Supervisor Humphrey, Our last work session we mentioned that we would be bringing this today. | 00:33:18 | |
| These particular financial consultant services. | 00:33:28 | |
| Are for an evaluation of all the fees that the counties departments currently charge countywide to ensure that we are charging | 00:33:30 | |
| equitable fees, that fees that are allowed by statute and fees that reflect accurately the cost of doing business for each | 00:33:40 | |
| department and the services rendered. We received 2 qualified and responsive bids from MDT and from Baker Tilly. | 00:33:50 | |
| And the MGT. | 00:34:00 | |
| Amount is about 1/3 of the amount from Baker Tilly. We do have experience with both firms. MGT recently finished our cost | 00:34:04 | |
| allocation plan and the department would request that MGT be awarded the contract and they would. | 00:34:12 | |
| In their proposal, they proposed completing the work within five months. | 00:34:23 | |
| Thank you, Mayor and Supervisor Humphrey, No question. | 00:34:29 | |
| Hello, Marin. | 00:34:33 | |
| I can see what you've done here. So just to be clear, we're going to spend some money to see whether or not we're charging the | 00:34:35 | |
| appropriate amount with all of our fees, permits and all of those correct and then we'll. | 00:34:42 | |
| That will show you how that shook out. | 00:34:48 | |
| And then we'll also give the Board the opportunity to consider fee schedule amendments as determined to be necessary. OK. And you | 00:34:53 | |
| feel that this task is insurmountable for the our current employees to conduct? | 00:35:02 | |
| In order for this type of study to be certified as being a valid place to get your fee structure from, we should use an external | 00:35:12 | |
| CPA promise. OK thank you. | 00:35:19 | |
| Supervisor Humphrey, would you prefer to have us alternate on making motions? Mr. Chair, I can do it or we can alternate it. OK, | 00:35:27 | |
| please go ahead. If you'd like to make a motion, I move to award a contract to NGT Impact Solutions LLC in the amount of 99. | 00:35:37 | |
| $1000 in responsive request for proposals number 061324. And I will second that all those in favor say aye, aye. Thank you, Marin. | 00:35:49 | |
| And we'll go to item 3C, information discussion action to approve the settlement agreement and accept the related quick claim deed | 00:35:58 | |
| and conveyance of real property with Hilah House Incorporated. Josh beck. Good morning, chairman, Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:36:08 | |
| So in the 2020 during COVID, there was discretionary funds through the Department of Housing that we did a pass through with the | 00:36:18 | |
| pilot house to renovate the Willow Motel. They took the money and purchased the Willow Motel. We received an additional grant to | 00:36:26 | |
| do the renovations. The there wasn't. | 00:36:34 | |
| There were issues with the landfill fees and stuff under estimating and communication on how that would work and the lead and | 00:36:43 | |
| asbestos in the property, which made doing what he house had originally proposed a little bit more expensive than it was going to | 00:36:49 | |
| be. Instead, we took the second set of funding and actually worked and purchased a property on Maple Street and we accomplished | 00:36:56 | |
| the goals that we needed with a different set of funding on Maple St. | 00:37:03 | |
| Here we are in 2024, the original property that was purchased as a pass through with the county funding to heal a house. | 00:37:10 | |
| Had anything accomplished with it? Most of our grants that we do with the state, with DES and ADOH, usually if you haven't spent | 00:37:18 | |
| money for six months, it kind of kicks into the clauses in the contract. Obviously they've been really willing to work with us to | 00:37:24 | |
| do something with this funds, but we decided at this point what we need to do was to kind of try to close this grant out for the | 00:37:30 | |
| state and for Healy County. So we worked with Hilah House and County Attorney's office and we decided the best way to do this was | 00:37:36 | |
| to 1st relieve them. | 00:37:42 | |
| From many financial liability things to do the quick claim deed to sign the property back to the county. And that's what this | 00:37:48 | |
| action is for us to get this property back in the county's hands so that I can continue to work with Department of Economic | 00:37:55 | |
| Security to try to find something that we can do with the property that would somewhat match the original intent of the grant. | 00:38:02 | |
| My plans are to do the next step, if this is approved, to work with the City of Globe. Since the properties in the City of Globe, | 00:38:10 | |
| I have a meeting scheduled with Bindo and we'll probably work with Mr. Jepsen and try to see if there's something we can do with | 00:38:15 | |
| that property. | 00:38:19 | |
| Lots of ideas, whether it be a park or working with a contractor that wanted to purchase the property to do some kind of low | 00:38:24 | |
| income housing or something, something we can do. I can save my conversations with the Department of Economic Security. This has | 00:38:30 | |
| actually been with the directors office there. They've been pretty willing to work with us to resolve this in whatever kind of way | 00:38:36 | |
| that we can all agree on. So and this is the first step to kind of clear up the mist that was left behind and try to do something | 00:38:42 | |
| good with the property. | 00:38:48 | |
| I know that, you know, one of the things we're working with the supervisor Humphrey and with that polite fund that you have to the | 00:38:54 | |
| county has and possibly doing that to clean up the property. So there are a lot of different ideas on the table. I'll be able to | 00:39:00 | |
| move forward more with those if this is approved and we can take care of that first step. | 00:39:07 | |
| OK, great. Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah, I just want to say thanks for working with the City of Globe because that is a | 00:39:14 | |
| piece of property that we got our hands tied with on what we can do with it. And so working with the City of Globe can perhaps | 00:39:20 | |
| help them and us both. Thank you. | 00:39:25 | |
| Yeah. Thank you, Joshua. With that, I will call for a motion. | 00:39:32 | |
| I I move to approve the settlement agreement and accept the related quick claim deed and convey the real property with Gila House | 00:39:38 | |
| Incorporated. I will second that motion. All those in favor say aye, aye aye. | 00:39:46 | |
| Thank you, Joshua. We're on to Item 3D information discussion action to ratify the Board of Supervisors approval for the submittal | 00:39:54 | |
| of A12G Fund request application to the Apache Go Casino for San Carlos Apache Tribe Enterprise Fund 12D funding to expand the | 00:40:01 | |
| oral health program and accept the grant award in the amount of $12,274.97 for the period of November 1st, 2024 through November | 00:40:09 | |
| 1st, 2025. | 00:40:16 | |
| Josh, good morning again, supervisor, Chairman. | 00:40:24 | |
| So since 2022, we've really been pushing oral health in the public health department to kind of make up for some of the areas that | 00:40:29 | |
| we don't have providers. So we're not trying to take any work. We're trying to kind of bridge those gaps where we don't have | 00:40:34 | |
| service or service issues right now with our maternal and child health grants that we get from the Department of Health Services, | 00:40:39 | |
| we can help out a lot of people that are on access, but when we're in the schools and we're helping the children that are on | 00:40:44 | |
| access. | 00:40:49 | |
| We don't have any funding from the state or anyone else that covers that don't have insurance or that aren't on access. And even | 00:40:55 | |
| getting into schools work with people and referring them that have have difficult insurance. So we've been looking for president | 00:41:01 | |
| before. We're doing what we can to look for different small grants and stuff so that when we go into schools, we can do fluoride | 00:41:07 | |
| treatments, the little fillings on the back of the teeth or just a digital check up to see if we need to refer anyone. | 00:41:14 | |
| And these little thoughts of money allow us to go in and work with all the students when we go to schools and not just the | 00:41:21 | |
| students have access. So we saw this application. It was something actually I think we tried, reached out to us and thought it | 00:41:26 | |
| would be a good fit. So we applied at the last minute and they gave us the award and then we went to a nice banquet for it. I've | 00:41:31 | |
| been really good about working with us on this and. | 00:41:36 | |
| It's just a good grant to make sure that the services were already doing the supplemental supplement what we're already doing to | 00:41:42 | |
| reach more population than we're in schools. | 00:41:46 | |
| Very good supervisor, Humphrey. | 00:41:51 | |
| I have no questions. I have no questions. I'll call for motion. I move to ratify the Board of Supervisors approval for the | 00:41:55 | |
| submittal of A12D fund, request application to the Apache Coal Casino for the San Carlos Apache Tribe Enterprise Fund 12D funding | 00:42:02 | |
| program and accept the subsequent grant award as presented. | 00:42:09 | |
| Thank you, and I will second that all those in favor say aye, aye aye, Josh. Item 3 E information discussion action approved | 00:42:18 | |
| funding agreement #226-24 between Arizona Department of Housing and public Health and Community services department housing | 00:42:28 | |
| services weatherization program to use low income home energy assistance program funding the amount of $382,997. | 00:42:37 | |
| To be expanded by June 30th, 2025. | 00:42:48 | |
| So we receive our weatherization assistance for low income individuals through two pots of money. This is one of them and actually | 00:42:54 | |
| comes into the Department of Economic Security and gets divided out in Department of Housing, received some of that money as well. | 00:43:01 | |
| So this is the portion of the money that comes from the Department of Housing. This grant money actually goes back to July 1st. | 00:43:08 | |
| We've been a little slow on getting this process in motion this year with the state. So this is to cover this fiscal year. | 00:43:15 | |
| Board of members, we already have our contract in place. We put in place I believe in August with the Advantage Home Builders out | 00:43:23 | |
| of Chandler. This is the one that we've talked about in work session before. So we have a Chandler company that's currently doing | 00:43:31 | |
| work. We did a six month extension on their current contract to do this work while we work on other ways of trying to get other | 00:43:38 | |
| vendors on board. Supervisor Humphreys helped us with Gila Monster Construction that's looking to do some of the roofing projects. | 00:43:45 | |
| And that's what. So this is the funding that funds that project. And we are still working on ways to come up with better | 00:43:53 | |
| solutions. There's a lot of money out there in this area and. | 00:43:58 | |
| Come up with local vendors. Again, that shot anybody that can help us out, local vendors or anything that we can do in this area | 00:44:03 | |
| to keep the price down for what we do and be able to serve more homes and keep the money local. You know, that's the issue we have | 00:44:09 | |
| is just trying to get vendors in this area. There's a lot of money that we can get, so we'll keep working on it. | 00:44:15 | |
| OK. Thanks, Supervisor Humphrey, Thanks for continuing to work on it. It's difficult dealing. Maybe some young, young | 00:44:22 | |
| entrepreneurs will be interested in helping you with spend some of that money and get certified to be able to do some of this | 00:44:28 | |
| work. | 00:44:33 | |
| Yes, thank you, Josh. I really don't have any questions on that. So with that, I'll call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I move to | 00:44:40 | |
| approve Arizona Department of Housing funding agreement #226-24 as presented. And I will second that all those in favor say aye. | 00:44:48 | |
| I thank you, Josh. We got one more for you. Information, discussion, action to approve amendment #1 the funding agreement #226-24 | 00:44:56 | |
| between the Arizona Department of Housing. | 00:45:02 | |
| And the make sure I'm on the right one here sounds a lot like the last one. He's a public health and community services | 00:45:08 | |
| department, Housing Services adding $54,653 of LIHEAP funding for a new total of $263,556. And why he'd funding and increasing the | 00:45:17 | |
| total contract #2. | 00:45:27 | |
| $437,650. | 00:45:36 | |
| Thank you, Supervisor Chairman. So this is the again, it's the same weatherization program, same funding. We use it the exact same | 00:45:39 | |
| things as before. A small percentage of money which is this part is the Department of Housing part of that's because some of it's | 00:45:47 | |
| the energy providers SRP donates to these funds. We get different funding pots and to keep those separate, we have two different | 00:45:54 | |
| grants for this, all with the same deliverables. This is that second smaller part that comes from. | 00:46:01 | |
| Housing which is used in the same way, just making sure that we can track both of them in the deliverables. | 00:46:09 | |
| Specifically for each pot of money. | 00:46:14 | |
| Thank you, Josh. Supervisor Humphrey, just one question, you know, trying to encourage young entrepreneurs that may be able to | 00:46:17 | |
| help you with some of this funding. Is there any training money to help some of these people that may want to get into the | 00:46:23 | |
| construction business? | 00:46:29 | |
| Over there is like the one week walk flash weatherization program class that they have to take can be funded by the program. If | 00:46:37 | |
| there was a you know, if there was a vendor then they already had the skill set that they needed. It would pay for them to get | 00:46:42 | |
| that training. | 00:46:47 | |
| To meet the qualifications. Thank you. | 00:47:19 | |
| Thank you, Josh, I have no questions. I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I move to approve amendment number one to Arizona | 00:47:22 | |
| Department of Housing Funding agreement #226-24 as presented. I will second that all those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Thank you, | 00:47:30 | |
| Josh. Item 3G information discussion action to approve amendment #2. | 00:47:38 | |
| To contract number Ctr. 061839 Dash EZ with Skyline Builders and Restoration incorporated for the Sheriff Squadron. | 00:47:47 | |
| Patrol room renovation project to extend the term of the contract to June 30th, 2025. Good morning, Joseph, Good morning Chairman, | 00:47:57 | |
| Board of Supervisors. This request seeks approval to extend the contract term to June 30th, 2025 for the Sheriff's Squadron Patrol | 00:48:05 | |
| room renovation. Original contract approved in January 2024 was for $32,505.40. In June 2024, the Board approved amendment #1 | 00:48:12 | |
| increase in the contract. | 00:48:19 | |
| To $81,593.46. The Second Amendment is necessary to provide sufficient time to complete the project. The project is tentatively | 00:48:27 | |
| scheduled to begin on January 6th, 2025 and be completed by March. The scope of work includes drywall repairs, electrical lighting | 00:48:35 | |
| upgrades, office space creation, new flooring, ceiling green installation to improve the functionality and the efficiency of the | 00:48:42 | |
| patient. Shares patrol room with that. | 00:48:49 | |
| Do you take any questions? | 00:48:57 | |
| Thank you, Joseph. Supervisor Humphrey, no questions. I have no questions either. So with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. Chair, I | 00:48:59 | |
| move to approve amendment #2 to contract number Ctr. 061839, Dash EZ with Skyline Builders and Restoration Incorporated as | 00:49:07 | |
| presented. I will second that all those in favor say aye, aye, aye, Joseph. Thank you. | 00:49:16 | |
| And item 3H as the information discussion action to adopt resolution number. | 00:49:24 | |
| 24-12-01 which authorizes the installation of regulatory signage at the intersection of N Mistletoe Dr. and Whispering Pines Rd. | 00:49:30 | |
| located in Pine in Healer County. Good morning, Alex. Good morning, Chairman Supervisor Humphrey. | 00:49:40 | |
| Pretty straightforward here. It's a adoption of the resolution number 241201. So the regulatory sign that we're discussing is a | 00:49:51 | |
| new stop sign. Currently, Whispering Pine Road is the main thoroughfare into the residential section on the east side of Pine and | 00:49:58 | |
| right now Mistletoe Tees off of that road. With all the development that is going on in Pine, everything east of Whispering Pines | 00:50:05 | |
| Rd. is now starting to be developed and there's a. | 00:50:13 | |
| Coming off of there, but no, no signage right now. So after reviewing it, I was German that a stop sign would be the safest | 00:50:20 | |
| regulatory sign to allow the public to access Whispering Pines Rd. to egress from that new development. I'm happy to take any | 00:50:28 | |
| questions you guys have. OK, thank you, Alex. Supervisor Humphrey, no questions. So how can we not do this at that time on the | 00:50:35 | |
| other direction because as it was already a three-way. | 00:50:42 | |
| Already stop sign on the other side. All right, that's all I have. Then let's call for motion. This chair I moved to adopt | 00:50:50 | |
| resolution #24-12-01. | 00:50:56 | |
| And I will second that those in favor say aye, aye, aye. Thank you, Alex. Thank you. | 00:51:03 | |
| All right, we're on to item three. I Information discussion action to review the bids submitted for invitation for bid number | 00:51:12 | |
| 08284, Acad Mesa Landfill Center Pond Interim Leachate Piping Project and award a contract to the lowest, most responsive, | 00:51:19 | |
| responsible and qualified bidder, Eleanor. | 00:51:26 | |
| Hello again. | 00:51:34 | |
| Chairman Christensen and Supervisor Tim Humphrey. So this is umm. | 00:51:36 | |
| This is a request to award a contract in response to the invitation forbid. It's early 2824 with a Buckhead Mesa Landfill Center | 00:51:42 | |
| Pond Interim Lichi project. So on September 17th, 2024, the Board approved an invitation forbid for the Buckhead Mesa Pond Interim | 00:51:52 | |
| Leachate Piping project. The IFP was advertised in the piece in Roundup newspaper on September 24th and then again on October 1st. | 00:52:02 | |
| 2024 the bids were due on October 17th and we got 3 responses. | 00:52:12 | |
| The county received approval from the ADQ, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to construct a lateral expansion of the | 00:52:19 | |
| facilities landfill. Cereal expansions have been added to the footprint of the landfill and during the last phase in 2018, the the | 00:52:28 | |
| leachate piping was to be routed to the two other ponds in the center pond removed so. | 00:52:37 | |
| Sealed bids for this project were accepted. | 00:52:48 | |
| I'm at the at Heal County Finance at 3:00 PM on October 17th. There was three competitive bids that were received. The bids were | 00:52:51 | |
| opened on October 17th and evaluated by ARS for 12533. Through competitive bidding, Standard Construction Company, Inc met all | 00:52:58 | |
| specifications and offered the low bid price. The recommendation of the Public Works Department Director is to award the contract | 00:53:06 | |
| to Standard Construction Company, Inc in the amount. | 00:53:13 | |
| $60,000. | 00:53:21 | |
| Thank you, Melanie. Supervisor Humphrey, no questions. I have no questions. So with that, I'll call for motion. Mr. I move to | 00:53:24 | |
| award a contract to Standard Construction Company Incorporated in the amount of $60,000 in response to invitation for bids number | 00:53:32 | |
| 082824. And I will second that motion. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. | 00:53:40 | |
| Thank you, Melanie. Thank you. | 00:53:49 | |
| All right, we've already addressed item 3, JK and L. So item 3, M is information discussion action to prove economic development | 00:53:51 | |
| agreement number 10062024 between Healer County and the City of Globe, the amount of $1000 to support the annual bike rodeo, which | 00:53:58 | |
| the board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah. Mr. Chair, City Globe came to me and they | 00:54:05 | |
| do a bike rodeo. | 00:54:11 | |
| And you know, the first question was, do we still do bikes? | 00:54:19 | |
| I don't know. We don't do bikes anymore. So they're doing the bike rodeo. And so they asked if I could help them with helmets for | 00:54:23 | |
| their bike rodeo participants. And so anyway, I, I worked with them And so that's what this for is for is to help the city of | 00:54:32 | |
| Globe for the bike rodeo. And if there's any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. | 00:54:41 | |
| Thank you. Supervisor. Sounds like a good thing. So I have really no questions call for motion. | 00:54:51 | |
| Not sure. I moved to approve Economic Development Agreement number 10062024 with the City of Globe which the Board has determined | 00:54:57 | |
| to be for the benefit of the public. I will second that motion. Those in favor say aye aye, motion carries very good. And also | 00:55:07 | |
| then we also have item 3 and information discussion action to approve Economic Development Agreement number 10052024. | 00:55:17 | |
| Between Yva County and Miami, Miami Genesis in the amount of $3000 to support the small town Christmas event to be held on | 00:55:27 | |
| December 21st, 2024, which the board is determined to be for the benefit of the public. Once again, Supervisor Humphrey, this is | 00:55:37 | |
| every year the town of Miami does a a Christmas special Christmas and, and, and so they asked me to help them with that. | 00:55:47 | |
| And this isn't for like decorations and stuff. A lot of this is to help them and because they do give gifts and, and I think | 00:55:57 | |
| everyone that came through that last year, they, they gave them a book and things of this nature. So, so a lot of this is for | 00:56:05 | |
| gifts for the public, for the kids to that participate in the small town of Christmas. | 00:56:13 | |
| Very good. Thank you for doing that. Supervisor, I have no questions. With that, I'll call for a motion. Mr. Chair, I move to | 00:56:21 | |
| approve Economic Development Agreement number 10052024 with Miami Genesis, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of | 00:56:29 | |
| the public. I will second that motion. All those in favor say aye, aye. Thank you for that. On your consent agenda items item 4, | 00:56:36 | |
| we have consent agenda items 4A through. | 00:56:44 | |
| E Supervisor Humphrey, would you like to have one or more removed for further discussion and voting? Mr. Chair, I'm good. I'll | 00:56:52 | |
| call for motion to approve the consent agenda action items for A through 4. E Mr. Chair, I move to approve consent agenda items 4A | 00:57:00 | |
| through 4. EI will second that those in favor say aye, aye aye. Very good. | 00:57:08 | |
| Call to the public. Is there anyone here in Globe that would like to speak? | 00:57:17 | |
| Before the board, No. | 00:57:22 | |
| In Payson. | 00:57:25 | |
| I don't see. Thank you Lisa and Cassandra. Anyone know how many did we have today? | 00:57:27 | |
| 30 very good. All right, so then I'll move on to item number six, which is our reports and we'll start with manager man love. Mr. | 00:57:36 | |
| Chairman, Supervisor Humphrey, thank you for a moment. I do have a number of items over here today begin with yesterday that. | 00:57:44 | |
| I participated in interviews for the Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act Executive Director position. That is, of course, a | 00:57:54 | |
| program that provides training to adults and youth and. | 00:58:00 | |
| There's trading dollars to help individuals to become employable, and they provide such training as writing resumes and everything | 00:58:07 | |
| may, perhaps including buying clothing for individuals. It's a federal grant program administered by Navajo County. | 00:58:15 | |
| During the interviews with representatives from Apache County and myself, and Naval County expressed that one we need to make sure | 00:58:26 | |
| that we have. | 00:58:31 | |
| More improved communication with Gila County and the Board of Supervisors and the public. It's a great story. Great things can | 00:58:37 | |
| happen. We have a very active person that is the business service manager that works with the businesses and trying to find spots | 00:58:44 | |
| for potential employees that we make sure that we have communication with the Board of Supervisors and the public and telling the | 00:58:51 | |
| story of what's going on with that. | 00:58:57 | |
| And then also in the years past, they had. | 00:59:05 | |
| Due to certain challenges is not used all the dollars and stress that it is imperative that we have an executive director that | 00:59:09 | |
| knows the program sufficiently to invest all the dollars that we have available into our community, their communities here in | 00:59:17 | |
| Healer County. So we will see where that goes, but did participate, participate in those. | 00:59:24 | |
| Interviews for an executive director for that program. | 00:59:32 | |
| I this Thursday we'll participate in the Arizona Counties Insurance Pool Executive Board that there's so many things on this | 00:59:38 | |
| agenda right at Christmas time that it's a schedule for a 7 hour meeting on Thursday. | 00:59:46 | |
| Brutal, yeah, but we'll participate, participate in that Chinese insurance board on Thursday and then Friday, county managers | 00:59:55 | |
| meeting at 10:00 AM down in Phoenix as well. Wanted to let you know that on December 11th. | 01:00:03 | |
| County kind of swapping and was requested by Craig Sullivan to to host this month's small counties meeting. So we will be hosting | 01:00:12 | |
| the small counties meeting on December December 11th, Wednesday, December 11th has about 5530 in the evening and so we look | 01:00:21 | |
| forward to hopefully the board can attend that as we as we host that and. | 01:00:29 | |
| And then on the 12th will be the CSA Board of Directors meeting and they typically have a little bit nicer meeting and things | 01:00:40 | |
| because it is a holiday meeting. | 01:00:45 | |
| And look forward to that. | 01:00:52 | |
| UMM wanted to. | 01:00:56 | |
| Also, just make you aware that I'm planning to take some time off the week of the 23rd through January 3rd. Around the holidays it | 01:01:00 | |
| seems to slow down and a little bit quieter, so we'll take some time off. Mr. Odisco will be here and he will be in charge. | 01:01:09 | |
| During that time. | 01:01:20 | |
| And I'm planning to be off. | 01:01:22 | |
| And I'm going to say also, Sherry is going to be out from the 16th through a large part of that time. So we're going to have both | 01:01:24 | |
| of us gone for a period of time during that right here at the holidays. | 01:01:31 | |
| Also wanted to report that we will be working with departments and elected offices. | 01:01:39 | |
| That for the 2% salary adjustment that was included in the budget, again, plan to do the same thing where departments can have | 01:01:46 | |
| some flexibility to. | 01:01:50 | |
| Bring things that there are some that may pass them inequities and also using that for merit bonus increases that are tied to | 01:01:57 | |
| performance evaluation. I do want to report that the elected officials that we will be holding a swearing in ceremony at 8:30 on | 01:02:06 | |
| January 7th. So all elected officials will be invited to come participate that Judge Wright has agreed to do that swearing in. | 01:02:15 | |
| At that time, and we'll note that as employees are getting the salary adjustment that elected officials beginning January 1st will | 01:02:25 | |
| be receiving a salary adjustment. And I will note that that that is the first salary adjustment in 20 years and so it is. | 01:02:34 | |
| Well, due because the salary adjustment that elected officials are receiving for all counties, all county officials throughout | 01:02:44 | |
| Arizona is not even keeping up with inflation. So I'm glad that the state legislature elected official salaries are out of state | 01:02:52 | |
| legislature and I'm excited that they addressed this to A to an extent. So I. | 01:03:00 | |
| I'm glad for that and. | 01:03:09 | |
| Look forward to our elected officials having a salary adjustment. Like I said, well deserved. | 01:03:11 | |
| Mr. Chairman, that is my report, unless there are any questions. | 01:03:17 | |
| Oh, thank you, Mr. Manlove. Supervisor Humphrey. | 01:03:21 | |
| Now hold the. | 01:03:26 | |
| All the Town Ovation community meeting this evening at 5:00. | 01:03:28 | |
| I'll hold the Garcia community meeting on the 7th at 9:00. | 01:03:32 | |
| I'll hold the Roosevelt Community meeting on the 9th at 1:00. | 01:03:36 | |
| And I'll be on KQSS radio on the 9th at 5:30. | 01:03:42 | |
| And that's all I have. | 01:03:48 | |
| Thanks, Supervisor. I was speaking with Colavante, with the Sheriff's Department. They've already started to address the abandoned | 01:03:50 | |
| trailers that are in the forest around and around the north part of HeLa County. And so that process is starting. It's going to be | 01:03:57 | |
| a good thing. | 01:04:03 | |
| And I will be attending the December 11th small county meeting and also on the 12th. | 01:04:12 | |
| And I think we have one more meeting this year, which will be two weeks from today. So look forward to doing that, wrapping things | 01:04:20 | |
| up. And so really other than I have a few radio appearances coming up and things like that, that's kind of slowing down quite a | 01:04:27 | |
| bit right now. So I appreciate everyone's input today. Been a good meeting. I really appreciate it. And so with that, I'll adjourn | 01:04:34 | |
| the meeting. Thank you. | 01:04:40 |