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  • 1.  CALL TO ORDER - PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE - INVOCATION
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  • 2.  PRESENTATIONS:   A.  Recognition of Gila County employees who have been employed for,,,,, and years as of25.
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  • 3.  PUBLIC HEARINGS: A.  Information/Discussion/Action to adopt Ordinance No.26-01 - amending Ordinance No.25-06 to revise the wording of Condition No.to read "not more than fiveacre custom home sites." (Randy Pluimer)
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  • 4.  REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS:   A.  Information/Discussion/Action to approve Economic Development Agreement No.26-0181 between Gila County and American Legion Payson Post #147, Inc., in the amount of $2,500 to purchase flags that will be used and displayed throughout Gila County, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. (Stephen Christensen)
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  • B.  Information/Discussion/Action to approve Economic Development Agreement No.26-0189 between Gila County and Tonto Rim Search and Rescue, Inc. in the amount of $2,500, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. (Stephen Christensen)
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  • C.  Information/Discussion/Action to approve Economic Development Agreement No.26-0192 between Gila County and Brownsville Western Heritage Inc. in the amount of $20,000 to support the educational efforts to save "Western Heritage" for youth and adults in Gila County, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. (Tim Humphrey)
  • D.  Information/Discussion/Action to approve Economic Development Agreement No.26-0199 between Gila County and Hayden-Winkelman USD #41 in the amount of $1,500 to support the school's scholarship program for graduating seniors, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. (Woody Cline)
  • E.  Information/Discussion/Action to approve Economic Development Agreement No.26-0202 between Gila County and Young Public School in the amount of $1,000 to support the installation of a patriotic display on school grounds, which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. (Woody Cline)
  • F.  Information/Discussion/Action to approve Amendment No.to Professional Services Contract No.1225 - Legal Services - Felony Criminal, Juvenile Delinquency, & Mental Health with Crawshaw Law Firm, PLLC, increasing the not-to-exceed compensation amount for the current contract term to $116,000. (Rick Husk)
  • G.  Information/Discussion/Action to approve Funding Agreement No.4-26 between the Arizona Department of Housing and the Gila County Community Services Division, Housing Services, to provide Southwest Gas Corporation and Arizona Public Service Weatherization Assistance Program funding in the amount of $266,490 for the period of January26, to December,26. (Joshua Beck)
  • H.  Information/Discussion/Action to approve Memorandums of Understanding between Gila County Public Health & Community Services and Miami Unified School District, Pine Elementary District, and Hayden-Winkelman Unified School District whereby Gila County will provide $40,000 to each district to support activities that improve pedestrian and bicycle safety and promote safe travel to and from school from the date of signature through September,26. (Joshua Beck)
  • I.   Information/Discussion/Action to approve Modification4 to Forest Road Project Agreement #22-RO-11031200-184 with Gila County and USDA, Forest Service, Tonto National Forest, which updates administrative contacts and extends the term of the Agreement from March26, to September,26. (Thomas Goodman)
  • J.  Information/Discussion/Action to approve of Modification4 to Forest Service Agreement No.-RO-11031200-232 with Gila County and USDA, Forest Service, Tonto National Forest, changing the performance period by extending the expiration date from March26, to September,26, and adding the Paid Sick Leave clause. (Thomas Goodman)
  • 5.  CONSENT AGENDA ACTION ITEMS: (Any matter on the Consent Agenda will be removed from the Consent Agenda and discussed and voted upon as a regular agenda item upon the request of any member of the Board of Supervisors.) A.  Adoption of revised Resolution No.-02-01, approving Gila County Community Development Department Case No. CUPP2510-001, to correct Exhibit A to accurately reflect the conditions approved by the Board of Supervisors. B.  Approval of the reappointment of Ms. Diana Kanon, Ms. Daisy Flores, and Mr. David E. Wolak as Judges Pro Tempore for the period from July26, to June,27. C.  Approval to appoint the following Democratic Party Precinct Committeeman in Gila County: Jeanne Kathleen Polenz - Globe #4 Precinct. D.  Approval of the monthly reports submitted by the Human Resources Department for January26.
  • 6.  CALL TO THE PUBLIC:   A call to the public is held for public benefit to allow individuals to address the Board of Supervisors on any issue within the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors. Board members may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda. Therefore, pursuant to Arizona Revised Statute §-431.01(I), at the conclusion of an open call to the public, individual members of the Board of Supervisors may respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the Board, may ask staff to review a matter or may ask that a matter be put on a future agenda for further discussion and decision at a future date.
  • 7.  At any time during this meeting pursuant to A.R.S. §-431.02(K), members of the Board of Supervisors and the County Manager may present a brief summary of current events.  No action may be taken on the information presented.
  • 8.  WORK SESSION ITEMS:   A.  Information/Discussion regarding Discover Gila County’s draft Marketing Plan & Five-Year Strategic Plan for the Tourism and Marketing Initiative for Gila County. (Cameron Davis) IF SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS ARE NEEDED, PLEASE CONTACT THE RECEPTIONIST AT (928)5-3231 AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE TO ARRANGE THE ACCOMMODATIONS. FOR TTY, PLEASE DIAL1-1 TO REACH THE ARIZONA RELAY SERVICE AND ASK THE OPERATOR TO CONNECT YOU TO (928)5-3231. THE BOARD MAY VOTE TO HOLD AN EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING LEGAL ADVICE FROM THE BOARD’S ATTORNEY ON ANY MATTER LISTED ON THE AGENDA PURSUANT TO A.R.S. §38-431.03(A)(3). THE ORDER OR DELETION OF ANY ITEM ON THIS AGENDA IS SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION AT THE MEETING.
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I'd like to call this meeting to order. 00:00:00
February 17, 2026. 00:00:02
And this morning I want to. 00:00:06
The Coach of the year. 00:00:10
Chaz Davis. 00:00:13
To lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance and after that? 00:00:15
Our Superintendent of schools will be. 00:00:19
Doing the prayer. Roy Sandoval, if you would all please stand. 00:00:21
I pledge allegiance to the flag. 00:00:27
Of the United States of America. 00:00:29
And this is the Republic for which it stands. 00:00:32
One nation under God. 00:00:35
Indivisible. 00:00:37
Liberty and justice for all. 00:00:39
Please join me in prayer. 00:00:42
Father, we thank you. 00:00:43
We praise you. 00:00:45
For a beautiful morning. 00:00:46
For the rain across our land. 00:00:48
We thank you for freedom. 00:00:50
But we thank you for self determination and the ability to make decisions. 00:00:53
Lord, I look at this room full of people. I thank you for the people that. 00:00:58
Serve their fellow human beings. 00:01:02
People that. 00:01:05
Commit their lives to kids. 00:01:06
People that. 00:01:08
Commit their lives to making things better for. 00:01:09
The fellow citizens around them. 00:01:12
Where we ask for wisdom. 00:01:15
That the decisions that are made. 00:01:17
Would honor the people. 00:01:20
Would honor you. 00:01:23
Pray for wisdom in those decisions because they're always difficult. 00:01:24
Lord, and we ask that you would. 00:01:28
Keep your hand. 00:01:32
On our country. 00:01:34
Keep your hand on our cities and. 00:01:35
Towns and our leaders in our communities and our citizens and our communities. 00:01:37
We asked for safety. 00:01:43
And we asked for the ability expanded ability to. 00:01:44
Love one another. 00:01:48
So we thank you again. 00:01:50
In Jesus name. 00:01:53
Amen. 00:01:54
So without trying to embarrass anyone, I. 00:02:00
Charles Davis is part of the Discoverila. 00:02:05
County that we're doing today at the end. 00:02:08
A very valued member of that team. 00:02:11
And an exceptional coach. 00:02:14
Coach of the Year. 00:02:17
And happened to coach the. 00:02:18
Basketball. 00:02:20
In Payson, of which Melissa's daughter is on and is doing exceptionally well, were. 00:02:22
On a journey to state finals. 00:02:29
Right now, tomorrow going up to page so. 00:02:31
Thank you for coming. 00:02:35
Let's start off with the. 00:02:38
Something special. 2A is recognition. 00:02:40
Presentation to recognize the Gila County employees who have been employed for five. 00:02:44
1015. 00:02:49
20. 00:02:52
25. 00:02:53
30 and. 00:02:54
40 years. 00:02:55
In Gila County. 00:02:57
As of 20. 00:02:59
25. 00:03:00
So I'll turn it over to. 00:03:02
To you, you're going to take over and. 00:03:04
Do the presentations. Thank you all for coming. 00:03:08
Thank you. Good morning, Chairman and members of the Board. 00:03:11
Like you said, today, we're going to be recognizing Healy County employees who have reached their anniversary date. 00:03:14
Within 2025 for. 00:03:19
Five years 10 years 15. 00:03:20
202530 and 40 years. 00:03:22
Whenever I call your name, if you guys will please come up. 00:03:25
The front We have your award. 00:03:28
And then after the presentation, we will take a brief. 00:03:31
Break to take a group photo. 00:03:34
There's also snacks and refreshments. 00:03:36
In the hallway, so please help yourselves. 00:03:38
And we also ask that you guys hold your applause until the presentation is complete. 00:03:41
So you guys mind? 00:03:45
Yeah. 00:03:47
Yeah, you guys want to? 00:03:58
Right here. 00:03:59
OK. 00:04:06
OK. And we will be doing both globe and casement at the same time? 00:04:09
So we're going to start with five years for five years. 00:04:15
We have Carrie Bartling with Computer Services. 00:04:17
We have Phil Gutierrez with Administrative Services. 00:04:23
Chance Creasy with the Sheriff's Office. 00:04:30
We have Tina Cummings with Public Health and Community Services. 00:04:37
Erica Desera. 00:04:44
With Public works. 00:04:45
Nicholas Franco with the Sheriff's Office. 00:04:50
Chanel Garcia with the Clerk of the Superior Court. 00:04:55
Tiffany Gough with Public health and Community Services. 00:05:01
Congratulations. 00:05:14
Joseph Gonzalez with Facilities and Land Management. 00:05:16
Darrell Griffin, Computer Services. 00:05:26
Richard Hounshell, Public Works. 00:05:31
Salsa Cosmonovic Sheriff's Office. 00:05:38
Stephen Montgomery, Payson Constable. 00:05:44
Travis Moore, Public Works. 00:05:51
Justin Quiz. 00:06:00
Emergency services. 00:06:02
Jamie Roberts, Public Works. 00:06:07
Oh, Jenny, I think. 00:06:19
Actually have yours in pieces. 00:06:22
OK, Yeah. 00:06:24
I'll make sure that I get it too. 00:06:27
OK, Evan Smith. 00:06:28
Public health and community services. 00:06:31
Lori White, Sheriff's Office. 00:06:40
Tori Wright. 00:06:52
Public health and community services. 00:06:53
All right. And next we'll move on to 10 years. 00:06:59
1st we have Raymond Armington with Public Works. 00:07:02
Jonathan Berra, Superior Court. 00:07:08
Marilyn Branson, Clerk of Superior Court. 00:07:14
Ruth Burke, Clerk of Superior Court. 00:07:20
Shani, Kathi. 00:07:27
Public health and community services. 00:07:29
Robert Deck. 00:07:38
Probation. 00:07:39
Stephanie Hunsaker, Sheriff's Office. 00:07:44
Ruben Moncha, Globe Constable. 00:07:49
Ruben Mays, Sheriff's Office. 00:08:00
Brett McDaniel, Sheriff's Office. 00:08:06
Jessica Moore. 00:08:13
Public health and community services. 00:08:14
Griselda Reese. 00:08:20
Globe, Justice Court. 00:08:21
Yolanda Sturgeon. 00:08:25
Superior. 00:08:26
Micah Wheeler. 00:08:36
Assessor's Office. 00:08:37
Timothy Wright, Superior Court. 00:08:48
All right, that concludes 10 years. Up next, we have 15 years. 00:08:54
At first we have Zachary Andrade, Public Works. 00:08:58
We have Charlotte with the Board of Supervisors. 00:09:03
We have John Desira with Facilities and Land Management. 00:09:14
Danielle Tomberlin with the county attorney's office. 00:09:20
And Lisa Wilkins with Community Services. 00:09:26
Up next, we have 20 years. 00:09:32
Our first employee is Jay Boyer with probation. 00:09:35
Deborah Bradway with Community Development. 00:09:41
Anna Cruz, Sheriff's Office. 00:09:49
Adrian Mata. 00:09:54
Public works. 00:09:55
Stephanie Perez. 00:10:05
Clerk of Superior Court. 00:10:06
Tiffany Tarango, Treasurer's Office. 00:10:11
Cheryl Wellington, Assessor's Office. 00:10:23
Steven Williams, Public Works. 00:10:30
Up next, we have 25 years. 00:10:37
For our first employee, we have Fred Levine. 00:10:39
With Public works. 00:10:41
There you go. 00:10:44
All right, Thank you. We have Lisa Lodgman with Computer Services. 00:10:54
Maria Ortega with the county Attorney's office. 00:11:04
Next, we have our 30 years. 00:11:20
For our first employee, we have Karen Boltz. 00:11:22
With the Sheriff's Office. 00:11:24
Sherry Grice with the Board of Supervisors. 00:11:29
We have David Rogers, this is. 00:11:40
Computer services. 00:11:41
Anna Sanchez, Public Works. 00:11:51
Karen Yanez. 00:11:57
County Attorney's Office. 00:11:58
And for 40 years, we have Bertina Pratt. 00:12:13
With facilities and Land Management. 00:12:15
Unfortunately, she wasn't able to be here today. 00:12:19
Make sure that she gets her. 00:12:21
Yeah. Thank you guys so much. I appreciate it. 00:12:23
Congratulations everyone. 00:12:28
And now, yeah. 00:12:32
Yeah. If you guys don't mind, we'll go ahead and step outside and. 00:12:34
Take a group photo. 00:12:36
OK. 00:12:39
OK. 00:12:41
We're back. 00:12:43
Now Payson wants to. 00:12:45
Up there, Rick. 00:12:48
Rick is wanting to do a presentation. 00:12:49
For those that are in Payson or say a few words or something. 00:12:52
I will turn it over to him. 00:12:56
Thank you. Never mind. 00:13:00
Thank you very much. Can you hear me OK? 00:13:03
Yeah, you're good. 00:13:14
Thank you. We have five year, 10 year, 20 year and 125 year working. 00:13:18
That you're not. 00:13:23
I. 00:13:26
Employees a lot. 00:13:27
He received the awards and to stand behind. 00:13:29
In Canada, the 100. 00:13:32
What we're doing different? 00:13:37
We weren't able to do well, so I don't know if. 00:13:40
It was explained of young without certificates to go along with. 00:13:42
Key chains. 00:13:46
Bing getting typed up. 00:13:48
Uh, copybeat, uh, and uh. 00:13:51
A plot that we're getting out here. 00:13:58
We're also doing a certificate of appreciation for. 00:14:00
Employees apply you. 00:14:03
Your tenure in 1520. 00:14:05
25 and 30 that have been signed by. 00:14:08
Germany, Christianson. 00:14:11
County Manager Jason. 00:14:15
So this will go along just to. 00:14:17
For people to put on a wall, et cetera. 00:14:21
This is children who recognize and appreciate people service so. 00:14:23
I will get started. 00:14:28
1st, we got the five year warranty we have. 00:14:30
And again, the word. 00:14:34
Ceremony Court. 00:14:35
We have just precisely. 00:14:37
She's here. He is not here. 00:14:39
We have Gerald. 00:14:46
My understanding is not here today. 00:14:50
OK. 00:14:52
Richardson. 00:14:59
Roger, we want to make sure I understand was there earlier. 00:15:10
And. 00:15:16
Do that zoom. 00:15:17
Steve Montgomery. 00:15:22
Jamie Lawford. 00:15:31
With also involved. 00:15:35
Remind me, Paul, Ultimate. 00:15:42
However, there is. 00:15:44
There are wars, or some here and some there. 00:15:45
And now we go to the. 00:15:55
In your words. 00:15:59
And 1st we got. 00:16:02
Ray Longington this year. 00:16:03
Father's Day. 00:16:23
Not here. 00:16:25
Timothy Wright. 00:16:32
So his. 00:16:36
Hollywood State. 00:16:38
Ever Broadway. 00:16:41
And thank you again for your service. 00:16:44
I'm sorry I spent your 20. 00:16:52
Here we go. 00:16:55
Thank you. 00:16:58
And also. 00:16:59
20 years we have. 00:17:01
Cheryl Wellington. 00:17:02
And our one and only. 00:17:13
25 year. 00:17:15
Your invasion is worth. He's a model. 00:17:16
And your name. 00:17:29
OK. 00:17:32
Let's see why you're less than me. 00:17:35
I apologize, Lucas. 00:17:39
Miss Unsafe. 00:17:41
For her ten years, right? 00:17:43
My new certificate here. 00:17:48
Must have gotten one step together. 00:17:54
That includes. 00:18:14
Thank you. Thank you, Rick. 00:18:16
Into Facebook. 00:18:19
She scared it all right. 00:18:22
Rick, I would make a suggestion. You know you added the certificates this year. 00:18:25
Let's add some sympathy cards. 00:18:30
For those that serve 10 years or more. 00:18:33
Next time. 00:18:36
Just a thought. 00:18:38
Picture behind. 00:18:42
Yeah. 00:18:45
Get that done briefly. 00:18:47
OK. All right. 00:18:48
I think we're done. 00:18:52
All right. Very good. I appreciate that and it's always nice to recognize. 00:18:54
Longevity and commitment. 00:18:59
To our employees so. 00:19:02
If there's nothing else, we're going to move on to Item 3. 00:19:03
A which is the public hearing. 00:19:06
Information discussion. Action to adopt ordinance #2026-01. 00:19:08
It's amending Ord. 00:19:12
Number 202506 to revise. 00:19:14
The wording of petition 2 to read not more than 5. 00:19:18
Four acre. 00:19:22
Custom home. 00:19:22
Sites, yeah. 00:19:23
If they're muted and there's nobody in there, is there any public up there that wants to listen or chime into this? 00:19:26
Oh, I see. Yeah. I mean, I don't know, they might be able to hear, but it looks like that's a good vacated for a picture and if 00:19:31
there's people up there for this item. 00:19:36
I would I would like thank you for pointing that out. 00:19:40
Looks like we're coming back. 00:19:43
Hi, Lisa. Are we ready to go again? 00:19:47
Yes, Sir, we are OK. Thank you. Item 3A is information and discussion. 00:19:52
And action public hearing to adopt ordinance. 00:19:58
2026-01. 00:20:01
It's going to amend an Ordinance 2025-06. 00:20:03
To revise the wording. 00:20:06
Of condition #2. 00:20:09
To read not more than 5 four acre custom home. 00:20:11
Sites, Randy, what are we looking at? 00:20:13
So remember in December we came to you and we have a site across from that brewery. 00:20:15
Where's 20 acres there? And we said it was 54 acre houses. That's what the. 00:20:21
Applicant had put. 00:20:26
Right before the. 00:20:28
Timeline for them to expire. 00:20:30
They wanted to change the wording. 00:20:33
To say not more than five 400 houses. 00:20:35
There may be 1. 00:20:38
And they didn't want to. 00:20:40
Have anything screwed up so we're just changing the wording? 00:20:42
They got their application in Joe in time. 00:20:45
They've met all the requirements. It's changing nothing about the zoning. 00:20:48
It's just not requiring that there be 5 houses is just saying there can be up to 54 acre house. 00:20:52
So that's the only difference. 00:20:58
But we wanted to come. 00:21:00
Forward and make sure. 00:21:02
Everyone knew what was going on, so there was no. 00:21:03
No concerns in the future. 00:21:07
Then I'll answer any questions. OK. Thank you, supervisor. 00:21:10
Yeah, I. 00:21:13
OK, so so we have. 00:21:14
How many acres is there? 00:21:18
So it's 20 acres, 20 acres. 00:21:19
And they originally had five, four acre houses. 00:21:21
To to meet that, now they're saying not more. 00:21:25
Than 5 four acre houses it could be 1. 00:21:29
The 20 acre house. 00:21:32
OK, so. 00:21:33
OK now, now that I understand that better. 00:21:35
So is that? 00:21:38
I noticed that. 00:21:40
That we've had problems with people buying acres and split it. 00:21:41
And then split it and then split it and then split it. So 5 acres. 00:21:44
So will this prevent that from being? 00:21:48
Flint yes, they have a deed restriction in there that says they cannot split it and it can't be more than 5 four acre. 00:21:52
OK, good. Yeah, I would just, I would just be insured because we've got a lot of deals where properties sold at 20 acres and then 00:22:00
it's broke down and then it's sold and broke down and sold and broke down. 00:22:04
Anyway, I just wanted to be. 00:22:09
Clear on that and I think that's a good. 00:22:11
Decision off the get go. 00:22:13
Because we've had a lot of issues with those problems. 00:22:14
Thank you, Randy. 00:22:17
You supervisor client. 00:22:18
I'm good, Randy. Thank you. 00:22:20
Yes, Sir. And I'm familiar with it as well, so I'm fine with it. I'll call for a motion, no. 00:22:21
I will open it up to the public hearing. 00:22:26
Is there anyone in Payson that wishes? 00:22:29
Speak on this issue. 00:22:31
OK. Thank you, Cassandra. No one on the Internet. And is there anyone? 00:22:37
Here in globe that wishes to speak on. 00:22:41
This item. 00:22:44
No. OK. Then I'll close the public hearing and I will call for a motion. 00:22:46
Umm, Mr. Chair, I moved to adopt ordinance number. 00:22:54
2026-01 as presented. 00:22:57
I'll second that motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye. 00:23:00
Aye, aye. 00:23:06
Thank you, Randy. 00:23:06
Item 4. Regular agenda items 4A is information discussion action to approve an economic development agreement number. 00:23:09
20260181. 00:23:17
Between Gila County and American Legion. 00:23:20
Post 147 incorporated in the amount of. 00:23:22
$2500. 00:23:25
To purchase flags that will be used in display throughout Hulu County. 00:23:27
Which the board? 00:23:31
Determined to be for the benefit of the public. This is my item, its constituent. 00:23:32
Funds the post 147 does a lot of this activity and I'm just helping them to purchase. 00:23:36
Flags as needed. 00:23:43
And is. 00:23:45
Chuck there or Mike? 00:23:47
Jim Holtz. 00:23:50
Wish to come up and just say a few words. 00:23:51
Chuck Marnick. 00:23:58
Good morning. 00:23:59
Member of the American Legion. 00:24:03
Plus 147. 00:24:05
And I would be great. We're requesting assistance to fund our. 00:24:06
Three flights in the afternoon, north-south. 00:24:12
East End of town. 00:24:15
That just cost us last year 4800 dollars. 00:24:18
I actually include. 00:24:21
The crane operator. 00:24:23
That we had South end of town. 00:24:26
Each of the lines for getting. 00:24:29
Were up by the wind and weather. 00:24:31
And we were asking for assistance. 00:24:34
And we also. 00:24:38
Provide our own staff. 00:24:39
At a cost of 0 to the. 00:24:43
And we? 00:24:45
Raise and lower the. 00:24:48
According to the governor and federal candidate. 00:24:51
They also provide fungal residents. 00:24:54
We might buy fiber replacements when we can. 00:24:57
So I thank you for. 00:25:00
Receive a full top. Is there anything you need to do to help us out? 00:25:02
Thank you, Chuck. Supervisor Humphrey, I have no questions. Thank you. 00:25:06
Supervisor Klein. 00:25:10
No, I'm good. Thank you. Thank you for doing this. OK, you're welcome. So I have no questions. I will. 00:25:11
Open it up then for a motion. 00:25:17
Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve Economic Development Agreement number 2026. 00:25:20
0181. 00:25:26
Mr. Devereux. 00:25:27
Second OH. 00:25:28
Hang on, I got a little bit. 00:25:30
Between Wheeler County American Legion. 00:25:32
Patient post #147 incorporated. 00:25:34
As presented, in which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. 00:25:37
I'll second that too. 00:25:41
Thank you, I appreciate your anxious. 00:25:43
We have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye aye. 00:25:46
Thank you, Chuck. 00:25:51
All right, see you. 00:25:54
OK. Item 4B is information discussion action to approve economic. 00:25:56
Development agreement number. 00:26:00
2026-0189. 00:26:02
Between Gila County and Tonal Room Search and Rescue in the amount of 2500. 00:26:06
On which the Board is determined to be for the benefit of. 00:26:11
Public once again, this is. 00:26:13
My item and the request for funding was to. 00:26:17
Purchased some tables and things that they need. 00:26:21
For their. 00:26:24
Operations. 00:26:24
ETC. Uh. 00:26:26
Is is Bill? 00:26:27
Or a representative from. 00:26:29
On a rim there. 00:26:32
Come on up. 00:26:36
Good morning. 00:26:40
Rescue my heart. 00:26:43
22 years now. 00:26:50
We've been trying to get a building. 00:26:52
Utility patient area. 00:26:54
Relocate. 00:26:56
Which is scanner combined to. 00:27:01
Top racing and various other places. 00:27:05
Located. 00:27:08
That's great, managing funds to get that building started. 00:27:10
And this is one piece. 00:27:14
Great wing setting, repeating room. 00:27:17
Appreciate your consideration for that. 00:27:21
OK. Thank you, Bill. That's Bill Peterlee. 00:27:24
And Supervisor Humphrey, any questions? 00:27:27
I have no questions. 00:27:30
Supervisor Klein. 00:27:32
I'm good. 00:27:33
All right, we're good to go. I'll call for motion. 00:27:34
Mr. Chair, I move to approve economic development. 00:27:37
Agreement #2026-0189 between Gila County. 00:27:40
And tonal rim. 00:27:45
Search and Rescue incorporated as presented, in which the Board is determined to be. 00:27:47
For the benefit of the public. 00:27:52
And I'll second that, Mr. Chair. OK, we do have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye. 00:27:53
Aye, aye. Thank you, Bill. 00:28:00
Thank you. Thanks for coming. 00:28:03
Item 4C. Information discussion Action to approve economic development agreement number 2026 DASH. 00:28:05
0192. 00:28:11
And that is between Hewlett County and the Brownsville Western Heritage Incorporated in the amount of. 00:28:13
$20,000 to support the educational efforts to save. 00:28:18
Western heritage for youth and adults. 00:28:22
In Hula County, which the board is determined to be. 00:28:24
For the benefit. 00:28:27
Of the public, Mr. Humphrey. 00:28:28
Yeah, this is a. 00:28:30
This is a great event that they put out there every year. 00:28:31
If you'd like to come up before I go on further. 00:28:35
Please do. 00:28:38
Come on up and. 00:28:40
Do your presentation. 00:28:41
Please my name is Billy Menifee and I'm one of the funding coordinators for Brownsville Western Heritage. 00:28:43
And Kathy Manning and I am also the funding coordinator. 00:28:49
And we also are teachers. 00:28:53
And so we have been instructing this year. 00:28:55
Our last classes are next week, but this year. 00:28:58
We have over 300 students. 00:29:01
Which equates to 1200 student hours. 00:29:04
That we've already accomplished. 00:29:07
52 classes. 00:29:10
In Gila County. 00:29:11
4th graders. 00:29:13
Lots of fun. 00:29:14
Lots of energy. 00:29:16
But this is a. 00:29:17
A project that's near and dear to my heart. I knew. 00:29:19
To Arizona in the last 15 years. 00:29:22
I'm not born and raised here. 00:29:25
But I have been involved with the agriculture education for at least the last five years. 00:29:27
And I love it. 00:29:32
So we do have a short presentation for you. 00:29:34
If you'd like to click through it and if you have any questions, I'll answer the questions after. 00:29:37
We started in 2009. 00:29:43
Again, we do about. 00:29:45
30 or 300 students on an annual basis. 00:29:47
It's schools only in Tunnel or in the Healy County area. 00:29:51
We have an annual. 00:29:56
AG education that's located at the Brownsville farm. 00:30:00
Their arena where all the kids that attend the 4th grade and 5th grade. 00:30:04
And some of the homeschoolers come and spend. 00:30:09
A day with us. 00:30:12
Where we do all kinds of activities from branding. 00:30:13
To writing. 00:30:17
Stick horses to roping. 00:30:18
Feeding the animals in that. 00:30:22
In the. 00:30:23
Heading through? 00:30:25
Looking at the wonderful museums that we have available for them to see. 00:30:26
I know. 00:30:31
Supervisor Humphries has come on an annual basis. 00:30:33
Even attended when we had our Navy SEAL. 00:30:36
Come in and do a presentation for us on the importance of branching. 00:30:38
We get help from the Payson High School. 00:30:45
They put together our. 00:30:48
Wood blocks that the kids. 00:30:50
Brand we also get help. 00:30:53
From Plant Fairy Nursery Who does the seed balls? 00:30:55
The University of Arizona. 00:31:00
Of their 4H ext helps us. 00:31:02
Do this, but it is a team effort. 00:31:04
And this last year, which I'm not sure. 00:31:07
That all the supervisors are aware or the community, but we did lose our funding. 00:31:09
Through NRCD and that's why we're coming to you. 00:31:14
Today to ask for funding. 00:31:17
We've already put forth the hours. 00:31:19
To put this classroom instruction on. 00:31:21
And basically at this point in time. 00:31:24
We are. 00:31:27
Unpaid supervisors or unpaid teachers? 00:31:28
It is something that's very wonderful and we're willing to do it. 00:31:31
But it would be helpful to. 00:31:36
Get some financial support to put this project on. 00:31:38
OK, we actually have. 00:31:42
We teach a dairy class. 00:31:45
A mining class. 00:31:48
A cotton class. 00:31:50
Citrus and branching and this year our ranching class is actually going to be. 00:31:54
In conjunction with act days instead of. 00:32:00
Bringing it to the classrooms. 00:32:04
Seems like a. 00:32:07
More appropriate spot. 00:32:08
Teach about ranching. 00:32:10
And we have it. 00:32:12
Gotten 4H kids. 00:32:13
That are willing to do. 00:32:15
The ranching element of it at the arena. 00:32:17
And they will be getting graded. 00:32:20
With their four. 00:32:22
Criteria. 00:32:25
So they'll be getting credit for that. 00:32:26
In addition to that. 00:32:28
They will also be beginning their hours of community service work. 00:32:30
So we're working. 00:32:35
Tightly with those young people to get their community service hours. 00:32:36
In addition to helping us. 00:32:40
Let the community know about how important ranching is. 00:32:42
OK. And are Agnes cost approximately $10,000 over the two day period including labor, chaperones, volunteers? 00:32:47
The T-shirts that each participant receives. 00:32:56
And supplies. 00:32:59
And then each class costs approximately $2000. 00:33:00
And so we just want to. 00:33:08
Thank you for your continued. 00:33:10
Court you have been. 00:33:12
Recording Brownsville Western Heritage in the past for several years. 00:33:14
And your contribution will definitely ensure that we can continue these programs in Healing County. 00:33:19
And with that we just have a few of like a one minute video that just shows some of the pictures. 00:33:27
Of the kids arriving and the actual events happening. 00:33:34
And again on the back of the T-shirt. 00:33:38
The Gila County Supervisor has been on the back of the T-shirt. 00:33:41
The banner is hanging proudly at Brownsville Western Heritage. 00:33:45
And we have lots of volunteers that help. 00:33:52
And very few. 00:33:55
Staff, people and Kathy and I got thrown into this this year to be in charge of it and we're. 00:33:58
Out there. 00:34:03
Beat in the bushes. 00:34:05
So if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer any questions. 00:34:08
Thank you. 00:34:13
Yes, beautiful presentation. Thanks for. 00:34:15
Coming, Supervisor Humphrey. Yeah, I. 00:34:17
I have no questions because I've been there. 00:34:20
And will continue. 00:34:22
As I can. 00:34:24
But to see the looks on the kids faces and even the Navy Seals faces. 00:34:25
To open that world. 00:34:30
To them, it's amazing. 00:34:31
And so yeah, I don't have a problem at all in helping you as long as I'm a supervisor when we. 00:34:33
All that says, yeah, if that's what you need, I'll help you. 00:34:39
But I think that. 00:34:43
The other supervisors would like to help as well. 00:34:44
And so we did. 00:34:47
Split this 20,000. 00:34:48
To help you. 00:34:51
But if? 00:34:52
In my opinion, if. 00:34:54
If you keep losing funding. 00:34:55
This is something that's very important. 00:34:58
To the youth and. 00:35:00
In my opinion, and I wish it was going on. 00:35:01
In more places than he. 00:35:04
So thank you. Thank you very much. We will. We will make you proud. 00:35:06
Thank you. Supervisor Klein, do you have anything? 00:35:10
No, just just ladies. What a. 00:35:13
Terrific deal. This has been going on now for quite a while. 00:35:15
It's, you know, 15 years, Yeah, I'm sad to see in our CD didn't come through with the money for it this year, but. 00:35:18
But whatever we can do to help, absolutely, it's been a huge plus, a big programming. 00:35:25
And you guys are doing? 00:35:30
A remarkable job, so thank you. 00:35:32
Thank you very much. And when just last final thing. 00:35:34
Last year we were able to get in. 00:35:37
To the Otano Apache Tribe. 00:35:39
School and we are going to go back again this year and so we are. 00:35:42
Looking at them for support you because the kids really enjoyed it. 00:35:46
And they'll be coming out for four days. So we have that on Monday and Tuesday of next week. But that's a new school that we've 00:35:51
added and. 00:35:54
Willing to add new schools? 00:35:57
So if you hear. 00:35:59
You know, private schools. 00:36:00
Charter schools or whatever, reach out to us because we'd love to. 00:36:03
Go in and get in. Get more. 00:36:06
Get more busy. You're gonna need more teachers. 00:36:08
Yeah. Thank you so much because. 00:36:12
Without what you're doing. 00:36:15
These lessons are not taught. 00:36:17
And understood so. 00:36:19
Very good. I appreciate the presentation very much. So with that, I will call for a motion. 00:36:21
Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve economic development agreement number. 00:36:27
20260192. 00:36:32
Between Gila County and Brownsville Western Heritage Incorporated. 00:36:35
As presented, in which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. 00:36:39
I'll second that. 00:36:45
We have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye aye. 00:36:47
Aye, aye. Thank you, thank you. Thank you ladies, for coming. 00:36:50
Come out on the 22nd or 23rd of April. 00:36:55
OK. Thank you for the invite. 00:37:00
Thank you. 00:37:02
Item 4D Information discussion. Action to approve economic development agreement. 00:37:04
2026-0199 between Hulu County and Aidan Winkleman. 00:37:09
School district #41 in the amount of $1500. 00:37:15
It will support the school's scholarship program for graduating seniors. 00:37:20
Which the board is determined to be for the benefit of the public. 00:37:24
Supervisor Klein. 00:37:27
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I've been. 00:37:29
Supporting this now for a while, it's a really good. 00:37:32
Opportunity to help those kids down there. 00:37:35
Go on and. 00:37:37
And it's been a big plus, so. 00:37:38
I like to keep going on it and this is out of my constituent fund. 00:37:41
As well. 00:37:44
Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. 00:37:45
I have no questions. 00:37:47
I have no questions. Thanks for doing it. 00:37:48
With that, I'll call for a motion. 00:37:51
Mr. Chair, I moved to approve Economic Development Agreement number 2026 DASH. 00:37:53
0199 between Healy County and Hayden Winkelman. 00:37:58
USD numbers. 00:38:02
41 as presented. 00:38:03
And which the borders? 00:38:06
Determined to be for the benefit of the. 00:38:07
Mr. Chair, I'll second that. 00:38:09
Motion in a second to approve. Those in favor say aye aye. 00:38:11
Very good, another one for you. 00:38:15
4 E Information, discussion action. 00:38:17
To improve economic development agreement #2026-0202. 00:38:20
Between Healer County and the Young Public School in the amount of $1000. 00:38:25
To support the installation of a patriotic display on school grounds. 00:38:29
Which the board has determined to be for the benefit. 00:38:34
Of the public. 00:38:37
Mr. Klein. 00:38:38
Thank you, Mr. Chair. This too is. 00:38:39
Something to help them with their flag and pole and everything right there on the school grounds. 00:38:42
And do some work on that, some renovation, so. 00:38:46
OK. And there again, it's coming out of my constituent fund. 00:38:49
Thank you for doing that. 00:38:53
Supervisor Humphrey. 00:38:56
I have no questions. 00:38:58
I have no questions either. I'll call for a motion. 00:38:59
Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve economic development agreement number. 00:39:01
20260202. 00:39:06
Between Hillett County and Young Public School. 00:39:09
As presented, in which the Board has determined to be for the benefit of the public. 00:39:11
Mr. Chair, I'll second that. 00:39:15
Emotion and a second to approve those in favor say aye. 00:39:16
I thank you. 00:39:20
I think that's the most economic development stuff we've done on one agenda. 00:39:22
Although item 4F is information discussion action to approve amendment #1. 00:39:26
To Professional services contract number 061225 Legal services, felony criminal juvenile delinquency. 00:39:32
And mental health? 00:39:40
With the Crawshaw. 00:39:41
Russia Law in firm PLLC. 00:39:44
Increasing not to exceed compensation amount in the current contract. 00:39:48
To 116,000. 00:39:53
Dollars and Mr. 00:39:56
Husk is going to present that. 00:39:58
Go ahead. 00:40:10
Thank you. 00:40:15
Apologize, uh. 00:40:17
Turn 2 riders. 00:40:19
Thank you again. As you're aware, I also received services. 00:40:21
This crawshaw is one of our. 00:40:27
Contact you as counsel. 00:40:29
Our contracts with Defense Council provided they also assist with. 00:40:32
You know how? 00:40:36
And other. 00:40:41
When they go to trial, they get compensated for that. 00:40:42
These projected expenses. 00:41:03
Will exceed the base value. 00:41:05
Originally intended. 00:41:07
Before his contract. 00:41:09
And would ask the word to approve. 00:41:11
This modification. 00:41:13
To allow him. 00:41:15
Continue to do the work he does on the half of Indian clients. 00:41:16
Which is a great service. 00:41:20
President's Account. 00:41:22
Thank you, Mr. Husk, Supervisor Humphrey. 00:41:24
I have no questions. 00:41:27
Thank you, Supervisor Klein. 00:41:28
So some of this I don't, I guess I don't understand. And so Jessica and Joy. 00:41:31
Indigent services and stuff like that. Did the county attorney's office provide any? 00:41:35
Assistance there or? 00:41:39
Or this is. 00:41:41
Chairman supervisors know the county Attorney's office. 00:41:44
We're in charge of the prosecution, so the defense. 00:41:47
Used to be part of the courts, but. 00:41:51
A couple years ago. 00:41:54
They switched it over to indigent services where the courts is not. 00:41:55
Managing it. 00:41:58
Indigent services management is handling it. 00:42:00
So it has nothing to do with this. 00:42:03
County Attorney's Office. 00:42:05
Just that. 00:42:06
Our prosecutors and. 00:42:07
Ourselves, we work with those defense attorneys. 00:42:09
My name's Jessam. 00:42:12
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Roger Clyde, I would just add that the reason that was split the Superior Court was managing. 00:42:16
Indigent defense contracts. 00:42:21
Felt there was a conflict of interest. 00:42:23
In being the neutral party. 00:42:25
As the judge. 00:42:27
And then administering indigent defense contracts. 00:42:29
So we broke that out. 00:42:31
And now it's a separate. 00:42:33
Departments suffer division. 00:42:35
That, as Mr. Haas stated. 00:42:37
He manages we've. 00:42:40
Gotten a couple of. 00:42:42
Attorneys in to manage that and have not been successful in. 00:42:44
Keeping that staff long term. So thank you Mr. Husk for. 00:42:47
Managing that critical part of our. 00:42:51
Justice system. 00:42:53
Thank you, James. 00:42:55
Thank you, Rick. 00:42:56
Thank you. I have no questions, so I'll call for a motion. 00:42:58
I guess that opened a question for me. 00:43:01
So so Rick with you taking on. 00:43:04
This. 00:43:06
As overseeing this. 00:43:09
As well as being an HR director. 00:43:12
Is is this a position that is? 00:43:15
Hosted to. 00:43:17
At some point, take the burden off of you. 00:43:19
Or is this something that? 00:43:23
You're going to be compensated for and just continue doing. 00:43:25
It seems like a. 00:43:28
Pretty heavy heavy caseload. 00:43:30
Dealing with this and HR as well. 00:43:31
I'm sorry, Chairman, Supervisors. 00:43:34
Can't go there. That issue is not on the agenda. Can't talk about that today. However, we can have a future. 00:43:36
Question on that if you'd like to discuss it. OK. I would like to have a work session. Rick, I didn't say anything. 00:43:41
OK. 00:43:53
There's nothing else and I will call for a motion. 00:43:54
I move to approve amendment #1 to professional services contract number 061225 Legal Services. 00:43:56
Felony criminal A. 00:44:04
Juvenile Delinquency. 00:44:05
And mental health? 00:44:07
With Crusher Law Firm. 00:44:09
PLLC as presented. 00:44:11
And I'll second that, Mr. Chair. 00:44:14
All right, we have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye, aye. 00:44:16
Thank you. 00:44:21
And we have item 4G now. 00:44:23
Information Discussion. Action to approve funding agreement. 00:44:27
Number 20426 between the Arizona Department of Housing and Hewitt County Community Services Division. 00:44:30
Housing Services. 00:44:37
To provide. 00:44:39
Southwest Gas Corporation, Arizona Public Service. 00:44:40
Weatherization assistance program. 00:44:43
Funding in the amount of 2000. 00:44:45
266,000. 00:44:47
$490.00 for the period of January 1. 00:44:50
2026 to December 31. 00:44:53
2026 Good morning, Mr. Beck. 00:44:56
Morning, Chairman, Supervisors, So. 00:44:59
As it says, one of the easiest ways for APS in Southwest Gas to pass through the utility assistance funds to us is. 00:45:01
Comes through the Arizona Department of Housing. 00:45:08
We also receive money from the state and feds for utility assistance as well. So that's why we kind of present this same item 00:45:10
multiple times. So again, this ones just it's that funding from those that come over to. 00:45:16
Arizona apartment housing comes to us and this is straight utility assistance. 00:45:22
OK. Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. 00:45:27
Oh, great. Thank you. 00:45:29
Supervisor Klein. 00:45:32
Josh, you know, we keep, we keep seeing dollars coming through for weatherization and and whatnot and I and you know, from other 00:45:34
places, but. 00:45:38
How many? 00:45:43
How much money do we actually have in that? 00:45:44
Fought for weatherization and. 00:45:46
Weatherization over the last three or four years since I've either been involved with or been managing resources is usually around 00:45:49
850,000 a year that we put into weatherization. 00:45:55
Utility assistance each year. 00:46:00
Around 404 hundred 50,000 a little higher during COVID, it's been slowly coming down, but. 00:46:03
About 1/2 mil. 00:46:09
OK. Thank you. 00:46:10
Thank you, Josh. 00:46:12
With that, our core promotion. 00:46:14
Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve funding agreement #204-2. 00:46:15
Between the Arizona Department of Housing and the Healing County Community Services Division. 00:46:20
Housing Services as presented. 00:46:26
I'll second that. 00:46:28
Motion and a second to approve those in favor. Sarah Aye. 00:46:29
A but one more for you for H information, discussion, action to improve. 00:46:33
Memorandums of understanding between Gila County. 00:46:39
Public health and community services in Miami. 00:46:42
Unified School District. 00:46:45
The Pine Elementary. 00:46:46
School district and the Hayden. 00:46:48
Winkleman Unified School District whereby. 00:46:49
Gila County will provide. 00:46:52
$40,000 to each district. 00:46:54
To support activities that improve. 00:46:57
Pedestrian. 00:46:59
And bicycle safety. 00:47:00
And promote safe. 00:47:02
Travel to and from school. 00:47:03
From the date of signature through. 00:47:05
September 30th, 2026. 00:47:08
What is this? 00:47:10
Chairman, Supervisor. So. 00:47:11
In early January, the board approved the Safe Routes to School project. 00:47:13
Within that project was for us to select three schools. 00:47:18
And work with them to do a safe routes project. 00:47:21
Just because the schools are here just to do a quick recap. 00:47:24
So usually what these projects are is. 00:47:28
Sometimes it's just as simple as we know. 00:47:30
Schools are often underfunded, so sometimes it's as simple as those metal signs with the wheels that the schools can lay down and 00:47:32
stand up. 00:47:36
During the days to show slow traffic on roads. 00:47:39
Additional cones for the schools. Usually we have like a. 00:47:42
A small event that each school will have when this goes through, we'll make sure that the all the kids that have to go to school 00:47:45
early in the morning would ever have the backpack flashlights if they need flags for bikes. 00:47:51
If we need additional, if we need our consultants that we hired to work with the schools to do. 00:47:56
Additional like volunteer hours from parents to set out a busy intersections. 00:48:01
It's just kind of a day to get all of that together. 00:48:05
And to make sure the schools have what they need, to make sure that all the kids are getting the school safely. 00:48:08
Again, we're doing this with our Safe Streets initiative that gives us a chance even more to look at are there any places that 00:48:13
there have been accidents. 00:48:16
Or the kids don't feel safe. So kind of one big chance to do this. 00:48:20
Of biggest reason I wanted to reach out this morning. It's a really good way to get some of the money back into the school's 00:48:23
hands. 00:48:26
It's pretty easy project for them. Hopefully they'll be able to accomplish some other things with this funding so. 00:48:29
At each one, supervisors wouldn't mind. We have. 00:48:34
I believe Katie asked. Might be up in Payson from Pine Strawberry schools. 00:48:37
Doctor Ramos is here. 00:48:42
And for? 00:48:44
Doctor Greg Rich wasn't able to come down Superintendent from Hayden Winkleman. 00:48:47
But uh. 00:48:51
Roy is going to take care of that for us. So if each one of you would like to come forward. 00:48:52
We have some checks that you guys can hear. 00:48:56
OK, Are we going to vote on this first? 00:49:01
We don't want to give. 00:49:05
I'm not used to giving checks. Let's ask you a couple questions if we so Supervisor Humphrey. 00:49:07
Yeah, I I have no questions. I think it's great for all the programs that you each. 00:49:13
For money for and help Gila County. 00:49:18
In distributing that money in. 00:49:20
In so many ways, from schools to. 00:49:22
To people that need help, elderly to. 00:49:25
Yeah, Thank you very much. Josh, you. 00:49:27
Supervisor client and I were laughing before the meeting that. 00:49:29
But I know we've applied for a lot of grants, sorry James and everyone else that always have to deal with all the work that we 00:49:32
bring to the county, but it's our goal to try to get back as much of that tax money from the federal and state government as we 00:49:36
can. So. 00:49:39
We appreciate it very much. 00:49:44
Supervisor Clean. 00:49:45
Good job, Josh. 00:49:46
Yeah, it's a good, that's a good deal. 00:49:48
So, Josh, this is a. 00:49:49
Correct now, but it only includes 3 districts we have more than that in. 00:49:51
Hula County, correct? So how did we select these and? 00:49:55
We we looked at. 00:49:59
The early Safe Streets data. 00:50:00
And shows the schools that had the most most need. 00:50:03
Like major highways or whatever to get to schools and we wanted one in each one of supervisors district so. 00:50:07
OK, and and I would like to. 00:50:12
Extend an opportunity for. 00:50:15
The different districts to speak if they would like. 00:50:18
So the district in Pine. 00:50:21
Would you would you like to speak? 00:50:24
Hi, my name's Kitty Austin. I'm the Superintendent inside. 00:50:28
Just wanna say that we are grateful. 00:50:31
And looking forward to the opportunities that this will help us with to get students to and from campus. 00:50:33
In a rural area presents some unique challenges. So again, if you've worked for this opportunity, thank you. 00:50:39
Thank you and from Miami. 00:50:44
Thank you so much. I'm Richard Ramos, Superintendent of Miami Unified. 00:50:49
Welcome. Thank you so much. I just wanted to say thank you also. 00:50:53
And one of the things that I've been working towards since coming back to the area. 00:50:57
Is giving the community. 00:51:01
The school. The school district. 00:51:04
Back and so this is going to be that perfect opportunity to work with stakeholders within the community. 00:51:06
To develop those safe routes to school. 00:51:11
So one of the things that I'm look. 00:51:14
Looking forward to is inviting stakeholders to work with us. 00:51:15
In order for us to. 00:51:20
Develop a program. 00:51:22
That works for the community. 00:51:23
So thank you so much for giving us this opportunity. This is going to be really helpful in our endeavors. 00:51:25
Thank you very much. 00:51:31
Superintendent ***** did you want to say anything? 00:51:33
You know, briefly. 00:51:35
Sure, I better meet, because if Doctor Greg Rich was here, he talked for half an hour. 00:51:37
But. 00:51:42
They do so much. 00:51:43
For kids down there right now, they really have a wonder just. 00:51:45
Ton of programs. 00:51:49
Everything from athletics. 00:51:51
To the elementary schools. 00:51:53
To safety like this so I I commend them because for small school. 00:51:55
Whose funding is up and down all the time? It's unsure, isn't it? 00:52:00
They just do a tremendous job so. 00:52:05
Thank you so much for your help. 00:52:08
Thank you very much. With that, I'll call for a motion as Chair I move to approve memorandum. 00:52:09
Of understanding between Gila County public health. 00:52:14
A Community services. 00:52:17
And my identified school. 00:52:18
Fine elementary district. 00:52:21
And Hayden Winkleman Unified School District, as presumed. 00:52:23
Mr. Chair, I'll second that. Very good. A motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye. 00:52:27
Aye, aye, let's take a photo. 00:52:31
What's up? 00:52:43
All righty, we have. 00:53:09
Item 4I. 00:53:11
Information discussion Action to approve Modification 004 to. 00:53:14
The Force Rd. project agreement. 00:53:19
22 R. 00:53:21
011031200. 00:53:24
Dash 184. 00:53:28
With Hila County and. 00:53:30
USDA. 00:53:33
Forest Service Toronto National Forest, which updates. 00:53:35
Administrative contracts and extends the term of the agreement from March 1st, 2026. 00:53:39
To September 30th, 2026. 00:53:45
Good morning. 00:53:48
Yeah. Good morning, Mr. Chairman and Board Member. So this is the ongoing Young Rd. 00:53:49
Environmental assessment we've been working on for some time now. 00:53:54
And we're asking to extend the period from March 1st to September 30th of this year. 00:53:58
It also updates administrative contract contacts from Troy White. 00:54:03
To Christine Smith. 00:54:08
And I'll be happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Supervisor Humphrey. 00:54:10
Umm, I have no questions. 00:54:15
Supervisor, client, you know what my question is going to be all right, Yes, yeah. How come are we extending it? OK, so. 00:54:17
We got a smart, so we got. 00:54:23
To the EA is almost completed. 00:54:25
And then we've got a smart grant from ADOT. 00:54:28
To finish the design. 00:54:30
Over $800,000 SmartGlass. 00:54:32
So ADOT has kind of taken over the project. 00:54:35
Of design and the EA. 00:54:37
The Adot's requirements for an EA are a little bit different than the Forest. 00:54:40
They look like. 00:54:45
Transportation. 00:54:46
Like noise on vehicles in Japan. 00:54:47
Things so now they're they're kind of tied together. Adot's taking. 00:54:49
And the. 00:54:54
The design is going to kick off in March or April. 00:54:56
Take about a year, the EA will then be tied to the 100% design, and then we'll get a final package. 00:54:59
And we'll be ready to go out. 00:55:06
For construction grants to get it all done. 00:55:07
OK. But that that will put us to the 100% mark? 00:55:12
100% Plans, specifications, bid schedule. 00:55:15
Engineers estimate everything EO. 00:55:19
The EA will be done. 00:55:21
And we'll be applying for grants to get it constructed. 00:55:22
OK, so the EA is probably going to be done before the design is finished, huh? 00:55:26
Probably, you know, they will be tied together by a dot at this point, so a dot will be administering. But yeah, I would say the 00:55:30
EA. 00:55:33
Will be done before the 100%. 00:55:36
Thank you. 00:55:38
Yeah. Thanks, Tom. I don't. 00:55:40
Have any questions that answered? 00:55:41
What I was thinking of so. 00:55:43
A motion. 00:55:45
Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve modification number 004. 00:55:46
To Forest Rd. 00:55:51
Project agreement number. 00:55:52
22 R 01103. 00:55:54
1200. 00:55:58
184. 00:56:01
With Hila County and USDA Forest Service Tunnel National Forest as presented. 00:56:02
I'll second that. 00:56:08
We have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye aye. 00:56:10
If one more 4J. 00:56:15
Information discussion. Action to approve modification. 00:56:17
Number 42. Forest Service agreement #22-R. 00:56:20
O-11031200-232. 00:56:24
Mahima County and the USDA. 00:56:29
The Forest Service Internal National Forest changing the performance period. 00:56:33
Extend the expiration date from March 4, 2026 to September 30th. 00:56:36
2026 and adding the paid sick leave. 00:56:41
Clause the fat. 00:56:44
Thank you. So the the page sick leave clause is just. 00:56:47
For contractors that are interested in this. 00:56:51
In this contract, they have to abide by these federal. 00:56:54
Federal guidelines for paid sick leave for their employees. 00:56:57
And again, this is an extension from March 1st to September 30th. 00:57:00
Of this year. 00:57:05
This contract. 00:57:07
So we got 1.5 million from the Forest Service to Pave Control Rd. 00:57:08
That project actually came in under time and under budget. 00:57:14
And that. But then in the meantime we got an additional 500,000 from the. 00:57:17
For service, so we had a total of 2 million. 00:57:21
We have about 700,000 left. 00:57:24
And we are negotiating with the Forest Service on the best way to spend that 700,000. We're in negotiations right now with the 00:57:27
forest. 00:57:31
So this would just extend that period to September 30th of this year. 00:57:35
Supervisor Humphrey. 00:57:40
I have no questions. 00:57:42
By the client Why do we care what contractors do with their people on paid sick leave? 00:57:44
It's just a federal guideline that we have to. 00:57:50
Follow because the federal funds are involved here and. 00:57:52
So in that leftover money on the Control Rd. project. 00:57:57
And so. 00:58:02
It's all going to be lumpy and with this one way or another, is that what you're saying? Yeah. So we have the about 700,000 left. 00:58:04
And the Forest Service would like to maybe purchase a lot of aggregate and then place it in the different pits that they own and 00:58:10
then place it out on the roads as as needed. 00:58:15
So we're talking about that. 00:58:20
There are some issues with. 00:58:22
We don't want the material to unravel and then plug up our culverts and ditches, so we're talking to forest about that. 00:58:25
But yeah, this will give us some time to. 00:58:31
Figure out the best way to spend that 7. 00:58:34
OK. Thank you, Tom. 00:58:39
But home, it's going to stay on the 64. 00:58:40
It has to stay on the 64. 00:58:43
Right. And so? 00:58:45
You're contemplating something other than pavement. 00:58:47
Yeah, so we were the forest wanted to put down a bunch of aggregates. 00:58:50
They're going to have the big logging operation going on Control Rd. 00:58:55
Yeah. 00:59:00
The aggregate would help. 00:59:01
Help. Umm. 00:59:02
Keep the road in better shape. 00:59:04
Washboarding and keep it smoother. 00:59:05
We had an engineering firm look at it and they recommended that we do not do that because there's it's a very narrow Rd. 00:59:08
So if we add 46 inches of aggregate, it's going to make it even more narrow because you have to kind of slope. 00:59:16
The edges of the aggregate. 00:59:21
And so that became a safety issue. 00:59:24
Plus, with no shoulders, it's just going to fall off in the ditches and plug up our Culvers. 00:59:26
So then we kind of took a step back and now we're. 00:59:31
Trying to figure out the best way to spend this money. 00:59:34
Yeah, I, I, I don't know that the 4th server should be deciding how to spend it because they don't maintain the road anyway so. 00:59:38
We should use it the way we feel would be the most benefit to us because we're the ones. 00:59:45
Well, we told him we don't want to maintain it because it's just going to plug everything up. 00:59:49
Right. And then they will. 00:59:53
Help us with that. 00:59:55
So, umm. 00:59:56
Anyway, all right. Well, thank you for that, Tom. I'll call for motion. 00:59:58
Called promotion, Yeah. 01:00:02
This year I moved to. 01:00:04
Modification 004 to four. Service agreement #22R0. 01:00:05
Dash 11031200. 01:00:11
232. 01:00:15
Healing County and USDA Service. 01:00:16
Tunnel National Forest has presented. I'll second that, Mr. Chair. Motion the second to approve. Those in favor say aye, aye aye. 01:00:20
Thank you, Tom. Thank you. 01:00:28
Consent agenda items 5A through D's provider Humphrey, Would you like to discuss? 01:00:30
One or more of those separately. 01:00:35
No, I'm fine. Supervisor clients in question. 01:00:36
I believe I'm good. 01:00:39
I'll call for a motion to approve the consent. 01:00:40
Agenda items 5A through 5B. So move, Mr. Chair. 01:00:42
I'll second it, have a motion and a second to approve. Those in favor say aye. 01:00:46
Aye, aye. 01:00:51
Very good. 01:00:52
Moving on to item 6, called to the public. You look pretty lonely, Lisa. 01:00:54
Go in here, Sir. 01:01:00
OK, how about? 01:01:02
What are we doing today, Cassandra? 01:01:02
15 very good anyone? 01:01:05
Here in globe that wishes to speak. 01:01:07
During the call to the. 01:01:09
No, I'll close that then and go to. 01:01:11
Summaries. 01:01:15
Manager Menlove. 01:01:17
Mr. Chairman, members of the Board with several of the public works. 01:01:20
Team here I want to recognize. 01:01:24
Public works and their work that they've done out here in the. 01:01:26
Parking lot of this complex. 01:01:28
And the Monroe. 01:01:30
I think all those projects have improved safety tremendously. 01:01:32
Here's the county, so I acknowledge and. 01:01:35
And I'm grateful to Public Works for getting those projects completed. They were done within. 01:01:38
Budget. 01:01:43
The Bernoulli St. One took over the time. 01:01:44
But it is now done so. 01:01:47
We are grateful for that. 01:01:49
Thank you to you General Christensen for. 01:01:53
Your work with the Legislative Policy Co. 01:01:56
Committee, there are a number of issues in the report on those. 01:01:58
That the number of issues that. 01:02:01
Can negatively impact counties, so thank you for. 01:02:02
Attending that and being. 01:02:06
Actually, you're participating in the Legislative Policy Committee. 01:02:07
Through the county supervisors association. 01:02:11
On Thursday. 01:02:14
Headed to Washington, DC. 01:02:16
On Friday's discussions about. 01:02:18
Technology and those kinds of things with cybersecurity. 01:02:22
Lot of issues that I find it very helpful. 01:02:25
Crispy in that discussion about technology. 01:02:27
And then the legislative policy legislative. 01:02:31
Conference. 01:02:33
With Nico. 01:02:34
Following that, later and next week as the Government Finance Officers Association. 01:02:36
They had some meetings for for that. 01:02:41
That's my report, Mr. Chairman. 01:02:44
Thank you, Manager. 01:02:46
Pfizer. Humphrey. 01:02:48
Yeah, I held the Tunnel Basin community meeting on the. 01:02:49
3rd testified at the Capitol on the. 01:02:53
February 4th on House Bill. 01:02:57
2070. 01:02:59
To obtain. 01:03:01
$25 million. 01:03:02
And funding for flood relief. 01:03:04
From the state, and that's carried by. 01:03:06
I represent uh. 01:03:09
Walt Blackbuck. 01:03:11
Held a Roosevelt community meeting on the 9th. 01:03:13
I held a a team meeting. 01:03:17
With deputy county manager. 01:03:21
County manager and staff. 01:03:23
To go over different projects and things going on in District 2 and find out how we can go forward with that. 01:03:26
I was on KQSS. 01:03:32
Last night. 01:03:36
At 5:30. 01:03:38
With Raleigh and. 01:03:40
And went. 01:03:42
Through some some of these bills and then I'll also testify. 01:03:43
Tomorrow. 01:03:48
In the Senate for a bill that. 01:03:49
Wendy Rogers is carrying. 01:03:52
For blight. 01:03:54
Which would help healing county quite a bit. 01:03:55
And so that's all I have. 01:03:58
Very good supervisor client. 01:04:00
Thank you, Mr. Chair. 01:04:02
Can I ask Tim a question? 01:04:06
In relation to something he said. 01:04:10
No, unfortunately not. Not on the current events update. 01:04:11
It's just to provide information and there cannot be any sort of discussion. 01:04:15
So I get Kudo for asking you first. Yes, good job. 01:04:19
All right, then we'll go on So. 01:04:24
Senate Bill 700 passed out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on February 4th. 01:04:26
That's the bill for the conveyance of the. 01:04:32
And so it it needs to hit the Senate floor. 01:04:36
And then from there. 01:04:39
If it makes it through that, it'll. 01:04:41
To the president's desk. 01:04:43
And so we have high hopes that that's going to. 01:04:44
Keep going. 01:04:47
On the 9th we had a meeting in Young with the architect. 01:04:50
And it's been retained since last year on the design and meeting room edition. 01:04:54
And the handicap. 01:04:59
Residents there. 01:05:02
So we had a good meeting with that. 01:05:04
A lot was discussed. I think she's well on her way. Joseph was there. 01:05:05
And and. 01:05:10
It was a good meeting. 01:05:12
Tomorrow is an. 01:05:14
Tomorrow afternoon. 01:05:15
The next meeting, we're going to do it by Zoom. 01:05:17
And then Friday, I will be headed, me and Kathy both will be headed to DC. 01:05:19
I have WIR public lands meeting Saturday and Sunday. 01:05:25
And then Hill visits on Monday and Tuesday. 01:05:29
Tuesday morning. 01:05:31
Tuesday afternoon. 01:05:33
Something of. 01:05:35
Interest that I think that. 01:05:37
Two supervisors ought to know 2 is. 01:05:38
About. 01:05:42
Just about two weeks ago. 01:05:43
The Center of Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit on 8 different allotments in Gila County. 01:05:45
Through the Forest Service, the Forest Service will be the ones that will tackle both that lawsuit. 01:05:51
Hard to say where it's going to go. It's over the same same thing it. 01:05:56
Has been for the last. 01:06:00
40 years. 01:06:01
And that's riparian. 01:06:02
Conditions and whatnot like that. 01:06:04
And So what they're doing is is the same. 01:06:06
Same stance, they've always taken it. 01:06:09
They want all the catalog. 01:06:12
But we'll see where that's going to go and. 01:06:14
Hopefully it falls through. 01:06:18
OK. Thank you. 01:06:22
Biological Diversity. 01:06:26
You know they. 01:06:29
They've been a thorn for a while. 01:06:31
So does it bother them that elf? 01:06:34
Drink water. 01:06:37
I wonder I can't answer that. 01:06:38
I know. 01:06:41
I'm not asking you. 01:06:42
All right, OK, I was on Camel G yesterday. 01:06:44
For my monthly. 01:06:51
Thing always goes really well. 01:06:52
Very positive. 01:06:54
I just really just give a report of where we're at, what we're doing, what's coming up. 01:06:57
And. 01:07:01
I also went to the Chamber of Commerce. 01:07:04
Had a function. 01:07:08
An annual function called the Community and Business Awards. 01:07:12
Banquet. 01:07:16
And Gila County was in. 01:07:17
The next 4 award and we won. 01:07:20
And with a very nice plaque. 01:07:23
Here and I'll present that to you and you can hang it in your office. 01:07:26
Why not? It's collaborator of the year. 01:07:37
And so. 01:07:40
That's our job though. If you think about it, we collaborate. 01:07:41
We put. 01:07:44
We pull things together, that's what we do. 01:07:45
And apparently was. 01:07:48
Thought of highly enough to win the awards, so I thank him. 01:07:50
For that. 01:07:53
As you mentioned, LPC Legislative Policy Committee every week. 01:07:55
On Friday. 01:08:00
Most of the stuff that comes up is just uh. 01:08:01
We go no. 01:08:06
There's over 4000 bills now that have been thrown up. That's a new record. 01:08:07
They've never hit 4000 before and we're. 01:08:12
Climbing up and but all of that debt, that's all deadlining. 01:08:15
If it hasn't already. 01:08:19
And. 01:08:20
The committees, it's got to get out of committee here. 01:08:22
Very shortly. 01:08:26
As well and so. 01:08:27
I I believe it was mentioned Senate bill. 01:08:30
1067. 01:08:34
Which is regarding the county. 01:08:35
Leans for blight. 01:08:38
I'm not sure where we are on that. 01:08:40
That sounds like there is some attention being. 01:08:42
Put toward that to get it at least out of committee. 01:08:45
The House Bill 2070 I also spoke at. There was nine of us total there that spoke. 01:08:50
From Gila County. 01:08:55
And. 01:08:56
It was voted unanimous. 01:08:58
And that's significant enough to mention because? 01:09:01
Unanimous means that both parties voted for it. It was seen as a need. 01:09:04
Not a political issue. 01:09:09
But we have a long ways to go before it makes it to the governor's desk, and whether or not she signs it so. 01:09:12
There's been some chitchat on. 01:09:18
Redirecting that. 01:09:21
Money into. 01:09:23
A different or something so that we can apply for it and pay for it. 01:09:25
And that's not what we need. 01:09:29
We need that bill to go through. 01:09:31
Also, I'm part of the rural water. 01:09:33
Committee or something? 01:09:37
That's more of an ad hoc committee that. 01:09:38
I listened to attend and so. 01:09:42
There's lots of problems in. 01:09:45
Cochise County. 01:09:47
But there's really a lot of poems in. 01:09:48
La Paz County. 01:09:50
Two, and most of it's just over pumping and. 01:09:51
Concerns seem to be that. 01:09:55
Along with the transport of water. 01:09:56
Big concerns over. 01:09:59
Pulling water out of these more rural areas. 01:10:00
Into a very thirsty miracle. 01:10:03
County and so. 01:10:06
Obviously, the governor is taking action. 01:10:09
To. 01:10:12
Trying to stop that. 01:10:13
Not sure if it's the right. 01:10:14
Action or not, but those are. 01:10:16
What everyone seems to be very concerned about. 01:10:18
Governor Hobbs will be in Payson, Gila County. 01:10:21
On the 25th of February. 01:10:24
No matter who the governor is, it's an honor to have the governor come to Hula County. 01:10:26
And speak to us and so. 01:10:31
It's going to be at the magazine casino on the 25th. It's a luncheon. 01:10:35
Of which we've helped sponsor. 01:10:38
I've given the the honor of. 01:10:41
Introducing her. 01:10:44
And so I'm going to practice my speech on that. 01:10:46
And there's approximately. 01:10:49
What did you say? Melissa, 20? 01:10:53
20 some members from. 01:10:55
Gila County. 01:10:56
42. 01:10:58
24. 01:11:00
24. 01:11:03
That have signed up for tickets. 01:11:05
And so it's going to be a very full house 400 or so. 01:11:07
Will be there. 01:11:11
And so. 01:11:12
I'm not sure if the other supervisors are coming. 01:11:14
But anyway, we have room for everybody. 01:11:16
And so that's really all I have to mention. 01:11:19
And did you have something else? Yeah, I did on that one, Bill. 01:11:23
1060. 01:11:26
Seven. Yes, yeah, that's the Senate bill that Wendy Rogers is carrying in that I'm testifying on tomorrow. I thought it was and 01:11:28
it. 01:11:32
It's a great deal because a lot of. 01:11:35
In a lot of our areas we have blighted properties that are due to investors or people that passed away. 01:11:37
We've been unable to take care of those. 01:11:44
What this bill will do. 01:11:46
Has allow us to go in and clean it up. 01:11:47
And then whatever caused us to clean it up, we can attach that to the tax lien. 01:11:50
Of whoever is paying the taxes. 01:11:54
Because right now. 01:11:57
If someone is. 01:11:58
The responsible property owner. 01:11:59
We can cite them. 01:12:01
And turn them into collection for them to clean up their property. 01:12:03
We have properties that people have passed away. 01:12:06
That, umm. 01:12:09
There is no owner. We have no one to cite. 01:12:10
We have people of the. 01:12:13
Of investment. 01:12:15
That have bought the tax lien. 01:12:16
And they have it foreclosed on it. So there again, there's no owner. 01:12:18
This would help the state help the county. 01:12:22
By stepping up. 01:12:25
Because it's their responsibility. 01:12:26
And so then that. 01:12:28
If that keeps going. 01:12:30
Then that will allow us to clean these properties. 01:12:32
And the. 01:12:35
The bill to clean these properties? 01:12:36
To whomever's paying the tax. 01:12:38
I think it's important. We have a lot of counties that. 01:12:40
Do have the same problem? 01:12:44
And this is, we've done all we can as a county, this is. 01:12:47
Reaching out to the state. 01:12:50
Because it's their laws that are creating some of these problems. 01:12:52
So anyway, if you feel like calling your representative and being supportive of this bill. 01:12:55
I would appreciate it because it's something I've been working on. 01:13:00
For a long time. 01:13:03
That's all. Thank you for that. 01:13:04
I got. I have one question for James first. 01:13:07
Did you get more tickets for that deal and. 01:13:10
In Payson. 01:13:12
For the luncheon, yeah. 01:13:14
I think there's as many as we want. 01:13:16
Are available for us. 01:13:18
So are you the one distributing or? 01:13:20
I guess it's too late. 01:13:24
That that boat has sailed. 01:13:26
Voter sale, Yeah, they are packed full. 01:13:28
If there was a time. 01:13:32
OK, you have two. 01:13:35
I should have because you remember our last meeting we had, you were going to get a whole bunch of them. 01:13:37
And handle. 01:13:42
So. 01:13:43
Cool. OK. 01:13:44
For you and who? 01:13:48
No, thank you. That's good. 01:13:51
My boss will make sure that there's tickets available. 01:13:54
OK, Mr. Chairman. 01:14:00
Yes, Sir. 01:14:02
One thing that is timely to bring up is that. 01:14:03
In March, we applied to. 01:14:07
The federal government for congressionally directed spending. 01:14:10
Initiatives. 01:14:12
Congressman Crane does not. 01:14:14
Participate in that that are two senators representing I was going to do. 01:14:16
Be part of our. 01:14:20
Trip to Washington DC to talk to. 01:14:21
Our senators, our state. 01:14:24
Federal senators. 01:14:26
Regarding congressionally directed spending initiative, so. 01:14:28
If there is something that particular that's on your mind, we. 01:14:31
Introduced for the 512 Rd. 01:14:35
There. 01:14:38
Improvements for electrical at the Fairgrounds and. 01:14:39
And for this complex. 01:14:43
And different projects like that. 01:14:45
One of the ones we've talked about is. 01:14:47
We still don't know what the final result is going to be for FEMA and the declaration of emergency for. 01:14:50
Southern Gila County and the flooding. 01:14:56
That to have the congressionally. 01:14:58
Direct spending request to. 01:15:00
The corresponding to help us. 01:15:02
Meet the needs. 01:15:05
For flooding that we still have. 01:15:06
If you do have any issues. 01:15:10
Mr. O'Driscoll, Deputy. 01:15:12
County manager is. 01:15:14
Generally coordinating that, pulling all that together. Please visit with. 01:15:15
Him or myself? 01:15:19
To make sure that we've got. 01:15:21
Your thoughts on congressionally participating prior to our visits? 01:15:22
In Washington, DC this coming week. 01:15:26
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 01:15:28
Thank you, Sir. Deadline. 01:15:30
Flat. 01:15:31
Mr. Chairman, those are submitted in March. 01:15:35
And so we've got about. 01:15:37
3-4 weeks to get our. 01:15:40
Our submittals are proposals to. 01:15:43
Completed onto. 01:15:49
The Senators. 01:15:50
Thank you. And we'll get in trouble with Jessica pretty quick, so. 01:15:53
Just having a discussion we're not supposed to probably be going into SO. 01:15:58
All right, then we're done. 01:16:02
With item 7. 01:16:04
Our reports will. 01:16:06
We're doing very well on time. 01:16:07
I don't know that we need a break, but we do with this. 01:16:11
For our work session Item 8A Information and discussion. 01:16:15
Regarding the Discover Hiva County draft. 01:16:19
Marketing plan in five years Strategic plan for. 01:16:22
The tourism and marketing initiative for Gila County. 01:16:26
And we have. 01:16:29
Cameron and. 01:16:31
With us today. 01:16:33
We also have. 01:16:34
These are today. 01:16:36
Oh, and Jackie. 01:16:40
And Angel. 01:16:42
Angel. 01:16:46
An Angel. 01:16:48
Paul Walker, big back there, so very good. 01:16:51
Oh, OK, very good. Mr. Chair. Supervisors, these are four of our. 01:16:53
Of our seven. 01:16:58
Actually, that we have. 01:17:00
Protocols even couldn't be here today and. 01:17:02
James Bruce couldn't be here today. 01:17:05
So, umm. 01:17:07
Mr. Chairman and Supervisors, it's great to be back in front of you. 01:17:11
Usually I get a stand and. 01:17:16
Talk about the great things that Discover Gila County is doing and. 01:17:18
This is going to be no different from. 01:17:21
So, umm. 01:17:23
We are very excited about the things that we are. 01:17:24
Able to accomplish with the funds that you have given this program. 01:17:27
And we're excited to share with you some things today. 01:17:32
First, what I'm going to do is I'm going to kind of. 01:17:36
Share where we are. 01:17:39
And then we're going to talk about what the future is like and where we're headed with this program. 01:17:40
And that will focus really on the plan moving. 01:17:46
Forward SO. 01:17:49
He's been the classes here. 01:17:51
So the first question I would. 01:17:58
Close to you is What does it mean to discover Gila County? 01:18:00
Yeah, I'm going to. 01:18:06
Some brief. 01:18:08
Thoughts on this in that? 01:18:09
It really has. Over the last seven years it has come down to. 01:18:12
What we like to call. 01:18:16
Legendary experiences. 01:18:18
And those legendary experiences first out, start out. 01:18:21
As people coming to our communities. 01:18:26
And then ultimately? 01:18:29
Having. 01:18:31
Amazing experiences that turn into stories. 01:18:32
Like the ladies retreat that have 5. 01:18:36
Women who actually decided to make gila county. 01:18:39
And Globe. 01:18:42
Arizona, the base for their big retreat a couple years ago. 01:18:43
They actually enjoyed a whole week in this area. 01:18:49
And went on and blogged about it and actually shared a bunch of social media stuff that generated. 01:18:52
Probably close to 150 new followers. 01:18:57
On social media. 01:19:00
Another story of. 01:19:03
A man named Sam. 01:19:05
It took his son to Roosevelt Lake for the first time fishing. 01:19:07
And caught the biggest fish he had ever caught. 01:19:11
And I was going to bring a picture and I forgot to do it and I wish I had. 01:19:14
But this little guy probably was maybe 6 years old and the officials almost bigger than he. 01:19:18
It was awesome. 01:19:23
And he shared that with us on social media. 01:19:25
The final one, I'm talking about a legendary experiences here, a family. 01:19:28
From Germany. 01:19:34
Saw one of our western. 01:19:36
Blog posts that we. 01:19:38
Pushed out on social media. 01:19:40
And did some research and started reading a bunch of stuff on our on our website. 01:19:42
And they landed on the world's oldest continuous roadie and started reading all about the rodeo. 01:19:47
And the next thing is they bought 10 tickets for their entire family that. 01:19:52
Fly here and stay for a week in. 01:19:56
And go to all the performances. They went to Town Natural Bridge. 01:19:59
They went to the Grand Canyon. 01:20:03
They did exactly what we set out to do with this program and using Gila County at the center of the state. 01:20:05
And having them go out and visit other friends. 01:20:10
So these are just some of the legendary experiences. 01:20:13
That we every day get to hear about, that you don't necessarily get to hear. 01:20:16
The impact that this program is making. 01:20:21
So we put together a short little video here. 01:20:27
That, uh. 01:20:30
We've been working on this now for about 6 years. 01:20:32
And uh. 01:20:35
I think this video really does showcase from South to north. 01:20:36
And everything in between so. 01:20:41
Give me another journey. 01:20:44
Where every mile reveals something wild. 01:20:45
Find yourself in the towering peaks of the Pinal Mountain. 01:20:49
Out in your path through epic traits and sweeping views. 01:20:53
Because the soul will move in Miami. 01:20:58
Two charming cities rooted in British. 01:21:01
Sandman Ancient book dwellings at Tata National. 01:21:06
Cortana whispers through stone. 01:21:10
Across the waters of Roosevelt Lake. 01:21:13
Chase the Russian pacing. 01:21:16
Hiking to hidden water. 01:21:18
Bleeding from cliffs. 01:21:20
World's largest natural travertine bridge onto. 01:21:34
Natural Bridge State Park. 01:21:38
And the wild welcomes you. 01:21:44
I'm strong. 01:21:46
This is little wild. 01:22:05
Come discover Gila County. 01:22:37
And explore the wild. 01:22:39
So that's just a little bit of an introduction to some of the cool video things that we are releasing to showcase. 01:22:47
So we can go ahead and go to the next. 01:22:55
Oh I do. I got it. Gotcha. 01:22:59
Cancel this. 01:23:02
All right, so. 01:23:04
I wanted to give you a kind of a looking back. 01:23:06
Well, do I need to do something? Yeah, OK. 01:23:10
So this is the timeline just to see some of the key milestones that discover Hila County is. 01:23:15
Accomplices, 2018. 01:23:21
You remember back. 01:23:24
We spent almost a year putting together the. 01:23:26
The DVC marketing plan, website and social media creation. 01:23:28
That was launched in 2019 on February 14. 01:23:33
Which is actually almost to the date. 01:23:37
In 2020. 01:23:39
Hewitt County was one of two counties with a 23% increase in tourism spending. 01:23:41
You remember back to that? 01:23:47
In 2021, DGC wins Arizona game of fist partner of the year. 01:23:49
And website reaches its first big milestone of 100,000 visitors. 01:23:54
In 2022, BGC social media. 01:23:59
Another. 01:24:02
Monster. 01:24:03
Milestone. 01:24:04
And from a Facebook perspective, when you hit 10,000, you become a different animal to them. 01:24:06
And so. 01:24:12
We're actually now up at 23,000 and Jazz is going to talk about that in a minute. 01:24:13
And we we win the AED Website of the Year award. 01:24:18
In 2023, DDC wins the AOT Rural Marketing program of the year. 01:24:22
And the NACO marketing program of the year, both in the same year. 01:24:28
In 2024 DDC website eclipse over 500,000 visitors. 01:24:32
I guess the goosebumps. 01:24:39
Tons of work into that. 01:24:42
OK, umm. 01:24:44
Launching TV ads seen by over 2 million people. 01:24:50
And showcase during the Super Bowl. 01:24:54
Spring training. 01:24:56
Basketball on Channel 3, five and 12. 01:24:58
In 2025. 01:25:02
BGC all time website traffic rose to over 739,000. 01:25:05
Visitors in a large part are due to our Google Ads strategy that Chad is going to talk about in a minute. 01:25:11
Our social media. 01:25:17
Footprint now climbs to over 30. 01:25:19
6000 followers on Facebook, Instagram. 01:25:22
And talk. 01:25:25
Tiktok. 01:25:27
And lastly, what we're here to talk to you a little bit about today is the new marketing plan created and new direction defined 01:25:29
for the next 5 years for discovery. 01:25:34
So here are some of the key things that I want to just point out that we talked to each of you individually over the last couple 01:25:40
of months here. 01:25:44
But when we very first started this, remember we were in the North Central region of the state of Arizona, which. 01:25:48
Puts us with. 01:25:54
Navajo or I'm sorry with. 01:25:56
You have a Pike County. 01:26:00
Which also includes Sedona and Blackstone. 01:26:01
Which are two of the biggest tourism draws in Arizona? 01:26:04
Most of the money that was coming in, in. 01:26:08
AOT designated tourism spending for that region was going that way. 01:26:11
Direction since this program. 01:26:16
Went live. 01:26:19
We have seen a 5% year over year source allocation coming back to us, which is higher than the 3% that is going to. 01:26:21
Does that make sense? 01:26:30
We're growing faster with the monies that are coming our direction now. 01:26:32
That were not coming here before. 01:26:36
So that's a key thing here. 01:26:38
I just put it up here. Tourism growth is outpacing our neighbor. 01:26:42
Neighboring North Central cities of Sedona and Prescott, and that's coming directly from ALT. Those aren't our numbers. 01:26:45
Ten major state and national awards in six years and recognized now as one of the Arizona's. 01:26:53
And their rural. 01:26:58
Adventure destinations. 01:27:01
So what does this mean economically to? 01:27:05
What we set out to do? 01:27:09
37 point. 01:27:11
8 million in direct travel spending in 2024. 01:27:12
That's an AOT number that's not ours. 01:27:16
$19,000,000 in new spending added in one year 2024. 01:27:18
These are all alt numbers 31,000 or 3100 jobs directly support. 01:27:23
Ordered by tourism, which is a 10% increase. 01:27:28
28.6 million generated annual and state and local taxes. 01:27:31
And tourism offsets, and I think this is a key 1 to a lot of people that live here. Why are we doing tourism? 01:27:36
It offsets each household $12180 in taxes. 01:27:42
Tourism ultimately reduces the tax burden on residents while funding essential services and sustaining local businesses. 01:27:48
In that video, there were several of those businesses that you saw. 01:27:56
That have popped up. 01:28:00
All throughout Gila County. 01:28:02
And we're starting to see more tourism based businesses coming to Gila County because of this. 01:28:03
That. 01:28:08
I'm going to turn this over to Chaz. 01:28:12
And let him talk about some of the. 01:28:14
Chairman and supervisors. 01:28:18
So I'll go through this really quickly, but. 01:28:21
The website has had about 750,000 visitors to the site since its launch. 01:28:23
With some of the new activities we're doing, specifically with our Google Ads strategy, we've talked a lot and you've heard a lot 01:28:28
about our SEO strategy, how to organically bring people to the website. 01:28:33
We're seeing a really steep incline from what we were even doing in the past to what we're really doing from now and on. 01:28:38
Really. In the last six months with a Google ad strategy. 01:28:45
So now, if anyone's on the Internet typing best places to camp in Arizona. 01:28:48
Or. 01:28:53
Some of those. 01:28:54
Harder to reach people that are really actively looking to go do something this weekend. 01:28:56
We're now bidding against Prescott Sedona. 01:29:02
All the other. 01:29:05
Show low all the other places where they might want to come and recreate and enjoy some of what we have to offer. 01:29:06
Now we're actually. 01:29:11
Pain for positioning to bring more of those people here. 01:29:13
So the amount of people that are coming to our site is dramatically increasing than where we've been in the past. 01:29:16
And on top of that, we're now. 01:29:21
Getting those high intent people that. 01:29:22
Or naturally kind of come into our area who are searching for stuff. 01:29:25
Where are you? 01:29:28
We're buying some of those placements to try to get them here. 01:29:30
Compared to some of the other locations which is huge. 01:29:33
We've seen almost 5 million page views. 01:29:37
Of website traffic. 01:29:39
81% of the traffic. 01:29:41
From Google which is. 01:29:43
Above industry standards, which we've shared with you multiple times. 01:29:45
The site is continuing to grow as new. 01:29:48
Pop up in our communities or not pop up and when that could be. 01:29:51
New restaurants which we have several representatives here today that help feed us some of that information. 01:29:54
Or a new hotelier. Or a new. 01:30:00
Arizona, I know I'm both there for a little bit was a big deal and how those things are continuing to be. 01:30:03
Optimized and. 01:30:08
And put onto the website. 01:30:09
And 500 of those pages are ranking in the top five for Google searches. 01:30:10
So if I'm typing in. 01:30:15
GLOBE, AZ. 01:30:16
The Mogi on rim. 01:30:17
Payson, AZ Those kind of searches. 01:30:19
Discover Gila County is kind of becoming. 01:30:21
What we initially, what you initially set out for of being the very top of the funnel. 01:30:23
And. 01:30:27
Everything that's happened in these last five years, the website and those things have been able to achieve that. 01:30:28
And this is really important why it matters. 01:30:34
VGC has become one of Arizona's strongest rural tourism digital platforms and the primary trip planning tool for our region. 01:30:36
A couple of things that. 01:30:44
In concert with what we're doing with Google Ads strategy, a couple big things that have happened just in the last year and a half 01:30:46
or so. 01:30:49
As we've reached almost 10 million people across all digital platforms. 01:30:52
That's Facebook, Instagram tick tock. 01:30:56
All the things. 01:30:58
YouTube. 01:30:59
2.1 million. 01:31:01
Visitors have seen these ads that we have. 01:31:03
Created. 01:31:05
Through live television. 01:31:06
And that includes the final four NFL packages. 01:31:08
The MLB Network. 01:31:12
Through a lot of other streaming platforms as well, so we're inside of people's homes. 01:31:14
That we're targeting these specific demographics, saying hey, come up for the weekend and enjoy what we have to offer. 01:31:18
Over here and about two million of those have been reached through that with 98% of those people watching the entire. 01:31:24
We have a combined 36,000 social media followers and. 01:31:31
Our engagement rates, we've showed with you a lot or 30% higher than the industry average when it comes to other. 01:31:36
Tourism entities. 01:31:41
And what's really cool is we're putting together another set of. 01:31:43
Commercials and video and we were actually out with the San Carlos tribe yesterday. 01:31:46
Where we had about 50 tribal members. 01:31:51
Helping us. I think it's going to be one of the coolest videos. 01:31:53
We might have done from discovery of the county. It was really cool to just see the culture come out in this video and see some of 01:31:56
the poppies and things. 01:31:59
So yes, we've been doing some really cool stuff. 01:32:03
Yesterday was really cool for me, just the cultural side of what the county has to offer to. 01:32:06
So we're excited for that to come out and. 01:32:11
How it's going to continue to evolve. 01:32:13
So that's a little update on the digital side. 01:32:14
So one of the cool. 01:32:17
Stories to share their. 01:32:18
I got a call from Clipper Perch who is a professional fisherman. 01:32:22
And he said I had a buddy who was watching the MLB Network. 01:32:26
And saw the video that. 01:32:30
You guys shot of me out on Roosevelt Lake. 01:32:31
And he called and said, hey, I just saw you while I was watching the Diamondbacks. 01:32:34
It works. It's getting out there. People are seeing. 01:32:39
So, uh. 01:32:42
Kind of cool stuff. 01:32:43
The last part here is why. Why is this? Why does this program matter to Gila County? 01:32:45
And it really boils down to. 01:32:49
Gillard County's investment is producing measurable returns by converting and. 01:32:52
Promoting visitations into spending. 01:32:56
Jobs. 01:33:00
And tax relief. 01:33:00
That is our mission. That's what we set out to be. 01:33:01
A coordinated data-driven approach allows HeLa County to. 01:33:05
Compete effectively with larger destinations without increasing public spending. 01:33:09
I go back to when. 01:33:15
Jackie Sanders went to Flagstaff. 01:33:16
She asked them can this be done in Gila County and they told her not. 01:33:19
Here's the proof. 01:33:24
OK, The program provides a single accountable tourism voice, aligning cities, towns, tribal partners, chambers and businesses. 01:33:26
Like Chaz said, we were out there yesterday. 01:33:33
I'm not kidding you. We probably have 50 to 75 people that showed up to be part of the video. 01:33:36
Yesterday they were super excited to be part of what was Denver, Gila County. 01:33:42
Tourism growth is managed in a way that's. 01:33:48
Towards community balance. 01:33:51
Well, it protects local assets and benefit. 01:33:52
Residents and lastly performance distraction reported to ensure transparency, accountable accountability. 01:33:55
On a responsible church that. 01:34:02
Accounting Resources. 01:34:04
So I think our final take away is that we are doing what you guys vision was. 01:34:06
And what you told us to do. 01:34:12
We've been doing it at a very high level. 01:34:14
And we're kind of at the course now. 01:34:17
We're at the final stages. 01:34:20
The original plan. 01:34:23
They've accomplished a lot of. 01:34:25
The plan? 01:34:26
And so the next step. 01:34:28
Is to actually now. 01:34:29
Prepare a new plan which we've sat down with each one of you individually. 01:34:31
And we've gone through that plan. 01:34:36
In detail, and today I'm not going to actually. 01:34:39
Worth all and tears of. 01:34:43
Stand here and really going through the great detail. 01:34:44
But I do want to go through just a couple of the things. 01:34:48
That are important I think that you see how we are doing what we. 01:34:52
Doing so, Charles, if you want to come back up and talk about. 01:34:56
Target market here. 01:35:00
So do you have a copy in front of you or? 01:35:17
We'll use this here. 01:35:21
You should go through. 01:35:22
OK, let's see. 01:35:24
Get stuck on that. 01:35:31
Do I need to click it again? It's looking on that one. 01:35:34
Guys, do you have any questions about what I presented? 01:35:39
The world, by the way. 01:35:42
No, I'm good camera. 01:35:46
Yeah, OK. 01:35:48
I'll kind of go through this. 01:35:52
Quickly and so stop me if you have questions or. 01:35:54
We don't want to bore you with all the details, but the biggest demographics that we're seeing from the Arizona Office of Tourism 01:35:56
of who's really coming to the county and engaging with us are. 01:36:00
The strongest travel segments for rural Arizona destinations are 35 to 50. 01:36:05
4 so millennials and Gen. X and 55 plus. 01:36:10
So your boomers and empty nesters. 01:36:13
And when we were out? 01:36:15
Taking video and doing this stuff, that is absolutely who we are seeing on. 01:36:16
Trails most of the time. 01:36:20
These groups align with the counter strengths in both outdoor recreation and heritage. 01:36:22
Cultural Tourism. 01:36:26
Typically what we're seeing is mid to upper income households, particularly those with discretionary spending power of travel. We 01:36:28
saw some people out on the trail the other day. 01:36:32
Retired couple from Maine. They had come, they were walking through the entire Arizona trail all the way through and had spent 01:36:36
like a week and 1/2. 01:36:39
In Hula County, going all the restaurants. 01:36:43
Parts of the trail as they moved along and that's a lot of who we are seeing. 01:36:45
According to AOT Arizona leisure visitors. 01:36:48
Tend to have. 01:36:51
Incomes between 75,125 thousand while national trends show. 01:36:52
High growth in households over 100. 01:36:56
Primary feeder markets. 01:37:01
This has not changed. Phoenix Metro is our number one. 01:37:02
And then we do see a lot of. 01:37:06
People from the East Valley. 01:37:07
So Mesa. 01:37:09
We're starting to see more from the Gilbert and Queen Creek more and more. 01:37:11
And then as well as kind of secondary markets being Chandler and Tucson. 01:37:15
Secondary markets that we're starting to see a lot from is Las Vegas as well as some of the Southern California. 01:37:20
Drive markets that could come out here on their way maybe through to. 01:37:25
Other locations throughout the state. 01:37:29
And then international, we do see a little bit from Mexico, Canada and the UK. 01:37:31
And then this is. 01:37:35
Fine, but an emergency. Emerging interests from India and the Philippines. 01:37:36
Especially for our digital content. 01:37:41
So going through these really quickly. 01:37:44
These people are seeking real Arizona experiences, wide open spaces, outdoor recreation. We see a lot of interest in the heritage, 01:37:46
the culture of the Native American. 01:37:50
Culture as well as. 01:37:55
Obviously all we have. 01:37:56
Offer with the outdoor recreation. 01:37:58
They really resonate with the storytelling and memory making. 01:38:00
My camera started with this with the legendary story idea. 01:38:05
When we share a lot of that content. 01:38:09
Especially when it has to do with like the. 01:38:11
Family vacation. We see our numbers really skyrocket. 01:38:12
Especially during the summertime, which makes a lot. 01:38:16
Sense values. They value sustainability. 01:38:18
Emphasis on local flavor or the farmers markets, the small places to eat, the community events. 01:38:22
And these people are desire for flexibility. 01:38:29
And we do see a lot of weekend getaway stuff. 01:38:31
We know that with it being 90 minutes from Phoenix, we do get a lot of weekend. 01:38:33
Travelers. 01:38:38
Just quickly on this, we see a lot of people obviously on mobile traffic. 01:38:41
And through our search queries that come in through Google. 01:38:46
And then we are seeing more and more, we actually have some softwares in place that we're gathering some data of people that are. 01:38:49
Visiting the website or seeing our social media channels and then coming to the area. 01:38:54
And we see a lot of that coming from some of this video content that we're creating. 01:38:58
Last couple of things here, Weekend Warriors, so our top top. 01:39:04
Target audience, this is kind of the big screen for you guys to understand who we're going after as we market to them. 01:39:07
The Weekend Warriors and drive Market Explorers. 01:39:13
35 to 54. 01:39:16
People in that Phoenix and Tucson markets. 01:39:18
We're hitting the empty nesters, those that are 55 plus. 01:39:21
That have time and ability to travel. 01:39:24
And then adventure millennials, younger visitors who want to experience the thrill of outdoor adventure like. 01:39:27
Hiking with fishing and. 01:39:32
The rock climbing and those experiences. 01:39:33
And then lastly, which is probably not our highest market, but there we do have a segment of people that we're talking targeting 01:39:36
with international curiosity markets which are. 01:39:40
Camera talked about the people from overseas that might want to come see our Western heritage or someone who's. 01:39:44
Different markets. 01:39:50
So that's who we are going at. 01:39:52
So I thought it was important for you guys to kind of understand that we're not just like seeing boy would be great if. 01:39:56
Bring a bunch of people here. 01:40:03
There's a science behind what we're doing and. 01:40:05
That's what my career has been in 32 years of doing that is understanding who we can target and how this. 01:40:08
Program effectively speaks to and I think we. 01:40:15
We've accomplished that. 01:40:18
Actually. 01:40:21
I wanted to put this slide in real quick and this is straight from the plan. 01:40:22
Nothing has really changed with our brand. 01:40:29
I mean, we're we. 01:40:31
We have found a brand that has become very recognizable. 01:40:32
Especially here in Arizona. 01:40:36
You know the the tone of voice is still. 01:40:39
It's a bold yet yet authentic. 01:40:43
We are wild is. 01:40:46
My wife and I were actually out exploring the other day discovering Hilo County. 01:40:49
And she turned to me and she said, wow. 01:40:53
We really have a lot of cool stuff in this county. 01:40:56
And she's never said that before. I had. 01:40:59
I had taken her. 01:41:02
And showed her some things that I never had done before and she she was really impressed with some of. 01:41:03
See but. 01:41:08
Our brand pillars are still stunning landscapes rich multiple. 01:41:09
Or multicultural heritage adventure everywhere. 01:41:13
Authentic flavor and genuine hospitality. 01:41:17
And that's what we've built our brand on. 01:41:20
For the last several years, and that's what we're going to continue to do. 01:41:23
Our new goals and objectives so this. 01:41:27
Just straightforward here, but. 01:41:33
Goal #1 is. 01:41:34
Continue to execute. 01:41:36
Plan that we've set for. 01:41:37
Goal number 2 is continued awareness and tourism promotion. 01:41:40
Goal #3 Expand access and opportunity. 01:41:43
And go forth, drive impact and deliver the path. 01:41:47
The last thing we want. 01:41:50
Is someone to come to Gila County? 01:41:52
And not actually. 01:41:54
Receive the delivered. 01:41:58
Messaging that we put out there because the worst thing that can happen as they come, they get let down. 01:42:01
Not only will they not come back. 01:42:06
They will tell other people. 01:42:08
To come back and so. 01:42:10
I think we have truly authentically built. 01:42:11
Marketing Program. 01:42:14
And so let's. 01:42:18
Talk a little bit about. 01:42:23
You know, the mark of the, there's a whole lot of detail that we've been over with you guys individually and talking about this. 01:42:25
So I'm not going to talk about that today. 01:42:30
I think each of you had a copy of that to kind of go through in detail. 01:42:35
The last thing I want to share with you is just publicly some some cold testimonials. 01:42:40
That speak to the. 01:42:45
The importance of this program. 01:42:48
One of them is coming from the. 01:42:51
Digital Sales Manager actually at channel 12. 01:42:53
And. 01:42:57
This was totally unsolicited. We got this e-mail. 01:43:00
Actually, after working with those guys for a couple of years now. 01:43:03
And I'm just going to read it here real quick. It says it's outstanding to hear that your direct traffic was the highest view of 01:43:07
law that you have all ever seen. 01:43:11
And the overall site visitation was also seen. 01:43:16
Superlative numbers. 01:43:20
From a data and reporting perspective, I have to say that the results driven by the video center campaign and also top performance 01:43:21
across all the volume of tourism campaigns we run. 01:43:26
At the station. 01:43:31
Without playing favourites, we would. 01:43:33
Clearly say that the video commercials you all are producing. 01:43:35
Are not are not only of the highest quality and represent gila county to agree that the mass would be shared. 01:43:38
But the variance in creating. 01:43:45
Types and messages also plays a large part in the interest this campaign has drawn. 01:43:47
The destination in. 01:43:52
Tequila County are outstanding and the way they are. 01:43:54
Being displayed in the adjectives of variety and. 01:43:57
Personality. 01:44:00
That is enticing. 01:44:01
Our regional production team who works on hundreds of commercials weekly across the country. 01:44:02
Noted that the quality of spots. 01:44:08
You all are producing or in line with what they wish they could do. 01:44:11
For every customer we have. 01:44:15
They complimented the aesthetic storyboard of the images and music choices overall the Ecuador's teens praise. 01:44:17
For the quality and careful curation on how these commercials support to all the activities and visuals. 01:44:24
That can be experienced in Heli County. 01:44:29
So that's an unsolicited professional group coming to us and seeing you guys are doing this. Really, really. 01:44:32
And they appreciate. 01:44:39
Just a couple others here here with an adventure seeker. I live in Stockport, Arizona and spend a lot of time looking around for 01:44:42
remote adventures. 01:44:46
I was recently up north and stumbled across Shevlin Creek near Payson. 01:44:50
Wanted to see if I could find more info about the place and came across Discover Hill County. 01:44:54
I just wanted to say that this is an amazing resource and one of the most informative professional city, county, chamber type 01:45:00
websites. 01:45:03
I have ever seen nice work and things for all the great ideas. 01:45:07
You can read the rest of them there. I just, we hear a lot of this kind of stuff and it's important, I think that you get to hear 01:45:12
some of those. 01:45:16
But at this time, we'd like to, I think you have the opportunity to review the plan and. 01:45:21
In detail. 01:45:26
And this is the time that we would like to hear your final if you have any questions, concerns, things that we've left out. 01:45:28
Things that you'd like for us to do with the next five years? 01:45:36
Is there anything that? 01:45:39
You'd like to share with us at this point. 01:45:41
Oh, thank you Cameron, and thank you Chaz for the. 01:45:43
Presentation. 01:45:49
Yeah, let's talk about Supervisor Humphrey. 01:45:51
Yeah, I I definitely have. 01:45:53
No input other than, you know, just a question. Have you ever done a presentation to the Realtors? 01:45:56
In Hill County, we have actually. OK, great. Yeah, because I've talked to some of them and and and. 01:46:02
It seems like the the people that want to move here hear the bad news. You know something about schools or. 01:46:07
Drugs or things of that nature. 01:46:12
It would be great to hear more. 01:46:14
Yeah, from, you know. 01:46:17
That that all the Realtors haven't discovered Gila County card. 01:46:19
To direct me. Well, yeah, no, your office is great, but we got a lot of Realtors here. 01:46:23
And and, you know, that's just a great. 01:46:28
Because I think you know. 01:46:31
A lot of people that live in places that don't have near the. 01:46:33
The weather. 01:46:36
Or the opportunities that we do so. 01:46:37
No, that's great, but. 01:46:40
I other than that. 01:46:41
You know, nothing comes to mind. I just appreciate. 01:46:43
Everything that you and the board. 01:46:46
Have done, you know, a million years ago on the idea. We thought about this and presented it. It didn't go anywhere. 01:46:48
But then became a supervisor and Tommy was a great. 01:46:55
Push on this and. 01:46:58
Pushing you as well. And so it was. 01:47:00
Kind of plant a seed in its amazing. 01:47:03
Where this seed has grown. 01:47:06
With with you guys working on it. 01:47:08
And you know, to look back, it's, it's a. 01:47:10
You know, it's like inventing a wheel almost, because now, now you look at it and you say that. 01:47:14
We're saving each household. 01:47:19
$1280. 01:47:21
And you know, and so. 01:47:24
That's an awful lot. 01:47:25
When you know, we don't have to go back. 01:47:27
To those people. 01:47:29
To raise property taxes. 01:47:30
You know, on some of the issues that we have to deal with. 01:47:33
Because of. 01:47:38
The tourism and the bed tax and things like that, that. 01:47:39
Helped us grow. So no, it's an it's an amazing thing and. 01:47:43
And I recommend it often and I have never heard any bad. 01:47:46
From anyone that has gone on. 01:47:51
They have a lot of. 01:47:54
Websites that they say are hard to navigate but. 01:47:55
Never heard that about you. Appreciative of. 01:47:58
Of how how well you're doing too. 01:48:01
To express to other people. 01:48:04
Why we all live here? 01:48:06
So, Cameron, thank you very much. 01:48:07
Thank you. 01:48:10
Supervisor Klein. 01:48:12
Cameron, you guys have done a remarkable job. 01:48:14
You know you, you've accomplished everything that I could ever dreamed of accomplishment. 01:48:17
In this. 01:48:22
And it's been a big help on our rural communities. You know, I see it. 01:48:23
They're just where I live, you know, every weekend there's, there's side to side groups, Jeep groups. 01:48:28
People coming through, doing this, going there. 01:48:33
To the point where I've had some comments from the local dislike turn it off. 01:48:39
But. 01:48:45
It's been just a huge. 01:48:46
Plus for the county. 01:48:48
It's definitely put us on the map. 01:48:51
There's no doubt. 01:48:53
And you know, back in the day when when we talked about Gila County was just a pass through. 01:48:54
Their head to the White Mountains or. 01:49:01
Flagstaff or wherever you know and and now. 01:49:03
And there's and then they're stopping all times of the year. It's not just summertime. 01:49:07
You know, and so I see that. 01:49:12
So no, I think you guys are right on track with everything. 01:49:17
We knew when we started. 01:49:22
That putting money into this would. 01:49:24
Give money back in the roundabout way. 01:49:27
And we have. 01:49:29
You know, we've seen that during COVID. 01:49:31
That's what really brought us through COVID. 01:49:33
Was that so? 01:49:37
It's just continuing to grow. 01:49:39
And I think honestly, I mean, you guys do such a good job on this website, there's no doubt. 01:49:42
But I think now it's time to where there's more word of mouth to. 01:49:47
As well so. 01:49:52
It's written, yeah. 01:49:53
Yeah, I I don't know how I could ever suggest an improvement. 01:49:57
You guys and your entire team. 01:50:01
Board. Excuse me? 01:50:04
For all the right people at the right time, in the right place, so. 01:50:07
What you're doing is. 01:50:11
Is actually pretty incredible. 01:50:13
Not only do we think it's good, but. 01:50:16
We have the evidence that it's good. 01:50:18
It's it's winning. 01:50:22
In every way. 01:50:23
And so I like the idea. 01:50:25
That you're continuing to be. 01:50:29
Innovative. 01:50:31
That you're wanting to improve more. 01:50:33
You want it to grow even. 01:50:36
Bigger and better and you want it to be as. 01:50:37
Modern and. 01:50:42
Accepted by current generations. 01:50:45
And all of that that it's on all of the mediums that are available. 01:50:48
It's not just. 01:50:53
Gonna languish. 01:50:55
And you guys are constantly working. I mean, I don't know how. 01:50:57
Actually get it all done. 01:51:00
But now it's it's good. The videos are good, everything's great. 01:51:02
I think the whole thing, all the components are perfect. 01:51:07
And the numbers you're. 01:51:11
Show me the snow are amazing. 01:51:14
But where will we be in five years? Those numbers will not. 01:51:17
Sad in five years, I think. 01:51:22
If we continue where we're going. 01:51:26
It's just exponentially getting better. 01:51:28
Appreciate the presentation and all you have to. 01:51:31
You all do. So I think it goes back to what Supervisor Klein just said that. 01:51:34
This is now creating people talking about it. 01:51:39
So the word of mouth, hey, have you been up there? Have you seen this? And. 01:51:41
Yeah, that's how far was exponentially is like that. 01:51:45
So our next step? 01:51:49
Is to come back to you and. 01:51:51
Formally approve this plan. 01:51:53
To move forward for the next five years. 01:51:55
And so we'd like to do that, put it on a future agenda to come back to you and. 01:51:58
Pick that Next up with. 01:52:02
So couldn't do without your support. 01:52:04
Mr. Menlove has been incredible. 01:52:08
He's been very supportive to us. 01:52:10
Three as well. 01:52:13
Thank you for that. 01:52:15
Mr. Menlo, do you have anything you'd like to add? 01:52:16
Yeah, OK. 01:52:20
Anything else? 01:52:23
So we're going to take a photo. 01:52:25
We want to take a photo. I think I can adjourn the meeting and then do the photo. 01:52:26
So if there's nothing else, then we are adjourned. 01:52:31
And let's gather for a photo. 01:52:34