Good morning. At this time, we're going to call to order the regular meeting of the
Paws County Board of Supervisors Monday, August 17th, 2026 at 10.03 a.m.
And I invite everybody to please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and then remain standing for the invocation,
which will be given by Pastor Roger Barnes of Quartzsite Southern Baptist Church.
Our Heavenly Father, we just thank you for the beautiful day you've given us in your creation.
And thank you for this board here that serves our communities, our towns, our county.
We just pray that you give them wisdom and guidance and strength for all the work they
do and everyone in our county that serves us.
We always pray for truth and kindness and respect among one another where we have
difference of opinions sometimes.
We pray that we give respect to one another in kindness.
And Lord we just thank you once again for the day we pray for Gary and Brennan and the tragic loss of their son.
We pray that you bless him and wrap your arms of love around him today.
We ask these things and I pray in the name of Jesus.
Thank you pastor and if you see him first please pass our condolences on to Gary and his family.
Tragic loss.
Item number three is called to the public and I have Erica Daniels.
Good morning, Erica Dandes of the Parker Regional Chamber of Commerce and Tourism.
I just wanted to give you guys a quick update on some of the new and upcoming chamber events and activities.
We are currently preparing for our first annual Pumpkin Patch and Harvest Festival,
which will be held October 2nd and 3rd at the LaPause County Fairgrounds.
We're working on vendors, sponsorship, entertainment, the kids activities, pumpkin patch,
and we're going to reintroduce our chili cook-off.
We're going to have a pie eating contest and other family activities.
we're really excited to bring a new fall event to the community. We're also
preparing for our annual Chamber Awards Gala which will take place on Saturday
October 17th at Havasu Springs Resorts. Nominations are now open to the
community and we will be recognizing outstanding businesses, organizations, and
individuals who make a difference in our community. Our Youth Ambassador
Chamber Club, aka Yak, is also getting underway for the new school year. We
recently presented to the program to students at Parker High School and
already have 32 participants interested. We're looking forward to giving our youth
more opportunities for leadership, community service, and involvement in local business
and civic activities. We continue to focus heavily on membership growth, tourism promotion,
and partnerships throughout the community. We appreciate the county and all the local
organizations for continuing to work with us. Thank you.
Thank you. Next I have, I believe it's Sharmin Johnson. Hopefully I'm saying that
correctly.
Good
morning, Charmin Johnson, I'm the Vice President of the Courtsite Chamber of Commerce.
I'm certainly not going to be able to follow her act since this is my first time speaking
to you all.
What I wanted to do is I wanted to thank you for the funds from last year that supported
the Main Street revitalization.
we were able to support the improvement of seven different businesses and with
that, whether it was the repaving, signage, that type of thing, it's been a
considerable improvement and we look forward to any additional funding this
year that will be round two for that. I would say that due to the success from
last year, as well as the fact that there has been definite damage in court
site due to the flooding, that there's going to be additional interest in that.
From a court site chamber of commerce activities perspective, I dropped off
during the last meeting a save the date, which I'm hoping that you were able to
see but November 16th of we're going to have a chill in with the locals business
showcase at the QIA from four to seven and the idea is to basically bring in all
of the different businesses within court site as well as any from Parker
have assumed life that support court site we also would like there to be any of
the government and civic leaders so that we can do a meet and mingle it is a
social there will be food and alcohol available for any of that so that's all
I have today. Any questions? Oh, you can. Have a lovely day.
Okay. That's going to bring
us to item number four, County Administrator and or County Supervisors current event summary
is McDowell. Morning, Mr. Chairman. I don't have any updates at this time. Thank you.
Supervisor Irwin, who by the way, it's on the scene or up there yet. Yeah, I do
have two. One, I wanted to give an update on the Heartmine Bridge slash
Sabola Bridge that went down in the river about two weeks ago. Just one, myself,
Jason and Shelley Baker attended a Zoom meeting with the Bureau of Reclamation
last week with other agencies and they informed us that their engineers had
been out, inspected the bridge other than the portion that is still
currently in the river, the rest of the bridge structure is is okay. There's there's no compromise
as far as they could tell. They're putting navigation lights on both sides of the bridge
should have been completed by last week and they have applied for
or plan on applying for federal emergency funding so they can help get that part of the bridge
removed from the river kind of similar to what we went through and they will provide
updates once they come along and of course funding is going to you know be the key factor
into replacing the bridge which they do plan on replacing that section so I wanted to
give a quick update on that and I don't know if Jason or Shelly's there if they
want to add anything to that or if I got it covered. And also this August 22nd, the Attorney
General will be visiting La Paz County, both in Parker and Courtsite at the Arizona Western
College campuses. I believe Parker's from 10 to 12, and then Courtsite's from 1230 to 2. So
anybody that wants to come get some updates on what she's done in La Paz County and
voice their concerns on anything, they're welcome to do so. And that's all I got.
All right, Jason is here. Did you have anything to add, Jason? Okay, Jason said
you did an excellent job. You cannot add a thing to it. I noticed the AG only gave
herself a half hour to get from Count Parker to court site. So tell her don't
get stopped speeding because I write our county attorney doesn't make it
It doesn't matter who you are, you're going to be in trouble.
All right, anything?
Nope, I don't have anything this morning.
So that will move us to our consent agenda, which
is items 5A through M. Are there any consent agenda items
that somebody would like to have pulled
for additional discussion?
Not for me.
any. Apparently we're good there in that case I would entertain a motion on consent agenda
items five a through M. Move to approve is presented. No second. We have a motion and
a second to approve consent agenda items five a through M as presented any discussion
on the motion hearing none all those in favor please say aye aye aye aye any opposed
motion carries and this will bring us to well we get skip item six and hold it to
the end right because nobody here is interested in that it's gonna bring us
to our regular agenda item number six discussion impossible action to approve
acceptance of the animal relief fund ARF proposal to assume shelter services
and authorized staff to begin working on a professional services contract to
finalize the partnership contingent upon ARF meeting all county requirements.
Ms. McDowell. Good morning Mr. Chairman, members of the board. We're actually
excited to be presenting this to you today. We've been working on it for
some time. Administration is recommending moving forward with the
Animal Relief Fund proposal as a new direction for providing animal shelter
services to the county. We believe partnering with ARF will allow the
county to provide better and more focused shelter services while allowing the county
to continue concentrating on animal control responsibilities. This action does not approve
a final contract. The approval will allow us to begin working with ARF to clearly define
responsibilities, costs, performance expectations and accountability measures. Any partnership
will be contingent upon ARF meeting all county requirements with the final agreement
coming back to the board for approval.
Any questions to the vice-president Erwin?
I'm just going to say some stuff here.
I want to tell you that I couldn't be happier
that we are finally at this spot.
This has been something I've been interested in
since 2017 when I took office.
I wasn't originally the person working on this.
I've had that opportunity now.
But it has been a struggle.
It has been, there's been a lot of hurdles.
It's taken us probably a year and a half of solid work to get to today.
But as somebody who comes from the non-profit world and worked in a public-private partnership
for 22 years, I think it was, this is something I've always advocated for.
You know, government, I hope we're good at some things, but I'm not sure how many,
but there's a lot of things we're not good at and that we have people who can do a
much better job, in my opinion.
So I think moving in this direction is going to be beneficial to the county and the community
and probably most importantly the animals that are being taken care of over there.
And I know we're not there, we're not done yet, we still have to work through the final
parts of this process but today is a big deal in accepting this application,
this
building that is a separate process from this that is in the process of the RFP
right now so we're taking in looking for bids to come in on that and hopefully
we'll make progress and this all comes together in a nice tidy little gift box
and we can put a bow on it and move forward so again I've gone through the
application I think it looks good I know Ms. McDowell has worked tirelessly
on this as well as our legal counsel over there and they're the ones you got to watch
for.
Man, they're tough.
But if nothing else, I will make a motion that we approve acceptance of the Animal Relief
Fund ARF proposal to assume shelter services and authorized staff to begin working on
a professional services contract to finalize the partnership contingent upon ARF meeting
all county requirements.
second we have a motion and a second any discussion on the motion if not all
those in favor please say aye aye I wait
a minute now since you guys did that I
have to give them the chance any opposed I dare you go ahead I dare you
sheriff oh I couldn't see him in the with the light behind him so I wanted
to make sure. All right. All those in favor please say aye. We did that right. So it's
like a thousand ayes. All right. So that motion carries. Congratulations and we look forward
to it.
Margaret did you ever think we'd be here?
Okay. Item number seven discussion
and possible action to disperse fiscal year twenty six twenty seven funding to organizations
applications applying for the La Paz County Community Partners Funding Program. It is a
budgeted item and I'm going to ask Ms. McDowell, our County Administrator, to go over the recommendations.
But before she does, I just want to share with folks this is this is something that
I feel like we get to do. It's an opportunity for us to put some money back out into
the communities. And then it becomes not much fun sometimes because we had out of
app we had eighty six over eighty six thousand dollars requested over the
amount we have available because we have a budgeted amount available for
community partner programs so the hardest part is they're all great
programs everything's worthy and we want to they're all doing good work but we
have a limited amount of money that we can spread around so I'm gonna let
miss McDowell take it from there. Good morning Mr. Chair, members of the
board. Each year the county budgets funding to support local organizations that
Provide services and programs that benefit our communities and our residents.
Organizations were given the opportunity to apply, and those requests were reviewed by
a committee and administration. The recommendations before the Board are based on the services
provided, community benefit, available funding, and the information submitted by each organization.
The Board has the final authority to approve the funding amounts and can make any changes
to the recommendations as needed before final approval.
The recommendations are as follows.
Bouse Chamber, 12,500.
Bouse Elementary, Will Fund, zero.
Crisis Shelter Services, 5,000.
La Paz County Fair, 9,000.
La Paz Economic Development, 20,000.
LaPause Regional Tourism, 6,600, McMullen Valley Chamber, 12,500, Parker Area Chamber,
12,500, Parker Library Friends, 2,500, Parker Senior Center, zero, the county is already
contributing 100,000 for the Mills on Wheels program, Hort Sight Chamber is 12,500, Hort
Courtsite Food Bank 5000,
Courtsite Improvement Association 6,900.
And those are the recommendations
for the community partner funding.
Okay, any questions from board members,
comments, concerns?
If not, I would entertain a motion
to approve the disperse the funding
as described by our county administrator.
Is there a motion?
I'll move to approve this presented.
Second.
We have a motion to second to approve
the funding disbursements as presented.
Any discussion on the motion?
Hearing none.
All those in favor, please say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
Okay, item number eight.
It's a public hearing regarding fiscal year 2026, 2027
proposed tax levies.
And I don't know if that's gonna be Stephanie
or Karen or who gets to take us down this road. Mr. Chairman I'll be having Karen
Ziegler our consultant she'll be presenting the tax levy presentation today.
Good morning Mr. Chairman I am gonna share my screen can you all see the
cover sheet for the tax levy presentation? Yes ma'am. Perfect and you can hear me
okay? Yes I'm afraid we can. You'll get used to me.
So I'm happy today to go over
the tax year 26 levy presentation. The process is by statute that the board
has to approve a tax levy by August 17th or the 3rd Monday I believe in August
And so we've had collected the budget and required documentations from all the special districts and put together this tax levy presentation for your review and approval.
And so what I'm going to do is start at the special districts and I'll move backwards and we'll open it up to for discussion.
If you have any items you would like to discuss further.
So this here is the special districts.
This on this side is the fiscal year or tax year 2025.
And then this side here is the tax year 2026.
On top is the domestic water improvement districts,
the DWIDs.
We only have one DWID and that is Wendon
that is actually imposing a tax levy this year.
As we know last week,
we had the meeting on the desert sky DWID
And they didn't meet certain requirements to actually impose a levy for 2026, so that is 0 for 2026.
The budget for the Wendend Wid is $19,998 based on a net assess value of $1,268,532, which creates a tax levy of 1.5765.
five. That is an increase over last year based on their budget.
The next, before I move on
to the other districts, does anybody have any questions about the DWIDs?
I don't believe so. Okay. The irrigation districts, we have three and this was the
budgets that were submitted and the net assess value, which calculates the rate.
The first two, there was no increase in the rate.
The McMullen Valley was actually a slight decrease in the rate for 26.
Then we have the sanitary district, which is Buckskin.
their rate stayed the same at 1.1883 and then we have the sleds or the street
lighting improvement districts. Those rates are based on the amount that we pay
for those utility bills, electric bills for those particular lighting
districts. That comes from the county budget like I said what we're paying
out for electricity. And there's some slight changes in the rates from last year to FY 20 or the
texture 26 rates.
And if there's any questions, I'm happy to entertain those. Otherwise, I'll move to
the next group of tax levies. I think we can move forward. Thank you. So the next group is the
cities, schools and fire districts and I'm going to start at the bottom and move
up and so we're going to start with the fire districts we have several fire
districts there's a maximum tax levy of 3.75 so if you look at you know the
Parker fire district their tax levy is 3.3 2 9 9 last year was 3 1 5 2 3 which
which is a slight increase of their tax levy.
McMillan Valley was 3.7121, just minimal increase
or decrease, excuse me, of over last year.
We have Buckskin Fire, which is at the maximum right now
and was as well last year.
Portsite at 3.7063, which is a slight decrease
from last year.
the Ehrenberg fire district 2.6875. They were actually at the max last year and
then the Bowles fire district of 3.3299, which is a slight increase over the rate
from last year. There was the two fire districts, I believe it's Parker and
McVillain Valley, Stephanie correct me if I'm wrong.
Worksite and McVillain Valley.
Yeah, they're now appos United or I believe.
That consolidation didn't occur before Department of Revenue did what their requirements were.
So for the purposes of the tax levy, there will be two separate levies,
but then next year those will be combined into one unified district for the 2028
budget.
Does anybody have any questions on the fire districts?
No, but thank you for clearing that up. I was going to hit that one, but yeah, just so people know
what's going on there. Then we have the joint
technology education district. There's a
0.05 levy there. And then we have the
school districts. There's only one school district
that has a levy, which is Parker, and it's 1.18
which is just slightly lower than what the rate was last year.
Then, oh, excuse me, we do have
a bunch of them. Yeah.
So, yes, I'm sorry, I was, there's a primary rate and a secondary rate. That's,
they have the primary rates and then I think Parker is.
And that's because, just so you know,
that is because that's an override that is voter approved if it was just their
regular budget it would be on the primary but it's their override but it's
interesting because that years ago I don't know how many five six seven years ago
we secondary and primary are taxed the same now it used to be a difference so
but that's why they're that's why they fall into the secondary. Thank you
that clarification.
Okay, then we have the cities and towns. There is no levy for Parker and
Cork site and then Arizona Western College. We have a rate of 1.9509. Last year was 1.9894,
so slight decrease there. And then we come to the county. And this is where the board is going
to have the opportunity to have the discussion and then to set the tax levy for this upcoming
tax year. So this number here, 9167187 is based on the estimate that we put in the FY 27 budget
when we passed the budget back in June. At that time we didn't have the final figures
for the net assessed values and all of that. So it was clearly an estimate. That estimate was
based off of some information from the assessor's office on what we felt the tax, the estimated tax
coming in would be. So this here is the five-year plan that we review during our budget process.
FY27 is the year that we're talking about. We estimated just a slight growth over the
FY26 tax rate, and then we also had the personal property tax portion of the solar that we
anticipated getting for the first time in FY27. So like I said, these were estimates,
those two together total the nine million one six seven one eight seven. So that's a number we move
forward in the budget. However, that number is is up for discussion and approval by the board.
So there is a calculation worksheet that we use to determine what that tax rate is going to be
and whether the county is required to have a truth in taxation what we call TNT hearing.
It's based on what the current property tax levy rate is, the net assess value,
minus construction, and then some calculations to get down to what we're
allowed to go up to without the TNT here. So I'm going to get down here. The
maximum amount that the county can tax without a truth in taxation hearing is
9,465. As I mentioned we budgeted 9,167 and that would not trigger a TNT
because we would be below the percentage rate. For FY26 we were at 2.5157. So now
Now the discussion is what does the Board want to levy for the 26th tax year, 27th budget?
So based on this number here, the proposed primary tax rate would be 2.5540, which is
a slight increase over the 26th rate.
Again, we don't have a TNT or a requirement for a TNT, but down here tells you what
the the primary tax would be based on a per 100,000 and I did a calculation here
of a million dollar property I certainly can do a hundred that here let me do this
one this one I think I did it on a five hundred thousand property so you can
see per 100,000 the property tax would be $1,277 on the $500,000 property if we
went up to the full amount that would be allowed without the truth and taxation
hearing it would be 25791 which would be 1,289. It would still be a slight
decrease over what would I guess what the rate would be last year but again this
is what the private property tax per 100,000 based on this 2.55 rate hopefully
I explain that I'm sorry but this is kind of a complicated formula to to
explain. So what I wanted to share here is this was the budgeted amount and this
amount can be adjusted. We've had some discussions about keeping this property
tax rate the same as last year and to do that this number would have to be
decreased. So I plugged in this number here 9,000,025 which is 142,187
less than what we estimate
That actually brings the property tax rate down to 2.5144, which is just under what we had
for the FY26 tax rate.
142,000 in the overall budget is not that difficult to absorb. And
it seems like that was the will that we keep the property tax rate the same as last year.
So when we come back to this form here, which is what the board is going to approve,
you can see if we use the 9 million 167, the rate is 2.5540, but if we plug in the 9025
here that drops that rate down to 2.5144. Again last year was 2.5157 which is a slight decrease
in the property tax rate. So with that I think I'm going to stop and then I'm going to turn it
over to Deuce and let him kind of explain what his thoughts are you know on this tax rate and
and probably could do a better job
with the history of this than I can.
Well, thank you.
And yeah, so we always share this,
a lot of meetings we share this,
that the three board members,
we don't get to talk to one another between meetings
because we're only a three-member board.
So we have to wait and have our discussions here,
which is fine.
You're welcome to be bored by them.
But I understand that all three of us
have had the opportunity to go over this with staff and when I had that opportunity I burned
a lot of Karen's time and a lot of Stephanie's time but I have been on a, I don't know if
I called a mission but I just have a very strong feeling about how we tax folks and
Karen did a good job I think of explaining it. The one thing that's left out of this
presentation that I think is important for everybody to understand is unless and
when you look at your property tax if you look at yourself up online your
property value you have a full cash value and you have a limited property value
your taxed on your limited property value amount it's in most cases I would
say most cases it's substantially below the full cash value that's a good thing
because you don't want you want to be taxed on the lower amount but the
key to this whole system is by law your limited property value goes up 5% every year until
you reach your full cash value. Now I don't know if anybody, if any of us will live to
see that because full cash value is what is adjusted when the assessors canvass and
do their assessments and do their thing. So the likelihood is the limited cash value
is going to go up 5% a year. So even if we keep the tax rate the same, we're going to
be receiving 5% more from property owners than we did last year. So that is why when
I met with staff, I was advocating strongly that we maintain the current tax rate and
it'll be a little actually fraction, small fraction less.
But I don't do that haphazardly
when I have that conversation.
And if anybody's been paying attention
for the last seven or eight years,
La Paz County has come a very long way
in our financial portfolio in the way we look.
We're not, in 2017, we were looking to borrow money
from anybody that would give it to us
just to pay the bills.
You know, we're in a much better place now.
We have a reserve in this year's budget
budget and I've applauded staff every step of the way on this, but on this year's budget
we have money budgeted to continue paying down the pension debt, which is critical.
And then we also this year budgeted a contingency and as well as adding money to our reserve,
which I think are all things, those are things I support, I think they're all important
and I think it's good financial stewardship.
That said, as opposed to taking more from the taxpayers,
and when I look at a contingency of 1.2 million,
I feel like we can easily afford
to go to that lower number, Karen quoted,
which was the 9,000,025 and whatever change
to bring us back to last year.
And I would be, I will feel good
if we can do that this year.
I my goal that I've shared with staff repeatedly is I would like to see us drive the tax rate
down much more substantially in future years and I say that because we're we're receiving
new monies through our solar program what we lease the land which is a great thing and
everybody on this board has supported that for a long time and we're starting now finally
to reap those rewards we're seeing the revenues come in.
And I know we have a lot of needs in our county and we're addressing a lot of that in this
year's budget, but I also want to see the taxpayer benefit directly from that if possible.
That is my goal.
And I don't know, this may be a complete coincidence, so I'm going to say something
I shouldn't, but when I was going over all the tax rates for this year, many of them,
the districts you saw, are reducing their tax rate.
I'm looking at Bicentennial by almost $0.39, Salome by $0.65,
Winden School District is lowering their tax rate by $2.94.
I think that's probably in response,
and Carrie Ann can tell me if I'm wrong or Rex,
but I'm pretty sure that is in direct response
to the new business personal property tax being collected
from the solar project.
Because we receive the rents, but we also get property tax
from those investments that are being made out there.
So the districts benefit, I would say,
much more and quicker than the county at large,
because the county obviously is spread out
over the 4,500 square miles where those districts,
if the district happens to have a solar project in it,
you see a $2.94 reduction in their tax rate.
So I would like to see the county moving in,
I would say, a similar direction.
We're not going to be able to drop it like that.
obviously we're not like I said they're a much more direct impact but I feel like
we're doing we've done a very good job of straightening out our finances and I
think we're in a very good place and I just want to see the taxpayers like I
said benefit from that I was told this may not be the right year to do
something more substantial hopefully next year after we have a year under our
belts because the money is budgeted from the solar but we're scheduled to
receive it in December. I do agree strongly that we shouldn't, we don't want to spend
it until we receive it. It's budgeted and it's out. It's owed to us, but we want to make
sure there's no hiccups before we spend it. But again, for $140,000 or whatever it was,
I feel comfortable that we could at least do a good showing to our taxpayers by maintaining
our tax rate. That's my pitch and I will open the floor to the other supervisors
to agree or disagree or
that's you Holly oh no you did a great job I'm
explaining that and I went over all of this previously with Karen and Stephanie
and I couldn't agree more you know I think that the 142 it will be easy to
absorb especially with the extra revenues that we see coming into the
county and the taxpayers to you know deserve for us to keep it at the same
rate in my opinion and I do not disagree with leaving things the same if if you
look at that solar projected the five-year plan it shows maybe four million
next year instead of two million this year I still think we really have to
concentrate on getting rid of any debt and that whether you call it pension
plans the state gave us a giant number that we owe and they get to charge us
seven and a half percent interest on that every single year. You inherit a debt
and have to pay interest on that debt. The side is just paying it off so yes I
think that as a county as a whole to get financially sound you know giving
back some is great but let's allocate most of that money towards getting
getting rid of the debt, it will jump down every year, then you give people back, lower
their tax rate, a little bit of time, but we need to really concentrate future years towards
debt reduction in my opinion.
And I, again, I think you and I have always seen eye-to-eye on debt reduction, I strongly
agree and that this, if we do what we're talking about, it's not going to change
what we budgeted in that regard.
It would be the contingency line that would be affected.
But again, I do think it's our, as stewards of the taxpayers' money, I want to pay down
that debt for sure.
But again, I want to see the taxpayers receive some of that benefit.
And again, the underlying thing that just eats me alive is even if we leave it the
same, the tax bill is going up 5%.
So they're going to pay more if we leave it the same.
And I want to be conscious of that.
The percentages are easier to get lost when you talk about dollars.
Right, right. And it's not, on most homes, it's not a monumental amount.
But the other thing that we have going for us as a side note as being supervisors is when you get your tax bill,
maybe you can spread this around, no offense to our districts that are in the audience.
But when you get your tax bill, you have to look at each line, right?
because people call when they get their tax bills and they're upset at the amount of taxes
they're paying and I have to show them which I always keep a tax bill in my little calendar
so I can show somebody the different lines and the county is we're affecting one line
on that tax bill.
The rest of those lines that add up to what you pay are all the districts.
So you have to talk to the districts individually if you think that they need to be revisiting
anything.
But yeah, we're responsible for that one line on your tax bill.
Right, well that's what we're talking about, yeah.
Well I've heard Holly kind of say that and I've heard you say that.
So I guess I would ask if there are any other questions before we have the public hearing about it.
Oh, I went way too far on this because we did all the present.
We shouldn't even be talking yet.
Everything we said has to be said over again.
No, I just got sideways, because I've been on this for so long.
Okay, thank you for pointing that out, that this is a public hearing.
So we did want to hear the presentation, but this is your opportunity, if you have any
comments that you would like to make, this is your opportunity to do so.
If anyone wishes to comment, now is the time to approach.
Okay, seeing nobody approach, we're going to go ahead and close the public hearing,
world's longest public hearing and we're going to move on to item number nine discussion of
possible action to adopt fiscal year 2026 2027 tax levies we'll make this one the shortest
move to approve oh second wait okay well time out because we have to see the tax rate yeah
yeah we have to we have to determine what we're doing we're gonna instructing staff so Karen
What is the can you tell us the full number? It's nine. It's nine million twenty five thousand
That is correct. Mr. Chairman nine million oh two five. Oh, even okay. Yeah, it is okay, so
So the motion would be to I guess we would adopt the levy, but we would is though that is the levy amount
So that's what we have to adopt so we would adopt the levy at nine million
25,000
Which would equate to a two point five one four four rate, right?
I move to approve the nine million twenty-five thousand at two point five one four four
I'll second and all the other levies right of course and all the other
All right, so that we have a motion and a second
To a take action to adopt the fiscal year
2627 tax levies
Instructing staff that the county levy for La Paz County will be at the amount of nine million twenty-five thousand
in equating to a tax rate of 2.5144.
Any discussion on the motion?
We just have to figure out where to absorb it
in the budget just to give that.
Yeah, and I think, well, we were pointing at contingency,
but yeah, but that would be like staff can work on that.
So, all right.
There's no other discussion.
All those in favor, please say aye.
Aye. Aye. Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
with that. Thank you to all of our our friends and everybody else who's here today and with that we're adjourned.
Thank you.