1 00:00:06,990 --> 00:00:10,930 Good morning. At this time, we're going to call to order the regular meeting of the 2 00:00:10,930 --> 00:00:17,150 Paws County Board of Supervisors Monday, August 17th, 2026 at 10.03 a.m. 3 00:00:17,970 --> 00:00:22,750 And I invite everybody to please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and then remain standing for the invocation, 4 00:00:22,770 --> 00:00:28,430 which will be given by Pastor Roger Barnes of Quartzsite Southern Baptist Church. 5 00:00:47,420 --> 00:00:51,760 Our Heavenly Father, we just thank you for the beautiful day you've given us in your creation. 6 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:58,600 And thank you for this board here that serves our communities, our towns, our county. 7 00:00:59,340 --> 00:01:03,580 We just pray that you give them wisdom and guidance and strength for all the work they 8 00:01:03,580 --> 00:01:07,360 do and everyone in our county that serves us. 9 00:01:07,820 --> 00:01:13,600 We always pray for truth and kindness and respect among one another where we have 10 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,600 difference of opinions sometimes. 11 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,500 We pray that we give respect to one another in kindness. 12 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:24,880 And Lord we just thank you once again for the day we pray for Gary and Brennan and the tragic loss of their son. 13 00:01:25,420 --> 00:01:28,480 We pray that you bless him and wrap your arms of love around him today. 14 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,020 We ask these things and I pray in the name of Jesus. 15 00:01:37,300 --> 00:01:43,320 Thank you pastor and if you see him first please pass our condolences on to Gary and his family. 16 00:01:43,900 --> 00:01:44,460 Tragic loss. 17 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:51,840 Item number three is called to the public and I have Erica Daniels. 18 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,880 Good morning, Erica Dandes of the Parker Regional Chamber of Commerce and Tourism. 19 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:04,000 I just wanted to give you guys a quick update on some of the new and upcoming chamber events and activities. 20 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,800 We are currently preparing for our first annual Pumpkin Patch and Harvest Festival, 21 00:02:09,140 --> 00:02:12,840 which will be held October 2nd and 3rd at the LaPause County Fairgrounds. 22 00:02:13,020 --> 00:02:17,300 We're working on vendors, sponsorship, entertainment, the kids activities, pumpkin patch, 23 00:02:17,780 --> 00:02:20,300 and we're going to reintroduce our chili cook-off. 24 00:02:20,660 --> 00:02:23,360 We're going to have a pie eating contest and other family activities. 25 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:27,760 we're really excited to bring a new fall event to the community. We're also 26 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:31,620 preparing for our annual Chamber Awards Gala which will take place on Saturday 27 00:02:31,620 --> 00:02:36,300 October 17th at Havasu Springs Resorts. Nominations are now open to the 28 00:02:36,300 --> 00:02:40,860 community and we will be recognizing outstanding businesses, organizations, and 29 00:02:40,860 --> 00:02:44,560 individuals who make a difference in our community. Our Youth Ambassador 30 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:49,700 Chamber Club, aka Yak, is also getting underway for the new school year. We 31 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:53,000 recently presented to the program to students at Parker High School and 32 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,440 already have 32 participants interested. We're looking forward to giving our youth 33 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,840 more opportunities for leadership, community service, and involvement in local business 34 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:07,120 and civic activities. We continue to focus heavily on membership growth, tourism promotion, 35 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:12,060 and partnerships throughout the community. We appreciate the county and all the local 36 00:03:12,060 --> 00:03:14,700 organizations for continuing to work with us. Thank you. 37 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:21,140 Thank you. Next I have, I believe it's Sharmin Johnson. Hopefully I'm saying that 38 00:03:21,140 --> 00:03:21,560 correctly. 39 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:22,200 Good 40 00:03:29,980 --> 00:03:34,260 morning, Charmin Johnson, I'm the Vice President of the Courtsite Chamber of Commerce. 41 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:41,000 I'm certainly not going to be able to follow her act since this is my first time speaking 42 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:41,600 to you all. 43 00:03:42,140 --> 00:03:49,560 What I wanted to do is I wanted to thank you for the funds from last year that supported 44 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,220 the Main Street revitalization. 45 00:03:51,220 --> 00:03:59,100 we were able to support the improvement of seven different businesses and with 46 00:03:59,100 --> 00:04:04,860 that, whether it was the repaving, signage, that type of thing, it's been a 47 00:04:04,860 --> 00:04:09,820 considerable improvement and we look forward to any additional funding this 48 00:04:09,820 --> 00:04:17,080 year that will be round two for that. I would say that due to the success from 49 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:24,060 last year, as well as the fact that there has been definite damage in court 50 00:04:24,060 --> 00:04:29,000 site due to the flooding, that there's going to be additional interest in that. 51 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:36,980 From a court site chamber of commerce activities perspective, I dropped off 52 00:04:36,980 --> 00:04:43,080 during the last meeting a save the date, which I'm hoping that you were able to 53 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:54,040 see but November 16th of we're going to have a chill in with the locals business 54 00:04:54,040 --> 00:05:01,160 showcase at the QIA from four to seven and the idea is to basically bring in all 55 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:07,480 of the different businesses within court site as well as any from Parker 56 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:15,780 have assumed life that support court site we also would like there to be any of 57 00:05:15,780 --> 00:05:22,320 the government and civic leaders so that we can do a meet and mingle it is a 58 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:30,220 social there will be food and alcohol available for any of that so that's all 59 00:05:30,220 --> 00:05:34,880 I have today. Any questions? Oh, you can. Have a lovely day. 60 00:05:39,690 --> 00:05:41,950 Okay. That's going to bring 61 00:05:41,950 --> 00:05:48,410 us to item number four, County Administrator and or County Supervisors current event summary 62 00:05:49,930 --> 00:05:55,110 is McDowell. Morning, Mr. Chairman. I don't have any updates at this time. Thank you. 63 00:05:56,050 --> 00:06:02,450 Supervisor Irwin, who by the way, it's on the scene or up there yet. Yeah, I do 64 00:06:02,450 --> 00:06:07,290 have two. One, I wanted to give an update on the Heartmine Bridge slash 65 00:06:07,290 --> 00:06:14,010 Sabola Bridge that went down in the river about two weeks ago. Just one, myself, 66 00:06:14,410 --> 00:06:18,770 Jason and Shelley Baker attended a Zoom meeting with the Bureau of Reclamation 67 00:06:18,770 --> 00:06:25,030 last week with other agencies and they informed us that their engineers had 68 00:06:25,030 --> 00:06:29,750 been out, inspected the bridge other than the portion that is still 69 00:06:29,750 --> 00:06:36,730 currently in the river, the rest of the bridge structure is is okay. There's there's no compromise 70 00:06:37,170 --> 00:06:42,030 as far as they could tell. They're putting navigation lights on both sides of the bridge 71 00:06:42,850 --> 00:06:46,310 should have been completed by last week and they have applied for 72 00:06:47,030 --> 00:06:54,830 or plan on applying for federal emergency funding so they can help get that part of the bridge 73 00:06:54,830 --> 00:07:00,350 removed from the river kind of similar to what we went through and they will provide 74 00:07:00,350 --> 00:07:05,290 updates once they come along and of course funding is going to you know be the key factor 75 00:07:05,290 --> 00:07:11,950 into replacing the bridge which they do plan on replacing that section so I wanted to 76 00:07:11,950 --> 00:07:16,130 give a quick update on that and I don't know if Jason or Shelly's there if they 77 00:07:16,130 --> 00:07:25,190 want to add anything to that or if I got it covered. And also this August 22nd, the Attorney 78 00:07:25,190 --> 00:07:32,590 General will be visiting La Paz County, both in Parker and Courtsite at the Arizona Western 79 00:07:32,590 --> 00:07:39,830 College campuses. I believe Parker's from 10 to 12, and then Courtsite's from 1230 to 2. So 80 00:07:40,370 --> 00:07:45,350 anybody that wants to come get some updates on what she's done in La Paz County and 81 00:07:45,350 --> 00:07:49,990 voice their concerns on anything, they're welcome to do so. And that's all I got. 82 00:07:51,090 --> 00:07:55,410 All right, Jason is here. Did you have anything to add, Jason? Okay, Jason said 83 00:07:55,410 --> 00:08:00,470 you did an excellent job. You cannot add a thing to it. I noticed the AG only gave 84 00:08:00,470 --> 00:08:04,130 herself a half hour to get from Count Parker to court site. So tell her don't 85 00:08:04,130 --> 00:08:08,950 get stopped speeding because I write our county attorney doesn't make it 86 00:08:08,950 --> 00:08:10,610 It doesn't matter who you are, you're going to be in trouble. 87 00:08:13,230 --> 00:08:15,810 All right, anything? 88 00:08:16,510 --> 00:08:18,110 Nope, I don't have anything this morning. 89 00:08:19,810 --> 00:08:24,330 So that will move us to our consent agenda, which 90 00:08:24,330 --> 00:08:31,190 is items 5A through M. Are there any consent agenda items 91 00:08:31,690 --> 00:08:33,350 that somebody would like to have pulled 92 00:08:33,810 --> 00:08:35,090 for additional discussion? 93 00:08:36,070 --> 00:08:36,950 Not for me. 94 00:08:36,950 --> 00:08:42,170 any. Apparently we're good there in that case I would entertain a motion on consent agenda 95 00:08:42,170 --> 00:08:49,950 items five a through M. Move to approve is presented. No second. We have a motion and 96 00:08:49,950 --> 00:08:55,490 a second to approve consent agenda items five a through M as presented any discussion 97 00:08:55,490 --> 00:09:03,370 on the motion hearing none all those in favor please say aye aye aye aye any opposed 98 00:09:03,990 --> 00:09:09,570 motion carries and this will bring us to well we get skip item six and hold it to 99 00:09:09,570 --> 00:09:17,680 the end right because nobody here is interested in that it's gonna bring us 100 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:21,220 to our regular agenda item number six discussion impossible action to approve 101 00:09:21,220 --> 00:09:26,600 acceptance of the animal relief fund ARF proposal to assume shelter services 102 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:31,960 and authorized staff to begin working on a professional services contract to 103 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:36,780 finalize the partnership contingent upon ARF meeting all county requirements. 104 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:43,320 Ms. McDowell. Good morning Mr. Chairman, members of the board. We're actually 105 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,560 excited to be presenting this to you today. We've been working on it for 106 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:50,880 some time. Administration is recommending moving forward with the 107 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:55,540 Animal Relief Fund proposal as a new direction for providing animal shelter 108 00:09:55,540 --> 00:10:00,080 services to the county. We believe partnering with ARF will allow the 109 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:05,380 county to provide better and more focused shelter services while allowing the county 110 00:10:05,380 --> 00:10:11,860 to continue concentrating on animal control responsibilities. This action does not approve 111 00:10:11,860 --> 00:10:18,120 a final contract. The approval will allow us to begin working with ARF to clearly define 112 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:24,680 responsibilities, costs, performance expectations and accountability measures. Any partnership 113 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:29,240 will be contingent upon ARF meeting all county requirements with the final agreement 114 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,340 coming back to the board for approval. 115 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,840 Any questions to the vice-president Erwin? 116 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:40,520 I'm just going to say some stuff here. 117 00:10:40,620 --> 00:10:43,640 I want to tell you that I couldn't be happier 118 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:45,580 that we are finally at this spot. 119 00:10:46,660 --> 00:10:48,880 This has been something I've been interested in 120 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:50,960 since 2017 when I took office. 121 00:10:51,740 --> 00:10:54,200 I wasn't originally the person working on this. 122 00:10:54,380 --> 00:10:55,600 I've had that opportunity now. 123 00:10:56,140 --> 00:10:57,880 But it has been a struggle. 124 00:10:58,160 --> 00:10:59,560 It has been, there's been a lot of hurdles. 125 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:03,880 It's taken us probably a year and a half of solid work to get to today. 126 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:11,000 But as somebody who comes from the non-profit world and worked in a public-private partnership 127 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,620 for 22 years, I think it was, this is something I've always advocated for. 128 00:11:16,220 --> 00:11:20,780 You know, government, I hope we're good at some things, but I'm not sure how many, 129 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,900 but there's a lot of things we're not good at and that we have people who can do a 130 00:11:24,900 --> 00:11:26,260 much better job, in my opinion. 131 00:11:26,260 --> 00:11:32,460 So I think moving in this direction is going to be beneficial to the county and the community 132 00:11:32,460 --> 00:11:36,900 and probably most importantly the animals that are being taken care of over there. 133 00:11:38,260 --> 00:11:42,120 And I know we're not there, we're not done yet, we still have to work through the final 134 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:48,080 parts of this process but today is a big deal in accepting this application, 135 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:55,840 this 136 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:02,280 building that is a separate process from this that is in the process of the RFP 137 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,800 right now so we're taking in looking for bids to come in on that and hopefully 138 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:12,320 we'll make progress and this all comes together in a nice tidy little gift box 139 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:19,000 and we can put a bow on it and move forward so again I've gone through the 140 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:23,500 application I think it looks good I know Ms. McDowell has worked tirelessly 141 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:26,960 on this as well as our legal counsel over there and they're the ones you got to watch 142 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:27,200 for. 143 00:12:27,660 --> 00:12:28,900 Man, they're tough. 144 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:38,900 But if nothing else, I will make a motion that we approve acceptance of the Animal Relief 145 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:44,620 Fund ARF proposal to assume shelter services and authorized staff to begin working on 146 00:12:44,620 --> 00:12:49,900 a professional services contract to finalize the partnership contingent upon ARF meeting 147 00:12:49,900 --> 00:12:51,280 all county requirements. 148 00:12:53,340 --> 00:13:00,460 second we have a motion and a second any discussion on the motion if not all 149 00:13:00,460 --> 00:13:07,740 those in favor please say aye aye I wait 150 00:13:10,140 --> 00:13:11,860 a minute now since you guys did that I 151 00:13:11,860 --> 00:13:15,060 have to give them the chance any opposed I dare you go ahead I dare you 152 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:23,660 sheriff oh I couldn't see him in the with the light behind him so I wanted 153 00:13:23,660 --> 00:13:29,920 to make sure. All right. All those in favor please say aye. We did that right. So it's 154 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:37,380 like a thousand ayes. All right. So that motion carries. Congratulations and we look forward 155 00:13:37,380 --> 00:13:38,180 to it. 156 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:43,920 Margaret did you ever think we'd be here? 157 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:54,780 Okay. Item number seven discussion 158 00:13:54,780 --> 00:13:59,420 and possible action to disperse fiscal year twenty six twenty seven funding to organizations 159 00:13:59,420 --> 00:14:04,440 applications applying for the La Paz County Community Partners Funding Program. It is a 160 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:10,840 budgeted item and I'm going to ask Ms. McDowell, our County Administrator, to go over the recommendations. 161 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:15,280 But before she does, I just want to share with folks this is this is something that 162 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:19,580 I feel like we get to do. It's an opportunity for us to put some money back out into 163 00:14:19,580 --> 00:14:26,360 the communities. And then it becomes not much fun sometimes because we had out of 164 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:32,260 app we had eighty six over eighty six thousand dollars requested over the 165 00:14:32,260 --> 00:14:36,100 amount we have available because we have a budgeted amount available for 166 00:14:36,100 --> 00:14:40,080 community partner programs so the hardest part is they're all great 167 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:44,940 programs everything's worthy and we want to they're all doing good work but we 168 00:14:44,940 --> 00:14:49,700 have a limited amount of money that we can spread around so I'm gonna let 169 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:54,640 miss McDowell take it from there. Good morning Mr. Chair, members of the 170 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:59,880 board. Each year the county budgets funding to support local organizations that 171 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,420 Provide services and programs that benefit our communities and our residents. 172 00:15:06,220 --> 00:15:10,360 Organizations were given the opportunity to apply, and those requests were reviewed by 173 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:15,560 a committee and administration. The recommendations before the Board are based on the services 174 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:22,220 provided, community benefit, available funding, and the information submitted by each organization. 175 00:15:23,140 --> 00:15:27,700 The Board has the final authority to approve the funding amounts and can make any changes 176 00:15:27,700 --> 00:15:30,800 to the recommendations as needed before final approval. 177 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:33,640 The recommendations are as follows. 178 00:15:36,570 --> 00:15:38,630 Bouse Chamber, 12,500. 179 00:15:39,750 --> 00:15:42,810 Bouse Elementary, Will Fund, zero. 180 00:15:44,070 --> 00:15:47,530 Crisis Shelter Services, 5,000. 181 00:15:48,730 --> 00:15:51,070 La Paz County Fair, 9,000. 182 00:15:51,970 --> 00:15:54,970 La Paz Economic Development, 20,000. 183 00:15:54,970 --> 00:16:05,410 LaPause Regional Tourism, 6,600, McMullen Valley Chamber, 12,500, Parker Area Chamber, 184 00:16:05,670 --> 00:16:15,210 12,500, Parker Library Friends, 2,500, Parker Senior Center, zero, the county is already 185 00:16:15,210 --> 00:16:23,730 contributing 100,000 for the Mills on Wheels program, Hort Sight Chamber is 12,500, Hort 186 00:16:23,730 --> 00:16:25,630 Courtsite Food Bank 5000, 187 00:16:26,330 --> 00:16:29,770 Courtsite Improvement Association 6,900. 188 00:16:30,870 --> 00:16:32,390 And those are the recommendations 189 00:16:32,390 --> 00:16:33,910 for the community partner funding. 190 00:16:36,290 --> 00:16:39,630 Okay, any questions from board members, 191 00:16:40,110 --> 00:16:41,250 comments, concerns? 192 00:16:43,190 --> 00:16:45,530 If not, I would entertain a motion 193 00:16:45,530 --> 00:16:50,150 to approve the disperse the funding 194 00:16:50,150 --> 00:16:52,870 as described by our county administrator. 195 00:16:55,470 --> 00:16:56,010 Is there a motion? 196 00:16:56,010 --> 00:16:57,670 I'll move to approve this presented. 197 00:16:58,390 --> 00:16:59,030 Second. 198 00:16:59,530 --> 00:17:01,510 We have a motion to second to approve 199 00:17:01,510 --> 00:17:03,910 the funding disbursements as presented. 200 00:17:04,470 --> 00:17:06,010 Any discussion on the motion? 201 00:17:06,650 --> 00:17:07,510 Hearing none. 202 00:17:07,730 --> 00:17:09,370 All those in favor, please say aye. 203 00:17:10,150 --> 00:17:10,570 Aye. 204 00:17:10,770 --> 00:17:11,010 Aye. 205 00:17:11,970 --> 00:17:12,550 Any opposed? 206 00:17:13,510 --> 00:17:14,250 Motion carries. 207 00:17:15,470 --> 00:17:17,130 Okay, item number eight. 208 00:17:17,430 --> 00:17:21,270 It's a public hearing regarding fiscal year 2026, 2027 209 00:17:21,270 --> 00:17:23,350 proposed tax levies. 210 00:17:24,090 --> 00:17:25,750 And I don't know if that's gonna be Stephanie 211 00:17:25,750 --> 00:17:31,730 or Karen or who gets to take us down this road. Mr. Chairman I'll be having Karen 212 00:17:31,730 --> 00:17:35,590 Ziegler our consultant she'll be presenting the tax levy presentation today. 213 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:43,700 Good morning Mr. Chairman I am gonna share my screen can you all see the 214 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:50,580 cover sheet for the tax levy presentation? Yes ma'am. Perfect and you can hear me 215 00:17:50,580 --> 00:17:57,000 okay? Yes I'm afraid we can. You'll get used to me. 216 00:18:00,180 --> 00:18:03,200 So I'm happy today to go over 217 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:12,880 the tax year 26 levy presentation. The process is by statute that the board 218 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:19,340 has to approve a tax levy by August 17th or the 3rd Monday I believe in August 219 00:18:19,340 --> 00:18:30,360 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. 220 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:38,960 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. 221 00:18:39,500 --> 00:18:44,180 If you have any items you would like to discuss further. 222 00:18:44,780 --> 00:18:48,120 So this here is the special districts. 223 00:18:48,940 --> 00:18:53,540 This on this side is the fiscal year or tax year 2025. 224 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:58,100 And then this side here is the tax year 2026. 225 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:02,500 On top is the domestic water improvement districts, 226 00:19:02,740 --> 00:19:03,360 the DWIDs. 227 00:19:03,620 --> 00:19:06,720 We only have one DWID and that is Wendon 228 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,420 that is actually imposing a tax levy this year. 229 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:12,440 As we know last week, 230 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,140 we had the meeting on the desert sky DWID 231 00:19:15,140 --> 00:19:25,180 And they didn't meet certain requirements to actually impose a levy for 2026, so that is 0 for 2026. 232 00:19:26,260 --> 00:19:43,260 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. 233 00:19:43,260 --> 00:19:48,660 five. That is an increase over last year based on their budget. 234 00:19:51,250 --> 00:19:53,830 The next, before I move on 235 00:19:53,830 --> 00:19:57,090 to the other districts, does anybody have any questions about the DWIDs? 236 00:19:58,270 --> 00:20:07,590 I don't believe so. Okay. The irrigation districts, we have three and this was the 237 00:20:07,590 --> 00:20:14,670 budgets that were submitted and the net assess value, which calculates the rate. 238 00:20:15,530 --> 00:20:18,350 The first two, there was no increase in the rate. 239 00:20:19,230 --> 00:20:24,610 The McMullen Valley was actually a slight decrease in the rate for 26. 240 00:20:26,230 --> 00:20:29,410 Then we have the sanitary district, which is Buckskin. 241 00:20:29,410 --> 00:20:40,670 their rate stayed the same at 1.1883 and then we have the sleds or the street 242 00:20:40,670 --> 00:20:47,630 lighting improvement districts. Those rates are based on the amount that we pay 243 00:20:47,630 --> 00:20:51,950 for those utility bills, electric bills for those particular lighting 244 00:20:51,950 --> 00:20:57,690 districts. That comes from the county budget like I said what we're paying 245 00:20:57,690 --> 00:21:06,130 out for electricity. And there's some slight changes in the rates from last year to FY 20 or the 246 00:21:06,130 --> 00:21:07,670 texture 26 rates. 247 00:21:10,020 --> 00:21:15,460 And if there's any questions, I'm happy to entertain those. Otherwise, I'll move to 248 00:21:15,460 --> 00:21:23,180 the next group of tax levies. I think we can move forward. Thank you. So the next group is the 249 00:21:23,180 --> 00:21:27,940 cities, schools and fire districts and I'm going to start at the bottom and move 250 00:21:27,940 --> 00:21:33,540 up and so we're going to start with the fire districts we have several fire 251 00:21:33,540 --> 00:21:40,540 districts there's a maximum tax levy of 3.75 so if you look at you know the 252 00:21:40,540 --> 00:21:49,680 Parker fire district their tax levy is 3.3 2 9 9 last year was 3 1 5 2 3 which 253 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,400 which is a slight increase of their tax levy. 254 00:21:53,380 --> 00:22:00,280 McMillan Valley was 3.7121, just minimal increase 255 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,780 or decrease, excuse me, of over last year. 256 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,760 We have Buckskin Fire, which is at the maximum right now 257 00:22:07,140 --> 00:22:08,920 and was as well last year. 258 00:22:09,580 --> 00:22:15,040 Portsite at 3.7063, which is a slight decrease 259 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:15,960 from last year. 260 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:25,080 the Ehrenberg fire district 2.6875. They were actually at the max last year and 261 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:31,860 then the Bowles fire district of 3.3299, which is a slight increase over the rate 262 00:22:31,860 --> 00:22:40,880 from last year. There was the two fire districts, I believe it's Parker and 263 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,340 McVillain Valley, Stephanie correct me if I'm wrong. 264 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:45,000 Worksite and McVillain Valley. 265 00:22:45,340 --> 00:22:47,360 Yeah, they're now appos United or I believe. 266 00:22:49,380 --> 00:22:56,620 That consolidation didn't occur before Department of Revenue did what their requirements were. 267 00:22:57,180 --> 00:23:01,640 So for the purposes of the tax levy, there will be two separate levies, 268 00:23:01,740 --> 00:23:09,200 but then next year those will be combined into one unified district for the 2028 269 00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:11,380 budget. 270 00:23:13,580 --> 00:23:15,880 Does anybody have any questions on the fire districts? 271 00:23:18,100 --> 00:23:21,820 No, but thank you for clearing that up. I was going to hit that one, but yeah, just so people know 272 00:23:21,820 --> 00:23:25,580 what's going on there. Then we have the joint 273 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:29,440 technology education district. There's a 274 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:33,700 0.05 levy there. And then we have the 275 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:37,580 school districts. There's only one school district 276 00:23:37,580 --> 00:23:41,760 that has a levy, which is Parker, and it's 1.18 277 00:23:42,380 --> 00:23:47,420 which is just slightly lower than what the rate was last year. 278 00:23:49,610 --> 00:23:52,150 Then, oh, excuse me, we do have 279 00:23:52,150 --> 00:23:56,710 a bunch of them. Yeah. 280 00:23:59,770 --> 00:24:04,870 So, yes, I'm sorry, I was, there's a primary rate and a secondary rate. That's, 281 00:24:05,050 --> 00:24:08,970 they have the primary rates and then I think Parker is. 282 00:24:11,540 --> 00:24:13,020 And that's because, just so you know, 283 00:24:13,020 --> 00:24:17,020 that is because that's an override that is voter approved if it was just their 284 00:24:17,020 --> 00:24:23,260 regular budget it would be on the primary but it's their override but it's 285 00:24:23,260 --> 00:24:26,900 interesting because that years ago I don't know how many five six seven years ago 286 00:24:26,900 --> 00:24:33,180 we secondary and primary are taxed the same now it used to be a difference so 287 00:24:34,220 --> 00:24:38,760 but that's why they're that's why they fall into the secondary. Thank you 288 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:39,340 that clarification. 289 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:49,000 Okay, then we have the cities and towns. There is no levy for Parker and 290 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:59,880 Cork site and then Arizona Western College. We have a rate of 1.9509. Last year was 1.9894, 291 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:09,200 so slight decrease there. And then we come to the county. And this is where the board is going 292 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:17,260 to have the opportunity to have the discussion and then to set the tax levy for this upcoming 293 00:25:17,260 --> 00:25:28,640 tax year. So this number here, 9167187 is based on the estimate that we put in the FY 27 budget 294 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:34,860 when we passed the budget back in June. At that time we didn't have the final figures 295 00:25:34,860 --> 00:25:40,860 for the net assessed values and all of that. So it was clearly an estimate. That estimate was 296 00:25:40,860 --> 00:25:51,660 based off of some information from the assessor's office on what we felt the tax, the estimated tax 297 00:25:51,660 --> 00:25:58,840 coming in would be. So this here is the five-year plan that we review during our budget process. 298 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:07,380 FY27 is the year that we're talking about. We estimated just a slight growth over the 299 00:26:07,380 --> 00:26:17,380 FY26 tax rate, and then we also had the personal property tax portion of the solar that we 300 00:26:17,380 --> 00:26:23,060 anticipated getting for the first time in FY27. So like I said, these were estimates, 301 00:26:23,060 --> 00:26:28,980 those two together total the nine million one six seven one eight seven. So that's a number we move 302 00:26:28,980 --> 00:26:37,180 forward in the budget. However, that number is is up for discussion and approval by the board. 303 00:26:37,620 --> 00:26:45,340 So there is a calculation worksheet that we use to determine what that tax rate is going to be 304 00:26:45,340 --> 00:26:51,340 and whether the county is required to have a truth in taxation what we call TNT hearing. 305 00:26:51,340 --> 00:26:59,760 It's based on what the current property tax levy rate is, the net assess value, 306 00:26:59,940 --> 00:27:06,820 minus construction, and then some calculations to get down to what we're 307 00:27:06,820 --> 00:27:15,560 allowed to go up to without the TNT here. So I'm going to get down here. The 308 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:22,880 maximum amount that the county can tax without a truth in taxation hearing is 309 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:33,020 9,465. As I mentioned we budgeted 9,167 and that would not trigger a TNT 310 00:27:33,020 --> 00:27:43,560 because we would be below the percentage rate. For FY26 we were at 2.5157. So now 311 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:52,960 Now the discussion is what does the Board want to levy for the 26th tax year, 27th budget? 312 00:27:53,780 --> 00:28:02,600 So based on this number here, the proposed primary tax rate would be 2.5540, which is 313 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,600 a slight increase over the 26th rate. 314 00:28:06,580 --> 00:28:12,580 Again, we don't have a TNT or a requirement for a TNT, but down here tells you what 315 00:28:12,580 --> 00:28:22,020 the the primary tax would be based on a per 100,000 and I did a calculation here 316 00:28:22,020 --> 00:28:27,540 of a million dollar property I certainly can do a hundred that here let me do this 317 00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:33,660 one this one I think I did it on a five hundred thousand property so you can 318 00:28:33,660 --> 00:28:44,060 see per 100,000 the property tax would be $1,277 on the $500,000 property if we 319 00:28:44,060 --> 00:28:50,560 went up to the full amount that would be allowed without the truth and taxation 320 00:28:50,560 --> 00:29:00,400 hearing it would be 25791 which would be 1,289. It would still be a slight 321 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:09,000 decrease over what would I guess what the rate would be last year but again this 322 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:18,820 is what the private property tax per 100,000 based on this 2.55 rate hopefully 323 00:29:18,820 --> 00:29:27,620 I explain that I'm sorry but this is kind of a complicated formula to to 324 00:29:27,620 --> 00:29:35,000 explain. So what I wanted to share here is this was the budgeted amount and this 325 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:42,700 amount can be adjusted. We've had some discussions about keeping this property 326 00:29:42,700 --> 00:29:48,320 tax rate the same as last year and to do that this number would have to be 327 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:57,680 decreased. So I plugged in this number here 9,000,025 which is 142,187 328 00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,740 less than what we estimate 329 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:13,540 That actually brings the property tax rate down to 2.5144, which is just under what we had 330 00:30:13,540 --> 00:30:16,420 for the FY26 tax rate. 331 00:30:18,780 --> 00:30:27,540 142,000 in the overall budget is not that difficult to absorb. And 332 00:30:27,540 --> 00:30:35,420 it seems like that was the will that we keep the property tax rate the same as last year. 333 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:43,300 So when we come back to this form here, which is what the board is going to approve, 334 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:52,000 you can see if we use the 9 million 167, the rate is 2.5540, but if we plug in the 9025 335 00:30:53,720 --> 00:31:05,980 here that drops that rate down to 2.5144. Again last year was 2.5157 which is a slight decrease 336 00:31:05,980 --> 00:31:11,280 in the property tax rate. So with that I think I'm going to stop and then I'm going to turn it 337 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:17,360 over to Deuce and let him kind of explain what his thoughts are you know on this tax rate and 338 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:18,760 and probably could do a better job 339 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,760 with the history of this than I can. 340 00:31:23,450 --> 00:31:24,510 Well, thank you. 341 00:31:25,010 --> 00:31:27,290 And yeah, so we always share this, 342 00:31:27,510 --> 00:31:28,810 a lot of meetings we share this, 343 00:31:29,110 --> 00:31:30,190 that the three board members, 344 00:31:30,330 --> 00:31:33,070 we don't get to talk to one another between meetings 345 00:31:33,070 --> 00:31:35,110 because we're only a three-member board. 346 00:31:35,290 --> 00:31:37,730 So we have to wait and have our discussions here, 347 00:31:37,750 --> 00:31:38,350 which is fine. 348 00:31:38,490 --> 00:31:40,130 You're welcome to be bored by them. 349 00:31:40,390 --> 00:31:44,550 But I understand that all three of us 350 00:31:44,550 --> 00:31:52,810 have had the opportunity to go over this with staff and when I had that opportunity I burned 351 00:31:52,810 --> 00:31:59,090 a lot of Karen's time and a lot of Stephanie's time but I have been on a, I don't know if 352 00:31:59,090 --> 00:32:06,570 I called a mission but I just have a very strong feeling about how we tax folks and 353 00:32:06,570 --> 00:32:12,070 Karen did a good job I think of explaining it. The one thing that's left out of this 354 00:32:12,070 --> 00:32:18,270 presentation that I think is important for everybody to understand is unless and 355 00:32:18,270 --> 00:32:21,510 when you look at your property tax if you look at yourself up online your 356 00:32:21,510 --> 00:32:26,770 property value you have a full cash value and you have a limited property value 357 00:32:27,590 --> 00:32:33,110 your taxed on your limited property value amount it's in most cases I would 358 00:32:33,110 --> 00:32:37,290 say most cases it's substantially below the full cash value that's a good thing 359 00:32:37,290 --> 00:32:41,390 because you don't want you want to be taxed on the lower amount but the 360 00:32:41,390 --> 00:32:49,970 key to this whole system is by law your limited property value goes up 5% every year until 361 00:32:49,970 --> 00:32:55,030 you reach your full cash value. Now I don't know if anybody, if any of us will live to 362 00:32:55,030 --> 00:32:59,350 see that because full cash value is what is adjusted when the assessors canvass and 363 00:32:59,350 --> 00:33:06,010 do their assessments and do their thing. So the likelihood is the limited cash value 364 00:33:06,010 --> 00:33:15,730 is going to go up 5% a year. So even if we keep the tax rate the same, we're going to 365 00:33:15,730 --> 00:33:24,810 be receiving 5% more from property owners than we did last year. So that is why when 366 00:33:24,810 --> 00:33:33,730 I met with staff, I was advocating strongly that we maintain the current tax rate and 367 00:33:33,730 --> 00:33:37,790 it'll be a little actually fraction, small fraction less. 368 00:33:38,310 --> 00:33:40,390 But I don't do that haphazardly 369 00:33:40,390 --> 00:33:42,150 when I have that conversation. 370 00:33:42,810 --> 00:33:44,450 And if anybody's been paying attention 371 00:33:44,450 --> 00:33:46,110 for the last seven or eight years, 372 00:33:46,710 --> 00:33:48,450 La Paz County has come a very long way 373 00:33:48,450 --> 00:33:51,490 in our financial portfolio in the way we look. 374 00:33:51,810 --> 00:33:55,070 We're not, in 2017, we were looking to borrow money 375 00:33:55,070 --> 00:33:56,630 from anybody that would give it to us 376 00:33:56,630 --> 00:33:57,570 just to pay the bills. 377 00:33:58,730 --> 00:34:00,630 You know, we're in a much better place now. 378 00:34:00,750 --> 00:34:03,450 We have a reserve in this year's budget 379 00:34:03,450 --> 00:34:08,190 budget and I've applauded staff every step of the way on this, but on this year's budget 380 00:34:08,850 --> 00:34:13,950 we have money budgeted to continue paying down the pension debt, which is critical. 381 00:34:15,070 --> 00:34:23,010 And then we also this year budgeted a contingency and as well as adding money to our reserve, 382 00:34:23,610 --> 00:34:26,730 which I think are all things, those are things I support, I think they're all important 383 00:34:26,730 --> 00:34:29,170 and I think it's good financial stewardship. 384 00:34:30,130 --> 00:34:35,730 That said, as opposed to taking more from the taxpayers, 385 00:34:36,110 --> 00:34:38,630 and when I look at a contingency of 1.2 million, 386 00:34:39,230 --> 00:34:41,150 I feel like we can easily afford 387 00:34:41,690 --> 00:34:44,070 to go to that lower number, Karen quoted, 388 00:34:44,270 --> 00:34:47,610 which was the 9,000,025 and whatever change 389 00:34:48,410 --> 00:34:50,270 to bring us back to last year. 390 00:34:50,890 --> 00:34:54,130 And I would be, I will feel good 391 00:34:54,130 --> 00:34:55,350 if we can do that this year. 392 00:34:55,350 --> 00:35:02,590 I my goal that I've shared with staff repeatedly is I would like to see us drive the tax rate 393 00:35:02,590 --> 00:35:09,450 down much more substantially in future years and I say that because we're we're receiving 394 00:35:09,450 --> 00:35:15,250 new monies through our solar program what we lease the land which is a great thing and 395 00:35:15,250 --> 00:35:20,830 everybody on this board has supported that for a long time and we're starting now finally 396 00:35:20,830 --> 00:35:23,710 to reap those rewards we're seeing the revenues come in. 397 00:35:23,710 --> 00:35:28,890 And I know we have a lot of needs in our county and we're addressing a lot of that in this 398 00:35:28,890 --> 00:35:34,650 year's budget, but I also want to see the taxpayer benefit directly from that if possible. 399 00:35:34,850 --> 00:35:35,570 That is my goal. 400 00:35:36,550 --> 00:35:40,290 And I don't know, this may be a complete coincidence, so I'm going to say something 401 00:35:40,290 --> 00:35:47,230 I shouldn't, but when I was going over all the tax rates for this year, many of them, 402 00:35:47,790 --> 00:35:52,450 the districts you saw, are reducing their tax rate. 403 00:35:52,450 --> 00:35:57,970 I'm looking at Bicentennial by almost $0.39, Salome by $0.65, 404 00:35:58,530 --> 00:36:02,350 Winden School District is lowering their tax rate by $2.94. 405 00:36:03,490 --> 00:36:06,150 I think that's probably in response, 406 00:36:06,450 --> 00:36:08,210 and Carrie Ann can tell me if I'm wrong or Rex, 407 00:36:08,330 --> 00:36:11,210 but I'm pretty sure that is in direct response 408 00:36:11,210 --> 00:36:15,070 to the new business personal property tax being collected 409 00:36:15,070 --> 00:36:16,210 from the solar project. 410 00:36:16,490 --> 00:36:20,530 Because we receive the rents, but we also get property tax 411 00:36:20,530 --> 00:36:23,030 from those investments that are being made out there. 412 00:36:23,510 --> 00:36:26,070 So the districts benefit, I would say, 413 00:36:26,350 --> 00:36:29,910 much more and quicker than the county at large, 414 00:36:29,910 --> 00:36:31,990 because the county obviously is spread out 415 00:36:31,990 --> 00:36:34,650 over the 4,500 square miles where those districts, 416 00:36:35,390 --> 00:36:37,530 if the district happens to have a solar project in it, 417 00:36:38,330 --> 00:36:41,710 you see a $2.94 reduction in their tax rate. 418 00:36:42,830 --> 00:36:45,890 So I would like to see the county moving in, 419 00:36:45,910 --> 00:36:47,070 I would say, a similar direction. 420 00:36:47,210 --> 00:36:48,510 We're not going to be able to drop it like that. 421 00:36:48,510 --> 00:36:54,150 obviously we're not like I said they're a much more direct impact but I feel like 422 00:36:54,150 --> 00:36:57,630 we're doing we've done a very good job of straightening out our finances and I 423 00:36:57,630 --> 00:37:02,910 think we're in a very good place and I just want to see the taxpayers like I 424 00:37:02,910 --> 00:37:07,190 said benefit from that I was told this may not be the right year to do 425 00:37:07,190 --> 00:37:11,010 something more substantial hopefully next year after we have a year under our 426 00:37:11,010 --> 00:37:15,870 belts because the money is budgeted from the solar but we're scheduled to 427 00:37:15,870 --> 00:37:20,430 receive it in December. I do agree strongly that we shouldn't, we don't want to spend 428 00:37:20,430 --> 00:37:24,970 it until we receive it. It's budgeted and it's out. It's owed to us, but we want to make 429 00:37:24,970 --> 00:37:31,170 sure there's no hiccups before we spend it. But again, for $140,000 or whatever it was, 430 00:37:31,330 --> 00:37:36,830 I feel comfortable that we could at least do a good showing to our taxpayers by maintaining 431 00:37:36,830 --> 00:37:42,150 our tax rate. That's my pitch and I will open the floor to the other supervisors 432 00:37:42,150 --> 00:37:44,450 to agree or disagree or 433 00:37:48,100 --> 00:37:54,900 that's you Holly oh no you did a great job I'm 434 00:37:54,900 --> 00:37:59,540 explaining that and I went over all of this previously with Karen and Stephanie 435 00:37:59,540 --> 00:38:06,820 and I couldn't agree more you know I think that the 142 it will be easy to 436 00:38:06,820 --> 00:38:10,980 absorb especially with the extra revenues that we see coming into the 437 00:38:10,980 --> 00:38:16,280 county and the taxpayers to you know deserve for us to keep it at the same 438 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:23,830 rate in my opinion and I do not disagree with leaving things the same if if you 439 00:38:23,830 --> 00:38:28,050 look at that solar projected the five-year plan it shows maybe four million 440 00:38:28,050 --> 00:38:34,350 next year instead of two million this year I still think we really have to 441 00:38:34,350 --> 00:38:39,670 concentrate on getting rid of any debt and that whether you call it pension 442 00:38:39,670 --> 00:38:46,290 plans the state gave us a giant number that we owe and they get to charge us 443 00:38:46,290 --> 00:38:52,570 seven and a half percent interest on that every single year. You inherit a debt 444 00:38:52,570 --> 00:38:58,750 and have to pay interest on that debt. The side is just paying it off so yes I 445 00:38:58,750 --> 00:39:02,810 think that as a county as a whole to get financially sound you know giving 446 00:39:02,810 --> 00:39:08,530 back some is great but let's allocate most of that money towards getting 447 00:39:08,530 --> 00:39:15,070 getting rid of the debt, it will jump down every year, then you give people back, lower 448 00:39:15,070 --> 00:39:23,270 their tax rate, a little bit of time, but we need to really concentrate future years towards 449 00:39:23,270 --> 00:39:24,590 debt reduction in my opinion. 450 00:39:25,570 --> 00:39:31,870 And I, again, I think you and I have always seen eye-to-eye on debt reduction, I strongly 451 00:39:31,870 --> 00:39:35,510 agree and that this, if we do what we're talking about, it's not going to change 452 00:39:35,510 --> 00:39:37,330 what we budgeted in that regard. 453 00:39:37,330 --> 00:39:39,510 It would be the contingency line that would be affected. 454 00:39:40,590 --> 00:39:46,130 But again, I do think it's our, as stewards of the taxpayers' money, I want to pay down 455 00:39:46,130 --> 00:39:47,310 that debt for sure. 456 00:39:48,110 --> 00:39:52,810 But again, I want to see the taxpayers receive some of that benefit. 457 00:39:53,250 --> 00:39:57,430 And again, the underlying thing that just eats me alive is even if we leave it the 458 00:39:57,430 --> 00:40:00,510 same, the tax bill is going up 5%. 459 00:40:02,050 --> 00:40:04,930 So they're going to pay more if we leave it the same. 460 00:40:04,930 --> 00:40:07,570 And I want to be conscious of that. 461 00:40:09,430 --> 00:40:13,150 The percentages are easier to get lost when you talk about dollars. 462 00:40:13,470 --> 00:40:17,810 Right, right. And it's not, on most homes, it's not a monumental amount. 463 00:40:18,990 --> 00:40:24,970 But the other thing that we have going for us as a side note as being supervisors is when you get your tax bill, 464 00:40:25,070 --> 00:40:29,490 maybe you can spread this around, no offense to our districts that are in the audience. 465 00:40:29,610 --> 00:40:33,630 But when you get your tax bill, you have to look at each line, right? 466 00:40:33,630 --> 00:40:38,930 because people call when they get their tax bills and they're upset at the amount of taxes 467 00:40:38,930 --> 00:40:44,610 they're paying and I have to show them which I always keep a tax bill in my little calendar 468 00:40:44,610 --> 00:40:50,530 so I can show somebody the different lines and the county is we're affecting one line 469 00:40:51,090 --> 00:40:52,090 on that tax bill. 470 00:40:52,610 --> 00:40:55,990 The rest of those lines that add up to what you pay are all the districts. 471 00:40:56,650 --> 00:41:01,070 So you have to talk to the districts individually if you think that they need to be revisiting 472 00:41:01,070 --> 00:41:01,510 anything. 473 00:41:02,170 --> 00:41:06,450 But yeah, we're responsible for that one line on your tax bill. 474 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,540 Right, well that's what we're talking about, yeah. 475 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:36,280 Well I've heard Holly kind of say that and I've heard you say that. 476 00:41:36,500 --> 00:41:41,900 So I guess I would ask if there are any other questions before we have the public hearing about it. 477 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,020 Oh, I went way too far on this because we did all the present. 478 00:41:45,100 --> 00:41:46,380 We shouldn't even be talking yet. 479 00:41:46,980 --> 00:41:48,900 Everything we said has to be said over again. 480 00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:54,520 No, I just got sideways, because I've been on this for so long. 481 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:57,820 Okay, thank you for pointing that out, that this is a public hearing. 482 00:41:59,340 --> 00:42:03,180 So we did want to hear the presentation, but this is your opportunity, if you have any 483 00:42:03,180 --> 00:42:07,080 comments that you would like to make, this is your opportunity to do so. 484 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,160 If anyone wishes to comment, now is the time to approach. 485 00:42:15,140 --> 00:42:18,900 Okay, seeing nobody approach, we're going to go ahead and close the public hearing, 486 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:25,920 world's longest public hearing and we're going to move on to item number nine discussion of 487 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:32,280 possible action to adopt fiscal year 2026 2027 tax levies we'll make this one the shortest 488 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:41,000 move to approve oh second wait okay well time out because we have to see the tax rate yeah 489 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,900 yeah we have to we have to determine what we're doing we're gonna instructing staff so Karen 490 00:42:45,900 --> 00:42:51,520 What is the can you tell us the full number? It's nine. It's nine million twenty five thousand 491 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:56,980 That is correct. Mr. Chairman nine million oh two five. Oh, even okay. Yeah, it is okay, so 492 00:42:57,860 --> 00:43:04,860 So the motion would be to I guess we would adopt the levy, but we would is though that is the levy amount 493 00:43:04,860 --> 00:43:08,320 So that's what we have to adopt so we would adopt the levy at nine million 494 00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:10,560 25,000 495 00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:15,380 Which would equate to a two point five one four four rate, right? 496 00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:21,740 I move to approve the nine million twenty-five thousand at two point five one four four 497 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:26,760 I'll second and all the other levies right of course and all the other 498 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:30,480 All right, so that we have a motion and a second 499 00:43:31,060 --> 00:43:34,340 To a take action to adopt the fiscal year 500 00:43:35,220 --> 00:43:37,360 2627 tax levies 501 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:44,980 Instructing staff that the county levy for La Paz County will be at the amount of nine million twenty-five thousand 502 00:43:44,980 --> 00:43:49,240 in equating to a tax rate of 2.5144. 503 00:43:49,700 --> 00:43:51,680 Any discussion on the motion? 504 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,880 We just have to figure out where to absorb it 505 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:56,780 in the budget just to give that. 506 00:43:56,940 --> 00:43:59,420 Yeah, and I think, well, we were pointing at contingency, 507 00:43:59,740 --> 00:44:02,240 but yeah, but that would be like staff can work on that. 508 00:44:02,500 --> 00:44:03,960 So, all right. 509 00:44:04,460 --> 00:44:05,340 There's no other discussion. 510 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,540 All those in favor, please say aye. 511 00:44:08,380 --> 00:44:09,760 Aye. Aye. Aye. 512 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:11,080 Any opposed? 513 00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:13,020 Motion carries. 514 00:44:13,020 --> 00:44:18,960 with that. Thank you to all of our our friends and everybody else who's here today and with that we're adjourned. 515 00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:21,420 Thank you.