Okay, we're gonna go ahead and get started.
thanks for being here with us today, everyone. Um, we're gonna
go ahead and get started with a, uh, a prayer and a pledge before we do, supervisor
pesca is with us. He's with us virtually though, uh, today. So I'm gonna go
ahead and start us with the prayer and the pledge and then we'll move on after that.
so, if you all please join me.
our eternal father in heaven, we're grateful for the opportunity that we have to be gathered here together this day. We're
grateful for the land that we live in, for the freedoms that we enjoy and for the people we
have a chance to represent and serve. We're grateful for the opportunity
that we have to be here today. We're grateful for the great people that are in our communities. Bless us
as we go throughout this meeting that we'll be able to have clarity in mind, to be able to listen to
items that are presented, to be able to take into consideration how we can
best serve the citizens that we represent within the laws that we have. Bless
us to be mindful of thee as we go throughout this meeting. Bless us to look for ways to be able to
help build up our communities, to strengthen them, to be positive and uplifting, to
look for ways to unify us and to come together in alignment with the in life spirit.
watch over our lands and protect them. Bless 'em with moisture, and bless those that are struggling
at this time, that neighbors and people within our communities will open their
hearts and look for ways to serve those that stand in need, that we'll look for opportunities to
unite in our communities rather than divide and bless us that we'll look for opportunities to be able
to come together. And thy holy spirit, we pray
in the name of my son jesus christ. Amen. Amen.
ready pledge. I pledge your of the flag of
the united states of america and to the republic for which it
stands. One nation under god, invis
with ation.
alright, thanks everybody for being here with us today. We'll go on to the first item, which
is called the public.
we have a number of 'em here.
sorry, trying to separate these so I can get 'em into the groupings here real quick.
okay. There's quite a few here. Um, I don't know, there's one that says
answers. It's not that one. I'm not sure what that means. But, um,
we have the rest on elections. So here I'm gonna, I'm gonna share
this real quick one. We reached out to the
county as a whole and said, hey, we'd love to hear your questions about elections. We wanna
make sure that those are addressed. That's something that we get a chance to be able to talk about. And so
we got in quite a few questions that people had and they made sure we did a presentation
where the board got to try and hear the answers around that. Um, there
were bells that came that day that also wanted to speak and repeat
what was already said in those. Here's
what's gonna happen today. I've got quite a few of 'em that are here
that are asking. We've already heard. And as you
know, on call to the public, the board can't respond to call to the public.
so you're coming here to be able to go ahead and share new information.
if there's something new that you have to share that we have not already heard,
then by all means we'd love to be able to hear it. Okay? If it's something
that we've already heard will dismiss you. 'cause we've already
heard it and we're already still in conversation and had multiple
conversations even since our last meeting with many of you. So the door's open,
we're willing to have the conversation. This isn't the right form if we've already heard it
here in this form to do that. Not right now. Not call
the public because we can't respond to you inside of that. So, of these,
I'm gonna first start with whoever wrote down answers. 'cause I'm not sure what that is, if
that's called to the public or if that's on elections or not. With the rest of them, the question's
going to be, do you have something new to share with us?
and if you do have something new, by all means would love to hear that. If you
don't, then you know, so
I can read off your name. You can tell me if you have something new to share or not. If you don't, then by
all means, we're just gonna move past that one. If you do have something new to share, we'd love to hear
from you. It'll be three minutes. So the first one is
answers. Mark thomas.
mark. The question is, is this election? Yes. Okay. Is it new? Yes.
okay. You have three minutes. Thank you. And if it's not new, then we'll dismiss
you. Mark thomas. Uh, I think I wrote my address down wrong. 58 71
bobcat drive. Um, got it. The last,
uh, the last meeting that we had, the presentation for the
most part, um, pretty much by the book, what
exactly you would think should happen, but what you know as a
reality, that's not what is taking place. There's a lot of things that are, are,
are, are falling through the cracks. The, um,
the 95%, 99% of that meeting was about day of elections.
zero. Hardly anything about mail-in ballots, that
is a mess. Um, there's just how many, how many?
here's a, here's some questions. How many are being, how many ballots are being printed?
how many are being sent out? How many are being returned? These are all things nobody
knows. Uh, it, it's, it's sloppy. And,
uh, it appears the county knows
little about the process of the co cost of hand counting ballots. An estimated
1.1 million was mentioned during the county personnel from the county personnel.
if you'd asked, we could demonstrate how a hand count could have occurred in 65,000 voters
for about $300,000 or less. Also, the situation mohammed
county was incorrectly addressed in last month's presentation. Moca
mojave county had chosen to hand count, uh, but the attorney general, chris
mays and secretary of state, uh, adrian fontes threatened
criminal charges and fines. The arizona legislator is currently seeking a
c of the ag as she has no legal standing to do so. She misled the
county, or better yet scared them into, uh, scared them when there,
there is no legislation or language that a county cannot choose or
hand count. A county has every right to do the will of its people. The
state has the, does not have the right to impede on that. The same illegal
shenanigans occurred in cochise county as well. You supervisors took
a loyal oath of office and have the duty to stand up for the people. And we demand
that you uphold your oath, sir, new information. Was there anything new that you wanted to share?
you have the right to take control of the, sir, what, do
you have any new information? You have the right to take control of this county's
okay. Thank you. Election. And you have the right new information.
the how is it that the voter rolls, which we don't
have control of, and every time I ask questions about this, nobody knows how or why
it's done by an outside company, not even state level. It's done at a higher level.
how is it that every county, um, when the voter rolls go up and go down
every county systematically all rise and say at the same level?
that's not right. Okay. Not every county's the same. We can. So where
are these answers? We need to control our voter voter rolls. We
need to control this. What are you doing? Where are these answers? So we
can know that? Please set up a time to come talk with staff. That'd be great. We'd love to help you
with that. Thank you. Much appreciated. Okay.
donna, sherwin. Donna, do you have anything new? I do. Thank, thank you.
yeah. So, um, I just wanted to make sure
that the county knew that, uh, missouri, uh, in 2022, uh,
conducted a hand count of one of their, uh, actual counties.
and, um, compared to the rest of the state, when the counting was
done, they were 20 minutes behind the tabulating machines from other counties. And
after that proof that the hand count could be done, uh, in a timely fashion,
uh, they actually created and published a free, uh, I think it's
150 page manual for hand counting, which the county navajo county
could obtain. And in between now and the 30th of july, when the
first primary election happens, uh, we could take that, uh, into consideration.
and, um, another question I have for you, um, I haven't seen it in the newspaper,
is how are you advertising for poll workers? When we go to your website, the website
says election board members, how do people know to look for that when they wanna
apply to be a poll worker? Nobody knows that. It's an election board member
who refers to that as election board member. So can the county website
be changed and make it so that people can, on a search, find out
how they can apply to be a poll worker? Also, the drop boxes are supposed to,
according to the election manual of arizona, be 24 hours a day,
man, manned by two people. That is in the election manual.
but yet now we're putting money towards buying cameras, which once we
read a little deeper into the election manual, we've discovered that they actually state
it has to be manually watched 24 hours a day. That is in
the election manual. So now the camera idea is an
obsolete idea because we need people to be able to man every
dropbox in the county. Two people. And that would be two people, one from each party.
so how are we gonna do that? We need to get rid of the drop boxes. Also, 24,000
people who mailed in ballots for the 2022 election, according
to one of my friends that works in the office. It takes one person,
one full day to count 300 ballots. If you divide that into 24,000
ballots, how do you get that done in a timely fashion? It's, it's not, it's not doable.
it's that would it equal 80 days to count, or, sorry, not count, but
check, um, um, signatures. So anyway,
um, we just, we need to clean things up. I, I do ask you, you are our servants, uh,
we talk about in the pledge, indivisible. Well, we are divided and I don't
know why there's such a a hold back and the county seems to not wanna do
what we were asking. We in 2015 got machines, but
previous to that we hand counted. There's a, a backups provision in
the manual when we are election, uh, in our election training. Kristin haddock
teaches us that, that if the electricity were to go down, we can do everything
manually. Why do we not do that? Why don't we just get rid of the machines and do a manual
count? So I thank you for your time. Yeah. If you'll be sure to reach
out to staff with some of those questions that you had, that we addressed. And then one for
me and just make up with my notes. What was the term, sorry, poll. I just wanna make sure I, election board,
election board members is on your website. That's what you didn't like that name? Well, who's,
who knows to call it an election board? No, I just need to write that down. Yeah. Thank you. So not a poll worker, but thank
you. Yes, you're welcome. And, and I do live in pinetop. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you.
alright,
so the way that I'm gonna do this now is I'm gonna ask you again, do you have something new when
you come up, if you'll state what's new that you have,
if you don't, then I'm gonna ask you to, to go ahead and, and have
a seat. We have a meeting that we have business that we've told our citizens that we
are gonna address today and get through. And those were agendized as was
appropriate. And we're gonna do that. So mary, uh, mary,
uh, looks like cooking. Yes. I build my time to elia
lin. Okay. I'm not doing the yield the time
thing, but just so would you like to speak, is that in the agenda? Is what
that you're not going to yield time? It's not. Do I have to have an agenda that I'm yielding
time or not yielding time. Our, our policy is that each individual has two minutes. There's
nothing to give time to somebody else. It says three in the agenda. I'm sorry, three minutes.
I misspoke. So it's at the chair's discretion to be able to, to do that.
but we have quite a few of 'em here that we're trying to be able to get through and a meeting that we're trying
to attend to that was agenda and business to be done. So
do you want to speak or do you want to have and do you have new items? No, I was
going to yield my five facility. Okay. Celia, do you have new items?
I do. Okay, hold on. When we come to yours and let me see if I can find yours real quick.
um, so mary, no. Right.
thank you celia. Sorry. I'm find yours here. Okay. I found it. So three minutes,
you have new items if you'll come up address and give us your address and then just go
straight into the, these are the new items. My name is celia loughlin
and I live at 2169 knife and over guard. These
are the new items I'm asking that the board
considers that my vote is disenfranchised
if it is changed by a malicious actor as described
in the cisa 2022.
if my unmonitored ballot box is illegally
stuffed as described as a vulnerability
by csa and if our voter rolls export
non-citizens, felons and drivers under
18, which he spoke about last time we met, so that they
are all sent a ballot in mailin ballot,
then my vote is disenfranchised. That's a violation of my 14th
amendment. Right. And the new information
that I have that I have not brought is the email
between merrick garland, his wife, and
the, um, let me go to that information quickly.
lynn garland in those emails from may and july of
2015, where she asked whether
the es and s machines, she was talking to the maryland state board
of elections, whether the es and s machines are connected to the
internet, she is told yes. And several are
included in the e-s-n-s-d-s 200 tabulator
and we're still using those nine years later.
okay. I'm also asking that if, um,
I'm offering a suggestion. I have
mark, cook and clay par
as ideas on how to examine our systems
and processes so that they can better address the
hand counting and we can do it live streamed by
precinct. Um, that would, and it would be pennies on the dollar.
I think that's it. Oh, and if ms. Richards, I know that she had, I had
heard since the last meeting, this happened a few years ago, but she said
that she could not do another election unless it is with machines. Then I
would ask that she be dismissed of her job and that we look at diverting
the money to experts like clay par or
mark cook. Thank you. Appreciate your time on that. Thank you. If you would,
I wanna make sure again and address, if you have something new, please feel free to share
it. The appropriate way to be able to deal, 'cause your voice you need to be heard
is to reach out to the county. You can call any one of us as elected officials and have
a conversation with us. You also can reach out to the county and start to have these conversations.
you can also reach out to your party leadership because we've had ongoing
meetings and continue to meet with party leadership and are in what I believe are productive
conversations around the concerns that are there. Are trying to actively find
ways to be able to work within the laws of the land that
we have on how we can achieve those things. The format is not
to come here and to do it this way because we can't communicate. So, so again, I'm
just giving kind of how we're gonna work the rest of the call to the public. If, if you don't have something
new and your idea is just to be able to come on the microphone and do, I'm gonna
start dismissing quicker. Okay? We want to hear you. There's an
appropriate way to do that. I've got families that are here. They're gonna be, that have the
items on the agenda. We've got business to be done. So here we go. The next thing,
jackie allen, I have something
new. I was going to yield my time to say thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it.
jerry hubbard. Jerry, do you have something new? I had something new, but it's
essentially been covered by one of the other people speaking today. So I will yield.
thank you. I really appreciate it. Thank you. And if you have more items, feel free to reach out to
one of us or the county and we'll be happy to work with you. Uh,
tina, question, do you have something new? Yes. Perfect.
if you'll give your address and then tell us what new you have. My name is tina
parham, 29 14 pine road over guard, arizona. I am outraged
at the inflated numbers given by mr. Ma
layton concerning hand counting. Um,
he said that they would be up to even maybe 40%
error if we hand count it instead of using the machine. It's
being done all over the world with minimal errors and navajo
county did it for decades with
absolute insignificant errors. It can be done.
uh, many of his comments were error
and they were not addressed to us. They did not answer any of our
questions that were submitted. And what's the
new item? I'm not hearing something new. My outrage.
it's the new item. Thank you for sharing that. You're frustrated. He, we'd be happy to have a conversation.
you'll go ahead and take a seat. Thank you. Appreciate your time. Alright, melinda,
thomas and folks, we'll have a meeting of order if we start doing that. We'll just
let you go into the next room and be able to watch from there so we can get business done. Melinda, you
have something new? Yes. Thank you. Melinda thomas, 85 71
bobcat in show low. My question more so is
about the security for me is any technology
can be hacked regardless if banks can get hacked. I
think these tabulators or even the pole pads,
even though they say that the pole pads aren't, you know, connected to the internet.
melinda, anything? This is a question that's been asked multiple times. Do you have something new?
anything that has technology I'm ask can be had you don't have something new? Do you have something
new? This is something that's been, I just wanted that to, to go onto the record. Thank you,
belinda. Thank you. Yes, I have something new.
thank you. If you'll give your address scrapes for you to treat us like this. Thank you. This
is, this is our three minutes to speak all you. Can you go ahead and and have her removed out
of the meeting? Thank you. No, I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving. We demand,
we demand the very least that you do is set up at a burden. No.
is I have three minutes. The supreme court says she
can see. Would you like to be removed as well? She wants to. Would you like to be removed as well?
no, but hey, we need to move forward. Members can speak as him.
I'm so sorry for those of you that have children here. We are better than this
right now. So, I'm sorry. Really this is not how it's appropriate.
I apologize. Supreme court says so we have a rick,
rick bures. Rick, do you have anything new? I do have something to do with it. Thank you.
a discrepancy between white river holding center and
cinco here in holbrook. Okay. Uh, my name is rick burris.
I live at 2 8 8 3 silver dollar in ob guard. December 9th, 2022.
approximately 30 days after election day. And by the way, 30
days after election, recount is useless for that. But that's another discussion.
eyewitness account of an election day ballot recount. December 9th, 2022.
recount of election day ballots from the ds 200 from white river voter center
and recount at central here in holbrook. An error
reported coming from white river boat center, zip drive numbers
along with ballots not counted on the ds 200, did not match
the recount at central in holbrook zip drive counted
855 ballots. The ds 200
went down at the voting location. There was no power
resulting in 145 ballots not counted by the ds
200. These 145 ballots were received at central
in a bag for recount. The paper ballots cast at the white river
vote center on the ds 200 and the 145
placed in bag should have been a total of 1000 paper ballots
central reported. The recount of the paper ballots from white river
on 12 9 20 22 was 992.
this is the number that was reported to the secretary of state 992
on the recount. Even though they were recorded eight missing
the election. Employee official asked the inspector what happened. And it was noted
that the inspector said maybe some ballots were counted twice on the tabulator
and they just don't remember this comment on the tabulator counting the
ballots twice as interesting. Remember, we are only talking about the
ballots that were cast by walk-in election day voters and their ballots
are to go through the tabulator. Here's the saddest thing. Eight
citizens who have a civil right to vote, come to the polls to cast
their vote and their vote was tossed in the abyss by a technical
heir. These tabulators and voting equipment have countless vulnerabilities
that continue to take away our civil rights and violate the arizona constitution
and the us constitution. The biggest takeaway, if
the election was hand counted in the first place at the precinct level, there
would've been none of these open doors to damaging vulnerabilities, errors
and gross oversights. We demand, at the very least,
you set up an emergency backup and verify all ballots
and voters and hand count all, not
just a select few, all the actual paper ballots and
the votes on them to confirm the accuracy of the vote and the voters.
thank you. Appreciate your time. I have right here your name and information.
if you'll please share that if you feel so inclined with staff,
the information afterwards so we can look at that. Thank you. Uh, roger,
roger gore. Uh, there's one if
you'll come up to, for the, for the, uh, native americans
on the council. And the second, the cost saving issue. Okay. Thank you sir.
my name is roger gores. I live at 3 5 5 7 wildflower
drive in hebert. Uh, my justification to speaking to the three native
american council members is I have worked and lived on the navajo
reservation. I've as a federal government employee,
I have also worked at the fort mcdowell reservation as a
fort mcdowell government employee. You three
native americans on this board of supervisors have the
majority power to do something on the reservations. One
of the things I want you to consider, because you have sovereign nation
status in this country, is you could allow,
uh, hand count ballots in your precincts
to, uh, validate, uh,
the accuracy of the electronic voting systems or not.
the second thing, and I want you to consider that, the second
thing is the cost saving measure. Uh, there has been, uh,
cost savings, cost accounts of doing hand count ballots
and having employees or volunteers do that. I want
you to consider, I I believe we would have enough volunteers in
this county to hand count ballots and not be
paid. Why do, why do volunteers have to be paid to do,
uh, hand count ballots? I don't understand that. Thank you for
your time. Appreciate it. Thank you. Alright. And that's
all the ones that I had. Leslie, you don't have any other ones? Correct.
okay. So that's all the ones that I have for call of the public. Thank you very much. Um,
it does allow us to respond to criticism. I just will make this simple comment.
we have continued to try to make sure that there's an open door to have a conversation.
if you'd like to, feel free to call any one of your elected officials. Feel free
to be able to, in the proper format, reach out to the county staff and
we're continuing to meet with some of the party leadership to have conversations with them.
we are continuing and committed to have those conversations, um, in
the appropriate format. So we're more than willing to do that. Want to listen, want to make sure that we have,
but appreciate those being here on that today. We're gonna move on then from call to
the public. Um, and we're gonna go
to the consent agenda. Item number two. Alyssa
has that up on the screen and I know that's been distributed previously.
any questions or comments on call or on the, uh, consent agenda?
chairman, I don't have any questions. I will motion for approval for the items on
the consent agenda. I'll second. Second.
so we have a motion to second for approval of the consent agenda. All those in
favor vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Nay.
hearing none. Motion passes unanimously on the consent
agenda. Thank you very much. We'll now move on the agenda to item number
three. Navajo county public health services district board of director session. We'll
need to move into the navajo county public health services board of director session.
so move. We have a motion? Do we have a second? Second.
we have a second. All in favor vote. Aye. Aye.
aye. Any opposed? Vote nay. Hearing none. The aye. Have it. We
now are in the navajo county board of directors or health public health services district.
with the consent agenda on the first item. Um, it's also on the
screen for those in the room. Um, chair would entertain a
motion on the consent agenda and chair. I'll make a motion.
okay, so we have a motion. Do we have a second and a second? I'll second
it. Okay. Motion is second. Any more discussion there?
none. All those in favor? Vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed?
vote nay. Hearing none. The ayes have it. Consent
agenda has been approved. Chair to entertain a motion to enter regular session. So
we have a second. Second. We have a second. All those in favor?
vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Vote nay.
none the aye. Have it. And we are now back in regular session item number four, border supervisors.
we'll got item four, a recognition of ion
division, uh, four a hundred thirty two pound wrestling state champion. Caleb
porter. Um, caleb, the time over to
supervisor. Do we have the wrestlers out there?
and I'll weigh off of'em again.
turn around. You guys can turn around and face the board here. Is your, is your coach here
today? I want to be there. He's coming in.
thank you. Coach. Would you like to just, uh, take a moment or two and
just kind of share us a little bit about your, your team here today? And
I, I just appreciate you being here. Sure. Thanks. First of all. Thanks for having
us here today and, and recognizing these wonderful young men. Um,
you know, two years ago we didn't fare so hot in
the state tournament. Um, got, uh, we were
up against marci who was a renting three time state champions as a team.
yuma catholic who was a renting three time state runners up.
um, yuma catholic's coach emailed me not too long ago and he was talking about
he crunches numbers. And this whole season they were talking to their team about
chasing 22 points. That's what they needed to make up from the previous year
to win the state championship. And he told me, and I don't, I don't crunch numbers, we
just go out and try to wrestle. And he said, just to put in perspective, you guys
were chasing, I think he said 105 and a half points from the previous year.
and, uh, these young men, uh, put in a lot of time and a lot of effort,
um, worked their tails off and uh, um, pushed each other to
be better. And we came out on top by two points over, um, yuma
catholic and I think four points over marci. Um, I think that
the, uh, the best thing about it's, we come from a high school of 165
kids, so more or less 80 kids, 82 and a half boys
to choose from on our wrestling team and to compete against schools that
have upwards of 800, 850, um, kids in the schools, uh,
is a huge accomplishment for these young men. And, and I can't say enough about
'em, the time and effort that they put into it. 'cause you see on a lot of the shirts they
have the, the men on the mat. We, we took an opportunity to go watch the, the, the movie
the boys in the boat and, uh, just a couple weeks before the state
tournament. And I think we were a little bit inspired by that, that hey, if we can get things in
the full swing, we have the kids in there, the the guys in the room to make it happen.
and, and they did it. So we kind of came up with the theme of men on the mat and it's
been a special, special group of kids and a lot of these kids are coming back next year. We're we're
missing three seniors that are on a senior trip today. But, uh, they were, they were huge
and instrumental in, in our championship as well. That's great. Thank
you very much. When I, uh, met with your superintendent, ron tinney told me the
story about where you guys came up with the men on the map of going and,
and watching that movie. Those of you who haven't seen that movie, it's a olympic
story of some people who, who went on to win the olympics, uh, at rowing.
and it just takes a lot of effort. The synchronization. Will
you guys have one state champion today if it, uh, let's
see, who is that? Caleb. Caleb, okay, repeat
here. Okay. And it's come up. I'm gonna give this to you because I'm gonna single you out just a
little bit because you, you are the, the one single state
champion that they had. Okay, congratulations. But what's unique about
wrestling is to win a state championship
as a team. And it took all of you guys to
do that as a team. And as your coach said, you won by two points and
to win by two points is very difficult. I think there was a time you guys were thinking
that you could dip fifth or sixth place maybe and then some things happened and you
guys were actually cheering for people who you thought you wouldn't be cheering for at
sometimes and cheering for other teams back and forth that create a little bit of that going
on. Absolutely. And then what was exciting is you guys got bonus points.
I think if you wrestle or you get pins, you get things they add up to bonus
points and your team got 54 bonus points during that meet.
so it was phenomenal that even if you took fifth place or sixth
place, every one of your matches contributed
to the state champion. If any one of you would've maybe
not got a pin but just won or if you would've lost by
more than you did, it would've lost some of those points. So it was truly
a team effort. And then we just wanna applaud you for that team effort. So come up, we're gonna give
you these, uh, award here and just uh, take the
group picture if we could of everybody. Okay. But congratulations. Let's give guys thank you.
congratulations.
thank you.
do you think we should put some of that front row, like right down there? Or
how do you wanna do? Yeah, why don't we do that.
want take about, about you guys? Come to the front.
that front there.
down here. Go down here. Yeah. Let's see if
we'll take half you guys right in front, right here.
once you guys move right up to here maybe.
alright, if I stand by you.
you missing some of these short kids
slide. There you go.
find a hole.
1, 2, 3. Hold it. I'm gonna get one this way.
1, 2, 3. Congratulations
guys.
you guys be back next year. Okay. Alright,
all great to see them. We have a couple more
recognitions that we want to do. I want bite up real quick. Um,
kaitlyn leduc and our coach joe larson, if you guys wanna come up to the,
come up to the microphone, that'd be great. Um,
kind of a kind of a neat ordeal we get to recognize right now. A lot of times we'll recognize
here as a board some of the different state champions. I understand that you just became
a state champion just recently, actually both of you guys and your mom as coach
of this track team. So we'll be able to recognize you guys again here soon.
but today we'll recognize you for something just a little bit different, pretty unique and
pretty exciting. Uh, coach larson, do you mind kind of sharing with the board what, uh,
kaitlyn was recently recognized with as far as her award?
um, so she was,
I put her in as, uh, applicant for an all american award.
um, and I had received a,
an email saying that she was, you know, a candidate for it and I needed to put
that in. And I said, okay, I've never really seen that too much. So,
um, I took out her gpa from the high school and she's got a
4.0 that's without all of her other classes. I think it goes up
into the higher 4.0 range. Um, and
so I put her in as a scholar, all, all american, um, athlete.
and a few weeks later I got back an email and, um,
she had received that award. I
also put her in as a character
and leader, all american. And I had to write out a
pretty long, lengthy
letter to them on that. And I have received back that she also
received that all american award as well. Um, this is
somebody who is very well known to a lot of the girls
in the wrestling community around, especially in northern arizona.
um, and being somebody that they enjoy having
around. And um, so she received those two awards and
I was, I was not, I I didn't know if it was gonna work or
not, I didn't know. But uh, with what I applied with, I felt
like it was good enough and, um, they sent it back and she received both
of those awards. Thank you coach.
so if you don't mind kind of sharing with the group, one of the things that we like to hear sometimes
from our, some from some of our award winners is just tell us what does it mean?
what does it take to, to become excellent in your area? What
advice would you give others? Do you mind kind of sharing that with us?
in wrestling? In wrestling or in life? You have quite a few different
accomplishments, so happy to hear whatever you have to share. Could you stand at the
mic? Yes. Um, well obviously
just put a lot of work and time into it. I think one thing with my schedule is I
don't really have a lot of free time ever. I'm always kinda working on something.
just dedicating your time is the most you can do to
get good at or excel in something. That's
it. Well, thank you for sharing that. I'll, I'll tell you, I, I know
caitlyn and her family personally and she's an outstanding human being.
not surprised that she got char or character and leadership all american at all. Scholars
not a surprise. She excels in most everything she tends to be a part of.
and I know that's something that her family does. And if you probably noticed, she's pretty humble about
how she received a reward. Um, and that's something else that
stands out to me about you and your family. So anyways, really appreciate
you being here with us. Um, if we all could, let's give her a hand. Congratulations.
what we're gonna do is, I, I have a medal for you here that I'm gonna give to you if
you wanna come up here and get it. What we're gonna do, 'cause we have a few recipients that are individuals,
we will ask you to, we're gonna give this to you, we'll ask you to stay and then we're gonna a picture with the rest of
you guys all appear together at the, at toward. And that'll just be in a couple minutes. Is
that okay? Okay, perfect. I want to give this to you, so
thank you very much. Thank you.
alright, next on the agenda is recognition of
snowflake division 338 pound wrestling champion,
troy ney and 215 pound repeat state champion wrestler,
devin ney. And coach, you want to come up as well.
coach dad, I know you respond to a lot of different ones. Brothers here who also was a
state champion and now is wrestling in college. So good to see him
coach in your capacity as coach. Do you mind talking a little
bit about your experience with the team this year and what these two boys,
uh, them, what it took to win a state championship and then we'll allow them to talk about what excellence
looks like too?
I think individual, I think came from just hard work. The hard work ethic that
these two boys have is just, it's,
it's hard to, um, I mean I see it every day and
it's, I still can't believe how hard how hard they can push in the room. And they're,
all they're doing is getting better, better, better, better every day. And, and
just like life, I mean, we get setbacks. Troy gets hurt, he's still
in the room, he is still watching, he's helping the other kids get better. Devin's
the same way devin gets hurt, he'll sit out and work with the younger kids. And
the team we have there is just, we have, we have
a good team. It's, we keep pushing
that wrestling's not in the state of
arizona, wrestling's not as high as like iowa, pennsylvania, but we're,
we're coming up in some of the state champs that we have
are competing at national levels and winning at national levels.
so arizona's on its way up. So, but telling the
kids here in s or in snowflake is like, hey, if you want to compete, you gotta
put in the time to work. And a lot of the kids are coming in now and we get
seven to eight guys a night to come practice with us. And, but it
wrestling's all about work. There's no, you can't, you can't
take the summer off and come back the next year thinking I'm gonna be a state champ. It don't
it don't work that way. So, and these two with their brother, they're
some of the hardest working kids I know. And I know 'cause they, they're my kids. .
so, but it's, it is, it's a joy to be part of it and it's,
I can't, there's no,
being a proud dad doesn't even mean it's not enough
to be, to have these three and coming back here every year to do this.
it's, it's a joy. Thank you. Appreciate you sharing that.
troy, do you mind first sharing what it means to be a champion? Share with
the rest of us, what that is, and then devin, if you can share with us as well.
uh, it means a lot, but it's not just
about being a state champion. It's about like everything else. Like putting faith
into other things and not just wrestling and like,
like seeing, seeing things in a different perspective
and like knowing how, like what it takes just
to get something that you want and other people would want. Maybe
just as much as you. And I don't think it's just about
the state champ, it's 'cause there's a lot of other things out there than
being a state champ. I think it's, it's pretty cool to have, but
it's not everything you need like for wrestling.
'cause wrestling teaches you more than just, just
how to work hard. It teaches a lot more things. Like it showed you, shows
you who, who really works hard and who doesn't. And like
who's there and who's there when, when you're working,
who's not. I think. Thank you. Appreciate your comments
evan. Uh, kind of the same thing. Like,
like before this year I thought like wrestling meant everything, but like a few things
happen. It doesn't, it doesn't mean that much anymore. Like winning
is cool. See like after state hugging my dad, that's
like one of the best feelings ever. Uh, getting to
next year, hopefully passing him. Uh,
it's just something that I look forward to, but it doesn't mean the world to me anymore.
like it's a lot. But it's, it's just something
that like, we like to do. It's not every, it's not all we
know. I don't know. Appreciate
your, appreciate your comments. Um, I I, okay. I was just going to make a couple
comments. I've got this. I'll, I'll, I'll bring it to you here in just a second. And I've got two medals
here for you just to recognize you. But I want to, to caitlin and to, to,
you both had a chance to talk to some athletes last night and I recognized a
few years ago, I really appreciate your comments about state championships matter and they do
that, that's an accomplishment that worth highlighting. But I
really admire what I think I'm hearing you both say, which is it matters,
but it's not your why. It's beyond that. It's more than that. And I think that
it's really important for especially a young athlete to understand that this
is part of your path and that helps you as you're moving down it. This is
not the top of the mountain. There's so much more in life to attain. There's communities
to build, there's people to unite. There's families that you'll bring together,
the rest of your life's in front of you and you're just getting off to a great start
and it'll fall upon you to lift others. I watched you devon this year from a
distance. I didn't get to see you closely, but my experience of you was similar to what you
just relayed last year, um, as a freshman, you won state and you
were focused on that. This year I've watched you act a little bit more of a part of a leader and
trying to rally those around. You watched your brother do that as well, but trying to elevate
your teammates and make them better, I want to acknowledge that and say thank you for
your efforts in that. That was highlighted with kaitlyn as well is how she's,
how she's a leader and elevates those around her. That's what leaders do. You've
proven you can win a state championship now. Go out and prove that you can continue
to win in life. So thank you very much for being here with us today. We're gonna do pictures here in a second. We have
one more recognition that we're gonna do, but then we'll have you all come up for pictures. I have
these for you if you guys wanna come get these. I want to know. Do you,
do you both of you continue your debt ?
you can tell they're not allowed to say. Sounds like he
still has it. We'll come ahead and then he may
have some additional questions. Did anyone else have any questions for? No.
so, alright, we're gonna go to the next item on the agenda and turn the time over to vice
chair penal. Uh,
thank you chair and supervisors for this time. Uh,
I believe that, um, mr. Young, mr.
uh, rodriguez joseph, um,
did not arrive today or is he here? Oh, here
he is. Rodriguez. Um,
good to see you. Yes, to see you. And I'm really proud of
you. I know, um, wrestling is a phy physical and a mental,
um, sport. And coming from the remote
area of, um, kay unified school district,
monument valley high school, to be specific, I'm really, um,
proud of you. You have
overcome a lot of challenges in your life that I'm aware
of. And, um, this is
a great accomplishment. Um, not only for yourself, but
um, for your team as, um,
keta, um, bon valley mustang wrestlers.
and I, I encourage you to continue to overcome
all these obstacles and, um, that you may have. And
I wish you much success
and that you'll have, uh, leadership skills as you
move along, um, as you graduate from, um,
monument valley high school this weekend. I'm sure you're missing a graduation
practice today, however, but we're grateful and proud of you all
the board members and myself that, um, you have made
this accomplishment. And I do have a medal with you and
for you here. And, um, I don't know
if you came with anybody else, your coach? Uh,
no, that's just my cousin. Oh, okay. Uh, well, that, that's
okay. At least you have company coming out here. Yeah. And would you like to, um,
share anything with us? Uh, yeah. Uh, so
with being the only, uh, native american, well
these two of course the navajo student, I'm very proud of 'em. And that just shows
the resilience that our culture has. And I think
I really put the navajo nation on the map and I feel like that's important to giving back
to my community because where I live is where
we have like little where the wrestling club started and that kind of ventured out to
ganado and all the parts. So I just really wanna
like, give back to the youth and especially my community.
so I've been helping my siblings, uh, with coaching and
my wrestling club. And I feel like wrestling could really teach you life lessons
and not just the sport itself. And it's all around just a humbling
sport in my opinion. And yeah, that's about it.
thank you again. I congratulate you joseph
rock south into unified school internship
monte valley high school. And, um, I know it's a long drive
that you come out 'cause I drive out from there as well to come to my
board meetings. I drove from out there this morning.
thank you. Yes, thank you. And congratulations and your cheer
ahead, supervisor white.
try not to cry, but I am crying.
um, I'm so impressed by your young people.
thank you. Thank you for your dedication to
not only your sport, but to your family,
to your friends, to your community.
it is,
it is such a wonderful thing to be able to witness
such human beings who
have a great love of their family.
and I could hear all of those voices and thank you for
the young men back there who, who demonstrated
or shared that it's not just about being a champion, that
there's so much more than that
and that all of the things that you have learned, um, will
be a driving force in your life. I used to sit up here
with a gentleman who was named steve williams and steve,
um, he served on the board of supervisors for many years. He
was a state president for schola ward,
um, or the schola community. And he was selected as
a judge from governor ducey and serves as a arizona
judge currently. And I share that because the
question that he always asked as a wrestler and when wrestlers came in were,
what did you learn that you'll apply to life?
and all of you have shared something that you'll apply to life.
and so thank you for that gift for me to be
able to witness because that inspires me and that inspires
the work that I do and the work of, um, serving
young people, but also being able to be here today with
you and being able to be with my colleagues to make decisions
on behalf of navajo county. I truly am
grateful for that gift. So thank you to all of those coaches,
every family member, every mom and dad who took you,
um, to your practice, to every family member
who dedicated time to all of the teachers who stayed late to help you.
um, I know that there were many, many people who invested time in
your success and I'm grateful to them and I'm
grateful for the communities who have invested their time. So thank you
chairman. Um, and best of luck to all of you young people.
I'm so, um, so proud of you and so
appreciative of the gift today. Thank you.
any other comments before we invite him up? No. All right.
if you can come up, we'd love to have a picture with you all up here.
that would be great.
can you see if caleb is still there? Caleb porter from mike, sir. Caleb
porter. See if he's still there. I don't know if caleb is or not.
sorry sir. It seems right.
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 4.
congratulations. You
all right. We know that they've gotta get back to school. They're probably really excited about that.
alright, we're gonna come to item,
uh, e consideration of application of,
uh, permanent extension of premise patio. Loretta onion bar and grill,
located in over guard, arizona. Melissa, good morning chairman.
supervisors, we received the application for permanent extension
of premises patio for red onion bar and grill, located in over guard arizona.
amy nations was the one that submitted the application. I believe she is
listening online, but she was unable to be here today.
um, we had all the offices,
didn't have any questions and approved the submittal of the application.
thank you. Any questions for members of the board?
okay. If no questions,
chair would entertain a motion chair. I'll make
a motion that we approve this application for an extension, uh, for
red onion bar and grill, located in re regard arizona. Second,
have a motion and a second. Any more discussion? Hearing none.
all those in favor vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.
any opposed? Vote aye. Hearing none, the ayes have it. Motion
passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you melissa. Alright, we're gonna go to item
f, public hearing, consideration of franchise agreement with cactus state utility operating
company llc for provisions of water services. Jason moore. Thank
you. Yeah, good morning. Uh, mr. Chairman, members of the board, really nice to have the opportunity
to speak to you this morning. Um, we're here to, uh, on this agenda item
to consider, uh, granting a franchise, uh, agreement to,
uh, canyon state utility company. Um, this is, uh,
previously was a franchise that was held, uh, by high country pines water company,
uh, over in, uh, near, uh, uh, hebrew overguard. Um, and
basically, um, uh, what happened was, uh, canyon state purchased,
uh, all of, uh, uh, high country pines water company's, uh, infrastructure
in that area for water distribution. Um, it turned out when we
researched the matter that, uh, uh, high country pines is, uh,
own franchise agreement had expired like five or six years ago. Um,
and so, uh, we, this isn't a renewal, it's, it's one that's entirely new.
um, we have, uh, followed the statutory procedure for providing, uh, notice to
the public, uh, under a rs 42 83. Um, and I'm
not aware of any, uh, objections that have been made, uh, to, uh, uh, granting the
franchise. It is a 25 year franchise agreement, which is pretty typical with these.
um, and, uh, you did, I believe, receive some, uh, correspondence
from, uh, fred kra, uh, from uh, canyon state, uh, telling you
a little bit about, you know, the water company and, and, and, and what they do. Um,
and so if there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. But, uh, uh,
other than that we just, uh, ask for the board's approval. Perfect. Thank
you. Jason. And I understand the applicant isn't gonna be present today, correct? That's correct, yeah. He
couldn't be here. Alright. Okay. With the board, what we'll do is we'll
go to the public hearing first before we come back. So we'll go, we'll open it up for the
public hearing. Are there any members of the public wish to speak at this time on this?
okay. Hearing scene? None. We'll, we'll close the public
hearing and come to the discussion portion of
it there. Members of the board that would like to discuss or have questions as it relates
to the item presented? I sheriff,
I could just make a comment. I appreciate the applicant, uh, reaching out to us with a
letter just informing us that he wasn't able to be here today, but encouraging,
uh, and giving his commitment that he'll do the best that he can. And I appreciate
him at least taking the time to do that. And I think you mentioned that, but thank you. Thank
you. Thank you supervisor seymour. Any other comments or questions?
no. Okay. Hearing none, chair, to entertain a motion,
I'll make a motion that we approve, uh, the franchise agreement with cactus state
utility operating llc for the provisions of water service. Second.
second. We have a motion and a second. Any more discussion?
hearing none. All those in favor? Vote. Aye. Aye.
a any opposed? Vote nay.
hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you jason. Appreciate it.
yes, thank you. Okay, we'll move on to item five, administrative
services. Item five, a presentation of joel johnston on his retirement after 23
years of service in county. I'll turn time over to eric. Stop.
good morning, chairman, vice chair members of
the board. This morning we have the, the opportunity to recognize
two of our employees for their years of service to navajo county.
uh, this is one of my favorite things to recognize our employees after
putting in so much time to serve the residents of navajo
county. Um, the first brett's here. Good.
so the first one we have is, is joel johnston. Joel has been with navajo county
for over 23 years. Um, as far
I I've been with navajo county for about 12, and, and joel's been with facilities
the whole, the whole time. And he's been the deputy director and just
has been doing such a solid job, uh, standing in the background and getting things
done. Um, he, he's a hard worker, very knowledgeable,
and he's got a good sense of humor. I like that about him too. So,
um, we, we definitely wanna recognize him. And, and brett, if you want to say a few words
as well. Good morning.
joel came to us as a young pup.
joel. Joel has been an outstanding employee. He's been a great deputy director.
he's, um, pretty much led day to day and he actually did
our, all of our water works, so he does all the testing our wells.
um, and he's, he's done a phenomenal job over the years and
I, I really appreciate having him there and he's hard to replace.
so thank you joel.
thank you very much. Any joel,
go ahead. Would you like to say anything? Comments to, uh,
uh, I do appreciate having the opportunity to work for navajo county
for so many years. There's really not a lot of choice up here.
um, probably though the main reason I'm maybe taking
off a little sooner than I could have is I am tired driving over a hundred miles a
day from my home. So, but, uh, I'm gonna miss the guys
and I'm gonna miss doing the work and, uh, I appreciate everything, the county
and the board's done for me. So thank you. Thank you.
any comments from members of the board?
any comments or questions before we move to the next one? Um, just congratulations.
congratulations and enjoy the retirement and thank you for coming today.
ms. Johnson. Thank you. So you got a new boss you're
setting by ac . Congratulations.
yep. Congratulations. Well said. Alright,
we'll move on to the next item on the agenda item, um, b presentation
to mark searles on retirement after 12 years of servicenow
county yard. Thank you chairman. Mark, if you want to come on up.
mark sles, uh, has been with navajo county for over 12 years. And
mark, you've worked in a couple different locations in the county. I know you've worked in probation.
and then, uh, and then most recently in facilities, uh, mark has been our
lead custodian for a number of years. And again, same, same with with
joel. He is just been a steady force, uh, keeping everything clean for all
of our employees and just doing a great job. Also, notice that mark
is a great hard worker. He's very kind and very, very thoughtful,
and he's just a, a great, great guy. We'll be missing him too. Brett,
you got a few things to say too.
just want to thank you, mark. I really appreciate
mark. Um, I was kind of surprised when he put in for the job
'cause, you know, coming from probation, but he said he just wanted a
day to day, same old, same old, and he came in and he did a phenomenal job
of leading that team and we really appreciate him. Thank you.
mark. You
see you. No , I don't normally say a lot of things,
so sorry. A little under the weather. Uh, I do appreciate the opportunity
to work with the county. It's been a lot of years
and I was glad that I was able to work with facility at the end of it
because like brett said, it was just a little day-to-day type
thing, and it was easier on me, on my body and getting things done. Probation
as a young man came on, not my age. So, uh,
I do appreciate I'll miss a lot of the people that I've come in contact with,
a lot of the people that I work with directly. So, uh,
I thank you for all that you've done for me, and that's all I have. Thank you.
thank you. Eric. Any comments from members of the board? Congratulations.
I'll say, uh, um, ahead, vice chair. Uh, um,
thank you chair and board members. Um,
I think that both of you thank you for, um, being part of the
navajo county team and really appreciate mark because, um,
keeping things clean is not an easy job.
so we really appreciate, um, how much you do and
every, all part of your team that keep things clean. Um,
I see that, um, coming to,
to this building, these buildings and they're kept clean. We
really appreciate that and, um, we see how
well you do your job as well as the others who work with you. Thank you so
much. Thank you. And I want to just say to both of you,
thank you sincerely. It's always great to be able to recognize some of the employees that are
here at navajo county. And the one thing that seems to always stand out to me
is kind of the heart of where all of you are. The truth is, nobody's
perfect, but it sure seems like our people are really striving to do the best
they can and serve and help, um, the departments that they're with
and the citizens that they serve. And that's some of the comments that we heard about both
of you in your service. Um, and you leave that legacy behind
and for those to try to live up to that standard. So thank you for your example. Thank you
for the leadership role that you played inside of where you acted and, and
worked. And we wish you the best in this next phase of life. So thank you very much. Appreciate
you. So, alright, we're gonna move on then.
thank you eric. Thank you. On to item six, sheriff's
office consideration, approval of proclamation proclaiming may 12th
through may 18th is national police week in navajo county.
turn the time over. Hey, how are you?
I'm well, thank you chairman. Uh, its supervisors staff. Thank you
for letting us have this opportunity today to come to you. As the sheriff
said earlier in the month about the, uh, proclamations may seems to be proclamation
month, uh, this week, uh, or this time,
I'm gonna ask for consideration for proclamation for national police
week. Uh, 1962, president kennedy proclaimed may 15th
is national peace officer memorial day and the calendar week in which may 15th
falls as national police week. And whereas the law
enforcement members of the navajo county sheriff's office play an important role
in safeguarding the rights and freedoms of the citizens of our community. And whereas
it is important that all citizens know and understand the problems, the duties, the
responsibilities of their sheriff's office, and members of our office recognize
their duty to serve the people by safeguarding life and property, protecting
them against violence or disorder, and protecting the innocent against deception
and the weak against oppression or intimidation. And whereas our sheriff's office has
grown to be a modern and scientific law enforcement agency, which unceasingly
provides a vital public service, I'm gonna ask that the ma that
the board of supervisors, uh, proclaim the, the week of
may 12th of through may 18th, 2024
as national police week in navajo county, arizona, to honor
the men and women whose diligence and professionalism keep our county and
citizens safe each and every day. And it's with great pride to be able to stand here in front of you
guys today and read this proclamation, ask for that recognition.
uh, here in navajo county, you're, you have 60, uh,
sworn law enforcement officers that serve this county each and every day,
all 10,000 square miles of it. Uh, it's not an easy job, it's a taxing
job. Uh, it's 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And, uh,
it's again, with great pride bill to come up here and, and, and advocate on behalf of the men
and women to serve at the navajo county sheriff's office. Uh, and I just ask
that, that you guys would consider this proclamation at this time.
I have any questions if y'all have any, you have any questions,
comments? No. I just appreciate your service. Uh, everybody's service in
law enforcement that they do. Uh, it's, uh,
you know, it, it is sad the changes of our time, uh, that we rec
don't recognize fully how much you guys put your life
on the line, your risk on the line, the unappreciation that comes
from a part of the public. But thank you for what
you do and thank you for each person and your staff as well as every peace officer.
I think we're coming up on close to our year of, uh, the
peace officer officer memorial that we put up about a year ago and just remembering,
uh, that we got through this year without adding a name to that wall. And
I think that's something that's special in, in navajo county as well too. So thank
you. And for everyone else, that service, appreciate it. Thank you, supervisor.
okay, any other comments or questions? Uh, chairman, um,
certainly, uh, thank you. I ex expressed my gratitude
to you and all of those who serve with you and serve our communities. Um,
thank you for your dedication, not only to, um,
our communities, but I think of the young children and our families and
everyone who relies on you. Um, and I know that our,
our police departments throughout the county, that you have done a wonderful
job in working together that when there is an emergency, that
you are quick, um, to respond and ensuring that there is a
collective, um, uh, a partnership that is
valuable, um, that honors and respects the citizens of the
county. So I appreciate that I had the opportunity, um,
to visit on, uh, an incident that occurred in,
um, pinetop recently where there was an individual
who was firing. Um, and how, um,
from me, from a person who's looking, um, that's not my job. That's
not my role. Um, and the fear lens that
comes on and thinking about the traumatic event, um,
that that could cause and for a police officer to continually
put themselves in that space, um, to be able to serve our communities.
um, my hats off and gratitude to each of you who
decide and dedicate their time to do that. So thank you so much. Thank you, chairman.
thank you supervisor, your honor. Thank you chair and
supervisors and I do, um, appreciate you all
as well as all for your community service as law
enforcement include, which includes the sheriff department and as well as
the, uh, all the police departments, um, throughout
the towns and municipalities and out in
the remote areas as well. Um, thank you for the
protection you provide us every day, um, in all areas
of life. And, um,
your presence is always appreciated wherever you
all go. And, um,
much gratitude. Thank you. Thank you. Vice
chair. Uh, chief, you'll be sure to relay to the sheriff
as well as the rest of your team. Um, this one for me is easy,
but we really do appreciate all that you guys do. Recognize that it's not easy, you're not always
appreciated. I hope that your experience, though, in navajo county is that the vast majority do
definitely appreciate who you are, what you represent, what you stand
for, and how you do your job. So thank you to each of you. Um, we
really do mean that. So appreciate you. Thank you, sir. Um, with that chair
would entertain a motion. Motion. Second. We a motion
and a second. Any more discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor?
vote. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Vote nay.
hearing none, the ayes have it. Motion passes. Union unanimously. Thank you very much.
we really appreciate it. A picture with the board. Where's office tv?
yeah, sure. The board. Do you wanna do it up here?
thank you.
yeah, you're part of the team. I mean, slide show team. Yes,
I didn't, so good.
we can hold you.
three 50 fifties.
two, three.
all right, we're gonna move on to item seven, public works. Item seven, a consideration
award of contract b 24 dash zero three dash or
dash 0 1 1. Supplying and delivery and liquid asphalt products
at the hawker and evan asphalt company in cactus asphalt beam.
turn the time over to manny. Thank you. Good morning, mr. Chairman, vice
sharon supervisor. This annual contract is to
provide asphaltic concrete binders, uh, for various activities that
public works is engaged in regarding payment preservation. The
way contract was set up was to select up to two bidders because this
gives us flexibility and some options. Um, this has been
done in the past, so it's it's common, uh, to do that. Uh,
on april 11th, uh, bids were received and bids
were open, uh, in accordance to our procurement policies,
only two bids were received. Uh, and the details of the bids
and all that, the information is in your packet for your review. Uh,
at this time, staff is recommending award of the contract, uh,
to hawker and evans as fort company and cactus asphalt inc.
and staff, uh, staff, or, I'm here to answer any questions that you may have.
thank you, manny. Alright, any questions for
manny on the item presented? None chair
would entertain a motion. Chairman, I, I motion
for approval? Second. We have
a motion. A second. Any more discussion? Hearing none.
all those in favor? Vote. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Vote nay
and none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, manny. We'll, on item b, consideration
of attachment c to the navajo nation intergovernmental agreement
for assistance with roadway maintenance materials for the n 8 0 65
road maintenance project. Many good morning, mr. Chairman, vice chair and supervisors.
the forest lake chapter. In coordination with nai requested navajo county
for assistance for roadway maintenance material for their n 80 65
road maintenance project. Um, then 80 65
is an unpaved roadway, which provides access to black maa chapter, house businesses,
schools, and other residents living in and around, uh, forest lake.
uh, chapter, um, the work under this project,
the scope of work is to place aggregate base, uh, gravel material
for almost three quarters of a mile. Um, the funds
from this for, for this project, the funds for this project will be coming from
district one fund, uh, I mean district one, her funds. Um,
this project is budgeted for this year and the next year, uh,
the cost for this project is close to a hundred thousand dollars per according
to our procurement policy. Uh, the details of the project,
uh, the location and everything, um, the resolution from the forest lake chapter,
all the backup documents are in your packet for your review. At this time, staff
is recommending approval and I'm here to answer any
question. You may have any questions from members of the board.
my, I do have a question. Go ahead. Um, I,
I see I'm seeing what I'm reading up there, which is not
on, on my, um, agenda here.
um, there's supposed to be some other materials that
are supposed to be purchased for this road, um,
segment. And is that
included or is that right now where,
the way ndot has communicated to us the work that they will be doing,
uhhuh is only gra gravel placement. So that's what this,
uh, task agreement or attachment is for the remainder of the work. I
think, uh, between ndot and bi, they will decide what will work will
be done, and that can be captured later on. But, uh, if
you look at the memo that's part of this, uh, packet, that's the work that they're
requesting right now, gravel placement. Thank you.
any other questions? Okay, jared,
entertain a motion. I will, um,
motion for approval. I'll second it. We
have a motion and a second. Any more discussion? Okay. None. All those
in favor? Vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed?
vote nay. Okay. None the ayes have it. Motion
passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate it. One item
c, planning development, public hearing, consideration of civil
adoption of resolution number 17 dash 2024 approving
or denying a text amendment to article 20, section 2001,
article 25, section 25 18 of the navajo county zoning ordinance
regarding institutional residences and other group homes which do not qualify
as group homes for the disabled. Cody. Alright, mr. Chairman, vice chairman,
supervisors, I appreciate your time this morning. Uh, late last year,
staff was instructed to take a look at our group home policies within the navajo county zoning
ordinance and see if any updates were necessary to this. Um, since that
time, staff has investigated, done some research, and today we're bringing forward the
recommendations that we've made through our research. Um, so
this is for group homes that would not qualify as group homes for the disabled staff is
not touching that at all. We're just breaking it out in it into its own section under group
homes in the same format that currently exists. Um,
the institutional residence is another group. Homes is a little bit of a mouthful, so if
I'm just referring to it as group homes for the sake, um, please understand that's the, the
reference here. So staff has taken a look at the
zoning ordinance and noted areas where we believe there needs
to be some updates to these. Uh, our recommendations are strongly
based on these types of standards, but we wanted to create, um, something
clear and concrete so the public and the developers coming in wishing to make these facilities
fully understand what's expected of staff in the county for these types of group homes.
so the, the new section for these group homes does note that special use
permits would still be required as are currently required, um,
but only would be entertained within the multifamily, which is r two and r three, and the
commercial residential, which is another form of, uh, multifamily as well.
within this staff recommended adding some performance standards and requirements
for these group homes. With that, it would be a 1200 foot separation between
any of the group homes, so you don't end up with neighborhoods with these, uh, cluster developments
on these so that there's some spacing adequately a 1200 foot
separation from any religious, educational or childcare facilities, which is pretty typical
for a facility of this nature. Um, those previously noted zoning
districts, we did take a look at the occupancy limits as well. Um, dhs
allows up to two beds per bedroom within these facilities. When
looking at multifamily, uh, we wanted to look at keeping those as more
residential and blending if they were brought forward. Uh, so we're recommending that
that only be up to one resident per bedroom, uh, so that it fits more with the,
the community around it. And then for that commercial, residential as those would be
expected to be more of the, the commercial, um, higher density uses
up to two residents for every bedroom. Um, but not requiring that it
is two residents per bedroom. So that would still leave the, uh, ability to review and make
sure there was adequate space within those facilities. As far
as the exterior appearance, we had recommended for the multi-family, similar
to the occupancy that, uh, this blend in with the residential nature
of any neighborhoods, if it was going through on a special use permit. And so with that, there would
be no sign or exterior indication that there's a facility there and then
a solid wall or fence around any side or rear yards. Um, we don't want these things
turning into compounds, but we would like some screening neighbors tend to to
be concerned about that. As far as the cr uh,
we just require that the, the signage and exterior would comply with the zoning
district standards that exist there. We've also looked at parking.
uh, that tends to be a, a worry of neighbors around these types of facilities
and have recommended that of course they would comply with all parking standards and
then also that there would be no parking allowed with any street or right of way. So those not to impede
traffic within any region. Uh, with this, we've also
recommended that there be the requirement that, and we require this of all projects, but
we want it clear to everyone that there's compliance with building environmental health
and fire safety. And then finally, uh, a requirement that the state
has, but we want to reiterate is that all licensing from the state would be
required for these facilities as well. Staff did
bring this in front of the navajo county planning and zoning commission at that commission hearing. We
did receive unanimous recommendation of approval for this. Um,
as staff is bringing this to you today, we're recommending approval. Uh, we feel this meets
the, the needs of our comprehensive plan and, and will fit in with the zoning ordinance. Well,
as of today, we've received no public comments as far as this proposal, either through hearings
or mailed into us or phone calls, um, staff's available for
any questions if you might have them. Thank you. Thank you, cody. Alright,
appreciate that. This is actually a, uh, public hearing, so we will open
it up for the public hearing portion of it. Is there any members of the public we to speak
on this item at this time?
okay. Not hearing any. We'll close the public hearing and now we'll move to the
board discussion. Any members of the board that have questions
they would like to ask staff? Um,
and chairman, I have a question. Um, I have a question on the occupancy.
so there are two, so there's the r two and r three, there's
a one resident for every bedroom with the resident, correct. So,
and then there's the cr mm-hmm. Up to two resident. Can you explain the
difference to me? Yeah. Um, so our r two and r three neighborhoods,
they, they tend to be multifamily. Sometimes you will find single family homes in there where
someone has chosen not to take advantage of that. They just prefer to have their single family home.
um, so within those neighborhoods it's pretty much only limited to these
residences. And we wanted to keep the nature of those facilities similar to those
residences around them. We didn't want, uh, a lot of people packed into these
types of areas, um, where it's very clear that they're a distinct and different use from
their neighbors. We'd like this to, to be harmonious within those neighborhoods.
and then our commercial residential, um, that does allow for the multifamily, but it also
allows for commercial type facilities. Um, those tend to be on
the very outskirts of neighborhoods or along a lot of our highways and major roads that we
have here within the county. And so for that we wanted to encourage for those facilities
that are more intensive and that are more commercial in nature, um,
a lot where you'll have like the inpatient and the treatment and otherwise that it could be
considered up to those two residences. But we also still want to make sure that there's adequate space
for those residents so that they're getting, um, proper treatment while they're,
that was my question. So in thinking about, um,
the square footage of an average bedroom, um, and you, we have
two occupants. So do you have to articulate
that or is that just something that's given? So we haven't articulated any
minimum square footage. I I'm sure it's something that we can look at and
consider. Um, you know, really what we're looking at is they, they're
required to give us layouts of these bedrooms and otherwise you wanna make sure that the
facility has the, within itself and around it, the infrastructure that's capable of
handling that type of density. Um, so there'd be a number of considerations made
there as far as like, are you on paved roads? Do you have sewer, do you have
water on site? And then within the bedrooms, are those truly adequate enough to handle
more than one resident per bedroom? And that's not to say that we would, uh,
necessarily just blanket, uh, recommend that there be two residents per bedroom.
we'd wanna look at that on a case by case basis and make sure it's appropriate.
okay. I appreciate that. Thank you. I know we had this discussion previously
on occupancy and that's why I was asking for clarification. Thank you.
absolutely. Thank you. Any more discussion? I just appreciate,
uh, the effort that you put forth and your, your staff are doing this.
also, you've addressed parking to try to make it appealing to the
other neighbors and things there. So I think you guys have done a great job. This is something that
you know is needed and, and it will be a case by case deal. So it's
great. I appreciate it. Thank you. Any
other comments or questions? Okay,
hearing none chair, to entertain a motion chairman I motion for approval?
give a second. I'll second. Second. A,
we have a second? Any more discussion? Hearing none.
all those in favor vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Vote
nay. The aye. Have it. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you very
much cody. Appreciate it. Chair. Uh, we're now on item
d, navo county flood control district. We'll need a motion to enter into the navajo county flood
control district board of directors session. So moved. Second.
do a motion and a second. All those in favor vote. Aye. A aye.
aye. Any opposed? Vote nay.
and none the I have it. And we are now in the navajo county plug control district.
item one is the consent agenda. Um, the items are
on the screen for us.
sorry. Through your curve ball. Huh? Sorry melissa.
just so the public can see it. We have it on our agenda here.
so the items are on the consent agenda that shown up on the screen. Any questions,
comments? Not chair would entertain a motion. I'll
make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second,
we have a motion, a second to approve the consent agenda. Any more discussion?
hearing none. All those in favor vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Vote
nay. Sorry, supervisor.
I'll slow that up a little bit. Um, motion passes.
unanimously consent agenda has been approved. We're on to item two, the regular agenda
consideration of intergovernment agreement between navajo county flood control
district and silver creek flood control district for finance assistance of mil swell drainage
improvement project in the amount of a hundred thousand. Uh, mr. Perkins,
thanks for being with us today. Good morning.
um, chairman, chairman whiting and
vice chairman al and other supervisors and all that are here.
I have to put on my glasses, the pulpit's too far away. I've gotta hold
the paper up to my face. So the motion that we're bringing before
you is for consideration of the, uh, intergovernmental agreement between
navajo county flood control district and the silver creek flood control
district for financial assistance. They're seeking a hundred thousand
dollars on this project. Um, we, we
recognize that the, uh, that they're requesting
this money and that it's for value engineering on the millet swale
drainage improvement project. The purpose of this
iga is to authorize the county to partner financially as
navajo county flood control district and as silver creek flood control
district. Both of our districts, uh, recognize and, and,
uh, share a common interest to improve the millet swell drainage
area to help reduce the chance of future flooding.
and as you may know that there, uh, has been some, there was a breach
in 2021 of the millet swell and, uh,
staff is recommending approval of this.
perfect. Thank you questions. I
know this is something that's been a concern for people in that area. Appreciate you working in
partnership with them and looking at solutions. Thank you very much for doing that.
um, if no other questions chair
would entertain a motion,
I'll make a motion to approve, uh, as presented. Thank
you. Second, we have a motion and a second. Any more discussion?
hearing none. All those in favor vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. A
aye. Any opposed? Vote nay. Hearing
none, the ayes have it. Thank you. Appreciate that mr. Perkins. We
now need a motion to return to regular session. So moved. So move
second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor vote. Aye.
aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Vote nay.
hearing none. The aye. Have it. We now are at item eight, the
county business update. Mr. Carline, do you have anything to update? No, this, not this meeting.
thank you. Thank you. Mr. Leighton. Not today.
supervisor seymour, I just want to say
congratulations to all those who are graduating, whether it be from
one grade to the next, or whether it be from high school going on to college or college
degrees. You know, I think life is, is great. And the challenges they have,
I just want to, I was on an airplane, uh, recently and it was interesting.
everybody waits forever to get on the plane. We get on, we sat down
and you wait and you wait. And finally they start backing up from the gate.
but then a person raised their hand and started shouting. They went off the plane.
and so we stop and now we have to go back to
the gate. We have to let that person off. Everybody that's
on the plane is probably irritated. They're not their
best friends. It was a disrupting of their time, not knowing what other people
of everybody on the plane now is going to be delayed from the people from
there. But I don't know the reason. I don't know why the person had what they
had, but it was important to them. And I think that today we
have people that certain things are more important to them, but we try to
listen and we try to hear and we try to make the best that we can of everything.
and so I respect the process that we have in place
to listen, to share, and to do the business of the county
in the eyes of the public. And I appreciate the people here of
navajo county and the citizens of navajo county. And I just
wish you all the best and, and a great summer and a great spring. And may we
continue to work together to unite, continue to be
positive and continue to rely upon, uh, heavenly
father who loves and will preserve and bless us as we serve him.
thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Supervisor
seymour. Supervisor , do you have anything to update us with?
um, not during this meeting chair. I would prefer in person at the next meeting. Thank
you. Okay. Thank you. And good to have you with us today. Supervisor weisinger.
uh, thank you chairman. Um,
I was able to attend the inauguration. I know that there were several of us who
attended the inauguration for the white mountain apache tribal community
where they had, um, four elected new individuals
for the, um, council membership. And
so we're grateful for the partnership and thank you for each of you who
took the time, um, to attend that inauguration. And
also to think about, um, our partnership from navajo county.
so thank you for that. Um, there was also several community
meetings within the tribal community. One of those things
that they're looking at is public safety and first response. And this is something
that I know, um, katrina and the sheriff, they've attended
meetings as well in mcnary. And this is
a meeting that they're having in white river to be able to develop
a plan if there happens to be an emergency. And there
aren't first responders who have the ability to quickly respond.
how do citizens support, uh, the communication to ensure
that everybody within the public is aware, uh, of the emergency
and how they, um, can work together. So I, I was grateful to
be able to have the invite to listen to that conversation
and also the investment of community members who, um,
were concerned for their citizens. Uh, this past weekend or
two weekends ago, uh, the fort apache heritage foundation,
they had a groundbreaking ceremony. If you haven't been
to the, for apache, um, site, there
are old historic buildings there. Um, some of them are very beautiful.
they've done a great job of restoring the buildings. Um, there's one particular
building, it used to be called the, uh, the boys dormitory.
and that building is being, um,
remodeled. Um, and they will be utilizing
that space for office space, um, in the future, hopefully residential
space. Um, but that's pretty exciting to be able to see
the movement of that particular building. And there are a lot of people including
our own, um, rochelle oppa, who sits as,
um, the board chair of that particular board. So thank you to rochelle
in her work. And, um, I serve also on that board,
so we're grateful to be able to participate in that conversation. One of the things
is also, I think I mentioned that, but the conference center area, there
will be conference space, which we know when we look throughout the mountains, sometimes it's difficult
to find a space to have a meeting. So we're, um, we look forward to being able
to have, um, that's based and along the same
lines of, um, supervisor seymour in thinking about,
um, opportunities for us to be able to, um,
move together, move forward together as citizens. I was recently invited
to a passover meal where we shared
a seder um, dinner. And um, I was really
grateful to be able to be among my neighbors and, um, different members from
our community and to be able to learn about, um, the
practices of another faith, but also really about, um,
sitting at this table and, um,
being able to respect one another and share opportunity for prayer.
so, um, I too am grateful for that. And um,
I think those are some of the big highlights, but thank you so much.
thank you. Uh, vice chairman benelli,
uh, thank you chair and supervisors. Um, I do have,
um, a little report. I did go out to the
western interstate region conference out in yosemite and
it was a little difficult because I couldn't call out for,
for the sake of anything, but I was able to text out
and, um, until I came back out, um,
into the, I guess more, uh, city-like area
and got to learn about the trees and the
fire mitigation and how they do certain things with,
um, collaboration with the us
four service and the state and the counties.
and out there we did go on a, like a field trip. So
we went up to the woods and see, saw all sorts of piles of, um,
wood that were sawed to a certain size and
they would, um, have it there for work,
work it out. So they're, they're burned in the winter
time so that things won't catch fire. And also
the giant sequoias who got see some of those and those are,
um, protected and many, they are also planted
new ones. So those are baby sequoias and
the sugar pine trees, they grow really tall
and I've never seen such tall trees in,
in my life and they grow over 200 feet.
so that was quite interesting. Different
variety. Seen a different variety of plants as well as
um, forage and um,
but we didn't, I didn't see wildflowers until I came back south
into the southern california and
I didn't realize that um, the northern
lights was gonna happen. Um,
so I left and earlier than I was
supposed to and I was like, oh darn, I'm missing the
northern lights. But oh well I came home and
saturday night and I did see the northern lights from my home
on black mesa so that was really interesting to
see. And all in all, it was
a good alerting experience regarding fire, um, medication,
how the county state and yes for service work
together. And thank you chair, back to you.
thank you. Appreciate it. Alright, um, just a
couple of items tour that we just recently did. We had
leaders from across arizona that we brought together to, um,
talk about arizona's forest and what's going on within that. And so we had different
county leadership. We had people quite a few from the legislature,
um, but we brought leaders from across arizona together. And it's
always interesting, I think a lot of times people that aren't in the force don't really understand
the relationship between the, the watershed and our force and how it plays
into how, I mean it impacts the daily life of all arizonans,
not just those of us that live here. And so it was a great conversation. Um,
a lot of great people that were interested in helping. Another
interesting thing that we found is people with good desires that want to help but
are jumping in to help in an area that maybe help is not needed. And so what we really tried
to create was a situation where these leaders all came and then they got to hear firsthand
from industry and people that are actually in the forest working that. So they heard
from the forest service, they heard from the loggers, they heard from all
the different stakeholders. They gotta talk about what's currently happening and where
the problems are, where the successes have happened. There are a lot of
positive things that have gone on. We've moved to where we've almost doubled, um, in the last 10
years. The amount of acres that are being treated to log and our forest,
a lot of that being here in the apache sick grapes. Um, but there's always
some hurdles and they got a chance to speak rather than us saying it for them
here firsthand, which is good because it created alignments now to
where people with good intentions aren't working from different perspectives where we're better aligned
in that conversation. So that was good. Also had a chance to attend.
uh, my chairs as you know, the real az um,
the real az group that's the regional economic development group for apache and
navajo county. It's been something that's been important to all of us. It's been important
to me for a long time. I sat on it when I was on the snowflake town council and then obviously
since I've been on the board here and part of the hope always was that it would continue
to grow. Membership would grow, we'd attract and bring new industry and businesses,
but someday when we grew up, hopefully we'd be able to go out and hire an
economic development person. And having chris be in that position, of course, where shell
did a tremendous job and got kind of some, some legs and feet underneath
it with the foundation. But chris has done an absolutely tremendous job over the last
six months that he's been there. He had a chance to be able to talk and share
a lot of the, a report that showed a lot of the different businesses that he's currently communicating
with, those that he could appropriately name and did. He did, but he shared
a report with the larger group and anybody that was curious what chris is doing
would have a hard, would be pretty hard pressed to see how hard he's actually working and how
many different organizations and companies he's working with existing
businesses to help them to sustain themselves to grow if they're so desiring. As well as new
businesses that are looking into the area and helping them with that. So really
appreciate him and his efforts. So been a good productive last couple weeks. We obviously
have county supervisors association on thursday and I, I plan
to be there down in the valley. And, uh, anyways, hope everybody's doing well.
we, uh, with that we stand adjourned. Thanks everybody. Appreciate it.
thank you.