[0:02] Okay, we're gonna go ahead and get started.
[0:06] thanks for being here with us today, everyone. Um, we're gonna
[0:10] go ahead and get started with a, uh, a prayer and a pledge before we do, supervisor
[0:15] pesca is with us. He's with us virtually though, uh, today. So I'm gonna go
[0:19] ahead and start us with the prayer and the pledge and then we'll move on after that.
[0:23] so, if you all please join me.
[0:31] our eternal father in heaven, we're grateful for the opportunity that we have to be gathered here together this day. We're
[0:35] grateful for the land that we live in, for the freedoms that we enjoy and for the people we
[0:39] have a chance to represent and serve. We're grateful for the opportunity
[0:44] that we have to be here today. We're grateful for the great people that are in our communities. Bless us
[0:48] as we go throughout this meeting that we'll be able to have clarity in mind, to be able to listen to
[0:53] items that are presented, to be able to take into consideration how we can
[0:57] best serve the citizens that we represent within the laws that we have. Bless
[1:01] us to be mindful of thee as we go throughout this meeting. Bless us to look for ways to be able to
[1:07] help build up our communities, to strengthen them, to be positive and uplifting, to
[1:11] look for ways to unify us and to come together in alignment with the in life spirit.
[1:15] watch over our lands and protect them. Bless 'em with moisture, and bless those that are struggling
[1:20] at this time, that neighbors and people within our communities will open their
[1:24] hearts and look for ways to serve those that stand in need, that we'll look for opportunities to
[1:28] unite in our communities rather than divide and bless us that we'll look for opportunities to be able
[1:32] to come together. And thy holy spirit, we pray
[1:36] in the name of my son jesus christ. Amen. Amen.
[1:41] ready pledge. I pledge your of the flag of
[1:46] the united states of america and to the republic for which it
[1:50] stands. One nation under god, invis
[1:54] with ation.
[2:00] alright, thanks everybody for being here with us today. We'll go on to the first item, which
[2:04] is called the public.
[2:20] we have a number of 'em here.
[2:39] sorry, trying to separate these so I can get 'em into the groupings here real quick.
[2:44] okay. There's quite a few here. Um, I don't know, there's one that says
[2:49] answers. It's not that one. I'm not sure what that means. But, um,
[2:54] we have the rest on elections. So here I'm gonna, I'm gonna share
[2:58] this real quick one. We reached out to the
[3:02] county as a whole and said, hey, we'd love to hear your questions about elections. We wanna
[3:06] make sure that those are addressed. That's something that we get a chance to be able to talk about. And so
[3:10] we got in quite a few questions that people had and they made sure we did a presentation
[3:14] where the board got to try and hear the answers around that. Um, there
[3:19] were bells that came that day that also wanted to speak and repeat
[3:23] what was already said in those. Here's
[3:27] what's gonna happen today. I've got quite a few of 'em that are here
[3:31] that are asking. We've already heard. And as you
[3:35] know, on call to the public, the board can't respond to call to the public.
[3:40] so you're coming here to be able to go ahead and share new information.
[3:45] if there's something new that you have to share that we have not already heard,
[3:49] then by all means we'd love to be able to hear it. Okay? If it's something
[3:53] that we've already heard will dismiss you. 'cause we've already
[3:57] heard it and we're already still in conversation and had multiple
[4:01] conversations even since our last meeting with many of you. So the door's open,
[4:06] we're willing to have the conversation. This isn't the right form if we've already heard it
[4:10] here in this form to do that. Not right now. Not call
[4:14] the public because we can't respond to you inside of that. So, of these,
[4:20] I'm gonna first start with whoever wrote down answers. 'cause I'm not sure what that is, if
[4:24] that's called to the public or if that's on elections or not. With the rest of them, the question's
[4:28] going to be, do you have something new to share with us?
[4:32] and if you do have something new, by all means would love to hear that. If you
[4:36] don't, then you know, so
[4:41] 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
[4:45] all means, we're just gonna move past that one. If you do have something new to share, we'd love to hear
[4:49] from you. It'll be three minutes. So the first one is
[4:54] answers. Mark thomas.
[4:59] mark. The question is, is this election? Yes. Okay. Is it new? Yes.
[5:03] okay. You have three minutes. Thank you. And if it's not new, then we'll dismiss
[5:07] you. Mark thomas. Uh, I think I wrote my address down wrong. 58 71
[5:12] bobcat drive. Um, got it. The last,
[5:17] uh, the last meeting that we had, the presentation for the
[5:21] most part, um, pretty much by the book, what
[5:25] exactly you would think should happen, but what you know as a
[5:29] reality, that's not what is taking place. There's a lot of things that are, are,
[5:33] are, are falling through the cracks. The, um,
[5:37] the 95%, 99% of that meeting was about day of elections.
[5:42] zero. Hardly anything about mail-in ballots, that
[5:46] is a mess. Um, there's just how many, how many?
[5:50] here's a, here's some questions. How many are being, how many ballots are being printed?
[5:54] how many are being sent out? How many are being returned? These are all things nobody
[5:59] knows. Uh, it, it's, it's sloppy. And,
[6:03] uh, it appears the county knows
[6:07] little about the process of the co cost of hand counting ballots. An estimated
[6:11] 1.1 million was mentioned during the county personnel from the county personnel.
[6:16] if you'd asked, we could demonstrate how a hand count could have occurred in 65,000 voters
[6:20] for about $300,000 or less. Also, the situation mohammed
[6:25] county was incorrectly addressed in last month's presentation. Moca
[6:29] mojave county had chosen to hand count, uh, but the attorney general, chris
[6:33] mays and secretary of state, uh, adrian fontes threatened
[6:37] criminal charges and fines. The arizona legislator is currently seeking a
[6:42] c of the ag as she has no legal standing to do so. She misled the
[6:46] county, or better yet scared them into, uh, scared them when there,
[6:50] there is no legislation or language that a county cannot choose or
[6:54] hand count. A county has every right to do the will of its people. The
[6:58] state has the, does not have the right to impede on that. The same illegal
[7:02] shenanigans occurred in cochise county as well. You supervisors took
[7:07] a loyal oath of office and have the duty to stand up for the people. And we demand
[7:11] that you uphold your oath, sir, new information. Was there anything new that you wanted to share?
[7:15] you have the right to take control of the, sir, what, do
[7:19] you have any new information? You have the right to take control of this county's
[7:24] okay. Thank you. Election. And you have the right new information.
[7:29] the how is it that the voter rolls, which we don't
[7:33] have control of, and every time I ask questions about this, nobody knows how or why
[7:37] it's done by an outside company, not even state level. It's done at a higher level.
[7:41] how is it that every county, um, when the voter rolls go up and go down
[7:46] every county systematically all rise and say at the same level?
[7:50] that's not right. Okay. Not every county's the same. We can. So where
[7:54] are these answers? We need to control our voter voter rolls. We
[7:58] need to control this. What are you doing? Where are these answers? So we
[8:02] can know that? Please set up a time to come talk with staff. That'd be great. We'd love to help you
[8:06] with that. Thank you. Much appreciated. Okay.
[8:11] donna, sherwin. Donna, do you have anything new? I do. Thank, thank you.
[8:15] yeah. So, um, I just wanted to make sure
[8:20] that the county knew that, uh, missouri, uh, in 2022, uh,
[8:24] conducted a hand count of one of their, uh, actual counties.
[8:28] and, um, compared to the rest of the state, when the counting was
[8:32] done, they were 20 minutes behind the tabulating machines from other counties. And
[8:37] after that proof that the hand count could be done, uh, in a timely fashion,
[8:41] uh, they actually created and published a free, uh, I think it's
[8:45] 150 page manual for hand counting, which the county navajo county
[8:50] could obtain. And in between now and the 30th of july, when the
[8:54] first primary election happens, uh, we could take that, uh, into consideration.
[8:58] and, um, another question I have for you, um, I haven't seen it in the newspaper,
[9:02] is how are you advertising for poll workers? When we go to your website, the website
[9:06] says election board members, how do people know to look for that when they wanna
[9:11] apply to be a poll worker? Nobody knows that. It's an election board member
[9:15] who refers to that as election board member. So can the county website
[9:19] be changed and make it so that people can, on a search, find out
[9:24] how they can apply to be a poll worker? Also, the drop boxes are supposed to,
[9:28] according to the election manual of arizona, be 24 hours a day,
[9:32] man, manned by two people. That is in the election manual.
[9:36] but yet now we're putting money towards buying cameras, which once we
[9:40] read a little deeper into the election manual, we've discovered that they actually state
[9:44] it has to be manually watched 24 hours a day. That is in
[9:49] the election manual. So now the camera idea is an
[9:53] obsolete idea because we need people to be able to man every
[9:57] dropbox in the county. Two people. And that would be two people, one from each party.
[10:01] so how are we gonna do that? We need to get rid of the drop boxes. Also, 24,000
[10:05] people who mailed in ballots for the 2022 election, according
[10:10] to one of my friends that works in the office. It takes one person,
[10:14] one full day to count 300 ballots. If you divide that into 24,000
[10:20] ballots, how do you get that done in a timely fashion? It's, it's not, it's not doable.
[10:24] it's that would it equal 80 days to count, or, sorry, not count, but
[10:28] check, um, um, signatures. So anyway,
[10:32] um, we just, we need to clean things up. I, I do ask you, you are our servants, uh,
[10:36] we talk about in the pledge, indivisible. Well, we are divided and I don't
[10:40] know why there's such a a hold back and the county seems to not wanna do
[10:45] what we were asking. We in 2015 got machines, but
[10:49] previous to that we hand counted. There's a, a backups provision in
[10:53] the manual when we are election, uh, in our election training. Kristin haddock
[10:57] teaches us that, that if the electricity were to go down, we can do everything
[11:02] manually. Why do we not do that? Why don't we just get rid of the machines and do a manual
[11:06] count? So I thank you for your time. Yeah. If you'll be sure to reach
[11:11] out to staff with some of those questions that you had, that we addressed. And then one for
[11:15] me and just make up with my notes. What was the term, sorry, poll. I just wanna make sure I, election board,
[11:19] election board members is on your website. That's what you didn't like that name? Well, who's,
[11:24] 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
[11:28] you. Yes, you're welcome. And, and I do live in pinetop. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you.
[11:33] alright,
[11:37] so the way that I'm gonna do this now is I'm gonna ask you again, do you have something new when
[11:41] you come up, if you'll state what's new that you have,
[11:46] if you don't, then I'm gonna ask you to, to go ahead and, and have
[11:50] a seat. We have a meeting that we have business that we've told our citizens that we
[11:54] are gonna address today and get through. And those were agendized as was
[11:58] appropriate. And we're gonna do that. So mary, uh, mary,
[12:02] uh, looks like cooking. Yes. I build my time to elia
[12:06] lin. Okay. I'm not doing the yield the time
[12:10] thing, but just so would you like to speak, is that in the agenda? Is what
[12:15] that you're not going to yield time? It's not. Do I have to have an agenda that I'm yielding
[12:19] time or not yielding time. Our, our policy is that each individual has two minutes. There's
[12:24] nothing to give time to somebody else. It says three in the agenda. I'm sorry, three minutes.
[12:28] I misspoke. So it's at the chair's discretion to be able to, to do that.
[12:32] 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
[12:37] to attend to that was agenda and business to be done. So
[12:41] do you want to speak or do you want to have and do you have new items? No, I was
[12:46] going to yield my five facility. Okay. Celia, do you have new items?
[12:50] I do. Okay, hold on. When we come to yours and let me see if I can find yours real quick.
[12:54] um, so mary, no. Right.
[13:01] thank you celia. Sorry. I'm find yours here. Okay. I found it. So three minutes,
[13:05] you have new items if you'll come up address and give us your address and then just go
[13:09] straight into the, these are the new items. My name is celia loughlin
[13:14] and I live at 2169 knife and over guard. These
[13:18] are the new items I'm asking that the board
[13:23] considers that my vote is disenfranchised
[13:28] if it is changed by a malicious actor as described
[13:32] in the cisa 2022.
[13:36] if my unmonitored ballot box is illegally
[13:41] stuffed as described as a vulnerability
[13:45] by csa and if our voter rolls export
[13:50] non-citizens, felons and drivers under
[13:54] 18, which he spoke about last time we met, so that they
[13:58] are all sent a ballot in mailin ballot,
[14:02] then my vote is disenfranchised. That's a violation of my 14th
[14:06] amendment. Right. And the new information
[14:11] that I have that I have not brought is the email
[14:15] between merrick garland, his wife, and
[14:19] the, um, let me go to that information quickly.
[14:24] lynn garland in those emails from may and july of
[14:28] 2015, where she asked whether
[14:33] the es and s machines, she was talking to the maryland state board
[14:37] of elections, whether the es and s machines are connected to the
[14:41] internet, she is told yes. And several are
[14:45] included in the e-s-n-s-d-s 200 tabulator
[14:50] and we're still using those nine years later.
[14:55] okay. I'm also asking that if, um,
[14:59] I'm offering a suggestion. I have
[15:04] mark, cook and clay par
[15:09] as ideas on how to examine our systems
[15:13] and processes so that they can better address the
[15:17] hand counting and we can do it live streamed by
[15:21] precinct. Um, that would, and it would be pennies on the dollar.
[15:27] I think that's it. Oh, and if ms. Richards, I know that she had, I had
[15:31] heard since the last meeting, this happened a few years ago, but she said
[15:36] that she could not do another election unless it is with machines. Then I
[15:40] would ask that she be dismissed of her job and that we look at diverting
[15:44] the money to experts like clay par or
[15:49] mark cook. Thank you. Appreciate your time on that. Thank you. If you would,
[15:54] I wanna make sure again and address, if you have something new, please feel free to share
[15:58] it. The appropriate way to be able to deal, 'cause your voice you need to be heard
[16:02] is to reach out to the county. You can call any one of us as elected officials and have
[16:07] a conversation with us. You also can reach out to the county and start to have these conversations.
[16:11] you can also reach out to your party leadership because we've had ongoing
[16:16] meetings and continue to meet with party leadership and are in what I believe are productive
[16:20] conversations around the concerns that are there. Are trying to actively find
[16:24] ways to be able to work within the laws of the land that
[16:28] we have on how we can achieve those things. The format is not
[16:32] to come here and to do it this way because we can't communicate. So, so again, I'm
[16:36] just giving kind of how we're gonna work the rest of the call to the public. If, if you don't have something
[16:41] new and your idea is just to be able to come on the microphone and do, I'm gonna
[16:45] start dismissing quicker. Okay? We want to hear you. There's an
[16:49] appropriate way to do that. I've got families that are here. They're gonna be, that have the
[16:53] items on the agenda. We've got business to be done. So here we go. The next thing,
[16:57] jackie allen, I have something
[17:01] new. I was going to yield my time to say thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it.
[17:05] jerry hubbard. Jerry, do you have something new? I had something new, but it's
[17:09] essentially been covered by one of the other people speaking today. So I will yield.
[17:14] thank you. I really appreciate it. Thank you. And if you have more items, feel free to reach out to
[17:18] one of us or the county and we'll be happy to work with you. Uh,
[17:22] tina, question, do you have something new? Yes. Perfect.
[17:26] if you'll give your address and then tell us what new you have. My name is tina
[17:30] parham, 29 14 pine road over guard, arizona. I am outraged
[17:35] at the inflated numbers given by mr. Ma
[17:40] layton concerning hand counting. Um,
[17:44] he said that they would be up to even maybe 40%
[17:49] error if we hand count it instead of using the machine. It's
[17:53] being done all over the world with minimal errors and navajo
[17:57] county did it for decades with
[18:01] absolute insignificant errors. It can be done.
[18:06] uh, many of his comments were error
[18:10] and they were not addressed to us. They did not answer any of our
[18:14] questions that were submitted. And what's the
[18:18] new item? I'm not hearing something new. My outrage.
[18:23] it's the new item. Thank you for sharing that. You're frustrated. He, we'd be happy to have a conversation.
[18:28] you'll go ahead and take a seat. Thank you. Appreciate your time. Alright, melinda,
[18:32] thomas and folks, we'll have a meeting of order if we start doing that. We'll just
[18:37] let you go into the next room and be able to watch from there so we can get business done. Melinda, you
[18:41] have something new? Yes. Thank you. Melinda thomas, 85 71
[18:45] bobcat in show low. My question more so is
[18:50] about the security for me is any technology
[18:55] can be hacked regardless if banks can get hacked. I
[18:59] think these tabulators or even the pole pads,
[19:03] even though they say that the pole pads aren't, you know, connected to the internet.
[19:07] melinda, anything? This is a question that's been asked multiple times. Do you have something new?
[19:12] anything that has technology I'm ask can be had you don't have something new? Do you have something
[19:16] new? This is something that's been, I just wanted that to, to go onto the record. Thank you,
[19:21] belinda. Thank you. Yes, I have something new.
[19:25] thank you. If you'll give your address scrapes for you to treat us like this. Thank you. This
[19:29] is, this is our three minutes to speak all you. Can you go ahead and and have her removed out
[19:33] of the meeting? Thank you. No, I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving. We demand,
[19:38] we demand the very least that you do is set up at a burden. No.
[19:42] is I have three minutes. The supreme court says she
[19:46] can see. Would you like to be removed as well? She wants to. Would you like to be removed as well?
[19:51] no, but hey, we need to move forward. Members can speak as him.
[19:55] I'm so sorry for those of you that have children here. We are better than this
[19:59] right now. So, I'm sorry. Really this is not how it's appropriate.
[20:03] I apologize. Supreme court says so we have a rick,
[20:08] rick bures. Rick, do you have anything new? I do have something to do with it. Thank you.
[20:13] a discrepancy between white river holding center and
[20:17] cinco here in holbrook. Okay. Uh, my name is rick burris.
[20:21] I live at 2 8 8 3 silver dollar in ob guard. December 9th, 2022.
[20:26] approximately 30 days after election day. And by the way, 30
[20:30] days after election, recount is useless for that. But that's another discussion.
[20:34] eyewitness account of an election day ballot recount. December 9th, 2022.
[20:41] recount of election day ballots from the ds 200 from white river voter center
[20:45] and recount at central here in holbrook. An error
[20:49] reported coming from white river boat center, zip drive numbers
[20:54] along with ballots not counted on the ds 200, did not match
[20:58] the recount at central in holbrook zip drive counted
[21:02] 855 ballots. The ds 200
[21:06] went down at the voting location. There was no power
[21:10] resulting in 145 ballots not counted by the ds
[21:15] 200. These 145 ballots were received at central
[21:19] in a bag for recount. The paper ballots cast at the white river
[21:23] vote center on the ds 200 and the 145
[21:27] placed in bag should have been a total of 1000 paper ballots
[21:33] central reported. The recount of the paper ballots from white river
[21:38] on 12 9 20 22 was 992.
[21:43] this is the number that was reported to the secretary of state 992
[21:47] on the recount. Even though they were recorded eight missing
[21:52] the election. Employee official asked the inspector what happened. And it was noted
[21:56] that the inspector said maybe some ballots were counted twice on the tabulator
[22:01] and they just don't remember this comment on the tabulator counting the
[22:05] ballots twice as interesting. Remember, we are only talking about the
[22:09] ballots that were cast by walk-in election day voters and their ballots
[22:14] are to go through the tabulator. Here's the saddest thing. Eight
[22:18] citizens who have a civil right to vote, come to the polls to cast
[22:23] their vote and their vote was tossed in the abyss by a technical
[22:27] heir. These tabulators and voting equipment have countless vulnerabilities
[22:31] that continue to take away our civil rights and violate the arizona constitution
[22:36] and the us constitution. The biggest takeaway, if
[22:40] the election was hand counted in the first place at the precinct level, there
[22:44] would've been none of these open doors to damaging vulnerabilities, errors
[22:48] and gross oversights. We demand, at the very least,
[22:53] you set up an emergency backup and verify all ballots
[22:57] and voters and hand count all, not
[23:01] just a select few, all the actual paper ballots and
[23:05] the votes on them to confirm the accuracy of the vote and the voters.
[23:10] thank you. Appreciate your time. I have right here your name and information.
[23:15] if you'll please share that if you feel so inclined with staff,
[23:19] the information afterwards so we can look at that. Thank you. Uh, roger,
[23:24] roger gore. Uh, there's one if
[23:28] you'll come up to, for the, for the, uh, native americans
[23:32] on the council. And the second, the cost saving issue. Okay. Thank you sir.
[23:36] my name is roger gores. I live at 3 5 5 7 wildflower
[23:41] drive in hebert. Uh, my justification to speaking to the three native
[23:45] american council members is I have worked and lived on the navajo
[23:50] reservation. I've as a federal government employee,
[23:54] I have also worked at the fort mcdowell reservation as a
[23:58] fort mcdowell government employee. You three
[24:03] native americans on this board of supervisors have the
[24:07] majority power to do something on the reservations. One
[24:11] of the things I want you to consider, because you have sovereign nation
[24:16] status in this country, is you could allow,
[24:20] uh, hand count ballots in your precincts
[24:25] to, uh, validate, uh,
[24:29] the accuracy of the electronic voting systems or not.
[24:33] the second thing, and I want you to consider that, the second
[24:37] thing is the cost saving measure. Uh, there has been, uh,
[24:42] cost savings, cost accounts of doing hand count ballots
[24:47] and having employees or volunteers do that. I want
[24:51] you to consider, I I believe we would have enough volunteers in
[24:56] this county to hand count ballots and not be
[25:00] paid. Why do, why do volunteers have to be paid to do,
[25:05] uh, hand count ballots? I don't understand that. Thank you for
[25:09] your time. Appreciate it. Thank you. Alright. And that's
[25:13] all the ones that I had. Leslie, you don't have any other ones? Correct.
[25:18] okay. So that's all the ones that I have for call of the public. Thank you very much. Um,
[25:22] it does allow us to respond to criticism. I just will make this simple comment.
[25:27] we have continued to try to make sure that there's an open door to have a conversation.
[25:31] if you'd like to, feel free to call any one of your elected officials. Feel free
[25:35] to be able to, in the proper format, reach out to the county staff and
[25:39] we're continuing to meet with some of the party leadership to have conversations with them.
[25:44] we are continuing and committed to have those conversations, um, in
[25:48] the appropriate format. So we're more than willing to do that. Want to listen, want to make sure that we have,
[25:52] but appreciate those being here on that today. We're gonna move on then from call to
[25:56] the public. Um, and we're gonna go
[26:00] to the consent agenda. Item number two. Alyssa
[26:05] has that up on the screen and I know that's been distributed previously.
[26:09] any questions or comments on call or on the, uh, consent agenda?
[26:21] chairman, I don't have any questions. I will motion for approval for the items on
[26:25] the consent agenda. I'll second. Second.
[26:30] so we have a motion to second for approval of the consent agenda. All those in
[26:34] favor vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Nay.
[26:39] hearing none. Motion passes unanimously on the consent
[26:43] agenda. Thank you very much. We'll now move on the agenda to item number
[26:47] three. Navajo county public health services district board of director session. We'll
[26:51] need to move into the navajo county public health services board of director session.
[26:56] so move. We have a motion? Do we have a second? Second.
[27:00] we have a second. All in favor vote. Aye. Aye.
[27:04] aye. Any opposed? Vote nay. Hearing none. The aye. Have it. We
[27:08] now are in the navajo county board of directors or health public health services district.
[27:13] with the consent agenda on the first item. Um, it's also on the
[27:17] screen for those in the room. Um, chair would entertain a
[27:21] motion on the consent agenda and chair. I'll make a motion.
[27:28] okay, so we have a motion. Do we have a second and a second? I'll second
[27:32] it. Okay. Motion is second. Any more discussion there?
[27:36] none. All those in favor? Vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed?
[27:40] vote nay. Hearing none. The ayes have it. Consent
[27:44] agenda has been approved. Chair to entertain a motion to enter regular session. So
[27:50] we have a second. Second. We have a second. All those in favor?
[27:54] vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Vote nay.
[27:59] none the aye. Have it. And we are now back in regular session item number four, border supervisors.
[28:04] we'll got item four, a recognition of ion
[28:08] division, uh, four a hundred thirty two pound wrestling state champion. Caleb
[28:12] porter. Um, caleb, the time over to
[28:16] supervisor. Do we have the wrestlers out there?
[28:21] and I'll weigh off of'em again.
[28:50] turn around. You guys can turn around and face the board here. Is your, is your coach here
[28:54] today? I want to be there. He's coming in.
[29:06] thank you. Coach. Would you like to just, uh, take a moment or two and
[29:10] just kind of share us a little bit about your, your team here today? And
[29:14] I, I just appreciate you being here. Sure. Thanks. First of all. Thanks for having
[29:18] us here today and, and recognizing these wonderful young men. Um,
[29:23] you know, two years ago we didn't fare so hot in
[29:27] the state tournament. Um, got, uh, we were
[29:31] up against marci who was a renting three time state champions as a team.
[29:35] yuma catholic who was a renting three time state runners up.
[29:40] um, yuma catholic's coach emailed me not too long ago and he was talking about
[29:45] he crunches numbers. And this whole season they were talking to their team about
[29:49] chasing 22 points. That's what they needed to make up from the previous year
[29:53] to win the state championship. And he told me, and I don't, I don't crunch numbers, we
[29:57] just go out and try to wrestle. And he said, just to put in perspective, you guys
[30:01] were chasing, I think he said 105 and a half points from the previous year.
[30:06] and, uh, these young men, uh, put in a lot of time and a lot of effort,
[30:11] um, worked their tails off and uh, um, pushed each other to
[30:15] be better. And we came out on top by two points over, um, yuma
[30:20] catholic and I think four points over marci. Um, I think that
[30:24] the, uh, the best thing about it's, we come from a high school of 165
[30:28] kids, so more or less 80 kids, 82 and a half boys
[30:33] to choose from on our wrestling team and to compete against schools that
[30:37] have upwards of 800, 850, um, kids in the schools, uh,
[30:41] is a huge accomplishment for these young men. And, and I can't say enough about
[30:45] 'em, the time and effort that they put into it. 'cause you see on a lot of the shirts they
[30:49] have the, the men on the mat. We, we took an opportunity to go watch the, the, the movie
[30:54] the boys in the boat and, uh, just a couple weeks before the state
[30:58] tournament. And I think we were a little bit inspired by that, that hey, if we can get things in
[31:02] the full swing, we have the kids in there, the the guys in the room to make it happen.
[31:06] and, and they did it. So we kind of came up with the theme of men on the mat and it's
[31:10] been a special, special group of kids and a lot of these kids are coming back next year. We're we're
[31:14] missing three seniors that are on a senior trip today. But, uh, they were, they were huge
[31:19] and instrumental in, in our championship as well. That's great. Thank
[31:23] you very much. When I, uh, met with your superintendent, ron tinney told me the
[31:27] story about where you guys came up with the men on the map of going and,
[31:31] and watching that movie. Those of you who haven't seen that movie, it's a olympic
[31:35] story of some people who, who went on to win the olympics, uh, at rowing.
[31:39] and it just takes a lot of effort. The synchronization. Will
[31:43] you guys have one state champion today if it, uh, let's
[31:48] see, who is that? Caleb. Caleb, okay, repeat
[31:52] here. Okay. And it's come up. I'm gonna give this to you because I'm gonna single you out just a
[31:56] little bit because you, you are the, the one single state
[32:00] champion that they had. Okay, congratulations. But what's unique about
[32:04] wrestling is to win a state championship
[32:08] as a team. And it took all of you guys to
[32:13] do that as a team. And as your coach said, you won by two points and
[32:17] to win by two points is very difficult. I think there was a time you guys were thinking
[32:21] that you could dip fifth or sixth place maybe and then some things happened and you
[32:25] guys were actually cheering for people who you thought you wouldn't be cheering for at
[32:29] sometimes and cheering for other teams back and forth that create a little bit of that going
[32:33] on. Absolutely. And then what was exciting is you guys got bonus points.
[32:38] I think if you wrestle or you get pins, you get things they add up to bonus
[32:42] points and your team got 54 bonus points during that meet.
[32:46] so it was phenomenal that even if you took fifth place or sixth
[32:50] place, every one of your matches contributed
[32:55] to the state champion. If any one of you would've maybe
[32:59] not got a pin but just won or if you would've lost by
[33:03] more than you did, it would've lost some of those points. So it was truly
[33:07] a team effort. And then we just wanna applaud you for that team effort. So come up, we're gonna give
[33:11] you these, uh, award here and just uh, take the
[33:15] group picture if we could of everybody. Okay. But congratulations. Let's give guys thank you.
[33:32] congratulations.
[33:57] thank you.
[34:05] do you think we should put some of that front row, like right down there? Or
[34:09] how do you wanna do? Yeah, why don't we do that.
[34:14] want take about, about you guys? Come to the front.
[34:18] that front there.
[34:23] down here. Go down here. Yeah. Let's see if
[34:29] we'll take half you guys right in front, right here.
[34:39] once you guys move right up to here maybe.
[34:49] alright, if I stand by you.
[35:11] you missing some of these short kids
[35:15] slide. There you go.
[35:19] find a hole.
[35:28] 1, 2, 3. Hold it. I'm gonna get one this way.
[35:33] 1, 2, 3. Congratulations
[35:38] guys.
[35:54] you guys be back next year. Okay. Alright,
[36:12] all great to see them. We have a couple more
[36:16] recognitions that we want to do. I want bite up real quick. Um,
[36:20] kaitlyn leduc and our coach joe larson, if you guys wanna come up to the,
[36:26] come up to the microphone, that'd be great. Um,
[36:32] kind of a kind of a neat ordeal we get to recognize right now. A lot of times we'll recognize
[36:36] here as a board some of the different state champions. I understand that you just became
[36:40] a state champion just recently, actually both of you guys and your mom as coach
[36:44] of this track team. So we'll be able to recognize you guys again here soon.
[36:48] but today we'll recognize you for something just a little bit different, pretty unique and
[36:52] pretty exciting. Uh, coach larson, do you mind kind of sharing with the board what, uh,
[36:56] kaitlyn was recently recognized with as far as her award?
[37:02] um, so she was,
[37:06] I put her in as, uh, applicant for an all american award.
[37:11] um, and I had received a,
[37:16] an email saying that she was, you know, a candidate for it and I needed to put
[37:20] that in. And I said, okay, I've never really seen that too much. So,
[37:24] um, I took out her gpa from the high school and she's got a
[37:28] 4.0 that's without all of her other classes. I think it goes up
[37:33] into the higher 4.0 range. Um, and
[37:37] so I put her in as a scholar, all, all american, um, athlete.
[37:42] and a few weeks later I got back an email and, um,
[37:46] she had received that award. I
[37:50] also put her in as a character
[37:54] and leader, all american. And I had to write out a
[37:58] pretty long, lengthy
[38:03] letter to them on that. And I have received back that she also
[38:08] received that all american award as well. Um, this is
[38:12] somebody who is very well known to a lot of the girls
[38:16] in the wrestling community around, especially in northern arizona.
[38:20] um, and being somebody that they enjoy having
[38:24] around. And um, so she received those two awards and
[38:29] I was, I was not, I I didn't know if it was gonna work or
[38:33] not, I didn't know. But uh, with what I applied with, I felt
[38:37] like it was good enough and, um, they sent it back and she received both
[38:41] of those awards. Thank you coach.
[38:45] so if you don't mind kind of sharing with the group, one of the things that we like to hear sometimes
[38:49] from our, some from some of our award winners is just tell us what does it mean?
[38:54] what does it take to, to become excellent in your area? What
[38:59] advice would you give others? Do you mind kind of sharing that with us?
[39:03] in wrestling? In wrestling or in life? You have quite a few different
[39:08] accomplishments, so happy to hear whatever you have to share. Could you stand at the
[39:12] mic? Yes. Um, well obviously
[39:16] just put a lot of work and time into it. I think one thing with my schedule is I
[39:20] don't really have a lot of free time ever. I'm always kinda working on something.
[39:24] just dedicating your time is the most you can do to
[39:28] get good at or excel in something. That's
[39:32] it. Well, thank you for sharing that. I'll, I'll tell you, I, I know
[39:37] caitlyn and her family personally and she's an outstanding human being.
[39:41] not surprised that she got char or character and leadership all american at all. Scholars
[39:45] not a surprise. She excels in most everything she tends to be a part of.
[39:49] and I know that's something that her family does. And if you probably noticed, she's pretty humble about
[39:53] how she received a reward. Um, and that's something else that
[39:58] stands out to me about you and your family. So anyways, really appreciate
[40:02] you being here with us. Um, if we all could, let's give her a hand. Congratulations.
[40:12] what we're gonna do is, I, I have a medal for you here that I'm gonna give to you if
[40:16] you wanna come up here and get it. What we're gonna do, 'cause we have a few recipients that are individuals,
[40:21] 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
[40:25] you guys all appear together at the, at toward. And that'll just be in a couple minutes. Is
[40:30] that okay? Okay, perfect. I want to give this to you, so
[40:35] thank you very much. Thank you.
[40:39] alright, next on the agenda is recognition of
[40:43] snowflake division 338 pound wrestling champion,
[40:47] troy ney and 215 pound repeat state champion wrestler,
[40:52] devin ney. And coach, you want to come up as well.
[40:56] coach dad, I know you respond to a lot of different ones. Brothers here who also was a
[41:00] state champion and now is wrestling in college. So good to see him
[41:07] coach in your capacity as coach. Do you mind talking a little
[41:11] bit about your experience with the team this year and what these two boys,
[41:15] uh, them, what it took to win a state championship and then we'll allow them to talk about what excellence
[41:19] looks like too?
[41:26] I think individual, I think came from just hard work. The hard work ethic that
[41:30] these two boys have is just, it's,
[41:34] it's hard to, um, I mean I see it every day and
[41:38] it's, I still can't believe how hard how hard they can push in the room. And they're,
[41:42] all they're doing is getting better, better, better, better every day. And, and
[41:47] just like life, I mean, we get setbacks. Troy gets hurt, he's still
[41:51] in the room, he is still watching, he's helping the other kids get better. Devin's
[41:55] the same way devin gets hurt, he'll sit out and work with the younger kids. And
[41:59] the team we have there is just, we have, we have
[42:03] a good team. It's, we keep pushing
[42:08] that wrestling's not in the state of
[42:12] arizona, wrestling's not as high as like iowa, pennsylvania, but we're,
[42:16] we're coming up in some of the state champs that we have
[42:20] are competing at national levels and winning at national levels.
[42:25] so arizona's on its way up. So, but telling the
[42:29] kids here in s or in snowflake is like, hey, if you want to compete, you gotta
[42:33] put in the time to work. And a lot of the kids are coming in now and we get
[42:37] seven to eight guys a night to come practice with us. And, but it
[42:41] wrestling's all about work. There's no, you can't, you can't
[42:46] take the summer off and come back the next year thinking I'm gonna be a state champ. It don't
[42:50] it don't work that way. So, and these two with their brother, they're
[42:55] some of the hardest working kids I know. And I know 'cause they, they're my kids. .
[43:00] so, but it's, it is, it's a joy to be part of it and it's,
[43:04] I can't, there's no,
[43:08] being a proud dad doesn't even mean it's not enough
[43:13] to be, to have these three and coming back here every year to do this.
[43:17] it's, it's a joy. Thank you. Appreciate you sharing that.
[43:22] troy, do you mind first sharing what it means to be a champion? Share with
[43:26] the rest of us, what that is, and then devin, if you can share with us as well.
[43:30] uh, it means a lot, but it's not just
[43:34] about being a state champion. It's about like everything else. Like putting faith
[43:39] into other things and not just wrestling and like,
[43:43] like seeing, seeing things in a different perspective
[43:48] and like knowing how, like what it takes just
[43:52] to get something that you want and other people would want. Maybe
[43:56] just as much as you. And I don't think it's just about
[44:01] the state champ, it's 'cause there's a lot of other things out there than
[44:05] being a state champ. I think it's, it's pretty cool to have, but
[44:09] it's not everything you need like for wrestling.
[44:14] 'cause wrestling teaches you more than just, just
[44:18] how to work hard. It teaches a lot more things. Like it showed you, shows
[44:22] you who, who really works hard and who doesn't. And like
[44:27] who's there and who's there when, when you're working,
[44:31] who's not. I think. Thank you. Appreciate your comments
[44:36] evan. Uh, kind of the same thing. Like,
[44:41] like before this year I thought like wrestling meant everything, but like a few things
[44:45] happen. It doesn't, it doesn't mean that much anymore. Like winning
[44:49] is cool. See like after state hugging my dad, that's
[44:53] like one of the best feelings ever. Uh, getting to
[44:58] next year, hopefully passing him. Uh,
[45:02] it's just something that I look forward to, but it doesn't mean the world to me anymore.
[45:07] like it's a lot. But it's, it's just something
[45:11] that like, we like to do. It's not every, it's not all we
[45:15] know. I don't know. Appreciate
[45:19] your, appreciate your comments. Um, I I, okay. I was just going to make a couple
[45:23] 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
[45:27] here for you just to recognize you. But I want to, to caitlin and to, to,
[45:31] you both had a chance to talk to some athletes last night and I recognized a
[45:35] few years ago, I really appreciate your comments about state championships matter and they do
[45:40] that, that's an accomplishment that worth highlighting. But I
[45:44] really admire what I think I'm hearing you both say, which is it matters,
[45:48] but it's not your why. It's beyond that. It's more than that. And I think that
[45:52] it's really important for especially a young athlete to understand that this
[45:56] is part of your path and that helps you as you're moving down it. This is
[46:00] not the top of the mountain. There's so much more in life to attain. There's communities
[46:04] to build, there's people to unite. There's families that you'll bring together,
[46:08] the rest of your life's in front of you and you're just getting off to a great start
[46:13] and it'll fall upon you to lift others. I watched you devon this year from a
[46:17] distance. I didn't get to see you closely, but my experience of you was similar to what you
[46:21] just relayed last year, um, as a freshman, you won state and you
[46:25] were focused on that. This year I've watched you act a little bit more of a part of a leader and
[46:30] trying to rally those around. You watched your brother do that as well, but trying to elevate
[46:34] your teammates and make them better, I want to acknowledge that and say thank you for
[46:38] your efforts in that. That was highlighted with kaitlyn as well is how she's,
[46:42] how she's a leader and elevates those around her. That's what leaders do. You've
[46:46] proven you can win a state championship now. Go out and prove that you can continue
[46:51] 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
[46:55] one more recognition that we're gonna do, but then we'll have you all come up for pictures. I have
[46:59] these for you if you guys wanna come get these. I want to know. Do you,
[47:03] do you both of you continue your debt ?
[47:09] you can tell they're not allowed to say. Sounds like he
[47:13] still has it. We'll come ahead and then he may
[47:18] have some additional questions. Did anyone else have any questions for? No.
[47:22] so, alright, we're gonna go to the next item on the agenda and turn the time over to vice
[47:27] chair penal. Uh,
[47:32] thank you chair and supervisors for this time. Uh,
[47:36] I believe that, um, mr. Young, mr.
[47:40] uh, rodriguez joseph, um,
[47:44] did not arrive today or is he here? Oh, here
[47:48] he is. Rodriguez. Um,
[47:53] good to see you. Yes, to see you. And I'm really proud of
[47:57] you. I know, um, wrestling is a phy physical and a mental,
[48:02] um, sport. And coming from the remote
[48:06] area of, um, kay unified school district,
[48:10] monument valley high school, to be specific, I'm really, um,
[48:14] proud of you. You have
[48:18] overcome a lot of challenges in your life that I'm aware
[48:23] of. And, um, this is
[48:27] a great accomplishment. Um, not only for yourself, but
[48:31] um, for your team as, um,
[48:35] keta, um, bon valley mustang wrestlers.
[48:40] and I, I encourage you to continue to overcome
[48:44] all these obstacles and, um, that you may have. And
[48:49] I wish you much success
[48:53] and that you'll have, uh, leadership skills as you
[48:57] move along, um, as you graduate from, um,
[49:02] monument valley high school this weekend. I'm sure you're missing a graduation
[49:07] practice today, however, but we're grateful and proud of you all
[49:11] the board members and myself that, um, you have made
[49:15] this accomplishment. And I do have a medal with you and
[49:20] for you here. And, um, I don't know
[49:24] if you came with anybody else, your coach? Uh,
[49:28] no, that's just my cousin. Oh, okay. Uh, well, that, that's
[49:32] okay. At least you have company coming out here. Yeah. And would you like to, um,
[49:37] share anything with us? Uh, yeah. Uh, so
[49:41] with being the only, uh, native american, well
[49:45] these two of course the navajo student, I'm very proud of 'em. And that just shows
[49:50] the resilience that our culture has. And I think
[49:54] I really put the navajo nation on the map and I feel like that's important to giving back
[49:58] to my community because where I live is where
[50:02] we have like little where the wrestling club started and that kind of ventured out to
[50:06] ganado and all the parts. So I just really wanna
[50:11] like, give back to the youth and especially my community.
[50:15] so I've been helping my siblings, uh, with coaching and
[50:20] my wrestling club. And I feel like wrestling could really teach you life lessons
[50:25] and not just the sport itself. And it's all around just a humbling
[50:29] sport in my opinion. And yeah, that's about it.
[50:35] thank you again. I congratulate you joseph
[50:39] rock south into unified school internship
[50:44] monte valley high school. And, um, I know it's a long drive
[50:48] that you come out 'cause I drive out from there as well to come to my
[50:53] board meetings. I drove from out there this morning.
[50:57] thank you. Yes, thank you. And congratulations and your cheer
[51:34] ahead, supervisor white.
[51:40] try not to cry, but I am crying.
[51:45] um, I'm so impressed by your young people.
[51:50] thank you. Thank you for your dedication to
[51:54] not only your sport, but to your family,
[51:59] to your friends, to your community.
[52:04] it is,
[52:09] it is such a wonderful thing to be able to witness
[52:14] such human beings who
[52:18] have a great love of their family.
[52:22] and I could hear all of those voices and thank you for
[52:26] the young men back there who, who demonstrated
[52:31] or shared that it's not just about being a champion, that
[52:35] there's so much more than that
[52:41] and that all of the things that you have learned, um, will
[52:45] be a driving force in your life. I used to sit up here
[52:49] with a gentleman who was named steve williams and steve,
[52:54] um, he served on the board of supervisors for many years. He
[52:58] was a state president for schola ward,
[53:02] um, or the schola community. And he was selected as
[53:06] a judge from governor ducey and serves as a arizona
[53:10] judge currently. And I share that because the
[53:15] question that he always asked as a wrestler and when wrestlers came in were,
[53:19] what did you learn that you'll apply to life?
[53:24] and all of you have shared something that you'll apply to life.
[53:29] and so thank you for that gift for me to be
[53:33] able to witness because that inspires me and that inspires
[53:37] the work that I do and the work of, um, serving
[53:42] young people, but also being able to be here today with
[53:46] you and being able to be with my colleagues to make decisions
[53:50] on behalf of navajo county. I truly am
[53:54] grateful for that gift. So thank you to all of those coaches,
[53:59] every family member, every mom and dad who took you,
[54:03] um, to your practice, to every family member
[54:07] who dedicated time to all of the teachers who stayed late to help you.
[54:12] um, I know that there were many, many people who invested time in
[54:16] your success and I'm grateful to them and I'm
[54:20] grateful for the communities who have invested their time. So thank you
[54:24] chairman. Um, and best of luck to all of you young people.
[54:29] I'm so, um, so proud of you and so
[54:33] appreciative of the gift today. Thank you.
[54:37] any other comments before we invite him up? No. All right.
[54:41] if you can come up, we'd love to have a picture with you all up here.
[54:45] that would be great.
[54:49] can you see if caleb is still there? Caleb porter from mike, sir. Caleb
[54:53] porter. See if he's still there. I don't know if caleb is or not.
[55:16] sorry sir. It seems right.
[55:33] 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 4.
[55:43] congratulations. You
[56:06] all right. We know that they've gotta get back to school. They're probably really excited about that.
[56:15] alright, we're gonna come to item,
[56:19] uh, e consideration of application of,
[56:23] uh, permanent extension of premise patio. Loretta onion bar and grill,
[56:27] located in over guard, arizona. Melissa, good morning chairman.
[56:32] supervisors, we received the application for permanent extension
[56:36] of premises patio for red onion bar and grill, located in over guard arizona.
[56:41] amy nations was the one that submitted the application. I believe she is
[56:45] listening online, but she was unable to be here today.
[56:50] um, we had all the offices,
[56:54] didn't have any questions and approved the submittal of the application.
[57:00] thank you. Any questions for members of the board?
[57:04] okay. If no questions,
[57:08] chair would entertain a motion chair. I'll make
[57:13] a motion that we approve this application for an extension, uh, for
[57:17] red onion bar and grill, located in re regard arizona. Second,
[57:22] have a motion and a second. Any more discussion? Hearing none.
[57:26] all those in favor vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.
[57:30] any opposed? Vote aye. Hearing none, the ayes have it. Motion
[57:34] passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you melissa. Alright, we're gonna go to item
[57:39] f, public hearing, consideration of franchise agreement with cactus state utility operating
[57:43] company llc for provisions of water services. Jason moore. Thank
[57:47] you. Yeah, good morning. Uh, mr. Chairman, members of the board, really nice to have the opportunity
[57:51] to speak to you this morning. Um, we're here to, uh, on this agenda item
[57:56] to consider, uh, granting a franchise, uh, agreement to,
[58:00] uh, canyon state utility company. Um, this is, uh,
[58:04] previously was a franchise that was held, uh, by high country pines water company,
[58:08] uh, over in, uh, near, uh, uh, hebrew overguard. Um, and
[58:12] basically, um, uh, what happened was, uh, canyon state purchased,
[58:17] uh, all of, uh, uh, high country pines water company's, uh, infrastructure
[58:22] in that area for water distribution. Um, it turned out when we
[58:26] researched the matter that, uh, uh, high country pines is, uh,
[58:30] own franchise agreement had expired like five or six years ago. Um,
[58:34] and so, uh, we, this isn't a renewal, it's, it's one that's entirely new.
[58:39] um, we have, uh, followed the statutory procedure for providing, uh, notice to
[58:43] the public, uh, under a rs 42 83. Um, and I'm
[58:47] not aware of any, uh, objections that have been made, uh, to, uh, uh, granting the
[58:51] franchise. It is a 25 year franchise agreement, which is pretty typical with these.
[58:56] um, and, uh, you did, I believe, receive some, uh, correspondence
[59:00] from, uh, fred kra, uh, from uh, canyon state, uh, telling you
[59:04] a little bit about, you know, the water company and, and, and, and what they do. Um,
[59:08] and so if there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. But, uh, uh,
[59:13] other than that we just, uh, ask for the board's approval. Perfect. Thank
[59:17] you. Jason. And I understand the applicant isn't gonna be present today, correct? That's correct, yeah. He
[59:21] couldn't be here. Alright. Okay. With the board, what we'll do is we'll
[59:25] go to the public hearing first before we come back. So we'll go, we'll open it up for the
[59:29] public hearing. Are there any members of the public wish to speak at this time on this?
[59:38] okay. Hearing scene? None. We'll, we'll close the public
[59:42] hearing and come to the discussion portion of
[59:46] it there. Members of the board that would like to discuss or have questions as it relates
[59:50] to the item presented? I sheriff,
[59:55] I could just make a comment. I appreciate the applicant, uh, reaching out to us with a
[59:59] letter just informing us that he wasn't able to be here today, but encouraging,
[1:00:03] uh, and giving his commitment that he'll do the best that he can. And I appreciate
[1:00:08] him at least taking the time to do that. And I think you mentioned that, but thank you. Thank
[1:00:12] you. Thank you supervisor seymour. Any other comments or questions?
[1:00:16] no. Okay. Hearing none, chair, to entertain a motion,
[1:00:25] I'll make a motion that we approve, uh, the franchise agreement with cactus state
[1:00:29] utility operating llc for the provisions of water service. Second.
[1:00:33] second. We have a motion and a second. Any more discussion?
[1:00:40] hearing none. All those in favor? Vote. Aye. Aye.
[1:00:45] a any opposed? Vote nay.
[1:00:49] hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you jason. Appreciate it.
[1:00:53] yes, thank you. Okay, we'll move on to item five, administrative
[1:00:58] services. Item five, a presentation of joel johnston on his retirement after 23
[1:01:02] years of service in county. I'll turn time over to eric. Stop.
[1:01:13] good morning, chairman, vice chair members of
[1:01:17] the board. This morning we have the, the opportunity to recognize
[1:01:21] two of our employees for their years of service to navajo county.
[1:01:26] uh, this is one of my favorite things to recognize our employees after
[1:01:30] putting in so much time to serve the residents of navajo
[1:01:34] county. Um, the first brett's here. Good.
[1:01:38] so the first one we have is, is joel johnston. Joel has been with navajo county
[1:01:42] for over 23 years. Um, as far
[1:01:47] I I've been with navajo county for about 12, and, and joel's been with facilities
[1:01:51] the whole, the whole time. And he's been the deputy director and just
[1:01:56] has been doing such a solid job, uh, standing in the background and getting things
[1:02:00] done. Um, he, he's a hard worker, very knowledgeable,
[1:02:04] and he's got a good sense of humor. I like that about him too. So,
[1:02:08] um, we, we definitely wanna recognize him. And, and brett, if you want to say a few words
[1:02:12] as well. Good morning.
[1:02:17] joel came to us as a young pup.
[1:02:21] joel. Joel has been an outstanding employee. He's been a great deputy director.
[1:02:26] he's, um, pretty much led day to day and he actually did
[1:02:30] our, all of our water works, so he does all the testing our wells.
[1:02:35] um, and he's, he's done a phenomenal job over the years and
[1:02:39] I, I really appreciate having him there and he's hard to replace.
[1:02:44] so thank you joel.
[1:02:48] thank you very much. Any joel,
[1:02:53] go ahead. Would you like to say anything? Comments to, uh,
[1:02:58] uh, I do appreciate having the opportunity to work for navajo county
[1:03:02] for so many years. There's really not a lot of choice up here.
[1:03:07] um, probably though the main reason I'm maybe taking
[1:03:11] off a little sooner than I could have is I am tired driving over a hundred miles a
[1:03:15] day from my home. So, but, uh, I'm gonna miss the guys
[1:03:19] and I'm gonna miss doing the work and, uh, I appreciate everything, the county
[1:03:23] and the board's done for me. So thank you. Thank you.
[1:03:38] any comments from members of the board?
[1:03:56] any comments or questions before we move to the next one? Um, just congratulations.
[1:04:00] congratulations and enjoy the retirement and thank you for coming today.
[1:04:05] ms. Johnson. Thank you. So you got a new boss you're
[1:04:09] setting by ac . Congratulations.
[1:04:15] yep. Congratulations. Well said. Alright,
[1:04:19] we'll move on to the next item on the agenda item, um, b presentation
[1:04:24] to mark searles on retirement after 12 years of servicenow
[1:04:28] county yard. Thank you chairman. Mark, if you want to come on up.
[1:04:33] mark sles, uh, has been with navajo county for over 12 years. And
[1:04:37] mark, you've worked in a couple different locations in the county. I know you've worked in probation.
[1:04:42] and then, uh, and then most recently in facilities, uh, mark has been our
[1:04:47] lead custodian for a number of years. And again, same, same with with
[1:04:51] joel. He is just been a steady force, uh, keeping everything clean for all
[1:04:55] of our employees and just doing a great job. Also, notice that mark
[1:04:59] is a great hard worker. He's very kind and very, very thoughtful,
[1:05:04] and he's just a, a great, great guy. We'll be missing him too. Brett,
[1:05:08] you got a few things to say too.
[1:05:12] just want to thank you, mark. I really appreciate
[1:05:17] mark. Um, I was kind of surprised when he put in for the job
[1:05:21] 'cause, you know, coming from probation, but he said he just wanted a
[1:05:25] day to day, same old, same old, and he came in and he did a phenomenal job
[1:05:30] of leading that team and we really appreciate him. Thank you.
[1:05:34] mark. You
[1:05:41] see you. No , I don't normally say a lot of things,
[1:05:45] so sorry. A little under the weather. Uh, I do appreciate the opportunity
[1:05:50] to work with the county. It's been a lot of years
[1:05:54] and I was glad that I was able to work with facility at the end of it
[1:05:58] because like brett said, it was just a little day-to-day type
[1:06:02] thing, and it was easier on me, on my body and getting things done. Probation
[1:06:07] as a young man came on, not my age. So, uh,
[1:06:11] I do appreciate I'll miss a lot of the people that I've come in contact with,
[1:06:16] a lot of the people that I work with directly. So, uh,
[1:06:20] I thank you for all that you've done for me, and that's all I have. Thank you.
[1:06:41] thank you. Eric. Any comments from members of the board? Congratulations.
[1:06:48] I'll say, uh, um, ahead, vice chair. Uh, um,
[1:06:52] thank you chair and board members. Um,
[1:06:56] I think that both of you thank you for, um, being part of the
[1:07:00] navajo county team and really appreciate mark because, um,
[1:07:04] keeping things clean is not an easy job.
[1:07:08] so we really appreciate, um, how much you do and
[1:07:13] every, all part of your team that keep things clean. Um,
[1:07:17] I see that, um, coming to,
[1:07:21] to this building, these buildings and they're kept clean. We
[1:07:25] really appreciate that and, um, we see how
[1:07:29] well you do your job as well as the others who work with you. Thank you so
[1:07:34] much. Thank you. And I want to just say to both of you,
[1:07:38] thank you sincerely. It's always great to be able to recognize some of the employees that are
[1:07:42] here at navajo county. And the one thing that seems to always stand out to me
[1:07:46] is kind of the heart of where all of you are. The truth is, nobody's
[1:07:50] perfect, but it sure seems like our people are really striving to do the best
[1:07:54] they can and serve and help, um, the departments that they're with
[1:07:58] and the citizens that they serve. And that's some of the comments that we heard about both
[1:08:03] of you in your service. Um, and you leave that legacy behind
[1:08:07] and for those to try to live up to that standard. So thank you for your example. Thank you
[1:08:11] for the leadership role that you played inside of where you acted and, and
[1:08:15] worked. And we wish you the best in this next phase of life. So thank you very much. Appreciate
[1:08:20] you. So, alright, we're gonna move on then.
[1:08:24] thank you eric. Thank you. On to item six, sheriff's
[1:08:28] office consideration, approval of proclamation proclaiming may 12th
[1:08:32] through may 18th is national police week in navajo county.
[1:08:37] turn the time over. Hey, how are you?
[1:08:41] I'm well, thank you chairman. Uh, its supervisors staff. Thank you
[1:08:45] for letting us have this opportunity today to come to you. As the sheriff
[1:08:49] said earlier in the month about the, uh, proclamations may seems to be proclamation
[1:08:53] month, uh, this week, uh, or this time,
[1:08:57] I'm gonna ask for consideration for proclamation for national police
[1:09:02] week. Uh, 1962, president kennedy proclaimed may 15th
[1:09:06] is national peace officer memorial day and the calendar week in which may 15th
[1:09:11] falls as national police week. And whereas the law
[1:09:15] enforcement members of the navajo county sheriff's office play an important role
[1:09:19] in safeguarding the rights and freedoms of the citizens of our community. And whereas
[1:09:23] it is important that all citizens know and understand the problems, the duties, the
[1:09:27] responsibilities of their sheriff's office, and members of our office recognize
[1:09:31] their duty to serve the people by safeguarding life and property, protecting
[1:09:36] them against violence or disorder, and protecting the innocent against deception
[1:09:40] and the weak against oppression or intimidation. And whereas our sheriff's office has
[1:09:44] grown to be a modern and scientific law enforcement agency, which unceasingly
[1:09:49] provides a vital public service, I'm gonna ask that the ma that
[1:09:53] the board of supervisors, uh, proclaim the, the week of
[1:09:57] may 12th of through may 18th, 2024
[1:10:01] as national police week in navajo county, arizona, to honor
[1:10:05] the men and women whose diligence and professionalism keep our county and
[1:10:09] citizens safe each and every day. And it's with great pride to be able to stand here in front of you
[1:10:13] guys today and read this proclamation, ask for that recognition.
[1:10:17] uh, here in navajo county, you're, you have 60, uh,
[1:10:22] sworn law enforcement officers that serve this county each and every day,
[1:10:26] all 10,000 square miles of it. Uh, it's not an easy job, it's a taxing
[1:10:30] job. Uh, it's 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And, uh,
[1:10:35] it's again, with great pride bill to come up here and, and, and advocate on behalf of the men
[1:10:39] and women to serve at the navajo county sheriff's office. Uh, and I just ask
[1:10:43] that, that you guys would consider this proclamation at this time.
[1:10:48] I have any questions if y'all have any, you have any questions,
[1:10:52] comments? No. I just appreciate your service. Uh, everybody's service in
[1:10:56] law enforcement that they do. Uh, it's, uh,
[1:11:00] you know, it, it is sad the changes of our time, uh, that we rec
[1:11:04] don't recognize fully how much you guys put your life
[1:11:08] on the line, your risk on the line, the unappreciation that comes
[1:11:13] from a part of the public. But thank you for what
[1:11:17] you do and thank you for each person and your staff as well as every peace officer.
[1:11:21] I think we're coming up on close to our year of, uh, the
[1:11:25] peace officer officer memorial that we put up about a year ago and just remembering,
[1:11:30] uh, that we got through this year without adding a name to that wall. And
[1:11:34] I think that's something that's special in, in navajo county as well too. So thank
[1:11:38] you. And for everyone else, that service, appreciate it. Thank you, supervisor.
[1:11:44] okay, any other comments or questions? Uh, chairman, um,
[1:11:48] certainly, uh, thank you. I ex expressed my gratitude
[1:11:52] to you and all of those who serve with you and serve our communities. Um,
[1:11:57] thank you for your dedication, not only to, um,
[1:12:02] our communities, but I think of the young children and our families and
[1:12:06] everyone who relies on you. Um, and I know that our,
[1:12:11] our police departments throughout the county, that you have done a wonderful
[1:12:15] job in working together that when there is an emergency, that
[1:12:19] you are quick, um, to respond and ensuring that there is a
[1:12:23] collective, um, uh, a partnership that is
[1:12:28] valuable, um, that honors and respects the citizens of the
[1:12:32] county. So I appreciate that I had the opportunity, um,
[1:12:37] to visit on, uh, an incident that occurred in,
[1:12:41] um, pinetop recently where there was an individual
[1:12:45] who was firing. Um, and how, um,
[1:12:49] from me, from a person who's looking, um, that's not my job. That's
[1:12:54] not my role. Um, and the fear lens that
[1:12:58] comes on and thinking about the traumatic event, um,
[1:13:02] that that could cause and for a police officer to continually
[1:13:07] put themselves in that space, um, to be able to serve our communities.
[1:13:11] um, my hats off and gratitude to each of you who
[1:13:15] decide and dedicate their time to do that. So thank you so much. Thank you, chairman.
[1:13:20] thank you supervisor, your honor. Thank you chair and
[1:13:24] supervisors and I do, um, appreciate you all
[1:13:28] as well as all for your community service as law
[1:13:32] enforcement include, which includes the sheriff department and as well as
[1:13:36] the, uh, all the police departments, um, throughout
[1:13:40] the towns and municipalities and out in
[1:13:45] the remote areas as well. Um, thank you for the
[1:13:49] protection you provide us every day, um, in all areas
[1:13:54] of life. And, um,
[1:13:58] your presence is always appreciated wherever you
[1:14:02] all go. And, um,
[1:14:06] much gratitude. Thank you. Thank you. Vice
[1:14:10] chair. Uh, chief, you'll be sure to relay to the sheriff
[1:14:14] as well as the rest of your team. Um, this one for me is easy,
[1:14:19] but we really do appreciate all that you guys do. Recognize that it's not easy, you're not always
[1:14:23] appreciated. I hope that your experience, though, in navajo county is that the vast majority do
[1:14:27] definitely appreciate who you are, what you represent, what you stand
[1:14:31] for, and how you do your job. So thank you to each of you. Um, we
[1:14:35] really do mean that. So appreciate you. Thank you, sir. Um, with that chair
[1:14:39] would entertain a motion. Motion. Second. We a motion
[1:14:43] and a second. Any more discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor?
[1:14:48] vote. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Vote nay.
[1:14:52] hearing none, the ayes have it. Motion passes. Union unanimously. Thank you very much.
[1:14:56] we really appreciate it. A picture with the board. Where's office tv?
[1:15:01] yeah, sure. The board. Do you wanna do it up here?
[1:15:28] thank you.
[1:15:36] yeah, you're part of the team. I mean, slide show team. Yes,
[1:15:46] I didn't, so good.
[1:15:54] we can hold you.
[1:16:01] three 50 fifties.
[1:16:16] two, three.
[1:16:46] all right, we're gonna move on to item seven, public works. Item seven, a consideration
[1:16:50] award of contract b 24 dash zero three dash or
[1:16:54] dash 0 1 1. Supplying and delivery and liquid asphalt products
[1:16:59] at the hawker and evan asphalt company in cactus asphalt beam.
[1:17:03] turn the time over to manny. Thank you. Good morning, mr. Chairman, vice
[1:17:07] sharon supervisor. This annual contract is to
[1:17:11] provide asphaltic concrete binders, uh, for various activities that
[1:17:15] public works is engaged in regarding payment preservation. The
[1:17:20] way contract was set up was to select up to two bidders because this
[1:17:24] gives us flexibility and some options. Um, this has been
[1:17:28] done in the past, so it's it's common, uh, to do that. Uh,
[1:17:33] on april 11th, uh, bids were received and bids
[1:17:37] were open, uh, in accordance to our procurement policies,
[1:17:42] only two bids were received. Uh, and the details of the bids
[1:17:47] and all that, the information is in your packet for your review. Uh,
[1:17:51] at this time, staff is recommending award of the contract, uh,
[1:17:55] to hawker and evans as fort company and cactus asphalt inc.
[1:18:00] and staff, uh, staff, or, I'm here to answer any questions that you may have.
[1:18:05] thank you, manny. Alright, any questions for
[1:18:09] manny on the item presented? None chair
[1:18:13] would entertain a motion. Chairman, I, I motion
[1:18:18] for approval? Second. We have
[1:18:22] a motion. A second. Any more discussion? Hearing none.
[1:18:26] all those in favor? Vote. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Vote nay
[1:18:31] and none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, manny. We'll, on item b, consideration
[1:18:36] of attachment c to the navajo nation intergovernmental agreement
[1:18:40] for assistance with roadway maintenance materials for the n 8 0 65
[1:18:45] road maintenance project. Many good morning, mr. Chairman, vice chair and supervisors.
[1:18:50] the forest lake chapter. In coordination with nai requested navajo county
[1:18:55] for assistance for roadway maintenance material for their n 80 65
[1:18:59] road maintenance project. Um, then 80 65
[1:19:03] is an unpaved roadway, which provides access to black maa chapter, house businesses,
[1:19:07] schools, and other residents living in and around, uh, forest lake.
[1:19:12] uh, chapter, um, the work under this project,
[1:19:16] the scope of work is to place aggregate base, uh, gravel material
[1:19:20] for almost three quarters of a mile. Um, the funds
[1:19:24] from this for, for this project, the funds for this project will be coming from
[1:19:28] district one fund, uh, I mean district one, her funds. Um,
[1:19:33] this project is budgeted for this year and the next year, uh,
[1:19:37] the cost for this project is close to a hundred thousand dollars per according
[1:19:41] to our procurement policy. Uh, the details of the project,
[1:19:45] uh, the location and everything, um, the resolution from the forest lake chapter,
[1:19:50] all the backup documents are in your packet for your review. At this time, staff
[1:19:54] is recommending approval and I'm here to answer any
[1:19:58] question. You may have any questions from members of the board.
[1:20:04] my, I do have a question. Go ahead. Um, I,
[1:20:08] I see I'm seeing what I'm reading up there, which is not
[1:20:13] on, on my, um, agenda here.
[1:20:17] um, there's supposed to be some other materials that
[1:20:22] are supposed to be purchased for this road, um,
[1:20:26] segment. And is that
[1:20:30] included or is that right now where,
[1:20:35] the way ndot has communicated to us the work that they will be doing,
[1:20:39] uhhuh is only gra gravel placement. So that's what this,
[1:20:43] uh, task agreement or attachment is for the remainder of the work. I
[1:20:47] think, uh, between ndot and bi, they will decide what will work will
[1:20:51] be done, and that can be captured later on. But, uh, if
[1:20:56] you look at the memo that's part of this, uh, packet, that's the work that they're
[1:21:00] requesting right now, gravel placement. Thank you.
[1:21:05] any other questions? Okay, jared,
[1:21:10] entertain a motion. I will, um,
[1:21:14] motion for approval. I'll second it. We
[1:21:18] have a motion and a second. Any more discussion? Okay. None. All those
[1:21:22] in favor? Vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed?
[1:21:26] vote nay. Okay. None the ayes have it. Motion
[1:21:31] passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate it. One item
[1:21:35] c, planning development, public hearing, consideration of civil
[1:21:39] adoption of resolution number 17 dash 2024 approving
[1:21:44] or denying a text amendment to article 20, section 2001,
[1:21:48] article 25, section 25 18 of the navajo county zoning ordinance
[1:21:52] regarding institutional residences and other group homes which do not qualify
[1:21:57] as group homes for the disabled. Cody. Alright, mr. Chairman, vice chairman,
[1:22:01] supervisors, I appreciate your time this morning. Uh, late last year,
[1:22:05] staff was instructed to take a look at our group home policies within the navajo county zoning
[1:22:09] ordinance and see if any updates were necessary to this. Um, since that
[1:22:13] time, staff has investigated, done some research, and today we're bringing forward the
[1:22:17] recommendations that we've made through our research. Um, so
[1:22:22] this is for group homes that would not qualify as group homes for the disabled staff is
[1:22:26] not touching that at all. We're just breaking it out in it into its own section under group
[1:22:30] homes in the same format that currently exists. Um,
[1:22:34] the institutional residence is another group. Homes is a little bit of a mouthful, so if
[1:22:38] I'm just referring to it as group homes for the sake, um, please understand that's the, the
[1:22:43] reference here. So staff has taken a look at the
[1:22:47] zoning ordinance and noted areas where we believe there needs
[1:22:51] to be some updates to these. Uh, our recommendations are strongly
[1:22:55] based on these types of standards, but we wanted to create, um, something
[1:22:59] clear and concrete so the public and the developers coming in wishing to make these facilities
[1:23:03] fully understand what's expected of staff in the county for these types of group homes.
[1:23:08] so the, the new section for these group homes does note that special use
[1:23:13] permits would still be required as are currently required, um,
[1:23:17] but only would be entertained within the multifamily, which is r two and r three, and the
[1:23:21] commercial residential, which is another form of, uh, multifamily as well.
[1:23:26] within this staff recommended adding some performance standards and requirements
[1:23:31] for these group homes. With that, it would be a 1200 foot separation between
[1:23:35] any of the group homes, so you don't end up with neighborhoods with these, uh, cluster developments
[1:23:39] on these so that there's some spacing adequately a 1200 foot
[1:23:43] separation from any religious, educational or childcare facilities, which is pretty typical
[1:23:47] for a facility of this nature. Um, those previously noted zoning
[1:23:52] districts, we did take a look at the occupancy limits as well. Um, dhs
[1:23:56] allows up to two beds per bedroom within these facilities. When
[1:24:00] looking at multifamily, uh, we wanted to look at keeping those as more
[1:24:04] residential and blending if they were brought forward. Uh, so we're recommending that
[1:24:08] that only be up to one resident per bedroom, uh, so that it fits more with the,
[1:24:12] the community around it. And then for that commercial, residential as those would be
[1:24:17] expected to be more of the, the commercial, um, higher density uses
[1:24:21] up to two residents for every bedroom. Um, but not requiring that it
[1:24:25] is two residents per bedroom. So that would still leave the, uh, ability to review and make
[1:24:29] sure there was adequate space within those facilities. As far
[1:24:33] as the exterior appearance, we had recommended for the multi-family, similar
[1:24:37] to the occupancy that, uh, this blend in with the residential nature
[1:24:41] of any neighborhoods, if it was going through on a special use permit. And so with that, there would
[1:24:45] be no sign or exterior indication that there's a facility there and then
[1:24:49] a solid wall or fence around any side or rear yards. Um, we don't want these things
[1:24:54] turning into compounds, but we would like some screening neighbors tend to to
[1:24:58] be concerned about that. As far as the cr uh,
[1:25:02] we just require that the, the signage and exterior would comply with the zoning
[1:25:06] district standards that exist there. We've also looked at parking.
[1:25:10] uh, that tends to be a, a worry of neighbors around these types of facilities
[1:25:15] and have recommended that of course they would comply with all parking standards and
[1:25:19] then also that there would be no parking allowed with any street or right of way. So those not to impede
[1:25:24] traffic within any region. Uh, with this, we've also
[1:25:28] recommended that there be the requirement that, and we require this of all projects, but
[1:25:32] we want it clear to everyone that there's compliance with building environmental health
[1:25:36] and fire safety. And then finally, uh, a requirement that the state
[1:25:40] has, but we want to reiterate is that all licensing from the state would be
[1:25:44] required for these facilities as well. Staff did
[1:25:49] bring this in front of the navajo county planning and zoning commission at that commission hearing. We
[1:25:53] did receive unanimous recommendation of approval for this. Um,
[1:25:57] as staff is bringing this to you today, we're recommending approval. Uh, we feel this meets
[1:26:01] the, the needs of our comprehensive plan and, and will fit in with the zoning ordinance. Well,
[1:26:06] as of today, we've received no public comments as far as this proposal, either through hearings
[1:26:10] or mailed into us or phone calls, um, staff's available for
[1:26:14] any questions if you might have them. Thank you. Thank you, cody. Alright,
[1:26:19] appreciate that. This is actually a, uh, public hearing, so we will open
[1:26:24] it up for the public hearing portion of it. Is there any members of the public we to speak
[1:26:28] on this item at this time?
[1:26:33] okay. Not hearing any. We'll close the public hearing and now we'll move to the
[1:26:37] board discussion. Any members of the board that have questions
[1:26:41] they would like to ask staff? Um,
[1:26:45] and chairman, I have a question. Um, I have a question on the occupancy.
[1:26:50] so there are two, so there's the r two and r three, there's
[1:26:54] a one resident for every bedroom with the resident, correct. So,
[1:26:59] and then there's the cr mm-hmm. Up to two resident. Can you explain the
[1:27:03] difference to me? Yeah. Um, so our r two and r three neighborhoods,
[1:27:07] they, they tend to be multifamily. Sometimes you will find single family homes in there where
[1:27:11] someone has chosen not to take advantage of that. They just prefer to have their single family home.
[1:27:16] um, so within those neighborhoods it's pretty much only limited to these
[1:27:20] residences. And we wanted to keep the nature of those facilities similar to those
[1:27:24] residences around them. We didn't want, uh, a lot of people packed into these
[1:27:28] types of areas, um, where it's very clear that they're a distinct and different use from
[1:27:32] their neighbors. We'd like this to, to be harmonious within those neighborhoods.
[1:27:37] and then our commercial residential, um, that does allow for the multifamily, but it also
[1:27:41] allows for commercial type facilities. Um, those tend to be on
[1:27:45] the very outskirts of neighborhoods or along a lot of our highways and major roads that we
[1:27:49] have here within the county. And so for that we wanted to encourage for those facilities
[1:27:53] that are more intensive and that are more commercial in nature, um,
[1:27:57] a lot where you'll have like the inpatient and the treatment and otherwise that it could be
[1:28:02] considered up to those two residences. But we also still want to make sure that there's adequate space
[1:28:06] for those residents so that they're getting, um, proper treatment while they're,
[1:28:11] that was my question. So in thinking about, um,
[1:28:16] the square footage of an average bedroom, um, and you, we have
[1:28:20] two occupants. So do you have to articulate
[1:28:24] that or is that just something that's given? So we haven't articulated any
[1:28:29] minimum square footage. I I'm sure it's something that we can look at and
[1:28:33] consider. Um, you know, really what we're looking at is they, they're
[1:28:37] required to give us layouts of these bedrooms and otherwise you wanna make sure that the
[1:28:41] facility has the, within itself and around it, the infrastructure that's capable of
[1:28:45] handling that type of density. Um, so there'd be a number of considerations made
[1:28:50] there as far as like, are you on paved roads? Do you have sewer, do you have
[1:28:54] water on site? And then within the bedrooms, are those truly adequate enough to handle
[1:28:58] more than one resident per bedroom? And that's not to say that we would, uh,
[1:29:02] necessarily just blanket, uh, recommend that there be two residents per bedroom.
[1:29:06] we'd wanna look at that on a case by case basis and make sure it's appropriate.
[1:29:12] okay. I appreciate that. Thank you. I know we had this discussion previously
[1:29:16] on occupancy and that's why I was asking for clarification. Thank you.
[1:29:20] absolutely. Thank you. Any more discussion? I just appreciate,
[1:29:24] uh, the effort that you put forth and your, your staff are doing this.
[1:29:28] also, you've addressed parking to try to make it appealing to the
[1:29:32] other neighbors and things there. So I think you guys have done a great job. This is something that
[1:29:36] you know is needed and, and it will be a case by case deal. So it's
[1:29:41] great. I appreciate it. Thank you. Any
[1:29:45] other comments or questions? Okay,
[1:29:49] hearing none chair, to entertain a motion chairman I motion for approval?
[1:29:55] give a second. I'll second. Second. A,
[1:30:00] we have a second? Any more discussion? Hearing none.
[1:30:04] all those in favor vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Vote
[1:30:08] nay. The aye. Have it. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you very
[1:30:12] much cody. Appreciate it. Chair. Uh, we're now on item
[1:30:16] d, navo county flood control district. We'll need a motion to enter into the navajo county flood
[1:30:20] control district board of directors session. So moved. Second.
[1:30:25] do a motion and a second. All those in favor vote. Aye. A aye.
[1:30:30] aye. Any opposed? Vote nay.
[1:30:34] and none the I have it. And we are now in the navajo county plug control district.
[1:30:39] item one is the consent agenda. Um, the items are
[1:30:43] on the screen for us.
[1:30:51] sorry. Through your curve ball. Huh? Sorry melissa.
[1:30:57] just so the public can see it. We have it on our agenda here.
[1:31:02] so the items are on the consent agenda that shown up on the screen. Any questions,
[1:31:08] comments? Not chair would entertain a motion. I'll
[1:31:12] make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second,
[1:31:17] we have a motion, a second to approve the consent agenda. Any more discussion?
[1:31:21] hearing none. All those in favor vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Vote
[1:31:26] nay. Sorry, supervisor.
[1:31:30] I'll slow that up a little bit. Um, motion passes.
[1:31:34] unanimously consent agenda has been approved. We're on to item two, the regular agenda
[1:31:39] consideration of intergovernment agreement between navajo county flood control
[1:31:43] district and silver creek flood control district for finance assistance of mil swell drainage
[1:31:48] improvement project in the amount of a hundred thousand. Uh, mr. Perkins,
[1:31:52] thanks for being with us today. Good morning.
[1:31:57] um, chairman, chairman whiting and
[1:32:01] vice chairman al and other supervisors and all that are here.
[1:32:06] I have to put on my glasses, the pulpit's too far away. I've gotta hold
[1:32:10] the paper up to my face. So the motion that we're bringing before
[1:32:15] you is for consideration of the, uh, intergovernmental agreement between
[1:32:19] navajo county flood control district and the silver creek flood control
[1:32:23] district for financial assistance. They're seeking a hundred thousand
[1:32:27] dollars on this project. Um, we, we
[1:32:32] recognize that the, uh, that they're requesting
[1:32:36] this money and that it's for value engineering on the millet swale
[1:32:40] drainage improvement project. The purpose of this
[1:32:44] iga is to authorize the county to partner financially as
[1:32:48] navajo county flood control district and as silver creek flood control
[1:32:52] district. Both of our districts, uh, recognize and, and,
[1:32:57] uh, share a common interest to improve the millet swell drainage
[1:33:01] area to help reduce the chance of future flooding.
[1:33:05] and as you may know that there, uh, has been some, there was a breach
[1:33:09] in 2021 of the millet swell and, uh,
[1:33:13] staff is recommending approval of this.
[1:33:18] perfect. Thank you questions. I
[1:33:22] know this is something that's been a concern for people in that area. Appreciate you working in
[1:33:26] partnership with them and looking at solutions. Thank you very much for doing that.
[1:33:31] um, if no other questions chair
[1:33:35] would entertain a motion,
[1:33:40] I'll make a motion to approve, uh, as presented. Thank
[1:33:44] you. Second, we have a motion and a second. Any more discussion?
[1:33:50] hearing none. All those in favor vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. A
[1:33:54] aye. Any opposed? Vote nay. Hearing
[1:33:58] none, the ayes have it. Thank you. Appreciate that mr. Perkins. We
[1:34:03] now need a motion to return to regular session. So moved. So move
[1:34:07] second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor vote. Aye.
[1:34:11] aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Vote nay.
[1:34:15] hearing none. The aye. Have it. We now are at item eight, the
[1:34:19] county business update. Mr. Carline, do you have anything to update? No, this, not this meeting.
[1:34:24] thank you. Thank you. Mr. Leighton. Not today.
[1:34:28] supervisor seymour, I just want to say
[1:34:32] congratulations to all those who are graduating, whether it be from
[1:34:36] one grade to the next, or whether it be from high school going on to college or college
[1:34:40] degrees. You know, I think life is, is great. And the challenges they have,
[1:34:45] I just want to, I was on an airplane, uh, recently and it was interesting.
[1:34:50] everybody waits forever to get on the plane. We get on, we sat down
[1:34:55] and you wait and you wait. And finally they start backing up from the gate.
[1:34:59] but then a person raised their hand and started shouting. They went off the plane.
[1:35:04] and so we stop and now we have to go back to
[1:35:08] the gate. We have to let that person off. Everybody that's
[1:35:12] on the plane is probably irritated. They're not their
[1:35:17] best friends. It was a disrupting of their time, not knowing what other people
[1:35:21] of everybody on the plane now is going to be delayed from the people from
[1:35:25] there. But I don't know the reason. I don't know why the person had what they
[1:35:29] had, but it was important to them. And I think that today we
[1:35:33] have people that certain things are more important to them, but we try to
[1:35:37] listen and we try to hear and we try to make the best that we can of everything.
[1:35:42] and so I respect the process that we have in place
[1:35:46] to listen, to share, and to do the business of the county
[1:35:51] in the eyes of the public. And I appreciate the people here of
[1:35:55] navajo county and the citizens of navajo county. And I just
[1:35:59] wish you all the best and, and a great summer and a great spring. And may we
[1:36:03] continue to work together to unite, continue to be
[1:36:07] positive and continue to rely upon, uh, heavenly
[1:36:12] father who loves and will preserve and bless us as we serve him.
[1:36:16] thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Supervisor
[1:36:20] seymour. Supervisor , do you have anything to update us with?
[1:36:25] um, not during this meeting chair. I would prefer in person at the next meeting. Thank
[1:36:30] you. Okay. Thank you. And good to have you with us today. Supervisor weisinger.
[1:36:35] uh, thank you chairman. Um,
[1:36:39] I was able to attend the inauguration. I know that there were several of us who
[1:36:43] attended the inauguration for the white mountain apache tribal community
[1:36:48] where they had, um, four elected new individuals
[1:36:52] for the, um, council membership. And
[1:36:56] so we're grateful for the partnership and thank you for each of you who
[1:37:00] took the time, um, to attend that inauguration. And
[1:37:04] also to think about, um, our partnership from navajo county.
[1:37:08] so thank you for that. Um, there was also several community
[1:37:12] meetings within the tribal community. One of those things
[1:37:17] that they're looking at is public safety and first response. And this is something
[1:37:21] that I know, um, katrina and the sheriff, they've attended
[1:37:26] meetings as well in mcnary. And this is
[1:37:30] a meeting that they're having in white river to be able to develop
[1:37:34] a plan if there happens to be an emergency. And there
[1:37:38] aren't first responders who have the ability to quickly respond.
[1:37:43] how do citizens support, uh, the communication to ensure
[1:37:47] that everybody within the public is aware, uh, of the emergency
[1:37:51] and how they, um, can work together. So I, I was grateful to
[1:37:56] be able to have the invite to listen to that conversation
[1:38:00] and also the investment of community members who, um,
[1:38:04] were concerned for their citizens. Uh, this past weekend or
[1:38:09] two weekends ago, uh, the fort apache heritage foundation,
[1:38:13] they had a groundbreaking ceremony. If you haven't been
[1:38:17] to the, for apache, um, site, there
[1:38:21] are old historic buildings there. Um, some of them are very beautiful.
[1:38:26] they've done a great job of restoring the buildings. Um, there's one particular
[1:38:30] building, it used to be called the, uh, the boys dormitory.
[1:38:34] and that building is being, um,
[1:38:39] remodeled. Um, and they will be utilizing
[1:38:43] that space for office space, um, in the future, hopefully residential
[1:38:47] space. Um, but that's pretty exciting to be able to see
[1:38:52] the movement of that particular building. And there are a lot of people including
[1:38:56] our own, um, rochelle oppa, who sits as,
[1:39:01] um, the board chair of that particular board. So thank you to rochelle
[1:39:05] in her work. And, um, I serve also on that board,
[1:39:09] so we're grateful to be able to participate in that conversation. One of the things
[1:39:13] is also, I think I mentioned that, but the conference center area, there
[1:39:17] will be conference space, which we know when we look throughout the mountains, sometimes it's difficult
[1:39:22] to find a space to have a meeting. So we're, um, we look forward to being able
[1:39:26] to have, um, that's based and along the same
[1:39:30] lines of, um, supervisor seymour in thinking about,
[1:39:34] um, opportunities for us to be able to, um,
[1:39:38] move together, move forward together as citizens. I was recently invited
[1:39:43] to a passover meal where we shared
[1:39:47] a seder um, dinner. And um, I was really
[1:39:51] grateful to be able to be among my neighbors and, um, different members from
[1:39:56] our community and to be able to learn about, um, the
[1:40:00] practices of another faith, but also really about, um,
[1:40:04] sitting at this table and, um,
[1:40:08] being able to respect one another and share opportunity for prayer.
[1:40:13] so, um, I too am grateful for that. And um,
[1:40:19] I think those are some of the big highlights, but thank you so much.
[1:40:23] thank you. Uh, vice chairman benelli,
[1:40:28] uh, thank you chair and supervisors. Um, I do have,
[1:40:32] um, a little report. I did go out to the
[1:40:36] western interstate region conference out in yosemite and
[1:40:41] it was a little difficult because I couldn't call out for,
[1:40:45] for the sake of anything, but I was able to text out
[1:40:50] and, um, until I came back out, um,
[1:40:54] into the, I guess more, uh, city-like area
[1:40:58] and got to learn about the trees and the
[1:41:03] fire mitigation and how they do certain things with,
[1:41:07] um, collaboration with the us
[1:41:12] four service and the state and the counties.
[1:41:17] and out there we did go on a, like a field trip. So
[1:41:21] we went up to the woods and see, saw all sorts of piles of, um,
[1:41:25] wood that were sawed to a certain size and
[1:41:30] they would, um, have it there for work,
[1:41:34] work it out. So they're, they're burned in the winter
[1:41:39] time so that things won't catch fire. And also
[1:41:43] the giant sequoias who got see some of those and those are,
[1:41:47] um, protected and many, they are also planted
[1:41:52] new ones. So those are baby sequoias and
[1:41:56] the sugar pine trees, they grow really tall
[1:42:00] and I've never seen such tall trees in,
[1:42:04] in my life and they grow over 200 feet.
[1:42:09] so that was quite interesting. Different
[1:42:13] variety. Seen a different variety of plants as well as
[1:42:17] um, forage and um,
[1:42:22] but we didn't, I didn't see wildflowers until I came back south
[1:42:27] into the southern california and
[1:42:32] I didn't realize that um, the northern
[1:42:36] lights was gonna happen. Um,
[1:42:40] so I left and earlier than I was
[1:42:44] supposed to and I was like, oh darn, I'm missing the
[1:42:49] northern lights. But oh well I came home and
[1:42:54] saturday night and I did see the northern lights from my home
[1:42:58] on black mesa so that was really interesting to
[1:43:02] see. And all in all, it was
[1:43:06] a good alerting experience regarding fire, um, medication,
[1:43:11] how the county state and yes for service work
[1:43:15] together. And thank you chair, back to you.
[1:43:20] thank you. Appreciate it. Alright, um, just a
[1:43:24] couple of items tour that we just recently did. We had
[1:43:28] leaders from across arizona that we brought together to, um,
[1:43:32] talk about arizona's forest and what's going on within that. And so we had different
[1:43:37] county leadership. We had people quite a few from the legislature,
[1:43:41] um, but we brought leaders from across arizona together. And it's
[1:43:45] always interesting, I think a lot of times people that aren't in the force don't really understand
[1:43:49] the relationship between the, the watershed and our force and how it plays
[1:43:53] into how, I mean it impacts the daily life of all arizonans,
[1:43:58] not just those of us that live here. And so it was a great conversation. Um,
[1:44:02] a lot of great people that were interested in helping. Another
[1:44:06] interesting thing that we found is people with good desires that want to help but
[1:44:11] are jumping in to help in an area that maybe help is not needed. And so what we really tried
[1:44:15] to create was a situation where these leaders all came and then they got to hear firsthand
[1:44:21] from industry and people that are actually in the forest working that. So they heard
[1:44:25] from the forest service, they heard from the loggers, they heard from all
[1:44:29] the different stakeholders. They gotta talk about what's currently happening and where
[1:44:33] the problems are, where the successes have happened. There are a lot of
[1:44:37] positive things that have gone on. We've moved to where we've almost doubled, um, in the last 10
[1:44:41] years. The amount of acres that are being treated to log and our forest,
[1:44:45] a lot of that being here in the apache sick grapes. Um, but there's always
[1:44:50] some hurdles and they got a chance to speak rather than us saying it for them
[1:44:54] here firsthand, which is good because it created alignments now to
[1:44:58] where people with good intentions aren't working from different perspectives where we're better aligned
[1:45:02] in that conversation. So that was good. Also had a chance to attend.
[1:45:07] uh, my chairs as you know, the real az um,
[1:45:11] the real az group that's the regional economic development group for apache and
[1:45:15] navajo county. It's been something that's been important to all of us. It's been important
[1:45:19] to me for a long time. I sat on it when I was on the snowflake town council and then obviously
[1:45:23] since I've been on the board here and part of the hope always was that it would continue
[1:45:27] to grow. Membership would grow, we'd attract and bring new industry and businesses,
[1:45:32] but someday when we grew up, hopefully we'd be able to go out and hire an
[1:45:36] economic development person. And having chris be in that position, of course, where shell
[1:45:40] did a tremendous job and got kind of some, some legs and feet underneath
[1:45:44] it with the foundation. But chris has done an absolutely tremendous job over the last
[1:45:48] six months that he's been there. He had a chance to be able to talk and share
[1:45:53] a lot of the, a report that showed a lot of the different businesses that he's currently communicating
[1:45:57] with, those that he could appropriately name and did. He did, but he shared
[1:46:01] a report with the larger group and anybody that was curious what chris is doing
[1:46:06] would have a hard, would be pretty hard pressed to see how hard he's actually working and how
[1:46:10] many different organizations and companies he's working with existing
[1:46:14] businesses to help them to sustain themselves to grow if they're so desiring. As well as new
[1:46:18] businesses that are looking into the area and helping them with that. So really
[1:46:22] appreciate him and his efforts. So been a good productive last couple weeks. We obviously
[1:46:27] have county supervisors association on thursday and I, I plan
[1:46:31] to be there down in the valley. And, uh, anyways, hope everybody's doing well.
[1:46:35] we, uh, with that we stand adjourned. Thanks everybody. Appreciate it.
[1:46:39] thank you.