Pinal County Approves Major 250 MW Battery Storage Facility Amid Governance Crises in Public Comment

offered invocation. Sorry about that. Uh will be offered by PC PCSO Chaplain Joe Simoj. Joe, you're here someplace. There you are. And um followed by the pledge of allegiance led by yours truly. And we'll go there. Please stand if you wish to participate. Morning board. Good morning, dear wise and loving father. First, let me say thank you on behalf of all who are gathered here today. Thank you for your many and abundant blessings. Thank you for life itself.

For the measure of health we need to fulfill our callings for substance and for friendship. Thank you for the ability to be involved in useful work and for the honor of bearing appropriate responsibilities. Thanks as well for the freedom to embrace you or the freedom to reject you. Thank you for your loving us even so from our boundless and gracious nature.

In the scriptures you have said that citizens ought to obey the governing author authorities since you have established those very authorities to promote peace and order and justice. Therefore, I pray for our mayor for the various levels of city officials and in particular for this assemb as assembled council.

I'm asking that you would graciously grant them uh wisdom to govern govern amid the conflicting interests and issues of our times, a sense of welfare and true needs of our people, a keen thirst for justice and and righteousness, confidence in what in in what is good and fitting, the ability to work together in harmony even when there's honest disagreement, personal peace and their lives and joy in their task. I pray for the agenda set before them today.

Please give them an assurance of what would please you and what would benefit those who live and work in and around our beloved city. It is in your name Jesus Christ I pray. Amen. Thank thank you. Please join me in the pledge and sir you can do whatever. All right. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right.

I just got to give him a little grief, but you know, just cuz what the heck, right? Yeah. So, anyway, um thank you for being here this morning. Uh welcome to the Panal County Board of Supervisors. uh June 20 uh June 17th, 2026 regular meeting. We're in order. And first item up, as unfortunately is the case, we have a couple of exe executive sessions. So I'd ask for a motion, please, to con Oh, to convene into executive session and also a segue that Supervisor Miller is absent today. Thank you.

You're welcome. Okay. May I please get a motion to convene to executive session? Um I have a motion. Is there a second? Second. A motion to second. Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Opposed. Hearing none. We're in executive session. We'll be back in a little bit. Ajourn executive session and reconvene the regular meeting. Have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion and a second. Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. I. Opposed. Hearing. None. Motion passes.

We're back in regular session. Thank you for being patient, everybody. Um, item number four is county manager report. Mr. Blue, thank you. Good morning, chairman. I just wanted to let you all in the public know about the resources that we have on our website to celebrate our 250th birthday as a country. America 250. Um, right here we have it up on the screen. This is our county part of our website. Um, but we also have links to what's going on in the cities and towns throughout the county.

Um, Apache Junction, Cas Grand, Kulage, Eloy Florence Maricopa Santan and all the different events that they have um coming up to celebrate locally here. Um, and then we have one for the state that talks about the state's different programs, Passport 250, um, and what's happening to celebrate throughout the whole state.

And then we also have a national link that has um kind of the block party they call it, as well as other resources related to history and and um and music soundtracks to our um traditional historical songs. So, a lot of good resources linked on our website and UFC matches and through there. So, thank you chairman. That was all this morning. That's it. Okay. Thank you. Um item number five is presentation. Oh, I'm sorry. Um item number five is being um withdrawn this time.

Presentation of certificates. Item six is supervisor district updates. Uh we'll start with supervisor Goodman. You bet. Thank you, Supervisor Chair, whatever, whoever I am. Uh, first off, uh, we've had a pretty good pretty busy summer so far. Um, we just got the kids out of school, right? And and, uh, I've got a video that we've got a an event taking place to help prepare the kids for when they go back to school. We're doing a drive to assist a lot of this.

There's been a lot of budget cuts and things of that nature. So, we're looking for uh gatherings of supplies for the kids as well as backpacks, stuff like that, as well as for the teachers as well. Um, we've got a video that we've done and if we could show that right now, that'd be great. Hey, Panalo County Supervisor Mike Goodman here for our community and in conjunction with a back to school drive. Hey, I know we just got them out of school, but now we need to prepare for when they go back.

So, we're working in conjunction with you as local individuals to participate. And I'm Rita Anne Eay, director of public relations and community engagement for the Florence Unified School District. And we are proud to partner with Mike Goodman and for our community to help our students stuff the bus and be prepared to go back to school. So join us on June 27th in the parking lot of Walmart on Hunt Highway from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and help us stuff the bus. You don't want to miss the bus.

So come out and help us collect school supplies. You can also drop off here at the Santan Valley offices. In addition to that, we've created a wish list from Amazon. You can order online if you're anything like my wife. So, come out and help us stop the bus. I hope my wife wasn't watching. That was kind of an impromptude. And and uh I probably order as much as she does online, so I'm sorry.

Um, also I was requested by Douglas Wolf, our county assessor, to mention that we have he has office hours in the Santan Valley office as well as our county court recorder. We have the recorder's office is there and then we have the treasures office and uh we'll be putting it out their times that they're available. Um we've had that nice facility there for several years now and he's got staff members there and so I'd like to make it publicly known that um to go to there.

If you have anybody that's in the Santan Valley area, you're welcome to come to the office there and do that. Um I think that's it at this point. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Uh Supervisor Vidiello. Thanks. Thank you, chairman. Uh, I'll blow through this quick. I know people want to get going here. So, um, yeah, it's been pretty very, very busy. Uh, I met with, uh, this, uh, economic development for the city of Maricopa about opportunity zones.

I won't get into it because that could take quite a long time, but it's exactly what it sounds like, opportunity zones, very important to panel county. So, I was able to meet with uh, Christian Price and Josh about that. So, uh, also at the, uh, panel partner breakfast, we got to hear from, um, I think about seven mayors who came in to talk about, u, I'm sorry, city managers to talk about what's going on in their areas and it was very informative.

It's very good to hear from all the different ones in Penel County. Uh, also development services monthly update about roads in my district. Uh, we do that once a month. also met with staff uh about uh zoning issues and uh we are working hard to get some of that zoning situation uh under undergoing. So also attended Koolage City Council meeting. Um I like to go to the meetings once once a month. And then uh Bob Marsh, former colleague of mine, city council member, he's still on council.

His wife passed away about three weeks ago. And uh I was honored to be at his celebr her her celebration of life. Cynthia, God bless her. And um rest in peace and we we do miss her. She was very very very involved with the city. A former nurse, retired nurse, and she was just an awesome woman. So I just want to mention that. Also, AOT listening tour. A DOT is running around all over the state of Arizona.

I got to be with a bunch of council members uh some influential people in the city to sit and talk about uh that road 347 very very important to us. So uh also um emerging leaders I went to a kind of a candidate forum in Cassagrand and uh didn't matter whether they were Republicans or Democrats. I got to listen to what they had to say. Same thing in the city of Maricopa. Um I went to the Dem forum in Maricopa. It was very informative to listen to what they had to what they're campaigning on.

Uh I got to um spend about an hour and a half with a a data center expert on water and power. I am trying to learn and I know the rest of the boards. We are trying to learn everything possible about data centers and I've actually got I'm getting an opportunity to go to a data center to sit listen and learn uh the newest one in Phoenix. Uh believe it's going to be next week. Also about data centers and uh power in general. I got to meet with ED2 and ED3.

ED3 is in the city of Maricopa, but I also wanted to meet with also ED2 because I want to hear about the need for power. We need power and uh they're telling me how we're going to get it. Also, um Eli Crane's uh representative um is uh meeting in my office. uh anybody else who has a legislator or state senator or congressman that wants to um come meet, I do have a conference room that they're more than happy to come meet.

Again, nonpartisan, I don't care you, whether side of the table you're on, you're more than welcome to use uh my conference room. It's there available. Also, attended last night the Maricopa City Council, very interesting one. And then also tonight, I have another A347 meeting. It's an open house for uh people to come and listen to things that are starting to happen on the 347. People are asking why polls are being moved again. We're going to be widening it.

So, they're going to give us an update of the whole entire project tonight. Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Supervisor. Supervisor um I too was going to talk about the 250th anniversary, but Leo, you laid that out pretty good. just go to our website and it'll tell you what may be going on in your neighborhood. And also a reminder that we're still under fire restrictions and it was 112 111 yesterday and somebody decided to hike South Mountain and died two days ago. Why? We know enough.

But if people are visiting, don't don't let them go. and uh talked to some people were disappointed that we didn't get any of the World uh Cup events here, but if we did, the Europeans would be tempting to go hiking. So, it's probably a good thing that we didn't get any here. And also, I'm going to hand this one off to uh Chairman Mccclure about the waste vouchers in the southern part of my district and yours and uh those are now available and uh how to get them for dumping. as of as of today.

You can you can sign up for them as of today. Yes. So I'll you already said it. I don't even need to talk about it. Okay. Okay. Okay. So yes, waste vouchers uh for u copper corridor area. Uh that's important as those folks need to get rid of their stuff. Um yeah, things we've done workforce summit last week in Mesa. I'm on the state workforce advisory committee. So, I got to go listen to people talk all day about uh workforce and employment in the state. That was interesting.

Um, sizzling seniors here in Florence last Friday, the Vet Center up in Magic Ranch and they do sizzle. They're bunch of hot seniors this time of year. Everybody's cooking. It was it was good there with uh Mr. Ortiz out here and I had a couple people from Santan Valley, our ex employees that have gone to work for Santan Valley. Um, but talk about the changes and the things that are going on in that town.

Um, I was at a uh, let's see, Monday I was at a great forum for the Santan Valley City Council uh, put on by Miss Mooney out here and that was great. There's nine people running for seven positions. Uh, that should be uh, quite entertaining interesting. Um things that are coming up. Let's see. Yesterday was a food distrib United food bank out of Maricopa that services Maricopa County and Panal County. Uh had a drive-thru food distribution in Salmon well on the 16th yesterday.

Another one is coming on on July 21st. It's a drive-thru distribution. Nobody can walk through. It's open to the public, but come get all you have to do is show uh just show your ID. Uh on July 7th, there will be one in Coolage at the Unified School District on Arizona Boulevard. Um also a food distribution there. So 9 to 11:00 for both of those items. So that's much needed. And that's all I have going on at the moment.

Uh with that, we will go to item seven, which is a discussion of the state legislative session, which is now sidy die. And since Mr. Miller is not here. Miss Lewis will come and and speak to us about something. What are you going to talk about? Stuff. Stuff. Cool.

Chairman Mccclure, members of the board, Dana Lewis, Panel County Reporcer, uh to give you your legislative briefing, the Arizona 2026 57th legislature second regular session lasted 161 days and concluded or Sunday on June 13, 2026 in the Wii hours of the mourn. This means that the effective date for all bills signed into law will be September 12th, 2026. And the governor has 10 days from sina die to sign the stack of bills on her desk.

There are three referrals from the last session, seven this session, and possibly three citizen initiatives that may find themselves or the citizens initiatives at least find their way to the ballot in November. And that possibly means that some of our jurisdictions will be seeing a twocard ballot for the general election in November. Uh a lean budget was passed and bills transmitted to the governor included uh there were 126 signed 63 were vetoed and pending action 226.

That's your legislative update. Thank you. And don't go away because oh look, you're up next. Elections department county recorder recent activities. Chairman Mccclure, members of the board, Dana Lewis, your panel county reporter and officer in charge of elections. Uh for theou talking points again, July 21st is the primary election date. Yesterday we passed our logic and accuracy test of our tabulation equipment and ADA machines with the Arizona Secretary of State.

The voter registration cutoff for the primary election is next Monday, June 22nd. Start of in-person early voting at our satellite offices in Santan Valley, Apache Junction, Kasagrand, Maricopa City, and votes is Wednesday, June 24th. That is also the same day our early ballots are mailed out. Early inerson voting will end Friday, July 17th. The voter registration department is uh processing the influx of voter registrations forms generated by different non-governmental organizations.

These groups mailed out registration materials to over 11,000 individuals in Panol County. We are required to process those forms for voter registration updates no later than Monday. Uh and as they trickle in, it does create an influx of work for our staff. Additionally, the voter registration department is required to mail over 3,500 NVA, National Voter Registration Act notices to voters whose 90day notices were returned from the United States Postal Service as undeliverable.

We do this to maintain our voter roles. We encourage voters that move. Please update your address with us. The last day to request a bellup by mail is July 10th. Official write in lists have been sent to satellite offices and created for polling locations. Remember, Arizona is an open primary for Republicans, Democrats, and no label parties.

That means if you are an independent voter, party not designated or other voter, you may request a partisan ballot of Republican, Dem, or no labels, or a city and town only ballot if if applicable. We request that you have a plan of vote. Go to panel votes to discover where your precinct based voting location is and go to my.arizona.vote to check your voter registration and track your early ballot.

The poleworker division has completed eight pole worker training classes thus far with about 30 participants per class. These training sessions provide hands-on instruction to ensure pole workers are prepared to serve voters effectively on election day. We continue to actively recruit pollutable workers uh throughout Panol County. Individuals interested in serving their community and supporting the elections process are encouraged to apply uh online at our panel vote site.

Thank you to the public works department for standing up the best group of troubleshooters for election day. These boots on the ground team support our pole workers and precinct based voting locations and manage obstacles and use critical thinking skills to support our mission. If you're interested in being a political observer, commonly referred to as a poll watcher, or parti or participating in the postelection handc count, please contact your party chair.

This is not a part of our uh our division. Uh and remember, more hands make for lighter work. Our department continued to focus on proactive planning, expanded access, and improved communication to ensure a successful and wellsupported 2028 2026 primary election. I stand for questions. Take take a breath. Okay. Okay. Any questions of Miss L. No. Okay. Thank you very much. Appreciate Thank you, gentlemen. Item nine, discussion, approval, disapproval of capital project process assessment. Uh, Mr.

Judson, I believe you were here. Good. Good morning. Still, good morning and thank you for having me. Um today I just want to give you a quick update on the internal audit activities that we've had going on over the last few months. Uh first item um capital projects.

Um in collaboration with county management when we had this on the plan um originally we were thinking it was going to be an audit but based on their feedback and specifically Angie and Hamanchu they knew that there was areas for improvement. So we modified this to an assessment and really made it so that there's a roadmap at the end of it to be able to improve in in these certain areas.

Um so what we looked at is governance methodologies, there's tools, their templates, their overall processes and then just efficiencies in the planning, execution and closing of capital projects. um a high level there are three areas that we identified um that they need to improve on and that's the um governance standardization of processes. They've got some good processes in place. It's just not really formalized and not really standardized.

Um and then just consistent reporting as well coming out of that. Um and then also their intake of projects and how do they prioritize things? um and how do they shuffle things around when something new comes up. Um and the last thing was identifying that purchasing wasn't always brought in um in a timely manner. Um so as part of our recommendations uh the road map we looked at is short-term and long-term.

So short term really looking at uh developing that governance and those standardized processes, the templates um and then looking at actual controls that they can put into place from an internal audit perspective. Um and then getting to monitoring and establishing some KPIs that they can utilize um and know when projects are maybe off a bit or if they need to be corrected. Um and then at the end training everybody on on these processes, making sure that they're following them going forward.

Um and then looking at change management. So if something changes, how do they go about doing that? How to make sure the right people are involved. Um so this is probably a six month for the short term and over a year for the long term stuff. Um but there's a lot of good things in place. This is just not documented and formalized. Any questions? Any any questions for Mr. Judson? No. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. I've got the next two. Yeah. Okay. Don't don't go anywhere. Okay. Okay.

So then let's let's go to number 10 and talk about internal audit plan. Chairman quote. Yes, ma'am. I'm sorry. You want me to vote on something? Yes. Wow. You're pushy. Okay. All right. So, we need to we need to approve this. Um, item number nine. Make it a motion, please. Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion that we approve item number nine as presented. The process assessment. I have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion is second. Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. I.

Opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Sorry about that. Okay. Now, now we'll go to number 10. Let's talk about the internal audit plan for fiscal year 24 to 26. And on the plan, um I think you're all aware that we typically do an assessment and put put together a three-year plan. So, we're coming up on the end of this plan. And there are a number of things on here that were postponed and all of those were due to county management initiatives.

Um, so I I expect as we go through our risk assessment process for the next three-year plan that those will at least be discussed and maybe put onto the next three-year plan. Um, but we're in process of currently wrapping up our followup from previous audits that haven't been closed out yet. So I think there's a budget and strategic plan where there's items open um the f the fiscal audit as well as I think there oh a community development.

So I think last time we presented on community development there was about 50% of the items that were still open. We're gathering that information and seeing what's been closed. We know that there's still some items that will be open. So it it will have another followup uh in future year. And I know on and I know on some of these some of these are in process now. The canceled postponed ones are in process. So by the time you get to those many of them may be completed. Yep. Yeah.

in the BIA specifically. We've got this as planning, but we've had some discussions recently with Jason Canrell and knowing that the county is looking to put some of their um backup server stuff into the cloud that actually impacts the BIA.

So, I I kind of think that'll be on our plan and maybe in a couple years because once that is transitioned to the cloud, then we'll need to have discussions with county management on what's the priority of the systems, how quick do they need to be up, and what are their backup plans um in case something is down. And then the full risk assessment, we'll be reaching out to all of you probably in August time frame.

And as a reminder, the full risk assessment, we do surveys for all of the county departments and then we also do interviews with select county management as well as all of you. Yeah, I remember those. Okay. Any questions for Mr. Judson? And this is nothing to vote on. Thank you. I was reading ahead. Okay. Item number 11, then let's go to the silent whistle. Mr. Judson, silent whistle there. We're still monitoring it. There really hasn't been much.

Everything that's come through is not internal audit related. A lot of it is things that just honestly don't make sense. U probably half of them though are uh from constituents that have concerns and maybe identity theft, things like that. And those items are passed along to the sheriff's office. Okay. So far for the year, there's been 12. And and internally we deal we deal with that through the pro office. I can't remember what PRO stands for. What does PR pro stand for?

Miss Miss Shepard, chairman, members of the board, PRO stands for the professional responsibilities office and that's the new division that was created approximately a year ago where um serious complaints involving employees or conduct is investigated internally through an office in the county manager's office. Thank you. Okay. And I believe this one is discussion update only. So thank you Mr. T. Appreciate it. Okay.

Uh item number 12 is presentation of modifications to the 25 to 28 Arizona at work panel county workforce development plan. Mr. Milman, you're there. We dragged you up too. Oh boy. Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the board, um Joel Milman, director, Panel County Economic Workforce Development Department and Arizona at Work Panel County. I'm joined here with uh one of our staff, Mariah Robas, who's our compliance and monitoring specialist who's going to assist me in this brief presentation.

Uh here we go. Okay, hopefully I can do this right. Um so today we're we're presenting the modification an overview of the modification of the 2025 2028 workforce development plan for Arizona at work panel county. This plan serves as our local workforce roadmap and outlines how we will align talent development, employer needs and economic growth over the next two years.

The modification builds on the existing plan while updating implementation strategies to meet the current workforce and economic realities. Uh the plan right now is a two-year update. This plan was originally uh went into effect on January 1, 2025. So this is a two-year update which will go into effect ultimately January 1, 2027. Uh this plan is required under the workforce uh in Innovation and Opportunity Act, otherwise known here in Arizona as Arizona at work.

It's uh the brand the state brand for uh WA activities. Uh there's a shared governance over all Arizona at work panel county system activities. Uh you as a board of supervisors serves uh as a chief elected official and a WA grant recipient for panel county and then the panel county workforce development board provides strategic oversight while workforce partners deliver services.

The plan uh completed a public review and comment and no disagreement uh comments were received uh during that review and the modification maintains our strategic direction while modernizing implementation around data access and employer demand. So this plan uh reflects several years of engagement with employers, job seekers, community organizations and workforce partners.

Input was gathered throughout P uh the program partner engagement, job seekers, employer surveys, facilitated town hall meetings throughout Panel County. The planning process was intentionally communitydriven and feedback regarding barriers to employment and workforce participation directly uh informed the service delivery strategies included in the plan. There we go. Some data.

You probably know the focus of this plan really is is on that 80% plus of our labor force that leaves Panell County each day to work uh outside of the county. 23% of those uh individuals go directly into the city of Phoenix. Uh obviously a majority uh going into Maricopa County overall. Um, so the the strategies involved in this plan are really revolving around cap recapturing and providing opportunities within the county, reducing those numbers.

Could could we just put a roadblock up on the road and stop them from going? Could that's one of the strategies involved in the plan and so we'll go we'll present that to you for official approval when we're ready. Here we go. Um so the workforce demand continues to grow across multiple industries within panel county and significant growth is occurring uh as we know in manufacturing, construction, food services, retail and wholesale trade.

Uh long-term projections also show continued demand in health care and construction. So we need to ensure our workforce pipeline keeps pace with uh employer hiring needs. And this plan emphasizes using both labor market data, real-time employer feedback, and guiding investments uh to match with the talent that's going to be needed. I'll get this one. Okay, go ahead. You can let her talk. Yeah, she will. She will. We practiced just about an hour ago.

Uh uh this plan aligns with I just wanted to bring to your attention aligns with the Arizona State Workforce Plan uh which is uh through the Arizona Workforce Council which or Workforce Arizona Council which as you mentioned you're a member of and we appreciate that representation. Um and there's also the federal workforce priorities that are outlined in the uh US Department of Labor's issuance of report called America's Talent Strategy Building the Workforce for the Golden Age.

This is a report that was issued to all the states for this modification uh time frame. And so the states were to take this uh America's talent strategy into account with this update and mod uh modification of the state workforce plan. So for our purposes uh we are aligning uh this our plan aligns with both those plans uh and incorporates a framework outlined in the talent strategy of which we'll talk about in a few minutes.

Um these priorities help ensure that the local workforce investments remain aligned with national and state workforce objectives and the alignment also positions Panal County to remain competitive for future workforce funding opportunities. This graphic um sorry this graph graphic describes the Arizona at work panal county system and you can see that it's made up of many federally funded programs that provide both career services and training services to pano county residents.

You you can back off the mic just a hair. It's it's the um first box on the title one workforce development box is um the adult dislocated worker program and youth program. Those funds are um allocated through the ar the United States Department of Labor to the Arizona Department of Economic Security and then come to the county. So our board only has oversight over those three programs. However, we are a single system and eligibility is based on um different barriers to employment.

Um so for example, we have a program for individuals who have not um received their high school equivalency exam. We have a program for individual adults, youth, farm workers as well as older workers and and many other barriers. Um we work together with community partners and other social service agencies um to meet the job seekers needs and our stakeholders include job seekers, employers, educators and trainers um local governments, elected officials and community members.

So um to describe the five pillars sorry one second of the America's talent strategy the plan supports five core workforce development pillars including industrydriven strategies worker mobility integrated systems accountability flexibility and innovation as you can See uh again this these are the pillars that which we outlined in the state workforce plan. Uh we wanted to make sure they were incorporated in our local plan.

These are the five pillars of which we'll be basing um all our activity over the next two years and focused uh our efforts there. Let's go um our in demand uh industry. This is just a depiction of kind of like the the flow of services that we we work on. The county itself has identified in our local plan. We've identified uh the the targeted industries on the left side.

Those are industries from basically say from an economic development perspective that we would actively uh look to attract high-paying high wage high growth jobs in those industries. Um and then on the in demand industries to support the growth and those targets obviously construction. uh we can see an increase in wholesale trade administrative and waste services that is a super sector category uh at a national classification level including administrative work conducted by all industries.

Waste services are really the the collection of waste materials from whatever business from dumping garbage to recycling and things like that and then obviously manufacturing. our in demand. Uh the picture on the right side is obviously everything we do starts with industry input and then we tailor our training and community inputs to uh provide talent uh strategies to meet those needs.

And healthc care really is the bigger one that's the driver on the left side there as some of us are getting older and going to need more of that. I I well I'm I'll speak for myself. I agree the the goals outlined in in our plan, these are the three uh high level goals that we have here. Uh they align with the state plan and so uh for the next uh you know couple of years these are really what we're going to be focusing on. Uh so it's enhancing the talent pipeline, fostering business engagement.

Uh that chart that Mariah showed all of those partners in some degree uh reach out to the business community throughout the county. And we want to make sure as best as possible that we have a coordinated effort.

So business um from a workforce development standpoint and uphold in 20 different directions and being asked to sit on various councils and committees and things like that that we can partner with a lot of um our the entities throughout the county to kind of reduce that and come with an overall strategy for business engagement and then obviously creating aligned innovative services. One of the things we're going to be really focusing on, we have a job center in Cassagrand.

Um, we are uh actively involved in increasing our footprint through various agreements with communities uh most likely through libraries throughout the county. Um, and so we could bring our services out to the communities rather than having individuals needing to come to Cassagrant to that job center. So, a mixture of uh technology staffing uh schedules and and agreements with our local partners to bring those services out to those communities. And you work with nonprofits. Yes. Yes.

United Way, Panel County, CARA, I mean, you name it. There's a host of uh nonprofits that we partner with. And so, it's vice versa. And even across the county, I mean, down into Puma County as well. But you're help I my wife's organization is Puma County, but I know you're helping them get people correct for Panal County. Yeah, we represent Panal County's uh you know the the franchise of Arizona at Work, Panal County, Arizona at Work's statewide uh effort.

So uh we if there's an individual in another county that can benefit from our services, we'll say we know no boundaries, but we do it better is what you can say and you do. We appreciate that. Um but uh you know our priority is Panel County residents, but we also will not turn anybody away. Mariah make sure of that from the compliance perspect been very helpful. Let's see. Come on. There we go. Go for it.

So, Arizona at work panel h county has a set of guiding principles in what we call it is the panal way. Some of these guiding principles include workforce services should function as a as one coordinated system rather than separate programs. Arizona network panal county serves as the public facing entry point while partners contribute specialized expertise.

The goal is no wrong door experience for job seekers and employers and services should be transformational helping customers achieve long-term success rather than simply completing transactions. And the excuse me, the three real make focal points as I mentioned before is going to be what we're calling the talent accelerator, the ABC model is individuals um you know to achieve a job. If someone we have folks that come in just need to get employed, they don't need any other services.

They just need assistance in connecting to a job opportunity. But when we help an individual, we want to make sure they got a job. They focus on getting a better job if they so desire and then really focusing on a career. So we're going to be calling this this is the big change in our plan modification the ABC model. So a job better job a career um that'll be uh achieved through expanded business services and uh as I mentioned before a distributed service model.

This slide shows our um talent acceleration model and it um describes the A, B and C. So A being the stabilizer. So um several partners work to get the job seekers stable. Um and services that are provided under that function include outreach and intake, resume and job matching um basic skills development and English language acquisition classes and supportive services.

And then for B which is accelerator um several programs provide training services and that includes lower tier um training um and we they're indivi through individual training accounts um on the job training where an individual um starts working with a company and we reimburse wages for a short period of time. um training that results in industry recognized credentials and supportive services to help them succeed in meeting their goal such as providing transportation assistance.

Um C is um capital allocator and that is um offered by our adult dislocated worker and youth programs.

Um and we work with employers and um career and technical education and trade assistance adjustment assistance program and vocational rehabilitation programs to offer advanced uh training um incumbent worker training which is where we train um individuals who are currently employed at a company and help them become upskilled um so that they can learn new technology or um be promoted within their companies and then we create a backfill um for new employees. at the same time.

Um and then we work with sector part partnerships. Um this new plan focusing on healthcare um skilled trades and advanced manufacturing. And then we help um support um individuals moving up through a career ladder. And so this is just you know depiction of some of the new tools we're going to be trying. Uh one of the big uh tools well not big tool but um is that last bullet showing Atlas.

Atlas is a online platform that we've uh entered into memorandums of understanding with a few of our community partners and what that allows if you recall that big table that Mariah showed earlier. Everybody works basically off their own platform their own system. So exchange of information to help an individual can be quite cumbersome and quite challenge. What Atlas does, it levels the playing field and allows us to exchange basic information um at the person's uh their approval.

Um exchanging information so we could easily move somebody throughout the system uh without having to re-enter all the information have to retell their story um that we can just easily communicate with each other to help that individual.

So that's the Atlas system and that's one of the things we could run obviously some reports and things like that out of it from a system standpoint not just an individual program and then u this is the last slide uh that we'll indulge in but we're just uh keeping the focus on self-sufficiency for job seekers.

um as you can see here is really going to be an employerled partnerships throughout the community and we're going to monitor and really use some of a lot of the data that we accumulate uh to continuously evaluate how well we're doing and serving the community. Um just wanted to get this kind of in front of you at this point. Uh the we're anticipating bringing the plan forward to uh this body probably is sometime in October.

The plan is to get it on the agenda for the Workforce Arizona Council at the state level in time for their November meeting. Therefore, allowing us to have an effective date of January 1, 2027. Okay. Thank you. Any uh Supervisor Goodman, you got a question or a comment possibly? Well, or story. Yeah, I could probably muster up a story.

I'm sure I could, but I guess the question I have is that uh you you've got a way to measure the success of what you've been you've been doing this for a lot of years, Joel, and uh there's a lot of things that I know you've been connected to that has come into our county. For instance, Lucid Motors, uh others like that.

you've been a big part of a lot of the growth and things that have taken place over in Cassag Grand with the employment opportunities and now LG's coming and they're in the process of hiring and they're going to be opening up here by the end of the year or first of next quarter. Can you maybe not now but maybe when you do come back with this report if you can throw us show us some some um visuals as to what those numbers look like with the efforts whatever the plan you've been putting together.

It'd be really nice for the public for me especially because I'm a that I'm a visual kind of a guy that I think if we could see the numbers the progress that you've been having over the years. Dad gave that out of my way. But anyway, that'd be helpful. Okay. No, definitely for me and for all of us and I appreciate that, supervisor. Uh that is one of the challenges we sometimes have is we, as you know, we do conduct job fairs and hiring events. Uh we open those to the public.

It's tracking the individuals sometimes after those events to find out the ultimate result. We can do that for individuals enrolled in our specific programs. For those in the general public, it's sometimes there's a lag period. We do use uh unemployment insurance wage databases to track that. It just takes some time, but we are implementing some uh better tracking tools for the results of these efforts and we'll definitely bring those back to you. That'd be great.

You know, you're talking about the job fairs and things of that nature, maybe with some numbers as to how many of those you're doing, how many employers are participating in that. That kind of stuff would be helpful. We'll do. Okay. Thanks, and results from that. Yeah, I'm sure that'll come out as a result of all that. Yeah. Any other questions? Thank you both very much. Appreciate it. All right. Uh let's see. 13 is discussion is the purchasing division report.

Miss Gorman, I know you're around someplace. Good morning. Still morning by just a couple minutes, but he's saying hurry up. I get that. Well, good morning chairman, vice chairman, and board of supervisors. Tracy Gorman, purchasing manager, and this is the purchasing division report for June 17th of 2026. In this report, the board is requested to approve one contract award for RFP 261-930 for retread tires.

The board has requested to approve eight contract amendments for RFP 220226 for specialty legal services and we are awarding that to 23 firms. RFP 230172 for correctional health services. RFP 24228 for banking services and trust safekeeping services. RFP 244129 for inmate communications. RFP 245129 for social worker services. We're reawwarding that to three vendors. RFP for night vision equipment. We're awarding that to eight vendors. RFP for inmate commissary and banking services.

FB253830 for less lethal duty ammunition and practice ammunition where we awarding that to 11 vendors. We are requesting the board approve one soul source procurement over $100,000 per procurement code section PC1-347. There is one cooperative purchasing agreement we would like to notify you of as it is between 100,000 and $250,000. And lastly, we are seeking approval of one cooperative purchase requisition over $250,000. I will stand for questions. There any questions for Miss Corman this time?

None. Then I believe Okay. Then I would ask for a motion. Please. M. Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion that we approve the purchasing division report dated June 17, 2026. I have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion is second. Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. I. Opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you, Miss Gman. Uh 14 is consent items.

Uh, all items indicated alphabetically below will be handled by a single vote as part of the consent agenda unless a board member, county manager, or member of the public objects at the time the agenda item is called. Uh, I'm going to ask to pull item R. Um, any other items that are you guys care to pull? Hearing seeing nine county manager Oh, I'm sorry. P O P any others from the board? No. County manager public L like L. Okay. And uh and I'm and I'm sorry. Could you please state your name?

Yes sir. Okay. Any others from the public hearing? Seeing none. Okay. Thank you. Uh may I get a motion, please, on items A through W minus uh L, P, and R. Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda A through W minus R, P, and L. That's not what I asked. I said LP and I'm kidding. Okay, you're fine. You're fine. Okay, I got to deal with. So, I have a I have a motion. Is there a second? I'm going to second that. We'll second that. I have a motion to second.

Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. I. I. I. Opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Uh we'll start with Miss Oliver. Item L. Would you like please come to the tell us what your question is. Oliver Santan Valley. Um I was just wondering um you were going to um vote on terminating a lease for Stanfield Potterfield Cemetery. And I was just wondering if there's any people buried there if that is going to affect that. That was all. Okay. Uh okay. And Mr.

Certise, come tell us about the building. Um, good afternoon. 12:04. Uh, chairman, vice chair, board of supervisors, Joe Ortiz, uh, development services, managing director. Uh, yeah, this this item relates to a building facility that we have in in, uh, the Sanfield area. uh which were uh basically leasing out uh rental space. Uh there's no actual bodies or it's not that we're aware of that we're aware of that we're aware of. Correct. But it's just it's just office space is all it is. Yes. Yes.

Okay. Does that answer your question, Miss Oliver? Okay. All right. Thank you, Mr. Ortiz. Uh item P, Supervisor Sy, we need to vote on this. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, that's true. Okay, let's vote on that. Uh, make it a motion, please, on item L. Mr. Chair, I make a motion that we approve item L as presented. Have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion in a second. Those in favor, please indicate by saying I opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you. Item P, supervisor Shy.

So yeah, I spent a lot of time discussing this as the uh whole uh incorporation effort was happening and at first we thought we couldn't even handle it. We'd have to maybe get them to go with Maricopa County, but it looks like we are going to do it. But there's no details here about how we'll be reimbursed. Do we have enough personnel, etc. And how what will the future hold?

And also, this is off topic, but a lot of people are hoping that uh we can even lower taxes eventually, but we're still going to have Don't don't don't I just brought it I just brought it back. Okay, you pulled it. But we're still going to have expenses like this. So, would like to explain why uh why and I know Sheriff are here and Hamancho could possibly s tell us how this is going to happen. Sheriff Keeple, do you want to take this over? Mr.

Chairman, Vice Chairman, members of the board, Panel County, to answer the first part of the question, Supervisor Certi, is is we're already providing law enforcement services for Santan Valley. As soon as they voted to incorporate it, we reorganized our re patrol regions. And so we have a patrol region that just is the city limits of Santan Valley and a lieutenant over that. So we we're already providing law enforcement services. This IGA does nothing more than says status quo.

What what we're providing right now, we don't have resources to provide anything else. Maybe in the future we can have them discussions possibly of hiring more employees total, but as far as that goes, this is just an intergovernmental agreement to say we're going to continue providing you with the same law enforcement services as we have for the last decade. And now you have to pay for it because you're you're now an incorporated city.

So we're not going to lose money, but we're not going to make money. the the taxpayers portion is going to stay approximately the same, but eventually should go down. Eventually, it should go down for the rest of Panel County. Yes, sir. We we're currently the county is currently paying for an assessment on this. We went to an outside firm.

It was a mistake that we learned from when the city of Maricopa incorporated, the city of Maricopa incorporated and we didn't look at the the county, I say, didn't look at all the factors that would go into providing a city law enforcement agency like providing vehicles, bulletproof vests because they have expiration dates. So that's we hired an outside company finance did to conduct this study so they could look into it and say this is what you should be charging them.

We're hopeful that that study is completed before January 1st. Knocked knock on wood. So that would be the next one. That's why this is just a six months IGA where we're agreeing that we're going to provide you with the same law enforcement services as we already do. Nothing else has changed. So this is 6 months and we'll have to revisit this. And Leo, they're already uh taking in funding, right? So they can start paying soon. Yes, chairman. Correct. Supervisory. Okay. All right.

I think that clarifies for the rest of the county. So, sir, and the overhead is covered in this as well. I mean, the incidentals and overhead that you mentioned, vests and cars and all that is all covered. So, we're not it's a break even proposition that we're looking at. Yes, sir. As government should be. Yeah.

And and to speak to your point, Supervisor Certie, um I I was one of the proponents to I would it would have been excellent for the county if they would have contracted out with another law enforcement agency. There were no other law enforcement agencies that um offered their services. So, no one else had the capability of be providing law enforcement services for a city overnight that has 100,000 people. We were already providing those services.

So the um appointed town council of Santan Valley only approached us about this. Okay. Other than Blackwater mercenary, something like that. Not advisable, sir. All right. Thank you, sir. Okay. Uh any other questions on this item? Okay. May I get a motion, please, on item P? I move we approve item P. Second. I have a motion and a second. Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. I. Opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you. Item R is um it's a discussion approval.

It's the acceptance of a award agreement uh from Senate Bill 1735 uh between the office of the attorney general and Panal County through us for $2 million for the uh what is this? for the re-entry program. And so I had some questions about this and I I'm on the executive committee of the uh re-entry program, but yet we've not had a meeting for a while and I'm not really sure quite how the re-entry program is going and as we're building a new building for the re-entry program.

Have not been informed on this. Uh and I'm I'm actually moving to table this until August until we've had some time to discuss this. um because I don't see that we can just give money away and not really know what's give money into the program. I mean, I know it's from the legislature, but I would like to table this until August to get a better understanding of what's actually going on, where the program is going, who's in the program, uh what what services are being provided with these funds.

And you're talking. What do you want? Oh, wait. Just checking. I thought I was doing something wrong. Just a second. You're keeping me in line. I know. So, uh, but that is my motion at this time to Would you be would you be opposed to having the sheriff can come speak to it to some degree? Sure. Sheriff, you want to come up and talk about this? We got lots of people. Mr.

Chairman, Vice Chairman, members of the board in Panell County, I can absolutely speak with whatever you need, but I have my experts here, so they they could do a very much better job of articulating what the re-entry program is doing and what this money will go to. Thank you. I I guess for me and and I understand the re-entry, but I guess for me is is time of the essence on this particular one.

I mean, is it something that we can table so that supervisor mccclure and the rest of us can be a little bit more comfortable with being asked? Is that okay? I mean, is that okay? Go ahead. Sorry. Okay. Um, good afternoon, Chairman McCclur, members of the board. I'm Loretta Valdez, the director of re-entry for Panel County Sheriff's Office.

Um recently we put in they're going to want to grant us the 2 million and what they we want to use some of the money for is for the Matt services and that's costing the county the Matt services are the medication assistant treatment and each dose costs $1,654 for each dose and a total for a year is $417,000. So that's a portion of that money is going to go from the grant to that. Currently in the re-entry pro pod, we have now moved over and revamped the full screening process.

Uh the screening tools have not changed that are the mental health, the substance you sens substance abuse use and the proxy have not changed. Um, we also now offer inmates to be able to receive their two for one. And this is a big thing because now they can go in that pod, do the classes, and then go to work and they're granted their two for one. And we just implemented that. And we're seeing a lot more inmates wanting to be part of the program. Um, of course, the building's coming up.

We're working on that. we put in for two new position requests, which is a record tech and another justice service officer. We want to put one of the justice service officers in that pod full-time so that they can work with the inmates, offer them classes, and again, portion of that money is going to be coming out of this 2 million that we're going to be receiving.

Um, this was the first year that our county has gone to jail con and represented with five other counties and we were able to offer classes there at jail. And this you have to dress up like you do a comic con. Um, we've also implemented new programming through the Easter Seals uh parents as teachers programming for anyone who is a parent. and our focus is on the children for up to five years old.

The panel Hispanic, we've also implemented a DBT program which is a dialectical behavioral therapy which is borderline personality focuses on mindfulness distress tolerance emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. We also hold our quarterly re-entry advisory committee meetings and still releasing our newsletter. Right. I've not seen the newsletter for some time. I used to get it regularly. I don't get it anymore. Okay. I'm personally taking over.

So I I know I know you've taken over and I know I know it's been a year. Um I I'm disappointed in some of the information that comes back and forth.

uh used to be that we had the uh policy group and we would sit and talk at the policy executive level and talk and then obviously you well not you but Miss Fuller was there at the time and we would discuss all that just to know what was going on so that we were all on the same page but I've not seen any of that for a year and so and I know we're putting up a new building it's about $15 million more is that about right Mr. Yeah, about $15 million.

I know that you all are paying for some of that out of funds from past distributions from the legislature. I think $6 million or so dollars. But um the point being that is there a time uh constraint on this money? I believe we have to have it in by this Friday. By this Friday. Yes. because I would I would say to table it, but if it's time constraint, that's fine.

But I would move to approve it if we start having you'll promise me we'll start having some executive level talks with the upper management. I mean, beyond what your your directors are so that we get a better understanding of how the money is being spent, where it's going because this was something that I spearheaded. Absolutely. Okay. Just to go along with uh with what you're saying, you know, the re-entry program, I think, is very important.

These guys are going to get out at some point and they need to be prepared when they when they are released. And I like the simulations that you guys did before that you took group of individuals and ran them through a simulation of what it was actually like coming out of the prison. And I and I appreciated that simulation because there's many of us that don't understand what the complications are these guys coming out, but it would be helpful for some accounting on some of this stuff.

I I would agree with you. And a little bit more information if you got that news later newsletter that you guys put out, make sure maybe all five of us should get a copy of that. That'd be great. Absolutely, sir. Okay. Thank you. Okay. All right. As long as we're going to do that and we're going to move forward I You have my word. Okay. Thank you. Put that in the motion. Yes. Yeah. Okay. You going to make the motion?

I I can with how do you want me to report it first of all with accounting and uh accounting stipulations uh or well that we'll have uh better coordination with the executive level to the management. Okay. Okay. M excuse me, Mr. Chair. Is there a Is it monthly, quarterly? So, I'm sorry, maybe I missed that portion of your Sorry. We we used to do them quarterly and and whenever the newsletter is quarterly, isn't it? Yes. Yeah.

But we we would have quarterly meetings um to discuss what was going on and understand how the system worked. Okay. I'm just making sure where where it was going and what we needed to do and if better funding was needed, that's fine. But it's been radio silent. Okay. So, that should be part of the motion. And I just want to make sure that it is because they could do the meeting once a year. So quarterly. I just want to make sure that's part of the motion. Yeah. Okay. You want to do it now?

You want I think Jeff I think Jeff should motion. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Let me let me do that. So Okay. Okay, I'll make a motion on item R that we approve item R as presented with uh the stipulation that we are going to have at least quarterly executive level meetings with management. Excuse me, chair. Ma'am. Okay, you tell me how it's supposed to say.

Yes, I think you should uh move to approve the motion with the understanding that there will be additional reports and meetings and so forth rather than a stipulation. Okay, that was poor choice of words. Okay, I move that we approve item R uh with the understanding that we will have executive level meetings uh with management to understand the the way the U re-entry program is functioning quarterly. That's my motion. Quarterly, what? We'll throw in quarterly. Okay.

And the monthly newsletter to the five supervisor. Well, it's it's the quarterly newsletter. Okay. Okay. Does that work? Natasha, did I do it? Okay. I have a motion. I made the motion. Is there a second? I'll second that. Motion and second. Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Opposed? Hearing? None. Motion passes. Thank you very much. Thank you, ladies. You too, Ross. Thank you, Mr. Supervisor.

And I'd like to state on the record since I have the mic that this re-entry newsletter, the most current one's being delayed because their stupid sheriff hasn't written his letter yet, and he refuses to use AI to do so. So, Oh, there you go. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Oh. Oh, we're not going there right now. Okay. Okay. All right. Jeez. Okay. Item 15.

Uh I'm going to uh recess the board of supervisors regular meeting to convene uh the Panal County Public Health Services District Board of Directors meeting. Uh where did it go? Here it is. And this is consent items A through F. All items indicated alphabetically below will be handled by a single vote as part of the consent agenda unless a board member, county manager, or member of the public objects at the time the agenda item is called.

Uh are there any items that the board wishes to pull at this time? F. Uh any any others by the board hearing? Seeing none. Okay, we have F. County manager. No public hearing. Seeing none. Okay. May I get an motion, please? Uh items A through E on the uh health services district agenda. Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion that we approve approve items A through E. A yeah, E as presented. Thank you. Have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion and a second.

Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. I. Opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you. Uh, Supervisor Sherty, item F. So, I believe I pulled something similar to this last year. Uh a lot of my constituents when they see the term family planning, they want to make sure that this is not going towards uh the type activities that Planned Parenthood does. And I would like an explanation of what all this uh this item would do. Good morning, chairman, members of the board.

Uh Marissa Mendoza, public health director, and I have with me Carrie Lennon, who is our medical director for reproductive health. Um this item um Supervisor Sertie, to your question, does not go toward the activities that Planned Parenthood um does that are concerning to our constituents.

This does provide family planning services to uh residents of Panau County, but that includes things like, excuse me, um contraception, STI testing um help me Carrie, I breast cervical cancer screening and fertility services and pregnancy testing and counseling. But no, to answer your question, we do not provide um abortion as a method of family planning in our All right, that's what people wanted to hear. Yes. So, thank you. I assure you.

And and none of the state funds uh for Title 10 are um provided to any abortion provider in the state of Arizona. Okay. Thanks again. Any other questions we can answer, Supervisor? No, it no other questions. Thank you very much both of you. Appreciate it. Okay. Uh Supervisor Stury, that I would move that we would uh approve item number F. Second. I have a motion to approve item F. Uh and a second. Those in favor, please indicate by saying I I I opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you.

At this time, I will adjourn the public health services district uh board of directors meeting and reconvene the board of dire the board of supervisors regular meeting. Uh and if that now is the call to the public item 16, call to the public. uh call the public's time period is a time period for members of the public to address the board of supervisors to provide public input relating to subject matter within the board of supervisors authority and jurisdiction or jurisdiction.

Those wishing to address the board need not to request permission in advance. I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time today. Need not request permission in advance. uh action taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter or rescheduling it for further consideration and decision at a later time. Uh so when you are called please come up state your name and generally where you live and um again there you go. So first person on here is Miss Hardle.

Angie Hardle. Good morning, uh, chair and supervisors. I'm Nancy Hardle. I live on Schneps Road in Santen Valley. Uh, I'm here today to address the rules to call the public and set a record straight on some previous situations. I first attended the board of supervisors meeting as I began my quest for a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives in late 2023.

I heard several excellent remarks to call to the public about a myriad of issues I found refreshing I found it refreshing that people were able to use this forum to convey their feelings about important issues without repercussion. I have learned that this board and others like the town council, the planning and zoning etc. have complicated important jobs entailing much work consideration and frustration and for that I say thank you.

Um as a retired nurse practitioner and military officer I am keenly aware of the importance of rules and strive to follow them closely. The one time in the past that I didn't follow the rules by the board of supervisors in 2024 when the chair changed the rules to call to the public five minutes before I was to speak. He added the requirement that the issues must be under the purview of the board of supervisors.

I had spent quite a bit of time composing my presentation and with no time to rethink I attempted to read it uh as prepared. I was consistently stopped, chastised and basically run off uh the speaker podium. I felt this treatment by the chair was abhorent and I wrote a letter that I didn't get a reply to. Let's fast forward to a call to the public on this May May 6th. I presented remarks on my opposition to the AI data data centers.

When I finished, some people I didn't even know clapped to show their support. They were quickly admonished by the chair and they stopped. Then a person from Gold Canyon began his presentation. A friend of mine was extremely upset by his remarks and spoke out. She was then removed from the room. Another person with whom I am somewhat familiar began making puking noises from the back of the room.

I was shocked to find out later that some people thought I was responsible for these overt actions reactions of others. So to set the record straight, why I totally understand their repulsion to the vitriolic disgusting diet tribe from the person from Gold Canyon, I didn't have anything to do with their outward reactions. In the past, I heard a board of supervisors chair state that he felt that the board of supervisors should let the people have their say. That is absolutely correct.

That is consistent with the first amendment, freedom of speech, and I hope you will continue to support this. I thank you for that, and I wish everyone a happy Junth. I didn't hear that mentioned earlier. Thank you. Thank you. Uh Lori Riley. Good afternoon, Chairman McLaren, board members. My name is Lori Riley. This is Amber Lerman and Kevin Akuna, and we're longtime residents of the city of Maricopa.

We're here this afternoon to share with you our deep concern regarding the welfare of the animals in the city of Maricopa. It is one of the Arizona's fastest growing communities. Yet, our animal welfare infrastructure has failed to keep pace. With more than 83,000 residents, an estimated 34,500 pets, we have no local animal shelter and no dedicated TNR provider serving the region. We are confronting a crisis that can no longer be ignored.

According to the Maricopa Police Records Department, there were 856 animal related calls in 2024, 804 calls in 2025. calls included 557 animal problems, 155 dark dogs barking, 52 animal vicious vicious animals, and 45 animal cruelty replace complaints. And in 2025 alone, Katrina Rodriguez, deputy director for Panal County Animal Control, reported that 195 dogs and 131 cats were surrendered from Maricopa alone.

For years, the residents have appealed to the city leaders for assistance, only to be told that the responsibility for providing an animal shelter service lies with Panol County. Meanwhile, the problem continues to grow and local resources remain overwhelmed and residents are frustrated as animal welfare concerns continue to escalate. 13 cat colonies have been identified within our community. Yet, only four are currently receiving treatment through a local nonprofit organization.

When the nonprofit sought assistance from the city to address these colonies, it was directed to seek funding from the HOAs and local businesses to cover the costs of TNR services, vaccinations, and other necessary medical care. Grant opportunities are extremely limited because the organization does not operate from a brickandmortar location but rather out of the homes of the volunteers.

In the past 12 months, the organization has assisted 913 animals, approximately 95% which originated in the city of Maricopa. It also receives an average of 2 to three owner surrender requests and 10 to 15 stray animal requests every day, ranging from abandoned litters and injured cats and stray and abandoned dogs. The demand for animal welfare services is undeniable.

A community pet microchip scanner recently installed by the nonprofit was used 58 times in its first three months alone, highlighting the si sign significant number of loss and stray animals requiring assistance in our city. The residents of Maropa have done our part this last 22 years. They've reported our concerns. We've volunteered our time, donated the money, supported loc local local rescues, and gathered more than 10,000 signatures to seek relief for this.

We urge you to take immediate steps toward establishing an animal shelter service in Maricopa and provide our community with a clear plan for addressing the crisis that we have before us. 10,000 residents are asking to be heard. We ask that you please listen and act. Thank you. All right. Uh Karen Oliver. Thank you. Um Chairman Mccclure and supervisors, I appreciate this space for public comment. My name is Karen Oliver and I live in Santan Valley.

Recently, there's been a lot of discussion about water regarding data centers. I'm concerned about that and I'm concerned about the companies providing water and sewer services to our county and recently proposed rate increases. I'm aware of the problems with Johnson utilities which included sewage seeping into Pon Creek North streets and the legal fight along with the purchase of Johnson utilities by EPCOR. I did a brief search this morning to see who exactly is served by EPCOR.

on the EPCOR site. They claim to provide water to Queen Creek and in another location online um it is not Queen Creek is not included. I know my neighborhood gets EPCOR sewer and Queen Creek water but it is not clear where exactly the water comes from. I suspect EPCOR previously Johnson utilities serves more communities than is easily discovered.

I, a member of our indivisible group, Queen Creek Santan Valley Indivisible, has been collecting signatures and is appealing to the corporation commission regarding EPCOR's need um expressed need for rate hikes. When this company took over, they did say they would have to raise rates because of the mess left by Johnson Utilities. I have not seen a lot of activi I have seen a lot of activity at the upcore plant between pan creek south and pon creek north.

The sewage leaks to pon creek north seem to have stopped but it still stinks to high heaven there. I'm wondering where the county's juris jurisdiction is in this decision process. I don't expect an answer at this moment and I will continue seeking answers myself. I'm concerned the utility customers are going to bear the brunt and costs of EPCOR's reported changes. I will be going to the Corporation Commission on July 27th to ask for um their answer.

I'd also like to ask the board to prepare and share information about the Miller 287G agreement matter as I see it's still ongoing. Um thank you very much for all your hard work. I could not do this. So, thank you. Thank you. Uh, George Ellison. Good morning or good afternoon, Mr. Chairman, vice chairman, supervisors. George Ellison, Gold Canyon with a hat tip to Sundance. The leftist professional grievance in industry embedded within American media, schools, and Hollywood has a problem.

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This is also the America their local media back in Europe lied to them about. The happy people were told that everything over here was fraught with drugs, gangs, and terrible things. America was New York City. Except it isn't. It's not any of that. America is clean, organized, and fun. The happy people are encountering everyday Americans. The American people are friendly, beyond generous, and all around awesome. There are great American Eagles flying around.

Massive thundering jets booming just above the audience. Rockets exploding with great fireworks and exhibitions of colorful ex uh explosions accompanied by music. Every sense is overwhelmed. And yet to an American, it's just another Tuesday. The American food is big and tasty. The American stores are 100fold larger than anything the happy people have ever experienced. The roads are easy to travel.

For the better part of the past few decades, a group of leftist intellectuals and influencers have been promoting an insufferable storyline that it's better to be sitting around a campfire eating sustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off each other. Enough. We are Americans. Celebrate this country's 250 birth 250th birthday unashamedly and thank God that you are blessed to live here in America. Thank you. Thank you. Any others who wish to speak before the board today? Anyone else? Mr.

Rellis, Roberto Rellis, resident of Gold Canyon. Mr. Chairman, panel county governance is facing a crisis in confidence and trust. infected by the failure to hold county sheriff Mark Lamb accountable for abuse of authority resulting in distrust of government. Distrust that threatens the entire range of governing decisions on public safety, election integrity, data centers, preservation of water, energy, and environmental resources. all critical to county residents.

Distrust accumulated over years of failing to hold Sheriff Mark Lamb accountable for abusing law enforcement authority. He is now in the center of controversy regarding sex taxing and transmitting of graphic sexual photos, all documented by unrefuted screenshots from his own phone. Sadly, these sexual abuse issues are not the only issue concerning the sheriff that have involved flawed investigations.

Other inclus inclusive investigations have occurred at the Republican dominated state legislature and at the previous attorney general Bernovich's office. Other instances of abuse of authority are documented by settlement of the American Oversight versus Sheriff Lamb lawsuit in 2024 when Lamb admitted he failed to properly comply with Arizona's public records laws in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

However, especially damaging to Panal County's governance in governance integrity at this time is Panel County Attorney Brad Miller's conflicted report indicating that former county attorney Kurt Vulmer's cursory investigation of Sheriff Lamb, while inconclusive, was dismissively ignored by our former board of supervisors, clearly adding further suspicions that Sheriff Lamb received favorable special treatment by your predecessor board of superi supervisors and that he continues to benefit from partisan favoritism today today as he seeks election to Congress.

Mr. Chairman, it's obvious that no credible investigation of Sheriff Lamb can be conducted by any panel county entity including county sheriff attorney Brad Miller and County Sheriff Tel. As one whose numerous requests for oversight investigation of the sheriff's office have been ignored, I ask you please demand an immediate investigation by the state attorney general. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Any others who wish to speak before the board today hearing?

Seeing none, we'll close the call to the public. Thank you, Chair. Sir, while not called out by name, I'd might like to do uh direction to staff Leo on the uh animal issue. Was she talking city of Maricopa or the unincorporated areas? That's I don't know. And if it's unincorporated, we could look into it, but if it's the city, and I know my colleague to my right would know about that. Uh so I'd just like to have a report on what it is that might be the problem.

If you don't mind, chairman, I just can respond. Actually, um we've been working on this and um by Friday, I'm having a meeting with the city of Maricopa to see if there is something we can do joint um and also if there's Okay, but we're going off topic. Okay, that's fine. Thank you. I'll further look into it and get clarification for you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Okay.

Is it possible for me the the young lady that spoke about uh the utility bills in Santan Valley if I could just give her direction to just call my office? There we go. You can do You just did. So I did. I did, but I was asking for your permission. Okay. Yeah, you have my permission to ask her to do that. I know, but I can get forgiveness if I need it. Okay. Um we'll move on here. Um item number 17 is a public hearing discussion on uh CS CSR 007 uh26. Mr. Penko you are up sir.

Good afternoon chairman vice chair supervisors. My name is Valentin Punchin Christ planner here to present to you KCSR 0072 6. So this is a comprehensive sign package request to establish up to 542 square ft of permanent signage and temporary signage up to about 500 square feet per sales office.

Uh so that will be a request for new standards for the whole polyomino ranch master planet residential community located south of city of Maricopa and Akchin Indian community that's west of the Maropa road and it's northwest of the corner of Amarillo Valley road and Papago road uh there are series of land owners they came together uh originally they started to apply separately to the county with separate permits for the monuments signs and staff advised them to come together and apply for the combined comprehensive sign package for the whole community so the county can evaluate the whole signage for the whole master plan community what applicant actually did.

So this is a general location for the site. Uh this is vicinity map that's cover almost the whole uh section uh except uh the corner with south uh uh east corner with commercial that will be separate application for the signage if those owner would like to do that. So this is a major uh aerial map for the community.

they already start some of the developers started to build up uh those locations and there is a phase development and that's uh what our code doesn't actually consider because it's a large development and there are different developers with smaller uh parcels and the whole subdivision entitled to x number of signs and when someone will come first they will exceed that limits and then no one else will be able to use uh f in the future any additional uh signage.

So the applicant proposed a comprehensive uh plan for the signs and there is two types of the signs they proposing permanent signs and temporary signs. With the permanent signs they are proposing two entry monument signs. Each of them will be 28.5 square ft. uh code allows to have one subdivision to have up to two monument signs up to 50 square feet each uh 15 feet high.

So those two uh signs will meet the requirements and that will be um monument sign A in the south and they already applied for the building permit for that sign.

it will it's already approved and allow it by the code and they also have uh they didn't have specifically now plan but there uh another monument sign C to the east next to the school site uh staff recommended them to put that in this sign review uh package in case in in in future they would like to do that because they confirm that there will be entrance from that way as well.

uh but currently developer doesn't have plans to to use that allowance but still uh that's proposed in this sign package. So in case they will would like to go with that one they will be able to do that then so starting from that point of time when they will build two monument signs no other monument sign will be allowed by the code by right an applicant asking for additional uh parcel monument signs those will be located next to each developer's parcels.

So basically that will be developed through time when each parcel will be developed by different developers. They will have 17 parcels. They're asking for additional 17 monument signs. One uh monument sign for each par for each parcel. Uh technically uh Penel County Development Service Code has determination about subdivision that any um location with more than 30 units can be considered as subdivision and should apply uh the same uh standards as for subdivision.

And as you can see there are much more than 30 units in this larger master planning community and it's even more than 30 units within each of the parcels. So it's technically each of those parcels small parcels can qualify for a subdivision if they would apply separately. But as we spotted that some developers started to submit uh signs permit separately, we spotted that there is something going on in that location.

U stuff would like to have a comprehensive view for the signage for this location. So we will not allow enormously a number of of signage and then we will not track how many actually allow it by the code. Uh so technically uh each separate sign meet all the requirement uh for the area up to 50 ft and height up to 15 uh feet uh high. Um if applicant will apply separately each parcel uh they can actually go and argue about that each each of those parcel a separate subdivision.

Uh it's not clearly u uh expressed in the code. So technically we will have only 19 for 17 parcels and that's and those parcel monument signs will be only within internally within the subdivision. It will not be visible from the roads from Papago road external roads from this subdivision. So that will be basically mostly like a way finding for those smaller subdivisions. Uh this is example of a main entry monument sign that's already processing with a building permit.

So that's allowed by the code and applicant meets all the requirements, they will have this sign anyway. And this is a parcel uh parcel monument signs. Those signs will be wall mounted on the wall. So technically they just adding additional signage on the walls that they will have building permit for. So that just additional architectural addition to those walls. Uh there also uh will be a temporary signs.

So each of those parcels will have temporary use permits for sales offices and those sales offices will uh have another request for the signs that's based on the previous practice with subdivisions. So uh applicant listed out the maximum amount that they will be able to do because applicants doesn't know which developer do how many assigns. So staff ask them to do the maximum dimensions and the maximum amount they can ask for. So they will be covered in the future.

They would need to make wouldn't need to make any uh amendments for this plan. So here's a list of the uh different types of uh temporary signage. uh they only have uh temporary sign number four internal community directional signage that will be uh based on the reasonable amount uh to to find way from the entrance to the sales office and we do have stipulation number four that uh regulates uh that it need to be the minimum uh number of turns from the entrance to the sales office.

So they cannot get more than number of turns when you're driving from the entrance to the that sales office and they will need to meet a 50 ft setback between any other signs. So there will be no interruption into driving views for those and they will also need to meet there stipulation number five about uh visible triangles.

So they do not be do not allow we we will not allow them to put any signage within uh those uh blanket spots that they can create uh with putting like extra signage but also those all of those temporary signs they will be linked to uh temporary use permits for sales office. Usually it's about for one year and then it can go to up to two additional extensions one year each.

So with the maximum uh time for the sales office will be three years if all extensions will be use it and that's only temporary. So that will be uh taken out when the sales office will be closed and because it's development phase it we will not have 17 parcels coming together. So it will be face by phase. Each sales off office office will open time by time and they will be already entitled to all of those signage and as well we will include here all the flags the applicant want to do.

Uh typical for any subdivision to use US flag 60 ft. Uh but on typical requests applicant want also to be sure that they will be able to do also Arizona flag 60 feet and builder flag 35 feet. Well, uh, US flag and Arizona flag, that's more than 50% increase and that requires board approval. But the, uh, builder flag, it's only 35 ft. It's under 50% increase. 30 ft height, it's a limitation for this zoning. Uh, that would require only directoral approval if they would go like separately.

But we included all of that in this one application. So each of sales office in the future will be entitled it will be entitled to that listing including signage and uh flag poles. This is some as I told app applicant doesn't know what is the design for each of those uh uh signs today but applicant mentioned that it should be also regulated with uh local um association of homeowners.

So that basically will the design actual design will be uh communicated internally but this is a dimensions they all meet the requirements. It's only question about the numbers of signs which heavily exceed the limitations uh complex sign internal community directional signageformational signage they will have direct signage for the future school and future park site that will be taken uh down basically when uh when the construction will be finalized.

Um there's some additional information, signage, avenue banners, plotter flag, fizzer flag, and flag pole. They also provided some materials that they will use for for those signage and uh monument signs that that's mostly like in alignment with design for the Palomino Ranch subdivision. uh as I told uh the number of internal parcel monument signs that's more than two that they already propose it. So that's exceed the code uh intend.

There is also temporary signage that is heavily in uh more than the code allows. But because uh code defines subdivision as uh development of 30 or more units uh board can actually see that there's a lot of subdivisions inside this master plan community and the code doesn't actually describe how we need to regulate signs within the master planning community. At that time when the uh sign code portion was done there was no such a huge uh movement for the master planning community.

So it wasn't considered at that time.

Uh sign review committee on May 5th 206 voted to approve this case with two votes yes zero no and one abstained and there is six stipulations for this uh request and as I told there are stipulation uh number four five and six here will be not three four five uh it will be four five and six and uh number top one it's about internal community directional signage there there's a 50 ft minimum for all of those uh signs between each other and there's no sign shall be placed within the required visibility triangle uh or if they will obstruct the sign distance that will will allow uh building inspection to to check if those uh signs interrupts some etc when they will issue the building permits.

So all of those signs even temporary they would need to have building permit at the end and they will have a county review if the board has any question to the staff. Thank you Mr. Penko. Any questions from the board? I mean, so the the the signage internally there is just a bunch of signs for each neighborhood essentially, right on the entrance to the whatever the 30 homes or 50 homes or whatever it is. Yeah, that one. So, currently they applied for the uh monument sign A in the south.

That's allow it.

But then they started to apply for different uh so this road to the right uh this line first first line they have four developers they started to apply for those four additional and that's how this stuff spotted that we need to work together but it's essentially I mean each neighborhood assuming let's call each parcel a neighborhood each parcel has its own little name tag in front of it you know yes that's a monument site so that's really all you're doing yes but technically that's one subdivision It's all one subdivision.

Yes, it's master planet subdivision. It's master planet subdivision. Large one that was approved as it is as master plan subdivision. But then initial owner they sold out those parcels to developers and now those developers started to apply. They each want naming rights for their neighborhood. Yes. Correct. Yeah. I have in my neighborhood I have a planned community and I've got one, two, three, four different builders with no signs. You know, it's just the one that says here we are.

Have a nice day. But we don't have all those signs everywhere. Mr. Chair, sorry. Uh, go ahead, supervisor. I just want to verify. So each one of these a all these B's or whatever that is. Yes. So it'll be like Crystal. It'll be whatever the names they choose to pick. The whole subdivision is called Palamino Ranch, but each wall will have one that says Crystal or whatever they want to call each one of them. That's where you're going with that, right?

Uh they they will add basically that whatever names. Yeah. Whatever names. Yeah. Because in my subdivision there is no names. The whole thing is called cobblestone, right? They want to name them. So they want individual markers to say, "Hey, I built this." Yeah. Um, no. Okay. And this is a public hearing. Um, okay. Thank you, Mr. Jenko. Uh, if there's no other questions, I'm going to open the public hearing. I do have one card. They don't wish to speak. Um, they are opposed.

Um, I believe that you just said you didn't want I I'm going to guess you are Mr. Salazar, correct? That is yours. Yes. 11780 North White Road. Uh my understanding I wasn't sure uh what was the deal about it. I because since what when I saw the drawing it was it was on the drawing uh in the line on the uh flyer that I got. It was going two parcels over my property and my neighbor's property all the way down on White Road. And I didn't know that was concerning us on all those properties.

I didn't know it was just about just signage. I thought if they were going to reszone that area and they wanted us to move out of the properties. No, that that was my concern. I'm like I'm I'm I'm opposed to that. That's why I was here. Okay. So, you are if it's just about signage, I don't care. Okay. Okay. All right. We're clearer on that now. Okay. Thank you.

Um any others who wish to speak on this item public comment hearing and seeing none I'll close the uh public hearing and uh board have any other questions. Good. Okay. Uh in that case I'd ask for a motion please. Mr. Chair, uh I would like to approve item 17 as written with six stipulations. Okay. Okay. I have a I have a as presented or written as presented. Sorry. As presented. Okay. With sixulations. I have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion in a second.

Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. I. I. Opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you very much. Thank you. Would this be a good time for a break? Or you want a break? Okay. Tell you what, we'll take a 20 20 minute break and then we'll be back. So, break time. My bones won't heal. Hearing discussion, approval, disapproval of uh resolution number 2026-s2-26. And I have Miss Bedward, I believe. Yes. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, chair. Good afternoon, vice chair, uh supervisors.

My name is Tanya Bedwood and I am senior pl within the planning uh department. This afternoon, I will present uh my first case is SUP0000226 and this is in relation to Emerald Glenn South Assisted Living and Memory Care Facility. So the proposal involves uh the development and operation build and operation of a 26 bed assisted living memory and me memory care facility on a parcel that is located on the southeastern corner of East Empire Boulevard and North Wild Horse Drive.

And this is to the south of Queen Creek in unincorporated Panal County. The parcel size as we're seeing is approximately plus or minus uh 2.1 acres. This is the county map which shows the location of the parcel um in relation to the various surrounding areas.

The current zone of the parcel is general rural and the surrounding areas the surrounding areas zoned for u suburban ranch um land use um to the south we're also seeing gr to the west and to the north and east of the parcel is the incorporated u city of queen creek. And this shows the vicinity map um for the parasol. And this is an aerial overview of its location.

Also illustrated here are photographs um indicating a visual of the parcel and just an indication also of the notices that were posted. The site is currently vacant and as indicated before it is zoned um general rural um with a rural living designation under the town of Santan's special area plan. The parcel as pointed out is located within the vicinity of uh West Hound Highway and East Empire Boulevard.

The special use permit that is being requested is for the development of a 26 bed assisted living and memory care facility which will span an area of 19,000 square ft. And this facility envisions a place where um residents can as as they get older can enjoy life. a a a a life a standard of living rather away from home in a facility that feels just like home. Um the Emerald Glenn will provide residents the option to reside in the community um where they can maintain contact with family.

So in essence, they would not feel as though uh they are away from an area that they're um with which they're familiar. The site plan uh is outlined on the slide and the details would have been provided shared in the staff report. Um just to note that as it relates to public participation all the requisite notices were done.

Uh we have received to date uh four notifications which I'm handing to the clerk for notifications of support um for the the project and no letters of opposition have been received. On April 16th, the matter was considered by the planning and zoning commission at its meeting and the commission members voted unanimously um A1 to recommend approval of case SUP-00002-26 subject to the 15 stipulations that were outlined in the staff report. That concludes my presentation. chair.

Um, just to note, I will take any questions and also to note as well that the applicants are present and they also have a presentation that they would like to share. Thank you. Any questions for Miss Bedward? Hearing seeing none. Thank you, Miss Bedford. And the applicants are here. Uh, please come forward. Come on. Come on down, as they say. Hello, I'm Patrick Tona and Jennifer Tona. Um, we reside at uh 154th North I mean South 154th Street in Gilbert, Arizona.

Um, and uh, thank you chair and vice chair and board for hearing us. Um, Jennifer presentation. Okay, start rolling the Oh, okay. You get to do that. You roll at your speed. There you go. Up arrow maybe. Hold on. Yeah. Technical support. Technical support here. This big button here. That one. Okay. There you go. This is a view of the current facility that we have. And we are taking our the floor plan and moving it directly onto the plan to on the property here in U Queen Creek or Santan.

Um, we have attempted to build a community that's very attractive from the outside, very attractive from the inside, and allow people to create a homelike environment with their belongings and their pictures and everything. And we I'm a nurse, and we've had the u blessing of very good staff to where we're able to take care of people through to the end of life. Patrick and I I like to describe ourselves as having the skills of an assisted living or a nursing home.

Um, but we don't look like one or smell like one. So, um, let me just go forward again. Here we are coming up to the front door. We wanted to have a large patio out front in case people like to sit and watch the cars go by. Here's inside the front entryway. We like to have interesting things there so that uh residents can be uh entertained and and um take a look at things and recall how they used to have one thing just like that.

So we've we've put a lot of thought into creating a very interesting environment for them. Can I just interrupt? So the car there. So, my mother-in-law used to live in a assisted living group. And there was a lady that lived there with her that would I'm doing a Goodman now.

So, um lady that lived with her that used to go out and stand at the on the porch and look out said, "Those dang kids stole my car again." And so, you know, I got to get home to feed my husband and then and then she was trying to talk my mother-in-law all the time. Well, you want to go back to California? Can I drive you to the airport? It's like, God, you know, I mean, all you know, once a week. It was hilarious. Oh, yeah. We have those situations.

the car that you're looking at will have Santa sitting in the front seat in December. So, yeah, here's another area of uh design. This is looking down one of the hallways. And if you've got the U floor plan in uh view, you'll see that the building is built in the shape of an X. So, we've got four hallways that are short in length.

So, it's a short distance for a resident to get from their room to a common area and it's a short distance for staff to go answer the call bells because through the years we've listened to complaints of families of why they don't like the place where they're at because um you know took them 20 minutes to answer a call bell. So, we wanted to make things doable for everybody for the residents as well as the staff. Here's what a room looks like.

Everybody's got quite a bit of square footage to where they can bring in all their personal things. Some rooms at the ends of each of the four hallways are exceptionally large so we can accommodate couples. So here's Oh, you can see my picture taking my in my in the mirror. That's me taking a picture of the bathroom in a smaller room. We give everybody a shower and uh the shower pan has no threshold. so that it's easy to get people in and out either by their walking or by rolling a shower chair.

Here's a our chef. He's busy at work. The cooking the cooking is performed in our kitchen on site and it is visible for the residents because I want them to come up and ask Tyler what's for dinner and you know make a comment of oh I want that or I don't want that. Chefs. Yeah. And so we have uh we have two chefs and of course one works three days and the other works four days but we keep that going.

Here it is the and you can see the window off to the right hand side and that's how the residents are able to uh look inside and say hey what's what's for dinner? Dining areas. We have separate dining areas because we want to match people up with their compatible friendships and we take care of people through the end of life.

And so there does comes times when people need to be fed and the whole outward appearance can be discouraging to somebody that doesn't has is not that far along in their diagnosis because I will tour families who will walk through our community and they whisper to me, I don't want my mother sitting next to those kind of people.

So I understand the sensitivities of families and we've done everything that we can within the floor plan to create an environment that is encouraging and not discouraging but we will take care of people through to the end. Here's activity area and we have entertainers that come. The top picture has a grand piano in the upper right area and we have a church service that meets on uh Sundays. I happen to play the piano for it.

So my husband and I are still very very much involved in our businesses. One thing I wanted to say that's a little bit off topic. I was here when you started your meeting and I was very pleased to have it begin in prayer because for my husband and I following uh the guidelines in the New Testament of our relationships with each other that spells us that is a very very good description of how we conduct our business. So parking lot got handicapped spaces up close.

um regular parking spaces out on the periphery which will be facing Wild Horse. And then we are honoring always honoring veterans. We've got a flag out front. There's more parking. More parking. Oh, I guess that's it. Any questions? Yeah. Any questions for us? Are the applicants done? Okay. Thank you very much for your presentation. Appreciate it. Thanks for your time. And this um this is a public hearing. So I'm going to open the public hearing. I have one card from a Miss Karen Mooney.

Hi, my name is Karen. I do live in Santan Valley. Um I'm neutral on the project. I think it's a beautiful facility and great idea. Um my only concern is the second entrance which I didn't see shown uh would come out onto Empire and um that section Empire Old Hunt highway is very busy and very close to a light. I was speaking with Mr. Zubie who I was just sitting beside um and just want to make sure that it would be right in right out only. That's just my concern for it. Thank you. Okay.

Thank you. Any others that wish to speak at this hearing hearing? Seeing none, I will close public hearing and board. Do you have any questions? Hearing seeing none, I'll I will ask for a motion, please. Mr. Chair. Um, I'd like to approve item 18 as written with 15 stipulations and say this is a very well-needed project and thank you for doing it and um I can't wait for you to have it and have there for the people that need it there. So, thank you for your service and your nursing service too.

Okay, I have a motion. Is there a second? I'll second that. Motion and a second. And those in favor, please indicate by saying I I opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you very much. Now we will go to item 19, public hearing discussion, approval, disapproval of resolution number 2026-PZ-PA-3-26. And this is going to be somebody. Oh, Miss Bedward, you're back. Yes, I'm back. and and by and just to note we're going to we're going to we're going to hear items 19, 20, and 21 together.

Yes, that's correct, chairman. Okay. Good afternoon again, chairman, vice chair, uh supervisors, uh uh I'm presenting before you three cases as outlined on the slide. Uh copper basin and this relates to copper basin energy storage. Uh the first case is PZ-PA-00003-26 with respect to a non major comprehensive plan amendment.

Uh the second case PZ-00002-26 requesting approval for reszoning and the third case PZ-PD-00002-26 as it relates to the request for approval for a planned area development pad overlay and this is for a 25 acre parcel and this is located This propert property is located to the southwest corner of Bella Vista Road and Atway Road in an incorporated area of the sound of town of Santan Valley. The owners are outlined and uh as well as the agent um for this project.

The county map shows the location of the cases. The parcels the current land use for the for the area for the parcel is suburban neighborhood and it is proposed that the land use be changed to one that could accommodate that would be best fitting um for the proposed facility and this is the general public facilities um or services.

the surrounding land uses within the area um significantly is the 270 acres solar generation um from the SRP copper crossing energy and research center and this is located in to the south east and west of the property of the parcel.

So essentially the parcel is nestled in similar land uses um in the surrounding the current zone zoning um this for the parcels it's two parcels um one that are that is being combined um the one is zoned GR and the other um meaning general rural zone and the other single residence zone C3 and it is proposed that both be zoned um as one property I in reszoned rather to industrial zoning district and this is I3 including a pad overlay.

This is a vicinity map uh showing the location of the site and this is an aerial overview of the parcel's location. So the copper basin energy storage project of significance um why this this is a very attractive project is its location and if you see it is nestled right in an area that is surrounded by other um energy projects.

Um most importantly as I mentioned before the 270 acres um Salt River project by Salt River project as well as significantly the Able Station that is located to the um south to the south southeast of um the parcel and the able station is important. The location is significant because the copper basin storage is expected to to to to um store energy coming from um the able station which we're seeing generates it. It has a 230 KV as well as a 500 KV transmission with located at this um facility.

This provides a pictorial of the locations sections of a location as well as the notice notices that were posted. So more specifically as it relates to the first case uh the non- major comprehensive plan amendment uh PZ-PA 00-003-26 we're seeking again to uh change from uh suburban neighborhood designation to general public facilities/services.

And this is within the context of um the provisions of the the comprehensive development plan for Panal County as well as the Santon Valley special area plan. And this is the most fitting designation um that was that is being put forward. And secondly, also the fact that this project aligns with the energy strategies outlined within the comprehensive development plan for the panal county as it relates to reszoning.

uh the resoning case PZ--00002-26 uh the proposal to change the zoning from general rural and single residence zone to I3 and this is in keeping with the um which would be fitting um fittingly accommodated with the change to the designation um under the comprehensive plan as proposed outlined earlier.

Uh just to note that there is also a recommendation a proposal for a pad overlay as the a pad overlaid as the the zoning would change to I3 and this would facilitate the optimum use um of the the facility. and to highlight that the main use to which this parcel will be put will be related only to the battery energy storage um facility being being proposed. the pad overlay. There won't be there aren't many changes.

There is significantly just one major change um proposed as it relates to the new I3 zoning and this amounts to one because and this relates to a reduction of the 25 ft um setback that is required for properties um abuting the rural and residential zone and there is a request for zero And this is within the context of the existing adjacent property is also undertaken slated for similar energy development and the fact that the project the energy storage facility will be storing energy generated from the neighboring uh adjacent parcel eventually.

then it would be fitting to have um have the both both properties as close operating as closely as possible without a setback. The maximum feet within under I3, the maximum height rather on the under under the I3 I3 zoning is 50. And just to note that the code allows for a heights exemption as it relates to transmission lines which will eventually um be developed as a part of the the parcel transmitting um energy to for storage. So that has already been taken care of within the the code.

This provides a an outline of the a indication of the site plan and the details um conceptually of what will be be stored there. And importantly, the parcel will have the requisite buffer as outlined in green and that is indicated on the slide. May I ask one question? First of all, you can back away from the mic a little bit because it's a little out. But that's okay. But also, what is back one slide, what's the future augmentation area? What is that? I'm just curious.

I see battery storage, battery storage, augmentation area. And the presenter or the applicant can answer that. Yes, I will have the applicant outline based on how they're um respond based on how they face the ification. I'm sorry. Sorry. Yes. I just Thank you, chair. So, among the considerations uh taken into account um in taking account into account as it relates to this property as I mentioned before is the location and its proximity to similar uses.

Well, essentially it is surrounded by other similar uses and compatible uses um which provides for um enhancing the the output energy output later on. It also provides an opportunity for creating employment in an area where none currently exists.

um meaning that area is not is it is currently not being used as a an employment generator and importantly the role it will play in enhancing energy provisions not just for the county but regionally as the county grows and the demand for energy we're seeing increasing and not just energy affordable energy uh because what the storage facility will do is that it will allow for for for energy to be stored so that in in off peak periods so that in peak periods it could offset some of the demands and therefore increase um affordability.

So the recommendation um the PNZ considered the matter and at its uh at its meeting in April ma in May rather May 21st and the recommendations a number of recommendations were put forward um for the the the various cases all just to note that all cases were approved um unanimously. The cases PZ-PA-003-26 uh case PZ-002-26 and case PZ-PD-002-26 was all approved um 9 to0 and the based on the conditions outlined there and also detailed in the the staff report as it relates to public participation.

Seven letters of support was received and during the PNZ public hearing uh there was three additional um support uh well individuals spoke in support of the project and to date no opposition no letters of opposition have been received. I will take any questions at this time or as well we do have the applicants and there is a presentation so that will provide um more information on the details of the project itself if you would. Thank you. Are there any uh questions for Miss Bedward? No.

Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. And the applicant is here. So uh can we have the applicant please come up and run the show? Mr. chairman, members of the of the board, Nick Woods, Snan Woomer, one East Washington Street, Phoenix, and I represent Plus Power. I've been doing this over 45 years, and some of the things I've learned include look into four factors that I really look to very closely to determine whether a project is appropriate no matter what the project may be.

Uh the good news is those factors were considered by your planning commission uh which recommended approval unanimously uh as well as the interim planning uh advisory committee for Santan because we're in a newly incorporated area of Santan. They recommended approval unanimously and then we went to the town council for Santan and they recommended um approval unanimously as well. Uh but those four factors really are number one, is there a need? Uh definite need, a definitive need.

Um number two, the quality of the developer. One of the things we've all learned is if you don't have a great developer, the project never either becomes a reality or it's not done very well. Um the third is location, right? Is it appropriately located? And lastly, is it going to be a great neighbor? And we fulfill all of those factors. So starting off um so let's talk about the the developer.

There are a number of uh companies in the energy space that will build battery storage across the country. One of the unique things about Plus Power is that's all they do. They are the pros from Dover. They're the experts in the area. Um they've been around since 2018. They have two projects in New England. They have four of them in Texas. They have two of them here. One's in Aendale and one's in Gilbert. And then they have one in Hawaii.

So they've built them in all different environments and climates. Um and of course uh they are very much a great corporate u partner. Um they make contributions. They're active in the community and they have local representatives here. As far as location is concerned, uh this is an example of uh their project in Aendale. As you can see, they're not very large. They're very tall. Um they're about 8 feet in height. Uh surrounded by a decorative wall. And we'll have that same thing here.

As far as location is concerned, the location is perfect. Uh what energy storage facilities do and again um uh this is utility scale is it provides additional power into the system here in Arizona right we have um heat like we do today and of course a demand we have peaks and valleys in demand well this brings everything down uh to a a very steady reliable sustainable amount we are right next to able We're less than a mile away from the ABLE substation.

We will connect directly to the AEL substation, but we're also surrounded by SRP. SRP has its solar that's right there as well as a research facility as well as their main able substation. Um, the important thing about this is it's 250 megawatt system and 2,000 megawatt hours. What that means is if the system goes down, if the grid goes down, this will be able to sustain up to 100,000 houses for a minimum of 8 hours and up to 12 or 13 hours depending upon what the demand may be.

So that's again is necessary in order to sustain stability. Now as far as need is concerned, I've been practicing law for 45 years. I moved here in 1985. I've been doing it here for 41 years. The growth we've seen has been significant. It'll continue. There was about 100,000 people living in Panel County in 1985. Today there's over 500,000. The growth will continue. And one of the cornerstones of that that growth is power. And having the power again be reliable and be sustainable.

And just for the reference, the heat today is not in here. Just for all of those you sitting out there. Thank goodness. Yeah. We're pulling from that grid is what we're doing right now. Yeah. Yeah. Um so again, these are the changes. I think Tanya went went through those, so I'll just skip over these. Um here's the site. Mr. Chairman, you asked about augmentation. Um this facility will be here about 25 years.

And of course, technology continues to change and as it continues to change, they need space to you know, replace existing uh you know, units, but also add new ones. So that's where the augmentation space is used for. Um, as you can see, you know, uh, it's it's the the perfect location. Um, we we have the need. Now, the last question is, is it going to be good neighbor? Is that's the fourth factor. And with that comes a question of safety, right?

We often hear people are concerned about battery storage because, you know, several years back there was, you know, a explosion on an APS facility. Um so the question really is safety. So Mr.

Chairman um you know we we have a safety engineer who is really an expert and with your permission I'd like to ask him to come up and you know talk about safety and then after that if you have any questions regarding the facility um my clients are both here uh Steve and Matt and they'd be happy to come up and answer any questions. That would be great. Thank you. Uh thank you chairman, vice chair and supervisors.

Uh Brian Schul, 264 West Loma Vista Street here in Gilbert, Arizona, one of the places where we do have a battery energy storage system. Uh recently retired from the Phoenix Fire Department after 23 years and I also sit on a lot of the codes and standards that deal with batteries because McMicken was a very bad day for us and we've come a long way since McMicken. The batteries that we're putting in today are highly tested and highly regulated.

Everybody asks what comes off if there's an incident in one of these facilities. I can tell you exactly what's come off because we test them and that's the important thing. As a firefighter in Phoenix, we're more worried about house fires than we are of anything that comes off these batteries because I know exactly what's in these batteries as opposed to a house fire.

My goal since I've been in the fire service is to make sure that this facility is up to all the current standards and all the current codes and it helps to keep our community and our firefighters safe. If you guys have any questions for me on safety or battery technology, I'm here to answer any questions for you. Any questions from the board? Hearing see no I guess we we've heard this that that presentation but others as well. Thank you very much chair. Yes. Yeah. Thanks sir. Mr. Chair, uh Mr.

Supervisor Vidiello just wanted to ask so it's going to have a brick wall all the way around 8t high. Yes, correct. Um, Mr. Chairman, Supervisor Vitello. Yes, that's correct. And, um, obviously the nearest fire department is how far away? I'm Matthew Look, uh, Plus Power. We're the developer for Copper Basin, 2620 Westside Road, Phoenix, Arizona. Uh, the nearest fire station is Rural Metro. Uh, it's 841. It's to the west. It's about 5 miles. And there's also a fire station to the north.

I think that's 843 and I think there's one south that's 846. And is there going to be um water available? If I know a lot about battery storage, but if there was an incident, is there water in the area that's going to be no issue for the fire department or fire departments? So, uh there is no direct water to the site. The site doesn't use any water.

So, uh, there is water in the vicinity, and we're going to be trucking water in to serve our on&m trailer itself, but there is water in the vicinity, uh, for fire service, but not directly to the site. Okay. And then obviously this is an area solar, so you don't plan on having any vegetation around the outside of this. Uh, so on the ex on the interior perimeter wall, no, we have no vegetation on the outside.

We're going to work with Santan Valley with their planners on how they would like to uh landscape that area. Oh, okay. Good. Great. Thanks. Any other questions from the board for the applicant? No. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. This is a public hearing. And at this time, I'll open the collective public hearing for agenda items 19, 20, and 21. Are there any members of the public that wish to speak on this item besides Mr. Alazada that's here someplace? I know you're there, sir.

Did you care to did you care to speak? Come on down. Chair, vice chair, members of the board, Sepand Alazada. I am with the Arizona Technology Council, 2800 North Central Avenue, Sweet 1530 in Phoenix. Uh, as always, an honor and a privilege to be here, uh, to speak in support of this project and the resoning. Um, as you all see, uh, Plus Power has done their due diligence. They have met with the communities that are going to be impacted by this project.

They have reached out, answered questions, updated their plans, and ensured that safety is the number one priority when building this project. Uh, Supervisor Videl, when this meeting started at 9:30 this morning, you were talking about what you're going to be doing in the district coming up and you said you're meeting with ED1 and ED2, I believe, or ED2 and ED3. and you and you understand the needs for energy in Pinow County because energy equals economic development.

Now, a battery energy storage system isn't necessarily going to solve all the energy needs that a count county has, but it's going to be a very strong component to it. Again, I always like to think of it as a mosaic of uh an all of the- above approach. So, this is one component to that mosaic. And before I wrap up, I just also want to make a comment about the Panal County Planning and Zoning Commission. Uh my compliments to them.

The Panal County PNZ Commission is one of the most detailoriented uh commissions that I have worked with and presented before. No detail is too small. No question goes unanswered and or or unasked rather. And everything is done above board. you know, from Chairman Clobe to Commissioner Scott, Commissioner Mooney, uh, all of them are fantastic community members and representatives who do a great job in these meetings.

So, you know that if a project gets a vote of 9 to zero approval, the applicant and their representative have done their job and have done their job well. So, with that, once again, thank you for your time. Thank you for uh your attention and we hope you will be approving this plus power project. Thank you. Any others from the public that wish to speak? Hearing and seeing none, I'll close the public hearing and uh if the board doesn't have any questions, I would ask for a motion, please. Okay.

But before I do that, I do want to make sure that we've got entered into the record a letter of support from the town of Santan Valley in regards to this. Do we have that? Okay, good. And and a lot of people have asked me why why are we doing this as opposed to Santan Valley? Gee, why? I'm going to tell you the story behind that. First of all, they've been involved heavily from the very beginning on all of this stuff.

as one of our commissioners is Karen Moody who is one of those detail oriented individuals and that will scrutinize everything and I appreciate her for that. But Darren Schnef who's the current mayor is sits on that commission and so they've been heavily involved from the very beginning and I appreciate Nick and your guys crew going and doing a presentation to the town and getting their involvement on this because it was vital.

The the reason for this right here is the fact that they didn't want this to be delayed in any form or fashion. They wanted to continue business as normal, that there was no glitches whatsoever bringing this type of a development into the community. We all know that power is a big deal and storage of that power at various times so that it meets at peak times is very important for our communities as a whole.

So with that in that speech that I gave and that little detail story behind it, I would like to make a motion that we approve, Mr. Chair, item number 19 with no stipulations. I wanted to make a statement before I second that. Go ahead. So yeah, ordinarily I'm against if this was generated from a massive solar field, I wouldn't be for it, but since they're taking it right from the grid, I think it's a good project to make the grid stronger. So second. I have a motion and a second.

Uh those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. I. Those opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you. May I get a motion, please, for item number 20? Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion that we approve item number 20 as presented with one stipulation. I have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion and a second. Okay, motion and second. Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you very much. U.

May I get an a motion, please, for item 21? Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion that we approve item 21 as presented with 18 stipulations. I have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Have a motion and a second. Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. I. Opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. There we go. Thank you very much. All right. Item number 22 is discussion, approval, disapproval of resolution number 2026-UP-021-25. Miss Bedward, you are back. I am chair.

I think you're the only one we have left now. Well, besides, well, and yeah. Anyway, good afternoon again, chair, uh, vice chair, uh, supervisors. Uh I am presenting case SUP uh 012 021 rather 25 and this is in relation to a wireless communication facility vertical bridge application. Um the proposal um was for a the construction of to oper the proposal was to construct and operate a 70 foot um high wireless communication tower.

And this site that was proposed is located at the intersection of highway 88 84 and south John Wayne Parkway in unincorporated panal county. The map current map shows the location of county map shows the location of the site. Uh the site is zoned general rural with general rural and recreational uh vehicle park in the surrounding. The properties are zoned as such um surrounding that subject parcel. Um the surrounding land use designation is mid-intensity um activity area.

This shows the vicinity of the parcel and this is an aerial overview of said parcel. This is an illustration of pictorials of the site as well as uh photos of the notifications that were posted. The site um proposal was for construction of a new 70 foot wireless tower and this was to top of the tree top of tree and the the this is a stealth design based on its location and uh for eucalyptus.

Uh the proposal is by Verizon and this is in keeping with their thrust to upgrade and enhance um wireless communication network support and this is in light of the developments with 4G and 5G um technology that is currently underway. The facility is designed to be a multicarrier facility and as indicated uh the stealth design facilitates um ensures that there is its aesthetics um with this that blends into the the surrounding areas.

This is an outline of the site plan and it shows the location of the the par this the the project where the this the the tower is proposed to be located on the outlined parcel. This is an indication of the stealth design and as we have seen um the top of tower uh is 70 as was proposed. This is the pre and post coverage map. Um these are the maps that shows how uh the the implementation of the project um will impact um coverage.

Subsequently, the public participation process was adhered to and the information is outlined on the slide. Uh to date we have received no letters of opposition or support and the commission at its April 16th meeting, the planning and zoning commission um voted um for a 8 to zero um unanimous support of sup2125. 5 with 18 stipulations. Just to note that the initial the initial uh application requested an approval for 70 ft to the top of tower.

But if you noted on the slide which shows the design, there was an unnatural flat flattening at the top of the tower. And therefore um there was a request made by the applicant which was supported for an additional 5t um for branches not for the tower but to ensure that the the the aesthetics um was natural of the stealth design was natural. And therefore the 18th stipulation um was to to add that additional um 5 ft as outlined.

So chairman um supervisors the commission recommended uh the approval of sup02125 with 18 stipulations. I will take any questions. I also have the applicant present if there are any questions um technically that she could assist with responding to. I like the extra 5 ft to add to the natural design of the unnatural eucalyptus tree. But yeah, so um Okay. Any are there any questions from the board for Miss Bedward? No. No. Okay, fine. Thank Thank you, Miss Bedward.

And applicant, did you wish to speak? You don't have to. You can just say nope. only if you have any questions. Any questions for the applicant? I'm good. No, I just say, you know, I'm glad we're going to eucalyptus trees instead of pine trees. So, okay. Um, all right. This is this is a public hearing. And so, I will open up the public hearing. Anyone from the public here to speak on this item hearing and seeing none, I'll close the public hearing.

And if there no, are there any questions from the board? No. In that case, I'd ask for a motion, please. Mr. Chair, I make a motion to approve item 22 as written with 18 stipulations. I have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion and a second. Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. I. I. Okay. Opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you very much, Miss Bedward. I think you're done. I think we ran out of your presentation today. You bet. Okay. Item number 23.

It's public hearing discussion approval disapproval of resolution number 2026-up 0002-26. And Mr. Penko, you're up. Good afternoon, chairman, vice chair, supervisors. My name is Walton Punch, senior planner here to present to you case IP0000226, a project named Sunridge Pover.

That's uh an industrial use permit uh request to operate combined cycle natural gas fired power plant on 164 acres property zoned as industrial CI2 that's located southwest of the intersection of Saskro and Kachway Road southwest of the Red Rock community incorporated in our county. The applicant uh and agents present here today. Here's the general location for the site. Here's a zoning. Uh so the current zoning is CI2 industrial zone. That's a old kind of the zoning that our code consists of.

And the proposal is to include industrial use permit for this site. This is a vicinity map. So this site is fully surrounded by other same zoned C2 properties. So it's fully surrounded by other industrial zones. Here's aerial map for this property. So that's a larger parcel. There's two parcels. One larger one and small triangular parcel to the east. Here's some pictures for from the site notice signs. So going back to the request.

So the applicant requesting to have industrial use permit for the uh gas fire uh power plant. applicant planning to do two phases. Phase one with 680 uh uh megawatt generation unit and another potential phase 2 expansion for the same generation unit which can result in the combined 1,360 megawatt.

Um so uh from the history that site was uh resoned initially from GR to industrial at that time they called industrial that time it was CA2 uh and it was heavy industrial at time of resoning it was the name for that zoning heavy industrial um and so basically this is request is has an procedural nature because we do have a legacy zoning in penal county develment development service code.

While old zoning and new zones uh exist together, that's not a common practice in planning uh and development of the of uh jurisdictions codes. Usually the general approach when some jurisdiction approving a new zoning they're making a conversion from zone X to zone Z and that's supposed to be happen at that point of time.

So uh we can assume that if that would happen CI2 industrial zone would be C3 industrial as per updated zoning but it never happened and CA2 industrial has requirement for all industrial uses to apply for industrial use permit any so it's not just specifically for gas powers plants it's for all listing of industrial uses those owners would need to go through industrial use permit process if they are not resoneed to a new classification or if they wouldn't be automatically converted to C3.

So here's a site plan for the project area with southern portion that's a phase one and phase two northern portion uh with expansion this is enlarged portion of the site with a power plants on both of those sites as I told uh this project career fully surrounded by other industrial zoned properties so they wouldn't require to have any landscaping or buffering from any sites.

Uh uh so uh the applicant actually uh provided some justification why they want to use this location because it's closer to Elpas natural gas pipeline where they will take uh they will make interconnection to that one and they also has u uh transmission connection will have a transmission connection to substation east of Interstate 10. So that's my basically justification for this location. Why are they choosing that as well?

Because it's already zoned as industrial and the whole area is uh zoned as industrial. Uh generally just to speaking about compatibility. So it's already has employment land use the whole uh purple area from the vicinity map that's already has a land use dedication as employment. It's industrial zoning. Uh they have a major energy infrastructure that already approved nearby and has some land use changes for other locations with energy infrastructure in that portion of Pinal County already.

They adjusting to industrial um mostly agricultural or uh still vacant lands as of today. Uh they have limited uh conflict with residential areas. it's not adjusted to any residential zones. Uh they have two z two phases. Uh second is a future expansion and that's um limit limitation for this IUP. Uh actually written in stipulation number 23 that will require from the applicant to submit building permit within 10 years. After that the IUP will be uh not valid for new applications.

If they will not complete that by that time they would need to apply for a new IUP uh in order to get building permit for any additions to that project. Uh unless they will apply for five-year extension that will be reviewed by the community development director as per stipulation. Uh generally that's fully consistent with the zoning and land use of that area.

Uh and uh staff uh put stipulation to ensure that the applicant will address all air quality, water, traffic, safety, drainage and uh code compliance cases with within the site plan review process moving forward. Uh there is no uh comments from public, no position of support from public. There is some letter of support for this case from Greater Phoenix Economic Council and Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District.

During the uh neighborhood meeting, people uh spoke about potential groundwater protection, gas leaks risk, uh some hazardous uh materials on on the property. that was also a topic for the discussion during the P&Z. applicant uh was able to explain that during the PNZ with help of the professional team. They with tech technical expertise on those questions and uh as result of the public hearing uh by the planning and zoning commission.

Uh it was recommended approval uh 920 was with and subject to 23 stipulations and there was amended stipulation number 23. There was just uh clarification about because initially it was stipulation regarding that applicant need to uh start development within 10 years and planning and zoning commission wanted to have a clarity. So it was changed from started development to uh applied for the building permit. So that was the main the only amendment was done for the stipulations.

There is 23 stipulations for this request and applicant has presentation. Applicant here with all the professional technical team present here to answer the board questions and stuff also here to answer the planning questions for this case. Thank you. Are there any questions for Mr. Pachenko? I'm sorry my lips are going numb. It's cold. Any any questions? Thank you. The applicant is here. Would you like to speak? Sounds like a court. Defendant is here, you know. All right.

Thank you guys uh for your time today. All right. So, good afternoon uh Chairman Mccclure, members of the board, and thank you for the opportunity to present today. My name is Tom Flexon, and I'm here on behalf of Sunridge Power, a project being developed by Kindle Energy. We're seeking your approval of an industrial use permit for what we believe will be a landmark energy and economic development project for Panal County. All right, got it working. Thanks, Valentine.

All right, so uh before we get into uh project specifics, I want to give you all a sense of who we are. Kindle Energy has been focused on developing and operating natural gas fired power generation across the United States since 2015. Today, we operate a portfolio of 10.8 gawatts of generation capacity assets that help keep the lights on for millions of Americans every day. We often refer to our development experience as real, recent, and relevant.

As Kindle has led investment of $2.6 billion to develop 1.6 6 gawatts of power gener generation resources. In just the past few years alone, we successfully brought projects online including Mountain Peak Power, Canyon Peak Power in Colorado, as well as Magnolia Power in Louisiana. We also currently have Wolf Summit Energy under construction in West Virginia. We know how to permit, build, and operate facilities like this responsibly and effectively.

As such, we are committed to being a long-term partner to this community. Now on to the project itself. Sunridge Power will be located in a designated employment zone on a 338 acre greenfield site north of Saskco Road about6 miles west of Hollis Road. Uniquely positioned between natural gas pipelines and electrical transmission. The property has previously been earmarked for industrial use.

The facility will be comprised of advanced class combined cycle gas turbines, the most efficient natural gas power generation technology available on the market today. Each unit will deliver 680 megawatts of capacity for a total output of 1,360 megawatts. We are targeting commercial operation to occur in 2032 with construction commencing in the 2028 time frame.

Regarding infrastructure, we've submitted electrical interconnection applications to APCO and APS, thereby creating flexibility for power delivery. For natural gas supply, the project will interconnect to El Paso pipeline. We submitted our major source air permit application in April and we expect to receive our class one air permit by Q1 of 2027.

Critically, our water plan actually reduces total consumption compared to the existing agricultural use on the properties being acquired by Sunridge Power. For clarity, this is not a new draw on the region's water supply. From a land use permitting perspective, the IUP application was filed in April. We had our planning commission hearing last month on May 21st and we appreciate the board hearing this case today. So, moving on to slide four. Why does Arizona need this project?

The data tells a compelling story. Arizona is experiencing 3.7% annual load growth statewide, one of the highest rates in the country. That's being driven by new industries, advanced manufacturing, population growth, and electrification in the greater Phoenix area. Notably, APS, SRP, and TE all set peak demand records in 2025, outpacing their own forecasts. At the same time, Arizona faces a power generation deficit. Over 4 gawatts of aging coal capacity will be retired by 2032.

Furthermore, 4.3 gawatts of natural gas assets in Arizona will be more than 50 years old by 2030. That's infrastructure that needs to be replaced. When you net it all out, Arizona is looking at a capacity shortfall of approximately 4 gawatt by 2035. Sunridge power with up to 1,360 megawatts of highly efficient dispatchable generation directly addresses that supply gap. This isn't just about keeping the lights on during peak summer heat.

Advanced manufacturing and industrial facilities need around the clock reliable power. Intermittent renewables alone cannot serve that need. Sunridge Power will provide the firm, flexible backbone that makes the rest of the grid work. Sunridge Power will be contracted with Arizona Electric Power Cooperative to serve their members, which ultimately directly benefit Panal County customers. Now, let's identify what this means for Panal County. The economic numbers are significant.

Over the life of the project, Sunridge Power is projected to generate more than 175 million in total tax revenue to Panal County. Total economic output could range from 1.2 to 2.3 billion depending on the final project configuration. Total personal income generated is estimated to be in excess of 335 million over the life of the project. During construction, Sunidge Power will employ over 300 highly skilled trade workers per phase.

Once operational, it will sust sustain more than 24 permanent well-paying jobs for 30 or more years. These are highquality careers, not temporary positions. The total capital investment in this project is expected to be between 1.4 and 2.8 billion across real and personal property. This represents a meaningful and long-term commitment to Panal County. Beyond the numbers, we believe Sunridge Power is squarely aligned with Panal County's comprehensive plan.

The site currently carries the CI2 land use designation and this hearing is intended to amend that zoning to bring it to the I3 standard. The project supports the county's goals of quality employment, economic diversification, broad energy resource development, and responsible water stewardship. Sunidge Power is the kind of project Panal County's comprehensive plan was written to attract. So turning to slide six. This is this uh right here is the is the project site plan.

The design reflects a phased approach with unit one and unit two clearly delineated. As mentioned, unit one and unit two represent state-of-the-art combined cycle power generation technology which will be built outside of the identified property floodplaneed and equipped with the best available emission controls technology. The facility will only be fired on natural gas.

Additionally, Sunridge Power will use air cooled condenser condensers as the heat sink for the facility's steep cycle and fin fan coolers for the cooling plant auxiliaries to minimize the amount of water required for operations. Processed waste water will be disposed of via the use of evaporation ponds. The facility respects 50-foot building setbacks from all property lines, includes a proposed retention basin for storm water management, and features appropriate security fencing.

Entry signage and parking are designed per panel county development services code for I3 industrial zoning. Finally, we want to give the board confidence that we are pursuing every required permit through the proper channelers channels on an aggressive but realistic time frame. We expect all construction permits will be secured within 18 months across federal, state, and local domains.

Our class one air quality permit application was submitted to P penol county air quality control district in April of this year. Environmental compatibility filings with the Arizona Corporation Commission are expected later this summer. Federal permits including Army Corps section 404 401 and Endangered Species Act coordination are underway with biological, cultural, and environmental field studies undertaken at the facility this quarter.

Water rights and aquifier protection permit work is progressing through ADWR and ADQ respectively. Construction storm water dust control and grading permits are being prepared and will be coordinated with panel county. We have also engaged with local stakeholders including rural metro fire KD and adjacent land owners. Last but not least, the IUP site plan review is actively underway which is why we are here today.

In closing, Sunridge Power is the right project in the right place at the right time. It addresses Arizona's growing energy needs. It delivers substantial and lasting economic benefits to Panal County. It aligns with land use and comprehensive planning goals and it will be developed to the highest environmental and safety standards. We respectfully request the board's approval of this industrial use permit and we welcome any questions you may have.

With me today, I have our uh project engineers uh folks that are focused on uh environmental matters uh as well as uh the development support staff. So uh if you all have any questions, we will be happy to answer them. Are there any questions for the applicant? Yes, m chair. Um so where is the who who's buying the power? What company? Arizona Electric Power Cooperative. APCO Arizona G&T is a large cooperative uh power supplier within the state of Arizona. Okay. What about penel county?

What power companies are interested in the power here? If we're putting it in our backyard, shouldn't we benefit from it? You you will. Uh Arizona G&T, Arizona Electric Power Cooperatives serves customers in Panol County. Yeah. So, Tricco is okay. That's I'm sorry. One that delivers my power. They're one of those and in several electrical districts. I I apologize. Okay. Yeah. Because I never heard of some of these other ones. I want to make sure that we're going to benefit.

That's that's like ED2. Any of those that purchased their power, they get it from that cooperative. Okay, that's correct. And then um it's using groundwater obviously. Yes. Do you have any numbers on the groundwater that we can just see to understand yearly? Yeah, I have I have some notes on my phone. I don't have a handout. Certainly follow up, but on an on an annualized basis, we went back uh to look at this following the planning and zoning uh hearing.

And so the the water rights that uh we have acquired with our property that are going through the ADWR and ADQ process equate to about 681,000 uh gallons per day uh uh at the property. Our use uh for two units is about 486,000 gallons per day. Uh so we're about 29% reduction uh versus the water rights that are in place today. any of that going to be reclaimed, recycled or anything of our own use? Uh no, that that is a uh that is what we are going to pull for the project. Okay.

But the the air cooled condenser technology that we are using is what uh brings down water uses compared to other plants if you have cooling towers and have uh water running through the facility on a constant basis. Okay. Thanks. And then how how tall are the stacks? The stack on the the stack itself, Sean, is about 199 ft. 199 ft. That's correct. Okay. Pretty good sized. It is a good size. But part of that is is also for dispersion, right?

So the higher the stack, the more that you'll have dispersion in the uh the emissions coming out of the when you have the scrubbers inside that carry that collect the solids and bring them back. But that's Yeah. and and um Sean can also speak through the uh environmental best available. He doesn't want to. He's shaking his head. I'm sorry. Please come on up to the He threw you He threw you in front of the bus. So that's that's the small elephants we got running around up here.

Well, I'm Carlos Campbell, development engineer with Kindle Energy. And no, uh this plant is natural gas. What you were describing was basically what scrubbers or what have you. That would be something you see in a coal plant. Okay. We don't have that here. Okay. And basically the water usage is for the biggest water user is the the evaporative coolers for the for the inlet to the gas turbine. For instance, on a day like today or hotter, it'll approach the wet bulb temperature here.

The low humidity helps tremendously. So it gives you gives you much better performance of the gas turbine. Um and then we'll also have uh water makeup for the steam cycle when we'll blow down water from the steam drums per eriotically. But that's basically those are the water uses. Yeah, like like Tom said, we don't have uh cooling towers. I mean, if we had cooling towers, it would be like 10 times the amount of water. So, it's it's quite it's quite quite uh quite an improvement.

And it still leaves a plant an incredible heat rate, you know, thermal efficiency over 50%. So, So since we have you there and you're the expert um so um this is about five miles from Red Rock down 4 something. Yeah 4.6 six I mean you know five miles roughly. What is the the uh because I noticed one of the stipulations is 19 you have to follow noise control or noise control ordinance and so what amount of sound comes from this you know how much how much noise do you make?

Obviously we you know we will be at at the plan boundary we will be you know below the uh the uh the noise ordinances from the from the town. Uh you know part of the design is to in include a uh noise reduction equipment on the fans for the air condenser for the auxiliary coolers. Um the plan itself if you stand within 500 ft you're going to be in the on a decel on a decel basis you're going to be in the 50s you know so it's not it's a fairly quiet operation. Okay. Uh do we have the result?

Oh, we have the results on the everything in line. Yeah, we we just got the the results on the noise noise uh study literally this morning. So haven't had a chance to re to review in detail, but basically for the nearest receptors were I don't remember exactly it was like.7 or 8 decibel increase during the day and.3. Well, my my my point not quite so technical, but my point being that the people in Red Rock will will, you know, say, "Oh, you know, it's going to make noise.

It's going to be that we're going to hear this hum." Yeah. I mean, in in ter in terms of bothering the the people at Red Rock, no, they'll probably get much more noise out of the out of the freeway or I 10 when you get out of the plant. Okay. So, that's for sure. That's that and that that's that's a real fact. So, yeah. Okay. Well, I mean, that would be my guess, but I'm just curious. Okay. But I don't know. I mean, the concern is valid. I mean it is an it is an industrial facility. I get it.

Yes. Okay. Thank you very much. Are there any other questions for the applicants? No questions. Wow. Okay. That's easy. All right. And so thank you very much. And so this is a public hearing. I'll open the public hearing. Anyone from the public care to speak? Miss Woods, did you want to talk on that? He was he was looking at me so I fig on you. Right. Okay. Any others? Anyone from the public here to speak on this item? Okay.

Uh, hearing and seeing none, I'll close the public hearing and if there's no more questions from the board, I'd ask for a motion, please. Mr. Chair, uh, just a just a comment. I'd like every time I say that, before I before I make a motion, I want to make a comment. You know, one thing is a fact that um, we've got to have more power for us to have the growth and continue the growth. We've got to have the power. But I I thought it was rather interesting.

I met with somebody the other day and they said, you know, it's supply and demand, but if you've got more supply than you have demand, what happens? Rates come down. And that's the big key that we need to keep in mind as we continue forward in some of these things, we want the rates to come down. And if we've got more supply than the demand, that will that will actually happen. That'll be take a natural course. So with that, there you go.

I would like to make a motion that we approve item number 23 as presented with 23 stipulations. Very well. I have a motion. Is there a second? I think power without solar is good and there's plenty of gas and it's almost free in some parts of the country. So, I'll second it. I have a motion in a second. Uh those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I I opposed. I'm sorry. Oh, no. Are you still on the I part? Go ahead. Yeah, I I'm for um approving it. There you go. Okay. Okay.

So, uh those opposed hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you very much. Have a great day. And we are on to item 24 which is discussion approval disapproval of fiscal year 2627 pension funding policy for panel or for the PSPs and Miss Woods. Good. Since you didn't want to talk on the other item, I'll let you talk on this one. Hi chairman, members of the board. Angie Woods, director of the office of budget and finance. Yeah, and I a interesting item. um very very interested in that item.

So um that's why I was paying attention. Um I'm here to present today the uh fiscal year 2627 pension funding policy for the um Panal County Public Safety Retirement Plan on an annual basis as required by Arizona Revised Statute 38-86301. Um, we have you adopt a policy that, um, in the policy itself, we list each of our public safety retirement system plans in there, the assets or amount of money that they're holding for us and the accured liability that's there.

Um and in this case the the policy itself is written in such a way that the board must apply or agree to a funding ratio and in the past traditionally that funding ratio has been 90%. In the current year, the actuarial um report that came out for our sheriff's department plan, we are reaching a unfunded status of 91.88%. So, we're really close to that 90 percentile of the policy that has been um adopted in the past.

So, I figured this would be a good opportunity to have a conversation um explain how we got to uh this funding um unfunded liability. Um as you know, we did uh approve a bond in 2020 that 100% funded that uh liability. And anytime that we make adjustments to salaries, um whether it be market adjustments or across the board increases, those types of things that has an effect on that unfunded liability.

and our board can make decisions on how to um how to make sure that we don't acquire more unfunded liability when we're making those types of decisions. And so um the the actuarial really when they put together their uh funding plan for a fis for a year uh they do take into consideration those unfunded uh liabilities and they right now um the the unfunded liability of 15.5 million uh we have increased the contribution rate to pay that over time.

Um, this board could make decisions such as funding, uh, a one-time payment to PSPRS to bring those unfunded liabilities down. And so, uh, I just wanted to make you aware of that. And then in in, uh, Sure. can stop me with Supervisor Goodman's got a question. Yeah, I guess I guess when we, so we did approve the bond to help pay these or to pay them up. just to were they and what what's caused then the deficit again then?

So every time that we make either a market adjustment or a pay increase that is beyond what the actuarial expects, there would be an additional cost to that. And so when we've given um market adjustments for law enforcement individuals of say uh I don't remember exactly what the last percentage was, say that was 15%. that was above the amount that the actuarial had projected and therefore the difference between what they projected and what we gave causes an unfunded liability.

But when we make those adjustments, it's as that point that we make the adjustments, why does that make a difference for what's been in the past? So, so can I. So, you understand what I'm asking?

Let's let's go from let's say so year-over-year what would the actuarial say we did 15% as you said I mean just PFA numbers what would the actuarial have said that probably would have been so over the course of uh if it's 15% um that's approximately $7 million that we would have had to fund ahead of time to ensure that we wouldn't have this unfunded liability kind of investments are They putting into the Well, no. We're putting money Well, or is it just coming right right out of our pocket?

It's coming out of our pocket in their pocket. But there's no investments they're doing. Well, they do investments, but they have a what do they have a 7% investment rate that they make some seven or seven and a half? What is it, chairman? Yes. Um, right now it's I think I believe the report shows that it's a 7.1% estimate. And and so what we've had to do in the past, Mike, is to if we're unfunded, we have to make up that difference. Is that correct in that? Yeah.

So, but that's what we Isn't that not what we did? That's what we did. So, so if we're behind, we have to catch up to that. We have to pay that extra and we fully funded it so that we didn't have to pay that at 7 and a half 71 or whatever percent. And we're paying it off at a smaller rate. Okay. Okay. I'm understanding that we've we we approved to get us paid up. Yes. And now we're making some adjustments for moving forward on additional salaries moving forward.

Why does that put us in a deficit? Because because the actuarial makes assumptions of a a cost of living increase and anytime our our um we're exceeding the cost we're exceeding the cost of living increase is what he's what she's trying to say. they haven't they haven't um they don't have enough money to invest to get to the the end goal when we increase the normal cost above what the actuarial estimate is. So every time we make an adjustment in salaries we're looking at this. Yes. Correct.

So say if we added can we put that just so say if we went up 15% and the actuarial said oh it's only going to go up three and a half or 4%. That difference is what our problem is here. Chairman, chairman uh am I close, Leo? Yeah. C, can I Yeah. Can I just add a little bit to it? Um, it's a great question, Chairman, Supervisor Goodman, and we had the same question when we first started to recognize this.

You know, we, like you said, we went even when we did the bond issuance and then we were even above for a little while, like 101% 102% funded. we started noticing we're going down 97 95%. So we did have a meeting with the PSPRS and we did ask them what is driving this. Um to your point the actuarial model that has things like gross payroll growth and which is by two factors. one um more employees to raise this and so they build those kind of things into this big complicated formula.

um all across the state for the most part and for us specifically especially the um increases in salaries based on recruitment retention the market competition um was more than what was built into the actuarial formulas that's forecasting out for the future and any new actuarial that's what they need so yeah so as they updated man yeah so as they updated those we've our funding ratio went down as the salaries exceeded their original assumptions.

So as a product of that, we asked them when we're planning this um can can we have some kind of tool that lets us know how much more uh of the estimated future liability would be based on this range, right? Whether we give a 10% raise or a 15 or a 20 or a five or whatever it's going to be. So, they did develop a tool to help do that. They worked with us. We went over it. I think it's on their website now for employers to use that. Um, if we punch that number in, we can get a better estimate.

So, when we're going through these market studies, we get these updates, we'll know what ahead of time, and the decision could be made. Yes, we want to go ahead and put down when we give this increase $5 million so that we're even again. we're not being charged the 7.1% for this liability. And so part of this conversation right now is to say, do we want to put this $15 million down since 7%'s about the highest credit card rate that we have at the county?

And so do we want to So I hope that answered your question. It's it helps. It's a lot and it's a moving target is what we're dealing with those every year every year. every time that you make a decision regarding pay that is above the actuary you know essentially the the um cost of living raise that is causing that uh unfunded liability. So, but hang on. Um, okay. The the the point here is that the modeler so so that you have some idea that every percent that you um increase the salary range.

So, 1% increase. So, if it went, you know, 1% up from where it is today, that really is a onetime cost of about $500 million or $500,000. So half a million dollars. So I I think I'm starting to wrap my head around this. Okay. What what what you're getting at So every So every time retirement's going to increase. Correct.

and and and really what I'm trying to tell you as supervisor chairman um is that we have the opportunity to make decisions at the time that we're doing these market adjustments to make sure that we're funding those unfunded liabilities ahead of time.

So, when a market adjustment for our law enforcement uh individuals comes to you, we will likely make a recommendation for one-time cash payment or tell you that our unfunded liability is going to grow and the percentage increase for contribution is going to go up. Okay? Does that make sense?

That's really what I'm trying to So every So every time the the sheriff's department wants extra money, we have to like cut off like a extra light off a car or or you know pull a tire back or something like that. Like I said, for every percent it's about $500,000. All right. And so we we want to maintain the 100%. Well, right now that's that's the idea. I That's what I'm hearing. What's interesting though is that it's almost like we're 100% self-funded on this retirement program.

Then if we're having if we're doing the adjustments every time, where's the investments? How are those investments growing for us? And who's managing those? Because if we're making we make an adjustment in pay increase, we're also we're putting us in a deficit over here. How are those dollars being budget managed to where we get maximum amount? I Chairman, Supervisor Goodman, that's a great great um thought process.

So, if you think about it, they're managing the PSPRS is taking our money that we're giving them and they're investing it at and they're they're assuming that um rate of return is about 7%. Right? And so if so, in theory, if we could grow it more than 7%, we wouldn't want them to invest it on our behalf, right?

But it's easier to give it to them for them to invest because that's what it's going to take over the long term to pay those um retirement uh contributions to the employees at such a time that they do actually enter that retirement. So does that make sense? Yeah, I I'm okay with what you're saying.

Yeah, I and I wrap my head around it, but I just I'm uh it's frustrating that we're always having that we've always looking at this deficit and we kept we kept growing our deficit and that's what we just funded the other. So what how far we 91.8 correct percent. So what that's 15.5 million in the hole essentially. It is. And so that was the point of the conversation is to let you know that that's where we're at. You can do several things.

You can make a decision to obviously fund that um in the next year's budget. You could um continue with making the contribution um payments as every single payroll we we our contribution rate is has grown. We can do that. Um and then we can have conversations about what you want that funding ratio to be. So if you don't want the funding ratio to be 90%, say you want something higher or something lower, we can have those conversations as well. That's the point.

I mean, in conversations that I've had, we you know, I mean, 100% would be the goal. Yeah. But is is this is this the conversation we're having right now? This is the conversation we're having. We can make the decision now. Correct. Okay. So, and then and our contributions are if say if we were 100% funded, our contributions every payroll are keeping up. That's we're even every payroll. Correct. Yeah. So, essentially they're charging us right for that.

The So, if they weren't charging us for us, say our contribution rate would be somewhere around 5%. Right? And our contribution rate right now is around 12%. The difference between that is making up that unfunded liability over the next 12 to 15 years. Right. So question, do we have it in the budget to do that to catch up today? Um next budget cycle. Yeah, actually we do. We do. Yeah. I mean we it we would be taking from our um sheriff's office.

Well, we would we would be taking from our financial stability reserve or reducing other areas of the budget. So, it's not it's not that we don't have the money. It's do we want to spend our money in that way? And that's really up to you as a board to decide. Do you want to spend your money in that way? I think according to what I'm hearing from Leo, this is the highest expensive credit card that we've got. Yeah.

Chairman, and just to add to that, the I think we're probably getting 4% at our treasur's office at the moment. So, you said like for us, who's investing our money, the treasur's office, but they have strict, you know, conservative guidelines in our treasur's office. So, they may be making about 4% right now that I think right now it's between three and a half and 4%. that goes up and down based upon the market, right?

And the pension fund obviously can be more aggressive and um have different types of investments. So that's why they charge us the 7%. So it would behoove us to pay it off. Yeah, that's why that's kind of what I'm quite honestly $15 million, it's a lot of money, but $15 million out of a billion dollars. Yeah. That's is is really small. Yeah. and saves us money in the long run, which is what we were doing by doing the bond. Yeah. Dropping all the rates, we save money over a long period of time.

Yeah, I I have a tendency to agree with that. Chairman, would it be suggested instead of doing it in one dump? What if we did it so that way we can manage it over say the rest of this year versus the Are you thinking about one big dump of the Did I have 15 million? I'm not sure. 15 15 and a half. 15 and a half. Okay. So instead of doing it in one dump, what about if we did it in like three so that way we can see what's coming in over the next six, nine months.

I'm just saying just just it gives us a little bit of more fle, you know, flexible just to make sure if there's anything that god forbid happens. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. But we can get rid of that. Add another wrinkle into Sure. Wrinkle it up. We'll we'll try to steam it out. As you're aware, um, our HR compensation team is currently doing a market study and so there could be potential pay increases coming forward from for our sheriff's office. Don't don't promise anything.

I'm not promising anything. All I'm saying is there is currently a study being happening and at that point in time we would be facing this same question um all over again. So yes. Yes. Correct. So, okay. So, is that clear as mud for everybody? Yeah. You good? The mud's a little bit clearer for me. Yeah. Can I So, can I make it any clearer for you? Oh, no. I I get it. I just It's Mr. L, did you have any like more comments on this? Um, no. Thank you. I guess or even recommendation actually.

Yeah, if if you wanted my recommendation um said in like with any investment, if um our money is not being put to work at its maximum use, then we're losing money every day. And so if we have the money that we don't have another compelling or higher use for at the moment, then I would pay this off. I mean, that's that that would be how I would manage the vines. That's just my own opinion. That's good advice. Okay. Supervisor Vidiello is writing the check this afternoon. That's great.

So, it's really not a problem. Okay. So, um so we're look So, we're looking here if we were to make a motion is to uh chairman, if I may. If you if you make a motion, would you please include um in within the motion, if you're going to fund any of the unfunded liability, um can you include wording for to approve a budget amendment to act upon that whatever that uh payment might be in the fiscal year 2627 budget because we don't have it currently budgeted.

Or I can bring an item for it's for next year's budget. Yeah. Yeah. And I I could bring an item back before you on the 1 if you would rather me do that. July. Well, I can bring an amendment back on July 1st. We could Okay. So, if you could bring that back at that time, we can head. Yeah. Just give me the direction on what you want me to bring back in your motion. Right. Right. Okay. Thank you. Who would like to make the motion? You can. I just want to make sure the number 15 and a half.

15 and a half. Okay. So, Mr. Chair, uh I'd make a motion on item 24. 24 to have an amendment July 1st for $15,500 for the not 15 million5 million. 15.5 million. Sorry, I said 500. Sorry.

15 million and a half dollars for the funding the budget the um now I'm forgetting okay it's PSPs P yes PSPRS unfunded liability unfunded liability unfunded liability and approval and approval of the pension policy and approval of the pension policy you did that work Miss Kennedy not even close it's not going to fly no a whole lot to remember all at once Chairman, if I may, Angie, considering Vitiello made the statement in which he's he's made, can you please make the motion so that the board can so move the motion which has been provided?

Thank you. Um, please have the motion be uh approval of the fiscal year 2627 funding pension funding policy for the panel county public safety retirement plan as required by ARS 38-86301 with an amendment to the fisc year 2627 budget to include clude funding of the unfunded liability of 15,5880,879. See how easily she did that? See? So moved. There we go. That's the one we're looking for. Okay. Is that good? Okay. Is there a second? Oh, now there we go.

Now we're in the right Okay, we got a motion and a second. High fives. Uh let's see. So uh didn't those in favor please indicate by saying I you said that. Oh good. Okay. So can we have Angie make all the motions for Yeah. It's great. I mean he's read them out. We go. Yeah one. Okay. So we have a motion. We have a second and uh Oh, and all in favor we did that. We did the I thing and the whole deal. Okay. Motion passes. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Thank you for your help.

Yeah, just make it easy to see. Oh, yeah, that one. Okay. And then we have Miss Williams. Good afternoon. Hello. We we we have a public hearing and discussion approval disapproval in accordance with ARS 42-171 03 and 42-17104 of resolution number I shouldn't even started this 061726-01-PCB for the adoption of the Panal County fiscal year 2627 budget. Miss Williams. Yes. Good afternoon chairman, members of the board.

Lupe Williams, budget supervisor with the Office of Budget and Finance, here before you today for the public hearing and approval of the Panal County fiscal year 2627 final budget that we, by the way, just amended a little bit, but yes. All right. The item also approves the final fiscal year 2627 employee compensation plan as well. So, as a reminder, the budget is built on decreasing all three property tax rates. So, the primary property tax rate is dropping from 3.3630 to 3.267.

The flood control rate is being reduced from 0.1620 to 0.1538. And the library district rate is coming down from 0.0890 to 0.0863. All right. So our final balanced budget is set at 1 bill70,940,932 and it represents the culmination of our strategic planning and fiscal review ensuring we are equipped to maintain or improve services for our constituents. And I also support the county's growth over the upcoming fiscal year. Um here we're looking at the budget and how it's allocated by fund type.

The general fund at 39% followed by special revenue funds at 37%. 20% for your capital projects and 4% going to debt services and that minor point for enterprise funds. That concludes the presentation. Questions? I love it. I I don't have I don't have any questions. And people are looking at that going that's a lot of money. Last year it was like a million 1 billion100 1.2 1.2 and that had to do with federal funds that were in there. We have less federal funds this year. That's why we're lower.

Okay. And general fund represents property taxes. That's what's bringing that in. All the rest of them are the other revenues just for people that are listening or watching or whatever. Yes. So, okay. Um, with that, thank you, Miss Williams. Yes. Thank you. Uh, any no questions? You Oh, you have a question? Yeah. No questions or comments.

Leo, as we've been talking the last few days, a lot of people were the under under the impression that with Santan Valley being on their own soon, we can just drastically slash the tax rate. And of course, we finance people know that it can't happen like that.

But I would like to see us be transparent over the next few years and just yes, we can go as low as possible without putting things at jeopardy because there are a lot of things that we've put off over the years that we couldn't finance that we will be able to finance now like matching pay for law enforcement etc. So just uh when you're doing your reports etc if you could just keep everybody apprised on how that whole process is going. I think that the residents would appreciate it.

Can I We'll do. Thank you. Can I just say something along what Supervisor Cert is saying? I think the confusion is is the funds that are received for roads and infrastructure are totally different than property tax. And I think that's something that needs to be communicated to the public as a whole. Um, we've been spending a lot of money over in those areas, but a lot of that money comes from those particular dollars that are attached to the roads and infrastructure.

And I think that's really what needs to be communicated more than anything when it comes to the reduction of property tax and things like that. I think that's what Supervisor Cert's alluding to. Okay. Any other questions or comments from Miss Williams? Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Williams. Okay. This is a public hearing, so I'll open the public hearing. Anyone out there in that big public wish to speak about this on this? Okay. Nobody. I'll close the public hearing.

And if there's no other questions from the board, Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion without a story. That's right. That we approve item number 25 as presented with no stipulations. I don't know if you could put that in, but you can't add that. Okay, take that. Okay, try it again. Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion that we approve item number 25 as presented. Oh, there you go. That was a nice one. I have a motion. Is there a second? Second. A motion and a second.

Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Chairman. Yes. Roll call vote. Oh, I'm sorry. I I missed my note. I had it in the wrong spot. Okay. Roll call vote. There we go. Okay. Supervisor Vitiello. Hi. Supervisor Goodman. I. Vice Chairman Certie. I. Vice Chairman Mccclure. I. Chairman Mccclure. Chairman. I know. I I knew you meant. It's okay. Gotcha. That motion passes. Thank you. All right. Now we are on to item and thank you y'all. Okay.

Um uh 26 here discussion approval disapproval of constable salaries pursuant to ARS1-424.01 and I have Mr. Elliott up. How are you today sir? Good afternoon chairman mccclur other members of the board. Scott Elliot the current presiding constable uh for the county. Uh today this item is being presented to satisfy the requirements of the statutes uh that has to occur every four years to set the the costable salaries for the upcoming term.

Uh as some of you will remember back in 2022 was the last time that we addressed this. Uh and shortly after that in 2023, early part of 2003, the legislature uh made amendments to the statute uh which set a new range for the current for the constables. Uh but that wasn't to begin until 2027 for the for the new term coming up. The range now for Panal County uh is 55,000 to 75,000.

Uh based on what was decided in 2022 uh by the board, uh we're proposing uh the approval hopefully to uh increase returning constables, those that are going to be still here reelected uh to the 75,000 level and then move the uh incoming any new constables, which I'm sure we're going to see some new faces in this next term. term uh up to the mid level which was it's consistent with what was decided in 2022. Okay. And I know there's probably questions. Yes.

Are there questions uh from the board for Mr. Elliot or comments? Supervisor Vidiello, I think you have some. Yeah. Um well, first of all, thank you for your service. Okay. Thank you. um as an elected uh you know I don't I think salary should be based on the fact of what the salaries are not incoming because when I came in I came in at the same number as the same gentlemen that were here granted it was changed in 2025.

Um so and then I look at the amount I look at hours and I look at numbers straightforward. Um, and when I look at some of the hours, I say to myself that out of a 261 day work year, we have about 240 245 days of work is what the average person works. Um, and then I look at how many papers are served. And then I look at some of the numbers of you have a choice of obviously there's going to be another issue here. Cars, no cars, 72 cents.

I look at these numbers and I say to myself, self, I see average of two papers per day, strictly numbers. I need to justify to the constituents of how I'm going going to take a $67 $67,000 a year job, bring them up to 75 when my sheriff's deputies don't even make that as starting pay and they work 24 well they work 12 13 hours a day, whatever the number is. So, as to me, it seems like this is a part-time job. I'm just being very honest.

Based on how many papers are served, I I can't justify going up to $75,000. I I just can't, especially knowing there's cars on the table here. um or you have a choice of the 72 cents a mile that I look at these numbers and I see some people get, you know, six $7,000 in um reimbursement for the car or you have a choice of taking a car.

My understanding is it's a uh I would have to ask for the vehicle because I don't remember what it is, but I'm sure if we can maybe get staff to just tell us what it is or do any of you gentlemen remember what the car was? No, I or what the requirements were. It was a It was an Equinox. Equinox. Okay. All-wheel drive. I think all-wheel drive Equinox. So, you're getting, you know, proposed new vehicles, brand new vehicles. I drive I drive a, uh, 2019 vehicle and I'm very happy.

So, um, that's part of my two cents and I don't know if you want to comment on that or if anybody else wants to comment. I just questions of staff. We've got we've got some data that you guys supply on a regular basis to our staff. Right. Correct. That's where we're getting these numbers from, but I there's some confusion on some of these things and maybe some questions I'd like to ask the staff on some of these things if I could. Tanya, are you the one that if that's okay, Mr. Chair?

That's fine. Okay. Tanya, would you come up? I' I'd ask Tanya if she wanted to talk. That would be the trick right there. if she wanted to because you know you're Yeah. Liz Martinez. Hi. Thanks Tanya. Good afternoon supervisors. Uh Tanya Martinez, county manager's office. What question may I? So do all of the uh constables have the opportunity? Do they have access to a vehicle? At the current moment, Supervisor Goodman, they do not. Okay. Um there are three um constables. Oh, pardon me.

There are two elected constables and the deputy constable and we are in the process of purchasing a another vehicle for one of the other elected constables to utilize. And yet we still collect mileage on those. Uh we collect are the constables that do not who use their own personally owned vehicles are eligible for mileage reimbursement. And so we're we're seeing a lot of mileage that are being submitted by a couple of these constables, but there's no reimbursement there.

Are they the ones that have vehicles? Yeah. Yeah. The zero dollars that you'll see for year of 2026, Supervisor Goodman, uh for the um reimbursement. Yes. They are using a county vehicle. Okay. And is there a reason why we have them keep the mileage or uh yes so uh per the statute the constables are required to keep a service log that has a bunch of different criteria on there that they must meet by statute. So they do log mileage. Okay.

That that was one question because that was confusing on on for some of us that didn't have this information or that didn't we see the mileage that are being chocked up but they're not getting reimbured for that. That's because it's a county vehicle, correct? And then they're also given a gas card on top of that. Correct. For the county vehicle, yes, they have a ga a fuel card. Okay. You know, um that that's one of the questions.

The other one is is there's some numbers and I I don't know if you did this, Tanya, or somebody else, but I received a report that I g made sure and I asked Tanya to put this in or uh Natasha to put it in record. Sorry. Um but and then I I made sure I asked her to distribute it to all four five board members and uh there's some numbers in here that I'm looking at to what supervisor uh VTL is is stating here. Um these are numbers that come directly from the constables. Correct. Yes, sir.

We take their paper logs and we've just exported those numbers out and plug them into this uh spreadsheet. Okay. So they're reporting this information themselves. Yes. So this data is based on the information they're providing. Correct. Okay. I just want to make sure that we all understand that. So back to some of the comments and and so thank you. I appreciate that for now. Okay. These guys might have more questions of you in a minute. Okay. But Scott, I'm looking at this.

Um I guess the proper term I should put is Constable Elliott. Scott's just fine. That's good. You can call me Mike. uh as I'm looking at this, you know, I would tell you with all the other super uh constables, your numbers seem to be your your success ratio as far as getting serving the RITs and everything else is far exceeds everybody else's. That's a fact. We're looking at the numbers based on these numbers. You ought to be training these guys is the way I'm looking at this.

I don't even know if we have a system like that. We're working on uh some some changes, okay, developments for there needs to be for me there needs to be a lot of changes that are made we need to be more effective, more efficient in in the process here. Um you know to we've got I think what did you say it was Rich? Two a day. Well, yeah, on an average I mean for the year average two days. Yeah.

If you just simply take the amount served um and you take that base it by even 245 days 240 days it's roughly 1.5 to two papers per day and some guys are a little bit less at 69 which is less than one paper per day. Um I just simply did simple math based on what's been served and how many days there are work in a in a year. Mike, can I enter your conversation? Yeah, but this is uh this is more than just serving like a traffic ticket, right?

I think for instance, this last week, one of my uh a homeowner in in my area, constible had to do a physical eviction after being served. They they progress out and they're there when the people are removed. And I think in that case, they're actually taking a burden off. We have sheriff's command staff in the back. Had the constable not be there, we would have had to have relied on sheriff or a municipal police officer. Is that correct? Or you just are you just a glorified process server? No.

No, I wouldn't call it that much. But but you're correct in what you're saying is the numbers. I don't disagree what you're seeing on the numbers, but that's not everything entails our job either. that log only captures those specific categories and that's that log is created by the state. So it's it's it's hard to manipulate uh or add to or take away some of that some of those categories and whatnot because it has to go through the state level to do that.

U so it doesn't capture all of our time by any means. Uh back to your comment, we we can have one eviction process and be there half the day uh just because of everything that's involved with property owners and tenants and everybody not being on the same page.

We we've created some efficiencies uh on on the front end of that to try to alleviate it and make it more streamline, not for only us, but for the constituents that are that are getting removed from the house so we don't turn it into a battles. The min Mun municipalities, the police departments by law don't have any authority in eviction processes whatsoever. They are simply there at our request as a courtesy uh to watch our back while we're while we're conducting the business.

Um so they're not as it's not something that we can simply call and turn something over to them. They they don't have the authority to to take control of that. sheriff's office does, but obviously the sheriff's office Ross and his group have plenty to do on on their own as far as what comes out of the superior court. So at least that hopefully lends a little bit to the numbers. The numbers are the numbers there. We don't just they came from us. That is our data, right?

Uh it's consistent and in some areas it's obviously increased from four years ago. So from what we presented. Okay.

So I guess with your comment that you made a writ which part of it I don't know that's why I help me understand that the RIT is the RIT is the RITs are broke out from the actual serve itself you have the eviction action summons which is the summons and complaint is the first part that that that we get involved in that case that's that's a serve that's where we go out either post and mail it serve it to the person if they're there. Okay. Then then the RIT is what is that? An eviction or what?

The RIT is the physical or is the is the court order that says you are commanded to go physically remove that person and I'm doing 2530 a month of those the loan. Yeah, I've seen your numbers. You're at 183, but I look down here at Mike Sloan. He's at 22. Yeah. The copper quarter Ted grandma 124. I mean, like I said, you you've got the most numbers out of everybody. And uh and it might be that you're in a in an area that requires some of that more than the other ones. I don't know.

Uh Constable Ozgood, Constable Grimmel, and myself, I believe, are probably uh the busiest out of the six of us because of our geographical areas. Constable Irvin here in central panel is probably close enough to there because he covers a lot of ground. Yeah. Well, and and to what and so I just want to make sure I understand with the evictions and stuff like that.

So I'm looking at this, but then the other part was um kind of whoever put this report together put together and said, so the average cost from 2023 was $12.50 50 per served paper and the costs have increased for this quarter to $19.3730. So that our cost of serving these whatever you're you know as you're going to serving has went from $12.50 to $19.30 and I don't think that taken in consideration any of the reimbursements gas or anything like that.

I think that's time is what these numbers are based on. But again, you can look at those. We I made sure that they get entered into the record and stuff like that. But yeah, I haven't seen that report. So, okay. I'm not sure how how you would capture that, but yeah, I can't say that there is a there was another different item in the legislature that had bass that we haven't brought before you.

I I'll tell you right now, guys at the legislation, they usually do things that they don't even know what the hell they're doing. So, I I'm sorry, but I just disagree with some of the stuff that goes on there. They just do it because the the most squeakiest will is the one down there making the most noise in certain situations. And so, um, based on what I'm seeing here, I, you know, I I I personally am not able to justify the increase, but as if you work with, I mean, you are doing a good job.

I can see that you're taking it serious. You're doing it the way and if you can if there's a way there's some training systems and stuff like that that you're putting in place. Well, each of them are obviously responsible for themselves. They're all elected. Totally agree. So, and and that I'm responsible too. Absolutely. For what what moves forward and so I'm making myself known right now as an individual on this board that I can't support the the increase. Okay.

based on the numbers that I I understand that by the statute you still have to set a salary. Correct. Yeah. And you have a salary now. Correct. No, I'm just I'm just saying that we need to at least accomplish the statutory requirement today. But that we stay even that's within the stat,000 where they are now at the high. Yeah. I mean that's so if we keep that that's in the statutory requirements, correct? Yeah.

the only person they there's one district that is making less because of the way they did it two years ago. And I'm just saying like us, we're elected officials, we all make the same amount of money. I think all the constable should just make the same amount of money because who's ever newly elected is it's just going to keep happening that way.

And I just feel that if we're at the high at 67, we put everybody at 67 and call it a day and cars or the 72 cents, whichever choose they choose because they do have an option. Correct on you? Okay. Anybody else have anything to say? Any other comments from the board? Maybe. I mean certain I know they're not law enforcement but a DPS officer in a remote area makes more than in a urban area because of the ground they cover and because of what their risks are etc.

So that might be the reasoning of why it was set up the way it was. I don't know. Well, but these are elected. They're not hired. Yeah. Except for our the floater that we have. And so, oh, okay. But that's so I think that's something we got to keep in mind because these are elected officials and and and that. But I I personally think that our budget is budgeted what it is.

I I personally think it should stay that way and and some justification start to we actually see some justification in their increase or even I know they're evaluating a car right now and stuff like that. That might be something that we should consider is a car might save down. I mean we're looking at how much thousands of dollars that we're spending on reimbursements on these. That's pretty high. Well, Mike chair, sorry, chairman Mike, they would have um the option of the 72 cents or the car.

So, the 72 cents their own car, our car plus a gas card and the 67, which is what we do, right? Correct. I use my own car and you get my Okay. Yeah. I think all the electors are that way, aren't they? Okay. So, all right. You guys have any other comments? I would like to hear from him if he has something else. I'd like I I No, I think we've answered the questions. I think there at least there was mentioned of a question about attempts. Was there a question by from anybody?

I don't think there was a question about the temp. No, I think it was just I think that was just maybe maybe I do have a question about the temp because if I'm looking at these numbers, how come we have a temp? In case someone gets sick, they they like Mike Sloan had his ankle rebuilt. He was Well, that's not the attempts. I was There's an attempt category on our desk. Obviously, oh attemp attempts, not temp. No, the temporary. The the what I call it a floater. The floater. Okay. The floater.

I mean attempts of service, right? The attempts of service, but the temporary the substitute teacher here, you know, that's what we're looking at. Why do we have that's that's in case someone's sick or gets taken out for a while or whatever. They've got to have somebody to cover that area. Have that many that we that need to get served. Well, the areas are large and if you you know, you take somebody from this area or this area and they've got to cover this area also.

It's a lot of miles, a lot of time. We have justice of the peace and we also have a lot of prompts because they can't hear every case. Mr. Chief, understood. Understood. The the So what Mike is asking on the on the deputy if let's just say we didn't have one because we wanted to each constable that's next to the next door could serve the papers if you chose to get rid of the deputy. I'm just throwing something else out there.

and then they would end up picking up the remainder of these and then maybe you could look at I think that would be a step backwards to be honest with you. Well, not not if there was not if there was discussion about arrays. So, I'm just and I'm just bringing up I'm not saying get rid of any Okay, but let me ask a question here. I'm not seeing any numbers here for the floater. The floater is on at least at least the the spreadsheet that I was shared had the floater on it.

Yeah, it there's 139 served 52. Granted, the the member of the floater didn't come on board until late October of uh 2024. Oh, that's your name. I mean, for 2025 complete. How come I've not seen 13? T you want to There's 139 served, 52 attempts, and 75 rits. And that's under Deputy Martinez. Yes. Okay. And that's for 20 the whole year is 2025. Yes. Supervisor Batiello. Um she Miss Martinez was hired in November of 2024. Um was in the field training.

So her numbers capture or should begin in January or February of 2025. Until present. Okay. And by present I mean up until um April, end of April 2026. So the deputy is a floater just in case somebody is on vacation. Right. Right. And then the other the only other point uh that I would make on the data is when we last uh spoke with this four years ago that floater was not here. So some of those some of our enter numbers obviously have been pulled off to the floater than you know our deputy.

Whether that looks skewed or not I don't know. I that one I I mean the data is there. So yeah, I yeah, I can't say. Okay. Okay. So, are there any other comments or questions from the board from uh for Mr. Elliott? Okay. So then may I uh get a motion please on this item? Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion that we uh continue the salary for constip constables as set forth currently. Do Okay.

So, just to be clear, so right now you have the first term person at 57647 and the elected the second time through 67,000. That's what you're proposing. Are you putting it everybody at the same? No, I'm proposing that we have it on the step that we currently have. Okay. Okay. Um, I mean, okay, that can fail. Okay, so I have a motion. Is there a second? Okay, motion dies due to a lack of a second. Do I have a Is there a motion, please, on this item? Mr.

Chair, I I would make a motion all elected to be at 67. Uh, and the choice of a Would I need to add that in? the choice of a car. Natasha, how should I do that? They already have that choice. No, no, they chairman, members of the board, it it's only the salary, anything related to mileage or vehicle uh that is separate and apart from this. Thank you. I just wanted to make sure. Okay. So, I'd make a motion all constables will be in 2026 or would this be fiscal year 2627? Yep. would be $67,000.

And is this just for one year or is this the four-year term? This is four years. For the four-year term. Okay. So, I'll make a motion. Please restate. Yes. I'll make I make a motion for all constables to be at 67,000 for the 20 for the four-year term. No car. And I have to mention the car. Okay. So there's a motion. Is there a second? So motion dies due to lack of a second. So what do we need to do to solve this here? Hear from somebody else. Can I can I add? You can add. Please do.

Just keep in mind that this is for the next four years. We won't revisit this for four more years. unlike employees that come up. So if you look at I know you're you're against the 75. You can set this anywhere in that range. But even if it went to 75, it's only for myself, it's only an $8,000 difference. And if you just went with typical raw numbers, it's not even 3% a year if you broke it down. So I'll leave it at that. Thank you. I just want to mention, Mr.

LA we are elected and we choose to do this job and that's why again no no no disrespect again I just I'm for the next four years I didn't take this job for financial situation I took this job because I love what I do and I'm sure you do too I guarantee it based on your work ethics but it is an elected position and we do have an opportunity to do the job or not do the job so but we need to make another motion or do Well, we got to approve some salary here. Yes.

Uh chairman, members of the board, it is a shall requirement. So, it's a it's a shall Yes, I understand. I understand that. Um four years from now, there there could be lots of inflation. I mean, it is uh regular employees get a step increase. So, I'd like to see some kind of a stepped increase for four years from now. Well, we don't get the option of making steps. Yeah, I know that. So, you have to make a four-year decision now. One step at a time every four years. So, I can make a motion.

Sure, you can. So, I would move that we uh place this the constable salary at $70,000 per year. Second. Oh, there we go. Okay, I have a motion. I have a second. Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Opposed? No. No. Motion passes. 3-1. Thank you very much. And we now have item 27. Uh, what are we looking at here? Discussion approval. Disapproval to adopt an emergency rule pursuant to ARS1-25118C authorizing the continuation of alarm system services. Yay. All right. Super.

Uh, not supervis. What's your name? Sheriff, come on down. We would like you to continue to do alarm service in Santan Valley. That would be great. Yes, Mr. Chairman, vice chairman, members of the board of panel county, Ross Temple, resident of Cactus Forest, Arizona. Well, I I want to give a shout out to my alarm system unit for noticing this. I I didn't even we're learning so many things about the Santan Valley Incorporation.

And one of the things is is the as the ordinance is written right now, the sheriff's office is only able to maintain alarm permits for unincorporated areas of the county. Cassagrand takes care of themselves. AJPD, well, come January 1st, Santan Valley will be a city and they don't have an alarm unit. Of course, they don't even, you know, they're still building their infrastructure. So, we're asking for you, the board members, to approve this so that we can continue.

If we don't approve this, come January 1st, all of the alarm permits in Santan Valley Incorporated will be null and voided. If January one or July one July one January one, I apologize. You're you're jumping ahead. You already you already Christmas all this. Okay. So, uh and that wasn't included in your IG that you made for law enforcement up there, but this this was the catch afterwards. Okay. Uh any questions uh for Mr. or for Sheriff Topel from the board? No. May I get a motion, please?

Then, Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion that we approve item number 27 as presented. I have a motion. Is there a second? Second motion and a second. Those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you, Sheriff D. Second. And now we are on the our favorite one, the last one, and it's the discussion of board members request for future agenda items. Does anyone have anything they'd like to see on a future agenda at this time? Hearing none. Great.

and we'll shut this down because that means we're out of business. And so, uh, this meeting is adjourned.