Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

board meeting and out of courtesy I'd like to ask that you please place your phones on silent and if you come up on call to the public you will be uh we do give three minutes for your speech and uh please uh say your name and address for the record. With that said, uh Selena Venuela, you want to lead us in the pledge. Good morning to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one indivisibley and justice for all. Thank you, Selena. At this time, I' I'd like to uh uh go to item B, adoption of the agenda. M Mr. Manager, good morning,

Mr. Chair, members of the board. There is no changes to the agenda. Thank you. Okay. At this time, I'd like to entertain a motion to uh adopt agenda and allow chair to deviate as needed. So move. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I.

All oppose. Motion carries. Now we'll go on to item C. Okay. Mr. Brian Vanderbilt. Good morning, sir. Good morning and thank you. My name is Brian Vandervote. I live at 31 Saddle Horn Road in Tubec. I'm here today as I've come before to thank the board of supervisors for their support of the county community library system. I was here I've been here occasionally, but I remember distinctly being here four or five years ago when the board of supervisors approved the contract for the renovation of the county building in Cenoida. and I came to again give my appreciation to the board uh at that time. Supervisor Mera participated in that meeting virtually. And as I concluded my comments about the Cenoida building, I said, "When we're finished with this project, I want to begin the campaign to expand the library in Rio Rico." Mr. Moera participating virtually said, "I second the motion." So, I know that there is support from all of the supervisors for the community building in Rio Rico. Recently, we had some conversations with Supervisor Fanning about the possibility of expanding and opening a wall that would give the library there an extra 300

square feet for use in the building. The Rio Rico Library has seen increased use recently. We now have uh book clubs meeting there. We're open one Saturday a month and beginning the new fiscal year of July 1st, we will multiply those Saturdays. So, we see a lot of use in that community. The board of supervisors has been very supportive of that and I want to thank you again. Librarian Lopez in the audience has given me to give to all of you one of our new library cards commemorating the 250th anniversary of of our con country. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Very pretty.

Next, we have Susan Phobia.

Dylan, thank you. Susan Phobian, 20 Kent Avenue, Rio Rico. Quick recap. My husband and I picked a lot and Avatar was the builder. We were not consulted on the location of our septic line, only that we would be on septic and probably later attached to a planned sewer line. Our house was completed in 2000. The contractors responsible for the installation of the line remembered that the plan was that every two houses would have their septic lines connected. They did what they were told. So, it wasn't me. It wasn't a contractor. That leaves the county as the entity that approved that plan. No one did anything that wasn't county approved. They didn't dare. Their plans were too great to risk screwing up. As you know, when my neighbor cut my septic line, he was without consequence because it was on his property. The county ordered and paid for a new survey so that when my new sewer line went in, it would absolutely be on my property. The county sought out bids on a new septic line for my house. The county reviewed the bids and chose the contractor. Imagine my surprise when mine was the name on the contract. I never reviewed the bids. I was not involved, but I paid. I incurred a lot of expenses during the four and a half months without plumbing. Several offices in this building advised me to complete a notice of claim form for reimbursement. I asked for what I could be reimbursed. No one knew. On December 19th, I submitted the cost of the septic work and porta potty and charges for shampoo, showers, laundry, etc. My total was 10,500. I was offered 4,396.

I was naturally insulted. The letter I received from the county explained that the county just wasn't liable. They were just doing a nice thing for me. If that's the basis for reimbursement, isn't that a gift of public funds? And wouldn't that be illegal? And do I then have responsibility for receiving illegal funds? You have a lot of attorneys. I don't. You tell me you have no liability. Perhaps someone can tell me who does. It was not an act of God. The neighbor broke no laws. I never approved the line being on the neighbor's property. who is responsible. The contractor did as he was told. Even if it was Avatar's idea, the county approved it. During my four and a half months without plumbing, my neighbor continued with his project that was the genesis of my ordeal. He built a structure and inserted an above ground pool, which is partially on my property. Again, no laws broken. I have not accepted the county's offer because to do so, according to you, would end all of my options. Please think about living four and a half months without plumbing. The submitted costs are realistic. Ask your wives.

Thank you. Thank you,

Chris Gardner. Morning, Chris. Good morning, supervisors Davis, Malera, and Fanning, and clerk of the board of Schultz. My name is Hunter Williams. I'm here with a direct verbatim statement from Chris. He was unable to make the meeting this morning, so allow me to read it from my smartphone. Good morning, uh, for those in attendance. Dear Sus County Board of Supervisors, thank you for the study sessions with the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and South 32. I appreciate Chris Young uh for his work in bringing it together. This call to the public includes updates uh since my last presentation. The end of this call to the public includes my recommendations. I'll I'll emphasize the recommendations, raise my voice a little bit, and of course we'll share I'm sure he'll share this with you. In summary, the concentration of anamony and Susan Weatherington's water remains high above the drinking water standard and antimony is now detected in groundwater. about three miles downstream of Rocking Chair Ranch, the concentration of anamony in the discharge has decreased to zero, but the concentration of selenium has spiked from about 1 to seven parts per billion uh in December. The discharge limit for selenium is two parts per billion. This exceedence requires a 24-hour report. Since the discharge of selenium, the discharge rate has decreased to essentially zero. the discharge rate at the treatment plant. The dis discharge limit for selenium was exceeded three times in 2025. It is not clear of South 32 provided the required 24-hour report for any of these events. The public was never notified. Believe it or not, there are fish in Harshaw Creek which uh deserve to be protected. This date this data suggests monthly discharge monitoring is inadequate. There is obvious this is obvious by the 12 parts

per billion animony sample from Susan Weatherington's well compared to a max maximum value of uh of six parts per billion reported at the discharge uh rounded to six. The only source for the 12-month antimony and Susan's well is the discharge from the treatment plant. Prior to the exceedence of the discharge limit, the concentration of antimony and Susan's well was increasing with a maximum value of around 4.6 6 parts per billion. Please request that ADEQ reopen the aquifer protection permit to increase monitoring frequency of the discharge. Data suggests that monitoring wells can be used to monitor the discharge which infiltrates into stream channel deposits. Exceeded in the discharge are present in the stream channel sediments. The water is likely an average of the fluctuations and concentrations at the outfall. Susan Weatherington's well is a prime example of this. Please emphas please request that ADQ reopen the A to include monitoring wells along Harshaw Creek to help better understand the surface water/groundwater flow interaction in the Harshaw Creek and Senoid Creek wersheds. Please provide a letter of support to ADQ and the US Forest Service uh for a die tracer study to help better understand water related issues. Please hire an ar Arizona registered geoh hydro geologist to analyze the data and get a professional opinion. When when interviewing consultants can

wrap up, please. Yes, sir. Uh when interviewing consultants, please be sure to ascertain who the registered hydro geologist is working on the project. Please address contamination in the discharge to Harshaw Creek, impacts to the drinking water supply, and potential to mobilization of existing contamination in the community benefits and protection agreement. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you.

Next is Chris Workovven. Good morning uh supervisors, attendees the meeting. I'm going to change from uh my usual water issues to air issues today. I'm Chris Woffen from Cenoida here to comment on ADQ's air quality permit granted to South 32 not that long ago. So far, most of Santa Cruz County is blessed with a very low so-called background concentration of lead compounds in most of its air. That is why the county attracts new residents who suffer from respiratory and neurotoxic illnesses even when their local air quality meets federal air quality standards. The Hermosa mine will extract lead ores and according to ADQ's permit application files, lead compound concentration in air will increase 25 times. The EPA National Ambient Air Quality Standards allow a maximum increase of 30 times, representing a pollution level equal to many undesirable industrialized locations in the United States. to estimate emissions and model how lead compounds spread into the environment. ADQ initially allowed South 32 to use lead fractions present in surface hall roads also for

underground mining roads even though underground roads lie much closer to or bodies. After objections, ADAQ required the use of underground waist rock values instead. The corrected values were applied properly for calculating emission rates, but those rates were not advanced to the dispersion modeling that determines how pollutants move through ambient air. This mistake was carried into the draft environmental impact statement where alternative two should show a 40fold increase in lead concentrations exceeding standards by 27%. Using lead fractions of ore would increase exceedence even further. Such exceedences are of course not only unlawful but also a nuisance causing undue harm to the public. Since it seems that the CPBA you are responsible for is not planning to protect residents from this harm. The public is asking you to object to the final DES, reopen ADQ's final air quality permit, and have an independent expert panel to determine proactive measures that provide real protection. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Robin Lucky. Good morning, supervisors. Good morning.

My name is Robin Lucky. I'm president of Calabasas Alliance and a 21-year resident of Rio Rico. I want to thank you for these invi these study sessions regarding our water safety and security and remind you and our audience that we all here today due to the need for citizen science. What is ironic about this situation is that citizen scientists discovered and reported on South 32's failure to pro properly report on their own data on e excess levels of antimony. In context, there has been one docu documented antimony discharge limit exceedence with several prior alert level exceedences pro prompting responses but not qualifying as full permit violations. South 32 and ADQ had prior knowledge of this issue. Yet South 32 was laid in reporting the last exceedence claiming the phone number on the permit did not work to report the exceedence. Thank you Chris Gardner for your actions and care for our community since much of Santa Cruz County's drinking water comes from the Patagonia Mountains. A super we are very fortunate he is a hydrogeeologist licensed hydro geologist living in Patagonia. And thank you Dr. Chris Reovven for helping us understand the level of toxicity in antimony and the need for greater concern. You are one of the Chris the Chris and the two Chrises citizen scientists are some of the only people in this entire county that have read the permits and understand the long-term consequences to the health and safety of our community. Therefore, we ask ADQ, our local, state, and federal officials to be vigilant in protecting both public health and our environment. and we are calling on you to take three key actions. First, demand that ADQ reopen the aquifer protection permit. Um, appoint an independent unbiased hydro geologist that can understand metal mobilization and the threat to our community.

South 32 should be required to re reapply for the aquifer protection permit, but only after extensive measures for protecting our water and community have been identified. Citizen science is absolutely necessary when a corporation behaves as a shadow government. The best definition of a shadow government is an unelected organization with its lobbyists that will substantial influence over public policy, public officials operating without constitutional oversight. This is what it feels like for for many of us that are worried. Breaking this morning, just this morning, ADQ waved uh gave a waiver for South 32 not to be not to have compliance with the Clean Water Act. This is terrible. Absolutely terrible. I want to remind all of you that South 32 is a young company about 10 years old and they globally in their global mining operations have had to pay out over two billion dollars in fines in their operations. What has been missed? What didn't get fined? This is not good. and we I don't want to see us in the same situation. Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Robert. Thank you,

Cynthia Cobber. Morning. Good morning, supervisors, staff, and members of the public. My name is Cynthia Colbert and I live on Luna Court in Rio Rico. Now, before I get to the crux of my concerns, some major changes are taking place downtown. The newspaper boy statue is still standing, but the kiosk/gazbo and everything around it has been demolished. And my question is why? And what's going to happen? Okay, that's my first concern. I come before you this morning to talk about a countywide issue that will certainly affect Santa Cruz County and that is the certainty that ice will and has infested and desecrate our community and we need to be prepared. First off, people seeing are seeing more ice activity around Santa Cruz County and it's making them more uneasy and unsure of their surroundings. Has the county stepped up and used their website, monthly newsletter, and Facebook page to keep citizens updated and aware of what's going on, as well as a place for citizens to inform the county of what they see or experience. Secondly, the county needs to come up with a plan on what we should do if we are indeed invaded. What should citizens do to be safe? Last but not least, the county needs to take the stand that any ICE or Homeland Security detention center will not be permitted in our county. They will not be allowed to buy, rent, or construct any building in Santa Cruz County. We cannot permit this. When I went up to Tucson last week, I got a copy of Arizona Bilingual News and they had an

article in there in both English and Spanish, ICE in Tucson, what to do during raids and it gives a whole thing about knowing your basic rights, seek information from reliable sources and um above all talk with your family to agree on basic communication plan. Also, the Arizona Sonora News posted an article on its website. Here's a direct quote. Amid national immigration unrest, border community Ngalas remains largely quiet. The city of Ngalas has not made ordinance changes related to immigration informis enforcement like nearby Tucson and Pima County. wired.com posted a story about ICE expansion across the US and the city of Ngalas is listed as one of the top priorities mentioned in the so-called secret campaign to expand ISIS physical presence across the country. We cannot afford just to sit back and think me not us, not here, not us. We need to be prepared before it's too late. Thank you for your kind attention.

Thank you, Cynthia. Mary darling. Morning Mary. Okay. Um, good morning once again. Um, first I would like to take My name is Mary Darling. I live on Crawford Street in downtown Ngalas. First, I would like to take a moment to congratulate Dan Ericson for being recognized as superintendent of the year by Save Our Schools Arizona. Thank you, Mr. Fanning, for your help. Save Our Schools is a nonpartisan community-based organization fighting for strong public schools for a strong Arizona. That recognition speaks not only to leadership, but to his deep commitment to students, educators, and the families in his community. Public education is the backbone of opportunity in our state and it deserves champions. So I really appreciate Superintendent Ericson for his service and yes he is well aware of this honor. Um second um I want to respectfully ask the board's public concern and I think the key word is public support and advocacy regarding several recent developments that have raised serious questions for our community. Um, Cynthia has already touched on Wired, so I won't go there on the Wired article regarding the port of entry at Deaconi. Um, but I also want to point out that there are questions surrounding the access agreement that you all approved a few weeks ago. Um, regarding the Tubac temporary checkpoint. Um, I saw the rendering a few weeks ago and I do have concerns now that I've seen the rendering. Not just I don't live in Tubac, but I travel I19 and I think it's a concern for all of our community. Um transparency and clarity matter for all of us. Residents need to and deserve to understand what is temporary, what's permanent, and what

authority governs those decisions. That checkpoint has been for as long as I can ever remember has been a temporary one. Seems pretty odd that it is still called a temporary one and I'm concerned about a permanent one and what that might look like. Further, I read this morning that there is a uh Senate Bill 1570 going through the state senate um that has a hearing this afternoon and again on Friday that would compel boards of supervisors and county election officials and I'm sure the county attorney's office to allow ICE entrance into vote centers and polling locations. Um I respectfully suggest that a call to our state senator um gobbledon would be helpful um as this bill is being considered considered. It is a striker bill. Um so it has erased previous um statements and this has been going through. It's currently if you Google you can find out the wording of it and it is a bigger concern. Though I feel reasonably confident if it passes both houses, Governor Hobbes would veto such a measure. I still think it's important that all of us and you all weigh in on this important and concerning measure. Um, I want to bring up the fact that we have a request to speak system. It is a free um system that allows all of us throughout the state of Arizona to weigh in on bills. Um, it is um nonpartisan. It's been around for a long time and myself and Connie Williams have been sharing the information about RTS in this community. As a matter of fact, this afternoon um so people can weigh in on these pieces of legislation. I appreciate all of the work that you all do and thank you for listening. Thank you.

Thank you for your information, Chuck Cleanstein. Sorry, sir.

Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Good morning, supervisors. Chuck Klingenstein for the record from Patagonia. Since hearing Chris Gardner, Friends of Cenoida Creek's presentation to you on February 4th, I have listened to Pat Risner's on January 7th and Randy Madison's on January 21st regarding the antimony exceedence and release into Harshaw Creek. I better understand this situation. What I do not understand is Mr. Gardner's other raised issue of potential mobilization of existing contamination in Harshaw Creek. The study session process failed to address the issue. I assume you too were overwhelmed by the amount and type of information. I certainly was. Mr. Gardner is a registered geologist with specialization in hydraology coupled with a BS and an MS in geology and a 28-year career in the state of Arizona consulting industry. He raised significant issues with the potential mobilization of legacy mining contamination in Harshaw Creek. He presented to us over 15 slides regarding the issue. And yet the study session elicited no crossexamination of the information from anyone that would help clarify it to us or the public or the staff. Since

January 4th, I've looked at the scoping comments from the EIS, draft EIS. I've looked at the volume one of the DEIS. I've got it here somewhere. I've looked at volume three, which showed a very meager analysis, and I am not comforted. So, I stand here before you today and ask, what have you learned about the potential for mobilization of legacy mining contamination in Harshaw Creek? Did your study session process have a plan for some form of examination by your staff or county consultants resulting in some sort of conclusion or plan for further study? Will the potential for this issue be addressed in the community benefits and protections agreement? Since ADQ nor South 32 appear to have any responsibility should mobilization become an issue and the US Forest Services DEIS does not fully address the issue. The CPPA is the only remaining remedy should this potential issue become a problem. Right now I have more questions than answers and I hope that you are in the same boat. Mr. Gardner put a significant amount of effort and knowledge into his presentation. What he did not mention is a TMDL will be released later this year for Lower Harshaw Creek. What he did not overemphasize is the 70 years of this project with its up to six million gallons per day discharge. None of these can be fully understood without the passage of time. And to address the potential future impacts, a carefully crafted CBPA must be drafted to protect the county and its populace well beyond your short tenure as supervisors. Please respond to our inquiries. Yours and the county's silence has been deafening. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Anyone else wishing to come up on call to the public? Okay, I am gonna jump to item E3 because our special guests have to uh attend another meeting. We we are honored today with uh former student of ours and uh former student Selena Valenuela and uh Natalia Montieros which is the Southern Arizona director for the governor's office. We welcome you and uh I I believe you uh if you want to go ahead and take five minutes. And uh I also want to at at this time honor uh Selena Valenuela, former student, my basketball manager, as a matter of fact. I believe

basketball coach. Yeah, this vice chairman Fanning was her coach as a matter of fact. And uh so we have good ties to our community. And our certificate reads as follows. Certificate of recognition presented to Selena Valenzuela, a graduate of Ngalas High School, for her exemplary achievements, including her service for the governor's office. Her dedication and professionalism reflect great credit upon herself and our community. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you.

Okay, we need a picture. Let me take it. I'll take All right. Thank you so much for that distinct honor. um supervisors, it means a lot for us to recognize um a proud product of this community from public schools to um growing up here in Ngales. So, thank you for the honor of Selena. Um I would love to introduce myself. My name is Natalieos. Um I am I have the privilege of serving as a southern Arizona director for Governor Hobbes. Um I'm here today to talk a little bit about our office and share with you and the community um ways in which our office is hoping to be more accessible and ways in which we can partner and work together. Um we are the Southern Arizona office. Our office is located in Tucson and Puma County at the state building downtown. We are the only office of the governor that's outside of Phoenix, which for us is a big point of power because it means that we can create accessible government for people all over southern Arizona. Um, we also have the privilege of proudly representing Governor Hobbs in Southern Arizona. For the purposes of our

administration and um the governor's office, Southern Arizona entails everything from Yuma all the way to Graham and Greenley and everything in between um south of Panel. Um we work along every policy area. Um and we are can really be partners and collaborators and um conveners for for any type of um discussion or conversation we wish is important and want to have. Um we have a very big slate of policy adviserss in Phoenix. Governor Hobbes has dedicated a big policy team to every policy area possible. We have specific people that work in water in um land in transportation in different areas. So, just want to offer that to you supervisors and anybody from um any stakeholder from this community should they ever want to learn more about our our vision, the governor's approaches or ways that we can partner and work together, that door is always open. Um I have Selena here who I'm going to have introduce herself shortly, but she is going to be the best best stop um for anybody in the community who is looking to learn a little bit more about our administration. So, Selena, thank you.

Thank you, Natalia. So Selena Valenuela and I am the regional outreach coordinator for the Southern Arizona office for Governor Hobbs. So thank you so much for having us. Thank you.

Um I just want to end with thanking the community for some of the comments that you mentioned today. I also want to um echo and share that a lot of the feedback that is being shared here whether it's about a state agency or about a policy direction. Um we have a constituent engagement office that would welcome these thoughts. We track every call. We track every issue. Um, and now more than ever, it's important for the governor to hear from people whatever they're hearing or feeling. Um, so I would really encourage folks to call our constituent engagement line and just say what they think, say their opinion, say what they want the governor to do or not to do, um, and share with us that information because it is extremely valuable. Um, I will end with saying that we, um, are so proud to be able to take a little piece of southern Arizona to the capital. um and really want to make sure that everybody in this room and this community knows um that we are fully dedicated to serving southern Arizona and if there is any way that we can continue to work together to make sure that the voices in this community are being heard to make sure that we have experts and people from um Santa Cruz County who are getting to weigh in on all the things going on at the state. Um we always welcome those opportunities. So, thank you so much for the honor of being here with you this morning.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks again and and and thank the governor. Uh it's it's good to to be a phone call away and have that accessibility. We really appreciate it. Yes, absolutely. Thank you. We'll go ahead and move on to item D, current events. Supervisor Davis, good morning, sir.

Good morning. So, here are some of my updates. Dr. Coronado and Professor Francisco from ASU met with representatives from the provisional college. The meeting was highly productive with a primary goal of identifying areas where ASU and the provisional college can collaborate more effectively as well exploring ways to expand services and support for students. A follow-up meeting will be scheduled in the near future to develop a more detailed plan and we're pleased to have served as the bridge between the two institutions. Also, we visited the office of Congresswoman Aayeta Grihalva and met with her staff. We also met with Roberto Guerrero from Senator Mark Kell's office and connected him with Arizona at work in Santa Cruz County. One of the goals that emerged from that conversation was to have somebody from Senator Kell's office to meet with Erson at work to learn more about the services they provide to us veterans and to help raise awareness of those resources. Additionally, we met with two members of uh Puma Community Board of Supervisors, Supervisor Jennifer Allen and Supervisor Matt Haynes. We had a productive discussion and the goal is for them to visit Santa Cruz County in the near future. The county manager is working on that and we're going to try to identify like a common project so we can join forces and work together. And lastly, we had a chance to attend we were invited to the Santa Cruz County Council on Aging Valentine's party. It was a wonderful event full of music party and great company. They know how to celebrate. No,

they do know how to party. They do know how to party. Let me tell you that. Thank you. They had a takisa. Yeah, like carneada, beans, everything. Nice. Okay, Vice Chairman Fanny, good morning, sir.

Good morning, sir. Um, a lot of things going on. Um, I one of the funnest parts, uh, I had the opportunity to volunteer at the Tubac Festival. It was a wonderful opportunity uh to be a booth sitter. If you ever want to know what that is, just ask. You basically sit in a booth when they have to go away. Um I was part of the uh uh to use a restroom or eat or what have you. Uh Tubac Citizens Council uh took part in that and gave a a quick presentation. um was part of the Santa Cruz County as was uh um uh Chris Chris Young, deputy county manager. Um we're we're excited to be taking part in the growing water smart or um in the very near future. We also had the opportunity to meet uh Governor Hobbs at the Southeast Arizona fireside chat. It was a wonderful opportunity with folks from both sides of the aisle there to discuss the state of the state. Um I had a 4-hour and I'm sure I'll I'll let you talk a little bit more about that. Had a 4-hour um patrol uh border patrol station tour uh just recently and it was eye opening. um also took part in uh myself and I'm sure Josh is going to say a few things uh about uh our recent meeting at the Capitol House of Representative Rural Economic Development Committee um testimony. I think it went very well uh discussing the Deacon Sini port of entry. Um and then uh yesterday was at the Port Authority Board meeting and I'm thank you Josh for for leading that. That is my report. Thank you sir. Thank you. I personally had the honor of uh attending the Toona ODM 87 87th annual

rodeo parade with our county manager. It was a wonderful parade. They had live music on uh rolling through. They had all kinds of fun stuff going on. Uh our uh congresswoman was there. uh uh she she came out in the parade. Uh it was a wonderful event and and we were honored to attend it. Um that same day I believe the Santa Cruz County Shining had the river uh cleanup and I want to thank personally thank them and all participants that took place in that event. That's always a great annual event. Um February 9th, uh Shannon Hall and myself participated in a Zoom call. Uh Shannon and myself were along with uh superintendent of schools um Maya uh Donley and uh Kerry Munoz were are in the process of organizing a fishing event and uh we're organizing a fishing event for the public and we're also we want to also do one for our our county employees. So that's in the process and and along with that the the Zoom call that Shannon and I had with with the forest and game and fish uh ended up with us uh coming up with a date. Uh and in that particular date we're going to have fishing uh hiking outdoor stuff at Pña Blanca Lake. So it's going to be called the uh outdoor family event. I I don't know exactly what the title, but uh we will be publicizing that. It'll be a fun family event. Uh and and that will be April 25th, I believe. Uh Shannon, tenatively. Um 8 to 1 or 9 to 1, I

think. 9 to 1. Okay. Um yeah, so motorcycles, hiking, fishing. It should be a a nice event. Um and Uh I want to uh also we also met with the superintendent's uh office about the fishing event. So uh I also attended the Sky Island regional uh partners uh with the governor and and it was good to have a meet and greet with the governor before the event. Uh supervisor Fanning and myself attended it with uh Mr. Valdez. Uh, and uh, we, uh, had the opportunity to sit with Consul General Marcos Moreno Bay. And, uh, so it it was nice, uh, having that opportunity to, uh, talk to the governor before about some of our issues that are going on. Um, February 11th, we had the CBP tour. Uh, I want to personally thank Carlo uh Garcia, who's a a former uh Nogalas High School student. Uh, does an amazing job with CBP. He gave us a 4-hour tour. It's just amazing all the the new uh technology that our Border Patrol has nowadays. And and it's funny to see that we were still using horses. Initially when it started they were using horses and and and they're still using uh utilizing horses in some of those really heavy terrains. And that particular tour concluded with a virtual uh shooting uh situation that

our our expert shooter here uh got to take part with me and uh it wow what an amazing uh 3D uh uh situation they have for their training. So I want to thank Carlos again, Carlo. And uh lastly, I want to thank the superintendent of school, Maya Donley, for uh inviting me to take part as a judge during the spelling bee. I want to congratulate Isabella Felix, eighth grade student from Patagonia, for winning first place. She did an amazing job. And in second place to Shulamthi Batu, seventh grade, uh Korei middle school student. Uh again, thank you Maya. What an amazing event. Your staff did a great job. Um and that's all I have to report. We'll go ahead and move on to managers report.

Mr. Chair, I have nothing to report. Thank you. Okay, we'll go ahead and move on to department reports. uh finance, cash and investments, expenditures and revenue reports. Mr. Chavez, good morning, sir.

Good morning, Mr. Chairman, members of the board, members of the public. The cash and investment report, uh the general fund has an overall balance of 24,376,62 with an investment amount of 16,720,15. The road fund overall balance is 5,927,512 with an investment amount of 5,171,588. Flood control district fund overall balance is 3,38,472 with an investment amount of 311,677. And our Dale district fund has an overall balance of 8,96,860 with an investment amount of 4,442,192. So total for all funds 66,56,34 with investment amount of 28,786,85. And we have an estimated end of the month balance of 12,297,240. Any questions, gentlemen?

No. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the board. I also wanted to uh give you an update on also on the sales tax revenue. We we um were able the state was able to provide us with the numbers for the month of December. That's usually our our peak peak uh retail sales and and we do have a an overall increase compared to last year of 23.8%. That's really substantial uh for us and that's an increase due to the contracting work, retail and then online purchases. We saw an increase from this year uh compared to last year at the current month as well.

Great. Well, good news. Thank you, sir. Next item two, department updates. Any department wishing to come up? Morning s.

Good morning. Good morning members of the public. Chairman Mera, Supervisor Davis, founding county management, department heads. Um my name is SA Bustamante. I am a director for the local workforce board and I work at Arizona at Work. Um I'm going to just give a quick um update of what Arizona at Work is and then some updates on what we're doing. Arizona Network is a one-stop center uh and we provide services to individuals who are looking for employment. Some of the services that we provide are training certificates uh in demand certificates, adult education, GED preparation courses, vocational rehabilitation, employability workshops as well. And um I just want to give quick update on oh of on what we're doing and I left um on your desks two two documents. The first one is our program year 2024. It looks like this. Program year 2024 levels of performance. Our 2024 runs from July 1st, 2024 to June 30th of 2025. Uh the first column you're going to see are negotiate negotiated levels every two years. County management uh state uh management and myself uh me to talk about our levels of performance, what we plan on on achieving. And the first column you're going to be seeing uh for example for adult employment second quarter after exit. We want to make sure that at le we wanted to make sure that at least 70% of our participants entered into

employment and remained in employment after they had exited our program. And if you see on the on the far right, we are at 111.7% of those measures. All right, I want to go down to dislocated worker. Um, county management and myself and state agreed that the median earnings for for our dislocated workers was was going to be $9,600,000. Um, and we are at 121% of those performance measures. And also we're evaluated by our measurable skills gain. So this is if the individuals received their certificate, if they completed a type of certificate, if they completed a work experience and our youth completed 329% of these measurable skills. So that's the percentage that we are. All right. So, not only did we meet, but we exceeded all these level performances and expectations that the the state um had for us. And just uh quick quick updates of what Arizona at Work is, uh what we're doing. I apologize. Uh Supervisor Davis, thank you for introducing us with staff of um Senator Kelly's office today. Actually, and I think they're meeting now. Our veteran representative Iram is meeting with Arlet to talk about the collaboration um within our community to better reach our veteran services. So our veteran um members that are in this community how to provide um the services that we have putting them into employment provide any services um put them in um placing them into housing. So thank you for doing that. Also, I do want to mention that today we do have anou on the agenda with Ngales

Unified School Stu uh Ngales Unified School District and this is to help the there is a CT program at the Noelis High School, the automotive technician um course and this is to help about 10 students who are going to be receiving a Ford asset certificate after completing their work experience. So once these ind once these students complete this the certificate they're master technicians okay these are seniors they're master technicians and they have direct hire with local dealerships and not it's not only local dealerships but but it's uh dealerships in Green Valley and in Tucson and median earnings for for these seniors is about 50 to $60,000 after graduation. So we're looking forward to to thatou and hopefully it's approved today. Um, I also want to mention that we currently have 15 participants who have joined Arizona at work to obtain recognized credentials and we have a total of 37 participants who have received a recognized certificate in and that are either employed or currently um looking for employment with the collaboration of our career adviserss. And I also want to share our performance measures. I already did that. And with this, I want to segue to introduce Levi Accord, um, who is one of our success stories. He's going to share the journey with Arizona at work and where he started and where he's at now. So, Levi, thank you.

Good morning. My name is Levi. I um I live in the Phoenix area. Um, but I was down here. I had the opportunity to uh learn heavy equipment at the mine, which didn't require a CDL. Um, when the contract ended, I didn't know what I was going to do. And someone pointed me in the direction of Arizona at work in Ngalas. And the ladies there, the entire staff there, um, they're phenomenal people, and they wanted to see me succeed. So, they guided me um helped me get what I needed to get um to go and get my CDL, which led me to a career in Phoenix with um a small but thriving envi environmental company that I'm still uh employed at, you know, thanks to them for for helping me get to where I needed to go. Um Ngalas is very blessed uh beyond blessed to have them helping the people here and I'm always I will always be grateful for that. Um, I don't know what else to say. I don't really do this, but uh, you guys have some amazing people for the community and um, I will always be grateful for that.

Thank you. And congratulations. Keep

m Mr. Chairman, members of the board, and members of the public, just uh that's just a point of of if if if folks don't what don't know what the WA program, it's the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act, and it's federally funded. And that program, it shows you that it's funding that's well spent. It's it's it's a program, a local program that is in good standing with the state and and and with the federal agencies. I just wanted to make the public aware of that that they're exceeding their their their performance measures and and they're and you know they're they're making impact in the local community here. Thank you.

Thank you. Any chance of you coming back to Santa Cruz County? I do actually. I actually came down.

No, we want you to relocate here. And I thank you, sir. I also want to mention that from from November to date, um, our employment services staff were able to place 62 people in employment. Thank you. Thank you. Good job. Impressive data. Excellent job,

Mr. Chair. And just to add on, this program was uh was not in the standing, it is now. And I just I want to give recognize the efforts of Sida and Maisio for helping us with these numbers. And now we're compliant. So that's all good news and want to thank. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Any other departments wishing to report? Madam recorder? No. Good morning, Shannon.

Yeah. Good morning, supervisors. Good morning, uh, members of the community and public. I just want to give a quick update for Supervisor Davis. He had requested a couple of weeks ago that it look into providing an opportunity for the community to um donate money online using a a quick link. Um it is still working on that, but in the meantime, we do have the ability to make donations to this, I should have said to the Santa Cruz County Animal Care and Control. You can make donations either in person uh with check or cash. There is an opportunity um people are using an opportunity to also do the Amazon wish list. So they have an Amazon wish list where they put blankets and toys and and dog food and they've been getting a lot of donations. They got a lot of donations over the holidays. You may have seen that online. Uh they recently got a donation of $1,000 and a don a cash donation of $300 and that goes to pay for blankets and toys and things like that for the for the pets at the animal care and control. So we are working on a way on a solution uh and it couldn't uh be here to give the update so I just told him I'd give the update for him.

Thank you. Thank you Shannon. Thank you Shannon. Morning.

Good morning, supervisors, county officials. My name is Marcela Par. I'm the program manager for the adult education program housed at WA under title 2. And I just want to elaborate a little bit more. That's on some an item that's on your agenda and it's the COA grant. It's a small startup grant that's in um coordination with LOS, the coalition for adult-based education and the national center for construction construction education and research. And I applied for the grant to start a new pathway in the adult education courses that we have. And this is going to focus on carpet on construction, anything that has to do with construction. It could be masonry, carpentry, heavy machine, driving and moving just to help train our community members free of charge through our program. They are giving us $20,000 and 11,000 of that is just for equipment and then 9,000 is to get um staff and um instructors trained. It's a big deal actually. We are one of the first programs I think in southern Arizona to have this grant and it's a cyclical um type of grant. So, we got phase one and then we can apply for phase two and they help you grow it. And so, I'm very excited about it. We are moving forward with getting it in in place, setting the foundation to help grow the career pathways in collaboration with WA because we work very well together. We get have a lot of referrals. So, this will help also grow and train and keep a lot of our skilled laborers that are in need in our community because our community is growing. There's a lot of areas that we get requests for that we don't have training for. So, this is a good way to get started on that. So, I thank you for your support.

Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay, we'll go ahead and go to item F. Item F1, update by Greater Nogala Santa Cruz County Port Authority by Josh Rubin, chairman of the Greater Nogala Santa Cruz County Port Authority. Good morning, Josh.

Good morning, sir. Um, well, first chairman Morela, Supervisor Fanning and Davis. Good morning. For the record, my name is Joshua Rubin. I'm here on behalf of the Greater Ngala Sanru County Port Authority to provide an update on our recent activities and our continuing advocacy for Santa Cruz County. I'll pause right there to address the the comment that um Supervisor Fanny made last week. We had an opportunity to go and present in front of the rural economic development committee um at the state capital. It's a fantastic meeting. We had a 14-minute presentation that we did in seven. Um, but what was shown in that it was our presentation was cut short, but what was shown is the the level of commitment that we have from both sides of the aisle up in the state capital for our project on Deaconi. Specifically, the project was to go present at Deaconini. Um, we spent about five hours up at the capital, visited some senators, visited some Congress members as well. um working on getting a joint letter from both the House and the um Senate to support the bill for orel support support the project for the Deacons port of entry. So that's what we did last week. That'll be on my next report. We come out on that one. But um before I begin on on my testimony, I wanted to thank Supervisor Fanning in particular for his consistent participation engagement in our port authority efforts. Your presence at our meetings, retreats, and advocacy events demonstrates the county commitment to trade and infrastructure. I also want to recognize the ongoing partnerships that we have with Customs, Borders, and Protections, uh, General Services Administrations, Arizon Arizona Arizona Department of Transportation, and the Arizona Governor's Office along with the staff members in our congressional delegations who continue to work with us behind the scenes. Infrastructure advocacy is not a one-day event. It's a continuous effort, and we appreciate the collaboration. Over the past several months, our most significant focus has been on the upcoming review of the anticipated renewal of the United States, Mexico Canada agreement, USMCA. In November, we submitted formal written testimony to

the US Trade Representative. In December, I traveled to Washington DC to provide an in-person testimony before USR alongside representatives from the Department of Commerce and State. Out of more than 1,550 written submissions and over 100 in-person uh testimonies, our testimony was referenced publicly by Ambassador Jameson Greer before Congress. A clear sign that Santa Cruz County's voice is being heard. Our message was direct. USMCA works. It must continue to work and it must be strengthened through enforcement and infrastructure. We emphasized that every dollar spent in Mexico roughly u is roughly 40 cents returns back to the United States compared to less than three cents when sourcing from China. The economic integration benefits American workers and and directly supports our local economy. We also called for strong enforcement on rule of origin to ensure the companies investing and producing within North America receive the intended benefit of the USMCA supervisors. Trade agreements are only as strong as the infrastructure supporting them. We have advocated for a dedicated border infrastructure fund, modernization of the ACE customs system, a perishable trade facilitation annex, and a bational coordinated port investment strategy. We specifically emphas emphasized the need to modernize the Deconini port of entry, which remains our top priority. I want to thank our state legislators and members of Congress, including Congressman uh Juan Siskmani and our Arizona delegations whose staff participated in the recent border briefing we hosted with Douglas and San Louise, all 11 congressional offices represented. And to make note, it was an over five-hour meeting that we had with the 11 uh members of of the federal delegation. These engagements are essential. Modernization of Deaconi is estimated to be around 1.5 to2 billion dollars and it will require federal,

state and local alignment. We also highlighted that infrastructure is not only about lanes and buildings. It includes energy reliability. Ngala sits at the end of a fragile grid. A disruption halts inspections, cold storage, and freight movement. We appreciate ongoing coordination with federal energy partners and utility stakeholders to strengthen the redundancy and protect supply chain continuity. In November, a national blockades in Mexico affected freight flows through coordination with customs officials and industry partners. Disruptions were minimized. We also continued monitoring the Arizona freight study update, animal health risks such as the new world schoolworm, border trade policy shifts affecting uh produce and the manufacturing sectors. We also want to add that we appreciate the county's inclusion of the port authority in the selection process for the new economic development specialist position. This role is critical. Alignment between the county, city, and port authority will determine our competitiveness over the next decades. In January, we held our meeting our annual strategic retreat. Supervisor Fanning participated along with uh county manager um Valdez along um with the board and over a five-hour meeting in lining our priorities for this coming year. The number one priority remains clear modernization of the Deaconi port of entry. This is Santa Cruz County's primary economic leverage point. Everything else builds from the foundation. And in closing, supervisors, we are actively advocating in Washington, in Phoenix, and here at home. We do so collaboratively, respectfully, and strategically with appreciation for our federal, state, and local partners. Santa Cruz County's future depends on smart infrastructure, strong trade agreements, and coordinated leadership. We are committed to delivering on all three of these. I stand here for any other questions that you gentlemen have. Go ahead, sir.

I have no questions. I just want to say thank you for your leadership. It's evident during the meetings that that uh you're you're leading a group that's doing some good things for our county. So, thank you so much, Josh. Thank you, sir. I want to thank you. Thank you for your partnership. Thank you for your leadership. Very much appreciated. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you, gentlemen.

I don't care what Jesus says about you. Just kidding. Okay. Uh just for the record, item three was cancelled today on the study sessions. We will have item two uh introduction to Mar Mariposa Community Health C Center's Community Health Services Department and Mariposa Wings by Patty B. Molina, senior director of community health services and Ryan Quick, health and social services manager. Good morning. Good morning.

Yes. Yes. Thank you ladies. Um, thank you for all you do. First of all, before you begin, um, the reason I thought this was so important is we need to get the word out, the great things that you're doing. When you, uh, presented at the Rio Rico Rotary, it was, uh, we heard some wonderful things and we just want to make sure that we keep that momentum moving forward. So, with that, thank you so much again for being here. Good morning supervisors, staff, and members of the audience. So I'm Patty Molina, senior director, community health services with Maraposa Community Health Center. So I'll just give you a little bit of the history of community health services so that you know how it its inception came about. So everyone's really familiar with Maraposa Community Health Center, the clinical portion of it. So what we do is community health services. We became um awarded a grant back in 1991. So, we're actually celebrating our 35th year this year providing um health promotion and disease prevention programs out in the community. Um all of the programs that we do are absolutely free and open to anyone regardless of whether you're a patient of Maraposas or not. Um so, we we'll start with health and social services. Um Ryan,

yeah, this is cut off. So,

all right. Uh good morning everyone. Ryan Quick, health and social services manager. So our department has um four different facets and health and social services covers domestic and sexual violence um victim advocacy, homeless and housing support and advocacy, maternal child health which is a case management program for women who are pregnant or children with under the age of two and then it also um coexists with our wick department which is in another building. And then overall patient financial assistance which is managing different um funds or sources in which we can help individuals and families undergoing financial hardship that's impacting their well-being. So that's kind of health and social services in a nutshell

with um health promotion, disease prevention. Of course we focus on all the chronic diseases diseases um diabetes education um heart health uh we have the wellwoman health check program which is see free cervical and breast cancer um support for women who are either underinsured or uninsured. Our uh tuberculosis and communicable disease where we partner with the Santa Cruz County Health Department. We do have uh prevention services, the diabetes prevention program which is part of the national CDC efforts for the um DPP, our summer youth institute institute program which has been going on since 2001 which actually started as part of back then the JTPA program and local um juvenile detention center to help these children have a facet or something to do um and create work skills has now really grown into a really great program for local high school students to learn about different healthc care careers, not just as doctors and nurses, but anything and everything that encompasses. And so those applications are out right now. They're due next week and those are open. All we work really closely with all of our schools and the counselors have all that. And then it's a program that uh works uh five weeks out of the summer and then they get certified as teen health facilitators. So basically they do peer-to-peer education in our county on health uh risky behaviors that adolescents get themselves into and so that they don't get themselves into it. Our tobacco prevention sensation program we're funded through the state to do tobacco education for youth and then we can do tobacco education and prevention services for adults in the community and then of course connect them to our Arizona quit line ash line as well and we work with all service providers in Santa Cruz County. We also do compliance checks which are undercover type checks

with uh the the county to help reduce the sale of of cigarettes to underage um children in in our county as well. uh together across generations. Uh earlier you talked about uh participating in the older adult uh program where the seniors got together and had a party and they had the the kisa right at the So we do a lot of work not just with those seniors but seniors in schools as well and we connect them so that they're have a companion and are able to do uh support and then just be someone that they can talk to and learn from. And so this program together across generations is that such thing and then they get to play games and learn other things like that. Um we have different community networks as well. Our ventan salute program is something that we've had for a number of years. We collaborate really closely with the Mexican consulate. Uh this is basically what that translates into is window of health and we provide um just health information and we can do um health fairs and screenings at uh various events and we also provide uh exercise classes in both Ngalas and Rio Rico that are free of charge. Um Ryan, you want to talk about SOSA a little bit?

Sure. We have our Santa Cruz County Overcoming Substance Addiction Consortium, which brings together um a wide variety of agencies that work in prevention, treatment, and recovery for substance um use disorders and addictions. So, I'm the chair for that coalition. And then we have our rural maternal obstetrics management strategies or our moms. and that's working on rule obstetrics and working together with a couple other counties on labor and delivery services sustainability and improving um birthing outcomes. And then we also have our local coalition to end homelessness which is working with other agencies around housing issues, housing support for those families and individuals facing homelessness or experiencing homelessness. And uh the work that we do, we do it with the use or the utilization of community health workers or promotes a salute. They really are the heart and soul of our department. And as I said, everything that we do is absolutely free regardless of whether you are a patient of Maraposas. We will provide these services to anyone in the county and we service the entire county as well. So that's it for community health services. Um and then our maraposa wings you don't have that one. No. Oh okay. So you want to do

All right. So Mariposa Wings Fund is um a new pro kind of like program that we started um at Mariposa. Uh we are a charitable

income tax code aka you can make donations to Mariposa and Mariposa Wings fund is where we're gathering donations that support patients of Mariposa who are facing financial hardships and that could be for a variety of different issues that could be medical expenses that were unforeseen or due to under being underinsured. Um, for example, we have helped some people who were able who weren't able to buy dentures. We were able to use this funds to get them dentures. We've helped people um get an oxygen tank. And then other types of financial assistance where we had um a gentleman where he was experiencing um cancer, going through cancer treatments which disrupted his um flow of income and we were able to help pay some rent to get him and his family back to um being stabilized. So, we use this fund um as a way to help our patients who are going through those financial hardships who don't fall under any of the other grant funded programs that might have some of that um supported funding. So, it's kind of like the the catchall for those that don't um qualify through our other programming such as victims of domest domestic and sexual violence. We have funding to help those victims through a grant, but um we might need to have that that Maraposa Wings fund to help someone who needs an oxygen tank or or something else.

And basically that's it. We just wanted you to realize that this is available. Um it we are a nonprofit so we are um Arizona personal income tax code. So you can make a charitable donation um for this particular project. But really that's it. Just wanted to give you an introduction to what community health services does. Um when you kind of see awareness events that we do out in the community. Uh for example, right now in February, we're focusing on heart health. Next month we will focus on colorectile cancer. Um so I invite you to come to the various clinics around the county where we we will be having information uh available and um some fun and creative ways so that we can get engagement from uh our patients and then just community members as well so that they can learn about the screening importance of not just colorectal cancer, breast cancer but anything else that we do for health awareness month. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you. I I just want to say I think everyone realizes how incredibly important Mariposa is to our community and all the great things that you do for our community. Um this is the the Mariposa Wings Fund is one of the primary reasons I I wanted you to be here because that that fund helps those in need. Um you guys do so many incredible things. That's just one added layer to it. So, thank you for all you do. Um, I also heard just recently, did did Mosa, this may be something totally different, and you may had no idea, but did did you receive a $2 million uh grant for um

right, for the expansion of it's a congressional funding for um from um Kelly and um yes,

from their office. Um originally it started with um cinema um and and then and then shifted so around uh target range road. So you know the old um Dr. Gavara's office that we've now taken that over. So, women's center of excellence and so our OB department and all of our women's health services focusing on that type of care for OB um uh gynecological services and then anything related to women's healthcare is going to moving into that um facility that's right there. So, it's it was almost two years in the making and we hadn't heard anything and then that finally came through. So we were really happy um about that. So we will be moving our centrics out of the Mariposa Ngalas West location near Kurand delay and moving into that facility.

Good things happen to good people.

Yes. Yes. And yesterday um Amy Taylor, our CEO and Dr. P, our CMO were at the um House of Representatives um advocating for for some things. And so we actually are learning how scary it is. We're also at the health um rural public health uh forum, we actually learned about how critical access hospitals are um at risk of losing all obstetrics because it's that low low number where they're not making a lot of money. And so we have to do what we can to help protect that in Santa Cruz County because as it is already any risky pregnancies or anything like that, we have to travel about an hour north just to get some support. So yeah, we did.

So you guys have a vast amount of services and we really appreciate it. Uh it's amazing what you do. Thank you. We have two challenge coins for you so you continue doing your great work.

Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you ladies. We'll go ahead and like I said item three was cancelled. We we'll go ahead and come back to the executive session. Uh we'll go ahead and move on to item H action item discussion possible action to approve proclamation declaring March 2nd 2026 through March 6, 2026 as read across America uh read on Santa Cruz County week. Anything to add Maya? Thank you. We do.

Thank you. Thank you, Paloma. At this time, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve. I move. Second. Have a motion and a second. Any discussion, questions? Hearing none. All in favor? I. All oppose. Motion carries unanimously. At this time, I'd like to entertain a motion to move into jail district and uh recess regular session. I move. Second. I have a motion, a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. All oppose.

We are now in uh the jail district. Item one, discussion, possible action to authorization to create and fill two juvenile detention transport office officer positions.

I'd like to entertain a motion. So move second. I have a motion and a second. Uh Mr. Chavez, this is uh budgeted, right?

Mr. Chairman, members of the board, no, this is not budgeted. So these are new positions that are being requested uh to transport um juveniles from when they're um tained here in our facility and they're taken to panel and back and forth. It's the rotation that seems to be the issue and this was a request by staff there uh to create new two new positions. This would be um for this fiscal year we're for two positions we're looking at a total it's you're looking at about $136,000 as a financial impact to the jail district. Now, this is not general fund money. This is jail district. The last, you know, this would impact probably the last four months of the fiscal year, which would be about $45,000 uh as financial impact if both uh individuals are hired.

Okay. And like you said, this is jail district money. It's not uh that is correct. This is funded through the jail district and it's funded through a different funding source. It doesn't affect the general fund. Okay. Okay. Financially, are we in a good position to move forward? Mr. Chairman, members of the board, financially correct. Yes. So, the the jail district right now can can move forward with and but I just wanted to point out that it is not budgeted and it is it's a new request. Okay. Okay. Any other questions? I have a motion and a second. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I.

All oppose? Motion carries. Uh at this time I'd like to entertain a motion to adjourn jail district and move into consent agenda. So move. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? All oppose. We are now in item J consent agenda. At this time, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve item J, consent agenda 1 through 16. I move. Second. Have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I.

All oppose. Motion carries unanimously. Okay. I believe all we have now is item G, executive session uh one pursuant to ARS 38-431.03A3 03A3 and 4 discussion and consultation for legal advice and or direction regarding the community protection benefits agreement CPBA and early action community investment agreement being drafted with the city of Ngalas town of Patagonia and South 32. I'd like to entertain a motion to move into executive session. I move second.

I have a motion in a second. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor? I. All oppose. Motion carries. We're now in executive session.

back. And at this time, I'd like to entertain a motion to uh adjourn executive session and reconvene general session. I move second. Motion and a second. Any discussion, questions? Hearing none. All in. All in favor? I I. All oppose. Motion carries. We are now up to our last item. I believe item K, adjournment. At this time, I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. Can I move? Second. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I. All oppose. Motion carries. We're now adjourned. Thank you, gentlemen.