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The Snowflake Town Council met on Tuesday, Oct. 1, to discuss the mill and fill asphalt overlay project that is currently in progress on Snowflake Blvd. The original proposal was for the project to run close to Old Woodruff Road eastward to Chaparral Drive running about one and a half miles with a base bid of $479,285 from Surface Contracting, Inc. of Snowflake.
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Town Manager Brian Richards proposed to extend the project an additional 2,800 feet to the town limits and would cost an additional $208,893. The council approved the extension of the project. “I drive that road every week to go to the court in St. Johns and it’s desperately needed so I’m glad they’re doing it. There’s a lot of traffic on that road, too,” said Councilman Hunter Lewis.
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Richards made a quick report about the consolidation of the Snowflake-Taylor Police Department dispatch services with those of the Show Low Police Department and then invited Chief of Police Bobby Martin to speak about the challenges that are arising with this transition. “Chief Martin has been working a lot with Show Low. We’re still on track on moving our dispatch up there, our target date is April 1. There’s a lot of things that we need to do between now and then,” said Richards.
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“The consolidation is still ongoing. One of the big things that initially was a hurdle for them was staffing levels, they wanted to be at a particular number of dispatchers before they could legitimately take us on and take on the extra caseload and workload for their dispatch center,” added Chief Martin.
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“We were kind of hoping that some of our dispatchers were going to go up there and that is not the case. One of our dispatchers is actually testing tomorrow with Navajo County to become a police officer so we wish her well when she does that tomorrow. As far as logistics goes, we were able to sign an agreement with Durham Communication which is Show Low PD’s radio communications provider,” concluded Chief Martin.
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