By Nick Worth Because the number of candidates who filed was equal to or less than the number of positions open for each district, the Navajo County Board of Supervisors cancelled the elections Tuesday for the governing boards for the Winslow, Holbrook (Wards 3, 4 and 5), Snowflake, Heber/Overgaard, Whiteriver, Cedar and Blue Ridge school districts, as well as the Joseph City, Snowflake, Heber/Overgaard and Whiteriver represen-tatives on the Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technology (NAVIT) Governing Board. The appoint-ments of those who had filed for the posts were then made automatically. In other election-related actions, the board cancelled elections for: * The Joseph City and Heber/Overgaard sanitary districts. * A precinct committeeman position. * The Navapache Hospital District. * The Clay Springs/Pinedale, Heber/Overgaard, Linden, McLaws Road and Woodruff fire districts. * The Heber, Joseph City, Ponderosa, Porter Creek, Woodruff, Three-O-Three, Wonderland Acres and Clay Springs domestic water improvement districts. * The Navajo County Community College District Governing Board. The board also adopted Resolution 33-12, regarding the Arizona Regional Haze Federal Implementation Plan. County Manager James Jayne told the board the resolution is the same as that drafted by Apache County and all the towns and cities in Apache and Navajo counties. The resolution urges the Environmental Protection Agency to extend its public comment deadline to 90 days from the date of July 18, 2012, to allow further re-view of the plan and to provide the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality with the opportunity to col-laborate with the EPA in revising the state’s implementation plan. District I Supervisor Jonathon Nez asked Jayne to include language in the resolution to ask that the EPA also consult with the Native American nations affected by the ruling. In other business Sept. 11, the board: * Amended an intergovernmental agreement between the Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES) and the county for Workforce Investment Act (WIA) allocated funding in the amount of $508,320. * Approved an intergovernmental agreement between the DES and the county for WIA incentive funding in the amount of $42,485. * Approved a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the detention and care of persons detained at the direction of ICE. * Amended an intergovernmental agreement between the sheriff’s office, the cities of Winslow and Hol-brook, and the towns of Snowflake, Taylor and Pinetop-Lakeside regarding Byrne grant funding for fiscal year 2013. * Named an existing road in the Show Low/White Mountain Lakes area Pence Drive. * Recognized Robin McCormick and William Wilbanks for their excellence in personal performance far exceeding organizational expectations. * Approved a proclamation declaring Sept. 12-16 as Navajo County Fair Days. * Heard an update on the jail expansion and space re-utilization project. * Presented five-year Personnel Service Awards to Linda Sandoval, facilities management; Bill Dalton Jr., sheriff’s office; James Sanderson, assessor’s office; Rebecca Taylor, Winslow Justice Court; Alysia Heward, Superior Court; and Debra Chapman, Board of Supervisors/administration. * Presented 10-year Personnel Service Awards to Chester Robinson and Gene Woolford, public works; Ava Linn, health district; and Jaquel Moody and Gail DeCross, county attorney’s office. Acting as the Navajo County Public Health District, the board approved amendment 3 of Contract HG854290, Immunization Program. Acting as the Board of Equalization, the board approved the appeals of five property owners to re-classify property to class three properties (owner occupied), waive assessed penalties and liens related to this recent reclassification action, and direct the county assessor to re-classify the properties to class three (owner occu-pied).