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Navajo County District III Supervisor Jason Whiting received an honor during the Board of Supervisors meeting last week. Whiting was named the Supervisor of the Year by the Arizona/New Mexico Coalition of Counties.
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Coalition member Douglas Decker said, “Winners of this award are nominated by various board members. Supervisor Whiting has been an advocate for the timber and ranching industries, and responsible management of our natural resources. He has participated in numerous committees, federal initiatives and community forums that advance the mission of the coalition. Supervisor Whiting is an example of the kind of leadership that advances the protection of private property rights and the health, safety and welfare of the citizens he represents.”
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Whiting humbly accepted the recognition and said, “I am surprised I am being recognized. I do appreciate, and don’t take lightly, the stewardship that I’ve been entrusted with to represent and work for and on behalf of our citizens. I hope that this award in some way shows the effort that we, collectively as a board, are showing to represent our county and our citizens on some very important issues. I have appreciated the unity that we have had as a Board of Supervisors and as a county. We are not just an agency or a group of people that comes together to complain, we also look to provide solutions.”
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District IV Supervisor Steve Williams said, “This is a well-deserved award. He isn’t doing it for awards, he is doing it because he believes in the county.”
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County Manager Glen Kephart also commented on Whiting’s award. “Very few people know how much work goes in to doing what you do. The countless hours you put in to protect the most precious resources we have.”
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Board Chairwoman Dawnafe Whitesinger added, “Supervisor Whiting has taught me not just about being a supervisor but how to be a human being and our responsibility of being strong stewards and being neighborly.
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The board also approved levying the Navajo County Jail District Excise Tax. The one third cent sales tax was approved by Navajo County voters in a special election in August and will take effect on Jan. 1, 2020. In the absence of Supervisor Jesse Thompson, the motion carried unanimously.
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In administrative services agenda items, Jeanine Carruthers presented a contract between Trinity Services Group and Navajo County to provide inmate food services for the Navajo County Jail. Trinity is the current provider and one of two bids that came in for the contract. Carruthers did say there will be a price increase of two cents per meal under the new contract effective Nov. 4, 2019. “This contract will automatically be assigned to the jail district.”
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The Navajo County Jail will also be receiving telephone and video equipment and services from Comm App Technologies, LLC based on an approved contract by the Board of Supervisors. Carruthers explained, “It includes 37 wall mounted video visitation units, seven roll-around video units, 26 wall mounted telephones, seven roll-around telephones, one roll-around telephone for the hearing impaired and one tablet per every four inmates.
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Six proposals were received and evaluated for this contract. All equipment and installation will be provided by the company at no cost to the county. Inmates will pay a per minute fee, which is three to six cents per minute based on the call type.”
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In other business, the board:
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* Approved the removal of Dave Meyers as Workforce Representative on the Local Workforce Development Board, and appointed Daryl Ferrell as the Vocational Rehabilitation representative and Woody Cline as a Gila County Business Representative on the board.
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* Approved Back Tax Land Parcels sold over the counter in the amount of $12,803.
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* Approved a funding agreement between the Arizona Department of Housing and Navajo County for Show Low Redevelopment Zone street and drainage improvements with funding from a Community Development Block Grant in the amount of $277,370.
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* Designated Paige Peterson as the Navajo County Chief Financial Officer to submit the annual expenditure limitation report.
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* Determined that the annexation petitions circulated to annex certain property located within the Bison Ridge subdivision into the Timber Mesa Fire and Medical District are valid under A.R.S. § 48-262.
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* Declared Sept. 11-14 as Navajo County Fair Days.
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* Authorized acceptance of an Arizona Criminal Justice Commission Victims’ Compensation Grant in the amount of $144,150.
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* Proclaimed September as National Preparedness Month.
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* Approved a memorandum of agreement between the Hopi Division of Transportation and Navajo County for the funding of providing water and milling material for a bus turnaround with Hopi Route South 60 in the Jeddito Community. County cost will be approximately $10,000.
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* Approved an amendment to the Women, Infant, and Children Contract between the Arizona Department of Health Services and Navajo County Public Health Services District.
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* Approve an agreement between the Navajo County Public Health Services District and the Northeastern Arizona Local Workforce Development Board for the Health District to provide Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Title IB Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth Program Services.
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The next meeting of the Navajo County Board of Supervisors will be 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 24, in the board room at 100 E. Code Talkers Drive.
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