
October 30, 2021
Yavapai County seal. (Courier file photo)
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Prior to the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors’ acceptance of County Recorder Leslie Hoffman’s resignation this week, the board approved a process for replacing Hoffman.

Yavapai County Recorder Leslie Hoffman would like to remind voters about important information regarding the upcoming 2022 Primary Election being held Tuesday, Aug. 2...

With revenues up significantly in the past fiscal year, the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors approved a tentative 2022-23 budget this week that includes millions of dollars for increases in staff salaries and benefits, pension fund payments, and jail operations.

Culminating months of meetings and hearings, the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors will consider tentative approval this week of the budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year that begins on July 1.

The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors (BOS) at its meeting Wednesday will consider approving a $647,048 grant for building a pharmacy at the county’s Community Health Center, 1090 Commerce Drive in Prescott.

The bulk of Yavapai County’s nearly $46 million in American Rescue Plan Act money is expected to be spent in the coming fiscal year on projects such as broadband improvements, water and sewer projects, and Community Health Services.

Progress on Yavapai County’s ongoing initiative to improve high-speed internet in underserved and unserved areas, and a countywide fireworks ban will be among the issues the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors will discuss this week.

Beginning in July, nearly 1,500 employees of Yavapai County can expect to see salary increases averaging about $4,000 per year, plus a 3.5% cost-of-living raise.

More than $8 million in American Rescue Plan Act money could be going to water and sewer systems throughout Yavapai County soon, if the Board of Supervisors approves about three dozen recommended projects this week.

Yavapai County Board of Supervisors Chair Mary Mallory on May 2 signed the Interim Fire Prohibition Order, which bans using fireworks and implements Stage 1 fire restrictions across all four fire zones in Yavapai County starting at 8 a.m. May 5, a county news release reported.

For months, Yavapai County Supervisors have been hearing that a lack of competitiveness in employee salaries has resulted in high turnover rates and inability to fill some job positions.

Yavapai County will have more flexibility for how it uses $10 million of the $45.7 million in American Rescue Plan Act money the county is receiving.

The Yavapai County Development Services Department is planning meetings in the Ash Fork and Paulden communities in the coming weeks to answer general building, zoning, and permitting questions.

Nearly a quarter of the $45.7 million that Yavapai County is receiving through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) could go toward general county government services, depending on a decision of the Board of Supervisors this week.

The BOS will meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday, April 6, in the supervisors’ hearing room on the first floor of the Yavapai County Administrative Services Building, 1015 Fair St., in Prescott.

With the 2022 delinquent tax lien sale now behind it, the Yavapai County Treasurer’s Office is reminding the public of the opportunities and risks involved in the tax lien certificate program (also known as the tax lien auction).

A report on Yavapai County’s implementation of Arizona Congressional redistricting; a request for temporary premium pay for Community Health Center nurses; and a policy on the public safety pension system will be among the topics up for discussion by the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors this week.

Five Superior Court judges, the Clerk of Court, and five justices of the peace and constable positions will be up for election in Yavapai County in 2022.

A plan for cultivation of cannabis on land west of Highway 260 between Cottonwood and Camp Verde, an expansion of a winery in Cornville and a policy for water adequacy outside of the Active Management Area are among the issues that the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors will discuss in Cottonwood this week.

With a contract for as much as $20 million in broadband improvements approaching in the next month or two, the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors will consider going out for proposals for a consultant to manage the project.

In a move that is being driven by a surge in COVID-19-related deaths, Yavapai County approved an emergency purchase this week that will provide 20 more morgue spaces.

Three separate items for addressing non-competitive county salaries will go before the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors this week.

Two expenditures will go before the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors this week for possible funding by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).