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THE STATE OF ARIZONA
ARIZONA STATE PARKS BOARD
TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO RECORDED PUBLIC MEETING
Tubac, Arizona
March 20, 2013 10:00 a.m.
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A PUBLIC MEETING, BEFORE THE ARIZONA STATE PARKS BOARD, convened on March 20, 2013, at Tubac Presidio State Historic
Park, One Burruel Street, Tubac, Arizona.
APPEARANCES:
Mr. Walter Armer, Jr. Board Member Mr. R.J. Cardin, Board Member Mr. Alan Everett, Board Member Mr. Kent Ennis, Deputy Director Ms. Vanessa Hickman State Land Commissioner Mr. Bryan Martyn, Director Mr. Jay Ream, Deputy Director Mr. Kelly Stetson, Board Administrator
OTHERS PRESENT:
Mr. Rich Bowman Ms. Ellen Bilbrey, Public Information Officer, State Parks Mr. John Driggs, former Phoenix Mayor Ms. Gwen Griffin, Volunteer Ms. Laurie Hachtel, Assistant Attorney General Mr. Shaw Kinsley, Executive Director of Friends of Tubac Presidio State Park Ms. Mindy Maddock, Chamber of Commerce Mr. Rudy Molera, Santa Cruz County Mr. Carlos Rivera, Santa Cruz County Manager Ms. Doris Pulsifer, Chief of Resources, Public Programs
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1 MR. CHAIRMAN: We’ll proceed without her, and
2 there’s just a few things we won’t be able to do.
3 First of all, I would like our newest Board
4 Member to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, and since
5 we don't have a flag...
6 (Pledge of Allegiance by Members)
7 MR. CHAIRMAN: First of all, Kelly, would you
8 call the roll?
9 MR. STETSON: Yes, Mr. Chair. Chairman Armer?
10 MR. ARMER: Here.
11 MR. STETSON: Mr. Everett?
12 MR. EVERETT: Here.
13 MR. STETSON: Mr. Cardin?
14 MR. CARDIN: Present.
15 MR. STETSON: Ms. Hickman? Mr. Landry? Mr.
16 Brnovich? Ms. Daggett?
17 MR. CHAIRMAN: Okay. We do not have a quorum
18 at this point, but we will proceed. We will start by
19 introducing ourselves on the Board. I’m Wally Armer. I
20 live in Vail, Arizona. I make sure that people know
21 that’s Arizona, not Colorado. And I am the livestock
22 representative on the Board. And thank you, Vanessa, for
23 getting us Legal today.
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1 MS. HICKMAN: I know. I apologize for being
2 tardy.
3 MR. CHAIRMAN: No problem.
4 MS. HICKMAN: Okay.
5 MR. EVERETT: I’m Alan Everett. I’m a Member
6 at large from Yavapai County.
7 MR. CARDIN: And I’m R.J. Cardin. I live in
8 Cave Creek, Arizona, and I’m the Director of Maricopa
9 County Parks and Recreation Department.
10 MS. HICKMAN: And I’m Vanessa Hickman. I live
11 in Phoenix, Arizona and I’m the State Land Commissioner.
12 MR. MARTYN: I’m Bryan Martyn. I live in Pinal
13 County and I am the Director of Arizona State Parks.
14 MR. REAM: I’m Jay Ream, Deputy Director, Parks
15 Division.
16 MR. ENNIS: I’m Kent Ennis, Deputy Director,
17 Arizona State Parks.
18 MS. HACHTEL: Good morning, I’m Laurie Hachtel.
19 I’m with the Attorney General’s office and I represent
20 Arizona State Parks.
21 MR. STETSON: And I’m Kelly Stetson. I’m the
22 Executive Assistant to the Director and the Administrator
23 to the Parks Board.
24 MS. BILBREY: Ellen Bilbrey, Public Information
25 Officer, State Parks.
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1 MS. PUSLIFER: Doris Pulsifer, Chief of
2 Resources, Public Programs, Arizona State Parks.
3 MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you. At this point, we’re
4 going to call for the public call to the public, and I do
5 have several, so I would request if you could try and
6 limit your remarks to about three minutes, with one
7 exception at the end, I will give a little freedom to our
8 last call to the public.
9 But with that being said, from Santa Cruz
10 County, Rudy Molera.
11 MR. MOLERA: Mr. Chairman, State Parks Board,
12 I’d like to welcome you all to Santa Cruz County. Mr.
13 Martyn, it’s great to have you here, a former colleague
14 of mine, the Supervisors State Association. It’s good to
15 have you here.
16 I want to first all thank our community of
17 Tubac because they’re exemplary. They have pretty much
18 shown the State of Arizona what it is to take charge and,
19 boy, do they take charge. This Park, I don’t know if
20 you’ve had the privilege of walking around and visiting,
21 but they’ve done an excellent job of it and really kept
22 it going. It’s an incredible partnership that we’ve
23 joined.
24 And we have a little transition. A new group
25 is going to take over. We’re excited and look forward to
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1 a continued relationship with the Tubac community. It’s
2 an honor and privilege once again. Thank you. Thank you
3 for being here.
4 MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for all your support,
5 the Board of Supervisors, if you would relay that to
6 everyone, I would appreciate it.
7 MR. MOLERA: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
8 MR. CHAIRMAN: Next, the County Manager, Carlos
9 Rivera.
10 MR. RIVERA: Mr. Chairman, Members of the
11 Board, thank you for coming down here and having your
12 meeting here at Tubac. As Supervisor Molera mentioned,
13 the Board of Supervisors approved an agreement recently
14 with Friends of Tubac Presidio to take over from the
15 Tubac Historical Society.
16 The Historical Society has done a wonderful job
17 out here. They’ve kept the place up and it was
18 unfortunate that due to some internal issues they decided
19 that they want to terminate the agreement.
20 My charge was to sit down with all the groups
21 involved to try to negotiate a smooth transition. I wish
22 it would have gone a lot smoother than I’d planned. But
23 it is effective work (indiscernible).
24 Today, the Board of Supervisors approved the
25 renewal of the (indiscernible) with you all, to continue
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1 to keep the Park open. The one change that I did talk to
2 Mr. Ream about was making it effective for three years. I
3 don’t want to have to go back and do it annually. We
4 know the State is still burdened financially and when the
5 State does finally complete (indiscernible) we’ll take it
6 back, and we’re fine with that too. But a three-year
7 agreement with the escape clause in there was fine with
8 us.
9 I just want to thank you for coming down, and
10 Mr. Molera mentioned, the Friends of Presidio and the
11 Historical Society have been wonderful people to work
12 with and hopefully they’ll continue to provide the
13 wonderful service to you all and to the community,
14 because this is a great benefit to Tubac and the County.
15 MR. CHAIRMAN: Again, thank you. And for
16 anyone who is now aware of it, the reason Santa Cruz -–
17 we have our IGA our Inner Governmental Agreement with the
18 County. It’s pretty much the only way we as a State
19 agency can operate other than some real extreme
20 situations.
21 So we were very appreciative of Santa Cruz
22 County for stepping up to the plate three years ago when
23 we first started negotiating this. And certainly happy
24 to see it continue. So thanks again.
25 Shaw Kinsley.
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1 MR. KINSLEY: Well I join my distinguished
2 colleagues from the County in welcoming you all here.
3 It’s a great time to come to the Parks Board here and I
4 hope you’re happy here and hope that you enjoy your stay.
5 In my remarks I want to salute the Tubac
6 Historical Society, which last December made the decision
7 to cancel their agreement with Santa Cruz County to
8 operate the Tubac Presidio, and we’re pleased that the
9 Board of Supervisor has transferred that agreement now to
10 the Friends of the Tubac Presidio. And we’ve got several
11 board members of the friends here.
12 Unfortunately, there has arisen a dispute
13 regarding the leadership of the Historical Society, and
14 that dispute has frozen all of the bank accounts of the
15 Tubac Historical Society, which include three accounts
16 that pertain directly to the Presidio. The funds have
17 always been separated, they have never been co-mingled,
18 there are separate titles on the accounts and yet they
19 are frozen in this internal dispute.
20 The Presidio and all of its volunteers and
21 management has no interest at all in the Historical
22 Society dispute. There’s no connection between the
23 Presidio and either faction of the Historical Society.
24 But the funds that are frozen are absolutely critical to
25 the success of the Presidio.
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1 Our gift shop has been hampered by low
2 inventory. The freeze has limited our ability to take
3 credit cards. We’re hoping to get that fixed today, and
4 as we head into the summer months with no winter
5 visitors, these funds are going to be even more critical.
6 So I am asking the Board for any possible help
7 that you can give us in coaxing the acting President of
8 the Historical Society, Mr. Chilcote, to agree to release
9 the Presidio funds and to go ahead and sort out their own
10 Historical Society funds in the best way they know how.
11 And given that we have so many people from the
12 public here, could I ask for a show of hands of people
13 who would like to see the return of the Park funds to
14 operate the Park in the most efficient way possible?
15 Again, we welcome you here, and any help you
16 could give us in this matter, I would be really honored
17 to have. Thank you very much.
18 MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you. I tell you what, I
19 wore my hat today. We can pass the hat before we leave.
20 Thank you, Shaw. Gwen Griffin, please.
21 MS. GRIFFIN: I ask to speak to something
22 because I am a volunteer of the Park and an unfortunate
23 part of the internal conflict that the Tubac Historical
24 Society. But I’m really talking to you today about the
25 Park.
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1 My parents donated the property on which the
2 museum stands, and they did it because they wanted to see
3 Tubac become a first State Park. They really felt when
4 they came up -– the last year my dad’s life was spent
5 trying to get the State Parks Board, which had not picked
6 a site yet, to chose Tubac, and they made the
7 presentation. And I’m very proud of the fact that they
8 did.
9 And I’m concerned that this internal conflict
10 and Historical Society is affecting the Presidio Park
11 when really the funds have nothing to do with the
12 historical site. The funds are separate. They were
13 collected -– they were donated and collected for the
14 purpose of running the Park.
15 So again, I would like to ask also, any help
16 you can to give those funds to the Park they belong.
17 Because I do volunteer here, I can tell you it was a big
18 headache working at the desk and not being able to use
19 the credit card machine because we don’t have the money
20 for it. This is such an important site. You have no
21 idea how wonderful it is hear people say when they come
22 in, “you know this is really a treasure here,” and how
23 pleased they are. Sometimes I have to twist arms because
24 they’re not quite sure whether this will be something
25 worth seeing, and they always come back and tell me how
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1 wonderful it was to go through, and I feel really good
2 about that. I’m sure my parents would be pleased.
3 Thank you.
4 MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you very much. Mindy
5 Maddock. These are in no particular order except the way
6 they were handed to me.
7 MS. MADDOCK: Thank you, thank you, from the
8 Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce here in
9 Tubac is dedicated and it’s our mission to bring commerce
10 and business and people to Tubac. That is our mission
11 and our goal. And to that end, we have an office, we
12 support the Presidio.
13 What is fascinating is that the majority of
14 people coming into the Chamber of Commerce office asking
15 for a map, asking for where this is, are here looking for
16 the Presidio State Park.
17 I had some houseguests about three weeks ago.
18 They were here nine years ago. It took me nine years to
19 get them back from Florida to here. And I said, “But you
20 must go down to the Presidio” and Chuck’s comment was,
21 “We saw that, thanks.” I said, “No, no, no, you’ve got
22 to see it now.”
23 They went, came back and if you can say the man
24 bubbled, he was bubbling with enthusiasm. He could not
25 stop talking about the change, the dramatic change here
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1 at the Presidio, and it was due solely to Shaw Kinsley
2 and all of the incredible volunteers here, the Farnns’
3 and all the names I could keep naming here, they have
4 worked their tails off to make this a jewel in the crown
5 of Arizona and of Tubac.
6 One of the things that we want to encourage is
7 that we are an entire town here, we work together. And
8 it wasn’t just the volunteers, it was also the business
9 community, the gallery owners, everybody pitched in with
10 money, time and effort.
11 Yes, there is a dispute going on. They need
12 the money. They need their money unfrozen and returned
13 to them.
14 When we started we all -– most of us met here
15 about three years ago, signed the agreement between the
16 State Parks Board and the County. What a time of
17 jubilation that was. What a time of just joy. It is
18 time to pass the torch and the County and the Friends of
19 the State Presidio, Tubac State Presidio Park and Museum,
20 stand ready. They need your assistance, whatever you can
21 give.
22 You may renew the agreement with confidence.
23 Thank you.
24 MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you so much, Mindy. Rich
25 Bowman.
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1 MR. BOWMAN: Welcome, Mr. Chairman and Board
2 Members. Thank you for coming down here. What I’m going
3 to mention briefly, I’m currently the President of a
4 large organization, over 300 members, the Santa Cruz
5 Valley Systems Council. In fact, we are the largest
6 organization in Santa Cruz County. But primarily our
7 member base is right here in the northwest part of the
8 County.
9 And I think I can unequivocally speak for at
10 least -– I don’t want to say 100 percent, because you
11 never know. But I can speak for 99.9 percent of our
12 members, that everyone supports this Presidio Park. We
13 see it as a treasure to not only to Santa Cruz County but
14 our Village of Tubac. And the work that Director Shaw
15 Kinsley has done in the last three years has been
16 unbelievable.
17 I want to thank the good help we’ve had our
18 County Manager and the County Supervisors who voted
19 unanimously to enter into the new IGA so that the Park
20 could continue on under its new group, the Friends of the
21 Presidio Park and Museum.
22 I personally know every one of the Directors of
23 that group and you could not ask for a better
24 representation of CEO ability, lawyers, I mean they come
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1 with a wealth of educational and background to make this
2 work.
3 I think that you’ve already heard about the
4 issue with the funds being frozen. Personally, I think a
5 letter from your Board to the bank -- the bank is sort of
6 caught between a rock and a hard place. I think a letter
7 from your Board to the bank authorizing the release of
8 those funds to the County Manager until the new group
9 meets their non-profit status, would suffice with the
10 bank and the Park could continue and start their ongoing
11 operations and be able to use the credit card machine and
12 whatever.
13 So thank you for being here. We’ve got
14 facilities. I’m sure you’ve already seen and we want to
15 keep it going, and I have the utmost faith in the new
16 group that they’re going to do a great job overseeing the
17 Park. Thank you.
18 MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Rich. I will add, my
19 wife and I had a cousin of hers and husband in town about
20 a month ago and we brought them down here. Even from
21 Texas they were quite impressed.
22 I would like to at this time publicly thank and
23 acknowledge the Tucson (sic) Historical Society and the
24 work they did for the three years, keeping the Park open
25 and continuing –-
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1 MR. STETSON: You called it “Tucson.” Tubac.
2 MR. CHAIRMAN: Tubac Park. And I have every
3 confidence in the world that the Friends of the Presidio
4 will carry on in the same way and we look forward to
5 working with you very much.
6 I’ll tell you what’s interesting as I look at
7 the number of folks that showed up today. I can only
8 think of two other places around the state where we’ve
9 had meetings where this many people showed up. That was
10 in Apache Junction and Payson. And it says something
11 about small-town Arizona.
12 With that, we’re going to switch directions and
13 we’re going to go to Mr. John Driggs, the ex-mayor of
14 Phoenix, who was asked to address us today. And since
15 he’s the only ex-mayor we’ve got on board today, I’ll
16 give the mayor a few extra minutes. Mayor Driggs?
17 MR. DRIGGS: Mr. Chairman, Members of the State
18 Parks Board. My name is John Driggs, citizen. But I head
19 an organization called the Arizona Second Century
20 Initiative, which is a secondary name for my first
21 committee, which was the Arizona Capital Centennial
22 Committee.
23 And in charge of that was as a part of my
24 membership in both the Legislature’s Commission for the
25 Centennial and the Governor’s -– we ended up with two
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1 commissions for the Centennial, and I had the pleasure of
2 serving on both.
3 The Centennial is over, so I had to change the
4 name. It’s now the Arizona Second Century Initiative,
5 and my specific authority, and it’s been working with
6 four Senate Presidents and three Speakers, to renew the
7 State Capitol and put it back into traditional
8 legislative function of use in that historic building
9 under the Capitol dome.
10 I’d like Kelly to pass to each one of you my
11 six-page white paper on how through a private sector
12 government coordinated initiative, we’re going to breathe
13 life into six very important public buildings, six of
14 which are in control or owned by the State, and one by
15 the City of Phoenix. And that is Tovrea Castle.
16 Some of you may recall that this is my third
17 presentation in this category “call to the public” on the
18 issue of Tovrea Castle. I was designated Chairman
19 (indiscernible) project in ’99, volunteer Chairman I
20 would say, by then-Councilman Phil Gordon. That project
21 is now in it’s 23rd or 24th year. As a Bond project, City
22 of Phoenix can still not generate open to the public.
23 The other buildings that you see in this white
24 paper, start with the State Capitol. Three of the
25 buildings are on the governmental mall are either totally
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1 or grossly underutilized, and then you have the three
2 buildings in the Papago Park area.
3 Mr. Chairman, Board Members, I believe that
4 it’s somewhat (indiscernible) that we’re meeting in a
5 historic building and that I’m hearing issues about how
6 State Parks and the private sector and the local
7 community can cooperate to help maintain our history.
8 We can just that history started here. Arizona
9 history started here. And when I was elected mayor in
10 1969, one of the first things I learned, and I had an all
11 new city council, all new city council. A staff member
12 came in and said, “Mayor, did you realize that this is
13 Phoenix’s Centennial in 1970?” And I said, “No, bring me
14 the file.” They came back two days later and said,
15 “Mayor, there is no file.” The previous mayor and
16 administration of which -– too long a story, you don’t
17 need to hear it now, but I had to scramble and in four
18 months put on a Centennial for Phoenix.
19 As a part of that, the State’s most famous
20 historian at the time (indiscernible), who helped found
21 the Arizona Historical Foundation of Barry Goldwater. I
22 had him come in my office and he said, “Mayor, Phoenix is
23 a wasteland of history. There’s no Historical Society
24 here, there is no history in Phoenix.” One of the things
25 I did as Mayor was form the Phoenix Historical Society.
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1 And we started working on a museum. And then the State
2 Society said, out of Tucson, the Arizona Historical
3 Society is probably the only Historical Society in the
4 whole country, not based in the Capitol. It’s based in
5 Tucson.
6 The then-Assistant Publisher of the Arizonan
7 Republic Gazette came to me and says, “If Phoenix goes it
8 alone with the Historical Society, it will kill many
9 efforts the State Society has to gain a presence in
10 Phoenix.” So I (indiscernible) with them, and you don’t
11 have time to hear all the details, but the fact is,
12 Phoenix is still a wasteland of history.
13 Because the museum that was created there for
14 the State Historical Society does not function and that’s
15 one of the six buildings in your white paper. And it’s
16 incumbent upon this Board as a State Agency, to
17 understand that that huge building in Papago Park, and no
18 one is more familiar with it than I am, because the
19 Historical Society asked me to raise all the money to get
20 it rolling. I raised four million dollars to get the
21 exhibits done and get it open, almost 20 years ago. It
22 has never worked as a museum.
23 So you have that marvelous and I literally mean
24 it, when I leave here, I’m meeting with the Chairman of
25 the Arizona Historical Society, his law office in Tucson,
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1 and I’m going to say to that group, and I’ve been a Board
2 Member off and on ever since -– the ‘60s. I’m going to
3 say it’s time for the State Historical Society to get its
4 own act together in Phoenix, actually the museum in
5 Tempe, that smaller part of Papago Park.
6 But I’m suggesting to this Board that you have
7 a great mission to do in Maricopa County -– and the
8 ironic thing is, you don’t even have any jurisdiction in
9 Maricopa County, because you don’t have a single State
10 Park in Maricopa County. That’s the province of one of
11 your Board Members.
12 And I don’t know the details, but when State
13 Parks was created, and this is my only understanding,
14 that when State Parks was created, there was an
15 understanding, and I don’t even know if it’s a contract
16 written, a constitution, or whatever it is, but there was
17 a gentlemen’s agreement -– I don’t why they call it a
18 “gentlemen’s agreement.” Maybe it should have been
19 gentlemen’s and ladies’ agreement -- but that there not
20 be a State Park in Maricopa County. Why?
21 I’m from the third largest county in the United
22 States and some of the most historic things right there,
23 no State Parks? So I’m suggesting as a part of this
24 overall presentation, Mr. Chairman, that if you haven’t
25 done it already, please direct Bryan Martyn, and I’ve had
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1 the great pleasure of working with him almost since he
2 arrived on this job, that a matter of action be presented
3 to this Board at its next meeting to fix the situation
4 that there is no State Park in Maricopa County, come up
5 with a designation category, and I propose that the staff
6 proposes to you, that the first State Park in Maricopa
7 County would be the Capitol State Park, number one.
8 And the second State Park, I didn’t think I’d
9 ever put Tovrea Castle in second place. But I think it
10 -– we have such a unique opportunity in that governmental
11 mall, the historic buildings and things that are grossly
12 underutilized. One of them used to be a museum, the
13 Mining and Mineral Museum. It’s now locked up. It’s an
14 abandoned building. And you have within your
15 jurisdiction, the State Historic Preservation Officer.
16 I don’t know if the Board Members realize just
17 how much power and influence you have. You were until
18 they changed the statute for the Centennial, you were one
19 of our entities, and you have two of them -– there are
20 four entities that form the Arizona Historical Advisory
21 Commission. The Arizona Park at U of A, State Museum,
22 the Arizona Historical Society, and the other two are
23 you, the State Parks Board and the person that reports to
24 you, and Mr. Martyn, the State Historic Preservation
25 Officer.
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1 You have immense power and influence. And so
2 I’m asking you to use that influence and let’s make
3 Maricopa County a (indiscernible) for historic State
4 Parks, with those designations, and I’m sure that the law
5 department can help the staff guide through anything that
6 would need to be done. I’m thinking that initially,
7 nothing would change financially. Tovrea Castle,
8 everything would remain the same. It would simply be a
9 different agency that would give Tovrea Castle a status.
10 And it showed up -– I don’t know how many of you have
11 seen it. This is the February issue of the State Agency
12 Department of Transportation’s magazine to the world,
13 Arizona Highways. Look at what’s on the cover. Tovrea
14 Castle. It calls it one of the five icons in the State.
15 One of your former Chairman, John Hanks,
16 Prescott, when I took him to Tovrea Castle 12 years ago,
17 he said at the top of this building, he says, “This must
18 be a State Park.” And then I found out later that
19 there’s this gentlemen’s understanding that there not be
20 a State Park in Maricopa County.
21 So I’m just saying, let’s change the
22 guidelines. It will bring the State Parks into a whole
23 new focus, and it will enhance the kind of thing that’s
24 happening here with citizens’ involvement in State Parks,
25 and I think it will be a renaissance for State Parks.
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1 Thank you very much.
2 MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you, sir. And we will
3 certainly take it under consideration.
4 MR. DRIGGS: Thank you.
5 MR. CHAIRMAN: And just as a point of order, we
6 do have one State Park, although we don’t operate it,
7 it’s (indiscernible) thanks to Carefree and Cave Creek.
8 They run it for us.
9 MR. DRIGGS: It’s the “Johnny Come Lately,” of
10 course, but I’m thinking of the emphasis of historic
11 State Park as opposed -–
12 MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for coming, everyone.
13 Don’t everybody leave. All right. Next on the Agenda is
14 a Consent Agent and we have nothing to consent to today,
15 so we’re going to move right into the Director’s Summary.
16 Bryan?
17 MR. MARTYN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr.
18 Chairman, if I may request a point of personal privilege
19 to address the audience briefly, if it’s all right?
20 MR. CHAIRMAN: You certainly may.
21 MR. MARTYN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On behalf
22 of Arizona State Parks staff and Rangers, I want to thank
23 everybody in this room who not only has worked over the
24 troubles over the last few months, but has worked through
25 the troubles of the last few years.
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1 We could not do State Parks without our
2 volunteers. We have over 800 volunteers that make our
3 Agency work. I can’t be more clear. 800 volunteers make
4 our Agency work. Without those volunteers, our Agency
5 does not work. I can’t begin to thank you enough.
6 Personally, for me, I represent over 310 Park employees
7 and volunteers. We couldn’t do it without.
8 So you are definitely our family, you are part
9 of the reason we exist, you are part of the reason we’re
10 successful, and you are part of the reason why we have
11 2.2 million visitors every year who love State Parks,
12 thanks to you. Your smiling faces and your dedication to
13 everything we do, if I could pay you all, I would. But
14 please accept this as my most sincere form of payment.
15 Thank you for what you do.
16 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
17 (clapping)
18 MR. CHAIRMAN: And we will do anything we can
19 to help you resolve the current conflict if you wish and
20 get things back on track.
21 (clapping)
22 MR. MARTYN: Mr. Chairman and Board, it’s been
23 busy for the last month. A quick Director’s update
24 (indiscernible) events from where I’ve been recently,
25 just so you know, and the public appreciates this. I
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1 just got back last week, I spent a week in Boston, went
2 to Harvard for an executive education class. We talked
3 about running State Parks like a business, make them as
4 fiscally sound as we can, and know that we at State Parks
5 are dedicated to going to get the answers to the test.
6 This is a tough road to hoe, how do you save
7 State Parks, and maneuver to utilize the business acumen
8 that’s out there. We talk about State Parks, it used to
9 be kind of like a library museum. You didn’t have to
10 make money. Well, we’ve got to make money now.
11 So we’re dedicated to getting the education and
12 getting out there. It was –- I went to a class called
13 “Driving Government Performance,” which is right in our
14 wheelhouse, it’s what we do. It was a great class. It was
15 a great networking exercise. I ended up using my GI Bill
16 to pay the $7,000 for the one week at Harvard, so
17 taxpayer dollars weren’t spent.
18 But we are dedicated to that and just as a
19 Board, I hope you know, that’s the direction we are
20 taking this Agency based on your guidance.
21 But it was a good week, and the weather was
22 good. It’s not good this week and it wasn’t the week
23 before, but it was good weather while I was there.
24 This last weekend, I got back late Friday
25 night, and then Sunday morning I found myself out at
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1 Picacho Peak at the Civil War Reenactment. I want to
2 thank all the staff who made that event work. We talked
3 about volunteers. It was a great opportunity to get
4 employees, mostly staff, the Phoenix office, out to the
5 field, and they love it and they’re driving people
6 around. I want to thank the Deputy Directors who made
7 time to get out there as well.
8 We had almost 4,000 guests over the two days.
9 We raised about $11,000, I think is the number. It was
10 good. It was a good exercise for me and staff to -– I
11 was driving a golf cart back and forth. We take the
12 handicap folk at the parking lot and drive them to the
13 front gate basically of where the events are happening,
14 and men and women and child, everybody was having a good
15 time. As I drove them back, they were excited to go in
16 to see the cool stuff going on in there, as I drove them
17 back out to their car, they were overjoyed. From the 85-
18 year-old grandma to the 6-year-old kid, everybody had a
19 good time. They really liked the loud cannon especially.
20 But it was a great event. And again, volunteers make
21 this work.
22 All the re-enactors, not one of them got paid.
23 There were almost 200 re-enactors out there and these guy
24 and gals dedicate their time to support (indiscernible)
25 and what they’re all about, that they utilize our Park,
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1 our State property, to make great things happen, and we
2 all benefit from it. They’re dedicated to staying on the
3 Park and they would be interested in continuing with more
4 of this at some other Parks.
5 So we’re starting to talk to them about getting
6 these re-enactors out around the state and letting them
7 do what they do. A very positive event.
8 Also, about three weeks ago, we spent some time
9 down at (indiscernible), which is the home of the old
10 John Wayne movie, McClintock, that house out there. If
11 you didn’t know it, it’s just down the street from here
12 by the way, relative down the street. A great piece of
13 property that we picked up through some Heritage money a
14 few years ago.
15 We have -– I was looking on-line for some
16 pictures of the house, and I ran across the old weather
17 vane, a picture of the weather vane, and I clicked on it
18 and sure enough, there was a company that sold it, that
19 weather vane. I’m like, we’ve got to get the weather
20 vane for the John Wayne, for the McClintock house. So I
21 started calling around and the guy who makes the weather
22 vane lives in Benson, Arizona, of all places.
23 So I called him and asked him if we could get a
24 cost and I explained what we were going to use it for,
25 and he said, “You can have it. I just want to be down
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1 there when you put it on the house.” So they dedicated
2 the weather vane for the house. So we went out there to
3 the house and we put it up, and this guy belongs to a
4 Jeep group, a Jeep travel group. There must have been 50
5 people out at the house, and I can’t tell you how excited
6 these people were to walk through the 10,000 square foot
7 home, both inside and outside. They were very, very
8 pleased.
9 Now we’re still working through some issues on
10 the property. That property, just for the public’s sake,
11 is more of the environmental piece. The house is just an
12 add-on. We control about 21,000 acres total down there
13 for an environmental piece. One of our missions is to
14 protect resources, and this resource is more of a nature
15 preserve, just happens to have a little cool historic
16 house on it. So it’s not really open to the public, but
17 it’s a great venue.
18 So it was a good event and we continue to do
19 great things.
20 Some things coming up. A big thing, and I’m
21 sure everybody in this room is aware that this weekend,
22 we’re getting an award, and I want to thank Sholoff
23 (phonetic) for heading that up, and this is good. This
24 is good exposure at a national level for a great Park,
25 and who is the gentlemen who runs that that I saw?
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1 BOARD MEMBER: Mark Scarp, from the Valley of
2 the Sun Chapter of the Society of Professional
3 Journalists.
4 MR. MARTYN: Great guy, I’m sure everybody here
5 knows this guy is dedicated. And it’s great to recognize
6 the work that he does to keep that press up and keep it
7 operational as a matter of fact. Good things happening
8 there. So we’re very excited about that. Looking forward
9 to that.
10 And then Catalina State Park, we’ve got their
11 30th anniversary coming on May 4. Those invitations
12 should be going out this week. We are sending those out
13 to how many?
14 FEMALE SPEAKER: 300.
15 MR. MARTYN: 300 dignitaries and the like. It
16 will be a nice event showcasing one of our most popular
17 Parks, the most profitable Parks at that. So good thing.
18 You’re all invited. It’s just up the street. It’s
19 Catalina, towards Tucson.
20 With that, any –- Mr. Chairman, Members, any
21 questions about anything else going on, or grumblings
22 that you’re hearing? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
23 If you don’t mind, I’d like to go to Item H, if
24 that’s all right, Mr. Chairman.
25 MR. CHAIRMAN: Go right ahead.
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1 MR. MARTYN: Under item Number H, we talk about
2 State Parks, legislative updates. There are currently
3 three bills that are moving through the House and the
4 Senate.
5 The Continuation Bill is all the way through
6 the House and the Senate. It’s waiting, it’s through
7 caucus. It’s just waiting for a vote. We don’t see any
8 problems there. It did go forward with ten years, so
9 that’s a good piece of legislation that I don’t see any
10 problems with.
11 We had a little bit of pushback in the House,
12 but I talked to the legislator. He wanted to involve big
13 game hunting on Arizona State Park. I told him that
14 Tubac was probably a good place to go look for elk. So
15 he’s been educated on what actually State Park’s function
16 is. We’re not a big game reserve. So we’re good there.
17 The SPLIF Bill, 2172, State Lake Improvement
18 Fund, which represents about two million dollars to the
19 Agency based on the recompilation of how we did SPLIF.
20 It’s an ADOT Bill. It didn’t make it through the House on
21 a 60/0 vote, so I’m sure it’s doomed for failure at some
22 level. That’s a good Bill. That’s advantageous to all
23 the Agency, and we’re anxious to see that move forward.
24 It is sitting suspense in caucus in the Senate, just
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1 waiting for a Senate vote, and then it will make its way
2 over to the Governor’s office.
3 Finally, the State Parks one, 2621, that’s that
4 Bill that prescribes an opt-in on the vehicle
5 registration, a donation of sorts, that the State Parks
6 Board will determine what the donation value, what it
7 would be, and then any accompanying promotional item that
8 would go with it.
9 That Bill itself is over on the Senate side
10 right now. It goes to Rules next and we'll see. So far
11 it’s had great support in both the House and the Senate.
12 We’re watching that Bill closely.
13 So with that, any questions about things going
14 on relative to legislation effecting State Parks?
15 MR. CHAIRMAN: Seems like things are a little
16 quieter than they have been in the past, which is always
17 good.
18 MR. MARTYN: This is the calm before the storm
19 I’m afraid, as far as the Legislature is concerned, sir.
20 But anything else on that, sir?
21 MR. CHAIRMAN: No questions from any of the
22 Board. Okay, thank you, Bryan.
23 MR. MARTYN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
24 MR. CHAIRMAN: Why don’t we move ahead with
25 State Parks Operations at this point.
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1 BOARD MEMBER: I didn’t know where we were
2 headed.
3 MR. CHAIRMAN: Yeah. People can find out about
4 some of our other State Parks around the State, how we’re
5 doing.
6 MR. REAM: I don’t have a page number here, but
7 this is what the front page looks like, H2, in your Board
8 packet. I’m more interested in the table and the updated
9 attachment.
10 Mr. Chairman, Members of the Board, I just want
11 to remind everyone here that there are three Parks in
12 Santa Cruz County. It’s the smallest county in Arizona,
13 but it has quite a number of Arizona State Parks in it.
14 The Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, San Rafael
15 Natural Area, the Sonoita Creek Natural Area and
16 Patagonia Lake State Park. So it is -- I mean the next
17 biggest one is five Parks in Yavapai County and Pinal
18 County. I do call your attention to that. We have quite
19 an investment in Santa Cruz County.
20 You know the 13 Parks that are open to the
21 public and without any financial partners. We also have
22 the Parks operated by Arizona State Park staff, that is
23 Rangers on the property, and through partnership support
24 either in-kind or financial.
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1 We have the Parks like Tubac Presidio State
2 Historical Park, which is operated by -– through an
3 agreement with Santa Cruz County and operated now by the
4 Friends of Tubac Presidio and Museum. If I write a
5 check, I need to know all that.
6 So I want to go down and tell -– I gave a
7 pretty good description last meeting on where we were on
8 all these. We’ve had some updates since then. I’ll just
9 give you those updates and I’ll be done for the day.
10 The first is Fort Verde State Historic Park.
11 The Council is still considering it. This is a change
12 from a year-to-year agreement like we had here at Tubac,
13 to a five-year agreement. And they want to make sure all
14 the ducks are in a row before they sign a five-year
15 agreement for the operation of that Park. And
16 (indiscernible) time, we’re planning on setting up a
17 meeting and going over some of the concerns of that
18 partnership, and hopefully, we can get that ironed out.
19 The Hopi Tribe Partnership has been signed by
20 the Tribal Council and the Chairman of the Hopi Tribe,
21 and we’re just waiting for our copy to get back. It’s
22 just awaiting the Director’s signature. They’ve already
23 sent the check. So we are set for another year with the
24 management at Homolovi State Park and the partnership
25 with the Hopi Tribe.
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1 Move on down to the Tubac Presidio. I didn’t
2 even know this. This is how fresh this is. They voted
3 to accept this agreement this morning. I will assume it
4 will be signed by the County Manager or the Chairman of
5 the Board of Supervisors, I don’t know which, and then
6 that will be available for the Director’s signature and
7 that will be going on as well.
8 Many of you know, I’ll say it one more time,
9 that we are involving grazing. Our conservation owner,
10 who owns the property adjacent to San Rafael, will be
11 grazing about 100 head of cattle for the next five months
12 at San Rafael. He’ll be using two pastures and it will
13 be about 2 and a half months on each pasture.
14 We are getting the same money that -– we used
15 the State Lands formula for determining that
16 (indiscernible). We call it our Special Use Permit,
17 because it is not a long-term lease. We may have
18 grazing, we may not. It all depends. It’s all special
19 use.
20 MR. CHAIRMAN: It’s a fire prevention tool, if
21 nothing else, to keep the house from burning down.
22 MR. REAM: I’ll move down to Lyman Lake State
23 Park. We’ve made our call again to Apache County. I
24 will remind you that the Park will open in May for day
25 use, and then on Memorial Day, we’ll open it for camping
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1 all through the summer. This is an exciting prospect.
2 We’ve had a long-term commitment from Apache County for
3 four years. We’ve been getting money from Apache County
4 and making the Park open and available during those
5 summer months.
6 This is something new for State Parks, having a
7 seasonal operation in the State Park, and it’s working
8 out very well. We think we’ve got it down. So we’re
9 hoping that that will work out. We will be open in May.
10 The Tombstone Courthouse has been approved by
11 the Tombstone City Council, and signed by the Director.
12 That one is done. That is operated by -- the Tombstone
13 Chamber of Commerce, operates that Park with an agreement
14 with the City of Tombstone. A little bit different.
15 Everyone of them is unique to each town and each
16 situation.
17 Then finally, McFarland. It won’t expire until
18 June, but just so the little town of Tubac and Santa Cruz
19 County doesn’t feel left out, they’re having some turmoil
20 there in that small town over who is going to run that
21 Park, whether it’s going to be Main Street Program or the
22 Florence Historical Society. We’re changing our
23 agreement. The Main Street Program is out, the Florence
24 Historical Society is in, and what we like to call in-
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1 flux right now, as we move through the agreement process
2 with the town.
3 So hopefully, we’ll have that done by the end
4 of March. I believe the Historical Society is already
5 moving in. We do have a current agreement with the town
6 no matter what.
7 That’s all I have. I’m open to questions on
8 these. Again, all of these have been really great to
9 work on. It’s been great to work with these communities.
10 It is especially rewarding that these people who take
11 these over, how much they love the places and you can see
12 that in the way they operate them and the way they take
13 care of these Arizona State Park property.
14 MR. CHAIRMAN: There are no questions. Thank
15 you, Jay. I might add for the public’s benefit, just a
16 little explanation on the seasonal deal.
17 When we started getting into running into some
18 financial problems, one of the decisions that was made or
19 conclusions that was made, was that some place like El
20 Paso in the middle of the summer was hotter than Haiti,
21 and the only reason to keep it open in the summer is to
22 rescue people that are foolish enough to hike to the top
23 of it without any water.
24 So we decided that we would close a Park such
25 as that during the hot summer months. By the same token,
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1 you go up to Lyman Lake up in Apache County where it’s
2 cold as all get out in the winter time, you’re probably
3 not going to be able to do a lot of fishing or swimming
4 on the lake. So we’ve closed it in the winter time and
5 we’re able to shuffle some folks around and keep those
6 Parks open during the peak season. So it’s worked out
7 very well.
8 Next on the Agenda is a status update on
9 Presidio State Park, and Shaw, would you like to address
10 us on this?
11 MR. KINSLEY: I’d be happy. The status of the
12 Park is that we’re finishing up our busiest season.
13 March is our crescendo and visitation has been very good.
14 We’ve been blessed with being able to enhance several of
15 the exhibits. Michael Frisinger (phonetic) has given me
16 dry-mounted images of the 1974 dig that installed the
17 most significant exhibit we have here at the
18 archeological dig that exposed the foundations and the
19 artifacts found by the Arizona State Museum and the
20 University of Arizona. These color pictures just really
21 enhance that underground site and are very useful to
22 school groups and illuminating the whole process of
23 archeology.
24 We are very much looking forward to the award
25 on Saturday as a National Historical Site for Journalism
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1 and we promise not to ask why it was so long in coming,
2 since it was the first newspaper in Arizona in 1859. But
3 we are very happy to have it.
4 The excitement of about 3 and a half weeks ago
5 when the paintings that use to grace these walls were
6 removed forcibly and passed out that door to a waiting
7 van. We’re looking forward to the change in the
8 leadership of the Historical Society, so those might come
9 back. In the meantime, we are blessed to have a
10 fantastic exhibit of the Anza Exhibit supplied by the
11 National Park Service, and another gift from Michael
12 Frisinger. This traveling exhibit by the Smithsonian
13 Institution of the scenes of change, talking about the
14 Colombian Expedition, has gotten great comments and
15 reviews from visitors and it’s taken care in a nice space
16 here.
17 I’m really open to any questions you might have
18 about the operations, but steady as she goes is sort of
19 our motto right now.
20 MR. CHAIRMAN: Bryan, Ken, do either one of you
21 something to add?
22 MR. MARTYN: Mr. Chairman, if I might. Mr.
23 Bowman mentioned something about a letter from the Board
24 to the bank and County Manager, if I might address. We
25 would have to work through that with the Board’s guidance
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1 relative to the legality of can we even do that. You
2 know what with our commitment and the Board’s commitment
3 is for the Park to remain open with our primary partner,
4 the County, and all the imaginations of the problems that
5 are happening below that is what it is.
6 But we’ll explore, Mr. Chairman, the legality
7 of what might be able to do to help, and then get back to
8 you through the Board and myself if that’s all right, Mr.
9 (indiscernible).
10 MALE SPEAKER: That would be great. We’d sure
11 appreciate the help.
12 MR. CHAIRMAN: We’ll do whatever we can, as
13 long as our lawyer doesn’t get us in trouble.
14 MALE SPEAKER: Well, let’s all stay on the
15 right side of that.
16 MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes, question?
17 MALE SPEAKER: Yes, sir. If I could just add
18 an addendum. The money that I believe is in those
19 accounts that was already brought up, does not belong to
20 the Tubac Historical Society. It was money that was
21 given to the Presidio Park by groups such as our, the
22 Citizens Council, homeowner’s associations, individual
23 contributions, and it should not in any way be held
24 hostage because of the dispute between who the real board
25 is of the Tubac Historical Society.
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1 And that’s why from a legal standpoint, the
2 bank is just looking for -– actually a reason, so they
3 can turn that money over to the County. I don’t see it
4 being a real legal problem. But I know that it’s
5 something you have to explore.
6 MR. CHAIRMAN: Do we have contact information
7 on that?
8 MR. STETSON: We do.
9 MR. CHAIRMAN: Okay. Thank you, Shaw, and
10 thanks to everybody who is here today for all your work
11 you’ve done in the past and are going keep doing for the
12 next three years minimum.
13 Okay. Kent, would you like to give us a
14 revenue forecast, a revenue, and visitation?
15 MR. ENNIS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’ll be
16 brief as usual, or try to be.
17 We experienced our second January and February
18 decline in attendance and Park revenue on a month basis
19 over the prior February. We had about 16 percent in
20 revenues in the system. We’re down about 12 percent.
21 Yes, 12 percent. And we attribute that entirely due to
22 the cold, the two cold months that we had.
23 We are watching this very closely. We think –-
24 we were able to track it daily now with the reservation
25 system, and we think we’re in the process of catching up
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1 so that we’ll be at least flat this month. We’ve got a
2 ways to go.
3 But the good news is, is that we are still
4 attendance-wise flat on the year and year-to-date and we
5 are flat revenue-wise in the Park system. And our
6 revenue forecast is very conservative, and so flat is
7 essentially good. So we’re flat these two months. They
8 were also marked last year in January, February, but a
9 real surge. So we couldn’t keep that up. We’re not –-
10 in other words, at this moment, we’re not all concerned.
11 Our OHV Fund is actually up year-to-date,
12 approximately 3 and a half, 4 percent, so we’re good
13 there.
14 And of course our State Lake Improvement Fund
15 is the most stable and it’s essentially dead on from last
16 year and dead on forecast. And so we’re hoping that
17 these revenue enhancements, one or more, that the
18 Director had talked about in the Legislative update, will
19 come through. They will be a great help to us in the
20 future.
21 With that, I’ll be happy to answer any
22 questions.
23 MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes?
24 MR. EVERETT: The Legislation you mentioned,
25 how would that impact?
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1 MR. MARTYN: Mr. Chairman, Mr. Everett, if you
2 look -– take it back one slide. You see the black lines
3 that are up nice and high right there, those would come
4 back basically. It’s about $200,000 a month that we
5 would be able to utilize operationally. There’s some
6 limitations obviously to SPLIF funds, but it would be a
7 great advantage.
8 MR. EVERETT: And is that one where -– it’s a
9 safety fund isn’t it, that goes to counties?
10 MR. MARTYN: Boating safety.
11 MR. EVERETT: Yeah, okay.
12 MR. MARTYN: And this is (indiscernible).
13 MR. EVERETT: So this would all increase
14 (indiscernible)?
15 MR. MARTYN: Correct, yes, sir. Yes, sir,
16 that’s correct. This is a good thing for the Agency.
17 Eventually, our goal is to get off of the SPLIF Fund.
18 But in the interim, this is a good tool for us to
19 continue getting out of our two hundred million dollar
20 request for capital backlog.
21 MR. CHAIRMAN: Any further questions for Kent?
22 If not, thank you, sir. At this point, we will move to
23 Item G (indiscernible).
24 MALE SPEAKER: Mr. Chairman, my name is on this
25 memo and the subsequent grants related (indiscernible).
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1 But since we reorganized almost a year ago, I’ve been
2 working in a daily fashion with our grant staff.
3 (Indiscernible) I would like to go with our
4 (indiscernible) and go with our expertise and have the
5 expert on this matters, Doris Pulsifer make this
6 presentation, with your permission.
7 MR. CHAIRMAN: You may. It makes perfectly
8 good sense to me.
9 MS. PULSIFER: Good afternoon, Members of the
10 Board. The next few items are actually all pretty much
11 trails grants related, so I’ll just go and try to give
12 you some little bit of background on each one for the
13 benefit of the ones that are new.
14 This first items is a recommendation that
15 hasn’t been forwarded from the OHVAG, and it deals with
16 OHV Ambassador Grant Program. The Ambassador Program is
17 kind of a sub-program of the overall OHV Grant Program.
18 The purpose of the Ambassador Program is basically for
19 the operation of the Ambassador Group which they train
20 volunteers to go out and have a presence on these OHV
21 areas and to have events and just have a presence and
22 promote safe and responsible recreation. They passed out
23 educational materials and those kinds of things.
24 The Community Forest Trust is a partner with
25 the Prescott Forest. What they do, they coordinate
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1 volunteer activities. And a couple of years ago, the
2 Community Forest Trust on behalf of the Prescott National
3 Forest area, submitted a Grant Application for the
4 Ambassador Program funds. And they were awarded $18,500.
5 As part of what the grant was for is basically
6 was for equipment and materials and here two years later,
7 they’ve pretty much purchased everything that they
8 needed. But in the meantime, part of the deal was that
9 they would provide the OHVA coordinator. Due to budget
10 cuts and those types of things, they have not been able
11 to secure the funding for the coordinator.
12 And so what this request is, because they’ve
13 only spent a little over $6,000 of their total grant
14 award, they’re not asking for any additional money or
15 anything like that. This is merely just a transfer of
16 the unexpended funds that was to be used for equipment
17 and transfer that over and allow them to use that to pay
18 an OHVA coordinator part-time.
19 So that’s basically all this is. Like I said,
20 the OVHAG Group has reviewed this and has approved it.
21 MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes?
22 MALE SPEAKER: Mr. Chairman, I approve that as
23 recommended.
24 MR. CHAIRMAN: Would you like to read it,
25 please?
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1 MALE SPEAKER: Sure. I move to allow the
2 Community Forest Trust to use up to $12,000 of the
3 remaining funds awarded in Grant 571018, Prescott
4 National Forest, OHV Ambassador Program, for direct
5 payroll cost of their OHVA Unit Coordinator.
6 MALE SPEAKER: Second.
7 MR. CHAIRMAN: We have a motion and second. Is
8 there any further discussion? Hearing none, all in
9 favor, indicate by saying aye.
10 (Chorus of “ayes.”)
11 MR. CHAIRMAN: Opposed? So be it. Thank you.
12 MS. PULSIFER: And the next item is to ask you
13 to consider a revision to the OHV Project Grant Writing
14 Process, Criteria, and Evaluation Form.
15 And, again, just to give you a little bit of
16 background in a nutshell. A couple of years ago,
17 (indiscernible) prior to last September, the OHVAG Group
18 had the authority to rate and award grant funding. And a
19 couple of years ago while they were going through this -–
20 they had a little bit different process back with -– they
21 asked staff if they could assist them by looking at a
22 method for them to be able to score these grants.
23 And so staff did that and came up with what we
24 call the Evaluation Tool. And that’s basically just –-
25 it’s a form that allows it to prioritize the projects.
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1 So kind of moving, fast forwarding to last June, this
2 body requested that the grant criteria and funding
3 request be reviewed staff, (indiscernible) and for those
4 recommendations to be then forwarded to the Board for
5 final approval.
6 So following that action, in August AORCC met
7 and then OVHAG. And the purpose to bring AORCC into the
8 picture was because statutorily AORCC is responsible for
9 reviewing OHV grants. And somewhere along the lines,
10 years before I came to State Parks, they stopped doing
11 that. I suspect it had something to do with back when we
12 had the Heritage funds and it was probably split up where
13 AORCC probably took over the trails, the Heritage trails
14 part, and then (indiscernible) took care of the OHV
15 grants.
16 I’m not sure that that’s how it came about, but
17 I kind of suspect that’s what happened.
18 Anyway, going back to June –- or, I mean, last
19 August, following that request by the Board
20 (indiscernible), first AORCC met and they reviewed the
21 evaluation tool and the criteria and they made a few
22 suggestions. Pretty much they accepted what staff had
23 come up with and the evaluation tool is basically split
24 up into two sections. The main section is the ace
25 points, which is basically -– it takes the priorities of
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1 the State Trails Plan and it assigns points to the
2 different components. There’s three priorities, and
3 within the three priorities there’s different components.
4 So the face part, assigned the tools 100 points
5 for that section and then we asked AORCC and OHVAG both,
6 to consider bonus categories. So the second part just
7 assigns different points to different bonus categories.
8 And if you look in your packet, just a couple of pages
9 farther on you’ll see a description of those bonus
10 categories.
11 So AORCC, basically, their recommendation went
12 forward and in their recommendation they decided that
13 they did not want to be responsible for actually rating
14 the grants. They asked for staff to do that and then
15 bring the recommendation to them and they would consider
16 that recommendation. That was one part.
17 And then OHVAG, on the other hand, they wanted
18 to go ahead and do their own ratings. So that was kind
19 of the difference there.
20 The other significant, and it wasn’t really all
21 that significant was, in the bonus category, this is
22 where we come to this item here, there was a slight
23 difference in the bonus category having to do with public
24 support.
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1 Now part of the reason going back to why the
2 Board asked AORCC to take part in coming up with criteria
3 is because of the two different perspectives. AORCC kind
4 of has an overall picture of the recreation arena, where
5 OHVAG has a focus on OHV-related activities.
6 So the two perspectives, just a little bit
7 different there, and it kind of comes out in this one
8 particular bonus category, in that AORCC's view of public
9 support is a little bit different in the definition of
10 what public support is.
11 In AORCC's mind, public support is the overall
12 public support non-OHV groups. Now, OHVAG on the other
13 hand sees public support as support from OHV groups. So
14 this is where the two differences came in.
15 When this was forwarded to the Board in
16 September, the Board pretty much approved all of the
17 bonus categories and it was their decision that at that
18 time that public Parks -– considered overall support from
19 letters -– from anybody.
20 And so following that action in September, the
21 Grant Manuals were delivered based on the criteria that
22 was approved by the Board. We accepted the applications
23 from the different entities based on this criteria and it
24 was ranked and rated based on that criteria.
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1 Now, we told both AORCC and OHVAG that
2 following this first cycle using this new grant criteria
3 and the evaluation tool, that they would have the
4 opportunity to evaluate the rating process and make
5 recommendations.
6 So following this first cycle, first it was
7 presented to AORCC and AORCC made their recommendations
8 on the funding request and they evaluated the process and
9 they didn’t have any changes. They felt that the
10 evaluation process and the evaluation tool all worked
11 very well, and so they do not have a recommendation for
12 me to present to you today.
13 OHVAG on the other hand had a few different
14 ideas that they still want to review a little bit more.
15 But for today, the recommendation that they did forward
16 was for you to, again, please reconsider the public
17 support and what their definition is, again, the OHV
18 community.
19 So that’s what this request is, asking you to
20 reconsider that bonus criteria of the definition of
21 public support.
22 MR. CHAIRMAN: That we originally took care of
23 in September of last year?
24 MS. PULSIFER: Yes.
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1 MR. CHAIRMAN: With that, I would entertain a
2 motion to approve this.
3 MALE SPEAKER: I move the Arizona State Parks
4 Board revise the Grant Rating Criteria for the 2013 OHV
5 State (indiscernible) Grant Program Manual per Director
6 (indiscernible) of OHVAG on February 22, 2013.
7 MR. CHAIRMAN: Is there a second? We don’t
8 have a second for the motion.
9 FEMALE SPEAKER: I have a point of
10 clarification, if I may.
11 MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes.
12 FEMALE SPEAKER: So this is contrary to what
13 the Board discussed in September, is this what I’m
14 gathering, or --
15 MR. CHAIRMAN: No.
16 FEMALE SPEAKER: -- this is in accord with what
17 the Board -– okay. I just wanted to confirm. No it’s
18 contrary.
19 MS. PULSIFER: Right. In September, the Board
20 reviewed the same criteria and went with the
21 recommendation that public support meant -– or community
22 support meant public support overall.
23 MR. CHAIRMAN: Not just OHVAG.
24 MS. PULSIFER: Right.
25 FEMALE SPEAKER: Exactly.
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1 MR. CHAIRMAN: Not just OHV support, right.
2 FEMALE SPEAKER: And this is in accord with
3 overall public support, or this is OHV community support?
4 MS. PULSIFER: This is OHV community support.
5 MR. MARTYN: Mr. Chairman, if I might ask you a
6 question.
7 MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes.
8 MR. MARTYN: Relative to what OHV has
9 recommended here, this only affects their personal
10 criteria and rating. It does -– and this does not in any
11 impact AORCC's recommendation or staff’s recommendation.
12 This just allows the OHV community to place more emphasis
13 somewhere than the other.
14 This body as the approval authority for these
15 grants, still can take or whatever piece of
16 recommendation that is. This is simply giving the OHVAG
17 community kind of their own spin on it, and then it will
18 be this job, this Board’s job to massage, take that into
19 consideration relative to the score that they give to a
20 particular item.
21 We did see in this last grant cycle, that the
22 OHV community agreed with staff’s recommendations, where
23 AORCC actually changed a few things.
24 So, ultimately, it will give this Board still
25 the ability to make an educated decision relative to the
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1 grant cycle, but it will also empower the HOV community
2 to feel that they’re getting their focus on what they
3 want to do. And that was the reason why the Board made
4 the recommendation months ago, allowed AORCC to take
5 their look at, allowed staff to take their look at it,
6 and then let OHV put their two cents in.
7 That’s all we’re doing. This motion allows
8 OHVAG to personalize their grant criteria.
9 MALE SPEAKER: Mr. Chairman?
10 MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes.
11 MALE SPEAKER: Question then based on that. So
12 there would now be two separate grant rating criteria?
13 One that OHVAG would use and one that AORCC would use?
14 MS. PULSIFER: No. Because we developed the
15 Grant Manual. We can only have one set of criteria. So
16 it’s whatever this Board –-
17 MALE SPEAKER: So if we pass this, then we are
18 going against what AORCC is recommending and going with
19 what OHVAG is recommending?
20 MR. MARTYN: Excuse me, Mr. Chairman. Okay, if
21 the Board approves this, what happens to the overall
22 grant criteria?
23 MS. PULSIFER: The overall grant criteria stays
24 the same. It’s just the definition of what public
25 support, community support is. And it’s just basically
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1 what AORCC's perspective is overall and OHVAG is focused
2 on the OHV community. So it’s two different
3 perspectives.
4 MALE SPEAKER: So if this is passed, though,
5 whose perspective do we use?
6 MS. PULSIFER: I don’t really want to speak for
7 AORCC, but AORCC really -– they -– I don’t think that
8 they would really have a problem with narrowing it down
9 to the OHV community. They feel that, you know, public
10 support is probably -– weighs more in the long run.
11 But I don’t think that they would necessarily
12 have a problem if it was narrowed down to OHV.
13 FEMALE SPEAKER: And so I’m only comfortable
14 with overall public support. I’m not sure how all the
15 dynamics work here with the way these groups interact.
16 But if this is narrowing it down anywhere so it’s just
17 OHV and that’s the guideline that we’re looking at,
18 that’s not something that I would be supportive of.
19 MALE SPEAKER: Nor would I.
20 MR. MARTYN: Mr. Chairman, so let’s make this
21 clear for the Board’s sake. Relative to the criteria
22 that would be written, overall criteria, we would change
23 it to focus on the OHV definition, and the original AORCC
24 definition would come out.
25 FEMALE SPEAKER: If this is passed, correct?
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1 MR. MARTYN: Yes. Mr. Chairman, I believe
2 you’re accurate in your perception of what you’re asking
3 for here.
4 MR. CHAIRMAN: I was going to say, absent no
5 second, the motion dies. Okay, Doris.
6 MS. PULSIFER: Okay, Number 3. This motion is
7 forwarded to you from the ASCOT Group, the Arizona State
8 Trails Community on Trails, and they are charged with
9 reviewing the nominations for trails to be included in
10 the State Trail System. And they’ve been collecting
11 these applications for some time now, and they’ve
12 actually received 16 applications, one was -– it’s not
13 included in this recommendation. It’s not that it’s not
14 a good trail, it’s just that they need more work on their
15 application.
16 So for today, the recommendation from ASCOT, is
17 to approve these 15 trails that are listed here in table
18 one, just so that for a matter of record so that you
19 won’t have to read them into your motion, I’m going to
20 go through them real quick.
21 We have eight that have been submitted from
22 Maricopa County and for a total of 21.9 miles. It
23 includes the Lake Pleasant Regional Park-Anthem I-17
24 Connector Trails, the Mule Deer Trail, the Sonoran Trail,
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1 Verde Trails, the Tortoise Trail, the Rock Knob Trail,
2 the Chuparosa Trail, and Shallmo Wash Trail.
3 The Town of Marana has submitted six
4 applications for a total of 22 miles, and they include
5 the Alamo Springs Trail, Cochinse Spring Trail, Lower
6 Javelina Trail, Upper Javelina Trail, Wild Burrow Trail,
7 Wild Mustang Trail.
8 And the City of Bullhead City submitted one
9 application for 1.25 miles and that's for the Colorado
10 River Nature Trail.
11 So we have 15 trails totaling 45.15 miles. And
12 these trails meet different criteria, depending on what
13 type of trail they are. They have specific –- depending
14 on trail, they have specific criteria, whether it’s urban
15 trail across State trail, recreation trail, interpretive
16 trail, historic trail, or paddle trail.
17 The existing -– the trails that are forwarded
18 for recommendation have to be either an existing trail or
19 a proposed trail that the planning has been completed or
20 construction is ready to go. So that’s part of the
21 criteria for these trails.
22 MR. CHAIRMAN: Any questions?
23 FEMALE SPEAKER: Yes. I have a question, Mr.
24 Chairman, Doris. So the trails that are proposed are the
25 rights to the property ownership of the trail. Have
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1 those been established, has the property owner been
2 consulted with on these?
3 MS. PULSIFER: That’s part of the requirement,
4 yes.
5 FEMALE SPEAKER: So they each have the rights?
6 Okay.
7 MS. PULSIFER: So it’s -– basically, it’s a
8 designation is what it is.
9 FEMALE SPEAKER: And part of the review process
10 is that the property owner has been consulted with and
11 has agreed to the designation on their land?
12 MS. PUSLIFER: Yes, that’s all part of the
13 application.
14 FEMALE SPEAKER: Okay. Thank you.
15 MR. CHAIRMAN: If there are no further
16 questions, I would entertain a motion.
17 MALE SPEAKER: I move to accept the trails
18 listed in Table 1 into the State Trail system.
19 MR. CHAIRMAN: Is there a second?
20 FEMALE SPEAKER: Okay. I will second then.
21 MALE SPEAKER: Mr. Chairman, because a number
22 of these are County Parks, I will have to abstain from
23 voting on this.
24 MR. CHAIRMAN: In that case, all in favor,
25 indicate by saying aye.
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1 (Chorus of “ayes.”)
2 MR. CHAIRMAN: Opposed? Thank you. Now you
3 can go out and take care of your trails.
4 Okay, Doris.
5 MS. PULSIFER: Okay. The last item is a
6 funding request for the OHV Program, funding ramps. And
7 we have offered two different options here motions.
8 Again, going back to the criteria both AORCC
9 and OHVAG rated these applications based on the criteria
10 that was approved back in September. What staff has
11 presented to both groups and both groups have agreed,
12 that we would like to be able to take -– we have -– well,
13 we anticipate that we’ll have about three million dollars
14 available for grants through June of 2014. One of the
15 things that we would like to see even though we’ve got
16 plenty of money available – actually, we could probably
17 fund all of them or at least most of them. But instead
18 of just funding grants or requests just because we have
19 enough money, we’d like to see the money go to good
20 projects.
21 So the recommendation from staff to the two
22 groups was that we try to divide the money up into three
23 different cycles. So up to the time that we offered the
24 notice or the opportunity for the first cycle, we had
25 about 2,000 –- 2.4 million available.
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1 The grants that were received, I went ahead,
2 and we had them listed in attachments A, B, and C of your
3 packet and I realized that they were kind of small to
4 read. So I have reproduced them on larger sheets that I
5 handed out just before the meeting today.
6 Now one of the things, again, having to do with
7 the evaluation tool, it turns out that the evaluation
8 tool seems to be working really, really well, because
9 again, the evaluation tool is just meant to prioritize
10 these funding requests.
11 And so when AORCC met to review these -– to
12 review the funding request and gain -- keep in mind that
13 AORCC selected for staff to rate the grants or the rating
14 team I should say, the review team to rate the grants and
15 then bring a recommendation to them and they would
16 consider the rating team’s recommendation.
17 AORCC met first and they agreed with staff’s
18 recommendation and that was to fund the top -– the seven
19 highest-rated grants. In addition to that, our OHV
20 coordinator also recommended that we go below the line
21 and that we fund the Arizona Game and Fish project, which
22 was for a trail designation for Alamo Trail. It was only
23 for $3,000. They felt it was a worthy trail and even
24 though it fell below the line, it was recommended.
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1 AORCC agreed with staff’s recommendation to
2 fund the top seven, plus the Arizona Game and Fish, but
3 in addition to that, Game and Fish also recommended to
4 approve the BLM project for the mobile station. And
5 that’s also below the line.
6 The Mobile Information Center, AORCC felt that
7 it was a good project because it included -– it was a
8 mobile station that was going to include exhibits on
9 outdoor recreation and it also included educational
10 information in there, materials on OHV. So there
11 recommendation was to include the BLM project.
12 So AORCC's recommendation was to fund the seven
13 highest scoring projects which totals $775,563; plus the
14 Arizona Game and Fish trail designation to Alamo Lake for
15 $3,000, and then the BLM for $73,556, for a total of nine
16 projects totaling $852,119.
17 Now when OHVAG met and again now they each –-
18 each member was provided with the entire packet and they
19 individually rated these applications and then they met
20 as a group and they came up with a consensus rating.
21 And the beauty of it is is that although their
22 scores were a little bit different than staff’s scores,
23 in the end, it turned out that they were the exact same
24 projects. And even though they may not have been quite
25 the same order, it was still the top seven.
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1 So OHVAG’s recommendation actually mirrors
2 staff’s recommendation and they to agreed with staff that
3 Game and Fish, the $3,000 request for the designation for
4 the Alamo Trail was a good project, and they also
5 recommended that for approval.
6 Now they had a different take on the BLM. We
7 made them aware of AORCC's recommendation. Now OHVAG’s
8 opinion is that although the BLM project is a good
9 recreation project, it’s not that there’s anything wrong
10 with the Mobile Information Center, it’s just OHV money,
11 it doesn’t focus on OHV, it focuses on overall
12 recreation. And OHVAG’s concern is that the money should
13 be the good use of OHV money and should be more focused
14 on OHV.
15 So OHVAG’s recommendation mirrors staff’s and
16 they did not recommend the BLM. So their recommendation
17 and staff’s recommendation is to fund the top seven
18 highest plus the Game and Fish.
19 MR. CHAIRMAN: And AORCC agreed with that and
20 added the BLM project?
21 MS. PULSIFER: And added the BLM.
22 MR. CHAIRMAN: That’s the only difference?
23 MS. PULSIFER: Exactly.
24 MR. CHAIRMAN: Any comments?
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1 MR. MARTYN: Mr. Chairman, if I might explain.
2 I want to thank Doris for working through all this and I
3 appreciate the Board. I think we’ve set this up
4 correctly now, and the fact that OHV came up with similar
5 -– as to the exact same pecking order, the top seven,
6 validates -- I think it validates the process.
7 As far as AORCC and what they’ve decided, there
8 was some input –- AORCC agreed and I do sit on the Board
9 of AORCC just so everybody knows. AORCC basically looked
10 at this and agreed that the top seven met the criteria,
11 also agreed that the $3,000 was good, which is actually
12 item number 9 based on the criteria. But I had a member
13 who explained item number 8 and the benefit relative to
14 the community, was a member of the OHV community as well,
15 and so the AORCC Board basically lowered the line down to
16 pulling the top nine.
17 The line is arbitrary. There is no -– we have
18 plenty of money in the fund and staff made a cut and it
19 is where it is, to make sure we fund good projects.
20 AORCC pulled in, just basically moved the line down
21 because they believe that this project is worth funding
22 today.
23 You as a body, have the ability to drop the
24 line or move the line or pull anything out that you want.
25 By statute you can do anything you want to do. Know that
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1 the AORCC recommendation, the addition, item number 8, if
2 it doesn’t get funded this time, I believe personally
3 that it has the ability to resubmit and possibly get
4 above the cut line next time.
5 So you can’t lose on this. I think we meet the
6 criteria of what the OHV community is looking for and I
7 think we’re well within the law and this is what we do
8 with OHV, and I’m pleased to say that we are meeting the
9 law because we went away from it for quite awhile and
10 we’re back in where we need to be.
11 I’m happy to answer any questions, Mr. Chair.
12 MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes?
13 MALE SPEAKER: Comment then based on that.
14 Your feeling is that the BLM project could come in at a
15 later date and possibly make the cut?
16 MR. MARTYN: Mr. Chairman, yes, I believe it
17 is. It’s whether you want to approve it now or do you
18 want to wait and approve it later. I think that’s kind
19 of where you are at, and you have the ability to do
20 whichever you like.
21 MALE SPEAKER: And Mr. Chairman, I guess my
22 thought on that is to stay with what OHVAG is
23 recommending to us as the funding body and go that route,
24 especially, you know, if they think we can bring that
25 project back in at a later date. Because that project is
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1 partially recreation or OHV is a segment of what that
2 project deals with, not totally OHV.
3 So my recommendation would be to go with what
4 OHVAG is recommending, and I read some of the comments
5 from their meeting and there was some feeling of that.
6 Also, Mr. Chairman, I’d like to ask one
7 additional question if I could.
8 MR. CHAIRMAN: Certainly.
9 MALE SPEAKER: Some of the funding in here goes
10 for route designation, which is not on-the-ground work,
11 and I know some of the members of OHVAG were concerned
12 about that as am I. And this is really just a point of
13 clarification.
14 But if BLM is not awarded those funds to do the
15 route designation, is it relatively unlikely that those
16 projects may move forward to actual trail development if
17 the routes aren’t initially designated, if we don’t
18 provide funding for designation?
19 MS. PULSIFER: If we don’t provide money for
20 designation, next time when they apply that it would –-
21 MALE SPAEAKER: No. I guess my question is,
22 that's the first step for the BLM to get into trail work,
23 off highway vehicle trail work, correct?
24 MS. PUSLIFER: Yes.
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1 MALE SPEAKER: And so that’s why they’re
2 putting in here for just off highway vehicle route
3 designation?
4 MS. PULSIFER: Yes.
5 MALE SPEAKER: Right?
6 MS. PULSIFER: Correct.
7 MALE SPEAKER: Okay. And I know some of the
8 OHVAG had concerns that we were spending money on
9 planning purposes rather than on-the-ground trail
10 development.
11 MS. PULSIFER: Well, on-the-ground trail
12 development is a higher priority.
13 MALE SPEAKER: Right.
14 MS. PULSIFER: Although some of these other
15 items are also priority in the States Trail Plan, they’re
16 just not as high of a priority, but they do qualify.
17 MALE SPAKER: I’m fine, Mr. Chairman.
18 MR. MARTYN: Mr. Chairman, thank you. Relative
19 to BLM, there’s no way to tell what’s going to happen to
20 BLM. You know that under sequestration, a lot of these
21 Federal agencies are cut. If there is no funding, I
22 would say it’s very far stretched to see that anything
23 will be done relative to a new project.
24 So that’s where -– if you don’t fund not,
25 probably not going to happen. That would be my guess.
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1 MR. CHAIRMAN: Any other questions from the
2 Board? Would anyone care to make a motion?
3 MALE SPEAKER: Mr. Chairman, I would move
4 option 1. I approve the OHVAG and review team funding
5 recommendations to fund the seven highest-scoring
6 projects totaling $778,563, plus funding for the Arizona
7 Game and Fish Department project for trail designation of
8 Alamo Lake for $3,000, for a total of eight projects in
9 the amount of $778,563 from the OHV recreation fund and
10 the RTP Fund, and direct the Executive Director or
11 Designee to execute the appropriate agreements.
12 MR. CHAIRMAN: Do we have a second?
13 MALE SPEAKER: Second.
14 MR. CHAIRMAN: Any further discussion?
15 FEMALE SPEAKER: I think I would just like to
16 say, on this one I think I’m going to abstain from the
17 vote. I think a number of these projects probably
18 implicate State Trust Lands, so I think it’s probably
19 just in the Board’s best interest that I don’t weigh in
20 on this one. So I’ll stay out of the vote.
21 MS. PULSIFER: Can I just add one thing? In
22 your motion, can you go ahead and include staff to
23 determine appropriate funding source? Because sometimes
24 depending on the project and the availability of the
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1 funding, and whether they need a vote or not, whether we
2 chose to use RTP money or OHV money.
3 MALE SPEAKER: Mr. Chairman, please allow me to
4 amend my motion to include staff to determine appropriate
5 funding source.
6 MALE SPEAKER: Second.
7 MR. CHAIRMAN: If there are no further
8 discussions, all in favor, indicate by saying aye.
9 (Chorus of “ayes.”)
10 MR. CHAIRMAN: Opposed? And I believe that
11 takes us pretty much to the end of our business. The
12 only other question is the time and place of the next
13 meeting, and if there’s any points, particular items that
14 the Board Members would like to put on the Agenda, the
15 question has arisen is, do we need a meeting in April or
16 not? And I don’t know. What’s your -– I don’t know from
17 a Legislation -– from a Legislative standpoint would be
18 the only reason I can think we may or may not. But I
19 guess we can call a special one if we needed to.
20 MR. MARTYN: Mr. Chairman, Board Members –-
21 MS. PULSIFER: We may have an item to be
22 forwarded in April, depending on the criteria -– may need
23 some changes to the criteria. In order to move forward
24 with our grant cycle, we may need the Board to approve
25 (indiscernible) grant material.
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1 MR. MARTYN: Mr. Chairman, if that’s the case,
2 we’ll have to do a telephonic. For a single item we do
3 have the option to do that. I would probably exercise
4 that. Other than that, within that telephonic meeting
5 I’d be happy to give an update. Then I can also give you
6 a legislative update via e-mail outside the confines of
7 the Board.
8 MR. CHAIRMAN: Why don’t we do that. Yes, go
9 ahead.
10 MALE SPEAKER: I was just going to suggest we
11 leave it on the calendar and then they can cancel it.
12 MR. CHAIRMAN: But with plenty of notice. And
13 then when do we want to go to Tonto?
14 MR. MARTYN: July.
15 MALE SPEAKER: June.
16 MR. MARTYN: June.
17 MALE SPEAKER: Mr. Chair?
18 MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes.
19 MALE SPEAKER: There’s no June meeting
20 scheduled at this time.
21 MR. MARTYN: Maybe in July.
22 MR. CHAIRMEN: Well, we’ll get back on that.
23 MALE SPEAKER: We can go in July because we
24 have a ’14 budget already approved by the Board. We just
25 don’t have it approved by the Legislature -- or
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1 “appropriated by” I should say, by the Legislature. A
2 little detail. But because we would be able to spend
3 money into the next fiscal year, because we approved the
4 ’14 budget.
5 So we could have it in July.
6 MR. CHAIRMAN: Okay. Well, we’ll make that
7 decision. I want to make sure you clear your calendars
8 for that one. We usually for the benefit of new Board
9 Members, go up the evening before, have a little BBQ and
10 enjoy ourselves.
11 FEMALE SPEAKER: Sounds great.
12 MR. CHAIRMAN: It is great.
13 FEMALE SPEAKER: I wish I would have done that
14 here actually, come down yesterday. This is gorgeous.
15 MALE SPEAKER: This is nice down here.
16 FEMALE SPEAKER: It is, it’s great.
17 MR. CHAIRMAN: Is there anything further? If
18 not, I entertain a motion to adjourn.
19 MALE SPEAKER: I move we adjourn.
20 MR. CHAIRMAN: Second? All in favor say aye.
21 (Chorus of “ayes.”)
22 MR. CHAIRMAN: Opposed?
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