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Pinetop Lakeside council approves joining regional police academy IGA
Summary
The Pinetop Lakeside Town Council unanimously approved Resolution 25-1777 to enter an intergovernmental agreement to participate in the Northeastern Arizona Law Enforcement Training Academy, accepting a base fee and revised fee schedule for participating and nonparticipating agencies.
The Pinetop Lakeside Town Council voted unanimously to approve Resolution 25-1777, authorizing the town to enter an intergovernmental agreement to participate in the Northeastern Arizona Law Enforcement Training Academy.
The resolution, moved and approved during Monday’s meeting, authorizes the mayor to enter the agreement “pursuant to ARS 11 9 52” between the Navajo County Community College District, doing business as Northland Pioneer College, and the town of Pinetop Lakeside to provide academy training for recruits sponsored by law enforcement agencies.
Chief (Pinetop Lakeside Police Department) told the council the revised agreement changes participating-agency responsibilities and implements new fees to cover supervisors and recruit training officers. “They’ve added a fee for a participating agency of $10,000 base fee and they have full use of the academy facilities and they can have unlimited number of folks attend the academy. Non participating agencies will have a $2,500 base fee and then 4,000 per recruit that they send to the academy,” the Chief said.
The chief said the town opted to pay the nonparticipating base fee with $4,000 per recruit budgeted this year and that the department does not anticipate sending cadets immediately but has budgeted for two recruits. He also described a rotation requirement for supervisors assigned to the academy: supervisors would serve three consecutive years and agencies could be required to send one, or up to two, supervisors depending on class size.
Counselor Heisler moved to approve the resolution. The council voted in favor by a voice/hand vote; the mayor declared the measure carried unanimously.
The action formalizes the town’s financial commitment under the new fee structure and clarifies rotation and supervisor expectations described by the academy and local chiefs’ association. The council did not add conditions or amendments during the vote.
Council members and staff did not specify an exact implementation timetable for sending recruits to the academy. The chief said the town has budgeted for two recruits this year but did not provide exact start dates.
