A county supervisor told the La Paz County Board of Supervisors on June 2 that Governor Hobbs visited the Salome and Winden areas to look into groundwater issues and residents losing wells, and that the governor met with a regional rural water working group to discuss next steps.

"She came out to the Salome area and Winden area and to and, visited some areas that, were having problems with groundwater with people losing their wells," the supervisor said during the county administrator update. The supervisor said the governor also toured a resident’s house and met with the Wenden Improvement District water company.

The supervisor listed attendees from the regional working group who joined follow-up discussions, naming Travis Lingenfelter, a supervisor from Mojave; Nikki Check, a supervisor from Yavapai; John Fanning, a supervisor from Santa Cruz; Tim Walsh, Kingman city manager; Patrice Horstman, supervisor from Coconino; Phil Goody, mayor of Prescott; a mayor from Lake Havasu City (transcript: "Kalshi"); Greg Hancock, mayor of Willcox; and Ed Curry, a Cochise County farmer. The supervisor said the meeting followed a long period of work and that she appreciated the governor’s attention to the issue.

During the budget presentation later in the meeting, county staff and supervisors also discussed Vicksburg Road, a county project the administration estimates could cost about $20,000,000 to bring to standards for possible future transfer to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). Miss Spielman told the board that the $20 million figure has been included in the public-works enterprise fund and that county auditors and consultants have advised the county can likely treat that amount as excluded from the state expenditure limitation, though a final determination depends on the state’s adopted budget.

The supervisor said she rode with the governor on Vicksburg Road during the visit and that the governor "will be looking into" the matter and follow up with her transportation staff. There was no formal board action on the governor’s visit; the presentation was given as part of the supervisors’ current-event updates.