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San Luis board recommends city council call election to allow sale of detention center property
Summary
The San Luis Facility Development Corporation voted to recommend that the San Luis City Council call an election to seek voter authority to sell real and personal property of the San Luis Regional Detention and Support Center; counsel said state law requires voter approval for property valued at $15 million or more.
The San Luis Facility Development Corporation voted to recommend that the San Luis City Council call an election to obtain voter authority to sell the real and personal property of the San Luis Regional Detention and Support Center, Director Joe Harper moved and Director Marco Penzone seconded.
General Counsel Kaye McQuill told the board that under Arizona statutes, property sales with a value of $15,000,000 or more must go to voters for approval. "If the property is valued at $15,000,000 or more, it needs to go out to the voters," McQuill said, and she told the board the facility’s property exceeds that threshold.
McQuill clarified that the board’s action is a recommendation to the city council; the council itself must call the election for voter authority. Director Harper read the motion into the record as a recommendation that the San Luis City Council call an election for a three‑year period to allow the sale of real and personal property of the San Luis Regional Detention and Support Center.
The board voted in favor of the recommendation with no nays. The board did not set an election date; the next step is for the city council to decide whether to place the question before voters.
