Mohave County supervisors approve flood-control purchases, park rule hearing, road speed changes and other consent items
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Summary
At its Jan. 5 meeting the Board approved purchase of tax-deeded flood-control parcels, accepted $79,510 in senior-center donations, set a parks-rules public hearing, approved a new speed limit on Australia Road, accepted Mountain View Road into maintenance, approved a $186,000 mental-health training grant, approved an inmate canine-training MOU and several rezones and easements.
Beyond the major items discussed in public hearings, the Mohave County Board of Supervisors approved a slate of consent and pulled-items during its Jan. 5 meeting.
Key actions included:
- Flood-control purchases: The Board, sitting as the Flood Control District board, accepted offers to purchase tax-deeded parcels for flood-control purposes totaling $44,492.46, and directed the treasurer to abate remaining taxes of $2,956.27.
- Donations: The Board accepted FY26 first-quarter in-kind donations totaling $79,510.26 to support the senior-nutrition program; Supervisor Gould highlighted $72,512.91 in substantial local business donations in the Lake Havasu area.
- Parks rules: The board set a Feb. 2 public hearing to consider updated park rules (examples included prohibiting inflatable amusements and memorializing smoking and overnight camping restrictions) and approved setting the hearing.
- Speed limit change: Public Works recommended and the board approved lowering the speed limit to 35 mph for a short segment of Australia Road near the new Dollar General driveway in Golden Valley.
- Road maintenance: The board accepted Mountain View Road segments into the county paved-road maintenance program; one resident spoke about stop-sign placement but the acceptance focused on maintenance responsibility.
- First-responder mental-health training: The board accepted $186,000 funding from the Robert Kemper Corrigan Foundation/Bouldercrest to send sheriffoffice staff to week-long training and to track outcomes such as sick days, collisions and uses-of-force metrics.
- Canine training MOU: The board approved a memorandum of understanding with the GEO Group and the Kingman Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility to rotate shelter dogs to an inmate-training program (about 10 dogs at a time for ~8-week rotations) intended to increase adoptions and provide inmate skills and therapeutic benefits; the warden confirmed the program would use minimum-custody inmates at the CERBAC facility.
- Other approvals: The board approved a $50,000 grant-match transfer for Cane Beds Road, several rezonings and special-use permits (items 64-69), a small stormwater-easement extinguishment for a pool, and renewal of a BMX lease; the board also approved forwarding a bingo-license application to the Arizona Department of Revenue.
