Supervisors to choose board leaders for coming year

Final meeting of 2019 is Monday

This Monday will be the last Yuma County Board of Supervisors meeting of the year and will include a vote to choose who will serve as chairman and vice-chairman of the board for the year 2020 along with other motions.

The current chairman and vice-chairman of the board are Supervisors Tony Reyes and Russell McCloud, respectively. Both have been in the those positions for the past three years. Reyes first became chairman in 2001 and has been on and off the position since and has served several stints as vice-chairman. McCloud first became vicechairman in 2008.

The vote will work like a roll call vote. Each supervisor will cast a vote for whom they believe should be the new chairman and vice-chairman. Three votes out of five are needed to take each position.

Among the other motions included on the agenda are a motion to distribute money from the Quechan Indian Tribe to Catholic Community Services Yuma and the Yuma Community

Food Bank, a motion to begin advertising bids to bring traffic signals to part of Highway 95 and a motion to ask the US House of Representatives for funding to help nearby military installations.

Those items are all part of the consent agenda, which means they will be passed all together and not discussed. The only items set apart for discussion and action is the vote to select a chairman and vice-chairman.

The meeting will open with a discussion led by the Yuma County Attorney’s office about legal matters related to the Sierra Pacific Mobile Home Park and the El Prado Improvement District. Specifically, Sierra Pacific believes El Prado should continue to pay for general operation and maintenance of a sewer line that they shared until El Prado begin using their own in August. The Yuma County Attorney’s office will be evaluating a settlement proposal for the dispute.

The meeting takes place at 9 a.m. in the Board of Supervisors auditorium of the county administration building at 198 S. Main St.