MOHAVE COUNTY – Ron Gould is the only Mohave County Supervisor who hasn’t yet spent a penny of more than $8 million in American Recovery Act Plan (ARPA) funds allotted to his district under an equal distribution plan previously approved by the governing board. And if he executes his stimulus style approach, the people of District 5 could be enjoying some coronavirus cash before Christmas. While his counterparts are spending money on parks, substance abuse, broadband internet technology, and water lines, the “Gould Give-back” plan would allocate funds directly to the people of his 5th District. Gould says crude calculations…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – Mohave County applied the wrong levy rate and over-billed owners of some 46,000 property parcels in the Lake Havasu Unified School District (LHUSD). The mistake was discovered after the County mailed out thousands of notices for annual property tax payments. “The Mohave County Financial Services Department made a scriveners error in entering the Class B Bond Debt service levy and rate,” said Financial Services Director Coral Loyd. “This was a clerical error in keying the data into the schedule.” Communications Director Roger Galloway noted the applied rate was more than 3 times what should have been assessed….