MOHAVE COUNTY – Television production will occur in north Mohave County later this month. The Board of supervisors voted Monday in support of a special use permit allowing Pilgrim Operations to film episodes of Street Outlaws for the Discovery Channel.
“Isn’t Street Outlaws like speed racing or drag racing or something like that, or do I have my reality shows mixed up,” queried Supervisor Hildy Angius.
Supervisor Ron Gould said he is familiar with the premise of the show.
“This is where they pretend to be illegally street drag racing,” Gould said, drawing chuckles from the audience.
The drag racing will take place between mileposts 6 and 7 on a stretch of Old Highway 91, near Scenic, a rural community in extreme northwest Mohave County. That stretch of highway will be closed and traffic will be diverted during 12 evenings of filming between Oct. 17 and Nov. 29.
Also during their Monday meeting, supervisors approved an ordinance that defines authority in the transfer of nuisance abatement from the Health Department to Development Services.
“We believe that this will help us in being more proactive and more efficient in addressing these dilapidated buildings as well as trash and debris and the types of complaints that we receive,” Development Services Director Tim Walsh told the Board.
County Manager Sam Elters praised Public Works, Facilities Division and other employees for solving a problem at the county administration building in downtown Kingman. He said the structure had significant trouble with pipe corrosion within the heating and cooling system.
Elters said the problem caused a major leak in the Environmental Health Department five years ago. He said staff used a creative and innovative approach to develop a chemical injection system to mitigate the corrosion, resulting in savings and extending the life and use of the heating and cooling system and the building itself.
Elters also expressed appreciation for “30 wonderful years” of work by Dave Wolf. The Community Services Director retired Oct. 2 after three full decades of Mohave County employment.
Elters introduced Michael Smith, the new Community Services Director, who moved to Kingman from Chicago, Illinois, where he worked in a teaching university environment.
“It’s my pleasure to humbly serve Mohave County,” Smith said.
- Dave Hawkins
