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Mohave County Fairgrounds operations lease to be discussed in Board of Supervisors meeting

The effort to transition the Mohave County Fairgrounds 70-acre campus in Kingman away from an operations lease with the Fair Association to a county-administered property will be detailed during Monday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Public Works Director Steve Latoski will brief the board as work continues to bring the operation in-house, under the Parks Department, when the New Year begins. “Mohave County Parks is best suited to take on the management and operations,” Latoski wrote in backup material for the board meeting. “We are a team of qualified parks and recreation professionals who have extensive experience and knowledge in all…

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County works to fill vacant positions

Mohave County may be on the verge of resolving its Medical Examiner services dilemma, while working to fill other key positions. The County for months has been unable to draw interest in running the operation after coroner Dr. Archiaus Mosley long ago indicated he did not wish to renew his contract that has been extended month to month after it expired in June. County Manager Sam Elters said Mosley may remain on board under a newly proposed partnership that would involve an undisclosed funeral home. Elters explained the funeral home would handle the business and administrative end of the contract,…

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County works to fill vacant positions

Mohave County may be on the verge of resolving its Medical Examiner services dilemma, while working to fill other key positions. The County for months has been unable to draw interest in running the operation after coroner Dr. Archiaus Mosley long ago indicated he did not wish to renew his contract that has been extended month to month after it expired in June. County Manager Sam Elters said Mosley may remain on board under a newly proposed partnership that would involve an undisclosed funeral home. Elters explained the funeral home would handle the business and administrative end of the contract,…

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Public transit report for Kingman

Conversion back to fee and fare collection following a pandemic pause produced a dramatic drop in public transit ridership in Kingman this summer. Superintendent Sheri Furr addressed Kingman Area Regional Transit (KART) Advisory Commission members during their Oct. 4 meeting. “Last June we reached record ridership of 11,631 passengers for the month. This is 68% higher than June 2020 and 18% higher than June 2019, which is pre-pandemic,” Furr said. “When fare collection resumed July 1 ridership dropped significantly as we expected. In fact, there were just 6,449 riders in July.” Furr told Commissioners that two new hires will end…

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