October 20th
The Board approved the adoption of a resolution establishing a ten-dollar fee for every writ served on behalf of a justice of the peace by a constable in civil actions, and to require the monies collected from the writ fees to be deposited in the constable ethics standards and training fund.
The Board awarded a Medical Examiner Services contract to current Medical Examiner John Hassett of Serenity Memorial Group, instead of Monolith Forensics, for an initial one year period commencing January 1st, with the County having the right to renew for up to four additional one-year periods. The total fee for his services for the initial one-year term is $1,050,000 ($87,500 monthly). Funding for these services will be sourced to the adopted FY26 budget. Both applicants had somehow bid the exact same amount to the penny, with Serenity bidding after Monolith.
October 23rd Special Meeting
The Board received information on the 2025 draft General Plan but postponed a vote until the November 3rd meeting due to not receiving the statutory 60 days to review the voluminous document. Once again the residents of Golden Valley came out in force against a proposed Angle Homes subdivision.
November 3rd
With only fiscal conservative Supervisor Gould voting “nay” the other Supervisors approved entering into an intergovernmental agreement between Mohave County and the Arizona Department of Health Service giving $481,300 to the State, with no expectation of reimbursement, to continue food supplement support for all eligible children under the WIC program. Currently, the Trump administration is funding WIC with tariff money under Section 32 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Unlike the fraud ridden SNAP program, the WIC program has not been fully lapsed during the federal government shutdown. Public Health Director Melissa Palmer failed to inform the Board of that status.
Despite a preponderance of evidence that he currently has business ties to the corporation he sold his funeral homes to, (FPG) no member of the Board would support Supervisor Gould’s motion to pass a resolution affirming that County Medical Examiner John Hassett “lied to the Board of Supervisors during the October 20, 2025, meeting, when he stated, “our funeral homes were divested on October 28th of 2022.” Hassett was represented by his attorney at the meeting. She told the Board that although he is working as a broker selling funeral plots for the company he receives “absolutely no compensation for doing so” and is just working for free. A Foreign Registration Amendment document was filed with the Arizona
Corporation Commission (ACC) on September 18th, and an LLC-Statement of Change document was filed with the ACC on October 7th, which lists Mr. John Hassett as a member of Foundation Partners
Group, AZ (FGP, AZ) a Foreign LLC registered in Delaware. The State of Arizona Department of Real Estate Certified License History lists Mr. Hassett as the Designated Broker for FPG, AZ, with an original license date of October 17th,
2023 and a hire date of August 20th, 2025. Knowingly making false statements to obtain a government contract is a class 2 felony pursuant to A.R.S. 13-2310
The board voted to approve a “design and Build” for a new District 3 Supervisor’s office in Lake Havasu City, at a target ed cost of $400,000, from the approved FY26 Adopted Budget.
The 2025 draft General Plan was sent back once again for multiple revisions that were proposed by Supervisors Martin and Gould, and voted on by the Board. The controversial “Dorado Plan” development area in Golden Valley did not receive enough votes to be designated suburban (1-5 acre), but the proposal can be reintroduced as the process proceeds.
The Board voted unanimously to take an unstated action regarding “leases with the Mohave County Airport Authority and future action relating thereto”, based on whatever instructions they had been given by legal counsel in executive session before the meeting.
The Treasurer’s Office will auction off the old animal shelter online starting November 17th and concluding on December 5th. Additionally, 32 vacant properties will be auctioned from Dec 1st through December 5th. Contact the Treasurer’s office for more information at: https://www.mohave.gov/departments/treasurer or call (928) 753-0737
The December 15th meeting was cancelled by unanimous vote.