Elected officials from Gila County and Arizona’s 14 other counties have joined forces to protest the state budget passed by the State Senate. In a series of letters to lawmakers and in committee testimony, officials protested provisions of the budget that would shift state costs and responsibilities to counties.
These include funding the state Motor Vehicle Division; paying incarceration costs for state prisoners sentenced to less than a year; and funding the Department of Public Safety through a diversion of county road building and maintenance money.
The counties say this would have a catastrophic impact on them, including their ability to provide law enforcement and criminal justice services.
Globe will pick up the losses with photo radar that they have every mile between Globe and Miami and the reduction of police force since they will have the roads covered with cameras.
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