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ARF- 3653

Regular Agenda Item 2. G.

Regular BOS Meeting

Meeting Date:	03/15/2016
Submitted For:	Steve Sanders
Submitted By:	Patti Dremler, Administrative Clerk Specialist
Department:	Public Works	Division:	Engineering

Information

Request/Subject

Adopt Resolution No. 16-03-01 designating Randall Place as a public roadway.

Background Information

Randall Place in Pine is an east west collector road in Pine that provides access to SR 87. Over 20 years ago the County maintained Randall Place. Research by staff a number of years ago determined that the County had no easement for the road and maintenance stopped. Over the years staff has attempted to identify the owners of the road, but have been unable to do so. Property descriptions along the road do not take the road into consideration and the deeds all set back from the road. The Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Maps from 1934 and 1952 show the road and classify it as an unimproved dirt road. Conversations with long-time residents of the area have indicated the road has been used by the public for as long as anyone can remember.

Arizona Revised Statute (A.R.S.) §28-7041(C) provides a method for the County to maintain the road as a public highway.
A.R.S. § 28-7041. State highways and routes defined states:
A. The state highways, to be known as state routes, consist of the highways declared before August 12, 1927 to be state highways, under authority of law, that the board, after receipt of a recommendation from the director, may add to, abandon or change. If the board proceeds contrary to the recommendations of the director, it shall file a written report with the governor stating the reasons for the action.
B. The state highways consist of the parts of the state routes designated and accepted as state highways by the board. A highway that has not been designated as a state route shall not become a state highway and any portion of a state route shall not become a state highway until it has been specifically designated and accepted by the board as a state highway and ordered to be constructed and improved.
C. All highways, roads or streets that have been constructed, laid out, opened, established or maintained for ten years or more by the state or an agency or political subdivision of the state before January 1, 1960 and that have been used continuously by the public as thoroughfares for free travel and passage for ten years or more are declared public highways, regardless of an error, defect or omission in the proceeding or failure to act to establish those highways, roads or streets or in recording the proceedings.

Evaluation

Randall Place meets the requirements of A.R.S. §28-7041(C). By authorizing Randall Place to be included in the Gila County Maintained Roadway System, it will allow the Public Works Division to maintain the road and provide a service to the residents and citizens of the County who use the road on a daily basis.

Conclusion

Providing maintenance on Randall Place will not reduce the level of service to other roads in the Gila County Maintained Roadway System.

Recommendation

The Public Works Division Director recommends that the Board adopt Resolution No. 16-03-01 designating Randall Place as a public roadway and accepting the road into the Gila County Maintained Roadway System.

Suggested Motion

Information/Discussion/Action to adopt Resolution No. 16-03-01 designating Randall Place as a public roadway and accepting said road into the Gila County Maintained Roadway System. (Steve Sanders)

Attachments
Resolution No. 16-03-01
Map 1934
Map 1952