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BULLHEAD CITY Mohave County District 5 Sup. Steve Moss, R-Fort Mohave, said his main concerns at the moment are county roads and the state of law enforcement. Moss was the guest speaker at a recent Colorado River Tea Party Patriots meeting.

Moss, whose district includes Fort Mohave, Mohave Valley, Golden Shores and part of Lake Havasu City, described the Board of Supervisors as a countywide city council, controlling unincorporated areas including Fort Mohave and Mohave Valley.

Moss said the county needs $17 million to fix and maintain roads, and is coming up $5 million short, receiving about

$12 million in state Highway User Revenue funds, collected from the states gas tax. He said county Public Works is experimenting with different kinds of materials to pave roads, in order to save money. Roads in the worst shape are getting the most attention, Moss said.

Regarding the Mohave County Sheriffs Office, there are 78 sworn deputies when the county really needs 115, he said.

Recruiting new deputies is easy, but keeping them is a problem, Moss said, since they get hired away by neighboring police departments for higher wages.

Moss said the county has not raised its property tax in the past five years and there are no plans to raise it this year.

I cant say the same about the sales tax, he said, noting that a vote by the board to raise the tax must be unanimous.

Moss said only 17 percent of the property tax the county collects actually goes to the county, with the biggest amounts going to school and fire districts.

He said the people in the room at the Tea Party meeting could take over any school or fire board by getting three members elected to a given board.

Moss, who has won two elections to the Board of Supervisors, and several elections as a school board member, said Winning elections is not that difficult.

Moss, who delivered an animated presentation, received many questions and lots of feedback from audience members.

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