EVERGREEN IWDD STAFF REPORT 06-12-2020.DOCX

301 W. Jefferson St, 10th Fl.
Phoenix, Arizona 85003-
2148
Phone: (602) 506-3766
Fax: (602) 506-6402
www.maricopa.gov
Maricopa County
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
Date:
June 12, 2020
To:
Board of Supervisors
From:
Clerk of the Board
Subject:
Formation of Evergreen Irrigation Water Delivery District Staff 
Report 
The formation petitions for the Evergreen Irrigation Water Delivery District were 
approved by the Board of Supervisors on May 20, 2020.  The statute allows for a 20-
day period during which a written protest against the organization of the district may 
be filed by “owners of a majority of the acreage within the district.” (ARS 48-3424(B)).  
On June 8, 2020, the Clerk’s Office received a three-page document with 
the following heading:  
“Dec 18 2018
I Ric Murphy am asking for your support of a
NO VOTE
For a tax district.
Sign here for a NO vote.”
The three pages contained 35 signatures with partial addresses and phone numbers 
or email addresses.  
The total acreage in the proposed Evergreen District is 32.20 acres. Therefore a 
protest would need to contain signatures of owners representing more than 16.1 acres.  
The names of the signers and the addresses on the documents were compared to the 
Assessor’s database of property owners and acreage.  
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The total acreage represented by the three-page document is: 12.692 acres.  
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However, seven signatures (names) of signers did not match the names on the 
deeds for those 7 properties which represented 1.70 acres. 
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Discounting these signatures would bring the acreage total down to 10.992 
acres.  
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In either case, this “protest” appears to be insufficient in representing a 
“majority of the acreage within the district.”
Attached is a copy of the three-page document received by the Clerk’s Office.