The Cochise County Board of Supervisors has announced a public town hall focused on county road maintenance. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 6, at 5:30 p.m. and will take place in the Board of Supervisors Hearing Room at 1415 Melody Lane, Building G, Bisbee. Residents can attend in person or participate online via Microsoft Teams or by telephone.
The town hall will address three main topics: adding roads to county maintenance with potential future paving, paving existing county-maintained roads, and possibly removing some roads from county maintenance. The agenda and login details for remote participation will be available on the Clerk of the Board page of the county website at https://www.cochise.az.gov/174/Clerk-of-the-Board.
To speak during the meeting, residents must complete a special Speaker Request Form found at https://www.cochise.az.gov/FormCenter/Board-of-Supervisors-17/Cochise-County-Public-Meeting-Speaker-Re-179. The form asks speakers to select which specific road they wish to discuss and should be submitted by 4:00 PM on the day of the event.
Sample roads under consideration include East Nevada Drive and South Kino Road for addition to county maintenance; San Juan Ave #865 and Honeysuckle Dr #563 for potential paving; and Kortsens Ranch Rd #521 and High Grove Ln #452 as examples proposed for removal from maintenance.
“Road conditions and maintenance priorities are among the most common concerns we hear, especially during and after monsoon season,” said Board Chair Frank Antenori. “This town hall is structured so residents can provide road-specific input that will help the Board understand community priorities and inform next steps.”
Attendees may review the full list of roads within the online form prior to speaking at the event.
This town hall continues a series of meetings held by the board this year aimed at collecting direct public feedback on priority issues throughout Cochise County.
While infrastructure remains a key concern locally, education data shows persistent challenges in student achievement. For example, recent results show that only about 28.5% of third through eighth grade students in Cochise County passed the mathematics section of the 2023–24 AASA assessment (https://www.azed.gov/), indicating an ongoing need for improvement in academic outcomes alongside infrastructure planning.
