Board of Supervisors Informal Meeting, May 18, 2026
Approves Adoption of FY2027 Special Districts and Street Lighting Improvement Districts Tentative Budgets and Hearing Dates, unanimous
How this board votes
The Board of Supervisors approved 94% of 108 recorded land-use decisions this period.
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See the full board record, member by memberWhat happened
This Maricopa County Board of Supervisors informal meeting contained no zoning, rezoning, or land-use entitlement decisions; it consisted of an economic forecast presentation and the adoption of tentative FY2027 budgets.
- Jurisdiction
- Maricopa County, AZ
- Governing body
- Final authority
- Date
- May 18, 2026
- Decisions
- 5 zoning decisions
- Outcome
- Approved, unanimous
Free sample: decision 1 of 5
Adoption of FY2027 Maricopa County Tentative Budget
Board adopted the fiscal year 2027 Maricopa County tentative budget in the amount of $4,157,433,254 by total appropriation for each department fund and appropriation unit group, adopted the five-year capital improvement plan for FY2027-2031, and approved the executive summary. Total FY27 capital project budget is $631.2 million. Property tax rate reduced by just over one cent. Vote 5-0 (Stewart, Galvin, Lesko, Gallardo, Brophy-McGee all aye).
The other decisions are listed below by title. The full write-up, verbatim conditions, and the audio at each vote are in Pro.
Meeting Summary
This Maricopa County Board of Supervisors informal meeting contained no zoning, rezoning, or land-use entitlement decisions; it consisted of an economic forecast presentation and the adoption of tentative FY2027 budgets.
Key Decisions (5)
Adoption of FY2027 Maricopa County Tentative Budget
Set Public Hearing and Special Meeting on FY2027 County Budget
Adoption of FY2027 Flood Control District Tentative Budget and Hearing Dates
Adoption of FY2027 Library District Tentative Budget and Hearing Dates
Adoption of FY2027 Special Districts and Street Lighting Improvement Districts Tentative Budgets and Hearing Dates
Development Activity (8)
Downtown Election Facility (Maricopa County)
Infrastructure
West Valley Animal Care and Control Facility / West Valley Animal Shelter
Infrastructure
Public Health and Human Services Building
Institutional
Market Signals (5)
Housing Demand
Housing affordability has become an economic development constraint in Maricopa…
Infrastructure
Water supply certainty is increasingly a gating factor for development,…
Labor
A projected workforce supply-demand gap could cost Arizona $8 billion…
Who Spoke (13)
On the record: the chair, 4 board members, 3 staff members, and 2 witnesses.
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