CSA Weekly Update (10.24.25)
- County Supervisors Association of Arizona
- Oct 27
- 5 min read
Updated: Nov 21
In the October 24th, 2025, edition of the CSA Weekly Update:
Governor Hobbs Appoints Brandon Nee to PSPRS Board of Trustees
Road to the CSA Summit: What You Need to Know!
New Creatures of Statute Episode: Funding Public Safety: The Future of Maricopa County's Jail Excise Tax!
Upcoming Deadlines, Conferences, and Webinars: NACO Ongoing Webinar - Inside Washington: County Impacts from the White House & Congress
Lifelong Learning: Upcoming NACo Webinars
Governor Hobbs Appoints Brandon Nee to PSPRS Board of Trustees
Governor Katie Hobbs has appointed Brandon Nee to the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System (PSPRS) Board of Trustees, filling the County Trustee seat previously held by outgoing Trustee Alan Maguire. Brandon will begin his tenure at his first Board meeting next Wednesday, October 29, bringing extensive experience in public finance, pension policy, and stakeholder collaboration.
Brandon’s early priorities will include aiding the Board in selecting a new PSPRS Administrator, following Mike Townsend’s departure in November, and will provide oversight as the system rolls out a new accounting platform designed to strengthen financial reporting, transparency, and operational efficiency.
The County Supervisors Association and PSPRS stakeholders thank Trustee Maguire for his service and welcome Trustee Nee as he steps into this critical governance role on behalf of Arizona’s counties.
Road to the CSA Summit: What You Need to Know!
The 2025 CSA Annual Policy Summit is right around the corner, and staff has been compiling fact sheets, preparing research presentations, and briefing Supervisors and staff on proposals in preparation for the big event! There is only one County Managers and Administrators Meeting left before Supervisors meet in Yuma County to decide on their legislative and research agendas for the upcoming legislative session.
The final pre-Summit update to the County-Submitted Legislative Proposals packet has been completed. Please find that packet by clicking here.
We’d also like to provide you with the CSA Resolutions Under Consideration Packet. Please find that packet by clicking here.
If that’s too many documents to browse over your morning coffee or juice, here’s our updated Summary Document. Please find that by clicking here.
We look forward to seeing you in Yuma! Please find more information about the CSA Policy Summit here.
New Creatures of Statute Episode:
Funding Public Safety: The Future of Maricopa County's Jail Excise Tax!
A new episode of Creatures of Statute is now live: Funding Public Safety: The Future of Maricopa County's Jail Excise Tax.
In this episode we're joined by Danny De Hoog, Director of Maricopa County's Public Safety Funding Committee, for a conversation on how the county funds it's public safety and detention services. We explore the history and structure of the county's jail excise tax, how it compares to other county jail funding mechanisms, and what's at stake as the current tax approaches expiration.
To check out CSA's overview on county jail funding authorities, click here.
Please find our latest episode linked here.
Upcoming Deadlines, Conferences, and Webinars
Cyber Resilience In Action: County Leaders Share Their Strategies
Monday, October 27, 20252:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET
Join county IT leaders to hear how they are defending local government systems, staff, and constituents from ever-increasing cyber-attacks. The panelists will discuss specific examples of cyber-attacks they are experiencing, how elected officials are integral to the defense, as well as monitoring, education and interactive staff activities they provided during October Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
Key discussion points:
Expanding threat landscape: Learn about current developments and how local governments are often targeted by cyber-attacks due to new techniques and blind spots in cybersecurity defenses
Resource gaps and equity in cybersecurity: Explore the challenges local leaders face, how they work to fill those gaps and ways to ensure cybersecurity efforts are inclusive of all communities, not just the well-resourced ones
State and local partnerships: Understand the successes and shortcomings in collaboration and hear how states can play a more dominant role or if local autonomy should prevail
Building a cyber culture: Gain insights needed to develop a sustained culture of cyber resilience, including engaging government staff, elected officials, and the public in continuous cybersecurity practices, and creating an environment of shared responsibility with technology partners
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