Yakima Company has filed a motion seeking the court’s help with terminating the performance bond it took out to secure its operations in La Paz County in 2004. The motion, for an order “to show cause why performance bond should not be released, exonerated, or otherwise extinguished,” states that there is no reason for the bond to exist, and asserts …

Yesterday, Parker Live reported that the Judge had issued an order in the Yakima case. Apparently this isn’t yet the case; what Parker Live received was a non-final version. We’ll update this site with the correct information soon. Thank you.

9:58- Welcome to our live coverage of the Yakima hearing at the La Paz Superior Court. The hearing is on Yakima’s ‘motion to compel’ the County to pay it’s debt to the company. A ‘Special Master’ may be appointed to facilitate discerning which funds can be used to pay Yakima, and to potentially decide – working with both parties and …

A new court hearing has been set in the La Paz County / Yakima case. The hearing will contain oral arguments from both sides on Yakima’s motion to compel the County to start setting aside funds and raising funds from other sources with which to pay Yakima. These other sources may include taking out bonds or selling land or other …

An email from a reader asks about using federal funds paid to La Paz County to pay the debt to Yakima: John, From 1999 to 2210 about $10 million has been allocated to La Paz County from the Department of the Interior in Payments In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) which has gone into the County general fund. Why can’t these …

KLPZ’s morning guy Keith Learn has a way to pay La Paz County’s debt to Yakima Company: medical marijuana. The County is expected to grant at least one special use permit for a marijuana dispensary under the state of Arizona’s new law permitting the use of marijuana for chronically ill patients. Recent public work sessions at the County and the …

New writs are now before the Court in a motion filed by Yakima Company today seeking payment by La Paz County. Yakima is seeking an order requiring the County to immediately pay Yakima all funds not otherwise appropriated or necessary to fund essential government services. It would also force the County to take “all steps to raise revenue from any …

We owe $13 million to a man who’s out of patience. We have no extra money. How can we fix it? As La Paz County re-enters talks with Yakima Company after an attention-grabbing payroll crisis two weeks ago, speculation centers on what form those talks may take. Several ways to settle the County’s $13 million debt to Jim Willett have …

This is the court order issued yesterday by the Superior Court. As we reported yesterday, it stipulates that the bank release all public funds, allowing County, State and District operations to resume as normal, and it also stipulates that the County should budget to pay Yakima its Judgment (this stipulation was added at the request of Yakima’s lawyers as further …

Yakima owner Jim Willett, whose name is at the center of this week’s emergency related to public money, has issued the following statement to Parker Live: “I took the action I did because the Supervisors gave me no other choice. Over two years they have had dozens of opportunities to settle with me on favorable terms but ignored every single …