Supervisors reject incorporation vote in San Tan Valley
by Mark Cowling | Florence Reminder & Blade Tribune
The Pinal County Board of Supervisors have rejected a petition from a citizens group seeking a vote by San Tan Valley residents on whether the community should form a city.
The supervisors noted the citizens’ petition was apparently defective because it was submitted without a resolution. Also, a random sampling of signatures turned up a high number of invalid ones. If the same error rate was found for the entire petition, there wouldn’t be enough valid signatures for the petition to succeed, according to the resolution the supervisors passed at Monday’s special meeting.
Specifically, the supervisors’ resolution noted the estimated total number of valid signatures is 4,150, falling short of the 4,485 needed to qualify for the ballot.
