Steam Pump Ranch Gets Funds With Oro Valley Council Unanimous Vote

Without much fanfare the Town Council voted unanimously as a "consent agenda" item to fund Steam Pump Ranch.

Here are the details from The Explorer article.

Steam Pump to get reserve cash

The Oro Valley Town Council approved a plan to pull more than $310,000 from its general fund reserve to pay for building restoration work at town-owned Steam Pump Ranch.

The move would fund work on two buildings at the historic property, which the town purchased in 2007.

The unanimous vote on Wednesday, July 7, would restore funding taken out of the Steam Pump Ranch fund in June as part of the final approval of the fiscal 2010-'11 budget. Money taken from the Steam Pump Ranch fund was used to supplement losses in state support for the town's needs-based transit system, Coyote Run.

The town intends to award a $410,000 contract to Chandler-based Gonzalez and Associates, LLC, to complete the work. The remainder of the funding for the work would come from Pima County bonds.