La Paz County Board calendar lists July, August meetings

Three Monday Board of Supervisors meetings sit on La Paz County’s calendar for July 20, August 3 and August 17, giving residents a simple read on when county leaders are scheduled to meet. In a county that stretches across Parker, Quartzsite, Bouse and Ehrenberg, that schedule is often the first sign that decisions on spending, roads, land use or public safety may be approaching.

Calendar dates that signal when county business moves

La Paz County is Arizona’s 15th county and its least populous, which makes timing and access especially important. When the county posts upcoming Board meetings in calendar form, it gives people in Parker, the county seat, and in the county’s more distant communities a quick way to see when county government will be in session.

That matters because board calendars are not just administrative housekeeping. They tell residents when to watch for agenda items that could shape day-to-day services, and they help people decide whether to attend in person, follow along online or wait for the meeting record afterward. For a county as spread out as La Paz, that kind of advance notice can be the difference between showing up before a vote and hearing about it after the fact.

From calendar to agenda to public comment

The county’s meeting materials show that the calendar is tied to a regular public meeting pattern. A March 3, 2025 Board agenda scheduled the meeting for 10:00 a.m. at 1108 Joshua Ave., Parker, Arizona 85344, and it included a public comment item called “Call to the Public” with a three-minute limit for in-person speakers. That same meeting packet listed supervisors David Plunkett, Duce Minor and Holly Irwin, along with County Administrator Stephanie McDowell and Clerk of the Board Laurie Thornbury.

Other agenda materials reinforce the pattern. Public agendas from April 21, 2025 and February 17, 2026 also show a 10:00 a.m. meeting time at the Parker address, which gives residents a reliable baseline for when the board typically convenes. When the county does call a special Board meeting, it says public notice is posted at least 24 hours before the meeting and an agenda is made available to the public, another useful checkpoint for anyone tracking urgent business.

La Paz County also uses several web tools that extend the calendar’s reach beyond a single date listing. The county has an Agenda Center for Board agendas, minutes and downloads, a separate Agenda and Minutes page, and a Live Stream and Archived Meetings page with archived videos and searchable meeting records. Together, those pages let residents move from the calendar to the agenda, then to live viewing or archived review without waiting for paper notices.

How residents can use the calendar as an oversight tool

The county’s website makes a clear case for treating meeting information as part of routine civic life. Its Government page says the site provides “easily searchable meeting agendas and minutes” for boards, commissions and committees, and the Open Meeting Law page points residents to Arizona Ombudsman open-meeting resources. That combination matters in a county where residents may be tracking different issues at the same time, from road work and department operations to land-use questions and county spending.

For residents in Parker, the calendar provides a heads-up before they head to 1108 Joshua Ave. For people in Quartzsite, Bouse, Ehrenberg and unincorporated parts of the county, it is a practical way to decide whether to make the drive, watch online or catch the archived video later. It also helps people prepare for the public comment period, which is one of the few moments when the board’s agenda becomes a direct public conversation.

A visible calendar does more than publish meeting dates. It turns county government into something residents can monitor in real time, from the first posted meeting date to the agenda packet, the comment period and the archived record. In a county where distance can make oversight harder, that chain of access is the clearest warning light before local decisions are made.