The board voted 4-1 to update two policies governing non-disclosure agreements and enhanced reviews of major development projects.
The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to expand transparency rules for non-disclosure agreements and widen the county’s review process for major development projects that use large amounts of water or electricity.
The board voted 4-1 to update two policies governing non-disclosure agreements and enhanced reviews of major development projects.
District 4 Supervisor Steve Christy cast the lone vote against both changes.
“It’s really adding other land development projects,” Carmine Debonis Jr., the county’s deputy administrator, explained at the meeting.
“It previously identified economic development projects, but we know that there are other land use projects where we may get approached about entering into an NDA.”
The changes also clarified that the county administrator must provide supervisors with a report detailing projects subject to an NDA.
They also expand the county’s enhanced due diligence process to cover other projects that use large amounts of water or electricity and to include the reactivation of previously inactive NDAs.
The policies and changes are summarized in the meeting memo.
At the time, supervisors described the new policies as “lessons learned” from Project Blue.