The construction and tear down of the temporary wall at the border cost Arizona taxpayers millions of dollars.
PHOENIX — Just a few years ago, Arizona’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs was counted among the state’s smaller agencies, known for preparing Arizonans for summer monsoons.
In its wake, the wall left scars across the southern landscape and cost Arizona taxpayers nearly $200 million. DEMA officials corrected three different contract records after the Howard Center asked them about questionable entries or inconsistencies. Kioski said in an email the payment was a duplicate that should not have been posted to the portal and that the Department of Administration is investigating how the error occurred.
None of the counties – Yuma, Pima, Santa Cruz, Cochise, Maricopa and Pinal – declared a state of emergency on their own prior to Ducey’s declaration. In 2021, the legislature passed – and Ducey signed – a law creating the Border Security Fund, seeding it with $55 million for DEMA. The act listed seven specific uses for the fund.
Kavanagh said the idea for a wall made out of empty shipping containers came from the governor’s office. He also said that his initial appropriation of $150 million for the wall was based on what he thought the state budget could deliver, not on how many miles of wall the money could buy. While the contract included a pricing sheet for labor crews, equipment and containers, the cost of the project depended on how many labor crews the company used, how many days they worked and, crucially, how much wall they were to build.
Instead of three crews, however, eight were to be deployed at two of the sites listed in the contract amendment. But that figure increased to $10.25 million just three weeks later in the first contract amendment, which added more work. As AshBritt worked, the standoff over the legality of the wall intensified between the Ducey and Biden administrations.
The Ducey administration sued the federal government a week later, arguing that the federal government did not have exclusive rights to decide what happened on the 60-foot-wide portion of land running along the U.S.-Mexico Border. On Dec. 14, the Biden administration filed suit to have the containers taken down, alleging Arizona was trespassing on federal land.
Kioski, DEMA’s spokesperson, said in an email costs for removing the containers were more expensive because the transportation included “movement from multiple locations; transporting containers to staging areas, placement, removal from staging areas and movement to their current location for disposition with the Arizona Department of Administration.”
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