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I apologize, but I hear no audio.

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I don't hear any audio either.

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Oh, we didn't have our microphones on. Are you able to hear us now? Happy. You got us, Will. Do you say yeah? Okay. Yes. Sorry. That was a technical issue. I'm sorry. Sorry.

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What do you want to hear us anyway?

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No, who else, somebody else is saying that they can't hear us?

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We can hear you now.

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Oh, okay.

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If there's anybody that has been admitted to the meeting that's unable to hear us,

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if you could please raise your hand.

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Oh, we did have our microphones on. Are you able to hear us now?

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Okay, we have a lag.

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You got us, Will.

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Do you see that?

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Okay.

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This is going to be so.

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I see.

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I know.

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It was a technical issue in my head.

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Yes.

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How are we looking?

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TV.

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What do you want to hear?

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Somebody else is saying that they can't.

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I'm not working on this right now.

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I'm not out of council.

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We need to.

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I mean, this is kind of.

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Just for those that are on the live meeting.

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It appears that we do have a little bit of a lag time on the audio.

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So we apologize for that.

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We will be patient in our responses to any questions.

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We just ask that you do the same.

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It appears in the chat that people can hear, so I think they are good for audio.

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Ready to go?

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Good.

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Okay.

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I call the order of the August 26th, 2026 Special Town Council meeting.

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This will be due to four ordinance 712 wireless telecommunications towers to begin with.

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We'll start with a pledge allegiance and I'll lead that so they've danced in your way.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for a wretched stance.

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One nation under God in divisible ways of liberty and justice for all.

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So

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the first thing on the agenda is to adopt the agenda, so I call for a motion to approve the agenda.

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I'll make a motion to approve the agenda.

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A second.

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Okay, we have a second. All in favor?

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Aye.

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So the first thing on the agenda then is continuing business.

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This is ordinance 712, the wireless telecommunication towers ordinance.

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It's passed on second. I'm first in second reading. This is the third reading of this ordinance and at this time, the mayor is going to leave the room and that.

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So I'm going to recuse myself from the discussion and that and that due to potential

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conflict of interest.

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So I will leave you a little kind of remote so Scott if you want to be in charge of Brock who wants to arm wrestle for it.

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I'm just kidding. Scott can have it.

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Okay. Well, that's got to be in charge and come get me when you're over.

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Okay.

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We have

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any changes since second reading?

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Same.

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No reports of changes or recommendations from the last meeting I wasn't present for were reported to me.

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So this is a clean copy that reads exactly the same way it did on the second reading before you guys in the August meeting.

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Okay.

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I wasn't here any there, so was there anything?

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The biggest thing we talked about was the recommendation from the attorney was to get

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it passed as soon as we could, hence the special meeting tonight, just so that we could avoid

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any possible mitigation on behalf of a cellular company that might be interested. Okay, so it's

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really just to be on the safe side of things.

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So if I may just relay that this ordinance is the way

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it sits now does establish procedural regulations for the receiving and review process associated with an

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application for a telecommunications tower ordinance. So that's in the first part. It does set forth

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procedural requirements and has created additional sections in Title 17 to allow for

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a wireless communication facility review process within the regulations that is conditional use permit

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review and then going into the locations and regulations and where what zoning areas would permit those and how has been established in this ordinance as well.

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I do want to just point out a couple of things just for anybody available here with the public or on the Zoom call.

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So we do address some things in terms of small cell and DAS, some co-location opportunities

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and requirements for reporting if there is going to be an application sought for a brand

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new tower, and then establishing any enforcement in terms of appeals.

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I wanted to go back up to the specific regulations associated with the towers.

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So basically for the the locations in which the towers are going to be permitted in the general in the conditional use can be considered in general commercial mix commercial or ACR, which is our agricultural conservation and recreation district.

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It does state that height and setback standards for the tower tower shall not exceed 80 feet in height.

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the tower shall be set back at minimum distance equal to 1.1 times of 100 or 100% of the tower height

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from the property lines and that tower shall be located no closer than 500 feet to any residential

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zone. I think in our original draft of the ordinances at residences and instead we change such residential

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zones specifically we do currently within our regulations permit residences to be available in

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and central business general commercial district,

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so we didn't want to preclude certain areas

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of those districts for that reason.

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So that's why that has been altered and changed,

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but, and obviously I'm just kind of also updating you

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on this since you weren't here last month.

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But if there's no other questions to be addressed,

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and council member Wilkes is available on the Zoom link as well,

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so.

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Any

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discussion further discussion from the council?

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I don't have anything.

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I

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think it's pretty good as written.

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From our last date.

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Then I will call for a motion to pass or deny ordinance 712 on third and final reading.

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I'll make a motion to pass ordinance 712 on the third and final reading.

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I'll second.

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On favor.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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I

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asked Jeff

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go up the store that door. Yeah. Thanks, Jim.

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So you're not able to turn a conference? I'm glad we got legal advice on that one.

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Yeah, me too. I had because I wanted it. Yeah.

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What about my phone? Probably just quit working. Okay.

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Have you had a piece?

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Hey, it passed on through breeding.

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Okay.

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Maybe now I'll read it.

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I'm back on. I'm on on. Okay.

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Great. Thank you guys.

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for that.

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The next thing on the agenda is new business. What's that? I would just recommend

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that we adjourn the special meeting. Okay, you've got on this new business as well.

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Oh, do we have to do that? We'll go to council. Are we going to do that?

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Oh, that would be up to you. What you want to do there?

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Yeah, no, I think we know what we're going to do.

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So selection of legal counsels, so we had interviews last week.

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That's Thursday.

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That's Thursday.

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And then for legal account, for the applications that we received, we've had way two applications

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and at this time, I would, I would, it's not a motion for me, but I would, my recommendation

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for legal counsel is Mr. Brandon Taylor and that to take over legal counsel for us, it

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will, um,

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he gave his proposal and, um, so there will be, it will be a little bit of a change,

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she will be more remote in that force, but, uh, I think he will, I believe he will do us a very

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good job and continue we know his work

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He's done in the past for us. And so my may recommendation to the council is to appoint you as the county attorney. And so what I would ask from the council is a motion to approve Mr.

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Mr. Rowan and Taylor, as legal counsel for the town of Afton,

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one thing, just to get the

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others up to speed.

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It was explained to us that by so doing, we would still need to find another, a different

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attorney to handle the court side of things, since

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he's out of town, that's something

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you wouldn't be able to do. Correct.

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Yeah, little so I yeah, we could give a little more

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information. So yes, so Brandon would be our general counsel and that for things if if anything

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had to go to um ligation or the court or um and and also our traffic court side of things um then

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And we will have to find, we'll, in the market, for finding an attorney to help represent

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us there.

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At the current time, we reached out to the second person of the two and asked if they would

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interested in doing just court. They would like all or nothing. And then after

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later conversation with through their name. So at this at this point, we have it

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Brandon is the one that was remaining in that realizing that we still have

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we still have the court stuff to help figure out. We're still working through

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some of that, but from a general legal perspective, that's who I'd recommend we need to continue.

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Both are very important, but our general council is really important, and I believe that

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we decided that it would be starting on October 1st.

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It looks like we have been muted again.

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Mr. Cahnum, from, yeah, the big long stocked in what's the name of the, anyway, Dale's

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firm to, to Brandon and that Brandon would have outside of his regular work, would have

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two other clients, Mountain View and us.

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So he continues to represent Mountain View as well, doing, doing the same thing he would

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do for us. So at this time, that's my recommendation to move forward with him from the General Council.

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Any other questions?

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I don't have any tea.

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All right. Then I just asked for a motion to approve. Or did I?

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My recommendation to Mr. Brandon Taylor's legal counsel for the town of Afton.

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We'll make a motion to accept the mayor's recommendation to have Mr. Taylor represent the town of Afton.

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Okay. Do we have a second?

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I'll second it.

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All in favor?

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All right.

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I need to vote.

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Oh, I'm present not voting.

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I can vote on that one.

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But but but it's the council that approves.

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So maybe it doesn't maybe I need those three to approve it because it's the council that approves my recommendations.

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So with that in a call for motion to adjourn the special town council meeting and to go into just our regular work session.

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I'll make a motion to it your special meeting go into the regular business session.

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Okay, go ahead a second.

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I'll second.

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All in favor?

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Hi.

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Okay.

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One move into the accession side of things.

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So now do we need to wait?

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Yeah, just one second.

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We have to adjust something here.

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Or to come up with my thing that says.

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I guess I can leave that mean.

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Yes.

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The other thing I'm wondering is if we want to end that Zoom.

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I'll start a Zoom on mine.

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Let's do that.

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Okay.

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For all those on the Zoom that are here intending to be a part of the comprehensive master

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plan discussion, we're going to end the existing Zoom meeting and restart it in a different

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way.

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So, it will be...