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Good morning, Maureen. I'm going to get everything paused and set up.

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Morning, India.

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Good morning. I'm going to go ahead and call this public meeting in order. And we'll start with some, welcome, welcome some interactions from our division auditor, recreation staff. So since I'm ready to speak, you know, just go ahead and introduce myself. I use India and the deputy director operations at the division auditor, recreation.

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And my name is Patrick Warsen and I'm a Recreation Program Director here at the vision about the

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Recreation. Hi, everybody. My name is Jorge Vasquez. I'm with the division about the Recreation

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and I am the Recreation Grand Analyst. Awesome. Thanks. And today we are holding this public hearing

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to talk about a proposed administrative rule. Um, R650. I'm going to have a pull-up on my screen,

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Sorry, when the time is R650307, which is Outdoor Recreation

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Mitigation Grant Program.

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This role is proposed because of legacy action during the 2025

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legislative session, but with that, I'll go ahead and pass the time over to

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Jorge to talk a little bit about this.

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Awesome, and I can share my screen here.

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Just pulling that up real quick, just so that way everybody can see this.

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just the sections of the rules we have here.

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So, as India kind of mentioned already,

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it's for the outdoor recreation mitigation grant program.

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This first section here just gives us a general,

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the authority for rulemaking.

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And as Indi already mentioned, the specific bill.

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But in this case, it's 79-9-102

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or that specific section that kind of gives us

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the ability to create the rule.

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This next section here, we have definitions,

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which Morgus goes into, again, just key definitions

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for the rule and what we go through.

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Some of the more important ones

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that are to take are probably your eligible costs.

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We talk about a lot of eligible costs within the grant.

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For instance, we have visit related safety costs,

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visit related emergency costs, so those are some key definitions there.

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This next section here is more of the actual grant application and what we as a division have to provide eligible counties,

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and just the general application form and just the ways to actually submit a proper application to the division.

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And this next section here is more the eligible entities in my actual allowable uses for the grant.

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Again, it defines more like the eligible counties and what were allowed to use the grant for.

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In this case, it's going to be those visits related to emergency costs, as well as those visits related safety costs.

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And then we go a little bit deeper to explaining what that is.

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for instance, it could be used for search and rescue, emergency medical services, support

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for law enforcement, solid waste disposal, any of those impacts to smaller

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communities.

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And then this last section here, we got two more sections here, is more of a formula for

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or our grant recipients, it talks more a little bit about, like for instance, the prioritization

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matrix and how we kind of prioritize the emergency costs or the safety costs, it goes in order

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from those.

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So for instance, it's such a rescue to repair in this small population versus larger populations.

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and then this last section here is more just the reporting, and our general best practices

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for when it comes to running grants, and that's essentially the role here.

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So if there's any questions, please let me know, and I'd be more than happy to answer them.

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Awesome. Thank you, Jorge. I will add on to that just a little bit with something I meant to mention at the top of this meeting.

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This is the build it created, the rule making authority for this particular grant also created a board to oversee this.

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And we did as the division talked about this rule with the after recreation medication grant board.

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in a different public hearing on March 13th, 2026.

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So on the public notice website where this is going to be linked

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for the recording in Uganda,

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we'll also have that linked as well.

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So folks want to go hearing the conversation

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that the board had about this thing.

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Yeah, but thank you for that presentation, Marie.

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Thanks, India.

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Appreciate you.

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I believe at this time, I will say we're quite

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that have scheduled.

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It's 9.05 a.m. right now.

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This meeting is going to be open until 9.30 and we plan to have public comment beginning at 9.10s for about five minutes at a schedule.

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But we will just continue monitoring for any notices of folks who come into the building physically or trying to access the Zoom and let folks in for public comment as they wish.

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otherwise we'll just keep the recording open and the microphone unmuted and

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cameras on until 9.30. Awesome. Okay, thank you. Thank you.

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I just want to lag for the recording of the sake. Zoom just popped up that the meeting is going to end in 10 minutes, and the countdown is showing it's 9.20, and the countdown is showing 9.30. So it's probably going to log us out of the Zoom at 9.30. Just FYI. Okay, sounds good.

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Okay,

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I want to just note again, because I feel like Zoom's going to, Zoom's got to go.

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count down on it for us right now. So it's 9.29, officially in Zoom. So we have two minutes

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in the 20, about 22 seconds left on this meeting. I still, I've not heard of anyone trying

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to attend physically, or I don't know if you've seen anything on here on Zoom. I have not

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seen anything. So we're still going to keep the meeting open until we get to 9.30. I just

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I wanted to announce that again before Zoom walks us out.

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Perfect.

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And I haven't seen anybody on my hand either, so.

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Okay, thank you.

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Yeah, thank you.

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Ari, it is officially 9.30.

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I still haven't seen anyone push in the world line.

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So we work good to go ahead and conclude this public hearing.

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Ari, I'll leave it up to you to say any closing words.

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Just thanks everybody for all your guys hard work and I really appreciate it and if there's any questions

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That folks might have maybe in the future. I'm open for bringing in those questions, so please feel free to contact me. Thank you. Jorge's contact information is listed in the Ministry of Rural Bulletin. The Bulletin was published on April 1st, today's April 2nd, 2026. And with that, we'll go ahead and wrap up this meeting and wish everyone a good day. Thanks, Jorge. Thanks.