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Thank you, thank you so much. Is he really? Oh, yeah, there he is.

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All right. We want to welcome you to the meeting of the Emory County Board of Commissioners. It's August 4th, 2026, 301 p.m. We're at 75 East Maine in County Administration Building in Castledale, Utah. All right. We'll begin with an opening prayer.

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by Commissioner Leonard, and then Trent Jackson, the mayor, Farron, will lead us in the pledge.

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Our Father and Heaven, we're grateful for this opportunity we have to come together as a community

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we're grateful for. The blessings that we enjoy in this valley, we're grateful for

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our families and friends that we can live by and be with. We pray that I'll be with this as we

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make decisions today that that would be with us. We pray for moisture. We pray for those near the

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fire that they'll be able to be wise and be able to contain the fire. We pray that I would bless

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this and all those things that we don't see that that would bless us and take care of us and we

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Sadie Singh from the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

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which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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We'll move in the consent agenda.

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I would move that we approve the consent agenda is presented.

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I'll second.

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It's been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda as presented.

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Jensen?

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Yes.

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Leonard?

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Yes.

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Forward.

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Yes.

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Number two, presentation by Emory High School rodeo team.

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Thank you and report on nationals.

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So we get to see all those belt buckles and saddles that you won.

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I'm only willing to commit to seeing everyone else have other obligations but thank you guys

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That's for supporting us and everybody else that could make you very, very thankful to you.

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Was it a good time?

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How'd you do?

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I rode my first gobble and it ended up fourth and I bucked off the second gobble and short gobble.

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It ended up 18th overall.

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Why it ended up ninth?

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You should.

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Good.

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How was the temperature?

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It was awesome.

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Yeah, it was way off.

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Yeah, well appreciate coming and your family enjoy it was all with families able to go and

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much good

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Well, thank you for coming. We did receive a letter

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Whit Weber. Yeah, Whit's in Idaho. He's driving cows away from the fire. I guess

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He's in Idaho with family, but send a letter. Thank you also.

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So I'm going to ask you a question, but I do appreciate come present. Thank you.

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What do you learn in rodeo?

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A lot of hard work takes you a long ways.

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The more you work, you put in rodeo, the better you are.

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a lot of people are like people from everywhere like really cool they're

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helping out yeah here we go we got to bring the other one

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how did you do how did it go get covered up in long-round horses but just

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just missed the short go.

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How did you place?

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30th overall I think.

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I don't like the 90-ish.

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Was it hot?

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So you were telling us the truth.

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Where were you again?

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Lincoln Nebraska.

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Nebraska.

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I didn't even cover it.

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A little bit humid wasn't?

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It was like 90% humid all week.

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Yeah, yeah. That makes it worse.

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first. So what do you learn from rodeo?

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One big thing that I learned is that hard work

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will pay off more than talent to belong. Like the more work you put in it, the better

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you do.

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That sounds good. Well, we appreciate you guys coming and thanking us. I really

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appreciate it. James Rich.

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Okay, thank you. Thanks. Thanks.

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is that I think it's like any, it's like any of our youth events, it's certainly that

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way with stock shows and I think with athletics as well that if you look at it most of the

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benefit actually comes before you ever get to the contest. I mean that's kind of the

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cherry on top, but a lot of the learning and the discipline in that comes in the preparation

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between. All right number three presentation by Nikki all red regarding the

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Spirit of Service Award being launched by the One Direction Prevention Coalition.

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Good afternoon. Thanks for giving me some time today. I also want to add a couple

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youth coalition members that I brought with me today. I'm Coru McKinley and Deegan.

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So I want to thank them for coming with me to support me and to support all that we do

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for the Coalition and what they do for the youth coalition. I really appreciate

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them coming today. So, I'm here to date on a wait for the other.

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That's much

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sheriff. Sorry. I'm here today on behalf of the One Direction Prevention

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Coalition to introduce a new community recognition program called the

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Spirit of Service Award. I'd like to share why our coalition developed this

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award, how it connects to prevention, and I'm sorry I think it was back to

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sorry, and I set the slide to where I was being a pain, so I'm sorry about that again.

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Anyway, I'd like to share why our coalition about this award, how it connects prevention, how community members can nominate someone, show you the award.

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We are designing and then ask if commission would be willing to partner with us by presenting the award each quarter.

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You know the next one.

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One of the foundations of communities that care model at CTC is something called the social development strategy.

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The idea is pretty simple when we give people opportunities to get involved, help them build skills and recognize them for the positive things they are doing, we strengthen their connection to the community.

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That recognition piece is especially important when people are recognized for serving others and encourages them to see or keep making a difference and inspires others to get involved as well.

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Those strong community connections are protected factors that help reduce

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use substance use and build healthier communities. Our coalition believes

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prevention starts with building strong communities when we recognize people

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who are making a positive difference we encourage others to do the same. The

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Spirit of Service Award is one way we are helping create that positive culture

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here in Emory County. One thing our coalition thought was especially important

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is that this award recognizes both youth and adults. Many youth in our community

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you receive recognition through sports, academics, music, or other extracurricular activities

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and those accomplishments absolutely deserve to be celebrated.

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However, there are also many incredible young people whose strengths may not be visible.

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They may quietly volunteer, help younger children, care for family members, show kindness to

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others, or make a positive difference in their schools and neighborhoods without ever receiving

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public recognition.

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The same is true for adults. There are countless individuals who give their

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time, serve others, mentor youth, or step in whenever health is needed without

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accepting anything in return. The spiritual service award gives our community an

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opportunity to recognize these everyday heroes. People whose character,

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compassion, and commitment help make Henry County a better place to live. We hope

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that by shining a light on these individuals we inspire others, especially our

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youth, to see that serving others and making a positive difference is something

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truly worth celebrating. Next, please.

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Each quarter a coalition plans to recognize two individuals,

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ideally one youth and one adult. Each recipient will receive a custom design spirit of service

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award along with a $50 gift card as a small token of appreciation for their service to our community.

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Our hope is that by recognizing both youth and adults will encourage service across all generations.

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So this is the award that we're trying to get made. We're hoping that they can come through

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for us because we really liked it.

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And then next slide,

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the process is simple.

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Community members submit nominations through our website.

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The Coalition reviews the nominations,

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using established selection criteria

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and votes to select the recipients each quarter.

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Once the recipients are selected,

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we'd like to recognize them publicly

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during a county commission meeting.

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one of the goals of this award

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was to make the nomination process as simple as possible.

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Anyone in the community can nominate someone.

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they fill is making a positive difference. They simply visit our website, click on the

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Spirit of Service Award tab, read a little about the award, and what we are recognizing,

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then click nominate someone. From there, they complete a short nomination form,

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describing why that person deserves to be recognized. The form has opened year-round,

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and nominations will be reviewed by the coalition each quarter.

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So today, I'm asking if the Americanning Commission will be willing to partner with the

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Wunder Action Prevention Coalition by presenting these awards during the Second Commission,

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meeting of each quarter beginning and October. The coalition will manage the entire nomination

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selection process. We'll coordinate with recipients prepare the awards and handle all the logistics.

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We are simply asking the commission to help us publicly recognize the outstanding community members.

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We believe having the awards presented by the commission adds significance to the recognition

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and demonstrates that service to our community is valued at every level.

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any questions?

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I think it's pretty neat. I don't know how we could say we're

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not going to participate.

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So you probably already have a few people in mind so

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that's I think this is a great idea. Yeah we already have people ask us like you

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know tell us who they would like to know many so now that it's like we wanted to

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get out approved for you guys first to make sure you're on board and that you

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are okay with us putting your logo on there and like saying that it's coming

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from us and you and then we'll open that nomination process up. Are we gonna have

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a pattern figured out where we're supposed to stand so we don't go down there

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and try to be awkward when we're giving the award? I think we can practice. I think we

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We should just have some cardboard cutouts made that we could just have against the wall.

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I mean, I'm sorry if she's with this one or anything like that.

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No, yeah.

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Totally.

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We can press this, I promise.

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But yeah, I would give you whatever if you want me to write some for you to say, I mean,

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we'll have all the everything written about the person and all that, so it'll be easy on

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your guys as part.

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Do you like it?

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We need a bone shiner.

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just it's a presentation but we could probably ratify there's no no action

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item no no no yeah I think we're good okay all right well it's important with

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that and I appreciate you thank you okay

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so look around the room and decide who

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you want to nominate or elsewhere number four ratification of approval of the

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the USL memorandum of agreement to participate as a partner in the Juniper Library Consortium.

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the county library system is part of the, is a partner in the Juniper Library Consortium,

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which provides co-ha and husband discovery as our own catalog and circulation software.

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The cost to participate in the Consortium for this year is $2,152.38,

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which is based on the percentage of the overall cost to the consortium,

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and based on the number of mark records owned by Emily County Libraries.

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The MOA coverage July 1st, 2026 to June 30th, 2027 to meet the deadline to continue to participate.

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I sign the MOA with the permission of commissioners, and I'm asking you to invite us.

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Can you explain kind of how this works?

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So, there's a whole bunch of libraries who've come together and we've created this giant

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database with all of our more records so that across the state we're sharing information.

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It takes some of the burden off of our librarians because they don't have to do all the cataloging

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themselves.

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They can piggyback on what others have done, but and it brings down our costs significantly.

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So other systems to purchase this outright by ourselves would be closer to $10,000 a year

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but by being part of the consortium wherever to drive that cost down and we're

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hoping it'll continue to go down as more libraries come aboard.

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prove their application. I'll second. It's been moved to prove

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ratification of approval of the USL member animal agreement to participate as a

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partner in the Juniper Library Consortium. Jensen? Yes Leonard? Yes.

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Yes, forward, yes.

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Thank you. Okay.

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Yeah, we did approve.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We did approve. Right. Yeah, we did. Yeah, we did.

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Do we want to turn up the mic? I don't. I have it on.

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Okay. All right. Number five. Discuss approved. deny.

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I am a county commission passing a resolution

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amending a solar ordinance to stop all future

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large-scale utility solar plants that have not

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yet been permitted in every county.

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Did you skip them before?

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Not we're on it now.

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We're on it, fine.

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I have it as western metals.

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I have to change it.

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I remember.

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Western metals contract.

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We have western metals at six.

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Oh, I don't have the right contract.

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give a second, I'll tell you.

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So I requested for this agenda item to be on again and because there's there's a lot of misinformation

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and I'd like to kind of clear up some of that and then also to just you know it's an action item here

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but it could be discussion only, but I, there was a resolution that was written and it was presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission and then it was presented to our Council and it says whereas

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Emory County is a really organizing existing governmental entity with authority to regulate land use and development within its jurisdiction boundaries.

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and whereas AmeriCorps has experienced a significant increase in application for development of utility solar energy battery storage and a later project.

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And whereas solar energies use existing capacities of limited transmission lines, whereas solar plants employ a few long term jobs,

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whereas the economic driver of AmeriCorps is coal-based power, whereas solar plants can affect negatively impact the value of neighboring properties,

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whereas solar plants expanse many acres, whereas solar plants negatively impact wildlife habitat.

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Whereas long-term impacts of health to the people surrounding the panels have not been

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thoroughly studied, whereas AmeriCorps is located in the average of six to eight inches

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of precipitation a year, and impacts to land are irreversible, whereas solar plants

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affect the rest of the beauty of Ameri County, whereas solar plants impact federal and state

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lands making them single-use sites, whereas solar plants negatively impacts grazing, whereas

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solar panels are part of a gender to replace and transition fossil fuel communities to green

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and then green energy, whereas the vast majority of

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americans is not more solar panels to be developed, whereas

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americ county already has thousands of acres under solar

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plants. Therefore, it be it resolved that

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americ county commission is in many of the americ

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county zoning ordinance section 11-3-8 solar

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energy systems other than small scale building

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mounted primarily on onsite use section 11-38 will

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now state americ county will not be issuing any more

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utility scale solar and any of the unincorporated

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areas of americ county, including state trust

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lands be a land force lands for the purpose of preserving peace, health, safety, county, county, and

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haven't.

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So I just wanted to have that read because there was a sole ordinance that was written and

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kind of presented, it was presented playing zone commission.

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And that is the one that has been on the agenda here that we've been discussing for a few meetings.

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And I do appreciate the chair allowing this to be on the agenda.

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I did want to also clarify, because I've been noticing people are a little confused on the AG's letter to the commission.

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And I'd like to read some of that here today, because it's connected with this ordinance and with the May 5th meeting.

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This letter came in on May 28th, 2026.

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It begins by calling me the chairman,

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says Chairman Jensen, I'm not the chairman.

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And it goes further on in this latter, and in this so-called reprimand, it goes and says

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the May 5th audio recording indicates the Commission's discussion of the Drunkard's

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Wash Solar Project morphed with the following agenda item for discussion only of solar

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energy.

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But rather than vote on the specific Drunkard's Wash item, the Commission seemingly combined

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line drunkards wash and discussion only into one action item and approved an ordinance to impose a blanket prohibition of solar development in every county.

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And even if the commissions vote related only to the drunkards wash item, that item references specific project, not a countywide blanket prohibitation.

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The Commission's approval of the ordinance therefore implicates the Open Meetings Act which is the COREM to commissioners, provisions that require and then you have to follow the agenda, you have to post it.

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There require actions to be taken under reasonably specific agenda items.

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They go further on, they say that they won't take formal action against the Commission, but then they state that the passage of a county ordinance involves multiple steps that county attorney Mike Olson copied here can walk you through.

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and I found out because I was able to get a hold of AG's office because I emailed them.

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I emailed them back and said to Brittany, I appreciate you reaching out.

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This was weeks later, this was June 16th. Did attorney Olsen correct the misinformation in your email?

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And we did not pass the ordinance and I am not the chair of the commission.

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And so there was a strange moment where we did combine the two agenda items and the chair

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invited the one who was to present on that plan of action item.

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That was June 16th when I sent that email.

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It was last week when I finally got a hold of the Attorney General's office and I asked if they knew that I was not the chairman.

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They did not know that I was not the chairman.

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And I also said that no ordinance was passed.

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If you go 25 minutes from the end of that meeting, you'll hear a motion that was made to begin the process of batting solar.

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The AG's response to me was, well, then we probably shouldn't have sent that email in that letter to you.

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And so just to put it out there on record with the AG's office and the ideas of this solar ordinance,

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It shouldn't have been sent to the commission, and it was extremely faulty in its information on who it was to and what for.

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But also since then, because it was stated in the last commission meeting, because when you're looking at ordinances, we have state statute where resolutions, ordinances, and contracts need to go to our county attorney and June 10th, I sent an email to our county attorney.

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And I said, hello, Attorney Olson, because it was stated that I did not ask any questions.

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I'll let the public be the ones that decide.

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I said, hello, Attorney Olson, I wanted to send you the ordinance that was discussed in the planning and zoning meeting.

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I wanted to let you know that I will put this on the agenda.

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Thanks, Kevin Jensen, the Americano Commissioner.

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Someone in his office responded back, Commissioner Jensen, I just want to let you know that there's no ordinance attached.

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there wasn't. So I attached this ordinance that I read today and said thank you.

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That was on June 10th, no response.

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June 25th. Hello, Attorney Olson. I am requesting counsel on the next steps required to pass an

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ordinance prohibiting further solar development in the county. I believe that we can amend

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And what we currently have, but I want the steps clearly stated from you since you are our council.

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It is not fair, and I truly believe this.

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It is not fair to the folks on all sides of this issue, not to know what the county is doing.

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I'd like this issue resolved as soon as possible.

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Hope your day's going well.

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Kevin, please find a tax UCA 17-64-5.

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This statute clearly outlines the steps of for passing an ordinance.

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After reviewing the statute, should you have any questions or concerns you may contact me?

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That was on the 29th of June, the 2nd of July.

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Mike, it looks like we can use a resolution to amend in existing ordinance.

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Can the resolution I sent you work for amending it?

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Also, can this be put on the next commission agenda on the 7th of July?

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If not, please let me know what steps are needed for moving forward.

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Thanks.

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June 6th, Kevin. The steps are outlined in the attached statute. You see a 17-64-5.

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Well, a specific part of the process are union clarification on. A resolution is not attached, which I thought would be the resolution that it sent a month before.

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So I responded back. Mike, what steps are needed to get this resolution on next agenda? I sent this resolution a few weeks ago.

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Thanks. That was July 7th, and it was done.

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This topic, and we have been in issues because it was stated in an article in the newspaper about litigation, and we have had pretty much zero counsel.

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And in the last commission meeting a couple of weeks ago, there was concerns on the ordinance, and the written in the council sought.

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And I thought it's appropriate to let the public know and know the truth and I assume it's not illegal because he hasn't stayed at the legal and that we could go move forward with this ban and I just wanted to have this on the agenda to clarify those issues when we're dealing with such issues, we truly, truly need counsel and we've been having this issue since September, even before and other things but I want the public to know that.

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because people are quoting misinformation, and I wanted that on record, so anyway, I,

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that's the solar order, that's the resolution that I put together and wanted on record,

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so I don't know if there's other discussion or not, but there's this question.

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Yeah, I would, I have a couple things, thanks, Commissioner.

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I've been visiting with a lot of people, here's some documentation, those in the audience

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if you'd like to review some of this, you're more than welcome.

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I've put some thoughts together, I've spent a lot of time on the phone visiting different

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cities, different folks around the state at the state level, putting some guidelines in place.

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my concern, my concern with a total ban is not having teeth for the county. In

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five years, two years, whenever we're gone, well I think we need something in

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place for future commissioners. This is a strict ordinance. It's five or six pages.

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You're more than welcome to look at it. A lot of good things in here.

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I won't talk

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about all of them.

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But there are a lot of jumps to hoop through, jump through to do a solar

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project with this ordinance. I feel like this is a better direction to go than a van. I do want

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to present it to the commission and to planning and zoning and our attorney to review on that.

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It's going to have more words in mind.

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As you get prepared by the word.

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All right. Hearing no motion, we'll move ahead.

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Well, I will say that I do approve, but everyone knows that I would approve,

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and probably won't get sent, but that's okay, because this is what you desire to go for.

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Correct commission. So I would make that motion, but it will probably die with the second,

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which is all without a second, which my main thing is I wanted clear information to.

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about what was said, too, so anyway.

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Well, I would like some direction from our attorney on this one to make sure there can't be

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holed, poked in it. I know litigation can always happen, but have his review on this as well.

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I haven't shared it with him yet.

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Yeah, I'm very happy to view that as I have the others, with respect to the questions

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that have been raised by Kevin.

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I had nothing to do with the Attorney's Genitals Office.

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They reviewed the record and they made their recommendations in writing.

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I had nothing to do with it. It wasn't my job to correct anything. There wasn't anything

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that needed to be corrected based on the record. So, am I the chair?

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Asked what, how to get an item on the agenda. You know, he's been a commissioner for going

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on four years now. He knows full well how to get items on the agenda. And that's the only

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question that he had with respect to so I'm not looking to I don't need to

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defend anything or I'm not worried about starting a discussion there just the

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record speaks for itself and view this other ordinance and I'll look forward to

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discussing any questions with anyone so I'll look forward seeing that.

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All right. Thank you, Mike.

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Here you go second. We'll move on with number six.

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Discuss approved deny contracts for services between

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Emory County Landfill and Western Metals regarding Landfill scrap metal pile RFP.

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We opened the bid last week. It was for $125 per net ton. That was the only bid. And this is strictly approving a contract. Is that correct? Yeah. So I'm looking for a motion there. I'd move to approve the contract for services between every county landfill and western metals regarding landfill scrap metal pile. Okay. It's been moved and seconded to approve the contract for services between every county landfill and western metals regarding landfill scrap metal pile.

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Well, what's RFP, request proposal,

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and proposals, okay?

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All right, Jensen.

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Yes.

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Leonard?

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Yes.

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Orwood, yes.

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Seven, discuss approved denied proclamation

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for claiming September, 2026,

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to be suicide prevention and awareness month.

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Is there somebody from four corners here?

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Oh.

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Oh, thank you.

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I'm stepping in for Amanda McIntosh,

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our suicide prevention liaison. I'm Taylor Domingue and I'm the prevention director at Four Corners

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and she just encouraged me if you guys would read them proclamation out loud. If you'd like.

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Do you guys have copies of it?

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Let

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me read it.

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A proclamation by the county commissioners of Emory County, Utah,

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proclaiming September 2026 to be suicide prevention and awareness month. Whereas

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the state of Utah has consistently been in the top states for suicide deaths since 2012,

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currently 11th in the nation, versus 2025 reporting of 7th. And whereas carbon,

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emery, and grand counties often lead the state of Utah in suicide deaths per capita. And whereas

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people who lose their loved ones to suicide are at a 30 percent higher risk of ending their lives

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by suicide as a learned coping mechanism and learned behavior and whereas the risk of suicide

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can be reduced through awareness, proper evidence-based training, including safe messaging, educational

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resources and treatment and whereas according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

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statistics. Suicide is the first leading cause of death among Utah's aged 15 to 24. It was second in 2025.

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The second leading cause of death amongst Utah's aged 25 through 34. That was no change. Second for ages 35 to 44.

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4th for ages 45 to 54, 6 for ages 55 to 64, which has the highest rate of suicide.

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That's 4th in the nation, I'm assuming, in 2025, and 17th for ages 65 and older.

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And whereas suicide has a ripple effect that affects everyone's business, suicide is everyone's

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plant the idea of self-harm. Suicide is one of the most preventable deaths that can

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be educated by one, learning the warning signs of depression and suicidal ideation.

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Two, knowing how and when to ask about one suicidal thoughts. Three, being aware of life-saving

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measures such as safe storage of firearms and medication and four, familiarizing ourselves

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with the resources available locally, such as four corners community behavioral health,

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statewide, such as live on Utah and nationwide, such as calling or texting 988,

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the suicide and crisis lifeline.

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So how many here knew that you could dial 988 for that purpose?

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Okay, so some of you have learned, I've learned something today.

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Therefore, we, Emory County commissioners, Jensen, Leonard, and Warwood on this, what day is it?

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Fourth? Fourth day of August 2026. Do you hear by proclaim September 2026 to be suicide prevention and awareness month in the county of Emory.

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And encourage all residents of Emory County to recognize how serious suicide is.

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and the steps each of us can take to protect those around us from this

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preventable tragedy. One with devastating generational and community wide

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effects. Thank you. Thank you. And then I just wanted to say there are some suicide

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prevention events coming up. We will be hosting September 10th World Suicide

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Prevention Day. They'll be doing a candlelight vigil at Huntington City Park.

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So we just encourage your participation in that to show your support there and

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And then also we are doing the Southeast Utah Hope Walk

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and that's on September 12th at the Presley Peace Gardens

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and that is for full carbon and emery counties, so.

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Give it that Huntington date again.

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It is on September 10th from 7 to 8.30

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and I do have these for you guys, just the flyers.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Thank you very much.

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Yeah.

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Do

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you have any questions, Commissioner?

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Yeah.

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Oh, thank you.

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Yeah, you're welcome.

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Thanks, you guys.

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I think it's a rare family

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that isn't touched in some way by this, so we're happy to try to help make people aware of that, because that's a tragedy whenever it occurs.

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So thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Okay, move that we approve proclamations for claiming September 20, 26th, B. Suicide Prevention, where is month?

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I'll second.

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Okay, it's been moved and seconded to approve the proclamation for claiming September 20, 26th, to be suicide prevention and awareness month.

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Jensen?

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Yes.

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Leonard?

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Yes.

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forward, yes. Number eight, discuss approved and I, tasking. So, Johansson and Tuttle is about to

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be tasked, tasking Johansson and Tuttle to put together an engineer's estimate and plan for

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degree, base and maintenance.

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Well, so I guess I should begin.

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So we had a meeting this last week on PL566.

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And as we were talking and visiting,

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we signed agreements for the catch basins

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and there's a fire going on right now.

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So this is even more to the brain

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but that we would maintain and keep those structures up in Hunting Canyon and those catch basins, debris basins, maintained and kept.

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And we haven't, right?

451
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We've cleaned them out.

452
00:37:08,730 --> 00:37:17,470
But as we're looking at the Southern Project over at Joe's Valley, when we were asking ourselves, we need to maintain what we have to show that we're good stewards of what we've been given.

453
00:37:17,470 --> 00:37:25,530
and as we look into doing these basins, the PL566 cottonwood project, that we're going to maintain those structures as well.

454
00:37:26,370 --> 00:37:36,030
And so, this is asking Joe Hansel to come and if you guys want to present, you guys will probably do a better job than I am doing.

455
00:37:36,030 --> 00:37:40,290
Do I need to introduce myself?

456
00:37:40,770 --> 00:37:41,050
Yes.

457
00:37:41,770 --> 00:37:42,410
Yes.

458
00:37:42,810 --> 00:37:43,010
Cotton.

459
00:37:43,210 --> 00:37:43,390
Yes.

460
00:37:43,950 --> 00:37:44,590
Private citizens.

461
00:37:47,050 --> 00:37:48,750
So, Kevin's right on.

462
00:37:48,990 --> 00:37:50,410
From the first fire.

463
00:37:50,950 --> 00:37:53,490
Let's talk in Huntington County and the city fire.

464
00:37:53,810 --> 00:37:55,890
And from current events and past events.

465
00:37:56,230 --> 00:37:59,810
Through the federal partners and county and local partners,

466
00:37:59,830 --> 00:38:03,810
we've constructed flooded debris basin trash racks

467
00:38:03,810 --> 00:38:07,370
and flood control from in Huntington County and Huntington City.

468
00:38:07,370 --> 00:38:15,250
the straight canyon, Onesville, City, and the water treatment plant, and also the

469
00:38:15,250 --> 00:38:19,070
in through Castleville, the lower part of that we've been partners with Fund Prevention.

470
00:38:20,250 --> 00:38:25,250
And I think I know the state of a lot of them, but we need to, we've talked about since

471
00:38:25,250 --> 00:38:30,030
Johansson Tunnel was the design engineer and the project managers go back and look at

472
00:38:30,030 --> 00:38:35,950
these and see if they're functioning how they, how they would be built, what need it, what

473
00:38:35,950 --> 00:38:37,230
of maintenance needs to be, whether it's

474
00:38:37,230 --> 00:38:39,130
equipment, rip revenues, repair, or

475
00:38:40,410 --> 00:38:42,270
fencing around, or safety fencing,

476
00:38:43,030 --> 00:38:46,190
and they've given us a report on

477
00:38:46,670 --> 00:38:50,810
what they figure, what needs to be done,

478
00:38:50,970 --> 00:38:52,810
and the cost system, and then come back and see

479
00:38:52,810 --> 00:38:55,010
if we can start doing some of these and move forward.

480
00:38:55,210 --> 00:38:58,890
You keep the, some of these have been impacted.

481
00:38:59,610 --> 00:39:01,470
I think the one in hand, I need to encourage,

482
00:39:01,770 --> 00:39:04,970
I would guess probably, he's had 15 flood advance

483
00:39:04,970 --> 00:39:11,670
For more than that, it's huge for events, maybe since 2013, and I don't know if they walked

484
00:39:11,670 --> 00:39:16,470
out, maybe a road shop has cleaned them out, I don't know if they'd have time to do all

485
00:39:16,470 --> 00:39:20,630
the maintenance that's required on them, but thank Justin and Ed for what they do.

486
00:39:21,170 --> 00:39:22,130
That's our proposal.

487
00:39:22,350 --> 00:39:27,810
We can go back and bring a report back to you and see if there's some funding we can start

488
00:39:27,810 --> 00:39:28,090
doing.

489
00:39:28,250 --> 00:39:33,010
So this maintenance, I'll need to keep them intact for our infrastructure and our primates

490
00:39:33,010 --> 00:39:37,250
at our homes, but one of the long-range bills, well, some of them are directly for

491
00:39:37,250 --> 00:39:43,670
housing, for some re-industry without a specific goal. When I know about all of them,

492
00:39:43,670 --> 00:39:49,270
that's kind of a proposal, and see if we get what we get back from Jan T. So, let's clarify,

493
00:39:49,510 --> 00:39:55,310
is this just the ones, what does this entail? The ones in Huntington can, you know, I just

494
00:39:55,310 --> 00:40:01,430
said all of all of all of that we just did in 2013, which, well, don't mean a name

495
00:40:01,430 --> 00:40:06,490
but there's there's there's Minion's straight lower below the lower base on

496
00:40:06,490 --> 00:40:10,930
Onesville, the Old Castledale, the water treatment plant, the structure right

497
00:40:10,930 --> 00:40:16,130
above the bridge, the house, the big block wall, if he's straight canyon drainage and

498
00:40:16,130 --> 00:40:19,470
Huntington Canyon drainage. Okay, so it wouldn't take in the one over by

499
00:40:19,470 --> 00:40:25,750
Klossson or the ones away Farron. No, I wasn't involved in it. Okay. And that's

500
00:40:25,750 --> 00:40:30,870
what we were thinking is like maybe up to 10,000 so they can go out and

501
00:40:32,090 --> 00:40:36,670
gather up all that information and give us a bigger port on each of those projects and

502
00:40:36,670 --> 00:40:41,210
what it would cost and to get them maintained and up to snuff.

503
00:40:41,830 --> 00:40:46,330
The question, the big concern is these projects around Joe's Valley to protect our watershed.

504
00:40:47,730 --> 00:40:54,270
We're trying to go through some program money and some funding there and we're getting ready

505
00:40:54,270 --> 00:40:59,530
to go to the next step here and if we're not good stewards with what money they have given

506
00:40:59,530 --> 00:41:07,350
to us are they going to be zagging affect things on this new project and we need to keep

507
00:41:07,350 --> 00:41:10,870
up with them anyway we signed contracts and we went into contracts that we'd maintain

508
00:41:10,870 --> 00:41:22,650
them so they was up to about 10,000 I'd be so where would the money come from so there

509
00:41:22,650 --> 00:41:29,510
was some money that was budget for debris maintenance debris yeah and then if we had

510
00:41:29,510 --> 00:41:57,970
We had to kind of go into, there is that, and then I will personally think even that 200,000 we did a couple weeks ago for EMS for next five years, and we agreed upon that, we could maybe cut a little bit into the solar, but I believe there is money there for the debris basins and maintenance on them, so we could cut into that just a little bit if we can't we could take a little bit of that that was budget for EMS potentially.

511
00:41:57,970 --> 00:42:01,370
Would it be appropriate to take it out of flood, our flood fund?

512
00:42:01,750 --> 00:42:04,450
We could take it out of the, well I think we could take it out of that too, yeah.

513
00:42:04,530 --> 00:42:08,990
Because they prevent floods if they're working right, right?

514
00:42:09,090 --> 00:42:12,170
You put that in the paper, yeah, that would be appropriate, in my opinion, so.

515
00:42:14,330 --> 00:42:16,050
It has to be five to ten thousand.

516
00:42:16,630 --> 00:42:24,870
I would like the flood fund, so I'd motion to approve feasibility study to help with a feasibility

517
00:42:24,870 --> 00:42:31,990
study for the debris basins and maintenance out of the flood fund if that's allowed all second

518
00:42:31,990 --> 00:42:38,850
that you're going to put a cap on it so we don't get it 10 10 you wouldn't go over our 10

519
00:42:41,250 --> 00:42:45,690
because that'd be all it's well I mean we'd be all right if you did 30,000 dollars worth of

520
00:42:45,690 --> 00:42:52,490
for 10 for 10 you think 10's enough so that that was the 5 to 10 correct commission that was your

521
00:42:52,490 --> 00:42:53,930
No more than 10.

522
00:42:54,170 --> 00:42:54,250
Yeah.

523
00:42:56,730 --> 00:42:57,070
Okay.

524
00:42:58,610 --> 00:43:04,510
It's been moved and seconded to approve up to $10,000 to test your hands until to put together

525
00:43:04,510 --> 00:43:07,530
an engineer estimate and plan for debris and maintenance.

526
00:43:08,290 --> 00:43:14,570
And I will say that we have had funding for this and probably, and we've got pending funding

527
00:43:14,570 --> 00:43:15,190
for more.

528
00:43:16,030 --> 00:43:21,750
And we probably should demonstrate that we're taking care of the ones that we've got.

529
00:43:22,690 --> 00:43:24,370
Is that a fair statement?

530
00:43:25,370 --> 00:43:25,810
OK.

531
00:43:26,130 --> 00:43:32,130
These projects, they're going to be millions and millions of dollars.

532
00:43:32,390 --> 00:43:35,310
We've spent millions and millions of dollars and we're going to try to deal with it.

533
00:43:35,370 --> 00:43:35,470
Yeah.

534
00:43:36,050 --> 00:43:36,290
OK.

535
00:43:37,350 --> 00:43:37,790
Jensen?

536
00:43:37,990 --> 00:43:38,150
Yes.

537
00:43:38,710 --> 00:43:39,150
Leonard?

538
00:43:39,390 --> 00:43:39,590
Yes.

539
00:43:39,790 --> 00:43:40,330
Forward, yes.

540
00:43:41,730 --> 00:43:42,310
All right.

541
00:43:42,450 --> 00:43:43,410
We're flying right along.

542
00:43:43,750 --> 00:43:44,290
Thank you.

543
00:43:44,590 --> 00:43:45,650
Got more to say, Kyle?

544
00:43:46,090 --> 00:43:46,630
That's what we need.

545
00:43:46,670 --> 00:43:47,130
You have to talk.

546
00:43:49,610 --> 00:43:50,050
OK.

547
00:43:50,050 --> 00:43:50,190
Okay.

548
00:43:53,650 --> 00:44:07,890
Okay. This is number nine. Discuss approved tonight, performing a feasibility slash engineering slash planning at Henry County Sheriff's Office to consider expansion in order to house additional state inmates.

549
00:44:07,890 --> 00:44:17,910
the sheriff you on okay house how's things up at Joe's Valley are you up there

550
00:44:18,970 --> 00:44:29,510
I'm not up there right now but they're warm okay all right that's I was hoping for a

551
00:44:29,510 --> 00:44:31,910
more detailed report, but I guess we'll take that.

552
00:44:33,590 --> 00:44:34,790
All right.

553
00:44:35,710 --> 00:44:41,090
But as far as the agenda item there,

554
00:44:41,590 --> 00:44:45,290
so I have a meeting with Sheriff Golden

555
00:44:45,930 --> 00:44:48,010
down in Washington County, Amaro.

556
00:44:48,590 --> 00:44:51,030
They just did an expansion into their jail,

557
00:44:51,750 --> 00:44:53,810
and he's brought down us to town with his staff

558
00:44:53,810 --> 00:44:56,470
and discussed things that they did.

559
00:44:56,930 --> 00:44:59,230
They didn't move forward with the feasibility study.

560
00:44:59,230 --> 00:44:59,930
they have some other

561
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:28,680
Things going on, but as far as that goes, I'll meet with him tomorrow, and then a plan on sitting down with Sheriff Carpenter out of Wayne Keper, sorry, iron county. They are in the middle of a construction project for the new jail, and then also Sheriff House and in Garfield. He's in our same shoes, he's wanting to do some expansion. So sit down with him and do some work, starting on that. But as far as what's going on now with our state inmates,

562
00:45:31,540 --> 00:45:34,580
We're fortunate to have the number we have right now.

563
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:42,060
We have a go close to 30 state inmates and we have a few programs that we offer them.

564
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,820
So it helps with funding that we receive from the Department of Corrections.

565
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,040
But we've been having a really good experience.

566
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:49,680
The jail is busy. We're hopping.

567
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:51,880
The guys seem pretty happy.

568
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,660
Our relationship with the DLCs better than it's ever been.

569
00:45:55,660 --> 00:46:00,440
we continue to work with them closely and if we ever have any issues with state

570
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:05,780
inmates we make a phone call and they're gone usually within 24 hours and we've

571
00:46:05,780 --> 00:46:10,040
done that a couple of times. We've had a couple of issues where we've had some

572
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:14,160
problems that we didn't want to deal with and made some phone calls and they came and

573
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:19,100
got them so the opportunity to look forward to the possibility of expanding the

574
00:46:19,100 --> 00:46:27,760
or an addition, I really feel like it would increase some jobs, localies, some good career type jobs.

575
00:46:28,540 --> 00:46:30,660
And we could still make some revenue.

576
00:46:30,740 --> 00:46:31,800
Would he stay in baseball?

577
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,540
Yeah, just a little bit on that.

578
00:46:37,380 --> 00:46:40,980
Sheriff had mentioned to us a little while ago, a couple months ago, I think.

579
00:46:40,980 --> 00:46:42,260
And I don't want to speak for you, Sheriff.

580
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:49,000
But the revenue coming in really is a good deal.

581
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:58,100
So other counties don't they use state inmates to help pay an offset budget needs and wants and things like that?

582
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:09,860
Yes, absolutely. A couple other counties are similar to our size, but are housing 200 state inmates. They're seeing pretty serious revenue from that.

583
00:47:09,860 --> 00:47:14,920
I don't know if that's a level that we'd want to get to, but what we're at right now in

584
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:20,600
30, and we still have a little room in our cell. We're comfortable as far as guys have

585
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:26,300
with their own space and being able to maintain peace out there. I think we're there, but

586
00:47:26,300 --> 00:47:31,860
if we want to do any more and expand, then we'd probably, if we want to do more and make

587
00:47:31,860 --> 00:47:35,760
things, we'd have to get some more room and we're in another building, but it's here

588
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:42,340
this day, things are getting more and more. Legislature is allowing more inmates to

589
00:47:42,340 --> 00:47:47,560
county out and come to county jails. So that number keeps going up and then what

590
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:53,500
there reaper the message is also going up. So it seems like it's on an

591
00:47:53,500 --> 00:47:57,780
upper trend and it's been around for quite a while and it's looking good. It

592
00:47:57,780 --> 00:48:04,700
looks like just a good opportunity for us. So for those that are attending or

593
00:48:04,700 --> 00:48:10,420
listening. On this, the state does pay to house inmates.

594
00:48:13,220 --> 00:48:14,460
Before you make this

595
00:48:14,460 --> 00:48:18,840
step, you'd need to look at it and make sure that it was going to be a

596
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:23,040
paying proposition because you'd obviously, if you expanded greatly, you'd have to

597
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:28,200
add more staff, you'd have to add more facilities, you'd have more cost for

598
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:34,380
maintenance and food and medical expenses and such. But I think that's where it would

599
00:48:34,380 --> 00:48:40,340
be helpful to look at some of the counties that are doing it. It is a way to help potentially

600
00:48:40,340 --> 00:48:45,280
fund law enforcement without having to impact local tax payers.

601
00:48:47,780 --> 00:48:53,780
I think that's the boat that we were county finds themselves in to generate quite a large

602
00:48:53,780 --> 00:48:55,400
amount with just their state of mates.

603
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:05,640
Hey, sure, have you thought about where the happy medium is for you're generating, making

604
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:11,260
sure that the inmates are safe, but potentially generating the best outcomes revenue wise

605
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:19,880
is that, do you know what that is, with how many state inmates you can take, where it makes

606
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:25,200
Well, I think that's a number that we could probably settle on and figure out.

607
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:30,320
I haven't gone down that road to figure out what a magic number would be that would benefit us.

608
00:49:30,580 --> 00:49:34,080
But there's a couple factors that play into that.

609
00:49:34,540 --> 00:49:40,640
And that was one reason that our county jail was so popular with state inmates.

610
00:49:40,820 --> 00:49:47,000
And at the beginning, most of the time, the state inmates would have his or her own cell.

611
00:49:47,340 --> 00:49:48,320
They would have a cellmate.

612
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:54,600
And as we increase numbers, that's changed a little bit, but some of the amenities for lack

613
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:59,660
of a better term in our jail is popular for inmates to come to here.

614
00:49:59,820 --> 00:50:06,780
It's, I know it's a budget thing, but our food is always better, and then the services

615
00:50:06,780 --> 00:50:13,080
that we provide as far as their opinion group thinks, we receive a lot of support from our

616
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,400
local mental health that spends a lot of time with them, provides that.

617
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:21,440
And the report we get back to mistaken things is they seem to really enjoy that as compared

618
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:25,880
to your other counties that they've been to, so a few things like that, but we want

619
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:29,120
to be able to maintain and not throw ourselves to the end.

620
00:50:29,540 --> 00:50:34,180
So I think as we, you know, go down this road with the study, that would be something that

621
00:50:34,180 --> 00:50:40,840
we could find out a number that would work best for us and also as I mean with the other

622
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:45,180
the sheriff's that are doing that and see what work they put in, and they've done some work for us.

623
00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:47,820
Sorry, thank you.

624
00:50:48,860 --> 00:50:56,420
Well, one thing I think too is if we move forward with the feasibility and the cost this after you have those visits with those other sheriff's,

625
00:50:56,500 --> 00:51:06,620
I believe a good funding to pay for this I think would be through LBA would be a pretty good, pretty good, right?

626
00:51:07,240 --> 00:51:09,120
Sorry, I just, yeah.

627
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:13,420
Would it be through LBA local building authority?

628
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:19,980
So I think this would be that would be a good little pot to use for this

629
00:51:31,010 --> 00:51:36,010
By raise the hands how many would buy a calendar with pictures of policemen on it?

630
00:51:36,670 --> 00:51:42,750
I think you better stick with the prisoner approach their picture if I'm not getting a lot of takers on the calendar

631
00:51:43,930 --> 00:51:44,990
I'd buy one share.

632
00:51:50,380 --> 00:51:51,300
I, uh,

633
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:54,940
any other discussion? Sorry. Yeah.

634
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:57,760
What's that? Yeah.

635
00:51:58,500 --> 00:51:59,600
So, uh,

636
00:52:02,460 --> 00:52:02,880
there we go.

637
00:52:03,140 --> 00:52:03,840
That was lucky.

638
00:52:05,540 --> 00:52:05,980
Uh,

639
00:52:09,710 --> 00:52:11,170
do need to wait for that.

640
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:17,220
It'll take it just a minute.

641
00:52:17,340 --> 00:52:20,840
It did this right before we started and it took a few minutes to get it back up.

642
00:52:20,940 --> 00:52:23,880
Okay. Well, we might proceed in their absence.

643
00:52:26,140 --> 00:52:33,120
So it's discussed, discussed, approved, and I, we're basically asking to approve a feasibility

644
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:33,640
study.

645
00:52:36,830 --> 00:52:42,810
And it's interesting because I believe these others didn't really, I don't know if they

646
00:52:42,810 --> 00:52:43,710
really did a feasibility study.

647
00:52:43,750 --> 00:52:47,510
I think that's one thing he was mentioning about one sheriff, he was, isn't with me.

648
00:52:48,090 --> 00:52:52,710
They just kind of did it is you have two different ways of doing things.

649
00:52:53,590 --> 00:52:59,730
You have the ferron way, or you just grab it by the horns and you just go forward and

650
00:52:59,730 --> 00:53:00,530
you plow forward.

651
00:53:01,730 --> 00:53:06,510
Then you might have it the green river way, where you study it and study it and study it.

652
00:53:06,850 --> 00:53:15,470
And the reason I'm saying this and the reason I can't say this is because the event center is a good picture.

653
00:53:15,470 --> 00:53:27,110
Fair and went in, they did it, and Green River went through feasibility, grant study from the state, and they went through a lot of process and procedure and time.

654
00:53:28,310 --> 00:53:42,870
Fair and housing vent center, and Green Rivers doesn't, so I think the feasibility says it would be a good idea to also crunch the numbers of the money, the revenue.

655
00:53:43,470 --> 00:53:48,830
What would 50 beds do? What would 100 beds do? What would 125 beds do? Or something like that?

656
00:53:48,850 --> 00:53:52,250
I think it'd be really appropriate before we jump in. But I don't want to speak for Sheriff.

657
00:53:52,690 --> 00:53:56,190
That's just kind of my thoughts on this. And I don't know how much that would be.

658
00:53:56,470 --> 00:54:02,030
Feasibility studies I feel like are between 50 to 100,000. It's like, or 150. But I don't want to spend 150.

659
00:54:02,510 --> 00:54:06,030
I don't want to spend 100. I don't know if I want to spend 50.

660
00:54:07,410 --> 00:54:10,290
Maybe that Sheriff will just do it out of the goodness of his heart.

661
00:54:12,870 --> 00:54:14,710
I think, yeah, this would be to an element.

662
00:54:14,710 --> 00:54:16,250
I think we'd want to limit it, wouldn't we?

663
00:54:17,050 --> 00:54:20,710
Yeah, I don't know if he's asking for money.

664
00:54:20,850 --> 00:54:24,870
I think he'd probably have to come up with a proposal

665
00:54:25,390 --> 00:54:31,390
to even seek expert help on it.

666
00:54:32,890 --> 00:54:35,050
I think this is the way I read this.

667
00:54:35,090 --> 00:54:36,710
This is just approval to go ahead.

668
00:54:36,710 --> 00:54:48,340
and then let us know if the bill shocks is too much then we probably won't do it.

669
00:54:51,780 --> 00:54:54,800
I don't know what to do.

670
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:58,420
So I guess we just move forward.

671
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:06,900
Yeah, almost to approve moving forward with the costs on the feasibility and engineering study.

672
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:10,000
Is that the right motion?

673
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:15,280
I think we'll see what the costs are going to be.

674
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:18,480
You'd have to do like an RFP process.

675
00:55:19,700 --> 00:55:26,900
If we came up with an amount wouldn't be like a queue or a qualification instead of a proposal or do we want to keep it with a proposal?

676
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:36,100
Whatever you guys choose, if you want to set an amount and just go off qualifications, you can do that, or you can put it out for a competitive bid.

677
00:55:36,700 --> 00:55:37,980
See what happens, who comes in?

678
00:55:41,820 --> 00:55:44,560
Look at always the Nile, all the bids, if they came in too high.

679
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:53,800
So were you proving RFP that for an engineer, or to move forward with an RFP, or just for him to go talk?

680
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:57,520
Because I thought he could probably talk if he wanted to anyway, with the shares to get information.

681
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:08,420
I don't see him asking for an RFP here.

682
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:10,560
It's not on the agenda.

683
00:56:10,700 --> 00:56:14,300
Well, but normally if it's a feasibility and engineering and planning, that would be connected

684
00:56:14,300 --> 00:56:16,260
to some sort of proposal.

685
00:56:17,540 --> 00:56:23,740
Well, we don't necessarily have to approve, but we could just discuss it and then tell him to come back with more details if we wanted.

686
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:31,880
or we could write him a blank check.

687
00:56:37,870 --> 00:56:38,510
You sure?

688
00:56:38,730 --> 00:56:39,070
I'm going to see.

689
00:56:39,730 --> 00:56:40,090
You sure?

690
00:56:40,370 --> 00:56:41,130
On phone.

691
00:56:41,750 --> 00:56:42,190
No.

692
00:56:42,390 --> 00:56:42,970
There are you.

693
00:56:43,070 --> 00:56:43,470
There are you.

694
00:56:43,850 --> 00:56:44,570
There are you.

695
00:56:44,890 --> 00:56:46,690
So where are you asking?

696
00:56:47,990 --> 00:56:49,590
Are you asking for money?

697
00:56:49,710 --> 00:56:51,630
Are you asking just to go forward with the feasibility

698
00:56:51,630 --> 00:56:52,230
and the engineering?

699
00:56:53,470 --> 00:56:56,570
Just with, I just want to do a feasibility.

700
00:56:56,810 --> 00:57:00,150
At this point, you get an outside opinion.

701
00:57:00,150 --> 00:57:06,450
I mean, if there was something that we would want to see money into or look forward, look,

702
00:57:06,590 --> 00:57:12,630
you can't like something you want to look forward with, but if you have money, we spend

703
00:57:12,630 --> 00:57:14,730
it all on the sheriff's department, I think.

704
00:57:15,890 --> 00:57:16,410
No.

705
00:57:17,470 --> 00:57:24,550
Do you want to come back with a firm amount that we could look at as far as what a feasibility

706
00:57:24,550 --> 00:57:25,570
study might cost?

707
00:57:25,930 --> 00:57:26,110
Yeah.

708
00:57:26,910 --> 00:57:27,310
Yes.

709
00:57:30,900 --> 00:57:31,300
Okay.

710
00:57:31,300 --> 00:57:32,100
I personally do.

711
00:57:32,100 --> 00:57:33,180
So I think this is a good thing.

712
00:57:33,420 --> 00:57:33,500
Yeah.

713
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:34,900
I agree.

714
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:35,840
We need to move forward.

715
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:36,560
Yeah.

716
00:57:36,780 --> 00:57:38,180
But it'd be nice to know.

717
00:57:39,020 --> 00:57:41,780
So maybe we could get a vote that we want to move forward as a commission.

718
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:46,500
So I move that we approve moving forward with feasibility engineering planning.

719
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:51,060
At the Henry County Sheriff's Office to consider expansion or to house additional state inmates.

720
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:52,400
Oh, thank you.

721
00:57:52,660 --> 00:57:52,900
Okay.

722
00:57:53,020 --> 00:58:00,080
It's been moving second to approve the sheriff moving forward with the feasibility engineering slash planning.

723
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:07,320
effort at the Americano Sheriff's Office to consider expansion in order to house

724
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:16,120
states inmates. Jensen yes Leonard yes or would yes okay thank you Sheriff

725
00:58:20,820 --> 00:58:24,780
we're down to number 10 elected official reports do you have anything to report

726
00:58:24,780 --> 00:58:32,760
chair um I know that we're still dealing with fires it sounds I think your

727
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:37,440
model that will get some more information on Jeremy Lake that we're just

728
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:41,560
managing the office has been doing their majority of that stuff meeting with

729
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:46,300
fire and some of the different agencies to figure those things out but there's

730
00:58:46,300 --> 00:58:50,280
talk that we might be moving the incident command over to our side of the

731
00:58:50,280 --> 00:59:03,520
It is. Let me interrupt you mayor. Do you want to comment on that on the on the where they're moving the fire camp to?

732
00:59:04,820 --> 00:59:05,940
The center.

733
00:59:08,460 --> 00:59:17,000
So the command center for the fire up Black Canyon is going to be moved here to Castledale.

734
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:28,360
So if you see those folks then thank them for their service. I think that will be much more feasible than having them to tram over the mountain on gravel roads to get to the fire.

735
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:34,600
I'm going to have to agree with you there and just a little shout out to our citizens, I've

736
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:40,880
been contacted by a lot of people asking where they can bring water, gatorade, snack,

737
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:45,380
refreshments, those kind of things, so we haven't been asked to leave any of that yet,

738
00:59:45,500 --> 00:59:49,680
but it's great how our citizens are already thinking about that.

739
00:59:50,020 --> 00:59:54,940
So in the meantime, if anyone feels like they want to do that, we can accept that at the

740
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:59,840
Sheriff's Office and hold on to it there until it's just triggered it out just

741
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:12,500
Based on the fact that we always have someone there who could receive that as opposed to pardon apartments or anything like that, if anyone has questions. Okay. Thank you, Sheriff. Let's see.

742
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:18,440
Is Mike still on there?

743
01:00:21,140 --> 01:00:29,980
Yeah, down the corner, down the bottom. Do you have anything to report, Mike? Well, I don't. Thank you. Are you are you up there at all?

744
01:00:29,980 --> 01:00:36,340
you've got a cabin up there yeah yeah we've got a family property up there and

745
01:00:36,340 --> 01:00:40,760
yeah obviously it's a matter of great concern for us and along with everyone

746
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:45,880
else that's up there so we appreciate it once thoughts and concerns about that

747
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:52,300
really do appreciate it okay thank you well good luck with that

748
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:14,740
I just want to thank everybody kind of echoing share of the outpour that I've gotten from

749
01:01:14,740 --> 01:01:18,720
our community concerned about the sheep and where they're at and being willing to go

750
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:26,800
there and help get him moved out of danger. They're in the alright spot right now but just helping

751
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:32,140
each other. We live in a really good community and we're blessed that way and pray for rain.

752
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:40,680
Yeah, that's what you're learning. Yeah, just a couple things on the fire. Think the mayors and

753
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:47,280
fire departments all hands on deck. Sounds like there were a lot of people that helped with the

754
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:53,120
reader subdivision helping those residents get things out of there, so thank our community

755
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:58,040
there. Enjoyed the county fair, you can see I got a little sunburn, I wish I would

756
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:02,060
have worked some sunscreen, but the county fair was great, I want to thank all of our

757
01:02:02,060 --> 01:02:08,480
helpers and those that participated in the county fair, the rodeo, everything. Sheriff's

758
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:12,920
office, it was a good time at team night, they were able to shoot some kids with paint balls

759
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:18,480
up at the golf course, so I think that was a great time. I also want to thank the county

760
01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:22,840
employees that participated in that as well. That's all I have.

761
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:30,680
Okay. I want to echo commissioners thanks to the people who helped put on the fair.

762
01:02:32,100 --> 01:02:37,860
I helped for a lot of years with the stock show and I was on the fair committee for a number

763
01:02:37,860 --> 01:02:42,600
of years as well. Unless you've been involved in that you just have no idea how much work

764
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:47,800
goes into putting on an event like that, the planning and all of the logistics and the

765
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:53,300
details. So they did a wonderful job. I thought the advertising was good. I thought there

766
01:02:53,300 --> 01:03:00,860
was a great variety of activities and things for people to do. So my hat's off to all of

767
01:03:00,860 --> 01:03:06,740
those who had any hand in the county fair. I will say to what was your budget?

768
01:03:06,740 --> 01:03:11,560
I think we were 50,000 and then sponsors on top.

769
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:12,180
Okay.

770
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:20,520
So, I might have mentioned this last time, but when Commissioner Leonard and I visited up

771
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:30,490
in Wyoming, their county fair budget was like $400,000 and it was county about the size of

772
01:03:30,490 --> 01:03:38,290
Henry County. So we really got a bane for our buck. That's well done. I think the people

773
01:03:38,290 --> 01:03:44,530
who have expressed concern are offered help with the fire. We have been in contact frequently.

774
01:03:44,730 --> 01:03:53,990
I called Jeremy just before this meeting started. He reported that as of an hour ago, no structures

775
01:03:53,990 --> 01:03:59,130
were threatened up there and they were working to keep it away from anything and the structures.

776
01:03:59,790 --> 01:04:07,510
So hopefully the weather will be favorable and it will start moving that fire back into

777
01:04:07,510 --> 01:04:12,370
the burned area and it will be able to get that resolved but we appreciate all of those.

778
01:04:12,750 --> 01:04:19,210
We encourage those that are here to just be mindful of extra traffic and extra people

779
01:04:19,210 --> 01:04:27,370
around and if you can give them a smile and a wave or thank you that would be appreciated

780
01:04:27,370 --> 01:04:34,650
because they're away from home and fight in our fire appreciate all of the

781
01:04:34,650 --> 01:04:41,710
efforts of the other county officers and elected officials and your interest

782
01:04:41,710 --> 01:04:48,330
in showing up here today so we'll make lasting friendships through one

783
01:04:48,330 --> 01:04:55,190
commission meeting at a time all right also it was enjoyable to have BOE training

784
01:04:55,190 --> 01:05:01,650
for a couple days. Oh yes. Yes. Go to be trained by the State

785
01:05:01,650 --> 01:05:05,010
Tax Commission. Commissioner Jensen Leonard went to

786
01:05:05,010 --> 01:05:10,430
Price. I went to Moab. It was riveting. So anyway, we're

787
01:05:10,430 --> 01:05:14,090
so grateful for that. And we're grateful it's over. You

788
01:05:14,090 --> 01:05:16,590
think of anything else? Oh, on that, it is be a week

789
01:05:16,590 --> 01:05:21,010
season. It is. So now let the folks know if you want to

790
01:05:21,010 --> 01:05:24,210
appeal the Valley of your home. You go to the Thurkauer's

791
01:05:24,210 --> 01:05:30,050
office and file an application. So is it is it too late to get signed up for circuit breaker?

792
01:05:30,830 --> 01:05:36,750
It's September 1st. So real quickly I'm going to put Carol on the spot who's

793
01:05:36,750 --> 01:05:42,610
called a circuit breaker is a program that helps certain people with their property taxes.

794
01:05:42,910 --> 01:05:47,630
Call it low income homeowners tax credit. Low income homeowners and veterans.

795
01:05:48,230 --> 01:05:51,510
And there's a veterans if they have 10% of this ability from the day.

796
01:05:51,510 --> 01:05:55,250
Okay, so at least 10% disability.

797
01:05:55,610 --> 01:05:59,810
Anyway, those forms are also available at the clear gutters,

798
01:05:59,810 --> 01:06:01,730
so be mindful of that, please.

799
01:06:03,390 --> 01:06:06,850
All right, I'd look for a motion to adjourn.

800
01:06:06,990 --> 01:06:09,350
Okay, we're adjourned.

801
01:06:09,390 --> 01:06:09,850
Thank you,

802
01:06:11,990 --> 01:06:14,170
we gotta sign all of this.