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All right, we are now recording. We are live. So welcome to the Wednesday, March 25, 20, 26, 10 a.m.,

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Nordic Valley Water and Super District, Public Hearing and Board of Trustees meeting,

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an all electronic meeting. I'm Rob Behunin, I am the chair. We have with us in the meeting and on the call,

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Trustee Lewis, Trustee Joe Frey, and District Council Mark Bell. I have a note for the record that I haven't received any inquiries from the public either by email, telephone or other methods and

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and this constitutes the folks that are in the meeting at this time.

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item number two on the agenda will open it up briefly for public comment seeing how there's

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no members of the public. We will pass on that agenda item item number three approval of the

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minutes from the February 9th 2026 meeting.

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Sorry sent those out a little bit late. I don't know why it's

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to work for Idaho, but it is.

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Same time zone, everything else, but I apologize. I got those out

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late. Any changes or commendations to the minutes? No,

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you question. Okay. Great. All right. I'd

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entertain a motion to approve the minutes and can make a motion to approve the minutes. Thank you.

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I'll second it. Thank you, John.

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Any discussion to the motion?

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Seeing none, all those in favor of

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approving the minutes from the February 9, 2026 meeting, please say aye. Thank you. Thank you, aye.

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Motion carries unanimously in the affirmative. All right,

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All right, item number four, we'll now open the public hearing to receive input and comment for the amended budget district budget for 2026.

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And that public hearing is now open.

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Mark any advice we have no members of the public.

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So I think we just note that for the record and make sure it gets a minute and then there needs to be a discussion about the preliminary before we review the amended or review the amended budget talk about the reason for it and then go on to the resolution to adopt it.

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Okay, great. Thank you. Right. Seeing that there are no members of the public on the meeting,

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we will close the public hearing at this time.

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So the reason for the mending of our 2026 budget,

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you'll remember that when we approved this back in November, we were anticipating about a $9,000

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our property tax revenue screen coming in and the state tax commission, as you might recall,

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basically denied that because of a technical procedure in the way in which we

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held our public hearing in our board meeting. Wasn't that right, Mark? It was the

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So they've asked us to go back and do that, which we will do this year, so we had prepared

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our budget for to reflect that $9,000.

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We submitted that budget.

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The state auditor's office specifically had Lee Scott flagged that, basically saying

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that we couldn't have the same amount of income as expenditures, and that was the notice

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that they had sent us for a 60-day cure period to resubmit a new budget, and so that brought

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us to this point, and since we have no property tax and we have no income, we needed to zero

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out the budget anyway for 2026 and so that's that's what we've done so if you if you look at the

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new budget and one thing I need to do on this budget is note that it's an amended budget on the

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on the state auditors forms which I haven't done and I will do that it reflects no income no prior

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your expenses, nothing in capital projects, and nothing in the debt service fund.

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So that's basically the explanation and why we're here today to do that. Any questions

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questions from the board for clarification.

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John, nope, nope.

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Mark, did I explain that in the national equity?

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Yeah.

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Exactly.

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Great.

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Fantastic.

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So this will be submitted today.

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The deadline for submitting it is tomorrow.

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I will get it in today.

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And that way we'll be in compliance

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and if there's something else we need to do.

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I'm sure it's my daughter will let us know.

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Go ahead, Laurent.

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Do we need to approve it?

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Yes, we do need to approve it.

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Yeah, that's the next item on the or the next.

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Yeah, piece we should approve it.

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So there is a resolution in your packet.

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I wouldn't know if there's one.

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I found one error.

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Mark may find other things we need to change as we go through it.

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There's any other.

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or something I've missed, I just used the basic template

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that we'd have, but I did leave out the valley

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on the signature line.

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It says Nordic water and sewer distribution,

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say Nordic valley water and sewer description.

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So, anyway, that was my...

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That's the only thing I'm noting.

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Okay, great.

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All right.

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Yeah, I just have to have a reservation.

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I'm sorry, Laurent.

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It's what you're saying. It's just after the word resolution, say no dig, but it's where

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improvement district. Right.

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That's a signature. The signature as well is different. Correct,

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correct. Correct.

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You know, I think we have to strike the part of section one that's in parentheses.

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We don't refer to the tentative budget anywhere.

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See what I'm referring to in section one.

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Oh, yes, I do the budget for the calendar,

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236, which is consistent with the tentative amended budget.

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Yeah, that worked for the original adoption.

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Not for this.

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All right, small strike that.

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Great.

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Thank you.

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So that's point A, then you have the wording after resolution, no degree water to

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the stream.

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And then in the signature, it says, no, the water on the stream, I need to add Valley,

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yes.

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Yeah.

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Correct.

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There are three changes.

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Correct.

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Got those.

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thank you. I was missing the third one. I found it under under the head. Yeah, okay, I found that.

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Yeah, so Lawrence pointing out is after item. Actually, the letters

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ABDD that we should have one C. Yeah, so ABCD and then the word resolution and then it says be it resolved by the board of trustees of the Nordic Valley should say water and sewer and it should not

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same improvement district, just water and sewer district as follows. So there's actually five changes.

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Great. Do you change Exhibit A or did you already mention that the title for Exhibit A because it

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just says Northern Valley sewer title

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for Exhibit. Oh yeah for the budget. Well just yeah

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Yeah, this has exhibited a budget for a calendar year, 2020,

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the Northern Valley sewer improvement district.

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Yeah, that needs to be changed.

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Oh, thank you.

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Yeah, I didn't have a window open wide enough to.

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Yep, I got to see that.

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it's exchanges, I think we've got them all.

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Was there any others?

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Good.

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Well, and because we haven't finished the processing

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of the name change it with the Lieutenant Governor's Office, they're still referring to us on all of our documents as that process goes through as our old name, but Mark's been good and good to in our agendas and public hearing to to notice this formerly known as so we're I think we haven't had anybody have any confusion about who we are yet.

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So anyway, all right, so with the changes there, I would accept the motion on resolution 260325A of the amended budget for the district for 2026.

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I'll make a I'll

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make a motion to approve resolution number 260325A with the changes with the changes. Thank you very good.

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I see one that motion.

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Thank you, Laurent.

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Any discussion to the motion?

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Seeing none,

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roll call, roll call vote.

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LeBronth, thank you, John.

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All right.

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Rob is aye.

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All right, that passes unanimously in the affirmative.

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OK.

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Thank you.

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All right, just a couple of information and reports.

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I would just report to the group.

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So at a city council meeting, maybe is a week or two ago.

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There was some discussion about the council aggregating a bunch of small

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super districts for five of them.

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I think Shane was actually at the at the council hearing I don't

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know if you were there John or not but probably he was texting me. There was mention of Nordic.

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I had a conversation with Don Hickman, really good conversation and he as I explained to him the

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of the district and sent in the, you know, the documents creating the district and I mean, it was a brief 20-minute conversation in which concluded in, ah, I get it, I get it, I get it. Yeah, we're not interested in taking you.

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It's all those other little I think septic and suit whatever it is there's kind of five

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of them out there and they're thinking about creating a super district or something and throwing

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all those in but he said no I get this this makes sense okay thank you all help my colleagues

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understand so anyway that was that was at least good for me to hear so we'll just see how

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it goes, but he seems to have gotten it in spades. Yeah. Okay.

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Maybe a decent man. Yeah. Very good to work with. Throughout the old conversation,

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he was just very, yeah, he had a high-getter factor, right? There's some nuances there,

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but anyway, we'll save them for another time. But it was good.

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But let's see.

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Oh, Laurent, you had sent an email.

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We all received a notification from Hadley Scott

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for some potential training or training.

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And Laurent, you had asked.

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I just thought, I didn't respond.

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I thought I would just bring it up here at the meeting.

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I attended the, I was able to attend the,

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The annual Utah Association of Special Districts training.

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And let me see if I can find it here.

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Pull it up. So it is local government compliance training. Broad risk, financial securitification, self evaluation, the manual. I think it's a great training. And there's an RSVP list. John, you may have gotten email as well.

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So I would say if you have time and convenience and want to attend that wouldn't hurt at all to do that. And Mark is there and you'll comply. I mean, I attended the UASD meetings, but I don't think John and Laurent were able to what's your, what's your counsel and advice.

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I think anything we can do to take a little time and get some training is good, if I understand

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that this is a live training, there's a live training that involves Hadley Scott, it would

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be really good if we participate there just to kind of keep lines of communication open

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with the auditor's office and let them know that we're sincere in trying to do exactly

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what we're supposed to do.

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The last name goes on a list too, so you'll be in there.

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Yeah.

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I did a non-line training, and I don't want you to the same or not.

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I did a non-line training with the state auditor thing.

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And I got this certificate that I sent you.

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I think I sent you three.

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So it's not the same thing upon three, something different.

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It'll be, it'll cover a lot of the same territory.

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She may do things differently than what's on the online training.

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Okay, so I'm really going through this one.

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I think it's the registration in Logan on April 7th.

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Can I do that one?

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Yep.

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Logan, Moabrid, Shields, Alay,

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English, Saint George, April 7th.

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Okay. Yep,

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I will do that. I'll do that one, two, seven.

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I like that. Okay. Super.

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It's good to have the box check next to our name that we did it. So, I think that's great.

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Okay. Any other report items that we have?

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No, when is our next meeting? April 13th. So I will be, I'll be certain that we'll be in New York. Okay.

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I think I should be able to connect, but I'm not 100% sure. Okay.

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If not, that's fine. John, will you be available? Yeah. What time is that at 11?

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We need to move it around. We can't.

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I'm good.

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Okay. I am too.

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So, Laurent, if you're, you know, doing other things, that's fine.

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I would try to connect.

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I have a flight.

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You have to know.

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But I should be able to connect.

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Okay.

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One PM.

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Okay. One PM over there.

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All right Mark anything else just just just a couple of things briefly here. I still need to get the funding agreement release the draft prepared for everyone to look at and then get sent off to Nordic village venture.

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and hopefully I'll hope to have that ready for the next trustee meeting. I need to make

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some contact with Michael Jensen down at Snowreese and just or Snow Jensen and introduce

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myself and kind of talk through what you know where they think this is all going and what

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can do and I'm interested in their thoughts, you know, really rudimentary things like how

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are we going to handle posting and, you know, do we want to make their office, our office?

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Maybe their answer.

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Exactly.

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I think that is the expectation of Nordic Village Venture is that, is that's what they're

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at the PID basically that's the PID's office is their office. I reached out to Michael last week and

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you may be on spring break vacation I haven't heard from him but my hope would be to alleviate

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my workload would be to have them you know work with us to be preparing agendas and posting.

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I need them to become the public records officer. I've got all those I've got all the documents and

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all the files, hard copies, electronic copies, aggregated and I'm just going to dump all

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those to them and let them have them and at least that level of administration is what

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I think we talked about and what I'm anticipating that they can take off of my plate.

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So good. Good. Right.

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Let's see, on the Brian Holling agreement, what I had done there

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is at Nate Schellenberg's request, prepared a draft in a local agreement that was sent

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to him. And I think sent on to the little mountain service area. I've not heard anything

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back on that. But I think it's a good idea and certainly we need to do something with

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the brine and aside from the practicalities of doing that, the little mountain service

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area is a preacher of Weber County and our friend Stephanie Russell is the manager basically there

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and I think everything we can do to maintain good relations there is is a positive for the district

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so that's all I have to report at this point right thank you all

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right seeing no

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other reports. We don't have a need for a closed session, and item eight is

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Laurent pointed out. We have our meeting April 13th, 2026, 11 o'clock.

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Nothing

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else for the good of the order? We can stand adjourned. So we're good. All right.

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Awesome. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. They'll be in touch.

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I do need to connect with you. Let me stop. Let me stop the recording here.

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Nobody wants to hear my my chattering that way. I'll see you all later.