1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,340 Well, thank you, everyone, for joining us today. This is the Utah Communications Authority governing board meeting for August 12th, 2026, 1201. So we are behind. So thank you for joining us today remotely. I believe we're all, we're all participating remotely today. Let's quickly do a roll call. So when your name is called, if you would please get ready for being in attendance today. 2 00:00:29,340 --> 00:00:31,000 The land has gotten land here. 3 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:33,560 Kevin Van Tassel. 4 00:00:33,820 --> 00:00:34,140 Here. 5 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:36,320 Clint Topham. 6 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:37,280 Here. 7 00:00:38,420 --> 00:00:39,340 Randy Swatberg. 8 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:40,300 Here. 9 00:00:41,460 --> 00:00:42,300 Craig Deerdin. 10 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:43,640 Here. 11 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:45,720 Sean Guzman. 12 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:48,080 Excuse. 13 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:49,920 Scott Jenkins. 14 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:55,180 Mara Brown. 15 00:00:55,860 --> 00:00:56,160 Here. 16 00:00:58,100 --> 00:00:59,000 Tammy Pearson. 17 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:04,100 Lisa Keeho. 18 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:06,040 Here. 19 00:01:07,380 --> 00:01:08,520 T.J. Brewer. 20 00:01:12,190 --> 00:01:14,450 Cheap Brady cotton is sitting in front. 21 00:01:14,850 --> 00:01:15,270 Cheap Brewer. 22 00:01:15,390 --> 00:01:16,750 Cheap Brewer has been deployed. 23 00:01:17,910 --> 00:01:18,130 Okay. 24 00:01:18,690 --> 00:01:20,110 And Brady cotton is here. 25 00:01:21,190 --> 00:01:21,730 Welcome Brady. 26 00:01:23,210 --> 00:01:23,830 Brian Low. 27 00:01:25,350 --> 00:01:26,110 I'm here. 28 00:01:27,390 --> 00:01:27,930 Outstanding. 29 00:01:28,190 --> 00:01:30,610 Thank you again for joining us today. 30 00:01:31,350 --> 00:01:34,070 We're going to move to item number three on the agenda then. 31 00:01:34,070 --> 00:01:42,950 motion to approve minutes of May 13, 2026 meeting. We those were sent to us any one wish 32 00:01:42,950 --> 00:01:53,210 to make a motion. I will move to a second. I'll second Kevin's motion. Thank you. So Kevin 33 00:01:53,210 --> 00:02:05,760 move Craig seconded that all in favor say aye aye any opposed say name okay 34 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:13,660 thank you item number four general public comments let me get back to general 35 00:02:15,610 --> 00:02:19,310 public comments anyone joining us today from the general public that would like to 36 00:02:19,310 --> 00:02:22,790 speak up and be heard now it would be a good time for that 37 00:02:28,490 --> 00:02:31,750 okay we will then move to 38 00:02:31,750 --> 00:02:37,170 Item number five, Building Project Update, presented by Director Matthew. Tina, go ahead. 39 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:41,520 You're muted. 40 00:02:43,940 --> 00:02:46,160 Thank you. I'm going to show my screen here. 41 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:56,620 How you guys see my screen? Yep. Yep. Thank you. 42 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:05,200 So I'm just trying to enter a presentation that will work better. There you go. 43 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:14,180 So, for our building project update, we have continued to meet with our architects to 44 00:03:14,180 --> 00:03:19,420 address specific needs related to electrical, HVAC utilities, and other topics. 45 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:30,440 Additionally, on April 10th, UCA issued a request for statement of qualifications for a two-phase 46 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:36,760 fill citation. We received 10 responses at that point. The board's building subcommittee met 47 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:43,940 and reviewed the respondents and advanced five vendors to phase two. Phase two was treated 48 00:03:43,940 --> 00:03:50,560 as an RFP and included a price evaluation. Once we received the responses from the five vendors 49 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:56,280 that were selected to move forward, the subcommittee met again and scored the proposals with the 50 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:01,520 architect serving as an expert consultant per procurement code. 51 00:04:02,220 --> 00:04:08,840 And after scoring the proposals R&O was selected, and the official recommendation to 52 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,900 the board is to formally accept R&O as our CMGC. 53 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:18,840 We do need a motion to approve accepting this recommendation of the Building Subcommittee 54 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:26,240 and allow executive management to approve our entering into an agreement with RNO and 55 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:31,180 to further authorize me, the director, to finalize negotiations and execute the agreement 56 00:04:31,180 --> 00:04:35,780 on terms consistent with the RFP, subject to legal review. 57 00:04:38,550 --> 00:04:38,870 Okay. 58 00:04:39,610 --> 00:04:41,670 Clint Topham will make that motion. 59 00:04:43,110 --> 00:04:43,630 Terrific. 60 00:04:44,410 --> 00:04:45,110 Do we have a second? 61 00:04:46,590 --> 00:04:48,030 Randy's Holbert will second. 62 00:04:48,030 --> 00:04:54,870 Thank you, Randy. Any questions or comments regarding related to the motion? 63 00:04:57,980 --> 00:04:59,180 All in favor say aye. 64 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:00,040 Aye. 65 00:05:02,420 --> 00:05:03,640 Any opposed to any? 66 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:07,120 Thank you. 67 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:10,960 It's like you're good to go there. 68 00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:12,480 Okay, great. 69 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,540 Anything more you'd like to say related to that before we move to I have number 17. 70 00:05:20,540 --> 00:05:26,340 No, I think, you know, we're just, I appreciate the subcommittees extra time, obviously, 71 00:05:26,540 --> 00:05:27,780 with the 10 responses. 72 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:33,560 And then additional five, they spent a lot of extra time on the process and then meeting 73 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:34,000 with us. 74 00:05:34,180 --> 00:05:36,580 So just greatly appreciate their extra effort on that. 75 00:05:38,610 --> 00:05:39,130 Yes. 76 00:05:39,430 --> 00:05:40,210 Thank you. 77 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,060 Item number seven, P25, update. 78 00:05:45,100 --> 00:05:45,940 Tina Matthew. 79 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:47,280 Okay. 80 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:55,260 So, you know, we just, for the most part, the system is stable and general maintenance and 81 00:05:55,260 --> 00:06:02,720 updates have heard daily, you know, whether on the systems back end, back call, or at the site level, 82 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:08,140 we have had a couple projects in place. So let's give you a quick update on those. 83 00:06:08,660 --> 00:06:15,920 Utah County, you guys have heard this time and time again that Utah County's rollout wasn't 84 00:06:16,980 --> 00:06:23,520 wasn't very smooth for them or for us, but as we reported over the last 19 months since cutover 85 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:29,260 was complete. There have been a substantial number of changes and updates mostly to the system 86 00:06:29,260 --> 00:06:34,260 and to the sites down there. As you know, we went through a large antenna replacement project. 87 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:40,860 We had a software system update that addressed many of the issues that we had going on. 88 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,720 You know, then we've just worked daily to continue to update work on the tickets, 89 00:06:46,340 --> 00:06:50,860 perform maintenance, and look for other ways to make continuous improvement to the system. 90 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,840 Specifically related to Utah County, we're working on potential changes to some of the site configurations. 91 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:06,300 You know, a lot of, we've had a lot of feedback from the law enforcement agencies within Utah County. 92 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:13,740 And we've definitely had some, we've spent a lot of time focusing on this county in particular. 93 00:07:13,740 --> 00:07:19,860 We've had specific visits from L3H personnel, many L3H personnel, multiple visits and then 94 00:07:19,860 --> 00:07:21,360 similar role staff as well. 95 00:07:22,180 --> 00:07:28,720 Visits have included some ride-alongs, reprogramming, retuning, radios, firmware updates, and then 96 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:34,060 our focus has been on improving and updating the sites and altering site adjacency lists and 97 00:07:34,060 --> 00:07:39,680 looking for potential adjustments to current site locations and also site configuration. 98 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:48,780 We will do everything we can, of course, throughout the state and continued to our commitment 99 00:07:48,780 --> 00:07:54,400 to ensure that the radio system that we have is continually improving and what everyone 100 00:07:54,400 --> 00:08:00,740 in the public safety land needs, but what we can't control the end user radios, which 101 00:08:00,740 --> 00:08:07,620 we have bound to have some problems, some tunings, some updated firmware, some end-of-life radios 102 00:08:07,620 --> 00:08:15,800 that are in need of replacement and we've also found a significant number or I would say definitely 103 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:22,140 a trend of poor installation of the vehicles, poor antenna placement and misconfiguration of the 104 00:08:22,140 --> 00:08:29,040 insoles. But we're continuing to work with Utah County. We've had a weekly meeting with law enforcement 105 00:08:29,940 --> 00:08:35,140 through the month of July. We've now switched that to a bi-weekly meeting. This is that tomorrow 106 00:08:35,140 --> 00:08:42,500 is our first meeting of August and we'll hold those until September and or 107 00:08:42,500 --> 00:08:47,480 through September. I think tomorrow we're going to we're going to be giving 108 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,940 them an update on their site configuration and announce not all some potential 109 00:08:51,940 --> 00:08:57,540 new site locations may be moving a site or two to get to some better coverage 110 00:08:57,540 --> 00:09:04,470 in that county. The ISS site, the ISS site gateway between Utah and Nevada and 111 00:09:04,470 --> 00:09:09,290 Arizona is still kind of in a holding pattern for testing. 112 00:09:09,790 --> 00:09:14,470 It will be until through September when L3H releases a new firmware version. 113 00:09:15,370 --> 00:09:19,510 In the meantime, we'll be meeting with the agencies near King County to ensure that 114 00:09:19,510 --> 00:09:21,070 they understand the project. 115 00:09:21,770 --> 00:09:27,930 And then the potential need for reprogramming on their L3H radios, depending on what version 116 00:09:27,930 --> 00:09:31,230 they have and what accessories they have. 117 00:09:31,230 --> 00:09:34,890 So we'll be having that meeting in the next couple of weeks with them. 118 00:09:35,190 --> 00:09:41,270 And then hopefully begin our testing phase in the King County area off of the pipe springs. 119 00:09:42,430 --> 00:09:48,150 Marcus then cite that is in technically in Arizona sometime mid September. 120 00:09:49,650 --> 00:09:57,490 With the fires in the state, you can imagine that we have not been free from significant concerns 121 00:09:57,490 --> 00:10:05,070 and outages at times because of power outages and just want to start off by acknowledging 122 00:10:05,070 --> 00:10:11,030 the amazing work that the firefighters are doing to save our sites. We have yet to lose 123 00:10:11,030 --> 00:10:16,550 a site. We may have some very, very pink sites from all the retardants that have been dumped 124 00:10:16,550 --> 00:10:22,950 on them, but they have done an incredible job of continuing saving our sites and helping 125 00:10:22,950 --> 00:10:29,510 us ensure that we can keep our sites online. We have had several sites in danger of loss 126 00:10:29,510 --> 00:10:35,430 due to fires over the last couple of months, Eagle Mountain, or Eagle Point, rather, and Bieber 127 00:10:35,430 --> 00:10:44,750 County. That site is currently offline intentionally because the entire ski resort was lost and in the 128 00:10:44,750 --> 00:10:52,350 fire and then significant flooding did damage to the area to the degree that no one could get back 129 00:10:52,350 --> 00:10:57,470 in for a while, so because there isn't anyone up there and there's not a need for that site 130 00:10:57,470 --> 00:11:05,230 to save on the maintenance and the flights in for our crew to go in and change the oil every seven 131 00:11:05,230 --> 00:11:11,150 days on the generator. We have worked with Bieber County and decided that we'll keep that site 132 00:11:11,150 --> 00:11:18,770 offline until, you know, there's been enough clearing and repair and that there's actually a need 133 00:11:18,770 --> 00:11:24,610 up there. The gillie site in Beaver has been at risk for loss. The Cedar Mountain 134 00:11:24,610 --> 00:11:31,730 Emory site in Miller County, Robbins Lake in Miller County is we're currently watching 135 00:11:32,350 --> 00:11:37,430 the widemouth two fire on that one. That's getting closer to our sites as of this morning. 136 00:11:37,730 --> 00:11:44,950 And then the Barnesworth Peak site in Tawila was at risk earlier this week. So we've deployed two 137 00:11:44,950 --> 00:11:49,930 of our mobile sites out to two different buyers and staged another one at the Viber County 138 00:11:49,930 --> 00:11:57,610 Sheriff's Office in a ready status for immediate deployment if needed. So it's been money 139 00:11:57,610 --> 00:12:03,890 well spent on getting those up to date and our crew has done a great job in terms of 140 00:12:04,550 --> 00:12:11,570 looking through the deployment of those with the new technology and constantly looking 141 00:12:11,570 --> 00:12:16,390 for ways that we can make improvements to ensure that the deployment of those is smoother 142 00:12:16,390 --> 00:12:23,510 and quicker. The last bullet point on the screen, the motor roller radio management project, 143 00:12:23,510 --> 00:12:28,930 this has been going very, very well. As of last Friday, we've built a total of 31 boxes, 144 00:12:29,690 --> 00:12:38,370 21 per cell, and 10 loaner boxes. We used Wasatch County as our test site and as always, 145 00:12:38,370 --> 00:12:44,550 they've been fantastic to work with. They have had 256 radios read into the system. If you recall, 146 00:12:45,030 --> 00:12:49,770 the first time a radio is introduced into the system, into the radio management system, 147 00:12:49,810 --> 00:12:54,150 it has to be read in. That takes just a couple of seconds per radio, so it's a quick plug-in. 148 00:12:54,570 --> 00:13:00,530 The system acknowledges the radio, basically reads it, takes down the serial number, the radio ID, 149 00:13:01,230 --> 00:13:06,570 the code plug information, the flash code version, the firmware version, and all of that. So within 150 00:13:06,570 --> 00:13:11,650 In a couple of days, Wasatch County was able to read in 256 radios. 151 00:13:12,190 --> 00:13:14,370 It was very quick, it went very smoothly. 152 00:13:14,810 --> 00:13:17,990 We've got, you know, positive feedback from them. 153 00:13:18,770 --> 00:13:25,990 And so now we're able to know that we've got them at their radios in and categorized in the system. 154 00:13:26,350 --> 00:13:32,390 We can now begin to push updates whether that's firmware or alias or new code plugs to those radios. 155 00:13:32,990 --> 00:13:37,310 On Monday, we will be heading to Utah County to meet with several law enforcement agencies 156 00:13:37,690 --> 00:13:40,070 to deliver boxes and complete training there. 157 00:13:40,610 --> 00:13:44,510 As I mentioned previously, this is a game changer for motor roller radio users. 158 00:13:44,870 --> 00:13:51,870 And for us in terms of the time, it will save us in programming hours and for the agencies 159 00:13:51,870 --> 00:13:57,690 in terms of the overtime that they would have to spend in bringing the radios in at a certain 160 00:13:57,690 --> 00:14:04,990 period of time. Also having someone in their office be assigned to update firmware and things 161 00:14:04,990 --> 00:14:11,850 like that. They just are not going to have to have that that person spending hours and hours 162 00:14:11,850 --> 00:14:16,990 and hours doing that. They can just have the officers plug their radios into these boxes and 163 00:14:16,990 --> 00:14:22,010 it will push those updates for them. And so this is going to be amazing for those users. 164 00:14:23,310 --> 00:14:29,390 There's also the ability for us to track radios, buying duplicate IDs, validate co-plugs, 165 00:14:31,310 --> 00:14:38,470 and notice agencies when we have a firmware update recommendation and things like that. 166 00:14:38,690 --> 00:14:41,270 And so, it's a big deal. 167 00:14:41,450 --> 00:14:42,610 We're really excited about it. 168 00:14:42,750 --> 00:14:48,030 We've had a lot of agencies on reach out, a lot of agencies purchasing radios, or excuse 169 00:14:48,030 --> 00:14:49,170 me, purchasing the boxes. 170 00:14:49,170 --> 00:14:55,430 I think that we're deploying some in a clear field. 171 00:14:55,730 --> 00:14:59,470 We've had some other agencies in Salt Lake County purchase boxes. 172 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:22,660 In Murray, but we've had a lot of response. We haven't put out it out like a newsletter out to the masses, but we will be doing that shortly. Now that we've got a lot of boxes that we've got the parts in and we're kind of underway and have done our test, our test agency. So it's been a huge success. And appreciate the work that's been going into that. 173 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:26,840 Yeah, go ahead. Sorry. 174 00:15:28,220 --> 00:15:32,100 It appears to me when you report on Utah County, 175 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,260 the most the issues down there were self-imposed. 176 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:35,860 Is that correct? 177 00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:41,580 I would say that we definitely had some issues. 178 00:15:41,580 --> 00:15:44,800 I think especially at rollout we had bad antennas. 179 00:15:45,340 --> 00:15:50,460 We had some construction flaws on the sites where we had bad connectors 180 00:15:50,460 --> 00:15:51,320 and things like that. 181 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:54,200 I would say that we even proved the sites 182 00:15:54,200 --> 00:16:01,020 It's to and replace that the antennas and we've done the code or not, but we've done 183 00:16:01,020 --> 00:16:03,140 the firmware updates to the system. 184 00:16:03,420 --> 00:16:08,700 We do feel like the system is in good working order. 185 00:16:08,980 --> 00:16:10,000 They're still having some problems. 186 00:16:10,220 --> 00:16:16,900 I will say that we have seen some really, really aggressive roaming issues on some of their 187 00:16:16,900 --> 00:16:17,360 radios. 188 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:22,280 We were able to replicate that on just one of our motor roller radios. 189 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:27,160 the L3 traders are not doing that, we did finally find a radio that we own that did do 190 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:33,460 for Kate that that manic roaming behavior on Monday. And so we've been working with 191 00:16:33,460 --> 00:16:42,600 the Motorola engineers trying to determine what settings or that we can change in the 192 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:47,200 base of the radio settings, not necessarily in the code plug, but in the core elements of 193 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:53,840 radio to make that. I do think that there is an element that is related to their 194 00:16:53,840 --> 00:17:00,160 radios and I do think there's an element that's related to their to their 195 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:04,860 vehicle and so and their antenna placements and things like that. We've had 196 00:17:04,860 --> 00:17:09,520 conversations. I've had a lot of conversations with chiefs the sheriff also had 197 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:13,920 a lot of conversations with line level officers who are writing round and we have 198 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:21,600 had positive feedback from some of them, some of those who we've written along with, I personally 199 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:30,480 went out on a ride along, and for three hours with one of the agencies and did get some positive 200 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:37,220 feedback, and their arcing improvements and things like that. I do know that there are agencies 201 00:17:37,220 --> 00:17:43,060 down there that have been really aggressive about tuning their radios, buying the antennas, but 202 00:17:43,060 --> 00:17:47,060 they need to buy for their portables and things like that, and so I think those agencies 203 00:17:47,060 --> 00:17:55,920 will see greater improvements, but yes, I think that the bottom line is that there are 204 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:02,920 some radio issues, and I think though we can still improve some of the situation down 205 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:08,580 there with some different site placement and maybe changing multiple sites into a single 206 00:18:09,740 --> 00:18:14,180 that we'll have with some of that kind of turn it back into a little bit 207 00:18:14,180 --> 00:18:19,880 similar configuration before the on the old system. 208 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:22,760 Okay, thank you. 209 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:27,580 Okay, so for our expansion sites, 210 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:32,360 we great news, our Tucker site in Utah County, 211 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:35,120 up in Spanish for Canyon is online as of last Friday. 212 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:40,900 this has been a big deal. It's taken us years to get on. You guys remember we 213 00:18:40,900 --> 00:18:47,500 had an agreement and then we got voted against by the HOA down there and 214 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:51,740 anyway, went a different route and we're able to get the site online. This site 215 00:18:51,740 --> 00:18:55,440 bridges the gap in the canyon and provides new coverage into carbon 216 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:59,620 county as well over through the school filled reservoir area. I know carbon 217 00:18:59,620 --> 00:19:04,020 county is very excited about the additional coverage they just got as well. The 218 00:19:04,020 --> 00:19:11,460 The Blue Mountain site, Geyser Peak, Canada, and Parker sites, Parker Mountain are all well 219 00:19:11,460 --> 00:19:14,340 underway and making good progress. 220 00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:19,280 We have not been able to finalize a location on the Birch Creek Montecristo site. 221 00:19:20,170 --> 00:19:31,420 We pinpointed, we've found some BLN land, but that was a no because of a specific species 222 00:19:31,420 --> 00:19:35,820 the bird up there and we could not guarantee that we would not accidentally kill a bird and so 223 00:19:36,380 --> 00:19:39,860 we are looking at some private land and we're going to meet with the land owners 224 00:19:39,860 --> 00:19:45,380 I think in the next week and the Navajo mountain we're making progress there Arizona DPS is 225 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:52,140 finishing their site their site should be installed or completed by the end of this month and 226 00:19:52,140 --> 00:19:58,000 some installation of their gear next month. Phil and I met with them last Thursday and are meeting with 227 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:03,820 them again in the next, within the next sevenish days, seven to 14 days to talk about what 228 00:20:03,820 --> 00:20:12,860 it would be for us to be, to have to co-locate, I guess, I should say, on their site. 229 00:20:13,060 --> 00:20:17,080 So there's, that would be really huge if we could get on level home mountain. It's a site 230 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:22,180 that we wanted to get on for a long time. And it would mean a great deal to San Juan County 231 00:20:22,180 --> 00:20:27,460 and also King County. That would provide a substantial amount of coverage. If you remember, 232 00:20:27,460 --> 00:20:33,340 we've built our Navajo Clinic site because we weren't sure we were ever going to get on the Navajo 233 00:20:33,340 --> 00:20:39,180 Mountain site but we built all of that the building and that on skid so we can relocate it if we 234 00:20:39,180 --> 00:20:45,360 are able to get into an agreement with Arizona DPS and get on Navajo Mountain we would move our Navajo 235 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:53,060 Clinic site from the clinic to the Mountain site and improve our coverage down there. This is just 236 00:20:53,060 --> 00:20:59,340 a picture of our Parker site. As you can see they just completed the tower work and this 237 00:20:59,340 --> 00:21:06,000 was as of early this last week. And then we have our BDA DAS Microstight project still going. 238 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:12,420 We just ordered about five of these units. As you know we've completed our American Fort DAS. 239 00:21:12,980 --> 00:21:17,780 There's a possibility we might add one more box up in that canyon. We're still looking at that. 240 00:21:17,780 --> 00:21:23,740 I think that's probably going to be the way we go, but we are just waiting to receive 241 00:21:23,740 --> 00:21:31,180 the next set of gear and then we'll be prioritizing the sites on this list and others that we've 242 00:21:31,180 --> 00:21:35,800 added that I have yet to add on here that we haven't confirmed yet. But this is exciting again 243 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:44,000 because of how inexpensive it is to complete these sites versus kicking up an entire site. 244 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:49,940 UDOT's been amazing to work with and Utah County has been great to work with and utilizing their 245 00:21:49,940 --> 00:21:56,980 fiber up American Fort Canyon. So, good partnerships with other public safety entities to make these 246 00:21:56,980 --> 00:22:02,920 sites happen. So, and that's it for my report on the radio project. 247 00:22:19,460 --> 00:22:21,980 Did we lose? Other is. 248 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:29,380 Commissioner Dunham, for your on mute. Oh, sorry. Thank you for that excellent report and 249 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:37,540 Just as impressive all that's being done. Just want to acknowledge the ongoing and past efforts to try to get things right and 250 00:22:38,220 --> 00:22:41,240 It feels like I was reading the minutes from last month and 251 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,500 One of the comments was the ongoing 252 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:47,700 Communication which 253 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:52,220 Breathe it was Sean talked about was important that you committed to keep the 254 00:22:52,820 --> 00:22:56,920 Communication going back and forth and it sounds it sounds like that's happening and 255 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:05,640 And so we appreciate everybody's patience, but more importantly, the efforts that are being made to try to ensure it works as it should. 256 00:23:07,420 --> 00:23:16,080 Okay, so we're now to item number eight, report from the Public Safety Advisory Committee, Chief Cautumn. If you're there, you have the floor. 257 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:26,180 Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity and I just want to personally thank Tina for all the efforts, especially with these boxes. 258 00:23:26,180 --> 00:23:31,620 Like she said, they're a game changer and thank all you for supporting this effort. 259 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:37,940 I think these will really be a really key part of moving along with this system 260 00:23:37,940 --> 00:23:41,200 and getting everybody's radios properly updated. 261 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:46,640 So thanks again for all the support from all of you and Tina and her hard work and her crew. 262 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:57,500 So, we have not met as a group, I think July, whether or July months and everybody's busy 263 00:23:57,500 --> 00:23:57,900 and stuff. 264 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:04,240 So, I do, TJ asked me to fill in today, but I don't currently have any updates or anything 265 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:10,940 from our group other than, again, the boxes and the support that we've had, so thank you 266 00:24:10,940 --> 00:24:11,540 very much. 267 00:24:13,490 --> 00:24:14,270 Well, thank you. 268 00:24:14,530 --> 00:24:17,690 Thank you for being with us today and for that to feedback, it's helpful. 269 00:24:17,690 --> 00:24:21,490 but appreciate all that you do, and we'll look forward to hearing from you next time 270 00:24:22,790 --> 00:24:24,510 when we're in cap, hopefully. 271 00:24:27,660 --> 00:24:31,420 Okay, item 9, report from the Peace App Advisory Committee, 272 00:24:32,020 --> 00:24:38,000 presented by Lisa. Lisa, you have the floor. Thank you, and I actually proud of 273 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:43,940 them and our gratitude as well for the changes that have come, and we also haven't had a chance to 274 00:24:43,940 --> 00:24:47,560 meet. I haven't had the need just there yet, but we will, and so we'll have something else to discuss, 275 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:51,260 as probably in the fall, but I think you report this afternoon. 276 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:55,320 Okay, likewise to you, thank you. 277 00:24:55,780 --> 00:24:58,760 Appreciate you being with us and for the work you did 278 00:24:58,760 --> 00:24:59,960 to help us move forward, so. 279 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:01,620 All right, 280 00:25:04,610 --> 00:25:08,230 item 10, executive directors report, 281 00:25:08,770 --> 00:25:09,330 Director Matthew. 282 00:25:11,130 --> 00:25:14,890 Hey, we've completed some in-house promotions 283 00:25:14,890 --> 00:25:19,190 based on the jobs that were submitted 284 00:25:19,190 --> 00:25:25,850 through the fiscal year 27 budget, we've also hired two people to replace some of the open 285 00:25:25,850 --> 00:25:33,570 positions that we have and have made three additional offers to some RF texts. We are really 286 00:25:33,570 --> 00:25:39,250 excited about the candidates that we've been receiving, the qualifications and just the quality 287 00:25:40,140 --> 00:25:45,810 talented people that have been applying and interested in working with our team. So we've been 288 00:25:45,810 --> 00:25:52,790 really excited about that, excited to get some new people on and provide the help that 289 00:25:52,790 --> 00:25:59,810 our crews need. It's interesting when people ask us how many employees we have, they're 290 00:25:59,810 --> 00:26:06,230 continually shocked when we tell them we have 41 people that manage this entire statewide system. 291 00:26:06,530 --> 00:26:11,810 So our team is just super hardworking and appreciate all their effort and their dedication. 292 00:26:11,810 --> 00:26:20,010 We also started a cyber security project to review all of the aspects of what we provide 293 00:26:20,590 --> 00:26:25,870 and also, you know, our internal working system, ensure that we are where we need to be 294 00:26:25,870 --> 00:26:27,790 and can make any improvements. 295 00:26:28,470 --> 00:26:39,230 Chris has provided Danny, our IT manager, with some checklists of some recent cybersecurity audits 296 00:26:39,230 --> 00:26:42,290 that we are aware of of other public entities, 297 00:26:42,670 --> 00:26:44,430 including the airport, SaltXB Airport, 298 00:26:44,830 --> 00:26:48,270 we want to go through and essentially audit ourselves 299 00:26:48,990 --> 00:26:51,250 and just make sure that we don't have any gaps 300 00:26:51,250 --> 00:26:53,110 and so we've just started that project 301 00:26:53,110 --> 00:26:55,670 and it's just something that we're trying to do 302 00:26:55,670 --> 00:26:58,510 to be proactive to make sure that we are 303 00:26:58,510 --> 00:27:00,530 in the position that we need to be in. 304 00:27:01,630 --> 00:27:03,590 We've hired the consultant 305 00:27:03,590 --> 00:27:06,590 for the radio phone console allocation study. 306 00:27:07,050 --> 00:27:08,850 We had a very quick preliminary meeting 307 00:27:08,850 --> 00:27:14,890 with them just for introductions basically a couple days ago. We'll hold a kickoff meeting 308 00:27:14,890 --> 00:27:20,410 to establish expectations and then setting up a meeting cadence that will also include 309 00:27:20,410 --> 00:27:26,670 the Peace Health Advisory Committee members so that they can make sure that we make sure that the 310 00:27:26,670 --> 00:27:34,650 end users are represented through the Public Safety or the Peace Health Advisory Committee members. 311 00:27:34,650 --> 00:27:38,410 So we are looking forward to getting that done. 312 00:27:39,010 --> 00:27:42,830 We have a drop dead deadline for them of 135 days. 313 00:27:42,830 --> 00:27:46,410 Let's purchase in the January at the latest. 314 00:27:46,970 --> 00:27:49,930 So they've done some of these studies before. 315 00:27:50,110 --> 00:27:52,910 And so I think that they have some good background. 316 00:27:52,910 --> 00:27:55,030 And so looking forward to working with them on that. 317 00:27:56,010 --> 00:27:57,610 Click reminder to all of you. 318 00:27:57,870 --> 00:28:03,890 Most of you have submitted your hotel room reservation request to me. 319 00:28:03,890 --> 00:28:05,970 If you haven't, please submit it to me. 320 00:28:06,550 --> 00:28:09,410 The stakeholders event is going to be in Canabha. 321 00:28:09,710 --> 00:28:12,030 I can't stress that enough. 322 00:28:12,270 --> 00:28:14,030 I don't want anyone to show up in St. George. 323 00:28:14,390 --> 00:28:17,490 But October 21st and 22nd, we're looking forward to that. 324 00:28:18,010 --> 00:28:20,770 We've got Motorola coming. 325 00:28:21,150 --> 00:28:22,390 We've got Harris coming. 326 00:28:22,810 --> 00:28:28,830 And FirstNet has asked us to be on our agenda as they are. 327 00:28:29,310 --> 00:28:32,290 Have two billion dollars to spend throughout the country. 328 00:28:32,290 --> 00:28:38,210 We've had many, many meetings with them as to what our priorities are as a state, where 329 00:28:38,210 --> 00:28:43,150 we would like to see new sites where we have, they've done a ton of research and can 330 00:28:43,150 --> 00:28:51,390 track where they have the most users and the least amount, you know, they've pinpointed 331 00:28:51,390 --> 00:28:57,210 a lot of tourist areas where they don't have great coverage, they've come to us and ask 332 00:28:57,210 --> 00:29:00,770 us our input on the coverage areas that they're looking at. 333 00:29:00,770 --> 00:29:16,430 And they'll be making some announcements at the meeting in October as to what their commitment is going to be to Utah and how many sites they will be adding. So that's great news. I met with them today with a person. 334 00:29:17,450 --> 00:29:22,750 and I'm having a loss of where she was from, what organization but she's from 335 00:29:22,750 --> 00:29:27,530 Sally County and was really stressing the need for a site and cell service up 336 00:29:27,530 --> 00:29:31,610 Mill Creek Canyon. So had a long conversation with first night this morning and 337 00:29:32,470 --> 00:29:38,810 and the Sally County representative. Other than that, Chad Emily from Miller County 338 00:29:38,810 --> 00:29:42,770 texted me right for the meeting started and said that he would not be able to jump 339 00:29:42,770 --> 00:29:49,130 jump on the meeting because of the fires, but wanted me to express his gratitude to the 340 00:29:49,130 --> 00:29:55,310 USDA team for their support and everything that they've needed through the huge fire that 341 00:29:55,310 --> 00:29:59,450 they've been managing, so I appreciate that tax and 342 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:17,940 The thanks to the team, we've had, you know, people out all night in the middle of the night deploying those str trailers and that to light up extra site, extra coverage and stuff and appreciated chats asking me to acknowledge that in the meeting today. So, other than that, that's all I have. 343 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:21,660 Thank you. 344 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:32,540 Tina, appreciate your reports, all you do. Any questions for Tina before we move to the final item here? 345 00:30:32,540 --> 00:30:35,020 on the agenda, which would be my opportunity. 346 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,960 Tina, can you, I know Sean was planning to retire. 347 00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:46,200 He is retiring, I think, by now. Is that correct? 348 00:30:46,940 --> 00:30:48,280 That is correct. He has retired. 349 00:30:49,180 --> 00:30:50,460 Do we know anything about him? 350 00:30:50,460 --> 00:30:52,560 But I keep him busy. Believe me that. 351 00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:53,680 I believe me. 352 00:30:54,100 --> 00:30:55,440 There he is. 353 00:30:55,620 --> 00:30:56,120 I jumped on. 354 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:57,300 Oh, nice. 355 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,320 Well, welcome. I'm glad you did because we'll give you credit for being with us. 356 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:01,820 Thank you. 357 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:02,360 Good. 358 00:31:02,820 --> 00:31:03,020 Good. 359 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:04,040 How is it? 360 00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:13,000 It's an adjustment, but no, I'm on, I've got plenty of things to keep me busy believe 361 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,740 me, so it's been great. 362 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,820 Well, we're happy for you, congratulations. 363 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:26,920 I hope the next phase of life is equally rewarding and successful as your past. 364 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,120 So we hope we can keep you on this board. 365 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:37,020 I don't know. We've got to talk about that. You are represent League of Cities and Towns. Is that right? 366 00:31:37,940 --> 00:31:42,780 That's correct, and I will tell you that I will have I have one city under contract right now 367 00:31:42,780 --> 00:31:50,520 and I will have another one in September under contract two. So I'll still be representing some cities, but 368 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,500 nice. Okay. Yeah, but 369 00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:57,260 yes, it's an interesting situation right now. 370 00:31:57,980 --> 00:32:01,700 Okay, the best wishes to you. Thank you for being with us today. 371 00:32:02,340 --> 00:32:09,720 I just want to acknowledge once again, what's been said before, I'll say it again, I feel 372 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:17,660 so grateful for Tina and your UCA team. She's tremendous what's going on and maybe small 373 00:32:17,660 --> 00:32:26,300 in numbers, but produce tremendous results and we appreciate you so much. I appreciate 374 00:32:26,300 --> 00:32:31,960 to recognize and thank our board members for the time and attention that you give as well. 375 00:32:33,060 --> 00:32:38,140 But our UCA staff is second to none, truly. And I think it's always important to recognize our 376 00:32:38,140 --> 00:32:46,340 other many public safety partners that we work with and serve. And I just appreciate hearing the 377 00:32:46,340 --> 00:32:51,180 full of communication back and forth, that's how we're going to improve. And then finally, 378 00:32:51,180 --> 00:32:58,280 any other of our stakeholders and partners. It truly is a team effort. This is an important 379 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:06,300 mission, a public safety statewide mission, and communications piece of it is critical. 380 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:11,520 It's critical. So thank you to all. Appreciate your being here. Thank you for the reports 381 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:17,180 and the work that you're doing in your committees and within your areas of responsibility. 382 00:33:18,940 --> 00:33:24,980 So with that, let's see, I would ask for a motion to adjourn. 383 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,120 Lance, so moved. 384 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,200 Oh, before we do that. 385 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:30,820 Oh, sure, go ahead, Scott. 386 00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:38,480 I just wanted to say, you know, right now our state's burning up. 387 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,200 I am just amazed to what's happening out there. 388 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:44,840 And then we have a little bit of a break. 389 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,920 And I thought, well, okay, we're over it and it's all started again. 390 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:54,720 My good night, these poor towns out in Middle Utah and Southern Utah. 391 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:04,100 I am amazed the amount of forest and all that's burning up down there. 392 00:34:04,340 --> 00:34:12,920 And you know, you look at the fact we don't have any wood harvesting off our forest anymore. 393 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:19,260 And I think that plays a big part in this once these things start, you can't stop them. 394 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:32,040 Anyway, I just thought we ought to mention that because boy, right now, they're using our equipment like crazy. 395 00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:41,980 Well, I'm glad you brought that up too because as I think about this, what's happening now, it takes me back to my past. 396 00:34:41,980 --> 00:34:46,620 and think about all the people that are in harm's way right now trying to fight 397 00:34:46,620 --> 00:34:52,540 these fires and manage the situations. So we should be very mindful of those 398 00:34:52,540 --> 00:34:57,060 people that are out there on the front lines and very very difficult circumstances. 399 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:05,780 Ben I see we lost a couple pilots on that helicopter last week. Yeah this is tough. 400 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:12,160 It's a real thing. No, thank you for bringing that up. You've been. We'll keep them in our 401 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:20,700 forefront and our minds in our thoughts and prayers. My motion stands. Okay. Thank you, Craig. 402 00:35:20,700 --> 00:35:27,520 You have motion to adjourned seconded. Second. Thank you. All in favor say aye. 403 00:35:28,100 --> 00:35:34,080 Aye. Aye. Meeting is adjourned. Thanks. Thanks again, Tina. And to your staff. 404 00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:37,380 Thank you and thank you for doing this meeting remote. 405 00:35:37,780 --> 00:35:39,420 Work really well. 406 00:35:40,060 --> 00:35:40,300 Thank you. 407 00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:41,020 Thank you to now.