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I’d like to give you an update on some of the issues and projects that will soon be before us.

At the session, mayors, Tribal leaders, and design team experts came together to discuss projects in our communities related to housing and entrepreneurship, cultural continuance, and climate change resilience.

Bed, Board, and Beverage; Mountain Line transit; Coconino County’s expenditure limit.

This historic Agreement was a long time in the making. Since the mid-1990s, the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe and parties to the Little Colorado River Adjudication, including Flagstaff, have attempted to settle water rights disputes through settlement. When settlement talks were not possible, the parties were actively litigating the water rights claims of the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation. Litigation had been ongoing since the 1970s—both expensive and resulting only in “paper” water rights for the Tribes.