OSAGE NATION UTILTY AUTHORITY REGULAR MEETING AGENDA

OSAGE NATION UTILTY AUTHORITY

 REGULAR MEETING AGENDA

1. Call to Order

2. Prayer: Gary Burd
    
3. Roll Call: Paul Bemore

4. Safety Message: Mike Wellner

5. Approve Meeting Agenda: 
    
6. Approve November 18, 2021 Minutes:

7. Old Business

1. 1. Broadband Project Updates: Rick Perrier, Frank Freeman, James Lightfoot. Jim Trumbly appointed OIS Manager overseeing Osage Broadband. FF: “We have already found a company we are using for this project.”

8. New Business

1. 1. Subchapter 8 Osage Administrative Procedures Act
      1. Purpose: This statute is intended to govern the actions and decisions of administrative agencies of the Osage Nation, including rulemaking activities, to ensure compliance with basic principles of due process of law and fundamental fairness in the affairs of the Nation.
      2. Scope: This statute shall apply to all agencies of the Osage Nation unless otherwise provided by specific provisions of law.
      3. Issuing, revising and withdrawing regulation:
         1. B.2. Establishing standards and procedures for the licensing and/or registration of persons and entities including, but not limited to, the issuance, suspension and revocation of licenses under this statute,
         2. D.2.  Emergency Rulemaking Procedure. In the event the agency concludes that promulgating a regulation is sufficiently urgent that the requirements of the Standard Rulemaking Procedure would result in damage to the interests of the Nation or violation of Nation law, the agency may promulgate a regulation as an interim final regulation without prior notice, or may shorten the period for prior notice as it deems necessary. The agency must post a statement of explanation on its website giving reason for the emergency regulation within three days.
      4. Agency Records
      5. Administrative Procedure:
         1. A.  All agencies of the Osage Nation shall conform their conduct to comply with basic principles of due process of law and fundamental fairness
      6. Appeal of agency actions and decisions
      7. Appeals; Scope of Jurisdiction
      8. Appellate procedure judicial review; due process

1. 2. IEC Meeting November 22, 2021
      1. Two NRTC Feasibility Studies
      2. Over $70M to build their system
      3. Letters of Support; Pawnee Nation
      4. Emerging Technologies
      5. Draft IEC Proposals
      6. Partnership Models; Joint Venture LLC, Sub Contract, Coop, Hybrid Owner, Operator, Marketer

9. Executive Session

10.   Announcements

11.  Next Meeting Schedule: January 27, 2022

12.   Adjourn