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SPEAKER_02

And you're listening to iTalk 1067 FM The Voice of the Mountains. Super excited to be talking to our District 7 representative Sylvia Allen. Sylvia, how are you today?

SPEAKER_01

I'm doing great. Thanks. So happy to be on the show with you.

SPEAKER_02

Are you a little bit tired? You are back in Washington. Tell us about your trip.

SPEAKER_01

It was a whirlwind trip. Yes, I yes, but it was absolutely wonderful. That the city, DC, is beautiful. It really is. It is green and clean and everything they've shined up all the monuments and the the fountains are working. Really, it there was just a beautiful feeling there, and it was very beautiful. And I really enjoyed the two days I was there.

SPEAKER_02

So nice. And sorry, you got to also talk to some pretty high-up people about our concerns in Arizona, correct?

SPEAKER_01

Yes. Uh the reason we went there it was the Arizona legislature, and we were invited to the White House State Leadership Conference for Arizona. So what uh the Trump administration is doing is inviting different state legislators to come and go over the America First agenda. And it it was wonderful because what they wanted to do was to say, we are here to help you, and here's our staff, and we want you to take our cards and we want to work with the states and because there's no way we can do all of this on a federal level to be able to get America back on track and to correct all the terrible mistakes of the past. So who we got to talk to, which was so wonderful, was uh we talked to Secretary Moland, the Department of Homeland Security, um Secretary Lee Zeldon of the Environmental Protection Agency, uh Dr. Oz from the Center for Medical and Medicaid Services, and uh when I get through telling you the list, you can ask me what different ones of these uh shared with us. Secretary uh Bergma uh Bergum of the Department of Interior, and uh Chris uh Secretary Wright of the Department of Energy. So those are the different secretaries we were able to uh uh talk to them, and they made a presentation and then we asked a lot of questions. And then there were others like um I thought was really interesting was Jennifer Korn of the White House faith direct uh director. That was real interesting to hear what she is doing, and uh Chris Escobito of the White House Office of Political Affairs. So I mean it was uh jam-packed five hours of just great stuff.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, that is awesome. I you know, and I understand were there any things, any discussions and things you heard from them that stood out for you?

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah. Uh the Department of Homeland Security, uh Secretary Mullen, he really, really stressed how uh he wanted to work with our state in helping to uh it was called, let's see if I can find my notes really quick. Um well anyway, uh he wanted to work with the states on that they're really only focusing on rounding up the criminals and those with uh that have committed crimes to get them out of our country, and that they needed the help of the states to do that. And you know, Florida's jumped right in there, and some of the other states, and where that is happening, they're really moving quickly and it's saving money. And uh so he talked about that. He talked about the fence and how by the end of next year the whole border is going that fence will be built all the way uh from Texas all the way through New Mexico. So that border fence will be finished, and once they get the the first fence up, they plan to put another fence behind it, and um he says that will go really, really fast once they get through all the red tape of this first one. So that was interesting to hear about the fence.

SPEAKER_02

Nice. And you guys got some special kudos for the budget just passed in Arizona, right?

SPEAKER_01

Oh, we did. President Trump sent us a letter and thanked us for our hard work, and we are the first state that totally adopted within our budget HR one, which is a big beautiful bill. Not only do we now conform to the federal tax tables, which is wonderful for the people of Arizona, they're going to get it's over a 1.4 billion tax cut that is now permanent in our state, which is wonderful for our families. At the same time, we instituted all the different reforms that were in HR1 for our Medicaid, our SNAP programs. This is very important because uh Dr. Oz, you know, is is really working on the the fraud that's going on in Medicaid, and he his his comments where he talked about the billions and billions, I mean it adds up to like a trillion dollars of fraud that they are uncovering, and most of that took place because of COVID when we just went nuts in COVID, you know, and just was throwing money everywhere. And um and if they hadn't started doing this, that Medicaid program was ready to to crash. We we could not fund it at the rate it was growing, and so uh w we adopted those different um measures to try to look for fraud in our own state, to try to be sure that these programs are for the people who need them. As taxpayers are willing to give this money to help our citizens, we want to be sure it gets to them. You know, all these different programs that we have.

SPEAKER_02

Gets to the right care of the elderly and not scams, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so that and I loved it. Dr. Oz said, he says, I've done a lot of great things in my life, but he said this is the most wonderful, fulfilling thing I've ever done. He says, I absolutely love working for this administration and and helping our country and our citizens, and he was really great. And I got to talk to uh Doug Bergum afterwards, Secretary Bergum. Um he is a great guy, he's over the Department of Interior, and he he just he talked about um everything that they're doing in that department and how trying to get mining back into our country and the fact that we're not even graduating mine engineers anymore. Whereas China every year graduates thousands of of mining engineers and how we had just during this where we were joining the New World Order, you know, uh and downsizing our our country to where we were just consumers, not producers. I mean, this horrible thing that we've done the last thirty years to our country and it was on purpose and it didn't matter what president was there, we were doing it, uh using the Endangered Species Act to destroy our timber industry. I mean, all these things were discussed and how to try to turn this around, it it's gonna take the federal government cannot do it on its own. We've got to have the state's cooperations if we're gonna turn this ma this big ship around, you know. And uh so he was afterwards, um, I didn't realize I was taking a picture of the building where our meeting was by his car. Anyway, he came walking over. He is this most gracious gentleman and so friendly, and he just came right over to me and said, You know, I saw you sitting on the front row and you asked me my name again, and I told him, uh, because we did talk about wind and solar, which I'll get to, but what I talked to him about when I had about ten minutes of just being able to talk to him was about our forest. This is my first love, is what we are what we have done to the health of our forest where we're burning it up every summer. Right. And he brought up that he's over this wildland firefighting and how now the forest service has turned into a firefighting agency instead of a timber harvesting agency. And now he wants to turn that around. So I told him a little bit of my history of being involved in the timber wars of the nineties and the Mexican spotted out, and he was very familiar and understood how all these things were used to destroy uh the timber industry, paper mills all over the country. And so um he said they are starting to work on that, and I I was hooked up with the staffer that's gonna be able that I'll be able to contact and and work with him. But um I I did want to go back to uh Secretary Zeldon of the Environmental Protection Agency. The first year they were able to undo five hundred horrible environmental regulations that was costing America a trillion dollars. I mean, it is phenomenal what these what Trump is trying to do to bring our country back to producing and creating jobs and wealth for middle America, middle class America, and bringing uh life back to all of our mid uh our little towns all across this country that had factories that are sitting empty, you know. And um so he it it was just a wonderful meeting and Janine for years I had got to the point where I hated my federal government. I hated them because I felt like they were destroying us and they were they're that we were on a path that was just destructive for our whole country. And here I sat and listened to these men and and they're saying to us, we're here to serve you, we're here to help you, we want to make a difference. We are trying with all our hearts to turn this country around and do what's best for America and for our citizens. They were sincere, they were they were so gracious and it just brought faith back to me of our our government, of the way our government is structured, and um it's it's just brought faith back to me about I just w came home just wanting to work even harder.

SPEAKER_02

Oh you know what, and I love your post. Your smile on your post from Washington said it all. You were glowing, girlfriend. You were glowing. It was so awesome, I know.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, it there was a spirit there. I'm telling you. America is back. Yeah, yeah. It's back, and and what I'm terrified is that all this negative propaganda, this horrible stuff, the lies, the misinformation that is constantly being fed to us every day, that are that Americans aren't going to be smart enough to see through it and to understand what President Trump is doing. He is really changing the new world order. He's changing the whole glob global order of things and and turning the Middle East into uh you know, to a producing p place that's producing wealth for the whole world instead of the constant terrorist fighting and stuff that's going on there. And I mean it's just and and when I was listening to the secretaries of eights said how much power China had gotten over these last thirty years. I mean, everything we produce comes from China. Everything and all these minerals that we need to to survive and to have uh security, national security, eighty percent of them are processed in China. He says it's all of them said this is a matter of national emergency. We've got to bring that back. We've got to be processing these minerals here in America. We've got to produce these and mine these minerals in America.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And and it's it was evil for us to totally destroy America these last thirty years and and take and move all of that stuff out of our country, everything from making toilets to our clothes to our pharmacy, uh, all of our medicines, our our critical minerals, everything. We've moved them out of our country on purpose. And and it's it's horrible, and and everyday average Americans need to understand this and then you understand we've got to bring it back. We've got to, or we will not survive.

SPEAKER_02

Now and all those things are amazing on the national level. But here local closer to home, um just hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people uh feel like, you know, our local government is riding with I'm talking about our boards of supervisors, like in Navajo and Apache, riding with Katie Hobbs and the Land's gal, okay, and selling us out on these uh big uh these big giant energy projects. Um and uh is uh I understand the budget you guys got like 99.9 percent, but Katie Hobbes held on to her junk with the Green D Green New Lie, right?

SPEAKER_01

Right, right. We didn't get any of the uh we wanted to reform all the uh incentives that are given out for all of this green energy stuff. And because it's so unfair that they get such a break on everything. I mean, taxes and and their depreciation and just everything. And uh so we tried to do something about that in the budget, but we weren't able to do that. I mean eventually you do have to compromise because we have to have a budget and we need her to sign it. But we we got so many great things too. So we just need to change governors, everybody. Yes, we've got to change governors. Yeah, and that is what we have to do, and so uh Congressman Biggs just has to get elected. And now back to this polar win.

SPEAKER_02

Did you catch his debate last the this week? I thought it looked really good.

SPEAKER_01

Fortunately, I didn't get to do that last night.

SPEAKER_02

You'll have to watch the cliff notes.

SPEAKER_01

But um, okay, now I am very excited because before because I was able to work with some wonderful people in our county, because it occurred to me that the people have a way that they can stand up because everybody was so frustrated. What can we do? What can we do? Well, actually, we can propose a referendum. We can put on the ballot in Navajo County in November if we get the petition signed and if we can get it, you know, through all probably the lawsuits that'll be filed and everything, we can put on the ballot for our citizens to determine this course the for going down from now on going down the road. So we have two petitions that they can sign. One is that after if the board of supervisors finally get to the point where they vote and they pass another big wind solar project, the final say must be sent to the people for the people in Navajo County to decide whether they want that project or not.

SPEAKER_02

So vote of the people. Awesome.

SPEAKER_01

Vote of the people. The other one is that they it will change the the whole ordinance that the county has been using to to uh permit these big solar wind projects and it'll toughen up that ordinance and it'll be uh a lot like what is in Colchis County, I understand. So both of those petitions need to be signed, then it the uh the signatures have to be put turned in by July 1st so that uh we can get this on the ballot in November, and then we have to encourage people to vote for them in November to pass them so that then we have put some breaks and some on on these projects and slowed them down so that the people have a say in them. Yeah. We have um so that is I'm so excited about it, and so many people are working hard, and there's places. Can I give you a list of places today or tomorrow they can go?

SPEAKER_02

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01

Let me pull it up on my phone real quick.

SPEAKER_02

Or or uh g give us the regular places during business hours. Like not the day of they have some regular businesses that are just business hours all the time. If you have those. Yes, I am. Yes. Are you there? Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, uh-huh. Okay, I'm sorry. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_02

You're okay.

SPEAKER_01

All right. Let's see. Uh I'll give you the Dairy Queen in Heber on Friday and Saturday from 10 to 2 o'clock. You can go to the Dairy Queen in Heber and you can sign uh the petition. The Ross table on Friday in front of Ross, there'll be a table Friday from 10.30 to 1.30. And on Saturday at Ross from 10:30 to 1.30.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Sholos Farmer Market on Saturday from 9 to 12. And Sholo Library on Saturday from 10 to 1.

SPEAKER_02

And I think they're gonna be at Snow I think they're gonna be at Snowflake's um market too.

SPEAKER_01

Snowflake at the Swap Meet Swap Meet, yes. In the morning until like one o'clock. And um so those are places you can go and um sign these to your petitions on the if you look on uh list of a second. Okay. If you look on the uh Navajo County Republicans Facebook page, we have listed businesses all over the county that you can go into their businesses and sign a petition. Just go on the Navajo County Facebook page and and there's a list there.

SPEAKER_02

Of a bunch of businesses that are taking those and the big thing too, a lot of the the the White Mountain Board of Realtors came out with a four-page letter just saying this is gonna, you know, this is gonna kill our property values and everything. Uh and there's a few of those too that are in that all that taking those signatures all the time also. Yes.

SPEAKER_01

And there's another place, Tenny's uh sassy treats, right when you pull out of Chase Banks uh cellar, you know, right drive-thru, right across, you look right across, you can see Tenny's sassy treats.

SPEAKER_02

And they're really good ice cream, really good ice cream. Yeah, really great ice cream. Yes.

SPEAKER_01

So there are places all over the county where you and in Hobrook, uh uh anyway, get on our Facebook page because the name of the people in Hobrook, and we're trying to get somebody in Winslow, uh, we'll have that posted on our Facebook page. And everybody get in and sign a petition so that you can have a say in November about what is happening in our county over this wind and solar.

SPEAKER_02

All righty. And we're trying to encourage everyone too to go to land.az.gov, land.az.gov, and drop your comments right to the governor, right to the lands department, because uh w uh the our state trust lands are gonna hold so much of this junk. And so hopefully you guys will write them right to everybody in the Trump administration. We keep asking if through the Department of Defense if any of these projects fall under that. That helps. And continue to write all of your leaders. But we want to big thanks to Sylvia Allen for all the hard work you're doing. I'll tell you what, you stepped in back in, right? And you just took everybody by storm.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, it's wonderful. And and I I just want to say that Secretary Wright of the Department of Energy, he went through a whole bunch of statistics and the money, it will blow your mind how much money the American taxpayers have spent on this green energy. I mean, it's in the trillions. Well all these last 10, 15 years. And and then he goes through all the blackouts when he's talking about how cold things were this winter. If you remember back east, they had a cold, a cold storm that was unbelievable, like a hundred-year cold storm. They the wind and solar was absolutely useless. They could not use it at all. And um the wind wasn't even blowing when you get that kind of a cold snap. And so he was talking about how much it's costing us as ratepayers that we're paying for this and how it's not dependable. This is scientifically proven stuff, not to mention what it does to the environment. And so we should be so angry that we cannot stop it. And I believe in property rights, Janine, but it is not right for people on the backs of American taxpayers and our grandchildren who are going to be paying this national debt someday, it's gonna come due. To to keep doing this when it's not the best energy, it's not the cheapest energy, it's not dependable, and we're paying for it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

So it's property rights we all believe in, uh, you know. Uh but the thing is, my house in Mesa, all these houses I know of people, they're not allowed to put a six story building in my ma Mesa. That's called planning and zoning and having being good neighbors. And What they've been running with in this county is, well, do what we want. We were here first. Well, if you're right up next to somebody and you tank their property values, you know, you you need to have some sort of recourse. And these are minimal things we've put in these ordinances that are just letting the voters decide it's going to be and one of the reasons you guys might want to sign in, you might have been out of town to hear this, Sylvia, but the county just came out with a boatload of all new taxes they're going to talk about Tuesday at their county supervisors meeting. Uh 4% on this, 2.5% on this, all these taxes they're talking about adding, and yet the renewables are only being taxed at 20% of their value. There you go.

SPEAKER_01

Yes. Yeah. Yes, yes. And and how it is just plain wrong. We need we need to change the course because again, uh I didn't even get into all this stuff with the AI and and uh the I mean, do we want China to be in charge of our data? Uh do we want China to be in charge of AI? We we're we're on a path we cannot change. This technology is we're not gonna stop it. We need to be in control of it where we have a say in our local state governments of how this stuff functions. Uh we just need to uh uh uh anyway, we're in a new world and we need to uh maneuver it as best as we can with common sense and using the best in our our form of government as we do it. So yeah, it's it's an exciting time we live in. Nobody should be bored. Everybody should should realize there's something they should they need can do, they can do. And I'm so excited that citizens of Navajo County can have a voice in all of this, we can make a difference, we can put this on the balance, we can vote for it, and we can say, in the end, we the people have a right to to have a voice in the destiny in Navajo County of what we're doing. Because it's long-reaching, Janine. This is 20, 30 years we're gonna be looking at these fields and these these winters and as they as they start aging and they start breaking down and they start sitting there looking just ugly and not doing any good and they're not making any energy, you know, we're gonna pay the price. Well, I won't. I'll probably be gone by the end.

SPEAKER_02

The people who grab the money will be long gone. But we'll wait for time and all eternity. You know, our children won't be able to be here. But this is serious. Yeah, it's very serious. So guys, hopefully you're gonna sign. And uh also show up at the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday with all these tax increases they want. Have your voices heard on that one too. So uh Sylvia L.

SPEAKER_01

So they're raising tax wait, just a minute. They're raising taxes on on who?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, there's several of them. There's four percent on something for this and two and a half percent. Um Robert Black in um Holebrook on my yesterday's show. He went over all of it. There's a lot of different layers of taxes. And it's um, you know, that's the thing. If these were so incredible, why are they being taxed at 20% of their value? You know? So that's the thing. All right, my friend. Okay, thank you so much for all the good work you do. We still appreciate you. Okay, everybody, keep it right here. You're listening to iTalk 1067 FM, the voice of the mountain. And you're listening to iTalk 1067 FM, the voice of the mountain. I have Lewis Maribelli on the phone. And Lewis, you are with um the firefighters, right?

SPEAKER_00

Yes, well, I'm with the White Mountain Firefighters Association, local 4217 up here in the White Mountains. I'm the director of political affairs. Our association represents uh firefighter, professional firefighters all the way from the Hebrew Hebrew Fire District, uh Timber Mesa, Pine Top Vernon, Taylor Snowflake, Alpine, Round Valley, and Greer. So within Navajo and Apache County.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, very cool. Okay, so tell me you are talking about fire proposition 455. Tell us what that is.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so thanks for asking. So um the Timber Mesa Fire and Medical District, the board has done a call for election for Prop 455. And uh that'll be on November's ballot on the general election. And what that is, is that is uh a bond to improve infrastructure for the Timber Mesa Fire and Medical District. And specifically, what they're looking to do with this infrastructure initiative is to uh the station there in Lakeside, that was built a long time ago, and they're having uh engineering problems with it, some mold issues, uh water coming through the roof. So, what they're trying to do is that whole station is gonna have to be rebuilt, demolished and rebuilt. That's a pretty hefty project. Station 15, the one uh by the in Sholo, um near 9th Street, that one is gonna have to be remodeled. And the station that uh in White Mountain Lake, station 19, that was originally designed to be a mechanic shop, and that one's in need of a remodel. And uh they're also gonna have to purchase a new ladder truck, and that ladder truck helps provide service to the residents of the Timber Mesa Fire District, and through our auto and mutual aid partnerships, that ladder truck also provides service to other regions within the White Mountains as well.

SPEAKER_02

Nice. Okay, so how does this work? How much tax will each person pay?

SPEAKER_00

So, what it does is it goes off of your limited assessed valuation. So a lot of people think number one, I mean, if we look at the funding issues with fire districts, number one, we're not funded through sales tax where you don't get any county taxes. What happens is when you pay your property tax, yes, the county will uh collect that, but portions get divvied out. So fire districts live and die by their tax rate. What we're trying to do uh with Timber Mesa, what their board is trying to do is they've been fiscally responsible. They're trying to not touch the levy rate, fund this specific project through a bond. So if we look at our limited assess valuation, on average, we're looking at about $71 a year. That's a year per taxpayer, and it comes out to less than a penny per hundred of your limited assess valuation. So it's 0.2944 per hundred dollars of your limited assess valuation. And again, that's not your full market value. And if people want to know how to how what this will actually cost them specifically, they can go to the Navajo County Assessors website, they can search their property by their address or name, and they'll go through some documents at the bottom and they'll find their limited or their assessed limited value. Just time that uh by 0.2944 per hundred, and you'll come out with what you'd actually pay per year.

SPEAKER_02

Now, if if you look at that and you know what you're paying, um everyone like the White Mountain Realtors Association, everyone is terrified because of our properties being lowered right now. They're losing people coming in to want to buy because of the wind turbines and solar fields. If that drops, if that continues to drop like it is, can we go in there and readjust everything every year or six months? Do you know?

SPEAKER_00

So the bond itself, Prop 455, would be a um that would be it's a it's that's a certain amount that they're asking for the bond, right? But if we speak to the tax levy rate of let's say it's three dollars and thirty-three cents per hundred of your limited assessed value, what we normally pay for the for fire district response. Um, as we see a decrease like we saw in 2008 when that when the marketing uh the housing market crashed, fire districts specifically were impacted. And and a long-term thing is we have a fire district funding issue. The mechanism is not sufficient. It's from 2012. It was revisited in uh 2022. We tried to pass Prop 310. Oh, I remember.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, we're that's very old, isn't it? So we haven't had anything like this for a long time. Yeah. No, so until you're way behind, is what you're saying. Way behind.

SPEAKER_00

We are way behind. Yeah, we are capped at $3.75. Inflation's gone up 39.7% since that legislation passed. And industry specific um inflation, a fire truck now costs $1.1 million. I mean, it used to cost $600,000. So the the the International Association of Firefighters is working with congressmen at the federal level to call in some of these fire truck manufacturers and ask them why they're they're price gouging. But fire districts here are trying to do what they can and remain fiscally responsible. They'll provide a service to our community. And that's why Prop 455, that uh that's not just a tax that's gonna go to everybody in the state. That is gonna stay here in our homes and it's gonna help protect our community. And that's all it matters. Our community matters.

SPEAKER_02

Right, right, exactly. Okay, well that that sounds very good. And what else can you tell us? What do you want people to know about 455?

SPEAKER_00

So I encourage people to get educated, right? How their uh fire districts are actually funded. Again, it's not through sales tax, you know, tourism does nothing for us. This is uh a tax label. What this bond's gonna do is I encourage them to come talk to us. Um we have contact information I'll leave here in a moment. But get involved. This is a grassroots campaign. We have community members that are working on our campaign. Uh we want them to get out there, vote yes in November, but be educated. When we say taxes, you know, that what this is going to be, what this levy would be, this bond would do for them, um, what it would cost again. It's like a tank of gas a year, $71 and $94 a year. That's a year, not a month, not a week, a year. And these major infrastructure programs can be funded through that. And that way we don't ever, you know what I mean, we're not touching the tax levy, we're remaining fiscally responsible to our taxpayers within the Timber Mesa Fire Medical District. Um, if they're interested in volunteering, they can contact me. They can follow us on Facebook at White Mountain Firefighters. Um we're on Facebook, the White Mountain Firefighter Association. We'll be launching our website here within next couple weeks. Uh it's the Yes for Timber Mesa campaign. Uh vote yes for Prop 455. Or they can contact us at 928-940-5488. Or they can email us at political affairs at local4217.org. And we're happy to answer any questions that the community members have. I think it's important for them to be educated moving into this election cycle.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, there you go. That's the big thing is as we tell everybody, be educated, know what's going on. You know, um, this is it's been a long time coming since you guys have had any increases. So we know that it's been growing right now. If we start to drop later on, that's gonna change things. But right now we're growing. Uh, you know, I think we're gonna be.

SPEAKER_00

We are we are growing. We're getting more more of uh we're running about 8,500 calls a year with Timber Mesa. Um, a majority of those are medical. Uh we do have a wildfire threat up here that our our personnel, our membership across all of our chapters are working hard to mitigate through fuels mitigation projects and other initiatives. But we take it very seriously. This is our community. We we have family here, we live here, we love this place, and we're trying to do what we can. And our association would not be backing a bond initiative if we didn't think it was the best thing for our community.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, there you go, everybody. Fire proposition 455. Give us the website and information of where we go for more information to.

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Uh again.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so our Facebook page right now is uh White Mountain Firefighters Association. And uh we are working right now to launch our website. And we'll just uh Janine, I can get back with you once we get that thing up and running and and distribute that information. But again, um there's a phone number they can call. Any resident if you have a question, it's nine two eight nine four zero five four eight eight.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, awesome. All right. Well, thank you so much, Lewis Mara Valley. Always good to talk to you. And guys remember uh take a look, prop four fifty five. All right, everybody, keep it right here. You're listening to iTalk 1067 FM, the voice of the mountain.