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Aaron Hansen

39:41 - 40:05

"the intent was to have a meeting prior to budget so that we knew what we were doing. Let me create an MOU, create whatever avenue to have the discussion, and, and not find ourselves in April... being told, yeah, they failed on that side of things."

“the intent was to have a meeting prior to budget so that we knew what we were doing. Let me create an MOU, create whatever avenue to have the discussion, and, and not find ourselves in April... being told, yeah, they failed on that side of things.”
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October 21, 2026

From the transcript

Yeah, you know, I definitely am open to working with— I care about all of this very deeply. I want to learn. So yeah, I, I will add, when we had this discussion, the intent was to have a meeting prior to budget so that we knew what we were doing. Let me create an MOU, create whatever avenue to have the discussion, and, and not find ourselves in April. Yeah, yeah, being told, yeah, they failed on that side of things.

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