Governor dennis duguard. [ applause ] [ applause continues ] thank you very much. Thank you, Lieutenant Governor. Youre outstanding. Thank you all for being here today. To begin, i would like to recognize two new legislators, first, doug bartell. Appointed him to replace don hager. Doug spent his career in Law Enforcement, including 12 years as due pauls chief of police. He was here last month and sworn in. Lets welcome him again. Doug where are you . There he is. Welcome. [ applause ] second is mike dedrick. I appointed mike last month following the loss of our friend, craig teasen. Mike has served three terms in the 80s and 90s. I appreciate his willingness to serve, especially on short notice. Please join me in welcoming mike. [ applause ] today, i would like to look back at some of the things weve accomplished together over the past seven years, and update you on some progress. Ill also offer new proposals to consider this year. I would like to start today by talking about workforc
So i certainly hope they would be but i have no confidence as i sit here right now that they will. Senator nelson when, mr. Secretary, when you look at a map like this, a map of syria that i assume you handed out, somebody did thats a mess. And maybe it is the only solution is the solution of a political exit for assad so that we can go after these extremist elements. By the way, i had to leave the committee to do an interview on cnn, and the whole focus that they wanted to jump on was your statement earlier in the hearing that we had only trained up 60. But i pointed out to them what you said was the vetting is very difficult and in fact we are vetting some several thousands additional and the vet is a lot more tore tuesdayous because you certainly dont want to have a guy trained up and then you ends up aiming his gun back at us. In iraq, do you think that this new Prime Minister has the capability of getting out of his shiite mold and does he have the capability of bringing all the s
Those kinds of programs are along that same pattern. Governor herbert we could talk all look the about all of the great things happening in the state. The number one focus a governor should have is to grow the economy. It is hard to have anything else happen if you dont have a healthy economy and difficult if it is going in the wrong direction. Utah has a very healthy economy right now but one area we have specialized in is to capitalize on the fact we have the air force base in utah, which has one of the best test and training ranges for air force military in north america. I appreciate the fact in the latest paris air show, the dreamliner and its accelerated takeoff and the airbus 380 and 350 and how theyre able to maneuver at very slow speeds and yet have elevation. It is uncanny how these massive airplanes stay afloat. One of the reasons they can do that is because they have composite material and low weight that allows them to perform in ways they have not been able to do before.
Million acres of public land and million more acres of private land. Is in excess of 900 billion which would make us equal to the 24th greatest corporation on the fortune 50 list. It is the greatest wildlife system in the world. That is able statement but it is easy to backup. And its absolutely true. This is built over the last 110 years over the efforts of american sportsmen and women. The states definitely have it writes. There are many many recreational assets and the recreation for the american sportsmen and Outdoor Industry is the wildlifebased agencies that provide for the management and the the most unique aspect of our statebased model is the significant portion of the state raised revenue stems from what we call a user pay system. This revenue is generated from sportsmen activities like hunting, fishing licenses, boating, fees. Revenue, or as it is more commonly known, the Sport Fish Restoration models. One of the most significant contributors is the lwcf. I will not dwell on
What does the superintendent do . This was second grade. They will answer anything. Every hand in the room went up. Write down in front was this little guy named michael. He was trying to follow the rules. He is just trying to get called on. He jumps up and says, i know. The teacher says, all right what does the superintendent do . That is the guy in charge of super nintendo. [laughter] it sounded like a better job. This brilliant teacher says, that was a creative interpretation of the language, but actually the superintendent is the leader of the schools. Does anybody know a leader does what a leader does . There was a little girl sitting in the back. As far back as he possibly could. She had her hand raised so high. The teacher called on her. The teacher says, ok what does a leader do . She looks at me and says, a leader is someone who goes out and changes being to make things better changes things to make things better. I have read probably almost every leadership book there is and