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In 2021 and 2022, the minutes of the Carbon County Commission record Commissioner Tony Martines citing BODEC, Inc., the company he works for, as he recused himself, abstained or waived his vote on three county decisions [1, 2, 28]. In 2022 they record Commissioner Larry Jensen disclosing that two of his sons work for Jones & DeMille Engineering, and declining to vote on that firm’s contract [2]. This example is precisely how conflicts are supposed to be handled.

In February 2024 both men signed sworn county forms that restate Utah’s disclosure rule [3, 4, 5, 6].

On May 8, 2024, Martines posted on his public Facebook page: “Big things are coming to BODEC!” [7] The post shared another item that is no longer available, and we did not ask him what it referred to.

In January 2025 both wrote these same ties down on a county form, checking the box “I have the following conflict of interest to report.” [8, 9] Jensen wrote: “I have 2 sons that work for Jones & Demille Engineering in the Vernal and Roosevelt Offices.” [8] Martines wrote: “BODEC, Inc.” [9]

That summer the county bid out a fire suppression system for its regional airport: a 200,000-gallon concrete water tank, a pump station and about 6,500 feet of pipe [12, 13, 17]. Jones & DeMille, the county’s engineer on the project since September 2024, designed it and issued the bid documents [10, 12, 13, 14]. BODEC, with the lowest of nine bids, won the construction contract [17, 33]. Its margin came from one line: it priced the installation of 6,200 feet of pipe at $18 a foot, against $25 to $68 a foot from the other eight bidders (median about $44) and an engineer’s estimate of $55, and without that one line it would not have been the low bidder [33]. We did not ask BODEC about its unit prices. The job, a concrete tank and pump building, was also larger than any civil project with a stated value on BODEC’s own website [17, 34]. The three contracts came to $1,631,235.29 [17]. All three notices of award, both supply agreements and the one notice to proceed in the records the county released under Utah’s public records law, GRAMA, were issued in the name of one commissioner: Jensen [17, 35, 36, 37].

The posted minutes of every meeting we found where the project or its money came before the commission, from September 2024 through December 2025, record no disclosure by either man [10, 18, 19, 20]. None of those items named BODEC [10, 18, 20]. We found no meeting at which the awards themselves came before the commission, and no vote to award any of the three contracts in the commission’s posted agendas and minutes from June 4, 2025 through October 21, 2026, as of November 5, 2026 [18, 20]. Nothing.

None of the commissioners, BODEC or the chief executive named on BODEC’s website had answered the questions we sent on November 4 by the deadline we set, 5 p.m. on November 6 [38].

They knew the rule

State law sets the rule [39, 40]. A county officer who is “an officer, director, agent, or employee, or owner of a substantial interest in a business entity that does or anticipates doing business with the county” must publicly disclose the conflict “immediately before a discussion by the body on matters relating to the business entity,” and the disclosure “shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting.” [39, 40] That duty dates from 1983 [40, 41]. Since May 1, 2024, under a bill passed that year, House Bill 80, an elected officer must also “file a sworn statement describing the conflict of interest with the county clerk,” and the clerk must “post a copy of the sworn statement on the county’s website.” [39, 40] In November 2025 the section was moved, with minor rewording, to Utah Code 17-70-506 [39, 42].

Both men had the rule in front of them [3, 4]. In February 2024, about seven months before the commission ratified the engineer’s assignment, Jensen and Martines each signed a sworn, notarized annual disclosure form that cites Utah Code 17-16a [3, 4, 10]. These forms were signed before the 2024 bill took effect; the first page restates the rule as it was then worded: ”Please note that pursuant to U.C.A. §17-16a-7, an officer must disclose his or her interest or involvement in such an entity immediately prior to any discussion in an open and public meeting pertaining to business that the County may do with any such entity, regardless of whether a disclosure of interest or involvement in the business was made in this document.” The county posted both forms on its website in February 2025, and both were still there when we checked in late October and early November 2026 [3, 4, 32, 40, 43].

What each man wrote on that form is specific [3, 4]. Martines named BODEC, Inc. twice: as a business subject to the county’s regulation, and among businesses that “do business with or anticipate doing business with Carbon County,” with his position as sales and marketing manager [4, 6]. Scott Bruno, whom BODEC’s website lists as its chief executive, sits on the county Planning Commission; when the commission appointed him in December 2019, the minutes record: “Commissioner Martines said he knows Scott, who is the CEO of Bodec where Commissioner Martines also works.” [28, 38, 44, 45] Jensen named no business of his own, and listed, under optional disclosures the form says are “not required to be made by law,” two sons working for Jones & DeMille: one running its Vernal office, the other its materials manager in its Roosevelt office [3, 5]. Neither the project’s bid, award and contract records we hold nor the commission’s minutes show that either son worked on the airport project, as of November 5, 2026 [12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 33, 35, 36, 37]. The materials solicitation named other Jones & DeMille staff as its contacts [13, 15].

On January 27, 2025, both men wrote the ties down again, on the form shown at the top of this article [8, 9]. Its instructions were written for people nominating a condition for newborn screening, not for county officers [8, 29]. It is not sworn or notarized, and it does not mention Utah’s disclosure rule, or any Utah law [8, 9, 30].

They followed it

The clearest example is August 3, 2022 [2]. BODEC had bid on the county’s Ridge Road sewer, and Jones & DeMille was up for an engineering contract on the same project [2]. The minutes record that “Commissioner Martines works for BODEC and disclosed that he waived his voting because BODEC submitted a bid,” and that Jensen said “the group deliberately left Commissioner Martines out of the discussions.” [2] They also record that Martines “made it clear that he works for BODEC, who was not awarded the bid, but seconds the motion to award the project to Johansen Construction.” [2] On the engineering contract, the minutes record that the son in Jones & DeMille’s Roosevelt office “supervises the projects in Eastern Utah and would have direct supervision over this project,” and that Jensen “will not vote.” [2]

It was the third time in 14 months that the minutes record Martines citing BODEC as he recused himself, abstained or waived his vote; the other two, in June 2021 and February 2022, are in the timeline above [1, 2].

The county’s appointed Planning Commission builds the same step into its meetings: “Conflict of Interest on Agenda Items” appears on 32 of the 33 agendas we found on the state’s public notice website for Planning Commission meetings that were not cancelled, from April 2023 through November 10, 2026; the exception, on October 1, 2024, was a meeting to discuss annual updates to the county’s development code [45, 46]. The item gets used [45]. At its August 4, 2026 meeting the minutes record that Bruno “has a conflict with Item 5 because he is an adjacent property owner” and that he “recused his vote.” [45] None of the 183 County Commission meeting agendas we found on the same website, from January 2019 through November 4, 2026, has such an item [46]. The law does not call for a standing agenda item; it requires an officer with such a conflict to disclose it immediately before the discussion [39].

Then, in the minutes, the disclosures stopped

The state’s rule may not reach a son’s job; Jensen’s own 2024 form lists that disclosure among those “not required to be made by law.” [3, 39] But in 2022, with his son set to supervise a county project, he did not vote, and in January 2025 he wrote his sons’ jobs down as a conflict [2, 8]. Our questions asked whether he disclosed the family tie on the airport project; they did not ask about the other Jones & DeMille items below.

Twenty-three days after he wrote that his sons work for Jones & DeMille, Jensen explained to the commission a state road contract between the county, Jones & DeMille and the Utah Department of Transportation [8, 11]. The minutes of February 19, 2025 record him saying the contract “would allow Jones & DeMille to do the engineering work,” and seconding its ratification [11]. They record no disclosure by him [11]. At the same meeting, Commissioner Jared Haddock “recused himself from the motion because he is on the Graduation Spectacular Committee,” on another item [11].

On the airport project itself, the minutes record this:

• September 18, 2024. Jensen presented the Jones & DeMille assignment order “for fire suppression pump at the Carbon County Airport” and moved to ratify it [10]. “Commissioner Martines seconded.” [10] The minutes record no disclosure. The item concerned the engineer; no bids had yet been sought [10, 12, 13].
• July 16, 2025, the day before construction bids were due [12, 18]. Martines moved to approve budget amendments that added $80,000 “for work done by Jones and DeMille for the Airport Fire Suppression project.” The item named no bidder [18]. Jensen seconded [18]. The posted minutes, two of whose five pages are missing from the county’s copy, record no disclosure [18].
• December 17, 2025, nearly four months after the county’s first payment to BODEC from the airport account [20, 21]. Martines seconded budget amendments adding $700,000 to the airport fund, most of it, the minutes say, for the north taxilane, and moved to approve the 2026 budget. The minutes record no disclosure [20].

BODEC is not named in the 2025 budget items [18, 19, 20]. Whether a budget vote is a discussion “on matters relating to” a contractor, in the law’s words, is a question for the county [39]. We asked it, in the words of the county’s own disclosure form. Neither the commission nor Martines had responded by the deadline.

In the minutes we found, BODEC itself never came up again. We found no mention of BODEC in the commission minutes posted on the state’s public notice website for meetings from August 17, 2022 through October 7, 2026, as of October 28, 2026. In that time the county awarded BODEC the largest construction or service contract we found it awarded in 2025, by a notice issued in Jensen’s name, and paid BODEC $1,232,537.82 from the airport account [17, 21, 47, 48, 49]. We found no meeting at which the award came before the commission, and so no discussion of it at a public meeting, the moment the rule is written for [39].

Jones & DeMille kept coming up. On July 2, 2025 the commission approved, and on October 1 ratified, Jones & DeMille contracts Jensen had explained, and on January 21, 2026 he seconded the ratification of another [16, 22, 23]. On March 18, 2026 the commission approved a list of state-funded rural business grants, chosen by a review board, that included “Jones and DeMille Engineering $25,000”; Martines moved and Jensen seconded [26]. On April 15, with Jones & DeMille one of three firms that had submitted proposals for engineering work on a flood-mitigation project (the engineers chosen “are paid directly by the NRCS,” a federal agency, Jensen explained), and after Jensen said “Lincoln Irvine, Justin Needles and himself will need to review and decide,” the commission authorized “Commissioner Jensen, Engineer Lincoln Irvine and Emergency Management Director, Justin Needles to evaluate and choose the best option for Carbon County”; Jensen seconded [27]. None of those minutes records a disclosure by Jensen [16, 22, 23, 26, 27]. Whether the state’s rule reaches a son’s job is a legal question, taken up below.

The awards. The county asked for bids in June 2025, in two packages issued in Jensen’s name: the pump and pipe, due Thursday, July 3, and construction, due Thursday, July 17 [12, 13, 14, 15]. The notices said the bids would be “publicly opened and read” at the Commissioners Office [12, 13]. No posted agenda, minutes or county web page we searched records either opening, as of November 5, 2026. Each supply contract drew one bid [33]. On July 10, 2025 the county awarded the pump to Rhino Pumps, LLC of Pleasant Grove for $195,921.33, against an engineer’s estimate of $175,000, and the pipe to ISCO Industries of Louisville, Kentucky, for $98,223.96, against an estimate of $136,000 [17, 33].

Construction drew nine bids [33]. BODEC’s was the lowest, at $1,337,090, $109,051.73 below the next bid and $210,750 below the engineer’s estimate of $1,547,840 [33]. On July 23, 2025 the county awarded it the contract, by a notice issued in Jensen’s name [17]. On price, the county took the cheapest offer [33]. Among the largest construction and service contracts we identified that the county awarded or paid for in 2025, from its posted minutes and the state’s Transparent Utah payment records as of November 7, 2026, BODEC’s was the only one with neither a bid opening nor an approval recorded in the posted minutes [47, 48, 49]. The commission often opens bids at a meeting and leaves the final award to staff or a commissioner; for BODEC’s contract we found neither in a meeting record [47, 48, 50]. BODEC’s bid was also the lowest of the nine on the concrete tank, at $485,000 [33]. Our questions to BODEC did not ask about its unit prices.

BODEC describes itself on its website as “a trusted leader in industrial electrical construction and engineering”; of the civil projects it showed on October 26, 2026, the largest with a stated value was an $800,000 pipeline upgrade in 2021, beside a $45,000,000 substation and battery-storage project [34, 38]. The site gives no value (“N/A”) for the Scofield Dam Modification project, where it lists installing an 8-inch pressure gate and 8-inch steel pipe [34]. Two items in its airport bid, the concrete tank at $485,000 and the pump station building and appurtenances at $365,000, came to $850,000, most of its $1,337,090 contract price [17, 33].

One name on the paperwork. Jensen signed the agreement with Rhino Pumps on July 16, 2025, and the agreement with ISCO carries a script-style signature in his name, dated August 7 [35, 36]. The county’s contract form, at its signature block, says: “If Buyer is a public body, attach evidence of authority to sign and resolution or other documents authorizing execution of this Agreement.” [35, 36] The copies the county released include no such attachment; the records do not show whether one exists elsewhere [35, 36].

The commission often hands bid review and award to one of its members, usually together with staff [50]. Of 74 motions we found in the minutes from 2019 to August 2026 handing bids to named people to review, most of them to award, 58 named a commissioner, and in 17 the commissioner named was the one making the motion [50]. In March 2026 it authorized a reviewer and Commissioner Martines “to review them and award” airport pavement bids, and the minutes record: “Commissioner Martines seconded.” [51] For the fire suppression contracts, the minutes record no award and no delegation of any kind. We have not seen the county purchasing ordinance in force in 2025, which may say who can award a contract and how. We asked the commission, in a letter sent to all three commissioners including Jensen, who approved each award and how. None of the commissioners had responded by the deadline we set, 5 p.m. on November 6.

In January 2026, with BODEC still being paid from the airport account, the records the county released contain no county conflict form like the 2025 one, only disclosure forms for officeholders, on the county clerk-auditor’s letterhead, that ask for employers, business interests and income; a state law in force since May 1, 2024 requires every elected county officer to file an annual conflict-of-interest disclosure statement each January [21, 24, 25, 40]. On those forms Martines listed BODEC as his employer and answered “N/A” where the form asks for “any other matter or interest that the individual believes may constitute a conflict of interest”; Jensen answered “None.” [24, 25] That form does not ask about children’s employment [25].

What the law says it costs

The law sets a penalty [52]. Utah Code 17-70-510 says that “an individual who knowingly and intentionally violates this part: (a) is guilty of a class A misdemeanor; and (b) shall be dismissed from employment or removed from office.” [52] The version in force from May 2024 until November 2025 said that “a person who knowingly and intentionally violates this part is guilty of a class A misdemeanor and shall be dismissed from employment or removed from office.” [40, 42]

The meeting rule is triggered by a discussion at a meeting [39]. In the posted agendas and minutes we searched, we found no meeting at which the commission discussed or voted on the award to BODEC, so we found no point at which that rule applied to the award itself [39].

We are not aware of any finding by a court, prosecutor or other agency that a Carbon County commissioner violated the disclosure law. Whether the rule reached these votes is a legal question. It applies to an officer’s own position in a business, or to owning a substantial interest in one; Jensen’s 2024 form lists his sons’ jobs among disclosures it says are “not required to be made by law.” [3, 39] And the budget items did not name BODEC [18, 20]. The penalty applies only where the rule reached a vote and an officer knowingly and intentionally broke it; no record we found shows that either man believed the rule applied to these votes, or intended to break it. Whether either did is for a prosecutor or a court to decide [52].

A separate section covers other conflicts [52]. Since May 1, 2024, an officer “who has a personal interest or investment that creates a potential or actual conflict between the officer’s personal interests and the officer’s public duties shall disclose the conflict in the manner described in” the section on businesses the county regulates (Utah Code 17-16a-6 until November 2025, now 17-70-505). [40, 42, 52] That section calls for a sworn statement, filed on taking office and each January with the commission and the county clerk and posted on the county’s website, and says it “does not apply to instances where the value of the interest does not exceed $5,000.” [52] In January 2025 Jensen described his sons’ jobs at Jones & DeMille as a conflict of interest, on the county’s unsworn form [8]. The disclosure records the county released under GRAMA include no sworn statement from Jensen for 2025 or 2026 (they do not show whether one exists elsewhere), and in a search of the county website’s files on November 6, 2026, the only file under his name titled as a conflict-of-interest form was his February 2024 form [5, 8, 25, 43, 53]. Whether a son’s job is a “personal interest” under that section, and whether the $5,000 limit applies to it, is a legal question [52]. On his sworn 2024 form, Jensen answered “None” to its question on personal interests that create a conflict, and listed his sons among disclosures the form says “are not required to be made by law.” [3]

The money

From August 25, 2025 through June 1, 2026 the county paid BODEC $1,232,537.82 in eight payments from airport account 100-300600-40020100, according to the state’s Transparent Utah site as of October 31, 2026 (its yearly totals for BODEC were unchanged on November 5): 92 percent of its contract price [21, 54]. The same account paid ISCO $80,071.04, the exact total of its September 2025 pipe order, which was billed to the county and shipped to BODEC, and Rhino $190,767.02 in April 2026 [21, 55].

The county’s 2025 budget paired the project with a budgeted $2,000,000 contribution from its Recreation and Transportation Special Service District [56, 57]. On December 17, 2025, explaining a $500,000 transfer to the airport fund, the minutes record the county’s explanation for that year’s two big airport projects, the fire system and the north taxilane: “Most of this is covered by federal or state grants.” [20] The federal airport grants we found awarded to the county in 2024 and 2025 were for taxilane work, and we found none awarded in 2026, as of October 31, 2026 [58, 59]. We found no state grant for the fire system, as of the same date [56]. The county’s 2025 audit does report $774,877 in federal airport grant spending that year under a 2019 grant, without saying what it paid for [60]. The county’s independent audit of its 2025 finances, by Larson & Company, reported two instances of noncompliance with state budget rules on the Airport Fund: a deficit fund balance with nothing in the amended budget to retire at least 5 percent of it, and spending above what the final budget allowed [60]. The county replied that it would take steps to reduce the deficit and would “monitor the budget more regularly throughout the year.” [60] The audit reported no findings on the county’s federal awards [60].

How the fire system was paid for is a question we are still reporting, for a separate article. The county’s 2025 budget listed a $2,000,000 contribution from its Recreation and Transportation Special Service District; we are examining that district’s records and the county’s airport accounts, and will report what they show [56, 57].

What we asked

On November 4 we sent questions, with a deadline of November 6 at 5 p.m., to the County Commission (addressed to all three commissioners, Jensen among them, with a copy to the county clerk), to Martines separately, to BODEC and to Bruno. We asked who bid and won, who approved the awards and how, which contract BODEC’s payments belong to, whether Martines disclosed or stepped aside, whether Jensen disclosed, and which grants paid for the system. None of them had responded by the deadline.

Two deeds in May 2025

While researching this article, we found that the house in Price that Commissioner Tony Martines swore was his residence when he declared his candidacy in 2022 was sold in May 2025 [61, 62]. A warranty deed recorded in Carbon County on May 12, 2025 shows Anthony Ladd Martines and a co-owner selling it [62]. Two days later, on May 14, Washington County recorded their purchase, from a construction company, of a lot in a St. George subdivision [63]. In the deed of trust they signed that day, they agreed that the borrower “must occupy, establish, and use the Property as Borrower’s principal residence within 60 days” and keep it as the principal residence for at least a year, “unless Lender otherwise agrees in writing” or “extenuating circumstances exist that are beyond Borrower’s control.” [64] The clause is standard wording on the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac form the loan used [64]. On the deed of trust’s list of riders, the box for a second-home rider is not checked; the only box checked is for a planned unit development rider [64]. BODEC’s website, as of November 2, 2026, says the company opened an office in St. George in 2024, which it lists as its “Engineering HQ”; it lists Price as its “Corporate HQ.” [38] On his January 2025 and January 2026 county disclosure forms, Martines gave BODEC’s Price address as his employer’s; no record we found shows which BODEC office he works from [24, 38, 65].

Utah law says a county officer “shall maintain residency within the county .. [66]. in which the officer was elected during the officer’s term of office,” and that if the officer establishes a principal place of residence outside the county, “the office is automatically vacant.” State law defines a principal place of residence as the place where a person’s “habitation is fixed and to which, whenever the individual is absent, the individual has the intention of returning,” shown by the person’s stated intent and acts [67]. Under that test, owning a house elsewhere does not by itself settle it [67]. The same law says a person who moves “for temporary purposes with the intention of returning” does not lose their principal place of residence, unless they register or vote elsewhere or come to intend the new place as their principal residence [67]. No record we found shows where Martines lives today, or that he has established a principal residence outside Carbon County, as of November 2026. We asked Martines where his principal residence is; we did not ask him about the loan. He had not responded by the deadline.

This story is about county officers, not the people who work at BODEC and Jones & DeMille. They are doing their jobs, and DIG does not go after workers; no one at either company should lose a job over what is reported here. The questions in this story are for the commissioners.

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Sources

Disclosure forms

3. Carbon County, 2024 Annual Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form, Larry Jensen, February 22, 2024. PDF. ↩ a b c d e f g h i j k l m
4. Carbon County, 2024 Annual Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form, Tony Martines, February 22, 2024. PDF. ↩ a b c d e f g h i j
5. Larry Jensen’s 2024 annual conflict of interest disclosure form, as released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩ a b c d e
6. Tony Martines’s 2024 annual conflict of interest disclosure form, as released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩ a b c d
8. Carbon County, Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form, Larry Jensen, January 27, 2025, released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r
9. Carbon County, Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form, Tony Martines, January 27, 2025, released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩ a b c d e f g h
24. Carbon County Clerk/Auditor, officeholder disclosure form, Tony Martines, January 20, 2026, released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩ a b c d
25. Carbon County Clerk/Auditor, officeholder disclosure form, Larry Jensen, January 5, 2026, released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩ a b c d e
30. Carbon County, Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form, Jared Haddock, January 27, 2025, released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩ a b c
53. Carbon County, officeholder disclosure form, Larry Jensen, January 2024, released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩
61. Carbon County, Declaration of Candidacy, Tony Martines, February 28, 2022. PDF. ↩
65. Carbon County, officeholder disclosure form, Tony Martines, January 31, 2025, released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩

Carbon County Commission minutes

1. Carbon County Commission, minutes, June 2, 2021 and February 2, 2022. PDF. ↩ a b c d e
2. Carbon County Commission, minutes, August 3, 2022. PDF. ↩ a b c d e f g h i j k l
10. Carbon County Commission, minutes, September 18, 2024. PDF. ↩ a b c d e f g h i
11. Carbon County Commission, minutes, February 19, 2025. PDF. ↩ a b c d e f
16. Carbon County Commission, minutes, July 2, 2025. PDF. ↩ a b c d
18. Carbon County Commission, minutes, July 16, 2025 (the posted copy is missing pages 2 and 4). PDF. ↩ a b c d e f g h i j k l
20. Carbon County Commission, minutes, December 17, 2025. PDF. ↩ a b c d e f g h i j k
22. Carbon County Commission, minutes, October 1, 2025. PDF. ↩ a b c d
23. Carbon County Commission, minutes, January 21, 2026. PDF. ↩ a b c d
26. Carbon County Commission, minutes, March 18, 2026. PDF. ↩ a b c d
27. Carbon County Commission, minutes, April 15, 2026. PDF. ↩ a b c d e
28. Carbon County Commission, minutes, December 18, 2019. PDF. ↩ a b
44. Carbon County Commission, minutes, December 6, 2023. PDF. ↩
48. Carbon County Commission, minutes behind the 2025 contracts ranking, February 2024 – November 2025 (first of them linked). PDF. ↩ a b c
51. Carbon County Commission, minutes, March 4, 2026. PDF. ↩

The airport contracts

12. ETV News, legal notice “Advertisement for Bids,” Airport Fire Suppression System Construction, June 2025. etvnews.com. ↩ a b c d e f g h
13. ETV News, legal notice “Advertisement for Bids,” Airport Fire Suppression pump and piping procurement, June 2025. etvnews.com. ↩ a b c d e f g h
14. Bonfire bid posting GJ25-165, Carbon County Airport Fire Suppression System Construction 2408-058, June–July 2025 (saved copy on file with DIG). ↩ a b c d
15. Bonfire bid posting NS25-208, Airport Fire Suppression Pump & Piping Procurement 2408-058, June–July 2025 (saved copy on file with DIG). ↩ a b c d
17. Carbon County, notices of award, Airport Fire Suppression project 2408-058: Rhino Pumps and ISCO Industries (July 10, 2025) and BODEC, Inc. (July 23, 2025), released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩ a b c d e f g h i j k l
33. Carbon County, bid tabulations for project 2408-058, prepared by Jones & DeMille Engineering, July 3 and 17, 2025, released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩ a b c d e f g h i j
35. Carbon County, procurement agreement with Rhino Pumps, LLC, signed July 16, 2025, released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩ a b c d e
36. Carbon County, procurement agreement with ISCO Industries, Inc., dated August 7, 2025, released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩ a b c d e
37. Carbon County, notice to proceed to Rhino Pumps, LLC, August 15, 2025, released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩ a b
55. ISCO Industries, order confirmations for Carbon County, September and November 2025, released under GRAMA (on file with DIG). ↩

Payments, budgets and grants

21. Transparent Utah, Carbon County payments to BODEC INC and the airport account, read October 30–31, 2026. transparent.utah.gov. ↩ a b c d e f
49. Transparent Utah, vendor searches behind the 2025 contracts ranking, read October 24 – November 7, 2026. transparent.utah.gov. ↩ a b
54. Transparent Utah, Carbon County payments to Rhino Pumps, ISCO Industries and BODEC, read November 5, 2026. transparent.utah.gov. ↩
56. Carbon County, 2025 final budget. PDF. ↩ a b c
57. Carbon County Recreation and Transportation Special Service District, meeting packet, December 9, 2024. PDF. ↩ a b
58. Federal Aviation Administration, Airport Improvement Program grant lists, fiscal years 2024 and 2025. faa.gov. ↩
59. USAspending.gov, award records for Carbon County’s Airport Improvement Program grants, 2024–2025. usaspending.gov. ↩
60. Larson & Company, Carbon County financial statements and single audit, year ended December 31, 2025. Federal Audit Clearinghouse. ↩ a b c d

Utah law

39. Utah Code 17-70-506. le.utah.gov. ↩ a b c d e f g h i j k
40. Utah Legislature, 2024 General Session, H.B. 80, enrolled copy. le.utah.gov. ↩ a b c d e f g h
41. Utah Code 17-16a-7, as in force until May 1, 2024. le.utah.gov. ↩
42. Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, Title 17 recodification cross walk. PDF. ↩ a b c
52. Utah Code 17-70-505. le.utah.gov. ↩ a b c d e f g
66. Utah Code 17-16-1 and 17-66-201, county officer residency. le.utah.gov. ↩
67. Utah Code 20A-2-105. le.utah.gov. ↩ a b c

Recorded deeds

62. Carbon County Recorder, warranty deed, entry 873258, recorded May 12, 2025 (copy on file with DIG). ↩ a b
63. Washington County Recorder, warranty deed, document 20250016709, recorded May 14, 2025 (copy on file with DIG). ↩
64. Washington County Recorder, deed of trust, document 20250016710, recorded May 14, 2025 (copy on file with DIG). ↩ a b c

Other records

7. Tony Martines, public Facebook post, May 8, 2024 (saved copy on file with DIG). ↩ a b
29. Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children, “Nominate a Condition” page, hrsa.gov, as archived January 14, 2009. archived page. ↩ a b c
31. Utah Public Notice Website, notice for the August 19, 2026 Carbon County Commission meeting. utah.gov. ↩
32. Carbon County website, media library search for “conflict,” read October 28, 2026. carbon.utah.gov. ↩ a b
34. BODEC, Inc. website, projects pages, read October 26 and November 6, 2026. bodecinc.com. ↩ a b c
38. BODEC, Inc., About page, read November 2, 2026. bodecinc.com. ↩ a b c d e
43. Carbon County website, media library searches for “jensen,” “conflict” and “disclosure,” read November 6–7, 2026. carbon.utah.gov. ↩ a b
45. Carbon County Planning Commission, minutes, August 4, 2026. PDF. ↩ a b c d

DIG’s compilations

19. Carbon County Commission meeting videos, July 16 and December 17, 2025 (DIG’s machine transcripts of the budget items, on file with DIG). ↩ a b c d
46. DIG’s count of Carbon County Planning Commission and County Commission agendas on the Utah Public Notice Website, 2019–2026 (on file with DIG). ↩ a b
47. DIG’s ranking of the largest Carbon County contracts awarded in 2025, from the commission’s minutes, Transparent Utah and county records (on file with DIG). ↩ a b c
50. DIG’s count of 74 motions in the Carbon County Commission’s minutes, January 2019 – August 2026, handing bids to named people to review or award (on file with DIG). ↩ a b c