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San Juan County approves master services agreement with mapping vendor, asks legal edits on arbitration
Summary
The commission approved a three-year Master Services & License Agreement with Balcony Technology to map county land records, pending redlines to arbitration and choice-of-law clauses; commissioners asked for mediation-first language and Utah jurisdiction before final execution.
San Juan County commissioners voted June 2 to approve entering a three-year Master Services & License Agreement with Balcony Technology to provide cloud-hosted land-records mapping tools, with a requirement that the vendor amend arbitration and choice-of-law language to Utah and add a mediation step.
County Recorder Cindy (recorder's office representative) described the product as a way to turn recorded documents into geospatial maps that can show mining claims, easements, subsurface features and other parcel-level data the county has not previously mapped. Vendor representative Austin demonstrated how the keystone product links recorded documents to specific parcels to help departments, title professionals and residents locate property details more quickly.
Commissioners focused discussion on contract terms rather than the technology, flagging an arbitration / choice-of-law clause that named New Jersey in section 18.12. Austin said the vendor has accommodated other counties' requests and agreed to provide redlines making Utah the governing forum and to add mediation before mandatory arbitration. County IT confirmed the product is cloud-hosted (so it will not burden county servers) and staff noted first-year pricing structures (vendor said the first year is free with fees in later years).
Madame Chair and several commissioners asked county counsel to complete a careful legal review of the long agreement and to bring a redlined version back before final execution so the commission can approve the agreed edits in public session. A motion to approve the agreement with those negotiated changes passed unanimously by voice vote.
Next steps: county legal will work with the vendor to produce a redline of sections 18.12–18.13 for jurisdiction and dispute-resolution language and return the revised agreement to the commission for final signature. The recorder's office will coordinate implementation and user access once the legal questions are resolved.
