Nicole Cottle comes to UTOPIA Fiber after 24 years in municipal government where she wore many hats including city attorney, community and economic development director, director of government relations, chief sustainability officer, general counsel and assistant city manager. She is well known in the public and private sector as an attorney licensed in both Utah and Wyoming. In addition to her civil municipal practice and leadership roles, Nicole has represented private clients all around the state in the areas of legislative and government relations, development and land use, bond finance, estate and business planning, and other transactional law. Nicole has participated in well over two billion dollars in creative financing solutions including all types of bonding, C-Pace, and PIDs. She garnered several hundred million dollars in earmarks, grants and other funding for multiple projects, and led various large scale redevelopment efforts valued at well over two billion dollars. She has specialized expertise in getting deals to the finish line while carefully protecting the interest of those involved. As director of government relations, she has worked for 23 years at the federal state and local level on hundreds of bills, legislative actions, and rule-making activities while curating relationships in all sectors. Nicole has served on the Utah Infrastructure Agency Board, Olene Walker Housing Trust Fund, the Intergenerational Poverty Board, the Indigent Defense Commission, various legislative committees, the Inland Port Authority, as well as the Executive Board of Operation My Hometown. She currently sits on the Utah Land Use Institute, the Our Hometown Foundation, and is a newly minted Honorary Commander for the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill Air Force Base.