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Meeting on controversial new Salt Lake City shipping port starts with high hopes but sputters in a false start

The creation of a massive shipping and receiving district in the northwest corner of Salt Lake City was already off to a rocky start when things got testy Monday morning at the Capitol.

Members of the board that will oversee work on 22,000 acres that could also become a hub for manufacturers to build and ship their goods to market planned to meet, elect a chairperson and discuss their goals at a first meeting.

Instead, they decided they should do nothing, and the governor abruptly ended the gathering over concerns that the board hadn’t properly assembled because they hadn’t all submitted conflict-of-interest disclosures.