Korda's administration can now identify who operates the facilities in its first reconciled return and which districts those facilities serve. In several entries, the paper establishing who owns them or what a long-term contract requires is still elsewhere.
The Convention's Joint Committee on Transition Facts has made that distinction visible in an updated evidence register. It connects the administration's partial response to the earlier fiscal submissions and lists the source records still being sought. It is a guide to the evidence received so far, rather than the preliminary report delegates are waiting for.
One facility, several questions
The register keeps the reported owner, current operator, service area and routine maintenance responsibility in separate fields. It also identifies the supporting document and reporting period. An entry carried forward from the territorial return remains distinguishable from the source record that might confirm it.
That matters when a facility appears in more than one office's accounts. The new register cross-references the entries so that delegates can follow the same facility through the submissions without treating each mention as another asset.
It also gives the outstanding requests a more practical form. Title documents, maintenance agreements and transportation-service contracts remain pending where another public body holds them or an archive check is needed. The register identifies the office being asked for the missing material. An unanswered entry remains unanswered; it has not been filled with an estimate.
The people served are not a cost formula
The partial return distinguishes facilities serving the certified lake corridor from those serving both the corridor and Korda's interior. That describes the present reach of a service. It does not determine which administration would pay for it after a territorial change.
A list of districts served cannot, on its own, tell delegates whether an obligation follows an owner, an operator or a contract. Nor does a pending cost entry establish that the service would be free to continue. Those questions still need the documents and comparable accounts requested by the committee.
For residents, the distinction has a familiar shape: a service can remain useful across an administrative line even while offices argue over the account. Earlier reporting on the southern lake communities also showed how much everyday movement, family life and Indigenous community ties extend beyond the freight figures. A facilities register makes one part of that picture easier to trace. It cannot stand in for the whole of it.
More traceable, still incomplete
When the first fiscal material arrived, the immediate problem was whether the figures could be compared. The partial return and this register move that work forward by separating reported responsibilities from supporting evidence and by making the remaining requests explicit.
They do not supply a valuation, allocate transition costs or settle an ownership question. The committee has proposed no boundary and recommended no status outcome. Its common register gives Jalen Mire and Tomas Rell a shared set of questions to work through; it establishes no change in either co-chair's substantive position or in Dessa Orin's whole-Territory statehood case.
The Convention's time under §15.5.a(3) continues to run. Updating the register neither restarts the committee's working request nor extends its compilation target. The next useful advance will be the outstanding source material, followed by comparisons that delegates can examine against it.
For now, the file tells them more clearly which questions have records behind them and which still have a request attached.