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video sorry good morning everyone start the business meeting Pledge of Allegiance I pled aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic
for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all we call on the honorable Judge thony to do the swearing of the County Board
and then do the soil and water after that good morning morning morning morning you got [Laughter] a that was actually good right this will
be a group O so just repeat after me and pause all right please raise your right hand I do solemnly swear I swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the constition of the United States and the
constitution of the state of Minnesota theti St Minnesota and that I will faithfully and impartially execute and discharge I will [Laughter] Faithfully the duties of county
commissioner County Commissioner in the county of Becker the county of Becker state of Minnesota state of Minnesota according to the and the best of my judgment and ability and the best of my judgment and ability so help me God help me
congratulations [Applause] congratulations one word at a time to shake that was premature I was too excited got I know I
know just I use it h i got one [Music] here I can do that yeah um she's going to do the rest water I
[Laughter] please raise your right hand and repeat after me I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state
of Minnesota and the constition of the state and that I will Faithfully I will faithfully and impartially and impartially execute and discharge execute and discharge the duties of soil and water the duties of Soil and Water
Conservation District supervisor Conservation District supervisor in the county of Becker the county of Beck state of Minnesota state of Minnesota according to the law according to the law and to the best of my ability and to the best of my ability and my judgment
and my judgement so help me God so congratulations conat you she's D down hey you guys are way better oh with that car turn over to you you can't
leave yet yeah you can't leave yet no you wait so we we we'd like to recognize your oh it all be for them sorry you got to wait a little bit longer going through the door yeah thank
you I was this schol getting him to so as so as a county and a board a County Board we'd like to recognize your years of service to the Becker County so in this plaque right here it says in recognition for your service and
dedication to Becker County the citizens of Becker County appreciate your 14 years of service from 2011 to 2024 so on behalf of the board and the citizens be i' like to thank you John and also thank you you've got and also I'd like to thank you um as a greenhorn
uh commissioner I appreciate all of the veteran leadership that you've shown us all the the things you little things that you've talked to us about and showing us what to do so thank you very much we're going to miss your your uh your wisdom wisdom on our on our County board so thank it has a pleasure
teaching a teacher oh and then we also have a plaque for you for being the board chair for this last year thanks thank you been a [Applause] pleasure with that I'll turn over carry for next next portion of our business
meeting and I'll step on thank you I'd like to call uh Phil it's your turn to come join us sit in the middle till till we have the election and then swap sorry I should have called you uh commissioner we'll get used to
that so I will call for nomination for a board chair and I'll call three times for nominations um nominations for board chair I'll nominate um Dave Meyer nominations for board chair any other
nominations third and final time any other nominations uh nominations are closed I will entertain a motion to move forward with the assignment of a board chair um I guess I'm not clear what you're we
usually just um we have one nomination call for a vote then or correct a motion in a second and then vote Yes so I'll make a motion to appoint not to to appoint elect elect commissioner
Meyer to chair second Motion in a second um all in favor I I'll oppose same sign motion carried thank you
um you want to switch spot seats yeah musical chairs musical chairs nope just there oh just crack it's it's as it's just a free CW after that you can just grab your desk and
pull it out oh they emptied piggy must EMP she takes care she takes care of all of us all right so next thing on the agenda is to elect a vice chair so I will call
for nominations three times um so do we have any nominations for vice chair um Mr chair I I I guess I've um are you is Richard are you interested I'm I'm not
comfortable yet Barry doing it I'm just I'm not there and if somebody else is more comfortable I think somebody else could do a better job than I could do so that's where I'm at Mr chair I'll nominate Erica jebson I'll second
it do we have any other nominations for vice chair first Mr chair can I stop just for a second Phil you need to raise your chair you look like a little kid there that's kind of weird I cannot fit my knees under this V I'll smash them into the thing here that
is I'm sorry it just looks funny here it's the way it's going to be I can't I can sit back here I guess and raise it up but uh there you go well I have the same problem I'm here so do I have any other
nominations for chair um okay so no with no other nominations we have a second second so all in favor of commissioner jeffson being the vice chair 6 iif seeing I I oppose Mr chair I think we need to then
make a motion make do I have a motion to elect commissioner jeffson as Vice chair I'll make the motion I'll second okay we have a motion and a second all in favor I I opposed all right commissioner jeffson is our vice
chair thank you okay next item on the agenda is committee assignments so Peggy Peggy made a sheet in red with some changes possible possible changes that we would have to discuss maybe vote
on um just want to so basically Mo most of the Committees that commissioner okerson was on commissioner Hansson is is on now um there are a couple a couple little changes um that I would like to propose on the rack
committee um I would like to have us appoint commissioner Jepson to the rack Committee in place of me and then she and I would switch then and I would take the West Central initiative um you want to explain the
West the West Central initiative Economic Development board um so I have uh West Central Regional juvenile center that same day and the Eda so it's impossible for me to make it to all those meetings so I thought it would be
better to have somebody else on the um West Central initiative Economic Development board so which one is that the West Central initiative is number 49 so you want and the rack is
number 30 38 well now I I was on the recreational advisor committee before as a as a member so I kind of know it's a few things that are going on there so I would be off that well you you're on it you're you're still on there's two commission there's two Commissioners on it so it's you and
you be back no i' I'd be off and commissioner jeffon and you would be off sure yeah yeah yeah the only the I just wanted to make a point we don't have the Cornerstone that that is one that I I was on and that one's just not listed on here and then I thought we had a tribal
relation committee also named it we committee the wi committee yeah I have a question on the cornerstone is is that a county is that a county function now or is that a county we we did make that appointment
we make that appointment we have I mean I just don't know if it really qualifies for count I mean I guess that's up to us but um what is the I guess I don't know where that's at that corner one one thing that I think
and I was going to mention this in my report is that they are they did just get approved for a Family Resource Center which I think um or got funding to be a to start a Family Resource Center which I think is going to be very important to have County involvement um
but other than that you know we we had we had done it just at that one meeting when they had came and asked for funding but so I'm fine either way what is your what is your capacity on that board are you just liais on then you're not a I'm
not a voting member well why don't we see what it goes this year and reconsider it again in the future because I'm assuming that they value you being there because of who you are in your position now right but we go to a lot of meetings that we
get yes correct I mean we don't recognize as Mee and then I I had one there was one more prop po change the Sal there's two actually the
salary Review Committee number 40 has I think it has traditionally been the chair and the vice chair the salary Review Committee for elected officials is that something that we want to change that to because before it was it wasn't listed as chair and vice chair that that's a possibility um and then number
26 I don't know if this one is correct um labor negotiations committee it's not the currently it's not the chair and the vice chair it was currently commissioner okas and myself we just happen to be the vice chair and chair um there is there is a there is an advantage not I think
about it there is an advantage to that because we meet in finance and we can also meet after Finance with negotiations if we have any issues but we aren't going to have negotiations for a couple years so I don't I don't know what the board's feeling is on that um
it doesn't I guess it doesn't matter to me but we can we can address that later on because of the timing of the committee is not why don't we just put uh your names on it because I don't think it would I mean you're going to have when you get back in negotiations you're
going to want to have some continuity moving yeah so let's let's put let's put I don't know who you want to put on it but I would say you want to well yeah the problem with having chair and vice chair is start negotiations and then good end yeah good change and then if it
if it's not done by the end of the year chair chair would change but I mean that I mean that could happen if it's on an a year also so I mean it so so Phil would you like to would you consider being on the negotiate committee or uh
I've got less than zero experience at something like that but I mean willing to learn yeah that was my next yeah upend for tomorrow yep so the meeting is
tomorrow okay yep yep okay okay thanks thanks sir um the one thing I I would I would probably like to get back on and if I would like to get back on the zoning ordinance review okay um um if there's
no and feel that I think John was on that I think I would like to be on that too um I do think the I think who's currently on that um myself and John was on
it I we we meet very rarely I mean I'm fine if right the thing is we haven't had very many ordinances recently I've been I've been on that committee for quite a few years and last year I I took myself off um I think we I think this last year we we dropped the ball in our
ordinances I think we had a lot of ordinance that were supposed to done by a year ago and we didn't get them done um I'd like to I mean I I guess I'm fine with you stay on it I think the the knowledge of of of the you know the knowledge that I have would serve as something a springboard to get some of
those done but um um if you if we want and maybe we meet as as I I just think we need to move on some of these ordinances than we've been sitting sitting on for a while um I I would be okay with Barry taking my place
on the zoning ordinance review again they don't meet and we haven't met or I don't think you've met no I think with the ordinance with the comp plan moving forward I don't think the ordinance committee's Mo moved because um that that was have taken care
of most of our ordinances and it didn't so [Music] yep if that's that's okay yeah that's y I'm I'm fine okay I think Barry would be much better on it to me just because he's understands all that stuff
better okay and then the next the next committee that I said circled is the the regional radio board um which is the meeting is tomorrow and I had put my name in there for John
um or for Erica actually well I I think it would be helpful for whoever is on the sheriff's committee because it is it is and then you would be the simar AL alternate yeah has taking John's yeah
over fine yeah that's fine with me too so I'll just have to yeah I'll get I'll talk to you afterwards I get some information yeah I can for the okay agenda to you I don't oh and then one more I guess there was one more that a committee that
where's the um the abandoned grade where's that did you take that one off Peggy or is that uh possibly B there there was a Bandon grade Review Committee yeah we don't have that we don't have the abandoned grade but do and do we need a committee to review
the job descriptions for and and and anything else our comp study we have a consultant all that is doing all doing that working with we could probably run those through committees yeah the Committees where they they exist where they come from and then and that's what we've been doing is
running those to the Committees that are those jobs existing yeah yeah I don't see a need oh yeah I didn't either okay and then are you adding the white earth oh yeah the Wii committee yeah y it's been beberg and
Jepson oh it's been you Richard yep yep Richard and I and then uh there's I guess there's one more sorry it's in read so on the fairboard committee um commissioner jeffson expressed interest to be on that in place of of of Phil and I think we
talked about that before and that was that was okay so that's that's okay with both of you then we're good with that yeah it's fine okay does anybody have any other things on the Committees they would like to discuss uh just a note on the bottom
that um any and all board members May serveice alternate as needed y so what does that mean that means if you can't make it to your meeting is that your responsibility to ask the rest of us you can sometimes I I just send it to carry or or and to say that I can't make this meeting if I see if any other board
member so sometimes you just ask another board member yourself so um it's not absolute you have to but um I mean it you certainly could give the opportunity to other Commissioners to attend that meeting well just I see you're on a lot of the watersheds the wild rice and stuff I having been on the
Pelican I would I'd be interested in going to some of those me just to see how they enter again and and you're not you're not you're just there liaison so like on the corint Watershed I'm I'm on their Advisory board so there's advis you know
there's advisory boards that we usually get put on so Buffalo red I'm on their Advisory Board um but that's their decision to put you on that Advisory Board we put the person out his recommendation um I don't I don't know that like the wild rice their Advisory Board isn't active they haven't done a
whole lot um but they usually ask for someone so your your so your job is then to be le liaison or and then you're on that um Buffalo red meets once or twice a year um do does tours um Buffalo red we they brought the Advisory Board in to
give them a recommendation on if they should build that new building this was a few years ago or rent something uh so we gave them our recommendation we we discussed it and um so there's that's if you're on if you're on that I don't see that we should be going to
every meeting of theirs to you know monitor but we certainly do have that liaison an ability to go would would that be inappropriate them to go I think I think it's ex excessive if you're going to every meeting and putting in a important I mean you certainly could go to Every meeting but if you get if
you're being compensated I don't think that's necessarily our role it's those okay advisory boards that you get prms for unless there's something special going on at a specific now Pelicans a little different because it's totally within the county so a Hands-On approach
might be even more appropriate than Buffalo red or wild rice they're they're pretty large entities in themselves but so I've never charged I think one you know to go to just general meetings to go to their monthly meetings I I wasn't
thinking about the per DM I was thinking about where I fit and where I can do some good and where it intersects with some other things that was my yeah CU you're listed on the Pelican Watershed advisor advisor for but um yeah and each commissioner gets involved as as they
see fit in different areas they're their expertise or their passions yeah and as a commissioner now I've been on the recreational advisory committee I kind know what's going on there so that's that's an easier fit for me with some of those things and I was going to talk to you too to see if how as you get I mean
you'll be asked to get on state committees and see what your interest is on those and um certainly we can talk if you have interest in some of my areas if you want to move forward on that I certainly talk about that and as we go sure are there any other uh committee
assignments that anybody would like to look at Mr chair I'll make an motion to approve the committee assignments so I have a motion by Barry I'll second second by Eric all in favor of approving the committee assignments signifi by
saying I I opposed all carried do you want to take a break or do you want to go right on to regular business it doesn't matter to me all right let's keep going all right so do we have uh any changes
or additions to the agenda I don't have any modifications or changes anybody else have so I'll entertain a motion then to approve the agenda I'll make the motion uh motion by fi we have a second second second by Barry all in
favor I I we got to get your Cadence down yeah I know I got little little little choppy all right carried so minutes from December 17th meeting does anybody have any corrections or
changes to the minutes on December 17th no changes I don't think I have anything the only the only thing I had imagine that I have something is on is under Becker soil water district uh under on page three of three where the
first motion um do we we had talked about a couple uh CL errors uh like wording errors in the uh in the mou um or in the not the not theou but
the the plan is that some did we want to have that in our minutes or or is that something that they're just going because Brian said they might have to read go back to every County if we change some things yeah and I don't remember what I don't remember what our outcome was it was something you brought up AR
yeah remember oh yeah it was it was just the um I think it was it was just a wordage thing because there were two different wages but I think they what's it to deal with the the
tribal um yeah I think that's what it was I think it was it was stated kind of more clear in one part and not clear in another part about the but I think if it passed I think we decid if it passed the lawyer's interpretation it was fine okay all
right but that's how the minutes read anyway so kind of left it up to them if it was it was a significant change that they would bring it back okay so does anybody have any uh other issues on the December 17th minutes no all right I'll make a motion
to entertain to approve the minutes from December 17th you'll entertain a motion I will entertain a motion you said you make a motion I'll entertain a motion I'll make a motion to approve the December 17th fin all right good do we have a second a second all right second
by all in favor sign saying I I I Mo carried all right minutes of December 31st special meeting any changes to the minutes or Corrections my my only thought in this might be a
little a little petty was under the open form where Ma Matt Davis Public public involvement in the compan process was not as involved as it should have been I just wonder if we should say is was not involved as he thought it should have been
yes um under the report the county minist report page one of three uh Matt Erikson will be returning January 2nd I know I know we all know who Matt Ericson is but should we disate what he his title is from service officer and from and
from where yeah from deployment y and if I just may note uh Mr chair with regards to the minutes we did play the tape back and hopefully captured all of the modifications to the comp plan and it was a lot of uh a wordings um that we
were able to capture between Peggy and I so and then uh yeah it was reviewed again so hopefully we got everything there any any other changes or corrections to the December 31st minutes
do we have a motion to approve the minutes I'll make a motion to approve the December 31st minutes do we have a second oh actually wait I have one other thing okay um for the under the animal feed Lots where it says to utilize the
guidelines of best management practice of the University of Minnesota I I wonder if I think what we had discussed more was not to utilize but to recommend to utilize yeah yeah because because if we say to utilize then I think we're going to have to be responsible for
monitoring it that's where a lot of our language was changed yeah you know since we're in discussion I mean the Pelican River Watershed are redoing their rules right now and this best management practice became an issue because it came
out okay is the best management practice does that now become a rule or a law and you go 20 years was that a and I bar appr appreciate what you said hey let's let's not make this an absolute let's kind of make it a suggestion to kind of
keep your doors open but so as a best management practice today will be different 10 years from now so does that become part of your what you're en enforcing it becomes very nebulous as that as that as time goes on and that's why we don't didn't want to be in the enforcement end of it we just want to be
this is recommended for best man because they will and they may get to a point where we don't want to recommend them you know you never know as a Bo as a board our differences may be significant but um today's today's function is just uh recognizing what we went through at our last meeting for minute so I think
that's appropriate uh any any other changes so Eric we have a motion to approve the we have a second to approve the minutes second all right all in favor signify by saying I I I I opposed all right motion
carried all right on to the consent agenda is there any uh items that would like to be remove pulled out of the consent agenda anybody have any items I think just for clarification again so if there's an item on consent agenda that
we um remove it and then just are we going to put it just at the end of Commissioners or at the end of the consent agenda to discuss I mean we should probably we should probably decide where because we've done it both we should probably put it at the end of the unless we have to have somebody come in to clarify that that's not I don't
see anything today no no but like like for example one time we moved something in Jim had we needed Jim here to answer questions so we wait we just moved until he got here I mean I I think it would be good to have a spot on the agenda for that to say like mhm anything pulled from the consent agenda just
so would would it be if it gets pulled department heads know yeah it may make sense to put it um during the Commissioners yeah ad or ad oh yeah maybe after your maybe we just put it right in between the put at the end of the administrative administrative report
okay and then we can bring in whomever May to answer questions or clarification okay Mar do we need a motion for that I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda do you have a second to approve the consent agenda I'll second all those in favor signify by saying I I
I do we need a motion to approve where to place it on the okay that that'll just be a placeholder in the in the new agendas [Applause] all right Commissioners open Forum do we
have anybody on the list nobody on the list so reports and correspondence who would like to go first the only meeting I've had is just like I said the Cornerstone meeting and um they they had gotten funding for the
Family Resource Center we talked about it a little bit at our last meeting um about how I think it was the tribal relations one that Barry had went to had talked about the importance of Family Resource Centers so they have received
um funding through a foundation to um keep one going for right now two years um and so they're just really looking to see what where the county county can partner with them um and I'll I'll I plan on talking more with Denise about
it but and and these re these community Resource Centers are going to be significant in the new laws of the state coming y um with the Minnesota African-American family preservation child welfare disp proportionality and that's the name of it I I it's just crazy this new law and
and it's but it's requiring requiring um these Resource Centers and if you don't have them locally you have to find I mean right now they're trying to adjust it a little bit but this is a huge huge um Financial impact to the counties if this doesn't get modified or
if we don't have so this is something that we'd like to um so what that act really requires is in in child protection you have reasonable act reasonable efforts or active efforts and really what that that act requires is active efforts towards reunification
active efforts in removing children so really that that has a big Financial impact and in greater Minnesota you don't have the resources available to provide those active efforts so these Family Resource Centers will really provide those
resources um to um children and family services and the community it's not just it's not a something that just has to be used by Child and Family Services but um I think it's it it's going to be a big thing um
in Minnesota and there's there is grant funding from the state that is a available for that but it really requires um County partnership so and and what what drove this is Minnesota is one of the poor States in
what in in outcome dis disproportionate for African-American and um Native American Native American children and I and so this this did get kind of bipartisan support going through I mean it was it wasn't a it just wasn't party
lines it was it had some carryover on both sides so I mean I think the problem is is real um but the cost if you I mean without without identifying cost it could could be a s significant impact uh Bill Sterns from wadina now he just did
some rough estimates but he figured that would cost them it could be a up to a 10% increase in their in their budget and 10% increase on one program is unheard of I mean that's so there has to be some we have to figure out some solutions before this comes and this is
a two-year this will be coming in now not next January 27 27 y um that'll be law there's there's a couple pilot programs in the state in the metro area um but they don't they won't figure out the problems for Rural America rural
Minnesota so it's significant that was all I had um I just had Lakeland Mental Health um of course Lakeland Mental Health struggles to to make money in in Psychiatry but Psychiatry is a program that they need in their I mean need
within their programs to to um operate you know as has a full function um so that in every in every city that is that loses money significantly um there but overall we are ahead of budget so we are positive where we are overall um there's
Alexandria's is struggling financially or they their unit but Detroit Lakes is doing well Morad Morhead and and uh um Fergus Falls do very well and so we had we just had a ribbon cutting for up in Morehead they have a new building uh I
think Detroit Lakes that think they're going to be start looking at this in the future of the new building and we um financially support Lakeland Mental Health through um all the counties in the region do have they haven't asked for an increase um I think they did this
year for like a small 2 or 3% but they hadn't asked for increase for you know a number of years so um they are operating very well they're one of the better U mental health facilities in the state so they're they're kind of the and they've done very well but they're very
proactive in a lot of things it's a a real nice nice um mental health agency to have operating Becker County so um that's the only meeting I had I think Richard you I didn't have any meetings okay I had two so um
DAC uh January 9th this Thursday at the dashery they're having a fundraiser for the DAC so all of the clothing that's sold um that day the DAC is is going to get 10% of the sales at where at the dashery where's
that I don't know I've never heard of that Washington Avenue um evil okay JQ clothing used to be in that building okay in the I don't even know where is norbe Richard and I are going to go
okay buy okay we're both stylists so um and then one thing that one thing also that happened on that meeting is Ben Grimsley has been a longtime board member of the DAC for actually for 12 years and he
turned out so his last meeting was our meeting in December and I just wanted to thanky publicly thank Ben for all the work he's done on the DAC board and all the time he's put in and and he was I think he was I think he was excited to
be done um but he but he 12 years is a big commitment so he's I just want to thank him publicly for doing that uh we presented him a little certificate that we all sign and so he was pretty happy about that so um then the other meeting I had was was a rack committee meeting and we
there's a lot we we talked about quite a few things uh Phil was at that meeting too so he could chime in anytime but we did talk about the Dunton locks uh expansion of the parking areas um so as you come into Dunton locks off of 59 on Dunton Locks Road I think that's what
it's called is it dun locks Ro uh dun loocks Trail paved and then it turns into a gravel so the across from the current parking area there's about six spots there it overflows a lot so there's a need for more parking and across from that is a little triangle
piece that is possible could be maybe 6 8 10 spots put there there's obviously setbacks from the road and then W there's a w there's a water there also the land owners are in favor of possibly looking at that and seeing if it can be done so they want to see a plan they
want see because they were getting cars parking up their roads in front of their houses so uh with the dun loock structure going up the new structure we anticipate it's going to be have more need for parking with the bowling alley going away and something new coming in there where
those people going to park so um and there's also talk about extending Dunton locks Trail Down To The Shore area with a bike trail so it's just thinking futuristically a little bit um that triangle you were talking about it's on the so right before the Pelican River
that comes underneath Highway 59 you take a right on the west side of the Road there's about six parking spots that used to be a regular road now it's just a trail so those six spots were built on the old half of the old road and the people can still go in and up to
their places but on the South Side there there's an area a little triangle area uh and then there's the trail that goes underneath the highway 59 and then there's the Pelican River so there would have to be some mitigation with with water and everything but we thought that
might be a good place to put some parking so it's and the person who owns it lives on that road and was open to suggestions and there's going to be a feasibility study done from Dunton locks to shorum for the trail bike trail so
that would be part of the feasibility study is focusing on how where parking could go and what land owners are um okay with that the the other um at at dun that the building that Pelican Watershed occupy um of course will want
to review the the needs of the Watershed and and um if that area what what's best use for that area I I I'm very aware and tried to Advocate to get that building out of there all the Pelican River Watershed wants is a new place to put they they Park their winter equipment in
there that's all they want is a place that's you know not 20 mi away to park their vehicles because then we could have a bigger plan to turn that into parking too uh that building does not need to be there so I think we we've
expressed that too that that that's not the best spot for a building but but but but it is their building from their from The Watershed speaking with my Watershed hat on now and all they ask is for a new SP where could we go and then with that
comes some funding who's going to pay for whatever happens so and then the other thing on D locks is the shelter update the shelter is ahead of schedule um the DNR did DNR Grant committee staff
did come through and do a walk through and then and uh said everything was you know pretty much good they did say though they wanted to make sure that we had handicap accessible some handicap accessible uh picnic tables so Mitch gave us a little deal on that I can't remember exactly what they look like but you can drive in there with the
wheelchair um and then they also want to make sure there's proper signage for uh how the what how what created the funding how the where the funding came from and and they W have a sign that states that yeah I I thought that was funny too another another thing we talked
about was the Heartland Trail we actually discussed this at joint governence this morning the fre the bridge from frezy the bridge that goes nowhere now is going to have a trail now going to frezy and on the 16th uh they're opening bids right is that correct Jim and then uh we'll they'll
bring them to the board on the 21st and we'll we'll have we'll have the project ready to go hopefully and soon possible that will connect with w Park will that so does that just get into like the city beach there will that I'm not sure sure you can get there on
sidewalk think it comes in I think it connects with the overpass right on Highway 10 connect right with the trail okay so then you could get from there to
wam Park relatively safely on sidewalks well and that's all I had unless you had anything else about covered it y anybody else have any committee the only other thing I think that's worth noting is we did have our joint governance meeting this morning
and they talked we had somebody about child care and the numbers for 204 are were 831 um slots short for for child and primarily an infant and toddler so
which is what we've known I think that's the key you know we can't just throw money at these facilities because there is not a shortage I don't I mean a significant shortage of of preschool I mean because they're they're being sought after it's the infant and toddlers that and you have the school
programs now that but then she also said there there are openings in infant for preschool for preschool okay it was preschool okay y but they can only take so many infant toddlers in in a with number of employees I suppose or number of and they don't pay according to their
license you can only I mean they what I'm saying is they don't they don't cash like like like preschool I got you so yep yep you can have this if you
want Nate um Mr chair I would like to Welcome Matt ericsen back he is I saw him in the hallway he is back to work so um we're happy to have him back working he was deployed and and just got back uh he's our ve veteran service officer so he's
back to back to work and thankfully he's got home safely yep any other do we have any appointments we don't have any but we will we'll have to uh be thinking about
my replacement on the Watershed which will be yep uh an important placement and then the rack we figured out but Hank L is having some serious health issues so whatever committees he I know he was on Eda y he's yeah he is and car
maybe Carrie can put out to to the department heads and you know our extended to see if there are any vacancies anywhere or any cuz I mean now is the time there are terms expiring at the beginning of the year so we should um look at renewing those if and there's still a spot open on the extension also
for district my district yeah I believe it's been there for quite a while though MH yeah and I do have a department head meeting scheduled uh next Monday so I can certainly bring it up and but this can go out besides you know you go to extension um um I don't I'm any appointments just thinking yeah other
other agencies that we have appointments okay for krie could you also put out if if there are openings could you could you say what the what the requirements are for that do they have to live in a certain District because I'm always kind of thinking of wear a person that would be a good fit but sometimes well they
don't live in the area that needs to be represented I know the rack is like that okay they have to be from certain areas I don't think they have to be it's just it's recomended it's the commissioner's District that that that commissioner has a choice to so it's not it's just just
you probably want representation from your District or you know close but the watered is no are you sure your Watershed Pelican Watershed it's recommended it's not required to be in different areas of the district okay I guess I didn't know that
it's I would I'm and John maybe John do you know the Pelican Watershed the board members are from different areas but it's not required they just like a broader yeah okay it's like corant cormant Watershed they
they like to have people from other areas rather than just big Corman but sometimes you you know if your good candidates are just in that area it's what you do so well I just know being on the Watershed if everybody was a manager who lived on Detroit Lake or Floyd lake
or Melissa I mean I don't think that would be a good picture and that's why it's recommended but you can't find anybody okay I didn't know that though any one one other thing y um Can for the
for the new committees that we're on can we get when they meet oh like I know we meet monthly but like what days they meet most of them we have a schedule for okay thank you all right any other committee
information or not committee but or reports okay uh K the county Ministry report thank you Mr Mr chair um just a few updates for the board um I spent um a lot of time last week with uh end of
year reporting for Grant reporting for the museum and a walkth through has been scheduled which um commissioner board chair as well as uh former commissioner okas were invited to that was scheduled for the uh deed individual um the
represents deed to come through and do uh a walkthrough of the museum so that is scheduled this month um in addition I worked on Grant reporting for the prevention of homelessness grant that we had received as you recall our 20123
funding we did award to Mobi and the reporting for those funds was required to be reported on by the end of 2024 so that was uh myself and Cody Piper worked on that last week as well the Safety Committee I've
referenced this before that is a work in progress um but moving in a a good direction I think um so there's been a lot of um collaboration and um I know there's been some reach outs too we do have a contract with a saf assure who
you know does our safety training for our employees and we were just really trying to backtrack a little bit just to really see what we were being provided under the contract and and what we perhaps are there's gaps or or lacking and and then the requirements for a
Safety Committee for our County and you know looking at those requirements and and where we're lacking and and making sure that we are in compliance with what we're required to do so um with safe safe ass sure they've agreed to partner
with our Safety Committee and they'll be hopefully be meeting with the Safety Committee and and again with the purpose of making sure that we're in compliance for what we're doing and how we're running that as well as you know what they're able to provide
I don't know that we've utilized them to what we should have been in the last year or so so that's a a work in progress and and Cody's helped significantly and has taken the lead on the Safety Committee and has done a really nice job so one thing I think they did do well I think Jim had them
over at the new Public Works building and had did walkthroughs you know as we're in construction so um I think they helped us out over over there quite well yeah with the walkthroughs but just just in general I mean just an example of some of the things you know looking at
um fire drills and you know tornado drills and making sure our floor plans and exits and all of those things making sure that things are updated on a regular basis and they are mostly just physical right they're not like um it
you know safety resources there that's a different correct yes um I had spoken with the board chair EMC is um going to be putting on a leadership training and who they're
targeting are the board chair and vice chair so welcome Erica I don't know if you were on that was on your as long as well as the ad myself the administrator so it's uh really it's a is it three three times two virtual and one in
person and that'll be coming up very quickly here in January and all the 16th yes the first virtual meeting is the 16th the following week is in person in St Paul MH and then it's followed Again by another virtual meeting with the there's several topics that they're
offering so it's a a great opportunity I think for for Becker County I I think that's I think that's um good opportunities but I think we should we'd have if you want a prum you'd have to make a motion to authorize now that we've set the list that that would be a
um perum meeting for any commissioner that wants to join virtually or attend so so I'll make that a motion do I have a do I have a second for that motion I'll second all in favor of approving the motion to approve pdms for the board chair Vice
chair training Mr chair I think I stated any commissioner any commissioner oh yes I'm I think I think it might be beneficial for maybe Phil might want to take part in that okay any commissioner to attend and me me obviously too and Richard we could also attend but I could
I could come over to your house we'll go we'll do it in my shop so all in favor of the motion say signify saying I I I I opposed all right motion carries and Carrie if you can get that those links and I I did see that on
my email but Phil probably hasn't seen the seen it as an opportunity and you contend one or all or you know and he has the did we get him the information for the new so Peggy's got me set up that's January 22nd through the 24th I'll be
going down to St Paul for do we need approval for that too then or um I we've always that's always been one been that's always been one we've an AMC one we've approved um I mean if we need to we you want to approve it then or I'll make a
motion to approve and that commissioner Hansen to go to the new commissioner 101 AMC and expenses and expenses and Ford expenses andm second all all all in favor of the motion I I I was just going to reference while um commissioner
Hansen is down for that particular train it does overlap with some of with the one session in person that is scheduled on the leadership training as well okay I I believe though it's scheduled in the same facility I interal I believe so
yeah go ahead I was just to going to clarify for Phil's benefit that so if you do have two meetings in a day you only get one per deal yeah so I mean if you have um extension in the evening and you have something else in the nrm in the morning and and there's many times
you have mult multiple meetings a day um you only get one prium per me per meeting now if that we have two two rates so if you go all day then it then it goes the higher rate you know if it's over four hours so if it's four hours or more it's a higher rate yeah okay one
one other thing too is I had talked to Peggy about attending the AMC legisl legislative convention in February um is that something that we would want to also approve with a motion or we've always went to those if yeah with with
PR man I don't know if that's part of I think that's probably part of your AMC platforms you know that were on those boards and they do meet okay so I think that's part of your part of your job as that on that committee if you you choose
it the last item that I have is that there has been a walkth through of the jail that's been scheduled with um addressing the humidity issues that several of you have heard about that have served on the committee so that is scheduled in January so hopefully we'll
hear some good news about what that all means as far as the fix for that so that is scheduled and that is with the sheriff's department the um the company that was involved in that process or the build of the jail or with with that system as well as our
facilities manager and I had planned to do the walkthrough as well so I'm sorry I didn't get to go through the jail when it first opened it was gone is that something we can be part of to say I've never seen it so yeah and and I
maybe should you're trying to fix a problem here but yeah a humidity issue but I I think for for you specifically being a new commissioner I I had we just book them yep book them book them what what I was hoping to do and I had referenced this and you I I don't
know if youve heard this but I was working on an orientation U list specifically for you and that would probably encompass tours of the different facilities and meeting with department heads Etc so that probably going to fulfill the yeah commiss jeffson I we went to several
places M but yeah just to get you on a rotation and a schedule and to get you information and familiar with just sitting here for 6 months I didn't know the county owns some of the buildings that they own I I had no clue so thank you for doing that yeah um that's all I
have okay um Human Service resources to Europe good morning Commissioners the only item that I have for you today is one job description that was reviewed at the Eda uh committee meeting and was
approved by the Eda committee no real changes there were some adjustments to some of the verbiage of um State organizations but other than that it was pretty much the same as originally I'll make a motion to approve the
economic development specialist job description I'll second motion by Erica second by Richard all in favor signify by saying I I I all right motion carries thank you thank you Mr chair um
do we have any other um career ladders in any other departments I I think like it are we looking at a career letter and yes I can speak to that if uh since um there's several that we are waiting on uh our consultant to give the final say
but there their it is one yes but there's several departments that I know tiarra has worked with department heads to look at what their ideas have been and then we've also um gotten input as well from from DDA so those are those will be coming as well I would hope in
the very near future you be have an update on that I can speak to that um so some of some of the job descriptions have been been reviewed by the department heads and back to HR already we're waiting for a committee meeting to happen to be able to bring them before the committee meetings and then we would
bring them before the board after those committee meetings um some of them are back to DDA waiting for responses on those uh and there are a few that are still with department heads that we're still waiting on response back from the department heads and then depending on the changes may need to go back to DDA
and a little bit more back and forth review on those so hopefully I would say in the near future I know there are a few committees that are a little bit later in this month so probably not until early February time frame any any other questions is that
are we reviewing all the job descriptions right like correct through committee and the through board and then starting in 2025 are we reviewing certain there'll be yes we did uh yes
we've talked yet we haven't done that yet we're trying to get through this uh career ladder and the final job description reviews and then we will start the um maintenance phase yes thank you I was looking for the word maintenance phase and we'll be looking at a certain portion we've had uh some
preliminary discussions with our consultant about where we want to begin that process with okay thank you thanks Jer thank you is there anything else that anybody has for the good of the order oh all right we
are adjourned