Good morning everyone. We'll start the meeting with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. I thought that woman should be committed. That's the person we look for for financial advice. All right. Agenda. Do we have any additions or
corrections to the agenda? Um um Mr. Chair, I know during finance yesterday there was some discussion about potentially pulling number 10 and number 12 just to provide this board and the public with additional information.
That was a suggestion. We do we can do that now or we can do that the consent agenda pulling them from the consent. Yeah. Just to offer some additional information. So we can and number eight and number eight. So we'll pull number eight, number 10, number 12 off the consent agenda.
Um so Steve, let's move number eight to under Steve. Correct. That might make the most sense. Yep. And then Jim's here for And Jim will be here for
highway for number 12. Yeah, but I don't know if Jim's on the Nope. But he's here now. Okay. So, we'll but let's let's You going to put that on when we Yeah. When we get to the consent agenda, we'll we'll do it right away, Jim. So, we'll do number 12 right away. And then number
10, we'll just put under Todd's which is uh under the sheriff. Okay. Is there any other corrections or additions to the agenda? I don't have anything. Okay. I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda. So move. Motion
by Erica. We have a second. Second. Second by Barry. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All right. Motion carries. All right. minutes from June 17th board meeting. Do we have any corrections or additions? I only have
one and it's really just quite a silly one and now I have to find it under number four. There's an extra parenthesis. Peggy, by the way, I saw that too so you know. I highlighted it. That was all I had.
Does anybody else have any other corrections or additions. So close, Peggy. Um, number two under Nope, never mind. So, I have one number two on page
uh two of on page two of three number under county administrator number two says, "Motion and second to authorize the county administrator to sign and negotiate the final lease agreement for storage space for the sheriff's department." Um, why did I highlight that? I'm not sure.
Uh, oh, should should we state where that is building is at or who who is it from the city? You know, city own I don't know. That's why I highlighted it. Does
anybody Does it matter? Matters to you. I just clarification if someone reads it. Yeah. If someone reads that, they don't know what it's for. Maybe they would have to. Yeah, that's true. That's kind of what I looked at. You just want to put from the city. Yeah, from the or in Yeah. renting a
storage facility from the city at the Detroit. And then number three on page three of three under highway number three, we had a motion to uh o for overweight annual permits in compliance with Minnesota
statute. Do we want to be more specific on on what roads they're for? Because we can't do it on interstates and state highways, right? Just on county roads. So maybe we should say just county. Should we just put county roads? We're the authority for county roads. We're not the authority for the state. No, but
I if I was a person that didn't Yeah, I guess I we know that, but maybe someone reads this, they don't know that. So behind permits maybe. Yeah, I it's probably not a big deal. All right, that's all I have. So I I'll stop now. So I'll entertain a motion to
approve the minutes from the June 17th meeting. I'll make the motion. Yeah. Do we have a second? Motion by Phil. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Erica. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. All right. Motion carries. All right. Minutes from the board of appeals
meeting on June 16th. Do we have any additions or corrections? I have one, of course. Um, number five, all of the other motions state that there was no that we
concurred with the no change or we made the change. And number five doesn't say just as motion by Henrikson and second by Jeepson. Motion carried. It doesn't say what we motioned. The local assessor reviewed and advised the change. Yeah, I know, but it doesn't say we followed that. It just says we made a motion.
Okay. So, I think we should put in there that I think that's how they all read, though. No, the next one says the the next one that says uh like number one um
I don't know there's another one there a couple there's two more in there. So, we we'll follow the recommendation of the Oh, yep. Second by hand to concur. This is a recommendation. So you just want it just to concur with the assessor's recommendation to concur. Okay. The local assessors, not
do we want that for all of them that don't have it? That's the only one I saw. There's a few number three doesn't. Number what? Seven. No, but see number but number three says that we built we reviewed and
decided to decre decrease it by 84,000. So then the motion that it states it in there what you were approving. Yeah, it doesn't state it in the number three or number five. Yeah,
maybe it's not a big deal. Peggy will take a look and try to make Yeah, we'll let Yeah, we'll Yeah, we'll do that. I would love to. Do we have a motion and to approve the minutes from June 16th and allow Peggy to make any corrections that she's make them
consistent? So moved. Um, I will second, but I I think the wordage is I mean I think she just to make to make the language consistent on motions. Yeah. I don't know if we want that in the
motion. Just just make just with with the added changes and Okay. The I don't think you want that in the mo stated in the mot. Is that good with both of you? Yep. All right. So, we have a motion, a second. Any further discussion? Okay. Okay. All in favor signify by saying I.
I. All right. Motion carries. All right. Consent agenda. We pulled number eight, number 10, and number 12. Do we want Is there any other issues that we would like to remove from the consent agenda? All right. So, I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda.
So moved. So motion by Barry, second by Phil. Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All right. Motion carries. All right, commissioners, open forum. Nate, is there anybody on the list?
Okay. All right. Let's move on to reports and correspondence. Uh, excuse me, Mr. We were going to do highway maybe first. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry, Jim. My apologies. Yes, Jim. Please come up. Thank you.
Morning, commissioners. Um, morning. Morning, Joe. I'm here this morning uh to get uh approval or ratification on a change order and our Lake Park project. Uh, I know at the last board meeting we discussed uh the changes we would like
to do on that project or preferred to do uh changing the mill and overlay work in the downtown area north up to um County Road 9 from a milling overlay to a full reclaim to get rid of all those big tracks. than that. We've gone through
negotiations with the contractor and come to agreement uh on a price of approximately uh $200,000, a little over $200,000. So, we were able to save a little bit of money from their initial offer and we're uh wanted to bring this forward to you
um uh for ratification since we just got final approval yesterday uh from MIDOT on the change order. So, we'd like to move forward with that work. Now, Mr. Chair Jim. So we in in in subcommittee we had talked about that number seemed a lot bigger in
subcommittee. It was like 900 or something we were going to save or we were going to do. No was too uh no the additional work was approximately about when we first started working with them was about 250,000 for the extra work. Um and now
um that was maybe the total the total additional work. Okay. So, this will be in in addition to what the contract was. Is that is that correct? Yeah, we're just adding $200,000 to the contract. I'm forward doing the full depth reth, but as far as budgeting for this, is this is this fit into the budget? I
mean, we approved this today, correct? That will be budgeted for we will just spend more of our state aid dollars, which we have. Yes. Which we have. Yes. Yes. All right. Thank you. Yeah. That that state aid money, it's hard to wrap your hands around the funding of highway. I mean it's because that you
can eb and flow that and and u there's so much available and you can forward it or um all right I will make the motion to approve um the change order for county state highway 7 construction and county
state highway 80 construction all motion by Phil second by Barry. Do we have any further discussion? Just an update. How is how's the project going? It's going okay. It's uh right now it's kind of um um I guess disruptive with the sidewalk
being removed. Um we did have a one little surprise. One of the when we removed sidewalk in front of one of the buildings there was one of those underground basements underneath the sidewalk. Oh, really? Uh, I know we had some issues here in and downtown, but
we're working with the property owner and I think they're looking at maybe removing that building and we'll fill it in. If they don't decide to do that, then we'll we'll bridge it and put the sidewalk back in. That was I mean on Phil if you want that was an interesting project when we did Washington because
there were there were the buildings had basements under under the street. It was I mean we went and to looked at them. It was that was that was neat. That history of the city was it was really neat. I'm surprised that there was one is was it one of the commercial buildings
originally or Well, I suppose it was at one time. Right now it's it's vacant and Okay. Yeah. They got the town tore up. You can't get You go in the bank, you can't you got to do a Uturn at the drive-thru. I went through all the parking lots. You can't
get out of there. Yeah. But sidewall look sidewalk look looks good. But yeah, they're early moving though. I mean they when they go to town there they like to done. All right. All right. So we have a motion and a second. Any more discussion? Okay. All in favor
signify by saying I. I. All right. Motion carries. Thanks Jim. Thank you Jim. Just one more thing. The um trail and freezy is coming along really nice. When is that projected to be done? Yes, it's black topped. It's all the They completed all the black top work yesterday. They had to finish up on the
trail head area down by Frzy yesterday and they're doing shouldering and the top soil is going down. I think their goal is to try and get it all that dirt work and graded and maybe seated uh by this weekend. Oh wow. Uh there's still a
few items like um some ADA ramps that they will have to cut in at the uh the street crossings. And then we have uh a fence at the trail head and there's a bench that we're we need to install down by the wetland area for a rest area down
there. But yep, it should be done within a week, I would say. All right. Thank you. Thanks, Jim. All right. So, now we'll move on to reports and correspondence. Two minutes. Uh 18th at watershed
meeting. We do have to get the county has to get anou at the wershed. We need to work with that. We talked about that yesterday. Airport. Um there's going to be two projects that going to be on here. We'll talk about them later. A taxi line rehab and an apron reconstruction. That should bring our uh
commitments to an end there for what was committed back in 2017. Um these will happen in late 2025. The next one, the other uh apron construction won't happen till 2026. Um, also working on an arrival departure area. There's grants available for that,
but that's down the road. Uh, Prairie Lakes budget meeting. Um, setting on that. Very interesting to figure out revenue streams and stuff. Uh, they got about a 9 they're projecting a $9.9 million budget. That's us and four other
counties. Um, so they're projecting a small increase there. Uh, law library. If you ever want to be on a committee where everything's great, get on li law library. Not much going on there, but everything is sound. Um, I went to a
there's a they're proposing a power line. I went to an open house from Brainer to Fargo. They call it Hyuna, Minnesota to Maple River, North Dakota. It's Brainer to Fargo basically coming through. They may may be coming through uh Detroit Lakes. So, I picked up some information if you're interested in it.
Um, but that will be on our agenda and we talked about yesterday about uh, you know, solar panels, all that ordinance stuff. I don't know if this fits into that or not. It it will because I think, you know, as I stated yesterday, I have I have land there and and I've gotten
correspondence from I think it was a solar company, but wind also I think they want to be close to that transmission line. Now depending depending upon the federal government you know they're in their current bill a lot of the incentives for solar and wind
are not in there. So um it might not be as attractive to do solar and wind in the you know in the short term then so it might be a longer term you know windows that we're looking at. Yeah. But just something to get out in front of and this would not this is the first public hearing. to be a few years before
this even gets to the phase. But but this is the routing corridor. It's Becker County. Well, you know, the routing corridor from Brainer to Fargo, basically. Uh transit, interesting thing about transit is we have to have our budget in for transit
by the 30th of June. So, we had to have a meeting to pull that together. Up quite a bit. uh the his budget that he submitted was up quite a bit because of salaries mostly the increase in salaries. Uh planning and zoning, we had that tech panel uh about the the gravel
pit out by Corat Pelican Lake area. Um still working on that. Um environmental, we're still working on that study for the transfer station. We had an architect. We're going to pay an architect a little bit of money to come up with expansion of the transfer station so we can sort stuff better. Um
talked about trucks. We're getting on a rotation for our trucks so we can rotate them, have some value for them at the end um so we can resell them. We got we talked about a six-year rotation. Trucks are about 400 grand. So, we don't know. We did talk about it. What I want to see
is what shape the truck is in at this. You know what we're doing now? We're running them till there's nothing left of them. But we also we're talking that we should start washing them and washing them and we are washing them more. That's probably the worst thing is the
is the you know the salt and the mag chloride is deteriorating. But we are we're we're going to look and try and get rid of them before there's nothing left. We don't know what they to me. I think the problem with trying to rotate that type of truck. there's such a
limited market for, you know, a front load. You know, there's it's not like a vehicle where anyone, you know, you can rotate vehicles or pickups and it makes sense financially, but I just don't know that it's going to make sense to rotate a six-year rotation on a on a dump truck
that has front load that so min not many people are looking for. And to be honest, that's your cheapest miles. I mean, you've depreciated it out. And I mean, it's it'd be a hard sale for me. I mean, you'd have to really show it on paper that this is the best
deal cuz I just don't think it will. $400,000 piece of equipment. That's one you might just run into the ground. And and you might be right, Barry, because I wanted to I want to see that too because we would tra we would have to be trading them in, you know, we're not going to
try and put them on marketplace or something. And if there is a trade in value at, you know, if there is something we can But you you you might be right. I thought about that, too. Um, you know, the thing is is towards the end of their careers is when most of the maintenance I mean, and the fixing and all that. So, it's it's some of that,
but we we didn't finally we discussed it. No, we were just talking that and yeah, because we got a a 2021, a 2023, we're buying one this year. We'd have It's almost better though. I mean, you'd have to analyze whether it's better to buy a new one and keep running
those old ones and if they break down, then I mean, have that old one as a spare. So you you know I don't know and that's what we were having trouble but we had so much trouble with the last one with the emissions on it and the motor and yeah we we had a lot of trouble with
that one but yeah sometimes it's best to get rid of a lemon too. Well and that's the problem with with the emissions and deaf and all this stuff on there. Can't you take that off? Well I'd like to probably not. I finally pinned down to when our
organics roll roll out will be. August 1st is what he said. I was a little disappointed it wasn't sooner because most of the stuff is happening right now, but August 1st. Uh and then our zoning ordinance update we had yesterday. We were all there. Um and I just wanted to some became a I became
aware of um our county employees. We've got a lot of county employee or not a lot. We have some county employees that are working on the 4th of July. Obviously the sheriff's guys, but there's some guys in solid waste center too. I I I guess I didn't realize that. So, I just want to thank them for do obviously they're they're paid overtime
for that, but uh I guess I didn't realize that. So, just wanted to give a shout out to them and thank them for their commitment to the county. That's all I got. All right, I'll go next. Um we had our benefits committee last week. A couple things we discussed
a program called uh we saw a presentation on a program called working advantage which is a employee discount benefit for employees um on travel, shopping and different movie tickets. Um
it comes at no cost to the county. So it seems like it would be a great benefit for our employees. Um, we also have decided to continue with dental. Um, for MetLife, uh, we are going to be sending
an RFQ out for medical because we're looking at a possible 25% increase with our current provider. So, we agreed to send out an RFQ to see if we can get any better rates for medical insurance. And then we also discussed the paid family
medical leave. Uh we compared uh got some quotes for different private insurance and MetLife did come in cheaper than the state at 79% versus 888% with some advantages such as Metife has a two-day response
and the state is saying that they have want at least up to 60-day response. Who knows if they'll have anything rolled out that can work even at the state. So, we did decide to go with Metife and we also scheduled the wellness fair for October 14th that will be here before we
know it. Uh, also had EDA. We approved finally the RFP for Maple Avenue apartment rehab. So, we're excited to get that crazy out and going. Yep. Um, we also approved the childcare grant. We had four applicants and I don't have the
exact amount. I think it was just under 33,000 for the four the four applicants. Um they and they all qualified so they were all awarded um the opioid no the grant. Nope. This is that childcare grant that Cody had got through deed I
think it was um and there so there will be another round of grants open open back up because I believe we have 50,000 to um award total total. Yep. So 18,000 left. 17483 or whatever. Yeah, I'm just kidding.
You're right again, Barry. Two times in one day. Um couple other things, especially as we talked yesterday about the need for housing. Yeah. Um we have two housing programs. We have our public housing um and our voucher
program. And um we have 22 people on the waiting list for the public housing homes. and we have 131 applicants on the waiting list for the voucher program. So, just an idea of where our county is as far as housing, but those pro I mean,
those applicants I mean, those are they're they're not going to be buying homes. I mean, they need assistance, but they're not correct. They're not going to they're not looking to purchase. They are not. So there are different buying homes, but that would be one where like
multif family housing would be advantageous for but they may already be in that in housing. Um may I mean maybe I would say I would say for sure I can't say for sure that all these are homeless or don't have housing but um then one
other thing we talked uh at length about at EDA is we have a request from somebody on our board to to bring um to potentially bring accounting back inhouse after our audit. Um there was just some um recommendations that maybe
we consider it just to accounting factor. Yep. Our accounting for EDA for housing. Currently MMCDC does all of our our management and accounting. So that's something we're going to be looking into especially as we move forward in the coming months with potentially our
um house our management contract. When does the contract run off? End of dis um the year. Okay. Yep. Um but we hope to have a we start negotiating in August. Great. So,
uh then I had fair fair board. Really the the meeting was just about finalizing the plans for the fair which is July 23rd through the 26th. Any other key things for um I had the fair board. Did you discuss that's it? Yeah. Oh, the ro the
rodeo is the 23rd and 24th and the derbies are the 25th and 26th. Did you discuss the um transit building? Not at the last meeting. Well, a little bit because we had the extension meeting right before Oh, yeah. Yeah, we talked
about Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um so there was a little bit of discussion. We told them potentially in September we would bring it be bringing it back to the extension. I think what when we were at um extension meeting we discussed the
possibility of extension moving to the fair or to the transit building. Um I think and what we suggested is during the fair coming up we should all tour that building and look at it and and seeing what's and try to visualize how we how to make that cuz they need more
it would be more office space needed. they needed probably another office/me you know larger size meeting area for like master gardeners and I mean if if that was converted um so a nice size meeting area in that but I mean I just go in there and try to visualize what
how that flow would work or and seeing what size they need and the the consens I wouldn't say the consensus of the board in talking with a couple of them board members really what they want is just somebody in the building and paying for the utility so that Yeah. You know,
there's they're not necessarily to make money, but just we're paying for the utilities on it already, aren't we? We are. Yeah. Mr. Chair, uh, so I I hadn't heard that before. So, there's been talk about moving extension from 8th Street into
the transit building. Is is that possible with the grant funding? We didn't we get it? Didn't we get a grant for that for transit building purpose? It's paid off. It's we've So, it's our building. We can do whatever we want with. No, it's our building but fairboard land. So, we have to
coordinate what's what goes. We don't have any obligation from the grant fund. Not anymore. We did. We It was deposed of, we paid for it. Okay. Thank you. Mhm. So, okay. Anything else on Fairport? Nope. Okay. Then we had
extension. Um just a couple things. We had the master gardener state report and one thing for we also got a a county impact report on the Minnesota master naturalist program. Um and I think one thing to note which I think is pretty
cool is um in the northwest region of um for 2024 which includes 18 counties there was 4536 service hours so volunteer hours. Um, and of those 4536,
1,390 were in Becker County. So, Becker County, that just goes to show how um involved our people are in in volunteering. So, and that equals 50,462 cash value for Becker County. Did we
never did get clarity though on remember that stat that I pointed out that was Yes. Was that for the master gardener or was that for the m the Minnesota naturalist? It was for hours. It was Oh, I I questioned some of the hours when there was a had to be a misprint in
there. So maybe because had more hours for Becker County than the region, but Oh. Oh, that was maybe on the the graph. Um then the only other thing for enrollment
is up. They this time last year there was 234 and right now there's 272 enrolled and the master gardener's theme for the fair this year is grow your own groceries. Anything else for extension?
If not, that's all I have. Um couple of meetings. Uh so so I went to soil and water after we left. I attended our zoning tech tech panel review. Um, Phil and I did. Um, so that was we covered
reviewing some of the things for the gravel pit. Then I ran over to soil and water and cut the end of that. You know the the big thing that came from that meeting is now the NRCS the national programs have to meet when you have a contract that has NRCS money grant money and they have to meet the federal
minimum wage or federal wage guidelines for those projects now. So these small contractors will come in they have to pay their employees fed the federal wage. So that drives they'll drive up the cost so that grant funding will go not as far as it has in the past. So
that was pretty big topic. Um um we had the sheriff's committee. I think most of everything's on the agenda. One thing we talked about was um um the warnings with trying to coordinate like a tornado or disaster warning within the buildings and uh I
think safety we kicked that over to safety committee. So you Richard. Oh good. Yeah. Because we don't we we found out when they had the tornado warning we don't really have any concrete. And then we're evacuation. There's there's some procedures I think that we need to
Yeah, we got to have some drills so we know what to do and then we have to know when the public's like a tornado warning we're a we're a fallout shelter so we have to have be open for them and so what you know sometimes people are going in coming out or fire you want to go out tornado you want to come in so um and
then at what stage is shelter in place for employees you know tornado watch in the county or you know so it's just some reviewing some of those practices yep reviewing and and then Adam had a list of possible updates that could bring to the safety committee and see. Mr. Chair,
commissioners, um I noticed on our website we have a a code red that we can sign up for to get Yes. I just noticed that after the Bamiji storm. So I went on and signed up for it. I haven't got anything yet. Yeah. But are you guys sign are we all signed up for that? So we know I It's personal, but everyone
has a choice. I've been signed up. We've had Code Red for how long? Years. Yeah. Has it worked to Well, I I would say it does. Yeah, we there's been times where the storm was through before we got, but those alerts
don't come from this office. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. So, sometimes they're And then we have another alert system. No, we But they seem they seem that seems to work.
um also was was at extension also and uh Lakeland mental health is um they're they're we're positive it's we're above we're better than budget as far as margin of course we're not meeting budget but we're you know those but we're profitable um there are some
concerns in a couple programs in a couple facilities psychiatry is always a a bad one but DL psychiatry is um is leading the way to try to in in the region in for our for Lakeland that they actually show have shown a profit. So,
they're trying to um fill, you know, it's filling that schedule is what it is. Anyway, um I think that's it. Again, thank you all for your condolences on the loss of my mother-in-law. It's been a tough tough month here and and tough spring for for our family. So, thank
you. U you have anything else for uh No, not right now. Okay. I had EDA with Erica and I just want to add, you know, we did we went out for prices on uh siding and windows on Maple
Avenue and we were looking at vinyl siding which I didn't think we should put on a commercial building. I don't know how you guys feel about that but um we're going to try and get we're going to get prices on on three different ones
I think we had decided. But I decided I didn't feel like vinyl siding should be on that building. It's It's a nice looking building. It's got brick corners on it. Um I think vinyl looks really nice. It just depends on the quality of it and the life life expectancy. I mean some and so I'm not Yeah, it it starts
to look bad early, but depends on the quality of I think we have steel on there currently, right? There's steel on there right now. But the paint's Can you just Can you paint it? But uh that's what I wanted to do, but they they said that and they're right. So
you'd have to you'd have to strip all that paint off to do that. That that would have been and then probably acid wash it or something. So that's Yeah. Which I I mean if it's cheaper consider if it's considerable cheaper though. Well, so they talked to people about
painting it. Nobody wanted to do it. That was our idea in the first place was to paint it. Um I I still I guess I don't know that much about I know a little about paint. We do I do some painting and I guess it it is flaking off of there. You'd have you'd have to strip it all and it is flaking. Yeah, I
think Karen Karen said once it starts flaking that bad, it means that likely what it is is that was some fault D siding to begin with and you're you're never going to get the paint to So here's the stick on it. Yeah. Good. I
don't know. That's what I thought too, but I don't know. I so because that's that was our first thing was try and get it painted. But can't you just put murals on it? Well, we could do that, too. So, is that going to be done this year? We're hoping so. I I
I don't know. Our church has was I think we painted the church. We had some bad paint, too, at St. Peters, and I think we painted that, but Oh, really? I I just I can't I mean I would check into it and look a little deeper and
probably we should we they did they they so MCDC has painters okay because they do a lot of painting for us and that's who they talk to about doing it. I would talk to some commercial I think their painters are small project painters so
that's this isn't out of their league. Yeah. Well I mean this is big I mean that's business. Mhm. Yeah. Uh then one last thing in environmental, we're talking about uh education for recycling, so maybe we're going to
do something on the radio or something. Going to try and you going to go on hodgepodge, Richard? Well, I don't I don't think I'd do good on hodge podge, but one of you guys could get on there. I think if you we talked about this, if Richard and I both got on a hodge podge, I think we would have a
heck of a They both have a feed for radio. Yeah. And we have a sidekick comic here, too. Yeah. So, you might you might start hearing more about recycling. We're we're going to do a little bit of that. So, that's all I got. Oh, wait. I'll be quick.
Barry covered sheriff Phil covered transit uh DAC. So, we are looking at like we talked previously last last month or last meeting about adding on. So, we had a person from Hammers Construction come in. Um, and H what
Hammers Construction does is they do everything. They don't they're just not a construction company, not an architect company, not a man, you know, management company. They do the whole process. So, he was the one of the architects for for for Hammers Construction. And we went through some plans that poss, you know,
just kind of rough drawings of what what our expansion could look like. He got some ideas from us. So, it's it's it's good. We don't have a price yet. Um, but we once we get a better idea of what we kind of want, then we're going to get a
price and the the the DAC is just not big enough right now for all the clients that are are there and all the activities going on there. Um some things that are coming up. Um July 10th there's a beanag tournament in the park that is is going to be run by the DAC
and uh there's there's so what's whatever's going on in the park that day. I don't know but there's a lot of people there and they're going to have a bean bag tournament. They're going to give the pri the the first place prize is bean two two nice bean bag boards that the high school made that have DAC logo on them. And when is that? July
10th. Thursday during water carnival must be. Yeah. No. Well, that'd be the very very start of it. The very start of it. Yeah. I don't know if it's actually during water carnival. Water carnival might not start though for sure. Maybe. I'm not sure. I I probably should have more information, but I don't. Um July
18th, Charlie's Bar is having a hog roast and bean bean bag tournament and a 50/50 raffle. and they are donating um proceeds from the 5050 raffle or some of the some of the proceeds from the 50/50 raffle to the DAC. So, that's
pretty cool. And then we just purchased we just approved to purchase a new handy cap accessessible van. Um the we needed a new one. It was the old one was getting bad. And we also needed uh they they we decided to get a van instead of
a a vehicle because they're a lot better, a lot easier. and we were going to lease it. And then I thought, well, we thought, well, why are we have enough money to spend on it? Why would we lease it? We'll just buy it. And that was good. And then just a uh 57,000.
A couple things that are are really looking up for us from the first quarter. Our residential first quarter net revenue is up 47%. Um, now 47% sounds like a lot, which is translates to $37,000.
Um, our day services first quarter net revenue is up 28% which is $57,000 and our employment first quarter net revenue is up 52% which translates to $15,000. So the DAC is doing very well.
We're do we're we're getting more clients. We're getting more residential services. We're able to help more people. So hopefully we continue on that trend and that's why we need to we we're looking at the expansion possibilities. Uh, fair board Erica covered.
I think that's it. Does anybody else have any other reports or correspondence? Just a question. Um, I think EDA was looking at Were you still looking at maybe renting out part of that um the EDA building
over on A Street? That that Yeah, cuz I mean even even if even if the extension was going to move, that's that's probably next year move, not Yeah. maybe next winter at best. So, yeah, there's we're still looking at it. Um, we did also we didn't mention just completed a
lease with the dive team just because they wanted to update some electrical. So, we wanted to just get a lease. There's no charge for rent, but just to make sure that there's an agreement in place to know they have their they have
they're insured. Everything's kosher. But Mr. Chair, Commissioner Gibson, the dive team, is that separate from what our sheriff's department is that our equipment? Is that county equipment? So, they're they're subbing.
The dive team subs. Well, they store store, right? Yep. For no charge. For no charge in the back garage area, but that is not county equipment. Any county monies here, Todd?
I can't really say some of that equipment through the some grant monies. So, did do they got a boat too, Todd? Yeah, they have, you know, they're a 501c3 organization, so they're entity, but obviously they
work directly with an emergency. So, I I guess I'm, you know, looking with the the the the space study and stuff and renting the the I'm just, you know, trying to fit all that in. I did not know that. All right. All right. Do we have any more reports or correspondents?
All right. Do we have appointments? Anybody have any appointments? Anyone? No. All right. So, we'll move on to our Tamarack National Wildlife Refuge update. Morning. Morning. Morning. Morning. Well, thanks for the opportunity to come
and visit with you this morning. Uh remember we met on June 10th with the is it the the resources committee? Natural resources committee. Yeah. So um I was asked to come back and maybe give a quick update on Tamarack Refuge. So I'm here to do that today and then a little bit about an acquisition that we're
working on. So, um, yeah, just I guess to do a quick update, uh, Barry, like you asked about, um, just Tamarack National Wildlife Refuge is about 43,000 acres just shy about 20 mi north of town here. Um, established in 1938, uh, great place that provides
habitat for wildlife and there's wild places and um, you know, clean water habitat. So, really, really great place uh, for folks to recreate here locally. Um we're open to lots of forms of recreation like hunting and fishing and wildlife observation and photography and
uh you know mushrooming, hiking, skiing, all that all that kind of good stuff. Um as well as uh environmental education and interpretation. Um we don't do it alone though. We we do it with uh some partners too. We have some good important partners there. Uh our friends of Tamarack Refuge, some of you are I'm sure are familiar with. they they're
really big into that environmental education and bring kids out to the refuge three times a year to see the refuge in different seasons and um about about a thousand kids a year coming out now. So from lots of different area schools so that's they're a really great partner and um really great to work
with. Um also American Bird Conservancy helps us manage some of the um successional habitat, young forest habitat that's really important for migratory birds as well as uh resident like like golding warblers and woodcock but also resident wildlife like white-tailed deer and rough growls too.
So great partner there. And then also uh the White Earth Nation, half the refuge is within the boundaries of the White Earth Reservation and we've worked with them for for decades on different um resource related issues, but um formalized some of those relationships now through a recent that we signed just
a little over a year ago, 13 months ago. Um we we've signed an MOU that addresses things like permitting and access for traditional activities and sort of formalizing our communication a little bit too um and how we're going to work together. Um after that on October 1st of last year we signed a co- stewardship
agreement with the tribe as well and that uh just further solidifies our relationship uh related to natural resource planning and management as well as uh trying to incorporate some cultural components into our interpretation that we do on the refuge and some volunteer opportunities for uh
tribal members. We have a really big volunteer force out at the out at the refuge. We've got over 100 volunteers and um they do an incredible amount of work uh local folks that really really give a lot to to our uh to our refuge. So um we're also working on an annual funding agreement with the tribe right
now too. That's a that's a big process, kind of a big deal. We haven't done a lot of those nationwide. Uh they signed one recently out west in Washington State with a tribe out there. So we're working on one right now. Um continuing with our negotiations that way and providing information back and forth. So keep your eye on that one. I guess some
of this has been in the papers. probably seen some of that. They're going to they're going to start funding projects or Yeah. So, the AFA, the annual funding agreement, basically through a certain law, the Indian self-determination education assistance act, um tribes that
have a geographical uh or cultural connection um to a a federal operation and certainly that applies here at Time Refuge can uh apply for the opportunity to help us with some of that work and then be compensated for it. So, that's where the funding comes in. and so on.
So they would be compensated. Yes. So like as an example, if they were really interested in Well, one thing they are really interested in is water management. So if they wanted to help us with water management, then they would provide the personnel to do that and then they would be compensated um with through this funding agreement to do
that work. So that's that's a quick thumbnail sketch on an AFA. Certainly. I was hoping they'd have, you know, like the everyone seen the new XL Energy building is going to be renamed um down in the cities
for the grant. What is it? The grand that the the tribe is funding the uh bought the naming rights. So, starting next year, I saw some of the news on that. This is this is different for sure. I was hoping that we'd be getting money this way. Yeah, this this money will come through the Department of
Interior and through our agency as well. So, we'll have to find that money to do that. Um, but uh uh we'll just have to determine what the scope of that is and again they're an annual funding agreement. Often they're for a year or two. Um sometimes as many as five and and you sort of have to determine what
the tribe's interest and capacity is to do that kind of work and then and then hammer that out. So, okay, that's one thing we're working on right now um with the tribe, one of our partners. So, um, uh, any other questions on refuge background stuff? You know, you said you
had 100 volunteers. I mean, would 100 I was under the understanding that 100 volunteers come out and do things. What? Make trails or or or what? Sure. They do a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Viety. So, big time on environmental education. They really help out a lot with that, but also like our maintenance activities like like I
say, maintaining trails and our grounds, that sort of thing. So, they'll help with events that we have, you know, help staff events and that sort of thing. Right. And um yeah, lots lots of really good stuff. I think the uh gift center too is not staffed by the the which I'm sorry the gift the gift um Oh yeah, the nature store that's
inside our visitor center. Yeah, that has to be staffed. We we can't handle the money on something like that. So they they operate and maintain uh that through through their volunteers. Uh many of them associated with the friends of Tamarack refuge. Yeah. So lots lots of great local help. Yeah, we're just um
Erica just brought the numbers from um extension the volunteer hours through Master Gardeners and and I know I'm on the library board and um with Lake AC and the volunteer hours in Becker County, it's just amazing. I mean, we just have such a giving community. It's
it's really is. I was amazed. I just when I first got here a little over six years ago, I I told our staff, I'm like, I want to meet every volunteer because it's just it's such it's so great. I I figured there was like a dozen, you know, and the other places are Well, that's going to take a while,
Kent. There's over a hundred. It's like, oh, okay, a whole different scale. But yeah, so it's it's really great and I I too am impressed by the uh the sense of community that this area has and that folks want to want to give on something like that. So, um yeah, so the other the other I guess the big reason why we're
here, the other thing we're working on or one of the things we're working on is um trying to acquire a uh a parcel of property. So um if and I brought this material to our earlier meeting. I don't know if some of that got shared the maps and that stuff. Okay, good. Um so we have an isolated tract on the east side
of the refu that's shaped sort of like a backwards L about 160 acres that we don't have good access to. It's surrounded by private land. Peggy, can you And so we've been interested Oh yeah, there we go. We've been interested for many years to try and uh maybe maybe Mitch is pulling this up or um
right. Yep. If you see right there on the on the left, what we see the left hand side there, I lost it. All right, there we go. There's the piece. Yeah. So, the parcel we own is green, that backwards L. And then to gain access, and you can see how the North Country Trail runs through it there, too. And it
runs through that private land that is currently owned some by the Rogad family. Um, just even with that that eastern boundary of the parcel that we have over to 400th Avenue. This is right there. Exactly. Right. We'd like to acquire that piece to a couple different things, I guess. Um, uh, get access to
that isolated parcel that we have. That's really important. But then also secure access for the North Country Trail, which receives many, many visitors. There's about, oh, just a little under 15 miles of trail that run through the refuge, and then, of course, much more through the rest of the county. We get a lot of visits through there. So, it'd be great to secure that
access and then provide opportunity for the public, additional opportunity for the public to uh to to hunt there and to bird watch and gather mushrooms, the sort of things that are compatible uses on the refuge. So, we don't there's no lakes, so we can't do fishing, but other than that, all the activities that are
that are allowed on the refuge would be allowed on this parcel as well. There you go. That's a good overview. Yeah. I think I have another one. Yeah. So, so we're working through the process here and um and getting our getting a
survey done all all the different things we need to do to acquire the parcel. Um but this is pretty unique for us. Like we don't do a lot of this. We're not out acquiring a lot of property, you know, at all really. So, um this is just a unique opportunity. I wanted to come to the county and and hopefully get your support uh on something like this that
provides an opportunity to the public and and uh again, where does the funding come from? The money comes through the land and water conservation fund. Yeah. Which is a a fund that's that uh the monies come from like oil royalties and that sort of thing that the department interior does. And Luke will correct me
if I get any of this wrong. But um can you you can bring you want to bring him up and yeah come up here just to introduce yourself and Luke. Yeah. Alicia if you want to come up too. Yes. We want to Luke Anderson is with our realy division down in Fergus Falls and
Licia Haken is my assistant there at the refuge. Well, welcome. Yeah, welcome. That's where that that's where that money is coming from. Correct. Yes. And I believe um it was fully funded, fully supported land and water conservation fund uh
LWCF. um when was it about 5 years ago, something like that, where it was fully funded. And I believe more specifically, we'll be using uh wreck access funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for this parcel. Yeah, that's
right. So, as part of that process, we like when we put that package in um and again, it's already received approval. that shouldn't be a problem, but it's nice to have a a letter of support from the county just to show that we, you know, coordinated with you and provided information on it and that that it's
supported by the local uh local folks. So, Mr. Chair, can you tell us about the North Country Trail runs through there? I'm I know some other places where it is, but I realize you say you got 15 miles running through there almost about 14 and a half 14.7 I think is what we listed as. Yeah. you know, that's that
trail that goes it's it's a national recreational trail that goes from national scenic trail that goes from New York State all the way over to western North Dakota. And so, uh, we're we're lucky to have a a good chunk of it run through the the refuge. A great I've walked every inch of it a couple of times. It's a great way to access the
refuge and they have volunteer crews that uh that maintain it that are that's actually administered through the park service that that does these these national trails. on that trail. Can you hunt off that when you're like during growth season? Can you walk it and hunt? Okay, you bet.
Um I think one of the questions that I asked during NRM is like what payments are coming from the what what will the county receive for payments on that property? So sort of in lie of taxes because it comes off the tax roles, right? So it's about 120 acres. Um we'll
do the final survey obviously later, but um lands that we acquire now uh are are funded through the refuge revenue sharing program. So that's that's the way nearly all of the acres that are the rest of Tamarack National Wildlife Refuge provide funding to the county as
well. So um they have a formula that they can use on that uh with the refuge revenue sharing. We don't have a lot of revenue generating projects happening. We don't really plan to for this piece as well. So there's three ways you can do that. that's either 25% of the proceeds from the refuge or I'm sorry
the re uh revenue that's occurring or uh 75 cents an acre which doesn't add up to a whole lot or uh 3/4 of 1% of the uh appraised value or the uh the estimated value on it. So um that's that's the method that would be used for this.
However, um that the level that that is funded at is determined by Congress. So it isn't necessarily 100%. We talked a little bit about that in our last meeting. So it's going to be less than that. that is probably hovering less than 25% is what Congress has approved recently. So, um it would it would be
less money than you receive right now certainly from regular taxes that the Rosteads pay. Mary the what Mary looked at the tax we looked at the tax what is it 2800 or something like that annually
that parcel? I don't I I looked uh for 25 I thought it said 1396 is what I thought I saw for that property. And honestly, if you look, I I ran a couple numbers this morning just know when I was coming. So, um I believe that currently they're funded at 22% of of
that 3/4 to 1% level. If you do that, that comes to a little less than $400. So, um that's about that's about $400 less. Although, I now that I think about that parcel that the Rocksteads own is is larger than than 120 acres. So, it's
I'm I'm probably off a little bit by that, but I just um I can pop it up right now and tell you what Oh, do you have a parcel number on that, Mary? Yeah, it's one 150 323
0 0. What I don't have a way of figuring is how much money is generated by folks visiting the area. Mr. Chair, Commissioner Nelson, bring me up to speed here. So we get paid on this right now. So you're you're trying to figure out what we give up in taxes to
do this, right? So it's privately owned. So the private citizen pays $139625 payable. Um and if we receive 400 four about 400 bucks. So I'm just So you're trying to weigh out the benefits
bigger community as opposed to I mean I don't I don't know if that's a make or break. Some people might be, but I think it's just part of the total Yeah. rationale if you want to support it or not. Do we get all that 13? So the regular tax, how much of does the county
get of that? Yeah, some of that would be school and Yeah. Um the county share of that is8 $695. Oh, that was that go right to the county then? $87820.
So you might be talking about a couple hundred dollars it sounds like. Yeah. That come directly to the county. 878 was what goes to the county. 26 for the height of land. The township gets 267.
The school district gets 2 1276 and 229. Um and Becker County EDA gets 424 or 764 next 25. So, it's just something to be aware of that there will be a very
very minor cost shift to the regular taxpayers. I mean, a few hundred. Yep. So, do we have depending upon the year? So, do we have a motion to approve 1H? I'll make a motion to approve 1H. I'll second. Motion by Eric, a second by
Richard. Do we have any more discussion? Mr. Chair, just one more. So, it looks like this green area. Can you pull up the map again, Peggy? I'm sorry. The green area on the other side, does is that Tamarak 2 or is that just to the west there? Yeah. Yeah, that that's also
Tamar refuge. Yes. Okay. So, that's it's just under 43,000 for the refuge. If you go to the next one here, this Oh, I'm sorry. I'm not going. This is where that This is the land. This is all Oh, really? Oh, and then there's that little chunk right there. Connect. Well, that
really Yeah. Well, I see your connection thing now. So, okay. Yeah. Oh, that's a big deal. Trying to trying We've been wanting to do that for a long time. This will be like, okay, we got that done. So, yeah. Thank you. We have a lot of t Becker County tax for state. I mean,
that's a big chunk up there. So, so we have a motion, a second. Do we have any more discussion? Okay. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you for the update, too. Nice to meet you, too. Can you leave your card? I want to tour some time. I get up there and around there, but I've
never really been. Absolutely. Just go to the building and they'll be there. I'll uh I'll bring a card in for you here in a moment. Thank you. Thank you for your time, D. Appreciate it. Thank you. And then how will we see that that
uh resolution? Um you will. Thank you, Peggy. All right, let's move on to our county administrator's report or county administrator and we'll go to number one, which is our MCIT risk management board report
with presented by Jim. Hello. Good morning. I have a hand out here. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Yeah, we got this morning. Well, thanks for the opportunity to be
on the agenda and and talk with you all this morning. Um, just give you a uh Yeah, I got it. Excellent. Oh, we've got enough package. Yeah. Okay, sounds good. Oh, okay. So, yeah, we do. Okay. Anybody else? No. No.
It's good information. Yeah, it is. Oh, sorry. So, um, we get a chance to I I try to come out and, uh, see, uh, my counties every year, and we do this kind of a report every two years. Again, my name
is Jim Carroll. I'm a a riskmanagement consultant with MCIT. Um, and what we're going to do is we'll go through this this uh handout, but I'm not going to read it verbatim. I'm just going to touch on each section and and highlight something from it and then um
if there's any questions, just let me know. But again, um we do this every two years. We do it on the heels of of a November election. So, I don't know if we have any new board members. All right. Congratulations. So, um and then part of it is just also to inform you
about us. Um and a refresher for everyone else, too. So um again uh we call ourselves your insurance company um or that's what we're known as but um technically we we have a different formation that I I'll talk about. Um in
our in our uh risk insurance pool um we are a pool. So what what is what's the difference between that and insurance company? Well in 1979 we were set up by the counties in the state of Minnesota for you. Um, we're really our our main
focus is to pro provide insurance to the counties. So, I'm not out marketing um getting commissions or and we're not beholden to um stockholders. We're basically a risk pool set up for the counties. So, we try to align ourselves
with your needs and ensure the needs that you have. Um, and the upper on the front page, the upper left hand corner, that box talks about that. Um, again, we have uh 81 of the 87 counties in our pool. The six that are not are the
largest ones in Minnesota that are self-insured. So, we have all of the counties that are right for us in our pool. Um, such as yourself. Um, um, so it it's a we we we have all the counties that we want to um, think align with
what we want to do business with. Um, just so you know, um, we have the the counties, but we also have, um, possibly independent relationships with some of your other, uh, adjoining county, um, folks like the historical society or the
egg society for the fairs and things like that. We, um, will probably have a separate relationship with and a a separate um, partnership with as well, but all under the same umbrella. Um, also we do have a fair number of small S
SWCDs that we allow in the pool as well that are um within the counties. Uh, but the b uh the bulk of it uh by and large is the 81 counties such as yourself that that's who we um look to align with and and provide insurance for. So um if you
look at the bottom um members do their part. I do have uh a primary contact. Uh it's Nicole Ecker. She's our primary contact. So, a lot of our information will go to Nicole and then she will disseminate it as she fit sees fit through the county to to those folks
that need the information. But, um, I've talked with anybody and anybody in the county. I've talked with board members. I've talked with county administrators. I've talked with, um, county attorneys. Um, but just so you know, I do have a primary contact and that is Nicole Ecker.
Um the upper right hand box talks about how commissioners can make a difference. Um we just ask that you stay involved with MCIT initiatives and and give support where needed. Um maybe uh also give support if there's a big claim. Um
how you can maybe help staff uh navigate with us the a large claim. Um and just so you know also with this um we are MCIT is beholden to a board. Our board is made up of your cohorts. Um the board members that sit on our board are fellow
commissioners from around the state of Minnesota. So um um they meet monthly and um so we we are beholden to a board there as well. Um the next page in the next three pages kind of talks about our costs and and
basically it's the bad news. Um and I can uh let you know b our costs are going up. Um, and I the next three pages talks about that. Um, but I can boil it down to one word for you and it's inflation. Um, we're the insurance
industry is is sort of the last to get wagged here by inflation. That's how we're set up because we're historically take in information and that's how we set our pricing and and figure out our modeling and and so we're still going through a little bit of a inflation
upheaval as the United States has. Um um and I'll just talk about what those pressures are and what what those factors are. Um on page two, the upper left hand box talks about what's called our reinsurance rates. It starts off
here with a complicated subject, but um even us at MCIT, we buy insurance and we buy insurance to sit on top of our large losses. So, um, for instance, it talks about how we cover the first $850,000 of a loss and then if it goes past
$850,000, we turn that into insurance for them to cover. So, we don't blow our whole budget on a massive loss. Um, so uh but the problem is um reinsurance comes uh globally from a global market and those um premiums have been
skyrocketing. Um, some folks see them triple, double. Um, for us, for instance, in the last two years, we've seen our premiums go up 50%. Which is a uh cost driver for us. Um, and so that's unfortunate. But, um, to help offset
some of that, just so you know, in 2025 here, we uh decided to um raise our deductible, if you will. So instead of covering the first 850,000 of a loss, we're going to cover the first million and and uh get a premium offset for that
for doing that. Uh with hopes that obviously we don't incur enough losses where we go above the 850,000 before the million to erode that premium offset that we elected to take. Um and so far here we are July 1 and we haven't had a reinsurance claim yet. So we're
doing well. Um but it just remains to be seen. Yeah. Hopefully it continues. Right. So, exactly. Um, then we we talk about, you know, what specifically we're seeing within the pool. Um, if you take a look at the bottom there, it talks about our
property values. Um, and they continue to climb. For instance, this chart shows in 2021, the pool had $6.6 billion worth of uh county properties in our portfolio. Um, in 2025, that's now 9.2
billion. um almost a 40% increase of like $2.6 billion dollars. Um that's a significant jump. Um you know, some of it is new construction. Uh counties build a new jail or a new highway garage, but there you're talking tens to
hundreds of millions over all that. A $2.6 billion is basically the inflationary increase. We're seeing uh um property values go up and then we have to cover that. um you probably see it on your personal property um um how
it's been um going up uh which is a good thing you know it's better than the alternative um and that's what we're seeing here with all of our our uh property in the portfolio but the problem is we have to ensure those we have to ensure that increase so um if you take a look at the upper right hand
corner the other page uh the third page if you will um the left side of it talks about our property liability and workers compensation rates You know, when I when I talk about um inflation drivers, what am I talking about specifically? You if you talk if
you look at your property and their liability, it's the cost to pay those claims. Um the claims to repair a building, um all the building materials have gone up in the last couple years. The wages to pay folks to um repair
those buildings um have gone up. the um the the the cost to repair autos. Um again, the materials for that to replace autos if they're totaled. Um buildings are totaled, obviously. So, it's that, you know, and as well as even the
workers compensation. Um we cover your workers compensation, which is if a county employee gets injured on the job, um we cover their medical and their loss wages if they're on work comp for that. Um and so um all the medical costs have
gone up. Uh the wages have c have gone up to keep up with inflation and um that's covered under work comp. So those are the really the the major cost drivers that you see that are going up inflationary wise. Um the good news is I guess on the the
right of that we do still pay out a dividend. Um and you see your dividend number there. Um happy to do that. So again, how we're constructed is we're obviously we're a nonprofit, you know, we're public entity. Uh so we we take in
your contributions or what you know as premiums, take in your premiums, we pay for claims, pay for losses, pay for our expenses, and then if there's money left over, we give it back to you. And so that's what how you uh generate your dividend, and that's how you get that.
Um, so since 19 since 1979, we've always given a dividend. We've remained in the black. We've never gone in the red, which is a good thing. Um, and we want that to continue. Um, and as a reminder, I'm supposed to give you an odd sort of
philosophy. If we were really doing our job right, your dividend would be closer to zero than higher because that only means we forecasted correctly what to charge you. we forecasted correctly how much we were going to pay out in claims in reserves and things like that. But
obviously we'd um rather give you dividend than an alternative. So anyways um that's how the dividend is generated there. Um if you look at the bottom of the page um we talk about cyber. So um as part of your offerings that you buy into, we do offer you uh provide you cyber coverage.
Um and cyber is uh Hey Brian give him a copy of that. Yeah, our press likes to Nate's with the paper. So, no problem. Yeah. Um, I got a question. Just back up though. Um, and I know we I think we've received a
dividend every year. Has there is there in the process a way to collect more if you have a really bad year? Do you is there ever been a thought of charging a second premium during the year or do you just hit into reserves? Yeah. So I I think I know what you're saying, but um
it what when we as part of the pool being a members of a pool um we we don't experience rate you um or a county on the property and liability side. So um if you have a bad year, I'm thinking the
whole pool. The whole pool. Yeah. So if we have if we I'm just saying if you tried to budget at zero you would there might be likely times when you'd have to second a dividend almost like reassess you know give an assessment or something like that they were we need another
paper yeah thankfully um if we did go into the red we would have to do that but we've we never have so you're right it's better to you know not be so close to zero you know exactly we don't want a second bill yeah exactly no I I understand right thanks thanks Um, we we
put cyber on here because it is uh it's a complicated subject that's obviously here to stay and it's only getting more and more complicated to uh fight these bad actors out there that are um trying to hack and and um trying to subvert your IT department and and get access to
data and things like that. You might say, well, are counties really a target? Um and yes, um you know, obviously they're they're um they want, you know, easier, more um access to finances and and they're not necessarily when they do
go after a county, they're not necessarily going after your um let's say your driver license or your fees and things like that, that pot of money there. What they're going after is your HHS data that has the social security numbers and things like that. that's been our our number one um by and large
frequent um hitter that that they're going after. And if you take a look for instance um since we been tracking this and looking at this in 2023 we had a a loss of $1.7 million total
for claims and things like that um affiliated with with cyber claims and losses. And in 2023 we thought, wow, is this now the new norm? because it's so new. We're trying to track. We're trying to get on top of it. We're trying to anticipate is it going to be is it going
to be 1.7 million and start to go up now? Um and so um but lo and behold, in 2024 it was 567,000, you know, a $1.1 million decrease, which is awesome. And we know why even better.
And it's because counties um have upped their preventative measures, their preventive IT measures as well as um expounded on uh IT training for their employees. Um so they don't click on red flag emails. They can watch for red flag
emails or malicious links and things like that. Well, we have an IT director that makes us do it as commissioners, too. So, and then our administrator gives us nasty grams if we we get those, too. I don't see it. Exactly. And because that's awesome, you know, because it's working. These bad
actors right now that are that are we're encountering are not even coming in through the back door yet. They're not going around your firewall or circumventing that. They're still coming in through the front door with employees clicking on these bad emails and bad links. That's the bulk of the way they're still getting in. So, if we've
shown that if we can increase those um efforts, they're paying dividends for the for the pool. So, that's awesome. And again, again, we'll hope the uh 2025 continues as as it did in 2024, but um um again, we're going to track it and see the trends and see what remains to
be seen. But um hopefully the hopefully it gets better than worse. But on the last page, um it talks about uh Becker County, specifically your your workers compensation uh contribution. So the way
your your work comp gets calculated, it's uh through um mathematician models and actuarial lists and they they come up with this this formula if you will and uh they come up with a experience modification rate, your experience mod
rate. Um and if it's a a 1.0, that's uh an average county your size facing your risks. That's what you would see for a work comp um rate. Um, if it's less than 1.0, if it's like 0.9, that's 10%
better. 0.8, 10% or 20% better. If it's higher than 1.0, uh, 1.1, 1.2, it's 10% higher. 20% higher. Um, so your goal is to stay at one or even even lower. And, um, most of our counties that are doing
well are at at at a 1.0. Some that are the worst, you know, can get as high as 2.0. Um, a a number a few number are under 1.0. you guys are one of them. Congratulations. Um that's awesome. It's a great place to be at 089. Um it just
means that um your size um you you're you're you're not uh putting people on work comp. You're putting them on at a lower rate, which is great for your county employees. Obviously, you're not they're not getting crashed up and banged up and going on work comp higher than normal. So for that's worth and and
it's a good thing for you and and for the pool. So we thank you for your efforts there. um from work comp. If you take a look at to the right of that, it talks about uh the claims we're seeing um say the highest uh departments per uh
claim dollars spent ratio. Um and and the pool what we see um the number one department is the sheriff and jails. Um and that's really not a a secret. I mean it it's really because they face the most unique hazards that we have um and
have, you know, increased levels of of those opportunities of being hurt and and things like that. So, and they're 24/7. Um same thing with the highway department underneath them. Um again, unique hazards they can face. Um and again, they can also be 247. Um and you
do have a county nursing home or medical facility, correct? Yep. So, nursing home. Yep. Okay. there that uh that's a the third most because again unique hazards and and things like that and then it drops precipitously from there for uh the departments of what they see
um injury-wise as a as a work comp. Um uh and this is the pool as a total, but I would I would guess um your uh Becker County, you'd probably see the the same um probably sheriff's uh number one in your work comp and highway department are somewhere close to that. But um and
again, poolwide um if you look to the bottom there, it takes a look at what we see for property and liability claims. Um autos for us is always number one. um is because we the pool ensures for the county's 35,000 autos um and it's just a numbers thing.
It's just a frequency there. They have the most opportunity of being whacked and they do and then they they they're our number one uh damaged uh unit um out there. Um so that that gives you an idea of what we see for claims um for the for
our portfolios and and for the pool. Um, so you know, lastly, I just want to uh remind you that um we really don't want to just uh pay claims and and and things like that and and and we do want to help you through all your claims and potential litigation, of course, but we
also want to be a resource. Um and so we are bolstering our our website too for you to um to kind of be more of a one-stop shop. um you can always call me but um again we're trying to get our website to be a great source of information all things MCIT uh what
we're doing for educational activities um um trainings we only come as far as St. Cloud unfortunately which isn't great but maybe better still than going to St. Paul um if you can attend some of our uh trainings we have uh from from
insurance to HR related and and some other things sprinkled in. Um we also have uh different things that you guys participate in um um for uh uh we have a patrol that we offer for our sheriffs um that they uh can hopefully glean uh
information uh specifically for sheriffs um that that that's hopefully a valued resource. Um, you're a member of the Minnesota Safety Council. We get you a membership there. Um, just a reminder too, um, um, I'm I'm a riskmanagement consultant. You also have a loss control
consultant. Um, he comes out of Duth, but this is definitely his territory. Um, uh, his name is Nick Lindberg, and Nick can help you with, uh, employee safety needs, uh, trainings, safety committees, um, if you want to, um, gear something towards a safety initiative
for a department, things like that. So, that's another service that does he do like a walk through or help? I mean, we were just discussing today our we're putting um our our like tornado warning systems and in for the in building how how to how to move about in in county
buildings and cuz I think it's been a while since we've reviewed that process and employees don't you know recognize the alarms or you know do we have an all call and our IT department's working for all calls in different areas but um just someone that maybe we could reach out the safety committee could
reach out to coordinate some of that. Yep. He can be a resource there for that. Exactly. Yep. Exactly. So, Mr. Chair, Jim, uh you said you come out every two years. Do you come out when you come out? I assume you're physically here. Do you physically view all of our
insured properties? I don't buildings, things like that. So, it's a good question. Um just so you know, you you have a a property schedule that you you maintain as a county. It has all of your assets on it. And then every five years we do we have a vendor that we have um
go out and will um appraise all of your buildings 100,000 and greater which is most of them obviously. So we um every year we give you an inflationary factor built in for your property and contents. But then every 5 years they do an on the
boots on the ground take pictures um actual appraisal to make sure we're still um in step and you know true up make sure everything is good every every 5 years that happens. So okay does anybody else have any questions for
Jim? Well thank you very much. I appreciate your time. Thank you. Thanks for looking forward to a wonderful year with you. Yeah. If you guys can figure out how to get inflation down, then we can all get back on track and know. But I think I think we're getting there. I think it's getting better. So, they'll flatten out sooner later. Yeah. Thank
you, Mr. Chair. I might um you might want to go with the county attorney next. Yeah. Yeah, I would like to do that. The Let's go to Brian. It's the your last item. The last item on your report. Yeah. I was thinking the same thing. So, we'll just move right up to Sorry,
Heather. Sorry, Heather. number six. So, go ahead, Brian. Good morning. Um, Sheriff and I are here this morning. Uh, in the spring session of the legislature, there was a uh amended
statute 241.021. And Todd, please jump in if I misstate something, but essentially what this statute mandates is that a jail continue to administer any medications an inmate uh was on prior to coming in regardless
of medical opinion. Um we are here today to ask the board to support Becker County joining a lawsuit that is seeking to declare this amendment unconstitutional. We would be joining with the Minnesota Sheriff's Association, uh, numerous
healthc care providers, as of now, Todd County, St. Louis County, and hopefully many more counties in the near future. Um, this statute places the jail, the healthcare providers, and the sheriff in
an impossible position. Uh, in my opinion, it's misguided. And, um, Todd, what else do you want to add? Yeah, the the statute was revised to require that correctional facilities must administer to incarcerated persons the same
medications they were prescribed prior prior to incarceration. And some of those medications are not needed. I'm not a doctor, but uh they're not needed uh in a controlled facility like that.
Well, it's certainly I mean this came through sheriff committee and it certainly is a person's medical needs change and especially when you change their complete environment um you can imagine h that this while it might have sounded good initially to somebody, it
certainly has some consequences that are uh really unnerving. I mean they could they could also be on other some kind of I'm sure MCIT would prescribed medications would love to know that they'd now come off of Yeah. Yeah. It's
and you have people on on site reviewing this. I mean healthcare looking at this. They certainly legislature can't over overturn your your needs or your health care providers that are there. It's it's it's very alarming that they would even
think this was a good I mean I can I think the the thought behind it might have been good but the the boots on the ground is it's just not it's not reasonable. So uh I'll just read a couple more uh thoughts here from our
advanced correctional healthc care. The statute may ultimately prioritize prioritize compliance over patient centered care. Pushing in appropriate medications could mask underlying health issues. delaying proper diagnosis and treatment. The statute could require giving medications that would cause an
overdose or dangerous drug interaction. For example, a detainee who tests positive for fentanyl at intake may still be administered country indicated prescription medications. Jails have medication have a male jails have a medication
verification process to review outside medications and have them approved by a licensed medical provider to avoid such complications. So just a little more background um this was given an effective date of July 1 because of uh it's tied to some funding.
I don't quite under know understand all the interworkings but as of yesterday a stipulation was signed uh with the Minnesota attorney general's office who represents the commissioner of corrections that they agreed to delay enforcement of this until at least
August 1st. So that was a bit of good news. Okay, that was Go ahead, Mr. Chair. I'll I'll move to approve resolution 7251 I second. Okay, we have motion in a second to have any more further discussion. I I
do just have a question. Um what what do we believe the purpose of this statute is? I imagine that there was somebody who needed medication and wasn't given it and this was a you know over kind of a knee-jerk reaction. I think like I said that's my guess. Yeah, I'm just
assuming that too that there was there may be some entities that weren't delivering properly. Sure. Obviously, we we believe we are, but I'm trying they're trying to protect the rights of and but this is such an overstep. You can't protect some you can't mandate
something that you don't know what the needs are. I mean, you're it's it's just bizarre. Overrides the independent judgment of the medical professionals that the jails and facilities utilize. Yeah. And it's unclear about how long that I mean, how long are we supposed to give the same medic because everyone's
medicines change through time. So it's just it's just can't say enough strange things about that. Some and this didn't go through regular p channels. This was added on at the kind of pushed through last the last
hour. It was not publicly discussed. There was not publicly discussed. Yes. Okay. Um just want to give a shout out to the county attorney and the sheriff. I mean, they kind of went above and be I mean, above and beyond, you know, looking at legislation and I'm sure the sheriff's committee was a big part of
that or the sheriff's organization, the statewide organization got on top of this. So, um that's that's where you see your some of your values of your of your statewide organizations, AMC and sheriffs, they they monitor stuff and look at that. So, thank you guys for
bringing this forward to us and hopefully we can um get this changed. Well, a amended or eliminated. I mean, because it it it will hinder hinder the health of our inmates. It really will. The weight council for the sheriff's
association is a tremendous asset and mentor. So, I'll pass our thanks on to those those. Right. Thanks. So, we have a motion and a second. Do we have any more discussion? Okay. All in favor? signify by saying I I motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, let's
move to her Heather Pender for Dancing Sky Area Agency on Aging. We have some exciting news today. Good morning everyone. Morning. Morning. Thank you for having me. So my name is Heather Pender. I'm the director with
Dancing Sky Area Agency on Aging. We cover 21 counties in northwest Minnesota. Um we ask every year for matching funds to be contributed to our um budget which we use to administer the
Older Americans Act funds. So I'll share a little bit about the agency, how we work, some of the programs that we do, and then if there's questions or concerns, but feel free to stop me at any time. So Dancing Sky is one of seven area agencies on aging throughout the state. We are the largest um by land
mass. So we cover 21 counties as I said in northwest Minnesota. We operate under the opaces of the regional development commission. So, our brickandmortar office is out of Warren and um with that the seven counties that make up the
regional development commission are subject to tax levy and then we ask our other 21 counties to um submit matching funds for for the Older Americans Act that we distribute throughout the 21 counties. So that's a little bit of of
why we ask for the funds and you know so I'll kind of share about the programs and and how we work with the programs. So an area agency on aging serves a unique purpose in the communities and mainly I think of it in two separate um
kind of buckets of work if that makes sense. So we're tasked with administering the older Americans Act funds. So those are federal funds that come down through us. um ACL um which is having some changes but then through ACL
to the board on aging and then we as an area agency on aging uh receive a certain allocation based on a funding formula. That funding formula is called the intrastate funding formula. So in 2023 that was revised. I would say
roughly every decade or so um the board on aging goes through and revises how those funds come down to each specific planning and service area. Um so that's a whole conversation in itself but it's based on certain metrics um you know population density different things like
that. So that's how we get the funds and then on our local level level excuse me we are charged with administering those out to local grantees. So um that could be a variety of different entities. Um we have open RFPs and then you know go
through that granting process. So um we have to fund legal services um at a certain percentage. Um so that is Northwest Legal Services. So they cover all 21 counties plus one additional county um outside of our planning and
service area. So, I know locally here they have staff um that sit in the library and will help with various different um you know legal support for folks and and offer guidance to older adults and you know various other metrics that they have. Um so then we
also fund uh senior nutrition. So that is in the form of congregate and home delivered meals. um some new things that have come up since COVID, you know, curbside or popup meals where folks can kind of grab and go bulk um type meals.
Um one of the other specific titles is title 3B. So that's homemaker, chore, um 3E through the act is caregiver and family support. Um so there again, access throughout um to receive those
additional supports. Um and then on the other side we are tasked with carrying out the senior linkage line fund. Um so those funds are more I think kind of persontoerson um where our federal older
Americans act we're granting those out and then the local communities are using them to um provide and carry out services. So the senior um linkage line is kind of twofold. So it is um phone
based so caregivers or consumers can call in and be connected to any services or supports they need. Um we are known for our support with Medicare. So especially during Medicare open enrollment. Um caregivers or consumers can call in. We will help do a plan
comparison. You know either lead them to their you know local insurance agent that they want to enroll through or you know help with enrollments um via the phone. We have a return to community service. So that return to community is helping folks that are either residing
in a care facility that want to discharge back home. Um and when I say home, I'm using that broadly. That might be an assisted living, that might be home with family. Could look like a lot of um a lot of different situations. And then what we do is provide ongoing support for them for up to 5 years in
the community. So we're doing a care plan. Um we're working through supports and services and then doing that ongoing followup. primarily by phone um and helping them. So, if they have a change in status, we can, you know, have you, you know, done a medication management
review, you know, what are your next steps? Or, you know, maybe they've had a a change in condition and need a wheelchair ramp. So, who would you go to to get that done and those types of things. So, similar to care coordination. Um, and those services are
free, but um it's obviously state funded. And then with that, the thought process is these folks would be a bucket of people that would be private pay for services. And so although they don't pay anything to have the senior linkage line
help, the thought process is we want to keep those folks safe and in the community to decrease the Medicaid spend down. So, these are often um a network of folks that don't have county support yet, might not be on any programs, and
so we want to help them um with coaching and support so they can utilize uh their funds to the best of their ability. And a lot of it is is kind of that care coordination piece. Um, and then the other part of the senior linkage line that's often behind the scenes work is
that pre-mission screening before someone would enter a care facility. So, there are statewide staff that are screening before someone enters a nursing home to make sure they meet level of care. Um, so that's very very quickly um kind of
our two different pockets or buckets of of work that we do. Um we are a relatively small team. We have staff throughout the 21 counties. So locally here to Becker County, there's four of us um including myself. Um strategically
we do have staff spread throughout the 21 counties that work home office um settings. And some of that is just so we can serve the counties better. We believe that if you are in the county, you you know or community, you know a little bit better and can help network
with with providers and and some of the work that you do. So, I'll I'll pause and then I do want to highlight one other additional um grant that we have and um share a little bit of that work. Does any have any question? Well, Mr.
Chair, um Heather Dave's been teasing me now that I qualified for services. So, I might have to get a contact information from Sounds good. Unfortunately. Well, fortunately, I'm growing older. Yeah. Well,
Does anybody else have any questions or anything for Heather? Any comments? I I just want to say that I'm on that obviously I'm on that committee and and they do an amazing job on her staff and her they they I I don't even know I can't get words out to say how well a
job good a job they so it's a it's amazing. They work hard. They they uh they do a great job. Thank you. they do a lot of activities for it's good to have a resource because navigating especially as you age um navigating some the programs is difficult the the and
the options that you have I mean um as we as this whole board approaches that med and staff approaches that age where we qualify for well we're all we're all we're all about the same I mean I am way younger than all of you but to navigate
those choices is there's it's it's difficult to know it is yeah what you should do. I mean, so thank you. Yeah, of course. Um, so occasionally we have the opportunity to apply for various different grants that are kind of outside the scope of kind of those two,
um, buckets that I categorize. And so, um, last year we had the opportunity to apply for some funding through DHS that was in partnership with adult protection agencies. So, we have piloted a program called WAPS. Um, so it's wraparound
services for adult protection. Um, and we partnered with um, any of the 21 counties that wanted to join us. We based it off of a Missouri model. So myself and a couple of the other area agency on aging directors um, kind of
researched this Missouri model. We um, implemented a software system called Cumulus. So Cumulus is that secure software system where the county could make referrals to us. And then we had a pot of direct service funds which is um
atypical generally speaking for Minnesota. Um other states have their area agency on aging um might actually implement you know adult protection and different things like that. So in Minnesota we generally are you know redistributing the funds out and not you
know partnering kind of that onetoone. So this was a unique opportunity. Um we do have an extension with the funds through September 30th of this year. Becker County was one of the counties that um joined in partnership with us. So thank you to the county for um
working with us and and having all of the growing pains of a pilot program because that's what happens is a lot of times you're building the ship as you're, you know, trying to sail too. And so, um, lots of, uh, learning opportunities, but really a great feeling at the end of the day to be able
to administer funds directly to a service to a person who is, you know, in need for specific services. And so, um, I think to date, Becker County has had four referrals, um, but roughly just close to $5,000 in, um, you know,
services and like I said, directly to the person. So, we've helped with home cleanouts, um, you know, certain things like building a ramp, making something, you know, handicap accessible so they can stay in their home and, um, be safe. The funds are directly tied to their
risk of malreatment. So, you know, we would want to make sure we're we're spending the funds on whatever kind of ties to to that malreatment. Um, but we had 15 of the 21 counties in our area participate. um and the the software system there.
Again, another another learning opportunity. But it was really nice to just connect um back and forth with with the counties and have that seamlessly come to us and the APS worker would kind of, you know, state what the what the need was and then we would um engage our
team to get services set up and uh bills paid. Um, so I do have a handout on that in here kind of showcasing and our um, year in review from 2022 which kind of showcases um, collectively all of the work that we do between the two teams.
But I just want to say thank you for your support in contributing to the matching funds. And if anyone has any questions or concerns, um, I would love to answer anything I can today, but I'm also available any time to continue
conversations or grow any partnerships and work. I don't have any questions. Thank you, Heather. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, Heather. All right. So, let's move on to your report, Carrie. All right. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, just a few things to
report out on. Um, our last meeting, we were we had just gotten the lease agreement with the city for the sheriff's storage unit. So, it that I did sign off on that. It was reviewed by our county attorney and he um suggested
some changes which were done and it was uh given to Kelsey yesterday. Okay. So, I'm expecting that to come back with the target move in date of July 17th is what we're anticipating. So, um I'm still waiting for um paperwork to come back
from Pelican Watershed. I'm going to follow up with them. I did send that over to them um for the acquisition of that building. So, that should be coming coming to a support that no uh coming to
uh hopefully a conclusion here shortly. Yesterday there was a department head meeting in the afternoon and we started with a budget kickoff if you will. Um some of those materials are in your packet. Um with regards to some
timelines and kind of uh highlighting some different phases throughout. Obviously it's fluid. we may need to modify but the discussion yesterday um with the department heads with real uh with regards to the process is you know looking at how can we streamline
meetings. One of the suggestions was obviously uh department heads will be working on their budgets taking it to their respective committees and then in the past it I I had met with them independently and I think prior administrators had as well. Um but one
of the suggestions from I believe this board and I I believe that sentiment was um echoed in the department head meeting yesterday as well to again have have these meetings but perhaps looking at
streamlining and I know the suggestion here was finance normally would see these budgets and that would be include two of you but perhaps doing a working session with the whole board and and maybe doing that during finance meeting during the crucial times
just to eliminate repetitiveness for the department head and time and as well as for this board. So that is something I I guess I would welcome any feedback you might have if that's agreeable to all of you. That's Yeah, I think that sounds good. Yep, I agree with that. All right.
Um also during um and I haven't given this to department heads yet, but it will go out. Um, as you recall, we did have Ryan on staff or he was visiting the county and meeting with us several strategic budgeting and just really reviewing our process. So, he and I have
met a few times. Um and he's given some templates which you'll see this is more of a narrative that was given to the department head and really this um just gives um I guess some guidance to department heads to you know be able to
write some narrative and also to start thinking about uh key performance um measurements and things that they want to do within their department and and kind of that futuristic planning. So really just trying to set some of the tone uh for that and and they'll come up
with ideas and it was just presented yesterday about having them start to think about that and that goes along with I think some of the requests from from this board as far as dashboards and and what do we want to uh what do we want departments to report out on as far
as measurements and um again the future planning I think what we'll see in the very near future. We've talked a little bit about well no we have not talked a little it's been a lot about space needs and and coupling that with what our uh
future capital needs are and the capital budgeting. So this is just the start of I Oops. Sorry. Um time whoops this is just the start of really where um a much bigger a much bigger project.
So um homeless grant we had RFP in the past that was uh pushed out a grant that we had received targeting the homeless population with the they they are the requirement is it also has to serve for um minor children that are also
connected to an adult or a guardian. Um that was discussed or I had some discussions with Cody. There's still some money that needs to be distributed. So the RFP will go out and then we'll review that um coming back as well. And I think that's about all I have on
my report, Mr. Chair. All right. So let's move on to the next topic number four, the taxi lane pavement rehabilitation project at the airport. So Mr. Chair, this comes before you. Um
there was a lot of information provided um from Kelsey a memo in your packet. Um probably the highlights of this is that this is a um a partnership with the city with regards to the airport. Um Kelsey and um a few others did come yesterday
to finance to be present to answer any questions that the the two commissioners that were on the the finance had. So Oh, sorry. That's okay. It's okay. Um, so this is one of the main questions was, you know, um, is this is this the
final project to really bring this to a head, I think was the really kind of one of the main questions that was asked. And the answer to that is is yes. Um the the importance of this is that this portion that's being asked for um with
regards to to really topping off this project, if you will, is is really um a small portion of what the what the project really is. This is funded by uh federal funding at a high rate. I think it's 95 95 95%.
And um it's anticipated as was discussed yesterday that this funding uh in the very near future probably is not going to be available. So hence the um the the uh request and and and one other thing Carrie stated yesterday too is that we
should be able to budget for this for next year. We should we won't have to Yeah. the the funding we won't find out at at least until August or September if we get the federal funding. Yeah. And then we'll be able to budget for next
year. And that's correct. And I did ask that question and really um with this project, it's a reimburseable grant. So by the time the request comes back through the county, we would be looking into 26. And Kelsey did indicate that.
Where would you budget the money for? What? How would you budget the money? Where would it come from? Well, we would have to look at um our airport fund and we would have to look to see where what we have. We don't have an airport. Well, I Well, we we Mr. Chair, we appropriate
$45,000 a year for the airport. That's the joint power with the with the city, but also that internal there was some internal financing. Um some of that go co money is coming back from the airport. Those hangers, we internally finance them. That's that's just paying
back their loan. But the paying back the loan to ourselves. Yeah. Coming back to I mean it's coming back into Yeah. Yeah. That won't it that won't answer. Yeah. In answer the loan off. It doesn't correct. In answer to
your question, it's it's a it's an unbudgeted item that we're have to look at budgeting. You'd have to in either increase the money onetime payment or you have to So it's either onetime pay. We'd have to levy it or we'd have to levy it would or And why why did why did
Kelsey speculate that the funding wouldn't be available the federal match funds? Um because it's it's a taxation on aviation fuel that that supplies that I don't know. I don't I don't think so. Not the way I understood it. Well, the the airport funding the federal funding
is is there because of taxing on it's on a 5year cycle. where that's where the federal funding comes from is is so that's why it you know yeah I I recall him saying something about there was something on a cycle coming coming
to the end specifically for more rural airports airports so I don't know maybe there's I don't know I don't know the answer to that but he did say that he I can't remember why
he said why but he said that the funding would more I don't think he said more than likely said wouldn't be there I think is what he said next year if we didn't if we didn't do this now so in total what we what we would be
looking at for the two projects that are at question is the $79,910.3 correct that would be the county portion and The city would match that. Yes. Yes. But remember too, I mean, we're getting $2.5 million worth of work then for that
price. Yeah. Our split share is 159. Our share is 79. Mhm. But it's $2.5 million, which Barry, you said is 2.8 with in federal and state funding.
It's 2.8. He did als I'm sorry. did also say that the this these really are the last two projects. Once these two projects are done, the airport will be in a good shape to not shape. Yeah. To not need anything and other projects
that may have they have the airport commission has has funding to complete those. What is their cash reserve? I don't know. Uh I don't know that either. I mean, do they have enough? I mean, if they have enough to cover our future, do
they have enough to cover this? I don't know. Do we I think it I think it, Mr. Chair, I think this brings the airport thing to completion as far as the major runway expansion projects, these taxi lines and stuff, this kind of finishes it. If
there's something else beyond that, it it goes to something else. But, you know, we we did back in 2017, we did I I pulled the and Kelsey told me this. He said we had an we had up to a million dollars to do this airport expansion
save. I don't I don't know if that's plays into this or not. I mean, I'm a new commissioner. Um but that's uh this would bring it to an end. I mean, it's a joint powers. We're working together. I I I think it's a stretch to say that the
2017 agreement should be it what is it go on forever until that's I mean but we did get good value for what what we correct for the grants and stuff most of the grants came in actually um somewhere 9010 they were 99 95 and 99 so I mean
for the value I I think it's and and hogs has done all the work and they local contract locally they I don't want to say under bid it but they locally did very good bids for us for our for the airport and that's big deal why that it
didn't cost us as much money and this and this will be locally done again by hogs and if I recall when he said the future um projects that would need to be done I don't know that they have the funding for it now as much as the the funding that they take in will pay for those
projects so the ongoing funding not not their what they have in reserves. It was really more about the ongoing funding that would be coming in. The only thing that that he had brought up I think would be was the redoing of the airport terminal or whatever. That that's that
that isn't even effective here. That's a long ways out. That's and and that will be that would be internally financed if they can do that. The one thing that I was really concerned about was is this the last thing and it is. I did some
numbers. I pulled what I could. I I figured we'd spend we spent about of that n of that million dollar commitment 935,000. This would bring us to that amount. Um over all over since 2017, but I I don't
know. Like I said, I wasn't here, but everything I could find and using Kelsey's numbers, using Mary's numbers, um that's about what that would bring us to. And I also suggested that hey this is the end of that resolution
commitment. I think with one thing that we have to remember too with with that million dollars we all we've gotten a lot back from the for the community. You know we have the lifelink lifelink helicopter out there. That's right.
Helicopter doesn't need a runway but still it's all part of the airport. I mean, Herszogs is a local. You're right again, Barry. You're right. Oh, wow. You better talk to his wife. You know, I I I do I struggle with this. Um I think it's a combination of city,
county, and private business. I don't I it's just the value there for what we're putting into it. I mean, so you got that going forward. Uh but referencing back, I mean, what what stage of construction is
this in? Where are you at in the is it bids been let you know they must have they haven't got the bids they got appraised. I mean I find it a little bit bid opening was held on June 4th. I find a little bit
unusual that you bid something and then you come and ask for us to pay for it. I I find that a little bit hard to swallow. Well, we've been working on this for a few months. We didn't know they did they have a You haven't had a financial commitment from us. I mean, the airport has not had a financial commitment from the county to move
forward with this and has not asked that we would spons I mean so I'm struggling with it too. I there is some value here. Definitely there's value here, you know, but it seems to be we've spent a lot of money on this place and now those new
hangers and Well, I think it I think I think the economic value, you know, of parts coming in of of I think there's value there. I don't know these I don't know those numbers very well. Mhm. Um,
but I think any time in in the future for any entity that's going to be asking us for money should come to us in the front end, not in the back end after bids have been let. I mean, to kind of gauge the enthusiasm for for the project. Carrie, when did when did we
had it on the agenda? Was it two two meetings ago and we pulled it? Correct. And then we went back to our airport commission meeting. I think we I think we had on the agenda for May and pulled it. before the I think it was first meeting in June. Was it first meeting in June?
And I think there's a split in these projects that one has been there is Hul is on board but the other one that we're talking about the the 25 phase is the grant needs to be applied for. Yeah, that one has not been bid. Correct. And
is contingent on I should have clarified that the 24 project bid. What is this project? What is the one that's on the table that it's right here? It's the tax line the tie down the total though. I mean you he's you we're talking another project coming up. No, the 79,000
would fund both projects. Both the projects. Well, he's talking about something else down the road. For now, it's it's this tax line for the tie downs and to complete this area right here. That's is that that's going to cost $2.5 million. Correct. Uh well yes
two and a half million this is the other the other the other project cost 464,000 that that one is that one we um that one's already been
24 so almost 3 million 2.8 8 2.8 Mhm. and and 2.5 of that is coming from the federal government and 62,000 is coming from the state.
No or not. It's from us. What's the 97,1380? That that is the share that we have money for what have we paid that or we being asked for that again? We were asked 79,000 that's part of the
Yeah, this is that's part of the 79,000 that is being requested. 79,900 97 is the total which would be split in half. That's the the county portion. So half of that plus half of the plus half of the 62. Yeah, correct equals 7. So
it's those both those products and both of them have been bid. No, I don't believe the second one's been bid. The second one has not bid opening was held on June 4th was June 4th for the second one. Bid opening was held on but that one is contingent on on the grant which
is anticipated in August. Yes. So if we make them if we approve this it would be contingent on the funding grant funding to be Yes. All of it is we're not the state. Well, the first project is not contingent on that. I mean, it's it's
already guaranted. Yeah. The second part of that is the second project is contingent on federal and and the state funding. Mainly the federal. Yeah. It says what the federal federal state funding for the first project anyway. It says what it was there and
the local share which would be split between us and the city is 97,000. So this is a taxi ways from basically most of the hangers and y and I think they just increased the price the rental of the hangers.
They were looking at that. Yep. I think they did. Didn't they do that when we loan with the loan? Well, I I I'm not sure of the rental rate, but what they raised it to, but I think it's still pretty ins I mean, pretty reasonable for
well cheap. So, the taxi line pavement rehab program that was basically seal coating around these areas. The second thing is for this completion of this taxi taxi way out in front of the airport and that tie down area which you see in the second picture
there. So, you're right. There are two projects and the 79,000 would take care of both of those projects and bring
the airport renovations to close. Did you Phil, have you What is the is the usage up up out there? Is the fuel sales up? Is everything Is everything up? You know, I didn't go back and look over past years, but I mean the
impression I get and Carrie, I don't know, maybe can help with this is that yeah, there I believe Mr. Hagen Mr. fuel was up. Fuel sales are up. Yes, the light is getting all their fuel from there. And yeah, that has dramatic. I don't I don't remember what his exact
but it has increased quite a bit. Yeah, he said he said I don't know what he the number was, but he said it did increase a lot. What other money comes if you land a plane? Do you pay when you land a plane? Pretty much fuel is what I think and then who pays for it? The Yeah. Hang
and hanger rental, right? And we financed two new hangers which will bring in more rental which that was the internal financing thing. That's the money that I said is is you financed that with COVID money, right? Or the We borrowed the money. We borrowed the money to
and you borrowed the money to the airport. Yeah. with the hanger. Mary, that was CO money or that was it was reserve money. General fund reserve special general. There's no more CO money or Yeah, there
is no more. Spent that four or five times. Well, I I you know, here's the thing. I I think this should probably pass. I don't want to support it. Kind of like kind of like the Pelican watershed, you know. Well, no, that's different. I feel the same way. There's a lot of value here. Yeah.
And that's otherwise I couldn't but I I hate when you're getting 95% paid for it. Yeah. That's that convinc and and I feel like we we put 9 35 35,000 into it. 40 Yeah. $40 million
project. You know that much into it. We this would come to a completion where we have a very nice We do. Phil, do you have a motion? I do. Yeah. You You're going to move. Are you done? I'm done. Yeah. Mr.
Chair, I'd approve I I'd move to approve resolution 7-25-1F for the tax line pavement rehabilit rehabilitation project and terminal apron reconstruction project. So, we have a motion for 1F. Do we have a second? I'll second. So, we have a
motion and a second. Do we have any more discussion? Okay. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed. All right. Motion carries. All right. Let's move on. Do you have any more? You know what? Go ahead, Dave. Mr. Chair, one thing just, you know,
this is a joint powers here, too. So, you know, anytime we can work with other institutions, I I mean, I appreciate you guys doing this. This that makes it a little easier for me. Barry, I get the money thing. Um, and as I get into this a little bit more, I'll I'll
mean you were screaming back in February about, hey, we got to start looking at some of this stuff. And uh, um, so I mean, thank you for doing that. Puts me in a better situation at airport. So, thank you. All right, Carrie, do you have any more? No, I do not. Okay, so
let's move on to human services. Let's talk about some cannabis. Did you bring samples? Did you? Yeah, but they made us leave out the door. It's legal, Todd. Well, thank you for having us. And I've
asked Jason McCoy to from Klay County as we partner together on a cannabis substance use prevention grant um with Clay Becker on our grant work. So, I'll let Jason present as the subject expert.
I know some subject experts too, but right, but but as I said, I didn't bring the samples. So, okay. Thank you for uh letting me come and talk to you guys. Um uh as Amanda said, uh Clay and Becker, we're working together on our several different grants, Partnership for
Health, our um cannabis and other substance use prevention grants, things like that. And so, I've been doing substance prevention for about 10 years. if you want to actually pop to the next slide. Um I'm going to try to put this together for you guys um as briefly and as easily as possible and then I'm here
to answer questions if you have. Um I threw in an introduction because you're probably wondering first of all why the heck is this guy here from Klay County. Um this is me and my family. I've been doing substance prevention for 10 years. I've actually um used to be one of the members of the partnership for health
team. So, I used to cover Clay Becker, Wilin, and Ottertale. Um, whenever that grant, part of the grant dried up, I got more focused on Klay County specifically. So, but I'm still available to be um a resource here uh through the the community health board.
Um, and by the way, my little guy there, Caleb, may be the only four-year-old that this morning begged dad to bring him to a commissioner's meeting. I unfortunately had to tell him no because, you know, he'd have been climbing off the walls. So, um, anyway, this is a little about me. We'll go forward.
So, I wanted to give you guys something hopefully to smile about a little bit. First of all, the main part of my work these days revolves around positive community norms, which um isn't a rosecolored glasses. It really is acknowledging the concerns that we have that youth don't use cannabis while
acknowledging the fact that most of them aren't because there's a lot of narrative around the state, around the nation honestly, that that can make us afraid that most of the kids are out there doing it. And we're not talking about one-time sampling, right? We're talking about like regular use. And so
using our Minnesota student surveys, using our local data, we know that most of our students don't use substances. Most of them are making healthy choices. And the reasons why are amazing because they they it isn't who they see themselves as. It isn't who they want to
be. They're actually listening to the messages that we're giving them. So, just to start with that, if you don't remember anything else I say, please remember that because I want you guys to be able to take that home. It changed my career to really wrap my head around the fact that we aren't operating out of a deficit. We do want to reach out and
save those kids that unfortunately have made bad choices, but we want to acknowledge the fact that most of them are making those healthy choices. So, with that, we'll go forward and we'll talk about, you know, cannabis because we all are these days. Um, we
have a state statute that got passed through. Um, it's continually in development. Um, as we've seen through the the last two legislative cycles. Um, it's got a lot of different names. Um, I don't know what you called it when you were a kid. For me, it was weed, but there's a ton of names out there for it.
Ultimately, what we're talking about is a plant that has the properties toxicate. And so, next uh, next slide. So ultimately there's if you don't know there's delta 8, there's delta 9. Those are the two big ones that we deal with.
Um delta uh but there's like over 500 different delta variants through this plant. Um all of them are still schedule one on the federal law. That's important for us to keep in mind, too. Just because the state has
recreational laws passed, there is federal um push back at this point in time. They haven't rescheduled it. There's there's work on that. We'll see what happens over time. Um CBD though is the one exception to the schedule one. So it's important to keep that in mind
as we go forward. Next, um as I said, delta 9, delta 8, those are the two that were the most. Um and so just to reemphasize it, delta 9 is THC. When we talk about weed, when we talk about marijuana or cannabis and getting high, we're talking about delta 9 or from now on, I'll just kind of call
it cannabis. that makes it a little bit easier. Um, delta 8 is um, usually hemp derived. So, as you guys have gone through a lot of the different uh, variations of the state statute and what you can do locally, uh, delta 8 is usually what we talk about low potency
hemp products and I'll talk a little about that. But, um, just to make that differentiation. Okay. Next. Um, so the biggest thing that I've learned about Delta 9 is to really realize that this is not our grandpa's
weed, right? This isn't when we talk about, you know, I mean, really, it really is. When we go back to Woodstock and we think about that era and stuff like that, they there's a reason they called it grass. It almost was grass that they were smoking, right? We're talking like 4% or less THC in the
product that they were using. Nowadays though, the average street weed, the average weed that gets sold in a dealer's location is usually 20 to 24%. You say dealer as in illegal. As in illegal illegal, it could be either or like whether whether you're buying it from someone on the street or whether
it's a licensed product, you're looking at something that's 20 to 24%. Licensed products now would be list would list the potency, wouldn't they? They should. Okay. They should absolutely. So per research, per all the interesting information I'm going to give you, it's
important to understand that 10% THC is considered high potency. So keep that in mind as we go forward. And I tell you next that when you vape a product, you're usually looking at 90% or more THC. Well, vaping
for THC. Yeah. So there's some really high potency stuff out there. Okay. Now, delta 8 sometimes diet weed we kind of call it. It's a little bit less it's less po excuse me it's less potent and it has other problems as well because um
the hemp plant is amazing. Um you guys may know way more about it than I do, but the hemp plant itself can suck nutrients out of the soil, bad ones like heavy metals. They can I mean guys they're using it around Chernobyl to suck radiation out of the soil and try
to recreate um like a a usable arable land right this is amazing and when it's used as as it was originally intended this is great you know if you're going to make clothes out of this stuff or building materials awesome but if you take that and you realize that you know
I can reduce that down to a THC like product and use it now we have problems if that sucked up a whole ton heavy metals. That's a lot of the problems that we have with smoking cigarettes and things, right, that cause disease. So, when that stuff gets gets refined and
made potent and then put into things like a delta 8 um vape, now we have all kinds of other problems besides the THC, besides any kind of addiction to it as well. So, um just to kind of make a comparison. Next, please.
CBD. Um I'm not going to spend a lot of time on that one. Um, is it medicine? We're not sure. It's not. The FDA hasn't approved it yet. So, I, as a public health official, can't say yes. However, there's way too much anecdotal evidence out there of people who have tried
things, for example, for arthritis or whatnot, and maybe they found a cream that worked for them for me to say that there's no help there. So, absolutely, it is a product that is being researched and should be researched. There's a good chance that it could become some form of medication over time. I mean, for crying
out loud, it's been used. It's it's recorded in ancient Egypt, China, India, all the birthplaces of medicine. They were using these products to heal. So, might we find something out of it? Probably. But that's all I'm going to say about CBD right now because it has
nothing to do with our state statute next. I already said I already covered hemp, so we'll go forward with this one. Um, and I just talked about medicine. We'll go forward, too. Told you I'd be quick. Um, so how's it consumed? A lot
of people aren't really sure about the different ways that it's consumed. So I thought it'd be important to put this out there. Um, when we talk about smoking, there's of course joints or blunts or bongs. Um, and we've all heard different names. The differentiation, a bong is of course a water pipe. We might
think of that as hookah. It's it was used quite often in a lot of comedy movies throughout the 80s if you watch them. Um, so most people are really familiar with that. There's an idea that using the bong or a hookah either or that the water in it might take some of
the contaminants out and actually what it's been proven is it wets the particullet. So when you breathe it it sticks in your lungs more to the point where just that part of it is 20 times worse than smoking. So yikes. Now blunts are the cigar-like shape. If you've seen
Snoop Dogg on TV, you've seen a blunt and they can be huge. Um but it's it's use Yeah, I know. I I try to put some humor in here as we go. Um joints, um similar to a cigarette, sometimes they're sold pre-rolled as well. Um but those are the three combustible versions. These come as well with the
some of the same problems that cigarettes have, right? When you smoke them, you're inhaling this smoke and tar and stuff into your lungs. Next, then there's vaping it. I mentioned the vape pens, how they're usually 90 plus% THC. They also have all the other
problems when we talk about nicotine vaping, right? So, they have the products that are superheated and then cooled and therefore they cause the the lung cancers and the and the all the different problems that we've seen with the vaping epidemic across the nation.
Um, and right now there's there's dual use vapes that are already on the market where you can flip a switch and you can go back and forth between cannabis and nicotine, which is really where things get extra scary because they double down on each other. Like we find that
nicotine is far more addictive than marijuana, but marijuana has way more effects on a child's brain. So when you get both of them, they're both amplified. So kind of scary stuff. And then dabbing is this idea of taking some of the uh of of a concentrated wax of
the product and melting it on a heated coil. So it turns our kids into junior maggyvers and they're taking their vapes apart and they're they're like heating this up. So they're not even getting any of the filtration product. It's all directly inhaled into their lungs. Nasty
stuff. And then of course eating. There's the edibles that are out there right now. Um right now they should not be more than 5% THC. Um, there's a reason why for an average adult human, um, 5% THC is enough to get you to a place of being high. Um, but there are
edibles that are go all the way up the spectrum. Um, so buyer beware whenever they're looking at those. Tinctures are things you might like put on your tongue. I didn't even know the name tincture, what it meant until I started researching cannabis. Um, but there's lots of different ways. It might also be something that you put into an alcoholic
beverage. Um, and then there's topicals like creams and lotions and things like that. Next, I I kind of alluded to this already. Um, if you would like access to this uh document, um, we use it when we do tableabling and giving away things because the there's a very precise
science as to what an edible means. And and though that might be the number one way that I'm seeing people who aren't familiar with with cannabis introducing themselves to it. And so it's really important when we talk about edibles that a person realizes that it takes time for anything we eat to get into our
bloodstream as opposed to like smoking as opposed to injecting something directly into a vein. Smoking is the fastest way to get it into your system. And edibles are the number one way like I said that we're using. So if if I take an edible and I have an empty stomach 30
45 minutes I'll probably have it into my bloodstream because there's nothing to stop it. But if I take it after I've eaten, for example, there's brownies and things like that that are out there. You might take it as a dessert. A person might wonder why it's taking three hours, four hours for it to engage. And
so they might start to think I had a dud and they take another one. Well, it's still taking them. Maybe I had a steak dinner with some potato, right? And it's taking even longer. Now it's four or five hours. And I take a third one and they starts it starts catching up. And that's when I start seeing, you know, leprechauns in the kitchen or dragons
outside, things like that. If you take multiples, then you're just you're going be taking a a 20 if you're and then oh, it's not working. Take another 20. Well, then all of a sudden, take three, you're up in that dangerous 100%. That that's when our our sheriff is being called,
you know, and so and so what's really dangerous is when a person does this and then gets in the car thinking that they're going to be fine, you know. No. Does alcohol any have any accelerating effects on anything or they don't but they do operate side by side? So if you have a person who has been drinking and
using cannabis then cannabis has this effect where you tend to follow closer. You tend to have delayed reactions on breaking and things like that. You may also have some of that lane departure that you get from alcohol. So you put the two of them together and you
absolutely have a a driver that should not be on the road. And while we have 5% THC drinks that have been legal for a couple of years now, um there are drinks coming that have much higher potency THC in them with the alcohol. So something
to definitely keep an eye on. Next, please. So, um switching over to just what's going on state law-wise, 2023 of course was when the edibles came on the market. Um and that was that 5% beverages and edibles. That's why I told you. Now, the
the recent legislation that just passed did allow a can. We had cans that would have two servings of 5%, so 10% in the can. They are now allowed to not have to tell you this is two servings. They can just give you the can of 10% and say
that's one serving. So, again, it's one of the things that hopefully the population will um pay attention to as we go forward because a person could easily get too much into their system. 2024 is when um the recreational law went into effect. Um individuals owning
their own home could grow up to six plants in their backyard. Um they could have a lot of product on on site. I believe I have that on the next slide. 2025, this is when retail sales are coming. Um they're they're doing the lotteryies right now. So we could have stores opening any time. Um we do in for
example in Morehead we have a store already open because it was uh came from a tribal nation. they were allowed to start ahead because we we don't get to tell them how to do uh how to regulate themselves. However, they um White Earth made a special uh arrangement with the
governor's office that allowed them to open early. So, we're getting to kind of pilot that um in Morehead. Um and then for me, I'm I'm an educator at heart. We will not see money given for education in our schools until 2026 to 2027. So
there's a lot going on before our kids even get some education going on. Very well thought out by the legislation. Yes. Let's let's throw it out there. Then we educate after they're done. 100%. 100%. And so Mr. Hansen, you had a question. Mr. Chair, uh education for
what? Education on um potency. Some of the same information I'm giving you like what it could do in the body, things like that. So your general health education that you might get in in, you know, 8th grade, 10th grade, things like that. You remember the Yeah. Put the eye the egg in the frying pan. Yeah. This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.
Yeah. Hopefully we can do better than that this time though. Okay. Next slide, please. I just I don't get this whole thing. Um I included this picture on purpose to show you that many people on TV have seen a plant that you know is maybe like this tall that in the out in
the wild in Colorado that is a fully formed cannabis plant and a person can grow six of those in their backyard if they can keep it alive long enough. So that plant that's a 6'4 DEA agent standing right next to it just to give it some perspective. Um anyway, so we
can use cannabis in our our home. That's a real plant. I mean a real photo, real plant, not AI. Yeah. Yeah. Um looks like it right now. By state law, you can use it in your home yard or curdle. Um for anyone that's listening that doesn't know what a curdle is, that's a shed in
your yard. I had to look that up myself. um you cannot use it anywhere prohibited by Minnesota Clean Indoor Air. So that's one of the nice things we have for us is anywhere clean indoor air already covers us. Cannabis smoking and vaping is covered including u multi-unit housing. So that's important if you have um as
commissioners if you have apartment owners asking you like what can I do? The state law does cover them already. You're not allowed to smoke or vape cannabis indoors if you are in a multi-unit home. So if you're renting,
for example, a one one family home, then it could be allowed. They would they could make a policy. They are backed up by law. So that's good to know, Mr. Chair. So who's policing that? Great question. That would that that falls down to the uh to the owners to be able
to make the reports. I'm already fielding those those calls myself um in Klay County. So, um, you can possess two ounces on your person, two pounds in your home because we have a long legisl a long winter is what I was told when I asked that question. Eight grams of the
cannabis concentrate, up to 800 milligrams of edibles. So, you break that down. And of course, six plants on site, two of which are not supposed to be flowering. And again, to Mr. Hansen's um uh question like who's gonna Yeah, no
one's looking in anybody's backyard. Okay. Next slide. I told you about the legal sales. Starting July 1st of 2022 is when edibles and beverages went out. Um at this point in time, anyone that got one of the original licenses from Minnesota Department of Health should be switching
over to the low potency hemp um licensing. So if they don't have that, that it's their subject up to a $2,000 uh penalty. Um so hopefully they would be following with Office of Cannabis Management. Um, and then, um, yes, you
have to be an adult store to be able to sell anything other than the edibles. It has to be an actual THC store. So, that's that's very important to keep in mind. Um, which you should know very well they should be licensing themselves through. Next, uh, next slide.
Um, so this is where uh, the licensed cannabis stores where I um, they can only sell cannabis. Um, we can't have a vape store that also sells the high potency cannabis. We can't have a grocery store or a gas station selling the high potency cannabis. They're only eligible for the low potency products.
Um, which I mentioned, they have their own issues, but the high potency stuff is supposed to be in a store that only sells the high potency products. Um, and that's so we don't have confusion when we do compliance checks, when we have someone go in there. Um, someone under the age of 21 should not even be allowed
through the door. Um, so they're not supposed to be sampling the product. Um, it's supposed to be under restricted access. So, in other words, behind glass. Um, that where you have to actually bring it out and give it out. Um, they're they're supposed to have their own security plan that's licensed. Um, and they're not supposed
to have any Well, I need to take that bullet point off. I'm sorry. Um, as of this last one, drive uh drive-thru is allowed v uh and vending is not. So, um, delivery of of sales is has been permitted as of the most recent legislative. So, that's something that
you would have You can Door Dash it. Exactly. Exactly. And those Door Dash people will verify the age of everyone. I can guarantee. Absolutely. I mean, I'm I'm with you on that. Um, a question on it says um may only sell cannabis. On the previous slide, it said you could
sell at liquor store only. Oh, okay. Um, so when this first came out, liquor stores were going to be allowed um and and are still allowed to sell if it's an offsale location, not like so if you walk into a bar, they're not allowed to sell the high potency, but they can't
have low potency because that's a lot of your drinks or your edibles, but they couldn't sell the higher potency products. Um, and originally that was all that that was going to be allowed to sell the low potency products, but now that has been that has become If there's
a liquor store or a mun like L park MUN if and they're separate they can sell they can sell they will be able to sell cannabis in in the liquor store at the low potency stuff. Yes. Not the Okay. So not this right. Not this these products.
Okay. If it feels a bit confusing they they literally are building this out as they go. Yeah. And finding just fascinating things for us as we go. Cannabis events. um that think of it like a beer garden. Um if someone wants to have one in
Becker County, they have to come to you or whoever you've made your um your body to uh you are allowed it's the one thing in in this law that you are allowed to say no to. Um otherwise they have to um if they if they have go through their pro the process which begins with office
of cannabis management and then if they have the legal ability to have it then they have to come to you. you get to choose yes or no. Um if you if you allow it to be hosted, there'll probably be a three-day event out here on the WeiFest grounds. That's exactly the kind of thing to think about. And and
if you pursue that, the things to think about would be that I would urge is to think of it exactly exactly like a beer garden, except in this case, secondhand high is a thing. You if you have a beer garden and a person doesn't want to drink, they're not getting drunk. In this case, if a person is allowed to
just walk around smoking cannabis, people around them are getting high as well. So, important to keep in mind. Next, okay. Um, I mentioned this state statute prohibits smoking and vaping of non-medical cannabis within a multi-unit
housing. Um, as uh Commissioner Hansen brought up, you can report it up to the Office of Cannabis Management. They don't have a lot of people going out doing inspections yet, so I don't know how fast someone would get there. Um, it is something that can be enforced, though. It could be done at
um, but it would it would involve the the owner having to take the tenant to court. It's it's uh, kind of a messy situation. Um, you you can't prohibit the use of edibles or medical cannabis at any form. Um, uh, it's unknown about personal growing.
No one has made a definitive statement at this point in time. If you're renting, can I grow? Um, if you can't smoke it and and vape it, my thought is the answer is you can say no. But no one has tried this out yet and no one has written this into law yet as to what a
renter could do. Um, and then there is a nuisance provision which again was given no definition. Um, nuisance provision in multi-unit housing is generally things like um loud parties and things like that. So it can be handled the same way. it is given um some leeway um for for
people to be able to enforce it. But once again, how do I who do I call uh to enforce this? Next, can you can you can you smoke smoke in public? I mean, so if you don't if if Becker County doesn't pass a public use ordinance, then you
can smoke anywhere that clean indoor air doesn't cover. And Clean Indoor Air only covers indoor locations. Okay. So, so as example, I could walk down any street or sidewalk that be at the beach.
Absolutely. But there is um um League of Minnesota Cities has made a really good um model ordinance that many states, many of our counties have passed, Klay County has passed it as well. Um where that says uh effectively it dumbs it
down to say in your home or in your yard you can smoke. Once you step off the burm, don't do it. So, you can't you absolutely could pass that. We passed something, I think, on county property, I think. Well, just count I think we need to review that. Yeah, we need to
look at it. Yeah, I'd be happy to provide Amanda with a copy to and we should encourage the city to I'm sure they have, but to I mean, I don't want the fairgrounds to be a spot where we're going to be having to deal with this or, you know, right? I don't want the public beach or even middle Cormad access. I
don't think people should be having smoking in public. M. Yeah. Especially when you think about how it affects little kids' brains. Absolutely. It's going back to like when smoking was allowed in bars and you're you're stuck stuck in there. It's like Absolutely. Uh
next slide. Um in the workplace, this gets a little interesting. Employers are not allowed to allow use. Now, I say it that way on purpose because the question comes up if a person can walk off the job and can
use at home recreationally, what what is our ability as a workplace, right? And so, it really boils down to the same thing if if I can make a cross reference to alcohol. Um, we wouldn't let somebody come to work drunk. We certainly wouldn't let them drive the company vehicle drunk. We wouldn't allow our law
enforcement to be car or security to be carrying weapons drunk. I mean, all of these are very similar laws, right? So, when it comes to can I test someone if I think they're using cannabis? Yes, you can. For your own protection, um, make
sure that it's for a reason, not just they smelt a little funny. Um, you know, if if they're showing up and they're not delivering the job that they were hired to do, absolutely, you can always ask for a drug test to find out. per uh the per the state statute, which goes all
the way back to schedule one. The only um jobs where you're not allowed to use cannabis would be um if you work with uh youth, if you work with vulnerable adults, if you drive a CDL style license for your uh for your job, and if you
have to use a firearm as part of your job. So those are the fifth is if you have a federal grant. So like for myself, I work with kids. I work with some vulnerable adults and I am part of a federal grant. So I have three things saying Jason McCoy will never be using
cannabis. I didn't want to but if I if I had um so those are things to keep in mind from an employer perspective as you are. Um, and then, um, the other important thing that I put on there is that for family and group daycarees, they have, if they choose to use when
the kids aren't present, they have to make sure that the parents know that that happens. And that's that secondhand smoke version because if you're if the minute the kids are gone, you're smoking cannabis. Parents need to know that their kids are being exposed to that
whenever they come over. Next slide. And these rules can change every day though. So they have in each legislative cycle so far. Yeah. Um so office of canist management is stood up and is working now. They they I think they made
a really good uh decision when they put their uh their acting director in charge. He is a lawyer by trade and so he's been making sure to give us more resources to help and make sure things are more better defined. So that's been something that's been very helpful. um
our licensing and and uh the taxation. Um all of this is coming through Office of Cannabis Management at this point in time. They they've put out some really good documents to help us with things like compliance checks and if you choose to go through ordinances or what a person can sell and what can't sell like
we have a lot and this is just in like the last two months these things have come out. Next. So when we talk about local control, things that you probably already have know, but just in case um things that you can and can't do because this law was very very stringent on on uh certain
things that we um first of all is that we couldn't prohibit a business. We couldn't say no directly. So Becker County couldn't say no, we don't want any cannabis here at all. Um that was literally written into the statute. However, we can regulate time, place,
and manner of sale. So things like we can prohibit pro proximity to schools, daycarees, and um we can limit zoning um to where we want the the locations to be. Um we can limit retailers to one per 12,500. So in Becker County, for example, that
would be three stores total. Um you can approve and reject the cannabis events. Um we can't prohibit possession, transport, or use. Now I did say about the public use, you can. When we talk about their in at home, we can't stop
them from using it at home, which can be problematic. You could have people calling you like, you know, my neighbor is smoking, it's coming across the fence, things like that. The three in Becker County, this is only the stores at 21 above and only cannabis. Correct.
We can have So that's it's not the lower dose. Those are separate. Correct. So the three is just the Does that include tribal? Um, no. We're not allowed to to to count the tribal stores. Um, and we're not allowed to to state what they
can and can't have, just what's on our ground. So, like you and Morehead, right? Exactly. And then cities can do differently. They don't have to follow along. However, and this is confusing, but we can as a county choose to count
the ones that happen. So, let's say DL had three already and Becker County had passed one per 12,500 and then someone asked to open a store in an unincorporated area. You could say no, like we've got our three. You could
choose to do that or you could choose to say it has to be three where we license and we're just not doing anything with that city. To make things even a little more confusing, the city can choose to give you as a county um the rights to
regulation for their city, but that also puts compliance on you as well. Do we have to take it? You do not. So, there's a form that has to be filled out, has to be filed with OCM. Um, and then all that. So, I apologize. Some of
this is a little tedious. Um, any other questions on that slide? townships. Um the same same goes if if you want to regulate them and they want you to regulate it. Absolutely. They do need to fill out that form
and then you can and at that point in time they can fall into the one per 12,500 or you can allow it to be whatever the market says. What can get frustrating is as a county body, if you choose to say
we're going to limit and a particular city with or township within could say we're going to let the market, you know, carry it and they could end up having double what you were hoping would be in the county. So, yeah. Okay. Next. Oh, you made this a
lot clearer. So, thank I I hope I'm giving some clearness in this in in in the fog. You're educating us. I don't know if it's clear. Yeah, it's it's tough. and I'm available for questions. Um, and if you think of questions afterwards as well, reach out to me. Yeah.
Um, you can charge a registration fee. Um, $500 is a max. I absolutely recommend that you go with that max because that is how you're going to pay for compliance checks. That's going to pay for filing. That's going to pay for all the work that you're going to have to do around this. Um, $1,000 max for
renewals. Um, you can't charge an application fee on top of that, which I thought was fascinating, but I had to include it. Shall you shall by state statute issue retail registration? We don't get to get out of this. We have to give the registration. The license comes
from Office of Cannabis Management. We get the registration fees because we get to do the work um as of compliance and and uh compliance checks and if there's any enforcement that needs to be done, that falls on us. Mr. Chair, when you
said we need to do the work, who's we? As as a county or as a city, um, as a governmental body, it is put on us. The state passed the law and put the put this work on us, but they issued the license. Yes. So, for the county that
that means the sheriff. Yes. In unless like in Klay County, they they gave public health that ability to do that. So, it is who you name to be your enforcement arm. So public health, Amanda, you could be the enforcement arm for this would be if
you appointed public health to it. Since you're not doing much, we'll just add that to your list. Yeah. So um in this shall we it's retail registration, renew the registrations, conduct the compliance checks. Um office of canvas management does have guidance
now on their website. We may suspend if not in compliance. That was something new that this legislative cycle gave us. So, in other words, if we find out that someone's selling to kids, we can shut them down until it's all worked out. And that might last up to 30 days. We don't have to let them keep selling the
product and wait for Office of Canvas Management to send a state person here to investigate. So, they will have to send somebody, but we can stop the sale at that point in time. Next. Oops.
You just push the enter button or the arrow. Oh, did I go too far? Just went too far. Push the back arrow. There you go. So, just I was trying to break it down here for you. County government, city and
townships may work together. one business per 12,500 if you choose to write that into an ordinance. If not, it's what the market can can uh handle. Um we're not we can't prevent businesses unless this is what we were just talking through. They choose to give the
registration control to the county. They have to fill out that office of cannabis management form or else that doesn't count. Um compliance is provided by registering entity. Once the maximum is reached, you may choose to prevent new businesses from opening and a city a city under the county may choose to
allow as many businesses as the market will bear. So that's what we were just talking through next. So this probably makes a lot of sense with what I how I just described this. My suggestion is as many people as possible
to work together. Um pass a public use ordinance that will cover your park, sidewalks. It'll define your public spaces for you. Keep the registration fee as high as you absolutely can because this is the money you're going to need to make sure that you're not dipping into your own pocket to be able to provide compliance checks
or enforcement and things like that. Um zoning. Um in Klay County, we did industrial, we did highway retail is where we put things. Is this for growing or selling? Both. Both. Both. Um consider those schools and daycarees. Um keep the business as far away as
possible because they will market. Absolutely. Um, when you consider waste, we actually wrote into our waste uh ordinance um to think about clippings and how they're destroyed to have a plan and as part of the business plan uh that they're going to destroy because what we've heard um from other places is that
kids kids are smart, right? I mean, the kids used to pick up cigarette butts off the ground and that's how they get their first hit of nicotine. They will watch a store and see when they throw away the clippings and and make their own rolls and things like that. So, it's important to make sure that those get destroyed. Um, and then nuisance. Make sure that
you treat it like any other a business for nuisance because it does smell badly if they're if they're producing things. Um, but what I've been warned is that right now at the state level the uh the marijuana industry is the stops are
being pulled out to allow it to get get going. And so we want to be careful because if we're seen as being um enforcing things that we wouldn't enforce on somebody else um as far as agricultural uh smoke or waste or things like that that we could end up getting
like targeted as well. So just to keep that in mind. That makes no it's a new category. What do you mean? I mean that that just doesn't make sense to me. But I'm I'm with you. Uh next slide. And that's that's my contact
information. I will provide these uh slides. You guys already have them. If you have more questions, I'm happy to answer them now or when at a time of your convenience as well. I can send this information out to you. Yeah, that'd be great. Uh does anybody have any questions for Jason?
All right. I have lots of questions, but yeah, I mean so do I. Thank you for the lot of clarity there. So, thank you. Thank you very much. No problem. All right. We're going to more to come. Yeah. We're going to we're going to take a 5m minute break. So 11:05 come back
here. 6 minute break. All right, we'll re rejourn our meeting. Readjourn. What's I don't know what that means. Re although I I probably deserve that. Rejourn. I did say rejourn. Where are we going? I I We're going to go to the We're going to move to the our sheriff.
We're going to skip ahead to him and then we'll go back. I did the dive. Yep. Yeah. Thank you. Yep. It's on. Okay.
Okay. Now I'm ready. you wanted to go back to uh the consent agenda. Yeah. Do we go to number 10 first with the where the we fest? Uh yes. Um parking people or traffic control. So I'm looking for approval to
hire uh 28 or excuse me it would be enough for 28 shifts. Mhm. For we traffic duty. This will cover 12 daytime positions and 16 uh evening and nighttime positions.
We originally had talked about 26 at committee, but we'd like to have two extra to help with rotations if you know obviously in the the heat and those that need a break. I I just want to clarify the 28 is
uh it's actually 96 positions, but it's could probably handled by 28 people. 96 posts, you mean? 98 98 96 posts. Yes. Yes. I make a motion to approve. Yep. I'll I'll second. Any any further discussion? Okay. All in
favor signify by saying I note that's covered by the week fees. Yes, correct. It is covered by the correct. Okay. And then I had asked Mr. Chair if I could uh switch one and two around. Uh so I'd like to go to uh the request to
sell a squad. Motion to approve. Motion. Second. Okay. We have a motion, a second to sell the squad. Do we have any further discussion? Okay. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All right. Motion carries. Thank you. And then I'd like to bring in the group for the awards. Sweet. It'll take just a couple
minutes to do that. Um Mr. Mr. Chair, why why do you have to bring in the squad to sell because it's going to be above $5,000 to sell it? To sell it. To sell. He's selling county equipment. Correct. So, anytime we dispose of county equipment, we have to correct. Yes. Or receive grant fund or receive
donation funds board approval. Yep. It has to be available to public. Public has to be able to see it. Just for the record, there was over 100,000 miles when the engine blew on that vehicle. So, all right. own. So we have to Okay, makes sense.
Nobody wants to sit up front. What are we doing here? This is the public safety Sure. Walked in with this yellow. He walked away with this bright yellow shirt on. Lots of room. Come on in.
right in the front row. Harvey, I see you dressed up for the occasion. Don't have be careful the guy in the yellow shirt. Yeah, he's kind of scary. Okay. Uh today I'm going to be giving out some life-saving awards and I'd like to call
up uh communications officer Jacob Kash and Sergeant Brian Aaho first if you guys want to stand right there. And honestly, I could be giving out awards
monthly, uh, but there's two that, uh, stick out, and this goes back to this winner. On February 7th, 2025, at approximately 4:54 a.m., the Becker County Sheriff's Office received a cell phone detected
crash at the intersection of County Road 151 and 460th Avenue in Lake Township. Communications Officer Crash answered that 911 call, but there was no response. Although there was no response on the
phone, he had a feeling that something was wrong. He immediately dispatched Sergeant Aaho to the location of the Boston crash along with Wolf Lake Rescue and Wolf Lake Fire Department. Crash continued to try to communicate with someone on the phone and eventually
heard what sounded like labor breathing. Now again, Jacob is in inside four walls and a ceiling with only the phone to go by. Gra continued to attempt to talk to the
person while emergency personnel responded. When Sergeant Avo arrived, he discovered that a vehicle had crashed in the trees at that intersection with the driver in obvious distress due to extensive injuries and rapid blood loss.
Sergeant AO immediately worked to control bleeding. The patient was eventually airlifted to a Fargo hospital for emergency treatment. Due to quick thinking and immediate response by both of these officers,
the patient has now returned home and is recovering from this incident and at this time possibly fully recovered. So, I just want to say congratulations to the uh these officers and thank you
after your next one. Sure. I'll you stay right there. Deputy Adam Wy So this this is nine days later. Uh and I just want to say that the deputy winner is also our one of our K9 handlers.
And I I come to think I I hear these comments all the time. There's never a cop when you need one. And uh this will prove that theory wrong. On February 16th, 2025, at approximately
3:18 a.m., Deputy Adam Winter was patrolling County Highway 26 when he saw a vehicle in ditch that appeared to have crashed. The vehicle was severely damaged and appeared to have been there for an extended period of time due to the frost on the vehicle.
Winter notified dispatch of the crash and Sergeant AO AO, who was also near the crash site, responded. As they got closer to the vehicle, they could hear screaming coming from inside the vehicle.
EMS was immediately dispatched to the scene along with an air ambulance. It should be noted that the temperature that night was -10. That was at the time the vehicle was discovered by deputy winner. A male was found inside the vehicle. The male was
obviously injured and suffering from hypothermia. Winter and Au immediately started first aid and tried to warm the male with blankets. The male was then flown by air to a hospital in Fargo. It was later discovered that the vehicle
had left the road and flipped in an end overend manner at least three times several hours prior. If not for the quick response and actions of Deputy Wy and Sergeant Oppo, this incident may have had much a much more tragic result.
Thank you both. Sure. Not necessarily of us though. No, we'll get out of the way. What do you want? I'd like us on photos. stay lower level. Anyone who wants pictures?
Yeah. I I have to say this. We had one one of the mothers uh forgot her phone camera and she had she had time to go pick it up. Can you imagine that? How far away?
No, maybe just just the law enforcement. Maybe that's the real one. You guys just see Thank you. Thank you. Yep. Thanks, Todd. Is that it for Todd? For for me any.
Yep. Okay. Thank you. I better go shake some hands. Yeah. What are we going to go back to Carrie? I'm sorry. We'll go back to human resources then. We'll go back. Okay. That's what I understand. Yeah. He's a chair. He can do whatever he
wants. Back to six. We'll go back to human resources. Yeah. Thank you. Tier not realizing how much Harvey's son looked like in it. Oh yeah, I know. He looks just like him. Isn't that something? Yeah. Yeah, you're next. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're You are next.
We'll just wait for everybody to clear out here. I can do work sessions every Tuesday. We could. And you know what? You know, here's here's what I was like. I thought we had it all figured out. Oh, I didn't.
It's amazing to find that phone crash and they find that fast. I mean, I'm I'm thinking of the growing specifically like I'm not as worried about the retail. I feel like they need retail. All right, let's go ahead with
human resources. Thank you, Mr. Commissioner. So the first item that is before you is resolution 7251D. This is a forming of a group that can contribute to an HCSP which is a
healthcare savings plan. This is written into contracts with majority of our unions. Um but there is an ability for the board to assign groups by approving the resolution. There have been a couple of requests. So the first is the
resolution 1D and then the second is resolution 1E. 1D is for the administration office and then 1E is for the post-licensed nonUN members of the sheriff's office.
So we don't or these two offices don't currently these individuals do not. So there is not a full group for non-union um members. All of, like I said, all except for one of our union contracts do currently have an HCSP contribution in
place, but our non-union does not. The um MSRS representative, so Cody, he told us that we could form groups outside of like the collective units as long as we have at least two members and there is a common denominator between the members
and they can agree to what the percentage contribution is and so on. And have we brought brought this out to all non-union members or just those that have come forward? There were conversations in the past. Um so there is one employee in particularly that
really does want to join a group but there were conversations in the past with the full non-union group and there was never ability to agree on what percentage and so on and so forth. So I am communicating with the other non-UN members in offices and if
they can form a group of at least two participants that have a common denominator then you may see more of these resolutions before you. So So if the non-union forms a group they they don't all have to contribute do they? They do. Oh they do. It's all or nothing. So the only exception to that
is if an individual is um on a retirement Triricare account um either themselves or spouse and they can actually elect to not contribute but there are very very few stipulations where you can not contribute if you're
part of a group. Mr. Chair Tira if we've got 330 50 employees what percentage are are union and what percent are not? the majority are union. I don't have an exact number off the top of my head. So
there are certain positions that are non-union. Um so any supervisory and I can't think department heads department heads are not union. I would say 90% I would say 90 would be are union or you didn't know that. Motion to approve
1D. We have a motion by Barry approve one D. Do we have second? Second by Erica. Do we have any discussion? Okay. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Need a entertain a motion for onee. So moved. Moved by a
motion by Barry, second by. Me. By Erica. I'll second. Okay. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All right. Motion carries. And then the third item that I have before you are the job descriptions for the sheriff's office. Um,
there are three reclassifications after going back and forth with sheriff's department, DDA, making sure everything is in place and and correct. There were three positions that were identified as needing to be regraded. Uh, the memo is in front of you from DDA with the
reasoning on that. the cost associated with that is less than 5,000 for the remainder of 2025 and then it would be budgeted for going forward into 2026. Then I would also like to add for the
sheriff's office administrative assistant position. Um I do have a couple of small tweaks to make that were brought to my attention after putting it in the packet. So, if you can allow the flexibility to make those tweaks or if you want me to call them out, I
certainly can. Um, I would I'll make a motion to approve um and allow the tweaks as long as confirmed by our administrator. So, we have a motion by the changes. Barry. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Richard. Okay. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor? All
in favor signify by saying I. I. All right. Motion carries. Thank you. Yep. All right. Let's go to Judy. Thanks, Tara. Thank you, dear. Hi, Judy. I'm up to date on all my testing. Oh, good. So am I.
Good. Good morning, commissioners. Good morning, chairman. Today, I'm here um I'm going to let you know how many uh on call uh tickets we've had or on call calls we've had since June 1st.
2024 through May 31st, 2025. Um, we've had a total of 15. Uh, five were from Clearwater, nine were from Dispatch, Jail, and Sheriff, and that's all Becker County, and one was from White Earth. Um, I have some detail if you want to
hear it. Uh, Mr. Chair, Judy, yeah, these calls are for what? They're Well, it depends. They're just it calls. their their calls because uh almost all the Clearwater calls is because somebody from their department can't get into our
into our VPN, our VPN, which is where they get their uh they use a product called Zurker, which is managed by Central Square. And what that does is that helps them uh be safer out there. Again, the sheriff can explain exactly what it is if he was still in here. I
just know that that's what they use to run certain things. It's calls to Judy or her office for after hours service. support for the sheriff's office and anybody else in law enforcement for law enforcement. Okay. Okay. And so, uh, for
all of the ones for Clearwater County, it was to get into our system using our multifactor authentication. Um, and there various dates. I think you've got the dates on there. Um, the reason I broke out the uh dispatch, jail, and sheriff's office is only just because
we've broken it out on our um on on our system. I mean, there's no real reason. Now, what I did want to point out is we have uh the 719, 720, and 720. Those are actually three different calls. The first one was for
um I don't know if everybody remembers but but last July 20th um early early or the 19th, excuse me, we had a we had what we've termed the crowd strike incident. That's a product we use for uh through the state that that stops
malware and those kinds of things. The crowd strike people had made a mistake when they were updating their and this is in the news so this is not new. they had made a mistake and they um created anybody that was logged not logged in or
that had to reboot you couldn't get in. So we brought in well really it was kind of an all hands- on deck. We brought in everybody from it that was available and came in and started doing doing what we needed to do fairly early in the morning. But that was the first thing.
We got that resolved by probably 3:00 or 4 in the afternoon and we're very happy. and then all went home thinking that well we're not going to get another call for quite a few days. Then on 7:20 uh we took a minor power glitch but what that
power glitch did is it took out one of our UPS in our data center and it was an important one because it it took out our uh storage area network. You you guys might be remember purchasing that a couple years ago but all of a sudden
that had no power. So that was the the next call and uh that was that took quite a while to get back up. We had to fix the up the we wanted to fix the UPS and then go from there. So that took most of Saturday and then a little bit
later Saturday early late afternoon we took another call because out at the jail they had uh their uh their PC their pre-booking computer just wasn't working. So then uh negotiated with them
to go out on a Sunday and we went out that day and took care of that. So those are three incidents with all within the same weekend. So we just never know how it's going to happen. And so um we do put these in as tickets because that's
the the best way for us to keep track of them. And um if anybody wants to, you know, I can send people tickets if they really want to see them. I've got the ticket numbers. I've got the approximate amount of time there. Some of them are five minutes. Uh most of the ones for,
you know, if it's a locked account, that's five minutes. Do we just have to get in and unlock it? Uh some of them are 15 minutes. Some of them could be 30 minutes, 2 minutes. Somebody typed in the wrong password and they called. So it all
depends. And then uh that Crowd Strike one was 18 hours. The power failure is about five and a half. Uh it was a couple hours for the the uh pre-booking computer, but other than that, they're they're most mostly, you know, couple minutes here, maybe. Uh the the one that
we had with Whiter was a couple hours, but that's because we were waiting for calls back. So, uh that's kind of where we're at. Are there any questions on this? Do you want more information? Less information? I think less information what I just saw. I still don't really know what we're talking about. Be honest with you. Clear Why is Clear Water
calling calling here? access our website. We have a relation we have a relationship with Clearwater County um and uh Ottabon, the city of Ottabon, the city of Frzy, the city of of uh Lake Park, uh the uh
city of Detroit Lakes and White Earth, they all use this same product that I mentioned, this this uh uh by crowd square. Hold on, J. Mr. Chair, uh let me get with you. I think you guys all know I'm I thought this was sheriff stuff
that was coming up here. So, um I will get with you and we'll figure this out. No problem. So, just just a little bit of background for you, Phil. About a year ago, we enacted a policy to pay on call $4 an hour for for the IT department to be on call to answer these
after after after hours. So, so that so we're a year later, so we're just getting an update on where where we've been for calls. So probably should have let you know I'll go with you with you on that. But anything else? Thank you, Jody. Yep. I I
think for me, I just I just want to talk a little bit about, you know, that this is 15 calls, only nine of them were for our sheriff's department. Um, and it it is costing us 26,000 $26,000 a year. So,
I I would like for us to re-evaluate how we do this, whether it's our on call. I would I would suggest maybe we only have on call on weekends and not during the week. I I think we need to have
conversations with Clearwater and other entities about how if we're paying 26,000 to be on call and six of them aren't coming from our agency, then I don't know that it's
fair that we're paying for it. All I I would agree with you as far as that goes. All I can tell you is is if people need help and we don't pay for on call, no one will answer the phone. That's it. I mean there's I think maybe
the better thing I think we should continue with on call but you know maybe with all the agent all the different towns and agencies maybe they maybe just have an annual fee and we can even if we pick up most of it and and small cities pick up a small portion of maybe usage
you can figure it percentage we're obviously the highest use. Clearwater would probably pop up there a little bit and um obviously they should be contributing if they're five five calls and were they five? Yeah, they were
five. So I don't know. I would dis I would disagree with you that we need to continue it. I think we could look at other ways of doing it, whether it's through job descriptions or I don't I don't know what I don't know what the
answer is, but I just think we should explore other things because this is I I believe I looked and I think we had three calls where we didn't three months where we had no calls. So, we paid that much money just in case. I think if
you look at if you want I mean I think the first thing is to decide are these calls important enough to to address at the time and I think the answer is going to be yes. I think you can't have your sheriff's department not being I would agree. So then if you want to go the other route and look at salaried
employees I think then you're going to look at job descriptions and if you're 247 employee on call I think that job that pay raise is you're going to be affected the payroll at that weight also. I believe I mean you can't expect the salaried person there's going to be a difference in salary if you're going
to be on call 24/7 or if you're just 8 to five you know I I don't think on call 24/7 I don't I don't know what the answer is honestly I don't know what what the answer is but I don't think it's this I don't think it's us paying $4 an hour
for 16 hours 5 days a week and $4 an hour for 24 hours 2 days a week for 15 calls in a year. The problem is that it's in an emergency situation, everybody relies on technology now. Mhm.
And where do you which emergency situation is not worth 26? If somebody dies, is that worth? No, I I would agree. I mean, we I don't see I don't see how we have any choice here, but I I don't like it either, but we don't I
don't know. I just I want to make sure our sheriff has access to Judy when he needs it because all of our stuff depends on technology. I I I agree with both of you or all of you. I don't like
spending $26,000. I think God I don't know what the answer is. I know that Clear Water and White Earth and whoever else should pay us for the service if we're I but I don't know how much. Yeah.
And I don't know anything. Yeah, I'll just get a position safer that way. I think we need to re I think we need to have a plan at minimum where the other agencies that use our VPN system or use
our VPN to get into our system need to pay for it. Need to pay for it and pay for the on call or they can choose not to or they can or they can go on their own. Yeah. I mean they could they can choose not to and then and then we're doing it as a service right now. You're right. I think Judy, maybe you look at
um bring bring to committee some, you know, some possible fee structures for those that are that Yeah, I think that would be I think that would be echoable. I think then we can review it and and say for 26 if you want to if you
want this available then we ask that you contribute. Yep. X amount. I mean I and 26 divided by all those and us as the main user I don't think it's I don't think our ask is going to be a lot. No, but it's going to help. Well, it's more.
Anything else? Nope. That's it. Thanks, Judy. All right, let's move on to Steve and Mitch. Holy cow, we're coming to the break. Oh, so much for the short meeting. It's not your fault, Phil. Thank you.
Keep saying that. It's not your fault. Thank you. Morning, Mr. Chair, commissioners, party. Uh we have three items before us. Uh mostly it's parks and wreck and NRM related items. Uh for parks and wreck,
we have a resolution to support the expansion or developments at the Detroit Lakes Detroit Mountain Recreation Area. That would also include improvements to our uh Mountain View Recreation Park. It's going to be they're going to be putting in some improvements there as
part of this as well. Um there's a list of things and this grant would include uh a trail going from the Heartland Trail up to DLM um up in that area along with camping
and then purchasing some properties. Basically, this resolution is the same one that the county signed before. It's just expanding it out a little further. Does anybody have any questions? We're not obligating to any
We're not obligating any financial N. It just helps us in the fact that they're including some improvements to our I just cur, you know, in some of the wordage you're Yeah. You're just making sure we're not obligating to expand or do anything in the future. So, as long as we're we're asking for it, I'll make
a motion to approve uh one one. We have a motion may be have a second. Second. Second by Erica. Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All right. Thank you. Uh, second one is the USDA wildlife damage management
agreement. I don't Do you have a brief up? Yeah. Yep. Um, an agreement with the US Department of Agriculture. They have a a division wildlife division. Um what it is is an agreement to allow the USDA um to take wildlife damage control
measures on county tax for county managed lands. So uh that would be um you know beaver trapping or or whatever use of control they're going to use trapping firearms snares explosives to some extent um as well as greywolf and
coyote but the main thing would be beaver control. So, um, this was sent to Carrie, um, from USDA. I did talk with the other counties, uh, several other counties have passed this. Um, it is advantageous, I think, to us and to them
as well, especially in, uh, situations where beaver control or beaver dams are impacting railroads, uh, state highways, uh, but needs the work needs to be done on tax corped land. So, this would allow USDA to carry out that work. So, moved. Second. All right, we have a motion by
Barry, second by Phil. Do we have any more discussion? All right, all in favor signify by saying I. I. All right, motion carries. The last thing is uh disposal of county owned property. Uh it also includes some
property from River Wershed. Okay. Well, that's 17. Mr. Chair, the the only reason I was want um on uh number two, the funding sale proceeds will be receded to in the account that they were initially paid
from. I I don't think that's clear enough, especially with the watershed building on there. I think I think you know just for clar I think Pelican built that so we're not sending it back to the so if there's any revenues I don't know
how the wording should read but um that's that's the only it's a very good point you're right again oh my god that's three times one meeting so um and then the the Pelican
wershed that is being sold for them. That is I asked that yesterday. Is that their equipment? But apparently we have obtained it. So where does that funding go back to them? So we talked about that in finance. Basically it's an old
elevator that was sitting out there. People probably I don't care what it is. Where does the money go? For the building or for the No, for the elevator. The conveyor. Steve had brought put down less to sale of the expenses. So, Becker County has some, you know, for moving it off site
and getting it. So, so how should we state the where the sale proceeds go to then? I mean, that's the only question I don't the rest of it I this is not relevant. Where does the funding where do those sales go to? Yeah. How do we state that
the because it looks like to me that the Pelican wershed would get the any proceeds from that and then then it could be gray matter because now is the Pelican wershed get what the sale for the building is. I would say the Foltz building should go back to where we took
the $30,000 to pay for it. Yeah, it's out of the parks the tribal assist fund. So you can't really put it back in there. So maybe parks and wreck. Okay. And then I would say the the conveyor should we just state all funds going back into parks and
that's what my suggestion would be. Okay. Okay. Let's do that. And then and then if the Pelican wershed wants the money for their conveyor then we just subtract everything that cost us. No. I think if they've they've given it to
us. They gave it to us, didn't they? And we have expense of pulling out. You're talking about the conveyor that was next to the washing building. Yeah. Yeah. So that's setting up at kind of highway 59 at our actually out back of the transfer station back out property there. So that that that will be sold
for me just metal, right? Scrap. I guess if somebody will pay us a little extra for it, we take it. But it's not a high value item, right? No, let's just put it all back into and I would eliminate Pelican Watershed district owned. I would eliminate that sentence and aquatic just put aquatic
weed conveyor previously owned by Pelican wershed and put it back if because we've acquired it just by it's been by by it's just salvage. Yeah. Okay. I'll make a motion to approve with that change with the changes. Second. All right. Motion
may second by Erica. Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Thank you. All right, Kyle. I signed this. Kyle, these are just stamps, aren't
they? Rubber stamps. Motion to should be. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to make motions real quick here, unless you have something to add. We've talked about these a lot. Yeah. Motion to approve the final flat for both one. We'll start the f just the
first. Okay. We have we have a motion by Barry to approve uh the final plat for number one and a second by Phil. Do we have any further discussion? Okay. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Motion to approve the final plat for Lake Ida Lake Ida store.
Ida Lake storage. So we have a motion by Barry for Lake Ida Ida Lake Store and a second by Phil. Do we have any more discussion? Okay. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. sat here for an hour and all right then you have the supass.
Uh so just a kind of a normal formality on the weest conditional use permit for the supass ranch events. Basically what the conditional use permit states is that it shall be approved unless there's any changes. Year-over-year the changes are very minor. um reviewing it this
year, the only change I I noticed even between gate openings and days and all of that um was a reduction in license campsites from 6,355 to 4,000. So this year is anticip anticipated to be a little bit smaller.
Um and then this second event is just a one-day event out there. Uh looks like security is there from 4 to noon, so people should be there no later than midnight. no camping or anything like that. Um and then then the years past uh
just obviously looking for a motion to approve both but um just a condition that they enter into all applicable agreements such as the sheriff um he he gets some he has a contract with them fire department highway township if I'm
not sure do they do you have an agreement in the past with all applicable yeah all applicable agreements in place okay so second so we're going to approve move both of them at one time with applicable agreements. We have a motion by Barry, second by
Erica. Do we have any more discussion? Okay. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I think they have in their in their agreement they have up five events. Yes. That they can do. Mhm. Yep. Yep. So, is that that it? That's it. All right. Anybody else have anything else? Thank
you, Kyle. We're done. We're journ. Hey, Kyle, just a compliment yesterday that I really think that was a good meeting. I mean, I liked it. I was good. It helped a lot. It was productive. You got a lot of work ahead of you, though.