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--------- I call to order call the meeting to order. All rise for the pledge. >> 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.

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>> [clears throat] >> Okay. Can you scroll that up just a little bit? There we go. Okay, I have no general comments. Anyone wishing to address the county board on an item not on the agenda may

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come forward at this time to be recognized by the board chair. Please state your name and address for the record. Comments are limited to 5 minutes. A personnel complaint against an individual county employee may not be heard initially at a county board meeting. Personnel complaints may be submitted to

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the board in writing through the county administrator's office. A person addressing the board may not use profanity or vulgar language. Do we have anybody who wishes to address the board? No. Anybody online?

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Okay. Uh need a motion to approve the agenda. >> Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to approve the agenda with no additions, corrections, or deletions. >> Okay. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Okay. All in favor? >> I.

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>> Opposed? Carries. Unanimous. Approval of the Can the motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I I approve the consent agenda. That's all, Mr. Chair. >> Okay. Do we have a second?

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>> Second. >> Okay. All in favor? I. Opposed? Carries. Probation supervisor fee resolution. >> Mr. Chair. >> Good. >> I'll get us started by making a motion

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to adopt the proposed uh resolution to collect felony supervision fees for adult probation clients in this in the accompanying fee schedule as provided in the packet. >> Okay. Do we have a second? >> I'll second.

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>> Okay. Any discussion? >> Mr. Chair, I'm going to be a no vote on this. I think even if we raise $10,000 it's kind of peanuts in a budget that's over a hundred million dollars.

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Um I worry about these folks even being able to pay or or just not paying. Um I have concerns about equity

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and I just I just think the federal government needs to step up and start paying for such things. So, that's where I'm at. >> Um >> Okay.

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Any other comments? Okay, hearing none. All in favor? Aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed? >> Aye. >> Okay, 4-1. Motion carries. Any additional items?

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Nothing. Okay, commissioners reports. Mr. Gazelka. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um attended the AMC District 2 meeting. Um had a lot of good conversation, it was well attended. It was good to

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to go to that and meet some of our colleagues there and get up to up to speed on some of the issues that they presented there. Um had a Polk County Solid Waste um quarterly meeting over in Fosston. Um steam sales are down due to one of

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the businesses or three main businesses that buy the steam off the what they call the Murph, the materials that basically they they burn the the non-recyclable garbage and and um the steam sales help offset our cost so we don't have as high a tipping fees.

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Um one of the three businesses had some stuff broken down and then they normally are out for a couple couple months for maintenance and stuff anyway, so they're going to be down for an extended period and so uh I'm not sure how that's going to affect our tipping fees. We're going to see increases this uh

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for this coming year or not or but uh more to come on that. Had HRDC meeting. We passed our our fiscal our fiscal year starts July 1 for for HRDC and um our it was our biggest budget yet. It's been

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growing every year as we get more and more grants and work and staff and everything, so it's actually over $2 million this year for our our budget. Um and we're holding our annual meeting this year in Beltrami County. That typically rotates and this year it's

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going to be in Beltrami County, so I'm not sure um exactly where we're going to tour a local business and that's being kept close to the vest so far, but that'll be fun. And had a fair board meeting last night and one of the things that was brought

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up there, they hired a videographer, a local local guy that has a company that uses drones and takes videos and so it'll be kind of cool to get some from the air views of of the fair to use for ads and other stuff and just get

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some cool aerial photography of the of the fair. >> Who is that? >> Um I Al- Alexander something or other. Do you know him? Oh, yeah. Um and then solid waste committee meeting this morning. The apron repairs up at Blackduck are

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going to get done next week it sounds like. They're going to sounds like they're going to be redoing the entire concrete pad that they put in this last year that got had cracks in it and it was pooling water and so it needed to be redone. They're going to get that redone next

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week it sounds like um at the contractor's expense of course um and the roof on the Bemidji transfer station and the building there the brand new roof that got wrecked from the storm that should be getting finished this week and the thermal cameras that that we

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approved those are looking like they're going to probably get installed next month or for sure by August. So, that's my report Mr. Chair. Thank you. Oh, and I will sit in for tomorrow morning or not tomorrow morning but Thursday morning for the Blackduck ambulance board

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as Tim is going to be out of town. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Commissioner Sumner. >> Um not much to report tonight. I do have some pill meetings coming up next week so I'll report on that next meeting.

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>> Commissioner Carlson. >> Uh thank you, Mr. Chair. Um I also was at at least most of the AMC meeting. Uh it's really it's really kind of interesting to hear the some of the issues that the other counties have. There's many that are the same and many that are not the same. And so, it's just kind of interesting.

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Always good that we And it's nice that we have it here. So, um yeah. Um at PrimeWest meetings, um and uh our new CEO did a good job on his first day in. And so, everything is a

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little bit different, huh? You know, but uh did a good job. Uh jail design and operations committee meeting, that's every other week. Um Bemidji Airport Affairs Council always meets on the Thursday morning prior to the next Wednesday's airport

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meeting. Um so, we had that. Um coming up tomorrow, I do have chat about tomorrow. Uh and then tomorrow we have at one I think it's No, this isn't 3:00 till 3:00. I don't think. No, what time is it? We have the community the county safety

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action plan meeting tomorrow. And I don't remember I think it's 1:00 to 3:00 or 3:00 to whatever. It's tomorrow afternoon sometime. I'll be be at that. Um and then tomorrow afternoon, uh Commissioner Goswig and I have the Bemidji uh Airport Authority meeting.

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That's it. >> Okay, thank you. Yeah, I do. >> I think one other thing after that, Airport Authority tomorrow when you have any special meeting for the Cass Lake fire situation tonight. >> Most likely we will have an internal candidate that we're we're after. He's accepting the job, but just has a

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delayed the start date a little bit, but uh most likely we have got somebody hired to as internal candidate. Just everybody knows and he's going to do a good job and he's going to step up. So, that's pretty exciting. >> Mr. Gould.

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>> Um pretty standard meetings recently. Um pretty standard meetings coming up. Um, President Trump and the Republican Congress continue to make things difficult for uh,

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the committees that I serve on and and those budgets. Um, they keep trying to concoct policies that just are not helpful to our county budget and our partners' budgets

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and quality of life for our residents. Um, but there's an election coming up and, you know, there always is, so perhaps that'll change for the better in the in the coming days, but uh, for now, just uh,

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concerned about SNAP and Medicaid and the support from our federal government. So, that's it. >> Okay. I attended a BASC meeting. Uh,

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they're doing amazing work. Uh, Kim is really bringing in a lot of grants over there. Uh, really boosted their over a million dollars in in revenue coming in in their grants now. Um, so they're able to really help with

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a lot more items, which is outstanding. Um, I don't know where she finds them, but she seems to get everyone she applies for, so it's outstanding. Uh, did the solid waste this morning. Um, we talked about a few things and

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some possibility of some name changes and things that might be coming. Getting a lot of phone calls on uh, road situations because of the road construction and so it's routed people through other areas of my district and

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so the people living on those gravel roads where people are taking cut acrosses aren't very happy about what's going on right now. But there's not a real easy solution to fix that one, so Um and the way it looks uh county

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offices are going to be closed June 19th for the holiday. I have nothing else. >> Did Bemidji Township ever do anything as far as uh storm clean up in the right-of-way or >> Um only on their township roads that

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they cut what it what was in their township roads, yeah. >> Okay. >> Other than that, um they didn't take care of anything that wasn't, but yeah. >> Okay. >> Okay. We have nothing else. [snorts] Need a

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motion to adjourn. >> I motion to adjourn until 6:00 for our Board of Equalization. >> Okay. >> Second. >> All right. All in favor? >> Aye. >> Opposed? We're done.

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Mhm. >> Following the meeting, we're session order. Uh introduction of new employees. >> Better turn that on. I can hear me now. Any new employees? No.

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Identify future work topics. Go ahead, Mr. Google. >> Uh how about the Farm Bureau? I'm going to do a little uh state of the agricultural economy. >> Okay. I don't have a problem with that.

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Mr. Sumner, you have something? >> Yeah, Mr. Chair, I think after last meeting, there was maybe some confusion or misunderstanding on my part when it comes to uh recognition of employees.

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And I don't believe that we have a policy or if there is uh a policy, I haven't seen it. So, maybe we can um uh go through the files and see if there there is a policy.

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Um cuz I remember a few years ago uh talking to Tom, um he mentioned that there wasn't a policy to to recognize individuals. And I do believe that

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um we do have some sort of policy in place where things can be brought to the board at such a last last minute. Um So, if if we can uh review that, I would appreciate it. That it's not that

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I I don't support, you know, the employees in in recognizing their efforts, but um I'm just kind of curious how we would go forward um recognizing other individuals or departments and seeing uh what criteria

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uh we have to you know to fit that um recognition. So, if we can have some sort of discussion in regards to that, that appreciate it. Thank you. >> Okay. Anybody else have one? I have one more. Uh

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Mr. Aiken was here last meeting and had brought up the deal on his designation of a road um when we the policy stuff was brought up, it was voted down. And the discussion was that it would

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have to be done on a case-by-case basis. So, the only way that he's going to get any remedy on this would be for us to put that on our agenda to discuss whether or not we're going to allow him to have that designation.

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Um and then [clears throat] maybe at the same time have a discussion if we want to revisit that and be restrictive enough on our policy to actually have a policy that does it instead of having people come in all the time to try to to make that happen, but the big thing

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is we really need to address his his request at this time in my opinion. Everybody all right with that one? Yeah. >> Just have a conversation to talk about it. >> Yeah. >> Slightly different than some of the other discussions we've had that I think

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our our GIS department has tried to get away from naming roads >> Right. >> after people names and stuff, but this isn't actually changing the name. >> It's not a change, right? >> It's just putting up signs making a segment of the road. >> Just to recognize something, yeah. Similar to some other ones that are

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around, so. But something we can discuss then. Okay. Uh if we have nothing else, uh probation supervision fees. >> Good afternoon. >> It It It switched up.

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It went from from down below. The coroner's report is down below. That one's moved up. >> some scheduling changes. No, I don't. I'm the one that moved. >> [laughter] >> I think the coroner does. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yes.

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Um >> That was bad. >> [laughter] >> All right. >> So, for the last about 20 plus years, um the Department of Corrections has collected supervision fees on felony, gross misdemeanor, and misdemeanor adult

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clients. And as has always been the case in the past, the county received the revenue from the gross misdemeanor misdemeanor clients, and the state took the the revenue from the felony level clients, because at that time, the state was covering all of

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the costs of the felony office. About 4 years ago, the commissioner decided we would no longer collect supervision fees on felony level matters. We continued to collect fees for the county for gross misdemeanor misdemeanor matters.

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And in fiscal year 26, the state actually, um began charging counties for the full costs of your felony office, gross misdemeanor misdemeanor office. So, there's now an opportunity for the county to again collect felony

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supervision fees, but instead of those going to the state, they would go to the county, because the county is now paying those costs. So, what we're looking for is if the board so chooses, um a board resolution would start then the collection of felony supervision

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fees to the county beginning July 1st. Um state statute also provides that um for those who are indigent, uh community work service can be done in lieu of that payment. And if I were to take a rough guess at

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how much that would generate, I'm not sure. It would be probably in the neighborhood of about $15,000 a year would be my best guess, give or take. So, that's kind of the really it in a nutshell. It's that you guys have been or the county has been collecting gross misdemeanor misdemeanor

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fees all along. The last 4 years we have not collected felony fees because they would have gone to the state and the commissioner decided not to collect those, but now because you also are bearing the costs of all of the felonies, you would have the opportunity to try to recoup some of that revenue.

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>> Yes. So, your department would actually do the collection of that or >> We're doing it now. >> Yeah, so yeah, I mean it sounds like a no-brainer to me and especially if we're getting dumped on with the cost of everything, get at least get as much as we can back. >> And and the other part is about equity,

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right? Because gross misdemeanor misdemeanor are collecting and we're not for the felon, so >> Thank you. >> What is the in in reality of the likelihood of actually collecting money from the felons that have offended?

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>> Yeah, so the state, if I looked at past numbers, it was roughly in the neighborhood of 12 to 15,000 a year is what we collected. There was a lot more charged, of course. Some of those ended up working off through community work service, not a lot, but some. Um and then for example, on the misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor side

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of things, we collect probably about the same, about $12,000 a year for the county. >> I mean as far as the individual felon's ability to pay, a lot of these folks are already >> Mhm. >> low income, poverty stricken, you know, they're not they're not going to be able to afford a

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$300 bill. So, what is the actual likelihood that we're going to get this $300 from these individuals? >> So, we were collecting 15, that's what we actually took in. That the the individuals that paid >> that a majority of that is that nine out of 10 or five out of 10 or

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>> Um if you think about it, we supervise roughly in the neighborhood of about 1,400 individuals on all of those supervision levels, and I think that includes our juveniles, too. And so, roughly out of all of those individuals, and we don't charge juveniles, um you're looking at

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probably about 24, 25,000 dollars a year is that what we collect out of all of that. >> Okay. >> Mhm. >> Did we ever collect from um the person that received 34 felony

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charges, uh uh had outstanding campaign bill with the airport. Did the airport just eat that cost or were we able to collect from that felon? >> I think I need a little more information about the who to check to see cuz if they weren't placed on

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>> Donald Trump. Um in 2020, he came here for a campaign rally. He's got 34 felonies so far, and I'm not sure if No. That's an outstanding No, but it is because he put the county

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business here, okay? Be real. All right? >> So, it would be people placed under supervision by Beltrami County. >> That's an outstanding bill. He's a felon. Uh so, that's on our regular agenda. >> We are. Yeah. Thank you. Yep, thanks.

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>> Thank you. >> Jail project update and virtual tour. >> Good afternoon. >> Good afternoon. Good morning, commissioners. Uh we're here to give a a brief update on a few things. Number one, the current new jail construction status project as

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well as give you an update on the existing jail um design. So, I want to verify that we have Austin Udeen on the line. Hopefully, can Austin hear us okay? >> I can hear you.

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>> Awesome. Austin will give us an update on the existing jail demolition project and the new Sally Port. Um Does this work, Diane? Okay. So, fast forward.

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Got you. Um so, we'll as usual try to give you a quick update on the new new jail. We have myself, Steve Trudeau with Cross Anderson, Larry Filippi with Integrity and Carl Clark with Integrity. I'm not sure you've all

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met Carl before. Larry has been here. Francisco, our other superintendent, he's not feeling well today, so Carl is here as our our other superintendent on the project site. And now, Carl, if if you're okay, just kind of run through

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maybe a quick update on boots on the ground, what you're seeing on site, and how we're doing. >> Well, these pictures here show what's happened here just kind of in the last 30 days. Uh we were able to the the panels that we left out in order to access cells

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into the facility. Um, we got those in place now and they're all building is sealed up from a concrete standpoint. Um, and so that's one of the progress things. I think we've got some other pictures. >> Yeah, that was a big milestone. >> Big milestone to get that all put back

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together. >> Not sure where I should be pointing this. >> [laughter] >> Carl, any issues with getting the the leaving the roof and making sure the roof doesn't have any leaks in those specific areas? >> None none at all because we had that all

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framed up where those panels were left out and the roof was carried up and over. And and just temporarily fastened at the top. >> Okay. >> And then when we took that out and folded the rubber back and then put the panels in and just redid it. >> It had a makeshift parapet is what it

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was. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, it wasn't no issues with that. I don't I don't have any anything over >> Okay. >> what the future might hold in those locations. >> Okay. So he just made a continued the parapet with the with what >> Whatever uh

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>> Um, as you can see we've got a little curb going in. I believe that's on the south side of the building, main parking lot. >> Yep. >> Um >> Site work has started. >> Site work has started outside. Um, we poured quite a bit of sidewalk yesterday.

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Uh, to go along with that, um, north and south side and we're arranging to get the fence for the garbage disposal containers as well as the around the generator. Um, that's going to be coming up. We

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just found out this morning that the contractor hadn't ordered the posts. So, anyway. >> Got you. >> Uh but yeah, there we go. Our electrical room and then that one in the middle they have a

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two-story We're calling it the crow's nest in one area there in the mental health area for the jail um where the guards will be elevated about 6 ft and then they can monitor the upper

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level as well as the lower level since it's a full scene. Um and then the front entry uh that's all that's already changed differently. It's been sealed uh the cultured stone that's around the bottom edge now and again we're getting ready

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to do side blocks and uh just really just waiting on some metal panel work to do up there. That I believe is pizza oven. >> [laughter] >> And you know Steve, he depends on that one I wasn't there. >> You didn't get any. >> I I was there eating it so.

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>> Yeah. >> They were the next day though. >> Yeah, anyway it was great. We did uh appreciation day for all the tradesmen and women that were on site. Cooked about 75 pizzas so that was a a big hit. >> No leftovers either. >> You can see that the picture on the left

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and the one in the middle that's the uh security screening that goes above uh a good portion of rock in the secured areas where they have hard lid ceiling. They also [clears throat] have a layer of the secure mesh security mesh and then what it is is it's a steel expanded

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metal. And so it just makes it a little tougher if they would be so inclined to try to dig your way out. Um And then oh those are the skylights that are going up uh through the skylights on the roof and

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they get framed down shafts to bring that light down. Um it's going to be a fairly well well-lit location in those dayrooms. >> 47 skylights? >> I think that's right. >> But the bottom of that skylight is about where you're going to see the suspended

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ceiling coming in. So, you're just going to see the the daylighting from that. Uh our plumbing foreman is there on the left. Um and Peterson Sheet Metal, our plumbing and heating HVAC contractor, they have uh what they

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call BIM modeling and they're able to do a model and that helps prevent a lot of conflicts as things kind of come together. versus finding out that, you know, when you're looking at a flat, you uh you don't always allow for

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the depth inside your ceiling spaces and those kind of things, but this BIM modeling is is really kind of coming into its own. More and more contractors are are using that. Help them get a lot of pre-installed things done, so when they might get out to the site, everything fits up,

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eliminating any conflicts of other run-ins with other systems. So, it's worked really, really well. The other two pictures are the back of the cells, the piping that goes on the back of the cells uh to feed the water as well as the air coming in through the silver pipes on

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the on the right. Um toilets, everything flushes out the back, so that's all accessible for maintenance uh without necessarily having to be in the cell itself. >> Who's the electrical contractor? >> Best-Rite. >> Yeah.

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>> Yep. >> And then we've got uh about a 7-or-8-minute virtual tour to give you a little bit more, you know, visual on how overall the building is shaping up. We are here at the Beltrami County Jail project site with our superintendent

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Gary Francisco. It is May 31st. We're going to do a video tour and show everyone where the current progress at the jail is at. Gary, where are we standing right now? >> Well, we're in area A at the central control station. And fully located so

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that you can see all the pods on that side. There's three day rooms there. There's another three day rooms. This will actually have a floor port ended up a foot so that when they sit on the chair they're on eye level light to see the upper cell wifi and the lower storm.

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>> strategically built in that way. >> Okay, warden Harry. See we have started our block filling. Um We've also got our tier walkway ceiling secure ceiling frame in. Put up.

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Skylights are in. The uh glass touch screens are in. So we'll show you a typical cell. Um we're just starting the second coat of the epoxy flooring. So they've been approved now. This is a sample.

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>> So a typical two bunk cell. Table. Shower. And commode unit. >> So this is the virtual courtroom area. You can see all the walls are up. Door frames are in. The hard security ceiling

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lid is in. >> Zoom court or virtual court without having to go physically to each court appearance. >> So now we're in the back of the cells. These are the cells in area A west. But pretty typical

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hookup on all the cells in the whole building. As you can see all the copper's done. The waste and vent is done. Um they're actually in the process of final testing. I believe in this area this is the last one. They should be tested out.

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So this is second floor of the mental health. Um as you can see in row dayroom frames have been installed. Uh We're in the process of getting this dayroom prepped up with hard lid ceilings.

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You can see the control station for this area. And this one's a little bit more complicated than the rest. There'll be like a little stairway that comes out to a landing. And then another stairway that goes out to a landing. And the actual floor in

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that control station is 6 ft above uh one center, which is the other lower floor. So, now we're in area A east. Um cell five over here, as you can see. Again, we got all the

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the security hard lid frames. And I don't know if we mentioned it before, but if you look at that hard line, you can see how it's shaped under a stairway. Both the line look bad. And then comes over to this stairway. At the

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end of the day, there there'll be what we call tier frames. So, frames and glass that will go from that red iron you see along the walkway or a railing is. And it goes right up to that training there. So, it'll all be glass when it comes about halfway down the

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stairs. All right, now we're in the the booking area. These are all holding cells off to the left. These small dayrooms on the side. And this is the booking desk area. You can see the block is all laid up.

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Uh we've got about two days of block work over by the kitchen. So, here we are in the kitchen. Changed a lot since you've seen it last. Behind steam over here, this is uh eyewash station.

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It actually pulls down. First one I've seen in all my years. We're all ready for rough ins to go in the wall. Good for Cooking line. So now we're on the north side of the control station heading towards the admin area.

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So this is all a secure area. Now as we come this way, we get into the admin space from here on and it's non-detention from here. In here we've got the ceiling grid in. Ceiling tile borders are all cut.

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Um light fixtures are installed. The diffusers are installed. So here we're in one of the bathrooms in the admin wing. If you can see, the tile work is nearly complete in here. There's like six bathrooms in this area that we're working on the tile. As

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soon as they're all grouted, then we can go ahead and start setting fixtures in here. So now we're in the training room. Uh over there is the training storage room. But again, this this room is all painted out. The grid's in. Border tile around. This

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is the case work of window sills. And actually [clears throat] the electricians have their device outlets uh for power. But the other people still need to uh put their data connections in. So this is the assistant jail

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administrator's office. One window and a whole bunch of tiling supplies right now. This is the jail administrator's office. And this is the lobby area. They'll come in over here. Actually next Monday we're going to be

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putting this window and door frame. They pass-through windows, bulletproof pass-through trays. >> So this is the reception area? >> So down this way we've got four no-contact visit rooms.

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This side is non-detention where the public comes in. But now we're in the gym. And if you take away we got uh like four five detention windows. These are actually power operated ones. So now

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we're on the north side of the property. Uh this is the north parking lot. Um there's the There's the sally port over there. Um there will be a case drive that goes all the way basically almost to the air file.

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But you can see our light pole bases have been installed. We anticipate between the curb being poured and the sidewalks and stoops, all this will be done. Basins will be out of here this week. So now we're on the south

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side of the building. This is the public entrance, the main entry. As I said, we're inside when you put these this uh window frame and the door frame then next week. You can see down below the burnished block has come up. The grade and now

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we'll set a row of stone masonry that gets set on top of that. And then it'll be metal panels and just follow the window to wrap the rest of the facade and So last time we had the video and you

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saw these large a poly dim access doors that are all the hold down panels were for the cells. As you can see now, we've got all of those in. The whole building is buttoned up that way.

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Uh Yeah, it is. We were talking earlier. We're hitting the parking lot work hard now. So by fall we'll have curb gutter, asphalt, and landscaping will be all done. >> By this fall.

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>> All right, Gary. Appreciate taking the time today to walk us through the project and look forward to the next update for the commission. Thanks again for all your hard work. >> Thank you. >> All right. Hopefully that gives you a little bit

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better visual sense of how things are looking outside and inside of of the jail, the new jail, and how progress is progressing, which has been great. Everybody has been working hard and getting things right on track, if not still we're hoping a tick ahead of

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schedule. Um but we got a little ways to go. We have obviously we're in summer number two. But uh working through the fall, summer and fall to get all the site work done and then finish up on the interiors this this winter. >> Yeah, it's exciting transitional time right now. You've been block work,

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framing, now you're getting to the point in time where you start to see the walls, they're all in place, the finishes are starting starting to all parts of the building are completely painted out, but we're transitioning the painter down in the detention into the things, so um you know, this video was what, three weeks ago? And

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it's amazing just to see the changes here in the past couple weeks what's happened, so things are going well. >> Any questions thus far on where we're at physically at at the site? >> Looks like um quite a bit of room up over those skylight areas with the suspended

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ceiling that'll be there. Are there going to be some like catwalk systems up there to do maintenance or are they just going to have to come in with some kind of a lift to do anything that has to be done above that? >> No, there's no catwalk, but then there's not a lot of mechanical equipment. We have a lot of mechanical steam and even

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in the back of the cells and where we're relocating stuff up there. Your frame is in these >> Yeah. >> So for the most part the the most probably the most troublesome thing that you would have to do and there's no way around it is the smoke detectors in the skylights. >> Right. >> Right. Those are they have to be within so high of that within a distance of the

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skylight, but uh short of that the rest of it is is actually more behind the cells. It's all the plumbing mechanical uh the units, etc. are relatively easy accessible. Okay? >> Yeah, we'll have access panels in areas

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that they would need maybe off of those walkway areas, but in the general high center area, acoustical tile ceilings, it's really piping and duct work and things above there that shouldn't really need anything there. Yeah. >> Thank you. I'm just wondering it's a obviously a typo there on that first one

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that says in progress cuz it says 11 3 of 2025 to 1 16 of 2025. So, is that one 1 16 of 2027 or >> It should be. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> [laughter] >> Good catch. Yes, but we can't go in reverse. >> Yeah.

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>> [laughter] >> I would think that would be de-progress then. >> Yeah. So, yeah, and we'll we'll get that updated if you can, but we're we're really working exactly on kind of the exterior windows and cladding right now the submarine even before January that should be

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wrapped up on the exterior. >> Yeah. >> Uh interiors will continue on through um first quarter. Am I right? We're on track right now to still be turning things over uh by March or, you know, mid-March at the latest. We're hoping still, you know, maybe end of February

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uh try to turn things over so Colandra and group can start figuring out what to move and transfer would look like into the new jail. >> At what point does the commissioning start? Or is in there a once you get things substantially complete, then you have to have it like gone through or

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commissioned or something or >> There's Yeah, there's complete commissioning The commissioning agent's already on board, been working. >> Okay. >> It's already started. >> Oh, okay. >> Jim Stocky the commissioner is on site. Last week. And we did a walk through, got up on the

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roof, we looked at most of the roof top units. >> Okay. >> He made a list. There was a few minor things that he had before before start those units up. >> Okay. But yeah, he's been spending some time there. >> So it won't be all done at one shot at the end. Okay. >> Commissioning is one of those elements

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that if you open this building, it's either going to be spring, fall, winter. And so you've got to go through a heating season and a cooling season. So it's you're occupying the building. 6 months later they'll come back and do what they're supposed to do. If it's open in the winter, they'll do the summer. Make sure the cooling side of it's

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commissioned as well. Okay. >> Security electronics will get commissioned and then rung out also probably beginning in January, maybe late December, but January, February will be mostly that. Getting >> So realistically we will be able to actually occupy by March probably or

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somewhere close to that. >> certificate of occupancy and it's a matter of you're transitioning. >> Right. >> You know, but from a building standpoint, yes. >> Perfect. >> Lots of testing and inspections between now and then. I think our biggest ticket item that visually is going to be the

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tear frames that you saw. We explained them a little bit. >> Yes, the glass. >> The big glass with the tint that has has been ordered for a while, but there's a pretty good lead time with them. >> But are you getting does there's other metal or some kind of things that go in between the panels?

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>> There's a steel frame that's like a window frame. >> Okay. >> And there's sections. >> Okay. >> Fasteners and that. Those all get welded. And of course nothing close by can get painted until they get welded in. And right now our expectation is

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late July or early August will be the first delivery. Okay. 12 or 14 gauge. I mean it's not it's not just a standard hollow metal. It's a tension grade. >> Yeah. Great. >> Security glass will follow after that to go in once

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things are painted. >> Cool. Looking great. Great work, guys. Sounds good. Any questions? I've got financial stuff. >> Uh financially things are great. We're

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still tracking really well. Uh, there is about 1.5 million left currently on your contingency for various projects or one ends that we may be seeing on the project, but everything is kind of really the way we're

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constructing right now and the level of finishes we're at, uh, that seems very very safe. I don't see us tapping that down to the point of concern at all. So, we're we're in good shape on that. Refunds from the state on a tax rebate,

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I think there has been two rounds submitted thus far. I think Tom was reporting to us last week still waiting for round two payout. But, I think it's in process and place at the state and don't anticipate any any hang-ups. >> No, I think he just said he did say I

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think they changed the person who was reviewing this from who did the previous one, so a learning curve there. >> Yeah, but >> All right. Any other questions on the new jail? Well, then we'll we'll forward on to the existing jail uh, design update status

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with Austin, if you can hear us okay and we'll watch you. Just you tell me when you need me to flip the slide on to the next next item. >> Yeah. Yeah, so this is Austin Dean at Klein McCarthy Architects.

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Uh, next slide. So, uh, I'll give a brief recap of the uh, of what has uh, uh, option three was the option that was uh, selected uh, and what was presented at Octo- on on

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October 21st of 2025. Uh, we had uh, since gone uh, forward with that one putting together construction documents for the full demolition of the existing

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uh, Beltrami County Jail after the new jail is constructed. Uh, there will not be a a use for that jail after, so uh, this plan shows the full demolition of the jail back to the existing uh, annex building as well as the

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demolition of eight stalls or so uh, just to the north of the existing judicial building. Next slide. Um, next slide. I'm sorry. Uh, so this is the new site plan uh, with the with the whole um,

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the whole project or this this phase of the project uh, it's been uh, very close to what was originally agreed to and decided with that option three with the full demolition. Uh, so it includes uh, tandem or back-to-back uh,

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cars in a sally port to the north of the the judicial building attached to that connecting into the existing tunnel below as well as a parking lot to the north which is uh, going to be until they dis- until it's decided to uh,

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put a new building there whatever purpose that may be in the future. Uh, so the only difference I think from what was uh, shown in option three is we were able to squeeze five additional parking spaces in.

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Uh, next slide. So this is the basement of the uh, addition onto the judicial building. It includes a corridor, elevator, stair as well as the MEP space with uh, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing uh, needs some room and uh, it works well

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with needing to keep that corner for our Yeah, keep the building squared off in the basement. Next slide. So on the first floor, this is the first floor of that addition sally port onto the existing judicial

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building. This shows those boxes for some transport vehicles. It can It shows how they fit front to back. As well as shows that stair elevator and an elevator equipment room, which is required for that elevator to store all

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of its machinery. Very similar to what was shown in option three. Next slide. So this is the other half of the of the site where we're demoing demoing the existing jail.

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It's being taken back to the existing courthouse annex footprint. Part of the annex was holding cooler freezer, staff toilet, and a janitor closet from

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the existing food service of the jail, which is in that space that we're remodeling to become the new wood shop. The wood shop was on the basement of the existing jail just to the west of where we're demoing. So that has

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to be relocated to give Steve Shadrick and the county's maintenance staff a space for a wood shop. Next slide. So then I just grabbed some 3D views. This one is from the intersection of 7th and Minnesota Avenue.

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Standing right there on the sidewalk. So, it shows uh the the sally port to the right as well as where we're infilling uh the opening in the annex building uh on the left there.

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Uh next slide. So, here's a view closer to the sally port. Uh this shows that one of one of the uh things that has since been discovered since going to uh

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through design, uh we've discovered that we had to remove one of the judicial windows on the second floor and uh raise [clears throat] its sill uh so that the roof of the sally port uh can go where it needs to be and allow

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space for a mechanical in the plan above the sally port. Uh to to the left there, you can also see that infilling again of the annex building. Next slide. So, this is just a an above view just showing that we were able to make one

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continuous flat uh roof that will have ballast river rock on it. Uh and yeah, it shows the primary and uh overflow roof drain which there will be an overflow daylighting to the

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to the west of the sally port. Uh this also shows some some louvers that uh or will give the sally port some ventilation to maintain good air quality inside the sally port with the vehicles.

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And I think that that's the last slide, I believe. Uh but yeah, I think the big takeaway from this is we've moved uh we moved to uh get the engineers input civil, uh uh, mechanical, plumbing,

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uh, structural, and uh, I think I may have already said civil, uh, but yeah, and they've they've given their input on that and that's kind of tweaks and things, but no major changes from what was shown in option three on October 21st of last year.

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>> Sounds good, Austin, and from a schedule standpoint, you're in the, you know, obviously love design, tracking for sometime in August to wrap up your kind of design and bid documents. At that point, we'll take those and get

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the project priced out, bid out, understand, you know, where final numbers are coming in at, and report back to you all in in October for review and and approval and award. Use the winter, similar to what we did on the new jail, to round up our lead items and

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materials and contracts, shop drawings, approvals, think you're ready to start as soon as moved in to the new jail, vacate and decommission the old jail starting spring of '27. Any questions on the existing jail

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demolition and sally port project? Nope. Thank you. You're very welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Draco response and long-term storm recovery group.

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>> Hey, everyone. Janelle Lamano with United Way again. And as you know, it's taken a lot of people and a lot of groups to recover and still recover from the storm we had about a year ago now.

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Um and this is a presentation that I have shared with other United Ways as we all look at different ways we can work in community resiliency for our communities along with different groups I've met along the way like the Red Cross and the

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Minnesota VOADs. Oop. There we go. See, I even call it a session. Cut too many conferences, sorry. We'll keep going on that. So, I don't want to assume you know what United Way does.

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So, just to share briefly uh here in the Bemidji area or in Beltrami County, our main focus is fundraising. So, every fall we have a annual campaign for the community where we raise dollars and then we allocate those back out to non-local nonprofits.

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Each United Way is its own local nonprofit as well with their own 501c3 in our community. And once we allocate those dollars out to those agencies, they become our partners and we look at ways that we can help them

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serve their clients better, expand, do their work in different ways. We also are known for mobilizing volunteers which I'll share about from the windstorm and the building on resources and and managing different kinds of

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resources. Our focus, every United Way's focus is on financial security, youth opportunity, and healthy community. We work on different initiatives and programs. We've been working in community resiliency and then I've shared with you prior about the ALICE population, that group that really

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doesn't isn't served that live just above poverty but below a livable wage. You know what happened, so I don't really need to go over this part, but maybe just to share um I had no idea that I would be busy or that United Way would be busy uh when the storm hit.

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Um checked on my own team, I have three staff. Uh two of them live One lives on Lake Avenue and the other on St. Anne's, so they got hit really hard. And then my other staff person is actually the last neighborhood to get power back. So the time and effort that they put into the

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work that we did, I'm really proud of them. For stepping up and caring about Bemidji the way they have. So my first call actually came from Kayla Winkler with uh Sanford Health. Uh she had called and asked she said and this is when the scope like

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hit, you know, hit me was she had said um we don't have enough generators for the entire hospital and we had to close down the kitchen. I need your help. I need you to find some volunteers to come grill. We have grills, we have food, we need we need people.

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Uh and I had just talked to Jason Rylander and Mike Stitzruth, they're neighbors. They didn't have damage, called them back and said, "Hey, you want to go grill today?" So uh they grilled in the 90° heat that we all had and uh fed the hospital staff and and uh patients there. But you know, that took

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all of 5 minutes. I still didn't understand that we were going to be busy. >> [laughter] >> Um I got a I received a call from uh Fire Chief Sherwood asking if I'd join come to a meeting at the EOC and start a fund and that's when I knew we were going to we were doing something for for what was

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happening. Um when I got there and saw the big collaboration happening across our community and where the gaps were, one was that dispatch was being um over I mean I mean the the phone calls

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that were coming in were so uh astronomical, as you probably know, that uh they needed a referral for non-emergencies. And so we talked with Community Resource Connections and they became the hotline. So they received the calls and then United Way mobilized. We received calls

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from um volunteers and mobilized uh people to help the people that were calling. Uh, right away too we did a We worked with the uh North Country Food Bank to do a food drop for shelf-stable food as

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uh power was still out. About 500 families come to that. We did another one about 6 days later with um refr- replacement food for your refrigerator, too, and had about the same outcome. So a few days in we kind of categorized what we were up to with fundraising or

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doing volunteer mobilization and resource management. Uh, our fundraising efforts to date have led to actually I was just sharing with Anne $700,000. We just received another big grant um through the Northwest Minnesota Foundation's efforts in a long-term

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storm recovery, which I'll share about in a bit. Uh, and the funds have helped support housing, food, clean-up, urgent needs, and then our long-term recovery efforts. We mobilized hundreds of volunteers and uh received the referrals from the county and city for uh different groups

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that came into town. We met some amazing people, uh different mission groups, and um organizations that that came and helped literally hundreds of homes uh get cleaned up. We ended up having about a thousand volunteers in the first 3 weeks. We usually have a thousand

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volunteers in a year at the United Way. So, um it was a 24/7 operation going over there. And we had kids helping clean up parks. We had people dropping off tarps for families, the fire department putting

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the tarps on roofs, um all kinds of all kinds of things happening all at once. And we're managing resources. Community Resource Connections took over 2,000 calls. It's about 600 individual households. Um, that first,

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I guess rush or the first few months, we had 400 homes that we had cleaned up. Uh, did those two major food drops and worked pretty closely with public health to, uh, to mobilize things that needed to be utilized. Like, uh, Loop the Lake was

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canceled and they had hundreds of protein balls. So, we got them to the shelter so that they could be, you know, utilized rather than thrown away. That sort of thing. Uh, through the EOC and partnerships with the county and city, I learned about VOADs. VOADs are voluntary

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organizations active in disaster. And, um, I have been still working pretty closely with, uh, a few of the different groups. I also just whispered over to Anne, we got confirmation that one of the VOAD groups is going to come help us and do free labor labor for, uh, house repairs

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coming up here pretty quick, too. Uh, they have a one of the VOADs We have 30 VOADs in the state of Minnesota. This is all I didn't even know what that acronym stood for before this storm hit. Um, and they all come when a disaster happens and have

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different things they can provide. I do wish I knew about these prior to cuz I think we missed out on some things. But, the nice part about the VOADs is the dollars that they spend can go towards like the FEMA, um, infrastructure that we have. They're What they do, uh, can

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go towards that work. This is Crisis Cleanup. So, we utilize this maybe to I wish we had it right away, but days after using the whiteboard in our office, we learned about this, uh, this VOAD where it's a map. So, um, if Commissioner Carlson had called us

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and needed, uh, help or called Community Resource Connections, we would have implemented or inputted his phone number into Crisis Cleanup. He would have gotten a text that said, you know, upload photos of your damage, um, tell us anything more, any more details

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you can, because then these VOAD groups that came to town, they could go in here and claim the job and talk with the person that they were going to help. So, it was a nice connection to make at no cost to our community. Uh, they also have a lot of information

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on long-term storm recovery, long-term recovery. Uh, they have a whole guidebook that, uh, I spent a lot of time reading and, uh, recruiting people in our community to form a committee so we could really try

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to help our community move forward this last year and we're still hard at work. But, these are the different categories of long-term recovery. Um, with communications, donation management, disaster case management. We've actually hired a disaster case manager at the United Way to focus on

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this strictly. Um, construction management, volunteer management, fiscal control, and spiritual care are all the different categories. And I think the next one's And we learned as a group about the cycle of disaster. You know, I just

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shared with you kind of our immediate response that United Way and you know what the county did. We're still in between recovery and mitigation right now, um, trying to help families recover and households recover along with mitigating, uh, fire. We had Conservation Corps here twice helping

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with that for the for the city and for homeowners and we might get them here again in the fall. And we're looking at preparedness and creating what's called a COAD, which is Community Organizations Active in Disaster. So, if something else happened, we could have a big group come together. Whatever the disaster is, we

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could funnel into the services that that are going to be needed for that um situation. See, I already talked about that. So, we've hired a case manager. We as a group for the long-term storm recovery group went through a training through another VOAD, the Lutheran Disaster

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Response Group. Um we created our priorities on how you know, how are we going to prioritize who we help when we have hundreds of people on the list. And we have recruited groups and donations to continue to make progress. And we're meeting monthly.

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Here's who's on the committee. Uh Corey Bushy from Northwest Minnesota Foundation and myself are the co-chairs. We have Ruth Sherman from CRC, Kayla Winkler from Winkler from Sanford, and Lindseth from Beltrami County. Levi Hart from HRDC, our fire chief,

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uh Justice North, the Migi Pioneer, and then our disaster case manager as well. So, how our meetings really work is our disaster case manager is telling us what she's seeing and working on along with our fire department what they're seeing for fires, and we're trying to figure

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out different resources or solutions to the issues that we're seeing. This was our original priority list. Uh you kind of just get different points based off of uh your situation from uh elderly, disabled, single parents, uh

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income level, if you're insured or not, uh and any extenuating circumstances that might exist. And so, we have a uh that QR code brings you to a form on our website that people can fill out uh for themselves or they maybe they know their neighbor needs help, they can fill out

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the information they they know. Uh but we're still working through chainsaw. Debris is our number one um or our our highest need, the most volume need without a solution. Uh we are doing construction coordination. We're still fundraising. Uh we still have volunteers coming to

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help with uh chainsaw work. And uh working through resource management to having, like I shared before, another VOAD group come and do some work for families. And this summer uh Kraus-Anderson did home assessments for us at no cost,

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which was a which was a huge um dollar saver for us. We had Conservation Corps here, like I shared, doing uh fire mitigation for our city. And uh been working on construction management through Northwest Minnesota

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Foundation, also. So, future plans. United Way just did a new strategic plan, and uh crisis or uh community resilience is definitely a part of that plan, and trying to make sure, you know, we think about what happened with COVID, what happened with the Red Pine Estates building, and now

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this um United Way has kind of stepped into the gap, and we're trying to find our place in what that really means, what can we actually handle, that sort of thing. I shared with you before we really want to start a co-op uh so that we can be more organized when

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something happens. I've talked with Tom and uh Sheriff Rex about a possible MOU or MOA with United Way, so that, you know, all the work we've been doing, that that can count towards those, you know, FEMA dollars and that sort of thing, uh if something were to happen again.

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And then trying to just create shared tools, so United Ways can um also do these kinds of things across the state, as we all seem seem to have micro disasters happening with fires and flooding and all kinds of things. What I wish I knew before then, I wish I

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knew what a VOAD was. >> What? >> Um, I do wish we would have had a MOU or MOA. It just wasn't even a you know, you don't know what you don't know. Um, we just didn't know. And I I wish the United Ways were better um, educated in the response. Wish we had a COAD. All the things I've kind of

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already brought up, but they're the things we need to do better in this next time now that we kind of now that we do know what we know. So. So, that's the update. Do you have any questions for me? >> Questions. >> What's uh, Justice North? Can you tell us about them a little bit?

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>> Yeah, they just merged. It was Legal Services in Northwest Minnesota Foundation or uh, not Foundation, Northwest Minnesota. Um, and they merged with Justice North out of the kind of the Duluth area and cover Northern Minnesota then. >> Think we have any others? Amazing job. Thank you.

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So, Traverse County Drug Court. There we go. This must be Drug Court. >> Ready? >> We're ready. >> Hello. I'm Ali McGrath. I'm the coordinator for the Beltrami County Drug Court, and we're here to speak on on behalf of our program. And we actually brought one of

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our past graduates here to just share a little bit of her story and um, kind of what the drug court did for her. So, I'll pass it over to Mia. >> Hello. My name is Mia. Uh, I graduated Drug Court about 2 years ago now.

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Um, the program I was kind of hesitant of even entering cuz I'm like, more supervision? But once I got into the program and I got like acquainted with all the staff members, it kind of brought me to the realization

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that yes, the judicial system wants us to succeed. They treat us treated us like we were humans and not just an inmate. Um and being able to like have that person by your side to like show you

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that we do want you to succeed, we want to help you succeed and show you the right way to do it has brought a lot of wonders to my own life. Like uh this is the longest I've stayed sober from being in that program and um still to this day like

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Tiffany will reach out and just see how we're doing. Like it's not just, oh you graduated, goodbye, hope you can figure it out, you're done. Um but yeah, it's been being in that program really really helped me a lot more than I really assumed it would and it um there's a lot of other graduates

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that I had seen graduate too still succeeding as well. And um yeah, I probably wouldn't be where I am today without the program. Uh and just I my favorite part of the program was is I always thought Judge

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Melby was a hard hard-headed, not the nicest guy in the world. He is the funniest, the nicest. Like his soft side really shows like, hey, we're really here for you. Um yeah, and I and I was using drugs for

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10 years before I actually got into the program and and I would get to raise my children, I get to go to school, I get and that was a lot to do with the program and everything that it taught us in there.

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So, that's all I have for anything about >> So, I just wanted to share a little bit about the drug court. Um the Beltrami County Drug Court our mission is uh mission statement is that it's an intensive court supervised program that's dedicated to improving community safety by addressing addiction

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through treatment and accountability. Our vision is to improve lives of for individuals and families through a pathway of change for sustained success in recovery. The program is a minimum of a 15-month program. Our team includes members from agencies all around the community um

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including Beltrami County judge, probation agent, myself as a coordinator, um treatment centers like Sanford, Sagent, North Homes, Kashi, the Beltrami Health and Human Services, Beltrami PD uh or Bemidji PD, Beltrami Sheriff's Department, Leech Lake PD,

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the Beltrami County Attorney's Office, the Bemidji City Attorney's Office, and we have a defense counsel on our team as well. We currently have 18 individuals that are in our program that are active in our program. Um since 2021, we've had 17 graduations in our program.

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We have a recidivism rate of 5% of those who have graduated and have been charged with a new crime within 1 year of exiting the program. Um we have over 50% of those who enter our have entered our program with unsustainable housing have exited with stable housing, and 40% of those who

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have entered in with no income have exited with some some sort of stable income. Drug court not only help individuals, but it also helps communities and counties save money. As a result of result of reducing incarcer- incarceration in 2023, an average of

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$4,288 per participant was saved um from them beginning in the program and and being in a part of the program like this. So, we just wanted to share a little bit about what we do in our community. Um like I said, as a part of the judicial branch system and a part of the

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community, um just trying to help those that are struggling and um yeah, find a better life in recovery. Any questions or >> Outstanding job, for sure. Great story. Thank you for sharing.

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>> Thank you for your time. >> All right. Coroner's report. mayhem. >> Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you for having me. Do I I can use the clicker, too? Or do you do you have the report up? Or I'll just give it to you

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verbally. Okay. Well, I'm Dr. Piper. I'm the chief medical examiner uh for Beltrami County. Uh and um thank you for having me. I believe this is my first year Well, I know it's my first year coming to present to you um the annual report. So,

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it's a summary uh of the deaths that occurred uh in Beltrami County for last year that our office um has investigated. Let's see if I can do this. There we go. Uh so, an introduction to our office.

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So, our office is located um in the city of Ramsey in Anoka County. Uh and our office serves about 39 of the counties in Minnesota. We also serve multiple counties in Wisconsin and as of last year, a county in Michigan uh in the UP.

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Um Let's see. This is delayed. Maybe I'll just look Maybe I'll gesture to Can you advance? That'd be great. All right. So, um in 2025, a total of 209 deaths were reported to our office. Uh in the county

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itself, you can see there were 412 total deaths. So, if a death occurs in a nursing home or a hospital, it likely will not be reported to us unless the death is due to other than natural causes.

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So, of the deaths that were reported to us, we were responsible for signing the death certificate in 40 cases. That's what jurisdiction assumed means. And of those 40, 28 were autopsies and 12 were simply

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medical record reviews. Next slide. So, the manner of death for those deaths where we assumed jurisdiction, 19 of those were due to accidents, 13 were natural, six were suicide,

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and of the six suicide, five were due to gunshot wounds. And two deaths were classified as undetermined. So, undetermined for manner of death means that the circumstances are not specifically known.

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It can be a variety of circumstances, variety of causes of death, but because the manner is specifically based on circumstances, if there is a question or uncertainty, the manner will go down as undetermined. Next.

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For the accidents for 2025, nine deaths were attributed to drugs or substance abuse. Six were classified as blunt force injuries. That would include not only motor vehicle deaths, but it includes elderly folks fall and have hip

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fractures or head trauma, and they would be included in that category. Next. So, manner of death by year, you can see the trends over the years, you know, kind of

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ups and downs Um, each uh, manner of death. The good news is is our office did not investigate any death and classified as a homicide in 2025. So, there's some some good news there. Uh, next slide. For the accidents, you can see the uh,

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drugs or substance abuse deaths very, very much for all of our counties. 21 and 22 were were peak years um, for drugs or substance abuse. I think we all understand why that is. Um, and then all and for most of our counties the uh, numbers have also

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decreased across the board. And then the last slide. This is a uh, slide that um, indicates the incidence of substances found in decedents in Beltrami in 2025. And then the number in parentheses is

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the total number for all uh, of the deaths um, that we uh, investigated with our office. So, for Beltrami specifically, four individuals had fentanyl in their system, eight had methamphetamine, and one had cocaine. There were obviously numerous other

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substances, but these are kind of the main ones that we uh, include. Um, and as you may notice, heroin is is very low. Um, fentanyl has, you know, pretty much replaced um, heroin use. And that is the uh, end of my

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presentation. Uh, any questions? >> I'm just wondering on that previous slide, there are any of those duplicative? Uh, were they fentanyl and methamphetamine in the same person? Or is it only four were this and eight were this and they weren't combined?

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>> Uh, yes, actually I did write that. I know one individual had fentanyl and methamphetamine. I believe one had fentanyl and cocaine. Um, and then as you uh, notice, the total substance use deaths was nine, and this is obviously higher than nine. So,

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if someone died of a different manner, suicide or or, you know, motor vehicle, they they might be in there as well. >> had drugs and then committed suicide or or got in a car wreck. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Do you see any as

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you look across the 39 counties do you see any similarities, any glaring differences? Are they all kind of a lot the same? Any conclusions you can draw? >> That's an excellent question and usually I get specific questions about, you know, a particular manner per year.

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You know, globally cuz I do I review every single one and present a lot of them and I guess not really. You know, everybody has their ups and downs. Sometimes their ups and downs are different years. You know, in one county there were suicides tanked last year and then were really high this year and and

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then other counties it's the opposite. So, I guess I don't notice that any county specifically stands out otherwise than based on population. >> Thank you. Anything else? >> I think >> All right. So, you can think of some good questions for next year if you if

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you want me to come back. So, thank you very much. Good afternoon. >> you. >> All right. Do we have any other business that's we didn't cover yet? No. Review the agenda. Anybody want any changes to the agenda? >> Yeah.

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>> [clears throat] >> Okay. No change here. Okay. We will adjourn until 5:00.