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you open form is there anybody back there no you consent agenda we have items one through six what's your wishes move for approval Mr chair second motion been made and second it to approve the
consent agenda I'd like to pull six please okay I'll Mend my motions to approve consent agenda items 1 through five I'll M my second for the same okay motion's been made and second and to approve items one through five with um
pulling for consideration number six all in favor I I opposed carried commissioner Beno um just a correction on um on there it says June 16th
30 comma 2025 so it just needs a correction for the correction date okay to approve I'll make a motion to approve um consent uh six um he has this
with the correction I don't have second Mo been made and seconded to approve consent agenda item number six all in favor signify by saying I I oppose carry carried Troy heck the sheriff good morning Commissioners good
morning morning today it's my honor to stand before you and uh present a Citizens life- saving award to Jared benrud one of the greatest Parts about being in this area in in central Minnesota is that uh we do take care of
each other and when there's a need we strive to fill it thankfully we had somebody who was willing to go above and beyond that in a particular incident and and save the life of uh of shiron Ricks
I see that he's joining us via the link that's excellent so to give you some background on what happened here and what brought us to this moment today on January 13th of this year um Jared bentrud had had The Misfortune of uh
leaving the roadway with his vehicle it's uh something that happens to many of us and it it makes for a bad day he summon the services of All Care toin help him get his vehicle back on the road which happened pretty frequently that day if I remember right the road conditions were pretty
poor Chiron Ricks in his work for uh for all car toy showed up and hooked onto the vehicle pulled him out of the ditch got him back up on the shoulder of the road was finishing up his work getting ready to uh to send Jared and on his way and I'm sure go on to the next call that
was waiting when there was a vehicle on North Benton Drive where all this took place that was coming southbound as the vehicle was coming southbound it lost control and it slid into the side of the truck that shiron
was operating while he was outside the truck uh trying to tend to the controls as a result of this crash shiron was uh Gravely injured he had had massive injuries to his legs and he was he was in some tough shape at that
moment thankfully Jared was there and he put into he put into practice his training and his equipment that he would had with uh Jared is a bethl university student and he's also a member of the
University of Minnesota Roc program during his RC training he received uh training in in combat medic uh skills he had with him some tourniquets and he put those skills and those tourniquets into
uh practice because at at that moment in the seconds following the crash uh shiron was was basically bleeding out from the arteries in his legs recognizing this as I said uh Jared put into practice the his skills and his
equipment and stop that massive bleeding that would have taken his life uh the both the deputies that were on scene and the doctors that subsequently treated shiron uh confirmed that without the application of those turits it would have been it would have been a very
difficult outcome for shiron so we're here this morning to say thank you to Jared for his efforts and recognize him going above and beyond what what is uh what is asked of people in their normal everyday lives and for preserving the
life of shiran so that uh down the down the line Jared and shiron and and their families can look back on this day and and know that it was while a turning point to their life it wasn't the end of the story it was just the next chapter so if you join me in saying thank you to
Jared if you want to come on up Jared thank you have anything you wanted to say I I know so there's your life saving award uh shiron I see again you've joined us I don't know if there's
anything you wanted to say um just grateful for Jared and his family especially Jared for his quick reaction and saving my life on that day thanks a lot buddy and we're all very grateful to see
that you're recovering and we we wish you well s s try could Y come up for a front for a pho ABS please thank you cover we're gonna move I'll get it is thank you thank you all right
thanks so Jared question for you yeah what I mean Shon I mean what a difficult day I mean what what what did you guys think right away when it I mean oh man I mean right when it happened it was kind
of surreal um Dad was there too so kind of checked on him first CU he actually went flying into the ditch to avoid the uh the cars and stuff like that but then after found out he was okay both kind of ran a Shon drug him off the road he called 911
and that's when I um saw that he was bleeding from both legs and the two tourits I had on each each leg so it was pretty surreal moment wasn't expecting it I thought the me going in the ditch was the craziest part of the morning
jez thank you shiron we we do uh U appreciate you joining us too and I can't imagine what you're going through it's a day byday kind of deal but because of the quck thinking of Jared and I'm still here and I'm
grateful for that and that's the main thing yeah um like Jerry said it was surreal for that to happen the worst thing was thought maybe just having to pull him out the ditch then this happen but you
know better me than a pedestrian or bicycles that's usually riding up and down B Jack or they wouldn't have made it yeah well thanks everybody thank you yes thank these are your parents here I'm very proud son yeah very proud
father and mother yep thank you done a great job raising them one more round of applause for everybody Absolut thank you thank good luck to you shiron thank you thank you Commissioners thank you them are always good stories for
us difficult but good MH I remember uh we were on ice one time and we were at multiple calls on Highway 10 with the fire department and we're we're directing traffic behind and this Su I come up and pretty soon is sideways
coming right at us and me and um uh no bow we end up running for the ditch and the semi pulled it out and it was like but it was horrible I mean it could have been very bad yuck so okay
Monty thises it you have your public hearing announcement first yes they do typically yeah the next next item on our agenda is a public hearing to consider the proposed changes for the beton county fee schedule before the public hearing
we'll first hear from County staff report all right here of course we have a new shelter at Ben the River Park and our the park commission wishes to make it available via reservation of course if it's the shelter isn't getting used folks can use it first come first serve
but if they'd like to reserve it and have it exclusively theirs for a day or so they they can and it would be available through our online reservation system uh so the park Commission last meeting uh took a look at some comparative data there wasn't really a lot to go from from our area counties in
terms of uh comparable shelters and U and and some don't charge at all uh so it really wasn't a lot to go on uh they they looked at what we currently charge for our shelters as you know we have two shelters at Bend Benton Beach uh the
small shelter large shelter the small is 50 the large shelter is 75 um ultimately the park Commission settled on $100 per day as the rental rate for the the new shelter at Bend in the river uh they did feel was
appropriate to uh offer nonprofit groups a discount of $25 so $75 for a nonprofit group if they wish to reserve the shelter they also added like we do with the B uh uh Benton Beach shelters a $3
security deposit so if you leave it kind of messy we'll keep your 30 bucks um so and that is so as you know the shelter is all done and U we'll start making it available for reservations here quite soon okay Mr chair quick question for
Monty just logistic wise you said first come first serve or you could reserve it yes so if I show up that day thinking I'm going to use it there's going to be a notice or something that says well there is a there is a kiosk front and center right there by the shelter and we're going to post in very Vivid
letters whether it's reserved that day absolutely so we'll has to change that as reservations come in yes we will make sure folks know do you got to personally go out and do that I will personally go out and yes no I they ask you the serious question I can't tell what I I
get no U yes so to be answer your question seriously so of course we have Summer Staff out of Benton Beach and they've got a computer and a printer okay and they'll have something they can print out and they'll run it over to Bent bendon River each possibly almost daily because they've got to go there to
clean the bath anyway okay yeah perfect no I was I was thinking I would look into some uh almost like cellular type application where you could automatically update it I wish you know I think that probably that's something we should explore in the future if there's some Avenue for electronic
signage the only issue there is it gives someone really something expensive to vandalize yeah it's it a piece of paper is pretty cheap so yeah just those enclosures for the for the uh little monitors are probably about 4 grand
for weather proof Mr chair okay so the agenda the applicant is actually the county and he addressed the County Board um we'll now open the public hearing is there anyone in the audience who wishes
to address the County Board on this agenda item if so please come to the podium state your name and your address or what or online yes we don't have that in here does anybody want to address
online I see a none Final Call for anyone wanting to address the County Board online as we have nobody in the county board right now are there any emails letters or Communications to be read
has the department received any comments or concerns from State agencies cities townships on this agenda oh being there was none it didn't affect the town there was no effect from the township at that point the County Board will now have time for questions of staff and discussions as a reminder
to the audience the public hearing is now closed are there any questions comments from board members taken on this item the only question I had was what Jared brought up earlier about electronic yeah inste of paper I I think they discussed that early on the
planning about doing something out there but you know it just makes it much more acceptable to um vandalism and somebody's taking stuff or whatever so yeah but you know what you could do is so I've been thinking about this you
could put you know a cellular modem up like in the in in like a little box in inside the shelter and then have that connect to cameras as well as he that ain't a bad idea that way I bet there's
fiber going right there is well but the thing is there is I'm sure there is but but if you do it that way now you got a monthly connection fee for the local Telo sure unless maybe the local Telo being in bet in telephone may they maybe they would donate that part well I what
I'm guessing is probably is people start to use the shelter were probably going to hear request Wi-Fi probably well that's the next thing do that we could offer a little bit of Wi-Fi it's going to be a mom based but cellular but I remember the
service at bent Beach is really pretty affordable was all the hardware mhm going but the service is cheap you put a Hots spot out there it's 20 bucks a month y so and I think as long as we're
on this on the bendon River Park we're probably going to have some kind of a a ceremony this spring you bet yeah we'll have some kind of nice open house we'll Grill some burgers and BRS and and Cate comption of the project I mean you know this was over about a million bucks
we stuck into this and that yeah I mean the Count's received a lot of money from Legacy and stuff like that for this park turned out great and it turned out really really nice I'll look I'll look into that cuz I mean honestly you can get
some pretty affordable cameras out there and you could have right some it's not like you're watching what's going on automated sign it's just if you got something you can review yeah if we want to see when Monty's there every other day yeah he goes there a lot
from what he tells parkboard it is a it is a very nice property it is you know should be proud of it I I think I said it before is when I first got on the County Board I was like well this is a money pit why don't we just sell the land and you know then you know you learn that you can't but as
we move through be and some of the other stuff it's an asset that companies look at when they're they're expanding or coming to the central Minnesota area well why don't we point out the parking mission is Great River green has brought to bear about $300,000 of Grants so far
to do invasive species removal and Prairie management wow at very little cost to us right very little cost so they really kind of take and bend the river under its wing uh and want to keep work that part right to manage the bases and so on yeah I I think the park board
has had a lot of resources or people they know or something to get some of this stuff done that been really good yeah so any other discussion otherwise I'll entertain a motion I'll make a motion to adopt the Revis Ben County fee schedule
to add new fees for shelter rental at Ben in the River Park I'll take a okay motion been made and second it any other discussion anybody wants uh hearing none I'll call the question all in favor I I opposed carried now we'll address the County
Board and we'll move on to Public Health Community Health Board or the Health Board Health Board really thank you Mr chair I'll call to order the Benton County Community Health Board
is Jacqueline online or is Jacqueline coming believe she was here today she was here this morning Excuse Me Maybe she's on her way we're way earlier than we usually are so
yeah we could play the Jeopardy music he watches Jeopardy Jeopardy is and one other game show moving to like streaming versus actual TV I seen that what they're moving to streaming really
yep that was Michelle yeah okay uh well Mr chair we could probably turn it back over if you want to do the ditch or the commission updates or
commissioner updates or something Chris isn't here either Chris ain't here nether so where is everybody this morning is that our board meeting we are way early we are way early we could do commissionary meeting updates sure I can go ahead I only had
one and I was at the uh cap what do you call that bcap bcap yeah recap that's it I was out for medical sorry that's all I had I had home run leadership I I'm sorry did you re did you recess County Board and go um Community Health Board and go back to
County Board okay make sure we did that till jacquin's here okay um I had home run leadership um training in St Cloud I thought it was absolutely phenomenal um I had
triap and a bcap meeting and I did the 7w regional meeting for Scott um I did AMC legislation conference and then our cow yesterday thank you for filling in for 7w by the way appreciate that oh
yeah I was at to C to yesterday yep all right we had the cow we had the uh okay excuse me legislative conference we I did my first policy board meeting
that went good uh we had our AMC board meeting I got uh uh put on the finance committee so uh on AMC so another meeting other than that um uh I'm trying to think what else we
had I think I think that's about it lot lot don't at the legislative conference As We Know all right um February 18th had a virtual meeting with judicial ditch 1A for malax County some issues going there U of
course the legislative conference that's been talked about also commissioner Pap and I and commissioner boy Beno sat in on the MRC the night before so that was good information uh filled in for commissioner pop on the B executive board the following
Thursday uh had a care board meeting that evening um and then of course we had our with GLT uh yesterday so that was what I had okay um we had the library on right after our last board meeting um I guess
I need to ask this board so I've been been hit by a few Commissioners that they believe that the chair of the library board should be a county commissioner from one of the dis one of the counties um this is the first time in my memory that we were not and the
vice chair is not part of the neither one of them neither one of them are and uh you know Morrison County Commissioner Todd County Commissioner and then Sterns County Commissioner just said well you need to change that but I don't know how to change it because we were virtually
our County Commissioners that are are on there right now are Tim Denny and he said he can't do it um the one from Sterns County as you know has not been there and then we got a different one and it's still not showing up and so
what do you what do you think so I can go back is there something in their bylaws that talks about it they don't Karen's going to look but they you know they just said that it has they can't remember going back way before I was there that it wasn't uh I guess my
opinion start with the bylaws and right might need to update them to include an elected official as a chair as most likely that's probably in the joint poers agreement and the the the other side of that coin is if you make a change that that means every member county has to approve it right yeah but
I look at what the amount we spend on Library board across we got to have an elected official as the chair and then we do have to have an elected official as the think of it this way they of signing authori right yeah yeah so I
think the vice needs to be elected also yeah yeah so I you know and it's I don't know how I don't think staff really feels that it makes any difference but I think it does I if it's joint Powers board yes it's got to be by commissioner elected official we had a lot of uh
we've had a lot of input from the public on this you know ban the book stuff and so I tried to to let it up to the chair that because we get this you get we give them two minutes for six people yeah and so
but the same six it's on a first come first serve basis so the same people are coming every time and signing up and I wanted to change it to have that it's at the board discretion so so and so has been here three months we don't need to hear from her again or him again and uh
that's probably something your board's going to have to decide they wouldn't do it if it's joined power board it's probably in the agreement anyway okay so um that's been and then we elected Tina Dietrich from right County as the finance chair I just didn't feel
that I've done it for a number of years and we need to move on because you know I'm not going to be there very much long longer so um we need to move on and make get somebody in there and and then it's all the Commissioners the six Commissioners plus the chair of the
board so then we're limited to this person that's the chair now is from uh Sherburn County so she has to be on the finance committee otherwise we could pick somebody that had Financial background to be in the too so we had that one then we the township one which
is pretty good then we did the Mississippi River sartel got off to its first meeting um how was that it actually was really good um I think we've been you know we've been through it I think the s
cloud one really helped set the the pace of what we're going to do hopefully it won't do that um a lot smaller group because we only have three Three Counties um one and the tribe and so um
not a lot of experience on there that have done it before so um we elected our chair Vice chair and uh secretary and Benton County's got both the chair and the vice chair and Chuck Ral and myself oh okay so I think we'll be able to move
on on this pretty fast and get it done um they got more money than and in the past they got $260,000 to do the plan and I think we had $220,000 on the other one so and they get uh 1.6 million for
two years when we get it done so they got a little more money I don't know it's um you know we're moving North and it's the Mississippi friends of Bowser yeah friends of Bowser yeah maybe so um that was on then I had the ledge conference and you thanks for doing the
be and then we had the the sub ditch committee yeah that's the other thing I missed that was last Friday that was that was that was good we got things you know um where we need to go and um the auditor Treasures Office is going to handle some things and how we're
going to handle some things so and that was all that I had Mr chair yes I have a couple more I forgot about the Futures that's why I wasn't at bcat I had the futures for AMC that was actually I'm glad you talked me in stay on that because I was going to decline it but uh
uh it was very it was it was a really good two days as you can see I'm always behind him poking him so there's that and then uh I do believe um as commissioner Heinen and and uh probably understands I think we got real legs on
that County Road one from 29 to three I I would be highly surprised if there's a bonding bill that isn't in there or on the on the federal side on the on the ray side yeah I I really believe that that section is going to be put in on one of them this year well and then we
should probably look at Steve talked about that that um they're out for the ear marks again yep see kashar has got money now again so yep well and and all and all of those know about this about
the uh the whole road all the way from from 29 to 23 and I think the the raise Grant we're still carrying the the 24 million 23 21 million 21 okay but uh uh we broke it up
into segments but I one of the things the APO we going to work on is actually going to them right before they start reviewing the raise grants which is probably in the next few weeks and have our um have have our Representatives reach out to these people and and have
them understand what just happened with the school district what's going on with the park and the road count currently where it's at um uh not to mention the the sidewalk that just getting put in which is going to help our grant so we
have an agreement with that sidewalk yet we do yep you know and this is all and all these buildings and everything is going to be happening in the next two years so we have limited time yeah so that's all I have thank you all
right everybody got their chance right yep okay we'll recess the County Board again and go to Public Health well we're going to open the Benton County Community Health Board again uh Jacqueline approve or amend the
agenda I see you had a handout for us yeah one addition that came in hot off the press this morning um which would be an approval of acceptance of Minnesota Public Health State infrastructure funding okay we'll do that as 3D then anything else to add no okay motion
please so moved second okay we got a motion and a second any further discussion if not I'll call the question all in favor say I I oppos motion carries thank you uh consent agenda item one move approval second got a motion in
a second any further discussion on that not I'll call the question all in favor say I I opposed motion carries thank you Jacqueline consider resolution to accept funds from Medica County invitation
funding to Betton County Public Health yes thank you so Betton County Public Health we had previously applied to the Medica County funding opportunity back in August of 2024 our public Heth staff Kayla and Mariah are here with us today um it while they were having
conversations with Meda about some additional needs for resources Meda um decided to grant us some additional funding so to cover the cost of some additional activities so we're just here today to ask for acceptance of the additional
$3,215 um and I'll have Kayla or Mariah come on up and give a staff report on some of the things they've been working on with this even small amount of money the amazing things they've been able to do thank you for that cuz I was that was my next question what are you going to use it for yes I can explain that good
morning good morning morning um yeah so we um have the county Innovations fund we've actually been able to get this a couple of times now um the first time we were awarded in 2023 um and we used it to create hygiene
kits um so we were able to use I think it was about $5,000 we received um and we were able to purchase items to create over 950 kits that we distributed to different partners around the community um so it was a really good experience our whole public health Team got together and spent a good chunk of a
morning packing and we distributed them to um I think we did reachup Head Start area schools um and just different programs like that um and we had really good feedback too when we went to deliver it um a lot of the staff that I talked to they said that you know a lot
of the times they use their own money to buy these kinds of supplies um because kids need them they come to school they don't have access access to it and it's stuff that they need so um we were able to help a lot of kids that way um and then Lake Jaclyn was saying we did apply for it in 2024 as well um we had two
initiatives that we were planning on working on with those Grant funds um we've through conversations with um we do like a Tri County group with SRA here we meet just to kind of talk about different projects um a need was
identified to um hold some sort of convers ation around the MMR vaccine within the Somali Community um because that has historically been very low um so one of the plans we were going to work on um was uh working with hoyo hour which is an organization out of St Cloud
that kind of already does a lot of this work they have conversations with moms um just about you know Health like initiatives um and that kind of stuff um so we're going to work with them and hold a series of conversations just kind of talking about child development
um I don't know signs of autism what causes autism and then hopefully from there move into the MMR vaccine um importance and then um with any of those additional funds we were hoping to also do some sort of dental events around the
county um we're looking at potentially partnering with Children's Dental Services just to offer some um cleaning dates and restorative dates as well just because we know that that is also a really big need in the county um and then as we've kind of been working through these initiatives we kind of
learned that um you know these conversations are very important and um we went to Meda just to ask for some additional funds just to kind of cover some more of those costs that come from having like a speaker come up have
different partners present at these and um as well so they were able to award us some additional funds for this year yeah I don't know do you want me to touch on the do you want to talk a little bit about Children's Dental Services and how they get reimbursement so it's really minimal yeah so
Children's Dental Services is a nonprofit dental clinic um they have like a home base in Minneapolis but they also um are able to do like mobile type services so they're able to essentially set up anywhere that they have access to water and a room um and they can come
offer different types of services so they'll do like cleaning dates where they'll just you know do basic cleanings but then they also offer restorative days as well where they'll come and um you know do extractions that kind of stuff um so it's I mean it's really a
great partnership um you know there's such a big need that you know it's a good way to fill you know some of this Gap but it's you know obviously not like a permanent solution so yeah they'll be I think a really good partner with us and yeah we're excited to see where that
goes Mr ch um so any qualifications for these children to come in for dental services they just show up they can just show up um they accept all types of insurances um so it's great for a lot of our clients that are on medical assistance and then if you don't have insurance they also offer a sliding
scale fee so then that way families can pay what they're able to okay thank you thank you for your work thank you board what would you like to do with this I'll make a
motion I'll make a motion to approve good I'll second okay we got a motion in a second any further discussion on this if not I'll call the question all in favor say I I I oppose motion carries thank you next one Jacqueline yeah and thank you for your approval of that
resolution it's it's always amazing to me to see how much we can do with such a small amount of dollars so it's really cool to see that pan out um so the next item is for us um for the Community Health Board to approve spenton County public health staff to explore an additional opportunity to submit an
application to receive some additional funding from Meda which is through their Early Childhood Health Grant um and Kayla is is happy to speak a little bit to that as well as far as what our plans would be for that but very similarly um our primary you know goal with this
additional Grant opportunity and requests for funding would be to explore other avenues that we can take to help extend those Dental accesses and dental services so um we're allowed to ask for a maximum of $100,000 and so our goal would be to explore it um determine budget-wise what what type of funding or
amount to funding we may need for the projects that we're thinking of and then submit an application if we have Community Health board approval to do so talk a little bit about it yeah please do um I don't think there's a lot to say at this point in time um Bas or off of
like what jacine said um but yeah we're hoping to just apply for this um Early Childhood Grant um one of the exciting things is is that they do um they focus on Rural communities which is one of their priority areas so that's you know great for us and then Dental access was also one of their project areas that
they're looking at as well so hopefully if we're accepted to um receive these funds we can kind of use that to still continue our work to expand Dental access in the area um I think applications are open until the um April 4th so we'll try to
get an application in here soon and then we'll receive notice in late June um whether or not we're able to you know move forward in this process and then um final notice if we are actually approved comes late September so it's kind of a long process but hopefully we can get
through this W thank you thank you I'll move for approval of submitting the application Mr chair second we've got a motion in a second any further discussion on that one yeah where does Medicare get their money or where is this coming from private Meda yeah Meda
is one of the health plans so Health yeah yeah health insance where do the funds from them come from oh I believe it probably comes from their reimb from their fees and reimbursements and um I'd have to ask more details on that I don't know where they come up with the funding source for their funding but I'm assuming it's probably appropriated in
their budgets um that they put so much back into the community or yeah I know at the end of the year oftentimes they' they've announced that they've had additional funding award opportunities um and they just designate to give back to community um a lot of the health plans have to work in conjunction on a community health Improvement plan
similar to Public Health departments and so a lot of ways that they do that is by offering up funds that go back into Community um but I can get some more clarification on that and if we're awarded the funds I can come back with some more information about how they how they obtain their funds similar to the 75 grand or so from Blue Cross right
similar to Blue Cross yep yep so we you know again that one was an unique opportunity because they reached out to us in that case but a lot of these other times it's our community health specialists who are identifying or seeing Grant rfps come out and then bringing them forward and saying hey this is something we you know we're needing to work on can we apply for it
and um so yeah I'll have to look a little bit deeper into that to figure out like where it's at in their funding source as far as how they appropriate the funds and their budgets and where they're coming from but um yeah I can get back to you with more information on that thank you okay we got a motion and
a second go ahead I have just a quick question are these grants are they does the county have to um is it a match or not with these ones no there's no match with these that I've seen and I don't believe the Early Childhood Health one has a match either
they don't any further discussion if not I'll call the question all in favor say I I I opposed motion carries thank you next fully Community Expo okay so um I'll just give a a brief
introduction so Bon County Public Health is continuing to partner with the school district and fulley Community Education this year to plan the fulley community connect Expo and I will have our staff come up again and provide report on what's to come good morning Commissioners good
morning morning so I'm going to talk a little bit about the fulley community connect Expo and we're going to extend an invitation for you all to attend um if you're interested thank you so the fley community connect Expo will take place um this is the second annual event
on March 22nd from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the Foley High School gym um and like jacine said our Foley Community connect Expo committee is um in collaboration with fle Community Ed as well as Ben County public health staff so the purpose of the event is just to bring
resources um and connections to the community directly at this event so things like Mental Health Resources Housing Services insurance information activities for youth um senior um resources um so really just a wide array
of different resources and services and we hope to offer something for all age groups so some of the specific event offerings we will be having are car seat checks um and then there will be breakfast provided uh for all attendees
we'll also have kids vision checks uh free kids tennis shoes ages 2 to 18 a variety of different sizes um and then one of our health clinics here Williams integracare will be providing blood pressure checks there will also be free meal kits provided from the brainer
Lakes outreach program um that families can take home and um I think one big don't quote me on it but I think it's like 20 meals or so that come in one one meal bag um personal hygiene kits for individuals to take for free and then um as Kayla mentioned Children's Dental
Services will also be up at the event providing walk-in appointments for um any children to come in and get an appointment or a cleaning so and then much more and if you haven't seen our hidden in plain site exhibit I would recommend coming and seeing that um it's
an exhibit set up like a teenager's bedroom with different items like Vapes um and other um sort of substances hidden throughout the bedroom to see what it would look like as a parent walking through to see if they could identify some of those things um that are often hidden in plain
sight Mr so just as a quick note for commissioner Johnson what are you serving for breakfast he did highlight that free breakfast thanks a lot I think we're planning on hash
browns eggs um sausage pretty typical breakfast F I think I can count you in yeah call me in yeah good question such abuse I'm feeling the pain
Monty we can let you continue now and so for vendors there are 60 um vendors that we have set up that'll have tables there so we have health plans that serve Bon County resid resents we have mental health um resources and um different service providers that will be
there a variety of nonprofit organizations um so we had I want to say around 30 to 40 last year vendors so we've really increased from last year as we move um forward with the second annual event the funding for this event to help pay for the shoes the breakfast uh Children's Dental Services that's
been funded by local businesses um you can see on the flyer the um funders are uh located on the bottom of the flyer um other grants and then donated time and fun funding as well and then for attendees we had 219 attendees last year and we're expecting around 300 this year
um we'll have them fill out a survey when they enter the event as well just to kind of keep track of how many attendees where they're coming from um and just some demographic information too so we just want to say thank you um listed here our public health staff that are on the committee to help in planning
this event and then if you have any questions um feel free to reach out to us otherwise we hope to see you there I was there last year for the first time event and it was very well attended a lot of people there and I I brought my wife there and between me and my wife I
think we knew every vendor there and I thought I was only going to be there for an hour but it was over two hours I did I did like the room though that was really cool to see go ahead awesome yeah I want to I want to see that too tell me a little bit about the sponsors so the difference between gold
silver and bronze and then a lot of challenges getting sponsors or were people really stepping up um we had a lot of the same sponsors as last year sponsored again this year and then we continued to reach out to a variety of other partners too just seeing if we could even gain more sponsorship a lot of them you know local um a lot of our
health plans also contributed to this event too that you can see listed below and then the difference between the um sponsors on the bottom are just the funding amount so um correct me if I'm wrong was it 100 I think it's 10025 250 and 500 different sponsorship
levels so great thank you great thank you any other questions thank you for putting this on yeah honestly the the how you break up the 125 you know the the smaller amounts it's able to get a lot of businesses
involved in that 125 you partner with you know 10 others and you got a thou you know over a th bucks so great job commissioner pop you had a question no oh okay I'm sorry okay this is just informational I believe yeah great I'll be there
so thank you thank you very much for that for your time everything you do okay next approve acceptance of the Minnesota Public Health State infrastructure funding all right that was a handout given to us yes that was the a handout
um and I'm pretty sure we saved the best for last um I'm I'm also pretty certain that our staff heard me yell woohoo this morning like three floors up um I just got an email and on the back side of the agenda item is a copy of the email I received this morning at 8:41 from the Minnesota Department of Health um if you
recall back on October 15th of 24 our community health board approved public health staff applying for um State infrastructure funding on behalf of our Central Minnesota Alliance Group um I'm happy to report that we were selected they approved our Grant application um
and awarded us an amount of $800,000 to use over the next two years $400,000 per year which is pretty phenomenal um our regional group is incredibly excited about this um as you know our local public health act requires that we complete by Statute a community health
assessment and a community health Improvement plan Bon County does that as a regional collaboration we've been doing it that way now um for our previous cycles of our health Improvement plan and plan to continue um to work together on that and so this funding is going to help support that um
Community Health assessment and Community Health Improvement planning process um so really all I'm looking for this morning is just an initial acceptance so I can respond back to the state and confirm that we would accept um to move forward and then the state would remit a contract and then I'd be back to board with the contract itself
and then approval of the proposed Staffing plan um back in October I I had mentioned that the main goal of this would be to support a regional um data analyst and a regional program manager so this would be very similar to our first steps collaborative we would plan
to structure it in much of the same way where that Regional program manager would support the process of our community health assessment in our community health program um or planning and then the data analyst would support the central Minnesota Alliance Data piece of it which is a massive
undertaking um our community health assessment and plan has a lot of data sources a lot of review a lot of compiling a lot of um data display um a lot of aggregate data um so very specific to those Public Health mechanisms and so the plan would be to
fully fund those two positions out of these Grant funds to some support our work and build capacity around this space um and then you know like I said when I come back after we'd have a chance to to talk with the CMA we would talk about more of that Staffing plan and then a sustainability plan when I
come back to ask for approval of the contract so initially today would just be um to get approval to respond back to the state that we would um be looking to move ahead and then um like I said I'd be back with that contract so
questions so move Mr chair second got a motion and a second for the acceptance of this any other questions great job yep that's nice news great job really exciting um and the only thing I haven't mentioned is we would have the opportunity to reapply for an additional
two years so then after that like I said we come back with a plan so really exciting and like I said I'm sure everyone jumped they're not here but everyone jumped when when I yelled this morning it is it's a lot of money widely needed this will be great though yes very excited any other questions if not
I'll call call it all in favor say I I I opposed motion carries thank you anything else Jac anything else Jacqueline in front of us no nothing else um in front of you for today question commissioner kinsky just more of a statement and and I didn't I was
thinking about postponing this because of the good news but obviously we know the bad news coming from the state government and I think Thursday could be a horrible day for uh for finding out what the what the forecast looks like
with that said we just got to we got to stay um we got to keep our eye on the ball because I got a feeling there's going to be a lot of things in human Human Services you know Health Department ever all of these programs could end up taking a big cut in in um
Aid so just we we appreciate everything you guys doing this isn't on you guys this is way higher than any of us I'd like to yeah if I can comment back so the the comment commissioner kinsky because this is something that our staff have been thinking about too so I appreciate the acknowledgement and
recognition of that yeah yeah okay um commissioner pop so when uh we were at the ledge conference and the president of AMC spoke I didn't realize that there's only 18 states in the United States that do human services and Public
Health on a county level oh the others do it through a state organization correct yeah yeah I'm uh president Slavic brought that out I think because he was quite concerned about where we're going and what we're doing and that just seems to
yeah maybe counties small counties will get lost in the process you know the big counties the Metro counties will take advantage of that I don't know it is nice to have some control yeah it is and we've learned that at the nacho conference too though you know
that it's all state driven all the other yeah we are fortunate in the way that Minnesota conducts their Public Health it it is very different than a lot of the states um in the in the way that they have that autonomy at the local level where really they say you know here's what's expected of our health departments but how you do that at a
local level you have a lot of autonomy in determining within reason right I mean our grant funding sources oftentimes dictate what we can work on but within reason we're able to say how we get from point A to point B is is really appropriated to what fits our community best and so that's really helpful um in in the way that our grants
come through and we call them grants but really it's more like pass through funding through the state so it's appropriated to the state and then the state decides on that funding formula and sends it out to the counties so that is a little different than some of those other states that have that state funed program but in Minnesota it's more of a local and state partnership um where the
state takes on some of the things that we don't do here at the local level like our environmental health we don't have a robust environmental health Staffing capacity so a lot of the state covers that for us um and vice versa so we kind of of work in Partnership and have a lot of technical assistance and a lot of
regional state coordinators that support our staff um throughout the work so it works really well um you know when we have that that consistency and then across counties um it's really helpful to have that local state partnership too because then we all get the same
messaging um from the state um at times and then we we work together with those other counties on health initiatives with a shared goal so it does work really well though in Minnesota because the other states don't don't have that coll C collaboration though either yeah and like our sha so
the the State Community Health Services advisory committee um that commissioner Heinen um is on that committee it's kind of Unique in Minnesota as well because there are County Commissioners from every single County across the state of Minnesota that make up that advisory committee to the the Minnesota
Department of Health commissioner and so when there's new policies or statute review um it's a team of the County Commissioners plus the public health director from all count across our state of Minnesota that meet and compile recommendations to give to the commissioner of the state of for the state of Minnesota Department of Health
and so that's kind of Unique in Minnesota as well is that the fact that all those people are in the same room when it comes time to reviewing a lot of those policies or funding formulas um there's a lot of of group decision- making in that process too which is helpful so we actually have a good say
in it too though I mean they take our recommendations y anything else thank you jacine oh yes thank you thank you appreciate it thanks for taking me yeah we're adjourned at 9:55 and I'll turn it back over to the board
chair well we will now reassess the County board meeting and turn it to ditch Authority all right call our ditch Authority meeting to order at 9:55 uh we've got our roll call uh any changes to the agenda Chris no
changes is there a motion so move okay second and a second motion a second to approve the agenda presented all those in favor I oppos is carried move on to consent agenda one item approve or amend the ditch Authority minutes uh from February 4th of this year so move second
okay motion a second to approve those minutes any discussion in regards to the minutes none else in favor I I I opposed it's carried Chris accept a petition for abandonment of CD4 all right I think Christine she did
receive a petition for okay great go ahead Christine so just to give you a little recap on Ditch 4 um December 6th Mike and Tim rusi contacted my office via email asking how to abandon ditch for um they were then provided the
petition template that is in the Minnesota public ditch drainage manual on December 12th they submitted the petition it was determined at that time that the petition was invalid due to there being a current assessment on the ditch
the rusys then collected the remaining assessments from Neighbors and paid off the current um assessment on County ditch 4 on January 17th they submitted another petition to abandon and it was determined then that the petition was
invalid due to all the property owners on the benefited Parcels listed not signing the petition on February 24th they submitted another petition which is what is presented today and the current petition has
44633 Acres of the 693.11i land owners signing okay so a couple questions and I don't know if this is for Christine or Michelle but um who who tasks with validating the
petition so uh both Christina and I did work on making that we had enough Acres as well as property owners and going back through those records to make sure that all of the relevant Property Owners had sign so all the spouses all the trustees all that stuff so at this point
this is a valid petition for abandonment so yeah okay thank you so then next step we set a public hearing okay I was going to propose the second meeting in not April I believe it's the 15th
that's our so our board meeting day yeah is there anything else on the agenda that you know of Chris for a ditch Authority that day at this time I do not know if there's anything else yeah okay ditch Authority April 15th public hearing for abandonment of
CD4 and it's been stated we have a valid petition so does that work for everybody yep okay is there a motion I'll move that motion I'll second it motion a second to approve April 15th ditch Authority meeting uh we probably need to set a
time on nine o'clock because we don't know when it's going to happen I suppose I I mean if we can do 10 but we may end up waiting if we have a short meeting so I think we have to list nine that's my opinion you okay with that on your you okay with that so April 15th 9:00 a.m.
for ditch Authority uh to have a public hearing for the abandonment of CD4 any other discussion anything from staff Michelle or Chris Christine anything else no we just we will have to send out notice to all benefited land owners in CD4 system okay I believe a publication
in the official newspaper is required as well correct yeah okay any other discussion hearing none all those in favor I oppose it's carried we'll have that public hearing on April 15th thank you Michelle thank you Christine and Chris anything else for ditch Authority
just a reminder tonight we have a 600 PM public for cd9 can't make that all right we are adjourned on Ditch Authority at 9:59 yes quickest ditch Authority meeting you're ever going to see I'll turn it back to the board chair um we'll
reconvene the County board meeting and we'll go to set Committee of the holes none of them motion approve don't have to proove we don't have them I tell you all right um Chris would like to
request of you a commit the hole on various Highway topics uh Chris did you have a suggested time frame for this what's your what could still be in we're in March right yes sure y uh so we have another regular schedule board meeting on the 18th uh I don't know if you want
to do it that day or the 19th the Wednesday I'm on vacation that week so I'm you're not you're going to hear the Wrath right now we've started and you're just just up here but we started scheduling things on the Wednesdays
Thursdays and Fridays again I'm for now on I'm out I'm out on those days sure so and I know Fridays I can't make it either unless we absolutely have to on on a on a few things but we've got we've got committee assignments that spread
out and we still got to do our our daily job too some of us aren't what's your timeline Chris I mean like the 24th Monday the 24th option or sure what your timeline is that's possibly yeah an option yeah so the idea would be discuss start talking about The Five-Year Plan
you know we've referenced a lot about Mayu Lake Road when outsiders look at it we don't have that in our 5year CIP so we need to seriously have some discussions about that um so that that's my concern as far as timeline there's
not a set timeline I just think sooner the better but um yeah we could look at Monday the 24th so how's that for everybody I wouldn't be able to be there you I well I don't know my grandson's having surgery that day so if that
doesn't change I would be in the cities 25th or 31st do March um 31st of March would be uh 31st I can't how long is this going to take Chris um long as we keep that one roll
off of a 25 or whatever fine no they're going to be here you can bet on it I mean I I don't know take a couple hours I want to talk about The Five-Year Plan in general and then maybe some more specifics about forming some Partnerships and forming some agreements on Mayu Lake Road project with our our
project Partners how about the 25th that works for me you can I should be able to make that one 25th yeah I can make that 8:30 yeah yeah Jared don't work for you
2 25th at 8:30 okay got it we'll lock it in all right and we should probably also add if we may Mr chair the meetings that were discussed yesterday uh openhouse meetings on the government center
project yep so if I may just if I may cover these April 9th 6: to 7:30 Sock Rapids government center community room April
16th uh 6: to 7:30 here in the boardroom uh I'll come back to the issue of the tours commissioner Johnson April 17th 6:00 to 7:30 rice City Hall council chambers um
so I believe there was this there was a consensus to have uh tours at the same night as the public hearing on the CIP plan which was May 6th at 4 that um so I would suggest the
tours be set as a committee of the whole so that would be 4M May 6th for facility tours uh the special board meeting on May 6 at 6 PM would not be a committee of the whole that's just a simply special board mean we post three days
prior yep uh commissioner Johnson I believe you suggested having tours also on the 16th my only thought was we're it's here and open why why wouldn't we I guess right I agree so I don't want to create conf I don't want to create
confusion so I I think we should have a distinct posting for the open house at 6:00 p.m. and a separate posting on April 16th for facility tours from 4: to 6 yeah correct so there's no confusion so people don't show up at four thinking
it's the open house so so uh anyway as I um we'll as I may have mentioned is we'll do a at least one maybe two advertisements in bent count new soccer rits Herald on these dates um web page
social media however we can push it out the the the the word out about these so um and I did see uh Christine's follow up the uh flyer already with printed and I think that's okay I don't know that we want to change it at this point it gave
everybody the heads up that these meetings are coming okay so we'll let that one right yeah it's already printed yeah and for Tim's information those are going out in the tax I picked out a really pretty color I spent a lot of time doing that save the county money by going
white paper thank you you have thank you are you interested you got it uh Mr chair those are all the Committees of the hall we have for you move for approval Mr chair second most been made in second to set the Committees of Theo any other discussion all in
favor wait um are you are you putting this on the Committees of the whole in case there's more than two Commissioners oh we should yes good point good thank you yes can you s can you give us the it's right there yep I can March 22nd
March 22nd 9:00 a.m. to noon uh community at connect Expo Foley High School gymnasium thank you and uh Tim would like this all questions must submit in writing okay Tim what I would like to go
back now you have sched in March 25th talk about various Highway issues correct y okay you like you got an approved school project that's going to put Early Childhood yep Sports fac there yep questions are okay where's the
funding and get kicked up high in priority multiple partners yep I mean it kicks it up a little bit absolutely yeah this W with what you know if you look at it a few ways all everything all the referendums
that passed in Sock Rapids is not necessarily great for taxpayers but it it really is I mean they're getting value there but it also puts priorities on this road which are going to be heightened at the state and federal level because of it's already a horrible
Road when it comes comes to accidents and and now we're going to be probably close to almost doubling all that traffic through there once that Park is built in the next uh two years the the early childhood education center
as well as the uh the athletic complex out there I I mean the the traffic is going to be horrendous in that area and to your point Tim that was discussed down at the state for bonding requests I mean that was all put in and mentioned multiple times kicking it to your
delegation and say yes got get back on yes we talked that issue a lot M commissioner commissioner Johnson and myself and the superintendent Brad berstein we were down there at the capital already how many how many people
we meet with 10 12 yeah multiple give them on they heard it again last last and then U we're getting emils from the congressionally directed spending from from cloar Smith emmer again and we're going to be we're going
to be working with the the APO um lobbyist out in the federal area David herch to get this back in their ears cuz we've applied now this is the second time that we're third time we're applying third third time for for the
raise Grant I I I truly believe that the stars are going to align either on a bonding bill or on the raise Grant you better settle in the bond on the raise Grant because I don't think we're gonna need something for that first section anyway regardless
yeah that's that Corridor study that was completed in conjunction with uh the APO and that's that's what kind of set the vision of what this road should look like someday and when we completed that study that those timelines were unknown and just like you pointed about uh that
timeline is a little bit more set now because it's been amped up the voters approving they wanted these changes with the school property no because once again the plan kind of establishes what that road should though it didn't have time frames in it now we've got to figure out a way
to deliver what that plan said the vision was thanks great questions we like your questions most of the time jeez and even if we don't that's okay even if we don't yeah fine anything
else motion to go into close session no we've got you got to approve theow yeah we got to approve the cow with the additions there was a motion there was a motion and we got to add the 22nd yep so moved I I I CH I amend my motion okay
second I was the motion leader it's fine okay uh motion been made and seconded to approve uh Committee of the holes all in favor I I opposed carried now now I'll make a motion to go
into close session to uh for um Department leader reviews motion been made there second second Mo made in second to go into close session and Miss I should note for the record that the purpose of today's close session is to conduct evaluations
of the County engineer IT director and Land Services director thank you okay and I think we're going to start with Chris so we're get everything shut down