--------- good morning It's 8:30 and I'm going to call the meeting of the Klay County Board of Commissioners for March 25th to order Uh I will be um chairing today uh our chair Commissioner Campbell is out of town and
our vice chair Commissioner Mojo is in St Paul uh about an hour and a half away from having to testify on behalf of some of the uh think bills we're trying to get through for the good of our county We're grateful for the extra effort that
uh Jenny is putting in for her She is with us remotely until we until she's got to go to to speak to the uh legislators All right First order um on the agenda is approval of the agenda
I'll make a motion to approve the agenda Second Any further discussion okay we're going to need a roll call vote Commissioner Krabanoft yes Commissioner Bayer yes Commissioner Ebinger yes
Commissioner Mojo yes Hey motion passes Uh next we have citizens to be heard Do we have any citizens present who want to address the commission on anything that is not on today's agenda steve do we have anybody online we do
not Mr Chair Okay Next approval of payment of bills and vouchers I'll make a motion to pay the bills and vouchers I'll second the motion They have a motion and second Any discussion if not we'll need a roll call
vote Commissioner Kraov Yes Commissioner Bear Yes Commissioner Ebinger Yes Commissioner Mojo yes Next we have approval of minutes from March 11th 2025 I'll make a motion to approve the
minutes from March 11th 2025 A second Have a motion a second Any further discussion if not could we have a roll call please yes Commissioner Kavanagh yes Commissioner Bayer yes Commissioner
Abbinger yes Commissioner Mojo Yes Okay Motion passes Next on the agenda is request approval uh to appoint Joe Josh Shrader to the planning commission And we have Matt Jack Jacobson or Jack
Mat Matt Jacobson Morning Mr Chair Yeah Yakabson Oh yeah Okay Um thank you Uh good morning Um here to um bring forth a recommendation from the planning commission uh for an
appointment of a new planning commissioner We had a uh planning commissioner from Barnesville Brentburg who uh stepped down um in March 18th And so just want to thank him uh for his service to Klay County Um and um we have a
recommendation for an appointment of Josh Schrader And Josh is um from Barnesville He's on the Barnesville Planning and Zoning Commission Uh and the motion was unanimous to recommend him Any questions for me at all
any questions i have none Okay If not we'll move to a vote I'll make a or I I'll entertain a motion I'll make a motion to appoint Josh Schrader to a three-year term for the Klay County Planning Commission
I'll second the motion I have motion to second Any further discussion i I have one thing Chair I was at this meeting I filled in for Jenny and yeah he had unanimous approval to be brought forward to this committee So very
good Okay Any further discussion if not we'll have a roll call vote Commissioner Kavanagh yes Commissioner Mojo yes Commissioner Bayer yes Commissioner Ebinger yes
Motion passes And uh extend our our welcome to Mr Shrader and Yep And he's here today You are here M Sher do you have anything you want to say [Laughter] yeah here Um like Matt said I've been on the
Barnesville Planning and Zoning Commission for three years with Brent Berg Uh he's our chair Uh enjoyed working with him And when he said he was planning on stepping down from this commission and kind of opened it up I didn't jump in right away but uh considered it and uh seemed like a
reasonable position to be in Um I'm I'm an engineer I've worked for KLJ for the last 18 years now Uh my family's lived in Barnesville that long I've got an older daughter who is uh going to Morhead State for education My younger daughter is graduating from high school this year and going to Duth so I have
time Um I travel a little bit for work but I have uh pretty good control of my schedule and stuff like that So I don't see there being any conflicts that would keep me from serving on the board So I'd be happy to tell you more about myself Otherwise I'll just uh get to work Well we're we're excited to have your skills
and your experience uh and your energy on this important position and Matt does an amazing job and we are just really excited to have people from all around the county who can give us the input we need to make
good decisions Sounds like you've got the the education and the experience to be a real attribute So welcome aboard Okay Thank you Commissioner Thank you Okay next up we have annual department update from Department of Corrections
Probation Dale Arnold's with us Dale good morning Morning That's that's actually on her business card Uh good morning So I put forth uh somewhat of an agenda here kind of some of the things that I want to talk about
and go over today Uh some of that stuff is going to be county data I'm going to go over the staff that we have in the department any changes I'm going to talk a little bit about our specialty courts Um a little bit more on uh the DWI court
which is something new uh since last year um what we've been doing uh regarding cognitive behavioral therapy in our department and some of the groups that we've rolled out and then um the case planning roadmap and all of this
stuff is somewhat of a a response to the data that I'm going to talk about uh today and you're going to hopefully I'll be able to connect those dots Uh so the first slide here the thing I want to first bring up is that the data that I'll be talking about will
will be from 2020 So for the last five years I know it's tiny hard to see Try to make that little wheel there Maybe it'll be a little easier for those sitting further away but I'll go over um the important pieces of this It's probably worth noting that the
population of Klay County since 2020 has increased by roughly a thousand people And then our neighboring uh county has increased by about 17,000 people since 2020 So we have seen population increase Although I think that's
probably one of the mechanisms in play for the numbers that I'm going to talk about You can probably uh guess that some of the data is a response to the pandemic since 2020 staffing for uh the sheriff's department
uh police departments um and things like that Um so in looking at this the first one on the left there what you're going to notice is that uh in in reference to the assault category the second one down and domestic assault there's been a significant increase uh in open
probation cases in our office And so you see you can see with domestic assault 200 roughly in 2020 and then 400 in 2024 So that has doubled Um going down to drug uh related convictions and open
cases we've got about 300 three 321 in 2021 and then jumping up to 467 in 2024 And if you you kind of scroll down those you can see that it's progressing in
every category um DWIS 88 to 160 escape or flight or so those people not returning from furlow status uh 57 to 127 um in theft 116 and 208 and the wheel on
the right there shows the whole five years if you were to group everything together by category um the majority of uh cases are assault or I'm sorry drug cases at 1.7,000 And then second um but closely behind
are domestic assault cases and then uh third is like theft So those make up the majority or the bulk of uh cases that we supervise The graph in the bottom right is the juvenile cases uh traffic
accident theft and then um the one down there the federal juvenile cases that 2.4 for those are transfers typically uh that make up that uh bar from other states where maybe the offense category doesn't necessarily match the Minnesota
offense category Um and you can think um how North Dakota sentences cases differently than Minnesota Dale yes What's the difference between uh theft and burglary
um so theft could be of like an item um and then it's it's um separated by the amount of the theft right and so it could be like a cell phone or something worth value This is a good question for Brian Um but burglary depending upon the
the level of burglary could be of a residence entering somebody's residence or a business Um and that kind of depends Okay Where where all that stuff falls right very good Thank you
Um so I'm going to break this down a little bit further Um I'll go over this relatively quickly You can see the on the left one there probation felony cases by offense So just the felony offenses 753 in 2020 2024 1,333
That's a steep slope going up there Same for gross misdemeanor 144 226 misdemeanor 138 238 juvenile cases um if you look 187 on
the bottom there to 224 um in 2024 And um and you some of the numbers there representing what makes up the majority of those categories You know again misdemeanor is domestic assault uh gross
misdemeanor uh you're looking at DWIs and domestic assault And then with the felonies it's the drug offenses uh domestic assault and assault uh and theft Uh there's another sub component of
supervision Um you could think of it as parole but we call it supervised release Um and so after somebody's uh sentence is executed or they're a commit to the commissioner They get released on parole Throughout the state of Minnesota all of those
cases are handled through the HRU process Um and so there is no judge really affiliated after the point that their their sentences are executed Um but nevertheless we have data on that too A majority of those cases being uh
drug cases assault um some theft and then criminal sexual conduct ISR cases so intensive supervised release Uh again throughout the entire state those being released from prison
um are assessed at their risk level which takes into account the seriousness of their offense Um their risk uh for recidivism in the community and if they score high enough or for varying reasons they can be placed on intensive supervised release which is um a
subcomponent of the state and that's run by the state And so those are the most serious offenses um and people um being released Uh and you can see there the majority of those are drugs domestic assault There's some weapons in there Um
and in the bottom right category it's showing that in Klay County from 2020 there's roughly uh 20 people on ISR in the county and in 2024 that jumped way over 50 That could be for that'd be a really difficult thing
to guess at Um I mean the assessment that they use hasn't changed Um it could be just you know 10 years ago there was uh a number of people that were sentenced to serious crimes and now they're just kind of being released for
one reason or another Um a breakdown of just the overall cases Um you can see just an increase from 2020 in felony gross misdemeanor misdemeanor petty misdemeanor kind of irrelevant but um with that blue bar
there those are the felony cases increasing in our county Um this is the number of PSIs that we're completing the pre-sentence investigation reports Uh that's a big subcomponent of our office It takes up quite a bit of our time Um you know
obviously we want to put together the best comprehensive report that we can for the court in those cases that need that Uh and you can see that you know in 2020 we did 333 psis 2024 we're up to 402 and it's been kind of up and down
through that time period An interesting statistic down there on the bottom uh the number of homeless that are active on our case loads in 2024 109 And so you can think how that plays um
into uh the homelessness population that we're serving um and how that relates to how we conduct supervision I wish I had the five-year on that That would have been an interesting stat to get I couldn't get that Um the number of pre- plea
worksheets has increased since 2020 Um the number of PDIs so juvenile um investigations has increased Um you can see there a couple more and we'll be almost doubling that one Um I got some data on discharge uh
information And so you know we do our best to recognize when there's risk in the clients that we're supervising And then we also um identify when clients are doing well right if our if our assessment reflects that they are low
risk to recidivism um or to continuing their status quo behavior and they're able to prove that we will definitely um request the court discharge them early of the felony cases in
2024und and and of the discharges 182 discharges roughly about 50% of them were discharged early and then about 27% of the felony cases in 2024 made it through the full period of supervision Gross misdemeanor cases um
you're going to get a little bit more of them making it through their entire period of supervision simply because gross misdemeanor cases have a shorter time frame for supervision uh on average maybe like two years Um and so we still discharge gross cases
early if if the client can show that they're they're doing well Um some discharge data there on the juvenile cases as well Uh you could see that very rarely we discharge early on
the juvenile cases You know those are even a shorter time frame sometimes six months Um and so thought that was all interesting stuff Violation outcome uh information What are the violations looking like in
our department um the majority of the violations we file are probation violations And you can see there that very few are juvenile violations Um and then very few down there That S is those supervised release or parole file
violations And that and the reason for that is just because the vast majority of the cases we handle are probation cases Uh we just that's that's the most um of the clients that we're dealing with Um some transfer information As you
can probably expect since we're neighboring a very large city we do a lot of transfers Um and you can see since 2020 51 outofstate transfers 2024 167 um transfer in responses We're also
seeing an influx of cases coming in and so a lot of movement between the two counties here Um and the the orange bar there on the bottom right is showing that the amount of cases that we're rejecting is staying roughly the same So
as the numbers continue to grow on convictions and then cases being placed on supervision the transfers will continue to grow um going out and that that again is another piece of um of our of the duties that we do in
the office Finally uh well not finally there's more Uh but some recidivism data um for the first six months the first year two years and three years and this is data from 2019
um and thereafter uh the first bar there on the left is Klay County probation the dark blue bar The second the light blue bar there is the statewide average And so you can see for the first six months there we got
94.5% for Klay County uh 94% of people are successful uh after the first six months of completing probation and then 96 is the state average So we got to get get to
work on the first six months But if you all the way over to the very right column um we're we're doing a great job at three years uh 87.6% of our clients after successfully completing probation are successful
after three years and the state average is 85 The dark green bar is uh parole cases So 77.6% of our parole cases after completing parole um stay felony free uh
after three years and the state average is 70% And so we're doing good there Um really uh looking at that data shows the efforts that the agents in the office everybody in the office is making toward reducing recidivism Dale let me ask you a question on
recidivism Uh looking at the ISR cases and the big spike you've got in who's in those coming out I have a theory and and is pro may be something you don't want to confirm but I know that the Department of Corrections moving towards a community
uh punishment or community uh role in incarceration of of prisoners I'm sure they're using the same standards when they release them to determine if they need ISR or not but I think there's going to be and we can plan on it from
what uh Commissioner Schnell has said there's going to be more people being released that traditionally would have been maintained in the prisons If these are if if if the recidivism rate isn't
increased I think that's a win even if it's ISR people as long as you have adequate staff to maintain it Do you have a break breakdown and I know it's just in this last year they've been doing it Yeah Are you seeing a higher recidivism rate on uh on
ISRS than uh than the rest of the population and so I don't have the data for ISR I would assume that that's the subcomponent of the supervised release portion over here And part of that reason is because those on ISR are on
ISR for roughly about a year time or CIP the challenge incarceration program After they successfully complete ISR or complete the challenge incarceration program they come to our office or for supervision And so that is a reflection of those people that successfully
complete ISR and then come back Answer your question about the people that don't complete ISR I don't have that data about early release Um if you're referencing MR and some of the other policies yeah there isn't any there's as
far as I know there's no policy set in stone around some of that stuff So it's a little early to tell All I can say is that um from what I have seen it appears that the decision behind that is
justified or driven by um you know some level of reasoning behind many of those people are not high risk right and so they're going to use evidence-based practices to determine who amongst the population would be eligible for that
type that type of supervision or that type of release or early release And I think that's worth a try just when you look at expense and and and probably fairness Yeah But when you're talking about an ISR
population that's where you kind you guys have a little are under a little heat Yeah Yeah And so maintain them It's a little too early to speak for me to speak to that you know Um but I'm aware of many of the concerns that others have
brought forth to me as well And um I I guess we'll see Well there's better answers than jail for a lot of people Yeah if we have the resources in the community and the staff in the community to give give these folks a chance to
turn things around Anyway I'm gonna elaborate just Thank you Um it leads me to that's that's a good segue into this uh this next slide here Um so in the county and across the state
actually uh the the assessment we use to determine risk um for the for the clients that we supervise is the LSCMI the level of service case management inventory We assess risk on every client on supervision and these bars show the
number of high-risisk individuals in the county the number of low-risk individuals in the county and the number of medium risk individuals in the county And we really focus intervention work and target our efforts toward the high and medium risk individuals I'm going to
talk about how we're doing that and and um how we're trying to focus on some of the data that I had talked about in the next coming slides Before I do that I want to talk about our excellent staff in the department Uh we have six office administrative staff um to tackle a
variety of different things Uh we have one new DWI court agent As of February DWI court has started Uh we have one drug court agent Um and we have three high-risk agents uh two of which um
supervise the majority of the sex offender case load in the county Uh we have one pre-trial agent um who also does some high-risisk supervision and then we have five medium and lowrisk agents and the reason for that as you can probably imagine if I go back to
that graph is the medium risk bar is the largest bar They make up the the majority of the individuals on supervision uh two juvenile agents two gross misdemeanor misdemeanor agents one sentence to service agent and then we
have three intensive supervised release agents that work out of our office um to do ISR in the area Uh DWI court as I had said is something new as of February um February 5th they had started You know it's the mission of the Klay County DWI court to
save the lives in our community by providing comprehensive multiddisciplinary response to address repeat DWI clients who have substance use disorder Uh the provision of accountability intensive supervision and collaboration with evidencebased treatment will enhance the lives of
those impacted by substance use and increase public safety and reduce recidivism as well as the costs to society The individuals passed through a series of phases gradually decreasing in intensity in DWI court Uh Klay County is
one of three counties in the state working with the IDA uh in an IDA pilot which is the impaired driving assessment And the reason why uh we boarded the ship with that is you know on the one hand we've got we're starting DWI corp but on the other hand we know that our
assessment tool the LSCMI is not really great at predicting risk uh with the DWI uh clients that we supervise and so the IDA is a secondary assessment tool that's really going to help us um focus on where to streamline our efforts where
they need to be uh with this population Um and then we also and that's of course DWI court is a granted uh position Um our DWI court agent is also uh part of our SPO grant uh which provides trainings TZD conferences workshops
education and outreach And like I had said IDA will assist as a double assessment in conjunction with our current LCMI Our drug court uh to improve public safety and reduce direct and indirect costs of the community associated with substance use and related criminal activity the use of
evidence-based practices uh uses a multicultural multidisciplinary approach to break the cycle of substance abuse and to improve clients lives by involving them in a rigorous and supportive program that includes intensive treatment drawing on
participants strengths supervision and personal accountability Collaboration between our adult justice system and the community results in educated and productive adults healthy families stronger and safer communities And so similar to the DWI court this works on a
phase basis Uh and you know one caveat of the drug court which I think is really uh interesting and neat is that clients are required to complete a 40hour graduation project that gives back to the community So that's been nice to see
some of those outcomes I have I have a question there Dale Yep with a drug court and a DUI court DWI court it shows 12 act of five being screened Is there a limit on how many you can have go to that yeah I would say so You know um and
they vary a little bit between the drug court and DWI court Um both of them are voluntary Okay Right Yeah And you know there's a carrot usually hanging for somebody to join either drug court or
DWI court Um it's an intense form of supervision Somebody on phase one in DWI court has three tests uh a week And so we um you
know the aim is to um obviously help them assist in changing their behavior Um and so somebody might join for a variety of different reasons it is uh with the
DWPI that are involved in in the court they're all upper level felony recidivists that some of them Yeah Um you know the IDA assessment So like even if it's somebody's very first DWI and even if it's a misdemeanor they might
not you know they might not even get placed on probation But if it's a second or a subsequent DWI they're looking at a gross misdemeanor offense or something like that our IDA assessment will really help predict how what what the alcohol use looks like right for that person And so
even though it's their second DWI or you like the problem might be far worse than what their criminal history is showing And so there's a v for that person maybe they have the intrinsic motivation to really want to change their behavior and they would join that uh voluntarily to
really make a change in their lives So a lot of um you know the people that complete these programs um show high level motivation Um they they talk about these
programs they really enjoy the process when completed Um I can see even from the court side of things those involved um you know uh behind the bench even the judges they enjoy the process Uh and so like it's it's a win-win uh for
everybody involved Uh got a couple slides left Where am I at for time am I way over am I good okay Um so uh in the last year we've started some cognitive behavioral programming uh in the community
Um we're really doing our best to especially with high-risisk individuals to have them uh complete these programs First one is the decision points program It's a roughly 8 to 10
um session program It has an open door so anybody can join at any time There's no start date uh or end date uh and it's it's been shown to be really effective in helping people uh work on their thinking and and their emotional state
and make better decisions being less impulsive Uh we have four agents um in the office that have stepped up to receive training and are running that uh in the county free to the clients free to the county Uh there's no charge for running that and that's been a huge
benefit I believe Uh moving on is another cognitive behavioral therapy program specific to adult women We know uh generally speaking that the pathway into uh the criminal justice world for women
is different than men Uh sometimes it's traumdriven among other reasons Um and this program really helps to target and identify those pathways uh and work uh with that population and I had three three staff trained for moving on in the
last year Um who by the way uh some of the members of the program are in in some of the other like drug court um or DWI court And so like it's it's it's been really nice to see the staff really
enjoy uh this programming and some of the feedback that I'm seeing from some of the notes from the staff has been very positive for the clients that are in it myself speaking as a decision points trainer for many years Um it is
very valuable uh for you know our it's very valuable for our connection with the clients um and and you know creating an effective alliance with them uh to move forward gaining trust and and helping break down some of
the barriers that they have Moving on is a longer curriculum about 26 sessions and that's once a week and so the staff are really dedicated uh to following through with this
Um it's been really it's been nice to see from my side of things Finally uh some 2024 additions in the department I've had one staff become a safety trainer with the state I've had three staff like I had said trained and
moving on one in decision points Both groups are actively running right now Uh and I'm getting a lot of positive feedback We continue to run scheduled MAD panel SE services in the office Um agent Beam and Ericson continue to do
that which has been uh great for for many of the clients Um the department in conjunction with other state stakeholders will continue to be part of the state attendance review board which is something new attempting to circumvent true truency cases in all
Klay County schools and agent turnis has stepped up to be part of that board Uh and so that's another growing concern that we have seen um staff are working with individual case plans with all medium and high-risisk clients as I had talked
about and they target the driver And so as you can as you can think about somebody being on supervision for instance for a DWI you would think you would target substance abuse but studies show us that that may not be the reason
um for their behavior It could be some underlying things such as anger their relationship with family or marital their social circles And so we attempt to work on addressing and identifying those things And the and the way that we do that is through the use of intervention strategies And Klay County
has more than doubled its use of interventions uh with clients in conjunction with the case planning process in the last year Uh the the DOC is a leader in the state uh in its ability to provide coaching training and other services to staff to improve effectiveness with
clients Coaching with staff has become an important factor on improving the fidelity of our delivery of those interventions and Klay County is actively coaching with all staff Um they record their sessions with their clients and receive feedback on their ability to
do motivational interviewing uh their ability to deliver the interventions Um and so it is somewhat of an intricate process uh and it has been shown to be very beneficial In 2024 the DOC field
services implemented a case planning roadmap and that's what that little uh as a reduction in transparency there on the right side That's the case planning road map Uh it includes an eight-step guide from the time of initial engagement and assessment with a
client to the time of discharge The road map follows the most stringent evidence-based approaches including not only the use of one-on-one interventions but incorporating the use of group cognitive behavioral programming in the community So you can see um there is somewhat of a structured way to do this
Um and part of that road map allows the agent the discretion to really uh target their interventions with a client um based on the client's needs And so we we look at each individual separate from one another We look at their needs
specifically And that's what this road map helps the agents to do Something that I didn't have when I started I wish I would have uh would have bet it would have helped me uh help me get running The department has also created an internal domestic violence committee to
establish a more linear policydriven reunification uh process and principles ensuring victim safety and reducing the likelihood of recidivism in response to some of that domestic that domestic data that you seen I'm I'm sure it's
responsible but that kind of having to run a domestic violence unit There is no pressure put on the victim to reunite is there are you saying from the perpetrator well there's always from the perpetrator right um is is is that program for
domestic violence um is that is for the perpetrator and directed towards the perpetrator that's what that's what we've been talking about The reunification process should not only include the steps that the victim would need to take in order for us to gain
confidence about the perpetrator moving in with the victim but we believe there's also steps the perpetrator should take right they should also have a safety plan themselves things that they can do to remove themsel from a situation that might get grow out of hand and otherwise And as you can
imagine with parole cases those cases or transfers in from an adjacent state those cases are not eligible for our our domestic violence court And so we have to put forth a plan to really target those individuals too
to answer your question and maybe Brian could help me with this to a little bit I believe that prior to allowing or to removing a Dano or a domestic no contact order the
victim would have to either pro submit something in writing requesting um that the Dano be lifted um or go through the victim reunification process with victim services or another um trying to think of the other
Yeah through victim services They dropped their own safety plan the victim with victim services and they have to show they've done that to to then allow for so there there is scrutiny on the motivation of the victim as well that there to determine if there's coercion
or if there's some real red flags that that she or he is ignoring right you know it's it's very difficult to tell you know I think in our line of work we do our best to see through some of that fog
Right Um if there if if we generally pick up on a sense of something like that or if there's a pattern that we had see we probably investigate deeper into that issue Um one of the things that we do is when having discussions with the victim we ensure that obviously the
perpetrator is not there um or within the vicinity of the victim and in many cases they're incarcerated And so the victim also has the ability to provide a statement and that statement being confidential Um and you
know we don't relay any of that information uh to the individual that's on supervision And so we do our best to circumvent that You know I know sometimes it's a no-win situation They're going to go
back and you know Leaving is a process not an event So I just that that was a little bit of a flag but I think you've answered my question It sounds like it's
responsibly evaluated both Mr Melton's people and and yours Absolutely Any other questions i started in 1978 and parole officers were a whole different animal Yeah this
is gratifying You guys are providing people with opportunities not not uh just supervision and and and scrutiny So I'm very impressed I'm grateful Thank you
Any other questions thank you Um Quinn we've got a bid opening I know we're run a little behind but we'll get that knocked out and get right to you Okay next up
Justin We've got Justin Sorum county engineer Yes good morning So I do have the bid opening This is for three box culvert projects Um one is on County Road 51 south of Comtock one in Elkton Township
and one in Goose Prairie Township So we did receive six bids for this project And the engineers estimate was [Music] $720,170 So every bid that I read does
have a bid bond in the amount of 5% and is an approved bid The first bid I received was Tonheim Construction LLC Their bid was $863,57916 $863,57916 The second bid we received was from Central Specialties
Incorporated Their bid was $860,54.50 $860,54.50 The next bid we received was from Selen Brothers Incorporated Their bid was $842,8980 $842,8980 The next bid we received was from Gladen Construction Incorporated
Their bid was $764,127.90 $764,127.90 The next bid we received was from Midwest Contracting LLC Their bid was $728,187.50 $728,187.50 50 Then the final bid we received was
from Hool Excavating LLC Their bid was $644,745.50 $644,745.50 Any questions regarding the bids sure I have a question Go ahead Is that for all three of the box culverts to be replaced yep So we tie them by contract So it's combined a
little bid Any other questions Mr Chair in in reviewing the documents there's quite a significant gap between high and low You feel confident that 644 encompasses yep So we've worked with this contractor the last two years and kind of similar
numbers as you're seeing here with those bids I don't see any issue with them Questions um I'll make a motion I'll make a motion to approve Hool Excavating LLC at the amount $644,74550 for for
SAP014-598-079 and SAP014-599-105 and also SAP014-599-114 [Music] 14 I'll second I have a motion in the second Any further comments it is gratifying to see it come
in so far under the engineer estimate Yeah it's definitely been a good year All right All in favor say I Oh I'm sorry We'll need a roll call Commissioner Kraboff Hi Commissioner Mojo
yes Commissioner Bear yes Commissioner Ebinger I Motion passes A whole excavating Thank you Thank you Justin Okay Quinn Jagger Good morning commissioners I have Michelle Thorall with me as well She
supervises the position Uh I felt pretty good about the minor cost savings I was going to come to That's nothing compared to Jeff Took the wind right out of my sales there Yeah I tried I tried I Tough act to follow That's right That's right Uh I am
here to request approval to replace a case uh in our child protection division It is under Michelle Thorall here Um to give you some details here we have this K8 position open due to resignation Uh our staff is getting married and moving um h sorry to see her go but we're happy
for her at the same time So um this position is critical uh to our agency due to the workload demands of it We would not be able to reassign these duties to existing staff or or positions To give you a highlight reel of what this position does Um all case aids in
our child protection division provide transportation and supervised visitation Um this one in particular is about 75% of that transportation of kiddos in foster care supervising those visits between parents and kiddos at our office or out in the community Um some of the
other duties that they do is they coordinate our volunteer driver program as well Um this position is specifically in charge of that Um they assist with file destruction based on our records retention rules coordinate compile and kind of review state reports They manage our car seat inventory and they uh kind
of coordinate car seat training for all of our child protection and child welfare staff in the division Uh they process and review administrative files vouchures invoices Uh and they provide backup coverage So we cross trainin all of our case aids on all the different duties for reasons just like this so we
don't lose any operational function So they do kind of know how to do a little bit of everything Um in addition to these duties as visitations kind of wax and wayne as we get more or less out of home placements uh we also get creative So we might assign alternative tasks to
assist other divisions if there's a lull in the uh supervised visitation or transport Um I did attach the wage calculator for your review Um but to give you a brief rundown the existing staff is currently budgeted at grade 12 step five Um we do expect the
replacement to start at step one Um this position does generate revenue uh through FFP So 50% that revenue as well as the expense of the salary is budgeted in 2025's budget Um so with that change there's an estimated cost savings of about
13,650 So again um drop in the bucket compared to what Justin just did But um with that I'm looking for a motion to approve replacing the case aid position I would request backfill if there is internal interest Um but with that I would yield for any questions that you
have Questions no questions I'd make a motion though Um uh motion to approve hiring the case aid position in the child protection division with backfield Should there be internal interest i will second that I have a motion to second
Any further discussion if not could we have a roll call please commissioner Krabanov yes Commissioner Mojo yes Commissioner Bayer Yes Commissioner Ebinger Hi Thank you Motion passes Thank you Commissioner
Ebinger Yes Really quickly before they leave I just want to give huge props to Quinn and staff uh who were able to on the fly get me a ton of information without bothering Steve last week And uh they're just doing rockstar stuff and
and given the feedback that we're hearing uh down here I think that's really a testament to the staff that Klay County has Uh to hear that Klay County is just doing really innovative and thoughtful um deliberate work is a
direct response to the work of not only Quinn's department but all the departments But since I can't see who's exactly there um particularly for Quinn thanks for the work that you all do Thank you I will second that Um you know the the you you reflect so well on the
county all we've got a great staff and Quinn you've hit the ground running and picked up from a from a superstar and you're becoming one yourself We got more franchise players If the Vikings had it we'd be in the Super Bowl every year But
uh the hardest part of of uh being a commissioner around here sometimes is just avoiding sunburn from basking in the sunlight of the people working for this county And yeah Commissioner Mojo is correct in pointing it out and we're
grateful They make our jobs easy It makes Steve's job incredibly easy We're thinking of cutting his salary Well I I appreciate that Thank you uh Commissioner Mojo Commissioner Abinger Um quite honestly it it's not me it's the supervisors right like you you hit
the nail right on the head I think I was able to hit the ground running because we already have the staff in place that do good work So anything that is me is actually them So I appreciate it Well thank to to all you guys All right Next up we have got
um yes we've got the extension service I'm trying to find my Here we go And you guys have patient patiently been waiting So we'll get the uh computer up for you and come on forward and introduce yourselves
Well good morning Happy new year Um we're grateful to have the opportunity to sit here and just kind of give you some programmatic update Uh my name is Cecilia Amadu I serve as the regional director with University of Minnesota And we have all the office
staff here So I'll let them introduce themselves We're missing one staff for medical um purposes as Rosie But other than that we have full staff in front of you So I'll let Jen introduce herself Sure Jenna Erdol I'm extension support staff
Jillian Petri I'm the extension horiculture educator Monique Stelzer for a youth development Mindy Grant for a youth development Welcome All right we got to kick it off you go All right Uh well Mindy and I just
introduced ourselves We are with the for youth development program Um we are both extension educators within extension as well Um so we'll kind of kick off our presentation today For each youth development is the largest youth serving organization in Minnesota
Yeah I can Okay So for each youth development is the largest youth serving organization in Minnesota Um we have lots of youth across lots of different pathways and program areas Um I'll let Mindy kind of explain how youth come to 4 and what 4 looks like as a
foundational level Sure Well the goals of Minnesota 4 are we have three-part goals We want kids to learn how to we want them to learn We want them to lead and we also create the environment that they learn and lead in Uh so with learning we're looking for
youth to identify a spark and develop that into a passion through hands-on experiences Um and really learn what they're good at what they want to learn and what they want to do Um and building upon that we ask them to lead Uh there are many different ways to lead but basically we want them to take a look
around their community and be exposed to different um areas that interest them and how they can make changes or be leaders not only with their peer group but inside the community as well And then creating highquality youth environments is our focus with all of
our volunteers We may be two staff people but we have 84 volunteers 84 volunteers that are helping us carry out all of these programs across Klay County Next slide And the basically how we do this
is youth learn by doing it's actually um one of our foundational pieces is experiential learning So instead of school type where you're standing at the head of a classroom telling kids what they need to know we are actually giving them activities and walking them through
the process um as well as our volunteers are walking them through the process through their community clubs and afterchool activities Um 95% of participants across Minnesota do report applying what they learned through 4 to other parts of their lives And that's ideally what we want to see Learn
something in 4 and take it out into the world and into the community and and build upon those skills there Uh and there are many different ways that youth come into 4 I know traditionally we think of the 4 club um that a lot of us were familiar with when
we were growing up Um so we have those community clubs as well We have 10 of those across Klay County They meet once a month at a place of their choosing Um people can self- select which club uh they feel a sense of belonging with and want to participate in And then we also
have afterchool programs We work with the community ed districts across Klay County um to do afterchool programs bringing in STEM activities art activities Uh we work closely with our partners in community ed to identify what are the needs that that the
students are looking for and the families are looking for there to bring in um programs that are uh programs that they're excited about And then we also have summer programs summer programs We've worked with the community eds again Uh there are many
rural districts in our area that don't have a park district to um have activities for kids So we love to go out to Yulan Barnesville Holly Glendon and provide some of those activities and summer programs for our youth through those community pro um programs at the
school district And then we also do other partner programs I currently work with um cultural diversity resources New Roots Midwest and other um community organizations that are looking for youth development programs in in the evenings
and weekends All right So Mindy kind of talked about the different ways that young people come to the 4 program Um the most recognizable and long-term or long-standing program is the community club program Um and of course the place where we see the community club members
most active or their signature highlight is the county fair Um so when we're looking at what that traditional community club program in Klay County looks like last year we had 344 enrolled youth members We're on track to exceed that number this year Um we retained 91% of those youth which is pretty
phenomenal Um that we keep those youth engaged year-to-year Uh and we know that young people gain the most benefit from participating in youth development programs when they participate over a long term Uh we had 145 first year members so brand new members previous year We have 10 community- based clubs
We also have two project groups We have a Lego League group and we also have a shooting sports and wildlife group as well Um last year county fair we had 224 youth who showcased their exhibits who brought an exhibit to the fair Um they brought more than one exhibit to the
fair they actually ended up bringing 1,57 exhibits to the county fair Um that averages out to about six exhibits per child that they're bringing to the county fair Um so they're engaged in 4 to do more than just one thing in most cases Um most of our youth are actually
showing both animals in addition to general static exhibits Um so it's exciting to see that we have that engagement across both project areas um or both project types for our young people Um and Josie is one of those youth there that we have a quote from and she's the one on the right there
actually Um so she she's been participating in the fair for a long time and she uh pretty consistently earns trips down to the Minnesota State Fair and so she's found great value in her youth leadership opportunities within the club as well as participating in the fair events Uh and this is just a little bit
about some of our afterchool programs or our short-term programs um we had over 281 youth uh participate last year in those types of programs So this is a very valuable space for our youth and our families to come together and interact with 4 and engage with our
programs Um as I said we did work with the four school partners with through their community eds and we also had eight community partners that we worked with whether it was finding locations or people who were helping deliver programming um or providing the youth
and the participants for our programming Um and um we try to incorporate the same aspects that you would see in a community club within our afterchool and partnership programs where we're having adults in the leadership position guiding youth through their programs and
their information and their projects that they're doing But we also try to bring in individual work as well as group work Um in this particular picture uh this was a STEM program on rainforests and at the end of the
learning experience they are building rainforest models with watercolors where they're all working together as a team So uh we try to build in those experiences where they get to work together and showcase their work to each other within those short-term programs
as well Um oh uh and youth who participate in 4 do develop a strong sense of belonging and confidence in their future That's one of the things that we're really proud of We are beginning a new um program called
Beyond Ready where we're really looking at preparing youth for the future What do they want to do with the skills they learned and the passions that they have so that they can move forward in their future pathways thinking of higher education job markets that sort of thing Um so we have taken youth to different
universities around the area just to get an idea of what that means and to help them visualize what it would be to be at a university and what their future could look like And then uh talking about volunteers we have over 234 volunteers that we've used
countywide over the last year The adults that help us deliver our program are dedicated to bringing their expertise and increasing youth learning This is a very important feature As I said two staff 84 screen volunteers 234
people that we've used over the course of the year Um and they're helping build a sense of belonging They're they're building a welcoming environment where the kids feel that it's their ownership and space and they feel comfortable and they feel like they can lead and they're
willing to take those risks and learn some new things And that's a very important feature if we want kids to expand and learn They have to have that confidence and that safety of I belong here and if I make a mistake it's okay Um and that all all of our different
positions that we use volunteers in add up You know typically we do think of the club leaders and yes we do have club leaders Um but we also have people that are helping at uh county fair Had about 155 different adults volunteer for us at the county fair last year Um just to put
on the 4 aspect of it that was not even everything else that was happening at county fair We have 27 project and club leaders and um about 52 different spots for volunteers over the course of the year for different events different committees Um it really does take a
village to create this program So we're very proud of all of our volunteers that help service our program All right so all that said it takes a team Uh it's Mindy myself and Jen that are the primary support and um
program management for the Klay County 4 program Uh we each kind of have different roles We have different tasks and priorities that we take on Um I provide support to the community club program volunteer training uh youth leadership those pieces Mindy really supports our program partners and our
afterchool programs So we each have our specialty areas and Jen well Jen just does everything She supports us all and makes us look good and I don't think we could get through a week without her So that's um it takes our team So I just wanted to recognize each of my teammates
that help with that and say thank you and thank you to you guys as well for helping support the 4 youth program in Klay County Sorry as I said before I'm Joel Petri and I'm the horiculture educator I also uh coordinate master gardeners in Klay
County Um so um part of my duties are helping with them with projects getting them organized recruiting um new master gardeners Um and then also county um workshops education technical support So
I was just going to do a quick recap of um last year So um we had a few really great programs that we did Uh garden buzz is an afterchool program that one of our master gardeners who also is a 4 parent does Um she did that at three of
our elementary schools here in Klay County Um and that was just uh four sessions based on garden related topics for youth and then we had um another intern master gardener intern help her with that Um we also do one help
organize one vegetable one community last year was radishes So each year a vegetable is picked um kind of statewide um and brochures are made We put seeds in those and it has planting instructions
um and how to cook with them So it's a partnership with SNAPED as well Um so that program we did um little educational events at all four all of the uh libraries in Klay County and then at a few other events and then also have
brochures available for people to grab So I think we distributed about 500 or so brochures throughout the county Um master gardeners also uh manage six public garden spaces A few of them are here on site and then we have a couple
downtown Um we did have five interns last year which all completed the program and are now master gardeners Um and then we did have a a few new events to our group last year We started a learning garden tour We had sites in
Dworth and Morehead So what that is is people buy tickets and then they can go visit different um gardens or other we had a greenhouse as well throughout the county learn about how that person implemented it We had some people with backyard chickens so people just kind of
learn about different ways to um garden in the area It's a fun event Gets community out and together and networking Um and then so that was Master Gardeners last year Um and then last year um just
in my role as technical assistance and offering education um opportunities um and then connecting residents to resources from the university Um I was able to answer around 190 questions emails phone calls stops into the office
send pictures go out to people's houses and help them with questions in their yard Um I did 13 presentations So I like to partner with the libraries It's a great place to have a public um workshop that's free People can just come and
stop by if they're interested in the subject Um and then we attended myself and master gardeners also attended about 14 outreach events So River Arts Farmers Market Morehead Farmers Market we went to potato days Um we went to several
other tableabling events at things around around the county So just networking talking to people ask a master gardener is also there so they can ask gardening questions Um and then I also have the opportunity to write for um the plant tech plant talk section in
the FM extra So usually I have an article in there weekly but depends on what's going on in the county Um but I think I've um had about 30 articles in there So I think of things that um are relevant to the season to write about
Otherwise um people ask questions too and want to know more So I throw a little bit of that into the um newspaper Most of my questions I answered were horiculture related I did answer a few agriculture related questions Um a lot
about land rent Um those questions Um this year we are excited to welcome seven interns into our master gardener program So we um as soon as they complete that program we'll be up
to 21 master gardeners which we had 12 when I came in last year We've added a few that were um on leave too So it's exciting We're growing um able to do more programming Um this year we welcome back Winter Garden College We did have
that um as a program in Morehead a couple years ago before CO Um so we've brought that back It's a series where we travel to different counties in Minnesota pick a few topics This year it was um cover crops and season extension
methods So people are interested in that um could come check it out We're can we are planning on continuing that next year So we'll have a morehead stop on that series Um I just had a seed starting and garden basics workshop last
Monday We had about 50 people come to that So that was awesome at the Morhead Public Library People are getting excited about starting seeds and gardening Um I partnered with another colleague to bring the um agriculture
business team up here from um the regional state team and we offered a farm transition and estate planning workshop in Holly last week So really targeting people who are looking to hand off their farm to another generation um
and how that process goes Um last Friday too we had a hands-on apple pruning workshop up at MB Johnson So we partnered with um Morehead Parks and Recre and Forestry to help do a little bit of community service and um prune the apple trees up at the edible for
forest up at MB Johnson Um but then also people got the chance to do apple pruning hands-on Um I think a lot of people are scared to prune their trees so it was great to have people be able to do that and ask questions Um and then
I have a a list a laundry list of other workshops that we're planning um this spring And let's see Yeah that's about it for me Um al I'm
always welcome to um any comments requests for things that you've seen Um people are really interested in um thinking about doing a backyard chicken workshop too just to help support those questions with backyard chickens being
um something you can do in Morehead and then a few other um towns looking at implementing that too So any questions comments questions Well certainly make a
comment Uh I I just want to say great work Uh you know being around um uh watching this organization listen to your numbers how much they've grown your interaction with uh the community is uh
to be commended So um yeah just want to say big kudos for your work Um and uh yes uh pruning apple tree which you taught my wife last week Uh yep We're we're going to do it this week So
when you said throw a baseball cap through it I don't know about that one but we'll see That's heavy duty to me but we'll see Appreciate it Any other comments or questions i I I I have one question It' be for the 4 Where
would I find a list of the 10 clubs countywide if I if I'm looking to join in a club is is it online and where would I find that list yeah so if you pop onto the Klay County Extension website um and it is a University of Minnesota website but if you pop onto there and you click on to there's a
drawer on our website that's like join a club or become a member It actually identifies who our 10 clubs are Um in addition it gives you videos about what are what does 4 project work look like and what to expect as a family um coming in and joining the program for each club individually Uh nope So it gives an
overview as a 4 like if you join as a family um you know what does project work look like how much does it cost to join for kind of the basic FAQs that we get those are answered there and then there's a list of clubs and contact information there Um we can't post their contact information publicly like that
So you would need to connect the 4 office but we can put you in touch with the club leader Yeah I can get you in touch with the club leader Ezra Yeah Yeah Right You you know one pretty close And also for your events that you pull off you you have a heavy presence on
social media Yeah Jen manages our extension website so we beg her to put things on there Um and then um Master Gardeners has a Facebook page too where we publicize resources as well as events
that are going on too Yeah And if you dabble into the 4 pool on social media there are livestock project groups just within Klay County There's a horse project group within Klay County Um and almost every one of our clubs has their own club group on Facebook as well So
and then we have the extension page where 4 posts their content as well Any other questions comments mr Chair yes if I I could just want to thank you guys for the work uh that you do I think that um going back to I think I've mentioned before I'm a I'm a Travers
County Walls booster uh 4 member Uh it was one of the first opportunities you know with leadership of of working with a team eventually running meetings I got to go to the state fair I saw Kenny Loggins Starship Everybody's like who right who you who you talking about the
Fat Boys rap group you know and what I really learned you know 40 years later is that got me prepared as the cannabis legalization came through Minnesota I learned a lot about cannabis that night Uh and it it's helping me moving forward through through today So but really want to thank you guys for all the work that you do
And we want to thank you all as a board for your continued support for our program Last year we went through a process of renegotiating our contract and we're just grateful to have uh full staff We do have a little bit of a transition happening Mindia is moving on getting promoted I should say Um so we
have a position open and thanks Jackie for putting on the website So get the word out Once that person is hired we'll introduce them as well But yeah very good We appreciate it Thank you for coming down and thank you for your patience Yes Jenny I was waiting for it Thank you I just want to highlight I
know that uh Jillian has a master gardener fundraiser going on right now They've got um some really exciting plants that are available for that sale Um so you can go on that website and find that I just want to thank Mindy
Mindy helped lead uh the county 4 during um a really time of unknown with COVID and what shutdowns and all of those policies and procedures were And so I just want to appreciate and um lift up your work Mindy Thank you for that I'm
really excited for you to continue those uh those good work at the regional side And then two just from the county office perspective I've always talked about u maybe being a little too involved with county 4 with now four children in 4
this year Uh but you really do a great job trying to network and and lift up so many different um issues that happen with 4 year round I know that you work really hard to foster a good relationship with the fair board and it doesn't go unnoticed So thank you for
your work and thank you Thank you for your patience I know we were a little behind today but appreciate it Let's take a fivem minute break Administrator Steven Larson on our payment to innovate
28 Uh thank you Mr Chair As this board is aware uh the greater Fargo economic development and the Fargo Chamber are two entities that we uh consider participating in payments uh to on an annual basis through our budget process
Uh this past year uh the EDC and the chamber came before us to request a uh combined budget request of $185,000 uh to and to participate in the Innovate 28 program uh that uh that they are
initiative they're bringing forward Um on January 28th we received our first invoice or the invoice for request for funding uh and this board had a discussion about uh about making sure that the message from the Klay County Minnesota side was being brought forward
uh on an equal basis and therefore at that time directed the directed the administration and personnel to pay half of the funds uh and uh and the second allocation at a later date I was approached by members of the commission requesting that this be brought forward
uh to to have discussion about making that second payment And so with that I would turn it over to to the board chair to have any comments Comments I know Commissioner Mojo your clock's ticking so you go first
Thank you I uh just had some uh conversations with um uh Commissioner Kavanagh and I had honest honestly been down here a lot and so we've seen the work that the chamber has done just to step up the legislative efforts at the
capital and I know a portion of what the innovate 28 uh funds uh are allocated for is to really bolster that effort and um I can just honestly tell you that the work they've done here is just tfold what they've done in years past The
connections we've been making here are just um pretty amazing and they have a lobbyist that's really helping with that effort and uh you know part of why we held the funds is just to see what the effort would be on the Minnesota side
and uh with the work that's been done I'm confident in releasing that second phase of payment Other comments yeah I just uh I'd like to echo that I mean our day at the Capitol totally run by the chamber uh
was just u top level and as she mentioned their lobbyist uh is so well engaged and we're getting so many benefits out of this it'd be very very difficult to do what we're doing without their support So with that I'd like to
move to make a motion to uh get their second payment paid in full from us uh for the in innovate 28 program I'll second that motion Have a motion to second any other comments Just one comment Could we still have
them come in and give a uh an update on how this money is being spent uh Mr chair Uh Mr Commissioner Bear we certainly could certainly could invite them back uh to have both uh both representatives here to talk about Thank
you Yeah just a point I think of reference not so much for this year but next Um serving on the EDC board I'm aware that there is funding that has been directed to the EDC and not to
Innovate 28 Um I am grateful to the chamber I've just gone through an election process and they did a great job of of of featuring our candidates and our our positions Uh I I think that maybe next
year I want to give some consideration to where the money's distributed and how it's spent but this year I think we're committed Uh with that is there are there any other comments if not could we have a roll call please commissioner Krabanoft yes Commissioner
Mojo yes Commissioner Bayer yes Commissioner Ebinger I Motion passes Thank you Steve Thank you Commissioner Ebinger yes I'm sorry I do have to go over to the capital now but I just
really appreciate the work that you're all doing Thank you Thank you And good luck We appreciate what you're up to Um if I could make everybody aware we do have staff waiting and one of them's got to conduct a wedding at the
government center at 10:30 uh for the next meeting So if we could be as expedient as we could on committee reports and we'll start with Commissioner Kengh All right Last Tuesday on the 18th I had my
adult mental health lac monthly meeting Um uh we really just uh uh did a review of agency reports with those attending sharing uh information back and forth Uh on the 19th I had the uh historical and
cultural society finance committee me meeting Um two things I'll make note of there Uh we're u uh the first part of the year we build up our inventories over at the gift shop So if you're looking to find some things that over at
the museum area uh please drop in They have a good selection there And admissions at this point are continuing to stay uh very strong for um for over at the uh uh Yamcom Center on Thursday
on the 20th Uh that was a um really good morning presentation that we had with the suicide and substance use prevention group 56 people on board Um kind of true to the group it was hard We had had a su
suicide in Morehead uh of an eighth grader that we all reflected on and and uh that group was so committed to uh the work of working with youth and adults and in preventing these things best we can There was a presentation uh about
caring for yourself as a caregiver um pointing out the attributes of good mental health and um um bringing those uh attributes into a healthy balance of living There was an update uh from the public hearing to the group regarding
the tobac tobacco ordinance u strongly supported by u many of the members in uh this group uh h uh was my next meeting that day um um thank you again I'm repeating a little bit here thanks to
the federal continuing resolution um uh it looks for 2024 anyway that our funding is stable and uh the work that they're doing with the assistance of the levy they get along with in Clay County to their work Uh
their uh properties are continuing to uh get back in shape and the uh vacancies are uh down quite a lot So they're moving in a positive fashion Later that afternoon I had a a meeting at MetroCog
It was the approve uh the review and approval of the 2024 uh uh North Dakota DOT uh reported for project expenses And then last but not least on Friday uh was our team meeting
um which was uh for legislative work that um normally is led by Rep Hiller and then joined in with uh Senator Coopek and uh we were just talking about testimonies Uh that conversation was
leading into what uh Commissioner Jo Mojo's down there for today Um last week it was more with uh DHS and this week starting the testimony day is with Capital Investments So one for appropriations for the PRTF and now we
get into the bonding ask for the new um juvenile center So we're hopeful Thank you Commissioner Mayor On uh March 18th I filled in for the planning commission for Commissioner Mojo We had
one public well two public hearings one applicant for it was Ryan Bushfig He was running a home occupation out of his home and it would be a landscape business We passed that unanimously And then we also had a public hearing in the
Klay County land development and subdivision division ordinances We had an update there from Matt Jacobson And then lastly that night we had a recommendation to appoint Josh Schroeder which we dealt with today which he we'll
welcome him to the planning commission Then yesterday I had a meeting up in Ada with Wild Rice Marsh River Wershed one wershed one plan meeting a policy committee meeting where we discussed the funding
grants the 2021 funding grant we had there was an extension to be done spend all that money by the end of 2024 which they accomplished and now we're on to the grant from 2023 and if all the construction gets happens This year we
will have that grant used up for the watershed base funding grant and then they'll be on to grant 2025 which has an end date of 2027 for that money to be used on yeah that money
would be used with the through the SWCDs of the one wershed one plan group and then last night we had a meeting myself and commission Evaner we were at the American Legion in Morehead and we discussed the
tribal land purchase with the gaming officials from Morehead It was a veryformational meeting I think on both sides It's lot a lot is unknown right now So it was just talking about what what could be there what might not be there and just going forward That is all
my committee reports Thank you Thank you Uh on the 18th last Tuesday I attended the PIC meeting uh Sheriff uh Empting and uh Chief Deputy Martin presented a request which will be coming forward uh
here at some point uh to overfill a position to cover for a deputy who has been deployed and um the discussion on that uh will be covered when it's presented to the whole commission Uh I attended the virtually
the suicide and substance use prevention coalition meeting that uh Commissioner Krabangh uh spoke of and he covered it very well And last night myself and Commissioner Bear were at the American Legion talking the gaming people
Um Derek La Point was there representing city of Morehead Again uh I think we reassured them that this is early in the stage stages of what's going on and uh we have nothing specific but we're going to move forward uh in talking to
officials from White Earth um and in one of our commission meetings and the city Morehead also plans to have them in and maybe get more specifics And that completes my report Steve Uh thank you Mr Chair Uh last week I was on vacation
again Thank the board for the opportunity to uh take that week off to be with my family Uh just to I'll just touch base on a couple of things I listened to the meeting You've touched on a majority of my meetings a week before Uh we did have county management uh last week Uh talked about uh
budgeting the budget for the upcoming year Uh some different HR things that are going to be h happening or are being implemented uh also did some uh testimony preparation uh for uh Senate File 2022 Uh on Thursday I had the
opportunity to be down there with Senator Coop and Steve Summers from Solutions Behavioral Health We testified before uh the the Senate or Health and Human Services Committee uh on our on our funding uh for the remodeling of the
current juvenile center to a PRTF Uh and I think uh everything else was covered during that time Just a note next week we are scheduled in the afternoon to have our quarterly or excuse me uh session with the EDA EDC uh after in the afternoon after our board meeting Uh and
I believe that concludes my report Thank you Brian do you have anything no thank you Mr Chair Darren nope I was also on vacation Thanks Steve and Jackie Got nothing Mr Chair You were holding down the
fort If we don't have any additional uh meetings adjourned Part: 2
good morning it's 8:30 and I'm going to call the meeting of the Klay County Board of Commissioners for March 25th to order uh I will be um chairing today uh our chair Commissioner Campbell is out of town and
our vice chair Commissioner Mojo is in St paul uh about an hour and a half away from having to testify on behalf of some of the uh think bills we're trying to get through for the good of our county we're grateful for the extra effort that
uh Jenny is putting in for her she is with us remotely until we until she's got to go to to speak to the uh legislators all right first order um on the agenda is approval of the agenda
i'll make a motion to approve the agenda second any further discussion okay we're going to need a roll call vote commissioner Kraov yes commissioner Bayer yes commissioner Abbinger yes
commissioner Mojo yes hey motion passes uh next we have citizens to be heard do we have any citizens present who want to address the commission on anything that is not on today's agenda steve do we have anybody online we do
not Mr chair okay next approval of payment of bills and vouchers i'll make a motion to pay the bills and vouchers i'll second the motion they have a motion to second any discussion if not we'll need a roll call
vote commissioner Krabanov yes commissioner Bear yes commissioner Ebinger yes commissioner Mojo yes next we have approval of minutes from March 11th 2025 i'll make a motion to approve the
minutes from March 11th 2025 a second have a motion a second any further discussion if not could we have a roll call please yes commissioner Kavanagh yes commissioner Bayer yes commissioner
Abbinger yes commissioner Mojo yes okay motion passes next on the agenda is request approval uh to appoint Joe Josh Shrader to the planning commission and we have Matt Jack
Jacobson or Jack Mat matt Jacobson morning Mr chair yeah yakobson yeah okay um thank you uh good morning um here to um bring forth a recommendation from the
planning commission uh for an appointment of a new planning commissioner we had a uh planning commissioner from Barnesville Brentburg who uh stepped down um in March 18th and so just want to thank him uh for his service to Klay
County um and um we have a recommendation for an appointment of Josh Schrader and Josh is um from Barnesville he's on the Barnesville Planning and Zoning Commission uh and the motion was unanimous to recommend
him any questions for me at all any questions i have none okay if not we'll move to a vote i'll make a or I I'll entertain a motion i'll make a motion to appoint Josh Schrader to a three-year term for
the Klay County Planning Commission i'll second the motion i have motion to second any further discussion i I have one thing Sher i was at this meeting i filled in for Jenny and yeah he had unanimous approval to be brought forward to this committee so very good
okay any further discussion if not we'll have a roll call vote commissioner Kavanagh yes commissioner Mojo yes commissioner Bayer yes commissioner Ebinger yes
motion passes and uh extend our our welcome to Mr shrader and Yep and he's here today you are here m Sher do you have anything you want to say [Laughter] yeah here um like Matt said I've been on the
Barnesville Planning and Zoning Commission for three years with Brent Berg uh he's our chair uh enjoyed working with him and when he said he was planning on stepping down from this commission and kind of opened it up i didn't jump in right away but uh considered it and uh seems like a
reasonable position to be in um I'm I'm an engineer i've worked for KJ for the last 18 years now uh my family's lived in Barnesville that long i've got an older daughter who is uh going to Morhead State for education my younger daughter is graduating from high school this year and going to DUTH so I have
time um I travel a little bit for work but I have uh pretty good control of my schedule and stuff like that so I don't see there being any conflicts that would keep me from serving on the board so I'd be happy to tell you more about myself otherwise I'll just uh get to work well we're we're excited to have your skills
and your experience uh and your energy on this important position and Matt does an amazing job and we are just really excited to have people from all around the county who can give us the input we need to make
good decisions sounds like you've got the the education and the experience to be a real attribute so welcome aboard okay thank you Commissioner thank you okay next up we have annual department update from Department of Corrections
Probation dale Arnold's with us dale good morning morning that's that's actually on her business card uh good morning so I put forth uh somewhat of an agenda here kind of some of the things that I want to talk about
and go over today uh some of that stuff is going to be county data i'm going to go over the staff that we have in the department any changes i'm going to talk a little bit about our specialty courts um a little bit more on the DWI court
which is something new uh since last year um what we've been doing uh regarding cognitive behavioral therapy in our department and some of the groups that we've rolled out and then um the case planning roadmap and all of this
stuff is somewhat of a a response to the data that I'm going to talk about uh today and you're going to hopefully I'll be able to connect those dots uh so the first slide here the thing I want to first bring up is that the data that I'll be talking about will
will be from 2020 so for the last five years I know it's tiny hard to see try to make that little wheel there maybe it'll be a little easier for those sitting further away but I'll go over um the important pieces of this it's probably worth noting that the
population of Klay County since 2020 has increased by roughly a thousand people and then our neighboring uh county has increased by about 17,000 people since 2020 so we have seen a population increase although I think that's
probably one of the mechanisms in play for the numbers that I'm going to talk about you can probably uh guess that some of the data is a response to the pandemic since 2020 staffing for uh the sheriff's department
uh police departments um and things like that um so in looking at this the first one on the left there what you're going to notice is that uh in in reference to the assault category the second one down and domestic assault there's been a significant increase uh in open
probation cases in our office and so you can see with domestic assault 200 roughly in 2020 and then 400 in 2024 so that has doubled um going down to drug uh related convictions and open cases
we've got about 300 three 321 in 2021 and then jumping up to 467 in 2024 and if you you kind of scroll down those you can see that it's progressing in every
category um DWIS 88 to 160 escape or flight or so those people not returning from furlow status uh 57 to 127 um in theft 116 and 208 and the wheel on
the right there shows the whole five years if you were to group everything together by category um the majority of uh cases are assault or I'm sorry drug cases at 1.7,000 And then second um but closely behind
are domestic assault cases and then uh third is like theft so those make up the majority or the bulk of uh cases that we supervise the graph in the bottom right is the juvenile cases uh traffic
accident theft and then um the one down there the federal juvenile cases that 2.4 for those are transfers typically uh that make up that uh bar from other states where maybe the offense category doesn't necessarily match the Minnesota
offense category um and you can think um how North Dakota sentences cases differently than Minnesota dale yes yes what's the difference between uh theft and burglary
um so theft could be of like an item um and then it's it's um separated by the amount of the theft right and so it could be like a cell phone or something worth value this is a good question for Brian um but burglary depending upon the
the level of burglary could be of a residence entering somebody's residence or a business um and that kind of depends okay where where all that stuff falls right very good thank you
um so I'm going to break this down a little bit further um I'll go over this relatively quickly you can see the on the left one there probation felony cases by offense so just the felony offenses 753 in 2020 2024 1,333
that's a steep slope going up there same for gross misdemeanor 144 226 misdemeanor 138 238 juvenile cases um if you look 187 on
the bottom there to 224 um in 2024 and um and you some of the numbers there representing what makes up the majority of those categories you know again misdemeanor is domestic assault uh gross
misdemeanor uh you're looking at DWIs and domestic assault and then with the felonies it's the drug offenses uh domestic assault and assault uh and theft uh there's another sub component of supervision
um you could think of it as parole but we call it supervised release um and so after somebody's uh sentence is executed or they're a commit to the commissioner they get released on parole throughout the state of Minnesota all of those cases are handled through the HRU
process um and so there is no judge really affiliated after the point that their their sentences are executed um but nevertheless we have data on that too a majority of those cases being uh drug cases assault
um some theft and then criminal sexual conduct isr cases so intensive supervised release uh again throughout the entire state those being released from prison um are assessed at their risk level which takes into account the
seriousness of their offense um their risk uh for recidivism in the community and if they score high enough or for varying reasons they can be placed on intensive supervised release which is um a subcomponent of the state and that's run by the state and so those are the
most serious offenses um and people um being released uh and you can see there the majority of those are drugs domestic assault there's some weapons in there um and in the bottom right category it's showing that in Klay County from 2020
there's roughly uh 20 people on ISR in the county and in 2024 that jumped way over 50 that could be for that'd be a really difficult thing to guess at um I mean the assessment that they use hasn't changed um it could
be just you know 10 years ago there was uh a number of people that were sentenced to serious crimes and now they're just kind of being released for one reason or another um uh breakdown of just the overall cases
um you can see just an increase from 2020 in felony gross misdemeanor misdemeanor petty misdemeanor kind of irrelevant but um with that blue bar there those are the felony cases increasing in our county um this is the number of PSIs
that we're completing the pre-sentence investigation reports uh that's a big subcomponent of our office it takes up quite a bit of our time um you know obviously we want to put together the best comprehensive report that we can for the court in those cases that need
that uh and you can see that you know in 2020 we did 333 PSIs 2024 we're up to 402 and it's been kind of up and down through that time period an interesting statistic down there on the bottom uh the number of homeless that are active
on our case loads in 2024 109 and so you can think how that plays um into uh the homelessness population that we're serving um and how that relates to how we conduct supervision i wish I had the five-year
on that that would have been an interesting stat to get i couldn't get that um the number of pre- plea worksheets has increased since 2020 um the number of PDIs so juvenile
um investigations has increased um you can see there a couple more and we'll be almost doubling that one um I got some data on discharge uh information and so you know we do our best to recognize when there's risk in
the clients that we're supervising and then we also um identify when clients are doing well right if our if our assessment reflects that they are low risk to recidivism um or to continuing
their status quo behavior and they're able to prove that we will definitely um request the court discharge them early of the felony cases in 2024 100 and and of the discharges 182 discharges
roughly about 50% of them were discharged early and then about 27% of the felony cases in 2024 made it through the full period of supervision gross misdemeanor cases um you're going to get a little bit more of them making it through their entire
period of supervision simply because gross misdemeanor cases have a shorter time frame for supervision uh on average maybe like two years um and so we still discharge gross cases early if if the client can show that they're they're doing
well um some discharge data there on the juvenile cases as well uh you could see that very rarely we discharge early on the juvenile cases you know those are even a shorter time frame sometimes six months um and so thought that was all
interesting stuff violation outcome uh information what are the violations looking like in our department um the majority of the violations we file are probation violations and you can see there that
very few are juvenile violations um and then very few down there that S is those supervised release or parole file violations and that and the reason for that is just because the vast majority of the cases we handle are probation cases uh we just that's that's the
that's the most um of the clients that we're dealing with um some transfer information as you can probably expect since we're neighboring a very large city we do a lot of transfers um and you can see since 2020
51 outofstate transfers 2024 167 um transfer in responses we're also seeing an influx of cases coming in and so a lot of movement between the two counties here um and the the orange bar
there on the bottom right is showing that the amount of cases that were rejecting is staying roughly the same so as the numbers continue to grow on convictions and then cases being placed on supervision the transfers will
continue to grow um going out and that that again is another piece of um of our of the duties that we do in the office finally uh well not finally
there's more uh but some recidivism data um for the first six months the first year two years and three years and this is data from 2019 um and thereafter uh the first bar there on the left is Klay County probation the
dark blue bar the second the light blue bar there is the statewide average and so you can see for the first six months there we got 94.5% for Klay County uh 94% of people are successful
uh after the first six months of completing probation and then 96 is the state average so we got to get get to work on the first six months but if you all the way over to the very right column
um we're we're doing a great job at three years uh 87.6% of our clients after successfully completing probation are successful after three years and the state average is 85 the dark green bar is uh parole
cases so 77.6% of our parole cases after completing parole um stay felony free uh after three years and the state average is 70% and so we're doing good there um
really uh looking at that data shows the efforts that the agents in the office everybody in the office is making toward reducing recidivism dale let me ask you a question on recidivism uh looking at the ISR cases and the big spike you've got in who's in
those coming out i have a theory and and is pro it may be something you don't want to confirm but I know that the Department of Corrections moving towards a community uh punishment or community uh role in
incarceration of of prisoners i'm sure they're using the same standards when they release them to determine if they need ISR or not but I think there's going to be and we can plan on it from what uh Commissioner Schnell has said
there's going to be more people being released that traditionally would have been maintained in the prisons if these are if if if the recidivism rate isn't increased I think that's a win even if
it's ISR people as long as you have adequate staff to maintain it do you have a break breakdown and I know it's just in this last year they've been doing it yeah are you seeing a higher recidivism rate on uh on ISRS than uh than the rest of the
population and so I don't have the data for ISR i would assume that that's the subcomponent of the supervised release portion over here and part of that reason is because those on ISR are on ISR for roughly about a year time or CIP
the challenge incarceration program after they successfully complete ISR or complete the challenge incarceration program they come to our office or for supervision and so that is a reflection of those people that successfully complete ISR and then come back answer
your question about the people that don't complete ISR i don't have that data about early release um if you're referencing MR and some of the other policies yeah there isn't any there's as
far as I know there's no policy set in stone around some of that stuff so it's a little early to tell all I can say is that um from what I have seen it appears that the decision behind that is
justified or driven by um you know some level of reasoning behind many of those people are not high risk right and so they're going to use evidence-based practices to determine who amongst the population would be eligible for that
type that type of supervision or that type of release or early release and I think that's worth a try just when you look at expense and and and probably fairness yeah but when you're talking about an ISR
population that's where you kind you guys have a little are under a little heat yeah yeah and so maintain them it's a little too early to speak for me to speak to that you know um but I'm aware of many of the concerns that others have
brought forth to me as well and um I I guess we'll see well there's better answers than jail for a lot of people yeah if we have the resources in the community and the staff in the community to give give these folks a chance to
turn things around anyway I won't elaborate just Thank you um it leads me to that's that's a good segue into this uh this next slide here um so in the county and across the state
actually uh the assessment we use to determine risk um for the for the clients that we supervise is the LSCMI the level of service case management inventory we assess risk on every client on supervision and these bars show the
number of high-risisk individuals in the county the number of low-risk individuals in the county and the number of medium risk individuals in the county and we really focus intervention work and target our efforts toward the high and medium risk individuals i'm going to
talk about how we're doing that and and um how we're trying to focus on some of the data that I had talked about in the next coming slides before I do that I want to talk about our excellent staff in the department uh we have six office administrative staff um to tackle a
variety of different things uh we have one new DWI court agent as of February dwi court has started uh we have one drug court agent um and we have three high-risk agents uh two of which um
supervise the majority of the sex offender case load in the county uh we have one pre-trial agent um who also does some high-risisk supervision and then we have five medium and lowrisk agents and the reason for that as you can probably imagine if I go back to
that graph is the medium risk bar is the largest bar they make up the the majority of the individuals on supervision uh two juvenile agents two gross misdemeanor misdemeanor agents one sentence to service agent and then we
have three intensive supervised release agents that work out of our office um to do ISR in the area uh DWI court as I had said is something new as of February um February 5th they had started you know it's the mission of the Klay County DWI court to
save the lives in our community by providing comprehensive multiddisciplinary response to address repeat DWI clients who have substance use disorder uh the provision of accountability intensive supervision and collaboration with evidencebased treatment will enhance the lives of
those impacted by substance use and increase public safety and reduce recidivism as well as the costs to society the individuals passed through a series of phases gradually decreasing in intensity in DWI court uh Klay County is
one of three counties in the state working with the IDA uh in an IDA pilot which is the impaired driving assessment and the reason why uh we boarded the ship with that is you know on the one hand we've got we're starting DWI corp but on the other hand we know that our
assessment tool the LSCMI is not really great at predicting risk uh with the DWI uh clients that we supervise and so the IDA is a secondary assessment tool that's really going to help us um focus on where are to streamline our efforts
where they need to be uh with this population um and then we also and that's of course DWI court is a granted uh position um our DWY court agent is also uh part of our SPO grant uh which provides trainings TZD conferences
workshops education and outreach and like I had said IDA will assist as a double assessment in conjunction with our current LCMI our drug court uh to improve public safety and reduce direct and indirect costs of the community associated with substance use and related criminal activity the use of
evidence-based practices uh uses a multicultural multidisciplinary approach to break the cycle of substance abuse and to improve clients lives by involving them in a rigorous and supportive program that includes intensive treatment drawing on
participants strengths supervision and personal accountability collaboration between our adult justice system and the community results in educated and productive adults healthy families stronger and safer communities and so similar to the DWI Corp this works on a
phased basis uh and you know one caveat of the drug court which I think is really uh interesting and neat is that clients are required to complete a 40hour graduation project that gives back to the community so that's been nice to see
some of those outcomes i have I have a question there Dale yep with the drug court and the DUI court DWI court it shows 12 act of five being screened is there a limit on how many you can have go to that yeah I would say so you know
um and they vary a little bit between the drug court and DWI court um both of them are voluntary okay right yeah and you know there's a carrot usually hanging for somebody to join either drug
court or DWI court um it's an intense form of supervision somebody on phase one in DWI court has three tests uh a week and so we um you
know the aim is to um obviously help them assist in changing their behavior um and so somebody might join for a variety of different reasons it is uh with the
DWI that are involved in in the court they're all upper level felony recidivists that some of them yeah um you know the IDA assessment so like even if it's somebody's very first DWI and even if it's a misdemeanor they might
not you know they might not even get placed on probation but if it's a second or a subsequent DWI they're looking at a gross misdemeanor offense or something like that our IDA assessment will really help predict how what what the alcohol use looks like right for that person and so
even though it's their second DWI or you like the problem might be far worse than what their criminal history is showing and so there's a v for that person maybe they have the intrinsic motivation to really want to change their behavior and they would join that uh voluntarily to
really make a change in their lives so good a lot of um you know the people that complete these programs um show high level motivation um they they talk about these
programs they really enjoy the process when completed um I can see even from the court side of things those involved um you know uh behind the bench even the judges they enjoy the process uh and so like it's it's a win-win uh for
everybody involved uh got a couple slides left where am I at for time am I way over am I good okay um so uh in the last year we've started some cognitive behavioral programming uh in the community
um we're really doing our best to especially with high-risk individuals to have them uh complete these programs first one is a decision points program it's a roughly 8 to 10
um session program it has an open door so anybody can join at any time there's no start date uh or end date uh and it's it's been shown to be really effective in helping people uh work on their thinking and and their emotional state
and make better decisions being less impulsive uh we have four agents um in the office that have stepped up to receive training and are running that uh in the county free to the clients free to the county uh there's no charge for running that and that's been a huge
benefit I believe uh moving on is another cognitive behavioral therapy program specific to adult women we know uh generally speaking that the pathway into uh the criminal justice world for women
is different than men uh sometimes it's traumdriven among other reasons um and this program really helps to target and identify those pathways uh and work uh with that population and I had three three staff trained for moving on in the
last year um who by the way uh some of the members of the program are in in some of the other like drug court um or DWI court and so like it's it's it's been really nice to see the staff really
enjoy uh this programming and some of the feedback that I'm seeing from some of the notes from the staff has been very positive for the clients that are in it myself speaking as a decision points trainer for many years um it is
very valuable uh for you know our it's very valuable for our connection with the clients um and and you know creating an effective alliance with them uh to move forward gaining trust and and helping break down some of
the barriers that they have moving on is a longer curriculum about 26 sessions that's once a week and so the staff are really dedicated uh to following through with this
um it's been really it's been nice to see from my side of things finally uh some 2024 additions in the department i've had one staff become a safety trainer with the state i've had three staff like I had said trained and
moving on one in decision points both groups are actively running right now uh and I'm getting a lot of positive feedback we continue to run scheduled MAD panel SE services in the office um agent beam and Ericson continue to do
that which has been uh great for for many of the clients um the department in conjunction with other state stakeholders will continue to be part of the state attendance review board which is something new attempting to circumvent true truency cases in all
Klay County schools and agent turnis has stepped up to be part of that board uh and so that's another growing concern that we have seen um staff are working with individual case plans with all medium and high-risisk clients as I had talked
about and they target the driver and so as you can as you can think about somebody being on supervision for instance for a DWI you would think you would target substance abuse but studies show us that that may not be the reason
um for their behavior it could be some underlying things such as anger their relationship with family or marital their social circles and so we attempt to work on addressing and identifying those things and the and the way that we do that is through the use of intervention strategies and Klay County
has more than doubled its use of interventions uh with clients in conjunction with the case planning process in the last year uh the the DOC is a leader in the state uh in its ability to provide coaching training and other services to staff to improve effectiveness with
clients coaching with staff has become an important factor on improving the fidelity of our delivery of those interventions and Klay County is actively coaching with all staff um they record their sessions with their clients and receive feedback on their ability to
do motivational interviewing uh their ability to deliver the interventions um and so it is somewhat of an intricate process uh and it has been shown to be very beneficial in 2024 the DOC field
services implemented a case planning roadmap and that's what that little uh has a reduction in transparency there on the right side that's the case planning road map uh it includes an eight-step guide from the time of initial engagement and assessment with a
client to the time of discharge the road map follows the most stringent evidence-based approaches including not only the use of one-on-one interventions but incorporating the use of group cognitive behavioral programming in the community so you can see um there is somewhat of a structured way to do this
um and part of that road map allows the agent the discretion to really uh target their interventions with a client um based on the client's needs and so we we look at each individual separate from one another we look at their needs
specifically and that's what this road map helps the agents to do something that I didn't have when I started i wish I would have uh would have bet it would have helped me uh help me get running the department has also created an internal domestic violence committee to
establish a more linear policydriven reunification uh process and principles ensuring victim safety and reducing the likelihood of recidivism in response to some of that domestic was it that domestic data that you seen i'm I'm sure
it's responsible but that kind of having to run a domestic violence unit there is no pressure put on the victim to reunite is there are you saying from the perpetrator well there's always from the perpetrator right um is is is that program for
domestic violence um is that is for the perpetrator and directed towards the perpetrator that's what that's what we've been talking about the reunification process should not only include the steps that the victim would need to take in order for us to gain
confidence about the perpetrator moving in with the victim but we believe there's also steps the perpetrator should take right they should also have a safety plan themselves things that they can do to remove themsel from a situation that might get grow out of hand and otherwise and as you can
imagine with parole cases those cases or transfers in from an adjacent state those cases are not eligible for our our domestic violence court and so we have to put forth a plan to really target those individuals too
to answer your question and maybe Brian could help me with this to a little bit i believe that prior to allowing uh or to removing a Danko or a domestic no contact order the victim would have to either pro submit
something in writing requesting um that the Dango be lifted um or go through the victim reunification process with victim services or another um I'm trying to think of the other Yeah through victim services they
dropped their own safety plan the vict with victim services and they have to show they've done that to to then allow for so there is scrutiny on the motivation of the victim as well that there to determine if there's coercion or if there's some real red flags that
that she or he is ignoring right you know it's it's very difficult to tell you know I think in our line of work we do our best to see through some of that fog Right um if there if if we generally
pick up on a sense of something like that or if there's a pattern that we had see we'd probably investigate deeper into that issue um one of the things that we do is when having discussions with the victim we ensure that obviously the perpetrator is not there um or
within the vicinity of the victim and in many cases they're incarcerated and so the victim also has the ability to provide a statement and that statement being confidential um and you know we don't relay any of that
information uh to the individual that's on supervision and so we do our best to circumvent that you know I know sometimes it's a no-win situation they're going to go back
and you know Leaving is a process not an event so I just that that was a little bit of a flag but I think you've answered my question it sounds like it's responsibly evaluated both Mr melton's
people and and yours absolutely any other questions i started in 1978 and parole officers were a whole different animal this is gratifying you guys are
providing people with opportunities not not uh just supervision and and and scrutiny so I'm very impressed i'm grateful thank you any other
questions thank you um Quinn we've got a bid opening i know we're run a little behind but we'll get that knocked out and get right to you okay next up Justin we've got Justin Sorum county
engineer yes good morning so I do have the bid opening this is for three box culvert projects um one is on County Road 51 south of Comtock one in Elkton Township and one in Goose Prairie Township so we
did receive six bids for this project and the engineers estimate was [Music] $720,170 so every bid that I read does have a bid bond in the amount of 5% and
is an approved bid the first bid I received was Tonheim Construction LLC their bid was $863,57916 $863,579.16 the second bid we received was from Central Specialties Incorporated their bid was $860,54.50
$860,54.50 the next bid we received was from Selen Brothers Incorporated their bid was $842,8980 $842,8980 the next bid we received was from Gladen Construction Incorporated their bid was $764,127.90
$764,127.90 the next bid we received was from Midwest Contracting LLC their bid was $728,187.50 $728,187.50 50 then the final bid we received was from Hool Excavating LLC their bid was
$644,745.50.6 $644,745.50 any questions regarding the bids sure i have a question go ahead is that for all three of the box culverts to be replaced yep so we tie them by contract so it's combined a little low bid
any other questions Mr chair in in reviewing the documents there's quite a significant gap between high and low you feel confident that 644 encompasses yep so we've worked with this contractor the last two years and kind of similar
numbers as you're seeing here with those bids i don't see any issue with them questions um I'll make a motion i'll make a motion to approve Hool Excavating LLC at the amount $644,74550 for for
SAP014-598-079 and SAP014-599-105 and also SAP014-599-114 14 i'll second i have a motion in the second any further comments it is gratifying to see it come in so far under the engineer estimate
yeah it's definitely been a good year all right all in favor say I oh and I'm sorry we'll need a roll call commissioner Kraban hi commissioner Mojo yes commissioner Bear yes commissioner
Ebinger i motion passes a whole excavating thank you thank you Justin okay quinn Jagger good morning commissioners i have Michelle Thorall with me as well she supervises the position uh I felt pretty
good about the minor cost savings I was going to come to that's nothing compared to Jeff took the wind right out of my sales there yeah I tried i tried i tough act to follow that's right that's right uh I am here to request approval to replace a
case uh in our child protection division it is under Michelle Thorall here um to give you some details here we have this case position open due to resignation uh our staff is getting married and moving um h sorry to see her go but we're happy for her at the same time so um this
position is critical uh to our agency due to the workload demands of it we would not be able to reassign these duties to existing staff or or positions to give you a highlight reel of what this position does um all case aids in our child protection division provide
transportation and supervised visitation um this one in particular is about 75% of that transportation of kiddos in foster care supervising those visits between parents and kiddos at our office or out in the community um some of the other duties that they do is they coordinate our volunteer driver program
as well um this position is specifically in charge of that um they assist with file destruction based on our records retention rules coordinate compile and kind of review state reports they manage our car seat inventory and they uh kind of coordinate car seat training for all of our child protection and child
welfare staff in the division uh they process and review administrative files vouchures invoices uh and they provide backup coverage so we cross trainin all of our case aids on all the different duties for reasons just like this so we don't lose any operational function so they do kind of know how to do a little
bit of everything um in addition to these duties as visitations kind of wax and wayne as we get more or less out of home placements uh we also get creative so we might assign alternative tasks to assist other divisions if there's a lull in the uh supervised visitation or
transport um I did attach the wage calculator for your review um but to give you a brief rundown the existing staff is currently budgeted at grade 12 step five um we do expect the replacement to start at step one um this position does generate revenue uh
through FFP so 50% that revenue as well as the expense of the salary is budgeted in 2025's budget um so with that change there's an estimated cost savings of about 13,650 so again um drop in the bucket compared to what Justin just did but u
with that I'm looking for a motion to approve replacing the case aid position i would request backfill if there is internal interest um but with that I would yield for any questions that you have questions no questions i'd make a motion though
um motion to approve hiring the case aid position in the child protection division with backfield should there be internal interest i will second that i have a motion to second any further discussion if not could we have a roll
call please commissioner Krabanov yes commissioner Mojo yes commissioner Bayer yes commissioner Ebinger hi thank you motion passes thank you commissioner Ebinger yes really quickly before they
leave I just want to give huge props to Quinn and staff uh who were able to on the fly get me a ton of information without bothering Steve last week and uh they're just doing rockstar stuff and and given the feedback that we're
hearing uh down here I think that's really a testament to the staff that Klay County has uh to hear that Klay County is just doing really innovative and thoughtful um deliberate work is a direct response to the work of not only Quinn's department but all the
departments but since I can't see who's exactly there um particularly for Quinn thanks for the work that you all do thank you i will second that um you know the that you you reflect so well on the county all we've got a great
staff and Quinn you've hit the ground running and picked up from a from a superstar and you're becoming one yourself we got more franchise players if the Vikings had it we'd be in the Super Bowl every year but uh the hardest part of of uh being a commissioner
around here sometimes is just avoiding sunburn from basking in the sunlight of the people working for this county and yeah Commissioner Mojo is correct in pointing it out and we're grateful they make our jobs easy it makes Steve's job
incredibly easy we're thinking of cutting his salary well I I appreciate that thank you uh Commissioner Mojo Commissioner Aminger um quite honestly it it's not me it's the supervisors right like you you hit the nail right on the head i think I was able to hit the ground running because
we already had the staff in place that do good work so anything that is me is actually them so I appreciate it well thank to to all you guys all right next up we have got um Yes we've got the extension service
i'm trying to find my Here we go and you guys have patient patiently been waiting so we'll get the uh computer up for you and come on forward and introduce yourselves well good morning happy new year
um we're grateful to have the opportunity to sit here and just kind of give you some programmatic update uh my name is Cecilia Amadu i serve as the regional director with University of Minnesota and we have all the office staff here so I'll let them introduce themselves we're missing one staff for
medical um purposes as Rosie but other than that we have full staff in front of you so I'll let Jen introduce herself sure jenna Erdol I'm extension support staff jillian Petri I'm the extension horiculture educator
monique Stelzer for youth development mindy Grant for youth development welcome we got to kick it off there we go all right uh well Mindy and I just introduced ourselves we are with the for youth development program um we are both extension educators within extension as
well um so we'll kind of kick off our presentation today for each youth development is the largest youth serving organization in Minnesota yeah I can okay so for each youth development is the largest youth serving organization in Minnesota um we have
lots of youth across lots of different pathways and program areas um I'll let Mindy kind of explain how youth come to 4 and what 4 looks like as a foundational level sure well the goals of Minnesota 4 are we
have three-part goals we want kids to learn how to we want them to learn we want them to lead and we also create the environment that they learn and lead in uh so with learning we're looking for youth to identify a spark and develop that into a passion through hands-on
experiences um and really learn what they're good at what they want to learn and what they want to do um and building upon that we ask them to lead uh there are many different ways to lead but basically we want them to take a look around their community and be exposed to different um areas that interest them
and how they can make changes or be leaders not only with their peer group but inside the community as well and then creating highquality youth environments is our focus with all of our volunteers we may be two staff people but we have 84 volunteers 84
volunteers that are helping us carry out all of these programs across Klay County next slide and the basically how we do this is youth learn by doing it's actually um one of our foundational pieces is experiential learning so instead of
school type where you're standing at the head of a classroom telling kids what they need to know we are actually giving them activities and walking them through the process um as well as our volunteers are walking them through the process through their community clubs and afterchool activities um 95% of
participants across Minnesota do report applying what they learned through 4 to other parts of their lives and that's ideally what we want to see learn something in 4 and take it out into the world and into the community and and build upon those skills there
uh and there are many different ways that youth come into 4 i know traditionally we think of the 4 club um that a lot of us were familiar with when we were growing up um so we have those community clubs as well we have 10 of those across Klay County they meet once
a month at a place of their choosing uh people can self- select which club uh they feel a sense of belonging with and want to participate in and then we also have afterchool programs we work with the community ed districts across Klay
County um to do afterchool programs bringing in STEM activities art activities uh we work closely with our partners in community ed to identify what are the needs that that the students are looking for and the families are looking for there to bring
in um programs that are uh programs that they're excited about and then we also have summer programs summer programs we've worked with the community eds again uh there are many rural districts in our area that don't have a park district to um have
activities for kids so we love to go out to Yulan Barnesville Holly Glendon and provide some of those activities and summer programs for our youth through those community pro um programs at the school district and then we also do other partner programs i currently work
with um cultural diversity resources New Roots Midwest and other um community organizations that are looking for youth development programs in in the evenings and weekends all right so Mindy kind of talked about the different ways that
young people come to the 4 program um the most recognizable and long-term or long-standing program is the community club program um and of course the place where we see the community club members most active or their signature highlight is the county fair um so when we're looking at what that traditional
community club program in Klay County looks like last year we had 344 enrolled youth members we're on track to exceed that number this year um we retained 91% of those youth which is pretty phenomenal um that we keep those youth engaged year-toear uh and we know that
young people gain the most benefit from participating in youth development programs when they participate over a long term uh we had 145 first year members so brand new members previous year we have 10 community- based clubs we also have two project groups we have a Lego League group and we also have a
shooting sports and wildlife group as well um last year county fair we had 224 youth who showcased their exhibits who brought an exhibit to the fair um they brought more than one exhibit to the fair they actually ended up bringing 1,57 exhibits to the county fair um that
averages out to about six exhibits per child that they're bringing to the county fair um so they're engaged in 4 to do more than just one thing in most cases um most of our youth are actually showing both animals in addition to general static exhibits um so it's exciting to see that we have that
engagement across both project areas um or both project types for our young people um and Josie is one of those youth there that we have a quote from and she's the one on the right there actually um so she she's been participating in the fair for a long time and she uh pretty consistently
earns trips down to the Minnesota State Fair and so she's found great value in her youth leadership opportunities within the club as well as participating in the fair events uh and this is just a little bit about some of our afterchool programs or our short-term programs um we had over
281 youth uh participate last year in those types of programs so this is a very valuable space for our youth and our families to come together and interact with 4 and engage with our programs um as I said we did work with the four school partners with through
their community eds and we also had eight community partners that we worked with whether it was finding locations or people who were helping deliver programming um or providing the youth and the participants for our programming
um and um we try to incorporate the same aspects that you would see in a community club within our afterchool and partnership programs where we're having adults in the leadership position guiding youth through their programs and their information and their projects that they're doing but we also try to
bring in individual work as well as group work um in this particular picture uh this was a STEM program on rainforests and at the end of the learning experience they are building rainforest models with watercolors where
they're all working together as a team so uh we try to build in those experiences where they get to work together and showcase their work to each other within those short-term programs as well oh uh and youth who participate in 4 do
develop a strong sense of belonging and confidence in their future that's one of the things that we're really proud of we are beginning a new um program called Beyond Ready where we're really looking at preparing youth for the future what do they want to do with the skills they
learned and the passions that they have so that they can move forward in their future pathways thinking of higher education job markets that sort of thing um so we have taken youth to different universities around the area just to get an idea of what that means and to help
them visualize what it would be to be at a university and what their future could look like and then uh talking about volunteers we have over 234 volunteers that we've used countywide over the last year
the adults that help us deliver our program are dedicated to bringing their expertise and increasing youth learning this is a very important feature as I said two staff 84 screen volunteers 234 people that we've used over the course
of the year um and they're helping build a sense of belonging they're they're building a welcoming environment where the kids feel that it's their ownership and space and they feel comfortable and they feel like they can lead and they're willing to take those risks and learn
some new things and that's a very important feature if we want kids to expand and learn they have to have that confidence and that safety of I belong here and if I make a mistake it's okay um and that all all of our different
positions that we use volunteers in add up you know typically we do think of the club leaders and yes we do have club leaders um but we also have people that are helping at uh county fair had about 155 different adults volunteer for us at the county fair last year um just to put
on the 4 aspect of it that was not even everything else that was happening at county fair we have 27 project and club leaders and um about 52 different spots for volunteers over the course of the year for different events different committees um it really does take a
village to create this program so we're very proud of all of our volunteers that help service our program all right so all that said it takes a team uh it's Mindy myself and Jen that are the primary support and um
program management for the Klay County 4 program uh we each kind of have different roles we have different tasks and priorities that we take on um I provide support to the community club program volunteer training uh youth leadership those pieces mindy really supports our program partners and our
afterchool programs so we each have our specialty areas and Jen well Jen just does everything she supports us all and makes us look good and I don't think we could get through a week without her so that's um it takes our team so I just wanted to recognize each of my teammates
that help with that and say thank you and thank you to you guys as well for helping support the 4 youth program in Klay County sorry as I said before I'm Joel Petri and I'm the horiculture educator i also uh coordinate master gardeners in Klay
County um so um part of my duties are helping with them with projects getting them organized recruiting um new master gardeners um and then also county um workshops education technical support so
I was just going to do a quick recap of um last year so um we had a few really great programs that we did uh Garden Buzz is an afterchool program that one of our master gardeners who also is a 4 parent does um she did that at three of
our elementary schools here in Klay County um and that was just uh four sessions based on garden related topics for youth and then we had um another intern master gardener intern help her with that um we also do one help
organize one vegetable one community last year was radishes so each year a vegetable is picked um kind of statewide um and brochures are made we put seeds in those and it has planting instructions
um and how to cook with them so it's a partnership with SNAPED as well um so that program we did um little educational events at all four all of the uh libraries in Klay County and then at a few other events and then I also
have brochures available for people to grab so I think we distributed about 500 or so brochures throughout the county um master gardeners also uh manage six public garden spaces a few of them are here on site and then we have a couple
downtown um we did have five interns last year which all completed the program and are now master gardeners um and then we did have a a few new events to our group last year we started a learning garden tour we had sites in
Dworth and Morehead so what that is is people buy tickets and then they can go visit different um gardens or other we had a greenhouse as well throughout the county learn about how that person implemented it we had some people with backyard chickens so people just kind of
learn about different ways to um garden in the area it's a fun event gets community out and together and networking um and then so that was Master Gardeners last year um and then last year um just in my role as
technical assistance and offering education um opportunities um and then connecting residents to resources from the university um I was able to answer around 190 questions emails phone calls
stops into the office send pictures go out to people's houses and help them with questions in their yard um I did 13 presentations so I like to partner with the libraries it's a great place to have a public um workshop that's free people
can just come and stop by if they're interested in the subject um and then we attended myself and master gardeners also attended about 14 outreach events so River Arts Farmers Market Morehead Farmers Market we went to potato days um
we went to several other tableabling events at things around around the county so just networking talking to people ask a master gardener is also there so they can ask gardening questions um and then I also have the opportunity to write for um the plant
tech plant talk section and the FM extra so usually I have an article in there weekly but depends on what's going on in the county um but I think I've um had about 30 articles in there so I think of things that um are relevant to the
season to write about otherwise um people ask questions too and want to know more so I throw a little bit of that into the um newspaper most of my questions I answered were horiculture related i did answer a few agriculture
related questions um a lot about land rent um those questions um this year we are excited to welcome seven interns into our master gardener program so we um as soon as
they complete that program we'll be up to 21 master gardeners which we had 12 when I came in last year we've added a few that were um on leave too so it's exciting we're growing um able to do more programming um this year we welcome
back Winter Garden College we did have that um as a program in Morehead a couple years ago before CO um so we've brought that back it's a series where we travel to different counties in Minnesota pick a few topics this year it
was um cover crops and season extension methods so people are interested in that um could come check it out we're can we are planning on continuing that next year so we'll have a Morehead stop on that series um I just had a seed
starting and garden basics workshop last Monday we had about 50 people come to that so that was awesome at the Morhead public library people are getting excited about starting seeds and gardening um I partnered with another colleague to bring the um agriculture
business team up here from um the regional state team and we offered a farm transition and estate planning workshop in Holly last week so really targeting people who are looking to hand off their farm to another generation um
and how that process goes um last Friday too we had a hands-on apple pruning workshop up at MB Johnson so we partnered with um Morehead Parks and Wreck and Forestry to help do a little bit of community service and um prune the apple trees up at the edible for
forest up at MB Johnson um but then also people got the chance to do apple pruning hands-on um I think a lot of people are scared to prune their trees so it was great to have people be able to do that and ask questions um and then
I have a a list a laundry list of other workshops that we're planning um this spring and let's see yeah that's about it for me um al I'm always welcome to um any
comments requests for things that you've seen um people are really interested in um we're thinking about doing a backyard chicken workshop too just to help support those questions with backyard chickens being um something you can do
in Morehead and then a few other um towns looking at implementing that too so any questions comments questions well I'll certainly make a comment uh I I just want to say great
work uh you know being around um uh watching this organization listen to your numbers how much they've grown your interaction with uh the community is uh to be commended so um yeah just want to
say big kudos for your work um and uh yes uh pruning apple tree which he taught my wife last week uh yep we're we're going to do it this week so when you said throw a baseball cap through it I don't know about that one
but we'll see that's heavy duty to me but we'll see appreciate it any other comments or questions i I I I have one question it' be for the 4 where would I find a list of the 10 clubs
countywide if I if I'm looking to join in a club is is it online where would I find that list yeah so if you pop onto the Klay County Extension website um and it is a University of Minnesota website but if you pop onto there and you click on to there's a drawer on our website that's like join a club or become a
member it actually identifies who our 10 clubs are um in addition it gives you videos about what are what does for each project work look like and what to expect as a family um coming in and joining the program for each club individually uh nope so it gives an overview as a 4 like if you join as a
family um you know what does project work look like how much does it cost to join for kind of the basic FAQs that we get those are answered there and then there's a list of clubs and contact information there um we can't post their contact information publicly like that so you would need to connect the 4
office but we can put you in touch with the club leader perfect i can get you in touch with the club leader Ezra yeah yeah right you you know one pretty close and also for your events that you pull off you you have a heavy presence on social media
yeah jen manages our extension website we beg her to put things on there um and then um Master Gardeners has a Facebook page too where we publicize resources as well as events that are going on too yeah and if you
dabble into the 4 pool on social media there are livestock project groups just within Klay County there's a horse project group within Klay County um and almost every one of our clubs has their own club group on Facebook as well so and then we have the extension page
where 4 posts their content as well any other questions comments mr chair yes if I I could just want to thank you guys for the work uh that you do i think that um going back to I think I've mentioned before I'm a I'm a Travers County Walls booster 4 member it was one
of the first opportunities you know with leadership of of working with a team eventually running meetings i got to go to the state fair i saw Kenny Loggins Starship everybody's like who right who you who you talking about the Fat Boys rap group you know and what I really
learned you know 40 years later is that got me prepared as the cannabis legalization came through Minnesota i learned a lot about cannabis that night uh and it it's helping me moving forward through through today so but really want to thank you guys for all the work that you do and we want to thank you all as a board
for your continuing support for our program last year we went through a process of renegotiating our contract and we're just grateful to have uh full staff we do have a little bit of a transition happening mind is moving on getting promoted I should say um so we have a position open and thanks Jackie
for putting on the website so get the word out u once that person is hired we'll introduce them as well but yeah very good we appreciate it and thank you for coming down and thank you for your patience yes Jenny I was waiting for you thank you i just want to highlight I know that uh Jillian has a master
gardener fundraiser going on right now they've got um some really exciting plants that are available for that sale um so you can go on that website and find that i just want to thank Mindy mindy helped lead uh the county 4 during
um a really time of unknown with COVID and what shutdowns and all of those policies and procedures were and so I just want to appreciate and um lift up your work Mindy thank you for that i'm really excited for you to continue those
uh those good work at the regional side and then two just from the county office perspective I've always talked about u maybe being a little too involved with county 4 with now four children in 4 this year uh but you really do a great
job trying to network and and lift up so many different um issues that happen with 4 year round i know that you work really hard to foster a good relationship with the fair board and it doesn't go unnoticed so thank you for your work
and thank you thank you for your patience i know we were a little behind today but appreciate it let's take a fivem minute break county Administrator Steven Larson on our payment to innovate 28
uh thank you Mr chair as this board is aware uh the greater Fargo economic development and the Fargo Chamber are two entities that we uh consider participating in payments uh to on an annual basis through our budget process uh this past year uh the EDC and the
chamber came before us to request a uh combined budget request of $185,000 uh to and to participate in the Innovate 28 program uh that uh that they are initiative they're bringing forward
um on January 28th we received our first invoice or the invoice for request for funding uh and this board had a discussion about uh about making sure that the message from the Klay County Minnesota side was being brought forward uh on an equal basis and therefore at
that time directed the directed the administration and personnel to pay half of the funds uh and uh and the second allocation at a later date i was approached by members of the commission requesting that this be brought forward uh to to have discussion about making
that second payment and so with that I would turn it over to to the board chair to have any comments comments i know Commissioner Mo your clock's ticking so you go first thank you i uh just had some uh conversations
with um uh Commissioner Kavanagh and I had honest honestly been down here a lot and so we've seen the work that the chamber has done just to step up the legislative efforts at the capital and I know a portion of what the innovate 28
uh funds uh are allocated for is to really bolster that effort and um I can just honestly tell you that the work they've done here is just tfold what they've done in years past the connections we've been making here are just um pretty amazing and they have a
lobbyist that's really helping with that effort and uh you know part of why we held the funds is just to see what the effort would be on the Minnesota side and uh with the work that's been done I'm confident in releasing that second phase of payment
other comments yeah I just uh I'd like to echo that i mean our day at the Capitol totally run by the chamber uh was just u top level and as she mentioned their lobbyist uh is so well engaged and we're getting so many
benefits out of this it'd be very very difficult to do what we're doing without their support so with that I'd like to move to make a motion to uh get their second payment paid in full from us uh for the innovate 28 program
i'll second that motion have a motion to second any other comments just one comment could we still have them come in and give a uh an update on how this money is being spent uh Mr chair uh Mr commissioner
Bear we certainly could certainly could invite them back uh to have both representatives here to talk about thank you yeah just a point I think of reference not so much for this year but
next um serving on the EDC board I'm aware that there is funding that has been directed to the EDC and not to innovate 28 um I am grateful to the chamber i've just gone through an election process
and they did a great job of of of featuring our candidates and our our positions uh I I think that maybe next year I want to give some consideration to where the money's distributed and how it's spent but this year I think we're
committed uh with that is there are there any other comments if not could we have a roll call please commissioner Krabanoft yes commissioner Mojo yes commissioner Bayer yes commissioner
Ebinger I motion passes thank you Steve thank you commissioner Einger yes i'm sorry i do have to go over to the capital now but I just really appreciate the work that you're all doing thank you thank you and good luck we appreciate what you're up
to um if I could make everybody aware we do have staff waiting and one of them's got to conduct a wedding at the government center at 10:30 uh for the next meeting so if we could be as expedient as we could on committee reports and we'll start with
Commissioner Krabangh all right last Tuesday on the 18th I had my developmental health lac monthly meeting um uh we really just uh did a review of agency reports with those attending
sharing uh information back and forth uh on the 19th I had the uh historical and cultural society finance committee me meeting um two things I'll make note of there uh we're uh the first part of the
year we build up our inventories over at the gift shop so if you're looking to find some things that over at the museum area uh please drop in they have a good selection there and admissions at this point are continuing to stay uh very
strong for um for over at the uh uh Yamcom Center on Thursday on the 20th uh that was a um really good morning presentation that we had with the suicide and substance use prevention
group 56 people on board um kind of true to the group it was hard we had had a su suicide in Morehead uh of an eighth grader that we all reflected on and and uh that group is so committed to uh the work of working with youth and adults
and improving these things best we can there was a presentation uh about caring for yourself as a caregiver um pointing out the attributes of good mental health and um um bringing those uh attributes
into a healthy balance of living there was an update uh from the public hearing to the group regarding the tobacco ordinance strongly supported by u many of the members in uh this group uh HA uh
was my next meeting that day um um thank you again i'm repeating a little bit here thanks to the federal continuing resolution um uh it looks for 2024 anyway that our funding is stable and uh
uh the work that they're doing with the assistance of the levy they get along with in Clay County to their work uh their uh properties are continuing to uh get back in shape and the u vacancies
are uh down quite a lot so they're moving in a positive fashion later that afternoon I had a a meeting at Metrocog it was the approve uh the review and approval of the 2024 uh uh North Dakota DOT uh reported for
project expenses and then last but not least on Friday uh was our team meeting um which was uh for legislative work that um normally is led by repeler and then
joined in with uh Senator Coopek and uh we were just talked about testimonies uh that conversation was leading into what uh Commissioner Jo Mojo's down there for today um last week it was more with uh
DHS and this week starting the testimony day is with capital investments so one for appropriations for the PRTF and now we get into the bonding as for the new juvenile center so we're hopeful thank
you Commissioner Mayor on uh March 18th I filled in for the planning commission for Commissioner Mojo we had one public hear well two public hearings one applicant for it was Ryan Bushfig he was running a home occupation out of his
home and it would be a landscape business we passed that unanimously and then we also had a public hearing in the Klay County land development and subdivision division ordinances we had an update there from Matt Jacobson and
then lastly that night we had a recommendation to appoint Josh Schroeder which we dealt with today which he we'll welcome him to the planning commission then yesterday I had a meeting up in Ada with
Wild Rice Marsh River Wershed one wershed one plan meeting a policy committee meeting where we discussed the funding grants the 2021 funding grant we had there was an extension to be done spend
all that money by the end of 2024 which they accomplished and now we're on to the grant from 2023 and if all the construction gets happens happens this year we will have that grant used up for the watershed base funding grant and then
they'll be on to grant 2025 which has an end date of 2027 for that money to be used on yeah that money would be used with the through the SWCDs of the one watershed one plan group and
then last night we had a meeting myself and commission Ebaner we were at the American Legion in Morehead and we discussed the tribal land purchase with the gaming officials from Morehead it was a veryformational meeting I think on both
sides it's lot a lot is unknown right now so it was just talking about what what could be there what might not be there and just going forward that is all my committee reports thank you uh on the 18th last Tuesday I
attended the PIC meeting uh Sheriff uh Empting and uh Chief Deputy Martin presented a request which will be coming forward uh here at some point uh to overfill a position to cover for a deputy who has been
deployed and um the discussion on that uh will be covered when it's presented to the whole commission uh I attended the virtually the suicide and substance use prevention coalition meeting that uh Commissioner
Krabangh uh spoke of and he covered it very well and last night myself and Commissioner Bearworth the American Legion talking the gaming people um Derek La Point was there representing city of Morehead again uh I think we
reassured them that this is early in the stage stages of what's going on and uh we have nothing specific but we're going to move forward uh in talking to officials from White Earth um
and in one of our commission meetings and the city Morehead also plans to have them in and maybe get more specifics and that completes my report steve uh thank you Mr chair uh last week I was on vacation again thank the board for the opportunity to uh take that week off to
be with my family uh just to I'll just touch base on a couple of things i listened to the meeting you've touched on a majority of my meetings the week before uh we did have county management uh last week uh talked about uh budgeting the budget for the upcoming year uh some different HR things that
are going to be h happening or are being implemented uh also did some uh testimony preparation for Senate File 2022 uh on Thursday I had the opportunity to be down there with Senator Coupoop and Steve Summers from Solutions uh behavioral health we
testified before uh the the Senate or Health and Human Services Committee uh on our on our funding uh for the remodeling of the current juvenile center to a PRTF uh and I think uh everything else was covered during that time just a note next week we are
scheduled in the afternoon to have our quarterly or excuse me uh session with the EDA EDC uh after in the afternoon after our board meeting uh and I believe that concludes my report thank you brian do you have anything no thank you Mr chair
darren nope i was also on vacation thanks Steve and Jackie got nothing Mr chair you were holding down the fort if we don't have any additional uh meetings adjourned