dollars. Um, this will eventually sunset. What this is is, um, if we have somebody that's on an interstate compact agreement through the DOC, we go and, uh, pick those folks up and then we can put in for reimbursement for that. That's only if they're on an interstate
compact. But this uh this is scheduled to sunset. This was taken out of the governor's budget for for next year. And uh 2035838, the miscellaneous refunds, an increase of $10,771 for our SRO contracts with DGF and
Yulan. Uh DGF has decided to go to uh full-time again where they were only doing 32 hours a week. They're now going back to 40 hours a week for the school school year. Then just based on some uh recent trends
in usage uh 203 2045 5417 pistol permits decrease by $10,000. Uh 2125220 our state grant through the snowmobiles to decrease by $4,200 and uh US Marshals Task Force grant to
decrease by $15,72. That's just been based on some recent usage um of of that position. So overall, our projected revenue increases is 38,869 over 2025.
That US Marshalss that's got nothing to do with um housing inmates. That does not No, that's that's would be in a different budget. Yep, that is correct. That that particular grant is um for a deputy to be on the US Marshals task force and when they are operating under that task
force agreement, then we get reimbursed overtime. And are you anticipating keeping our our involvement the same on that? Yes. Yep. Okay. Paul, did you have a question? Yeah. Really minor thing, but uh just
curious on uh impounds. What makes that why is that going down? I know it's smaller dollars, but we're just we're not able to impound as many vehicles um as we used to in the past. Number one. Uh number two is we're not necessarily using our impound lot as
much as we're just having uh the private impound or private toll companies come and take the vehicles back to their lots. Uh rather than us having to get in in the middle of things, we're having having the tow companies handle that. And we're also able to use all the toll companies within Klay County, not just
one particular toll company. Yeah. Thank you. Then the owner has to deal with the Yep. that toll company then then takes care of it. One question. Yes. That probably saves the county money without having us to deal with it.
Right. It does. Yeah. Because it it takes a lot of staff time because when we do have a vehicle in there that nobody comes and gets, then they have to send letters out and things of that nature. So, it does save on staff time. How about in the event of a um arrest?
Is that is that handled differently? Does that then go to the impound lot? If it's a seizure, um it'll go to our impound lot for now. We're looking at changing that as well in the future. But if it's a seizure, it will go to our impound lot. If it's any other type of arrest, it can go to that that private company.
Okay. All right. So, so far we're ahead by 38 grand. That's So far, we're doing well. Doing well, Sheriff. So far, we're doing good. Um, our 2026 budget proposal 203 for law enforcement are expenditures, increases, and salaries and benefits. So the 2036105,
we're increasing that uh $14,390. Uh for our overtime, we're just decreasing that $680. Reason being is I think we were at 160,680. We're just bringing it down to 160, just a nice even number. Health insurance, um just
due to some staff turnover and things of that nature. That's a decrease by uh 29,855. Our pair has increased by 12,156. Social Security decrease 2754 and Medicare just a slight increase at
232. Then what we don't know is what our um our salaries will be for negotiations and things like that. And I think this is probably a good time just to bring the just advise the board in complete transparency. Um, I did include
in this budget a 10% increase for my salary. Um, since I have uh been sheriff since 2019, I have not come to the board and requested any type of a salary increase. Um, also trying to be a little bit more proactive here and seeing what some of the um what the what what some
of the the unions are requesting for for salary increases. I'm just trying to get ahead of that so we don't have any type of salary compression, things of that nature in the future. So that is budgeted in that uh 14,390 as well. So does that does that include steps
that include steps as well? Mr. Chair, commissioners, they had some retirements uh and so that that's changes with within the salaries and also within the insurance. Okay. Yep. Just based on some I would have expected a higher number just with the steps, but if you had some
retirements that would explain that. I'd also like to add that not only includes steps, but that includes the um the additional staff members that we added a few months ago. Okay. So, I I think we're doing pretty well in in that line item considering uh we had
that increase of 10% for myself and that additional hire. Okay. And did the did the parah increase this year the was that part of that state legislature or the correctional officers did correction in July? And this this is not
this is not correctional. This is correct. Yep. Chris will take over the correctional side here in just a few. Oh, Dave, did you have that? Yep. Sheriff, is this including a 3% just baseline or No, it's not including any salary increase.
That's correct. That doesn't include any salary increases. This just includes the steps and then as I had mentioned the the the 10% for myself. Okay. So, moving on, our telephone, uh, 2036201, we did a decrease of 3500, and that's
based just on our 2025 invoices. Um, 2036243, our association dues, we decreased by $2,000. And again, that's just based on some recent trends that we're seeing. our gas and this is gas for the LEC. This is not gas and fuel for the squad
cars, but this particular line we're decreasing by $10,000 and that's just based on our 24 and 25 invoices as well. Uh the other professional services 6271 $15,000 increase there for a Celebrate
yearly fee. What Celebrate is, that is a investigative tool that we use to be able to um download information off of cell phones and things of that nature. So when we seize a cell phone, we have to get information off of that cell phone, we're able to use that tool to
download it. With this, we get um what I want to say 25 to 30 what we call hard unlock. So if somebody doesn't provide their passcode, something on that like that, we're able to force it. Um we we were in with Morehead in the past with
this. Um but we're finding that they have a lot of investigations where they're using a lot of cell phone time. We're having a lot of investigations where we have to use a lot of cell phones and we're just kind of have to separate um and and go on our own with this one.
So is that considered a new request then? Well, we talked about that if it would be a new request or not because technically we are bought into the one with Morehead. Okay. We're just kind of separating from that one. So, I don't know if if it would be a new request or not. It was discussed
uh when we met. Um you were doing it before. Were you paying Morehead then? We were in with Morhead on that. Yes. Yep. We we went in initially and then there's a yearly fee that you have to pay and I would say that it wouldn't need to be new request. Okay.
Um 2036277 training uh increasing that by 5,000 just our increased training costs and things of that nature that continues to rise. Um FM animal hospital increasing that by $2,000 with our cso we have a little bit more increased use there. Now
impound lot um decreasing that by a thousand uh for snow removal fees. Um our radio equipment uh decreasing that by 7500. It's a decrease in need for Verizon air cards. Um, that one may have to go up a little bit. It's a
little discussion yet with our vendor um built our squads if we continue if we need to continue to have those air cards. So, we'll keep on that one. But for now, we're going to have a decrease of 7500 in there. Uh, yes. That that's for the cradle point.
That's for the cradle point. Yep. Correct. We were initially uh informed that we would not need that air card, but now that we've got the cradle points in and we're looking at them, it turns out we do need that air card. So, we're just going to stay on top of that. And there's a possibility that um that may
have to be put back in there, but we'll uh we'll stay on top of that. Uh the 2036330 mills uh not related to overnight travel. Um that's minus 2,000. It's just based on some recent trends as well. and
2036331 travel and expenses. We're increasing that by 10,000. Uh just increased costs and demand. Um what happens there is we get somebody that is not on an interstate compact. So we don't get that reimbursement from the DOC, then we have
to cover the cost to go pick that those people up wherever they are in the US. And we've had um quite a few uh recently that we've had to go get in California, Wisconsin, and things like that. So we have seen an increase in that. I'll pause here prior to going on the
next slide. Any questions? No, I think you're good. Um, moving on. Uh, 2036351, building insurance, uh, increase of $1,500. Um, 2036355,
our unemployment comp, we're decreasing that by a,000. Again, a lot of it is just based on recent use. 203641, our office supplies. Uh we're minusing that by um $500 based on recent use. Our law
enforcement supplies 2036453 an increase of 5,000. And that again is just based on recent use. There's a lot of things that we uh we kind of take out of that line item. And our auto repair and maintenance
that again is got to go up by another 10,000. It's brakes. A set of brakes on our squads is about $2,200 now. And that's just brakes. That doesn't include tires. So just based on our recent years and increased cost, uh we're adding
10,000 to that. And then 2036562 gas and oil is a $10,000 increase. And that that we taken based on a three-year average. And then 203 6605, our equipment over 500 is minus $5,000. This number would
go up and down every year. And it's just it's based on the number of ballistic vests we have to buy. Some years it's 12 vests, some years it might be five vests. And right now our vests are getting to be about the $2,300 range as well. How long do those vests last? Five years. Years.
And then we do put in for a a grant. So we do get some reimbursement back um for those vests, but it's reimbursement back. So our projected expenditure increase for all non- salary 203 lines is $25,500.
doing my simple math. You're still in the black. Still doing good. Then we have our task force that was at US Marshall Grant. Uh the 2025 salary and benefits reimbursement is 20,72 and it's only submitted overtime to be
reimbursed. That's based on recent uh based on the recent use. We only budgeted $5,000. and our US Postal Service task force salary benefits reimbursement for that is 22,155. Again, that's only uh submitted overtime
to be reimbursed. Uh the squad car that we purchase for them is reimbursed by them as well. That's $850 a month we get from the postal service for the use of the squad car. So that's $10,200 yearly and that um is placed into internal
service. Then a federal fiscal year is October 1 through 2020 or October 1, 2025 through September 30th to 26. Uh any change in the reimbursements amounts will be known in September. Uh we anticipate that the funding uh will remain the same or
increase slightly for those. uh our 206 budget line for our medical examiner. The cost for the autopsy transportation, it's approximately $3,000 for each. Our budget our budget proposal takes into consideration a three-year average of autopsies, which
is 49. And with this year's trend, as you can see, that is uh that's a recent number. As of this morning, we're at 29 autopsies. Um so we did increase that budget line by $15,000. Um, is that still being done in the cities?
Excuse me. What was that? Is it still being done in Minneapolis? Yes, it is at Ramsey County Medical Examiner's Office in St. Paul. St. Paul. Yep. And then our our our budget proposal for dispatch, the 20421. As you can see, the regional dispatch
budget is 6,827,394, which was a $4.7% increase. We have um our share is 8.3% of that, which turns out to be $543,000 and 936. Uh Klay County 911 fees that we get. Um
again we get just over 300,000 but we split that with the city of Morehead. So our share is 150,182. So what we pay for dispatch is 393,754. The city's reimburseed to us is 52% of that which is 204,752.
Klay County covers 48% of that $189,02. Um, for New World, it's 659,146, which is a 15.45% increase for New World maintenance for 2026. Our share of that is 15.84%, which
turns out to be $104,395. The rural city reimbursement, they have 31 devices um out there that they use. So, their share of that is 36,775. And as you see there per device, it's $1,186.31. And then our share for New World
Maintenance is $67,620 because we have 57 of the 88 devices. So our so ours is the combination of the 189002 and the 67 620. Correct. Y and that So how much is that up versus last year?
Um we have that in the slide coming up here. Okay. Well, I'll wait. Commissioner Mojo, I believe, has a question. Thank you, uh, Mr. Chair. Uh, Sheriff had some discussion with the city of Barnesville last week in regards to kind of a continuing discussion after the
ambulance request. And, you know, I know this proposal came up. Um, the small cities obviously are having heartburn over some things, but I think it's important to note that we're also seeing an equitable increase in what we are we are paying into dispatch as well.
Correct. That is correct. Yes. And then two, you know, obviously I'm not on dispatch, two of the commissioners are, and I know those are are ongoing discussions. Can you talk a little bit about just maybe for the public how the the steps that are going
into making sure that the Minnesota side calls are being answered andor dispatched and with the new dispatch center they uh they anticipate having a council just for Klay County. That council will be a call taking council as well, but it's
going to be specific to Klay County. Um that is something that we've been asking for for the past several years and that's something that um they are going to accommodate and they are able to accommodate with uh the new dispatch center because the increase in size and the increase in the number of councils. For example, right now they have eight
councils that they're able to work on and with their new dispatch center they're going to have 12. So, four additional councils and one of those councils can be for uh straight Klay County dispatcher from I think the heavy hours um I want to say 11:00 a.m. to
3:00 a.m. is what that'll be. Okay. And then in regards to timeline for that, what is the timeline looking like? Um so the timeline would be when they move into the new facility sometime in October and then when they have all these staffing up and ready to go and their staffing uh has increased to where
they need to be. Um I believe they can go 47 fully staffed and they are working towards that. Okay. And then my final question maybe goes around the um sorry I can't see uh 911 fees. You talked about how that we
share that with the city of Morhead. Is there any component with the 911 fees that gets filtered to the small cities? Yes, they are receiving um a portion of those 911 fees as you can in the our 8.3% is um that we would pay is
543,000 but we also take the 911 fees into consideration when we bring down um the rural city share to the 393,000. Yeah, the rural city share is based on the 393. Yep. So they they that is um being
dispersed out as well to the rural cities. Okay. Thank you. And I might want to add that um when we when we redid the uh JPA that the percentage number um that we
have that you talked about there that 8.3% um Commissioner Abby and I worked on getting that so that that instead of having a 10-year review through the census, it's every three years. and um
uh administrator Larson's been working and it's determined that that three years will be up in November. And so at that point in time, you know, obviously Klay County is growing, but we're not growing to the extent that Fargo and Cass and Horus and
those areas are. So we're anticipating that number, that 8.3 number to come down. And Steve, is that would that still then apply to 2026 budget? Uh yes, our our goal would be is that that from talking with the the executive director
and the attorney that we would then know and we would be able to make that adjustment prior to uh to establishing the final budget. So you know over the years the way the growth is going I would assume that that the 8.3 number that we pay and also the
number that percentage that Morhead has will both be declining just based on the growth patterns that we're seeing between the two sides of the river. So all right continue on.
All right. So this is our overall 2026 budget proposal for our 203 fund line. Our 2025 budget was 6,120,958. Our 2026 request is 6 million87,000 8715
for a change of 33,214 or 243 which is a 0.54% decrease. For our postal service, it's goes from 5,962. The request is going to be uh 6,522,
which is $560 decrease or 10%. Our medical examiner currently $145,000. We're requesting $ 160,000 for a $15,000 increase at 10.3%. In dispatch, currently at 38641.
Uh, the 2026 request is $46,84. For $20,763 increase, which is 5.38%. So for our total 2025 budget, not including corrections or EM, it was $6,495,855 after revenues were subtracted.
What we're uh requesting is $6,494,868 after revenues subtracted. which is a decrease of $987, which is only a 015 um% decrease under the 2025 budget, but it's still a decrease. Uh there are
three main areas that are affecting our budget. Uh we we have the projected COLA, step increases in salaries and benefits, uh the increased usage in the medical examiner's office, and then the 5.388% increase in dispatch. Um, one thing that
we could have uh coming up here is a slight decrease in salaries. Again, I'll be coming to the board uh next week with a staffing issue and that could lower our salaries um slightly. So, the only the only thing remaining in there would be like you mentioned the
contract negotiation numbers are not in there. Did what did you put in there for health insurance in your budget so far? Did you was that stable or did you have an increase in there? That was a decrease. Um I can go back to that line. Health insurance was a decrease of
29,855 and that is and and how did you arrive at that? Uh based on that um you know you take a look at everybody at what everybody has. you know, Lori sends out our our sheet and what everybody has in there and then um we just we we take those
numbers and we add whatever Chris has to do with anticipated pre premium changes. It's based on your staffing and where they are and which there's no anticipated premium changes in there yet because we don't know what those are. Right. Well, we're anticipating some information coming out this afternoon
that could be helpful to our budgets. But Paul, do you have something? Yeah, just a just a question on that. Um, you say because of staffing, are your numbers down? I I don't understand why uh
because the staffing that number would be less. It it it could be it might have to do with how how how they're electing their whether they're single or family and correct. Yeah. Whether they go from single coverage to family coverage.
They're hired as a single person and Right. Okay, that the the the cafeteria plan contribution could be different based on on those scenarios. Our numbers as far as staffing, we are currently down one. We're in the process of hiring. Um yeah, and then as I said, next week I'll be
coming back here to the board with another staffing issue. Okay, thanks. With that, if there's no further questions, we'll turn it over to Chris. Just before you go, I I want to compliment you for the your presentation and how you prepared that. And I'm
assuming that credit credit is probably got go to Chris. A lot of it goes to Chris. Absolutely. I'm I'm not going to take uh take credit for that. Chris, that is fantastic job with this. Okay. Get credit where credit's due, right? Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, Sheriff.
So, I'm going to cover the the correction side of it. And just u um for a perspective point of view, we have we have 53 full-time correctional officers over there and 11 variable uh staff, we average anywhere between housing 110 and
a 130 inmates on any given day. It can fluctuate u by 10 to 20. And Carrie, jump in here anytime if you have anything else to to add to it. So, we'll go through the revenue increases and decreases. First, we do
have a projected revenue decrease of $35,000 for board and care of outside inmates. Um, that would be we're we're housing few right now. Um, we do have some Cass County and some from Lake of the Woods, but we don't have anybody. Um, no other
counties are going to be building a correctional facility. We don't anticipate taking on a large amount of inmates for 2026 from outside of Klay County. Do the US Marshalss use this at all or is that They do use us. Um we'll
do an overnight stay with them. Nothing uh very long-term. They'd have to make some concessions, I think, in order for us to do a long term. That's correct. One of the things with the US Marshalss, if they want to house somebody here, um, if somebody would
have to go to the hospital, whether it's an emergency room visit or things of that nature, they require as part of their contract to have two armed deputies, uh, to sit with that person. And sometimes we just don't have the staffing um, at the sheriff's office side to send two armed deputies there
for an extended period of time, especially if it's occurring on a weekend. There are times where we just have two patrol deputies working. So that would make it very difficult to accommodate their uh their contract. Thank you. Covering the salaries and benefits that
we have. Uh keep in mind this is for the 53 full-time 11 uh variable hour employees. Also note that rarely do we have 53 full-time employees hired and 11 variable um getting all their hours in.
So, at at this time um of the year for our 2025 budget, we're at 40 45% of our our salary for the 2025 budget. So, I do anticipate that we won't spend all of our salary and part-time salaries, but we are
projecting an increase for 2026 based on the numbers that uh the auditor sent over to us of 51,000. Our 6106 line for part-time or variable hour employees is increasing 9,214.
Overtime salaries, we are decreasing by 5,400. Health insurance is an increase of 635. PAR appears to be a large increase and Mr. Chair, you touched on it. There was an increase starting in July of this
year for the amount that both the employer and employees contribute to to PAR. Um that is a large why we see the large increase with PAR. Social Security a 3,785 increase. Medicare $886
for a total projected increase of 93,218,000 covering the rest of the 250 lines. We'll have um Carrie and I worked pretty diligently on on the budget trying to to come in with a decrease in as many areas
as we could. We have 10 areas that we're decreasing, five areas where we'll see some increases. um the 6201 telephone line, we are reducing that by 31 thou or 3,100 and that's basically that our we're have a reduction in the amount of
cell phones that we're using over there. Um we went from four to one cell phone I believe that that are being used over there. They weren't using them so they requested just to have them um the service shut off for them. 6232 printing
and publishing decreased by $300. 6251 uh more public service utilities an increase of 48,500 and that's based off the 20 24 numbers and the 2025 usage so far.
Our 6252 gas which is XL a decrease of 10,000 based off of 2024 and 2025 usage. 6271 other professional services a decrease of 10,000 again based on recent
usage training 6277 requesting a $2,000 increase for use of force training and other training that we have for for our cos 6295 the prisoner board um for meals
this is a contract that we have with Trinity an increase of 37,000 is what we're projecting expecting. Currently, we're paying anywhere between 30,000 and 34,000 for board or for meals for our inmates. Last year, at the beginning of
2024, that rate was about 25,000 to 27,000. So, over the past 12 months, we've seen a pretty dramatic increase in that. Some of that is or a lot of that is based on the population that we have um at the time. So it will fluctuate from month to month depending on what
our average population for the month was. For 6296, this is our prisoner care or medical. Um we contract with AC. Our monthly contract is just over 63,000 a
month. And then in our contract, we also have a 5% increase for each year. The other unknown in medical is anytime that we take an inmate to to Sanford Ascension, the emergency room. Those are costs that are incurred under prisoner
care and medical. Um as well our 6301 building repair and maintenance. Um we had increased it last year for a project that we thought was going to be completed. It was not completed yet. We anticipate that um the shower repair will be done um soon
though. We are going to decrease that by $10,000. 6304 uh radio repair and maintenance. We have a couple repairs that we know that are upcoming. We're increasing that by 800. And then we see decreases in our next
five in office supplies by a thousand. Small office equipment 200 auto repair and maintenance by a thousand. gas and oil for our vehicles that we have associated with corrections of a $3,000 reduction and equipment over 500 uh
anticipated reduction of $4,000. So prot projected expenditures increase for all non-sary 250 lines is 88,260 and the five areas of increase were for in more public service prisoner meals
prisoner med medical and then two slight increases in training and radio repair and equipment. We have no new requests this year. And looking at our 2025 budget, which was
propo proposed at 7,358,657, we're requesting an increase to 7,540,134, which would be an increase of $181,477 or 2.4%. Um again with the major increases in
more public service board and medical a few of the items that appear to be out of our control. Is that medical is that did we switch that up here not too long ago? The medical we went from men to a few years back. Yeah.
And is that going well? Yeah, I think it's going well with them. Okay. I know we did that same with West Central, right? Yeah. I think West Central was uh was struggling with them a little bit, but they've been they've been good for us. Okay.
All right. Very good. All right. We will move on to Gab's uh budget now for revenue and decreases for the uh for emergency manager. Uh the funding for the state emergency management grant, the EMPG grant is based on 33%
uh base and then 33% population, 33% next tax base for the county. The anticipated 2026 grant award will be $27,219. This is down from 2025 which our award was 37,992. Um therefore, Gabe has no new requests,
no increases um in the past budget except for salary and benefits. So his 2025 emergency management budget was 96,179. The request is for 2026 108,962 and the increase is just due to the
state grant being reduced. That is all we have for you today. All right. Questions? Just Okay, we'll start with Can I Can I get a copy of those? Sure.
Right. Mr. Abier, having done a similar process 12 times in my career, number one, I know Chris Martin is indispensable. He didn't help us there. Had I known his his skills, he would have found himself in a much less
interesting position at MPD. But, uh, you've got a great staff, Sheriff. You lead them well. But I'm very impressed. And at a time where everything is um costing more around us and revenue
sources are are are impacted, uh you and your staff have done a good job of bringing something forward that's realistic but still meets the needs of our of our p public. So thank you. Thank you. Anything else? Yes, Commissioner Mojo.
Thank you. Thank you, Sheriff, for the um I think thoughtful budget presentation. I know that you're actively involved in all of the discussions we have in regards to how do we best meet the citizens of our community and so really appreciate what
you brought forward today. Uh also as uh uh someone who has received lots of comments in regards to the work of your department, I just wanted to give you and your staff huge congratulations for really providing such a um reassuring presence throughout the entire county.
Um, you know, I I just I've called you on several different issues. When I see other issues had um happening within the county and you're always on top of it. If you're not aware, you send someone out immediately. And I'm just really grateful for your active presence and involvement to serve all of us. So,
thank you. Thank you. I would also like to add that when you don't get calls from citizens regarding things in the sheriff's department, that's also good. Yeah. So I and I don't get many calls and I I don't have to call the sheriff anything like I used to.
Yeah. I mean I'm I'm not getting concerns from people. I'm getting Thank you. Yeah. This is a good thing. Thank you. All right. Yes, Steve. Mr. Chair, just I think overall our department heads really work hard uh to to bring forward budgets for to to you that are thoughtful. What I what I again
just want to express with the sheriff is we have a lot of discussions and it isn't just for the three months that we're preparing for this budget, but it's really a year- round thing between uh the sheriff and the chief deputy. Uh they're looking at steps ahead uh anticipating the the growth that they
need and as you see in a budget today of ways to pay for that and so we appreciate appreciate that relationship. Thank you. One thing that I've seen in my years on this board is that the sheriff has always had a really good assistant that knows numbers
and it's an important part of what makes you look good. Um, I agree. But it's Yes. But again, hats off to to you and to you follow in good footsteps, I think, back of Thorson and some of those others, Matt Zero and some of those others who really knew their stuff as
well and you you fit right in with them and and what the work that you're doing, Chris. So, thank you. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. We are right on time for a public hearing.
Assuming we're going to have one coming in. Matt, do you need to get set up for your hearing? Thanks, Mr. Chair. Just got to open up a file. Okay. PowerPoints and should be good to go. All right. Whenever you're ready, you
can begin. Oh, we Oh, I guess we need to have a motion to open the hearing. Mr. Chair, I'll offer a motion to open the first public hearing for Big Iron Properties LLC, a petition to reszone. I'll second. Motion by Commissioner Mojo, second by Commissioner Barry. Any further discussion on the motion? Any further
discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppos the same. Motion carried. All right, Matt. Thank you, Mr. Chair, commissioners, and good morning. Uh, this is a petition for resoning. uh property from agricultural general to highway commercial. It's
brought forward by Lowry Engineering. Uh the land owner is Big Aaron Properties LLC. This is uh south of um Morehead on the east side of Highway 75. It's about a 40 acre uh parcel. Uh it was platted
for um commercial use as just a single lot subdivision in 2018. You can kind of see that an industrial use going on up there right now. Um it's egg general right now. There's a little bit of flood plane
fringe uh kind of in this northeast corner of the property. That's not going to change at all. Um so the request for the reasonzoning is uh kind of the first step in ultimately bringing before you which you'll hear at the the next public hearing a a 13 lot commercial
subdivision. As I mentioned before, this is 40 acres. It's egg industrial. There aren't any structures on the property. Um, fairly good crop land right now. Um, be prime farmland if it was drained, but there aren't any drain tile or anything
like that on there. No wetlands. Um, some information about the property. Um, they sought a variance to um the property line and residential setbacks for an asphalt batch plant in 2017 that was denied. uh platted for a one lot,
one block plat in 2018. Two interim use permits were granted in 2018 um for aggregate material stockpiling and concrete recycling. Uh they're interim use permits, so the those actually expired because the property ownership change so that they're aware of that and
they're going to reapply for those permits. Um so the whole kind of the the goal is for this one for the reasonzoning is for the one lot or one block 13 lot commercial industrial subdivision
um would be used for contractor shops, storage yards, material stockpiling which is an existing use warehousing some potential storage as well. There would be new two new um public rights of way, two regionalsized storm water ponds
and there would be there is an existing access commercial access on the north side here that would be retained but um this would be one public right of way and then this would be another. Is that a roundabout or
culdeac? Yes. Yep. What what did our highway engineer say about the culde-sac that he that it met all of our our standards and requirements? Um just that with these uh internal roads that snow removal is
definitely the trickiest thing. Uh in terms of site suitability, they do have adequate drainage for storm water, wastewater treatment, um also with wells and the ability to to get water as well. One question that did come up um
in the planning commission meeting was just looking at the different types of uses that are allowed in in highway commercial. I'm not going to go through all of them. Um those are in your in your packet, but essentially the um just with the size of these lots, they'd be
more limited to um whatever the existing use is. And then and the intention is to have contractor type shops, lay down yards, storage, things like that. We did get some public Matt does the size of the lot dictate
what their ability to use it is for under highway commercial. It can just based on the the intensity of the use. So like something like a batch plant would require more um a larger lot size essentially. And once
all this is done is are all those things determined administratively? No, some are determinated through either a conditional or an interim use permit. Very good. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Uh there was concerns received um just with potential for increased runoff,
water usage and impacts on nearby wells um increased traffic, increased noise and then light pollution um have been ongoing concerns or or future concerns as well. There are a number of residences uh within a half mile of this proposed plat. We did get
additional comments. Um there is an open access permit with mindot for that public right ofway. Um they meet their spacing requirements. They're just kind of waiting for this plat to go through. Uh and then we did get uh comments from our county engineer just the amount of traffic potential that's associated with
commercial uses could just exceed that regular road maintenance schedule. Okay. Go ahead. Yeah. A question along that line. Are they on access on 75? Are they always going to be limited to one access?
Yes, there is that. There will be a there is a commercial access to the north. Yeah, that would service two a couple lots to the north, but yes, that would be their access for all of it. Yep. Okay. Now, just going to that um the very last
bullet point that you just had up there. Um, oh yeah, about snow. Yeah, the snow rem. So, um, according to our engineer, that would be a low priority in terms of ability to get to it right away, right? And yes, so is the applicant and
how anybody who would be moving in there, would they be aware of that? Yeah. So, they have drafted and I can get to this when we talk about the subdivision, but they have drafted restrictive covenants and they plan on doing a um sort of a a developers assoc
or association to handle the the snow. Okay. Oh, okay. So, they would it'd probably be contracted out then. Y Yep. Cuz I could just see, you know, we get this in there and then uh one thing we do get complaints about is snow removal and how fast it happens and I don't I
would just assume avoid that if we can. So, all right. Uh, the township did take action on this um at their June meeting. Um, they approved the platin resoning. Um, they also passed a a subdivision road
agreement resolution essentially that they're taking on those public rights of way. So, those will be township roads. Um with that the the planning commission did go through findings of fact. Um those are in your packet. They did have
um kind of made positive findings for each of the each of the findings of fact. Um just addressing uh public health, safety, morals, general welfare documents of surrounding lands, existing anticipated land uses effect on egg uses.
um making sure that it's not creating an excessive burden on public facilities or utilities, consistent with the general purposes of the ordinance, uh and consistent with the goals and objectives of the comprehensive plan. Um
and then also if it's compatible with surrounding uses and or zoning districts. Um, and one I just want to note here that there are some residential parcels that are close to one has a a residence on it and one has
a just a pole barn for storage on it. Um, and they are very close to this subdivision. So, the planning commission just said that if you're thoughtful about design elements of the subdivision with screening and things like that um
to mit that could mitigate some of the potential adverse impacts. And so with that, they um they voted 7 to one um with one abstension to uh recommend the resoning
from egg general to highway commercial. Any questions for me at all? All right. Commissioner Krebn, please. Yeah. Um, was there a reason for the no vote? Can you get close to your mic? Oh, was there a reason for the no vote stated? Mr. Chair, there was not a no vote. There was a no
vote, Mr. Chair. I can speak to that. So, I was the abstension and the reason I was is because I wanted to be able to have the opportunity to vote throughout this capacity on on it. And there was concerns in regards to uh the no vote um
taking into account the citizen concerns. Okay. That's why. And do you think that was uh do we know on the township township passed it? Yeah. Do you know of any concerns they had? Um mainly pertaining to the road.
Yep. Okay. All right. Any other comments by commissioners? Mr. Chair. Yes. Part of the other concern that was maybe brought up is if someone had the ability to purchase multiple lots, if they then
could put in a use that the general community had concerns with in previous hearings. Uh so that's I think where some of the concern would be. Understanding though that anything would still have a process of public hearing and approval for any uses. Wouldn't
Wouldn't that also require a change to the plat? Correct. A plat could be lots could be combined once it's platted. Um if that were the case though, you know, a lot of those more intensive industrial uses have um
some pretty restrictive setback requirements that would need to be met. And in most cases, they could not be met um in that subdivision. So say you wanted to put like a concrete plant or a badge plant. Yeah, those also have setbacks from other commercial uses as well. And so it would
pretty much render a lot of the other lots um so you you mentioned just a couple, but regardless of what it might be where they would want to expand that, uh the likelihood would be that it would have to go back before the planning commission. Yes. Yep. For those more intensive uses. Okay. So there would be another process
that would still be be available for people who may may want to contest it. Yep. Yep. Okay, good point. Correct. Any other questions? Do we have the
applicant here? You any comments? Just make sure that microphone is green there. There you go. Maybe want to start state your name and Yep. Uh John Lowry. I'm with Lowry Engineering and Klay County resident. Uh thank you for the opportunity to be here
this morning and and uh to hear our project. you know, I'm um can get up and speak again certainly through the subdivision process, but if there's uh questions regarding that um but you know, we want to do this in a responsible manner that works with the
county and within the the guidances and uh and you've got a good one in Matt here and appreciate his efforts that he puts in uh and uh in working with the county in general. So, um I I think you know some of the concerns that came up in working with the township board,
there were lots of questions about what could be and um you know, we're not looking for the the the big things that are what could be the intention. There's uh primarily three owners for the property. They're all in the construction business uh in varying
manners. Uh and they're using the north side of this as you're aware permitted for for some some uses for layown yards and that type of thing uh for for on the contractor side uh the you know earthwork side and they they see a need as Fargo grows to the south and Morehead
grows to the south for for continued uses. So that's that's the goal of the the zoning and of this subdivision uh is for you know contractors who need some space to in an industrial use to be able to do that. And as as you guys have
keenly pointed out any more intensive use that's not what they're trying to you know who knows what the future holds but that'll be a future question that comes before planning and zoning and and the board. So, looks like a mini industrial park it that that's really the thing and with
that uh you know they've been doing a lot of snow removal and they all have those abilities well within their grasp. Uh, and so that's the agreement that they worked up with the township is that they'd take care of the main things and you know the the technically the township who I think contracts with the
county uh w would be able to uh come through and widen or kind of clean up the efforts and stuff but on the daily uh they they would handle the snow removal and um you know good group of guys just trying to do business and looking for a home to do it is really the moral of it. So but if there's any
engineering questions I think we we push through those. There's um we got a little bit of push back from Mindot originally. We did have an access to the north and they didn't want to see that. It was a surprise to us as it kind of aligns, but when they looked at some of the other access points, they basically dictated that south one to us. We didn't
have much of a choice in that. So, um, you know, as Matt said, we're ready to finalize that permit and, uh, as soon as the platting and the zoning and stuff. Are you looking at individual wells or a community well or what's for water resource? What's the what's the plan
there? My understanding is if the use it would just be an individual well, but uh my understanding too is a lot of these uses might not even need correct have a need for a well. Well, aren't they going to have restrooms in them just for like if it's like a contractor
lay down yard or storage or something like that? Yep. Yep. Okay. Yep. Yeah. If a building goes in, they'll follow all building codes that are applicable. Yep. All right. Any other comments? Any other public comments? Thank you. Thank you. Any
other public comments? Commissioner Mojo. Thank you. You know, I I think part of the major concerns that were brought up in regards to um the hearing really had to talk about additional truck traffic, additional
truck um oversight uh that not necessarily were related to this application per se and really is a a mindot issue. And so we directed residents to kind of talk or report with mind if they see overweight trucks on
that road particularly uh you know really appreciate the fact that our highway department has been part of the dialogue here and also in regards to what this could look like. Some folks have you know hopped on I29 south of Fargo and seen some of those industrial
type um buildings storage areas uh for businesses to house out of. And this is a really exciting opportunity to add some capacity in that in that area. I've talked with several business owners throughout Klay County over the last 18
months that have been really frustrated at the lack of um opportunities that really fit what this niche could be. It has an opportunity to maybe be appealing. And I know Minnesota's tricky to do business in, but maybe this is an opportunity to kind of retract or attract some additional
businesses and add to the tax capacity of Klay County. And um you know, I really do uh approve or not approve, support and appreciate this request. Uh that leads me to one more question in
in terms of the highway 75 access. Are are did MDOT require any additional modifications to that roadway as part of this? I I know sometimes they've they've required a turn lane or um I forget what
they call that when you're when you're going up acceleration lane. An acceleration. Yeah. And Mr. Chair, I did have a conversation with um Mindot on this, a couple of conversations and asked about that and they said no, not for this. Um,
I also asked about a traffic study and they said that they would not require at the time they said they wouldn't require a traffic study either. Okay. I don't know if that'll change as that permit is fi finalized at all, but that's what I was told at the time. Okay.
I know at one point in time further north on 75, I remember there was an issue where they required turn lane to be I think that goes back many years now. But all right. Well, that any other comments
or questions? All right. Do we have a motion to close the hearing? I'll second. Paul, did was that you? Yeah. Okay. A motion by Commissioner Krabnoff, second by Commissioner Mullro to close the hearing. Any further discussion on that? Seeing none, all in
favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose the same sign. Motion carried. All right. We're looking for a motion to approve the reszoning of subject property for agricultural to highway commercial contingent on approval of the Big Iron Subdivision final plat, which we will be dealing
with shortly. Mr. Chair, I'll make that motion to approve. A second. All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Bear, second by Commissioner Krabnoff. Any further discussion on the motion? Motion carried. All right. Oh, wait. No,
excuse me. I got to vote first, don't we? All in favor signify by saying I. I oppose the same. Motion carried. Very good. All right. Now, next item is we have a public hearing regarding the Big Iron Subdivision final plat. Mr. Chair, I'll offer a motion to open the public hearing for the Big Iron
Subdivision final plat. I'll second that. Motion by Commissioner Mojo, second by Commissioner Bayer. Any further discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. I oppose the same. Motion carried. All right, Matt. Thank
you, Mr. Chair. Uh, so this is for, as alluded to in the previous public hearing, uh, one block, 13 lot commercial or industrial subdivision. Um, again used as as described in the in the previous public hearing. um with the two new 70 foot
public rights away. Uh really they're going to be gravel at first, but I think they're designing them to be paved in the future. Uh and then two regional storm water ponds uh on the the east and the west. Um and these storm water ponds
would be able to act as with vegetation uh as somewhat of a buffer to the the residential properties as well. Uh, and then as mentioned previously, there's that commercial access that's existing to to the north there and then the the
um public access here to the to the south. Again, looking at the site meeting all of um for suitability um they'll have adequate drainage um be able to do mound or at grade systems for septic. the lot
sizes are large enough to support two drain fields if needed. Um just looking at nearby well um depths um they average around 225 ft uh and pumping at 6 to 15 gallons per minute. Um our minimum that we would require is five. So right in
there for their improvement plans. Um these lots will range from uh 1.71 to a little over four acres. So, the average lot size is uh 2.79 acres. So, not overly large. Um the average lot maximum build
buildable area would be about 36,000 and a half square ft. And then there's also a minimum for outdoor storage as well. Uh be 10% of the lot area. Uh average for these lots would be 12,000 square feet. So, not like they're going to be
bursting at the seams with um with with outdoor storage. Again, the rights away are looking to be engineered for um um pave pavement in the future. Uh and then already spoke about the access connection there. And you can kind of
see what they're looking at for um for their road right of way. um talked about the storm water ponds, the wells. Uh one thing they do have is draft restrict restrictive covenants. Uh and then they're looking at setting up a
property owners association to do kind of this the road and um snow mainten maintenance as well. The public comments were the same for the as for the reasonzoning. Um, we did get an additional comment letter that
was included in your packet and um, just pull it up here that just uh, from a neighbor just highlighting some big concerns. I think one of the biggest concerns is um that that that the neighborhood has is that this whole area could potent has the
potential to become more of an a full-fledged industrial park over time and keep expanding. Um there's also some traffic and and um safety concerns just with increased traffic and beet harvest and things like that. Um all that is in
the purview of uh the Minnesota Department of Transportation just because it's a state road. Uh and then also just general uh cumulative impacts, nuisance impacts with noise, lighting, signage, things of that nature. Uh there's some note noting
of from residents of already hearing some you know of your typical um noises associated with um um construction backup beepers, radios, uh loading and unloading just that that sort of thing
there. So um those were kind of the ma major points of the the concern letter and just asking for kind of thoughtful consideration in in in this development moving forward. All right.
And then the same similar comments um from MDOT and our county engineer. You talked about pave any any paving that would go on would be through either that private development in cooperation with the township, right? That would not be a county issue.
Yep. Correct. Uh there was talk about a development agreement to kind of address some of the concerns and just make kind of more make ensure that development's done in a in a manner consistent with the county. Just addressing the following five or four concerns being
storm water management, um native vegetation establishment, res residential screening, lighting. Uh the planning commission uh in their recommendation just did not include any uh requirement for a development agreement. So, uh, nothing was drafted
to bring before you. Commissioner Ko, I have a question on that one. Um, why would we not have some type of development agreement? Development agreement is useful in
ensuring that if there are con that that the um development is done in a manner that is cons consistent for both the developer to the developer's wishes and then to to the county standards. I think the planning commission what they determined
was looking at the proposed um plat, looking at the storm water features that are already in place on the plat uh plans for the road um and then future potential um oversight with
uh some certain uses requiring conditional and interim use permits that they felt that that wasn't necessary. Um yeah, I guess my only concern would be um not that I I think there's a
practical way of things being done, but for the development of the association agreement, but just my thoughts. And oh, I should also mention to you, Mr. Chair and Commissioner Kavanagh, that they also felt that some of those
items were addressed in the restrictive covenants as well. One of the one of the things uh to remember in regards to restrictive covenants, there's no there's no governing author or or there's no authority amongst county or county or
township government that can uh y enforce it. That's that that is something between those land owners. Correct. When they when they agree to that restrictive covenant. And I should also mention that restrictive covenants are typically only
in effect for the first 30 years of the development as well. All right. Any further questions regarding the plat? Any public comment regarding the plat?
Uh John Lowry again, thank you for the opportunity to be heard this morning. And uh yeah, if you have any specific questions, I think just a couple of things to address. Um you know, when you when you come to a planning and zoning standpoint, uh
we we definitely um hear and and consider the the neighboring property owners concerns. Um, with that, you know, any restrictions on hours of operation and lighting standards are fully intended to be met with this and that's, you know, what's a reasonable
use for your own property comes to to forward with that question to to directly address that. And we do feel that meeting all the county and state requirements, there's a way to responsibly move forward with this. And I think the the point is that there's a
need for this type of subdivision in Klay County. There's a demand for it. And if you're going to pick a spot to do it, you know, there are going to be some neighbors that maybe are impacted in some way, but is it reasonable or not?
And we feel that it is. And the second point that I'd make there is from a planning and zoning standpoint, it's good to cluster your industrial uses together. And you know, we didn't start the industrial subdivision that was done in this area. That was a previous
decision by and and business and by the county to do that with the batch plant that's there. And so with that located in here, you know, I'm not looking out into the future at other property owners decisions and what they're going to do, but it does make sense for the county to
promote industrial uses where you have industrial uses today. Um, and I think that's a good decision. That's good planning. I'm sure Mr. Jacobson has opinions on that and guidance as well. So, um, but we we certainly want to
develop in a responsible manner that that meets the demands of the market and and, uh, you know, the wishes of the county as well. So, one of the things we don't know here is exactly what's going to go in on each one of these lots, right? I mean, that's correct. There's there's some unknown
there at this point in time, but uh uh one of the things that our planning commission does deal with on occasion is when there is an individual application that deals with something that might be industrial or whatever, there does end up being conditions on those things like hours of operations and things like
that. Uh at this point in time, I don't know that there's um there's anything that would prevent somebody from going 247. And you know that that is somewhat a concern of mine when you when you especially when I hear Matt saying that
there's a a very close neighbor already. Uh I do have cons some concern with that and I don't know if that can can be addressed somehow through the covenants that they have there too. I don't know again that's not enforceable by us but um or or is that something through
administration that can be part of it? Matt, I don't know what I think uh Mr. share one thing that we could do um would be just to work with um engineering one on the storm water making sure that um any landscaping
elements and vegetation um could provide some sort of visual and noise buffer. Uh for lighting typically what we're um recommending now is just that all lighting is downcast so you're not having any yes it's all oriented towards
the ground. Um and then just uh reasonable hours of operation as well. Yeah, I would be concerned more from a noise standpoint. Yes. Into that, like you said, the beeping trucks and all that kind of stuff if
have a close neighbor nearby. But yeah, and Mr. Chair, anything that would require any um for example, a lot of I had anticipated a lot of these potential uses would require some form of outdoor storage. Uh outdoor storage does require
a conditional use permit. Uh so and it's in that um the planning commission would be able to put some reasonable conditions on on the use of those properties. Okay. Commissioner Kraboff, did you have a
Yeah. Um so these small points addressed and I agree with Commissioner Campbell. So again I you know somewhat new to this I guess in the rural area but again you don't think any type of development
agreement would be nec from staff point of view any benefit of some type of development agreement. I I don't want anything to be what would restrict their uses, but are there some protections that come from
having one? I had I had recommended to the planning commission um at this point, you know, I could see it going going either way. I think my uh with the development agreement um just my two big concerns would be just the residential screening
lighting and then al also um storm water management as well. Um and if we don't have one then well for storm water management I think what they'll have to do is is they'll be working through the pollution control
agency again. So, yep. I get that one that is that what is the something about four um there's a water ponding thing where they're required to have a permit if you disturbed so many acres. Yeah. Construction storm water permit or
a storm water pollution prevention plan. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yep. That would go through the title. I remember the number four. Yeah. SWIP. Yep. That would go through the through the state. Um I would just want to ensure that
that because there is a nearby residence it's very close that they're adequately um buffered. Um right any well well unfortunately I think in this process what we're talking about right now Commissioner Krabuff and I and
I shared my thoughts on that too but um that's nothing that we do as part of a plat approval. Correct. I mean that okay I don't I don't know that we can tie a um some sort of a developers agreement
to a plat approval. Can we? You could. Yes. Okay. We could. You could. Mhm. I mean they certainly do in the city. Yep. Okay. I didn't know if that was part of the Yeah. reszoning piece of it or was part of the You could you could if you wish and and if you wanted to um approve the the plat
contingent on a developers agreement that we could bring back to you for approval that would be fine if you wanted to um table it until then I think you could certainly do that or if you wanted to go with the planning commission recommendation as well that would that would be
I I think a lot of things Mr. Krabangh, what would be addressed would be through when they apply for a conditional use permit or IUP permit on those lots once they develop those because if you look at the list of what actually can be put on there just permitted, none of those
would really affect the neighbor there. But if you'd go after a cup or IUP that they'd have to come back to the planning and then they could address that, okay, at that point for trees or noise and go after that point. I don't think we would need to do that today. I think we
would address that whoever decides to build on those lots. All right. Well, I'm comfortable with that. I just wanted the conversation. Yeah. And and I wanted to kind of hear from I, you know, have no problem with what you're saying, but just wanted to make
sure you didn't have a a bias one way or another. Yeah. Chair, if I may. Yes. Oh, yes. Yes. Yep. and Commissioner Krabanov, I think those are very valid points and they've been discussed with the county and as part of the plan and in Commissioner
Bear, I I agree 100% that the this is an issue that when each individual permit comes in to determine the use because we don't, you know, they're they're not building out these properties, they're providing the opportunity for other businesses to come in. Um, but there is an intention to provide screening.
They've been in conversation with the neighbor that that's in discussion. Uh, one of the owners, uh, uh, Steve Op trail is here today and and has personally talked with with that land owner. I I don't believe that land owner I don't know this for a fact but my understanding is that he's not against
the project. They have an understanding with that gentleman and um are in fully intended to be respectful of of his property. So with that the the storm water pond was located to act as a buffer. You know I I don't know the exact width on that but probably 60 to
80 feet. And then there's also some tree plantings that are intended along that west side. You'll see the same thing along the east side to provide any screening for what could occur to the east in the future as well. So that although it's not required, it will help if there are industrial uses that the
county wants to put that those restrictions on, some of those things will already be in place uh and moving forward with. So I you know, I think it's important at least that there is that process in place at some point in time. I think of a a small area on Highway 75 north where
there's some commercial properties there and and once you have those commercial place places there, they can have in they can have disputes amongst themselves too. And a lot of it a lot of it probably has to do with your screenings and those types of things
that that were were always a concern. And I know those those have been brought up in the past through our Oakport Joint Powers process that we had. But, you know, I I guess I'm going to defer to um Commissioner Bear's um you know, he's
been a longtime person on the planning commission and if he feels that there's still is a process for those types of businesses that might uh require those types of activities would would need to go before the planning commission. I'm good with that.
And Mr. Mr. Chair, I should note that any building permit as well, that would just go through administratively um conditions addressing cons those concerns can be placed on those building permits as well. Okay, good. All right. Any further
comments? Any further public comment? Any any further comment amongst the board? Our owner care to I think our owner satisfied. Any further comments? Public comment.
All right. Seeing none, do we have a motion to close the hearing? I'll make that motion to close the public hearing. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Bear, second by Commissioner Edner to close the hearing. Any further discussion on the motion? Any further discussion?
Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose the same sign. The plat is approved and therefore the U. Oh, I'll make a motion to approve the big iron subdivision final. There we go. Thank you. I'm getting ahead of myself again. A second. All right, we have a motion and a second to approve the final plat.
There we go. Any further discussion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I oppose the same sign. Motion. Now we have a final plat approved and the therefore the um
the resoning also is now in place. Correct. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. While we have Matt here, he's got one more item on here, and that is the request approval to accept FEMA
hazard mitigation grant and apply for the Minnesota DNR flood hazard mitigation grant. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, so this has come before you a couple times over the past year. We've been working with a um property owner in uh Real Clay County
just on the on the Buffalo River uh southside that's been dealing with some very severe um erosion and you can kind of see it in this image here. Uh this is a 2025 imagery. This is the house. Uh
and all of this is is essentially eroding into to the Buffalo River. Uh looking I think this is from uh 2024. I want to say or 2023. Um, but you can see how in this next image it's changed
dramatically. So, it is really um there's been some a lot of sudden uh movement uh that's putting uh the currently the septic system at risk. Here's the tanks right here. And so, uh getting ever closer to
the house. Um I had uh made a request um to apply for um FEMA hazard mitigation grant program dollars. Uh that request was a a 75 25% um split between federal
and local. Uh and you had authorized me to go through and apply for that um the stipulation that the local match would be the responsibility of the property owner. Um we did receive uh that funding
uh and that award was $373,875. Uh the total project is estimated to be 498 uh500 and so that would be 75% of that. I did bring this to our county owned lands committee just because uh if we were to go through with this acquisition
eventually this would become a county owned property and um restrictions with restrict deed restrictions. Yep. And so uh one of the things that that committee had had recommended doing is to seek addition help seek additional funding for for this project. Uh and um
there was some funding that opened up this summer uh through the state where they would provide a uh 12 and a half% match for the local match. So that would reduce the the the burden of of the local land owner from being responsible
for 25% of that cost, which is comes out to like $124 some thousand dollars down to about $62,000. Um and so what I'm uh asking for today is is two things. Um one would be to
approve that ex acceptance of the uh FEMA hazard mitigation grant award and then also to apply for the flood hazard mitigation grant program through the state. Matt, do you know from a timeline
standpoint on that application for the to the state flood mitigation, is that something that they act on fairly quickly or I have been they have said that they would act on they would have a decisions on that by late fall. Okay.
Um I should note too that with the FEMA grant there's you essentially have four years to close out the project. um wouldn't want to take four years in this case and I don't think the property owners do too. Um but there's there's a window there um just because there are a
lot of moving parts with with um with these grants in terms of um closing costs, demolition, uh site restoration, things like that. Okay, Commissioner Bear, all those expenses are in this price, correct? to demolition and closing and
yes, I did did I did get um cost estimates from um a couple companies for for demolition uh well sealing and and things like that. So that is also that's all in the project cost. Yep. So with the with the project cost being a total of 498,500,
the county would upfront that money, take care of it, and then be reimbursed from FEMA and the land owner. Yeah, it would be kind it's kind of a pay as you go thing. So, as something comes along, yes, the county would pay and then be be reimbursed. Yes, Commissioner Krabnoff.
Uh, thank you for the good work, Matt. I think this is great. Um, I do have a question. When everything's removed, and I, as you said, sooner than later to get the weight off the bank, number one. But is there a cost of maintenance after the
property goes away or if it continues to slough? Is that something we'll have to be concerned about? Yeah, Mr. Chair and and Commissioner Krabanhoff, that would that be an ongoing maintenance cost uh by the
county. Um typically with our other properties, it'd be just spot kind of weed spraying, mowing. Um, if we were to put this into like a native vegetation, I think over time the cost would be less. And it is a it's a small
about sloughing. Hopefully this will take care of the sloughing, but the way rivers are, who knows? Yep. Yep. They had originally when they were looking at solutions for this um had reached out to the SWCD who's been fantastic to work with on this as well
as um uh the USDA NRCS head of has a geomorphology team and um they looked at potentially costs of just um doing erosion control um and and bank
stabilization and that was looking to be you know 800,000 So, Mr. Mojo, thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, just in regards to um utilizing the state grants for
mitigating this issue. I know you talked a little bit about it in the memo that ongoing property costs would be funded by repairarian aid. You know, this is a soap box that I've had for a long time in regards to how we've mitigated some of these properties. And I I appreciate
the ability to do that. So, I'm glad that we do that. I think it it's more about the state dialogue about how we deal with these um properties going on on the county side. you know, I I it becomes problematic uh in regards to
weed control and um you know, I know we've had sheriff's office issues in regards to um rural party sites for high schoolers. Um so I I I just think that's more of a top of- mind discussion that we have to have at the state about how
counties then if there's a way to um get these back on the tax roles once we kind of make homeowners whole. Um, and just if there's any way that you could encumber with with overlays on the
ability to not develop for future use. But well, I I I think that the development is answered in terms of the FEMA grant because once you get a FEMA grant, there can be nothing done with that land. Yeah, correct. It could be you could put a picnic shelter on it,
right? But it's my understanding though that we can't ever as the law states the county can't then disperse of the properties. Correct. So it will continue unless the legislature acts that the properties will then stay
in the that be at in the county owned property. That would be at the federal level be able to Well, right. But I but we also have state grant correct components. Yep. And there that that'll be one of the um complex um issues to navigate
would be FEMA has their own deed restrictions and the state also has their own deed restrictions and making sure that they're married up and match. So this I mean it's not not whether I support this or not. I do. I just mean going forward this is something that we should be having discussions about.
Yep. Is this are there are there additional properties within the area that or is this are this home by itself out there or there it is in a the Buffalo River um development subdivision. There are additional properties. I think it was
platted in this in the 60s late 50s. Um this property just where it's situated on the river is really hitting the brunt of Yep. doing the slumping. Okay. Yep. There's some there's another property that's been working with the S SWCD on some erosion control, but that
can be um it's not as nearly as severe. Okay. And I I you know just for the um newer members of the board going back to the days that Commissioner Mojo will remember too but but when we uh when we have had operated or when we did do some
buyouts of this type um Crestwood comes to mind in south of town and and one of the issues there of course they also received the 75% federal and you know I I think from the county
standpoint, the county doesn't have a budget for this type of thing and and and properties and so the state did come forward I believe um with special legislation at that time. I remember Senator Langth was involved with that.
Um and I don't know if they got the 12 and a half% but I I thought it was down to where the property local property owners had to pay 10%. But it seems to me, but now I think u I think through the DNR I think the
typical cost share that they would do would be 50% of the local share. So that would be the 12 a.5%. Right. Correct. So but just just from a historic standpoint and and again then then the that other
12 and a half% for those folks in Crestwood I I I can't remember if that was 12 and a half for them or it was 10, but it was their responsibility. Yeah. Okay. Commissioner Koff and to that uh in this particular case
it's uh 25% unless they get the state state's 12 and a half. Right. Correct. Yeah. And are are these the um homeowners here? And you're you do you understand
that the potential then that if there's if there's no state then then that's what we're we have available for to help would be do you want do you want to just come up maybe and use the microphone Good morning Chad Deuke uh my wife
Shauna property owners um to your concerns commissioner uh we did split our property which is two platted lots. So we were able to we will be able to sell the unoccupied lot to the adjacent
neighbor and they would be under the same restrictions that we were where there would be no uh habitable development on that. Uh so that would help to alleviate the county's responsibility for that lot. It would simply be the lot that the house is on.
Um, and yes, we do understand that we are responsible for 25% of the house, the closing costs, the demolition costs, and basically anything else, provided that Yeah. provided that we're the grant application with the state would fall through.
Yes. And we are, of course, in favor of that application. Right. You you're encouraging us to apply for that. Okay. All right. Any further comments? Um, yeah, Mr. Mr. Chair, that's a good point that Mr. Deuke made is that they their original lot was actually two lots in
the subdivision. And so one of the lots I think just had a shed on it, didn't really have anything on it. And so they they did um split those lots. So um the the lot that that the county would be taking on would
be much smaller and then that other half could go on um to the to the tax roles again. But it so so is the FEMA grant on both lots or is it just one? Just the one. Okay. Yep. Okay. But we would be taking ownership
of both lots. Just one lot. Oh, just just just one lot. And then the other one would they would maintain? They would maintain or sell or Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Our intention is to sell it to the adjacent neighbor and have it joined the same way that our two lots were joined.
Okay. Very good. All right. All right. Any further discussion while we're in the public hearing process? Any other comments? Right. Do we have a motion to close the hearing? There's that. This what?
Oh, never mind. I'm in the public hearing mood today, guys. All right. So, the first action we would have would be to move to approve the acceptance of the FEMA hazard mitigation grant award in the amount of 373,875. I'll make that motion. Second.
We have a motion by Commissioner Bear, second by Commissioner Ebinger. Any further discussion on the motion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. The same. Motion carried. Next
is the authorization to apply for the flood Minnesota flood hazard mitigation grant. Mr. Chair, I'll offer a motion to authorize the Clay County Planning and Zoning to apply for the Minnesota Flood Haz Mitigation Grant. Second motion by Commissioner Mojo,
second by Commissioner Krabangh. Any further discussion on the motion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. The same. Motion carried. All right. Both of those have been approved. Do you have Was there a question?
Oh, did you want a comment, sir? Sorry, I know you just approved the motion. I don't I just have a comment. Uh Shauna Debuke, uh chair, commissioners, thank you for approving this. This has been a really difficult situation for us
and it's been made much easier by all the great work we've gotten from the county, this water district, NRCS, USDA. Um, it's been a really nice example of how the public can work with uh or how a
land owner can work with a public entity and how I feel like it it's supposed to work. And so I've been just telling everybody that we've really appreciated working with the county and especially Matt and his work for us. So thank you for the opportunity and we appreciate
you approving this. Well, thank you for your comments and I, you know, speaking from somebody who's had to deal with many uh families who've had floodprone properties in the past, whether where you're actually flooded or the damage as a result of high waters
creates to to property. Uh it's a significant and and stressful um position that that families go through. And so um we're hopeful that we'll succeed in getting this other application for you and and make those
costs minimal to you to get out of that condition. Thank you for your comments. Thank you. Thank you, commissioners. All right. Thank you, Matt. Work well done. We will take a fivem minute break. Oh, there we go. All right. All right.
We are back in session. Our next item is the request approval to hire a full-time deputy. Lori, deputy auditor. I guess not in charge of the deputies. No, that's right. Deputy auditor yet.
Not yet. Not yet. It's kind of like our current administrator. Well, it was uh Klay County auditor treasurer, soon to be sheriff. So, that's that was the joke a long time ago. Okay.
Oh, yeah. I'm looking for approval to hire a full-time deputy auditor uh motor vehicle. I I won't need back fill on this one. Don't really have anybody to backfill into. So, One question. We we've approved this about I want to
say three times since I've been on. What does this job actually entail? Is this the person that I would meet when I'd walk into the DMV? Yes. Yep. It's all those line staff uh working doing tabs, doing driver's license licenses, all of that. Okay.
All right. Mr. chair. Um, I think make a motion to hire a full-time deput deputy auditor for the Department of Motor Vehicles. Second, we have a motion by Commissioner Abier, second by Commissioner Mojo. Any further
discussion on the motion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose the same. Thank you so much. All right, Lori. All right. Next, we have a place for hope, the 2024 annual
report presentation. Good morning, Mr. Chair and commissioners. Good morning. Just have a brief few words here. Um, from a social services standpoint under Minnesota statute 245, counties are required to develop and provide a range of services and activities to meet the
mental health needs of adults with serious mental illness, which may include community support programs and adult mental health drop-in centers. Uh place for hope is a part of the core services that the county provides that ensures access to peer support, social connection and reduced isolation which
are key risk factors for psychiatric hospitalization. A Place for Hope offers lowcost, high impact preventative services that reduces the need for more expensive interventions like crisis stabilization or impatient hospitalization and fulfills service areas that social services does not have
internal capacity to provide directly such as daily social programming and volunteering uh engagement. A place for hope serves Klay County residents and receives funding from both the county and from BCAW adult mental health initiative. These collaborative efforts
are encouraged by the state to improve service coordination and regional efficiencies. Uh with that being said, uh Daryl Vaspik, their executive director, is going to give you their uh annual report and I'll leave it for him. Good morning, Daryl.
Thank you for having me over. Uh this last year was a good year for us. we um move forward with a little bit more in our food shelf area and uh seeing more of our members coming back after that co
experience them being gone for two years um learning new habits uh was has been difficult having them come back um we help our members um access community
services as they as they come up. Um, and I as executive director belong to the BCow steering committee as well as a local advisory council. Um, we continue to offer relationships with local mental health agencies and their clients
referring receiving new referrals and sustaining current members. Last year we added 25 new members. Um, so far this year we're look we've added 14. So we're moving right along in that area too. We try to accomplish um and continue to
create a muchneeded uh positive, enriching, nurturing and supportive environment for all members to feel welcome. We continue to offer activities to bring members together and provide the essential support and resources that allow these individuals to regain their confidence and stability in the
community. Over the last year, um, we aimed to better integrate our recovery and wellness with our food shelf. Uh, the food shelf offers unique opportunity for our members to engage in volunteering, playing a crucial role in fostering a sense of purpose and
community connection among our members. Uh, by in integrating mental health support with community service, we strive to create a nurturing environment where everyone can thrive and contribute positively to society.
Um, as the community and demand for the food shelf continues to increase, uh, more families turn to food assistance given the cost of inflation. Uh, we did receive several grants this year to purchase food as the Great Flame Food Bank, um, and the charitable feeding
network continues to see decrease in donations and food from their supply chain. We did purchase just about $17,000 worth of food to supplement our allocations from the Great Plains Food Bank and donations.
As we look ahead, um we're still trying to see if there's a building out there that maybe we could purchase or build or something because we're currently paying about $5,400 a month in rent. Um, we are pleased to, um,
while we're pleased with the increase in our membership over the past year, we also aim to continue to build relationships in the community, fostering a welcoming environment, providing activities that not only support our members on their recovery journey, but also provide the
opportunity to thrive. For those of you that are new, I think uh Commissioner Bear is maybe one of the newer ones. Um we started in 1998. Uh it was called social connections and um it was just dealing with the mental health
uh people. It was it was its purpose was to provide a place to bring adults with mental illness together to build a consumer-driven network of peer support, leadership, education to its members and the public about mental illness, to promote recovery and wellness, and to
provide a source for volunteer voluntarily social and recreational opportunities. In 2020, we expanded our members our membershelf to also serve the public and uh enhancing the services we
provide. Um it was an opportunity to uh start a food shelf for our members and as that grew uh we allowed the community come in as we did a one-on-one service during the
co 19. So that allowed us to do that. Um as we uh came out of COVID, we had to decide what to do because the people with mental illness didn't want to have indiv let people in the community know they
had mental illness. So we created a separate um place within the building for our food shelf. Uh it was it was a um car repair shop. um that they donated the
rental space to us at the time and we ground the floors down, clean the floors. I found money to put in heating and air conditioning and do the electrical work. Uh the county had some co dollars and without a tail bremer, we were able to put in walk-in freezers and
coolers. Um, we have currently um adding trying to add a walk-in freeze or an additional one as
um there are several food shelves in the area that are closing andor reducing their hours due the not being financially sustainable to keep them open or have enough food to keep them open. I see on the news last night that Grand Forks is closing one of their big
ones, too. So, as we see that happening, Great Plains Food Bank does have extra food. So, we're very full right now with meat products, which is good, but that's why we need this um walk-in freezer. And we're doing that with the repurposed one
that we took out of the VFW over here in Dworth. So, we're we just got some dollars from um uh my mind just went blank. Um West Central Initiative to help us with the
installation. Um the Dworth Lions, myself, and our operations manager for the building are in the process of putting that together. And then we'll have um Red River refrigeration maybe with the assistance of the Morehead Tech
School uh to help us get that up and running. So we're happy to see that happening. Uh we just uh instituted a new mission and that's to inspire and uplift our community by delivering integrated recovery and wellness services coupled with essential food
support to pro promote overall well-being. That's basically just adding something into our mission about our food shelf since it's um very popular right now in our community. Um
on the mental health side, we offer recovery support. We do not offer any type of therapy. Um we try to build social relationships by helping me members build skills to increas
their confidence and abilities in handling social situations and offering opportunities for interactions both at the center and in the community. Um, we provide life intervention activities that model appropriate social interactions, building trust,
friendships that teach forgiveness and acceptance, promote peer mentoring, and explore arts and crafts to work through feelings. We enhance support. Not only do we make referrals to other agencies, but also we offer support that helps members stretch their monthly budgets.
Uh some things we provide are the food shelf, meals, snacks, beverages, computer access, hygiene items, um and laundry facilities. We install hope. We provide an entry point for individuals living with mental illness to move outside the isolation of
their home environment. A place for hope allows them a safe place to be in the community with acceptance, friendship, and forgiveness. To be a member uh we require we have an application uh you must be 18 years of age have a
diagnosis of mental illness by a qualified mental health professional and all members must uh re complete a brief application uh and we do a background check. We're still um
looking at the eight dimensions of wellness for the agency which is uh emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, social, and spiritual. Uh throughout the year, our members are engaged in activities that foster the
environmental, intellectual, occupational, physical, and social dimensions. This has resulted in them um volunteering 6,000 member hours last year and last year we had 251
members. Uh we did welcome 25 new members last year. Uh we also were able to provide uh the lower 5800 meals to our members as well the volunteers that were helping Uh as we continue to grow in our food
shelf, we've had um great support from the Dworth Lions Club and the Dillworth uh local lions, that's the ladies. Um and between them and our our member volunteers, they volunteered 11,600 hours last year. And that's what allowed
us to keep open because we can't couldn't do it because we have no financial support from anybody uh for our food shelf. Uh just out there trying to raise grants to help us. Um
we're very um thankful for the generous uh ongoing support from Klay County and Becker Clay Ottertale and Wilin Beal Mental Health Initiative through the mental health initiative. Um we've had other great support with
grants from Otto Bremer. Um that's kind of going away. they've changed their model on how they're uh donating. So, we haven't been able to fit into their um grant cycle yet this year. Hopefully, we will down the road. Uh we receive
money from Hunger Solutions and that's another big question as everybody's uh dealing with this financial constraints right now and we've had a few Zoom meetings on that trying to figure out where that's going to play out. Uh we do participate in Giving Hearts Day. Uh we
see we receive u in kind donations from American Crystal last year was about $17,000 worth of sugar. And the Great Plains Food Bank uh with the 500 about 560,000 pounds of food we got that's worth about $1.8 million.
So without them we wouldn't be here either. Um, and then the volunteer hours is worth about $374,000 if we would have had to pay for it. Um,
we had last year uh uh planned on a deficit of about $58,000, but we um tightened all our belts, went out and raised some more money. We ended up with about $8,300 deficit. So, we were happy with that and we can sustain that. So,
um as we move forward to this year, we're looking again at a deficit of about $61,000. And most of that or part of that is trying to find a food shelf manager because I'm getting of the age where I can't work 12 to 16 hours a day and
running the mental health side and the and the food shelf as that's growing. what we've kind of budgeted for trying to find a person there. Uh right now we're trying to expand our board and then try to do a massive fundraising
um experience I guess to try to get some sustaining funds for the food shelf. Um one might be uh looking at United Way. We did look at that two years ago, but didn't um qualify
because they wanted instead of adding another food shelf, they wanted to find the root cause of of hunger. So, we didn't we didn't fit that one. Um, so with that, I think that's kind of where we're at. We're just, like I said,
looking uh what we can do down the road to get some more sustaining dollars. Any questions? questions. Commissioner. Yeah. I'm I have heard from another uh
charitable organization in our in our city or in Morehead. Uh is there a change in the assistance you're getting from Great Plains Food Bank? There's apparently been some legislative action this last session that impacted
on that to where being in Minnesota has impacted on the relationship we've got with Great Plains Food Bank. They weren't real clear on it, but it sounded like it it was an increased cost. Um, we've just received word that we've
been getting our like it's called the TFAP, the emergency food assistantship program. That's where a lot of um the donations as well as the USDA products goes through the Great Plains Food Bank. Um
has been coming through them. Starting in September, October, we're going to be receiving that from uh North Country, which is out of East Grand Forks. So that's basically keeping the operation within Minnesota. Um, I've I've gone
over to um met with um the Detroit Lakes food shelf and just visited with them a little bit about it to see what it looked like. And then I took our numbers over and she said, "Uh, with the type of numbers you have, you will be the number
one food shelf in this region." So you will see receive the largest amount of food from the north country allocations. Hopefully won't be less. Um they are
currently in Detroit Lakes purchasing about 12 to$15,000 a month to sustain their food shelf. but they've got great county support and um businesses within the city that are
helping them. So, we're we're hopeful it's going to be okay. We're still going to be supported by the Great Plains Food Bank. They're doing the daily rescue from the uh grocery stores and whatever. And we do get a horrendous amount of stuff from Hornbachers. And when we look at the cost of stuff, I
can see why they're not selling it because the food costs have gone up so high that no one can afford to buy and that's why we're receiving more people. Thank you, Commissioner Kraov.
Well, thank you for your presentation. um spoken with Daryl many many times and uh appreciate all his uh he's a tireless worker obviously and um um uh I could just hear in your
presentation you know in in in regard to the food shelf all the different ways you try find those little bits of money to make it work. Um, one of the things I know we run the uh um, you know, the our provisions of
money, you know, working through social services to meet the um, uh, state code uh, excuse me, state statute. Um, I, uh, appreciate all the work you do for the
food pantry, uh, and all that comes with that. um you've told me for three years that it's time for you to retire and uh so that story isn't changing and um I appreciate that. Uh I do think there is
a real challenge here um you know in um someone ever replacing you and and uh I I don't know quite how you do that. I guess that's up to you and and your board. Uh but I um do certainly know
through my mental adult mental health group uh a number of people that are um uh active in in your your mission over there. And I just want to say thank you. Um I think the uh um
as we see uh even being part of food commission u the stress that's be going to become on the needs of pantries the food chain and everything with the cuts h happening both in the federal government and the
state it's an ongoing challenge and I don't think that one's going away for a while So, um um I don't know if I have anything to really say other than I appreciate the hard work that you do. I hope you and your board find a way
forward. Um I I know that the county is part of your effort and we're certainly going to be part of that effort. Um but I think how this works you know the mental health being one piece and the the food pantry being part of that
system which I understand involvement you know for the people and serving the community good um uh cohabitate you know well but I I I do think it is uh always
going to be a challenge for us to um pick up both. I'll just say it that way. Um uh um but you know, we look at our budgets and what we can do and and and certainly know that you know, we're a
piece of this and and I'm sure in some way other will be part of it. But just um another point um we had the uh the TFAP folks here in December and they were from Duth and Minneapolis
and they went to all the food shelves here basically our place the seeds of hope Dorothy Day uh the main ones here in Morehead. Um they came back on f they were there on Monday, Tuesday, they came back on
Friday and they said you know we think you should become the food shelf for the area because the Seeds of Hope is open two hours one day a week. uh the Dorothy Day has gone to three hours three days a
week and they're kind of on financial instability that maybe you should become the main food shelf. And I sat back for a minute and thought about it and said, you know, that could be a good idea because then maybe that would
you would gather more food, but we could probably we're not open on Mondays. We could probably be open on Monday. then we could probably be open some evenings, which we aren't because I don't want to put any more stress on our volunteers. So, it's something to think about. I did talk to the Great Plains Food Bank. Um,
they were totally against it. They thought that they're trying to open more, not less, but we kind of look at it, you're you're consolidating and doing a better job uh with more items for people. So I don't know that that's
all up in the air too but you know you just have to look at different avenues of way you do things and have done things. So right one yes have you ever looked about separating the two the mental health and the food shelf and separating the two and having two different organizations. Well, it's
we just made it one and they're actually in two different parts of the building. So, they're kind of running individually. But what's been really interesting is um coming out of CO, you know, with the the mental health thinking of not wanting anybody to know
anything that they have mental illness. Our volunteers have moved over. I'd say 90% of our volunteers that come on a regular basis are volunteering. So that stigma of having a mental health issue is le has left for the most part and I've been really happy with that because
it gives them a sense of accomplishment. Um and it helps us also. So I don't know if I mean it kind of is separate but it isn't. And I wanted to say thank you to Commissioner Ebinger and Krabanghoff. They did come over and we certainly
invite all of you over anytime you want to stop in. You're certainly welcome. You don't have to be pre, you know, pre-addressed, but just stop in if you'd like to. Yeah. Going to Commissioner Beers comes back when former days as connections, it
was pretty much the mental health side of things in that facility and then it's expanded to incorporate both. and and I just want to um follow up on Commissioner Kraboff's comments and the work that you do and the efforts that you do and and I can
imagine the frustration level that you have with the ability to try to maintain uh what you would hope would be a perfect scenario, right? And so, uh, but I also want to put a shout out to what you talked about with the Dworth Lions
and the Lions group for the that's a tremendous amount of hours that they've really helped with and that's a of great value uh to our community uh for the work that they done and and to all your other um volunteers as well. So, but
Darl, thank you for your report. Thank you, Quinn. Um, we will continue to look at this. I I have one question. How how many square feet is your building? Do you know do you happen to know? We have about 4,000 on each end. So, a total of eight.
Yeah. And and if we if we would go to another building or built a building, um Bener's group, the Greater Minnesota Community Services want to move with us. They're in our building right now. So, we kind of supplement, you know, help each other out. He's got the adult
daycare there and now he's real involved with the uh um housing. So if our people come in or new people come in are looking for housing, we work with the individuals and them. And if we move, they would like to move with us. So when
we look at space, we're looking at probably around 15,000 square feet. 15,000. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right. Next, we have our budget
presentation from extension. Good morning. Happy Tuesday. Um, thank you for um your continued support. My name is Cecilia Amadu. I serve as a regional director with the University of
Minnesota. Um, in front of you, you may have a draft budget that we are looking to um, propose for this upcoming year. As you all know, the MOA contract um, already has these numbers in there. Um
some areas that we've looked at um are just the operating costs for the office um will be areas where you may notice a change. Um as you all know we do serve all motans old and younger. So um the
staff in our office um right now we have the MOA position covering for8 um FTE that covers for the A and natural resources position and then we have the office support staff um supporting all
the people in the office and that's a full-time position at 75,000 and then we have two um youth development for age staff um at 200 00,000. That brings our total to that um 365 650
for staffing. And um we are thankful for our um committee members that continue to serve um in a volunteer position. Um but those positions are um a PDM and then um travel that's also included. Um
that PDM is about 1,500. the committee um decided at the last meeting that they would like to have more meetings, but however, we do think that 1500 should be sufficient to cover for those additional meetings and the travel time.
Um and then as you go down, we have obviously telephone, postage, um photo copies, um printing cost. Um our rent hasn't changed. Um, so we're thankful for that. And then we have some items
that um some line items that covers for if we need headset um just small equipment that people need in our office to operate. And then we just um increase the miscellaneous um amount as we noticed that we were taking a little bit
more out of that line. So, we wanted to correct that so we have a more true account of where um the money was coming from. Um and then um I want to go back up to the top that $10,000 we do receive um
some grant funding from our anonymous donor that comes in to support um the work. So, that takes out the bottom line as well. So, I wanted to note that. Um, with that I'll be um happy to answer any questions about our budget.
Commissioner Mojo. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Cecilia. Just I think for clarification of the board, um this specifically, even though you're the regional director, this in regards to where these funds go, it's the county office. The
county office. Uh, I know one of the issues that I had concerns with, um, was last year the printing and publishing line item for the 2025 budget was zeroed out. I appreciate that you added 1,200 back in there. Uh, just for this board's um,
knowledge that goes to printing the fair program booklets for all of the families. So, these are not like, you know, when we take that to zero, that that really affects the ability to get um, information out to our families. One thing that the office is hearing from
families as well, they appreciate the opportunity to do things online. Um, if you're in the busyiness of summer, sometimes it's helpful to have a physical copy that's mailed to you so that you don't overlook it. Speaking from experience, just, you know,
uh, so I do appreciate that. Um, in uh, regards to the berdium piece, um, the membership of the advisory committee has really changed. uh in the last four or five years there's kind of been a higher turnover just because
family or people are busier with different um things and so for the committee to have a better idea of the pulse of the work of extension that's why it was recommended to have additional meetings I will tell you that um it's it's frequent that we have 50%
online participation with that so I don't think that that's really an outofline um PDM line item Um, but just as a general comment, um, I want I know that there's been some tweaking in regards to how we've, um,
staffed either the 80% or the 1.0 uh, full-time equivalency, and I want office dollars allocated specifically for them to be successful. And so making sure that we're not making too many cuts on a
$1,000 or $500 line item because in the broad scheme of things, those are the pieces that really contribute to the success of what that office is. Um, so I appreciate that. Um, you know, I I know that I don't know if you specifically have told us or if we've seen emails
that there's changes at the federal level in regards to SNAP. Uh can you briefly talk uh to the board how that SNAP educator piece affects Klay County? Yeah. Um I think it will be a significant impact to Klay County and to
Daryl's um presentation. Rosie um worked very closely with him um in doing some of the educational piece for the members that um are in the place of hope and also the um participants of the food st um food stamp um program. um as of
August 22nd, that position um will be ending um due to lack of funding. Um and so all the work that um was happening in Clay County um with Rosie support and we actually had another staff in the
regional office that was working in Klay County supporting um the Haitians. So just a different demographic that Rosie wasn't able to reach. Um that position will also be ending. Um so within our region within our system we have about 66 people that that will be impacted. Um
so it's a significant amount of um our workforce really um and the impact is going to be um significant as far as really educating um SNAPED um participant how to utilize their funds to go more um teaching them how to
properly cook foods that are going to be healthier for them. how to properly um budget so that they have the allocations that are coming from the county can take them through the months um and not up frontloading all their money and into and then also making better choices for
their family. Um we have a program called um I can prevent diabetes. So not just the eating part but also managing their health. Um there was a bio-referral process that um the educators were talking to the providers and then the providers are referring them to the I can prevent diabetes
program so that they can help with their a1c numbers and um really help them navigate um that health issue that they may have along with not having food. So all of that will be and then I had one more follow-up piece.
Uh, so you talk about the anonymous donor that presents the $10,000 donation year round or is that annually? Is that the annually usually farms? Glenn and farms. Yes. Okay. So then my question was on the MOA
that was provided. You talk about the Klay County 4 program providing the $10,000 in funding. Is that that you're allocating the Glendon far or the $10,000 donation there and that's where it's coming from? It comes to the county. So then it just kind of tops out the bottom.
But in this piece where it says Klay County 4 is is the Klay County 4 federation paying $10,000 or is it the same $10,000? Are they separate $10,000? I'm not sure which one are you. Are you looking at the MOA?
So on Yeah. And I don't recall seeing this before. So that's where my question is. And I guess the reason I'm asking this question, I know that the annual 4 livestock auction has been um the Klay
County Fairboard is doing that to open it up to the FFA kids as well. And I know that was a major fundraiser for Klay County 4. And so because that larger fundraiser isn't available, is Klay County 4 still paying the $10,000 or is that the Glendon Farms?
The Glendon Farms. Okay. Yeah. All right. Thank you. That concludes our All right. Any other questions? And I just want to, you know, reemphasize what Commissioner Mojo has said about just how skinny our budget is
already. Um I know you make decisions after you heard every um department. And so I just want to say that um a few years ago we did cut the um intern position out of our budget already and so yeah there's just not anywhere else
that we could make any adjustments um without touching people and we really want to keep people for the first time in two years our office is really thriving and we've we have full staff um and it's I think it shows why commissioner would you say the first a
different experience when you have fully staffed office So, all right. Thank you, Cecilia. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you. All right. Next, we have a request
approval to purchase. Oh, excuse me. Yeah, that's right. We got Corey. Morning, Mr. 30ard dumpsters. Yes. Um to give you a little history on these, I'll try to be brief because I know you're on behind, but about a year ago, we partnered with the facilities department and we started supplying them
a dumpster so that they wouldn't have to rent. Um just this year alone, they've had one of our dumpsters the whole year. Uh we've dumped it seven times, which if you were to take it and actually rent a dumpster and pay the fee or the dumping fee and the rental, it would actually pay for half a dumpsters. So, I worked
out a deal with Joe that he would buy half of one of these dumpsters um for his use that would free up one for us to have at the transfer station for a spare. And I would also like a second for the a spare for the landfill with the additional um demo material that
we're getting now that the demo landfill can take private loads. Um I'll give you an example. Last Wednesday, I dumped five dumpsters. Um prior to that, we were probably dumping two every week, week and a half. Um, I couldn't keep the dumpsters empty at the landfill. I dumped one, came back, and it was
already full again. So, I just kept rotating through in the afternoon. Um, by by buying this second one, we would have a spare out there so that we could rotate through and and do it at more convenient times. Um, we like to fill them out, rotate them, and then haul two or three at a time, but we can't do that now because you never know when you're
going to have need the or the capacity. So, we're pretty much having to dump them as soon as we fill them. Uh, with that, I did receive two bids from local companies. One was for 18,5440 and the other was for 17,400. So I would look for approval to purchase
the lesser of the two bids on the two dumpsters. All right. And this was brought forward through SWAC and SWAC recommended approval of this. Yeah, Mr. Chair, I just wanted to comment that I think this is probably a
direct relation to citizens utilizing the services that we're providing. uh really felt like this was an ability to um uh purchase something that would really go uh help to encourage people to dispose of trash in a um responsible
manner. So the SWAT committee really felt that this was an appropriate use of funds. Uh with that I'll make a motion to approve the request. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Mojo, second by Commissioner Abinger. Any further discussion?
Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Oppose the same. Move carried. All right, Cory. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next, we have Justin. Justin, you're up.
Good morning. Good morning. So, the item I'm bringing today is requesting approval of an amendment to the bridge bonding grant agreement number 1052499. So, when we first kind of did the North Broadway Bridge study and determined
that it did need to be removed, we did receive bridge bonding, something that we did after the fact was kind of that study that Houston Engineering did. So, this is just reimbursing us for that study since the bridge was not replaced. So, it's an
additional $78,35 that we'll get in bridge bonding to cover those expenses. All right. Sounds like a deal we can't refuse. Yeah, we have a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the
amendment to the midnight contract. Second. Have a motion by Commissioner Krabnoff, second by Commissioner Abinger. Any further discussion? Any discussion? All in favor signify by saying I.
I oppose the same sign. Motion carried. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Um uh in regards to the horrible accident that happened last week in Morehead. I just really want to maybe encourage Justin, you work so diligently with municipalities and
schools in regards to the safe routes to school program. Uh, and just uh because we help kind of oversight some of those grant projects, can we reach out to Morehead and see if there's any additional pro, not only Morehead, but I guess all of our schools and school districts to see that if there's any
additional projects that we want to kind of help facilitate in regards to addressing a safer way um for crosswalks. Absolutely. I can do that. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. Thank you, Justin. All right. Next we have our county
attorney's budget presentation. Good morning Brian. Morning Mr. Chair, commissioners. Uh thanks for having me here at the end of the uh the end of the day in the board meeting. Um as you're well aware my uh budget is not much of a revenue
generator largely u salary based but I walk through here with you today and if you have any questions be glad to answer them for you. Uh on the revenue side, that's a formulated uh refund piece uh as the primary re uh revenue um from
federal uh reimbursements with uh either social services or through other court programs. Um nothing much more to add than than is formulated through uh Lori. Uh moving down to expenditures, the uh
salary piece um mostly just uh again formulated uh increases uh there's some decrease in the health insurance pieces. I think we talked about earlier when Sheriff Ming was here. Uh those are really I think just mainly based on we've had different turnover uh over the
last year and we see that sometimes where somebody leaves that may have had family uh and moves maybe to a single person that's that's coming in. So, uh, just different adjustments there, uh, all the way down through social security, Medicare. Uh, I draw your
attention to, uh, 6232, printing, publishing. Uh, although we, you know, we are, uh, and I'll talk about the computer software here when we get down to 6404. But, um, more so a paperless office than ever, but there's still
obviously paper that's used, uh, within court. We still print out a lot of uh uh whether it's um transcripts from cases, those types of things that come in. Uh so slight increase in printing and publishing association dues and membership uh 6243
um increase uh there as well. That's primarily uh keeping attorneys with their um license. And then we also have our uh county attorney association uh dues that we pay regularly each year. um
6271 process service. We dropped that down uh slightly. Just a little bit less process service uh cost that uh continue happen. We've seen that go down over the years. Um
just a small thing 6330 we eliminated. We we haven't seen that use meals not related to overnight travel for I think quite a while if ever. So, I just eliminated that line. Um, and then moving down to 6404 computer software, I
think as I when I presented before to the board and and our yearly uh update, uh, we're definitely seeing that that's just going to be the increase that we'll see over the years between uh our software that we use as a database to manage our files as well as u um
continuing to see more storage uh space needed. Uh those are a lot of the costs that we're seeing increase there. So um and then down below 6271 that's the drug court uh cost um that we maintain within
our books um continues to be there. So um that's generally speaking expenditures within the office 2.52% increase. um sub any questions you might have. I would move over then to victim services
questions. All right. our victim uh services uh section. And then um again I think uh well what I really need to or want to highlight there that 5221 is actually a a space used uh as you
recall we came in front of the board uh earlier um earlier in the year or late last year whenever that was exactly but looked to get a grant uh to help augment uh services uh primarily towards
restorative justice. Uh, Commissioner Emmer's been serving on our u our board uh that's looking at that. We did receive approximately 200 I think it's 203,000. So we but that's over 18 months the uh throughout uh next year 2026 and
then 6 months into 2027 is the period of time we'll have to use that. So we've put a portion of that into revenues. Uh so you see that increase there, that 153,000. Uh all of that is paid out into uh
salary uh some portion of Lucas' our restorative justice coordinator as well as having a part-time person, which is what we asked to be able to do uh to be able to service uh not just Morehead uh and we're also getting out into all the other county schools, but having a
part-time person that can help service that uh and then some other services. So you see down at the very bottom 6271 uh that's the other and the remainder payout of other contracts that we'll be doing. Um whether it's with F5 uh or the
services that we're engaging with um the there's a woman who will start to do some management of statistics to see if we can kind of capture more of that. So just some different contracts which will all be paid out. So that's where you see that uh increase both in revenues as
well as expenditures. Otherwise, everything else is just salary related either what the county pays or through the VOCA grant uh that pays and those have pretty well stayed u I won't say stagnant increased slightly with cost of
living but uh those um that's everything as far as expenses and revenues for victim services. Mr. Chair, I'd just comment on that. Um Michelle's done a phenomenal job at not only getting funding for this, with drawing
people from all over the community, from different uh schools and the universities and uh social active groups, professions. and she's got a team together that's just
taken restorative justice to a new level in this area and uh it's commendable. Uh they've done an excellent job and I think Lucas in the schools has just been a he's he's legendary and he's also overworked which leads to
need in the part-time position to help pick it up now that Morehead schools are also involved in this. But excellent job from your staff and uh it's commendable and I think our continued support is is certainly warranted. Thank you. Yeah, I I think just to
comment, I know this is budget, but obviously that piece of that budget and that addition that's shown there, but I think it is nice to have all that set up here coming into the new school year of 2025 into 26. uh those additions, that
extra part-time person, uh some of those other contracted pieces will will go into effect, I think, will just help hit the ground running. Those additions that we wanted to see, I think will really help uh exponentially and will be a great great addition and a really good
good school year. With that, uh if there's no other questions regarding any of that that stuff, uh the last piece then is the law library. Obviously, we're u statutoily uh required. Every county has a law library that falls under my budget.
That's a self paying uh there's a law library fee that's added on to any and all um criminal offenses or defendants that come through. They pay that law library fee that maintains the law library itself. uh they currently have two part-time people that are filling
the amount of uh part-time funding for u law librarian. The law librarian is really responsible primarily just for keeping uh books updated uh keeping the bills uh paid. They they come through the law library but then through my office to approve. Um
I think as you see the periodicals there um there's a big portion that's that's uh positioned there. uh largely I think you see just like within our world now there's a lot less book uh research done it's mostly through Westlaw and they
have a Wlaw uh computer um station there as well as then a selfserve um uh station for people that need to get things if you know if they need to get documents or things for court and that's primarily what's used within the law
library I'd say probably 95% but we still maintain everything that required to under the statute. So again, that's self paid as you see it's maintained its budget the same uh and the board services that I have a person out of my office as well as judge Rosenfeld that
administers that board and I don't know if any of the commissioners okay and commissioner crab off on it too. It's a I mean, we have a very good law library here and it continues to function well. Looking at looking at this um Brian, it looks like your overall budget when you
look into all of your pages combined, you're probably looking at about a 60 probably about a $20,000 overall increase if I'm doing because if you're victim witness um even though you're showing at 23,
right? I wanted to that's why I want to make sure this I know and you recognize that it's 23% but that is really because of that showing of that extra money, right? You got the revenue on top. So in reality you're probably 45,000
revenues over expenditures in that. All right, that budget looks good. Thank you. Appreciate you being here. Thank you, Brian. All right. According to this, we were magically within six minutes of our
time. Do we need We have a scheduled break. Do we need a break or can we keep going? All right. Before we go into committee reports, I I do want to mention that this last week our our county community
lost a former county commissioner, Alan Melby. and um you know he served quite some time as a commissioner here in Klay County and I just want to say that our sympathies go out to the Melby family for the loss of that good man. So
So with that um let's see who did I start with last time I think we're going to it's Ezra I think it's your turn to start Mr. Chair I only had one committee report in the last two weeks and that was with the West Central Regional Water District. We met on July 28th up in
Holstead and we went not too much to report but we had a budget update and it looks like we'll probably be running out of funds there by the end of August, maybe September. And then the EPA grant that
we are supposed to be receiving. They put a new manager up there and now we're working through a new manager to try to receive those funds. So that might take a little longer. So we are still working through that process to see what happens
there and see how far we can stretch that budget we have left. And that is all I have to pretty much report on that meeting. And that was all my meetings. Thank you, Commissioner Ever. Thank you. Uh last week
um on the 23rd I remotely attended the Morehead for uh uh or the uh Metropolitan uh Flood Diversion Authority Finance Committee meeting. It was pretty much business as
usual uh budget item requests. Um they there was some transfer of funds and 2.5 million switched over to meet some of the uh obligations we have on on task order 8.
And then uh two contracts were approved. Pretty much the standard business on that. Uh Thursday the 24th I attended the criminal justice advisory board. Uh Dale Arnold, our district supervisor for probation and
parole, uh over was the host of that. Um the probation department is currently moving ahead with uh re relocating to the courthouse. The felony probation parole folks moved in yesterday and they
completed that part of the move. uh the uh contract office uh will move in in October. Uh we also had a presentation from Cody Underdall of the ISR the intensive supervision release team. He gave presentation of their
activities there. Um that later that day I attended a diversion board authority meeting and again standard business. I'm I'm not looking anything that jumps out. We had the usual financial reports and report
from council. Perhaps uh chair something strikes him as more more notable, but it was pretty much a open andsh shut meeting on that. And that completes my report. Right. Thank you, Commissioner Krabanov.
Hey, Mr. Chair. uh had uh uh two meetings uh one 22nd of July and then yesterday August 4th both involving the health upcoming health insurance renewals. So one was subcommittee and
one was full group. Um the full group back on the 22nd we had our uh full present uh full presentation uh to the full committee from our health insurance broker NIS.
Uh they went through about five different proposals uh through the RP process that was um given to us. And um all I say at this point we consider to have a conversation hone in the uh
possibilities from each of these companies to most u find the most beneficial um uh rates we can get that our um insurance group and all our employees are in favor of. Uh right now the u uh
rates uh proposals that we are getting are very favorable. They're they've been falling uh for 2026. Uh if they're two-year contracts, there might there will be some increases in those second years, but if you look at
the ad the average of the two-year, there'll be smaller increases in that than we've had in the last few years. So, we'll continue to have these meetings through the month of August and uh hopefully um come up with the final
product that uh then we'll come to the board and we'll vote on it. So, it's all I have. All right. Thank you, Commissioner Mojo. Thank you, Mr. Chair. On July 22nd, I've uh attended a full day of Metrocog
midyear review with uh North Dakota DOT, MIDOT, and Federal Highway. appreciate the opportunity as chair to sit through that review process and provide insight in regards to how the policy board uh utilizes uh workflow with the metro COG
staff. On July 23rd, I attended a land management committee meeting of the FM diversion. We did have a long discussion on land dispersal and moving forward with um uh proposing those parcels for sale. there was some land in Horus along
the rail corridor that continues to be a little bit of an issue. So, uh the board gave uh direction to staff to work with the land owners there. On July 24th, I attended the SWAT committee meeting. We had general business updates on um and
Kevin gave Commissioner Campbell rather gave updates from the PUM facility. Uh MPCA did visit the landfill and there was an issue identified uh with a runoff component. Corey's working with staff to make sure that that is fixed and did
recommended the did recommend the purchase of the dumpsters. I appreciate this board's support on that. Uh of note on September 2nd through 5th from 8 to 4 there will be uh the solid waste group will be collecting empty pesticide
containers so that they can be disposed of properly. After that committee we did have the contract negotiation w of the resource recovery uh facility with the city of Morehead and the county. Um, regrettably, we've
not been able to come to a mutual agreement on the contract for that facility with the city of Morehead. As um, stated, they intend to withdraw from that agreement in November. The, uh, contract does state that they'll be in
that facility operating until January 1st. It is my deep deep hope, uh, that we can come to an agreement sooner rather than later. I know that the county needs to go through and address tipping fees for all of our facilities
um to make sure that we're recouping the cost of operation there. Um it's, you know, it's disappointing if this is where we're going to be at. But I'm really hopeful that we can find some agreement, but I will say that we are
quite far apart on what the um the wishes of each entity are. Uh later that afternoon I attended the MCC JPA meeting. We did have general business had a property acquisition status report from Mr. Dods and did approve
reimbursements on a relocation reimbursement. Then we did um take action on administrative platting and affidavits for parcel splits. uh administratively our office our planning and zoning office has been
working on that and did re recommend excess land disposal. So that's that evening I attended the community action sorry community action lakes or cap meeting. We did have a fairly busy
schedule um of on the agenda. We talked about approval of a rural health grant and disaster preparedness community action grant. We did approve the 990 for the 24 tax year and
um did have policy board check-ins and Senator Coop gave an advisory board update. On July 28th, I attended the LM Lakeland Mental Health Center board meeting in
Fergus Falls. We had updates from all the Fergus Falls supervisors. Really great to hear how the bar program is continuing to work really well in the school districts. I know that's something that Klay County has in our school districts as well. Uh there was a pretty long discussion on Medicaid and
how the federal changes will really affect the reimbursements. I know that uh Donna Baker, the CEO, was in a news article with uh Quinn from our from the county in regards to how that will affect all of us locally. We're just going to do the best we can to help
address the mental health needs of our community and uh figure it out, I guess. On July 29th, I met with city administrator or county administrator uh Larson uh with the city of Barnesville on their ambulance allocation concerns.
Uh it kind of went into a little bit of the dispatch concerns which is why I had asked that the questions when the sheriff was here. I know that's all within your purview but uh hopeful that we can uh work with them. Um they they were concerned that um you know their
needs weren't getting addressed uh and advoc advocated for at this board. So I'll continue to help advocate for all of the cities within Klay County better. On July 20 31st, I attended the Fargo Morehead West Fargo Chamber public
policy meeting. We did have an update on the federal uh big beautiful bill um components and how it will affect all of us locally. Appreciate uh the chamber for have flow flying him in to give the
updates on that. And then on August 4th, I attended the Metrocog executive committee meeting. We just had general updates from Ben, more of a followup from the midyear review that I attended. And uh that concludes my report. Thank you. On uh July 22nd, um I
attended the insurance committee meeting which Commissioner Krabnoff gave a good report on. I don't need to add anything extra to that. On July 23rd, I attended the Prairie Prairie Lake Solid Waste meeting. Um we had um
budget discussions. We did we did approve the um budget for 2026. And I think uh in terms of the tipping fee increase was at like a 5.2% 2%
increase of which for Klay County that would amount to about $1,400 a month increase or about $16,800 for the year. Um for and that and that
is us sending in the $8,100 tons of MSW to PUM. Uh we did have some uh members uh from the HR department from Ottertale County were there to talk about the uh
implications of the paid family leave act and you so that's kind of an independent facility but yet and when it came to HR and all those types of things we've followed Ottertale County policy and so I think the our plan now is to um
Ottertale County gave some discussions that they're looking we had an outside carrier for that. Um I believe they got a quote that would be 7.9 or 79% instead of the 088 and there and so we just determined that we would we would go
with whatever Ottertail County chose. I mean we everything else is the same with HR so we just felt it was important to to stay in that regard. Also on the 23rd that afternoon, I attended the um
diversion land meeting that Commissioner Mojo was already talked about. And I really don't have anything to add to that. Uh on the Thursday morning, the 28th or excuse me, the 24th, I attended the
Klay County solid waste meeting. Um, you know, we had to talk about um the MPCA issue that they found at the landfill and also the dumpster deal. And then uh following that, then we had
our annual meeting or that we had the negotiation meeting. And I want to follow up with um you know this board's been aware of the alternatives that we've been that we've put out there in the event that
um the city wanted to continue with their original letter to withdraw and and as commissioner Mojo said we are significantly different in in and there
was a counter proposal that was presented that day that still uh from our standpoint just when I when I say our standpoint, it's our administration, our our superintendent or our director of of solid waste and the rest of us
just felt wasn't fair. And I want to point out that the original agreement that we had was very fair to everybody. um Klay County did take over an incredible amount of expenses when we moved to that new facility
and and um so with that, you know, we're still going on. So, I've just recently this week now I have asked um Darren and Corey um to uh put together
another scenario that would create two separate tipping fees. One tipping fee would be for the operations of the resource recovery facility and the other one would be with the uh a separate one for those who would bring um waste to
the landfill. So, we're gonna we're going to be meeting next uh hopefully next week on that. I the 13th is I know does Jenny have okay. Yeah. So, we're going to be meeting on the 13th to talk about that and and basically it is what it is. I we're going to apply all of the
expenses that go towards a resource recovery facility and whatever that tipping whatever that amount turns out to be in terms of tons and tipping fee, that's what it's going to be. That I mean that I mean that would be our other choice. uh unless they elect to say okay
well maybe we've we have a better deal than we thought and we should stay with the current system that's I think that's another option that we will then have to propose to this board as well so and and I can tell you that uh the numbers show
that there'd be a significant tipping fee difference between the resource recovery facility and the landfill based on based on the cost of operations of those two facilities. Um so that you know I I think in all
transparency that's kind of where we're at on this at this point in time and and we will look at that on the 13th and and bring that as another option. So and then um on that same day then we
had the MCC JAPA meeting on the 24th. Um we acted on a reimbursement request and also administrative platting affidavits were approved and one um excess land
recommendation that we also approved that afternoon. Again we also had the diversion board of authority meeting. Commissioner Einger's talked about that. I don't think I we did act on several excess land issues. most of those being on the North
Dakota side. Um, and then we did we did meet the new colonel was here from St. Paul district. Um, and we got to meet him and um, Terry was
there from from the in person from the core and there's a big uh big event coming up on Thursday morning where they're going to reroute the river to into that new um, yeah, it's going to be a pretty big
deal. Uh then um I believe it's I think speakers are at nine I think that's correct. Yep. 8 o'clock is when we can start parking. Nine o'clock is the speakers. And then on
August or excuse me July 28th we had the West Central Regional Water District meeting. I think um Commissioner Bear uh commented on that quite well. Uh we had some additional discussions about the uh
NOOU with Marshall Pulk that uh it look seems like we might be gaining some ground there in terms of an mutual agreement on that. Um there continues to be some dialogue about the Norman County being
the fiscal agent. I think that's u moving in the right direction. And I think the person was pretty new to that. And then I do want to mention we did have an insurance subcommittee meeting yesterday afternoon or yeah just afternoon and that was basically kind of
there's an awful lot developing on this uh insurance. And so we just had a subcommittee meeting just in preparations for this afternoon's insurance committee meeting. And I I think we're we're going to see some
pretty uh pretty interesting u numbers coming up this afternoon. So, and we have multiple meetings. Uh I think there's um multiple meetings lined up. Our goal is to uh have all of this
figured out um by the end of August. And and Anna needs that in time for the 12week time period that she needs to have for open enrollment. So, so we're kind of on a fast track timeline on that, but so far what we're seeing is is
encouraging in terms of the um potential premiums for our health health benefits. And that concludes my report. Steve, thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh last or 22nd, I participated in insurance committee, which has been well covered. Uh 23rd had
some department head evaluation preps. on the 24th and 25th participation in the Minnesota County Association of County Administrators technical days. We heard presentations uh from illers and capital planning uh county how counties
are dealing with artificial intelligence their the policies that they're using to to address those and also practices being utilized. We also talked about cyber security uh EMS funding uh and some of the challenges that are h being held around the state and how they're
dealing with those. Uh we talked about health and human service budget discussion with SNAP and Medicaid and also heard updates from Matt Hillgart and Julie Julie Ring. I want to thank the board for continuing to allow uh these opportunities to participate. Uh I
think that's very beneficial to bring back the information uh to to this to the county. Uh on the 28th participated in the west central water district which has been well covered 28th I also had a department head evaluation. 29th uh we had a public health premeating
pre-budget meeting. Uh that afternoon I met with Mr. Melton on a series of county issues uh and also met with the mayor Rick Barnesville and city administrator has been mentioned by commissioner Mojo. Uh on the 30th I met
with representatives from the city of Morehead in Dworth uh in regards to to the with White Earth Nation. Uh we heard an update uh on right now they're in the process of conducting some surveys and feasibility studies uh to provide some additional information uh forward. Hope
to have that here in the coming weeks. Um on the 30th we had administrative meeting with Dan Molly and Robert Wilson. Much of our focus was on budget discussions. North Dakota is a little ahead of us. I think they actually yesterday they
presented their their final budget. Uh the 31st participated in the FM chamber meeting that was also covered earlier. uh on the 31st met with Justin Sorum uh Pton Mastera and uh and Don Lorome uh talking about some of the economic
growth plans for Dworth and also uh to had some discussions on the 15th Avenue MetroCog study. Uh on the first head department head evaluations prep uh met with Dan Molly uh in regards to some city county issues. Uh also on the first
we had an insurance RFP discussion with Anna and Darren. Uh the fourth we had pre-budget meeting with probation which will be coming up and also the insurance subcommittee. Just a note for the commission on Monday September uh September 8th the city of Morehead is
going to be having a public hearing on the border city enterprise zone program. Uh again that program impacts about 150 businesses in Morehead uh that uh saves about about expends about $450,000 for
their annual compensation. Uh so you are invited to participate in that either in person or if you have any thing that you'd like to uh send in. Just a note, uh Klay County right now is hosting the nightight burger cookoff with the sheriff's department and so uh you guys
are all invited to that after after the meeting. That concludes our report. Brian, Darren, thank you, Mr. Chair. Looks like I have six minutes to uh go through my my uh
notes here negative six negative six minutes I won't take six minutes um because most of my uh stuff has been already been covered on the 22nd I also participated in the insurance committee meeting that afternoon I had a judicial security
workg group with Kimberly Jill Lori and Mark on the 23rd uh we had social workers negotiations that was the first one for them and the first negotiations with detox July 24th, I also attended the SWAC
meeting and that's been well covered by Commissioner Mojo and Commissioner Campbell. Um I also attended the SWAC advisory meeting with uh the city of Morehead that has also been u covered very well. Um throughout the last couple
weeks, I've been working on the union costing sheet, which I will bring to the board in an open uh or close session on the 19th. Um on the 25th I had to submit some information uh to the Bureau of Mediation Services. It looks like
there's a possibly a new bargaining unit that is um forming. It would be the jail administrator and jail assistant administrator only two people but um so I've been going back and forth with the bureau bureau of mediation services on
that. Uh submitted the 2120day report to the bargaining unit. It's also on the 25th. Um on the 28th uh we got a report uh that we from a state auditor on our parah and so I've been working with Lauren uh the pay
payroll clerk to supply those reports. Um I had a meeting with Matt on the 28th as well uh to talk about the state grant that we covered today in the um board meeting. On the 29th, I had a meeting with Steve
and Anna to reference some personnel issues and benefit options and also a pre-budget meeting with public health. On the 29th through the 1st, also worked on a lot of the union costing proposals, costing them out. On yesterday, we had
uh lieutenant negotiations and then uh the benefit meeting that Commissioner Campbell and Commissioner Khof has already commented on. And um I've lost track of how many meetings I've had with Steve in the last two
weeks. So that concludes my report and I did it with three months three minutes left to the adjournment. Sarah. Okay. I just want to add one thing back to the discussion regarding the um um
potential tipping fee issues in regards to two separate tipping fees and and the tipping fee for the resource recovery facility would be based on us taking over 100% of the operations including
equipment uh that is required for the MSW side of that. So you know that's that's that's how that's going to pan out. So um with that there's nothing else we will stand adjourned.