--------- Good morning everybody. It's 8:30. We call this morning's meeting of the Klay County Board of Commissioners to order for Tuesday, July 8th. Our first item is the approval of the agenda. Do we have any additions to the agenda? I'll make a motion to approve the
agenda. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Bear, second by Commissioner Kraboff. Any further discussion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I I oppose the same sign. Motion carried.
Citizens to be heard. Do we have any citizens to be heard? There's none in the audience. Do we have any online? We do not, Mr. Chair. Thank you. We'll move to approval of bills and vouchers. Move for approval of the bills and vouchers.
Second. Motion by Commissioner Ebinger, second by Commissioner Kraov. Any further discussion on the motion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed the same sign. Motion carried.
Approval of minutes from June 24th. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes from June 24th, 2025. Second. Motion by Commissioner Bear, second by Commissioner Erbinger. Any further discussion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I.
I. Oppose. The same sign. Motion carried. All right, we'll move into our 8:35 item, which is a request approval of the memorandum of understanding with Ulan Hardall School District for a school resource officer. Good morning, Sheriff. Uh, good morning, Mr. Chair, commissioners. Thanks for having me here
this morning. I am here to uh to get approval for a three-year with the Yulan Hindall School District for a school resource deputy. Uh as you're aware, we've uh had a long-standing relationship and collaboration with the Ulin Hindall schools for uh an SRO as
well as teaching DARE in Yulan. Um the deputy that's been up there over the past few years, he's done a great job at building some really good relationships and he has just done an excellent work at uh at learning all the kids and uh getting just a very good relationship
with those kids. Um, unfortunately he is going to be resigning um from the sheriff's office. So my next week's board request will be to replace him unfortunately. But we are here for this three this memo for three years. It starts uh started June 3rd, 2025. It'll
run to June 1st of 2028. Um as you can see we bill for 10 hours a week because that's what Eulan Hindall wants to have us there is 10 hours a week and we bill for 174 school days. Sheriff, is that um a few years ago that
was they had a resource off for more hours than that, didn't they? They they did have more uh hours. It was four hours a day. Now they have gone down to two hours a day just strictly for budgeting. Okay. You know, purposes for them. So that will just be additional time
that that officer will have for other duties. Correct. Yeah. So what they end up doing is they spend their time up in Yulan and then they spend time on the road working patrol shifts. Okay. Any other Yes. Commissioner just um great uh employee. I hate seeing
Deputy Lee go but best luck to him on his next endeavor but uh big shoes to fill. I'm a firm believer in school resource officers. It's a integral part of what school needs, not just for security, but uh a lot of them are
getting involved in the restorative justice programs and some of the other things we've got going that are going to help kids uh get through what's kind of a traumatic time here recently. So, with that said, I will make a motion to uh
um approve theou with Udin Hitter School District for school resource officer. I'll second that. Motion by Commissioner Abinger, second by Commissioner Bearer. Any further discussion? One one other question. Mr. Bear, with the contract for the price, does
that negotiate every year? Yep. Yep. That's depending on the deputy's salary. So, whomever is in there is we uh we take a portion of their salary and then bill that out for the 174 days. All right. Each year if there's an increase in each year there's an increase depending
on what the the coal isep increase. All right. Any further questions? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Oppose. The same sign. Motion carried. Thank you, Sheriff. Thank you.
And we'll see you at 2:15. Thank you. All right. Next, we have a request approval to hire a full-time deputy auditor for motor vehicle department. Good morning, Lori. Morning. Um, I'm here to request
approval for a a full-time uh deputy in the motor vehicle department. Uh, we have a vac a recent vacancy, so I'm just looking to fill that with back fill if necessary. So, I'm just curious. So what is is there different types of positions there where where you would want back fill or
Well, we've got variable hour positions that come in and so u I'm not anticipating that at this time but so if you if a variable hour wanted to go into that position you'd want to and actually we did that with our last okay one of our last positions. All right. All right. Any other
questions? I'll make a motion to hire a full-time deputy auditor for the DMV with back fail. I'll second. Right. Motion by Commissioner Mojo, second by Commissioner Krabanov. Any further discussion? There's one question. Yes, Commissioner Barer.
With this person moving on and hiring a new one, what type of savings are we going to have on the wage calculator? I honestly didn't calculate that this time. It should be probably it was I'm I'm guessing in in the vicinity of
probably three to $4,000 a year. So the is the person that was leaving fairly new also? They've been there for a couple years. Okay. Yeah, that'd be about sounds about right then. That'd be It came up really fast and I had to get it on the board so I didn't have time to
have do a wage calculator on that one. All right. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. The same. Good. Lori, how's the new facil facility going? Good. Uh, very well. Uh, it's it the customers
can come in, they've got plenty of room and the flow works really well for us. Um, it just is a really nice facility and we've had a lot of comments on it. Good. You know, a lot of compliments. I'm curious, do they deliver pizza there? Okay.
Depends on where you get it from. Thank you, Lori. Yeah. Thank you. All right. So, next Quinn, we have a request approval to replace a social worker in the child protection services due to resignation. Good morning, Quinn. Good morning, Mr. Chair, commissioners.
Uh, yes, I am here to request a motion to replace a social worker in our child protection division. Um this is a case management position that we've lost. Uh it's due to a resignation responsible for case management services that ensure uh child safety, legal compliance and support for families navigating child
protection system. Um this role does support our mandated timelines, our court related activities, documentation requirements, coordination with community partners as well as many many other things. I do think it's important to note that our child protection social workers experience pretty high levels of
secondary trauma. uh the redundant administrative burdens and external scrutiny which contributes to the burnout and high turnover rates. Uh just for your knowledge, the average tenure of a CPS worker is 1.8 years. Uh I ran the math. This staff was at 1.96 years.
So we got a little bit longer than the average. Um our staff regularly navigate complex systems and face demands from multiple oversight entities, making it critical to maintain our staffing levels to ensure consistent and effective service delivery. Replacing this position will help
prevent additional strain on our remaining staff, support our retention efforts, and uphold our commitment to safety and stability of children in Klay County. Um, I did run a wage calculator for your review. Uh, this is a fully budgeted position, grade 18 step three. Um, we do anticipate that a new hire
would come in at step one, uh, creating an approximate savings of $6,899. Uh, and with that, I would yield for any questions that you Commissioner Amir, do you anticipate back fill or is this entry level? Uh, I I would uh like backfill if if
possible. Uh, we don't see a lot of internal movement into child protection. We see uh lateral movement out of it, but I'm always hopeful that someone will want to experience it in one of our other divisions. So, I would request backfill. Okay. That being said, I'll make the
motion uh for the uh hiring of a full-time deput I'm sorry on the wrong one. Child protection uh child protection uh or social worker position and child protection division with the back fill.
A second. All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Abinger, second by Commissioner Krabnoff. Any further discussion? I think your description um points out well the um that's a difficult position and
certainly we give thanks to those people that are um working under those conditions because sometimes it's what they're working with is very difficult. I appreciate you're talk about complex family issues and can be some sad things that go on in
that area. So once again, thank them all on behalf of the board for their work. Any further discussion? Yes, Commissioner Aber, is there something we can do or something that can be done for peer support or or or
more of a a therapist kind of approach? Is there something these employees need that maybe we can come up for? Um the board's been very supportive over the years uh both in my previous role as a supervisor as a frontline staff that carried a case load myself and now I believe you all have been very
supportive. Uh we've done different things like bring in therapists for process called reflective supervision before. Um different people cope with things different ways. Um so what works for some doesn't work for others. Um we try to use a multitude of strategies. I
guess there's nothing directly that comes to my mind that I could ask you all to do that would immediately improve this. Um, but I appreciate the question. It's out. I'm I'm sure the commission's supportive of something if if something's out there that comes to your
attention. I I ran a unit that dealt with child abuse. And then I was chief here and your investigators and your people that worked with my investigators were great. But everybody in that field gets
traumatized and and if there's something we can do, I I'd love to try and facilitate that for you. All right. Any further comments? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I oppose the same.
Motion carried. All right, Quinn. Next we have uh the approval the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension background checks. Yes. So thank you. On on that note, I am uh requesting a motion to authorize a joint powers agreement to be signed
between social services and the Minnesota BCA in order to allow uh our agency to conduct federal fingerprint background checks. Um to give you a little bit of background, the sheriff's office was running these for us for quite a while. Uh they recently went through an audit in which it was found
out that they're not able to share that information with us. Uh we had to become an entity to run these ourselves. Um I've gone through the entire audit process with the BCA. The last step being this joint powers agreement. Um we have successfully completed this
criminal justice information services security audit um to just take over this responsibility directly. Um all necessary procedures and policies were developed to meet the FBI and BCA compliance standards. And again I just need the joint powers agreement to be
signed u by the board in order to get this thing rolling. Um I also do want to make note Anna and I are working on yet another alternative for this. Um, this is kind of a I would say maybe a more cumbersome process than than is necessary, extra thorough. Uh, we do
need federal fingerprints for our child protection workers and adult protection workers. Um, we've been doing it for all of them. That's been common practice for as long as I've been at the county. So, I Anna and I are working on seeing if there's an alternative, maybe more expedient process with DHS. Uh, but I
think we just received an email on that yesterday. So Quinn with with that in mind and this JPA this JPA um does not require us to use them solely as the resource for that purpose. Right. Not at all.
So but it just the GAPA deals more with the understanding that you've gone through all of the necessary requirements to meet the criteria to become Yep. And it has a lot to do with the storage uh secure storage of the information once we receive it.
All right. And I'm assuming this doesn't speed up the timing of Unfortunately, no. I was really hoping that that would be the case, but no, the timelines are estimated to be exactly the same because that continues to be a big issue, right? Is the It has. Yeah, it seems to be when um people are getting kind of their hunting
permits and licenses and fingerprints are going up, then our delays increase with that as well. But, uh, lately they've been about two to four weeks, which is ma reasonable, manageable. Okay. Well, that's that's not too bad. All right. Any further questions of
Quinn? What's the board's wishes? I'll make a motion to authorize the execution of the joint or the JPA with uh the BCA for federal fingerprint based background checks by Clay County Social Services.
I'll second that. All right. All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Krabanov, second by Commissioner Bear. Any further discussion on the motion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. The same sign. Motion carry, Quinn.
Thank you. Have a good day. All right. Request approval of expenses for the land department. Skimberly, good morning. Good morning, Mr. Chair, commissioners. I my first item today is to request the expenses for the land records department. This comes from the
recorders compliance fund. We do this every year. Um the compliance committee met earlier this April and requested for the 2026 budget that we all lot $105,000 which is consistent with what we've done in the past I'd say probably 10 to 15
years from this fund. So that would be split between maintenance from our tax system, our corner remonumentation program, um information services, and our assessor's office for their software. Okay. I'd be looking for a motion to approve
those expenses for the 2026 budget. And are those consistent with prior years, the dollar amounts for each? Um the we did do a little small shift of$1 to2,000 between information services and the assessor's software. their software price increase
and so we just moved that funding to in to cover their entire cost of their software. And is Kimberly, is there anything within your department where you get um you you get some funding back to you
based on dollars you spend on certain areas. I'm not talking necessarily about these items here, but um No, I don't believe so if I'm understanding your question correctly. Well, you know, some areas in social
services and public health there's for work that we do, we might get partial uh reimbursement from state or feds. No, the fees like the recording fees that we collect and the vital record fees, we do split that with the
state, but we don't get any additional reimbursements beyond the fees that we collect. I was I was just I was just thinking if there was maybe sometimes if we could pull one of these things and put something in there that could get
qualify for some additional dollars would be, but apparently that's not the case. So, no. And under statute, this compliance fund has to be used specifically for um expenses in the land records departments. Right. Okay. All right. And Commissioner Abberinger,
you're on this board on that committee. Yes. And Kimberly and I met on this and the next issue. Uh she's very good about keeping keeping uh me personally and then the board at large uh up to speed on what's what's going on. This is a
good savings. It's spread out. uh to where a number of departments benefit and uh it still complies with the state requirements for how this money can be spent. So, having said that, I will make a motion to approve the $105,000 expense
for the land's record departments in uh 2026. We have a motion. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Ebinger, second by Commissioner Krabanoft. Any further discussion? I have one question. Yes, Commissioner Barer.
I'm a little confused here. Why are we doing this as a separate motion when we're going to have a budget on this department? It's required. Yeah. For the state statute, this compliance money in order to be spent has to be approved by the board. So, I need that in a separate motion. I need a motion to approve those expenses to
comply with statute. And does this money come from the state then? No, this is all money that um every single document that comes in for recording has a recording fee and a portion of that recording fee goes into this compliance fund. And as long as we
maintain compliance with statute, meaning that we return our recorded documents within an allotted time frame, then we can use these expenses for land record departments within the county. That cleared it up. And that number has been that 105 has been pretty consistent
the last couple years. Correct. It has been. There was one year um during I 2020 or 2021 when we had a large increase in recording that we put an additional $20,000 towards the corner remonumentation. Otherwise, it's been pretty stable. Um
the the number the fund that we collect for that varies each year because the number of documents that we record can change. So, in the past few years, we haven't even been collecting that 105,000, but we've had a little bit of balance there in order to maintain that same number.
What What have we been collecting? Um, excuse me. Let me look here on my budget. Um, sorry, I should have had that number a little more readily available. Um, so in
so for 2024 we collected just under 92,000. So it's $91,278. So there is a balance in that fund. So then the overage just comes from that fund balance. And so so after you take the difference between that 91 and 105 this year, what
would that fund balance be? the fund balance sits around $100,000. Um, and I would like to leave it around that $100,000. If we become non-compliant, then we can't use the funds for other land record departments. Um, the only
way that I foresee if we're non-compliant, the only way to probably get into compliancy would be to hire an additional employee to help complete the work on a timely manner. So, I would like to keep that so that if I needed to hire an employee um that's not budgeted, I would have that fund to pay those fees
from. Okay. All right. Any other questions? And we did have a motion in a second. So, any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I.
I oppose the same sign. Motion carried. All right. Next, Kimberly, we have the um Yeah. My next request is to approve the fees to set for our judicial security legislation that was passed this year at
the legislature. My request is for a fee of $75 for each real property notice, consent to access, request to access, and consent to terminate received under um received under the statute. So this is legislation that passed this year
that is an address protection program built specifically for district court judges. So they will have to submit a request to us to shield their records from the public record. So that's what the real property notice would be would be a document we would receive from the
judicial official to shield their information. Um, there's going to be extensive work in doing that as this law allows documents that have already been on public record to then become private. So, there's going to be an extensive
amount of work by many different departments in the county to comply with this statute. U, the statute does allow a fee up to $75, which is why I'm here today to set that fee at $75 for each of those notices.
And then that that fee is paid by who? The fee will be paid by the person presenting the notice to us. In this case would be the judges or the judge or there is um people that by statute would have access to file the consent to access. So then that fee would be paid by them.
Okay. Yes. Commissioner Mojo. Thank you. Uh I think in regards to the events that happened in St. call in June. This probably is just the first step in uh trying to shield some um private data. And so I think it would be
helpful for us as we work through this to to develop a framework on internally how it best works because my guess is that scope would be broadened understanding that public officials still are very public people but I think there will be more to come particularly
in the retiree area as well. Yeah, we have a committee that's getting um started that's actually meeting after this meeting to start working on the policies and procedures for how we're going to implement this to have going forward. All right. This commissioner
just one thing Kimberly brought to my attention when we spoke on this. Uh this is liable to get much bigger than where it's at now. And as that happens, there will be a reduction in
inquiries that the that they can they can uh assess for and we may see a drop in the departmental income the revenues they generate. So it's sort of a looking down the road we may need to be ready to
to address issues on funding. I guess I guess I don't follow how as these records become private um so people pay to access my real estate records online and so if more and more
things are not public they're not going to be able to access those records. So I feel there may be fewer people in the future that may be using those systems that do generate a revenue off of my software. Well, I would hope there's not an overwhelming number of people looking
for judges addresses and those types of things. We're getting revenue right now, but hard to know because I'm not sure who's all searching. Yeah. Okay. Well, it's not just the judges, though. I mean, there's discussion right now on elected officials obviously, and once that happens, there's going to
be other people that don't want to it it could become generalized enough to where it impacts on revenues that Kimberly's people generate. So just a kind of a heads up. Yeah. State of Florida has implemented
similar legislation and they have over 40 parties that are protected by the same similar legislation. 40 40. Yes. Will will the $75 actually cover the time spent on this?
No. The original but we're restricted by the state. We're restricted by statute. The original um fee proposed in legislation was $40 and we got it up to 75. No, we're going to have hours and hours of work developing policies and
procedures for this and then the actual work when we receive the notice. So, no, the $75 is not going to cover that. Is it do you charge them 70 for each one they want to redact? Uh, no. It's $75 for each notice that we receive. So one notice may ask us to
shield multiple documents from the record and it's shielding back the specific documents and shielding forward. So there's going to be a lot of county money spent though. Um yeah, there's I mean we have specific software that's
being built so that we can um track them in the future because as we record documents go live. So we need to be able to know by name and parcel number or address what doc what what property should not be public.
So so it goes further than just what's happening within your department. It can have some impacts on Oh yes. Mark loan's department. Yes. Yep. the assessor's office, the auditor, treasurer's office, information services, um possibly even public health
with their septic systems and planning and zoning for sure. Okay. And it's complex. Yes, Commissioner Mos. Thank you. uh you know given this came out of the 25 legislative session and understanding that you know the state budget won't come again for another two years I these are really important
pieces for us to track in regards to not recouping the amount of funds that it will take to actual actually process through these things. Um sometimes those tweaks are easier than larger lifts at the legislature. So, it'll really be helpful for you to maybe keep a tab on
that and we can continue to raise that uh voice not only for the next session, but because it I'm anticipating larger changes said earlier, it will help us rolling into that next budget cycle to maybe allocate more that makes more sense.
Yeah. And I think our um recorders association and Mako will probably be tracking that as well and help with that. But yeah, I'll definitely be keeping track of that to kind of have an idea to prove what we're what time it takes. All right, we have a uh we have a
request to approve the fee of $75 for each property notice. I'll offer a motion to approve the fee. Second and sorry, and all of the other issues added. Okay. Everything that's in the request there. All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Mojo, second by
Commissioner Ebinger. Any further discussion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Oppose the same. Motion carried. All right, we'll move on to
your next item. Kimberly. Okay, thank you. My next item is request approval for a fee increase for online real estate records. Um, many different professionals throughout the county access our real estate records online.
It's an expensive cost to me to have those real estate records online. They need to be um protected through security and they run different cyber security tests and things like that on there. And so I am asking for a fee for a change in
fee for the overage costs on our contract for that. Right now we kind of have a sliding scale. I would just like to move it to be just 20 cents per minute for any overage for all plans. That just makes it a little bit easier for me to administer. And when talking
to people about these plans, it's just a straight 20 cents across the board. So, the people on our lowest plan would actually receive a little bit of a discount if they did go over the minutes. And the rest of the people um the people that are getting the 10 cents and 12 cents, we're not really getting
any overage on that right now because they're not going over on their minutes. So I would my first request would be to ask um to just change that to a flat 20 cents per minute just to make that managing that contract and agreement a little bit easier. The second request
would be to increase the print cost to 40 cents per print from the 35 cents. Um we implemented these real estate records online in 2003 um at the end of that year and it has been 35 cents a print since that year. Um the fee fees have
increased for those plans to access them. Um but I would like to keep those at those rates so that people can continue to access those just increase the cost if they need to print. And so that would um be 5 cents an additional page to print. And I would
also like to add that cost for when they print search results. Right now we're not capturing any revenue from that. And so I would like to add that fee as well. The cost of my software is going up to
in to cover the cost of increased cyber security around having these real estate records online. I've also had a fee increase for our hosting of these records offline um back in 2020 2021 when the board approved my giant scanning project where we put all of our
recorded documents online where people can access everything back to the beginning of time. But now that has increased my storage cost of saving all of these records online and the backup of that and so I'm looking to increase some revenue to capture those additional
costs for my office. Right. This Commissioner Kraboff, does this involve uh abstract updating? I mean, is that part of this? Yeah. So, the abstract companies utilize my online records. Yeah. So, this would be how part of how
they build those. Yes. That could impact that their search. Yeah. Okay. Then if anybody prints in our I mean we have access to our program for no charge in our office. If they do print in our office, it is a dollar a page to print.
Yeah. A lot of these services, Kimberly, are userbased services and and you think our intent was to from a board standpoint to make sure that we're re recouping our costs involved with those. And the the
idea was not that we make money on fees, but at least that we can recoup some of some of our costs. And that's uh for example, when you go to that one where you're going to just do an average of 20 cents as opposed to having different numbers, that overall will still average out to to basically cover your costs
involved with processing, right? Yes, I believe it will. Okay, Mr. Chair. Okay. Yes, Commissioner Mojo. Thank you. Are any of these prints in color? Well, it's at So, these prints would be prints that they'd be making at
their at their office. And so, the cost of the toner and the paper and all of that would be at their expense. And that's where it's a dollar a page to print at our office because you're using our toner and our paper and our equipment. Okay.
Is that color? Um, no. Typically, it's everything scanned into our system scans in black and white because the cost to store color is astronomical. Okay? And so, everything scans in black and white to save on long-term storage costs.
All right. So, we have a request um for fee increase for online real estate records as proposed. I move that. Second the motion. We have a motion by Commissioner Kavanagh, second by Commissioner Mojo.
Any further discussion on the motions? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. The same. Motion carried. All right. Well, I guess we'll Kimberly, we'll go right into your budget presentation.
Thank you. Yeah. So, moving on to my 2026 budget. I'll go over my revenues kind of at the top first. That first line, there is a slight decrease. That's for the county portion of our recording fees. we are seeing those numbers um
still be a little bit lower than our average after the 2020 2021 um low interest rates and so I did decrease that just a little bit in anticipation of not getting as many documents to record. Um that next line that is our revenue
from our online real estate records. So there is an increase there as I anticipate um we'll in have an increase in fees collected for the online records question right there is that what we just agreed to that that increase would show up there.
Yes. Yep. In that line and you and you put that in there with the anticipation of our our board action today. I did. I did. So you'll see that increased revenue there. And then on the bottom, that very bottom line, um, computer software, you'll see an increase in the expense there because
that is my increase cost from my software vendor for all of the maintaining the security of these records online. Okay, that third line, that recorder equipment fund, that's an in-n-out. So, you will have an expense matching that
$85,000 on the end. That is our technology fund. money from that comes from our recording fees and goes into a fund specifically for the recorder's office for the use of technology within our office. Um that next line, that's our compliance fund, that $105,000.
You can see there it has been that $105,000 for several years. So that goes into my budget as a revenue and then those expenses come out of all of those other departments. So that 105 just kind of offsets the county levy on that.
The next line under search charges there, there's an increase of 11.11%. That is for the county portion of our vitals fees. We are seeing a little bit of a slowdown in people requesting documents now that the real ID has been implemented, but also um now we've been
through a full year of doing marriage ceremonies in our office. And so I felt we could have a slight increase in that line for that. Um interest revenue. I had been kind of guessing low, not knowing where the interest rates were going to be, but now I feel pretty confident in increasing
that to about where we're going to have it at. Moving down to my expenses, most of my expenses are employee related. Um, you'll see an increase in my professional services of $500.
Um, I now use a online translation service through the phone or through web when we have PE non-English-speaking people here. So, we're having expenses for that. Um, that's just adding to our customer service by being able to translate with those people better.
Um, and then that very last line, you'll see that increase there for the computer software. that is what my software company bills me for those online services for the subscription costs for that. So you'll see a big increase there, but that's offset
by the revenue that comes in on that line item. Do you have any questions for me on my 2026 budget as proposed? Um Kimberly, on your salaries line item right now, your um your percentage of the year it's
showing 34.89. 89 and we're at I think we're probably at about 42% for the year. Why would Have you been operating fully staffed? Yes. Yeah. I'm not sure when these numbers were Yeah, Mr. Chair, I think just taking a
quick look here, this document has May year to date, so it looks like it's a couple couple months behind, but I Yeah, but I mean going through May, that would be a that would I think that equates out to about 42% of the year
and her right now her through May her salaries are at 34.89. I'm just curious why that. Yeah, I'll check with Lori and 7% difference. I guess I'm just curious as to Okay. Any any other questions from
Kimberly? Mr. Chair, I would just uh make note again, Kimberly's one of our department heads that uh I don't I don't think meticulous probably does justice to to to the adjective. I think she mentioned earlier in her budget presentation about
looking at translation services. Uh she's also worked together with all of our departments uh in credit cards uh in looking at the fees as a whole. Uh and so she's really been a leader in in taking on those and so not always not only just looking at her budget but impacting the others. So wanted to point
that out. Well, I am always impressed with her budget. She always does a good job. So thank you. Anybody else have anything for Kimberly? Yes, Commissioner. just I want to join in in the accolades here. Um Kimberly is
very good at keeping me up to speed on what they're doing and explaining some of the details on it. Uh and and a couple lawyer friends and a real estate friend all speak highly of her office and the work she does. So
kudos to you, Kimberly. We appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Kimberly. All right. Next, we have a human resources budget presentation. Morning, Anna.
Good morning. Thank you for having me this morning. Okay. Hopefully mine is pretty simple. So for 2026, um you will actually under my salaries, you'll actually see a decrease. Um although that's including our steps, it doesn't include a cola,
but Darren's salary was reallocated from human resources to administration. HR does not budget anything for overtime. And then of course our health insurance, PAR, social security, all of that's kind of pending right now.
Moving to my telephone line. Um that is actually a new request for 2026. When I became a department head, I was issued a county cell phone. U Rory's department paid for that for 2025 for me just since I didn't have any funds allocated, but I am requesting $540 be added to my
telephone line for 2026. Printing and publishing. Um, I'm actually getting rid of that line on my budget and reallocating those funds to a different line below, which I'll talk about shortly. We just haven't had to print or publish anything in the last
couple years. Um, given that most things are electronic and we can post things online. My subscriptions will remain unchanged for 2026. We haven't received any notice of anything increasing at this time.
and as well um as my so the one thing I am changing for 2026 is membership dues um I shouldn't say changing I'm keeping it the same um like sometimes that can go in line with subscriptions but we do have a couple memberships like macroma and pelra and
some other things of that nature um similar to my printing and publishing line my advertising line is also uh decreasing for 2026 with the implement implementation excuse me of UKG
we just aren't really publishing things in the paper anymore so we don't really have to advertise in that way other professional services for 2026 so last year the board approved HR to implement recruiting and onboarding
through UKG that was funded by HR and IT and so in 2026 I do have the cost of that program in my budget As I mentioned a couple lines ago, um I was reallocating funds for my printing and publishing and my advertising to our training budget for 2026.
Just as a new department head, there's some additional things that I'd like to seek as well have as having a new employee in HR. Just some additional trainings for us. Our conference and workshop registrations remain unchanged for 2026. HR does not have any equipment or
maintenance that we have to repair or maintain. And then the other the next couple lines um for meals and travel expenses, those remain unchanged. We HR attends a couple conferences a year. My office budget I am increasing by $250
for 2026 for a total of $500 for the year. HR is responsible for providing the lanyards for our ID badges and the covers for these. And we just know we'll have to buy some more as um we hire new employees. And then um lastly, I don't have to purchase any small equipment or
health supplies. So for 2026, I will see an approximate 16% decrease in HR's budget. With that, I'll open it to any questions. And again, these are nice numbers, but we haven't got a cola in there, and we haven't got our true
Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. Where it stands today, but without the cola and health insurance, we don't know. You're the lead. You're the leader right now. You're setting the trend in the right direction. I have a very small department. It's It's much different. You didn't have to say that. I know. But giving some credit to the
other departments is mine's much different. Give yourself some credit. Yes. Okay. Does anyone have any questions? Any questions? Thank you, Anna. Yeah. Thank you. Here comes a big budget.
Good morning, Preston. Good morning. Good morning. All right. Whenever you're ready, Justin. Yes. So, good morning. I'm here today to present the highway department budget for 2026. So, our budget is comprised of four
sections. I won't go through line by line each of the four sections, but I will make some highlights, and if you have any questions, just feel free to ask me at any time. So our first one is 310 and that is maintenance. So for 2026 we estimated revenues using
the past year trends and what we are expecting for revenues for state aid based on what projections are that we've seen from the state. So for example 103105409 is the township maintenance revenue. That's based on a 5-year rolling average. So we do know what that's going
to be. Is there any questions on the revenue side of things? Overall, there's nothing glaringly different this year versus last year. On the expenditure side, the first thing you'll see is 103106105.
So, I do not have any new requests this year, so that's staying the same. Um, we were actually able to eliminate last year I did have a new request for a new maintenance worker and I had mentioned that I would eliminate 37,500 in part-time summer expenses as we don't
utilize that position and so we did eliminate 375 from that. Um, overtime we went down slightly. Um, even though last year was a very mild winter, one winter can really eat up that budget big time. And obviously
we've had two mild ones in a row. 103106277. So that's the training budget. So if you recall when we the board passed the CDL policy, that's where this comes from. Just an update to the CDL policy. It's been working really really well for us.
To date, six employees have utilized this course. Two being this year alone. And I feel like it's been a really good recruitment tool for our department as we have used it a lot. One question there. For the six that have utilized it, are all six still employed with the county?
Yep. And two of them, I believe, are past their 2-year commitment time, too, and they've stuck around at the county. So, um 103106454 is up slightly. So, that's uniforms that
just um every other year it goes up and down based on boot years. So, if it's a heavy boot year, not heavy boot year, we do give employees $200 every two years to purchase a pair of boots. That is in the union contract. Um 103106502
is road materials. I did increase that by $200,000 from 1.2 to 1.4 four um on and I did lower something a little bit further down the line by 100,000 and I'll get to
that. The reason I increased it by 200,000 is just the rising cost in gravel and then also trying to build a stock pile for ourselves to because you never know what's going to happen in the future cuz really the last three years we've only gotten one competitive gravel
bid. So we do need to have some material on on hand in case we don't get a good bid and we have to haul it ourselves. So I did lower roadway maintenance by 100,000 which is 103106566. I went from 400 to 300. So a net change
of only 100,000 between those two items. And then 103106509 traffic supplies is up 5,000 just to cover the increased cost of sign and post and trying to make improvements where we can. within the last two weeks,
we've actually implemented a new sign software um along with GIS and we've we've noticed how out ofd our old sign software was. So, it's been something that's really nice to have. Um and we have two people in the summertime working out of our sign department. So, we've been able to make some
improvements there. And then two years ago, we purchased that retrorefletoter which has actually added some life onto we were going to replace stop signs two years ago. And we ultimately didn't end up need to do end up needing to do that last or two years ago.
Um 103106567 weed and brush control is up 5,000. So annually I meet with SWCD. um they kind of give us we give them a budget and they go through where they're seeing noxious weeds and where we think we need to spray and we it's been a
program that's been working really well. And then 103106807 is the one turnback within the city of Morehead, the street aotment, town road, gravel tax. And as you recall, last year was our last payment of the 40th Avenue
turnback, which I'll get to where I allocated that last coming up here or 2024 was the last year of that. Apologize. And this in 2025 you we use that for striping, right? Correct. I guess any questions on the maintenance
side of things overall? Nothing really. No big changes and no new staff. Again, I'm just I'm asking the same question I asked before and it has to do with salaries. It looks like the salaries are Yeah, I'll I'll confirm with Lori and in
in future budget packets to make sure that the the year to date's up to date. Okay. Um, next one is 320, which is construction on the revenue side of things. um 10320 5220 state grant. So
that is for the local road improvement grant that we received for the um CASA 12 and 52 roundabout. 320 5271 is bridge bonding. Um as we know there was a bonding bill passed. This is just an estimate based on our
5-year plan of what we would expect to get for that. Also very dependent on bridge sufficiency ratings and local planning indexes. Um Justin on on the just on the state grant on that 560
that's for the that's for the money received on the roundabout. So So we're anticipating those revenues and the project expenditures all occurring in 2026. Correct. Correct. Sometimes there's a there's a lapse
between years and certain projects and I'm just in this particular case it'll all be Yes. So the construction finished in 26 and the revenues and the expenditures will follow in the same year. Correct. Um 10320 5272 municipal construction. So
this just follows our 5-year plan in 2026. I do not have any municipal construction plan. Um 103205274 you'll notice is quite a bit higher. So, the reason for that is we are working with Glendon Township and trying to get
the bridge replaced on 12th Avenue. That's about a $2 million bridge. So, you can it's quite a bit higher than normal. Uh federal grants. So, this includes two projects. Um, one being the roundabout
obviously and then br oh bridge replacement project that we're um also doing a project with Wilin County that we both have bridges that we'll get federal aid for and package them together. I guess any questions on the revenue
side of construction? So again, that's 6.5 million in regular construction. That's that's that's assuming that's that would be bridge money coming in. So that covers $2 million that covers CASSA regular money spent.
Um township bridge money spent, any construction that's not a grant. Correct. And that's an that's an in and out on our revenue and expenditure side. But that
for those bridges, correct? Then if we don't get the bridge bonding grant, we obviously won't have an expenditure either. Then that would reduce 6632. Yes. Okay. No. Yes.
Okay. Okay. Um, expenditure side. Can I just ask a question? So, so the so the 6500 includes our what is it 4.1 or 4.2 that we get from
correct. So it follows my fiveyear plan, right? Plus the township bridge project. So we ended up was it 4.7 or four 4.7 a little under 4.7. Yeah. 4.6 something. Yeah. And then and so the rest then
would be anticipated bridge dollars. Bridge bonding dollars. The difference between the 4.7 and the 6.5 million. Not bridge bond dollars. Township bridge township. Yeah. What? Yeah. It's it's it'd be something coming in.
Yeah. Correct. So when I put this number together, I follow my five-year plan. And then also we have that deficient bridge list on the township bridges that we're anticipating to replace. So that's our construction number plus that number. And so
then when we when we go down to look at 6632 when we're at 8 million, you know, so we're, you know, we're just under we're about $1.8 million more in expenditures than revenues. What did I did we is that
going negative in into our um aotment? No. So that I believe that also covers bridge bonding on the expenditure side. Correct. Um yep. It it covers bridge bonding any federal dollars that we receive casaw
regular and township bridge. So it' be that 1.27 or Okay. So we would we would be adding together this the 1.1 million in federal that 1.1 and the six 6.5 Y and the 170,000 from Bridge
and Okay. Okay. So that gets us closer to um next item would be kind of note on the expenditure side would be 103206274 engineering consultant technical service. So, if you remember last year,
we upped this by quite a bit to account for the roundabout. Now, with the bridge or with the bonding bill, there is going to be local road improvement money. So, I did increase this slightly with plans of going out for an RFP this fall for the um CASA 11 from Sabin all the way to
Titan Machinery. So, my plan would be to go out for an RFP to help design this and then also go after that local road improvement grant in hopes of accelerating the construction there. Uh um excuse me, Justin. With the
board's recent action regarding the Commtock project, uh obviously um those dollars will still flow through Klay County and be checks issued. Then revenues received back from the
diversion authority. Are they in here? No. Do we? So that was planned for in 2025. without with the uncertainty of knowing exactly how many dollars I don't think it would be after. So those are all right all accounted for in 2025. Yep. Even though there could be a
correct. Okay. All right. Thank you. 103206277 training. So this covers all of our engineering technicians and all the different certifications that they're
required to have. I did keep this one flat as you notice in 2025 we did get close to that number just we had a new engineering technician start um and now the state is not going to be covering the bridge inspection class anymore. So
I felt as though keeping it flat was justified in case we do send somebody to become a certified bridge inspector. 103 206565 is right ofway costs. As you notice, that number is down quite a bit. Um, it
was up in 2025 to account for the rightway that we were attempting to purchase for the roundabout. We went back to just a normal level in case something does come up. Yes. And then 10 320 6631 new construction
county funing. And so that's the one that I increased last year to 800,000. It was decreased slightly to help pay for the new request. So I did put that back to 800,000 and that's the money that will be used for seal coating and striping. I feel as though that's going to be a big improvement to the county
and something that we're taking advantage of this year. Any questions on the construction side? Um yes. Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. cost any of that,000?
Not to date. We're currently in negotiations with two different land owners. Do you spend any of that money actually? Um, not every year, but it's also very dependent on if there's a rightway need
that pops up. So, we keep five or we keep 10,000 appraisals and 10,000 in right-of-way cost just in case something comes up that we need to get an appraisal. A lot of times we don't spend that money. Um, but you never know when
the rightway need pop up. And then obviously if we have a project that we know about then we increase rightaway cost significantly. So in the future I could see the right ofway costs if Cass 11 design goes forward. I could see that number jumping
again. And then that new construction and county 6631 going up to 800,000 that would be for you said seal coating and striping. Yep. Do you plan on doing a big project of
seal coating next year? Yes. And again that was that's that's the line item that was increased because of the 40th 40th turn back turn back turn back was final payment was made and we rolled that into that area. There
wasn't really an increase there, per se. It was just shifting money from one thing to another last year. Yeah. And then keeping it the same this year. And it's shown that way throughout my five-year plan, too. So, with those bids coming in so cheap for striping,
where did that extra money go? Or is that extra money being spent this year or is it So, when I bring my five-year plan to the board, I'll show where that money is planned to go and then there would be board action to approve that. Um Justin, I
I just I requested I'd like So the um 6630 the village tax projects is is that the money that we pay out to um our small cities
which 6630 construction city wheelage tax. Yes, that is um the city portion of what we collect in wheelage tax. Um but it's what it's what we've decided to give back to cities. It's not the city's
portion. Correct. Yeah. Okay. And so and it's showing as a revenue down in 805 as a as wheelage tax. So the the city number and the county number
add up to what we're requesting as revenue in 805. So it's a neutral item, right? I I guess I guess what I um is it easy to um get us information. When did when did that when did we start
that wheelage tax? Was it like five years ago or more than that or more than that? Okay. Can we could we maybe is there a way that we could give a historic give us a historical information based on how much we gave to each community uh may
you know whether it's the next the last five or seven years is that hard to do or no I have that information I could okay you could you uh provide that to us is that something you would want in form of a agenda item or just sent to Steve to be sent to
I think you could send it to Steve and Steve can send it to us is that broke down by city. Yes. Thanks. Yeah. I It's It's just It's just nice to know what that annual amount is and how it's growing, if any. And And then a lot of those smaller cities
do carry a balance kind of saving up. And and we allowed them to extend those balances to save up for a larger project. Yes. And remind me again, does the wheelage tax go to the city on the address?
No. So it's all based out on percentages population or Yep. Yeah. It's it's a formula that we created as a board to provide I guess the the reason I'm asking I live 10 miles south of Morehead but my
address is Morehead. So what I was asking is is the cars that I license with my Morehead address does that go to Morehead or does that go to the pot to Divvy by percentage? I think I heard what you said. So 70% goes to the county, 30% to the
city based on population. So then if you look on the screen, 51% of the 30% goes to the city of Morehead and then 7% to Barnesville, Dworth, Glendon, and Holly. And then 3 and a half% to Commtock,
Felton, Georgetown, Hard. and and you know for our new board members the you know because this was probably even done be maybe before Dave and Paul. Yeah. So when we when we went through and elected it was it was the
county's u authorization to collect the $10. Mhm. Um, and certainly part of my position was that if we're going to collect it, we need to allow a portion of it to go back to our cities. That was that was
totally uh an an option that the county had or the the county could have technically kept one 100% of that for county purposes. So I just just you know letting the board be aware that that um
in previous actions we've decid we've decided to contribute some of those dollars to our communities of which some counties don't do. So just a point for future.
Yep. Yeah. Well, yeah. And I you know the I think it I think it's just another way to show how the county has collaborated with our communities over in the past and it's you know it's a it's something
that we have voluntarily done on behalf of our communities. So, um, okay. I get back to your presentation. When you send that information to Steve, can you send that policy with that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you could.
All right. Next. All right. So, next would be 330, which is admin. So, highway admin covers our office manager, admin, assistant, engineer, assistant engineer, and then highway accountant. Um, on the revenue side, not a whole lot
of change here. Overweight permits. Guess there's nothing really of note there. Um, so 10330 6271. So other professional services. So that covers our accounting software
and then also RT vision which RT vision does both time cards and then also our construction tracking software that helps with MIDOT and state aid quite a bit. Um 10330 6401 I increased small office
equipment last year. I kept it the same this year. There's really not a whole lot of stuff or increases here or anything of note. If there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. 636 6354 workman's compensation.
You have an increase of 5% there. Mr. Mr. Chair, Commissioner Bear, those numbers all come from Lori directly. Those Okay. I'm I'm assuming it's either because of increased payroll or or a change in the modification rate. That those are the
probably the only two areas where that could be. All right, we can go to the last one which is 340 and that is covers our shop. So that's our diesel mechanic and our shop foremen. On the revenue side, that's the revenue that comes from joint facility expenses.
um 10340 6107 overtime. Same as kind of the maintenance side of things, just trying to capture, you know, in the event that we do have a bad winter that we don't completely blow our budget. I mean, even on the shop side, last year was a very mild year in
terms of the amount of weekend work that they had to do. Um 10340 6302 equipment repair and maintenance. So that one is up 50,000 from 300 to 350,000. So just trying to capture what it's
costing to fix some of our equipment. These numbers obviously with the last two years we've had two transmissions go out and two separate motor graders. So that has not helped our case whatsoever. And then also something like cutting edges comes out of this line item too.
And cutting edges have the amount of they have increased significantly. We've tried to in the last couple years take advantage of some lower prices and build an inventory, but if we do have a bad winter, we go through a lot of those.
And then 10340 6410 fuel. We kept that one flat. Again, obviously we came in quite a bit under last year, but if you have three or four bad blizzards, that can significantly change that line item. So just trying to trying
to not completely blow it one year. And then radio equipment, we did go up $500. So each year we purchase two radios in hopes of getting every piece of equipment that we have with an armor radio. It's been working really well so far.
Guess any questions on the shop side of things? So the uh the internal service going from 1.5 to 1.6 is that because of new or is that just the 3% add-on or
that number comes from Lori as well. It's um just trying to keep up with equipment. Okay. Just overall any that kind of concludes my budget. Any other questions that you
guys can think of or comments, comments, questions? All right. Thank you, Justin. Thank you. Thank you, man. I like one. Okay. Could could you show us what your total increase would be on all those? Is that like are you looking for like what the
levy increase would be on all of it combined? So out of all four items um if you put it together my percent increase on the levy is 6.66%. And you have no new requests?
Zero new requests. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We're going to take five minutes. All right. We are back in session and our remaining item on the agenda is our
committee reports. And we'll start with Commissioner Bearer. I did not have any committees in last week. All right, Commissioner Ebinger. Thank you. Uh, on the last Tuesday on the 1st, uh, I attended the Partnership for Health. We had our annual audit entrance
meeting. Um, covered what audits cover, had a had a good discussion, and things look good, and they will, the state will continue to work with uh, Partnership for Health
and getting the audit completed. Uh later that day at Lake Agony Lake Agassy Regional Library Finance Committee meeting uh we met with staff and again we are still at work uh trying to come up with a lease uh for
the new library. It's being built by the city of Morehead and that is a work in progress. We have sent them an additional offer and have not received a uh response at this point and I'll keep you apprised as as that develops.
uh on the second attended the diversion authority meeting. Uh it was a special meeting that uh we had and it covered the settlement with the Red River Valley Alliance and ASN uh
con uh construction contractors. Um it's been fairly well covered. This addressed numerous uh issues involving about 400 million as I recall.
Commissioner Campbell, that was the amount that was in in contention. It was settled um for 50 527 57 million which will be paid out
incrementally as the work progresses. Uh I really think this was a a good deal for all concerned. It gives the uh people building the diversion a little motivation uh to to move along to keep it on date.
And the conclusion of this was that it is going to be completed in a timely manner. Mr. Campbell may have a little additional on that. I won't just get into the weeds too deeply, but we did uh vote to accept the uh proposal as it was
presented to us by uh the executive director and councel and the uh other participants in this signed the following day. So, it's a an accomplished deal right now.
And that completes my report. Thank you, Mr. Kra. And one meeting at health insurance subcommittee meeting and a short meeting to discuss the planning of our next health insurance meeting coming up in
later July. Mr. Mojo, thank you. I have notes that we had a highway tracking meeting last Tuesday. I talked about um the construction uh updates on some of the projects. uh
talked about the comtock bidding that we had had earlier that day and that's my abbreviated notes because I brought the agenda from April 23rd. Okay, so unless you want to know what happened
April 23rd. That concludes my reports, but I do have as you know this is the Klay County Fair week uh that is such a vibrant activity for all of Klay County. This board really supports the work that happens out there in a myriad of ways. Klay
County is having the government day out there on Friday and uh hope to see as many folks out there as possible. And uh if you'd like to work a food stand shift just to, you know, live the uh era that we used to flip burgers in at the 4 food stand, 4
and FFA kiddos will be out there uh flipping burgers or pancakes depending on the time of day. So, hope to see you in Barnesville. Thank you all. All right. I had the I also on July 1st, we had the highway
tracking committee meeting. Um we talked a little bit further about the uh next steps that were going to be going on with the comtock construct reconstruction project. Um Justin talked about having a rough draft
of at the August highway tracking meeting for the um five-year plan. Uh there was a request from the city of Morehead to swap Casaw 3, which is the 11 street
from Center Avenue to 18, which is just north of the beat plant. They'd like to switch that with uh um 34 street which goes from trunk highway 10 to 18. Um we asked for a lot
of additional information on that. It um no decision obviously and that that we had some concerns regarding that request. So we'll we'll see how that pans out. Um there was also
uh Justin again updated us on some concerns regarding u on Cassaw 3 from what I refer to as Wall Street it's 22 to u coming into town of the speeding
trucks and it's just it just seems like it's just an ongoing u concern by residents along that route. So, we'll continue to monitor that and we may have to look at having our sheriff
out out there monitoring that for a while to see if we can improve that. And we got several uh construction updates on different projects um that Justin will be bringing before the full board.
Uh then we as Commissioner Krabanov mentioned, we had a subcommittee meeting of the insurance committee and it basically was, you know, just um getting some prep information on what we're anticipating
to see for health insurance increases that the uh full insurance committee will receive. I believe it's on July 24th, 23rd, 22nd, one of those. 22nd, one of those date. Yeah, 22nd is
the date. Um and then as Commissioner um Ebinger mentioned on the second, we also had the diversion authority special meeting uh that was well publicized in terms of the settlement agreement with the
contractors and the owners. Um that was they they basically had um close to $400 million in claims um against the diversion authority. Uh a lot of them had to do with uh time delays and the uh
several different factors. Don't need to get too much in the weeds on that, but we did u we did agree to that $57 million and the epoxy coated rebar issue was all
gone away. Now all that's all resolved. And part of that part of those issues related back to when we had this the when the diversion authority was formed, we created this dispute resolution
board. And that dispute resolution board was supposed to be handling some of these issues uh in related to some of these claims. and and when the North Dakota Attorney General came out and said that that all
those that those meetings of the dispute resolution board were supposed to be open meetings, all of those members quit and and of course in that process that delayed a you know so when I talk about there was an awful lot of delays
in some decisions that were to be made and some of it was as a result of that because these uh but now there is a new board that's been sworn in and they are now going to proceed to um and they will hold their meetings in public um and
that type of thing. So part of that again goes to some of the delays. Um and again this uh this is not uncommon. This is a over a $3 billion project. uh and I think as this states it's like you
know represents 2% of the total cost of the project and every every um one of the points of contention is settled now. Yeah. It's resolved. Right. And it you know and again it's and you know I I we see it in many of
our projects where you have I mean I I recall the um the last bridge project in Morehead. there was it there ended up being some compl some uh changes to that project that um
you always have unexpected things come up that you don't plan for. So but any and that and that um that money is all covered under a plan contingency. I think we had a contingency still in the
probably in the amount ofund somewhere between 150 and $180 million in in contingencies that we had still had for the project. And so this will come out of those contingencies. There's at this point in time there's no
need to be going looking for additional revenue and that type of thing that the current financial plan will will cover it under these conditions. So that concludes my report. Steve, thank you, Mr. Chair. Last uh week
participated at the highway tracking meeting that's been well covered. Uh has been addressed also had several meetings last week with Anna and Darren regard to our health insurance RFP. Um on second I met with Commissioner Everger on a series of his committee assignments uh
that afternoon met in the insurance committee that has been covered by Commissioner Campbell and Commissioner Kavanagh uh yesterday worked on several upcoming meetings or we're meeting with our uh rural cities in regards to the uh in
regards to the resource or excuse me the dispatch facility. We also have county management tomorrow and then next week after our board meeting we're having our quarterly EDC EDA meeting. Uh yesterday afternoon met with Sheriff Empt on a series of issues within the sheriff's
department. Uh just of note uh upcoming for this board to be aware of. We received notification this week that there's a new opioid settlement as part of the national opioid settlement with Purdue and the Sackler family. Uh so we'll know more information of what that amount will be specifically to Klay
County in the next couple weeks. Uh but there may be some documentation that may need to come before this board uh to uh to opt into that. Uh and also next week we've while we have not gone through all of the budget uh budget presentations
from both our internal and external requests uh for next year we'll have uh hope to have the first budget packet look uh look out into 26 for you as a board next week uh and looking for some direction. So uh with that uh that
concludes my report. All right. Thank you Brian. Any Sarah? All right. We're a journey. Part: 2
Good morning everybody. It's 8:30. We call this morning's meeting of the Klay County Board of Commissioners to order for Tuesday, July 8th. Our first item is the approval of the agenda. Do we have any additions to the agenda? I'll make a motion to approve the
agenda. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Bear, second by Commissioner Krabanov. Any further discussion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose the same sign. Motion carried.
Citizens to be heard. Do we have any citizens to be heard? There's none in the audience. Do we have any online? We do not, Mr. Chair. Thank you. We'll move to approval of bills and vouchers. Move for approval of the bills and vouchers.
Second. Motion by Commissioner Ebinger, second by Commissioner Kraov. Any further discussion on the motion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed the same sign. Motion carried.
Approval of minutes from June 24th. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes from June 24th, 2025. Second. Motion by Commissioner Bear, second by Commissioner Hinger. Any further discussion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by
saying I. I. Oppose. The same sign. Motion carried. All right. We'll move into our 8:35 item, which is a request approval of the memorandum of understanding with Ulan Hardall School District for a school resource officer. Good morning, Sheriff. Uh good morning, Mr. Chair, commissioners. Thanks for having me here
this morning. I am here to uh to get approval for a three-year with the Yulan Hindall School District for a school resource deputy. Uh as you're aware, we've uh had a long-standing relationship and collaboration with the Yulan Hindall schools for uh an SRO as
well as teaching DARE in Yulan. um the deputy that's been up there over the past few years, he's done a great job at building some really good relationships and he has just done an excellent work at uh at uh learning all the kids and uh getting just a very good relationship
with those kids. Um unfortunately, he is going to be resigning from the sheriff's office. So my next week's board request will be to replace him, unfortunately. But we are here for this three this memo for three years. starts uh started June
3rd, 2025. It'll run to June 1st of 2028. Um as you can see, we bill for 10 hours a week because that's what Eulan Hindall wants to have us there is 10 hours a week and we bill for 174 school days. Sheriff, is that um a few years ago that
was they had a resource off for more hours than that, didn't they? They did have more uh hours. It was four hours a day. Now they have gone down to two hours a day. just strictly for budgeting. Okay. You know, purposes for them. So that will just be additional time
that that officer will have for other duties. Correct. Yeah. So what they end up doing is they spend their time up in Yulan and then they spend time on the road working patrol shifts. Okay. Any other? Yes. Commissioner just um great uh employee. I hate seeing
Deputy Lee go, but best of luck on to him on his next endeavor, but uh big shoes to fill. I'm a firm believer in school resource officers. It's a integral part of what school needs, not
just for security, but uh a lot of them are getting involved in the restorative justice programs and some of the other things we've got going that are going to help kids uh get through what's kind of a traumatic time. recently. So, with
that said, I will make a motion to uh um approve theou with Udin Hitter Doll School District for school resource officer. I'll second that. Motion by Commissioner Abinger, second by Commissioner Bearer. Any further discussion?
One one other question. Mr. Bear, with the contract for the price, does that negotiate every year? Yep. Yep. That's depending on the deputy's salary. So who whomever is in there is we uh we take a portion of their salary and then bill that out for the 174 days.
All right. Each year if there's an increase in each year there's an increase depending on what the the goal is step increase. All right. Any further questions? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I oppose the same sign. Motion carried.
Thank you, Sheriff. Thank you. And we'll see you at 2:15. Thank you. All right. Next, we have a request approval to hire a full-time deputy auditor for motor vehicle department.
Good morning, Lori. Morning. Um, I'm here to request approval for a a full-time uh deputy in the motor vehicle department. Uh, we have a vac a recent vacancy, so I'm just looking to fill that with back fill if necessary. So, I'm just curious. So, what is there
different types of positions there where where you would want back fill or Well, we've got variable hour positions that come in and so u I'm not anticipating that at this time, but so if you if a variable hour wanted to go into that position, you'd want to and actually we did that with our last okay
one of our last positions. All right. All right. Any other questions? I'll make a motion to hire a full-time deputy auditor for the DMV with back bill. I'll second. Right. Motion by Commissioner Mojo, second by
Commissioner Kabanov. Any further discussion? There's one question. Yes, Commissioner Barer. With this person moving on and hiring a new one, what type of savings are we going to have on the wage calculator? I honestly didn't calculate that this time. It should be probably It was
I'm I'm guessing in in the vicinity of probably three to $4,000 a year. So, the is the person that was leaving fairly new also? They've been there for a couple years. Okay. Yeah, that'd be about Sounds about right then. That'd be It came up really fast and I had to get
it on the board, so I didn't have time to have do a wage calculator on that one. All right. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I I oppose. The same good. Lori, how's the new facil facility going? Good.
Uh, very well. Uh it's it the customers can come in, they've got plenty of room and the flow works really well for us. Um it just is a really nice facility and we've had a lot of comments on it. Good. You know, a lot of compliments. I'm curious, do they deliver pizza there?
Depends on where you get it from. Thank you, Lori. Yeah. Thank you. All right, next Quinn. We have a request approval to replace a social worker in the child protection services due to resignation. Good morning, Quinn. Good morning, Mr. Chair, commissioners.
Uh yes, I am here to request a motion to replace a social worker in our child protection division. Um this is a case management position that we've lost. uh due to a resignation responsible for case management services that ensure uh child safety, legal compliance and support for families navigating child
protection system. Um this role does support our mandated timelines, our court related activities, documentation requirements, coordination with community partners as well as many many other things. I do think it's important to note that our child protection social workers experience pretty high levels of
secondary trauma. uh the redundant administrative burdens and external scrutiny which contributes to the burnout and high turnover rates. Uh just for your knowledge, the average tenure of a CPS worker is 1.8 years. Uh I ran the math. This staff was at 1.96 years.
So we got a little bit longer than the average. Um our staff regularly navigate complex systems and face demands from multiple oversight entities, making it critical to maintain our staffing levels to ensure consistent and effective service delivery. Replacing this position will help
prevent additional strain on our remaining staff, support our retention efforts, and uphold our commitment to safety and stability of children in Klay County. Um, I did run a wage calculator for your review. Uh, this is a fully budgeted position, grade 18 step three. Um, we do anticipate that a new hire
would come in at step one, uh, creating an approximate savings of $6,899. Uh, and with that, I would yield for any questions that you have. Hey, Commissioner Abbeier, do you anticipate back fill or is this entry level? Uh, I I would uh like backfill if if
possible. Uh, we don't see a lot of internal movement into child protection. We see uh lateral movement out of it, but I'm always hopeful that someone will want to experience it in one of our other divisions. So, I would request backfill. Okay. That being said, I'll make the
motion uh for the uh hiring of a full-time deput. Sorry, on the wrong one. Child protection. Uh, child protection uh or social worker position and child protection division with the back bill.
A second. All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Abinger, second by Commissioner Krabnoff. Any further discussion? I think your description um points out well the um that's a difficult position and
certainly we give thanks to those people that are um working under those conditions because sometimes it's what they're working with is very difficult. Appreciate you're talk about complex family issues and can be some sad things that go on in
that area. So once again, thank them all on behalf of the board for their work. Any further discussion? Yes, Commissioner Amir, is there something we can do or something that can be done for peer support or or or
more of a a therapist kind of approach? Is there something these employees need that maybe we can come up for? Um the board's been very supportive over the years. Uh both in my previous role as a supervisor as a frontline staff that carried a case load myself and now I believe you all have been very
supportive. Uh we've done different things like bring in therapists for process called reflective supervision before. Um different people cope with things different ways. Um so what works for some doesn't work for others. Um we try to use a multitude of strategies. I
guess there's nothing directly that comes to my mind that I could ask you all to do that would immediately improve this. Um, but I appreciate the question. Well, it's out. I'm I'm sure the commission's supportive of something if if something's out there that comes to
your attention. I I ran a unit that dealt with child abuse. And then I was chief here and your investigators and your people that worked with my investigators were great. But everybody in that field gets
traumatized and and if there's something we can do, I I'd love to try and facilitate that for you. All right. Any further comments? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I oppose the same.
Motion carried. All right, Quinn. Next, we have uh the approval the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension background checks. Yes. So, thank you. On on that note, I am uh requesting a motion to authorize a joint powers agreement to be signed
between social services and the Minnesota BCA in order to allow uh our agency to conduct federal fingerprint background checks. Um to give you a little bit of background, the sheriff's office was running these for us for quite a while. uh they recently went through an audit in which it was found
out that they're not able to share that information with us. Uh we had to become an entity to run these ourselves. Um I've gone through the entire audit process with the BCA. The last step being this joint powers agreement. Um we have successfully completed this
criminal justice information services security audit um to just take over this responsibility directly. um all necessary procedures and policies were developed to meet the FBI and BCA compliance standards and again I just need the joint powers agreement to be
signed u by the board in order to get this thing rolling. Um I also do want to make note Anna and I are working on yet another alternative for this. Um this is kind of a I would say maybe a more cumbersome process than than is necessary extra thorough. Uh we do need
federal fingerprints for our child protection workers and adult protection workers. Um we've been doing it for all of them. That's been common practice for as long as I've been at the county. So Ann and I Anna and I are working on seeing if there's an alternative maybe more expedient process with DHS. Uh but
I think we just received an email on that yesterday. So Quinn with with that in mind and this JPA this JPA um does not require us to use them solely as the resource for that purpose. Right. Not at all.
So but it just the GAPA deals more with the understanding that you've gone through all of the necessary requirements to meet the criteria to become Yep. And it has a lot to do with the storage uh secure storage of the information once we receive it.
All right. And I'm assuming this doesn't speed up the timing of Unfortunately, no. I was really hoping that that would be the case, but no, the timelines are estimated to be exactly the same because that continues to be a big issue, right? Is the It has. Yeah, it seems to be when um people are getting kind of their hunting
permits and licenses and fingerprints are going up, then our delays increase with that as well. But, uh, lately they've been about two to four weeks, which is ma reasonable, manageable. Okay. Well, that's that's not too bad. All right. Any further questions of
Quinn? What's the board's wishes? I'll make a motion to authorize the execution of the joint or the JPA with uh the BCA for federal fingerprint based background checks by Clay County Social Services.
I'll second that. All right. All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Krabanov, second by Commissioner Bear. Any further discussion on the motion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I oppose the same sign. Motion carry, Quinn.
Thank you. Have a good day. All right. Request approval of expenses for the land department. Skimberly, good morning. Good morning, Mr. Chair, commissioners. My my first item today is to request the expenses for the land records department. This comes from the
recorders compliance fund. We do this every year. Um the compliance committee met earlier this April and requested for the 2026 budget that we all lot $105,000 which is consistent with what we've done in the past I'd say probably 10 to 15
years from this fund. So that would be split between maintenance from our tax system, our corner remonumentation program, um information services, and our assessor's office for their software. Okay. I'd be looking for a motion to approve
those expenses for the 2026 budget. And are those consistent with prior years, the dollar amounts for each? Um the we did do a little small shift of$1 to2,000 between information services and the assessor's software. their software price increase
and so we just moved that funding to in to cover their entire cost of their software. And is Kimberly, is there anything within your department where you get um you you get some funding back to you
based on dollars you spend on certain areas. I'm not talking necessarily about these items here, but um No, I don't believe so if I'm understanding your question correctly. Well, you know, some areas in social
services and public health there's for work that we do, we might get partial uh reimbursement from state or feds. No, the fees like the recording fees that we collect and the vital record fees, we do split that with the
state, but we don't get any additional reimbursements beyond the fees that we collect. I was I was just I was just thinking if there was maybe sometimes if we could pull one of these things and put something in there that could get
qualify for some additional dollars would be, but apparently that's not the case. So, no. And under statute, this compliance fund has to be used specifically for um expenses in the land records departments. Right. Okay. All right. And Commissioner Ebering,
you're on this board on that committee. Yes. And Kimberly and I met on this and the next issue. Uh she's very good about keeping keeping uh me personally and then the board at large uh up to speed on what's what's going on. This is a
good savings. It's spread out. uh to where a number of departments benefit and it still complies with the state requirements for how this money can be spent. So, having said that, I will make a motion to approve the $105,000 expense
for land's record departments in uh 2026. We have a motion. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Ebinger, second by Commissioner Krabanoft. Any further discussion? I have one question. Yes, Commissioner Barer.
I'm a little confused here. Why are we doing this as a separate motion when we're going to have a budget on this department? It's required. Yeah. For the state statute, this compliance money in order to be spent has to be approved by the board. So, I need that in a separate motion. I need a motion to approve those expenses to
comply with statute. And does this money come from the state then? No, this is all money that um every single document that comes in for recording has a recording fee and a portion of that recording fee goes into this compliance fund. And as long as we
maintain compliance with statute, meaning that we return our recorded documents within an allotted time frame, then we can use these expenses for land record departments within the county. That cleared it up. Yeah. And that number has been that 105 has been pretty
consistent the last couple years. Correct. It has been. There was one year um during I 2020 or 2021 when we had a large increase in recording that we put an additional $20,000 towards the corner remonumentation. Otherwise, it's been pretty stable. Um
the the number the fund that we collect for that varies each year because the number of documents that we record can change. So, in the past few years, we haven't even been collecting that 105,000, but we've had a little bit of balance there in order to maintain that same number.
What What have we been collecting? Um, excuse me. Let me look here on my budget. Um, sorry, I should have had that number a little more readily available. Um, so in
so for 2024 we collected just under 92,000. So it's $91,278. So there is a balance in that fund. So then the overage just comes from that fund balance. And so so after you take the difference between that 91 and 105 this year, what
would that fund balance be? the fund balance sits around $100,000. Um, and I would like to leave it around that $100,000. If we become non-compliant, then we can't use the funds for other land record departments. Um, the only
way that I foresee if we're non-compliant, the only way to probably get into compliancy would be to hire an additional employee to help complete the work on a timely manner. So, I would like to keep that so that if I needed to hire an employee um that's not budgeted, I would have that fund to pay those fees
from. Okay. All right. Any other questions? And we did have a motion in a second. So, any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I.
I oppose the same sign. Motion carried. All right. Next, Kimberly, we have the um Yeah, my next request is to approve the fees to set for our judicial security legislation that was passed this year at
the legislature. My request is for a fee of $75 for each real property notice, consent to access, request to access, and consent to terminate received under um received under the statute. So this is legislation that passed this year
that is an address protection program built specifically for district court judges. So they will have to submit a request to us to shield their records from the public record. So that's what the real property notice would be would be a document we would receive from the
judicial official to shield their information. Um, there's going to be extensive work in doing that as this law allows documents that have already been on public record to then become private. So, there's going to be an extensive
amount of work by many different departments in the county to comply with this statute. U, the statute does allow a fee up to $75, which is why I'm here today to set that fee at $75 for each of those notices.
And then that that fee is paid by who? The fee will be paid by the person presenting the notice to us. In this case would be the judges or the judge or there is um people that by statute would have access to file the consent to access. So then that fee would be paid by them.
Okay. Yes. Commissioner Mojo. Thank you. Uh I think in regards to the events that happened in St. call in June. This probably is just the first step in uh trying to shield some um private data. And so I think it would be
helpful for us as we work through this to to develop a framework on internally how it best works because my guess is that scope would be broadened understanding that public officials still are very public people but I think there will be more to come particularly
in the retiree area as well. Yeah, we have a committee that's getting um started that's actually meeting after this meeting to start working on the policies and procedures for how we're going to implement this to have going forward. All right. This commissioner
just one thing Kimberly brought to my attention when we spoke on this. Uh this is liable to get much bigger than where it's at now. And as that happens, there will be a reduction in
inquiries that the that they can they can uh assess for and we may see a drop in the departmental income the revenues they generate. So it's sort of a looking down the road we may need to be ready to
to address issues on funding. I guess I guess I don't follow how those would drop. As these records become private, um so people pay to access my real estate records online and so if more and more
things are not public, they're not going to be able to access those records. So I feel there may be fewer people in the future that may be using those systems that do generate a revenue off of my software. Well, I would hope there's not an overwhelming number of people looking
for judges addresses and those types of things. We're getting revenue right now, but hard to know because I'm not sure who's all searching. Yeah. Okay. Well, it's not just the judges, though. I mean, there's discussion right now on elected officials obviously, and once that happens, there's going to
be other people that don't want to it it could become generalized enough to where it impacts on revenues that Kimberly's people generate. So just a kind of a heads up. Yeah. State of Florida has implemented
similar legislation and they have over 40 parties that are protected by the same similar legislation. 40 40. Yes. Will will the $75 actually cover the time spent on this?
No. The original but we're restricted by the state. We're restricted by statute. The original um fee proposed in legislation was $40 and we got it up to 75. No, we're going to have hours and hours of work developing policies and
procedures for this and then the actual work when we receive the notice. So, no, the $75 is not going to cover that. Is it do you charge them 70 for each one they want to redact? Uh, no. It's $75 for each notice that we receive. So, one notice may ask us to
shield multiple documents from the record and it's shielding back the specific documents and shielding forward. So, there's going to be a lot of county monies back though. Um, yeah, there's I mean we have specific software that's being built so
that we can track them in the future because as we record documents go live. So we need to be able to know by name and parcel number or address what doc what what property should not be public.
So so it goes further than just what's happening within your department. It can have some impacts on Oh yes marks loans department. Yes. Y the assessor's office the auditor treasurer's office information services um possibly even public health with
their septic systems and planning and zoning for sure. Okay. It's complex. Yes, Commissioner Mos. Thank you. Uh, you know, given this came out of the 25 legislative session and understanding that, you know, the state budget won't come again for another two years, I these are really important
pieces for us to track in regards to not recouping the amount of funds that it will take to actual actually process through these things. Um, sometimes those tweaks are easier than larger lifts at the legislature. So, it'll really be helpful for you to maybe keep
a tab on that and we can continue to raise that uh voice not only for the next session, but because it I'm anticipating larger changes said earlier, it will help us rolling into that next next budget cycle to maybe allocate more that makes more sense.
Yeah. And I think our um recorders association and make will probably be tracking that as well and help with that. But yeah, I'll definitely be keeping track of that to kind of have an idea to prove what we're what time it takes. Thank you. All right, we have a uh we have a
request to approve the fee of $75 for each property notice. I'll offer a motion to approve the fee. Second and sorry, and all of the other issues added. Okay. Everything that's in the request there. All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Mojo, second by
Commissioner Ebinger. Any further discussion? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Oppose the same. Motion carried. All right, we'll move on to
your next item. Kimberly. Okay, thank you. My next item is request approval for a fee increase for online real estate records. Um, many different professionals throughout the county access our real estate records online.
It's an expensive cost to me to have those real estate records online. They need to be um protected through security and they run different cyber security tests and things like that on there. And so I am asking for a fee for a change in
fee for the overage costs on our contract for that. Right now we kind of have a sliding scale. I would just like to move it to be just 20 cents per minute for any overage for all plans. That just makes it a little bit easier for me to administer. And when talking
to people about these plans, it's just a straight 20 cents across the board. So, the people on our lowest plan would actually receive a little bit of a discount if they did go over the minutes. And the rest of the people um the people that are getting the 10 cents and 12 cents, we're not really getting
any overage on that right now because they're not going over on their minutes. So I would my first request would be to ask um to just change that to a flat 20 cents per minute just to make that managing that contract and agreement a little bit easier. The second request
would be to increase the print cost to 40 cents per print from the 35 cents. Um we implemented these real estate records online in 2003 um at the end of that year and it has been 35 cents a print since that year. Um the fee fees have
increased for those plans to access them. Um but I would like to keep those at those rates so that people can continue to access those just increase the cost if they need to print. And so that would um be 5 cents an additional page to print. And I would
also like to add that cost for when they print search results. Right now we're not capturing any revenue from that. And so I would like to add that fee as well. The cost of my software is going up to
in to cover the cost of increased cyber security around having these real estate records online. I've also had a fee increase for our hosting of these records offline um back in 2020 2021 when the board approved my giant scanning project where we put all of our
recorded documents online where people can access everything back to the beginning of time. But now that has increased my storage cost of saving all of these records online and the backup of that. And so I'm looking to increase some revenue to capture those additional
costs for my office. Right. Commissioner Kraov, does this involve uh abstract updating? I mean, is that part of this? Yeah. So, the abstract companies utilize my online records. Yeah. So, this would be how part of how
they build those. Yes. It could impact that in their search. Yeah. Okay. Then if anybody prints in our I mean we have access to our program for no charge in our office. If they do print in our office, it is a dollar a page to print.
A lot of these services, Kimberly, are userbased services and and you think our intent was to from a board standpoint to make sure that we're re recouping our costs involved with those. And the the idea was not that we make money on fees,
but at least that we can recoup some of some of our costs. And that's uh for example, when you go to that one where you're going to just do an average of 20 cents as opposed to having different numbers, that overall will still average out to to basically cover your costs involved with processing, right?
Yes, I believe it will. Okay, Mr. Chair. Okay. Yes, Commissioner Mojo. Thank you. Are any of these prints in color? Well, it's at So, these prints would be prints that they'd be making at their at their office. And so, the cost
of the toner and the paper and all of that would be at their expense. And that's where it's a dollar a page to print at our office because you're using our toner and our paper and our equipment. Okay. Is that color?
Um, no. Typically, it's everything scanned into our system scans in black and white because the cost to store color is astronomical. Okay? And so, everything scans in black and white to save on long-term storage costs.
All right. So, we have a request um for fee increase for online real estate records as proposed. I move that. Second the motion. We have a motion by Commissioner Kavanagh, second by Commissioner Mojo.
Any further discussion on the motions? Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. The same. Motion carried. All right. Well, I guess we'll Kimberly, we'll go right into your budget presentation.
Thank you. Yeah. So, moving on to my 2026 budget. I'll go over my revenues kind of at the top first. That first line, there is a slight decrease. That's for the county portion of our recording fees. we are seeing those numbers um
still be a little bit lower than our average after the 2020 2021 um low interest rates and so I did decrease that just a little bit in anticipation of not getting as many documents to record. Um that next line that is our revenue
from our online real estate records. So there is an increase there as I anticipate um we'll in have an increase in fees collected for the online records question right there. Is that what we just agreed to that that increase would show up there?
Yes. Yep. In that line and you and you put that in there and with the anticipation of our our board action today. I did. I did. So you'll see that increased revenue there. And then on the bottom, that very bottom line, um, computer software, you'll see an increase in the expense there because
that is my increase cost from my software vendor for all of the maintaining the security of these records online. Okay, that third line, that recorder equipment fund, that's an in-n-out. So, you will have an expense matching that
$85,000 on the end. That is our technology fund. money from that comes from our recording fees and goes into a fund specifically for the recorder's office for the use of technology within our office. Um that next line, that's our compliance fund, that $105,000.
You can see there it has been that $105,000 for several years. So that goes into my budget as a revenue and then those expenses come out of all of those other departments. So that 105 just kind of offsets the county levy on that.
The next line under search charges there, there's an increase of 11.11%. That is for the county portion of our vitals fees. We are seeing a little bit of a slowdown in people requesting documents now that the real ID has been implemented, but also um now we've been
through a full year of doing marriage ceremonies in our office. And so I felt we could have a slight increase in that line for that. Um interest revenue. I had been kind of guessing low, not knowing where the interest rates were going to be, but now I feel pretty confident in increasing
that to about where we're going to have it at. Moving down to my expenses, most of my expenses are employee related. Um, you'll see an increase in my professional services of $500. Um, I now
use a online translation service through the phone or through web when we have PE non-English-speaking people here. So, we're having expenses for that. Um, that's just adding to our customer service by being able to translate with those people better.
Um, and then that very last line, you'll see that increase there for the computer software. that is what my software company bills me for those online services for the subscription costs for that. So you'll see a big increase there, but that's offset
by the revenue that comes in on that line item. Do you have any questions for me on my 2026 budget as proposed? Um Kimberly, on your salaries line item, right now you're
um your percentage of the year showing 34.89. 89 and we're at I think we're probably at about 42% for the year. Why would Have you been operating fully staffed? Yes. Yeah. I'm not sure when these
numbers were Yeah, Mr. Chair, I think just taking a quick look here, this document has May year to date, so it looks like it's a couple couple months behind. But I Yeah, but I mean going through May that would be a that would I think that
equates out to about 42% of the year and her right now her through May her salaries are at 34.89. I'm just curious why that. Yeah, I'll check with Lori and 7% difference I guess. I'm just curious
as to Okay. Any any other questions from for Kimberly? Mr. Chair, I would just uh make note again Kimberly's one of our department heads that uh I don't I don't think meticulous probably does justice to to to the adjective. I think she mentioned
earlier in her budget presentation about looking at translation services. Uh she's also worked together with all of our departments uh in credit cards uh in looking at the fees as a whole. Uh and so she's really been a leader in in taking on those and so not always not
only just looking at her budget but impacting the others. So wanted to point that out. Well, I am always impressed with her budget. She always does a good job. So thank you. Anybody else have anything for Kimberly? Yes, Commissioner Aber. just I want to
join in in the accolades here. Um Kimberly is very good at keeping me up to speed on what they're doing and explaining some of the details on it. U just and and couple lawyer friends and a real estate friend all speak highly of
her office and the work she does. So kudos to you, Kimberly. We appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Kimberly. All right. Next, we have a human resources budget presentation.
Morning, Anna. Good morning. Thank you for having me this morning. here. Okay. Hopefully mine is pretty simple. So for 2026, um you will actually under my salaries, you'll actually see a
decrease. Um although that's including our steps, it doesn't include a cola, but Darren's salary was reallocated from human resources to administration. HR does not budget anything for overtime and then of course our health insurance
parah social security all that's kind of pending right now. Moving to my telephone line. Um that is actually a new request for 2026. When I became a department head I was issued a county cell phone. U Rory's department paid for that for 2025 for me just since
I didn't have any funds allocated. But I am requesting $540 be added to my telephone line for 2026. printing and publishing. Um, I'm actually getting rid of that line on my budget and reallocating those funds to a
different line below, which I'll talk about shortly. We just haven't had to print or publish anything in the last couple years. Um, given that most things are electronic and we can post things online. My subscriptions will remain unchanged for 2026. We haven't received any notice
of anything increasing at this time. and as well um as my so the one thing I am changing for 2026 is membership dues um I shouldn't say changing I'm keeping it the same um like sometimes that can go in line with
subscriptions but we do have a couple memberships like macroma and pelra and some other things of that nature um similar to my printing and publishing line my advertising line is also uh decreasing for 2026 with the
implement implementation, excuse me, of UKG, we just aren't really publishing things in the paper anymore. So, we don't really have to advertise in that way. Other professional services for 2026. So, last year the board approved HR to
implement recruiting and onboarding through UKG that was funded by HR and IT. And so, in 2026, I do have the cost of that program in my budget. As I mentioned a couple lines ago, um I was reallocating funds for my printing
and publishing and my advertising to our training budget for 2026. Just as a new department head, there's some additional things that I'd like to seek as well have as having a new employee in HR. Just some additional trainings for us. Our conference and workshop
registrations remain unchanged for 2026. HR does not have any equipment or maintenance that we have to repair or maintain. And then the other the next couple lines um for meals and travel expenses, those remain unchanged. We HR attends a couple conferences a year.
My office budget I am increasing by $250 for 2026 for a total of $500 for the year. HR is responsible for providing the lanyards for our ID badges and the covers for these. And we just know we'll have to buy some more as um we hire new employees.
And then um lastly, I don't have to purchase any small equipment or health supplies. So for 2026, I will see an approximate 16% decrease in HR's budget. With that, I'll open it to any questions. And again, these are nice numbers, but
we haven't got a cola in there, and we haven't got our true Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. Where it stands today, but without the cola and health insurance, we don't know. You're the lead. You're the leader right now. You're setting the trend in the right direction. I have a very small department. It's It's much different.
You didn't have to say that. I know. But giving some credit to the other departments is mine's much different. Give yourself some credit. Yes. Okay. Does anyone have any questions? Any questions? Thank you, Anna. Yeah. Thank you.
Here comes a big budget. Good morning, Justin. Good morning. Good morning. All right, whenever you're ready, Justin. Yes. So, good morning. I'm here today to present the highway department budget
for 2026. So, our budget is comprised of four sections. I won't go through line by line each of the four sections, but I will make some highlights and if you have any questions, just feel free to ask me at any time. So, our first one is
310 and that is maintenance. So for 2026, we estimated revenues using the past year trends and what we are expecting for revenues for state aid based on what projections are that we've seen from the state. So for example, 103105409
is the township maintenance revenue. That's based on a 5-year rolling average. So we do know what that's going to be. Is any questions on the revenue side of things? Overall, there's nothing glaringly different this year versus
last year. On the expenditure side, the first thing you'll see is 103106105. So, I do not have any new requests this year, so that's staying the same. Um, we were actually able to eliminate last year. I did have a new request for a new
maintenance worker and I had mentioned that I would eliminate 37,500 in part-time summer expenses as we don't utilize that position and so we did eliminate 375 from that. Um overtime we went down slightly um even though last
year was a very mild winter. One winter can really eat up that budget big time and obviously we've had two mild ones in a row 10 310 6277. So that's the training budget. So if you recall when we the board passed the CDL
policy, that's where this comes from. Just an update to the CDL policy. It's been working really, really well for us. To date, six employees have utilized this course. Two being this year alone and I feel like it's been a really good recruitment tool for our department as
we have used it a lot. One question there. For the six that have utilized it, are all six still employed with the county? Yep. and two of them, I believe, are past their two-year commitment time, too, and they've stuck around at the county. So,
um 103106454 is up slightly. So, that's uniforms that just um every other year it goes up and down based on boot years. So, if it's a heavy boot year, not heavy boot year, we do give employees $200 every two years
to purchase a pair of boots. That is in the union contract. Um 103106502 is road materials. I did increase that by $200,000 [Music] from 1.2 to 1.4.
Um on and I did lower something a little bit further down the line by 100,000 and I'll get to that. The reason I increased it by 200,000 is just the rising cost in gravel and then also trying to build a stock pile for ourselves to because you never know what's going to happen in the
future cuz really the last three years we've only gotten one competitive gravel bid. So we do need to have some material on on hand in case we don't get a good bid and we have to haul it ourselves. So I did lower roadway maintenance by
100,000 which is 103106566. I went from 400 to 300. So a net change of only 100,000 between those two items. And then 103106509 traffic supplies is up 5,000 just to
cover the increased cost of sign and post and trying to make improvements where we can. Within the last two weeks, we've actually implemented a new sign software um along with GIS. And we've we've noticed how out ofd our old sign software was. So, it's been something
that's really nice to have. Um, and we have two people in the summertime working out of our sign department. So, we've been able to make some improvements there. And then two years ago, we purchased that retrorefletoter, which is actually added some life onto we were going to replace stop signs two
years ago. And we ultimately didn't end up need to do end up needing to do that last or two years ago. um 103106567 weed and brush control is up 5,000. So annually I meet with SWCD. Um they kind
of give us we give them a budget and they go through where they're seeing noxious weeds and where we think we need to spray and we it's been a program that's been working really well. And then 103106807 is the one turnback within the city of
Morehead. the street aotment, town road, gravel tax. And as you recall, last year was our last payment of the 40th Avenue turnback, which I'll get to where I allocated that last coming up here. Or 2024 was the last year of that.
Apologize. And this in 2025, we use that for striping, right? Correct. I guess any questions on the maintenance side of things overall? Nothing really. No big changes and no new staff.
Again, I'm just I'm asking the same question I asked before and it has to do with salaries. It looks like the salaries are Yeah, I'll I'll confirm with Lori in in in future budget packets to make sure that the the year to date's up to date. Okay.
Um, next one is 320, which is construction on the revenue side of things. um 10320 5220 state grant. So that is for the local road improvement grant that we received for the um CASA 12 and 52 roundabout.
320 5271 is bridge bonding. Um as we know there was a bonding bill passed. This is just an estimate based on our 5-year plan of what we would expect to get for that. Also very dependent on bridge sufficiency ratings and local planning indexes.
Um Justin on on the just on the state grant on that 560 that's for the that's for the money received on the roundabout. So So we're anticipating those revenues and
the project expenditures all occurring in 2026. Correct. Correct. Sometimes there's a there's a lapse between years and certain projects and I'm just in this particular case it'll all be Yes. So the construction finished in 26 and the revenues and the
expenditures will follow in the same year. Correct. Um 10320 5272 municipal construction. So this just follows our 5-year plan in 2026. I do not have any municipal construction plan. Um 103205274
[Music] you'll notice is quite a bit higher. So, the reason for that is we are working with Glendon Township and trying to get the bridge replaced on 12th Avenue. That's about a $2 million bridge. So, you can it's quite a bit higher than normal.
Uh federal grants. So, this includes two projects. Um, one being the roundabout obviously and then oh, a bridge replacement project that we're um also doing a project with Wilin
County that we both have bridges that we'll get federal aid for and package them together. I guess any questions on the revenue side of construction? So again, that's 6.5 million in regular construction. That's that's
that's assuming that's that would be bridge money coming in. So that covers $2 million that covers CASSA regular money spent. Um township bridge money spent, any construction that's not a grant.
Correct. And that's an that's an in and out on our revenue and expenditure side. But that for those bridges, correct? Then if we don't get the bridge bonding grant, we obviously won't have an expenditure either.
Then that would reduce 6632. Yes. Okay. No. Yes. Okay. Okay. Um, expenditure side. Can I just ask a question? So, so the
so the 6500 includes our what is it 4.1 or 4.2 that we get from correct. So it follows my fiveyear plan, right? Plus the township bridge project. So we ended up was it 4.7 or four
4.7 a little under 4.7. Yeah. 4.6 something. Yeah. And then and so the rest then would be anticipated bridge dollars. Bridge bonding dollars. The difference between the 4.7 and the 6.5 million.
Not bridge bond dollars. Township bridge township. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's be something coming in. Yeah. Correct. So, when I put this number together, I follow my five-year plan. And then also, we have that deficient bridge list on the township bridges that we're anticipating to replace.
So, that's our construction number plus that number. And so then when we when we go down to look at 6632 when we're at 8 million, you know, so we're, you know, we're just on we're about $1.8
million more in expenditures than revenues. What did I did we is that going negative in into our um aotment? No. So that I believe that also covers bridge bonding on the expenditure side.
Correct. Um yep. It it covers bridge bonding any federal dollars that we receive casaw regular and township bridge. So it would be that 1.27 or Okay. So we would we would be adding
together the 1.1 million in federal that 1.1 and the six 6.5 y and the 170,000 from bridge bonding andund okay that gets us closer to um
next item would be kind of note on the expenditure side would be 103206274 engineering consultant technical service. So, if you remember last year, we upped this by quite a bit to account for the roundabout. Now, with the bridge or with the bonding bill, there is going
to be local road improvement money. So, I did increase this slightly with plans of going out for an RFP this fall for the um CASA 11 from Sabin all the way to Titan Machinery. So, my plan would be to go out for an RFP to help design this
and then also go after that local road improvement grant in hopes of accelerating the construction there. Uh um excuse me, Justin. With the board's recent action regarding the Commtock
project, uh obviously um those dollars will still flow through Klay County and be checks issued. Then revenues received back from the diversion authority. Are they in here? No. Do we? So that was planned for in 2025. without
with the uncertainty of knowing exactly how many dollars I don't think it would be after. So those are all right all accounted for in 2025. Yep. Even though there could be a correct All right. Thank you.
103206277 training. So this covers all of our engineering technicians and all the different certifications that they're required to have. I did keep this one flat as you notice in 2025 we did get close to that number just we had a new
engineering technician start um and now the state is not going to be covering the bridge inspection class anymore so I felt as though keeping it flat was justified in case we do send somebody to become a certified bridge inspector 103206565
is right ofway costs as you notice That number's down quite a bit. Um, it was up in 2025 to account for the rideaway that we were attempting to purchase for the roundabout. We went back to just a normal level in case something does come up.
Yes. And then 10 320 6631 new construction county funding. So that's the one that I increased last year to 800,000. it was decreased slightly to help pay for the new request. So, I did put that back to 800,000 and that's the money that will
be used for seal coating and striping. I feel as though that's going to be a big improvement to the county and something that we're taking advantage of this year. Any questions on the construction side? Um, yes. Okay. Yeah, go ahead.
Not to date. We're currently in negotiations with two different land owners. Do you spend any of that money? Actually, um, not every year, but it's also very dependent on if there's a rightway need
that pops up. So, we keep five or we keep 10,000 in appraisals and 10,000 in right-of-way costs just in case something comes up that we need to get an appraisal. A lot of times we don't spend that money. Um, but you never know when the rightway
need pop up. And then obviously if we have a project that we know about then we increase rightway costs significantly. So in the future I could see the right-of-way costs if Cass 11 design goes forward. I could see that number
jumping again. And then that new construction and county 6631 going up to 800,000. That would be for you said seal coating and striping. Yep. Do you plan on doing a big project of
seal coating next year? Yes. And again, that was that's that's the line item that was increased because of the 40th 40th turn back turn back turn back was final payment was made and we rolled that into that area.
So there wasn't really an increase there per se. It was just shifting money from one thing to another last year. Yeah. And then keeping it the same this year and it's shown that way throughout my 5-year plan, too. So with those bids coming in so cheap for striping,
where did that extra money go? or is that extra money being spent this year or is it so when I bring my five-year plan to the board, I'll show where that money is planned to go and then there would be board action to approve that. Um Justin, I
I just I requested I'd like So the um 6630 the village tax projects is is that the money that we pay out to um our small cities?
Which 6630 construction city we Yes, that is um the city portion of what we collect in wheelage tax. Um but it's what it's what we've decided to give back to cities. It's not the city's portion.
Correct. Yeah. Okay. And so and it's showing as a revenue down in 805 as a as wheelage tax. So the the city number and the county number
add up to what we're requesting as revenue in 805. So it's a neutral item, right? I I guess I guess what I um is it easy to um get us information. When did when did that when did we start
that wheelage tax? Was it like five years ago or more than that or more than that? Okay. Can we could we maybe is there a way that we could give a historic give us a historical information based on how much we gave to each community uh may
you know whether it's the next the last five or seven years is that hard to do or no I have that information I could okay you could you uh provide that to us is that something you would want in form of a agenda item or just sent to Steve to be sent to
I think you could send it to Steve and Steve can send it to us is that broke down by city. Yes. Thanks. Yeah. I It's It's just It's just nice to know what that annual amount is and how it's growing, if any. And And then a lot of those smaller cities
do carry a balance kind of saving up and and we allowed them to extend those balances to save up for a larger project. Yes. And remind me again, does the wheelage tax go to the city on the address?
No. So it's all based out on percentages population or Yep. Yeah. It's it's a formula that we created as a board to provide guess the the reason I'm asking I live
10 miles south of Morhead but my address is Morehead. So what what I was asking is is the cars that I license with my Morehead address does that go to Morehead or does that go to the pot to Divvy by percentage? I think I heard what you said.
So 70% goes to the county, 30% to the city based on population. So then if you look on the screen, 51% of the 30% goes to the city of Morehead and then 7% to Barnesville, Dworth, Glendon, and Holly.
And then 3 and a half% to Commtock, Felton, Georgetown, Hard. and and you know for our new board members the you know because this was probably even done be maybe before Dave and Paul. Yeah. So when we when we went
through and elected it was it was the county's u authorization to collect the $10. Mhm. Um and certainly part of my position was that if we're going to collect it, we
need to allow a portion of it to go back to our cities. That was that was totally uh an an option that the county had or the the county could have technically kept one 100% of that for county purposes.
So I just just you know letting the board be aware that that um in previous actions we've decid we've decided to contribute some of those dollars to our communities
of which some counties don't do. So just a point for future Y yeah yeah well yeah and you know the I think it I think it's just another way
to show how the county has collaborated with our communities over in the past and it's you know it's a it's something that we have voluntarily done on behalf of our communities. So, um, okay. I get back to your
presentation. When you send that information to Steve, can you send that policy with that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you could. All right. Next. All right. So, next would be 330, which is admin. So, highway admin covers our
office manager, admin, assistant, engineer, assistant engineer, and then highway accountant. Um, on the revenue side, not a whole lot of change here. Overweight permits. Guess there's nothing really of note there.
Um, so 10330 6271. So other professional services. So that covers our accounting software and then also RT vision which RT vision does both time cards and then also our construction tracking software that
helps with MIDOT and state aid quite a bit. Um 10330 6401 I increased small office equipment last year. I kept it the same this year. There's really not a whole lot of
stuff or increases here or anything of note. If there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. 636 6354 workman's compensation. You have an increase of 5% there.
Mr. Mr. Chair, Commissioner Bear, those numbers all come from Lori directly. Those Okay, I'm I'm assuming it's either because of increased payroll or or a change in the modification rate. That those are the probably the only two areas where that
could be. All right, we can go to the last one which is 340 and that is covers our shop. So that's our diesel mechanic and our shop foremen. On the revenue side, that's the revenue that comes from joint facility expenses. um 10340 6107 overtime.
Same as kind of the maintenance side of things, just trying to capture, you know, in the event that we do have a bad winter that we don't completely blow our budget. I mean, even on the shop side, last year was a very mild year in terms of the amount of weekend work that
they had to do. Um 10340 6302 equipment repair and maintenance. So that one is up 50,000 from 300 to 350,000. So just trying to capture what it's costing to fix some of our equipment.
These numbers obviously with the last two years we've had two transmissions go out and two separate motor graders. So that has not helped our case whatsoever. And then also something like cutting edges comes out of this line item too. And cutting edges have the amount of
they have increased significantly. We've tried to in the last couple years take advantage of some lower prices and build an inventory, but if we do have a bad winter, we go through a lot of those. And then 10340 6410 fuel.
We kept that one flat again. Obviously, we came in quite a bit under last year, but if you have three or four bad blizzards, that can significantly change that line item. So just trying to trying to not completely blow it one year.
And then radio equipment, we did go up $500. So each year we purchase two radios in hopes of getting every piece of equipment that we have with an armor radio. It's been working really well so far. Guess any questions on the shop side of
things? So the uh the internal service going from 1.5 to 1.6 is that because of new or is that just the 3% add-on or that number comes from Lori as well.
It's um just trying to keep up with equipment. Okay. Just overall any that kind of concludes my budget. Any other questions that you guys can think of or comments,
comments, questions? All right. Thank you, Justin. Thank you. Thank you, man. I like one. Okay. Could could you show us what your total increase would be on all those? Is that like are you looking for like what the levy increase would be
on all of it combined? So out of all four items um if you put it together my percent increase on the levy is 6.66%. And you have no new requests? Zero new requests.
Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We're going to take five minutes. All right, we are back in session and our remaining item on on the agenda is our committee reports and we'll start with Commissioner Bearer. I did not have any committees in last
week. All right, Commissioner Ebinger. Thank you. Uh on the last Tuesday on the 1st, uh attended the partnership for health, we had our annual audit entrance meeting.
um covered what audits cover, had a had a good discussion and things look good and they will the state will continue to work with uh partnership for health and getting the audit completed. Uh later that day at Lake Agony Lake
Agassy Regional Library Finance Committee meeting uh we met with staff and again we are still at work uh trying to come up with a lease uh for the new library. It's being built by the city of Morehead and that is a work in progress. We have
sent them an additional offer and have not received a uh response at this point and I'll keep you apprised as as that develops. uh on the second attended the diversion authority
meeting. Uh it was a special meeting that uh we had and it covered the settlement with the Red River Valley Alliance and ASN uh con uh construction contractors. Um it's been fairly well covered. This
addressed numerous issues involving about 400 million. As I recall, Commissioner Campbell, that was the amount that was in in contention. It was settled um
for 50 52 57 million which will be paid out incrementally as the work progresses. Uh I really think this was a a good deal
for all concerned. It gives the uh people building the diversion a little motivation uh to to move along, keep it on date. And the conclusion of this was that it is going to be completed in a timely
manner. Mr. Campbell may have a little additional on that. I won't just get into the weeds too deeply, but we did uh vote to accept the uh proposal as it was presented to us by uh
the executive director and councel and the uh other participants in this signed the following day. So, it's a an accomplished deal right now. And that completes my report.
Thank you, Mr. Kravana. And one meeting at health insurance subcommittee meeting and a short meeting to discuss the planning of our next health insurance meeting coming up in later July.
Mr. Moel, thank you. I have notes that we had a highway tracking meeting last Tuesday. I talked about um the construction uh updates on some of the projects. uh talked about the comtock bidding that we
had had earlier that day and that's my abbreviated notes because I brought the agenda from April 23rd. [Music] Okay, so unless you want to know what happened April 23rd.
That concludes my reports, but I do have as you know this is the Klay County Fair week uh that is such a vibrant activity for all of Klay County. This board really supports the work that happens out there in a myriad of ways. Klay County is having the government day out
there on Friday and uh hope to see as many folks out there as possible. And uh if you'd like to work a food stand shift just to, you know, live the uh era that we used to flip burgers in at the 4 food stand. 4 and FFA kiddos will be out there uh
flipping burgers or pancakes depending on the time of day. So, hope to see you in Barnesville. Thank you all. All right. I had the I also on July 1st we had the highway tracking committee meeting. Um we talked
a little bit further about the uh next steps that were going to be going on with the comtock constru reconstruction project. Um Justin talked about having a rough draft of at the August highway tracking
meeting for the um five-year plan. Uh there was a request from the city of Morehead to swap Casaw 3, which is the 11 street from Center Avenue to 18, which is just
north of the beet plant. They'd like to switch that with um uh um 34 street which goes from trunk highway 10 to 18. Um we asked for a lot
of additional information on that. It um no decision obviously and that that we had some concerns regarding that request. So we'll we'll see how that pans out. Um there was also
uh Justin again updated us on some concerns regarding u on Cassaw 3 from what I refer to as Wall Street it's 22 to u coming into town with the speeding
trucks and it's just it just seems like it's just an ongoing u concern by residents along that route. So, we'll continue to monitor that and we may have to look at having our sheriff out out there
monitoring that for a while to see if we can improve that. And we got several uh construction updates on different projects um that Justin will be bringing before the full board. Uh then we as
Commissioner Krabanov mentioned, we had a subcommittee meeting of the insurance committee and it basically was, you know, just um getting some prep information on what we're anticipating to see for health insurance increases
that the uh full insurance committee will receive. I believe it's on July 24th, 23rd, 22nd, one of those. 22nd, one of those date. Yeah, 22nd is the date. Um and then as Commissioner um
Ebinger mentioned on the second, we also had the diversion authority special meeting uh that was well publicized in terms of the settlement agreement with the contractors and the owners. Um that was
they they basically had um close to $400 million in claims um against the diversion authority. Uh a lot of them had to do with uh time delays and the uh several different factors.
Don't need to get too much in the weeds on that, but we did u we did agree to that $57 million and the epoxy coated rebar issue was all gone away now. All that's all resolved.
And and part of that part of those issues related back to when we had this the when the diversion authority was formed, we created this dispute resolution board. And that dispute resolution board
was supposed to be handling some of these issues uh in related to some of these claims. and and when the North Dakota Attorney General came out and said that that all those that those meetings of the dispute resolution board were supposed to be
open meetings, all of those members quit and and of course in that process that delayed a you know so when I talk about there was an awful lot of delays in some decisions that were to be made
and some of it was as a result of that because these uh but now there is a new board that's been sworn in and they are now going to proceed to um and they will hold their meetings in public um and that type of thing. So part of that
again goes to some of the delays um and again this u this is not uncommon. This is a over a3 billion dollar project and I think as it states it's like you know represents 2% of the total cost of
the project and every every um one of the points of contention is settled now. Yeah. It's resolved. Right. And it, you know, and again, it's and you know, I I we see it in many of our projects where you have, I mean, I I
recall the um the last bridge project in Morehead, there was there ended up being some compl changes to that project that um you always have unexpected things come up that you don't plan for.
But any and that and that um that money is all covered under a plan contingency. I think we had a contingency still in the probably in the amount ofund somewhere between 150 and $180 million
in in contingencies that we had still had for the project. And so this will come out of those contingencies. Uh there's at this point in time there's no need to be going looking for additional revenue and that type of
thing that the current financial plan will will cover it under these conditions. So that concludes my report. Steve, thank you Mr. Chair. Last uh week participated at the highway tracking meeting that's been well covered. Uh has
been addressed also had several meetings last week with Anna and Darren regard to our health insurance RFP. Um on the second I met with Commissioner Everger on a series of his committee assignments uh that afternoon met in the insurance committee that has been covered by
Commissioner Campbell and Commissioner Kavanagh uh yesterday worked on several upcoming meetings or we're meeting with our uh rural cities in regards to the uh in regards to the resource or excuse me the
dispatch facility. We also have county management tomorrow and then next week after our board meeting we're having our quarterly EDC EDA meeting. Uh yesterday afternoon met with Sheriff Emper issues within the sheriff's department. Uh just of note uh upcoming for this board to be
aware of, we received notification this week that there's a new opioid settlement as part of the national opioid settlement with Purdue and the Sackler family. Uh so we'll know more information of what that amount will be specifically to Klay County in the next couple weeks. Uh but there may be some
documentation that may need to come before this board uh to uh to opt into that. Uh and also next week we've while we have not gone through all of the budget uh budget presentations from both our internal and external requests uh
for next year we'll have uh hope to have the put the first budget packet look uh look out into 26 for you as a board next week uh and looking for some direction. So uh with that uh that concludes my report.
All right. Thank you Ryan. Any Sarah? All right. We're journey.