I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Open forum. Mr. Cone, if you would like to come up and address
us, please. Good morning. Thanks for your time. Uh, last time I was here, I actually did a little presentation about um noise pollution at BIR um which I happened to uh receive a lot of um threatening
messages from uh individuals in the community at work and at home. So, wow. I was on the front page of the dispatch. um didn't know that was going to happen. But anyway, uh we're here today to talk about the uh dust control uh being eliminated uh on uh gravel roads in the
county. And I'm just asking that that vote be reversed. Um we live on a gravel road. Uh it's highly residential. It's about a mile long and uh the dust has a big impact. Um there's very short driveways. Uh kids have to go inside
when cars go by. We've tried to pave the road. Um but hitting a lot of roadblocks, if you will. Um so that that's kind of out of the reason or out of the question. Um but kind of it sounds like there's kind of a mix of
financial and safety concerns of the reason why that this was voted down. And um financial reasons I I it just it doesn't really make sense to me. But um if safety is the concern um I I don't
really understand the safety aspects because uh calcium chloride is is which I believe is used on the dust suppressant is actually a pretty inert substance. In fact, sodium chloride what they put down on the road for icing is much more corrosive and damaging to
vehicles. Um there's I I heard pets being cited um that they don't want to go on the road. Um but but if we're talking about pets, let's talk about humans. Um when you when you have a a dust that's being stirred up in the air,
uh humans are actually breathing that dust and what's in that dust is all everything that's been spilled on those roads over the years. So I think that's much more of an issue. Um and then back to still on the safety issue. Um the dust, it creates a visibility problem.
We have a lot of pedestrians that walk on this road. cars go by, it's a cloud, you can't see anything, and that is a major safety issue. Um, in addition to that, dust control helps uh stabilize
gravel roads, prevents um uh wash outs and erosion, and uh less frequent grading. So, I I believe all that would save money in the long run. Um I I um I I just don't understand why
this was done uh based on a small number of constituents in one area. I think if you were to ask the majority of the people in the county, they would be in favor of this. So that's what I really would ask you to consider. Um, and the last thing I would say
though too is if we're we are talking about safety, I'm going to reiterate again. Last time I was here, I talked about noise at BIR. In my yard on the summer, I can consistently measure decibel levels over 100, which according
to the EPA causes hearing damage. So, let's if we're going to address this, let's address that because B operates with no rules and it does cause damage to people. So, I know we've tried in the past um to eliminate certain things,
especially late at night, but I'm just asking you this that topic be revisited and uh you guys please consider your vote um on the dust control. Thank you very much. Thank you. With that, we'll move on to the review
and approval of the minutes from the last uh 42225 regular meeting. Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Commissioner Franine. Second by Commissioner Coring. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in
favor signify by saying I. I. I. You're not in favor? No. That motion passes. Review and approve the agenda. No changes, Mr. Chair. Motion to second.
Motion by Commissioner Franzine. Second by Commissioner Coring. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. That motion passes. Consent agenda. Any questions on any issues?
Hearing none. Motion to approve. Motion by Commissioner Franzine. Second. Second by Commissioner Coring. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. That motion passes. Number six, Northland
Arboritum. Mr. Panam. I think I said that close close to correct. Thanks for having me, commissioners. I have the board president, Dan Lee, with me here today. Good morning, Mr. Lee. Just to answer any questions that you have about the master plan. As you all know, we were able to pass the two resolutions with
the intent um to make land transfer with Crowing County. Uh one of the requirements by Greater Minnesota Parks and Trails Commission is that if we're going to do pass through funding that we have an approved master plan by our board of directors, we were able to get it approved at the last uh full board
meeting. Now, all I'm asking is for you to review and approve the plan. I sent it out a couple weeks ago, so hopefully you've had some time to review it and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have in there. Any questions? If there's no questions, I'd look for a
motion to approve the Northland Arboritum Master Plan is on file. I'll make that motion. Commissioner Fanzine makes the motion to approve. I'll second up. Second by Commissioner Lee. Any other discussion? All in favor
signify by saying I. I. I. That motion passes. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Thank you. Greatly appreciate it. Thank you. Number seven, land services. Good morning, Mr. Pence. Good morning, Mr. Mr. Chair, members of
the members of the board, I have seven items uh for your consideration this morning. The first requested for the preliminary plat of Riverwood Riverwood Shores on Whitefish for parcel numbers 72120550 and
72120549. This is located in section 12 of Jenkins Township. The request is to approve a conventional design prelim, excuse me, preliminary plat consisting of 18 individual lots. Uh, can you turn to the map on page 93,
please? Do we have the pointer? Theres, do we have the pointer? Um, I do not. Thank you, sir. So, this is located in uh Jenkins Township. Uh, if you scroll down just a little bit more in the map, you can see this. There
we go. So we have uh um up here this is car road 15 and then down here we have the the Pine River. So this is actually the confluence where the Pine River comes into Whitefish. They're proposing to uh do 18 lots part of this. Uh they all meet the requirements of the
ordinance as far as lot size and lot width. Uh there is an exemption up here. They did a um administrative subdivision. There's a house there to to exempt that out. So that's already been subdivided. So there's 18 lots in the plat. There's 19 lots total. Uh the planning commission held a public
hearing on April 17th of 2025 and made a unanimous recommendation to the board to approve the plenary plaid riverwood shores on Whitefish. The planning commission and board of adjustment did develop the finding effect that will be found on page 116 117 for your consideration as well. And based on the
application submitted staff packet public comments and the finding effect is recommended to approve the preliminary plat of Riverwood Shores on Whitefish. Uh staff have reviewed the file and concur with the recommendation from the planning commission board of adjustment. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Any questions for Chris?
Yeah. Um Mr. Chair, uh Chris, did you um with Jenkins Township? I think this is the first time they've had a plat in their area and have you been working with them at all for a developers agreement or is there a developers agreement? Uh Mr. Chair Kush Lupi,
there's nothing in place as far as that now because we're in the plenary plat design phase. So if the plenary plat were to get approved today, then the next step would be to move into the final plat. And that's where we would be doing road design and um working on um you know storm water management for the
road and and then working with the um developer to decide how they want to handle it. they want to build the road before they apply for their final plat or they want to go through the developers agreement and put down because then if you if they do the developers agreement it's 125% of the engineers estimated cost of construction
of the improvements needed within the plant. So that's phase two of the would be the final plot process. We work with the town. Maybe I'm getting ahead of it a little bit, but I know they mentioned about the road standard that we've changed that in our on our um fad district and SAD district where
the road standard goes from 2 in to 3 in bit. Yeah, I've talked to the I've talked to the Jenkins supervisor um and they've reached out to highway and got the the road specs for that. I'm not sure how much they've adopted or if they've modified, but that's it. They have I know that they've reached out and
and I think that's the general road design that the ultimate plan is for the township to maintain the the new road as part of this plan. Yes. Okay. Thank you. You you said the first uh unit was excluded out. Was it for lot size? No,
it just it was uh we have a process where you can um create lots if they're non-reparing without um having to go through the platting process. So, it was called an administrative subdivision. And so, they if you look up here where it says it, if I can't get the the
pointer to work right, there we go. Right there. That's just it's called the exemption. It just means that they've already subdivided the property before they did the plat. They they carved that piece out already. So, meets all the requirements that need a variance. They just were able to do that without having to do to do the plat.
Yep. Any other questions? No. Hearing none. I would look for the motion to approve the preliminary plat for Riverwood Shores. Mr. Chair, I'll make that motion. Commissioner Lupkey makes a motion to
approve. Second. Second by Commissioner Franzine. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. I. That motion passes. Thank you, Chris. Thank you, Mr. Chair. The next request is for the preliminary plat of Fiser Acres for partial number
68060555 located in section six of Ideal Township. The request is to approve a conventional design preliminary plaque consisting of three individual lots. Uh if you go to the map on page 121, we can get a look at that.
So you see we this comes off the long farm road here and this is hibiscus and these are the three lots that they're proposing to uh to uh construct as part of this and then um this would be lower whitefish here that's on Whiteish. So
all three lots would have access to get down to uh down to white fish on this plat. The planning commission held a public hearing on April 17th of 2025 and made a unanimous recommendation to the board to approve to approve the plinary plat of Fisher acres. U the plan
commission board of board of adjustment u developed the finding of fact that you'll find on page 131 and 132 of the packet for your consideration as well and based on the application submitted staff packet public comments and the finding of fact is recommended to approve the plinary plat of Fisher
Acres. Staff have reviewed the file and concur with the recommendation from the planning commission port of adjustment. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Questions? Commissioner Coring. Chris, conventional plat. What is I I've never heard you say that before. What's Yep. So, we have we have two options to plat
within um within the county. One is a conventional lot and block where which is what you see here. And then there's the conservation design which is where they you group them together. And we'll have that that's that'll be for uh item 7.6 6 at Briner International Raceway.
So, it's just clarifying which platting um process are they using the conventional or the conservation design. So, like the Riverwood Shores, that was the conventional or just lot and block where everybody owns total fee title. Conventional design would be where they would own a smaller piece where the
building would be located and they would have the common ownership of the open space amongst them where you'd have more of a homeowners association to manage and regulate that. So, just differentiating between the two of those. So, thank you. Any other questions?
I would look for a motion to approve. I'll make that motion. Commissioner Lee makes a motion to approve the preliminary plat for Fiser Acres. Mr. Chair, I'll second that motion. Second by Commissioner Lubkkey. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. That
motion passes. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chair. The next item we have is the final plat of Fiser Acres. Um, all requirements have been met for the final plat application and I would recommend approval as submitted.
Questions? Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion to approve the final plat. Second. Second by Commissioner Franzine. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. That motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. The next request is for the plenary
plat of Snook Acres for parcel number 7334502 and 7334662 located in section 34 of Lake Edward Township. The request is to prove a conventional design preliminary plat consisting of three individual lots and
one outlot. If you go to the map on page 151. So this is on North Long Lake and we've got uh Conro 127 up here. This will be just to the west of Marfield. There's going to be a lot back here. There's an existing um home here and
then this lot here. So be a total of three lots. That out lot here is what's going to come in to give that access down to these two lots to get down here. Then there'll be access through easements to get over to the other lots. Uh the planning commission board of adjustment held a public hearing on
April 17th, 2025 and made a unanimous recommendation to the board to approve the plenary plat of Snook Acres. The planning commission board of adjustment did develop finding effect found on page 159 to 160 of your board packet this morning. Based on the application submitted, staff packet, public
comments, and the finding effect, it is recommended to approve the preliminary plan of Snook Acres. staff have reviewed the file and concur with the recommendation from the planning commission board of adjustment. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Questions? Well, I have a question or
not really a question. Um, ditch 13 runs through this and the the lot that they're making at the lake on the east side is really really soft in the spring. I've been called out
there every year with the previous owners to come and look at it because it was swampy. And um I have no problem with them making another lot just as long as the people they sell to are
aware that it is not the ideal lake lot. Yeah. Um Mr. Chair, uh you know, Commissioner Franzine, that would we would when you look at that kind ditch 13, we would treat that as a wetland. And so it has a 15t set back for for you know for construction for structures. Um
you'll see when you look at the at the plat they've got a couple of areas um to where they can build probably going to be up you know they they've got a building area here and then um back up in here a little bit. So I mean it does show as you mentioned it
being you know fairly having some you know wetland areas on there. So that's all this is all available for them to to be able to understand when they purchase to know what they're getting and um to be aware of of uh you know what uh what limitations the lot might have on it.
And if you look the the reality is it's got a very wet frontage as well. And so it's it's definitely not the not the type of lot where it's nice flat, you know, high ground down to the lake where it's that beautiful beach area. But um you know people buying it should be able
to look at the information provided and knowingly purchase you know that they might have to construct a boardwalk to get access out to the lake you know in that area. And then the truth is water out there that is pretty shallow. So they're going to have to put a fairly long dock to get out to Neville water to
have a you know to put a dock out to. So but this information is public and hopefully people will be aware of what they're purchasing when they were to buy a property like this. Okay. Well, I'll make the motion to approve. Commissioner Franine makes a motion to approve the
preliminary plat for Snook Acres. I will. Second by Commissioner Coring. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. I. That motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. The next request that we have is for the final plat of Snookacres. All requirements have been
met for the final plat application and would recommend approval as submitted. So moved. Motion by Commissioner Franzine. Second. Second by Commissioner Coring. Mr. Chair, I just have a question on that and um if you don't mind, Chris, the access they have to
block one or lot three. It's it's I see the 33 ft easement along there that gives them access to it. Where does that 33 ft easement ends up coming out to? Is there a road out to 127 there or are they going to use that outlot? A
driveway. It's the outlot. Yep. So, the out lot will be a shared there'll be a shared um driveway down to there and then they'll come into that access. Correct. Okay. Correct. That was my only question. Thank you. All right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor
signify by saying I. I. I. That motion passes. Thank you, Chris. Uh the next request is for the final plat of the Briner International Raceway Luxury Garages. Um there are a total number of 11 parcel numbers that are listed in the
request for board action. I won't read those in the record just because of the large number. Uh but this is located in section 13 of the first assessment district. And the request is to approve a conservation design final plaque consisting of 12 individual lots and one shared outlot. So, if you go to the uh
map on page 175, you'll see the layout of the map of of what it is. Um, and so this is really a replat of a of what they had platted um probably back in 2015. They uh just found out that people weren't interested
in buying the lots as they had them split out before. So, this is what people are more interested. They had these are smaller um units than what was um originally planned when they platted this the first time. Uh this did actually uh the the the plan commission
held a public hearing on this one back in August 15th of 2024 of of last summer. So they've got a year from plinary plat to come in and apply for final plat. Um and the and the plan commission made a recommendation to the county board to approve the preliminary plat. And then the board did take action
on the preliminary plat on October 8th of 2024. And so based on the application submitted the staff packet, public comments and the finding of fact uh it is recommended to approve the final plat of Brain International Raceway Luxury Garages. It's also been the staff have reviewed the file and determined that
all all ordinance requirements have been met. I'd be happy to answer any questions questions. So when we say luxury garages, I know I've actually been in in one of the the really fancy ones and they have like a living quarters. It is. And and these will be living quarters.
Absolutely. Yep. There's a spot for the garage and then they got the living quarters. And then another question I Chris, I believe there they have u they don't each need to have um a septic system. Isn't there some there's a shared there's a shared it has a shared
septic out there for them. Yep. It's all part of there's part of a homerown association that that manages all that. So Sure. Y Thank you. Commissioner Lee, uh, you said the original time it was presented they were larger in size, right? Yep. And so they they made them
smaller because they realized that people didn't want to weren't interested in buying such larger units. They decided to get smaller. So they added a few more. Um, they kind of cut them up into smaller units. So more for one vehicle and then a small living quarters on the top of it. So thank you.
Any other questions? Motion to approve. Motion by Commissioner Coring to approve. I'll second it. Second by Commissioner Lee. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. That motion passes. All right. Thank you very much. The
final request is for a land use map amendment for parcel number 6736502 which is located in part of government lot 3 of section 36 of Garrison Township. The request is to amend the land use map from waterfront commercial to commercial involving
approximately 26.4 acres. Can you go to the map on page 231? So this is uh a location of where this is on 169. Uh and this is the parcel in question here. The zoning that you see uh this is Lake Max over here on
the other side of 169. Obviously, um the request is to reszone or change the zoning on this parcel from waterfront commercial to commercial one. Uh that would be what this pink color is down here. And so just to give you an idea of
what the colors are, the the the blue color would be the shoreland district. This would be waterfront commercial and then this would be commercial. And uh uh and so the the main one of the main differences between waterfront commercial and commercial is just the
size of the lots. So if you were to uh want to create lots, let's say uh in commercial zoning, it would be basically 40,000 square feet or just a hair under an acre and 100 ft wide. And then if you were to create a new lot in the waterfront commercial, it would be I
should have had this written down. Um grab it out of the ordinance quick. So waterfront commercial would uh require 120,000 square ft of lot area. And so that's about 3 acres give or take. And then um the lot would be 400
ft. And so that's the real difference between commercial versus waterfront commercial. There are there are some difference in uses but not really substantial. I think the the what with the applicant why they're choosing wanting to go to a commercial versus waterfront commercial is uh for the
ability to create um smaller lots there on 169. Uh the planning commission did hold a public hearing on April 17th and made a unanimous recommendation to the board to approve the land use map amendment for parcel 67360502 from waterfront commercial to
commercial involving 26.4 acres. Uh the the plan commission board of adjustment did develop a finding of fact on page 236 237 what's in your packet. Um based on the application submitted the staff p staff packet public comments and the finding of fact it is recommended to
approve the land use map amendment as submitted. Um staff have reviewed the file and concur with the recommendation from the planning commission. There is one um comment that was part of the packet from a neighbor to the north. Um he was did attend the um planning commission meeting and did testify at
the meeting about his concerns about changing the zoning on it and um but the decision from the planning commission was unanimous to recommend approval to going to commercial zoning. Commissioner Coring. Thank you. So
Chris, um, if the board approves this, when if to create lots here, would that just be an over-thecounter thing or would they have to come back to the planning? They would those would be non-reparing lots and so um that would
just they would be able to do the administrative subdivision process to create those lots. Yeah, that was kind of my question. Uh Chris, those those are not repairarian lots then. They're you they're not waterfront commercial, but they were water. It's it's really it's it's very challenging to figure
that out down there because you do have obviously you have 169 that runs north and south and the and the land that's off to the east of that is all MDOT rightway. And so, um, the question that there people, so people have worked with mindot to allow
them to put docks out and and across the road and that, um, and the question that comes up is is part of that mindot right away. Is that platted or is that an easement depending on because it's platted then it would be and so that's how we've always directed people to talk with uh, mindot about where their
property starts and ends on that part of 169 because it's just it's not as clear as one would hope. Mr. Chair, Commissioner Lee, what uh do you remember what the neighbor's concern was? Uh we could pull the letter up. It should be in the packet, I believe. I
didn't see it. I'm not sure yet what page it's on, but on page 239. Let's can we go to the next page? I think he was concerned about the creation of the 100 foot lots um a number two and um I think he had
concerns about mobile homes or trailers possibly coming in um and campers wouldn't wouldn't enhance the area. And the thing to remember is that with the property being um waterfront commercial right now, someone could come in and apply for a conditional use permit to
apply for a resort or to apply for a campground um to have that there. And so um one of the changes that we've got proposed to the zoning ordinance that'll be back to you guys in two weeks. One of the changes is to when we look at our commercial zoning to include resorts in that. Right now, I only talked about
waterfront commercial, but um to include, you know, commercial as being where you could have a resort, you know, as well. So, um I I I think some of the issues that are being raised um would still be an issue if the zoning stays what it is currently right now.
Thank you, Commissioner Coring. Chris, why what what was be the reasoning for waterfront commercial and commercial? Why why don't why would can you just explain why we would have two different classifications?
Right. Um so if you look in the uh in article 10 we have definitions and explanations for what waterfront
commercial versus. Um so waterfront commercial um is the purpose of it is to accommodate commercial uses in the Charlotte district where access to and use of surface water is an integral part of the business. The primary uses in this
district are marinas, resorts and restaurants with transient docking facilities. Um and then commercial district is to provide adequate areas for general retail, wholesale office and service activities in rural areas. And uh it talks about location along um
which roadways would it be located on. So the the I think the intent between waterfront commercial and commercial is to say um you know waterfront commercial is obviously more of the the use of the water you know lots directly on the water for commercial uses. Mr. Chair,
Mr. So, so if the board approves this and it becomes commercial, let's just say uh uh Thompson Concrete wanted to have another satellite office over there with maybe some um concrete box and sell
it out of that property. Would they be able to if this would be approved? So if I were to look at [Music] um so I would I would see that as a business commercial retail right now
that would be commercial would be a permitted use and waterfront commercial would be a conditional use for a for a business similar to that but it's water Mr. Sure. Waterfront commercial now. Correct. But if we approve this as commercial then be a permitted use then
then they could have a satellite Sure. business over there on that. Absolutely. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Yes. Uh Mr. here. Um Chris, the person who has this property right now, the 502 property,
couldn't they couldn't they do um if it was waterfront commercial and they own the whole property, couldn't they place units already on there, but they I'm maybe going to answer my own question, but they couldn't sell them as individual units. They'd be splitting it
up. you know, that track that they have, the track ABC that they have sitting there, they wouldn't be able to sell those individually. They could have a they could put a cabin on them and they could rent the cabin out. Uh, sure. So, so if if if they were to if it were to
maintain waterfront commercial status, um, and they were to subdivide lots, they'd have to be 400 ft wide and Okay. That's the reason that's the reason they can't narrow them up and correct. Yep. That's what the commercial allows. commercial standard allows for a smaller lot and a smaller lot with for
commercial and it's I mean if you look at that map too I mean the it's it's a lot of it is very wet a lot of wetland especially to the rear and so the you know the primary highest use of the property is going be more to the south where there's some high ground down there and so it's not like all 26 acres
is going to be you know available to use as far as you know for all commercial it's going to be the high ground primarily to the Thank you. Any other questions? I would look for a motion. I make the motion. Commissioner Lee
makes the motion to approve. Yes, sir. Motion to approve. Yes. Need a second. Second. Second by Commissioner Franzine. All in favor signify by saying I. I I
I. That motion passes. I'm sorry. All those not in favor? No. Motion passes four to one. Thank you. Thank you. Just as a heads up, we do have a busy agenda for Thursday. We have
five plats on the agenda. So, we'll be back seeing you again in June with a bunch of plats to run through again. So, thank you. All right, County Sheriff. Thank you, Chris. Morning, commissioners. Mr. Chair,
um we've had a uh last couple weeks has been kind of uh really sad, tragic uh for our guys. Um so we hope to be beyond that. uh coming up. Uh Thursdays we meet uh we have our leadership team meeting on Thursdays and uh this this week we
had um area local pastors that came in and prayed for us. So it was really kind of perfect timing. They uh surrounded the table and and uh and prayed for us which was really nice. We sure appreciate our faith community and the and the love that they continually show
us all the time. So appreciate that. Um let's see what else. We've uh uh we've got our partnership with U Max Tribal on for the Lakes Area Drug Investigative Division. So, our partnership with them is very um we're
excited about that and all the possibilities that come with that. Um the guys have been very active and we've had a lot of uh activity with uh drugs. Uh unfortunately, uh some of it is, you know, kind of some heavy weight which I
haven't seen for a long time. Um, so the they're doing great work and uh that's probably that's all I got unless you guys have some questions for me at all. Any questions for the sheriff? Welcome back uh Commissioner
Corin. It's good to see you in faith in person. So, all right. Thank you. Thank you, County Attorney. Good morning, everyone. Um, I do not have anything, but if you have any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer.
Questions for the county attorney. All right, county administrator. Mr. Chair, commissioners, I only have one agenda item today. That's the senior management team report, and I was not able to be at yesterday's meeting, so I've asked Jory to give you an update on what occurred at yesterday's senior management team. Good morning, Mr. Chair and
commissioners. Yesterday, uh, the senior management team Oh, Jory Danielson, administrative services director. Yesterday uh the senior management team uh met here. We briefly discussed compensation strategies and where we're at in that process. Uh we also talked
about volunteers uh throughout the county and um how we are tracking that or how we should be tracking that. Clayton, uh Steph and I are working on a process uh to make sure that all our volunteers that help out and contribute uh to different areas of the county uh
are uh covered under uh some type of insurance. Uh and then we had the pleasure of having a number of about 36 AP students from the Briner High School uh join us in this room yesterday where we talked about all things county government. uh gave a brief description of what each of our areas are and we had
a lot of good discussion from those students asking questions. Um I think the county engineer and the sheriff were the stars of yesterday's meeting. Uh very popular. Uh my favorite question was uh the one young lady had said that they just finished their AP calculus
exam and would that be uh useful in life and unfortunately Tim had to answer that question. So, uh really robust in good discussion. Uh I think we've got uh a bright future uh with those students. We're hoping to continue this process that we can work together and partner
with them uh to expose the younger generation to county and local government. So, with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. So, question for you. Since we represent the county, what about the other two school districts and their AP students? Will they be invited in? Uh we're going
to work on that. That Yes. Uh I think there's an opportunity with also Peekquat uh and Crosby. Uh this was kind of a put together uh offered after uh participating in a a speech program that they had off offered over there. uh they
invited me in to sit on that uh and uh listen in on a speech. And then we had also uh received a speech from one of those AP students uh that was very impressive about engagement uh in productivity in the workforce sector that kind of stemmed me reaching out to
see if there was an opportunity um and Brainer was more than happy. So uh as we move forward I will reach out to Crosby and Pquad also to see if we can get those students introduced. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions, county engineer?
Thank you. Thanks, J. Thank you. I was Are you done with your report? I I just wanted to take a few minutes. I thought of this and maybe could have been on the agenda, but I want to just
uh for listeners and for everybody else that uh we have an ongoing campaign of the long range transportation plan. So, I want to give a little shameless plug for that. I had a great opportunity to be on community focus last week. It's been in the paper, uh, a press release,
and we're leveraging social media to get the word out, to get comments from the public, and it's just very important to hear, uh, from, uh, the residents about those pain points that that they all know uh, and experience in their daily commutes and things like that. There's a
saying, we don't know, we don't know. But and our folks are out there a lot on our roadways, but we don't see it in the same perspective as a mother or father dropping their kids off or a school bus driver and things like that. So, it's gravely important for those to engage.
We have two uh opportunities that are on the front page of our website uh crowing.gov. There's a survey, a traditional survey, and then a really cool product that we are using is an interactive map. It is the same exact mapping tool is what was used for the
comprehensive plan last summer. So you go there, put a pin on a map and a very focused comment about uh transportation or um so we get those and we've gotten a lot of comments and if you look at the map there's a lot of icons around. We're
still looking for more input. So um I just want to give a plug for for those to engage in that. If you haven't done it yourselves, I encourage you because we are all everybody in this room is a user of the transportation system and we all have some gripe somewhere. We want
to hear it and have it considered. Okay. Very good. That's all I have. Thank you. You Thank you. So, we're down to additional business. Commissioner Coring, I do you want to beat me to this one? I would go ahead to I just want to
report to the board a little bit on on a project that I'm know that you're aware of that I'm working on is the uh the bridge on North Coring Road which has been closed for many many many many
years and and Tim is probably the county engineers probably getting tired of me talking to him. We've had multiple multiple multiple conversations about the bridge and um so I went out and uh I attended last week I attended the St.
Matias Township meeting to uh offer my services to be kind of coordinate things if they're interested in getting this bridge replaced and I can report back that the St. Thias town board is very interested
in in moving forward with this. And I told him I said I had heard through the grapevine that they were saving money for this project which I thought well maybe they've got $10,000. You know townships aren't don't have a lot. I asked how
much if they're saving and they said yes and I said how much? They said 85,000 they've saved so far. they've been putting aside money every single year. Um, and so they would they would like to get this done, but it's a it's a kind of a herculean task because this bridge has
been closed for so long. A lot of people think, well, why everybody's been going around? I guess you don't need it. And I think back to, you know, one time when we were approving a project here, Tim Bray said, you know, we got to look forward to, I hope I'm saying this
right, Tim, but we look forward to future transportation needs. And I told him, I said, yeah. I said, uh, closing a road or giving a road back is not a good thing because we don't know what our future transportation needs are. So, had
a great meeting with them. They want me to help. So then that was on Monday night. Tuesday night went over to Fort Ripley because the uh that's the town line road half half the road or on the other side is St. Matias on the other side is Fort Ripley. There was actually
a huge turnout um at the Fort Ripley town hall meeting and one of the land owners who I I kind of thought maybe he'd be opposed to this and he looked at me and he said get her done. So, the the Fort Ripley Town Board said they want
more information, but they seemed like they wanted to move forward. So, um I don't know if I reported before. I think I did report before when I was down in Florida that I went to the Minnesota breakfast and I presented a packet to Congressman Stabber to see if there was
any possibility of any federal money because he did send out an email and said, "Is there any local projects?" And so I thought, well, here's a local project. Uh the county administrator did bring a packet down and a letter to
um Weezenberg, uh Senator Weisenberg and uh Representative KCA. So didn't really hear anything from him. So, uh, on Friday of last week, I attended a funeral from for a longtime employee for the Minnesota
Senate. And then I thought, well, I'll go up to the capital and I ran into uh Josh Heindman and uh I had asked him if he would introduce a a bill for possible inclusion in the bonding bill next year. He said that he would, even though it's
not his district, I never heard back from the other two. So, he said he would get it drafted. I did go on the Senate floor. I talked to Senator Weisenberg. He seemed like he was very excited to help out with it. And I did also hear from uh Representative Kisha's office.
They seemed like they were very excited to be able to help out with that, too. So, now I'm going to ask Tim or Tim Bray and our county administrator to help me. We're going to try to have a joint meeting with St. Matias and Fort Ripley to kind of coordinate and see what we
can do to get the bridge what what the steps are to get the bridge out of there to get the funding to get this bridge in. And uh if you ever if anybody ever wants to go down there um let me know. I mean obviously we can't all go but I can
take you individually. Corning road actually runs almost parallel of 371. So, it's it's really an important thing. And uh they actually put together a uh bridge book.
And this bridge book is I'd say it's probably three or four inches thick. And thank you to the uh county highway department staff. They digitized it so I can send it to each one of you. It's a it's a an amazing read. And there's
letters from Camp Ripley saying that they're supportive of it. And I I have to say I'm a little bit embarrassed. There's a letter from Senator Coring in there from 2007 saying
that I was I would do not support the project because if you if you see the if you look at the the the book, you'll see that letter and I just want to make you aware of it. And I think there was a reasoning for that. I think that being that my name, family name is on there, I
I don't know. I'm not exactly sure what my reasoning was on that, but um I'm I'm trying to advocate on behalf of these townships. They really want me to try to help out, move this forward, and if we don't do anything, it's never going to
get replaced. And uh it's it's got a quite a history. This is this bridge is a a metal. There's concrete embutments and then there's the um there's a metal bridge and there used to be uh wooden planks on top and at
some point Tim uh somebody uh stole those planks off of the bridge and they actually only in the south end of the county where that happened and somebody actually stole the bridge and then they they got it back. Am I right, Tim? That's Yeah. And uh so it's a it's quite
a story actually. So I just wanted to let the the board know that I'm not asking for any money uh thus far, but but I'm trying to help coordinate for the for my uh people down in St. Matias, Fort Ripley Township. So it's actually
I'm really excited about trying to help with this project. All right. Thank you. Want to remind everybody that on May 15th, it's police officers memorial day and we should remember those officers on that day. May 16th, you're all should
get excited. It's National Bike to Work Day on Friday the 16th. So get your bikes out, especially for you guys from up north. Ride down here to the office. Oh yeah, that'll work. Leave on Wednesday or tomorrow.
I have to take the training wheels off. And May 26 is Memorial Day. So, let's keep our officers in mind. It's going to be a busy time. That's just the day before our next meeting. So, um we know the traffic will start picking up and we
want to be cognizant of that. So, with having Oh my goodness. Commissioner Cory's got one more thing. Well, Mr. Chairman, I I don't know if Commissioner Lee wants to give a report, but he he had a town hall meeting. I'm
just curious if how that if you wanted to report on that, if you don't want to. I mean, I mean, to put you on. Not a problem at all. So, Thursday uh last week, May 8th, your microphone. Yep. Just wasn't close enough to it. Uh last week, May 8th, uh did a town hall
meeting in Crosby at the high school and uh whole purpose of it was just to uh bring in our land services department, uh Gary Griffin and uh Sandra, and have them talk about property taxes and property values and how everything works
together and why decisions are the way they are. and um pretty keen pretty close to filling out the room with the chairs that we had there and and uh was wellreceived. Everybody was glad that we did it and um had feedback since then also that said
they wished we did more of it. So I'll probably have to do it again sometime. So very good. Uh Mr. Chair, I attended that meeting and and we'll have to I think I opened up a whole can of worms. Well, no. I tended it I tended to be a mouse in the corner because what he what uh
Commissioner Lee has done is something that I think is really important especially for us that are out where we have a lot of small cities and townships is is to bring the county to them a little bit in in doing that and Lee did an awesome commissioner Lee did an awesome job other than he did introduce
himself at the beginning of the meeting. Other than that, nobody knew who he was there. So, no, they all knew who he was, but but I thought it was really well done and and I was amazed at the amount of uh u really good questions that were asked and we had our staff there to be able to ask those. Um um I was just an
observer there, but I'm I'm planning on doing something like that up in the district that I serve. So, I thank him for taking the first step in doing that. So, that's all I had. If there's nothing else, I'd look for a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Commissioner Fran makes the
motion. Commissioner Coring seconds that motion. All in favor signify by saying I. I. We are ajourned. Thank you everyone.