for February 10th. Um, would you please uh join me in a >> Will you please join me for the pledge of allegiance in a moment of silence? >> I pledge allegiance to the >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of America, United States of America, and
to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Roll call, please. >> Commissioner Coring
>> here. >> Commissioner Lovekkey >> here. >> Commissioner Barrow >> here. >> Commissioner Franzine >> here. >> Commissioner Lee >> here. >> Open forum. Is there anyone in the audience who wishes to speak about something that isn't on the agenda?
Is there anyone who wishes to speak about something that isn't on the agenda? Okay. Um review and approval of the minutes from January 27th. Madame Chair, if there's no additions I or corrections, I would make the motion to
approve the regular county board meeting minutes for January 27th, 2026. >> Have a motion. Is there a second? >> I will second that, Madam Chair. >> Motion by Commissioner Barrow, second by Commissioner Lubkkey. >> Commissioner Coring. >> I.
>> Commissioner Lubkkey. >> I. >> Commissioner Barrows. >> I. >> Commissioner Lee. >> I. >> Commissioner Franine. >> I. Motion carries. review and approve the agenda for today. >> No changes. Madam Chair, >> do we have a motion? >> I'll make a motion to approve the
agenda. >> And I will second that. >> Motion by Commissioner Lee, second by Commissioner Lubkkey. >> Commissioner Lee, >> I. >> Commissioner Cory, >> I. >> Commissioner Lubkkey, >> I. >> Commissioner Barros, >> I. >> Commissioner Franine.
>> Motion carries. Consent agenda. Any discussion? >> Madam. >> Motion to approve. Coring. >> Second. Commissioner Barrows. >> We have a motion to approve by Commissioner Coring. Second by Commissioner Barrows. All those in favor?
>> I. No. Roll call. >> Commissioner Barrows. >> I. >> Commissioner Lee. >> I. >> Commissioner Coring. >> I. >> Commissioner Lipkkey. >> I. >> Commissioner Franine. >> I. Motion carries. Um it's not 9:05.
>> So we'll go on to the administrative services. >> Madam Chair, that's in um the >> microphone. >> Sorry, Madam Chair. The item on the administrative services agenda is related to the public hearing. So if you
would like Jory to give an overview of what that is going to be about, that might take up the couple of minutes that you need and then you could hold the public hearing and take action. Okay, that sounds great. >> Good morning, Madame Chair and commissioners. Jory Danielson, administrative services director. Uh
here just before uh the public hearing is to start to meet uh Minnesota statute 342.22, 22 subdivision 2 that allows for local units of government to impose an initial retail registration fee and may also impose a renewal uh retail
registration fee sufficient to defy the cost uh incurred by and in reviewing investigating and administering uh an application. Uh and for this we're asking for a change to the 2026 fee
schedule uh that requires a public hearing. Again, we did the public notice 10 days prior uh following Minnesota statute 462.353. And what we'll be asking the county board to consider uh is approving the
addition of up to a $500 registration fee uh for each initial registration and up to $1,000 annual renewal fee for each new uh registration. uh in regards to uh cannabis micro businesses, cannabis
mezzo businesses, cannabis retailer, medical cannabis combination business, uh and low potency hemp retail. Uh and with that motion, uh we'd also ask that you authorize myself, the administrative
services director, to review and approve or deny registration applications and collect the registration fees to be applied to the general fund uh from applicants who meet the requirements of stat uh Minnesota statute 342.22.
It looks like we're at 905. >> Yes, we are, >> Madame Chair. >> Yes. Madam Chair, so Jory, so you I uh one thing I'm I'm thinking that's part of this is compliance checks. That money is
also used, I think, if the sheriff's department is going to do compliance checks or somebody's going to do compliance checks. Is that correct, >> Madam Chair? Commissioner Corin, you are correct. So there will be uh part of the registration fee will come to the administrative services area uh for
processing and then we will be working with the sheriff's office just like we do for tobacco and alcohol uh licenses where they will be performing uh the statutory underage uh retail compliance checks. >> Thank you
>> Madam Chair. Just for one other point of clarification, this is separate from the fees that you have in the fee schedule for the zoning aspect. You know, we talked earlier that we have the zoning piece that is dealing with where cannabis can be these applications or these types of businesses can be done in
the areas where the county regulates planning and zoning. This is for the retail side, basically around the low potency hemp products that are perhaps sold at convenience stores or some of the other locations that aren't necessarily under the zoning aspect.
This is just for the retail aspect of what those areas would be. >> And madam chair and commissioners, the state issues a license. So the vetting process by each retailer has to be uh gone through the state and then once the state issues a license they will come to
the county and register that license making sure that uh certain requirements of the statute are met >> right >> madam chair just one more question so does this only come is this only if they're in a jurisdiction like a um city
does this apply to that or is it only applies in our unorganized territory and townships that we do Madam Chair and Commissioner Lubkkey, it applies to uh anywhere that we have authority or jurisdiction, >> right? >> So if >> cities, you wouldn't. >> Correct. >> Okay.
>> Yeah. Thank you, Matt. >> Madam Chair. >> Yes. >> Yes. Commissioner Cing. >> Yes, Madam Chair. I would move to open the public hearing to amend the 2026 Crowing County fee schedule. >> There a second.
>> I will second that. Barrows. Um, we have a motion by Commissioner Coring, second by Commissioner Barrows. All those in favor? >> Commissioner Lubkey, >> I. >> Commissioner Baros, >> I. >> Commissioner Lee, >> I. >> Commissioner Coring, >> I. >> Commissioner Franie,
>> I. Motion carries. Is there anyone in the audience who wishes to speak on this? Is there anyone in the audience who would like to speak to this? Is there anyone in the audience who
would like to speak? >> Anyone online? >> Madam Chair, >> is there anyone online? >> There is not. >> Okay, >> Madam Chair. >> Yes, >> Madam Chair, I would move to close the public hearing on the the amendment of
the 2026 Crowing County fee schedule. >> Second. We have a motion to close by Commissioner Coring, a second by Commissioner Barrows. All those in favor? >> Commissioner Coring, >> I. >> Commissioner Lovekkey, >> I. >> Commissioner Barrows, >> I.
>> Commissioner Lee, >> I. >> Commissioner Franine, >> I. Motion carries. >> Okay. Um, >> a motion to >> Okay. Do we have a motion to adopt?
>> Madam Chair, I'll make the motion to adopt. Is there a second? >> I will second that. Madam Chair Lupkkey. >> Motion by Commissioner Barrow. Second by Commissioner Lupkkey. >> Commissioner Lee. >> I. >> Commissioner Coring.
>> I. >> Commissioner Lupkkey. >> I. >> Commissioner Barros. >> I. >> Commissioner Franine. >> I. Motion carries. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Jory. >> Next thing on our agenda is the labor agreement with the Teamsters General
Local Union. Number 346. >> Morning, Amy. >> Morning. >> Good morning, Madame Chair and commissioners. I'm here this morning to bring forward a labor agreement between Crowing County and Teamsters Local 46 representing our non-licensed
supervisory staff. This includes eight jail sergeants and two dispatch supervisors. The agreement includes moving to our new market aligned pay plan which has ranges the minimum and max of the ranges will
increase each year 3% in 26 3% in 2027 and 2.75% in 2028. The pay plan also provides a general adjustment and a meeting expectations increase in addition to an advancing crowing county incentive pay.
This group is on the teamsters insurance plan versus the county health plan with Bluec Cross Blue Shield. They are on Teamsters. Some of the key items of the agreement include language on the Minnesota paid leave which is the new state statute that requires we provide paid leave to
our employees and they did agree to the 50/50 premium split. We're allowing employees to use PTO to remain whole. Having the paid leave run concurrently with all other leaves, remove our short-term disability plan,
and we're offering a voluntary short-term disability plan in its place, and remove our PTO donation program. Other items include the full use of the PTO cruel table when hiring the PTO cash in L allowing 60 hours to cash in versus
the current 40 hours. A uniform allowance paid monthly dispatch training paid to $2 per hour. Differential pay for those who work nights on the weekends and double time
for covering a shift on a holiday. in addition to having their PTO acrruel remaining whole while they're out on injury on duty pay and then increasing the healthcare savings plan contribution from $35 to $40 per month. And as
always, as we work through contracts, there's always different little contract language cleanups as well. And they are agreeing to a three-year contract. So, if there aren't any questions, I would be looking for a motion to authorize entrying into a labor
agreement between Crowing County and Teamsters General Local Union number 346 representing the corrections and dispatch supervisory unit effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028. And the chair, human resource
manager, and county administrator are authorized to sign set agreements. Madam Chair, I'll make that motion. >> Is there a second? >> Madam Chair, I'll second that motion. >> We have a motion by Commissioner Lee, a
second by Commissioner Lubkkey. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> Commissioner Barrows. >> I. >> Commissioner Lee >> I. >> Commissioner Coring. >> I. >> Commissioner Loveky. >> I. >> Commissioner Franzine. >> I. Motion carries. Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you, Amy. >> County Sheriff. >> We don't have anything. >> Okay. >> Have any questions for me? >> Thank you. Is the county attorney online? >> Madam Chair, the county attorney is in trial all week. She noted that she would
not be able to be available today. >> Okay. We're down to you, county administrator. Madam chair, commissioners, yesterday the senior management team met and we received a presentation from our most recent lead cohort. If you recall, our lead cohort are those folks that we have
identified as potential leaders in our organization. And they had recently completed their year-long process um through that and at the end of it, what I did was task them with a bit of a capstone project, if you will. We want
to make sure that not only are they getting that training and that development opportunity, but we want to see them put it into action a little bit. So part of the challenge that was put in front of them was to create a way to strengthen some of our internal
communications, perhaps a way to make our departments know what other departments are doing. One of the things I heard from different areas when I go around and do my annual unit meetings is that oftentimes employees in one division don't understand the breadth and scope of what all of our departments
do. We think about the fact that Crowing County is essentially 10 businesses under one umbrella. And when we're all in our little area of expertise, we may not understand what some of the other areas are tasked with doing to help serve well, deliver value, and drive
results in our community. So the cohort, the team came up with an idea called get to know the crow, which will incentivize the opportunity to learn a little bit more about our organization within our
staff. Really asking our staff to tell their story, to get to know each other. The initiative is in intended to increase awareness to help employees understand what each department does, how they contribute to county services, encourage staff participation, break
down some misconceptions and address some common myths about county work that is an approachable way that people can understand and help them understand and ask questions and also to celebrate our culture and highlight what makes Crowing County unique and showcase some employee pride as well. The team did bring some
ideas that they had to the table to SMT yesterday to get the stamp of approval, if you will, from our senior managers who thought it sounded like a great idea and they will be working together in the near future to forward this initiative and start rolling out some of these
ideas. So, I would encourage all employees to look forward to that coming forward in the near future. And maybe at some point in time this goes broader than just our internal folks to something that we can help to share our story across the community as well. But
we're starting at the at the granular level to make sure that our people who are working here know the work that's being done. Who better to tell the story than the folks who are actually doing the work. So that was a great presentation that we heard from them yesterday. We also had a very robust discussion.
And you just heard Amy talk about uh one of the pieces of the contracts that have been settled under our new compensation plan is the advancing Crowing County incentive. That process is a new endeavor for Crowing County and we had a
very robust discussion at SMT yesterday on those individuals who are being recommended to receive the ACI in our organization for their work that they did in 2025. This is our first time going through this process and the senior managers had the opportunity to present the folks
that they are recommending for that um initiative in this past year and we look forward to how this will continue to mature over the coming years as we move forward in that. I think we thought that was going to be a quick discussion and it ended up being about a three-hour
discussion. So, it was a very well done. Um senior managers put a lot of really good thought and effort into their recommendations that they brought forward. Uh, a second item I have before you today is I did receive a reach out from
Congressman Stubbers's representative. If you recall, she was here at the last meeting and introduced herself to you all. She reached out to say that the congressman will be in the area next week and would like to meet with you. If you are interested in having a meeting with Representative Stabber, he is
suggesting next Tuesday, February 17th from 12 to 1:00 p.m. here at the committee conference room in your new committee conference room is where we would hold that meeting. So, I'm asking you today if you are interested in scheduling a meeting to meet with
Congressman Stabber next Tuesday. >> I'm looking for consensus, some head nods. >> Yes. >> Yes. Okay, >> Madam Chair, I'm interested. I'm looking for a bridge. >> That is a great segue, Commissioner
Coring, into my second comment or question is what topics would you like to have for discussion pieces? And are there any materials that you would like to have prepared for the discussion? I I hear the bridge. So, that's one
thing. I'll make sure that we have some of that information ready. Are there any other topics that you would like to make sure that we touch on with him? >> Uh, on the same lines, I think, um, uh, Tim Bray and I were just discussing some of our, um, road funding issues
that might be something we could, um, talk with him about. >> Okay. Does anyone else have any projects in their communities that would be something we could submit for funding as well? And you don't have to have the answer today, but it might be something you think about between now and then.
Yeah, >> I believe you all received an email from his office of the um upcoming uh grant opportunity window, if you will. So, if there are any things that you think we should be applying for, please make sure you let me know so we can get that taken care
of. Topics are >> Yes. You know, and then I think another thing, Deb, would be that not necessarily that we're standing there with our hands open waiting for crumbs from the federal government. I think maybe kind of a if Congressman Stabber
can give us what he sees looking forward uh on what's happening at the federal government level and how it could trickle on down and have an effect to county government. and I think an update from him if you could let his staff
person know you know that we're we don't want to be doing all the talk and he can give us an update on what's happening on his level I would think. >> Okay, I can certainly do that as well. I know that there will probably be some questions or comments that you all might want to talk about with regard to some of the proposed federal changes that
will have some impact in our community services realm. I can make sure that we have some of the the financial impact and and the administrative impact of what that would be as well for you all. So, I will communicate to Miss Lindstöm that we are interested in a meeting with
Congressman Stabber next Tuesday, February 17th at 12:00 here in the commissioner committee conference room. >> All right. Right. Thank you, Madam Chair. That's all I had today unless anyone has any questions for me. >> Any questions? Madam Chair, just can
that be uh put on our schedule as a invite? >> Madam Chair, Commissioner Coring, yes, Jesse, we'll get that on your calendars yet this afternoon. >> Awesome. >> Along with the team's link as well. >> Okay. Is there any additional business?
>> Madame Chair, if there's is there any additional business? >> No, doesn't look like it. No. is if there isn't any uh additional business, I would move a very robust um adjournment. >> Second >> motion by Commissioner Coring, second by
Commissioner Barrows. >> Commissioner Loveky >> I. >> Commissioner Barrows >> I. >> Commissioner Lee >> I. >> Commissioner Coring >> I. >> Commissioner Franine >> I. Meeting is adjourned at 9:21. >> Thank you everyone.
Thank you.