Well, >> this brothers, >> I don't see it. Okay. >> I think it's terrible terrible >> to have a former employee >> to have a former employee turn you in.
He's not here. >> Good morning. I'd like to call the board to order. Would you please uh join me in the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence >> 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. The first item on the agenda is open forum. Is there anyone in the audience who'd like to speak to something that isn't on the agenda?
Is there anyone who'd like to speak to something that isn't on the agenda? Third time. Is there anyone who'd like to speak to something that isn't on the agenda? Okay. Three. Review and approve the
minutes of the August 12th meeting. >> Motion to approve. >> I'll second it. >> Motion by Commissioner Coring, second by Commissioner Lee. All those in favor? >> I I >> opposed. Motion carries. >> Review and approve the agenda.
>> No changes, Madam Chair. >> Motion to approve the agenda. I'll second it. >> Motion by Commissioner Coring, second by Commissioner Lee. All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. Consent agenda.
>> I'll make a motion. >> Madam Chair, I would second that motion. >> Motion by Commissioner Lee, second by Commissioner Coring. All those in favor? >> I I >> opposed. Motion carries. County Sheriff.
>> I don't have anything for you today. >> Okay. Is the county attorney online? >> Yes, >> I am here. Madam Chair, I'm sorry I can't see the meeting room there, but I don't have anything for you today, but I'd be happy to answer any questions.
>> Any questions? Hearing none. Thank you, Don. >> Thanks. Have a good day, everyone. >> You too, County Administrator. Madame Chair, commissioners, uh yesterday we held a senior management team meeting. Uh our first item that we discussed was
a budget update. You will hear that at your budget committee meeting coming up at 10:00 this morning with the new update as to where we are at with the recommendation that will be coming before you. We also talked a little bit about making sure that we are reviewing
all of the aspects of what our audit findings had put out this year. If you recall, we had four findings in our audit this year, mainly around documentation for the most part. Um, one of the things that they always look at is anytime that we have contracts with
federal dollars that are associated with those grant contracts, we have to do a check on the suspension and dearment list to make sure any vendors that we are contracting with are valid and able to do business with us. while those checks are happening, sometimes the documentation doesn't get noted as to
when those checks occurred. So, we talked about making sure that we are checking those lists and documenting that prior to the first payment being made or contracts being entered into. So, that's one of the things that we talked about looking at at this point in
time versus waiting until after the year is over and getting it as an audit finding. So, kind of a refresher for all of our senior managers as well as for our business managers also. And then we spent a significant amount of time talking about cyber security. You probably all saw some of the information
that was in the news recently about the city of St. Paul suffering a ransomware attack. While we can't protect against everything, there are always things that we can protect against. So, we talked about some policy changes that are going to be occurring to make sure that we are
protecting any vulnerabilities that could be potentially causing any um bad actors to have access to our networks. So, those things will be stuff that you see coming forward from the IT department in the coming days. And then
we also discussed a foundational leadership training program that we are embarking on for our supervisors. We've talked before about how we do a great job of promoting from within and building our own talent, growing our own, we want to make sure that we are preparing folks for success. So, as we
promote folks into supervisory positions, we want to give them the tools that they need to be successful in those roles as well. So, those were the things we talked about yesterday at senior management. I have nothing further for you, but happy to answer any questions you might have.
>> Any questions? >> None. Well, since it's so early, county engineer, you got anything? Madam Chair and commissioners, yes, I do. Thank you very much. What I'd like to just remind you all and the public is
that we are hoping we are hosting a um public meeting kind of an openhouse style with a presentation on Thursday as one of the first uh in-person engagements for for our long range transportation plan. And uh the purpose
of this meeting really is to wrap up and provide some of the themes and the things that have come out of uh the all the comments. We received over 500 comments and um we've really done a good
job I think of trying to boil it all down. Think of all the writing styles of 500 or 300 different people and kind of trying to figure out exactly what they're trying to stay say. Later this week, hopefully today, I have prepared
um a nice report for each of the um engagement opportunities, the the mapping and then also the survey with questions for your uh consideration and review. It's high level. There's an executive summary with a little more
detail as a primer for you to um coming into that meeting if if you're going to attend. We're also going to uh place these on our website after the meeting for the public viewing too. It's it's what we feel is or the themes out of these comments. And I can tell you that
there's not a lot of surprises in there. Um one of the highest themes is safety and and congestion and then also accommodations for pedestrians and other non-motorized users that that like to use our corridors. Um and then we've
received a lot of good ideas. And lastly, really it reinforc a lot of the comment reinforce a lot of the stuff that we're doing already. Some of the things that are identified as a priority for for those people who commented are things in
the five-year plan. They're also that we're planning to do for construction over the next 5 years. also uh reinforces the partnerships, the very strong partnerships we have with our agencies, particularly Mindot, because a lot of the state highway
corridors are listed in in the comments. So, I don't think anything surprising. Um, and then also lastly, I guess, is that we want to provide another opportunity. What are we missing? We want to ask that question. So, we've received all this input. What are you
not seeing? Anybody in attendance or you um as commissioners, what are you um hearing that we have not captured so far in the comments? And then after that, we're going to move into actually drafting the plan. It's still very early. Our plan is to deliver the final
product come April. So, we have a lot of work to do um to get to the point where it's a written document. So, I encourage the public to attend. It runs from 6:00 to 7:30 in meeting rooms 1 and two down in land services and Matt Kellus, our
transportation planner, will be doing a presentation at 6:30. >> Thank you. >> I just had let you know I met with the um city of Crosby last night >> at their council meeting and uh I
mentioned to them about what you and your staff brought me up to speed on with the uh bridge on 31. >> Yes. and the very first question out of their mouth was a engineer question and so I had no answer for them. So, uh just be aware you'll probably be getting some calls about some of that. So,
>> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Yep. >> Thank you. Anyone else? Well, if not, I'll take a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> Motion by Commissioner Lubkkey, second
by Commissioner Coring. All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. >> I still carries. >> That was It's right.