ready good morning everybody I'd like to call the uh Crowing County regular board meeting together um on 79 of 24 uh please stand for the pledge and a moment of silence IED Al to the flag of the United
States of America and to the repblic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all this is the time for open form anybody who is not on the agenda for an item that's not on the agenda please have a
form given to theres if you haven't already um I have one here from uh John Ward you may please approach state your name and address for the record Sir John Ward 11442 for2 Drive vter
Minnesota Mr chair and Commissioners staff citizens um I'm also on the school board and I'm here today uh speaking about the school property a school Farm property that uh we and Gary Gary and um
other folks have been working on um we had a school board meeting last night I want I want to be clear that I'm not here in an official capacity but I do speak for um all of my um colleagues on the school board um first of all just
thank you for your years of cooperation collaboration in the school Farm property um as we've leased that land for a number of years at a dollar a year and uh we so much appreciate working uh the county working with the school board
on um that site and when we had the school Farm up there it was a very very valuable asset to us which it continues to be um so thank you very much for for long-term engagement and and collaboration with the school board on
the sale of the of the property um some of you may know that uh when and thank you for the proposal also very fair and um Equitable proposal to us to buy by the 80 acres um some of you know that um I I moot motioned to approve that and it
died for a lack of second why did it die for a lack of second basically is because of finances um the school district um is has about a 3 million doll shortfall right now um which is significant um we we all know that uh we're going to address it we're going to
work hard to make sure that we continue to provide the education to our students uh in this District uh that is that is quality and and the best opportunities that we can provide um so it really is a it really was for the whole 80 acres uh
it it is a stretch for the 290,000 plus uh to buy that um we talked at length about trying to um split you know having two two it's two 40 acre parcels and we would really like to um just buy 140
parcel that the buildings are on that our equipment is stored there and things as such um and that's why I'm talking to you today is to present that uh we would really like to engage with you on potential purchase of the 140 parcel and
then um and then the other 40 um um I I don't know if you put it up for auction or you put it up for sale or whatever but if you you know with us with the school district obviously uh you wouldn't gain any tax revenue because of that but with the other 40 if you put it
out for auction or sale or whatever you would gain some tax uh revenue from that and so we see it as a win-win kind of situation um and we um and we again so much appreciate uh the collaboration and the help that you've given us over the
years and we'll and hope to um continue working with the county uh on on coming up to a resolution um on this issue um again we are and I can speak for all my colleagues we would be very very um
hopeful and engaged in pursuing the 40 that uh the buildings are on and that the equipment is on um any board member um and our new our new superintendent internal superintendent Peter Grant would welcome any questions or concerns and we also would and we also would
encourage engagement together um maybe you know maybe having collaborative meeting together um to try to finalize this we would be able to um uh perhap close as soon as possible on this purchase of the 40 acres if possible um
so with that um I think I'm inside my 3 minutes um so and I just kind of no never mind that's okay thank you very much Mr chair normally I know that we we use this is just like a listening session but
sometimes we do respond and I think it's important that the county respond um to director Ward's uh comments I think just to let them let the school board know where we're coming from and I think our County
Administrator uh is prepared to give a little feedback Mr yeah you may Mr Ward if you recall this lease expired on December 31st of 2022 so we've been working through this process for the last 18 months 18 months that the
discussion at the time that the lease expired was give us a little bit of time to figure out how to make the sale happen and finish it off and get it completed before the term would have been expired for too long 18 months and
now we're still sitting at a point where there's conversation about wanting to change the direction of what the offer was initially part of why we're looking at selling this as a 40 acre parcel is we've taken a plan excuse me an 80 acre
parcel is that we've taken a position as a county to devest ourselves of these large tracks of tax forfeited property that are contiguous to each other we're looking at wanting to sell them as one unit so that don't run into issues with
access on the other 40 remainder parcel that could be there not that there is currently anything that we are aware of from an access issue but it's more beneficial it's more attractive if we are selling it as a full 80 acre parcel um one of the other things to keep in
mind is that once we sell it to the school district or to whomever they can choose to develop it however they wish to do so the school could choose to sell the other 40 if they don't have need for what that parcel is we were basically giving them the first right of refusal
we were giving them the first option to purchase the property at the assessed value and while we're talking about a total value of uh sale price that we were originally looking at of around 290,000 that 40 acre track is only about
$135,000 so in the grand scheme of things it's not a large dollar amount that is being looked at for just that one parcel the other thing that we are currently undergoing an initiative of is some consolidation of all of our
properties Land Services has started a process where they're looking to consolidate tracks and ownership contiguous ownership instead of having the methodology of nothing bigger than a 40 acre parcel in croing County we're looking at it through more of an
ownership concept and by the end of this year that two pieces will become one piece of property through our process that we are currently looking at there are a couple of reasons that I think we want to continue to work through this
process as quickly as we can but the fact that it's taken us 18 months to even get to a point where we're saying oh well we didn't like the first offer so can we make up something different at some point we're going to have to decide how to what to move forward with and our
original plan was to sell the 80 acres the 80 acres was what was offered to the school district for their first right of refusal or for them to purchase since they are using it we don't want to go through the process of having to have the property move removed from the
buildings removed from the property or to go through the effort of trying to have to sell the property as is after the the buildings have been removed we would like to sell it to the school district we would like to work through that partnership as Mr Ward said years
of collaboration and cooperation on this lease on this parcel on this prop property and we would like to continue to finalize what that process looked like I don't know if the board is has appetite for us to look at separating this out by two different Parcels to
look through that process basically starting this process over from where we originally started 22 years ago 22 excuse me 18 months ago where did 22 come from 18 months ago when we started this process we can change course if that's what you would like but it's just
delaying and delaying even further where we're finding a resolution on this issue um I have a few questions but I don't know if this is a time and place for it is there anything else that we can do as far as if they don't have the money to do it is there anything we can
do as far as terms that would make them be able to buy that and that's just one question that pops in my head I don't know if this is the venue to do that or if it should be a smaller group sitting down with some people at the school board and discussing that I don't think the the County Board table Mr chair is where you want to get into the
negotiations of what you're looking at that's why we've been we've had staff working on this for the past year and a half that was part of what this whole conversation was was to try to figure out where that was at other board members have any
comment I will agree with the uh idea that we should not be discussing it here today we've heard the proposal or the request from the school district um we've heard the input from the administrator and I think that if we want to talk more
about this it should be at one of our other meetings but not at this particular meeting if there is appetite from the board for us to consider option other than selling the full 80 acres we can have staff look at that continue to
work through those conversations with the school district and come back with a further proposal at a later date can we talk Mr chair can we talk about this at budget committee on Thursday or we could um then we could
have a full throw we could put it as an additional business item on the budget committee that would make yeah that this is really not the place for it here this is but thank you thank you yep um anybody anybody else for open form today for the first three for the M three
minutes do you have anything else TR no there's two people that are on teams but they're not raising hands so okay then we'll close open form we'll go on to review and approval of minutes it looks like we have two sets to
approve Mr chair if there's no questions I would make a motion to approve both sets of meeting minutes with my motion second motion made in seconded all in favor signify by saying I I hearing oh why do I have it this way
it say I all oppose same sign hearing none motion carried I'm reading my notes so well you wrote them huh you wrote them I didn't write them okay uh remove uh review and approve the agenda no changes or Corrections I'll
make that motion second motion made in second and all favor signify by saying I right I motion carried uh consent agenda anything to add onto that or
discuss on the consent agenda motion to approve the consent agent as presented second okay motion made made by barl second by franzine um all in favor sign I'm sorry
correction commissioner coring made the motion who would you like to Second it was second was barels okay too many days off I think um all in favor signify by saying I I motion
carried okay public hearing this is time yes Mr chairman I would so move to open the public hearing to amend the Crowing County fee schedule second we do that as a full motion too motion
made and seconded all in favor signify by saying I I motion carried um who's Jessica uh good morning Mr chair Commissioners uh Land Services would like to enhance our service to our
residents out at our uh croing County Recycling Center by accepting fluorescent light bulbs currently we do not accept them for disposal out there um and are proposing to accept them at a rate of $1 per intact bulb and $2 per broken bulb um is's just a little higher
disposal cost if they're broken because they are charged per pound um and I open it to any questions anybody from the public need to speak oh yeah is there anybody from the public that needs to speak to that item do I have to say that three times is there anybody from the public would
like to speak to this is there anybody from the public who would like to speak to this hearing none Mr chair I would move to close the public hearing uh on the Crowing County fee schedule second motion made in
seconded all in favor signify by saying I I motion carried Mr chairman I would move under 6.2 I would move the resolution to amend the land service
2024 fee schedule second motion made in seconded all favor signify by saying I I motion carried now we're on to the uh Crowing County Soil and Water Conservation
District report Mr chair and members uh thank you for the opportunity to come and talk to you uh Melissa baric crowing so and Water Conservation District district manager and then I also have uh Joan Weaver as one of our supervisors um and I just wanted to chat a little bit about some
of the things that we did last year to partner with the county um before I do that I just want to quickly um talk about what a soil mod Conservation District is um so we are a local government unit under 103c statute and
Minnesota statute and um we're a local govern un without taxing Authority so we work in Partnership uh with counties and the natural resource conservation service and then the state agency Border Water and Soil resources um we're not alone there's 88
Soil and Water Conservation districts throughout the state of Minnesota and one of our main uh goals that we try to focus on is working with private lands so if you look at the state of Minnesota 78% of the the land is held in private
ownership um so we do have you know different state agencies that work with the public land similar to your land Department that works with the public lands and our goal is to really focus on those private lands working with those land land owners to uh maintain uh clean
water and healthy soil so I'm not going to go through this entire report but I did want want to highlight a few things it's not going to go it's a PDF not a point okay perfect uh if you can go to page three I think it
is yep um so this is just kind of showing a little snapshot of the different funding that we brought into the county through the last year and then also some of the um funding that the county provided back to the Soil and Water Conservation District um and so
our office is in Land Services um in the in the level I I think it's level one I always get confused by the levels but um we're very grateful for the office um support that we get as well as the it and the Technology support we get through the county um some of the other
things that the county has provided back to the Soil and Water Conservation District is we worked with um Jory with the croing County highway department um last year and we monitored some of the lakes next to highways that they were interested for chloride levels chloride
is um basically salt um so we can better determine how much salt is going into the Lakes from um potentially um all sources obviously but um salt is usually the number one source um from actual
snow PWS um then we also worked with croan County to implement the 30 Lakes Watershed District monitoring program uh when the 30 Lakes Watershed District was um dissolved or completed one of the things that was still out there is to continue to support those lakes in
monitoring those lakes and so we coordinate that program um and then we also um work with uh Land Services uh through a fee for service program so the total that the county provided to this L and Water Conservation District was
73,000 um and then you can see the local funds are funds that other people put towards conservation projects and then the state funds are just funds that the S swcd has leveraged specifically towards conservation this doesn't include all the county programs um the
county grants that um Gary's Team Works on as well so um that's just a brief overview and then if you want to go to page 16 um this kind of highlights the different things that we worked with the county um so um back in 2013 croan
County uh completed their water plan um and so so these different items all are helping Implement that uh comprehensive County Water plan um so one of the things that we worked with with Crowing County is we developed three uh YouTube
videos um to help land owners or uh residents of crowan County to implement their storm water management plan uh through the ordinance process um so we worked with the county and created three YouTube videos that kind of go through the different processes one of them is
to help uh calculate them impervious surface and then one of them is how you develop that site plan so if you haven't watched those I would encourage you to check those out they're really useful to kind of break down the different steps that um when people are getting a permit they
need to do um one of the other things we have worked on is the nitrate clinics um so about two or three years ago we took over um kind of the nitrate uh screener
tool the county was using um and we have been hosting nitrate clinics where people can bring in their well sample and test it for nitrates um and and then uh if needed they can get a certified lab test and that's been very successful we hosted three of those as well as we
hosted a septic training uh for land owners of how to maintain your septic system um that was also very successful and then um we've been working with uh crowing Highway Department Tira um in the city city of Cross Lake on um the ca
66 3 interchange more on related to the storm water management um and so we've been working with them on the design as well as trying to bring dollars to help pay for the storm water management and so uh we earmarked some of our money and then we were able to request additional
dollars um and I believe it was around 300,000 that will be giving to that project which should be starting any day um and other thing is we have been working uh with the county and the other partners to support these uh basically
newer uh Watershed plans which is the onewed one PL so we've been working in the rum the Mississippi brainer the Pine River Watershed and um also in the crowing so we've been um taking a lead role trying to support uh those efforts
um and I think that's all I just want to say thank you we know we can't do this work alone um and that um we need you know all partners and land owners to be a part of the team and we appreciate um the support we get from the county as
well as the partnership uh with Gary and his team Mr chair yes so Melissa well first of all thanks to Joanne and thanks to the board for their work um and just a question that you you
was talking about salt has there ever been any research or any any information of the effects of calcium chloride uh cuz down in my district with the help of the County engineer Tim Bray
a lot of the citizens they did not a couple years ago they did not want calcium chloride one lady was saying that when she'd bring her horse out to the road the horse didn't even want to go on the road and it was just it's just bad bad stuff and I'm just wondering if there's any research or anything about
the effects of that because there's a lot of Lone lands you know that are alongside dirt roads that um if of how how bad this calcium chloride is and and I when I go down these it's been a couple years now when I go down these
County dirt roads I can still see splotches here and there of the residual part of that's left from calcium chloride so any do you guys have any information um I do I mean I can definitely talk to you a different time too one of the things I would say I know
more about the Lakes than the effects to the animals so in the metro area specifically um they have um concentrations of chloride in their lakes that are so uh significant that it kills off the macro invertebrates the little fish and bugs that live on the
bottom and it changes the like Lake chemistry um because the the salts are heavier and they sink to the bottom and so the lake doesn't function um in a normal way but it does have effect on animals um but yeah I think Crowing County has
done a great job of trying to train their staff um and also do the best management practices um so far the data that we have seen at least in The Lakes the concentration is way below the standard um and you know obviously Road
Safety is really important um and so I think croan County does a really great job of balancing both of those the environmental impact and then also the safety piece so Mr chair so Melissa if you ever run across anything that that kind of gives an indepth picture of
calcium chloride I would if you could send email it on to me that would be helpful cuz I'm cuz I this summer the township was the township that I live in was going to put calcium chloride down and the residents started calling me which I don't have
authority over the township but uh ultimately the township decided not to put calcium chloride on these they sent out a a flyer uh or a um on whether or not people wanted it on the road and it was 100% on every road they didn't want
it so um but anyway if you if you ever see any stuff that might be interesting that that I could read that would be great thank you thank you Mr chair yeah thank you uh one of the things that if I remember right from going to the Salt because I I salt certified was that the
a lot of the other elements or you know the nitrates the phosphorus those things are taken up by plants but with with chlorides they stay there they don't they don't they don't break down they're a base and if can you speak to that yeah Mr chair thank you for the question um
yes that is correct they're kind of like a forever chemical they never go away so they um they will go to potentially in your case maybe to a wetland or to a lake um if they're going a river they may be pushed down the river um but they will stay there forever once we put it
on there yeah that was one of the things I think that made chloride uh a big push on on trying to minimize the use of it so that is correct y anything else from any board uh Mr
chair I I would just like to pipe in and thank Melissa you and your team for the assistance in the one Watershed one plans that have been implemented now across the county and soon the crowing one will be in there also but you guys have done a wonderful job
of walking us through that process and I appreciate that very much I will say one thing I sit on the natural resource committee for for AMC and you know when we talk about the um uh Soil and Water districts of the different counties you know in a lot of
them that I see that's all talking about agricultural the ditching and the agricultural up here it is is a lot more involving the lake because that's what we have so much of and and what you do there with those with the getting that storm water to be mediated and and and
stuff has been excellent and what I've learned just by being on the two Watershed plans that I'm on I've learned an unbelievable amount of stuff of how it isn't just the lake it's the water and how we protect that water that comes in the lake so I want to thank you for for that and I really enjoy sharing it
sharing that and sharing my time with with Joanna on the one Watershed one plan for Pro Wing so do you have anything to add not much really Melissa has done a great job but thank you for allowing us to be here I would say I know in the past some of you have been
on the tours that we've done the tour is usually an all day event you get to see firstand some of the projects that we've worked on and have insight as to why they've been important to do we're looking ahead to planning another tour and we hope when the invitation comes
out that you're able to work it into your schedule because we really appreciate your input and your support thank you for everything you do thank you thank you Land Services thank you good morning Mr chair sh members of
the board uh we have four items for you this morning um I will handle the first one and then Tom will cover the the remaining three so um if we could go to the packet and your email or the packet go
to the packet and just get go to some of the maps at first I think so we could start with that then we'll probably switch to there let's go back to the you to a colored map there we go uh so uh what we have before you today is a request to to um update our land use map
for a piece of property here north of Peace Road and then south of uh con Road 77 it's in first assessment it's right next adjacent to these backer properties the ones that uh don't have any colors on them are the backer properties um and
so um this is right adjacent to it and so the request today uh is that this is um Green Day rolloff and they this is where they have the rolloff services here um let's see if we go to that next one down teres I think could be helpful
maybe there's another is there another map after this there we go and so right now um the land owner has owns there's originally were three properties this property this one and then the one here to the South the Old bisad Farm and uh
the request today that you have is to uh basically this is currently the own commercial light industrial and to um extend that down to this North property line here on this parcel and then the request then is for the remaining parcel here and this to be considered to be
commercial 2 uh zoning and uh and so the the act the Planning Commission had a meeting back in June and uh and they made a recommendation to the County Board to uh look at and to adopt the um Amendment here to the landage map as you
see and then uh subsequent to that meeting of the Planning Commission we did have uh um some contact with uh the city of bter and uh Baxter has concerns about this part of this being commercial to and the access to peace Road since peace road is a shared road with between
the county and Baxter and they're concerned about um you know high truck traffic coming down here to potentially access the property to the South for you know these types of commercial uses and uh so that um we received that from the uh from the city on July 2nd and so
there were those concerns there and then um after the meeting to I also met with uh some concerned land owners that are down off a piece Road and concerns that they had at that point were that uh they would like to seen this maintained across here to be maintained in that
residential zoning and not be converted to a commercial to here and on this parcel as well um and so I've had some conversations with uh the land owner uh Donnie Berg he couldn't be here un Fort today because he had some medical issues that he had to run to but um if thees so
he's he's agreed to some modifications to his request based on uh what you um on the map that I presented to gave to theres if we could look at that updated one that Maggie put together the backer zoning map no how about the one that's
got the one of these y let's look at the um let's look at the Luma County board on the the bottom left yep yeah and so um if we could rotate that to the working on upside down there we go now
we know so what's what's uh What uh after talking with Donnie yesterday about it what he is willing and interested in doing is still extending this light industrial down to here and then taking this line here and extending it to the west and then having this area
here that you see kind of shaded that would be our Shand District cuz we have red sand is over in this area and the remainer of that parcel being um are 2.5 and so he him and I had we chatted about that yesterday and he uh is in support of moving to that and so if uh T if you
would open up um the finding of fact that I put together yep isn't it it was sorry here you go you want to the draft summary findings and so if we scroll down we can go down to yep right there where the where the finds of fact are so this was
the finds of fact that were put together um for the Planning Commission meeting back in June the areas that are here in yellow are what I've updated to that based on this new information after having talked with Donnie and the neighbors and you so we also um pulled a piece out of the comp plan that talked
about where we want to see um industrial and and commercial type development and so that's from the current comprehensive plan now um added a finding number two to state that the properties adjacent to the City of Baxter are Zone um commercial industrial and resident iial
staging is what it's referred to and then the third bullet point um saying that if we can maintain that the residential 2.5 insur along peace Road along and allowing the land north of that to be commercial to and light industrial provide the buffer to those Residential Properties to the South and
so um the rest of it going down is just basically using that same comment um before to answer some of the different questions cuz it really gets at what the intent of this would be uh we did delete the section there about comprensive plan cuz that should have been up in the first question when I talked about
comprehensive plan um and then there is an updated motion there with the three bullet points below that summarizing um what would be uh the new motion based on um what I've presented to you today and so based on uh the information that um
was in the packet based on the conversations I've had with um with Donnie Berg and um his interest in modifying his request and based on the finds of fact as presented with the maps um I'd I would recommend approval um of the lus map Amendment as amended in the
packet that information I had provided to theres um yesterday all right well this morning technically I suppose but I'd be happy to answer any questions Mr chair if I might I understand what's taking place here and we have Mr Berg's
word on this y um commissioner franzine has knows him personally and and I think in one of the letters I read from one of the residents you know that he is a person who seems to be willing to work with them my concern gets to the point
of a legal binding agreement on how that stretch is is U zoned and so I would like to hear from these land owners these residents about their feelings about what's being proposed now sure for our
approval please if you'd like to come up to the mic state your name and address for the record good morning my name is Frank Bennett I live on 6036 piece Road um first of all thanks for the effort
thanks for the consideration and what Chris is outlining we think is what we were uh pursuing um the concern was the commercial traffic down peace Road um and then Commercial Business right up
two peace Road and when Donny Berg came to our house just to to convey to us what his intentions were he was uh real receptive um we had a nice visit he told us all along that he's plans on building a home on the old bisad property and
then after all of that equipment was moved off of the property he planned on making everything on peace Road residential and so we asked at that particular time why don't you make it residential to start with and he just said be because of all the work he had
done by widf it be problematic and he he may do it down the road basically but anyway his his plan was to leave everything right up to peace Road residential including you know potentially building a
burm um to maybe hide some of the commercial stuff from peace road but I think what Chris has got outlined I think we all would agree with I would just like to see a finished product a finished map outline everything that
that he said and I'm assuming maybe we'll get that in the future uh Mr chair if I may the the map that was that I showed earlier is is the map of what's being proposed um that map right there that's what's being proposed as part of this amendment so you can see
across here this is the if I can get the to show up there it goes this is the north line of the bisad property that extends all the way to the West everything south of that is going to be sh on residential here our 2.5 uh the remaining piece to the East and then this would be commercial 2 to the north
up to 77 and then this will be the commercial light industrial so this is this is the map of how it would look on our land use map if this would be approved by the County Board today Chris how do you delineate that on the map do I mean how do you because the property ID will still be
that 99 36578 you just say so far down and then you draw a line or how uh it's it's important to remember that uh land use map districts are not isolated by one per parcel you know so we have many overlapping zoning districts on different Parcels across the county it's
very Comm okay so what so this doesn't require a survey this doesn't require um Mr Berg to get any um to change the to create a new lot here along those lines it's it's I've been working with our GIS specialist Maggie from our from the department and uh and she made this map
for me and so when if this gets approved today by the County Board what you'll see on our zoning map would be what this is today it's just taking this line the North Line Of The B former bis property extending it all the way to this partial over here and so that's what be up that's what be updated to the Z to the
our land use map so Mr chair I we're doing two things then we're rezoning the pink portion and we're are we just leaving that bottom so you're doing yeah you're doing two different things today one is that this is going to be going from commercial
from um Ro res this is currently 2.5 acre zoning right here now and so we'll be modifying that to commercial 2 and then the industrial zoning is about right here this was formerly 2.5 and so it's just extending that industrial zoning down to the north side of the
former bisad property okay and that line that's drawn everything below that down to peace Road resal the way it currently is correct no change R 2.5 R 2.5 and the shine Zoning for red sand correct yep and that's agreeable to the
residents I I believe it is I don't know if somebody else wants to speak go ahead but I I believe it is I think it's what we were actually looking for again we're not we're not against Mr Berg expanding his business but we wanted to keep peace Road residential is there any question Chris
we you have a Planning Commission that looked over this and gave their recommendation do they have to relook at it and and your Mr chair no they make a recommendation to the County Board and you have to modify as you see fit I just didn't want to step on their toes no you
can modify you see absolutely okay well I've been in contact with Donnie and with with Chris and we came up with this map and um I would like to make the motion to adopt this amended map I would second that we have a motion
at second so just for clarity it would be based on the updated findings and the updated motion that presented this morning the one that was presented today not the one in the packet correct okay motion second second all in favor signify by saying I I oppose same sign
hearing none motion carries thank you I'll let Tom take over from here yes good morning Mr chair and Commissioners good morning sir so I have three items here before you today and we're going to talk about them all at once if that's all right with you so here today to talk about applying for some grants for our
Milford M Memorial project uh we were here back in January talking about our phase four of our Trail expansion if you remember that's on the south side of Milford Lake approximately 2.2 Mi of new trails that we're looking at developing
so uh here on July 1st some additional grant opportunities open up through the I RB um and so we're asking for some resolutions today to apply for those Grant funds and so I would uh stand for any questions that you may have Mr chair
if I might ask Tom um I didn't see any dollar amount associated with these is is there not one or you just asking for permission to go apply and then you'll come up with a number yeah Mr chair uh M commissioner barel so yeah um there are
some limits to the grant funds at which we can apply to and we're just going to apply to the to the Limit that they allow um so for these three it's about 880,000 between the three of them and I can SP Parcels out if you'd like me to oh no that's fine I just was curious
because there wasn't a dollar amount associated in our packet now if we can get 800,000 out of the I RB I'll be more than happy that's not a problem yeah and Mr chair commissioner bar we've we've um utilized these grants before uh quite a bit and
and they've funded uh a lot of the work that's happened out at Milford since the you know since we started the Milford project and and it's they've been a good partner to work with any other discussion from board Mr chair so this is I don't know
that this is anything to do with this but it's uh I just want to tell you a quick story uh Rose Mr uh commissioner Cory is this going to be a quick story or are we going to this is a quick story order lunch it's a quick story and it's a good
story I was uh this uh couple weekends ago my my neighbor Mary Beth Grims be who uh her maid name was Barrett Barrett Pet Foods down here uh she had her 70th birthday party and so I was over there got invited over there and I don't know
somehow we were talking about different things at the county and the Milford mine came up so I got to try to get this straight so uh Mary Beth's grandfather was one of the people that that escaped the mine
collapse and Mary Beth's mother was Oney old when that happened and so her family has been up and saw what we've done there at the Milford mine and I'm telling you what they absolutely love it so that's something really personal for
the Milford mine it's an amazing park it is thank you for the story Paul now do you want these three separate motions because they're all I Tri R um grants there's three separate Grant programs probably should do it
three separate motions what's [Music] your there's three different resolutions but I can use same commissioner for all resolutions okay I'll make a motion for the I a Regional Trail grant program Milford
mine Memorial Park that's the first request second motion made in second all in favor signify by saying I I I any oppos same sign hearing none motion carries okay okay the next one is the I minland
Reclamation Reclamation Grant program they're all the same Milford mine Memorial Park the second one second motion made and seconded all in favor signify by saying I I I oppose same sign motion
carries and the third one is for the I culture and tourism grant program for the Milford mine Memorial Park second motion made in second all in favor signify by saying I I I oppose same sign hearing none
motion carries thank you very much thank you we'll get to work gentlemen nice job there perect County engineer good morning Mr chair and Commissioners I have two items for you today both of them include uh a normal
process in the project development of uh a couple of our projects and it's the authorization to start the rightaway acquisition process process we have a couple reconstruction projects coming up it's in the adopted plan that you passed
in April uh the 5-year Highway Improvement plan the first one is for uh our next roundabout we're going to have a a few years off of building roundabouts but in the last what's that what we're going to get year
off I think that's music to some people's ears around but uh the next roundabout that we're proposing is also in Cross Lake it's at the intersection of 336 103 and that's by the breny funeral
home up there for those that are familiar and that project was adopted in the latest uh plan uh a schedule for 2028 we're a little bit ahead of schedule in getting this resolution from you
to authorize us to start the RightWay process but as soon as the highway Improvement plan was adopted the one of the adjacent land owners reached out it was was inquiring and and there is a possibility that we have an opportunity over the
next couple years to work out a land acquisition uh similar like we did at the intersection of three and four that's under construction right now if you recall we had uh several years in advance purchased a home and then purchased a bar uh there which now is an
integral part of the the proc Pro site so we so for this first one we're a couple years in advance that we normally would but we want to seize an opportunity with a a property owner property owner who's reached out is making some inquiries so uh the first resolution I
have for you for consideration is uh to authorize the County highway department to start to acquire right away at the intersection of 336 and one three in Cross Lake and that includes all the way
up through um imminent domain we we use that sparingly and don't need to thankfully uh we have been really successful in negotiating and uh working with the property owners but it is a formality that we must be done we must
have author authorization from you to uh enter into these acquisition processes and and this right away is in our Five-Year Plan this is it was adopted in the the most recent one the 24 to 28 plan that you all adopted in April of
this year Mr chair yes so uh this intersection before I before I got on the County Board I had a contract with the county and I did all the medical examiner transports and um there has
been a fatality at least one that I know of that I transported at that intersection right there that is correct so it is a it is a uh it's kind of unsafe so I think this is a good thing love or hate the
roundabouts uh I think it slows people down I have talked to several people about the one at Beaver Dam and Wise Road and the people that live up there have told me that he says yeah I don't necessarily like roundabouts but it slowed everybody down when they're
coming around that corner and on two wheels you know so I think this is a good thing I think uh that Highway Department continues to look at safety for the public and I think that's a good thing Mr chair if there's no
other questions I would make the motion to approve the attached resolution for the RightWay acquisition for sa blah blah blah you want me to read that well you should blah blah blah is not going to look good in the minutes
second motion made in second and all in favor signify by saying I I I po same sign hearing none motion carries thank you very much the second item is very similar but this is a project that is scheduled for 2026 this
is the Reconstruction of Mapleton Road or County Road 170 on the south side of Baxter you adopted this in the highway Improvement plan a couple years ago so we've been actively working on it and are getting to the point where we need to we've identified what we'll need for
right of way and want to engage in the rightaway acquisition process that is also required for this project um that project runs from Mountain Ash all the way to the Cass County Line Cass County has agreed to do their portion there's a
once again get to the county line there's I'm not sure how far it is maybe a quarter mile or half mile before we get to Camp Jim Road there County Road or Casa 36 that goes towards the gull river that Loop there they will Design
their own portion and do their own rightaway acquisition so this is uh not covering that of course and um really I guess that's 2026 construction total reconstruct of the the roadway so we're
going to be regrading wider shoulders ditches and things like that so this is like I said the similar resolution to the one previously authorizing the highway department to start the RightWay acquisition process so we can ensure the ontime delivery of this project in 2026 Mr chair if I might
Tim what are we doing a 66 or 100 foot right away I believe it's 100 that is our standard our standard is 100 ft and we're going to continue to do that that's the best for drainage I know that the backer is developing some a park down there we're going to see some
traffic and we want to make sure that we're building uh the roads to our standard which are 100 ft we every road we've reconstructed over the last I as long as I've been here has been 100 ft and that's our standard that's good news and then across that Wetland
that'll be a culvert approach um that's we're still looking at that the size of what that is required you know another thing I just want to point out the 100 foot Corridor in this particular case is is important to accommodate the potential for some Trails I know that
that is a recreational area that Baxter is uh planning down there and I believe they even have some master planning with trails in those areas so it is imperative in this one that it's at least 100 ft to accommodate wider shoulders and get the proper ditching
and drainage but also the possibility of uh maybe a separated Trail in those areas I I just got the news yesterday that $5 million has been received for that trail buildout there between silven Township and the City of Baxter so um
that will be moving forward at some point so yes and the City of Baxter is one of our partners we're collaborating with them just um you know we're talking about peace Road and I was happy to hear that we're reaching out to our our partners around us to find out what their thoughts are about it and we're
doing the same at the highway department when they're developing these road projects uh to accommodate their transportation needs of course it's County Road but it's in the City of Baxter with that I if there's no other questions Mr chair I'll make the motion to approve the attached resolution for
RightWay acquisition for cp1 18-17 0-03 County Road 170 second motion made in second all in favor of signify by saying I I I oppose same sign hearing none motion
carries thank you I'm going to get it right one of these okay County Sheriff has your hobbling up there morning Mr chair Commissioners uh today I've asked our emergency manager to stop by and give you a brief update on the
storms that occurred in June so uh Clayton welcome greetings M sherff Commissioners again thank you for giving me the opportunity to uh kind of give you an update as far as where we St currently stand um I've been again advising our County Administrator kind of as things progressed but be able to
stand up here in front of you and kind of give you a i of a one two as far as far as where we're we're currently at I was hoping to be here at our the last board meeting but uh was unfortunately down in the Metro at a training down there so um currently we had the state come up on July 2nd one of their uh
State uh reconstruction coordinators and their team came up um recovery coordinators and their team came up and did uh an assessment sat down with the townships and our cooperatives and basically the total that had come up with was um uh put on my
66,000 uh in Damages majority of that was through crowing Co-op which was about 225,000 so because the uh you know the threshold for us for the state is 152,000 the the federal threshold was 300,000 but
because the uh disaster itself mainly impacted croing County and a slight portion of Aken County we don't meet the the federal threshold as a state to apply for the uh the state uh threshold amounts so did the uh I did
the letter for to uh Governor Wall's office for the uh State Disaster Assistance that was sent out and now we're just waiting to get that approval and once that gets approved then we can uh again hopefully get that 75% reimbursement to our our townships and
our cooperatives um and then continue to work with the residents as well uh I know one of the questions that brought up as far as debris removal uh working with again talking with Craig from ideal Township and sounds like they were been able to handle the debris that they've
had out there again majority of it it's all been the storm or you know debris from the trees um not so much uh as far as construction material but uh trees tree debris and they've been able to handle that same with our County uh dump
as well so um any specific questions you have for me I just have a comment because uh I talked to Ideal I've also talked to the fire chief up there and they're very very happy with the with how cing County responded on that
emergency and I just wanted to thank you for that again I had a a wonderful team that worked with me throughout the disaster I know going to Crosby when the storm had initially come out uh the Red Cross had Bas I'd called my phone uh as I'm driving to Crosby before the tornado
even touchdown asking if you know they could what kind of assistance they could uh provide they had already got one um assessment team that was in routes and then I requested a second just after kind of hearing the initial assessments as far as the damage and across the
board has been again a tremendous opportunity to work with uh you know all the organizations across the board so it's been a uh I think my expectations for myself were probably higher than most others but uh again I think we came together as a whole and um and did a I
think phenomenal job as far as the initi response and now working to the recovery aspect thank you anything else from the board no but thank you very much thank you clayon i' like add one other thing as well again we have uh some other uh
we are uh exercise that we're going to be doing this fall with the uh airport which going to be a full scale exercise so continue to work with the airport uh planning that and then also I'd reached out to FIS National exercise uh branch and to get approval or to get funding
that uh they're going to help us coordinate next year's fulls scale exercise in Breezy Point which is going to be a severe wind exercise so they they reached out to me here this week uh to kind of Start program or planning that aspect of it as well so a lot of lot of things in the
hopper very good thank you thank you sir um and did you have any questions for me Mr chair I do have a I don't know if it's a question it's just more of a comment and and I don't know EX ly what you can do but as I as I am in my
district I go out and about and then I ask people a lot of questions you know I think about that calcium chloride a couple years ago I was driving down the dirt road real slow and there's people walking and I said what do you think of calcium chloride and they like what didn't even know what I was talking
about but I a lot of questions okay so last weekend I was over in Garrison and uh I stopped at the dollar store if you know which which one I mean and and I engaged the person working there and I says do you have a lot of theft
here and she says oh my God she says there's a good possibility that that store is going to have to close the the theft is overwhelming and they don't know what to do um and so to me that's very concerning because
it's going to have a huge effect on my constituents that are 20 mil away from brainer when they and have that little dollar store so I don't know what what they can do she told us a story where some guy came in and he was tweaking I guess and he ran into the end maybe
you're aware of this ran into an end cap and he was bleeding and then he apparently stuck himself in the leg with a knife and she said it took 45 minutes for somebody to get there I do not recall or know that that incident specifically I do know that
there is a high volume of shoplifting that takes place at their store uh we've gone so far as have officers literally Park in their parking lot for given times of the day to try to alleviate some of that uh I don't like to say it out loud but it's given the environment of where's going on and the
the traffic that comes through the individuals that don't live in that area that frequent that store for what it provides and the lack of Staffing I know they have issues with staff just like most of the stores in Garrison and getting the proper Staffing there to help them support security within their
store so you have one individual that's in charge of that entire store and if you've been in that store you know that it's it's got a lot of um uh shelving space but also have a lot of places people can hide in the store with one individual that runs the the counter it's a very difficult situation for them
to be in so uh I I feel for their concerns in regards that outside of putting a police officer inside their store 24/7 I don't know how I'm going to be able to alleviate that concern um we do have we we understand the concern we get called there a lot uh those type of
things that you just mentioned it doesn't surprise me if that would have happened and we didn't get a call or I'm not aware of it cuz that kind of stuff does happen quite a bit at that store uh not specifically to that exact incident but uh I know that uh some of the gas stations have struggled to try to deal
with that most of it's been dealt with through security cameras and extra employees uh the Dollar Store just hasn't had the ability to employ enough people to do that and just like the Burger King and and so forth down there they have trouble getting employees in the Garrison area to fill those stores
and they close because of it so exactly right cuz I I went from there over to the tiny little which is a little locally owned grocery store went over there and um there was about seven people working there and I so I struck up a conversation with one g and she
says and I told her what I what I had found over there and she says yeah she says I know they don't have enough help she says that's why we try to have have a lot of people here and they had seven people you know to try to kind of keep an eye on everybody moving around and um anyway I just wanted to make you aware
that I'm I'm really concerned about that for my constituents welfare that they you know to to lose another business over there because of theft it's a sad deal and I don't know what what's happened with this world I mean if nobody thinks they're going to have to answer for their stealing you know when
they leave this earth I I just don't get it and another thing uh I down on Paradise Beach Road um Lower South Long Lake has a Facebook page and I noticed that a gentleman I don't probably don't want me to say his name but uh he he
made everybody on uh Paradise Beach Road aware that that a a house that he was renting out the people were gone to like a music fest and somebody had either cut or tried to take the screen out so it's kind of a maybe an attempted Breakin and
I so I did contact him and I said did you call us sh Department he said no so just just let you know that that there's some yeah stuff going on I appreciate I appreciate that information the uh if you can get the word out to your constituents in that area if they do
have those type of things going on don't hesitate to call us you it gives us it gives us Patrol patterns so if you if you let us know about those type of things that are going on it may may not be break-ins but it's enough to be significantly be aware of us to go down there and be in the area we give out
patterns for the officers to drive drive for based upon those type of complaints yeah individuals come in burglaries uh break-ins damage to property it at least gives us the direction where to put the the deputies at a given date and time and you know croing county is a large County I have you know five officers
working a night shift and bitting them in the right place at the right time is difficult so that type of Intel really helps us so just share that with them and for all of you if you your constituents have something as simple as a their screen got cut but they didn't call it in that's important to us yeah so make sure they're calling that stuff
in that's all I have for the sheriff's department I just wanted to make the sheriff's department aware of that thank you anybody else have anything for the sheriff July 4th go okay for you yeah it was very busy very busy very busy I just had a conversation with our dispatch
crew and believe it or not the the 3rd of July was busier than the 4th of July uh and I give that because of the weather it was a phenomenal day and the amount of traffic the amount of accidents the amount of calls the domestic was the height of the entire week was
Wednesday which was hard to believe but uh I get it the nice weather everyone was out enjoying it so okay thank you thank you County attorney do we have anything for the county attorney I see Steph's up
there are you on mute step can you hear me now barely barely talk loud yell yell at us I don't have anything I don't have anything but if the board has any questions I'm more
than willing to um like I Mr chair I do have a question I and then if you can't answer it Steph that's okay uh I guess I'm just curious about this all this theft stuff and I know I see on the news you know like
when I'm watching the news all these gangs of people that come in take stuff and in a lot of places there's like a $900 threshold and they might buy or they might buy they might steal $879 worth so they're underneath the
threshold so I'm just wondering what what is the threshold here that that somebody's stealing and and we NAB them and and then they go to jail or how does it how does it work I mean if you don't know the answer that's fine but
uh so what I tell you there you know there's thresholds for felonies and gross misdemeanors or misdemeanors um if somebody gets a ticket whether it's for $5 that was stolen or you know we have somebody that steals over a thousand um
our office will prosecute it just depends on what reports we see and to make sure that we have evidence enough to establish go beyond A Reasonable Doubt okay okay but it doesn't matter if it's $5 or $1,000 you guys are going to
go after them is that what I'm hearing well they'll be charged you know jail time is something that um is continually looked at and determined by the circumstances of the situation I can't speak to every single case um but we
will we will prosecute and it'll go through the process okay thank you I guess that's all only question I had okay thank you Steph thank you County Administrator Mr chair yesterday we had a senior management team meeting one of the
things that we discussed was budget amendments for the Personnel committee making sure that we are allowing enough time for our HR department and our finance department to review those budget Amendment Forms make sure that the information is complete and accurate
before it gets to you at the Personnel committee level so you might be seeing some changes in how those forms are coming to you we talked a little a little bit about the deadlines to allow to make sure everyone has time to review them before they get into the packet so
you can start to see some better improved uh refined budget amendments when they get to you also we talked about our holiday party there's nothing like an 80 degree day to talk make you want to talk about holiday party in December this year it is our Highway
Department's turn to host the countywide holiday party so the the Baton has been passed and they are starting their planning process for that as well and then finally we talked about our 2025 budget the budget submittal were due at
the end of June and the finance team has begun their analysis of the budget we still have some work to do to get to the Target area that the board has set out we see that there's probably about $6 million that we need to refine out of that budget proposal before it gets to
you for your final review of that process but the team has started to work through that I can tell you there are no new positions that are being proposed in the 2025 budget and we are still working through some of those um Staffing
additional compensation pieces that we had put in place from the 23 and 24 contracts that were approved so this will be 2025 is the final year of that we knew there was going to be some additional lift that was going to be required of that process so we'll be
working through that that and you can expect to see something at your August budget committee meeting for that uh that's all I have for you today and unless anyone has any questions of me as somebody would say it sounds like crickets I guess there isn't any crickets are good crickets are
good any other additional business no additional business I would entertain a motion to adj chair I'll be happy to make the motion to adjourn second I did I hear a second yes okay motion made and seconded all in favor signify
by saying I I I we are adjourned