Good morning everyone. Before we start, on Saturday, June 6th, the board was informed that former Crowing County Commissioner Rachel Nestrom had passed away. So, please keep her husband Bob and family in our thoughts as we stand for the pledge of
allegiance and a moment of silence. 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. Thank you very much. At this time, it's open forum. Mr. Olsen, if you would like to speak, you'll give us your name and address. You got it. Mark Olsen, 12336 Thompson Road, Briner, Minnesota. Uh, I just
wanted to come up here and publicly acknowledge a few good items that happened uh last night. If you aren't aware, the public I'm sure is not aware, but the Briner City Council passed a resolution
uh agreeing with the county um Eric Clang and the sheriff's agreement with ICE and immigration and they Mr. Chzach brought this resolution forward and it passed 50. So, uh, I wanted to come up here and
give him kudos and give you kudos and thank the sheriff department and, uh, Eric Clang for standing up for law enforcement. I know people get up here and complain, but we need to give kudos
to people who are doing what's right. And I think the county has done what's right here and the city council and they've come together. Um the other thing is it's budget season and you guys got a tough job.
Budget's coming up. The state has really cut things and they've put it all on the county. Um, you're going to have to be very diligent and uh I'll be watching it with a
watchful eye cuz there's things in there that can be easily cut that uh we we'd like to do but we just don't have the money and we can't keep raising taxes on the people. Thanks for listening.
Thank you, Mark. I have no other individuals interested in speaking to open forum. So we'll move on to the review and approve of the minutes. So moved. Motion by Commissioner Franine. Seconded. Second by Commissioner Lubkkey. Any
discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Not in favor. Same sign. That motion passes. Number four. Review and approve the agenda. Mr. Chair, I have no changes this morning. All right, no changes. I would look for
a motion to approve today's agenda. So moved. Commissioner Lee makes a motion to approve. Commissioner Franzine seconds that motion. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Not in favor. Same sign. That motion
passes. Number five, our consent agenda. Looking. Commissioner Franine makes a motion to approve. I'll second it. Second by Commissioner Lee. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I.
Not in favor. Same sign. That motion passes. All right. We're on to number six, Northland Arboritum. Trevor Dan, I don't know if you're going to speak also, but you're welcome to come up. Okay. All right. Want name and
everything? Yes. Uh Trevor Pumnia, 623 Willow Street, Brainer, Minnesota. And I'm full of good news today. All right. So, um you know, we've been seeking regional designation for 732
days. Um who's counting? I started this process in 2023. Brian Pike started it in 2017. So, he's been on this project for 8 years. On June 26th of last or just last month, we scored a 429 on the
Greater Minnesota Regional Parks and Trail Commission evaluation portion of the process and we are the second park in Crowing County to receive regional designation. So, that happened last two weeks ago. At this time, we are asking for um this
resolution. And if you'd like me to go through it line by line, I could do that. But if you're familiar with something like this, it's a pretty standard DNR contract that allows Crowing County to apply for funding. So, are there any questions on the resolution?
Questions? So, when you're talking Yeah. When you're talking um about applying for funding, you're saying that we're the um we're applying on your behalf. I would be applying on the Crowing County's behalf. I would be a representative of the county. This is a county application. Um the greater
Minnesota funding goes through the county and so this is Crowing County Northland Arburedum. Y So Trevor are these grants is there a uh share portion to it where the county would have to pay a portion of it like a
10% on the criteria for the the funding application you score higher the more um kind of tooth you have in the game type of deal. Um, so if you if you were to put in, say on an acquisition deal, if you put in 5%, we would get an additional three points. Up to 25%, we
would score up to 15 points higher. So, uh, at this time, I'm not making any funding requests. We're going to try our application and we hope that we're competitive enough to earn the the the funds through through an application without match.
Okay, Mr. Chair, this is the designation the the regional park designation process that we went through that Trevor was mentioning took 700 and some odd days whatever it was that was the process that allowed the arboritum to now go for
these funding dollars. So the first step of the process was to get the designation as a regional park to create the master plan which they have done both of those things. Now, that gives them the opportunity to apply for these funds. Once they've received that regional park designation, they can
apply for these funds year after year after year. If they don't receive the funding in a particular grant year, so if they're not successful in this round of funding, they can always try again. But this at this time, your portion of what was needed to be done was to
approve that regional park designation to approve that piece. Now, the arburetum is going for the funding aspect of it. No dollars are being requested from the county at this time. Okay. Thank you. Any I would look for a
motion to approve. Motion by Commissioner Franzine. Second by Lubki. Second by Commissioner Lubkkey. Any discussion? Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I.
I. Not in favor. Same sign. That motion passes. Thank you. Thank you so much. We'd like to invite you to our bike park soft opening this weekend at Saturday if you'd like to make it out. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all the work. Move on to land services. Mr. Pence.
Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the board. We have six items for your consideration this morning. The first request is for a land use map amendment for the following parcels 75130521, 75130524, and 75130526
located in section 13 of Long Township. The request is to amend the land use map from agriculture forested to rural residential 5. I just want to point out that there was an error in the request for board action this morning that also listed uh partial 7513
0525. Uh that parcel is completely zoned shorland and is not proposed to be changed to a resident real residential 5 status. Also wanted to just clarify that P75130527 is owned by a family member but is not part of the plat that we'll be
discussing um which is the next uh item on our agenda. Um, Amber, well, Amber's not here. Gosh, I had it all set up. Look at that. Jesse, could you go to uh page 59? There we go. Perfect. So, the the this is the um the parcels in
question would be 24 and 26 and 21 to um change the zoning in this area here from the R or from the egg forested to the R5. Um, as a reminder, the the blue band you see here is the Shorland district for South Long. The area you see here in
pink would be a commercial and this would be a waterfront commercial. The yellow is 2.5 acre zoning. The brown is 1 acre zoning and then the blue over here is five and then the green that you see here is the egg agricultural forested uh zoning. The planning
commission board of adjustment held a public hearing on June 18th and made a unanimous recommendation to the board to approve the land use map amendment for parcel 75130521 75130524 and 75130526 from egg forested to rural residential
5. Um, the PCBOA also developed a finding effect for the board's consideration on pages 65 and 66 of your packet. And based on the application submitted, staff packet, public comments, and the finding effect, it is recommended to approve the land use map amendment as submitted. Staff have
reviewed the file and concur with the recommendation from the planning commission. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Questions? All right. Right. I would look for a motion to approve the land use map amendment. I'll make the motion.
Commissioner Lee makes a motion to approve. I will second it. Second by Commissioner Lubkkey. Any discussion, concerns? All in favor signify by saying I. I. I.
Not in favor. Same sign. That motion passes. Move on to 7.2. All right. Thank you. Preliminary plat. The next request is for the plenary plat of Ingome acres for the par for the following parcel numbers of 75130521,
75130524, 75130525, and 75130526. This is located in section 13 of Long Lake Township. The request today is to approve a conventional design plenary plat consisting of 12 residential lots
and one outlot on uh South Long Lake. As a reminder, um as we mentioned with the previous application that P75130527 is owned by a family member but not part of the plat. If you go to the map on page 71, you'll see the layout of the plat.
You have to zoom out just a little bit maybe. So, here's the the layout of the lots. Uh, this is narrow lane road up here. This is the road coming in. You can see here you've got um lot one and two two
through eight here. And then you have uh let's see, I think nine is way up in the right hand side, right? There's nine, 10, 11, and then lot 12. And so these these lots are u much larger than the minimum requirements are for um what would be
required um to meet the lot size requirements for this plat. And so this really is a it's a nice layout. Um it's and we have larger lots which is something that we always encourage when folks are developing. Uh the plan commission held a public hearing on this on June 18th and made a unanimous
recommendation to the board to approve the plenary plat of homemakers. the plan commission board of adjustment developed the finding of fact that you will find on page 83 and 84 of your packet. Um and then based on the application submitted staff packet public comments and the finding effect it is recommended to
approve the plinary platifing homemakers. Staff have reviewed the file and concur with the recommendation with the PCBOA. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Any questions regarding this? Look for a motion to approve. I'll make the motion. Motion by
Commissioner Lee and I will second that. Second by Commissioner Lubkkey. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Not in favor. Same sign. That motion passes. Thank you, Chris.
Thank you. The next request is for the plenary plat of Pelican Valley. This is for parcel number 77060524. This is located in section 6 of Mission Township. The request is to approve a conventional designed plenary plat consisting of six commercial lots. If we
can jump to the Yeah, let's that's perfect. Let's get the right one here. So, this is Kai Road 3 here. Can we go down to page 90? Let's go down to the next one. 91. There
we go. So, this would kind of give you an idea of what the zoning is in the area and and the proximity. So to the north here you've got city of cross lake. Over this way you've got the city of uh you got Breezy Point over here. And then uh the area that you see in yellow is a 2.5 acre zoning on both
sides. This is Shorland for this uh for Pelican Brook the stream coming through. And then this is the Shorland zoning for this lake to the north. The this is where they are proposing to do the plat. Um and it's uh meeting all the commercial requirements um of the ordinance. Uh we can go back to that go
back to that plat if you would. Yeah, perfect. Uh so this plat meets all the requirements of the of the ordinance um as as uh as required. The pling commission did hold a public hearing on June 18th and made an unanimous recommendation to the board to approve
the plinary plat of Pelican Valley. Um the planning commission board of adjustment did develop a finding effect found on page 105 106 of your 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 plenary
plat of Pelican Valley. 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? I have none. Looking for a motion to approve the preliminary plat of Pelican Valley for
findings of fact discussed on 618 2025. So moved. Love. Motion by Commissioner Lupkkey. I'll second it. Second by Commissioner Lee. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Those not in favor. Same sign. That
motion passes. Move on to number 7.4. Thank you. Uh the next request is for a land use map amendment for parcel number 99290502. This is located in section 29 of the first assessment district. And the request is to amend the land use map
from rural residential one to commercial. Let's Yeah, perfect. Uh, this really is kind of an interesting situation. If you look on the map to the north, uh, this is the parcel in question here. So, everything that you see in the brown is the RR1.
Everything you see in the blue would be the Shorland district. Everything that you see here in the pink would be uh, the commercial zoning. And then directly south um, is the city of Brainard. And uh and so what I did was I I actually
reached out the city of Brainard and got um some information about the zoning of adjacent parcels. So if we could go down to the next. Yep. Perfect. So, um, so this is the subject property that
would like to be um changed from RR1 to the commercial zoning. To the south is is called rural living 2. And the definition of rural living 2 is um areas of the city where urban services are not presently available. um land
zone RL2 are served by private well and septic and there are no plans for future expansion of urban services to the property. So that's the RL2 and then when you look at this parcel here this zone garden living and the garden living district is intended for areas where
urban services are available and lots and parcels are served by parcel water by public water sewer and storm water and public infrastructure. Um, and it's generally developed with single family buildings and accessory uses. And then you've got this here is general
commercial as well as this parcel here is general commercial. And general commercial is to allow more intensive commercial uses that require the primary street network for access and circulation. And just as a point of reference, this is the Wise Road here.
This is Beaver Dam coming this direction. and uh and so that it's it this is on a um on one of our more major um county roads as far as the infrastructure that it could support. Uh let me go back to here and then
everything to the north of this parcel if you go back up to that map to the the next map up again. Yep. Just a reminder then. So that everything to the north of this is going to be um rural residential one or Shorland district. And so again, this is
the rural living too where there's no expectation for there to be city services and then the one across the way would be garden living where there will be or could be city services with a couple of of their general commercial zoning for the city. Um the planning commission board of adjustment did hold
a public hearing on June 18th and they made a unanimous recommendation to the board to approve the land use map amendment for parcel 99290502 from rural residential one to commercial. The plan commission board of adjustent did develop a finding effect found on pages 116 to 117 for your
consideration as well based on the application submitted staff packet public comments and the finding effect is recommended to approve the land use map amendment as submitted. Staff have reviewed the file and concur with the recommendation from the planning commission. I'd be happy to answer any questions questions.
Uh one question. So if this is a land use amendment that would mean this is a condition conditional use. Note what this would uh Mr. Chair and Commissioner Lee, what this would do would be to change the zoning on this parcel here from the from
the RR1 that you see right now. It would have this color. It would be changed to that pink. It would be changed to the pink zoning. So, it's not a conditional use permit. It would be a it's actually an an amendment to the land use map or to the zoning map. Okay. And it's associated with the uh or
will be associated with the business that's across the street from it? No, no, it won't be. No, it's it's separate. It's it's the the proposal is they uh somebody wants to be able to put up a um they have an electrician and they want to be able to put buildings up there and have their business on the property. Okay,
that's all I've got. Other questions? Motion to approve. Commissioner Franzine makes a motion to approve the land use man amendment. I'll second that. Second by Commissioner Lubkkey. All in favor signify by saying I.
I. I. Not in favor. Same sign. That motion passes. Thank you. Thank you very much. 7.5 to the Wala. The next uh request is for a land use map amendment for parcel number 900511.
This is located in section 6 of St. Matias Township. The request is to amend the land use map from agricultural forested to rural residential 5. Uh perfect. So this would be the location of where the of the parcel in question. If we could go down to the next go to
the zoning map. Super. Thank you. So the area here that doesn't have any coloring on it, this would be in uh Crowing Township. So we don't uh that's that's uh they have their own zoning up there. The parcel in question is right here. Uh the area that you see like these that don't have any on it, those are tax
forfeit parcels. Um the area that's in blue that you see here is a real residential 5. This little yellow is the 2.5 acre and then the um the green here is the agricultural forested and they want to basically amend the zoning map to allow this to be 5 acre zoning as
well. Um St. Matias Township did um give us comments on this as well and uh and they did attend the public hearing and they did not support the R5 but would support R10. Um it's important to remember that uh when we did our comp
plan update last year, this would have been R10 in this area and then part of that comp plan amendment included changing that from R10 down to R5 in this area here. So that's the so um just that was a recent change that was uh
that was done in the par uh we did a comp plan update uh last summer. The plan commission and board of adjustment held a public hearing on June 18th and made the unanimous recommendation to the board to approve the land use map amendment for parcel 90050511
from agricultural forested to rural res rural residential 5. Um the planning commission developed the finding effect found on pages 127 to 128 of your packet for your consideration and based on the application submitted staff packet public comments and the finding effect
as recommended to approve the land use map amendment as submitted. staff had reviewed the file and concur with the recommendation from the planning commission. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Questions? Mr. Chair, Mr. uh I'll be voting no on this and uh it's
not for the reason that I'm that I think it's the wrong decision. It's just out of respect for uh the St. Matias Township supervisors. Apparently, they think that they'd rather have 10 acres. Um, but for the next three and a half
years, I'm going to be telling all of my townships not to bully them, but I will be telling them that if they do not want Crowing County to do their planning and zoning, they can certainly do their planning and zoning themselves if they
don't agree with what we're doing here. And so, um, I I think to me this makes sense, but I will vote no. and it's for the only reason is because the St. Matias Town Board wants it that way. So, just letting you know that. Thanks.
Thank you. Any other questions or concerns? All right. I look would look for a motion to approve. I'll make the motion. Commissioner Lee makes a motion to approve.
I will second it. Commissioner Lubkkey seconds the motion. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Not in favor. Same sign. No. That motion passes. Thank you. Move on to 7.6.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The last request today is for the final plat of Hunter Lake Acres. All requirements have been met for the final plat application and recommend approval as submitted. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Any questions regarding this one? Then I would look for a motion to
approve the final plat for the Hunter Lake acres. I'll make the motion. Motion by Commissioner Lee. Second. Second by Commissioner Franzine. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Not in favor. Same sign. That motion
passes. Thank you, Chris. That was 80% of our meeting right there. There you go. As usual. As usual. Administrative Services. Good morning, Jory. Good morning, Mr. Chair and Commissioners. Jory Danielson,
administrative services director. I'm here today to request your consideration of a renewed work initiation document agreement with the US Department of Agriculture. uh specifically through their wildlife services program. The USDA has approached us to reestablish a
5-year agreement that would authorize their personnel to conduct uh beaver, coyote, and wolf damage control operations as well as wolf research on crowing county property and rights of way. Uh this includes both direct work uh for the county such as beaver and dam
removal as well as access to county property for activities performed on behalf of other agencies and partners including the Minnesota DNR, MIDOT and Burlington Northern Santa Fe. Uh this agreement does not involve any financial commitment from the county. It
simply provides USDA with the necessary permission to carry out wildlife management and research activities on county land when needed. The previous agreement expired in 2012, and the USDA is now working to reestablish similar agreements with counties across
Minnesota. Uh I've discussed this with Tom, Chris, and Gary and land services, Brian uh from the highway department, and Stephanie from the attorney's office, and there are no concerns from those departments. With that, I respectfully request your approval to authorize myself, the administrative
services director to sign a 5-year uh work initiation document agreement with the USDA wildlife services on behalf of Crowing County. Thank you for your consideration. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have, questions, concerns. Mr. Chair, go ahead. Commissioner Lee,
um I'll be in in support of this, but my question is you mentioned um beaver removal. Has there been any discussion about wolf removal? Uh, Mr. Chair and Commissioner Lee, it's a pretty open-ended um agreement that if wolves
are needed to be removed that this agreement would authorize them to enter county land. It the work might not necessarily take place on county land. It could take place on private property. Uh, one of the the uh things that uh the representative reached out to me and
said that they do have uh wolves that are um predators to livestock and they may need to access county land um for uh trapping or removal of that animal u from that private property on county land. So, it would be that consideration
also. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, this is an issue in my district. It's we've got livestock issues or livestock that are having wolf issues, I should say. So good. Any other questions? I would then look for a motion to approve.
I will make that motion. Commissioner Lee happily makes that motion to approve. And I will happily second it. Commissioner Loveky seconds that motion. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Not in favor. Same sign. That motion passes. Thank you.
Thanks, Jory. County Sheriff. Good morning, chair. Good morning, uh, commissioners. Morning. Um, obviously busy summer right now. A lot of things going on and, uh, we got a lot of things in the hopper right now that we're just trying to bring to fruition and some signatures, uh, coming down the
pipe for you guys as well, uh, on a bunch of, uh, different things. So, we're doing our part also for to uh control the budget and to make sure that we're doing our good fiscal responsibility in in our um for this next year's budget, too. We've had some
a lot of uh different kinds of crimes that have been uh happening and we've uh been very successful at uh bringing those to completion um and and identifying those that have uh you know committed crimes against us.
and we've uh our investigative uh division has been nothing but stellar. Uh if you saw our Facebook posting, you saw there was a person of interest on there. Um this uh uh this person is um what we know has has taken over $50,000
out of uh different banks using a uh passport. And uh it's I think it's a little bit more complex than than it appears. And uh I'm putting our guys on the on the line and or in the spotlight here uh saying that I'm hopeful that uh
we we will try to identify who this person is um and uh bring that person to justice as well. So uh with that I would uh certainly take any questions that you guys had. We had a successful fourth a lot of uh different uh activities and it
went down pretty much without a hitch. So, questions for the sheriff? Just one question. Um, you mentioned the fourth. I know there was at least one uh ATV crash. Do you have anything else from this past weekend? Uh, nothing nothing other than uh that
that crash. Okay. That we had. So, good. I'm glad to hear that. Yeah, that's a pretty good weekend then. It was It was a great weekend. Yeah. really really unusually successful weekend other than that that crash with the ATV. Um,
Commissioner, Mr. Chair, yeah, it was busy. Did we have any uh challenges on the lakes at all with boating while intoxicated or anything like that? Do you know if there was any pickup? Yeah, we had we had a couple of uh um underage uh drinking that we we cited
for minor consumptions and had to bring their $250,000 boat back to their dad's house. Uh, our guys barely knew how to run it. So, we'll need to get one of those so we can on that. I'm sure that'll go fine in the budget. Yes.
Complete glass cockpit. It was It was a pretty impressive. And then some other kids that were then they didn't know how to turn on the on the lights on the boat and it was I mean it was complicated boat. It's a it's not just some toggle switch you flip up. Well, wasn't July
1st the date that they were looking at uh you have to be of a certain age or you have to have a certain permit. Is that Yeah, that's correct. We didn't have any issues with that. I think people have done their due diligence and looked at uh looked at that law and it's it's that thing is so complicated if you try to look at it and read it. Um it's you know
from this date forward it's you got to have this you have to have this license and then after another year I mean it's just some lawyers put it together. I think so too. Absolutely. I caution you not to talk about.
Okay. Thank you, sir. So, all right. If there's nothing else, thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate it. County attorney, can I talk now? Yes. I I don't have anything for you today, Mr. Chairman, members of the board, but I certainly can answer any questions you
have. Questions? We're done. All right. Off the hook. Thank you very much. County Administrator. Mr. Chair Ditto, we did not have a senior management team meeting yesterday, so I have nothing to report today, but we'll be happy to answer any questions.
Questions for the administrator. All right. I have no additional business. Commissioner Coring. Mr. chair. Uh just I I know Tim probably I don't know if you get bothered by me putting you on the spot, but obviously
there's been a lot of road construction down in uh district 1, which is my district and a and a pretty good amount of rain and especially 144 that's kind of a low type of road. I'm just
wondering if you got cuz I do know I get feedback that there is some of my constituents watch this on YouTube. So I guess they somebody some uh constituent was giving an update on State Highway 25
and and so I don't know where she's got her information from, but if you could just give a little update on how two is if two is complete and and then 144. I guess I'm just kind of curious because it's really wet.
Sure. Uh, Casatu is substantially complete and we worked through a few um, uh, resident issues that you brought forward, Commissioner Coring. Um, but that is substantially complete. Um, 144
currently is detourred right now. We are working on the grade through the swamped. uh for those familiar with it, very tough pavement conditions due to the close proximity of uh the swamp and the water. We're we're working on putting in the geo grid now to kind of
create that separation and strength of the that roadway. We'll be putting uh gravel on that shortly. Uh the culverts are done. The plan is to um put the gravel on and let it settle for a little bit and just um let it heal
for a little bit before with the pavement on. So we expecting pavement probably in the next two to three weeks as we finish up the grade rays and then that uh finish off the road base before paving. So it'll be detourred until the gravel's on. We anticipate the potential
of opening it up to traffic as we kind of let it settle. Okay. Um but that's where that's at. Mr. Chair, go ahead. So uh can you just explain what a geog grid or what what that is? Is that kind of similar to what you put on 139 several years ago? Yes, it creates some
separation uh layers between some of those organics that are causing some of the problems and creates some strength and stability in that subgrade or the road base and it helps with the longevity of uh the roadway. I mean just in very simple terms.
That's all I got. If there's nothing else, I would look for a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Motion by Commissioner Franzine to adjurnn. Second by Lubkkey. Second by Commissioner Lubkkey. All in
favor signify by saying I. I. I. Not in favor. Same sign. That motion passes. We are adjourned. Thank you very very much.