croing County regular board meeting for February 11th 2025 to order if you'll stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence please pledge Al to the flag of the United States of America States of America and to the Republic for which it
stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and justice for all [Music] all right item number one is open Forum roll call please I'm sorry let's have roll call commissioner coring here
commissioner ly here commissioner barels here commissioner franzine here commissioner Lee here all members are present have we received any forms for open form all right right we'll move on to item number two which is review and approve the minutes from January 1st 28
2025 motion by commissioner franzine second by ly second by commissioner ly roll call please commissioner coring I commissioner franzine commissioner Ley I commissioner Lee I commissioner barels
I that motion passes move on to review and approve today's agenda Mr chair I did get a request from commissioner Lee to pull item 5.6 the uh request to apply for a local Housing Trust Fund matching Grant from
the consent agenda so if we could place that right after the consent agenda for discussion and action at that point we will do that so I'm looking for a motion for the consent agenda at this point minus 5.6 agenda move uh approve the
regular agenda we're on agenda y approving the agend this is going to be a problem today if we keep this up get it commissioner franzine regular agenda with change makes the motion I'll second it second by commissioner Lee roll call
please commissioner franzine I commissioner ly I commissioner Lee I commissioner coring I commissioner barel I that motion passes now we are on to the consent agenda minus 5.6 which will be placed right after the consent agenda
do I have a motion I'll make the motion commissioner Lee makes a motion to approve second second by commissioner franzine roll call commissioner ly hi commissioner Lee hi commissioner coring I commissioner franzine I commissioner
barrels I that motion passes we're on to number 5.6 which is the request to apply for local Housing Trust Fund matching Grant Mr chair commissioners I've asked Eric sharpener from the HRA to be here and present the information on that and be available to answer any questions
that you might have so Eric if you would give us an overview please yes thank you Mr chair and members of the commission for giving me a couple minutes to just uh talk a little bit about what this grant request is uh to the state of Minnesota uh so starting back in 2021 uh
the state of Minnesota allocated 1 million of matching dollars to go towards local housing trust funds to try to incentivize the creation of those throughout the state uh as you recall back in 2020 we actually were one of the first communities to uh create a local
Housing Trust Fund and again the state was wanting to incentivize these trust funds to be created throughout the state so they've got more local control for Housing Solutions uh than maybe over overall with the state we've been waiting for this grant to come alive
since 2021 and obviously that's been a few years now and in 2023 the legislature did approve another $4.8 million to go towards this pool of funds which is actually onetime funds only so they've increase the pool to $5.8
million they we have had a number of other local housing trust funds come on board uh since 2020 which is the intentive here now we're finally to the point where this RFP is going to be released uh and that's where we are right now in reviewing the the program
guide through Minnesota housing it does not specifically state that H are eligible to apply on this in talking with the state they have said that that is something with the intent that they are allowing HRA to do that but since it's not in their program guide I wanted
to present this in front of this board to make sure you're okay with us applying on behalf of the county if that's the case to qualify for up to $225,000 uh that we could uh receive in matching grant funding to to go into our local Housing Trust Fund uh the great
news about any uh requirements from the state as far as funding we have already put enough funds in there they actually go back to jul June 29th or July 29th of 2021 and count retroactively dollars that we have put into that to make sure that we've met our required match on
that so we would be eligible for up to 225 which is the maximum amount uh this is a program that is going to supplement funds and and increase our our reach for our constituents in Crowing County to hopefully create those local Housing Solutions here with our programs that
we're running out of the Housing Trust Fund which include down payment assistance Rehabilitation loans and you know new development or Redevelopment of properties to increase the housing stock so really that's the the background on what the program is why I'm in front of
you uh we do believe that we should be able to apply for this on on our own but just in case we wanted to make sure that the county uh did give their okay to to proceed with requesting this funding with that I would ask for any questions from the the chair or from the rest of
the board Mr chair I I got s go ahead um the um a couple years ago or whatever it was when I was first here there was also some funds that came from the state and it's only because we had a Housing Trust Fund in place that we were able to apply for
those and I can't remember exactly what that was you SW so you may be referring to the state affordable housing aid the Saha funding so it was a two-year like a two-year so the first two years were the highest years of Grant funds that came to the county and actually it's built into the budget base that the county
will continue to receive funds for Saha the the positive thing from the county standpoint is you are able to move those dollars into the trust fund for us to administer again for those local Housing Solutions uh and because we have a a house trust fund you're able to to not
take staff time on the county side to look at those Housing Solutions and able to allow us to do that yeah yeah I just and so this is kind of along that same line yeah this is the onetime pool at for it's a one shot deal um you know if
everybody if every count community that has a trust fund uh applies for the maximum you'd have about 25 fully funded grants I don't believe that every Community is going to be able to qualify for that maximum amount in Grants uh so I do believe we've got a good
opportunity to maximize ours and one follow-up question then it's not just counties if there were cities out there that had a Housing Trust Fund in place corre they could also apply for those funds y just local Housing Trust Fund could be counties or cities okay okay thank you that's all I had y uh so if we
get this grant do you have this money earmarked for a certain project or how does that work yeah we don't it'll just go into the Housing Trust Fund uh again with the intent that any loans that go out will come back as a revolving Loan Fund so it's creating that uh perpetually uh renewable source of
funding in the trust fund um they are all loans at this point uh and no programs or or no dollars that are going to come in are necessarily earmarked for anything we do have a loan queue that we've got as far as when funding comes available we do reach out to those individuals that are on our waiting list
uh to see if they're still interested uh and then we proceed with a full application okay um um do you know off top of your head what we have in there in the trust fund right now does anybody know that you know I I should because I've got a
meeting tonight that is in our packet uh you know we've got the funding that's going forward this year for our allotment which is 400,000 uh and our you know I guess I don't have the exact dollar figure in front of you or in front of me right now
okay and if we my understanding is this is basically uh today's step is to say that we are intending to apply for a grant correct that's correct so the intent to apply the ITA which is a requirement for us to move on to the next uh RFP request
for proposal uh that is due today at 5:00 uh and then the rfps we do believe will open up tomorrow at least per their timeline and there'll be a roughly a 30-day window for that RFP to be completed okay and then if something um if something changed say we
approve this today and then we decided not to apply what are the ramifications if we didn't apply is that frown upon sure so the from the Minnesota housing standpoint I don't think that would be a a ramification that would look poorly upon us uh what I would just you know
state in that is we are losing out on additional funding for our constituents here that is going to be utilized by another a agency throughout the state and and we would love to capitalize on that and get those dollars to come here okay and then [Music]
um this obviously this 225 would come out of our trust fund um but then am I I'm correct that we have to replenish that out of our Levy is that accurate No that wouldn't be a statement that I would make uh this 225 would come in
from the State dollars we would be able to utilize that for programming uh there's no requirement from the County Commissioners that you're going to replenish that from year to year uh we do have a levy request and separate Levy Authority through the HRA and that might be what you're referring
to is uh during budget and Levy time we do typically try to um appropriate some of our Levy if the Commissioners so see fit to do that to replenish dollars if we are lending them out and and getting programs U
completed so it's not a requirement Mr chair the packet for tonight's meeting is reflective of a a balance that you currently have in the trust fund there's three different ways of looking at this right now there is a
total revenue of 2.9 Million with 1.3 million loans that have already been loaned out does that sound correct Eric so it's got a balance of 1.5 and applications in your Q of 955 th000 and
then some additional applications that were just recently approved um of 1.3 million that's correct and that wasn't recently approved that was approved last year last year corre and so that is being reserved at the moment for that development to hopefully proceed uh but
we do have indications have about available balance if you will of about $260,000 currently yeah currently and thank you for pulling that up debie okay oh I'm sorry commissioner franzine um in the packet it says the H
would would be eligible to receive up to 225,000 in a matching Grant based off the criteria in the program guide can you explain that a little bit better yeah absolutely so the state allows a one:1 match so $1 to $1 up to
$150,000 so the match is based off of funds that we have put into our Housing Trust Fund could be local Levy dollars could be private donations but it can't be State funding so as administrator Ericson was stating we've already put a number of dollars into the the trust
fund so they the state will backdate that to I think it's July or June of 2021 and start counting those um contributions since then so we can do one: one contribution for up to 150 and then it's a 1 to2 so for every $1 in
state aid we have to have had $2 put in for the next 150,000 so we get basically 75,000 for the next 150 that we've put in so since we have put in well over that $300,000 threshold we would be uh able to get the $225 match okay if that makes sense
thank you mhm any other questions just wanted make other questions no I think I'm okay commissioner coring any questions no uh no question I guess I'm waiting for a motion to see what happens
here I I will be voting no on this and my reasoning for that is is as I see what's happening um in our country and in our state $37 trillion in debt and um you know president Trump is trying to
find ways to cut back but apparently the courts are fighting fighting with him putting you know putting him on a a hold and our state has a huge bus budget deficit and uh I wish I was in
Washington to be able to vote uh know on some of this stuff but all I've got is this small position and the people of Southern croing County to look out for and so I guess the my loan vote is going to be to to say that
we got to stop this spending and I think it has to stop right here so I I'll be voting no on this today uh I don't know if that made any sense but um I I just don't I I know that if I go to oaklon Tavern or I go to St Matias or I go
somewhere where I've grown up with these people my entire life and and I say to them would you be okay with me taking some more of your property tax dollars your hard-earned dollars and put that into a
fund and either give it away for 0% interest or a very minimal interest I can guarantee that all my constituents would say or at least a huge majority would say no I'm not interested in that
so uh I'm I'm not interested in this uh so I'll be voting no thank you Mr chair thank you commissioner coring commissioner franzine okay this money is out there and if we don't take it it's still going to be spent just not on our County that
is correct okay the money is appropriated by the state it will be utilized in full I would anticipate we just wouldn't get the benefit of that for our constituents well I would rather see our constituents get it if it's going to be given away anyway thank you
commission commissioner ly yeah um as one who served in the city of Jenkins as a mayor and we worked really hard to be able to get those trust dollars and I can go right up to three homes in Jenkins that wouldn't have had those repairs those things made if it wouldn't
have been for what HRA has done for us up there so I definitely would vote Yes for this and I'll make that motion to vote to uh go ahead and request uh the app for the local trust matching Grant I will make that as a motion to apply for
it the ITA the ITA yes commissioner ly makes a motion to approve the ITA application is that how it should be worded Eric correct okay do I have a second second second by
commissioner franzine s just one more point of discussion commission Lee go ahead um so if if we get this 250 5 um max we have 260,000 in the balance right now that leaves us with
5,000 in the balance plus the well okay we'd be adding the 255 to the balance correct um okay never mind answered one question okay Dre if you'll call the roll call
please commissioner Lee no commissioner coring no commissioner franzine hi commissioner luy I commissioner barels I that motion passes thank you thank you thank you
Eric next we'll move on to Community Services Miss imren if you'll come up and walk us through this one good morning Mr chair members of the board I have been working on a property this past month um maybe even a little bit longer here but in regards to letters and notices to the property it started
in January um this property I'm hoping we can get the photos pulled up so I can show you better uh you can see there's some close residence to the property um I think it's the third
photo this property has an accumulation of household waste they have an accumulation of tires softsided items open containers all posing an attractant to nuisance Critters uh which were are known to Cary disease so we did determine that this was a public health
nuisance um we did provide an abatement notice request at the beginning of January that did not go um with any response to us and then we provided a second letter along with the public hearing notice and the same so this public health nuisance remains unresolved so I'm here today asking for
uh permission to utilize Solid Waste funds to aate this property should we be unable to get the property owners to clean it themselves thank you any questions or concerns commissioner coring no
questions thank you Mr chair Commissioners I would look for a motion then to approve the uh resolution that's attached to for us to consider declaring a public health nuisance at the
13734 County Road 25 Brainard Minnesota 56401 motion to approve commissioner coring makes the motion to approve second second by commissioner franzine any other discussion theres roll call please commissioner coring I
commissioner franzine hi commissioner ly I commissioner Lee I commissioner barels I that motion passes thank you Land Services Mr Pence welcome
good morning Mr chair and members of the board um what I have for you today uh for your consideration this morning is a land use map Amendment request on parcel number excuse me 7504 0516 in section 4
of Long Lake Township the request is to uh Zone the property from rr1 rr5 to rr1 it's approximately 44.8 Acres uh just to give you an idea of where we're at uh we have uh let's see if I can get the
pointer work in there so you got State Highway 25 here you have butterup Road here you've got this is actually Long Lake Township to the South you have oaklan to the north uh this would be uh just for maybe a point of identification this is the Jehovah's Witness building
here and this is the dentist Drummond Winery as well here so we're discussing this property here uh if we could go down trees to the um zoning map yeah there we go that's great so the request what they're asking for on this
parcel this is the blue um is rr5 they're requesting to go to rr1 which is the brown that you see here the the colors that you see um just as an update to reminder is that this is commercial zoning here the area in green is our agricultural forest district and then
the area that's in the yellow is our 2.5 acre zoning and then the areas that are this bluish color here is is the Shoreland zoning around public Waters and then uh the areas that you see in this wher area that are actually County tax forfeited land they don't have any zoning on
them uh so the the uh I just want to make sure to to explain that this is not a request today for a platter or for a subdivision there's been talks about what might happen on the property and location of of that but the request today is just a consideration of what is
the proper Zoning for the property um so the uh the Planning Commission held a public hearing on January 16th 2025 and made a unanimous recommendation to the County Board to for an act for RR 2.5 Zing instead the rr1 um if we can go to
page 81 theres that's def finding a fact that the board used to make this decision and so uh if we go under number one they looked at uh from the the County's comprehensive plan standpoint was the goal was the goal one is to plan
for residential development that meets the needs of residents of all ages and income levels focusing on Aging population and moderately priced housing for area workers they want to balance interest to short-term and long-term housing needs and support the development of housing the balance of Natural Resources creates a sense of
community and connects to recreational amenities and open space I think the the Planning Commission felt that um going from a um in that location of where it's at uh made sense to have a transition from one acre to a 2 and a half AC acre zoning up to a 5 acre that was their
their thought process um they felt it was a better buffer as you can see in question number two um if you look at number three it does meet all the requirements of r2.5 for the for the zoning if that's based on their um interpretation of the ordinance which is
correct um if we could scroll down a little bit more um the majority of the land east of Highway 25 is 5 Acres so they felt it was a logical blend to go from 2.5 instead of of a 1 acre zoning there um and then uh just from the
general health safety and general of the public um the comp plan encouraged residential development providing housing op um options for different social economic groups so um I think what makes this if we go back to that zoning map again Tes uh I think it's on page
85 what makes this interesting again is that you've got um again Oakland Township to the north you've got long to the South and then Butternut Road here and that is actually um Road that's maintained by oaklan Township does the maintenance on that road so
um based on uh the application that's been submitted the staff packet the public hearing testimony public comments that were submitted is recommended to uh change of land use um district from rr5 to RR
2.5 um based uh for this parcel um staff have reviewed the file and would concur with that decision by the Planning Commission i' be happy to answer any questions thank you Chris commissioner coring we received the copy of the email that you had received from the midow
family I think that's how they pronounce their last name do you want to read that into the record or would you like me to read it into the record no go ahead I I don't have it right here in front of me right now okay is that the one that I just received last night before the
meeting yes must have been yes okay so I'll go ahead and read that in just so it's in that would be great record so Dear Mr coring our names are Shan and Beth midow and I live at 12269 3M Road in Brainard I'm writing to express my opposition with the proposed Housing
Development on Butternut Road by Chad pel and Adam Price Incorporated we oppose changing the property from rr5 to R r2.5 The Proposal is inconsistent with the surrounding area of primarily 5 acre
and larger Lots in the area the developer has not put forth any ideas on M ating traffic infrastructure or flood protection both oaklan Township and Long Lake Township are opposed to this development the housing cost they have proposed is over $500,000 per home this
is not affordable housing approving this proposal would encourage more development of parcels in the area undermining our way of life and goes against why the majority of the residents live here we strongly urge you to consider voting against this proposal and recommend keeping the zoning as is
sincerely Beth and Sean midow any other Mr chair I'm sorry go ahead commissioner yeah Mr chair I guess I'd like Chris to comment on that I I talked to Chris this morning and uh I guess I'm not aware of any proposal to put
$500,000 houses in there are you Chris are you aware of that or or that this was supposed to be like aordable housing I guess I never heard that all this is the zoning request is that correct Mr Mr chair members of the board Comm coring
absolutely there's been some very plinary discussions about what might possibly happen out there but there's uh been no formal discussions about any sort of subdivision and you know what it would look like there's been some plary talks about having some of these Lots AB but Butternut Road directly if that were
to be um the property to be developed but there all the um points that were brought up in that letter would be addressed going through the planning process as far far as those sorts of issues so um no that hasn't that's that's not before the board today to talk about the subdivision it's the it's
more of the legislative uh action of looking at the zoning map itself Mr chair yes go ahead and I would I would just point out too that we just went through the uh expensive process of coming up with a comprehensive plan for
the county of how the County Board thinks that they would like to see development into the future future and uh through a lot of discussion a lot of research a lot of the areas down in my area the zoning has changed along main
corridors roads tar roads I will say as somebody that grew up in St Matias Township I've seen a lot of changes over the last 40 years people are building houses in places that if somebody would have told me that 40 years ago I would have probably fell over of a heart
attack but there's a lot of people that um you know Mom and Dad have had kids uh the kids might want to be on Mom and Dad's property that takes you know we're splitting it into different chunks and
um times are changing I don't necessarily like it but um I did watch the Planning and Zoning commission meeting I think they went over this very thoroughly uh The Proposal was one acre
lot and the Planning Commission said uh versus five the Planning Commission decided on two and a half and I guess I'm I'm okay with that you know I I certainly don't like all of
our farmland and all of our land getting developed but a lot of people want to move out into the country well it isn't really out in the country it's only like a mile from town so it's it's awful close but uh you know
I I reluctantly will support this um I I just think it's it's it's the future I mean uh you know if I I remember Warren Morgan coming to us a while ago and wanted to split up part of his land um
out on the F Mile Road because he's got grandkids I don't know how you can deny that I mean I don't know how you can deny them that when uh they want to keep their family and keep their land intact and so this is this is what's happening and uh but I'm gonna I'm going to
support this thank you thank you commissioner coring any other questions or concerns commissioner Lee do we know um in this email they said that both townships are opposed to it do we know what that's about or I think the town I
think there's concerns over the the road and the the ability of the road to carry you know additional traffic on Butternut was one um and I know that uh La link Township um I think was wanting to see larger Lots you know more than larger than one acre so I I you know I haven't
heard any feedback from long Township since the Planning Commission made the recommendation you know back in January but I I would like to think that this is somewhat of a compromise probably with the township so Mr chair commissioner L we do not have any letters on record at all from
either one of those townships opposing it correct we do have letters there is a we do have file from Long Lake Township and that was um in the file and expressing um they wanting the larger
lots and then I don't believe he got from oaklan Township but we did from Long Lake it's in there page 91 okay I didn't get that part on sorry about that okay thank you any other questions um just one
other comment I know that uh Deb and I had attended a uh thing at CTC where they had received uh some funds and they're looking at expanding the Broadband out into that area and I think that was primarily the area correct that whole because that's an area that's underserved right now so they're looking
at putting investment out into that area in order to have Broadband for the residents out in that area and I'm thinking that's also going to that also helps to promote development also abely yeah so anything
else if not I look for a motion to approve to amend the official land use map for p ID 750 4516 from rural residential 5 to rural res residential 2.5 involving
44.8 Acres motion to approve commissioner coring makes a motion to approve I'll second it second by commissioner Lee Tes roll call please commissioner franzine hi Commission commissioner Ley I commissioner Lee I commissioner
coring I commissioner barrels I that motion passes thank you thank you Chris County engineer Tim Bray good morning Mr chair and Commissioners I have two items for you today the first one is the
establishment or consideration of establishment of a new Township level roadway in the first assessment District Sanctuary Lane actually it's two roads Sanctuary Lane and Sanctuary path there's a map up there if you're not
familiar this is a development that has continued on from a previous one on uh County Road 77 West uh north and west of Baxter this particular uh Road way plat and roadway
was already constructed and the new roads are a takeoff from this this has already been established or at least this portion has been established as a official Township or fad roadway and was accepted by the
board a few years ago I'm sorry I don't have the exact date you did not accept this and we recommended from the highway department that you not accept this because it was did not include a CU to- saac and that is so uh the developer was maintaining that
over the last few years so next slide please the roads you have before you today are a takeoff from this is actually Sanctuary Lane is uh
bit here's Sanctuary Lane and it takes off from that the plat the previous plat here it also establishes sanction AR path was is another roadway this was subject to the new roadway standards that were adopted by
the board for the first assessment District we worked hard over the last of of the summer and fall to inspect it and went back and forth a few times with a developer to correct some deficiencies one of the last things was figuring out uh Post Office boxes
believe it or not we wanted to make sure that that the developer had ironed out those things with the US Postal survey they have a tentative agreement uh with them about how that those post office will be situated we did over those inspections
this summer and fall um ensured that the requirement for the developers private civil engineer sign off and endorse that the roads are built up to standards proper width and things like that but also the depth of the pavement and a number of other engineering components
we do have received that and we we have also completed that uh Road inspection so our recommendation is to um move forward with officially accepting Sanctuary path and the
extension of this portion of sanctuary weight and then the the portion that remained in the other plat that was unaccepted Prior so if could go back one Tre well it's really tiny but this portion is also included this
time uh this I it might be insignificant it's a ran Property Group uh you may recognize the the term B dirt I think there's some overlap or maybe been a name change but this is um the property
developer that we've been working with out there and number of other properties and I'm happy to answer any questions questions oh if I may add one more thing and so this year we did not have time to account for this newe roadway and new
maintenance expense for the first assessment distri District so it was not included any any consideration to increasing the property tax levy for the increased amount of uh infrastructure that's out there we will be evaluating that and providing a recommendation for
you for the 2026 first assessment District property tax levy so I do have a couple questions sure you mentioned the cues act that's been put in place now that wasn't in that first drawing in yes it was a take
out it was a dead end that that stopped at the plat line was way up there in the left isn't it this was this portion was accepted all the way down to 77 this technically was not so we were not maintaining it we've been plowing this for a year or
two but we did not plow up in this area the New Roads that we just talked about take off right here and and then dead ended the called the sack to the to the north it be one more slide okay you following y okay and so
this is this is the call the sack at the end of that road that takes off from the previous plat okay right so then my second question is in the resolution it says that it's contingent upon a developer addressing the final items
identified yes can you just tell me what items it says items above but I'm guess I'm not real clear it's a vegetation so another requirement is for the establishment of vegetation so we can help prevent erosion and the problems that are associated with that and then
also the agreement with the US Postal Service to install a single mailbox with a bunch of different uh post office openings a single point you've seen these big boxes where people use a key uh that cannot be installed in the
winter it requires a concrete base and so contingent upon vegetation establishment working out in the spring and then also the installation of this uh post office box I know the times I've been out there there's been a significant amount of erosion around it because it's pretty Sandy out there it
is highly erodable yes so I mean we want to make sure they address that so we don't deteriorate the absolutely structure of the road absolutely so it is contingent on those things it would to continue to work with them they've been good to work with uh
and really want the road to be turned over and maintained by by the public so all right if there's no questions I would look for a motion to approve Mr franzine makes a motion to approve I will second that motion
commissioner luy seconds that motion theres commissioner luy I commissioner Lee I commissioner coring I commissioner franzine I commissioner barels I that motion passes thank you
thank you the second I have the second item I have for you is um a RightWay settlement with the city of Breezy Point Breezy Point we don't have a map for this one but uh Breezy Point and the
townships of Ideal and then also I think it's Jenkins Township what have been working for a number of years to make a a connection improve the roadways uh north of Breezy Point and near a couple gravel pits up there
Anderson Brothers very active and then Wild Acres up there um they've been working hard to improve those roadways and have been advancing on a portion of it Breezy Point is moving forward with the Bushman portion which is um
completely within their jurisdiction and as it's customary on some of these City roads and they're they're narrow and don't have the roadway easements required to build the properly constructed uh roadway and one of our properties is a
uh Gravel Pit um it was purchased in 1958 and we're not extracting gravel from it anymore we use it for to maybe haul brush to sometimes some of our roadkill we send out there and things like that more of a area to of disposal
but it is a piece of property that they need um an easement from and they've done an appraisal they're treating us just like every other property owner along in there private property owner who may have a home and they have made a proposal to purchase a strip of that
property they need for the proper roadway easement and have uh offered the appraisal price um plus maybe some fees of 95 $100 and uh the the request is for the
county chair and the County Board to accept that offer and authorize the county chair to sign the required RightWay um documents to to finalize that transfer all right questions yes um love
you so on Bushman Road and I'm familiar with that because it's up in the district I serve um was that was that always what they're looking at is going from a prescriptive easement to a deeded easen is all is they're asking for or they're asking for more than that
because I think that road most roads that are in normally are and I know we have some even other roads in the in the county that that um that at our County Roads that we don't have deeded easements you know for our RightWay we use it as a prescriptive easement we
drive over other people's properties and until we look at doing something on that road or looking at using State funding then we need to take it from a prescriptive easement to a deeded easement is that the situation here is where we're taking it from a prescriptive easement and and asking
them to pay for that prescriptive easement even though there was already an easement there to make it that full 66 or was that road do you know the history on that road because you've done that work with those uh with those three uh jurisdictions as you were planning as
they came to you at one time look came to the county looking at doing something with that whole system in there to connect 16 to uh to uh 11 right um first let me just for for everybody's uh
benefit the prescriptive easement and and there are roadways throughout the county the county roads Township roads and things that are on prescriptive easements and think about that as uh you um ownership so to speak defined by use so we've used it for a while we've used
the sides of the roads for snow storage and things like that but there's no written document that says you know that maybe even appears on the landowners deed about that and um and the easement that they're
proposing is more of a written document that establishes the 66 ft there won't be any question about um the width of it anymore cuz on these prescriptive ones when we've had to purchase property in those areas we' had to prove that we actually needed it well your snow
storage you know is only this wide no it's this wide and there's kind of a a fight so this is a way to clean up that so it very well may be prescripted I can't answer the question I just know it's not white enough for what they need right now and they are cleaning it up
with an official uh permanent easement so they can establish the width of the road and it's clear where the property lines are and what they have control of and what they don't does that answer your question well just just the fact that that you know we've if that has been a prescriptive easement on there
what are we doing charging or I know they came to us and ask us but uh charging the the city for for County property when we've already when it's already been known to be a prescriptive easement you know I mean it's kind of
like we've we've gone out and asked for people to to say yeah we know that the property line is right in the middle of the road but you know that's been a road for the last so many years and some of those people have just signed over their easement we've had we've had that happen where they just sign it over without any
cost because the road's there and they see the Improvement and and the the value of that road being there it just seems kind of like a little unique and I again I'm just kind of looking at it and I haven't talked to anybody from Breezy that's just from my point of view looking at it and saying it's it's been
a gravel pit back there it's been a Gra pit the Count's used back there for many years or however they've used it I don't know I wasn't around in 1958 either but they were using that road that was a um City Road whether it was gravel or
binus to haul gravel and material over there I don't know if we've ever done anything to help them out with that and then we're turn around and they want to make it they want to do it right and and they are spending a ton of money up there in Breezy to get that road fixed you know to get it to get it where it's supposed to be and that was most of the
problem it became a a path that kind of meandered uh through there but it still was a a prescriptive if I'm not mistaken prescriptive 66t easement Road I'm just I'm just questioning I mean I'm I'm not certain if if it was prescriptive I'm also not certain if they're platting it
so if they have to Plat it that it'll be clear in any documentation would be clear width of the roadway and I'm looking at it looks like well somewhere be 6068 feet well there's some Utilities in there too
there's some Utilities in there that they recognize and need room for there's some it was just a question it's not anything that's coming to me from Breezy at all it's just that that dealing with prescriptive ements in the past where where in order to get any funding to get any things done it's always been required that the jurisdiction that's
doing it make sure those prescriptive EAS come Eed easements some sometimes okay sometimes cuz you might have enough there that's the only question or comment I really had on that okay Mr chair and just for clarification Tim we did not provide the
request to Breezy Point for the cost of what that would be the Breezy Point came to us saying here's what we would pay for that particular easen so the board has the authority and could certainly say We'll Grant the easement at no cost if you wanted to do that but this is
Breezy Point doing their due diligence and coming to the county with that offer yeah y they're treating us just like every other property owner right yep commissioner coring did you have something you want to add in no I just I just said y okay thank
you any other discussion hearing none I would look for a motion to authorize the County Board chair to sign the necessary documents permanent easement temporary easement offer letter and the W9 providing the city of Breezy Point with a permanent
and temporary easement from County owned property identified as p1000 81196 Madam U Mr chair I'll make a motion to approve motion by commissioner ly I'll second second by commissioner
Lee Tes commissioner Lee hi commissioner coring I commissioner franzine I commissioner ly I commissioner barels I that motion passes thank you br Mr chair yes commissioner coring uh before the
County engineer leave I just wanted to report to the board that I have been in very very tough negotiations with the highway department uh as you know we're going to uh redo County Road 2 that goes through
Pine Center and if you've ever been to Pine Center there's a red flashing light in the middle of the intersection there with four-way stop and um at first the the highway department was going to remove move that
red light and um I heard from a lot of people actually I heard from Roosevelt Township and said we would like to keep that light so with negotiating with our great County engineer and our Highway Department I was able to save the red
flashing light in Pine Center so uh I reported back to Pine Center that we're making Pine Center great again and with a few improvements when we do the road through there we're going to put uh some
uh LED stop signs with the uh solar panel on them also for safety purposes so I want to thank Tim Bray for helping me do that uh this red light apparently was important to a lot of people because I heard from a lot of people that wanted
it to stay and so uh on behalf of my constituents thanks commissioner would it be appropriate if I asked the sheriff how many tickets they've issued for people not paying attention to that red light don't maybe all right thank you thank
you on to number nine veteran service officer Eric flowers we're going to discuss outof State travel Mr chair Commissioners um thank you for having me I brought with Natalie Peterson our acso in our office um we
just wanted to discuss and have you have the opportunity to ask questions um we're asking for authorization for out ofate travel uh for Natalie um the out ofate travel is um uh funded by a grant that was applied for by Natalie and so
we're just the only uh funds that would be used by county would be her her wage which we would pay anyway that's correct if he was in off in the office that's correct yeah any questions can I ask what kind of training you're going
to uh uh commissioner the national D convention in Washington DC uh for uh its training on on legislation how our laws are what laws are going uh before legislature and all of that for uh our
veterans currently okay excellent any other questions Natalie um Mr Excuse me Mr chair Natalie you you'll also be there will also be many other people from different what do you call vso offices
you know is this like not just you going there it's a whole yes commissioner uh it is actually uh the Nationwide DAV um I'd be representing Crowing County and the uh chapter 22 croing County DA um so this would be from every state um
it's attended by 12200 um other uh veterans service officers and organizations Mr chair Natalie can you tell for the folks at home what DAV stands for please excuse me Sor um it's disabled American
veterans so it'll also be a good time to network with other people such as yourself correct I will be going with um the uh disabled American Veteran DAV uh chair uh Trent dils from state of
Minnesota uh and he's kind of got a group and so he'll be networking us it'll also put us in contact with our um our our legislative and house uh that sponsor the bills that affect veterans
good I think good use of your time looks like a pretty intense few days of meetings and oper opportunities to uh learn and rub elbows with other officers
so if there's no other questions I would look for a motion to approve commissioner coring makes a motion to approve and I will second that commissioner ly seconds that motion theres commissioner coring I
commissioner franzine hi commissioner ly I commissioner Lee I commissioner barels I congratulations thank you for applying for that Grant we appreciate that thank you Commissioners all right County Sheriff how many tickets
did you issue in Pine Center uh I'm not sure Commissioners good morning um I don't have anything formal for you today just a couple maybe just a couple updates um you know we had the fish and Extravaganza and uh that went with a
great success we had people that had uh had contacted us contacted our staff contacted our office that said how smooth the uh travel uh for vehicle traffic was and they just really appreciated that um I think it's been like that every year I'm not sure what
caused everybody to make those calls this year but we always appreciate the the good feedback that we get from our uh Community we had maybe a couple of DWIs that we uh we took care of and then they lost uh intoxicated person so not too um
nothing really crazy or outside our our scope of um experience so um also we have uh a couple things that have been coming into the office that uh that seem to be an uptick and one is uh scams uh
We've uh you know taken everything from 2000 all the way up to over a million dollars uh people uh still want to give their money away for whatever reason um it's unfortunate uh and uh we're certainly um trying to uh come up with a
plan to uh try to mitigate that from uh continuing on but uh and they're smart people every everyone from janitors up to uh doctors airline pilots uh that still continue to give away their money so unfortunately um I've seen a quite a
bit of an INT or an uptick in that in the last uh several weeks the other one that we'll I think we'll need to talk about too is uh our homeless uh folks as well we've had uh
we getting quite a few calls on uh on the homeless and I'm not sure if that's strictly because of what Brainard and Baxter has done about um making an ordinance to and pushing them out into the county so they're going to become our uh our concern as well so that's
something that we should be uh talking about in the near future as well um it's Valentine's week so happy Valentine's I hope you guys will be mine this week um it's it's on Friday and uh
we also I I want to be intentional about being uh uh and not have our relationships on autopilot espe our marriages or our relationships and uh often it's easy to do we just stick it on autopilot we take people for granted so this week I
encourage you to be intentional about your relationships and about your uh marriages as well about being intentional and taking an off autopilot and uh appreciating uh what you have and not taking it for granted with that I'll take any questions that you might have
any questions for the sheriff y Mr chair go ahead commissioner coring you know what uh uh Sheriff I uh I read in the uh in our great Renee our great great brainer
dispatch that the uh attorney general has weighed in saying that counties cannot hold detainees for our federal Partners whether it's ice or anybody like that but remind you you're the highest law enforcement officer in
croing county and so I I guess I do mean to put you on the spot what if you have a a bad guy and one of our federal Partners asked you to detain that person uh what are you going to do well that's a good question I think uh some other
people have asked that same thing to me as well and uh I am going to as always continue to work with our our state local and federal Partners uh whenever there's a criminal justice need or there's criminal activity uh we are that brings that person to our facility and
we're going to hold them um you know he talked in that uh release about 48 hours that we weren't able to hold them longer ER than that uh I sure wish they would work on the Minnesota on our our commitments on the 48 hours so that we
could get our folks that are have that have been uh mentally committed to a a facility and out of our facility they've been in our facility for year or more uh often times uh because they just simply don't have the bed space so I wish they
would work on that versus on uh telling me that we can't uh House people for longer than 48 hours so but um with all that being said I I I am going to we're in the process right now working with the um US Marshall
service and uh building our uh building our relationship with them jumping through some hoops about uh being able to house uh for them as well and I'm if if uh we get somebody from Ice uh that's
a somebody that's a criminal um uh we're going to we're going to hold them until they can figure out where to get rid of them whether that's 48 days or 49 days amen anything else commissioner coring
nope that's it good job Sheriff thank you from the another other board members all right thank you Sheriff appreciate I wish I would have brought you guys a little box of sweethearts cuz I sure had them all yeah you're going to get so gooey you might as well bring the I think I left them on the chopping
block back at the office all right all right thank you County attorney Stephanie are you setting in for Don I am Mr chair um we do not have anything but if you have any questions I
would be more than happy to answer them any questions for Stephanie you're off the hook Steph thank you very much thanks have a good week County Administrator Erikson thank you Mr chair Commissioners uh the first
item on my agenda today is the senior management team report which we did not hold yesterday we didn't have any agenda items for yesterday's meeting so we did not have a meeting yesterday the next item before you is the 2025 citizen committee appointments we still have a
few that you need to make some appointments for so if there are any names on this list that you are ready for the chair to make those appointments please let us know I had a a email from Jerry Gibbons that he continue to serve so both the two from
District Two are yep you did get that didn't I send that to you Theresa I did but this was already published when I got it oh okay okay I just want to make sure that I got it to you that I didn't hit the wrong button you did so those two would be eligible for appointment by the chair and I will make those
appointments thank you thank you and then commissioner franzine is still working on hers I believe so we'll continue to bring those forward as well that's all I have today Mr chair unless anyone has any questions of me any questions for the
administrator very good thank you very much additional business since the sheriff stole my Valentine's Day wish and I couldn't have sent it any better than he did yes I'll move on to my second one which is Monday is
President's Day so don't come to work okay other than that I have nothing any I would make a motion to adjourn commissioner ly makes a motion to adjourn second second by commissioner
franzine theres commissioner franzine I commissioner ly I commissioner Lee hi commissioner coring I commissioner barels I we are a