--------- congratulations so but then you're right all right uh we will call a meeting to order this is the February 18th meeting of the goody County Board of Commissioners and we will start with the pledge pledge aliance to the United
States of America and to the rep for it stands Nation indivisible liberty and justice for all first item is disclosures of interest are there any no I will just
note that I am related to the party that is asking for the land use issue but I have absolutely no financial interest in that or any um connection to the operation of
that anybody else okay previous board meeting meeting minutes we have two of them one from a special board meeting on the 11th and the regular board meeting on the 4th we can take them together or
individually I I think we can take them together I make a motion to approve both uh uh there second second it's been moving second and we approve the minutes from the 4th of February and the special meeting on the 11th at featherson Town
Hall any further discussion hearing done all those in favor say I I oppose the same motion carries uh approve the agenda and you will note that um on the printed copy it does not include the
item five under the consent agenda which was added later uh I think on Friday um but that is on there and that was a committee of the whole we had um at our last meeting so is there a motion to approve
the agenda with that addition on there from Friday so moved and I'll second it been moved in second to approve the agenda any further discussion all those in favor say I I oppose the same motion
carries consent agenda I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda there a second second been moved in second to approve the consent agenda all those in favor say I I I oppose the same
motion carries uh uh uh finance and taxpayer Services budget committee we had a budget meeting this morning at 8:45 and this is the result of of that meeting welcome
Teresa morning morning today I have the 2024 carryover requests um certain spending items that were levied in 204 for the operating in capital budgets were not fully paid for by the end of
the year some tasks were completed in 24 but not paid for due to invoicing issues in addition other projects were not completed or paid for due to product delivery issues and to determine carry forward quests finance and administration reviewed the 24 Capital
plan and operating budget results and worked with department heads to develop the request details our 24 carryover requests are for Capital 1,718
41 and for operating $ 23,27 for a total of 1,735 $11 several of the capital plan carryover requests are for amounts greater than originally budgeted partially offsetting the increase are certain items that will end up costing
less than originally budgeted or items that have been removed completely the net increase in the capital plan carryover requests over the original budget amount is $ 89,1 197 all operating budget carryover
requests are for amounts that are either less than or equal to the associated unspent budgeted line item amounts the finance department recommends that the budget committee and the County Board of Commissioners approve the carryover requests as presented in the amount of
1,735 one11 questions we discussed this in the budget committee and we recommend that we follow through with that you know some of those are in the PIP line some of those are going to get in the pipeline some of them are not able
weren't able to be um purchased and they're still needed so recommendation from Sue and I on finance was to approve this so is this just a formality I mean if we don't approve it it's going to get paid next year or this year anyway right
I we still have to pay it I mean is it true some of these items probably some of these items have been ordered and yes we probably need to pay those however the other items at that point just wouldn't be
purchased quite we kind of need part of this is to fulfill some audit functions to say we did we as a board knew we were carrying this over and you have to have the formal approval
to um for the finance staff to do that so I'll make the motion there second been moved in second and we approve the budget carryover request as presented any further discussion hearing none all those in favor say I I oppose
the same motion carries thank you next we have a land uh use management conditional use permit for a feed lot expansion good morning um we're here today to consider a conditional use permit for a
feed lot expansion um the request has been submitted by Tom Perkins on the behalf of the Perkins Family Farm LLC to expand the feed lot um to expand a feed lot containing over 500 animal units um this will be an amendment to their
existing conditional use permit um to allow for a total of 2,560 animal units the property is located at 3383 210th Aven 210th Avenue Redwing Minnesota parcel number
31016 0200 um this is located in the Northeast quarter of section 16 Township 112 range 15 in Featherstone Township the property is zoned A1 which is our agricultural Protection District and comprises a
total of 146 Acres um the request is being forwarded from the planning advisory commission which did meet and held a public hearing um last at the end of January um just a couple things to point
out to the county to the commission um due to the size of this operation the Minnesota Pollution Control agency does have oversight and permitting jurisdiction anything over 1,000 animal units um normally feed LS are registered through the the uh good Hue County Soil
and Water Conservation District in this case the registration happens directly through the state um but I do want to just assure the commission that our Soil and Water Conservation District was heavily involved in the review of this conditional use permit um even though
the permitting jurisdiction is at the state um a building permit has also been applied for in conjunction with the added animal units the owners are proposing to add a 172 foot by 124t addition onto an existing
Barn um the other thing to point out is that this is the third amendment to the conditional use permit there the feed lot has existed um for decades um but the first conditional use permit that
was approved was in the year 2000 it was amended um and then finally amended in 2016 to allow for 2,1 67 animal units um so this is this is a property that has gradually um gotten larger and larger
and we are now up to 2560 again the property is zoned A1 um any feed lot over 500 animal units in the A1 District does need to get a conditional use permit included with the application is the minutes from the
January 27th planning advisory commission meeting the is a copy of the recommended affidavit or recording document that would be recorded if the conditional use permit is approved um there's also a copy of the
entire application that was submitted um and then in the staff report there are comments from The Soil and Water Conservation District just a couple things to point out is that the planning advisory
commission did review and consider specifically the findings of fact that are included in the staff report those findings of fact had been used historically by the county um and is language that has been used for for many
many years um there one of the planning Commissioners did bring up the fact that some of the language is um not as concise as perhaps it may be could be um I'll read for example the first recommended finding a fact the
Perkins Family Farm Dairy has been in operation since before 2000 and does not appear to be injurious to the use and enjoyment of other people in the immediate vicinity for the purposes already permitted nor substantially diminish and impair property values
within the immediate vicinity um the findings of fact before you including the one that I just read are what the Planning Commission recommended the board adopt however they did direct staff to work with the county attorney's office
on doing an a broader review of how findings of fact are worded how they're drafted um how they're presented to the planning advisory commission or committee commission um and whether or not some of that language should be strengthened so that is something that I
did initiate conversations with the county attorney on um but just to be clear the findings as they are written right now are what exactly as they were approved by the planning advisory commission so with that um the recommendation today
is to adopt the conditional use permit um approve the essentially the staff report put that into the official public record um and recommend approval of the cop questions um this is just a general
question for my information and not specifically about this but is there a certain number of animal units we don't go Beyond or or not really not in the local not in our local zoning ordinance um I have not seen a limit I believe the
state does have limitations I do not know exactly what those are right thank you go ahead when someone wants to um enlarge a feed lot and once you get past that
original that one set amount and they get approved by the state and it's overseen by the state do they do that first or do they go through the county to the state or would do they go directly to the state and then we're just kind of an afterthought in this case the state
approval happened first um and then the county approval but I believe it's up to the property owner to decide which way they want to which um which process they want to follow it's kind of like Township and County sometimes people get
Township approval first sometimes people get County approval um in this case the application that was required by the state was used as a essentially an application that was used to meet County requirements as well so I think the
applicant put the state application together which was very robust very detailed um took a lot of time and then use that application for the county but nothing in our ordinance requires one before for the other it's just that you have to have both thank we're we're
separate jurisdictions it's similar to Township approval County approval they can do dual tracks they can come to the county and then later go to the township we're separate units of government in the state mpca is the same way so there
are separate there are separate there's really three three permits they need they need something that the township says it's okay they need something the county says it's okay and then because of the size here they need the state approval any further
questions move approval of the Planning Commission recommendation I'll second it and moov and second it we approve the cup as presented with the conditions uh there are nine of [Music] them nope there's three of
them Bings fact are nine and the conditions are three any further discussion all those in favor say I I CL the same motion carries thank
you uh we're down to for your information um Staffing report project status report any questions on any of that new or old business committee reports anything well just a couple things uh
Three Rivers is about to start their I forgot what they call it interconnected routes so there'll be some bus service between Red Wings and broa Cannon Falls and it's to help people get say to our HHS services so that's going to be starting
soon um the other thing was I went to the Sha meeting uh at the Minnesota Department of Health and they're pretty nervous because half of their budget comes from the federal government so they don't really know what's going to happen in the coming year and they're
nervous about that so those are my two reports went to the southeast communication annual meeting on uh two weeks ago and uh we're looking at applying for a grant we currently are in a grant situation but that one's not going to work out because there wasn't
enough time apparently the bidding process we're looking at mapping our uh school buildings to start um it's incorporating with uh GI system and the NextGen 911 so it basically can put a map of the existing site right on the
phone of the officer that shows up or the firefighter that shows up at the site um an internal map of the school right yep so we have you know cuz uh one gentleman that spoke he said that he was on a scene in Minneapolis it ended up
the the perpetrator just ran through the school but they didn't know that and they were getting calls they were in there's three kids in room 311 with a with an aid but nobody knew where room 311 was so I mean this is a you know uh
$7 million I think Marty wasn't it that's coming down the line here so um I think there's a we're going to have to get in contact with the school buildings and I'm what I want to get is a just a form letter Marty that we can so everybody just takes the same
information to every every uh school board so that'll be something we'll be working on okay message is the same to everybody message is the same to everybody so may incorporate other buildings further down the road is that right yep commercial
buildings uh apartment buildings uh motels I'm assuming hotels and and uh yeah I think it's a great system and we we have the technology it's just to get it all synced together there's people that are a whole lot smarter than I am that are doing that I know that so and
it's not that's not a public that won't be a public site no no no that'll be law enforcement so when they map the bank and they show where the where the vault is they won't know I just
checking any the private uh business would have to approve it as I'm assuming so um no that's a really good and we talked about that we talked about that at a district meeting a while ago about the next gen 9 And1 and I mean what the
goal is is that you know where that person is whether it's in this building or whether it's in HHS or whether it's in a school building you know where you're supposed to go and room 311 means something instead of 311 is at third
floor M oh it doesn't have three floors so where's 311 no anything else all right um claims move to pay the bills I'll motion I'll make a motion to pay the bills
second second been mov second we pay the claims any further discussion hearing none all those in favor say I I the same and is there a motion to adjourn so moved second been moov and second we
adjourn all those in favor say iOS the same motion carries we are adjourned at 9:20 Part: 2
all right it is 10:00 and we have a committee of the whole uh on repealing a goodu county official map uh around the city of Pine Island and or north of the city of Pine
Island so our our uh Public Works director will walk us through that turn it over to Jake right away all right thank you Jess good morning Commissioners um in front of you we have an informational item uh
regarding the repeal of goody County number one which is primarily located in the Pine Island area just a quick agenda for today we're going to talk about the history of the map um how it came to be uh one of the main aspects of the map as it pertains
to good Hue county is is our County Road 11 uh so we'll touch on that as well we'll talk I'll talk about the city of Pine Island requests that they made uh to the county regarding this item then we'll also talk about uh process
and next steps so this is a picture of good County uh official map number one again located near in the Pine Island area um it really centers around 52 uh running Northwest to Southeast uh
you'll notice as well in the southeast part of this map there it includes the Elk Run interchange which many of you are probably familiar with um and again our primary the County's primary interest in this is uh County Road 11
which is located on the North End of of map number one so the map was adopted in 2004 I was an effort between uh Pine Island good County and Olstead County uh with some participation from mot from good Hue
County's perspective it primarily affects our County Road 11 but it also includes various Frontage roads uh to mainly get from the outrun interchange up to the city of P Island one thing to note about the map it does the adoption of the map does not
con in acquisition of property we did not acquire any property when we adopted the map what we simply did was Identify the property as an area to be acquired in the future which ends up I believe going on uh ownership documents and and
things like that so it ends up showing up to uh potential buyers or current owners as being identified as being needed for future uh public purposes so back in 2004 when the map when the
official map was adopted um there was a proposed realignment of of County Road 11 which was shown on the map before uh to the north it would utilize a new interchange in Pine Island um and it would also utilize
500th Street uh between Highway 52 and count in our County Road 55 and back in 2004 they also had the plan for The elkrun Interchange in Olstead County uh which was constructed I believe in 2010
or so however since then development has not occurred as expected um furthermore the north interchange in Pine Island really hasn't been supported by mindat uh at all we we have the one interchange
that serves our existing County Road 11 um which is functioning uh satisfactorily as far as the county and mindat is concerned and County Road 11 really does to this point serve the County's needs it does utilize an
existing interchange it provides a connection to Wabasha County and uh we actually have plans to reconstruct County Road 11 uh just to the south of 55 in 2026 so back in November of 2024 the
city of Pine Island contacted the county with an official request to repeal official map number one uh they are looking at a light Industrial Development uh for an area on the North End of Pine Island and their city
council passed a resolution supporting this repeal uh in January of this year so this is just a picture uh that shows the proposed development that they're looking at again light industrial is what it's zoned
um pretty about it's about 425 Acres on the North End of Pine Island and um and the official map essentially runs right through the middle of of this of this
development this area will also be uh it's proposed to be annexed through uh orderly annexation um in the coming weeks and months so as far as process is concerned um for
for the official map to be repealed uh there needs to be a public hearing held at Planning Commission which also requires a 10-day notice prior to that public hearing uh that public hearing is scheduled at this time for March 17th of
2025 after the public hearing if Planning Commission approves the repeal of the official map that would come to the county Bo Commissioners uh that's anticipated for April 1st of this year and then after that there' be recording of documents um
and and things such as that to essentially remove incumbrances on the prop on on the property um and remove the identification of the County's need for this for the parcels uh there is no action that we're
requesting today this is this is just for your information uh but at this time I would stand for any questions or discussion that you might have questions well is there any reason we wouldn't do it none that comes to mind no um the
the the official mapping process was done through um a collaboration with srf a Consulting Group that we had utilized at the time that goodu County last went through a transportation planning process during that Transportation
Planning process uh The elkrun Interchange all of that was kind of uh being discussed and planned and therefore the official map uh kind of came to fruition uh Lots happened since then as Jake mentioned uh The alcron
Interchange and everything that is a part of olmstead's portion of the official map has been built um the the work that that was planned on the goodu county side has not and and doesn't uh
seem to be gaining a whole lot of interest from anyone and uh the developers that are interested in the Northeast quadrant of Pine Island uh would like to do something but with this encumbrance um it's preventing any of that activity from happening we don't uh
have a whole lot of skin in the game in terms of of needing an uh interchange for our County Road 11 um County Road 11 crosses at the existing interchange and is functioning very well for that area so if you go back to the first map
where it had boxes MH you're going to be asking for is for all those boxes to be removed except the one that's at the very Southeast which is hestad county correct yep everything from the
Olstead County Line uh down we would not we're not really just talking about that one piece all of this has been built we have the we have the frontage road all the way down that connects and goes into olid County so that's how built so it's
really just the part that would be affected is that those last three boxes on the North side and what we're saying is we're not interested in using them right now correct correct the other question I kind of have is I I'm kind of
a little confused confused why it's the Planning Commission because the Planning Commission really doesn't have anything to do this isn't a zoning change it's not uh not a change of use of
anything it just it that one kind of tripped me up why the Planning Commission has that public hearing that's what's laid out in statute for the process that is so they initially had it at the Planning Commission to
establish it okay I've never seen it before there was a immense amount of public Outreach involved with establishing the official map to begin with uh and I believe through through the Planning Commission process there's still quite a bit of
public Outreach that's going to be required um to repeal it okay yeah just kind of that one kind of surprised me because they really don't deal with Transportation at Planning Commission and this seems to be it's all geared
toward transportation and we we do have Pine Island City administrator here did you have any comments you'd like to make and that you have to turn the mic on on the back there's a little button is it working yes I don't have a
whole lot of comments um I believe Justin Jake did a good job um like they stated a lot has changed in the last 20 years since he Maps were officially adopted um and commissioner to your point uh it it took a few months
just to figure out the process this isn't a commmon process to repeal the mapping and so uh we we had to put pull a lot of people together just to kind of figure out the process and do a lot of research of how we would go about this um you know I I've listened to a lot of
discussions about you know how can we increase our tax base in good Hue County um this is a really good opportunity not only for the city but also for the county and so um the Ryan Companies which is the development firm that we're working with on this um essentially they
wouldn't be able to move forward without the repealing of this mapping so um like I stated city council is in full support of it um we've had have had conversations with mot uh they're in support of it as well so if you have any other questions I'm more than happy to
answer them thanks for thanks for coming in give us your give us your take on it any other questions from board members pretty straightforward hope it hope it moves
forward and hope the development comes to Pine Island that'd be a big boost to to your community so well great thank you guys for uh listening to the information today I know there's no action item but uh you know given the fact that it's kind of
something different that we're not used to to working with we figured it'd be just have a quick discussion so we'll keep you posted as uh we move forward thank you thank you we are
adjourned oh