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[Music] all right we will call the April 15th meeting of the board of commissioners to order with the flag pledge to the flag of the United States
of America First item is disclosures of interest Are there any Seeing none uh previous board meeting me minutes from April 1st Move to approve Second Been moved and
seconded We approve the board minute minutes from April 1st Any further discussion Hearing none All those in favor say I I Opposed Motion carries Review the agenda Are there any changes
There are no changes Motion to approve Motion to approve the agenda Second Moved and seconded We approve the agenda as presented Any further discussion Hearing none All those in favor say I I All those opposed
say this say no Motion carries Consent items We have nine Any questions Not approval Is there a second Second It's been moved and second to approve the consent items All those in favor say
I I The same Motion carries Finance and taxpayer services uh school resource officer [Music] contracts And this was voted on at the
last meeting to um reconsider this Good morning commissioners Morning So I just wanted to mention this is the same information that was presented on the April 1st board meeting At that time the board had discussion and ultimately
decided to revisit this information and potentially make a decision today uh when the full board me uh was in attendance As a reminder this is the fourth consecutive board meeting in which this topic is being discussed Um so I'm not going to read the report word for word as um as the
board is is well aware of um everything that's contained in it Uh I did want to mention on April 1st uh staff had presented these cost differences between the SRO's and the city policing contract uh deputies as previously calculated Uh the differences in those
costs we'll run through those though uh was that um we had added in the 0.44% uh additional tax for the paid family medical leave starting in January 2026 that was not previously in the old SRO or in the old um policing contracts as
that was not in effect at that time Uh we used a flat 10% overhead rate for the SRO contracts whereas the policing contracts stepped up from 0ero to 5 to 10% Health insurance um was increased for 2025 utilizing the known figures for
this year while for 2026 it includes 40% increase in 2027 a 10% increase As a reminder that 40% increase is what Goodyu Countyy's insurance costs would have increased for 2025 had we not had those rates locked in a
contract Um and then the items that reduced the calculated cost were we had adjust the SRO's um down to their 40hour work weeks uh what they actually work Um that's less than a typical patrol deputy
Additionally these uh SRO positions are not backfilled if they're out for a day at a time So we didn't add in extra hours for that Vehicle gas insurance and maintenance costs were calculated out um and rather than using a standard rate in
the old contract We also updated the employer liability insurance down to the actual rate charged for law enforcement officers Um we also updated the squad car costs um for what they're actually using um removed the radar cost as well um as
those are not utilized by the SRO's And we also updated the vehicle tradein value based off the most recent um trade in on one of those SRO vehicles Again just as a reminder the cost of health insurance beyond 2025 is
unknown at this time Um we are going to be going through the RFP process um this year As you're all aware ultimately health insurance costs are going to be determined by the proposals from the vendors as well as the union negotiations that will be occurring as
well Um not going to read through these um figures here as they've been presented multiple times as well as um I know the sheriff office had also put together an additional proposal Thank you Lucas Um for chair uh
commissioners thank you for uh entertaining this again Um I hope we can uh come to a resolution today We've had a lot of uh questions a lot of time a lot of staff time involved in in doing all of these numbers And we what we
found is uh schools and and municipalities and sheriff's offices all have a slightly different model to um come up with their costs and we couldn't actually find one that's really common
to ours Um so we've come up with I think a fair fair assessment uh taking in the true cost considerations Um and my recommendation is is the attachment that you have that essentially says the sheriff's recommendation for a three-year contract
with our schools That's fair and reasonable Um and not overcharging our schools We're we're very confident in that I really don't want to have to do that So what we've proposed is a first
year contract of the previous numbers of 68,599 I'm fairly certain both school districts will will uh adopt that at their school board um meetings and then to to not have to do this again for two
years would be delightful for our staff and I would propose a three-year and we have those numbers Um and of course they would they would stay as is where they're at here is 72674 75 784 for
2627 or 2728 sorry With that I have uh the staff that did a lot of this work including Lucas here for more questions However I think we've answered I don't know 40 or 50 questions just in the last week Um so if there's
any more we'll take them now Um but that is my recommendation to the board Thank you Questions Go ahead Jason Who came up with this 6040 split What is that based on
John go ahead 60/40 split something we've seen in previous contracts to say that uh that's the right way to do it or not There's other districts that use that So um the sheriff had alluded to it throughout the state Um policing contracts you probably got a few models out there SRO contracts
you have a ton of them out there So this is just a what we had started using a couple years ago but I'd say even the last police contract was roughly based on this You guys had come came with that like $70,000 figure last year So no I get that And I didn't know if there's any
baseline that we had to use it So we come up with this true cost you even what the dollar amount that you figure with the 68 isn't isn't a true cost Let's not utilize it It's still even if you take all the items out of there's still a lot of we look at the questions you answer the overhead the time it's
not in there So I I question when you look at the 60/40 split as an example Todd when you drive bus who makes up the 40% difference You don't take 60% do you And so we came up with a dollar amount
of the cost for the year when we did this in March 1st or the 18th that amount and then we took 40% off of it based on a contract So even if you look at and say they don't utilize
as much of the car they don't have the equipment They still have all the training all this time We took the dollar amount We were told multiple times we're all here Hey this could be cheaper because of all it is is the car cost We all agreed We all looked at and
says we understand that Bring us the information I didn't expect I wasn't expecting to revote on this or do anything We had a dollar amount We spent $30,000 to come up with all the costs These true costs close They're not exact
Close We use that It's a fairly good number to go when we made that decision in March Now we're rehashing it again with all this extra time We had the amount and they're still getting a 40% discount They're still getting a 40%
discount You're not getting a 40% discount I don't give a 40% discount for the work I do Linda were you working for 40% less for somebody else paying it Why are we doing this So you're going to come up with all these situations about having the SRO's in there What Yeah
we're going to change one kid's life So is every teacher Are we subsidizing them Coaches everybody is doing this I don't 40% discount What are we going to gain Where are we going from It's not that large of amount The two
districts Shorter Lake City being primarily Wabasha County have so much of their a large majority of their students are from other counties and the cities What are they paying for this Why is this being a burden or not a burden but
why are the rest of the county having to come up with a dollar amount difference It's not that much of a difference It's not significant difference 73,000 four of us agreed on it Pretty simple If the schools can't handle that difference or that much
that's on them We agreed to it We got the information brought back to us I think it was pretty simple and pretty straightforward what we agreed to and what the information we had in March So okay I'm not changing my mind on that aspect So anybody else Well I think I've
probably asked more questions than anybody else and I appreciate the patience of you John and you Lucas And I didn't talk to you as much Marty but I appreciate that And I know you guys do a good job in these schools That's no question And I know you wouldn't be
asking for this if you didn't believe it benefited the schools and the students So I know that So I I don't really think that's what the question is And I didn't know that school resource officer contracting was as complicated as it is
So as I poked around I was surprised about a lot of things One thing I was surprised about was 6040 didn't mean at all the same thing from one district to another So most of the um most of the contracts were
60% of the full-time salary and wages They weren't looking at cars they were and I think they were doing that in part because it was simple Whatever the paycheck was that was split that way So there wasn't all this work figuring everything else out And I didn't know
that Um and the other thing that I that I didn't know that I learned was I really believed when I sent out emails to the uh 10 other counties in our district that I was going to find that quite a few of the sheriff's offices did
school resource officers Now 10 of them told me they didn't And uh Greg Wright from Olmstead County wasn't entirely correct because Mstead does do some But what he told me was they didn't Okay And Rod Peterson from Dodge County told me
that they did but the school covered all the costs which was also not quite true which means that we county commissioners think we know more than we know sometimes Okay Um so yes Well those are things I learned but but I was surprised
about about that And you know you said at the last meeting Brad that maybe it was whoever they asked first And it could be but it also could be that cities have responsibility for policing within the city and that schools are
generally in the cities So that the primary policing responsibility goes to those and that um and it doesn't matter where the students are from Jason because they're doing the policing in the city which is in Pine Island or it's
in Zambroa or wherever it is So so I learned that and so then I I wondered how it was that Guju County started doing this when at least nine of these counties said no we aren't going to do it So I wondered about that and then I
also wondered about you know you bring up a lot of times is it really right that good county supports gives two schools uh whatever discount we want to say it is 40% discount 45% discount whatever it is is it really right to
pick a couple of schools and do that with and then charge the entire county um to for that discount and I don't I don't know Okay So for me it seems like it's a pretty easy decision to make a
contract decision for next year that that's not too hard if you know we have a low end of 684 and a high end of uh 7330 and I think it would be easy to say we don't know what the right number is but we know it's in that ballpark and
let's split the difference whatever that is and let's not spend uh you know an hour arguing about uh you know just a few thousand dollars but but then I really wonder if we as a board need to take a little bit more time and consider
what makes sense going forward So I ask people a few questions and I try not to be leading in the question but when I ask people in my district um should should the county be supporting school resource officers out county if they aren't u counting uh supporting them in
Redwing Their response is well we don't want to be built twice We don't want to be built for the officer in Redwing and then also be built for the officer somewhere else Doesn't mean they're right but that's the point of view they're having So the thing I'd be most comfortable with is picking a middle
number for next year and taking a little bit more time for the board and maybe there's time today but to discuss how we want to do this going forward That's where I'd be coming from Else Well I'll just respond I think the real
question is if three more districts came tomorrow what would you say Well I think that's a problem You know I was thinking about that Is it a problem or is it a policy Is our policy to support student resource officers And if it is then it's
whoever comes Well I I think we have to pick and choose I I don't think I agree with you but but that's why I think so You know part of the reason why I didn't want to get too far into this today is because I don't think I have enough models to know Um so when I looked at
some of the Mstead things I they do I believe I mean I tried to find this out too John and doesn't mean I was right in what I found but I believe Mstead County does the uh policing for Dover and AOTA And I believe they do it for Byron as
well Is is that right Yep Yeah And it looked like they had a model at least for Dover and AOTA where the school paid some the the city that was contracting for those policing services paid some
and um the county paid some And so to me it might be that we should be willing to pay a certain amount for any uh district in the county but not necessarily be willing to take on all of it Kind of like Olmstead did But I don't want to
pretend to say I have the numbers right now I don't I I just know And I think one of the problems with taking on all of the districts would be that the um sheriff's department could probably make use of extra bodies for the 12 weeks
that they aren't in the school but we probably don't need eight extra bodies or nine extra bodies for the 12 weeks that they aren't in the school So it's it's not I I think we do have to be fair to everybody If you did eight and they ended up being patrol officers in the
summer that that's one more officer on each shift Takes eight officers to fill the shifts Yeah So I think we'd need to be fair to every district I I don't disagree with that So I I Well maybe it doesn't take
It may takes four four to fill a full shift Well six at a minimum Six at a minimum So we'd and gain one more officer in the summer on patrol If we if we did if that happened I don't think that's going to
happen I don't think you're going to get I don't think you're going to get all the districts I don't think they can afford it Quite frankly even at even at 68 some of them aren't going to be able to afford it Yeah And that's a like a $45,000 discount which is a pretty good deal And so we're talking about Well I
don't know whether it's a discount because we said and Several on this board have said true cost true cost is 68 something No no no no true cost isund uh
um4 and then we were taking 60% of that true cost So that the true cost is 114 So now you Okay So you want to I I get you're questioning the 6040 split I I'm not questioning it I I I I'm just saying
I I kind of lost track of your question now Um so I apologize for that Well we we've done 6040 in the past Yeah we have to a certain degree Now we're saying we wanted true cost so we got true cost and
we're still at the proposal is still at 6040 split Mr Chair can I can I comment Yeah go ahead Just regarding the 6040 because it it got brought up You know it's the 40% that the county is paying is is
paying for the entire county Our our staff is not just because they're 6040 in in Zambroa They're going to be pulled for a a Crimax case in Redwing at any given time they're going to be pulled over to Holden Township at any given time for a
case that that that's that 40% that the county is paying for Um so I just want to be clear that that 40% isn't staying in Pine Island It isn't staying in Zombroa They're they're offsetting our investigative staff nearly every day Uh
and we're not replacing them and the school districts are are that was the agreement we had last year that so that they are okay with them coming out and doing whatever they have to do for the county and they and they have been and we've had this we've had this going on for for
several years and it's a it's a great I think the 6040 is working fantastically Um well I I I I went and talked to Marshall Hock after our last meeting and I just asked him how they did it And the reason was is because I just didn't
think they were doing 6040 of the same thing And I wanted to understand that So I said "Why are you only doing 60 when um 1600 hours is actually 76% of the year?" Something like that 75% of the year He said 'Well we're only doing
60 and not 75 because of what you're saying that the officers get called out because they don't have to backfill all of that So that's why they took the 15% off the top And then I said "Well why aren't you charging anything for the car and the uniforms and whatever." And he
said "Well that we're just considering a contribution to the school." Redwing actually backfills their SRO's What Redwing actually does backfill their SRO Well Marshall said they didn't So I I I can't uh I can I'm telling you what they do Yeah And and I I can't I'm not going
to argue with you about it I'm just telling what he said And and so we're um that's kind of built into it is is what he was saying But anyway I think we should make a contract for next year and and maybe
we can decide the rest of this today and maybe we can't So are you saying you only want to do one year contract That's what I'm saying And take more time to really Linda Well I am a firm believer in true program costs and I do think it's
extremely important for us moving forward to know what those numbers are in anything actually Um otherwise we end up cannibalizing ourselves when we don't know what something really costs and therefore we don't charge for it
I thought that was what we got at the beginning and as Jason said agreed on it However now comes back with different numbers Um well we were using patrol numbers
before not SRO numbers which are right which they've pointed out are all the difference So I have no um I mean Lucas and his office and his team they win awards for financial accuracy I don't
win awards for financial accuracy So I'm not going to question the number that the sheriff and Lucas give me as true program costs I believe in it If that is what the true program cost is for the moment based upon what the sheriff and
Lucas's office have come up with then I would support the sheriff's recommendation And so that we don't go over this year after year and that it's easier for the sheriff's department and easier for the schools I would
also support a three-year contract at this point else What would the 27 to 28 be then the threeyear 75784 we have 26 to 27 on here at 72 the
next click the next um agenda 68 88599 72674 and 75784 Those three right there Yeah I I I will agree with Linda on this
So uh you know if the costs are the cost and that's you know I have one more question So then by at least by the third year we're going to be I think around 10,000 less than Redwing Okay And so that means it's pretty likely that we're going to be asked to take on maybe
not but the Redwing contract and possibly the ED district because if they schools can save $10,000 by having the county do it rather than the than the city why wouldn't they do that So are you prepared to do that too Well
I think then we'd have to look at whose responsibility is it at that time Is it because it's in the city of Redwing that it is the city of police department's responsibility versus the county Well but why wouldn't it be the city of Pine Island or the city of Zro's
responsibility station They don't have police force Well except for we are their contract except for Mstead even though they're doing it They're saying the city's contracting for part of that cost So um that's what they're doing And
the same with Dover and AOTA they're expecting the city to kick in part of that cost And so you know I know there's a lot of comparisons with other communities I guess we have to look at what our costs are We have to look at where we're at Um I think if that does
happen then it's something that the sheriff will have to review and and present to us in a couple of years and say you know what we have a request for two more and and what direction do we go then So I think the argument would be if the Redwing is up in three years if
they're 10,000 higher than us it's because they backfill for their SRO's That's the difference Well I think it's because they're doing 60% of the payroll and not 60% in the same way we are I I think they're doing 60% But
didn't it didn't it show if we did it that way we'd be at 63 890 Andrea did a number and hers was 70,33 If you look at that one where it says 63 um just look at the line that says uh
over excuse me not overhead but benefits In that figure they're saying the benefits for 12 months is less than the benefits for 9 months Well you can look at the line and see They're saying I know what you're
talking about but I think you're looking at two different benefit packages Well that's what you're looking at You're not comparing apples to apples because the benefits in one included other stuff and the benefits in the other didn't I think Andrea has a number
You go ahead Andrea I I just wanted to clarify the information that I sent you um that you're referring to was the the Redwing methodology that you had asked the sheriff to put together So that that actually was the information that they put together That's the apples That's
our and that was put together by finance and the sheriff and I just sent it out So it wasn't actually a number that I put together I just shared their information with the But I but I think if you compared the last line of this sheet to what Andrea sent out there's a
$7,000 and some about a $7,000 difference There is somebody wants to offer a motion where we're going to go with this I would make a motion that we uh go with sheriff's recommendation with a 685
first year and then uh two two more year contract on that And I think that I just I just feel there's going to be things coming down the road that uh um we might have some more police contracts too So I mean there's there's
there's a lot of things that might happen in the next couple of years for the sheriff's department So um you know I guess we make this one step You know we we make this with the information that we have Is it the right Is it not the right But I guess I would I would support this at this time to move this
forward I'm sorry Did you say a two-year contract or three-year contract Three Yep This year and then two years Yeah Three total Yeah Right I'll second that I moved and seconded we move forward with the contract with the school resource officers at
68599 72674 and 75784 for a three-year contract Any further discussion All those in favor say I I I Opposed I three to
two human resource personnel committee packet Thank you for all your work on that Thank you Finance sheriff's office administration All right Good morning commissioners Morning The personnel committee met this
morning and heard two reports Is your microphone on What was that Is the microphone on It is You got to get it closer All right let's start over Good morning Morning The personnel committee met this morning and heard two reports One of which will go to the Health and
Human Services Board a little later on this morning One of which will come to you this morning from land use management regarding a summer helper Um and I guess I'll turn it over to you to kind of explain what the ask is Uh good morning commissioners The um as
Jessica said we met earlier today at Personnel What land use is looking to do is to hire a summer help that can help us scan and digitize what we call parcel files which every parcel in the county
has a physical record to it Um in those parcel files are variances mining registrations conditional uses building permits violations Um sometimes like feed lot information
Um right now we only really have digital files for the last I'd say maybe 15 years Um and going back to the 1970s 1980s specifically 80s to 90s period and the early 2000s um everything is in
mostly everything is in a paper record Um so again what we're proposing is to take and hire someone that can come in in the summer and take each parcel file kind of carefully go through it Sometimes there's um information in there that's duplicate or um photocopied
wrong but really carefully kind of go through each file index it and put it into a digital database Um the intention here is to eventually get rid of our hard copy files and to rely on a backedup um essentially digital file Um
I believe that that is hopefully a safer long-term place for some of these files Um if you maybe look at some of the files from the 70s and 80s are already getting very brittle Sometimes they're really they've been photocopied a couple times hard to read Um so that is again the the request to hire someone to get
them in here to make as much progress as they can digitizing records How um I'm proposing to pay for this is to take the budgeted dollars that was planned that were planned for a zoning assistant Um that zoning assistant was a budgeted um
ex or essentially a budgeted person or budgeted employee uh personnel expense for 2025 There was 87,800 budgeted for that person We are planning to hire a zoning assistant Um that posting is going to go active here
within a couple weeks couple days Um and so we we'll have them on board I'm anticipating um by June probably Um which means um of the 87,800 budgeted for that position we're not going to use all of it because
obviously we January February March April May we have we didn't have anyone Um so taking that savings and hiring the summer intern or the summer help is essentially what's proposed Obviously summer help we can hire at a much lower rate than a full-time employee We're not
paying them full-time benefits Um we're assuming a hiring rate of 1750 an hour which is the standard summer hourly rate Um and I'm anticipating between 35 to 40 hours a week for this person They would physically be here in the or down in
land use minimal interactions with the public Um really just sitting behind a laptop and a scanner most days Um and we might ask them to do some other projects like assembling of packets for board of adjustment and planning commission and
helping with some of those bulk mailings but I would say 90% of the job is digitization of paper records Um so with that personnel committee did give the uh recommendation to approve this and I'm guess looking for questions and feedback
Questions have one Go ahead My question is is $17.50 a reasonable amount of money to hire a summer intern And I asked that because I know Culver's pays 18 So just curious as to whether or not
we're reasonable on this and we think we can do it Yeah I mean going into well this winter we did um reach out to DDA to revisit what those summer help and intern rates of pay were and they looked at a lot of our public sector competitors I mean
really whether or not it's it's competitive is what we end up seeing for applicants But I can say for administration and HR we've been able to find summer helpers at that rate of pay Um I know public works hasn't necessarily had as the same um response
there too Um but I think in that case we're looking at Wabasha County that pays $20 an hour for for their summer students at public works too And I think that's um relevant to that I I do think that this figure is realistic for this job Excellent Thank you
Any other questions What's your wishes What the personnel committee We recommended approval to go forward Okay I'll make a motion to recommend approval Second been moved and seconded The only
comment I'll make is this is a multi-year project It is not going to get done in this year I think you mentioned 20 file cabinets full of records 20 file cabinets packed um with every they're organized by township and
um each township has at least one file cabinet Some of the townships have a couple um and so yeah we've got a whole room of cabinets So know that probably it will take a couple years of doing this at least to
try to get it so we can get it in a safe keeping Uh any further discussion hearing None All those in favor say I I The same Motion carries Uh for your information there's
three items there New or old business Go ahead So underformational items there was one about the board signing a resolution for fair housing month So are we going to do that or
not It's up to you You want to you want to move that forward Well I certainly don't like the idea of somebody asking us to do something and then we don't even talk about it or whatever It seems like a pretty simple thing and I certainly would support fair
housing and all we're doing is saying that we're declaring April as fair housing month Therefore yes I would move to adopt the proclamation Yes adopt the proclamation for April being fair
housing month Is there any Is there a second I'll second Uh any further discussion If not all those in favor of declaring April Fair Housing Month say I I the
same motion carries Thank you Anything else under for information Um I have one sir Go ahead Um I was at the uh emergency communications board regional meeting yesterday and was it
last month or here we voted on that We're looking for an administrative person to run that and the we the estimated costs were at $3,334 that position each county is going to pay that Um in talking with
Mstead County some figures were wrong on that So it ended up being $1,570 additional So okay Good And has that come through the sheriff's budget Okay All right Good Doesn't happen very
often Usually it's the other way No it doesn't Any other committee reports Committee reports Yes Go ahead So on the um Association of Minnesota Counties the education and training report they had um in March I believe it
was called Practical Leadership Cultivating Thriving Supervisory Relationships Well apparently it was such a popular series that they are going to have it again in July and they are sending information out and inviting
and encouraging supervisors and commissioners to attend Good Anybody else One more thing on that emergency communications board I know there's been a lot of talk about combining uh uh PAPs our dispatchers Um
supposedly in the next two to three years there's a big change around for our panels Um the actual panel that sits in the dispatch So um it is going to be uh talked about more at our rack meeting That's where it's more the technical side of it the
sheriffs and the um and their communications people And you know if it's if it's ever going to work now is a time to uh maybe open the discussions a little bit more I know a lot of counties have invested a lot of money into their
systems you know so it's and I know we've we're sharing software already which is a good savings but you know it it you know when do you pull that trigger on actually closing down one dispatch and going somewhere else is is something that definitely needs to be
talked about more Rice and Steel are doing it So good Uh anything else committee-wise Well I just have a question Do you think that's a type of issue we should get a cow on at some point The um
Yeah I guess maybe we can ask Marty that since he just came back at the Emergency Communications Board Yeah I didn't hear the question Yep You got the answer Lori Yeah probably at the Southeast ECB yesterday
you know there's talk about the um Motorola is going to come up and we're going to have to replace our panels over the next how many years You know so there was definitely discussion after the meeting and at the end of the meeting about is this a time to consolidate And I know it's always a
contentious issue with sheriff's departments and there's a lot of investment in each one of these you know sitting there So we're you know is this the time to actually say "Hey let's let's maybe look at more regional dispatches on that." So I don't know My
opinion Yep That's a no Okay Um and I think any uh Well and I think we we last year the commissioners even said it's probably not a feasible and all the all the commissioners in that meeting if you recall right said it's not feasible
We've looked at the studies We've done the studies It's not cost effective Um and it's convoluted at at its core Okay To try to to try to do something like that Well I know there was a lot more talk that came up again
yesterday with the if each panel is costing 70,000 60,000 Yeah You know some have four some have five I guess one of my questions was is you have one um town or county that's sitting there with you
know four panels the other ones with four panels If they combine how many do you still need You need eight panels then or you just keep in mind if you drop to six fortunate those panels will be covered by 911 funds right Okay Those don't come out of the county budget and
then if they consolidate the one county is going to get everybody's 911 funds Well now they don't need they'll only need I don't know I'm just going to guess 12 panels where they're going to have
14 counties worth of 911 funds and that's that's millions of dollars Yeah that is in excess of what they would actually have to spend for those consoles I don't know if that makes sense but All right that's that's why that's why Steel
wanted to to uh to to reach out to us because quite frankly they would prefer to have our 911 funds to help them set up their old building Well there's definitely more talk about it So I just that's why I brought it
Takes takes a a long-term commitment by counties It's not something you get in into and out of It's if you go that direction you're that direction and you better stay there for a long time because it's not and I've been a proponent of it for a long time to to
try to figure out ways we can um consolidate But um there are challenges with it I'm not going to lie I know with the I don't know if it's something that the state you know ECN would look at and say "Okay here's a better district Here's a better you know
let's say we pull over to steel and rice." All of a sudden that leaves Wabasha out there by themselves Maybe we're a better mix with Wabashaw and Winona's a better you know mix with Rochester or Homemstead and you know I mean just having some more guidance to look at the larger overall picture So
right but well and it would seem like if we were able to see 20 years down the road that there would be consolidation that would be really a big surprise if there wasn't Yeah but that doesn't modern technology now you can sit in you know Rochester or Homemstead and what's
going on up in Elely you can find the address Well absolutely Anything else from committees If not claims I I want one more thing on committees I just want to say it was good We sent that letter that Three Rivers asked for
and I meant to that was under the consent agenda They're trying to uh encourage that their block grants continue so they can continue to provide the services they are and this was a letter in support of that which I think was important or two consent agenda How are those
public service auctions working I mean is that I don't know Lucas do you know how the money comes in Is it been pretty fair Is it a good idea or we're process we should still continue with I don't know of any issues that we've had that money that comes back in typically it's put right back into the
capital plan to purchase replacement equipment All right I mean is it are we getting fair value for them versus trying to sell them on ourselves by ourselves or I think if we're talking about uh just excess equipment laying around IT equipment that kind of thing
um it's a lot more efficient to run the auctions online like this than have staff go out there and try and sell things individually I think this is way more efficient Great Thank you Y how are the auctions advertised
I mean how do people know about them They are posted on a website but Stacy actually runs a lot of that A public auction site Okay Good morning Um so the auctions are typically we have we throw it out on
social media that it's on the public service site we included on our website We typically send an email out to all county employees to let them know that we have an auction live at the certain time and also remind them of the rules um and the statutes regarding auctions
that whether or not if you're um specifically involved with the listing of the item or the selling of the item you are not eligible to bid on it That's how we typically get the word out Anybody who's subscribed on the public surplus auction website who's purchased
things in the past they also get emails when we list new items And you can also I think sign up for to watch for items that come from Goody County We have a couple different sites out there We have our facilities maintenance site We have the one where we do some of our larger
equipment and then we have the IT site So people who are using the county websites would know but people who don't pay any attention to the county websites wouldn't That's correct No Yep But I think people that are on the public auctions you know kind of review all of them There's there's You mean from
different counties different every all over the state They Yep There's people that are comment on the last one that we had some equipment on Those all sold for above blue book value So I think there we're doing pretty well And I we're we're going to put a few more of our
unmarked squads on something like that So there's actually a blue book on accordians cuz I happen to have one collecting dust in my basement that somebody bought that's a little bit different That accordion sat in my cold storage for like 15 years
It's been a very resourceful tool and being able to uh move things along and actually find a new home for them It minimizes staff time to use the uh public surplus We're able to have everything documented answer questions as they come in Um we have a pretty uh
smooth process I think amongst all of our departments with staff as to what we need to do and I think it gives county residents because it's local The last one of the comments we had were selling our squad cars over in Wisconsin four or five hours away We're not even interested now You know because we asked
people ask us what do you do with your cars Well they go over to Wisconsin Well they're not interested So we're we're I think we're leaning toward bringing it back toward our county in one form or the other right in public surplus And I think that's a big benefit for the
county residents too All right Now to claims Move to approve county claims I'll second We have a motion and a second to approve the county claims as presented Any further discussion Hearing none All those in favor say I I Opposed the same
Motion carries Is there a motion to adjurnn So move Second It's been moved and seconded we adjourn All those in favor say I I The same motion carries Thank you