all right we will call our March 18th board meeting to order and we will start with the Pledge of Allegiance [Music] to the flag of the United States of America na
indiv andice all right first item is disclosures of Interest are there any hearing none approval of the previous board meeting minutes second beter been moved been
seconded to approve the minutes as printed any further discussion hearing none all those in favor say I iose the same motion carries review the agenda are there any changes there there are no changes chair okay is there motion to
accept the agenda so moved second move second to accept the agenda as presented all those in favor say I I oppose the same motion Carri consent agenda there are four
items move approval second it's been moved in second to approve the consent agenda as printed all those in favor say I I iose the same motion carries next item is admin Administration and are you
going to handle introductions Natasha young Ray um representative from Brad finstad's office does not have a mic oh there you go make sure it's on the bottom try again hello there you there we go thanks hi nice to meet you all I'm
Natasha young Ray I'm a district Outreach representative from Congressman Brad finstad's office I've been going County to County the ones that I serve and just introducing myself since I started in December and I just wanted to come in and just sayy hello and drop in and I have a card if any of you would be
interested in that and just wanted to introduce myself excellent and you work out of the Rochester office is that correct correct all right good so we know where to yeah if you could leave a few cards we probably will hand them out for not only
us but staff too absolutely is there any big news you have from the office um I don't have any news currently besides that the budget passed last third or last Friday so budget is throughout the end of December I believe so besides that not a whole
lot of news we're in recess right now so he's doing a lot of meetings this week I believe all right thank you good thanks for stopping by and we will be in touch all right uh budget committee okay uh this morning the budget committee met
at 8:45 there was two items on there the first is an out ofate travel request that's covered by the jewel settlement funds within the tobacco prevention uh Grant um and that uh request is recommended for approval uh it's for a
conference in Chicago Illinois you want me to just deal with both of them or what do you want we can well let's just we'll go with that one any questions on that uh out of state travel request and both Susan and I uh
felt it was um Justified and we should do it move to approve second and moving second we approved the out ofate travel for Health and Human Services any further discussion hearing none all those in favor say I I oose the
same motion Carri uh next is the early order of 2026 equipment um that also came with a recommendation of uh to go forward with that and Cher we do want to note that
that $337,450 that's in this report is already not the correct number so we're approving it for approximately that number correct we're approving to get on the schedule for the and then once we lock that's the number great
so I'll move approval second mve seconded that we approve the early order of a truck the one thing I will make a note of is this is a also really approving part of a capital budget going forward for the next budget process
because we're approving the purchase of this and that will be plugged in so just so you're aware of that it's not it's not not as negotiable when we do this as if it wasn't in there I believe it was in the projected it's in it's already in
the one we've approved but it's not it's not the final one that we approved for the 26 but it's not a new item that wasn't correct in the budget or the capital plan okay uh all those in favor say I iose the same motion
carries next student resource officer contract and Lucas is going to talk about this morning Commissioners morning morning as you're aware the uh current school resource officer contracts are only for one year in length and they are
set to expire at the end of June this year uh staff has drafted revisions of the contracts to modify the term length stretching them out to 3 years as well as to update the contract fee uh previous versions of the SRO contract were multi-year agreements and staff
would like to get back to um having a multi-year agreement as they increase our operational efficiencies um the contract that was drafted by staff sets the 2025 to 2026 school year fee at $70,000 which is the same fee charged during the 2024 to 2025
school year the proposed fee remained flat due to the fact that the county had not contacted the schools in advance to give them an opportunity to adjust their budgets and levies as appropriate the draft contract also adjusts subsequent school year fees based on an inflation
index on March 4th 2025 the board requested this item come back for further discussion attached to this memo you will also find data uh regarding two potential contract fee methods the first option is what was initially developed by staff
the second second option uses the current hourly rates being charged on the city policing contracts you'll also find the rates charged for several previous school years for historical perspective Additionally you will find copies of the contracts that were recently drafted by staff at this time
staff is um looking for direction on how to proceed with uh with these contracts what you're specifically looking for in the terms um so we can move this forward and and bring it forward to those School distri districts that we contract with
discussion questions I'm happy to to start I uh I guess I feel like we should just like we're basing our policing contracts on what our costs actually are I think we should be basing these
contracts on what our costs actually are and I don't mean that they should be paying 100% of the uh 9 months they're in the school but that we as a board should decide what we think is fair and reasonable based on what it costs us and
sometimes the CPI might be the right number but other times it might be the wrong number and I I think if we do that then we're really being consistent from one group to another and we're deciding what we think is reasonable for
us to be contributing to the school contracts um there's sort of I I try to educate myself so I talked to a couple Schoolboard members talked to tons of different County Commissioners and did as much Google research as I was able to do and it really looked like um the
standard or I shouldn't even say the standard the most common the most common answer that I got was that the um School District covered 60% for 9 months out of the year they covered 0% for 3 months
out of the year and the county covered uh 40% for those 9 months and that ends up being that the um school district is covering 45% roughly of the yearly cost and the county is doing
55% okay my concern about um not doing it that way is I think that we would end up getting um the two Redwing positions that are now there because they're doing the 64 split and their 60 for next year
is like $84,000 and so I think that if we're charging significantly less we have to be prepared to take that on and and maybe the board is but I I think that
the 6040 is pretty reasonable the one School Board member said to me wow that's a good deal he was surprised that the deal was that good um the other thing that I learned about that I still don't understand fully is about the safe schools levy and Brad you maybe know
something about that um the safe school levy has been at $36 a pupil for the last 10 years and for uh Redwing that ends up to about just under $80,000 and the the uh Schoolboard member I talked to it was his
understanding that the school boards can Levy that themselves that they don't need to go through the voters to do that Levy now he was wasn't 100% sure but that's what he thought cuz he'd been on the school board for a long time and he hadn't had to to Levy it maybe you know
that um there's a proposal in the house for that to go up from uh $36 to $48 doesn't mean it'll pass it doesn't mean it'll go through that but it's a pretty significant bump if it does do that um and you know when we did this with the
with the communities we didn't go right from what they were paying to the full cost we did that over 3 years and in my mind the most sensible thing for the uh County Board to do is decide what that percent is and then implement it not in
one full swoop okay but to do that over three years and get to the point where we think it's fair and reasonable and it's something that we could offer all of our communities if that's what they wanted so that's that's my thought
anybody else well I'll jump in I do think that knowing and charging true program costs is essential otherwise we end up cannibalizing oneself because there's
not enough money to truly pay for it uh so it has to come from somewhere else so I do believe in true program costs so anybody else so I I took it you know we talked
about true cost and we talked about that with the policing contracts with the CI so we went through and we looked at what a patrol costs and what it is well when you look at that for student resource officer that's a different number it's
not a patrol cost the car itself has $18,000 less equipment in it than a regular patrol car so the costs go down they don't put the miles on like 3,000 4,000 compared to 21,000 when you're a
patrol versus a SRO right there's a $10,000 savings right on its own and and then we don't ever have to back fill if they're sick we don't have to call somebody in to fill in for an SRO if we if they take a vacation we don't have to call somebody in for an to
fill in the only way we'd have to fill in is if there was a longterm um out where a person was out for a long term for an illness or a whatever reason that's the only place we'd have to back fill so the costs are
very different between what we're using for the city and what an srr was so in looking at the numbers right well last year actually the schools for the first half of the Year paid more than
the cities did and then they went up the cities went up higher than what the schools were paying after that so I think the numbers when you factor in all those different things that reduce the cost of a
SRO officer versus a patrol officer show that we no way can use the patrol officer's cost in determining what an sro's cost is so I'm comfortable with doing this
and putting the CPI in there for 3 years and find out just how it works um costs we we don't know what our insurance is going to be we don't know for 3 years we don't know what our insurance is going to be we don't know what our what are settlement for um officers are going to
be and just a little response to the safe School dollars um schools really don't get to decide how many dollars for a like safe schools they don't get to
decide how many dollars of that goes anywhere I mean yes they do but no they don't it has to be dedicated to things that improve school safety no I understand it could be you know like we're talking about how do we improve the safety here it's yeah millions of
dollars and at a school to in for all of them that had to change entries that was big cost to make sure everybody came through right they can use them for new door systems they can use them for changing the Road that's that's what
those are designed they can use them for uh uh social workers they can use them for a whole lot of different things yeah exactly exactly but those are amounts set just like how much you have to spend on on teacher um education for educating
your teachers or workshops for your teach those are very prescribed amounts so I I I want SCH school districts get to Levy x amount per student and in that amount is the $36 for school safety is
the other it's all in there's all inclusive as to how many dollars they get to Levy and then what they need to spend apparently 90% of schools do the safe schools levy and 10% don't and I'm not sure why they wouldn't I you know I
don't know that so the the number that I could find for 2027 Northfield public PD is charging the Northfield schools in 2027 82,000 in 2026 77,000 Redwing in 2027 is 84,000 and in
2026 is 76,000 so those are the numbers okay and if our numbers aren't right if the number we should be using is different then okay but then we should know what
that number is yeah um Lucas I guess I would just caution using comparing our numbers to other entities numbers the contract that was forwarded um the city R Red Wings contract that was from that was signed back in 2022 I
believe MH with a 2025 contract fee being um about 8 $83,000 that the the school district was going to have to pay for 2025 um when you read the contract it's
related to its its direct costs only so that is the salary and benefits for that position it's not broken out by 1,600 hours out of the full 2080 it's it's a even 6040 split on the total salary and
benefits of that individual's actual pay so when looking at it um it's clear to me that and I don't know if this is still the case but when that contract was signed that person was at a higher step so they're paying for somebody who had
been at employed with the city of redwing for a higher number of years our individuals that we have are that are um SRO right now they're not at that high of a step so that's where some of that discrepancy may be um same kind
similarly with you know I guess I don't know if um if we've obtained contracts that um that Northfield has out there but it's it's all what does it say that they're charging f right right it's some do the lowest three- paid officers some
do the average of all the officers and some do the actual cost of the specific officer that they have so they do it in different ways okay
um I think I think that's accurate yeah go ahead oh Todd Todd go ahead my question when you say the vehicles are equipped differently for an SRO versus an officer but when that officer is on the summer Patrol so he has less
equipment in there yep he's an SRO depends what his job description is in summer yeah the s vehicles are just different when you start talking cages in a car all those type of things SRO
aren't always going back into indirect Patrol functions in the summer they're not a backup to patrol they'll come and do investigative work things like that so they're just not equipped the same way you're talking push bumpers they're just they're not designed to be a backup to patrol if that helps um Christine has
more of the numbers if we wanted to have a complete breakdown of where that cost savings is or where that difference is but that would be the big difference when you start talking cameras in a car all of those type of things thank you well two things one under a level of
service it does say that the sheriff will provide for needed law enforcement within the district during the absence of the school liaison Deputy so even though somebody might be out for vacation or sick or whatever we don't say we don't backfill that in practice
we' never backfill if you get somebody we've done in the past and he's out on a maternity leave something like that um we're just for a daily absence we're not back filling we'll make our Patrol aware and they will come and respond to calls but it's not a direct back fill with someone um we never want to get
into we just haven't done that um since I would say 2001 then if the contract says that the sheriff will provide for needed law enforcement within the district should we take that out Mr O I believe that I believe that means
that we'll respond to calls which is what John's referring to but you Lind I think you'd like it to read so it was clear that that's what we were doing yeah and then let's see I had one other question now I
forgot okay well wait and see if it comes backbody else go ahead Jason and I I too think we should base it on actual true cost if we have to figure out if there is less cost in the vehicle that that's fine we can assess that but we've spent the time to figure out the true cost of officers and the average we
should be doing that 60/40 split I'm still not impressed with that or happy with that never said I have been and still won't be the biggest issue that I have before today now after before has always been we're paying school districts that
are not getting any money from this to County taxpayers are whether we like the word not subsidizing or paying for that so that's where I have the problem if we're not providing this and I'm I don't want to if we're not providing it to Redwing to goodu to Lake City to the
other communities why are we not doing that so different thought process I've had with other ones too then maybe we just put a dollar amount out there and say if we're doing two officers at 70,000 or whatever it is and maybe we say let's put $200,000
$300,000 to all the districts evenly split based on population do with it as you may then they all get a little bit they can subsidize or do whatever they want different but every taxpayer gets what they want in the end fair and equal treatment of how their money is spent
right now we're not treating everybody equally because they're not asking for it whether they are or not but we're not doing it so put a broad dollar amount out there and every school district gets it so how would those numbers look I guess
they do they wanted to certainly do if we pick a dollar amount that we said we want to fund every school $770,000 and we pick $70,000 I'm not sure that you folks want to do that but I'm just I don't know how you ring folks you're not getting anything I'm
representing Lake City they don't get anything zro does goodu gets nothing I don't follow the thought process of why we think that's legit so I've always been fair and equal like I said if you wanted to look at this and say you think 70,000 is Justified to
every District or even out it doesn't because of population and where you split it with counties but even if you look at Zoda what's Wabasha County pointing up for their situation did we have the discussion you guys went to the Committees is Wabasha
kick anything Pine Island what's Olstead and Dodge are they kicking anything in um Waba isn't doing it right um Olstead the contracts I could find were back in 2021 so I didn't feel like those numbers they're not paying so zro
mappa half the students that we covering are do and I get it that it's in mppa but Wabasha County isn't funding any any of this and Pine Island is split Todd how much is Pine Island split in their District between Homestead and Dodge I mean there so I don't know why it's getting dumped on goodu County that we
goodu County taxpayers have to pay the full bat to this resources I get it it's how it's set up and what you're doing but I'm just saying you want my vote I'll support it to do when we pick a dollar amount that we can spread out the whole thing and for instance and brro can say well then Wabasha County needs
to kick in some that would be a more fair distribution because we're all about Equity nowadays so 38% of uh an island is open enrollment and majority of that is coming from hestad County they said they were growing a lot and
most of it was from Olstead County yeah I I I do know that the sheriffs have looked at that we do benefit from those deputies once they're not in that school building too so and I understand that the 40% you know coming back
but like I think Jason's got a point what are we subsidizing I I and I don't want to that comment can come up about how much we're meeting but I it is a frustrating thing because you get a lot of coaches there are students coaches that have relationship with their coaches years
Beyond School same with resource officer yes I've been told of asset they've got relationships that they've yeah so yeah I not to question that or anything but there's relationships built with students teachers coaches all throughout that every is benefiting
but it it's this resource officer it's the other ones that I I would much rather see a fair and Equitable treatment amongst everybody and it unfortunately as it may be it may be less money depending what you folks want to chip in or if that's even feasible to some District
so um um you know the the the two City excuse me school board members I spoke with both felt that the school resource officers were pretty helpful to the school and in a whole variety of ways and um so I'm I'm not questioning
whether they're helpful to the schools and I don't feel like that's my decision to make but but I am trying to think about what's fair and reasonable for the county to do when there's many many school districts and you're right some of them a lot of the students aren't even from the county
so what's fair and reasonable to do but um we aren't as a County Board going to change how all of the goodu schools goodu County Schools do their school resource officers in this meeting I mean that would take some meetings with the schools and the various uh other law
enforcement agencies to try to figure it out that's what it would take um and maybe that would be a good thing to do I don't know and no but if we gave them all the option of the money MH they don't overthink it they can take it or they can't they can apply it to a school resource officer whatever way they feel
so and after all taxpayers that are paying in to the money that we are right everybody would get the same as what you're saying pred based on population prated based on school population uh we're not I don't want to overthink and we try to discuss this it would basically be a board decision we'd
have to say that we could figure that out very easily of how we would prate the money and how much money you would prate out but so it seems to me and maybe uh John you can speak to this if we do that then who's doing what where is like totally up in the air um nobody
knows what would be happening for the fall school year because the likelihood that we'd get all of this worked out by um the fall is pretty slim I think if you want me to figure it out I can do it in a week government moves pretty slowly school districts have
that's what I mean that's what I mean they don't yeah there's no capacity to do that we don't need to overthink and if we have a contract we can establish that contract for the remaining school year and possibly the next one but again it's my thought I would support it but there's four other individuals and then
you also have to put a dollar amount on it and I'm just saying if you looked at it and said $70,000 for not easily enough per School District but if you took that amount and said we're going to give $250,000 or $300,000 to spread that out as what we're going to support for the school resource
officer then it's very simple you put that dollar in and then you figure out how we're going to prate that out to the districts so right now our 40% is less than $100,000 right I you're talking about if you're talking about doing that across
the board even if you took that amount you're close to 350,000 to get every school contributing that 48,000 that we contribute yeah and um I I I don't know
I don't know anybody that's ready to go there and no and first to put it on the school because how do you do it you have to spend it on a school resource officer or you can spend it any way you want or would it would it mirror the legislation for safe schools that the same thing
that safe schools is uh Levy is allowed uh that this would be allowed but legally can we even spend public dollars in that sense to just give it to the school and say whatever there's a question in my mind about the legality of being able to do something I
see that could be is can Falls providing officer at their school nope but they want one I can tell you that there are several districts that would like to have student resource officers we heard from them and we met with them last year
right but that's why I'm saying that I think the number has to be something we could offer to every school if we were doing that and not uh you know have it be so high in the current districts that we can't afford to offer it to other districts I don't think that would be
fair yeah the other option is to hire an officer and just let them rotate through all the schools granted they don't have the time and but that would be just to go and then can of Falls would benefit some KW would benefit some but it would really reduce the time that they would
be in each site well I think staff wants Direction what direction you want to give them are we going to move forward with this contract or not Linda well I definitely support the
school resource officers I just feel that it's very important to get as close as we can to what it truly costs to have that officer the officer is not going to work for any less though if the school could find somebody to they certainly could um I did make a copy of that
statute about safe school levy um and the first eight things are all about um law enforcement there's also school counselors that they could hire and mental health professionals so there are other ways they can spend it
absolutely um but I would lean towards option two on the policing contract and if we can get a three-year contract that would be wonderful so 73 for the first year 82 for the second year and question marks on the
third year is that what you're talking about yes that's the policing that's using policing cost which we know is higher than SRO cost but but it isn't anywhere near what it actually costs meaning it's still
lower I I think that was one of our discussions last year and I think that was Jason's argument was that it's still not covering the cost therefore it is less if if we were going to vote on one of
these contracts today I would agree with Linda that I'd go with option two um that I think is closer to more reasonable but I wonder if we really want to do a three-year contract or if we want to do that take some time to really look at the thing that Jason was
suggesting I you know that's what I wonder is if we really want to do a three-year now well school districts are figuring out the finalization of their budget for 26 or 25 26 right now y they have to make cuts to staff y they have
to know what numbers they're going to use so how I mean how do you want to we can do anything but I think we also have to be respectful of what effect that puts on school districts and
school boards we have to you know we we constantly say we want to work together with our community I don't I I think but whatever the the the question I think that that I would have so that
73,000 again we don't know the exact numbers I appreciate that because of the cost of the vehicle so I appreciate that but if Canon Falls if the Ed District if we get three more requests for officers would we be willing to do that and then I think the question that I'd have about
that is it seems like yeah we'd have to we have to be fair but then would we really have the work for those three additional officers or whatever it would be in the Summer where it would be productive or are we really needing to hire some people just for the school
year well I would say when you're just talking about a capacity even take if Canon Falls came to us and said we need a school resource officer we're going to need to have Staffing capacity for that so we just can't take on contracts um when you know I'll go back to when as BR was coming to us um that was going to
strain us uh we were going to be down for staff at that point or even when good Hugh came to us it can take 8 to nine months by the time you post a position and you get there so um it's always possible will we have the work mil depend we'd have to probably take an overall staff organizational chart and
just look do we have the work for um it's hard to say that we would it's hard to say that we would but the summer that's what I was asking you yeah yeah there's always I mean you know I mean you've HRS brief John L earn SI sick and safe leave stuff like that there's always you know a back feeling that we
are doing um we definitely look at that and probably come back to you and let you know do we think that if we took on three more school resource officers would we have the work for them we'd have to just internally take a look at that and come back to you with an answer I just hate to promise you anything when I no I understand that and that's makes
it hard to make the vote of course because I think there's reason to believe that there's going to be more schools asking us I definitely understand the three-year you know you guys do a lot of work and extra time and the school districts want this and um you know I
mean is it horrible to go a one-year contract again and and let us options I I don't know oh it's not if if if we did that I I think we'd want to make sure we were giving the schools the message that our plan was to have
this approach and maybe maybe there's not consensus on this either maybe there isn't but that not that we'd be going up from 73,000 with the CPI because we recognizing we we would really want it to be based on our actual costs and what
percent we think is reasonable and and I say actual cost Brad I'm recognizing that these vehicles are are less expensive and that there's some costs that are less So based on some of the when the superintendents or the boards were here last time too I mean they in all
likeliness unless they have a big change in what they experience uh financially they were going to try to structure down even the hours or pay less hours I mean they some of them said they were kind of pinched even with this at the rate we were but again it's that is their
choice where they choose to spend money and how they choose to spend it and do it if they think it's a valuable item to have it there in all reality it costs that much to have the officer there and the county is taxpayers are paying for that which their district school district members
are part of the county so yeah I'll make a motion that we support option two for a one-year contract um exactly what it says for the one year for the remaining 2025 at the 71 and um up through the following year from January to June of
2026 at the policing contract rate method so there a second I'll second it we're just doing it for one year okay any further discussion does that mean that after
that one year that I mean during this one year that we're going to look at any other option or review whether or not this is the the right cost if the officer gets whoever the SRO is gets
paid less then does that mean that that number is not accurate um so I guess that's what I want to know they're in the middle of working on the 2026 budget right now so um we would not we would have to have
our contracts ratified and have our insurance renewal done to know what that actual cost would be so we won't have unless we went to a two-year or a three-year agreement we wouldn't have the time to get uh the time does timeline doesn't work out for us to have
those numbers in time for them so we're likely going to be back in the same situation next year go ahead well I was just going to say Jason would you consider a two-year contract so that then there is time to look at it a different way
well I I think based on even what caught is it we're our in all likeliness our actual cost of for our officers is going to go up fairly substantially so that puts us in a pickle with what we're going to prove for a to we are going to
get feedback from the school districts about what they are going to they don't know how their budgets are going to look with going through the uh legislative you know session two so we will probably get feedback and I you know unfortunately like I no I wouldn't I don't know that it I think putting a
farther contract a two threeyear contract may be ideal I just think it puts us in a tougher spot of what our actual true costs and I don't know that the districts would go for it either I mean no I they can choose to if they got something they want to come back with
with a three-year contract we can entertain it but I think we keep talking about a year and in reality um um I think the thing that we're missing is they have to do a preliminary Levy and a budget by the end of the year they really if we're going
to do this one year we really need to come back to them with something different or an adjustment by September so that they actually can think about how they're going to go forward in their budgeting because they're on a very
different cycle than we are and this is very difficult and when I constantly say they're doing their budgeting for next year 25 26 right now they didn't they don't have a choice
what they Levy it is all they can choose not to Levy for safe school stuff they can choose not to Levy for certain things but they can't add to their Levy at all it's set what they can Levy what they're doing now is they're trying to
figure out okay what's going to happen in the LED ative session by the end of the year and how are we going to incorporate that into our budget next year and they have no Revenue Source unless the state gives them more money so that's the part that they're trying
to figure out right now I've been through that sitting on Schoolboard I know what that painful process is US complicating it and saying we're going to wait a year and let you know next march is really hard for them they need
more concrete numbers from from Partners like us far before they have to deal with that crap on their own so I really I I'm protective of it because I come from it so if we're going to do this I
want everybody around this table to understand that means there's a really hard push from now till September to get something that we can feel confident about going forward that we could support I really think that's where we are if you're not
then you should go two years with some amount and and that gives us more time to work on it because I don't know as we'll get it done by September I have a question I I think that in in this option two the 73,000 and the
82,000 the 82,000 would still probably be less than the 60 now I could be wrong about that but I'm thinking about insurance going up salaries going up all kinds of things going up and and so when I had said early on that I would be fine with doing it in steps I didn't have any
issue with that and and I could you know change what my uh second was or however that policy works and say okay the going up from 73 to 82 seems like a pretty significant jump anyway and we heard from one of the superintendant that that
would be a deal breaker it could be it could be you know the Redwing schools are debating what they want to do at least that's what I was told by the um and because they have so many pressures on their budget and just like we have to do the best we can with the money we have so do they um but uh but you know I
I did second it but if the there was the momentum to say all right let's do the two years with the 73 and then the 82 I I could certainly go along with that I wouldn't have a problem with that guess I'd be concerned with well in
September will we know our health will have an idea on our health insurance will we have an idea on our Union contracts we'll have an my guess we have an idea of where would be shocked if we'll have by
that although we are going out for bids on insurance can we set an earlier date for and can we be ready and get it a earlier you go the yet the less if like if we sent out right now they just have to guess what our
experience rating is going to be usually you want to Bas on your experience because they're going to project on the high side want me to resay all that sorry I didn't have my mic on so what's your wishes you have a
motion and a second to do a onee for 73 7330 is that correct can can I resend my second so we can uh I can just withdraw my motion and re and
provide another motion to chair the finance director does have his hand up to go ahead I do just want to reiterate that yes we obviously don't know um where our insurance costs are going to come in next year we know that they're projected to go up significantly however option
two those are the policing contracts that are in force right now for the city policing contracts so as commissioner Anderson stated or he brought up um um that does include $188,000 extra approximately for those squad cars for
those policing contracts it also includes approximately 21,000 miles of Patrol miles that we know the sro's do not make in a year so just so you're aware yes we know our insurance costs
are going to go up but that number also includes items that the sro's generally are not going to be doing just want to make sure I make that clear so do I need approval from Susan to with if I withdraw my motion I believe you have to you withdraw your motion do you withdraw your second I'll
I'll withdraw my second if I will make a motion that we allow option one for or option two we go one year at the proposed rate in the second year for the we give the district the option if that's a good option you got year one
and year two you want one year want two year you got the option there a second to that I'll second it okay motion is the the first year will be 73030 and they have an option to extend that to a second year at
82 um 023 any further discussion all those and go ahead Susan well I was just going to say I thought Linda's comment about trying to look at these different options throughout the year would be an important thing to do
including uh uh Jason's suggestion that perhaps we consider maybe it's not legal but uh giving a certain amount to every school district for uh safety and they can decide how they think it's best to spend it do you want um do you also want
finance and Sheriff's Office to come up with a actual cost for the student resource or are you going to still use these numbers we know that aren't accurate well I think for this motion we're using these numbers yes but do you want them to come up with actual numbers
I'd like it to be accurate okay so what if they come up and they're wrong this is higher than what they are and what do you I'm not and I'm not saying we should change anything about the motion I'm not saying any of that I'm just asking you what would you do well I I think they probably won't and
I'm just basing it on what the cost were these other schools uh um Northfield in uh 2027 is 82,000 Redwing in 2027 is 84,000 and so I I'm believing that those are going to be pretty close to the
ballpark okay is there any further discussion all those in favor say I I I oppose I motion carries thank you thanks for all your work project status
report uh new and old business committee reports hang on one comment new and old business so okay um as we relates to the park you guys know what my opinion is or feeling is out that so we're looking for this year we're planning on doing the fish house
and uh host sites and all the other money that we're spending and so I don't know if the rest of you because we get waffled up if you you've heard my comments on it I know where Brad stands I think you know where my stands I think the other three of you sometimes they don't get an accurate that you think it makes sense I just for
my Outlook I don't know Linda and Susan like reding citizens benefit that grade from Fish House out in Lake billsby cuz what fish house do you have here in reding so much like my comment for the school resource officers I really feel that we if we're going to spend all this money on a park out on the opposite end
of the county from where I live and do and from almost everybody else we need to continue to we need to start spending the money elsewhere so multitude the cities and districts and um entities in my district could benefit greatly from money being spent on their Parks doesn't have to be a
county park but there's still County Citizens paying County taxes that their money is all going to One Park your Park Tod out in your area hasn't been but is at the best use of the money maybe Kenyon Pine Island could utilize money for their own parks for something different so doesn't have to be resolved
today but I think the rest of you need to really focus on if we're going to spend $100,000 on on billsby isn't it reasonable that we spend $100,000 in the city of reding 100,000 disc in my district 100,000 in Todd's
District Fair and Equitable to everybody so doesn't have to be decided today but I'm putting it into your ideas to think about and I think that's the way we should go about it in the future so just a comment so that's all I have on that any other New or Old business committee
reports go ahead Todd planning advisory last night we did have uh um actually we had the township come to us and say that they maybe have some more um zoning Planning and Zoning issues that they wanted to address also so you
know and in the old you put the cart for the horse does the township go first does the county go first um lots of discussion um there was some delays in applications and there was some finger pointing and I think we got it all settled down by the end and uh um so
that is going to come to us they did follow all the county ordinances so the planning or PAC did approve it and sent it to us but uh when that meeting comes up here in April there may be some more discussion on it so it would all
happened when the property was sold back in November and then they started the process of splitting it um there was some confusion and so but I think it's all going ahead but we had a lot of people here last night is that the one
that was um plat plotting it plotting it any other committee reports hearing none uh review and approve County claims I'll move repay the claims second
second any further discussion all those in favor say I I I oppos the same is there a motion to adjourn mov second favor say I I all the same motion
carries we are adjourned