of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Uh, next are disclosures of interest.
Are there any hearing? None. I'll move on to the previous board minutes uh for review and hopefully approval. >> Move approval as presented. >> Second. >> There's a motion and a second. All those in favor say I.
>> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Next, we'll review the agenda. What? >> Yes. Uh so we have a proposed settlement agreement that we will put under routine business uh or consent I should say and
then we also have a restorative practices initiative grant uh that we will be adding. >> And where did you want the uh first item? >> I think they can both go under consent item eight and nine unless you'd like it somewhere else.
Um, >> I'd move that we approve the agenda with those those additions under the consent agenda. >> There second. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Yes. >> Okay.
>> The So, the restorative justice PowerPoint went on here on the consent agenda, correct? >> That would be item nine. >> Okay. I just want to say that was a really, really good PowerPoint, Rhonda. Thank you very much. It gave an excellent explanation of the restorative justice program, the statistics that
you've collected um over the year and I'm very excited about hearing where it goes. I'm a very big supporter of that. >> Yeah. I I just had one question. Are there any implications to the change of the date of the grant?
>> So, it's a good thing. >> It's a good >> Okay. All right. Uh so there's a motion and a second. Any other discussion? All those in favor? >> I >> I >> opposed. Motion carries.
Um next is uh the correspondence about the Wakuda Trail. And uh we do have one of the people who >> We have to approve the consent agenda. >> I thought we did. >> We approved the agenda as amended. >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> Move approval of the consent agenda with
nine items. Second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? >> I. All right. Now, we'll move on to the uh Wakuda Trail. And I think you guys probably had a chance to read through
that. It's a trail that's been there for 19 years. And uh John Schuler uh who uh many of you may know along with some others was involved in a grant committee. And as they were getting ready to file the grant, they saw that they were supposed to have letters of
support and uh didn't realize that early on in the process. So, they've been seeking letters of support from the local community, from Pam Moltenorf, and from the county board. Um, and uh, the this grant, as I understand it, should
the township get it, the grant would cover 75% of the costs of the resurfacing of the trail, and the township would cover 25%. Um, and so what Wakuda Township is asking is that uh, we support their
efforts to get this grant. And um I think that uh I certainly could try to answer some questions, but uh Miss Toma could also answer questions if anybody has any. >> But this is a trail that's open to the public, correct? >> Correct. >> Yes.
>> Yeah. And in fact, uh it's it's uh people from many areas come and uh I think Linda, you're aware it's a a good dog dog walker uh trail. So I know the names of all the dogs that come. They're from other communities, but not always
the people, I'm afraid. Margie, you might say the same thing. Yeah. >> I have a question. You know, we do, and I don't know if this is through regional parks and trails. Is that who it's through? Okay. So, maybe it's a little different,
but when we do uh well, we own the trail. That's why we do Canon Valley Trail goes through the county. Wakuda owns the trail. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Correct. >> Because there'll be a lot of there'll be
some reporting that you'll have to do in the process, right? >> So, you're accepting all of that? >> It's been a pretty involved process filling out the application and uh I'm not sure Margie if uh John Schuler is going to continue to serve on this
committee. Otherwise, >> okay. Yeah. Thank you. >> I would move that we sign the letter of uh recommendation. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Any further discussion?
Uh all those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. And Margie, is there anything you want to add? >> If you do, please come up to a mic. Just hold on. It's not.
>> Hang on. We need to turn it on. >> I just want to say thank you for support your support. As Sue said, this is a trail that is used by people from Redwing, Lake City, Front Neck, and it's we take care of it year round. So, it's
open today if you want to walk it. I walked it yesterday. So again, >> could you just state your name for the record? >> Margie Toma. >> Thank you. >> I'm a resident of W. >> And where does the letter need to go? >> Um I could collect the letter or it
could be mailed to me. I need to attach it um to the grant application which is due on March 31st. >> So how would the letter get her? >> We'll figure it out. >> All right. Okay. All right. >> Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank
you. Uh, next is for your information. I had one thing about the sheriff's office annual report. There was um there was a mention in
there of um a class being taught at Somroa Mazepa School. Correct. um teaching the young people about law enforcement, hoping hoping to get them interested in a law enforcement
career. So, as long as the deputy was here, I just thought we could have a couple moments. >> Yep. No red light. >> I don't see red light now either. That was saidutieut. high school building. I cover the whole
district. >> Oh, sure. Yeah. It's a intro to law enforcement class for juniors and seniors at ZM. Um, and uh, basically what we cover is I call it the thousand foot view of the career field. Um, so
then if we have students that are potentially interested in getting into the career field, this gives them um, a taste of what the the job involves before they get too far into the college process. and potentially there are there are some that are somewhat on the fence
and this gives them good insight on on whether or not they they wish to pursue the uh career field. Um like the sheriff said, we're currently in our second year. Um I just teach it for for the one semester uh second half of the year. Uh we had 12 students last
year. I have 12 again this year. Um, I had two students uh that went directly to a law enforcement program um on the college side. Uh I have two more that have told me that they're getting their generals out of the way and then their
plan is to go on to uh law enforcement after that. I have three this year that have told me they plan to go directly to a criminal justice or a law enforcement program. Um and then a few more that are on the on the fence about that. um things that we cover in the class. Um we
have numerous speakers that will come in uh different professionals from within the career field. Uh last year we had representatives from our own sheriff's office police department. Um Minnesota State Patrol, the BCA, we even had a Secret Service agent come in and give a
presentation. Um so it gives them different avenues on on within the career field that they can that they can pursue. Um, and then as far as the the content of the class, we cover things all the way from uh history of law
enforcement, uh, structure of law enforcement, um, how municipal versus county versus state, how they differ from each other and what the the structures within those organizations are. Uh we also cover how state statute works and then all the way
down to things like uh patrol operations, traffic stops, um investigations, report writing, uh interview, interrogation, all the way to the court process and testifying in court, things like that. So,
>> well, thank you very very much. >> Do you know are other schools doing the same thing? Um, we're currently working towards uh starting it in Pine Island uh with our SRO there, uh, Pier Mavis. Um,
I don't know where we are in the process of that. I know that they've talked with the school district um, and they've expressed interest in it, but I don't know how far they are. >> So, you don't know if around the state there's a number of these courses. >> There is a few that I've heard of. Um the I based my program off of one from
Kimble, Minnesota. Uh that's that was the the foundation that we started with. Um unfortunately there's no real set curriculum for this class. So we kind of had to build it from the ground up. Um the text we use is actually a college text. It's a intro to criminal justice.
Um so we can use that as a foundation but then build uh into the more specific law enforcement side of it. Thank you very much. >> You're very welcome. >> Thanks for all your work. >> Thank you. >> Most Thank you. >> Okay. Any new or old business?
>> No. I got to uh during my township meetings this last Tuesday, uh Marty Kelly was there and I found it so interesting the use of the drones and I think that is a great program and you know to keep everybody out of harm's way. you get to go in and see what the
layout of the, you know, a poss, you know, potential dangerous situation. And, uh, it, uh, it's a really neat program. So, thanks for doing that. >> Did you say had two things or just >> Nope, that was it.
>> Any other new or old business? >> All right, we'll move on to committee reports. Linda, >> I have a couple. Thank you. Um I'm on a task force for the Department of Corrections for Women and incarcerated women and girls. And at the last
meeting, um there was a Ramsey County did a very long statistical report with like I mean over several several years and about 7,000 cases of
girls incarcerated. And one of the major things that came up, it's not going to be surprise to anybody in law enforcement or probation or social services, but that is how so many girls come from a very traumatized
childhood, especially sex abuse. And so that that was um no matter what kind of program you put together, it's got to be trauma informed to be able to deal with the repercussions. And so that is
currently being shared within Ramsey County right now. And then eventually they're going to do a national roll out of it. Um I mean obviously there's a lot more stuff in it than that, but that was one of the major things. So that will be
something coming. And then at the board of directors meeting for the association of Minnesota counties, one of the biggest things that came up because of the cost shifts and because of money is so tight for right now and what we are
looking forward looking ahead to see on the budget is that while everyone there understood that we all kind of want our own local control over as much as possible.
But the executive director, Julie Ring, really brought up that regionalization of many things is something we seriously need to look at. The smaller counties do. Um, jails came up, dispatch came up,
uh, recycling came up. Um, but that was she really thought that that was going to be the future just because of finances. So, I'm bringing it up just so that we can seriously think about it. Again, I know we've talked about different things, but we haven't
necessarily got serious about it, but it's coming. >> That's it. Thank you. >> And it makes sense that times change and when the 87 counties were developed, the way we were able to communicate and move around in the state was very different than it is now. So,
>> yes. I mean, things are so much different now than even what, five, six years when I came on. So yes, times have changed and it's important to change with them to be healthy. >> Thank you. Any other committee reports? >> Well, I'll just kind of piggyback on
that. I think all of us have probably thought that at some point things would change. And I think the thing we have to remember is um it takes commitment to change. And when it takes commitment, that means it's a long-term investment.
and and a lot of these things almost anything you name there come with a come with an upfront cost figure >> huge >> but a long-term benefit and I think um what's happened in in government is
we're very shortsighted lately um I'm not going to say good county because I think we've done some pretty amazing things with our capital planning that we've done with the finance department over the last few years um you know planning in the public works some of
those things we've done a pretty good job about being out front doing that state not so much the federal even worse I mean everything is where my feet today and that's what I'm looking at and I think I I commend Julie for bringing
that up Julie's always got a good insight into how to change things but um even with all the discussion around uh health and human services. I think we we are going to change the way health and human services
delivered. I think it's the only it's the only avenue um because there's a a lack of trust and from every angle you look at. Um but uh from that aspect,
counties need to be the leaders in making sure that change is the right change for everybody's neighborhood, not just St. Paul's. >> Um not just for the sake of change, but for the sake of what's better for everybody. So, I think there's a lot of
there's a lot of heavy lifting that needs to happen in the next few years over all of these things. And I will say just one more thing. >> Okay. >> Um, at all the county or all the townships that I went to for annual meetings and I went to I went to four on
the day of the meetings. I've been to a couple of them um ahead of that. I went to their regular meetings. cuz I got one more regular meeting tonight and then I'll have gotten to all seven of them. And one of the things I've talked about is our budget for next year. And it's
not pretty. It's pretty ugly and they understand it. >> Um nobody was like, "Well, you guys got to get, you know, serious about cutting because they understand it's all coming from above. We we constantly get more and more things to do at the county and
not the dollars to do it with." And um like I said to our our legislators when we were up there um last a week ago or whatever, uh every time you make a decision to send something to us, you're making a decision to put it on property
tax and we don't agree with that. So just know you're making the decision for us. We're not making that decision. And I think we got to keep pushing that angle for them to realize that we don't have the options that they have. So, but
everybody at our township meetings, I very good response to a lot of the things we talked about. Very good response to our road projects and bridge projects that I talk about every time I go there. Uh had very good conversations. So Linda,
>> just following up again that another thing that was brought up to it supports what Brad was saying was the that counties are in what does this call what they call this compression funnel that everything that happens up here. So I mean literally globally. So therefore
the war at the moment is part of it. what the federal government decides, what the state government decides, and then it comes down to the counties and we're the ones that are actually doing it and meeting every I mean taking care of everyday people in our community and
that that was something that a lot of people don't quite understand that everything that happens up here eventually comes down and we have to figure out how to deal with it the best way possible for all the people that live here. And there's no way for us to
give it to cities or townships. >> No, we get it. They decide and then we get it and have to figure out what to do with it. >> Thank you. No, I'm done. All right. Todd, you want to say anything? >> Nope. We're good. Thank you.
>> All right. So, uh, we're on to, uh, claims >> to pay the bills. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Um, all those in favor? >> I >> I opposed. Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I
>> I We're adjourned.