--------- who's in charge then today chairman yeah well actually it's a public hearing so I guess we're all probably in a sense part of the process yeah
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reconvene the meeting with the public hearing considered a ditch Authority transfer to the boyu Watershed I will mention that we are being recorded and it's public uh published on our website
and also if you're uh have been public comment I'd like to limit the time uh for each discussion point to about three minutes um and then we'll proceed I'll
maybe ask eron do you w to start out with any comments from your department eron um I guess if if the board makes the motion and it passes I'm not going to just wipe my hands clean of this I'm
going to be helping the boy to Su and Troy especially um getting them rolling sh showing them what needs to be done on these ditches I'm not I'm not going to just wipe my hands clean so Lucas do you have thing to add before
we open for the public com good afternoon Mr chair members of the commission if you want I can provide a little synopsis of what we're doing today uh and then if you want to just open it up to the public for public comment we can take any public comment uh that anyone might have obviously
limited to three minutes as you discussed then after that uh if the board so chooses uh they can pass uh in order uh to transfer the ditch Authority uh from the county to the bo SU uh presented a draft order to all of you um
so you can take a look at that but yeah so today the the hearing is done under 103d 625 subdivision one uh to transfer this Authority uh the county has previously transferred ditch Authority uh to the bo to Su for Grant County
ditches 21 and three so we'll do that uh same process uh if you guys so desire um for 12 ditches U that are within the boy su's territory that are currently under the jurisdiction of Grant County um
Aaron has a list of the 12 ditches if you want he can uh go through all those ditch numbers for you those will be included U within this draft order uh along with any public comment that is presented today this process is
relatively straightforward considering what uh what's being done here uh Aeron published notice in the paper of this hearing we've had informal landowner meetings prior to this hearing so the land owners are aware that uh the county was going to be having this
hearing at some point got input from people uh and and also note too that there are managers here from the voy Su so if there's any questions of any of the managers uh I obviously represent um the boy to sou from a legal standpoint
uh we don't have any Engineers here today from the boy Su but they said I can play engineer today so I'll try to answer any questions that that they um would typically answer and you know we're kind of here for the landowners so any any questions or concerns that they may have we certainly uh provide
responses to them uh hopefully clear up any any confusion uh that might be out there and uh hopefully you guys desire to transfer the the ditches to the boy to Su okay they'll
now open it up for public comment questions yes ma'am um yeah was my understanding that once this transfer takes place it's imp perpetuity like forever you cannot turn it back to the county is that
true yeah as of as of right now the way the statute is drafted the county has the ability to transfer the dish systems to the Watershed District there's not a reverse process for the wed to send it back to the mountain okay yes Mark there a priority list on
which dit numbers are going to start with maintenance it goes in order by how you uh apply for it and typically um you know we do once TR talk about different ways of looking at how
we look at going through the maintenance regime typically in the dit currently in in we have a threee rotation that every every 30 years those are fully inspected sprayed and U done but of course there's anything that's brought
out I imagine we're going to have to do a lot of work before we get them into rotation so that's that's a big question of how we pull that in and we do go through every year and I
was the originator of this used to be every year we' go through every ditch and how much money was in it and what work had been done and what well why the hell do that when it was done a year ago so now we have I think it's a red green
and blue whatever the colors are and those ones that are green are the ones that need to be addressed right now or in the near future with any year or two those are the ones we put our priority on and then we go down to the next one
and that's how we once we have the if we do get them in our system once they're in our system I would say within a year and with the help from Grand County's engineer we're going to know which ones are the priority and that's
how we deal with it you know it's just like cancer you get it one it's small and you got a better chance of getting rid of it than you do and it's run out run out the key and yeah so Mr chair I'll just add to that so the the process that they're
describe right now is the inspection process which is you know that threeyear rotation where Troy the engineer technician is just going through and checking all the dish systems seeing if they need to be sprayed seeing if they need any minor repairs he's authorized to do certain work up to a certain dollar amount so those are the the
projects that they're referencing land owners also have the ability to petition for a repair petition for an improvement and if the land owners do that then the voy to Su is obligated to work on that project in accordance with the statute regardless of timeline uh and so they
will just include that within the project list and again if the project is petitioned by the land owners uh the process that they're talking about is is a different process but I've been doing projects answer your question mark Y and if you just got
small little stuff just call Troy he's got a he's got a authority to go to one right he's got a as long as it doesn't exceed a huge amount he can just go in there and clean the location so without going through a lengthy process and
anything he's done like that he's cost called one of the board members in here he's called me several times we did two or three of them this spring small issues that had to be addressed and some of them were done without a permit 20 years ago or
whatever that we didn't have any record of and uh and the thing about the advantages for Grant County of having us do it is we're we're consistent you know we have several
other counties we're doing this for Troy all he cares about is the water gets to Winnipeg and that's from here and the fastest and the most efficient way of doing it without harming anybody and
sometimes we all know what rain does but it gives us more instead of saying oh geez it should have been Grand County doing this here part stuff you have consistency with everything you're doing and that doesn't you know I'm from
El Lake I'm going to make sure my people up here have have a voice on what they want to do counties don't mean nothing to us the whole water ship that's what we work on it's the whole water ship right cross the county line means nothing to
us and a lot of your processes tie in Grant dollars like clean water funds and stuff like that that's a caveat that we we we don't have time nor do we do nor do we have the expertise to do that so that's one thing that that you know you as a wed
really you really excel at Serge Sam's money comes in and a lot of that stuff and it's amazing how many times we're the only ones applying for the grants right yeah we did a lot of Grant yeah so to to add to that point Mr
commissioner the boys who also works with the red board and taxes get paid into the redbard and the district has the ability to request funds from the red board as well for these projects and so yeah it is these different funding caps that the U boy Su can draw from
that's beneficial for these projects depending on what type of project it is in addition to the the professional staff that vo suit has that specialize in water and that light was shed a number of years ago and then Linda ended up
your chairman or chairperson is is on that board up there that can That Could set some of that discretion correct she's also president of Minnesota Weds so okay very role that she has up good another good example is up in wil County
with the dits Retro fits we've gone a lot of side inlets and all that there the state has given us good chunks of money to do all that and if you've ever been up in that area you don't see the ditches all washed out of the field right down into the the ditch and when
they got to clean it out they have it from wind erosion but not from water more comments questions so this buffer thing that surfaced a couple of meetings ago about the standard of a buffer the width of
the buffer whether it's an inverted buffer and things like that I think in my opinion I think that the buffer wherever it fits the region whatever the farmer Ides he wants to do however it fits as long as it's buffered you guys
should have the discretion of where if it's amendable or where you're headed yeah so the the boy to sue also just hired a third party consultant as an independent contractor to work with land owners on uh implementation of the
buffer or alternative practices uh all lined under the field office tech guide uh so that's another step that that they're taking to again work with land owners on their properties their specific fields to get it in compliance with the buer law and so I think that's a big step that the voy is taking for
these D systems good perfect yes so when you're talking about buffers is that at the land owners's expense that can put in so right now uh if if the boy to Su is doing a repair or an improvement
project they're including that buffer as part of the project so it becomes a project cost which ultimately gets paid by land owners but it's done through the implementation of that project otherwise it is at the sole cost of the land owner to to implement that uh under the buffer
law that was all supposed to be done in 2018 but obviously there's still Parcels that need to come into compliance with the law and so that's why the district Now is working with that third party consultant to come to the table with the land owner with the District staff and see what they can do to work with that land order to implement different
practices that are offered under the law and if the ditch is clean say it was just some type of repaired the ditches clean and the spoils ended up on the buffer and that farmer wanted to replant he can and Lead that spoil right on that
buffer is that is that an allowable process so with the the projects that the boy Sue does they have two different permanent easements uh for the project so there's a permanent Channel easement and a permanent uh spoil easement and
the channel easement contains the the channel itself the bank and then the buffer area and they can't Farm within that area but the area outside of that buffer they can continue farming that
okay thank you anything else you have the list of ditches do we do we need to identify them for the record or not um I'm just going off my map that I have so should we identify him for the record maybe yeah so he'll
read him but just a way to ensure that uh that everyone knows which ones are covered for sure um I know he's going to read some some of the numbers that he has but it's it's all the ditches that Grant County's drainage authority over that are within Bo su's jurisdiction or
bo su's uh Watershed boundaries it'll be those ditches that'll now be transferred to the voy suit but Aon has everything west of the F watch so gr County ditch 20 Consolidated judicial ditch two
Grant County ditch 5 Grant County ditch 22 Grant County ditch 15 Grant County ditch 33 Grant County ditch 32 Grant County ditch 8 Grant County ditch 29 Grant
County ditch N9 Grant County ditch six Grant County ditch 11 and ditch ditch three and ditch 21 are already under the jurisdiction of bua suit and all I there's one two three
four five six stitches that will remain under our jurisdiction six yeah thank you and as a sidebar of that the day is coming when those sixes will be in a
watershed District or some form of government entity before this is all said and done that's why they have this one wed one plan and all these other things going on so there is some consistency any other comments or
questions Bill do you have anything no I've asked what I wanted to ask right NOP right no I'm
fine so at this point if we have no more comments and will close the public portion of the the hearing Lucas you want to give me some leadership here on what we do next yes
Mr chairman if you'd like I can just go through the the draft uh findings and order for this transfer and then the the board can uh take take action on that if it so desires um but again this is similar to what we did for Grant County ditches 21 and3 uh it's relatively straightforward the finings are just
saying that these ditches uh that Aaron identified are under the jurisdiction of the county county desires to transfer them to the boy to Su under 103d 625 subdivision one um section four of this references the public comment uh that was receiv received today so I will
include that within uh this draft um for the for the final U that can be signed and we can actually sign this one today but I'll just include that and we'll have that final version that includes the um public comment section five just says upon conclusion of the public
comment the county finds that it has jurisdiction over these proceedings and pursuant to Minnesota statute section 103d 625 subdivision one desires to transfer drainage authority of jurisdiction of the Grant County ditches to the district the order uh proposed order goes on to state that the district
is to take over the ditches in entirety as the Takeover serves the purpose of Minnesota statute chapter 103d and benefits the public welfare and the public interest that after the transfer is ordered all proceedings for repair and maintenance of the Grant County ditches conformed to Minnesota statutes
chapter 103e that upon fing of this order the district shall have drainage Authority jurisdiction over the entirety of the Grant County ditches and the county auditor shall promptly transfer any documents related to the Grant County ditches to the district that the party
shall cooperate in any additional steps required to properly transfer drain's Authority jurisdiction of the Grant County ditches from the county to the district it's essentially just saying that if you guys have any documents uh any records on the plan specs for these ditches and then any accounting for the
ditches that will all be transferred uh to the vo Su and the vo Su will maintain those similar to what the county was doing and similar to what the bo Su does for all the other uh ditch systems that it has which with this transfer I believe will put uh the boys to at over
70 uh ditch systems it doesn't specifically address it do we need to address the funds that go with the ditches being transferred as well and that's what it talks about the county auditor transferring the documents include that as
well okay so then at this point uh do we call the question right yeah if you guys don't any questions on the the proposed findings in order then it could just be adoption of of the document as as discussed I will make a motion
to accept the findings and orders we have a motion we have a second second have additional discussion concerning the findings in order do a roll call vote you vote Yes
say a do you say against say nay Troy Johnson yay Ken Johnson yay bill of Valley yay Bill spear is absent Dwight willne y
motion carried with that uh do we need do I need to do anything else that's it it's pretty straightforward process to do the transfer this point then I will adjourn
the public hearing at 12 120 and thank you for your showing up and your participation you got a 24 call number that you can feel bad for Part: 2
oh good I see that's the last day of the month [Music] and okay it's 9 o' we'll call me order we for pledge pledge to the of the United
States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all okay will I mentioned that that we'll go to
the law enforcement center for a quick tour from John so I'll add that to the agenda is there any other additions or ask for motion to approval with that addition don't move second discussion
all in favor say I I opposed Carri approval of the minutes as sent out there [Music] motion to approve the minutes don't V Mr
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want come on in e e motion to approve the bills I'll make that motion Mr chair one the settlements second I'll second Mr chair any additional
discussion all in favor say I I H Carri we are 10 minutes ahead of schedule um I had talked to Chad u a while ago about kind of having a
little discussion as far as where we were as far as the mid year and our budget and and he did mail out some information um part of committee reports but anyway uh I don't know if Bo had a chance to
look at them or not uh I guess if you have any questions that we can ask chat about there really I don't believe there's any glaring or major things in it some
of this is a moving Target would that be a fair I don't if you want to add a little I'm doing this right Chad yeah um nothing really that stands out or is I would say
analy that's way out of abortion at this time some of the line items as you think but some of those line items within different budgets if you look at them they might seem skewed or or incorrect
at this point but you know if you're looking at a let's say a revenue line it's got a budget for x and there's Z well be probably need that now later in the year um you might look at some light items and say gez we budgeted whatever
for this and we're already at 100% or even probably a little over well that's because we make the one time payment at the beginning of the year um so it's yeah it's just a a budget is a tool aren't been
stolen uh so if there yeah if there's anything that you had questions about you can let me know I did send you the all the Revenue departments to follow the ways and store still working on getting highways balanced out
plan balanced out so I can send once I have that in I'll sent it to you um also included was the the uh monthly cash balance Ledger at the end of so have been at the end of June oh no this would have been through
July current date um and that's that single sheet of paper that I sent you just has our cash balances y um that actually comes from the treasures office when we balance our financial system with the treor side
so um there are some things to remember in our cash balances because that is by fund uh you know one of those funds is ARA so that'll go away in the next year um depending on what you decide this
afternoon with dishes um there's a dish fund of 374,000 um those if you decide to transfer the dish authority to boing sue a large portion of that money will go to the suit so that will no longer be in the hands of
grandon we have a Deb service the biggest one is we have a Debt Service courthouse and that's on the pouse renovations and instead of making principal and interest payments that was that qcb Bond qualified energy conservation Bond and um it's it's kind
of like a balloom payment on a mortgage just I can explain it we can relate to it's called the sinking fund is what it's called and we collect the funds on taxes for The Debt Service fund over the course of whatever years and then there will be
one principal payment of 2 million need so as of right now we've got 1.8 million in that safing fund or that death service fund um the good thing is is you know we'll have second half tax collection so we'll be receiving there'll be
additional money to put into that fund originally I believe it was scheduled that we were going to be leing some dollars 25 which we will not have to do which is good because know we have the LC
Bond but you know that money will not eventually going to check for $2 million so our cash balance is going to deplete between now and whenever we write these checks I would say the next
12 to 18 months you know we're going to be a little less on cash but these are all dedicated funds probably we couldn't do anything with wild them anyways could go build a ro with them or you couldn't go my squad cars or whatever um so when
you're comparing and I know Ken asked what we a comparable well comparables are good but comparables also can be misleading and in this case if you look at today's balance versus one a year now or a year and a half now they might look
misleading because of the fact that we have you know we had this sinking fund for million and we finally paid off and well that money go so just explaining um but you can look at those if you have
any questions the Road and Bridge we talked a little bit about the 54 and the 7 point whatever million I mean that's obviously is not there well yeah um you know
the the county receed that road and got it you up the refh bill I can't remember that my had with that s was with State 77 7.7 million um oh right now you see one rich is 3.2
what monies are coming in from the state I don't know what monies are coming in from you know whatever else I don't that that Road and Bridge fund does this anyways right depending on projects depending on when they go in for reimbursements depending on all kinds of things
but say don't right so the one thing when Chad and I Vis in that F yeah one thing and I asked them in the next year and a or two
you know this could be depleted by three three and half million dollar but dollar but some of the guidelines on how the amount in relation to we're still going to be in fine shape would that be a fair way to say it oh yeah y so it's it's
primarily done by fun yeah right um you know there's a there's a there's an amount of these monies that are called bated or they're called uh you know
they're the they change terminologies cting every G do every two three years it means that you can't just spend them you know like part of this money that you don't see a line item for is e911 well that's embedded in the General
Revenue fund Revenue fund has X but part of that X is let's say 911 money well that you can only spend on certain things in dispatch part of this money is sitting in here is for uh the uh the repor
technology F you know so you have these little pops of money that this is a 5,000 foot view once we drill it down now you go to where what's available what's dedicated you know what's in
reserve what's reimbursable yep so and the reimburse one thing I am seeing here is is our heill payments coming back from the DNR and US fishing and wild and where things and where those numbers are
at it looks like they bumped it up you know they we must have had a direct allocation you know or budgeted allocation of 34,000 certified number and it ended up moving up to like 56 909 yeah and then us Wildlife 16,000
they bumped it up about 20600 okay hold on hold on what page are you on Bill he on page y I just got to find the
right okay so our DNR that's the first line you look at y now the first line in those columns is 20 23's budget what we actually received correct y the next line is 2024 budget
and then the last line is the actual yeah it's zero yeah well we that's one of those I was telling you we haven't received the next line is US fishing Wild Life yeah we bumped it up a little
haven't received it okay so when those numbers come in it's usually July it is okay they seem to be sustainable though great I mean they they stay R in those certified numbers yeah I think our
DNR I believe our DNR pill will be in excess of what we budget okay so our next agenda item isn't here yet but were you in at the department head meeting when h Jo talked
about the [Music] server I I don't know how to explain it but there's quite a bit of large expense coming for us to update I'll just have to say the server that' be and then one of the discussions
was should we be Distributing I'd like you do a computer fund Now where's that money going to come from I if that's I was kind of listening but I had Yeah Carl sty joh talked to me H
talked to me yeah but when it was like 80 or yeah it's going to be 899 so we got some 890,000 coming this in in 2024 mostely 24 yeah has to do with um
the reporting system how they back up their documents Y and it's not just for the reporting documents of the deeds and the you know the mortgages and that type thing it's also so being that software is being utilized by other departments one of which is the assessor's office
so um you know it's not there's kind of a couple ways to look at that yes you can use some of those reporters funds but yet you don't want to to ple that down to
nothing but if it's going to be utilized by more than just land records which is what considered as land records the assessor we part um then we get questionable as to should you be using those funds or
not you know let's say that let say that Sheriff's Office put something on there somebody unrelated license G or you know yeah it's just one of those items that as we get more and more and more
into technology much like we did with our GIS flyover um 0 years ago D said hey we want to apply this we want to apply this pictometry and it's going to cost X you well it was kind of a hard pill to slow
but then we started budgeting so much per year to build up to um now you know in 3 to five years when we do it again funds were sitting there available on our Reserve balance that's probably what we're going to ended up doing with these these
servers are becoming more and more and more expensive and buy a server for $5,000 right and part of the discussion I think was since we're starting to work on the 25 budget is that the sunset on these these don't last very long and so
the point was is computers yeah and so we if we're going to be spend that kind of money and we know it's s good for eight seven to nine years or whatever I would say five five yeah then we probably got to consider doing something like we're
doing uh in you ready for us we we sure are yes anyway do is there any more questions for Chad yeah on that server can we reporter money on their percentage of usage and then the computer I mean
really the computer fund is percentage anyway right I sure the computer fund is pretty much Str out over all based on yeah yeah I mean if we could buy it down however weu F but we've already paid the
contract for the whole year yes so we pay C every month that come okay so that's we have Electronics right I'm not saying that's
I'm not saying that's left over no we've got that contract done though yeah the contract is done okay any other yes that Pro West fly over the first one was that like 40,000 bucks to begin with yeah yeah
that was unbudgeted I mean that was spur it'll get has out suddenly I guess the point of it is it's going to get spent we just have to figure it out exactly on be budgeted across the board Orin one department at
the end of the day it comes out the same tax any other thing on the budget thank you Chad we'll move on to the Grand County Humane Society thank you welcome yeah thank you thanks for having us um I think we're here for a couple reasons
first to tell you thank you for giving us some extra money much needed at this point um and uh we wanted to be kind of um upfront with where we're at on finances we've given you a copy of our
p&l statement from January through July 15th this year versus last and we really just want to answer questions if you guys have questions about anything that we do up there um we're all very passionate about what we do up there so
um and from January now until the 1 of July we have adopted out 36 cats and 6 dogs we currently have 24 cats and 11 dogs in house um and
we've got a few more babies coming in um our annual fundraisers are the wine tasting in the spring um we do flea Fest of course um yep and then in November uh
give uh give to the max is through the state um people can donate through GI through the Max and that's one of our big ones I mean we get from that we usually try and do at least four three to
four po cheeks um which is like a craft B sale type thing during the year um we're also looking at doing some other uh fundraisers cuz we need we need the in
income average cost per day to run the shelter is $450 that's food uh vet uh our average vet bill is $2500 a month uh you know just care electric heat payroll you know
everything whatever um right now we're uh we're looking at we're going to do a vendor booth at the ashp appreciation now this week and and then at fer Fest we have reserved for
the two days we're going up to the courthouse and doing a vendor not sales would be nice but it's more so for the pr here's where we are you know um it's
surprising even in Grand County how many people don't even know over here right um uh so far this year um that would you know of course I mean we report that at the end of every year
but so far this year we have done 4700 pounds of cans which you know thank you to everybody who thr in the pin yeah you know I mean of course this is countywide you know what you know from Hoffman
Herman you know Ashby all over but I mean 4700 lbs that's just now from January to July that is not you know and um is it Ray that does Ray sh
he volunteers and he goes and collects them all over the county yeah had a tra yesterday yeah and grateful for that and he didn't even empty the band you know yeah it was full where's he take it uh Glenwood Glenwood Glenwood
um and of course thankfully right now uh I think the last stuff that we he did I think if I recall we got 72 cents a pound which is pretty darn good I mean we've been down to 10 cents a pound you
know so um you know it fluctuates but um like I said you know we on an average I think we collect between everything close to 9,000 pounds of cans that probably helps
on our solid waste contct yeah I think so yeah yeah we've got them all like like you said in each town in the county sure and then uh tips and
amounts um Elk Lake and I know there's one more that I mean that the the resorts have got a you know a spot for you know whatever because you know otherwise you know they would get overrun with all this you know
garbage and cans and stuff so that part of it is nice and on the p&l just on the p&l I did put my name in phone number any questions call me I will
gladly answer anything that you kind of wondering what is this you know um if you're not used to a you know what a problem what loss looks like Marita is our Treasurer and she lives right across the road from the shelter so she gets to deal with a lot of stuff Dwight's
familiar with bringing animals into the shelter so we're going to get phone calls when there's a straight animal um running about so y not that would we haven't had one for a while which has been nice because we are I wouldn't even know right now where I would put anybody
where that thought somebody have a question Mr chair did you have a question I did so the the government grants the $10,000 wasn't in there last year that's from you that is the what yeah that is your
the other question I had was on the salaries were you under Staff last year have you changed your model as far as uh amount of uh people that's up about what's a 12 or 14,000 uh yeah we have be you know uh I
said because of the income restrictions that we are facing we have done some big time changes um on payroll or for you know
for salary we did have one that left us now so that will help or actually we've got two that have left um and uh are we've got what Lindsay
Eden Cheyenne Tony only works Sundays Reed works and Reed and Rachel only work two hours a week each we've roughly got four fulltime you know I mean it's you know
we have really tried to cut down yeah you know on you know just in general we're revamping ours right now just um kind of asking them to step up more like do more um in the same amount of time because of our restrictions and
where we're at financially and this is our Reed Peterson correct re yeah re Peterson he works one day a week one night a week yes yeah he gets back yeah yes he does we are very appreciative for Reas he worked he worked he works two
hours on Mondays and then Rachel uh pickup Works Wednesdays and then the rest of us just sort of fill in wherever two County Employees yeah and uh um and of course on the on
Saturdays when we're open the board members are the workers right so we um as board members we alternate Saturdays and we work the office hours and it number one it keeps us kind of informed of what's going on Keeps Us in tune with things
and then we don't have to pay a employee to work those Saturday shift for the office um the payroll probably I mean clearly good expense and um with minimum wage and what people are paying people we
have to pay it or we won't have anybody working Dad we right now we have I mean we have one that is well you he only works few hours during the summer because he goes to school or will go back to school so he'll be leaving us
now middle of August but he gets $10 an hour which is literally a drop in the bucket compared to everybody else the rest of our employees get $12 an hour which is still nothing compared to what
everybody else can pay we can't it would be wonderful if we could pay you know1 1516 an hour you know like more or less say competitively compared to everybody else we can't do that it's not a business
though it's a service right you know so and they all know that um and they still the people that work for us are wonderful really passionate about what they do and they want to be there and they want to help the animal they I mean
we had a board meeting last night we let one of our employees sit in and she said I I don't want this place to close I love being here she said I'd work 247 if I could so how's your drain if you can hold your roof and what you did there is that all good all good
water coming in the building all this rain and all that everything has been the only spot that we have per odically depending on direction of wind and the intensity of the
rain we have one of you know in the front windows we have one window that has a little that always leaks we are almost posit we've cocked it we've done everything we're positive and we've talked with uh car
slotnick that we're almost positive there's it's from the brick you know like little pin holes where you know water gets in and of course you know all that works it travels every direction there is but it's not as not that bad
it's it's doable I mean it's you know and it's not all the time so I got a question how many hunting dogs do you end up with in the fall that are collared up and you know say a deputy Picks Them Up or a person and they got you they got orange
on and people are just sick that their go dogs are gone and this is a point of contact for them that actually they can and they got to PID to get them back out of there again that's like yeah we have a feed y y I mean well I mean of course this the city initiated a
$100 reclaim feed okay on animals okay we have stuck with that or I mean you know I mean we've just gone with it used to be $50 if a County Deputy whatever calls I got to you know go in and you know get a
you know break you know do an intake for you to get a get that dog back it's $100 automatically if I brought a dog in as a you know I found the dog there's no we don't do
that high $100 it's you know it's you know what but if that dog stays if the dog or you know is there longer than five days that dog is arms period if you come in we've had it
happen we had one gal that um we got a dog in nobody claimed it um and we get a lot of uh would say you know like when we post it you know this animal has come in you know like
John is this yours Max is this you know they you know a lot of this context stuff this gal actually was from Del her dog had been taken from her front yard we had the dog I mean we had
that dog because she was absolutely you know flabbergasted I mean the distance and you know and it does happen uh we get a lot we've had lately we've had a lot of abandoned dogs
animals you know just you know you're on your own go you know whatever um we've had we uh we had four dogs that came in uh landlord called um so and so
has left and I have animals in the house um you know we try to contact them again usually that I mean I get it I mean they left the animal for a reason but we do make the effort but yeah we've
had a lot of abandoned animals so it looks like you're about $6,600 ahead of where you were last July are you are projecting that from here on through the end of the year you're going to with your fundraising that you're
going to be okay and we hope to break even yeah but yeah I mean we have fingers crossed and you never know what you know the expenses that may come in sure um but we're are we're hopeful we've got a little bit of Reserve um not
much we've tapped into it quite a bit in the last couple years um which we always kind of think it's kind of our little safety net but we've had to we've had to um take some money out of there yeah we try not to because it seems
like once I have to pull some money it isn't long and I got a PLL again so we avoid it as much as possible um I knew on your sheets you will see in yellow highlighted
restricted funds that's exactly what they are they are GR grants that we have um written
and they are restricted for that Grant only we can't touch it for like a daily base type thing um organizations will give us money strictly to use for span neuter so just so you guys know we don't
send an animal out of the building that's not fixed it has be good um so some organizations Pet Finder is really good to us um they will give us money and say it has to be used for spam year only and Dr Kendra is really good about
working with us she's um put together a low income program where people can come in and bring their cats or dogs and pay less than what the general public would play yeah and then we give them we give that person say another
20% off of what is already charged and that's part of the restrict I mean that that was a grant that was written to help some of this you know for trying to lessen the in you know the intake that
we're dealing with we right now we have 15 kittens and yeah it's they world you know there we got tons of them we've had five five six of them at a time coming
in well I don't think there's any question it's a wonderful service that you're doing for the area and sure appreciate it hopefully the everyone can continue to contrib yeah well we appreciate your
support very much very much you know and but if you have you know anybody has any questions on this please call me I will gladly answer any questions that you know on the you know on the profit loss as to what you know what things are
sure um not a problem you had been getting 5,000 so then we just bumped it up bumped it up yeah yeah much needed and much appreciated okay well to stay try to stay on time once again I'd
like thank you thank you guys thank you for having us have us anytime we'll come in and tell you all about it your efforts it's really thanks Billy you're welcome see you guys you guys Human
Resources morning so um last meeting I talked about the highway accounting position um we're currently uh high are going to be interviewing for the office manager account Tech um to do some of the more
uh entry leveling office manager type work and then uh Jamie Uh current treasure is going to be taking on the more high level higher end accounting um like we had a few years ago um down at Highway and so Baker Tilly um we had
them look at and evaluate the current job description with the new duties added in there uh the grade didn't change um due to uh due to where the current treasure position is um how they
um the email how they explained it uh the levels and the the levels of work skill human R all the skills were at the top level and so the grade didn't change even though there was more duties and so uh the Personnel committee uh
spoke about this and talked with her um and we'd like to offer her um a step seven on her current uh her current grade scale she's at a step four right now and so be looking at a step seven um for an increase she's doing about uh
25% um of the accounting duties taking place years back about that yep yep she was in conversation with the past uh individual that was doing it and they've talked about you know how much time and about 25% so
we're looking at a a step seven and say with and retroed back to June 10th retroed back and then there will be she'll go onto the schedule of the next step would be in January yep because she's an
elected so she follows the elected um pay scale of the of the increases yep yes well doy and Troy this your recommendation from Personnel yep I'll make that motion you have that
Chad I'll second as a member of the commit additional discussion all in favor say I I poos that's all I have that's it so you
talked about interviewing for the other position has that been rated graded uh or the position that did not change either um and so yeah we have applications we're going to be interviewing um and Jim's going to be sitting on H as well um and then we're
going to come up with a training plan um to hopefully um have it be a good start for that new position so yeah that's where we're at right now okay that's all you have that's all I have thank you for your efforts thank you um committee
reports Bill what do you have we can talk about Emergency Services Board and where things are at with that and some of the grant dollars that you're trying to sort out on Armor radial if that comes to fruition so it was token money that went
into that so I don't know if we're going to get any of it or not so what else um we ended up spending 700 something thousand on six buses that on
rain 759 th000 is that that number for six buses up over $100 a fe yep and they're going to go up more they were like $89,000 when I first got on the board and now they're what
close to a couple hundred yeah but we we'd already put the orders in so we were you know that we got six buses for that side you do okay and then you know now they're going to be more double so I don't know how that's all
going to work out in the end then we're waiting for money from the state yeah office of Transit you know minota Department of Transportation there's a million half bucks that we s back waiting for them and there was a snag on
the new building that they're building in alley you guys heard about that yeah so pretty big snag actually any other good news boy you have any good news for us not at this point
Troy no so then I would is that enough for you guys yeah so then I would recess the meeting uh to the law enforcement center for a quick tour John's going to take guide us around and then we'll be back here for the public hearing for the
ditch Authority transfer discussion and decision to avoid Sue water at 1 p.m. at 9:43 leave no