was able to somebody at the special meeting or is it just interviews just interviews who what coordinator position oh was there a bunch of apps two two rounds of interviews yeah
there was quite a few apps so oh I guess I think yeah there was a lot of application we interviewed five in the first round and then two in the second round but no decision made
yet Al 9:00 call Mee ordered toag United States of America the it stands one nation indivisible with liy and justice for all I've just got one other thing for the agenda anybody else have any
anything else for the agenda we have a resignation letter that we should accept Okay what are we adding go uh we're going to set a special meeting on Friday for bide on coordinator so what time does it matter
what time for everybody or morning after 9 okay we'll set that for nine o'clock on Friday you got that Chad yeah
okay with those two additions I will entertain a motion second set the agenda all in favor of the motion signify by saying I I oppos carried meeting minutes were sent
out motion to approve second any discussion if not all in favor the motion signify by saying I I oppos carried and the warrants were sent
out Mr chair before we move on to that we should let everybody know just so they know the meeting's being recorded and we did not get the last meeting recorded so that's why it will not the special meeting on Friday okay it will not show up because it wasn't recorded okay we were having trouble
with it everything yeah the audio the recording and then on warrants Did We I see we issued Boise to Sue that they did vote to accept or did they not have to vote to
accept that I think well they got the money so there there's them got the money and Aaron did run around with fry frent and looked at the ditches and look what what he had done some of the leg work and things like that moving forward you
know trees and spraying and maintenance things like that so Mr chair I'll make a motion to pay the bills Motion in a second any more discussion on any of the bills all in favor motion signify saying
I I oppos Carri I would say that uh with regret I will make a motion to accept P linis letter of resignation oh second that with
regrets motion a second to to accept Tina's resignation letter any more discussion on that all in favor signify by saying I I oppos per uh looking at what's going to be
talked about at 9:15 I did want to give a quick committee update that's okay yep in the fourth quarter CPT will be doing a return of investment of
$45,000 so it's not we're still being paid back our initial investment so it's that's why the phrasing is the way it is so that should be coming in the fourth quarter what is the percentage of that payb that 45,000 I don't know what the
percentage is so originally the purchase price was 175,000 we had received back $ 75,000 I believe so 45 makes it our actual purchase price is now down to 55,000 plus whatever
interest so we're of the initial 175 I believe we're back we're only at this point we're out the 55,000 everything else at the end of this year would be back perfect good news how many are in that was worth
doing there's 24 counties I think I think there's 23 originally and then P bought in afterwards I think it's 24 that are owners there you know they service 27 or 28 and then like six or eight out North Dakota I have a
okay go ahead it's uh it's I was to a West Central juvenile attention meeting last last week and and uh things are going pretty good up there they did up the daily rate from 350 to 375 and then they had
a kind of had a chart there on what our usage to the last from July 22 through June of 24 and we had 244 juvenile contention days there over year and a half period
there um so they I did talk to the sheriff about a little bit he said yeah they were busy they some of those months and earlier this year I see they were busy too because they had they had days of uh February they
had 20 days and March you had 31 at 22 and it just depends on who's doing what things like that as far as the usage there so they projected that are probably this year that our our what we
owe them probably go up like $4,000 based on some of these figures so up to then they had a actual cost for 25 would be around 38,000 I think they said it was up 4,000 last year so so last year was like third
and four so although it's not on here what it was last year but but that's how it goes with jailing well not jailing but detention centers and jails you never know you know it just depends on what's going on maybe it'll be a good year
those there set fee plus yeah Y which is a good deal as long as they take our individuals when we have them yep and they yeah and they they absolutely say that if you're a member there they're taking so well they say they say that but they have a history of
not doing that well not not for the last couple years but yeah they they have a history remember oh I remember yeah because yeah it was not they would not take our individual so that we had nowhere to put them yeah but as soon as they went to Clay County and sold a car
miraculously they had room right right yeah know I know so but uh I hope we don't see that again we'll keep an eye on that so but we we got to have a place to put them when when the when the need arises that's for sure are they hooked
up most of the time or they got uh they're busy I I they didn't really say if they were full but they uh they're doing some things there they they want to move uh shelter care away from the Detention Center to get it into
a different building because you know they don't want to mixing in with it's not appropriate to have non detention in the detention yeah so they're they're looking at building it well I think they're going to do it they're going to build a building away from there for
the anyway that's my and I I told I told the sheriff about this yesterday figure anything else on that no that's it anybody else got any committee reports we did see that we're advertising to
hire emergency manager get the pin Dr well I got know can I think to reestablish the courthous security yes just reestablish you guys
don't have to do anything with that just the notification that the committee is getting reestablished because there's some grant opportunities so it'll be judge doll middle of valy Johnson John Coles Rachel Schmid
from for adman Ashley from HR Justin and Jen from um I don't came up the Jen we asked Jen I would probably make a suggestion being all security that he may include fail's
Management in this it was the begin he not on I would say yeah I think he met with us sit way back when Troy John Troy was the sheriff and actively engaged back
then say he wasn't I don't you that's okay it's good we do that oh we're a couple minutes early but Holly and Carly didn't come up we're going to drag Greg with to if he needs to oh maybe just be moral support from the
back so this morning we're here to talk about the ISC contract that uh we currently hold um currently that data is uh securing our Homestead files um and quite a few of our files in our
office it's doing some we have all of our marriage records on the backup as well along with Environmental Services all my every record so This Server um was safe during the computer event
basically all the information that was located on This Server um we got 100% it back so we didn't lose anything when we when the the computer event happened the reason that none of that that none of the data was lost is because it's
considered an immutable drive basically what happens is once it gets saved onto This Server um typically it's like a date and time either 30 days 60 days 90 days has to occur before a change can happen within the server um so it
doesn't matter what happens until that item happens that's when it'll delete the information so with the computer event all of that stuff came back because once we found out about it we were within the the 60
days to get all our data back so um it is a substantial increase over what it's been in the past um in the past it we we did have an 8 terabyte drive that what we have been using currently but again it's just housing
our three offices information um this contract does sunset here at the end of 2024 and they're no longer servicing this the server um so ISC reached out to us and said what are what are your plans on
doing or to do um they they gave us a quote in April um and that was right around $90,000 uh to replace and basically what it would be is it would be a backup for the entire County so all the county Serv would be backed up to this immutable
drive as well so um it's a it's a way for security um and it's something that Sean and has has strongly recommended that we do um so the cost that we're looking at is 131,50 um the contract for this uh was
locked into place as of August 1st we had reached out to Ken um because we had some department head meetings about this prior uh that they're willing to lock in the price for January of 2025 um without us locking it in as of
August 1 it would it probably would have been another 10 or1 15,000 or $20,000 the price of these things is jumping all over the place um so basically we needed to just get it in in writing um we did
sign into our contract that the agreement um that we signed was contingent upon the full County board approval um of today's media we also had Justin look at the agreement before he signed
anything so our request is that we um that we would be able to go forward with this new immutable drive that will also serve to to back up the entire County um so how long does this contract is it an
every year deal or how long does it last uh the last one we have purchased was in 2018 okay so so six years we got our light so this will be one of those items that um we'll be able to take $25,000
out of unallocated and then the other portion um we were going to work with Chad and make it so that since it's a backup for the entire County uh that each user will be charged a user fee um and we'll we'll figure that out with Chad for budgeting
for 2025 it sounds like we if we have some other money coming in from it could help offset right a little bit because it it gets hard if you don't have you don't want to budget that 45 in Revenue because then it go away
next y so this will allow us to start budgeting and putting away for a server in the future um in the in the past these were 25 $30,000 not
$130,000 only to get order right right and with this being a backup for the entire County uh if the computer event were to occur again we would hope that we would get 100% of our information back and Retreat how long do
you got to retain that up to seven years four or forever I mean the data yes is there does there're typically is a Sunset date for the save data that you have on there
that's what I'm ding yeah what's that seven years or something Have to Che tax it's just it'd be no different than our current servers okay Mr chair I'll make that motion to
go with is IC correct for the amount of how much 131,50 I'll make that motion we have a motion we you to second
I'll second it any more discussion so is that getting our data and everything transferred over or is that it's showing up at the door going here you go or is that areas that a remote here is [Music]
the so there will be an annual support of uh $13,750 per year um for them to install it is that uh [Music]
$4,125 um so then the the remote outside business hours that's uh 1547 uh from when when Holly and I were talking to him on the phone uh the the annual Enterprise on uh support that's
unnegotiable we that's a certain percentage of the overall cost of the server um so we we were able to change the price on a few different items when we contacted them um but there's just a few things that we we could not
change so the terms and conditions of price valid until 81 are we not exhausting that already signed we've already signed it with contingent upon the full board approval okay with Ken's approval of signning it
we got to read the fine print and that's where we read the fine print as well and S knew that the the County Board is meeting after that time period so that's when we reached out to to Canon
Justin those there any more discussion all in favor of the motion signify by saying I both car thank you thank you hello yes start or we have to wait y go
ahead all right so I am here to uh talk about uh potentially going out for bid for a pace study a full Pace study um we're finding that there are some discrepancies um and Baker till has confirmed that there are some discrepancies between the safe points
which how they determine um where a position is being graded um on our grade scale and so the discrepancy between the safe points um um that we have on file with reflecting on the job descriptions
when we did the market study so we did the market study in 2022 um and so we're looking we think it'd be best to do a full pce study to try to get everything accurate again and up to um or within the market so I'm
here today to ask um to go up for bid so at this point we just go up for bid to see who would give us a quote uh for a pay study and then I'd come back of course with those with those bids for you determine if we want to move forward with that um and then who would you want to go with so you don't really know who
will be bid no I'm get I'm assuming Baker Tilly will um just because that's who we're with but it could be anybody that does this type of work and so that would be a recommendation from the Personnel committee I will make a motion to request
bids for Bay study second any more discussion all in favor of the motion signify by saying i i oppos period that's all I got next are you next um 935
you got something lady yeah he's with us right we really brought I just have one it's for that yeah some that up yeah you it's fine we'll just do it the paper
it's no big deal well to the presentation there still people on there yeah I don't you still people are still connect see yeah ask can anybody hear online yeah we can hear you can you hear
us perfect just getting some it yes Darren can you hear me yes can you hear me yes I'm trying to hook up a a PowerPoint on a zip drive to
what computer the the main one in the meeting room okay I'm glad you're on yeah let me see if I can get to it quick unug so is this the computer that you're
trying to use no that's the Smartboard one your microphone quit working can you still hear me now I now I can I switched the mic okay all right so do you have a USB drive plugged into the back of it I
don't see it it's plugged into the computer which is on the back of the monitor or underneath the monitor it's just in its own the actual like uh what do you call
this thing the the Box the Box unless I can put it can I plug it into the back of the TV um well the I thought the computer was on the back of the TV that it's just a small one okay well let me I can plug
it in there okay try that sounds like it saw it I don't know what happened people say they're too busy for the ambulance just ask are you still on yeah it's still not seeing it though I thought I heard it
ding but KS Resort Department take did you find the the Lenovo computer that is running the TV you need that Darren are you still here yeah can
you hear me yeah now I can but I just like totally shut off the computer shut off when I plug it in to the back of it oh well I'm connected to the computer so it can't be shut off or well it went black
ohe it it so far does not see that you plugged it into it to the USB drive itself or the the computer yeah so it the computer is a little box like 6 in square by 2 in
thick or is it yeah I think that's still think Center box yeah yep yep so I'll plug it in again okay now it sees it now it's plugged in and it's the Grant County EMS Aid
package there we go so then when we're done we just put plug the owl back in then um is there not an extra port for the owl no okay that then you'll have to use that there might be some on the back if you really needed the AO camera but well
there is one on the back of the TV but when I just did that with the Zip drive it is there one back there no on the back of the Lenovo okay yeah I think Chad found
it okay I think we're should be back run running all should be on now Darren okay perfect yep that's working okay cannot minimize when you're recording this meeting all
right so there's your slides start we can yep start it go ahead I will stop running the mouse and disconnect from that okay how do i d how do I get it to go so
he can just click through it um let me reconnect right up at the top corner there's a little play button the top five yeah there you go okay ah someone had it on the quick launch there you go and then you should be able to click
anywhere to go to the next slide yep thanks Darren y okay so Eric R is going to give us a little presentation here
on EMS problems in Grant County and basically in all rural counties in Minnesota U Grant County has a EMS committee and it consists of two County Commissioners representatives from ashb ambulance Lake ambulance and opman
ambulance so we have three ambulance services in Grand Cil and all of them we're projected we know we're going to have some problems here in the future with personnel and Equipment purchases so we've been meeting regularly for the
last couple months and uh so we met last week and we went through this presentation that Eric put together and so we wanted him to do that in front of the full board and the uh public and the news
people so go ahead Eric and then we'll talk a little bit more when you're done okay um so you guys want to say something first okay yeah so this is Scott with Herman fire I just we just brought a few people from the community as well as
local fire departments at EMS just so you guys know that it's not just me that is supporting EMS um our partners in EMS are here to um say a few words so Scott I guess I I just most of you know me
you've been on the fire department law enforcement been around um in Herman we're 20 miles from an ambulance from a hospital and the services are vital and the bell rings we're there alone for 20 minutes 15 20 minutes with very limited
services that we can do when these guys show up they have capes on in our mind they they they're miracle workers they save the day there's a lot of times to get sick of us on the radio where are you because things are getting bad in a hurry and we don't have the services to
help they're vital there there's no sand or butts about it in our area people don't understand it until they need it when they call 911 because they don't know what else to do there's 120 130 people in a 6,000 County supporting that
right from the Bell Rings it's 130 people out of 6,000 taking care of that need I can't stress enough you guys already know it but the public needs to hear it and needs to understand it we we need to whether it's pay scale whether we need to do not one of our fire
departments unless you guys have it an NPO window everywhere else we don't have anybody in line we're short one there's not applications laying on the desk that we're denying there's no applications we need to do something to help support
these guys and to recruit people and if that takes dollars or what that takes the equipment they need is vital the rigs they're driving is vital they have to you can't break down on the side of the road um Maya said when it gets in here this is one of the first times we
got to visit I see their faces a lot but it's in emergency situations and it's how you doing thanks for coming we'll see you later we don't get to have that chat the addition of 282 um the first respons has saved lives in by getting there and and putting the
clock uh blocker for stroke or just coming and pushing meds for us that that unit alone has saved lives in Herman and I know it has across our County so I just wanted to come to show support because uh I don't know how else to do it but to voice my opinion to the public and I wish more people would pay
attention to that because they don't until they need it till they call in month they don't understand what these guys do and sacrifice leaving their family at Christmas to go help somebody else is there is no there is no volunteers left there's no there's too
much selfishness and not enough selflessness in our society these days so I can't I just wanted to come and support these guys I guess and you guys all need to know that thank you Scott just a couple more uh Chad V over in wend is's the chief over there like to
say something I just I concur with what he said I mean we're 25 minutes 30 from lak or from ringdall and we've had a couple calls where we' had to wait for them and there's a little bit more fear of how SP how SP that call is going
to be um it just it's a little overwhelming where we are out the middle of nowhere response time is just huge um I mean if we don't have that are we going to look to law to supplement that I mean
we're I I I realize it's a dollars thing always comes down to money but it's like I we just we've got an aging aging population we have a high risk population because of Agriculture and we just kind of have to be prepared um the 282 thing with a burn victim last year
July I don't know 7 I I don't know that the guy survives with all 282 showing up getting the airway in and I mean there's a lot of things that went right that day but just the experience and the speed that it happened just how it all came about I mean
there's there's a lot of those examples out there it it takes all of us and without that little fog in there kind of transfer off from us to them to getting them to where they need to be I
I I just see a detriment in I I don't know what where the liability comes it's recruiting is going to be a nightmare too if it's comes down to us and we aren't getting paramedics and MTS the fire departments you know I mean we do
like Carrie we made her Join one but you know I mean we're not getting guys go hey I want to be an EMT now that I'm first respa in firefighter that just isn't happening out here as you can look around the room and see us none of us are getting younger
either there's a lot of gray in the room with the First Responders and emps so Replacements harder and harder all the time I just I'm here to fly support what what is needed in Grand col thank you
Chad fire we truly admire the work that you guys do as well one more um my Al he's wears a ton of hats as we were talking before so he has a good idea of what takes yeah I guess one thing I thought of as you know everybody knows the
number for 911 right but nobody ever thinks about who's on the other end and I think that's what our dilemma is now is who on the other end is getting is dwindling you know where the population that is working the other end of 911 you
know you just just people they just expect when they call 911 somebody's going to answer and somebody's going to come and help them and it's a struggle to to to maintain that and and as we talked about the age in the room and and all those things you know there's a gap
between where our volunteers are at now and what's coming next and if we don't do something creative to figure out that Gap we're going to have avoid you know that's coming and so I I think that's you know one of the biggest things that we've talked for years that you know
like Chad said it's 25 minutes to get ring doll to come or it's 25 minutes to get Stevens's County or it's 25 minute no well we were on a call one night and ringd doll had to call ashp to back them up you know so it's it's working the big
tals that we think are going to back us up and we're going to wait 25 minutes for they're waiting for us to backfill them already and those are paid Services we're volunteers and so that really opens your eyes to say there's an issue with the EMS that we got to figure out a
creative answer for and I think that you know in our local area we want to be creative and we want to fill that we want to fill that Gap we don't we don't want to be the ones with the Gap we want to fill that Gap and be the leader that says this is how you can do it because otherwise it's our it's our citizens
that pay that price and and nobody thinks about it until they call 911 and they what the answers and that's that's a part of so thank you L for your dedication and support as well uh I'd like to say thanks to these guys uh these guys are
my mentors I grew up other the on who happens to be my father my neighbor I think Jean babysat me or overlooked me for many years as well as a father fig um ashb has been in my opinion one of the most innovative ambulance services
in the country as a volunteer level it's because of what these guys have done for years and years and years um this is why we come with the ideas that we have over the last 20 years to try to change it is because of what they've done um people
continue to call and ask why is Ashby so doing such a good job it's because we we've always been willing to change and look at different Avenues of how to bring new people involved getting schools involved like that so um many
many years here 42 same age as I am my dad what are you at 50 4 49 34 34 that's a lot of years of supplementing Grant County um and they'll do it for nothing um they don't expect anything um they
wake up um every night that somebody calls and go on it um but obviously at some point there's it's not going to be there anymore and and the 30 some year olds are are helpful but not as good as these guys and and nothing gets the
younger crowd but they haven't got to that point of life where they're going to start volunteering it's just there's going to be a huge gap so Dwight kind of highlighted some of my uh um uh presentation already so the committee was formed because of some previous talk
that we had um with you guys um and our commissioners uh were so nice to join another committee and and talk about EMS and understand the importance of it um so the we had to come up with key problems that we have and it's always
Staffing Staffing is number one problem you can do anything with a million dollars but if you don't have the Staffing you cannot run the the trucks you cannot do anything so we came up with staffing issues were number one and revenue was number
two um so then we sat around and tried to figure out how are we going to um make those problems uh go away I got to go back sorry well it doesn't matter so we um so we had uh some of our government rep Representatives come we
had Jeff beer and and Jordan rasmuson come because we thought there's a little bit of state aid money coming we're kind of trying to figure out how much of that is going to continue to come which we kind of thought that it was going to be there um sadly mistaken they basically told us this is not a state problem this
is a county and and municip ipity issue um and they're not going to really help out in years to come um it was kind of shocking to us um but they just said the money's not there the the large cities are doing fine they're they're profitable um but all these small ambulance services um out in rural are
losing money and are unable to um attract new and young people to to their services um just for comparison um just to talk a little bit about money because everything's about money um we all believe that these entities should
be fully funded we just are we feel we're missing a little line down there saying EMS so the here's some numbers just so everybody is aware County Fair is 25,000 this is all Levy amounts uh Historical Society 32 uh Viking Library
77 H 100,000 commissioner cost is 26 or 266,000 the highway department is 1.6 million and Grant County Sheriffs is 1.5 million all needed to be funded to to sustain where understand that but there's just that empty line where we
feel EMS should be involved um the flip side EMS has kind of always been on an island by itself uh we're not ever looked at as like a health care Department um we're not part of the fire department other than Ashby
runs it together um and we're not part of law enforcement so we're always kind of over here and nobody really takes care of us we're supposed to take care of ourselves and we're we're failing miserably because of Insurance uh premiums are not uh um helping us out and all the other
problems that we have so Ashby fire I know their budget because my father was nice enough to give it to me um so afd's budget for 2024 their state aid wow they get state aid fire departments get state aid okay that's that's news to us that
they're not going to come with EMS so it's 20,000 for ashp's state aid on their uh operational budget is 22,000 and they have a truck fund um $30,000 goes into that and it's going to be raised $1,000 um every year until it
reaches uh 40,000 so there's total State a or total Aid package is 72,000 um and that's all off of state aid or tax levies from their um townships and their city um so you can see fire departments
are pretty much solely ran off of Aid of some sort um they do get a little bit of fun from from their billables um but it doesn't amount to a whole lot so the group of us kind of sat down and figure out we have to do something
um Everybody nobody really knows the right number or the correct number we kind of threw around some things um so I just kind of came up with a start um and we we need to look at the two big problems and that's our large Capital
purchases like an ambulance because those ambulances are becoming more and more expensive and costs to to run the services are increasing so all this data is based off of a $400,000 ambulance which is about in between so um in the middle ashb was
over 400,000 ours was a little bit lower because we bought a cheaper model because that's all we could afford so Ashby's truck after 15 years Hoffman truck after 15 years that's when we want to uh get a new ambulance due to safety issues and miles and wear and tear Lake
Region does a lot more transfers to get our community members from a small facility to a larger facility to get the care that they needed um so we put on a ton of Miles um so ours would be a 10year cycle so you take the 400,000
divided by 15 or 10 and you come up with the year-to-year data so it's 26 26 40 and then we put a 4% increase for um uh inflation which inflation the last three years is has been about 50 to 60% um
we're just going to go off of 4% because that's kind of a roundabout number and as you can see every year it increases by that 4% um up to and through to your 15 years for Ashby and and Hoffman and the grand
total would be 534,906 little low but at least it's a start um some of our money that we we make off of our runs um can be utilized to help pay off the rest of the services uh the rest of the cost of those but at least it's a start to get us um to where
we we need to be um the grant total for elb Lake would be about 40 what is it 480,000 after after 10 years um the reason we need some of this funding is right now we we are able to operate um with the amount of money that
we take in but of course costs are getting through the roof a new monitor all of our monitors cardiac monitors were purchased through a a grant from Leona Helmsley Grant um right now they just came out with a new uh life pack 35 soon those life pack 15s that we all
carry are going to be um unserviceable they're going to take them off the market they do that so you have to purchase new ones because that's how they make a bunch of money so those are sitting at about 60,000 right now 50 to 60,000 it's only going to go up cots are
40,000 um uh expenses uh you know supplies are just going through the roof so we need to utilize that that funding that we we make off of those calls in different areas we're potentially going to have to utilize them to pay staff
more or do a blended version of part-time and full-time employees to run these ambulance services if they fail we will likely have to have a vendor come in another Ambulance Service a large Ambulance Service service come in and take over our area and if we want an ambulance in Grand County they're going
to say we want you to subsidize the whole thing and that's going to be millions of dollars right now to keep EMS operating at a low um cost we have to continue to do it as a volunteer base that's the only way we want to do it um
but we have to do a few things to keep our Volunteers in the business um so we came up with a a sustainable Aid package for a p plan just just like the fire departments do uh every Fire Department in the state gets a pension plan uh no
EMS uh service in the state gets a pension plan they get a little bit of this uh this um Cooper Sam award which doesn't amount to much so the number that we came up with was a $1,500 per year for each member in that
qualifies in Ashby Herman or Hoffman and and link so right now we picked the number it's about 45 members throughout all of them that would that would qualify um and that would be 675 okay but this isn't just anybody
that thinks you're going to come in and get a check um this is we came up with a A number that ashb already does it's a 10% so you need to do 10% of the work um so let's say year two we lose a few members maybe or there's a few members
that are not not active that number dropped down so our number was at 60,000 um you know potentially at year three we have more retiring um but then at year four we're we're seeing a a climb we're getting new members and we're getting
activity so it potentially needs to go up um so after that the package is going to be the complete totals for year one would be about 160 maybe down to 157 148 and on up and this would be just kind of
a a sliding scale um the the amount for the truck fund would always stay the same with that 4% increase unless something dramatically happens where they're going up 50% um due to like Co or something like that so this is kind of the sustainability
package for us we felt pretty comfortable um that would be that would keep us in uh the game a little bit longer with our hybd models a full-time um and uh volunteer we do have a a new thing that that's coming out with the
state with that Sprint paramedic model um but they told us that the money probably isn't going to be there after the two years we all kind of know that now when you have a service and you everybody gets used to it nobody wants it to go away so Lake Region is looking
at innovative ways to potentially keep those paramedics still working with a community Paramedic program where they're out trying to keep people out of hospitals um or um paying it with some of their money that they're able to uh
uh save from buying ambulances um and keep those people in the area being paid to supplement our smaller services that are volunteer because we know during the daytime periods that it's really really hard for us to get volunteers um so
we're looking at different ways to do that Blended model but keep those people viable so the sustainability package it looks like it's a lot of money but in my opinion and a few bars it's not all that much um remember it's not just anybody
you they have to be active so let's say 10% of the calls meetings and trainings Lake Region does about 400 calls uh we do we'll we'll do 12 trainings uh monthly trainings and 12 meetings so that's about 43 uh events per se and each event averages out to about two
hours so bare minimum to be um part of this Pension Plan you'd have to do 86 hours and that equals out to 17 bucks an hour and that's minimum I I look at these guys and they do that in about a week um so it's it's not a ton of money
in our our our minds um but of course it's sticker shock um we all want EMS um to become a designated essential service um we we are because when we call like Maya said when people call 911 we have
to be there but designating it means somebody has to come up with the money um we have some other uh things in the works um that later we're going to try to see if we can get the county to designate us as an essential service so
hopefully you guys um understand the need for some funding um and hopefully we can be at the front end of the movement versus the back end of the movement um thank you guys for your time so Eric I got a couple questions okay
so this Lake Region you guys got 30 people on your ambulance roster is that right yeah so of those 30 they they would have to get their 10% right yeah and how many does Ashby have stock that aren't
covered under the relief our roster is probably 40ish but we're we have a pair of retirement programs for both the EMTs who are on fire and
those who are just EMTs if they qualify by participating enough they in our how many how many up there are not in the PA that are on the ASP ambulance roster like how many don't qualify
participation wise well no so it's do you have any that aren't firemen on that roster yes some we have some that are EMTs only who because they participate enough get in on our okay I got rules so most most
everybody up there is what they're doing what they're doing is they're taking the the nonf firemen and they're supplementing with their their funds so the ambulance puts in money into their retirement so the ambulance is again taking money out of their account for
the people that they're that are doing the work um so we figured to be fair is take the EMS professionals that are not fire department members that are just the EMS side and if they qualify they would get it and that's what about
seven to 10 people maybe that are non fire department members yeah maybe maybe five six so five right now and I don't think what is a couple of them make
10% yeah maybe in a good year yeah so that would be probably 35 Plus the the 10 members down in Hoffman that's what we came up with a 45 number and it's critical timing in my opinion because you know something when you're training and you're bringing
these people in and they're coming up in the ranks they love to have a veteran around that you know what I mean so they're they're actually you guys are kind of you know brainstorming to figure out what you need to do and it's a comfort zone for your younger members moving into it right would you have to
agree with that coming through an EMP class you learn the book things you need to know right to pass the test but there's so much more to it that you don't know when you get in the back of the truck there's making radio reports there's doing patient charting there's
no one where and how to use equipment it's it's just the very beginning we just finished a class we have some folks testing out now and joining us but they have a ton to learn so yeah you're absolutely right y it's critical for you guys so and it's a timing thing because
you're not getting any younger so this recruitment retainment is going to be critical I think well the the number one issue you can see across the state and the nation is when are we losing our our volunteers and that's anywhere from three to five years and that's even that's even professional EMS people
right um because of the poor paid so if you start this little pension plan they get through that that honeymoon phase where they're like oh man this is fun exciting oh this is a lot of work um and they're like I'm out now you can say oh you got $3500 into a little
retirement account if you weighed out 10 years now you can you can be vested and get something but then after 10 years they're like oh man my life is kind of changed my kids are growing I may have a little bit more time to to to give back and then you keep them for 20 years
that's kind of our goal is to to keep them through that three to five year of I I really don't have have time for this and get them to the 10e and then they'll hopefully go on to the 20 and the 30 and the 40 and the 50s
right I agree so you know you guys know what my thoughts are you know I I do believe we need a line item in our budget for EMS and Eric Key did say you know at the last meeting well you know EMS has never
gotten anything and I did remind them that there's never been a real official ask either right here right so the other ones up there you know they they come in and they ask but this is very important to the county now I know we're kind of a we're going to be the front runner here in the state if we do something here but
maybe it'll help get other counties thinking about this because you know Ashby not only serves Grant County they serve a lot of Douglas and Otter Tail as does hofman and uh and I what I what I can see is if time goes by and they get
on board going to start putting money into Ashby and hawman too from other from outside of the county which would probably relieve our a little bit that's how I see it but we got to start somewhere and
uh you know if they're if they're just if they're not moving on this issue they're going to get they're going to get caught one day with with some things that aren't so good with with with human beings you know uh that need help so my
the recommendation of the EMS committee is to make a motion to put EMS on a light item and not not not and I'm going to make that motion today but not put a dollar amount in there yet because we got more work to do preliminary
budgets come come in like the 15th of September we'd have to put something in there by that and then the then we would have another eight weeks or so to work on to set the uh the budget because you can you know in the preliminary you can you
can set it higher and then Whittle your way down that's what we usually do you know set it a little higher and then we go through those line items and Willer down so that we don't have a big we don't want a big percentage increase in the budget we can't do that but but
that's how that works so you know with with that being said I'm going to make a motion Mr chair that we do put EMS in a line item on our 2025 budget okay with no with no dollar
amount at this point right we've got a motion and I'll second a motion any more discussion so I have two things you know you and I met earlier this year and everything is right where we talked
about people yep my one first one is a concern more than anything is my understanding you know we're basing this off the fire department's retirement is just to be clear the county is not going to be liable if there's lost Investments
for that retirement account you know you know what I'm saying is that we're not it's like the city guarantees your retirement amount per year for all your years of service just so we're clear the County's not making that guarantee on anything and then the second one is is
your budget you know between now and September do you want $1,500 a year on projected or do you want to have $1,500 at the end of the year you know so at the end of the year you come and say okay we had 42 that met
it you know so an example is if you did it this year we would budget that 42 at the 15 and you'd get it next year for this year's service or do you want at the beginning of the year to say we're going to project 40 and 15 it's afterwards so
right we don't want you guys to have to put out any more money than we'll we'll go retroactive in August or whatever it might be we'll all evaluate our numbers say we have 35 members that met that 10%
we need the the, 1500 per per member and then it can be adjusted into your budget for that coming year okay that's the only way we could do it because you know it it just wouldn't work right because otherwise if you had 15 for X number and
you own up with more it's less than yeah absolutely okay any more discussion all in favor the motion signify say I I I oppos carried thank you guys so much I got one other thing
though Mr chair okay our committee is also working on a resolution and we got to get it worded properly but we just want to we think that Grand County should designate or have a resolution that EMS
is an essential service even though you know it it just says that we're in support of them they are essential and uh they they the state should should have recognized that a long time ago but uh but anyway that that's what we're working on is that resolution when
we get it worded the way you know we'll let Justin look at it U then we'll present it to the board and see what you guys think about that resolution but it should be considered essential not only in Grant County but the whole state of Minnesota because it is essential and uh
we're we just gota we got to look into the future here make sure that we keep it that way and we you know as far as committee appointments you know this is a reoccurring commitment you know appointment that's going to be happening every year you know so the board chair
set those those appointments you know and that that changes you know from year to year to year so we'll just keep it live and well and not only do the EMS people come and go and get older County Commissioners do too yeah so you know
and then every you know I've sat in front of many many Grant County Commissioners they come and go and uh ideas and opinions come and go so we just we just need to keep this upfront
and and show how important it is so that's the thought behind the resolution to is no matter who is on this committee or who is on your board that resolution exists ands that what we're putting together keep in front of everyone
of but there's a lot of work to do you know we we all know that and as as time goes by and you know other counties make decisions because they're going to be they're going to be uh confront or it's going to be put in front of them I know
that and then that AG package might decrease because Otter Tail is putting in the ashb Douglas is putting in the op and that's the whole that's the goal that Grant County doesn't have to subsid the whole package because we do do so much areas
in and they should have to pay it as well it shouldn't be just Grand citizens but and US Commissioners you know we then we can impress it upon those Commissioners yeah like in September now you'll probably be we're going to ask see if we can do a presentation at
the conference in herwood for the state Eric you can get up and do this field if they give us the agenda item but they they're going to listen to you especially the rural County because
like a lot of these rural counties they they don't know you know some of those Commissioners they they've never heard of problems or anything sort that talk when you spread cost over other counties and stuff like that it's cheap it's up to cost the services stays that level of
service right it doesn't diminish yeah and you know in all my years I've been in Grand County which is quite a few now I started 38 years ago but there there's a there's a team there that you got to have functioning for these people that get sick or hurt and uh the uh the you
know the first call punches out to the First Responders they they're going ambulance and law enforcement it's a it's it's you got to have that all working and uh because I I was on many scenes where I was glad that the First Responders were there or they were
coming and then the ambulance was coming and I know that we did a lot of good over the years one other question I'm not sure on that just to ask it is when we talked about the retirement portion are we talking about
putting that into the budget so that you would have this year's service covered or because that will affect that part of the budget right so let's be clear to the committee I mean if we're not willing to cover this year's service we
need to know that well I think it has to start in 25 right and well if we're paying for a years of service the next year you could still put in next year's budget this year's service I'm not say saying yes or no yeah I'm saying it's it's possible based
on what we just talked about that you could go back and cover from January one of 24 if you guys want to that'd be great but so I mean it becomes a budget decision of you do half in the 25 and then the other half in the 26 or do you
rip the Band-Aid off and put it in for next year yeah that's cleaner I I mean I'm not sitting here today proposing either one I'm asking so that we give I mean we have to give the committee who's going to come back to us
with a budget proposal I mean let me see now having said I don't propose either one I'm gonna say I would just rip the bandaid off and put it in there rip away I
mean yeah well we'll we'll meet we'll we'll get her figured out yeah we'll meet in the next weeks try okay we thank you guys for your service Mark and all you guys all the
responders Community is grateful to you but but but you guys have been so good that that they just know your comment right I just want to make one quick comment thank you guys what you said about when they're not there nobody
really knows who you're calling three weeks ago yesterday had a family member that got rushed at Fus ws and you instantly think you're talking about Ring doll you're backing up ring doll um they ended up at Lake Region three weeks ago yesterday that needed to get
the caral ASAP they needed to get sord now no ambulance ring doll wasn't our own or didn't have a staff so they come the helicopter and without that service I probably would have been missing
potentially to my family members so it's true that you guys now are being relied on by the bigger because I I saw it firsthand three weeks ago so just person on that
same subject ringal Fergus Falls has applied to the state to change their licensing from full-time ALS parttime ALS which will mean that they will not be required to have paramedics on 247 so we have depended on them in the
past when we're going west for intercepts if we need a medic truck and that that option is not going to be as available so just for everybody's knowledge because some of the stuff doesn't really get out to the public and
not everybody in the public understands what that means we already subsidized El subsid the city of FG falls in the hospital great we do about 100 transfers Lake Region year that rain can't
cover issues with um you know our volunteers are ready to go and we're we're very lucky because we have a bunch of dedicated people um what was it Friday night or Saturday night Saturday night we took off two patients um that
were critical one to St CL one to right away you know and they used to have to wait for Fergus or Morris or Al to come now we're taking them and we're doing some of their business as well because of our dedication and our employees how
good we're fortunate to have but it's because of you guys as well that back up now Eric you you now we got an ambulance coming right in 25 yeah 25 y yeah for late region yeah
okay now we were talking about Hoffman their ambulance is 16 years old you know now the money that the state dumped out there that I think they gave hofman like 50,000 I think Ashby got like 90,000 but did we ever find out can can
hofman take that 50,000 and designate that towards an ambulance and that counts because you're supposed to spend that money in 25 yeah did we ever um I'll reach out to the see that's because what we were thinking is uh it takes three years to
get mhm and there is 16 years old and they could put that 50,000 towards that and then order it then you know we can see work with the city of hawman and and see what we can do as far as getting getting
that rig down there yeah so like you know like that's the the beauty of it is right now currently we're all kind of at different states so Ash's good for a few more years how many years you trucks for a truck yeah yeah I mean 15 should be fine we put about 10,000 miles
a year so 15,000 on that truck in 15 years so then we could utilize you know it doesn't mean that 20 goes to to Ash being 20 goes to that it's fun you know and 40 goes in there and we have
different times now Hoffman's going to their their need is first so ashp doesn't need their 25 and then their 26 in the this year and next year so that's $50,000 going to Hoffman's truck as well as the 40,000 and the other 40,000 to
make 80 going to the pot to purchase Hoffman's truck sooner than what we we need you know so it's it's the community and or the the the committee will make those decisions um and prior to them purchasing and say yes we recommend that
the money is allocated to Hoffman ANS or Ashby or whoever that is that it's not just set in stone that it's just right this one stays there so we'll be able to get if this goes through we'll be able to get Hoffman a new truck in the next
couple years and we got like three minutes left I think it looks like Anyway Ash Ashby maybe you give them a SPI stock on what Ash's doing with their storage or their garage for their ambulance yes so we're um we built our
ambulance facility in 1994 and we've out grown it the trucks are getting bigger um so we decided to add on a facility we're adding an 18 ft longer by 42
wide going from three narrow overhead doors to two wider ones which we hope will minimize some of the damage that we create and allow us to have our trucks inside right now we can't even bring a truck in the garage and pull the C out to clean because it's not R so this is
going to just make things way better for us to have good floor heat and lots of modern upgrades so we're spending some money to do that and secure us for the future we should be good to go that 90 going to cover all that cost proba
no but it's it's certainly is going to hurt need to start um yeah so what is the addal cost well it's in the 200,000 range by the time we're done with anybody got anything
else thank you guys thank you oh I think it has to we we've talked a lot I know you don't like that but it doesn't matter to me I'm be here forever either we just we just don't want the money to go into somebody else's account
yes we I just wanted and that's fine I just wanted you guys toast think yeah we we T I told them you know that me and you talk CAD but I I think it's this the best decision that we keep it so it's
completely allocated to the right thing and not I mean we have because leaders change like you said you know we have leaders change at every service and all of a sudden they see $50,000 and they're like oh we're doing this and this and that's what is an attendant for and that's dangerous in my opinion and a
yearly report yeah coming you know we'll have everybody reporting and Eric if we can get you in in front of that deal in September you willing to do that yeah you can bring bring yeah I think I think I think otter tale and BR County or otter tale and
Douglas Stevens Count's close as well um they're full-time U and they're a private company too but I still think they're they're going to probably get something too as well we had after our big meeting here two ambil
Services called me directly and ask why is Grand County ail is so successful and everybody else is failing meable it's just because we have people that are dedicated and we want to be Progressive they're not they just they just don't want to change and they just don't want
to put anything towards it so people are seeing in the communi other communities that we're starting to make a make a push and that's gonna push lake or that's GNA push out they're gonna have to make that decision thanks
guys morning Commissioners how do you spell Scott last name you know on the hand oute Libby liby y that's oh that wasn't lib it's l IB
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with whth as you recall uh we we applied for and received a lrip grant from mindock for about $1.4 million to uh redo CA 5 through Hoffman and up to 170th
Street uh and part of that project there'll be a lot of coordination work that will have to happen with that project since there will need to be some rightaway acquisition private uh Property Owners as well as vacation and
acquisition of RightWay from the railroad as well to fix that skewer on that intersection there when they're crossing the railroad tracks now the overall project is budgeted was budgeted at about $2.6 million and this agreement with width
would be for them to do the design and all the RightWay acquisition and per committing and essentially they take care of everything and get everything ready to bid with hope with the hope that it's going to be bid in 2026 or 2027 I would assume it's probably going
to go to 2027 with all the work that has to happen in order to get us there so uh uh Brian B who's the city engineer down there for WTH would be the person in charge of this project that'll make a continuity of the project a little bit
easier for bu so uh their agreement is for $241,700 what I was anticipating when I budgeted for the project so I look for a authorization for me or the County engineer to ENT this agreement with
which uh a motion to that effect to uh I'll make that motion Mr chair second have a motion and a second any more discussion all in favor of the motion
signify by say I I oos Carri thank you the next item I have is an Engineering Services agreement with more engineering uh and that would be for the design and construction of two culs one
on Casa 54 and one on Casa 2 uh this was uh when I started here this was a project that I was unaware of when I did my budget last year and I went to a h boy the Sue meeting here I know several months ago to hear about this project
and they were moving forward with the design of the project and I kind of had to uh put the brakes on that a little bit because since these are state aid highways that they're working on any work they do must meet state aid rules and be approved by state aid in
order for us to use our state aid funds for the project so is what I asked them to do is pull the two coverts out for Dish three that were crossing the casa routes and put this agreement together so we can meet all of our
requirements that we need to in order to expend our cassad dollars on these projects so uh I believe Nick Anderson would be the engineer that would be working on these projects and the amount they quoted is
46300 that's on the top end of it we were discussing with the DNR what the impacts are going to be didn't really get a good answer so the overall cost will probably be less than this but there's some unknowns in there yet so that's for both callers that would be
for both covers Casa 54 and casassa 2 the plan right now is to upside the CT on that crosses cassad 54 and remove that Culvert and bring it over to cassad 2 since it's not very old and reuse it on to so the one on 54 is down towards
the other end yep just south of this b y yep so that culbert will be moved so we're going to save some cost by reusing it since it's actually only like 10 years old so it should be in pretty good shape yet so I'd just be looking for a
authorization from the board to enter into this agreement with more engineering so move Mr chair I'll second we have a motion in second all in favor signifi by saying I I Mr chair I got a couple questions before we
actually vote on this so these billable hour rates aren't going to change in 25 or anything like that I mean is there any talk on far their hourly rates yes yeah typically the hourly rates change every single year right and we'll get a
new updated schedule each year from each consult so this is more just yeah okay I'm done all in favor of the motion signify saying I I oppos
carried uh last item I have is another engineering service agreement this one is with MSA Professional Services to do our yearly Bridge inspections uh in 2024 we have I believe it was 14 that are required to be
inspected this is a MSA is the one that's been doing it for the past several years and the cost is pretty much identical less a little bit of a inflation cost to it so uh this is something that I believe Aaron went
through uh training for bridge inspection so he'll be taking along with these people to get that experience as well so I'll just be looking for approval for this agreement with MSA the amount of $1,180 I'll make that motion Mr chair
because we have to do yeah for every year y second we have a motion and second any more discussion so we had ER and go through training is this like his on the job training part then and hopefully in
the future he'll be able to do this that is the goal that he's going to get the experience to be the lead inspector and take this over okay any more discussion all in favor motion signify by saying I I I oppose
perod those are all the things I did have for you today one item that you should probably be aware of is uh several months ago the County Surveyor applied for Grant remonumentation for roughly like between $250 and
$300,000 and I believe you saw a bill come through the DAT uh we did receive that Grant so uh if you do see people working up in the Pelican Lake and PM Township area working on intersection searching for monuments that's what it is we did receive the grant to do the
remonumentation like I told you Matt I seen them doing that like last week maybe week before work yeah they wanted to go out the yesterday and start digging into the pavement we kind of had to hold say
no one it's too wet out and number two there wasn't a batch plant in the area right now running so getting mix would be difficult so we'll work in the gravel until we can get asphalt and look for the corners at the
intersections and uh beyond that we'll just have some projects getting out advertised here coming up be read advertising County Road 34 project down there by the park here I'll be sending the ad for bid in here this week and in two weeks plan is to submit the ad start
advertising for Stony Brook to chip Culver and trunk Highway 55 project so we'll get those going too that's all I have for you guys today County Road 82 got nice up there by
Ashby mile did a really good job on the paving need a little work on the striping yeah and the striping there GPS must been off little something was off it's just in one deal yeah it's just the last 100 feet or so we got a little look
at it looks like they probably came off of the County Line yeah it does doesn't look so bad right now because otter taale County seal coated 82 heading north from there so there's no striping whatsoever but it's going to not look good yeah what do they do with that just
sand blast it off or something yep they can sand blast it off or just grind it off yeah reshoot it but people are they're appreciative of of the roller it was in bad shape yeah all
right I got one other question okay the the pipe and Stony Brook that you're going to order is that what you said we're going to advertise the project right I it has the town board been communicating with the that at all I did speak with
them before I came here and I believe going to have a conference call maybe tomorrow afternoon with them to answer some more questions that they have okay I seen just seen on my phone at one of the board members called me so I don't know what that's about well
probably that y sounds good all right thank you thanks your right on time fromia will be she said she 1045 H some
dad is Madison doing good now the child good too yep Archie yeah what was the name Archie good yeah yeah that was a little hairy e
earlier when uh the rec said he made a comment about $45,000 in Revenue remember that time can you tell can you explain what
you're saying a little bit Count's providing technology is a software company that Grant in believe 23 other counties own it provides a number of services like your
tax software that the so the cam that the assessor's office uses the computer AED Mass appraisal that's run through CPT that's their software when your tax statement goes out that comes out of that their
software Highway uses it they have a HR program so back in 2017 or 18 Grant County went in with these other counties bought it from a private individual so that is just we paid
$175,000 then up to right now we've had 75,000 of that returned and this will be another 45,000 so it's just you know there it's a business it's making money so it's just being returned to
the it so this uh the IM mutable Drive that you talking about how what's the the cost comparison
between what the county was paying for before versus this this difference technology oh I don't know you know so they said what 2018 was the last time we bought uh or when we bought that drive I
don't know what the the maintenance feed would have been it was 30 the server was the server was 30,000 but not enre SC C in
office they said that was what8 terab smaller 8 terabytes and the current one is 32 can go up to 100 so this is going to do a backup for everybody's all the rest of our servers that we have
off insance well and told them they said you're buying insurance and the the 13 of that is your first Year's maintenance which will be an ongoing there was maintenance on the old one I don't remember what that number is and you
guys aren't buying it outright right you're buying a service we're buying a server you're buying there'll be Hardware that shows up okay but but you own the the hardware yeah contract to we it out no
is this were you in with extension on this contract say if this is this is the same thing as always and it's a 4% increase a year or 5% do we really need to wait I we're going to approve it anyway
right I think she's coming here oh she's coming in person I thought we were waiting for her to get on okay no I I see she's on Zoom um but I'm presuming that she said I will be there at
145 I don't know you at 10:45 or 10:45 so you've got a set for that meeting on Friday right special meeting yeah it looked like the price is the 3% increase year
it's she's coming here person I'm on my well I'm on my second one I we got redistrict so I had to do it but yeah this I'm on my eighth year your eth year and okay so
then uh how big was your District last time before the redistrict I had seven townships now I got eight just in case you did have enough on already so I got half the county instead
of yeah whatever they do that by population yeah it it's a lot of corn a lot of cows y it's available so what's available the I want to make
sure this room is Avail oh was uh Tina's resignation was that has there [Music] been talk about that earlier that I just wasn't aware of did I miss
that feel very sudden that just felt really S I wasn't sure if that had been talked about before don't rush in meetings today so don't worry about it we're we're easy to
get app not moving very fast I oh one of them days compl a day in the calendar Cecilia we can get started thank you so much for your patience with me this
morning I I had three board meetings this morning I you can tell it makes it a little hard to try and get to all time yeah so I appreciate your time um Cecilia amedu um I serve as a regional director with the University of
Minnesota extension and I have a privilege of um standing in front of you today so thank you for your time um as chair and Commissioners um the item that we will be discussing this morning is the current contract that we have with
um Grand County uh between University of Minnesota to deliver youth development program in the county um that contract is set to Sunset um the end of this year and we will be um looking to renegotiate that contract again for the next three
years um and I think two of your Commissioners were AMC and have heard a little bit about what this contract is but um I want to just elaborate again um this is a universal language within the contract across the state so all 87
counties are being asked to renegotiate the same language so language within the contract necessarily doesn't change because AMC has already negotiated that on your behalf um but however depending on how big or small the county is counties can decide to um buy into the
contract how much they want in your county we we're really hoping to um keep the current investment that we do have a one FTE with an intern support um or coordinator in the summertime um the contract um time
period is 3 years like I stated with um changes options for changes after the first year currently we have about 141 FTE across the state that fit into this contract um previously in 2018 we had
121 FTE so counties are buying more into the service and increasing um the opportunities that we have have to um Implement youth program and also agriculture related program as well um currently counties contribute to about
19 million of our annual budget and so we appreciate the relationship that we do have with counties but we also have some grants um and also uh obviously ad does a good job um doing some grants and income um in the area in that area we
have about 26% of that make up that budget and that's used for various different ways for research um so that when we deliver program in counties um we know that they're research based and we're providing program that is um well thought out um we also get some federal
funds um Grant County doesn't necessarily benefit right now from that grant funding um and it really helps families that are um on Snap which is the U food program um we have program available for people to um tap into to
they go into the schools and and help K understand how to eat better and and how to get outside and exercise so that and then also helping them learn how to grocery shop so that their budget goes a little bit further for them um right now we don't have somebody in this position
in your county but that's a program that counties don't typically pay for um it's really based on income and um then they deliver the program so I wanted to just share a little bit about that um but obviously we still have Regional staff that are available to um
provide services in the area of Economic Development um some sometimes there's a small fee for that but if Counties have simple question we can always direct them to um that Resource as well we also do have um our website uh last year
there were about 9 million views on our website just people looking for all kinds of different things so extension is a well thought out resource in communities so what in the contract um we as University um when we accept Grant
uh the money from gr County we are agreeing to hire staff train them provide them with the leadership opportunity they need to deliver programs in communities we're also agreeing to pay for mileage and this is a change from previously with our contract we had we had to put additional
money in the contract to pay for mileage um this contract will cover all of that so all the traveling that they will be doing in the county will all be bought into this contract that we will'll be talking about we are also agreeing to um do the oversight so before somebody can
identify thems as um extension staff or connected to extension in a certain way there extensive background that we have to make sure that people working with youth are able to work with youth um and um that comes with a lot of risk management so we take we we take
ownership in that we're also obviously taking ownership payroll accounting services um and then reimbursement for that as well in return counties are agreeing to provide the space that the staff will need to do their job in the county um equipment that we need
computers copers um internet phones um just the basic things that somebody need in an office um in order to operate um in this County we don't have support staff but um the recommendation
is that if counties do have somebody that can float around and pro provide that support to that person so that they don't spend time doing administrative work and really can dedicate the time um working on the program um it's only a recommendation I'm just sharing that if
something like that is available we'll take I know this conversation about office move um um coming here so I think that will really help um visibility as well people really knowing that we're here and we're here to support um youth in that way
way so um something that is also very clearly identified in the contract is a County Extension committee which uh commissioner Lali and commissioner P Spar sit on that committee and um that committee really is a reason why I can come here and tell you what we need they
make all the recommendation as far as how much Staffing and how much um money we need to run that office um in the past that committee had also had a role in evaluating staff and we have taken that away from evaluating staff because counties
commiss County Extension Commissioners were not the ones that are supervising staff so it was really hard to tell how to take directions from that and implement it um what we have done is um County Extension committees being able to really speak to the program of what
they want to see in the community um however they still have ability to speak to us in a way if staff isn't performing at they different way we just had an issue at the county fair and we were able to address that right away we don't want that sitting till December to
address those issues so as things come up we want to be able to address them um as they happen and not wait too long um to December so that's why there a change there um we also have had issues in the past hiring um uh intern positions and
so we've changed the language from um intern to Temp casual in the case that in a small County like Grand County if we can't get an intern we can get somebody else who can serve it as a coordinator position um so that we can kind of keep the programming going in the summer time so that's all some
changes that's been made and you may be curious what the price is so um right now you are paying 80,000 for the one FTE in Grand County that is going to 100,000 U for one FTE and um the intern rate is 2256 per
hour and that is subject to 3% increase after 2025 so 2026 2027 will be a flat 3% increase across the board so I think I will stop here and um see if anybody has got questions about
the contract would you like to talk about kind of what some of the activities here yeah so um um we recently just um have a great um educator in the position she hasn't even been in her position a year and she's done some great work um
increasing numbers in GR in Grand County um this year at the first she had about 87 animal exhibit um and then 982 general exibit which is huge for Grant County the amount of exhibits um shown
and then um with 51 um at the count so um she's also talking about what she's looking forward to doing how to build the program obviously um not having I think the summer intern that she had this year is great and he's
doing a very good job so that really implemented into what summer programming um they were able to do they had 13 um youth involved in the science Day Camp which was all run by the summer intern and then this fall they have um a lot of two to five sessions um with the WCA um
North and South um County Fair went really well I think they have some kids going to um State Fair as well with some of their livestock and she is planning on um being at the state fair so that the youth can have access to somebody that they trust and can ask questions
which is huge we don't require our staff to do that that's something that she's choosing to do so um I just really want to say you have a great staff in Grand County and obviously we want to retain her um she's doing a pretty good
job and right now she has about 70 kids enrolled in the program that doesn't include um some of the after school program kids that having necessarily made a um choice to join for each fully yet so by the time we add those kids I
mean she's going to be reaching a lot of the youth here in Grand County so any questions um for me right now so is that we're going from 80 to $100,000 is that moving we were at 80%
fulltime is that moving through fulltime we did move fulltime I think a couple years ago last year before we hired we moved to fulltime because we had that contract with Travis County so we were able to absorb that money to then um move that position to full-time position
okay so there a fulltime yeah it's a fulltime position so in 22 and 23 that was part-time positions the 61,000 62000 yeah it was um 80% right yeah okay could get anybody to apply yeah
that's the tough part so then in 24 that 880,000 that that went to a full time yes yeah you're done pass that the that's the budget okay you got cop
them yes I have one copy okay we're good I didn't know what you were bringing and I thought maybe you were zooming and so I tried to zoom cuz I was like I wasn't sure if I would make it and then I couldn't hear so I'm just like I was driving
so she's doing a good job she's supercharged and you know what I mean she's she's an outgoing person really is gives kids a comfort zone and you know I I think she does a great job yeah we had um a conversation just last week at our
County Extension Community meeia about how youve are sorting her out coming to her office and visiting with her which is huge because if they have built that trust with her within that period of time um that's somebody that kids can go to and and share things with and she was
talking about if you tell me something that's not safe you know I will have to tell your mom and so you know that that relationship is huge when you're in this position so and just to touch on what you know she got the kids involved and they did a
lot of the planting on Main Street you know I mean it it isn't just you know the fair and you know sh animals and things like that it's getting people and getting kids and getting parents you know and getting people involved is what it is yes and I think it performs well
and I think Grand county is lucky to have her to tell you the truth because she is outgoing enough to where she gives people a comfort zone and get them out of their eggshell and get working and interacting yeah I agree I agree they they are very drawn to
her so if there are no questions um I would like to just say the reason part of the reason for the increase is also really looking at staff salary um in making sure that we are competitive quote unquote I mean obviously the private sectors in this type of
positions are paying a lot more but we want to try and um let our staff know that we appreciate them so as part of the increase uh we are conducting a r study as well so that we can um bump their Pace up a little bit so you were
saying the mileage is in also mileage um insurance benefit um training opportunities all of that is all one price so as you can see last time we had
$99,000 um in our budget under agent committee travel that has gone away to 1,500 I don't even think we need that because most of our committees don't request for um travel that much so it's just there
if we need but um we we w't need that cuz that's all embedded in the 100,000 and then that is also including our intern as well the interns mileage is also part of the price that we've charge for that intern
l so the intern is that's not in with that 100,000 or is it no that's right on top uh at 9,000 and that that will so we will just do per how many hours we about 400 hours um depending on if it's a coordinator they get paid a little bit
more because they an adult and um can do more and then they an intern um they get paid a little bit less because they're in a learning environment know one she moves to the court house at 300 bucks a month we don't think dish out city that drop that
yeah um if you probably I mean CH probably has some expenditures that he can share but um we've returned money to the county every year we've been really good Steward of the money that we get and make sure that we don't go over Emily and I have constant conversation
about office supply and making sure that the things that she's buying is truly what she needs and not just um spending the money because it's there and we keep an on that so we know that besides the Staffing amount some of these Office
operating probably when we move here some of the furnishes will already be here so we don't need to buy that um the only thing that she will need this year um next year is a new computer um to operate but that's about the biggest tag that we see right now and then obviously
during the summertime there's a lot more printing uh for the fair those are the time that we see a lot more spending but other than that we've been good Steward of the money and we we tell our staff that that we want to be good Steward of
the funds that we receive from Counts if there are no more questions I would ask that the board would approve our 2025 2027 contract with the proposed budget 2025 budget in Fr
so you're looking for anou Mo MOA excuse me and a budget yes so we split that up the should it what's all one it is well we can do it just ask okay I
will make that motion Mr chair accept the University of Minnesota extension 2025 M Mo budget and the button was total is 126 264
445 126 445 okay have a motion a second I'll second it any more discussion all in favor of the motion signy by saying I I I oppos Carri
thank you so much thank you for your yeah you made the drive worth it cilia I will have the board and the County Attorney sign it I return okay thank you and then I'll send your copy back okay so the board where Justin did riew
attorne did review this befor yes enjoy the rest of your day y thank you anybody got anything else nope during the meeting at 11 o' Friday at 9 y see the St