Amen. 9:00 meeting to order and stand with the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with
liberty and justice for all. Is there any additions to the agenda or not? I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda. Second. Motion in a second. All in favor of motion signify by saying I. I opposed carried.
The uh meeting minutes were sent out. There was June 17th and June 7th. And the county board those minutes. We We can do them all at the same time. Okay. Yeah.
And then the uh word of appeal also What? Where you going? Any motion? We got a motion to approve the minutes. We get a second. I'll second it. Any discussion?
All in favor November 29. I post carried. The warrants are also sent out. The question for Matt that whole location where work is that part of a certain what project would that be part
of? That was in the that was a normal expense in that part of that project. It was probably about your goal. I brought that uh agreement with our tale power to the board. Those they had pools that were in our private
use that we needed just a contract. The one with the new dealership in more than $4 some thousand. Is that a new pickup?
Did you trade something in or not yet? It sounds like a pretty good deal for a pickup truck. Yeah, they've been surprisingly the prices have been steady for many years now. This truck. So, and quality seems to be getting better, too.
So, we should be getting to the tail end of the WSB stuff, correct? Yeah. And 96 bucks. So we're done quite unless we final being here in the room at ptometry at
eco view ptometry. Y is that price going up? The last time we did it. No, the this is for like that three-year deal, you know, we budget third and that's So, no, I haven't heard Carl maybe know too, but I
I haven't heard it's going up, but they haven't sent anything cost has gone up, which usually update. I've not heard of Ptometry having any price increases. Well,
we're under contract, right? The contract would tell us what those prices are. We're not just paying without a contract and hoping that in three years that Yeah, that'll be what it is. No, we we're in year two of our three-year contract right now.
So, we'll we'll know what the next flight cost is for the next go around as well. And hopefully with Reed and I going to this EZRI conference, there will also be other imagery companies there that
to see whether they're comparable with pictometry or not. Mr. Chair, I'll make the motion to pay the bills. I have a motion to pay the bills. Second. And a second. Any more? Any
discussion on any of the bills? All in favor of motion sign I post car. the humane was the humane society were they going to come or not? No, Bill asked for that to be on the agenda. Yep. was just enough data on what's happening
there and they appreciate the the support and things like that and you know they never planned for coming to the meeting but if they if we want them here we'll make a request I just they sent me the letter and I just fored on
their email I just forward on Tina. Okay. So that's all that is. But there's a request for a donation isn't there? No we always it's in our budget. Okay. We moved up from I think it was 5,000 bucks. I meant that we moved up to 10
last year, I think, or the year before. Well, no motion, just an update. Yes or nothing update. And when do you want to come to the board? Now, Mr. Chair, do you want have them come for a presentation or what are you thinking?
Oh, they usually do that whenever they request additional, right? Yeah. So, if we're all good with it, I'll let them know that they don't need to cover. Okay. There's that.
So they're justformational, right? Bill, correct? Say they appreciate what we do for Okay, we have Boisey Sue Watershed here. Just we'll take care of that. He's not on. Okay, we can wait. We can
wait till I'm here for support, but I'll take the spotlight if you want him to maybe jumping on quickly. Hear his voice. So, I know he's up there. He He did send it to me. So, yeah. forgot. I mean, we
got the letter. Yeah, I think what was like Well, it's more, right? This is 10 years in the making, isn't it? Or more probably. Yeah. Contractors are hired for both
projects and I think 21 they're going to get started after the 4th of July is what I heard. Um, three things are happening, right? I think So, you need some money. We're gonna need some money. We're going to need some money. Some checks. It doesn't We're not doing any uh red
path construction this year. So, I've got a little a little room, but we're still quarter million bucks tied into this 55 project. Correct. Yeah. Uhhuh. I'd love to give you that money. Yeah. Before someone else spent it.
Yeah. Do you removing dirt on that though? Yes, as we speak. So, we're just looking to approve or accept the engagement letter. Correct. So, I think there were two documents and if Heather
Caspersonson is on also if Chad doesn't hop on. Um, I don't see Heather either. Could be both documents you guys received in your packet. Yeah.
Well, okay. I can do it. You're on. So, you've got two documents, I think, an engagement letter and then is there a disclosure statement? So, um the the the your bond council is
regulated and there are certain things that they're required to disclose to you as their customer. So, um they have to disclose their fees and how to be able to terminate their contract. And so that's what is described there.
I did talk to her a little bit about the last time we were here, they were talking about the ability of, you know, Grant County Ditch 3 is the smaller project and those people might want to prepay theirs sooner. So, what Heather is recommending is that there actually
be two bonds issued, same series, two bonds, but that she'd likely be able to place that smaller bond locally and she'll get recommendations from the staff on on who might be interested in that. It's still sort of a public sale, but um it just gives them a little more
flexibility to hold that bond at a shorter 10-year term. And um we can probably save some fees that way, too. So, it would be 15-year amortization on Grant County ditch 21 and then a 10-year on three with the ability to to prepay
that and probably help locally. So, I think she needs approval of the disclosure and the ability for the chair to sign the engagement letter. Nobody hopped on. It's weird to me. I
talked to both of them yesterday. So, I will make a motion to approve the engagement letter and authorize the chair to sign it. We have a motion on the floor. Get a second. I'll second them. Any more discussion?
All in favor of the motion by saying I I post carried. Thanks. Oh, we the disclosure yet separate one second. I'll make a motion to approve the disclosure. I'll second it, Mr. Chair.
Motion and a second. Any more any discussion? All in favor of motion by saying I I opposed. Car. Thank you. Do yours first. Okay.
Yeah. Since Jamie's still here, I think we can jump to do that fish setter deal first since she's here. Doyle. Yeah. Not to waste her since So, I think most of you are aware of this spot. But on 27 there, Ditch 8 by Tim
Beckman, there's that pipe that keeps fish or was supposed to keep fish from going through all that waterhed there into Nackl when they did the Neme project back in the day. Well, that was since come and gone and didn't work. It kind of worked. It caused a bunch
erosion issues. So, now they have those fish in those lakes anyways. So, it's kind of a mute point. And the ditch system didn't pay to put it in. It was put in by the state back in the day. And now they're looking at taking out the pipe or trying to salvage it and then
instead of being at this steep grade, laying it flat and then putting rock riffles to try and slow that water down, cure that erosion. So they're going through that one watershed one plan money to do that and it would be a boy su. So they asked if we would sign a
letter of support saying, "Yep, we support so that when they go after some additional funding, they have support from both the county and the uh salt and water office." and Thursday they did their letter of support. Their board was approved. So, Mr. Chair, I got a question. Didn't Wasn't there a
commitment out of the DNR way back when when we started these conversations where we were going to take it out and they were going to pay the bill? Remember that, Jamie? Tracy was the engineer. Yeah. And was that Kevin Cuy? Yes. I don't know. They have a a
$500,000 grant that we could apply for. So, and so far the DNR has supported us doing this. So, we will pursue that. Okay. So, so it's possible is there's could be funds we Okay. So, it ain't levied on the ditches
as much as possible. We don't want the ditch to and then there's going to be a highway 27 project here. I don't I kind of keep pushing 27. I heard the last time they I think we want I don't want to do it before maybe that. Yeah. To do it all at one crack.
Yeah, that would make sense. That's sort of You're talking new boxes and did Jay go on 27 or what are you talking just a road project? Just the road and they they say they're not even really going to expand beyond that. So, we'll see. But it just be a lot of construction.
The harness nest that got created over there by Tim Bland's Yeah. You know, they got to make sure that it's their pipe. Yeah. It's our ditch. Your ditch now, I should say. Excuse me. come. We had that one weird agreement where
it's it should be their culvert, but for some reason the watershed agreed to maintain it forever. So, I don't know. There's there's weird things that happened on 27 that Okay. You don't really find out till it's time to pay the bill, right? Exactly.
And this is a good project without trying to correct this. Yeah. Well, they've been talking about it for years. There was a big push a couple years ago for it, but then the funding kind of disappeared and now they kind of got some going again. So, and then on the
water side, the ditch is full of water. They can just swim wherever they want anyway. Yeah. And Kevin Cox retired. So, then they dropped the ball or probably been done a long time. And and it probably all happened about the legacy fund started. So, since the legacy fund, we actually have rooms to do these
projects. So, I'll entertain a motion to uh for this letter of support to approve that. Well, I'll make that motion, Mr. Chair. If you would sign it, I'll second. Motion a second. Any more
discussion? All in favor signify by saying I. Opposed carried. Um the other deal for the agenda is that uh page label back county solid waste recycling program update timeline for
25. So like we talked with the work section. We're going to try and get all these cards figured out here. So what this is is kind of the timeline. So we had our update here this morning and we've worked it through. Now, we're going to come back here at the 15th
meeting and say, "Okay, you've had some time to discuss it with people, digest it, figure out this route you want to go." And that's when we can decide, "Yep, we're going to go to this carts. Everybody's going to get them. We can order them and keep the wheels going." And then in the next, you know, August,
we'll do those public meetings and the mailers out to people so they know this is coming and we have these meetings, we talk about it. Then come September, October, December, we're doing all those internal deals that we need to get worked out with ingets and with ordering and all that kind of stuff because that all that stuff takes a lot more time
than you would think it takes. It's not just like snap your fingers and it's here. So there's some internal stuff that Greg and I got to do in the back end and some stuff with Pro West that we got to do and some stuff with different parts of the program, but majority of it's going to be that those
public meetings and talk through the okay this is the reason why we need to everybody have parts to you know eliminate that deal in the middle where you can just dump as much as you want and pay kind of a least and walk away. We're trying to correct that in hopes
that, you know, coming 27 there'll be a another similar timeline deal that you guys will see when we get that fun. So, it's more just a quick update after this morning's work session, but all you got all I got. Okay. Unless you
guys got questions. Well, no, just so we're all clear that we're going to need to make a decision on two weeks on the 15th. Yes. If we want angle bridens to proceed with the order of panisters. Yep. Then on the 15th you have to say yes or no because remember there's that
lead time. It's three to four months to get those. I would bank more on the four than the three months in hopes that they come in three and we're ahead of the game. Well then they still have to be distributed and then that's where the hope is time to distribute too. So, and I think it should be identified, Reed,
that the reason this decision is going to be in front of us is because we're moving to volume based structure for the manage is not in place now. Correct. Y everybody across the board can do that goal number
two that we got that volume based across the whole system. Right now, twothirds of the system is volume based. So, you got that last third is what we're trying to get volume based here for 26. Best morning. Good morning. We'll put that in there.
Again, hey Matt, go ahead. Morning, chair, commissioners. I got two items for you on the agenda. Uh the first one is uh every year we have to do our bridge safety inspections. Uh before you is a professional services agreement with MSA
to do our bridge inspections in this year. Uh typically this is about $12,000 a year. This one is for $35,000 or $38,590. And the reason for that is the Federal
Highway Administration is changing the uh what do you want to call it? The inspection requirements of all the bridges. They're changing how they're inspected. The process they're going from what they call the national bridge
inspection standards to specifications for national bridge inventory. Essentially, it's a kind of a the scale would go from 0 to 10 on the old system. Now it's like a zero or five to try to simplify the process nationwide to make
sure the bridge are in good condition or not. So they don't have to do in-depth inspections on every bridge in the county, but they are going to have to touch get eyes on all of them in the county this time around and then update our uh the bridge inspection software
for all the bridges. So we have the new numbers in our system. So for this agreement, I'll just be looking for approval of the agreement and authorizing uh me to enter into the agreement with MSA for our bridge inspections. Make a motion to approve that
$38,590. As a recommendation of the highway committee, I will second that. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? So, in the process of simplifying it, they tripled the cost. Well, typically we only have to inspect a quarter of our
bridges a year. That's kind of they're on like a four-year rotation most of the time, but this year we'll have to go through every single one of them this year. Next year it'll be back to the normal price. Just the new system has to be implemented in 2025 accord. Do you have
to do a quarter every, you know, a quarter of them every year or can you do, you know, so now we'll have all of them done in 25. Do we or can we just do all of them again at 29? Typically the way they are spaced out or
inspected is based on their inspection reports. Some of them, a typical bridge will be inspected once every four years if it's in good shape. If issues start arising in the bridge that they see, the inspection rate starts to increase
to once every two years. If it gets really bad, then you have to inspect it every single year. So, I just think if we're only have to do this every four years and this is three times the cost of a normal year, why don't we just do it every four years? Good. I would say if we did it every four years, the price
would probably be closer to $50,000 cuz they all the bridges that they did in the past few years that aren't up for inspection, they just need to get eyes on it. We just kind of do a brief verification that their numbers are still correct. So, in the system, the
new numbers will show up and they're just verifying that information and they grade them at the same time, right? Yeah. You got overall condition, good, fair, poor. Yeah, that's essentially what the new system is, is a scale of one to five
or one to six or something, right? Do any of our staff go with them during this or is that they're solely on their own? No, Aaron will go with them on this. He just recently passed his test, so he needs to get some experience with
the inspection and then eventually he can take over. That's kind of Yep. He's been doing them. He did the the Chipawa and that got downgraded correct from like 26 ton to 24 ton. No. Uh the
Chipawa MS8. No, that wasn't that was Collins did the inspection on that. They did. Okay. Because they had to do I believe uh a more finite element analysis on the steel beams. Okay. So this they have a contract with the state
and the state has them go out and inspect all these fracture critical bridges around the state. Okay. And that was wonderful. He went along with them. But but the report was generated by them. Correct. Okay. I didn't know. I just seen it on the screen. It went from
like 26 to 24. Yeah. That's the only that changed on it was the one Okay, we have a motion and a second. No more any more discussion. All in favor the motion signify by saying I. I opposed. Carried.
Uh the next item I have is for our the contract for our 2025 uh traffic marking with Camco Incorporated. uh back in I believe it was April, we awarded the bids for this contract. Well, he lost the contracts when I sent them to him.
So, got him finally got him up back now. So, I'm bringing him to the board for approval. Uh he was the he did get the he was a low bidder and $53,1259. Uh so I'd look for approval of this
contract and uh Camco is also they also got the contract for our districtwide edge line striping. So they will be doing that work in the county as well. So I'll make a motion to approve the highway or the traffic marking contract.
We have a motion. We need a second. Second. Any more discussion? All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Car. Thank you.
Matt, I had a some concern about thistle on 10. I drove it last night. I seen there was mowing. I don't know if that happened yesterday. Mowing yesterday? I don't Did they mow yesterday on 10? I seen there was something that
happened. There's still some disle. Well, can you eat? Well, the from town to the on the outs. Yeah, the hills. From town through the back. But there is a lot of
backwise services. So, yeah. Think you got the sprayer though. Speaking of spraying, are we spraying? That's good. Dana. All right.
In the packet is the application for the Grant County Board committees that you guys had approved to be done. In addition to that form, I I brought with the committee assignments. I've kind of been going through and doing some homework to make sure um any
committees that have term limits on it is identified so we have a good track when terms are up. Um, and I do before I get to the form, I just was going to ask
in looking at the committee assignments, there is the Pur Ridge Hospital joint facilities committee and I was just wondering if that is still a committee that's in existence or if that could be removed off the list.
We've never actually I've never been invited to a meeting, but there's a lot of discussion between the two, you know, but the joint facilities, you know, is that is that going to come full circle now with what's going on with Lake
Region and you know anything about that? So, I think that committee was probably formed when it was the old hospital and the county owned it. But was it Prairie Ridge or was it AIA? And then when they built they turned it into Prairie Ridge.
So I don't know if you know what we owned in the beginning was called Prairie Ridge. It when they built the building, you know, the new hospital, then it went to Prairie Ridge. So I I don't know. I think it should be removed. We can always add. Okay. I will remove it. And
then I as I find um as I'm doing the homework on uh you know what committees have term limits, I'll add them to the list. So moving forward, we'll have those term limits to go along in conjunction with that application for the Grant County Board committees. I did
send that form and I guess I was just looking to the board. I don't know if it's just a consensus that looks good or if there needs to be an approval for it, but this was discussed a few meetings ago about um having this sent out to the
members on on those committees that have term limits um just to help organize to be able to advertise um when those vacancies are are coming up. Not to say that people currently serving on those committees can't reapply. It's just um
again a consistency transparency thing to make sure that we're doing it for the committees that have um term limits. The Viking Library does have one. Yep. What the is that a term limit? Yeah. Okay. And this is the last year I can be
on there. Keep bringing that up. I think Bill got to that meeting. No, when I was I think board chair I think. Or take that back. I was on that committee in the beginning. Yeah. You
run me on there and then Yeah. And then I went six years and then you were nagged. I've been on eight years and that's all you can be on I guess. Okay. Sounds like you were the man to put the job. Does the form look okay? Two years left.
Okay. We don't need an approval on it. Just a consensus that it's good. Um, you're referring to if the application is okay. Correct. Yeah. Does it appear all the names are correct? The names of the committees or
Virginia? Oh, yes. I'll have to make a name change. Thank you for catching that. I forget that I have last name. Okay, thank you. Um the other item um that I
included in the packet um I did talk at the department head meeting with the department heads about using a um simple document or onepage um agenda request item form. This is very similar to what Western Prairie uses for their board
meetings. just identifying what meeting um who will be there um at the board meeting to present um contact information, if there's a cost, if it's a onetime cost or ongoing, was it budgeted for some a description and then
what the recommended action or motion might be um and then again at the end uh making sure when people are making requests that they provide some sort of document or invoice for for payment or donation. So um again just bringing that forward to the board forformational
purposes that um the department head meeting um there wasn't a lot of feedback um one way or the other about it but I I would like to try it to try to help organize board agendas and give us some good information um about the
agenda items. So again justformational piece uh for for the board. And then the last thing um that I have here is um I did put down some information regarding uh the cleaning of
the courthouse um and what it's cost to have service master come in um for the three times that they came in to to do the cleaning. um the board at the last meeting did approve for that one-time cleaning before the jury trial starts um
to not exceed $2,400. So, we came up with a punch list of things to be included. Um and again, the jury trial starts next week. So, it's work for for this week and weekend that will be done. But for the one time cleaning, it was the courtroom, floors
and woodwork, public areas to include light fixtures, bathrooms, um toilet sinks, floors, walls and stalls, um elevator vestables, vestables, railings in the common areas, the front entry
windows, and the public lobby chairs. And um Heather Olrich did um did uh supply a proposal and we'll be doing that. um uh for the rate at $70 per hour at
$2,380. So, that will get done before July 7th. So, I wanted to let the board know that. And then, um we did talk about the two weeks of the jury trial with the extended um traffic or the increased
traffic amongst the court in the courthouse. Um, so for the two weeks between July 7th and July 18th, um, we we asked her to let us know what it would, you know, what she what the cost would be to do the bathrooms, the jury
room, and the two conference rooms that will be used, the vestable vestables in the elevator that will get used quite heavily in the courtroom. and she provided for that punch list um 22.5
hours at that $70 um per hour rate. That would be an additional $1,575. And so I just wanted to come to the board today to know if the board would like that to be done. Um again, the the
one-time clean is already scheduled and happening. This is for that two-week time frame between July 7th and 18th when we'll have the increased traffic in the courthouse. Anybody got any thoughts? We got to be done.
I'll make a motion to approve the proposal for July 7th through the 18th. I'll second that. Have a motion and a second. Any more discussion? All in favor of the motion sign by saying I. I oppos. Carried.
Um, this is just uhformational at this time. Um, but considering there might be a gap between the end of the trial and before somebody gets hired on, um, you know, we're going
to have to consider and and I guess Ashley is here. I'm not sure where we're at in the hiring process, but there might be a time frame um from July 18th until um that position is filled and onboarded that we will have to consider.
Um and so there might be something coming through the board um in addition to fill that gap. Um unless you know the process it closes this week, you know, even if we hire somebody by Monday the 7th, what are the
odds that they'll be started by the end review where we're at on the 15th? And that's uh you know we did talk about in um at the last meeting about individual offices getting clean um a thorough cleaning of the break room and polishing all brass and polishing
floors. And so again just forformational purposes to kind of be thinking about the you know the board should think about how you know that could be handled in in the future. um depending upon this gap frame and things like that, you
know, we can talk about it on the 15th, but those are still items that have been discussed in the past that are still open-ended at this time. So, these duties are going to be just one person. It's going to do all these duties, including I've never seen the
job description. Yeah, the duties are the cleaning, um the courthouse, maintenance. Yeah. mowing mowing snowing snow moving couple yards one person the only other note that I had is just
againformational purposes um for full transparency and consistency we've talked a lot about using board committees and and work sessions to to kind of have um you know those discussions when we're talking about things um and one of the things I think
would important is that we look at um kind of a standing meeting date for our committees. It doesn't mean that the committees will meet every single month. They might not have anything on the agenda, but looking at the calendar and putting together kind of that annual calendar for the board as well as our
committee meetings so everybody knows when they are so they can know when to bring things forward um for agenda items and things like that. So, as we get those things developed, um, they'll be shared again with the department heads as well as the county board moving forward. But, I just wanted to mention
that that's kind of a next step thing that we'll be looking at is building a an annual calendar for the board to include um, standing committee meeting dates so everyone is on the same page and knows knows when those meetings would be held.
And that's all I have. Anybody else have anything discussion on that one? Oh, on the back here. the uh this was back on
Tuesday when we were on our uh our uh field trip field trip. There was a note left at the courthouse and uh the note itself wasn't so concerning. I'm just the only reason I that I wanted
it on here was to discuss a little bit of that there was some commissioner's names on the note and I feel that we should have been informed that our names are on that note, you know. Was it signed
or was it just a piece of paper that had names on it? Well, they know who did it. I mean, it's I don't know if I have the email here, but One of Grant Countyy's finest citizens and left a note.
Mine and Troy and Kenny's name was on the note. So, I just feel we should have been notified that this no was left taped to the basement door of the courthouse.
Is it is it being investigated now? It's all done. There been a determination on it. Yeah, it's a Yeah, I don't know if I got that on here. I'll see if I can find it. How did we find out about it? Did
somebody tell you or Yeah, Tina let Troy and I know about it. Okay. That was after some time there. Well, she let us know that day, but that's not I don't figure that she should have been the one to let us know
about it. Okay. So, what's the next step? Well, it's already it's been uh it's been uh been investigated. Yeah. So, that means it it would be public.
Yep. So, is there any idea when the rest of us commissioners are going to get a chance to look at it? You can look at it right now if you want. You got something. What happened? You got a customized status bar.
Why don't you just send it to my email? Forward it to it. Mr. Sher, I don't always look at it, but if June 25th, Grant County
Sheriff's committee report on June 16th, sheriff's officer, she reported a sus suspicious paper that had been taped on the door of a local business in the city of Ela Lake. The deputy responded,
entered the paper into evidence and informed the business there would be extra patrol in the area. I just mentioned that a day later this took place and there's no note of it in the activity report. I don't know if this doesn't rise to
being official or not. I don't even know if it is. I don't either, but I don't know. That's not It's not if I don't know who he is. I guess it falls on deaf ears. I'll just sweep it off my shoulder.
Huh? I said it's falling on deaf ears here. I said it's I'll sweep it off my shoulder. I don't know the man. First, I'll say but it's not right. Everybody's got first amendments, you know, statements and things like that,
but that's it's not right. So, is there anybody had any more discussion over this or you got anything to say about it? Well, I I'd like to see the note, you know. Well, that's what that's what it said.
But yeah, just like to see that. But yeah, you know, and it would be nice to know it, you know, it would be probably nice to know that uh something like that was up there, you know.
I mean, as long as it was investigated, I figured that Yeah, we should have been let know about it. Yeah, that's my that's all I got on it. start put the pieces together. I think I know who it is now. I didn't know his
last name but now I know. So what and maybe Jo because of your experience. So at what point does something rise to the level where elected not just us but other elected and county staff? There's a lot of
people in the county doing a lot of things, but at what point does it become well definitely if there's threats directed towards a person, you know, you got to you got to let them know so that you could keep an eye out and protect
themselves, you know. And my point I guess is that the fact that two of the cone were aware of it and there was no official communications and I found out from our chair that
there was no official communication. Then I just wonder is that our normal level of transparency as elected officials? They said two two knew about it. They were there at the time. Yes.
two of us. Yeah. I mean, we went in there after the after the we got back from the tour. We walked in the courthouse. Yeah. That's when you got wind, right? Okay. I guess the point would be I don't know
how much has to go on in our state, what's going on that that what rises to a level where we should be At least have the respect of knowing that there's an event.
Yeah. I didn't know about it till Doyle took full pie. Obviously, the person that would have been responsible for notifying us is not in the room, but we can't expect an answer, I guess. Well, we've all been subject to
ridicule, probably some critical thinking, some critical, you know, statements that were made. Maybe some of them are aggressive, but we still got a constitution in the United States. every time you go through an election and every year that you you
know you defend the Constitution of the United States, foreign and domestic. So you got to let people, you know, air their views and you know what I mean, give them an answer they want to hear or
or not or not hear, but they're going to have to swallow it if a decision that was made Any more discussion on this? Otherwise, we're that's all we got for for
board committee update. Well, I don't know. We could we can go through the list, but being Matt here, we can maybe get an update on what's happening at the highway if nobody else has got anything. Moving down the list, the budget finance
committee is continuing to meet with departments for those introductory meetings. We have some this afternoon. Working on scheduling the last of them. Um building committee has not met. Personnel committee has not met.
Um we heard from the solid waste committee um in the work session. We do have a strategic planning committee meeting coming up in July. Um, and then yeah, Highway if Matt has
anything. And then if there's anything from Horizon Public Health or Western Prairie I have nothing from Horizon. I gave an update the last meeting there. We haven't had a meeting since that. Right. and her our western prairie.
I don't think there's anything really happened since our last meeting two weeks ago, but that's on the 11th though, right? The next one, right? Yeah. You got some big news for us, Matt, on the highway. Not that I was aware of.
When when are they planning on Pine Ridge for 34? Yeah. Uh they are working with the DNR to get their screen bypass and approve which they got this past week. So they are said they
might start in a week but it'll probably be at least a couple weeks for there to start that project up on a county road 43 window they self-driven gutter believe today tomorrow be put in the sidewalks so that's coming along so after they get
that done probably be ready paving do they get their drain taken care of or not 100% yet still waiting to But the product is going to move forward. It's not going to stop anything up that issue. Whatever the solution
ends up being and uh pipes were installed on 54 and that way too. We will have to come back to 54 since one of the pipe sections was broke off the tongue. So, we put
that one on the end the group and they're making a new section right now. So, we will have to end up taking the end section off at one piece and putting the new one back on. That'll happen later.
Did that happen, Matt, when they said it or I think it was a transport transport manufacturing back on one of the sides of it completely cracked. It was manufacturing error.
Then on 55 they had been hauling in sand to get it built up and need tail power to fold and move up right away. They started they're moving the pavement I believe yesterday and uh they can start working in the
water here today since the DNR per so and I think uh the state's coming down to meet with me tomorrow afternoon we'll walk through and like I said 34 will be starting a
couple weeks from a good thing they two and 54 done. The timing and the ditch three I'm I'm told Eron was telling me that that's completed the repair that they did on ditch three project.
Yep. So the ditch profile between two and 54 you know those culvers it all fits and and the drainage is working. It looks like it is. I was there yesterday and took a look. Yeah, there's a lot of water. both holes. They had to fight
water versus what they did. They just put a plug in the ditch and Yeah. Quick plug the ditch and get the pipe in. But there's too much water coming. So yeah, way too much. Well, even like that the mistake had come out of Pineer. There's quite a bit of water in there,
too. Oh, yeah. Yeah. that one. It's a little bit more difficult cuz it would be easy just to circuit and run the river mistake river on the south side of 34 but that DR will allow that
two bypass passes put in order. So just fun things you get to deal with. Yeah. Well, if we have nothing else, we'll adjourn at 10 o'clock.