for pledge aledge flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and Justice hey I'd ask for approval of the agenda or to approve the agenda Ed so
move Mr chair second discussion all favor say I I approval of the meeting minutes from the last meeting we sent out
good motion to approve the minutes so second discussion all in favor say I I oppos Carri appr of the warrants
D 50% settlement June is that 50% of the June settlement or 50% of the Year settle first half 50% everything we collected through May 20 okay so first half of the whole year
that's an estimate what we do is we run whenever date that was made and may the first part of we just did it again this week um so for the schools and the state of Minnesota we have to give them an
estimate um we pay 50% May 50% of June estim we collect now we'll do the full what we call the full settlement and that'll be end of June where we do everybody the cities townships we clean up the schools we the county The
Watershed to everybody I'll make a motion to pay the bills I'll second it and motion a second is there any discussion all in favor say I I and cl very guess what we got a little time you know
what that means really give us a little update on kind of your department and kind of how it's going you want to do that yeah that in Pro request thank
you we sit right next to the here yeah so I guess I'm here today to just kind of give you a heads up on the County Board of appeal that is going to be coming up here on June 17th at 4:30 um we we had an extremely light
year for local boards this year um we had two appeals so um countywide um we did have a 24% increase in AR tillable land um the the one thing about that is
we had a lot of farmers questioning but I think a lot of farmers are very well versed in kind of what's happening in the egg market right now and they they understand what their Farm or what their neighbors are selling farmland for um so they're probably one of the the best
informed group out there um so we didn't have a ton of questions most of the questions we had this year were from people who are out of the area um they live in other states they just don't they're not fully involved in
agricultural um which they might have just inherited the land something along those lines um so that's kind of where those people had questions about the kind of increase that we had this year um right now our our my staff is getting
geared up to go out and start viewing viewing properties so they've been out for about the last month doing their their quintile work um so just again this is something that happens every year so they're they're out and about um
knocking on doors and so we seen her in Ashby yesterday yep yep so Vicki was out in Ashby yesterday so um we are ready for next year we're
the market hasn't slowed down one bit um our residential we're probably still looking you know anywhere from a 5 to 10% increase if it were to end today um AER cultural we're still looking at about another 12% increase so so the market is it everything is
still going up so we're not seeing any any slowdown anywhere no stagflation out there at all there's no stag inflation no so wow um the number of probably new buildings
going up that's probably slowed down a little bit um and I probably attribute that back to high higher interest rates um material costs have started to come down a little bit but um there's you know there's a lot of stuff
was built between 2020 and 2024 so um I'm not sure people are kind of caught up in what they're going to do but um we still need more houses um we need we need people to build um that'll
help kind of level things out a little bit um and that's part of the reason that our Market is still increasing at the level that it is is because we just don't have the inventory for people to to buy so any other questions for me um I just
kind of wanted to come and let you guys know or remind you that the County Board was coming up um just because we we go over this back in January but I just figured you should be just kind of a little more up toate reminder so I got a
question for you technology in your office are we if we're looking at good better and best are we comparatively with other small counties are we do we have what we
need or do we need you need more from us or how kind of how are we sitting from a technological standpoint from a techn te ological standpoint I think we're right where we need to be um we have periodic updates to our GIS which is the updated
imagery and that's being loaded on to the the county servers basically as we speak right now um so that all just came into my office last week and so I've been working with it to get that all uploaded um so with a three-year cycle on a new imagery that's pretty much the
the state standard um of what people are doing so we're we're right in line there um with our C system there it's one of those things that it's it's it suffices for what we need um are
there better systems out there it's it's Chevy versus Ford um of whether I mean it what the system we have Works um our tax system is is good
um as long as we can continue to to have those people do what they need to do I think we're we're right where we need to be um I think if they lose too much more staff down there I think we're going to have you know there'll be some some Growing Pains
um you know computer-wise I think we're right where we need to be um we have in the past played around with taking some um like iPads and surfaces out in the field but we found that there's there's just nothing really on the market that
is built for how we would use them um because when our appraisers are out viewing properties there's there can be long gaps between they can before they can plug that unit back in to get battery so the battery life out in the field they
might say that oh they they work for eight hours but in reality how we use them they only last about four so we haven't found that there's a good like surface iPad anything that works long
enough because we can't bring them into a cold AC car so they get really hot they get you know the screens tend to delaminate those types of things so we've just gone back to pen and paper um
just because it's it's reliable so we we've been down the path technology hasn't just caught up yet so even T tough books they're too heavy if you're lugging around another four or five pounds it just it weighs a
lot on the appraisers so CH I got a question is there any uptick and surveys if we're talking splits um I would probably say it's about normal okay um we are seeing that there's a lot more people getting surveys just for
their own needs um we have had quite a few documents in the last two to three months that are kind of they're using our our County policy [Music] and
basically ways to circumvent getting a survey um which I guess that's one of the things that uh my office reporters and Justin's office are going to need to kind of review to see if we want to continue go on that route or if we need
to change up upate our policy on whether a survey would be required when we are certifying a sale yep whether it' be tax orature anything whether it' be anything
yeah but there there does come a cost to doing a survey I mean it can cost anywhere from a simple one would be about $2500 to a complex could be $7 to $10,000 so it all depends
on what the what the issues are anything else for Carl thank you thank you very much John you got yeah seven minutes it'll be really short you sent us another update which I like thank you uh you w to touch
on that or maybe have something else well I I do briefly and I know it's short notice but that the uh at the last meeting we did I had uh brought to the board um we're talking about rain gutters for the new LEC and I was we
were meeting with the Gutter Guy after the meeting and we had that rough uh estimate of like $88,000 is what I talked about at the time so after meeting with uh the owner from Minnesota gutter he did provide us an estimate for
the entire building and it's $2,000 less than what the rough estimate was just verbally so he had submitted uh to me last week an estimate for the entire building uh equaling $5,999
65 so um you know we've all seen with the amount of rain that we've got the and we need someplace for that water to go so I guess you know my my ask of the board is if this is something that uh you'd be willing to approve uh for the
for the new LEC so I can get the scent into them and lock them in at this price and then we just have a scheduling you know later on down the line for it so together proposal that obviously from
the roof line what about at the ground Does it include tending to the water once it gets to the base well I know that was a question last time is where you know where are we going to go with that and I think you know at this point it does not I mean we talk about down spouts and out
on the ground but now if we need to do uh something like French drains or something like that for the down spouts with rock in maybe a a span that sits four or five feet out from the building where it dis dissipates out um I think that's something to look at uh when we
get to that point as far as any Landscaping goes I don't anticipate seeing any of that happening this year um I just I think right now we'll try to get what we can get us established when it comes to uh grass and and um getting
that soil um together and everything like that and getting things tied down a little bit but maybe next spring look at how we're going to put what we're going to push that water to when he gave us the quote you obviously was on site correct did you together look at where
the drops would be and and kind of say okay this makes sense and and have somewhat of a napkin pencil drawing where right where well so we're it taken into a place where we can handle it yes definitely y y definitely yeah there's
you know there there's quite a slope to that whole uh site anyways and so the design um yeah I'd have to physically show it to you for you to understand where that water would be going at this point coming from the building but yeah it's been taken into
account is that did include gutter guards oh we spoke of gutter guards and um that was the one place that I I was concerned about is maybe on the north side of the building with the trees um but the uh building sits high enough
especially the upper level that trees aren't going to be an issue um we had discussed rain gutter which would be on the west side of the garage area that could potentially be an issue um instead of throwing gutter guards in there at this point we thought we would see um
how that plays out and how those are affected or aren't affected uh by leaves or trees and um he had said to that later on if there something that we need to add you know six months down the road or a year down the road something we
certainly would consider so and that would just that be in relatively small area so do we need a motion or is this part of the whole plan and there's money in the in the kitty well we had we had just discussed
it come out of bond proceeds correct yeah so so do you need a motion and I I think it'd be B so we got a motion to approve 5992 something 59 9965 99965 sold 35 cents from
6,000 six grand as a recommendation of the building committee I'll make that motion Mr chair motion there a second second any other discussion yeah I think we should talk to soil and water and see I don't think we
should grade it all establish seed and then just teir it up in the spring we can do it all before we get it at least get a plan so we know what yeah I can I can certainly get with Greg and um you know since he's across the hall now it's
be easier to get a hold of them and we can sit down and look at a plan see how that all plays out that's I don't think that's an issue yeah anything else say hi hi I got two minutes two minutes
to upate yeah so um Brick Layers will be done SCH bricks will be done today um with the exception of one block wall in the basement hallway area and the doorway um but they are wrapping up on all the exterior brick today um window
guys are here so they're starting to set door or door frames window frames and glass um Carpenters are back they're starting with the sopit and the decorative trim decorative trim on the back side that that's where they started to work that'll that'll continue around
the whole entire building um plumbing and heating they still continue to finish up insulating uh for plumbing and heating is finishing up electrical is moving right along with all the rough in done they're pulling a lot of wire now 11:00 today uh TK or Tyson Crump the
elevator uh guys they're showing up with the equipment starting to install that um last Friday or a week ago Friday all of the jip creek the additional flooring on the wood part of the flooring was all poured in the upper ovel so that's
complete and all four Stoops were poured yesterday and so those are now complete for the walkin doors um on the west east and then the main entrance of the building so that's been completed now too this jip m does that go over the existing
concrete or so if you're and Ken you were in there so if you remember you know when we walked into that building there was that wooden floor and then at the further west you went all we stepped up like an inch and a half or an inch roughly onto the cement okay so that jip
creat is a cement poured on top of that wooden floor to bring all of it up to the same level yeah and it's it's and whatever tile or purple whatever go right over the top a type of concrete that's really thin
and finishes nice and yep yeah y so that's the short version of the of the latest you're now out of time so you get your final say any questions for John otherwise thank you yeah thank
you we got Human Resources actually good morning all right so I'm back with the um County coordinator position I had sent out the job description to all of you I think you all get that um last week so it
includes all of the uh job duties that we discussed um at a board meeting a few meetings ago um it came back uh graded at a 18 which was the same grade it was rated in 2022 it just gained 10 points
but it still stayed in that grading so um with that now I bring it um to the board to to ask if after reviewing and seeing all the job duties in here if this is something you'd like to move forward with um as far as advertising
and hiring a c coordinator is there any questions on the job description that was sent out to everybody actually who was the main contact for the website changes and additions Jeff for you both yeah um the department
heads were trained or not the well department heads or they designated somebody in their Department that were able to make changes so every Department should have somebody that can make changes but when it comes to like the main page Jeff and I can um make changes that way um so yeah I would guess if
there's somebody that wants something on the main page we'd be the kind you all work together and then the depart departments know how to change their own Pages yep but when it comes to like if we have to do a revamp of our web page or you
know coordinating of that um Jeff and I we did that so that would be under this position now if we were to go a different route for a web page or do our revamp of it this job description is 40 hours a week
in Percy questions comments I thought I had a question now I can't find my question is there section in here that related to the department head meetings I think we put it as various
um various board committees task force and commity yeah yeah right here we'll represent the department heads and Lead monthly department head meetings what section was that um five up from the bottom up the first page
dots fifth one up I know you've overlapped on a lot of these meetings and projects and you know staying a breast of development local Regional State meetings and things like that you know this person in my opinion should should
get eyeballed deep into AMC and understand what Association of Minnesota counties does with this these counties clearr state so that must overlap and take care of some of that but that person should show up to those events in my we see lot of Auditors and
administrators you know coordinators and things like that of P that was my question will represent the department heads and lead the monthly department head meeting so I first read that I was
like does that mean the department heads won't have a say at the table when they says represent them no I don't think so I think it's do the meetings the agenda the notifications um um that part of it and
what comes out of the meeting and then the notes the minutes and all of that sending that out to the department heads communication communication with them so when it says we represent the department heads and lead the monthly department head me I think when that if if like let's say non-union you know
department heads are non-union if you know like I came to the board for the employer contribution on behalf of the department heads they wanted to see an increase just like the rest um so if there's a change they would the Coordinator would represent the department heads as far as coming to
the board asking for that approval maybe that's how I see it that was my question makes sense but it's not intended to not have the department heads at their Mee no so we're at this point
would then ask for a motion and a second and discussion at that point then what well we need approval um to approve the job description and then approval to advertise for the position um and then if it is approved
if you guys do approve the position then we would post and has the Personnel committee I mean you weighed in on this obviously and so at this point then I would ask for a motion to approve the
county coordinator that description is presented second I'll second oh [Music] discussion all in favor of the motion
say I I I opposed carried so what before you go your next that motion though that just to approve the job description we still have to we still approve F yes so we do that right
now so I'd ask for a motion then to proceed to F the position advertis and hire is there a motion motion a second discussion yeah what are we looking at timeline yes I
was does that becomes an issue too right now I don't know if we have any repits on right he where we going to put on GL idea not not in not over in public
health oh put it that way some thoughts Troy I just talk to Rob and I said there was no peline for him to move up there you know that because
there's that off off by the breaker do we table this motion until the next meeting and talk to Rob and see what his timeline to move would be and then we know for now they' move
in here and then so there was an office that Rob planed on moving in sooner than well our last meeting we approved the start y of moving the three Offices here up to the courthouse yeah and the one that the
strategic planning committee had designated for Rob is currently open so that is just a matter of when it works for Rob so I got a question would it make more sense that the three that are here move all at once once law enforcement is
moved out and then that you can commence to do the hiring process and have this person then moved into I don't know if that meant makes a difference to Rob whether he moves with when that's done or suing him would it
make more sense to have Min person go right into that or help me out with that thought well the recommendation from the strategic planning committee put Rob into that office so I don't think you'd want to put a coordinator into that office only to move them out when you moved all
three of these because that left the decision what came out of the Strategic plan committee was the decision for the coordinator of where they would go was between what is currently dispatch and Sheriff Chief Deputy that wall that wall between those two offices was put
up right so that can come back down to be one but we didn't want to keep doing that until we knew for sure what we were so I will make a motion to table the previous motion tell our next meeting I think we need to have more meetings to
discuss where we would house before we build so we have a motion to table the process to commence there a second to that I'll
second so and I'm part of the strategic planning committee so you got to help me out a little bit I should understand fully what you're saying is there an office available today that somebody could move into at the courthouse yes or
no there's the office by the break room okay and and if Rob moved into that that would that then wouldn't there be an office here mhm so why would we delay the process if there is truly an office
available I I'm just I like I said right before this meeting I talked to Rob and he said there was really no timeline that I knew of for him to move so I think it would be nice to talk to Rob again and see what is that timeline your
thinking is it in July August refill personally I think this is too important to position to delay the commencing the process if we have truly an office available but I can vote no too so but
that any more discussion we got a motion in a second is there more discussion to Troy's concept to table to next meeting yes so we're not a good
18th which isn't the major time element would you like to weigh in on this actually you work very hard on this do you have feelings expressing I don't know if I have feelings on the location because I don't
know um yeah there is an office at the courthouse that is open right now uh the plan was in strategic planning that rock would go there I don't know I don't have an opinion on the location I guess it just all depends
on how it works out on the moving process um because the strategic planning committee talked about that the the coordinator role would go into the sheriff and Chief Deputy space um clearly that's not available
yet but just depends on how much fli flopping and moving around you want to do exactly and we're talking about September sometime in September for you guys exiting the building you could move the person into the space at the courthouse now and then they just have to move across the hall I
guess but so that would be another question for I put on the spot that I got it so it we delaying it for two weeks to talk to Rob about whether he's ready to move up
there is that the discussion because and let's say he says not really I'd like to move when the rest move then we're going to commence to the process and put them up there anyway aren't we because we can't we can't delay this
whole deal till October so no my my concern is we say we're gonna hire right away Rob said we're not he's not ready to move until the others move dispatch is going to be
probably the last entity to move so that's not potentially a September 1st let's let's just use September 1 no saying that's today that might be September we're two weeks behind now and if that's the office
we're going to go with now we're going to move Rob and then switch and then move again right that'll make sense I thought the sheriff and the chief deputy going to be the coordinator office what we talked about in the
strategic planning is that office would potentially wait until the very end because we don't want to take that wall out only to go back a year later and say hey let's put that wall back again sure and have two offices rather than one bigger one yeah that's
that's that's exactly right right so I mean that that's my concern if we say we're going to hire right away and then we're going to just put the coordinator in the courthouse and then when we get to September to move and dispatch them ready then do we move them down here after we've already got them there and
only to move them again you have an office available you commence to start the process and if you and you make it work but is there any other discussion because we do have a motion in a second on the table all in favor of the motion say I
iOS I I believe it carried so we will delay the the motion to commence it should come it should be on the agenda for the next yeah we'll put it on the agenda and I mean we already have the
motion so one of the things that following up is I don't do we need a strategic planning committing meeting to address this or is it something that since we're on that is it strategic
planning or is it bill is it a building committee I don't should be a building committee meeting and then we recommendations to the Strategic plan some talking to Rob is I guess the point yeah I mean so is it the building we got people on board we can okay so the building committee
then in the next well we'll have a building meeting at some point you know and then we can meet right after that so we don't double up on meetings after we're done with your meeting like on a Monday yeah that's not going to happen because we're not having one this coming Monday so our next meeting
[Music] for well if it's not next Monday it would be two weeks probably after that right no we'll just have one okay because I know Robert asked for a few things too that we got
a address yeah our next meeting wouldn't technically be until the 24th yeah we'll meet before then because I know he'd asked for printer scanner how that worked and I said that
I believe would be a department had it request so just a thought for the building committee I I think that we've come a long ways I thank actually and the Personnel committee for the work they've
done on this I would hope that as they move forward with the building committee that we don't delay it any longer than the next meeting because this is really important let's figure the office space out and so I leave you with that
challenge and with that we can move on okay uh the next thing I have is um So currently we are um looking or looking to fill that Highway accountant position um again um
we hired someone a few weeks ago it didn't work out um and so we are it is open again um and so in the meantime and since um we have had this opening Aaron berer has filled the role and he has done the
um the duties of a highway accountant um in our Personnel committee meeting we figured uh he's doing about 15% of the the job and so um we felt as a Personnel committee he should be um compensated for that
because he's doing those duties as payroll bills the things that need to be done on a daily basis on a bi-weekly basis and so um we came up with uh 15% um compensating him above his current um
salary so um 15% would bring him um from currently $326 to $36.98 while he's doing those Highway accting duties and so I'd be looking at this is
following the president theor said yep and U and you that's five 15% 15 yeah sure right yep is there a motion to to that effect
second do we have an effective date when did this when did it start it start today or we started doing it that up to the bo how long you been doing it um so
well uh you know Michelle was our last Highway accountant um she left in April and then um so obviously April but then I don't know you have more on that yeah
that's why I brought up so chain left 61 Michelle started yep Michelle started August of 23 August of 23 and then Michelle yep
a yeah I did it for n weeks and then now I've been doing it for and we have had other department heads do extra duties when we're looking for staff and things like that but you
know in my opinion it should be effective immediately instead of backage I will make my I'll amend my motion reflect to uh pay him for the weeks that he's done
this extra door so I heard two numbers eight and a nine so it was two different or two different going back to the origination is that you got that somewhat clear there Chad
all I heard was to reflect back for the week he's done it so you said to help me out on them weeks Aon 6123 87 43 that's at that 15%
MH do we have a motion is there a second I'll second well you had a motion in a second well right so unless I mean but he amended do you want to withdraw it I was
the second yeah he never called on that so I will second that doy's motion am I on track Chad or I don't know are you I I just you had a motion in a second amended this motion
yeah the amendment so we're okay as we all right is there discussion on the amended Motion in second the only question I would have for Chad is how is this going to look when it's 2023 because we're closed for 2023
obviously is this a problem like wages are different you know budget everything's closed I don't know how that works that's my question well 23 doesn't you don't book these
wages back to 23 right um it's 15% of his wage at the time I'm assuming y yep so you whatever wage R first 23 through 87 23 and on 15 15% n of
that okay yeah and we know that obviously so any other discussion on favor of the motion say I I'd like to thank you Aon for stepping up and and doing these duties thank you
appreciate that and once again thank you for the work on the coordinator position work asy that is all I have that's all you get 9:45 you're a minute late Aon you're this should be pretty
simple but I had land owner call me on oh two three weeks ago asking to get the portion of ditch one cleaned east of town here and he was asking if he could call some contractors I said no I'll take care of
it so I got three quotes back um and uh Wagner construction was the lowest he was at $750 and I got quote from Olson tile and Excavating and Red Rock Excavating they were over 12,000 so I would look for approval to
award the the ditch cleaning to Wagner construction to clean out about 4700 we of ditch just east of town here much was the bid ER 7,50 and by looking at this is this
ditch north of TGs here this tberg on 79 a little piece right here Li up here this one and so this is about 1500 okay you looked at it I mean this makes
sense yeah is there money that they for there's $112,000 in there right now so and we're currently in the process of that redetermination stuff so that's a different money money process thing that
we'll have to deal with to so is this your recommendation yes there a motion to accept that recommendation and the quot I'll make that motion Mr chair I'll second it Mr chair is there a
discussion um I got one question here this ditch here though uh it'll always be our yeah yeah it's just east of the all in favor say I you went two minutes would you like to Enlighten us where the wall are biting
oh if I told you I'd have to kill you no I anything else in your department to do for you are you keeping your chin above yeah I just talked to contractor sir line BL before the meeting here and they're planning on
doing the striping next week so I'm G to talk to John plaster and see if he's got time to not babysit him but just check in on him have you heard any more on 10 there from the boys are coming back no how about 82 up there
um we have a preon tomorrow okay so we'll have a better idea tomorrow did they get the pipes in on T yep and they went good we maybe could have tossed another section on the west side but it it's flowing so they're working the
Overflow work y both of them y those pipes are much higher than oh a lot that box cover's really deep in there so like probably 5 feet bottom of the new pipes are 5et
above the top of the box no no not the top the flow line of the Box the box is super super tall it's a I think it's a 5x six if I remember right and those are just round pipes so they sit way higher like they're at the top of the box
basically oh yeah okay so that's yeah I didn't think that they'd be working right away but they are they're water and they're south of the Box correct both yep yep fairly close or
how close together yeah 15 20 feet maybe okay so yeah well they did got it done in a day or two or so it went good there was good material under them so you are you still like you're you're
a there some men short right is it one guy or one and then accountant yeah no not the accountant but you got yeah yeah it's just me yeah but I mean the engineering highway sign of it are they
missing an operator looking for one or yeah one right now yeah and then the technician for me and Matt so not a lot of no no application not yet what you want tell us where the Ws
are biting and you're one minute late you have anything else I don't think so always thank you yep thank you guys next re and GRE whoever's carry the
torch all right good morning morning I maybe before I start with the firman thing um I want to I want to share with you that I've been having conversations with an in regards to the furniture that uh uh is
still over in the corner where we used to be so um kind of came to the conclusion that the way that the the floor plan up in the new office worked pretty well so I decided that it would probably be
appropriate rather than all the manh hours and all the stuff that it would have took to pack that stuff up and move it all over I just transitioned into what was already there so um with that then being said that furniture is still sitting there and I
had a conversation with an about you know they're they're ramping up and going to have another employee in there and I asked her if she'd be interested in buying it and she said she was so she went ahead and then got a quote in an
estimate on what her office needs would be in that room there's a couple extra pieces of furniture in there that she probably didn't need because well I just had more things going on so I guess what I'm the point I'm getting at is is um
she wasn't willing you know we she basically said she'd pay $6,500 for the stuff that's in there and we had probably more like 85 or 9,000 into everything but it is a couple years old right and blah blah blah so she is going
to uh whoever you guys sit on that okay that joint board she's she's going to present that on the 10th she presented it yesterday to me oh okay we had a finance committee meeting oh there you go okay so you're on that too okay so with that then so you're aware of that I
wasn't sure if you had been brought up to speed on that she said on the third they were going to have a finance committee but I didn't know if appear on that one Del okay so fast forward I guess um I I don't know if she's got confirmation yet but I wanted to share
with you guys that I you know and I'd recommend that that'd be a good idea right otherwise we could take it out of there and put it in storage until I don't know maybe if the sheriff's department would be interested in it or right I mean I I guess like I said my
recommendation would be is to to sell that equipment to Public Health that office furniture and then we're utilizing that space pretty effectively it just made sense it worked so so you said a couple pieces did she gave them extra pieces
for the 6500 or what's happening yeah I would just right yeah I mean it doesn't I mean the color is different and I suppose I could bring it up there but the way it's set up up there right now it's working and I right you'd have some
lighter Oak and then the the material or the the texture and the color of that stuff is like this right so it would just be kind of a mismatch and it right so I wouldn't say we're giving it away but we're just discount right a discount package so we need a motion then to well
I suppose it would be contingent upon if they would maybe she's going to present that on Monday right yeah so next like I told her you know 6500 I think the county I can't speak for the board said I think
the county would be probably willing to do that right and that would be my recommendation put it in storage and you sell it 10 years from no for ,000 yeah yeah where is that the same stuff that you had across the street you just moved over here is that no that's the stuff I bought like three years ago so it's not
it's the ergonomic stuff right we've got in office where do we have storage yeah we don't have yeah yeah yeah so there that's another good point right and I believe Bill correting if I'm wrong but all the furniture for law enforcement's been ordered if not in
storage okay right so I I think you know I think that the I think the board over there over that they'll offer the 6500 yeah yeah and I and I right motion to if they're willing to pay it we'll accept the 6500 for the furniture
and I'll second that for the simple fact that you move the stuff around pretty soon something happens to it yeah sit still and you just utilize it wherever it's at they can put their people right in there yeah right yeah motion a second is
there any additional discussion on say I I so thank you all right and I will'll move on to the agenda item that I did have on there was uh uh Joey and Chantel
Ferman uh came before the Planning Commission a couple of weeks ago to request an after Thea uh permit or some Lakeshore dirt moving that they had done earlier in the spring and I think Chad
you mentioned that you forwarded that package so um you know maybe what we can do is uh take the opportunity to to look at the the there's a photo of what was done out there right and that uh and
that that project then based on what was it what was done out there would have required a conditional use permit because we're in the shore Impact Zone right next to the Shoreline and typically uh if someone wanted to move that volume of dirt uh we would have
requested re ired a um more than just an over-the-counter permit that I can give so it would have required a conditional use permit so there was two routes at the time that this was discovered was either go through the after the fact
process or turn it over to Justin for going through the legal process and in conversations with Mr Ferman he said he would be willing to cooperate so we went down the road of uh going for an after
the fact permit to restore this back to as close as what was there prior to that excavation so we uh put together a package uh what we explained to uh Mr
Ferman who was trying to uh uh do RIP wrap and his rationale at the time was is his smaller equipment wouldn't have been able to do uh what what typically is done and here's another photo that
you guys have in your packet that shows uh what what a RI wrap project typically looks like so um you know we we went through the the process of uh you know explaining to him what some of the
conditions and the requirements would be if he would have come in and tried to do this uh correctly so um in that packet again uh there is a a set of conditions that uh the Planning Commission
recommended that Mr Ferman meet in order to be in compliance with uh the conditional use permit and I don't know how far into the weeds you guys want to go through but there is a set of uh 17 conditions that were attached to
this project and primarily it's number three that I want to review with you guys um and those are recommendations that were born from a typical project and also uh Brent from the Sol and Water
Conservation District who is the one who typically is uh tasked with with uh recommending how to do this project so that uh it's done properly and it and it'll function and last long term and then at the same time then try to
prevent any soil erosion from getting in the water so item three talks about uh uh moving forward with this project that either a silt curtain gets placed out in the water or else uh a silk fence be
placed right at the base of the water's edge so this all these conditions were reviewed that night of the the hearing and U Mr Ferman uh did agree to to abide by those conditions so one of the one of
the things that maybe stands on out a little bit is is um during the project um as it moves forward then um Mr furman's going to place uh some smaller logs because he has a he does
have a lumber business right he cuts trees for living so he's going to be placing uh uh logs at the top of the toe of that project or at the base and then putting wood chips behind there so that as he's doing the work over the next 30
to 60 days he'll just sequentially move those logs out of the way as he does the project right because he's he's entertained to do that himself so um but the first step then would be is is to take the material
where he made that steep bank and peel it back and put it back to its original contour and we do have a profile uh in the packet that shows uh what the project looked like
prior to his his activity so if we were to look at this sheet here this was derived using uh some GPS equipment that we've uh have in the office and then also using lar right so the first step
then would be is to restore this side Hill back to what it looked like before he did the the dirt work so he's agreed to do that and then uh one of the other steps in this project then would be um since this Lake
does bounce quite a bit uh Mr Ferman will be placing the rock rip wrap a minimum of two feet above the current elevation of the lake and it's probably come up a little bit now I don't know is Elk Lake come up a little bit I know you
live on that the lake just adjoining it so you would be able to you know right these Lakes down in that country bounce a little bit so if they're going to rip wrap we want to make sure that the rock is as high as potentially the lake can get to avoid that future erosion problem
right and I did attach in your packet at the back there you'll notice uh there is a there's kind of a guidelines and a worksheet that DNR has in place so Mr Ferman would would then obviously follow those guidelines as well and all of
these things are spelled out in item three and one of the other pieces then to that puzzle is as this project transpires in pieces he will then seed and mulch the project so that uh moving
forward Grass Grows Where there is no rock and uh the erosion control blanket and seating then would prevent that from happening in the future so the recommendation going through this process from our Planning Commission who
is The Advisory board on these kind of projects to you guys is is to recommend approving this particular project as long as all of these conditions are followed in meth so that maybe is a lot
to digest so I'll maybe take a breath and ask you guys if you got questions about this particular project that after the fact price T that moved up from wasn't like 700 uh we it's actually it was 300 and we moved it to 500 okay so
Mr Ferman has already paid the application fee of $400 and the after the fact fine or permit fee of $500 and the other piece to this then if you notice condition 8 is is we
calculate that this is about a 200 linear foot wide project and about 50 ft back so then um that comes to approximately $1,100 in a performance deposit that he'll sub
right so that if he doesn't follow the guidelines primarily of item three then we would have leverage to either cash that check and have it done right or uh we still have the ability then if he
doesn't comply cash that check and then turn the project over to Justin so those there's one more if you look at page eight there's a shed there and yes correct cut out and what he's what he
call that a not a Gaz but a if he commences with that then you have to Mo to sh right yeah and that and that would be a yeah and that that's part of that isn't necessarily a condition that's just that's an over-the-counter permit that I will give because what Joy's
proposing to do if you look in uh the photo that I submitted you'll notice there is a small cutout right in that area that's where he's proposing to put a gazebo so that right and that's that's an allowed
activity it was the dirt work that wasn't allowed so we gave him the ability to leave that cut out to a maximum of 250 square feet right and then part of that little cutout will be put back into black dirt so that's a
good point Ken but there will be a gazebo that he's proposing to put there and by the lake you're allowed 150 squ foot building so he's going to place a gazebo there and there is a shed that obviously sits in that red location that
will be moved back 200 feet so you're allowed one structure down by the water that's now going to be a gazebo okay so I'm glad you brought that up again that's so this is outside of the Shand ordinance boundry though uh
well the permit the permit for a Gaz Zebo would be a permit over the counter that I would give him but then you're only allowed one of those kind of buildings and currently he already has a storage building down there so then that storage building is coming out and then
will be placed back by his house does that make sense so he'll still be allowed one building down by the water that he currently was storing his stuff but we don't allow two buildings down by the lake so that'll be coming out
because he wants a gazebo what's a do same thing pretty much yeah that's how that's yeah yeah that's where they come from uh not necessarily but yeah it's kind of a it's a areawide Statewide standard
yeah so where we're at now is um Mr furman's agreed to all these conditions uh The Next Step then is is for you guys to uh sign the permit application with those conditions
attached and there will be an agreement that is also signed by you guys and Mr Ferman that he's he and you guys recognize and agree that that's what's going to happen and if it doesn't then again we have the potential to cash that
deposit of $100 and if he doesn't cooperate then we turn it over to Justin so how long time do it uh in the conditions it's 60 days yeah so 10 60 days what's that oh it says August 10th it's got to be done by
August 10th yes which is 60 days from yes yeah and his his his uh commitment was is he was going he had graduation last weekend and now he would be starting the project probably this weekend next
week so would our motion be accept to accept the page six the agreement of conditional use right it would be yep it would be to approve the permit permit as presented with the attached conditions okay y so is there a motion to approve
the as presented with the attached conditions I'll make that motion Mr chair okay a second I'll right okay thank you and I think maybe you mentioned it but planing commission did recommend it yes yes the
Planning Commission did recommend approval of this y yeah any other discussion what part of the lake is this is it across or it's on Lower Elk Lake yeah I didn't put a map on there D I should have it's it's on the north side of lower Elk Lake it
would be uh about in the middle of that development or maybe a little bit to the east y any other discussion all favor say I okay so then Ken I'll have two things
for you to sign it would be the permit application itself and then the the uh the agreement got a question since we talked about the elevation of the water coming up okay I M my dog three times so I went to the other end and looked that
water and plug the outlet yes okay uh is that like uh I don't honestly I don't even know who who's responsible for that outlet that was my next question I know we've had this we had this coners ation several years ago but I think what's
happened is is just the folks on the lake over there and clean it out I mean that's okay yes without a doubt yeah I know it's on I got walk through private property to get to it or I suppose IR right right and if you want to I mean I
can try to coordinate something there Kim but honestly I don't know who's in charge of that outlet I don't Where The Down by the beach somewhere uh it's over no actually it's it' be at the very northwest corner there there was a
because naturally this Lake wanted to go to the east into lower Elk Lake but that I think there was something done in the 70s where that that thing was installed and I think Jenna Swanson was involved in that if I
remember right right usually it gets pled with stinks and stuff and CLE it out there how big pip is it say it's into that series Jan I guess I gotta have you I
gotta have you something ditional ladder on a now who's got control of it bound to be somebody D be moving my do does it impact ordinary High
well I'm guessing it's creeping up there now I don't know what the ordinary high is I just know that the pipe is underwater and it's not coming all right so what's happening Greg on this this public water inventory that's
going well I don't know I think I think it's kind of back in dnr's hands but I don't honestly don't know all the details of that you're maybe referring to some of that legislation that came through at the the last 40 miles things yeah and I know there's
there's a push now there there actually I think where it's at is is there's going to be an official map and that's going to be the map a record and that's how it's going to be so things don't get added or subtracted or right that's my understanding how that's going to play
out this all took place for that deal that happened down in the southwest quter of the state yeah I think so yeah and now kind of you know they're they're seeing inefficiencies with it so they're kind of trying to yeah yeah you know I don't know it's going to create horest out here because of the what they've
started and now they're changing and so yeah yeah I don't know we'll find out they won't start a revolution there yeah well waters for fighting there just put in there based on some water height right well yeah and I but I
yeah i' honestly no gate on it no there's no gate on it it just comes out and leaves Ericson's on the other side of that Gravel Road and there's a yeah there might be a file down at the Soil and Water District that have some information because I think they were
involved with that but I you know it's I think what happens is is when it's close to Shore and then the waves come and then the bull rush and all that just cover that thing up and it's intended to keep the lake from getting too high right and it'll only let it get so low
and I think it is set at the ordinary high so yeah but you know all this rain is kind of creating a lot of lot of lot of things uh right now you know in the Pelican Lake area we had
four three to four inches two to four three three at my place four in Evansville two plus and Pelican Lake Township had a couple of roads that got damn near washed out uh on the South Side so just Dwight maybe just so you're
aware of that that it I've been Ruben and I met met pelican Lake yesterday and now I'm going back out there again today it's that new development on the south end Myrtle Beach and there's a watershed
coming from the fields up there that's like 70 or 80 acres and it all came at once and the culverts couldn't handle it on that new development so it got up and topped over so it blew gravel off into the ditch and it's a pretty big
blowout ring we up to Millville yesterday for for Little League baseball and looked at some of the fields by Jacobson there yeah yeah and just a little way sou yeah yeah was a line there that right right huge like it be
there that the small ball part you know the water we got catch bases in there to catch it behind right come over the top of that and it couldn't handle it and it went through the third base entrance wash that out bit Yeah so there was there was a lot that it came hard and
fast they got three four inches up there yep oh y yeah it was it was pretty good rain so situ no I know while we were at the water elevations are always kind of a touchy subject too but you know last
weekend we met with the p Pelican Lake folks right and that was kind of part of the conversation was is some people like the water High some people like it low and some like it dirty and some like clean and right
so like no yeah and I yeah that was part of the conversation I think I they get did it get pretty heated there I had to leave for that Dy to a little bit right but the like that is it Alex is that his name no the DNR
guy uh from Glenwood yeah I don't know yeah I think so guy you know he said I'm just in charge of fish you yeah yeah they were see they going to they were going to call the corms opposing at you know maybe I don't know like a thousand
them or something and then it got shot down at the upper levels of yeah yeah so the but boy have they been they've been going north though yeah yeah they come off the lake in in hordes quite a big
flock have they started talking about these this rough fish in these basins and you know the dnr's been start to do some type of predation on it well yeah I don't know they're there they talk a lot about the the suckers or you know the
rough fish there's a lot of lot of conversation about whether they mechanically remove them or try to you know there's pheromones that they're working on it with research and all that kind of stuff right but I I don't know um where that's all going to go but
every Lake's going to have carp and bullheads and right but but where it where it leads I don't know but I know one of the things they are trying to do um is remove dams up and down our river systems and that'll maybe be one
of the conversations this weekend at the pal detar River association meeting or the Palm to tear Lake Association meeting is is they're going to remove the dam on on Palm to tear not not make it go lower but make a a ladder system
so that the fish the good fish can the stream the south end of the lake you're talking yep yep really yep they put that in the 50s and they put a fish ladder in there yep okay yep they're doing it on the whole Palm to te river system yep
there's convers and and the Lake Association has been the one who have been pushing it because what ends up happening is is the walleye and the crappies and everything that are in the river can never get up into the lake right so yeah so that'll maybe be one of
the conversations this week I I think John Holmes on planning on going to that so we uh should be able to have a conversation about that so fish L wreck the best fishing hole I ever knew yeah that's the ones that uh like to
fish at the bottom of the dam are disappointed but that up in the chip chain Dr no it was between the Barrett Dam and you know that Old Bridge there was a hole that or the rock there was always wall that was sitting behind it w put fish ladder in then they could get
up so they never sit there so was that during the speering season then or what yeah do disappearing season closes I remember that remember thaty when you guys were young I Liv okay did you get it out of
there this year canc on E before but now they no all right yep yep they want to drop water run out of their all winter okay didn't you and I go over there on the gator and look at that thing that was that was a different spot
okay but speaking of that you know I have I have been working with the land owners on Five Mile Creek um in terms of trying to do some cleanouts and it's kind of being um I'm having some success and
some land owners are being a little apprehensive about it and so where where that one goes I don't know but but I know it's high yeah it is yeah espe on the East yeah was going yeah yeah y so I've been reaching out to some of the
land owners and uh you know there's a DNR permit that has to be acquired and boys du Su has actually have has a policy in place now I think I've shared this with you already but as long as we're visiting they will cost share up to $3,000 to help do some cleanout on F
Mile Creek so that was part of that meeting we had down in Herman and so couple of the land owners are willing to cooperate and some of them said they don't want to participate and so we'll have to can you say the clean out of are you talking prior to
the what's classified as Five Mile Creek or actually in in Five Mile Creek the Five Mile Creek proper y so the DNR is on board that yes I've been working with the DNR on that yep they are on board yep there are some thresholds we cannot
cross in terms of length or amounts but they yep I've I've got uh pretty good cooperation length of Channel or length of Channel volume all those kind of things there are some triggers that if you do too big of a comprehensive
project that it would require some environmental review CH or with uh all of it length width volume it can't be at each time it you be segments right yeah So eventually it just going take a while right yeah and
say we know what happened if you just do part of it is it doesn't work yeah and I and I think you know when you say that in the big picture I believe that you know there there's there's an understanding that there probably has to
be a more comprehensive approach to these problem areas and I think you know there's maybe in the next five and 10 year plan boys du Su will come back and try to start at the beginning and go to the end but but the thing they're up
against is is they they have the red path project going on they have Doran Creek you know they have limited staff we have limited money you know we all know that there are multiple projects that can go on but we just can't do them all at once but there's some towards the bottom that don't want to clean out but
if you top then they don't want to clean right yeah yes yeah so we right and we've got some pretty good track record of understanding what happens when you start at the top it doesn't go very well because then you just move the problem and gets worse and worse and worse so
they might wake up yeah yeah but that's been kind of that could be different you wouldn't have a cul it's the one I'm thinking we're talking about there they call holding it so those never and it's and it's kind of complicated and I've I've been you know
both Reed and I have been working with the land owners on this Five Mile Creek project so as it moves forward I'll I'll keep you guys in the loop so that guy in the red shirt he'll help you get it there you go there you go hey
Jeff a slug J out there to figure out just what kind of dirt just got to be moved out of it exactly is it yeah it's four or five feet material going to move on well when you say that there is there is one spot that uh um through the one Watershed one
plan you know that's that's geared toward water quality more there is one land owner that's on the beach Ridge it has a lot of sand and there's a lot of watershed that comes through his property and every time we get a big rain that part of the farm blows right into the lake or into the river I'm
sorry into the main channel so you know they they recognize they have a problem but there's no reason to go in there and clean out that part of Five Mile Creek when if you clean it and we get a three in rain or 4 in Rain like we did in
Ashby all that all that soil goes right back in and so we are working with the soil and water and it's a pretty big uh uh project and we're going to correct all that Upland stuff before we clean the channel because it's the potential
exists for it to just happen again so why would you clean that part of Five Mile Creek if we are just going to blow out and everybody you know the folks at boys D Su and the folks in the one water had one plan we're all aware of it and it's going to the plan is to get that
done yet this year and once we can do that then that part of the Five Mile Creek will get cleaned so it's trying to be comprehensive just like the plan says comprehensive plan so lots going on but yeah we'll get her
hopefully can I ask a question Creek maybe he saided before I came in you know from Herman into it has anything ever been done or is plan for that a couple years ago I was out there you know Y and maybe you talked about yeah that yep that's that's what we're
talking about Je exactly yep okay cool as a result of that that's some of the stuff that's going on okay good we've got everybody on board and we're trying to get some resolution I get contacted on that more than once oh yeah for sure y yep you're
not alone okay good y thank you you bet so we got six minute read you know what that means you want to give us your six minute update on Solid Waste and Recycling sure um by
Wednesday the solid score will be completed and BR in then in a couple weeks we meet with a couple different people from the state and Bron and a couple others to do some kickoff meeting for our 10e plan stuff is that's coming
26 or late late 25 I think um all the cities got updated all the building and all that got figured out so they got their build now so they've all seem like they've been pretty happy that they got them now um
other than that we haven't had anything crazy so it's been good that's all Bas it's kind of well machine and it go how it goes and works pretty good yeah is there anything that you need from us or you you're doing okay I we're doing
pretty good yeah we've been cities with them there clean up stuff so that's been kind a good neighborly thing to do out well other than Jim left us in pretty good hands right I mean it was pretty well oiled and there weren't I mean we
were fortunate to take over when we did because you know there had been hiccups in the past but you know with having a good solid contract and the haulers and everything's been it's been a it's been going good it's a good learning curve for us but you know we've had few
hiccups but nothing like cre said it's been we've we've got her pretty well dialed in so Greg do you guys get get this environmental review for Wastewater collection systems like what Ral control operates you know with a city and
they're going to do some type of an update or a project or something like that that they touch basically sometimes we do build but not always okay it just depends on the particular project we okay us I'll get those notices you know another example is I just got a notice
from the state regarding the transmission line which it isn't in Grant County but right so it'll serve Grant County yeah yeah that's right right but just as an example but that are you referring to one in particular there yeah City have a lake sewer uh
update in our County rway or right off the rway I haven't gotten anything on that it's supp force me I haven't nope I haven't received anything on that one particular okay no something I should get I would have to believe that you know something if there's a wet
land they're doing any digging or any yeah what I'll do is I'll I just got this today so I'll go to the city and if it's something that you have to be involved with I'll make sure you can copy of okay perfect all right thanks great all right you thanks we have a few minutes uh would someone like to make a
motion to approve Sanford Township's requests for their $2,000 so second any discussion favor say I I have one thing I'm gonna be in
Canada Monday wednes but I was just wondering like The Scouting Board of appe there is that a zo meeting where I can get on Zo can I can I do that on Zoom I don't know so our experts back
there in the corner but I think you can if we have it on Zoom you can attend but in order to vote where you are at would have to be listed in the meeting notice as a it have to be a public space right yeah I I won't be at a public space
that's for sure the only the only thing I would be I mean you can attend you just wouldn't be able to vote but it it's uh yeah it's not a pretty serious deal that I can't vote the my big question and we never did
that with Carl is I'm assuming we have somebody that's trained we make sure we have the trained person here I did that also so we had two before now we have three well I know they they expired just so we have and he never said anything so I'm assuming
we're fine right and then the same with the board meeting on the 18th you know I don't even know if I got internet there I did couple years ago I had a little trouble with it but the training
you know you and I are the train Personnel we will be here I'm be I mean I was I don't know if I see or not I think I am just about anything else otherwise we're gonna givea Jeff berer one extra
minute well is that good b or ugly no it's good I don't want l valy say anything okay H when he talks well no nobody listens when you talk um okay thank you gentlemen um I um
first of all I gotta I had one document that I had but I misplaced it so I'm going to work off um my phone on that document the two things I wanted to just touch base there's a lot of things that happen um unfortunately the challenge that we face is we have a one party
control and that party is extremely heavily influenced by the metro folks okay that makes them extremely liberal um even though some of the rural Democrats Greater Minnesota Democrats don't care for their policies they still
walk to plank for the Metro crowd um and so forth extremely hard so what I want to start first of all is um HHS just a couple of the changes um HH was part of what we call the mega buus Bill the last
bill that was passed within 3 minutes it was 1,400 Pages um front to back 2800 Pages roughly a policy um we did get some good wins this year um I know this isn't what the county I know what the the school um West Central doesn't use
it but student resource officers were passed um we were able to stop some of the Second Amendment Provisions there was some in the um um the Mega Bus bill but the one that we were able to would be it
we'll use Dwight if you have if you have a carryon um one of the provision is if it's in your home you would have to have it under lock and safe okay so if you have a person that Tes decides to come door knocking at four o'clock from
Woodberry in your area like in Detroit Lakes now I'm being kind of of funny at least I'm trying to be you know you would have to say stop I gotta go get my gun this is how stupid that was the good news is we were able to um stop that um and so forth which was a big win um and
that was stop because of a greater Minnesota Democrat the constituents called another big win that we had this year which doesn't solve all the problems it starts to address the issue and that's um
Greater Minnesota EMS funding not just funding but policy one of the provisions I've been working on since 2015 is that nurses can ride in the back of the ambulance um and that got passed this year because as we are well aware of
with your ashp with your Hennings with your weaton Browns Valley Hoffman's um even into Breen Ridge the back up to and this will probably come into um law on August 1 this year it
will be most likely August 1 is it would have to been an EMT myself or I mean one of my peers or paramedic now through a variance under the direction of your um medical
director for the service they can a nurse practitioner and a nurse could take the place of a em in the back from a driver perspective we're able to Pro put a provision in there so that um a
person with a CPR card and just driving ed first well they don't have to be a first responder anymore they just have to have a CPR card and then take the fire the driving um emergency driving that all your police I'm sorry all your
fire and amulance takes okay so that was significant we got $24 million into um Greater Minnesota I don't have the runs in front of me because they've been changing but um most Services
getting with from 51,000 to 313,000 okay I me quite ironic Brown alley is one of the one of the least ones so just how the formula works we got about 51,000 yeah how do they determine it what we did was we put together a
formula based on the number of runs based um and it's right in in in the bill based on the number of runs based on the runs per square mile um also um those were the two key things everybody got a certain set
amount I think it was $24,000 don't quote me on that a base everybody had a certain base if it was the $120 million amount that we were asking for everybody everybody would got4 15,000 Bays um so it's around 2 4 25 So based on the Mount
of runs because we really wanted it to go and then um um not in a specific square mile but also we also had a feeling in a particular time so if our services giving 200 2,000 runs in a year
they didn't qualify because they can spread the cost out where a Henning a Ashby a Browns Valley a weaton um Breen Ridge um Hoffman you know and so forth so that's it was that formula there okay and it's right in the bill there Dwight
good question so that that was a win it was a hardfought win myself and um Senator trasman on the Senate side Senator Lang myself on the house side represented zista card on the Iron Range um it was really it was quite driven by
the minority party because the majority quite frankly had no concern for it we did tell them if you ever want you all would like to come out to our area if you want dial 911 you may not want to see me but you want to see somebody
okay um County um Karma which is county administered rural medical assistant model which you guys are already in Prime West that just makes it easier for other counties to get into it which at the end of the day if you have more folks into it I just came from wilin
County they're not involved with it um I am a big believer uh the county purchase program it gives you guys flexibility it brings it down locally you know who's here serves on the board for Prim West you do kid you know everything that
Prime West does um they even invest into our communities where HMO doesn't do that Al the metro area um it is a fight um the Metro folks really wanted to change it um um I got his face in my
head but his name's escaping me he's from St Cloud used to be the rep he's your lobbyist does a great job um he used to be the chair of HHS during peny he'll come to me I can see his face but anyways I work with him very closely um it's something that I
have I'm very passionate about he will share with you in 2016 or 2015 um my party when we were in the majority wanted to take that away and US Greater Minnesota reps got together and stopped
it by one vote so I have thought my party the suburan folks against it and now with this here it gives them that flexibility to look into it some of your um like out of hand Lake that Northern
actually like um ianti County would be very good your your Brian Johnson your an new areas so we can broaden that so that was good and you guys belong to that so I don't have to um share with you all the benefits there we did get changes to the um policy priority excuse
me changes to the priority Administration system um that's placing people into DHS Direct Care and treatment has been a point of contention between the counties um we were able to
keep the 48 hour rule even though the Metro folks did not want that we were able to keep some flexibility um but as you all are aware of you have had people in the no NOA I would assume you've had people in the NOA um Regional treatment center and how
expensive that is to your constituents it's just crazy um we did not stab we did not get everything far from it what we wanted in US Greater Minnesota rep so there's a lot of work for it that did tilt to the your s County Metro Area
stuff this year but we were able to still keep the 48 hour hold and so forth we did increase capacity to Direct Care and treatment that was $15.7 million in fiscal year 2425 we also um gave flexibility to
re-entry programs for prisoners um up to 90 days it gives flexibility as as Dwight would know that a lot of your frequent new C your frequent customers to a jail or people who have treatment issues and they go
back and develop those negative habits and so forth so um it it it gave additional flexibilities for case management um and um sud assessments and so forth mental health we were able to
put a little bit more money in fiscal year this year we were able to this year right now appropriate $1.6 million 8.4 million 24 and 2 no 1.6 million 2425 and 8 8.4 million 26 and 27
um we still have there is quite a few of us Greater Minnesota reps um myself included um we're looking for ways to increase the bids I'm still be a a big believer instead of building new facilities and bond for new facilities
that you know don't always get a bonding bill um we should be looking working with our Critical Care access hospitals um because there are quite a few um rooms open there I still have a ways to that so that's some of the summary of
HHS um transportation um the big wi get off of ha okay cool ask I'm sorry go ahead yes um so and I'm not asking you to weigh in on the African-American family preservation act they're I'm not I know
that is a they're doing a study on the cost they're not going to run this study through completely before they've def defined mind the issues in that act are they so they haven't set what you know
poverty is a minority issue okay they haven't set what that level of poverty is so that could change for Rural counties that could change drastically the financial impact to the county depending on where they set it so if
they do this fiscal calculation prior to defining the terms in there they're setting us up to fail mhm and I just I I'm not exactly sure who it was that requested that but if we could make sure we're not doing that financial
analysis before we have have everything to find B that bounce that information off of the census 2020 census I would yes I would assume so that that was Metro that was all Metro lead right and and like I said any input on the bill that that's
passed that's done we're they're doing a cost study and I just am concerned about defining or doing the analysis prior to the definition we brought that up on the house floor of Troy during their last two weeks and um and it was not me it
was another of my members who brought that up and saying you know why are we in essence getting the heart I mean the horse in front of the cart I mean the card in front of the horse excuse me there the state does not have the proper it to do the reporting we're not staff
to do the reporting we don't have a place to put the people to do the reporting and we don't good point yes very good I mean all of that is and um if I remember correctly I'm
pretty sure for those Reasons I'm I think that came as an individual Bill if I remember correctly the last three weeks unfortunately is a blur it's kind of like Groundhog Day every single day you just have different bills um and so forth
I believe I did vote for against that for those reasons because the it's not defined yet and I do not like we in the minority do not like when the agencies have so much Ru making
Authority um because they tend not to listen to the smaller counties good point Thank You Troy other things on HHS okay let's just uh briefly talk about um um transportation some of the good stuff in
trans there's bad and good um there are high priority Bridges there was 8.9 million invested in 25 for that um the big win for our area was small city transportation funding
111 million so that means everybody in in 9A except for forus follows would be um getting some funding there um quarters of converence receive $15 million trunk Highway um safety road
construction $15 million this year um a bad program in our opinion is the traffic safety camera pilot program which is very similar to what you talked about they're spending $1 million on a um four-year project but we go what's
your goal with it just to see who how many people goes through the red light but or do you really have a goal um Min am in Minnesota Department of Transportation did not um um they're putting out 42 cameras so
a camera per every 10,000 so um um the drivers will not be filmed um owners of vehicles will get um sent tickets of $40 for um um 10 miles per hour and over 80 Mill 80
for 20 mil per hour so if a car is driven by someone else it's the owner who gets gets fined you know it really needs to be The Driver not the owner we do have a provision of greenhouse gas emission um analysis and so forth we do
have that um which is not a good program the problem the main problem with that is they're taking money from the trunk Highway fund that trunk Highway fund is designed for and Ashville okay um so we saw that they
also took money from a million dollars to plant trees along highways again we're not against trees but a million dollars from trunk highways we can we all know that our we need to invest more money into roads and
bridges um then they put a million dollars um in the general fund to Ramsey County to purchase um Li ility Insurance for union Depot in St Paul what people don't know is that's
probably one of the greatest um place where you have homeless is at the new Depot in St Paul now St Paul has done great things to improve to lower their home in this but it just makes me wonder if that's tied into that we also saw um $20
million um put into various um facilities um for M and Minnesota DT buildings there was some money put in two two trains again um um they started fund $22.5 million for a state patrol
headquarters um that's $120 million they did fund $22.5 million of that also they um put a grant no no $1.2 million onetime special Revenue fund to fund
repairs for um headlight and lights violation um funds grants for law enforcement agencies to pass out as vultur so if you pull over your vehicle your headlight don't work you can get a vulture to fix your
headlights um and then there was two which we supposedly a$2 million not supposedly a $2 million environmental analysis for um Highway 55 corner so those are some of the highlights as you go through the bills you can see that
they're very Metro cetric um we are even seeing um people on the other side of the aisle um in 9A are saying you know what we need balance in government we need a stronger Greater Minnesota that's
why this election is so important um we do need the house you're starting to see your soft Democrats even saying hey it cannot all be metrof focus and um um just we
just look at these bills here it's very Metro just like you pointed out Charli so questions important stuff but not always the most exciting things you'll definitely not hear it on the tonight's show questions for presented backer I'm
good covered a lot of stuff I kind of followed through with with what AMC's kind of spit out at us as far as where things are at no cash Bill no bonding no nothing can you imagine all this engineering that's been plugged into set in your anticipation ready to be able to
deliver these projects I mean what the heck we just can't sit and just dread water on this I know so I talked a little bit with you Bill uh this pilot is $4 million it's $4 million
six million are you talking about the three toast well yeah there was six there an article in the paper about that pilot program it's a Sprint medic program y so bring that to Grand County what's your well I already um Grand County it's
Grand County and perm so it's gr County and perm okay and and ring well um okay it's it's mostly perm I'm not Dwight I'm not aware that it's with Ringo it's just that's what I'm on that they put my name on there
I'm on thats pilot paretic committee and uh so we just last Thursday was our first meeting and it's kind of a hurry up deal to get everything organized you know
because uh and so they're meeting once a week and then the Committees are meeting once a week so more to come on that yeah um Grant County is going to get a piece of the $3 million so but right now I mean elb Lake they have the pilot
concept yes they do so we where is part of that where do where do we anticipate that being impactful to us well what I would assume that it was going to be the money
that you use for that program already will be will you'll take part of that $3 million to pay for that Sprint medic program you have already I wanted what I negotiated to the end which did not get into it is
taking that money and use it as for non-transfer runs because approximately 20% of all runs is a no load if it's Medicaid or Medicare you don't get paid if the wheels don't turn um but that didn't get into the final bill but the
sprit medic did get into the five um final bill so if you're like region is because that runs through the whole County and if that program right now is casing through $200,000 a year then
you're going to take $200,000 from that 3 million backfill that and then you use that money for something else that's what I see because you already have a problem you may decide to add one more car you may decide again that's there
there is virtually no strings attached to that outside of being being responsible for the use of the funds for a Sprint medic perm doesn't have one so they use that to purchase a vehicle I would assume put a staff person on there I would assume
in Otto County up in perm they'll have two of them one in one near Park Rapids One South near Underwood or something because I think perm gets that far over to the um West part of the county there
Ken so maybe I got to refer to do did Bill and you been on this how does this impact hofman then we we got stuff happening and we appropriated money to buy this ambulance or the lake reging
group but we got hofman over here short of volunteers and uh that that laid how work well I I don't know what what's all set stone yet there but my
understanding was they were going to I think they're looking at getting another Pilot Car in Grant County and uh you know another paramedic you know and and that would benefit Hoffman you know these cars are going to be responding
into those areas where these calls are going um you know that's all well here's what I would recommend this is only this is this is me wearing my EMS hat not my legislator had okay if I was in Traverse County and they did it for Traverse County what I would do is obviously
whatever that program is costing right now let's say it's $200,000 okay my recommendation then to Grant County whoever sees it is to take that $200,000 and hire a full-time EMT for hoop that's what I wanted to do $51,000
doesn't do for bronze Valley so I'm going to try to figure out something else okay because we many times we don't an EMT in brown alley so if I were in Hoffman shoes that's what I would do because now you got money to feed into
your Sprint model program because that cost us let's say $200,000 correct Dwight may put another Sprint medic program into Grant County the challenge that you still have is a Sprint medic is only there to show up on
the scene look at the scene make sure we don't need a amance if they show up on the scene then they they they'll need the ambulance but there are times for example um cuz who I'm assuming does
Hoffman no weaton does Hof weaton does Herman okay that's 17 miles away so in Herman you in my opinion wearing the EMS hat right now just my years of you would not send a Sprint medicin to
Herman let that medic say Hey you know um we need to call an ambulance where your ambulance is 17 mil away in weeken okay now I did some right alongs in North Metro area and what they
actually do is this dispatch is they send out the Sprint medic and then they have a series of questions to evaluate so they don't wait for the Sprint medic to get there to evaluate the patient they literally do it on phone with great accuracy then they
decide cuz when the Sprint medic gets um out they actually activate the amlets at the same time that's what they do in North Metro area now they have different resources I'm not saying you guys are going to do it this way for Hoffman because can you have same concerning Hoffman that I have in Browns Valley I
just don't have as much resources right now but what I would do is um what I'm recommending in the test program it's only a recommendation that maybe you follow that type of protocol that the dispatch asks and maybe they can say hey we don't need an amulance if the Sprint
medic gets boom that will be decided all by the committee but to get back to your question I take that $200,000 if it's $200,000 my recommendation do like what southeast because when I tour the city southeast Minnesota does this really well they have what they call a um it's
a quasi they have a full-time EMT or full full-time medic then it's backed by your volunteers so um you would have your EMT during your greatest maybe you have have two hire two full EMTs that EMT is on
call from 6 to6 one is from 6 to 6 during weekdays one is on 6 to6 weekends um whatever but you need to you need a hybd program that's what I was trying to focus on in Browns Valley is
to get enough money so we have a EMT and I don't know 51,000 do is it's gonna come into the county no where's the FIS on it yeah but but you will also get some money through that $24
million right but this so it's going to go to ail County the pilot the pilot program is a otter Tales of Fiscal Agent and then how much of that six million do we know no no you get 3 million goes to St Louis County 3 million to ottero and Grant County
correct okay of the 3 million then how much should we get and I'm hearing the Run that you guys are going to get out of hman is $ 50,000 that's out of that $24 million yes right around there but again what I would recommit I we don't know there in in the law that was passed
it didn't say Grant will get that much okay but you need someone who's willing to wag their tongue and say hey we need to do that I would take that money backfill your existing program and then take that money and help to maybe through the Sprint maybe you tie it
through the Sprint medic program folks because we're going station an EMT in Hoffman um to help out the Sprint medic you can you can be creative with this I've been thinking how you guys what they're looking for and this June 10th
meeting at 10 o'clock a lot of that will come out um you know you're we will have some of that come up you guys have a lot of flexibility we do if my my concern is and that's why I want to te it up because you two are on this grant for
commit and we got the Ash and the Hof and the Lake Region program and now we got an influx of f money coming and that committee needs to be up and running and and really yeah they ready
to to accept and react and move on this go so has that it's just the you see they met yet process of committee in otter tale and
I'm on it thank God they put my name on it but they're meeting every Thursday at uh 2 o'clock on Zoom this month and then they the the meeting we were at last Thursday in may they formed these
subcommittees uh you know uh and they put me on a purchasing committee kind of for uh looking into vehicles and things like that and so it's all so new you know I can't answer really any of those questions until the meeting start on you
know on Mon on Thursday got another meeting coming and so all of this will be talked about you know but yeah and there should be a room full here on the there be there should be at the at the same time my strong recommendation is is
that in gr County because in essence what you guys are forming is the rules to how to allocate $3 million um I'd be um very vocal um for Grant County and I would somehow tie the
Sprint medic program so you can get some funds to get do those hybrid programs like southeast Minnesota does where they have they pay for full-time EMT full-time paramedic because you cannot continue to run this program on the back of the
volunteers you got folks like me who's been for 29 years so that's my two cents and I'm extremely opinionated on it because I've been fighting this for 2015 years and um what I don't want to see done is what happened with some of the
public safety dollars last year um there's a committee a community up in northern Minnesota that went to buy some canoes with it you got one more minute to express your opinion I'm here I'm here I just you
know if I would not express opinion um if you guys need anything I think you know that I um I'm I have enjoyed serving Grant County for how many years I really enjoy working with the bureaucracy busting their chops so um
got a good track record with that so continue to let me know what I could do for you um sometimes it takes a lot longer than what we know that we want but at the end of day I think I have about an 80% track record myself and the staff and the house to stick up for the small communities um yesterday for a
good example the auditor of Travers County had a hiccup and with the Department of Transportation so contacted uh commissioner Mar cour and reminded him because the auditor was getting no place with the Department of
re um Department of Revenue and I reminded um the commissioner they uh he was a rep in Travers County when the auditor Kit Johnson became in 2006 and kid Johnson extremely frustrated
that your staff is not responding back to him so and those that stuff's fun and I had an email back and kid had an email back in 30 minutes okay with that we're done we're one minute past you're a lot of time and
I appreciate you coming out and I appreciate your input and and uh do we have more any more committee reports I I'll Jo the meeting at 1101 thank you thank you everybody and thank you for the
flexibility to allow me to do two counties today and if you're bored on Saturday