##VIDEO ID:zPBBVccI6e8## goam I think we're having too much fun somebody brought the monkey to the circus can't make it up kind of like when the teacher walks in the clroom 9:00 we call the meeting in order stand for the flag algi to 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 are there any uh additions or corrections to the agenda motion to approve Mr [Music] chair second a motion the second to approve the agenda any more discussion all in favor signify by saying I I oppos carried meeting minutes were sent out e e e here I'll make a mo to approve a minute have a motion get a second second any discussion on any minutes not all in favor of the motion signify we saying I I oppos carried warrants were sent out question C in the law enforcement center there's one for 115 to 21 for $400 and there's one for January for $800 on the next batch are we double paying 400 I don't I went back and looked and it looks like it had been running the 15th to the 15th and that 400 for whatever reason we're just paying it switched vouchers it went from Commissioners to Auditors for whatever reason but it looks like the 800 was December 15th to January 15th and then we paid the 400 for January to February I don't know why that but I went and looked back through the other the last four months and that's it had been 15th to 15th and then that 400 it switched registers and it was only for half I don't I don't know if it was maybe just to get it on a monthly basis rather I don't I can't answer that was there a set amount with the contract it's an $800 a month and that looks like we've been running that but then for some reason there was too weak I don't I can't answer why that's just I wouldn't look back that's what I seen it was paid every two weeks no it had been paid every month and then now I did see that this changed I don't know why but no I don't I didn't see where it had been double paid it's just there was a change in the last month that's what I thinken so we should confirm that I more than likely it's correct obviously Chad I don't think it's here old confirmed after we approve them but if you look at the dates and it always the one this month now for the full 800 said January were previous to that it always said like the 15th to the 15th but then the half payment does State the 15th to the 1st for Carl to look everything lined up it's just it something changed yeah I'm guessing it's correct Only thing would be for historical purposes that it's unless you know the information you researched it would look possibly like it's double right and you got to go back and look and see and the the bigger one to me is why did it switch vouchers yeah did you check did it come out of the sheriff's budget to I don't know what the number was there's the number associated with it well it should come out of the sheriff's budget well I mean it it didn't that number didn't change it just changed vouchers the number was the same right but if they changed from Commissioners to Auditors that tell tells me that it's coming out of a budget somewhere now which one no the number for the line item for the budget was the same that is where the fund is coming out of was the same it just changed where it was reported or reported or add the same number e I'll make a motion to approve the warrants with the understanding that bad that issue was clarified the next meeting okay we have a motion to approve the warrant at that stipulation we get a second second any more discussion all in favor of the motion signify by saying I I oppos car e e Emergency Management add to my time uh good morning uh just a quick as we settled into our offices at the courthouse um I just wanted to make a couple modifications to what Cabinetry that I got I reached out to Coopers um they don't offer you know I'd like to put some doors on the one cabinet that holds my binders and they don't offer that option um what I'm proposing to do is just get a you know they come in a box get a cabinet take the doors out of the cabinet put them on what I have and and modified to fit what fits in the office so I think the cabinet that I'm looking at is $288 or something like that um so that would be the simple piece and then I'll make it work for what I what I have there there other options were bigger wider blocked Windows you know not not fitting where we have things fitting so um it looks to me like it's a pretty simple setup and modification would be fairly painless so um that would be for that um on another note um the clima vision that we're got I probably will reach out at some point I don't know if I have to do it separately or this is fine but um we'll probably look at at getting a like a smart TV for the corner of the office um climma Vision has a new app that overlays The Radars the National Weather Service and the clima vision radar that going to be more useful more user friendly um and we're just kind of getting into that but um it might be a benefit to have that a little bit better visibility on that so um it looks to me like we'd be able to just put a little I mean probably would be bigger than like a 70 inch plasma or anything like that on the wall so Troy's like so anyway yeah no just a just some something you know reasonable and I can put up in the corner and be able to monitor the weather a little better so so I is assuming our relationship and the what's going on with climate Vision that hasn't changed no we'll still have it actually I'm working with I'm working with Tina right now um they are they have renewed um because the because the service is here in Grant County I think Grant County will always get that ability is is the way they make it sound to me um the other emergency responders in the area are going to get another three months of service to to utilize what they're bringing out now the new there's a newer app um and I certainly can let when I get it all figured out I'll make sure I push it out so you guys can take a look at it too it's a it's a it's a different they've they've made it much more user friendly the app and like I said in instead of just being I got to go to this app for National Weather and this app for climate Vision they put those they merge those two together so you can actually see both at one time and so when I get a little bit better understanding of how that works I'll send it out to all of our you know County First Responders um law enforcement all that Highway um and then they should be able to you know it it's going to be a different app than probably what they're used to using but it you know I think we saw with the last little snow squall that went through it's pretty accurate what they can do with that and and uh on a bigger picture they're now there's a bill in the state senate right now they're working on they have a number everything for it that they're going to try to get seven or eight more Towers put up to fill all the gaps in Minnesota so this little pilot project that we have in Grant County is going to likely affect the entire rest of the state and and make the is much better for everybody so um that's what they're working on right now but she did say that they get a bill in the Senate and it's got a number and everything and it'll be likely coming up in this next session so so is within our County are you the only one that has the app access to the screen in no the new the new stuff I think uh so that's the part I we're trying to figure out they're going to need some emails and stuff like that that I'm going to work with the Departments to get all their access information for all the roster um but my understanding is everybody who you know I can't remember what it was a while back when they came out with it and everybody got the log into it those should still be active they'll just have to you know flip them over or whatever but um my point was excuse me for interrupting but my point was is if you were out of the office or on vacation that you're not the only one no no no no it's going to be it should be available um the one thing she did say was you know it might be only um they're actually working to get it open to the public as well so anybody can download the app and use it um it just maybe a little variant of what accesses they have so they right now there's a there's a history portion where you can go back and look at previous weather and and whatnot um public users may only get active weather that's going on currently um that would be a tailor down version but that's part of the this whole bill in going to the senate in in the legislature is they want the state to fund this so that it's available for people to use so you know what Senate file it is I don't she didn't give me that but she said there is one so CU like now like the fire department and sheriff and stuff is on it right on it right all the emergency responders will have access to it and like I said if if everything goes through it sounds like they had four authors bipartisan co-sponsors yeah so they're they're looking at pretty good support for what they're doing and and it'll likely hopefully fill all the gaps throughout the state and everybody will have that access so so it's a bigger deal than just than just us but as I get my head wrapped around it I'll get it make sure it's pushed out to everyone and I'll make sure you guys are aware of that too so you'll be able to it's just a it's an instant weather or something like that is what the app is called and but it'll truly be an app you won't have to log in it truly it should be y I made that determination for myself that if I load on stormat I'm not going to be trying to log in and dealing with this right trying to find the tornado that I can look over here and go yep here it comes y well and hopefully you know the idea here is that this will be more effective right it'll show they'll have you know the radar will do what it's supposed to do there's people that need that information just sitting in a truck it wasn't me no right and that's where it was it wasn't convenient before now this is much more user friendly and it and it does both things right so it gets gets a better picture for you so then we knew it was it was phase one yep so so they've made some improvements and again I I just got the log in yesterday so I haven't really even gotten a chance to understand it yet and uh Tina is going to help me figure that out so that I can answer better questions when you know when I pump it to you and you say what what do I do with this I'd like to know better how that works so I got a question backing up you mentioned about the cabinet do it make more sense retrofitting the doors to what you have to just Mount the new cabinet and then use that and you have somewhere else or turnning to Coopers the uh it it's more of a what do I want to say the cabinet that I have there is like an open you know like a bookshelf piece and so I got a whole bunch of different color binders all that stuff the doors the lower section has doors on it this would be just to mount the exact same doors you won't know the difference between what I do and and what theyve built so okay it'll it won't look like I Podge podged it together I trust you on I promise that at the end um I'll make a motion to approve the purchase of that cabinet we have a motion second second any more discussion all in favor of the motion signify by saying I I oppos Carri thank you how about the TV we're going to decide on that Mr chairman he said 70 a chel his office is big I think that's as big as I can put in there so I think it would be why don't you get a price on y I can do that y absolutely okay I got a question for Mr Cher um so this these rain met tornadoes that come through whatever it was three years ago you know are we going to be able to get the resolution to show that there is you know what I mean some type of rotation in them clouds cuz you couldn't see them and you know that you were out to the camground right all it was is just a white cloud coming at you right um there should that should be that rotation so that's one of the new features in there is you can toggle between wind velocity um Direction you can get all those there there's and it's like a you can set it up side by side or you can overlay you know so there there's a again I have to understand it a little bit better but um and then with our being part of this pilot piece we should have the history as well so we'll be able to go back and look at what happened is my understanding so again well couldn't they see them from satellites and by the time that information that part I couldn't tell you I I do know that likely they they never see anything that's on the ground here no you know from the big the big towers so they could see that you know there was rotating so and that's by the time it got down to us it already through and there was no notification well and the one over by that went through by Ashby you know there wasn't even a warning that day that thing just popped out of nowhere so um we should get much better notification you're talking the one that jumped the interstate and went to do then we got to I got pictures of that all of it I sat there took pictures but I mean we weren't even in a watch that day no and it just state troopers were around but I didn't see I got I got a call I think there's a tornado north of the lake like come on I haven't even heard a PE yet you know we had nothing so Mr chair as important as plan rision is in emergency management and price of televisions aren't significant I make a motion that he purchases what he feels is use your judgment and that you go ahead and buy the television okay I'll second that motion of second to purchase a TV I don't like we're making motions that are just not having a dollar cap or that would break with we can put a cap on it less than $5,000 that should be sufficient I'm going to question all in favor is that your second no I was being theous I don't know what a television cost I guess if we want them to do the I just think that is is important and if if we need to do the shopping before we do it I don't think two weeks is going to make a difference right yeah no I just I guess my thought would be so you probably have an understanding that we're supporting it and based on that should be have them bring back the price does that make most sense I don't know what a TVs worked I have no idea well I mean we've approved things without a cost estimate before but we put a dollar cap on it to just say use your best judgment and you come back with that $5,000 that's what I thought was best not saying you would do that but no I'd keep it under 2500 would you like it as chair thoughts on it well we'll just get a price and he come back then I would are you gonna resend yes I'd do that thank you Jerry well changes how that would have changed how we do things and that it'll be reasonable I'll come back okay thank you all right thank you can I Bank those extra three minutes as well put that in morning guys morning I think you all probably got everything Carl was supposed to send you um looking for permission to order uh two cross conveyors um an asphalt spreader and a roller uh I think the total price is 50 I was 54 58,000 somewhere in there uh the roller is 22,000 the asphalt spreader was 13,000 and the two conveyors added up to 22 652 so is this replacing current equipment no this is all adding new what do we expect our life expectancy to be well the hacker will probably be I mean that's G be a long life expectancy I don't know the other two three pieces probably 20 years I'm guessing you know it's going to take wear and tear parts but they're all solid metal so so them conveyor they both on like on the back of the truck yep just like our Sanders do for our trucks the same hookups there Hydraulics are all there and everything so that's what the state does yep when they're patching it's quicker yep it's much quicker much faster yeah more efficient so they don't even M do they they just kind of spread it out and they do a little bit different than we do yeah so but everything that I'm asking here for was um what we had budgeted for this year so how much was that spreader uh 13, 172 172 and it said that was a soil and asol yep you can do it for either one it's just it's hydraulically it can like narrow wide one side of the skid Lord to the other side you can adjust your depth all hydraulically on it so and it fits on the back of the truck there's no retrofit or anything like that just like a sander right no that the spreader goes on the oh y yep was so yeah we can adjust our depth as we go or our width or we want it one side the other so so you haven't had one of them before just no we made a homemade one um which yeah we did a lot of welding this last year so so yeah with the soil you so what you're saying there is you can put black dirt in there you push black dir with you can push and and set your setting and lay it in three inches yep yep so come in handy too yeah there's G to be lots of use for it so you know CT projects whatever GED on the skits that adequate enough yep yep I already everything's all included in the price on that so it can adapter rate to our good loader so and you got Hydraulics enough to yep you know plugins and all that electrical connections and all that that's all there so there's no additional we might have a little use for that soil spreader in the spring up at the courthouse yeah Muse I'll make that motion that we purchase these as a member of the highway committee I'll second it we have a motion and a second any more discussion on any of these if not all in favor of the motion signify by saying allos thank you was that just the spreader or was that the the cross conveyors the soil and asphalt spreader and the roller there's three you just did it all y all three of so um on another note our truck from tow Master is done we'll be going down to pick that up tomorrow um so that bill will be coming in the next batch that you guys approved two meetings ago so Jamie knows it's coming I always let her know so yep where are they working on that the truck is lynfield y not too far no not too far at all so all right thank you guys morning guys good morning so as you guys see I got a a couple items on there uh the first one is basically the year- end report deal the reason it's a year-end deal and not a quarterly update is the last 10 11 months we' kind of been trying to figure out that whole Solid Waste World moving forward it'll be more like a quarterly here's kind of where we're at throughout the year then this same report was given to the cities so they have all the same info too and then I set up a city clerk's meeting to meet with all of them and kind of go over this and talk about the program with them and a couple other odds and ends that they've asked questions about so that's on the 19th February so I got all about one of the cities and I'm going to meet with that City here tomorrow so um I don't I'm just going to kind of give a highlight of the part I'm not going to go line by line with it or Page by Page generally the solid waste is up about a 1% total so we got an additional about 18 tons this year uh recycling is up again about a 1% so another two tons Organics is up 20ish percent but that's because we had such a small amount that when you add you know four or five tons out of 20 that Jacks it pretty good so it kind of skewes it a little bit but the hope is next year that we have again a pretty decent increase because that's one of our kind of piloty projects to push this year's meet with the cities how they want to do it walk them through it see what their questions are so that is going to be kind of my deal in a couple weeks here but that is kind of all I had for that unless you guys had questions on it it's it's pretty pretty self-explanatory but any of you have questions on it okay the next deal on there is recycling trailers so a couple meetings ago you guys approved our contract with iner brettson for new contracts and part of that was the replacing those trailers like we had talked so I went to the committee and we talked about okay what do we do with these trailers we can sell them we can scrap them we can try to find use for them here at the county while it was decided they're pretty much junk so if we were going to use them here we have to do a whole lot of fixing so that really isn't cost effective uh if we were going to sell them the last time they sold them they got less than what scrap was worth so the decision has now been led to we should probably just scrap these because they're recyclable as part of the recycling program but in order to do that they're County assets and after talking to Chad he said make sure we get the the guys there to give you the green light so I'm asking you guys to make a motion that I can scrap those that comes from meeting at with the committee with K and Troy both saying yep that's a good idea how many them cretive do we own about a dozen okay so and they're like 34 3500 pounds or something like that so we're not going to get grit or nothing but I will make a motion to scrap the recycling trailers as they're taken out of service second you second yeah have a motion in a second to scrap or recycling trailers as they come out of service any more discussion yeah we're going to still provide that level of service correct as they are scrapped they're being replaced with the new ones that Ang button's got coming and the First on should come here in a couple of weeks so as long as you guys give the green light here then they should come so so talk about how that the new ones coming in and the contract how a little bit how that's going to workit we explain so before we owned all these trailers it was all County assets but now with our new contract with ler rutson which I just got the edits back from Justin so that'll probably come to you guys either the next meeting or the first one of March they are going to own all those now so now that it's not a county asset anymore we don't have to worry about maintenance we don't have to worry about trailer lights and tabs and all that they're going to be basically rolloffs with trapezoid top with doors that you just check them in and they I think they're slightly bigger than the trailer so it should hold a little more which should help alleviate some of those rolling up to the SES and their full but they're the truth of the matter is when you say we don't have to worry about maintenance Troy was doing M and he wasn't billing us he was doing all the patching them tires all that kind of thing all we were doing was basically paying for tabs and even he was putting the tabs on for us I we got him and he said yeah I just hand him to one of my drivers he'll put on so he was doing everything anyways so he's like well if I'm going to do it all I might as well just own it all and that actually works out I think better in the long run for us so as they have issues he can just fix them and doesn't have to worry about trying to build trying to do all that you don't have to have separate bins now all now it's all Co mingled so that really helps that kind of container now it's going that rad it's all comingled in one one stream clim correct and they're Hydra they're do a hydraulic dump versus having to empty each compartment individually right so that'll be a lot smoother for him we will still own the cardboard B they're basically dumpsters we still will own those but think we have a half dozen of those at each City so but any more discussion on the motion all in favor the motion signifi by saying I I oppos Car Guys the last deal is our proposed budget for this year um overall the budgets attach a and exib are almost the same as again we're still figuring all these things out there are a couple deals in the solid waste budget the pope Douglas tipping fee went up 4% um so that kind of is a little bit of a deal that they keep doing every year is the jack up what we pay to expose the stuff uh on the other side of recycling as well the fee we pay to McLoud County for sorting and doing all that that went up 3% but that's still decently pretty low compared Pope Douglas is trying to get so that they can take all our recyclables which mean we would't have to then truck them all down there which would help cost that way but we got to see what their facility runs out at once they get up and running which they told me 10 to 12 weeks so I'm going to say 12 plus knowing how construction goes but so on that right now we're paying Engle Bron to get those down there yep are they pop Doug winds up taking over they taking Stevens couny too it sounds like that is a possibility at all depends on what they're going to charge for Tipp and fee if they charge 70 bucks a ton it's still cheaper to send it the other way or if they charge a 100 bucks a ton or if their price goes up and down and or you're only guaranteed one year of it being low then there's a whole lot of those hooked into wherever Troy's going unless we want to pay now we play McLoud County right now anyways for Troy Troy i' rather bring it to Pope Douglas because he's going there anyways but it just depends on that tipping fee is what what always it comes down to unfortunately but that is the that is the hope that they could take them there for a lot cheaper than shipping them that way so uh the Organics price stayed the same had 50 bucks a ton but didn't change so that's part nice um it's part of that recycling deal there there's the two highight numbers that got A's next to them and they look quite large but that is how I put in the extra score dollars we got through the state last year we got that 3% of that Solid Waste tax back so that's going to be used for some improvements for safety uh efficiency those kind of things down at the recycling center here in town through some cameras that work and cover the whole yard so the guys can see all the yard and if we do have issues which we've had people dump stuff or throwing things over the fence we can you know try and do our part there uh you're going to be another container to try and clean up some of that funkiness that gets behind one of the it's kind of a container but it's not and it gets a lot of overflow and makes it hard to do any sort of snow removal any mowing all that to driving around all that to try and clean that up and then there's going to try and do some overhang deal over the door cuz right now the water just and snow and ice just run right over top and create a big mess in front of the door that you walk in and somebody has fallen and people are going to fall so we're working with The LumberYard here in town to do that so that's why those numbers look quite quite big usually they're you know they total somewhere in like that 3500 range but they're looking to be almost 20 but that's because we got like 14ish extra from the state so that where that coverage went um the difference there if you keep scrolling down to in their receipts for what we got from score that's where that highlight number that 86,000 that includes that extra money that we got and we transferred the recycling program always runs in the red because there just isn't enough ways to make money in recycling to cover the cost so we transfer money from solid waste and that was up a couple thousand this year due to you know increased cost of recycling and that's about it and then paying the guys wages goes up that 3% so that's how that goes too so that Solid Waste Management tax the that in order for us to get more dollars out there the thatt rate change did it go up yeah we got instead of like 72,000 last year this year we got 86 right so that's that 14 so that's good but did they change the rate that 9.75 no no they just gave us 90 million that's collected they're just redirecting and then they gave us a 3% jump last year so okay something something it would be nice if we could get more of that back but that's just kind of where we're at it was 90 million that was collected throughout the state and it was 18 million that was scattered out to the counties and that's part of like that uh Solid Waste administrators deal through AMC that they're trying to leverage them to say hey we need more of that money out here to help keep our programs running and offset some of the cost to the people so um the other highlight number next there on the solid waste is that uh tipping fee increase and then the next highlight number that 173 is that transfer so just to follow it through and then those two numbers under where we make money is uh under Solid Waste is what the cities will pay and what the rural percentages are those again are based on their tonnages so the cities had let me find the numbers so I can tell you the cities had like 85% of the waste and or 86 and the RO people had 14 which shifted a little bit last year rule had another percent percent and a half so they were paying a little bit more and the cities were paying a little less but this year last year's hundred shifted again so now they'll pay a little more they're all aware of that and then we're going to talk about it more when I do that City click meeting so what happened when we ended up which is short of $50,000 in the red last year Greg and I on which one on the7 yeah actually 24 24 37 let me find it for you I'm trying to yep see where the numbers so because we didn't and some of that might just be me doing things differently than how they were done previously so putting in different numbers in the budget more exact numbers changing things around that's part of it um I I don't see how 50 it comes out to some of that too is the rule what's tax and what's the the percentage they pay is not the same number there's some carry over there that we use it's kind of like the buffer there that makes that number go down pretty pretty good to closer to like that 20 but the cost tipping fee went up and I don't know if that was all in there last year um some of the money that was transferred around and moved around to didn't be quite that way but that's majority of it then the last piece there on the the last page before it shows you where all the numbers come from is what the cities will pay the next year so they all aware what the percentages are and roughly what they're going to pay so they're none of them have said or anything about it and I'll talk to them more about it here in a couple weeks but and then finally is that Ru routes piece after the budget which is what everybody gets the tax part all the yellow highlighted are more for Chad things so he can change them to homest set not homest said people bought it people sold it that kind of thing and then there's one that's read and that's so Chad knows to delete that off the list but that house was burned down so there's no structure there other than that I don't have any other parts of this budget then I need some you guys to approve it if you don't have any other questions or what questions you guys have I will make a motion to approve the budget and certify the amount for taxes we have a motion we get a second I'll second any more discussion one more discussion all in favor of the motion signify by say I I I oppos carried uh there's one thing that wasn't on there in the last couple weeks there's been a whole bunch of talk about Governor's budget just to head up that AIS money we get is projected to be slashed about in half so there's a whole bunch of people write letters and doing all these things but just so all of you are aware that that money we get is projected to be cut in half so but how much was that uh 50ish thousand and it would be dropped to about 25 and traditionally we've kind of spent part of it and kind of rat hold some of that as a rainy day thing but we've kind of shifted to trying to use more of it on some salary stuff which we're going to work more with Chad to make sure it's SP budgets and easier to see all that so just a head up thanks thank you all right so um after doing some research we wanted to um get some updat on our different front plans that we offered employees and so we were offering four different plans to employees um after some research we come to find out that um Orion will us to be ftj um they're not taking any new employees so we can't offer that plan to anybody new the ones that currently have it can still contribute to it and still have it um they so we to take that off of our list to offer and then also um um what was the other one um American Funds was the other one and so they they have sold to another company um a mayor prize and not able to offer that one as well so we're down to two Nationwide and then lensel Financial um is the other company that we offer funds so insurance company U met to discuss what we'd like to see um Minnesota DCP the Minnesota dord comp plan um is a plan that works Hand Works it's the same companies like retirement system Minesota retirement system uh they also um administer the healthc care savings plan which we offer in the Sheriff's Office and at Highway um the Sheriff's Office contributes every repay period to that and then the highway department contributes if you retire your funds your vacation and sick go into that um so the Minnesota deferred plan um we offered we had um his name is Bor he would be a representative he met with the insurance company um to discuss what the plan would be and is a pretty good plan I think um the employees are able to um move their money around wherever they want to put their money invest in in um there's no employer costs or fees the administration fee is um the cap is 125 a year over all so um it would be like I think it could be like $3 or something a year um and so um yeah and then Bjorn would be our representative he would come and meet as many times as we wanted to with employees which I think is really important to have that person to call and talk to um that was lacking in the plans that we had before um and so and then it also works at the same website as our Healthcare savings plan so the input we got from the sheriff's office is it would be the healthare Savings Plan the website the people they work with is a really is easy to navigate easy to use um and so there was support there um and the insurance committee would recommend that we offer the Minnesota defer comp plan to employees in addition to the other I mean we're not going to take we're not taking the healthcare Savings Plan away that's well but I mean it so there's a company that offered the plan but they don't no one new can go in there there's people in there we're not taking that away no we're not taking any plans that employees currently um have money in and and is investing they are able still to contribute we just cannot offer it to new employees um and so that is the changes is we'll have nationwide which Nationwide is going to be coming out uh end of February to meet with employees so we're going to get that on an annual quarterly basis and then wsel comes out occasionally um to meet with employees as well so we'd have three plans that we'd offer for for new and existing employees actually that Nationwide that's the oldest in the county that's been around forever so it's a it's a good option I think um for employees to invest their money how they want I make a motion we move forward with this point as a member of the insurance committee I will second that motion I have a motion on a second any more discussion all in favor of the motion signify by say I I oppos carried and then also um a representative other than so I can't sign it because I am a contact UM so Doyle do you want to sign it or do you want to have Carl sign it how do you want to doesn't matter you I'll have is 2025 committees Central Minnesota emergency services Emergency Management May and then have Greg Greg intent to potentially retire which he's stated should we be having one someone else on that or they or if he what I think he just an alternate I think well right once he's retired I think we would replace him because that's a bigger conversation in that Ashley did we in our new job analysis we identified a backup for Emergency Management see currently that's great so we've had to identify knowing he's going to be retiring so once he's retired that those duties as the backup will switch that Mak sense these committees have to be fulfilled and we got an attendance requirement for this thing to come full circles so we can drop from Grant dollars coming out of the ESB so it it looks like that you know these these commitments are going to get fulfilled and there's been talk between the ESB Dwight and I sit on that committee and they I mean it's they've haded out a pretty good process to say that we need this in place people so get it done and that's what happened we need a motion Mr chair or not or just committee appointments the board as a whole is committed to oh I got another question there was something else we got The frint Paramedic program DWI listed how about the committee that you're working with the you Bill with the EMS is is it on here it's not on here I didn't see it I didn't see it which if we're all here we're Le $165,000 to me that's a significant committee and I'm just thinking we should be identifying it central Minnesota emergency services no EMS comme em and H there's five five uh people on that there is the grand H Sprint one like you're talking about that wasn't on there either till we put it on there last month but yeah we need we need that because that's going to be ongoing here for a while I mean for well that's ongoing forever well as long as there's money allocated yeah there needs to be representation from this board and you two guys are on there right yeah and the rander schmith and Eric bruber I wouldn't list by name okay them I would list a representative from each of the ambulance services okay yeah yeah otherwi yeah if it changes Midway through the year then you have to go and and right you know if you list Eric gisb and he's not there right that does do give you know so they're representative so when are you on the board can you explain that so we kind of because we should add it before we approve it I don't you can approve it with the addition of yeah yep there you go what's the committee called uh Grand County EM committee EMS and it would be uh ashb ambulance Offman ambulance and um Lake Region ambulance Lake Region Lake Region El boy and then Bill Joy made up a made a good point so who do we we got to ask and see if they want to be appointed on this so it' be Ryan the Smith and maybe Mark zadnik and then of course then we just give each of the services a spot and they can appoint whoever if you don't long as you don't name them by name then they can appoint it can change from month to month or but if you say it's this individual then you have to come back if they switch we can bring that up at the next meeting but we should start with the committee to begin with with us to so I'll make that motion with that addition to D Grand EMS committee Dwight H there's no delegate or alternate it's just that we're on that committee together and then you'll ask the other outfit yep we should call the committee anyway and just see we should update them on you know maybe some of this legislation that you're talking about to so just to make sure I hear what our motion is going to include those 3 EMS we agree on that what goes farther will be within your committee what do you mean what goes farther well they talked about Des you know going to the meeting and designating a person but we're not designating a person but we're designating organization right yeah and that's so the foundation the three organizations and these two okay are the committee the entities so I have with an addition of the Grant County y for now anything else I don't think so all in favor of the motion signify by saying I I I made motion you a second I think you did didn't you did a second but I thought you just did oh did I yeah I got you on the way okay thank you okay all in favor of the motion signify by saying I I oppos car Grant County Office Space percent building space percent so there was two different with these three officers there's two different estimates that came as far as what the percent percentage that Western Prairie would have as opposed to Grant County is responsible for one was back up a little farther was 89% than 11 right one estimate is 89 a half% and 10 and a half the other one was 93% and seven when I met with Chad and Carl who came up with those numbers and then we met with Tracy and when we originally did that 89 And1 all the office or all the meeting spaces were claimed by Western pery that does not reflect in my opinion that does not reflect the reality of today we use this space as a boardroom we use this space significantly right so if you take even half of this square footage and swap it with that I would recommend we can just continue at the 89 and 11 percent now that's our rent formula that's the cleaning contract that's all your utility expenses everything like that so I mean it's a sign it's not just the rent it's every bill that's paid is based on that percentage but I think the reality has changed in that we're using this space more than we said we were going to an 189 so as far as the percentage in the Bild stff really nothing will change nothing would change the use wouldn't change either NOP no no no there' be no change in in how we're operating from yesterday to tomorrow it's just we're acknowledging that we're using this space more than we envisioned in 2019 2018 whatever that year was that would kind of mean we probably had the formula flaw before not flaw is that right word but in a sense and now it was it was a formula that was calculated preco and could have you can make the argument that it could have been recalibrated did yeah now it is MHM so there I mean there you can absolutely make the case that we can dial down on those numbers because I found when I looked at them the 89 and a half and the 93 I found things in both of those that well you could take this space out or add that space in or I just think it's acknowledging we're using this more we just stay at the 89 And1 any more discussion we need motion for that we're not changing anything we're done with that then I think so geothermal tax credits well there's a letter here it it doesn't say anywhere how much the tax credit it is but they want 6,500 for this outfit wants 6500 to was a 3 60 something thousand yeah we already spent $60,000 trying to get it and this is the last I asked Carl specifically yesterday this is the last 6,500 to get it now that doesn't mean it'll still be there but it's it's something we got to do you know the by the time we get the application and there may not be Federal money for anything and we just spent $6,500 we didn't have to yeah but we don't have it in we won't get it if we don't do it we won't get the right this is a so the company we worked with for Apex is now called This is the they used oh you want to see this no I got a copy of that okay that's I was just wondering how they fit with Apex but that's you answer my question anybody have any other questions about this so the bill or we would complete and I'll make a motion to complete this for the 6500 I don't does it have the exact dollar figure in it 6500 6500 I'll make a motion to approve that for the 6500 I'll second any more discussion all in favor of the motion signified by saying I I oppos per you ready for committee stuff Mr chair yep we had an MRC meeting yesterday and the number correct me if I'm wrong gole but the number that come out of there from the Senate Republican leader was the governor's budget shifts $84 million from the state to the counties 84 million yep so Maya or no Reed's talk about the 25,000 it's just a drop in the bucket so the few figure Grant County has 0.1 % of the population of the state you take 0.1 of that 84 that is an $84,000 cost that does not factor in Grant County's 40% of the African-American family preservation act which would be another 360 we're looking at a $1.16 million increase to the levy just to operate as normal next year so do they think I mean is this this is isn't in place yet but no no this is this is the governor's proposed budget so what I'm saying is we need to all be at AMC at the end of this month and we need to all push AMC to we will not accept these Cuts without removing the mandates we we just can't I mean there there's no way I mean to top it off there's talk of a bill that's been introduced that will impose Levy limits so they cut or cut slash add a million dollars but they put on a levy limit increase so now you so I mean we need to make it clear at AMC that we can't accept this and we have to make sure our constituents know prior to a budget being done what's happen so when so the governor that spent the 18 billion and then added another 5 six billion is now coming back and saying oh oh we're going to cut 84 million right without it removing any mandates and this is what's happening to counties this is not factor into cities or to schools w so I I mean we have to be down there and we have to I don't think visiting we'll go visit with the legislators and I don't think that'll do much it'll it'll be happen in those committees that we're all members of where we say no we have to absolutely not we can do it so you guys are at the meeting is it a point where we start looking at where we're at in Grand County and some of our spending because we almost it's almost ured that there's going to be Cuts well we should be doing that anyway yeah well yeah I understand but we buy things and we kind of go yeah yeah yeah does a y y go away and we adopt we relook at our budget at a sub up well we we did and we implemented the policy that any purchase over $5,000 needs to come here right so that is the first step is that you know that there was kind of the general consensus yesterday that it's going to be a special sess session for a budget they're not going to get one done by May whatever that day is Democrats go to go got to go to work so but I mean we have to get in my opinion is we have to get AMC on board that we will not do this we w accept it but we're not doing it quietly either way we're going to make sure that both parties understand you try to do this and we're going to make sure your constituents know who raised their property taxes so you use the the analytics point one is that is that accurate or is that like no no that is 6,000 people divide it out by 5 a. half million you get 0.1 but do they use that I have no idea what Grant County share would be this that's just something to kind of talking point this is if you just used this simple basic a math as possible okay that's not locked in that is not you have you would have to go through each and every program and look at what the cuts are and I mean and you know it it may be higher it may be lower because there's minimums right so Grant County's a minimum County for most things in that we get X dollars doesn't matter about your population or this or that so they could certainly take it out of the reserve and they did that with the tax forer stuff so this isn't done deal by no means well right but I mean we all have to we all have to be there that's just yeah and how much good it's going to do to talk to our Representatives I don't know it's more of the AMC we have to we can't do it well I'm sure they're all over it I guess well I don't I don't doubt it it's they I haven't talked to Matt lately but I talked to na Z because he's part of this stuff isn't that TR isn't that like the 16th of February or something like that no it's the last well MRC is the last Tuesday and then that Wednesday is when we go to the 7 28 that's leg you go to the cap on that Wednesday and then I think Thursday morning is when the policy committees are good news February I think ra will get fix oh yeah he's got this so we did a good push for that the tax forit stuff so then that 167,000 wasn't BN on to you know this County because that was our share at tax or so they you know that whatever it was 130 million the state picked up the slack on that and created the legislation that basically buffer the counties from those costs so they piix their own mistake well yeah was we didn't do it we were following the law they made yeah right no I agree with that it's and I mean that's the thing that they're putting the mandates on Y and not they to take away the money well then you have to if you're taking away the money you have to remove the mandate y I will hardly agree with you st like federals anybody else got any good news do you guys get updates from Michelle fishbach at all what's happening I got in our email chain so there's there's a lot of things that are going on so I'd rather be uninformed than Miss well you get the Republican portion of you think don't listen to what they say watch what they do you get that minutes what's being recorded that's good don't listen to what they say watch what they do anybody got anything else Ashley you have anything I don't okay well J at 108 is today what was that is Western Prairie here