Good morning everyone and welcome to the Candio High County Board of Commissioners meeting for Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025th. Uh before we get started with the pledge, uh I just wanted to uh say a few words really briefly uh in
remembrance of uh a great friend of Candyo High County and Wilmer uh former Wilmer mayor Les Hike. Uh I served under I served under Less uh uh back in the early 2000s uh on my time at at the
Wilmer city council. And Les uh loved Wilmer. He loved all of its people. Uh and up until the very end, he was still uh working in public service uh as the uh president of the joint operations
board for Kandui County Economic Development. Uh his is a legacy that uh we see every day uh play out in the county and in the city. Uh and he will be greatly missed. Uh and just to honor uh Les and just ask for a moment of
silence. Thank you. Please stand for the pledge. I aliance 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. At this time, it ask for uh approval of today's agenda. Mr. Chair, I'll make that motion. Commissioner Dwayne moves. Uh, Commissioner Index seconds. Discussion. All in favor say I. I. I. All opposed.
Motion carries. Uh, the next item is the consent agenda. Today's consent agenda uh includes the uh approval of the May 20th, 2025 county board legal minutes, approval of auditor's warrants and claims, approval of the May 20th, 2025
closed session minutes, and the cannabis substance use prevention grant contract with packed for families collaborative. Uh do any commissioners wish to remove any of these items from the consent agenda? Mr. chair. I so move
Commissioner Berg moves approval of the consent agenda. Is there a second? I'll second it. Commissioner Dale Anderson seconds. Discussion hearing none. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion passes. All
right. And at this time uh we would have uh uh deputy chief deputy sheriff uh Kent Bowman. And uh I believe we have a special guest in here today. On his way in. So on their way. All right. All
right. Hello board. Uh I'll present to you our it's our K9 handler patrol deputy Nick Moleberg. Um and his partner Loki. Uh Nick will talk with you about Loki and take questions. Outstanding. Good morning. Good morning. Uh, like Kent said, I'm Nick. Uh, I've been with the
sheriff's office now for eight years. Uh, we just got Loki beginning of March. We just completed on Friday our 12 weeks of basic K9 um class. Loki here. Sit. Yes. Good boy. Uh, he is
trained in drug detection. He's trained in tracking for either missing people or if a suspect were to leave from a house or a vehicle or something like that. uh as well as sit suspect apprehension. Um so bite
work, he will if need be grab onto somebody and hold on to them for um other law enforcement to get up and put somebody in handcuffs or take them into custody. Sit. Sit. He's still pretty young. Uh he's 15 months right now. Um so that's aiding in
a lot of his distraction right now. Um not used to that as much being so young. Um, he's also trained in uh evidence search. So, if somebody throws something out of a moving vehicle or if we're on a track for somebody and they try to throw something off into the trees when
they're running, he's trained in that as well. And that's the bulk of uh the training that he has for patrol work is the apprehension, the detection, and then tracking and evidence. Well, he appears to be a little camera shy, but other
than that, yeah, he's he's very easily distracted. Um, he is a German Shepherd mixed with a Belgian Malininoa. Um, the Belgian Malininoa side of him is the easily distracted by shiny objects or fastoving objects. Um, yeah, he's very, very inquisitive and very curious and
has a touch of ADHD from the Belgian law. Sit. Yes. Sit. I I like that he hears the command and he looks up at you. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I can't get my dogs to do that. It takes it takes a lot of time. Uh so for his meals, uh we work on
obedience like this. Uh and I hand feed him the majority of his meal and that's how he gets gets all of his training with obedience and his meal at the same time is working on that. So how does uh how does a dog like uh Loki, you said, right? How does uh how does he make the
cut, so to speak, uh to you know uh be doing this work? So, the company that we purchased Loki through uh goes over to Slovakia and works with breeders and vendors in Slovakia and all over Europe to find the kind of dogs that they want.
The vendors and the breeders test and evaluate the dogs to see if they're going to make it for just single purpose. Nope. Sit. Sit. Single purpose, meaning they don't do bite work. Mhm. Um so some of the males don't have that level of drive um
or commitment to not do it and um a lot of the female German shepherds in Belgium Malininois are perfect for the single purpose or the just drugs tracking evidence and they will test them. They have their own pool and then the vendors the companies will go over
there and test for what they are looking for as well. So, in early February, the owner of the company went over, tested dogs, and brought over six, I believe, one of them being Loki. Okay. Uh, I'm going to ask
uh, Commissioner Berg. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Can you elaborate a little bit more on the training? How are you involved? And I'm assuming it's ongoing and Yes. And it's quite extensive. and also with uh how do we collaborate with other sheriff's departments and police
departments with with using him? Yeah. Uh so the training when he comes over um because he was a year right before I got him, he has no training in Slovakia of any kind other than to see if he's going to bite and how his bite is. So all of
the training was with a trainer teaching me how to teach him and then him learning how to learn So, uh, that's it. It starts baby steps. He's basically a puppy in a one-year-old body when when I got him. And it just a lot of lot of
repetitions. Some dogs can pick it up quicker for certain things, and some dogs need more repetitions to get better at it. Um, continuing now after class will be um around 16 hours a month of continuing training to make sure that he
stays um consistent and continues to excel. and just and doesn't just stay where we ended at the end of class. And then working with other departments, if other departments have a need for a K9, they and they don't have one working in the past, they'll reach
out to all surrounding counties to see who has a dog available. That's good to hear. Thank you, Commissioner. the next 16 hours. It's actually even probably more than that because um um Deputy Bilkey and our other K9, the the Black Lab Maverick,
they work on the same they work different shifts, but they work on the same days. So, they uh will try to get together quite a bit and be each other's partners as they work on the detection things. And Britney is now trained to be the official bite dog, bite bitey, bite
decoy for uh for Loki. So, so we plan to have a lot of extra training above and beyond the official training as well. So, Commissioner Mdeck, thank you. Um, you uh, now bite has been brought up three different times. You you just mentioned it. You mentioned it twice, I think. Um,
you do you do do not want bite. It depends on the severity of what's going on. It's It's not going to be for something minor. It's going to be for somebody that's a danger. Then you also referenced um, yes, male
versus female, correct? Are females better than the males? For dogs, you mean? Yeah. Um the male the males tend to be used for the apprehension, the dual purpose dogs um more often. Um I'm sure I don't know the full ins and outs of the theories,
but I would guess size and then um testosterone and everything that or dog version of that to lend them to be better for better suited for that job. Oh, sit. and the use of a the use of an apprehension dog. It's in our use of
force policy. It goes along with some of the extra equipment that we carry and use that we have to be justified on that um in a weird um very vacuum sort of way. Loki is a tool for us and the right scenarios when Nick and Loki are working or if they get called out because of the
d of a danger element to a situation, Loki could be used as a tactic to do something that keeps officers or other people safe as well. very very similar to the tasers we use, batons we use, the less lethal shotguns, very very similar
as far as the levels of force. So, one more question. When he's off duty and on his own time, um can he go out and find morel mushrooms because the season is not right now for I've never taught him to sniff out morell mushrooms. Just uh the human scent on
items. So, that's what he searches for for evidence is human odor on something. So, when we practice it, just grab uh I've got room key cards, uh screwdrivers, different small things, heat it up in my hand, stick it in my vest, and then toss it out in the grass,
and then he smells for the human scent so he can deter he can tell what to Yep. Yep. One of the locations we used for these trainings had a whole bunch of um garbage in it from the wind, and he would go right over the top of cups and
all the garbage in the in the grass and go directly to the item that was just thrown out there and then drug as well. And then the tracking is very similar where he searches for the human odor that's sit. Okay,
sit. Human odor that comes off of everybody as they're even just sitting here, skin cells and everything is falling off. And then so he'll sniff for that. Sit. And he will also smell for the freshly disturbed grass. No sit. He
thinks I'm doing a thinks I'm trying to give him a high five. Oh, what do they cost? What did Loki cost? I don't have that number. Uh 13,000 for for the dog roughly. And then the training above and beyond
that. Yep. The training I believe was 7,000. Your training? Yeah. Our combined training for us to attend the class? Yeah. Yeah. In total, it's maybe around 35,000. We did have some uh community sponsors that helped with that too. It's one of
our donation line items that we actually do get is for K9 use. Commissioner Dwayne Anderson. So we you talked about how the K9 is selected. How do you select officers for this? There may be a lot of people that want to do
it or maybe there aren't any. I don't We did. We I think we had uh probably five deputies that put in for it. Um but we look at a lot of things. We look at their their usage of what they've already done within our department. Um they have to be an officer for so long. Um they have to have proven themselves
to be someone that's um got a good work ethic. This is a a 247. Y um he's still the K9 handler on days off. Um he's still the K9 handler on holidays, uh things like that. So it's a very involved thing. So we do that and um
they submit letters of uh interest. We as an administration take a look at who our our people are and we just decide on that on on their work history. It's basically what it comes down to. How productive they've been for us, how active they are, how responsive to things for the county they are. So,
okay. Thank you. Go ahead. Can you maybe elaborate on how the you came up with the name for that that story? Sure. Uh, so we did a color coloring contest with the New London Spicer fifth grade dare class. Uh, they each got a coloring sheet and on the
back had name suggestions and then when they completed them and turned them in, the Kent made a master list for me, broke it down by class and then I went through with my wife and picked out Loki from from that group or from the list. The name he's going to say 10,000 times. He wanted him to be comfortable with it.
Yep. Nice and nice and short. Not long. Pretty Yeah. one or two syllables. Very, very easy to sell say quickly. Commissioner Dale Anderson, I'm just curious, where did you do your training at? Was that instate or did you have to go somewhere further away or instate?
The company is based out of Buffalo, Minnesota. Uh, so we trained at multiple different locations ranging from the from MSP. We were there for about a half an hour just to take them through the the carousel area, elevator or escalators, just some environmental um
things. state uh fairgrounds, Brooklyn Park quite a bit and then out to Rogers, Monaceel, Albertville, Buffalo, Maple Lake. Cool. Uh Commissioner Berg, thank you, Mr. Chair.
Uh what age do they get a chance to retire? It all depends on the dog. Um some dogs have health issues earlier than others. Um there's no dogs are perfect. they can still have degenerative um issues that pop up. Um
one of the people in my class, his dog had to retire after three and a half, four years because of a degenerative uh disease that he developed. So it all depends um the wear and tear, especially with the dual purpose dog of practicing the apprehension is a lot of extra um
wear and tear on them on their body from their mouth all the way down their spine of of doing that. and then in and out of the car a dozen times a day. Just a lot of jumping can wear out their hips and their joints. It it it depends on the dog. Roughly eight years of of service
be a rough one of our one of our current canines with Sergeant Swanson is Cooper. Um Cooper is another same breed I think. Did he go through with Steve as well? He's going to be retiring now. Nick and Loki are taking Shawn and Cooper's place on our patrol. Um, so within I think
about the next month we have to finalize some things. Then Cooper will go into retirement. Cooper is still very healthy, just getting up in years. I think if I did the math right, Cooper had 10 years of service with us at the sheriff's house. So um, yeah. So just kind of that next phase. So well, they
should they if I may uh earn their retirement. Yeah, definitely. They do. And what a what an asset they have. Saves saves lives in this. Yes, very much so. So there's protective gear that are human officers. Where is there protective gear for a K-9 officer as
well? Yeah. So I'll use uh Cooper as the example. Cooper um after a certain amount of time on the department and comfortability with us did some additional tactics with our tactical team, SWAT team. So he actually had a ballistic vest um kind of a stab vest, ballistic vest that Cooper wore. Um we
foresee the same thing with with Loki. I believe Maverick has already been fitted for one. Part of it is Loki, you can tell, is just needs to fill out a little bit more. still kind of that puppy body, but once it gets to full size, then we'll there'll be some protective like a vest that on certain not every day like Nick and I are wearing today, but on
certain calls that Nick could add that to Loki. So, Sure. Uh, and I guess, you know, it wouldn't be a dog show if I didn't uh didn't ask you to show him off a little bit and if you could is there anything you can show us here that he can do? Yeah. Yeah, we uh worked on a
little bit yesterday with our first demo with some kids. So hopefully goes a little bit better than that. He's not surrounded by a bunch of small kids. He's looking pretty comfortable at the moment. Loki, break. Yeah, Loki's officially been on duty since Saturday. out of training. Don't get enough space.
Those are the tricks for obedience. Otherwise and then just the basic hand signal as well. So, a part of there's a couple different certifications that can be um done with canines and one of the certifications
requires hand signals um for the SIT and the DOWN. [Laughter] He he he can't spell. No, there his uh litter mate that was actually in class, a female, she learned to spell the
instructors would tell her handler to do something and spell it and she would do it. That's it. Yes. Good boy. I can't spell. That's outstanding. Well, uh, I want to thank you for bringing Loki into us
today and, uh, have an opportunity to show him off, uh, to the public and, uh, appreciate your service and your willingness to pick up this work. And, uh, thank you. Uh, thank you so much for, uh, for being here today. Thank you all.
Thanks. And let's see the next item. We have uh uh Deputy Bowman, Chief Deputy Bowman with uh with a request of the board. Yeah, I was asked to speak today. Uh Sheriff Tullson is at a conference out
of the area and um jail administrator Captain Akerson was unavailable. So, uh, the request was for an increase in our cost per person to get on our work release program. And that would the increase would cover, um, our system of monitoring someone that's out on work
release out of the jail to add a it's basically a GPS enabled um, ankle bracelet that's rechargeable. It gets recharged every day because part of this program is they go out and work and they come back. Uh what I was told is historically the checks on that is one
of our staff leaving and kind of tracking them themselves and making sure they go where they need to go kind of very you know 70s and 80s kind of a thing where you're just doing a visual check on them and sometimes the work release isn't just in the city of Wilmer or just in you know 10 mile distance. It can be um a little bit of distance far
enough that they could go and work and come back and spend the night in the jail. So that's a considerable amount of time for our staff to do these random checks. And those are like I said random. and they're not every day. So, just to make sure they're say they're going where they say they're going and things like that. So, this GPS system
will be on them. It's alerted if anybody tries to take it off, but it also tracks to wherever they're at all the whole time that they're outside of our facility. Gives us some more security and some safety in the sense that, you know, they had to meet certain criteria to be on work release, but that they're where they say they are. It gives us
that extra level. So this is a just a a little bit of an increase to cover that new technology. And so the uh request is to increase from $16 a day to $2250 correct a day. All right. All right. Are there any uh questions for Chief Deputy
Bob? Commissioner Dwayne Anderson. So is that uh ankle bracelet what they call what we Yeah, there's a there's a version of an ankle bracelet that's pre-existed. There's I think I looked at it on the uh um there's various things through the jail. There's um house arrest. You hear the traditional house
arrest things like that. I can't speak intelligently on if it's a different system. This is a new I think part of this is new because it's the GPN GPS enabled for movement and things. So I don't know what the existing ankle bracelets that we've all heard of for years what kind of technology that actually is. It's not something that can
like it's not like a phone where you can leave it sit there. No, this is attached to them and they get alerted if somebody takes it off. It's not foolproof that if you have the time and the desire that you couldn't cut it off, but you're alerted if that does happen. So then we'd be aware of the last location where that happened at. As I think with most
of the traditional ankle bracelets, that's always been a thing that if somebody wants to get out of it, they can, but there's obviously consequences then, too. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Any questions? All right. Hearing no further
questions, I'd entertain a motion to approve the request to staff. I so move, Mr. Chair. Commissioner Mbeck moves. Is there a second? I'll second that. Commissioner Dwayne Anderson seconds. Thank you. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor signify by
saying I. I. All opposed. Motion passes. And thank you so much. Have a great day. All right. At this time, uh, we have a presentation from University of Minnesota Extension 4. Uh, and I'd like
to invite our presenters to come up. Uh, I have, uh, uh, regional director Trisha Sheen. Uh, Kylie Shered, and Beth Tits, our educators here today. Do I have that right? You do. Thank you very much. All right. The floor is yours. Thank you.
All right. Thank you for your time. Uh we just wanted to be able to share uh with you some of the work that extension has been doing uh related to youth development and possibly some master gardener update. Uh but I also wanted to share just a piece um extension has four
different departments that we work with. Agriculture, natural resources, uh community development, youth development, and we also have our family health and well-being uh department. And one of the things with um I know we're already into June, but May was mental
health month and um one of the pieces of work that they are um really emphasizing is uh our comet training, which is changing our mental and emotional trajectory. It's a two-hour online course that individuals can participate in. And um it gives us a tool so you or
I could take this two-hour course. They do offer some in person. Um, but it's a tool that um allows us to be able to listen to someone and hear um someone as they may be going from a um through a challenging time. And the idea is that
we um hopefully we change their course from wellness. You're in between wellness and crisis. and that we as we listen and ask questions that we might be able to help change that course that they're on to um to instead of going towards crisis to coming back towards
wellness. Uh we're not there to fix that challenge or or provide all solutions to them, but to be able to listen. Um, so just um a piece that I'll leave here that uh you're willing you're more than welcome to uh learn about and I'm going to turn it over to Beth and Kylie so
that they can share more about the youth that the 4 program here in Candy Oh. Thank you. Go right ahead. So yes, we wanted to kind of share just uh please introduce uh yourself uh for the record and for the folks out there and watching us on Yes. So I'm Beth Deetsz. I'm um
Kenyo High County Extension Educator. Um I'm Kylie Shared and I'm the other extension educator here in Candyo High. Um so we wanted to share some numbers um and some goals with you that we have throughout this year. So our 4 year year runs October 1st through September 30th.
Um and these are the current numbers we have as of this 4 year. Um in May 15th is when we have our youth need to be enrolled and have their animals IDed. Um, so we see a few numbers trickle in, but this is typically the numbers that we'll look at for the rest of the year.
So, right now we have 11 chartered clubs and 98 volunteers are helping run those clubs um and helping with programs countywide as well. And so within those clubs, we have 227 youth participating. Um, we have 23 different
community partners that we work with within Kandu High County, whether that be schools, associations, um, different things like that. and Kylie and I put on uh 38 educational events between October to now. Um and then we also when we go into the schools
um those are youth that we still are reaching they're not necessarily enrolled in a club but they're still receiving um 4 education and so we reach 400 or 345 of those youth um between uh Lakeland school the homeschool co-op um
afterchool programs summer programs so in this last year we've had reached 345 of those youth um so kind of going to our goals goals. So, one of our goals is a program goal. So, we are looking at um from October 1st to now, we want to
increase our enrollment by 10%. Um and that is going to help you teach youth practical skills, spark passion with them, ignite creativity. Um and that not only will support our youth, but also support our community as well. So, I believe you all have this handout
here, so I'm not going to read exactly right off of it, but we do have some growth goals and retention goals as well. Um, our grow growth goal for the year is to be involved with some more of those community partners that Beth had um alluded to earlier. And so, this year
we wanted to have five of those community partners um with a goal of increasing and diversifying our membership here in Candy, Ohio. So when we work with some of the other um organizations here in Wilmer, that is something that definitely helps us. But we do work up in New London and in
McCrae schools as well. And then our retention goal for the year was to retain 70% of our Clover grads. Um if you're unfamiliar with 4, Clover buds are the age range of kindergarten through third grade. Um and so the 4
programming for them looks a little bit different. there's not competition involved and it's a lot more learning based. Um, but after they hit third grade, that's when they will be able to experience more of that competition in 4. So, we wanted to retain a lot of
those members moving forward. Um, and that's for this upcoming year as well. And so, some of the things that we're doing with that are to specifically focus on some Cloverbud camps this summer where we have youth being able to come and participate. Actually, our
first one is tomorrow where I will be doing a woodworking um camp with them. So, wish me luck on that. Um but I think it will be great. Yes. Um and then if you flip over to the back, there's actually a nationwide
um initiative and campaign for 4 where we are aiming to reach out to more youth um throughout the whole world. Well, not the world um throughout the whole nation. Um, one of the big goals is that we want to reach 10 million youth by
2030. Um, so we're going to see some changes here in Candy, Ohio, too, just to help reach that and that would be likely going into schools more. Um, so if you're a typical 4 member if you were involved in 4 when you were younger, um, what you would have experienced is
likely a community club and that's what Beth was talking about earlier that we have 11 of those in Candyo High. Um, but now we also have other clubs such as our sightbased clubs and our I'm blanking right now after school clubs and then we
also have project clubs where kids can focus specifically on one project. So we're going to be focusing and um putting some more initiatives towards building those numbers up in the county too and getting all youth involved whether they are able to travel to us or not. We are going to be going onsite to
those. Do you have anything to add for the initiative? I just I think this beyond ready is um the concept is really about how do we prepare kids for work and life um there we know you can look at these statistics here and some of them are actually I mean they're kind of
shocking at times um even to think about 85% of the jobs in 2030 so in five years they don't even exist right now and so how do we prepare young people to learn how to communicate to be able to be
flexible um and to to create that spark to want to learn and want to develop their skills. That's that's what these guys are going to do. And um we hope that we have volunteers and other community members who want to come along with us and really help prepare our
young people. Uh we want to prepare them too to come back and live here with us and contribute to our communities as volunteers, as employees, um and build help to build that tax base as well. So, it's a it's an amazing, I think, campaign that they're looking at across
the United States. Um, but our um our state director here in Minnesota was um pretty crucial in developing this as well. So, um she has some real stake in u making sure that this is that this is um effective and really works here in
Minnesota. So, before I go to Commissioner Mdeck, uh quick question here. uh under growth uh you're talking about diversifying uh enrolled uh membership. Uh does that uh does that mean uh potential outreach into underserved communities uh within our
county and what does that look like? Yes, absolutely. So, one of the ways that we are kind of starting that off right now is working in the Wilmer public schools. Um and so that helps us both with the underserved community and
um different races and religions in Candy as well. So that is one of our steps that we're taking so far. Um we've also been working with the um kids connection program in the mall and that has been able to reach a large population of those underserved
communities as well. All right. Thank you so much, Commissioner Mdeck. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, um, some of this is fresh on my mind because we just had extension meeting yesterday and, um, I think back to a lot of years ago, 60 at
least. Uh, when I first got started with 4, it was sort of, uh, traditional gender roles. The the guys maybe were more involved with livestock and the gals more with what we used to call in those days home kind of stuff, you know.
Um and then there might have been some crossover but fairly little. I was intrigued with um the you had three different types of clubs. You got project clubs, you got you mentioned them earlier but would you elaborate a little bit about the
different kinds of clubs because there are some people quite frankly aren't interested in livestock but they might be interested in archery or they might be interested in I think yesterday used the example of firearms. Uh so can you talk about that little uh that the
differences between the different types of clubs? Yeah, so um we have our community clubs. So that's what people typically think of. They're the clubs that meet a minimum of six times a year. Um they can gladly meet more than that if they want, but these are the clubs
that typically are meeting, holding um the official business meetings, doing community service projects, doing fundraisers, stuff like that. Um, so that's what people typically think of when they think of a 4H club. But outside of that, we have our project clubs. So, currently we have one project
club. Um, and that's the shooting sports club. So, youth are learning to shoot archery, BB, um, air, um, and then they're also learning wildlife as well. So, they're learning um, about anything, animal tracks, scat, identification,
life cycles, stuff like that. So, that's what that club focuses on. they have their typical meeting still. Um, but it's built into practices. Um, and so it's structured all around the shooting sports project specifically. Um, and then we have uh after school clubs. Yes,
I'm blanking. Um, so these are the clubs where Kylie and I are going in and we're doing education within the schools. Um, and so after Yes, after school. So we're doing them like within um community education. um like I did went in and did
a robotics after school lesson. Um and so these are when we are going to the youth, they stay after school, they don't have to have transportation or anything. Um and so it's very um it's very good for them to then they don't have to travel or anything. Um and I'm
blanking on the last one. Sy yes. Um and so those are where Kylie and I go in and we do inschool education. So that's when we're going in to Lakeland Elementary when we're going into the homeschool co-op and we're teaching a series. Um so
Kylie went in and taught how to grow a pizza for four weeks. And do you want to elaborate more on that? Yeah. So grow pizza was actually a six-week program where I went into Lakeland Elementary. I have a big background in agriculture, so I like to teach that to our youth. Um so
at Lakeland Elementary we started from the bottom of the pizza. So, we did a lesson on wheat and I actually had a group of our older egg ambassadors. They were actually called our egg ad leaders and that is programmed throughout um Minnesota State that I have six kids in the county involved in. So, they came in
and taught that lesson with me. Then I also did a dairy lesson for our cheese, a vegetable lesson for our sauce, and then we did uh blanking too. Uh oh, we did a meat lesson. So, that one was very interesting specifically going into the Wilmer schools.
um because they don't have that background in agriculture. And then the capstone of the project was to have a pizza party too. So that one was a very um interactive and fun lesson for those youth through April and May is when I had done that one. And so all these kids
are like will you come to third grade? So that's something we'll be looking forward for next year maybe is seeing seeing how else we can expand in the schools as well. So, um, kind of circling back to, so these goals on the front page here, these were something that we had made prior to this Beyond
Ready initiative coming out. Um, so looking into our next year, we're probably going to be changing them a little bit to better reflect uh, the campaign and what we look forward to throughout the nation. Uh, any uh, any other questions
for for our presenters today? I I'm I'm struck by the one of the things uh director uh Shin that you mentioned uh almost almost right away is that uh this isn't just about kids getting together and doing stuff and then you send them
on your way. You're talking about equipping them uh with uh life skills uh knowledgebased uh things of course uh but but also the ability to be self-aware
uh uh help help them along what is an even more difficult journey than it was for me some four years ago. uh because uh because let's face it, you're getting kids
at some really tough ages, right? Uh and and and if they stay with the program, uh there's a lot for them there. Can you elaborate on that a little bit? I think well there are there are so many opportunities um not only in the 4 youth development program, but in other
programs that we do offer. Um, and we're really trying to teach young people, help them develop those leadership skills, to develop those personal skills so that they can be contributing citizens. Um, those those are the individuals we want in our community and we want more of them. Um so extension is
really about equipping equipping young people um equipping volunteers and adults uh with those skills as well because we all know too that not all not all of us grow up with those things and we have to learn those pieces later in life as well. And so we do that through
different programs. Um maybe it's through some of the SNAPED programs that we do. Uh we have community leadership programs. Um, some of you may know Toby Span. Um, and he's done a tremendous amount of work in this county as well. Um, developing leaders in in our
community. Um, sometimes people that didn't really think they had that in them. Um, but helping them to build those skills as well. So, it's young people and we want to retain them and keep them and hopefully we they see that they can contribute it to our programs later too, whether as volunteers or um
leading programs with us. Well, you gave me an opening to give a shout out to my friend Toby uh uh who who helped us create uh coming out of the uh uh vision 2040 process create literally a
worldclass leadership training uh that is still running today part of the lead program uh and it's right here in West Central Minnesota and uh I can't I don't know what the number is of the uh folks who have gone through that program by
now, but it's got to be 200 250 people uh that have gone through that program from all uh aspects of our community. And uh uh it's just I think we're going to see the rewards of that uh now and in the future and to equip these uh uh
young people that you have as your charges uh with some of those leadership skills as well. Uh hats hats off to you. Any further questions or I would just add that to Toby Spaniard also is a program director for the Minnesota
Agural Leadership Program Marl Marl uh and married to an El Rosen girl Commissioner Dale Anderson. Well, I guess I'm on the statewide extension committee and it's interesting. We at our last meeting that we had, we talked
about that on a lot of job applications, which is kind of bizarre that they ask if you've been in 4 because of the fact that you're, you know, learning about speaking and learning about being active and and taking part in that kind of stuff. So, it was kind of interesting to
hear that. But I I I just want to thank you guys very much for all the work you've done to step out of the box and making these kids see that there's more to to life than just school and and things like that. So, I want to thank you guys very much for what you've done
in our county to make it uh more available for everybody. And I think that's the biggest thing because like Roger said, it's not all about agriculture. It's about being involved in and learning the different skills that are going to be important throughout everybody's life. So, thank
you. Thank you. Any last uh questions? All right. Well, thank you again so much for uh uh for presenting to us here again today and uh good luck with the program and uh look forward look forward to seeing you again next year. All
right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, I'm uh I'm going to switch the two of you here because I know uh Corey may have some documents that he wants signed. So, I'm going to I'm going to switch you and have Corey come up at this
time. Uh Corey Smith. Uh and this is in regards to the Nest Sew and Water Improvement Agreement. Corey. Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the board. My name is Corey Smith. I'm the director out at Glacial Lake Sanitary Sewer and Water District. I'm here
before you today to present a developers agreement for sewer and water services for a development known as the Nest. This development is located on the far southeast side of Nest Lake uh just west of the Old Mill spillway, which is
between Nest Lake and Green Lake. To support the 17 residential units and a clubhouse within the nest, the following infrastructure will be required. It will need to be they will need to construct six manholes, 578 ft of 8 in sanitary sewer
main, 592 ft of 6-in water man, and install two new hydrants uh fire hydrants. The sanitary sewer from um this development will flow by gravity to an existing lift station that is located between unit five and
six. It is standard practice at Glacial Lakes um that developers pay or bear 100% of the costs associated with the new development or the new infrastructure. Um these expectations are formalized through a written agreement which you have in front of you
today. Um this ensures clarity and transparency for all parties. Once the infrastructure is completed and meets our standards, uh ownership will be transferred to Glacial Lakes or to the county. Additionally, the county uh we do have two easements
in place that was also within your packet. One is for the operation and maintenance of the sewer and water lines that they will be installing and the other one is for a storm sewer that already is existing. To reach this point uh the
district's engineer and the district staff uh went through all the plans and specifications to ensure that it is up to our standards. We also secured and are working on uh getting the approval needed from the Minnesota Pollution
Control Agency. Um we did get approval for them and right now the Minnesota Department of Health are in a plan review stage and should be finishing that up shortly. On April 28th, 2025, the Glacial Lakes Commission recommended
that this agreement be forwarded to the county board for consideration. And then with that, it is the district's recommendation that the county board authorize the county administrator and the board chair to sign the agreement on behalf of the county. All right. You've
uh heard the recommendation of Mr. Smith. Are there any questions? I would move on the recommendation of staff for the uh plat for the uh for the agreement. Thank you. Uh Commissioner Mck moves. Is there a second? I'll second that. Commissioner
Dwayne Anderson seconds. Any discussion? So, this is uh simply the uh sewer and water. Uh anything else that was uh related to uh surface runoff, things like that were already addressed
uh at the planning commission stage. Correct. Yep. Sure. All right. Any any questions for Corey? Commissioner B. Oh, thank you, Mr. Chair. I just have a question about the a question about the fire hydrants. Y u can you elaborate a little bit about the
process for that and the decision where they're placed and so forth and who's all involved? Are the fire departments, fire marshals involved? And I do have a map if you can pull it up on there. You can't see the the old fireman wants to know. Yep. Yep.
If you can do it on the overhead. I got a I can do that. Okay. Oh, I got a layout of what the sewer and water will look like. I don't need the details, but just the process more. So, but fine. Go
ahead. So, I don't know if you can see that or not. We're getting there. Are there a little further if you can? There you go. So, right now, our existing water line
comes up here um and goes to a fire hydrant right by our lift station. And basically, that's what they call a dead end. So, we have a fire hydrant at the end of every dead end so that we can periodically go out there, turn over the water, uh make sure that we get clear and fresh water. So, once that fire
hydrant's removed, they're going to have a tee in there and put a fire hydrant at the end of each line. So now there'll be two dead ends that we can maintenance and and keep the water turned over and fresh. All right, any other
questions? All right, we have a motion and a second to uh approve the uh request of staff for the Nest Sewer and Water Improvement Agreement and authorize the administrator and the chair to sign the agreement on behalf of the county.
Uh, all those in favor of the motion say I. I. All opposed. Motion passes. Thank you. We'll take just a couple of minutes and get you your signatures. I could do it at the intermission too after Mel if you want. That's fine. That's fine. I was just trying to get you on your way.
All right. Thank you for that. And uh Mel Odin's with a uh resolution 2025-17 right away vacation. Mr. Chair, members of the board. Uh yeah, Mel Loen's County Engineer. I've got with you a uh
there's two applications to vacate a portion of our rideway on County Road 95, which would be on the easterly side of Green Lake. Um about 20 25 years ago now, some of this road was realigned. It took out a lot of the horizontal curves
and it what it did is it left areas that we no longer use. When we installed the sewer and water around Green Lake, we put that all within a 35 foot or 70 foot um corridor around the lake, 35 on each side of the road. And
so from that 35 foot line out, we don't really use for any reason. And based on applications, we allow that rightway to be vacated. That's a little bit the backstory of why there's rightway out
there. So, we have two applications. Um, we did previously about a year ago, maybe a year and a half ago, um, vacated a portion on what would be in this packet, lot B, and now there's lot A and
C and D. So, those two applications. So, um it's it's kind of a routine thing, but it's our recommendation to pass resolution 2025-17, which would vacate uh portions of our old County Road 95 in the vicinity um on the east side of Green
Lake. Thank you. You've heard the recommendation of uh staff. Are there any questions? Mr. Chair, I'd move on resolution 2025-7. Commissioner Mck moves the resolution. Is there a second? I'll second it. Commissioner Dale Anderson seconds.
discussion. Again, pretty straightforward thing and clean up more than anything else. All right. Any questions? All right. Hearing none. All in favor of resolution signify by saying I. I. All opposed. Motion passes. All
right. At this time, we will take a uh Oh, no. We're not recessing just yet, are we? No. Uh yeah, let's Yeah. Uh there's a request to move the administrative updates, appointments, uh and so forth up. We've got a couple of
items. Uh Administrator Baker, uh the two items are items that we have discussed prior um to move the regular board meeting uh for the June 17th instead of at 9:00 a.m. move it to 400 p.m. Um we've done this in the past. it
seems to work best because you then you're not coming back um for another meeting. If that is something um that you're okay with, then we will notify the media and post that for um if you want any discussion if you're okay with
moving the 9:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mr. Sure. Commissioner of And just as a reminder, that'll be our uh uh board of adjustment of adjustment. Equalization. Equalization. Uh meeting following the regular board meeting. Correct. At 6 p.m. Yep. It has to start at 6 p.m. So,
we would start our regular board meeting at 6 and then the board of equaliz Oh, I'm sorry. 4 p.m. Sorry. And then board of equalization at 6 p.m. Are there any uh questions or concerns with the request? I'll make the motion to have
the meeting at 4 pm on June 17th. Mr. Chair, I'll second that. Uh, Commissioner Queen Anderson moves. Commissioner Bergens. Discussion. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion passes. And uh then the July 15th
meeting needs to be moved as well. Correct. We have two commissioners attending the Niko conference and instead of having the meeting on Tuesday, July 15th, I would propose uh Thursday, July 17th at 9:00 a.m. We had we did the we did that last
year. We moved it to Thursday and so it seemed to work well and so that's what I would propose again. All right. Any questions or concerns with the request? Mr. Chair, um do we need a motion on it?
Yes. Um, and thank you uh all for accommodating our our schedules. I would move that uh we move the uh second meeting of July to Thursday, July 17th
at 9:00 a.m. There's a motion to uh move the July 15th meeting to July 17. Is there a second? I'll second that, Mr. Chair. Commissioner Dwayne Anderson seconds. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion passes.
Thank you. Uh does anyone have any uh uh are there any other administrative updates uh that you have for us? Uh Kelsey, I would um we had a building committee meeting yesterday and uh the building committee met with the W
representatives. We reviewed options, had a lengthy discussion. I felt that it was a very um well-rounded discussion as well. And so we would propose a work session uh following that committee meeting with the board uh possibly in July. And so
I'm waiting to get some dates from Wool to see what will work for them. But if in the meantime between now and then if you could send me what some dates and or Melissa or I some dates that work for you, some dates and times and then we will work on getting that scheduled at
the next uh the June 17th meeting. So just a heads up on that. Um the budget is uh has been sent out to department heads. So they are reviewing that and putting numbers and so those numbers will start kind of funneling in between
now and the 18th 19th and then um I will review that and then do a first run of the budget. We'll provide more of a report in in July and then we'll have our budget work session that first meeting in August. Um so in the meantime if you do have any questions if or in
the meantime as well for myself if there is something that comes up that's major I will update the board and bring that up. Um June 11th uh is mental health night at the Stingers game and so if you have time our public health and some staff
human services are putting uh an evening on the Stingers are marketing the event. They have a lot of cool items. So, if you have um if you want any more information on that, just reach out to Caroline Khan and she can provide that to you. But I think that'll be a fun night. Uh the singers, like I said, is
doing a lot of the promotion and so if you could help represent KY County, that would be great. Um I'm going a little ahead. Also, um June 21st, our rescue squad is doing a car show again. And so, I just wanted to get that out there. Um we'll do be doing some media push. It's
over it's after Wilmerfest. Um, and it will be um just a a good fundraiser kind of showcase of what our rescue squad does. Just a reminder, June 18th we're having our employee picnic at the public works building. And then um our
commissioner Gardner and Commissioner Imike have been involved um very high level but just discussion level is we're doing we did an RFP process for insurance brokers. So we're kind of going through that interviewing stage. uh we'll be completing interviews and
we'll be providing a recommendation hopefully in July or August to the board. Um and then just a heads up for our June 17th meeting, we'll have two policies that the policy committee met and reviewed and discussed. Um an acceptable use policy which is in regards to technology and then the
employee handbooks had some just minor updates. So those two policies will be on the next uh agenda. So if you have any questions just let me know. Are there any uh questions for the administrator, Commissioner Embeck? Uh well, actually for all of us, uh June 11th is District 6 meeting, right? It's
in the evening. Yes. But June 11th is the district. Thank you. And then um also uh regarding the the uh work session, is that going to be part following a board meeting is or it can't really because we
have so few options. I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to have a a doodle pull uh for options again to try to find a date. Otherwise, you have to Melissa will have to sort through all these dates that we send in. So, we'll figure
that out. Yeah, they work pretty good. All right. Any other questions for Administrator Baker? All right. Very good. Does uh uh does anyone have any updates that they
wish to bring forward uh at this time? Any uh uh there are no appointments on the agenda? I see. U any committee reports. Uh Commissioner Burb, did you have anything? Uh no. Um probably the thing
to report on would be Prairie Lakes youth program. There's a lot of moving pieces right now with that and uh really nothing at this point to report on. I hopefully have a little bit more information about the progress on the building and also you know for schools
and uh classes were preparing for that too in the fall. So we've been very busy with that. The only meeting I had was um uh CPT yesterday. Um, we had a demonstration of the new tax uh form they've been working
on for a long time. They actually used our county as the example because we've probably used more modules than anybody does. And I suggested to administrator Baker this morning that might be a good presentation for us to to see how that whole system works. I guess I wasn't
aware we could pay our taxes online and Stevens County does almost all online payment of taxes. So, um, I think there's some opportunities there. Uh, you know, our our friends down at the, uh, city of Wilmer, uh, are taking some
pretty good steps to, uh, uh, bring a lot of, uh, different items, uh, online, uh, forms, fillable forms, that type of thing, my understanding. Uh, making it much easier for the public to access or
look up. uh and uh and they're making some great strides in that and it would be uh I think it'd be a good direction for uh for Candyo High County to uh begin to look at as well. I know that there are any number of different vendors out there that uh uh provide
various services and uh uh there's there's a lot of options out there and I hope that's something that we can uh work forward to having an even more uh userfriendly uh website and uh more open access uh for our constituents uh in in
county matters. Uh Commissioner Dwayne Anderson, did you have anything? Well, is this the time we're doing committee or I mean our report votes? Okay. All right. Yeah. So, I had since our last meeting uh we had uh I had four uh committee meetings. Uh C6 uh drug task
force, UKAP, uh the AIS task force, and then vision 2040. They're all pretty much routine routine. I just want to say that, you know, it is summer and there's a lot of activities going on in our county. Um I I I don't even know all of them, but I I mean there there's just a
lot of stuff going on. Rockin Robbins is going to be starting up. I don't know when that starts exactly. It's in July, but that's coming up. So, uh there's a lot of events, so just be be prepared to go to them and don't ever say that you're bored because there's a lot of
stuff going on in our county. So, we are rifest is going on this Saturday and that's right. and uh Wilmer Pride is this weekend as well. And uh Finn's up for u
u for the concert series out at Robins Island. I think there's a Jimmy Buffett tribute tribute band uh that's uh that's going to be out there this year. So um Commissioner, do you have anything? Um well, I had uh I went to the soil and
water conservation meeting after our last meeting. Um, lot of stuff moving and shaking there. I think they still have a few trees left. Um, if anybody wants some, they're trying to sell off the last few that they had left. Um, and then yesterday I had um a tourism
meeting. I stopped in shortly at um because I had CC uh county comm extension meeting right afterwards. But um the interesting thing on the tourism side is that for every dollar that's spent in our county, 40 cents of that is
coming from out of the county and for every dollar that's spent on on groceries, 30 cents of that is coming from out of the county. So I mean it's kind of almost shocking how much stuff is coming from out of the county from tourism and from just people from
outside the county coming into our area to do business. So, um I found that kind of interesting. Um but there's a lot of stuff like Dwayne said, moving and shaking um in the county right now. And there is on the on their calendar um for
the tourism, there is a on their website, they have a calendar of all the events. So, you can go on there and look at all the stuff that's going on. Um and our campgrounds in Sibly is are all up and going. So, take advantage of those facilities that we have for making it a
fun summer. Thank you very much. And uh I just wanted to pose a question uh uh to the board. Uh uh I just want to make sure that there's interest in uh doing a booth out at the fair again this year.
Any any concerns with that? Then I'll uh I'll go ahead and make the uh make the arrangements on that. What are the dates of the fair this year? What's that? What are the dates of the fair this? Uh I am going to uh the 6th through the ask
commissioner Anderson. You would know six through the 19th would know. Thank you for bailing me out on that. Um uh so I'll go ahead and make the uh make the arrangements for that. Um uh anything else before we uh uh take a
recess and we will take a 10-minute recess.