position uh understand that we've got a lot of work uh that we have to do I mean I'm I'm booked solid the next three and A2 days now off to the end of the week and that includes uh two trips down to St Paul for example um and everybody has
those types of uh situations in their calendars uh I guess I guess I'm I would I would like us to be able to report be reporting those items that are of interest to us to us uh for example if
you're at a drainage conference you know and uh I don't I don't know the first thing about drainage I looked at that list earlier today you one of those things are in my are are in my district so you know I I mean I can choose to remain willfully ignorant on it or I can
be uh educated on on that sort of thing and there may be things that come up in the course of all these different meetings you know for example you meet have a prime West meeting and there are things that we're going to need to know about that that type of thing I'm
thinking it probably should be more of a priority uh in our reports uh as opposed to um I was at this one and that one and the other thing but I think both have value does that uh reflect uh where you were maybe going
CL okay Mr chair thank you yeah yeah it's a personal opinion on this as well but um I really feel that the important things that we report back that the board really needs to know something comes up to that you run into issues on
a PR L youth program I think I've shared a lot of little details and the board's getting a better understanding where we are going to be going with that um but a lot of these committees all depend on the Committees and and I've also seen throughout history how people are for
reelection all you have all these long reports you know we just need to give the meat and potatoes to the board that they need to know and some of the information we have in these committees uh when especially Healthcare ones like Prime West or Woodland centers we're
restricted to what we can actually stay here and it's very little so it's that type of thing as well but um I guess that's my feeling we we report what's really important to get back reported and we need to do that and sometimes some of the information the
Health Human Services committee that we meet but they're going to come to the board that maybe in the next you know a couple weeks with the same information why would we give that information depends on what it is let's put it that way other than at that time
we' be supportive or not sure goad so my question Mr chair would be been thinking about this rather than always taking out reports because I have stuff that happened at those meetings would it be better and that's maybe more question for our
administrator um if we give a hand in a copy of the minutes from the last you know effort get approved at meeting come in just think way to do it I don't know that we want to put the
responsibility of compiling that yes yours you know I think the Inception this is just my interpret from talking with administrators who have been here a long time the report outs or commissioner report outs was for pum
reimbursements if you attended that meeting we they we used to listen to you know way back in the day um if you attended let's say you attended CPT that check when you submit that reimbursement right and I think then we've just this
is transformed some counties still get a prium some don't and just get it's included then in their Commissioner salary and so I really leave that up to the board on how you want to view the your report outs um I think that's I
think you guys all do a good job on that I think it's there's sometimes I'm like oh I should have heard more about that or you know but then I'll follow up with the commissioner um but I think the way I think Cory said it's the meat and potatoes and whatever you know the board wishes to
hear more but that's up to you guys uh Dale and then for sure I guess how I've done it and I I sometimes feel like after I hear everybody else say it I feel like I'm the one that's not doing as much but I always try to pick one or two things and then talk about that and I don't always bring up everything else
so that's just what I've kind of done but I'm not saying that that's right maybe it's 100% wrong so it would be good to have a little bit more clarification of what we really want to do sorry I
good well and U thank you Mr chair um actually this is a fairly new thing the board been doing my understanding right and Comm and didn't that start during your time before me that that at some point there
one of the Commissioners says well we really should be hearing a little bit more what's happening you know and it's a fairly new thing fairly new within the last decade or so you know yeah and start doing that for me you respond to that um I don't recall exactly in the
very first couple of years and all du respect I it was almost more of uh it wasn't just the prum ones that we reported on and justification for for the prum that we received
but we don't if Dale and I on the building committee you guys have no clue what's going on in with the building if we don't report on it and uh I don't remember exactly the origin of it but I kind of like that
we're doing it so that we get some for example in CPT about three meetings ago or something like that I reported that we were getting a $40,000 um payback to everybody well that's probably something that you don't need to know but you'd like to know you
know so is there a specific reason what for oh I just clar yeah no that's that's fine I I I think we should all kind of take this discussion and mull it over amongst uh uh uh just ourselves and you
know what what would you like to see uh happen uh happen out of this what's the best highest and best use of everybody's time here and I think it's worth taking a couple of minutes today to kind of Flesh that out a little bit and uh uh
let's uh let's put your thinking caps and see how we can maximize that uh that time going forward um I'm going to I'm going to before we go into report out uh I'm going to ask Kelsey if she has
anything uh that she wanted to cover um our building committee speak of that we did a meet um and our next meeting is set for February 3rd we'll find out more information we're still at very preliminary stages we need to do a
couple followup meetings um our next meeting will be in person we'll hopefully have more information that we can provide back to the board with a with a better timeline um and I
believe that's it okay and uh just a reminder that uh we are all set uh for the association Minnesota Count's legislative conference February 26th and 27th down in uh uh down in St Paul uh
Melissa thank you for getting us squared away with all of those details on that um and uh in terms of report outs I guess I'll start very uh briefly here and then we'll just kind of uh go down the aisle here um as I mentioned last
time I had a uh uh Amy U uh County program a/ mandates work group uh uh commissioner indexers on that uh as well but he was unfortunately had to turn around that
day I understand uh and that uh is uh kind of a continuation of a similar work group from several years back and a lot of the same folks that uh uh that were on that particular group at
that time um and have that kind of historical uh institutional knowledge uh are are serving on that that as well as those of us who are new to that sort of thing um and U I don't think we'll be
meeting again until after the session uh is over and uh start looking at uh uh some potentially concrete ways uh to proceed from a legislative standpoint at that time so that's uh that's nothing
imminent or anything like that that's just kind of for information only um we had our first uh leadership Essentials uh uh session uh by Zoom here on uh last
Thursday uh that's the uh uh uh board chair SL Vice chair uh uh trainings that uh that AMC is doing there will be another Zoom session uh next week
um on the 30th uh but on uh tomorrow uh in conjunction with uh AMC commissioner 101 uh training uh we will be uh uh having an in-person uh session uh to U uh go through some other
items and then we'll be sitting in on the uh Refreshers for such as uh uh open meeting law and uh uh and those types of nuts and bolts things that we uh uh can always use a good refresher on uh so so
that'll be that'll be pretty useful and I'm uh I'm I'm definitely looking forward to that um and then our EDC joint Powers board uh uh meeting comes up on Thursday as
well um and I'm just looking here uh my first CCT board meeting was on uh Friday and my head is still spinning but uh but we'll get we'll get used to that so for what's happened and
what's coming up that's kind of uh that's kind of the end of my report D um a few things um I had a stal society meeting um and they have a room that they rent out um for the public and they're looking at doing some um
updating that room um making the um door access handicap more access for the hand andap people um putting in a different sound system and redoing their website so that was a three big projects that they're looking at doing
um they are doing um an internship um again this summer and it's been turning out good the one that they had last year was really good so that was a cool thing um and they're looking for trying to get some more grants to keep up maintenance on the SP Hills so that was kind of the
things from there um Middle Fork Watershed I went to that meeting last Tuesday night um there was some major questions about the the tax levy part for the D Lake process um of doing the
Nano buub there people are definitely have some concerns about being taxed for that um in the whole wed um we talk on that in different projects um met with uh the ditch 27 people from Norway Lake
on Wednesday and um just continually looking for opportunities for that um the other big thing that I wanted to talk a little about is uh the tri Watershed finally fully adopted their water uh plan um their one water plan um
so there's 2.1 million of money that is going to be available for going on for projects for that so um it's basically done now so now the next thing is to um hire somebody to run that that watered and um they're looking for employees
from uh Pope County basically as who's going to probably going to be running that that part of it so um it those a joint Powers but it'll be an employee from Pope County that will be the person that will be running it so I it's it's come a long ways it started all pretty
shaky but now it's it's basically done so just a lot of um anybody that has Pro you know projects that they're interested in doing in the Watershed um have to come in and sign up with a soil on water and that's go through the
process so it's basically to that point know where there's funding and and projects are being looked at so that is really all oh I guess PR Woods last night um like Roger said earlier we did this strategic plan um I missed the first couple sessions because of other
meetings but um last night it was really interesting to do that a lot of changes in at Prairie Woods um so it'd be interesting to see how that longs but that's all I have thank you Roger so
uh on on uh February 8th was the middle of those three uh prairiewoods environment learning session strategic plans and um that plan also similar to what Dave un is talking about here is although he's already interviewed all of
us last summer so he's going to not do it again but um the person who is leading the strategic planning interviewed all but one of the governing board members to get ask us questions and stuff and Dale is right there's a
lot of changes that be taking place out there the board is changing significantly um I'm probably and I haven't served consecutively I was off for a couple of years but I've probably got more time on that board but as County Commissioners um you know I think
we I think the policy is we need to be on that board and and it doesn't make that much sense for Dwayne for example to drive damn near 50 miles to to get there so I'm more than happy to serve but there's there's some two new young
faces last night then quite a bit board changed so I I think it's all positive um they have some ambitious goals out there um so then we had U um boy not a lot because it wasn't
that much time between these two meetings this time it seems like oh I finally made it to North Fork whoever nothing significant there we went to community we had a Community Corrections meeting last
Tuesday um that's that's required by law and there's always a lot of good conversation and there a lot of good uh information that um so for example last time uh John uh went through a drug court a whole process for somebody
applying for drug court and getting through that and so uh that was that was an interesting uh work and then de already mentioned the uh Norway Lake games working group and then
um Miss West Central mental health housing so that's it all right thank you uh cor thank you Mr chair I've had several meetings on U since the last board meeting I had a pack four meeting I took up most of the day on the 8th and
uh at that meeting was also electoral official uh members Board of the pack for for families men as well as our first organizational meeting for the for the year uh we elected a new chair I was a chair before and uh we discussed this we thought it would be a good idea to
try to rotate the chair as much as possible so it be like twoyear terms I've been on it for two years and I like to um to everybody know Paul Johnson from merer county is the new new chair of uh P for for families um we you know
ratified a lot of uh what took place prior to months as well went through all the financials for the year and uh and we don't have our audit yet but it's looking looking just fine um
and I think that's probably the most important things you probably know about that I also had an u a prime West meeting and that was our first organizational meeting for the new year to and a few new people were there and really it was a election of officers as
well as reviewing some of the financials again and and talking about different other sub committees and I got appointed to an advisory committee they're going to have three sites twice they want to meet twice a year just to get some of
the consumers or citizens involved uh some feedback for Prime West and wmer is going to be one of the locations so we're going to be planning that coming up I think maybe in April and so we'll have a meeting here for our region of
prime West and get some feedback um and U the Health Human Services director will be involved in that too so um and on on Friday I had 18 County M
Consortium and uh my notes on yeah um this was uh not our annual meeting we're going to have our annual meeting next month and so that's one is going to be the Electoral official board meeting even
though I'm on the executive board as uh a subcommittee so I'm part of of that so there's three of us that chair and vice chair myself and uh we had a meeting afterwards and also we've been meeting uh a couple days since then uh they're
looking at purchasing another vehicle uh they're under lease program now the state lease for a vehicle and it's coming due and uh there's a lot of discussion about looking locally and they got some bids for a vehicle and it looked like it came out to be ahead by
purchasing a vehicle are moving ahead on that now they chose that locally so that was interesting um I had uh Health and Human Services committee with with the chair commissioner Gardner and I think
we're be giv it up that's right why it used to be you all last year sorry thank you for the clarification commissioner Dwayne Anderson is now on that committee we have a really good meeting and U cover a lot of stuff as well administrator Baker
and there'll be presenting some information uh next meeting is it yep and the next meeting will be bringing forth um an update regarding our Income Maintenance division using some of those um State dollars for the
unwind um we're still behind on ruales and so um Caroline or staff will be bringing forth uh a proposal to kind of do a succession planning because it takes so long to trains employees in and the state typically only offers two
trainings per year so it's hard to get staff up to speed in the software that they use and so she'll be here at the February 4th meeting with that proposal so there was a really indepth conversation regarding renewals um and it takes the staff person to to do those how many we we
need where we need to be and where we actually are um so she'll be able to provide more of an in-depth update but really it was it brought to this committee um kind of like a check and balance is this okay we bring and so we'll be bringing this award at the February
4 thank you and along that same line too it was a short discussion not going legislatively what's going to be happening this coming year especially when you know serious talk about looking at Medicaid and and cutting that way back so our unwinding will probably
continue for some time we have to see Let's cross our fingers and see how things work out hopefully it's a positive way one way or the other um thank you for your help in us I appreciate that um and I had a community correction advisory Court board meeting
too and I think was uh uh reported on already by commiss m uh and PR youth program we had uh the annual review for Dr Booth about her performance she really done very well we got a lot going on a lot of talk uh it's going to kind
of postpone the open house for the new facility uh building that remodeling to February now and I'll let you know more about that as time as time goes on um after that I had uh oh wooding
meeting I think we all were or most of us were at that meeting and uh at least a couple more meetings with it SS so uh at least one more at least one more yes and their fall right now they just have a few they got their
vacancies uh list down and so there's not a real long list but there is a list which we do want so um that's it's a good program and I like to see it continue U that same day also had the wood cator board meeting it was the first board meeting then uh where they
really changed the structure of the board with only one commissioner from each uh each County as well as three other members at large and it was a good start and U I think uh we're going to have a good board going forward um we
have an update on Urgent Care uh they have Urgent Care there as well like car's Health has Urgent Care they have M Health Urgent Care and help that program works because uh otherwise people uh there's a way to handle Walkins so people or something comes up but they
don't need to be in the crisis center but they really need to sit down now and talk with somebody and it's excellent program so that's probably the update on that and that pretty much covers I think most of my committees thank you okay
thank you Dwayne you have the final word today thanks commissioner Garder so yeah so I'm at Health and Human Services committee with commissioner B on K and we are discuss that so
I also on 16th I was at centeral Health meeting um on the 13th I met veterans Advisory board with administrator Baker and that was pretty much a roue meeting but I like going to
it there the people that are there are P My Heroes nice nice to see the better there um let's see on 16th I I met at the County office building for County audit that's what Vice chair can gets to do and so I was interviewed or
talked question books Let's see I had there was a scheduled pioner land Library U meeting but that was canell due to the director medical Le and then uh let's
see last week I got to meet with uh engineer Mel Odin and uh but we had three brid closures in my district um and we're going to be probably having quite a few a little bit of discussion about how to pay for all
that coming out a couple were see two of them were Township so that's not County concern other than you know detour issues but we had to close some bridges um and so that's to
coming this pretty soon doing paperwork for that so he will update us on that sure so that that's basically my report all right I have one to go ahead
um the department heads and I uh we know we had that legislative lunch and um thank you for doing that because we I heard very positive feedbacks from the department head group and we are um they would like to see something like that again done next year maybe a little bit where everybody all department heads are
included or we just kind of pick who has the most pressing issues with the board so we're kind of working through that we'll kind of plan that um but on that side I've seen some other counties do this and I thought we would try it this year um see your feedback on it but even
though we have AMC priorities within her legislative action um each department if they so wish not Department submitted um but they submitted their three top priorities that they would like to see happen through legislative action and so um I I'll I'm almost done compiling that
and you should get that or receive that this week so you have that for the upcoming AMC legislative conference um and then the other thing is uh the department head group and I are working on April is National County government
month and so we're we're hoping to have kind of a some high schoolers um we're very preliminary in the details but we are hopefully going to have kind of a County government day here in K County to kind of showcase maybe highlights some County so I will be reaching out to
all five of you to see if I can get what are two Commissioners whoever is available that day uh to kind of Meet the the kids that we bring in so we're working on that Melissa is kind of taking the lead and working with I think we had two department heads volunteer to help with that so um we're working on
doing something like that all right outstanding thank you so much does anyone have anything else that they wanted to cover before weour commissioner oh during a break Kelsey reminded us that if you need any notes
during that PO session we should probably chair just kind of follow up and I like that idea about our three top priorities because when we do these we do talk to legislative Representatives about policy but we also individually
get involved in that conversation because we have certain areas we work in as Commissioners and and give our two cents worth and support for that so but looking at from so we all know what to support and just give some ideas generally you know we've kind of focused
on and I think a lot of our priorities used to be you know housing mental health uh broad band you know they're still pretty old the top ones and maybe you know water issue but there may be more important details that we have to
support U and maybe other priorities that come up as well this year all right well if there is nothing else then we will adjourn the uh meeting of the Cy High County Board of
Commissioners uh thank you everybody