We love that you get to meet with our own 40. So, we better have a quick word so I can get out of here. All that we have for this was this is it was two and this is kind of
what it was for. Just make sure that these look like the proper That's for the over there. Yep. And this is minus that um septic fill. Okay. Yeah. Okay. But if they I'm just want to make sure that all of these are right.
What's the What's this version? Lights. Oh, I'm sure it is. Yeah, lights. Okay. That's crazy. It's a sponge. This is a walk-in freezer. Is that a steel counties? Yes. He had
couple motors or something on that dumb thing, you know. But he lucky they caught it. They didn't lose any real food or anything. So, yeah. Do we know Janna how many lights are out there that we pay for? Uh
I don't know the top of my head cuz making it today. Will he pay for some of the lights around there then or what? Just the ones by the good. Yeah. Okay. Good morning. It's July 1st, 8:15 a.m. Call the regular S County Commissioner
meeting to order. Everyone get a chance to look over the minutes of last county commissioner meeting and the special meeting. I'm going to add on there the recording wasn't working to the power and it didn't save it to the computer. has
since been restarted everything and uploaded to Windows 11. So we did trial runs last week so should be working. Was it just a special meeting that wasn't reported? Correct. Yeah. I'll make a motion to approve both sets
of minutes for June. Motion by Brown. I'll second. Second by Chris. All in favor? I I opposed carried.
Any additions to the agenda? No additions. Okay. Matt, do you want to have your park board meeting? We'll call the July 1st park board meeting is still county open. Everybody had a chance to
look at the any agenda additions? I know I got something, but I we could probably just do it under multi-use court on the old business. I might but is there a motion to approve the agenda?
Make the motion. There second. Second. Any more discussion? Not all in favor say I. I post same sign motion carried. Approval of minutes. Everybody had a chance to read through last month's
minutes. Any corrections or additions? If not, is there a motion to approve? I'll make a motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Any discussion? None. All in favor say I. I. I. Motion
carried. Old business. The multi-use court update. Cement is all poured to wait for it to they wanted it to cure for a month before they did anything on it around it. The guy did that one. So
that's what they're going to be doing. They had a fundraiser out there. They raised just close, not quite $5,000. Pretty close. They say problem is Garrison diversion thing. Some wording got goofed up and they
didn't get their second round of money from Garrison diversion. So they're they're close to having enough money yet, but they're kind of short. My idea was to help them out.
Richard hasn't got a bid bill yet. You don't know exactly what it is yet, Richard, but I talked to him. I said maybe I can the park board can take care of Richard's side of it. So he's he'll have to Richard have to figure out and maybe next meeting or whatever you get that bill let us know
if we can at least help out with part of it cuz then they'll they're really close. They got another got some money from the gaming again too. So that put them really close being able to get the fence and getting the court van itself. They've had a number of people giving
out donations, too. But they I don't know how many of you gotten in now. Just one so far. Can they reapply for that? It won't be till next spring. It's two times a year they do it. Yeah. Spring fall. Yeah.
So they lost on this line. It was like $55,000 they lost out on just because of a little bit of wording. So So they had enough to pay for the concrete and all that. so far. Yeah. And they got enough now to do the fence.
It's just basically the dirt work. Might be the dirt work is the island. Yeah. Oh, the dirt work goes first. Yeah. Yeah. We haven't got a bill yet, though. That's the only thing we're waiting. Yeah. Yeah. So, they got enough to do the fence and
they need a little bit more and they'd be able to get the court and everything all done that way, too. It's something short about 50 grand. Yeah. something like that. Yeah, that's what we do. We help out on the what we got in our budget yet, Jana, but
how much is Do you say there's motors that went bad on the store, too? On on the freezer? Yeah, they come those thousand bucks. I know. Did you Jim, you get anything from Landon yet too for enclosing that
stuff back there? I know Jake just took care of that or what yet, but that looks good though. He did that nice. He made like a sliding barn door on it so they can open it up in the summertime and close it in the winter time to keep the snow out of the coolers and stuff back here.
With like the overall complete comedy park, there's about 70 left. That's including all the lines. So, okay. So, that's where we're sitting on the multi-use court. Hopefully, I can get the like they said
they're I think they're going to start they're going to try and get the fence up first. They're worried somebody's going to drive on it or something like that. Never know. So, this weekend's going to be a good test for it. Huh? This be a good test for
this weekend. What? Packed over there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I noticed. Is it going to be open for use? Is it open for use still? No, they got they got it with like ribbon around it, tape so nobody can get on it with a vehicle or anything. Oh,
right. Yeah, that they you can't play on there. Yeah, they can you can walk on and stuff like that. Yeah. I noticed the parking. I went by there the other day and there's actually seven or eight pickups sitting there and they actually are parking decent. They're parking straight, not this way, that way, everywhere else. And there a lot of room
left over. I noticed one guy had his blunt pickup sitting on the east side. He had them sitting this way instead of the, you know, parked in wherever. But yeah. Yeah. I noticed when I brought the pontoon out there a couple weekends ago, there's people that are dling off their
boats on the trailers over there. So, they might have to do something about that. Well, if they sit there for the weekend, it's not bad. that they sit there for all week and everything else. That's when that's when we got to talk with Beckman to get him involved in it.
I don't know if I can put up a sign that to not leave a lyric, but I think there is one out there, isn't there, Richard, that said that the weekend parking only or something like I don't think that was there anymore. Isn't there anymore? Did you get over there for the No.
Some of those are Jake's customers, too. So yeah, we have to tell them. Yeah. And Tom, they got to be able to park somewhere, though. Right. Right. I drove by there last night. There was a pontoon trailer and a pontoon sitting
there. A pickup with a trailer. Not any parts over there. I mean, I don't think they are. I know what what's Tom's boy's name. He's got I'm sure some of his people in that campground are parking stuff over there, too. No, they should. I don't think so.
They parking over there. No. Yeah, there something guys going to have to watch and see how patrol it a little bit. It's going to be busy probably a couple weekends out of the year the most like this weekend and probably Labor Day or something like that.
Yeah, unless it's raining all day long like they're talking. So, all right. We'll discuss that when when Richard you ever get get your bill made out or whatever. We can probably next meeting maybe we can discuss that with them.
What's your guys's feeling on it? I think we should look at what the mower and all that's going to cost us too so we know where we're at. That won't be till next year. Yeah. But we're going to have to keep money for that and might be losing these lease lot stuff at some point. So, our money comes in to be able to and what's going to happen here.
Yeah. Right. They're still pushing forward. [Music] Be interesting to see if I don't know what's Yeah, it'd be interesting. And I don't know. I
talked to that is it Brian a little bit. He said, you know, at the end in 3032 or 2032, he said the feds start talking just making them take everything out everyone. So there's nothing on any of them watch. say, "Well, who's going to take care of them then?" You know,
that's going to be a lot. I talked to a guy a couple weeks ago and he's he still thinks they're going to go through no problem. We said they're hidden because the end of appraisals and he doesn't think there's going to be an issue. Yeah.
But that's a bigger riddle, right? Yeah. And it's what's going to happen is Louie is he going to be reasonable with the people or is he going to, you know, he could lose a lot of people that way too. I wish they'd have a meeting with all
the people or they were still talking about doing that. But no, I wish they'd do that so they knew what was going on, right? Yeah. So, do you have do you have any projected costs for the store for 2026? Big big things coming up. Nothing real
big. Just Well, yeah, I do, but I'll put on the new. Yeah. The deck. Well, yeah, that's part of the part of my project. Okay. Uh, pavilion bolt ramp. Do we need to get some rocks down in there? I haven't
been over there and looked at it to see how bad that really is. I don't know. I went over there and dug out a beaver dam and I just kind of pulled some sand away from the front there. And that helped quite a bit, you think? There's quite a bit there, was there? But I I didn't go
wood out there, right? I just kind of leveled it back and forth. And I don't know if anybody's It seemed like when we were down there on Sunday, it seemed like the boats were getting in and out fine. Right. Yeah. From what I saw. Right.
And the lake's pretty high now. So, I mean, they don't back in too far. No. notice if it wasn't because it was Everybody says the lake is low. I'm just like, "No, the lake's at the level it's supposed to be because there's water coming in and there's still water going out and it's so it's at its level."
Yeah. Okay. Uh septic tank. I don't know. This winter we're just going to have to try something, you know, like you say, either put some straw over that road back there or put snow on it if we get snow. And then I still say put them heaters in the tanks. See? Oh, that's
easy. Cheap cheap insurance. Sure. Yeah. Just to see if it's going to work. And we we maybe could dig it up and put taper on the pun the two tanks, right? Or dig it up and that then put insulation, I guess, on
top of lines. I mean, I don't know how. Yeah. Normally, we get snow, right? Yeah. If we get snow, it shouldn't be an issue. But from from that second tank, Richard, where did that went under the road and in in front of Tom Wheeling's place? Old
place for the first pavilion or the Yeah, the first uh shelter. Shelter. Oh, goes by the shelter. Greenfield is the whole length of the long road, right? Yeah. So that comes up again. So it's shallow, you know, in that area.
Now this goes under the road on the east side of the trees. That's deep there. Okay. Really deep. What about insulated blankets? Would something like that work like they use for covering concrete? Stake them down.
Be like hails. I'll try something there. The other issue is like last year he was open every weekend. The year before he was not open hardly, right? Is he going to be open this winter every weekend? I mean, the
lack of use, right? It needs movement. Yeah. You know, that's Yeah, that's what I think. Putting some heat in the tanks probably help too during the week when there's not nobody around there using it, stuff like that. That's still the heat tanks will be that part will be fine. But then out by the
green field there's no snow comes out by the per shelter it's going to freeze there right just we kind of few things to work against open or not or should we put no we put bales on that too where I mean how far
do we go to warm we got to try a couple things try with the the heaters in the tank see if it works or not if it And then we're going have to move on or like you say hopefully get snow so we can put some over that on the snow. Okay,
we'll move on to new business. We're talking about that deck. The deck the underneath part of the deck isn't too bad. It's all the flooring. The top boards on top is what kind of needs repair. The big thing out there is it gets
really noisy and you get these people that come in, you know, and they sit at the bar all the time and then other people come in and they some of them get kind of loud. What would be nice to do is to make a addition onto that thing and make a
separate bar area that you have to be 21 to go into. Put it out on that west side where the deck's at. make an area out there to do it so that he could have a little more room for the restaurant area and then we
could keep it a little quieter so more I think we'd get more people back in there for eating. I mean it's a lot of it's usually pretty full out there for food but it gets loud and that's what a lot of people don't like especially when they come in with kids and stuff. So that'd be my proposal to do, but that'll be a project down the road here to
figure it out. Be a decent architecture or something here that knows what he's doing to make it. So it' be that'd be one proposal. So you're talking get rid of the deck completely? No. No. Go from the back.
Jake and I were discussing it from the back behind the where the bar area is there out to that door that they walk out into the deck. go out to about there out make that a barrier and then have another door that you can go back out on the deck and still have some deck there
but not as much you know if you had cuz if you took that bar area out of that front there like Jake said I could probably get two maybe even three more tables in there for seating for restaurant area so it's an idea down the road
get this other stuff here at first and figure out what it something to do. Anybody any thoughts on that? It does need something to I think out there for that part of it because I
think they do lose a lot of people because of noise. Yeah. Yeah. Some point, right? So, it'll be something to think about. I talked to back to the lawnmower. I talked to Rod a little bit about it. He
was going to check into it, but then Perry sent me a is in Valley City, the Bad Boys, I think, wasn't it? Yeah, that was the bad boy dealer. Yeah, Valley. So, I haven't been enough, but that's something I do this winter and figure out something, too. We should uh get some rough prices
because we got to start working on budgets. Maybe get some rough ideas. There is $20,000. So have money at the end of December and probably put it on books this year. I mean
you have it there. So yeah, you could also do some better bills. So you're talking about all right. Anybody got anything else? Anybody want to make a motion to adjourn? So move. Second. Any more discussion? All
in favor say I. I. Both same side. Motion carried. Okay. Thanks guys. Thank you. What do you want? Who's there? [Music] Oh, Reed out there.
There he is. Reed. Where? What do you want to talk about first? You pick. You're in charge, man. Guys are crack sailing out on County Road 8
right now. Um, looks like they did uh roughly 2 miles yesterday. That was about a pallet of rubber just on the one side. So then do the center crack also
like that that road out there has got a long center crack on it too. So um otherwise it's going okay. All the our 33 miles of uh chip seal stuff that's all ready to go. I still have not heard
anything about that at all on a date when they're when they're going to be here for that. So, um, and is Mike gonna be here? Yep. Oh, he is.
Okay. So, huh? Minutes probably. Okay. So, I'll just skip that part. Um, he he or he did get a bid uh for the bump now. So, uh, although average an eighth.
Yeah, an eighth there. Only thing I can see wrong with the with the with what they had gave for an estimate is another mobilization fee of $1,500, which I think they should wave
that because they're already going to be there. So, I think that was the high bid. Mike tal Mike Mike talked to him and uh know that they had a long ways to pave it. We don't need to pave the whole way. Just mill it down and pave the dip. Yeah. So he he thinks that we could
probably get it down to Yeah. 10 to 15. Right. That's what I'm saying. That's where it should be. We don't need it paid way out. No. No. They'll be there with the milling machine anyways. They can know a little bit of that. Yeah. Take care of that. It's still even with this price here still was like only
92,000 for the whole works. They were at 24,000 you see. Yep. Yep. So which uh um and I moved SK down to uh Eddie's old
route uh which uh he's learning that and stuff. So um and then we'll move that John Deere machine back up here again. So we can work with sterling in that once they get done crack sealing. Then we'll get them started with driving that
and stuff. And we had them one day just driving the skid steer and practicing. You know, the more you do it, the better you get at it. So that it's a So you guys want to uh any questions
with my uh budget? Did you talk to them about a timeline for a new blade? When when if we ordered one, how long's it going to take to get one? Is it still a year backlog or not?
I'm getting a new blade. Still a year backlog. The timeline what what's the timeline to get one to get one? Yes. Still that 6 months to se six to 7 months
approximately you know it might come it might be better than that. Uh but you were talking uh yesterday that maybe about going through source well checking out source well but maybe you guys
should check into that to see where prices are. So definitely something we can do. Um it's it's one of those things that um so legislature to give you guys a little background legislature this last session uh gave the authority for county governments to go through
cooperative purchasing uh before it was it wasn't written the way that counties could do that. It was kind of understood that way but it was never written that way. Uh so like school districts were able to cities were able to those other jurisdictions just the county specifically. Uh source wall is a
cooperative purchasing agreement. It allows us to basically choose what we want already seeing the low biders. So source goes through and they request you know for these different features on these different machines. They they say what's
our what's the lowest bids and they go through all of the different companies that provide that. Uh that would allow the counties then to be able to go and say we want a cap 150 um with these features on it. What's that price? So we can go and get the price then instead of
going out to bids. So um there's two different quote versus bid. There are two different things for you guys to know. So we can we can definitely do that and I think that's the route that we should go. That's my opinion. But if you guys come back and say, "Oh, we want to see a bid from this place and this
place," then that kind of ruins the whole process. So um if if you guys want to go the bid route and do the sealed bids, that's something we can do. We've done that before or do you guys want to go through and just see the numbers and then make the decision for that? So you you can get a price for a John Deere and
a we can. Yes. Okay. So that's if that's what you want to see and you want to see a price for John Deere to 772 and a Cat 150. We can make we can get those prices make that comparison and bring that back. We talked about this a couple years ago and we decided against
the Yes. This one decided to go with the sealed bids. Right. So that's why because a couple years ago when we did this that discussion happened we had already gotten prices. It kind of muddied the waters a little bit. We're trying not to muddy the
waters this time around. So thank you. And it's completely up to you guys. You guys want to go the seal route. I I again I prefer the the sore route just because number one we're able to do it now. Uh, number two,
we those bids are already low bids. So, we're not having to rebid something. How do we know that they're already low bids? That's the we get for bid. They pre-bid it. I guess so. Seems like there's some wiggle room for error in there to me.
They're part of the cooperative purchasing agreement that's already been approved by the state. So, that doesn't mean it's right. But the state contracts do the same thing. We're allowed to go through state contracts. So if we went through source well our machine that we would get rid of where we picked would give us a tradein number then or how
does that work? Explain that. It'll still go through cat Butler and Fargo uh and everything or RD Morehead whichever one we decide to go with. Uh I would like to see so that I had all four
machines all 150s. They're all the same filters. are all this everything's the same. Uh so that that way we're not having to order this and that and have it, you know. So,
and we all like the the joystick machine. So, but it's totally up to you guys. But that's what we need to know. If we if we can go through do the source world thing then that's what we're going to
do. We're not going to your next meeting you'd have numbers. Yeah. Be instead of opening bids and we could have the numbers for you by next meeting and then you guys could wasn't the week or the fourth you
probably have a deal. But okay. Yeah. But we're still uh we we don't want to pay for it till next year, right? No, it would be paid next year. So everything still goes through the dealer. So we go through source for the pricing. We get corporate pricing for all that stuff. They still pass that along to whatever dealer they go through. So we would
still go through if it's CAT, we still go through FER. If it's your John Deere, we still go through like a Yeah. Like a fleet program. Yep. Yeah. And you know, like say if it did the machine would come next year, not this year. We pay it in next year. We're late
enough in the year that six months out. So, and that's when we're due for another one here cuz we waited about close to a year for delivery last time last time. Yep.
They're a little bit faster which helps. So, normally we trade with about $10,000. This one's got 8,000 hours on it. Um, depending on our budget numbers, if we had to put it back a year, we could
do that. I know you don't want to, but I'm just saying depending on our budget numbers for for the year, that's something to think about. Yep. Only thing is there's there's no no warranty coverage. That's just, you know, normally after 5 years, we could we could go another year if we have to.
We're we uh we average about 1300 hours a year to expect. Go ahead. And that's where we kind of had started to say, well, when they get to that where we ain't got no, you know, then we're going to get rid of them. So, but
sorry, warranty up until Yeah. 800 8,000 7500 was usually the warranty. And this this this time here, it timed out instead of the total hours. Oh, so
we probably save some hours. They weren't pushing some last otherwise it would have been like seven years 7500 or 8 years 8,000 or something like that. Okay. And then like on our budget, I had put
in for a snowplow truck. Uh and that is too just me and Richard had talked about updating the snowplow trucks and stuff and and then moving the 03 and selling that and move the 07 international into
that spot. So, uh, and it looks like around that 150,000 right now is is to get a one with lower miles than and stuff and on a m on on a a plow truck.
So, they and they are brand new. They are get pushing that 400,000. We we've come a long ways on our snowplow trucks. Oh, yeah. We got bought there. The GMC brick. You guys got city got one of still pretty old. Yeah.
What's our newest one? 2010. So it's, you know, and what do we get last 90 grand? 85 90 I think it was about 90. Yeah. So I mean you that
I'm figuring 150 at the high side cuz what we'd like to do is we were at the breaking point when we were buying one for 85 to 90. We were probably buying a knock house when it the breaking point was just we were buying the lower end.
Yeah. Or else it would jump. Yeah. So we spent 150 on a snowball truck. We thought they' get a really nice Yeah. And we I mean our snowball trucks we What we'd like to do is get something with a live floor in it with the
persultants. Uh right now these you got to lift the box in the air and uh it just more when it gets really really icy and you're lifting the box in the air and and trying to stay on the road. You you know you've got to back around the
corner and still backing around the corner. He went he slid in the ditch down there at Hope because it just it was so slippery. So that's kind of what we're going to look at next time is trying to find that one with a live floor bottom. uh for for salting and
sanding uh just so it's a little bit more safer for us and also it would have the same birectional blade in the front. It doesn't have to have it under body but that's just an added feature. for us. Uh, and with the stainless steel box
cuz the stainless steel box when you're using sand, that's a must because like the old our old 03 the tailgates all rusted out on it and we can't even open
the tailgate now, but we just leave the gravel sit in it all the time, you know. So, but uh and then we can put that one out for bids, you know, on seal bids. We could do that right with the county here, you know, but we're not not going to trade
it in or nothing. Good farming rig, you know. So, um I did hire Sterling. uh he's 21 years
old and uh hopefully that works out. So, yep. Anything else you guys would like to um Well, I think we're going to talk about uh two culverts. This little culvert and Paulson's culvert out there.
I see Ry's out there. Ry's out there. So if we wanted to do that, you should probably hear that too. You should hear them. Yeah, Randy. Hey, morning. Morning. Morning. Hi. I'm just wondering if you guys would be
open to lowering that culvert sooner. Not lowering it, but putting a new culvert in sooner than later this fall. That's why I'm asking. Uh we went out and surveyed it and what we figured out it's Were you out there too? There's somebody out there.
It's 8 in higher in the north end and the south end and where where our drain starts it's 1.6 in below the culver to the north 50 ft north.
It's 1.6 in or one ft 1 ft 6 in deeper than the culbert. And if the culbert on the north end gets lowered 8 in they're only 8 in off from where the water will go. So that'll end up being very little water standing there. And then to go
south in that drain, we've measured it's about 6 in of dirt. It's got to go out for about 5 to 600 ft and then the water will go. So there'll be no water standing. So, I'm just wondering if there's any
chance you'd be interested in doing that and then I'd go talk to Keith and see if he's interested in cleaning that 5600 or if he wants us to do it and then the bulk of the water would be gone. And I know you guys had said that you
were waiting till fall to hire a track and do them all at one time, but I just was curious if you're open to moving it up. Mike, did you guys check those heights on forwards? We have not. No, I haven't
check. I thought you said I thought they were. Yeah, but I think the document I had was the proposed probably right the I sent you guys the I think that was proposed what
was proposed before. So it is correct as Reed had it slated to go in September sometime when we rent they rent excavator. And you're saying the north side is 8 in higher than south side. Mhm.
And if that got brought down 8 in then there's only 8 in of water sitting in the ditch. And uh and and to go south like I said I'll have to talk to Keith. I would talk to Brandon and Matt, but
Keith has told us that it's his land. We need to talk to him. So, I'm not trying to leave Matt and Brandon out of it. I'm just I don't want to cause a problem anymore. So, would be good to be clean south there if you're going to put a new covert in so
it's not sitting full of water all the time. Yeah. Well, that's the idea. It's said we figured we better find out how much dirt has to be moved to go south because you obviously can't put a culvert in water.
So ba basically what so if that's what you want to do basically we got to start over here but we already agreed but we weren't going to lower the cover because Keith didn't want to he would he was going to go 18 in or something I guess I don't remember
exactly and then you weren't going to clean it before right well I think the culvert's got to be level so you can't but a culvert should have some sold in there should have 1% %
for drainage. We don't want to call the river flat. You always put Isn't that the wrong way for the drainage? If the north end is higher by 8 in higher than what though I mean got to start somewhere and go 1% rate.
So I I think 8 in is fine from one end to the other. But um now that the get over to it, yeah, I can see that you want to lower. But we have to ask Keith, this is all got to start over again as far as I'm concerned cuz But I don't I
don't want to lower the culvert. I want the culvert level. That's all I want. I want both sides to be level. We have to have a 1% slope. What do you What do you recommend for a slope on culvert? We usually try to get that four or 510 of slope across it. The idea being is that
uh you know the cover never stays flat. You lay it flat anyway with frosties and all that stuff. So if you throw out some kind of sling, you've got a better chance in the culbert itself. Right. So what is a what do you say? If it's a 50 foot
culbert 1% would be half six inch. Yeah. I don't know what the length of the culver is. I probably 40. Yeah. Yeah. Said before tents. What you're saying is we don't know which end is correct. Well, I mean to start the culver
starting. We didn't move the culver, right? So, it's 8 in from the ground. So, he wants to lower the culver. I don't we need to start over again. And cuz you're lowering the cart. Really? But that was not my intent. My intent
was just to have it level. I thought culverts were supposed to be level. I'm not asking it to be I'm not Yes. I'm asking be lowered, but I wanted it to end. Yeah. I just thought that's
what it should be. So I'm not asking to same elevation on the north. So you want them you want it to be the same as the north then? What what elevation are you looking it to be? They're both I'd like them both at like what they are in the salt and
I I would like to see a 1% just to make sure it's green. We don't I mean you normally never put colors okay cuz you don't want them full of water all there. So, we're still slating to get this culvert
replaced in September in September. Okay. So, Mike, we should get the elevations correct and everything. So, when we set that culbert back in, it goes back in at the same same heights
cuz that's what we that's what we've all agreed upon here, right? Okay. We need to put this thing to bed. So that's I'm not asking for anything special here. Then that's what we're going to do. We're going to put it back in at the same height and it's going to be the same same way, right? With the
appropriate slope with with the appropriate slope. That's what we're going to do. And that's what we agreed up on before. If we're going to go back and lower that thing, then we need to do what Richard said. We need to go all the way back to the beginning now and we need to go get everybody's permission
that we're going to do all this with all the way back. Randy, I don't think we need I'm I'm We got to We got to move on from this. I'm all I'm all I was asking was to to move the project up. I'm not asking to change any depth. I just
assumed that they could both be at the same level. I'm not asking that's not trying to relive this thing. I just I just All I came here for was to ask if we'd move the project up instead of do it in the fall. That's all I came here to for. We have a we have a track
bill coming in September and that's that's probably when we're gonna probably get that done. That's fine. That's all I'm asking. I'm not asking to reopen it. That's not why I'm here. Okay. So, hey, so it'll be in September.
We're in agreement. So, to let me add one more thing. I was wrong. Um Tyler's listening today. We did shoot those culberts. I thought you did. Yep. Yep. there is 710 or 8 inches of difference between the end shot bottle just just for application. So we did actually shoot those two. So I agree. So when
when it's time to replace that read, we get a hold of you and third party. So you let you guys go there, set stakes out there and then when we're digging it, we like we want exactly that. So if there's water there, how you going to what you
going to do then off? dam it off until we get to the culver and then open it. So then when the water sits there is it's it's high to the south. So what you have to pump it out of there? You got to pump it to the
south or what? That's we'll when we're there we can dig to our rightway. End of our rideway. Yeah. We'll clean out the culvert height and that's all. From there on it's not our problem. Right. But I'm just saying to put put a culvert
in water, you're going to have to go further to get the water to go. We'll go to our land. That's as far as we know. I understand that. But my point was if you put culvert in water, you you normally don't do that. Correct.
If it's the same height as what it's Yeah, we have done it before. Okay. Well, that I had a misunderstanding. So, no, if it's whatever the current height is, that's what we'll put it back in. If it's in the water, it is in the water, but we don't we can't control addition to the salt. We cannot We're in there
right away. That's after right away. It's not a problem, right? That's all I ask. So, just wait till September. Yeah. And it may be sooner when you drop over. Yeah, we'll do one of the first things we just in
September then we get to. Yep. The last Okay. That's right. Okay. Um, do we want to do Kyle since he's here or should we should be doing today? Okay.
It's official. I haven't done one of these. Uh, I guess I'm just here to uh get the ball rolling and hopefully uh redo the bridge by Barb Services. They're in it's steel barns. There's Carpenter, Ellbury
Townships and all that stuff and uh counties. Uh are there companies is I'm waiting on a call back from them. Trinidad's on board on pitching in as well. Uh dad's talked about pitching in. Uh John Overland's talked about, you
know, trying to pitch in and just get this so it's actually a usable bridge cuz right now for for us or anyone else, we got to go either all the way around Hope to get to Pillsbury with a loaded truck or we got to go south and then on
a gravel road and that just turns to absolute junk right away. So, it's no good for anybody for that aspect. Uh I guess that's kind of I guess where I'm at with it. just trying to get everybody on board and and see what we can do
maybe next year or whatever. So I think just my thinking on this is that we have to start from the you know the beginning. So blow study and then cost estimates.
Yeah. I talked to Blake. He said from 50 to 100 but you know that's just shooting from the hand. Yep. Yep. to see you. That bridge has been on our list of bridges, but it is one that we haven't
I think it was on our next stage of bridges, but we pushed all that back. We've talked about it. This is the one three miles west. Well, this is a federally inspected bridge. It's a fally eligible bridge,
but you're not going to get federal money soon. That's price. So, does the township are they willing to um according to dad and John Oland uh Mike Woodward and John, they're uh yeah,
they want to try to pitch in uh you know, obviously everyone knows townships don't have a lot of money right now, but yeah, they're willing to pitch in something to to to get the ball rolling along with like Yeah, Trinidad's really excited to get that fixed so they can
use it. printed as GPS I've been told sends a lot of their drivers to Pillsbury then they cut across on that road to Colate and that truck traffic isn't helping that bridge even empty what's that bridge up 1600
201 became fellow [Music] 99 for death or seven posted for 16 times. What's the scroll sign?
Well, supposed to be posted for 16 times. Yeah. Oh, so [ __ ] can be going on empty. Yeah. Yeah, even farm equipment is really that smart on it. And it's, you know, it's kind of a a center hub just like any other bridge for a lot of people. So that's why it's like let's
see what we can do in the future and get, you know, it's on the list. So I just way down the list. I Yeah, I've hit a lot of the bridge. Yeah. So [Music]
see what the township's committed to and if you can I I don't we've never had private entities give money towards a bridge, but yeah, I don't know if that's even legal or I I don't know. I I talked with Barnes County and it's a real iffy
if there's any money peanuts on our bridge polio. Uh she said I can ask my board. How about the How about the the township in Barnes County? Are they willing? That's a township board right there. In Barnes County. I'm in steel county el I don't
know even's on that board right now but we are not we are not in favor of replacing the bridge right now as carpenter township they're working on a couple other bridges that are yeah we have we have two bridges in the means and back you know probably 10 years ago
we were told to put our bridges on a list and that bridge is down low and I think you guys would all understand we don't want more truck traffic through our township This is opening a whole can of worms for trucks to go 80 mph through our township
and beating our roads up. I want them to go around on the highway. That's what the steel that's what they put the highway there for is for these guys to go around instead of beat the tar out of our roads and our bridges. That's why it's that's why it's went to a 16 ton bridge because
we have hundreds of trucks going through there. You know, we and it was never meant our roads aren't meant for that. in a at a township level. And that's just that was what I've talked to the three guys on the board
and I think that's our general consensus with all three of us. Well, drug traffic ain't going to go away though. I mean, I understand what Mark's saying. You know, I don't want traffic by my farm the way it is, but guess what? I can't do anything about
it. Here's how our our bridge program kind of works. We work with the townships and they come to us and they c share with us. Yeah. Um I suggest that you go to the township first, start with them. Okay. And uh see where it goes
from there. So I'll start with Okay. I'll go back to the townships. No problem. Uh and then you guys are going to do the flow survey or whatever then or what? I don't I don't know if we do that yet.
We have a long bridge. Yeah, I know there just we have 12 bridges which used to be bridges in our township that you know some of them you guys have put culverts in which we appreciated but this is like number five on our list
that bridge is um and yes that one the map has changed. I mean, ARP company's put a, you know, a terminal in and we have upgraded our maps, but it's still five on our list and it's uh you
guys doing the, you know, bridge on County Road six this year. That's a big one for us. We have another bridge uh south of Ivory Farms. Uh that's rough shape. We We're down to passenger vehicles only on that
one. That one needs to be done. as ASAP. So there's dollars we need to spend in different spots at this moment. You know, maybe in five 10 years we'd think about this, but Well, are we are we going to look for 5 to 10 years when people are offering to put money in towards it or are we going to say no to
money potentially? I I don't even know if that I mean we can ask our estates attorney to see if we can accept the money for that. That's okay. We can we'll start with that on our end, but again I you need to go back to the start at the township level. That's easy enough. They Yeah, Mike and John would
have been here, but they had appointments. So, reach out to our state attorney asking staff probably, but I I don't know if that's acceptable then. Yeah. And then just reach out to who you want me to talk to once I get
everything the the township can reach out to us. Okay. Done. Well, I will get out of your guys. What are what are the ramifications of bordering? I mean, you should also reach out to that township in Barnes County. Yeah. Alsbury. Yep. Yep. You should reach out.
The split on that bridge is 5050. Is that right, Reed? That's what it should be for section. Yeah. So, see if they're willing to come up with any money. You want to text me your number? So, Barnes County
should throw in township in Barnestown, Ellbury. Okay. Not the county. Well, but it's our bridge. You can check with It's our bridge. Half our It's our county bridge. Half our bridge, right? It's on the county line. So, it's half theirs from what I understand.
Just like the the little bridge we did salt to town here. The other township helped them out because the the other township actually goes across there more than what. So, I mean to make it a reality, you need to just check with the townships first. Then then the townships
can come to us. Done. Yeah. I mean, I Yeah, I just I got We're getting No one does anything and we're just getting tired of pointing the fingers and it's like I'm just taking the reinss on it. That's all I'm doing. And once Yeah. Once it moves forward, then I just wash
my hands a bit. Cuz we tried to get federal funding the last go around on the bridge on the bridges. That was one of them that we put in there for them and they turned us down on it. But also, you need to keep in mind if it's a 16 ton bridge, Yeah. You should load the trucks across right now cuz then when it
does load on empty trucks, but once it goes out, it may not be fixed right away. So that's not going to be over truck or car travel either. Yeah, we avoid it. I mean, I go I go down south and I I'm just I'm just Everyone's been avoiding it. Trinidad's been avoiding it. I don't know about some of the guys
in Arthur because they have so many trucks. But the local guys, to my knowledge, for the most part, have been avoiding that bridge. I mean, I'm even avoiding it with some of my farm equipment, which is annoying, but you
know, like Mar said, every it's on the list. There's there's a whole bunch of things that get addressed. So, which is acknowledged, but I'll get back to those guys and let them start hashing it out and then we'll go from there.
Well, thank you guys for your time. Thanks, Mark. We good? Yep. Thank you. How about it, guys? See you. Thanks for fixing the bridge by the house, too. Uh we should also talk about Paul and Culver.
So, I don't Mike and I were out there and uh Mike measured the rideways out there and we put some plates out there that should be back filled in on the inside. Um, the man followed follow called follow called follow called follow called follow called follow called follow called follow called follow called follow called followed me yesterday and he's concerned that we
didn't put any stakes on the west side of the road and I went out there today and looked I mean I I think you're legal to ditch up to the culver height and he's that's where he's at they're not any deeper than the culver height so I don't see an
issue on that west side for us very very small part of their ditch that they dug is actually in the rightway as well as soon as it gets away from that culvert it goes out into the field. So, but on the west side their ditch, they dug it to the bottom of the culvert. But as you get to the south and then off to the
west into their field, it's deeper. It's way deeper. Yeah. But not in the ditch. And I think the water board is instructed to fill that in. So I think if we think I don't do we already make the motion to fill in that right away. Last month it did. Yeah. So I think this this this
move on. Yeah. The cover itself is open and fine cuz I know at one point there was discussion that maybe the cover needed to be replaced but it looks pretty good shape. Okay. that is that
Mike first. Okay. So, uh, last time you had approved, uh, the quote from R.J. Zabro for the a little over 73,000 to fix the north end of Connor Road 8. So, since then, we've had some discussions about the a culvert crossing a um just a
little ways south of that. So, we also got an additional price from uh Zabro while they're there to uh to fix that dip. The culvert the pavement is settled over the culvert again that you replaced a couple years ago. It's been patched a couple times already for that settlement. Um, so there's there's
pretty good bump there. The uh um the quote on it, their their estimate on it was $24,070. I think that that's the high end of what you're going to need to do there because uh they quoted uh um you know, milling
that whole existing patch to try and tie things together. And I think we can probably do a little less than that just to get the bump fixed. So this is probably a little high. This would be the high end of anything that we would need to do. But just wanted to give you what the uh what the thought process was
out there in the options. So while they're there to fix the north end, if you guys wanted to fix the culver dip, we could do that as well. Got to get this done. What do we got? Did you visit a tri-state haven earlier and they they just don't have time here. So yeah. So this is probably our only
chance to add them to fix it. Yep. So didn't hear back from um Zebra when I reached out to him this morning. Their original plan a couple weeks ago was to come next week. So, I don't know if that's still the case or not. I wouldn't be surprised if it slipped a little bit with rain, but uh they they want to try
and do it here in July early. I I would think you can get it down a little more that far. We just humps and then Yep. try and tie in at the ends. Yep. So, do we want a more accurate number
before approving this? So we just lord otherwise it may come this month and we we don't have a meeting till next month. I'll make a motion to approve this work by RJ Zaval.
A motion by Brown. I'll second that. Second by Krueger. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Um, only other news I had is your seal coat's going to be a while yet. They're still waiting for the chips to be made.
So, not quite sure what that date's going to be, but it's probably going to be in August. Likely by the time they get to your seal coats. Waiting for chips to be made. Where are those being made? Lever. Uh, Strata was making them. I
forget exactly where they're down by down by the river or not. I'm not sure. didn't ask that question. Just know the chips are not made yet. So, I didn't have anything else. Just a couple of those updates and then just to
be here for the other discussions. So, good enough unless you have anything else for me. Okay, sounds good. Make sure you sure you pick it up. Yep. All good. All good. Okay, thank you. Thank you. You
waiting for staff to you get there? Yeah. No, you want update. You got a quick one. I guess I don't have an update. Oh, we can skip that.
What's your weather emergency update? Go ahead. that happened. I was hoping Wayne was going to be here to explain some stuff, but what do you want? What do you want to explain? Just an update. Uh, so southern part of the county definitely
saw the worst of it uh from the weather. Um, Hope did a emergency declaration. You guys approved the emergency declaration at your um special meeting. Um, that opens up FEMA funds. We will have enough money. We are waiting on the threshold. So, our threshold is $7,500
um in order to qualify for FEMA funds. We were waiting to see if we as a county would qualify for that, not just the city. We knew the city would. Not an issue there. Um but we were waiting to see if we as a county would qualify. And talking to Reed, we definitely would with a couple of flooded roads that we
had those fixes. Uh and then the debris removal and clean up on the county stuff, we we definitely have that dollar amount pretty pretty easy. Same dollar amount. Yeah. So, um, city definitely has that and a heck
of a lot more for sure. Um, so we by us doing that, we start the FEMA process. Um, there's a lot of that just initial information is due to us by Thursday. Um, just to try and get what numbers look like, that type of thing. Um, it'll be very similar to the flip process how
that usually goes, except it this one's kind of more reliant on the cities. So, um, from a county standpoint, I'll get my stuff in and get that dismitted to the feds and we'll get our stuff done pretty fast. Um, I'll be helping out with the city of hope, uh, quite a bit, uh, as we move forward with the FEMA
process because Charles has never done it before. How about Leverne and Colgate? Uh, Leverne never did do an emergency declaration. Doesn't mean they're not eligible for it. They just never did one, which is fine. Um, because they can still they can still do that. They can still do it. They can still be included. Yes. Colgate will be
the township. Colgate would be the township. Uh yes. So the Colgate has uh some stuff that they're getting in me. Um Leverne, I was talking to Rob and he's like, I don't I don't know. Like Yeah. I said, "Can you give me an estimate at least of
a dollar amount?" And can you help him out a little? Yeah. Yeah. Rob's in business. Yeah. No, I know. I I know. So that Yep. No, I plan on helping everybody out from the township from Colgate from the township standpoint. That'll just all flow under the county. saw that all the working. If you could
help those help them out a little bit to try to get some money for them, that would be great. I mean, I'm sure they would just swamp with Oh, yeah. doing the bree removal. That's the last thing they're thinking about. Right. Right. Yep. We're we're estimating really high on all of it anyways just to see where
we are at cuz we really don't know and you really don't know until you get everything cleaned up, you know. Um so, we're going to go a little high on our estimates um but within reason. So we're just getting everything collected uh making sure that those guys all are
following the process from there. So you got a threshold as well for the state that they have to meet. Yeah, state's like 1.6 million or something in damages that they have to meet which they'll meet easily with the rec. So the rural electric co-ops um also qualify but
separately underneath uh the FEMA stuff. So, um, they are included in our county dollars, but we don't do anything with it, if that makes sense. So, um, that's what we were waiting on. I was talking to some of the NAK guys and some of the corporate folks and we're trying to get
that figured out. They're working through their processes. They work directly with the state, so we don't have anything to do with it, but they're at a they're at a lot of money for sure. Um, yeah. So, they're actually pushing because they don't know exactly how much they're at right now. They're actually
pushing the state uh to do an extension on the you have 30 days from the date of declaration to get all the information into uh to region 8 to get it certified to the president. Um state wants all that information from us within two
weeks which I think is a little [ __ ] but um they want all that with that's how I feel please. It's recorded who cares. um they want all that with from us within 2 weeks and then they take the next two weeks to get everything compiled is how
they work. Uh they're actually looking to do an extension for another 30 days so that they can actually have time to compile everything cuz you ask I mean I talked to the NOAK guys the other day and they're like we we have no idea Ottertale we have no idea we have crackle in the Minnesota we have no idea
about. So they're they're trying to get all that figured out too. Um, so hopefully the the point of that is it's going to be a long process. Um, like FEMA process always is. So every time we're talking to the cities or the townships, it's we understand this is the process.
It's just going to take a while. So we're not expecting any money to start rolling back into the county into the cities until next year. Well, if you can help them off, I don't think they've probably been too much, you know, right process before. So help them out as much as you can. We appreciate that. Definitely. This is actually a really
good one for Kyle to get his feet wet on because Kyle will be the new FEMA guy going forward. So, this is a good one for him to get his feet wet and understand a little bit and him and I can slow play it and slow process it a little bit too. That's the update on storm. The arc update was I know I said no
update. We We have We're waiting on the contract from the architects. Okay. Once we get that, I'll get that to you guys. What do we have left? So, building permit and then the budgets done with that. And then Casey is not
here this week. So, but everyone got a chance to look at I'm assuming everything was all right if it did pay. Y make a motion we approve that building permit. Motion from Krueger. I'll second
it. Second from Brett from Canalan. All in favor cars and budgets. Want to take a quick break, guys. Recess. Make a motion for a five minute break. Motion approved.
the meeting after with Megan. Yeah. Okay. What? I just wanted I wanted I was hoping I can go first on my budget. Yes, we have you to go, but they just took a five
minute break. You and then they're going to start on budgets. Yeah. Yeah. And you're first. Okay. Yeah. See my hat? See my hat. Uh, Ben, nice. Um,
yeah. They said that this was supposed to be better for us, but I don't see how it's gonna be better for us. No, I mean, it's good that the stuff would get funded, but they also lowered the distribution $35 million.
Half million, I guess. Yeah, but 1.6 can get a lot of stuff done. Half a million is a project. So there's three brackets, right? That's kind of what I thought it was. I
just you said you share but it would be such a small you guys to um should have that everything from my understanding.
I have all the other stuff for like Harper Township down there if you want to get some stuff done. That's what you guys were just talking about that right there. Yeah. So, they're they're forecasting that oil revenue going down or why is that
happening? Our distribution's got cut. So legislature cut distribution in order for them to move the prairie duct buckets ahead of the SIF funds. They had to make concessions and one of the concessions was they went from $115 million distribution to $80 million
distribution. So we get 87% of that. They townships get the other 13%. So, we get half a million now instead of adding a couple. It's pretty insane. Oh, and they lowered. So, the highway
tax distribution stuff went away as well. That's the email I sent you. So, the highway tax distribution, it's not going away. That increased from 330 to 350. Um, but then the
did a legacy earnings highway distribution that went away and that's all going into the flexible transportation. The flexible transportation fund also got divvied up throughout a lot of other
things so that we get we get an actual distribution annually from it now but we don't get as much as what we used to get from the legacy earnings why people want to go there and have some legacy money
they had to find money somewhere So I asked you the question. So the the flexible transportation August the third column that's the July motor vehicle excise tax payment and the lumpsum cif payment because the cif did a whole lump sum payment. So that's why it's higher.
The monthly the fifth column flexible transportation record is the rest remaining five months of the 25 calendar year of motor vehicle excise tax. The next column is annual amount but the
county receiving payments monthly. So we get 31,000 divided by two which is 2600 a month. Parog funding went down. All right. had a solo meeting Twitter. Charlie, who wants to go first? I'd like to go first. Yeah.
So, my budgets for the stage attorney, I I believe I left all expenses the same. Did one level increase that included 4% cost of living, which I think is what everybody did for now. So, pretty
self-explanatory there. And then, um, for the HR, pretty sure I left expenses the same. And I actually don't remember what I did for for uh
for a salary increase. I don't remember what I added on, but I'm good with whatever on the on the HR one. I'm good with just a cost of living. Whatever you guys do for cost of living, that's fine with me on the HR one.
That all makes sense. Yes. And then one move one step forward down my down the my my grade level and and 4% cola. So whatever you guys cola that
would have to be adjusted. I've done one of those before This is all preliminary. So I mean I'm good with Charlie's preliminary. Yep. It's good to be Next one. Are we going to discuss more on him or you're here, Ben? You guys just go
through what you want to go through. I'll just go through an order. You just go through an order. Do how you want to do it and I'll just pipe in where my stuff is. So we want to the budgets need to be figured out by what date again?
By August 10th for the preliminary. Correct. And then you can't go over that and then the final due I think Saturday. So yeah, the 10th August 10th to Friday.
Um yeah. So it'll be due that August 8th and then Yep. And then after that you kind of go over what you set that August 8th number at. And then the final final is October 10th,
which last year and the year before we approved our preliminaries and we cut substantially after that to the October one. What uh and if possible so I have some time to work on it. I
prefer not to get it approved on the seven just so I have time to not scramble for three days and get it in. So we don't to September. That would be fantastic. I see what you mean. Yeah, we were scrambling last year. Maybe we shouldn't Maybe we shouldn't do
that. Oh, I mean the best case scenario is you have it done in September, but then it's done. Can also only go up 3%. Which is the other is also the other thing piece of
it. I did send you guys that um that legislator bill that passed. We have a class on it two weeks ago, I believe. Right. And I did give you guys some hand notes, too. Um so, we're stuck at only can go up 3% which we're looking
good with just what we have currently in the yellow pages. We can go up up. So 3% above this current year's budget. 3% above the highest of the last three, right?
Or the adjusted value. There's a whole worksheet that Jan is supposed to be getting to help update that. And I don't know if you've got it. Sheets. Yeah. And there are exceptions to the 3% and I don't know what all of those are. Emergency fund, water
resource, township. Um, water res. What are the ones? Bonds, water resource, emergency fund. Was there anything for like if a county has to hire 10 personnel? Uh, you have
to go to the people in the next general election and get it approved to increase above the 3%. And you have to have a time limit on it no greater than four years. So, no county ever is going to be able to hire any more personnel. Doesn't sound like it. Probably pretty correct
on that. The only they can for four years and they have to go. The frustrations that I have been hearing from it are the counties that did their job like us over the last several years to really get down to the brass tax of
what is actually needed versus the counties that have increased the crap out of everybody and have taken the brunt of the you increase my taxes and you guys are hating on us. um those counties are are kind of well off because you know they're able to increase 3% above their high SD. They
saw the runners they saw the writing on the wall. I think though that that's going to be um I think that'll be addressed next legislative session cuz I know a lot of legislators have admired about that. Um and the ones I've talked to, they've they've also have been saying that they
are that's going to be addressed next year or next session. I don't know. This is how it's going to be for the next two years. Supposedly, there's an emergency board that if you need money, you can go to them. But I haven't heard hardly anything about that. There is an
emergency board. The governor is the chairman of the emergency. So, so it goes right to the top. And I don't know how sound like you needed to submit labor work or you need to have a good back end of why.
So I know one of the emergencies was that we only budgeted for an election every other year. So we cut up 30,000 for our budget this year because of elections like where you going to make that up on the other side. You know I
know that was brought up to that could be like was like bigger be like $100,000 in a lot budgeting for it to them. That's like a post 5% of the budget. So the other side of it too is that there is a percentage
carryover. So if you levy the full amount but you only use a like if you only use 2% but you levy for three that 1% carryover can be you 1% left can be used as well to disperse across your
funds for the next five years. So there's a whole lot of math that and non-thinking that went into this that whatever this was going to create a mess of loopholes here and there. Yeah, it will.
And the legislators again that I've talked to have said, well, we'll see how it goes for these next two years. And I said that's not the right thought process. So the biggest thing too I think is we're going to move because currently they have bonds in the road. So, we're going to take that on a road and put it
all under the bond. So, that number in the bonds is going to go way up because we don't need to include that in our 3%. But the overall is going to decrease out of everything. Correct. Because it's not all we're doing is last year we robbed Peter to pay Paul type of thing. This
year we're doing the same thing, but we're Paul to pay Peter. So, that'll be a big increase in comparison on the back pages. So, I think maybe the the recommendation for you guys would be to go through budgets like you've normally gone
through um and look at those preliminary numbers. Once you get those preliminary numbers decided, uh Janet can look at them and and kind of show you where exactly you're at and what exactly is needed to cut to get underneath that 300% number. Um like she said, you got quite
a bit of wiggle room this year. I don't think you're going to need to do a whole heck of a lot of major cutting with it. Um cuz you guys did a lot of that work in the last two years. But I think overall I think we'll be fine at the end of the day. There's just a lot of backend stuff that Jan's got to
follow forward. So are we going to meet with the department all the department heads today or not? Yeah. Let's move on with meeting with department heads then. Okay. just start from the beginning of need one. You guys commissioners, do you want to
pass your vote right now and get it done? Basically just wages really deal wages today, right? It's up to you. I don't know much revenue. They just started right now. Recommendation that we made was a 4%
cola plus the the changes that were made for each department. Um, I guess a recommendation for me is going to be to uh look and see what all the numbers wind up being at the end of the day and then start making those
decisions. I agree. Go back way just a second to have a look at everything. We can pretty much assume that wages are 4% increase minimum. I think those will say if it's 4% we get
a what we want to see look at 4% and we want to see what they look like at 3%. And I have two three and four in a spreadsheet. So is cola 4% that is that is what it is.
Cola right now is like at what did I say like three 33 something like that. We decided on a cola last year and a raise last year. Yeah. Yeah, but our raises aren't necessarily in force this year because we're going
by the the schedule schedule. So, the the people the department heads uh go based off the schedule for it, but we have to insert a cola into that schedule in order to make it work. Um, so our cost
of living, our recommendation I guess is for 4%. But that obviously is going to change how you guys see fit. So last year we did two and a half, I believe. Yeah, you did two and a half plus the schedule. I I I really want you guys to leave the
schedule that's working. It worked well. It's worked well the last couple of years. It's continuing to work. If you're going to change anything, change cola. Do you have the numbers here somewhere with cola numbers? I can print them all for you.
That's a two, three, and four. I have a two and four. Two, just so you guys know too, like on the bottom of the little box there, I put everybody's grades and steps for you. the last year's and then what they're asking
or I should say five completed there were 116,000 plus new numbers they did if we left it all the same well what numbers are 164
how much total is it from this year to to next year if we left everything away exactly how it is Yeah. 16,000. And then each and then each row the difference too that you guys kind of go down with that 116 that is that was 4%
cola and everything. Yep. Yep. That's what everybody's asking for. Sure. Yep. That's what we need to know. Okay. I can like color code this schedule for each two, three, and four% for each employee. That would help.
So you guys see make it so we can read it. Okay. Okay. Although on mine go over the material and stuff. Um travel I put down only going out to two or three events and try to ride chair. So hopefully saving some class in Tahoe.
So that went down a little bit. Um the telephone I'm still working with Travis. Um we got that new system. So we're kind of paying for that new so you just got to fine tune it. So that is up a little bit just cuz it's a little extra for that new charge
that we get. Most put up a little bit of the stamp cost and everything else kind of you see office supplies went up a little bit just because we were using quite a bit of office supporter. Let's
find I don't know what's next. Really? It looks all the same. I don't confused probably our age and Charlie went up in the software just going up in
cost and then the GIS contract that you guys did then he went down in classes because we should be just about done with those. He's official certified. So he's just got uh 30 hours 20 30 hours every two years.
That looks normal. Course same number as last year [Music] looks fine. They don't share put in must be a new pickup. Yeah, this is the way it looks. You guys have in the past taken that out of the general fund and putting it into
a capital or sales tax or whatever. Um sales tax right now is sitting at 588,000. It's down then. It is down. However, however, in uh
Yes, it is down. That's down quite a bit. Yes. Yeah. The blade was the last big purchase out of there for Well, if we do almost wipe that out. Yep. I think we when we're talking about the blade, we I
think there's other funds that we can pull that from. Um highway tax distribution is at a million. Um, farm to markets at 1.2, weights are at 163. Capital projects at 223. The wigs that could probably fund a lot of that
shares. Yeah. Yeah, we could. It could should probably if that's where you guys want to take it from. Yeah. I think it should. Yep. Be a good sp. So, just so you take it out of here and put it in waste. It'll come out of your general fund entirely. Yes. If
not a little bit. Um, did Wayne ever come and talk to you guys about the coroner's vehicle? So, um, we have that old Suburban that we've been using as a corner vehicle. Wayne threw his back out or hurt himself
pretty bad, so he's kind of been laid up. He's supposed to be around here today, but he's been in and out. Um, the corner vehicle that we've been using um only gets used once every so often. um Wayne or the sheriff's office has had
it has an agreement with Hope Ambulance and with West Trail to transport um if it's needed and then they will pay whatever a set dollar amount 5000 bucks or whatever it is per time plus mileage I think. Um so I think Wayne's idea at
some point is to get rid of that vehicle. It's a 1998 Chevy Suburban with 85,000 mi true 85,000 mi on it. So yeah, it's been dead the last few times we need it because it sits for you. So So has he talked to you about it a little
bit? A little bit. Y yeah. So I think his idea is to get just sell it and then use agree with that because it's for what we use it for doesn't pins all very well. Yeah. And so it's in the we
room in there too. So you could sell, right? You could sell that and you could use whatever that dollar is to offset the pickup cost too. Yeah. Just put up for bids or what? Yeah. Can So I guess can if Wayne's cool with it, can we do that or do you guys want
to wait on I agree with that. Wayne or with Rick? Well, it runs through his department. So Rick and Wayne, if I can get agreement out of those guys. Are you guys cool if we put it off for bits? I think that yeah using something we don't need to have.
Sorry budget that looks sorry you guys really got to dig in this DS. You guys always say that but last year you approved it with no questions. That's cuz you always come back and change things later. Well taking stuff out. Wow.
We mumble jumble stuff around. So, there is a little bit of an increase on there. Not a whole heck of a lot. Um, travel's going to go up a little bit. Just getting Kyle out and about doing a little bit more. Um, dues went up a little bit again, just like for myself
and Kyle. Um, salaries obviously. The rest of it for the most part remain the same. Um, the only other thing that we are FEMA grants have been on hold for a while. Um, and
I really don't know what's happening with them. So, uh, as far as dollars coming in, this is a an all expense budget this year instead of a reimbursement budget. And I just I don't know. highlighted just because we don't know
what we shoot for money coming in. I just I really don't know. And that's coming when are those decided that which state grants like we were talking about that when like the flex funding stuff that August one August 1st that's when
we'll find out that's when the initial uh that's when the dollars officially come in according to the appropriations. So, I was told August 1st. I don't know if applications will actually open up August, but that's what I was told. But they'll decide or
they'll send application. Yeah, we'll have applications sent out at some uh they'll they'll send out the notification that the application period is open in August. Oh, that's when you apply it. Yes. Oh, so we're not finding out any? No. Gotcha. We won't know anything actual probably until
September, October, more than likely. Got it won't be a construction this year season. It'll be an extreme more than likely or over the winter if it's not a bad project. Um, go ahead. I was just going to say overall in the
dees budget is a decrease from last year because you don't have the grant expense. But that doesn't change down the road. Yeah. Which it's going to make things miserable for us. Yeah.
The biggest thing with the DES grants is that you've always had that money coming in to offset. So without the dees grants coming in to offset, this becomes a full expense budget instead of a reimbursement. We did get a approval on a grant from
last year. um that they that the state solidified for us finally. That was for $30,000. 21,000 of it gets reimbured back to the county. Um that's for some additional IT stuff that Travis and I have been working on. So that's that'll come this year. We'll get
that in and done as soon as we can. But it's Are we still working on like tornadoes? Yeah. Are there anything going on there? No. All FEMA money. Okay. I don't think Hope siren works.
That's not good. They have to have to go push a button. It doesn't work automatically. So, the new It doesn't go off at 6. Doesn't go off at 9. Go off at noon. We always use the old one. We never use the new one cuz it's
it's not set time. It's not very good. On Friday storm night, there was a fire in hope and one of the guys had to go up and hold the button for the siren. Run for 3 minutes if you do that. Well, it's it sounded
one time. It went it went one time cuz I was up when it went off. But those ones you have to it it's a it's a DTMF one too. So on the radio you can choose the whatever numbers that we had set for it. I don't want to remember what the numbers are. The new one or the old one? The new one. Glad the window doesn't
work. It's filled in the news. Good to know. You better You better talk to the fire chief. He'll ask me I'll look into it. I'll call Drew later. Hey Charlie, we did that on
Hang on. Really? Nothing on the gas commitment. We'll we'll take everything back. You guys always yell at me for something. Just did some guess for now. Well, it's lower than
last year. I b it just because I wasn't sure what to do about a salary and I just kind of did what Hannah was doing and then added a little bit extra. Um the repair and maintenance I'm not
sure what was supposed to be repaired or maintenance this year but there's a lot of money in there. So are going to use some of the salary and some of the repair maintenance paid the yard work. So, I went down and asked I wasn't sure what needed to be serviced or fixed.
Is this for the building? Yeah. That been going all right? Yeah, it's good. The only thing I would I would bring up is like the the handrails are starting to come off the wall. Like those need to be cured. Secured. Yeah. That's the only thing I've noticed that
needs like probably pretty soon. The the floor of the pumps. Y any other things to add to that budget that I want you know so what is going to happen are you guys going to are you just cleaning or is you're cleaning yourself now
and What's your plan? Are you want to stay continue doing that or I I don't mind it one bit and I know that it saves quite a bit of money. The only thing that concerns me is like I'm
not a maintenance person. If something like breaks or something, we'd have to call someone in. But I do think that there are a lot of people available for that. And I do still think we'd end up saving money. You know what I mean? Like I can
in like three to four hours a week I can keep the courthouse up. You know what I mean? Like it just seems kind of crazy to pay someone even for 20 hours a week. There isn't that much maintenance that needs to be done, you know? But then there's also like in the winter the
shoveling and stuff like that. I don't know how you guys want to handle that. So with the, you know, I don't mind doing it. I actually kind of like doing it, but with the caveat that like there's just like other stuff that I
can't take on, you know. Is there people that can do some light maintenance? Have you talked to anybody or do you know anybody? Um, I mean, I think most of the road guys can do basic maintenance stuff.
They get busy, too, is the problem with that. And that's just Yeah, there's a guy in Portland that's helped me with some of the stuff at my house. I'm sure he would. We don't have anything. But I do I think there's like handymen around that would come in and be happy
to help. I just don't know like what hoops we have to jump through for the courthouse. Like I don't know if we have to have certain contracts or anything like that. As long as they're probably we can just hire them to contract them. Yeah.
They really the when it comes to that it's more the procurement side of it. So your long as your dollar amount isn't too crazy high like 30 $40,000 couple hundred bucks here and there isn't that big of a deal right depending on budget obviously right
and I don't know what you guys want to do for snow removal by the road guys able to clear out this sidew walks before they leave the morning or going to hire somebody it's a lot it's a lot to shovel I did a few times and so to
off what guys are pretty good about doing if if you guys want to stay with that they're pretty good about getting the main stuff cleared out. So the obviously the back there um our entire parking lot and then the front walk and then a little bit of the sidewalks
they're pretty good about that but as far as the getting out or shoveling getting the stairs stairs and the ramp ear we could handle the rest of it but I would think. Yeah.
On repairs and maintenance. Can we redo the rim? Yeah, it's kind of a rough. Maybe that's not an extra thing. Maybe we can do that this year. Yeah, it's maybe we can seal all the snakes underneath there. I was looking at some
some some kind of sealer. Uh I'm going to order some. Okay, there's some kind of sealer you can dump in. That's some kind of What number is Kyle? Or is the spot? There's some gas around here that Yes.
Oh, I don't know anything. He's he's got stuff going on this week, so he's not around. I worked like 60 some hours in three and a half, four days this last couple weeks ago. So you can build for today if you
want to sell about 16,000 that repair maintenance but also some of that will have to go to um the yard because we only need only 1500
for the yard. So kind of figured that 11 I think for a year wasn't he? Yeah. So, but I mean there might there possibly could be some funds available to get that um ramp fixed this year.
Get some quotes for us because that's might be expensive. But yeah, well, there's going to be different building materials, too. If somebody does it out of concrete, wood, I think we should concrete it last forever.
have an AE ramp and the handles that need to be replaced. Is that something we can reach out to the architect for? Should we just kind of go We We definitely can if you want. Well, the architect had looked at it. Yeah, they said it needs to be done.
Yeah, is what they said. But I did reach out to um block grant people uh and they said that their minimum is like $75,000 for a for minimum grant. So are I that's when I called you Richard and asked
about like what what do you think and I think you told me 1520 something like that at the maybe so it that ramp alone wouldn't qualify for the block grant in the face of this bloodhouse won't qualify for the block grant
I think we want to do concrete probably some stainless steel or something or give me a quote for find somebody to pour it, right? That's the and demo significant.
We could probably the road department could probably Yeah, I can reach out and get some quotes if you guys Yep. Want me to do that? Yeah. We should be able to find some sort of
money within the building. has been constructed. We may want to jump that back up later. Just think about that public. You want to sit here? Yeah. Can I help?
I have a meeting at 10. So, a bit. Yeah. I'll probably take more than that. So, um I don't have the worksheet with us, but I did ask for increases for both Ashton and myself. Um we did not get an increase in 2025 cuz
both of us were new to our positions in 2024. So, neither of us have seen an increase since we started in our positions essentially. Um, I did bump our budget up a little bit just because
everything is more expensive. I figured it with our bare minimum grants. So, our substance abuse grant, tobacco grant, and then state aid, but I did get word that we should be getting our immunization grant, which is about another 22,000, which is good news. So,
um, some of our funding may be coming back, but I say that with trepidation. I don't know what that's going to look like. Um, and then this is not part of our budget, but the floor really does like the cork
part of the flooring and the public health office really does need to be redone. So, I have not had anyone come do an estimate on that yet, but I would like that to be considered. Um because it's cra I mean we have people in there for medical services. It's not good for
cork to be like crumbling under their feet. So um yeah any questions? You haven't got any raise? We got the cola for 2025 since you've been hired. Uh, well, I got
a raise because I went to the admin position, but yeah, other than that, no. And Ashton's been the same since she started in July 2024. We have any questions for I'm okay with the way that looks.
Oh, and we will, sorry, this is we'll get another grant for about another 1,600 that will support compliance checks for tobacco and alcohol establishments, which Rick is already certified for. So, we can start those right away as soon as we get that grant. So,
a little chunk of change, but it'll help us expand what we're doing. So, that's good. All good. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Park. Kind of been over that, haven't we?
Kind of. I think we need to get it uh a little more fine-tuned. Yeah. The more lower more trade in price. Um so what do we we normally do? We lowered it 20 20,000.
Um, yeah. So, I took out that special projects just cuz we weren't using that fund. I don't know you guys want that. Maybe you put it in a different line.
And then the resort expenses, that $5,000 is after what Jake pays us. So, if you want me to put in the 20, just have it budget and then we know that it's coming back, too. We were looking like taking this and
putting it on its own bill or itself. The commission brought it together before my time. They brought it back into the general fund to get a better handle on it. Um because I think back then it was more even before Richard's
time it was more of the u there's a lot of stuff going on and they didn't feel like they had a good commissioners didn't feel like they had a good grasp what was happening. So I think it kind of depends on your feelings about it but I maybe not a bad idea I suppose they wanted to use the
administrative services of the auditor to take care of everything probably are that's still too still viable. I'm just it it's going to set a cut clear budget for them. The problem we've ran into with this with the
the park board in in my opinion is that it's the the the countyy's always been the backup when we've had projects or things like that. And I think it just creates a little bit more of a budget standpoint of
we've went over this budget before. we probably been under depends on what the projects get done out there. Well, and that's kind of the nice part about having it in the general fund is that you guys have full control over that. So, those projects do come to you guys. Um, but if you did put it on its own,
those projects would still have to come to you guys because if they get a budget, the board has a budget dollar amount and they are anticipating going over that, they're have to come here. They're going to have to come here anyways. There also be a you know I'm imagining it be a fund balance that would be
probably be transferred to them too. So it probably be whatever is levied plus the fund balance type of thing. Equipment purchases on there. Does that include lawn mower or is that I think before
any equipment rental um that also doesn't get used much or hasn't the last couple years. So I can add, like I said, I can add that what Jake does then of this.
However you guys want to do that. always going to be a lot of changes out there if they sell the the lease slots. You know, we we normally gravel and used to pay for blading around there too on the park board and
if things change around we might only be taking care of like where the pavilion or and then what money are we going to have for income like 35 grand that'll be up. There's a lot of
things that might happen out there. We've been lucky so far. That's what seven, five, six years down the road. I mean, that were to happen. No, there's not even fish that wants to happen. What's in a year or two? Oh, I wish there was
like 20. Yeah, that's when they I want to finish it before then. Um, no, we're still not 100%. already happens. That's the problem because a lot of it was a big nice defeat from
fan guys. So I shouldn't say I got a lot of hoops to go through paperwork. There's going to be a lot of thought process there. There is. And we've been lucky on store stuff as far as expenses. It's been pretty low lately.
We haven't had any. And I would We've been pretty fortunate though. I mean, we have a We've had a We've had a roof. I mean, we had some other big ones in there, too. Pretty lucky. Yeah, we replaced a lot of things in there, but
it is a high maintenance ite does get used a lot, but at the same time, it's a lot of taxes being collected off. There is. Correct. You could do a lot of different things if you did put it on its own two week of like you could put a separate line in
your budget for you know if it's I don't know what the park cost you but if it's say 60,000 and you give make the their own entity officially with dollar amounts um you could still budget you know
20,000 to go really decrease all this is if we sold that store I'm just telling you. today. You guys have always had mixed feelings, haven't I? I know. I I really do. I suppose you want to put in Brandon. No, I don't. Are you looking for another
job? No, I'm not. One dollar. Oh, there's something we got to go back to. election 20,000 pretty simple right non-election or non president measures I should say that
social security that's pretty much capital project 50,000 I think you should up that yeah go up to 100 well we had it up we had it up and Then we transferred out last year. Well, and
we Well, it wasn't 100 and then you guys cut it at the end, right? We cut it to 50. Yeah, cuz we weren't sure what was going to happen. So, maybe for the time being it back to 100. I'm okay with that. Yeah.
Miscellaneous. and Brown. Um, and memberships. I know we just got an email from Aaron Bur for the NBC are going up again. So, I know they're trying to make it so it's not so hard now. But
what what's all the miscellaneous comes out of there? Um, which is a lot of um get I can get the what we pay out of it. Whatever it doesn't see fit, we put it down to that miscellaneous account. Um
two years ago I mean just my account my budget line. So now I'm pushing it out to miscellaneous. You guys can see that I'm not always over budget but I can get you guys um some bills that we're getting out of there. That
various. How much did you figure Blue Cross going to go up? I did. I believe in seven. I did. They don't get confused till the end of the year, which is tough. Yeah. So, and another thing too, um I know
Aaron B talked about getting out of MDR for retirement and everything. They're looking at nationwide that conference. Um, so we'll be on the lookout. It's going to be fishing out of furs by 9.
What? It's like a big cell to get employ because you're getting a state government benefits. Y I don't know how they're going to I don't know those that would have to be like pretty much the same or better if
it worked out. It's the workers. It's the new workers coming in that want to get out of purs. They want to be able to take the retirement with them when they leave. Yeah. Cuz they made that new plan and they aren't paid for that in terms of the older the full benefit makes sense, but you're still able to
take that. That's your benefit. Even if you're in, if you leave, you're allowed to take that long as you're vested. Yeah. As long as you're vested in vested four years. So, it'll be interesting to see where that goes. I don't know beginning work except getting rid of first. I don't
know. The best thing on any retirement is three to four years anyway. It's not fast [Music] any I did I didn't update salary but I email
on that. I'll put that in there. How amazing special. It's pretty much the same down a little bit, I guess. We took that over. So that's why the salary
is basically years old. down. Yeah, that looks okay. Emergency one mil. I think one mill is probably more than enough. There's a dollar amount that we can go up to in emergency. Um it's like
400 somehat thousand dollar which based off of our population. I think we were at I don't even know where we're at. We're at 20 [Music] 208 right now. That's motive. 495 I want to say. Um so one mill is about 30. Um
even with the expenses that we'll have this year from the this disaster, it's not going to not going to change a whole heck of a lot. Um, so I think one mill is probably unless you guys want to go warm, but I think 1 mil is fine. That's fine. That's
fine. Correctional facility 20 used to have 35 to one pound of 20 is pretty good. I don't think correctional facility. Correctional facility. Yeah, that way I put that down like
25,000 20. Think I'll be okay. Why don't we stay away from the juvenile stuff? Juveninal stuff's going to cost us about $1,000 a day now. We stay away from there, we're okay. Nothing really worth that much.
Everything is hanging around that $100 today. Think we just did a one for barn. Let us know if they go with 100. Think so. I think Grand for Tony and cast it at 100 too. I think somebody went up. I don't know. James Town. Yeah. Not much. Yeah.
Jamestown or something. So, we're right at that$100 mark. It is one went up to salary. So, we have to go through that later. Feels way you lower oil and grease.
Well, that was based off of the You said we went up to 125 last year and we didn't spend anywhere near that. Okay. So, I think that was more of a What's the actual spend so far? No. How many?
What? We're going to start paying for that. That's an ask. We figured how far will that take? That's all of the bid. That's Josh came back with that book.
It's It's quick math. It's It's a little high. I think I think it's going to be around 26 27 but we're still doing the 2000 2000 reimbursement then um that's you guys fuel expense for the year
with the townships we've been seeing it our expenses we've been doing the 2,000 reimbursements with the understanding that they would maybe do their county roads too that's been the complaint that they've had is that they do that money goes towards the county roads, they don't get any money
to spread their tone bills. So Reed's idea was if we could we can just if we could take care of the county roads, that money can go towards the township bills. Yeah. 30 grand more. I missed some conversation. So if they're going to spray, then we
should reduce the weed board budget or that money should be taken from weedboard if the county sprays because in my opinion the township should be budgeting for spreading their own digits their own rights.
And what we've been doing is not something that is common across all counties. Correct. that's coming it we're we're making that money available for them to do that reimbursement. So my my thought process is if we're
going to spray our county roads then we're going to reduce that cost share budget and we'll spray our county roads. That's a big complaint. So I mean I like I like the reimbursement side. I think that's
Do they need more? But but this way we we know our county road get done. Getting done. There's no ifs or much better. So then are we still going to provide the reimbursement then or should they just budget themselves? Right. I mean that's a another topic. Yeah. I
mean well then the other problem you really get into is townships already have their budgets done. They've already been voted on and everything. So or next year, right? budget. Yeah, maybe it's one of those you phase out,
you do it next year with this and then just let everybody know at the end of 2026 or no more, right? You you will hear gruff from one person. It's the same person we hear gruff about spending this money on or not spending this
money. Well, the one thing about it is you give them a little money and they they actually spray the ropes too and it's a good thing to a good thing. But is it you know to be 10 total be 70,000? Is it a 30
$40,000 thing here? We have 20 township. So if we cut it in half to a,000 that's 20 grand right there. Let's think about that. most something like
leave it in there probably come back three that's up 8500 is that I don't know what road three is is it says equipment rental so uh tractor is about 10 that went up a
little bit uh track ho is about 10 and then there's about 8,500 per read to rent other random things or buy some little stuff here. Right. So we we just put a question mark. We need to look at that. So you said
tractors. Yeah. Tractors 10 track is 10,000 for this. Yep. 5 mil. [Music] Um you guys are negative in your 5 mil account still. So the idea is um to
remind you the idea was to not take anything out of 5 mil for this year and to let 5 mil build up with the levy. So 5 mil would stay at 5 mil. Sure. But with no expenses next year or this
year. Negative. Uh, a grand capital project. You got a snowball. Are we talking about that? Yeah. Farm Market.
I had a note to talk to you guys about. We're at 1.2 million right now. It's a lot of money. We have not we have been yelled at by the state before for having that. So So can you take money out of there for the boys? I take everything out of
there that I can. Yes. As far as I know. Probably $400 or anything. But this that also does all of our projects too. So every time you guys approve a township uh covert comes out of farm to market. Um any other random things comes out of
farm to market. We do a little truck over there too. I I gotta look to be 100% sure. I think I think we can do a blade out of it. I'm not a thousand% sure of it. Let me find out. John,
they're only limited to so water resource. [Music] and they're on the milit. So, society Um Darcy did want me to relay that message on the bottom there. Um
lots of repairs foundation isn't good. So that's why a lot but again feel like we get so much 75. So
yeah, which is page one if anybody knows where that's building construction nothings. [Music]
So this one we might not take the blade out. We might take it out. Yeah. Yep. Right now the blade is estimated weight sessions. They moved your pickup to the weight restriction fund. Your pickup to the
weight. Can you update that? That's okay. Just got a couple left. Okay. Yep. We do some overtime out of there for Brad and Rick. Um there's the $500 expense for low pass
every year. Pretty much everything out of there is income. Okay. Valcon preservation. Same hazardous chemicals. 911 coordinator. That didn't really go well. Um, the one
thing I did want to talk to you guys about is the expense. So, uh, operation cost. I budgeted about 20 grand a year for that. We have 70ome,000 in that account since we went to NDACO to take care of a lot of the stuff. And then,
um, our stuff with Trail. Um we're kind of at that point where we're continuing to take in money which is we're at $84,000. Um we spend about 27,000 a year total.
So how much is the siren put in columns? 20 25 paid for siren over there. Yeah. Do it. I can do it. You talking hopes? Hopes or Sharon or
Gold Lake? Wherever. Yeah. Make sure we're up to date on everything. I can work for me. [Music] What was that one? I ran out of sheets. fund.
Hey Golden Lake, there's a lot of people that use the shelters. Yes, they were full. That's what I heard. Thank goodness they were there. So that was a bad one. There are a couple the door sticks on a couple things have to
fix. We're going to get those fixed, but they're minor. I got a guy working on one background. All right. Um, from an income standpoint, you guys all see this.
This is road income. Um, so when the legislature approved all their stuff, this is kind of what worked out at the very end. Um, so the far left column is our highway tax distribution that we received yearly through uh from the state. We receive $330,000 this
year. Next year that increased. So we'll receive 350,000 in change next year for the highway tax distribution. Um flex funds became a direct distribution instead of a purely grant. So there's grant money available and there's
distributions to the counties. Um, so there's also that third column, the 103,000. Um, in order to make everything work, concessions had to be made, but the CIF fund was able to do a one-time um, fund
install. So that 103,000 is actually July and August motor vehicle excise tax plus the Sith fund distribution. So that's the biggest one there. um the legacy earning funds that we would get per year, we'd get a couple hundred
thousand of that actually went away. Um and they put everything back into the flex fund in order to work everything out. The uh fifth column over that monthly distribution, that's what we received the rest of the year from August through December for the flex fund on the old formula. On the new
formula in 2026, that is what we received for the year 2026. Um our prairie dogs was 1.6 6 million that was under the new or the old formula and then where the fund sat. Um, another concession that was made is that the prairie dog fund buckets got moved
in front of the cif fund at the state. So they will fund there's like almost not a 100% guarantee but it's almost a guarantee that the prairie dog money will fund every two years. Um, but in order to do that they had to lower the total dollar amount. So it went from 115 million to 80 million and
we receive a certain percentage of that. So, our prairie dog distribution went from 1.6 million to 500,000. Yeah. So, that's the I don't see how this is helping us, my opinion.
3%. The the biggest thing is is that, you know, if we want to do chip seal and stuff like that, sil codes, you're going to have to save this for a couple of terms before it'll actually go
instead of one big project or a couple big projects. Now, you're not paying one. after this year chip sail we should be sitting pretty good. Yeah, we've got to do a county road and then 23 will resume. So, one of the estimates I had on the road budget, I don't think you guys saw that, but um we should have
about 700,000 left over in the the old prairie dog funds because we still have that half a million from the House Bill 1505 from two years ago. Um so, we're going to use that first. So, we'll have about 3/4ish
a million left from this year's prairie dog funds. So if you combine that with the money that we receive in 2027, you're at another 1.2 1.3. There's about I think around 7 million total in all the road funds. Great.
really easy to do. You guys ask them what questions. Well, we started a couple months later last year, I think. Right. Right. We started in August. Yeah. We're a
little more pressed trying to be ahead in game system. So going all right. Yes. Yeah. So Josh's quote for spraying roads. Uh not quote, sorry. It's just to get an idea of what it would be. Um it's about
it's 100 bucks a mile. Uh 150 bucks for 100 gallons of the stuff. One load should cover about 3 to five miles depending on the width and the weed pressure. So when I did the math, it was right around 26,000 27,000.
So, if I can get an actual quote from Josh, if that would help to spray all the 20-year-olds. Does he say what products he's using? He does not. I'd like to look at that, too. budget at all or did you already figure it out? They already figured it out. Do
you know the the fact somewhere though? We just looked at the bottom part of it today. They did not question salary. Mine could come down. So, just let you know that and we did move that pick up already too. Yeah, there's 20,000 in there that is for a grant that Amber and
I that Greg and I are trying to work on. We create a more of a monies for part-time to full-time extra person. So, that's in there, but I'll know by August it would get better. So, that could be big enough. Then we talked about the suburban too. Did you get Okay, that can
go. Yeah. Yeah. So, we've made arrangements now with and for me they're going to take all of them. So, that is that's the other thing I want. Yeah, we need these. So, they approve that. We can put that out. Do we still have that more? Do you want
to add that to it? Well, Reed called me. He wanted to keep it because he said there's some mowing that they still need to do. The road guys still do. They're going to maintain it. They're going to keep it. That's fine. Yeah. So, we just keep that mower. Yep. You want us to that
suburban to go on straight bits or is that type thing? Yeah, we will get that ready to get going. Is there anything else over there to be sold? That anything else that should be sold over there? Not that I know of.
It's such stuff that you bomb stuff. It might be a pickup. I know at the end of the day if there's going to be something else that make me mad. It's an old pick up with nothing. Bill was going to go look at I don't know if he had a chance to go look at
that. We talked about using that for how do I cutting it up now. So I I was going to ask go look I don't know if you've had a chance to go look at it if it's to me it's worth nothing but be a good spot for it.
Other than that, I don't know. There's unless you want to put some old file caps on there. I really don't. I I don't think they're worth enough to worry about them. But museum's taking some of them older ones eventually. Yeah, we aren't. No,
we're going to sell them. They got more auction, but they don't get in trouble with them. No, no, no. Some are going to the museum, which we can do, but the rest of them will just be I don't know if they're worth even selling. I mean, they're old and they're
falling apart. So, you could put them on there and no big bids and throw them away. Well, that's this kind of crush them in the in the scrap and it's crushed by all
we'll do uh we'll do seal bids for the um next for next month for the suburban. We'll have that for you guys for I'll make a motion to bring those motion and second by Perry. All in favor? I opposed.
Motion carried for a motion to adjourn. Make that motion. Much advised Kger. I'll second it. Second by Dolan. All in favor? I I post. Motion carries meeting.
was in favor that they